blood fountains “floods” compact disc

• cold flood / in (4:10)
  
• head found in aptos (7:41)
  
• spiritless (10:45)
  
• white wax blood (9:10)
  
• hemming (6:12)
  
• picture of time and space / out (2:25)

utech press release...

artist: blood fountains title: floods format: cd edition: 750 length: 40' trx: 6 catalogue number: urcd023 / ursk9 released: august 8, 2009 recorded: recorded and mixed by stephen kasner, 2008-2009.music: stephen kasner, david beaver, yoshiko ohara, mat woods and cheryl pyle. there is no beginning, there is no end, only perpetual oscillation between experience, memory and gravity. emotion propels our lives, connected to one another and all things through infinity. floods reaches inward, to the icy depths of the heart to touch and to return with ancient elements unfolding in spectral bliss and horror. reality of pain and agony is equally married with yearning, dreaming and joyous exaltation. stephen kasner evokes a fully-realized painting-to-music translation, with collaborations by david beaver, mat woods, cheryl pyle and the vexing vocals of yoshiko ohara (bloody panda). floods calls forth a remarkable section of time and feeling, simultaneously compressed and unfurling. a frozen monster of memories, hope and love, and a constant reminder of death's door. seamless, endless, connected energy. these are fragments of hauntings within us all. we must always remember.

skullflower “desire for a holy war” compact disc

• your cities, your tombs (7:01)
  
• moses conjured a blood niagra (7:26)
  
• eves dream (8:26)
  
• frozen spectres (7:08)
  
• serbonian bog (9:42)
  
• unholy inhuman (8:06)divinus deus (7:28)

utech press release...

skullflower > desire for a holy war > ursk1 desire for a holy war is mayhem piled on top of mayhem piled on top of squalls of caustic feedback. furies spitting oaths of shrouded vengeance from ancient tongues. plague riders dealing death on mounts of venomous ether, hooves pounding the wild earth. matthew bower may have reached a watershed with last year's abyssic lowland hiss (heavy blossom) but it is with desire for a holy war that he has come to conquer. never has skullflower sounded so severe or remorseless. utech records and stephen kasner collaborate on fine art series utech records will invoke a connate soul next year in visual artist stephen kasner to develop a second fine art series of cd releases for the label. the series, as yet unnamed, will comprise nine volumes of 750 copies each over the course of 2008 beginning in april. kasner has committed the bulk of his next year's output to painting original and exclusive canvases. his subject matter has yet to be disclosed, but the artist has spoken in general terms of a new direction he wants to explore in his work. a package unique to the series has been designed to highlight kasner's residuum and the accompanying music. the foundation of the series is the belief that a visual device can bind a disparate body of music in a meaningful way. the genesis of this idea was first explored with photographer max aguilera-hellweg in 2007 and the result was utech record's acclaimed arc series. fruit borne from that venture has led to this stab at further examination. kasner immediately saw value in the theory and agreed to help cultivate and refine it. artistic study aside, the guts of this series is the music and the conviction that it alone will give rise to its life. utech and kasner discussed at length the curatorial undertaking and a virulent battery of musicians was selected. skullflower, heavensore, runhild gammelsaeter, fuyuki yamakawa, aluk todolo and final with more to be announced at a later date. sure to be an archetype for the music/art proposition in the coming year, the series has been intentionally left open ended. the two have agreed to let ideas evolve naturally and it will remain to be seen just how far things will go. there is a lot on the table and not all of it is being revealed at this point.