Opened Eye by Michael Klausman

Some things heard over some years, some connections made in your mind. Identity raps, avant-garde smooth jazz, vibrational affirmations, 21st c. protest music, new age pop songs.
Artwork: Herbert Gentry “Opened Eye” Lithograph, 1983

Ihsaan Carter – Baby
Doctor Wize – Getting Tight
Carlyle Williams – Wings To Fly
Otis Houston Jr. – My Name & My Word
Frank Part 2 Mulla – I Can’t Breathe
Onyx Ashanti – Slow Funk On Mars
George Braith – Hoagies & Wings
Virgil Work, Jr. – Baby On Board
Ishmael Akbar, Akbar The Great – Who Am I
David F. Gordon – There Will Be Better Days
Ron Rahsaan Warwell – Feel Free!
LeRoy White – Judah The Hammer (Excerpt)
LeRoy White – Salaam’s Song
Lowell Davidson – Make Sure She’s Well Fed

Gown Control VI by Michael Klausman

Resurrected after a three year absence, Gown Control VI: Loose Threads is a sequel of sorts to the earlier piano focused volume. This edition features a psychic piano player, two choreographer/composers, a soundtrack to dolphins en route to Arcturus, a couple of pastoral harp interludes, special friends and Nederland inspirations.

1/ Aryeh David – Improv (excerpt)
2/ Yul Anderson  – Airottiv
3/ Joel Andrews – Avalokiteshvara (c. Lou Harrrison)
4/ Michael Harrison  – Echo of Time
5/ Boris Goldmund & Alan Lornie – Pastorale
6/ Carolyn Margrete – Mountain Traveller (excerpt)
7/ Gabriele Emde – Wassermann-Musik Für Harfe (c. Hans Otte)
8/ Laura Dean – Song (excerpt)
9/ Paul Warner – Crystals
10/ Nancy Karp – Overlapping Lines & Curves
11/ Count Carnette – Spiritual
12/ Emma Kay – po.po.po

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Chimes

Go to YouTube or any of the streaming services and you’ll find hours upon hours of commercially released wind chime recordings, often purportedly of a therapeutic nature. Nature chimes, Divine chimes, Calm chimes, Dream chimes, Flowing chimes, and so on and so forth. And while we agree that there is somehow an inherently peaceful aspect to the sound of chimes, these types of releases tend to entirely remove the aleatory tension to be found anytime a chime is interacting with its surroundings. Hermetically sealed off, a stray clang filled with gust never to found, they largely represent a man made notion of order imposed on nature.

It was a chance YouTube discovery however that led us to the curious phenomenon of users uploading their own cell phone video recordings of chimes, from which this mix is entirely derived. The video’s lengths could range from anywhere from fifteen seconds to ten minutes or so. Some videos had no more than one or two views, others thousands. We found familiar suburban porches with chimes purchased from Costco, to windswept Texan plains with homemade contraptions made of sheet metal pieces. Bamboo chimes, chimes made of shells, forks, car parts, or sea glass —chimes both exquisitely hand crafted, or roughly assembled DIY style. Despite the fact that these are in no way slick and instantly palatable recordings, each uploader obviously felt compelled to proudly share their own softly tinkling corner of the universe. We subtly quilted together with minimal interference somewhere in the neighborhood of fifty of these videos, through which whose sounds you can now discreetly travel. We think the result is a strange, intimate landscape, in many ways very peaceful indeed, but where a stray blast of wind could be coming around the corner at any moment.

All proceeds from this release will be donated to the American Bird Conservancy, that their songs can continue to join the sound of the chimes before it’s too late.

Edition of 80 real-time dubbed cassettes on chrome tape featuring risograph printed j cards on French paper
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Help Norm Heal

Our friend Norm Chambers, one of the most important contemporary composers and all-around outstanding human being, is suffering from a rare form of sinus cancer. While he is receiving the best possible care from the leading oncologists at UW, he could use our help with out of pocket and incidental expenses. With this in mind LAD will be donating 100% of the proceeds from his Air Example LP to Norm’s Cancer Care fund. We also encourage you to explore the rest of Norm’s wonderful musical catalog on his Bandcamp page. Let’s help Norm and his family worry less about mounting bills and expenses so they can focus on his healing!

Hand Games

A non-stop forty minute mix of contemporary Native American HANDGAME music, entirely sourced from live cell phone videos posted to YouTube. Usually featuring just a couple of rattling drums and the occasional chanting from the players & audience, this is music that is both minimal & booming, and which is constantly driving forward. Presented here with as little intervention as possible, only the natural breaks in the action & different aural spaces in which the music was recorded provide relief from the beguiling, relentless intensity of the music. Nearly reminiscent of a House mix, this is utterly banging and joyous music that is simply impossible to not get caught up in. Selected & Sequenced by M.Klausman & P.Prezzano. 100% OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THIS RELEASE WILL BE DONATED TO THE INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK. A link to the original videos from which this mix has been sourced shall be included with each cassette.

Edition of 50 real-time dubbed cassettes on chrome tape featuring risograph printed j cards on French paper
Price is $12 PPD within the US



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