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Artist:	IRR.APP.(EXT.)
Title:	Cosmic Superimposition
Label:	ERRATA IN EXCELSIS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	EIE 006CD

2007 release, repressed. "Cosmic Superimposition is the second installment to a planned trilogy of irr. app. (ext.) productions that draw from the philosophical ruminations of Wilhelm Reich. The first album in this trilogy is Ozeanische Gefühle, which had been published by The Helen Scarsdale Agency back in 2004. This earlier album is a majestic convergence of a multiplicity of crepuscular sounds and shadowy drones. Using this strategy of dynamic confluence, irr. app. (ext.) presents Cosmic Superimposition to once again infer a particular slant upon Reichian logic. The title of this album is also a title to one of Reich's treatises upon a cosmological interconnectivity. In particular for this book, Reich argued how the superimposition of multiple energies (whether that be meteorological, astrophysical, psychological, sexual, or what not) is the common functioning principle throughout the natural world. On the single 45 minute track that comprises Cosmic Superimposition, irr. app. (ext.) presents a revolving set of organic fluctuations that wax and wane in accordance to a well-tuned internal logic. Glassine ambient passages of processed environmental noise slide into the sustained harmonics of bowed metals which in turn couples with the off-kilter phase pattern of an exhaust fan whose motor is not quite properly aligned. All the while gurgles from streams, clatter from subterranean actions, singing bowl reverberations, and dark elliptical cycles of blackened electronics pock the stately progressions of Cosmic Superimposition's dronemusik foundation. Yet, none of these elements shatter the spiraling atmosphere of the contemplative, occasionally melancholia album which parallels the spectral sounds of The Hafler Trio, Organum, and Christoph Heemann."

Artist:	IRR.APP.(EXT.)
Title:	Ozeanische Gefühle
Label:	HELEN SCARSDALE AGENCY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	HMS 002CD

"irr. app. (ext) is the work of California-based sound artist Matt Waldron, whose collected body of work is far too important to continue to be forgotten. Had things gone differently, Ozeanische Gefühle would have been one of the lost irr. app. (ext.) recordings. That would have been a shame for Ozeanische Gefühle stands as an impeccable composition of post-surrealist dronescaping rivaling such masterpieces as The Hafler Trio's Kill The King, Jonathan Coleclough & Andrew Chalk's Sumac, and Nurse With Wound's Soliloquy For Lilith. The album tumbles through a series of sympathetic dronings, field recordings, and performative gestures, continuously traversing the emotional polarities of psychological tension and externalized jouissance."

Artist:	IRR.APP.(EXT.)
Title:	Kreiselwelle
Label:	HELEN SCARSDALE AGENCY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	HMS 016CD

"irr. app. (ext.) is the sound-engineering project of Californian M.S. Waldron, whose liminal slippages and detourned croons have been spotted recently on stage in Nurse With Wound. Yet for all of the antics that are required for the NWW spectacle, Mr. Waldron still dedicates himself in the parallel pursuits of irr. app. (ext.) with a discography that reads more like a wunderkammer of uncanny investigations into futility declared as its reverse. Kreiselwelle is the third and final installment to a body of works that irr. app. (ext.) has composed under the influence of Wilhelm Reich, the unorthodox 20th Century psychologist who proposed, amongst many hypotheses, an interconnectivity between energy, organisms and the entire cosmos. The title to this album translates as 'spiral wave,' a structuralist form which Reich had observed throughout nature within numerous systems, whether that be the grand arcs of galaxies down to the radial symmetries of micro-organisms. For Kreiselwelle, Mr. Waldron returns to the same collection of field recordings which began this trilogy that includes Ozeanische Gefühle and Cosmic Superimposition; however, he restricted himself to those sounds with spiraling origins: resonating springs, the sounds of the ocean cyclically churning over pebbles on the beach, the wafting of air around various objects, or simply a lamp-shade spinning in place. The resulting recording develops as an organic sublimation of one sound transforming from one state into another and then another. Motorized sounds of mechanical toys set askew settle into a tremolo phase pattern of electrical vibrations. These in turn morph into a cauldron of slow locomotive rumbling, which beget one of many glassine drones that float throughout Kreiselwelle. Many of the sounds seem to have origins in objects that are broken, obsolete, or just plain wrong; but through Waldron's deft alchemy, these sounds are allowed to flourish in this richly dark and oddly serene amalgamation."

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