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L’Amour & Rik Rue “Rue L’Amour” digital CDR
- The mid-1980s was a highly productive time for Rik Rue. Along with releasing
often more than one cassette a year, he was also meeting a diverse range of new
artists to collaborate with. One of the strangest of these collaborators, he
says, was Fifi L’Amour. L’Amour was a pioneer of often-surreal cabaret
performance in late-1970s Sydney, co-founding Cabaret Conspiracy. She moved to
Europe in 1985 and continued to perform. She died in 2012. Originally released
on cassette by Pedestrian Tapes in 1984, remastered by Shane Fahey in 2019.
Tony
Buck/Rik Rue “Come Let Us Build Ourselves A City” digital -
This mid-1990s collaborative EP was originally released on mini-CD (by Berlin
label, Algen), but has been included here as a worthy addendum to Shame File
Music’s Rik Rue Cassette Archive as a
unique collaboration between two giants of Australian improvised and
experimental music. Both artists expressed their willingness for Come Let Us Build Ourselves A City to be
made available again, identifying it as a recording each still have a lot of
affection for. Buck brings his array of drums and percussion, along with drum
machines, and Rue mangles it all through analogue and digital filters, mashed
with his collection of samples, a sonic portrait of a devastated and divided
city reborn.
Shame
File Mailorder – new titles
Nurse
With Wound & the James Worse Public Address Method "The Vursiflenze
Mismantler" CD - In recent years, Nurse With Wound and James
Worse have been collaborating on various live and recorded projects - this CD
travels even further into their lysergic realm. Additional contributions come
from Petr Vastl on violin and Timo Van Luijk on vibraphone. Copies are going very fast, order quick to
secure yours.
Ross
Manning “Smooth Orb on Milky Halo” CDR - Four strange, idiosyncratic
tracks of lo-fi abstraction. It could be strings, it could be reeds, it could
be one of Manning’s kinetic sound sculptures. Maybe there’s tape manipulation
as well? Manning is silent as far as explanations, but fortunately not
musically. Limited edition of 50 CDRs (hand-numbered), housed in an elegant,
embossed envelope adorned with a Manning drawing.
Ross
Manning "te t on on ti computer" cassette - Manning
presents "two different aspects of his musical direction. The first side
is a montage, with a big variety of distorted sounds and pure tones, that
reproduced by his custom-made instruments and electronic sources. Noisy parts
mixed with chaotic metal percussions and drones, are constructing a sonic
sculpture that even if the individual elements have a complex structure, the
final result sounds simple and mysterious On the second side, there is a long
composition made by his self-made string panels, that they produce rhythmic
patterns, that are changing form through the kinetic energy. Sonically, there
is a sense of gamelan music, with melodic motifs that gradually change to a
more complex form, with the composition to get more busy, constructing an
extremely dense amalgamation of sounds." Limited edition of 80
hand-numbered cassettes.
Club
Sound Witches “Bleeps from the ‘Gong” cassette - Longform
singular track just shy of 45 minutes, featuring a recording made on a
Mittagong farm in November 2018 & features the CSW signature DIY brand of
uniquely random bleeps ‘n blops, broken almost-beats, rhythmic noise,
deconstructed lofi techno, freeform fried electronics, outsider sounds you can
expect to hear from the duo’s ever-growing catalogue. Limited edition of 30
single-sided cassettes with download card.
Club
Sound Witches “bdtd258" CDR/cassette - A perhaps more
chaotic/jam-like recording from Australia's premier minimalist/lo-fi
electronica duo, with blasts of static and voices drifting in and out like
radio transmissions, building to apocalyptic crescendos. Compelling as ever.
Matthew
Earle “Bolwarra Tapes I” cassette - Two long hypnotic trance-like
ambient drone pieces with the sounds of Earle’s bushland surroundings also
captured on tape, with both intense and subtle waves of insect noise as well as
birds twerping, humming, gushes of wind blowing through trees/leaves, etc.
across these recordings. No overdubs or editing; recorded in real time, direct
to tape in Earle’s bush shack/studio on the Hawkesbury in NSW. Limited edition of
35 cassettes (an extra 10 copies recently added to the sold-out original
edition of 25), housed in large square plastic cases.
Fever
Dream Archive - Satellites/Rippled Reflection CD - Melbourne-cum-Tassie
sound artist takes a solo violin improvisation from Kosta T as a starting point
and manipulates it into a immersive dark soundscape. Beautifully packaged in a
DVD-size digicase with 14 page booklet of artwork by Canberra artist, Shags.
Limited edition of 100 copies.
Takamitsu
Ohta “Three Ways to Output from a Recorder” CD – “The
pieces on this CD are of microscopic intimacy and don’t shy away from the
humble circumstances in which they were achieved. They are sputtering, tactile
works of translation captured in real time. Simple devices are used to weave a
pattern of transformation, wherein human gestures are memorized and sparked
into a variety of ticking matter. A tabletop ecosystem of friction graphs three
compelling forms, ready to be traced repeatedly by listeners drawn to crisp
etchings of life distilled into sound.” CD comes housed with beautiful large
printed cards.
Connor
Camburn “aulos” CD – “Connor Camburn’s work in audio has a rare
capacity to forge a link between language and electronics… Within these pieces,
feedback systems hollow out the ducts of a self-sustained instrument, allowing
focus to sharpen and wear on the simultaneously emerging stages of a cycle”.
For the listener, this manifests as minimalist looped bleeps and interference.
not-quite-right but compelling listening. The CD comes housed in an A9
envelope, accompanied by a booklet containing an essay by Camburn on the work.
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