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Skrow044: Dongle Doc - Ça gratte
Dongle Doc - Ça gratte
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Skrow! dutifully and happily welcomes another newcomer to the fold, French improvisational guitar researcher Dongle Doc. Ça gratte is a 35 minute psychedelic journey into a uniquely organic atmospheric experimental cybermetropolis, in which lurks twisted jazz-blues alleycats, vaguely rock-scented ruffians, seedy semi-sapient drone-noise night clubs, and other sonic creatures too wonderfully terrible to describe.
Enjoy carefully in your favorite aural apparatus today for the low low price of nothing! Happy trails.
Tracklisting:
- Raphael track 1 (9:33)
- Impro Guitare (3:47)
- Impro Guitare 2 (3:27)
- Raphael track 2 (12:26)
- La cinquième rose (1:48)
- Peterpan (2:00)
- Reggae (2:54)
Skrow040: Guitar Bastard - Planeswalking
Guitar Bastard - Planeswalking
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Believe it or not, the perpetually delayed first installment of the Skrow! label compilation is officially coming out within a matter of days. Yeah, I don’t believe it either. It’s true though. Srsly. Meanwhile, feast your ears on the latest from our good friend Guitar Bastard…
One continuous 45-minute aural sphere of influence within which one may find themselves drawn, willing or not, into higher dominions of reasoning. An incessant expanse of subtly fluctuating drones enveloping a limitless void of mystique and otherness.
Yeah. Headphones, bro.
Tracklisting:
- Planeswalking (45:03)
Skrow038: earthbreather - Forget the Sky
earthbreather - Forget the Sky
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With great pride do we present the debut of experimental, free-genre duo earthbreather. A collaboration between Saffron Slumber and Ellipse, this non-geographically proximal pairing came to be, as these things are, via the internet. In late 2008, Saffron Slumber began “remixing” by way of manipulation and de/reconstruction some brief guitar clips sent to him by Ellipse. The latter, as well, began to perform similar mutations upon pieces created by the former. As this process continued, the songs would evolve into something entirely new, and the process itself became progressively more collaborative. An unwritten manifesto took form between the two artists to ignore the perceived boundaries of genre conventions and to simply create.
On Forget the Sky, earthbreather experiment with various aural textures and explore atmospheres dark and light, concrete and ethereal, consonant and dissonant, all in flowing and relatively structurally free compositional forms. The result is an album that is both cohesive and varied throughout its approximate 50 minute duration.
Headphones are suggested and encouraged. Please join us.
Tracklisting:
- Talk in Blue (10:34)
- Fields of Desiccant (9:12)
- Ice Throne of Ullr (8:34)
- Pulling On Melting Glass (5:02)
- Black Fires Burn Gently (8:28)
- Craters (7:52)
Skrow037: Bukkake Earlobe - Vasectomy Monologues
Bukkake Earlobe - Vasectomy Monologues
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Reclining at length upon a microfiber couch with stitches in one’s mildly malaised testicles and a head full of oxycodone warmth has a way of putting one into an insomniac haze fit to inspire the spontaneous midnocturnal creation of a certain pandemonious, sonorous whorl.
At least so we’re told.
Tracklisting:
- Dude? Dude. (4:32)
- Saturday Nite Librarians (1:52)
- Ghost of Plastic Basketball Hoop (2:44)
- Mirror Swimming (3:06)
- The Unmentionables (3:28)
- 512 (8:00)
Skrow033: Bukkake Earlobe - Wide Asleep in a Den of Bees
Bukkake Earlobe - Wide Asleep in a Den of Bees
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A relatively succinct ode to our flying swarming f(r)iends, for which the adjective “spooky” insistently presents itself despite the unwanted and incorrigible Scooby Doo connotation on the word.
Nonetheless, bathe in the sweet, dark honeys of our discontent within the hive of drones hypnotic and insecure. Feed yourself to the queen.
Tracklisting:
- Wide Asleep in a Den of Bees (10:45)
Skrow032: Guitar Bastard - In the View of the Mind’s Eye
Guitar Bastard - In the View of the Mind's Eye
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Hypnotic buzz and swirling ghostly tones, a vortex of haunting sound for one to fall into. One extended guitar-based soundscape from the aptly named Skrow! newcomer, known in other circles as shawn phase of temp sound solutions, who had this to say about the work:
“27 minutes of prepared guitar by yours truly. steinbererish koa/graphite into behringer v-amp2, operating table, fan/duster recorded/postrecorded directly to sony tc-570 3 head reel to reel and digital hdd simultaneously. monitored and recorded in stereo using univox/lafayette 80 watt quadraphonic hifi stereo system and randall 150w amp ran to a 4×12″ speaker to simulate stereo effects.
thanks to sony, sanyo fans, the luthier that made my guitar, the skrow family for embracing my weirder side.”
Dark meditations for dark minds. Headphones required.
Tracklisting:
- In the View of the Mind’s Eye (27:00)
Skrow028: Ellipse - After the Sun
Ellipse - After the Sun
Ethereal sonorities in a shadowy berth, a meeting place for things both dark and light. Here are our dualities investigated, awash in colour and grey, claustrophobic in an infinite space: the locus of a soul.
Ellipse presents us with three pieces for electric guitar that are at times quietly introspective, and at others screaming at the heavens with fire and futility. Please adorn your ears and explore.
Tracklisting:
- Becoming Empyreal (18:22)
- The Immeasurable Breadth of Night (9:59)
- An Ocean Upon Us (23:17)
Skrow026: Ellipse / Saffron Slumber - Translucence
Ellipse / Saffron Slumber - Translucence
Awash in a ceaseless cloud of lost memories, reaching for light. We find ourselves in a sea of our own reckoning, clutching driftwood to our bared breasts, a subtle heat radiating from within that warms the cool mists around us. The atmosphere thickens, becomes as a gelatin which slows our existence and reflects us from within until, finally, we are encased in an unfrozen ice of our deepest fears and desires; static, yet internally vivified. We shatter into numberless shards, waltzing silently in scintillating bliss as we dissipate into the air. The cycle begins anew.
So it is that we present the first (and certainly not the last) split release from Skrow! fellows Ellipse and Saffron Slumber. It showcases arguably some of the greatest work of two fine artists of complimentary mentality and style while exploring a vast musical space of mystique and airy melancholia. Assume an appropriately fetal position and adorn your ears with a suitable binaural apparatus. Surround yourself in translucence, close your eyes and peer through.
Tracklisting:
- Ellipse - Drifting Endless Ethereal (11:33)
- Saffron Slumber - Viscosity (4:01)
- Saffron Slumber - Glass Variation (Silicon Dioxide) (5:46)
Skrow024: Bukkake Earlobe - Green Light, Motherfuckers
Bukkake Earlobe - Green Light, Motherfuckers
As proof of the adage “we only hurt the ones we love,” Bukkake Earlobe takes his friend Vito out to lunch but shoves him into traffic after they exit the restaurant. Where there once was a young man full of sound and musical ideas, joie de vivre, and beef lo mein, naught remains but a hideous smear of gore, twisted car parts, and partially digested soba. And yet, the modern artform that now decorates the nameless streets of this metaphorical city still resembles that which came before it, in a pseudo-neo-post-Surrealist kind of way.
In short: Vito brings the storms, the ‘Lobe brings the lightning rods. The masses scream for pause, but weathermen such as these see no red, like Bruce Willis in Color of Night. “Your traffic lights have no effect on us!” they shout in reply, careening through their craft heedless of the splattering of bodies and food, knowing full well that smearing themselves on the ground is all part of the process. Grab some headphones or crank those speakers and put your ear to the road. Hear the smear.
Tracklisting:
- How to Inject OxiClean (4:46)
- Compulsive Tupperware Party (3:33)
- Lunar Polygons (8:12)
- The Arsehole Capitalist (3:34)
- The Galaxy Got Me Drunk (6:07)
- Jackson’s Arm (5:11)
- Swinging a Steel Pipe at a Thundering Sky (9:09)
Skrow020
Bukkake Earlobe - Ixixix
Wavering wisps of warbling wash (I’m far too fond of alliteration), presented in honour of a calendrical anomaly the likes of which the vast majority of us shall not see again in our lifetimes. Primarily because we’re all going to die at the end of 2012 anyway, AMIRITE??? For the time being, however, enjoy your nine tracks totaling nine minutes and nine seconds of drone noise constructed of the word nine and named in roman numerals nine three times which equals twenty-seven and the sum of two and seven is in fact nine and today’s date is the ninth day of the ninth month of the supposed ninth year of the second millenium in the common era HOLY FUCK WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!~
Tracklisting:
- Programming a Dishwasher (1:04)
- Friendly Reminder (0:28)
- Egregious Spin Cycle Phenomena (1:23)
- Tezcatlipoca’s Revenge (1:51)
- Salo Goes to Primary School (1:58)
- Fractal Briefcase (0:54)
- Drive-by Shaving (0:24)
- Pardon the Mosquitos (0:23)
- Blame It on Yucatán (Maya Has Doomed Us All) (0:44)
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