MISSION STATEMENT >>>>>
++change our selves with sound. +grow next to speakers. +write letters of protest with wave forms. +Dedicated to self made men and women. +players without games. young ones with visions.
+throw down at a dance off. no rules. every ones a winner.
...........BOOMARM NATION YO !
+++++RECORDINGS+++++
((((NEW)))) son04 : gulls : FREEer. released 02-29-08
Gulls
"FREEer" --
"One sidelong cut of SUPER righteous interaction, trumpet meets percussion, steadily morphing bass, and a huge bed of synthesizer stratus reverberating inside the walls of the UFO floating above Kilimanjaro, and one side of BUGGED OUT uncanny electronic reinterpretation of the very same jam. Some real Sun God eternal rhythm here, immense and aligned with the cosmos. Massive end of the night bonfire sounds. This was one of the last records I reviewed and I am so relieved that it was as the experience it turned out to be. Silkscreened sleeve, few hundred copies. Run." (..Doug Mosurock --Dusted Magazine)
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limited to 300 hand stamped 12" records
in hand screened brown, red, and blue jackets
design and printing by okayokayokay.org.
release 02-29-08
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son03 : gulls : eats and opus. released 03-10-07
"Every now and then someone comes along who makes you appreciate the bedroom labours; appreciate hours toiling away at some strange messed up piece of sonic tapestry that barely makes sense to anyone who hasn’t constructed it. Portland native Jesse Munro Johnson is one such individual. Working with loops, trumpets, drones, synths, all manner of found sounds and digital refuse, he makes these incredible compositions, which seem ad hoc, yet ..r inspection are revealed to be quite delicately put together. They pay heed to beats, to avant electronica, to sound art, particularly in terms of the palette, yet feel like so much more. Form is putty in his hand, one moment you’re thinking Boards of Canada, the next you’re wondering if perhaps Miles got stuck in a post industrial landscape. Yet the kicker is the xylophone, I’ve always worked on the philosophy that no matter how dense and desperate the piece it can always be solved by xylophone. It’s clear that Johnson agrees. It’s not that his pieces need saving, it’s just that he uses the xylophone in such inappropriate ways. It’s his debut album, which suggests that this but the beginning..." BOB BAKER FISH - CYCLIC DEFROST MAGAZINE--9/16/07--
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David Kyle and the Invisibles appearing live in downtown Portland on SW Ankeny at Valentines-- an open-ended process toward music that allows everything from a solo performance to full improvised jams, building and blending hypnotic phasing loops with varied acoustic instrumentation. Includes a solo performance on the taisho koto!
yo jesse. big ups on the dome sounds. it was funny watching everyone file out of the dome afterward. you guys totally melted their faces. would love to hear your record some time! bd
Hot shit hand-claps, stutter-y beauty and dancehall in reverse! Lets not just blast that track repeatedly, let's cover it too! With multiple ensembles! I'm collapsing that vein as we speak...
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