Tim and I are freezing our asses off in the basement of Silke Arp Bricht, and despite the chill we've written two new songs. I have no idea if we'll be 100% ready by April 3rd, but knowing our crit-paranoiac bent we'll be riddled with at least 66.6% anxiety. The shit is good -- that's all I dare relate.
Ryan, Balazs and Feri arrive on April 1st. Complete ultra-mega fucking ur-chaos soon ensues...
TS
Monday, March 30, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Knots (Un-)Coil...
Tim Lane Seaton arrived today from Los Angeles, and so the Rope Cosmetology experiment enters its second phase.
These are very exciting times, droogs - anything can happen! Rehearsals begin soon...
TS
These are very exciting times, droogs - anything can happen! Rehearsals begin soon...
TS
Monday, March 23, 2009
An Absence of Energy at an Energy HQ...
Guten Tag,
I'm at work, posting through a corporate intranet as I wait on a very tardy pupil. Executives are allowed to blow off their English lessons, despite the hefty (and wholly reasonable) fee my company charges them for the service rendered. (Or, in this case, unrendered.) I get paid regardless, but it's always better to teach than not. My German improves, my English improves... No-shows are a drag. (Yes, I was late for every ethics and media class I ever took at VSU, but at least I managed to haul myself out of bed, brush a wolverine across my scalp, and take part in the inevitably absurd discussions.)
Lots of posts were written (and new mashups recorded) over the weekend, but I've been too distracted / disorganized to post them. They'll pop up, in chronological order, over the next few hours. It's cheating, I know, but I'm not writing for The Atlantic, so I can post whenever I damn well please.
Tim from Rope Cosmetology arrives in Hannover onTuesday Wednesday afternoon for a two week stay. (Rather than moan about a too-abbreviated tour, we decided to refocus our efforts on recording a proper album, face-to-mottled-mug, and in the process prepare for the gigs in Paris and at Silke Arp Bricht.) Tim and I will be laboring over texts, rhythmic beds, etc. Can't wait to get into gear!
Updates to the TLASILA web, the Karl Schmidt Verlag page, and the Rope Cosmetology profile have all been posted. Much more material is in the works and will follow shortly...
Pit Noack and I made several hours of Three Resurrected Drunkards recordings on Friday at Silke. I'll upload photos from the sessions with the accompanying post that I've written but not yet midwived...
Hope all of you are well.
Cheers,
Tom
I'm at work, posting through a corporate intranet as I wait on a very tardy pupil. Executives are allowed to blow off their English lessons, despite the hefty (and wholly reasonable) fee my company charges them for the service rendered. (Or, in this case, unrendered.) I get paid regardless, but it's always better to teach than not. My German improves, my English improves... No-shows are a drag. (Yes, I was late for every ethics and media class I ever took at VSU, but at least I managed to haul myself out of bed, brush a wolverine across my scalp, and take part in the inevitably absurd discussions.)
Lots of posts were written (and new mashups recorded) over the weekend, but I've been too distracted / disorganized to post them. They'll pop up, in chronological order, over the next few hours. It's cheating, I know, but I'm not writing for The Atlantic, so I can post whenever I damn well please.
Tim from Rope Cosmetology arrives in Hannover on
Updates to the TLASILA web, the Karl Schmidt Verlag page, and the Rope Cosmetology profile have all been posted. Much more material is in the works and will follow shortly...
Pit Noack and I made several hours of Three Resurrected Drunkards recordings on Friday at Silke. I'll upload photos from the sessions with the accompanying post that I've written but not yet midwived...
Hope all of you are well.
Cheers,
Tom
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
KSV Tally to Date...
Hello,
Many of the Karl Schmidt Verlag releases from December and January are either sold out or nearing extinction. Take note:
KSV 001 TLASILA - Konstriktion und Narzissmus
SOLD OUT
KSV 002 Analog Suicide / Hull Curve - Live at Pit's Salon
2 copies left!
KSV 003 Brüning/Schuhmacher/Schmidt - Extrakte und Deformationen
SOLD OUT
KSV 004 Tom Smith - Limmerstrasse Vol. 1
SOLD OUT
KSV 005 Tom Smith & Pit Noack - Lange Pause, dann noch eine Zigarette
3 copies left!
KSV 006 Karl Schmidt - Remediated and Decontectualized Field Recordings Vol. 1
4 copies left!
KSV 007 Azul-Cobalto - Patrocínio e Inibição
SOLD OUT (Strange, as this was one of our more aggressively abstract titles... Of course, many thanks!)
KSV 008 Carlos António Silva - Lissabon Lieder
3 copies left!
KSV 009 Karl & die Leidenschaften - Unnötigerweise Auto-Getunete Klassiker
3 copies left!
KSV 010 Tom Smith - Vampire Weekend Is a Timeshare in Secaucus
SOLD OUT
KSV 011 Rope Cosmetology - Discoteca Festival
SOLD OUT
KSV 013 Und Andere - 31. Januar
Should be around until mid-April...
KSV 014 TS - LRRH im Schimmel
Only 6 left! Our fastest seller to date!
KSV 015 Unbeabsichtigte Begleiter - Salon 6. Februar
Plenty in stock. This title is esoteric even by our rarified standards...
KSV 016 Drei Leselampe für ein Hallelujah - Ich tanze Go-Go
Purchase with confidence. This one looks to loiter in the virtual ledger through the end of April...
--
Sincere, grateful thanks to anyone who has ordered, listened to, critiqued, trashed, or slowly, tremulously licked these recordings.
Best,
Tom
Many of the Karl Schmidt Verlag releases from December and January are either sold out or nearing extinction. Take note:
KSV 001 TLASILA - Konstriktion und Narzissmus
SOLD OUT
KSV 002 Analog Suicide / Hull Curve - Live at Pit's Salon
2 copies left!
KSV 003 Brüning/Schuhmacher/Schmidt - Extrakte und Deformationen
SOLD OUT
KSV 004 Tom Smith - Limmerstrasse Vol. 1
SOLD OUT
KSV 005 Tom Smith & Pit Noack - Lange Pause, dann noch eine Zigarette
3 copies left!
KSV 006 Karl Schmidt - Remediated and Decontectualized Field Recordings Vol. 1
4 copies left!
KSV 007 Azul-Cobalto - Patrocínio e Inibição
SOLD OUT (Strange, as this was one of our more aggressively abstract titles... Of course, many thanks!)
KSV 008 Carlos António Silva - Lissabon Lieder
3 copies left!
KSV 009 Karl & die Leidenschaften - Unnötigerweise Auto-Getunete Klassiker
3 copies left!
KSV 010 Tom Smith - Vampire Weekend Is a Timeshare in Secaucus
SOLD OUT
KSV 011 Rope Cosmetology - Discoteca Festival
SOLD OUT
KSV 013 Und Andere - 31. Januar
Should be around until mid-April...
KSV 014 TS - LRRH im Schimmel
Only 6 left! Our fastest seller to date!
KSV 015 Unbeabsichtigte Begleiter - Salon 6. Februar
Plenty in stock. This title is esoteric even by our rarified standards...
KSV 016 Drei Leselampe für ein Hallelujah - Ich tanze Go-Go
Purchase with confidence. This one looks to loiter in the virtual ledger through the end of April...
--
Sincere, grateful thanks to anyone who has ordered, listened to, critiqued, trashed, or slowly, tremulously licked these recordings.
Best,
Tom
Monday, March 9, 2009
Three New Releases on Karl Schmidt Verlag!
Dear Droogs,
Here are the latest communiques from Karl Schmidt Verlag. You know what to do...
KSV 014 TS - LRRH im Schimmel (CDR)
Herr Smith obsessively intones Sam the Sham's "Little Red Riding Hood" as wind whistles through a open bathroom window...
01 LRRH im Schimmel (52:53)
Recorded, performed. mixed and produced by TS at KSV HQ, Hannover, February 2009.
Sleeve by Prolegomenon.
Edition of 15.
---
KSV 015 Unbeabsichtigte Begleiter - Salon 6. Februar (CDR)
Volker Zander - solo contrabass
U.A. - inadvertent and unintended sound
01 6. Februar (27:47)
02 Auto-Tuned, Partially Crushed, with Rain Gutter (18:36)
03 Staggered Blackout Overlay (27:47)
Recorded by Karl Schmidt at Salon Noack, Hannover, February 6, 2009.
Music composed and performed by V.Z.
Edited, mixed and produced by K.S.
Sleeve by D. Meier.
Edition of 15.
---
KSV 016 Drei Leselampen für ein Hallelujah - Ich tanze Go-Go (CDR)
Permutated texts extracted from Go-Go: Neue Schönhauser Neun, Falk Richwien’s newly-published memoir of life in early 1990s Berlin.
01 Ich tanze Go-Go (55:13)
Read by: Sabine Olk, Olaf Jenk, and Claudia Franke.
Written and directed by Falk Richwien.
Recorded at Silke Arp Bricht, Hannover, on February 11, 2009.
Edited, mixed and produced by Karl Schmidt.
Sleeve by The Fourfold Root.
Edition of 20.
---
Pricing:
€ 7.49 within the EU, €9 outside the EU. Postage paid. Add €1 for each additional album.
So, one disc ordered from Portugal = € 7.49. Two discs ordered from the USA = € 19. Three discs ordered from China = € 29. Four ordered from France = € 32.96. Et cetera...
PayPal: tlasila [at] gmail [dot] com
---
COMING SOON!!
KSV 012 Aenne & Yr Langhorst - Hammond Studies
KSV 017 Female Reggae Showcase - Kid Traumgekrönt/U-Hölderlin Super-Clash!
(New duo project comprising TLASILA vets Chris Grier and Tom Smith!)
KSV 018 Feinkost Lampe: 26 Februar (RK2 vs. Liondialer)
KSV 019 Three Resurrected Drunkards - Begriffsschrift 1999!
KSV 020 Rope Cosmetology - Spezial: Gedankengefüge (Compound Thought)
(Second full-length album!)
---
Hang loosely,
Karl
Here are the latest communiques from Karl Schmidt Verlag. You know what to do...
KSV 014 TS - LRRH im Schimmel (CDR)
Herr Smith obsessively intones Sam the Sham's "Little Red Riding Hood" as wind whistles through a open bathroom window...
01 LRRH im Schimmel (52:53)
Recorded, performed. mixed and produced by TS at KSV HQ, Hannover, February 2009.
Sleeve by Prolegomenon.
Edition of 15.
---
KSV 015 Unbeabsichtigte Begleiter - Salon 6. Februar (CDR)
Volker Zander - solo contrabass
U.A. - inadvertent and unintended sound
01 6. Februar (27:47)
02 Auto-Tuned, Partially Crushed, with Rain Gutter (18:36)
03 Staggered Blackout Overlay (27:47)
Recorded by Karl Schmidt at Salon Noack, Hannover, February 6, 2009.
Music composed and performed by V.Z.
Edited, mixed and produced by K.S.
Sleeve by D. Meier.
Edition of 15.
---
KSV 016 Drei Leselampen für ein Hallelujah - Ich tanze Go-Go (CDR)
Permutated texts extracted from Go-Go: Neue Schönhauser Neun, Falk Richwien’s newly-published memoir of life in early 1990s Berlin.
01 Ich tanze Go-Go (55:13)
Read by: Sabine Olk, Olaf Jenk, and Claudia Franke.
Written and directed by Falk Richwien.
Recorded at Silke Arp Bricht, Hannover, on February 11, 2009.
Edited, mixed and produced by Karl Schmidt.
Sleeve by The Fourfold Root.
Edition of 20.
---
Pricing:
€ 7.49 within the EU, €9 outside the EU. Postage paid. Add €1 for each additional album.
So, one disc ordered from Portugal = € 7.49. Two discs ordered from the USA = € 19. Three discs ordered from China = € 29. Four ordered from France = € 32.96. Et cetera...
PayPal: tlasila [at] gmail [dot] com
---
COMING SOON!!
KSV 012 Aenne & Yr Langhorst - Hammond Studies
KSV 017 Female Reggae Showcase - Kid Traumgekrönt/U-Hölderlin Super-Clash!
(New duo project comprising TLASILA vets Chris Grier and Tom Smith!)
KSV 018 Feinkost Lampe: 26 Februar (RK2 vs. Liondialer)
KSV 019 Three Resurrected Drunkards - Begriffsschrift 1999!
KSV 020 Rope Cosmetology - Spezial: Gedankengefüge (Compound Thought)
(Second full-length album!)
---
Hang loosely,
Karl
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