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Cycles
Ulrich Krieger is a German-born saxophonist and composer notable for his involvement in the groups Text of Light and Metal Machine Trio. His work involves what he calls Ôacoustic electronics' or amplified acoustic instruments processed through effects and feedback loops. Cycles ranges from saxophone-controlled feedback walls of free-noise to the meditative sounds of sine waves.
Dans L'Herbe
Montreal-based sound artist Anne-F Jacques utilizes the possibilities of degraded technology and incidental sound to create mechanical resonances out of tape assemblage, rotation devices, and DIY amplification systems. With an emphasis on technology versus nature, dans l'herbe centers on the mechanical rumble, field recordings and discarded sounds of the current industrial age.
Profuse, Comfortless And Antique
A key figure among the burgeoning Worcester, Massachusetts noise scene, Seamus R. Williams crafts crude electro-acoustic sound collage made of murky tape loops and low-end electronics. Profuse... emits a cavernous sound of static debris, magnetic atmospherics and barren frequencies that all shift in unison.
Corrugated
An intricate collage of manipulated found and appropriated sounds taken from a series of concrète reel to reel tape experiments recorded throughout 2012 and 2013 in White's hometown of London.
From A Soundtrack To The Anabase...
A Handful of Dust is the duo of New Zealand noisemakers Bruce Russell (The Dead C) and Alastair Galbraith. Incorporating elements of drone, spoken word, minimalism, improvisation and utilizing everything from violin to toy telephone, The Dust crafts a genuinely unique style of free-form music. 'From A Soundtrack To The Anabase Of St-John Perse' a tape originally released via Russell's own Corpus Hermeticum imprint nearly two decades ago finds the duo under the influence of the 1924 poem of the s…
Magnetic Detritus
Edition of 150. Sold out at source ! Magnetic Detritus presents the work of eight artists exploring various approaches to contemporary tape-based music. Through the interplay of collage, electronics and tape manipulation, this set provides a brief glimpse into a vast and evolving form. Packaged in a reel to reel box with paste-on artwork. Featuring: Darksmith, Lea Bertucci, Dog Lady Island, Matt Krefting, Sterile Garden, Aaron Dilloway, Evenings, Gordon Ashworth.
Northern Resonance I
In the winter of 2008 C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and Jon Wesseltoft (Tongues of Mount Meru, Maranata) would meet in Wesseltoft's native Norway to record the tracks, which comprise this tape. With Yeh on violin and Wesseltoft on harmonium the duo blazes through the northern sky unleashing a meditative eulogy to the Nordic gods of past, present and future. The reeds maintain the momentum while the strings wail in unison. Fans of Tony Conrad and Henry Flynt take note. Artwork by L…