As New Orleans’ vaunted Jazz Fest begins, we have started the final preparations for our decidedly not-jazzy new pair – Coppice’s Pied and Anne Guthrie’s tape, entitled:

so it’s inverted, 

occupying the same position as always

 

Look for more details soon…

Textura has reviewed the new batch. Heavy descriptions. Thanks for that!

The inimitable Frans de Waard weighs in on Generations Lost and waterwheel<>windmill in Vital Weekly 824 :

“56K – GENERATIONS LOST (cassette by Notice Recordings)
WINDMILL WATERWHEEL – WATERWHEEL WINDMILL (cassette by Notice Recordings)
Josh Burke is the man behind 56K. Before that he worked as Sky Limousine, Ocean Diamond, Silk Fountain and other names, but now its 56K. Apparently in all of these projects, the synthesizer is his main instrument, and so its here. ‘Voices’ opens with voices from an otherwise empty hall, with waving synth tones, but its more an introductionary piece. The other pieces showcase a classic Tangerine Dream sound of long sustaining synthesizer sounds, but only once with the arpeggio held down. Otherwise spaciously meandering about but with a nice lo-fi edge to it, like so many of similar artists had in the eighties, think ‘Visions’ compilation on Third Mind, YHR tapes, Neumusik and the works of Enno Velthuys to name but a few. Of course this fits nicely with the resurrection of cosmic music in recent years, which made me think: with such fine quality, why hasn’t nobody released Josh Burke on record yet? Or perhaps I am mistaken, which is no doubt possible. So aspiring A&R managers on the look out for cosmic talent: 56K!

In the mid 90s Kirk Marrison (member of the band Kiln) and Charlie Nash (Arsenal and Rhys Chatman) formed Waterwheel and they were supposed to release two records on Alley Sweeper Records, but only one, ‘Panchroma’ was released. The second was shelved, but ‘Waterwheel Windmill’ is that record, so about fifteen years too late. Too late? That is of course a matter of opinion. Late for what? If its good then its never too late. Nash is the guitarist, just as Marrison, who also plays keyboards, by which I assume we can also understand sampling. Although the music is old, it hasn’t aged and these experimental musings are still valid today. The guitar is sampled together and transformed to create rhythmic patterns, on top of which more guitars are being played. While abstract in some of the direct guitar playing, the sampling is what makes it a more musical release. Somehow I was thinking: ‘wow, this would have been a nice release for Multimood’, sitting nicely along Rob Angus, Brannon Hungness and those guys (but a quick search learned me that label is gone) – that whole mid nineties scene of experiment, ambient, abstract yet always somehow vaguely melodic and musical. This should have been released at the time when it was made and on CD. Good to see it out anyway. (FdW) ”

If there is any single person in the world today that aspires to be a cosmic A&R manager, it’s hard to disagree – Josh Burke is the first man they should look at. You heard it here first (well, second).

As we move into spring, or what feels like early summer for newly planted New Orleanians, Notice is excitedly preparing a pair of new tapes of meticulously beautiful sound work. Chicago drone duo Coppice will release their new composition, “Pied,” and New York French horn/soundscaper Anne Guthrie presents the vertically titled:

so it’s inverted, 

occupying the same position as always

 

Both artists have given us highly original and rich pieces, and we are very pleased to release them both.

More details to come on these two.

D. Petri at Petri blog has posted a very nice review of the Waterwheel • Windmill release.
This release is still available, here.

Look forward to new releases on Notice Recordings by Anne Guthrie, Coppice, Ryan Jewell and Brian Lavelle, within the next couple months. More details to come, among other releases in the works. Stay turned.

All orders of 56K and windmill<>waterwheel have now shipped from Vermont. Thanks very much for everyone’s patience. Copies of both are still available…

56K (Josh Burke) – “Generations Lost” and Windmill • Waterwheel (Kiln/Fibreforms) – “Waterwheel • Windmill” tapes have arrived.

These are available now, in the shop.

Sorry for the delay to all who ordered. Copies of the tapes remain available.

Three reviews have been posted over at Adrian Dziewanski’s blog, Scrapyard Forecast. Reviewed releases are Ben Owen - Birds and Water, 1, Evan Lindorff-Ellery - The Tea Merchant and His Atmospheres and Tiny Music - Epitaph.

All three of these tapes are available, and can be purchased in the Shop.

A few other reviews have been added in the past couple weeks. All known reviews should be listed for each release in the Shop and Catalogue pages.

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