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WHAT 011LP
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A cinderblock-sculpting freakout session from Don Dietrich (Borbetomagus/The New Monuments) and Ben Hall (The New Monuments). Highly-touted by Aaron Dilloway, deep sea creatures, and your local tire dealership.
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"Vinyl debut of long-running Cincinnati Ohio/Northern Kentucky improv unit circling the center of saxophone/electronics Tim Schwallie (of The Wolverton Brothers) and doublebass/electronics Scott Hisey. Over many many many many years the core remain the same with various collaborators and members walking in and stepping or falling out, but the core remain the same, as they stepped in and fell out of modes such as free improv, free funk, free song, as evidenced in these on record. And included on record is a highly-picked sample of highlights from Gordy line-ups, including involving Clayton 'Chicken' Gunnels (RIP, of the JBs, America Eats Its Young-adelic), Mark Perry (Heevahava), C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and names here. 'So Mark Perry 'discovered Clayton' wandering Covington streets. Clayton was too well-dressed to be 'just another homeless dude' as Mark put it. Mark started a dialogue which turned into sporadic jams with Clayton, then Mark decided that Gordy Horn get-togethers were the best formats for Clayton and you know the rest... 'Do you know karate?' Tara was a singer with a very sloppy and very loud noise jam thing in the early nineties that I liked a lot--in particular I liked this pretty quiet small young girl that would transform into a screaming banshee on stage... We talked and then they moved to LA; her boyfriend od'ed, she moved back, and we started talking again. Scott and I were in a collaborative mood. We met up with Aimee who was willing to bring her harp around, and Gordy was a four-piece for 8 months or so around June to Dec 1999... The quartet with Spencer and Adam was really the go-to quartet for a while there (2003-2006) and I am glad we got one of those jams on the record.' --Tim Schwallie, Spring 2010, Cincinnati Ohio. One-sided LP with silkscreen cover designed by artist Paul Coors. 130 copies limit."
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WHAT 008LP
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"Object Lessons and what of this ten-song collaboration between artist Lieberman and Yeh? Perhaps the influenced musically discussed is somewhere starting between mutual love of various artistic and musical genres certainly -- sound poetry, psychedelic rock, Japanese scum noise, Japanese psychedelic rock, listy lists, but certainly embodies more the present-time sensibilities and whims of both between the two artists to combine for something perhaps neither strictly adhering to any imitation. Perhaps to this record appropriately let's step back to New York artist Justin Lieberman's 2009 sculptural and multimedia work The Corrector's Custom Pre-Fab House -- a description from the debuting gallery follows -- 'The Corrector's Custom Pre-Fab House is inspired by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown's 1972 book, Learning From Las Vegas, which provides an in depth examination of what they call 'the decorated shed,' a simple structure with elaborate signage. Using the urban sprawl of Las Vegas as an example, they posit this architectural style as a means to enrich the symbolic content of post-modern architecture. The Corrector's Custom Pre-Fab House is a steel dwelling covered with a multitude of objects including a 1970s snowmobile, a life sized Jolly Green Giant, foam filled inflatable toys, an illuminated Fedex sign, and a 7 foot shark. Accompanying the house is a sculpture of the 'Corrector,' a character inspired by the fictional figure, Nobusuke Tagomi, from Philip K Dick's novel, The Man in the High Castle. The novel follows Tagomi in a fictional future fifty years after Germany and Japan defeat the Allied forces in World War II. Lieberman's interpretation of Taogmi is that of an avid collector of all things pop culture, whose collecting habits extend to the exterior of his home. Within the house, there is a computer equipped with a program that enables the 'Corrector' to archive each object with an informational text about the object's history, which is then projected onto the adjacent wall of the gallery. Created in the style of a Katamari video game, the program features texts on each object taking various forms such as objective accounts, plagiarized product descriptions, aesthetic meditations, poetry, short fiction, satire, and prose. These texts were then transformed into the record, Object Lessons, a musical collaboration between Justin Lieberman and C Spencer Yeh. The record is a spoken rendition of select object descriptions that were reworked into an ... musical format.' Full-color gatefold jacket, depicting abovementioned objects piled up in a grassy field, and the empty dome waiting for occupancy, and inside special illustrations for both ten tracks -- with full color picture disc LP showing the Corrector statue's head in both sketch and final form. Manufacture stopped around 250 copies."
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"Ara Pick Up & Run 2007 LP captures two performances of reed instruments, singing, percussion, and a very hazy, thick atmosphere that might float over the flower fireworks captured in these two performances. Ara is the Lexington, KY-based duo of Sara O'Keefe and Trevor Tremaine of such outfits as Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Hair Police, Burning Star Core, Sick Hour, Death Unit, and Rampart Tapes board of direction. However, these adjectives of death, sick, police -- of those maybe there need to be new descriptions in place. We're not quite sure what it is, but in this alternate universe it could be the Peace Police, Skywatcher Hour, Life Unit, Colourful Star Party, etc. who are close neighbors. Fleeting 'jazz' reference, male/female lowlife love vocals, drugstore basement electroacoustic, just warm and cloudy all over like a yesterday today. Features the most complicated WHAT THE..? Records covers so far, each unique handmade and silkscreened by Paul Coors; the materials you have come to expect melted together in rare effort. Paintspray turns into watercolours, perfume, and northern lights -- with a mini-poster and edition of 177 (there are no controls on Mother Nature)."
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"So take 'serial collaborator' John Wiese -- heard recently with such sound-monument constructors as Pain Jerk, Merzbow, Sunn O))), not to mention his own squirm-unit Sissy Spacek -- and improvisation leapfrog C. Spencer Yeh -- of Burning Star Core, and with Paul Flaherty and Chris Corsano, Aaron Dilloway, Thurston Moore and his Dream/Action, the list goes on. Double-up on gentleman in front of their best gear with loud speakers and a room full of wanting persons (this time in Nottingham, England, surely a rainy day), their mind and hands like puzzle pieces you never really thought about but, surely just a beginning but here we have it, worth our time and attention to carve into plastic history. And what results -- rude blast noises, deep-brain droning, twisting tape press record, and torn-apart vocal and strings in unimaginable electronic torture chambers!! What would you expect from such a combination if you have imagination and is that a bad thing for your ears really? Recorded direct from the board for maximum clarity, detail and quality. Edition of 330 with special insert and silkscreen red cover. Truly the fourth volume from a library of love, signed 'WHAT THE..?'"
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