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Students of Decay June 2008
Six new CDRs are now available: Acre, Treetops, Ajilvsga, David Kirby,Sparkling Wide Pressure, and Caboladies. These are either $7ppd a piece or $38 for all 6. We're especially stoked about this batch: all very solid, diverse releases. Also, for a limited time, if you order the entire batch, I'll throw in a copy of the SOD CD comp "Molten Strings, Train Wrecks and Birdsong." Note that because I'll be out of town until 7/5, all orders will begin shipping on 7/6. To order the entire batch, contact me directly.
I've been getting a lot of questions about the status of "Dance of the Moon and the Sun" 2CD. After some setbacks, we're expecting it to be done next month, at this point we're just waiting on the printers. We are truly sorry for the delay, but we think it will be well worth it! If you have specific questions/concerns, don't hesitate to write me. Due out at the same time as the NSB 2CD are Area C's "Charmed Birds Against Sorcery" and Marble Sky's "The Sad Return", both of which may still be pre-ordered.
There's still a lot of exciting stuff to come this year, with CDs in the pipe by Ashtray Navigations, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Cloaks, Starving Weirdos, Opitope, Gareth Hardwick, Brendan Murray, Hisato Higuchi and more. We'll be announcing pre-orders for some of these soon.
Make sure to check out the Decay States blog! Also, be on the lookout for a new Students of Decay/Root Strata joint message board coming soon!
Now, the releases:
SOD-38 Ajilvsga - "Asleep Amongs the Thick Weeds" CDR (ltd 100)
"Asleep Amongst the Thick Weeds" could very well serve as a statement of intent for Brad Rose and Nathan Young's Ajilvsga duo. Here, over the course of one simply MASSIVE 45 minute track, the pair navigate an astounding range of electronic detritus sourced from synthesizers and boutique pedals, offering deep, ringing chorals which collapse into unforgiving torrents of sine waves and hissing analog crunch.
SOD-55 ACRE - "Painless" CDR (ltd 100)
Acre is the solo endeavor of Portland's Aaron Davis, with prior releases on Yarnlazer and Black Horizons, and a full length LP due out soon on Arbor. "Painless" is a carefully composed, intensly FOCUSED study of HEAVY tone. Clocking in at 79 minutes, it is perhaps the most daunting and awe-inspiring Acre missive to date, with Davis casting looong, cascading drone spells which are as impossibly heavy as they are narcotically hypnotic. Don't miss this one.
SOD-72 Treetops - 'In the Everglades" CDR (ltd 100)
New recordings by Arbor frontman Mike Pollard. Pollard continues to push his sound in different directions, here he melds bleary drones with smears of FX-hazed voice and keyboard half-melodies, floating this fragile mess overtop throbbing percussive elements with downright disorienting results. Another compelling document from this fresh faced Chicago lad.
SOD-75 Sparkling Wide Pressure - "Touching Pasture" CDR (ltd 100)
Following a stellar release on the newly minted Digitalis LTD. imprint, Frank Baugh returns with another collection of crackly bedroom nodout. Baugh's compositional sensibility is rooted in nostalgia, as evidenced by the cover photo (an image of his younger self). Sonically, it's one big fog of garbled radio transmissions, voice and sprawling, Appalachian guitar lines. Wonderful, moving stuff.
SOD-76 Caboladies - "Earth Canal" CDR (ltd 100)
For the uniniated, Caboladies are a trio of fine gents from central Kentucky who have, heretofore, kept a relatively low profile, releasing just a handful of small run tapes and cdrs on various Kentucky imprints, including their own Smooth Tapes label. The Cabos utilize various synths, keyboards and pedals to generate dense, swirling malestromes of sound rife with microcosmic detail. Not a million miles from recent Astral Social Club flights. Full length Caboladies CD on Students of Decay, late 2008/early 2009.
SOD 78 David Kirby - "The Scythe" CDR (ltd 100)
David Kirby returns for his second outing on Students of Decay, following 2006's "Inside, it is Ringing." "The Scythe" may well be David's most realized composition to date. A veritable cornucopia of source material hammered and melted into shape, forming a truly vast, humming universe of sound. The drones which drift throughout remind me of something from Christoph Heemann's backcatalog. But far from being so easily pigeonholed, David's use of found sound, samples and other wry "appropriations" renders this piece and sound very much his own. Keep your eyes peeled for a full length proper CD from David here on SOD later this year.
Best as always,
Alex
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