Members of Caribou, Floating Points, Simian Mobile Disco, Hot Chip, Junior Boys and more perform 1973 experimental score 'Tactus Tempus' on new LP.

Release Date: March 17th 2017 LP + digital on Geej Recordings distributed by SRD Forced Exposure and Outside Music.

Tactus Tempus is a lost, graphics based, experimental score by prolific composer Frank McCarty. The piece was originally conceived and performed in 1973 by McCarty's group BIOME on 5 EMS Synthi synthesizers.  By following a set of simple, yet subjective instructions the piece begins as a sparse moire pattern of bursts and tones before evolving in density and intensity as the players symbiotically interact guided only by the illustrated curve found on the score.  

This 12” LP +digital released by Geej  features two new performances of the score featuring members of Caribou, Floating Points, Hot Chip, Junior Boys, Simian Mobile Disco and friends.

Gathering in a rare moment of collective down time in London in July 2016 the spontaneously formed group performed the piece at Joe Goddard’s basement studio. Each participant used a separate synthesizer or modular synthesizer system and while the original slides were projected on the wall, the ensemble recorded two versions of the piece, each one recorded live in one take, lasting 15 minutes.   One version is tonal the other of percussive timbre. 

An original officially licenced 1973 recording of BIOME's performance will be included as a exclusive bonus to those purchasing the album thru Bandcamp.

tactustempus.bandcamp.com

CONTACT INFO:

Geej Records:  Ryan Smith grapejuice@gmail.com

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Metaphysical Minister from rural Ontario releases Classic Rock drone-scape on Jeremy Greenspan's Geej Records.

Geej  is pleased to present the debut album by installation artist and mystic minister The Reverend Marco D’Andrea. The Garden is an album which began as an installation project fusing the objects of the vague Canadiana of his childhood: tents, vintage speakers and the hippie totems that line the basements of 70s suburbia. 
D’Andrea’s sound art has in the past made use of various antiquated sound technologies, both dissecting and distilling old psych and classic rock records to an ambient core of shamanistic drone. In part, The Garden is a meditation on the Canadian tradition of camping, in particular Marco’s own memories of camping in the 80s in Ontario provincial parks. 

“My dad had a 70s canvas tent, which has a specific feel and smell. I decided to find a vintage canvas tent for my installation and since this piece was about childhood and my father, I decided to use my dad's favourite albums as the basis of the sound. There were a few heavy psychedelic songs that made a strong impression on me as a kid.”

The Garden album is conceived as a mirror to the psychedelic sounds of the late 60s and early 70s, in particular the eponymous debut album of certiain heavy metal originators that will be obvious to keen eyed fans. 

Each piece of music is an attempt to get to the raw essence of psychedelic rock, beyond musicality and the phallic narratives of indulgent hedonism, and rather to a place of reflective worship. As such the music draws into view the essential baroque grandeur of classic rock stripped down into its essential tonalities. The title, a reference to the Hieronymus Bosch painting on the cover, is also an allusion to the biblical garden and a comment on the contemporary experience of nature as a garden that we keep for ourselves and do what we want with. This idea extends to the revolutionary aspirations of psychedelic culture, which for all its spiritual expanse and openness, was easily commodified and used to sell everything from cars to toothpaste. The lasting legacy of 60s counterculture is a lost path: as Bosch reminds us, the garden can be a dangerous place to leave.

Marco D’Andrea is an artist and an ordained Reverend based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His artwork incorporates sound art, audio recordings, sculpture and installation where objects, sounds and environments form a relationship and create meaning in the moment of listening and experiencing. D’Andrea was born in the small town of Sharon, Ontario and as a first generation Canadian, grew up with a unique mix of Italian Catholicism and hard-rocking, working-class Canadiana. D’Andrea was ordained as a Metaphysical Minister in 2017.​

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8 Chasing Snow

6 Daughter

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4 A Painter

3 Why Did Hieronymus

2 Heaven And Earth

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02 Hold Time For A Day

01 Earthly Delights

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From GJ008 Secret Werewolf - Yage forthcoming on Geej Recordings.   Distributed by SRD in EU/UK and Seance Centre in North America.

https://www.seance-centre.com/shop/secret-werewolf-yage-12

Re-issue of forgotten minimal techno abstraction from Hamilton, Ontario.   The unsung genius of Secret Werewolf is fully on display on this 1996 gem.  Rubbery and polymetric,  akin in mood to Robert Hood/Metroplex productions of the same era, but full of eerie metallic timbres and flexing grooves which combine into a lysergic hypnosis unlike anything else from then or now.

A taste of the forthcoming Geej re-issue project surveying the Steel City Records catalogue, a wellspring of unsung, singular dance music that arose from the abandoned industrial spaces and uncompromising producers of the fertile but secluded techno zone of Hamilton, Ontario Canada circa 1995-1997.

First time pressed in over 20 years, vinyl only.

Yage

A1 Secret Werewolf - Yage

Unearthed 1997 techno grail from Hamilton, Ontario.  Remastered from the original recordings this 12", created by David Foster of Teste ("The Wipe"), lays down 4 burrowing and bouncing warehouse bombs that are at once psychedelic, frayed, and way ahead of their time.     

A taste of the forthcoming Geej re-issue project surveying the Steel City Records catalogue, a wellspring of unsung, singular dance music that arose from the abandoned industrial spaces and uncompromising producers of the fertile but secluded techno zone of Hamilton, Ontario Canada circa 1995-1997.  

First time pressed in over 20 years, vinyl only.  Distributed in EU by SRD and North America by Seance Centre

A2 Opgang 2 -Prone Decubitus

Khine Pan Zon - Ko Kyaut Sein Troupe
Quantimator
Ibo - Drummers Of The Societe Absolument Guinin
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Borana Singing Wells - Borana Tribe
Lopas I
Air Drum (Gulf Culture) 
Ensemble Fang avec Zylophone - Gabon
Polyphonic EG
Kuda Lumping trance dance - Street Musicians of Yogyakarta
Wasp Filter
Bo Sabi Dance - Tegbe Players of Songo
FMVDO
Easter Holiday in Chamula - Musique De Mexique
LFOveres
Music of Oceania - The Latmul of Papua Niugini

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