shedding “hello st. louis!!! - may 28th, 2004” compact disc recordable

• lapping stairs (11:44)
  
• cobblestone wash (8:17)
  
• concrete wash (16:43)

ben owen “florida everglades - february 2004” compact disc recordable

• (1:00)
  
• (8:44)
  
• (26:08)
  
• (1:51)

frank schultge blumm “italian short story - 2002” compact disc recordable

• rain on the tent (0:54)
  
• rain in the sacristy (phase 1 and 2) (0:08)
  
• going to the VW bus to drive to the mayor's place to buy tomatoes 'canto' (0:28)
  
• driving back home after having bought tomatoes at the mayor's place (1:32)
  
• squashing the tomatoes (0:14)
  
• washing bottles for the tomato sauce (0:21)
  
• chopping firewood (0:26)
  
• breaking up firewood (0:35)
  
• lighting the oven to cook the sauce (0:47)
  
• chilling on the porch 'kitchen in the back' (1:14)
  
• cricket in the night 'very close' (1:19)

jeph jerman “trees & shrubs - 2000” compact disc recordable

• (29:39)

che chen “block flute signal #1 b/w t-h-r-s-h-l-d-s” c52 cassette

• block flute signal #1
  
  
• t-h-r-s-h-l-d-s

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ar031 che chen - block flute signal #1 / t-h-r-s-h-l-d-s cassette release date: 04/03/12 100 copies professionally duplicated cassette with laser printed j-card artwork by che chen mastered by greg davis this is one of che's first proper solo releases (after last year's excellent pulaski wave 7" and some self-released recordings). che uses a nice palette of instruments along with tape recorders / loops / delay to create warm fidelity, organic, and pulsing sounds. side a is a beautiful long form flute meditation. side b is an episodic composition alternating between field recordings and instruments / tones, reflecting the ideas of thresholds from outside to in, passing through, up and down. movements from one space to another. che's music hints at aspects of christina kubisch, phill niblock and/or takehisa kosugi's music while forging his own unique path in our current digital age. block flute signal #1 - a long form piece that works with the harmonic and timbral possibilities of a simple set of materials. two block flutes--a bass recorder and small double recorder (eastern european in origin)--played by humming and blowing simultaneously to create more than one pitch. the tape loop consists of a simple two-note pattern played on the double recorder, pitched down one octave. (double flute, bass recorder, voice and tape) t-h-r-s-h-l-d-s - conceived of as a sequence of episodic concrete sounds, out of an interest in listening to things one at a time, as discrete sound forms, that progress in series. intervals of silence and field recordings made while passing through various thresholds and doorways form transitions between the various sounds. (zither, sine wave generators, feedback, tape delay and field recordings)

minoru sato / -m/s / asuna “measure in nature” compact disc

• resonances transition in nature states (24:56)
  
• solid vibrations of each organ through nrf amplification (23:38)

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ar030 minoru sato -m/s & asuna - measure in nature cd release date: 05/01/12 200 copies silk-screened cardboard ecopak artwork by saiko kimura mastered by greg davis minoru sato & asuna have been working together over the last 8 years or so. they have previously put out 2 excellent records (on spekk and senufo). their duo finds common ground from two distinct voices. minoru is known for his sound work exploring lucier-esque paths of making physical phenomena audible and the use of feedback and natural resonant frequencies. asuna is quite a musical chameleon, ranging from noise blasts, free improv, beats, pop songs, dense organ drones, field recordings and toy music sound collages. 'measure in nature' collects two long form pieces recorded in 2004 & 2011 spanning the width of their collaboration so far. 'resonances transition in nature states' highlights asuna's contribution a bit more, a thick shimmering and pulsating bed of prepared reed organ drone stasis (reed organs with the keyboard and entire casing removed just leaving the chromatic organ reeds, motor / air system and soundboard) subtly accentuated and filtered through minoru's resonant tubes and vases. 'solid vibrations of each organ through nrf amplification' highlights minoru's system. shifting tonal centers of pure resonant frequency feedback through glass tubes and vases along with asuna's crackling and burnt organ motor textures. this piece is less static than the first with more arcs and waves and weight. i've been working on putting together a release with these two wonderful japanese musicians for several years now and im thrilled with what finally came together. it was worth the wait. this is an especially focused, conceptually tight and musically rich album.

mirror to mirror “yesterday” cassette

• be nice
  
• take me
  
• i want to be going
  
• inside
  
  
• every night
  
• keep it out of your head
  
• all comes back
  
• time for what

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ar029 mirror to mirror - yesterday cassette release date: 11/17/11 100 copies professionally duplicated cassette with laser printed j-card artwork by greg davis mirror to mirror is alex twomey from los angeles. his previous mirror to mirror music has been released on ekhein, jugular forest, arbor, gift tapes and more. while alex usually offers up blissful cloud spaces, here on 'yesterday' he moves in a much more melodic way. joyous sequences, bright shapes & radiant harmonics. reminiscent at times of michaal stearns' 'm'ocean'. alex still retains the blissful, peaceful and lush feelings but now its shaded with more movement, energy and inertia. the shape of things to come?

michael shannon “sensa atmospheres” c60 cassette

• sensa atmospheres (1)
  
• sensa atmospheres (2)

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ar027 michael shannon - sensa atmospheres cassette release date: 09/27/11 100 copies professionally duplicated cassette with laser printed j-card photos by michael shannon layout by greg davis michael shannon has been a quiet force in the seattle music scene and elsewhere for many many years. his anomalous records lp 'laguz' first caught my attention and he also made an excellent album 'raido' for digitalis. mike's music is often a one man band affair. he plays everything from bass to percussion to stones / leaves / sticks to dilruba to tibetan bowls and more'sensa atmospheres' is a long form piece that he composed in 1992. it weaves a beautiful tapestry of sounds. a lovely ethno-electro-acoustic journey full of field recordings, home built percussion, oscillators, erhu and dilruba. mike has always been making cool music way before it was cool.

sun circle “tapes” double compact disc set

• from the split tape with the wind-up bird for the winter 2007 east coast tour.
  
• from the split tape with pregnant moon.
  
• layering of all 11 live sets from the winter 2007 east coast tour.
  
  
• from the tour tape for the fall 2009 west coast tour (1).
  
• from the tour tape for the fall 2009 west coast tour (2).
  
• overtone singing improvisation with joe grimm.

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ar024 sun circle - tapes 2cd release date: 10/15/10 300 copies silk-screened arigato pak with insert a collection of all of the sun circle cassette releases (2 self released out of print cassettes & the nna split cassette) plus 2 previously unreleased pieces. first time available in a digital format. made for the sun circle / grouper / ben vida japan tour 2010. 1/1 - from the split tape with the wind-up bird for the winter 2007 east coast tour. originally released on lichen records (lichen#007) in february 2007. edition of 50 copies. recorded in burlington, vermont. 1/2 - from the split tape with pregnant moon. originally released on nna tapes (nna001) in june 2008. edition of 100 copies. recorded at zach's mom's house in ann arbor, michigan. 1/3 - layering of all 11 live sets from the winter 2007 east coast tour. voice and farfisa organ. previously unreleased. 2/1 - live at the tranzac in toronto, ontario. december 11 2008. from the tour tape for the fall 2009 west coast tour. originally released on autumn records (ar011) in november 2009. edition of 100 copies. recorded live by ayal senior. 2/2 - live at the on land festival at the swedish american hall in san francisco, california. september 20 2009. from the tour tape for the fall 2009 west coast tour. originally released on autumn records (ar011) in november 2009. edition of 100 copies. recorded live by norman teale. 2/3 - overtone singing improvisation with joe grimm recorded in the acoustical echo chamber at the canadian embassy in washington, d.c. layered with gong trio recordings from the winter 2007 east coast tour. previously unreleased.

jeph jerman “arrastre” c42 cassette

• arrastre 8
  
  
• arrastre 9

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ar022 jeph jerman - arrastre cassette (c42) release date: december 2010 150 copies professionally duplicated cassette with laser printed j-card we have a set of surprisingly resonant pot lids in our kitchen, which i've used in various recordings in the past and one night while doing the dishes i had the idea to try playing them in the manner of tibetan singing bowls, by dragging a thick wooden dowel around their rims. i found that with a little practice this worked well, so i made a multi-track recording of four of them. i then, as i am want to do, became obsessed with this idea, buying up piles of pot lids from local second-hand shops and making more recordings, some using as many as ten different lids. after two months of this activity i was left with over two hours of recordings of resonant metal drones, which i enjoy so much that i thought i'd share them all. comprising nine pieces of music ranging in length from 5 to 20 minutes, these recordings are available on three separate releases, on three different formats: a full-length vinyl record, a 45 minute cd-r and a 40 minute cassette. arrastre is the spanish word for drag, and also the name of a 19th century mining apparatus, wherein large boulders were drug around an ore-filled pit by means of a large spindle and arm, driven by pack animals. this cassette release is 1/3 of the arrastre triptych.

chris weisman “transparency” double compact disc set

• round (2:29)
  
• music in the line (3:01)
  
• the winning blues (2:28)
  
• bicycle (3:22)
  
• symbols and signs (3:03)
  
• number 2 man (2:40)
  
• almost a mood (1:42)
  
• the radial spoke (3:30)
  
• money madness (4:31)
  
• transparency (1:36)
  
• feel the houses (2:28)
  
• anybody's time (3:12)
  
• fire and flame (2:59)
  
• rosenwinkel vertigo (2:02)
  
• sound of the summer (3:22)
  
  
• the beatles (3:50)
  
• be easy on yourself (3:07)
  
• in the walls (2:38)
  
• the pilot's skull (2:36)
  
• contact high (2:15)
  
• no business shoes (3:41)
  
• ordinary consciousness (2:08)
  
• 1999 (2:38)
  
• the sun comes back (2:18)
  
• rain doctor (2:37)
  
• mystery (1:51)
  
• the sweetest flags (4:14)
  
• arabesque (3:51)
  
• crosst bridge (3:02)
  
• angleterre anywhere (3:39)

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ar021 chris weisman - transparency 2cd release date: 02/01/2011 300 copies jewel case with full color artwork artwork by ryan storm in a hardly circulated and seldom referenced 1967 interview with paul mccartney and john lennon from during the making of what would become sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band, they use the words "jokes" and "folk" in describing their new music. with this crazy perceptual distance between the artist and the public in mind - between what they think they're doing and how we end up boxing it - consider chris weisman's song-based albums not as "pop" but as an almost side effect of jazz, an upper extension (if you will) over a base of changes playing, free improvisation, and guitar teaching. jazz is more self consciously a field in pursuit of novel pitch relations than the retro rainbow of what calls itself pop now (though his vermont boot grinds deceptively deeply into many of its potholes), and the project of making wrong notes work - at the expense of popularity for over 20 years - is transparently weisman's nerdy ambition (this is the author of a book called "nonmusical patterns and their mystical meanings"). "transparency" - chris' latest (always imagined to be his last) - : joke folk through and through, his "the beatles", 30 songs and all. - donald christopher 2011 chris weisman's new double album folk/pop masterpiece. his most personal & accessible album yet. for fans of elliott smith, the beatles, and weird music.

john krausbauer “imager” compact disc

• upwards/skywards (18:06)
  
• in light (15:26)

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ar019 john krausbauer - imager cd release date: 07-13-10 200 copies artwork by garek druss this is the debut solo release by john krausbauer. he has been a fixture on the portland oregon improvised and experimental music scene (in groups like tecumseh, aures and more...) john's solo music is the electronic compliment to aures' power acoustic static drone minimalism. here we have 2 different deep weighty shimmering views of one eternal drone vista. subtle oscillations reveal infinite details. play this in a room, on speakers, loud & let your ears explore the sonic space ...

john clyde-evans “go gracious kiki change” c28 cassette

• solfarrd time change
  
• go gracious kiki change
  
  
• the nest of delinquent gaijin
  
• salt burning smoke

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ar016 john clyde-evans - go gracious kiki change cassette (c28) release date: 04/13/2010 120 copies professionally duplicated cassette with laser printed j-card artwork by ryan storm

kurt weisman “orange” compact disc

• new england snakes
  
• self-portrait with skull
  
• let my spirit rise
  
• rainbow blues
  
• orange
  
• when i saw him with you
  
• new blueberry song
  
• tulip tree trail

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ar014 kurt weisman - orange cd release date: 02/02/2010 300 copies silk-screened cardboard ecopak with black & white woodblock print copy insert by ben stamper orange the color? a town in new jersey? the flipside of the beatles? the fruit? the sun? the unrhymeable? orange is kurt weisman's second album (after 2008's spiritual sci-fi, a few 7"s & e.p.'s, and his work in feathers) it is a brilliantly chiseled gem. a beautiful garnet, or perhaps an orange chalcedony. there are traces of traditional norwegian melodies, atonal counterpoint, simple folk songs, new age blues, spacy doo wop, neo-classicism, love songs and a detour of the following....(orange lady, orange was the color of her dress then blue silk, shades of orange, orange juice blues, woodsmoke & oranges, onion orange, apples & oranges, funktion orange, draped in fluorescent orange, orange claw hammer, oranges & lemons) kurt abandoned the micro-editing & digital processing of his previous music (for now) there isn't a trace of computer trickery on orange which makes this a straight forward, well balanced, deceptively simple(r), honest album. there isn't a single note of filler here, every sound sits still in perfect place. kurt lives in a cabin in the woods near putney, vermont. it seems that the quiet, peaceful isolation permeated this music. these songs were ingrained and steeped deeply within kurt's soul (and fingers) over the course of a few years. now he is a mirror reflecting them back to us with love to the universe. orange is mostly kurt singing and playing guitars but there are tasteful additions of clarinets from robert stillman (horses) and kinetic sparkling keyboards from eliot krimsky (glass ghost) & a touch of other instruments & sounds by kurt. included is a nice insert of a woodblock print of a horse by ben stamper (ben + vesper) who also helped produce the album. these are songs of ascension. (thermal clouds. bird flight. spirits rising. love growing. spirals. wide open skies. heavenward.) in his special way, maybe kurt has found his own center, his deep bliss, his unique way to tap into the universal body / mind. orange will be everyone's new favorite color. shining the most radiantly pure light into your ears.

ruth garbus “rendezvous with rama” compact disc

• falling down to earth (4:05)
  
• fly away (4:17)
  
• video piano (4:46)
  
• the finish field (5:20)
  
• halloween (2:23)
  
• tarp face (3:20)
  
• spy zone (4:34)
  
• my apple (2:47)

kurt weisman / chris weisman “over the shadow's door” seven inch single record

• kurt weisman - over the shadow's door
  
  
• chris weisman - over the shadow's door

chris weisman “tape walk” compact disc

• working on my skateboarding
  
• b.o.a.c.
  
• be and
  
• red book
  
• the dancer
  
• day sleeper
  
• dissonant beauty to be forgotten
  
• pigs of glass
  
• fa mi may (dream away)
  
• morty's rugs
  
• natural cymbal
  
• the o chord
  
• polyglot
  
• complex complex
  
• welcome to reality smith
  
• world of the snowsun
  
• you made a drawing

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ar007 chris weisman - tape walk cd release date: 06-2009 300 copies silk-screened cardboard ecopak drawings by chris weisman new hampshire native new school vermonter brattleboro residence chris has been quietly singing his songs for years giving away cdrs & cassettes to friends planting his music here and there jazz guitarist (studied) teacher made up his own book of guitar pattern(s)hapes little room small coffees & yogurt sometimes soup or raw carrot higher octave music purple fleece jacket maybe green pants inverted guitar he knows every oblique & obscure corner of the beatles wrapped in blanket or poncho did you know that paul used a capo on his bass? white george harrison hat from the strawberry fields video joyous open presence curious infinitely creative mind look into the third eye its the ocean daily mountain climber late night talk "all roads descend toward town" (snyder) chris sheds personal taste filters (buddhism) to get into a very wide range of songs, histories, moods, vibes, feels, memories, instincts, styles, love, peace he takes chances (thank you john cage!) pushes limits & boundaries & envelopes this is pure, intuitive, heart music lyrical imagery strange and funny and spiritual always honest melodic twist & turns harmonic curveballs makes sense always catchy sweet tenor voice like that of colin blunstone loves robyn hitchcock & syd barrett & steely dan & keith jarrett & jerry garcia like the best tunes of the elephant 6 chris is a prolific songwriter he's (more than) the daniel johnston of the new age and now its the obama age so its cool to write songs again and its more than okay to like songs again not many can craft a weird smart pop song like chris does he is the bearer of a torch running towards the ever expanding finish (beginning) line (light) listening is easy so do yourself a favor... let these songs get stuck in your head for awhile "tape walk" is a new collection of chris weisman songs taken from many of his self-released albums