SHELTER PRESS
10 years aniv. repress "Few years ago, an idea germinated while reading The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. An idea not driven by the narrativity of the book, but by the traces and the aura invoked in it. That was it: an audible auratic journey trough the memories of a ...
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SP068 | SHELTER PRESS
"For Chantal Michelle, composing music is a form of choreography. Within surreal sonic environments, distinct sounds form relationships-moving together, then drifting apart-in a process of continuous reemergence across the auditory field. This ever-shifting ...
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SP163 | SHELTER PRESS
Everything Is Simple arrives four years after its predecessor, Hold You Up, which in turn came five years after Show Us The Fire. Zelienople does not do things in a hurry. Why should it? Operationally and musically, haste has nothing to offer the Chicago-identified ...
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SP153 | SHELTER PRESS
Jon Porras possesses a rare acuity for locating the pulse of a sonic landscape and carving out its emotional core. His work has long drawn from the friction of organic forms and electronic processing, but Achlys finds him moving further into texture, erosion, and ...
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SPLPC159 | SHELTER PRESS
The work of JJJJJerome Ellis lives comfortably in the gaps between silence and possibility. The Black disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American artist creates atmospheric soundscapes with saxophone, organ, hammered dulcimer, electronics, and their voice. Improvisation is at ...
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SP165CD | SHELTER PRESS
Background Music For Your Mundane Activities", a deeply intimate body of recordings at the juncture of ambient music, minimalism, and the baroque, that stands as radical intervention with what experimental music can be, and the place that organisations of sound occupy ...
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SP158 | SHELTER PRESS
Ston Elaióna is a suite of nine pieces (with an additional track exclusive to physical formats), many of them composed and played live as the early morning sun touched the Parthenon, in full view from Bennett's studio window in Athens. Bennett's refinement and ...
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SP162CD | SHELTER PRESS
Ston Elaióna is a suite of nine pieces (with an additional track exclusive to physical formats), many of them composed and played live as the early morning sun touched the Parthenon, in full view from Bennett's studio window in Athens. Bennett's refinement and ...
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SP162 | SHELTER PRESS
"Aunes is a rare solo album from peripatetic Australian cellist-composer-performer Judith Hamann, presenting six pieces recorded across several years and countries. Developing the collage techniques and expanded sound palettes heard on their previous releases, Aunes ...
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SP154 | SHELTER PRESS
"Entering its 26th year of activity, the morphing, Los Angeles based experimental outfit, Sissy Spacek, joins Shelter Press with Entrance, among the project's most captivating outings to date. Encountering the duo of John Wiese and Charlie Mumma joined in various ...
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SP161 | SHELTER PRESS
"From its earliest utterances, experimental music has been particularly disposed to transnational and cross-cultural collaboration. Seeking the answer for a fundamental problem - how to transcend the boundaries of difference, distance, and time - it presents a means to ...
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SP029 | SHELTER PRESS
"Since 2017, Deathstar has been a project about the microphone - in Marina Rosenfeld's hands, a void, a mirror, an unruly instrument of transformation and mediation. This music is heard in traces, through thickly amplified silences punctuated by momentary eruptions of ...
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SP124 | SHELTER PRESS
"Ben Vida's Damaged Particulates LP represents the conclusion of one body of work, Damaged Particulates, and the beginnings of a new long form project titled Reducing the Tempo to Zero. The version of Damaged Particulates (2012-2016) included in this LP is the final ...
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SP075 | SHELTER PRESS
