jeph jerman / leif elggren / ralf wehowsky “three aural interpretations of a drawing by eric lanzillotta” seven inch single record

• jeph jerman "drawing" (6:01)
  
  
• leif elggren "soundtrack for eric's drawing" (3:19)
  
• ralf wehowsky "dreaming of / a french disco / sleep commodity" (3:04)

anomalous press release...

"three aural interpretations of a drawing by eric lanzillotta" 7" ep anomalous records nom28 limited edition of 250 copies pressed on clear vinyl and packaged in double-sided 14.5" by 10.5" poster sleeve. this 33 rpm ep include three sound artists playing a drawing by eric lanzillotta. each artist has a unique, though abstract take on the drawing, which is included in the inside of the poster sleeve. the sounds include the calm physical motions of jeph jerman, the static activity of leif elggren and noise music of ralf wehowsky (sounding a bit like p16.d4 here). jeph jerman gained attention under the name hands to, but has created his most refined work under his own name. he performs mostly with natural objects (stones, plant parts, feathers, etc) and has collaborated regularly with wally shoup, greg davis, sean meehan, tim barnes, mike shannon, dave knott, eric lunde, and many others. he has had several previous releases on anomalous records, and a new cd of his work will be released by little enjoyer this year. leif elggren is a pioneering sound, performance, book and installation artist from sweden, as well one of the two kings of elgaland-vargaland. in the last 30 years, he has released a great deal of material on labels such as radium 226.05, anckarström, flykingen, ash international, korm plastics, some, absurd, meeuw muzak, kning disk, ideal recordings, touch and his own firework edition, which has also published many of his book works, such as the legendary "experiment with dreams" done in collaboration with thomas liljenberg. ralf wehowsky started making music in the neue deutsch welle period of germany history with his band p.d., which later became the group p16.d4. since the dissolution of these groups, he has been recorded largely as a solo artist, though in truth always incorporating collaborations with various friends. over the years he has worked with andrew chalk, bernhard günter, kevin drumm, lionel marchetti, bruce russell, david grubbs, jim o'rourke, and many others.

jeph jerman “trees & shrubs - 2000” compact disc recordable

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jeph jerman “arrastre” c42 cassette

• arrastre 8
  
  
• arrastre 9

autumn press release...

ar022 jeph jerman - arrastre cassette (c42) release date: december 2010 150 copies professionally duplicated cassette with laser printed j-card we have a set of surprisingly resonant pot lids in our kitchen, which i've used in various recordings in the past and one night while doing the dishes i had the idea to try playing them in the manner of tibetan singing bowls, by dragging a thick wooden dowel around their rims. i found that with a little practice this worked well, so i made a multi-track recording of four of them. i then, as i am want to do, became obsessed with this idea, buying up piles of pot lids from local second-hand shops and making more recordings, some using as many as ten different lids. after two months of this activity i was left with over two hours of recordings of resonant metal drones, which i enjoy so much that i thought i'd share them all. comprising nine pieces of music ranging in length from 5 to 20 minutes, these recordings are available on three separate releases, on three different formats: a full-length vinyl record, a 45 minute cd-r and a 40 minute cassette. arrastre is the spanish word for drag, and also the name of a 19th century mining apparatus, wherein large boulders were drug around an ore-filled pit by means of a large spindle and arm, driven by pack animals. this cassette release is 1/3 of the arrastre triptych.

jeph jerman / jon mueller “nodes and anti-nodes” digital versatile disc and audio file

• dvd: nodes and anti-nodes
  
  
• audio file: nodes and anti-nodes

c-schulz / hajsch “c-schulz & hajsch” compact disc

• untitled (1) (4:49)
  
• untitled (2) (9:42)
  
• untitled (3) (8:22)
  
• untitled (4) (2:18)
  
• untitled (5) (4:35)
  
• untitled (6) (5:53)
  
• untitled (7) (2:39)
  
• untitled (8) (1:45)
  
• untitled (9) (2:49)

sonig press release...

hajsch: organ, synthesizers, guitars, field-recordings, feedback, window shades, percussion, concrete sounds, melodica, vocoder. c-schulz: harmonium, accordion, piano, clarinet, window shades, radio, percussion, concrete sounds. monika westphal: field-recording on 1 and 9, fire on 6. jeph jerman: field-recording on 5. daisuke suzuki: field-recording on 4, bricks on 6. andrä klaukien: window shades on 9. hein bruehl: recording of voices on 8. c-schulz and hajsch are no strangers to the international experimental music scene, having spent the last ten years developing "the cologne sound." this their latest recording is one of depth and daring with clearly structured arrangements, clever instrumentation and striking dynamics. in the vein of zoviet france, coil and nurse with wound. acoustic instruments, field recordings, concrete sounds. surprisingly deep music.

“an uncommon nature” long playing record

• jeph jerman - tree w/rain + wind
  
• mirror - calmahain
  
• agog - water babies singing in a lily pool delight
  
• climax golden twins - the card game
  
  
• jonathan coleclough - gate
  
• mike shannon - alki
  
• monos - supernature
  
• richard lerman - from the pribilof islands
  
• dave knott - st. mary's county, maryland

“das dreidimensionale moebiusband” double compact disc and three inch compact disc set

• achim wollscheid - radio piece (5:36)
  
• asmus tietchens - böszopfler (= an evil man with a tress) (6:58)
  
• conrad schnitzler - /143 (1-15) (5:36)
  
• das - kreis der fünf (4:54)
  
• darius ciuta - near by one (6:13)
  
• es - kukat ovat hyriä kuuntelijoita (3:43)
  
• felipe caramelos - que su cante me lastima (4:16)
  
• frans de waard - klankschap #7 (6:21)
  
• ilpo väisänen - vihan päivä (8:38)
  
• john watermann - unfaithful moments (14:00)
  
  
• trevor wishart - fanfare / contrapuntus (10:34)
  
• animist orchestra - non title (8:00)
  
• spectre - soaring to the depth (4:38)
  
• rlw - rappel das - or: dealing with indiscipline. a piece for children aged 2-4 years (7:07)
  
• merzbow - earth nazareth (11:47)
  
• liddikoatight - ka-cho-fuh-getsu (6:00)
  
• leif elggren - the paving stone is the weapon of the proletariat no. 5 (6:11)
  
• juozas milasius - tenderness (4:18)
  
• kouhei matsunaga - star point (7:00)

2003 release ; this is... by far... the most interesting record-object i’ve been able to stock via mms thusfar (buddha machine :: ha!) ... what ships as two cds and a three-inch cd-rom inside a resealable plastic display-bag (left) in fact opens up to be an inflatable möbius-strip / objét d’art that you assemble and inflate yourself (with the included red straw no less), then display prominently on your mantlepiece ... voila :: on top of all that, the two audio-discs are rife with excellent, exclusive material from a who’s who of the international sound-art scene ... plus the 3” cd-rom explains the project in more detail and contains artist bios & links & whatnot ... just plain amazing ... no collection should be without !!!

“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)

“v-p v-f is v-n” seven inch single record

• jeph jerman + albert casais. 1' for ben owen. (1:00)
  
• ting ting jahe. 531e1-3. 2007. (1:00)
  
• richard garet. 59 seconds. (0:59)
  
• alfredo costa monteiro. élytres. (1:00)
  
• ben owen. typhoon, kii-tanabe. 2005. (0:56)
  
• lawrence english. water run sand. (1:00)
  
• mpld. red tape. (1:00)
  
• jeph jerman. . (1.8 second)
  
• ben owen. 2. 2007. (1.8 second)
  
  
• civyiu kkliu. rudolf unger. 2007. (1:00)
  
• jeph jerman. 50". (0:50)
  
• ben owen. s-s-e,sm,ca. 2007. (0:16)
  
• tommy birchett. wm7b. (0:11)
  
• andy graydon. two fold note. 2007. (1:00) (for pete and chloe)
  
• ben scott. ccc. (0:25)
  
• ilya monosov. for well treated trumpet. short version. 2002. (1:01)
  
• civyiu kkliu. (1111 (for a broken locket). 2007. (1.333 second)
  
• mpld. do in to you. (1.333 second )
  
• mpld. do in to me. (1.333 second )
  
• tommy birchett. question reprise. (0:07)

winds measure press release...

wm 10 v-p v-f is v-n 7" compilation series, 7001 jeph jerman + albert casais, ting ting jahe, richard garet, alfredo costa monteiro, ben owen, lawrence english, jeph jerman, civyiu kkliu, tommy birchett, ilya monosov, mpld, andy graydon, and ben scott. edition: 350 7" black vinyl record letterpress sleeve and insert. custom die cut sleeve. designed and printed by ben owen  first in a series of compilations for winds measure. these collections focus on the work of past, present, and future collaborators with the label working specifically with short durations and lock grooves.

“insight • xing-wu compilation” double compact disc set

• climax golden twins - relinquish (4:47)
  
• reynols - rasoyo jisos repuliom alfrazado (6:06)
  
• toshimaru nakamura - preset #4 (nimb#28) (7:18)
  
• zai de - ni-be (6:38)
  
• volcano the bear - clayslaps (6:01)
  
• yandsen - jargon (6:00)
  
• tetuzi akiyama - sword (5:52)
  
• thuja - untitled (4:39)
  
• carl stone - swad (4:07)
  
• tham kar mun - copula (6:12)
  
• oren ambarchi - freeze out (8:30)
  
• eric la casa - s'ombre part 3 (3:13)
  
  
• jeph jerman - grackles (5:43)
  
• loren chasse - script lichen (4:02)
  
• eric la casa & jean-luc guionnet & dan warburton - music station (5:36)
  
• taku sugimoto - bells 2 (6:07)
  
• yin pin - psalm 3:4 (6:42)
  
• axel dörner - marchlai (7:56)
  
• anthony pateras & david brown - duet (as yet untitled) (4:10)
  
• janek schaefer - maison a bordeaux (9:15)
  
• andrea neumann - innenklavier (3:15)
  
• yannick dauby - formless walking (5:41)
  
• matt shoemaker - pantai ayu (5:56)
  
• mnortham - epidermal filigree (5:40)
  
• lee kwang - stormy weather (4:33)

xing-wu press release...