STATE SANCTIONED RECORDINGS

A london-based cd-r label dedicated to unorthodox and wayward music

SSRCD001 Available Now

Eaten By Children - The Sword Swallower's Grave

After a lengthy gestation period, Eaten By Children's debut album is finally completed.

Copies are limited to 200 and priced at £5.

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Visit: www.myspace.com/eatenbychildren

SSRCD002 Available Now: Bill Thompson - Tripartite Collision 

Aberdeen-based Texan Bill Thompson has been an active composer, performer, and sound artist for over ten years in the US and UK.  His works include acoustic, electro-acoustic, electronic, tape, and digital media, including sound installations and video.

As a performer, Thompson uses an assortment of equipment that ranges from prepared guitar, digital cd mixers, laptop, radio, and digital/analogue synthesizers, as well as found objects and diy circuit-bent devices.

For his first SSR release, Bill contributes two incredibly intense, yet delicate pieces.  Copies are limited to 200 and priced at £5.

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Visit: www.billthompson.org

SSRCD003 Available Now
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'.