[microsound-announce] Auricular Records Announces the Release of The Latest in Their Compilation Series

[Alan Herrick]

Auricular Audio Magazine #14 Brings Together Label Veterans and Welcomes New Artists to an Ever Growing Family

Los Gatos, CA, April 15 2009 - Experimental and soundart record label Auricular Records has released the 14th compilation in their Auricular Audio Magazine series. This most recent release features the return of some early veterans of the label as well as recent additions  to the Auricular roster. 

Auricular Audio Magazine #14 opens with an exclusive sonically organic 17-minute track by reunited Voice of Eye. Jim Wilson and Bonnie McNairn shine like never before on this deeply illuminating shamanic interlude. This is the longest single track ever released on an Auricular Audio Magazine and stands out as one of the brightest to date.  

Long time veteran artist and multimedia contributor to the label, Drew Dobbs, returns with a singularly unique track entitled Gowl, produced specifically for the series. Drew, a past member of Big City Orchestre, Neighborhood Bass Coalition and Chotchke has appeared on past Auricular Audio Magazine volumes and releases as a member of BCO, Rob & Robo, producer and member of The Chambermaidens, member of the Sense/Net collective as well as contributed art and resources to many of the Auricular productions dating back to 1989. Drew had been an integral participant and supporter of the label from its' onset.

Giligadi, project of Jason Murry established for mapping, capturing and presenting emotions in a sonic form, returns to Auricular as well. Having begun his efforts in sonic sculpture in 1989, he found his works released as 'Fissures in the Faithful', through Auricular on cassete in 1993. This haunting collection stands solid to this day.  Plans for a re-mastered release of Fissures in late Spring of 2009 are underway. Giligadi has composed a unique and remarkable track for this project entitled 'Scars Throw Blight Like Mars'.

Composer Eldad Tsabary creates electroacoustic and instrumental works that are inspired by the concepts of metamorphosis and sound-mass, and often reflect intercultural subjects. His works won prizes and mentions in several international competitions. The profoundly textural piece presented on this compilation, "In memoriam Karlheinz Stockhausen' was a finalist in the Miniaturas Electroacusticas 2008 contest.

Microsound composer Barry Dillon provides a track entitled 'Three Voice Ahh' from his previously released CD on Auricular. Dillon utilizes the processing techniques developed in musique concrete, enhanced with the present day developments in Digital Signal Processing, Electronics and Computer Music programming languages like Csound, Max / MSP 

Formed in 1999, the Israeli project Chaos as Shelter arrived at a point of transformation. Vadim Gusis, its founder, decided to step out of the borders of the dark ambient genre explore other music styles and dimensions. As a result, Thunderwheel was founded. This new exploration is presented in the piece 'Vajra'.

Andrez Bergen, a Australian expatriate currently residing in Tokyo, and better known as Little Nobody, shares his piece 'Old Skool Gagsta Slap'. Andrez, straying from his more structured and 'danceable' releases as Little Nobody, slices, cuts and dices his way through his new work and shares this Dada-incised piece from the full-length January 2009 release "Eat Tatoo Dead Tiger: Squalid Cold Tokyo Collectibles" on the Auricular label. 

ÜL was formed in 2006 with members of Argentinian legendary band Reynols and side projects Minexio VII and Virgen Vapor. In May 2005 they played as the band for Japanese singer Damo Suzuki (ex Can) on his first shows in Buenos Aires. ÜL explores the timbric posibilities of the electric guitar, combining elements of noise, drone, contemporary, rock, psych, concrete, atonal music and free improvisation with their track 'v v v'.

Hovering in a unique singularity between EDM, IDM, Industrial and experimental ambience, Novachild is a solo project utilizing a range of virtual synthesis, found sound, and hardware synthesis. Novachild shares their track 'Chewy Center'. Swedish experimental artist Pythagora also joins this release. Pythagora is an ongoing project for music by Dan Palsson, residing in Malmo, Sweden since almost forever. Rounding out the release is Bureau of Nonstandards with their spastically tweaked yet comforting compositions created on devices such as Furby mods.

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