very excited to announce ballast NVP 025: dead edits presents: st.uns—ceremonial venerations and devotions
(7” lathe, CDR, 3”CDR, book, votive candle, foldable shrine, festisch and veneration objects)
February 24 marked the first public performance of Z’EV’s uns project in 1980, and dead edits could not let this date go unnoticed, as both of us are not only fans of Z’EV’s uns project but also previously paid tribute to Z’EV’s lesser heralded works with our authorized "forgery” of his “editeditions contexts” 7” in 2015.
So, in mid-January, we got to work and decided to take another lap in our quest to shine more adulation on Z’EV’s work with this release, which began with our declaration that Feb 24 should be recognized as “st.uns day.”
• The 7” lathe (plays at 33 RPM), contains both homages to and “reinterpretations” of uns material. (The center label awaits your opening.)
• The 5” CDR focuses more on the uns style captured in the “life sentence” release from 1986 (and subsequently reissued by my former label, CIP, as a chunk of the “an uns momento” CD I released in 1999—not unsurprisingly, perhaps, the first CD I released on the label)
• The 3” CDR contains a more “long form” style-inspired composition (not ~ as ~ speech / utterance driven: similar to the longer form recordings on CIP’s “what does the brain have to do with it” 2 CD set from 2010 or the “past todays” track in the die stand reissue of production and decay of spacial relations, 2006)
• The foldable shrine and votive candle both are decorated with screen-printed cut up text
• The “st.uns” pin is fabricated to replicate the matchbook cover Z’EV described seeing in NYC when he decided, “uns, that’s a hell of a name for a band” (prior to being told it the matchbook cover actually said “sun” and he was holding it upside down)
• The book contains some of the texts created for this release, as well as uns inspired artwork
Some adjacent festisch objects and hand manufactured prints round out the release.
Edition of 24 signed and numbered copies, and the price in the US is $42 ppd. If you're overseas, please get in touch so I can calculate shipping. Payment can be sent via paypal to endtime34@hotmail.com.
thanks as always for your interest and support!
