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Ulex Xane 'Stances/Semblance' CD
While the name Ulex Xane will forever be linked to his project Streicher, Ulex's artistic capacity runs much deeper than his infamous power electronics vision. Ulex's work as a visual artist has recently received wider acknowledgment, and now with 'Stances Semblance' a trove of electroacoustic compositions is finally unearthed.
The work on this 80 minute CD spans early childhood experimentations (a piece recorded in 1975), formative compositions from the 1980s and 1990s, and a suite of 21st century works, all showing careful restraint, elevated articulation, and deep understanding for experimental music, visual art and modern thought. Direct musical references include Walter Marchetti, Pierre Schaeffer and Krzysztof Meyer. I also hear the whimsy of Luc Ferrari, and the spatial awareness of Pierre Henry. Every listener will hear, and learn, more.
CD in a digipack with spot gloss finish, and a 28 page booklet featuring a detailed essay and other expository notes. Edition of 300 copies
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SK.MV 'Slow Death' CD
'Slow Death' is the debut CD of
SK.MV, the new death industrial project of Stephen Petrus (Murderous Vision) and Wyatt Howland (Skin Graft). The story is one of personal and social decay; of the suffocation and degradation of body and environment; of sooted electronics tendrils, clouds of asphyxiating noise, and pulses of impending expiration.
Edition of 100 copies.
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Entre Vifs 'The Harvest' C-32
The last of Entre Vifs' 'old school' sessions staples itself to audio cassette, an bruitist array of bewildering mechanisations, found sound and cauterised input shifts. The listener is in the eye of the hurricane as a maelstrom of junk, voice and noise shape around a surprisingly calmative centre.
Edition of 100 cassettes with screen printed labels and inserts, stuck to a screenprinted grinding disc.
More information, sound samples, ordering details, at the website:
http://iheartnoise.com/cipherproductions
