textile trio “aaa” compact disc-recordable

• aaa (1) (7:37)
  
• aaa (2) (11:55)
  
• aaa (3) (20:15)

songs from under the floorboards press release...

aaa textile trio this one’s a scorcher! alexandre bellenger and arnaud rivière (of french free-noise brutes bobby moo) joyously tear up turntables and jam chunks of metal junk into mixing desks, while trumpeter/percusser aaron moore (of volcano the bear) propels the raw electronic din with a backbone of hyperactive clatter. aaa, the group’s second album (the first, for the boss, was published by beta-lactam ring in 2009) catches the group in a particularly feral mood. far from the polite group-improv snooze perpetrated by folks who hear an amm record and think “hm, yeah i can do that” (no you can’t), textile trio unleash their splatter with both the sensitivity of seasoned composer / improvisers and energetic punk abandon. textile trio‘s furious blur lives somewhere between the art / jazz tangle of un drame musical instantané, masayuki takayanagi‘s throat-throttling new directions unit, and the live vinyl-scramble of otomo yoshihide. full of life and humanity, aaa is delirious, dense, direct, and a pleasure to listen to. catalog no: floor11 format: cdr edition: 100

the tobacconists “ocean drama” compact disc-recordable

• ocean drama (28:08)

songs from under the floorboards press release...

ocean drama the tobacconists in april 2009,  scott foust (idea fire company, xx committee, tart, and the swill radio label) was invited to screen his feature length movie here’s to love in europe, as well as staging his the four accomplishments performance.  the trip to europe also gave him the opportunity to join musical hands with frans de waard (beequeen, freiband, shifts, kapotte muziek), who had been on tour with idea fire company in 2005, resulting in the ifco album vital. as both scott and frans are heavy smokers, they settled upon the tobacconists as the name for their collaborative musical venture (ashtray temple was considered, then rejected). scott and frans got to work in the extrapool studio, composing six pieces using a small keyboard, an echo machine, a radio, some pre-recorded tapes, a laptop, and some contact microphones. then, they took the road to perform in the netherlands, germany, belgium and the uk. at the end of their tour, they spent a week conducting proper studio recordings of all six pieces plus a seventh,  ’the dark secrets of dr. perati’, which was released as a 7 by plinkity plonk / swill radio. the six pieces will be released in 2011 as an lp, smoking is green, by hanson records / swill radio. one piece from the forthcoming record, ocean drama, was deemed suitable for an extensive rework using the entire principle recording, made by foust on a boat. this extended version of ocean drama, now available as a stand-alone album from songs from under the floorboards, is more spacious, giving room to each individual sound with a great sense of the ‘drama’.  it is the most radiophonic piece that the tobacconists have created so far. catalog no: floor8 format: cdr edition: 100

howard stelzer / jason talbot “recent work” compact disc-recordable

• cashier
  
• adminstrative assistant
  
• bookstore employee (fired)
  
• pizza maker
  
• temp
  
• record store clerk
  
• textbook editor

songs from under the floorboards press release...

floor6 stelzer & talbot “recent work” cdr edition of 100 copies a reissue of stelzer & talbot‘s album from 2002, recent work was originally published by rrrecords for the occasion of their tour with emil beaulieau and sudden infant. to celebrate the occasion of the duo’s reunion show in june 2010, their first performance in at least five years, it’s available again with a redesigned cover and new art by mike hale. fast-paced tape and turntable action, executed live at mike shiflet’s avantronics festival in columbus oh. first edition of 100 pro-duplicated cdrs in jewel case with full-color artwork. out now on songs from under the floorboards, a division of intransitive recordings.

kiyoharu kuwayama / masayoshi urabe “from the abolition port” compact disc-recordable

• from the abolition port (49:35)

songs from under the floorboards press release...

floor4 kuwayama kiyoharu & masayoshi urabe “from the abolition port” cdr edition of 100 copies a gripping, devastatingly patient, and emotionally raw improvisation for cello, saxophone, and metal chains recorded live at kuwayama kiyoharu’s cavernous warehouse space in nagoya, japan. rather than an event-driven, linear performance, from the abolition port is a single structure, with the ghostly presence of the space acting as either a third performer, or perhaps as the composer. the music is violent in its sparseness; sharp instrumental outbursts push with great effort against a backdrop of blackness as dense and heavy as the sun. from the abolition port suggests a private ritual, or a seance… or perhaps absurd theater, with unseen players circumnavigating a pitch-dark industrial space, sending out desperate distress signals and futilely listening for a response. alto sax player masayoshi urabe is known for his solo performances, but has worked alongside fellow psych/noise travellers kosoukuya, junko, hiroshi hasegawa (astro, cccc), kan mikami, and chie mukai. kiyoharu kuwayama played cello in the duo kuwayama-kijima, but his primary project is the catastrophe point series, which he records under the name lethe. first edition of 100 pro-duplicated cdrs in jewel case with full-color artwork. out now on songs from under the floorboards, a division of intransitive recordings.

vic rawlings / howard stelzer “by my side; i am yours” compact disc-recordable

• ... (14:13)
  
• the free (6:18)
  
• meeting at cover (5:12)
  
• breaking cover (2:15)
  
• in full cry (i am your's) (15:08)
  
• the death (7:50)

songs from under the floorboards press release...

floor3 vic rawlings & howard stelzer “by my side; i am your’s” cdr edition of 100 copies this oddly punctuated album of studio compositions for modified cello, open-circuit electronics, cassette tapes, and other detritus was retrieved from intransitive’s climate-controlled vaults after carefully aging for more than six years. “by my side” came about at a time when vic rawlings and i were performing lots of duo concerts, and felt that we were pushing ourselves into some strange, exciting territory. we decided to capture what we were doing in a “real” studio, rather than simply record concerts in situ as best as we could… which at the time, would probably have meant putting one stereo mic in the room and hoping for the best. two days of improvisations in jesse kudler’s attic studio were sculpted and massaged over several intense days until this album emerged. and then… nothing happened. we’re not sure why. the subject of publishing this album would come up every now and then. every time i listened back to the music, i’d think, “hm, this is pretty weird stuff. i should put it out.” years later, the rapid fluctuations between narrative tease, passages of high-velocity throttle, and grotesque emptiness seem just as fresh and bafflingly exciting to us as they did when we recorded them. rawlings and stelzer are two members of the large ensemble the bsc, along with their compatriots nmperign, mike bullock, chris cooper (fat worm of error, angst hase pfeffer nase), james coleman, and liz tonne. when he isn’t teaching rock guitar to kids in the suburbs, rawlings builds electronic instruments, makes a mess of a perfectly nice cello, and performs in the groups n.r.a. (with ricardo aria and tatsuya nakatani) and mawja (with mazen kerbaj and mike bullock). stelzer is tired of writing about himself in the third person, so today he won’t do it. first edition of 100 pro-duplicated cdrs in jewel case with full-color artwork. design by justin myers (tone filth). out now on songs from under the floorboards, a division of intransitive recordings.