Magda Mayas // prepared piano
Jason Kahn // electronics

From the CD "Night"
available at:
https://jasonkahn.bandcamp.com/album/night

In the Sky

PLIB-031 KEVIN DRUMM & JOACHIM NORDWALL -  OLD PAIN
RELEASES FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Kevin Drumm & Joachim Nordwall have, respectively, spent collective decades carving out new pathways in the realms of electroacoustic, drone, ambient, noise, and improvised experimental music. Their variably multiplied ripple effect across the sonorous waters of disruptive sound cultures are indellibly marked by the touch of these two artists. Neither being strangers to intensive collaborations, the two stalwarts of meditative sonic practice convene to offer Psychic Liberation the eight song album Old Pain. At just under an hour, the pair shine in a complementary fashion across perfectly constructed chapters pulling from their signature tool kits of atmospheric field recordings, tape loops, and pensive oscillations. Cautiously sharing space, the album is at times as brooding as it is transcendent. 

Old Pain is an album nearly two decades in the making. Beginning in 2006, Drumm and Nordwall endeavored to record together in Chicago, a session ultimately abandoned purportedly due to the influence of “Listening to Finnish Black Metal and drinking good brews”. In 2007, Drumm released the cassette Purge on Nordwalls iconic label IDEAL Recordings. Later ,in 2013, Purge was reissued on CD for IDEAL and a subsequent performance together in New York City found the two still in each other's orbit. Later, Kevin would make an appearance in collaboration with Nordwall on his Communication Is The Key Album for Entr’acte in 2019. Whereas previous in-person sessions faltered, Old Pain was the result of the two artists working in their respective winter-heavy geographies of Chicago and Gothenburg, trading files until completion.

Today, Drumm and Nordwall are totems of an era of true advancement in tonal despair. Drumm’s output has been that of mythology, creating some of the most singular works in the canon of experimental music. Nordwall, an equally notable peer as maker, has maintained the global standards and operations of challenging art through his IDEAL Recordings project while performing in solo and collaborative contexts globally. Between the two, it would be a near impossible task to find an iteration of any peer or generation following not touched by the massive cultural imprint they’ve cemented. Finally, with Old Pain, we have a document of two masters of their form able to stretch their legs and pronounce a cohesive gesture of sonic material that will stand to long linger below the surface of comfort.


PLIB-031 KEVIN DRUMM & JOACHIM NORDWALL - 2

Deciduous Makeuo

Deciduous Makeup

Deflating Wound (Escaping Hell)

a part of the January monthly subscriber exclusive offering at Illusion of Safety Bandcamp.......Live at The Electronic Pumpkin Patch 1988, was Daniel Burke nd Thymme Jones at an event at Northern Illinois University. We met during my final year there in 1983 & returned there to perform at the yearly experimental electronic event hosted by Joe Pinzerone who was in charge of the electronic music department. The event had many performers and installations throughout the music building. Thymme and I planted ourselves at the end of a long hall and draped a sheet over the portal and projected computer graphics so no one could see us. There is more of this recording to appear...

IOS live at The Electronic Pumpkin PAtch 1988

http://www.keithfullertonwhitman.com/greatest-hits

163. Bob Marley, "I Shot The Sheriff" (1973)

https://keithfullertonwhitman.com/greatest-hits

164. Foreigner, "Waiting for a Girl Like You" (1981)

Dada-Side-Bee-Memory
by KAZUYA ISHIGAMI

from The Death of Dada: A Geisha Sun Cookies Compilation by Various Artists

released June 18, 2024


https://awkwardgeisha.bandcamp.com/album/the-death-of-dada-a-geisha-sun-cookies-compilation
https://awkwardgeisha.bandcamp.com/track/dada-side-bee-memory


BMG - 25_04_20

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