Jason Kahn cassette

Jason Kahn - Thirty Seconds Over  cassette

edition of  54

£6 incl. uk postage

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Kuroneko new cd

available now

30 minutes of improvised dark electronic noise

Adam Lygo - processed vocal

Ortolan Blackyatt - electronics

Ruse23 - electronics

Ed Pinsent - Moog synthesiser

“Powerful music that is of a darker and intense kind” – Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

The Static Memories new cd

...overall this is an excellent, free (as in: free music and free of any particular improvisational style) album.
- Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

Even in its quietest, most fractured-sounding moments it held the room, pulling at our attention like a super-magnet in a room of steel screws. It seemed the very opposite of virtuoso show-off music, where all egos were subsumed and creativity made a force for the common good.

- Lucid Frenzy

The Static Memories - Brighton improvisors Gus Garside and Dan Powell - have released The bloudy vision of John Farley, an album of restructured improvisations.  Recorded by Rob Plater and the group over the course of 18 months, Dan and Gus then edited the recordings down to ten very different tracks.

This is a fine album of improvisation deliberately and brutally shorn of all its core identity, re-appraised, braised, and reassembled with rigour and finesse.

- Paul Khimasia Morgan, aural detritus

Gus Garside (double bass/electronics) has worked in a variety of musical settings – jazz, contemporary music, pop, cabaret, dance, theatre and, most importantly, improvised music where he has performed with many leading players.  Gus formed arc in 1988 and their third album “the pursuit of happiness” was released on Emanem Records in 2009. He formed In Sand in 2004 and their first album Whatever came out mid 2008.

Gus is part of the Brighton Safehouse collective. He has collaborated with a wide range of improvising and contemporary music players and dancers and frequently works with laptop musicians and also performs solo.

“…where he differs from the average jazz bassist is in the range of sonorities he conjures from his instrument” Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD

Dan Powell, (guitar, electronics, small percussion), began making sound for installation works in London in the mid 90′s and was involved in live arts group OMSK.

Since moving to Brighton in 2000 he has concentrated on experimental and improvised music.  He is a member of Brighton based collective The Spirit of Gravity and has performed across the UK.  Dan is also a member of free improv duo Nil with Chris Parfitt.

CD version Paypal £10 incl. p&p to slightlyoffkilter@hotmail.co.uk
Digital version available to purchase here:

http://slightlyoffkilter.bandcamp.com/album/the-static-memories-the-bloudy-vision-of-john-farley

STATIC MEMORIES cd available now!

THE LONG HALF DAY usb available now!

We now have a limited quantity of this unique documentation of a 12 hour performance with additional materials on usb stick housed in packaging handmade by musicians from Carousel Collective and Thomas Mindhouse.
each variant an edition of 6 only.
total edition of 48 units.
£12 plus postage & packing
To register your interest please email directly:
slightlyoffkilter@hotmail.co.uk

Carousel Collective/Thomas Mindhouse - The Long Half Day documentation on USB - coming soon!

At the beginning of 2013 Musicians from London and Brighton came together for The Long Half Day a twelve hour performance of free improvisation. Members of the Carousel Collective - Tim Yates, Benedict Taylor, Noura Sanatian and Charlie Sdraulig - were joined by Brighton based improv quartet Thomas Mindhouse - Chris Parfitt, Kev Nickells, Adam Bushell and Dan Powell at The Coach House in Brighton’s Kemptown.

Starting at 10.30am they used a mixture of their own instruments - traditional and homemade - plus found objects and anything that happened to be lying around and moved slowly and thoughtfully towards 10.30pm.

We at The Slightly Off Kilter Label are proud to be releasing the full, unexpurgated 12 hour recording of the performance on a USB stick with remixes and written and visual supporting material.  There will be a launch at London’s Rag Factory on Sunday 24th November between 7pm & 10pm with a chance to hear the group play again, plus playback of the remixes and a chance to see the visual material.  The USB sticks are housed in hand made packaging produced by the musicians in a diverse range of styles and materials.

Carousel is a collective of four musicians interested in exploring the possibilities of sound and music in new and imaginative ways.  Formed after a commission from the SoundFjord sound-art gallery to create a performance using an ‘object-based score’, they have continued to explore this area of performance and to extend it into collaborations and contexts that force them to explore sound materials in new way.

Thomas Mindhouse were formed to take part in the performance.  Chris Parfitt and Dan Powell work together in free improv performance / sound group Nil as well as pursuing many other projects in experimental and improvised music.  As well as exploring folk and traditional music and free improv - notably with Urban Myth and Vole/ViV/Baby - Adam Bushell is the founder and principal percussionist with contemporary classical group Tacet Ensemble.  Kev Nickells is a member of the Bang the Bore Collective as well as being a member of a number of improvising outfits.

Perm Mutations by Bolide - out now!

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Perm Mutations by Bolide
cd-r  edition of 46
sleeve designed by F. Ampism
£6 incl. p&p

A collection of small groupings, solos, live artefacts, memento mori, phenomena, studio ritual, serendipity, phases of the moon, the tides, collage...

1  aramchek
2  sgeg
3  pieces of moss
4  ucks
5  salacious
6  as per
7 navagraha shani
8  a badger's estate agent
9  increasing pockets
10 desert mutants

Bolide is an electro-acoustic improvising sextet formed in Brighton, UK in 2007.  Originally coming together under the name Bolide Awkwardstra for a one-off performance at the Colour Out Of Space festival, the group has so far failed to disband.  Somewhere along the way, it was decided that awkwardness and poor spelling should no longer be a barrier to progress.  Bolide is not, and never has been, a youthful project.  There is no foreseeable reason for activities ever to cease.

"The music is all about free improvisation and the saxophone plays an all important role here, along with other wind instruments. It seems all inspired by free jazz, more than free anything else, but maybe that's because the wind instruments play an important role. Otherwise there is also the use of guitars, electronics and there is a bit of chit-chat around these recordings, which made me think that they were busking around, and took these recordings from the street. Perhaps not. I wrote back in Vital Weekly 835 about Bolide playing freaky music, played by freaky people, jamming together, all in the spirit of say Nihilist Spasm Band, which I reviewed last week. This band might be regarded as their grand sons. Maybe they'll be around for close to fifty years? Now that would be great, I should think."
- Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly on "Perm Mutations"

"A lot of reeds, tapes, percussion, vocal hollerin' and the likes are captured in mysterious crud-fidelity.  Come and enjoy this unseasoned brew."  -  Dylan Nyoukis of Chocolate Monk on "The Authority of Omar"

"The usual shorthand on Bolide is that they're a free-jam free-jazz mind-loosened collective, but their reach often goes beyond this.  It's not exactly anything goes, but it's not far off."  -  Scott McKeating, Foxy Digitalis on "Winter Triptych"