Grey

Cartoon sufferance

From ou https://careof.bandcamp.com/merch/lucrecia-dalt-ou-12-vinyl

04 - Eleanore (closing track)

Degradation Loops was a 16 day composition that gradually and completely 'bit crushes' my 2015 album Yellow Bell. Produced for a group show at the 55 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville gallery in Sydney, a process of sonic destruction unfolds in response to visual artists destroying and reassembling their work, to create new work, and to question the dominance of commercial imperatives within art. Here is a 14'48" time lapse edit of the 16 day composition, 2016.

Degradation Loops_55 Sydenham Rd Marrickville

Appears on: "The Thorned Maze". Out now on cassette + digital on Portals Editions 

https://portals-editions.bandcamp.com/album/circular-ruins-the-thorned-maze

Time Without End

@chaperonetechno is often the only thing that will calm me after a long day on Wall Street. Well now the most beautiful man on our label is back with some heavy rippers for the Love Boat nightmare that you're––strangely enough––very much enjoying. Bliss is a lazy word but you can have it. 

Originally released on Crisis Urbana, reissued 2018 on AHT.

Chaperone - Greeting Ships By Night (AHTR001)

https://ultraeczema.bandcamp.com/album/dark-arc

Dan Melchior & Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson (Dark Arc A Side)

General Rehearsal

Will Guthrie
Some Nasty
C30 (XIX-II)

Release date: April 2019
www.hasanaeditions.org

Some Nasty

XIX-II - Will Guthrie - Some Nasty Side A (excerpt)

First Terrace Records have the honour to present an album of new work by influential and idiosyncratic artist K. Leimer. 

His second outing for First Terrace, following his part on FTS001, the album finds the composer working in a solemn & focused mode, rendering deep sonic landscapes that shimmer, sink into themselves and play host to a slowly emerging carousel of auditory apparitions - dynamics delivered through his mastery of textural manipulation. 

Emerging in opposition to the sunless days & countless distresses of current US politics, each track is imbued with a refreshing sense of equanimity - in Kerry’s own words, he “does not profess that music - especially an experimental, lyric-free music - can change or influence such circumstances. But this is the context in which we now live, and this has shaped the music of Irrational Overcast — a coping mechanism for living under clouds of baseless beliefs and simplistic ideologies that disfigure and stifle what is an admittedly difficult though really quite lovely world.” 

The album is released worldwide on July 5th, on LP & digital formats, with artwork featuring images from Richard Misrach’s series of photographs documenting American petrochemical landscapes. 

Kerry includes this transcript to accompany "Irrational Overcast": 

"Authoritarian ideas that have persisted somewhere in the depths of human nature for millennia have resurfaced at a crucial moment for the environments we all inhabit — natural, cultural, intellectual and economic. The power and influence of this ideology will again prove catastrophic, as it already has for many people in many parts of the world. Authoritarianism, along with the refutation of our shared responsibility to one another and to objective knowledge in favor of personal gain & gratification consistently lead to disaster. Yet, somehow, a significant number of people seem to feel that this time will be different. To some extent they are right. It will be infinitely worse. 

Irrational Overcast is preoccupied with the perpetual failings of human tribalization, of assuming dominance over nature, of choosing belief and ideology over objective reality. The impetus was brought into immediate focus by the destructive impulses and actions of such excrescences as the Trump Administration and his republicans, as well as the blatant dishonesty and bigotry of thousands more retrograde, ill-informed nihilists operating in and outside the pubic sphere. 

I do not profess that music — especially an experimental, lyric-free music — can change or influence such circumstances. But this is the context in which we now live, and this has shaped the music of Irrational Overcast — a coping mechanism for living under clouds of baseless beliefs and simplistic ideologies that disfigure and stifle what is an admittedly difficult though really quite lovely world. Music, to my mind, can not clearly express anything so literal, or metaphoric, or allegoric — but Irrational Overcast makes the effort to articulate the problems created by some enduring and banal aspects of human behaviour. Which is the reason it is built of lo-fi, deformed emergent or regressing or fragmented phrases, subsumed by distortion, noise, wow and flutter… and played with the understanding that there can be no more bedtime stories." 

K. Leimer has been recording and releasing experimental and electronic music since 1979. Irrational Overcast is his first full length record for First Terrace Records, and his 20th solo album. His work can also be found on the Palace of Lights, RVNG, Origin Peoples, Invisible Inc., and Les Giants labels as well as through The British Library.

Irrational Overcast

K. Leimer  'Weather On The Fen'

Artist: Amethyst
Track: V Towers Collapse In A Single Moment (Track 02)
Album: '(A Declaration)' Compilation
Released: December 2019
Label: Vienna Press / VAKNAR
Cat: Key to the Fields 38 /VAKNAR 20

V Towers Collapse In A Single Moment

RELEASES:
'The Thorned Maze' (tape + digital) on Portals Ed.
https://portals-editions.bandcamp.com/album/circular-ruins-the-thorned-maze

'North of the Sun' (tape + digital) on Portals Ed. 
https://portals-editions.bandcamp.com/album/circular-ruins-north-of-the-sun

Time Without End

CIRCULAR RUINS