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Artist:	SONIC YOUTH
Title:	Silver Session (For Jason Knuth)
Label:	SYR
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	SKR 1

2009 repress. "Silver Session was taken from an evening when SY had to do vocal overdubs for A Thousand Leaves -- the band upstairs was hammering out some funky metal overdrive and we couldn't 'sing' properly (?!) -- we decided to fight fire with molten lava and turned every amp we owned on to 10+ and leaned as many guitars and basses we could plug in against them and roared/HOWLED like airplanes burning over the pacific -- we could only enter the room with hands pressed hard against our ears and even then it was physically stunning -- we ran a sick outmoded beatbox through the p.a. and it blew out horrendous distorted pulsations. Of course we recorded the whole thing and a few months later we mixed it down into sections, ultra-processing it to a wholly other 'piece' -- in a way, it's my favorite record of ours." -- Thurston/Sonic Youth/NYC 1998.

Artist:	SONIC YOUTH
Title:	Anagrama
Label:	SYR
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	SYR 001CD

"Sonic Youth have started their own label -- SYR, and are releasing a series of 12"s and CDs. SYR 01 features 4 new songs written and recorded by Sonic Youth in their studio in NYC. The 4 compositions are titled: 'Anagrama', 'Improvisation Ajoutee', 'Tremens', & 'Mieux: De Corrosion'. All 4 songs are instrumentals. The track listing is the same for the 12" and the CD version of this release." Twenty-four minutes of expansive, cloud-relational sound blatters, SY in their most exotically stretched OUT vein. Those two zeros above your nose will zap in a totally satisfying manner.

Artist:	SONIC YOUTH WITH JIM O'ROURKE
Title:	Invito Al Cielo
Label:	SYR
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	SYR 003CD

"Third installment in the home-recorded, self-released series. CD packaged in mini-gatefold cardboard sleeve, vinyl pressed on the clearest of wax, all text in Esperanto. Three wild, spontaneous, improvised pulsations that exemplify contemporary abstraction at its most uninhibited." A 57 minute free form organic excursion that totally sounds like Sonic Youth without ever sounding anything like Sonic Youths' past output & an excellent continuation of this series.

Artist:	SONIC YOUTH
Title:	Goodbye 20th Century
Label:	SYR
Format:	2CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SYR 004CD

"Sonic Youth pays tribute to some of modern composing's most imposing personae with William Winant, Jim O'Rourke, Takehisa Kosugi, Christian Wolff, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore, Christian Marclay, and Wharton Tiers. Music composed by John Cage, Yoko Ono, Cornelius Cardew, Steve Reich, Takehisa Kosugi, Nicolas Slonimsky, George Macuinas, James Tenney, Pauline Oliveros, and Christian Wolff. 'Everything comes to an end, even the twentieth century.' ?Lou Harrison"

Artist:	GORDON/MORE, IKUE/DJ OLIVE, KIM
Title:
Label:	SYR
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	SYR 005CD

"Sonic Youth's femme-mystere has created a distinctly new trio of spontaneous composition and prose. Since reclaiming the electric guitar (her original instrument with the Sonic Youth) and developing a newfound post-Patty Waters free-vox technique, she has enjoined her vision with the improvisational meta-talents of Ikue Mori (ex-drummer of no wave legends DNA, currently in a class by herself with other-world sampling), and DJ Olive (of the wizardly We, coiner of the term illbient, and regarded by those in the heavy underground of postbeat turntable/drum'n'whatever as 'the heaviest'). Together the trio hit the local boards throughout 1999 and created a unified concept of sound/energy dynamix. They recorded with engineer Wharton Tiers and mixmaster Jim O'Rourke for the first recording on SYR not by Sonic Youth proper. The results, which also feature the magic fingers of Cibo Matto's Yuka Honda on a track, are at once sensuous, elegant and completely blistering."

Artist:	SONIC YOUTH
Title:	Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui
Label:	SYR
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SYR 006CD

"The sixth edition of the SYR series is a live recording of the April 12, 2003 benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of avant-garde and independent cinema. In addition to screening films for the public, AFA houses a film museum, research library and art gallery. The event, which raised money for the Archives and celebrated the life and work of avant-garde film maker Stan Brakhage, featured Sonic Youth providing an improvised instrumental collaboration with silent Brakhage films. The band performed with drummer/percussionist Tim Barnes (Essex Green, Jukeboxer, Silver Jews)."

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