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SSRCD001:
Eaten By Children - The Sword Swallower's Grave
The Sword Swallower's Grave' started life as a short piece constructed from dictaphone recordings of an old drum machine. It grew and grew until, four years later, it presents itself as the buckled, misshapen curiosity contained on this disc. An unnervingly eclectic mix of hums, drones, electrical hiss, white noise, and a lot of disconcerting rumbling. This album also features a piano and some singing. After years of time-wasting and nit-picking Eaten By Children's debut release is finally completed.
SSRCD002:
Bill Thompson - Tripartite Collision
For his first State Sanctioned release, Bill contributes two incredibly intense, yet delicatepieces. The title track, 'Tripartite Collision', premiered in late 2005 at the See/Hear event in Inverurie, Scotland. The piece opens with a dense fog of hypnotic sub-bass which becomes slowly threatened by a series of electronic lacerations, each more determined to take hold than the last. The second piece is the result of a collaboration with Edinburgh's FOUND ensemble. The musicians traded small audio files over the web, freely altering them with each pass. Bill formulated the accumulated material into 'Feb'23rd'. Lasting for more than half an hour, the piece slowly evolves from a dry digital fuzz into a series of penetrating lulls, further transfixing the listener with each sussessive phase of its dense and intricate structure.
SSRCD003:
Lessons Around Us - OpenAir
Tim Kirby's 'Lessons Around Us' project ventures into the parameters of rhythm, melody, field recording, musique concrete and sonic trickery with 'Open Air'. Seemingly exclusive working practices perplex and unfold to reveal a highly personal and yet distinctly English vision. The listener is kept guessing at every turn, never sure as to where each track will lead. Everyday domestic environments such as the kitchen are transformed through acoustic guitar and the cascade of sizzling pans into melancholic shrines of yearning, in the achingly beautiful 'Resonant Wing Clip.' Elsewhere, the hard and relentless bounce of popcorn shapes Kernel' into the backbeat drive to a chef's anxiety dream. Snippets, glimpses, utterances strive to offer clues yet never guiding towards 'Open Air'.
SSRCD004:
Family Battle Snake / Number None (Split CD)
Double-bill of lulling, hypnotic noisescapes from this transatlantic pairing. Over the course of 20 minutes, FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE entangle us in a densely textured terrain, each discrete shift revealing more of the brewing menace lurking behind. Chicago duo NUMBER NONE contribute four unique tracks which radiate a turbulent, intense brooding. All churn up great shards of sound which seem to strain at their own boundaries.
