event horizon

Cassette released by Tailnia

"The traveling in time and space of noises, words, and sound of indeterminate origin seems to be an on-going concern of San Francisco audio collagist S. Glass. They jump, flicker, rebound, ooze, and disintegrate across and around the audio field like bits of overheard gossip. Pacing, texture, and point-of-view are all over the place, and yet the two 20-minute tracks, plus the second in a series of short Fluxus actions, are assembled with deliberateness. Non-Disclosure Agreement might be insane but it’s not irrational." c40

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2xCD coming September 17 on Nyahh

Video soundtracks volume one

CD coming in November on OCOMM

“The five track titles here could pass for the lineup of a midnight shorts”screening at the Fresno Film Festival. They are words of haunting — as are the source materials this San Francisco-based sound collagist excavates. The hopeful living, recorded in the 1970s and long since discarded, trapped inside media, on tapes no one can even play anymore. Their anger is justified: the promises made to them were smokescreens, lies. Glass releases these voices back into the air. Some are still legible. Others have nothing left to give but the sounds of the body, and a final exhale.” —Petra Zélie

CDR released by l'Esprit de l'Escalier

Perched like a weathered gargoyle ruminating behind a hideous, undiagnosed nutjob glare, this batch of grating, surrealism-ravaged sound collages and bent audio blurt arrives on the 130th anniversary of the birth of F. Bushnell Tanks, director of silent films A Girl Called Minusha and The Lady In The Filing Cabinet, whose star Irene Gordon-Pheldt is depicted on the front cover. Contains two live recordings (from Wednesday Night Live on KZSU in Stanford, another from Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland), plus two homemade beauty massacres from the Day Three of Dead Bats on The Porch sessions (for frappéd electronics and boomer delirium, respectively), and the third in a series of paper towel dispenser Fluxus actions. 

“Master class, rapier sharp sound collage works out’ve his bamboo shed behind the grove of Paw Paw trees”— SimonGarfunkle 

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LP reissue by Minimum Table Stacks.

Originally released in 2012 to coincide with Glands of External Secretion’s third-ever live appearance (at Trapdoor Fucking Exit, a performance series connected to Helga Fassonaki’s Touching Them Touching You - A Love Song for the Dead C), Unexplained Bite Marks took place on May 20, 1994, at legendary subterranean niteclub The Purple Onion, in the Chinatown / North Beach district of San Francisco, where a loveable maniac by the name of Tom Guido held court whenever and with whomever he wanted. Michael Morley (of The Dead C and Gate) happened to be in town, and Margaret Murray of U.S. Saucer (and Manning’s Truth Walks In Sleepy Shadows album) never refuses a challenge, so this utterly impromptu occasion also marked the first and only time Glands of External Secretion was a quartet. The raw and monolithic result is loud, distorted, saturated and more obscured by murk than The Loch Ness monster on a menopausal rampage. Mastered by Weasel Walter. Wrap-around poster-style cover in generic MTS jacket, hand stamped labels, postcard. Edition of 200

Cassette released by Un Poco Fría

“Big Mother in Tunisia” b/w “Block Captain.” Objects, violin, Optigan, loops, location recordings, electronics, fails videos, thrift store cassettes. Includes booklet. c40

“Acceptable.” —Haadjins

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CDR released by l'Esprit de l'Escalier

Nauseating shards epoxied into three 20-minute sound collages — one mixed live on the air at KZSU in Stanford, plus two studio monstrosities, scarred by sharp-edged distortion, crushed by abstract oppressionism, riddled with harsh sentencing. Also includes "Senior Prom #1 - Oberlin," the first in a series of paper towel dispenser Fluxus actions for Leo Dilloway

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CDR released by l'Esprit de l'Escalier

Dull scrape is valorized on the opening track “Pelvic Bowl of the Common Hippo,” recorded live on the air at KZSU, Stanford, where amplified cabbage strafes a listless murk that overflows with pulverized calcium. “Please Vote Lexi Carter Thump Queen” milks the subconscious panic and despair from rural beauty contests and replaces them with psyops yoga. “All String, No Pearls” is a new soundtrack for student performance art duo Maria Callous’s recently unearthed script, the writing of which was triggered 45 years ago by psylocybin and the paddle-ball barker in the 1953 horror film House of Wax, while “Original Soundtrack Recording to PJ Cramer’s Meet Me At Agnew’s Grave,” despite a title that references a non-existent movie, is an anthem for all territories that cannot be colonized or annexed. Closing out the ordeal is a kind of secular exorcism, or what dry drunks call “a Burmese meltdown” — judgmental, shrill, loaded with blurry resentment. Wicked fine.

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