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Femme / Sunk Heaven / Jeph Jerman / Somnoroase Pasarele: 7 & 7 : VOL. 1 [VINYL 2 7-inch BOX] (SpleenCoffin)

The 1st in SpleenCoffin's double-7" series, each featuring exclusive material and packaged in reclaimed 7" audio reel boxes, this volume featuring audio tracks by French synth duo FEMME; NYC's Sunk Heaven; a piece composed from a group recording of Jeph Jerman, Tim Barnes, Bill Hutson & Ten Byrnes; and a work from Romanian audio artist SOMNOROASE PĂSĂRELE.
 

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Femme-composer

Sunk Heaven-composer

Somnoroase Pasarele-composer

Jeph Jerman-composer

Tim Barnes-improviser

Bill Hutson-improviser

Ten Byrnes-improviser


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Label: SpleenCoffin
Catalog ID: 7x7V1
Squidco Product Code: 29886

Format: 2 7'' LPS
Condition: New
Released: 2020
Country: USA
Packaging: 7'' x2 w/ 12 page booklet in recycled audio reel box

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"7 & 7 is a double 7″ vinyl box set subscription series, to be published in three limited edition volumes from Fall, 2020 to Spring, 2021. The series features exclusive material by Femme, Sunk Heaven, Jeph Jerman, Somnoroase Păsărele, Theoreme, Alan Courtis, Street Rat, Saboteuse, Andrea Pensado, Rubber (() Cement, Jeff Carey, and more. Each volume contains two 7″ records with an art booklet and download code, lovingly packaged in reclaimed 7″ audio reel boxes with repurposed vintage wallpaper covers.

Volume 1 of the series features a bewildering side of 10 interlaced roulette groove miniatures from French synth duo FEMME (featuring members of Opera Mort and France Sauvage), a performance of melting intensity by NYC's SUNK HEAVEN, a hand-mangled cassette recording by JEPH JERMAN (from a group improvisation with Tim Barnes, Bill Hutson, and Ted Byrnes), and kaleidoscopic jitter from Romanian outfit SOMNOROASE PĂSĂRELE. Volume 1 shipping out now!"-SpleenCoffin"


Artist Biographies

"Sunk Heaven is the solo project of Austin Sley Julian, who also performs in the contemporary no-wavish band Sediment Club, based out of New York City. Sunk Heaven is building and breaking instruments to construct a temporary outcry, sunk deep into a metallic disfigurement."

-Sunk Heaven Website (https://sunkheavennoise.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR2YRXbdxnzQWS_ofslfMlHbpLi1jLlVwqFBe_3u-2qgIvkmW9ASQF_kJCg)
12/11/2024

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"Somnoroase Păsărele, a project that appeared in 2007, represents the musical research of two artists: Gili Mocanu and Elena Albu. Previous experiences have existed since 1992, with GM recording sounds on magnetic tape. The roots of the project rised from contemporary music (Iancu Dumitrescu, David Prescott). Somnoroase Păsărele is derived from the artistic project Bitum that was born in 2005. There have been collaborations with musicians and artists such as Robert Walker (USA), Bogdan Scoromide (RO) and Mugur Grosu (RO). The general tendency was to explore the type of sounds and themes specific to contemporary music, but in a form made more accesible to the younger audiences. Although they avoid the term "experimental", the result belongs in this area. If in the beginning they played with preparing clasical instruments, mixing natural or analogic sounds and all kinds of recordings, after 1997 their work started to focus exclusively on the relationship with the computer, studying composition, tone and non-tone, atipical structures, even bypassing the unconventional for obtaining the determinants. What was important in each composition was the search for a meaning, for a round and self-contained construction. Aware of the fact that experimental times are gone, they wanted to go further, so they made up the phrase "conventional experimental".

Somnoroase Păsărele produced an album "ABECD" at Baba Vanga Label, that in 2013 was presented with a live performance inPrague,Czech Republic. Then followed different invitations to experimental music festival (Simultan/Timișoara; Dvorak Marathon/Bucharset and Berlin- Konzerthaus)."

-Centrul de Informare Muzicala (http://cimro.ro/somnoroase-pasarele/)
12/11/2024

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"Jeph Jerman is a musician who began his musical career drumming and playing in bar bands. In the 1980s, he became aware of other sonic possibilities for his drum kit and started learning to improvise and record his own music. During this time Jerman was a frequent collaborator with other musicians who were also exploring improvisational techniques. In the mid-1980s, Jerman founded a cassette label for the distribution of music by himself and friends. The label released over 50 cassettes, several LPs, and a short-lived magazine.

After relocating from Colorado to Seattle, Jerman continued playing with local groups of improvisers and began giving solo performances where he improvised with mostly natural found objects, a practice he continues today. He founded the first animist orchestra dedicated to making larger scale works using natural object play. In 1999, Jerman moved to Cottonwood, AZ. He continues to investigate sound and recording in many forms including field recordings, the building of crude sound making devices, and the effects of age and other damage to analog tape. Jerman's 2014 Grants to Artists award funded recording and touring with Tim Barnes. Jerman continues to collaborate with Dave Knott in a band collectively known as The Yes, Well, and with Tim Barnes, with whom collaborated on an FCA-supported record released in 2015 (Erstwhile Records.) Other CDs and works are available on Anomalous Records, Semperflorens, and Trait Media Works."

-Foundation for Contemporary Arts (http://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/jeph-jerman)
12/11/2024

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"Tim Barnes is an internationally-known percussionist, electronic musician, and recording producer/engineer who has played and recorded with Sonic Youth, Wilco, Body/Head, Jim O'Rourke, Silver Jews, Neil Michael Hagerty and the Howling Hex, The Tower Recordings, The For Carnation, and MV+EE, as well as being featured in countless multiple other settings, from jazz-influenced free-improvisation to full-on rock n' roll. He is the Artistic Director of DREAMLAND, and also runs the newly-revived Quakebasket record label (best known for its mid-1990s archival releases of solo work by Angus MacLise, poet and original drummer for the Velvet Underground). A California native, Tim moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 2007 from his longtime musical base, New York City."

-The Other Side of Life (https://othersideoflife.wordpress.com/tag/tim-barnes/)
12/11/2024

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Track Listing:



SIDE A



1. Baccara 1 0:43

2. Baccara 2 0:43

3. Baccara 3 0:43

4. Baccara 4 0:43

5. Baccara 5 0:43

6. Baccara 6 0:43

7. Baccara 7 0:43

8. Baccara 8 0:43

9. Baccara 9 0:43

10. Baccara 10 0:43

SIDE B



1. Enemy Motion 7:11

SIDE C



1. Spectral Quartet 5:01

SIDE D



1. Clar Cincisprezece (Hyperpasarelisation) 5:58

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