Bungling Addendums

As a brief addendum to our last post: Consouling Sounds has just re-issued our album The Bungled & The Botched on cd. If you’d like a copy, you can order it from Consouling or direct from our webstore.

気晴らしのスペクトラム / Kibarashi no supekutoramu

I have copies of my new (albeit not-quite-released) album The Spectrum of Distraction (official release date January 17 2012) available now on the Broken Spine Productions webstore for the Europeans who’d like to save on international shipping (North Americans can order it direct from Robotic Empire).

If you’d like to read some more about the album and sample a few tracks from the Complete Sessions (available as a download with the CD — almost 6 hours of music) you can do so here on Pitchfork, Exclaim, and The Post Rock (Deutsch).

And here are some photos highlighting Matt Smith‘s delightful illustrations:

In other release news, my (other) new solo album Closure Axioms is now available from Miskatonic Sound Lab and Nadja‘s The Bungled & The Botched has been newly re-issued on CD by Consouling Sounds (it’ll be in our webstore later this week).

And lastly some tourdates:

Nadja will be heading off to Japan in a few weeks for a few shows with our Important Records labelmates, Vampillia:

28-01-12: Shibuya O-Nest, Tokyo
29-01-12: Unagidani Sunsui, Osaka
01-02-12: Club Quatro, Hiroshima
02-02-12: Voodoo Lounge, Fukuoka
03-02-12: Wakayama, Rub Luck Cafe
05-02-12: Soup, Tokyo (AB solo show only)

More info and tickets here.

And in February, I will be doing a solo tour with the UK trio A-Sun Amissa:

15-02-12: West Germany, Berlin, DE
16-02-12: Astrostube, Hamburg, DE
17-02-12: Christuskirke, Bochum, DE
18-02-12: (H)ear, Heerlen, NL
19-02-12: DB’s, Utrecht, NL
20-02-12: Waggon, Offenbach, DE
21-02-12: Komma, Esslingen, DE
22-02-12: tba
23-02-12: L’inventaire, Le Mans, FR
24-02-12: L’espace B, Paris, FR
25-02-12: Le Plané Ari Home, Wanquetin, FR

Distracting Spectrums Con’t

Some press/interviews about The Spectrum of Distraction with streamable tracks from Jakob Thiesen, Mac McNeilly, and Steven Hess:

Exclaim
Pitchfork
The Post Rock

And in the meantime, here’s something to tide you over while you’re waiting for The Spectrum of Distraction to come out:

Distracting Spectrums

I have a new a solo release, The Spectrum of Distraction, coming out January 17, 2012 with Robotic Empire. This will be a 2CD album, containing 96 tracks edited and designed in such a way as to be played on random, and features contributions from 18 different drummers:

Mac McNeily (The Jesus Lizard), Ted Parsons (Swans, Godflesh, Jesu, Prong, & many others), David Dunnett (Ca Va Mal), Brandon Valdivia (Picastro), Richard Baker (ARC), Victor Cirone, Jakob Thiesen (Whisper Room, Nadja), Thor Harris (The Angels of Light, Shearwater, Swans), Geoff Summers (Batillus), Alessandro Curvaia (Shora), Simon Scott (Slowdive), Steven Hess (Locrian, Panamerican), Bruno Dorella (OvO), H. Walker (Kerretta), Andrew Crawshaw, Kevin Micka (Animal Hospital), Phil Petrocelli (Jesu, Great Falls, Grey Machine), & myself.

The album is available for pre-order from Robotic Empire here. The 2CD also comes with a download card for the complete, unedited sessions that made up this album — almost 6 hours of music! You can stream the ‘first’ track from the album, “At War With The Evil Power Master” (drums by Phil Petrocelli), here on my Bandcamp page:

(Obviously, these tracks should flow seamlessly together, which they don’t in the stream, but hopefully it’ll give you an idea what to expect)

The artwork for the album is by Matt Smith, whose work you may recognize from Nadja’s covers album, When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV.

Sprachform

We will be heading out next week for our last tour of 2011, beginning in Greece and then making our way north through the Balkans:

09-11-11: Six Dogs, Athens, GR
10-11-11: Stage Performances, Larissa, GR
11-11-11: 1ος Όροφος, Thessaloniki, GR
12-11-11: La Kaña, Skopje, MK
13-11-11: CK13, Novi-Sad, SRB
14-11-11: Irish & Music Pub, Cluj-Napoca, RO
15-11-11: Trafik Klub, Budapest, HU
16-11-11: Tvornica Kulture, Zagreb, CR
17-11-11: Menza Pri Koritu, Ljubljana, SL

And then back to Berlin for a show with fellow Canadian ex-pat, [sic]:

23-11-11: Marie Antoinette’s, Berlin, DE

And finally off to a festival on an island out in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal:

02-12-11: Madeiradig Festival, Madeira, PT

NO v LT

A couple upcoming one-off/festival shows:

Nadja:
19-10-11: Revolver, Oslo, Norway
30-10-11: Propoganda, Vilnius, Lithuania

Aidan Baker:
20-20-11: Brugata, Oslo, Norway
28-10-11: Zemlika Festival, Durbe, Latvia

I will be performing my composition Liminoid at the Zemlika Festival with the Sinfonietta Riga String Quartet and The Burning Kulba. You can stream the piece at the above link (although of course this performance might sound completely different, since it will be an entirely different group of players [apart from me, of course]).

Also, my new lp Plague of Fantasies and live cd Green Figures (w/ Kevin Micka aka Animal Hospital on drums) are now available in our webstore (and digitally at above links).

Cor Blimey

I/we will be heading to the UK next week for a handful of shows with Plurals…first few shows are solo (AB), last three Nadja (N):

05-10-11: Nice & Sleazy, Glasgow, UK (AB)
06-10-11: Islington Mill, Manchester, UK (AB)
07-10-11: Chameleon, Notthingham, UK (AB)
09-10-11: The Prince Albert, Brighton, UK (AB)
10-10-11: The Hare & The Hound, Birmingham, UK (N)
11-10-11: Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester, UK (N)
12-10-11: Cafe Oto, London, UK (N)

And in release new, there are three new AB releases:

From Treue Um Treue, Bach Eingeschaltet – Vierter Band, a 7″ featuring guitar interpretations of two of Bach’s pieces for solo cello.

From Blackest Rainbow, Plague of Fantasies, a 12″ of ambient/drone/collage.

And from Basses Frequences, Green Figures, a cd featuring a live performance at Casa del Popolo in Montreal, featuring Kevin Micka (aka Animal Hospital) on drums.

I will have these releases available on my upcoming shows. Once we are back from touring, they will be up in the webstore. Though if you can’t wait, you can get them digitally at my Bandcamp page, or direct from the labels of course…

Mail List(en)ing

We’ve started a mailing list (because I’m sure you don’t get enough email in your lives) to keep people updated of our activities etc. Of course if you’re reading this, you might have already subscribed to this blog, which might make signing up for a mailing list redundant..but anyway, should you wish to subscribe, here is the link.

As incentive, here’s a free downloadable 2-track EP of techno/electronica-ish music (living in Berlin is rubbing off):

Drone Purity

We now have copies of the first LP from the Drone Compendium Series, Pure Drone, available here in the BSP webstore.

The Drone Compendium is a 6LP series (7 for subscribers) featuring music by me &/or various musical projects with which I am or have been involved. You can read more about it in this earlier post here, in case you missed it.

& you can stream &/or download Pure Drone here:

“In einem perfekten, tief texturierten, bassbetonten Sound; körperlich, fast greifbar. So, dass man sich wünscht, die Platte würde nie aufhören. Egal, welche der beiden Seiten.”
– ThePostRock

Noise Is Any Undesired Sound Signal

Newly released by Brazil’s Essence Music: Aidan Baker’s Noise of Silence, originally released on cdr in 2007 by Hyperblasted Records & long out of print.

This cd reissue was remastered by James Plotkin & features brand new artwork by Kevin Gan Yuen. The release is available both in a regular edition & a special, limited handmade box edition, which includes artwork & a bonus disc of previously unreleased AB demos & recordings from the early 1990s:

Both versions of the album are currently available from Essence Music or from the Broken Spine webstore. The album can be streamed &/or downloaded (lossless or mp3) here:

“I would not advise this record to someone who can be easily affected. A great release, then – but only if you’re trained in keeping coolness when the brain suggests strange things: for many, the noise of silence is unbearable. That’s when they start doing damage.”
- Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes