YEK KOO
I Saw Myself c27 Tape
Released on Stunned Records, 2010.
"A lone voice etches straight to dictaphone the vibrations which have been petrified far too long in mere stone & silicone. Identity awoken in a night of raw fidelity, this oracle’s expression inhabits trance tones and punk-chant poesis. Gouge out your eye and trade it in for better ears, because Helga Fassonaki’s solo project Yek Koo is back after a nearly two-year hiatus. Quite a spirited fever has accumulated since this half of LA’s Metal Rouge performed her ‘Psychic Atonement for Land Deaths’ on Digitalis. ‘I Saw Myself’ shatters any restricting Mirror of our species with Yek Koo’s dynamically expanded vocal range and we are left freed, finding peace among the shards and surrender in the pieces. Special hand numbered edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c27 tapes with double-sided die cut color jcard and insert" - Stunned Records
VARIOUS
S3D live at galatos ak07: Ear & Eye DVD/CD set
Released on atoll, 2009.
"Based on a live event at the Auckland Festival AK07, this release captures in sound and vision impressive moments from a unque international collaboration between 12 sound artists. S3D (ear & eye) celebrates the magic of the new.
An international collaboration – twelve experimental instrument builders & improvisers in an inspirational world-first.
Two hour DVD & 80 minute CD distilled from three days of performance." -atoll
s3d artists include:
* Ernie Althoff
* Phil Dadson
* Empirical
* Bart Hopkin
* Walter Kitundu
* Graeme Leak
* James McCarthy
* Sam Morrison
* Tom Nunn
* Akio Suzuki
* Yek koo
* Adam Willetts
SOLD OUT! Check Mimaroglu Music Sales
SAM HAMILTON
Sooty Symposium CD
Released on tumblingstrain, 2009.
"Anybody reading this remember The Sooty Show, Harry Corbett's cult glove puppet show starring Sooty, smart ass magician yellow bear, Sweep, anarchic red welly-wearing bovver boy dog, kind of canine Mr Punch, and Soo, cute panda who gets a hard time from everyone, especially Sweep (and, if you remember the pre-1976 version of the show before Corbett retired and handed over the business to his son Matthew, there was also Butch, a tough little talking bulldog, and Ramsbottom, a snake with a heavy Lancashire accent)? I guess not. But my heart leapt when I saw the title of this album, with images of heavy duty academics discussing things like "Gender Issues In The Sooty / Sweep / Sue Infernal Love Triangle".. well, no. What we have instead is even better, a glorious collection of pieces from Auckland-based Hamilton, who seems to be able to play just about any instrument you care to mention (we've got Farfisa organs, guitars, tenor horns, accordions, all kinds of percussion instruments and electronic effects boxes and gismos too numerous to list), mixing them with field recordings from Peru, Colombia and Brazil to produce six tracks of splendid diversity, from fuzzy drone ("Epoch of Snares") to luminous, thrumming and strumming post-rock ("O0O0O0O" – hmm, had fun typing that in – and "Editions", both all too brief). Fans of David Grubbs, James Blackshaw, Jozef van Wissem, but also Skaters, Axolotl, Emeralds and Raglani sit up and take note. Shame Harry Corbett passed away in 1989 – maybe he'd have liked a copy. I've never forgiven Matthew for getting rid of Butch, so he can buy his own." –Dan Wharburton, Paris Transatlantic
METAL ROUGE
Three for Malachi Ritscher CD
Released on Root Strata, 2008.
On November 3, 2006 52 year old Chicago based free-jazz fan, musician, archivist and photographer Malachi Ritscher sat down beside a rush hour freeway, doused himself in gasoline, and set himself on fire to protest the war in Iraq. His mission statement is here, and his self-penned obituary is here. Current civilian body count in Iraq (between 88,263 – 96,350 at time of writing) is here. Current ‘coalition’ body count (4180 at time of writing) is here. Easy to forget there’s a war going on isn’t it? Three tracks in anger, love and sorrow. “Without fear I go now to God - your future is what you will choose today.” – Malachi
METAL ROUGE
Republican Trees LP
Released on Digitalis, 2009. Ed. 100
"The duo of Helga Fassonaki and Andrew Scott has quietly become a force in the world of darkside improvisation. Over the years, their sound has evolved like amoebas from the ooze, growing and expanding into something otherworldly. Walls of guitar sherds blast through blackened holes in the cosmic continuum searching out another eye to gouge or another heart to pierce. This is metallic bliss pushed to eleven. Where "Republican Trees" hits it stride is when the lines between beautiful and abrasive get smudged. Scott's guitar playing becomes a torrent of aural hell blowing fuses from here to his native Auckland. Fassonaki takes this in stride and the two push each other back and forth finding a natural rhythm that simultaneously enchants and disturbs. By the time Helga starts wailing on the final track of the album you've been rocked from your foundation, left to flounder alone in the muck. You can't really ask for more than that, can you?" - Digitalis
We are SOLD OUT of these but you can check with Digitalis
METAL ROUGE
Salt Stones CDr
Released on Stunned Records, 2009.
From Stunned blog: "It has been a longtime desire of ours to work with Andrew Scott & Helga Fassonaki of Metal Rouge, before Stunned was even a twinkle in our eye in fact. If there’s one thing we’re convinced of, it’s that these two are some of the most raw and intrepid aural magicians out there. And ‘Salt Stones’ is everything we could have hoped from them after years now of shaking in our shoes whenever they plug in around town for another anthem unto the heavier of heavenly bodies. Keeping in step with their no-bullshit, stripped-back live actions, here we encounter a merging of energies old and new as Andrew & Helga boost off from 90s NZ free noise styles, lending honorable nods to earth-quakers A Handful of Dust, Gate, and Dead C. But ample room is left for Metal Rouge’s own signature ear-splitting/life-affirming gamma rays. We’ve no choice but to rise higher than ever into the ultraviolet spectrum as Metal Rouge continue their liberated refinement, casting chunks of 6-string trance, extreme jazz vocals and black metal into the blistering, beautiful gas inferno of ‘Salt Stones’. Limited to 90 black cdrs in sari cloth lined vinyl case with transparent insert and flower." OUT OF PRINT
YEK KOO
Psychic Atonement for Land Deaths CDr
Released by Digitalis, 2008.
Music is prayer, this much we know. All music of any worth is religious in one of two senses: devotional or shamanistic. Devotional being from inside out (offering), shamanistic being from the outside in (channeling). This album is the marriage of both. Pedal steel, vocals and synthesizer channel an earth rent by human migrations. An earth scarred by sentience and culture uses both sentience and culture to voice its distress – this is shamanism. The shaman prepares an album. Using the dual vehicles of sentience and culture, a libation is prepared, prayer spills out of the speakers of the few, seeking the many…. Using the sword to cure the wound. This is the offering. Who are we but strands in the tapestry of stars? To appreciate this savage irony is the best we can do, is all we can offer. This is psychic atonement for land deaths.
- Andrew Scott OUT OF PRINT Check with Aquarius Records
METAL ROUGE
Storm Veil, Desert Champion Tape
Released on NNF, 2008
Ed. 100 Los Angeles, CA
OUT OF PRINT
METAL ROUGE
Ceremonial Junk 3" CDr
Released by Not Not Fun, 2008 and was only available at the Neon Commune Festival. OUT OF PRINT
YEK KOO
Reality cinder-blocks Buisness card CDr
Released by CLaudia, 2007 OUT OF PRINT
METAL ROUGE
Eulogy for keeler CDr
Released by Phantom Limb Recordings, 2007. Los Angeles, CA OUT OF PRINT
COMPILATION
POST-ASIATIC Lost War Dream Music CD
2 Disc compilation of Eastern Influenced Music
Released by URCK Recordings in 2007. We are SOLD OUT, try URCK Recordings
COMPILATION
Compact Listen CD
CLaud_i07
Featuring Arie Hellendoorn, Mhfs, Jane Austen, Greg Malcom, Ray Off, Sam Hamilton, Sweetcakes, Rosy Parlane, Tim Coster & Nigel Wright, Metal Rouge, A.M., The Futurians, and Stefan Neville.
Released by CLaudia, 2007. We are SOLD OUT, try CLaudia
COMPILATION
PROCESSION a compilation 3" CDr
CLaud_i07
Featuring Tim Coster, Helga Fassonaki, Mark Sadgrove, Adam Willetts, and Nigel Wright
Released 2006 by CLaudia
Auckland, NZ. We are SOLD OUT, try CLaudia
METAL ROUGE
UNTITLED 3" CDr
Released 2006 by CLaudia in Auckland, NZ
We are SOLD OUT, try CLaudia
