Introducing our
Limited Edition Handmade Series
(each CDR limited to only 100 copies)
.
|
TLS-HM 07
Alan George Ledergerber
Release Date: May 2008
Band: Alan George Ledergerber
.
|
TLS-HM 06
Pillars & Tongues/ Sacred Architecture
Release Date: April 2008
Band: Mark Trecka
Elizabeth Remis
Evan Hydzik
Mark Trecka, Evan Hydzik, and Elizabeth Remis are Pillars and Tongues, a trio from Chicago, Illinois who want to bring peace and sublimity to each space they inhabit, whether it be the speakers in your room or playing live at some venue. Not to pontificate or hyperbolize, but 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. The music never really reaches the point of noise although dissonance is used sparsely throughout. Mostly what we have here is a record to listen to while spacing out on a spiritual lift. Beautiful, coherent, and free. -=foxydigitalis.com
.
|
TLS-HM 05
Burnt Hills/ Green Blare
Release Date: March 2008
Band: llana - xylophone
phil - drums
eric h - bass
ray - guitar
paula - guitar
johnny - guitar
jackson - guitar
.
|
TLS-HM 04
Father of The Flood
Release Date: December 2007
Band: Daniel Brigman
.
|
TLS-HM 03
The Ten Thousand Things
Release Date: November 2007
Band: Wes Covey: acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, percussion, samples
Jessica Calleiro: vocals, keyboards, drums, weather (The Song)
Ben Peck: vocals (Who’s Gonna Be Your Man?)
The Ten Thousand Things carry Yin and Embrace Yang. They face the light, but carry darkness on their backs. They achieve harmony by combining these forces.” -Laozi
Following two self-released CD-Rs which scraped the underbelly of the avant-garde, The Ten Thousand Things return with their third blast of blackened folk. Released as part of The Lotus Sound’s Handmade Series, The Ten Thousand Things continues along the band’s path across the tangled terrain of the droneworld.
Recently relocated to Athens, Georgia, multi-instrumentalist Wes Covey is this time joined by Savannah, Georgia’s psychedelic dreamstress Jessica Calleiro (uncle owen aunt beru), who blesses ‘The Song’ with vocals, drums and weather. Ben Peck, a native of Covey’s birthplace deep in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom adds scorching vocals to a retelling of the traditional ‘Who’s Gonna Be Your Man?’
On the remaining six songs, Covey utilizes his palate of guitars, bass, samples and various percussive instruments to create a series of compositions that face the light more than previous releases, while still holding the darkness at their backs.
Those who’ve had their ears perked by the sounds of Six Organs of Admittance, Pelt, Hala Strana and likeminded folk destroyers will want to set aside some time to give this slab a spin. Mostly, though, anyone interested in blending folk forms with drone experimentalism and the shivering blackness of doom will find want to free their minds to the sound of The Ten Thousand Things.
Even in noise, there is silence…
Even in silence, there is noise…
.
|
TLS-HM 02
Eric & Vanessa Arn -y/y Live in Vienna: 1/18/07
Release Date: June 2007
Band: Vanessa - Electronic sound generation, struck percussion
Eric - Guitar, bowed percussion
"It manages to take you one way to then slowly but surely transform everything you thought you knew into something you didn’t even expect. It opens in an ambient, technological world, and while submerged into listening, you find yourself in a rich instrumental landscape. What is also surprising is that it is recorded live. The quality is excellent and it actually helps explain the variety and fluidity of the music encountered."
-Catalina Isis Millán (Heathen Harvest 10/01/07)
.
|
TLS-HM 01
Graveyards/ Harmm's Way
Release Date: May 2007
Band: John Olson - Reeds/Electronics
Ben Hall -Percussion/Electronics
"This '07 recording represents the darkest smolders of Feldman meetsThreadgill meets cacophonic church bells performed in a manufacturing plant in the Graveyards catalog. Rather than filling every possible
space with the common horror vacui free jazz attacks the duo's riposte lets the sky open unto the bleakest corners they can find.
A return to the early, pre-Wolf Eyes Olson-Hall duet square-offs, this 'cello-less document finds Olson grasping with the Braxton-Teitlebaum sides and Hall running the push-pull linearity of Xenakis circa Psappha and addition to the Milford Graves poly-metered rewirings of flash card rudiments.
The hiatus of Buetow's 'cello in the forum alleviates much of the homage to contemporary classical phraseology and architecture. What it lacks in mock-intellectuality brains it makes up for in the post-fire music brawn of any reasonably raucous energy."
-Ben Hall
.
|
|
