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$23.52

back in stock as of
june 15th, 2012

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december 3rd, 2010

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autumn (usa) #ar 024 cd

sun circle “tapes” double compact disc set

from the split tape with the wind-up bird for the winter 2007 east coast tour.
from the split tape with pregnant moon.
layering of all 11 live sets from the winter 2007 east coast tour.
from the tour tape for the fall 2009 west coast tour (1).
from the tour tape for the fall 2009 west coast tour (2).
overtone singing improvisation with joe grimm.

october 2010 release ; handy, all-in-one collection of zach wallace & greg davis’ recent cro₂ excursions, including the “live tour” tape, their side from the sun circle / pregnant moon split on nna, and their side from the sun circle / wind up bird “tour tape” ... plus two new pieces exclusive to this set (one, literally, a “layering of all 11 live sets from the winter 2007 east coast tour” can be heard via the sound-sample to your left ... the other features joe grimm & was partly recorded in an anechoic chamber) ...

autumn press release...

ar024
sun circle - tapes 2cd

release date: 10/15/10
300 copies
silk-screened arigato pak with insert

a collection of all of the sun circle cassette releases (2 self released out of print cassettes & the nna split cassette) plus 2 previously unreleased pieces. first time available in a digital format. made for the sun circle / grouper / ben vida japan tour 2010.

1/1 - from the split tape with the wind-up bird for the winter 2007 east coast tour. originally released on lichen records (lichen#007) in february 2007. edition of 50 copies. recorded in burlington, vermont.

1/2 - from the split tape with pregnant moon. originally released on nna tapes (nna001) in june 2008. edition of 100 copies. recorded at zach's mom's house in ann arbor, michigan.

1/3 - layering of all 11 live sets from the winter 2007 east coast tour. voice and farfisa organ. previously unreleased.

2/1 - live at the tranzac in toronto, ontario. december 11 2008. from the tour tape for the fall 2009 west coast tour. originally released on autumn records (ar011) in november 2009. edition of 100 copies. recorded live by ayal senior.

2/2 - live at the on land festival at the swedish american hall in san francisco, california. september 20 2009. from the tour tape for the fall 2009 west coast tour. originally released on autumn records (ar011) in november 2009. edition of 100 copies. recorded live by norman teale.

2/3 - overtone singing improvisation with joe grimm recorded in the acoustical echo chamber at the canadian embassy in washington, d.c. layered with gong trio recordings from the winter 2007 east coast tour. previously unreleased.

$13.44

new to stock as of
june 9th, 2010

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install (usa) #inst 011 cd

greg davis “regarding wave” compact disc

regarding wave (part 1) (6:11)
rainbow body (22:38)
regarding wave (part 2) (12:56)

june 2010 release ; three warm, enveloping, tonal works from greg davis ...

the two “regarding wave” pieces unfold at a snail’s pace ; timbrally they sound like “frozen” clouds of massed string ensembles, carefully laid into a giant dorian lattice (i’m reminded a little bit of jim o’rourke’s first “orchestral” pieces such as “disengage”) ... the album’s centerpiece “rainbow body” takes a good 10 minutes to slowly creep out of a beat-frequency-laced sine-tone cluster into an almost clashing, harmonically-rich root-fifth chord, before the latter wins out & the piece resolves to a wholly pleasant footing (listen to the sound-sample for this bit, post-resolution) ...

these three sessions of wonder & magic come pressed into the pits & lans of a compact disc, housed in a full-color gatefold flat-pack, designed by greg himself ... highly recommended !!!

install press release...

inst011
greg davis - regarding wave

limited to 1000 full-color eco-wallet.

dialing in from a growing catalog spread across several labels and a decade of work, greg davis brings install a beautiful new album: regarding wave. admittedly, we don't know too much about how greg made regarding wave, but we do know that he made it just for us, and we can certainly affirm that greg knows the install sound very well, having mastered wood-land's stone circle cd-r last year.

musically this album has a shimmering brightness about it, almost like an auditory hall of mirrors where the smallest chime echoes and repeats kaleidoscopically forever. over the course of three tracks, greg produces moments of rippling beauty via polite tonal drones that evolve at glacial speed. full of harmony and accessibility, regarding wave is not only a welcome addition to greg's diverse oeuvre, but also a worthy introduction to his music for newcomers.

the bottom line: if you already know greg davis, you know this will be amazing, and if you don't, prepare to be impressed!

$12.61

back in stock as of
may 24th, 2013

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august 31st, 2009

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kranky (usa) #krank 132 cd

greg davis “mutually arising” compact disc

cosmic mudra (28:50)
hall of pure bliss (22:24)

july 2009 release ; gorgeous, life-affirming work from greg davis, in the form of two static-leaning modal synthesizer pieces ...

the first is a straight 20-minute climb up a ladder (filter), in which we’re slowly made aware of the myriad overtones in a big ‘ol root-fifth-octave square-wave “power chord” (ending in the introduction of more dissonant frequencies ...) & the second runs a root-fifth-sixth cluster (played on what sounds like a harmonium run through a very gooey slow-mod phaser) through its paces, again, with the phasing subtly outlining the individual upper-harmonic spectral components dancing around in the room ...

this is very patient, long-form music, on par with jim o’rourke’s recent dips into his tape-stash and/or the historic synth-drone works of richard lainhart, david behrman, et.al ... if you’ve been swept up with the more recent work of eleh, and/or are after a more “tonal” variant of eliane radigue’s whole “thing” this is a great one to check out ... highly recommended !!!

kranky press release...

artist: greg davis
title: mutually arising
catalog #: krank132
formats available: cd
release date: july 20, 2009

two long form drone pieces from kranky alumni, greg davis.

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may 24th, 2013

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march 6th, 2009

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kranky (usa) #krank 121 cd

bird show “untitled” compact disc

two organs and dumbek
clouds and their shadows
brddrms
synthesizer solo
mbira, harp and voice
green vines
percussion and voice
pan pipe ensemble and voice
berimbau
wood flute, berimbau, mbira and voice

september 2008 release ; the third solo outing for kranky from town & country / singer / drmwpn member (and fellow nightcrawler) ben vida ...

largely cast in the shadows of his familiar ethno-improv style (as always, his languorous vocals add soporific texture throughout) with takes ranging from some lovely terry riley-lineage minimalist patternage to afro-beat-laced upper-neck guitar & castanet / hand-drum figures, to his first experiments with blending electronic timbres into the fray (the short but sweet “synthesizer solo” offers up an admirable microcosm of sun-ra lineage keyboard skronk - listen to the sound-sample) ...

... just how ben manages to offer up such a diverse measure of pan-genre sound so effortlessly is beyond my comprehension, but you don’t necessarily need a degree in ethnomusicology to appreciate what’s on offer here ...

kranky press release...

artist: bird show
title:
catalog #: krank121
formats available: cd
release date: september 1, 2008

ben vida: hammond xb-2, microkorg, moog voyager, gibson sg, berinbau, shona mbira, slit drum, pan pipes, shakers, vietnamese jaw harp, tambourines, ride cymbal, congas, wood flute, ring modulator, elephant bells, violin, qraqeb, zither, voice, ten string harp, frame drum, finger cymbals, triangle.
greg davis: gong, bells, field recordings and processing on track 2.
robert aa lowe: tambourine on track 3,voice on tracks 6 and 8.
adam vida: korg cx-3 on track 1, tambourine on track 3, ride cymbal on track 6.
michael zerang: dumbek on track 1.this is the third album by ben vida under his bird show moniker following his lightning ghost album from 2006 on kranky. recorded in chicago, il and burlington, vt 2007-2008.

$12.61

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may 24th, 2013

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october 29th, 2004

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kranky (usa) #krank 074 cd

greg davis “somnia” compact disc

archer (7:16)
clouds as edges (edit) (10:49)
diaphanous (edit) (7:53)
campestral (version 2) (22:15)
furnace (4:02)
mirages (version 2) (7:37)

it’s very gratifying to hold in my hand a disc of greg’s abstract process-based works as released in a non-cdr/non-regional/non-limited form. frankly, the tendency of composer-performers of recent vintage to relegate their “alternative” musical explorations to micro-pressings and kunst-editions (thus invalidating them in regards to their “proper” output) makes me a bit queasy ... as if the only way to integrate one’s experimental-music leanings into their “gesamtkunstwerk” is to employ some sort of twisted supply-demand logic, thus making the “object” covetable (and not the organized sounds themselves) ; to this i say bunk ...

enter the kranky label, who, while making an astute differentiation between greg’s song-based acoustic digitalia and his musical pursuits other, choose not to present “somnia” as an “aside”, but as a living, breathing entity with a soul and roots of it’s own, both coexisting with and predating this thing called “folk-tro-nice”.

i’ve had these pieces beaten into me at volumes ranging from modest (home stereo via cdr) to extreme (dozens of european music festivals at which greg and i were particpiants), as such they’ve become something of a vocabulary... it’s hard to distance myself from memories of the environments in which i first heard this sound-combination, or that spectral-drone (these are all good memories, and keep me warm when i’m not out in the world reciting.).

with that in mind i will say that greg is among the most important musicians honing their craft as a full-time practitioner in this day and age, regardless of style and or selection of tools and modes. he’s tapped into something bubbling in the collective subconscious of everyone who has grown up in the internet age, with the entire history of recorded music available at a button’s click ... without the hovering voice of “big brother” specifying the correct path between musical movements, leaving us to forge our own paths ... (who says it’s not right to appreciate the finer points of both early 80s german synthesizer music and morton feldman? why not combine finger-picked guitar with toy instruments and bleeding-edge spectral analysis & resynthesis algorithms? who’s to say that dovetailing an album of song-form pieces with one of extended-duration theme and variation studies is somehow inherently wrong?.. it’s not, and we both know it.) what we used to refer to as “disparate influences” back in the 80s/90s are now all fair game ... and it’s great that musicians such as greg are finally beginning to put this into practice.

an amazing record, absolutely perfect for the sunday mornings when you just don’t want to enter reality just yet ...

kranky press release...

artist: greg davis
title: somnia
catalog #: krank074
formats available: cd
release date: oct. 18, 2004

greg davis has made recorded appearances on numerous singles and compilations, played around the world and is best known for his two albums on the carpark label; arbor and curling pond woods. those two albums, as impressive and well received as they are, don't tell the whole story of davis' omnivorous interest in music (he studied composition and jazz studies at depaul university and composition at the new england conservatory of music) and considerable abilities.

somnia collects drone-oriented material greg davis has been working over the last two to three years with the final track, "mirages (version 2)" being a recording from spring 2004 using a schaaf punchcard music box and computer. each track features a single instrument (bowed psaltery, acoustic guitar, harmonica, fender rhodes, magnus chord organ) played by davis and then filtered through a computer. the tones that come out of the process bear little immediate resemblance to the instrument of origin, taking on extended and diffuse forms of their own.

having performed behind a laptop and toured with his own band, greg davis is uniquely situated, in a scene full of point and clickers, to create music that actually synthesizes and doesnt merely recombine. somnia is a product of his longstanding interest in both organic sounds (as created by instruments played in realtime) and the transformational possibilities of computers. an early version of "clouds as edges" was davis' first release as a single on the grounded label in 2001. somnia focuses on one area of greg davis' many musical interests and widens his earlier laptop work as it reflects back on the instrumental textures used in his most recent solo work.

$12.01

back in stock as of
november 16th, 2005

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july 7th, 2005

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longbox recordings (usa) #lbt 033 cd

greg davis / steven hess “decisions” compact disc

021703 (11)
042903 (02)
021303 (02)
042203 (05)
042203 (06)
060303 (15)
060303 (11)
041803 (04)
041803 (07mix)

just got some fresh copies of this, one of mms’ all-time best sellers, direct from mr. greg davis during his trip down the mountain for the 2nd entschuldigen nacht... get it while it’s fresh!

always a pleasure to hear greg in full-on electro-acoustic mode; here working in tandem with the fantastic chicagoland drummer/percussionist steven hess (see: bosco & jorge, his duo “on” with sylvain chaveau, the dropp ensemble, and on stage with black forest / black sea, aram shelton, etc...) the pair do their damnedest to emulate laotian insect-population buildup via hess’ pointillist tap & greg’s fft-smear. by far the most patient & abstract work in either of their respective canons, well worth investigating...

longbox recordings press release...

greg davis - laptop
steven hess - drums and percussion

all tracks are live improvisations recorded direct to mini-disc between february and june of 2003 at steven’s apartment. fades and minor edits were applied afterwords. track 2 is from a recording of a live performance at the empty bottle, chicago on 29 april 2003.

a truly fine and austere statement from our favorite electric troubadour and the percussive fog known as steven hess.

“steven hess has been a student of his record collection since the mid-'70s. comfortable playing in a range of settings - rock, jazz, experimental, steven currently plays with the post-folk unit bosco & jorge out of chicago. he tours throughout the united states and can be heard on recordings that are available worldwide. his philosophy on sound and rhythm: less is more. steven has played, or otherwise collaborated with, such artists as: ben miller (destroy all monsters), fred longberg-holm, jon mueller, matt turner, rob mazurek, cynthia dall, adam sonderberg, aram shelton, john and frank navin (the aluminum group), and greg davis, to name a few.”

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march 13th, 2013

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los discos enfantasmes (canada) #lde 016 cs

greg davis “states (4)” cassette

states (part 7)
states (part 8)

august 2011 release ; ... fourth & last in gd’s ongoing dalliance with “automatic” eurorack modular systems ...

los discos enfantasmes press release...

greg davis - states (4) (lde 016)

c-21:30 normal tape, white shell.
home-dubbed, one at a time, on nad and marrantz tape decks, in real time.
professionally printed j-card with front die-cut.
edition of 120.

'states' is my name for a series of explorations and studies of modular synthesizer music.

this series is meant to document the evolution and journey with this particular instrument (which is ever changing)

the condition of matter with respect to structure, form, constitution, phase, or the like

the pieces are generally constructed by spending a lot of time setting up complex, multi-voice patches on the synthesizer and working with it for hours / days to sculpt the sound into an interesting space. then i normally record the patch for a length of time, usually without much interaction during the recording. i tend to gravitate towards autonomous systems that are interesting enough as they are (this is an aspect of modular synthesizers that is very fascinating to me). after various patches are recorded, then i work with the materials as sound objects (or states) and put together the compositions through editing / mixing / layering, etc…each of the larger 'states' pieces is composed of many smaller parts of many hours of recordings.

the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes

states (4) was particularly focused on working and building patches around two sequencers in my system. these were the core of all of the patches and everything grew out of that center. (except for the first and last part of the cassette which were earlier computer controlled oscillator experiments). i was also interested in further focusing in on more rhythmic patches (no matter how off kilter or polyrhythmic they may be). i think this was a natural outgrowth of working with the two sequencers. this cassette has the most simplistic compositional structure so far of the whole series. it is simply 5 patches per side separated by sine tone beeps (which is a descending overtone series on g).

there were four 'states' releases on cassettes on four different record labels over the last year. this is the last one for a little while. i felt that this was a good place to pause the series while i work on other music projects and dig deeper into the modular synthesizer to discover an even more personal music.

a particular condition of mind or feeling

$5.67

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june 10th, 2006

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november 6th, 2003

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melektronikk (norway) #melk 005 ep

greg davis “precursors” seven inch single record

lightning proves to be unnecessary
custom made mobile (for robert lawrence davis)

third in the melektronikk series. i will be a very happy man if greg continues to release such distinctly formed music on little 7” circles of plastic.

first piece is a building rager of distorted acoustic guitar mess; transfiguring suddenly into a pastoral folk-piece for harmonium and said acoustic. on the flip is a fantastically mellow piece for his baby nephew. you can feel the love in the air...

melektronikk press release...

greg davis
"precursors"
melk 005 - 7"

greg davis' precursors is the third record in melektronikks much praised 7” series. limited quantities, so hurry up to grab one. "precursors" is two instrumental tracks. “lightning proves to be unnecessary” blends the most joyous latopcrafted noise with harmonic sounds of guitar, farfisa organ, melodica and even fieldrecordings of birds. “custom made mobile” makes up the b side and is a slow and warm acoustic mobile. it twinkles and it shines. buy an ice cream, summer is here!

sleeve by lasse marhaug

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march 11th, 2013

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march 7th, 2010

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nna tapes (usa) #nna 007 cs

harmonizer “s/t” c30 cassette

permanent culture
5th world

march 2010 release ; debut release from the duo of nna’s toby aronson & greg davis, riding high on a wave of “fifth world” influences taking in jon hassell (natch), “my life in the bush of ghosts,” and even (dareisay) bill laswell’s subsequent post-herbie plunderphonic projects ...

nna tapes press release...

nna007 harmonizer s/t c30

harmonizer is the new duo of burlington, vermont residents greg davis (kranky, carpark, autumn records) and toby aronson (nna tapes, rats cops). future world sample-driven electronic synthesis, heavy rhythms, and total harmonizer worship.

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march 4th, 2013

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november 12th, 2011

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software (usa) #sft 005 ep

harmonizer “world complete” twelve inch single record

landline (4:52)
derdeba (6:49)
cloud bank (4:39)
world complete (6:29)

september 2011 release ; ... after their debut tape for toby & matt’s nna, here’s the debut vinyl outing from greg & toby’s harmonizer ...

four tracks, all continuing in the duo’s heavily hassell-inspired “fifth world” style of post-new age music (with, yes, much usage of harmonizers ; listen to the bit in the sound-sample there) ...

software press release...

harmonizer
world complete

harmonizer, or as lovingly referred to as harmo around these parts is the vermont duo of toby aronson and veteran zone shredder greg davis, whose explorations into pastoral electronics have been well documented by kranky, carpark and his own autumn records. the duo’s previous effort, a self-titled cassette on aronson’s own stellar nna tapes label was the definitive “5th world” statement and solidified them with the koan of nu free electronic music shared by the likes of fellow melodic noisers caboladies and oneohtrix point never.

on world complete harmo boggles brains via the storied terrain that jon hassell once charted, adding sub bass, magic eye loops and some fusion gomf that is makes them decidedly more on the corner than aka-darbari-java. but who needs to be convinced about a band named after the most dramatic stompbox of the late 20th century. we don’t. band burns, this ep burns. sayonara.

$6.72

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july 15th, 2009

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july 22nd, 2005

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tonschacht (germany) #tons 017 ep

greg davis “gather • scatter” seven inch single record

scatter (4:32)
two skylines (1:03)
gather (6:18)

an absolute monster of a record from greg, in the form of a set of pure “process music” pieces for computer and a lone 0.25 second sample ; the 4-bit squeech of a casio sk-1’s snare drum ...

on the three pieces herein: scatter is a silence-ridden, pointillist catalogue of carefully-lain lo-bit iterations, which segues into two skylines, a loose minute-plus of collected thematic beeping. gather is an amazing through-composed electro-acoustic coalescence of the sounds & themes introduced on the a-side ...

by far the most overtly noisy and aggressive piece of music i’ve heard from greg on record (makes the “clouds as edges” ep on grounded sound like candy floss in comparison.) - seriously, if this doesn’t convince you that greg is at the top of his game (even better, that he was already at the top of his game back in 2001!) you need a serious egg-shell cracking. highly recommended !!!

tonschacht press release...

artist: greg davis
title: gather/scatter
format: 7"
cat #: tons017

this record was created entirely from a casio sk1 drum machine sample. this sample was then processed in real-time using a custom-built max/msp sound environment. 'scatter' was created by subtracting (or scattering) these sounds, processing them further and adding silences until i achieved a desired lesser density. 'gather' was created by adding (or gathering) these sounds, processing them further and overlaying them until i achieved a desired greater density. all of these sounds were then carefully arranged with soundedit16 to create the finished pieces. 'two skylines' was created by taking the processed source sample and processing it further with sonicworx powerbundle. then the waveforms of the left and the right channels were rectified in such a way as to resemble two city skylines. these pieces were created between the late winter of 2001 and the early fall of 2002. this record is dedicated to john cage.

(greg davis)

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june 26th, 2008

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july 26th, 2005

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audio dregs (usa) #adr 054 cd

“fork ends” compact disc

f.s. blumm - bedvanilla further
lullatone - bushman's samba
greg davis - regional potato chips
nudge - your castle's vaporware
flim - donkey trains
nice nice - deep #8
guido möbius - goreng
honey & colleen - lala musica
kazumasa hashimoto - ending (variation)
e*rock - breaking things and fixing them (again)
baikonour - 60 to 0
lineland - meriwether
frz - teenage big ideas
un caddie renversé dans l'herbe - turu ru ru
strategy - super 80s future
e*vax & supersprite - 12 halfs

2005 budget compilation from audio dregs featuring a grand selection of music by roster artists and friends of the label both established and otherwise. audio dregs, as a label, is carving out a fine niche of melodic-tronic-a with one of the most interesting design personalites of any us label... most to some included tracks are exclusive. a great way to check out this label on the downlow ...

audio dregs press release...

v/a - fork ends cd (audio dregs recordings: adr054: 708527505427)

audio dregs presents it's brand new compilation featuring exclusive songs by adr regulars as well as a host of artists from around globe. some artists may be new to many people in the states and some may already be favorites to some of us for their previous releases on labels like carpark, tomlab, kranky, tigerbeat 6, plop, and melodic. we’ve even included a couple exclusive collaborative pieces to take things a bit further into new realms.

fork ends is meant to be a follow up to last years for friends comp; specially priced for the people, and a salute to musical friendships and community. it’s not a sampler, and it’s more than a collection of songs, but a compilation in the best sense that is meant to listen like an album. filled with a variety of home listening experiments, bucolic melodicism, and acoustic-electric instrumental pop songs with the intent to take you into the microworlds of some of our favorite electronic composers of recent times.

includes music by f.s. blumm, lullatone, greg davis, nudge, flim, nice nice, guido mobius, honey & colleen, kazumasa hashimoto, e*rock, baikonour, lineland, frz, un caddie renversé dans l'herbe, strategy, e*vax & supersprite.

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january 14th, 2003

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errorclub (spain) #errorclub 1 cd

“the wrong festival” compact disc

timeblind: live at wrong
nettle: serranito
team caddie's for peace: don'to live at wrong
squinch: hoodwinking the phantom limb
hrvatski: kochen raum live at wrong
once11: caiman darko de oliveira
telco systems: session.gen.14062002.02 (live at wrong)
ryo co: escape from sleepyhead (live at wrong festival)
osso bucco: amica live at wrong
greg davis: wrong md live in koln (edit)
jacob kirkegaard(ixi): live at wrong

a memento-object from the 2002 wrong festival held in barcelona around the time of sonar (but in no way related or in direct competition with it thank you very much). hrvatski cleared out the second night, literally, pretty much playing till the room emptied. now you can relive the moment when the lights came up over and over and over again. this dsp-zonked out version of 'kochen raum' being the last thing you would have heard ...

$9.99

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september 12th, 2003

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may 6th, 2003

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lap-top

grounded (usa) #gnd 001 cd

“grounded sound” compact disc

e*rock - ice museum
melodium - impropre
blatter - uv
misterinterrupt - lashless lime
ogurusu norihide - guitar and piano
state.music - fluorescence
emotional joystick - finding out
don mennerich - theme from postindustry
entropy struct - bitte
greg davis - doras
soplerfo - another day
charles atlas - italian air

non geography-specific collection of various approaches/intents as compiled by mr. a.schrock, a fellow somerville resident. not of the smack-you-in the face variety, but rather thoughtful. especially good are my boys (greg, don, matt-mr.interrupt, and sam-soplerfo) keeping it quite real. werd...

$13.44

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november 23rd, 2009

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best of 2009 !!!

important (usa) #imprec 272 cd

“the harmonic series • a compilation of musical works in just intonation” compact disc

ellen fullman & theresa wong - blue tunnel fields (9:35)
greg davis - star primes (for james tenney) (10:57)
michael harrison - tone cloud ii (from revelation) (8:49)
r. keenan lawler - bow shock (excerpt) (6:32)
pauline oliveros - the beauty of sorrow (excerpt) (9:46)
duane pitre - comprovisation for justly tuned ukelin no. 1 (7:40)
zachary james watkins - country western (excerpt) (10:08)
charles curtis - stanzas set before a blank surface (10:27)

november 2009 release ; excellent collection of new music composed in just intonation, compiled by duane pitre ...

standout pieces include charles curtis’ wolftone-infused “stanzas set before a blank surface” (echoes of his recent reading of eliane radigue’s “naldjorlak”), ellen fullman & theresa wong’s “blue tunnel fields” (rife with ellen’s bubbling long-string resonances), greg davis’ “star primes” (a massive groundswell of digitally synthesized sine-tone combinations ala “the dream house”), and duane’s own piece for just-tuned ukelin ...

... as both a crash-course in (the) alternate tuning(s) and a primer of the contemporary composers doing work in just, it can’t be beat ; highly recommended !!!

important press release...

va - the harmonic series - musical works in just intonation - cd

imprec272 - cd

the harmonic series is a compilation of musical works in just intonation created by three generations of contemporary composers who utilize this fascinating tuning system. a dense info booklet is included with notes from each artist. this compilation was curated over the span of two years by duane pitre. the goal of this compilation and its accompanying liner notes is to educate listeners about the origins and use of just intonation, as well as to portray the unique beauty of this tonal “color palette,” which is heard by relatively few in the western world and explored by even fewer.

although all the artists on the compilation work within the avant-garde/experimental genre, each artist lends something unique to the collection, and each employs a different approach toward how to utilize just intonation. within the harmonic series you’ll find an array of instrumentation such as piano, cello, accordion, electronics, guitar, ukelin, saxophone, violin, koto, and more.

the featured artists on the harmonic series are: pauline oliveros, ellen fullman, charles curtis, michael harrison, greg davis, r keenan lawler, duane pitre, theresa wong, and zachary james watkins.

$5.04

back in stock as of
may 24th, 2013

first in stock on
october 29th, 2004

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kranky (usa) #krank 077 cd

“kompilation” double compact disc set

stars of the lid - even if you're never awake (version) (8:18)
keith fullerton whitman - stereo music for serge modular synthesizer (excerpt) (5:43)
pan•american - what do they dream? (9:09)
autistic daughters - the glasshouse and the gift-horse (6:33)
christina carter - silhouette (7:20)
greg davis - campestral (textured) (5:27)
growing - primitive associations / great mass above (12:36)
dead texan, the - when i see scissors i can't help but think of you (4:06)
tom carter - monument ii (edit) (7:40)
loscil - sickbay (6:11)
charalambides - joy shapes (10:59)
brent gutzeit - piano motor skills #2 (edit) (8:52)
strategy (3) - drumsolo's delight (5:31)
pan•american - inside elevation (5:07)
keith fullerton whitman - schnee (7:12)
clear horizon - for days (7:16)
out hud - dad, there's a little thing called too much information (7:30)
fontanelle - monday morning (7:15)
jessica bailiff - swallowed (4:02)
christmas decorations - build a house (3:30)
stars of the lid - requiem for dying mothers, part 2 (7:38)

you’ve come a long way, baby...

2004-2005 roster-spanning double-cd overview from by far the most consistently appealing american record label since vanguard (ok... maybe finnadar)... yes, the price is correct, this is a double disc priced at $4.81. no reason to sleep on this one (at least until after you’ve acquired a copy and are all set for appreciation in your favorite chair/isolation tank).

i’ve got two pieces on here, one is the “psych” song from “antithesis”, the other is a rough version of a piece that will appear in a mildly transfigured state on “multiples”. plus you get an alternate version of one of greg’s “somnia” pieces, a brand-spanking new stars of the lid epic, and a smattering of jams from the last 10-odd kranky releases.

there’s never been a better time for the sort of horizontal-application sound-research that the kranky-label excels in...

kranky press release...

artist: various
title: kompilation
catalog #: krank077
formats available: 2xcd
release date: nov. 1, 2004

we'll provide the context — two compact discs filled with twenty one tracks. over 148 minutes of music. brand new music from pan•american. a preview of forthcoming albums from stars of the lid and keith fullerton whitman. an exclusive mix of an album track by greg davis. all priced cheap at less than the cost of a cd ep.

it's been years since there's been a kranky sampler (and that one came out in europe only) so it's time to show what we've been up to for the last few years. way back when compilations like pillows and prayers and wanna buy a bridge? inspired us to check out tons of bands. hopefully kompilation can perform the same function for today's fans.

$12.01

new to stock as of
august 23rd, 2006

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liquid architecture (australia) #la 007 cd

“liquid architecture 7” compact disc

faber castell - budget steam actor (1:45)
gail priest - estranged angels (7:52)
greg davis & jeph jerman - strata 2 (edit) (4:16)
speak percussion - cogs (composed brendan colbert) (4:07)
martin baumgartner (nnnj) - what's the weather like today? (4:06)
phillip brophy - i am dave brubeck (7:07)
duo b&b - electronica a (7:58)
dean roberts - all cracked medias (4:54)
julian knowles and donna hewitt - amphibian (4:10)
erik m - levox (5:03)
the loop .orchestra - circa (recorded live at disorientation on may 25 2005) (5:00)

cd from this year’s installment of this australian experimental music festival...

liquid architecture press release...

liquid architecture is a sense specific festival, as opposed to art form specific. the artistic content of the festival focuses upon and priveleges sound practice in all its manifestations but, due to the cross disciplinary potential of sound, many other art practices are included in the festival.

previous artist:
gareth davis

...and that's everything in stock featuring greg davis.
(why not take a look at the previous and next artists?)

next artist:
ian davis

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