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Tape Drift enters 2010!
Wanted to let you all know about the first batch of Tape Drift Records releases for 2010. We're tremendously excited about these 4 releases, and hope you'll consider supporting the label.
All releases are $7ppd in the US, and there's a special sale running - all 4 new releases together for $24ppd in the US. Please email for international rates. (hardiman04@gmail.com)
For better pictures, and other label releases, check out www.tapedrift.com
Thanks!
TD 22 thenumber46 - bleach and ammonia C52. Fearlessly exploring new worlds of sound, thenumber46 push and coax feedback systems, physically and psychologically, into ultimate audible terrains, extracting sonic extremes from their instruments and themselves. Consisting of Suzanne Thorpe on flute and electronics and Philip White on electronic feedback, the duo improvise on the precipice of unpredictable sounds, exploiting the volatile and explosive in their music. Thorpe was a founding member of Mercury Rev, plays in The Wounded Knees, and can be heard from time-to-time with J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., all three of whom she played with at 2009's ATP in England. White’s performances center on a non-linear feedback system with mixer and several homemade circuits. Edition of 100 pro-dubbed yellow cassettes.
TD24 Zanzibar Snails – Vitiligo cdr. March 09 recordings from this phenomenal and mysterious Texas group with the ability to hypnotize listeners and create a swirling vortex of magical sound. Occupying some nether territory between collective improv, grainy atmosphere building, and structured chaos, Zanzibar Snails follow in the tradition of the great Texas psych dreamers in their quest for exploration. Vitiligo is the disease than turns the black man white (the most famous case being the macabre Michael Jackson), and the word accentuates the close relationship between darkness and light, luminescence and void, order and entropy. The first Zanzibar full-length to feature vocalist/sound sculptress Sarah Alexander. Amazing silkscreened gatefold sleeves (designed and screened by Nevada Hill) in stamped vellum envelopes.
TD26 Thresholders – Protective Instincts cdr. Noise, drone, psych, pop, doom, and lo-fi crunch collide in this first collaborative effort between Derek Rogers and Eric Hardiman (Rambutan, Century Plants, Burnt Hills). After releasing a searing split tape on the always excellent Existential Cloth Recordings, new frontiers of sonic strategies and challenges laid the framework for this successful long-distance collaboration. Layered sounds that build and decay, walls of dissonance, and waves of texture crash against each other only to collapse under their own weight: forty-five minutes of heavy and intensely zoned-out sounds. Expect 2010 to be the year Thresholders storm the barn and burn it to the ground.
TD 30 Padna – There are so many fish in heaven, Pt. IV cdr. After being blown away by Padna releases on the Stunned label this past year, we had no choice but to get in touch with Nat Hawks and beg for a Tape Drift release. Nat was more than happy to offer up this amazing project, part of a series of performance pieces in which he uses intentionally scratched cds as the primary sound source. The trademark Padna attention to detail is on sharp display, and like everything else he’s done, the end result is personal, warm, and immediate. Sound floats in and out of the airspace, glitches and skips become musical phrases, and before long you’ll begin to discover the internal logic of this new language. Hawks has a direct line to some cosmic source, and this masterful composition will allow you to tap into its power. We’re mighty proud to be releasing this one. Includes liner note insert by Padna.
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