a bunch of new ULTRA ECZEMA releases are out now and on their way!!!
ultra eczema 45 - XO4: lost signals LP
the trio of BILL NACE, JOHN TRUSCINSKI and JAKE MEGINSKY deliver their fourth spars, spaced scratched and creeped record, after their debut cd-r on audiobot, an amazing tape on BILL's own imprint "open mouth" and an lp on ecstatic peace. although this band uses only 2 guitars and percussion they've built up a paradise of tension between instruments that by far doesn't sound like you'd think they'd sound. it does sound like someone is pulling your veins gently, softly focused on not really hurting you, but having chinese torture in the back of your brain. a no-named peasant would guess this music was made by an old dog, collecting thousands of little pieces of metal, knowing exactly what they would sound like if you rub them onto another miked up metal closet, or a circuit bent old wooden clock. sensitive guitar molesting is never far away.
i've heard the master for this record about 50 times before releasing it and still discover new sounds in it. there's a lot of space on here, and it's really hard to figure out which instrument is which, not that it matters, but i did think "what the hell is this sound made of?!".
besides XO4 and his solo work, BILL NACE also plays in a duo with chris cooper, in VAMPIRE BELT with chris corsano, and in ORTHAMPTON WOOLS with thurston moore. he also does amazing drawings, books and runs open mouth records/tapes. both JOHN TRUSCINSKI and JAKE MEGINSKY also do amazing solo work!
this record comes in a collaged cover design by dennis tyfus, limited to 500 copies. 16 euroBUY NOW!
ultra eczema 48 - JOS STEEN: electricity, music for tape & turntable LP
jos steen is a remarkable outsider in the purest possible sense of the word! telling stories about the dude always sounds like they're untrue or seriously exaggerated, the way he lives sounds like a fairytale and the way he acts would resemble the heaviest mix of bukowski and bobby colombo. jos lives in a tiny house underneath a radiotower of the national tv and radiostation "vrt", where he works as an audio librarian, the house is built on the highest point of the area in a forest, you can see it from miles and miles away, it's tiny but can be called a museum! it is full of selfmade instruments and broken piano's, amazing wooden string instruments made of garbage and all kinds of foreign instruments noone remembers the name of.
since around 1964 jos has been making poems, stories, paintings, collages, drawings and music/sound to kill the demons in his head or jam along to their forceful blues! some call him "the belgian beefheart" and the people that already forgot about beefheart talk about a local little howling wolf.
jos always made selfreleased zines, tapes and more recently mountains of cdr's of homemade blues, broken bottle experiments and heavy free music folk. this lp is a selection of tracks of a recent cdr of tape and recordplayer experiments spiced with vacummcleaners, rotting voices, undefinable strings, piano's etc.. it's absolutely unthinkable his work could be potentially lost in time and space, for fuck's sake, the dude is a genius!!!!!!
in the past jos played with free jazz greats like peter jacquemin, andré goudbeek, yvo van der borght, with poetry psychos like roland topor and freddy de vree, and with zappa's own jimmy carl black who begged on his bare knees to play with jos, well maybe thats exaggerated as well..
this lp comes in a gold and white cover by dennis tyfus and a off set printed insert!
16 euroBUY NOW!
ultra eczema 49 ••••• sts01 - ERIC THIELEMANS; a snare is a bell LP this is the first in a series of solo percussion lp's on ultra eczema, titled STS! a meditative psychedelic experience is what i would like to call this, though i realise i make it sound like a silly zen blowout, and that's not what it feels like at all! when i first saw it live in a giant church in mechelen/belgium, i was yelling "THIS IS THE BEST SHOW OF THE YEAR". i thought there wouldn't be an end to it and didn't even feel a buildup to a more tense sound or a drone. there was a difference in resonating sound and it definately changed, but as with more constructive minimalists such as steve reich or maybe even terry riley, you can't tell when things change. that experience got enlarged as well by the scenography he played in, a splendid eyetorturing construction, built especially for this piece by antwerp based sculputurist filip metten. on record it feels different of course, as you can skip the needle up and down to the end and back, you can hear an enormous tension and sound difference. though this piece is written for only a snare drum and a tiny bit of vocals (resonating with the snare drum) it sounds like either 20 people on a snaredrum, like if glen branca would invite 567 people playing the exact same snare roll, or like a choir, and by the end definately like the sound of a whitehouse lp; building up strongly to the point of abolute silence, which feels like a relief! this piece is based on a snare roll which changes 3 times. live, this piece can go up to an hour or longer, on this record, it is one full side. the b side is a psychedelic etch! ERIC THIELEMANS is based in antwerp/belgium and has made percussive pieces for theatre, has played psychedelic guitar music with MAURO PAWLOWSKI, spaced freemusc with SICKBOY and CASSISINI DIVISION and a ton load of great freejazz with ANDRE GOUDBEEK and PETER JACQUEMYN. this record is limited to 500 copies, has an insert and comes in a duo coloured psychic design by dennis tyfus. 16 euroBUY NOW!
Ultra Eczema 53 - ANGST HASE PFEFFER NASE: Glistening Inn LP
Very very excited to announce the first LP in 10 years by ANGST HASE PFEFFER NASE!!! It took pretty much 9 years to make this album. I can't say I know a lot of people that have the patience to work on one thing that long, maybe I am mistaking hyperneurotic action with patience here though. ANGST HASE PFEFFER NASE is the moniker of CHRIS COOPER, a multi instrumentalist, cat and moustache toucher, neologist and member/guitarist or ex member/guitarist of bands such as DEERHOOF, a duo with BILL NACE called BUDDIES (though Nace would love to see that name changed), TURBWASN, FAT WORM OF ERROR, BARN OWL, CAROLINER etc etc etc.
This is probably one of the most intense and most "filled" records UE has released so far. A percise collage of beautiful sounds made with more instruments than a parrot could handle, such as plastic guitar, bass, clarinet, banjo, optigon/organ, egg slicer, ratchets, broken toys, fan motors, whirliegigs, glasses, tape loops..etc. Poor rabbits quickly hide when they see the redhead with the twitching eye play his tunes with more than 34 hands at the same time. This could be the soundtrack for some seriously fucked up road circus. Dead rabbits crawl out of a lazy elephants hat while a sad tapeloop of a rotting harmonium plays your uncle vomit's fave cough sirup tap dance blur, oozing for some romantic noise crackles, the nostalgia of the banana fish days puts him down in his cough again, wheeping like a black cat on an attic in New Jersey!
ANGST HASE has previously released 1 LP, 2 7"es, some compilation tracks, and a recycled tape for RRR.
Reminiscent to some Caroliner, Kemialliset Ystävät, Hans Grusels Krankenkabinet, etc.
Full colour cover art/collage and full colour insert by Dennis Tyfus, limited to 500 copies. 16 euroBUY NOW!
Ultra Eczema 41 - EDMOND DE DEYSTER: Selectie 02 LP
This is the second in a series of EDMOND DE DEYSTER (who sadly died in '99) archival LP's. EDMOND DE DEYSTER left an incredible amount of reel tapes behind, full of beautiful analog synthesizer music. His family was kind enough to share this archive with us. It took me way longer than expected to get this second installment together, partly because I wanted to interview his relatives and other people who knew him during the years these tapes were made. Frankly, time flies by too quick, and I decided to release this second LP first, and do all the interviews for the third release in this series.
This second LP got selected from 2 reel tapes that were in the same box as the ones from the first LP. One of them mentions the same info as those first ones, "1975", the fourth tape didn't mention any information. I'm not entirely sure if these recordings were made in the same period, though they sound more like the previous stuff then like anything from the upcoming releases; incredibly sad and lonely synth tunes.
Comes in a duo-coloured cover with photo's from Edmond De Deyster and an insert with liner notes and another picture, limited to 500 copies. 16 euroBUY NOW!
Ultra Eczema 56 - SPACE_CACTUS: 2001, a space cactus LP
"a puddle of gross sound poetry, ran thru some mentally ill reel tape machines more then once, then re worked again and again and again and again", is how you could describe the first SPACE_CACTUS lp in their 20 years existence! when i sent the master of this recording to the pressing plant, the people there asked "is it possible u sent us the wrong audio file, we can only here a voice soundcheck".
SPACE_CACTUS on this record is the infamous BOBBY COLOMBO (who, you could say, is the overall co-ordinator of space_cactus in general) together with cacti and hat collector, instrument inventor, and happy space maker CASSIS CORNUTA. though for every project SPACE_CACTUS has different line ups.
this lp is different then their usual massive analog synth set up, only voices, prepared voice and reel tape machines are used for this recording.
over the past 20 years they have rarely played live, only choose specific occasions for live shows, such as the "30 seconds of spacecactus" at factor 44, or soundworks for exhibtions. they have mainly focused on recording radioplays, jingles, film soundtracks, etc., one could sort of compare space_cactus with the bbc workshop, though S_C is more raw, satirical and brutal!
this lp is limited to 150 copies (8 copies luxery edition, the rest numbered and stamped to 142 copies) and comes in a fold open double sided silkscreened coverdesign by dennis tyfus, screened by jean prutpoes. 20 euroBUY NOW!
The first Chip'n'Damned Records compilation is out now!!!
Various Artists - Bleep or Die! [CND001] Click on the picture to download!
With Beytah, Bokusatsu Shoujo Koubou, Célomalabit, Chantal Goret, Divag, Dj Jo Quaid 5, Dr. Von Pnok, Hiromushi, Hypanaut, Iserobin, Motif_r, Osica, Peter Quistgard, The Captain Kirk on LSD Experience, The Toilet, Toxic lipstick, Una niña malvada, Unas, Yatagarasu and Zombectro.
VR01 - SPETTRO FAMILY - C10 - Euro 5 - Esordio su cassetta per il fantomatico Spettro Family e prima uscita numerata della vade retro records : 10 minuti di prog apocalittico in edizione limitata di 20 copie - In spite the label started back in january 2008 , this is the first numbered release of vade retro and the debut on tape by phantomatic Spettro Family ; 10 minutes of apocalyptic prog in limited edition of 20 copies ..
