Monk

https://caterpillarrec.bandcamp.com/album/transparent-forms?fbclid=IwAR2MDtUAVEyTzpVchoR3fwAMPJ5VHkhc6Qsdyf_xPuVaN_SZn_5DltuNFw0

Transparent Forms - Nick Ashwood - Cat 010 

Composed in 2022 for Microfest, an annual microtonal festival hosted by Kraig Grady and Michael H Dixon. 

Transparent Forms is Nick’s first group composition following on from his 2020 solo piece Unfolding/Overlay, (Inexhaustible Editions 027). Amanda Stewart wrote in the liner notes to that: “Enfolded in the shifting tones, our ears are at the edge of themselves.” With this new work, he continues this interrogation into the edges of harmonicity and perception. Frequencies from bowed guitar, flute and clarinet burst away from any notion of a stable lattice to reshape our understandings of intervals and chords, and our listening is continually surprised and delighted by the 'tastes' and 'colours' that are revealed. 

The instruments dissolve into each other to create an unrecognisable timbral unity where melody emerges from harmonic clouds.
credits
released December 2, 2022 

Laura Altman - Clarinet 

Jim Denley - Flute 

Nick Ashwood - Acoustic Guitar 

Recording at Tempe jets by the group, Tuesday 14th June 2022 
Mixed by Jim Denley

Transparent Forms

First track from our first album "Dune" which will be released on May 1, 2025 on Bandcamp and all major streaming platforms:
https://stefanstrasser.bandcamp.com/album/dune

Nihiliminimalismus

Skimmer w  Guido Lusetti

Rituals of Release was forged, not recorded. We summoned it—pulled it from the haze of two restless nights in Berlin and Madrid, late in 2023.

This is no album. It’s a reckoning. These sounds were not crafted, but unearthed—echoes buried beneath the surface, only waiting for us to dig. No rules guided our hands, only a primal pull toward chaos and freedom.

Rituals of Release is the pulse of a decaying world—a collision of flesh and machine, where desire becomes worship, and wanting is never enough. The struggle to hold on, the surrender to let go—it’s all here, in every warped note and fractured beat. It’s the sound of humanity collapsing and dancing in the ruins.

Each track offers a dangerous plunge into unknown depths. This is not a map; it’s an invitation to lose yourself. No journey here is safe, and no listener will return unchanged.

Dive in, if you dare. We’ll meet you on the other side.

Signed
Evil & Dr.K

Rituals of Release

The Zoombeings

Dopamine Dreams

Made with some hardware including my Modular set-up, and a 303 for acid bass. Let me know what you think I love feedback! What do you like or not like. 

Rise and Fall

Widely regarded as one of the most uncompromising works in experimental noise, Kevin Drumm’s Sheer Hellish Miasma is once again available on vinyl. First released on CD in 2002 on the original Mego label, the album remains a landmark in extreme electronic sound and is an essential and ferocious document of Drumm at his most inventive.

The history of Drumm’s Sheer Hellish Miasma is one of resilience to the twists of underground trends that have come and gone since its initial release. Using guitar, tape manipulation, microphones, pedals, analog synthesizers, and subtle computer processing, Sheer Hellish Miasma is an overwhelming experience: a sonic onslaught of storming feedback, fractured textures and  an unrelenting energy. At once brutal and meticulously composed, the album offers a singular vision at the outermost edges of sound art.

For seasoned noise veterans, Sheer Hellish Miasma offers a bracing soundscape filled with exquisitely abrasive textures and more than enough hidden detail to warrant repeated listening – a distinct voice in the increasingly same-sounding world of abstract electronic noise. For everyone else, Drumm’s journey through the noisy underworld is likely to inspire fear or, in an optimistic case, fearful admiration. 

Drumm’s Sheer Hellish Miasma is an abstract noise classic with this 2LP reissue being an artefact of eternal power.

Sheer Hellish Miasma

Cloudy

Kevin Drumm 'Cloudy' (EMEGO053)

Peni Candra Rini (voice) and Annie Lewandowski (Blister)

For Taylan Cihan

HG1803 - Hallowground.com
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KALI MALONE - Cast Of Mind

Artist: Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek
Album: Bird, Lake, Objects
Label#: faitiche03
Format: LP/DL

Vinyl repress of faitiche03 & 13 available on July 17th 2020!

Queried on his favourite word in the German language, Masayoshi Fujita will pick ‘getragen’ – without a sliver of hesitation. Further questioning will reveal that he loves the term’s semantic signifiers, its inherent sense of “expansive, deep, quiet and sombre.” And yet, ‘getragen’ leaves plenty of room for interpretation: depending on context, it might also indicate wearing apparel or the state of being carried – two more mundane interpretations that I would rather keep from him.
Does Masayoshi’s own definition, however, apply to Bird, Lake, Objects? Only to a limited extent. Compared to previous Faitiche releases, Bird, Lake, Objects is certainly the most ‘getragen’ of them all. Nevertheless, this is by far not the first association that comes to mind. From a distance, these tracks seem rather introspective, cautious even – and reflect the recording situation: deliberately pared down, reduced to a single microphone in space and a separate track for all other instruments, each movement and action is chronicled by the treacherous mike. This confronted me with some unexpected and unfamiliar problems. For example, we had to swap out the seating in the studio as my favoured chair had a characteristic creak. Other, external influences proved to be beyond our control: fire engine klaxons, street noise and footfall became part of the recordings and their improvisatory nature. Each movement required careful orchestration, fully aware of its irrevocable nature. Space itself was always present and an audible entity, except on "Stripped to RM" (recorded without a microphone or vibraphone track). After extensive deliberations, we decided to forgo the vibes on this piece – a very similar version had already been released in 2008 (on the compilation Enjoy The Silence, Mule Electronic, 2008).

Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek:  I'll Change Your Life

Two kindred spirits crafting non-Euclidean soundscapes. New record out now!
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