MARCIA BASSETT / SAMARA LUBELSKI
Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon
(Kye - 17) LP $16.00
Bassett and Lubelski have both played crucial roles in the development of underground sound over the last twenty years, tinting the broad waters of abstract folk, chromatic noise and long-form drone. The two sidelong forays into deep, black-string meditation here hang in the air like ghosts on Ludlow Street. Edition of 500.
The Rising
(Kye - KYE12) LP $16.50
Tim Goss and Chloe Mutter have been locked in perfect isolation since 2010, teasing every nuance of their sound into sharp focus, mastering cryptic intent. Homespun keyboard minimalism, wavering teenage laments, and foreboding pronouncements of doom synthesize into new, original matrices of thought. The Rising also introduces the guitar heroics of some-time third member, Big Rob Stewart, who lays down the law in crude basement style. Edition of 1000
Sounds of Sacred Places
(Kye - KYE13) CD $15.00
"The presence of water and an enormous monolith in the midst of the vast desert plain is given as an explanation [for the] magical appeal [of] the 'Shadowgiving Mountain' of the Aborigines," writes the artist, "Better known under its western name ... Ayers Rock (Australia)...." [T]heir ancestors, the 'Dreamtime People' ... live in this mountain and speak to them in the sounds of the winds howling through the crevasses and rockholes. Uluru is also the dwelling-place of the 'World Serpent', the most powerful totem shared by the surrounding tribes. Sounds of Sacred Places attempts to transform the listener into a living witness of the sounds of similar places, not far away in any specific ethnic culture, but in Flanders." Kye's CD reissue of Sounds of Sacred Places (Igloo 1987) includes a 16-page booklet of photos and notes. Remastered from the original tapes by Darge. Edition of 500.
Million Year Spree
(Kye - KYE14) split LP $15.00
No-fi acoustic sewage from Hamilton, Ontario's Fossils, a stream of dire handcut confusion. Darksmith of California combines wilting electronics, floppy turntablism and sun-baked cassette protocols and destroys them in a claustrophobic void. Edition of 400.
Cryptography
(Kye - KYE11) LP $15.00
Five-part electro-acoustic study by London-based sound architect Luke Younger (Birds of Delay) that uses processed piano, Casio MT-40, cymbal and guitar strings to explore fringe territories. Glacial drone meditations, reconfigured gamelan clusters, and howling walls of organized feedback coalesce in classic UK post-industrial fashion. Full color sleeve with insert. Numbered edition of 400.
Music From The Impossible Salon
(Kye - KYE10) LP $15.00
Positioned on the frontline in the ageless battle for aesthetic purity, Scott Foust and Karla Borecky's minimal yet striking gestures in eight elegant settings variously combine piano, synth, radio, trombone, organ, gong and voice. Music From The Impossible Salon is a dusky pleasure center where jaded listeners can find discreet interruption from the horrors of the day. Numbered edition of 300.
Amateur Doubles
(Kye - KYE15) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
A two-part improvisation recorded in a Honda Civic. Dangerous, tedious, pointless and timeless, a perfect snapshot of life on the open road. Gatefold jacket, clear vinyl. Edition of 500.
Excerpts (& Half-Speeds)
(Kye - KYE16) LP $15.50
Throughout his fifteen years of service as foot-soldier of garage rock, Melchior has willingly tested the flexibility of an otherwise stagnant genre. Here he glues together fractured sketches, riffs, and run-throughs; what emerges is something akin to Another Green World for the Fuck Off generation. With insert. Edition of 450.