Michael Vallera
The Other World
*300 copies limited edition* "The Other World was recorded in the spring of 2023 by Greg Norman at his home studio in Chicago. Each track was done in a single take without editing or manipulation. The recordings were made using a Stratocaster running into a minimal effects chain, which was then fed into a small solid state amplifier and captured by a pair of stereo microphones. I was interested in a sound palette that was very blanketed and gray, which led me to cut the high end tone of the guit…
Early New York Silver
"Amish Records is excited to announce a new recording from guitarists Lee Ranaldo and Michael Vallera, 'Early New York Silver', coming out on March 21, 2025. Ranaldo has long been a celebrated member of the New York music scene, known for co-founding Sonic Youth and his numerous collaborative and solo works. Based in Chicago, Vallera is a guitarist, composer, and visual artist whose music explores new territories for electric guitar. 'Early New York Silver' marks the duo’s debut album. Over two …
Window In
**CD version** "Window In is Michael Vallera’s third full length offering on Denovali, following All Perfect Days (2018) and Vivid Flu (2017). The four tracks that compose Window In are an exercise in density, movement, and space. Raw studio recordings of electric guitar were taken as the foundation, then heavily altered and manipulated through sampling, erasing the trace back to origin of the sound. The result is a series of vignettes that are unattached to a particular source but instead exist…
Perfect Fatigue
**100 hand-numbered copies** Perfect Fatigue is a collection of film photography taken throughout North America between 2009 and 2014. Directly engaging with the legacy of landscape photography, the images in this collection document a series of encounters between the elemental and the human. The natural world, captured with an almost mystical, luminous sense of place, becomes a sequence of sites that are both filmic and autobiographical.
Michael Vallera is a visual artist and musician currently…