ROBERT TURMAN

Beyond Painting

(Actual Tapes - 001) Used CDR $15.00

Recorded in 1990, self-released in 2010. The “light, echoing ambience and drifting feel” of “First Quarter,” says Brainwashed, and “the repetitive drone and almost chanting voices” … of “The Unforgiven” “seem to herald the development of” isolationism. “Bleakness comes [amid] gentle horn-like tones and reversed melodies” on “Soft Self Portrait” and “the layered, looped string sounds of ‘Beyond Painting’ …, a bit more tinged nostalgia rather than outright malignance…. [T]he stand out piece … ‘Al-Qa'ida’, with its vaguely jazz noir guitar and electronics structure … has … a rhythmic throb to it, rather than … spectral, textural ambience.

AARON DILLOWAY / ROBERT TURMAN

Blizzard

(Hanson - HN211) CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Total misery by Robert Turman (ex-NON, Z.O. Voider) and a former Wolf Eye, recorded in January 2009 during a horrible Ohio snowstorm. Dilloway on synthesizer and tape delays, Turman on tapes and effects, both frozen and stuck in the snow. Very minimal, very slow, very cold.

TOM SMITH / ROBERT TURMAN

Strip Ice Water To Listerine

(Nyahh) CD $14.00

In March 2020, Smith asked Turman to work on “a quick and dirty internet collab. It’s only six days old. A simple generative system. Why don’t we rework it together? Tear it apart, add your bits, then I can sprinkle some magic dust atop the rubble!” Turman was unable to get to it until after receiving the sad news that Smith had died in January 2022. By then he had developed new processes and began reworking Strip Ice Water To Listerine — cutting up, looping, and sampling Smith’s original, creating a series of rhythmic backdrops for his improvisations. In short, “an album’s worth of material that I could not stop listening to,” he says. “Unfortunately the rubble never got the magic dust but I think Tom would have liked it.” Liner notes by Thurston Moore. Cover art by Karen Constance

ROBERT TURMAN

Way Down

(Dais - DAIS017) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Robert Turman’s industrial genre-bending masterpiece, previously released on cassette (Actual Tapes 1987). Turman was the other half of NON, alongside Boyd Rice, together releasing the Mode of Infection / Knife Ladder single in 1977. After parting ways, Turman went on to self-release cassettes, including Way Down which uses synthesizer arrangements and drum machines along side guitar solos, piano chords, tape loops and primitive sampling to produce dance-like minimal synth blended with industrial darkwave noise. Turman resurfaced in 2005 in collaboration with Aaron Dilloway. Hand-numbered 265/500.