Scissor Tail Editions: Just from glancing at the cover, it is apparent that Ozark Dream by The New Honey Shade is a tape created to invoke a pastoral setting. Playing this music brings listeners right into the home of experimental music maven Mark Kuykendall, the stretching fields and golden mountains of Oklahoma. But this is music that transcends geography and occasion – it sounds as great soundtracking hazy, sunny days as it does during dark, rainy nights. Ozark Dream is an extremely unique tape in today’s world of drone in that – instead of aiming for the depths of outer space – it attempts to bring listeners right home and let them appreciate the beauty of their own backyards. Just beautiful.

If you would like to purchase the cassette you may do so here: www.scissortailrecords.com

Mark Kuykendall (www.unknowntonestudio.com). Photo by Michael Cooper.

Constellation Records: Colin Stetson is a horn player of uncommon strength, skill and genre-defying creativity. He composes and performs otherworldly songs that combine a mastery of circular breathing technique with percussive valve-work and reed vocalisations, making a polyphonic solo music that combines influences as diverse as Bach, early metal, American pre-war Gospel, and the explorations of Jimi Hendrix, Peter Brotzman and Albert Ayler. Colin has been making his mark as a staggering solo performer for several years now, in front of audiences small and large, from intimate jazz and experimental music venues to big stages, whether opening for Arcade Fire or The National, or playing at jazz and new music festivals like Moers and London Jazz. His talents have been widely recognised and employed by artists as diverse as Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson, TV On The Radio and Bon Iver; he also plays in Bell Orchestre and Sway Machinery.

Stetson’s live solo performances are absolutely stunning and uncategorisable and he conveys a commensurate intensity and iconoclasm on this new studio album of original material. New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges is Stetson’s second solo record and his first for Constellation. +++ HERE

Peaceful Atom (06’27”) from the album Peaceful Atom.

Another beautiful release by the dear netlabel Test Tube. As I hear the static and hissing waves of Peaceful Atom, my eyes involuntarily close. Perhaps as way of paying respect to the Chernobyl victims and all the areas affected by nuclear “accidents” and “non-accidents” around the planet (exempli gratia). In my visualizations, the residual radiation hazard is omnipresent and I cannot scape reflecting about hot particles, radioactive contamination, and the different forms of pollution in our brains. Of course, the eerie part is that the padded chords infused in most of these pieces make this experience ambiguously delightful. Thank you Guglielmo Cherchi.

Learn about this project and download HERE

“Rogues” is a freely improvised performance by Bryce Beverlin II (percussion, voice), Elizabeth Draper (contra bass), and Timothy Glenn (electronics, laptop) at the iQuit music series on January 15 2006 at the Rogue Buddha. The free improvisation community in Minneapolis, Minnesota is thriving with a solid base of quality performers and enthusiasts. Several regular performance series have been exploring experimental sonic palettes and journeys within a free context for over 4 decades. Milo Fine’s ensembles have been active since the 1960s, while more recent series such as the Tuesday Night and iQuit series have been regularly scheduled for nearly a decade.

Liz Draper lives in Minneapolis where she plays bass and music.
Tim Glenn is a Minneapolis musician who can be heard with Squid Fist, HeatdeatH, Celestiial, and in collaborations like this one.» – Bryce Beverlin II

Thanks to Test Tube

Adam Michalak – fourth color

«Adam Michalak is a polish musician who is doing deep ambient from some time, using a blend of synthesized sounds and field recordings.
‘Seven Colors’ is a gentle collection of very beautiful pieces that Michalak composed during a period of a year and a half, until May 2009. There are some tracks clearly based on specific field recordings picked out carefully by the musician but most of them are very varied in terms of textures and composition. Some are a bit dramatic, emotional and even a bit thick while some others are more ethereal, dreamy and translucid.

Michalak uses dusty vinyl, bells and whistles, electromagnetic buzz, echoing keyboards, drones, silence and many other sound textures to build immense walls of amazing ambient music. Like colors in a faded polaroid, Each ‘color’ represents something and/or tells a story. It’s up to you to discover where it leads. I keep the ‘Sixth Color’ right next to my heart.» – Pedro Leitão

DOWNLOAD HERE

These are some of those albums that you could seriously play all day long…non-stop (while melting on the floor).
Thank you Test Tube. Thank you Ian D Hawgood. Thank you Aogu Yoshida.

Click on album covers.

Test Tube, amazing Portuguese netlabel, releases another collection of every release from tube076 to tube124 on one DVD beautifully packaged in 10 different aquatic-themed sleeve designs to choose from.

Roughly 400 tracks/35 hours of excellent eclectic music from the 5 continents.

Strongly recommended!

«’Pulsos Temporales Memorias Estables’ is the second album from SEB here at test tube and this time he made it even bigger than the previous one. Twenty tracks of SEB’s trademark ‘digital nostalgia’ style of clicks ‘n’ cuts and weird sampling. After a couple of listens, it’s clear that Sebastian has been refining his sound. He’s more precise and to-the-point when he tries to capture an emotional essence into a track or simply by telling us a story. Most of his new tracks are also smaller and more effective, like a new engine model that consumes less but takes you farther. Some of this tracks work a bit like interludes of sort, filling the gaps between heavier, denser and more mesmerizing ones. (More…)

Download here:
http://monocromatica.com/netlabel/releases/tube119.htm

LaNoisA – The Adventures of Range Ca-Cah [012] (January 27, 2006)

LaNoisA (aka SEB… aka Spirit Elevating Brains aka Sebastian Alvarez).
The adventures of Ranger Ca-Cah is the sonic story of a courageous extraterrestrial trying to save its planet from the evil hands of the horrific Zoolbitz, a demonic galaxy eater. High trebled noise pseudo opera. Released on defunct Brazilian noise and experimental netlabel Antena.

Download the EP from the archive.org HERE
LaNoisA – The Adventures of Range Ca-Cah