Mark Solotroff "Live In Wierd"

 

Mark Solotroff "Live In Wierd" Live Recording + T-shirt In late 2007, Pieter asked me if I'd like to perform a microphone feedback set at Wierd, that winter. I'm sure that we both knew that harsh feedback would be more sonically confrontational than the weekly crowd there was used to, but it seemed like a good plan, nevertheless. Bear in mind, this was prior to when experimental, power-electronics, and noise artists played the weekly Wierd party on a more frequent basis. A date was chosen in mid-January of 2008, and on the day of the show I flew to New York with a small mixer and ten microphones. I did a quick soundcheck in the late afternoon, while the bar was being set up for the night ahead, and things sounded loud and clear over the Wierd PA. That night, as was typical, the room became more and more crowded and the dance floor filled up, as midnight approached. I made my way through the dark space to clear some space to place my mic stands in an arc and to get my show underway. As you'll hear at the beginning of the recording, there were some ringers in the audience, including James from BLOODYMINDED and Alex from Climax Denial, who were visiting from Milwaukee. That resulted in some good spirited heckling, like you'd probably hear at a BLOODYMINDED show. I let the frequencies and the volume build up slowly, resulting in an uncomfortable space filled with mild static and the sound of an industrial-sized smoke machine in overdrive. I remember that once the feedback fully kicked in, the crowd began to thin out a bit, but it was really hard to see exactly what was going on through the thick fog ("The sky is so thick with smoke"). After about ten minutes of heavy feedback, someone got in my face and yelled at me to stop. Apparently, the bouncer from Home Sweet Home felt it was way too loud and he lost his shit. My feedback performances were never meant to be confrontational or to elicit the same sort of crowd reaction as an Intrinsic Action or a BLOODYMINDED show. I imagined that they were somehow more academic in nature, but I suppose that it's all just noise to some people. Once I was done, it was only a matter of minutes before I untangled all my mic cords and packed up and people were back to dancing. While I've never felt that live recordings have done justice to these feedback shows, whether in capturing the full intensity of the frequencies at high volume, or especially the physical effects that audience members have related to me, like the pressure they felt in their inner ears or the sensation of air moving around them, I think this recording holds its own, pretty well. Listen here: https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-wierd    Companion T-shirt, adapted from Pieter Schoolwerth's original flyer design, with his kind permission: https://BLOODYMINDED.threadless.com/designs/mark-solotroff-live-in-wierd

Sleep Museum "Forschung" Box Set underway...

 
















The long-delayed Sleep Museum "Forschung" 5xCD box set is slowly grinding into production.

This will be a BloodShop! webstore exclusive!

"Forschung" is the darkest and most experimental Sleep Museum material to date. On the five CDs in this box set, Sleep Museum launches itself into the abyss, exploring questions of identity/non-identity, death, suicide, pain and despair, through a series of tracks that use intense analog synthesized music, dark ambience, noise, and vocals, to summon the chasm inside.

Pre-orders are coming soon with T-Shirt size selection function. Please watch this site and/or the following link for an upcoming pre-order announcement: http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/b-168-sleep-museum-forschung-5xcd-box-set
 
Set includes:
B!163 Sleep Museum "Forschung 1" CD
B!164 Sleep Museum "Forschung 2" CD
B!165 Sleep Museum "Forschung 3" CD
B!166 Sleep Museum "Forschung 4" CD
+
B!167 Sleep Museum "Parra" CD (exclusive to the box set -- not sold separately)
+ 
Sleep Museum "Forschung" T-Shirt
Sleep Museum "Forschung" Sticker
Sleep Museum "Forschung" 1-Inch Button

...and more

Edition of 100
 
Released in Spring 2013.
 
Details to follow...

The Siamese Pearl "Death Darting Eye" now in BloodShop!

Major new addition to the BloodShop! Act Fast... Limited quantities on hand, but a re-stock may be possible in the near future:



The Siamese Pearl "Death Darting Eye" Cassette (Box Set)

http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/the-siamese-pearl-death-darting-eye-cassette-box-set

AoH - 11/5 - Recap

Thanks to everyone, especially all of our New York friends, who came out to see us play on Saturday night at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn. It was really great to see everyone there and to have such amazing support!  A huge thank you goes to Pieter Schoolwerth/Wierd for organizing the show. Thanks to Fred Pessaro at Brooklyn Vegan for promoting the show. Thanks to David Castillo at Saint Vitus for hosting us.  Saint Vitus is an awesome venue...right up our alley.  Thanks also to Nikki Sneakers and Jeralyn for the great after-show DJ set!!!  And a big thanks to our friends from Vaura and Rosenkopf for joining us and making this such a strong bill.  We played three songs, "Radiate and Recede," "The Decade Plan," and "Torch," adding  an intro to "Radiate and Recede" as we did on 10/27, and allowing "Torch" to stretch out with the long chain+vocal ending that we love so much.  The weekend went by in a blur, and most of it was spent in the van, driving there and back.  It felt great to finally bring AoH to a new audience in a different city, and we look forward to more opportunities to do so...

Brooklyn Vegan final AoH 11/5 preview

More love from Brooklyn Vegan as a preview to the Anatomy of Habit show (in Brooklyn) that they are co-sponsoring tomorrow. And thanks to our friend Carmelo for snapping the photos in the article! 


http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/11/anatomy_of_habi_1.html

Tomorrow (11/5)

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106919572750569

AoH via Wierd

The Anatomy of Habit LP can now be found via the Wierd Records webstore:

http://www.wierdrecords.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=129&osCsid=f3029406738745b2aba55f44ced3778f

Chicago's Anatomy of Habit are a musical entity like none other. While veteran listeners of dark, difficult, and heavy music may detect elements of perennial acts from Swans to Neurosis to early Neubauten, newcomers will discover something at once melodic, moody, and punishing. Their debut LP is comprised of only two 16+ minute tracks that peak with thunderous walls of guitar and industrial noise, and settle into gentle, yet tense interludes. Beyond any single genre or subgenre of music, Anatomy of Habit has created a towering, patient sonic work for people who prefer the most challenging and confrontational aspects of that universe. Fans of classic post-punk, death rock, and industrial music will be in for a wild ride here, and find it hard to take this one off your turntable, or out of your mind. The sleeve and design are beautiful, with a black and white die-cut sleeve that holds a metallic silver and black heavyweight Euro-style innersleeve. This incredible album is certain to be near the top of our favorite releases of 2011! Get yourself a Habit, and feel the darkness tear you apart.

AoH Brooklyn Details

Brooklyn Vegan and Wierd Records present:

Anatomy of Habit
http://anatomyofhabit.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Anatomy-of-Habit/65210152926
http://www.myspace.com/anatomyofhabit
http://anatomyofhabit.bigcartel.com/

Vaura
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaura/113871355306485
http://www.myspace.com/vaura

Rosenkopf
http://rsnkpf.blogspot.com/

Saturday November 5, 2011

Saint Vitus
1120 Manhattan Ave. (Greenpoint)
Brooklyn, NY
11222
http://www.saintvitusbar.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Saint-Vitus-Bar/174432289272566

9:00 PM
$10.00
21+

Tickets: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/68143/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106919572750569

For modular synth freaks only!

Nice to see Sean pop up in this...

Flavorpill on 6/4

From Flavorpill

Martial Canterel w/ Population and Anatomy of Habit

Editor Pick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When: Saturday June 4 (10pm)

Where: Viaduct Theater, 3111 N. Western Ave., 773.296.6024

Price: $10

“Martial Canterel is the solo moniker of Xeno & Oaklander's Sean McBride, the Wierd Records flagship artist who stands at the forefront of the coldwave/minimal synth movement. Canterel possesses a note-perfect grasp of the analog/step-sequencer aesthetic of his '80s forefathers — bands whose DIY über-obscurity made Mute and Factory Records post-punks look like stadium headliners. On the recent catalog survey Retrospective and, in particular, this year's excellent You Today, Canterel also mirrors the old era's knack for darning a kind of melancholic, even humanistic romance from so much elemental severity. Try the fleet-footed, OMD-esque melodicism of "You Today" or "Occupy These Terms."”
  Stephen Gossett, Flavorpill

Merciful Trophy

Wierd photographer extraordinaire Naomi Ramirez took a ton of great shots of last Sunday's Locrian, Blacklist, Martial Canterel, and Gnaw show in Brooklyn, organized and promoted by Pieter Schoolwerth and Brandon Stosuy (Stereogum/Haunting the Chapel). Check out the slideshow