event horizon
July 18 - Ugra Deva Loka
With Solar Return, Thaobath / Incendia, Mason Jones
S. Glass, Benign Neglect
CD released by Public Eyesore
A trio of tottering audio travelogues and vestigial recollections: impressionistic alingual exchanges splattered with organic tribological noise; ebbing bursts of avian chatter; unsettling ficto-mechanical percolations. Muzak for feudal mediation, creative hair removal, or microwavable flatware.
"Rich and juicy." —Yvonne Lovejoy
S. Glass, The Grudgery of Drucks
c36 released by No Rent
Ecstatic turntable repetition and cassette manipulation in haunted, hypnotized unity. A sleepwalker in motion, sound moves unconsciously. Voices from religious sermons, self-help and philosophy tapes blend with junk pop culture, manipulated field recordings and internet bullshit (the new AM radio). A sleepwalker in motion, sound moves without adherence to genre orthodoxies. Seeking and finding in the grand tradition. Fucking experimental. Edition of 100
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Glands of External Secretion, Baboon And Chest
c38 released by Coherent States
From the frayed edges of sound, the lingering ghost of forgotten amplifier feedback, and the echo of unanswered answering machine messages, Glands of External Secretion return with their most different album until the next one. This four-pronged stumble through usual-yet-unusual and weird-yet-not-weird auditory wreckage cracks open with “One of the Decorator’s FAQs Was a Twined-Together Mix of Doubt and Dread,” a sprawling tangle of recordings from Scotland with Ali Robertson and Malcy Duff (of the now-defunct but legendary Usurper), Firas Khnaisser, Buck Campbell, and Dan Vallor, knotted together with (more) home recordings and soundchecks from various other live gigs. A concise transmission, “George Lazenby” was originally beamed into Neil Jendon’s “One Electronic Sound For Five Minutes” podcast – a fleeting yet potent auditory jab. The new sound collage “You Haven’t Seen Me Without My Teeth” hints at unseen architectures within the noise. Finally, Baboon erupts with the untamed energy of “Wank Theme Song,” salvaged from a mid-to-late 1980s San Francisco one-off live improv free-for-all featuring approximately fifteen players in unfettered lo-fi caterwaul mode. Cover art by Malcy Duff.
Glands of External Secretion, Unexplained Bite Marks
LP reissue of live recording from 1994, coming in spring 2025 on Minimum Table Stacks
S. Glass, The New Basics Cookbook
CDR released by l’Esprit de l’Escalier.
An hour-plus of sound collages and j-j-jarring post-mortem artifacts. Highlights include: “Without Incident” — location recordings from Japan; “Swamp Yankee Eulogy,” a deconstructed version of which was presented at Polaris in Toyko opening for Bruce Russell and Keiji Haino; and a cover of the Sun City Girls track “Torch of the Mystics,” penned by Charles Gocher.
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S. Glass, Housing Concrète
CDR released by l’Esprit de l’Escalier.
Four Ubu-friendly sound collages scraped into shape by lenient sentencing, including a tape piece created for Kryssi B’s Open Field show on WXOJ.
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S. Glass, Stock Footage
CDR released by l’Esprit de l’Escalier.
Incoherent disaster or a gaudy monstrosity? A real debate-starter, this. Includes “An Invitation To The Waltz Contains Sinister Motive,” a tape piece for Kirby Bell’s Field Day For The Sundays show on WKDU, plus four tracks glowing with more psychotic brightness than the LED headlights of oncoming traffic. Loops, cuts, field recordings, sounds appropriated from fails videos, voices forcibly relocated from their ancestral homelands on cassette in the bins of thrift stores. 59 minutes.
“What a listen. As hardworking as Kriwet, as complex and entangled as Morricone.” —Mike Collino
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