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Artist: CUT-OUT Title: Interlude With Fun Machine
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ST18
Price: $12.00 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
Release
Date:		 5/5/03
***Steve Fisk (Pell Mell, Pigeonhed) and Bob Beerman (Pell Mell) approached Interlude With Fun Machine in a similar manner to their work in Pell Mell: set up a pattern, offset it with a contrasting pattern, layer on a counter-pattern, and so on. But where Pell Mell's renown derives from a signature guitar-based sound, Cut-Out relies on textures, patterns, found sounds, presets, rhythm boxes, inversion of background and foreground elements, and a very deadpan sense of humor.

Fisk and Beerman were first introduced to The Fun Machine's charms when Pell Mell were recording the Star City album with Tchad Blake. Almost all of the tracks on Interlude With Fun Machine started with this arresting home organ's built-in rhythm box and chord accompaniment presets. Anyone who gets buzzed from the warm glow of keyboards such as the Optigan and the Mellotron will find plenty to intoxicate here. Music performed by Fisk and Beerman in their other configurations has found temporary residence in diverse upscale audio trailer parks such as a Microsoft commercial, Kids in the Hall's Brain Candy film, the short film Green Monster (shown on PBS's P.O.V.), MTV's Road Rules, Sex and The City, Six Feet Under, lots of NPR between-feature snippets, the film Joy Ride, ER, and others. Interlude With Fun Machine is similarly soundtrack ready.

The all-instrumental album was recorded in one week, and benefits from noticeable inspiration from Hematic Sunsets' (aka Asmus Tietchens) odd combination of kitschy lounge and soundtrack-ish music and "modern" electronic sounds; the casual, DIY, homespun aesthetic of French Paddleboat; classics such Dieter Moebius's Tonspuren and, of course, Eno's Another Green World; The Young Marble Giants' unadorned rhythm boxes and Wurlitzer frailty; and minimal electronic music by Thomas Leer and Robert Rental, Cabaret Voltaire, Pyrolator, Cluster, Harmonia, et al.).

Artist: CUT-OUT Title: Interlude With Fun Machine
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ST18CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
Release
Date:		 6/2/03
***Steve Fisk (Pell Mell, Pigeonhed) and Bob Beerman (Pell Mell) approached Interlude With Fun Machine in a similar manner to their work in Pell Mell: set up a pattern, offset it with a contrasting pattern, layer on a counter-pattern, and so on. But where Pell Mell's renown derives from a signature guitar-based sound, Cut-Out relies on textures, patterns, found sounds, presets, rhythm boxes, inversion of background and foreground elements, and a very deadpan sense of humor.

Fisk and Beerman were first introduced to The Fun Machine's charms when Pell Mell were recording the Star City album with Tchad Blake. Almost all of the tracks on Interlude With Fun Machine started with this arresting home organ's built-in rhythm box and chord accompaniment presets. Anyone who gets buzzed from the warm glow of keyboards such as the Optigan and the Mellotron will find plenty to intoxicate here. Music performed by Fisk and Beerman in their other configurations has found temporary residence in diverse upscale audio trailer parks such as a Microsoft commercial, Kids in the Hall's Brain Candy film, the short film Green Monster (shown on PBS's P.O.V.), MTV's Road Rules, Sex and The City, Six Feet Under, lots of NPR between-feature snippets, the film Joy Ride, ER, and others. Interlude With Fun Machine is similarly soundtrack ready.

The all-instrumental album was recorded in one week, and benefits from noticeable inspiration from Hematic Sunsets' (aka Asmus Tietchens) odd combination of kitschy lounge and soundtrack-ish music and "modern" electronic sounds; the casual, DIY, homespun aesthetic of French Paddleboat; classics such Dieter Moebius's Tonspuren and, of course, Eno's Another Green World; The Young Marble Giants' unadorned rhythm boxes and Wurlitzer frailty; and minimal electronic music by Thomas Leer and Robert Rental, Cabaret Voltaire, Pyrolator, Cluster, Harmonia, et al.).

Artist: DEAD C Title: The Damned
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ST21
Price: $12.00 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
Release
Date:		 11/3/03
***Over the last 17 years, The Dead C have produced some of the most strident, uncompromising and downright nasty rock screech to exit from their homeland of New Zealand, without sacrificing an ounce of the grace and finesse required of tamers of gigantic, wild sandworms. Their eighteen full-length albums and numerous seven-inch singles have garnered worldwide respect from vertebrates and invertebrates alike.

The Dead C's improvised noise rock verges on disintegration with a trademark hazy disorientation, invariably evoking hypnotic and heavy moods. But The Dead C are no bummer. They have always sought liberation from shallow and easy rock conventions; amid the murk of cardboard box guitars, underwater vocals, and ramshackle drumming, a new consciousness emerges. The recognizable, sullen strumming, mumbling and lyrical ennui of painter and educator Michael Morley (also known for his solo work as Gate), anchored by percussionist Robbie Yeats and punctuated by the atonal bursts of writer and Corpus Hermeticum label boss Bruce Russell (also known for his solo work as A Handful of Dust), coalesce in a solid front that mocks the efforts of schmaltz-peddling hacks.

The Damned was recorded during sustained and intensive sessions from 2001 through 2003, at the Driving Range studio in Port Chalmers. Final mixing and production took place in 2003 at My Pit in Port Chalmers.

The Dead C's The Damned is a rank, rank fairytale gone wrong. --Dylan Nyoukis, Decaer Pinga

Artist: DUSTBREEDERS AND JUNKO Title: Mommy Close The Door
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ST022
Price: $12.00 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
Release
Date:		 2/9/04
***The three tracks on Mommy Close The Door were all recorded live in France in late 2002 by Japanese vocalist Junko Hiroshige, whose murderous wail hypercubes Patty Waters, Yoko Ono, and the titular victim in Olivia de Havilland's 1972 crime flick The Screaming Woman, in collaboration with Yves Botz, Thierry Delles, Michel Henritzi, who extend the trad power trio into a Marclay mash with brutal rock'n'roll energies.

Hiroshige joined group Hijo Kaidan in the early '80s, playing a pivotal role in the evolution of the group (whose initial performances resembled happenings and Fluxus actions and got them banned from numerous venues in and around Osaka). Their current extremist bruitism centers around Junko, her husband and founding member Jojo Hiroshige, and The Incapacitants' Toshiji Mikawa. In April 2002, they met the French trio Dustbreeders in Tokyo, who formed in the late '80s around the concept of anti-records, performances, exhibitions and other oblique strategies. They compensated for the absence of technique with mechanical instrumentation; with their instruments of choice-- Walkman, tape recorder, and, as of 1999, when they began using old mange-disques exclusively (aka "slot-in record players," portable 7-inch phonographs from the '70s) connected to guitar amps-- mix quotations into a brutally indifferent stew in which pop, jazz, exotica, and hard rock sink into feedback and electrical noise. Yeah, baby, it's a saucy dialectical between the memory of the original works (carried in the popular melodies) and the band's violence turned against the discs. Let's be cruel!

Artist: GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION Title: Northern Exposure
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ST04CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
***Barbara Manning and Seymour Glass turn themselves inside out. Ick.
Artist: GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION Title: Northern Exposure
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ST04
Price: $8.25 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
Artist: GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION / PRICK DECAY Title: Who's Who
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ST06CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
***Winsome Scottish twosome Prick Decay cast the bloody runes and come up with opposable thumbs Seymour Glass and Barabara Manning.
Artist: GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION / DECAER PINGA Title: Tubular Bells
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ST19
Price: $12.00 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
Release
Date:		 9/8/03
***The album that launched Richard Branson's Virgin Records and is virtually synonymous with The Exorcist, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells has been revisited by the composer himself over the years in hopes of rectifying problems that still trouble him to this day-- elastic timing, dodgy playing, poor edits, changes in tone, background tape noise. Needless to say, such defects are tools of the trade for countless modern recording artists, especially at the bottom of the food chain. In this no-instruments interpretation of Oldfield's epic instrumental performed by Glands of External Secretion (side one) and Decaer Pinga (side two), deficiency is the cornerstone. By intentionally limiting themselves to prerecorded tapes, field recordings, electronic devices and effects, out-of-context musical passages, and anything else that did not require a musical instrument to be played - both bands interpret their respective halves of this legendary opus with methods that seem to run counter to the spirit of the original, yet paradoxically force it to shine through.

What a virtuoso would naturally strive to polish, The Glands' Barbara Manning and Seymour Glass seek to rust. What perfectionism would try to iron out, Decaer Pinga's Dylan Nyoukis and Dora Doll crumple into a ball and abandon for the sun to bleach. For example, the instrument announcements by The Bonzo Dog Band's Viv Stanshall on side one have been replaced by Barbara Manning's recitation of some of the adhesives used in the album's making, captured via low-powered international telecommunication device. Likewise, Decaer Pinga recreate side two's Piltdown caveman segment by appropriating electronic beats and multi-octave vocalizations.

  • A no-instruments cover version of Mike Oldfield's early '70s epic
  • Guests include Vibracathedral Orchestra's Neil Campbell, The Double U's Matt Hall, and Dave Cross of Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
  • Limited edition 300 copies, vinyl only
Artist: HAGEMAN, MR. Title: Twin Smooth Snouts
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ST05
Price: $8.25 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
Artist: HAGEMAN, MR. Title: Twin Smooth Snouts
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ST05CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
***Brian, the cute one who stands stage right whenever the Thinking Fellers play, goes solo and comes equipped with dual olfactory air.
Artist: INCAPACITANTS / IN SPITE OF FLAMING CREATURES Title: Vitamin Buckfast
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ST015
Price: $12.00 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
Release
Date:		 9/9/02
***With the golden age of Japanese noise all but tarnished and rusted, here is one last chunk of atonal screech before the oxidation is totally complete. Consumers of all things brutally loud, relentlessly dissonant and, most importantly, originating from Japan, will not require an introduction to Incapacitants-- the noise duo consisting of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai. Begun as Mikawa's solo project in 1981 when a homemade noisemaking device called The Mikawa was his prime instrument, evolving to incorporate various concrete sounds, until Kosakai joined and the duo favored the sound of ring modulators and heavily processed Theremins, Incapacitants has always been about "creating pure noise without any abstract musical expression whatsoever." Mikawa states that he hopes to cause his audience to lose the sensation of time. In addition to contributing articles about a number of international noisicians to various Japanese music journals over the years, Mikawa is also a member of Hijo Kaidan, while Kosakai performed with C.C.C.C. and has released a soundtrack of Stan Brakhage's film Of Dogstarman. Everything known about the reclusive Abdul Squeerter of (In Spite of Flaming Creatures) has passed through the conduit of Dylan Nyoukis (Decaer Pinga and the Chocolate Monk label). Apparently uninterested in networking, touring, trading CDRs, appearing on compilations, granting interviews, replying to letters, engaging in any sort of self-promotion, or taking part in the glamorous razzle-dazzle available to all experimental musicians worldwide, Squeerter prefers the solitude of where ever he calls home in the United Kingdom. Apart from a mail collaboration or two - most likely available on cassette for about 15 minutes via Chocolate Monk - his sole public appearance to date has been a few pages of what he calls "excrete fiction" in Bananafish magazine.

The recordings on Vitamin Buckfast are the product of a mail collaboration committed to tape in the mid-'90s and then simply ignored for several years. Dora Doll of Decaer Pinga makes a guest appearance on vocals, but good luck determining exactly where. Cover art is by Karen Lollypop of Ecstatic Peace recording artists Smack Music 7 and Polly Shang Kuan Group.

  • Vinyl-only edition limited to 300 copies with color glue-on covers - act quickly
  • All-electronic collaboration between well known Japanese noisicians and completely obscure British hermit
  • Surprisingly listenable freeform electronic noise textures
  • Hello, stasis field!
Artist: L. STINKBUG Title: The Allure Of Roadside Curios
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ST16
Price: $12.00 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
Release
Date:		 2/11/02
***Formed in 1997 by guitarist G.E. Stinson with bassist Steuart Liebig and guitarist Nels Cline, L.Stinkbug consciously chose to complete their line-up with a drummer who could groove-- percussionist Scott Amendola. Both Stinson and Cline prepare their guitars with an assortment of springs, toys, paint brushes, an electric drink stirrer, enough clips to make a beautician queasy, an egg whisk (that's right-- an egg whisk) and numerous other custom-made objects, and run them through a variety of effects, harmonizers and looping devices; same goes for Liebig - chopsticks between the strings, looping devices, extended technique, the works.

L.Stinkbug traffics in "instant compositions" packed with dynamics, textures and virtuosity. The Allure of Roadside Curios opens with an electro-orchestral prelude worthy of Sonic Youth on an exceptional night, building to a roaring, Boredoms-like overture that capsizes into some heavy grind familiar to fans of Lark's Tongue in Aspic-era King Crimson. Yet throughout the album's four tracks (plus a secret fifth one), all recorded live at Bruno's in San Francisco, the quartet's unpitched, heavily electronically altered wakajawaka sprawls like a spacy, permafrost delta in which an electric Miles Davis influence lurks at all times.

Because everyone in L.Stinkbug is involved with numerous other groups, they play together in this configuration infrequently and never tour (their handful of live appearances to date have occurred solely in California - Los Angeles, Ventura, San Francisco, and Berkeley). The Allure of Roadside Curios is a rare opportunity to hear world-class improvisors together at their best.

  • The debut CD, recorded live, by stalwarts of West Coast improv
  • Features Ecstatic Peace recording artist G.E. Stinson and Nels Cline (Geraldine Fibbers, Scarnella, Mike Watt, Thurston Moore)
  • Cover designed by Carla Bozulich (Geraldine Fibbers, Scarnella)

    30-second RealAudio excerpts:

    Chopped Up and Laid End to End
    Holiday in Flames
    Play (Some Music)
    Beacon
Artist: MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Il Segno
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ST20
Price: $12.00 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
Release
Date:		 7/14/03
***Beginning with a gloomy text entitled "The Sign" written by guitarist / lyricist Roberto Opalio, My Cat Is An Alien entered The Space Room and recorded this dark and concrete improvisation, a single piece of howling and caustic ruination stretched over two sides of vinyl. Maurizio Opalio comes out of the fog with desolate acoustic guitar scratches, Roberto's electric space guitar scribbles as he spits out his words of urban alienation, and Viggiu Vortex joins the brothers on percussion. Piano toy and toy keyboard were added later to enhance the surreal lyrics inspired by ghosts, a sense of psychic, cultural and social isolation in their hometown Torino, Italy, and the infinite lightness and beauty between the cement and the sky. Il Segno is about the mark of chance, avenues full of dust and fallen leaves, the Torino skyline's abandoned factories and chimneys with the mountains all around, and the dance of swallows at twilight, just before the darkness envelops everything.

My Cat Is An Alien are improvisors, noisicians, and, perhaps most importantly, sound sculptors. Improv for them represents the union of intellectual process and instinctive emotions in real time-- creative free sounds that live in the instant. Noise eludes easy definition, and comes from a willingness to go further and further beyond their experience. But their overriding aesthetic focuses less on notes and technique than on the limitless free expansion in space of sound, a pure ether essence that belongs to the cosmos and the spheres.

The brothers Opalio have been involved in painting, glass-art, sculpture, photography, art-installations and audiovisual art, often in combination. They have released numerous art-edition CDRs through their own Opax label in painted and etched wood packages, as well as an LP-and-a-half on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label.

My Cat Is An Alien ... hits its own stride ... mining the seething coalescence of trance acoustics and ambient feedback.... [They] imbue rhythm in fractured chaos, like prompting a celestial monolith to sway in 4/4 time ... a rare and beautiful ability, and one seldom wielded with deliberate sentimentality.... Blue-collared psych-noise ... volcanic, both in sound quality and seeping magnitude ... indebted largely to the parameters of acoustic melody and floating, impressionistic noise. -Tom Roberts, Dusted

  • Floating, impressionistic guitar-dominated improvisation for fans of The Dead C, Starfuckers, Sonic Youth
  • Limited edition (300 copies) vinyl-only
Artist: MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Il Segno
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ST20CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
Release
Date:		 9/17/07
***My Cat Is An Alien entered The Space Room in October 2000 and recorded a dark and concrete improvisation; previously released on LP, stretched over two sides of vinyl, it is restored here to its original state as a 30-minute monolith of caustic ruination.

Beginning with a gloomy text entitled "The Sign" written by guitarist / lyricist Roberto Opalio, the track comes out of the smog with brother Maurizio's desolate, acoustic guitar scratches, Roberto's electric space guitar scribbles and spat-out words of urban alienation, and Viggiu Vortex on percussion. Piano toy and toy keyboard were added later to enhance the surreal lyrics inspired by ghosts, a sense of psychic, cultural and social isolation in their hometown Torino, Italy, and the infinite lightness and beauty between the cement and the sky. Il Segno is about the mark of chance, avenues full of dust and fallen leaves, the Torino skyline's abandoned factories and chimneys with the mountains all around, and the dance of swallows at twilight, just before the darkness envelops everything.

This CD reissue also has 23 minutes of extra screech-- a pair of previously unreleased tracks recorded during the same sessions.

"[F]airly staggering ... dominated by the reading of 'The Sign'-- a bleak poem of alienation, nothingness, futility and despair ... snarled by Roberto in broken, halting phrases, sounding for all the world like Alan Vega on skag. As he wanders through a desolate cityscape, the poet finds manifestations of his misery in everything he sees--street signs, broken windows, malfunctioning lights. It's a downer--a real paean to disconnectedness. Behind this recital is joyless, endless drone of guitar sound, a whirling sensation of electric guitar strings strummed by a machine-like robot hand.... [A]s dystopic sound-visions of the future (and the present) go, it's pretty much unsurpassed.... Far from psychedelic in outlook, their music is pure heroin music--wretched, strung-out, endlessly painful and emaciated. Good stuff!" --Ed Pinsent, Sound Projector

30-second MP3 excerpts:

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Il Segno

Artist: PELL MELL Title: (1982) It Was A Live Cassette
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ST07
Price: $12.00 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
Release
Date:		 1/15/01
***It's a story older than civilization itself - some hipster working for a big PacNW ad agency gets the bright idea to use a little of the local music the kids're always yakking about as the audio bed for a big account's commercial. Faster than you can say "Larry Tate," a track from Pell Mell's Flow LP (SST, 1991) is selling computer software during the Super Bowl. Final score: Joe Namath, two thousand; Bart Starr a hundred below zero.

The "instrumental" stigma has dogged Pell Mell since 1980, when the band was first formed in Portland, Oregon, by drummer Bob Beerman, guitarist Bill Owen, and Arni May, the other original guitarist who worked in a record store in Portland and brought in Jon-Lars Sorenson to play bass. It's not that any of these seemingly well-educated gentlemen were too dimwitted to consider sprucing up their drabby music with a provocative frontman; they auditioned singers in the beginning, and didn't like what they heard. And who can blame them? Singers, with their gaudy necklaces and their unzipped pants and their idiotic gestures, are egomaniacal distractions from the main event - the music. More than drummers, even.

Whether Jimi Hendrix was correct in regarding surf music as a plague upon humanity, Pell Mell were nevertheless perplexed to be continually categorized as such. Truth be told - a novel idea, isn't it? - the band's "vision" was nothing more complicated than the creation of music as cool as all the records coming out at the time by great surf bands such as PiL, Josef K, the Fire Engines, the Feelies, A Certain Ratio, Pere Ubu, the Contortions and others.

Following the recording of the quartet's Rhyming Guitars EP in January 1981, Arni departed, leaving the band to continue as a trio. Bob, Bill and Jon-Lars released the live cassette primarily as promotional and tour-booking tool, but also to distance themselves from the dual-guitar EP, with its newly unplayable songs (except for "Par Avion"). Along with gratifying a shared Duane Eddy fetish, they were trying to fit in with the strong Portland punk scene, and were conscious of what it took to earn an audience's undivided attention. Intentionally designed to keep listeners on their toes, the tracks on (1982) It Was a Live Cassette were written to be played live and are much more aggressive, raw, and abrupt than anything else done by the band since. The more well known, silky smooth quartet (with Greg Freeman on bass, Steve Fisk on keyboards and samples, and Dave Spalding on guitar) was still down the road a piece by a distance of about two years. It was a live cassette and it was all about proving things: that Pell Mell didn't need or want a singer, that they were punk, and, most importantly, that they were not a goddamn surf band.

Artist: RANALDO, LEE Title: Amarillo Ramp (For Robert Smithson)
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 STAR08CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
Release
Date:		 2/2/98
***New solo recordings from Mr. Ranaldo; you may have aurally glimpsed him on previous work for the DGC, SYR, SST, Drunken Fish, Father Yod, Atavistic and Starlight Furniture Company imprints. Thurston (Nels Cline Duo) Moore and Steve (Crucifucks) Shelley sit in on one track. Title tune is a time-warping 32-minute live recording from 1994 with after-the-fact wave-shaping by Rafael Toral. Also features a wonderfully reverent cover of John Lennon's "Isolation."
Artist: RANALDO, LEE Title: Broken Circle/Spiral
Format: CDEP Catalog
Number:		 ST02
Price: $8.25 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
Artist: TEXT OF LIGHT Title: S/T
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ST24
Price: $12.00 Label: Starlight Furniture Company
Release
Date:		 6/7/04
***Text of Light was formed in 1999 to perform improvised music during screenings of films by Stan Brakhage and other American avant-garde filmmakers from the 1950s and '60s. These should not be considered soundtracks for Brakhage's works, which are intended to be screened silently. Rather, the group uses the films as an element to stimulate improvisation, like an additional player, juxtaposing film and music in a real-time performance mixed-media collage. Earlier free improv experiments by the likes of AMM and Derek Bailey are brought into an intermedia environment where records and turntablism are especially crucial. By changing playback speed, using effects processing, scratching, skipping, and looping, the turntablist bridges the gap between the predetermination of film and the spontaneous composition of instrumentalists. The result is a new chapter in free improv and mixed media.

On this CD the group, in various combinations, includes: Lee Ranaldo and Alan Licht on guitars and devices; Christian Marclay and DJ Olive on turntables; William Hooker on drums and percussion, and Ulrich Krieger of Zeitkratzer on sax and electronics. They headlined the Victoriaville Music Festival in 2002, perform frequently in New York City and other East Coast clubs and cinema venues, and toured Europe in late March 2003.

  • Film-stimulated free sound by rotating combo of NYC experimental improv travellers that includes Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, DJ Olive, Christian Marclay, William Hooker and Zeitkratzer's Ulrich Krieger
  • Their debut CD and first widely available release
  • Previous limited edition platters on Bottrop Boy and Table of the Elements

    30-second MP3 excerpts:

    5/22/02 @ Tonic
    9/15/02 @ Anthology Film Archives
    8/23/01 @ Knitting Factory

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