from MW012 
Craig Pedersen Quartet
feat:
Mark Molnar, cello
Thierry Amar, bass
Bennett Bedoukian, drums

mixed by Craig Pedersen / Mystery & Wonder
mastered by Harris Newman
cover painting by Craig Pedersen

mw012 Craig Pedersen - As Long As There Is Sorrow I Will Play Long Notes

asking to become part of the environment dismisses that we already are.

samples of three different realizations of Craig Pedersen's text score 'dismissal'. Includes PDF liner notes.

0:00-1:00: Gudinni Cortina - field recording
1:00-2:00: Mark Molnar - piano
2:00-3:00 E Millar - clarinet, objects, field recording

Score by Craig Pedersen
Recorded by the artists in their respective spaces
Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market Mastering
Cover photo by Gudinni Cortina
(C)+(P) Mystery & Wonder 2023
MW011 | mwrecs.com

MW011: Craig Pedersen - dismissal

From MW010
E Millar - artificial field recording
Kiwi Alley with chains

Album available as high-quality digital download. Digital versions include a PDF of the artwork and liner notes.

MW010: E Millar - artificial field recording - Kiwi Alley with chains

Featuring field recordings, oscillators, sine-waves and no-input mixing board, it's available as a set of 3 art postcards and liner notes by artist Yan Jun (subjamlabel.bandcamp.com) with download, as well as download with deluxe digital liner notes.

Recorded, gathered and arranged by Gudinni Cortina 
Mixed by Mystery & Wonder 
Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market Mastering  
Photography by Gudinni Cortina 
Liner notes by Yan Jun

Morada

substare

MW014:
Orchrogaster Lunifer's Ritual
by
Elizabeth Lima, voice
Dan O’Connor, trumpet
Sage Pbbbt: voice

Recorded 10th May 2023 on Whadjuk Noongar boodja.
We pay our respects to the elders of the Whadjuk Noongar people, the traditional custodians of these lands.

Recorded and mixed by Craig Pedersen at Mystery & Wonder
Mastered by Dan O’Connor at Encoder Sounds

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These congregating caterpillars are even more dangerous than they look. Melodies and snarls and growls. Controlled and precise and ridiculous. Processionary caterpillars in action, doing what they do best. There is strenuous silence here amongst an at times dense and confronting cacophony.

In one moment, they’re marching the audience in a never-ending circle of mindless confusion seeking food that will never appear. Like a puppet spectre. Other times, there are quirky, silly creature noises, ready to pupate and transform into their moth form underground.

They weave a silk pentagram in the aether with trumpet air noise and fragile spittle sounds. Operatic throat singing air noises cracks pops spittle crinkles voices emerging out of voices emerging out of voices emerging out of voices.

At other times, this like the outtakes from a body horror film; the retracted dreaming of a possessed visionary auteur. Wielding no less than 2 million finely barbed hairs that will inflict a nasty case of hives—or worse. (In an alternate reality, these folx are called Horse Abortion and are big in some subculture that meets only in basements late at night in a city you can never remember the name of). Devastating.

Orchrogaster Lunifer's Ritual

Strenuous Silence

From MW005
E Millar - no instrument machine, air
Mechanical Forest Sound 1

Album available on CD and high-quality digital download. Packaging designed by Elizabeth Millar and hand-assembled. Packaging includes custom-cut CD envelopes, liner notes by Anne-F Jacques, and an obi strip, sealed in a poly sleeve. Digital versions include a PDF of the artwork and liner notes.

Recorded by Elizabeth in Montreal 2018
Mixed by Craig Pedersen
Mastered by Harris Newman at Greymarket Mastering
All music by Elizabeth Millar

E Millar is Elizabeth Millar's solo project :
breath, machine hums, metal surfaces, air
short sound pieces for fans, propellers and clarinet
emillar.net

no instrument machine, air

MW005: E Millar - no instrument machine, air - Mechanical Forest Sound 1

from MW006:
Brandon Auger - when sails fold
Northern Compass

Performed and recorded by Brandon Auger in Halifax, 2018 
Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market Mastering
Mixed and designed by Mystery & Wonder
All music and cover photo by Brandon Auger

A unique set of recordings made by Halifax minimal modular-synth player and construction worker Brandon Auger. With special access to remote concrete structures on building sites, Auger recorded in a variety of these vast environments, capturing, amplifying and drawing out their acoustic idiosyncrasies. 

The result is a beautiful series of short tracks - an auditory document of the resonance of industrial forms, calling to mind the black-and-white photography of Bernd and Hilla Becher. 

The packaging was designed by Mystery & Wonder and assembled by hand in an edition of 150. Packaging includes custom-cut CD envelopes, photographic cover by Brandon Auger, liner notes by Toshimaru Nakamura and an obi strip, sealed in a poly sleeve. Digital versions include a PDF of the artwork, and liner notes.


(C)+(P) Brandon Auger and Mystery & Wonder 2019 
MW006 | mwrecs.com

when sails fold

MW006: Brandon Auger - when sails fold - Northern Compass

ALBUM RELEASE October 1 2019.
Canada tour Oct 9 - Nov 1 2019
For more info : mwrecs.com/tour

amplified clarinet and trumpet, guitars, nimb (18:39) - excerpt

from MW008
amplified clarinet and trumpet, guitars, nimb 
by Sound of the Mountain with Tetuzi Akiyama and Toshimaru Nakamura

Tetuzi Akiyama - guitars
Toshimaru Nakamura - no-input mixing board
Elizabeth Millar - amplified clarinet
Craig Pedersen - amplified trumpet

There is a clear affinity amongst the members of this quartet for mixing acoustic and electric elements and extending the physical possibilities of their instruments. Montreal-based Sound of the Mountain (Elizabeth Millar, amplified clarinet & Craig Pedersen, amplified trumpet) met Japanese improvising musicians Tetuzi Akiyama (guitar) and Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board) in Tokyo in August 2017. Several concerts and a recording session at the legendary GOK studio in Kichijoji were the foundation for this collaborative effort in creating sound together, putting focus on the musical possibilities of form and interaction inherent in improvised music.

Recorded by Yoshiaki Kondo at Gok Sound, Kichijoji, Tokyo, October, 2017.
Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering.
Mixed, designed, manufactured and assembled by Mystery & Wonder

All music by Sound of the Mountain, Akiyama and Nakamura
(C)+(P)Mystery & Wonder 2019 
MW008 | mwrecs.com

Album available on CD, FLAC and mp3. The packaging was designed by Mystery & Wonder and assembled by hand. Packaging includes custom-cut CD envelopes, liner notes by sound artist Gudinni Cortina and an obi strip, sealed in a poly sleeve. Digital versions include a PDF of the artwork, and liner notes.

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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

MW008: SOTM w Tetuzi Akiyama & Toshimaru Nakamura - amplified clarinet and trumpet, guitars, nimb

Mystery & Wonder is a small label started in 2017. It is run by Elizabeth Millar and Craig Pedersen.

Many of our releases focus on sound art, improvisation and compositional works that give attention to the musical possibilities inherent in combining or superimposing closely amplified elements with acoustic elements.  We are interested in work that takes care with sound and timbre, structure and form, is close, direct and in high-definition. But most off all, we are interested in work that defies our understanding of all this and moves us in ways we don’t expect, work that stands on its own.

We are lovers of the album as physical object. We custom cut the majority of our sleeves with high-quality paper using an industrial die-cut machine.  Our latest releases include some combination of obi strips, hand printed covers, scores, photographs, and liner notes. With the exception of a few, releases are hand-assembled.

We also actively organize concerts in Montreal and elsewhere.  You can read more about our events here.  To stay actively updated about our releases, concerts and tours, please consider signing our mailing list: http://eepurl.com/cMOzLr

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