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Artist:
LOOP CIRCUIT
Title:
Sound On Sound
Label:
STARLIGHT FURNITURE
Format:
LP
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
STAR 014LP
"Limited to 222 numbered copies. Originally released by Japan's G.R.O.S.S. label as a cassette in a limited edition of 88 copies in late 1994, Loop Circuit's Sound on Sound joins Akifumi Nakajima (also known as prolific noise artist Aube) with Dub Murashita together in an all-electronic self-hypnosis seminar. Basing each of his Aube releases on a distinct and singular source (e.g. water, medical equipment, etc.), Nakajima's "sound designs" range from subtle, ambient journeys to intense noise crash-landings; for this rare collaboration, he surfs a slightly different wavelength. The duo limit their source materials here to purely electronic sounds, loops and effects, creating a mesmerizing, constantly shifting mosaic."
Artist:
INCAPACITANTS VS. IN SPITE OF FLAMING CREATURES
Title:
Vitamin Buckfast
Label:
STARLIGHT FURNITURE
Format:
LP
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
STAR 015LP
"With the golden age of Japanese noise all but tarnished and rusted, here is one last chunk of atonal screech before the oxidation is totally complete. Consumers of all things brutally loud, relentlessly dissonant and, most importantly, originating from Japan, will not require an introduction to Incapacitants -- the noise duo consisting of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai."
Artist:
L. STINKBUG
Title:
The Allure Of Roadside Curios
Label:
STARLIGHT FURNITURE
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
STAR 016CD
"Formed in 1997 by guitarist G.E. Stinson with bassist Steuart Liebig and guitarist Nels Cline, L.Stinkbug consciously chose to complete their line-up with a drummer who could groove -- percussionist Scott Amendola. Both Stinson and Cline prepare their guitars with an assortment of springs, toys, paint brushes, an electric drink stirrer, enough clips to make a beautician queasy, an egg whisk (that's right -- an egg whisk) and numerous other custom-made objects, and run them through a variety of effects, harmonizers and looping devices; same goes for Liebig -- chopsticks between the strings, looping devices, extended technique, the works. L.Stinkbug traffics in 'instant compositions' packed with dynamics, textures and virtuosity."
Artist:
CUT-OUT
Title:
Interlude With Fun Machine
Label:
STARLIGHT FURNITURE
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
STAR 018CD
"Steve Fisk (Pell Mell, Pigeonhed) and Bob Beerman (Pell Mell) approached Interlude With Fun Machine in a similar manner to their work in Pell Mell: set up a pattern, offset it with a contrasting pattern, layer on a counter-pattern, and so on. But where Pell Mell's renown derives from a signature guitar-based sound, Cut-Out relies on textures, patterns, found sounds, presets, rhythm boxes, inversion of background and foreground elements, and a very deadpan sense of humor. The all-instrumental album was recorded in one week, and benefits from noticeable inspiration from Hematic Sunsets' (aka Asmus Tietchens) odd combination of kitschy lounge and soundtrack-ish music and "modern" electronic sounds; the casual, DIY, homespun aesthetic of French Paddleboat; classics such Dieter Moebius's Tonspuren and, of course, Eno's Another Green World; The Young Marble Giants' unadorned rhythm boxes and Wurlitzer frailty; and minimal electronic music by Thomas Leer and Robert Rental, Cabaret Voltaire, Pyrolator, Cluster, Harmonia, et al.)."
Artist:
CUT-OUT
Title:
Interlude With Fun Machine
Label:
STARLIGHT FURNITURE
Format:
LP
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
STAR 018LP
Limited LP version. "Steve Fisk (Pell Mell, Pigeonhed) and Bob Beerman (Pell Mell) approached Interlude With Fun Machine in a similar manner to their work in Pell Mell: set up a pattern, offset it with a contrasting pattern, layer on a counter-pattern, and so on."
Artist:
GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION/DECAER PINGA
Title:
Tubular Bells
Label:
STARLIGHT FURNITURE
Format:
LP
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
STAR 019LP
"The album that launched Richard Branson's Virgin Records and is virtually synonymous with
The Exorcist
, Mike Oldfield's
Tubular Bells
has been revisited by the composer himself over the years in hopes of rectifying problems that still trouble him to this day -- elastic timing, dodgy playing, poor edits, changes in tone, background tape noise. Needless to say, such defects are tools of the trade for countless modern recording artists, especially at the bottom of the food chain. In this no-instruments interpretation of Oldfield's epic instrumental performed by Glands of External Secretion (side one) and Decaer Pinga (side two), deficiency is the cornerstone. By intentionally limiting themselves to pre-recorded tapes, field recordings, electronic devices and effects, out-of-context musical passages, and anything else that did not require a musical instrument to be played -- both bands interpret their respective halves of this legendary opus with methods that seem to run counter to the spirit of the original, yet paradoxically force it to shine through."
Artist:
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
Title:
Il Segno
Label:
STARLIGHT FURNITURE
Format:
LP
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
STAR 020LP
"Beginning with a gloomy text entitled 'The Sign' written by guitarist / lyricist Roberto Opalio, My Cat Is An Alien entered The Space Room and recorded this dark and concrete improvisation, a single piece of howling and caustic ruination stretched over two sides of vinyl. Maurizio Opalio comes out of the fog with desolate acoustic guitar scratches, Roberto's electric space guitar scribbles as he spits out his words of urban alienation, and Viggiu Vortex joins the brothers on percussion. Piano toy and toy keyboard were added later to enhance the surreal lyrics inspired by ghosts, a sense of psychic, cultural and social isolation in their hometown Torino, Italy, and the infinite lightness and beauty between the cement and the sky.
Il Segno
is about the mark of chance, avenues full of dust and fallen leaves, the Torino skyline's abandoned factories and chimneys with the mountains all around, and the dance of swallows at twilight, just before the darkness envelops everything."
Artist:
DEAD C, THE
Title:
The Damned
Label:
STARLIGHT FURNITURE
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
STAR 021CD
"Over the last 17 years, The Dead C have produced some of the most strident, uncompromising and downright nasty rock screech to exit from their homeland of New Zealand, without sacrificing an ounce of the grace and finesse required of tamers of gigantic, wild sandworms. Their eighteen full-length albums and numerous seven-inch singles have garnered worldwide respect from vertebrates and invertebrates alike. The Dead C's improvised noise rock verges on disintegration with a trademark hazy disorientation, invariably evoking hypnotic and heavy moods. But The Dead C are no bummer. They have always sought liberation from shallow and easy rock conventions; amid the murk of cardboard box guitars, underwater vocals, and ramshackle drumming, a new consciousness emerges. The recognizable, sullen strumming, mumbling and lyrical ennui of painter and educator Michael Morley (also known for his solo work as Gate), anchored by percussionist Robbie Yeats and punctuated by the atonal bursts of writer and Corpus Hermeticum label boss Bruce Russell (also known for his solo work as A Handful of Dust), coalesce in a solid front that mocks the efforts of schmaltz-peddling hacks."
Artist:
DUSTBREEDERS AND JUNKO
Title:
Mommy Close the Door
Label:
STARLIGHT FURNITURE
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
STAR 022CD
"The three tracks on
Mommy Close The Door
were all recorded live in France in late 2002 by Japanese vocalist Junko Hiroshige, whose murderous wail hypercubes Patty Waters, Yoko Ono, and the titular victim in Olivia de Havilland's 1972 crime flick
The Screaming Woman
, in collaboration with Yves Botz, Thierry Delles, Michel Henritzi, who extend the trad power trio into a Marclay mash with brutal rock'n'roll energies."
Artist:
TEXT OF LIGHT
Title:
Text of Light
Label:
STARLIGHT FURNITURE
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
STAR 024CD
"Text of Light was formed in 1999 to perform improvised music during screenings of films by Stan Brakhage and other American avant-garde filmmakers from the 1950s and '60s. These should not be considered soundtracks for Brakhage's works, which are intended to be screened silently. Rather, the group uses the films as an element to stimulate improvisation, like an additional player, juxtaposing film and music in a real-time performance mixed-media collage. On this CD the group, in various combinations, includes: Lee Ranaldo and Alan Licht on guitars and devices; Christian Marclay and DJ Olive on turntables; William Hooker on drums and percussion, and Ulrich Krieger of Zeitkratzer on sax and electronics."
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