The wheel has turned and I’ve finally got myself a web domain and said good bye to the ads and pop-ads.  With many thanks to Scott Sinclair and Half/Theory, you can now browse the Shame File catalogue ad-free at http://ShameFileMusic.com

 

To spread the good will around, there’s a special for the month of July where if you order 2 items you’ll receive a 3^rd item of equal or less value for free.

 

Of course, there’s also lots of free stuff every day of the year on Shame File, including the reissues of seminal compilations NMATAPES, available for free downloading (or on double CDR for trade).

 

This month we go back to 1985 for the fourth edition of the series.  NMATAPE 4 concentrated on female Australian composers of the time.  Highlights include Sarah Hopkins’ Interweave, performed with 6 of her “whirlies” (a precisely-tuned instrument twirled in the air), and Annea Lockwood’s inferno-like “Shadow Burn”.  Other artists of interest include Catherine Schieve, Ros Bandt and Caroline Wilkins.

 

Download this as well as the first 3 NMATAPES from http://ShameFileMusic.com as complete .zip files including artwork and liner notes.  Look out for NMATAPE 5 soon.

 

Also new on the Shame File Catalogue is Warren Burt’s "Poems of Rewi Alley" CD. Rewi Alley was a New Zealand born poet who spent most of his life in revolutionary China, and his poems paint vivid pictures of turbulent times, both from Alley's revolutionary and dissident viewpoints. The poems are read by actor John Britton, and Burt processes the recordings through Audio Mulch to create ringing artefacts of the spoken words as a musical setting - AU$8ppd (US$6ppd) or trade.

 

We also have new in stock some reissues of the back catalogue of Sydney’s Rats With Wings.  RWW runs the gamit of minimalilst industrial soundscape to electronic noise over a series of releases, and each CD comes in innovative handmade covers using recycled materials including corrugated cardboard, academic journals and the like.  Each CD is AU$8ppd (US$6ppd) or available for a trade of your own music.  See the web site for full details on the releases available.

 

Clinton

Shame File Music – specialising in Australian experimental

http://ShameFileMusic.com