New Release: Amy Cutler - 'the ends (also end) of (the) earth and variants' (CVC021) Limited Edition Cassette & Digital Download

 

Amy Cutler

the ends (also end) of (the) earth and variants

(CVC021)

Limited Edition of 50 cassettes and digital download

Available via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

Crow Versus Crow is honoured to present the ends (also end) of (the) earth and variants, a new body of work from polymath artist and educator Dr Amy Cutler, available as a limited-edition of fifty cassettes and near-infinite digital download from Friday 14th May 2021.

These recordings spring from a strange medieval English riddle, the Harley lyric, Erthe toc of erthe:

 Erthe toc of erthe erthe wyth woh; Erthe other erthe to the erthe droh; Erthe leyde erthe in erthene throh; Tho hevede erthe of erthe erthe ynoh.

(Ms. Harley 2553).

The tiny lament or puzzle is impossible to translate, since in its four short lines the word earth appears twelve times. Like ‘ashes to ashes, dust to dust’, these identical words have different meanings – transitioning between soil, world, burial, cultivation, decay, earthly possessions, and our own bodies. The device of repeating earth so many times in such a short space creates an unsolvable lyric which, riddle-like, ‘only makes sense when we are prepared to hold several meanings of the word in our minds simultaneously’. How does one sing this tiny piece, or give it a tune?

This is an album of sonic variants, settings, and radio covers of Erthe toc of erthe, including those by invited guest artists and friends, Ecka Mordecai, Layla Legard (Hawthonn), Ceylan Hey (Bell Lungs, Mark S. Williamson (Spaceship) and Drew Mulholland. The modified field recordings, chants, twilight hums, nonsense riddles and layered repetitions are each inspired by the variant meanings of ‘earth’, in the ultimate group sonic field trip.

Cutler’s recordings were made in Luds Church, a naturally resonant mossy chasm in Staffordshire where Lollard ceremonies were held, including their alternative death chants. Combining guitar, voice, processed electronics, record hiss, and field recordings, these tracks (and the album as a whole) are each titled with phrases from the dictionary definitions of ‘earth’. Some of these meanings are undigestible by each other, whether scientific, metaphorical, or allegorical: e.g., the ground as a surface on which humans and animals move; the inhabitants of the world collectively; ‘earthing’ a conductive electrical circuit or terminal; to ‘go to earth’ meaning to take refuge as in an animal’s lair or burrow. Combining this mix of opposites – doom and refuge, sin and innocence – and playing on the end of the world-ness of elegy, this camper-van tape release becomes a sort of muted lullaby for earth itself.

the ends (also end) of (the) earth and variants is released as a limited-edition of 50 hand-numbered, professionally dubbed C70 cassettes (made from recycled materials) and digital download via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp. The cassette features full-colour artwork by Crow Versus Crow and Dr Amy Cutler.

Tape -  £8

Download - Name Your Price. All proceeds from digital sales will be split between Crow Versus Crow, and will directly (and solely) fund future releases, and the artist.

Available now via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

'Ra Wept' - Cut-Poems and Collages by Crow Versus Crow

Ra Wept by Crow Versus Crow

Collages and cut-poems by Crow Versus Crow October 2016 - October 2017
available via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

A5 32pp full colour mini book of collages and cut poems by Crow Versus Crow, printed on 140gsm silk paper with 300gsm recycled card cover. Limited edition of 50 hand-numbered copies.

'Ra Wept' is a collection of thirteen sets of mixed-media digital collages and cut-poems, formed from words sourced from newspapers collected during daily commutes, produced over a year between October 2016 and October 2017.

Structured around a single seasonal year, this body of work documents a period of very personal exploration, incorporating a dizzying constellation of references to eclectic, and often esoteric, subject matter - from Egyptian and Biblical Creation narratives to Free Jazz; Alchemy to Nico; Existentialism to William Burroughs - forming a dense, cyclical, looping narrative, that draws equally on sound poetry and lyrical Romanticism. Thirteen ruminations on Being, fleeting and relative. No end.

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The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #117

The 117th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone and stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones.

If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 27th August 2017 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Elizabeth Veldon – Working With Animals Is A Source Of Suffering To All Of Us (Laika & Other Works / Third Kind Records, 2017)
2. Lopness – Im Ich Soz (Cena Holding / Czaszka Records, 2017)
3. Yeah You! – No More Metaphors, Hold Life Still (Krutch / Slip Imprint, 2017)
4. The Fall – Couples Vs. Jobless Mid 30s (New Facts Emerge / Cherry Red Records, 2017)

5. Baccam / Chayer – BC01 (Les Angoisses Nocturnes/Hiruma No Tachikurami / Kirigirisu Records, Jeunesse Cosmique, 2017)
6. Broken Shoulder – Piss Boat (Close The Doors And Windows) (Les Angoisses Nocturnes/Hiruma No Tachikurami / Kirigirisu Records, Jeunesse Cosmique, 2017)

7. Blackdamp – Cannily, Cannily (Blackdamp / Cruel Nature Recordings, 2017)
8. The Joyful Norland Kalazee Ensemble – Live at the Blue Ball, Even (Previously Unreleased / Not on Label, 2017)
9. Jon Collin – V (The Glorious Licking / Singing Knives Records, 2017)

10. Morup Namgyal – Emorie Zonga (Where The Mountains Meet The Sky: Folk Music of Ladakh / Sublime Frequencies, 2017)
11. Morup Namgyal – Stendel Sumpa (Where The Mountains Meet The Sky: Folk Music of Ladakh / Sublime Frequencies, 2017)
12. Morup Namgyal – Harvest Song (Where The Mountains Meet The Sky: Folk Music of Ladakh / Sublime Frequencies, 2017)
13. Morup Namgyal – Threshing Song (Where The Mountains Meet The Sky: Folk Music of Ladakh / Sublime Frequencies, 2017)

14. Maalem Mahmoud Gania – Amara Mousseye (Colours of the Night / Hive Mind Records, 2017)

15. Dead Neanderthals – Womb of God (Part 2) (Womb of God / Burning World Records, 2017)
16. Drunk In Hell – Gag (Drunk In Hell / Burning World Records, 2017)
17. Lovely Wife – Export To Disk (Problem Rock / Cruel Nature Recordings, 2017)

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New Release: 'States' - Photographs and Field Recordings by Crow Versus Crow

I'm very pleased to be able to present you with a new release of the Crow Versus Crow Editions imprint: States - a collection of photographs and field recordings taken by Crow Versus Crow whilst travelling through some of the southern states of North America during August 2016.

This is presented as a 48 page A5 landscape zine featuring 22 full colour photographs printed on 130gsm silk stock, with a 300gsm recycled card cover, which houses a 3" CDr featuring a single 17 minute composition of raw field recordings.
There are 25 copies available at the cost price of £5 per copy from the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp.

A digital version, comprised of the States audio and a .pdf version of the zine, for those who prefer their wares ephemeral, is also available priced at £3.

Further contextual material for States can be found below the images.

Thank you for all of your continued support with Crow Versus Crow. It is very much appreciated.

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States is not intended as an objective environmental document, rather it is a depiction of an experience of travelling through Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia during August 2016, as a tourist, an outsider.

Culturally conditioned experience, a pre-conceived notion of 'America', versus the aesthetic experience of being there in the moment. Simultaneously exotic and familiar. the two overlap uncannily.

Travelling through this part of the country was, very literally, an awesome experience. Expansive, sublime landscapes ripped from the pages of a John Steinbeck novel, the romanticism sharply punctured by anti-abortion billboards and ‘Vote Trump’ bumper stickers, hinting at the incredibly complex layers of history and contemporary socio-political flux beyond, or rather within, the beatific plains.

Overwhelmed by the vastness of the land, following the traces of old Bluesmen and -women through poverty ravaged states. Industry built on exploitation erased, leaving oppressed, isolated inhabitants in it’s wake.

Metronomic broken lines stretch into ephemeral, wavering pools. An eagles soars. ‘Think God’. Static hiss. Cellulose Nitrate film clicks, scratched, bubbled in heat.

'..and they ran in that resonance which is the world itself
and which cannot be spoken but only praised.'

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The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #100

The 100th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

If you thought the occasion would be marked by something special you'd be terribly, terribly mistaken. Business as usual for the one hundredth episode - wall-to-wall gold with the minimal ill-informed, poorly considered mumbling in between.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 10th April 2016 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Melting – Pretty (Dusk / Crow Versus Crow Records, 2016)
2. Teebs – Just The Yellow Bits (Collections / Brainfeeder, 2011)

3. Malayeen – Dina (Malayeen / Discrepant, 2014)
4. John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus Maclise, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela - Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day Of Niagara (Excerpt) (Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day Of Niagara / Table of Elements, 2000)
5. Marlo Eggplant – Stills (Stills / Not on Label, 2016)
6. Lowered - Arche (for Gongs) (Excerpt) (Arche (for Gongs) / Trome Records, 2016)

7. Susan Philipsz – Study for Strings (Recording of score used during installation Study for Strings, Documenta13 / 2012)

8. The Sly and Unseen - Much Is Yet Before (The Crossley Heritage / Wist Rec, 2016)
9. Mudguts - Pretty Slipping (Sabrina Fourtyfives / Invisible City, 2016)
10. Mouthus - Pilot Wave (Dual Drift / Our Mouth Records, 2007)
11. Black Spring - No End (Golden Ghost / No End / Structured Disasters, 2016)

12. Morton Feldman - Piece For Four Pianos (The American Avant-Garde In The 20th Century: Music And Modernism / LTM, 2014)
13. Low Frequency Orchestra w/Wolfgang Mitterer – Mole (Excerpt) (Mole / Chmafu Nocords, 2010)
14. Eliane Radigue – Epure (Excerpt) (Opus 17 / Alga Marghen, 2013)
15. Vibracathedral Orchestra - Catching Loners With Blank Arms (Versatile Arab Chord Chart / VHF Records, 2001)

16. Tor Invocation Band – Water (Excerpt) (Water / TOR Press, 2016)
17. Bill Orcutt & Jacob Felix-Heule - We Are All Bob Marley (Colonial Donuts / Palilalia Records, 2015)

18. Mogwai – Ex-Cowboy (Come On Die Young / Chemikal Underground, 1999)



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CVC002: Melting - 'Dusk' Limited Edition Cassette & Digital Download Out Now!

Melting

Dusk

Limited Edition Cassette & Digital Download

(CVC002)

Available via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

New Release: Melting - Dusk (CVC002) Limited Edition Cassette / Digital

Melting

'Dusk'

(2016)

Limited Edition of 50 cassettes / digital

(CVC002)

I'm very pleased to be able to announce a new release through the Crow Versus Crow label, Melting's Dusk. 

This is the début release from the elusive Leeds producer, who, utilising the sampler as a compositional tool, explores an outsider approach to hip-hop beat craft and bass music. Soaked in an insomniac miasma, heavy sub and glitched-out edits remain anchored by woozy boom-bap rhythms, giving the tracks a complex, ethereal, deeply introspective feel. It's rare that a record so quickly lays such strong hooks in me, prompting intense, repeated listens, but Dusk has done just that. It's an incredibly affecting record. If melancholic ecstasy was a thing, that's exactly what it would provoke.

Dusk will be released as a limited edition cassette with accompanying artwork and sleeve design that, in its intricately designed minimalism, perfectly complements the emotional complexities of the Melting tracks. 

The 9 tracks are repeated on both sides of a C65 plain grey, professionally duplicated cassette, wrapped in a 3 panel, full colour j-card in a clear plastic library case. This is then encased in a specifically designed 300gsm black card sleeve, with laser –etched and –cut details. 

There cassette release comes in an edition of 50 copies. There will also be a digital version and both will be available from the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp from Friday 1st April 2016.

Melting has also released a video for the lead track from Dusk, titled, Road.

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #97

The 97th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

 If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 17th January 2016 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Warren Schoenbright - Fucking Torrential Delirium ((Out of Bounds) Eaten By The Forest / Vacant Fulfilment, 2015)
2. Norman Westberg – Bunny Bill (13 / Room40, 2015)
3. Ramleh – Entropy (Circular Time / Crucial Blast, 2015)

4. Laura Cannell - Cathedral Of The Marshes (Beneath Swooping Talons / Front & Follow, 2015)
5. Mohammad – Sagaraki (Segondè Saleco / Antifrost, 2015)

6. John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Don't Worry Kyoko Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow (Wedding Album / Rykodisk, 1997)
7. Grey Guides – Check Your Body for Marks (Songs for Gruppen Aleph-Aleph / Not on Label, 2015)

8. Sunny Murray – Red Cross (Sushine / BYG Records, 1969)
9. The Necks – Vertigo (Vertigo / ReR Megacorp, 2015)
10. Posset – Posset vs Lady Day (Standards / Spam, 2015)

11. Hanetration – book (Coiled Fore EP / Not on Label, 2016)
12. Mike Cooper – Bendigo To Kyoto (New Kiribati / Discrepant, 2016)
13. David Newlyn - In Colour (The Past Increases, The Future Recedes / Rural Colours, 2016)
14. Aemaeth - Stalked by Death (The Roman / Gizeh Records, 2016)
15. Yellow6 - The Fifth (No Memories, Only Photographs / Silber Records, 2015)

16. Free Kitten - Erected Girl (Inherit / Ecstatic Peace, 2008)

17. David Bowie – The Secret Life of Arabia (“Heroes” / RCA, 1977)

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The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #95

The 95th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

 If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 22nd November 2015 between 6 and 8pm.

1. The Slits – Typical Girls (Brink Style Dub) (Cut (Deluxe Edition) / Island Records, 2010)
2. Kogumaza – Amazomes (Bardo Pond / Kogumaza Split 7" / God Unknown Records, 2015)

3. The Fall - Spectre Vs. Rector (Dragnet / Step Forward Records, 1979)
4. Good Throb – Jealousy (Fuck Off / White Denim, SuperFi Records, Sabermetric, 2014)

5. Troy Schafer - Fixed Emission (An Electrical Storm / Aetheric Records, 2015)
6. Kraftwerk – Transistor (Radio-Activity / Capital Records, 1975)
7. Circuit Breaker – Metamorphosis (My Descent Into Capital / Harbinger Sounds, 2015)

8. Chris Tenz - Glimpses (Doubt) (Nails Through Bird Feet (Bonus Tracks) / Slowwank, 2015)
9. S ND Y P RL RS - Side A (White Waters Black Skies / An Out Recordings, 2013)

10. Black Sunroof - Palm Beach Violation (Voltiguers / Black Sunroof / Skullflower Split / Blackest Rainbow, 2015)
11. No Parking – No Parking (Burselm Acid / Burselm Crypt Recordings, 2015)

12. Wolfgang Mitterer – Attacca (Coloured Noise / Kairos, 2006)

13. Former Selves – SA-38, PX-130 (Casiotone Compilation 6 /aotoao, 2015)
14. Shibata & Asuna – VA-10, TA-10 (Casiotone Compilation 6 /aotoao, 2015)
15. Nan!Ka? – VA-10 (Casiotone Compilation 6 /aotoao, 2015)
16. Broken Shoulder – VL-1 (Casiotone Compilation 6 /aotoao, 2015)
17. Nora Mulder & Rogier Smal – SK-1, MT-68 (Casiotone Compilation 6 /aotoao, 2015)
18. Sonotanotanpenz – SA-45 (Casiotone Compilation 6 /aotoao, 2015)

19. The Slits - Fm (Rough Mix) (Cut (Deluxe Edition) / Island Records, 2010)
20. The Breeders – 900 (Cannonball / 4AD, 1993)

21. Nirvana - Lounge Act (Nevermind / DGC, 1991)

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The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #89

The 89th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

 If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 7th June 2015 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Jackson C. Frank – In The Pines (Fixin’ To Die / Secret Records, 2014)
2. Alejandro Jodorowsky – Trance Mutation (The Film of Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain Soudtrack / ABKCO Records, 2007)
3. Beachers – Portrait 5 (Portrait / Illuminated Paths, 2015)
4. Oxbow – Sorry (An Evil Heat / Neurot Recordings, 2002)
5. Willowbrook – Aristophanes at a Vanity Mirror (The Weaker Reasoning / This Is A Noise Label, 2015)

6. Daniel Bachman – Song for the Setting Sun II (River / Three Lobed Recordings, 2015)
7. Sandy Bull – Blend (Excerpt) (Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo / Vanguard, 1963)
8. Shepherds of Cats & Panelak – Muscle Atrophy in a Squirrel’s Left Leg (Excerpt) (Muscle Atrophy in a Squirrel’s Left Leg / Fanfare, 2015)
9. John Fahey – Ghosts (The Mill Pond / Important Records, 2007)
10. Kink Gong – Pre M (Tanzania / Discrepant, 2015)
11. Ben Chatwin – 203 Years (The Sleeper Awakes / Village Green, 2015)
12. The Sly and Unseen – Tumbling Out of Our Houses (All Similarities and Technical Difficulties End Here / Not on Label, 2015)

13. Lucille Bogan – Shave ‘Em Dry (Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 3 (1934-1935) / Document Records, 1994)
14. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band – The Smithsonian Institute Blues (or, The Big Dig) (Lick My Decals Off, Baby / Straight, 1970)
15. The Gloom – Cumberland (Live at The Cumberland Arms / Fuckin’ Amateurs, 2008)

16. Demonic Glare – Composite Part (Urban Sprawl (Archive 2001 – 2014) / Not on Label, 2015)
17. A Raja’s Mesh Men – Euro-centric World-view (The Weaker Reasoning / This Is A Noise Label, 2015)
18. Guttersnipe – Ophid Spy Cramp (Demo / Arcane Pariah Records, 2015)

19. The Pleasure Seekers – What a Way to Die (What a Way to Die/Never Thought You’d Leave Me / Hideout Records, 1965)
20. Slum of Legs – Benitent and Malevolence (Demo / Tuff Enuff Records, 2014)
21. Daniel Johnston – Some Things Last a Long Time (1990 / Shimmy Disc, 1989)

22. Nirvana – In The Pines (VPRO Session) (The Chosen Rejects / Not on Label, 2006)

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The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #88 / #∞∞

The 88th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

 If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 10th May 2015 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Vibracathedral Orchestra - 28th January 2015 (Vibracathedral Orchestra / Death Shanties Tour CDR / Not On Label, 2015)
2. The Master Musicians Of Joujouka - Side B (Excerpt) (Into The Ahl Srif / Ergot Records, 2015)

3. Son House - Sun Goin' Down (‘At Home’: The Legendary 1969 Rochester Sessions / Document Records, 2007)
4. Unknown Artist - Untitled (Brion Gysin: One Night @ 1001 Club / Sub Rosa, 1998)

5. Origami Antarktika – MDR (SPL 2013 live / Not On Label, 2013)
6. Isobel Ccircle~ - Sapphires (Parts 2 & 3) (Asterism / Soft Bodies, 2015)
7. Death Shanties - Rebecca Dressed As A Waterfall (Vibracathedral Orchestra / Death Shanties Tour CDR / Not On Label, 2015)

8. John Cage - Sonatas And Interludes: Sonata XII (The American Avant-Garde In The 20th Century: Music And Modernism / LTM Recordings, 2014)
9. Daphne Oram - Four Aspects (1960) (An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / Second A-Chronology 1936-2003 / Sub Rosa, 2003)
10. Albrecht/d - Dilettantism No.3 (Abstract Energy / Samadhi Records, 1985)
11. Albrecht/d - Dilettantism No.6 (Abstract Energy / Samadhi Records, 1985)
12. Saboteuse - Encapsulating Yourself Like A Celestial Bird Has A Captive Beak (Down Like Celestial Bird) (Death, Of Course / Poot Records, 2014)

13. Shepherds of Cats – Side A (Excerpt) (Shepherds of Cats ft. Darius Blaszczak and Panelak / Tombed Visions, 2015)
14. Jarvis (A) – Magnetic Kiss For Ditch Lovers (Excerpt) (Magnetic Kiss For Ditch Lovers / Burselm Crypt Recordings, 2015)
15. Papal Bull - Peanut Butter Will Not Get Stuck in Birds' Throats (Argot of Incomprehension / Singing Knives & Discombobulate, 2015)
16. Sam Andreae - Electro-Acoustic (feedback, mixer, breath, keys, tongue) (Solo / Tombed Visions, 2015)
17. Hanatarash – Live Shit Action 1988 (Hanatarash 3 / RRRecords, 1989)

18. Lori Goldston - Tangled North (Sub Pop 1000 / Sub Pop Records, 2013)
19. Demian Castellanos – Again (The Kyvu Tapes Vol.1 (1990-1998) / Hands In The Dark and Cardinal Fuzz, 2015)
20. The Saints - This Perfect Day (Eternally Yours / Harvest, 1978)

21. Mike Hurley - No No No, I Won't Come (Go) Down No More (First Songs / Folkways Recordings, 1964)
22. Meat Puppets – Climbing (II / SST Records, 1984) 

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'Listening Fictions' by Sindre Bjerga

Listening Fictions by Sindre Bjerga

Now available in a single limited edition of 50 copies via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

I'm incredibly pleased to be able to announce the release of another addition to the on-going series of Crow Versus Crow limited editions, Listening Fictions by Sindre Bjerga.

Here's a little information on the release:

Listening Fictions presents two live sets taken from Sindre Bjerga's 2014 tour of South Korea, recorded at So Zac's Cafe and Sound Mind on the 3rd and 9th July, respectively.

Presented side by side, and detached from the intrinsic visual aspect of the performances, these two recordings sit in dialogue, cyclical and repetitive; flowing ghosts of each other. Simultaneously familiar yet distant, sounds swell from within the dense collage of 'kitchen sink' psychedelic drones, magnetic tape hiss and scree, and culled found sounds.

Sindre Bjerga is a Norwegian artist who has previously released records on labels including Blackest Rainbow, Chocolate Monk, Matching Head and Gold Soundz. He also records and releases works collaboratively as part of Star Turbine, A Vibrant Struggle and the Bjerga / Iverson duo, amongst other collectives.

Listening Fictions is presented as a full colour printed CDR mounted inside a 15 x 30 cm 300gsm folded gloss card, featuring full colour printed art work by Crow Versus Crow. The card is then housed within a hand-stamped, sticker sealed, individually numbered envelope. This is a single Limited Edition of 50 copies and won't be re-pressed. A digital version is also available

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Pre-Order: The Thomas Family - 'Dub Variations' (CVC001)

It's with great pleasure that I can announce the first release on Crow Versus Crow 'The Label', The Thomas Family's Dub Variations, is now available for pre-order via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp.

Here's a little information on the release...

The Thomas Family - Dub Variations

Tracks:

1.  I
2. II
3. III

Duration: 49:55

Label: Crow Versus Crow

Catalogue Number: CVC001

Release Date: Monday 13^th October 2014, with pre-orders available Monday 22^nd September 2014

Format: Limited Edition of 100 CDs (individually hand-assembled in hand-stamped, recycled card ‘no glue’ sleeves, with full colour 24 x 12 cm insert featuring art work by Crow Versus Crow) & Digital Download

Dub Variations is the debut release from The Thomas Family, a duo of Daniel and David Thomas (no relation). Daniel and David record and perform together as Hagman, TST (with Kevin Sanders) and as solo artists; Daniel under his own name, David as Ap Martlet. Between them, they also run the labels Sheepscar Light Industrial, Cherry Row Recordings and Kirkstall Dark Matter.

A combination of David’s solo sketches, made using a modular synthesiser, and Daniel’s field recordings, taken in Hong Kong, formed the basis for the sessions that became these Variations.

Dub Variations is a product of Summer and Winter of 2012.

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The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #75

The 75th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, featuring a live session recorded specifically for the show by Vile Plumage.

If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 25th May 2014 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Caught In The Wake Forever – Overwintering (My Family Goes On Without Me / We Live Amongst The Ruins, 2014)
2. Olan Mill / Keung Mandelbrot - Linear Elasticity (Seismology / Hibernate Recordings, 2014)

3. Broken Shoulder – Niwatori (300 Bicycle Seats / Kirigirisu Recordings, 2014)
4. その他の短編ズ (Sonotanotanpenz) -第一工場・第二工場 (3 / Kirigirisu Recordings, 2014)

5. Malayeen – Samia (Malayeen / Discrepant, 2014)

6. Omar Khorshid - Kaariat El Fengan (Guitar El Chark / Sublime Frequencies, 2010)
7. Isnaj Dui - Sleep Still (Euplexia / Rural Colours, 2014)

8. Vile Plumage – Live At The Turk’s Head (The Crow Versus Crow Sessions / 2014)

9. John Cale - Summer Heat (Sun Blindness Music / Table of Elements, 2001)
10. More Black Then God – 24 (1964 ZEN IN THE DRONES / Aetheric Records, 2014)
11. Mouthus - No Bay Return (Dual Drift / Our Mouth Records, 2007)

12. Human Skab - Screamin' Demon (Thunder Hips And Saddle Bags / Family Vineyard, 2010)
13. Human Skab - Drunk And Staggerin' Around (Thunder Hips And Saddle Bags / Family Vineyard, 2010)
14. Human Skab - Playin' Guitar Best I Can (Thunder Hips And Saddle Bags / Family Vineyard, 2010)
15. Human Skab - Guitar Of Africans (Thunder Hips And Saddle Bags / Family Vineyard, 2010)

16. The Velvet Underground - I Found A Reason (Demo) (Loaded: Fully Loaded Edition / Rhino Records, 1997)

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The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #71

The 71st episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, featuring the first of a two part mix, specially composed for The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, by Denaji titled, A Denaji Relaxed Radio Selection - Adventures On Planet Stoppy Starty.

If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 16th February 2014 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Vladimir Martynov , Opus Posth & Dmitry Pokrovsky Folk Ensemble - A-A-A O-O-O Eh-Eh-Eh EE-EE-EE OO-OO-OO (Night in Galicia / CC’nC Records, 2000)

2. George Harrison – Crying (Wonderwall Music / Apple, 1968)
3. Merzbow - I'm Coming To The Garden..... No Sound, No Memory (Dharma / Double H Noise Industries, Hydra Head Industries, 2001)
4. Orlando Ferguson – Extract from ‘Our Heads Are Bowed But Our Hearts They Soar’ (Our Heads Are Bowed But Our Hearts They Soar / Self-Released, 2014)
5. Ekoplekz – Ekoplatz (Westerleigh Works EP / Perc Trax, 2011)

6. Algo – Mangrove (Oscines / Algorhythms, 2006)
7. Trans/Human – The Incident At Frankfurt Airport (The (UN)Expected / The Audacious Art Experiment, 2014)
8. Bridget Hayden – Lost Chart (A Siren Blares In An Indifferent Ocean / Kraak, 2011)

9. Denaji - A Denaji Relaxed Radio Selection - Adventures On Planet Stoppy Starty (Part I) (A Mix Made For The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, 2014)

10. Posset – Zappa Excuse (Friction Rivers / Singing Knives, 2014)
11. Mohammad – Lapli (Som Sakrifis / PAN, 2013)

12. The Zero Map - Halley's 8 Foot Iron Mural Quadrant (Psychic Glass Dome / Sheepscar Light Industrial, 2014)
13. Bohren & Der Club Of Gore – Irrwege (Piano Nights / [PIAS] Recordings, 2014)

14. Sun Kil Moon - Richard Ramirez Died Today Of Natural Causes (Benji / Caldo Verde Records, 2014)

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The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #70

 The System is failing! The System is failing! ...gaps in transmission...

The 70th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 2nd February 2014 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Jar Moff – Tziaitzomanasou (Commercial Mouth / PAN, 2014)
2. Mogwai – Mastercard (Rave Tapes / Rock Action Records, 2014)

3. The Saints - Memories Are Made of This (Eternally Yours / Harvest, 1978)
4. The Fall - This Perfect Day (The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 / Castle Music, 2005)

5. Palace Music – Riding (Lost Blues And Other Songs / Domino, 1997)
6. Abner Jay - St. James Infirmary Blues (True Story Of Abner Jay / Mississippi Records, 2009)

7. Labasheeda - Listen, The Snow Is Falling (Listen, The Snow Is Falling / Presto Chango Records, 2014)
8. Ashlar – Monuments (St James' Gardens / Hibernate Recordings, 2014)
9. Songs: Ohia - Ruby Eyes In The Fog (The Ghost / Secretly Canadian, 1999)

10. The Shaggs - Why Do I Feel? (Philosophy Of The World / Third World Recordings, 1969)
11. Vagina Wolf - Teen Suicide Explosion (Teen Suicide Explosion / Not On Label, Unknown)
12. John Wiese - Sad Psychics (Soft Punk / Troubleman Unlimited, 2007)

13. Jotnarr - A Plague On Earth (Divide The Growth And Stone / Not On Label, 2014)
14. Black Heath Coven - Cavern Of Mantras (Cavern Of Mantras / Cosmic Tomb, 2013)
15. Exhaustion - Strangeness In The Strangeness (Exhaustion / Dog Knights Productions, 2014)
16. Slowthaw – Red Beach (Afterlife / Aetheric Records, 2014)

17. Glottalstop – B (Woodsmoke / Tartaruga, 2014)

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