aemae “and tongueless, i can conjure you at will” c20 cassette

• and tongueless, i can conjure you at will
  
  
• the roughest jewel in your glittering crown

black horizons press release...

bh-37 aemae – and tongueless, i can conjure you at will c20 over the last few years brandon nickel has been honing his sound and making a name for himself with the, as of recent, very impressive isounderscore label. not afraid to embrace technology, aemae sounds is at times restrained, and at times a whirling maelstrom of ones and zeros, yet always carefully constructed, each release taking months of editing and re-editing. here the sound falls into the later, more intense mode of aemae, and a fitting way to retire the name, as mr. nickel is using his own name to perform under. comprised of edited live material, yet the heightened composure is still evident. the a-side is a lot of gear, screaming at each other more or less really, digital mulch. the flip offers a slightly more restrained sound, and could be visually compared to a sheer obsidian cliff on a foreign planet where the air is ten times the density of our own planet, the geological formation slowly rising along the horizon until it falls off the edge. silver offset ink on metallic black stock, 2-panel j-card. edition of 111 copies on hi-bias chrome tapes.

brandon nickell “and if you set this mind of mine afire then on my bloodstream i yet will carry you” compact disc

• hanging on by a golden thread (11:44)
  
• “and if you set this mind of mine afire then on my bloodstream i yet will carry you” (8:08)
  
• iad wave (7:46)
  
• time throne (6:27)
  
• the roughest jewel in your glittering crown (second key) (7:20)

isounderscore press release...

artist: brandon nickell (b. aug 1 1981 oakland, california) album: “and if you set this mind of mine afire then on my bloodstream i yet will carry you” limited edition of 500 copies total running length: 41:24 label & catalogue: isounderscore [iso_09] release date: september 4th, 2010 exactly five years after the release of his debut album “the helical word” under the aemae project, brandon nickell has released his third album eponymously, “and if you set this mind of mine afire then on my bloodstream i yet will carry you” which was recorded, mixed and fully realized beteen winter 2007 and spring 2010. the album is inspired by personal experiences and extensive research with auditory hallucinations (particularly while living in east oakland in the early 2000’s) and the title is taken from the german poet rainer maria rilke’s (1875-1926) poem “put out my eyes” with minor revisions in the title. 2010 is an age of cassette revivalist culture, analog synthesizers and nostalgic aesthetics; however the album makes no apologies in not conforming with these trends and instead opts to use all tools at the creator’s disposal to achieve a unified vision that has been a painful three year undertaking in order to create a work that is unique in scope. the album was recorded with virtual analog synthesizers using computer based-sequencers, the sequential circuits pro one synthesizer, the human voice, and features further extensive use of analog and digital synthesis. the fifth track is the studio version of a live piece which was originally released on the black horizons tape in 2009. mastered by james plotkin in summer 2010; artwork by and design by brandon nickell using a two-dimensional tessellation of the tesseract pressed with gold foil on black matte cd jackets. never to be re-pressed in its original form.

arastoo / aemae “ostrakon” long playing record

• ostrakon (11:01)
  
  
• capo (11:52)

aemae “maw” compact disc

• pde (6:47)
  
• confound me (10:11)
  
• spectral psychosis (4:46)
  
• bad entity (10:56)
  
• the bell contour memory (7:36)