Jeph Jerman
born agana, guam jan. 16, 1959. began my musical \"career\" in high school, playing in various dance and show bands. sometime in the \'80\'s began seriously documenting my own sound work. founded the bands: big joey, blowhole, city of worms, and began working solo under the name hands to. released far too many cassetttes cds and lps. founded the big body parts label which existed from 1984 to 1989. moved around the country, sometimes taking my bands with me. since 1997 or so, have been releasing work under my own name. i am most interested in listening, in what happens when we listen.
born agana, guam jan. 16, 1959. began my musical \"career\" in high school, playing in various dance and show bands. sometime in the \'80\'s began seriously documenting my own sound work. founded the bands: big joey, blowhole, city of worms, and began working solo under the name hands to. released far too many cassetttes cds and lps. founded the big body parts label which existed from 1984 to 1989. moved around the country, sometimes taking my bands with me. since 1997 or so, have been releasing work under my own name. i am most interested in listening, in what happens when we listen.
Vigilant New Forces
Vigilant New Forces is a compilation celebrating fifteen years of label activity. Featuring all new tracks from New Forces artists - past, present, and future. The finest noise and experimental sound, offered with gratitude to all those who have supported this endeavor. Stay vigilant. Featuring Jackson-Pratt, Mayuko Hino, Kjostad, Mass Marriage, MO*TE, Organ Of Corti, Kyle Flanagan, Rodger Stella & Scant, Wince, Joe Colley, Jeph Jerman, Form Hunter, and Matriarch.
NAAU / Trunk Space
2009 release ** Oversize card sleeve. "Jeph Jerman, in another time Hands To, City Of Worms, Blowhole and part of the Animist Orchestra and already for a lifetime of his own, working under his own name. Here we have two performances from 2007, and ones that show what he does best: working with natural objects (pictured on the cover: stones, shells, feathers, wood, cacti etc), he produces music that is entirely stripped from electricity, computers, plug ins etc, but only needs a microphone and a …
Ku
*2024 stock* The act of conjuring remarkable sound from found objects is at the very heart of this recording from American musicians Greg Davis and Jeph Jerman. Having met in Arizona some years back, Davis and Jerman commenced working together on a series of recording projects.
Improvising with a range of implements and devices ranging from sticks, stones and low-fi electronics to prepared instruments, gongs and broken percussion, the pair sought to develop a personal language that reflected th…
Registro De Piedra
*165 (hand-numbered) copies limited edition* "Registro de Piedra plays with the idea of place memory. I have heard a few stories of people spending the night in or near ancient ruins and witnessing strange sights and sounds. What some might call ghosts. Modern science has no way of explaining these apparitions, casting doubt on the authenticity of the experience. Other researchers have propounded the idea that these places may hold memories of past occurrences, and that under certain circumstanc…
For Alvin Kelly
*120 copies limited edition* Tsss Tapes presents For Alvin Kelly by Jeph Jerman.
Et si c'était le Vent qui avait Raison ?
*200 copies limited edition* Great compilation from French label Fern Recordings. Featuring: Vincent Jehanno, Alice Kemp, BRB>VOICECOIL, Leif Elggren, Jeph Jerman, Yeast Culture, Aliénor Golvet, Anne Gillis.
Topology
Jeph Jerman (Hands To) and Joachim Nordwall (Organ of Corti) present "Topology," a stunning collaboration that brings out the best from both artists. Jerman's trademark field recordings are accentuated by Nordwall's electronics in a seamless fusion that simultaneously evokes the mechanical and the environmental. There are moments of subtle tension, but longtime fans of Jerman will note several instances of heightened intensity in his contribution that harken back to some of the more aggressive H…
Passenger
*125 copies limited edition.* Tsss Tapes presents Passenger by Jeph Jerman and Ted Byrnes.
Listen – Jeph Jerman in conversation with Aram Yardumian (Book)
This oral autobiography of the underground experimentalist also serves as a history of the 1980s tape and electronic music scene in the US
Tathata
Tathata is a central concept in Buddhism, literally translated from sanskrit as 'thusness' or 'suchness'. Tathata expresses appreciation of the true nature of reality in any given moment. As no moment is exactly the same, each one can be savored for what occurs at that precise time, whether it is thought of as being good or bad. However, Jeph Jerman and Doug Theriault are trying to give us the possibility to meditate on this word, they recorded three long improvised pieces for the same-titled al…
Keep The Drum (Concussion Solos)
New Forces is pleased to offer a reissue of Jeph Jerman's "Keep the Drum," originally released on cassette by Apraxia in 1990. Since the 1980's Jeph Jerman has been a key figure in experimental music, from the textural noise of his legendary Hands To project, to more recent studies in field recording and acoustic sound recorded under his own name. On "Keep the Drum" Jerman explores what he calls "concussion music," working with a pile of hubcaps, sheet metal and "other bits of junk" to rethink t…
Hiss Lift
"What I remember … a car on fire alongside the highway in the middle of the night. Waking in someone else’s bed in London with an entire poem spilling into my head, and then recording it with Tim in the kitchen after breakfast. Seemingly endless car, bus and train rides full of the country side splintered and refracted through glass and fatigue, always the same, always different. The screaming woman at the airport who pulled the fire alarm, evacuating the terminal. Some guy in Brooklyn talking t…
Casual Collisions
Casual Collisions is a collaborative album by two of the most prominent voices in experimental sound, Aaron Dilloway and Jeph Jerman. Recorded in 2013 and originally self-released on CDR by Jerman in a small edition, New Forces and White Centipede Noise are pleased to make these recordings widely available for the first time. Across four tracks the unique voices of these artists meld seamlessly together. Jerman’s tactile, physical sounds are wrapped up in Dilloway’s magnetic wizardry. Damaged el…
It Wasn't Until Weeks Later (LP)
Jack Callahan & Asha Sheshadri’s 'Misfired Empathy' was recorded and processed in April and May of 2020 in a number of temporarily shuttered venues and the artists’ apartments. This is their first record as a duo.
Asha Sheshadri is a New York based artist. Her multivalent work commingles memory construction, questions of citation and translation, and lost or silenced histories and diasporas. In her essayistic videos, recordings and performances, she layers her own voice with original writing, te…
Popular Fictions
** Edition of 150 ** Tsss Tapes presents Popular Fictions by Jeph Jerman. Recorded throughout the spring and summer of 2020 in and around Cottonwood, AZ, utilizing mouth, stone, wood, glass, metal, paper, plastic, radio and the contribution of Doug Theriault, Chris Reider, Julie Schubert and a bunch of people I don't know. Assembled at Estudio Sonor, October 2020.
Cobbled
**Limited edition of 50 copies. Double cassette housed in a handmade silk-screened wooden box. Comes with a booklet with information and photographs, a bag with 4 small stones and a hand numbered print.** Jeph Jerman started recording and performing in 1986 under the moniker Hands To. Most of his early soundwork was sampler and tape loop based, though slowly evolved from electro-acoustic pieces to environmental recordings with very little to no manipulation or electronic processing using only na…
Imbrication
**150 copies** "The Verde River Valley is located in central Arizona, in a transition zone between low desert to the south and high mountains to the north. It has been my home for the past 17 years. Walking though the uninhabited areas outside of town, one encounters a wide variety of plant life: cactus as well as pine trees, creosote and crucifixion thorn, winterfat, mullein, snakeweed, hackberry, yucca and agave. There is also a plethora of debris from hundreds of years of human presence. Scat…
KIO GE
KIO GE is the result of the collaboration between the American sound artist Jeph Jerman and the Italian percussionists Paolo Sanna and Giacomo Salis. Twelve short improvisations that include minimal textures, field recordings, abstract atmospheres and organic sounds. Storytelling through sound with many faces.
Goethe
"Across a dozen years, the duo of Jerman and Barnes has offered powerful, minimal music rooted in a shared dedication to the creative act of listening. Jerman is a veteran of the creative music scenes in Denver and Seattle, and in more recent years has been thoroughly investigating the sonic possibilities of the desert Southwest where he lives and works. Tim Barnes's resume as a percussionist, engineer, and curator is studded with all-star collaborators including Tony Conrad, Sonic Youth, Ken Va…
Versatile Ambience
On the second side of Versatile Ambience, Jeph Jerman utters an all too accurate observation of our overheated culture, describing us at “the smithy’s forge, replacing art with scrutiny.” Throughout their new record, Jerman and Barnes show us another, alchemical possibility—fusing art and scrutiny together. Across a dozen years, the duo of Jerman and Barnes has offered powerful, minimal music rooted in a shared dedication to the creative act of listening. Jerman is a veteran of the creative mus…