bee mask “shimmering braid” c20 cassette

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deception island press release...

di25 - bee mask "shimmering braid" c20: "shimmering braid" features two of the latest pieces in the austere, trillion-oscillator heterodyning mode of last year's "elusive lunar bow" (together tapes) and "versailles is not too large ... or infinity too long," (chondritic sound) taken to new extremes of ghostly bass weight, mind-splitting acoustic illusion, and frostbitten architechtonic contour, making audible the eternal frying of the phantom breakfast on a slo-coasting ice sheet. this is one for fans of a certain historically sited vein of minimalist electronics, brobdingnagian timbral redundancy, and the principled avoidance of temperament. in hindsight, it recalls a half-remembered passage from some essay or other, regarding how genuinely screwed up it must have been to be a pre-reformation european peasant in a cathedral, ego cooked by malnutrition, ergotism, etc, surrounded by debauched authoritarian shitbags muttering in latin, flattened by titanic standing waves from the pipe organ, and subsequently unable to stop seeing the afterimage of all that fucking stained glass for the entire next week's worth of backbreaking toil. "must grip." hand-numbered edition of 144.

bee mask “canzoni dal laboratorio del silenzio cosmico” c30 cassette

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gift tapes press release...

bee mask - canzoni dal laboratorio del silenzio cosmico, gt026, c30, edition of 200 bee mask's newest work gives a nod to experimental music of the 20th century; classic kosmiche zones are fused with musique concrete to form a surrealist sound collage of home studio and field recordings. synths, sampler, prepared piano, variable speed cassette players, voice and handmade instruments all come into play, explaining quantum mechanics via dream logic. all cassettes are pro-dubbed, imprinted, loaded with high bias tape, packaged in regular size norelco cases, w/ 2-sided color cardstock j-card insert that includes artist name and album title.

bee mask “hyperborean trenchtown” long playing record

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weird forest press release...

bee mask hyperborean trenchtown lp i think chris madak was born after impact in a car crash, and his hyperborean trenchtown will enter the world in a similar fashion. the album resonates a future sound vision that can only come from an old soul destined to further pave the paths laid by electronic and minimalist pioneers. thorough audio examinations covering every facet of sound/tone property as a whole will reveal astonishing new layers listen after listen. undeniably pure processes of creating and sustaining sound visually, sonically and otherwise brings a mathematical and scientific accuracy that hasn’t been seen since the days of lovely music ltd. or grm. the album’s two side-long cuts are divided into two displays of versatility with varied sound sources including amplified acoustic instruments, hand-made electronics, phonography, and more. brilliant textures and audio hallucinogenic time/space wormholes create infinite listening possibilities for this album. few albums can create such a disorienting tunnel that it sounds as if the record has multiple albums locked within itself — you can hear these sounds and interpret them in so many ways that only time can unlock its many possibilities. great albums only gain significance and this is surely no exception. listen to this record on your turntable and stop time completely or melt into the past or the future with it — your choice. — john elliott illustration and design by aaron winters of abide visuals limited to 400 copies on black vinyl.