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previous artist: thomas sandberg		there are 4 titles featuring philip sanderson in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: richard sanderson

$12.65

new to stock as of
april 19th, 2008

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anomalous (usa) #nom 23 cd

philip sanderson “reprint” compact disc

bright waves (4:59)
reprint one (12:16)
nein nein nein (5:38)
reprint two (11:47)
under press of sail (4:59)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "reprint one"

nice. more late 70s/early 80s snatch-tapes related materials reissued in the digital age. this one’s quite the opposite, in tone at least, of the ‘storm bugs’ collection. these pieces have more to do with extended bedroom loop/drone activities (in fact the first piece, with its breathy minimal female vox reminds me more of seefeel than anything from the era).

awesome stuff, another piece of the puzzle rescued from under the carpeting ...

anomalous press release...

philip sanderson "reprint" cd

reprint was originally released on cassette by snatch tapes in 1980 and was credited to an unknown duo called claire thomas & susan vezey. a press release accompanying the cassette painted a picture of two pre-raphaelite synthesizer knob-twiddlers who in between repatching their vcs3's went for long walks in flowing robes on blackheath. intrigued, the record label cherry red included the duo on their compilation lp "perspectives and distortion" alongside such luminaries as matt johnson, virgin prunes, lol coxhill, lemon kittens, eyeless in gaza, mark perry, ben watt, thomas leer, morgan-fisher, robert fripp, and david jackman. cherry red furthermore wanted to release an lp by thomas & vezey. until they realized that all was not as it seemed. claire and susan were in fact a figment of snatch tapes founder philip sanderson's imagination.

in addition to running the label, philip was one half of the diy electronic group storm bugs, and regularly collaborator with a then unknown musician by the name of david jackman (one of these tracks they did together was recent issued on a 10" by die stadt). "reprint" was in effect one of his few solo recordings. the first track bright waves (an earlier version of the track on the cherry red lp) with its fragile wispy vocals that blow in and out on a tape delay breeze certainly adds credence to the claire and susan subterfuge. however the rest of the music on the cd suggest that this was more than a situationist prank. the description on the sleeve of the music as "a study in repetition and change using two different sources and two different treatments..." was a nod towards the materialist approaches being used during the 70's in most (fine) art forms. "reprint one" and "reprint two" use the loop formed by a tape delay to build up busy percussive patterns. recorded live, the vcs3 triggered by a sequencer feeds in a set of constantly chattering rhythms. as the loops pass repeatedly over the tape heads the sound gradually degrades turning eventually into pure white noise. what starts out as a polyrhythmic perversity, somewhat akin to electronic tap dancing, builds into a wall of sound.

also here is the piece "under press of sail" (which was featured on the compilation "snatch 3" and the "0° north" tape by david jackman and philip sanderson), and the secret bonus track "nein nein nein", which was only included a few copies of the original tape release of "reprint". unlike the other tracks, this was done in collaboration with fellow storm bug steven ball. using a low-tech five-minute answer-phone cassette loop with the erase head disabled, the two built up a montage of sounds which were fed through a home-made ring modulator. the music of reprint is a peculiar combination of academic rigor married to an inverted pop art aesthetic. for whereas pop art incorporated the cheap intoxication's of consumer culture into the supposed lofty rooms of high art, here was an attempt to incorporate the form or perhaps just the smell high art into the low brutality of diy electronics.

$13.01

back in stock as of
june 16th, 2007

first in stock on
june 8th, 2005

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seal pool (japan) #spool 02 cd

philip sanderson “seal pool sounds” compact disc

oil on troubled daughters
feeding time
big glass
umwell
flume
sea swell
seal pool sounds
pilot light
march of the bugs
radium lab
nude nights
left them down
lude

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "lude"

the return of philip sanderson... i’m an unabashed mega-fan of the storm bugs as well as philip’s various projects over the years (remember the claire thomas & susan vesey track on the cherry red comp “perspectives and distortions?” i do...) so it’s great to listen to this mish-mash of different approaches to electronic music, all constructed with various synthesizers (software, hardware, and otherwise...) over the last few years.

the blurb below is fairly spot on... there’s a bit of raymond scott’s “soothing sounds for babies” sound-world, inasfar as there are child-like melodies mixed with more abstract sounds & processing... on top of that there’s a bit of a-grade electro-acoustic collagery, all kinds of crazy location recordings of animals (echoing basil kirchin’s zonked “worlds within worlds” series)... all dripping with a certain nod towards surrealism & the woozy diy home-recorded aesthetic that made sanderson’s early 80s music so... unique (check the recent “reprint” disc on anomalous for a taste.)

some of the tones are occasionally off-putting (the intital 20 seconds had me checking the cd player to make sure i hadn’t put the wrong disc in!) but the unorthodox sound assembly/construction methods taken as a whole leave no doubt in my mind that the same brain that conjured up the snatch tapes universe 25 years back is still coursing, full of great ideas and the means to realize them... an excellent disc.

seal pool press release...

seal pool sounds is the first cd release of new material from snatch tapes founder, organum collaborator, and british installation artist, philip sanderson. seal pool sounds picks up where sanderson’s storm bugs project left off sometime in 1981. sanderson’s diy software electronics conjure whimsical, plaintive electronic tones and rhythms: sounds that recollect the light-hearted, yet melancholy nature of 20th century zoos.

seal pool sounds at once evokes lafms, raymond scott, marcel duchamp, and french new wave film music.

seal pool is a japan-based label whose releases are inspired by chance encounters, found objects and recurring dreams. seal pool’s first cd was jonathan coleclough and tim hill - beech for john and miho.

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back in stock as of
december 8th, 2008

first in stock on
january 21st, 2008

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the sound projector (uk) #tsp 16 mag

“the sound projector 16th issue 2007-08” magazine

articles & interviews with those mentioned below
hundreds of record reviews

special 2007/2008 double issue from the mind of ed pinsent & co., covering the last yearsworth of “black metal, doom metal, drones, rock, loud noise, art music, nordic realms, tape music, electronica, vinyl viands, guitar, jazz” ... with special features on joe frawley, philip sanderson, tetuzi akiyama, cultural amnesia, unseen, and rothkamm (also: the earth trilogy, daphne oram, john duncan, luc ferrari, mattin, lasse marhaug, annea lockwood, clay ruby, david tudor, geoff mullen, lieutenant caramel ...)

as with each new issue of tsp, i’m bowled over by both the sheer amount of effort the contributors have put in, but also by how much crossover there is with what’s covered in these pages vs. the sort(s) of seemingly disparate music(s) that filter into the mms stock-pool each month from the tens of thousands of albums released every week (srsly; what are the odds?)

for those that read ink instead of ions; in my mind the sound projector is still (and should continue to be) by far the best print representation of contemporary underground music. reading is compulsory ...

the sound projector press release...

climb the astronomical staircase and manifest l’esprit d’escalier

the drunkard’s bottle is but a finding aid to further misery

other magazines reach only this far!

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we sing of the sound projector’s 16th issue
dated 2008, yet released in late 2007
184 pages - the most substantial the magazine has ever been
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interviews with :

philip sanderson - electronics and diy genius, the uk’s own gyro gearloose. member of storm bugs with steven ball in the 1980s, ran snatch tapes, released david jackman’s early work. now makes experimental videos.
tetuzi akiyama - syndicated interview by michel henritzi, first appeared in french in another experimental music magazine. the great japanese guitar improviser knows no bounds when it comes to musical taste and style. he answers many a poser based on his back catalogue of releases.
joe frawley - exquisite miniaturist from connecticut. only two short released works to his name, but what stunners. without doubt the joseph cornell of electro-acoustic music.
cultural amnesia - post-punk electronic and guitar band rescued from the deep uk cassette underground, associated with jhon balance; they make a few brief self-effacing statements about their vinyl reissue programme.
frank rothkamm - german-born lone wolf genius, mini interview to discuss details of his daring tape-work from the 1980s, represented on the russian moers music reissue.
unseen - ???

other highlights this issue :

a new section on dvds. after vowing for years that we wouldn’t review moving images of any kind in the magazine, the harsh editor has finally capitulated. the selection is mostly based on experimental films made by musicians and sound-artists, rather than (for example) documents of live concerts. as deep purple might say, “hello, budokan!”
vinyl viands covers a clutch of small-run weird lps, fiddly little seven-inch singles, and numerous luxury editions of albums which repress and collect music originally issued on cassettes. one belt from these mighty fists and you’re out for the count!
another huge catch of fiendish black metal terrors dredged up from the lower depths by jennifer hor, and john bagnall with his ‘new blasts of foulness’. shriek!
in ‘tablets of stone’, the three earliest lps by stoner-art combo earth are assessed in detail by jennifer hor. what links moses to their part of the usa? read on and find out.
rik rawling engraveth many a thrilling and unsettling tableau with his brushes to sear your eyeballs. he also reviews wild and hairy american rock and ultra-weird free folk releases. frontal lobes of brain will shortly explode.
some little drawings from the mitts of anla courtis, the far-out argentinian loon, are used to decorate many areas of the page. it’s what’s upfront that counts.
a fine new published study on faust, those demented kings of krautrockery, is examined in some detail for its academic and musicological qualities.
regular review sections include: field recordings, atoms of pure noise, tape maschines maken klang, in the art gallery, women composers, free folk, uk underground, usa underground, stoner and doom, the nordic realms (finland and denmark mostly), the droning ones, the crackling esther, guitar music, free jazz, the utter freakdom, the phantom of liberty, rock, quiet music, songs, and quite a lot more.

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the magazine that’s a fish in the air of geometrical appreciation!——————————————————————————————————

your sound projector team this ish:
ed pinsent, jennifer hor, aaron robertson, rik rawling, john bagnall, richard rees jones and michel henritzi.

$21.21

back in stock as of
june 10th, 2008

first in stock on
december 7th, 2006

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sound-art
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vinyl-on-demand (germany) #vod 32 lp

“snatch paste - an assortment of snatch tapes” long playing record

david jackman: blues
storm bugs: dull sound of breath inside a tin
mannequin moves: the girls you left behind
philip sanderson: under press of sail
tony clough: untitled
the n4s: n4
alien brains: song
karl’s empty body: 1464
orior: call
claire thomas & susan vezey: diamonds & ashes

kee-ripes...

here’s a collection of material(s) made between 1978-1981 and originally released via philip sanderson’s snatch tapes label. i had long flagged this music, along with that found on early broken flag tapes, as “some things i will never hear.” im glad frank-v-o-d has stepped up to make sure (for the nth time) that this doesn’t happen...

worth it for the david jackman (his first released piece !!!), storm bugs, and claire thomas & susan vezey tracks alone...

vinyl-on-demand press release...

vod 32: various artists snatch-paste - an assortment of snatch tapes lp

compilation of one of the best diy-tapelabels of the early eighties compiled by philip sanderson (former member of alien brains) from the three snatch tape compilations 1-3 (originally released (1978-81)with the odd extra bonus drawn from other snatch tapes.

it will feature such gems as chinese restaurant disturbance by alien brains, blues by david jackman, dull sound of breath inside a tin by storm bugs and white braves by claire thomas and susan vezey. other artists include orior, n4s, karl's empty body, and tony clough. the above is a mock up of the sleeve.

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richard sanderson