Wednesday, December 5, 2007

W. Ravenveer has 2 new releases out:

first one is the 6 tape set "mentale staat" it contains 5x c60 and 1 c 90 tape of my early synth explorations mostly done on the siel mono and yamaha cs01, simple synths.
20 copies made, 7 left for sale. 20 euro for the set in person . 30 euro postpaid worldwide.

2nd release: de toxische zee-taal" cd-r, a 30 minute pieces that captures a toxic wasted see, with bleeps and shrieks, mostly made with hanks filterbank(thanks for lending), siel mono and soundlab mini synth, 5 euro in person, 8 euros postpaid worldwide

see myspace for some excerpts

play list of this week
john foxx -metamatic lp x 20
the flying luttenbachers "incarceration by abstraction" cd x 20
...

Friday, March 16, 2007

To Live and Shave in L.A. 2 : The 300 Dollar Silk Shirt




finally, X + Z = 0 released in co-operation with ugXPLODE the shave 2 CD,rumoured to come out in 2001, but finally the insanity got out here in 2007 to welcome it as an archival release.

Words are hard to say except its still insane and scratching my brain after all these years, despite the delay and my adventures in mental space, i finally brought back the idea to put this out, Weasel putted the artwork together and wrote linernotes.

here are some words/views of the people that were involved
"78 minutes of studio recordings from the renegade "FREE GLAM" troupe featuring Weasel Walter, Rat Bastard, Misty Martinez, Nondor Nevai and special guest Om Myth! Perverse, intense, hyper-psychedelic stream-of-consciousness group improvisations channeled through futuristic production processes. This record is an intense trip - a mash-up of gut-wrenching instrumental onslaught and bizarre wordsmithy. This is the complete story of the Shave 2, finally available after almost 7 years."(ugEXPLODE)
See also the old to live and shave in l.a. 2 website for more inside information!

"Yes, the hatchet has indeed been buried, and with hearts a-flutter we are pleased to assist Mr. Weasel Walter in presenting the homage/bootleg/rebuke/hubris-pummeled freak-platter depicted above. Its latter half a WNUR-FM studio session from TLASILA's 1999 American tour, the majority of its sleeve acreage festooned with snaps from that same, blood-splattered trek, with an ever-so-slightly skewed central thesis (that Mark Morgan [Sightings], Elyse Perez [Costes, Cock ESP], and the late Gerard Klauder [dozens of warped aggregations] somehow lacked "distinction"), 300 Dollar fairly cries out for help. Despite and because of those determinedly contrary ironies it's a must-own recording and a bracing reminder that whatever you're listening to probably 1) sucks, and 2) desperately needs to be radically detourned, remixed, or immediately tossed into the nearest incinerator. Please, buy as many copies as you're able to afford, and keep these bug-eyed, Raid-huffing orphans off the mean streets of Yourtown, USA! You don't want this thug of an album wandering around your rose gardens at dusk... As for the mastermind behind TLASILA 2, well, Weasel is insane, sure, the very nonpareil of onanistic self-absorption. But he's also dead brilliant. We'll work with his crazy ass anytime, anywhere. Once in TLASILA, always in TLASILA 2..." (tom smith's view written on the to live and shave in l.a. myspace)

Go to the tlasila webblog for more information, pictures and live recordings from the 1999 line up of tlasila.

for orders: the cd is 12 euro postpaid in the EU and 14 euro postpaid for the rest of the world. send a mail to xpluszequalszero-AT-yahoo.co.uk for order and bank or paypal info,...


Big thanks to all the people involved!
More writings soon!
erwin.