This Is What I Do
(Glistening Examples - GLEX1101) CDR $11.00
A collection of previously released compilation tracks. “Lescalleet’s work is a monument to the notion that music is sound,” your Dusted correspondent will have you know. “He exploits the quirks of cheap or damaged equipment … [and] the malleable, impermanent ways of magnetic tape…. Sometimes the material’s origins are obvious, such as “Un Peu de Neige Sans Raison’s” church organ samples… [while] the ghostly low tones and flickering high ones on “Untitled” could come from anywhere. But whether he’s looping sound into long, mournful melodies or squashing it into tiny quavers, he consistently invests it with such gravity that it could absorb a black hole.”
Symphony No. 3: Siddhatha Gautama O El Poder De La Nada
(Roaratorio - ROAR24) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. When psycho-spatial composer Nelson Gastaldi passed away in 2009 at the age of 77, he left behind a unique musical legacy that is only now beginning to be unveiled. A self-described “musical nihilist with noble and mystic origins” (as well as an accomplished visual artist), Gastaldi supported himself and his family with a job at an electric company in Buenos Aires, Argentina, while creating an astonishing body of work that went virtually unheard during his lifetime. Synthesizing his wide-ranging interests (medicine, linguistics, Chinese and German philosophy) into his music, he welcomed paranormal / initiatic experiences into the compositional process, creating homemade Sibelius-meets-Sun Ra symphonies. The only previous publication of his work was in Bananafish #18, which featured an excerpt of Symphony No. 3 on an accompanying CD. The same issue also contains his sole English-language interview, where he says, “The human being runs at the side of a river. When he is young, he runs faster than the river; in mid-life he runs at the same speed as the river; and at last he falls down and the river keeps going.” Download coupon included.
#18
(Tedium House - BF18) Magazine + CD $11.00
With Nelson Gastaldi (lost and overlooked Argentinean psycho-spatial composer found and restored by South America’s premier avant sideshow barkers Reynols; topics include pure sound, ethnomusicology, paranormal occurences), Burning Star Core (autodidact C. Spencer Yeh tracks his development from adolescent pyromaniac to violin/electronics/voice iconoclast, with sidetrips as a writer of unreadable fiction, painter, documentarian, Cincinnati gallery brat, and live venue doyen), Joe Colley (easily fixated Crawl Unit noise mumbler issues subdued proclamations on field recordings, arcane electronic gadgets, public invisibility, charalatans and quacks), Monotract (Dylan Nyoukis gets schooled in Big Apple wisdom by this group of beach-blanket acidheads and New York City improv tour guides), David Lester (Mecca Normal guitarist’s surreal, interdisciplinary comics that combine choreography, quasi-clip art, collage, painting, text and typography), and Jim Leftwich (texts, images, collages and other hors de guerre by experimental writer, visual poet, xtant editor and Juxta publisher).
Excerpts (& Half-Speeds)
(Kye - KYE16) LP $15.50 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. 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 omething akin to Another Green World for the Fuck Off generation. With insert. Edition of 450.
Take It
(Ultramarine - UM015) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Triple Silvia on voice, mutant beats, synths, tape echo, working the early Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA and dub influences, delivering some much-needed anguish, agony, and paranoia against today's fun-at-all-costs shit. Silsckreened jacket. Edition of 100.
Thread Bare
(Alberts Basement) 7-inch $12.00
Solo vocal project by Melbourne's Christopher Hill of Paeces, Gauntlet, Gugg, Galactic Locksmith, and a million others. According to the lad's amazingly spelled MySpace page, "Moffarfarrah tranverses time pushing bending and proding time within the space of the mouth and pedals, precusion, organs, and amplifires, casting spores of posi-charged change in little and big omnipresent ways, gurgles, squeaks, moans, new languages, abstract opera, moduals of existence, tea swilling, friendly chat and chants."
White Gold
(Troniks - TRO297) CD $7.50
A Wiese / Blankenship maelstrom at maximum fucking pressure. Over forty minutes of new harsh electronics from the duo behind LHD. A white hot sheet of deafening sound recorded August 2011. Edition of 150.
Sex Magik
(Troniks - TRO282) CD $7.50
A legacy-destroying new low. A single session spoken word interpretation of the complete lyrics to the Red Hot Chili Peppers' landmark album Blood Sugar Sex Magik. All audio stumbles, mispronunciation and apartment squeal preserved. Edition of 100.
Harm
(Troniks - TRO296) CD $7.50
A lo-fi garage clash by Phil Blankenship, Jesse Jackson, Charlie Mumma, Corydon Ronnau and John Wiese, recorded during preparation for the December 2011 Sissy Spacek tour. Thudding sickness, black-souled vocal retch, and thrashing violence turn to blistering white out. Recorded direct to tape and straight to hell at F-House. Edition of 200.
Dead Zone
(Quasi Pop - QPOP059) CD $13.50
Fax machine blips, tortured whale song, 1950s sci-fi effects, theremin sounds coming off like a Geiger Counter lost in the fall out, crumbling buildings rendered as metallic noise crunch, twenty-foot waves as static, nuclear meltdowns as devilish shrieks. Recorded the day after the first explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Artwork depicts Chernobyl and Prypiat. This CD is dedicated to the worldwide anti-nuclear movement. Edition of 500
Blind Jesus
(Von Archives - VON006) LP $20.00
Stefano Pillia (guitar, audio collages and effects) and Andrew Hooker (electronics) exploring the essence of improvised ambient music. Edition of 300.
Stun Gun
(Quasi Pop - QPOP07) 7-inch $9.00
Emotional, personal, almost intimate noise. No point in brutality and aggression without the human element, after all. Green vinyl. Edition of 350.
Felt, If Not Seen
(Phage - PT175) CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. A single fifty-seven-minute track of tension-building electronics and percussion, hovering in between apocalypse and rapture. For fans of ambient room-filling organic sounds. Recorded live in 2009, the music features drums, metal objects, slack-stringed de-tuned guitar, winds, and electronics. Edition of 500.
Honey Monster
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC11) 7-inch $9.00
Quasipop's Monster series delivers strange takes on modern pop music where's "pop" means the weirdest form of entertaining. Sweets overloads, glucose hallucinations, and like that. Purple vinyl. Edition of 500.
Zelphabet Vol. L
(Zelphabet - L01) CD $9.50
The GX Jupitter-Larsen-curated, 26-part noise series. With Lasse Marhaug, Leather Bath, Lee Gamble, The Legendary Pink Dots, Leticia Castaneda, and Lionel Marchetti.
GGA
(Teenage Teardrop - TD037) LP $15.00
Two side-long tracks of dynamically diffused smashing, shattering and crashing sounds, mixed in stereo from Wiese's four-channel Los Angeles installation. Cover photographs by Cali Thornhill deWitt. Clear vinyl with insert. Edition of 330.
Vittra Sönder
(Throne Heap) LP $15.00
Nothing but fine, fine, fine tape manipulation and metal abuse punctuated by primitive organ melody and sparsely placed percussive stabs. Dark grooves where the musique truly meets the concrète. Edition of 300
Fragments of the Marble Plan
(Holy Mountain - 1986) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING IN APRIL. Music as apocalyptic as Fragments of the Marble Plan has few peers, but some approximate touchstones are the most radically out and knotty moments of Norwegian post-jazz ensemble Supersilent, This Heat after realizing that Brise-Glace didn’t pay them a penny in royalties, or Farmers Manual after extensive immersion in Mainliner’s back catalog. Fragments of the Marble Plan is a terrifying force of nature, a Rube Goldberg machine run amok, the sound of civilization atomizing into controlled chaos. It’s so cold, it’s hellish. Although Aufgehoben feels your need for catharsis, they convince you that being ready to jump out of your skin is the new normal. Includes download coupon.
Mindset
(ReR Megacorp - 10) CD $10.00
Two engrossing, long-form tracks, each an organically shifting mass of piano, bass and drums, in which jazz, drone and electronic soundscaping coalesce. On "Rum Jungle," rendered with a minimalist vision, layers swirl and swoon without friction. The more richley textured "Daylights" deploys filigree electronics around sparse, plangent keys and stalking bass. Hypnotic and dazzling.
SILVIA KASTEL / NINNI MORGIA / GARY SMITH
Brand
(Ultramarine - UM012) LP $18.00
Heavyweight improviser, stereo guitar pioneer, and Aufgehoben guitarist Gary Smith has you covered in the multiple layering, complex grainy textures, dense counterpoint, influences of birdsong department. Fused with this is the guitar of free improv innovator Ninni Morgia, which floats between minimal movements of primordial electronics, pre-war slide blues and Hendrix-esque feedback. La Barbara and Torchia protégé Silvia Kastel’s moaning, screaming and howling alternates with her delayed, bubbling, glitchy or round bass synth. It’s a dense sound for three people -- not just visceral and intense, but articulate and defined, and in some instances very delicate. It’s got the deep taste of fearlessness of tempo, pulse, more conventional musical devices, or pushing to unpredictable extremes. Includes free download card.
Kösmonaut I
(Deep Distance - DD01) LP $16.00
Like the private pressings of Konrad Schnitzler from 1973 to ’74, each album of Deep Distance’s series is a solid color. Patrick R. Pärk joins Schulze, Froese, Ashra / Gottsching and latter day celestial synth explorers Expo '70, Jonas Reinhardt, and Mist in a good ol’ fashioned kosmische collision. All tracks are previously released on the limited-edition CDR Voyage of Time (Ethereal Mother 2011). Six inserts. Blue vinyl. Edition of 250.
Obitorio Veneto
(Von Archives - VON007) LP + DVD $25.00
Italian band -– “a social punk sculpture” -- conceived by artist Nico Vascellari as a contribution to the Diedrich Diedrichsen-curated exhibition Rock Scissors Paper at Kunsthaus Graz. Lago Morto is “about things that casting calls usually exclude -- targeted aggression, unpredictable social effects and local politics.” The band performed for fifteen days in Vittorio Veneto in nonmusical venues such as bars, hotels, pizzerias, laundrettes, video stores, etc. All fourteen of the band’s songs are on the LP. The DVD contains a video from each of the sixteen locations of the tour, plus an extra montage of sixteen videos simultaneously. Edition of 200
άTOMO∑
(Music Atlach - MA010) CD $15.00
Cello, violin and electronics intertwine with the vocal drones of these Overhang Party and Majutsu no Niwa veterans. Recorded live in Japan, the passionate sound and ambiance, which includes Fukuoka’s radio waves, offers “a glimpse of unbearable reality,” while the Paris recording, made at the church Église Saint-Merri, uses solemn drone loops a la Overhang Party’s “Prayer of a Fool.”
I Hit A Wall
(Quemada - QUE004) 7-inch $8.00
An anthem for the ages that lurches and stumbles, makes strides, waltzes and wobbles, backed with a track that charges through the muck and rides an early '90s Port Chalmers groove. Artwork by Anthony Riddell of Volvox.
Pig Magic
(Pica Disk - PICA029) 7-inch + CD $15.00
Norwegian free noise duo with guests Maja Ratkje and Lasse Marhaug.
Hey Come My Way
(Quemada - QUE003) 7-inch $8.00
The debut of prime bummer pop by members of Mad Nanna and White Woods, with a bit more jangle and hook than is typical of the former, sloppier than the latter.
Issue #1
(Marhaug Forlag) Magazine $15.00
With Sindre Bjerga on the Gold Soundz label; Bruce Russell on not listening and natural disasters; Tommi Keranan on Moomin, drones and LSD; stories from the Korean experimental scene by Chulki Hong; C. Spencer Yeh on Dawn of the Dead; Pennti Dassum of Umpio on gear; Sete Star Sept on Japanese grindcore; the Sissy Spacek Interview with John Wiese; black metal singer and toilet artist Zweizz; Vivian Wang of Arcn Templ on Singapore; the Teddy Roosevelt of noise Danciel Menche; and Ronnie Sundin of Very Friendly on comics. Ninety pages.
Old Skete
(Worstward - WST001) LP $13.00
Eleven stark performances on hand-made electric guitar by the man also known as Ulaan Khol, Hala Strana, and Ulaan Markhor, and for work with Thuja, Mirza, and Amsterdam-based clarinetist Gareth Davis. Absence of overdubs, loops, samples and delay pedals leaves Old Skete open and unadorned, a spare work akin to Smith’s Kohl (Jewelled Antler 2002). Edition of 500.
DEMONIC DEATH JUDGE / FROGSKIN / SEMTEX
By The Malice Of The Evil... Death Comes! Vol 1
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR094) split CD $10.50
Three young Finnish sludge bands who take their cues from Eyehategod, Iron Monkey, Grief and, of course, Black Sabbath, putting their own spin on heavy, feedback-laden and bluesy dirges. Edition of 500.
The Larval Tuning Fork (& Other Visions)
(Twisted Knister - KNACK004) LP $21.25
Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance use tapes and toys and their mouths to bring you creaking doors, aviaries, doddering old ladies, a troupe of muppets grunting and puking their guts out, some old drunk sailor squeezing a harmonium, etc. But what’s important here is the overall bulge and slump as their record breathes. Recordings from Brighton, Blackburn, Dunbar, London, Albany, Jersey City, Amherst, Glasgow, Berlin, Schiphorst, Gerlesborg. Edition of 300.
Vorwärts b/w Tanzen
(Meeuw Muzak - 038) 7-inch $7.00
Two ear-jingling, primeval drumtasms: a jerry-rigged version of the Chris Montez classic backed with an original “sci-fi romanticist socialist anthem.” Kinetic energy, a chugging beat, and waves of delayed gratification. Classic trembling Teutonic disco-punk, in other words. Imler, infamously involved in Spankings and Golden Showers (the groups, not the deviant sexual practices) has also worked with Puppet Mastaz, Peaches, Namosh, Electronicat, Patric Catani (as the Driver&Driver duo), Soffy O, Die Türen and Stereo Total. Edition of 450.
Maximum Rock
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR092) CD $12.00
Grind maniacs Total Fucking Destruction playing a fusion of early ’90s-style thrash and classic rock, with Megadan Tumelo on vocals. Catchy riffs, tight-as-fuck drumming by Brutal Truth’s Rich Hoak, sing-a-long heavy metal choruses, beefy production. Covers include Tull’s "Fat Man," a refreshingly non-obvious Sabbath cover in "Rock And Roll Doctor," and a thrash re-imagining of CSN's "Almost Cut My Hair.” Rise, hessian, rise.
The Illusion Of Movement
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR101) CD $9.00
Dense, suffocatingly heavy drone noise from the UK, second only to Culver. Sound-in-a-vacuum stasis and churning, crunching, collapsing-building noise with a foreboding, horror-movie atmosphere. Edition of 500.
Our Anthems
(Twisted Knister - KNACK003) LP $21.25
Twelves sketches of "atmospheric musical beauty" from the mid- to late 1990s by Idea Fire Company's Karla Borecky and Scott Foust with long-time collaborator Mike Popovich. The trio uses synths, haunting voices, guitars with percussive elements, minimal rhythms and radio static. Edition of 300 copies.
PAULINE OLIVEROS / JESSE STEWART
The Dunrobin Session
(Nuun - NUUN008) CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. V-accordion and percussion duets recorded during Oliveros’s residency at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, in collaboration with percussionist and composition teacher Stewart. Part of the labels Pulsions Series. Liner notes by Gayle Young.