OUT TODAY! Aurist — "Not Here" (AMP008)

Amoebic Industries is pleased to announce the release of Not Here, the latest album by Aurist.

Aurist, aka 19-year-old Londoner Liam Adams, is a noise/abstract digital musician and poet, among other things. He's previously released several albums on labels such as Cantankerous Records and the Australian/Dutch netlabel Glitch City, including Technic'ly This Is Art (2008), Profonan (2009), and the compilation Mislaid (2010).

The name derives from a now seldom-used term for "one skilled in treating and curing disorders of the ear". Not Here, the first Aurist release from Amoebic Industries, prescribes as a cure for any ear troubles four slabs of brooding, intense noise/drone over 35 minutes, somehow managing to be punishingly harsh and strangely delicate at the same time.

The album is available for listening or download at http://aurist.bandcamp.com. Custom handmade CDrs are also available from Amoebic Industries for £2 (UK) or £3 (worldwide). Each CD package will include a small item that is in some way "not here".

Track listing
1. Dekindling
2. Blind & Elated
3. Mes Rois
4. Powerless



"Should we take up a collection for a new record-player needle for Aurist, or lobby the Limey noise sculptor for an extended paper-shredder remix?" — Minneapolis City Pages on Technic'ly This Is Art

"Some of those advertised do harm by setting up a mechanical irritation in the ear after a time, and a better result is often obtained with... a disc introduced into the ear by an aurist." — The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)

Listen or download now: http://aurist.bandcamp.com

More links to Aurist:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aurist/143778732317071
http://www.twitter.com/Aurist
http://www.last.fm/music/Aurist
http://aurish.tumblr.com
http://snailshellbackpack.wordpress.com

For CD orders or any further information, email amoebic DOT industries AT gmail DOT com.

Desert Island Dicks — "The Shades of Jazz to Come" (AMP005)

The new Desert Island Dicks album, released by Amoebic Industries (Unlimited) on 28 July 2009, is entitled The Shades of Jazz to Come, a dextrous play on the name of Ornette Coleman's seminal free jazz masterpiece The Shape of Jazz to Come.

The Coleman association is not merely a titular one; the album is also based sonically on The Shape of Jazz to Come. Six slices of the original Coleman album, each equivalent to ten percent of the length of each track, were extracted like biopsy tissue samples, re-stretched by a factor of ten until they arrived back at each track's original length, and post-effected as necessary. The record thus revisits tropes of both of the groups' previous albums, Bring Me the Head of Miles Davis... (use of the '50s/'60s jazz avant-garde) and Stretch Marks (vast expansion, post-production).

The cover was designed by Cliff Lipp for Dreamguts.

Vice magazine called the album "the year's primo meditation music for the discerning smackhead". NME failed to comprehend the concept in an entirely characteristic fashion.

Track listing
All tracks by Coleman/Dicks.

1. "Lonely Woman" — 5:02
   
2. "Eventually" — 4:22
3. "Peace" — 9:04
   
4. "Focus on Sanity" — 6:52
5. "Congeniality" — 6:48
   
6. "Chronology" — 6:03

Personnel

• Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
• Don Cherry – cornet
• Charlie Haden – double bass
• Billy Higgins – drums
• Desert Island Dicks – noises, post-production

DOWNLOAD:

The Shades of Jazz to Come (AMP005)

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– Desert Island Dicks @ last.fm
– Desert Island Dicks @ myspace
– Desert Island Dicks Facebook page

Desert Island Dicks 2009. Experiments can go down as well as up.