Startling Moniker
Dave X runs the It's Too Damn Early show in Chicago which is an excellent source for a broad range of new experimental music. He recently played the entire Offthesky album on his show and has some nice and interesting things to say about the label and the release.
" Currently playing the first track, “Willow Piece,” from Off the Sky’s “Creek Caught Fire”. This disc is out on one of my very favorite labels, The Land Of, which it seems I am constantly recommending. For this disc, Off the Sky’s Jason Corder gathered a wide variety of data on an area of the Appalachians, data which was then utilised to drive and modify various sounds which otherwise have no obvious aural connection to the landscape. Appalachians as envelope, I guess you might say. Although I’m enjoying it, my gut feeling is that this album would have been even more interesting had it employed natural sounds gathered from the same location, but perhaps this method was discarded for some good reason I have yet to discover."
Recommended - Darren McClure - Unmoored
This release is a couple of years old but was one of the first that really started in interest in Darren's work. You can download the entire release for free over at the Test Tube label. From the site: "Oddly enough, Darren's music doesn't fit the genre as we'd expect. His pieces are rather short, never getting to see the six minutes mark. They're concise, compact, everything included. In such a way that we'll come back for more, repeatedly. One of my personal favorites this year. Thank you, Darren.» - Pedro Leitão."
Darren McClure
The Land Of on Tofaki
Tofaki.com did a great feature on our Introductions compilation which features tracks from all of our previous releases to date.
You can download the entire release for free here. A CDr version will be sent with any CDr order from the site. Check out the feature/interview here. Thanks Tofaki!
recommended: the jack bohlen book club
"Sweet relief comes in the form of Allegory & Violence, the first hardcopy release by The Jack Bohlen Book Club. Being somewhat of an elusive figure, we won't focus too much on the man behind the JBBC, but what that leaves us with is an intriguing collection of field recordings, found sounds and numbers-stations, all either obscuring or collectively building tonalities, drones, little dissonances and hidden melodies that could be accidentally recorded from some distant brittle radio signal just as easily as they could be composed and performed. A true cross-pollination of academic sound-collage and careful compositional placement happens here, and we're pleased to be the ones to bring it to you." - Installsound.netAlso, be sure to check out his other releases (as free downloads) including 'Lion and Lamb' and 1979. Hopefully we can talk him into releasing something on The Land Of!
Marcel Duchamp - Anemic Cinema
New Release!
offthesky (LND006)
CREEK CAUGHT FIRE is the full-length follow up to the 12k.term ep ‘Creek Studies’. It expands upon the popular idea of extracting subjective/objective inspiration and creative abstraction from vast natural space; but specifically that of the Appalachian (red river) area. The use of an EEG system served to drive different sonic dynamics on the record. A heart rate monitor captured an essence of loose time. Temperature sensors left out for days shaped volume levels. Through articulate consciousness cataloging on numerous media the compositions eventually followed suit over several seasons. A series of drawings, photographs, field recordings, and writings about the smells, weather patterns, and cultural climate all became source material for this release.
The Rest Is Noise
"I am not a musician, I have therefore no acoustical predilictions, nor any works to defend. I am a Futurist painter using a much loved art to project my determination to renew everything. And so, bolder than a professional musician could be, unconcerned by my apparent incompetence and convinced that all rights and possibilities open up to daring, I have been able to initiate the great renewal of music by means of the Art of Noises."
- Luigi Russolo
