Boomkat on Tape Music by Thomas Shrubsole

https://boomkat.com/products/tape-music

Here is their take on it:

Highly organic, kinetic concrete and reel-time ferric sculptures from Thomas Shrubsole, yielding almost 3 hours of lower case rustles resembling free jazz played by nature.
Working in a richly imaginative realm shared by everyone from Rashad Becker to Anne Guthrie, Ekoplekz to Decimus, ‘Tape Music’ is a significant batch of scrabbly abstraction from one of the North West’s most quietly unassuming and uncompromising operators. Working hands-on with his trusted reel-to-reel, found objects and 2nd-hand instrumentation, Shrubsole enacts a form of intimate animism that gives life to sounds lesser heard. Mixing skin with grit and machine, his improvised interventions coax out a plethora of almost anthropomorphic or bestial tones from things without a heart or brain, and effectively using his own body to better connect with the world around him and bring listeners to a granular, haptic level of musical perception.
Recorded in 2015 and left to mulch in the archive, the results are entirely analog from nose to tail, exploring a bio-organic feedback system that investigates, in his own words, “notions of the prosaic and the exotic, the personal as it pertains to the physically local and the distant, proximate and disembodied, the diaristic and the documentary: Kinetic performative physical improvisational concrete.”

Thomas Shrubsole - Tape Music / New on Parenthetical Activities

Please see http://parentheticalactivities.blogspot.com/2019/12/thomas-shrubsole-tape-music.html

A new double cassette box set with 48 page art booklet. Limited to 30 stamped and hand-numbered copies.

Available now.

Order by emailing.

Sub Loam's The Unfolding Map available to Pre-order direct from Label

The latest release from Sub Loam, The Unfolding Map, is now available for pre-order now from directly the label Wist Rec who will be releasing it on the 25th of September.

It is a triple box set in an edition of 85 copies each packed with an individual section of 3D relief map.

Visit this page for more information and the pre-order details: https://wistrec.com/wist-rec-025/

New Sub Loam release for 2017

Following last Autumn's retropsective 'The Portable Archive', released on Dissolving Records, which compiled Sub Loam's earliest releases for the label and for Cotton Goods, a new Sub Loam release of specially comissioned material newly composed and recorded during spring and completed just before midsummer is due in the not too distant future on Ireland's Wist Rec. This is the second time Sub Loam has recorded for Wist, having previously appeared on the multi-artist box-set release 'The Unofficial Coutryside', a digital version of the track from this release is available at the Sub Loam Bandcamp. Check back here or at the Wist website for further announcements.

The Portable Archive - Limited Art Edition Box Set - Available to order

 

  SUB LOAM - THE PORTABLE ARCHIVE

Ohr, 2 and Earthern Circle Reissue + Bonus Material 3 x Cassette Art Edition Box Set

Available to Pre-order now, ships 21st September

Limited to 99 hand-numbered copies

 Each set comprises:

• 3x hand labelled music cassettes each wrapped in a different double sided A4 print. The cassettes contain almost 3 and a half hours of music, including full reissues of the albums Ohr, 2 and Earthern Circle and 80 minutes of previously unheard sketches and subsidiary material.
• 2 x A4 Art prints on recycled papers.
• 1 x double sided A5 Art print on recycled paper.
• 1 x double sided sheet of texts, including contemporaneous and newly written poems and texts and credits.
• 1 x 20 page card-covered saddle-stitched A5 book 'The Portable Archive - A Concrete Guide' including drawings, collages, archive photographs, subterrannean mythologies.
• Download code for high quality digital copy.
• All enclosed in an A5 kraft board presentation box secured with a printed belly band.

All prints are Riso-printed using soya-based ink.

All imagery, design, text, music etc. by Sub Loam and exclusive to this release.

Sub Loam presents an archaeological companion to the long-out of print debut trilogy of Cotton Goods and Dissolving releases. Originally released between summer 2009 and early autumn 2010 and sold out almost immediately this cycle of cassette based long-form soil-structures has now been compiled along with additional musical sketches and routes and packed into a hand-made box set complete with art prints, poems, texts and a 20 page concrete guidebook. 

 

From the paths and hedgerows, home-brewed radiophonic technique, bedroom visions knitted together with ruderal rudiments. From cassette loop foundations, technological mishaps, analogue concrete 4-track compost. Performed and mixed in live takes. Organically expanded syntheses, allusive and elusive, present and intimate.

Real-time two-track improvised dubwise mixdown: accidents and gentle spiraling, thoughtforms, inspiration and tracing of unfolding topographies as tape unspools past record heads versioned.

Holistic loop cycles, connected to physical processes and interface. Oscillation, breath, ebb and flow of voltage and time perception; rising, falling, stretching outwards. Echoes; Landscape; Vegetation.

Excavated and exhibited long form ambi-tonal poems, detourned old technologies, micro and macro focus, altered perspectives, an obscure world of leaves and oxide re-revealed. Heady visions of the ancient past and utopian futures flowering in the foliate present. An archaic botanical artefact.

The Portable Archive presents subtle but potent chlorocentric imaginational stimuli for listeners new to the recordings as well as those who have been following Sub Loam's output since these first flickering, green-toned landscape explorations and exploratory ambiences.

 "rhythmic footfall, creeping rootstock, vaporous billows, transformational marginalia."

Available to pre-order now, ships Autumn Equinox.

 The Portable Archive box set costs £25.00 per copy.

Postage & Packing is £3.80 in the UK, £6.00 in Europe, £8.25 for US, JP etc. and £9.00 for AUS and NZ tracked options are also available on request.

Direct orders and enquiries to: sub (dot) loam (at) yahoo (dot) co (dot) uk 

The Portable Archive - an audio preview

The Portable Archive will be available to order in the next couple of weeks, in the meantime please enjoy this brief preview of its musical contents via the sub loam soundcloud.

A little info from the soundcloud page:

Preview of the Sub Loam box set 'The Portable Archive', a reissue of the long out of print first trilogy of Sub Loam albums: Ohr, 2 and Earthern Circle, originally released on cult label Cotton Goods and the artist's own imprint, Dissolving Records. The release is a triple cassette, includes bonus material, sketches and outtakes recorded around the same time as the albums. The box also includes art prints, a 20 page book, poems, sketches, writings and artwork by Sub Loam as well as a download code for a digital copy of the album.

The box set will be available to buy in September and will be limited to 99 copies.
To join a mailing list to be informed when it is available to pre-order please email sub (dot) loam (at) yahoo (dot) co (dot) uk

More details forthcoming in the next week or two...

The Portable Archive - Sub Loam Re-issues

Sub Loam's first three releases Ohr, 2 and Earthern Circle, originally released on Cotton Goods and Dissolving, will be re-released soon as part of a retrospective set entitled The Portable Archive. Long unavailable these three re-issues will be be bundled with a further two full albums recorded during the same time period (2009 - 10) but never released before. For fans old and new of Sub Loam's herbal-toned landscape exploration and exploratory ambience this should provide an extensive sonic topography from familiar places half-remembered and hitherto unknown areas off the beaten track.

More details to come.

Keep your ears to the ground.

Pre-order 'The Unnoficial Countryside'

A 7 x 3" cdr boxset featuring a new twenty minute Sub Loam decomposition exploring familiar Sub Loam themes through trademark esoteric analogue techniques, approaches to audio-fidelity and texture.

Available for pre-order from Wednesday 24th of September here:

http://wistrec.com/the-unofficial-countryside/

Autumn Bears Fruit

Sub Loam's contribution to the Wist Rec box set 'The Unofficial Countryside' can now be previewed here:

https://soundcloud.com/wist-rec/sub-loam-visits-the-unofficial

The release is due to be available to buy in October.

Previous Sub Loam releases including this year's electro-acoustic sonic permaculture in miniature 'A Concise Dictionary of Plants and their Uses' and the extended breath and tape meditation of Ruderal Memory from 2013 can also be previewed on Dissolving Records' soundcloud page here:

https://soundcloud.com/dissolvingrecords

Forthcoming/New Shoots

Sub Loam branches out to pastures new. Keep a lookout in the coming months for this new project on Wist Rec based on Richard Mabey's book 'The Unofficial Countryside'.

Further info:

http://wistrec.com/the-unofficial-countryside/

http://wistrec.com/

Previous Sub Loam releases can be ordered

Here

Here

and

Here

Some old stuff currently out of print can be listened to Here

Maybe one day it will resurface in physical form again...