Steep Gloss - SO FAR

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In addition to STAT's latest feature interview, Steep Gloss Ross kindly provided a review list of the label's releases so far. Below you can find a short description for each of the labels releases. You can listen to all of these releases (and buy on cassette) via the Steep Gloss Bandcamp...


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A special thanks to Ross for putting this together... Enjoy!


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SG00 __________ by Various Artists

Compilation featuring 10 artists response to using blank tape as the sole sound source.





SG01 Earth Trumpet & Midwich - The Integrity of the Vehicle 


Preposterous dada drone epic featuring electronic and acoustic instruments for all lovers of bewildering asymmetry.







SG02 Romain Perrot & Andrew Sharpley - ||||||||||


A bristling, effervescent cacophony of harsh, cut-up noise and digital manipulation that's consistently inventive in its arrangement.






SG03 Star Turbine - Space Ragas


Dictaphone, drones and microphones....heavyweight improvised music...exploring small sounds versus big drones.





SG04 Claude & Ola - both|and


Eerie, elemental and melancholy piano and modular synth abstractions.





SG05 Psychonic Imaging - Nothing is Often Ignored


Clustered drones....free form acoustic abuse...from delicate and meandering to fierce noise.





SG06 Gidouille - Massive Sensory Overload


Japanese minutiae and disembodied unease from this Manchester based duo.





SG07 ANTIBODIES - Can you ear me?


Skittish Fluxus poetry, loops & nonsense with the use of unusual instruments, erratic noises and rhythms.





SG08 ELECTROLARYNX - various artists


A dada collaboration between 10 vocal artists and their household appliances.





SG09 Culver & Fordell Research Unit - Memento Mori


Huge staggering drones threatening to take all of the air out of the room from these heavyweights of the genre.





SG10 Garbage Pail Kids - s/t


A wonderfully detailed/rich/dynamic explosion of breathtaking audio bricolage.





SG11 Zebularin - Strangled Curiosity


An tense electronic storm veering from minimalist expressionism to freeform freakout.





SG12 H A I R S A B Y S S - s/t


Immersive looped nightmares and playful whimsy.





SG13 Miguel A Garcia & Frans de Waard - Interior Sounding


Rich and detailed electro acoustic journey through magnetic coil recordings.





SG14 Stuart Chalmers & Alan Courtis - Rtuals of Cmmon Lnguage


A four part mystery of alchemy and transmutation.





SG15 Free Magic Show - Motown


Improvised magic show of delicious and strange electro acoustic ear tickle.





SG16 Staraya Derevnya & Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet - Still Life With Apples


Unsettling live improvisations veering from electronic soundscapes into psychfolk territories.





SG17 Lust Rollers - Cassette with Collage


Saxophone meets objects for playful clatter and scrape.





SG18 Ezio Piermattei & Ben Presto - The Balsamic Doctrine


A rich offering of various field recordings, found tapes, shanties and plunderphonics.






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words

Ross Scott-Buccleuch


images

courtesy of Steep Gloss