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elizabeth Veldon “the arial poems” (ET018)

December 19, 2011

To kick off a new emphasis on netreleases, I’m really happy to announce this great album by UK sound artist, elizabeth Veldon.  Inspired by T.S. Eliot’s arial poems, elizabeth crafts 5 tracks in a suite of churning, slow paced beyond drone. This is a very patient and quiet listen, but engaging all the same.

You can download it for name your own price (including no money at all) here -

http://egyptiantea.bandcamp.com/releases

Look for more net releases coming up, including a cool collaborative project that will be a series. Also, next up on physical formats we have the Lessons/james douglas CDR’s, Glasgow Spore (glasgow smile & pregnant spore collab), a Junkface thing or two and some other things.

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Package Deal!

November 25, 2011

I need to make some quick cash to get rolling on the new batch. 4 CDR’s and 4 Tapes for $20ppd!

Lessons/Ground Zero Mosque “Advance Funerals” (3-CDR split & collab)

Baltimore warbly psych noise & Pittsburgh power drone get together in this manilla envelope full of 3 CDR’s. One cdr each from Lessons &  GZM and one collaboration disc between the two units. It gets weird & gnarly. I’ve got only 11 copies of this.

Preview tracks here – http://soundcloud.com/egyptiantea

Junkface – Anniversary Merkin (CDR)

First CDR of the ex-Moscow Wires man, pushing the boundaries of the already disliked Rainbow Bridge crew. Vinyl, loops, weird vocals, drums, blasts of harsh noise and other drops in the bucket sound like if Sudden Infant was recording for Chocolate Monk. Every cover is handmade and different. 30 copies.

Moscow Wires/OK Putrid – Matt Boettke’s Tears (C20)

Two Baltimore noise projects team up for a split tape of oddly-formed madness dedicated to Fairfax, Virginia’s one and only intense experience, Matt Boettke. Hand-made noise makers, circuit bent devices and vocal spasms all under the influence of something-or-other. These sounds will either hurt your brain and make love to your ears, or the other way around. There is no meeting in the middle. I guarantee it. 20 copies.

Moscow Wires – Return to Shock Trauma (Recycled Cassette)

Strange harsh walls, vinyl loops, oscillating delays and other odd matter by Egyptian Tea label founder and Mold Omen/Lessons/Ghost Volcano/Thief Wife member Andy Livingston. He lives in a Baltimore apartment with his girlfriend, some cats (I think) and bunch of junk. He enjoys harsh noise but is really a Chocolate Monk nut, so both of those qualities are quite apparent on this small edition of perplexing sounds.

Hand-assembled, hand-numbered, hand-stamped artwork on olive green or gold cardstock. Includes one unique vocabulary flash card. Recycled tapes and cases. Limited to 10. Released by Rainbow Bridge, distro copy.

Mold Omen – Blacktop  (Cassette)

Mold Omen’s Blacktop wastes no time initiating a continuous battle between a heavy, droning maelstrom of noise and the electro-melodies desperately trying to free themselves. By the end, the balance between forces becomes a serious mantra for the head. With a lo-fi sonicscape that reeks of scorched earth, this Baltimore duo knows how to leave a serious path of devastation in their wake. Released by cae-sur-a. Distro copy.

Cave Bears – Songs of the Eagles/America’s Least Wanted (C23)

Whiz bang! A live tape chronicling two late night sets at Northampton’s Feeding Tube Records. Side A – Empty “V” unplugged song about the Art Wizard. This set is the inspiration for the “Jump To Your Bed” LP cover. Side B is loud punk band songs about all of the things and the difference between something and nothing. It’s all about 9-11 too. Limited to 50 copies and surely worth your time.

Paypal to am.livingston@gmail.com. Please note in the order this is for the package.

Can’t do trades on this one, I need to get stuff together for the new batch, which includes Glasglow Spore (Glasgow Smile & Pregnant Spore collab), james douglas/Lessons split CDR, new Junkface CDR & cassette and more.

We’re going to start doing more net-releases, there are too many cool things out there that my wallet can accomidate. These are the last 2 Moscow Wires releases, by the way. That project is dead.

Junkface is the new deal, look for a lot of stuff coming out, splits and collabs especially. There’s also a Junkface tumblr for some art & release info.

Follow it here – http://mrjunkface.tumblr.com/

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Acid Police Eternal Vol 3.

November 25, 2011
BROUGHT TO YOU BY:
RAINBOW BRIDGE RECORDINGS (RB-119)
AND EGYPTIAN TEA RECORDS
http://www.mediafire.com/?10c9lc1jhady7r0(161.19 MB)
 
 
  • 1. John Magill – New Snow Muffles Footprints (9:32)
  • 2. OK Putrid – Tearing Me Apart (0:37)
  • 3. Fslux – Born To Storm (5:29)
  • 4. Xdugef – Sonderkommando (10:59)
  • 5. Sunken Cheek – Residuals Pt. 2 (5:44)
  • 6. Sleep Of Ages – Hippie Free Harsh Noise I (6:27)
  • 7. Jared C. Balogh – A Sweet Brief Relief For The Ears (7:29)
  • 8. BBBlood – Unexpected Visitors (1:02)
  • 9. Endometrium Cuntplow – Errors and Memory Loss and Errors and Errors (1:33)
  • 10. Ghost Volcano – 111211L (1:03)
  • 11. Awesome Bin Laden – White Moth (3:03)
  • 12. Le Scrambled Debutante – Le Scrambled Debutante vs. Auracene vs. Le Scrambled Debutante ‘Hexual Ceiling (Order 66 Mix)’ (21:24)

 

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Acid Police Eternal Vol 2

October 20, 2011

It’s here! It’s huge! And very delayed! (on my part anyways.)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3CWV3JVR

1. Bah, Tsar Jenny Troth – Dakposkala Actuary (7:29)
2. Cheapmachines – Fluke (5:05)
3. Dull – Sounds From Pluto (3:27)
4. Moscow Wires – We’ve Given Up On Space (5:55)
5. Endometrium Cuntplow – A Pain Never Understood [Reverse_Mix] (5:37)
6. False Flag – So Who Can The People Turn To For Solutions? (2:09)
7. Subterrestrial – Universal Mind (7:00)
8. Fimmtiu Og Einn – Wisdom Tooth Cock Ring (2:03)
9. Vagina* – U.F.O. (4:02)
10. Inappropriate King Live – Skeleton Babies (5:34)
11. The Uh… – The Cinder Lady (3:39)
12. Buildings And Mountains – Underwater (10:09)
13. Dementia And Hope Trails – Scorched Winter (2:40)
14. Pregnant Spore – Movies Like Memories Like Tsunamis (Live @ Candle Haus/Rainbow Bridge Fest II)
15. Panther Modern – The Prophecies Of The Shadow (10:03)
16. ~MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING~ (0:00)
17. Widow’s Bath – Weakling (23:22)
18. Youthful Masturbation Techniques – F The Jamspace (0:49)

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Moscow Wires “Ghostin Marc Lloyd” download

October 3, 2011

http://egyptiantea.bandcamp.com/album/ghostin-marc-lloyd

5 tracks of turntablism noise walls! To celebrate this weekend’s upcoming Rainbow Bridge Fest 2!

I’ll be appearing with Ghost Volcano and have some stuff to sell too.

Here are details-

POST THIS FLYER ROUND TOWN.
http://www.ifitmoveskissit.net/rainbowbridge/images/rbf2k11.jpg

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NIGHT 1 @ AMMA HOUSE
https://www.facebook.com/AmmaHouse
505 N NAYLOR ST, ALEXANDRIA, VA
5PM – $5
(do not park on naylor st!)

+ AUTONOMOUS KELOID (PA)
+ YELLOW CRYSTAL STAR (MD)
+ BLUE SAUSAGE INFANT (DC)
+ CAUSTIC CASTLE (VA)
+ GHOST VOLCANO (MD) + CINCINNATUS C (PA)
+ VIOLET (DC)
+ DECAPITATED HED (MD)
+ FUN (PA)
+ BITCH HOUSE (VA)

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NIGHT 2 @ CANDLE HAUS
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Candle-Haus/106223792792291
4039 HALLMAN ST, FAIRFAX, VA
5PM – $5

+ TWIG HARPER (MD)
+ DEAD PEASANT INSURANCE (OH)
+ FASCIST INSECT (OH)
+ NARWHALZ (MD)
+ SEX COMPLEX (VA)
+ RAPE APE (VA)
+ PREGNANT SPORE (MD)
+ MUTWAWA (VA)
+ FLOODBEAST (VA)
+ LOLLY GESSERIT (MD)
+ FLESH CONTROL (VA)

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* BE ON TIME!!! SUPPORT EVERYONE PLAYING!!! SOME OF THE TRAVELING BANDS HAVE TO PLAY EARLY!!!
* BYOB
* DON’T BE A DICK TO ANYONE OR TO THE VENUES
* DON’T BE MESSY, CLEAN UP YOUR SHIT
* DO NOT LOITER OR BE LOUD OUTSIDE, THESE VENUES ARE IN NEIGHBORHOODS
* DON’T SKIMP ON BRINGING MONEY, SUPPORT THE PERFORMERS, ESPECIALLY THE OUTTA-TOWNERZ
* HELLORAINBOWBRIDGE.COM

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+ AUTONOMOUS KELOID: The fantastic wacko sound works of the noise noob Michael Freund from the surrounding suburbs of Philly. The first time I saw him perform, he danced around like an idiot to amateur dance music that sounds like a 10 year old made it. The next thing I know, an invigorating noise performance came out of nowhere with the use of feedback, pedals and whatever else he was fumbling around with. It had the whole crowd saying “oooooooh I thought that was gonna suck, but it was awesome!”

+ YELLOW CRYSTAL STAR: Infinite drone activation of expanding dimensional perception. Progressive guitar trance, collaged tape prism of portals in/out/in never-ending. A seemingly chaotic interpolation of chants, sources, samples, melodies, and lyrics, pieced together as a more complex vibrational language filtering down through the transforming dream.

+ BLUE SAUSAGE INFANT: Chester Hawkins makes music that combines aspects of noise, drone, krautrock, sample-plundering, dark ambient, and kosmische electronics to produce a multi-layered feast for the brain.

+ CAUSTIC CASTLE: Soundscapes using a technique called no-input and further processes the signal thru analog and digital pedal effects. His approach ranges from exercises in restraint to cathartic harsh noise. One-half of the prolific Insects With Tits.

+ GHOST VOLCANO feat. Craig Hodgkins: A Baltimore-based weirdo noise collective with an ever-rotating line-up of guest musicians paired with the three core members Justin Marc Lloyd, Andy Livingston and Mike Pursley (the latter two make up the group Mold Omen). Turn tables, strings, tapes, records, fucked up electronics, vocal chord spasms… anything goes.

+ VIOLET: Sounds made from cassette tapes, various pieces of electronic equipment and other found items manned by the one and only lord of Sonic Circuits, Jeff Surak. Just because he’s old and only drinks expensive beer doesn’t mean his sets aren’t compelling and stimulating.

+ DECAPITATED HED: Casios, cassettes, loops, grooves and other things. A diverse outfit from a man who is very concerned with quality over quality, Baltimore’s own Timothy Wisniewski. A recent short conversation with him consisted of him telling me about his new recording. “It’s fucking harsh man…”

+ FUN: Eccentric sound artists (one of which performs solo as Newton) and Breathmint Records champs from Philadelphia. Who KNOWS what they will come up with this time. I’ve seen experiments with huge glass bowls. I’ve heard cut and chopped layers of audio that is impossible to decipher. I’ve heard they can take up an entire room with their antics.

+ BITCH HOUSE: A brand new outfit from two of the hearts of this year’s fest, Cat Kutz and Sam Walker. I don’t know how to describe them. I’ve never even heard these assholes. All I know is that they asked me to put them on the bill, and they were both too sexy for me to say no. Something tells me it’s gonna be some bad ass witchy shit.

+ TWIG HARPER: Who is Twig Harper? I would completely understand if you’ve never heard of this guy. He kept begging us to let him play the fest and after much pleading, we decided to give him a few minutes to fuck around with his electronics. Actually, none of that is true. Rainbow Bridge Fest II wouldn’t be the same without him. He’s a genius. Not trying to swing from his nuts or anything, but his performances are complete and utter psychedelic, spiritual fuckery and stimulation. He often performs with Max Eisenberg (DJ Dog Dick) and his wife Carly as Nautical Almanac. He’s been blessing the community with his compositions for many years. Brace yourself.

+ DEAD PEASANT INSURANCE: It wouldn’t be from Cleveland if it wasn’t scummy as fuck. This ridiculous, abrasive band produces some odd form of noise-rock fronted by Amanda Howland, the queen of screeches and howls (no pun intended). Also, on guitar, we have Wyatt Howland aka Skin Graft, one of my favorite noise artists of all time. Wait. Did I call them rock? Fuck that. This isn’t rock. This is guitar sludge, electronic noise and free-jazz-influenced drumming that will probably knock the walls of Candle Haus down.

+ FASCIST INSECT: Doomy, industrial, noisy sludge formed early 2007 in the depths of Cleveland, OH. They’ve made their way through many genres but will probably be melting your faces with pummeling assaults of thick, dense frequencies created with actual instruments!

+ NARWHALZ: This crazy dude, back and forth all around the east coast, could bring anything from hypnotic gameboy-like disorder to the mere DJ-ing of terrible 90′s music and bad jokes. Hypnotizing repetition into exploding chaos. Power-electronics for art kids. My kind of shit!

+ SEX COMPLEX: The brainchild of wall-obsessed Matt Boettke, one of the main dudes behind the organization of this years fest. Sex Complex is a collective, and several guest appearances may or may not appear. Passionate, introspective, emotional harsh walls and power electronics.

+ RAPE APE: Virginia’s mister Simler brings you a power electronics attack, rudely named and frighteningly performed. This one half of Cash Slave Clique will shatter you with blasts of tinny, harsh reverb, swarms of feedback and pure verbal assault.

+ PREGNANT SPORE: Pregnant Spore is Justin Marc Lloyd of Baltimore, MD. Emotional, spiritual, cathartic release and growth through intense, honest, abstract sound. Or, in the words of an anonymous reviewer, “Bizarre, intriguing and often alien-like noise compositions with occasional dream sequences of a highly emotive caliber. Being engrossed in the captivity of a live pregnant spore set (or listening to a recording session with a quality set of headphones) is a puzzling, moving and hallucinatory experience.”

+ MUTWAWA: “World Radio DJs, esoteric mystics, Alien Shamanists, Radio Machete Mob, Necro Zulu, mutating transmissions received from Sirius star system, broadcasting live from deep below Africa.” In other words, 2 freaks from Richmond, VA, including Gary Stevens, the mastermind of Head Molt.

+ FLOODBEAST: J. Russell of Caves Caverns bringing you some distorted tape dub heaven! Minimal yet overwhelmingly impressive.

+ LOLLY GESSERIT: Depression, sexuality, science fiction in a noisy, tender form. Moody, vaporous, trashy, artistic. You might have seen this dude on stage with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I’m not even fucking kidding. He’s been all over L.A and Rhode Island but now resides in the murder capital.

+ FLESH CONTROL: Pure sonic assault by Leo Heinzel of Richmond, VA and Flish Records. You may have seen him convulsing alongside Head Molt’s Gary Stevens in their Flesh Molt collaboration sets. Devastating frequencies and shattering volumes. Unrelenting harsh noise without being the same old static wall you hear everywhere else. These sounds are actually interesting. Get raped by a lazer and have your scalp peeled off over and over and over again. Pay attention because this won’t last long. If it did, you’d surely die.

 

 

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Cassette Releases!

September 13, 2011

Things have been delayed for a bit, so I’m posting these cassette releases now, but sometime next week, I’ll have the CDR releases up too.

 CaVE BEaRS – Songs of the Eagles/America’s Most Wanted C23.

Whiz bang! A live tape chronicling two late night sets at Northampton’s Feeding Tube Records. Side A – Empty “V” unplugged song about the Art Wizard. This set is the inspiration for the “Jump To Your Bed” LP cover. Side B is loud punk band songs about all of the things and the difference between something and nothing. It’s all about 9-11 too. Limited to 50 copies and surely worth your time.

Here’s an excerpt of “Songs of The Eagles”-

http://soundcloud.com/egyptiantea/cave-bears-side-a-excerpt

 Mold Omen “Blacktop” cassette on cae-sur-a.

A swirling delivery of drone work by us, heavy on psychedelic, lo-fi in all the right places. Dedicated to Rudy Wurlitzer.

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s an excerpt of The Driver/The Mechanic-

http://soundcloud.com/cae-sur-a/mold-omen-the-driver-the

Mold Omen “Soil” cassette on House of Alchemy.

From the label-This Baltimore duo make sounds without category. Power surges, melting audio tape, frayed strings. Uneasy squalls, mad tinkering, tweaking and heavy petting. And that’s just the half of it. Late night sounds for the unhealthy.

 

 

 

 

Here’s a track preview-

http://soundcloud.com/mold-omen/mold-omen-05-lesser-guides

All from us for $7(us)/$9 (can)/$12 (world) ppd.

Paypal to am.livingston@gmail.com

We only have a few copies of the Mold Omen cassettes, so please order them from cae-sur-a & House of Alchemy too.

http://www.cae-sur-a.com/

http://thehouseofalchemy.com/

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New Mold Omen tracks

September 4, 2011

It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything new we’re working on, so here’s a couple of twisted alien bog serenades.

 

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Review on Foxy Digitalis

August 29, 2011

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve updated anything, but I’ve been terribly overwhelmed by work and outside writing projects. In addition to the plague of earthquakes and hurricanes that have been in our backyard.

The new batch is pretty much ready to go, except for the covers of the Lessons/GZM release. I’ll be posting them shortly if they’re completed and the internet service is restored to my house

In the meantime, Foxy Digitalis writer Chris Trowell reviewed our first CD release.

We are in huge debt to FD anyways (seriously, without them there wouldn’t be a Mold Omen) so this was a nice surprise.

Contributing the cacophonous junkyard noise of their self-titled CD-R to an increasing bloated area, Mold Omen’s playful unpredictability and unusual arrangements distinguishes them from many of their contemporaries.

Although defiantly engaged with the harsher end of the noise spectrum, their onslaught is composed of a myriad of elements, from Middle Eastern keyboard drones to abrasive kitchen-appliance throb.  Experimenting with, and blurring, the genre’s core binaries (analogue and digital, organic and inorganic) the sound retains enough sonic detail to warrant focused listening, yet due to the record’s fractured nature attempting to unravel the layers of atonal improvisation, brittle strings and radio chatter seems relatively fruitless.  Instead a far more satisfying experience emerges in succumbing entirely to the industrial hum and primitivist percussion, the most abrasive moments of which will surely satisfy even the most inured noise listener.

Across forty minutes Mold Omen’s free form approximations evoke a number of tropes associated with drone and noise.  The vast convergence of styles and knowledgeable variations of static produce an unholy synthesis of psychedelic noise, free improvisation, tape manipulation and low fidelity industrial.  The group don’t so much resist categorisation, as flit so rapidly and effectively between the boundaries of these approaches so as to render such labels pointless.

This lively record does not concern itself with the threatening inertia and repetition often employed by harsh noise nor does its restless, reckless energy worry about development or progression.  Undoubtedly abrasive but with enough instrumentation, arrangement and overt composition to confound expectations and analysis, Mold Omen have produced a deliriously disposable, yet high impact record; a rapid tour of the genre’s possibilities unrestrained by it pre conceptions.

A Beard Of Snails

8/10

 
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Moscow Wires “Where The Wild Things Our” short film

July 31, 2011

Moscow Wires short fim “Where The Wild Things Our”.

 

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Moscow Wires “Maidens” free download

July 25, 2011

Fresh off the recent release of “Junkface” and the upcoming split CDR with Serbia’s nundata, Moscow Wires presents it’s second full length. 13 tracks at one hour of collapsing junkstore walls.

Using homemade electro-acoustic instruments, analog synths, turntables and tapes, this solo endevour of the Mold Omen and Lessons member is a tight synthesis of what he brings in those bands, but pushes the limits of a solo performance and highlights the sounds of self-built pieces of the Junkstore Kalimba and Two-Face.

Spiritually influence by the church of Chocolate Monk.

Here – http://www.mediafire.com/?ghpw2wacarxckjo

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