Browse by Label: SEDIMENTAL

Artist:	FO A RM
Title:	#5 (autonomy)
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	MAG w/CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	FOARM 005

156 page softbound book, with added CD. "Special section on Phillipine composer Jose Maceda. An in-depth interview with the reclusive Serbian radio composer Arsenije Jovanovic. An essay on the early scores of Robert Ashley by cellist Alex Waterman. A history of the non-profit artist's residency by the Boston-based Berwick Research Institute. Contributions from: Giancarlo Toniutti, Francisco Lopez, Achim Wollscheid and John Duncan, Michael Bullock, Max Krafft, Luis Lopez with composer Barbara Held, Przemyslaw Jasielski, Michael J. Schumacher, Lionel Marchetti, Paolo Javier, Steven Zultanski and Travis Nichols, Chris McDonald. Sedimental pressed compact disc at 80 minutes in length: Jonas Baes, Barbara Held, Arsenije Jovanovic, Jose Maceda and Michael J. Schumacher."

Artist:	STARS OF THE LID
Title:	Music For Nitrous Oxide
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 023CD

New edition of the first Stars of the Lid release. "This was Sedimental's first CD release back in 1994. Robert Overtz (Ultrasound) mentioned this guy Adam who was doing amazing 4-track stuff at home. I think the name of the tape he gave me was called Ombudsman. The success of this release was a nice surprise and certainly having Joel at Cargo champion it, who was just getting Kranky going as well, certainly put us both out there. Ultimately, SOTL ended up at Kranky and are still making amazing recordings for them. Many say this is still their favorite Lid release, although I am partial to the Ballested Orchestra, too. It certainly remains a powerful touchstone for and precursor to, the post-whatever independent music scene and still sounds incredibly solid and undated today. Though Stars founder Adam Wiltzie has admittedly distanced himself from the release in artistic terms, he felt it was time to revisit and refresh the work with a new mastering job, as well as having new artwork designed by long-time visual collaborator, Craig McCaffrey. Sedimental has always kept the document in print in its original form with a remarkably steady stream of sales, but we welcomed the opportunity to update the release and make it more widely available to a new generation, so to speak."

Artist:	BLOCK, OLIVIA
Title:	Pure Gaze
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 026CD

"Block is an electro-acoustic and modern instrumental composer whose recorded compositions combine layered, processed wind and string instruments with processed sound from sections of field recordings she has collected from various natural landscapes. Her performances include minimalistic scored musical sections played live by a quintet accompanied by taped material, often sounds of field recordings, or the same quintet previously recorded and electronically manipulated. Block herself 'plays' found objects and instruments (trumpet). The resulting surrealistic sonic landscapes and the contrast between elements create a paradoxical element to her work. In all of her recent works she emphasizes comparisons between organic or 'real' sounds and electronic ones, and she demonstrates how electronic technology imitates natural evolution using similar sounds from both worlds. She also explores the difference between 'sound' and 'music' and the creation of experience through emotional, subjective or intellectual, objective means."

Artist:	COLEMAN, JAMES
Title:	Zuihitsu
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 030CD

"In our continuing quest to bring you new and young talented experimental musicians, Sedimental is proud to release the debut cd from Boston improv heavyweight, Thereminist James Coleman. Coleman draws inspiration from the unique spatial & timbral elements found in Morton Feldman, Giancinto Scelsi, John Cage and the British improvisatory group AMM, the stylistic & phrasing innovations of Miles Davis, traditional Japanese music, minimalist art forms, Fluxus-ism and the sounds & movements of birds and other animals. The artist has a long held interest in the austere compositions of Feldman, which often display the slow, unfolding of a single note(s) in space, which in turn, relates to the 'quietness' & spareness inherent in traditional Japanese art forms. The artist sculpted a particular Theremin sound for the recording of the two undr quartet pieces Each Spire An Animal and Released To The Stars, incorporating Japanese aesthetic concepts of Wabi (rustic simplicity), and Sabi (loneliness, weathered surfaces). The Theremin in these two pieces has a burnt, irregular, grainy sound using amp noise to achieve this sensibility. This sound in combination with the sound of the undr quartet suggests vulnerability, beauty, potential of life, energy in transition, and epiphany."

Artist:	BLOCK, OLIVIA
Title:	Mobius Fuse
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 031CD

" Olivia Block is a contemporary composer who combines field recordings, scored segments for acoustic instruments, and electronically generated sound. Her recorded work seeks to introduce, set at play, and ultimately reconcile nature with artifice in the realms of music and sound. In the process, 'organic' sound becomes subtly processed, digitized and abstracted; 'inorganic' sound becomes self-replicating and animate; and 'musical' elements such as chamber instruments are de familiarized from their traditional associations, freeing them to participate in the larger aesthetic possibilities of sound. Her pieces are composed over long periods of time in numerous stages. She often prepares elaborate tape installations in natural sites for field recording sessions which she later integrates into her recorded compositions. In live performance, Block introduces additional elements of paradox and tension: chamber musicians perform scores which accompany pre-prepared tape material, and improvisers (often including herself) interact with 'lo-fi' speaker installations and digital recordings."

Artist:	SCHUMACHER, MICHAEL J.
Title:	Four Stills
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 032CD

"Schumacher has a strong presence on the experimental scene with his refined guitar 'drone' compositions but parallel to this activity he has been working with number system applications of sampled material through electronics, a direct extension of his audio installations. Where as much digitally generated material succumbs to a hermetically closed world of glitches and electronic landscape Schumacher's work opens up this environment, despite the density of the material, into a breathing, organic spaciousness while still maintaining the intimacy inherent in the form. 'The Four Stills are expressions of the number system that I have used since 1989 in my electronic compositions. These numbers form the basis for dozens of rhythmic processes executed by the computer, from playing a midi grand piano, to deciding a range within a sample buffer to play, to determining larger structural aspects such as the alternation of sound and silence within a particular part. The fact that they are prime numbers prevents predictable patterns from emerging. The limit of six maintains structural coherence. The Four Stills were recorded direct to stereo in real time. Though the sounds used in a given piece are predetermined, their interaction with each other over time is left to chance. These pieces are extensions of my installation pieces, which evolve over long time periods, and are also created in real time by generative algorithms. However, in contrast to the installations, which utilize distance as an important perceptual feature and employ as many as 16 independent channels of sound, allowing for meaningful variations in texture, these recordings, being limited to two channels, are more compact in their presentation of the sonic material. They therefore remind me of certain styles of painting, which present the spectator with a static field of color that is experienced in no particular order. Though the music obviously unfolds over time, the analogy seems appropriate to me, since the dense textures (sometimes as many as 27 simultaneous parts) invite a contemplation of the many layers of sound and their relation, not in time, but in space.'"

Artist:	TONALAMOTL
Title:	Movement (sum)
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 033CD

"Mysterious improvised electro-acoustic ensemble recorded in one take at the Movements Dance Studio in Austin. There was another Tonalamotl record that came out a few years ago on Bobby J but it sounds nothing like this surprise genius. Three long extended explorations using percussion, electronics, home made gadgets, etc. Certainly this has roots in the likes of Morphogenesis, AMM and even Polwechsel but this is American music, from Texas no less, so check your pale complexions and copies of Les Particules Elementaires at the door."

Artist:	BLOCK/SETH NEHIL, OLIVIA
Title:	Sunder/Unite
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 034CD

"Sunder/Unite began with the destruction of musical sources through the insertion of silence and/or faulty connection. It continued with the playing of small objects, fire and grass on our tour of Japan in 2000, being multiplied on many small speakers in each space and recorded in these situations. Sources continued to be recorded in our locations, train stations, a market in Kyoto ... Sounds were traded and holes punched in, surfaces distorted. Transparencies of sound were overlaid and cut, residues remain. We followed an ever-shifting ground and rate-of-change. A skip and fade, an intuitive mix and then traded again. The crumbling recording of metal. A walking recording of creaking wood. Speakers in a room.Composed 1999-2001. Instruments and treatments by Seth Nehil and Olivia Block except: Kyle Bruckmann (oboe, Chinese oboe); Michael Northam (objects); Michael Shannon, (reeds)."

Artist:	IELASI, GIUSEPPE
Title:	Plans
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 035CD

"A year and a half in the making, this remarkably dense and subtly musical effort marks a rupture/diversion in Ielasi's creative output. The intersection of electro-acoustic sonographies infused with fragments of melancholic melodies creates a near dizzying disorientation. In 1998 Iealasi founded the well-respected Fringes label, in order to document his own work as well as that of other artists. In addition to his work on Fringes, he has recorded for such labels as Leo and Sonoris, Erstwhile and Absurd. He has performed live with Taku Sugimoto, Jerome Noetinger, Dean Roberts, Thomas Lehn, Michel Doneda and Brandon LaBelle, Domenico Sciajno among many others."

Artist:	DOERNER/GREG KELLEY/ANDREA NEUMANN/BHOB RAINEY, AXEL
Title:	Thanks, Cash
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 036CD

"This long-awaited document of an historic tour marrying two of Berlin's finest improvisers with Boston's hometown sluggers (nmperign, The BSC) has finally been released, and is sounding luscious. At the end of August, 2001, Doerner and Neumann arrived at Boston's Logan airport for a tour that would cover the continental United States and take up the entire month of September. They started by recording with Boston's BSC (released on Grob Records as Good), and then embarked, with Rainey and Kelley, on what would normally be a significantly perception-altering tour of the U.S. It turned out to be more literally mind-melting, which brought out the bottomless magnanimity of each player. The music lets light in through dark slats, and is filled with the richness of sound these musicians bring to their best projects. It retains a 'live' feel while apparently derived from a tattered, ancient score, reserved for especially confounding times."

Artist:	EMPTY HOUSE COOPERATIVE
Title:	The Painted Plane
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 037CD

"The Northeast based improvising collective features an extended family of musicians including members of Molasses, Thalia Zedek, Consonant, Pullman, Boxhead Ensemble, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and The New Year. Though all of these artists are involved with significant other projects the EHC has taken on a unique life of it's own.�The music is melodic and musical but the open-ended, extended pieces float and shimmer with a minimum of structure and are marked by a nuanced melancholy. Closest musical parallels would include the Dirty Three and the Boxhead Ensemble (of which Curry appears on one recording). Painted Plane features regulars Chris Brokaw on guitar and Jonah Sacks on cello, along with DMC on viola, loop samples, guitar & horn."

Artist:	CLUETT, SETH
Title:	My Own Thousand Shatterings
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 038CD

"My Own Thousand Shatterings is a one hour and fifteen minute composition consisting of three sections. It is a document of my obsession with rain, though it may not be immediately apparent as to how. I love how rain varies infinitely, how the totality of it is a drone, how (much like white-noise) when it reverberates in our architecture, it pulls pitches out of the air. I love how thunder dwarfs the sound of everything for a moment, and how its sustained echo rolls spatially around us. The third piece is a stereo field recording, the second is a stereo documentation of a performance, the first was recorded in a studio to a mono reel-to-reel. The pitches for the first and second pieces came mostly from the rain of the third piece being played back in the resonance of my home, the speed of change in the first two pieces comes from my obsession with geological data about the Kutiah glacial surge that happened in Pakistan where a glacier decided to move twelve kilometers in two months.�That is a very fast slow. The second piece is paced in performance by my memory of the data, the first piece is paced by my memory of the pace of the performance of the second piece.�The combined pitches that came about by improvising with the frequencies originating in the field recording were then used to gently filter the field recording itself in the third piece." Seth Cluett is an installation artist and educator living and working in Troy, NY. His work has dealt primarily with the relationship between the body and sound or light as well as architecture as an extension of the body. His research focuses on the effect of sound and light wave propagation on space perception and cognition, but its not that fancy.

Artist:	EKG
Title:	No Sign
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 041CD

"EKG is the duo of Kyle Bruckmann and Ernst Karel. EKG's music is situated between acoustic and electronic, improvised and premeditated, disruptive and meditative; it crackles and hums with precariously restrained potential energy. Combining traditional and extended wind techniques with anachronistic (non-digital) electronic processing, they carefully sculpt a bizarre yet organic sound world of shifting tones, sudden and creeping textures, elusive suggestions of possible melody, and microscopic noise. No Sign is their third release, combining sessions from makeshift studios amidst Chicago snow and San Francisco fog."

Artist:	COURTIS, ALAN
Title:	Antiguos Dolmenes del Paleolitico
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 042CD

"Antiguos Dolmenes del Paleolitico ('Ancient Palaeolithic Dolmens') is a composition in four parts created exclusively with processed no-input feedback and inspired by these stone monuments. It was created in early 2004 and is the first full-length solo CD from Argentinian composer Alan Courtis, a founding member of the group Reynols. Courtis currently lives in Buenos Aires, and has toured extensively in USA, Europe, Japan & Latin America collaborating with artists such as: Pauline Oliveros, Damo Suzuki, Toshimaru Nakamura, Makoto Kawabata, K.K. Null, Rick Bishop, Thomas Dimuzio, Jason Kahn, Solid Eye, Birchville Cat Motel and Lasse Marhaug."

Artist:	PAIUK, GABRIEL
Title:	Res Extensa
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 043CD

"Res Extensa is a tape piece based on the superposition and juxtaposition of different layers of sound 'registers.' These registers are layers of sound materials related to our everyday sound environment and coming from different origins: marginal sounds from electric devices, analog sources, field recordings, amplification of microsounds, recordings of machine noises, digital 'errors' and 'heard' musics. These sounds do not carry a traditionally codified expressive meaning but rather an emotional register linked to our everyday experience, an affective and tactile charge related to what we are exposed to. Within them, a great variety of articulations and nuances are connected to our feeling and understanding (of the world). The aim of the piece is to unfold, friction and break up these matters to expose them in their affective characters and our connection to them. Recorded sound can be thought of as a specific kind of acoustic event. This, as well as the sounds of all kinds of electric phenomena, have become part of our listening culture. The fragments used in Res Extensa, different levels of 'recorded' sound, are not a representation of the world but rather extracts of our vibrational experience, of our shared surface of perception, feeling and thought. The idea is to create a musical event based on the assemblage of different modes of listening. In Res Extensa, sound matters and their implied listening habits are put against each other. The idea is to build a dramaturgy of the grain of sound in which each layer unfolds an array of sensations, a plane of continuous movement stripped of the acquired mechanisms of perceiving 'musical' sound. Music as a language of matter, but language as an articulation of experiences rather than as a representative system."

Artist:	BLOCK, OLIVIA
Title:	Heave To
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 044CD

"Olivia Block's Heave To is her fourth full release under her own name (her first two are on Sedimental, the most recent on Jason Kahn's Cut label) and marks both a new maturity in her compositional prowess and also a new confidence. Heave To, a composition in three movements, is an investigation into the deep structures of maelstroms. A roiling mixture of crashing waves and wind, jagged strings, clanging metal, complex electronic textures, and clusters of chamber instruments. In our opinion, this is her strongest work since her debut, Pure Gaze. Olivia Block is a contemporary composer and sound artist who combines field recordings, scored segments for acoustic instruments, and electronically generated sound. Her recorded work seeks to introduce, set at play, and ultimately reconcile nature with artifice in the realms of music and sound. In the process, 'organic' sound becomes subtly processed, digitized and abstracted; 'inorganic' sound becomes self-replicating and animate; and 'musical' elements such as chamber instruments are defamiliarized from their traditional associations, freeing them to participate in the larger aesthetic possibilities of sound."

Artist:	PILIA, STEFANO
Title:	The Suncrows Fall and Tree
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 045CD

"The Suncrows Fall and Tree bolsters Stefano Pilia's small but substantial and well received body of solo work (LVD, Time-Lag) along with his participation in the highly lauded 3/4HadBeenEliminated project with Valerio Tricoli and Claudio Rocchetti. The new document contains two 20-minute long sound arcs that are sweeping and focused, essentially drone pieces. They are beautiful in their restraint but not 'pretty' and are grounded in the subtle use of acoustic and natural sound elements. The work was composed and recorded between 2003 and 2005 in Bologna, Milano, Codroipo and Arbatax using the following sound sources and devices: electric guitar, field recordings, microphones, piano, tape noise, instruments played by wind, sine waves, PVC tubes, filters with an additional contribution from Andrea Belfi of high frequency synth. Besides the above mentioned projects, Pilia is also a member of the Medves project and a collaborator with Black Forest/Black Sea and has contributed to numerous installation and film sound works."

Artist:	RAINEY/RALF WEHOWSKY, BHOB
Title:	I Don't Think I Can See You Tonight
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 047CD

"The Bhob Rainey/Ralf Wehowsky collaboration overcame many gruelling attempts, musical dead-ends and a five full years to realize its outcome and man, was it worth the wait! Both artists sit firmly in their unique and highly regarded (and earned) musical positions these days and are both truly fearless in attempting and pursuing new musical activities for themselves. Here are three powerful, often hair-raisingly intense pieces that allow no room for complacency on the part of the listener.... at all. Here is what Dan Warburton says in the newly posted February issue of Paris Transatlantic: 'Listen to how the title track emerges slowly from a shell into which fragments of recognizable noises are being sucked as backwards sound files, taking nearly seven minutes to reach the open air, where distant sounds of children at play, footsteps and tiny smears of saxophone multiphonics and all manner of sonic building blocks both recognizable and tantalizingly inscrutable are gradually brought together to construct the musical equivalent of a Gothic cathedral... from where I'm sitting this is one of the most important works of electronic music (or musique concrete, if you prefer) to appear this decade.'"

Artist:	DONEDA/GIUSEPPE IELASI/INGAR ZACH
Title:	Flore de Cataclysmo
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 048CD

"This trio features very distinct musical personalities and caught us off guard simply by its appearance at all, but we sure did smile when we heard it as we knew it would pack the goods. Both Zach (percussion) and Doneda (reeds) lay sturdy frameworks with Ielasi (guitar) adding an almost alien warmth to the group sound. Intense sonic impact yet transparent and sparse enough to navigate with alert senses, the whole disc has an ambitious arc that one may miss when caught in the web. Doneda's comments: 'The music unfolds from known materials, offering clues. The fleeting nature of the colors, tones, dynamics and rhythm coalesce and then dissolve. Often, the sound seems to dig in an invisible soil, and then the quest stops, often at a new place, but then another layer appears. Each musician weighing the sounds in the most real sense... perfectly independent in a unique and definitive community without specific roles or hierarchy.' All true."

Artist:	SILLAGE
Title:	Sillage
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 049CD

"Certainly amongst our most challenging releases, Sillage is the mind-blowing collaboration of Brendan Murray and Seth Nehil and is the result of a first meeting in a live setting from 2004, a performance that was loud, powerful, and very successful. This event combined with knowing these electronic sound artist's previous work as generally maximalist and full makes Sillage both curious and nearly shocking in this light, as here the material is continually turning inward, trying to push out but always being submerged. This document takes many, many listens and can remain baffling and impenetrable. Yet with patience one does get underneath it, and once this happens the sonic rewards are otherworldly and deep. Followers of either or both artists' work should recognize his particular contribution, but this venture has provoked new and uncharted territory from both."

Artist:	FEENEY & VIC RAWLINGS, TIM
Title:	In Six Parts
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 050CD

"Vic Rawlings is as careful and focused as any musician/improviser working today. Over the years he has honed his prepared cello and electronic, open circuit device performances down to sparse, tight, violent little assaults. His many collaborative projects run long and deep in Boston (undr quartet, the bsc) and beyond (NRA, MAWJA) and this (relatively) recent partnership with the youngster Tim Feeney has produced immediate and excellent results as well. This release also finally gets Rawlings properly into the Sedimental roster, something that is long overdue. So what do we have here? Feeney, a percussionist, is less a foil than a multiplier of the Rawlings aesthetic. The first five parts are static, lean, and pinpointed explorations of high pitches, specific gestures of scrapes and buzzes. Cold, but organic. Sparse, but rich. Feeney does provide a modicum of warmth as heard on 'Part Six,' the final section of the disc, which acts an emotional counterweight to the previous five. A rhythm emerges, slowly unfolding, repeating, a know-able signpost amid the desolation, a way out, but not exactly towards home."

Artist:	WANKE, RICCARDO DILLON
Title:	Caves
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 051CD

"Riccardo Dillon Wanke's Caves was composed and recorded in 2006 in Alfama (historical district of Lisbon, Portugal) using acoustic and electric guitars, saxophones and natural sound elements starting from pure radical improvisation evolving into the investigation of drones and static and looped music related to minimalism. At the center of these works are the binaural beats in musical composition, the results lying between classical composition, minimalistic improvisation and a 'folk' sensitivity. The five tracks of Caves explore this in various ways. Its music plays with the relation between different geometries: expanded drones and concrete sounds, acoustic melodies and looped music. The project is music with a sort of irrational tension within a composed piece, built as a musical space made with few elements. On the surface, its aura seems immediately knowable and known, yet Wanke has delivered a much more complex, nearly radical gesture."

Artist:	DUNN, KYLE BOBBY
Title:	Fragments & Compositions
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 052CD

"Fragments & Compositions is a collection of long-processed recordings that began at several universities and art centers visited frequently from 2005 to 2007. Working with classically-trained musicians recruited on a whim, Dunn recorded the often awkward sounds of the sessions and sparse notes of the musicians as Dunn dictated. The music addresses amongst other aspects: the pace of meeting people and their vanishing, the human condition, the nothingness of being, indifference, the ephemeral, the bleak and the misery of mid-winter and mid-summer. Yet also the warmly humanist acceptance of these negative terms and things. Sedimental has been following Dunn's sensitive and world-wise drone works closely for many years, and with this brilliant new release we hope to expand his presence on many levels." "...there's an austere classical air to Dunn's compositions, recalling the geometry of cathedral domes and the interlaced ribs of vaulted ceilings." --The Wire

Artist:	NOVI_SAD
Title:	Jailbirds
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 053CD

"Novi_sad's work came to our attention via our good friend Susanna Bolle (Non-Event and Rare Frequency) in Boston. A superbly keen ear, Bolle felt that his work and our label should connect. Though Novi-sad has only a few years of practice behind him, the quality and maturity of all of his efforts is striking. The proposed Jailbirds material for Sedimental was totally complete and not only of the highest quality, but also of a truly unique vision. What is significant in his work is the multiplicity of its action on the listener. It is a density of sound, acting in three-dimensions, not as auditory 'sound effect' but as music with depth both physically and in functionality. Its intensity and purposefulness based in specific conceptual foundations and enhanced by a mastery (and transcendence) of technical means collapses amplified environmental recordings, drone manipulations, structured ambient soundscapes, microtones and overtones into a unified whole. Sedimental is truly excited to be an early anchor of this young composer and sound artist's serious oeuvre. Novi_sad (Thanasis Kaproulias, b. 1980) is a graduate student from the Economic University of Piraues. He lives and works in Athens, Greece, where he began generating sounds in 2005. His debut album Misguided Heart Pulses, A Hammer, She And The Clock received worldwide critical acclaim. Recently, Novi_sad did a recording session at the prestigious VPRO studios in Amsterdam, for the Dutch National Radio, which will be released by Staalplaat in the Mort Aux Vaches series. A recent piece called 'Dramazon' is available on TouchRadio from the publishing house Touch. He is currently working on a project based on various methods of audio analysis called 'Sirens' in which he explores the aesthetics of information on sound by using quantitative data from major stock market crashes in history."

Artist:	AREA C
Title:	The Planetarium Project
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	SED 054CD

"In live collaboration with Black Forest/Black Sea, Eyes Like Saucers and Mudboy. Double full length CD release limited to 500 copies housed in a stunning and uniquely designed handmade, hand assembled letterpress cardstock sleeve by discerning artist Amy Borezo at her Shelter Bookworks studio in Western MA. We have been fans and have closely followed Providence's Area C project for several years. It was simply a matter of time before we would release something by this dynamic artist and these special recordings presented themselves as the obvious choice. Area C's work has always appealed in its ability to be at once hypnotically accessible balanced by subtle and brooding dark elements under the surface. It recalls both post-rock elements as well as the more experimental works of classic '70s German space rock groups. The live collaborations with the other Providence-based artists push Area C's distinctive sound in compelling directions. This document represents over two hours of carefully selected music taken from many evenings of performances."

Artist:	BOSETTI, ALESSANDRO
Title:	Zwolfzungen
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SED 055CD

"Alessandro Bosetti is a longtime friend and a musical colleague of many of our friends as well. We have followed Bosetti's creative development over the years and admire his challenging and often discomfort inducing works and live performances. Though we assumed that his sharing the recording of Zwolfzungen with us a few years back was just to keep us abreast of another of his unique projects( this one originally as a piece for German radio), it's power and musicality struck us as being his most realized work up that point and it was clear and without hesitation that we should make it tangible via the label. We feel it is a perfect synergy of Bosetti's deep interest in text based works combined with all of his broad and dexterous musical abilities. A subtle and understated masterpiece. We are also proud to once again be working with Shelter Bookworks(re: Area C) on the creation and design of the handmade cardstock sleeve. Their attention to the detail of materials and execution is unmatched. The inclusion and choice of the eerie and charming drawings of Erin Womack as the artwork for the panels help make this document more than the sum of its parts and something to behold."
Artist statement: " I like to listen to languages I don't understand. I like the moment when the understanding of words stops and every language starts to 'make noise'. All languages have a special sound, some more than others have particular acoustic characteristics that delight this musician's ears. For Zwolfzungen I colllected recordings of eleven languages I'm not, or partially, able to speak and understand. Eleven languages I encountered in my travels, whose sound I especially liked. Moreover, I invented a twelvth one, developed and learned during the past years and featured as a last instalment of the series. Zwolfzungen could be translated as twelve languages as well as twelve tongues. I try to 'misunderstand' each one of those languages as much as I can. They include, among others: Dogo, Basque, Urdu, Mandarin, Cherokee, Japanese and Zulu. For each language's recording I developed a specific piece of music, dis-engaging from the meaning of the words and instead concentrating on its sound and rhythm. The pieces are not intended as features or documentaries as I'm not inserting any explanatory aspect into their context. I used whatever compositional ideas and methods the source material inspired : tape collage, electro-acoustic processing, max/msp, low-fi sound devices and then performed them live, mixing my voice with pre-recorded and realtime electro- acoustic materials. Each piece is a unique musical universe and be may listened to individually or as a total group. Zwolfzungen was originally commisioned in 2005 as a radio art piece for DeutschlandRadio Kultur in Berlin and re-worked as a multi-channel live performance in 2007."

Artist:	BULLOCK, LINDA AUBRY
Title:	Ray Of Dark
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SED 056CD

"Linda Aubry Bullock's subtle emergence on to the Boston experimental music scene in 2002 was a smile inducing surprise for those of us who knew her solely as a visual artist. It was quickly apparent however, that this was no novelty as she excelled in a range of projects with her unyielding analog electronic contributions. After seeing Bullock perform many times over the years and then hearing the menacing piece 'Ray of Dark' on the Rare Frequency radio program in August of 2008, we were inspired to commission her to submit a full length's disc of material for a long overdue debut release. While LAB does fly solo, she truly thrives in collaborative settings, several with her partner, the composer Mike Bullock, who appears here with Twilight of the Century. What we love about her work is its directness and purity. Her electronics recall certain bleak atmospheres and sensibilities of many mid-80s post-industrial artists: menacing, pulsating, and droning. Her work is not overt or obvious though, instead inserting its way into your system like a deadly parasite or virus. The order of material on the disc was skillfully assembled to work as a whole in this way and we recommend listening to it rather loudly with the shades drawn."

artist statement: "'Twilight of the Century' is a collaboration between Century Plants (Eric Hardiman and Ray Hare) and rise set twilight (Linda Aubry Bullock and Michael T. Bullock). The first 4 tracks are our reaction pieces to this performance -- material taken from 'Twilight of the Century''s performance on July 31, 2008 in Albany, NY. The other two pieces on this album, while not directly involving 'TotC' are related to the time that the group was forming. I feel that A Specific Gravity is the shadow self of 'TotC.' It was recorded by Michael T.Bullock during a residency at STEIM in Amsterdam, NL in June 2009. If I drew a Venn Diagram, the center would contain The Story of Mike, the sets being friendship, family, and places. It was inspired by a recording of Seth Cluett and Jennifer Eberhart as they were conjecturing on the origins of MTB."

Artist:	WANKE, RICCARDO DILLON
Title:	to r.s.
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SED 057CD

"Wanke continues to amaze us with his sensitive, detailed and spacious soundworks. to r.s. follows up his lauded debut Caves on Sedimental with another stunner. For to r.s. Wanke uses electric and acoustic guitars, acoustic piano, objects and natural sounds. The 53 minutes of this unique piece divided in four parts combine static compositions, drones and looped music. Structurally viewed as a classical composition, the music takes shape with flat harmonic profiles and acoustic events that are layered and coupled together in elliptical and hypnotic loops and echoes. The piece is dedicated to and inspired by Robert Schumann's music. Born in Genova, Italy in 1977, established in Milan from 1982 until 2005, multi-instrumentalist and composer Ricardo Dillon Wanke lives and works in Lisbon. He has been working in the experimental music field since 2000 (long term collaborations with Giuseppe Ielasi, Stefano Pilia, Francesco Dillon, Renato Rinaldi, David Maranha, Manuel Mota, Rafael Toral among others). He is member of Medves group. He set up a trio with David Maranha and Manuel Mota, 'dru' and collaborated with Italian classical cellist Francesco Dillon with whom he co-founded 'Amuleto'-collective. His work with guitars, acoustic and keyboards (piano and rhodes) and sax has started from pure radical improvisation and has drawn to the investigation of drones sounds, static and looped music related to the minimalism."

Artist:	CORRIDORS
Title:	Corridors
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SED 058CD

"Byron Westbrook has been performing Corridors live around the US and EU for the last four years, however this audio CD is the first physical release of the project and Sedimental is ecstatic to be releasing this very committed young artist's debut. Since 2004 Westbrook has been the technical coordinator for Phill Niblock's Experimental Intermedia Foundation. While assisting and collaborating with Niblock and other luminaries of experimental music, Westbrook began developing Corridors as a multi-channel performance system for live guitar feedback. Shortly after the completion of a month-long tour with Rhys Chatham's Essentialist, Westbrook began performing the project. Corridors has since evolved to encompass the improvised performances of other musicians, recordings of which are processed into phrases or texture units for playback from ipod or minidisc players through the multi-channel system. The results are sweeping and fluctuating textures that place distinct frequencies in different parts of a room, creating an intense opening and closing of space over time for the listener. The pieces were recorded in large spaces (churches, concert and university halls) using a mixture of binaural and mid/side microphone techniques, to allow for the most accurate imaging in a stereo field. The recording process spanned a three year period, during which many different performances of the works were documented. These recordings were carefully edited together, taking the most representative moments of each performance, to make this CD containing three frequently performed pieces. These pieces are loosely structured works, always performed in conjunction with single or multiple light projections. An element of improvisation exists within each performance in that every room is different and the sounds respond uniquely to different rooms. There is a beginning, middle and end that has been worked out, but where the sounds exist and for how long will change for each performance. Limited to 500 copies and housed in a custom oversized sleeve."

Artist:	GROSS/LIZ TONNE, DAVID
Title:	Performing Sunday 7:30
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	10"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	SED 10-001

"Labeled as 'One of Boston's steadfast explorers,' by Bob Blumenthal of the Boston Globe, saxophonist David Gross has been transforming the saxophone, for nearly a decade, into exactly what it is: a metal tube with keys, mouthpiece, and a reed. Liz Tonne is a vocal artist inspired by the unorthodox use of the human voice. Her work explores the infinite possibilities of the human voice, unmodified by electronic effects and typically without amplification. As an improviser, she deconstructs the traditional role of the singer as both story teller and 'melodic center' using her voice purely as a sound source. Removed from it's historic context the voice begins to resonate hidden languages, passions, stories and emotions that are buried within our collective memories."

Artist:	RAINEY, BHOB/ANGST HASE PFEFFER NASE
Title:	Ain't It Grand/Journey To The Center Of Something Or Other
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	7"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	SED 7002EP

"Proposed for Sedimental as a 'glorious masquerade' by Boston-based Bhob Rainey (BSC, Nmperign, and infinite collaborative scenarios) with the opportunity to also release solo work by Western MA's Chris Cooper (Fat Worm Of Error, XO4, Buddies, BSC, etc.) in his Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase guise proved too devastating a proposition to avoid. So we did not avoid it. Here we have a circular 'cover' project, or a 'which came first,' a 'who is who' conundrum. Those who know the respective artists work well enough should be able to suss the jig, and despite a label-less disc, there are other ways. So, what do we have here, musically? Densely-collaged musique concr�te-ism edited at a rather brisk pace, essentially. What matters, besides each artist's specific musical means, is both the sensitivity and the breadth the artists bring to the project. Concise. Humorous. Kick-ass. Classic. Do we really need to discuss Rainey's 'importance' on things experimental at this point? I hope not. Chris Cooper, on the other hand, does deserve a bit more elucidation. Though well enough known through the circles in the above-mentioned projects, it seems that his particular genius through the discipline of his guitar work is still not wholly understood. He possesses notable music knowledge as well as theoretical approaches that are generally not employed in the lo-fi, experimental noise and punk worlds in which he operates. His contribution to this artifact is yet another important piece of evidence that continues to build an airtight case for his necessary-ness."

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Artist:	LOPEZ, FRANCISCO
Title:	Untitled Music For Geography
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 024CD

Artist:	MURRAY, BRENDAN
Title:	Resting Places
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 039CD

Artist:	GROSS, DAVID
Title:	Things I Found to Be True
Label:	SEDIMENTAL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SED 040CD