Last update: Sept. 4, 2007
Release date: June 2006
DIS-011 - Songs of the New Erotics "Bobby". 20 minute 3" CD-R in plastic sleeve with foldover paper cover/insert. Limited edition of 50. $8 CAN/USA
A single 20-minute sound piece constructed from archival cassette recordings (1986 - 2006). Minimal drone evolves into concrete enigma. Audio sample on this page.
Release date: April 2006
DIS-010 - William A. Davison "Plyas Het Giutra". 30 minute CD-R in paper sleeve with b+w cover/inserts (each cover unique). Limited edition of 50. $12 CAN/USA
Found-in-the-garbage acoustic guitar attacked with knives, sticks, electric motors, ping pong balls, etc....you know, the usual. Nine improvisations recorded in one session direct to microcassette dictaphone for maximum tape saturation! sample 1 sample 2 sample 3
Release date: June 2005
DIS-009 - Songs of the New Erotics "While The Architect Was Sleeping". 46 minute CD-R in paper sleeve with color cover. $10 CAN/USA
"While The Architect Was Sleeping" consists of a single 46-minute slab of intense droning noise and ambient sounds. The perfect soundtrack to accompany those long, paralytic seizures of gnostic revelation! Visit this page for an audio excerpt.
Release date: April 2005
DIS-008 - Wax "Contusions On The Skin Of Sleep". 90 minute double CD-R in DVD case with b/w front and color back covers. $15 CAN/USA
This is a deluxe re-issue of the gritty, lo-fi, ambient sampler loop classic by Wax, originally released on cassette in 1992. Two CD-Rs packaged in a double DVD case with wraparound cover featuring the original "Contusions..." photo-montages by W.A.Davison. "Contusions..." is the only official release by Wax, an early solo noise project by Six Heads and S.O.T.N.E. founder W.A.Davison. The piece was performed entirely on the Casio SK-1 (toy) sampler and improvised direct to four-track cassette at Surgical Transmissions studio in Toronto, April 1991.
Release date: Sept. 2003
DIS-007 - Six Heads (or the Departing of Moths Band) "Small, Rubber Voice From The Spectral Furnace". 30 minute CD-R in paper sleeve with b/w cover. $10 CAN/USA
Six Heads' second release consists of a single 30 min. 39 sec. performance recorded direct to hard disk at The Headquarters, Aug. 3, 2003. Machines made out of Meccano, instruments built from scraps of wood and wire, and the mangled remains of discarded electronic toys couldn't possibly have produced this beautiful, dark, ambient, musique-concrete dreamscape...and yet they have! And it's improvised no less! Six Heads continues to be J.Bailey, W.Davison, L.Feesey, S.Higgins, C.Hinz, and P.Mosher. Click here for an audio sample (MP3 file, 1 min., approx. 482K).
Release date: May 1994
ANAV-003 - Songs of the New Erotics "Broadcasts and Solar Interruptions". 50 minute VHS video in library case with full-color wraparound cover. $18 CAN/USA. NTSC only.
1994 video album by Songs of the New Erotics. Seven surreal vignettes with musique-concrete soundtracks. Includes the underground favorite "Origami Meat Play" and a collaboration with French collage artist Francoise Duvivier. Tracks include: "Half-light", "...night approached on rusty wheels. Outside we heard the drone of the engines...", "Origami Meat Play", "And Sleep...", "I've built this thing...now what?", "Les Archives Calcinees", and "Play for a Sealed Room". Visit the Songs of the New Erotics website.
Release date: Feb. 2002
DIS-006 - SIX HEADS or The Appearance of Hairs Band. 57 minute CD-R in standard jewel case with b/w cover.
NOT AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THIS TIME (may be reissued at a later date)
Six former members of the Urban Refuse Group carry on in a similar vein of audio alchemy but with an expanded array of sound sources and an approach more specifically focused on Surrealism. The group's use of free improvisation combined with live mixing has given them a unique and recognizable sound which this hour-long CD-R (recorded live to DAT at their jam space The Headquarters, Toronto, July 2001) captures and reproduces exceptionally well. The tracks included are "Laughing Bag Saloon", "Serenade for the Slightly Injured", "The Bitter Cloud", "A Sudden Storm of Pops and Clicks", and "Wooden Legs and Teeth". Six Heads is J.Bailey, W.Davison, L.Feesey, S.Higgins, C.Hinz, and P.Mosher. Click here for audio sample, an excerpt from track 2 "Serenade for the Slightly Injured" (MP3 file, 1:30, approx. 1.4M). Visit the Six Heads website.
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