March, 2009 (16 items)

- Artist: mystified
- Title: skywatchers
- Format: CDR
- Label: small doses (USA)
- Price:
$8.00$4.80 (40% sale) - Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosetwentyeight
this is a concept album of sorts from mystified's thomas park. dark, shimmering ambience - sometimes transcendent, sometimes unnerving, but never anything less than engrossing. packaged in hand torn vellum with a torn insert. numbered edition of 121 copies.

- Artist: a vibrant struggle
- Title: whispering bones
- Format: CDR
- Label: small doses (USA)
- Price:
$8.00$4.80 (40% sale) - Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtyone
""a vibrant struggle" is a collaboration between norwegians sindre bjerga and jan m. iversen and dutchman steffan de turck (aka staplerfahrer). in the fall of 2007, the trio spent a weekend putting music to tape. this is the third volume from their sessions -following fast on the heels of a release on 905 tapes. a single 31+ minute jam comprised of meditative drones, percussive acoustics, and cacaphonous bliss. edition of 83."

- Artist: meditations
- Title: eternal absence
- Format: 3inch CDR
- Label: small doses (USA)
- Price:
$5.00$3.00 (40% sale) - Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtythree
"this is the third release from this trio - franklin teagle, matt yacoub, and ryan mcgill (bones of seabirds). schizophrenic noise -PE-like one moment dark ambience in others - of the highest order - drenched in feedback with a heart of stone. cover art by matt yacoub. edition of 115."

- Artist: bones of seabirds
- Title: subterranean lightsource
- Format: CDR
- Label: small doses (USA)
- Price:
$8.00$4.80 (40% sale) - Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtyfour
"it seems that ryan mcgill is complete unable to cover the same ground twice. this is the fourth (i believe) bones seabirds release, and it sounds nothing like any of the others. this one foregoes the guitars (for the most part) and relies on ryan's handmade voice of saturn synth.the first nearly 35 minute track is intense and brutal - like being strapped into some sort of machine that's boring deeper and deeper into the earth only to slowly burn you alive. the second gives a bit of respite, but leaves you lost in a dark cave drone. it's not to be missed. packaged in a folded artwork by matt yacoub, with an obi and an insert. edition of 129 copies."

- Artist: flea apparitions and lame prey
- Title: split
- Format: 3inch CDR
- Label: small doses (USA)
- Price:
$5.00$3.00 (40% sale) - Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtysix
"this is the first in a small doses split personality series. lame prey and flea apparitions are both products of the same mind, that of lorne zeman. lame prey starts the disc off with a long piece that mixes up huge, harsh sounds that tend towards power electronics with feedback laced calms in the storm. the flea apparitions portion takes a similarly harsh but more relentless approach built from tape loops. edition of 66 copies."

- Artist: pvmntsw
- Title: forintelsen elfenbensportar
- Format: 3inch CDR
- Label: small doses (USA)
- Price:
$5.00$3.00 (40% sale) - Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtyseven
"this has been in the works for quite a while, and it came together better than i ever expected. sweden's pvmntsw (read pavementsaw) gives two tracks of incredible synth (and some guitar) work. it plays like a lost lament from a john carpenter film that never got made. packaged in a folded vellum cover with two-sided insert. edition of 96 copies."

- Artist: kyle willey
- Title: fracture
- Format: DVDR
- Label: small doses (USA)
- Price:
$9.00$5.40 (40% sale) - Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtynine
"the first video release on small doses. fracture is a 55 minute film made by kyle willey and scored by robe. it's an abstract atmospheric horror film of the highest order. you can see influences from merhige's begotten and hints from the likes of nosferatu and der golem. the twisted plot follows a man's battle against himself with everything at stake. the music adds a whole other level to the mood. if you've heard robe. before, imagine the imagery that the music evokes - there is fracture. dvdr with a laser etched face packaged in a heavy black folder with an insert and obi. edition of 109 copies."

- Artist: willful
- Title: procession
- Format: 3inch CDR
- Label: small doses (USA)
- Price:
$5.00$3.00 (40% sale) - Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosefortynine
"21+ minutes in a windswept purgatory on a trainride to hell. harsh noise walls. packaged in an 8 page booklet. edition of 66 copies."

- Artist: pummeler
- Title: troll wing
- Format: 3inch CDR
- Label: small doses (USA)
- Price:
$5.00$3.00 (40% sale) - Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosefiftyone
"following up on excellent releases here on small doses and basses frequences, denmark's mikkel valentin dunkerley is back with another amazing 14+ minute drone piece. slow moving, minimal and brilliant. edition of 71 copies."

- Artist: andreas brandal
- Title: the familiar stranger
- Format: CDR
- Label: small doses (USA)
- Price:
$5.00$3.00 (40% sale) - Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosefiftytwo
"i don't know where to start describing this one. it is all over the place and absolutely incredible. some of the most well-thought out and composed noise i've heard in quite a while. hand-screened disc packaged in a 2-color, hand-screened cover. edition of 80 copies."

- Artist: metek versus nordbeck
- Title: 5
- Format: CDR
- Label: small doses (USA)
- Price:
$8.00$4.80 (40% sale) - Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosefiftythree
"this is the fifth installment of the epic battle of these two swedes. over 36 minutes of dark ambience, shimmering drones and screaming crescendos. edition of 59 copies."

- Artist: U Can Unlearn Guitar
- Title: no strings
- Format: CD
- Label: yelpco
- Price:
$8.00$4.80 (40% sale) - Catalog ID: CarbonDist_yelpco02
"A compendium of essential recordings and performances for the unlearned at heart from this Northern Pennsylvania (via Brooklyn and L.A.) psycho-genius; needless to say, also a member of the infamous acid-punk combo BunnyBrains. This comprehensive and incomprehensible compilation covers no less than 8 years of recorded output, pulling together and best and most bizarre cuts of acoustic singer-songwriter fare, plunderphonic experimentation and plain ol‘ nonsense ‘n‘ noise. One man, but many personalities - in live performance he finds ever more unique and absurd ways to destroy and then reconstruct guitars; but on this recorded document you get glimpses of the most refreshing songwriting in years, according to Dartmouth music professor and noted composer Larry Polansky, who contributes the liner notes. Co-released with Sunship, Little Mafia and Breathmint."

- Artist: Leah Peah / Cheezface
- Title: split
- Format: CASS
- Label: Rat Ward (USA)
- Price:
$8.00$4.80 (40% sale) - Catalog ID: CarbonDist_AE60
"LEAH PEAH low tech robot brains infested with glowing worms. crunchy and gooey, gooey and crunchy! http://www.myspace.com/leahpeahsmusica CHEEZFACE mindcore noise poops you can shake your booty to. Do you love cats? If so, this is for you! http://www.myspace.com/cheezfacemusic
(AEN-AE60) Limited Edition of 50 copies. blue cassettes, full color glossy jcard."

- Artist: To Live and Shave in LA
- Title: Each Day Vomits Its Tomorrow
- Format: CASS
- Label: Rat Ward (USA)
- Price:
$8.00$4.80 (40% sale) - Catalog ID: CarbonDist_AE58
"60 minutes of silvery audio bliss from veteran noise collective TLASILA. End on end each sound bubbles into the next, boils over and fills the room with a fizzy foaming froth. Here come the swimming birds to lap it up.
http://www.toliveandshaveinla.com/ - http://www.myspace.com/toliveandshaveinla
(AEN-AE58) Limited Edition of 50 copies. white cassettes, full color glossy jcard."

- Artist: Tsarskoie Selo Hemophilarmonic
- Title: s/t
- Format: CDR
- Label: Nothing Out There (Belgium)
- Price:
$10.00$6.00 (40% sale) - Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NOT10
"I've said this times and times before, but the very first show of Tsarskoïe Selo Hemophilarmonic was one of the best live soundtrack I've witnessed so far. On the night Belgium's national day, at the break of summer, a group of people quietly gathered in the backyard garden of an instruments-filled house in Tournai. The rendez-vous was for a solo improvisation upon a projection of Robertson's silent adaptation for the screen of Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde.
Under the twisted pseudonym of TSH acts the same man already known here as L'Enfant Méduse. But TSH aims at a very different, though not completely unfamiliar sound universe. Sharing the darkness and loneliness of the Méduse, TSH is much more ghotic and less obvious, and, if anything, much more electricity-based and noisy. Still it is not an accident that the first important project of TSH involved the myth of Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde, for it forms, with L'Enfant Méduse, a kind of supplementary schizophrenic duo.
One year after Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde, The home sessions of this first release by TSH have quickly followed the recording day in Odomez of L'Enfant Méduse's recent release. From the man's word, it is a religious album, an abstract requiem inspired by the naïve and fatalistic faith of northern continental Europe's coalfield, its desperately black and flat earth, and its memory disturbed and transformed by the industrial exploitation. "

- Artist: Robert Horton
- Title: If I can't play my Boot I don't have a leg to stand on
- Format: CDR
- Label: Nothing Out There (Belgium)
- Price:
$10.00$6.00 (40% sale) - Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NOT09
"In May 2007, along with the master CD of his 3" release Salts that have lost Water, Robert Horton sent me an home-burnt CD-r selecting nine unreleased tracks from a recent period of recording, ranging from November 2006 to March 2007. In the midst of a battle with health troubles, the American improvisor and handyman still managed to carry on his experimental musical process.
A couple of months ago, in Autumn 2008, on an accidental fresh listen of this collection of tracks, I was struck by how high they standed into the man's production so far. Inside this unreleased selection, I felt were collected some of Horton's best recent works, and thus proposed him to get an official release done for them. Though currently having a break away from the digital world, Robert welcomed my proposal immediately."
