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!
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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 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! ----- 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 ----- 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! 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 ----- 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. 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! ----- ----- Colour Sounds Recordings
– http://www.vorg.net lots of love and happy holidays! Your friend in time- adam |
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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 |
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!
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 ---------- 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 ---------- 3) Other recent releases and stuff soon to come out! OUT NOW! PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE
EXPANSE CD-R on Apollolaan Records *V/A "Peace Frog
Rides The Rocket" CD with Peace Frog zine issue 2 *V/A “Living
Bridge” CD compilation on Rare Book Room Records OUT SOON! OWL XOUNDS/JAZZFINGER
split 3" CD-R on Seafoam Records OUT LATER! LA OTRACINA “Woke
On Waves” LP on Abandon Ship
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5/1/8 |
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
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1/16/8 |
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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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!
====================== 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
For info on ANY date/show, please e-mail us immediately! ======================
====================== 3) Several new CD-Rs are out
Now AVAILABLE!
***** 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 ***** 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/
***** 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
***** 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
**** 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 ======================
====================== 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! ======================
====================== 5) My 2007 Top list
here is a list of my favorite new releases/shows of 2007, indulge yourself!
ASTRA - demo CD-R
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====================== That’s all, Your friend in time- Adam Kriney |
1/4/8 |
Jan 18 2008 LOUISVILLE, KY @ CAHOOTS |
10/25/7 |
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! ......................................................... 3 days later, we fly to Italy for our Italian Tour! Nov 01 @ Officine
C/O Club Vestro - Niscemi 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 ........................................................ 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 .......................................................... 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
. ------------------------------------------------ see you out there friends -adam kriney/la otracina Adam Kriney
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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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Recent News Blast! Hello Colour Sounds friends!!! 1. Massive music event
this Friday Sept 28 in Brooklyn, NY 1. Massive music event this Friday Sept 28 in Brooklyn, NY Fri September 28, at 8pm ARTANKER COVOY (Social
Registry) Show is at: 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! 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) Thanks for taking your time to read this, I hope you enjoy the music! Love as always-
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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: Show starts at 8:30
pm: The event is free,
although donations to the touring musicians is greatly At Sound Fix Records/Lounge,
110 Bedford Ave (at N. 11th), Williamsburg,
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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.
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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 *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
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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) 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 ----- Upcoming releases: Very Soon: Less Soon: 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! 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! 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! Mail-ordering direct from us
will ALWAYS get you free extras and discounts for multiple items purchased!
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4/8/7 |
hello to you all! friends of the dragons! welcome to another update from the Colour Sounds universe! this update includes *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 4/15/7 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. Very Soon: Less Soon: Down the pipe a ways: 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) 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! *Older releases still available --------------- 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! 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! 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! *etc... thanks for reading and supporting! it means everything. love-
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2/2/7 |
February is For Fun…..falafel! Ok, so much great stuff to tell you all about, so here goes…. --------------- 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 Gallery hours: Fri - Mon, Noon - 6 p.m. ------------------- 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/ -------------------- 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 ------------------ 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 ---------------- 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/ ------------------- 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 ------------------- 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 ------------------ 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/ ------------------------------ 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!) DEAD GIRLS - "Our
Tsunami" 3" CD-R (CSR 016, 1 copy left!) ORISHA TWI - "Quiet
Whispers To The Deaf" CD-R (CSR 021, 1 copy left!) DEAD GIRLS/LIEK-DF
split 3" CD-R (CSR 020, 1 copy left!) QUIVERS "Once
There Were Some" CD-R (CSR o26, 1 copy left!) OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING
GALAXY - "The Myth Of Time An Elastic Experience" CD-R (CSR
023, 1 copy left!) BLIZZARDS "We
Run Slower Than You Walk Fast" CD-R (CSR 025, 5 copies left!) LA OTRACINA "Love
Love Love" 2xCD-R (CSR 019) OWL SOUNDS/BIRDS IN
THE MEADOW "Of Off Moon" split CD-R (CSR 022) LA OTRACINA/HAT CITY
INTUITIVE/BIG NURSE "The World Will End Yesterday" 3-way split
CD-R (CSR 028) OWL XOUNDS "Toxic
Raga" CD-R (CSR 024) RUST IONICS "Moving/Pictures"
LP (CSR 018) 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!
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11/9/6 |
3
AMAZING shows coming up.....
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9/30/6 |
Killer
show coming up before I head out on tour with THE PLACES... |
9/16/6 |
Hello humans of the colour spectrumverse- A few exciting things
to tell you: ----------- RUST IONICS “Moving/Pictures”
LP (CSR 018) $12US /$16 World BIRDS IN THE MEADOW/OWL
SOUNDS “Of Off Moon” split CD-R (CSR 022) $5 US/$8 World OWL XOUNDS “Toxic
Raga” CD-R (CSR 024) $6 US/$9 World HAT CITY INTUITIVE/LA
OTRACINA/BIG NURSE “The World Will End Yesteday” 3-way split
CD-R (CSR 028) $6 US/$9 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! ----------- Tuesday Sept 19th. ALOPECOID (solo action
from Jay of DAYLIGHT'S FOR THE BIRDS, http://www.myspace.com/daylightsforthebirds) RUST IONICS will most likely go on around 11 PM! -------------- LA OTRACINA “Love
Love Love” 2xCD-R $12ppd US/$15ppd World OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING
GALAXY “The Myth Of Time An Elastic Experience” CD-R $6 US/$9
World BLIZZARDS “We
Run Slower Than You Walk Fast” CD-R $6ppd US/$9ppd World QUIVERS “Once
There Were Some” CD-R $6 US/$9 World DEAD GIRLS “Our
Tsunami” 3” CD-R $4 US/$7 World ORISHA TWI “Quiet
Whispers To The Deaf” CD-R $4 US/$7 World DEAD GIRLS/LIKE-DF
split 3” CD-R $4 US/$7 World THE BEETS “Say
Yes” CD-R $4 US/$7 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! --------- 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/ -------- More news soon… --------- Take er easy….. -adam kriney
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9/8/6 |
Tuesday
Sept 19th. ALOPECOID (solo action
from Jay of DAYLIGHT'S FOR THE BIRDS, http://www.myspace.com/daylightsforthebirds)
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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) |
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 contact http://www.myspace.com/pristinerecords for more info.... peace- |
5/27/6 |
ok..... 1) BLIZZARDS tour
US from 6/27-7/17 with THE GOOD ANNA ----------- 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 ------------ 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!!!! --------------------------------- 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: Listen to a section
of the song "One..." here, http://www.vorg.net/csr/QUIVERS1_mp3.mp3 ---------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------ c u out there America! -adm
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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)
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... -------------------- 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....
Come for a night of heavy soundz, aural madness, and general confusion, ummmmmmmmm.... -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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.... --------------------- 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 DEAD GIRLS/LIEK-DF
split 3" LA OTRACINA "Love
Love Love" 2xcd-R ------------------------ and there you have it friends, excuse me while me and Tracy have a lil ol' acid trip... ------------------------ ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm................
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Watch
some live DEAD GIRLS action from The Glasshouse Gallery, Brooklyn, NY,
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here's a new CD-R on Colour Sounds Recordings ----------------------- 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: Listen to a section of this track here --------------------- |
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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.... --------- OWL SOUNDS will now be forever known as OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY --------- 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. --------- QUIVERS is a new band
featuring: 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. --------- BLIZZARDS is a new
band featuring: BLIZZARDS will be toruing the US of A from 6/27-7/15, exact dates will be available soon. --------- 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/ --------- Upcoming releases: ORISHA TWI "Quiet
Whispers To The Deaf" CD-R ---------- out of earth-
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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. 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- |
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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. --------------------------------- 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: Listen to a section
of the OWL SOUNDS with Arrington De Dionyso track "Leaf Orr"
here ---------------------------------- 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: Listen to a section
of the LIEK-DF track "Wading In Space (Theme For My Flood)"
here ---------------------------------- 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: Listen to a section
of the track "Orange California Sunshine (Creation)" here 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! *** 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).” *** 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.” *** 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.” *** 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.” *** 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.” *** 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.” *** 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 ----------------- OWL SOUNDS with Arrington
De Dionyso "Cow On Mushrooms" Tour 3/01/6 OWL SOUNDS
with Arrington De Dionyso at 611 Florida, Washington DC, with SPACESHIP
PANIC ORBIT & 36. A Clavius Production. We will also have
copies of the just repressed OWL SOUNDS with Arrington De Dionyso "Cow
On Mushrooms" CD with Here's an mp3 link of this recording: http://www.vorg.net/csr/OWLSOUNDS_Arrington_Leaf_Orr_edit.mp3 ------------------ OWL SOUNDS with Arrington
De DIonyso "Cow On Mushrooms" cd-r with bonus remixes RUST IONICS "Moving/Pictures"
LP 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.
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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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LA OTRACINA will be doing a 2 week tour of the mid-atlantic/mid-west in April, more details soon! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming reallllllllll soon: OWL SOUNDS with Arrington
DeDionyso "Cow On Mushrooms" cd-r *repress with bonus remix
tracks! |
| 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: |
| 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)) big
ol' tour with PHOSPHORESCENT |
| 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) Dead New York Tour
Midwest Tour THE CASTANETS (Ray Raposa, with another guitarist, a bassist,
with Adam Kriney on drums) big ol' tour with PHOSPHORESCENT
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| 9/4/5 |
OK, back in action. ---------------------------------------------------- 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! -------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------- 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 Now, ain't that nice? |
| 8/25/5 |
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| 8/12/5 |
Tons
of exciting news!!!
------------------------------------------------ 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- New DEAD GIRLS release
on t.b.t.d. tapes label 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. ----------------------------------- 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. ---------------------- 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. ------------------------------ Upcoming shows: 8/15/5 8/16/5 8/28/5 9/10/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
that's all for now,
is that enough?
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| 8/8/5 |
Upcoming Shows!!!!!!!!!!!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8/15/5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8/16/5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OWL SOUNDS (Adam Kriney/Gene Janas/Randy Borra, get ASTRAL-mutherfucker-free-jazz……woooooo,
b’dip-bah!) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8/28/5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9/10/5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 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! ------------------------------ There's something called DEAD GIRLS that you need to know about here or listen about here. ----------------------------- 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! 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 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! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ upcoming releases: ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 HAPPY DEER
"Forestrial Communication" CD |
| 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. __________________________________________________ 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 |
| 4/20/5 |
TONS
OF NEWS Availability: This
CD is limited to 100 copies and is available for $5 US/$7 World. 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. #3 _______________________ 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! _______________________ THE BEETS will be
celebrating their "Say Yes" CD release at a show this coming
Sunday in New York City, here's the details. 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 ____________________ Upcoming releases include OWL SOUNDS with Arrington
DeDionyso still untitled CD
(CSR 011) |
| 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.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AURAL HAPPENINGS~~~~~~~~~~psychedelic music experiences..... AH #3 Live performances by................. 8:30 9:15 10:00 10:45
Live performances by.............................. 8:30 9:15 10:00 10:45 |
| 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- |
| 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)
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| 12/10/4 |
Two new HAPPY DEER sound files up..go listen..and buy the CD!
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| 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"
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| 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. and please check out
this special Colour Sounds related event! 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.
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| 11/18/4 |
MORE
NEW MP3S UP!!! |
| 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! 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 Owl Sounds Orchestra these 10 creators of spontaneous music will perform, at
8:30 pm, at Pour upcoming colour sounds related: THE BEETS full length recording 11/13/4 LA OTRACINA at Office Ops, Brooklyn, 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! _________________ #1 *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
*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
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.
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! _______________________ 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:
doing 100% free-improvisations....hahaha, don't miss this extravaganza of beautiful sounds! ...more info soon!
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! |
| 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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:
*Listen to the track 'Cornfield' from "Trinomy" _____________________________________________________________________________________ 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.......... |
| .7/19/4 |
AURAL
HAPPENINGS no. 1 |
| .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! --------------------------- 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. 2) Saturday May 29,
10:00 PM, Party!!! at Danielle's Apt, 346 Lafayette Ave #1, Clinton |
| 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! --------- 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... ------- 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) 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!
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| 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, As part of the Dogs
Blood Rising party <a night devoted to promoting classic and new
music in the 10:00 PM 11:00 PM
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| 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. 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. COLOUR SOUNDS RECORDINGS
ANNOUNCEMENT: 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 |