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 Salamander Wool - Solar Solipsis
(Ehse 022)
Experimenting with found sound, taboo sound, dissonance, unquantized "popular rhythms", and a general affinity with the eclectic, Solar Solipsis throws the listener into worlds imaginary and frighteningly real. Beginning with dawn, you are brought through a full contemporary day on earth, replete with androids intoning from mountain tops, apocalyptic carousels, D.C. wormholes, Ballard dance music, dystopian architecture, Carpathian truckers, and serene sunsets, to name a few.
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 Angels In America - Narrow Road To The Interior
(Ehse 021)
With Narrow Road to the Interior, Angels in America offers a palliative for the debilitating stench of summer with a heady mix of sweet smells, agreeable natural notes, and plenty of creeping, low-to-the-ground odor. Some elements will be visible enough from the waking path; but this is dreamstate music-to follow it is to cross unannounced into zones less easily pinned down. |
 Secret Secrets - Chiromagica
(Ehse 020)
Secret Secrets is the colossal union of skilled power-duo Melissa Moore on drums and Shana Palmer, aka Childe Bride, on vocals and electronics. The music pulses and propels you as Palmer navigates and Moore is the force behind the rudders on a free-form wave, interrupting dreams through song. |
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White Life
(Ehse 019)
Soulful, heart-wrenching delivery with slyly addictive beats, listening to White Life will remind you what you adored about dance tracks the first time you heard them. Catchy and captivating, every hook on this glistening debut transports you to a youthful collective past and to the hidden recesses of still untapped desire, while remaining fun, danceable, and blissfully carefree. |
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Dog Leather - Greezy Man and Stinky Man Meets Smutty Ranks On Tarantula Hill
(Ehse 018)
"A wet dream in the minds of noise fans, Dog Leather is currently creaming the panties of a rabid community of freaks, creeps, scum lords, and post-apocalypse art punk... already legends in their own game, and their merging seems to have sparked something special, as Dog Leather is making some of the strangest and most exciting music around. The sound is like hip-hop on drugs fed through a wood chipper or meat grinder. These kids aren't trying to be rappers, they are just being themselves, and it is swagged the fuck out." - Pictureplane |
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Ami Dang - Hukam
(Ehse 017)
Consider Ami Dang running for class president of this year's crop of "New Weird World". Creating melodies out of a mixed bazaar of sitar and hallucinogenic dance pop coupled with the right balance of underground menace and chill sweetness, Ami Dang has crafted an album that brings the world's lesser traveled streets alive with Eastern nuance and a Western wink.
Thoroughly 21st century in every way, Ami Dang's "Hukam" is contemporary global experimental pop at its twisted best. With sweet sitar melodies, Bollywood-diva style vocals, and both minimal and maximal electronic production, her music--pop, experimental, ambient, and house--is ripe for 2011 and beyond. |
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Katt Hernandez - Unlovely
(Ehse 016)
"Fiery array of electronic-like sounds and keening melodies from unaltered, acoustic violin. Drawn from a mixture of sources - folk and sacred musics of the Middle East, Turkey, and Eastern Europe, odd-ball wisps of old Americana, and the Maneri/Sims microtonal 72 note system. "My landlord had 1950s Cole ribbon mics from the BBC (incidental of a series number which apparently indicates their probable use on Doctor Who). I made this very sort of purist recording with him." - Katt Hernandez |
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Salamander Wool - Lunarsophic Somnambulist
(Ehse 015)
On this solo effort, Carson Garhart uses electronics, stringed instruments (homemade and other), voice and poetry to weave songs and movements meant for Metaphysical keys or ecstatic dances. Carson plays in the time travel band Sejayno and ocassionally paints birds on his wall. His music is at once a revolt against modernity and an embracing of possible futures, especially ones that restore an Age of light and life. |
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Lizz King - All Songs Go To Heaven
(Ehse 014)
Celebrate the woeful regret, the exalted pleasure, the pissed off indignation, the wide eyed amazement -- all delivered with a soul stirring voice that captures the creative energy within all of us and that celebrates the explosive power that comes from fusing this energy with friends and lovers, with the collective humanity, and with all of the earth. |
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Sejayno - Quantus
(Ehse 013)
Sejayno bring you Quantus, their third official album, which finds the trio delving further into the nebulous realms of industry noise pop. Much of what you have come to love about Sejayno is still present: ancient-futurism, odd tunings, elegant theosophical ramble poetry, the gonzo, the stoned serene. |
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Needle Gun - Afternoon Computer Umbrage
(Ehse 012)
Liberated noise rock filled with with rabid-yet-impotent guitar squawk, denatured sax quacks, creepy bleeps, unidentifiable splotch-shock rays and bubbling, preternatural vigor. Recorded at Tarantula Hill and engineered by Twig Harper, "Afternoon Computer Umbrage... is a perfect... romp." - Bret McCabe, City Paper. |
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Harrius - Proud Flesh (Ehse 011)
"The sound program to a silent movie by Chiara Giovando and Jenny Graf Sheppard. The film was shot largely in the South Dakota Badlands and stars the artists' mothers. Like the film, the sound that adjoins it is a gauzy world of private experiences interwoven into a taut narrative, something far more alien and beautiful than you're used to hearing on a record." |
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Ric Royer & G Lucas Crane - Dark Cabinet of the Strange Weird (Ehse 010)
Ric Royer and G Lucas Crane offer their take on the radio ghost story and other dramatic frights that combine spoken narrative and audio terrors. Royer and Crane take the art of the scary story to new dimensions and extremes as they mix Royer's surreal tales of the darkly humorous macabre with Crane's intensely terrifying soundscapes. |
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Ian Nagoski - Kerflooey (Ehse 009)
"Two side-long excerpts from a 58-minute home-recorded performance, made in 2003 for Ben Green's "one hour as..." radio show on Resonance 103.3 FM, London. That performance turns out to have been a summary of the electronic music I made at home on four-track cassette and CDR from digital feedback circuits and the vibrating metal plate instrument invented by Dan Conrad, the Wild Wave, between 1998 and 2003." - Ian Nagoski |
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Snacks - Natural Snacks picture disc (Ehse 008)
...a picture disc containing analog gastronomy, fights between the wait staff and the cooks, effluvial drum licks, persuasive percussion, tasteful guitar solos, non-ironic tap dancing, hot body squelches, vintage garbage, french primitivism, nocturnal grooves carved in avocado rinds, troublesome themes, slavic melancholy, uptight programming, neoist sequencers, ham-fisted mastering, laconic bass playing, pregnant lady booty tracks.... |
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Beaver - You Can Only Control Instincts When They Come (Ehse 007)
Low-fi bedroom 4-track songs recorded with his guitar and pieces of drum kit lying around his apartment and occasional tampering with sounds on his mpc2000 and fruity loops. Live performances are epic and, at the same time, intimate. |
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Andy Hayleck - Two Gong, Wire Pieces (Ehse 006)
Two Gong/Wire Pieces presents side-long live-to-tape performances using a special system which Hayleck has invented and with which he has performed widely - bowing a long wire attached to a Chinese gong, allowing for special control of the irrational vibrations of the metal plate through careful control over the tension of the wire and place and style of bowing. |
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Harrius - Enter the Cotton Ring (Ehse 005)
This brand new epic by Jenny Gräf Sheppard (of Metalux) and Chiara Giovando sits quietly for its real audience in the ages. Both an alarmingly intense and hushed "noise" record and totally whacked "songwriter" record, if it needed a catagory, Enter the Cotton Ring is an exploratory mack truck of left-hemisphere-manifestation-in-time. |
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Trockeneis - 5025 A.D. (Ehse 004)
From the den of pre-scientific iniquity in which Baltimore sound actors thrive on non-planning, the stately emergence of professional harsh acousticians in five-part harmony, a brash romp through the New Frictionalism, The New Spectralism, and The New Ritualism. Bowing. Rubbing. Scraping. Squealing. Squeaking. Screeching. Moaning. Silence. |
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Little Howlin Wolf - Brave Nu World (Ehse 003)
Blasted, purposefully underground, and adamnantly original, Wolf's style results in some seriously messed-up records. And now comes what is hands down his most challenged work to date! An instant damaged visionary outsider classic recorded by Twig Harper in his West Baltimore Diamond Eyes studio in killer LHW style: flowing over dubbed/bounced 4-track. |
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Blaster Al Ackerman - I Am Drunk (Ehse 002)
This listener's prediction: the muffled voice of Blaster Al Ackerman reading his "Pepper Young" translations with a presumed bar of soap in his mouth followed by tree frog belches will replace the sound of a passing steam locomotive as the poetic sounds of indescribable mystery and high lonesomeness. |
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Leprechaun Catering - Kumquats - Lychees (Ehse 001)
"Kumquats, Lychees" finds Leprechaun Catering, Baltimore's best beloved brunette duo of tobacco smoking Tom Boram and Jason Willett, on their first ever release, making a sound described by some as "techno you can't dance to, or free improvisation you can dance to." |
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