Sequences // Água Viva CD

This is a work released in 2000 by Matt Shoemaker, a drone artist from Seattle, USA, who started his career in the early 2017s and left works for many labels, but passed away in 2010. Contains 3 songs with drones flying low from beginning to end. Digipak, shrink specification. Click here to see more Elevator Bath releases available at Tobira. ----------------------------- Includes ...

This is a record released by Mexican drone artist Concepcion Huerta in February 2024 from the experimental label Elevator Bath in Texas, USA. Contains 2 deeply sinking drone songs. DL code included. Below is an explanation by the label. "Elevator Bath is excited to present the first solo LP of Concepcion Huerta, a highly accomplished multidisciplinary artist from Mexico who uses tape to manipulate recordings of everyday objects and electronic instruments. The result of his experimental methods is an intense and heavy take on dark ambient and noise music. "The Earth Has Memory" was recorded during a stay at EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) in Stockholm, and later at a seminar at UNAM. (Block is credited as a co-producer on two songs on the album).The instruments used were mainly Buchla and Nord, which were processed with magnetic tape, and the production gives it a tactile, organic texture. Purely abstract sounds dominate this chronicle, reflecting the mysteries of what lies beneath the earth's surface. Occasional high-pitched tones give the earth a tactile, organic texture. It's like a light glimpsed through the cracks. Low frequencies indicate core pressure, and swaying drones recreate geological movements larger than humanity. The album's cover art was created by Magali Ugarte in Hidalgo. The film is composed of exquisite color photographs taken during a visit with Huerta to the obsidian mines of the United States.The trip was full of discoveries for both women, and the bond between the artists and the discoveries they made. A connection was formed with the minerals. This literal excursion served as the perfect counterpoint to the figurative explorations on which this album was created." Label and other works here /// Click here to...

This is a picture disc released by Tom Recchion, founder of LAFMS, an experimental group in LA, USA, on the experimental label Elevator Bath in Texas, USA. Contains two field recordings collected in Oaxaca, Mexico and Maui. DL code included. Click here to see more Elevator Bath releases available at Tobira. -----------------------------. ..

This is a record released by Jim Haynes, head of post-industrial label Helen Scarsdale in California, USA, on Elevator Bath, an experimental label in Texas, in 2018.Contains 4 drone songs - a collage using electromagnetic waves and radio collected in the ruins of Estonia.This is a clear disc. DL code included.Below is an explanation by the author himself. "Most of this album was written, recorded and sketched while in Estonia at MoKS for a program called ``Active Crossover'' organized by Simon Wissam and John Grzynic.The purpose of this program was to bring together a variety of artists directly or indirectly involved in environmental recordings.When John asked me before I arrived what kind of spaces I was interested in exploring, I said I wanted to explore places with significant radio-recordable electromagnetic disturbances, as well as places of psychological distress.Estonia's landscape is dotted with sizable, decaying ruins.Many of the excursions for the active crossover involved large crumbling Soviet-era buildings.The electricity was cut off in many of these places, so they had to rely on shortwave waves to pick up the electromagnetic disturbances, rather than the fluctuations caused by shitty wiring and weird Soviet transformers...and identify them. At that time, the radio reception from that particular location (namely southeastern Estonia) was eerie and unsettling.The crackles, drones and noises are unlike anything heard in America, looming with the (perhaps perceived) paranoia that the Russian state is just a few miles away.By the way, Estonia had experienced an invasion from Russia.The Russian military had kidnapped and handed over an Estonian intelligence officer who was in Estonia, not far from where I was staying.The incident left many Estonians in suspense, given Russia's modern military campaign to retake Crimea from Ukraine. Side A of Flammable Materials reflects this aestheticized paranoia through bursts of static electricity, pulsing noise, and streaks of atonal sustained frequencies. The B-side is more introspective, cutting phonemes, disjointed phrases and cryptic dialogue from Estonian radio broadcasts.The few words you can hear in Estonian are about the power of globalization.To someone who barely understands Estonian, these fragments of women's voices look like surrealist collages or Dada poems.Compositionally, I was very conscious of Robert Ashley's ``Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon'' and ``Nurse With Wound,'' which is a recontextualization of this kind of sound. "...