CDRX a citizen of Elgaland-Vargaland began making music in 1996. He started as Cereal Killer and does audio manipulation and mixes using sound bites, field recordings, loops, distortions and harsh noise. CDRX has created and released a number of cds via his own label Bad For Health Records.
"I listen to a lot of industrial, ambient and concrete music but also metal, folk and pop."
He takes his inspiration from the likes of Nurse With Wound, Pierre Henry, Final and Aidan Baker and many more.
While the title is taken from a release by Nurse With Wound (which in turn was a cover of the original by French experimentalist Jac Berrocal), this is not a remake or cover of it's namesake.
A film for the disused cinema of your mind's eye. Don't forget to save us the aisle seats.
Yes I am a Nurse With Wound fan, the greatest band in the world since music was created.
Palancar, the man behind the Earth Mantra Netlabel, founder of ambient internet radio station stillstream.com, ambient composer and multi-instrumental musician and father of four is and has been a huge inspiration for us here at Buddhist on Fire.
Buddhist on Fire is very proud to release this album.
From his notes:
These are not the final intended mixes of this album. They are
rough intermediate mixes that I made during the composition process. I would
say they are fairly close to what a final polished version of this album
would sound like, but unfortunately the source files and uncompressed
masters of these tracks were all lost in a hard drive failure. So this is as
finished as this album is going to ever get.
The theme of the album is the redemptive and instructive value of pain, as explained in Kahlil Gibran's poem "The Prophet":
On Pain
by Kahlil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.
Dedicated to my mother. We sip our bitter potion together.
Special thanks to Lucette Bourdin, for collaborating with me and for sharing so much of herself with all of us. There is a bit of her in every track on this album. We miss you, Lucette.
--Palancar
The Warr guitar is a relatively rare instrument; however, it can be (and has been) used in many genres, including jazz and metal and now ambient. Dan Miñoza --an ambient ninja, lover of horse head masks, and touch guitar freak.
On February 4, 2011 Dan brought his special magic to the dark ambient podcast Sadayatana. His performance was included in and released as Sadayatana Podcast number 12: "Come Back Later I'm Masticating".
The version released here is a remaster of this performance.
Shane Morris is a synthesist, percussionist and composer of ambient electronic music, shaping ethereal realms, poly-rhythmic grooves and tribal soundscapes with a variety of acoustic instruments, software, hardware and processing.
"Set the Penfield Mood Organ to Aware" was recorded live on electro.music.com/radio and dedicated to Philip K. Dick. It’s released on Buddhist on Fire in honor of Philip K. Dick's birthday.
In Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", the Penfield Mood Organ is a psychological appliance used by a future society to adjust to life after nuclear war.
In addition to colorful tones from Alesis and Roland hardware, Shane uses alpha and beta brain wave tones to simulate the effect of a real Penfield Mood Organ.
Shane feels such a device would naturally spring from today's electronic musicial instruments.
For your audio pleasure, here is Shane Morris' Penfield Mood Organ. This one dials all the way to eleven.
From the bedroom Iran’s voice came. “I can’t stand TV before breakfast.”
“Dial 888,” Rick said as the set warmed. “The desire to watch TV, no matter what’s on it.”
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Akoustik Timbre Frekuency utilizes various techniques including Alpha, Theta and Beta waves, ritual instruments, electronic soundscapes and the magical use of voice and language that attempts to invoke a receptive state of consciousness to be used as a sonic tool. He has practiced Kaos Magick for over a decade, refining his personal rites and belief systems, which are expressed through his compositions and performances.
The Samhain Session for The Chestnut Tree is an atonal electro-acoustic composition that takes its influence from the ritual music of Tibet created to mark a transitional period within his life. The recording is also part of a cleansing rite intended to release repressed energies and channel them into future projects.
Instrumentation includes bamboo percussion, conch horn, cymbal, dungchen (large Tibetan trumpet), gongs, kangling (Tibetan thighbone trumpet), keys (to the location he leaves behind), meat, prepared piano, ritual bells, seed shakers, shamanic rattle, singing bowls and thunder maker.
This recording was donated by the artist to The Chestnut Tree program on KPFT in Houston.
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
This collaborative project features a foundation soundscape created by CDRX and modified by Kecap Tuyul, adding prepared guitar, flute and voice. Wind Spirits includes additional source material from Mystified, Kecap Tilil and unpublished work from French noise artist, Watzatnoiz, who has since retired.
CDRX, a citizen of Elgaland-Vargaland, began as “Cereal Killer”, with audio work based on mixes, sound pastes, field recordings, loops, distortions and harsh noise. After a long break, his focus is mainly dark ambient music. Kecap Tuyul also collaborates with Kecap Tilil in the duo Pura Sombar.
A dark primordial soundscape slowly builds to reveal an organic, detailed and mysteriously charged environment reinforced with ethereal vocal and wind elements.
Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane.
Luís Antero, uses field recordings to document, preserve and share sound environments of the Beira Serra and Serra da Estrela regions of Portugal. He strives to preserve a collective and accurate sonic memory focused on archiving ambient sounds of nature and village environments and local verbal traditions. Antero's recording work is especially noted for its quality, detail and reflecting the traditional and unique character of the area.
"SW" is a sound composite from the southwest coast of Portugal during the summer season with pure field recordings. The resulting soundscape is casual, calming and includes elements of sea surf, grasshoppers, beach underfoot, swirling tide pools, beachcombers and various insects.
...with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I was very happy when C.P. McDill told me about this release. Inspired by Sadayatana he said. Neat. Sadayatana is inspired by and infused with the music of C.P. McDill in a big way. Sadayatana has been directly influenced by music curated by him as proprietor of the Webbed Hand Records netlabel, and in the music he has made and released in various guises. As Akashic Crow’s Nest, Drone Wallah, Saluki Regicide, Tree Helicopter, Djinnestan, Rolling Calf Sinfonette, and now as Ice Guild Kaiser (Saluki Regicide spelled inside out.)
Listening to "Asphalt's Parakeet" gives me a warm fuzzy. Fun to hear Sadayatana reflected back in such an inspired way. And so it goes. I listen to him who listens to me as I listen to him. Fantastic. And now it is your turn. Enjoy.
C.P. McDill: Electric Guitar, EBow, Synth, Field Recordings, Music Boxes, 78rpm Records, Samples, Effects, etc.
The van had gone and in the spot where its tractor had recently stood, there remained next to the sidewalk a rainbow of oil, with the purple predominant and a plumelike twist. Asphalt's parakeet.
Muied Lumens lives at an undisclosed location somewhere in the UK. He says the cover of this album reminds him of where he lives. This is the only clue we have...
Since he lives in the UK Muied Lumens is pretty much in bed when Sadayatana airs. I asked him to record a live set I could play on the show. He did and it was included in Sadayatana podcast #43, "This Blue Lawn". His set was titled: "Epistelechiton". He has subsequently crafted that set into this album, which I am very happy to release now.
Excerpt from Mystified's email suggesting this release: "Back in 2007 I had a release of hard, noisy ambient drones released on a label that I think is now defunct called "Cute Tapes". The release came in a refurbished cassette with a nice illustration and was tied with a green ribbon. It was well-received within the noise community at the Troniks board, back when that was hopping. So, I have taken these tracks, the original WAVs, before rendering, and remastered them. John, if you release this, you really have balls, as it is noisey and quite minimal. But there are no beats and it is a vintage Mystified release that many enjoyed in the day."
John says: I felt reassured but want to add that this release rocks. Thank you so much for allowing me to release it on buddhistonfire.com. Also thank you Mystified for letting me mutate your tracks so much on Sadayatana.
Also thanks to Ayn Morgan for the cover. The minimalism of it complements this release and I just really like it a lot.
"Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost...perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that precious little fragment as well.
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- Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
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Buddhist on Fire releases dark ambient, experimental, field recordings, sound collage and maybe even some spoken word... Everything is released using a Creative Commons license.
Buddhist on Fire Release: BOF-017
