Like some kind of reverse hibernation, we’ve spent the summer slumbering, dreaming of bottomless honeypots and hapless, ripe-for-the-scaring campers. Or something. And now, as we await the imminent arrival of the season’s first frost to our new mountain home, sound&**fury **is stirring. Something in me knew I couldn’t keep this thing on ice permanently. Even as I made the decision to shut up shop last year, my thoughts kept wandering to ’well, if I ever did resurrect the label, here’s what I’d do...’
And here we are, six months out from the death knell, and the era of sound&**fury **mk2 is about to dawn. Here’s what we know so far: no more CD-Rs. Well, maybe a few. But as I always wanted it to, the focus is shifting almost exclusively to vinyl. 7'' vinyl, to be specific.
What we’ve got brewing right now is a series of split 7'' singles that pair local artists with international ones. The idea is to release twelve of these in as many months, available individually or as a subscription. (Subscribers will be treated to extra goodies... as for what, you’ll have to wait and see.)
The list of artists is only half-finished, and is already looking completely amazing: Tarentel, Seaworthy, Library Tapes, Adrian Klumpes, Machinefabriek, Shoeb Ahmad, The North Sea, ii, Antony Milton, Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood, Zelienople and Heil Spirits have all given our polite request the thumbs up.
I hope to have the first volume of this as-yet-unnamed series ready to go by midwinter, when the weather here will be too intensely cold to allow anything other than curling up by the fire and screenprinting hundreds of sleeves (oh yes, I’ll be keeping the tradition of hand-packaging well and truly alive).
Keep an eye on the MySpazz page and the sound&**fury **website (when it returns) to find out more.
-adm.
PS. Thanks to everybody for all your continued support, encouragement and kind words. To tell you the truth, I wouldn’t do this shit if I thought nobody cared, so your interest is wholeheartedly appreciated.
Wow! Good luck! This sounds awesome.
I'd subscribe all over that.
congrats adam!
Nice!!
I'd be subscriptional to that!
I'm not all that fond of the 7'' format to be honest. They tend to slip all over the record mats @ FBi unless they're well weighted down. But hey, I only buy vinyl because people insist on releasing stuff exclusively on vinyl, and if that's what you want, I guess I'm buying!
wow awesome!
I thought Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood were no more? How occultish of them
break a leg, adam!
while i doubt i will ever buy anything i bet you anything kandos will
xxx
will you be reissuing the shaggs demos?
best of luck adam. this is excellent news.
that's what i thought, too, shaun. crazy hippies.
good to hear!
sexcellent
sick times adbag!
brilliant!
just confirmed: my cat is an alien and starving weirdos.
and machinefabriek is doing a collaboration with adrian klumpes instead of a split.
i'm just about falling over myself with excitement here.
To be blunt, most improvised music is a directionless mess
my cat is an alien??????????????????????????????????
Shoeb Ahmad????????????????????????????????????????????
Antony Milton????????????????????????????????????????????????
Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood???????????????????????????????????
Heil Spirits?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Or is it just improvised music that you deem to be unfit?
most improvised music. not all.
there's a lot of improvised stuff out there that i really enjoy. but then there's a whole lot more that i find meandering and dull.
funnily enough, that's true in all styles of music, fastcanoe. i like a loit of black metal, and hate a lot of it. i hate a lot of indie rock, but my top ten records last year were almost exclusively indie rock. go figure.
I understand all to well the simplicity of hating most offerings in any genre, I just find it odd that the bands you've announced are generally purveyors of directionless clatter. Which for me is great as I love the stuff.
i gotta nut!
brothers of the occult break up? do they even have a stable lineup other than donelly?
can i just send you my money now?
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bracket fail
you know, i've never seen tgo29m live. sad, isn't it?
ghost of 29 megacycles in canberra for abstraktions 10 next wednesday adam - you should come!
you know you want to
is the boho grove show still happening as well?
i do want to. unfortunately wednesday = work.
the boho grove show is happening... it's just not on the poster (for secrecy's sake).
yep but its just Seaworthy & M.Rosner. The Mega Ghost Super Cycles are just playing at Mr. Rosner's backing band.
I just got the TGO29M back from the plant. They look fucking amazing, if I do say so myself (which I just did).
nice feature in Foxy Digitalis!
awesome!
S&F goes analogue!
Well, we already kinda were, what with the 7''s and stuff. But now we've gone the whole hog and released a motherfucking tape!
It's called Waverley Cemetery (Sydney), and features a brand new 15 minute piece from Jasper TX, inspired by the words of poet Penelope Joy.
You can hear a sound sample and/or buy yourself a copy here.
oh, excellent!
okay, next up is the rest of those fucking passeridae singles. jasper tx / scissor lock is first, then (i think) raven / aaron martin. then, eventually, ii / zelienople, anonymeye / the north sea, brothers of the occult sisterhood / starving weirdos, heil spirits / antony milton, seaworthy / tarentel, shoeb ahmad / library tapes, and eventually thurston moore / castings. exciting times.
What a fucking awesome lineup that is too! Except that raven bloke.
Bahaha :)
just because you're a 21st century digital boy, raven.
woooooooo!!!! any info on when we'll see the next 7''?
i'm saving my pennies right now. i wouldn't like to make any false promises as to when it might surface. but as soon as i have enough cash, that sucker will be right off to the plant.
i remember when it was due to come out in 'august 2008'! good work gathering the funds for it in the meantime adam.
currently listening to this amazing jasper tx tape, my desk is shuddering.
aw yr just building anticipation. can't wait.