blood fountains “floods” compact disc

• cold flood / in (4:10)
  
• head found in aptos (7:41)
  
• spiritless (10:45)
  
• white wax blood (9:10)
  
• hemming (6:12)
  
• picture of time and space / out (2:25)

utech press release...

artist: blood fountains title: floods format: cd edition: 750 length: 40' trx: 6 catalogue number: urcd023 / ursk9 released: august 8, 2009 recorded: recorded and mixed by stephen kasner, 2008-2009.music: stephen kasner, david beaver, yoshiko ohara, mat woods and cheryl pyle. there is no beginning, there is no end, only perpetual oscillation between experience, memory and gravity. emotion propels our lives, connected to one another and all things through infinity. floods reaches inward, to the icy depths of the heart to touch and to return with ancient elements unfolding in spectral bliss and horror. reality of pain and agony is equally married with yearning, dreaming and joyous exaltation. stephen kasner evokes a fully-realized painting-to-music translation, with collaborations by david beaver, mat woods, cheryl pyle and the vexing vocals of yoshiko ohara (bloody panda). floods calls forth a remarkable section of time and feeling, simultaneously compressed and unfurling. a frozen monster of memories, hope and love, and a constant reminder of death's door. seamless, endless, connected energy. these are fragments of hauntings within us all. we must always remember.

aluk todolo “finsternis” compact disc

• premier contact (7:12)
  
• deuxieme contact (10:41)
  
• totalite (5:36)
  
• troisieme contact (8:35)
  
• quatrieme contact (6:27)

utech press release...

artist: aluk todolo title: finsternis format: cd edition: 750 length: 39' trx: 5 catalogue number: urcd022 / ursk8 released: may 30, 2009 recorded: recorded on the first of august, 2008. mixed during the months following by aluk todolo. shantidas riedacker: guitar. antoine hadjioannou: drums. matthieu canaguier: bass. aluk todolo are a recondite creature. part okkult black metal fiend and part snide kraut menace. somehow the doppelganger works and finsternis proves for a second time there is brilliance in the absence of light. dry, spare percussion grievously mines the scrapes, shrieks and shimmer of mutated guitar and bass. finsternis is the german word for eclipse, mimetic of cyclic elements, phases and unphases, endless rebeginnings, broken circles and perfect circles. a dangerous, noxious coil of all things black.

final “dead air” compact disc

• slow air (5:04)
  
• caved (6:42)
  
• fearless systems (6:49)
  
• disordered (7:38)
  
• inanimate air (7:16)
  
• subterrane (6:05)
  
• smeared air (10:40)
  
• descendre (9:07)
  
• dead air (5:10)

utech press release...

artist: final title: dead air format: cd edition: 750 length: 64' trx: 9 catalogue number: urcd021 / ursk7 released: november 22, 2008 recorded: recorded, produced and mixed at avalanche by justin k broadrick,2005 - 2008. justin k broadrick (godflesh, ice, painkiller, god, jesu) is an iconoclast, a destroyer. whether by scourge or more subtle measure he is unafraid to loose the blood of infidels. final, the apotheosized nomad. shifting, flowing, ascending. a life’s work. dead air takes hold and abducts the last of your breath with cruel ceremony. the most austere final recording yet.

rst “tomorrow's void” compact disc

• radiant (5:44)
  
• constellation drive (9:30)
  
• eternal city ruins (8:48)
  
• queen of heaven (6:45)
  
• when fire itself came to be understood as a process (9:35)
  
• burnt armour (7:22)
  
• high path (5:26)
  
• planetfall (1:46)
  
• tin sun ii (5:02)
  
• blue smoke sword (6:46)

utech press release...

artist: rst title: tomorrow's void format: cd edition: 750 length: 66' trx: 10 catalogue number: urcd020 / ursk6 released: november 22, 2008 recorded: recorded by a. moon in west aukland, new zealand, 2007-2008. a. moon: guitar. new zealand’s andrew moon has spent the past decade plus as rst, finding the one thing the electric guitar was truly meant to do - make a holy noise. somewhere between the hum of the amplifier and the vibration of untouched strings lies electricity's nervous system. sound reduced to its cold essentials. unsettled waves sluiced through luxuriant effects and delays. the gristle of the electrical grid harnessed and reconfigured as exquisite ostinato.

klangmutationen “schwarzhagel” compact disc

• i
  
• ii
  
• iii
  
• iv

the stargazer’s assistant “shivers and voids” compact disc

• night soil
  
• shivers and voids
  
• the dream kingdom

runhild gammelsaeter “amplicon” compact disc

• collapse- lifting of the veil
  
• expanding universe
  
• life
  
• evolution
  
• incubation
  
• birth
  
• coming to
  
• love
  
• senescence
  
• dying
  
• void- empty spaces between filaments

heavensore “asmodai” compact disc

• aurora
  
• tabula smaragdina
  
• asmodeus

skullflower “desire for a holy war” compact disc

• your cities, your tombs (7:01)
  
• moses conjured a blood niagra (7:26)
  
• eves dream (8:26)
  
• frozen spectres (7:08)
  
• serbonian bog (9:42)
  
• unholy inhuman (8:06)divinus deus (7:28)

utech press release...

skullflower > desire for a holy war > ursk1 desire for a holy war is mayhem piled on top of mayhem piled on top of squalls of caustic feedback. furies spitting oaths of shrouded vengeance from ancient tongues. plague riders dealing death on mounts of venomous ether, hooves pounding the wild earth. matthew bower may have reached a watershed with last year's abyssic lowland hiss (heavy blossom) but it is with desire for a holy war that he has come to conquer. never has skullflower sounded so severe or remorseless. utech records and stephen kasner collaborate on fine art series utech records will invoke a connate soul next year in visual artist stephen kasner to develop a second fine art series of cd releases for the label. the series, as yet unnamed, will comprise nine volumes of 750 copies each over the course of 2008 beginning in april. kasner has committed the bulk of his next year's output to painting original and exclusive canvases. his subject matter has yet to be disclosed, but the artist has spoken in general terms of a new direction he wants to explore in his work. a package unique to the series has been designed to highlight kasner's residuum and the accompanying music. the foundation of the series is the belief that a visual device can bind a disparate body of music in a meaningful way. the genesis of this idea was first explored with photographer max aguilera-hellweg in 2007 and the result was utech record's acclaimed arc series. fruit borne from that venture has led to this stab at further examination. kasner immediately saw value in the theory and agreed to help cultivate and refine it. artistic study aside, the guts of this series is the music and the conviction that it alone will give rise to its life. utech and kasner discussed at length the curatorial undertaking and a virulent battery of musicians was selected. skullflower, heavensore, runhild gammelsaeter, fuyuki yamakawa, aluk todolo and final with more to be announced at a later date. sure to be an archetype for the music/art proposition in the coming year, the series has been intentionally left open ended. the two have agreed to let ideas evolve naturally and it will remain to be seen just how far things will go. there is a lot on the table and not all of it is being revealed at this point.