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previous record label: die taubnessel		there are 11 titles on digitalis arts & crafts editions in stock. they are listed below.		next record label: digitalis limited

$13.44

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march 5th, 2010

threads:
analogue-synth
modern-psych
minimalism-drones

digitalis arts & crafts editions (usa) #ace031 cd

j. hanson “boolean blues” compact disc

shut-your-fucking-krout
catshit and sandalwood
swat valley driver
peace in sumeria
sometimes i dunno...

march 2010 release ; debut solo disc from this recent gift tapes signee (& former davis redford triad member) josh hanson ... a wash of eastern-leaning modes for synthesizer that’s half automated/gated beep-out & half hands-on snake-charming (listen to the sound-sample for a taste of the latter) ...

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ace031: j. hanson "boolean blues" cd

josh hanson is another of portland, oregon's underappreciated sons. having come up through the ranks of long-time, long-forgotten faves hochenkeit, he also spent time as a member of the davis redford trio. but hanson's path diverges into a totally different sphere nowadays, spinning solo modular synth exploits to the stars. influenced not just by the likes of subotnick and cluster but also various types of eastern sounds, hanson is looking forward, trying to find new pathways in electronic music. using a homebuilt synth, hanson is like a magician that keeps you looking one direction while he's cooking up something special from out of left-field. "boolean blues" is psychedelic and mathematical all once

starting with the pulsing and surprisingly catchy "shut your fucking krout," you are instantly sucked in as a listener. the revolving synth melodies are in your face, never trying to hide behind a veil of reverb of fuzz. "catshit and sandalwood" works as two separate tracks, conjoined at birth and held together through piercing synthetic bleeps. again, there's a softness and melody here that hook you straight off, but the heavy doses of electronic mayhem that go along with it are what keep things uneasy. it's like a warning bell going off so often you have no idea if there's hell on the way. that feeling comes to a head on the centerpiece, "swat valley driver." this is where the psychedelia really kicks in. after a methodic exercise in control backed by a minimal, analog beat, you are greeted with heavy indian influences. no, of course there's no sitars or tanpuras, but hanson twists his synth into spitting out racing analog ragas. it's fucking exquisite, all the while backed by black bass lines. "peace in sumeria" continues the theme but moves a little bit west, getting lost in translation all the way.

what is perhaps most amazing about "boolean blues" is that even though at its heart it's a synth album, wholly electronic, it feels like so much more. it's full of warm tones and rich visions. it's a trip in every sense of the word.

edition of 500 in gatefold jackets printed by stumptown, designed by brad rose.

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threads:
modern-psych
guitar-themed
minimalism-drones
electro-acoustic-composition
folk
modern-composition

digitalis arts & crafts editions (usa) #ace030 cd

myrmyr “the amber sea” compact disc

jurata
baltic winds
first seed
silver rooster
the sea returns
egle’s escape
dancing in captivity
the story begins

october 2009 release ; debut from the duo of marielle “darwinsbitch” jakobsons and agnes szelag, working with a veritable orchestra of bay-area players (aram shelton, ben bracken, phil greenlief, etc) ...

drone-heavy pieces laced with eastern-european folk idioms & the odd electro-acoustic and/or free-improv element ; quite nice !!!

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ace030: myrmyr "the amber sea" cd

myrmyr is the duo of agnes szelag and marielle jakobsons (aka darwinsbitch). they create electroacoustic songs on many instruments such as violin, cello, voice, bass, gezhong, piano, and accordian. when those instruments aren't enough, they invite friends to play with them and write scores for conducted improvisations. their scores are often conceptually or process-driven, resulting in their unique style of electroacoustic music, reminiscent of scandinavian free folk, lullabies, dramatic film scores, and electronic improvised music.

"the amber sea" is their debut album and is the story of amber, inspired by the mythology, baltic folklore, and geology of this magical gem. the album traces the story of how amber is created, with material from intimate lullabies and free form ballads to epic orchestral oceans.

a whole host of guest musicians populate the world of "the amber sea" playing instruments ranging from trombone, clarinets, vibraphone, flutes, harmonium, voice and more. it's an absolute collective effort.

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minimalism-drones

digitalis arts & crafts editions (usa) #ace029 cd

evan caminiti “psychic mud shrine” compact disc

frozen plains
melting temple / plumes of babylon
midnight's road
kcalb egdol

2009 release ; much like his partner-in-crime jon porras’ recent solo album (see below), barn owl’s evan caminiti here drops a southerwestern-themed quartet of extended pieces, each highlighting his evocative guitar playing & venturing out into some high-gain amplifier worship on the way ...

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ace029: evan caminiti "psychic mud shrine" cd

for my money, barn owl is the best new band to emerge in the last five years. their trajectory has been meteoric, progressing musically and conceptually in leaps and bounds. i've been thrilled to be there from the beginning, watching and listening in awe as the duo of jon porras and evan caminiti have carved out an impressive niche of their own. heavy doses of guitar savagery and tribal essence have them firmly planted at the top of the mountain. so it makes sense to deconstruct the duo and present each as a solo entity, soaring on their own.

in a perfect world, evan caminiti would be a guitar god worshipped by hordes of spike-wearing metalheads. seriously. caminiti's newest solo offering (and first large-scale release) is a big, smoldering mass of guitar sacrifices. we're deep down in the hollows now. "psychic mud shrine" is epic in every way. thick, massive walls of lava-flow guitars bow down at an altar of excess. caminiti creates jagged drones like no other. distorted guitars sound simultaneously tortured and energized like it's unsure if this hell on earth brings pleasure or pain. it's just so fucking massive. with titles like "melting temple/plumes of babylon," you know what direction this is heading and it's a train you don't want to miss.

"psychic mud shrine" is a powerful statement from an artist coming into his own. over the course of four sprawling masterpieces, you'll be entranced and exalted. this album rings out from the deep valleys carved straight to the fucking core.

edition of 500 in gatefold jackets with all art designed by caminiti.

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threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
modern-composition

digitalis arts & crafts editions (usa) #ace026 cd

black to comm “charlemagne & pippin” compact disc

charlemagne & pippin

2009 release ; believe this is the debut domestic arrival of marc richter’s black to comm project (after a handful of sides for his own dekorder) aided here by aosuke & datashock’s ulf schütte & renate nikolaus ...

the first thing i heard of when i read the title was charlie “palestine” martin’s work, and it’s hard not to hear the similarity between the rising knives-in-the-keys organ swell and such albums as “schlongo!!!daluvdrone” ... yet rather than just a straight static wave of pipe-harmonics, there’s much in the way of electronic interference, bobbing & weaving around the tonal plexus ala recent astral social club output ...

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ace026: black to comm "charlemagne & pippin" cd

marc richter's new black to comm offering "charlemagne & pippin" churns out a slowly, methodically building single-tone battleship, that somehow manages to become more powerful, hopeful, and grandiose as it oscillates. richter's characteristic organ noise is rounded off beautifully with various electronics, bells, metal percussion, toys, water, and violins, provided by band members renate nikolaus and ulf schütte, which grow around the central note yet slowly move to the center themselves. the bursting electronics, white noise, and buzzes become more frequent and attempt to overpower the mighty organ.

together, these three musicians bring about a musical pairing that suits the title. a pairing of power and play, father and son, age and youth. its probably best to turn the lights off and the speakers up for this meditative 35 minute slab of drone excellence.

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threads:
analogue-synth
minimalism-drones
modern-composition
machine-music

digitalis arts & crafts editions (usa) #ace024 cd

pulse emitter “oppressive nature” compact disc

untitled (1)
untitled (2)
untitled (3)
untitled (4)
untitled (5)

august 2009 release ; five untitled pieces from daryl groetsch, oddly, his debut “proper” cd after (no joke) 40+ cdr releases & a dozen-odd tapes, all over the past 7 years ...

dude has the “automatic synth” spec down ; even when the going gets rough (there’s a fair bit of daryl’s now-trademark “synth noise” throughout) there’s always a modicum of development somewhere in the mix, making this music so much more than just a straight “patch it and go” affair ...

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ace024: pulse emitter "oppressive nature" cd

i've been a fan of daryl groetsch aka pulse emitter's synthetic concoctions for years now. hailing from the hotbed of portland, oregon, his work is almost unparalleled when it comes to modular synthesizer excursions. "oppressive nature" is a 40 minute journey into cities that will soon be lost and overrun to the wilderness. the thematic idea behind the album is nature's inevitable reclamation of the concrete jungles we've constructed and amassed.

where groetsch truly succeeds on "oppressive nature" is creating such an organic landscape with his synth. his work here is highly focused and dialed-in. through the static and electronic waves something warm and almost triumphant emerges. heavy saw waves weave a chaotic mass of urban debris, smoothed over by the sine waves of time. barriers fade away as they consumed by sonic vines that find their way into all these aural cracks. the result is oddly beautiful in an almost post-apocalyptic way.

nature always wins.

limited edition of 500 copies in chipboard gatefolds by stumptown.

$13.44

new to stock as of
march 5th, 2010

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
circuit-bending
electro-acoustic-improvisation

digitalis arts & crafts editions (usa) #ace023 cd

acre “sacrifice” compact disc

badlands
jaguarmirror
live take
centennial
citadel

march 2010 release ; five pieces of mystery-box (i’m reading “no synths, no looping, no laptop, no guitar” but i’m certainly hearing synthesis ; regardless of whether or not it was derived from guitar pedals, feedback, or oscillators - it’s synthesis all the same) grinding from aaron “acre” davis, developing far beyond the stasis of 2009’s (well-received around these parts) “isolationist” set into more rhythmic & harmonically active zones ...

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ace023: acre "sacrifice" cd

this album has been a long, long time coming but the wait has most certainly been worth it. aaron davis has been firing missile after missile as acre for some years now, but nothing else stands out as his defining moment quite like "sacrifice." this opus was in the pipeline for years, being etched out of silver and rising from pile of ash after pile of ash. it's absolutely monumental, totally epic in scope. each thick slab of heavy droning sibilance is a testament to davis' vision and attention to detail. it will suck you in immediately and stick to you like glue.

notably there are no synthesizers or guitars anywhere on "sacrifice." when you hear the density of sound and variety in the sonic textures blowing out your speakers, that seems utterly impossible. yet, here we are. as the opening blasts of "badlands" echo through your skull at 100 mph, the horizon seems lost in a thick, white haze. everything else stops and shuts down. subtle shifts in trajectory are barely noticeable at first, but by the end of the journey you've landed on a completely different plane. surface to air, infinite flight; all achieved just over 14 minutes. it's not all a blown-out, straight-to-the-skull masterpiece. "live take" feels positively smooth and silky in comparison. reverberating tones drenched in pure light bleed nothing but efferevesence and life. everything feels exactly in the spot it should be, there's no detritus or collateral damage to speak of. davis runs a tight ship, only letting things bolt for the door and scream over the edge when its absolutely necessary.

in the end, the biggest thing about "sacrifice" is just how massive it feels. from the beginning, its string of endless symphonic hypnosis. there are lingering connections to david tudor and norman mclaren fighting their way to the surface throughout. acre's compositions are as precise as ever here, each note and each path carefully chosen and dropped into place. no synths. no guitars. no laptops. no looping. yeah. it's time to start dropping bombs.

edition of 500 in neon-green gatefold jackets printed by stumptown.

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march 5th, 2010

first in stock on
october 12th, 2009

threads:
modern-psych
electro-acoustic-composition
electro-acoustic-improvisation
circuit-bending
machine-music
harsh-noise

digitalis arts & crafts editions (usa) #ace018 cd

social junk “born into it” compact disc

it just isn't the same
those final seconds
griff
born into it
behind a wall
someone upstairs

2009 release ; logic-defying set of cracked everyday electronics, floating folk-psych ruminations, and almost mego-lineage compu-rhythm modes from heather young and noah anthony ...

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ace018: social junk "born into it" cd

social junk have blasted through walls, east & west, over the past few years cranking out some serious sparklers along the way. now after dropping a megaslice of deliciousness on not not fun last year, this duo follow it up with a journey through the mother earth canal. "born into it" stretches across the lands with thudding percussion and hypno synth excursions. waves of swirling vocals from both heather young and noah anthony. you may have just been born, but stretch those wings baby because it's time to fucking fly.

there's no going back once you take the first plunge on "born into it." immediately, through no fault of your own, you'll be drawn in and tied down. at times it feels like young & anthony are scouring the lands, taking in whatever technological progress they can find and chewing it up and spitting it out into a gloriously dissonant pile. this is music for the next wave ; music to find your way back to the sun. social junk are soaring like never before and "born into it" is their latest testament to a new world.

limited to 500 copies.

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march 5th, 2010

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threads:
jewelled-antler
electro-acoustic-composition
modern-psych
minimalism-drones
site-specific
field-recordings

digitalis arts & crafts editions (usa) #ace017 cd

of “rocks will open” compact disc

rocks will open
trail of hornfel
coal seams
the paper raft
violets in the mountain have broken the rocks
oolithic feelings
longings on grey leaves
agate cups

2008 release ; loren chasse here supplying with an as-always impeccable array of site-specific recordings, virtuoso exotic-instrument performance(s) and a tape-music-lineage assembly that ties everything together ...

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ace017: of "rocks will open" cd

loren chasse is responsible for a whole host of vital albums. he was a founding member of the jewelled antler label and has sparked so many great moments from the likes of thuja, the blithe sons, softwar, and of course his main solo guise, of. for years this project has evolved into something of absolute magical grandeur.

"rocks will open" is the latest opus in chasse's catalog. the music on this album is as organic as it gets. each tone, each sound feels like it has been culled directly from the earth's crust. gentle drones arc toward the hazy sunlight, flickering like distant birds sailing out over the sea. between the ghostly echoes rises a cacacphony of plucked strings dancing toward oblivion. loren chasse's vision is perfectly expressed on "rocks will open."

limited to 500 copies.

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threads:
digital-musics
electro-acoustic-improvisation
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
modern-composition

digitalis arts & crafts editions (usa) #ace016 cd

darwinsbitch “ore” compact disc

iron lake
catalysis
induction cuts
silver sphere
flames in blackened sky
raven's dissipation
shadow leaves

2009 release ; debut release from the violin / oscillator / computer project of bay-area composer / performer marielle jakobsons ... loved her set at the “on land” fest last month & this disc does a fine job of transforming the mms offices into the overcast gothic cathedral in which it was played ...

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ace016: darwinsbitch "ore" cd

darwinsbitch is fluid forms of drones, doomy laments, and folk melodies fleshed out from a backbone of sine oscillators and violin. as the sky opens up and pellets of ice begin to fall, there is warmth trickling through the cracks in the walls. darwinsbitch finally makes her incredible debut a reality. "ore" is a slow-moving masterpiece, the kind of album that takes a few listens to truly crack, but once you find yourself swimming inside it's molten core, you never, ever want to leave. behind these droning squalls is the lone figure of marielle jakobsons. armed with her tiny army of sonic weapons, she concocts a lavaflow of melodies only to then bury them underneath a flowing river of muck. they creep out, though, and sink their teeth in when you least expect it.

"ore" is a silent killer. layered in textures and sound, jakobsons knows how to weave an immaculate sonic tapestry that is stunning and profound. laced with an austere sensibility, her music is a lesson in organic experimentation. she laces these austere drones with an all-too-often unheard delicacy and richness. in the end, it's simply beautiful music.

jakobsons also plays in the duo myrmyr (with agnes szelag) and date palms (with her partner-in-crime, gregg kowalsky).

limited to 500 copies in 3-color metallic arigatos.

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march 5th, 2010

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threads:
guitar-themed
modern-psych
minimalism-drones
lo-fi

digitalis arts & crafts editions (usa) #ace015 cd

taiga remains “wax canopy” compact disc

truth and moonlight
returning breath
hoverer
unhinged
opaque
leaf green bodies
skyward

2009 release ; a series of six modal gain-clouds from alex cobb, each rooted in a different tonality / pitch-set, each rising into near harsh-noise levels before subsiding into a flurry of reverb-trails ... akin to a “bedroom guitar” take on brendan murray’s recent modus ; quite nice !!!

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ace015: taiga remains "wax canopy" cd

taiga remains is the brainchild of cincinnati's alex cobb. over the past few years he has developed a signature sound that blurs the line between blissed-out guitar work and atonal, blown-out dirges. cobb never sits still; taiga remains is always moving forward, searching out new ideas and sounds. his label, students of decay, is clearing house for all things drone. this year he's been spotted on root strata, callow god, arbor and more. in the world of vinification, it's been a damn good year.

on "wax canopy," cobb pushes the line he's scratched in the pavement further than before. his soothing, six-string sorcery still dot the horizon on this album, but there's also a more angular, blown-out monster at work here. it's like he's channeling the angry spirits of the world into a fuzzed elegiac strains. this is powerful music built to shake the foundation and rattle your crystal bones. these diamonds are forever.

limited to 500 copies. cover art by jefre cantu-ledesma.

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modern-psych
modern-composition
minimalism-drones
guitar-themed

digitalis arts & crafts editions (usa) #ace010 cd

scott tuma “not for nobody” compact disc

nobody (river of tin)
fishen
eloper
tiktaalik
newjoy
cimbal
jason
loversrock1 (w/ jason ajemian)
moccasoclea
rakes
heeler
reprieved

2008 release ; second solo outing from good stuff house & souled american’s scott tuma ...

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ace010: scott tuma "not for nobody" cd

to me, scott tuma is a bit of a legend. from his days with the seminal souled american to performing with boxhead ensemble his two incredible solo records, "hard again" and "the river 1 2 3 4," there are few musicians with such a quality discography. i kept waiting for him to drop another solo record, but it never came. so when i learned that he'd been working with members of zelienople under the moniker good stuff house, i jumped at the chance to make contact. a few emails were exchanged, and 18 months later after the birth of tuma's second child, "not for nobody" was finally ready.

it's been nearly five years, but the wait has definitely been worth it. "not for nobody" hits you hard, straight in the throat. these mostly-acoustic compositions, recorded with guitar, banjo, harmonium, and percussion among other instruments, are steeped in an elegance that few artists can master. "not for nobody" marks the triumphant return of a musician sorely missed. it is dripping with beauty and melancholy and hope for something better. this is an album for the ages.

housed in silkscreened gatefold jackets.

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