acre “sacrifice” compact disc

• badlands
  
• jaguarmirror
  
• live take
  
• centennial
  
• citadel

digitalis arts & crafts editions press release...

ace023: acre "sacrifice" cd this album has been a long, long time coming but the wait has most certainly been worth it. aaron davis has been firing missile after missile as acre for some years now, but nothing else stands out as his defining moment quite like "sacrifice." this opus was in the pipeline for years, being etched out of silver and rising from pile of ash after pile of ash. it's absolutely monumental, totally epic in scope. each thick slab of heavy droning sibilance is a testament to davis' vision and attention to detail. it will suck you in immediately and stick to you like glue. notably there are no synthesizers or guitars anywhere on "sacrifice." when you hear the density of sound and variety in the sonic textures blowing out your speakers, that seems utterly impossible. yet, here we are. as the opening blasts of "badlands" echo through your skull at 100 mph, the horizon seems lost in a thick, white haze. everything else stops and shuts down. subtle shifts in trajectory are barely noticeable at first, but by the end of the journey you've landed on a completely different plane. surface to air, infinite flight; all achieved just over 14 minutes. it's not all a blown-out, straight-to-the-skull masterpiece. "live take" feels positively smooth and silky in comparison. reverberating tones drenched in pure light bleed nothing but efferevesence and life. everything feels exactly in the spot it should be, there's no detritus or collateral damage to speak of. davis runs a tight ship, only letting things bolt for the door and scream over the edge when its absolutely necessary. in the end, the biggest thing about "sacrifice" is just how massive it feels. from the beginning, its string of endless symphonic hypnosis. there are lingering connections to david tudor and norman mclaren fighting their way to the surface throughout. acre's compositions are as precise as ever here, each note and each path carefully chosen and dropped into place. no synths. no guitars. no laptops. no looping. yeah. it's time to start dropping bombs. edition of 500 in neon-green gatefold jackets printed by stumptown.

acre “isolationist” compact disc

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• untitled (2) (12:43)
  
• untitled (3) (21:59)

isounderscore press release...

acre "isolationist" cd after years of painfully limited cassette and cd-r releases, aaron davis has created his most definitive and ambitious work as acre to date. "isolationist" is the first official full-length from one of portland's most enigmatic and respected figures of the northwest's fervent experimental music underground. the album features a new track recorded during the summer of 2009, exhibiting the slow yet subtle and highly-detailed electronic undulations that has largely characterized davis' work as acre. alongside this new piece are two completely remastered tracks from the original "painless" cd-r released on the students of decay label in a criminally limited edition of 75 copies in 2008. a record which unequivocally celebrates davis' years of painstaking effort mastering the minimalism of room crushing frequencies, this album represents the most essential and first widely available acre release. recorded by aaron davis in portland, oregon, mastered by thomas dimuzio at gench studios in august 2009. graphic design and artwork by brandon nickell. printed on spot-varnish fluorescent orange matte jackets; limited edition of 500 copies on compact disc.

acre “selected demo’s” c20 cassette

• tremolotest
  
  
• pan experiment

wise blood media press release...

new acre cassette out now! here's a preview of the new acre cassette. it was released on my own wise blood media label. this tape is the first in a series of demo cassettes that are being released to help fund an lp. the lp will consist of tracks reworked from these demos. the material on this particular cassette was recorded using techniques influenced by the soundtrack work of norman mclaren, the phasing work of steve reich, and the feedback of david tudor. all the sounds on this tape were created using mini disk loops of eq feedback that were mixed and reprocessed through various tremolo, flange, and gate effects. in an edition of 100 blue chrome cassettes.