ballastnvp068 and 069 now available!

 

excited to share two new releases. 

first up, ballast nvp068—dead edits: “Everybody, this has been one of the greatest tours of our life. We really, first, I’d like to thank the band. I’d like to thank our road crew. And I’d like to thank our lighting people. Of all the shows on this tour, this particular show will remain with us the longest, because  not only is it the last show of the tour, but it's the last show that we'll ever do. Thank you.” (7” square picture disc lathe)

 

yes, that’s the title. 

 

 as with most dead edits releases, this started with a conversation—broadly about david bowie, but specifically about how utterly impeccable his “farewell speech,” as it’s come to be known, was delivered during what would be the last performance of the spiders from mars.

side one employs reduplicative strategies to degrade and evolve the “farewell speech” with various playback and recording methods to produced distorted and time adjusted “iterations” of the speech.

on the other side—because nothing can follow the farewell speech besides “rock and roll suicide,” dead edits approaches the song—as captured from the Odeon performance—with our own distinct treatment.

edition of 28 numbered copies, $22

ballast nvp069—vertonen: irreversibility (2 x CDR).

responses to death, of course, are situationally variable. irreversibility is, for me, one such response. disc one, “irreversible,” leans more towards recent work with layered, raw, or processed “small” sounds mixed with field recordings and various electronic disturbances. disc two, “death tick,” is a linked trilogy of pieces built primarily from tonal sine wave manipulation and was heavily inspired by the 1977 electronic music album Pythagoron.

edition of 22 signed and numbered copies, $12.

 

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thanks as always for your support and interest!