Browse by Label: KYE

Artist:	LAMBKIN, GRAHAM
Title:	Softly Softly Copy Copy
Label:	KYE
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	KYE 004CD

"Softly Softly Copy Copy is the brand new CD by Graham Lambkin, following on from 2007's Salmon Run (Kye) and 2008's collaboration with Jason Lescalleet The Breadwinner(Erstwhile). Softly Softly Copy Copy is a two-part tape composition - a shoreline odyssey where man and beast wrestle for absolute rule. Recorded and mixed in upstate New York over a two year period, and aided by the talents of Samara Lubelski -violin, and Austin Argentieri -acoustic guitar. Mastered by Jason Lescalleet at Glistening Labs. Comes housed in an elegant 4 panel digipak."

Artist:	DARGE, MONIEK
Title:	Soundies (Selected Work 1980-2001)
Label:	KYE
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	KYE 005CD

"Moniek Darge has been active as a composer, violinist, performer and audio artist since the early 70s. She is most widely recognized as one half of the pioneering new music group Logos Duo alongside her partner Godfried-Willem Raes. The Logos Duo, which operates under the umbrella of the Logos Foundation, have been celebrated both at home in their native Gent, Belgium and on the international stage. They have performed their work in countries as diverse as Brazil, New Zealand, Japan and the US. However, Moniek's solo work has been harder to locate, the last published collection being Sounds of Sacred Places (Igloo Records, 1987). Soundies is the first in a series of releases from Kye that aims to bring Moniek's solo material before a wider audience. Soundies contains the following work: Sand (1980) -for two percussionists with tape (electronics) and one participant from the audience / Stormfugle (1981) -for two performers, voice, tape (electronics and voice), slides, film, clarinet and violin / Fairy Tale (1983) -for vocals, violin and tape (koala sounds and dog-growling) / Harpje (1995) -for harp samples and performance / Caete (1997) -for soundscapes, live musical objects and duo / Verbondenheid (1999) -for voices, Turkish turtle and live musicians / Turning Wheel (2001) -for voice, live violin and soundscape. Comes in an attractive 4-panel digipak graced with original art by Moniek."

Artist:	DARGE, MONIEK
Title:	Crete Soundies
Label:	KYE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	KYE 006CD

"Kye is pleased to announce the release of Crete Soundies, the major new work by Moniek Darge, and the follow-up to last year's Soundies (1980-2001) CD. Crete Soundies presents three new pieces -- Magnesia (2006), Anemos (2007) and East Crete (2008-2009). These works were born from two years of Levka Ori sound research, and an additional year in east Crete in collaboration with fellow sound artist Francoise Vanhecke. Moniek Darge was born in Bruges, 1952 and studied music theory and violin at the Music Conservatory of Bruges, painting at the Ghent Royal Academy of Fine Arts; Art History, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Ghent, Belgium. She is active as composer, violinist, performer and audio artist and has built light and soundsculptures, installations, musical instruments and for many years has been constructing a series of alternative music boxes, with which she also performs. Darge has specialised in both soundscapes and live-art performances in which visual and musical aspects are combined and in interactional improvisation on violin. Since 1970 she has performed around the world and has been active on stage, first with the Logos Ensemble, then with Logos Duo (together with Godfired-Willem Raes), and more recently with the M&M robot ensemble. She also founded Logos Women, a small group specialised in intermedia improvisations performing their own compositions for various instruments, voices and music boxes. Crete Soundies comes housed in 6-panel digipak, in an edition of 500, and is released with the support of the Flemish Government."

Artist:	HELM
Title:	Cryptography
Label:	KYE
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	KYE 011LP

"Helm is the ambiguous solo moniker of London-based sound architect Luke Younger. Although, perhaps best known as one half of the pioneering avant-drone outfit Birds of Delay, it is in the more esoteric work of Helm that Luke's art takes on its most radical shape. 2010's debut LP To An End confirmed that in an age of fleeting trends and fly-by-night fancies, there were still a few old souls prepared to knuckle down and deliver the goods that people want to receive. Cryptography carries forward that noble mindset, presenting a new five-part suite of expertly rendered electro-acoustic study. Using processed piano, Casio MT-40, cymbal and guitar strings Cryptography steers the Helm sound through a melange of fringe territories: glacial drone meditations, reconfigured gamelan clusters, and howling walls of organized feedback, all coalesced in classic UK post-industrial fashion. Indeed, had it been conceived of 30 years prior, it would be easy to imagine Cryptography winning a seat in the United Dairies, or Dom America catalog, such is its commitment to homemade exploratory zeal. Cryptography arrives in a full color sleeve, with insert, in a hand-numbered edition of 400 copies."

Artist:	CALL BACK THE GIANTS
Title:	The Rising
Label:	KYE
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	KYE 012LP

"Call Back The Giants first surprised and delighted the listening world in 2010, with their warmly-received eponymous debut album. Since that time, the duo of Tim Goss and Chloe Mutter have been locked in perfect isolation, teasing every nuance of their sound into sharp focus. The Rising presents the results of their toil, exposing Call Back The Giants as true masters of cryptic intent. Homespun keyboard minimalism, wavering teenage laments, and foreboding pronouncements of doom, synthesize into new, original matrices of thought. The Rising also introduces the guitar heroics of some-time third member, Big Rob Stewart, who lays down the law in crude basement style. The Rising is a masterpiece of ambition, that meets the expectations of its audience head on. The Rising arrives in a full-color, high gloss sleeve, with photography by Krysztoff Dorion, in an edition of 1000."

Artist:	DARGE, MONIEK
Title:	Sounds Of Sacred Places
Label:	KYE
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	KYE 013CD

"New 2011 edition of this cornerstone sound art collection, originally published in 1987 on LP by Igloo. Sounds of Sacred Places arrives in a high gloss 4-panel digipak with accompanying 16 page booklet of photos and notes. Remastered from the original tapes by Moniek Darge at the Logos Foundation, Gent. Edition of 500."
"In most ethnic cultures, sacred places serve an important social function. The qualities, typical of these places, explain to western people the magic magnetism of these 'holy grounds'. During our international Logos Duo concert tours we have had the opportunity to visit quite a few of these places. Uluru, the 'Shadowgiving Mountain' of the Aborigines, better known under its western name of Ayers Rock (Australia), impressed us more than any other. The presence of water and an enormous monolith in the midst of the vast desert plain is given as an explanation for its magical appeal. But to the Aborigines, each little place of the rock contains tracks of their ancestors, the 'Dreamtime People', who live in this mountain and speak to them in the sounds of the winds howling through the crevasses and rockholes. Uluru is also the dwelling-place of the 'World Serpent', the most powerful totem shared by the surrounding tribes. Sounds of Sacred Places attempts to transform the listener into a living witness of the sounds of similar places, not far away in any specific ethnic culture, but in Flanders." --Moniek Darge, 1987

Artist:	MILLION YEAR SPREE
Title:	Million Year Spree
Label:	KYE
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	KYE 014LP

"Million Year Spree is the first in an occasional series of shared LPs where two like-minded souls meet under one umbrella. Hamilton, Ontario's Fossils have long been the reigning kings of no-fi acoustic sewage, producing an endless stream of outstandingly dire handcut confusion. Calfornia's Darksmith came to public attention last year (2010) via their peerless Total Vacuum LP (Hanson). Wilting electronics, floppy turntableism and sun-baked cassette protocol are combined and destroyed in a claustrophobic void. With additional mixing by Graham Lambkin and mastering by Jason Lescalleet, Million Year Spree is the last word on being and nothingness. Hand-numbered edition of 400."

Artist:	MELCHIOR, DAN
Title:	Excerpts (& Half-Speeds)
Label:	KYE
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	KYE 016LP

"Dan Melchior is known by many as a long-standing footsoldier of garage rock. Throughout his fifteen years of service Dan has gained a reputation as being one of the few in his field willing to test the flexibility of an otherwise stagnant genre. Last year's brilliant Assemblage Blues LP (Siltbreeze) showed Dan scratching at the bars of his cage, restricted by the very domain he dominates. Excerpts (& Half-Speeds) is Dan Melchior's hammer in the mirror. A courageous act of self-vandalism, reducing his own sonic signature to a series of fractured sketches, riffs, and run-throughs, glued together to create something akin to Another Green World for the fuck off generation. Excerpts (& Half-Speeds) arrives in a full color high gloss Melchior-designed sleeve, with insert, in an edition of 450 copies."

Artist:	BASSETT & SAMARA LUBELSKI, MARCIA
Title:	Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon
Label:	KYE
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	KYE 017LP

"Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon is the debut LP by the duo of Marcia Bassett and Samara Lubelski. Both musicians have played crucial roles in the development of underground sound over the last 20 years, tinting the broad waters of abstract folk, chromatic noise and long form drone, and cementing themselves as cornerstone artists in the process. Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon is the perfect synthesis of Bassett and Lubelski's individual crafts - two sidelong forays into deep black string meditation that hang in the air like ghosts on Ludlow Street. Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon was recorded/mixed by Barry Weisblat in 2010 in Brooklyn, NY, and arrives in a high gloss monochrome sleeve, in an edition of 500 copies."

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