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Artist:	Z'EV
Title:	Symphony #2 Elementalities
Label:	BLOSSOMING NOISE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	BN 015CD

"A pioneer of the 'industrial' movement, Z'ev has been cultivating his percussive noise for over 20 years. Collaborating with the likes of Glenn Branca, Genesis P. Orridge, KK Null & Stephen O'Malley, to name a few. Started in late 2005, Symphony #2 was composed in London using source material drawn from his live performance in October 1990 at the Wang Concert Hall, Amsterdam. Completed January 2006 in L.A., Elementalities is a text/sound document and comes housed with a 12-page booklet."

Artist:	Z'EV
Title:	Production and Decay of Spacial Relations...
Label:	DIE STADT (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	DS 091CD

...vs. Reproduction and Decay of Spatial Relations. "Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the very first Z'ev studio album which originally came out on Backlash in 1981, Die Stadt is proud to announce the re-release of Production and Decay of Spacial Relations for the first time on CD. It features the original seven tracks from the vinyl plus six 'recodings' entitled 'Reproduction and Decay of Spatial Relations' made by Z'ev in May/June 2005. Back in the day, Z'ev used to bring boxes over from Holland when he would come back to New York City which he would sell to Bleeker Bob (a famous record shop situated in the East Village of NY) who told him: 'this is the best industrial record ever and I sell it to every Japanese buyer who comes into the store.' The CD is housed in a reproduction of the original LP (!) cover and comes with a special handmade insert. First edition of 500 copies. Total playing time: 79:57 min. The first edition of 500 copies also includes a bonus CD with never before released archive material all recorded in 1982."

Artist:	Z'EV
Title:	Headphone Musics, 1 To 6
Label:	TOUCH (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TO 063CD

"In 1967 Z'EV took a tape music class at the UCLA night school. The leader of the course was Joseph Byrd who was the founder and theoretician of the first electronic rock band; The United States of America. So while it's almost 40 years now that he has been involved in the production of electro-acoustic music, Headphone Musics marks the first release of a product exclusively featuring this form of music. All of the source material is drawn from the collection of cassette tapes Z'EV has amassed over the last 30 years -- sounds and soundscapes he has either recorded himself or witnessed, or tapes that have been given to him by various peoples on his travels or been received by him through the mail from fans etc. Technically he remains a bit orthodox in that basically he still plies the old tools of the tape manipulation trade in the current digital sphere. What this means is that he concentrates on editing, phase relationships, time dilation, and inherent and 3rd harmonic distortion as his only means of processing the information he is transforming. There is no looping involved, although #2 features a recording he made in 1984 using his controlled-skipping Lenco turntable. 'As Is As' is a live recording of a sound poem Z'EV produced and performed under the name 'S. Weisser' at a Sound Poetry Festival in 1976 at the La Mamelle art space in San Francisco. It was produced using 2 reel to reel tape decks, 3 cassette decks, and 2 microphones."

Artist:	Z'EV
Title:	The Sapphire Nature
Label:	TZADIK
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TZ 7161

"One of the world's premier noise percussionists and a learned scholar of Kabbalah, Torah and Talmud, Z'ev has been a vital force in the downtown scene since the late 1970s. In addition to his collaborations with Glenn Branca, Rudolph Grey and his fascinating solo work, Z'ev is also a prolific writer and musical thinker. He has written on subjects ranging from music composition, ritual performance and has also translated several esoteric Tibetan and Hebrew texts into English. His latest study is Metaphonics, the spiritual in sound, and The Sapphire Nature is his first musical creation based on these principles. Accompanied by 54 pages of text in both English and Hebrew (in PDF files), the music is an atmospheric and hypnotic symphony of bangs, clangs and howls in the night."

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