Everything Disappears - January 3rd 1990 from the forthcoming album Mahakala Overdrive

Post-production digitizing, editing, mastering in Audacity freeware - April 2015.

(Alien.planetscapes - January.3rd.1990 1 - 15mins - Efx Phaser)

©1990-2015 Sonic Boom Sound Art - ASCAP all rights reserved.  Recorded January 3rd 1990, St. Albans Queens, NYC - Doug Walker's Space Station basement studio:  Doug Walker-synths; Lenny Pace-drums; Lloyd G. Mair Jr.-bass; Harold Lehman-guitar&effects; unknown saxophone player audition


These recordings represent my brief work as guitarist for Alien Planetscapes in December 1989 and January 1990. A portion of the December 27th 1989 session was released on cassette by Doug in 1994 as the 'Lost Missle Outtakes' Volume 1. At the time, as a guitarist, I had been looking for an experimental improvisation, free-jazz, rock-space-psychedelic type thing, in the vein of Miles Davis circa 1971-1974. Doug had placed an advertisement in the Village Voice newspaper's musicians section, seeking like-minded improvisers. Though I can't recall the exact wording, it went something along the lines of a quasi-political poetry rant/plea with references to Hawkwind and Sun Ra. I imagine he had a difficult time sorting through all the phone calls from people interested in his ad, but not quite what he had in mind for his rock-based space-jam project. I really enjoyed talking with him on the phone and was eager to make the drive to St. Albans Queens for an 'audition' jam. For my first trip out there Doug had asked me if it was okay if I picked up the bass player at his home on the East Side of Manhattan. Well, since I was already driving sorta near there (not really), I went over and met Lloyd G. Mair Jr. Lloyd was also an experimental electronic musician, but he had been a gigging bass player in the New York club scene for many years prior, and like Doug, was older and had a lot of experience. When we finally arrived at Doug's home in St. Albans, we were warmly welcomed, and went down to the basement studio to set up. Lenny Pace was already there, setting up his drum kit. Doug and I talked about influences, inspirations, and he showed me his incredible collection of music. It was like getting a free tutorial, or mentorship in this genre, by an expert. Though I had heard 'Gong' on the radio, I didn't know Steve Hillage's solo works, and I was hooked. My influences were more Hendrix-MC5-Blue Cheer feedback and Sun Ra, Miles Davis electronic improvisation. Doug made some space-rock compilation cassettes for me to study and groove on in anticipation of moving this incarnation of Alien Planetscapes into a live performing ensemble. He was very enthusiastic about the chances for his space-rock themed project being promoted alongside a resurgent interest in Hawkwind and other legendary jam bands touring again. The unfortunate conclusion to my involvement in Doug's vision was his inability to maintain an interlocutor between his personal, political ideology (Trotsky-Maoist-Marxist) and his mouth. He attacked my personal beliefs. I really enjoyed jamming with Lloyd and Lenny. He called later to apologize, and asked me to reconsider working with him, but I was moving on, and the drive out there was long and exhausting. I was sad to learn of his tragic passing. I hope releasing some of these sessions adds to the Alien Planetscapes audio history.

Everything Disappears - January 3rd 1990

Via Kosmische launched as a netlabel in January 2018. In 2020 we started working with Herby Records on select lathe-cut vinyl releases. Since 2024 we are a band and a studio. Get in touch for anything art-related.

Doug Walker was an American pioneer of analog electronic synthesizer improvisation music spanning thirty years of solo and collaborative work with many musicians from the New York City area. He was also one of the first audio cassette exchange artists distributing his work (audiophile Tapes-aT) internationally on space rock, and analog electronic/synthesizer improvisation audio cassette catalogues in the early 1980's. Doug's influences spanned all expressions of experimental music.  He had a huge collection of original vinyl LP's in every genre of experimental, synthesizer, space-rock, audio-art, academic classical music, avant-garde jazz, psychedelic electronic and rock. His record and cassette collections were vast and deep, with many hard to find or rare releases from around the world. Though formally trained in flute in primary school he was a self-taught electronic artist, having collected a large number of unique, rare, and beautiful analog synthesizers he installed in his basement recording studio. 

This soundcloud page will continue to republish tracks by Alienplanetscapes alumni.  The most recent sets feature jams with lead guitarists John Potenza, Richard Orlando, Kevin Mappleback; and Chris Adams on bass.   Feel free to send a direct message within soundcloud to have your Alienplanetscapes tracks reposted here.

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Gargyzaa is a one-man band located in Espoo, Finland.
 I play all the instruments manually (guitars, keyboards, bass, plastic  didgeridoo, Korg monotron duo, fipple flute etc.) and sing all the vocals. Plus I have written these lyrics and peculiar poetry/ bizarre dialogues you hear (in Finnish&English).
Some people have asked me who plays the instruments and I have answered them several times that it´s me who is responsible for all this trippy noise and musical weirdness.
It has been quite tedious and more or less irritating to explain this relatively often, hahaha.
I´m a also a self taught "musician" and "vocalist". I play by ear.
The drum parts are made from short loops with Audacity and then the so called rhythm track is upoaded to my Zoom R-24. After that I will start recording the instruments/vocals on top.
I don´t have or play drums. Well, maybe one day.
So basically I use Zoom R-24 to record and even master these tracks. I bring the finished "product" to SoundCloud through Audacity.
My equipment is very amateurish, cheap and in some cases semi-broken. 
I use those infamous progressive rock structures, but deliver them with a punk rock attitude/gear, hehehe.
The cover art/design is just basically a few collages/paste-ups, psychedelically distorted&enhanced pics and a couple of random photos I took. Nothing special.
This is a non-profit project. Enjoy!
Many thanks to all of my listeners and followers!

Skeptic Tank was an experimental,  free improvisation 'group' formed in mid 1990 and dissolving mid 1991.   Based in New York City's Lower East Side, near Alphabet City and Tompkins Square Park, and the East Village neighborhoods.     Influences were vast and musical backgrounds and interests diverse.

The core membership included Chris Kelsey-soprano sax, Mark Birkey-trombone, Steve Waxman-steinberger bass-violin-tin whistle, Marc Dale-percussion-poetry, Harold Lehman-electronic effects-electric guitar-sound art.

Skeptic Tank played live a few times at the "A Mica Bunker" weekly improvisational music and sound art venue hosted at ABC No Rio, and Salvatore Rosillo's artist loft for a live action painting jam with the band.

Thomas Keyserling is known for his discography with Gunter Hampel and other jazz greats.

These recordings may represent some of Thomas Keyserling's last work before his untimely passing.

Youtube video for part 2 of this recording session  - http://youtu.be/bP323PH1kO0

"Live where your heart can be given and your life starts to unfold." – Tommy Hall.

#experimental #improvisation #nowave #stoner #psych #kraut #noiserock #punk #folklore.

Adam Majdecki-Janicki (1985) has been writing poetry, lyrics, composing, playing, and recording since 1998. His most important achievements to date include his debut poetry collection “Siva in Rags” (Kendra Steiner Editions, USA, 2008), the vinyl and CD “Second Hand Man” (Mimics Cool, Poland, 2011), the CD-R and vinyl “Stoned Gypsy Wanderer” (Kendra Steiner Editions, USA, 2014 / Ramble Records, Australia, 2021), the experimental/ambient album “Eimi” (Snow in Water Records, France, 2020), the vinyl album of his group Säure Adler (Ramble Records, Australia, 2021), and countless other physical and digital releases worldwide.

#noise #space #freeimprov #kraut.

Kacper Sikora - synthesizer.
Adam Majdecki-Janicki - electric guitar.

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Inspired by Alien Planetscapes, Sun Ra, Popol Vuh, and Yuri Morozov.

Since 1998 I made and released lots of sound art, music, and noise, and wrote and published lots of poetry. You can find most of it online, in record stores, and in bookstores. On May 28 2025 I returned to my roots, and started working low profile on new folk music, like in 1998. Inspired by Syd Barrett, Robert Calvert, Chris Karrer, Peter Hammill, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Richard Hell, Daniel Johnston, Roky Erickson,  Dave Bixby, Jandek, James Douglas Morrison, jazz, modern poetry, and painting I set on a trip that knows no end. Hope you're with me.

I started out in the Polish cassette underground in 1998. I've been recording tapes with simple folk/punk/blues/psychedelic songs, inspired by Syd Barrett, Velvet Underground, Monster Magnet, Woody Guthrie, Sawyer Brown, and Captain Beefheart. Those are the influences I remember today. I was using a pseudonym back then, Adam Sandosa, taken from the first Amon Duul LP, "Psychedelic Underground".

I never stopped making art, so here we are in the future.