mystery tape

I bought this a years ago as 'Small Cruel Party - But Life A Child Kept Still', but it's obviously not and I have no clue who this actually is. Very interesting guitar, bass, voice, trumpet... improv. If anyone out there knows what it may be, I'd love to know. A couple of samples here, as well as the rest...

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mystery tape

Small Cruel Party - Stain On Pure Glass

Small Cruel Party - Stain On Pure Glass
LP, Harbinger Sound (HARBINGER 008) 2002

A - Stain On Pure Glass
B - The Waking Of Leafy Pools

Small Cruel Party - Stain On Pure Glass

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Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - To Share With, What Is To Hear Devided

Split release by Das Synthetische Mischgewebe members Chemin! (Isabelle Chemin) & G.do (Guido Hübner), one cassette each.

Chemin! / G.do - To Share With, What Is To Hear Devided
Sounds For Consciousness Rape SFCR 09 (1990)

Chemin! - Installations In Movement
a1-a3, b1-b4

G.Do - Feedback, Feed Me, Feedelity
a1-a2, b1-b3

Chemin! - Installations In Movement
G.Do - Feedback, Feed Me, Feedelity

And few mixes of the two together -
un-Devided

Chemin!
Concrete sounds installations in movement.

"With my installations, that I create with found objects of various different materials, I try to work on a (sonic) articulation of different forms of space and movement...

The sounds of side A were recorded directly on a Sony professional, the sounds of side B were recorded on a Fostex 160 and mastered on a Sony professional without effects."

List of the used objects:
brick; bamboo; metal, wood, and glass bars
plastic shade; bamboo; loaf sugar
metallic stand from iron board; palm branch
cake tin; bread shovel
metallic rings; metallic heating shade
wood sewing machine cover; sugarloaf; wood spool

Feedback, Feed Me, Feedelity

"Microphone, amplifier, and loudspeaker used as 'closed circuit' means, to use them against the, to them awarded, aesthetic function... Feedbacks can be generated through the electromechanical stimulation of the own resonance of the integrated membranes in microphone and loudspeaker...

...On the this tape presented recordings, I've specially integrated analogue effects, 2 voltage controlled filters, and one delay. The feedbacks between the various microphones and loudspeakers are additional manipulated by the use of tubes, buckets, clay forms, metal cases. The whole was recorded on a Fostex 160 and is mastered on a Sony professional without additional effects."

Small Cruel Party / Kiyoshi Mizutani - Split

Small Cruel Party / Kiyoshi Mizutani - Split
Flenix (FLR04) 2000

"Small Cruel Party's work is focused on the inherent mysterious and beautiful quality of sound itself, with the emphasis on noninstrumental sound sources, the source itself not being readily apparent. Work generally involves manipulation of physical objects in acoustic space and a great deal of concentrated activity. Even in pieces involving dense sound at high volume the resultant effect is one of intense calm."

Kiyoshi Mizutani - folk instruments (types of rattles) and sampled materials:
1. Instruments made of animal's claws and human voices.
2. Instruments made of nuts and the wave.
3. Belt of nuts and electric saw.
4. Maracas made of ceramic and boards.

a1 Small Cruel Party - The God Pan Like a Swarm of Buzzing Flies Came Down (for Guy Davenport) Part 1
a2 Small Cruel Party - The God Pan Like a Swarm of Buzzing Flies Came Down (for Guy Davenport) Part 2
b1 Kiyoshi Mizutani - Untitled
b2 Kiyoshi Mizutani - Untitled
b3 Kiyoshi Mizutani - Untitled
b4 Kiyoshi Mizutani - Untitled

Small Cruel Party / Kiyoshi Mizutani

brain

CD-R's / Discography

Mp3:

brain
Alluvial Recordings (A13) 2002

errata
Self Release (Cell-One) 2002

livebrain
Self Release (Cell-Two) 2002

katabasis
Self Release (Cell-Three) (2009)

CD-R's available via discogs.com - brain

And a collaboration/remix of brain material by Kqwiet.

kwiet/brain - Bloodlands Of The Rising Tides - The First Atom


Also, a big thanks to Kaliglimmer for their great review of Katabasis.

Pacific 231 - Sachlichkeit

Originally part of the early 80's industrial/power electronics scene, French artist Pacific 231 (Pierre Jolivet) soon moved on to a more atmospheric and experimental territory. This tape consists of two pieces. Side A is a bit noisier with trumpet(?), voice, and delay. Side B is more rhythmic with voice, bass, chimes, and choral voices. Very meditative.

Currently based in Dublin, Ireland. Pacific 231 - Sound Exploration in Motion

Pacific 231 - Sachlichkeit
Tonspur Tapes (TT 21) 1988

Side A - Soundtrack From The Elisabeth Morcellet Video "Figures Narcissiques" 1987 (13:45)
Side B - Live Improvisation At AF Radio Paris 1987 (16:40)

Pacific 231 - Sachlichkeit

Thee Wand - Test Ov Eyes

Thee Wand - Test Ov Eyes
Temple Records/World Domination Club
(none/WDC-2301) (1991)

All music decoumposed by Z'ev, Megs'on (Genesis P'Orridge), & Gini Ball.
This is the first in a series of special releases of music by members of Psychic TV. Limited to 100 copies.

"Thee processed trumpet is from a recording made in 1963 ov a US Marine Trumpeter trying to play reveille whilst high on a dose ov LSD during secret trials ov it's effectiveness as a 'psychomimmetic' weapon.

Instruments used apart from thee trumpet tape to generate initial sounds prior to heavy processing are all ritual instruments. They include Tibetan Bowls, Nepalese Temple Bells, African Goat Skin Drums, and an array of percussion from thee four directions ov B-Earth. No electronic or amplified instruments were used.

In particular, Z'ev played all drums, Gini played all violins.

Thee Self-imposed brief was to create a musick that had thee same psychoactive trance effects as ancient ritual musicks first generated on thee original instruments used, butter regenerated through a purely coumtemporary system ov effects."

A Test Ov Eyes, Part One (a1-a7)
B Test Ov Eyes, Part Two (b1-b8)

Thee Wand - Test Ov Eyes

The basic tracks were also released as a different mix on Psychic TV's Direction Ov Travel.

Croiners - The Relentless Rhythm of Change

Excellent tape of looped madness and keyboard maladies. A longtime favorite.

"Croiners (a.k.a. James Levine) has taken digital and tape-loop technology beyond its minimalist beginnings, blending complex layers of synthesized and natural sounds with occasional found-sound elements, weaving involved and colorful textures into nearly tangible sound objects."
(The Cassete Mythos)

Croiners - The Relentless Rhythm Of Change
Jim Tapes (007) 198?

all tracks untitled

Croiners - The Relentless Rhythm of Change