Gary Busdriver - "Guitar!"

Gary Busdriver is back! This time he's delivering a monster...a cross between Metal Machine Music and the most damaged fretwork of Keiji Haino, Guitar! is all action and improv gone mental. The performances were captured starting at the end of 2011, using a variety of equipment/playing styles, and deliberated over for quite some time. Busdriver's initial concept was to alternate between extreme electric guitar improv and subdued (yet angular) acoustic lines. However, as the project evolved, Busdriver found himself drawn to the method of recording as much as the playing. He had started recording live to a BOSS 8-track machine before switching to both Garageband and Ableton to further mangle & distort his guitar improvisations. The results are truly adventurous. This is OUT-THERE music...trust us!

David A. Feil - the (a cycle of 3,401 objects)

Co-released with Mr. Feil, each cassette contains an hour-long spoken-word audio recording split over the two sides and comes packaged in a fold-out broadside print of the original text itself.

The text was originally composed in August 2012. Using a database of 3000+ poems compiled over the summer of 2012, an arbitrary-but-not-random instance of the word "the" plus the word following immediately after was queried from each record. With no seeming beginning or end but with a clearly defined form and rhythm, the text's flowing list of nouns functions as the skeleton of a poem, a story, or memory inescapably fleshed out further in each individual's imagination. Originally performed as part of the Texas Contemporary Arts Fair 2012.

Mold Omen, "Sanbenito"

Baltimore's Mold Omen new album is titled, Sanbenito. A "sanbenito" is a penitential garment worn by heretics, especially during the Spanish Inquisition. This heavy, loaded word translates into some fine improv/noise music by M.O. The album isn't aggressively dissonant, over the top, or bleak, but instead plays with gaps and silences in between plucked tones. Evocative is a word we like use to describe their sound tapestry.