cloaked light / pale blue sky “split” long playing record

• cloaked light - clear of,
  
  
• pale blue sky - someday
  
• pale blue sky - sometime

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arbor 145 cloaked light / pale blue sky split 12"ep working together, but differently. clear of, shows cloaked light working within a new mode; an expanded temporal sensitivity through field recording and discrete static chords. slow movement- revealing growth and decay at the subtlest thresholds; disappearing music with a heavy presence, a shifting sense of space, not in the room, but of the room.  pale blue sky’s someday, sometime approaches a similar expansion of perception and unobscuring blur. through tape manipulation, the inner workings of tonal relationships are placed under focus; extending time to reveal new moments; widening the view.  distorting to understand; a reorienting pause. originally conceived to coincide with the cloaked light / pale blue sky california tour with pedestrian deposit, infinite body, earn, and mirror to mirror in january 2010; a testament to a common point and it’s different trajectories. approaching the possibility. mastered by pete swanson; cut at 45 rpm. in an edition of 400 copies with glossy jackets and inner sleeves.

ryan garbes “real sugar b/w the lights” seven inch single record

• real sugar
  
  
• the lights

pale blue sky “shades of grey” long playing record

• fleece
  
• luring movement
  
  
• green tint
  
• interlude (drift)
  
• attempt

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arbor 137 pale blue sky shades of grey 12” ep pale blue sky is the new project from mike pollard (formerly treetops). shades of grey is the project’s genesis; a long considered transition uniting the organic drone-work of the former project with compositional structures. the recordings embody a delicate sense of distance; staring out at the moving landscape obscured by the mediation of the window. through blurred fidelity the origin of melody is placed under microscopic inquiry; an exploration into the moment of tonal interaction. pale blue sky utilizes repetition and non-linear movements, attempting to reconcile simplicity, form, and sentiment through modes of difference. placing focus on spatial concerns, as well as emotive potential, the five songs contained within are each different embodiments of the possibility of the transformative decay of remembrance. an ephemeral glimpse; the moment has already passed. for quiet, distanced listening. in an edition of 400 copies with full color glossy jackets, printed inner sleeves, and printed labels.

sun circle “lessness” double long playing record set

• drums
  
  
• tambouras
  
  
• tambouras
  
  
• gongs

brendan murray “inveterate” c90 cassette

• inveterate (1) (45:00)
  
  
• inveterate (2) (45:00)

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arbor 132; c90 cassette brendan murray inveterate brendan murray’s consistent output for the past decade has revealed an underlying concern for the working of sonic material. inveterate, containing a single, extended 90 minute recording follows this line of thought; looking inside of a sustained moment developing in such a way that difference and similarity can no longer be distinguished. establishing itself as itself by attempting to present the sound from all possible angles and orientations. nonlinear developments; viewed from the outside as a long blur. recorded september 2009 at weirdo records. in an edition of 150 copies with professionally duplicated/imprinted cassettes and cardstock covers.

copper glove “surviving the garden of hate” seven inch single record

• liquification process
  
  
• protogenerator

cloaked light “plain curtain” c15 cassette

• a long green hall
  
  
• but i’m trying

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arbor 122 cloaked light plain curtain c15 these early four-track experiments from peter friel’s cloaked light project offer a look into focus. with the slowest subtlety changes grow, only perceptible through reflection. a new form of seeking to understand; a non-linear music, offering a space of contemplation to look forward and behind. on a long green hall friel shifts meaning and reorients the place of speech in a lucierian experiment with self-help tapes. on but i’m trying, subtle tonal expansions mirror the manipulation of speech on the previous track, though without the recognizable markers of language the result is more obscured. each track offers insight to the others processes. recorded in summer 2009, these tracks are some of the earliest from the project, a precursory inquiry to the tapes on ekhein and monorail. upcoming split 12” ep with pale blue sky further explores the nature of tonal interactions and non-linear explorations of sound. in an edition of 125 copies with full color cardstock covers and labeled tapes.

rale “whispering gallery” long playing record

• folding bedroom (11:50)
  
  
• somehow (12:20)

rene hell / three legged race “violin petal {auden} b/w whipped secrets” long playing record

• rene hell - violin petal {auden}
  
  ace ribeo
  slightly eleven
  plastic demi finish
  exit room 808
  
  
• three legged race - whipped secrets

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arbor 111; lp album rene hell / three legged race violin petal {auden} / whipped secrets rene hell and three legged race investigate the space where classically outsider musical forms begin to intersect with more popular ones. taking cues from science fiction and early electronic / tape music and translating them through lens of minimal techno and the personal logic of bedroom recording ; both creating something unclassifiable in it’s hybrid form. rene hell’s four part suite violin petal {auden} follows his recent lp on type with it’s distinct form of digital synthesis and future-concrète; cyclic music expanding and contracting throughout a cybernetic space. the confusion of communication, control source unknown. signals crossed along a technological drift. robert beatty’s three legged race presents a three part suite, whipped secrets. investigating herein an application of early ‘automatic’ synthesizer music manipulated into linear form based song structure. developing softly, the first movement sounds like a loner folk recording from a distant future time ; complete with vocals, staring sad eyed across an open expanse, contemplating the state of things. slowly, this form unravels into a more abstract and ‘automatic’ based territory ; rhythmic and melodic staccato signals possessed with an almost intelligent logic of their own. communication shifts from the man to his machine. in an edition of 400 copies with glossy jackets featuring images by each artist and printed inner sleeves and center labels designed by jeff witscher.

james ferraro “citrac” double long playing record set

• red ant human
  
• computer chipped police
  
• virtual pain
  
• cyber marine
  
• surveillance
  
  
• rally at world watch arena
  
• chance altar
  
• gates surrounding control tower
  
• flesh circuit
  
• public execution of a no mark
  
• mark change on highway
  
  
• wired tribe
  
• digital gods
  
• subculture 2090
  
  
• liquid metal excerpt 1

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arbor106 james ferraro - "citrac" 2xlp the citrac collection presents one of james ferraro’s most cinematic visions; showing his recent mode of soundworld creation in top form. by shying away from pure musical creation and opting towards the organic birth of sonic universes james finds a new way to tell a story. evoking vastly imaginative imagery, this 80+ minute suite spanning two lps, contains the previously released “postremo techno mundus symposium”, excerpts and alternative edits from liquid metal’s alternative soundtrack to “digital overdrive”, and the all new “digital tribe”. presenting deep-nightmarish atmospheres of surveillance and captivity on through the rush of the open road; the hypnotic, lo-fi result is one that could only come from ferraro’s alien mind, eternally stuck in a 1980s vision of an impossibly archaic future. in an edition of 400 double lps with full color printed inner-sleeves in pro-printed black and white cardboard sleeves and printed labels by james.--

carlos giffoni “the absence of essence” double seven inch single record set

• the absence (4:11)
  
  
• lift (4:05)
  
  
• signs (5:30)
  
• angles & arcs (4:24)

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arbor99 carlos giffoni - "the absence of essence" 2x7" carlos giffoni’s heavy synthesizer work recalls the crushing, massiveness of early industrial music. completely consuming the air around it with heavy vibrations and total deprivation. these four tracks rip holes through the sonic barriers, loud and powerful but with entrancing subtleties and discreet builds. the nature of the 7” format does not harm giffoni’s work which normally exists in extended lengths; instead very succinct and unwavering compositions result: creating four vignettes of grey industrial zones. as the person responsible for no fun productions and the no fun fest, this brooklyn transplants presence in the current progression of the genre is undeniable. in an edition of 400 2x7”(one on white vinyl and one on black) sets in gatefold sleeves with art by maya miller of heavy tapes / religious knives.

dead machines “plays invasion of the body snatchers” one-sided long playing record

• plays invasion of the body snatchers (20:10)

infinity window “artificial midnight” long playing record

• sheets of face (7:56)
  
• internal compass (7:36)
  
  
• skull theft (11:10)

god willing / privvy seals “split” long playing record

• god willing - bob blobs
  
  
• privy seals - the sword and the stone

secret abuse “the immeasurable gift” long playing record

• futility
  
• grin
  
• carefully opening the window
  
  
• the deepest roots
  
• must leave sometime
  
• light

traum “built for nothing” one-sided long playing record

• built for nothing

c. spencer yeh / sick llama “split” seven inch single record

• c. spencer yeh - solo violin 11 (4:34)
  
  
• sick llama - untitled (5:47)

soft shoulder “untitled” compact disc recordable

• clap and cough
  
• slumber party in a grime hut

youth of the beast “lantern” seven inch single record

• lantern is destroyed
  
  
• will follow grackle

shearing pinx / silver daggers “split” seven inch single record

• shearing pinx - gold sleeper
  
• shearing pinx - baton
  
• shearing pinx - slaughterhaus
  
  
• silver daggers - the joys of being solitude w/dialog (at the smell)
  
• silver daggers - life freedom-style in all it’s pride + glory

warmth “warmth” long playing record

• (no tracklisting)

binges “return to whatever” compact disc recordable

• live at permanent records, chicago, 3/17/07
  
• live at the practice space, ames iowa, 4/25/07

tent/city “tent/city” compact disc recordable

• (no tracklisting)