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on Shame File Music
Radio
On “Sounds of Objects” digital/CDR – Radio On is a group of
Melbourne students with intellectual disabilities and additional learning needs
who make an album of songs each year with their teacher, Ben Butcher (of Paul
Kidney Experience, Baseball, etc). For 2019, they also assembled this EP of
sonic explorations, using microphones, solar panels and iPads to create sound
works of found sounds and drones.
New
titles on Shame File Mailorder
Jon
Rose & Alvin Curran “Café Grand Abyss” CD - Long-time
collaborators Curran (piano and sampler) and Rose (violins conventional and
otherwise) combine over two improvised sessions presented here. “There are nods
to minimalism, noise, jazz, but a description of this musical encounter might
be best described as maximalist. Just when you think the parameters have been
sorted, there is a twist, and we are off on another journey – the extravert and
joyous followed suddenly by the dark and strange”.
Shots
“Private Hate” LP - “Private
Hate” is a thrillingly confounding mystery. Very generally speaking, it lives
in the same anti-musical world as Sukora, Gabi Losoncy or Jon Dale’s
magnificent “Theater” album, or at least close by. The sounds on this record
are almost, but not quite, nothing at all […] Are these “field recordings”? Is
Shots a band? I don’t know and don’t much care. It takes guts to make a record
so devoid of conventional pleasure or satisfaction (who needs those, anyway?),
especially a nothing that’s neither precious nor imbued with any apparent
conceptual conceit (at least, not one that’s shared with the listener). As soon
as “Private Hate” finished playing, I listened to it again… and then a third
time. And I still have no idea what the heck this is, but I’m so happy that it
exists." Howard Stelzer (Vital Weekly)
Sound
of the Mountain with Tetuzi Akiyama and Toshimaru Nakamura “amplified clarinet
and trumpet, guitars, nimb” CD - There is a clear affinity amongst the members of this quartet for
mixing acoustic and electric elements and extending the physical possibilities
of their instruments. Sound of the Mountain met Japanese improvising musicians
Tetuzi Akiyama (guitar) and Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board) in Tokyo
in August 2017. Several concerts and a recording session at the legendary GOK
studio in Kichijoji were the foundation for this collaborative effort in
creating sound together, putting focus on the musical possibilities of form and
interaction inherent in improvised music. Limited edition of 300 copies in
hard-crafted packaging
Red
Wine and Sugar “A Population of Indoor Cats” LP - Third
and probably best album by this duo of Mark Groves (Von Einem, Absoluten
Caulfeutrail, etc) and Samaan Fieck (Smash Tennis). Like previous releases, “A
Population of Indoor Cats” uses textural electronics and samples that feel like
fine grains of sand running through your fingers, to back Groves’ spoken texts
that hint at the isolated and quietly desperate lives existing among us. As
with previous works, the duo creates a tense and disturbing atmosphere, but “A
Population of Indoor Cats” goes up a level in quality through the addition of
what sound like “real” instruments (guitar/bass drums), and most significantly,
overtones of empathy for the lost, alone and forsaken. Ltd edition of 100
copies with download card.
Absoluten
Calfeutrail “Pixie’s Parasol” cassette – The final recording of Mark
Groves’ (Red Wine and Sugar, Von Einem and many others) project that here is
completely instrumental; slow, dark industrial soundscapes recorded from
2008-14, finally released here as what Groves calls, a fitting articulation of the project.
Various
“Fucking Noise” LP – 5 way split noise compilation with The Haters
(USA), Bespoke Decay (Melbourne), Dysterhet (Sydney), Torturing Nurse (China)
and Milat (Sydney). Ltd edition of 100 copies with B&W booklet of a page of
art from each act.
Various
“Foreign Relations: Worldwide Noise series Volume One: Australia – Indonesia”
CDR – Compilation of Australian and Indonesian noise/experimental/dark
ambient acts, including (from Australia) Milat, Electro Surgery/Noise Unit, Scab,
Dysterhet, OOILOU, (from Indonesia) Sarana, To Die, Grintabachan. Housed in
DVD-style case with insert.
“Noise”
colour paperback book - Through
pictures and words, Noise tracks some key developments in improvised and
experimental Perth music throughout 2016. It includes interviews with Shoshana
Rosenberg, Djuna Lee, Sage Pbbbt & Behn Greene, and photos by Josh Wells,
Laura Strobech, Alexander Turner, plus many other features. Noise is a document
about the Perth community, for the people that inhabit it and propel it
forward. 114 A5 pages of 128gsm titan satin, perfect bound with a 300gsm board
cover.
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