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MELON 007CD
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"In January 2007, 7 year old Sienna Sol hosted a jam at her family's Three Kings Day party. Old Mr Grassi (an electronic instrument designed by Ciat-Lonbarde's Peter Blasser) was there. Sienna and her friends explored his tickly extra-terrestrial voices. Sound enthusiast Mitchell Brown recorded and encouraged. An active 6 months followed with Sienna and her 9-year-old friend Valentin partaking in free jams on analog electronics, rock instruments, amplified bicycle, microphones, etc. A slight guidance from Brown turned into the kids just doing whatever they felt like, using whatever they wished. Sienna is found dabbling in surreal stream-of-consciousness storytelling that can be image-inducing, playful, and at times, haunting. Experimenting with most of these instruments and organized-sound concepts for the first time, Valentin & Sienna display raw intuitive creativity that, within 'children's music', is seldom heard reaching such outer limits. Since these recordings took place the project has flowered to include other children and to be involved in public access television, radio, and various marching band configurations with adult sound explorers Jeff Boynton, Andy Ben, Arthur Arellanes and others."
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MELON 008CD
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"When Los Angeles native Mitchell Brown isn't DJ Prof Cantaloupe on radio stations KXLU or Dublab, releasing albums of various sound artists on his Melon Expander imprint, organizing events or working with developmentally disabled children, he's slowly nurturing many of his own sound experiments and projects. Selected from literally hundreds of hours of solo material and collaborations with fellow Angelenos Petra Haden (That Dog, Decemberists, Foo Fighters), Rick Potts (Solid Eye, Dinosaurs With Horns, LAFMS) and Leticia Castaneda, Bryan Eubanks (NY) and Joe Foster (Seoul, Korea), this is the first substantial release of Brown's electronic and electro-acoustic music. Working primarily with magnetic tape, analog synthesizers, organ, contact microphones, various resonant objects and signal processors, these extended improvisations were recorded and sculpted into compositions between 2002-2006. At times the magnetic tape loop techniques employed seem to stem from seeds planted by pioneering tape manipulator and Zen-humorist Henry Jacobs, Terry Riley and his time-lag-accumulator method or the one-man Melon Expander house-band, Joseph Hammer. Fused with other electronic systems created to exist as sustainable yet pliable sound fields, these sprawling cinemas-for-the-ear can embody anything from ghostly distant memories to funhouse mirror refraction to enveloping shimmering cyclones. Since 1995, Brown has studied the various behaviors relating to sensory stimulation present in the developmentally disabled children he's assisted at a special education school. In some of the students the reduced capability to interact with others has them flourishing internally through self-stimulation of the senses in a solipsistic manner. Resting alone in a dark room would be our suggestion for Celadonia's ideal listening environment."
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MELON 004CD
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2007 release. "Dimmer is a duo comprising live sampling pioneer Thomas Dimuzio and tape-loop maestro Joseph Hammer. Swallowing audiences with their dark explorations of sound, Dimmer specializes in a symbiotic sound process as they continually loop, reloop, sample and resample within an interactive feedback circuit linking both artists. For their debut CD, Dimmer melds their recursive circuits into rich and seething sonic masses with subtle waves pulsing sound within sound. Ripe with theme and variation, The Shining Path suspends the listener over dim and dank planes on an aural trip spanning and scanning from a celestial vista. Nearly every aspect of Dimmer's live performances grace The Shining Path, yet this is not a live document, but rather a pastiche and reworking of everything Dimmer has accomplished in their years of performing as a duo. Co-release between Melon Expander and LAFMS."
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MELON 003CD
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2007 release. "Points of Friction formed in January of 1981, shortly after witnessing Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band perform live. Joseph Hammer, Damian Bisciglia, Tim Alexander, and Kenny Ryman were the core quartet though sometimes LAFMS (Los Angeles Free Music Society) founder Rick Potts would sit in, among others. Their first recording was a spontaneous affair. The group having no formal musical training (or even knowledge of 'freely improvised music') relied on their voices and whatever else was at hand -- wire mesh, sheet plastic, an old guitar, etc. Gradually, the group acquired electric instruments, toy keyboards, multi-track tape recorders, pedal effects, etc. and moved towards a more processed sound direction, informed by groups such as Faust, Cluster, Nurse with Wound, Dome, This Heat, Can, AMM, Fripp and Eno, and Negativland. By 1984, Points of Friction had two cassette releases under their belts on LAFMS offshoot label Solid Eye. Their 2nd release Sackcloth and Ashes was re-issued in 2002 on CD by Anomalous Records, and the group's first recording 1982 was re-issued on CD-R in 2004 by the L.A. based Spagyric label. After a 20 year hiatus, Points of Friction reformed in June 2004 and recruited L.A. native Mitchell Brown to the goon squad. Afterlife DNA Finger-Painting, their 3rd official release, is the result of this reunion. They have since recorded more material and have returned to occasionally performing live."
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