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Artist:
PLOTKIN, JAMES
Title:
Kurtlanmak/Damascus
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 001CD
"James Plotkin began his musical career as the guitarist for metal band Old with vocalist Alan Dubin. The two would cross paths again under the guise of Khanate. In the interim Plotkin would become involved in projects ranging from guitar bent soundscape and grind to free improvisation. His body of work spans format and label, recording for Avant, Hydra Head, Asphodel, Earache, Southern Lord and Archive among others. Whether writing, performing, or producing, his output has been invariably unique and extreme.
Kurtlanmak/Damascus
is no exception. Recorded live in New York and Buenos Aires respectively, the tracks show a side of Plotkin rarely seen: that of the solo artist. Plotkin utilizes two distinct setups for each performance and channels the sound of acoustic instrumentation through the hum of electronic sorcery. Originally released on Utech to overwhelming acclaim,
Kurtlanmak
landed squarely on
Wire
magazine's best Outer Limits release list last year. The music has been remastered for this edition and the packaging expanded. 'Damascus' is added here as a bonus track and is previously unreleased."
Artist:
MARHAUG, LASSE
Title:
Spaghetti Western Rainbow
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 002CD
"Hailing from the land of the rising snow, Lasse Marhaug has become one of the most commanding and respected sound artists in Norway. Having collaborated with artists from varying fields of musik (Sunn O))), Aaron Dilloway and Maja Ratkje to name a few) Marhaug's reach extends into musik for theatre, dance, installations and video. A salvo to Ennio Morricone,
Spaghetti Western Rainbow
stands testament to the Italian composer's enduring influence. Morricone collaborator Sergio Leone established the spaghetti western genre in 1964 with
A Fistful of Dollars
. The director used Morricone again to score the remaining two films in his three-part account of greed and violence (
For a Few Dollars More
;
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
) Leone's critics were struck by his brutal depiction of an unromantic West, but his singular style, camera angles and extension of time made his film different from any western that had come before. Lasse Marhaug exacts Leone's slow, beautiful power and love for expanse with shades of Morricone's genius to create what will inevitably be considered one of his masterworks. Issued on Utech Records as a micro pressing of 100 CD-R copies in the winter of 2004. Lasse Marhuag first performed this music as an unbroken laptop work for a Chicago radio station. This edition finds the piece remastered and divided into two tracks that open and close the album. Two unreleased tracks recorded in Boston, Bergen and Oslo have been added as bonus material. Artwork inspired by the film
The Great Silence
."
Artist:
GREENLEE, SHAWN
Title:
Nysa
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 003CD
"Shawn Greenlee is a composer and performer of experimental music in Providence, Rhode Island. He is poised at the epicenter of a panicked music scene and is best known for his solo electronic music as well as for founding the frenetic rock group Landed. Greenlee has recorded for a number of labels including Load Records, Vermiform and Hospital Productions.
Nysa
represents a compendium of turbulence and singularities. The sound for drunken states on mythic mountains. A studio reshaping of recordings from several live performances with custom computer programs, gestural input devices, and circuit-bent electronics. It was assembled throughout 2006 in Providence and mixes human aktions with the performance systems: Needles(s), High, Maenads, and Augur. Each system utilizes a physical approach for exploring the hidden and creating the esoteric with digital audio. Hands move and draw across circuits and codecs. Oscillating cryptographs emerge as sonic divinations, interpreted by an ecstatic body. Interference reveals noise beneath noise."
Artist:
VULTURE CLUB, THE
Title:
Live Young, Die Fast and Leave an Exquisite Corpse
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 004CD
"
Rumble // feedback // electricity. Only sound. The guitar is not dead. It is still humming and I believe in it. Copper wound is copper wound, today and yesterday. Magnets are magnetic, today and yesterday. Wood is wooden, today and yesterday. Electricity is electric, today and yesterday. These things shift in their own time and on their own basis. They are not forced and in my own capacity, I do not force them. The editor's role is Advocate. The rattle you hear, that is the energy and the idea. It is not all mine and it is not all theirs and it is not all yours. But it is all ours. There was darkness before there was light, I guess. We live in between. Name is Thomas Lee // borne somewhere and will die somewhere too // currently living in Lawrence, Kansas. I reside here because neighbors are not so close and most of them are old and deaf already. Downtown where the hipsters are, I can walk amongst them and no one knows about the amps and guitars. No need to scream about the weirdness because I am invisible and alive // they let me walk fast and away. These are my people is one way or another and I refuse to belong to them.
Live Young, Die Fast and Leave an Exquisite Corpse
. I can't explain it any better than that.
" --TL
Artist:
HALF MAKESHIFT
Title:
Aphotic Leech
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 005CD
"
Aphotic Leech
is the first movement in a series of ever changing modes which make up what Half Makeshift has slowly become. A bath of heavy drone and bitter piano chords strewn over top of subtle glitch work and manipulated percussion, Aphotic Leech trades malice for despair and shuns any probable hope. Created in November of 2006 from austere piano pieces, string fragments, a live percussion specimen and other various arrangements, this piece grew to be much larger than originally intended through a series of long manipulation and thought processes. It is a heaviness of a different kind which engulfs the body in a thick black sludge only to dissipate at once, becoming a reborn substance and finally draining itself, leaving a small fragment lingering after it expires."
Artist:
SKULL DEFEKTS, THE
Title:
The Sound of Defekt Skulls and Intense Cranium Contact
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 006CD
...
Feedbacking Gothenburg and Chicago
. "The Skull Defekts, represented by Henrik Rylander and Joachim Nordwall, were invited in late September 2006 by the Chicago non-profit organization Lampo to make their U.S. debut. With them they brought recorded sounds from their home on the Swedish west coast, Gothenburg. A city breathing culture, it is also Sweden's most important export harbor. While spending close to a week in Chicago, Rylander and Nordwall carefully prepared a piece to be presented on the Lampo event on September 30th. The duo recorded more sounds, searched for the Skull sound of Chicago, and found inspiration from the city itself and the people they met. They traveled with ten mixing desks and Nordwall's custom Drone Machine, ready to complete the project with sharp psychedelic & analog noise treatments. They also investigated the CM von Hausswolff 'There Are No Crows Flying Around The Hancock Building' thesis. A crow was found below the building, it did not seem to be able to fly. The Skull Defekts recorded it while it was playing and testing its wings in a nearby park. When the Skulls left, the crow was still on the ground."
Artist:
MENCHE, DANIEL
Title:
Wolf's Milk
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 007CD
"Crystalline drones and sacred incantation. Nectar procured from golden fruit. Shimmering resonance channeled through dream. A most anticipated return to form for Menche. Breathtaking purity of sound.
Wolf's Milk
is a triumph of immense magnitude."
Artist:
KNELL
Title:
Last Ten Meters
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 008CD
"First release from French guitarist Johannes Buff. An attempt to dissect the methodology he explores with guitar. Using a single sound source and unprocessed field recordings, Knell invoke rich beauty and obsessive melodics. A luminous patina reveals vague, underlying threat. Drone as a catalyst of frequency and time. Nothing to understand through listening, only to gaze."
Artist:
PLOTKIN, JAMES
Title:
Indirmek
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 009CD
"James Plotkin unveils his second solo release in as many years.
Indirmek
presents two distinct facets of his musical work. The first track 'Afyon' (opium) lies closest to Plotkin's trademark drift. In essence, a guitar track stretched to limitless possibility. An elemental fury contained, dissected and entrusted to a NYC audience for their consideration in the spring of 2007. 'Amfetamin' (amphetamine) is a second recording from NYC, performed in the fall of 2006. The track is considerably more immediate. Its allure can be credited to Plotkin's use of electronics to invoke raw sound and shape it as he sees necessary to fit a given context. The track speaks a multitude of languages in succession and simultaneously."
Artist:
CONVEY, JOSHUA
Title:
Vacant Integument
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 010CD
"
Vacant Integument
is the debut release from NY resident Joshua Convey. Sharp, spiky overtones rattle four skillfully assembled tracks. Each gritty frame is lined with a delicate array of guitar, harmonica and electronics. Quiet drone hums along as melody slowly reveals itself amongst carefully placed shards of raw feedback and noise. Not since Kaoru Abe or Masayoshi Urabe has the harmonica been used to such magnificent effect.
Vacant Integument
is a singular and resonant work that deserves all manner of praise."
Artist:
ZAIMPH
Title:
La Nuit Electrique
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 011CD
"Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Hototogisu) rears Zaimph's vile head once again on
La Nuit Electrique
. A raspy, delicate instrumental passage begins like a crippled music box. Elegant and soporose. Blackened guitar and amplification apprise the rest. Acrid feedback hangs in the air and vocal modulations clot inside dark rivers of current. The night electric."
Artist:
SACHIKO
Title:
Kunado
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 012CD
"Japanese vocalist and instrumentalist Sachiko (Overhang Party, Vava Kitora, Kosokuya) looses a second, white-hot solo release. Her brilliant debut
You Never Atone For
on There/Musik Atlack rode gilded wings straight to the heart of the psych sun. The journey continues with
Kunado
. A tincture of Taj Mahal Travellers, wispy oscillations and lysergic vocals bathes the recording in delicate atmosphere as Sachiko's sonic attack leaves vicious and harrowing results. A listen not soon forgotten."
Artist:
JUNZO, SUZUKI
Title:
Pieces for Hidden Circles
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 013CD
"Japanese singer/guitar player Suzuki Junzo (Astral Travelling Unity, 20 Guilders, Overhang Party, Miminokoto) weaves an improvised country-blues folk music with touches of acid and psych. While performing and recording mostly as a solo artist, he has collaborated with Hiroshi Hasegawa, Tabata Mitsuru and Kawabata Makoto.
Pieces for Hidden Circles
is a recording of the highest order, evoking spirituality and devotion unrivaled. A campaign to a world of solitude, each footfall and gust of wind resonating to the heavens."
Artist:
MITSURU, TABATA
Title:
Lumrapideco
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 014CD
"Japanese sound artist Tabata Mitsuru (Boredoms, Zeni Geva, Acid Mothers Temple, 20 Guilders, Leningrad Blues Machine) is a musician who has claimed his solo voice and skillfully hones it with each release.
Lumrapideco
('Speed Of Light') is a collection of spaced-out electronics, bleak feedback and sedate guitar passages. Sometimes oppressive, sometimes heart-stirring, it is never less than astonishing."
Artist:
SKULLFLOWER
Title:
Desire for a Holy War
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 015CD
"
Desire for a Holy War
is mayhem piled on top of mayhem piled on top of squalls of caustic feedback. Furies spitting oaths of shrouded vengeance from ancient tongues. Plague riders dealing death on mounts of venomous ether, hooves pounding the wild earth. Matthew Bower may have reached a watershed with last year's
Abyssic Lowland Hiss
(Heavy Blossom), but it is with
Desire...
that he has come to conquer. Never has Skullflower sounded so severe or remorseless. Utech Records has invoked a connate soul in visual artist Stephen Kasner to develop a second fine art series of CD releases for the label. The series will comprise nine volumes of 750 copies each over the course of 2008 beginning in April. Kasner has committed the bulk of his next outputs to painting original and exclusive canvases. His subject matter has yet to be disclosed, but the artist has spoken in general terms of a new direction he wants to explore in his work. A package unique to the series has been designed to highlight Kasner's residuum and the accompanying music. The foundation of the series is the belief that a visual device can bind a disparate body of music in a meaningful way. The genesis of this idea was first explored with photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg in 2007 and the result was Utech Record's acclaimed Arc Series. Fruit borne from that venture has led to this stab at further examination. Kasner immediately saw value in the theory and agreed to help cultivate and refine it."
Artist:
HEAVENSORE
Title:
Asmodai
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 016CD
"The forsaken mother has birthed a godhead. A triune declaration of intent based on the Tabula Smaragdina and Solomonic magic. The name
Asmodai
derives from aesma-daeva, aesma meaning wrath, and daeva meaning demon.
Asmodai
rules as the king of impurity spreading his blackened sovereignty like so much tar upon the heart of man. And as all things were by the contemplation of one; so all things arose from this one thing by adaptation."
Artist:
GAMMELSAETER, RUNHILD
Title:
Amplicon
Label:
UTECH RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
UR 017CD
"Runhild Gammelsæter (Thorr's Hammer, Sunn0))), Khlyst) releases her first solo recording. The purpose was to create something organic -- sound with and about life. A lonely thing, like life, arisen from void. Stillness and a microphone, vocal chords. An idea, thoughts, a goal. Sounds of cycles of life and death, birth and cessation, described with terminology from physics, chemistry and biology. Creating by amplifying an infinitely small idea, creating an Amplimer, an
Amplicon
. Amplicons are pieces of DNA formed as the products of natural or artificial amplification events. Like evolution, giving rise to animal forms with ability to reproduce and die. Amplifying from a minute non-tangible idea something larger which may be experienced with the auditory sense. In physics, matter creation is the appearance of elementary particles in physical processes; the opposite of annihilation.
Amplicon
sees Gammelsæter as a creation operator, increasing the number of particles in a given state, taking the operation necessary to amplify ideas to sound. Mixed by Tore Ylvisaker of Ulver."
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