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( Notice #038 ) — Rafael Toral — “ Space Collective 2 Live ”
Space Collective 2 Live commemorates Portuguese musician Rafael Toral’s first U.S. tour in several years. Since the 1990s, Toral has been primarily known for his guitar work, but has since been working on the Space Program project, within which he has probed visceral and personal components of electronic music performance, and how they relate to the performer's experience, not to the resultant product.

These recordings, taken from a live set at All Tomorrow’s Parties in 2010, find Toral performing with drummer Alfonso Simões, developing sparse, deep textures with triggers and modular oddities. Smartly paced and absolutely blistering at times, this set touches on a variety of surprising tones: flute-like expressions, spacey warbles, and intricately patterned arpeggios that dissolve into drone sections with confrontational sonic palettes.

- Professionally duplicated edition of 100 on Cobalt tape stock
- Letterpress printed by John Fitzgerald at Fitzgerald Letterpress, New Orleans, LA
- Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery
- Edition of 100

Purchase this release and stream its audio via Bandcamp, here:
https://noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/a ... ive-2-live

Larger artwork can be seen here:
https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a1351529904_10.jpg

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( Notice #39 ) — Loren Chasse — “ The Sodden Floor ”
Portland, Ore. musician and naturalist Loren Chasse has a long and varied history within the more organic and textural branches of drone and sound art. Comprising pregnant field recordings, tense drone whispers, and wispy layers of texture, The Sodden Floor’s dark superimpositions drift between momentary dread and almost childlike abstraction. They seem composed with an eye on cinema: sounds drift into focus and then cut or pan away; the resulting shifts constitute a dreamlike presence only sustainable within an ephemeral world, one documented with a half-awake awareness — leaving or coming — but always accepting the flittering yet immovable mise-en-scène aesthetic of non-existence.

- Professionally duplicated edition of 100 on Cobalt tape stock
- Letterpress printed by John Fitzgerald at Fitzgerald Letterpress, New Orleans
- Drawing by Fue Akama, layout by E. Lindorff-Ellery
- Edition of 100

Purchase this release and stream its audio via Bandcamp, here:
https://noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/a ... dden-floor

Larger artwork can be seen here:
https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a1345277521_10.jpg


That's it for us 2015. Stay tuned for a lot going on in 2016, including new releases from Chris Strickland and Nick Storring, among many others.

See you.