Notice tapes available in Chicago

For all you local Chicago folk, three Notice titles--Dense Reduction's Shadows of Shipwrecks In Napkins On Shore (NTR007), Red Electric Rainbow Sky Underneath (NTR012), and Godseye's No More Cake Here (NTR014)--are now available at the Milwaukee Ave. location of Reckless Records. Now you can make Notice Recordings part of your next Chicago scavenger hunt.

In other late-notice Notice news, Jon Mueller (NTR013 - Halves) will be playing tonight--Friday, April 30--at Enemy, 1550 N. Milwaukee, third floor. He is supporting his upcoming second full-length on Type. He will share the bill with Corridors, the excellent multi-channel audio immersion project of New Yorker Byron Westbrook.

Happy weekend, and thanks to all the positive response to our A.V. Club interview.

SHOW : Nathan McLaughlin and Dense Reduction live

Notice Recordings artists Nathan McLaughlin and Dense Reduction will be playing a show in Chicago next Tuesday, the 22nd of March. Nathan's forthcoming Notice Recordings release, "Echolocation #5" will be released on this date, as well. In addition to this release, we will also be releasing the Organ of Species tape, "Random Selection". Organ of Species is a project of Scott Cloud, owner of Cloud Valley / Maggot Valley Recordings.

Information :

Glowsticks

1376 N. Dean St., # 3F

(Near Milwaukee & Wood)

Nathan McLaughlin (MN)

Joe Houpert (MN)

Toby Aronson (VT)

Hubble (NYC)

Tooth Ache (VT)

Jason Soliday

Dense Reduction

DJ sets by Joel Gardner, Ryan Chupick & Daniel Smith

Party @ 8pm / Music @ 8:30

$5 (for the touring artists)

Joe Houpert & Nathan McLaughlin

The Slow Burn Tour 2011

Performances of Prayer & Echolocation

Yellow Crystal Star and Red Electric Rainbow. Two new tapes

#1 : (Notice #11) Yellow Crystal Star : " Pathway To Celestial Towers "

"The old wisdom is still here ; music is a bridge to timeless realities. This cassette was conceived not as the music of Yellow Crystal Star, but as a manifestation to point the way while being in transition. It is not intended to be a personal or emotional expression." Recorded while in Thailand.
- Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery, photograph by Mark Billings. 2-colour letterpress printed on heavy stock.
- An edition of 45.
- Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes with classic Notice attire.

Cover art is available using these links :
Larger cover

Full Insert

#2 : (Notice #12) Red Electric Rainbow : " Sky Underneath "

Full omnipresent aerial convergence throughout and within the skies below and above, from Dan Smith's prolific Red Electric Rainbow project. Although Dan is currently immersed in planning Chicago's Neon Marshmallow fest, he is still able to kick out the lengthy synth pieces that are his trademark — sparkling, simultaneously dense and airy, familiar and mysterious.

- Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery. Letterpress printed on heavy stock.
- An edition of 45.
- Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes with classic Notice attire.

Cover art is available using these links :
Larger cover

Full Insert

Prices are 6$ North America / 9$ World

Sale : Both for 10$ North America / 15$ World

Trades are welcome.

Thank you.

Tapes sold out; two new ones; TB & DB tour; Dense Reduction on Digitalis

*All our tapes are sold out, including the Dense Reduction tapes from earlier in the year. *

Hello from Maine, down from North Eastern Canada, en route to Vermont and soon back to Chicago. Other half in California.

HOWEVER, for all of America, please contact Discriminate Music for all 8 tapes.
For folks in Europe, and presumably the rest of the world, wanting the newer tapes and also the Illusion of Safety reissue, "Repairs", they may contact Colour Ride (not for IOS) or Boomkat. Boomkat should have a fair amount of the North Sea tape and a very limited amount of the IOS tape.
Colour Ride currently has Tärr and The North Sea, and Boomkat should post theirs in about a week. Things are available from Discriminate now.

Since releasing the tapes listed below, a small hiatus has ensued, soon ending with two new Notices : #11 and #12. The first is by Red Electric Rainbow, who is deeply entwined within the weaves of preparation for the Neon Marshmallow Festival, taking place at the Viaduct Theatre this August in Chicago. The lineup is exceptional. Be sure to attend. Artwork this time on green paper, printed with white ink.

The second tape is by Yellow Crystal Star, who will also be embarking upon a tour this late July. Music recorded in Bangkok. Featuring photography by Mark integrated into the Notice Recordings design.

In other news, Travis Bird & Dan Burke will be touring for their guitar duo project along the East Coast in September. Exact dates and venues TBA.

Also, Dense Reduction and probably Illusion of Safety (or some combination of DR, DR & IOS, ELE + TB & DB, etc) will be performing on WHPK's show, "Pure Hype". Details are unclear as of now, but the airing should be on the 23rd of July.

And lastly, look out for a DR tape on Digitalis Industries Ltd., dropping sometime in July. It is called "Fictive Agriculture".

That's all for now. A couple photographs from excursions might be posted later, as well as other Notice News.

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer... take in an open landscape; accepting the miniature summer epiphanies.

The North Sea and Tärr. Two new tapes

# 1 : ( Notice #9 ) Tärr : " Shoulder Movements "

Dealing with both fabricated and real paradises, and the streamlined means for arrival. A demanding listen — one which sits well with the Notice catalogue, both past and future. Present is implied.
- Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery. 2-colour letterpress printed on heavy stock.
An edition of 66.
- Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes with classic Notice attire.

Cover art is available using these links :
Larger cover

# 2 : ( Notice #10 ) The North Sea : " Relinquished Sparks "

Brad Rose has brought forth his first release for Notice Recordings. An extremely prolific and visceral project — here presented as more minimal and delicate, yet maintaining a great degree of intensity and grace. Sparks fly forth in slow motion, their ephemeral luminescence dependent upon the surrounding darkness, gradually landing on new grounds.
- Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery. Letterpress printed on charcoal-grey weave stock. Ink is available in TWO colours : All Black or all White.
Please specify which you want (or both !) when ordering.
25 in Black ; 52 in White
An edition of 77 total.
- Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes with classic Notice attire.

Different versions of cover art is available using these links :
White or Black

Sound samples available here :
http://soundcloud.com/notice-recordings/sets/the-north-sea-and-tarr-cassette-excerpts

Prices are 6$ North America / 9$ World. An initial sale for these tapes will be purchasing both for 10$ North America / 14$ World. Trades are welcome.


The next two tapes will be available in 2 weeks. The first is by Red Electric Rainbow, who is deeply entwined within the weaves of preparation for the Neon Marshmallow Festival, taking place at the Viaduct Theatre this August in Chicago. The lineup is exceptional. Be sure to attend.
The second tape is by Yellow Crystal Star, who will also be embarking upon a tour this late July.

Briefly ; more later

Just a quick post for the moment.

The Travis Bird & Daniel Burke tape, "Negentropy" is now for sale.
Notices 3 & 4 : Dense Reduction tapes, "Hobbes Diamond" and "Cornerstone Mill" are now for sale.

The Illusion of Safety reissue, "Repairs", has been duplicated and is back from the plant, but the inserts still need to be printed.

Those of you who have made pre-orders, we thank you ! The tapes will go out as soon as possible.

**Pre-orders help fund new releases. All money received goes towards new releases**

All tapes are 6$ and orders and pre-orders are accepted. Everything is available.

Forthcoming tapes by Yellow Crystal Star, Red Electric Rainbow and Jon Mueller are in discussion.

Upcoming is a series of C90 tapes by E. Lindorff-Ellery utilising layers of rediscovered unmastered 4-Track tapes of bell and metallic loops, diffused field recordings, AM radio, empty sounds of amplified portable audio players, blank tapes, and internal feedback, all recorded live to stereo 2-Track, creating a subjective (non)narrative of textual successions.

Pictures of tapes, samples of audio and descriptions of content are all coming soon.

The craziness of the blog may end soon, being replaced by an actual website.

Please be in touch.

Thank you.