work/death “the approach” c24 cassette

• to humiliate
  
  
• hands/knees
  
• position and placement

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.

xela “my memories of gallifrey” c45 cassette

• cloister bell blues
  
• jammed chameleon circuit
  
• procedure is sacrosanct
  
• rassilon and on and on
  
• the eye of dissonance
  
  
• would you care for a jelly baby?
  
• anti-matter polarity reversal
  
• as easy as ?

private chronology press release...

private chronology 03 xela - my memories of gallifrey (c45) after a years-long trilogy on digitalis ltd., the man from type strips away his tape-decayed gradualism and angelic choir-ing, leaving bare a mangled electric corpse. recorded here at private chronology on a jerry-rigged ms-20 / moogerfooger hybrid, and pruned and salted to taste at the seventh door. don't let the 'era-classic' fidelity fool you, this stuff's as meticulously assembled and honed-in as anything he's done. purportedly a tribute to the bbc's seminal "dr. who"; as nightmarish as nostalgia really is. pro-dubbed and imprinted edition of 100.

ed yazijian “gansrud” long playing record

• for h. mck
  
• bon bibi
  
• piece for one violin
  
• salt curse of the onandaga
  
  
• hoffie’s hill
  
• hands of blue
  
• piece for four violins
  
• for borghild

hp cycle press release...

artist: ed yazijian title: gansrud format: lp matrix#: hp 285 second solo full-length from ed yazijian, also known for his long running but sparsely documented collaborations with dredd foole, featuring eight disparate tracks recorded between 1996 and 2009. each side starts off with some slow burning guitar (accented by bowed contrabass and violin on side two) that reverberates with an ease past midnight vibe. the album then weaves through a personalized space featuring eastern percussion, mainlined/cosmic violin drones and intercepted radio transmissions from an unknown origin. the record concludes with a contemplative guitar which is enveloped in tape hiss that eases its way in before fading away. the lp pressed in an edition of 350 copies and is presented in a full colour printed sleeve that is at one itself and with the spirits an opaque facsimile.

nate young “stay asleep • regression vol. 2” long playing record

• comes unbidden
  
• dress a chair
  
• cast a circle
  
  
• stygian faces
  
• collapse

nna tapes press release...

nna039: nate young "stay asleep: regression vol. 2" lp it's an honor for us to present the latest solo recording from nate young, founding member of michigan noise legends wolf eyes. this record represents a new direction for young, as he deviates from trademark aggressive murk-and-misery sounds of his previous works, and instead opts for a queasy, subdued zombie lullaby consisting of bizarre rhythms, synthetic melodies, and almost gamelan-sounding ritual sleepwalking. featuring an epic closer with contributions from past & present wolf eyes members aaron dilloway and john olson. this is a record to sit and get absorbed in, a non-linear travel through a different place altogether. mastered by lupo at dubplates & mastering in berlin.

“an anthology of noise & electronic music • first a-chronology 1921-2001” triple long playing record set

• luigi and antonio russolo - corale (1:57) 1921
  
• walter ruttman - wochende (11:17) 1930
  
• pierre schaeffer - cinq etudes de bruits: etude violette (3:18) 1948
  
• henri pousseur - scambi (6:27) 1957
  
  
• gordon mumma - the dresden interleaf 13 february 1945 (12:43) 1965
  
• angus maclise tony conrad and john cale - trance #2 (5:07) 1965
  
• philip jeck otomo yoshihide and martin tetreault - untitled #1 (6:06) 2000
  
  
• konrad boehmer - aspekt (15:13) 1966
  
• einsturzende neubauten - ragout: küchen rezpt von einsturzende neubauten (4:08) 1998
  
  
• nam june paik - hommage a john cage (4:13) 1958-59
  
• john cage - rozart mix (7:18) 1965
  
• sonic youth - audience (6:00) 1983
  
• survival research laboratories - october 24 1992 graz austria (6:11) 1992
  
  
• edgard varèse - poeme electronique (4:40) 1957-58
  
• iannis xenakis - concret ph (2:44) 1958
  
• ryoji ikeda - one minute (1:00) 1997
  
• paul d. miller aka dj spooky that subliminal kid - ftp > bundle / conduit 23 (8:07) 2001
  
  
• pauline oliveros - a little noise in the system (moog system) (30:16) 1966

sub rosa press release...

an anthology of noise & electronic music #1 first a-chronology 1921-2001 srv190 3xlp the first volume of seven published from 2001 to 2011, curated, noted and edited by guy marc hinant. an unpublished history this is the great beginning of a vast anthology of "noise and electronic music" that we plan for the following years in 7 double volumes. this volume begins in the 1920s, with the russolo brothers, and looks at each decade in turn - varèse, cage, schaeffer, xenakis, the great pioneers - the first traces of a music that was necessarily revolutionary: electronic music, created from nothing (and hence to be entirely invented). some pieces on these cds are certainly classics, but there are others, which, though old, were distributed informally or never even released. our more contemporary pieces are, wherever possible, previously unreleased. in fact, more than the half of what we listen here is unreleased and unpublished. ... the gathering of eclectic noise makers whereas composers like stockhausen, berio or pousseur had come from serialism and began making electronic music as a continuation of their work with traditional instruments, others such as boehmer or oliveros composed right away on electronic bases; there were those who invented new methods, like schaeffer and concrete music, others were outsiders, revolutionaries or visionaries like xenakis or cage, without forgetting the branch of sound derived from dada, the complex forms of free jazz, john coltrane, the acoustic and electronic improvisation scene, rock of the alternative, psychedelic and industrial varieties, the german wave of the 1970s, the last generation of electronic musicians from the beginning or middle of the 1990s, dj, reinventors of drones, painters or sculptors using sound, and process or software creators. the noise goes on ...

“an anthology of noise & electronic music • second a-chronology 1936-2003” triple long playing record set

• vladimir ussachevsky + otto luening - incantation for tape (2:39) 1963
  
• luc ferrari - visage v (10:36) 1958-59
  
• tod dockstader - aerial > song (12:56) 2002
  
  
• johanna m. beyer - music of the spheres (6:01) 1938
  
• morton subotnick - mandolin (7:02) 1962
  
• daphne oram - four aspects (8:10) 1960
  
  
• alan r. splet - space travel w/changing choral textures (4:02) 1983
  
• robin rimbaud / scanner - emily (4:49) 2003
  
• hugh davies / gentle fire - quintet (12:10) 1967-68
  
• kim cascone - zephirum scan (4:50) 2002
  
  
• meira asher + guy harries - torture - bodyparts (3:42) 2001
  
• lasse steen / choose - purzuit of noize (5:37) 1994
  
• woody mcbride - pulp (6:07) 1993
  
• spk - slogun (6:15) 1979
  
  
• yoshihiro hanno / multiphonic ensemble - on/off edit (9:12) 2001
  
• sean booth + rob young / autechre - bronchus one.1 (6:04) 1991
  
• david lee myers / arcane device - lathe (5:54) 1988
  
  
• sun ra - black myth (8:32) 1970
  
• don van vliet / captain beefheart - she’s too much for my mirror/ my human gets me blues (5:22) 1969
  
• laibach - industrial ambients (9:57) 1980-82
  
• percy grainger - free music #1 (for four theremins) (2:04) 1936

sub rosa press release...

an anthology of noise & electronic music #2 second a-chronology 1936-2003 3xlp triple gatefold srv200 the second volume of seven published from 2001 to 2011, curated, noted and edited by guy marc hinant. ... slow explorations of the past and the present ... given the present system of production there are reasons, some of them identifiable, why only a few names emerge in each period. there may also be a preference for concentrating information rather than letting it pile up in disordered fashion. over the past 40 years the same ten electronic music composers get mentioned again and again (including in music dictionaries and histories). yet behind them are many other names. who are they? second-raters? not necessarily. for we then need to define the concept of top-rate (rated by who, and on what criteria?) and second-rate or minor artist. great pleasure can be derived from the works of minor artists. the case of tod dockstader is instructive: when "for lack of academic qualifications" he was denied access to the electronic music facilities he needed, was there not great beauty in the pieces he nevertheless created and in his determination to make music without those facilities? his name was never seen on the labels of top record companies. but he influenced quite a few people - richard james quoted him, and others then referred to his work. some of his records were reissued, and what one could call the rehabilitation process continues. the same applies to many other composers. all such stories spell a passion for music, and weave myth. these historical axes at the turn of the century there were efforts to find new sources of sound - a number of machines were exhibited, including thaddeus cahiel's telharmonium in 1887 and the dynamophone presented to the new york public in 1906 ; they generally played well-known romantic or post-romantic pieces. after a few flamboyant skirmishes described in the previous volume, the postwar period saw the arrival in 1951, of vladimir ussachevsky and otto luening in new york's columbia-princeton electronic music center. when audiences of the 50's and 60's first heard varèse, pousseur, stockhausen, berio, ussachevsky, yuasa, dockstader and mumma, what did they feel? perhaps a sort of break, an epistemological break, like it must have been for the first audience of monteverdi's orfeo (in mantua, italy on 24 february 1607). they left the auditorium completely stunned, because they had never heard anything like it.

“musica improvvisa” decuple compact disc set

• thau - defrost (10:00)
  
• thau - other tropics (5:27)
  
• thau - harmattan (12:10)
  
• thau - lightning strike (7:15)
  
• thau - equatorial freeze (6:10)
  
• thau - ice cups (6:27)
  
• thau - misty (8:53)
  
  
• an experiment in navigation - the earth abstracted from its geomorphic features (7:29)
  
• an experiment in navigation - wreckage in gaddani (8:14)
  
• an experiment in navigation - tidal resonance (11:15)
  
• an experiment in navigation - crustal navigation (3:02)
  
• an experiment in navigation - gnomonic (4:01)
  
  
• tumble - trampoline (5:13)
  
• tumble - gymnastic apparatus (5:52)
  
• tumble - consisting of a strong canvas sheet (3:34)
  
• tumble - attached with springs (5:52)
  
• tumble - to a metal frame (10:50)
  
• tumble - used (4:56)
  
• tumble - for tumbling (10:09)
  
  
• ossatura with gene coleman & marina peterson - non prima (11:09)
  
• ossatura with gene coleman & marina peterson - non oltre (18:22)
  
• ossatura with gene coleman & marina peterson - non ancora (10:37)
  
• ossatura with gene coleman & marina peterson - non piu' (10:48)
  
  
• xubuxue - skyline blue (15:00)
  
• xubuxue - skyline red (15:00)
  
• xubuxue - skyline green (15:00)
  
  
• xubuxue - skyline blue 2.0 (15:00)
  
• xubuxue - skyline red 2.0 (15:00)
  
• xubuxue - skyline green 2.0 (15:00)
  
• xubuxue - skyline blue 5.1 (15:00)
  
• xubuxue - skyline red 5.1 (15:00)
  
• xubuxue - skyline green 5.1 (15:00)
  
  
• wintermute - henry dorsett case folk song (8:29)
  
• wintermute - neuromancer (7:07)
  
• wintermute - molly, the razorgirl (4:53)
  
• wintermute - intrusion countermisures electronics (4:44)
  
• wintermute - chiba (4:15)
  
• wintermute - wintermute (3:35)
  
  
• amuleto - mind the gap pt. 2 (3:20)
  
• amuleto - langsam, mit innigem, ausdruck (6:04)
  
• amuleto - final del juego (7:56)
  
• amuleto - rise and (9:12)
  
• amuleto - fall of western empire (7:15)
  
• amuleto - mind the gap pt. 1 (6:25)
  
• amuleto - almanacco dei posti sperduti (10:03)
  
• amuleto - cani neri (10:56)
  
  
• tumble - trampoline (5:13)
  
• tumble - gymnastic apparatus (5:52)
  
• tumble - consisting of a strong canvas sheet (3:33)
  
• tumble - attached with springs (5:52)
  
• tumble - to a metal frame (10:50)
  
• tumble - used (4:54)
  
• tumble - for tumbling (10:09)
  
  
• a spirale - untitled (1) (2:31)
  
• a spirale - untitled (2) (2:32)
  
• a spirale - untitled (3) (2:13)
  
• a spirale - untitled (4) (2:58)
  
• a spirale - untitled (5) (4:51)
  
• a spirale - untitled (6) (4:24)
  
• a spirale - untitled (7) (4:26)
  
• a spirale - untitled (8) (1:32)
  
• a spirale - untitled (9) (4:45)
  
• a spirale - untitled (10) (3:23)
  
• a spirale - untitled (11) (3:48)
  
• a spirale - untitled (12) (2:52)
  
  
• amp 2 - parent-explains (12:43)
  
• amp 2 - results (11:57)
  
• amp 2 - monograph (6:39)
  
• amp 2 - natural (11:13)
  
• amp 2 - thousand (4:44)
  
  
• ligatura - t29 (10:03)
  
• ligatura - t21 (9:16)
  
• ligatura - t19 (7:05)
  
• ligatura - t22 (6:15)
  
• ligatura - t9 (7:54)
  
• ligatura - t18 (8:20)

die schachtel press release...

vvaa musica improvvisadsimp1 10cd+dvd box 2010 musica improvvisa is a cutting-edge project of multi-sensorial improvisation, an open dialogue among different musical experiences, narratives and aesthetics that charters the unexplored soundscape of the telluric territory of the new italian improvised music. ten groups that span from the south to the north of italy, from the well-known to the totally obscure, whose music goes from an harsh assault to the ear to a visionary post-electronic / post everything free-form structure. the brilliant outcome has been lovely packaged by die schachtel in a deluxe box featuring 10 full length cd albums in a series of painstakingly designed individual cd / lp sleeves (one has also an additional dvd of visual scores) plus a 24-pages booklet and a poster. the names in this essential first edition are: a spirale (massimo spezzaferro, maurizio argenziano, mario gabola); amp 2 (domenico sciajno, dario sanfilippo, antonino secchia, gandolfo pagano, andrea valle); amuleto (francesco dillon, riccardo wanke); an experiment in navigation (xabier iriondo, roberto sassi); ligatura (alessandro giachero, maurizio rinaldi, andrea lamacchia, fabrizio saiu); ossatura + gene coleman & marina peterson (elio martusciello, fabrizio spera, luca venitucci, gene coleman, marina peterson); thau (sabina meyer, hans koch, paed conca, fabrizio spera); tumble (andrea belfi, attila faravelli); wintermute (xabier iriondo, cristiano calcagnile, massimo falascone); xubuxue (cd+dvd) (pietro d'agostino, marco ariano, elio martusciello, gianfranco tedeschi).