Dissonant Plane

FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCEFRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2009
7:00 PM
KAWABATA MAKOTO
?ALOS
AERIAL RAIN

Founder of Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective, Kawabata Makoto has been recording and touring for 30+ years. His projects and collaborations have brought him all over the globe, working with many prolific artists along the way such as Keiji Haino, Mani Neumeier(Guru Guru), Daevid Allen(Gong), Damo Suzuki(Can) and Kinski. From beautiful ambient dreamscapes to full blown psychedelic freakouts by way of sonic experimentation(often in the same song!), Kawabata’s music is as unrestrained as it is inspired.

Where do these sounds come from? Who is sending them out? That is not something for me to know, and neither is there any way that I could find out. I simply believe that they come from the ‘cosmos’.
-Kawabata Makoto

Kawabata Makoto leads prolific psych-rock behemoths Acid Mothers Temple, but on his own he often opts for beatific guitar emanations that suggest a strict regimen of Zen Buddhist meditation rather than AMT’s grandiloquent jamming and sonic holocausts. You could say the man loves his extremes. The INUI series of albums Kawabata’s recorded for VHF Records—as well as I’m in Your Inner Most and Hosanna Mantra—stands as a beautiful, solemn monument to his mellower inclinations, but you should probably bring earplugs, just in case the Japanese ax master gets into one of his ornery moods. Bonus: Dissonant Plane will give you a limited-edition poster to commemorate this event with any Kawabata/Acid Mothers–related purchase or any $20-plus purchase of merchandise.
  - DAVE SEGAL in The Stranger

http://www.acidmothers.com
http://www.myspace.com/kawabatamakoto
http://www.myspace.com/acidmotherstemple

• Aethenor  ”Betimes Black Cloudmasses”  CD  (VHF)  USED  $8  - with Stephen O’Malley of Sunn0))), Khanate, KTL, etc.
• Ahmed, Ilyas  ”Between Two Skies/Towards the Night”  2 x CD  (Digitalis)  USED  $10  - 2 CD set from Portland based troubadour
• Ahmed, Ilyas  ”Vertigo of Dawn, The”  CD  (Time-Lag Records)  USED  $8  - psychedelic folk from Portland
• Anubi  ”Kai Pilnaties Akis Uzmerks Mirtis”  CD  (Danza Ipnotica Records)  USED  $14  - Weird obscure psych based metal from Lithuania (rare)
• ARC  ”Arcturus”  CD  (DiN)  USED  $8.00  - sequencer driven keyboards like Tangerine Dream
• Asva  ”What You Don’t Know is Frontier”  CD  (Southern Records)  USED  $8  - heavy & slow descent w/ amazing treatments
• Banhart, Devendra  ”White Reggae Troll”  12″  (XL Recordings)  USED  $10  - single sided psychedlic 12″ w/reggae & African influence
• Bishop, Sir Richard  ”Freak of Araby, The”  CD  (Drag City)  USED  $8  - Arabic driven rhythms. highest recommendation!
• Chromatics  ”Chrome Rats vs. Basement Ruts”  CD  (GSL)  USED  $4  - Portland based post punk/ synyh pop
• Datashock, Aidan Baker, Leah Buckareff LP  (Hlava / Meudiademorte)  USED  $50  - ltd 93, 1 side only, 2nd side screenprinted
• Deathspell Omega  ”Fas-Ite, Maledicti in Ignem Aeternum”  CD  USED  $8  - Extreme scary French BM
• Deathspell Omega  ”Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice”  CD  USED  $8  - French BM supergroup ritual
• Earth  ”10 1990″  LP  (The Ajna Offensive)  USED  $50  - alt. versions of “Extra-Capsular” track + 16rpm tracks
• Hoor-Paar-Kraat  ”An Anagram Hypnotic”  LP  (Goat Eater Arts)  USED  $6  - drones and deep chords, ltd 281
• Hoor-Paar-Kraat  ”In Eros Veritas”  LP  (Goat Eater Arts / KNVBI Records)  USED  $6  - creaky experimental soundscapes, ltd 300
• Hunter, Jana / Banhart, Devendra LP  (Troubleman Unlimited)  USED  $10  - great split of psych infused folk
• Jodorowsky, Alejandro  ”Santa Sangre”  2 x DVD  (Comstar)  USED  $10  - bizarre circus, murder freakout! incredible stuff
• Joyce, James  ”Ulysses”  book  (Vintage International)  USED  $5  - controversial, influential & for a while, a banned book
• Khanate  ”No Joy (Remix)”  12″  USED  $20  - 45 RPM 12″ with exclusive remix, out of print
• Larsen  ”Musm”  2 x LP  (Enterruption)  USED  $6  - post rock w/bonus screenprinted anti-record
• Mothlite  ”Flax of Reverie, The”  2 x LP  (Southern Records)  USED  $8  - 4 dreamy sides w/member of Sunn 0))) and Guapo
• Muslimgauze  ”Gun Aramaic Part 2″  CD  (Soleilmoon Recordings)  USED  $12  - Arabic infused electronica, ltd. 2000, OOP
• Nokturnal Mortum  ”To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire”  CD  USED  $5  - Ukrainian symphonic folk
• Nokturnal Mortum  ”Twilightfall”  CD  USED  $5  - Ukraine BM ‘95 release
• Om / Current 93  ”Inerrant Rays Of Infallible Sun (Blackship Shrinebuilder)”  10″  (Neurot Recordings)  USED  $15  - split EP, doom vs. apocalypse, green vinyl
• Popol Vuh  ”Hosianna-Mantra”  CD  (SPV)  USED  $8.00  - Dreamy ambient offering from 72 w/ bonus track
• Squarepusher  ”Burningn’n Tree”  2 x LP  (Warp)  USED  $15  - great double LP of electro glitch bass madness
• Squarepusher  ”Feed Me Weird Things”  2 x LP  (Rephlex)  USED  $25  - 1996 debut, glitchy, bass heavy, for fans of Aphex Twin
• Squarepusher  ”Go Plastic”  2 x LP  (Warp)  USED  $20  - Richard D. James discovered him in a club!!!
• Squarepusher  ”Maximum Priest E.P.”  12″  (Warp)  USED  $5  - 1999 release with Autechre & Wagonchrist remixes
• Squarepusher  ”Venus No. 17″  12″  (Warp)  USED  $10  - 2004 EP, glitchy, bass heavy
• Squarepusher / Thomas, Richard  ”Am Carnal, and I Know That You Approve”  12″  (Lo Recordings)  USED  $5  - 1999 collaboration, glitchy, bass heavy
• Stokes, Saul  ”Metacollage”  CDR  (stokes Music)  USED  $10  - Limited CD-R w/ hand signed card. recommended!
• Sunn 0)))  ”CandleWolff ov thee Golden Chalice”  LP  (Anti-Mosh)  USED  $100  - 2004 Peel sessions, same music both sides, out of print
• Sunn 0)))  ”GrimmRobe Demos, The”  2 x LP  (Southern Lord)  USED  $30  - heavy doom, black vinyl edition of 1000
• Teresa 11  ”Smoky Heaven”  CD  (Eibon Records)  USED  $8  - Exotic electronica from Japan w/ acoustics
• Various  ”Down in a Mirror : A Second Tribute to Jandek”  CD  (Summersteps Records)  USED  $6  - feat. Jeff Tweedy, Brother JT, Kawabata Makoto, etc.
• Various  ”Naked in the Afternoon: A Tribute to Jandek”  CD  (Summersteps Records)  USED  $6  - Eclectic mix of artists feat. Bright Eyes, Kid Icarus, etc.

• Antaeus  ”Blood Libels”  CD  $13
• Aosoth  ”self-titled”  LP  $14 -  French BM with MkM of Antaeus
• Averse Sefira  ”Advent Parallax”  2 x LP  $18  - Double LP, splatter vinyl, gatefold, printer inner sleeves.
• Bobby Beausoleil  ”The Lucifer Rising Suite”  4 x LP box  (Ajna)  $48  - “Now, for the first time, all of the music composed for the soundtrack project has been compiled into a single public release. ‘The Lucifer Rising Suite’ begins with the 1967 version of the soundtrack and continues through a logical sequence of the recordings made in the years spanning 1976-79. With respect to the latter, the original master tapes were mined for music that had not been heard by anyone in nearly three decades. The newly unearthed recordings were then restored, cleaned up and combined with those previously released to make the anthology as complete as possible. The compositions that comprise the Suite are sequenced in an order that tells a story, after a fashion. It is a story that may be impossible to tell in a strictly literary manner, one that - like a mirror’s reflection into another - is both personal and allegorical. A complete anthology of the recordings made for the ‘Lucifer Rising’ motion picture soundtrack by Bobby Beausoleil with The Freedom Orchestra and The Magick Powerhouse Of Oz. This fully authorized and definitive release includes: - Remastered recordings spanning 11 years, from the ‘67 recording to the Tracy Prison recordings of ‘78. - 4 full-length LPs worth of ‘Lucifer Rising’ material with half being never-before-heard sessions personally selected by Bobby BeauSoleil. - 9 new pieces of art from Bobby: 8 record sleeve panels and one 2′ x 3′ poster. - 2 posters: one by Bobby BeauSoleil and one by Dennis Dread. - A much-extended version of the ‘Fallen Angel Blues’ piece by Bobby that originally appeared in the Kenneth Anger DVD set. - ‘Hymns to the Solar Temple’ - impressions on a visit to Bobby at the Oregon Correctional Facility in Pendleton, Oregon by Dennis Dread. - The Saga of a Soundtrack by Michael Moynihan. - Art from Dennis Dread for the back of the LP box, also included as a 2′ x 2′ poster. - Art from Dennis Dread for the front lid of the box which will provide a window into the works of Bobby’s to be found within. Remastered by Robert Ferbrache, well known for his work with Blood Axis, 16 Horsepower and others.”  last copies from the label!
• Deathspell Omega  ”Chaining the Katechon”  CD  $10
• Deathspell Omega  ”Kénôse”  digi CD  $13
• Elend  ”The Umbersun”  2 x LP  $21  - Official anniversary reissue of the 1998 album. Remastered by Elend, featuring 1 bonus track from the original recording sessions. Gothic Symphonic Neoclassical.
• Funeral Mist  ”Maranatha”  CD  $13  - Gnarly Swedish BM from Marduk singer
• Reencarnacion  ”888 Metal”  DLP  $18  - Colombian classic re-issued with 7″ and live material, 12×12 booklet, poster and one black/one silver vinyls
• Weapon  ”Drakonian Paradigm ”  LP   $14  -  First full length from these Canadian Devilpigs!

FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2009
6:00 PM

ALGIERS

RED SQUIRRELS

PHILLIP HARRIS

From Alaska to Seattle and now resident of Portland, Oregan, Levi Berner (Algiers) has almost secretly unleashed a series of small run cassettes of noise music.  Most recently released through his new label Zen Enthusia, his work recalls the 1980’s glory days of Hands To and The New Blockaders while standing resoundingly in the present.  Using analog open reel tape decks among other sources, he is able to create a full sound unheard in many other contemporary digital noise acts.  Levi has curated this evening’s line up as a Zen Enthuisa showcase. http://www.myspace.com/isitstillasecret

Old Ballard resident Jason Young (Red Squirrels) has lived in the same house for something close to fifteen years. The inside is strewn with all manner of folk instrument.  DIY/broken, acoustic/electric, drums, guitars, hurdy-gurdy, tone-generators, tape monsters, delay pedals, homemade speakers… Likewise his records inhabit similar space. Mod Podged sound collage of weird electronics, drones, space noise, raga, Sufi prayers, psych rock, field recordings, etc. Previous efforts have been realized with the likes of At Jennie Richie, Algiers, and a slew of other Seattle musicians including Tiny Vipers and a member (members?) of Kinski. He has had long OOP cassettes and CDRs on labels such as Scumbag Relations, Enteruption, Wasting, and Debacle. http://www.myspace.com/redsquirrelz

Phillip Harris recently disappeared into the neither world that is North Portland. Not particularly part of any local scene or genre yet aware of the giants of free jazz, drone, music concrete, etc.Rarely playing out, existing solely outside of the scenester noise circles, yet bringing a reckless abandon to his live performance when given the opportunity. He hails from the psychedelic/psychic wasteland that is Florida. http://www.myspace.com/philipgharris

AMBIENT/DRONE:

Deceh LP  (Important Records)  $21  - acoustic/electronic drone, screenprinted insert, ltd 400

Eleh  ”Homage To The Sine Wave”  LP  (Taiga)  $22  - minimal drone electronics, numbered edition of 500

FM3  ”Buddha Machine II - Lime”  Soundbox  (FM3)  $24  - new loops, pitch control, better speaker, lime case

Radigue, Eliane  ”Triptych”  CD  (Important Records)  $14  - awesome archival minimalism from France

Radigue, Eliane  ”Vice Versa, Etc…”  2 x CD  (Important Records)  $16  - awesome archival minimalism from France, 2 discs

CLASSICAL:

Brown, Earle  ”Folio and Four Systems”  CD  (Tzadik)  $15  - early avant-garde & graphic scores, friend of John Cage

Gibson, Jon  ”Criss X Cross”  CD  (Tzadik)  $15  - solo flute & saxophone, worked with La Monte, Riley, etc

Stockhausen, Karlheinz  ”Spiral I & II, Pole, Wach, Japan, Zykus, Tierkries”  2 x CD  (EMI Classics)  $14  - reissue of amazing 2 LP box of experimental pieces

EXPERIMENTAL:

Airway  ”Live at LACE”  LP  (Harbinger Sound)  $25  - 1st vinyl reissue of early (1978) influential wall of noise

Conrad, Tony & Olson, Tovah  ”Let There Be Music”  LP  (Tovinator)  $13  - ltd 200, instantly sold out from the label, one side only

De Martinville, Edouard-Leon Scott  ”Au Clair de la Lune”  7″  (Parlortone)  $8  - 1st experiment in recording sound from 1860!!!

H.N.A.S.  ”Im Schaten der Möhre”  CD  (Streamline)  $14  - finely crafted German weirdness, their best album

Starving Weirdos  ”Father Guru”  CD  (Azul Discografica)  $14  - long trancey tracks

Winderen, Jana  ”Noisiest Guys on the Planet”  C40  (Ash International)  $7  - field recordings of underwater crustaceans, ltd 250

JAZZ/IMPROV:

Supersilent  ”7″  DVD  (Rune Grammofon)  $23  - stellar DVD video of a live concert

ROCK:

Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The  ”Gorilla”  CD  (EMI)  $12  - humorous English music w/Neil Innes, Vivian Stanshall

Fushitsusha 2 x CD  (P.S.F. Records)  $38  - heavy rock w/Seijiro Murayama, Yasushi Ozawa, 2 CD

Neung Phak  ”Fucking USA”  7”  (Abduction)  $8  - great cover of Korean anti-American rock tune, ltd 300

Sic Alps  ”A Long Way Around to a Shortcut”  2 x LP  (Drag City)  $20  - lo-fi garage noise rock

Six Organs of Admittance / Azul  ”Split”  LP  (P.S.F. Records)  $21  - meditative & folky, ltd 800, already sold out from label

SOUNDTRACK:

Seazer, J.A.  ”Den’en Ni Shisu”  CD  (Showboat / Sky Station)  $28  - for Shuji Terayama film w/members of Tenjo Sajiki

WORLD:

Souleyman, Omar  ”Dabke 2020: Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria”  CD  (Sublime Frequencies)  $14  - fantastic Arabic pop music that really moves

Various  ”String of Pearls”  LP  (Mississippi Records)  $14  - cool collection of rare 78s from around the world

TONIGHT!!!
FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCE
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2009
7:00 PM
MOOD ORGAN
COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD
from this week’s issue of The Stranger:The Score
Rejections and Emerald City Debacles
by Christopher Delaurenti
I still feel guilty for peering over his shoulder, but I had to look. Musicians usually launch their work into the world from onstage, yet here he was, doing one of the bravest things any artist can do: waiting in line at the post office to mail a stack of demo discs to various labels.
It’s an anonymous act that compels musicians to wonder at the fate of their work. Someone either says yes and agrees to champion the music, or the uncertain, uneasy void—few labels take the time or have the courtesy to send rejection letters anymore—continues and maybe grows.
Peering over Timm Mason’s shoulder, I espied his moniker, Mood Organ, affixed to packages bound for labels famous and unknown. Every artist gets rejected; by the time we find them, the ones we know and love have been ignored, rebuffed, and rejected countless times. Yet Mason seemed calm, as if mailing Christmas cards. The pensive, gloaming tones of the disc, Visiting a Burning Museum (Debacle), reflect this confidence. Mason inscribes his music with poetic details that reward headphone listening: lonesome guitar, rustles of wind, swelling tones, and keyboards that sound like they’re underwater, blurred by shivering eddies and ripples.
Mood Organ celebrates the release of the excellent Burning with an in-store show (Fri Aug 28, Dissonant Plane, 5459 Leary Ave NW, 784-5163, 7 pm, free). Previous performances have ranged from a set on solo electric bass to pieces for prepared piano and harmonium; expect an approach that explores a continuum from the visibly instrumental to abstract, unseen sound.
Another local sound artist, Colin Andrew Sheffield, shares the bill. Sheffield performs too infrequently; but when he does (full disclosure: I’ve only had three short conversations with him, but I opened for his duo performance with James Eck Rippie in 2007), he hews glacial, heaving drones from a turntable and an old-school sampler. Released earlier this year, Sheffield’s gorgeous Signatures (Invisible Birds) processes bird recordings, freezing skyward shrieks and swooping wings, into drones that refract hidden, shimmering harmonies.
Burning is another installment in “The Emerald City Debacle Vol. II,” an ongoing series by Debacle Records devoted to documenting local experimental music. From scabrous electronics such as on the eponymous Summon Thrull to charmingly perverted plunderphonics, most notably Fuck Rockin’ in American Airspace by the Broken Penis Orchestra, this series testifies to a gradual revival of the avant scene in Seattle. Be warned that Emerald City Debacle follows the current (and probably permanent) trend of avant CDs toward limited-run (usually 100 or less) discs that can get hard to find quickly. If you want it, get it. My list of discs I’ve missed gets frustratingly longer every week!
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-score/Content?oid=2120557

• Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast CD  (Fleece Records / Wholly Other)  USED  $8  - Heather Murray (ex-Charalambides) & Shawn McMillen
• Bishop, Richard  ”God Damn Religion”  DVD + CD  (Locust Music)  USED  $12  - CD & DVD set, no guitar here, just dark experimental
• Cage, John  ”Variations IV”  CD  (Legacy International)  USED  $6  - fantastic sound collages, reissue of 2 LPs from 1965
• Cluster  ”71″  CD  (Water)  USED  $9  - early dark & cosmic electronics from Germany
• Cluster  ”II”  CD  (Spalax)  USED  $9  - really good!  like good spacey TG, but years earlier
• Crass  ”Christ the Album”  2 x CD  (Crass Records)  USED  $9  - 1982 album of anarcho-peace punk
• Culver C90  ((oTo))  USED  $2  - droney noises, 1 side only, C90,  ltd 50
• Doc Wör Mirran  ”Power of Positive Obscurity, The”  C60  (Old Europa Cafe)  USED  $2  - spacey lo-fi creations from Germany on Italian label C60
• Faust with Conrad, Tony  ”Live:  London - Queen Elisabeth Hall - February 1995″  C60  (Klangbad)  USED  $2  - live concert recording released by the band, C60
• Fennesz  ”Fennesz Plays”  CD EP  (Moikai)  USED  $4  - instrumental electronic glitch covers of Stones, 7 mins
• German Oak CD  (Radioactive)  USED  $9  - obscure Krautrock instrumentals from 1972
• Godz  ”Contact High”  CD  (ESP Disc / XYZ Music)  USED  $9  - drop out folk weirdness from 1966
• Harvester  ”Hemat”  CD  USED  $9  - great trance psychedelic rock w/folk touches from 1969
• Jackie-O Motherfucker  ”Europe 2002″  2 x CD  (Cast Exotic Archives)  USED  $12  - out of sight collective weirdness
• Kawabata Makoto  ”You Are The Moonshine”  CD  (Mar/Ino / Elsie & Jack Recordings)  USED  $15  - beautiful ambient sounds, ltd 150, long out of print
• Knaack, Donald  ”Dance Music”  CD  (RRRecords)  $8  - contemplative & creative experimental
• Kubli, Thom  ”Mondok Spots”  CD  (BMB Lab)  USED  $7  - very beautiful subtle drones like Rafael Toral, ltd 300
• L’infonie  ”Volume 333″  2 x CD  (Mucho Gusto)  USED  $12  - bizarre jazz, rock, experimental, classical mixture
• Lacy, Steve  ”Saxophone Special +”  CD  (Emanem)  USED  $9  - very free playing with some of the greats of the day
• Limbus 4  ”Mandalas”  CD  (Spalax)  USED  $9  - one of the greats of early free music w/ acoustic instrs.
• Lost in Translation  ”Wednesday Tapes, The”  C90  (Black Velvet Fuckere Recordings)  USED  $2  - old school cosmic electronics, C90
• Malanga, Gerard  ”Up From The Archives”  CD  (Sub Rosa)  USED  $8  - from the archives of this Warhol collaborator
• McLean Mix, The  ”Golden Age of Electronic Music, The”  CD  (CRI)  USED  $10  - great early analog electronics, out of print
• Miller, Donald  ”A Little Treatise on Morals”  CD  (Audible Hiss)  USED  $8  - solo pieces from Borbetomagus guitarist from 1982
• MNortham  ”Breathing Towers”  CD EP  (Dorobo)  USED  $8  - ltd 400, OOP, 22 minutes, lovely drone
• Moondog and his Friends CD  (Moondog’s Corner)  USED  $8  - reissue of 1953 material using tape overdubbing
• Möslang, Norbert / Guhl, Andy  ”Deep Voices”  CD  (Urthona)  USED  $9  - 1978 FMP debut of the duo that became Voice Crack
• Musica Elettronica Viva  ”The Sound Pool”  CD  (Spalax)  USED  $9  - 1969 large ensemble free for all, originally LP on BYG
• Nath, Pandit Pran  ”Raga Cycle”  CD  (Sri Moonshine)  USED  $9  - contemplative Indian classical w/La Monte Young
• Of  ”Rocks Will Open”  CD  (Digitalis)  USED  $8  - delicate acoustic sounds, Thuja member, ltd 500
• Oliveros, Pauline  ”Primordial Lift”  CD  (Table of the Elements)  USED  $9  - with guests Tony Conrad and David Grubbs
• Romero, Damion  ”Feedback in a Lover’s Telegraph”  CD  (Harbinger Sound)  USED  $7  - gentle and warm self-sustaining feedback drone
• Screamin’ Mee-Mees & Hot Scott Fischer  ”You’re Now In Our World: Warp Sessions ‘72″  CDR  (Slippy Town)  USED  $6  - lo-fi primitive “Godz meets Amon Düül”, CDR, ltd 125
• Smegma  ”Ism”  CD  (Tim/Kerr Records)  USED  $10  - long out of print 1993 album by these Portland weirdos
• Speare, Jed  ”Sound Works 1982-1987″  2 x CD  (Family Vineyard)  USED  $12  - great unreleased musique concrete from the 1980’s
• Throbbing Gristle  ”Live Volume 1, 1976-1978″  CD  (Mute Records / The Grey Area)  USED  $12  - out of print, early murky Industrial sounds, vellum cover
• Ya Ho Wha 13  ”Penetration, An Aquarian Symphony”  CD  (Cold Sweat)  USED  $9  - reissue of 1974 LP, acid-mantra psychedelic death trip

FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCEFRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2009

7:00 PM

MOOD ORGAN

COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD

Mood Organ is the solo project of Seattle-based musician Timm Mason. Timm is best known as the bass player for diverse acts including funk juggernaut Eldridge Gravy & the Court Supreme, psych-rock supergroup Midday Veil, and instrumental hip-hop cover band Hamburger Pimp. Mood Organ is a platform for exploring different modes of listening and intersections between musical (& non-musical) genres. Each Mood Organ performance is unique; recent performances have included a solo performance on electric bass, a duet between saxophone and amplified objects, and a solo composition for harmonium and prepared piano. The first full-length album “Visiting a Burning Museum” has just been released on Debacle Records. Begun over 9 years ago, it is a meditation on memory and abstraction. The album folds instrumental performances, treated field recordings, and evolving drones into a towering block of sound that evokes power and sadness all at once. for fans of Drone, Charlambides, Gregg Kowalsky, Greg Davis.

http://www.myspace.com/moodorgan

Colin Andrew Sheffield was born in El Paso in 1976 and lived in various cities in Texas prior to 2004, when he relocated to the Seattle area. He is a self-taught drummer, playing in various collaborative situations in his home state before eventually making a total transition to electronic music. After initially working with exclusively digital sources, in recent years, Sheffield has refined his approach and now focuses on the strict re-contextualization of other commercially available recordings. His aim is to distill the essential qualities of these works and to then utilize that essence for new recordings. Usually only very brief sections of the original works are selected. These raw components are then contracted, expanded, layered, and/or otherwise processed until something new is forged. The resultant music is an atmospheric soundscape, gradually shifting and unfolding, offering subtle nuance and quiet restraint. His recordings often seem to have much in common with ambient electronic music, though are equally akin to “plunderphonic” audio collage. In 1998 Sheffield founded the Elevator Bath Recording label which has continually issued experimental works from a variety of artists from the United States and abroad. Sheffield has released a number of solo recordings since 1998, including 2005’s ‘First Thus,’ his debut long-player. His collaboration with turntablist James Eck Rippie is ongoing. 2009 will saw the release of Sheffield’s sophomore full-length solo release, ‘Signatures,’ via the Invisible Birds label.

http://www.myspace.com/colinandrewsheffield

Hjarnidaudi’s “Pain:Noise:March” is some sick shit if you’re into lo-fi, dark, depressive Doom (with the occasional appearance of what seems to be a Kaoss Pad). This is a mixture of Industrial and Funeral at it’s finest. Made of ex Hildolf and Koldbrann member Vidar Ermesjø with a little Shining, it combines the crushing sound of old Swans or Skullflower, with the haunting weirdness of Leviathan/Lurker of Chalice, along with the friendly (and fiendy) fun loving lo-fi sound of my old Ov Salthl stuff. Which is really weird. I’m not one to toot my own horn but it’s really bizarre. I just think that the sound of the quality is similar to my old stuff. Although I always found that sound to be utter crap, this band (believe it of not) managed to make it work. Those Norwegians have a special way with that kind of stuff (i.e. MoHa!)…This is Tanith, signing out.

Dissonant Plane will be open late for the Ballard Art Walk on Saturday August 8th.  To celebrate, Sparkle Girl (Jim) will be making fun noises to mix with the sounds of the space.  Jim is moving away in less than two weeks, so this might be one of your last chances to catch him for a good while!