Our re-issue of the NMATAPES compilation series as free mp3s continues with 1987’s NMATAPE #5, available for free download (including cover and liner notes) from http://ShameFileMusic.com, or for trade on CDR.

 

Of particular interest here Syd Clayton’s “Lucky Number”, an excerpt from this 9 hour chance pianissimo composition.  Clayton’s work has been criminally ignored, and this was his only recording released in his lifetime.  Look for more of Clayton’s work released by Shame File Music on a compilation of early Australian experimental music due in 2007.

 

Other names of interest on this edition of NMATAPES include Chris Mann, Rainer Linz, Amanda Stewart and Ernie Althoff.

 

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Also new on Shame File Music, from 2006 this time, is a taste of culinary noise in “Bite the Capsicum”:

 

“If my memory services me correctly, and I think it does, it was in 1995 when I appeared as a contestant upon television program The Iron Chef. Regrettably, my defeat was to such an extent that it would dishonour my ancestors even more to speak of it here. I vowed from that day that I would never cook again. I managed to obtain the network's master copy of this episode, and in a rage wiped the tape so my shame could never be witnessed again. Or so I thought…

It has come to my shameful attention that this hated master video tape was not completely wiped despite my efforts. Thankfully, no images remained, but some audio was still evident. The magnetic wiping process as distorted the audio to such extremes that it is surely beyond the recognition of anyone except for my shameful self, yet some knave has seen fit to release this distorted shameful memory to the public at large. To the unsuspecting listener, the cries of "Corn!" and "Foie Gras" amongst the layers of distorted noise will simply arouse confusion, or mild curiosity at the most. Yet for myself, it brings back those shameful memories of eels overcooked, sea urchin under-salted, and caviar forgotten.

I urge you all to not submit yourself to this mini CD entitled Bite The Capsicum

PS - you get a free recipe with each CD”

 Bite it yourself for AU$7ppd (US$5ppd).  See http://ShameFileMusic.com to download the sample track “Dreaming in French”.

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Also new on the catalogue is Screwtape’s latest CD “A Hundred Flowers Bloom”, which sees a new plunderphonic approach to his dark noise, looping the likes of jazz, bagpipes and more onto themselves.

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All this and more at http://ShameFileMusic.com

Cheers,

Clinton.