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previous record label: seacave		there are 2 titles on seal pool in stock. they are listed below.		next record label: second layer

$13.01

back in stock as of
june 16th, 2007

first in stock on
june 8th, 2005

file under:
contemporary-electronic
kunst-ton
site-specific
sound-research
art-punk

seal pool (japan) #spool 02 cd

philip sanderson “seal pool sounds” compact disc

oil on troubled daughters
feeding time
big glass
umwell
flume
sea swell
seal pool sounds
pilot light
march of the bugs
radium lab
nude nights
left them down
lude

the return of philip sanderson... i’m an unabashed mega-fan of the storm bugs as well as philip’s various projects over the years (remember the claire thomas & susan vesey track on the cherry red comp “perspectives and distortions?” i do...) so it’s great to listen to this mish-mash of different approaches to electronic music, all constructed with various synthesizers (software, hardware, and otherwise...) over the last few years.

the blurb below is fairly spot on... there’s a bit of raymond scott’s “soothing sounds for babies” sound-world, inasfar as there are child-like melodies mixed with more abstract sounds & processing... on top of that there’s a bit of a-grade electro-acoustic collagery, all kinds of crazy location recordings of animals (echoing basil kirchin’s zonked “worlds within worlds” series)... all dripping with a certain nod towards surrealism & the woozy diy home-recorded aesthetic that made sanderson’s early 80s music so... unique (check the recent “reprint” disc on anomalous for a taste.)

some of the tones are occasionally off-putting (the intital 20 seconds had me checking the cd player to make sure i hadn’t put the wrong disc in!) but the unorthodox sound assembly/construction methods taken as a whole leave no doubt in my mind that the same brain that conjured up the snatch tapes universe 25 years back is still coursing, full of great ideas and the means to realize them... an excellent disc.

seal pool press release...

seal pool sounds is the first cd release of new material from snatch tapes founder, organum collaborator, and british installation artist, philip sanderson. seal pool sounds picks up where sanderson’s storm bugs project left off sometime in 1981. sanderson’s diy software electronics conjure whimsical, plaintive electronic tones and rhythms: sounds that recollect the light-hearted, yet melancholy nature of 20th century zoos.

seal pool sounds at once evokes lafms, raymond scott, marcel duchamp, and french new wave film music.

seal pool is a japan-based label whose releases are inspired by chance encounters, found objects and recurring dreams. seal pool’s first cd was jonathan coleclough and tim hill - beech for john and miho.

$16.01

back in stock as of
june 16th, 2007

first in stock on
november 28th, 2006

threads:
minimalism-drones
electro-acoustic-composition

seal pool (japan) #spool 01 cd

jonathan coleclough / tim hill “beech for john and miho” compact disc

beech for john and miho (74:32)

warehouse find of a scant few copies of this long o/p title - in fact the debut release on seal pool from back in 2003. coleclough’s name should be familiar to most readers herein from the gorgeous “sumac” lp/cd on robot/siren and the “casino” lp/cd from on idea from a few years later...

seal pool press release...

jonathan coleclough (b. 1963) is an english sound artist active since 1989. his material comes both from the immediate acoustic environment around him, and from using some of the most basic and elemental of sound-making techniques (the scrape of metal, the sigh of human breath). many of the sounds that he records are freighted with emotional resonance, or come from specific locations with personal significance. the intense but private associations of these sounds aren't intended as the subject of the work, but form an important part of his working practice- they inform his subsequent careful processing and manipulation of the material into sound works that are full of tension, often beautiful and unsettling. the rawness of his gathered sound material contrasts with the sophisticated sound-sculpting tools he uses, and he draws on that contrast to find the necessary tensions in his work. these include the tensions between consonance and dissonance, activity and stasis, the raw and the processed, noticeable and imperceptible change. the sounds of our own urban and rural environments intersect and merge with sounds generated within the closed worlds of electronic and computer equipment. he has had work published in europe, usa and japan as well as in his native england, collaborated with andrew chalk, colin potter, geoff sawers and tim hill, and has performed in england, australia and the usa.

previous record label:
seacave

...and that's everything on seal pool in stock.
(why not take a look at the previous and next labels?)

next record label:
second layer