*** We have yet to make entries here for Anne Guthrie (NTR023) and Coppice (NTR024), but please note that one may order these by sending us payment to noticerecordings [at] gmail [dot] com ***

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NTR022
Windmill • Waterwheel
Waterwheel • Windmill (C40)

One may be aware of Kirk Marrison’s work through Fibreforms and Kiln. During the mid-’90s, Marrison collaborated with NYC guitarist Charlie Nash (Arsenal/Rhys Chatham) on two releases slated for Alley Sweeper Records. The first, Waterwheel – Panchroma, was released, but due to the disintegration of the label, the second was not. Waterwheel • Windmill is that release, finally emerging in 2011 under the Windmill • Waterwheel moniker. Combining rhythmic explorations with some seriously alive processing and textures, these pieces still feel fresh today, 15 years after they were recorded.

Nash moved to the Midwest, but his influence on the late-‘70s No Wave New York scene has been noted. Here, he provides a variety of musical textures with objects, prepared and played guitar, and guitar as transmitter of beauty. Marrison sculpts these into teeming atmospherics, constantly dipping in and out of amorphous spaces; at times sounding like a forest and at times like clippings of forgotten landscapes, sewn together by threads of hot water.

Sound samples :
http://soundcloud.com/notice-recordings

- Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery. Pro-printed on heavy stock.
- Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes with classic Notice attire.
- Type II Cobalt
- Edition of 100

Larger cover scan is available here

NTR021
56K
Generations Lost (C30)

Generations Lost is the debut Notice Recordings release of 56K, the new project of Josh Burke. Over the past few years, Burke has released dozens of tapes under several aliases—Sky Limousine, Ocean Diamond, Silk Fountain, etc—showcasing his ethereal synth constructions. As this tape’s title suggests, 56K continues Burke’s explorations on themes related to memory, perception, and reproduction. Highlights from the half-dozen tracks include the trancelike unfolding epic “A Dream Within A Dream,” the retro-gaming arpeggiated breakdown of the title track, and “Angel,” a bold and mysterious New Age homage. Elusive and dreamlike, these half-recognized zones emerge organically from the musical framework of Burke’s pieces.

Sound samples :
http://soundcloud.com/notice-recordings

- Collaborative artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery and Josh Burke. Pro-printed on heavy stock.
- Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes with classic Notice attire.
- Type II Cobalt
- Edition of 100

Larger cover scan is available here

Reviews :
Textura
Virtual Ritual

NTR018
Ben Owen
Birds and Water, 1 (C94)

Those with a certain taste will be familiar with Ben Owen’s subtle yet stunning design work with his Brooklyn-based Winds Measure Recordings imprint, which also releases his own carefully crafted music in both collaborative and solo form. These are two masterfully textured sidelong pieces exemplifying his attention to craft, process, and detail at the most painstaking levels, while still embracing the sonic imprecision of the cassette tape medium.

“These recordings were made on residency with The Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY during May 2010. This was my third and—unknown to me at the time—last residency, as the Center has now closed. While two of three residencies were in partial an audio/video collaboration with Justin Lincoln, the Birds and Water series is my main body of work created at ETC. The recordings are both sound and sound and image based pieces using David Jones’ image processing system. ETC expanded operations in 1974 with the first Jones Colorizer, and in 1975 with a set of keyers, a multi-input syncable sequencer and a bank of oscillators, all designed and constructed by David Jones. The analog system modules coupled with several external op amp generators are heard in these sessions. Numerous patches and variations of each were recorded in extended durations. Side A was recorded direct to cassette tape. Both recordings are presented in their unedited duration.

Thanks to Hank Rudolph, Sherry and Ralph Hocking, Justin Lincoln, Giuseppe Ielasi and Evan Lindorff-Ellery.”
- Ben Owen

Tracklist :
Side A : cs-100507-s1 (46:47)
Side B : 100509-07 (47:39)

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. This release features collaborative artwork by Owen and Evan Lindorff-Ellery.
Cover art silk screen printed by the fine folks at Sonnenzimmer print studio in Chicago. Thanks to them for their help.

- Silk screen printed sleeve designed by Lindorff-Ellery. Two inserts included featuring video stills by Owen
- An edition of 200
- Type II Chrome cassette tape, C94

Larger and additional art is available using these links :
Here, here and here

Sound samples :
http://soundcloud.com/notice-recordings

NTR019
Tiny Music
Epitaph (C30)

Originally based in Chicago, Tiny Music developed a uniquely organic performance style, laying out an instrumental smorgasbord on the floor and performing acoustically—an intimate throwback that put the listener in direct contact with the band. In recorded form, Epitaph reveals even more of Tiny Music’s sense of structure and dynamics that makes their music so fascinating. The two sidelong pieces flow, as through a house or a silent film, from one musical doorway to the next—sometimes foreboding, sometimes flowering into complex or even composed musicality, but always dense and colorful. Side A meanders from its appealing din into a low drone, and Side B weaves abstract melodies through a hectic sound marketplace, with winding, squeaking, and even laughter dotting the mix, interspersed between plaintive, dark motifs. Tiny Music’s homey clatter on Epitaph uniquely mixes group improvisation, folk tradition, and pure exploration.

-Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery from an illustration by an unknown artist, pro-printed on heavy card stock.
-Edition of 100
-Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes with classic Notice attire.

Larger cover scan is available here

NTR016
Evan Lindorff-Ellery
The Tea Merchant and His Atmospheres (C95)

Notice’s own resident artist returns with his second solo tape. The Tea Merchant and His Atmospheres is a fully realized and very personal work of minimal, expressionist sound art that incorporates elements from the artist’s life, including field recordings from his home and travels as well as layers of at-home processing, including the use of radio static, room tone, and cassettes that he’s developed as half of Dense Reduction. Minimal yet highly textured sound environments run up against each other loftily like waves against foreign shores. As the pieces deepen over the course of each side, Lindorff-Ellery unfolds the mysterious connections that make up a sense of home, a sense of self. Non-narrative, nonrepresentational, closely observed and resolutely analog. Through the unique use of these elements, Lindorff-Ellery is mapping his life and environments in a compelling way.

-Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery, pro-printed on heavy card stock.
-Edition of 100
-Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes with classic Notice attire.

Larger cover scan is available here

NTR015
Organ of Species
Random Selection (C30)

Organ of Species is the newest musical incarnation of Scott Cloud (Thoughts On Air; Cloud Valley Recordings). For OOS’ debut release, Scott focuses on documenting, or even mirroring, natural processes through his organic and unhurried pieces. The bases for these tracks are woolly, thick organ drones and heavy outdoor ambience that are constantly, subtly regenerating. There is the path, and there are constant divergences from the path. Overgrown textures roll along with occasional mutations, interruptions, and overtakings. Just as suddenly, things cut and shift entirely, forming a series of non-narrative snapshots into a process that is constantly occurring, resolutely alive. With minimal human interference, the music breathes on its own. A few foreboding elements toward the end of each side point to a disturbance, but we can’t read too much into it—this is just the nature of things.

- Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery. Foil stamp overlay on pro-printed, full-color card stock
- An edition of 100
- Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes with classic Notice attire

Larger cover scan is available here

NTR014
Godseye
No More Cake Here (C40)

Godseye (Eden Hemming Rose, Brad Rose, and Nathan Young) has wowed us with their first two releases focused on spoken-word readings. With No More Cake Here, texts from Natalie Diaz, Edward Kuznetsov, Emma Goldman, and Seth Abramson are read over beautifully crafted synth textures. From the opening words of the title track, the intensity present in the slow, even readings and barely concealed chaos is unmistakable. Beneath wells of feedback and roiling synths, occasional bursts of light emerge on “Prison Diaries 20^th December.” “A Menace To Liberty” delivers a pointedly defiant text from Goldman, and “Gideon Asleep By The River” is contemplative and yearning, almost like a requiem, but perhaps hopeful. This tape mines beauty in the darkness lurking in all corners. Unique and very compelling.

- Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery. Foil stamped on heavy stock.
- An edition of 100.
- Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes with classic Notice attire.

Larger cover scan is available here