label news and announcements and words

4/5/9

LA OTRACINA "Woven Wanderers" Tour

Wed, 4/8, 1701 West Friendly (house show), Greensboro, NC w/ THE THREE BRAINED ROBOT, IRON BITCHFACE

Thur, 4/9, 89 Columbus St (house show), Charleston, SC w/ THE DEAD HIPPIES, APPOLYON

Fri, 4/10, Will’s Pub, Orlando, FL w/ BLEEDING RAINBOW, HAPPY VALLEY

Sat, 4/11, Melvin Gallery (at Florida Southern College), Lakeland, FL w/ EVENING PEOPLE

Sun, 4/12, The Roosevelt, Ybor City (Tampa), FL w/ EVENING PEOPLE

Mon, 4/13, The Kickstand, Gainesville, FL w/ NOMENCLATURE, THE FUTURE NOW, TANKS IN SERIES

Tues, 4/14, X-Records, Greenville, SC w/ ORCHARD

Wed, 4/15, Dude Manch (house show, 618 E. Franklin), Richmond, VA w/ YARDWORK, CAVES/CAVERNS

Sat, April 18, LA OTRACINA with X-RAY EYEBALLS, PSYCHO THRILLER, and 1 more TBA, at Alphabeta, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY.

Fri, April 24, LA OTRACINA plays the NAAM Record Release Show! Come celebrate with us and our brothers as they release their first album, location/venue still pending.

Wed, May 20, LA OTRACINA at The Stone (you know, John Zorn's avant garde club?), East Village, NYC, NY. We play at 8pm sharp, it's just us playing, 1 set, $5!

 

2/16/9

Upcoming shows!

Fri, Feb 20, LA OTRACINA with LORD FOWL, FLORIDA=DEATH, & OPEN STAR CLUSTERS at Eclectic Wear, New London, CT.

Wed, Feb 25, LA OTRACINA with WIZARDRY, Free show, we play first at 9-ish, at Union Pool, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

Wed, March 25, LA OTRACINA with HEADDRESS, & WHITE HILLS, at Don Pedro, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY

Wed, April 1, LA OTRACINA with other TBA, at Southpaw, Park Slope, NY

LA OTRACINA Southeastcoast US Tour
April 8-April 15, dates/locations coming soon. We need help in Greenville, NC and Charleston, SC or places near????

Fri, April 24, LA OTRACINA plays the NAAM Record Release Show! Come celebrate with us and our brothers as they release their first album, location/venue still pending.

Wed, May 20, LA OTRACINA at The Stone (you know, John Zorn's avant garde club?), East Village, NYC, NY. We play at 8pm sharp, it's just us playing, 1 set, $5!

12/22/8

Well the end of the year is upon us all! Thanks for all of your continued support!

2008 has been an incredible year for La Otracina and the Colour Sounds label!

News:

*New LA OTRACINA “Blood Moon Riders” LP on Holy Mountain available from me NOW!
*New QUIVERS “2012” LP available from me NOW!
*LA OTRACINA prepares for late Winter/Early Spring US tour, help us come to your city!
*New Years Eve show in Brooklyn!

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*New LA OTRACINA “Blood Moon Riders” LP on Holy Mountain available from me NOW!

LA OTRACINA “Blood Moon Riders” LP/download is available from me NOW and officially out on the Holy Mountain label in early January! This is another epic adventure into dense instrumental prog, swirling psychedelia, and otherworldy improvisational wizardry. The LP consists of 5 tracks recorded in 2007 under the Adam Kriney/Evan Sobel/Ninni Morgia instrumental line-up of the band, and the music may be familiar to anyone who saw us during that period. We are very proud to have this LP released on the fantastic Holy Mountain record label, which follows after our much praised “Tonal Ellipse Of The One” CD also released on that label in 2007. While “Tonal…” is almost sold out of its 1000 CDs pressed, this new LP will only be available for a 1 time pressing of 500 copies that each come with a fancy digital download card. Cover artwork of the HIGHEST magical order by the wonderful Maura Arraj! An all around aural and visual fantasy experience!

You can preview some of the tracks here: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=146578&highlight=146584

This release is available from me for $18 US/$23 World via PAYPAL to colour_sounds@hotmail.com
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*New QUIVERS “2012” LP available from me NOW!

Heavy free-improv power quartet, limited to 100 copies on colored vinyl, with screen printed covers!

Features Adam Kriney – drums, Ninni Morgia (ex-LA OTRACINA) – guitar, Jordon Schranz (THE EASTERN SEABOARD/ex-LA OTRACINA) – upright bass, and Chris Welcome – cello.

Already reviewed in the January 2009 issue of The Wire magazine!
by Marc Masters

Jazz based improvisation has seeped into outsider rock for decades, but lately that combination seems to be resurging in the American underground. One leading light in this bubbling culture is New York label Tiger Asylum. Energetic releases from The Eastern Seabord, Trauma Unit and Violence Jazz have bolstered their growing catalogue, but the best Tiger Asylum outfit is Quivers. A quartet featuring one current and two ex-members of Brooklyn psych rock outfit La Otracina, Quivers can rip out a rock riff, but their rushing music is firmly planted in the realm of ecstatic free jazz.

The centre of Quivers' wide-open mix is the versatile guitar work of Ninni Morgia. Over the five untitled tracks on 2012, Morgia's sounds range from miniaturist pin-pricks to sheets of dense fuzz. He opens the second track with warped feedback that sounds nearly electronic, then drifts into a Hendrix-style wail over the crashing rolls of drummer Adam Kriney and sawing tones of cellist Chris Welcome. One track later, Morgia's slippery noise meshes precisely with Kriney's cavernous rumbles. One might not expect such intricate interplay from an ensemble whose approach is more garage throw-down than studied introspection. Yet it's the small details in 2012 that make the strongest impression. This is clearest on the two long pieces that stretch across the album's second side. Simultaneously spacious and cacophonous, the tracks traverse a wide swathe of moods: buiding tension from carefully-bowed strings, chilly ambience from cymbal washes, frantic breathlessness from all the sonic elements peaking together organically. It's the kind of tonal range that's only achieved by familiar, thoughtful collaborators playing free of external restrictions.

This release is available from me for $18 US/$23 World via PAYPAL to colour_sounds@hotmail.com
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SPECIAL DEALS!!

If you want to order BOTH the LA OTRACINA “Blood Moon Riders” LP and the QUIVERS “2012” LP, you can get them for $32 US/$40 World.
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*LA OTRACINA prepares for late Winter/Early Spring US tour, help us come to your city!

We are already planning for our next US tour! Please help is come to YOUR CITY! Please send us the names of any local promoters, clubs, venues, bars, art spaces, galleries, radio stations, cool folks, etc who can help us out! And if YOU want to set up a show for us, GET IN TOUCH!
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*New Years Eve show in Brooklyn!


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As always, please check out all of my websites:

Colour Sounds Recordings – http://www.vorg.net
LA OTRACINA at myspace – http://www.myspace.com/laotracina
GREENWURM/DRAGONFRYND at myspace – http://www.myspace.com/dragonfrynd
OWL XOUNDS – http://www.myspace.com/owlsounds
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lots of love and happy holidays!

Your friend in time-

adam

 

12/19/8

So much going on!!!

Please check the LA OTRACINA myspace page for most news and upcoming shows on a more regular basis!

Happy holidaze!

Smoke hard!

 

6/15/8


LA OTRACINA US Tour this week/New Tour CD OUT NOW!/LOVE!

Hello hello to Colour Sounds friends!!!

In This Update:

1) LA OTRACINA US Tour June 20-July 2

2) New LA OTRACINA limited edition Tour CD-R available for PREORDER NOW!

3) Other recent releases and stuff soon to come out!


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1) LA OTRACINA US Tour June 20-July 2

Friends in the US, come check out our live new sounds. Feel free to check for regular updates at our myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/laotracina

Fri 6/20/8 Washington, DC at La Casa
Sat 6/21/8 Richmond, VA at Dude Manch (House Show/618 E. Franklin)
Sun 6/22/8 Greenville, NC at The Spazz
Mon 6/23/8 Columbia, SC at New Brookland Tavern
Tues 6/24/8 Athens, GA at Secret Squirrel
Wed 6/25/8 Murfreesboro, TN at House House (House Show/620 Greenland Drive)
Thur 6/26/8 Memphis, TN at Odessa
Fri 6/27/8 Cincinnati, OH at Murmur
Sat 6/28/8 Columbus, OH at Skylab
Sun 6/29/8 Cleveland, OH at Now That’s Class
Mon 6/30/8 Pittsburgh, PA at Reeve’s House, (3206 Kennett Sq)
Tue 7/1/8 Philadelphia, PA at Marvelous Records

Thurs 7/3/8 Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY at The Charleston
Fri 7/4/8 Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY at Den Of Iniquity (House Party Show/38 Lawton Street)

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2) New LA OTRACINA limited edition Tour CD-R available for PREORDER NOW!

LA OTRACINA “The Risk Of Gravitation” CD-R, Colour Sounds Recordings 036

Description: “The Risk Of Gravitation” is the stunning new Summer 08 Tour mini-album by Brooklyn’s LA OTRACINA, who have long wandered and forged sounds in the hidden lands of heavy psychedelia and progressive space music. This 7 track 32+ minute excursion is a major paradigm shift for the group as drummer Adam Kriney is now on vocal duties as well, adding yet another layer of epic intensity to the swirling chaos of Evan Sobel’s Fender Bass VI low-end destruction and new guitarist Philippe Ortanez’s ecstatically angular bliss-out. This disc shifts between tracks of classic LA OTRACINA free-form freakout brilliance and their current vocal-heavy jams, which put the progressive psych back into early heavy metal while exploring realms of dark doom-sludge thunder and the graceful complexity of early Canterbury jazz-rock. Refusing to be quantified, it is clear that LA OTRACINA remain in an orbit of their own, seeking out the cosmic weird and channeling it through hard rock power! First press limited edition of 100 numbered copies.

Available for $8ppd US/$12ppd World. To order, PAYPAL the correct amount to colour_sounds@hotmail.com

Listen: Check out some of the tunes at our myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/laotracina

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3) Other recent releases and stuff soon to come out!

OUT NOW!

PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE EXPANSE CD-R on Apollolaan Records
A live big band fronted by Steve Krakow (aka PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE), limited to 50 copies, hand-painted UK-label CDR of the Plastic Crimewave Expanse, an ensemble put together in NY with members of the spires that in the sunset rise, creeping nobodies, the bummer road, la otracina, thurston moore's band, and yup, Adam Kriney plays drums on this.
Available via http://www.apollolaan.co.uk

*V/A "Peace Frog Rides The Rocket" CD with Peace Frog zine issue 2
Features 1 exclusive otherwise unreleased LA OTRACINA track.
Available via http://www.myspace.com/togewgaw
(DO NOT ASK TO ORDER FROM ME, I HAVE NO COPIES FOR SALE!)

*V/A “Living Bridge” CD compilation on Rare Book Room Records
Features a track by the group TOMORROW’S FRIEND, who Adam Kriney was a brief member of in 2007 and he played drums on their track. Also includes songs by ENON, AVEY TARE, DEERHUNTER, BLACK DICE, and many more.
(DO NOT ASK TO ORDER FROM ME, I HAVE NO COPIES FOR SALE!)

OUT SOON!

OWL XOUNDS/JAZZFINGER split 3" CD-R on Seafoam Records
OWL XOUNDS/LOOSERS split 7" on Release The Bats Records
EMERALD WINDS (Adam + Phil of LA OTRACINA) 1 track on a limited CD-R compilation on Dynamo Sound label
VORG VESSEL 2xCD-R on Cut Hands label

OUT LATER!

LA OTRACINA “Woke On Waves” LP on Abandon Ship
LA OTRACINA “Blood Moon Riders” LP on Holy Mountain
EMERALD WINDS CD-R on Colour Sounds Recordings
OWL XOUNDS LP multi-label split release
Adam Kriney/John Olson collab LP?


-adam kriney-
colour_sounds@hotmail.com
http://www.vorg.net
http://www.myspace.com/laotracina

 

5/1/8


Friday May 2 - EMERALD WINDS (Adam + Phil of LA OTRACINA) with THE HIDDEN RATIO & UNSTOPPABLE DEATH MACHINE at The Yippie Museum, 9 Bleeker St (Bowery/Elizabeth), Lower East Side, NYC, NY. We play first at 9pm.

Tuesday May 6 - LA OTRACINA with CLOUDLAND CANYON (Kranky/Holy Mountain/Tee Pee) and STEVE MOORE (solo of ZOMBIE) at Glasslands Gallery, Kent Ave (S. 1st/S. 2nd) Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. We play 2nd at 10pm.

 

2/26/8

March 7, 2008! LA OTRACINA plays at Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY with BUNNYBRAINS and SPIRIT MOISTURE. Show is at The Smog, starts around 9-ish/rock time.<br><br>

March 8, 2008! LA OTRACINA at Festival Under The Snow in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with MOUTHUS, AXOLOTL, and PANOPTICON EYELIDS. Should be an absolutely killer night!

and then we play two NYC area shows with our Baltimore, MD brothers VINCENT BLACK SHADOW

March 28, 2008 LA OTRACINA with VINCENT BLACK SHADOW and TOURNAMENT at Mi Casita, 344 Lorimer St @ Montrose, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY. we play 2nd

March 29, 2008 LA OTRACINA with VINCENT BLACK SHADOW (record release show!), HEAVY HANDS, and THE CONVOCATION OF... at Cakeshop, LES, NYC, NY. we play 2nd

 

1/16/8


Hello colour sounds friends and a happy new year to you!

Already this new year is off to an amazing start, here’s what I got to tell you about:

1) LA OTRACINA has a new member

2) LA OTRACINA tours the USA Jan 18-Feb 10 with THE PHANTOM FAMILY HALO

3) Several new CD-Rs are out

4) LA OTRACINA at SXSW (Austin, TX) and Under The Snow Festival (Montreal) in March

5) My 2007 Top list

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1) LA OTRACINA has a new member

We would like to welcome Scott Prato to the LA OTRACINA family, he is our new guitar player. Some of you NYC-ers may have seen him shred in his garage group THE BRIAN WILSON SHOCK TREATMENT. We will show you to him on tour! Hold tight!

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2) LA OTRACINA tours the USA Jan 18-Feb 10 with THE PHANTOM FAMILY HALO

LA OTRACINA will be touring the US with Louisville, KY based THE PHANTOM FAMILY HALO (http://www.myspace.com/thephantomfamilyhalo) from Jan 18-Feb 10. Some dates are still TBA, so please check our website FREQUENTLY at http://www.myspace.com/laotracina for updates in YOUR CITY. Speaking of which, if you can help us flyer/promote in your town, we will get you into the show for free, drop me an e-mail immediately with your address included!

Jan 18 2008 LOUISVILLE, KY @ CAHOOTS
Jan 19 2008 MEMPHIS, TN @ ODESSA
Jan 20 2008 ST. LOUIS, MO @ APOP RECORDS
Jan 21 2008 TBA
Jan 22 2008 DENVER , CO @ THREE KINGS
Jan 23 2008 SALT LAKE CITY, UT @ RED LIGHT BOOKS
Jan 24 2008 BOISE, ID @ NEROLUX
Jan 25 2008 PORTLAND, OREGON @ EAST END BAR
Jan 26 2008 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON @ JULES MAE
Jan 27 2008 EUREKA, CALIFORNIA @ TBA
Jan 28 2008 SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA @ TBA
Jan 29 2008 SAN FRANCISCO, @ THE HEMLOCK TAVERN
Jan 30 2008 OFF
Jan 31 2008 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA @ MAXWELL’S
Feb 1 2008 BIG SUR, CA @ TBA
Feb 2 2008 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA @ TBA
Feb 3 2008 SAN DIEGO, CA @ THE CASBAH
Feb 4 2008 PHOENIX, ARIZONA @ MODIFIED ARTS
Feb 5 2008 TBA
Feb 6 2008 TBA
Feb 7 2008 LAWRENCE, KANSAS @ REPLAY LOUNGE
Feb 8 2008 BLOOMINGTON, IN @ BEAR'S PLACE
Feb 9 2008 CHICAGO, IL @ TBA
Feb 10 2008 CLEVELAND, OH @ THE TOWER

For info on ANY date/show, please e-mail us immediately!

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3) Several new CD-Rs are out

Now AVAILABLE!

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DRAGONFRYND “Smoke Ring Mandala” CD-R. Just released on the Cut Hands label from The Netherlands, the debut CD-R by Adam Kriney’s new keys/guitar duo with artist Clinton Wilkins, Adam plays the keys and Clinton is on guitar. This disc treads ground similar to the psychedelic explorations of Richad Pinhas, Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze, Robert Fripp, Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius, combining dissonant blazed guitar echoed out to the cosmos with lush, dense, and menacing keyboard flourishes, while keeping lessons from Minimalists like Reich and Glass close at hand. Available from Cut Hands - http://www.cuthands.net

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LA OTRACINA “Crystal Wizards From The Cosmic Weird” CD-R. Just released first title on the brand-spanking new Ski-Fi Industries label out of Florida, USA, this full color artwork covered CD-R contains the obliterating improvisations of LA OTRACINA, recorded live at their gig in Bologna, Italy on their November 2007 tour.

Official Blurb - ” It all began with some kind of lunar roadhouse kosmische showdown scene on some rickety bar on the moon, with all kinds of fucked up looking creatures, with scales or tails and multiple eyes and all that, all lookin grimey, just making a stop on their way to proxima centauri, coming down off a fistful of Benzedrine, tired and disgruntled, chainsmoking and drinking neon green booze, spurs on their space boots and all that. You know, cacophony and all that and then some jiving band of lizards was taking the stage and laying down a sick cosmic sludge, from a skronk ruckus, into the depths of some eerie zero gravity subconscious neu transmutations, to some sonification of sun ra nightmares. la otracina live in Bologna, Italy November 10.2007. absolutely drunk and stoned to an absolutely oblivious and nearly empty room, save the fellow who walked into the microphone during the recording.”

Available from Ski-Fi at http://skyfi-industries.com/

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LA OTRACINA “Dark Matter” CD-R. Brand new on Colour Sounds Recordings. "Dark Matter" is a collection of out-of-print LA OTRACINA releases including their insane sound-collage track from the HAT CITY INTUITIVE/LA OTRACINA/BIG NURSE "The World Will End Yesterday" 3-way split CD-R, the 3-song "The Silence Dimension" CD-R released in 2007 featuring even more collage/remix work, and finally the blistering 5 tracks from the "The Avocado Sunbeam Tapes" released in 2007 featuring wicked live improvisations from the 2007 summer tour all recorded to cassette. "Dark Matter" is a complelling mixture of the experimental, ambient, and visceral collage and live music of LA OTRACINA. First 50 copies come with extra artwork by Jefferson Mayday.

ONLY 5 copies available for order now before we go on tour, order quickly or wait till mid-February!

Available for $7 US/$11 World, PAYPAL/order via colour_sounds@hotmail.com

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LA OTRACINA/THE PHANTOM FAMILY HALO US Tour 2008 split CD-R. Brand new on Colour Sounds Recordings, this TOUR ONLY release will be available on our upcoming US tour, but only a few available for pre-order. 3 songs by LA OTRACINA and 6 songs by THE PHANTOM FAMILY HALO comprising 52 minutes of sonics. The OTRA stuff is new improvisations with new guitarist Scott Prato, from dirgey blues skronk to hell-bent-biker bashers….and the PHANTOM stuff is dark, plodding, infectious and fucking brilliant, like some outcast BAUHAUS-BOWIE underbelly. Limited edition!

ONLY 5 copies available for order now before we go on tour, order quickly or maybe miss out forever?!

Available for $7 US/$11 World, PAYPAL/order via colour_sounds@hotmail.com

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We also have LA OTRACINA t-shirts for sale, please e-mail for sizes/info…they are $10 US/$14 World

Also, I am selling copies of the LA OTRACINA “Tonal Ellipse Of The One” CD on Holy Mountain for $12 US/$16 World

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4) LA OTRACINA at SXSW (Austin, TX) and Under The Snow Festival (Montreal) in March

LA OTRACINA will be playing at SXSW in Austin, TX and at Under The Snow Festival in Montreal, Canada, both in March. We will probably do a tour around these dates, e-mail us if you want us to play your town, thinking mainly southeast US, mid-west US, east coast US, etc. Firm dates posted soon!

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5) My 2007 Top list

here is a list of my favorite new releases/shows of 2007, indulge yourself!

ASTRA - demo CD-R (self-released)
ASSEMBLE HEAD IN SUNBURST SOUND - "Ekranoplan" (Tee Pee)
MAMMATUS "The Coast Explodes" (Holy Mountain)
EARTHLESS - "Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky" (Tee Pee)
PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND – every time, everywhere
COSMOTRON - live in Firenze, Italy
STONER KEBAB - "Imber Vvlgi" (Dufresne)
MONDO DRAG - live in Moline, Illinois
SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN - live at Diamond Days Festival, Brooklyn, NY
LA OTRACINA Italian Tour

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That’s all,

Your friend in time-

Adam Kriney

 

1/4/8


LA OTRACINA tours with THE PHANTOM FAMILY HALO

Jan 18 2008 LOUISVILLE, KY @ CAHOOTS
Jan 19 2008 MEMPHIS, TN @ ODESSA
Jan 20 2008 ST. LOUIS, MO @ APOP RECORDS
Jan 22 2008 DENVER , CO @ THREE KINGS
Jan 23 2008 SALT LAKE CITY, UT @ RED LIGHT BOOKS
Jan 24 2008 BOISE, ID @ NEROLUX
Jan 25 2008 PORTLAND, OREGON @ EAST END BAR
Jan 26 2008 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON @ JULES MAE
Jan 27 2008 EUREKA, CALIFORNIA @ TBA
Jan 28 2008 SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA @ TBA
Jan 29 2008 SAN FRANCISCO, @ THE HEMLOCK TAVERN
Jan 31 2008 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA @ MAXWELL’S
Feb 1 2008 BIG SUR, CA @ TBA
Feb 2 2008 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA @ TBA
Feb 3 2008 SAN DIEGO, CA @ THE CASBAH
Feb 4 2008 PHOENIX, ARIZONA @ MODIFIED ARTS
Feb 7 2008 LAWRENCE, KANSAS @ REPLAY LOUNGE
Feb 8 2008 BLOOMINGTON, IN @ BEAR'S PLACE
Feb 9 2008 CHICAGO, IL @ TBA
Feb 10 2008 CLEVELAND, OH @ THE TOWER

 

10/25/7


holy shit!!!!!

Sunday October 28, LA OTRACINA opens for BORIS w/ Michio Kurihara (of GHOST) and Damon & Naomi w/ Michio Kurihara! Show starts at 8pm, we play first!!!!! At Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY. This is one of our biggest shows ever, we are super psyched to destroy everyone's faces!

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3 days later, we fly to Italy for our Italian Tour!

Nov 01 @ Officine C/O Club Vestro - Niscemi
Nov 02 @ La Chiave - Catania
Nov 03 @ ASK 191 - Palermo
Nov 05 @ Clandestino - Faenza
Nov 07 @ Ambasciata di Marte - Firenze
Nov 08 @ Circolo Magnolia - Segrate (MI)
Nov 09 @ Dude - Soliera (MO)
Nov 11 @ Sinister Noise - Roma

more dates TBA at http://www.doppiozerobooking.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=8&Itemid=40 and/or http://wwwmyspace.com/laotracina

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we just released a *new* LA OTRACINA ep entitled "The Avocado Sunbeam Tapes", it's a CD-R on Colour Sounds Recordings, CSR 032, that we are only selling on the Italian tour and through this e-mail list! here is the official descritpion of the 35 minute 5 track mind-blower...limited to 100 copies...

"'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!" - Adam Kriney 10/24/7

This CD-R is available for $7 US ppd/$11 World ppd payable via PAYPAL to colour_sounds at hotmail.com <--no spam

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you didn't hear about it, last Friday we were due to play with the band ELECTRIC JELLYFISH (from Australia) at a gig in Brooklyn last week with WOODEN SHJIPS. Last Thursday, en route to NYC, the ELECTRIC JELLYFISH vehicle lost control and got into an accident killing a band member and his wife who was driving. This was a very sad and unfortunate happening and our hearts and vibes go out to all those affected by this. To honour those who were lost, we've decided to name one of our new songs after them! if you are interested, you can check out their myspace page at http://myspace.com/ELECTRICJELLYFISH or read the story about their accident at http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/19/america/NA-GEN-US-Australian-Band-Crash.php .
Very sad news, we must all stay safe on the roads!!!! as brothers of the road, we all share this tragedy together! we must play and live on in celebration of those lost souls!

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see you out there friends

-adam kriney/la otracina

Adam Kriney
Colour Sounds Recordings
http://www.vorg.net/csr

 

 

10/12/7

LA OTRACINA shows upcoming:

10/10/7 with XOM, UPSILON ACRUX and maybe HEALTH, at Rock Star Bar, Kent & S. 5th, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

10/18/7
w/ THE WARLOCKS & BLACKSTRAP...at Club Midway, NYC, NY, day show, starts at 3pm, we play first!

10/19/7 with WOODEN SHJIPS and ELECTRIC JELYFISH, at Matchless, Greenpoint/Wlliamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

10/28/7 with BORIS and Damon & Naomi w/ Michio Kurihara of GHOST, at Bowery Ballroom, LES, NYC, NY

LA OTRACINA Italian Tour
Novembre 2007
01 @ Officine - Niscemi
02 @ La Chiave - Catania
03 @ ASK 191 - Palermo
05 @ Clandestino - Faenza
08 @ Circolo Magnolia - Segrate (MI)
09 @ Dude - Soliera (MO)
11 @ Sinister Noise - Roma

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Recent News Blast!

Hello Colour Sounds friends!!!

1. Massive music event this Friday Sept 28 in Brooklyn, NY
2. Adam Kriney is guest radio DJ on WNYU/89.1 FM Make The Product Radio show this Wed Sept 26
3. LA OTRACINA Italian tour in November and other upcoming shows
4. Colour Sounds Recordings back catalog avail to purchase and some new stuff from other labels
5. Upcoming releases

1. Massive music event this Friday Sept 28 in Brooklyn, NY

Fri September 28, at 8pm

ARTANKER COVOY (Social Registry)
LA OTRACINA (Holy Mountain)
GHQ (mems MAGIC MARKERS/HOTOTOGISU/DOUBLE LEOPARDS)
NONLOC (solo Mark Dwinell of BRIGHT/Strange Attractors Audio House)
Marc Orleans (solo action from this D CHARLES SPEER/SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN member)
Otto Hauser/Ben McConnell Drum Duo (Otto is of ESPERS/VETIVER & Ben is of PRINCE AND PEARL)

Show is at:
The Schoolhouse
330 Ellery Street #3
Bushwick/Brooklyn
JMZ to Flushing

Visuals/Projections by Natalie Ross and Justin Warsh

2. Adam Kriney is guest radio DJ on WNYU/89.1 FM Make The Product Radio show this Wed Sept 26

I will be guest DJ on a New York University radio show called Make The Product on Wed Sept 28, from 8-9 PM. Make The Product is a 1 hour show that focuses on small DIY labels, handmade packaged cds/tapes/vinyl/etc, and I will be spinning various psychedelic/avant rock tunes from my collection, mainly contemporary US groups doing cool far-out stuff! You can hear it by tuning into 89.1 FM in the NYC area or by going on line at wnyu.org and streaming the show. Also if you miss the broadcast, it will be archived at the station website, so listen to it whenever you can!

3. LA OTRACINA Italian tour in November and other upcoming shows

Sept 28; LA OTRACINA with ARTANKER CONVOY, GHQ, NONLOC, Marc Orleans (Solo), Otto Hauser/Ben McConnell Duo at The Schoolhouse, Brooklyn, NY

Oct 19; LA OTRACINA with WOODEN SHJIPS, ELECTRIC JELLYFISH at Matchless, Brooklyn, NY

Oct 29; LA OTRACINA with BORIS, Damon & Naomi with Michio Kurihara at Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY

LA OTRACINA Italian Tour, November 2007!
Nov 01 @ La Chiave - Catania
Nov 05 @ Clandestino - Faenza
Nov 08 @ Circolo Magnolia - Segrate (MI)
Nov 09 @ Dude - Soliera (MO)
Nov 11 @ Sinister Noise – Roma

More dates are coming for the tour!

4. Colour Sounds Recordings back catalog avail to purchase and some new stuff from other labels

LA OTRACINA "Love love Love" 2xCD-R. Fresh off the heals of the recent "Tonal Ellipse Of The One" CD on Holy Mountain, the LA OTRACINA back catalog is now fully available again! Now in its 4th pressing, "Love Love Love" is a crushing 2xCD-R of blissed psychedelic rock overload, scorching freak improvisations, prog/jazz/rock sorcery, and all sortsa space-rock hybrid magic all led by Colour Sounds Recordings label-head and OWL XOUNDS drummer Adam Kriney. Features over two hours of early jams, basement tapes, and epic live recordings. Features early members now playing in TITAN (on Tee Pee Records). $12 US/$16 World

LA OTRACINA "Dawn Haze/Early Daze" 2xCD-R. Fresh off the heals of the recent "Tonal Ellipse Of The One" CD on Holy Mountain, the LA OTRACINA back catalog is now fully available again! Now in it's 2nd pressing, "Dawn Haze/Early Daze" is a wonderland of psychedelic sonics, cosmic explorations, and a fantastic retrospective of 4 different line-ups/visions of the group throughout their first 2 years led by Colour Sounds Recordings label-head and OWL XOUNDS drummer Adam Kriney. This set complies the first 4 out-of-print CD-R EPs by LA OTRACINA. Expect anything from FAUST-ian collage/cut-up work, overblown acid-rock assault, manic SOFT MACHINE-esque free-jazz, and early Kraut streams of CLUSTER-ian synthesizer mysticism and tonal goo! Features early members now playing in TITAN (on Tee Pee Records). $12 US/$16 World

LA OTRACINA "The Silence Dimension" CD-R. When their recent "Tonal Ellipse Of The One" CD came out on Holy Mountain, the boys hit the road and created this limited tour EP to bathe the masses in astral jelly! 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. $6 US/$8 World

New related stuff on other labels:

OWL XOUNDS "Stoned & Zoned" 2x3" CD-R. One of NYC's most aggressive fire-jazz units, Owl Xounds, continues to link ESP'Disk and the Misfits, but here also approaches beautiful noise on two 20+ minute pieces. Mainstays Adam Kriney (drums) and Gene Janas (upright bass) are augmented by Bonnie Kane on amplified flute and sax with electronics. Kane's contributions bring the unit to its most psychedelic paramount, her feedback-sax worshipping at the gates of guitar gods like Les Rallizes Denudes and Blue Cheer, yet affectionately rooted in Ayler. Kriney (La Otracina, Rust Ionics, Castanets) moves the action forward, ravaging without destroying, and Janas (Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Bern Nix's Sedition Ensemble) practically rips the strings off his bass, yet both know when to let textures form on their own. Packaged in mini-LP plastic sleeve with insert and spray-painted stencil work by Lars Gotrich. Edition of 99. Release on the Thor's Rubber Hammer Productions label. $7 US/$10 World

OWL XOUNDS "Touch The Iceberg" cassette. A Side is a particularly noisy excursion for Brooklyn, NY based freak-jazz troupe OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY, featuring the core of drummer Adam Kriney (LA OTRACINA/Colour Sounds Recordings) and upright bassist Gene Janas, along with regular collaborators: 2nd upright bassist Shayna Dulberger (KILL ME TRIO/STONEY MOUNTAIN) and guitarist Gene Moore (HAT CITY INTUITIVE), and a special appearance from Gene's younger brother Thurston Moore (SONIC YOUTH), also on electric guitar. Recorded live at Flywheel, Easthampton, MA in October 2006. B Side is a reinterpretation of A-side by noise/electronics duo LIEK TWI (members of BLIZZARDS/TWI & THE HUMBLE FEATHER). Limited to 100. $6 US/$9 World

Older Colour Sounds Recordings items still available:

OWL XOUNDS "Teenagers From Mars" 12" LP. "Owl Xounds (nee Owl Sounds) are, at least on this occasiona, a trio of Adam Kriney on drums, Gene Janas on upright bass, and Mario Techtern on saxophones. Kriney cites the Misfits as his greatest influence, which I guess helps explain the title. And really, Owl Xounds need no introduction for mass annihilation (ahaha!), since you surely know 'em from the record they did with Arrington DeDionyso or the much-lauded "Toxic Raga" LP. "Teenagers from Mars" is another wrecking bawl of whatever kinds of 00's jazz buzzwords you can lay down...post-fire, post-ESP, post-free, post-al, it's everything and more. On opener "The Afflicted Interest", Kriney and Janas stampede forth, heads down and jaws clenched, while grizzled knower Rechtern ripsnorts his own path via insanely tight, skronked heaves. After a near-meditative start on "Our Motives Are Subject to Change", the trio soon return to more hellish wailing, first in the form of Kriney/Rechtern, then Kriney on a great solo, then back to full group for a soulful exit. "Collide a Scope and the Whistle of Doom" is the final piece for the side, rife with gentler/more tense experimenting akin the more knuckle-dragging moments on "Topography of the Lungs"...whereas the rest of the earth-beating while I'd slot em not far from Peter Brotzmann's Die Like a Dog Quartet. Then again, I never claimed to be a jazz scholar. "X-ounds Memory" occupies all 20 minutes of the flip, with Rechtern sitting back and allowing for free interplay between the Kriney/Janas rhythm core. When they do reconvene, Kriney sticks briefly to the bass drum allowing for a sludgier feel, but soon moves to full-on cymbal smashing and limb flailing. And so it goes - I won't spoil the rest because you should really hear it for yourself but the give-and-take the trio hit on as they slowly dodge and strafe their way toward the climax is exhilerating. Special mention must be made to Rechtern's incredible horn mastery, as he owns this record from start to finish and his temporary bandmates are more than happy to accomodate him. Not to suggest it's a one-sided affair here, not in the least. These three finagle around like they've been on a rigorous practice schedule for years, and have made a good record all the more great because of it. Dunno man, I can't explain it so I'm gonna stop trying, but you'll know it when you hear it. It's not just talent, it's something else at work here. Fuck it, you tell me." - Outer Space Gamelan Blog. $12 US/$16 World

RUST IONICS "Moving/Pictures" 12" LP. "More snuff jazz purveyors led by drummer Adam Kriney who seems to be all over the place as of late. You read about La Otracina a while back, then Owl Xounds not too long ago, and now the final piece of the package sent my way in, fuckin', October. Rust Ionics is a rule-busting jazz unit akin, certainly more Owl than Otracina, featuring Kriney on drums (natch), Ed Chang on saxophone and Doug Theriault on electric guitar, the latter two which play together in DUAL. The blurb over on the Colour Sounds page (Kriney's label...natch) tells the tale of this being quote "the most insane recording [Kriney] has ever recorded". Don't know if it's been bested since then since I'm not terrifically up to date with all of Adam's happenings, but it must be at least a contendor if not at the absolute top of the list...I spose I could say that Rust Ionics are a bit less, uh, esoteric than Owl Xounds, but they make up for it in gusto. Side A joins the trio in progress, with Kriney already beating out a Neanderthral no wave stomp and Chang blowing high-spirited, upper-echelon alto snarks and twists. Theriault's guitar contributions are surprisingly minimal at first, limited to solely background shading via wrenched groans. Later when the group settle in, Theriault pushes out muted, plucked undercurrents with Chang still splattering endless nodes of vibrant horn work and Kriney sticking to cymbal-glancing splashes. The saxophone sounds almost processed around this point as Chang drops chemical cluster bombs of mutant howling, scooped up by Kriney's now-thudding declarations. It all comes to a head in the span of about six seconds and closes off the side sweetly. The flip features similar charges of assault and battery highlighted by an excellent solo spot from Chang who, if he wasn't before, is definitely running his saxophone through something now, or he's gotta be channeling the breath of the beast from iron lungs. Theriault's guitar only scrapes center stage once, and it's in partial duet with shortform gasps with Chang, so he may while he may not be encroaching on Sonny Sharrock's turf, the group sound mustered up is still very much Last Exit (or, to be still more precise, Peter Brotzmann's recent "Full Blast" record with Marino Pliakas and Michael Wertmuller), if for no other reason than the shared punk rock/heavy metal ethos. This whole Adam Kriney/Colour Sounds axis is proving to be a satisfying addition/alternative to other current jazz form destroyers c'est-a-dire Graveyards, Chris Corsano's various skirmishes, Daniel Carter/Test, Steve Baczkowski, Bill Nace/x.0.4., and all the rest. "Moving/Pictures" (Rush?!) is limited to a paltry 311 (311?!) pieces ..." - Outer Space Gamelan Blog. $12 US/$16 World

Drop me an e-mail if you want to order anything!

First 3 orders come with a free VERY LIMITED new compilation on the Thor’s Rubber Hammer Productions label called “Brownturns Black” featuring an unreleased OWL XOUNDS live track as well as tracks by all the other groups on the label!

5. Upcoming Releases

VORG VESSELL “Illuminted By Stripes”/”The Queen Of Fish Mountain” double album CD-R set on Cut Hands (Netherlands)

DRAGONFRYND “Smoke Ring Mandala” CD-R on Cut Hands (Netherlands)

OWL XOUNDS yet-untitled DVD-R on JK Tapes (Chicago)
OWL XOUNDS/LOOSERS split 7" on Release The Bats (Sweden)
OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY 12" LP on Ruby Red Records (Portugal)
OWL XOUNDS CD on Foxy Digitalis (Oklahoma)

Thanks for taking your time to read this, I hope you enjoy the music!

Love as always-
adam


Adam Kriney
Colour Sounds Recordings
http://www.vorg.net/csr


 

9/9/7

Monday September 10th

Sound Fix Records/Lounge & Colour Sounds Recordings presents:

A Night Of Exploratory Solo Guitar Performances, Strange Drums, and Vegetarian Pot-Luck Dinner!

Vegetarian Pot-Luck Dinner starts at 8:00 pm:
Yes, we are kicking old school family-show style tonight! Please bring some
vegetarian/vegan food for all to share at this most excellent musical event.
Please bring enough for about 5 people to eat. And then we’ll all eat yummy
food together to the mind shattering sounds of blissed-out guitars! Please
don’t bring any drinks, you have to buy those from the bar. Please e-mail
colour_sounds@hotmail.com if you have any questions about the pot-luck!

Show starts at 8:30 pm:
Featuring solo guitarists Eric Carbonara (Locust Records artists, mixing
improvisation/experimental visions to flamenco/folk/traditional guitar
styles) and Mike Tamburo (Music Fellowship artist, mixing traditional
fingerpicking styles with avant-garde textural sound), and opening the show will be the Otto Hauser/Adam Kriney percussion/sound duo.

The event is free, although donations to the touring musicians is greatly
appreciated ala the ‘pass-the-hat’ method!

At Sound Fix Records/Lounge, 110 Bedford Ave (at N. 11th), Williamsburg,
Brooklyn, NY


 

7/8/7

LA OTRACINA tour was insane, unending thanks to everyone who came out, set up a show, bought a cd, and partied with us! my favorite tour EVER! and we ain't skipping a beat, two more shows comin right away!

7/10/7 LA OTRACINA with BURRS and VBS (formerly know as VINCENT BLACK SHADOW) at The Balcony/Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA. 8pm/$8

7/21/7 LA OTRACINA live at Diamond Days Festival,at Church of The Messiah, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, along with PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE EXPANSE, SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN, D CHARLES SPEER, WEIRD OWL, KOHOUTEK, THESE ARE POWERS, ASSEMBLE HEAD IN SUNBURST SOUND, and a zillion others over 4 fucking days!!!!! We play around 9-ish I assume on this day!

also gonna be alot of updates on the discog page with a bunch of new OWL XOUNDS releases on other labels and also a bunch on new LA OTRACINA stuff on Colour Sounds.


 

6/7/7

Well LA OTRACINA is all geared up for our 4 week summer US tour! we got new tour cds, old represses, and the brand new 'Tonal Ellipse Of The One' CD out on Holy Mountain and we gonna have t-shirts and buttons too, are not you all so lucky?

Come see us!

LA OTRACINA US Tour
*Sunday 10-Jun Knitting Factory (74 Leonard Street), NYC, NY http://www.knittingfactory.com/index.php with PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND, RANDOM CUTTING, HIGH VIOLETS

*Monday 11-Jun Floristree (6th floor H&H building 405 w. franklin st), Baltimore, MD http://myspace.com/floristree with PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND, VINCENT BLACK SHADOW, WOMANS WORTH

*Tuesday 12-Jun Marvelous Record Store (208 S. 40th street), Philadelphia, PA with BURRS, MOUNT FUJI

*Wednesday 13-Jun Cakeshop (152 Ludlow St) , NYC, NY http://www.cake-shop.com/ with CHARALAMBIDES, GHQ, SUGARBEATS

*Thursday 14-Jun Velvet Lounge (915 U Street), Washington DC http://www.velvetloungedc.com/ with BLOWFLY (seriously!), PLUMS, and more

*Friday 15-Jun Spazzatorium Galleria (807 Dickinson Ave), Greenville, NC http://www.myspace.com/spazzgallery with DD/MM/YY, OICHO KABU, PONIES AND FLOWERS

*Saturday 16-Jun Secret Squirrel (766 West Broad), Athens, GA http://www.myspace.com/thesecretsquirrel with MUGU GUYMEN, 63 CRAYONS, SMOKEDOG

*Sunday 17-Jun The Whig (1200 main street), Columbia, South Carolina http://www.thewhig.org with Jeff South Project

*Monday 18-Jun TBA Nashville/Murfreesboro, TN with CJ Boyd and more

*Tuesday 19-Jun Murphy's (1589 Madison Ave), Memphis, TN http://www.myspace.com/murphysmemphis with TRUE SONS OF THUNDER, and more

*Wednesday 20-Jun Spooky Action Palace (e-mail venue for location), St. Louis, MO spookyinfo@gmail.com with Ataraxic Ataxia, Sum Of Heroes

*Thursday 21-Jun Lazer Mansion (133 54th street), Moline, IL with MONDO DRAG, LAZER MOUNTAIN

*Friday 22-Jun Hideout (1354 W Wabansia), Chicago, IL http://www.hideoutchicago.com with PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND, Matthew Wascovich, DRUIDS OF HUGE

*Saturday 23-Jun South Union Arts (1352 S. Union), Chicago, IL http://www.southunionarts.com/ with Matthew Wascovich/PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE Duo, PLASTIC BONER BAND, FOLK & VIOLENCE

*Sunday 24-Jun Basement Show (216 E Hillside Drive), Bloomington, IN with RESTING ROOSTER, HOT FIGHTER #1

*Monday 25-Jun Skull Lab, (271 W McMicken ) Cinncinnati, OH http://www.myspace.com/skulllab with Ryan Jewell, and more

*Tuesday 26-Jun TBA, Columbus, OH with Ryan Jewell, more

*Wednesday 27-Jun Pat’s In The Flats (2233 West Third), Cleveland, OH http://patsintheflats.com/ with MOOTDAK, 9 YR OLD MUDFLESH, THE FLAT CAN CO.

*Thursday 28-Jun House Show (114 1/2 Erie Street), Edinboro, PA with DROOPY SEPTUM, TUSK LORD, FOREST DWELLER

*Friday 29-Jun Garfield Artworks (4931 Penn Ave), Pittsburg, PA http://www.garfieldartworks.com/ with TBA

*Saturday 30-Jun Test Pattern Gallery (334 Adams Ave), Scranton, PA http://www.myspace.com/testpatternart with THE ULTRA VIOLET RAYS

*Sunday 1-Jul Helderberg Palace (96 Sycamore St,) Albany, NY with BURNT HILLS

*Monday 2-Jul Brilliant Corners (163 water street), Keane, New Hampshire http://www.brilliantcorners-nh.blogspot.com/ with KENDRA, Ian Joseph and The Toys

*Tuesday 3-Jul Grow Room, Providence, RI with XERXES, BARNACLED, CINNAMON ANEMONE

*Wednesday 4-Jul off

*Thursday 5-Jul Soundfix Records (110 Bedford Ave), Brooklyn, NY http://www.soundfixrecords.com in-store performance


 

4/29/7

La Otracina Summer Tour

There are several dates that we need HELP with. If you or anyone you know is either in a band in this area, sets up shows in this area, has a house where we can play, has a record store that we can play in, has a practice space we can play in, has a recording studio we can record in, a bar we can play in, an art gallery we can play in, please LET US KNOW!!!!!

Sunday 10-Jun Knitting Factory, NYC, NY (confirmed)
Monday 11-Jun Floristree, Baltimore, MD (confirmed)
Tuesday 12-Jun Philadelphia, PA (venue pending)
Wednesday 13-Jun Cakeshop, NYC, NY (confirmed)
Thursday 14-Jun The Bone Zone, Richmond, VA (confirmed)
Friday 15-Jun Spazzatorium Galleria (807 Dickinson Ave), Greenville, NC (confirmed)
Saturday 16-Jun Secret Squirrel, Athens, GA (confirmed)
Sunday 17-Jun The Whig, Columbia, South Carolina (confirmed?)
Monday 18-Jun Tutu House, (222 Bilbro St.), Murfreesboro, TN (confirmed)
Tuesday 19-Jun Memphis, TN pending?<---HELP HELP HELP!
Wednesday 20-Jun St. Louis, MO <----HELP HELP HELP!
Thursday 21-Jun Lazer Warehouse, Davenport, IL (confirmed? venue pending? HELP!)
Friday 22-Jun Hideout, Chicago, IL (confirmed)
Saturday 23-Jun Chicago, IL <--HELP HELP HELP <--live radio show, record store performance even?
Sunday 24-Jun Basement Show (216 E Hillside Drive), Bloomington, IN (confirmed)
Monday 25-Jun Skull Lab, (271 W McMicken ) Cinncinnati, OH (confirmed)
Tuesday 26-Jun Skylab, (57 e. gay st. #5 ), Columbus, OH (confirmed)
Wednesday 27-Jun Cleveland, OH <---HELP HELP HELP HELP (someone's GOTTA make this happen!)
Thursday 28-Jun Edinboro, PA (confirmed, venue pending)
Friday 29-Jun Pittsburg, PA (confirmed? HELP HELP!)
Saturday 30-Jun Test Pattern Gallery, Scranton, PA (confrmed)
Sunday 1-Jul Helderberg Palace (96 Sycamore St,) Albany, NY (confirmed)
Monday 2-Jul Keane, New Hampshire (confirmed/venue pending?)
Tuesday 3-Jul Providence, RI (confirmed? venue pending)
Wednesday 4-Jul off
Thursday 5-Jul Soundfix Records, Brooklyn, NY (confirmed)

if you can help us out, please contact us via our myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/laotracina or at colour_sounds[at]hotmail[dot]com

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Upcoming releases:

Very Soon:
OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY “Touch The Iceberg” cassette on Fuck It Tapes
OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY/MEF TEEF split cassette on Arbor
OWL XOUNDS “Gypsy Monks On Holiday" cassette on Curor Recordings
LA OTRACINA “Tonal Ellipse Of The One” CD on Holy Mountain (June 4 official release date!)
OWL XOUNDS 1 song on a CD-R compilation along with Feral Debris Zine
OWL XOUNDS 1 song on a CD-R compilation on Thor's Rubber Hammer Productions label
LA OTRACINA 1 song on the Bad Acid mp3/DVD compilation/zine
OWL XOUNDS "Stoned And Zoned" 2x3" CD-R on Thor's Rubber Hammer Productions label
OWL XOUNDS/FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE split cassette/cd-r on Blackest Rainbow

Less Soon:
PHOSPHORESCENT (yeah Matthew Houck's band!) Adam Kriney played drums on 3 of the tracks on his upcoming new album!
LA OTRACINA yet-untitled 2xCD-R compiling the first four out-of-print EPs on Colour Sounds
LA OTRACINA cassette + cd-r on Arbor
OWL XOUNDS/LOOSERS split 7" on Release The Bats
OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY LP on Ruby Red Records (Portugal)
QUIVERS "Once There Were Some" re-release and newly mastered version of this out-of-print album
OWL XOUNDS with Valerio Cosi on Qbico (Italy)
BLIZZARDS cd-r on Cut Hands (Netherlands)
Adam Kriney collaboration with Ryan Emmett of DROOPY SEPTUM/PLAINSWALKERS
Adam Kriney collaboration with Adam Wright-Carmean of Crucial Blast Records
QUIVERS new studio album (any label interest?)
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Stuff to buy from Colour Sounds Recordings now!
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OWL XOUNDS ‘Teenagers From Mars’ 12” LP (CSR 027/MM 006)
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.
Available for $12 US/$16 World.
mp3 – http://www.vorg.net/csr/OwlXoundsX_ounds_Memorymp3.mp3
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RUST IONICS ‘Moving/Pictures’ 12” LP (CSR 018/QL-LP01/Outer Limits 005)
"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), 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 recycled re-painted each-one-of-a-kind hand-made 12” covers. Recommended for fans of BORBETOMAGUS, Keiji Haino, PAINKILLER, and Peter Brotmann's more extreme work. (Dig the RUSH spoof/tribute album title!)
Available for $12 US/$16 World
mp3 – http://www.vorg.net/csr/RustIOnics_moving_excerpt.mp3
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LA OTRACINA ‘Love Love Love’ 2xCD-R (CSR 019)
Epic 2 disc set of free-form psychedelia, prog-insanity, and flowing cosmic-improvisations! Features selected recordings from the first 2 years of the LA OTRACINA (who are now on the Holy Mountain records label) including early members Josh Anzano, Dan Bates, and Kris D’Agostino who are all of TITAN (on the Tee Pee Records label).

Here’s what Wire Magazine had to say, “Scalp-lifting cosmic crescendos and sprawling psychedelic rock dominate this latest handmade set from La Otracina, a New York duo of percussionist Adam Kriney and guitarist Joshua Anzano…we are…treated to a rich psychotic blend of ruptured free-jazz, Improv excess and even a passage which nearly crashes into something that's not far away from Hawkwind's Space Ritual. Augmented by the bass rumble of Dan Bates, Nick Chapman's keyboard flourishes and Kris D'Agostino's synthesizer constructions, La Otracina's freeform inferno is well worth huddling around.”

This gorgeous handmade package is limited to 179 copies, each-one-of-a-kind art pieces, and filled to the brim with space-jams of the highest order! Very few copies left!
Available for $12 US/$16 World
mp3 - http://www.vorg.net/csr/LAOTRACINA_bluemagnetictime.mp3
mp3 - http://www.vorg.net/csr/LAOTRACINA_california_creation.mp3
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LA OTRACINA/HAT CITY INTUITIVE/BIG NURSE ‘The World Will End Yesterday’ 3-way split CD-R (CSR 028)
Incredible comp featuring 3 amazing US free-form/psychedelia/noise/spazzjazz relevant bands.

Here’s what Volcanic Tongue had to say about it, “Excellent spilt from three comparatively off-radar free USA units, brought together by Adam Kriney of Owl Xounds/La Otracina excellent Colour Sounds Recordings imprint. Hat City Intuitive go back to the mid-90s, when their debut platter was first loosed by Matthew Valentine's early Superlux imprint. The group have three tracks here that weave heavy metal modalisms into the kinda blues-fluxing form of Majora-era Sun City Girls albeit with a ton of Beefheart and Rocket From The Tombs garage circuitry welded to their chops. La Otracina will be known to most Colour Sounds connoisseurs as drummer Adam Kriney's prog/power/kraut ensemble and their one contribution here is a massively layered swath of live malevolence featuring Matt Lavallee that turns the kinda planet schlepping drug dart of Hendrix's "Third Stone From The Sun" inside fucking out. Final round goes to Big Nurse who have a name that you would've thunk would sit a lot better on Amphetamine Reptile but whose actual modus is a lot more attuned to the particular NY mainline first laid out by early Sonic Youth/Branca/Pussy Galore et al. I believe it is better known as 'scum'. Welcome the hell back! All in all, The World Will End Yesterday is a sound package and a good one to have to hand when some doughball starts asking you about the sound of 'now'. Cause this is surely it. Hand-numbered edition of 107 copies in sprayed paper sleeves.”

Very few copies left!
Available for $6 US/$9 World
mp3 - http://www.vorg.net/csr/WorldWillEnd_otra_sample.mp3
mp3 - http://www.vorg.net/csr/WorldWillEnd_HCI_sample.mp3
mp3 - http://www.vorg.net/csr/WorldWillEdn_BigNurse_sample.mp3
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OWL XOUNDS ‘Toxic Raga’ CD-R (CSR 024)
"Toxic Raga" marks the 2nd album from the OWL XOUNDS trio line-up of Adam Kriney (LA OTRACINA), Gene Janas, and Arrington De Dionyso (of OLD TIME RELIJUN), the first of which, "Cow On Mushrooms", exploded onto the landscape last year heralded by such folks as David Keenan (Volcanic Tongue owner/Wire writer), Alex Neilson (drummer for Jandek/Will Oldham), 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.

This album was selected as one of Tiny Mix Tapes, Eureka! Albums of 2006, More Esoteric Treasures Of The Year, and said this, “Andrea Centazzo had Ictus Records, Derek Bailey had Incus Records, why shouldn’t drummer Adam Kriney have Colour Sounds to release his own material and various collaborations? Owl Xounds has the biggest output and for good reason: disgusting, psychedelic freak-jazz in the spirit of ESP-Disk’s fire-music of the ’60s and ’70s. Featuring fellow New York-er Gene Janus (upright bass) and Old Time Relijun main man Arrington De Dionyso (bass clarinet, voice), this particular incarnation of the revolving Owl Xounds unit hits pockets in all the wrong places, creating harsh textures and an all-around racket. But it’s a fuckin’ good racket, one that thrusts out of the grimy spaces of the room, hits the corner table, bangs the shit out of its knee, trails blood and scabs through the doorway, but convulses with delight at the bad-ass scar it’s gonna get. Lest you think this yet another punk-jazz dick match, though, Kriney’s got the chops and sense to let the racket swirl (or, to be nasty, maybe even swill) from time to time instead of the constant quarterback blitz of most punk-jazz. Too good to stay a limited-edition release.”

Very few copies left!
Available for $6 US/$9 World
mp3 - http://www.vorg.net/csr/OWLXOUNDS_theendofdiscussion_sample.mp3
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To order anything, please e-mail us at colour_sounds@hotmail.com with your list of items and where you live, then we’ll send you a total and you can easily PAYPAL us or send a check/money order.

Mail-ordering direct from us will ALWAYS get you free extras and discounts for multiple items purchased!
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peace-
adam


Adam Kriney
Colour Sounds Recordings


 

4/8/7

hello to you all!

friends of the dragons!
fiends of the enemies!

welcome to another update from the Colour Sounds universe!

this update includes

*Tons of April/May shows to announce
*Upcoming release information
*LA OTRACINA summer tour dates (help IS needed!)
*Older releases still available
*etc...

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*Tons of April/May shows to announce

LA OTRACINA/LIEK 'Welcome To Earth' Mini-Tour Extravaganza

4/12/7 LA OTRACINA at Bard College, Annadale-On-Hudson, NY. Also performing is LIEK (Hektor Fontanez solo, of BLIZZARDS) and more
4/13/7 LA OTRACINA at Fort Sunshine, New Haven, CT. Also performing is LIEK (Hektor Fontanez solo, of BLIZZARDS), THESE ARE POWERS (ex-LIARS), PANTHERS, & a local opener.

4/15/7 PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND-LA OTRACINA Big Band Freakout Ensemble...yup, Chicago's number 1 acid brother (PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND, aka Steve Krakow, who also does the brilliant Galactic Zoo Dossier psych fanzine) comes to NYC and we all hash it out live together in a large 5 piece space-orchestra! Also playing is WHITE HILLS, MOUTH TO MOUTH, NONLOC (member of BRIGHT), & MV CARBON. Show is at School House at 330 Ellery Street, off Broadway/JMZ in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY. First band at 8:00, we play last around 11:30-ish...

4/18/7 OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY (Adam Kriney/Gene Janas/Shayna Dulberger/Greg Vegas/Bonnie Kane) at Goodbye Blue Monday, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY. Also playing is VA VA CHINA and more.

4/20 QUIVERS (Jordon Schranz/Ninni Morgia/Adam Kriney) at Goodbye Blue Monday, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY. We play at 11, come celebrate Jordon Schranz's birthday/going away party!!!!

4/27/7 LA OTRACINA at Club Midway, East Village, NYC, NY, we play at 9PM. Also performing is WRECKETH (ex-DAREDIABLO).

5/4/7 LA OTRACINA at PA's Lounge, Somerville, MA. Also playing is THE DECEMBER SOUND, ENERGY, ME AND JOAN COLLINS. We play 2nd at around 9:30, come early to get blazed.

5/12/7 TOMORROW'S FRIEND at Glasslands, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. With ARTANKER CONVOY. We play last.

5/24/7 TOMORROW'S FRIEND at Monkeytown, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. We play last.
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*Upcoming release information

Very Soon:
OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY “Touch The Iceberg” cassette on Fuck It Tapes
OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY/MEF TEEF split cassette on Arbor
OWL XOUNDS “Gypsy Monks On Holiday" cassette on Curor Recordings
LA OTRACINA “Tonal Ellipse Of The One” CD on Holy Mountain (June 4 official release date!)
OWL XOUNDS, 1 song on a CD-R compilation along with Feral Debris Zine

Less Soon:
LA OTRACINA yet-untitled 2xCD-R compiling the first four out-of-print EPs on Colour Sounds
OWL XOUNDS, 1 song on a CD-R compilation on Thor's Rubber Hammer Productions label
LA OTRACINA cassette + cd-r on Arbor
OWL XOUNDS/LOOSERS split 7" on Release The Bats
LA OTRACINA, 1 song on the Bad Acid mp3/DVD compilation/zine
QUIVERS "Once There Were Some" newly remastered out-of-print first album to be released on cd-r on Tigerasylum Records
OWL XOUNDS collaboration with Valerio Cosi (any label interest in this?)
BLIZZARDS cd-r on the new Cut Hands label out of The Netherlands

Down the pipe a ways:
OWL XOUNDS cd-r on Thor's Rubber Hammer Productions
OWL XOUNDS LP (anyone interested label wise? the material is already in the can and totally fucking brilliant!)
TOMORROW'S FRIEND/LA OTRACINA/IT LIVES/FAST FOURIER 4-way split 7"! ok 4 brooklyn bands hashin out the pop/psych/rock/freak jamz in more ways that you can butter a pineapple (any label interest in this?)
V/A 2xCD compilation on Rare Book Room records with TOMORROW'S FRIEND, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, CAT POWER, and all these other crazey bands.
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*LA OTRACINA summer tour dates (help IS needed!)

OK so to celebrate the release of the LA OTRACINA "Tonal Ellipse Of The One" CD on Holy Mountain, we will be touring the US for about 4 weeks this summer! A lot of good friends have been helping us out with shows all over, but still, as always, there are holes in certain places. Please if you can help us out, please send us a message, we'll get you drunk when we come through, and space out your mind!

Sunday 10-Jun NYC (venue unsure)
Monday 11-Jun NJ/Delaware <--HELP
Tuesday 12-Jun Philly (Eric Carbonara setting up!)
Wednesday 13-Jun Baltimore (Floristree?) <--HELP
Thursday 14-Jun Richmond/VA (Nath setting up?)<--HELP
Friday 15-Jun Spazzatorium Galleria, Greenville, NC
Saturday 16-Jun Athens, GA (Secret Squirrel, probably)
Sunday 17-Jun Atlanta, GA/Knoxville, TN/Columbia, SC <--HELP
Monday 18-Jun Nashville/Murfreesboro, TN (Michael Big Nurse setting up)
Tuesday 19-Jun Memphis, TN <--HELP
Wednesday 20-Jun Lemp Arts Center, St. Louis, MO (waiting on confirmation?)<--HELP
Thursday 21-Jun Lazer Warehouse, Davenport, IL (venue confirmation?)
Friday 22-Jun Chicago, IL (PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND setting up?)<--HELP
Saturday 23-Jun Chicago, IL (KINKON/WHERE THE MOON CAME FROM setting up?)<--HELP
Sunday 24-Jun Bloomington, IN (ODAWAS setting up?)<--HELP
Monday 25-Jun Skull Lab,Cinncinnati, OH
Tuesday 26-Jun Columbus, OH (Ryan Jewell setting up?)<--HELP
Wednesday 27-Jun Cleveland, OH (BLK TYGR setting up?)<--HELP
Thursday 28-Jun Edinboro, PA (Ryan Emmet setting up?)<--HELP
Friday 29-Jun Pittsburg, PA (DIRTY FACES setting up?)
Saturday 30-Jun Scranton/Allentown, PA <--HELP
Sunday 1-Jul Helderberg Palace, Albany, NY
Monday 2-Jul Keane, New Hampshire (ian Joseph setting up?)/Western MA <--HELP
Tuesday 3-Jul New Haven/CT <--HELP
Wednesday 4-Jul off
Thursday 5-Jul NYC <--Soundfix Records, Brooklyn, NY

can you help us with any dates that we need assistance with? We can help you play in NYC to return the favor, and let you stay with us when you come visit, promise!
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*Older releases still available

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OWL XOUNDS ‘Teenagers From Mars’ 12” LP (CSR 027/MM 006)
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.
Available for $12 US/$16 World.
mp3 – http://www.vorg.net/csr/OwlXoundsX_ounds_Memorymp3.mp3
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RUST IONICS ‘Moving/Pictures’ 12” LP (CSR 018/QL-LP01/Outer Limits 005)
"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), 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 recycled re-painted each-one-of-a-kind hand-made 12” covers. Recommended for fans of BORBETOMAGUS, Keiji Haino, PAINKILLER, and Peter Brotmann's more extreme work. (Dig the RUSH spoof/tribute album title!)
Available for $12 US/$16 World
mp3 – http://www.vorg.net/csr/RustIOnics_moving_excerpt.mp3
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LA OTRACINA ‘Love Love Love’ 2xCD-R (CSR 019)
Epic 2 disc set of free-form psychedelia, prog-insanity, and flowing cosmic-improvisations! Features selected recordings from the first 2 years of the LA OTRACINA (who are now on the Holy Mountain records label) including early members Josh Anzano, Dan Bates, and Kris D’Agostino who are all of TITAN (on the Tee Pee Records label).

Here’s what Wire Magazine had to say, “Scalp-lifting cosmic crescendos and sprawling psychedelic rock dominate this latest handmade set from La Otracina, a New York duo of percussionist Adam Kriney and guitarist Joshua Anzano…we are…treated to a rich psychotic blend of ruptured free-jazz, Improv excess and even a passage which nearly crashes into something that's not far away from Hawkwind's Space Ritual. Augmented by the bass rumble of Dan Bates, Nick Chapman's keyboard flourishes and Kris D'Agostino's synthesizer constructions, La Otracina's freeform inferno is well worth huddling around.”

This gorgeous handmade package is limited to 179 copies, each-one-of-a-kind art pieces, and filled to the brim with space-jams of the highest order! Very few copies left!
Available for $12 US/$16 World
mp3 - http://www.vorg.net/csr/LAOTRACINA_bluemagnetictime.mp3
mp3 - http://www.vorg.net/csr/LAOTRACINA_california_creation.mp3
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LA OTRACINA/HAT CITY INTUITIVE/BIG NURSE ‘The World Will End Yesterday’ 3-way split CD-R (CSR 028)
Incredible comp featuring 3 amazing US free-form/psychedelia/noise/spazzjazz relevant bands.

Here’s what Volcanic Tongue had to say about it, “Excellent spilt from three comparatively off-radar free USA units, brought together by Adam Kriney of Owl Xounds/La Otracina excellent Colour Sounds Recordings imprint. Hat City Intuitive go back to the mid-90s, when their debut platter was first loosed by Matthew Valentine's early Superlux imprint. The group have three tracks here that weave heavy metal modalisms into the kinda blues-fluxing form of Majora-era Sun City Girls albeit with a ton of Beefheart and Rocket From The Tombs garage circuitry welded to their chops. La Otracina will be known to most Colour Sounds connoisseurs as drummer Adam Kriney's prog/power/kraut ensemble and their one contribution here is a massively layered swath of live malevolence featuring Matt Lavallee that turns the kinda planet schlepping drug dart of Hendrix's "Third Stone From The Sun" inside fucking out. Final round goes to Big Nurse who have a name that you would've thunk would sit a lot better on Amphetamine Reptile but whose actual modus is a lot more attuned to the particular NY mainline first laid out by early Sonic Youth/Branca/Pussy Galore et al. I believe it is better known as 'scum'. Welcome the hell back! All in all, The World Will End Yesterday is a sound package and a good one to have to hand when some doughball starts asking you about the sound of 'now'. Cause this is surely it. Hand-numbered edition of 107 copies in sprayed paper sleeves.”

Very few copies left!
Available for $6 US/$9 World
mp3 - http://www.vorg.net/csr/WorldWillEnd_otra_sample.mp3
mp3 - http://www.vorg.net/csr/WorldWillEnd_HCI_sample.mp3
mp3 - http://www.vorg.net/csr/WorldWillEdn_BigNurse_sample.mp3
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OWL XOUNDS ‘Toxic Raga’ CD-R (CSR 024)
"Toxic Raga" marks the 2nd album from the OWL XOUNDS trio line-up of Adam Kriney (LA OTRACINA), Gene Janas, and Arrington De Dionyso (of OLD TIME RELIJUN), the first of which, "Cow On Mushrooms", exploded onto the landscape last year heralded by such folks as David Keenan (Volcanic Tongue owner/Wire writer), Alex Neilson (drummer for Jandek/Will Oldham), 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.

This album was selected as one of Tiny Mix Tapes, Eureka! Albums of 2006, More Esoteric Treasures Of The Year, and said this, “Andrea Centazzo had Ictus Records, Derek Bailey had Incus Records, why shouldn’t drummer Adam Kriney have Colour Sounds to release his own material and various collaborations? Owl Xounds has the biggest output and for good reason: disgusting, psychedelic freak-jazz in the spirit of ESP-Disk’s fire-music of the ’60s and ’70s. Featuring fellow New York-er Gene Janus (upright bass) and Old Time Relijun main man Arrington De Dionyso (bass clarinet, voice), this particular incarnation of the revolving Owl Xounds unit hits pockets in all the wrong places, creating harsh textures and an all-around racket. But it’s a fuckin’ good racket, one that thrusts out of the grimy spaces of the room, hits the corner table, bangs the shit out of its knee, trails blood and scabs through the doorway, but convulses with delight at the bad-ass scar it’s gonna get. Lest you think this yet another punk-jazz dick match, though, Kriney’s got the chops and sense to let the racket swirl (or, to be nasty, maybe even swill) from time to time instead of the constant quarterback blitz of most punk-jazz. Too good to stay a limited-edition release.”

Very few copies left!
Available for $6 US/$9 World
mp3 - http://www.vorg.net/csr/OWLXOUNDS_theendofdiscussion_sample.mp3
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thanks for reading and supporting! it means everything.

love-
adam


 

2/2/7

February is For Fun…..falafel!

Ok, so much great stuff to tell you all about, so here goes….

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This Friday Feb 2 will be the opening party for Frequencies, a group art show at Black & White Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY which includes 3 pieces of art by Colour Sounds head-guy Adam Kriney. The complex and maximalist multi-media pieces I will be displaying will all incorporate permanently sealed copies of the RUST IONICS “Moving/Pictures” 12” LP. The opening is from 6-9 PM, come out and get drunk for free, see a ton of insane art and see QUIVERS and TALIBAM! play as well.

This show is being curated by LA OTRACINA/QUIVERS bassist Jordon Schranz, and here’s a bit more of what he has got to say about it:

“Frequencies is an experiential and holistic exhibition which captures facets of the DIY community and extends outside the physical bounds of the gallery -- referencing both "public art" and "life as art" movements. It questions the artist-viewer vs. musician-audience relationships, and thus the cognitive division between visual art and music, gallery and rock venue. The gallery interior will be visually and functionally converted into an experimental music space; and over twenty performances will take place within and outside the gallery throughout the month, further blurring the division between staged performance and living art. These additional venues -- including Goodbye Blue Monday, Cake Shop, Glasslands, free103point9 Project Space, The Tank @ Collective:Unconscious, The Tooth, and Raven's Den -- will serve both as galleries and as concrete manifestations of the intangible music community.

...These are the artists -- they're in bands, performing and recording their own music. They run their own labels with a focused aesthetic not based on a throw-away capitalist society. They fashion their cover art in celebration of the unique, handmade object. They run clubs, venues, and performance spaces, cultivating audiences peripheral to the corporate-run industry. They play music that lies outside the perimeter, expanding and challenging notions of sound, composition, and performance. They make videos, curate and promote concerts, and run independent radio stations. They create the clothes and the posters. They build the stage. They make it happen.

Frequencies is about connectedness -- a scene, a community.”

Find out more at http://www.frequenciesnyc.com/ and http://www.blackandwhiteartgallery.com/

Show runs February 2, 2007 - March 5, 2007

Black & White Gallery
483 Driggs Ave.
Brooklyn, New York 11211

Gallery hours: Fri - Mon, Noon - 6 p.m.

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I have just finished up the final touches on the forthcoming LA OTRACINA “Tonal Ellipse Of The One” album to be released on the Holy Mountain label in May of 2007. It slays. Say hello to Holy Mountain at http://www.holymountain.com/

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Speaking of LA OTRACINA…did you know that there’s a new line-up? Well indeed, and I am proud to announce that guitarist Ninni Morgia (QUIVERS/WHITE TORNADO/NAUSEA QUARTET/WIZARD TRIO) and bassist Jordon Schranz (QUIVERS/EASTERN SEABOARD/Tigerasylum Records) have joined the group. We are working on some incredible new material and shall record new music in the next few months. We will be playing our first shows with the new line-up in February, see the dates below!

We will be touring Italy in April or May and a US tour in June. Please contact us if you would like us to play your town/house/basement/club/gallery/art space/etc…

Join our myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/laotracina

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The OWL XOUNDS “Teenagers From Mars” 12” LP will be out in a few weeks. I got the test pressings in today and they totally shred. This will be a split release with James Toth’s (WOODEN WAND) Mad Monk label! We’re doing up 400 on clear yellow vinyl, sharp! The line-up on this bad boy consists on Adam Kriney on drums, Gene Janas on upright bass, and Austrian saxophonist/electronicist Mario Rechtern, who will be in the US to play some shows with us in February! Wow, do not miss these at all! See show info below!

Join our myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/owlsounds

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I am also now playing in Brooklyn rock troupe TOMORROW’S FRIEND. My first show with them is in Feb opening up for SAVAGE REPUBLIC, see date below! Whoa doggy! And we just recorded a song for a double CD compilation to be put out by the folks who run the Rare Book Room recording studio in Brooklyn, where we (and all the bands on the comp) recorded the track. Also on this comp will be ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, ENON, and so many more great groups….more news about my involvement in this band is it happens. Check them out at http://www.tomorrowsfriend.com/

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BLIZZARDS have just begun to record/write new material. Expect an EP in the next few months in addition to several brilliant releases by Hektor and Anthony’s other projects (the side projects stuff will be released on my new label Greene Disk!)!

Join our myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/blizzardsblizzards

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Our pals Primordial Undermind (originally from Austin, TX but now stationed in Austria) have been making warped psychedelic sounds since the early 90s. To support their new release on the Strange Attractors Audio House label (home to CUL DE SAC/Nick Castro/Steffen Basho-Juhghans/KINSKI) they are headed over to the USA to do a bit of touring, and both LA OTRACINA and OWL XOUNDS will be performing with them at various shows. Info is below. Check them out at http://www.myspace.com/primordialundermind

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Upcoming live performances:

2/13/7 LA OTRACINA at Cakeshop, Lower East Side, NYC, NY. Also playing is Ryan Jewell/Ed Chang Duo, CLARITY, D CHARLES SPEER (mems NNCK/SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN), and PRIMORDIAL UNDERMIND (Strange Attractors Audio House/from Austria!). The show starts at 8PM, cost is $7. LA OTRACINA plays last! http://www.cake-shop.com/, 152 Ludlow Street.

2/15/7 LA OTRACINA at Raven’s Den, Bushwick/Ridgewood, Brooklyn, NY. Also playing is SLASHER RISK, NYMPH, BRIGHT (Ba Da Bing Records), PRIMORDIAL UNDERMIND (Strange Attractors Audio House/from Austria!), and HI RED CENTER. The show starts at 8 PM and cost is $7. LA OTRACINA plays near the end! Directions/Location: 915 Wyckoff Ave @ Hancock | Ridgewood/Bushwick, QNS/BKLYN….L-Halsey or M-Myrtle/Wyckoff

2/17/7 TOMORROW’S FRIEND at Club Midway, East Village, NYC, NY. We’ll be opening for legendary freak-rockers SAVAGE REPUBLIC, also playing is VA VA CHINA. I heard the show is already sold out, and tickets are $18 anyway!? We play at 10 PM though if you care to come out! http://www.clubmidway.com/

2/18/7 OWL XOUNDS (Adam Kriney/Gene Janas/Mario Rechtern/Gene Moore) at Flywheel Arts, Easthampton, MA. Also playing is PRIMORDIAL UNDERMIND (Strange Attractors Audio House/from Austria!) and more?! Show starts at 7:30 (early, I dunno, its what the website says), cost is $6. I am not sure when we play though. http://flywheelarts.org/

2/19/7 OWL XOUNDS (Adam Kriney/Gene Janas/Mario Rechtern) at SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY. Also playing is SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN and PRIMORDIAL UNDERMIND (Strange Attractors Audio House/from Austria!). I am not sure when the show starts, 8 or 9, and I don’t know the order, we probably play first?! This free show is only for SUNY Purchase students and their guests! More info on location soon.

2/22/7 OWL XOUNDS (Adam Kriney/Gene Janas/Mario Rechtern) at 611 Florida, Washington DC. Also playing is Ryan Jewell (solo), Eric Carbonara, and Layne Garrett. Start time is *pm, cost is $5. Check out http://611florida.alkem.org/

3/3/7 OWL XOUNDS at Raven's Den...more info soon!

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This year has already been busier than I can ever imagine. I just turned 30 as well. Thanks to all of you who read these notes, support my music, and are out there doing it, and dying for it!

love love love-

adam kriney

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11/29/6

hello humans and others gracing the universe....have you had your Colour Sounds today? Perhaps it's been a while since you last indulged in a satisfying dose of magic Recordings or perhaps you've not yet tasted the sweetness contained within...either way, the chance to explore the sonics of NOW is here...please do consider a purchase of fine audio collectibles from the Colour Sounds Recordings label...

if you are interested in the recordings listed below, please e-mail colour_sounds@hotmail.com with your order inquiry and your country of residence, I will send you a total amount, and you can either PAYPAL or send a check/money order. feel free to visit the Colour Sounds Recordings website at http://www.vorg.net for more info. thanks!

THE BEETS - "Say Yes" CD-R (CSR 009, 1 copy left!)
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. Available for $5 US/$7 World.
Samlple: http://www.vorg.net/csr/Thebeets_edit_birdofpreymp3.mp3

DEAD GIRLS - "Our Tsunami" 3" CD-R (CSR 016, 1 copy left!)
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! Split release with t.b.t.d. tapes label. Available for $5 US/$7 World.
Sample: http://www.vorg.net/csr/DeadGirls_fishingmp3.mp3

ORISHA TWI - "Quiet Whispers To The Deaf" CD-R (CSR 021, 1 copy left!)
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. Available for $5 US/$8 World.
Sample: http://www.vorg.net/csr/ORISHATWI_Quietmp3.mp3

DEAD GIRLS/LIEK-DF split 3" CD-R (CSR 020, 1 copy left!)
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. Available for $5 US/$8 World.
Sample: http://www.vorg.net/csr/Liek_df_wading.mp3
http://www.vorg.net/csr/deadgirls_nigerian.mp3

QUIVERS "Once There Were Some" CD-R (CSR o26, 1 copy left!)
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 (THE RIGHT MOVES/LA OTRACINA), upright bassist Jordan Schranz (THE EASTERN SEABOARD), and vocalist Marie Evelyn. Somewhere down the line, these cats stumbled upon wrong-drummer Adam Kriney (OWL XOUNDS/BLIZZARDS/LA OTRACINA) 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. Available for $6 US/$9 World.
Sample: http://www.vorg.net/csr/QUIVERS1_mp3.mp3
http://www.vorg.net/csr/QUIVERS2_mp3.mp3

OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY - "The Myth Of Time An Elastic Experience" CD-R (CSR 023, 1 copy left!)
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. Available for $6 US/$9 World.
Sample: http://www.vorg.net/csr/OWLXOUNDS_myth_mp3.mp3

BLIZZARDS "We Run Slower Than You Walk Fast" CD-R (CSR 025, 5 copies left!)
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. Available for $6 US/$9 World.
Sample: http://www.vorg.net/csr/BLIZZARDS_Buzzards_Find_fun_mp3.mp3
http://www.vorg.net/csr/BLIZZARDS_Hue_of_Blue_and_Bluemp3.mp3
http://www.vorg.net/csr/BLIZZARDS_Where_go_you_mp3.mp3

LA OTRACINA "Love Love Love" 2xCD-R (CSR 019)
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! Available for $12 US/$15 World.
Sample: http://www.vorg.net/csr/LAOTRACINA_california_creation.mp3
http://www.vorg.net/csr/LAOTRACINA_bluemagnetictime.mp3

OWL SOUNDS/BIRDS IN THE MEADOW "Of Off Moon" split CD-R (CSR 022)
...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! Available for $5 US/$8 World.
Sample: http://www.vorg.net/csr/OfOffMoon_Owl_sample.mp3
http://www.vorg.net/csr/OfOFfMoonBirds_sample.mp3

LA OTRACINA/HAT CITY INTUITIVE/BIG NURSE "The World Will End Yesterday" 3-way split CD-R (CSR 028)
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!
Available for $6 US/$9 World.
Sample: http://www.vorg.net/csr/WorldWillEnd_otra_sample.mp3
http://www.vorg.net/csr/WorldWillEnd_HCI_sample.mp3
http://www.vorg.net/csr/WorldWillEdn_BigNurse_sample.mp3

OWL XOUNDS "Toxic Raga" CD-R (CSR 024)
"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. Available for $6 US/$9 World
Sample: http://www.vorg.net/csr/OWLXOUNDS_theendofdiscussion_sample.mp3

RUST IONICS "Moving/Pictures" LP (CSR 018)
"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!). Available in clear picture disc sleeve or limited edition recycled-art sleeve. Available for $12 US/$16 World.
Sample: http://www.vorg.net/csr/RustIOnics_moving_excerpt.mp3

if you are interested in the recordings listed above, please e-mail colour_sounds@hotmail.com with your order inquiry and your country of residence, I will send you a total amount, and you can either PAYPAL or send a check/money order. feel free to visit the Colour Sounds Recordings website at http://www.vorg.net for more info. thanks!


 

11/9/6

3 AMAZING shows coming up.....

11/11/6 LA OTRACINA (Adam Kriney/Ninni Morgia/Rylan Scherer/Greg Vegas/Sara Palmquist) at a From B's To Z's Event, at Cakeshop, LES, NYC, we play at 9:30-ish.

11/17/6 OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY (Adam Kriney/Gene Janas/Darius Jones/Gene Moore/Shayna Dulberger/Ryan Snow) at Bard College, Annadale-On-Hudson, NY, 9 PM, with BLUES CONTROL and more.

11/20/6 OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY (Adam Kriney/Gene Janas/Gene Moore/Sam Hillmer/Shayna Dulberger) at Flywheel, Easthampton, MA, 9 PM, with Bill Nace (of VAMPIRE BELT)/Sara Jaffe (of ERASE ERRATTA) Duo and GAY BEAST.


 

9/30/6

Killer show coming up before I head out on tour with THE PLACES...

10/1/6 OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY - Adam Kriney-drums/Gene Janas-upright bass/Darius Jones-alto sax/Shayna Dulberger-upright bass with WOODEN WAND, D CHARLES SPEER (members of NNCK, SUNBUNRED HAND OF THE MAN, SUNTANAMA), & TALIBAM! at Glassland Gallery, 289 Kent Ave @ South 1st St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

 

9/16/6

Hello humans of the colour spectrumverse-

A few exciting things to tell you:
*4 new Colour Sounds releases available for mailorder!!
*RUST IONICS LP release show in Brooklyn, NY 9/19/6!!
*Other/older titles still available for mailorder!!
*New places to buy Colour Sounds releases!!

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4 new Colour Sounds releases available for mailorder!!

RUST IONICS “Moving/Pictures” LP (CSR 018) $12US /$16 World
Description: "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!)
Sample: http://www.vorg.net/csr/RustIOnics_moving_excerpt.mp3

BIRDS IN THE MEADOW/OWL SOUNDS “Of Off Moon” split CD-R (CSR 022) $5 US/$8 World
Description:...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 emitting? 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!
Sample: OWL SOUNDS - http://www.vorg.net/csr/OfOffMoon_Owl_sample.mp3
BIRDS IN THE MEADOW - http://www.vorg.net/csr/OfOFfMoonBirds_sample.mp3

OWL XOUNDS “Toxic Raga” CD-R (CSR 024) $6 US/$9 World
Description: "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 in-the-know 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 approaches to instant composition received 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 including an absurdist anti-poem by Ryan Eggensperger, in a 1-time edition of 108(!?) copies.
Sample - http://www.vorg.net/csr/OWLXOUNDS_theendofdiscussion_sample.mp3

HAT CITY INTUITIVE/LA OTRACINA/BIG NURSE “The World Will End Yesteday” 3-way split CD-R (CSR 028) $6 US/$9 World
Description: 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!
Sample – HAT CITY INTUITIVE http://www.vorg.net/csr/WorldWillEnd_HCI_sample.mp3
LA OTRACINA http://www.vorg.net/csr/WorldWillEnd_otra_sample.mp3
BIG NURSE - http://www.vorg.net/csr/WorldWillEdn_BigNurse_sample.mp3


SPEACIAL OFFER: Save money, if you order all 4 new releases, you can receive a special price of $25 US/$35 World !!!!!

E-mail us with your order and then we’ll send you your total and then you can PAYPAL us the amount at colour_sounds@hotmail.com and we’ll get it out to you immediately!

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RUST IONICS LP release show in Brooklyn, NY 9/19/6!!

Tuesday Sept 19th.
Tommy's Tavern, (http://www.tommystavern.com/)
1041 Manhattan Ave, (at Freeman), Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY 718-383-9699
Show stats at 8:00 promptly
$6 cover, touring bands will be playing!

ALOPECOID (solo action from Jay of DAYLIGHT'S FOR THE BIRDS, http://www.myspace.com/daylightsforthebirds)
THE FURNITURE (on tour!, solo set, http://myspace.com/thefurniture)
PIGEONS (members of SEA DONKEYS/ENOS SLAUGHTER/IZITITIZ, http://www.morantapelabel.com)
CASSETTE CONCRET (on tour!, solo set, http://myspace.com/joshimusic)
DANDELION FICTION (on tour!, solo set, http://www.dandelion.hebronix.com/)
RUST IONICS (LP release show! members OWL XOUNDS/LA OTRACINA/BLIZZARDS/SPIN-17/DUAL/QUIVERS/WIZARD TRIO, http://www.vorg.net/csr/artistssonsoffire.htm)

RUST IONICS will most likely go on around 11 PM!

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Other/older titles still available for mailorder!!
Yes there are still several different titles from the Colour Sounds back catalog available to you!

LA OTRACINA “Love Love Love” 2xCD-R $12ppd US/$15ppd World
2nd pressing of this double disc set of blown out free-psych/prog madness. Wire Magazine June issue raved it up!

OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY “The Myth Of Time An Elastic Experience” CD-R $6 US/$9 World
Seminal OWL XOUNDS formation, free-jazz/psychrock mashup extraordinary WOW. Drummer Adam Kriney says “My favorite OWL XOUNDS album ever!” nuff said!

BLIZZARDS “We Run Slower Than You Walk Fast” CD-R $6ppd US/$9ppd World
2nd pressing of this neo-krautrock meets freak-folk/improv/noise unit.

QUIVERS “Once There Were Some” CD-R $6 US/$9 World
Incredible avant-rock/improv skuzzbucket full length album, MARS meets HARRY PUSSY, a very underrated Colour Sounds release, 6 copies left, most likely not to be repressed!

DEAD GIRLS “Our Tsunami” 3” CD-R $4 US/$7 World
The last copy of this limited to 31 copies destructive synth-drums black noise duo, h-e-a-v-y!

ORISHA TWI “Quiet Whispers To The Deaf” CD-R $4 US/$7 World
Only two copies left of this limited to 20 edition vocal/noise/feedback/drone slab of time, thick and crunchy!

DEAD GIRLS/LIKE-DF split 3” CD-R $4 US/$7 World
One copy left of this limited to 60 edition split release featuring drum/synth evil noise-duo DEAD GIRLS and pastoral lush-acidfolk of LIKE-DF! A VERY underrated Colour Sounds release!

THE BEETS “Say Yes” CD-R $4 US/$7 World
Only 2 copies left of this full length album of abstract improv/electronic duo, somewhere between AMM/MEV and TANGERINE DREAM, another very underrated Colour Sounds release!

E-mail us with your order and then we’ll send you your total and then you can PAYPAL us the amount at colour_sounds@hotmail.com and we’ll get it out to you immediately!

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New places all over the world to buy Colour Sounds releases!!

Go shopping for our stuff (especially older out of print items) at these fine online distributors and retail stores:

Eclipse Records (US) http://eclipse-records.com/
Volcanic Tongue (Glasgow, UK) http://volcanictongue.com/
Other Music (NYC, New York) http://www.othermusic.com/
Kim’s Music (NYC, New York) http://www.mondokims.com/
Conspiracy Records (Belgium) http://www.conspiracyrecords.com/store/store_indexmusic.php
Sound Fix Records (Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY) http://www.soundfixrecords.com/
Grimey's (Nashville, TN) http://www.grimeys.com/
Lunchbox Records (Charlotte, NC) http://www.myspace.com/lunchbox_records
Filco Productions (Chapel Hill, NC) http://www.filcoproductions.com/
Aural Innovations Mailorder (US) http://www.aural-innovations.com/store/
Norman Records Music Emporium (Leeds, UK) http://www.normanrecords.com

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More news soon…

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Take er easy…..

-adam kriney


Adam Kriney
Colour Sounds Recordings
http://www.vorg.net/csr


 

9/8/6

Tuesday Sept 19th.
Tommy's Tavern, (http://www.tommystavern.com/)
1041 Manhattan Ave, (at Freeman), Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY 718-383-9699
Show stats at 8:00 promptly
$6 cover, touring bands will be playing!

ALOPECOID (solo action from Jay of DAYLIGHT'S FOR THE BIRDS, http://www.myspace.com/daylightsforthebirds)
THE FURNITURE (on tour!, solo set, http://myspace.com/thefurniture)
PIGEONS (members of SEA DONKEYS/ENOS SLAUGHTER/IZITITIZ, http://www.morantapelabel.com)
CASSETTE CONCRET (on tour!, solo set, http://myspace.com/joshimusic)
DANDELION FICTION (on tour!, solo set, http://www.dandelion.hebronix.com/)
RUST IONICS (LP release show! members OWL XOUNDS/LA OTRACINA/BLIZZARDS/SPIN-17/DUAL/QUIVERS/WIZARD TRIO, http://www.vorg.net/csr/artistssonsoffire.htm)


 

8/23/6

some upcoming releases information...

HAT CITY INTUITIVE/LA OTRACINA/BIG NURSE "The World Will End Yesterday" 3-way split CD-R (CSR 028)
RUST IONICS "Moving/Pictures" LP (CSR 018 split release with Quodlibet Recordings (QUODLP01) and Outer Limits Records (OL 05))
BIRDS IN THE MEADOW/OWL SOUNDS "Of Off Moon" split CD-R (CSR 022)
OWL XOUNDS "Toxic Raga" CD-R (CSR 024 and simultaneously released with different packaging on Volcanic Tongue Records in the UK)
OWL XOUNDS "Teenagers From Mars" LP (CSR 027 split release with Mad Monk Records (MM 006))

 

8/10/6

OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY (Adam Kriney/Gene Janas/Darius Jones) with IMAGINARY PEOPLE, and more freak-ed out noise-splurgers to be announced...9:00 pm, Saturday April 12, at a ragin House Party in Harlem, NYC, 549 W. 144th St. Apt. ..1, between Broadway and Amsterdam

public transport info: its a block south of the 145th st. 1 stop, east of
broadway, -or just a few blocks west of the A/C/B/D
stop at 145th street..

contact http://www.myspace.com/pristinerecords for more info....

peace-
-adm xounds

 

5/27/6

ok.....

1) BLIZZARDS tour US from 6/27-7/17 with THE GOOD ANNA
2) 3 new releases on Colour Sounds now available for mail-order!

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BLIZZARDS is the trio of Adam Kriney, Anthony Lebron, and Hektor Fontanez...they explore the realms of lost kraut-rock, fantasy-folk, and noise/drone/improv....they tour the US from 6/27-7/17 with the Nottingham, UK noise/improv duo THE GOOD ANNA. Please come see us, we'll have our our new albums for sale as well as rad t-shirts....

6/27/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at Potion Cafe, in the McKibbon Lofts, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, at 9PM, with THE GOOD ANNA
6/28/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at Avant Gentlemen's Lounge, Philadelphia, PA, at 9PM, with THE GOOD ANNA, MAKE A RISING, THE AMBITIOUS ORCHESTRA
6/29/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at Nath's House, 1834 Parkwood Ave., Richmond, VA, at 9PM, with THE GOOD ANNA, OUR STABLE VIOLENT STAR
6/30/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at The Warehouse Next Door, Washington DC, at 8:30 PM, with THE GOOD ANNA, KNIFE CRAZY
7/01/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at The Red Room, Baltimore, MD, at 8:30 PM, with THE GOOD ANNA
7/02/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at Lunchbox Records, Charlotte, NC at 8:00 PM, with THE GOOD ANNA
7/03/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at Secret Matrix, Athens, GA, at 8:30 PM, with THE GOOD ANNA
7/04/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA, at 9 PM, with PROJEXORCISM, THE GOOD ANNA
7/05/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at Grimey's New & Preloved Music, Nashville, TN, at 6 PM (early show!), with THE GOOD ANNA
7/06/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at The Old Louisville Coffee House, Louisville, KY, at 6 PM (early show), with KEENAN LAWLER, ERIC CLARKE, THE GOOD ANNA
7/07/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh, PA, at 8 PM, with THE GOOD ANNA
7/08/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at 15th House, Columbus, OH, at 8 PM, with THE GOOD ANNA
7/09/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at The Hangout, Edinboro, PA, at 8 PM, with THE GOOD ANNA
7/10/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at Metropolis Book Shoppe, Syracuse, NY, with THE GOOD ANNA
7/12/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at Mezzanotte Lounge, Syracuse, NY, at 8 PM, with THE GOOD ANNA
7/13/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at The Bugjar, Rochester, NY, at 8 PM, with THE GOOD ANNA
7/14/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at The Lily Pad, Cambridge, MA, at 8 PM, with THE GOOD ANNA
7/16/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at Chutney Flatts, Portsmouth, NH, at 8 PM, with NAT BALDWIN, THE GOOD ANNA, EMMA ZUNZ
7/17/6 BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney/Hektor Fontanez/Anthony Lebron) at Goodbye Blue Monday, Broadway/JMZ, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, at 9PM, with THE GOOD ANNA, TRUE PRIMES

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here's three new releases for ya.....to mailorder send an e-mail with what you want to order and i'll send you a price back. if you want to buy all three new releases, you can get them all for $16US/$20 world!!!!

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Title: QUIVERS "Once There Were Some" CD-R (CSR 026)

Release date: June 22, 2006

Description: 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.

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.

Availability: This CD-R is limited to 52 copies and is available for $6ppd US/$8ppd World.

Info:
QUIVERS http://www.vorg.net/csr/artistsquivers.htm
QUIVERS at myspace http://www.vorg.net/csr/artistsquivers.htm

Listen to a section of the song "One..." here, http://www.vorg.net/csr/QUIVERS1_mp3.mp3
Listen to a section of the song "Six..." here, http://www.vorg.net/csr/QUIVERS2_mp3.mp3

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Title: OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY "The Myth Of Time An Elastic Experience" CD-R (CSR 023)

Release Date: June 23, 2006

Description: 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 vibe for deep sonic headz. Comes in ultra-warped tripper design packaging, a perfect visual for such insane sounds. First press of 50 hand numbered copies out now!

Availability: This CD-R is in it's first press of 50 copies and is available for $6ppd US/$8ppd World.

Info: OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY http://www.vorg.net/csr/artistsowlsounds.htm

Listen to a section of this 1 track recoring here, http://www.vorg.net/csr/OWLXOUNDS_myth_mp3.mp3

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Title: BLIZZARDS "We Run Slower Than You Walk Fast" CD-R (CSR 025)

Release Date: June 27, 2006

Description: 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. Truth is, the boys are all mad with ideas and this trio allows each to fulfill their wildest intentions in aural concepts! This 7 track record was recorded in two days, June 20 & 21 of 2006, in preparation for their 3+ week US tour with UK improv/noise duo THE GOOD ANNA. First press of 53 copies come in hand-screened sleeves with art desings by all members of the group.

Availability: This CD-R is in it's first press of 53 copies and is available for $8ppd US/$10ppd World.

Info: BLIZZARDS http://www.vorg.net/csr/artistsblizzards.htm

Listen to a section of Where Go You Did? http://www.vorg.net/csr/BLIZZARDS_Where_go_you_mp3.mp3
Listen to a section of Hue Of Blue Blue Blue As The Day Is Done http://www.vorg.net/csr/BLIZZARDS_Hue_of_Blue_and_Bluemp3.mp3
Listen to a section of Buzzards Find Fun http://www.vorg.net/csr/BLIZZARDS_Buzzards_Find_fun_mp3.mp3

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c u out there America!

-adm

 


 

5/27/6

hello my yellow mellow magic friends....

*two AMAZING shows this weekend to tell you about (and one in a week from now)
*RUST IONICS LP test pressings just arrived
*June issue of Wire Magazine freaks over the 3 most recent releases from the label, scroll down to read em....


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Sunday 5/28/6 OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY (Adam Kriney/Gene Janas/Darius Jones/Greg Vegas) at "from b to z" event thrown by the members of Z's at Cakeshop, Lower East Side, NYC, NY.

This line-up of OWL XOUNDS features the regulars of Adam and Gene, with the recently recruited brilliance of alto-saxist Darius Jones (who stole the show in his recent trio performance with Cooper-Moore and Chad Taylor! haha) and in his first meeting with the XOUNDS, old-skool skronk master Greg Vegas of CT/NYC/DC freaks HAT CITY INTUITIVE (who have a forthcoming LP on Ecstatic Peace Records) will be joining as well on guitar and tenor-sax...

Darius is also a member of BIRDS IN THE MEADOW who will be releasing a split cd-r with OWL SOUNDS, out in only a few weeks on Colour SOunds.....check it...

Also playing the show is: PERIOD, THE FUGUE, EYESTEK, & IMAGINARY PEOPLE.

There will be free cake at this event, and visuals will be proviuded by the legendary Mighty Robot AV squad (sweet!), and righteous tunes will be spun all night by The Beekeepers!!!!

Don't miss kidz...

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Saturday 5/29/6 DIVINE INVASION (Marc Orleans/Adam Kriney/Adam Nodelman) at Fontana's, 105 Eldridge (at Grand), Chinatown/LES, NYC.

Come witness the first monstrous live set by these heavy-psych-noise killers, Marc is a member of SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN, performs solo as OZONE LAYER, and is a regular collaborator with underground UK noise legend Matthew Bower, Adam Kriney plays in OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY, LA OTRACINA, DEAD GIRLS, etc, and Adam Nodelman played in CRASH WORSHIP and BORBETOMAGUS! Prepare for destruction....


Also playing this show is BEZOAR and AORTIC BALLOON.

Come for a night of heavy soundz, aural madness, and general confusion, ummmmmmmmm....

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Tuesday 6/6/6 CASTANETS (Ray Raposa/Adam Kriney/Jessie Ainsley/more..?) at Brooklyn Fireproof, 101 Richardson St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. We play with the amazing and satanic PHOSPHORESCENT....

check out more about the event here: http://bfp.wireandtransit.com/events/26

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The RUST IONICS "Moving/Pictures" LP test pressings have arrived, and they sound righteous! We should hopefully have the full pressing of 300 on clear dazzling blue vinyl. This LP is a massive helping of burnt-evil free-improv with Adam Kriney - drums, Ed Chang - alto sax, and Doug Theriault - sensor guitar...prepare.....this will be a split disc with the Quodlibet label, run by Ed! stay tooned....

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June issue of Wire Magazine reviews the 3 new Colour Sounds releases...check out the werds.....

OWL SOUNDS with Arrington De Dionyso "Cow On Mushrooms" CD
by Marc Masters
Owl Sounds is the New York duo of drummer Adam Kriney and bassist Gene Janas. All their releases have featured additional musicians, and on Cow On Mushrooms they team up with Arrington DeDionyso, guitarist and singer for North Western rockers Old Time Relijun. Here DeDionyso plays bass clarinet, and his growling tone reaches into the guts of the instrument and tear[s] sound straight out. Kriney and Janas surround his acrobatics with dizzying rhythms, and the trio's raw sound makes Cow On Mushrooms [seem] like a long lost ESP-Disk treasure.
Much of this old school hue is due to Janas, whose inventive bass bathes the album in a gritty glow. His rumbling plucks are powerful, but he's particularly stunning when he's sawing at his strings to create a creaking wail. On "We Stems", his frictions cut DeDionyso's yelps until the two seem to merge, while on "Feed" his noisy solo recalls the detonations of violinist Billy bang. Kriney moves forward on "Of Off", filling the air with a clicking solo before propping up DeDionyso's dense breath-bombs.
This new version of Cow On Mushrooms includes three remixes not included on the original 2005 release, two by Liek-Twi and one by Twin:72. Most effective is Liek-Twi's "From Calm Pastures OF Liek-Twi The Cow dreams Ancient", which grinds its sources into a soupy haze, deftly returning Owl Sounds back into the primordial soup from which they originated.

DEAD GIRLS/LIEK-DF split 3"
by John Dale
One would never suspect that these groups were from New York, but hey - it's true. Both are duos of the burroughs, and they're good ones. Liek do a blend of acoustic guitar and noise based psychedelic whizzing. Dead Girls offer a mix that is more akin to collapsed progressive electronic woozleforced through a drum kit. It all gets ramped up into a throbbing hurricane of pus and drool before being pushed off the top of a very tall inner city parking structure. So watch your neck. You're gonna need it.

LA OTRACINA "Love Love Love" 2xcd-R
by Edwin Pouncey
Scalp-lifting cosmic crescendos and sprawling psychedelic rock dominate this latest handmade set from La Otracina, a New York duo of percussionist Adam Kriney and guitarist Joshua Anzano. The blatant hippy title, craft-infected artwork, and spraypainted CDs are an inappropriate package for music this powerful. Rather than a further helping of New Weird America mung bean boogie, we are instead treated to a rich psychotic blend of ruptured free-jazz, Improv excess and even a passage which nearly crashes into something that's not far away from Hawkwind's Space Ritual. Augmented by the bass rumble of Dan Bates, Nick Chapman's keyboard flourishes and Kris D'Agostino's synthesizer constructions, La Otracina's freeform inferno is well worth huddling around.

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and there you have it friends, excuse me while me and Tracy have a lil ol' acid trip...

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ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm................



5/3/06

Watch some live DEAD GIRLS action from The Glasshouse Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 4/29/6, here!


4/29/06

here's a new CD-R on Colour Sounds Recordings

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Title: ORISHA TWI "Quiet Whispers To The Deaf" CD-R (Colour Sounds Recordings 021)

Release Date: March 30, 2006

Description: 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.

Availability: This CD is limited to 20 numbered copies and is available for $5 US/$9 World

Info:
ORISHA is here
TWI is here

Listen to a section of this track here

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4/27/06

a hello to all peoples and yes.

having just returned from the ever rip-roaring LA OTRACINA "Elliptical Envelopment" Tour across the US, I am eager to begin the spring/summer seasons with crazy news....

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OWL SOUNDS will now be forever known as OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY

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a few shows are a-happenin that are worth your checking out in the NYC area....

4/27/6 DEAD GIRLS (Alfred Telehuahua/Moose "Hank" O'Brien) with STARS LIKE FLEAS, HARMSTRYKER, and YOU AREN'T MY MOTHER at Glasshouse Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. This show starts at 8:00 pm, the cover is $5 and I have no clue what order the bands are playing, so do like in the olden days and come see all the groups.

5/1 OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY (Adam Kriney/Gene Janas/Darius JOnes) with NERVOUS CABARET, at Fontanas, 105 Eldridge St (btwn Grand and Broome), Chinatown/LES, NYC. We are playing at 10:00 sharp, don't miss it! This is NERVOUS CABARET's only NY show before they had back to Europe for more touring and stardom, we are thrilled to share this night with them! The cover is $6.

5/28/6 OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY (Adam Kriney/Gene Janas/Darius Jones/Greg Vegas) at "from b to z" event thrown by the members of Z's at Cakeshop, Lower East Side, NYC, NY. Also playing is: PERIOD, THE FUGUE, EYESTEK, & IMAGINARY PEOPLE. More info soon.

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QUIVERS is a new band featuring:
Ninni Morgia (THE RIGHT MOVES/WIZARD TRIO/NAUSEA QUARTET/WHITE TORNADO) on electric guitar
Jordan Schranz (THE EASTERN SEABOARD) on upright bass
Marie Evelyn on vocals
Adam Kriney (OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY/DEAD GIRLS/LA OTRACINA) on drums

We recently recorded a record which will be intially be available as a cd-r on Colour SOunds then hopefully released by someone else (cause it's fucking white hot, yup), and we'll be touring the US of A from 6/12 to 6/22, exact dates will be available soon.

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BLIZZARDS is a new band featuring:
Adam Kriney (OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY/DEAD GIRLS/LA OTRACINA) on drums
Anthony Lebron (TWI) on guitar/electronics
Hektor Fontanez (LIEK) on guitar/electronics

BLIZZARDS will be toruing the US of A from 6/27-7/15, exact dates will be available soon.

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You can now by all Colour Sounds Recordings releases in Charlotte, North Carolina at the wonderful Lunchbox Records, check them out here: http://www.myspace.com/lunchbox_records

You can also by some Colour SOunds Recordings releases through Filco Productions, based out of Davidson, North carolina, check them out onine at http://www.filcoproductions.com/

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Upcoming releases:

ORISHA TWI "Quiet Whispers To The Deaf" CD-R
RUST IONICS "Moving/Pictures" LP
OWL SOUNDS/BIRDS IN THE MEADOW split CD-R
QUIVERS CD-R
BLIZZARDS CD-R
more LA OTRACINA stuff including a split with HAT CITY INTUITIVE
3 new OWL SOUNDS albums

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out of earth-
-your friend in time-
adam kriney


 

4/11/06

Hello fair fellows and maidens in yellows.

Colour Sounds is extremely psyched to announce the LA OTRACINA Elliptical Envelopment Tour of 2006, from 4/12-4/22, taking us through, NYC, DC, VA, NC, GA, TN, KY, OH, and PA. LA OTRACINA will bring the psychedelic noise and freak-out sonics to the good peoples of the land, please come and share with us.

LA OTRACINA will be touring as a magical triangle of spectral sounds featuring Adam Kriney on drums, Matt Lavallee on electric guitar and synthesizer, and David Wnorowski on electric bass and farfisa. Matt comes to us from his new home of Washington DC, and before that he had spent many years in Boston studying musical arrangement and vibraphone at Berklee College, recording and composing lush and airy synthesizer suites, and shredding guitars in everything from rock to noise outfits, not to mention being an original member of the first OWL SOUNDS formation. Dave has been kicking around Brooklyn, NY for some time now, building guitars, performing and teching with diverse musical acts all over the globe, and generally swimming in the heavy sounds of his wah-wah.

Here are the tour details as best that we have them:

4/12/6 LA OTRACINA at Tommy's Tavern, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, with BEZOAR, ENOS SLAUGHTER, & NAUSEA QUARTET.
4/13/6 LA OTRACINA at ???...we have no show, looking to play ANYWHERE in the northeast, but well most likely record an album in the woods somewhere. E-mail immediately if you can help!
4/14/6 LA OTRACINA at 611 Florida, Washington, DC, with KOHOUTEK, TALL FIRS (Ecstatic Peace Records), LITTLE HOWLIN WOLF, PIGEONS, & PEPI GINSBERG.
4/15/6 LA OTRACINA at ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA. with NO B.S...Early show at 7:00! Then we are playing a second show that night at an awesome house party which starts at 10:00pm at 1834 Parkwood Ave., Richmond, VA, and also playing is HOZOMEEN.
4/16/6 LA OTRACINA at Lunchbox, Charlotte, NC, with THE EASTERN SEABOARD, early show at 6:00 PM!
4/17/6 LA OTRACINA at The Secret Squirrel, Athens, GA with POTATOES, SUBVERSIVO, & COL. KNOWLEDGE AND THE LICKITY SPLITS.
4/18/6 LA OTRACINA at Dino's Diner, Nashville, TN with HUMAN HOST.
4/19/6 LA OTRACINA at Acid Living Room, Murfreesboro, TN with BAD FRIEND (member of BIG NURSE).
4/20/6 LA OTRACINA at The Frowny Bear, Lexington, KY, with Daryl Cook (a.k.a Walter Carson) and more.
4/21/6 LA OTRACINA at Skylab, 57 E. Gay St. (5th floor), Columbus, OH with Warhammer 48k (Columbia, MO), Jerusalem and the Starblazers, Sweetheart (post-hardcore from Columbus/Kent), and maybe another band.
4/22/6 LA OTRACINA at Modern Formations Gallery, Pittsburg, PA with BROWN ANGEL, FANTASY BOYFRIEND, & THE RHODORA.

We will of course have copies of our new LA OTRACINA Love Love Love 2xCD-R for sale at all shows as well as copies of all the different Colour Sounds Recordings releases now available!

Please tell all your friends who live in these places....

peace-

 

3/17/6

Hello dear souls-

Happy to finally announce the release of this years first 3 new Colour Sounds Recordings releases!

Also I am including a list of all other currently in-stock releases available for sale.

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Title: OWL SOUNDS with Arrington De Dionyso "Cow On Mushrooms" cd-r, repress with bonus remixes (CSR 012)

Release date: March 1, 2006

Description: 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!

Availability: This CD-R is limited to 85 copies and is available for $8ppd US/$10ppd World. While supplies last, this CD-R also comes with a poster from the live show where OWL SOUNDS with Arrington De DIonyso played with ANNA RAMPAGE (Paul Flaherty/Greg Kelly/Bill Nace/Ben Karetnick), & ILL WIND ENSEMBLE at Hampshire College.

Info:
OWL SOUNDS: http://www.vorg.net/csr/artistsowlsounds.htm
Arrington De Dionyso: http://www.krecs.com/oldtimerelijun
TWIN:72: http://www.twin72.com
LIEK: http://www.learningthelanguage.com/liek.html
TWI: http://www.learningthelanguage.com/twiandthehumblefeather.html

Listen to a section of the OWL SOUNDS with Arrington De Dionyso track "Leaf Orr" here
Listen to a section of the LIEK-TWI remix track here
Listen to a section of the TWIN:72 remix track here

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Title: DEAD GIRLS/LIEK-DF split 3" cd-r (CSR 020/t.b.t.d. 006)

Release date: March 1, 2006

Description: 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.

Availability: This 3" cd-r is limited to a first press of 39 copies and a second press of 21 copies, and is available for $5ppd US/$7ppd World.

Info:
DEAD GIRLS: http://www.vorg.net/csr/artistsdeadgirls.htm
LIEK-DF: http://www.learningthelanguage.com/liek.html

Listen to a section of the LIEK-DF track "Wading In Space (Theme For My Flood)" here
Listen to a section of DEAD GIRLS track "Nigerian Fantasy" here

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Title: LA OTRACINA "Love Love Love" 2xcd-r (CSR 019)

Release Date: March 16, 2006

Description: 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 to a one time pressing of 100 copies, every one hand constructed, painted, sewn, art-ed up, etc! For fans of heavy/experimental psychedelia!

Availability: This 2xCD-R is limited to 100 copies and is available for $12ppd US/$15ppd World.

Info:
LA OTRACINA: http://www.vorg.net/csr/artistslaotracina.htm

Listen to a section of the track "Orange California Sunshine (Creation)" here
Listen to a section of the track "Blue Magnetic Time" here
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To order any of these new releases, or the older releases below, you can e-mail us your order to be sure we have it in stock, then once we confirm with you, you can PAYPAL us directly at colour_sounds@hotmail.com.

All orders come with a copy of the Colour Sounds Recordings Autumn Sampler “Here We All Are Sitting In A Rainbow”. Some of you already have this though, so please let us know if you do so we don’t send another one!
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Here are all of the other current Colour Sounds releases that are available for purchase:

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ADAM KRINEY “Duo Explorations VOL. 1 & VOL. 2” 2xCD-R $5 US/$7 World [only 1 copy left folks!]

A Rugged and raw first free-jazz related release from drummer Adam Kriney, totally bludgeoning and assaultive, early duo sessions with saxist John Keegan and upright bassist Brad Schirmer.

Here’s what Steve Holtje had to say about this 2xCD-R in Big Takeover Magazine:

"Drummer Kriney used to play in the Massachusetts prog-rock group THE NATIONALE BLUE, but here he's purely a free-jazz player. These two sessions were recorded just before he moved to Brooklyn; they find him teaming with acoustic bassist Brad Schirmer on the first disc and alto/tenor saxophonist John Keegan on the second for unfettered improvisations. The bass/drums disc might seem like aficionado territory, but Schirmer's melodic approach and the rapt responsiveness of the musicians captivate. Kriney's most energetic playing comes with Keegan, who hold his own amid the barrage with keening twists and turns, bold altissimo excursions, and a strong vibrant tone (think Charles Gayle).”
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HAPPY DEER “Forestrial Communication” CD-R $5 US/$7 World [only 1 copy left folks!]

Totally trippy explorations of Adam Kriney (LA OTRACINA/OWL SOUNDS), Anthony Lebron (TWI/LIL HUMBLE VELI), & Dan Bates (LA OTRACINA/TITAN) into the improvised sounds of woods, nature, forests, and the cartoonish imagery we all associate with these concepts. Very cool album, I only wish we could have been a real performing group!

Here’s what Steve Holtje had to say about this CD-R in Big Takeover Magazine:

“Does it get any spaciaer than this? Forestrial Communication is a single 25-minute improvisation by Adam Kriney (drums, flutes), Anthony Lebron (vocals, electronics, flutes), and Dan Bates (electric bass, percussion, flutes) inspired by and on some level depicting fauna and flora. What's most impressive in a way is that Lebron manages to deploy abstract vocals in a way that seems neither silly nor pretentious. Often he sounds like a human synthesizer. Although this is freely improvised music, Kriney's not allergic to a steady pulse, sometimes for quite a long time, and there's a certain resemblance to Pink Floyd at its most free-form, right down to the flutes. There's also plenty of room for Kriney to unleash his considerable chops, as compared to other contexts in which he holds back for the sake of a different mood; here, although he's perfectly tasteful and subtle, you can tell this is a very talented drummer at work. The versatility and virtuosity of these players makes this a veritable feast of timbres.”
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OWL SOUNDS “Cry Of The Saw-Whet” CD-R $5 US/$7 World [only 1 copy left folks!]

Here’s where it all got started, insane live show, NYC freak jazz, two upright bass players, drums, and alto sax, destroying the placid ABC No Rio audience live in December of 2004!

Here’s what David Keenan of Volcanic Tongue/The Wire had to say about this release:

“Latest thrilling missive on this suave new New York-based free jazz/ESP styled imprint run by percussionist Adam Kriney. Owl Sounds features high-energy drums/sax interaction from Kriney and altoist Randy Borra in the style of the bone-bending Frank Lowe/Rashied Ali duo, with every whup and crack bracketed by two upright bassists (Gene Janas and Jay Dunbar) who generate an all-enveloping weave of time/space distortion that is deeply psychedelic. Solid, all-minds-blown primitive free jazz jams that should appeal to rockers and smokers alike. Imagine the Tenor Rising/Drums Expanding group tackling Ornette’s 1962 Town Hall material. Recorded live at ABC No Rio, NYC, 5/12/04. Great uniform label feel to Colour Sounds Recordings that’s guaranteed to make you covet the set, with sleeves and inserts printed on textured card and releases limited to 100 copies. In years to come you’ll poke yourself for missing them. Two tracks, 26 minutes plus, highly recommended for fans of post-Actuel fire and spirit.”
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THE BEETS “Say Yes” CD-R $5 US/$7 World

Totally weird! One of the strangest records I ever made, combining the swirling synths and lush of TANGERINE DREAM & Brian Eno with European avant-garde percussives and walls of feedback. Features Adam Kriney (LA OTRACINA?OWL SOUNDS) and John Dalessi (DIRTY CHURCHES). I love this record and you need to hear it’s craziness!

Here’s what David Keenan of Volcanic Tongue/The Wire had to say about this release:

“Full-length album from Brooklyn-based ‘noise-improv-textural-sound’ duo The Beets, featuring John Dalessi on keyboards, four-track and cassettes, electronics and cymbal and Adam Kriney (Owl Sounds/La Otracina et al) on drums, percussion, electric bass and electronics. Released on Kriney’s own Colour Sounds Recordings label. Somewhere between the crude avant thug of A Handful Of Dust, the cartoon lab-coat gloop of he BBC’s Radiophonic workshop and the iron heart of 1960s MEV and AMM. Great uniform label feel to Colour Sounds Recordings that’s guaranteed to make you covet the set, with sleeves and inserts printed on textured card and releases limited to 100 copies. In years to come you’ll poke yourself for missing them.”
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LA OTRACINA “Aren’t It Spectral” CD-R $5US/$7 World [only 3 copies left folks!]

Fucking awesome acid-soaked EP by Brooklyn, NY space-travelers LA OTRACINA. 4 tracks of outer-psychedelia sure to warp your cosmos! Totally essential and gorgeous!

Here’s what David Keenan of Volcanic Tongue/The Wire had to say about this release:

“Primal guitar/drums/chord organ/vibes duo blow-out led by percussionist Adam Kriney and released on his own private press label, Colour Sounds Recordings, whose recent form situates them squarely in the post-ESP Disk tradition. Moves from sense-blasting noise to single-note guitar wrestling from Tyler Nolan that conjures the benign forms of Sonny Sharrock and Tisziji Munoz in a conflation of prog, acid and free/modal moves.”
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OWL SOUNDS “Unseen Rhythmics” CD-R $7 US/$10 World [only 3 copies left folks!]

2005 Summer tour CD-R by twisted free-jazz boys OWL SOUNDS. Off the wall music and packaging as is to be expected from this label! Full length recording!

Here’s what David Keenan of Volcanic Tongue/The Wire had to say about this release:

“Latest broadcast from the bowels of the NY free jazz underground on this always-killing post-ESP imprint comes from drummer/label boss Adam Kriney’s Owl Sounds trio who also feature alto saxophonist Randy Borra and bassist Gene Janas. This is a really hot session, with an atmosphere somewhere between Jemeel Moondoc’s small group work and Marion Brown circa Porto Novo with a few detours into drone-damaged AACM-on-the-moon style percussive freak out. They even cover Marion Brown’s “Homecoming”. Recorded straight to VHS tape, this CD-R comes packaged in a cloth envelope with an attached hand-painted full-colour poster and insert.”
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DEAD GIRLS “Our Tsunami” 3” CD-R $5 US/$7 World [only 5 copies left folks!]

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.
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2/28/6

hello all you people of the omni-verse...this is adam from colour sounds
writing you from cold as fuck New York City, happy to announce the
OWL SOUNDS with Arrington De Dionyso "Cow On Mushrooms" tour from March 1-5, 2006!

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OWL SOUNDS with Arrington De Dionyso "Cow On Mushrooms" Tour
The trio of Adam Kriney on drums and Gene Janas on upright bass (both of OWL SOUNDS) with Arrington De Dionyso on bass clarinet (of OLD TIME RELIJUN)

3/01/6 OWL SOUNDS with Arrington De Dionyso at 611 Florida, Washington DC, with SPACESHIP PANIC ORBIT & 36. A Clavius Production.
3/02/6 OWL SOUNDS with Arrington De Dionyso at Paper Street Info Shop, 2506 W. Cary St, Richmond, VA, with BIRDS IN THE MEADOW (Brian Jones and company) & 1 more TBA, an 804 Noise production.
3/03/6 OWL SOUNDS with Arrington De Dionyso at The Smog, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
3/04/6 OWL SOUNDS with Arrington De Dionyso at Tommy's Tavern, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, with DAUGHTERS HUMANS (formerly MOUTH OF LEAVES), SLOTHXOXO (Sara from ISLE OF CITADEL) and MOTH (members of Zs).
3/05/6 OWL SOUNDS with Arrington De Dionyso at Red Barn, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, with ANNA RAMPAGE (Paul Flaherty, Greg Kelley, Benjamin A. Karetnick, Bill Nace) & ILL WIND ENSEMBLE.

We will also have copies of the just repressed OWL SOUNDS with Arrington De Dionyso "Cow On Mushrooms" CD with
3 bonus remixes (1 by TWIN:72 and 2 by the LIEK-TWI duo) for sale at all of these shows. After tour, these will all be available for mailorder as well.

Here's an mp3 link of this recording: http://www.vorg.net/csr/OWLSOUNDS_Arrington_Leaf_Orr_edit.mp3

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Out next week (please do not order yet, wait till official release next week please:-)

OWL SOUNDS with Arrington De DIonyso "Cow On Mushrooms" cd-r with bonus remixes
DEAD GIRLS/LIEK-DF split 3" cd-r
LA OTRACINA "love Love Love" 2xcd-r
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out soon after that

RUST IONICS "Moving/Pictures" LP
OWL SOUNDS (with Mario Rechtern) "Teenagers From Mars" cd-r
LA OTRACINA incredible studio full length cd-r
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upcoming tours

LA OTRACINA "Elliptical Envelopment" Tour

4/12/6 LA OTRACINA (Adam Kriney/Tyler Nolan) at Tommy's Tavern, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, with BEZOAR, ENOS SLAUGHTER, and 1 more TBA.
4/13/6 LA OTRACINA (Adam Kriney/Tyler Nolan) at Big Pink, 1423 S. 4th St., Philadelphia, PA
4/14/6 LA OTRACINA (Adam Kriney/Tyler Nolan) at 611 Florida, Washington, DC, with KOHOUTEK and more.
4/15/6 LA OTRACINA (Adam Kriney/Tyler Nolan) at ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA. a Patchwork Collective show
4/16/6 LA OTRACINA (Adam Kriney/Tyler Nolan) at Nightlight, Chapel Hill, NC
4/17/6 LA OTRACINA (Adam Kriney/Tyler Nolan) at Caledonia Lounge, Athens, GA
4/18/6 LA OTRACINA (Adam Kriney/Tyler Nolan) at ??? WE NEED A SHOW IN Atlanta, GA or Knoxville, TN
4/19/6 LA OTRACINA (Adam Kriney/Tyler Nolan) at Acid Living Room, Murfreesboro, TN
4/20/6 LA OTRACINA (Adam Kriney/Tyler Nolan) at ??? WE NEED A SHOW IN Lexington, KY
4/21/6 LA OTRACINA (Adam Kriney/Tyler Nolan) at 15th House, Columbus, OH
4/22/6 LA OTRACINA (Adam Kriney/Tyler Nolan) at Mr Roboto Project, Pittsburg, PA


BLIZZARDS (Adam Kriney & Hektor Fontanez {aka LEIK}) tour
Northeast, east coast, midwest tour from June 27-July 14, more info soon
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1/22/6

super great upcoming shows to tell you about:

1/22/6 OWL SOUNDS Trio (Adam Kriney, Gene Janas, Randy Borra) performing in various duos/trios and in a large ensemble with the Matt Crane/Adam Diller duo (drums/tenor sax respectively) at ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St. NYC, NY. Show starts at 8 PM sharp and is essentially free, tho you can pay any donation you like.

1/28/6 THE PLACES (Amy Annelle/Adam Kriney) with DRAGON TURTLE (members of MAN MAN), VAGUE ANGELS (Chris Leo & company), & LEWIS & CLARK at Three Moons, Delaware Water Gap, PA.

1/30/6 THE FREEWAY (Ninni Morgia, Marie Evelyn, Jordon Schranz, Adam Kriney) with AMPLINE, AT A LOSS, IXLTAN (Mke Pride & company) at Knitting Factory Tap Bar, NYC, NY.

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CASTANETS (Ray Raposa) is on tour solo in Europe for the next two months with Jana Hunter, so go see these lovely friends of mine if you are there!

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OWL SOUNDS (Adam Kriney and Gene Janas) will be doing a short mini-tour with Arrington De Dionyso as a trio in the first week of March, more details soon!

LA OTRACINA will be doing a 2 week tour of the mid-atlantic/mid-west in April, more details soon!

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Upcoming reallllllllll soon:

OWL SOUNDS with Arrington DeDionyso "Cow On Mushrooms" cd-r *repress with bonus remix tracks!
RUST IONICS "Moving/Pictures" LP
DEAD GIRLS/LIEK split 3" cd-r
DEAD GIRLS/DRAFTED BY MINOTAURS split 7"

 

12/22/5

Just back from 5 weeks touring with CASTANETS, what an amazing adventure, met so many amazing new folks along the way, hopefully to see many of you again! Now back to Colour Sounds business....

two incredible shows in early January, totally worth checking out if you're in the New York area..

1/06/06 LA OTRACINA with FIGHT THE BULL (avant-jazz friends on tour from Richmond, VA), LIEK (amazing solo noise/guitar/lush/vortex generating project of Hektor Fontanez), and PADNA (Nate Hawks' solo experimental folk creations) at Tommy's Tavern, Brooklyn, NY...show at 8:00 PM, LA OTRACINA plays last, come early and get drunk with us!

1/13/06 OWL SOUNDS with WOODEN WAND (James Toth and his magical minsterls of space-folk) and more, at Glass House Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. Doors at 8:00, OWL SOUNDS plays first, come early, come stoned, get drunk, fun fun!.....

Colour Sounds is now in a different home base. You can reach us at the following new address:
Colour Sounds Recordings
c/o Adam Kriney.
24 Bay Avenue #3
Highlands, NJ 07732

More updates in the discog section coming soon, and special end of the year shout-outs and music for sale! And releases to watch out for really really soon...vinyl...???

 

10/14/5

Hey All!

The LUST IONICS and THE PLACES tour were amazing, thanks so much to all the amazing folks we met, stay in touch and let me know when you'll be in NYC, we'll go out for $2 Indian food!

Going out with CASTANETS in 2 days, here's the schedule so far. Please check http://www.asthmatickitty.com for any possible updates.

CASTANETS (Ray Raposa, with Jessie Ainslie (FRIENDS BAND), Adam Mitchell (MEADOWS), Adam Kriney (OWL SOUNDS/LA OTRACINA/LUST IONICS/Colour Sounds Recordings))
http://www.asthmatickitty.com/

big ol' tour with PHOSPHORESCENT
November 12, 2005 Cambridge, MA - Pa's Lounge
November 17, 2005 Toronto - Canada - Sneaky Dee's
November 18, 2005 Grand Rapids, MI - DAAC
November 19, 2005 Chicago, IL - Schuba's
November 22, 2005 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe
November 23, 2005 Portland, OR - Holocene
November 25, 2005 San Francisco, CA - Hotel Utah
November 28, 2005 Tucson, AZ - Plush
November 29, 2005 Phoenix, AZ - Modified Arts
December 02, 2005 Dallas, TX - The Cavern
December 03, 2005 Austin, TX - Emo's
December 07, 2005 Tampa, FL - New World Brewery
December 08, 2005 West Palm Beach, FL - Respectable Street
December 09, 2005 Orlando, FL - Wills Pub
December 10, 2005 Gainsville, FL - Common Grounds
December 12, 2005 Jacksonville, FL - Jackrabbit's

 

10/14/5

LUST IONICS tour mid-Atlantic, then Adam goes on tour w/ THE PLACES & CASTANETS

OK...well crazy shit happenin

LUST IONICS tour the mid-Atlantic this weekend, then next week through the end of the month, Adam Kriney tours as drummer for THE PLACES alongside founder Amy Annelle out in the midwest, and then in Nov. Adam tours for a month across the US as drummer for CASTANETS....

Through all of this touring, I'll have copies of the new DEAD GIRLS "Our Tsunami" 3" CD-R, OWL SOUNDS "Unseen Rhythmics" CD-R repress, and the brand new Colour Sounds Recordings sampler "Here We All Are Sitting In A Rainbow" CD-R, a full length compilation of tracks from all the recent releases as well as a few older tracks from the back catalog and also some unreleased goodies....

here's all the tour details

LUST IONICS (Adam Kriney/Ed Chang/Motoko Shimizu)
http://vorg.net/csr/artistssonsoffire.htm

Dead New York Tour
10/14/5 at 611 Florida, Washington DC, with NAUTICAL ALMANAC, PSI, & LIFE PARTNERS
10/15/5 at Night Light, Chapel Hill, NC with NETHERS (from DC) and more.
10/16/5 at the 804 Noise Fest in Richmond, Virginia. We will be playing at 6:45 PM. Also playing is NAUTICAL ALMANAC, BRIAN JONES PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE, BLACK MEAT, and many many more. Event starts at noon and goes till 11:00 pm, only $8 AND you get a free compilation CD with tracks by all the bands performing, including a special never to be re-released LUST IONICS track, get it here while you can!


THE PLACES (Amy Annelle w/ Adam Kriney on drums)
http://www.dawnwalker.net/

Midwest Tour
10.18 THE BLUEBIRD BLOOMINGTON, IN
10.19 MELODY INN INDIANAPOLIS, IN
10.20 COURTYARD CAFE CHAMPAIGN, IL
10.21 KANSAS CITY MO TBC
10.22 ST. LOUIS TBC
10.23 SOME BIG SKATE PARK PARTY WICHITA KS
10.24 CONSERVATORY OKLAHOMA CITY
10.25 KANSAS CITY, MO RECORD BAR AND BIG BEEFY RIB OUTLET STORE
10.26 DES MOINES, IA VAUDEVILLE MEWS
10.27 ST PAUL MN BIG V'S TBC
10.28 CHICAGO SCHUBAS

THE CASTANETS (Ray Raposa, with another guitarist, a bassist, with Adam Kriney on drums)
http://www.asthmatickitty.com/

big ol' tour with PHOSPHORESCENT
November 12, 2005 Cambridge, MA - Pa's Lounge
November 17, 2005 Toronto - Canada - Sneaky Dee's
November 18, 2005 Grand Rapids, MI - DAAC
November 19, 2005 Chicago, IL - Schuba's
November 22, 2005 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe
November 23, 2005 Portland, OR - Holocene
November 25, 2005 San Francisco, CA - Hotel Utah
November 28, 2005 Tucson, AZ - Plush
November 29, 2005 Phoenix, AZ - Modified Arts
December 02, 2005 Dallas, TX - The Cavern
December 03, 2005 Austin, TX - Emo's
December 07, 2005 Tampa, FL - New World Brewery
December 08, 2005 West Palm Beach, FL - Respectable Street
December 09, 2005 Orlando, FL - Wills Pub
December 10, 2005 Gainsville, FL - Common Grounds
December 12, 2005 Jacksonville, FL - Jackrabbit's


Come say hello!

 

9/4/5

OK, back in action.

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Two Colour Sounds related shows this week in the NYC area:

9/08/5 LA OTRACINA with DOGME 95 and HI RED CENTER at North 6 Basement, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. We play at 10:00 PM!

9/10/5 DEAD GIRLS (Pierre LaFontaine-Fontaine-Fondula & Schmidtt Nouse) with CLOUDS CROSSING (Matt Mottel an Ed Bear of TALIBAM!) Early show starts at 7:00 PM, at 226 Series, 226 East 2nd St, #5D, East Village, NYC, NY.

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two new releases available......

1...

Title: DEAD GIRLS "Thunda/Lihtni" 3" CD-R

Release date: August 15, 2005

Description: 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.

Availability: This CD-R is limited to 18 numbered copies and is available from Colour Sounds for $4 US/$8 World. You can also get this release at Eclipse in the US and Volcanic Tongue in the UK.

Info: DEAD GIRLS

Listen to a section from the DEAD GIRLS track "Thunda" on this CD here.

2...

Title: OWL SOUNDS "Unseen Rhythmics" CD-R

Release Date: August 21, 2005

Description: 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, now sold out. 2nd press in rediculous flourescent new-wave-freak-punk stylez out very soon!

Availability: This first press of this CD is limited to 35 copies and is sold out from us, but you can order this release online in the US from Eclipse and in the UK/Europe from Volcanic Tongue. The 2nd press will be available really soon from us.

Info: OWL SOUNDS

Listen to an edit from the track "...but the sticks are in my hands" from this CD-R here.

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OWL SOUNDS tour went amazing, great times in Richmond, VA, Providence, RI, Burlington, VT, Long Branch, NJ, Cambridge, MA, and even the NYC shows were good....a million thanks to all the promoters, collectives, venues, and artists we shared the stage with and all our old and new friends who came out to hear the spectral sounds....

The tour edition of the new OWL SOUNDS "Unseen Rhythmics" CD is now sold out, though you can get copies at Eclipse in the US and Volcanic Tongue in the UK. The second press will be available through us in about a week or so with totally awesome new hot flourescent packaging, think new-wave punk out, errrr.

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Also the ever prolific James Toth of WOODEN WAND & THE VANISHING VOICE has again given some props to freak-jazzers OWL SOUNDS. In a recent Pitchfork interview in which he is asked to list "Ten Things That Will Improve Your Life", he notes that:

5. Owl Sounds With Arrington de Dionyso: Cow On Mushrooms
Almost every demo I get on tour these days has some kind of animal in the name. That shit kinda bores me, so when I received Owl Sounds's first CD a few tours ago, I neglected it for awhile, but when I did finally listen, I was instantly hooked on the fire-breathing sounds of this intense unit. Cow on Mushrooms, with Old Time Relijun's Arrington de Dionyso on bass clarinet, is their second album, and it's non stop action. Imagine Dave Burrell's Echo played by dudes who know how to throat sing. Are you fucking kidding me??

Now, ain't that nice?

 

8/25/5


New mp3s are up for the new OWL SOUNDS "Unseen Rhythmics" CD, the LUST IONICS "Live Singles In Providence" CD, the DEAD GIRLS/OLD GHOST split cassette...check it out at the Listen page suckas....I'm still on tour with OWL SOUNDS, mashin it up....discog page with new releases up when i get back....

 

8/12/5

Tons of exciting news!!!

*LUST IONICS "Live Singles In Providence" 3" CD-R on Color Sounds out now!
*DEAD GIRLS/OLD GHOST split cassette on t.b.t.d. tapes label out now!
*OWL SOUNDS gets mad props from WOODEN WAND and All About Jazz New York
*Tons of shows next week and OWL SOUNDS tour the week after!

 

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New Release on Colour Sounds

Title: LUST IONICS "Live Singles In Providence" (CSR 013)

Release Date: Aug 12, 2005

Description: "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.

Availability: This CD is limited to 49 copies and is available from Colour Sounds for $5ppd US/$9 ppd World.

Info: LUST IONICS

Listen to the track "Attach Tooth Pull Door" here.

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New DEAD GIRLS release on t.b.t.d. tapes label

Title: DEAD GIRLS/OLD GHOST split cassette

Release date: August 12, 2005

Description: First monumental release from recently spawned harsh-noise synth/drum duo DEAD GIRLS, takes you into the place that's always got the lights out, and no one comes in or out, but something's going on inside, a face full of blisters, you go in, but ain't comin' out, you're fucked fucker. Destroyed and distorted rhythms chop their way through endless fields of black dirty tones and maxed out in-the-red gut-churning-low-end vomit sluts. OLD GHOST is the synth half of DEAD GIRLS doing solo shit, layers upon layers of cutting tones and uneasy frequencies, churning, locked in with the sub-currents of the deepest sickness. Comes in amazing hand made individually sewn and painted heavy stock paper cases, all numbered, limited edition of 26.

Availability: This cassette is limited to 26 numbered copies and is available from Colour Sounds for $5 US/$9 World

Info: DEAD GIRLS

Listen to a section from the untitled DEAD GIRLS track on this split here.

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OWL SOUNDS gets props from James from WOODEN WAND AND THE VANISHING VOICE.

At Dusted Magazine, James from WOODEN WAND AND THE VANISHING VOICE got to list his 10 favorite things right now, and here's what he had to say about OWL SOUNDS, who were number 4.

Stray Praise: New Stuff That's Good
Some of my friends accuse me of being something of a cenophobe, so I thought I'd set the record straight. True, I believe that most great music happened between the years of 1966 and 1974, and though my radar misses a lot these days (being willfully 'out of the loop' is a sublime and underrated pleasure), I do keep my eyes fixed on certain things now and again, and here are some things that have recently caught my attention:

4. Owl Sounds
Based around drummer Adam Kriney, Owl Sounds are a heavy hitting, fire-breathing freak jazz unit from another planet who rip it up Dave Burrell style. Definitely the best CD I've ever gotten from an audience member while on tour. Can't wait to finally see them live one of these days!

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The August 2005 issue of All About Jazz New York gives OWL SOUNDS a sweet review...

The monotonous hoot of the tiny Saw-whet owl can only be heard during the mating months of March through May. Thus, Owl Sounds, a revolving group of musicians led by drummr Adam Kriney and bassist Gene Janas, kicked off their new album Cry Of The Saw-Whet properly by releasing it last April. Best to be in synch with the species you're named for.

Though the album far surpasses the owl's hypnotic monotone, it does share the miniscule mouse-chomping beast's free and nocturnal nature. The thrusting, broiling undertones and defying outbursts that stream from the album's two tracks were recorded at New York's ABC No Rio last December. Alto saxophonist Randy Borra and bassist Jay Dunbar joined Kriney and Janas for what must have been the kind of awe-inspiring night that finds you constantly amazed and leaves you gleefully dazed. The recording captures about 26 minutes of dangerous freedom.

Variances of sparse drume passages, haunting bowed basses and lamenting saxophone solos careen into full-on four-piece bonanzas. The group ripples, shudders, screams, and flails with endless imagination. Unusual textures arise when one bass plucks a gurgling line against silence until Borra arrives with a few smart remarks on saxohpone. The sound erupts into something that could come from a standard jazz quartet , until you remember the second bass as it breaks in with a brilliant bludgeoning that counters the first bass to create a stringed escapade stacked with rumble. Later when the twin basses go at it with bows they're like fierce contenders in a slashing metallic joust. Thin string passages enhance the warm swells Borra entices from his horn. And Kriney's smashing cymbals give breath to rhythms that start out punchy.

A dazzling array of sound occurs on Cry Of The Saw-Whet. Sometimes serene but usually vibrant, perhaps the album would remind its namesake of the symphony he hears in his earless head each night.

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Upcoming shows:

8/15/5
When/Where: 8:00 PM at Tommy's Tavern, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
With:
DEAD GIRLS (first show! New Colour Sounds related harsh noise & fuct drums duo featuring Adolpho Buttercups and Felicidad Toyota)
LAZY MAGNET (sick noise! On tour from Providence, RI)
AMIL IS PERSONAL (get close with this off-kilter-pop-wunder from Providence, RI, on tour now!)
BLUE SHIFT (on tour from the UK!)
REN SCHOFIELD (more touring Providence, RI touring jiffy-joobles!)
THREESOME (with Colin of USAISAMONSTER)

8/16/5
When/Where: 8:00 PM, The Delancey, Lower East Side, NYC, NY
With
LA OTRACINA (Colour Sounds resident psych/prog-freakout duo, get blissed!)
PUTTIN ON THE RITZ (on tour from Lettuce, NY, with BJ and Kevin Kevin “Kevin”)
PAPER LEGS (Brian Osborne slays again with his drumstix o’ fire in another glorious group of his!)
VAZ (noise-rock-blackness duo!)

8/28/5
When/Where: 8:00 PM, Cake Shop, Ludlow, Lower East Side, NYC, NY
With
LUST IONICS (CD Release Show! Total destroying from this NYC improv/death-punk trio on Colour Sounds)
HAT CITY INTUITIVE (CD release show from CT masters of skronk-blowout-rock-freedom for your DOME!)

9/10/5
When/Where: 6:00 PM, at 226 Series, 226 East 2nd St, #5D, East Village, NYC, NY.
With:
DEAD GIRLS (a quieter set from Colour Sounds noise-kidz Pierre LaFontaine-Fontaine-Fondula & Schmidtt Nouse)
MATT MOTTEL (NYC synth wizard with one of his magical orifice units!)

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OWL SOUNDS Unseen Rhythmics Tour, Summer 2005

Owl Sounds will tour the north east from Aug 21-Aug 27. The formation will be a trio with Adam Kriney on drums, Gene Janas on upright bass, and Randy Borra on alto and tenor sax. We will have amazing hand panited posters on the tour as well as limited edition tour CDs to sell! Hope to see you all out there hootin' and what-not..

8/21/5 OWL SOUNDS Trio at The Midway Cafe, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA. 8:00 PM
8/22/5 OWL SOUNDS Trio at Radio Bean, Burlington, VT. Two sets, one from 6-7 PM and one later in the evening during the Open Mic (9:30?)!
8/23/5 OWL SOUNDS Trio at The Grow Room, Providence, RI. 8:00 PM
8/24/5 OWL SOUNDS Trio at The Brighton Bar, Long Branch, NJ. 9:30 PM
8/25/5 OWL SOUNDS Trio at Vox Pop Coffee Shop, Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY. With LIEK (solo amazing blissed out electronics/guitar/drones from Hektor Fontanez). 8:00 PM
8/26/5 OWL SOUNDS Trio at Ada Gallery, Richmond, VA. With THE BRIAN JONES QUARTET. 8:00 PM
8/27/5 OWL SOUNDS Trio at Sound Fix Records, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. With WEIRD OWL. 4:00 PM


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that's all for now, is that enough?


 

8/8/5

Upcoming Shows!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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8/15/5
When/Where: 8:00 PM at Tommy's Tavern, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
With:
DEAD GIRLS (first show! New Colour Sounds related harsh noise & fuct drums duo featuring Adolpho Buttercups and Felicidad Toyota)
LAZY MAGNET (sick noise! On tour from Providence, RI)
AMIL IS PERSONAL (get close with this off-kilter-pop-wunder from Providence, RI, on tour now!)
BLUE SHIFT (on tour from the UK!)
REN SCHOFIELD (more touring Providence, RI touring jiffy-joobles!)
THREESOME (with Colin of USAISAMONSTER)

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8/16/5
When/Where: 8:00 PM, The Delancey, Lower East Side, NYC, NY
With
LA OTRACINA (Colour Sounds resident psych/prog-freakout duo, get blissed!)
PUTTIN ON THE RITZ (on tour from Lettuce, NY, with BJ and Kevin Kevin “Kevin”)
PAPER LEGS (Brian Osborne slays again with his drumstix o’ fire in another glorious group of his!)
VAZ (noise-rock-blackness duo!)

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OWL SOUNDS (Adam Kriney/Gene Janas/Randy Borra, get ASTRAL-mutherfucker-free-jazz……woooooo, b’dip-bah!)
Summer Skronk 2005 Tour
8/21/5 OWL SOUNDS Trio at The Midway Cafe, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA.
8/22/5 OWL SOUNDS Trio at Radio Bean, Burlington, VT
8/23/5 OWL SOUNDS Trio at The Grow Room, Providence, RI
8/24/5 OWL SOUNDS Trio at The Brighton Bar, Long Branch, NJ
8/25/5 OWL SOUNDS Trio at Vox Pop Coffee Shop, Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY (with LIEK)
8/26/5 OWL SOUNDS Trio at Patchwork Collective, Richmond, VA

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8/28/5
When/Where: 8:00 PM, Cake Shop, Ludlow, Lower East Side, NYC, NY)
With
LUST IONICS (CD Release Show! Total destroying from this NYC improv/death-punk trio on Colour Sounds)
HAT CITY INTUITIVE (CD release show from CT masters of skronk-blowout-rock-freedom for your DOME!)

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9/10/5
When/Where: 6:00 PM, at 226 Series, 226 East 2nd St, #5D, East Village, NYC, NY.
With:
DEAD GIRLS (a quieter set from Colour Sounds noise-kidz Pierre LaFontaine-Fontaine-Fondula & Schmidtt Nouse)
MATT MOTTEL (NYC synth wizard with one of his magical orifice units!)

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7/26/5

Always exciting things going on!

Just got word that K Records will be distributing the OWL SOUNDS with Arrington de Dionyso "Cow On Mushrooms" CD, which is great news. As you all should know, Arrington's out-rock group OLD TIME RELIJUN is on the aforementioned K Records, a staple of indie/punk/rock since the 80's. Yippee.

Apparently things are all going well over at Volcanic Tongue in the UK as they've just ordered 10 MORE copies of each OWL SOUNDS CD, exciting indeed.

The LUST IONICS "Live Singles In Providence" 3" CD wil be ready by the end of the week, it's a bad-ass fucking primal improv-skronk-punk blow out, 9 cuts in 17 minutes, you will be destroyed, I promise.

Oh yeah, don't forget to dig on the harsh blistered shredding of DEAD GIRLS.

 

8/20/5

Today is my mum's birthday, she is 55, parties like she's 25, and is the fucking ruler! Go mama!

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There's something called DEAD GIRLS that you need to know about here or listen about here.

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A million fucking shows in August with DEAD GIRLS, LA OTRACINA, OWL SOUNDS (northeast tour), and more!!!!!!!!!! Dig it all here.

 

7/8/5

Ok bunch of stuff going on!
*New OWL SOUNDS with ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO "Cow On Mushrooms" CD out now!
*SONS OF FIRE have changed their name(s) to LUST IONICS and RUST IONICS
*New distribution in the UK/Europe through Volcanic Tongue!
*3rd Press of LA OTRACINA "Aren't It Spectral" CD in amazing tied-dye rainbow sleeves!
*OWL SOUNDS August North East US Tour, we need help!
*New stuff on the way
*THE BEETS get beautiful write-up on Disquiet.com
*Great HAPPY DEER and LA OTRACINA reviews in the new Big Takeover Magazine

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New Release on Colour Sounds (that's 5 for this year!).

Title: OWL SOUNDS With ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO "Cow On Mushrooms" CD-R (CSR 012)

Release Date: July 8, 2005

Description: 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. For fans of extreme improv/freejazz and industrial water coolers only.

Availability: This CD is limited to 55 copies and is available for $5ppd US/$9 ppd World.

Info: OWL SOUNDS, Arrington de Dionyso

Listen to an edited section of the track "Leaf Orr" here.

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SONS OF FIRE have changed their name(s) to LUST IONICS and RUST IONICS, read all about it here! And they have two records coming out, oooooh!

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Colour Sounds is so fucking happy to announce that we now have UK/European distribution through the amazing Volcanic Tongue distribution company, run by Wire writer David Keenan! If you live over THERE, please buy our recordings from THEM!

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The LA OTRACINA "Aren't It Spectral" CD is now in it's 3rd and final press and features amazing beautiful tie-dye rainbow covers, yummy yummy! See what it looks like at the Discography page!

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OWL SOUNDS will be touring the North Eastern US from August 21-Aug 27. We need help all over the place, if you can help, please e-mail me now!

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upcoming releases:
LUST IONICS "Live Singles In Providence" 3" CD
RUST IONICS yet untitled LP
LA OTRACINA "Love Love Love" 2 x CD
LA OTRACINA yet untitled LP/CD
LA OTRACINA yet untitled cassette

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Weirdo electronic-improv duo THE BEETS got a swell write up at Disquiet, an online source of "Reflections on ambient/electronic music, and interviews with the people who make it". I'd say to definitely check out this site with tons of free mp3 links to amazing 'out' electronic musicians/groups all over the globe. Here's what they had to say about THE BEETS:

"SPACE-IMPROV MP3S: The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based record label Colour Sounds specializes, as it bills itself, in "avant, out, psych, improv and other interesting recorded musics." The "Listen" page on its website, vorg.net/csr, features numerous excerpts, live tracks and otherwise unreleased MP3s, and a good point of origin into the label's sound jungle is with the Beets. That's the duo of John Dalessi and Adam Kriney, whose combined tools include "synthesizer, electronics, 4-track w/ cassettes" and "voice electronics" (a comma may or may not be intended to appear between "voice" and "electronics"). A live Beets recording, titled "Don't Be Afraid of the Ghost That Haunts You," is a thrift-store hodgepodge of drone-like elements that eventually find a kind of unison, which then takes its time coming apart; if there's a tension in the music, it's how it approaches but never really embraces the kind of epiphany that's so common in drone-rock. A couple more examples of the Beets are housed on its "Artists" page on the Colour Sounds website, and particularly recommended is an edit of "Bird of Prey ... Further Envelops You" off their Say Yes CD-R. It adds earthly elements like chimes and cymbals to an otherworldly, undulating sound, but manages to never touch the ground. That chimes and cymbals, which are usually elements of color in a drummer's kit, are the most worldly sounds here says something about how far out the Beets like to wander.

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Both HAPPY DEER and LA OTRACINA received beautiful reviews in the new issue of The Big Takeover Magazine, an actual paper mag, not an online one, not that there's anything wrong with that Here's what was said:

LA OTRACINA "Spatial" CD
La Otracina leader/drummer Adam Kriney is pretty prolific, but hardly at the cost of quality, as this is yet another masterful excursion into space-improv. This time out, synthesizer player Nick Chapman replaces Josh Anzano to join Kriney and electric bassist Dan Bates. That means no guitar in music that's a lot more sparely instrumental. The extra room sometimes feels restful, sometimes suspenseful, never accidental; there are neither superfluous notes nor unconsidered holes. Chapman wields what sounds like an old-school instrument with superb taste; all three musicians play with exquisite restraint. Compared to Fauna & Animated Floral Arrangements, this is much less dense, yet unpredictable in its freedom and uncliched in its textures. In fact, it's downright beautiful, not in a pretty or saccharine way but in a Zen way. This is an ultra-limited edition of 30 copies, so don't hesitate, not only to get the music but also Colour Sounds' trademark unusual packaging and cool art.

HAPPY DEER "Forestrial Communication" CD
Does it get any spaciaer than this? Forestrial Communication is a single 25-minute improvisation by Adam Kriney (drums, flutes), Anthony Lebron (vocals, electronics, flutes), and Dan Bates (electric bass, percussion, flutes) inspired by and on some level depicting fauna and flora. What's most impressive in a way is that Lebron manages to deploy abstract vocals in a way that seems neither silly nor pretentious. Often he sounds like a human synthesizer. Although this is freely improvised music, Kriney's not allergic to a steady pulse, sometimes for quite a long time, and there's a certain resemblance to Pink Floyd at its most free-form, right down to the flutes. There's also plenty of room for Kriney to unleash his considerable chops, as compared to other contexts in which he holds back for the sake of a different mood; here, although he's perfectly tasteful and subtle, you can tell this is a very talented drummer at work. The versatility and virtuosity of these players makes this a veritable feast of timbres.

 

6/3/5

SONS OF FIRE....is a new improvising group featuring Ed Chang, Adam Kriney, Motoko Shimizu, and Doug Theriault. SONS OF FIRE will be playing at the Summer Fun Fest in Providece, Rhode Island this Saturday June 4th. (LA OTRACINA was supposed to play this show but Tyler couldn't get off of work, oh well.) We will be playing with the trio of Ed/Adam/Motoko because Doug lives in Portland. We will also have a debut CD recorded on 6/2/5 called "Saung" for sale, details below, and sometime this summer a blistering and fucked-brilliant trio recording of Ed, Doug, and Adam will come out on VINYL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

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Title: SONS OF FIRE "Saung" CD-R (CSR 011)

Release Date: June 4, 2005

Description: 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 SONS OF FIRE 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-improvers take note..

Availability: This CD is limited to 20 copies and is available for $5ppd US/$7ppd World.

Info: Ed Chang and Motoko Shimizu, Adam Kriney, Doug Theriault

Listen to an edited section of "Saung" here!

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In other news, the first press of the LA OTRACINA "Aren't It Spectral" CD-R is sold out. But there is a new super limited second press of 13 copies with AMAZING tie-dye blue covers now available.

 

4/20/5

TONS OF NEWS
* 3 new Colour Sounds Recordings releases out now!
* THE BEETS "Say Yes" CD Release show this Sunday, May 15, in NYC at ABC No Rio
* LA OTRACINA plays Boston on May 22nd and a bunch of other upcoming shows by Colour Sounds and related groups
* A sneak mention of some future upcoming releases


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Alright, somehow, there are THREE new Colour Sounds Recordings now available..here's all the info

#1
Title: OWL SOUNDS "Cry Of The Saw-Whet" CD-R (CSR 008)

Release Date: April 23, 2005

Description: 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 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 an 'AMEN'!?

Availability: This CD is limited to 100 copies and is available for $5 US/$7 World.
You can also order this release online from Eclipse or get it in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY at Sound Fix Records or in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY at Eat Records

Info: OWL SOUNDS website http://www.vorg.net/csr/artistsowlsounds.htm
Listen to an edit from the track "In Its Green Splendor" from the "Cry Of The Saw-Whet" CD http://www.vorg.net/csr/OwlSounds_Green_Splendormp3.mp3.

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Title: THE BEETS "Say Yes" CD-R (CSR 009)

Release date: May 15, 2005

Description: 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 focused chance taking?! "Say Yes" was recorded in one night, all complete 100% improvisations, and with NO overdubs, and yet all tracks form stories of their own languages, non-synonymous with each-other, yes somehow, globally cohesive. 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.

Availability: This CD is limited to 100 copies and is available for $5 US/$7 World.
You can also order this release online from Eclipse or get it in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY at Sound Fix Records or in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY at Eat Records

Info: THE BEETS website http://www.vorg.net/csr/artiststhebeets.htm

Listen to an edit from the song "Bird Of Prey...Further Envelops You" from the "Say Yes" CD-R http://www.vorg.net/csr/Thebeets_edit_birdofpreymp3.mp3

#3
Title: LA OTRACINA "Aren't It Spectral" CD-R (CSR 010)

Description: 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 breathtaking as the birth of a galaxy with ferocious and heavy-as-fuck acid-freakouts and delicate pastoral interludes (please bare witness to the chaos of control), and an orgasmic 6+ minute themed-comprovisation that includes overdubs with drums, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, Norske chord organ, and vibraphone, sure to bring tears to your eyes. Again, this release finally awakens the world to LA OTRACINA, before splitting it wide open. Limitd to 40 copies so don't delay!

Availability: This CD is limited to 40 copies and is available for $3 US/$5 World.
You can also order this release online from Eclipse or get it in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY at Sound Fix Records or in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY at Eat Records


Info: LA OTRACINA website http://www.vorg.net/csr/artistslaotracina.htm
Listen to an edit from the song "Green Birds" from the "Aren't it Spectral" CD-R http://www.vorg.net/csr/laotracina_greenbirdsexerptmp3.mp3

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As a special offer, you can order ALL 3 CDs for just $10 (which saves you $3, so you can buy a nice falafel instead!). To order any of these or all 3, e-mail me!

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THE BEETS will be celebrating their "Say Yes" CD release at a show this coming Sunday in New York City, here's the details.

5/15/5 THE BEETS "Say Yes" CD Release show, also playing with John Clair - tenor sax/Jason Brown- drums/Jed Shahar- alto & bar. sax/Andrew Sosis- elec., psaltery and Bonnie Barnett Ensemble at C.O.M.A. Series, ABC No Rio, Lower East Side, NYC, NY
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Other upcoming shows include

5/22/5 LA OTRACINA with QUITS (Wayne + Kate of HEATHEN SHAME) and WHITE PEOPLE (Donna Parker and Angela Sawyer) at Midway Cafe, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA

late May !!!tentative!!! OWL SOUNDS with ELOE OMOE, SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN, and more at Nom D'Artiste, Boston, MA

6/04/5 Adam Kriney on drums, vibraphone, and percussion performing with anti-folk singer/songwriter Brandon Cambell's THE FESTIVAL, at Octopus, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY

6/19/5 Adam Kriney/Ed Chang/Matt Morandi trio performing at C.O.M.A. related benefit concert at ABC No Rio, Lower East Side, NYC, NY

LA OTRACINA tours CA for two weeks in July!

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Upcoming releases include

OWL SOUNDS with Arrington DeDionyso still untitled CD (CSR 011)
Adam Kriney/Ed Chang/Doug Theriault still untitled CD (CSR 012)
LA OTRACINA "Love Love Love" 2xCD (CSR 013)

 

4/20/5

woooo...finally some NEW LA OTRACINA music up online! This is just a teaser of some of our newer stuff, to get you ready for the full onslaught sometime soon....listen to it here....

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AURAL HAPPENINGS~~~~~~~~~~psychedelic music experiences.....

AH #3
Saturday April 23, 8:00 PM
The Lucky Cat, Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

Live performances by.................

8:30
Tianna Kennedy/Tyler Nolan Duo (improvisations on cello and guitar respectively. Tianna is extremely active in the NYC rock/improv/experimental music scenes, playing in countless groups and ensembles, and appearing on tons of recordings, as well as being an instrumental force behind the Free 103.9 radio station. And Tyler is usually busy as axe-master of psychedelic-prog-freakout group LA OTRACINA and as musical director of the twsited Doomefishe Theatre Companee.)

9:15
Fletcher Johnson (creaky porch sunset folksy psychy twangy country rock is what your going to get from this New England-cum-Brooklyn singer-songwriter and his string ensemble. (His recent CD-r is fucking amazing and ALWAYS on in my house, and I hate everything.-ed))

10:00
OZONE SWIMMERS (the duo of Marc and Ela Orleans. Marc is a highly active guitarist in the NYC free improv, psych, and out music scenes, most known for his groups such as SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN, and ENOS SLAUGHTER.)

10:45
OWL SOUNDS (freedom music. this brooklyn based free-jazz collective led by drummer Adam Kriney (of LA OTRACINA, THE BEETS, Colour Sounds Recordings) explores the far reaches of jazz based improvising while remaining soulful and paying all respects to the masters on whose shoulders they stand. This ensemble also features Gene Janas on upright bass, Randy Borra on alto sax, and Don Undeen on baritone sax. This is the record release show for their "Cry Of The Saw-Whet" CD on Colour Sounds Recordings.)


AH #4
Sunday April 24, 8:00 PM
Sin-E, Attorney & Stanton, Lower East Side, NYC, NY

Live performances by..............................

8:30
ISLE OF CITADEL (noisy avant psych here to do damage of the epileptic nature)

9:15
DIRTY CHURCHES (blissed out and relentless feedback-improv-noise-free-rock collective featuring members of HULA and THE BEETS)

10:00
WEIRD OWL (heavy ass guitar/organ fueled deep psych in the classic tradition of early 70's tripped out explorations)

10:45
LA OTRACINA (acid-fueled freakout-prog-edelia by the duo of Adam Kriney (Owl Sounds, The Beets, Colour Sounds Recordings) and Tyler Nolan (Doomefishe Theatre). Mega-riff sonic-space-assualts lost in a haze of marijuana smoke and heavy delay.)

 

4/1/5

happy april fools everyone!

lots of exciting things going on.

***Colour Sounds Recordings has moved. After two years of living with venemous demons in a dark dungeon, CSR has found a new home out in the industrial Bushwick section of Brooklyn. While there are no trees to be seen from the new home, there is an in-house full recording studio which more than compensates. Expect new releases to be a-plenty.....

***Colour Sounds Recordings is curating two new Aural Happenings events, no. 3 and no 4. They will be taking place on April 23 and 24 respectively, featuring all types of amazing psychedelic, improvised, crazy, out and beautiful soundmakers, musicians, and artists! Please check out the site for all info.

The OWL SOUNDS "Cry Of The Saw-Whet" CD is now available for purchase. Although no artwork or sound samples have been uploaded yet, you can email me for more info. Images and sounds should be up by mid-week. There will be an official release sometime this week as well, and the record release show for this CD will be on Sat April 23rd as part of Aural Happenings No. 3.

LA OTRACINA have begun recording their new album. Recording should be completed by late April and a release to follow in May. All I can say is freak-the-fuck-out. Short sound samples of new stuff will be available very soon!

 

2/10/5

well hello there! this is the first news update for 2005, so happy new year everyone. also i turned 28 on Jan 10, so happy birthday to me, and yay.

It's been a dormant yet productive time the past month and a half for Colour Sounds and all the bands/projects. Me and Tyler Nolan, now functioning as a duo<!?>, of LA OTRACINA have been holed up in my basement tirelessly working on new compositions, and man are we excited to start playing out soon. Get ready for bluesy-prog-psych-freakout-assault, you have been warned! Shows coming up include Feb 20 at Sin-E and Feb 26 at Lit, both in New York City, NY.

Also been working on finishing up the artwork/production of two new releases for the label, THE BEETS "Say Yes" CD and the OWL SOUNDS "Cry Of The Saw-Whet" CD.

I am headed to Tampa, FL for a few days to visit some relatives, should be a fun time, nice to get out of chilly NYC, but can't wait to get back and get the new CDs out and keep making the sweet sounds....

-peace-

adam

 

12/15/4

Holy Crap. Even more free new music up! I keep spoiling you bastards. Send me some feedback jerks, let me know what you think of all this sonic stuff!

Now you can listen to a crazy live recording of double free-jazz drumset duo of Adam Kriney/Ed Kasparek entitled How to Keep Really Strict Time And Provide A Solid Backbeat, Lesson 1 (14:32)

or freakout to the weird noise/electronic onslaught of an unreleased ADMATIC track entitled
It's Fucking Cold In Here


 

12/10/4

Two new HAPPY DEER sound files up..go listen..and buy the CD!


 

12/7/4

a new page is up containing photos and live audio recorded at the Republican National Convention Protest/March in NYC this past summer, 2004..its a bit dated right now, but feel free to check it out!

also, a new THE BEETS recording is up on the listen page. the recording is from a recent session at my home. it's a sweet creepy trip entitled "Don't Be Afraid Of The Ghost That Haunts You"


 

12/1/4

Tons of new shows and performances coming up....

12/5/4 OWL SOUNDS Quartet (Adam Kriney - drums, Gene Janas - upright bass, Randy Borra - alto sax, Jay Dunbar - upright bass) at COMA Series, ABC No Rio, Lower East Side, NYC, NY at 9:00 PM. Also performing this evening is Eric Zinman (piano)/Glynis Lomon (cello)/Blaise Siwula (reeds) Trio, and Nick Chapman (piano)/Hektor Fontanez (electronics, guitar) Duo.

12/18/4 LA OTRACINA at Lucky Cat, Brooklyn, NY with NEW YORK TRUMPET ENSEMBLE, PEOPLE, and NERVOUS CABARET. more info soon.

12/19/4 SPHERES (Adam Kriney - drums/percussion, Kevin Shea - drums/percussion, Nick Chapman - analog synthesizer, Gene Janas - upright bass, Jay Dunbar - upright bass, Matt Morandi - upright bass/electronics, Loren Dempster - cello) at Octopus as part of the INK Festival, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY

and please check out this special Colour Sounds related event!
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Saturday Dec. 4th at 8pm
Saturday Dec. 11th at 8pm
Sunday Dec. 12th at 8pm

Adam Kriney (Colour Sounds founder and drummer for LA OTRACINA, OWL SOUNDS, THE BEETS, etc..) will be doing live musical accompaniment to the play "HUNGRY, or Little Red Riding Hood 2: Eat me Baby One More Time!", a comedy by Ryan Eggensperger and Douglas Friedmutter.

Synopsis: When his therapist suggests he make peace with his violent past, the Wolf heads to Hollywood in search of Little Red, a pill-popping former child star whose career has gone straight-to-video. He needs redemption. She needs some publicity. But who is more Hungry??

Ryan and Douglas play all the parts, Adam does the music.
There will be additional opening/closing acts before/after each performance.
Admission is FREE. There is a $7 donation to drink all you want.
This play is part of the INK Festival at Octopus in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY. The INK festiveal is happening every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for the first three weekends in December. Check out the website for all events.
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11/18/4

MORE NEW MP3S UP!!!
new mp3s by OWL SOUNDS Trio and from the mysterious one-off collaboration known as THE ASPHYX....go here to listen


11/16/4

NEW LA OTRACINA mp3 up now....it's a live medley of Electric Worm Frenzy (which appears on the LA OTRACINA 'Spatial' CD) and a new track tentatively titled Mellow Yellow Magic..and you can listen to it by clicking here


11/8/4

Wow, two shows this Saturday Nov 13th!

11/13/4 LA OTRACINA at Office Ops, Brooklyn, NY LA OTRACINA plays at 9:00 sharp!, also with puttin' on the ritz, pteradactyl, tunnel of love, breaker!breaker! and a readymade turbo karaoke band. This is the first LA OTRACINA show with new guitarist Tyler Nolan!

then off to the 2nd show of the evening....

11/13/4 OWL SOUNDS Sextet (Adam Kriney - drums, Gene Janas - upright bass, Randy Borra - alto sax, Don Undeen - baritone sax, Fred Wright - coronet,
Chris Taylor - alto sax & clarinet) at Octopus, Brooklyn, NY...as part of the events following a film screening of "PermanentSide-Project" by San Francicso based artist Gavin Kroeber, which also features live music by Robert Quillen Camp . The event starts at 8:00 PM, and OWL SOUNDS Sextet will perform at 10:00 pm

Upcoming stuff includes a THE BEETS full length CD, a SOUND FRACTURE Trio full length CD, and live music by Colour Sounds artist Adam Kriney and his collaborator Tom Handschiegel (under the collective guise of ONTHEBUS Productions) for "'Hungry' or 'Little Red Riding Hood 2: Eat Me Baby One More Time'", a play by Ryan Eggensperger and Douglas Friedmutter....in December....stay tuned!

 

10/21/4

TWO NEW ARTIST'S PAGES UP!!!! Now we got pages for SOUND FRACTURE and OWL SOUNDS

tons of shows coming up, check the live page

 

10/19/4

this wed, oct 20th, at 8:30 PM, there's only one place to be...and that is
Pour House, in Williamsburg, to see the OWL SOUNDS ORCHESTRA......large
group free improvisations

Owl Sounds Orchestra
Adam Kriney - drums, percussion
Fred Wright - coronet
Peter Evans - trumpet
Don Undeen - baritone sax
Gene Janas - upright bass
Nick Champan - fender rhodes
Daniel Schubmehl - percussion
Jesse Dulman - tuba
Sam Kulik - trombone
Nathan Heleine - alto sax

these 10 creators of spontaneous music will perform, at 8:30 pm, at Pour
House, 790 Metropolitan Ave (at Humboldt..off the Graham Ave stop on the L
train), in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY....this show will be a happening not
to be missed...come dance with us, come sing the song of life and love,
resonate the souls, and reverberate your mind....psychedelic free
jazz....music for your spaceship ballroom dance...

upcoming colour sounds related:

THE BEETS full length recording
SOUND FRACTURE Trio full length recording

11/13/4 LA OTRACINA at Office Ops, Brooklyn, NY
11/13/4 Adam Kriney w/ ??? at NICENESS, Brooklyn, NY
12/5/4 Adam Kriney w/ ??? at COMA Series, ABC-No-Rio, NYC, NY

and in several dates in Dec, Adam Kriney and Brett Wintle will perform live music to support "'Hungry' or 'Little Red Riding Hood 2: Eat Me Baby One More Time'", a play by Ryan Eggensperger and Douglas Friedmutter....

 

10/12/4

There is now a THE OTHERWHEN page up, woohoo, go visit!

Adam Kriney and Tyler Nolan of LA OTRACINA are working on music for a play by Ryan Eggensperger and Douglas Friedmutter entitled Hungry or Little Red Riding Hood 2: Eat Me Baby One More Time. More info coming soon.

speaking of LA OTRACINA, they're playing their first show in months on Nov. 13th at Office Ops in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY...other artists possibly playing include ONEIDA, PARTS & LABOR, JAPANTHER, EX-MODELS, PUTTIN ON THE RITZ, and more, sounds sexy to me!

 

9/29/4

1) Two new releases are now available from Colour Sounds Recordings!
2) THE BEETS perform live Saturday 10/2/4 in Brooklyn, NY!
3) LA OTRACINA is back with a new line-up!
4) Upcoming shows!
5) Forthcoming releases!

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1) Two new releases are now available from Colour Sounds Recordings!

#1
*Title: HAPPY DEER "Forestrial Communication" CD (Colour Sounds Recordings 006)

*Release date: September 29, 2004

*Description: 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.

*Availability: This CD is limited to 25 copies and is available for $5 ppd US/$7 ppd world


#2
*Title: LA OTRACINA "Spatial" CD (Colour Sounds Recordings 007)

*Release date: September 29, 2004

*Description: 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 spacial energy. This CD is packaged in beautiful full color materials that shadow its lush psychedelic sounds.

*Availability: This CD is limited to 30 copies and is available for $5 ppd US/$7 ppd world


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2) THE BEETS perform live Saturday 10/2/4 in Brooklyn, NY!

Yes indeed, octogon improv duo THE BEETS (Adam Kriney - drums/electronics, John Dalessi - synth/electronics/4-track) will be performing live this Saturday 10/2/4 at 10:00 PM!, at a brand new amazing arts/performance space called NICENESS, at 538 Johnson Ave. #201 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York.
Also perfroming at this event are:
The Festival
Jessie Murphy
Dodeska Perf. Ensemble
Directions and more info at:
Take the L train to Jefferson. Exit and walk downhill on Wyckoff until it dead ends at Flushing. Take a left around the (defunct) coffee shop and walk one block on Harrison. At the big Chinese sign take a right on Stewart. At the corner of Stewart and Johnson, 538 will be on your left. The door will probably be open, but if not, buzz 201. We'll see you there! or e-mail Ryan


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3) LA OTRACINA is back with a new line-up!

Yes indeed, prog/psych/improv group LA OTRACINA has been met with many challenges in it's year-and-a-half existence, and keeping band members has been one of them, but THIS time, we got it right. Along with founder Adam Kriney on drums, and synthesizer/rhodes player Nick Chapman, we are so pleased to welcome electric bassist Tobi Parks and electric guitarist Tyler Nolan to the group! Currently the group is working on more prog based compositions and less improvising, for the moment, and we hope to be playing out within the next few months with all new music for your eargasm!

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4) Upcoming shows!

Holy crap....check this out!

Wed October 20th at 9:00 PM at The Pour House, Metropolitan Avenue & Humboldt, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

the debut performance of the OWL SOUNDS ORCHESTRA featuring:
Adam Kriney - drums
Gene Janas - upright bass
Nick Chapman - fender rhodes
Peter Evans - trumpet
Fred Wright - cornet
Don Undeen - baritone sax
Daniel Schubmehl - percussion

doing 100% free-improvisations....hahaha, don't miss this extravaganza of beautiful sounds! ...more info soon!


and on Dec 5th, Adam Kriney will be playing with a yet-unspecified-group at the COMA series at ABC No Rio in Lower East Side, NYC...stay tuned for info...


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5) Forthcoming releases!

THE BEETS -yet untitled- full length CD on Colour Sounds, its amazing, already recorded, just needs mastering, pressing, and packaging...soon...go listen to some samples here

SOUND FRACTURE Trio -yet untitled- full length on Colour Sounds, it hasn't been recorded yet, but this free jazz trio of Adam Kriney-drums, Nick Porcaro-piano, and Peter Evans-trumpet will be in the studio real soon to do it up nicely...in the meantime go listen to some or our rehearsal here

 

9/25/4

Ok, exciting news...if you are on a computer or plan to be on a computer this coming Tuesday at 9:00 AM (Milwaukee Time!, what is that CST?), you can check out the Free Jazz BBQ w/Dr. Sushi Show on WMSE 91.7 FM online here, and Dr. Sushi has informed us that he'll be opening his show with several tracks from the Colour Sounds vaults, most of which have not been officially released and you wouldn't hear elsewhere, so go for it....the good news is, even if you can't check out the show at that time, you can go to the site at any time and listen to this week's show, you can stream it live any time! Ok cool.

 

9/24/4

Go see the *new* HAPPY DEER page!!!

*New* releases by HAPPY DEER and LA OTRACINA by next week...all the packaging is done and I am so fucking excited about it, it's all quite beautiful and sure to nicely complement the beautiful recordings!

Stay tuned for the official release...

 

8/31/4

TONS of new sounds up. Now you can hear complete tracks from every single Colour Sounds release as well as complete tracks fom upcoming THE BEETS and LA OTRACINA records, and new rehearsal demos from SOUND FRACTURE Trio, Nick Porcaro - piano, Adam Kriney - drums, Peter Evans - trumpet, piccolo trumpet, who will be headed into an actual real studio some time soon to record for a Colour Sounds release. Go here to listen to sonic dessert

There should be two new Colour Sounds releases avaialble to own within the next two weeks........

 

8/31/4

Holy shit, almost September!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got two new Adam Kriney short solo improv drum/percussion pieces up to listen to now. Both recorded live last week at Eat Records in Brooklyn, NY. Go see what the sounds are all about here

 

8/21/4

A slow month for Colour Sounds, but many exciting projects in the works including a new LA OTRACINA ep entitled "Spatial", featuring the last 3 tracks recorded while bassist Dan Bates was still a member of the group, you can listen to one of the tracks, "Spiral Horizons" here...THE BEETS record...THE BEETS is Adam Kriney on drums and John Dalessi on synthesizers, 4-track with prepared cassettes, and assorted electronics....and also a SOUND FRACTURE record...SOUND FRACTURE is Adam Kriney on drums and Nick Porcaro on piano, and for the planned recording, the duo have asked ace trumpeter Peter Evans to add some brassy flavor..yummy!

Also up now is a *new* LA OTRACINA mp3, a 4+ minute edit from their recent stunning live performance at The Lucky Cat in Brooklyn, NY on 8-7-4 with new guitarist Joshua Hilson. Get it here

 

8/8/4

Thanks to everyone who came out to Aural Happenings No. 2, it was a blast, VELIEK destroyed with an intense physical set of instrument/effects based improvised noise-scapes, THE NEW YORK TRUMPET ENSEMBLE played a roaring set of free-jazz referencing all kinds of silly pop tunes and then pummeling them, MADAM ROBOT shocked and buzzed the crowd with their relentless and spot-on electro-punk-psych tunes, LA OTRACINA (with extremely new member, guitarist Josh Hilson) wove a tapestry of astral improvised psychedelic nebula, and the Zeljko McMullen/Doron Sadja/Anthony Lowe trio set capped the night with an extremely cohesive/diverse/funny/amazing laptop/electronics based improv electronica set.

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LA OTRACINA has got a new member. His name is Joshua Hilson, and he plays guitar. Joshua formerly played in the NYC free-improv group KITSCH, and also used to do live sound for LADDIO BOLOCKO. Drummer Adam Kriney and synth/rhodes/keys player Nick Chapman are happy as hell to have Joshua involved in the trio, and plan on working on new material very soon......

 

7/31/4

COLOUR SOUNDS RECORDINGS ANNOUNCEMENT:

A new release is now available from Colour Sounds Recordings,

*Title: LA OTRACINA “Trinomy” 3" CD (CSR 005)

*Release date: July, 2004

*Description: 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.

*Availability: This 3" CD is limited to 20 copies and is available for $3 ppd US/$5 ppd world

*Listen to the track 'Cornfield' from "Trinomy"

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Upcoming live info...

AURAL HAPPENINGS NO. 2

8/7/4 LA OTRACINA, THE NEW YORK TRUMPET ENSEMBLE, MADAM ROBOT, VELIEK (two cats from LIL HUMBLE VELI), and Zeljko McMullen/Doron Sadja duo, at The Lucky Cat, 245 Grand St., Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn, NY...an AURAL HAPPENINGS event

 

7/30/4

Holy Shit! 3 new psyched freakout space music LA OTRACINA songs to download/stream in the listen section. Please let us know what you think, send some feedback, we want to know how it all makes you go..........

WYLDE THYMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

.7/19/4

AURAL HAPPENINGS no. 1
Thursday July 22, 7:30 PM
North 6 Basement, 66 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

Live performances by
Chris Corsano/Daniel Carter Duo
LA OTRACINA
Ras Moshe's MUSIC NOW! Trio w/ Matt Heyner & Jackson Krall
LIL HUMBLE VELI
Block/Rosenblum MUSHROOM CLOUD w/ Brian Osborne, Greg Peterson, & Joel Lambdin

Live Psychedelic Visuals by
Malcolm Little and Vegas Berlin of MONSTER JAZZ

Come early, stay late.

Aural Happenings....a series of psych, improv, free jazz, experimental musical performances accompanied by live psychedelic visuals, run by artists in these genres FOR artists in these genres...

 

.7/8/4

ok..so now I have started to do my own series of music shows in new york focusing on free jazz, improv, psych, out music, etc..basically everything i started the label for...but i want to do shows where all the artists/bands are different but aligned in their oddness and creativity..the series is called AURAL HAPPENINGS and even has it's own web page, go look at it you tiger!

The first show is on July 22nd with Chris Corsano/Daniel Carter Duo, LA OTRACINA, LIL HUMBLE VELI, Ras Moshe's MUSIC NOW!, and Block/Rosenblum MUSHROOM CLOUD, and it is at North 6, in the basement, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.

The next show is on August 7th at The Lucky Cat, on Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY...more info soon.

I spent 4 hours this week assembling all of the HAPPY DEER material into a condensed piece. It's a beautiful document alive with sounds of nature, the jungle, tribal drums, flutes, and forestrial conversations...it will be mastered soon and then released on Colour Sounds...for now you can check out a sample on our LISTEN page...

 

.6/15/4

hello summertime. i split up with my girlfriend this past weekend. a friend from boston was hit riding her bike on saturday, went into a coma, and was taken off of life support last night. glad i have this music thing to keep my sanity. i played my ass off for her last night.

I am playing another drum duo performance with drummer/bassist Ed Kasparek on 6/24/4. After our very successful first show at the last 5 Spot Prism concert, we were asked by the staff at Free 103.9 to do it again, this time in a most-amazing show featuring another drum duo THE LOUDEST 2004 and also with two drum/keys duos, TALIBAM! (Matt Mottel/Kevin Shea) and CHILD ABUSE (Oran Canfield/Luke Calzonetti), this show is sure to be fucking insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

6/2/4

happy june everyone!

now there is LA OTRACINA music available on line. On the listen page you can hear our first ever trio performance and first ever performace with Nick Chapman as a member. It was recorded this past Saturday at a party at 346 Lafayette, Brooklyn, NY. let us know what you thinketh of it?!

 

5/25/4

wow, yup, more sounds up, including 2 ADAMATIC tracks, and an Adam Kriney/John Keegan duo track, all 3 of which are from already and soon-to-be out-of-print Colour Sounds Recordings releases! just go here to listen!

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2 shows in brooklyn this week worth mentioning!

1) Wed, May 26, 8:30 PM, at 5 Spot, corner of Myrtle & Washington, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY.
The very last 5 Spot Prism concert. my boys have been running this live experimental/free
jazz/improv showcase for a year now, and this will be the final installment. I'll be playing
in an awesome improvised double drumset duet with long time pal Ed Kasparek.
Also playing are:
LIL HUMBLE VELI, Nick Chapman, Gene Janas/Randy Borra, Lower East Side Social Club <Blaise Siwula-reeds, Gregory J.Wildes- sax & samples, Matthew Paris- el. guitar, Christobal Jacques- el. bass, Drew Gardner- drums>, the "Beatles" <featuring Matt Motel, G. Lucas Crane, and Chris Taylor>,
Tara Flandreau (viola), The Silver Emu Project (Jonas Borra/Matt Dusenberry).
more info at www.nicksays.com

2) Saturday May 29, 10:00 PM, Party!!! at Danielle's Apt, 346 Lafayette Ave #1, Clinton
Hill, Brooklyn, NY. This is a Learning the Language recordings label new release show. I'll
be playing with my psych/improv group LA OTRACINA, in our current trio formation with Dan
Bates on electric bass and Nick Chapman on rhodes and synth.
Also playing are: 60 CYCLE (solo electronics from San Francisco), MU ENEMBLE (nick chapman solo), Gene Janas/Randy Borra (in some ensemble formation), LI'EK TWI (two sluts from LIL HUMBLE VELI). the last party was amazing, ultra cool vibe, amazing food <oh, the salsa>, great music in a
cozy space, and this one is sure to rival that with just as much amzingness! more info at
www.nicksays.com

 

5/19/4

more sound files up, including HAPPY DEER studio recording, Adam Kriney/Peter Evans duo and Adam Kriney/Nick Chapman duo live performances, all white fucking hot baby, go check it!

 

5/17/4

we now have sound files up! woo freaking hoo. The first of which is a live recording of the first THE BEETS performance on 5/12/4 at Lucky Cat, Brooklyn, NY. Go check our listen page!

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super great news to report! Nick Chapman, curator of the 5 Spot Prism Concert Series, amazing synth/keys improvisor and composer, and frequent improvising partner with drummer Adam Kriney, has joined Adam and bassist Dan Bates in the group LA OTRACINA. LA OTRACINA could not be happier about having such a wonderful musician and awesome human to be playing with! We'll hopefully be playing our first show in our new trio form on 5/29. More info soon...

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other exciting news, we are happy to announce the first two shows of VAGUE ANGELS, featuring Chris Leo guitar/vocals (THE LAPSE, THE VAN PELT, NATIVE NOD), Adam Kriney drums (LA OTRACINA, ex-THE NATIONALE BLUE, Colour Sounds Recordings mainman), and Justin Simon guitar/bass (WE ACEDIAST, NATIVE NOD)

6/8/4 - VAGUE ANGELS with BROKEN SPINDLES <members of THE FAINT> and RESTIFORM BODIES <avant hip-hop> - at R5 Productions, First Uniterian Church, Philadelphia, PA.
6/15/4 - VAGUE ANGELS with DETACHMENT KIT and TALL BOYS - at Knitting Factory Main Room, NY, NY


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sad news, the 5 Spot Prism Concert Series is ending, the last one is on May 26th. cool news is that Adam Kriney will be playing a duo drummer set along with old time friend Ed Kasparek <this will be the first time the two have ever played live together>. two drummers, improvised music, yummy fun. end of Prism Concerts, sad day! But the spirit will live on!


 

5/11/4

I hurt my leg today when i was riding my bmx. i gashed it pretty bad on my pedal. it was bleeding down my leg. so i stopped to clean it. i went to a store and asked touse the toilet. once in there i began to clean it, and then realized how fucking deep it was. at this point i got light headed. i made my way outside, almost fainting, then sat down. called my friend brett to come bring me water, and almost passed out many times. i began to have dillusions, and they were really messed up consiering i was already stoned. i am ok now.

my new improv duo, THE BEETS, featuring me, Adam Kriney on drums and John Dalessi on synthesizer, electronics, and 4-track is playing our first show on 5/12/4. The info is as follows.

5/12/4 at The Lucky Cat, 245 Grand Street,
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC

As part of the Dogs Blood Rising party <a night devoted to promoting classic and new music in the
Apocalyptic Folk, Dark Ambient Electronic, and Experimental-Noise genres>, hosted by Princess
Coldheart, party runs from 10:00 PM to 4:00 AM. This particular night is also in coordination with a new release by THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, and there will be free copies of the record available as well as other cool promotional goodies from their label. No, they are not playing, nor will they be there!

10:00 PM
THE BEETS <improvised sound duo of John Dalessi on keyboard, 4-track, and electronics and Adam
Kriney on drums. John also plays in DIRTY CHURCHES and ADAM plays in LA OTRACINA and runs
the Colour Sounds Recordings label,

11:00 PM
MAD E.P. <MAD E.P. will extrude a set of electronic elegies for dead gophers: crunchy dark-hop beats swimming in chewy madbient flavors>


 

4/21/4

There will be a performance at SUNY Purchase this Friday, April 23 that Adam Kriney and many of his good friends and frequent collaborators will be playing, including TALIBAM! (Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea duo), LIL HUMBLE VELI, NICK CHAPMAN, and more. I don't have any other information at this time, sorry!

Also, Adam Kriney will be performing at 5 Spot, in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY, next Wednesday, April 28, in a trio with trumpeter Peter Evans and a sax player whose name will arrive soon. More info on this show at www.nicksays.com

Sound files will be up on the site shortly, including full songs from each release, and lots of other snipets of different sessions featuring Colour Sounds artists.

Adam Kriney has also started playing drums in a new band called VAGUE ANGELS, which is fronted by Chris Leo, ex-frontman of such legendary bands at THE LAPSE, THE VAN PELT, and NATIVE NOD. It's pretty amazing stuff, angular, eastern, native melodies, confronted by off kilter rhythms, and all out wierdness. Currently theere is no 3rd member of the band.

 

4/7/4

Commentary.
it is now april of 2004. it is still very cold in brooklyn, but i am happy to be here.

just got the debut CD from NYC noise/electronic/improv ensemble LIL HUMBLE VELI
which i have to say is the sweetest piece of harshness i have tasted in a while, just lusciously sharp and painfully soothing. Go to learningthelanguage.com for more info.

i just started a new improv ensemble called HAPPY DEER, with Anthony of LIL HUMBLE VELI, Dan of LA OTRACINA, and John of DIRTY CHURCHES, and we will be the embodiment of forests, trees, animals, the woods, the tribes, the earth...this is the plan so far.
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there is a new release on the label, here are the details........................

COLOUR SOUNDS RECORDINGS ANNOUNCEMENT:

A new release is now available from Colour Sounds Recordings,

*Title: ADAM KRINEY “Duo Explorations VOL 1 & VOL. 2” double CD (CSR 003)

*Release date: March 24, 2004

*Description: 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.

*Availability: This double CD is limited to 30 copies and is available for $5 ppd US/$7 ppd world
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Distribution information

Very exciting news, Colour Sounds Recordings in now distributed by Eclipse Records, an amazing distributor (and record label) of avant garde, psych, improv, free-folk, etc...you can check out their website at www.eclipse-records.com. Go there and spend some money, they rule!

You can also buy all Colour Sounds Recordings at Eat Records, located at 124 Meserole, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NYC, where you'll find a fine assortment of rare, used, new vinyl and CDs of jazz, free jazz, soul, funk, psych, punk, rock, hip-hop, electro, world, etc recordings
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