GLD018: Guenter Schlientz – ‘Urban Tapes’ C60 $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(WORLD)
A frozen bird song in a serious dawn. Sometimes dark alleys, sometimes a plant emerging from the soil. The Urban Tapes by Guenter Schlienz is his latest journey from the physical state, and latest in a series of portable DIY field synthesizer recordings. Cover Art by Carl Baratta. Inside Photos by Hanno Braun. Guenter Schlienz (GLD 018) c60, pro duplicated and on shell printing cassette tapes. Double sided and scored J-Card. Ltd 75 copies. SAMPLE
GLD019: Zac Nelson – ‘Improv(e)’ C60 $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(WORLD)
Zac Nelson, the man of many masks, conjures up tribal progressions and temple bells in a sonic stew of electronic extractions. Insane Sounds throughout!!! Improv(e) revels in a mournful cave cry of crystal mobile chimes and yelps into the void. Art by The Vision. Zac Nelson (GLD 019) c60, pro duplicated and on shell printing cassette tapes. Double sided and scored J-Card. Ltd 75 copies. SAMPLE
GLD020: Kevin Greenspon/Former Selves C40 $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(WORLD)
Kevin Greenspon: For this split with Former Selves, Kevin Greenspon gives us concise glances into the unknown, guitar drone style. Introspective landscapes of familial glimpses. A morning siren of timeless expression. SAMPLE Former Selves: Beautiful bedroom expressions of human frailty, hopefulness, and release. A heartbeat running across the expanse. Warm journeys in a lore filled bath of memories. Former Selves, looks back, let’s go of the past, and arrives in the now. Photos by Kevin Greenspon. Kevin Greenspon/Former Selves (GLD 020) c40, pro duplicated and on shell printing cassette tapes. Double sided and scored J-Card. Ltd 100 copies. SAMPLE
GLD021 White Prism/Wether C20 $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(WORLD)
White Prism: A path fogs into a nightmare bird dance. Whistles it way into an arrival drone. And circles above its birth, Chicago’s White Prism sizzles its way from city to sky. SAMPLE Wether: The beating heart of a sleeping skeleton passing through you. Dissolving all of your parts into one, moment by moment. Out comes the dark static vibrations of Wether. SAMPLE White Prism/Wether (GLD 021) c20, pro duplicated and on shell printing cassette tapes. Double sided and scored J-Card. Ltd 100 copies
GLD022 Mark Bradley/No Mind Meditation C60 $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(WORLD)
Mark Bradley: Mark’s in my favorite mode for this split…cranking out minimal late-night micro nuggets and concise electronic moods. At times pulsing and pounding, at times momentous and sound tracking. Another behind the wheel late night conversation from this productive Midwest weirdo!!! SAMPLE No Mind Meditation: For NMM’s side, they arrive in synthesizer psychosis and burnt tape collage mode. An array of atmospheres filled with Kokomo crack courses, weed worship, paranoid panic attack lift off and melodic baths. A brain burner, for sure. SAMPLE
Art by The Vision. Mark Bradley/No Mind Meditation (GLD 022) c60, pro duplicated and on shell printing cassette tapes. Double sided and scored J-Card. Ltd 100 copies
GLD023 Seabat – ‘Mountains of Palawan’ $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(WORLD)
Eternal moans of electronic worship and expression. Lysergic late night ballads of electric pulses. Aquatic medicine in a dark room. Wind journeys across a calming sea. Trunk rattling dystopian hover car bangers. Cosmic jungle journeys of infinite bliss. These are all sounds of Seabat, scanning and surging across a violent bay. SAMPLE
GLD024 Suburban Spirit Guide $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(WORLD)
Chomping through the burbs comes Suburban Spirit Guide. He’s murking up drug experiment Pod-era Ween with a cauldron of ambient bliss and munching up the microphone with ripping primordial stomps throughout. Spewed melodies spit out a magnetic crunch of damaged wires, always incessant and elevating. SSG finishes off his howl with a triumphant blast of victory and an electronic cry of release! SAMPLE
GLD025 Venn Rain/Past Utopia C40 $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(WORLD)
Venn Rain: Venn Rain locks in to infinite pop worship on this static split. That perfect melody vibrating in our face. No doubt I can’t feel angry during this jam. SAMPLE Past Utopia: Unearthed new age worship from way back when. This world is filled with barely tuned-in chants and melodic bliss. Never in a hurry, Past Utopia reminds us to take a moment and relax, at least for a little while. SAMPLE Venn Rain/Past Utopia (GLD 025) c40, pro duplicated and on shell printing cassette tapes. Double sided and scored J-Card. Ltd 100 copies
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