New items here, including releases from/related to John Murphy, Nat Grant, Joe Musgrove and Makro/Hetlev.
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Surface Noise Vol. 3 out now on Shame File Music/Iceage Productions
New on Shame File Music/Iceage Productions:
Joe Musgrove/Makro & Hetlev “Surface Noise Vol. 3” CDR
A double header from a selection of Brisbane masters of drone and electronic abstraction. Musgrove has long been a master of all things drone, with both his solo work and as part of Biffplex. On his track we hear the last part of an 8 hour overnight performance, as it all grinds to an entropic end. Makro/Hetlev are Lloyd Barrett (Diaspora, Secret Killer of Names) and Paul Forbes Mitchell (Hetleveiker) in live electronic dialogue.
Surface Noise is a series of limited edition (50 copies), hand-numbered CDRs documenting live performances of experimental and noise artists. Each volume features live performances from two different artists; the first initially invited by the curators, and the second then chosen by the first artist. Co-released by Melbourne labels Iceage Productions and Shame File Music, the series will consist of ten volumes.
Copies available from Shame File Music. Stream online here
The Surface Noise series:
Vol. 1 – cleaninglady/Klunk – copies still available
Vol. 2 – Cat Hope/White Drummer – sold out
Vol. 3 – Joe Musgrove/Makro & Hetlev – out now
Vol. 4 – Ben Byrne & Rosalind Hall/Anthea Caddy & Matt Davis – out soon
New Shame File Mailorder items
A range of new quality Australian experimental music releases available now.
Friction – this Friday 29 July at Aeso
Friction – vibrations, sparks, energy. Conflict, ignition, resonance.
Celebrate the release of Taiwanese performing artist, Chun Liang Liu’s debut solo album ‘Friction’ with three performances touching on the theme of friction.
Performances from:
默契 (Moe Chee – Clinton Green & Chun Liang Liu)
This will be the first 默 契 performance in Australia for over a year, and the last for the foreseeable future.
The limited edition of 30 ‘Friction’ CDs in handmade covers will be available on the night (if any are left). Pre-orders available now, and digital version available in August from Shame File Music.
$10 entry / doors at 7pm / performance from 8pm
Aeso (formerly Conduit Arts), 83 Brunswick St, Fitzroy.
Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/639473296203240/
New on Shame File Music & mailorder
Order the items below and more from http://ShameFileMusic.com
- Chun-liang Liu ‘Friction’ (online/ltd edition CDR) – This debut release from the Taiwanese performing artist is a selection lo-fi recordings Chun-liang makes as she moves through the world in both Australia and Taiwan, a travelogue and soundscape overlaid with vocalisations and song. A very limited edition of 30 beautiful handmade CD covers designed and constructed by Kuan-Chiun Chuang on exquisite French paper stock. Each disc has an individual Chinese character hand-written by Chun-liang. Pre-orders are now available and moving fast, get in quick to secure your copy (shipping late July).
- The Instrument Builders Project ‘Hits From the Gong’ (230 x 300 mm full colour softcover book) – Years in the making, this printed monster of an edition comes in a specially designed cardboard box and features eye popping full colour images and descriptions of The Instrument Builders Project; an Australia/Indonesia collaboration of experimental instrument makers that took place across three editions in Yokgyakarta, Indonesia and Melbourne, Australaia in 2013 and 2014. The book features essays and conversations by Helen Hughes, Antariksa, Wok The Rock, Serena Bentley and Edwina Brennan, and curators Kristi Monfries and Joel Stern. Limited edition of 400.
- Peter Farrar ‘Avocado’ (LP/CD) – Debut solo release from Sydney alto sax monster, who uses plastic bags and bottles as mutes to create an astonishing array of textures. From the extreme vibrating shronk of the title track, to “Light Green” which sounds not unlike a field recording of squawking jungle birdlife, this album is riveting listening. A punk Jim Denley, perhaps? LP is limited to 300 hand-numbered copies, also available on CD.
- Various Artists – ‘All My Sins Remembered: The Sonic Worlds of John Murphy’ (3CD + booklet) John Murphy was at the cutting edge of Australian underground music since the 1970s, and later a key player in the forging of European industrial music. His influence and collaborative reach is extensively documented in this beautiful 3 CD set, spanning 40 years of musical output (from 1975 to 2015, the year of Murphy’s death). The bands and projects here of which Murphy was a member are a veritable roll call of the dark/noise/industrial canon, including NEWS, Whirlywirld, Orchestra of Skin and Bone, SLUB, SPK, Whitehouse, Lustmord, Browning Mummery, KnifeLadder and countless others. The CDs are housed in a lavish full colour cardboard foldout box, which also includes a 32 page booklet with photos and notes by several Murphy collaborators and friends. Limited edition of 750, but only a handful available in Australia.
Gordoa/McNab/Myburgh “Passive Transport” download now available
This recent Shame File Music release is now available for digital download for AU$7. The limited edition CD is also available from Shame File Music.
…a complex, beautiful, occasionally confronting and totally singular listen – Cool Perth Nights.
New titles available on Shame File Music mailorder
Von Einem “The Von Einem Tapes” 2CD – The full discography of Mark Groves’ Von Einem project, issued over the past few years on varoius short-run cassettes, comes together here to represent a truly impressive minimalistic power electronics collection. The Von Einem project takes its subject matter from various documented acts of depravity purportrated around Adelaide and South Autralia – not just related to the murders that the project name references, but also numerous documented instances of murders committed by police officers. The Von Einem canon is a taut, focussed conceptual work that alludes to themes of dole-class drug cultures and ennui as gateways to violence for its own sake. Groves holds his sonic weapons close to his chest; there are none of the walls of white noise you’ve heard a million times before here. Instead, each blast and clang is laden with foreboding and dread meaning. Comes in three panel pro-printed sleeve with booklet – essential.
Decibel “Tuned Darker” LP – This album is named after a line from a poem by Louise Glück which refers to the subtle and parallel changes in light and sound. This album is an exploration of this subtleness. In it, sounds shift and morph, teetering on the edge of, and in-between, tunings. Instrumental colour is the focus of this album, in particular the way it changes in different ranges, diffusions and voices. Hope’s “Lowest Drawer” explores a slow, dark and gentle comparison of electronic and acoustic low sounds that create complex acoustic beatings as they slowly unfold. James’ “n dimension” uses samples of wavering acoustic instrumentals to create a sea of sound diffusions that explores concepts of dimensionality. Vickery’s song cycle “Night Fragments,” featuring Caitlin Cassidy, uses text by Belgian surrealist author Françilon Daniels to explore the twilight between sleep and wakefulness, with different instruments often progressing at different rates from each other using click tracks to guide them (comes with download card).
Order from http://ShameFileMusic.com
Gordoa/McNab/Myburgh “Passive Transport” CD – new on Shame File Music
In February 2015, Australian musicians Michael McNab (percussion/drums) and Josten Myburgh (electronics) toured Europe, and met up with Emilio Gordoa (vibraphone), a Mexican artist residing in Berlin since 2012. They recorded a couple of hours of improvisation in Gordoa’s Berlin studio. From these raw recordings comes the two excerpts that make up Passive Transport, a delicate tapestry of extended techniques and open improvisation, with various instrument preparations and electronic treatments exorcising any expected timbres from instruments like drums or vibraphone. The result is a work of crystalline sonic beauty and tension. Available now from http://ShameFileMusic.com
Shame File Music – January sale
Australia Post drastically increased postage as at 1 January 2016, which means I now have to do a lot of work on the Shame File Music website to revamp postage prices.
Help me out and pick yourself up a bargain in the process by purchasing some of the below items – only one copy remains of each. If you buy it, I don’t have to update it’s price!
To encourage you, I’ve discounted all their prices.
View the sale items on the Shame File Music website. Make your selections, then email me at cdgsham AT gmail DOT com and I will quote you postage, arrange payment via EFT or Paypal
Besides these titles, you may want to take advantage of the fact that all the other hundreds of titles on the website are still quoting the old, cheaper postage rates, and order some of those as well before the new postage rates are instated on the website in February.
Clinton Green 