New Release: Chlorine - Gallooner (CVC013) Limited Edition Cassette & Digital Download

Chlorine

Gallooner

(CVC013)

Limited Edition of 50 cassettes & digital download

Available now via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

Crow Versus Crow is honored to be able to present to you Gallooner, by Chlorine – alias of thee mighty Gateshead-based artist and multi-instrumentalist, Graeme Hopper. Following last year’s Loser Herd, released on the Panarus Productions label, Gallooner, digs deeper into the artist’s psyche to construct heavily layered and complex sonic evocations and excavations of the artist’s Self. It is by far the most personal collection of recordings Chlorine has produced to date.

Anxiety. Loneliness. Self-Loathing. Depression.

All hewn crude in catharsis.

That is not to say that Gallooner is a violent, nihilistic, ugly record. As with many creative expressions of melancholy, there is a deep, complicated beauty within the intricate soundscapes. It’s probably a hopeful record. But its seeds are sown deep in frustration and doubt.

Gall.

Bitterness. Bile. Audacity.

A skin sore caused by chronic irritation.

Brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence.

Flaw.

And doubt.

With Gallooner, Chlorine has produced six varied yet cohesive soundscapes that range from throbbing, percussive, post-Dub, post-Industrial, post-Techno, sunk ravers, to heavily textured string-scraping, tape-hissing evocations of nocturnal wanderings, both dreamlike and concrete. Found sounds and field recordings coalesce with keys, strings and percussion to form intricate compositions rich in a symbiotic sense of geographic and psychological place.

Gallooner is released as a limited edition of 50 hand-numbered professionally dubbed cassettes and digital download via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp on Friday 12th July 2019, featuring artwork by Hopper. 

Tape £6

Download £4

Available now via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

New Release: Penance Stare - Solanaceae (CVC011) Limited Edition Cassette & Digital Download

Penance Stare

Solanaceae

(CVC011)

Limited Edition cassette and digital download

Available now via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

Crow Versus Crow is honoured to be able to present, Solanaceae, the second full-length record from Penance Stare, the Gateshead (UK)-based project of songwriter Esmé Louise Newman. Following the much-lauded Scrying (2018) and House of Bastet EP (2017) cassettes, this bleak and haunted recording captures Penance Stare at its most fully-realised thus far.

Previously known for her work in Melting, Commiserations, and Etai Keshiki, among many others, Esmé has spent the last two years deep in sonic exploration, developing an incredibly rich sound that, “whips together atmospheric black metal with darkwave, shoegaze, stormy ambient, and witch house… as soothing as it is intense” (Kim Kelly, Noisey).

Beautifully mastered by Stephen Bishop (Opal Tapes, Basic House, Drunk in Hell), Solanaceae deals lyrically with themes of trauma, illness, ageing, neglect and regret, and is rendered with a sonic palette of heavy drum machine rhythms, degraded chamber music passages, low fidelity guitar fuzz and blurred out vocals.

With blatant disregard for the oft-perceived sanctity of aesthetic dogma, Penance Stare draws voraciously from a wealth of seemingly disparate musical sources, twisting the gothic ephemeral grandeur of Cocteau Twins, the blunt mass of industrial noise, the layered textural intricacy of ‘Loveless’ and the raw, razor thin brutality of contemporary Black Metal, to form distinctly articulate works of personal expression.

Solanaceae is released as a limited edition of 50 hand-numbered, on-body printed aged bronzed cassettes, housed in a heavyweight recycled card sleeve with full-colour artwork by Crow Versus Crow. A digital download is also available.

PLAY LOUD

Tape £6 / Digital £4

Available now via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

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The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #113

The 113th  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. 

This episode features an exclusive mix made for the Crow Versus Crow Radio Show by Marlo Eggplant. Marlo Eggplant, alias of Marlo De Lara, is a Leeds-based artist producing minimalist, heavily textured work rooted in improvisation, often in the blurred lines between music and unintentional sound. 
Marlo is an active participant within the No-Audience Underground and is also curator of the Ladyz in Noyz project, which aims to promote the work of emerging women artists. She has records available through Corpus Callosum, Scotch Tapes and Fractal Meat Cuts, to name but a few.
The work featured here is an excerpt of a much longer mix that will be uploaded to Mixcloud as an individual stream after this episode has run it's course.

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 May 2017 between 6 and 8pm.

1. $un $keletons - Winding Down The Gramophone (Get It Up Yers Trio (Vermin Supreme) / Cruel Nature Records, 2017)
2. Captain Beefheart – Fall In Ditch (Stand Up To Be Discontinued / Hatje Cantz, Nur/Nicht/Nur, 1993)
3. Moshimoss – FIIElI(2011) (FIIElI / Sound In Silence, 2017)
4. Taiwan Housing Project – Grand Incineration (Grand Incineration / Not on Label, 2016)
5. Pink Floyd – Bike (excerpt) (Piper At The Gates Of Dawn / EMI, 1967)

6. $un $keletons - 5000 Years Of History (Get It Up Yers Trio (Vermin Supreme) / Cruel Nature Records, 2017)
7. Captain Beefheart – Gill (Stand Up To Be Discontinued / Hatje Cantz, Nur/Nicht/Nur, 1993)
8. Olympus – Teal Ribbon (Olympus / T.A.T.F / Forever United, 2017)
9. T.A.T.F – Home (Olympus / T.A.T.F / Forever United, 2017)

10. Baldruin – Fortgeschlichten (Biotische Verwitterung / Aetheric Records, Black Horizons, Cloister Recordings, 2017)
11. Grey Frequency – Dyatlov Pass (Exhibition / Not On Label, 2017)
12. A-Sun Amissa – Colossus Survives (The Gatherer / Consouling Sounds, 2017)

13. Steve Reich – It’s Gonna Rain (excerpt) (Early Works / Elektra Nonesuch, 1987)
14. Sophie Cooper & Julian Bradley – The Mirror (The Blow Volume 3 / Front & Follow, 2017)
15. Sophie Cooper & Julian Bradley – And And And And (The Blow Volume 3 / Front & Follow, 2017)
16. Downer Canada – Ares (Ares / Power Moves Library, 2017)
17. Karl M V Waugh – Dawn (O Light; A Lightness / Not On Label, 2017)

18. Marlo Eggplant – A Mix for Crow Versus Crow (Not On Label, 2017)

I. Gurner – Ketamine Stripper (Ladyz in Noyz AUS II / Ladyz in Noyz, 2014)
II. Paints Ov Anima – Wise Words (Brassica / Control Valve, 2013)
III. Beast Nest – Worst Ever (Songs for Puppies / Full Spectrum Records, 2015)
IV. Bianca Mikahn – Inte-gritty (Nightdreams & Daymares / Visceral View, 2013)
V. Sharkiface – Blood Transfusion (Ladyz in Noyz 3.5 / Ladyz in Noyz, 2015)


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The Thomas Family 'Dub Variations' Now Available

 

The Thomas Family

Dub Variations

2014

CVC001

 

Limited Edition of 100 CDs / Digital Download

 

I'm unbelievably proud to be able to announce the release of The Thomas Family's debut record, Dub Variations, through Crow Versus Crow. The record has been a long time coming, having been originally recorded in 2012, but still sounds as fresh to me as the day I first heard it - albeit more intricately composed, detailed and complex a record; it's good like that.

 

It's available to order in both formats via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp and also through Norman Records, who said of the record, '...Its as if you are lying in a hotel room in an industrial area of somewhere slightly scary feeling disorientated and lost and listening to sounds emanating from a nearby factory through a partially opened window. Strangely soothing'. and also at FUSE in Bradford, whilst stocks last.

 

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 #59

The 59th 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 4th August 2013 between 6 and 8pm.


1. Rudimentary Peni – Zenophobia (Cacophony (Reissue) / Southern Lord, 2013)
2. I Am A Car – Seven – (Seven /// Zoo / Not on Label, 2013)

3. Sonic Youth – Halloween (Bad Moon Rising / Blast First Records / Homestead Records, 1985)
4. Vibracathedral Orchestra – If You Can’t Smoke ‘Em, Sell ‘Em (The Secret Base / VHF Records, 2010)

5. Threethings – Cloud Coda (Antecedent Conditions / Hibernate Recordings, 2013)
6. Daniel Weaver – Sparrow In My Throat (Sketches and Works in Progress / Not on Label, 2013)

7. Yemane G/Michael – Track 8 (Volume 2 / Unknown Label, 1986)
8. Boredoms – 7 (Super Roots 6 / Reprise Records, 1996)
9. Devotionalhooligan – Drowled Version (Sniffing Keyholes / Not On Label, 2013)

10. Sunwolf – Glacial River (Midnight Moon / Speedowax Records, 2013)
11. Voltigeurs – Lamia (Voltigeurs / Turgid Animal, 2009)

12. Yol – Short Horse (Cordless Drill Faces Separation Anxiety / Not On Label, 2013)
13. Sutekh Hexen – Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby Standing In The Shadows (Shadows / Holy Terror, 2011)

14. Culver / Jarvis – Nothing Has Changed Since The Time Of The Sea (Culver / Jarvis / First Person, 2006)

15. Shipping News – Quiet Victories (Very Soon And In Pleasant Company / Quarterstick Records, 2001)

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #59 by Crow Versus Crow on Mixcloud

Download via Soundcloud

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The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #49

Corrupting More Young Minds than Syphilis and Pinball.

The 49th 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 3rd March 2013 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Brion Gysin / William Burroughs – Recalling All Active Agents (Break Through in Grey Room / Sub Rosa, 1986)
2. GNOD – Hidden (Sex, Drones and Broken Bones / Not On Label, 2007)
3. Jandek – Mazes of the Phantom: Part One (Mazes of the Phantom / Corwood Industries, 2012)

4. Lungfish – Sex War (A.C.R 1999 / Dischord, 2012)
5. Jealousy Mountain Duo – Latino Heaven (No._2: ‘The Home of Easy Credit’ / Blunoise, 2012)

6. Kostoglotov – Side One (Louis Althusser Knows Why My Heart is Asunder / Liminal Noise Tapes, 2013)
7. Social Studies – Assignment 2 (Proxemics / Daddy Tank Records, 2012)

8. Cold Sun – Ra-Ma (Dark Shadows / Rockadelic Records, 1989)

9. Spirit of John – Units (Snakes / Gin House Records, 2013)
10. Tarrancis Mandingo Dance Band – Tatmata Binta Fudu Bender (Africa Elegant: Sierra Leone’s Kru/Krio Calypso Connection / Original Music, 1992)
11. Death Shanties – God Save the Master of this House (Nunatak / Not On Label, 2013)

12. 1994! – Non Multa, Sed Multum (Fuck This / Not On Label, 2013)
13. Nirvana – D-7 (Hormoaning / Geffen, 1992)

14. Esther Burns – Merci Pour Les Poissons (La Valeur Du Vide / La Valeur Du Vide, 2011)
15. Umez – Good Bye My Friend (Good Bye My Friend / Liminal Noise Tapes, 2013)

16. Xasthur – Doomed By Howling Winds (’05) (Xasthur EP / Moribund Records, 2006)

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Posset 'Beast Tapes of 2012'

Beast Tapes of 2012...

As part of the 45th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, Posset's Beast Tapes of 2012 mix was aired. The work compiles Posset's selections from his personal favourite cassette-only releases from last year. A bloody good selection it is too! You can stream and download the mix below. Over to the man himself...

'It’s been a very good year for tapes. Vocal mouth-jizz has been slurping all over the shop; noise seems to have got grubbier & dirtier; drone has been plumbing new depths of the soul; otherness has taken a pastoral trip and guitar pluckery has been crisp & sharp like a frosty morning. Here’s all the best of 2012. It’s clumsily mixed, sorry about the sloppy edits and tape hiss. It is what it is. Enjoy friends. Posset.'

1. Lovely Honkey – Set Sail for the Moral High Ground (Total Vermin)

2. Sindre Bjerga – Vocal Studies #9 (My Dance the Skull)

3. No Artist - Untitled AKA I Almost Drowned (Blue Spectrum Tapes)

4. Jazzfinger – Destroyed Form (Handmade Birds)

5. Benway – Ham Hock (Fucking Amateurs)

6 Bill Orcutt – Why Does Everyone Love Free Music But No-one Loves Free People? (Palilalia)

7. Tom Settle on the compilation Post-Industrial Freak Flag (Winebox Press)

8. Vampire Blues – Epistemological Relativism (Total Vermin)

9. No Artist – We’re Not Serving Him (Gloryhole)

10. Blood Stereo – The Eight Thumbed Hand Serenades (Ultramarine)

11. Acrid Lactations – The Presidential Cow is Bound to the Maypole (Total Vermin)

12. Lovely Honkey/Acrid Lactations – Sing the Futile Tapestry (Total Vermin)

13. Blue Spectrum – Witch Fucker (Blue Spectrum Tapes)

Posset 'Beast Tapes of 2012' by Crow Versus Crow on Mixcloud

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Benbow / Leeds \ Grime

Here is a 12 minute mini-mix of Leeds-ish Grime-ish tracks made by Benbow, freely available to download and/or stream, featuring Rian Treanor, Mossmade Beatz, Sarantis ft. Dialect and Pak-Man.

Benbow / Leeds \ Grime by Crow Versus Crow on Mixcloud

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The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #39

#39... Benbow, of the Leeds based Horrible Injury label, is once again in the studio, offering a fine, eclectic mix of music ranging from local noise rock to Ethio Jazz. My offerings include further explorations of USBM, a new track from fave's We Came Out Like Tigers and more heavy/soft/loud/quiet pairings.

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 much inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) between 6 and 8pm on Sunday 16th September 2012.

Tracklisting

1. Pauline Oliveros - Time Perspective (Reverberations / Important Records)

2. Tarball - Beckon (Sixty / Slumberjack Records)

3. Carer - King Friend (First Demo Tracks / Not On Label)

4. Parly B - People Business (Not On Label)

5. White Suns - Locus (Waking In The Reservoir / ugEXPOLODE)

6. Hivver - Realise / Repair (Fixing Our Future / Not On Label)

7. Juke FX - Luv Ur Juke (Just Jukey) (Just Juke It / Not On Label)

8. Scaramanga 6 - Autopsy of the Mind (Cursed / Wrath Records)

9. Ash Borer - Rest, You Are The Lightening (Ash Borer / Psychic Violence, Pesanta Urfolk)

10. Matt Miles Dixon - 2.52 (Passing By With Beer / Horrible Injury)

11. Gregory Isaacs - Give Me A Little Love (At The Mixing Lab / Mixing Lab)

12. Sunwolf - Inertia (Beyond the Sun / Not On Label)
13. Hanetration - Jurassic (Torn Heat EP / Not On Label)
14. Ex-Easter Island Head - Mallet Guitars Second Movement (Mallet Guitars Part II / Music for Moai Hava / Low Point)

15. Brown - Plukey Stew (Richard Knight Remix) (Unreleased / Not On Label)
16. Super Luxury - Kellogs Wasps (Mystery Thriller Teen Drama / Not On Label)

17. Nitkowski - Harbours (Stay In The Home You Love / Function Records)
18. We Came Out Like Tigers - If You Were Frightened, It's Because It Was Frightening (Agelessness and Lack / Dog Knights Productions)

19. Rickie Lee Jones - Interview (A Conversation With... / Geffen)
20. Steve Reich / Kronos Quartet / Pat Metheny - Fast (Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint / Elektra Nonesuch)
21. The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (Little Fluffy Clouds / Big Life)
22. P-Jam - Arizona Skys (Unreleased / Harddrive Records)

23. Rodrigo Constanzo - The Letter B (The Beatles White Album / Not On Label)
24. Mulatu Astatke - Yegelle Tezeta (Ethiopiques 4: Ethio-Jazz and Musique Instrumentale 1969 - 1974 / Buda Musique)

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