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CATALOG
CDs:
INST001 Ourson - Eth
INST002 The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition Of
Phrases
INST003 Summons of Shining Ruins
Installation Series:
Installation 1: Dan
Crall - North
Installation 2: Brian
Grainger - Silver Surfaces Washed White
Installation
3: Gareth Hardwick - Waiting For The Penny To Drop
Installation
4: Wood-Land - Home
Installation
5: Acreil - Eisegetic Waiver
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INST001
OURSON - ETH
1.
Eth
2. Orph
3. Gate
4.
Basement Window
5. Ethre
6.
Osm
7. Collapser
8.
Daughter Of Sun
Limited to 300 Glossy
Digipaks.
Reviews:
Norman Records:
"Summer seems to be
popping it's fat shiny head in through my windows,
even at night it's gently warm & balmy. I feel in no
mood for indie guitars, I want ambient soundscapes
and cleansing washes of sound. Even dark, shuddering
sound like Ourson (Mr. Luke Hazard) produces on his
CD 'Eth'. I like listening to this at night as
there's no beats to piss off the neighbors, just
morphing waves of processed noise caressing my
flappy lugs like an angry digital breeze. There's
some proper phasing fun happening here, bringing a
new meaning to the phrase "channel hopping" That
track was 'Orph' by the way. Further on you get some
grumbling cyber ambience, like the drifting mists of
a dark field in Hades where spectral shadows torment
your every move & you dare not stop to chat or ask
for a light. Not that you'd need a sodding light in
Hades, like! Moving on into lighter territory,
treated, atmospheric guitar strumming involving some
intertwining minor chords over the soothing sound of
falling rain in the yard. Then the sinister drifting
arrives to recommence its relentless torment of your
lost soul! HAHAHA! Then there's much more
apocalyptic digital rumbling like what those Fuck
Buttons dudes do so well. A lot of that rumbling on
this CD may have escaped from 'Street Horrrsing'
because there's only so much ominous racket a CD can
hold, surely? Remember, a CD is half a computer. Ask
Phil. Yes, this is a great disc of sombre textures,
fuzzy doom-tones & introverted noise and just suits
this man's mood perfectly! Cup of tea anyone?
Digipak CD (edn of 300) on Install, a cool label run
by David Tagg & Brian Grainger (the most prolific
man in electronica?)"
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INST002
THE CARETAKER -
PERSISTENT REPETITION OF PHRASES
1. Lacunar Amnesia
2. Persistent Repetition
of Phrases 3. Rosy Retrospection
4. Long Term (remote)
5. Poor Enunciation
6. Past Life Regression
7. False Memory Syndrome
8.
Von Restorff Effect
9.
Unmasking Alzhiemer's
Limited to 500 Matte
Finish Digipaks.
Reviews:
NORMAN RECORDS:
"The Caretaker is the
alter ego of that lovely James V/Vm fella. As V/Vm
he makes a right old (textured) racket as a rule....
but as The Caretaker it's a much more sedate affair.
To sum the music up easily you have to go no further
than the title of his first album' Selected Memories
From The Haunted Ballroom'. That's exactly what the
music sounds like.... old ballroom music with
crackles and whizzles, all lopped up in the most
eerie way imaginable. It's like the ghosts of
yesteryear have taken over the stereo and what you
can hear are a load of old folks memories. The only
things missing are the bingo wings (or nan
flaps...)and the voices. Hey you'll be old soon so
don't diss the old folks...... life shoots by and
before you know it you'll be zooming your way info
your grave like there's no tomorrow. 'Persistent
Repetition of Phrases' is the strongest work I've
heard so far by The Caretaker. Both haunting and
beautiful... I like this lots. 500 only on Install
Records."
BOOMKAT:
"*AMAZING NEW ALBUM FROM
V/VM'S 'THE CARETAKER' PROJECT - IF YOU'RE INTO THE
WHOLE HAUNTOLOGY THING, THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST*
James Kirby's work as The Caretaker has always dealt
with the suggestion of haunted memory and the
obscuring of temporal motion, and this latest album
makes that more explicit than ever, with titles that
reference amnesia, Alzheimer's, past life regression
and other such memory misfires and short circuits.
Musically, this album might be compared to Philip
Jeck's manipulated vinyl tracts, featuring similarly
oceanic swells of crackle and dust, with faded
pianos or big band sounds wafting wraith-like across
the mix. After conjuring the sinister atmospherics
of The Shining with his debut album Selected
Memories From The Haunted Ballroom, The Caretaker
has been chasing this idea of sound leaving its
indelible mark on a space and time, so consequently
these creepy, semi-dissolved musical passages sound
no more tangible than shadows, and the album for the
most part comes across as some sort of séance held
via wax cylinder. Arguably the most accomplished and
rewarding Caretaker album to date, Persistent
Repetition Of Phrases is an album you'll want to
snap up fast - there's only 500 of these in
circulation...Highly Recommended."
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INST003
SUMMONS OF SHINING RUINS
1.
Boy is surrounded by
old friends and stopping at loggia, it seem to be
the mausoleum built from early time for him
2. Facade was burnt
down, glass cracks innumerably and diffused
reflection How did I come here?
3. Summons of shining
ruins
4.
Golden road, flower
bloomed all over. It was only it and quiet
5. Appearance had
changed a little when I awoke. Understood it. I was
left
6.
Strange shine between
existence and nothing
7. Job’s letter was not
openeD
8.
God's nation / God's
people
Limited to 100 FUll-color
jewelcases.
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Installation 1
DAN CRALL - NORTH
1.
In Tune
2. Devil's Playgound
3.
I Killed My Horse This Mornin'
4. Sonne, Lumiere Et Verre
5. Oregon Rain, Near Roadside
6. WPRR F-691.2 Conifer Avenue
7. Vineyard Mountain
8.
Cicada Recording
9. Timber
10. Last Dreams
11.
Voicemail From Paul
12. Coastal Contour
Limited to 50 Copies.
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Installation 2
BRIAN GRAINGER - SILVER
SURFACES WASHED WHITE
1.
Filament
2.
Chalk
3.
Washer Spiral
4.
Milk
Limited to 50 Copies.
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Installation 3
GARETH HARDWICK - WAITING
FOR THE PENNY TO DROP
1.
Cambridge, 14th November 2007
2.
Vidreres, 13th April 2007
Limited to 100 Copies.
Reviews:
AQUARIUS RECords:
"The last we heard from Gareth
Hardwick, and actually also the first we heard, was on a
collaborative lp with long time aQ fave Machinefabriek
(we have a few copies left, see elsewhere on the aQ
site), the two made for a good combination, each
offering up their own take on modern minimalism and
abstract dronemusic. But
in that context, with two sonically like minded
composers, it was difficult to figure out who was
bringing what to the sound of that record.
So
this is the first glimpse we've gotten of Hardwick solo
and we're quite smitten. Two loooong tracks, both
recorded live in 2007, both quite beautiful and sublime.
The first is a pure, barely shifting drone, at least
initially, very Niblock like, but focusing more on the
purity of the tones instead of how they interact. Deep
slow motion swells, the tones warm and glowing, rich and
lush, but simple and streamlined. The track shifts here
and there, the tones shifting subtly, some stretches
sounding almost chordal, others so simple and quiet, the
tones seem to be drifting through a vacuum. Near the
end, streks of high end are draped over the warm languid
swells, offering up a brief subtle counterpoint, adding
a bit of soft tension. The
second track is similarly structured, but the tones
sound more like notes coaxed from a guitar and allowed
to drift lazily, ring out almost endlessly, stretched
and smeared into deep soft blurs, again toward the end,
the various tones seem to come together into chords and
the sound becomes gently lush and sun dappled, dreamy
and soft focus before fading out completely.So
so lovely. Fans of muted, minimal drone music,
Coleclough, Chalk, Murray and the like, should
definitely explore the sounds of Gareth Hardwick, and
folks into the hazy drift of Pop Ambient style shimmer,
might just dig this more minimal take on that sound as
well. Fantastic
packaging too. A printed full color cd-r, housed in a
plain black sleeve, with a full color textured plastic
transparent insert, slightly longer than the sleeve so
the transparent top edge sticks out. LIMITED
TO 100 COPIES!!"
NORMAN RECORDS:
"Gareth Hardwick now. We've
had a few of his releases over the last year and here's
another limited one. This one is also part of the
installation series (see Brian Grainger review) and is
also limited to 100 copies. Here are 2 sets of him
playing live. The one is very much like you'd expect if
you've heard any of his previous work. Beautiful
textured drones which meld into your consciousness in no
time. His guitar just lulls you into it.... The 2nd set
(recorded in Spain) is a much more lo-fi affair as it
was recorded onto a dictaphone. Still very droney but
there's more to get in the way of the lovelyness... so
it ends up sounding quite full and hazy sounding. Well
lovely!! 'Waiting For The Penny To Drop' is CD only...."
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Installation 4
WOOD-LAND - home
1. HEAVY FOG ON THE FOREST FLOOR
2.
LICKING CREEK
3. HALLOWED HANDS
4.
PSALM 135:7
5. THE CIVIL WAR
6. JUST A THOUGHT
7.
DEVIL'S DEN
8. SQUIRREL BONES AND PINE CONES
9. SLEEPING BEAR
10. BIG ROUND TOP
11.
SOMEONE FOUND HAPPINESS
Limited to 50 Copies.
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Installation 5
ACREIL - EISEGETIC WAIVER
1. EMISSION CORRIDOR
2.
EIGHT TINY SPHERES
3. SLIGHTLY THROUGH AIR
4.
MID-LENGTH, TRANSPARENTLY
Limited to 50 Copies.
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