Browse by Label: SWILL RADIO

Artist:	PICKLE FACTORY, THE
Title:	Our Pledge
Label:	SWILL RADIO
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SWILL 013CD

The Pickle Factory is Scott Foust and Karla Borecky of the Idea Fire Co., plus a third member. Again utilizing layers of keyboards, bass, tapes, synths, guitars, etc. plus some occasional floating vocal tonings, there is much cosmic beauty touched upon here, in a slightly more song-like forum than IFC. Floating capsules of sound, with a vague touch of post-Kosmiche awareness, making this an outsider force to be reckoned with. My favorite on the label to date, but the CD packaging (banal manila envelope) is so pathetically uninspired that it's hard to figure out why they bothered.

Artist:	SHADOW RING, THE
Title:	Lighthouse
Label:	SWILL RADIO
Format:	2LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SWILL 017LP

First album in a while from the UK-centered group (previous documentation via their own Dry Leaf label, Corpus Hermeticum & Siltreeze). Assisting the core members (Lambkin, Harris, Goss) on this recording (from '97-'98) are the following Americans: Adris Hoyos, Karla Borecky & Scott Foust (Idea Fire Co.). "To enter the world of the Shadow Ring is to enter a surreal anti-world of bizarre song structure. Lighthouse will rank with Trout Mask Replica and Tago Mago as both one of the most avant garde and the most eccentric double LP's of all time. Unlike those two records, Lighthouse features no instrumental pyrotechnics, instead relying on odd sonic combinations, startling lyrics, and a very painterly use of minimal studio technology. Absolutely essential listening if you are interested in modernist stretching of song form with extraordinary results."

Artist:	IDEA FIRE COMPANY
Title:	Anti-Natural
Label:	SWILL RADIO
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SWILL 018LP

"Idealized field recordings that capture the hallucinatory isolation of an abandoned arctic base. Anti-Natural combines organic mechanistic processes into an aesthetic whole. Both severe and opulent, naīve and self-confident, Anti-Natural offers an escape route from the false dichotomies of man/nature and man/machine and attempts the transcendence of the impossible. Electronic recreations of the world around us, both real and imagined, foment immutable revolutions in sound."

Artist:	TART
Title:	Radio Orange
Label:	SWILL RADIO
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SWILL 019LP

"The debut LP from the trio of: Karla Borecky, Graham Lambkin, and Scott Foust. Tart is an exquisite combination of three distinct minds, much like the skillful structure of diverse, yet subtle, ingredients in a piquant and nostalgic recipe: The Past as well as The Future. Tart blends together these strange elements in an organic yet totally disciplined style that renders many of their contemporaries as either flabby or boring. Radio Orange presents 7 original pieces of expertly edited new music-form. From the opening tape-collage miniatures, 'The Rabbits of Mangtarau' (pts 1 &2), through to the indeterminacy and excitement of the closing title-track, Radio Orange carves its identity through great use of diversified expression. The analog drone/vox duet: 'Astride Such Delicate Pins'; the bizarre environmental action, 'Woman In Her Womb'; the fragile tone composite, 'The Mums'; and the grinding electronic surge of (the almost 20 minute)' Chopin in a Shell' all help complete the program in classic style. The overall sound is both hypnotic and explosive, with each side being carefully sequenced to maximize the fact. The super-modernist avant garde continues to raise its aesthetic head under the romantic banner of the Anti-Naturals. Tart is fabulous."

Artist:	EARLY W
Title:	Volume 2: Nur Die Tiere Blieben Ubrig
Label:	SWILL RADIO
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SWILL 020LP

"Volume two in a Swill Radio series of LP's documenting the early work of Ralf Wehowsky (aka RLW). As with volume one, a slightly different version of this LP was originally released on cassette by Wahrnehmungen (later renamed Selektion) in the early 80's. This is a much more band-oriented release than volume 1. A number of tracks were recorded live and the mood is aggressive throughout. This is a fantastic Neue Deutsche Welle document. If it had been released on LP, it would be legendary. It still is."

Artist:	TART
Title:	Bring In The Admiral
Label:	SWILL RADIO
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SWILL 022LP

"Tart (Graham Lambkin, Karla Borecky, and Scott Foust) presents the world with their second LP, Bring In The Admiral. Using the same minimal instrumentation as the live shows (two small Casios, guitar, and a shortwave/cassette boombox plus a few studio effects and The Anti-Naturals trademark: tight, subtle, and yet powerful editing), Tart produces a dazzling array of scenarios, a testament to deranged beauty. Tart is a band that truly does not sound like anyone else."

Artist:	IDEA FIRE COMPANY
Title:	Vital: Live in Europe
Label:	SWILL RADIO
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SWILL 025CD

"In March 2006, IFCO made their first appearances in Europe. Core members Karla Borecky and Scott Foust linked up with Frans de Waard and hit selected hot spots in The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. Adding de Waard (Bee Queen, Shifts, Kapotte Muziek, Freiband, etc) was a brave gamble that paid off handsomely. Armed with only a tiny digital keyboard (Borecky), a radio/cassette boombox and small echo unit (Foust), and a sawed off MS 20 (de Waard), the trio captivated audiences large and small. On these selected recordings, IFCO exhibit a virile murkiness, an almost desperate muscularity. Warnings from a dwindling outpost. Five tracks, 52 minutes. Includes two versions of the haunting 'Pleasure Cruise.' Digipak edition of 300."

Artist:	IDEA FIRE COMPANY
Title:	The Island of Taste
Label:	SWILL RADIO
Format:	LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	SWILL 026LP

"IFCO follows up our highly ignored Stranded LP with an equally, if not more so, strong statement. Core members Karla Borecky and Scott Foust are joined by an all-star cast: Meara O'Reilly and Jessi Leigh Swenson from Stranded, as well as Frans de Waard, Graham Lambkin, and Dr. Timothy Shortell. The Island Of Taste depicts a manoeuvre in which the beauty becomes more beautiful as the desperation becomes more desperate. A stark and romantic mission to the rocks. Lavish package featuring an excellent Karla cover painting as well as a booklet presented as a set of 5 x 7 art cards with another Karla painting, band photos, and an essay of mine. Perhaps The Island Of Taste is the first LP to make explicit a certain nostalgia for itself. Along with The Shadow Ring's Swill Radio trilogy (Lighthouse, Lindus, I'm Some Songs), I'd put IFCO's trilogy (Anti-Natural, Stranded, The Island Of Taste) up against anyone's three LP run."

Artist:	TIETCHENS, ASMUS
Title:	Teils Teils
Label:	SWILL RADIO
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	SWILL 027LP

"I've been a fan of Asmus Tietchens' music since Formen Letzter Hausmusik came out in 1984. That LP fascinated me and I soon began acquiring anything I could by this strange musical force. I've learned a lot from his music over the years and we became acquainted via the post in the late '90s. As it turns out, we both have an extreme fondness for cigarette smoking and an interest in Max Nordau, so what better place for his first LP release in years than Swill Radio? The side-long 'Teilmenge 20' starts off the LP with an odd manic ticking that never lets up. Other sounds ebb and flow throughout and the whole piece has the rare quality of sounding totally artificial and yet organic at the same time. The second side slows things down with three tracks of dripping industrial ambience. The whole LP brings to my mind an atmosphere of waiting. To quote my good friend Matt Krefting, 'No one's music sounds both as cold and as emotional in quite the same way as the music of Asmus Tietchens.'" -- Swill Radio.

Artist:	FOUST, SCOTT
Title:	Here's To Love! A Film By Scott Foust
Label:	SWILL RADIO
Format:	DVD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SWILL 028DVD

"Starring: Matt Krefting, Meara O'Reilly, Jessi Swenson. With Scott Foust, Graham Lambkin. Music by Idea Fire Company, Tart, The Pickle Factory, XX Committee. Y Front. Here's To Love! is reminiscent of the past glory of silent film, when the beauty of the image predominated, yet it looks firmly to the future. It is the story of a quest by three young people to find their aesthetic idol and save him from his degraded state, told through slowly unfolding scenes with striking, lingering, and sometimes aesthetically-challenging videography. These images are closely matched with original music by Foust and his various sound projects from throughout his career. A film to be watched with thought and a patience not usually demanded by today's methods of hyperactive, cartoonish editing, Here's To Love! should be viewed as a series of extended moving paintings, accompanied by truly timeless music." NTSC format, region free.

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