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previous artist: nate wooley		there are 6 titles featuring work/death in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: workbench

$6.72

new to stock as of
august 26th, 2011

threads:
harsh-noise
site-specific
modern-composition
electro-acoustic-composition
musique-concrète

best of 2011 !!!

chondritic sound (usa) #ch 245 cs

work/death “the approach” c24 cassette

to humiliate
hands/knees
position and placement

april 2010 release (albeit scøtt’s own “improved” edition, actually issued during august 2011) ; ... awesome channeling of crumbling tenement blocks & locked-down aspirations from scøtt reber, heard here working an aesthetic very much in debt to luc ferrari’s “presque rien” yet rooted in scøtt’s day-to-day rituals & observations ...

chondritic sound press release...

work/death - the approach c24 cassette (chondritic sound)

this is the slow build of anticipation and tension being the object of desire instead of the final release. a cascading river of sound as seen and heard by scavenging birds from miles above.

edition of 100.

$6.72

back in stock as of
february 17th, 2011

first in stock on
may 1st, 2009

threads:
minimalism-drones
harsh-noise
lo-fi

monorail trespassing (usa) #mt67 cs

work/death “contained in proper place names” c24 cassette

in search of sunrise (champagne neverland mix)
gull deep inland (gordon overlooking the atlantic)

april 2009 release ; first/last in this 2009 “no fun” batch from jon borges’ monorail trespassing, covering two new pieces from scott “work/death” reber ...

i make my love of scott’s work no small secret throughout these pages, but i really feel like he’s finally arrived ; aside from the fact that’s damn near impossible to properly classify this music (seemingly constructed out of misted/electronically processed classical radio transmissions) it possesses similar levels of emotional heft as canonic work such as pita’s “get out” while retaining the murky intent that makes his music so ... alluring ...

a really good one ; in fact all of these mt tapes are remarkably different from your average sturm/drang harsh noise session(s) ... a sign of things to come ? i sincerely hope so ...

monorail trespassing press release...

[mt67cs] work / death - contained in proper place names c-24

reber can do no wrong. synthesizer processes that reach a near-orchestral level; a rich and multi-dimensional work of pure and emotional noise rarely seen now -- or ever. still the most unique project out there.

100 copies, full color covers and glossy labels.

$6.72

back in stock as of
february 17th, 2011

first in stock on
june 27th, 2008

threads:
lo-fi
free-improvisation
harsh-noise
minimalism-drones

monorail trespassing (usa) #mt49 cs

work/death “our quiet times together” c20 cassette

pearly dew drops drops
self portrait in occupation dominick's former bedroom

monorail trespassing press release...

[mt49cs] work / death our quiet times together c-20

self-realizations translated through layers of soft, crackling harsh drones and air-raid signals, vocals underneath. working on his own, no attention to trends. for laying on the floor this winter.

edition of 100, color covers and glossy labels.

$11.76

back in stock as of
november 1st, 2011

first in stock on
august 16th, 2010

threads:
harsh-noise
modern-composition
electro-acoustic-composition
field-recordings
musique-concrète

best of 2010 !!!

semata productions (usa) #sem-018 cd

work/death “tender comrades” compact disc

the grey elk plummets to earth and then is lowered beneath it. (13:44)
like two little magnets. (7:04)
visions of luke in revelation. (9:47)
ascention of the many steps to porter square. (23:03)

july 2010 release ; ... after an immaculate string of work for his own tsol tape-label, scøtt reber here drops his debut full length cd for ricardo’s semata ...

consisting of a simply gorgeous mix of field recordings, mysterious sound sculpture-lineage motorized chug, washed-out mechanical hum, and subtle, yet unapologetically tonal compositions, scøtt has achieved a true, vital hybrid of sonic arts union-style process music, “traditional” musique concrète, and deep, emotionally-charged chord-wrangling that never comes across as cloying or trite, keeping things grimy & gauzy, always wrapped in a patina of post-noise sensibilities...

four extended takes ; each with their own separate trajectory ; highly recommended !!!

ps. sit back, take a break, and listen to the entire 14-minute run of “the grey elk plummets” to your left ; hard one to excerpt given all of the slow, momentum-creeps, so i’ve left it intact. enjoy !!!

semata productions press release...

sem-018 work/death 'tender comrades' cd

providence, rhode island based work/death, operated by scott reber, is an intersection of musique concrete, electro-acoustic improv and composition, field recording, drone, harsh noise, physical performance, and the pop song. as the name suggests it is a labor of determination, focus, and quality accumulating over a lifetime. for the past 10 years he has synthesized sounds of the 20th century. his multimodal composition process navigates effortlessly between the intellectualist avant garde and the noise underground with its violent removal of musical structures. paraphrasing reber himself, "david tudor or alvin lucier as prototype wall noise via early mapping of crunch, crumble, cracks, crackle, ruptures, space, and moving air that would later be central to the rita, macronympha."

each work/death release, previously on labels such as hospital, monorail trespassing, ekhein, ect. gives the listener an entry point to his exploration of a time, location, frequency or state of anxiety. 'tender comrades' his first official full length is his strongest statement yet. unapologetic harmonic/melodic moves surfacing through and being submerged by waves of white noise. 'tender comrades' is drenched in sweat, performed with piano, upright bass, guitar, machine, midi programming, cassette manipulation, synthesizer, his body, hiss, crackle, melody, hope and possibility. this is harsh noise composition, conceptual high volume, the aurality of negative space, the physicality of sound - filling rooms, bodies. work/death exemplifies the subtlety of pain and the intensity of tenderness. garbage in. garbage out.

edition of 500: pro replicated compact discs housed in a deluxe full color digipak.

$6.72

new to stock as of
december 21st, 2010

threads:
field-recordings
anti-music
site-specific

three songs of lenin (usa) #tsol 12 cs

ordinary machinery “environmental pulse width entrainment” c20 cassette

untitled (1)
untitled (2)

august 2010 release ; ... the re-emergence of scøtt reber’s “field recordings” project (on hold since last year’s “accumulate & acclimatize”) is cause célèbre here @ mms ... the throbbing, mechanical whir of the a-side piece reaches mesmerizing peaks not experienced since philip corner’s textile-factory “audio tour” ; the b-side recasts the fidelity of xenakis’ “bohor” to the late-night, boston garden zamboni ritual, numbing the skull with a fine thrush of blurred reality ...

three songs of lenin press release...

$11.76

back in stock as of
november 12th, 2010

first in stock on
october 13th, 2006

threads:
analogue-synth
anti-music
bedroom
brutal-prog
circuit-bending
experimental-instruments
free-improvisation
guitar-themed
harsh-noise
lo-fi
minimalism-drones
modern-psych
playback-music

best of 2006 !!!

rare youth (usa) #ry-02 cd

“rare youth” double compact disc set

black pus - “ghrost”
furisubi - “sentinels”
kites - “riding the glass geyser”
mercy light - “fuck deke” (live at club in-zone)
jean cozzens - “drum practice”
james amoeba - “pearl skies”
siren cult - “celebrity couples”
amil byleckie - “the eagle’s summation”
area c - “circadia”
xerxes - “#4”
russian tsarcacm - “don’t ever touch me”
mucid cuspidor - “vile surmiine”
summer city - “hurry your ass”
alberich - “everything i’ve ever wanted”
blue shift - “twist taster”
feral children - “panic attic”
siege engine - “untitled”
i would eat that pizza - “i don’t know how to live my life”
haunted house - “gravediggers”
lucky dragons - “shimmering problems / on kitchen floors / outside of kitchen windows”
synb - “electric gladiators”
lazy magnet - “voyage of the universal harmony rainbow”
pedestrian deposit - “you will not treat me this way”
chris paddock - “4 t-shirts”
h2h - “liquid sky”
leif goldberg - “closet day to earth”
petal boat - “tiny kitten”
unicorn hard-on - “bird in hand”
what cheer? brigade - “disco bhangra”
red delicious - “soda”
byron house - “snake skein”
mairead donnelly - “black butterfly”
black forest / black sea - “old man chepachet”
total gym - “live at the mutiny”
workdeath - “i am failure beneath your love”
diego perez - “squid battles and dies”
god willing - “drawn edited”
teenage waistband - “beast”

first release (...after a 7” single and a cassette) on geoff mullen’s rare youth label - a double-disc compendium of contemporary goings-on in the providence, ri area, as compiled, lovingly, by geoff himself.

unlike many other providence “scene” compilations that feature, say, artists now signed to load; or artists that are friends with dom “prurient” fernow, this offers a pretty damn subterranean overview of what’s bubbling just underneath the surface of providence’s musical collective consciousness...

rare youth press release...

v/a : rare youth – new music from providence, ri

2cd compilation

here it is…a year in the making…a collection of new music from one of the most fertile and constantly changing locales in the union. featuring over two hours of music and spread out over thirty-eight tracks, rare youth brings together some of the most exciting artists at work in providence right now: work/death, kites, black pus, xerxes, heart2heart, russian tsarcasm, blue shift, lazy magnet, byron house, teenage waistband, black forest/black sea, unicorn hard-on, synb, leif goldberg, siege engine, lucky dragons and many many more.

sequenced to highlight the great diversity of musical stylings in this small town, this cd takes you on a smooth ride down the many colorful roads of: power pop psych noise, abandoned dronescapes, reckless free improvisation, emo power electronics, late night elven dance music, epic psych rock, shredded throat guitar doom, john carpenter-esque synth despair, witty no-fi punkish noise, genuine teenage love songs, total garbage, marching bands, etc. etc.

with the attention that providence has received for being a hub of louder-than-life, experimental music / art, this compilation tries to provide an updated snapshot of the current subterranean goings-on. it includes many of the artists who are responsible for bringing such acclaim and attention to this small community - brian chippendale (lightning bolt, black pus), mat brinkman, leif goldberg, jo dery, christopher forgues - while also highlighting some of the new and young artists who are taking things in different and exciting directions - russian tsarcasm, alberich, heart2heart, blue shift, summer city, byron house. there are also a handful of tracks featuring visiting artists (pedestrian deposit, brian miller and kevin shields…).

hand-packaged in a double-cd gatefold sleeve, with original illustrations and design by christopher forgues - aka cf, kites, paper radio, low tide, fantasy empire, etc. (his work can also be seen in comics anthologies kramer’s ergot, the ganzfeld, paper rodeo).

compiled and edited by geoff mullen.

edition of 1000 copies.

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