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 best of 2011 !!! 
kye (usa) #kye 704 ep

vincent over the sinkdust studies” seven inch single record

  • dust sale (2:50)
  • book dust (2:10)

  • branded dust (2:40)
  • outside dust (2:11)
january 2011 release ; posthumous release from this obscure, sydney-based duo, whose extremely minimal, synthetic channelings do share a bit, conceptually, with label-mates call back the giants ... but this is far more removed from any kind of social structure / constraint, leaving only traces of an aesthetic framework to be picked up on (there’s a “leitmotif” that shows up on 3 of the 4 pieces here that recalls a foghorn ... the unintelligibly pitch-altered vocalizations & “dust” theme point at the afterlife) ...

a perfectly confounding single & one of the more singular & baffling entries in the mms catalogue as of recent ; one that has found a very good home on graham lambkin’s kye ; highly recommended !!!
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vincent over the sink 'dust studies' 7" ep (kye 704)

memorial release from the sydney-based duo of matthauw hopkins and christopher schueler (rip). over a handful of lathes / cdrs and the mind-boggling 22 coloured bull-terriers cassette vincent over the sink managed to cloud the backwaters of australian culture with a haze of rustic electronics, late-night guitar habitats and broken song.

this is music made by and for those who find themselves "thinking about music but then digging a hole." dust studies offers up four distressed miniatures that put the fortunate listener somewhere between ladder of souls and golem. the perfect place to pay a final respect.

dust studies comes in a hand-numbered edition of 300 copies with cover art by graham lambkin.

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kye (usa) #kye 14 lp

fossils / darksmithmillion year spree” long playing record

  • fossils - wider knowledge of man i-iii
  • fossils - snared on broadway

  • darksmith - anything that makes a man happy
  • darksmith - operating chair & voice / out with the evening trash
september 2011 release ; ... a split release, offering a pair of pairs of lichen-coated, rusted-out electronics from fossils (a crossing of the high level bridge as recorded through the hole below the floormat of a 1986 datsun 300zx - oscillator goes up - car falls of bridge - slowly - goes underwater - drowns - extremely slowly - ... - ring-modulated tape loops as proof whole incident was in fact a fever-dream) & “tomdarksmith (hell freezes over - water set to boil - generators are started - thawing begins - apparitions are released - assorted biblical shamanry - mental wall of hysteresis converted from ethereal to actual by sublimation - break for lunch - cleanup - 6rpm dance party / digestion aid ... listen to the sound-sample for the last 4 of those things) ...

comes in a striking negative-space addled sleeve ; best work i’ve heard from either party yet ...
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million year spree lp (kye 14)

million year spree is the first in an occasional series of shared lps where two like-minded souls meet under one umbrella. hamilton, ontario's fossils have long been the reigning kings of no-fi acoustic sewage, producing an endless stream of outstandingly dire handcut confusion. calfornia's darksmith came to public attention last year via their peerless total vacuum lp (hanson). wilting electronics, floppy turntableism and sun-baked cassette protocol are combined and destroyed in a claustrophobic void. with additional mixing by graham lambkin and mastering by jason lescalleet million year spree is the last word on being and nothingness.

hand-numbered edition of 400.

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kye (usa) #kye 12 lp

call back the giantsthe rising” long playing record

  • passage of arms
  • lay in line
  • the rising
  • the lizard
  • stranger worlds

  • jungle hilton
  • whirl wing
  • the pharroh man
  • just rises
  • passage of arms
last copies of this july 2011 release ; ... i’ll admit to being quite taken with ex-shadow ringkeyboard governortim goss & muse chloe mutter’s previous full-length outing (also via graham lambkin’s kye ; now o/p) ...

this, their second, seems to up the ante w/r/t production values ; maybe slightly removing some of the mystery-grit, but the clearer hues revealed are no less stultifying, taking in re-purposed psalmody, some rather chrome-esque nasal guitar shred, ... and yes, quite a bit of queasy self-deprecation via synth & simple backwards-masking procedures (listen to the sound-sample) ...
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call back the giants 'the rising' lp (kye 12)

call back the giants first surprised and delighted the listening world in 2010, with their warmly-recieved eponymous debut album. since that time, the duo of tim goss and chloe mutter have been locked in perfect isolation, teasing every nuance of their sound into sharp focus.

the rising presents the results of their toil, exposing call back the giants as true masters of cryptic intent. homespun keyboard minimalism, wavering teenage laments, and foreboding pronouncements of doom, synthesize into new, original matrices of thought. the rising also introduces the guitar heroics of some-time third member, big rob stewart, who lays down the law in crude basement style. the rising is a masterpiece of ambition, that meets the expectations of its audience head on.

the rising arrives in a full-color, high gloss sleeve, with photography by krysztoff dorion.

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kye (usa) #kye 11 lp

helmcryptography” long playing record

  • cryptography i
  • cryptography ii

  • cryptography iii
  • cryptography iv
  • cryptography v
june 2011 release ; stellar second solo jaunt from luke younger, whose tone filth tape & alter / peasant magik debut lp were both warmly received here @ mms due to their clangorous whippoorwill lacings & general acid-soaked deity-channelings ...

that his second is appearing c/o graham lambkin’s kye speaks to both’s respective aesthetic grid-work ; the lye-soaked, organum-ian goo that permeated “to an end” is here in droves, as are the kind(s) of in-situ confusion(s) that make records like steve beresford’s “bath of surprisework ... that well-done a/b between flowing, multi-octave laminae & more mysterious collusion(s) that transcend the need to know the how & why of this music’s containment, letting us listeners focus on the extraordinary beauty of the thing ...
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helm cryptography lp (kye 11) 2011

helm is the ambiguous solo moniker of london-based sound architect luke younger. although, perhaps best known as one half of the pioneering avant-drone outfit birds of delay, it is in the more esoteric work of helm that luke's art takes on its most radical shape. 2010's debut lp to an end confirmed that in an age of fleeting trends and fly-by-night fancies, there were still a few old souls prepared to knuckle down and deliver the goods that people want to receive

cryptography carries forward that noble mindset, presenting a new five-part suite of expertly rendered electro-acoustic study. using processed piano, casio mt-40, cymbal and guitar strings cryptography steers the helm sound through a melange of fringe territories: glacial drone meditations, reconfigured gamelan clusters, and howling walls of organized feedback, all coalesced in classic uk post-industrial fashion. indeed, had it been conceived of 30 years prior, it would be easy to imagine cryptography winning a seat in the united dairies, or dom america catalog, such is its commitment to homemade exploratory zeal.

cryptography was recorded at highams park, london 2009, with additional recording at no recording studios, london. co-mixed, edited and mastered by john hannon at no recording, 2010. cryptography arrives in a full color sleeve, with insert, in a hand-numbered edition of 400 copies.

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kye (usa) #kye 09 lp

elklinkthe rise of elklink” long playing record

  • tension tec
  • pam, linda & minor members
  • the spoons

  • utension tex
  • paul, ron & minor members
  • the spoons
  • you
february 2011 release ; ... and the hits keep coming ; here, a proper issue of this swept-under-rug 1998 session by shadow ring / harry pussy spin-off elklink, initially prepped by polyamory back in 1999 & issued on cassette to an audience of some (along with a piece from an hhh comp the same year) ...

... those expecting either the witty repartee of sh or the feral bombast of hp will be perhaps elated to find neither here ; instead a continuous, tape-hiss addled melée largely sourced to lambkin & hoyosglottal goings-on, recorded mere nanometers from the trusty shure sm-58’s transducer-element, whisper-quiet, then amplified to era fidelity standards ... think “revue ou”, garnished perhaps with young love & a catch-all absorption of late 90’sunderground” tropes ; the end-result is one of resplendence, albeit presented in an at-times stomach-turning level of liquid detail ...

comes in a nice lavender sleeve detailed with a mug of a mustachio’ed graham ; insert reprints written evidence of perhaps the title’s lone excited quaff during its original lifespan ... shadow ring & harry pussy droogs have most likely already begun festooning their lairs with mink-skins in celebration of this ... “music” ... ‘s continued tangible existence, but even for the rest (esp. for the “historicsound-poetry boffins in need of late 20th century witness) this is a fairly devastaing & rather personal window into which we’ve been granted a peek ...
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elklink 'the rise of elklink' lp (kye 09) 2011

the rise of elklink originally appeared as a cassette on the storied polyamory label in 1999. behind the ambiguous moniker lurked core shadow ring member graham lambkin, aided by adris hoyos with a cameo from fellow shadow ring bandmate tim goss. although the rise of elklink was produced in tandum with the shadow ring's lindus lp, the two projects were different in intent. song form and narration are replaced by walls of quiet, crumbling vocal concrete, meaningless stoned monologues and adjacent audio seepage, captured to 4-track in the backroom of a small cuban crèche in miami fl.

this lp reissue restores all six tracks from the original cassette, and adds the elklink contribution to the colour in absence sound cd comp from the same year. lovingly remastered by jason lescalleet at glistening labs, the rise of elklink arrives in a sleeve design based on the original j-card with a deluxe insert reproducing brad sonder's classic period review, in a hand-numbered edition of 500 copies.

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 best of 2010 !!! 
kye (usa) #kye 06 cd

moniek dargecrete soundies” compact disc

  • magnesia (20:03) 2006
  • anemos (19:58) 2007
  • east crete (20:00) 2008-2009
april 2010 release ; second title in this (hopefully un-ending) series covering the work of belgian sound-artist / composer moniek darge ...

crete soundies” consists of three musique concrète pieces, constructed from materials gathered in the titular locale, constructed with a remarkable sense of musical logic while preserving the natural flow of recorded events ; i’m reminded a little bit of luc ferrari’s 70’spresque rien” work, but also such site-specific / cavernous works at françois bayle’s “jeïta” & some of annea lockwood’s recent “sound map” pieces ... yet retaining darge’s uniquely-hewn style (there’s a fine coat of tape-hiss & lo-fi gloss permeating the events throughout ; lends something of a “historical” lens to the proceedings) ...

comes in a glossy, highly-detailed digipack with liners and tons of crisp photos linking sounds to place ; highly recommended !!!
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kye is pleased to announce the release of crete soundies, the major new work by moniek darge, and the follow-up to last years soundies (1980-2001) cd. crete soundies presents three new pieces - magnesia (2006), anemos (2007) and east crete (2008-2009). these works were born from two years of levka ori sound research, and an additional year in east crete in collaboration with fellow sound artist francoise vanhecke.

moniek darge was born in bruges, 1952 and studied music theory and violin at the music conservatory of bruges, painting at the ghent royal academy of fine arts; art history, philosophy and anthropology at the university of ghent, belgium. she is active as composer, violinist, performer and audio artist and has built light and soundsculptures, installations, musical instruments and for many years has been constructing a series of alternative music boxes, with which she also performs. darge has specialised in both soundscapes and live-art performances in which visual and musical aspects are combined and in interactional improvisation on violin. since 1970 she has performed around the world and has been active on stage, first with the logos ensemble, then with logos duo (together with godfired-willem raes), and more recently with the m&m robot ensemble. she also founded logos women, a small group specialised in intermedia improvisations performing their own compositions for various instruments, voices and music boxes.

she's often invited by international artists to collaboration. in 1986 the third program of the national belgian radio broadcasted a series of programs about her concerts and performances in new york city and about some artists with whom she collaborated there. a similar program was made about her music experiences in kenya and rwanda. and later on also about japan, china, bresil, australia, new zealand etc. she herself also realised radio programs about women artists over the world. in 1997 she received the title of cultural embassador of flanders for the logos duo. moniek darge published several journalistic and literary essays, amongst which "inter media myths, auto-author" (1986), an art edition, combining poetry, drawings, scores and pictures (toronto, art metropole-catalogue no.12) and the book "lijf tegen lijf" (body against body, kritak, leuven, 1982). she's general editor of the 'logos-blad', the monthly magazine of the logos foundation, which appears already during more than 30 years and in which she also tells her international music travel experiences. many international magazines published her articles. besides her many concerts and performances all over the world and besides her activities as organiser, moniek darge is assistant professor at the "hogeschool gent" where she teaches 20th century art history, audio art and non western art studies at the fine arts department and an introductionary course in ethnomusicology at the music department.

crete soundies comes housed in 6-panel digipak, in an edition of 500, and is released with the support of the flemish government.

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moniek dargesoundies • selected work 1980-2001” compact disc

  • sand (22:34) 1980
  • stormfugle (7:19) 1981
  • fairy tale (6:46) 1983
  • harpje (0:32) 1995
  • caete (6:11) 1997
  • verbondenheid (11:48) 1999
  • turning wheel (8:53) 2001
october 2009 release ; wonderful collection of mid-period sound-art pieces from the logos foundation’s moniek darge (often mentioned alongside her partner-in-crime godfried willem-raes) - the first new issue of her work since the 1995 experimental intermedia (xi records)logos works” disc ...

... starting with the electronic drone & punctual, pointillist percussion of 1981’ssand(erupting into a terrifying fury of howls & screams just when you get in the “zone”) & continuing on through “stormfugle’s” low-end hiss & errant electronics, “fairy tale’s” vocal pips & scratchy violin ... even the relatively contemporaryturning wheel’s” in-transit interplay (which sounds remarkably like something komissar & mama would do, btw) it becomes clearer & clearer that ms. darge has been on the true path lo these past 30+ years, wading not in the traditional sound-art or electro-acoustic compositional waters, but inhabiting some nether-region grounded in happenings, self-built / experimental instrument culture, and site-specific performance scenarios that are squarely hers & hers alone ...

excellent, essential work & telling as the first non-graham lambkin / shadow ring-related release on graham’s young kye imprint (who promises a series of releases by moniek in the near-future ; joy !!!) ; highly recommended !!!
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moniek darge soundies (selected work 1980-2001) (kye 05)

moniek darge has been active as a composer, violinist, performer and audio artist since the early 70s. she is most widely recognized as one half of the pioneering new music group logos duo alongside her partner godfried-willem raes. the logos duo, which operates under the umbrella of the logos foundation, have been celebrated both at home in their native gent, belgium and on the international stage. they have performed their work in countries as diverse as brazil, new zealand, japan and the us. however, moniek's solo work has been harder to locate, the last published collection being sounds of sacred places (igloo records, 1987).

soundies is the first in a series of releases from kye that aims to bring moniek's solo material before a wider audience. soundies contains the following work: sand (1980) - for two percussionists with tape (electronics) and one participant from the audience / stormfugle (1981) - for two performers, voice, tape (electronics and voice), slides, film, clarinet and violin / fairy tale (1983) - for vocals, violin and tape (koala sounds and dog-growling) / harpje (1995) - for harp samples and performance / caete (1997) - for soundscapes, live musical objects and duo / verbondenheid (1999) - for voices, turkish turtle and live musicians / turning wheel (2001) - for voice, live violin and soundscape.

comes in an attractive 4-panel digipak graced with original art by moniek.

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graham lambkinsoftly softly copy copy” compact disc

  • 20:40 (1) (20:40)
  • 20:40 (2) (20:40)
november 2009 release ; blistering 2-part tape-music / musique concrète composition from graham lambkin, hot on the heels of his (already o/p)salmon run” and “the breadwinner” set(s) ...

utilizing a banner of field recordings, samara lubelski’s violin, and austin argentieri’s guitar playing, lambkin’s adept construct(s) take in the “classic-eraconcrète signifiers (the four elements ; man vs. nature, etc ...), going “off the railsfrequently & delving often into some of walter marchetti’s “home-made electric music” tactics (soft recordings of loudly occuring events ; occasionally the opposite) to yield something that is at once informed by the lineage of electro-acoustic composition yet playfully irreverent in terms of the “properform / flow patterns that have emerged over the past 60-odd years ...

excellent work ; my cursory listens thusfar (in the office, loud, at night, enebriated) have me rating it even higher than the bar-settingsalmon run” ; highly recommended !!!
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graham lambkin 'softly softly copy copy' (kye 04)

 softly softly copy copy is the brand new cd by graham lambkin, following on from 2007's salmon run (kye) and 2008's collaboration with jason lescalleet the breadwinner (erstwhile). softly softly copy copy is a two-part tape compostion - a shoreline odyssey where man and beast wrestle for absolute rule. recorded and mixed in upstate new york over a two year period, and aided by the talents of samara lubelski - violin, and austin argentieri - acoustic guitar.

mastered by jason lescalleet at glistening labs. comes housed in an elegant 4 panel digipak.

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