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featherspines 26 - October 2009
Side A
01. Introduction [00:04:54]
02. Trading Caresses [00:03:02]
03. Ache [00:15:40]
04. Sight [00:07:04]
Side B
01. Contrary to Her [00:12:34]
02. Libra [00:15:52]
Bryce Hample and Brodie Johnson
Cello, viola da gamba, horns, guitar, piano, bass
Recorded at CIRQ and at home.
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featherspines 25 - October 2009
Side A [00:35:03]
01. Ka:cim
02. Orchard
Side B [00:20:23]
01. Disclosure
02. Lambs
“Since I die daily, daily mourne,” is an expansive release of ruminations recorded in an abandoned meat packing plant. The individual songs are shaped through the use of sounds recorded from slaughterhouses and vivisection labs to examine and subsequently meditate on issues surrounding the dominance of man toward the natural roaming world. These densely-treated concepts offer little solace as the listener is taken through an incredible murk of physically tonal-constructions.
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featherspines 24 - September 2009
“How You are and Could Have Been” is heard best in one sitting, feeling the individual songs blossom into a kaleidoscope of subtle ambiguity and hazy melodies, producing a seamless emotionally-fragile intimacy personified. Developments are apparent within Hannah’s absorbing vocal/guitar approach and slightly detouring progressions, which weave affectionately alongside loose threads of miscellaneous electronica, children’s toys, and a wide range of reverberated instruments/objects.
Limited to ninety-two copies.
To order please contact Hannah directly, hannahkfraser@gmail.com
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featherspines 23 - May 2009
Coma Recovery
01. Synergeometric
02. Varanasi / Infinivoid
His Holiness
03. Annointed in the Womb
04. Samsara
05. The Only Way to do Something is...
06. Birth to Birth
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featherspines 22 - April 2009
Side A: Rabbit [00:18:30]
recorded August 2008 by Hannah Fraser and Bryce Hample
piano, voice, guitar
Side B: Hedia [00:18:16]
01. Descend
02. Feather Ache pt. 2
recorded October 2008 by Bryce Hample
guitar, trumpet
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featherspines 21 - April 2009
A01. I Devour
A02. Time Unbound
A03. Dissolving Horizon
A04. And Tiamat Returns
A05. The Aeon's End
B01. Underneath
B02. Scarlett Residue
B03. A Moment
B04. The Moment's End
Centipede is a bass/drum duo based in Santa Cruz, CA featuring Joseph of Fell Voices. This compilation of past recordings is an incredibly visible display of weighted free-form primal sound-sculpture. The coalescence of diverse instrumental timbres provided by wading minor melody drifts, relentlessly dense drumming, and all out grinding riffs erode to an utterly dismal murk.
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featherspines 20 - March 2009
A01. Black Streaked Humming
A02. Hastaa'
A03. Cheii Haashi'too
B01. Song For Eight
All songs by Raven Chacon [2001, 2007]
Additional musicians on Hastaa':
Carmile Leonard - voice / Andrew Thomas - flute
Recorded in Albuquerque, NM / Kayenta, AZ / Los Angeles, CA
Dineyazhe Music / www.spiderwebsinthesky.com
Raven Chacon (born Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation, Arizona, United States, 1977) is known for his work in chamber music and constant activity within various noise endeavors (Cobra//Group, KILT, Black Guys). As an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, he is one of the few American Indian classical composers and educators of "New Native Art" and has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project.
With "Black Streaked Hum", Chacon shares a collection of previously recorded material in the style of traditional Navajo social songs.
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featherspines 19 - February 2008
An experiment in the practice of phonography (literally "sound-writing"). One track that extends beyond an hour, composed exclusively with manipulated field recordings - documenting with forensic purpose urban environments across the Western United States. A Father of the Flood related project.
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featherspines 18 - November 2008
one. 4.00
two. 16.15
three. 10.54
four. 11.35
bryce hample and brodie johnson.
recorded september 2008 in Albuquerque
a collaboration between bryce hample (guitar, trumpet, trombone, piano, reel to reel) and brodie johnson (cello, manipulations) consisting of four improvisations/meditations/conversations.
"I am walking slowly through a forest where all the trees are memories bathed in snow. In fact, it is the snow that gives them shape at all. otherwise they'd be only detectable in that their nearness causes the body to pull down the heart."
limited to 30 copies
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featherspines 17 - December 2008
01. Reline
02. Arise
03. Done
04. Namstre
05. Stole
06. Berel
Jay Kreimer: Objects, Time
Bryan Day: Objects, Time
Bryan Day started recording and performing electronic music in 1997 as Sistrum and soon after started the Public Eyesore label to release his recordings. He began to build instruments from broken electronic equipment, scrap metal, and strings and hardware from guitars and basses. For a few years he sold his own effects processors and synthesizers online through his own gobiBlu electronics company. In 2000 he began work on his own style of guitar improvisation using broken acoustic guitars releasing albums on Gameboy, Freedom From, and Seagull Records. Continuing to build an arsenal of electronic and acoustic instruments, Day began to gain the interest of the free-improvisation community and began to collaborate with artists such as Jack Wright, Jorge Castro, Lonnie Methe, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Steve Schneider, Brian Noring, Yoshiaki Kinno and many others.
limited to 60 copies.
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featherspines 16 - February 2008
Side A - Yoda's House "Ectoplasmic Tendril"
Side B - Black Guys "Statutory Rap"
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featherspines 15 - October 2008
01. A Sea of Pulses
02. Come Now, it's Not Too Dark
03. And Now, I See the Light
Total Time [00:18:47]
All tracks by Lee Riley
Home recording: Oxford, UK
August/September 2008
Oxford-based solo minimalist Euhedral relates to Patel Pretal and Divine Coils in that his musical experiments developed out of "quiet, noised-based ideas, playing with layers of sound and manipulating them with effects". His musical offerings have evolved from "quite improvised at first, but now [it's] more of a structured form to which I am very pleased with". The result is cyclic creations of brittle blares, sounding like an electronic interpretation of a distant construction-site, light years away. For him, motivation to perform comes from a much more personal place. "It's more about personal achievement and encouragement from my friends, and I feel that I am making music that I really enjoy playing".
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featherspines 14 - September 2008
Side A: [00:20:30]
01. First Breath as Bells
02. Peace (In Breadth of Form)
03. Second Breath as Bells
04. My Joy is Greater Than Ever It Has Been
Side B: [00:17:38]
01. Bells as Breath (My Joy is Greater Than Ever It Has Been)
02. My Joys are Greater Than Every They Have Been
03. Breath as Bells
All songs written and performed by Pillars and Tongues
Ryan Hydzik
Elizabeth Remis
Mark Trecka
A unique session of primarily spontaneously composed work -- recorded in an empty apartment and very much reactive to its environment.
"thematically Pillars and Tongues embody the spirit and philosophy of Albert Ayler's Music is the Healing Force Of The Universe. The trio create positive and healthy spontaneous compositions that resonate in spirit form while manifesting as sound. Think of these as psychedelic, free-jazz, chamberfolk-jamms; a kind of soul-searching free-music or celestial cinema. Violin, upright bass, melodica, organ, and harmonica are the instruments of choice for these cosmic sojourners who each occasionally sing poetry in rural spiritual tongues."
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featherspines 13 - September 2008
1. tiger cuts
2. yeah, we're sweaty
3. malnourished
4. bronto piss
5. our lingo is stupid
6. pneumononitramicroscopicsilicorolanoconiosises
7. O.N.S.
Nose Whistler is: Alexander J Sugg - drums, Micheal S Kesner - keys.
recorded by bryce hample at winnings may 2008
"Work from two members of Albuquerque's instrumental rock group Braillist, Nose Whistler recalls shoulders parting the air out the window on a train, tumbles drum and keyboard through seven songs in myriad parts. Relative to classic math rock such as Polvo or Don Caballero in it's jolting rhythm and complexity of song structure, though in place of layered, dissonant guitars Part One sounds more a vitamin of action movie soundtracks. Here like lengths of strung lights knotting a tree's branches are the younger and adroit."
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featherspines 12 - August 2008
Side A: [00:23:39]
01. Tilfactor Light Center
02. Linguistics
03. Wassaic
04. Escalator Death
05. God Vomit
06. Sometimes Maybe
Side B: [00:25:48]
01. Primal Saws
02. UI5 (featuring Hart Viges)
03. [Object]
04. P.A.C.M.S.G. (Part 1)
05. Processed Silence
06. Iron Giant
07. Engineering Psychological Inputs (Section 5.3)
08. Kobeer Q Liloch
by Jordan Glazer & Spencer Neale
Fourteen track recorded in Santa Fe, NM.
With Crater of the Soil, Atmospheric Diver takes you on a journey through space and time. The album starts with a hypnotic warbling and a spacey twinkle, but over it's course plumbs the depths of experimental music. From harsh grinding electrical buzzing, to haunting ebb and flow drones accompanied by doomy guitar, you may feel yourself adrift in the cosmos. Occasionally, some sampled voices are layered into the songs but they feel more like textures than statements. One track uses an interview with a returned soldier, which does feel more message oriented, but not the least heavy handed.
At it's best, Crater of the soil is reminicent of the beautiful grandeur found in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is appropriate considering the band's name evokes the same kind of cosmic exploration. I see an astronaut strapping on his pressure suit, and pushing off into the thickly swirling maelstrom of an uncharted gas giant, boldly going where no one has gone before. These are the transmissions we receive back home.
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featherspines 11 - July 2008
This former progressive-electronica powerhouse explores startling new territory in divine grace and subtlety as they move away from their synthesizers and experiment in group consciousness with classical indian instruments (sitar, esraj, and tablas). the result is an extensive collection of material from their summer 2008 west coast tour.
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featherspines 10 - July 2008
01. 1,613 and Gunsick [00:16;44]
02. Koelzer's Thaw [00:24:46]
This release was written as reflection upon my time spent volunteering with the Buffalo Field Campaign. When I began the writing/recording process my mind was assaulted with vivid images of the inhumane treatment that I witnessed of this sacred animal. I was desperate for understanding and unsatisfied with the justification for the actions carried out by the Department of Livestock. I was eager for a conclusion to this assault on the last wild bison. The conclusion has yet to come, the confusion has yet to leave me.
This winter alone, 1613 bison were hazed, captured, and slaughtered.
For myself, the sounds on this album are bleak and consuming. Swells of densely layered soundscapes and imposing drones contrasted with various cold and vacant bowed acoustic instruments create an extremely pointed and isolated environment, weighted in remorse.
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featherspines 09 - July 2008
Side 1:
01. Wraith Rite
02. der Robotergeist
03. Skeleton Elbows
04. Devil Island After Sunnset
Side 2:
01. Piamono
02. Crystal Gazing
03. Etiainen Prophecy
04. Nico
This is the first release of the ever-changing Yoda's House. This 62 minute tape features a vast compilation of various live recordings and rehearsals from 2007/2008 all re-mixed and placed within haunting field recordings and other sound collages. Traditionally, this band has always brought something unique and out of the ordinary, even for themselves, to each live performance and this is the perfect scrapbook of those experiments.
Featured Musicians:
Nick Angelo, Joe Annabi, Daniel Brigman, Hannah Fraser, Bryce Hample, Rae Hample, Brodie Johnson, Steven Nery, Max Richardson, Ty Ryder, Nick Sedillos, and Matt Wolf-Cecil
Recorded in Albuquerque, NM June '07- March '08
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featherspines 08 - July 2008
A01: theobromo
B01: in the hands of the blind god
Fell Voices is a black metal band from the Bay Area. This tape is comprised of two songs, each around 20 minutes of doom-ridden dissonant, heavily down-tuned guitar/bass, slowly ascending tempos, swarms of high-pitched feedback, and soaring tortured vocals, making for a genuinely anguished and challenging listening experience.
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featherspines 07 - July 2008
A01. Incognito
A02. Summer Looking North
A03. Arc of the Covenant
A04. Coma Recovery
A05. Down Goes Your Eyes
*B side features unreleased/live tracks.
This is a re-release of the Albuquerque band that later became The Coma Recovery. This tape features the original EP as released in 2001 and the B-side has previously unreleased songs and live recordings. These challenging compositions are built upon guitar rock rooted in hardcore and performed with blistering intensity and intricately orchestrated builds and releases. The overall feel is distinctive of the loosely defined post-hardcore movement and bands like The Red Scare and Drive like Jehu.
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featherspines 06 - June 2008
01. 9:21 Blinds
02. October Twentieth
03. Of the Year, This Year
04. Fourteen Suitcases
05. Skyscraper Paper
06. Your Yellow Dress
07. Nita
08. Harp Shark
09. The Grass is Uncovered
10. Say Setter
*A side is B side
'me you like i' is Hannah Fraser's first full-length solo release, a self titled cassette tape with ten tracks recorded in minneapolis 07/08. Playful, sleepy compositions utilize a wide palette of instrumentation, all tied together by delicate vocal melodies. The tape is saturated with warm, breathy voices, rusty acoustic guitars, ukeleles, distant found sounds, autoharp, chiming glockenspiels, and musty pianos. Songs gently fade in and out of focus, exploring each of the four seasons, light to dark.
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featherspines 05 - April 2008
I [00:04:28]
II [00:22:08]
III [00:08:05]
IV [00:04:53]
A forty minute joint effort from Joseph Angelo and Daniel Brigman available on CDR. This release is meant to serve as documentation of the pair's collaborative set taking place on May 3 at the Stove Art Gallery in support of Alan George Ledergerber's CD release on The Lotus Sound. These four songs were recorded during the rehearsals leading up to this event.
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featherspines 04 - February 2008
01. White Cloud of Rabbit [00:12:54]
02. Silhouette [00:21:58]
03. Dusk Gloves Cover Your Eyes [00:17:58]
*A side is B side
All instruments (piano, tape loops, trumpet, guitar, french horn) played by Bryce Hample
Recorded winter 2007/08 - Albuquerque, NM
Hedia is the name given to the personal recordings of Bryce Hample. This fifty-three minute self-titled cassette is comprised of three sedative lullabys, crafted during the dry and frosted months of 2007/08. Hedia explores a tranquilized conceousness with a palette of various tape manipulations, drifting piano chords, as well as, trumpets and french horns laced with reverb to synergistically produce a heavily opiated atmosphere.
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featherspines 03 - September 2007
Side A: Luperci
A01. The Wind Forces the Black Birds into Chaotic Elliptical Patterns. [00:09:20]
A02. While in Motion they Silently Whisper, "Go Home". [00:07:37]
Side B: Father of the Flood
B01. Ativan [00:09:15]
B02. Staircases Upon Fault Lines [00:08:46]
B03. Geodon Frost [00:09:07]
This new release through FeatherSpines Tapes, is another shared effort between two Albuquerque musicians, Luperci and Father of the Flood. Joseph Angelo of Luperci recorded these songs while on tour during the winter of 2007 in Berlin. The nature of these songs is in great contrast to the material released on early Luperci recordings, providing more gradually composed progressions from dark ambient drones and hisses to some of the more abrasive sounds you may be familiar with from Joseph's earlier project, Sidanik. These songs encompass a wide range of dynamics and tones, each being individually recognizable while still bolstering an overall disorienting boquet of sounds. Father of the Flood shares three pieces composed with a more eclectic base of instrumentation and field recordings than found on earlier releases. The result is a more focused and thorough journey of soundscapes and hypnotic reverberations.
The first stage of this release is limited to 35 copies, sewn within fabric pouches, screenprinted covers and five color inserts of original artwork.
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featherspines 02 - August 2007
Side A:
Scribbles I Think So [00:06:26]
written and performed by Hannah Fraser
Side B:
Suits That Smell Like Gasoline [00:12:29]
written and performed by Father of the Flood
This is the first in a series of split cassettes released through FeatherSpines Tapes. This particular cassette shared between Hannah Fraser and Father of the Flood, offers the listener a home recording Hannah delicately crafted with semblant instrumentation on piano accompanied by field recordings of winter geese in Albuquerque's Bosque. Father of the Flood carries a similar vulnerable mood evoked through etherial drones and linear melodies played on a baritone guitar.
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featherspines 01 - June 2007
01. Back Water Central Nervous System
02. Jubela, Jubelo, Jubelum
03. Be Careful Not to Get Ahead of Yourself
04. On Your Alarum
05. Come to the Quiet*
06. The Hell-Gate of Soissons
07. Normandy
08. The Uses of Enchantment
09. Super Ego
10. The Order of Perfectibilists
This is a self-titled collection of home-recordings, created between 2005 and 2007, some of which were released on the CD-R demos, Threading and Vesalius.
