Lethe: Dry Ice On Steel Tables

catalog number: either/live2

artist: LETHE

title: Dry Ice On Steel Tables

format: CD

link: www.and-oar.org/pop_either_live2.html

Kiyoharu Kuwayama: dry ice, steel tables & candles.

A remarkable document of a live performance recorded on September

11th, 2003 at No, 20 warehouse, Nagoya Port, Japan. The sounds

heard in this recording were created by Kiyoharu's application of dry

ice to four steel tables which were heated by candles. No electronic

processing or post-production editing of the performance was done.

Between now and the end of March 2011... when you purchase

and/OAR CDs at Experimedia, 100% of the sales money will

go to the Japan Earthquake Relief Fund set up by

Japan Society in New York.

Kraig Grady: Our Rainy Season / Nuilagi

catalog number: either/5

artist: KRAIG GRADY

title: Our Rainy Season / Nuilagi

format: CD

link: www.and-oar.org/pop_either_5.html

Kraig Grady: composer, metallophone

Jim Denley: bass flute, alto saxophone and wooden flute

Mike Majkowski: upright bass

Erin Barnes: metallophone

Jonathan Marmor: metallophone

1. Our Rainy Season (49:12)

2. Nuilagi (25:54)

Kraig Grady is a composer/decomposer/sound explorer. Since 1975 he

has pursued the formation of ensembles of acoustic microtonal

instruments of his own design/modification to explore an interaction with

environmental spaces, the contextual influence of visionary space, and

psychoacoustical pitch phenomena. Seeing personal fulfillment as not

possible within the confines of specialization, he has also engaged

extensively as a shadow puppeteer, tuning theorist, filmmaker, world

music radio DJ and concert promoter. His compositions often include

interactions with his own silent films and shadow plays.

Favorites From 2010

and/OAR releases are obviously among the favorites during any given year,

but they are not included in my annual lists.

Top 20 From 2010 (alphabetical by first letter):

- ANDREW CHALK: The Cable House (Faraway Press) CD

- ANDY GRAYDON: Geomancy (mAtter) CD + DVD

- CEDRIC PEYRONNET + TOY BIZARRE ORCHESTRA: kdi dctb 216 [DATA] series (Kaon) 3" CDR x 12

- DANIELLE BAQUET-LONG [AKA Chubby Wolf]: Ornitheology (Digitalis) CT

- ERIC LA CASA: Zone Sensible 2 / Dundee 2 (Room40) CD

- ERNIE ALTHOFF: Colour Chart (Antboy Music) CDR

- FRANCISCO LOPEZ: Machines (Elevator Bath) CD x 2

- JANA WINDEREN: Energy Field (Touch) CD

- LASSE-MARC RIEK: Harbour (Herbal) CD

- LETHE: Catastrophe Point 7 & 8 (Invisible Birds) CD x 2

- MAX EASTLEY: Installation Recordings [1973-2008] (Paradigm Discs) CD x 2

- MICHAEL NORTHAM: Solar Night (Mirror Tapes) CT

- MURAL: Nectars Of Emergence (Sofa) CD

- TRISTRAM CARY: It's Time For Tristram Cary (Trunk) CD

- NICHOLAS SZCZEPANIK & JUAN JOSE CALARCO: Lack Affix (Unfathomless) CD

- PIETRO GROSSI: Combinatoria (Die Schachtel) CD x 2

- RICHARD CHARTIER: A Field For Mixing (Room40) CD

- SEIJIRO MURAYAMA & ERIC LA CASA: Supersedure (Hibari Music) CD

- SETH NEHIL: Furl (Sonoris) CD

- THOMAS TILLY / TÔ: Cables & Signs (Fissur) CD

Top 2010 Acquisition Favorites From Previous Years (alphabetical by first letter):

- ARZA ANAIAK: Txalaparta '75 Iraila (Cramps / Strange Days) CD

- CRAIG KUPKA: Clouds - New Music For Relaxation (Folkways) CDR

- DALE GORFINKLE & ROBBIE AVENAIM: Sonic Systems Laboratory (Splitrec) CD

- FRANCISCO SEMPRUN & MICHEL CHRISTODOULIDES: Metamorphoses (Unidisc) LPR

- FREDERIC NOGRAY: Nelki (Prele) CD

- GIACINTO SCELSI: Quattro Pezzi Per Orchestra / Anahit / Uaxuctum (Accord) CD

- HIROKI SASAJIMA: Nine (self released) CDR

- JACQUES LASRY: Chronophagie (Columbia) LPR

- JOHN MITCHELL: The Way of Eiheiji (Folkways) CDR

- JORGE REYES: The Flayed God (Staalplaat) CD

- JOSEF ANTON RIEDL: Klangregionen 1951-2007 (Edition RZ) CD x 2

- KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN: Musik Im Bauch (Deutsche Grammophon) LPR

- MARC BEHRENS: Sleppet (Cronica) CD

- MICHIKO TOYAMA: Waka And Other Compositions (Folkways) CDR

- MIGUEL ANGEL CORA: En Rouge Et Noir (Cramps / Strange Days) CD

- NINO ROTA: Fellini Satyricon (United Artists) LPR

- PETR KOTIK: First Record (Cramps / Strange Days) CD

- ROLAND KAYN: Electronic Symphony 1-3 (Rieger-Records-Reeks) CD x 2

- VARIOUS ARTISTS: The Tomorrow People (Trunk) CD

- VARIOUS ARTISTS: Folk Music From Sweden: Lockrop & Vallatar (Caprice) CD

Other Favorite Discoveries From Previous Years, But No Physical Copy Yet:

- Akio Suzuki: "Suzuki Type- Glass Harmonica" (Gelbe Musik) CDR

- Alain Kremski: Musiques Rituelles Pour Cloches Et Gongs (Auvidis) LPR

- Dr. Jeffrey Thompson: Sri Yantra (Center for Neuroacoustic Research) CD

- Joel Andrews: The Violet Flame (The Group, Inc) LPR

- Marie-Claude Robert: Supranatural (Editions Montparnasse) LPR

- Master Wilburn Burchette: Psychic Meditation Music (Burchette Brothers) LPR

- Pierre Henry: Spatiodynamisme (Éditions Du Griffon) 7"

- Peter Van Riper: Room Space - New Music For Saxophones (VRBLU) LPR

- Sergio Montori & Gian Paolo Chiti: Quadri Antichi (Duse Records) LPR

- Tchen Gi-Vane: Song Of Une Noyade Et Le Shadow (S3TI Production) CD

Michelangelo Antonioni - Trilogy And Epilogue

artist: VARIOUS ARTISTS

title: Michelangelo Antonioni - Trilogy And Epilogue

catalog number: and/36

format: CD x 2

link: www.and-oar.org/pop_and_36.html

- ASHER

- OLIVIA BLOCK

- MARC BEHRENS

- JUAN JOSÉ CALARCO

- ALAN COURTIS

- EKG (Kyle Bruckmann & Ernst Karel)

- LAWRENCE ENGLISH

- FHIEVEL

- COREY FULLER

- RICHARD GARET

- MARIHIKO HARA

- I8U

- JASON KAHN

- DALE LLOYD

- ROEL MEELKOP

- PALI MEURSAULT (with Ici-Même)

- BEN OWEN

- GABRIEL PAIUK

- J. WINSTON PHILLIPS

- TOMAS PHILLIPS

- ANTTI RANNISTO

- ADAM SONDERBERG

- STEINBRÜCHEL

- LUIGI TURRA

- TYLER WILCOX

Jim Denley & Kim Myhr: Live In Munich

catalog number: either/live1

artist: JIM DENLEY & KIM MYHR

title: Live In Munich

format: CDR

link: http://www.and-oar.org/pop_either_live1.html

A special limited edition release that will mostly be available

at their 2010 tour performances. Only a small number of

copies will be available in the and/OAR Diffusion shop.

The discs are professionally made in digipaks.

Olivia Block & Kyle Bruckmann: Teem

catalog number: either/4

artist: OLIVIA BLOCK & KYLE BRUCKMANN

title: Teem

format: CD

link: www.and-oar.org/pop_either_4.html

Bruckmann and Block’s creative relationship dates back to the

recording of Block’s 1999 release Pure Gaze, shortly after both

artists entered into Chicago’s vibrant experimental music

community. Their decision to create a collaborative duo ensued,

but remained in the realm of good intentions until shortly before

Bruckmann’s relocation to the San Francisco Bay Area.

They then began playfully stockpiling sounds from a myriad of

sources, collecting field material, and recording duo improvisations

in various spaces using hallway intercom systems and unorthodox

microphone placements, among other processes and techniques.

This initial activity was followed by five years of collaborative

editing, processing and mixing, resulting in the emergent expanse

that is Teem.