Browse by Artist: MENCHE, DANIEL

Artist:	MENCHE, DANIEL
Title:	Beautiful Blood
Label:	ALIEN8 RECORDINGS (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ALIEN 036CD

"The sound on this recording is what one might expect -- insanely powerful drone based music composed of the richly layered sounds of different instruments and field recordings, allowing the listener to pick up on new sounds and subtleties with every listen. This is incredibly unusual music that takes influence from both ambient and noise circles and blends the two to fantastic results. The final product is a very unique style of drone music that has incredibly rich and powerful sound. This work can be compared to works and stylistic approaches taken by the likes of Francisco Lopez, Phil Niblock and Hermann Nitsch, in terms of their use of layering massive drones to create portions of their work."

Artist:	MENCHE, DANIEL
Title:	Creatures of Cadence
Label:	CROUTON
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	CROU 032CD

"Despite what the title might suggest, Creatures of Cadence is not about endings, completion, or finality. Instead we find Menche inviting a slew of new mediators into his cathartic miasma. The medium now extends beyond the rich and unfathomable depths of somatic sound. His ongoing dialogue between body and mind has found sympathetic resonators in a myriad of instruments (percussion, cello, horns, and zither) that have proven through the ages of being capable of channeling both our most ecstatic joy and profoundest grief. Creatures of Cadence finds Menche in full exploratory mode; excavating well-concealed networks of sonorous information through a systematic deconstruction of drone and pulse. In the process, he further erases any perceived division between hearing/feeling and performer/instrument. The result, if consumed at the appropriate amplitude, is nothing less than a sixty-minute journey through a voluptuous and pristine mania."

Artist:	MENCHE, DANIEL
Title:	Sirocco
Label:	IMPORTANT RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	IMPREC 046CD

"The first recording by him created by utilizing sound sources from several other sound artists. Andrew Lagowski, Asmus Tietchens, Main, John Duncan, Scanner, Akira Rabelais, Illusion Of Safety, Merzbow, ErikM, B. Labelle and AMT submitted one minute sections of sound for Daniel Menche to work with and to create a long continuous drone track by completely degrading and melting the source sounds and massively layering these to form one long graceful and intense storm to heat and scorch the speakers. Sirocco is a tremendously dynamic and wonderfully textured drone experience."

Artist:	MENCHE, DANIEL
Title:	Jugularis
Label:	IMPORTANT RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	IMPREC 103CD

"Imagine yourself riding on cells coasting through your body's veins. The sound of the heart grows stronger like a beating drum as you're pulled closer. Suddenly, you're embraced by this giant pulsating muscle and when you're finally released back into the veins you can hear it's sound fading slowly, but still growling with the same intensity that it has beat with for eternity. Jugularis is the soundtrack to this ride and like your heart it's packaged in blood: the ultimate symbol of life and intensity. Recently Daniel Menche has embraced more percussion based sound to create music that manipulates the listener's blood flow and intensifies the listening experience. Jugularis still contains a distinctly Menche sound yet being that it's intensely rhythm and percussion based it's extremely different from anything that he has created prior."

Artist:	MENCHE, DANIEL
Title:	Glass Forest
Label:	IMPORTANT RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	IMPREC 176CD

"Glass Forest is a highly listenable starting point for any newcomers curious about Daniel Menche's vast discography. It is also, according to Menche, the last CD he will release. From now on he'll be releasing his music on LP only or on DVD to accompany films he's been working on. Glass Forest is also the companion release to Body Melt which is being released simultaneously on Important on LP only. Recorded in the winter of 2005, Daniel Menche's Glass Forest displays a glistening sound world that is finely textured with the most delicate of raw organic sound and chaotic electronic noise. Not at all extreme as with Menche's previous work, but rather a more subtle presence can be heard here on Glass Forest. Subsonic bass drums crawling underneath massive sheets of glass-like sound layering infinitely into a thick and dense forest of delicate noise. For fans of Daniel Menche's ambient work and also his loud violent work, Glass Forest fits exactly right in the middle of these two polarities."

Artist:	MENCHE, DANIEL
Title:	Hope and Prey
Label:	SOLEILMOON RECORDINGS
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	SOL 135CD

"As with all of his recordings, Hope and Prey offers an intensely powerful and beautiful listening experience. Surprisingly, Daniel Menche's work has rarely been heard in film or television productions. Although his compositions have been used in short films, this is the first time he was commissioned to create the sound for a new film, in this case, Hope and Prey by Vanessa Renwick. The soundtrack, presented here, is a 20 minute composition of powerful and graceful music that richly captures the ferocious nature of Vanessa Renwick's film. Both artists are based in Portland, Oregon, and are individually very active in the underground art scene. Their collaboration is an engrossing fusion of visceral sonics and powerful ethereal imagery that has been performed in live situations as well as gallery installations."

Artist:	MENCHE, DANIEL
Title:	Scattered Remains: Early Rarities
Label:	SOLEILMOON RECORDINGS
Format:	2CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SOL 139CD

"Keeping track of the musical output of Daniel Menche has never been easy. Besides his numerous albums and singles, released by an eclectic range of labels, he has contributed countless tracks to compilations, many of which reached only the smallest of audiences. Scattered Remains tracks his progress from 1995 through 1999, collecting the best of these pieces, now fully remastered, onto two full-length CDs. With the passing of time it has become nearly impossible to find many of the original releases these tracks came on, making this rarities collection a must-have for long-time fans and new converts alike. Besides the material culled from CD compilations, three tracks previously only available on vinyl appear in digital form for the first time ever. The list of labels involved reads like a who's-who of cutting-edge music in the '90s: Banned Productions, Ash International, 23five, Noise Museum, Self Abuse, Isomorphic, KAON, Shirocoal, Suterfuge, G.M.B.H. and of course, Soleilmoon."

Artist:	MENCHE, DANIEL
Title:	Eye On The Steel
Label:	SUBSTRACTIF (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SUBSF 007CD

"Unlike the previous release by Menche, Eye On The Steel features many shorter tracks. The material is therefore much more diverse, consisting of thirteen new compositions, including Menche's first entirely vocal based track. The sound on Eye On The Steel is heavily based around drones, pulses and ambient noise, falling somewhere in the territories often treaded by labels like Mego and Ant Zen. When asked about the sound sources behind Eye On The Steel, Menche stresses the record is his most diverse offering yet and includes loads of different sound sources. His work often stems from sound sources as varied as the body (heart, skin, lungs, larynx) and natural field recordings relying on wind, animals, insects, water, fire, and stones to crude and primitive electronics, broken microphones, damaged speakers, antique audio equipment, truck horns, mangled drones from accordions, melodicas, organs, and bass guitars with heavy gauged strings."

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