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{"id":7656889417978,"title":"Various Artists \/\/ The Gold and Purple Sceptre TAPE","handle":"vtgap","description":"\u003cp\u003eアメリカ・ペンシルバニアの実験レーベルSaga Houseが、2022年6月に\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e140本限定で\u003c\/span\u003eリリースしたウクライナ支援コンピレーションカセットです。当店でもおなじみの作家24名が参加しています。DLコード付属。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2407298712\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=3939961091\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2407298712\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1811310445\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2407298712\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdition of 140. 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WHNZ carved a route for a wide variety of sound adjacent artists to channel their sentiments and not before long an all-star cast was assembled: Tori Kudo, Richard Youngs, Alastair Galbraith, Ashtray Navigations, Daniel Higgs, Arnold Dreyblatt along with many other humble heroes of the no-audience underground contributed offerings. The Gold and Purple Sceptre is the physical edition of that material curated and mastered for 92 minute tape.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e The music encompasses a broad\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e swathe of what is sometimes generically referred to as the experimental music\/sound art\/post-noise diaspora, but channeled as an outstretched hand during crisis it transmits as folksong: A reflection of the dire situation, defiantly grounded not only in the grey areas between song, poem and abstraction, but also in the self-determination of the people against the threat of imperialist blitzkrieg.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e While the multiplicitous nature of these recordings lends itself well to considering the quotidian struggle so many on this deeply disturbed planet face, it's a remarkably literal testament to the synchronistic beauty found in singing about what Brecht would call \"the dark times.\" Though in this case, there's no glamour, romanticism, or hollow moralizing on display—simply the will to go on reproducing daily life.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Various Artists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Saga House\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-06-26T13:12:24+09:00","created_at":"2022-06-26T10:25:24+09:00","vendor":"Tobira Records","type":"","tags":["ambient","contemporary \/ sound poetry","drone","monooto","recommended","saga house","tape"],"price":215000,"price_min":215000,"price_max":215000,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":42923770020090,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Various Artists \/\/ The Gold and Purple Sceptre TAPE","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":215000,"weight":60,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/go1_803b64ed-f84b-41ee-9f12-5b09577087f5.jpg?v=1656206726","\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/go2_92126d57-6c54-4ac9-831a-d062b884d792.jpg?v=1656206726"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/go1_803b64ed-f84b-41ee-9f12-5b09577087f5.jpg?v=1656206726","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":29987232284922,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"width":700,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/go1_803b64ed-f84b-41ee-9f12-5b09577087f5.jpg?v=1656206726"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/go1_803b64ed-f84b-41ee-9f12-5b09577087f5.jpg?v=1656206726","width":700},{"alt":null,"id":29987232317690,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.333,"height":900,"width":1200,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/go2_92126d57-6c54-4ac9-831a-d062b884d792.jpg?v=1656206726"},"aspect_ratio":1.333,"height":900,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/go2_92126d57-6c54-4ac9-831a-d062b884d792.jpg?v=1656206726","width":1200}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eアメリカ・ペンシルバニアの実験レーベルSaga Houseが、2022年6月に\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e140本限定で\u003c\/span\u003eリリースしたウクライナ支援コンピレーションカセットです。当店でもおなじみの作家24名が参加しています。DLコード付属。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2407298712\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=3939961091\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2407298712\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1811310445\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2407298712\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdition of 140. Includes DL code.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText by Saga House:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife during wartime does not operate at a single affective frequency. Just as the physics of collision echo in reverse, war's acoustics, too, have always reflected the contrast between death and its opposites. Children sound their first words in bomb shelters, ravers still gather on clandestine dance-floors, and silence can billow like symphony. It is a fully human experience, as unifying and alienating as our day to day.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e In a small apartment of a brutalist housing complex in eastern Dnipro, during the first month of the invasion, Ukrainian net-label We Have No Zen! began compiling the massive WHNZ:74:WAR digital release as an exercise in international solidarity, dedicated to their neighbors defending the places they call home. WHNZ carved a route for a wide variety of sound adjacent artists to channel their sentiments and not before long an all-star cast was assembled: Tori Kudo, Richard Youngs, Alastair Galbraith, Ashtray Navigations, Daniel Higgs, Arnold Dreyblatt along with many other humble heroes of the no-audience underground contributed offerings. The Gold and Purple Sceptre is the physical edition of that material curated and mastered for 92 minute tape.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e The music encompasses a broad\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e swathe of what is sometimes generically referred to as the experimental music\/sound art\/post-noise diaspora, but channeled as an outstretched hand during crisis it transmits as folksong: A reflection of the dire situation, defiantly grounded not only in the grey areas between song, poem and abstraction, but also in the self-determination of the people against the threat of imperialist blitzkrieg.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e While the multiplicitous nature of these recordings lends itself well to considering the quotidian struggle so many on this deeply disturbed planet face, it's a remarkably literal testament to the synchronistic beauty found in singing about what Brecht would call \"the dark times.\" Though in this case, there's no glamour, romanticism, or hollow moralizing on display—simply the will to go on reproducing daily life.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Various Artists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Saga House\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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アメリカ・ペンシルバニアの実験レーベルSaga Houseが、2022年6月に140本限定でリリースしたウクライナ支援コンピレーションカセットです。当店でもおなじみの作家24名が参加しています。DLコード付属。 ------------------------------ Edition of 140. Includes DL code. Text by Saga House: "Life...
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Includes DL code.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaga House:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorkshop Meditation has little in common with the stripped down, lo-fi cry fans have come to expect from twee songstress Linda Smith. It's probably more in line with a walk down the abandoned pier in Heck Harvey’s Carnival of Souls, but Smith working in a loose, meditiative, almost free-associative idiom makes it clear that her participation in the international tape trading circuit of the 80's and 90's was not just a case of the right place at the right time.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e As redolent of the contemporaneous micro-edition recordings of Roberta Eklund or Mauve Sideshow as it is the post-Kosmische stylings of Martin Rev’s 1980 solo debut, Smith hits a stride here both charmingly familiar and lost in another world entirely. Synths wheeze, budget drum machines rattle, self help tapes loop ad infinitum…somewhere on the planet tectonic plates shift. These pieces create a strange dreamworld in and of themselves, expansive miniatures not unlike the theater works they were prepared for.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e It's a playfully transcendent ride, and one that's still infused with what makes Smith's music so unique. Initially scored for performances concerning speculative reproductive experiments and amnesia staged by fellow Baltimore conspirator Laure Drogul, Workshop Meditation sees Smith far\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e from serving simply as an atmospheric backdrop. These pieces were recorded between 1990-1997 and re-edited specifically for this release to a degree not specified, though broad editorial brush strokes inflect her new direction the last two decades. Bedroom pop eclecticist turned painter breathing new life into archival material was just what the doctor ordered. \"It is recommended that you listen to this tape at least once a day, for 30 days.\"\u003c\/span\u003e \"\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Linda Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Saga House\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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80年代から活動しているアメリカ・ボルチモアの大御所フォーク作家Linda Smithが、2022年6月に同国ペンシルバニアの実験レーベルSaga Houseから100本限定でリリースしたカセットです。 1990-1997年の間にLaure Drogoulの実験演劇用に制作したアヴァンベッドルームポップ〜コラージュ16曲を収録。DLコード付属。廃盤です。 -------------------------------- Edition of 100. Includes DL code. Saga House:...
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