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Artist:
IDEA FIRE COMPANY
Title:
Explosion In a Shingle Factory
Label:
SWILL RADIO
Format:
2LP
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
SWILL 010LP
Debut vinyl by this post-Anschluss project. Basement experimental sound & collage recordings from Amherst, first released in about '93 or so. Tapes, keyboards, synthesizers, harp, piano, percussion, etc.
Artist:
IDEA FIRE COMPANY
Title:
Anti-Natural
Label:
SWILL RADIO
Format:
LP
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
SWILL 018LP
"Idealized field recordings that capture the hallucinatory isolation of an abandoned arctic base.
Anti-Natural
combines organic mechanistic processes into an aesthetic whole. Both severe and opulent, naïve and self-confident,
Anti-Natural
offers an escape route from the false dichotomies of man/nature and man/machine and attempts the transcendence of the impossible. Electronic recreations of the world around us, both real and imagined, foment immutable revolutions in sound."
Artist:
IDEA FIRE COMPANY
Title:
Stranded
Label:
SWILL RADIO
Format:
LP
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
SWILL 024LP
"First proper release for IFCO since 1997's vastly underrated
Anti-Natural
LP. Since 2002 IFCO has been performing and recording as a quartet with Jessi Leigh Swenson and Meara O'Reilly added to core members Scott Foust and Karla Borecky.
Stranded
is a claustrophobic, sensuous optical illusion. Beautiful. Sad. Epic.
Stranded
".
Artist:
IDEA FIRE COMPANY
Title:
Vital: Live in Europe
Label:
SWILL RADIO
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
SWILL 025CD
"In March 2006, IFCO made their first appearances in Europe. Core members Karla Borecky and Scott Foust linked up with Frans de Waard and hit selected hot spots in The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. Adding de Waard (Bee Queen, Shifts, Kapotte Muziek, Freiband, etc) was a brave gamble that paid off handsomely. Armed with only a tiny digital keyboard (Borecky), a radio/cassette boombox and small echo unit (Foust), and a sawed off MS 20 (de Waard), the trio captivated audiences large and small. On these selected recordings, IFCO exhibit a virile murkiness, an almost desperate muscularity. Warnings from a dwindling outpost. Five tracks, 52 minutes. Includes two versions of the haunting 'Pleasure Cruise.' Digipak edition of 300."
Artist:
IDEA FIRE COMPANY
Title:
The Island of Taste
Label:
SWILL RADIO
Format:
LP
Price:
$21.00
Catalog #:
SWILL 026LP
"IFCO follows up our highly ignored
Stranded
LP with an equally, if not more so, strong statement. Core members Karla Borecky and Scott Foust are joined by an all-star cast: Meara O'Reilly and Jessi Leigh Swenson from Stranded, as well as Frans de Waard, Graham Lambkin, and Dr. Timothy Shortell.
The Island Of Taste
depicts a manoeuvre in which the beauty becomes more beautiful as the desperation becomes more desperate. A stark and romantic mission to the rocks. Lavish package featuring an excellent Karla cover painting as well as a booklet presented as a set of 5 x 7 art cards with another Karla painting, band photos, and an essay of mine. Perhaps
The Island Of Taste
is the first LP to make explicit a certain nostalgia for itself. Along with The Shadow Ring's Swill Radio trilogy (
Lighthouse
,
Lindus
,
I'm Some Songs
), I'd put IFCO's trilogy (
Anti-Natural
,
Stranded
,
The Island Of Taste
) up against anyone's three LP run."
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