Friday, February 27, 2015

AWAKE

So, AWAKE my collaboration with Mike Shiflet is now upon the world-
vinyl available here:
US: AWAKE
ROTW:AWAKE

I have some artist copies of the vinyl LPs &
digital from me: AWAKE

some great stuff to look at:
http://www.npr.org/event/music/385704264/high-aurad-mike-shiflet-parlour-games

High Aura'd & Mike Shiflet, 'Parlour Games'

 • Filmmaker Terrence Malick knows light. In Days Of Heaven, think of the silhouettes shot against waves of grain during the magic hour between dusk and sunset. Or when the young boys in The Tree Of Life watch their own long shadows walk on an empty street. These are spaces where art can achieve an experience so immense and impressionistic that it becomes everyday, and it's there that you can also find the music of John Kolodij (High Aura'd) and Mike Shiflet.
From their first collaborative LP, Awake, the ambient guitar duo swells to feverish heights in "Parlour Games," as mystical textures peek through the glorious noise like soft light between curtains. In much the same way, this video (directed by Shiflet) gives us something grand that feels familiar.
Inspired by the album's artwork — photographed by Alison Scarpulla, with layout and typography by Sutekh Hexen's Kevin Gan Yuen — the video is a meditation on the cycle of life, shown through the relationship between two women in white lace. As Shiflet writes, "It was mostly filmed last September, trying to capture the plants as they enjoyed their last days and started to turn."

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Year Ender



2014 was a strange year for me...lots of records I hoped would be great, just weren't.
and I found myself listening to certain things over and over and over-

New Records:

Ian William Craig- A Turn Of Breath
Mike Weis-Don't Know , Just Walk
Sharon Van Etten-Are We There?
Sturgill Simpson-Metamodern Sounds In Country
Flowers-  Do What You Want To, It's What You Should Do
Death Blues-Ensemble
The Body- I shall die here
Joanna Gruesome- Weird Sister
Damian Jurado- Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son
D'Angelo-Black Messiah
Xylouris/White- Goats
All Gabriel Saloman
Grouper - Ruins
Wildhoney-Seventeen 7"
Otto Totland-Pino
SUNN O)))) & Ulver-Terrestrials
William Fowler Collins/Daniel Menche 
Angel Olsen-Burn your fire for no witness

I also dug new Whirr, Old Man Gloom, Mesa Ritual,Mamiffer, Marissa Nadler, DAMA/Libra, &
Ambarchi / O'Malley / Dunn, Full of Hell & Andy Stott

Older records made new:

Arvo Pärt-Tabula Rasa

 


Anything Muscle Shoals related, specifically Roger Hawkins
Bedhead-everything
All Aislers Set all the time 
Copious amounts of Alice Coltrane

Best shows:
Forest Swords
Daniel Lanois with Brian Blade-unfuckwithable
Death Vessel
Richard Buckner in my living room

I drank lots of red wine, Grenache and Mouverde
and lots of old fashioneds

2015 brings a hot new record on TYPE...early. so stay tuned! 





Tuesday, July 1, 2014

RED ROCKS w/Angel Olsen - I BLAME REAGANOMICS!


 Angel Olsen and I collaborated to make this song-
Greg Kelley plays trumpet and John Twells recorded it-
Angel also made this video streaming on PITCHFORK!
http://pitchfork.com/news/55761-angel-olsen-directs-video-for-high-aurads-red-rocks/

it's here on the an old label by a true friend-with an amazing lineup as well

 I
​BLAME REAGANOMICS-Corleone Records



Side A

King Blood-your name in gold
Squabblehut-citrabloom
Showers-ccc
Night People-a thousand tears
Fred Thomas-on the windows
Work/Death-20 questions
Side B
Night Wounds-no name
White Load-acne
Black Pus-goblin style
The Body-black boys on mopeds
High aura'd-red rocks
Siren Cult-public assistance
Vimeo here:
https://vimeo.com/98327677
and Youtube here:
http://youtu.be/25Ec-EJViJE

song available here:  http://highaurad.bandcamp.com/

also, some live shows coming up:
Neptune, Windmills by the Ocean, Owlfood, High Aura'd
The Middle East and Wormwood Joint Present:

Neptune,
Windmills by the Ocean, Owlfood, High Aura'd

Sunday, Jul 13, 2014 8:00 PM
, Cambridge, MA


and
Dama/Libra, High Aura'd, Owlfood, Awaas

Dama/Libra, High Aura'd, Owlfood, Awaas

Wednesday, Aug 20, 2014 8:00 PM , Cambridge, MA

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

TEETH FOR SINKING IN





Teeth For Sinking In
on Bathetic Records
my new tape in this incredible 11 tape batch
http://batheticrecords.com/release/dynasty-at-ghost-town/



This 11 artist tape batch has more than one red thread running through it- the magnificent art by Simon Fowler (who crafted the cover Sanguine Futures by High aura’d, among many others) is echoed by the sense of awakening and mantra throughout the varied styles of the works….
All tapes are pro-dubbed on Type II Chrome tape, imprinted on both sides, and inserted with high quality 4-panel J-Cards.

Scott Tuma, Zachary Dain Nelson , Ryan Potts, Padang Food Tigers M. Geddes Gengras, Planning For Burial William Cody Watson - Ekin Fil - Panabrite- Lee Noble 

I'll also be playing at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island June 5th
with 
Braveyoung (the handsomest PDX-ers/The Body collaborators)
http://braveyoungofficial.bandcamp.com/

Mem1 (PVD)
https://soundcloud.com/mcetilia/mem1-vela

House Red (Silver Lake)
http://housered.bandcamp.com/

 Facebook link

 

Monday, February 10, 2014

new sounds through old lists

1104130808a 
Jason Isbell - Southeastern
The Necks – Open
Paul Jebanasam - Rites
Roly Porter - Life Cycle of a Massive Star
Sutekh Hexen – Become
Paysage D’hiver – Das Tor
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
My Bloody Valentine – mbv
WINDHAND – SOMA
Death Blues
Nicholas Bullen - Component Fixations
Daniel Menche – Vilke
Locrian – Return To Annihilation

along with many other fines lists at BATHETIC RECORDS....

My favorite vinyl soundtracks/scores plus an eternal reissue

Dickon Hinchliffe - Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980  

 The Fog-John Carpenter 

Broadcast – Berberian Sound Studio

Solaris-Eduard Artemyev Salem's Lot -Henry Sukman
The Hired Hand-Bruce Langhorne

Songs: Ohia -The Magnolia Electric Co.SOLARIS- Cliff Martinez
Last House on the Left – David Hess
Stalker/The Mirror – Edward Artemiev
/\/\/\/\/\
for A Closer Listen....

and one for OMGVinyl....


James Plotkin & Paal Nilssen-Love-Death Rattle
Pharmakon - Abandon
Speedy Ortiz-Major Arcana

Akos Rozmann - Images of the Dream and Death

Tim Hecker - Virgins
Wrekmeister Harmonies: You’ve Always Meant So Much to Me
Frank Rosaly- centering and displacement ( & Live at Utech Fest II)

Dressed in Streams – The Search for Blood

Oikos – Vigilia
Barnett & Coloccia – Retrieval

all wonderful records, if you are hunting for new sounds

Monday, December 2, 2013

UTECH MUSIC FEST II





UTECH RECORDS MUSIC FESTIVAL II
December 6, 2013
Cactus Club
2496 S Wentworth Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53207
414-897-0663
7PM
$20
The second Utech Records Music Festival is scheduled for December 6, 2013 at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Curated by graphic designer and label owner Keith Utech, Utech Records has released over one hundred titles worldwide from artists working in the field of sound experimentation over the last ten years. The festival will be a celebration of music and the uncompromising creative spirit that has driven the label for a decade and brings together ten performances from label artists and friends. Three new releases will be for sale at the festival; Suzuki Junzo Portrait of Madeleine Elster cd, Sum of R Lights on Water LP and a cassette from Dead Neanderthals. The cassette will be extremely limited and exclusive to the fest. Sum of R will play Lights on Water for the first time outside of Europe.
The bill includes Sum of R/RM74 (Switzerland), Suzuki Junzo (Japan), Burning Tree (Norway), Kwaidan (Chicago), John Kolodij/Jon Mueller/Joseph Clayton Mills (Rhode Island/Milwaukee/Chicago), Dead Neanderthals (Netherlands), Olivia Block (Chicago), Trevor De Brauw/Steven Hess (Chicago), Frank Rosaly (Chicago).
Sum of R
RM74
Suzuki Junzo
Burning Tree
Kwaidan
John Kolodij/Jon Mueller/Joseph Clayton Mills
Dead Neanderthals
Olivia Block
Trevor De Brauw/Steven Hess
Frank Rosaly



http://utechrecords.com/URMFII.html?v=bgOP_JLF-7A

Thursday, October 17, 2013

FALL


Mike Shiflet
www.michaelshiflet.com

High aura'd
http://highaurad.bandcamp.com/

Communicator
Glenna Van Nostrand/Ken Linehan
http://omnivoresounds.bandcamp.com/

at 186 Carpenter
http://186carpenter.tumblr.com/
Doors 7 PM
music at 7:30, out by 10 PM!


the split is out with Blood Bright Star
 Get it HERE!

Image of High aura'd / Blood Bright Star
UTECH RECORDS MUSIC FESTIVAL II
December 6, 2013
Cactus Club
2496 S Wentworth Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53207
414-897-0663
7PM
$20
The second Utech Records Music Festival is scheduled for December 6, 2013 at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Curated by graphic designer and label owner Keith Utech, Utech Records has released over one hundred titles worldwide from artists working in the field of sound experimentation over the last ten years. The festival will be a celebration of music and the uncompromising creative spirit that has driven the label for a decade and brings together ten performances from label artists and friends. Three new releases will be for sale at the festival; Suzuki Junzo Portrait of Madeleine Elster cd, Sum of R Lights on Water LP and a cassette from Dead Neanderthals. The cassette will be extremely limited and exclusive to the fest. Sum of R will play Lights on Water for the first time outside of Europe.
The bill includes Sum of R/RM74 (Switzerland), Suzuki Junzo (Japan), Burning Tree (Norway), Kwaidan (Chicago), John Kolodij/Jon Mueller/Joseph Clayton Mills (Rhode Island/Milwaukee/Chicago), Dead Neanderthals (Netherlands), Olivia Block (Chicago), Trevor De Brauw/Steven Hess (Chicago), Frank Rosaly (Chicago).
Sum of R
RM74
Suzuki Junzo
Burning Tree
Kwaidan
John Kolodij/Jon Mueller/Joseph Clayton Mills
Dead Neanderthals
Olivia Block
Trevor De Brauw/Steven Hess
Frank Rosaly

UTECH RECORDS MUSIC FESTIVAL II
December 6, 2013
Cactus Club
2496 S Wentworth Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53207
414-897-0663
7PM
$20
The second Utech Records Music Festival is scheduled for December 6, 2013 at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Curated by graphic designer and label owner Keith Utech, Utech Records has released over one hundred titles worldwide from artists working in the field of sound experimentation over the last ten years. The festival will be a celebration of music and the uncompromising creative spirit that has driven the label for a decade and brings together ten performances from label artists and friends. Three new releases will be for sale at the festival; Suzuki Junzo Portrait of Madeleine Elster cd, Sum of R Lights on Water LP and a cassette from Dead Neanderthals. The cassette will be extremely limited and exclusive to the fest. Sum of R will play Lights on Water for the first time outside of Europe.
The bill includes Sum of R/RM74 (Switzerland), Suzuki Junzo (Japan), Burning Tree (Norway), Kwaidan (Chicago), John Kolodij/Jon Mueller/Joseph Clayton Mills (Rhode Island/Milwaukee/Chicago), Dead Neanderthals (Netherlands), Olivia Block (Chicago), Trevor De Brauw/Steven Hess (Chicago), Frank Rosaly (Chicago).
Sum of R
RM74
Suzuki Junzo
Burning Tree
Kwaidan
John Kolodij/Jon Mueller/Joseph Clayton Mills
Dead Neanderthals
Olivia Block
Trevor De Brauw/Steven Hess
Frank Rosaly

UTECH RECORDS MUSIC FESTIVAL II
December 6, 2013
Cactus Club
2496 S Wentworth Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53207
414-897-0663
7PM
$20
The second Utech Records Music Festival is scheduled for December 6, 2013 at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Curated by graphic designer and label owner Keith Utech, Utech Records has released over one hundred titles worldwide from artists working in the field of sound experimentation over the last ten years. The festival will be a celebration of music and the uncompromising creative spirit that has driven the label for a decade and brings together ten performances from label artists and friends. Three new releases will be for sale at the festival; Suzuki Junzo Portrait of Madeleine Elster cd, Sum of R Lights on Water LP and a cassette from Dead Neanderthals. The cassette will be extremely limited and exclusive to the fest. Sum of R will play Lights on Water for the first time outside of Europe.
The bill includes Sum of R/RM74 (Switzerland), Suzuki Junzo (Japan), Burning Tree (Norway), Kwaidan (Chicago), John Kolodij/Jon Mueller/Joseph Clayton Mills (Rhode Island/Milwaukee/Chicago), Dead Neanderthals (Netherlands), Olivia Block (Chicago), Trevor De Brauw/Steven Hess (Chicago), Frank Rosaly (Chicago).
Sum of R
RM74
Suzuki Junzo
Burning Tree
Kwaidan
John Kolodij/Jon Mueller/Joseph Clayton Mills
Dead Neanderthals
Olivia Block
Trevor De Brauw/Steven Hess
Frank Rosaly