DalabaFrithGlickRiemanKihlstedt

Accretions ALP030 - Exp
format CD

CD $12

Eric Glick Rieman first proposed this project to Fred Frith who he had worked with while at Mills College. They wanted a third collaborator and Frith suggested Lesli Dalaba. The three of them had performed with John Zorn at Derek Bailey's Incus Festival at Tonic in NYC. Meanwhile, Glick Rieman had been impressed by Carla Kihlstedt and suggested her. They decided to ask both. Though the four improvisers knew one another, this recording represents their first meeting as a quartet. Their interaction reveals a high level of focus and playfulness and the resulting pieces display both a visceral and analytic intensity.

Matt Davignon
SoftWetFish
Edgetone Records EDT 4039 - Exp/Elec
format CD

CD $13

Bay-Area experimental musician Matt Davignon has been developing his unique take on music for the last 12 years. Combining acoustic and electronic elements, he attempts to create dynamic, biological music from seemingly limited source material. Since 2003, he has been working with drum machine as a primary instrument, processing the sounds with several devices to create a unique sound palette.
SoftWetFish is Matt's second CD to use drum machine as the only sound source (after 2005's "Bwoo"). Not at all like the rhythms and beats one would expect, the sounds are very abstract, characterized by organic tapestries, drones, frantic passages and lovely flaws.
Comparable to: Oval, Philip Jeck, Steve Roden, Kammerflimmer Kollectief

Matt Davignon
Bwoo
Edgetone Records EDT 4030 - Exp/Elec
format CD

CD $13

Matt Davignon has developed a unique form of improvisation over the last 10 years, focusing on textures, arrhythmic patterns and musical imperfections. Creating music that is at once elemental and intricately ambient, he explores the outer dimensions of experimentation, exploring the dynamic relationship between chaos, order, and indeterminism. His latest project, “Bwoo”, evokes biology, and the mystery of elemental structure in nature and in sound. Using a drum machine as his singular sound source, he warps, bends, and multiplies the beats, creating sound-scapes as diverse and ambient as they are complex and organically beautiful.

Matt Davignon
MUSIC AT 1/2 SPEED
Edgetone Records EDT 4024 - Exp
format CD

CD $12

Matt revisited several tracks he recorded between 1994 and 1997 (which he refers to as his "pop song" period, though the instrumentation includes live television, tape machines, and delay pedal feedback). He then mixed them into new slow motion versions, putting several of them in reverse. The resulting tracks are some of the most unusual music to be in 4/4 timing. Some feel like 40 foot tall upset stomachs. Others sound like misunderstood exaggerations of trip-hop with gradual vocal bursts.

Matt Davignon
Yellow
Ribosome Music - Exp/Elec
format 3" CDr

CDr $5

A 100 voice keyboard run through a few effects devices is the only sound source for this murky, muffled-sounding disc. This is the most “ambient” of all Matt’s releases. (This 20 minute Mini-CD can be played in most regular CD players, the largest exception being car stereos.)

Matt Davignon
Charcoal
Ribosome Music - Exp/Elec
format 3" CDr

CDr $5

This disc was made by manipulating a disc of raw instrumental material (originally recorded by Matt) while sampling the sounds. People who have a few of Matt’s discs tend to like this one best. (This 20 minute Mini-CD can be played in most regular CD players, the largest exception being car stereos.)

Matt Davignon
Live Media Improvisation
Ribosome Music - Exp/Elec
format CDr

CDr $8

Most of the time Matt performs live, he uses a turntable and a CD player with a pair of looping devices. These discs are both live sets of this setup recorded at home. Both are recorded in real-time, with no edits or overdubs. Track markers are provided so listeners don’t have to start from the beginning if interrupted. 11/7/00 is almost 60 minutes long. 7/6/03 is 36 minutes.

Matt Davignon
5 Spots
Ribosome Music - Exp/Elec
format CDr

CDr $10

Released in 1998, this was originally supposed to be a disc of music only for bass guitar, manipulated with loops and effects. The disc contains minimal experiments, fairly simple musical structures and improvisations with a heavy focus on presenting sounds in new contexts. As the CD progressed, other instruments found their way in, including acoustic guitar, CD player, sampler, sk-1 and voice.

Matt Davignon, Locations Volume Two
S/T
Ribosome Music - Exp/Elec
format CDr

CDr $10

Eleven musicians collect sounds of their cities and surroundings in specific areas all over the world, then create music compositions from the recordings. Volume 2 includes tracks by Marcelo Radulovich, David Cooper Orton, Omnid, Marcos Fernandes, Antipriest, Paul Paulun, Archive, The Quiet American, Gydja, Jaime Drouin and Rob Switzer. Locations include Santiago, Chile; London; Bayonne, New Jersey; Marrakech, Morocco; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Seoul; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lhasa, Tibet; Wellington, New Zealand; Victoria, Canada and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Thollem Mcdonas & Arrington de Dionyso
IntuitionScienceAndSex
Edgetone Records EDT4067- Av Jazz
format CD

CD $12

IntuitionScienceAndSex is a free trio album meditation on one mode with two musicians and drone machines. On September 11th, 2007 Arrington deDionyso (Bass Clarinet) and Thollem McDonas (Rickety Old Beat-Up Piano) met in an industrial area of Portland with a simple question and complicated answers.
Simplicity and complexity in their respective perfections, each idea developed over long spans of time. The result is a very different kind of album for both of these two prolific musicians.
Thollem McDonas - beatup piano; Arrington de Dionyso - bass clarinet

Democrisy
MUSIC PRODUCTION ENSEMBLE Archives Vol.1
Bastardised BAS5 - Noise
format CDr

CDr $4

5 tracks/over 70minutes of free & 'tunnel' rock. Recorded summer 2001

Dent
Verstarker
Magentic Motorworks MAG11 - Alt Rock
format CD

CD $11

Dent
Stimmung
Magentic Motorworks MAG05 - industrial new-age techno pop country reggae
format CD

CD $11

“If ‘eclectic' to you is when Green Day change their guitar tone or McDonald's puts two burgers in one bun, then steer clear of this album. If however you take your pepperoni pizza with extra cream and can stomach the idea of an album with something other than one song reworked ten times, then you should buy Stimmung now.” (so says some English writer type, and he ought to know…)

Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Robert Montoya, Marcos Fernandez, Rent Romus
Reverberations from Spring Past
Pax Recordings PR90281 - Exp
format CD

CD $13

Recorded both live in the studio and at the 2004 Spring Reverb Festival in San Deigo, this recording features four of the organizers of new music in both the San Francisco and san Deigo music scenes. Pac Packed full of rich colors drawing from a full history of genres, styles, and originality, this recording is the first to feature all four stellar musicians on on disc.

ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE & CHRIS FORSYTH
(as is stated...before known)
Pax Recordings PR90263 - Exp
format CDr

CDr $10

Maverick San Francisco composer/improviser Ernesto Diaz-Infante and Brooklyn's Chris Forsyth, known for his critically-acclaimed guitar work in such groups as psi and All Time Present, are frequent collaborators and key figures in the American underground scene. (as is stated...), their 4th studio recording in 4 years, continues and extends their joint investigation of the full range of the guitar. A kaleidoscopic range of approaches, including quiet modal folk-influenced fingerpicking, atonal noise, drones, pointilistic micro-melodies, lower-case electro-acoustic improv, and feedback are juxtaposed as they subtly bridge the gap between composition and free improvisation, creating a thoroughly unified, wholly unclassifiable music in the process. A limited edition of 500 copies worldwide.

ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE & MATT HANNAFIN
all the states between
Pax Recordings PR90262 - Exp
format CD

CD $10

Extreme-ambient sound collage mixing Diaz-Infante's electronics, field recordings, and radical turntablism with Hannafin's's extended-technique percussion. Unfolds in slow waves and jump-cuts, moving from meditations on bus engines and amplified acoustic guitar ground hum to bowed cymbal drones, TV-tube musique concrète, and the rumble-clatter of low drums and metals. 77 minutes to turn your head outside in.. A limited edition of 150 copies worldwide.

ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE
S/T
Pax Recordings PR90259 - Exp
format CD

CD $10

5th solo release and most diverse yet! The result covers a varied sonic terrain including avant folk-like outsider songs, field recordings, noise and lowercase improv for accordion, guitars, didgeridoo, drums, prepared piano, radio, turntable, violin, vocals and zither rod.

diaz-infante/st.chaos/bohol
the long await between collapsed lungs
Pax Recordings PR90257 - Exp
format CD

CD $10

Probably one of the more accessible experimental, improvised noise cds you are going to hear...if there is such a thing. On this CD, Diaz-Infante is joined by Texas underground, psychedelic-drone, minimalist guitarists St. Chaos and bohol in a mesmerizing work of layered prepared drones and lo-fi 4-track songs.

ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE/CHRIS FORSYTH
'march'
Pax Recordings PR90256 - Exp
format CD

CD $10

New compositions for guitars, vocals, drums, and piano. Their third duo release was recorded in Brooklyn, New York following their three week European tour in early 2002. The result covers a varied sonic terrain, incorporating spare, gestural preparations, electronic static, ringing open strings, and delicate piano/guitar interplay, all with an overarching compositional vision.

ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE/CHRIS FORSYTH
Wires and Wooden Boxes
Pax Recordings PR90252 - Exp
format C

CD $10

Improvised duets for acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and piano by San Francisco based multi-instrumentalist Ernesto Diaz-Infante and Brooklyn, NY based electric guitarist Chris Forsyth. The results are a varied combination of jagged, percussive guitar duets, free jazz inspired piano/guitar romps, and meditative post-Feldman piano joined with the electric static of a guitar's input jack.

ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE
Solus
Pax Recordings PR90250 - Exp
format CD

CD $10

Solus is a collection of free improvisations for solo piano by San Francisco-based composer/improviser Ernesto Diaz-Infante. Solus is comprised of 13 short abstract improvs, allowing the listener to experience a new dimension of Diaz-Infante's piano work.

ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE
Ucross Journal
Pax Recordings PR90249 - Exp
format CD

CD $10

Ucross Journal is a collection of new improvisations for solo piano by San Francisco-based composer Ernesto Diaz-Infante. The Ucross Journal is comprised of 25 short pieces, written one each day the composer was in residence on the Ucross Foundation Ranch. Each daily entry bears the composer's impressions of that particular day. The Ucross Improvisations are a series of five free improvisations, based on the journal material.

ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE
Tepeu
Pax Recordings PR90247 - Exp
format CD

CD $10

Tepeu is a CD collection of six new improvisations for solo piano by San Francisco-based composer/improviser Ernesto Diaz-Infante. The improvisations flow into one another, gently drawing the listener in with an organically evolving narrative.

ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE
Itz'at
Pax Recordings PR90245 - Exp
format CD

CD $10

Itz'at (Mayan word for artist) is a collection of compositons for solo piano by San Francisco-based composer Ernesto Diaz-Infante. Itz'at features pieces composed to use as spring-boards for improvisation; the compositions have a spacious, minimalist feel while retaining focused intention.

Different Strokes, featuring violinist Yehudit and cellist Beth Snellings, creates a fusion of jazz and classical influences, incorporating arrangements of tried and true jazz classics, compositions by contemporary jazz masters, and some very unique and lush originals. The project manifests the warmth that only strings can provide. The duo's classically influenced arrangements create melodic and rapturous pieces full of emotion and lyricism, while their deft arrangements of jazz standards remain true to the style and spirit of these classic tunes. The result is a powerful combination of beauty, elegance, sophistication, and swing. A must have for any jazz fan.

Dr. Bob
Dark Times
Edgetone Records EDT4035- Exp/Elec
format CD

CD $13

Doctor Bob plays songs for a dark and bitter world. They range from scary to the surreal to the abstract and frequently dwell in a space between idea and word.
Doctor Bob is a project of Bob Marsh (whose mother always wanted him to be a doctor) and David Michalak (whose favorite TV show was Mr. Wzard). Bob Marsh sings, rants and yowls whilst committing unnatural acts with his cello and other electronic devices creating a unique chemistry with the equally unnatural lap steel guitar style of David Michalak.

Donkey
Big Sur
Accretions ALP028 -Exp/Elec
format CD

CD $12

Hans Fjellestad: analog & digital synthesizers, sampler, electronics Damon Holzborn: guitar, sampler, electronics They come, riding fog, thirsty mules. A new breed with eyes on their arms, moving like hungry hunters, not yet poised to sleep. Inspecting valleys, terrain shifts, ambitions of the electric. Boasting blades and breathing machines, with ivory handles, and sharp edges. "Hares and boars: targets for today."

Donkey
SHOW
Accretions ALP020 - Exp/Elec
format C

CD $12

Hans Fjellestad - keyboards, electronics Damon Holzborn - guitars, electronics They come, riding fog, thirsty mules. A new breed with eyes on their arms, moving like hungry hunters, not yet poised to sleep. Inspecting valleys, terrain shifts, ambitions of the electric, performing in such far-flung territories as California, the Pacific Northwest, Japan and Mexico. Donkey is keyboardist Hans Fjellestad and guitarist Damon Holzborn in a decade-long collaboration, exploring improvisation and noise art with an intensity just as capable of growling as it is signaling the landing of an alien spaceship.

DAVID DVORIN
With(In)Communicado
Pax Recordings PR90248 - Exp/Elec
format CD

CD $10

Explorations into new music composition by Northern California composer David Dvorin. With(In)Communicado approaches art music through the use of untraditional and unusual instruments. Bowed psaltery, electric and acoustic guitars, banjo, sampler and computer are featured throughout the work.