Transmutations
(Somnimage - SOMCD113) CD $12.00
Exquisite drones and soundscapes by French sound-sculptor Christian Renou and the duo of Mandy Matz (Theory Anesthetic) and Mykel Boyd — one by each and two collaborative tracks. Renous treats, assembles and mixes acoustic sounds, relying on dense, rapid-fire montages and electroacoustic ambience. Bokeh transforms and layers Boyd’s processed field recordings, and adds vocals and violin. Preview it here: http://somnimage.bandcamp.com/album/transmutations-by-brume-bokeh
irr. app. (ext.) / Mykel Boyd
(Somnimage - som10009) split 7-inch $12.00
Matthew Waldron's avant-brewski meets Boyd's drones and sputters, like a cicada in Lake Michigan. White vinyl, silver on black silk screened sleeve. Limited to 200 copies
MYKEL BOYD / PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST
Painting Petals on Planet Ghost / Mykel Boyd
(Somnimage - som10014) split 7-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
The Opalio brothers (My Cat is an Alien) with Ramona Ponzini bring the mellow on the Painting Petals on Planet Ghost side with ambient noise and bells. Boyd's sweet ride consists of processed field recordings. White vinyl in opaque wrap-over sleeve. Limited to 200 copies.
Rapoon / Mykel Boyd
(Somnimage) split LP $21.00
One side of beautiful ethno-ambiance by Robin Storey, formerly of Zoviet France. One side of "recordings of things" altered by Boyd to sound like planes taking off. Black, letter-pressed jacket. White vinyl. Edition of 200.
Death & Beauty Foundation
(Somnimage - som018) CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Val Denham and Andrew M. McKenzie's (Hafler Trio) 1982 avant garde masterpiece for the bewildered; that's right, the legendary Darlington tapes available after 26 years. “One long collage,” observes Vital Weekly, “The main instrument at work here is the voice … best described … as sound poetry, with a melodic touch…. [G]uitars, the good old Casio VL-tone 1 and several tape editing techniques (speeding up of sound, slowing down) [are] played rather naively and free.” Remastered, frightening and beautiful. The strangest album ever recorded.
Evidence Pertaining to the Creator
(Somnimage - som10010) 7-inch $19.50
Originally part of a 3x7-inch subscription-only package Wolf Sheep Cabbage, now adrift on its lonesome. Pressed on clear vinyl in letterpress wraps.
Evidence Pertaining to the Preserver
(Somnimage - som10011) 7-inch $19.50 (Out-of-stock)
Originally part of a 3x7-inch subscription-only package Wolf Sheep Cabbage, now adrift on its lonesome. Pressed on clear vinyl in letterpress wraps.
Music For Higher Dimensional Consciousness
(Somnimage - SOMCD112) CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Remastered CD reissue originally released on CDR (Heresee 2009). Say hello and goodbye to time and space.
Hypothetical Tardigrade Resurrection #1
(Somnimage - som10013) split 7-inch $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Wonderful weird noise and dark ambiance from Nurse With Wound collaborator M. Waldron and Allan Zane's Wyrm. White vinyl.
G.X. JUPITTER-LARSEN / ALLAN ZANE
Banjax
(Somnimage - som014) CD $15.00
(Somnimage - som014) Used CD $7.00
A collaborative / conceptual project by the masterminds behind The Haters and Wyrm respectively satisfies appetites for "aesthetics" of "noise," as well as the dark ambiance sensibility. Sound manipulations involving explosions, breaking glass, and the destruction of various items by power tools spread over three tracks.
Wrath
(Somnimage - mik013) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Trance-like noise with beats by Chicago-based multi-media artist Camilla Ha (ex-My Name is Rar Rar), whose early experience as a butoh dancer influences much of her soundscapes (sometimes minimal, at other times disconcertingly abrasive). She uses her voice much the same way a butoh dancer would use her body -- distorting it grotesquely, sometimes beautifully. Limited to 300 numbered copies in sil screened sleeves.
A Cage Went In Search of a Bird: Music Inspired by Franz Kafka
(Somnimage - som04) CD $15.00
Compiled by Mykel Boyd (Angelhood), this 17-band, international compilation of darkwave, neo-classical and experimental sounds features Attrition, La Funcion De Repulsa, Angelhood, Maras Torment, Loren Jan Wilson II & Ryoji Furui, Neither/Neither World, Halo Skycrash, Julian Tulip's Licorice, Benjamin Stauffer, Chagas, Shinjuku Thief, Chthonic Force, Garden of Dreams, Remora, Oblivia, E.A. Zann and The New York Room. Art and graphics by surrealist Christian Faur.