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Bug Incision is two things.
First, we release limited edition CD-Rs of free music. Since 2005, we've released over 20 albums featuring acts from Canada, United States, France.
Second, we organize, promote, and perform concerts of improvised music. The series, which is largely irregular, was inaugurated in May, and will continue indefinitely. The Bug Incision monthly Improv Nights, at Soda, ran from July through December of 2006. Bug Incision-Theatre Junction 2007-8 series ran from September 2007 through April 2008, at Cantos Music Foundation and Theatre Junction Rehearsal Studio. This is BUG INCISION PRESENTS.
up and running: www.bugincision.com
ONLINE AVAILABILITY OF BUG INCISION MUSIC:
Most of the in-print (check website) Bug Incision stuff is available through one of these places. They're superlative shops, so check them out anyway.
Eclipse Records
Squidco - they have OOP Bug Incision releases
Tomentosa - these guys should have a few items
Also, send an email to bugincision [at] hotmail [dot] com to order direct.
In person, you can find these discs at Hot Wax (Calgary), Melodiya (Calgary), Listen Records (Edmonton), Phonopolis (Montreal), Soundscapes (Toronto).
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NEWS: 10/14/09
Next round (Oct-Dec) of shows at Weeds being booked currently. Drop us a line at bugincision [at] hotmail [dot] com to get involved.
NOW AVAILABLE TO ORDER (email bugincision at hotmail dot com):
lamp chops
the localization of noise and its endowment with form
bim-24
Four tracks of string-saturated improvisation from Toronto's Colin Fisher and Simeon Abbott. Both players are serious multi-instrumentalists, but this set features them exclusively on ghuzeng and prepared guitar, respectively. Sounds like what might've happened if Strange Strings had been more fully fleshed-out and stripped down. Recorded to cassette four-track by Aaron Leaney at Somewhere There in Toronto, late 2008.
edition of 50 copies, color covers in plastic sleeves
chris dadge
the tangled woof of fact
bim-22
Recorded to two tracks of a Tascam 246, fall 2008. Follow-up to 2006's I'd Drive Your Ass Across The World, If I Had To. Shorter tracks, much less contained than that album, though similar in its simplicity and intent. Second solo drums album from Dadge, who's played with Bent Spoon Duo, Raw Kites, Musk Cup, Eric Chenaux, Eugene Chadbourne, Mats Gustafsson & Christian Munthe, and Peter Evans.
jack wright/ben wright/mike pride/nate wooley
tenterhooks
bim-25
This is a 2006 recording of a quartet featuring Jack Wright, Ben Wright, Mike Pride, and Nate Wooley. The music is tightly coiled, coming across as an unsettled focusing and unfocusing of a variety of intersecting sounds and extended playing techniques. The players all possess masterful control of their instruments, and exhibit a fine sense of balance and pacing. Nobody overplays and the role(s) of background/foreground is constantly shifting, creating an uncluttered, thoughtful unfolding of events. Another fine slice of Wright and his ever-shifting company.
edition of 100 copies, color covers in plastic sleeves
part wild horses mane on both sides
memoirs of a secret metal cave
bim-26
The duo of Pascal Nichols and Kelly Jones delivers another new slab of zoned duo improv. The latest chapter of their ongoing series of reconciliations of the flute/drums/electronics relationship comes out sounding like an beautifully mangled soundtrack to a Ducks Unlimited commercial or an garbled old videocassette of an '80s educational nature film. As has been noted in previous reviews of this duo, they make stunning use of a relatively basic setup, and it's a long ways away from those bizzarre Jarrett/Dejohnette jams on Ruta & Daitya.
edition of 64 copies, color covers in plastic sleeves
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fossils
a common confusion
bim-23, summer 2009
Another slab of basement strangeness from this Hamilton, Ontario-based trio/duo. The consistent element is David Payne, and he's joined by a mixture of Steve Smith and Daniel Farr. The sound quality here is out of step with the majority of Fossils' boombox-recorded catalogue, but the relatively crisp, bright recording yields a new attention to detail and smaller sounds. The enhanced fidelity dones't, however, make it any easier to tell what the fuck is happening. Another basement baffler. Recorded in early 2009, at mjc HQ.
edition of 50 copies, color covers in plastic sleeves
jay crocker
joachim on eggshells
bim-19, spring 2009
Crocker discards his usual array of guitars, homemade pedals, and keyboards, in favour of six years' worth of home recordings of himself. Mostly recorded on single track cassette tape, and patched through a larger system, these sketches and mini-improvs are woven together on one 'take', an acceptable one of which we have here. Moments here recall the denser sides of Richard Youngs or NWW. A strange one, for sure.
edition of 50, color covers, clear plastic sleeves, in print
pedromonkeyfinger
eye day rabbit
bim-21, summer 2009
Surreal slabs of processed sound float by each other in brilliant high fidelity from the man behind much of the documentation of Bug Incision's live activites (hear his recording prowess on the forthcoming Bent Spoon Trio +3 album).
edition of 50 copies, color covers in plastic sleeves
email bugincision@hotmail.com to order
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New releases coming soon:
pink saliva (trio of Gordon Allen, Michel F Côté, and Alexandre St-Onge)
a band - new recording
Contact: bugincision@hotmail.com
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AVAILABLE NOW:
Chris Riggs - I Feel So Strong. I Feel I Could Punch A Hole In A Fucking Wall
Chris Riggs (of Traum and impresario of Holy Cheever Church Records) will be releasing "I Feel So Strong. I Feel I Could Punch A Hole In A Fucking Wall" on Bug Incision. It features compositions for highly abstracted guitar improvisations and silence. The most challenging Bug Incision release yet.
Bent Spoon Trio with Thom Golub - Dead Salems Dance In Their Ashtray
Two prime BST tracks, complete with string+sax sexctions, vocals, and some fine straight-up trio moments. Third track adds Thom Golub on the double bass. The final cut is a quintet, adding Jay Crocker on guitar and pink dolphin, and Dan Meichel on tenor sax. Recorded by Brad Hawkins.
Bent Spoon Trio - More Experienced Filthier
The definitive document of 2008's midnight tunnel shows. Features the trio in a mode with is more easily aligned with the recent Dadge/Munro BSD music. Laing's sax playing is extremely spacious and restrained. Dadge and Munro play violin, viola, trumpet, cuatro, trombone, and sparse percussion.
Bayal with Arnaud Riviere - First Contact (bim-15)
John Boyle and Aya Onishi (of Nihilist Spasm Band) play an arsenal of drums, modified thumb pianos & kazoos, with guest Arnaud Riviere (of Textile Orchestra, among other things) on detroyed turntables. The music was recorded live in France, documenting their set at Sonic Protest from a few years back. It consists of a half hour of unrelenting primal improvisation, underpinned by some early-man-style drumming and skittering cascades of feedback and heavily amplified, tactile interplay.
Traum - Tanto Impresos Como Sistemas (bim-07)
The latest installment of this Detroit-based trio finds them continuing the post-Davis mode they've occupied since guitarist Chris Riggs' arrival earlier this year. This version of the band, along with Hans Buetow and Ben Hall (Graveyards, Melee) is much fleeter; lighter punches, more of them. Sounds, at times, like a sped-up AMM.
Jack Wright with Hell & Bunny - Over The Transom (bim-08)
The well-traveled saxophonist Jack Wright in an excellently balanced trio with cellist Hans Buetow and percussionist Ben Hall. This set was recorded in Easton, PA in 2007. Features impressive playing from all, but noteworthy for its inclination towards mind-meld. A united effort throughout.
Khoury + Hall - Battlefield Medicine (bim-09)
In what appears to be the first entry in this duo's discography, Detroit's Mike Khoury and Ben Hall create very sparse music that somehow occupies a formidable density. Impossibly long tones from strings, drums that sound like you're inside of them, enhanced percussion, bell tones that hang. This is a huge-sounding album. It will fill the room.
Fleischhaker-Munro - German Witchcraft (bim-10)
The debut studio recordings from Calgary's Mark Fleischhaker and Scott Munro, both vocalists with a loose sense of the word. This is 9 tracks of their work, completely undiluted. Edition of 75.
Raw Kites - I Can See The Light, I Just Can't Feel It (bim-17)
The duo of Shane Krause (baritone sax & bass clarinet) and Chris Dadge (percussion & violin), fresh off a gig in Vancouver with Mats Gustafsson & Christian Munthe, first worked together in Hidden Fortress in early 2007. They supported trumpet whiz Peter Evans on a Canadian tour in August of that year, and this album compiles the best music of their Edmonton shows.
Storm of Corpses - Bite Your Tongue (bim-13)
An excellent large group recording from April 2008 at the Art Damage Lodge in Cincinnati, Ohio. Features C. Spencer Yeh, Ryan Jewell, Ettrick (Jacob Heule and Jay Korber), Tony Dryer, and Jon Lorenz and John Rich of Wasteland Jazz Unit.
Dryer/Heule/Wright - Deburring Tool (bim-14)
Another standout trio session with Wright on this label. This time featuring two of the Bay Area's most active players. The sounds this time are raw and jagged. A fantastically tactile-sounding recording. March 2008.
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