Decimus / Hobo Sunn
(Kelippah - KEL011) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Pat Murano and Ian Murphy return to the frayed and dangerous inner world of outsider sound exploration and reproduction. Their inverted cosmoses reek of the cinematic, while avoiding both pastiche and canonized musical reference. Where Deciumus uses synthetic devices to create warped, nightmarish representations of organic, everyday sounds (creaky floorboards, a heartbeat, rats squeaking, camera shutters clicking, a taunting feral animal cry), Hobo Sonn places field recordings of actual sounds (foot falls, birds, insects, automobiles) in a dark and drifting world that feels very much like a waking bad dream. Silkscreened jackets. Edition of 300
Morning and Evening Ragas Vol. 3
(Daksina) LP $32.00
New dimensions of silence, solitude, and isolation. Pat Murano recorded outside and alone. Silkscreen folder. Numbered edition 39/100
Morning and Evening Ragas Vol. 4
(Daksina) LP $30.00
“Pat Murano’s first solo guitar LP mirrors the sound of outdoor ambience in a mutated form, like a photograph melting on the dashboard of a long-inert car. Strings mingle with crickets and become a pair of twins vocalizing; a plucked string becomes a glistening soap bubble that pops on the end of a branch. A palm muting strings becomes a storm front rolling in and dissipating just as it's noticed. The guitar obscures itself as it becomes cats and foxes communicating across empty fields. The natural world and the sound world meld into a winged thing — cicadas giving way to delay, giving way to unknown things landing in fields while most of us sleep. It’s reminiscent more of recordists Anne McMillan and Knud Viktor than of other guitarists. On the B-Side, sustained notes rise up, meet and coil around the sound of crickets. A new totality that tonally feels like a microscope placed on the artificial. Melodrama smooths out into morse code. Again music becomes nature, nature becomes music and they are both held there until something real and new emerges.”