ARTIST: VA
TITLE: Strata: A Young Person's Guide to Experimental Music
LABEL: Joyful Noise Recordings
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 204kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 1h 13m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-00-00
RIP DATE: 2006-09-20
Track List
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1. Philippians - New Inspiration 4:29
2. Melk The G6-49 - The 5:50
Instantaneous Mobilization Of
All The Resources In The
BURROW...
3. Deneir - Charting Oblivion 0:51
4. Soul-Junk - Genesis 15 3:34
5. MakeShift:Shelter - Faux Hawk 5:14
6. Lafcadio - Noticing Drastic 6:07
Changes In Individuality And
Enlightenment At Such A Young
Age
7. Bizzart - Nivek (Outputmessage 4:23
Remix)
8. Patagonian - Cage (Reenactment 1:23
of More Encores)
9. Create (!) - Durindana 3:19
10. Electric Ill - Funaise 2:37
11. Gratis - Means And Ends 6:50
(Instrumental Version)
12. Abner Trio - One 3:47
13. Manners For Husbands - Lions 5:57
14. I Heart Lung - Moving Through 6:06
Colour (Live)
15. Receptor Sight - Bagel & Green 13:23
Release Notes:
http://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/
http://www.soundsareactive.com/
An ambitious compilation of noise, electronic, hip-hop, free jazz, prog and
experimental music, Strata is a primer for listeners of all ages. Featuring
rare, new and unreleased tracks from both the Joyful Noise and Sounds Are Active
rosters, Strata- A Young Person?s Guide To Experimental Music is a sharp spike
in a flat-lining, homogenized world of independent music.
The compilation was created as a looking glass for inquisitive ear. Not some
hipster vanity mix-tape, this compilation was laboriously compiled by Chris
Schlarb (of Sounds Are Active) and Karl Hofstetter (of Joyful Noise) with the
intent of being heard by new ears. Beginning with hushed electro-beats from
Philippians and closing with almost twenty minutes of powerful guitar/drum duets
(I Heart Lung and Receptor Sight), the space covered in between is
mind-altering. With styles as varied as the locales of the musicians: from
Austin, Texas quartet makeShift:Shelter?s hard edged electro-jazz to
Indianapolis, Indiana?s Lafcadio and their post-prog, pre-absurdist
compositions. All those within whispering distance will hear Patagonian?s
Plunderphonic ode to John Cage on ?Re-enactment of more Encores?. Every song on
Strata compliments and contrasts with the surrounding sounds: Soul-Junk
solidifies their outsider membership status with their most uncommercial venture
yet: rapping the Bible word for word. Bizzart get the remix treatment from
outputmessage while Abner Trio breathe in then exhale.
Previouly unreleased songs from Manners For Husbands, whose ?Lions? is a minimal
masterpiece of calculating vocals and guitar with slippery bass and subdued
drumming, and Create (!)?s free jazz du jour, accompanied by Raymond Raposa of
Castanets, hits as hard as Melk The G6-49?s HEAVY bass and drums ambient metal.
Viva Voce?s Kevin Robinson gets into the act with his alter ago, k.Rza and
debuts a track, ?Funaise? from the forthcoming Sounds Are Active release
electric iLL.
From psychotropic folk to mathy hardcore, from hyper-experimental hip-hop to
symphonic noise. The musicians featured here are working at the bleeding edge of
new possibilities; feeling for that utopian moment of truly revolutionary sound.
This is music that has stripped itself of history and formula; sounds that
describe and define the time in which they?re played.
This is noise that points toward the future