1. duction (2:37)
2. elephants thinking (14:21)
3. robot talk (1:51)
4. out away from in (6:04)
5. what the voices say (10:10)

1. Crickets Warped In Time (13:31)
2. The Cow Is Not Monochromatic Number 1 (6:01)
3. Wizards' Work (8:05)
4. The Cow Is Not Monochromatic Number 2 (8:22)
5. Funny Like A Flower (9:35)
6. A Field (8:27)
7. Untitled 3 (14:57)

ADMATIC is the experimental electronic music alter-ego of Colour Sounds founder Adam Kriney. It is a departure from his normal musical outings as free jazz/improv and avant rock drummer. Electronic Experiments VOL. 1 consists of two collaborative sessions recorded in 2002.

The first 4 tracks were recorded with Eitan Hoenig and Nick Vargo both playing percussion and household objects, while Kriney manned the helm of his mixing board and electronics setup, sampled, looped, and otherwise fucked with the sounds generated by the two. The results show a real-time document of the sounds of household objects meshed with obvious percussion in both a natural unadultered state and an effected, distorted, feedback laden wash of noise state.

The latter 3 tracks were recorded with Yvonne Battad who played synthesizer and organ, while Kriney, also playing keys, constructed and deconstructed the sounds in real-time through his electronics setup, creating a fuzzed out, blissful, multi-layered galaxy of psychadelic bubbling tones.

No computers were used to manipulate any of the sounds on this recording.

CD 1 (VOL 1 w/ Brad Schirmer)
1. Scene 1 (18:22)
2. Scene 2 (16:37)
3. Scene 3 (16:24)

CD 2 (VOL. 2 w/ John Keegan)
1. jt 571
2. rz 695
3. fw 102
4. lp 962
5. qx 134

This double CD documents the first and second volumes of a series of recordings of drummer Adam Kriney in different free jazz/improvisation based duo scenarios. VOL. 2 consists of 5 tracks recorded with saxophone player John Keegan. Adam and John had created a very distinct improvised music relationship over the first few months of 2003, and these tracks recorded in late April 2003 are the first and only they ever recorded in duo format. Within the same week, Adam got together for the first time with double bassist Brad Schrimer and recorded the three tracks on VOL. 1. Although it was their first encounter they immediately took to each others ideas and easily communicated sonically. Tracks on both CDs show the musicians’ abilities to swerve in and out of rhythms, meters, and free-tempos; to build, expand upon and then destroy themes; and explore free music worlds in exciting ways.

1. Fauna & Animated Floral Arrangements (listen to an 8 minute edit)

This is the debut release from Brooklyn based psych/prog/free improv unit LA OTRACINA. This 43+ minute recording documents a massive sound collage experiment which fused elements of psychadelic, electronic, Krautrock, and improvised musics into one continuous composition. The CD features Dan Bates on bass/electronics, Adam Kriney on drums/electronics, and Joshua Anzano on guitar/synth/electronics.

1. Pulse R
2. Orange California Sunshine
3. Pulse S
4. Cornfield

This is a 21minute 4-song excusrsion into the twisted psychedelic freakout world of LA OTRACINA, recalling everything from late 60's free jazz mayhem, heavy stoner sludge, and trance enducing drone-scapes. Recorded live 5/24/4 in Brooklyn, NY, this was LA OTRACINA's first performance as a trio, and the first performance with new synth/rhodes player Nick Chapman aboard, accompanying Adam Kriney on drums and Dan Bates on electric bass.

1. Forestrial Communication (25:20) Listen to an edited section here

This CD is sold out!

This 1-track 25+ minute CD documents improvised sounds in homage to and in search of.....the forests and the animals within them...the jungles and the tribes that inhabit them... the rhythms and chaos that nature exudes both in reality and in fantasized cartoon imagery...pixies dance, bears hunt for honey, storms rustle the foliage, flutes and drums signal to and fro, and echoes of the past swell with massive drones. This CD features Adam Kriney - drums/flutes/percussion, Anthony Lebron - vocals/electronics/flutes, and Dan Bates electric bass/percussion/flutes. Anthony Lebron is also involved with noise/improv trio LIL HUMBLE VELI and his solo effort TWI (both on the Learning The Language label) , and Dan is also a past member of Adam Kriney's prog/psych/improv group LA OTRACINA. This CD comes in gorgeous full color packaging, within a translucent envelope, accompanied by artwork by Kriney that exudes the forestrial and tribal tones of the music.

1. Electric Worm Frenzy (11:20)
2. Spiral Horizons (6:32)
3. Sunshine Sister (6:17)

This 3-track 24+ minute CD is an exciting new release by Brooklyn, NY based psych/prog/improv group LA OTRACINA. Past releases have seen the group enveloped in massive Kraurock/noise sound collage as well as smokin' free-improvisation and stoner psych, but "Spatial" is in an entirely different realm indeed. The three compositions on "Spatial" are beautifully woven around the expert synthesizer playing and manipulations of Nick Chapman, whether working within the context of drone and beat frequencies, the random beauty of the arpeggiator, or slow sweeping swells of sonic fudge, along with drummer Adam Kriney and bassist Dan Bates, the trio occupy a space that is at once realizeable and present and yet similarly otherworldy and confusing, massive sound quickly recedes to silence, rhythms are scarce and un-founded, and all the while the beauty of shattered rainbows and magic comets force outward, upward, inward, in a geometric maze of constantly shifting spatial energy. This CD is packaged in beautiful full color materials that shadow its lush psychedelic sounds.

1. a) In Its Green Splendor [0'00 - 15'48] (listen to an edit)
....b) We Enter The Wood [15'48 - 21'19]

2. Upon Prisms The Form Has Taken [0'00 - 5'27]

This 2-track 26+ minute CD is a kaleidoscope of jazz-based free-improvised sounds, created by Adam Kriney on drums, Gene Janas on upright bass, Randy Borra on alto sax, and Jay Dunbar also on upright bass, recorded live at the legendary underground punk venue, ABC No Rio, in New York City, on 12/5/4. The twin uprights of Dunbar and Janas (each panned to their own aural channel) establish the extremely psychedelic tones of this recording, with low end eruptions and each bass sawing, plucking, and bowing infinite yet relative patterns of bliss, Kriney's propulsive polyrhythmic and time-distorting drumming colours and drives the momentum of stellar energies, and Borra's alto sax tunefully melodicizes and solidifies the triple swirling rhythmic forces beneath him; and evermore the quartet manage to sail waves of improvised sound into impossibly cohesive passages. Time folds and unwinds, and the louder the saw-whet screams, to out-sing the great waterfall, the closer he comes to his own humility...and the OWL SOUNDS voices stay rooted in the traditions of yore and the desire to bring those emotions to outer dimensions...can I get a fucking 'AMEN'!? Recommended for those who seek the ESP/BYG Actuel side of things...

1. The Haunting Boy Of Buck Run Pond (5:01)
2. Turquoise Spirits (7:29)
3. Bird Of Prey...Further Envelops You (19:08) (listen to an edit here)
4. Beware Of Little Axes (5:57)
5. Spotlight Island...Danger Lurks...All Is Well. (11:57)
6. Diamond Dust (4:36)

This CD is limited to 100 copies and is sold out!

This 6 track 54+ minute album from Brooklyn noise-improv-textural-sound duo THE BEETS is a plea for all of us and even YOU to "Say Yes"! Say yes to the "No's" to the "I Don't Knows" to the "Maybe's" and to the lust of life. On a musical level, THE BEETS reside in a world that crosses the lines of noise, European free-improvsation, abstract yet lush electronics, and fuct confusion?! Think of the edgy noise-improv of AMM fused with lush synths ala TANGERINE DREAM, random cassette samples clashing with chimes and a bass feeding back, and even one track of nothing but distorted cymbals...yup that's just a hint of the madness and confusion within, and its a fucking mind-scramble of beautiful proportions. THE BEETS is John Dalessi on keyboard, 4-track w/ cassettes, electronics, and cymbal and Adam Kriney on drums, percussion, electric bass, and electronics. You may also know John from his noisy distortions in his freak-rock collective DIRTY CHURCHES and you may have heard Adam banging away with his psych/prog duo LA OTRACINA or his free-jazz group OWL SOUNDS.

1. Woven Wanderer (1:47)
2. Green Birds (11:19) (listen to an edit here)
3. Cowboy And The Strawberry Queen (6:09)
4. Ever Reach The Sky (2:06)

The first press of this CD, with black covers, is limited to 40 copies and is sold out.
The second press of this CD, with tie-dy blue covers, is limited to 13 copies, and is sold out.
The third press of this CD, with rainbow tie-dye covers, is limited to 47 copies, and is sold out.

This 4-track 21+ minute disc is another entrance into the world of psychedelic spaceship music. Brooklyn freak-out commandos LA OTRACINA have been redefining themselves for the past two years, crossing the boundaries of acid-psych rock, prog-rock, free-jazz, noise and the like, but never has ANY of their releases truly captured the visceral and twisted freakout nature of their sound, until now. "Aren't It Spectral" is the first disc to feature guitarist Tyler Nolan along side founder/drummer Adam Kriney in the current duo format. The disc comprises two short solo guitar pieces that shred the fabrics of time and space and twist and morph your universe until all that is left is acceptance and bliss, an 11+ minute free-improvisation that is as dynamic and incomprehensible as the birth of a galaxy with ferocious and heavy-as-fuck chaos-acid-freakouts and delicate pastoral interludes, and an orgasmic 6+ minute mushroom-folk-psych tune that includes layes upon layers of drums, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, Norske chord organ, and vibraphone, sure to bring you to the love-in of your mind. Recommended for all experimental-heavy-psych-freakout peoples!

1. Saung (57:19) Listen to an edited section of this track here

This 1-track hour long recording is a new moment. A momentum, a tom-tom, a lusting fever for exploration through no-now-worlds of miniature happenings, toy sounds, sax-jazz-skronk, free-rock, stop-start stutter-go-fall-over-musik!, blast-beat rhythms, prepared-guitar, extended techniques, and freak-out vocal mayhem. The executers of aural stuffs are Ed Chang on alto-saxophone and electric guitar, Adam Kriney on drums and percussion, and Motoko Shimizu on vocals, toys, percussion, and electric guitar. Ed has been around the NYC scene for quite a while now with his groups BLINDFOLD (members of NNCK), DUAL (with Portland based RUST IONICS member Doug Theriault), SPIN 17 (with partner Motoko), and more, Adam is drummer for psych/prog/freakout duo LA OTRACINA and free-jazz enseble OWL SOUNDS, and 1/2 of sexy-noise duo THE BEETS, as well as owner of Colour Sounds Recordings, and Motoko is in SPIN 17 with Ed as well as a collaborator with many downtown NYC legends such as Sabir Mateen, Daniel Carter, Matt Heyner, etc. Fans of Japanese noise, ESP Disk fire-blowers, and minimal-improv-ers take note..

1. Leaf Orr (7:21) Listen to an edited section of this track here.
2. Maa (5:31)
3. We Stems (4:56)
4. Feed (7:06)
5. Of Off (2:42)
6. Songeene (:14)
***below remixes only on 2nd pressing***
7. From Calm Pastures Of Liek-Twi The Cow Dreams Ancient (by LIEK-TWI) (8:13)
(Listen to an edited section of this track here)
8. (Sacred Cow) Remix (by TWIN:72) (11:23) (Listen to an edited section of this track here)
9. The Cow's Ensemble (by LIEK-TWI) (2:46)

What exactly happens indeed, when the cow, upon whose waste thy magic mushroom doth grow, consumes that very entity of fungal delight? Oh the beautiful things he sees and hears and feels and he delights in his world as never before! It is with similar luscious frenzy that we present to you a new recording of such a whirlwind and cosmically manic nature, that only the aforementioned cow will know just what to do/say feel/think be/know! The twisted and ever-playful OWL SOUNDS percussive/rhythmic core of Adam Kriney (traps) and Gene Janas (acoustic bass) frolic in the field of improvised sonics with beloved and bewildering bass clarinetist Arrington de Dionyso. Now, you may have heard our dear Arrington freaking out on guitar/vocals wild-rock style in his band OLD TIME RELIJUN who've released several full length albums of the legendary K Records, or possibly as curator of the Olympia Festival Of Experimental Musics for the past 11 years, or maybe even as a renowned performer/teacher of multiphonic Tuvan throatsinging, yes indeed what a fellow. And when the frolicing is through, a trail of African poly-rhythmics and freak-out anti-rhythmics, bathed in arco-invocations and low-end mutherfucking boom-boom, all raked over reeds of wicked wailing and banshee battlecries dis-/appears before your ears, goddamn, what a trip!? Now this is not to intimate the recording is with out it's calmer pastures, our boys know when to wiggle into sinewy explorations, but BAM! its astral occupation all over again, so don't get too comfy, ya dig? Packaged in gorgeous and surreal hand made art.

The first pressing of this cd-r sold out months ago, but after this record was selected as one of Wire Magazine's top Jazz & Improv releases of 2005, Colour Sounds decided to re-release it in a limited edition of 85 more copies, and this version also includes 3 insane sound-collage cut-up remixes, one by TWIN:72 (aka Tom Bell) and two by the duo of LIEK-TWI (Hektor Fontanez and Anthony Lebron), which all further take you down an unraveling road of confused beauty!

1. You Don't Fucking Count (:52)
2. Laswell And Brotzmann Naked In A Tub Of Jelly (1:46)
3. Attatch Tooth Pull Door (1:42). (Listen to this track here)
4. The Audience Has Left The Building (1:42)
5. Deep Constructs (2:18)
6. 3 For Dollar (:26)
7. We Would Like Your Feedback On This Matter (2:53)
8. Wiggle Stick Duel (3:10)
9. Lower Cse Fucking Bullshit (2:49)

"Live Singles In Providence" or "Bloody-Fucking-Gore-Improv-No-Wave-Skronk-Meltdown"...well it's just easier to remember the first one, though the second might give you more of a clue of the annihilation you are about to recieve upon listening to the newest offerning from NYC's sadistic and aurally destructive LUST IONICS. Consisting of Motoko Shimizu on screeched-operatic vocals of the darkest-angelic harmonics and her alien noise makers, her husband Ed Chang on homemade reed instruments, demonized alto sax, toolbox extras, and the sickest evil-noise-jazz guitar since Mr. Sharrock himself, and the ever assaulting batterer of skins and metal Adam Kriney to propel the whole fucking mess into your DOME! This 3" CD consists of 9 short-and-to-the gouging-needle's-point utterly manic and roaring improvised selections, delicately sliced from a live recording of their first show which took place in the ever swirling kingdom of killing sound, Providence, RI. Imagine a Japanese Patty Waters shrieking wordless over sick free-jazzers who are drunk on MARS and stoned on DISCORDANCE AXIS, um, yeah, shit-shut-up! Comes in typically beautiful Colour Sounds packaging, including hand painted and individually sewn inner-sleeves with killer translucent green covers. Limited to 49 copies and co-released with Quodlibet Recordings.

1. Thunda (8:11) (listen to an edit of this track here.)
2. Lihtni (12:06)

Blast beat chaos drums meets the dark lords personal synthesizer in an alley way and they get stoned & drunk, score some blow, and take a shower with 2 naked girls, fried electrics and melted cymbals can’t resist flowing down the drain in a swirling mess of shredding havoc. What the fuck else are they supposed to do? Armando Jalapeno and Reeves Westley do it again, totally killing the 4-track machine, can we say SA-TU-RA-TION? Recommended for fans of harsh-low-end-noise, extreme free-improvisation, and brutal soundz. Comes packaged in sublime clear-blue mini sleeve with dazzling multi-color paint/art, hand sewn, hand numbered out of 18, gorgeous, you're not sure whether to vomit on it or show it to your grandmother, super limited, split release with t.b.t.d. tapes label.

1. ...but the sticks are in my hands (8:26) (listen to an exerpt here)
2. LHV ride the rechargeable batteries (0:13)
3. adam's lane (7:28)
4. lobsters (0:17)
5. salsa mango tango (6:23)
6. my jazzbo has a mohawk (0:18)
7. so, what kind of vertical line are you supposed to be? (4:02)
8. nibbly toes (0:19)
9. homecoming (6:04)
10. her breathe beautiful sorrow (7:27)

Amazing and blazing new 40 minute tour CD from NYC freak-jazz unit OWL SOUNDS. You feel the colors green and yellow, you maybe even hear/here, a taste of blood, the smell of rhythms found in a bottle floating off South America, overboarded from a 1960’s cruise ship, feathers plucked from some alien peacock, I have seen and I have not seen, but fuck if I can explain it all. 8 cuts of roaring and mesmerizing free improvisation covering everything from 60’s era blow-outs, timeless drones, a Marion Brown piece, bastardized afro-cuban percussives, break-neck changes, swirls, and sways; definitely the best offering so far from these kids, totally unseen, yet undeniable and masterfully crafted. Totally sick sounding, recorded with bare minimum equipment, straight to VHS tape, no shit! Comes in typically gorgeous Colour Sounds packaging, hand made, sewn sleeves, art/paint all over everything, and limited to only 35 copies for the tour edition first press.

1. Our Tsunami (7:30)
2. Fishing (5:03)
3. The Eye (1:51)
4. Superdome (7:07)

Absolutely destroying new 4 cut EP by synth/drum black noise duo DEAD GIRLS. Lars Mars and Alberto Peacock rip your balls off with sub-bass sonics and blast-beat skullfucks, the white light entering their prism only exits black. Super limited edition of 31 hand painted discs, in super thick transparent red plastic envelopes with yellow sparkle hill-scapes and spewed beauty all over everything, these will be gone in a flash! Split release with t.b.t.d. tapes label.

1. LUST IONICS "The Audience Has Left The Building"
2. THE BEETS "Bird Of Prey...Further Envelops You (excerpt)"
3. DEAD GIRLS "Thunda (excerpt)"
4. OWL SOUNDS "...but the sticks are in my hands" (listen to an exerpt here)
5. LA OTRACINA "Cowboy And The Strawberry Queen"
6. RUST IONICS "Untitled A (excerpt)"
7. BLIZZARDS "Neon Forest, A Gathering Of Time"
8. LA OTRACINA "Fauna And Animated Floral Arrangements (excerpt)"
9. ADAMATIC "Funny Like A Flower (excerpt)"
10. DEAD GIRLS "Fishing"
11. OWL SOUNDS with ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO "Leaf Orr (excerpt)"
12. SONS OF FIRE "Saung (excerpt)"
13. LA OTRACINA "California Orange Sunshine (Creation)"

An absolutely stunning spectrum of sounds from the label, touching on everything from blown-out noise to ambient psychedelia to raunchy improv skronk rock to fierce free-jazz to swirling drones and more. Includes unreleased tracks, out-of-print tracks, and some barely avaialble tracks from most of the active Colour Sounds groops! Essential and damn cheap!

A. 1. Moving (sample)
B. 2. Pictures

"Moving/Pictures" marks the first vinyl release on Colour Sounds Recordings, and drummer Adam Kriney declares "This is the most insane record I've ever recorded", nuff said? A black sheet of improvised sonic skull-fuckery from the depths of the most mind-splitting free-noise/brutal-jazz movement, brought to you by the ad-hoc first/only recording of RUST IONICS, the trio of freak drummer Adam Kriney (OWL XOUNDS/LA OTRACINA/BLIZZARDS/CASTANETS), electric guitar wizard Doug Theriault (OFFICE PRODUCTS/DUAL, collab-er with Wally Shoup/Jeph Jerman/Brian Eubanks), and extreme sax-ist Ed Chang (DUAL/SPIN-17/AGENTS At MIDNIGHT, collab-er with Marshall Allen/Ravi Padmanabha). Full on grindcore/metal scapes clashed with fiercely extended saxaphone use and a dynamic whirl of free-improvisational magic, all together a blinding force, a drugged memory, and a leave-no-survivors presense. Comes on transparent blue vinyl in a limited edition of 311 copies in a clear picture disc sleeve. Recommended for fans of BORBETOMAGUS, Keiji Haino, PAINKILLER, and Peter Brotmann's more extreme work. (Dig the RUSH spoof/tribute album title!)

1st press of 100, March 17, 2006, sold out
2nd press of 79, September 3, 2006, sold out
3rd press of 50, June, 2007, sold out
4th pressing of 100, September 2007, 3 colors
5th pressing of 100, January 2007

CD 1
1. California Orange Sunshine (Creation) (Listen to an excerpt here)
2. Acide Cervau...
3. Hazy Mazes
4. There, The Infinite Between
5. Mu's Muse
6. Blurred Vision Netherworld
7. Freakbeat Eclipse Solar

CD 2
1. Sky Journey
I. G.E. Rides The Octogone
II. California Orange Sunshine
III. Electric Worm Frenzy
IV. Spiral Horizons
V. Sunshine Sister
VI. Cornfield
2. Blue Magnetic Time (Listen to an excerpt here)
3. California Orange Sunshine (Prism)
4. Freakbeat Eclipse Lunar
5. Neon Nova
6. Rated X

Devastating and essential collection of psychedelic out-rock soniks from Brooklyn, NY based moon-spirits LA OTRACINA. Piloted by freak-drummer Adam Kriney (OWL SOUNDS/DEAD GIRLS/LUST IONICS/CASTANETS/THE PLACES), LA OTRACINA have been warping the sonic flux since 2003, with several different formations, exploring the depths of sludged-out psychedelic improv and the wizardly science of astral-space-prog. This 2xCD-R covers totally insane unreleased live performances, basement tapes, collage cut-ups, and secret sessions, all blazing forth with a tidal wave of rainbow powers. With well over two hours of blissed-out soundz, this collection shows the array of directions the group has taken over the years, fueled as much by their psychedelic forefathers KING CRIMSON, GURU GURU, FAUST, CAN, FLOWER TRAVELLIN BAND, SOFT MACHINE, HELDON, and BLUE CHEER, as by modern composers Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and Steve Reich, and improvising legends such as the early ESP-Disk/BYG Actuel free-jazz artists and AMM & the European schools of free-music. This set comes packaged in completely over-the-top lush and colourful packaging, as much a collectible art piece as a celestially-sweet bang of other-worldly psyched-cosmik-music exploration! Limited edition, every one hand constructed, painted, sewn, art-ed up, etc! For fans of heavy/experimental psychedelia!

1. LIEK-DF "Wading In Space (Theme For My Flood)" (Listen to an edit here)
2. DEAD GIRLS "Nigerian Fantasy" (Listen to an edit here)

Beautiful noise, a folk music of out and far-reaching minds, explorations of depth, layers of tones, a torrent of sliced scales and echoes of washed-out melodies. This spectacular new release on Colour Sounds offers up two slabs of fukt-gorgeous sounds by LIEK-DF (Hektor Fontanez and Dave Ferraro) and DEAD GIRLS (Alfred Telehuahua & Moose "Hank" O'Brien), two NYC based teams pushing the realms of more-than-just-twistin’-knobs experimental sonics/noise. These boys ain't fakin' it, this is the real deal, this shit is to be filed under blow-off-your-dome fresh new-soundz! The LIEK-DF track explores nuances of acoustic guitar, clashing galaxies, swirling reversed tones, and rumblings from the magical towers in the Lower East Side, sheer beauty glazed over with yellow and orange cosmic goo, this is some heavy shit, just let it take you baby! DEAD GIRLS, on the other hand engage a more brutal place in the fields of time, phased out synths and haunting drum rumblings give way to epic destroying skull-fucked noise-core, completely engulfing all in their path, but with the deadly grace of a guillotine, protect yer neck! All of this sound is barely contained within the stunningly fresh packaging of greens, yellows, paints, sewed plastics, etc, this is fucking sick-wow-art baby, each piece is hand made/painted! First press of 39 and second press of 21 are both available, each is a unique packaging design! This is a split release with the t.b.t.d. label.

1. Quiet Whispers To The Deaf (listen to an edited section here)

Haunting and deep-heavy chants, yowls, drones n tones from the duo of ORISHA (Adam Kriney) and TWI (Anthony Lebron) that heave massive primal chunks of comet and space matter into the aural spheres. Usually Kriney (ORISHA) mans the helm as drummer for NYC freak-jazzers OWL SOUNDS and psych-seekers LA OTRACINA (as well as DEAD GIRLS, LUST IONICS, and touring jaunts with CASTANETS and THE PLACES) but as ORISHA his sound world is a distorted confusion of tripped-slipped vocal illusions, slabs of synth thud, and feedback washed ecstacy. Lebron (TWI) could be found releasing numerous gorgeous solo and collab CD-Rs on the fantastic LEARNING THE LANGUAGE label, dancing in the worlds of twisted noise-scapes, delicate and intricate vocal/acoustic guitar intertwinings, and truly blissed blood-ridden and sweat-induced (i.e. HUMAN!) electronic explorations. Together these two compose and instantaneous world, far spreading, inner reaching, blown through the fucking roof man, thick-ness, molasses of time, AN EVENT! yup.

1. OWL SOUNDS - Live At Kingsland Tavern, Brooklyn, NY (sample)
2. BIRDS IN THE MEADOW - Live At Paper Street Info Shop, Richmond, VA (sample)

...In a space hovering just off the surface of moon, generators of vibrations and tonal spheres emit into the wow of now...And just who is doing this generating and this emiting? Just two of THEE most essential and blistering underground freak-jazz units in the Northeast US, offering up a live side each on this split disc of lunar exploration!
New York City's OWL SOUNDS are here, hashing out a screaming yet melodic set, in their "Unseen Rhythmics" mode of Kriney-Janas-Borra, wrapped in a blanket of ESP fueled fire and spazz-punk fueled energy. While the aformentioned fire could easily be due to Randy Borra who studied under Jimmy Lyons and Gene Janas who spent time performing with Bern Nix, it is Kriney's hardcore/punk fueled drum styles that really propel things to the next stage. "Live At Kingsland Tavern" features Janas' dizzying bass-bows and Borra's relentless lyrical lines cross through all sorts of jazzness while shifting free/polyrhythmic utterances from Kriney steer the group through sections of delicacy and density. This would most likely be the last time original member Borra would perform with OWL SOUNDS, and in that celebration, the boys delight in Albert Ayler quotations and their oft-visited interpretation of Marion Brown's "Homecoming".
Richmond, Virginia's BIRDS IN THE MEADOW is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist/computer/electronics-whiz Marty McCavitt. BITM's vision is a sort of meeting between the world of live improvised free-music and immediate responses from McCavitt's own software programming, to unexpectedly vibrant and real-time results. The group has a rotating cast inlcuding: sax-ist Darius Jones who plays in his trio LITTLE WOMEN, TANAKH (Alien8 Recordings), a trio with Cooper-Moore & Chad Taylor, FROM BACTERIA TO BOYS (w/ Mike Pride), etc; phenomenal Richmond free-music/jazz/avant drummer Brian Jones; and electronics/noise-wizard Kenny Yates of HARM STRYKER. This particluar side from BITM features the duo of McCavitt and Darius Jones, in a thrilling and genre-defying mash-up of live-electronic/laptop and sax improv. Darius' palate scans the patterns of out-ness, from skwaks to squeals to trills and growls, while McCavitt's laptop whirs from bug tones to black noise, dulcimer samples, and melodic interplay with Jones. Fucking fantastic!
Comes in warped green sleeves of bewildering art, done up typical Colour Sounds style, limited to a 1 time pressing of 78 hand numbered copies!

1. The Myth Of Time An Elastic Experience (listen to a section here)

NYC psychedelic freak-jazzers propel off the globe, off the map, off the radar, and off the fucking clock with this one, get tight, it's coming! Formerly known as OWL SOUNDS, the new formation and vision of the group is clearly underway with this release, a hectic 27+ minute explosion of times and masses, brought to you by the usual suspects of drummer Adam kriney and upright bassist Gene janas, with new recruits, alto sax-ist Darius Jones (of BIRDS IN THE MEADOW/TANAKH and collab-er with Cooper-Moore/Chad Taylor/Andrew D'Angelo/etc) and acid-rockit electric guitarist Gene Moore (Ecstatic Peace recording artist, member of HAT CITY INTUITIVE (also on Ecstatic Peace)). The quartet effectively destroy the 4th dimension, with reeling psych-rock bombast, post ESP free-jazz orgasm, and bistering punk-noise-horror. Compositionally dense and erratically accelarated, this live performance from the Glasshouse Gallery in Brooklyn, NY is an expedition in redefinition of the basis/rules/attachments of music with respect to linearity and propulsion, worm-holes ain't got shit on these boys! A serious out-jazz vibe for deep sonic headz. Comes in ultra-warped classic tripper design packaging, a perfect visual for such insane sounds. Second press of 27 hand numbered copies out now!

1. A Mistake Has Been Made In Your Honor
2. It Were Wrong And It Were Sick
3. Confusion For The Masses
4. In Defense Of Surreality
5. The End Of Discussion (sample)

"Toxic Raga" marks the 2nd album from the OWL XOUNDS trio line-up of Adam Kriney, Gene Janas, and Arrington De Dionyso, the first of which, "Cow On Mushrooms", exploded onto the landscape last year heralded by such folks as David Keenan, Alex Neilson, and James Toth (WOODEN WAND) and being selected by Wire Magazine as one of the top jazz/improv albums of 2005. After the sudden interest in the group, the trio decided to embark on a Northeast US mini-tour and finish it up with a recording session, which we now present to you.
The textures/times/vibrations embarked upon in this free-music setting draw from the sewers of outsider-experimental jazz explorations and intuitive appraoches to instant composition recieved from the cosmos above. Kriney's clustered/blistering drumming assumes the role of pace and power, while Janas' extraordinary upright bass innovations/antics allows the density to fluctuate from a single buzzing bee to a blizzard's roar, and De Dionyso's bass clarinet/vocal statements and allusions/illusions breathe the final beautiful hush of towering xounds on which to meditate. As psychedelic as a manhole cover and as gentle as a toothpick, the trio dance the magic waddle of forgotten mystery, and sing songs of lost future legends and reach inward plucking their pumping red heart from the cold dead hands of this fucked EARTH.
Comes packaged in an oversized envelope of toxic art inlcuding an absurdist anti-poem by Ryan Eggensperger, in a 1-time edition of 108(!?) copies.

1. Of All The Spheres Of Time In The Forest of Neon, You Had To Choose Mine?
2. Fantastic Ions
3. Where Go You Did?/Concentric Moons Of Elder Dunes (listen to a section of Where Go You Did?)
4. Demon And Pear Dance Spiral
5. Hue Of Blue Blue Blue As The Day Is Done (listen to a section of here)
6. Jet Vessel Trek Through Glacier/Buzzards Find Fun (listen to a section of Buzzards Find Fun)
7. The Themes Of Dragon And Amalthea

Totally cosmic voyages through the fanatsy-illusion-folk meets krautrock-prog/minimalism fueled eyes and ears of BLIZZARDS on this debut disc, sure to be a momumental release in the Colour Sounds catalog. Formed by drummer Adam Kriney (OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY/LA OTRACINA/QUIVERS/DIVINE INVASION/RUST IONICS/DEAD GIRLS/CASTANETS/THE PLACES), and electric guitarists/noise-electronicians/vocalists/cousins Anthony Lebron (TWI & THE HUMBLE FEATHER/LIL HUMBLE VELI) and Hektor Fontanez (LIEK/LIL HUMBLE VELI). They began in April of 2006 and combined their forces to create the most awesome of fantasy-magic music possible, feeding off the worlds of avant-pop, neo-experimental folk, classic prog/krautrock, noise/electronics/drone, and new-music-minimalists such as Glass, Riech, and Riley. Realising worlds filled with castles in the cosmos, dragons and unicorns, bubbling spheres, and reds and yellows filling the vast voids, visions of width and depth of time are folded and wow-ed! This debut release sees them engaged in compositions, structured improvs, and total spontanaeity to the effect of three pals who've been playing together forever, traveling the cosmos and interpreting all the mysteries OUT there.

1. One... (listen to a section here)
2. Two..
3. Three...
4. Four.
5. Five.
6. Six... (listen to a section here)
7. Seven..

Trashed-up punk-jazz art-rock by some NYC freaks who ain't fakin' it, and remember that even carefully scalped heads still reveal a mess of blood and gore; with this analogy we at Colour Sounds present the new offering of sacrificial pleasure, the debut release by QUIVERS entitled "once There Were Some". Formed out of the incestuous and diverse improv/experimental music scenes of NYC, the core of the group began as collaborations between electric guitarist Ninni Morgia, upright bassist Jordan Schranz, and vocalist Marie Evelyn. Somewhere down the line, these cats stumbled upon wrong-drummer Adam Kriney and figured they should play some shows together. After several successful revelatory performances to typically unappreciative/confused NYC audience members, these 4 bastards headed into the studio to lay it out and give birth to god's marmalade mystery baby, in sound form. A real ride through truly odd improvised rock/anti-jazz bullshit skronk, on the heavy speed meets LSD trip and on the mushrooms meets cocaine trip. No slop folks, these kidz got their skills and lay the shit down.

Sicilian native Morgia comes to us with a fucked/out guitar history including European prog-ers WHITE TORNADO (Skin Graft), and his current WIZARD TRIO (with NYC legend Daniel Carter and Jade Larsen of SPACEBOY/MIRACLE OF BIRTH fame), He explores the reaches of destroyed 6 string attack with the kapow of Sonny Sharrock and the buzzz of Keiji Haino.

Jordon Schranz is a menace to fiddles everywhere, and to fiddlers on the roof. Schranz can also be found circling the globe toruing with his never-proper and hazed-out free-jazz trio EASTERN SEABOARD, who've released several albums on the legenary Black Saint label. And he also runs the Tigerasylum Records label and is an accomplished mixed-media artist.

Ms. Evelyn, the curious scientist/vocalist of the group takes us to the dark places where P. Waters, Y. Ono, and sometimes k. Gordon do, that eeerie, hair standing up on the back of neck feeling, crispy creatures everywhere. Run, run.

Drummer Adam Kriney can usually be found with several of his active groups including OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY, LA OTRACINA, BLIZZARDS, DIVINE INVASION, RUST IONICS, DEAD GIRLS or touring as a guest musician with CASTANETS and THE PLACES, and running the Colour Sounds label. Other than that, he can be found eating granola and listening to EMERSON LAKE & PALMER.

This CD-R is limited to 52 numbered copies in stoned art-ed up packaging, typically eye-melting Colour Sound designs doin' it again. This is a split release with the Tigerasylum Records label.

A1. The Afflicted Interest
A2. Our Motives Are Subject To Change
A3. Collide A Scope And The Whistle Of Doom
B1 . X-ounds Memory (listen to a sample here)

Brand new mind-blasting vinyl debut freak-jazz from the Brooklyn based OWL XOUNDS collective featuring the usual suspects of Adam Kriney (LA OTRACINA/RUST IONICS) on drums and Gene Janas on upright bass, this time teaming up with Austrian saxophonist Mario Rechtern who’s been active in free-jazz/improvisation since the 60’s, performing with the likes of Sunny Murray, Leena Conquest, and Linda Sharrock through the years, to name just a few. The boys really destroy all notions of time and space with this one, creating an omnipresent system of complex anti-rhythms and clustered/destructed melodies, so much is happening at once in so many velocities, it is a hurricane of delicate free-form jazz based sonics! This LP is limited to 400 copies on clear yellow vinyl and is a split release with Mad Monk (run by Wooden Wand’s James Toth) and Kriney’s Colour Sounds Recordings label. Fans of modern spazz-jazz groups such as Thurston Moore’s DREAM AKTION UNIT and John Olson’s (of WOLF EYES) GRAVEYARDS will find as much thrill in this baby as those of you stoked on the original freedoms found in early ESP-Disk, Savoy, and BYG/Actual recordings of the 60’s.

1. HAT CITY INTUITIVE - "Nicely Bearded! Welcome."
2. HAT CITY INTUITIVE - "Blatantly Daffodil"
3. HAT CITY INTUITIVE - "Could NEIL Inform The Return's Silly" (sample)
4. LA OTRACINA - "Elliptical Envelopment Of The Other None" (sample)
5. BIG NURSE - "66 Pricks"
6. BIG NURSE - "New Constitution Pt. 2" (sample)

This is the LAST HURRAH, just look around you, The World will end/has ended/won't stop ending, better dig in while you can! It is with this realization of both joy and exhiliration that Colour Sounds presents this offering of collaborative sonic wonder, pushing the density of sound to it's limit and errupting with the most raw of pure tones imaginable. "The World Will End Yesterday" features fearless and immediate sounds from three groups of the noise underground each in pursuance of freedom in a different direction, but all arriving at the same point, TOTALITY!
HAT CITY INTUITIVE have been kicking around the underground of lost musics since 1991, releasing their first LP "Happiness Is A One Trick Pony/Crying Is Shaped Like A Seahorse" on Matt Valentine's Superlux label in 1995, the "They Must be Clapping For...Me" CD on Crank Automotive in 2000, and more recently two self-isued full lengths "Narrow Miss On The Chamber Pot" and "/....//../..// (grey goose & a whole lotta hydro)". Featuring a large rotating cast of musicians spread across various North Easters states, this collective explores the various methods pioneered by AMM, ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO, AMON DUUL, etc, into a flux of cult-laden psychedelic-skronk, multi-directional noise, free-rock, and revolutionary jazz. The three slices of time they've devoted to this compilation sound like what would happen if Ayler performed at one of Kesey's Acid Tests...blasted!
LA OTRACINA is the psychedelic/prog vision of freak-drummer Adam Kriney and since 2003 his collective has explored everything from the most complex-Crimson-esque arrangements, to complete psychedelic-free-improv ala FUSHITSUSHA and GURU GURU, and the cast of members/collaborators has included everthing from stoner/acid-rockers to jazz/fusion headz to some of NYC's finest/fiercest free-improvisors. The single track found on this compilation is a massive slab of drone-layered/warped-freakout/acid-trip/sound collage action, comprised of various live recordings taken from their 2006 "Elliptical Envelopment" tour as the duo of Adam Kriney and Matt Lavallee.
BIG NURSE are a destroying hardcore/noise unit based out of Nashville/Murfreesboro, TN whose menacing riffs and relentlessly pounding drums are full of devastation ala the crustiest hardcore punk, mixed with a nod to blown-out anti-rock, and layers of overloaded BLACK movement! Their two tracks on this compilation explore both the seeking-improvisational confused/chaos momentum of free-music's liberation as well as a tightness of song explosions on top of it, blazing out and away!

CD-R 1
1. Fauna & Animated Floral Arrangements
2. Electric Worm Frenzy
3. Spiral Horizons
4. Sunshine Sister

CD-R 2
1. Pulse R
2. Orange California Sunshine
3. Pulse S
4. Cornfield
5. Woven Wanderer
6. Green Birds
7. Cowboy And The Strawberry Queen
8. Ever Reach The Sky

A collection of the first 4 out-of-print LA OTRACINA CD-R eps, "Fauna & Animated Floral Arrangements", "Spatial", "Trinomy", and "Aren't It Spectral". Lovingly and neatly repackaged across 2 CD-Rs and all remastered for your aural pleasure. Featuring early line-ups of the group, swirling through various abstract sound worlds, collaged synth workouts, freeform acid jams, free-jazz heavy blow outs, and all sorts of psychedelic gestures and Kraut-inspirations! As essential as "Love Love Love" yet completely different!

1. Yellow Mellow Magic
2. Beyond The Dusty Hills (Cowboy In The Desert Part Two)
3. Nine Times The Color Red Explodes Like Heated Blood
4. Sailor Of The Salvian Seas
5. Ode To Amalthea

"One of the many fine projects Adam Kriney is heavily involved with, La Otracina with their debut on Holy Mountain show very well that Kriney and his associates know how to make the kind of queasily dramatic psych/drone overload that is manna from heaven to any number of shaggy-haired listeners (and a few clean-cut ones as well). Not far removed from what early Ash Ra Tempel did in terms of overlapping and deep-echoed feedback exploration and noise, La Otracina add just enough direct anthemic power -- a bit of American classic rock, if one likes -- to compositions like "Yellow Mellow Magic" to make the combination of enveloping sound and hit-the-highway drive work like a charm. "Nine Times the Color Red Explodes Like Heated Blood" deserves mention just for the wonderful and perfectly over the top title alone, but further credit for how a six-minute song -- short for this album -- feels like a full symphony in miniature thanks to any number of different tempo shifts and movements that would do an arena prog band proud, and all while keeping the same feeling of atmospheric drift and propulsion running throughout. Meantime, in more exploratory songs, classic improvisational indulgence of the best kind crops up -- the central guitar melody that steps up in the introduction to "Beyond the Dusty Hills (Cowboy in the Desert, Pt. 2)" perfectly anchors the roiling drum fills. The concluding "Ode to Amalthea," meanwhile, contains the slyest joke of the album -- two minutes into its engaging sprawl, a guitarist picks out the theme used to communicate with the aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Combined with the title, presumably referencing the small moon of Jupiter called by that name, this makes for a knowing tribute to the kind of free-form exploratory space rock of three decades back that happily carries through to a newer time." - Ned Raggett, All Music Guide

1. The Silent Dementia
2. Hand On Sun
3. Pear-Born Thicket

LA OTRACINA Summer Tour EP. Three tracks featuring extensive collage work and new music by new bassist Evan Sobel. Source material includes new/unreleased recordings of trio improvisations during the Adam Kriney/Ninni Morgia/Jordon Schranz period as well as some material from earlier out-of-print EPs. A brilliant mix of acid-rock blowout, early electronic Kraut innovations, and lush drones/tones. A teaser of new music on the horizon!

1, Babylons & Badlands
2. Of Sons, Suns, Clouds & Thunder
3. Plastic Otrasounds Swam Infinite
4. We Came Through The Mountains...And Dazed The Time
5. Manic Imaginarium Of Spells, The Magic Was Told, And Truth Still Known

'The Avocado Sunbeam Tapes' are the sounds of LA OTRACINA's catharsis, the sum of all of our collective emotions, as portrayed through deep and heavy psychedelic improvisations. These recordings were made on our summer tour in 2007 recorded directly to cassette. The music we had written for this tour was wildly complex and alive with motion, and usually at the end of each set, we would perform an improvisation, a final statement of the day, to literally get it all out, all of our joy, anger, frustrations, and bliss. These recordings are the result of all of that, the sweaty van all day, the drunken stoned nights, the hours of endless interstates, and the fucking rock and roll baby...let's ride! Cover artwork by the amazing Lucy Burrows

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