Flag Day Recordings

08/30/2024

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Machinefabriek
Omval
CD/DL
FDR83

Omval was made quickly, within a week, right after a gig (with serpent player Berlinde Deman) that left me really inspired. Back home, I reinstalled my live setup and tried to recreate the atmosphere of said concert. Of course it turned out completely different, but the recordings of these ‘hardware jams’ were very useful nonetheless, and form the main component of the collage that is Omval. I think the result has the organic quality of a performance, with a complexity that I could never achieve in a live set.

(Rutger Zuydervelt, May 2024)

Tools and ingredients: Armagedrone synth, Audacity software, Boss GEB-7 Equalizer, Boss RV-6 Reverb, Boss DD-8 Delay, Buddha Machine, chimes, contact microphone, Drolo Stamme[n], E-bow, Fairfield Circuitry Randy’s Revenge, Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water, Feedback Machine, field recordings, ‘Hoor, een koor’ cassette tape, internal feedback, Logic Pro software, loop tapes, music box, phone recordings, Phillips PM5106 LF generator, Serpent and fx (sampled from Berlinde Deman), Soma Enner Night Frog, Sony TCM-200 DV voice recorder, Soundcraft mixer, tc electronic Ditto X2 Looper, tuning forks, virtual instruments, zither, Zoom H4N recorder.

Constructed by Rutger Zuydervelt
November and December 2023

Mastered by Jos Smolders at EARLabs

Thanks to Berlinde Deman for letting me use her 'popcorn' recording

08/23/2024

Eloine, the long running project of Bryan Day, with a new solo composition titled Moldy Cushions . Released by Flag Day Recordings on beautiful crafted compact disc. A limited run and available now.
The sounds within are tremendous ❤️🎶
https://lostseasound.blogspot.com/2024/08/eloine-moldy-cushions.html

07/19/2024

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Associated Sine Tone Services
Associated Sine Tone Services
CD/DL
FDR85

Associated Sine Tone Services (ASTS) is a new conceptual collaboration between analog oscillator wielders Jeremy Young (Montreal, CAN), Nicolas Bernier (Montreal, CAN) and Rutger Zuydervelt (Schiedam, NL). This record was entirely generated using sine wave oscillators and an array of electronic filters, stacks, and processing.

Additional liner notes can be found on bandcamp

Composed and performed using sine waves and electronics by Jeremy Young, Rutger Zuydervelt, Nicolas Bernier.
Mixed by Jeremy Young
Mastered by Guillermo Pizarro at Vitória Régia Studios
Artwork & layout by Rutger Zuydervelt

06/14/2024

Today is my birthday, so the annual Flag Day sale is active!

Use code ‘flagday’ at checkout for 50% off your order on Bandcamp or Big Cartel

Thank you everyone!

06/06/2024

To get ahead from the millions of Bandcamp friday emails you will all receive, I've posted pre-orders for our next 5 releases.

Release dates shown are placeholders. True dates are to be announced.

Remember if you're outside of the US, you're encouraged to use the International Shipping option to save you a bit on money. I've also set up batch options that include all 5 releases together. Thank you everyone!

FDR79: Tourette - Mati​è​re Arrach​é​e

FDR83: Machinefabriek - Omval

FDR84: OORT - They Pass By, Barely Showing Themselves I, II, III

FDR85: Associated Sine Tone Services - Self Titled

FDR86: Dave Phillips - Nothing's Wrong

05/31/2024

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Sawn Half
Sink
CD / DL
FDR78

Flag Day is proud to present the debut work by Sawn Half. Sawn Half is the harsh noise project of Joe Hassick, a New Jersey based artist.

Sink is beautifully abrasive. Heavily textured, flowing, j***y, broken and blown out. My definition of a perfect harsh noise album. Sawn Half deserves your attention and I feel incredibly lucky to be able to promote this kind of work. This won't be the last we hear of Sawn Half on Flag Day.

Recorded in 2021
Sawn Half is Joe Hassick
Layout by Rutger Zuydervelt
Mastered by Guillermo Pizarro at Vitória Régia Studios

05/20/2024

Scathing
Clipping Wings of Grief
CD/DL
FDR77

Flag Day is proud to present this new work by Texas heavy hitter, Scathing.

I don’t release as much harsh noise as I’d like. So I was thrilled when Kenny agreed to a release. Scathing has been consistently releasing some of the most punishing harsh noise since the projects debut.

Clipping Wings of Grief 45 minutes of pure catharsis.

Recorded and mixed by Scathing, January-March 2022, Austin, TX

Artwork & Layout by Rutger Zuydervelt

04/26/2024

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Simon Whetham
Channelling
CD/DL
FDR81

https://flagdayrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/channelling

"An array or swarm of vitalities, intertwined, of non human powers which transit channels. Trajectories that follow machinal logics, preselected and predictable; suddenly they exploit an aesthetic of the interruption or malfunction. Uncertain assemblages without intentions that remembers well the emergentivism, unpredictable and highly creative of Alexander. The nisus of the Greek which is the pulse of things to reach anew, the creative impetus.

Cracks, leaks, turbulence. Frictions, rebounds, scrapes. Ignitions, drags, silent intermissions. Batiments, without cause, immersed in a logic of contingency.

How much in common do we have the human and the non-human. How much shared vitality. The same impulse of things in beings. Lags, obstructions, desynchronizations. Fluids, currents, forces. Channels, connectivity, and broken connection.

From the darkness of the macrobial soil or an intertidal zone, to the interior of a tubular structure, the similar search: the porous and the minute, the precarious taking an unusual power.

Is there any allusion to the high instability caused by consumption? A sonic reflection on the transversality of the vital where conflicts, confrontations, catastrophes and incidents articulate a microworld?"

Marianela Calleja, April 2024

Mastered by Guillermo Pizarro

Artwork features “Channels” sculpture by Simon Whetham

04/19/2024

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Eloine - Moldy Cushions
6 Panel Digipak
CD/DL
FDR76

https://flagdayrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/moldy-cushions

Moldy Cushions was recorded from the summer of 2022 until spring 2023 at my new Clamorworks studio in San Pablo, California. Additional parts were recorded in Brasília, Brazil while working on the SESILab science museum and in Hyderabad, India while on tour with Seeded Plain. This is my first solo album since 2016's Bizarre Flight on Gertrude Tapes, with most of the time in-between focused on other collaborative projects.

The pieces on Moldy Cushions started as improvised sketches, with many of the structural elements developing during editing. A few of the instruments on this album were commissioned pieces that are now in the hands of artists whom I collaborated with. The buzzing drones on Neoprene Concourse are from an instrument that I was given by João Fernando Arrais Serodio out of Leme, Brazil.

Bryan Day - invented instruments, broken electronics, vintage computer synthesizers and field recordings.

Recorded and mixed in San Pablo, Brasilia, and Hyderabad in 2022 - 2023

Photos by Holly Wilson

Layout by Rutger Zuydervelt

Mastered by Alan Jones

04/11/2024

Artist Spotlight: Eloine

Bryan Day is a sound artist, musical instrument inventor, and conceptual artist based in San Francisco. Using scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components, and amplified materials, he re-imagines them into constructivist sound sculptures. Since the late-1990s, he has built over a hundred sound object devices, from amplified measuring tape, hacked radio transceivers to electromechanical installations using magnets, hard drives and pendulums. His recorded work ranges from noisy electroacoustic improvisation to drony minimalism and audio collage, which is showcased in his projects Euphotic, Collision Stories and Seeded Plain. Day has performed, taught workshops, and built sound installations across Europe, Asia and the Americas. During his days, he can be found designing, building, and repairing science museum exhibits at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

Eloine’s new album “Moldy Cushions” comes out April 19th

04/05/2024

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LopezLopez
Citizenship
CD/DL
FDR75

LopezLopez is Brandon Lopez and Cecilia Lopez. Wild, free improv, Citizenship is the third collaboration between this prolific duo. A masterful exploration of Brandon’s extended double bass techniques and Cecilia’s electronics. Citizenship is listening to pure musical dialogue between two performers.

Cecilia Lopez: Synthesizer and electronics
Brandon Lopez: Double Bass

Recorded at GSI in New York
August 2020

Recorded by Jason Rostowski
Mixed by Cecilia Lopez and Jon Lipscomb
Mastered by Jon Lipscomb
Art and design by Ian Kornfeld

03/29/2024

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Leif Elggren / Mattias Gustafsson/ Dan Johansson
Voice For Eternal Divorce
CD/DL
FDR74

This CD collaboration was made after we were invited by Joachim Nordwall to play together for the very first time at the Parasoll Festival in Gothenburg

Recorded in Stockholm, Mjölby and Göteborg between 2022 - 2023.

Mixed and edited at at Studio Malign 2023

Both texts by Leif Elggren, published in Genealogy, Firework Edition, 2005

03/22/2024

Coming out 3/29

Voice for Eternal Divorce by Leif Elggren, Mattias Gustafsson & Dan Johansson

“This CD collaboration was made after we were invited by Joachim Nordwall to play together for the very first time at the Parasoll Festival in Gothenburg.”

03/12/2024

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Eryck Abecassis
é v a p o r a t i o n
CD/DL
FDR73

"The composition of “évaporation“ started in my Parisian studio in 2021, and has been completed in Le Havre for the mixing process during 2022. It is my fourth solo album, after Resonant Doom, Ilumen (coup de coeur of Charles Cros Academy 2021), and Siamoises.

First was the desire to make a purely studio release (“Distortions de vapeur“ excluded, a piece which I play also in concert) while including some of my musical interests in different domains such as electronic, contemporary music, electroacoustic, and film scoring.

The title refers to many facts like physical (elements change of state), climate (water cycle), and philosophy (loss of the senses). All this is only a starting point, never a musical illustrative program.

The field recordings are used here as sound sources recorded during travels and then hardly transformed (as in “Yamuna River Variations“, “Ta Peau est une surface brûlante“) or totally newly recorded and almost untouched for the need of the composition (as in Morsures solaires).

All compositions have been written and played by me using modular synthesis, virtual instrument software, electric guitar, hand percussion, keyboards, and field recordings."

-Eryck Abecassis

All titles composed and arranged by Eryck Abecassis on modular synthesizers, guitar, sampled instruments software, Roger Linn linnstrument keyboard, field recordings.

Studio : Mobile courgette (Paris), LH 151 (Le Havre)
Train station, streets and beach recordings location : New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Madrid, Héraclée Beach La Croix-Valmer.

Artwork & layout by Rutger Zuydervelt

02/29/2024

We’re sold out of these, but you can get the remaining copies straight from Terence!

BACK IN STOCK:
Terence Hannum "Disoslving the Bonds" CD (Flag Day Recordings)

"Terence Hannum is perhaps best known as the keyboardist and vocalist of prolific Chicago-born experimental metal trio Locrian, who blend dense, crushing drones and harsh, sweeping black metal to stir up some serious dark energy. But Hannum is also an accomplished visual artist, writer, and solo musician. I was expecting his brand-new album, Dissolving the Bonds, to contain some Locrian-style dissonance, but when I hit play I was treated to five warm tracks of calming, ambient beauty. These cinematic pieces focus on swelling layers, dreamy melodies, and subtle chanted vocals. The title track nods to John Carpenter synth compositions, and my favorite song, “Tender Resignations,” is essentially a pop tune with oscillating organs that recall the sound of the second Su***de record, 1980’s Alan Vega and Martin Rev, which Ric Ocasek of the Cars produced for no pay. The album culminates with “Everyone Has Gathered Here to Destroy You,” a glacial, 15-minute work that buries hypnotic synth patterns under growing and shrinking layers of static. Hannum has an uncanny ability to conjure specific moods, and when it comes to tranquility, Dissolving the Bonds is a masterpiece." - Chicago Reader

>>>Last 15 copies

12/27/2023

12/23/2023

Starting the end of year sale a day early. What the graphic says!

Thank you Rutger Zuydervelt for the quick design and for all the recent help he’s given to Flag Day’s vision.

Thank you to all the artists I’ve released this year and past years. Looking forward to 2024 and beyond.

12/21/2023

Processing orders today.

I just replaced my labels. My first pack of labels was a 500 count, thank you everyone for the orders these past few years.

Here’s to 500 more orders!

12/18/2023

Artist Spotlight: Eryck Abecassis

ERYCK ABECASSIS is a composer, synthesist, electric guitar player who undertakes his work in several fields from orchestral to chamber music, electronic, movies, theater, Urban installations, . He has been commissioned by Radio-France, Gmem, Ina-Grm, Grame, French governement, Césaré, Canada, Institut Français.

His music has been played in International Music Festivals of Présences, Les Musiques – Marseille, Musiques en Scènes-Lyon, Amplitude- Festival Denmark, Computer Art Festival – Padova, Escales Improbable, Electricity, Reims Scènes d’Europe, IRCAM, SignalX-Cagliari, Akousma, Le Goût des Autres…

Digging his style now at the edges of contemporary and electronic noise music, with a large use of the modular synthesizer and computer, both in writing process and like musical instruments.

He is the conceptor and organizer of big outer area musical installations as La Vague (Marseille, Montréal, Dijon, Grenoble), Kloch (Poitiers), Psychomuz II (Marseille opera parvis), Rivière Song (Thionville).

Eryck has written many Film scores for movies, tv program and documentary. He has composed for the theater and dance for Cie L’Entreprise, Cie Mabel Octobre, Cie Les Passagers.

Films and TV directors : Partho Sen-Gupta, Neasa Nì Chianàin, Michel Quinejure, Matias Rojas Valencia, Rodrigo Littoriaga, Ghislaine Buffard, Luc Hermann and Claire Lasko, Jérôme Boivin…

Collaboration with Reinhold Friedl, Lars Åkerlund, Wilfried Wendling, Francisco Meirino, Armando Ballice, Olivia Rosenthal, Philippe Foch, Judith Depaule, Christophe Tarkos, Thierry Aue …

Program CulturesFrance Hors les Murs 2011 – Villa Médicis

Nominations : Manifestgalan award for the cd « FALLS » with Lars Åkerlund, best experimental music 2019 / best music for SCHOOL LIFE at 2017 Sundance festival / best music for SLAM – Tallinn Black Nights festival 2018 /

12/01/2023

Tomorrow is bandcamp Friday, the last one of the year.

A reminder that we have a couple of titles out for preorder! The Eryck Abecassis album should be going into production very soon. Thanks everyone!

11/17/2023

Bundle deals are available for our upcoming batch!

11/08/2023