“Hand-numbered edition of 100 copies cassette from ESP-Disk recording artist, poet, playwright and artist Alan Sondheim: part of MDTS’s on-going ‘Voice Studies’ series, this matches Sondheim’s playing of a two-stringed Indonesian hasapi with Azure Carter’s free associative vocalisation and liberal doses of tape F/X and warped re-imaginings. There are sections that consist of nothing but modulated lungs of electronics wheezing in a void of silence while other sections come over like the epiglottal fantasies of Amy Sheffer squoze through elemental wormholes while a tinny shortwave radio broadcasts street musician jams from the fourth world. Already sold out at source, very limited supply!” - David Keenan / Volcanic Tongue
“Sondheim improvises on a two-stringed hasp, while Azure Carter (who recorded the Cauldron LP with Sondheim back in 2011) does electronically mutated vocals around him. Other portions boil down to less identifiable blends of sound, but the whole thing works like a clutter.” Byron Coley / The Wire 350
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released February 1, 2024
dominion of striations, vocalizations, spews, and vocalizations – and these can occur in any form, writing, tributes, determining vocalization, perfectly in the voice of azure, sub-vocalization or knot, perfectly in the voice of alan, sub-vocalization or knot.
vocalisations becomes paramount, i’d add the prerequisites of walking and talking, subvocalizations dominion of striations, vocalizations, spews, and vocalizations – and these can occur in any form, writing, dominion of striations, vocalizations, electronics, vocalizations/song as body indices, breath/rattling/string and skysphere removal and new sphere, new vocalizations, new grit, new organs impacted by the exertions of the movement, the vocalizations were laced with spews, and vocalizations – and these can occur in any form, listen -
Alan Sondheim
A collection of tracks from the singer and multi-disciplinary artist's 111 collaboration series, featuring KMRU, Laraaji, and others. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 25, 2024