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arbor (usa) #arbor 052 ep

c. spencer yeh / sick llama “split” seven inch single record

  • c. spencer yeh - solo violin 11 (4:34)

  • sick llama - untitled (5:47)
... sorted split between spencer (here issuing the 11th in his “solo violin” series - #1-10 available prior via the titular tone filth lp, now sadly o/p) and heath “barf thoth” moerland (proffering an untitled slab of cassette-garble in his inimitable style) ...
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arbor52 c. spencer yeh / sick llama split 7"

                          the malformed compositions of c. spencer yeh and sick llama come from opposing spectrums of noise music, though their similarities are undeniable. whether it be yeh’s solo piece for violin or sick llama’s gunked tape work, the spirit of improvisation shines through. on yeh’s track, the churning sounds of metal scrapes and light tinges, like crossed electric static and growing, buzzing drones are the result of one violin. his unique approach to the instrument marks him as one of the most exciting improvisers today whether it be with his solo work or through his work in burning star core. sick llama’s untitled piece is one of his most concise and interesting tracks; crushing and dirty with the hiss of tape static. coming from the stoned mind of heath moreland of fag tapes, the expected tape aesthetic is transferred to vinyl with a compilation of cut up compositions, evoking a series of mystery sound sources.

in an edition of 400 7”s in proprinted fold over sleeves with art by maya miller of heavy tapes / religious knives.

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 best of 2006 !!! 
dronedisco (usa) #fig. 87 cd

hototogisu / burning star core “volume one” compact disc

  • (five untitled pieces)
finally, back in stock !!

october 2006 release; a massive whir of krautrock-inspired doom-drones & psychedelic noise from the hototogisu duo and the full trio lineup of burning star core. a surprisingly varied/dynamic set, encompassing passages that sound not unlike amon düül, closely followed by ones that sound like a lightning bolt bootleg... hell, the last piece even sounds like the lost billy bang/david tudor mind-meld we’ve all been dreaming about...

of the recent invasion of hototo/bxc-related gelt, i’m feeling this one the most... highly recommended.
dronedisco press release...
"live in-person" collaborations between hototogisu and the bxc. hototogisu, as you know, are the time-defying duo of matthew bower (skullflower, ramleh, sunroof!, total, etc.) and marcia bassett (double leopards, ghq, zaimph, etc.). for these sessions, burning star core was c. spencer yeh, robert beatty, and trevor tremaine (the latter two being of hair police, eyes and arms of smoke, sick hour, etc.). note that the music on this disc is different material from the heavy blossom companion volume "hg/bxc ii" released earlier this year.

five tracks, totalling approximately fifty minutes. packed into the small horrible room (rip) inside the cedar house (rip) down in lexington ky (still alive), individuals huddled in every corner, painting the room in colored cables, glossy wood and metal boxes. deafness and disorientation was administered through the afternoon on into the night. summoning over two hours of recorded tape, it was decided to cut the baby in half for adoption between two imprints. heavy blossom ferried away the long thick sides of torso, and dronedisco seized the hooves, antlers, and jaw. the disc starts off with an appropriate invocation; from there punches blindly through one stone cloud after another, coughs and gasps from exhaustion, stumbles and lies motionless. the ritual concludes with a moment of naked acoustic/instinctual spasm, then a cut-off of

originally released in a very small quantity on cd-r as merchandise during various us and uk spring tours, the dronedisco half of these sessions has been edited and resequenced for this release in the autumn. the pro-pressed disc comes in a black polycase with black and white inserts and a special randomly-selected 1" button (there are five button variations in all).

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high spirits (usa) #hs 16 cd

lambsbread / james ferraro / c. spencer yeh “clams” compact disc-recordable

  • untitled (18:11)
june 2010 release ; ultra lo-fi live blast from lambsbread, here a&a’ed by both c. spencer yeh & the skaters’ james ferraro ...
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hs no 16 clams [ reissue ]

lambsbread + james ferraro + c. spencer yeh

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hospital productions (usa) #hos 212 cd

burning star core “inside the shadow” compact disc

  • inside the shadow (w. metals) (14:49)
  • now united (7:32)
  • inside the shadow (9:48)
january 2010 release ; proper, mass-market issue of this 2005 dronedisco set from c. spencer yeh, channeling xenakis’ “bohor” & re-routing its scattered-metals approach through contemporary “underground” sensibilities ... this is augmented by a fine 7-minute blast of “bagpipe” synth modes & a more blown-out, major-key variant of the title piece’s brownian creep ...

very glad to have this set be more than a blip in spencer’s discographical roadmap ; highly recommended !!!
hospital productions press release...

catalog: hos-212
artist: burning star core
title: inside the shadow
format: cd

a reissue of an obscure tour only recording from 2005 brings to the light the flickering dance of mr yeh and his dives into organic drone music. unlike the majority of his electronic compositions inside the shadow reveals three textures brought to life with violin, chimes and bells that defy most of the contemporaries limitations to synth only exercises.

yeh proves the heart of landscape oriented linear composition is only limited by the imaginations of the creators and brings warmth to an otherwise cold genre with the flame of inside the shadow.

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hospital productions (usa) #hos 182 ep

burning star core “body blues” seven inch single record

  • body blues

  • the pleasure is mine
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burning star core - body blues - 7" (hos-182)

opening panel in a three part series. two side long pieces drift between driving nostalgic road weary head long plunges into human mysteries and sombre lone rose-pedal synth write private and voyeuristic existentialism. bxc is one of the few independent voices of rapture emerging from the tunnels of noise. pro print glue pocket sleeve.

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important (usa) #imprec 137 cd

smegma “33 1/3” compact disc

  • percrash (3:36)
  • glossolalia (4:56)
  • antics (9:14)
  • world of plugs (5:29)
  • the door (10:04)
  • not right (4:36)
  • up there (3:15)

  • video: smegma live! (7:10)
cd version ; includes a bonus embedded video of the group w/c. spencer yeh (burning star core) & twig harper (nautical almanac) ...
important press release...
smegma - 33 1/3 - cd
imprec137 - cd

33 1/3 is smegma's tribute to their 20th century avant-garde and out-jazz influences. the title is one part reference to the happy revival of passionate vinyl listening in the 21st century and one part celebration of their long hard slog of 33 1/3 years of being one of the most free thinking and original american underground groups. their focus, ideas and determination has brought them through more than three decades and to this day they remain unparalleled, original and highly influential.

33 1/3 is enhanced with live videos of happy holidays live at end times festival (with spencer yeh and twig harper) as well as grubsteak live at the three million tongues festival in chicago.

smegma. seriously. they've been at it for so long now that you can't really even say they sound like anyone else. you can only say that others sound like them. they're all here on 33 1/3: oblivia, ju suk reet meate, burned mind, conroy, dr. id. the core group drumming up their influences and pulling off another burning album of magnificent proportions.

while smegma has never really fit in anywhere their influence on the modern avant garde and improvised noise scene is absolutely undeniable. however, it's essential to remember that smegma has never been noise for noise's sake. while they've had two feet firmly planted in avant-garde & free jazz one must not forget their rock roots as well. for this reason alone they're bound to not fit in anywhere. influences aside, not matter how much everyone else sounds like smegma, you can bet that smegma is always going to sound like nobody else. nobody else channels so much energy, effort, influence or sound into their work. they may just be the greatest american band. ever.

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important (usa) #imprec 096 lp

paul flaherty / chris corsano / c. spencer yeh “snow blind avalanche” long playing record

  • human suffering (19:18)
  • ice ducklings (6:50)
  • abstact poverty (9:36)
blasted trio date betwixt paul flaherty (external lung), chris corsano (limbic disrhythmia), and c. spencer yeh (sandpaper as rosin) - 80mph free jazz clomp w/plenty of scrape/holler interaction. this comes pretty damn close to what it sounds like inside my head... vinyl version here is a completely different record/session than the “a rock in the snow” disc...
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snow blind avalanche is a completely different album than a rock in the snow also being released on important though the two records were made during the same sessions. this vinyl only release is limited to 1000 copies with the first 200 on snow-white vinyl. artwork by c. spencer yeh. liner notes from wolf eyes bro john olson aka johnny coors.

the flaherty/corsano/yeh power trio have emerged on album with a dual format/dual release for important. snow blind avalanche finds the flaherty/corsano/yeh in more abstract free dimensions with yeh's presence in the sound even more firmly established. recorded as the snow fell.

“no overdubs. live in studio. free-noise-punk-jazz with bent-sick-burning vocals. amen.” paul flaherty

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 best of 2012 !!! 
 spring cleaning !!! 
intransitive (usa) #int 037 cd

c. spencer yeh “1975” compact disc

  • drone (6:35)
  • voice (3:27)
  • drone (4:40)
  • voice (4:40)
  • drone (5:17)
  • shrinkwrap from a solo saxophone cd (skit) (2:09)
  • two guitars (7:33)
  • two guitars (6:09)
  • drips (skit) (2:35)
  • au revoir... (6:34)
  • ... et bonne nuit (8:15)
december 2011 release ; ... after a year-long dalliance with pop music (well, his twisted definition of pop music anyways) it’s nice to hear spencer return to the pan-trajectorial approach of his prior solo music, here embodied as a dove-tailing selection of what sound like glass harmonica pieces (i.e. “drone”) & threshold-gated sound poetry (i.e. “voice”) leading into a pair of excellent psycho-acoustic guitar-sculpture-interference studies (i.e. “two guitars”) into a pair of digitally-munged musique concrète etudes (i.e. “au revoir... “ et “... et bonne nuit”) ...

... all of which are areas of exploration previously witnessed across his solo work (only his acoustic & electric violin playing is absent) ; yet here the pacing & narrative arrangement(s) lend a decisive cohesion that makes this so much more than a random assortment of odd extracts & experiments :: it works beautifully as an album-proper & stands as one of spencer’s major works (although i’m not buying this “debut album” crap) ... highly recommended !!!
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1975
c. spencer yeh

intransitive recordings is extra-proud to present 1975, the debut solo album of tightly-coiled, crackling electronic ambience by c. spencer yeh. while “debut” may seem a strange word to use to describe an album by a guy with such a deep discography, yeh explains that 1975 is like nothing anyone has heard from him before. “one thing is i really wanted to focus on a certain feeling of stasis. so much of what else i do just kinda pushes and pushes forward. 1975 is more vertical than horizontal, even though one can’t escape the horizontal completely.” taking a confident step away from his familiar work as an improvising violinist and vocalist, from the mythology of his rock / noise band burning star core, and from his recent forays into pop music, the omnivorous yeh here reveals himself to be a composer of unsettling electro-acoustic miniatures.

yeh approached his source material with a desire to be transparent, even literal, and to avoid straightforward narrative. the literal is there in the deceptively matter-of-fact track titles — “drone”, “voice”, “shrinkwrap from solo saxophone cd”, “two guitars” — but knowing which sound source is buried beneath these tones does little to remove 1975‘s sense of enveloping mystery. this is sensual abstract music with a light touch, a confident minimalism that only reveals its unsettling depth, sharp corners, and playful malevolence with repeat listens.

for fans of eliane radigue, hecker, pita, or kevin drumm.

born in taiwan, and now based in brooklyn ny, c. spencer yeh is the one constant of the “band” burning star core, whose other members have included mike shiflet and trevor tremaine & robert beatty of hair police. he has collaborated with a staggeringly diverse range of artists, including john wiese, tony conrad, new humans w/ vito aconcci, aaron dilloway, okkyung lee, evan parker, yellow swans, greg kelley, paul flaherty, don deitrich (of borbetomagus), and chris corsano (to name just a few).

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 48 lp

white out / c. spencer yeh / carlos giffoni “live at no fun” long playing record

  • turbulent flow

  • the junkman’s obligato
september 2009 release ; awesome set of rising, freely-improvised thunder from tom surgal, lin culbertson, carlos giffoni, and c. spencer yeh, recorded at last year’s no fun fest ...

while this teeters on the edge of an fmp-lineage euro-improv blowout, the rest is pure new york noise, with the solenoids attached to tom’s endlessly flailing limbs actually powering the rest of the group’s electronic apparatus ...

crystal clear recording lets us actually hear the detail for once ; nice one !!!
no fun productions press release...
48 white out (with spencer yeh and carlos giffoni) ‘live at no fun’

recorded live at no fun fest 2008. white out (tom surgal and lin culbertson) are true pursuers of the mythical everlasting improvisational fire. with a style thats both oblique and right to the point tom's dynamic poly-rhythmic percussion and lin's dynamic electronics and voice are augmented in this scorching live recording by c. spencer yeh (burning star core) on violin and carlos giffoni on analog synth. this was their first collaboration and is full of amazing interplay that covers a wide spectrum of sound, from other-world evolving sounds to furious free improvisation to thick layers of dense drones, this is a totally bombastic and essential document of ageless modern improvisation.

limited to 350.

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no quarter (usa) #noq 22 lp

burning star core “papercuts theater” double long playing record set

  • part i (16:40)

  • part ii (16:31)

  • part iii (16:31)

  • part iv (16:25)
march 2010 release ; impressive “collage of sixty-six live recordings from 1997-2008” from c. spencer yeh’s burning star core, featuring input from mainstays robert “three legged race” beatty, mike shiflet, & trevor tremaine ... along with input from folks like mike connelly, john rich, jeremy lesniak, dave rempis, craig shepard, and all of lambsbread ...

was expecting this to be more fractured / cut-up considering the lineage, but it’s actually a rather seamless blend of the squaunchy free-improv, kraut motorik, sound-poetry, cracked electronics, and kosugi-esque string-drone workouts that so define the band’s overall mystery-approach ...

an essential release for any fan of contemporary sound ; housed in a lovely metallic stoughton gatefold for extra added weight ...
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burning star core
papercuts theater
noq022lp, no quarter

ah, the live album: often a tool for bands looking to wiggle out of contracts or perhaps, squeeze a few more pennies from a loyal fanbase. rare is it a work of art. inspired by these singular instances (grayfolded, the grateful dead; sonic death, sonic youth; in search of spaces, flying saucer attack) c. spencer yeh, the lone constant of the long-running burning star core project, conceptualized papercuts theater: one long piece (broken into four movements) culled from over sixty live performances, spanning years and continents. these formerly disparate relics of time and space now exist as one: a sonic document of the present. 

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no quarter (usa) #noq 22 cd

burning star core “papercuts theater” compact disc

  • part i (16:40)
  • part ii (16:31)
  • part iii (16:31)
  • part iv (16:25)
march 2010 release ; cd version ...
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burning star core
papercuts theater
noq022cd, no quarter

ah, the live album: often a tool for bands looking to wiggle out of contracts or perhaps, squeeze a few more pennies from a loyal fanbase. rare is it a work of art. inspired by these singular instances (grayfolded, the grateful dead; sonic death, sonic youth; in search of spaces, flying saucer attack) c. spencer yeh, the lone constant of the long-running burning star core project, conceptualized papercuts theater: one long piece (broken into four movements) culled from over sixty live performances, spanning years and continents. these formerly disparate relics of time and space now exist as one: a sonic document of the present. 

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 best of 2007 !!! 
no-fi (uk) #neu 004 ep

burning star core “wsbc/sss” ten inch single record

  • white swords in a black castle (11:06)

  • sun starved skyscrapers (7:45)
  • to spread your dying flower one last time (3:21)
may 2007 release; the second in this series of 6 10” records reissuing c. spencer yeh’s prior cd-r & lim-run output. i know the price sucks; u.k. vinyl is never cheap... but then again spencer does more with 10-minute sides than most do with their 120-minute triple-lp ‘epics’ ...

this installment includes “white swords in a black castle” (colossal wave of distorted chordal activity done in collaboration with iovae and hair police & issued as part of a double cd-r set on dronedisco; reminiscient of pita’s “get out”), “sun staved skyscrapers” (looping free-jazz/psych overload with robert beatty, trevor tremaine, dana hamblen, and jeremy lesniak from a since 1972 tape), and “to spread your dying flower one last time” (three minutes of doom-drone; initally spencer’s half of a split w/mike shiflet on gameboy)
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burning star core ‘wsbc/sss’ 10" (neu004)

second in the series of six 10"s by c. spencer yeh entitled 'mes soldats stupides 96-05'. hard to find reissues on vinyl for the first time. includes insert with design by guest artist john olson (wolf eyes).

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 best of 2008 !!! 
semishigure (germany) #semi 011 cd

new humans “aka vito acconci / new humans / c. spencer yeh” compact disc

  • you in the background (25:59)
  • double negative (32:38)
march 2008 release ; a document of a “happening” what which occurred at the elizabeth dee gallery in nyc during 2007 involving howie chen, mika tajima, and eric tsai’s new humans art / music project (i’ve got / have had some of their lovely self-pressed records in stock) plus artist / architect vito hannibal acconci (i practically lived inside his “island in the mur” in graz for a straight week a few years back - completely amazing piece of work there ...) on recitation and c. spencer yeh on double-bowed violin ...

this is, for all intents and purposes, a free-for-all, with acconci’s filthy texts dotting the wall of electronic sound in the first piece (getting all-but-buried in spots) - following by an extended “instrumental” take in which spencer’s acoustic / unamplified violin (front / center) does battle with new humans’ battery of noise-makers ...

removed from the art-world connotations (the images of the staging of the event show each member of the ensemble bricked-off, each in their own cubicle / cell) this is a fine slab of noise-drone improv... spencer is particularly on-point throughout (natch) & new humans have dropped any semblance of “rock” from their approach, now dealing in pure free sound. highly recommended !!!
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new humans
aka vito acconci / new humans / c. spencer yeh
cd / semi 011

noise surrounds and permeates us, and no one is more responsible than the new humans from that loudest and noisiest of metropolises: new york. from installation art to ear splitting live concerts, this infernal power trio lead by artist mika tajimi eschews no collaboration, no matter how insane. guitarist and artistic leader tajimi is supported by electronics specialist and voice acrobat howie chen, drummer eric tsai, as well as a large number of guest musicians. the new humans like nothing more than to drag friend and foe with them into their noise avalanches.

 semishigure proudly presents the fourth release, a unique live collaboration with artist vito acconci, a pioneer of body/conceptual art, and vintage experimentalist c. spencer yeh. this album consists of two concerts that took place during an exposition of the collective at the elizabeth dee gallery in new york. two electrifying, memorable performances that just had to be registered on cd.

 the last time american performance legend vito acconci collaborated with a band was more than ten years ago, when he worked with punk rock brigade the mekons. a similarly untainted, classically grim punk attitude shines through in his spoken word performance with the new humans. “you in the background” is the name of their jointly raised middle finger to the world. floating on the ominously swelling waves of noise created by the new humans, acconci throws all frustrations overboard. captive to a feverish, shamanic trip, acconci speaks of each and everyone’s search for their own identity. acconci has made a special selection from his audio works for the occasion. texts such as “now do you believe the dirty dogs are dead” (1978) and “cry, baby!” (1977) still sound like screams for enlightenment and liberation. c. spencer yeh’s plaintive violin careens into the impenetrable wailing wall of feedback. the new humans not just voice, but scream their anger of life under the bush regime, and in acconci they have found a worthy ally.

 c. spencer yeh and the new humans go the whole hog on the second live concert, an immensely loud drone séance lasting half an hour. like no other, radical violinist yeh manages to infiltrate any collective, be it dream/aktion unit, comets of fire or smegma. through his trademark exorcising velvets violin sound yeh manages to create unbearable tension with the new humans’ sound avalanches in hot pursuit. during the performance, a glass sculpture is destroyed and the noise of its breaking amplified. at any moment the waves of noise terror threaten to submerge yeh, but he stands firm. thank god this all-engulfing live experience has been registered for posterity!

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what the...? (usa) #what 013 lp

gordy horn “the glue that holds the kids together” one-sided long playing record

  • clayton’s code (2004)
  • aimee’s dream (2000)
  • put the rascal in the pudding (2005)
  • the concept of love (2004)
august 2010 release ; big music from a big group of covington, ky / cincinatti, oh hangers-on, including the wolverton brothers’ tim schwallie, clayton “chicken” gunnels (he of “sex machine” era j.b.’s trumpet-blare), c. spencer yeh, scott hisey, adam shelton, aimee horne, and tara coyler ...
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artist: gordy horn
title: the glue that holds the kids together
format: 1-sided vinyl lp
catalog: what013

vinyl debut of long-running cincinnati ohio/northern kentucky improv unit circling the center of saxophone/electronics tim schwallie (of the wolverton brothers) and doublebass/electronics scott hisey. over many many many many years the core remain the same with various collaborators and members walking in and stepping or falling out, but the core remain the same, as they stepped in and fell out of modes such as free improv, free funk, free song, as evidenced in these on record. and included on record is a highly-picked sample of highlights from gordy line-ups, including involving clayton "chicken" gunnels (rip, of the jbs, "america eats its young"-adelic), mark perry (heevahava), c. spencer yeh (burning star core) and names here.

so mark perry 'discovered clayton' wandering covington streets. clayton was too well-dressed to be 'just another homeless dude' as mark put it... mark started a dialogue which turned into sporadic jams with clayton, then mark decided that gordy horn get-togethers were the best formats for clayton and you know the rest... 'do you know karate?'  tara was a singer with a very sloppy and very loud noise jam thing in the early nineties that i liked a lot--in particular i liked this pretty quiet small young girl that would transform into a screaming banshee on stage... we talked and then they moved to la; her boyfriend od'ed, she moved back, and we started talking again.  scott and i were in a collaborative mood. we met up with aimee who was willing to bring her harp around, and gordy was a four-piece for 8 months or so around june to dec 1999...  the quartet with spencer and adam was really the go-to quartet for a while there (2003-2006) and i am glad we got one of those jams on the record.

- tim schwallie, spring 2010, cincinnati ohio.

one-sided lp with silkscreen cover designed by artist paul coors. 

130 copies limit.

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what the...? (usa) #what 008 lp

justin lieberman / c. spencer yeh “object lessons” picture disc long playing record

  • circle of friends
  • gazing globe
  • space heater
  • bird in a gilded cage
  • the tunnel

  • dell inspiron laptop
  • krusty bong
  • slurpee lamp
  • wheelbarrow
  • letter to an antique water pump
april 2009 release ; collaboration between visual artist justin lieberman (lyrics and vocals) and c. spencer yeh (music and vocals) ...

given the music’s often goofy / puerile predilection(s), perhaps it helps to see this more as an objet d’art :: a gorgeous gatefold sleeve (adorned with photos of a few of lieberman’s recent pieces on the outside, and ms-paint lineage cartoon-collage depictions of each of the songs in the interior) holds a picture-disc lp, coated in further cartoon-ish depictions ...

the presentation reminds me a bit of the last few eventuell lps, and in fact that particular meshing of high-art / lowbrow-sound is close to lieberman / yeh’s whole modus here ...
what the...? press release...

artist: justin lieberman & c. spencer yeh
title: "object lessons"
format: picture disc lp
catalog: what008

"object lessons" and what of this ten-song collaboration between artist lieberman and yeh ?  perhaps the influenced musically discussed is somewhere starting between mutual love of various artistic and musical genres certainly -- sound poetry, psychedelic rock, japanese scum noise, japanese psychedelic rock, listy lists, but certainly embodies more the present-time sensibilities and whims of both between the two artists to combine for something perhaps neither strictly adhering to any imitation.

perhaps to this record appropriately let's step back to new york artist justin lieberman's 2009 sculptural and multimedea work "the corrector's custom pre-fab house" -- a description from the debuting gallery follows --

the corrector's custom pre-fab house is inspired by robert venturi and denise scott-brown's 1972 book, learning from las vegas, which provides an in depth examination of what they call 'the decorated shed,' a simple structure with elaborate signage. using the urban sprawl of las vegas as an example, they posit this architectural style as a means to enrich the symbolic content of post-modern architecture. the corrector's custom pre-fab house is a steel dwelling covered with a multitude of objects including a 1970s snowmobile, a life sized jolly green giant, foam filled inflatable toys, an illuminated fedex sign, and a 7 foot shark. accompanying the house is a sculpture of the 'corrector,' a character inspired by the fictional figure, nobusuke tagomi, from philip k dick's novel, the man in the high castle. the novel follows tagomi in a fictional future fifty years after germany and japan defeat the allied forces in world war ii. lieberman's interpretation of taogmi is that of an avid collector of all things pop culture, whose collecting habits extend to the exterior of his home. within the house, there is a computer equipped with a program that enables the 'corrector' to archive each object with an informational text about the object's history, which is then projected onto the adjacent wall of the gallery. created in the style of a katamari video game, the program features texts on each object taking various forms such as objective accounts, plagiarized product descriptions, aesthetic meditations, poetry, short fiction, satire, and prose. these texts were then transformed into the record, object lessons, a musical collaboration between justin lieberman and c spencer yeh. the record is a spoken rendition of select object descriptions that were reworked into an ... musical format.

full-color gatefold jacket, depicting abovementioned objects piled up in a grassy field, and the empty dome waiting for occupancy, and inside special ullistrations for both ten tracks -- with fullcolor picture disc lp showing the corrector statue's head in both sketch and final form.

manufacture stopped around 250 copies.

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american tapes (usa) #am 799 lp

“no state no sound” one-sided long playing record

  • body moprh
  • birth refusal
  • hive mind
  • sick llama
  • new pledgemaster
  • tom & john
  • ???????
  • moontravellers
  • a.c. & khrust
  • alicia warning
  • no fucker
  • burning star core
  • hair police
  • rodger stella
  • damion romero
  • hellfire holly
  • iron lung
  • 16 bitch pile up
  • the haunting
october 2008 release ; boggling comp of artist “silences” - the word on the street being that this lp, by and large, consists of olson holding a cassette walkman up to either the face of, or telephone receiver jacked up to the artists listed below, and instructed them to be “quiet” ...

whether this qualifies as “good art” is something each one of you will have to take up with your respective maker(s) and/or your personal copy of cage’s “silence” ... as you can hear from the sound-sample there’s a fair bit going on other than silence ; cell phones interfere, heating and a/c systems come to life, traffic passes ...

confusing, yes, but in its own way a kind of a time-capsule of this particular musical social network ...
american tapes press release...
am-799 no state no sound compilation one-sided lp

hold on gnaw...last but not least..... the no state no sound comp lp. don't know what led up to it...think i vaguely remember getting "dared" by nurse khrust to put out a record of silence by the crew, not sure, but maybe told haunted square d about it....but anyhow.....flashblack to an average but killer brewsday in the late summer, got the crew shooting the gip, no biggy, and square d rolls up with his "body morph" one minute silent track....takes a sec to remember but all right...lets do this.

greh and v invite the now deep crew black to they hut, and on the way i had a walkman in the whip, so i popped in d's master, hit record and the stop watch for a minute and me and the connartist sat in silence for a minute and recorded the second track birth refusal. as we got to grehs, we assembled all the jammers present and hit em up for a minute, all on three different walkman's all on the original master tape.

was totally strange, sick llama was just standing in a yard with the crew looking at him pointing a recorder his way while nothing happened. it was like a very strange gig. so after everyone at the party got recorded/ trapped in no sound, some the garage, some inside a bathroom whilst the crew stared at the close door, someone had the idea to call up some jammers. so no fucker johnny, romero, others all held on the line for a minute of nothing. totally rules.

the end result sounds like a folkways experiment. i ended up coming home and getting busted for "recording silence and not grabbing the air condition window unit" which was the only reason i went grehs begin with. hey, window ac unit or not, you are still kool with this platter!! heres the full iiterary, recorded in order, no overdubs or tom foolery, no voices nothing, just weird hiss and an occasional bird chirp in lonesome...

1) body moprh
2) birth refusal
3) hive mind
4) sick llama
5) new pledgemaster
6) tom & john
7) ??????? (we eventually figured out who it is, heres a hint: weighs 90 lbs, goes from 0-passed out in 3 brews, now in p. rico)
8) moontravellers
9) a.c. & khrust
10) alicia warning
11) no fucker
12) burning star core
13) hair police
14) rodger stella
15) damion romero
16) hellfire holly
17) iron lung
18) 16 bitch pile up
19) the haunting

all pressed on colored gray vinyl on the new at style wrapped around sleeve with creepy art,
numbered edition of 200.

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crucial bliss (usa) #bliss 02 cd

“shadows infinitum” compact disc recordable

  • dead raven choir sonja
  • encomiast nicht
  • korperschwache let my knife
  • existential dilemma wolven-elf deer
  • burning star core blue sunshine vocalwoks
  • feverdreams untitled #22
  • nadja veil of disillusion
  • marax coming of lilith
  • unholydeathmachine infidel
earlier cdr compilation on crucial bliss (crucial blast sublabel, natch) featuring a few familiar names...
crucial bliss press release...
shadows infinitum compilation cd-r
bliss02

companion piece to the record of shadows infinite compilation cd on crucial blast. the wrangling of top-notch drone artists continues with this full length, extremely polished cd-r release, limited to 250 copies. exclusive tracks from dead raven choir, encomiast, korpersschwache, existential dilemma, burning star core, feverdreams, nadja, marax, and unholydeathmachine run the gamut: these further explorations of the drone touch on blackened folk creep, glacial hum and gorgeous ambient bliss, buzzsaw feedback rituals, imploding-sun droneblast, improvised clatter and drift, epic dronemetal, vampiric dronenoise, and schizophrenic kool-aid burble riots. another exercise in intelligent, outsider droneworks from crucial blast.

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 best of 2006 !!! 
the sound projector (uk) #tsp vinyl mag

“the sound projector presents... vinyl viands 2006” magazine

  • 100 lp record reviews !!!
with this november 2006 “special” issue it’s pretty much official; the sound projector is the best experimental music magazine running, at least from my jilted standpoint...

in this issue mr. pinsent selects a stack of vinyl from his shelf, then sits down and concocts witty expositions on their contents, methods of acquisition, etc... the whole thing has this ritualistic flair but never dips into sheer repetition; there’s always something interesting to say, some revelation to be found.

records reviewed in this issue range from recent noise vinyl way on back to 60s esp-disk originals; not your “keeping up with the new release schedules” coverage here, no sir... ed is as likely to review a rare 1970 french prog lp as he is the new fusetron title.

it’s a joy to read and genuinely funny to boot. if you’ve ever pored the shelves of your local mom & pop record shop for dusty experimental gelt, you’ll be familiar with the thrill of the hunt celebrated within these pages. very highly recommended!
the sound projector press release...
the sound projector presents a "black stuff" summer special!
black balloons...a dolphin in your dansette
a vinyl-viaduct labyrinth for your noggin!

vinyl viands 2006!

published august 2006. 78pp, full colour covers, digital printing
no interviews, no articles...just lots of vinyl lp reviews!
for 2006...a time when nobody in the world even has a turntable!
a time when digitising vinyl onto cds can cost up to £10,000 a pop!
an age when there's a massive upsurge in high-quality vinyl reissues!

we bring you vinyl viands 2006!

tales of collecting, hoarding, rifling, storing, handling, playing and listening to vinyl lps!

written by ari abramowitz, harley richardson, jennifer hor, richard rees jones and ed pinsent
comic strip contribution by john bagnall
evidence of collecting mania gone insane!
in your mind...you know it's a viand!

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john adams harmonium
germany ecm 1277 lp (1984)

anima der regt mich auf / a controversy
germany ohr today omm 580.001 2 x lp (1982)

martin archer ten studies for organ
audiolaceration al005 lp (2006)

attacco decente the baby within us marches on
uk all or nothing aon002 lp (1988)

jean-baptiste barriere pandemonium - ville ouverte
france atem records atem 7003 lp (1979)

blue öyster cultspectres
uk cbs 86050 lp (1977)

bo diddleybo diddley
checker lp 2984 (nd)

burning star corethe very heart of the world
usa thin wrist recordings tw-g lp [2005]

john cage with david tudorjohn cage presents variations iv recordedlive at the fiegen / palmer gallery
usa everest 3132 (nd) (196?)

captain beyond captain beyond
usa capricorn cp-0105 lp (1972)

carmen fandangos in space
uk regal zonophone srza 8518 (1974)

the ric colbeck quartet the sun is coming up
uk fontana (esp-disk') 6383 001 lp (1970)

tony conrad fantastic glissando
usa table of the elements 82 lp (2003)

alice cooper pretties for you
usa warner bros / straight ws 1840 (1970)

vital viands

davenport davenport
usa not not fun records nnf 23 lp (nd)

dead machines / john wiese falling lights
usa rococo records r cc-0006 lp [2006]

dome dome 2
uk dome 2 lp (1980)

kevin drumm / 2673 split lp
usa kitty play kpr 7 lp (2006)

dust hard attack
usa kama sutra ksbs 2059 lp (1972)

electronic art ensemble inquietude
usa gramavision gr7003 lp (1982)

the nedly elstak trio + voice the machine
uk fontana stl5538 lp (1969)

the enid in the region of the summer stars
uk buk records bulp 2014 lp (1976)

john fahey hard time empty bottle blues 1-4
usa table of the elements 60 nd lp (2003)

fanny mothers pride
uk reprise / wea k44233 lp (1973)

fe-mail voluptuous vultures
usa psychform records pfr 05 10-inch lp (2006)

henry flynt back porch hillbilly blues volumes 1 & 2
usa bo'weavil recordings weavil 01 2 x lp(2003)

terry fox berlino / rallentando
the netherlands het apollohuis ar 088807 lp(1988)

john frankovic frank-o-fest. an episode of improvisational smoke recorded upon the cold
usa father yod fyp-l3 lp (1992)

fred frith live in japan
japan recommended records japan rrj 003/004 2x lp box (1982)

fred frith speechless
usa ralph records ff 8106 lp (1981)

vicious viands

hatebeak beak of putrefaction
usa reptilian rep 077 7" single (2004)

hatebeak bird seeds of vengeance
usa reptilian rep 090 7" single (2005)

hirsch nicht aufs sofa im schatten der möhre
dom v 77-07 lp

the hospitals i've visited the island of jocks and jazz
usa load records load 071 lp (2005)

noah howard at judson hall
usa esp-disk' 1064 lp (1968)hurray dreamsnot soft illusion
usa fuestron fuse 042 lp (nd)

ikarus ikarus
germany second battle sblp 032 lp (1995)

jim jackson kansas city blues
holland agram blues ab 2004 lp (nd)

jade warrior last autumn's dream
vertigo vel-1012 lp (1972)

jefferson airplane bark
usa grunt records (rca) ftr-1001 lp (1971)

le roy jenkins / rashied ali swift are the winds of life
usa survival records sr 112 lp (nd)

stanley jordan standards volume 1
usa blue note bt 85130 lp (1986)

k. salvatore ashmadai
usa fusetron fuse 048 2 x lp (2006)

henry kaiser it's a wonderful life
usa metalanguage ml-124 lp (1984)

gershon kingsley gershon kingsley's first moog quartet
italy dagored red148 lp (2003)

no-name viands

laterna laterna
poland obuh v26 lp (2005)

lichens the psychic nature of being
usa holy mountain 70258 lp (2005)

lied music vs boy-band tax returns lied music vs boy-band tax returns
belgium ultra eczema 29 lp (2006)

magic carpathians project euscorpius carpathicus
poland obuh v22 lp (2003)

magma merci
seventh md foo 41 lp (1984)

mammut mammut
germany little wing of refugees lw 1048 lp(1996)

walter marchetti per la sete dell'orecchio
italy vandalia records 10584 lp [1983]

neil merryweather space rangers
usa mercury srm-1-1007 lp (1974)

jerzy milian milianalia
poland obuh v27 lp (2005)

the move looking on
uk fly records fly 1 lp (1970)

mukai chie / urabe masayoshi dual anarchism
usa siwa records #9 lp (2002)

necronomicon tips zum selbtsmord
no label 60634 lp (nd)

nurse with wound ostranenie 1913
uk thirdmind records tmr 03 lp (1983)

viands of wonderment

origami galaktika eesti libbed silmad süda
norway komkol autoprod 089 2 x lp (1998)

annette peacock x-dreams
usa tomato tom-7025 lp (1979)

pelican / mono ran amber / yearning
usa hydra head industries hh 666 104 /temporary residence limited trr89 lp (2006)

krzysztof penderecki the manuscript found in saragossa: originalmotion picture soundtrack
poland obuh v24 lp (2005)

pink floyd meddle
uk emi harvest shvl 795 lp (1971)

terry reid river
us atlantic sd 7259 lp (1973)

peter van riper room space
usa vrblu 13 lp (1981)

alasdair roberts no earthly man
usa drag city dc283 lp (2005)

robotobibok nawyki przyrody
poland obuh v25 / vytvornia om v01 lp (2005)

il rovescio della medaglia la bibbia
rca psl 10521 lp (1971)

tony rusconi boxing (the) drums
italy vm boxes ed. vmb 1000 2 x lp (nd)

george russell and his orchestra new york ny / jazz in the space age
usa mca records inc mca2-4017 2 x lp (1973)

ray russell quartet dragon hill
uk cbs realmjazz series 52663 lp (1969)

leaping-lung viands

frank sidebottom medium play
uk in tape it069 10-inch ep (1989)

the horace silver quintet and trio blowin' the blues away
usa blue note 84017 lp (1985)

slade slade alive!
uk polydor super 2383 101 lp (1972)

the slits the slits
uk [y records y3lp] lp (1980)

sparks hello young lovers
uk gut records gut53 lp (2006)

bruce springsteen & the e street band live/1975-85
uk cbs 450227 5 x lp (1986)

steppenwolf early steppenwolf
germany hor zu shze 266 lp (nd)

sun city girls live from planet boomerang
usa majora lp 5663 2 x lp (1992)

t2 it'll all work out in boomland
uk decca skl5050 lp (1970)

temperatures too hot to handle / too cold to hold
uk private press no number 7" ep (2005)

david thomas and the pedestrians the sound of the sand and other songs of thepedestrian
uk rough trade rough 30 lp (1981)

keith tippett blueprint
uk rca sf 8290 lp (1972)

tivol early teeth
usa holy mountain 8271940 lp (2005)

pete townshend who came first
uk track deluxe 2408 201 lp (1972)

growling viands

ultravox three into one
uk island ilps 9614 lp (1980)

the untouchable factor charred earth
usa kharma inc pk-1 lp (1977)

various images fantastiques
usa limelight ls 86047 lp (nd)

various high-minded bands my mind goes high. psychedelic pop nuggetsfrom the wea vaults
uk warner music uk / rhino 8122-74708-1 2 x lp(2005)

various viva negativa! a tribute to the new blockaders
germany vinyl on demand vod 24 / vod 25 4 x lpbox sets (2005-2006)

the vitamin b12 heads
uk private pressing no number 8 x lps (2006)

dennis wilson pacific ocean blue
us caribou pz 34354 lp (1977)

wizzard wizzard brew
uk emi harvest shsp 4025 lp (1973)

wooden wand and the vanishing voice buck dharma
usa time-lag 026 2 x lp (2005)

wooden wand and the vanishing voice xiao
usa troubleman unlimited tmu 156 lp (2004)

frank wright quartet uhuru na umoja
spain marfer sa (america records) m. 40-030 slp [1970]

ultimato viands

y pants beat it down
usa neutral records n-two lp (1982)

ya ho wa 13 presents the savage sons of ya ho wa
higher key records hkr 010 lp (nd)

frank zappa and the mothers of invention the history and collected improvisations of frank zappa and the mothers of invention
bootleg no label zx-3561-3660 a (10 x lp box set)

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 best of 2010 !!! 
ultra eczema (belgium) #ue 82 lp

“popcorn” double long playing record set

  • pavel büchler - a pip of popcorn
  • hair stylistics with takuma watanabe - popcorn
  • rlw - corn poop
  • kian sandalen - popcorn
  • burning star core - popcorn
  • dsr lines - popkorner
  • evil moisture - porn cop
  • nuslux - popcorn
  • raionbashi - maakt popcorn
  • hetero skeleton - popcorn
  • vomgrill - dopkaartleggen

  • helm - popcorn
  • attempt - popcorn
  • helicoptere sanglante - popcorn
  • dracula lewis - popcorn
  • christophe piette - popcorn
  • kip prims - kipcorn
  • white circle crime club - popcorn
  • jacques beloeil - corny pop
  • spykes - poopcorn

  • cryptic report - ravishing toxic popcorn apostle
  • autistik youth - popcorn
  • remörk - untitled
  • miaux - popcorn
  • amon düde v - popcorn
  • fantamatres - poc
  • ali mio feat. sultan steven - popcorn
  • rani bageria & hanno schnegg - popcorn
  • blood stereo - popcorn

  • my land & lion - popcorn
  • family battle snake - popcorn
  • three legged race - popcorn
  • daniel de wereldvermaarde botanicus - popcorn
  • rock and roll jackie & nour mobarack - popcorn
  • lucas abela
  • christopher fleeger & kevin blechdom - poopcorn
  • heatsick - melts in your mouth
  • astral social club - popcorn
  • tarp - popcorn
  • blaastaal - popcorn
march 2010 release ; reprising his conceptual covers-record idea(ls - see the “la bamba” travesty) dennis tyfus delivers with this sprawling set of irreverent version(ing)s of stan free’s majestic 1972 moog bleep-splatter classic “popcorn” ...

so many great / irritating moments herein it’s hard to even single out a few, but i have to hand it to olson’s plunderphonics 101 version (listen to the sound-sample ... sabbath ? the stones ? gaga ? check, check, checkmate) ... but then again some of the new(er) names here turn in world-class work, and the whole thing eventually reeks of a kind of love & respect for gershon, rather than a kind of anti-manifesto ...

comes wrapped in klassische dennis xerox-warble, with a nice insert & funny liners from carlo ; the best ...
ultra eczema press release...

ue82
popcorn
2x comp lp

a follow up to last years' la bamba drama compilation, which annoyed the shit out of everyone that ever put it on, and made in conjunction with the ue popcorn night(mare), a night where over 30 people played a live cover version of gershon kingsley's banger from 1969!

this double comp is the sweetest cherry on the cake, it should have been a single lp, but in a over-enthausiastic mood i kept inviting people (thinking noone would actually send something in). the versions vary from literal covers to vague interpretations to kitchen princess styled cooking lessons by pavel büchler, hair stylistics with takuma watanabe, rlw, kian sandalen, burning star core, dsr lines, evil moisture, nuslux, raionbashi, hetero skeleton, vomgrill, helm, attempt, helicoptere sanglante, dracula lewis, christophe piette, kip prims, white circle crime club, jacques beloeil, spykes, cryptic report, autistik youth, remörk, miaux, amon dude v, fantamatres, ali mio feat sultan steven, rani bageria and hanno schnegg, blood stereo, my land and lion, family battle snake, three legged race, daniel de wereldvermaarde botanicus, rock and roll jackie & nour mobarack, lucas abela, christopher leeger & kevin blechdom, heatsick, astral social club, tarp and blaastaal!

comes in a vague coverdesign with liner notes by carlo steegen !

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