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there are 5 titles on harbinger sound in stock.
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threads:
harsh-noise
circuit-bending

tochnit aleph (germany) #ta 047 cd
harbinger sound (uk) #harb 033 cd

evil moisture / hanatarashfatanarchy on airtube” compact disc

  • atomichy in the lsd (0:37)
  • sleepwalking guaide book at ohio (0:32)
  • antatack for sexpeople (0:13)
  • punk yappie cutting tree (0:06)
  • fuckzotika (0:16)
  • ongaloo trackin' (0:20)
  • musica club (0:12)
  • green egg and yellow ham (0:17)
  • subatomic party (0:26)
  • ufoff (0:04)
  • eat 'em used gum (0:04)
  • bonus beats by dj 100% off (0:18)
  • bar time with eno (0:28)
  • fingertip believer (1:17)
  • ever mind the overdosing (0:33)
  • plactice youth (0:13)
  • fatanarchy on airtube (0:47)
  • espmo (0:42)
  • bank punks / noise bank (0:27)
  • dj save ear 50% off (0:12)
  • my superzone (0:29)
  • sonic bonus (0:39)
  • bunch of flash food (0:51)
  • be airport (0:32)
  • box rok (0:26)
  • alphabetical ray (1:26)
  • ultra choice (4:33)
  • jawwalkin' (3:47)
  • eye of the hanatarash (2:52)
  • banky atmosphere (1:18)
  • untitled (1:17)
  • untitled (1:26)
  • untitled (1:57)
  • untitled (1:34)
  • untitled (3:06)
tochnit aleph press release...
evil moisture & hanatarash - fatanarchy on airtube cd

 the long-awaited collaboration-record by yamatsuka eye & andy bolus finally available. proudly co-released with nottingham's harbinger sound. performed, mixed & designed between 1994 and 2004. this is as weird & confusing as it can get ...

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back in stock as of
september 15th, 2009

first in stock on
june 22nd, 2007


threads:
harsh-noise
digital-musics

harbinger sound (uk) #harb 055 cd

pain jerk / john wieseterrazo” compact disc

  • triangle sky (15:03)
  • japan (8:10)
  • palms (8:44)
  • absolute hell (11:21)
harbinger sound press release...
collaboration between the golden boy of los angeles & the tokyo noise legend.
jewel case. 1000 copies.

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threads:
lafms
free-improvisation
psych-prog
1980s-electronic
plunder-phonic
playback-music

harbinger sound (uk) #harb 051 cd

smegmanattering naybobs of negativity” compact disc

  • pile (5:04)
  • happy birthday rhumba (2:09)
  • spring flowers (1:40)
  • freakish high (3:39)
  • turn me loose (0:50)
  • limp dynamics (4:29)
  • thru the watery evening (3:30)
  • innermost cravings (2:21)
  • porky section (3:56)
  • en vout (1:46)
  • mouthful of rubber (7:29)

  • semi-incongruous morass (5:04)
  • project 22 (1:33)
  • grammer (3:35)
  • hairlip diary (1:51)
  • jungle ride (1:44)
  • now it's dark (3:48)
  • tiny everlyn (1:41)
  • sanctum (2:22)
  • imp-namics (4:33)
  • nail scarred hand (2:08)
2007 release ; new version of this late-80s set from smegma, covering both the titular lp (orig. dead man’s curve, 1987) and the “studio” side of the “morass” tape (orig. soleilmoon, 1988) ...

classicsemi-incongruous morass” ; wolf eyes et.al simply would not exist w/o ...
harbinger sound press release...
every home should have a smegma album. yes, don't you delay, y'here, this is more important than the coolest refrigerator, the best named beer, and your favorite corn chips. smegma, are from oregon, they're different, and they'll always be a talking point among your friends and relatives. this is their first european album release ... previously their fine product has turned up on their own us label - and they've shared half a seven inch on mute with non.

so don't delay! rush to the counter. buy this record, you know it makes sense...

the second in the series of harbinger sounds efforts to present the smegma back catalog.

this album originally came out in the uk only back in 1987 and is backed by the studio side from the 1988 cassette release, morass.

twenty-one tracks in total. dedicated to tom (pig champion) roberts. limited to #1000 copies.

cd features an eight-page booklet with photos and a pre-1988 smegma discography.

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first in stock on
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threads:
lafms
free-improvisation

harbinger sound (uk) #harb 047 cd

airwaylive at lace” compact disc

  • untitled (20:32)
  • untitled (20:30)
reissue of the 1978 “live at lace” lp by airway; then consisting of joe potts, chip chapman, rick potts, dennis duck, juan gomez, and tom recchion.
harbinger sound press release...
here are
commandments of airway


*
airway is a pathway.
airway is a throat that air passes between our mouth and lung.
keeping airway to open is an essential way for recovering humans under unconscious.
airway is a way to conscious.


airway is
a brainchild of joe potts.


here are commandments of airway
(constructed as a modification of joe potts commandment of sound; see below).


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airway is a hole through which our conscious passes.


sound of airway is not an object.


sound of airway has no fixed location.


sound of airway has no fixed location.


sound of airway has no fixed meaning.


sound of airway has no dimensions.


meaning and dimensions of airway sound constantly change
in relation to the universe inside and outside listeners.


sound of airway has no fixed time.


the flow of time in airway sound is psychological not physical.


sound of airway is a representation of the whole of sound
existing inside and outside us.


because all sound of airway is interrelated,
there is no such thing as innovative sound at airway performance.


sound of airway is an unfolded manifestation of hidden (enfolded) universe,
consisting of all sound which will ever exist and has ever consisted inside and outside us.


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i met joe potts for the first time in summer of 1979 at pasadena, california.
he gave me an lp record entitled airway live at lace, then.


airway was a noise orchestra.
members varied at performance by performance.
joe potts, chip chapman, vetza mcgill, tom recchion, juan gomez
and joes younger brother rick were involved in a performance recorded in the lp.


vetza was a singer.
she has collaborated with joe in a 7-inch vinyl records entitled airway.
it included two tracks consisting of loop sound generated from vetzas voice
and excerpts from patti smith groups ask the angeles on radio ethiopia album.


the music was so hypnotic.
the vinyl was accepted in japan.
because it was sold at joes first exhibition held in tokyo in 1977.


joe extended the idea in airway 7-inch to a noise orchestra airway.
they performed in summer of 1978 at los angeles contemporary exhibitions (lace).
lace was located at downtown la on broadway at the moment
and moved to hollywood later.
they sang and played mandolin, bass, saxophone and drums.
sounds generated from them were once gathered in an electric circuit that chip built.


chip worked as a technician to build super computer at cal tech.
the circuit worked as a test tube for alchemical reaction.
sounds were mixed and acted and reacted each other
prior projection to air through gigantic amplification.
joe was a conductor for the alchemy.


sound of airway was absolutely gigantic.
walls of a room where airway performed tended to vibrate during their show.
the room worked as speaker.
listeners have consequently chosen their listening point not inside
but outside the room.


why did airway use such a high volume of sound?
joe described two concepts of airway.
first, airway was an embodiment of his human synthesizer concept.
sounds came from living orgasm(human).
way of electrical mixing of sounds was based on joes view
for interrelation between sounds from different source.
sounds were conducted to create common conscious from different conscious.


second concept was that airway was a way of sonic fascism.
joe wanted to hypnotize listeners.
the hypnosis was a physiological step for conducting listeners to a common conscious.
common conscious should exist beyond individual conscious.
then conscious can be equivalent to sound.


resulted sounds from these concepts were of course noisy.
and they were simultaneously rather romantic.
introductory parts of the recording reminded me of vibratory sound
generated by terry riley
around which smoke arising from some hallucinogenic plants was floating.


it was so nice introduction of alchemic chain reaction connecting sound and conscious.
the way in airway for construction of sound is rather usual at present.
numerous musicians use sampling and live-remix technology.
but resulted sounds through the human synthesizer locate
at still unique position in sound world.


joe addressed a question what is sound?
the straightforward question works even at 28 years after the performance.


answer to the question should be born through alchemic reaction
in your central nervous system.
do react and enjoy.




appendix a: dual live at lace.
**********************************************


live at lace has been once reissued in a cd form.
cortical foundation and rrrecords collaborated to release
a retrospective 10 (or 11) cd box of lafms (los angeles free music society) in 1995.
whole live at lace was included in the disc 2 of the box the lowest form of music.
it should be noted that sound of the album has been re-mastered and exhibited pretty different feeling of sound.


on the other hand, original tape for the lp was used for reissue on harbinger sounds.
it resulted in launch of two kinds of live at lace.


artworks of cd differ between the cortical/rrr edition and harbinger edition.
images on cover of the lp for japanese export are used in harbinger edition.
main market for live at lace was japan in late 1970s and early 80s.
so use of japanese-export edition is appropriate to express position of the album.
let me add that i was happy to be involved in distribution of lafms records at the period.


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appendix b: joes commandments for sounds.
**********************************************


"sound is a hole in sound it is not."
-with apologies to carl andre



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sound sentences


sound is not an object.


sound has no fixed location.


sound has no fixed meaning.


sound has no fixed dimensions.


sound's meaning and dimensions constantly change in relation to the universe.


sound has no fixed time.


the "flow of time" in sound is psychological not physical.


sound is a representation of the "whole" of sound.


because all sound is interrelated,
there is no such thing as innovative sound.


sound is an unfolded manifestation of a hidden (enfolded) universe, consisting of all sound which will ever exist.



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harbinger sound (uk) #harb 009 lp

putrefiersimulated vapours” long playing record

  • biotapestry under file (23:46)
  • lummox hydrolicks (21:32)
1999 lp from mark mark durgan; remarkably still available. slightly more full-on caterwaul than the space-infused later work, but still pretty damn impressive...

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...and that's everything on harbinger sound in stock.
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