agencement “experimental music of japan vol.4 • early works 1983-1986” compact disc

• cylindre 2 (1984) (5:48)
  
• rout 83 (1985) (6:30)
  
• pico-01a (1985) (23:58)
  
• pico-01b (1985) (24:42)
  
• untitled (1983) (2:47)

edition omega point experimental music of japan press release...

experimental music of japan vol.4 agencement vol.1 - early works 1983-1986 edition omega point opx-004 at first, agencement was started as an anonymous tape music project in 1985. it started from among indies movement that had occurred like being in inverse proportion to the calm situation of mid-eighties domestic improvised music scene. as for activity of violin performances that i started from the influence of european improvised music after it is related to the edit of underground music magazine named avant-garde that kanazawa university students issued from 1976 until 1979, several years have passed from beginning. i played the violin in various places at that time, for instance, have participation at "the 2nd ten minutes solo improvisation festival" (1982) at kyoto seika university, and i sometimes performed violin + live electronics by solo at the cafe named merzbau, etc. i was gradually editing them with multi-track though the magnetic tapes that recorded live performances became a huge amount. such a work style originates from the drawing works which i am starting producing from teens. the work of 1st lp (side b) was made by using cheap analog multi-track tape recorder and was spent one year. the flow of such time has not basically changed in the studio work of me digitalized now too. a lot of time has passed any more. at the time of 1986, i was able to come in contact with artists such as merzbow, toukaseibunshi, 10t and others through compilation cassette releases etc. masami akita who had contact for several years recommended it though i did not think that i make lp of myself at first.

pekka airaksinen “one point music” long playing record

• pleni sienikonsertto • a little soup for piano and orchestra op 46,8 (1970)
  
• mo-on-ing (1971)
  
• sadetta • somerain (1968)
  
  
• music for the play sisyfos (1968)
  
  skata
  s rock
  fos 2

o records press release...

pekka airaksinen one point music orolp-035 pekka airaksinen started making music in the late 1960's group the sperm who combined performance art with experimental music of the day. on their records influences such as john cage, karlheinz stockhausen, free jazz and psychedelic pop were filtered into rough anti-music that resembled the early industrial music and noise that would emerge elsewhere in the world some ten years later. in the early 70's when the sperm had withered away, pekka airaksinen became a buddhist and stopped releasing music for almost a decade. airaksinen, who was regarded as a recluse, returned to the public eye in the mid-80's under his own name and with a brand new but equally futuristic vision. his album buddhas of golden light is an incredible mixture of sun ra’s cosmic free jazz and twisted rhythms programmed on a roland 808 drum machine. at the end of the decade techno elevated the 808 to a fetish object and airaksinen disappeared for another five years. in the 90's airaksinen released a large number of cd's and cd-r's on his own dharmakustannus label, on which the style of each track varied wildly - breaking every rule of the niche-group marketing concepts of the era. all his recordings, whether they are his unique interpretations of contemporary music, new age, ambient house or jazz, are characterized by a sense of improvisation and casual roughness that is rare in electronic music. the most avant-garde pieces of his recent output continue his earlier work with the imaginary "anthropoid music" of the future. one point music is his shining moment. originally pressed in an edition of 120, this reissue has been needed for a long time.

alterity problem / outer space “split” c26 cassette

• alterity problem - a new problem
  
• alterity problem - heating problem
  
• alterity problem - the kid’s a heater
  
  
• outer space - aspartame
  
• outer space - usa endless

deception island press release...

di38: outer space / alterity problem split c26 (edition of 300). two fantastic new outer space tracks in the moebius strip / infinite riff mode of the arbor lp, b/w some brilliant cracked / outsider electronics (occasionally evoking telecult powers with really outre syndrums -- dude is from montreal, after all!) from alex moskos of aids wolf / drainolith / thames. bonkers split concept: alterity problem, the montreal-based duo of lifer oddballs alex moskos (also of aids wolf, drainolith, thames, and the medicine rocks) and cryptic associate joel taylor turn in a suite of extra-damaged jams about kids, heaters, and problems, these titular concerns reflecting a certain noirish surrealism and a slightly outre pose — both very much present in the audible payload — that distinguish alterity problem from their most obvious contemporaries. sometimes it’s like a matra 12 heard through a wheelbarrow of pills and six miles of bulletproof glass; other times it’s like spinning d-beat recs under general anaesthesia. sometimes there are oddly, immensely satisfying syndrums in all the right/wrong places. the flip finds john elliott (of emeralds, mist, and many others) back on di with a fresh side of outer space tracks that work a polished, high-impact aesthetic angle very distinct from the decaying hyperabstraction of last year’s massive lightyear demonstrations while continuing to radiate the same throughgoing trippiness and post / antihuman drive. first, “aspartame” materializes from a glowing sandstorm of synth and vocals, coalescing into one of the most dazzling and aqueous examples of elliott’s signature endlessly unfurling klein bottle riffstyle to date. the ensuing nine minutes of this piece display a mastery of the “dusseldorf style” of building deceptively intricate, episodic tracks on metronomic backbones, as claustrophobia and a sense of awakening to the reality of being chased by something superfucked gradually dawns, only to give way to an epic sunrise over a desert of ash and bleached bones. the finale, “usa endless” (dark commentary?) has hung around long enough to see all inclination toward propulsion surgically removed. we’re floating six inches off the ground, in the driveway with the doors open, engine running, and wheels spinning endlessly, far too fucked to do anything other than sit back and watch the dash boil while sunlight falls like iridescent jelly on the seats. extra weird. alterity problem is joel taylor and alex moskos. recorded in montreal by alex moskos, january 2011.

bee mask “canzoni dal laboratorio del silenzio cosmico” long playing record

• canzoni dal laboratorio del silenzio cosmico i (14:11)
  
  
• canzoni dal laboratorio del silenzio cosmico ii (14:53)

spectrum spools press release...

sp 002 / bee mask canzoni dal laboratorio del silenzio cosmico lp synthesizers, percussion, piano, tape, and voice recorded, mixed, and edited 2006-2010 in cleveland and philadelphia. cut by rashad becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin, january 2011. “canzoni dal laboratorio del silenzio cosmico” is an outstanding document in the long and complex bee mask discography, part of an astounding body of work that's been brewing since the mid-00's, and a carefully and meticulously composed album on par with the classics of the lovely music and ina-grm catalogs. straying from the status quo of improvised "one take" synthesizer music flooding the underground electronic community today, chris madak has created an elaborate and captivating work, a soundtrack to an event shrouded in mystery and beauty, at once larger than life in it's grandeur and cryptic in its reserve. released as a limited edition cassette on gift tapes last year and now where it should be, on the longest-surviving phonographic format.

bee mask “elegy for beach friday” double long playing record set

• deducted from your share in paradise (4:20)
  
• fallen tree thursday and the half-crushed arc of the sky taking tea in the pastoral index (3:14)
  
• causes and cures (2:08)
  
• ...so that we each wander through a true elysium (3:43)
  
  
• askion kataskion lix tetrax damnameneus aision (5:33)
  
• elegy for beach friday (2:29)
  
• the book of stars vibrating (3:01)
  
  
• in the karst interior (4:03)
  
• stop the night (10:11)
  
  
• how to live in a smashed state (2:27)
  
• scarlet thread, golden cord (7:35)

spectrum spools press release...

sp 005 / bee mask elegy for beach friday 2lp synthesizers, percussion, piano, guitar, tape, electronics, and max/msp recorded 2003-2010 in northampton, ma, new york, ny, cleveland, oh, and philadelphia, pa. edited and mixed at tranquility base, february 2011. cut at dubplates & mastering, may 2011 for the last few years, chris madak has been on a tangled and cryptic path toward the full realization of his bee mask alterego. now, for the first time there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel - a chance for old plans to come to fruition and for new ideas to blossom into the unknown. "elegy for beach friday" is a personal selection of highlights from a slew of limited cassette and cdr editions recorded between 2003 and 2010, re-imagined, reedited, and remastered, offering both a cross-section for the uninitiated and a fresh enigma for the already-enchanted. the original documents will age on the shelves of those fortunate enough to have been in the know, and for the rest of the world, we now have this double lp retrospective of chris' favorite time-stopping microcosmic suites, woven together over four instantly classic sides of wax. here, the full range of bee mask's sonic palette has been carefully compressed into a dazzling and infinitely dense time capsule of mind-altering martian sound fields and psychedelic dimension bending, bridging the worlds of nikola tesla and lamonte young and giving us the ideal soundtrack for our collective walk down a dirt road into the gaseous cloud of our final days.

bee mask “elegy for beach friday” compact disc

• deducted from your share in paradise (4:20)
  
• fallen tree thursday and the half-crushed arc of the sky taking tea in the pastoral index (3:14)
  
• causes and cures (2:08)
  
• ...so that we each wander through a true elysium (3:42)
  
• askion kataskion lix tetrax damnameneus aision (5:33)
  
• elegy for beach friday (2:29)
  
• the book of stars vibrating (3:01)
  
• in the karst interior (4:04)
  
• stop the night (10:10)
  
• how to live in a smashed state (2:27)
  
• scarlet thread, golden cord (7:35)

spectrum spools press release...

sp 005cd / bee mask elegy for beach friday cd synthesizers, percussion, piano, guitar, tape, electronics, and max/msp recorded 2003-2010 in northampton, ma, new york, ny, cleveland, oh, and philadelphia, pa. edited and mixed at tranquility base, february 2011. for the last few years, chris madak has been on a tangled and cryptic path toward the full realization of his bee mask alterego. now, for the first time there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel - a chance for old plans to come to fruition and for new ideas to blossom into the unknown. "elegy for beach friday" is a personal selection of highlights from a slew of limited cassette and cdr editions recorded between 2003 and 2010, re-imagined, reedited, and remastered, offering both a cross-section for the uninitiated and a fresh enigma for the already-enchanted. the original documents will age on the shelves of those fortunate enough to have been in the know, and for the rest of the world, we now have this double lp retrospective of chris' favorite time-stopping microcosmic suites, woven together over four instantly classic sides of wax. here, the full range of bee mask's sonic palette has been carefully compressed into a dazzling and infinitely dense time capsule of mind-altering martian sound fields and psychedelic dimension bending, bridging the worlds of nikola tesla and lamonte young and giving us the ideal soundtrack for our collective walk down a dirt road into the gaseous cloud of our final days.

belarisk “ii” c34 cassette

• advanced orbit, decrepit realm
  
• a serpent lays an egg in a realm unreachable
  
  
• ophiuchus bleeding
  
• die sonne ist tot

semata productions press release...

sem-020 belarisk - ii c34 belarisk's "ii" the second mournful congregation of synthesized experiments for this new project of lee tindall {mutation in the gryd / zerfallt}. these tracks are formulated as raw, synthesized "feelings" music, but also as end-times music. clean structures that bubble over with caustic sounds and mutant melodies. the sounds of a dusty laboratory, test tubes overflowing after all the humans are gone. recorded and assembled using esq-1 / ax60 / 80, "ii" presents a sharper focus on different angles in the compositions, strongly reflecting on the harsh winter of 2010 and the empty trees of central massachusetts 2011. edition of 100 : pro-dubbed on black type ii high bias cassettes with 2-panel j card, silkscreened shells & shrink-wrapping.

blood stereo “the larval tuning fork (& other visions)” long playing record

• the larval tuning fork (18:59)
  
  
• i prayed to an egg (18:59)

twisted knister press release...

blood stereo - the larval tuning fork (& other visions) knack 004 artist: blood stereo title: the larval tuning fork (& other visions) format: lp label: twisted knister catalog #: knack 004 date of release: 11/11/2011 karen constance & dylan nyoukis: vocals, objects, instruments, tape players & other recording devices recordings from brighton, blackburn, dunbar, london, albany, jersey city, amherst, glasgow, berlin, schiphorst, gerlesborg. assembled at home. remember when you were a kid and you got your first big hunk of bubblegum? ‘course after the first fifteen seconds the stuff always tastes like rubber tires. but what kid could care? nah, you were hoping to get a hugeass bubble going— something with a real sense of distention— that would plaster itself pink all over your hair and your clothes when it finally blew out. dylan & karen use tapes & toys & their mouths to bring you creaking doors, aviaries, doddering old ladies, a troupe of muppets grunting & puking their guts out, some old drunk sailor squeezing a harmonium, etc. but what’s important here is the overall bulge & slump as their record breathes, now bigger... now smaller... now bigger... and a little bigger still. lately they’ve been taking advantage of improved sound quality, but it seems to be in the interest of making things more slippery rather than less so (and if you listen to a lot of records, you know what a fucking blue moon that is). so go ahead & let them get a little bit of their saliva on you. it’s the only way to find out whether they pop one off this time. (liner notes by angela sawyer of weirdo records) cover artwork by karen constance (front) and dylan nyoukis (back). edition of 300 copies.

ursula bogner “sonne = blackbox” long playing record

• sonne = blackbox (1972)
  
• jubiläum (1984)
  
• nach europa (1977)
  
• trabant ( 1970)
  
• or dor melanor (1981)
  
• uranotypie (1978)
  
  
• strahlungen (1974)
  
• der chor der oktaven (1975)
  
• illusorische planeten (1974)
  
• permutationen (1982)
  
• shepard monde (1971)
  
• signalfluss (1980)
  
• homöostat (1985)
  
• refrain für einen formanten (1972)
  
• de planetarium influxu (1976)

ursula bogner “sonne = blackbox” book and compact disc set

• sonne = blackbox (1972)
  
• jubiläum (1984)
  
• nach europa (1977)
  
• trabant ( 1970)
  
• or dor melanor (1981)
  
• uranotypie (1978)
  
• strahlungen (1974)
  
• der chor der oktaven (1975)
  
• illusorische planeten (1974)
  
• permutationen (1982)
  
• shepard monde (1971)
  
• signalfluss (1980)
  
• homöostat (1985)
  
• refrain für einen formanten (1972)
  
• de planetarium influxu (1976)

faitiche press release...

faitiche in collaboration with maas media presents: sonne = black box / edition in a black card box, including cd (sonne = blackbox, voice and tape music by ursula bogner, compiled by andrew pekler) and book (english / german texts by momus, kiwi menrath, jürgen fischer, bettina klein, tim tetzner, andrew pekler & an introduction by jan jelinek), 126 pages with numerous photographies, drawings and compositional instructions.  sonne = blackbox (voice and tape music by ursula bogner) i was pleasantly surprised when faitiche invited me to investigate the ursula bogner archives and assemble a collection of her works for this second volume of recordings. my delight was all the greater when during my research i came upon a cache of materials (tape recordings, notes, graphic scores) which bring to light two previously unheard but overlapping aspects of bogner's music: her experiments with tape manipulation and her use of the voice as a sound source. auditioning these recordings, i heard work that was bold and playful - music in which, to my ears, the raw spirit of exploration is pleasantly tempered by a tendency towards what one might call an emotive register. in particular, i was struck by the sheer variety of bogner's work and the various ways the voice was utilized. in addition to more conventional modes of melodic and harmonic singing, i heard voices which are stretched, layered and treated in order to become textures or to take on the tonal quality of other instruments. i found most intriguing two pieces (jubiläum and shepard monde) where the apparent confluence of bogner's tape and voice experimentation are most distinctly audible - with fragments of vocals looped into cyclical structures forming rhythmical frameworks into which further elements are gradually introduced.  among the archive materials i found no definitive evidence to either prove or disprove my suspicion that the voice heard in these pieces is ursula bogner's own - the recording notes which accompanied some of the tapes make no mention of any vocalist(s) whatsoever. nonetheless, despite the sometimes radical transformations to which it is subjected, the main voice heard throughout the 15 year period in which these pieces were made retains a certain timbral consistency which suggested to me that it belongs to the same person. playing a few excerpts from these recordings for bogner's son sebastian confirmed what i had surmised: it is indeed the composer's voice we are hearing. possible exceptions may be the loops of doo-wop singing in or dor melanor and the fragments of pop harmony vocals and liturgical chant which are cut up in der chor der oktaven. yet voice was not the only material used by bogner in her tape experiments. indeed, the sound sources are as varied as their compositional functions. for instance, the repeating electric guitar motif of trabant is accentuated by sped-up, slowed-down and reversed versions of itself and seems to me to elegantly mirror the two (electronically treated and pure) singing voices that it accompanies. also remarkable is illusorische planeten, where severely processed percussion forms a jagged landscape onto which a choir of voices and electronic tones descend only to become entangled in the thistly environment before managing to lift off again. elsewhere, we hear among other things, piano trills, splashing water, wind, chimes and orchestral strings or, as in the second half of nach europa, a complex soundscape of presumably electronic origin which undergoes a range of metamorphoses via tape manipulation. of particular interest to me are the recording notes that accompanied some of the tape reels from which these pieces are taken. these are printed forms intended to facilitate the work of studio engineers and archivists by providing space for technical information pertaining to recording and composition. intriguingly, ursula bogner used these sheets not only for technical notes but also to jot down fragmentary ideas, associations and perhaps the sources of inspiration for the music on the tapes. here are a few examples of her recording notes along with a few of my own (entirely subjective) thoughts on their possible meanings: de planetarum influxu  mesmerization. attempt to implent a fluidic structure. does there exist a tonal equivalent of hypnosis? the reference seems to be to franz mesmer's theory of animal magnetism, a magnetic fluid supposedly found in the bodies of living beings. experiments which attempted to channel this “ethereal medium” in order to cure various diseases led to the theory's discretization but also contributed to the emergence of modern hypnotherapy. illusorische planenten  counter-earth, hidden behind the sun. (the word 'superseded' circled and underlined) all is arranged antithetically, conditions for symmetry not possible. music of the ellipses. a reference to the counter-earth?  according to classical greek astronomy, the planet 'antichton' was supposed to exist hidden behind the sun and act as a counterbalance to our earth. and could 'music of the ellipses' be a pun on 'music of the spheres',  the phrase adjusted to more accurately reflect astronomical reality? uranotypie  uranium 92. platin transmutation. uranus epsilonring. white swan 92 uranotypie. uranyl ferricyanide. uranium, discovered in 1789 (by a berlin chemist) was named after the then recently discovered planet uranus. bogner seems to be playing here with the number 92, the atomic number of uranium in the periodic table. uranotypie and uranyl ferricyanide may possibly refer to the use of radioactive uranium in photographic printing processes in the late 19th century. the meaning of the 'white swan' remains a mystery. trabant unlike duplicates fly away in unsteady orbits. satellites of the self. a subjective interpretation: might the 'unlike duplicates' be the looped variants of the guitar motif that forms the rhythmic and harmonic basis of this piece? does the unsteady orbit represent the role of the voice in relation to the music? does the 'self' and 'satellites' refer to the way bogner here doubles and applies electronic treatments to her voice? nach europa telescopic discovery of cyclopic decent. dim star, slower than the eye. to break through the clouds. this piece starts from a simple rhythmic motif and gradually builds up momentum by accumulating layers of harmonic texture until finally bursting forth into a swirling, dissonant and murky sound world. taken together with the text, the music suggests to me a journey to and eventual arrival at some obscure and distant world. does not the sudden cutting out of the rhythm track halfway through sound uncannily like 'splashdown' in some alien ocean? in addition to the tapes, recording notes, graphic scores and drawings ursula bogner also left behind a filing system of index cards which she used to record thoughts, concepts, text fragments, and word games. at least three of the tracks which appear here are referred to by index cards. here are two examples: or, dor, dor, dor, dor or, dor, dor melanor (ursula bogner, 1972) the relation between the three typed words of the index card and the song in which they are intoned - in ursula bogner's characteristically solemn yet offhand voice – remains unknown. sonne = blackbox (ursula bogner, 1972) in this case also it is not known whether the titular index card predates the music or whether the card was used to record the name of an already finished piece. at any rate, the sung text – as yet not found on any of the cards - is as follows: ist denn die sonne eine blackbox? (is then the sun a black box?) ob man die nacht abschaffen kann? (could the night be abolished?) auf dem uranus, herschels planet? (on uranus, herschel's planet?) mit schäfermonden rings umrannt? (encircled by shepherd moons?) solarwinde (solar winds) i hope that this collection will be of equal interest to newcomers as well as to those already familiar with ursula bogner's work as it both broadens and sharpens the image we have of her and the intriguing artist persona she has left for us to ponder. - andrew pekler

borbetomagus “the rape of atlanta” long playing record

• archie keens for a moister veronica
  
  
• jughead's prayer renders betty senseless

no label press release...

you know that bit at the end of the monterey concert where hendrix sets his guitar on fire? that's what we do. for a whole hour. - donald miller

david borden / james ferraro / samuel godin / laurel halo / daniel lopatin “frkwys vol. 7 • borden, ferraro, godin, halo & lopatin” long playing record

• people of the wind pt. 1 (12:26)
  
• internet gospel pt. 1 (5:59)
  
  
• people of the wind pt. 2 (4:55)
  
• internet gospel pt. 2 (8:18)
  
• twilight pacific (7:20)

peter brötzmann / fred van hove / han bennink “balls” long playing record

• balls
  
• garten - für angelika / "fritze" geges / schmiddy'
  
  
• filet americain
  
• de daag waarop sipke eindelijk zijn nagels knipte, en verder alle andere a moten voor hem openstonden i.c.p. 17

cien fuegos press release...

brötzmann / van hove / bennink - balls format: lp label: cien fuegos itemnumber: cf003 official release date 02.11.2011 03.08.11: introducing: cien fuegos we are proud the announce the launch of our new label cien fuegos which will be specialised on vinyl reissues of alltime favorites. all the releases will be on 180g vinyl, with heavy cardboard cover and in limited edition!  the first releases will be out in autumn 2011: - brötzmann / bennink: ein halber hund kann nicht pinklen cf001 - brötzmann / van hove / bennink: tschüs cf002 - brötzmann / van hove / bennink: balls cf003

peter brötzmann / han bennink “ein halber hund kann nicht pinkeln” long playing record

• musik am abend • 1-5 (21:17)
  
  
• musik am nachmittag • 1-5 (23:00)

cien fuegos press release...

brötzmann / bennink - ein halber hund kann nicht pinkeln format: lp label: cien fuegos itemnumber: cf001 official release date 02.11.2011 03.08.11: introducing: cien fuegos we are proud the announce the launch of our new label cien fuegos which will be specialised on vinyl reissues of alltime favorites. all the releases will be on 180g vinyl, with heavy cardboard cover and in limited edition!  the first releases will be out in autumn 2011: - brötzmann / bennink: ein halber hund kann nicht pinklen cf001 - brötzmann / van hove / bennink: tschüs cf002 - brötzmann / van hove / bennink: balls cf003

peter brötzmann / fred van hove / han bennink “tschüs” long playing record

• two birds in a feather - to bobby few
  
• ein bisschen jazzbesen
  
• claptrap
  
• lotteduflotte
  
• töfftöff
  
• zigan, zigan (live at quartier latin, berlin)
  
  
• petit blues fourré - pour g.r. de lille
  
• r.w.sch.
  
• b- klarinetten
  
• bierhaus wendel
  
• tschüs

cien fuegos press release...

brötzmann / van hove / bennink - tschüs format: lp label: cien fuegos itemnumber: cf002 official release date 02.11.2011 03.08.11: introducing: cien fuegos we are proud the announce the launch of our new label cien fuegos which will be specialised on vinyl reissues of alltime favorites. all the releases will be on 180g vinyl, with heavy cardboard cover and in limited edition!  the first releases will be out in autumn 2011: - brötzmann / bennink: ein halber hund kann nicht pinklen cf001 - brötzmann / van hove / bennink: tschüs cf002 - brötzmann / van hove / bennink: balls cf003

ken camden “lethargy & repercussion” long playing record

• birthday (6:57)
  
• raagini robot (7:01)
  
• in your ears (7:33)
  
  
• raga (8:10)
  
• new space (7:40)
  
• jupiter (11:45)

matt carlson “particle language” long playing record

• an entity appears
  
• retinotopic maps
  
• the perceptron
  
  
• robot nostalgia
  
• saccades
  
• eunoia
  
• dear translucent beings:

draft press release...

matt carlson, particle language draft d012 / lp draft is pleased to announce the release of matt carlson’s solo debut lp release, particle language. following up his stellar solo works for gift tapes, including stereo face and gecko dream levels, carlson advances his signature electronic compositions, venturing into weirder, tweaked realms of morphing synthesis and bent perception. particle language guides the listener through an effervescent cauldron of unstable energies and molten, robotic detritus into a shifting stereoized vacuum-space. sounds effortlessly arch and skim this reflective pathway, propelling us into the depths of our unconscious minds. embedded with outsider music reference points and metaphysical undercurrents, carlson’s modular synthesizer mastery and ingenious use of tape and vocoder has unearthed grey-void atmospheres overflowing with otherworldly aural apocrypha – a uniquely warped vision. i’ve known matt carlson since 2003. ever since then i’ve been blown away by his role in every creative context i’ve had the pleasure of witnessing. from solo performances to 12-hour improvisations to standup comedy / free improv to music for dance to performances of his modern classical compositions, he is all over the map. his wildly diverse musical curiosities have lead to his involvement with numerous collaborations, including the drone trio bonus, the eccentric pop group parenthetical girls, the portland art collective oregon painting society, and his current role in the amazing golden retriever. over the years, i’ve come to recognize that carlson’s musical ability far outweighs that of any of my peers, but more significantly, i’ve seen his artistic vision develop into something entirely unique and original – and it is this vision that i am especially excited to present to you. jason e anderson, gift tapes / draft mastered by timothy stollenwerk lp, 40 minutes :: dmm pressing color jacket and labels, insert, clear plastic outer sleeve edition of 500

tom carter / marc orleans “eleven twenty-nine” long playing record

• eyes of jewels, mirrored bodies (9:07)
  
• leaf in a whirlwind (8:06)
  
• eyes on a cabbage head (2:53)
  
  
• wake up crazy (4:51)
  
• let the good work go on (15:47)

northern spy press release...

artist: eleven twenty-nine title: eleven twenty-nine catalog #: nslp 007 genre: rock, blues / psych format: lp street date: 6/14/2011 taken from the blues parlance for the length of a one year prison sentence, eleven twenty-nine is the new project of tom carter and marc orleans. their first self-titled album releases a sound that has done hard-time in the blues, from two performers who have constantly pushed the limits of rock guitar. tom, a latter day carter family member via texas’ charalambides, has explored a psychedelic-brand of guitar instrumentals. between his band and solo work, he has released some 20 albums, all garnering high praise. while marc, a slick-fingered guitar-slinger, has imprinted on legions of fans the sounds of helix, juneau and the sunburned hand of man. together they deliver an album steeped in the soul and depth of blues while moving forward into an enigmatic free-improv rock.

jani christou “jani christou (1926-70)” compact disc

• enantiodromia für orchester (12:11) 1965-1968
  
• praxis für streichorchester und klavier (9:42) 1966-1969
  
• epicycle (tape version) (9:41) 1968
  
• anaparastasis iii "the pianist" for ensemble, tapes and one actor (11:17) 1969
  
• mysterion (prolog und sprechertext, zuspielbänder) (5:10) 1965-1968
  
• anaparastasis i "the baritone" für bariton, kammerensemble und kleinen chor (10:55) 1968
  
• praxis for 12 für 11 streichinstrumente und 1 pianisten (9:03) 1966

edition rz press release...

ed. rz 1013 cd jani christou (1926 - 70) enantiodromia, praxis, epicycle, anaparastasis iii "the pianist", mysterion, anaparastasis i "the baritone", praxis for 12 enantiodromia for orchestra (oakland s.o.; ltg. gerhard samuel) praxis for string orchestra and piano (rundfunkorchester hannover, ndr; piano: georges pludermacher; ltg. michel tabachnik) epicycle (tape version, jani christou) anaparastasis iii "the pianist" for ensemble, tapes and one actor (actor: grigoris semitekolo; ensemble "musik unserer zeit", ltg. theodore antoniou) mysterion (prolog und sprechertext, zuspielbänder) anaparastasis i "the baritone" for baritone and chamber ensemble and small choir (baritone: spyros sakkas; ensemble "musik unserer zeit", sinnhofer quartett, chor des bayerischen rundfunks, ltg. jaroslav opela) praxis for 12 for 11 string instruments and 1 pianist (orchestra da camera dell'academia, klavier und ltg. piero guarino) the christou release was also available on lp (ed. rz 1006) which did not contain the last two recordings (praxis for 12 and anaparastasis i). the lp is out of print, only the cd (ed. rz 1013) is currently available.

carlfriedrich claus / harmut geerken “einem luftigen akustischen kosmos entgegen” compact disc

• einem luftigen akustischen kosmos entgegen (60:33)

rumpsti pumsti (edition) press release...

carlfriedrich claus & hartmut geerken - einem luftigen akustischen kosmos entgegen rumpsti pumsti (edition) nummer 12 edition of 300 copies comes with 12-page booklet including a text by hartmut geerken (german only) collaboration performance by these two infamous german visual artists & sound-poets, recorded at lyrik-kabinett münchen, june 1991. this is carlfriedrich claus' only sound-collaboration ever. both artists prepared a 60-minute backing-tape and wrote a detailed score for live-performed poetry and voice-operations. in addition to these fixed compositions they left room for spontaneous improvisation and the use of small cymbals ('tschinkas'). this is like nothing else. very serious, raw and quite unsettling. between the early 1950s and his death in 1998, carlfriedrich claus (born 1930) produced a corpus of work that occupies terrain somewhere between philosophy, art, linguistics and acoustic literature. both visually with his language sheets and acoustically with his language operations, he plumbed and explored the depths of human consciousness, making a wholly individual contribution to the art of the 20th century in doing so. these sound processes and language operations have a consistency and radicalism unacknowledged hitherto. hartmut geerken (born 1939) is an author, composer, musician, film-maker, performer, actor, mycologist, archivist, stager of exhibitions, publisher of numerous authors from the circle of literary expressionism and dada, lumberjack, and bumble-bee-keeper. as a percussionist, he has collaborated with a variety of free jazz musicians such as sun ra, john tchicai, sainkho namtchylak. as a poet, he is a practitioner of concrete poetry and organizes events such as the annual bielefeld new poetry colloquium. as an actor, he appeared in six films by herbert achternbusch and appeared in two of achternbusch's plays at the munich kammerspiele.

comet bodies “live” c30 cassette

• stone tavern kent, oh 2/5/11
  
  
• skylab columbus oh 2/11/11

cylindrical habitat modules press release...

fifty-sixth module: comet bodies - live c30 two live tracks from the recent comet bodies+mcguire "tour" (one show in kent, ohio and one in columbus). hi-fi audience recordings of the "comet buddies" in full swing. deep space avant sci-fi electronics taking heavy influence from dudes like nik raicevic, morton subotnick etc... this tape finds us exploring some really dark corners and pissing off some kent bros. limited edition of 50.

daily life “my time • daily life” soundsheet

• my time (4:05)
  
• daily life (2:59)

glass coffin press release...

daily life : my time / daily life inri 001: this flexi features a different, earlier version of "my time" than the "necessary and pathetic" lp version. the song "daily life" is previously unreleased. pressing of 300 on clear vinyl.

decimus “decimus 1” long playing record

• decimus #1 (1) (22:00)
  
  
• decimus #1 (2) (18:40)

kelippah press release...

d e c i m u s "1" (kelippah records) lp record edition limited to 300 copies and here in aries, birthed in a union of hei and dalet, behold! brought forth with the of taste survival on it's lips where this taste emerges as the only absolute desire that remains immune to a war waged on the bondage of need synthetic meditations on the zodiac as envisioned by decimus magnus ausonius (310-395). second in a series of twelve decimus lps. hand painted and stenciled edition of 300 lp released by kelippah records. multis terribilis timeto multos

decimus “decimus 5” long playing record

• decimus #5 (1) (17:30)
  
  
• decimus #5 (2) (18:50)

kelippah press release...

d e c i m u s "5" (kelippah records) lp record edition limited to 300 copies leo, under your watchful eye the holy temple was twice defiled let the crowning of chaf irradiate all things left-handed! let you're queen tet provide ambiguity when the waters seem clear! synthetic meditations on the zodiac as envisioned by decimus magnus ausonius (310-395). third in a series of twelve decimus lps. hand painted and stenciled edition of 300 lp released by kelippas records multis terribilis timeto multos

diamond catalog “magnified palette” long playing record

• slith’d on
  
• valveneration
  
  
• ancestral comprehensions & acrid predictions
  
• aries vieweight

nna tapes press release...

nna032: diamond catalog "magnified palette" lp nna is proud to present the debut lp by diamond catalog, the new duo of lala conchita and "glamorous" pat maherr (indignant senility, expressway yo-yo dieting, and so on). this full-length is the definitive statement of diamond catalog's concoction of cross-bred dance music and mutated, swirling noise bricolage. "magnified palette" seems to exist in five dimensions of sound, with factory-booming beats creating a mechanical-yet-organic framework for devious sonic chatter to wind its way through. imagine the sound of a distant rave in the midst of a disorienting drug spell, wading your way through the infinity of your mind's own dark matter.