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NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Eamon Sprod & David Prescott-Steed "Crawlspace" CD (I have one copy of the standard edition and ...
20/12/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Eamon Sprod & David Prescott-Steed "Crawlspace" CD (I have one copy of the standard edition and one copy of the special edition).

Making a work such as this poses a seemingly simple question: how is it possible to describe a space through the sounds we collect or borrow from it? In the case of the storm water drain known as Bell Stairs, the running water, traffic noise, and other sounds we found within, only convey the smalles...

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Taku Unami and Eric La Casa “Kindling  #1: Parazoan Mapping  #2” newspaper/digital.
20/12/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Taku Unami and Eric La Casa “Kindling #1: Parazoan Mapping #2” newspaper/digital.

KINDLING is an evolving publication series curated by Eamon Sprod (AKA Tarab) exploring the intersection of digitally shared sound and printed image and text; each worked together or against each other to open a site of conversation for community of makers, listeners and readers by testing new modes...

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: David Palliser "Snore" CDR.
10/12/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: David Palliser "Snore" CDR.

Long-time Melbourne reeds player and improviser Palliser (Charles Ives Singers, People With Chairs Up Their Noses, Deep Sneeze) presents four studio tracks plus a full live performance from 2022. The collection represents his work of the past few years, incorporating live looping and a Dadaist appro...

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Decibel "After Julia" CD.
09/12/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Decibel "After Julia" CD.

After Julia is a collection of eight works commissioned from Australian women and non-binary composers, who were asked to respond musically to Julia Gillard’s tenure as the first female Australian Prime Minster (2010—2013), a period which saw her subjected to gender discrimination within politic...

Some recent reviews for Ad Hoc's "Co**se" (digital and limited edition cassette still available):The first piece shimmer...
05/12/2023

Some recent reviews for Ad Hoc's "Co**se" (digital and limited edition cassette still available):

The first piece shimmers in a way that calls to mind Matthew Bower’s Sunroof project, while the latter piece bathes in guitar noise so thick that it may have influenced The Dead C’s “The Operation of the Sonne” EP. Ad Hoc have today’s noisemakers beat: Co**se presents itself with a freshness that belies its 1980 provenance – Dust (vol 9, no 10)

The music of Ad Hoc on ‘Co**se’ is very different than that on ‘Distance’; their first cassette is a delightful excursion into the world of ambient music, with lots of piano sounds…none of which you will find on this cassette. It’s almost as if two totally different groups are by the same name… I like both more because they are so different; the first I enjoyed in musical terms, and the second, as much as I love noise, more because it’s daringly different – Vital Weekly 1407

Shame File Music and Albert’s Basement follow up the critically-acclaimed 2022 reissue of seminal Melbourne band Ad Hoc’s Distance cassette with the band’s obscure barely-released (perhaps six home-dubbed copies) live cassette Co**se – available digitally and on a limited edition of 100 cass...

Please consider Shame File Music's latest release from Sooji Kim & Aviva Endean in your Bandcamp Friday (which starts 7p...
30/11/2023

Please consider Shame File Music's latest release from Sooji Kim & Aviva Endean in your Bandcamp Friday (which starts 7pm AEDST) browsing.

5 track album

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Three new instalments of the NZ "Another Sunday" CD series, from:- Greymouth- Teen Haters (featu...
29/11/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Three new instalments of the NZ "Another Sunday" CD series, from:
- Greymouth
- Teen Haters (featuring Peter Wright)
- Seht
Limited copies of the first four volumes also available.

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Stephen O’Malley & Anthony Pateras “Sept duos pour guitare acoustique & piano pr​é​paré” 2LP - S...
28/11/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Stephen O’Malley & Anthony Pateras “Sept duos pour guitare acoustique & piano pr​é​paré” 2LP - Sept duos pour guitar acoustique et piano préparé is the second duo recording from Stephen O’Malley and Anthony Pateras. Their first together, Rêve Noir (2018), took an electro-acoustic scalpel to a 2011 duo concert for electric guitar and piano, using Revox and digital treatments to twist and smear gig documentation into ghostly echoes and fractured drones. Here, in contrast, the music is entirely acoustic and presented as it was performed, without overdubs. Both players’ choices of instruments are notable: this is O’Malley’s most extensive recording on steel string acoustic guitar (playing an instrument whose previous owners include Marissa Nadler and Glenn Jones) and Pateras return to the prepared piano, which he has rarely employed in recent years, after spending much of the first decade of the 21st century exploring its possibilities.

Recorded during O’Malley’s residency at La Becque on Lake Geneva in the summer of 2021, from the first moments of the opening ‘déjà revé’ the music immediately establishes the distinctive landscape of chiming tones and hovering clouds of resonance explored throughout its one-hour running time. Pateras’ preparations create tolling bell-like tones alive with complex overtones, alongside which O’Malley’s open strings and natural harmonics add a sparkling clarity. While Pateras’ music often uses a densely chromatic harmonic language, these duos are remarkable for their modal simplicity. However, the interaction between the pure intervals of O’Malley’s just-intoned strings and the unstable harmonies created by the piano preparations suspends the music in an oneiric state of hazy ambiguity. Without obvious reference to tempo or meter, the music floats in what the composer Ernstalbrecht Stiebler has called a ‘bottomless sound space’, the temporal placement of events determined by bodily rhythms and the performers’ own listening to (and enjoyment of) the sounds being made.

Heard one way, this music can seem striking in its consistency, almost environmental. Attending more carefully, the listener hears the pitch sets and tunings changing throughout the album’s length. Each piece has its own character, subtly distinguished from the others through mood, pacing, and timbre. On ‘déjà voulu’, for instance, O’Malley makes prominent use of slide, the woozy, bending pitches weaving through a series of lush arpeggiated chords from the piano. ‘Déjà senti’, on the other hand, is particularly spare, the gestures spaced out to the extent that they often float in isolation against the background of fading resonance. Much of ‘déjà su’ is built around a slowly pulsing single prepared piano tone, creating an almost ominous tension, whereas the sparkling guitar harmonics and arpeggios of the closing ‘déjà raconté’ have a gently triumphal air. While the music’s calm, rippling surface is immediately entrancing, these seven duos – in the tradition of the best improvised music – also reward close listening, which reveals sonic details and focuses the listener’s attention on how the music unfolds spontaneously from decision to decision, from gesture to gesture.

Recorded during a period when O’Malley and Pateras were grieving the loss of recently departed friends and collaborators, these seven duos possess a reflective, at times almost mournful quality. More importantly, though, they are imbued with other qualities that can arise from personal loss: a clarity that allows one to clear away the inessential, to begin again, to renew one’s faith in friendship and music.

Limited edition 2xLPs with an etching on fourth side housed in printed heavyweight inner and outer sleeves.

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: MP Hopkins "Misting" CD.
09/10/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: MP Hopkins "Misting" CD.

Hopkins’ solo work to date via the likes of Regional Bears, Penultimate Press and Thalamos fitfully caresses tape collage, found sound, speaker feedback and electroacoustic techniques. 7 years on from ‘Blue-Lit Half Breath’, ‘Misting’ immediately arrests with vibrant frequency and fidelity...

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Red Wine and Sugar "Turkish Coffee and Twice Baked Potatoes" CDR.
08/10/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Red Wine and Sugar "Turkish Coffee and Twice Baked Potatoes" CDR.

These days there’s usually 1618 kilometres between Samaan Fieck and Mark Groves. The distance between the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales and Greater Melbourne can be covered in around 17 hours. However, you’ll want to break that up with an overnight stay in Sydney or Newcastle to avoi...

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Jérôme Noetinger & Anthony Pateras “15 Coruscations” CD.
08/10/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Jérôme Noetinger & Anthony Pateras “15 Coruscations” CD.

Far from the extended still lifes and mises en abîmes of their acclaimed Penultimate Press debut A Sunset for Walter (PP43, 2019), Noetinger & Pateras’ 15 Coruscations weaves frequencies & stirs data into an agitated series of deft psychoacoustic miniatures. Employing electronics as a deformed mi...

ONE COPY ONLY: Absurd Cosmos Late Nite "These Magic Clothes Don't Play Music" cassette - Previously reported demise of M...
05/10/2023

ONE COPY ONLY: Absurd Cosmos Late Nite "These Magic Clothes Don't Play Music" cassette - Previously reported demise of Mark Groves' Absurd Cosmos Late Nite text/sound project have proven (at least temporarily) untrue. Limited edition of 35 cassettes in bag with postcard - we have only ONE copy left. Not even on the website - msg me here to secure it. First one with cash upfront (AU$15 + postage) secures it.

OUT NOW ON SHAME FILE MUSIC: Sooji Kim/Aviva Endean "Breath + Voltage" digital.Two of Melbourne’s leading sound artists ...
02/10/2023

OUT NOW ON SHAME FILE MUSIC: Sooji Kim/Aviva Endean "Breath + Voltage" digital.

Two of Melbourne’s leading sound artists release on Shame File Music for the first time with Sooji Kim and Aviva Endean’s Breath + Voltage.

This is the first of a series of electroacoustic collaborations envisioned by Kim, exploring encounters between analogue synthesisers and traditional and non-traditional acoustic instruments. Kim engages with clarinet wunderkind Endean via a variety of synthesisers from MESS (Melbourne Electronic Sound Studios).

5 track album

Here's the archived/streaming version of the Shame File Music mix I did for Dublab radio. An hour mix of Shame File Musi...
27/09/2023

Here's the archived/streaming version of the Shame File Music mix I did for Dublab radio. An hour mix of Shame File Music releases, including Astasie-abasie, Ross Manning, Club Sound Witches, Carolyn Connors, Jenny Barnes, Ernie Althoff, Rik Rue, Ben Byrne, Rosalind Hall, Val Stephen, Chun-liang Liu, Jack Ellitt, Arthur Cantrill, THIS Ensemble, Clinton Green, Katerina Stathis and Ad Hoc.

Many of the guests in cherry custard come into mixing via non-traditional routes (filmmaking, curation, writing, performance, poetry, and so on), so it only felt right to cast a spotlight over those who have inspired host…

I've been invited to create a radio mix of Shame File Music releases, that will go to air on Dublab internet radio at 2a...
24/09/2023

I've been invited to create a radio mix of Shame File Music releases, that will go to air on Dublab internet radio at 2am AEST on Tuesday 26 September. An archive of the show will be available at this link in a day or so as well.

dublab is a non-profit, radio station dedicated to the growth of music, arts, and culture.

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Jim Denley and the eternally orchestrating sonoverse “With Weather Volume 2: Gadigal Country” 2L...
18/09/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Jim Denley and the eternally orchestrating sonoverse “With Weather Volume 2: Gadigal Country” 2LP/2CD

This is the second volume of Jim Denley’s With Weather series. Volume 2 was recorded 2021/22 at various places around the harbour east of the City of Sydney – Gadigal Country of the Eora Nation. This Country was never ceded and this music is a way of paying respects to Eora Elders past, present ...

OUT TODAY: Ad Hoc "Co**se" cassette digital (split release with Albert's Basement).* Not spotlights: two bare bulbs to s...
17/09/2023

OUT TODAY: Ad Hoc "Co**se" cassette digital (split release with Albert's Basement).

* Not spotlights: two bare bulbs to see with.

* No accusation.

* No pre-recorded tapes: magnetic tape for delays/loops.

* For the particular end or case at hand without consideration or wider application.

Shame File Music and Albert’s Basement follow up the critically-acclaimed 2022 reissue of seminal Melbourne band Ad Hoc’s Distance cassette with the band’s obscure barely-released (perhaps six home-dubbed copies) live cassette Co**se – available digitally and on a limited edition of 100 cass...

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Are Mundal "Compilation vol. 1" 2CD.
14/09/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Are Mundal "Compilation vol. 1" 2CD.

Sombre in tone overall, this is a record clearly made with purpose and meaning. A fantastic record. This is well-crafted mood music that is a little more nuanced and deeper than your average so-called ‘dark ambient’ record – Adverse Effect Magazine

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Another Sunday CD series - Documenting New Zealand underground experimental artists. The first f...
10/09/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Another Sunday CD series - Documenting New Zealand underground experimental artists. The first four volumes are in stock, from The Troubled Times, CJA (AKA Clayton Noones), Art Improvement Art Brigade (William Henry Meung and friends) and Perpets (Antony Milton and Zac Winterwood).

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Mark Fell & Will Guthrie "Infoldings/Diffractions" CD.
30/08/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Mark Fell & Will Guthrie "Infoldings/Diffractions" CD.

Finally compiled on CD, Mark Fell & Will Guthrie’s Infoldings / Diffractions is an inspirational, almost 80 minute long study in four parts, informed by Gamelan and South Indian Carnatic musics. Essential listening if you’re into Autechre, Michael Ranta, The Necks, Milford Graves.

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Ensemble List-Nah "Bits'n'Bobs" cassette.
30/08/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Ensemble List-Nah "Bits'n'Bobs" cassette.

Ensemble Nist-Nah is a contemporary Hybrid Gamelan / Percussion ensemble playing music influenced and informed by various Indonesian / South East Asian gong / percussion musics, but playing original music composed / arranged / organized by Will Guthrie & Ensemble Nist-Nah.

BACK IN STOCK: Will Guthrie "People Pleaser: pt II" LP.
30/08/2023

BACK IN STOCK: Will Guthrie "People Pleaser: pt II" LP.

The second volume of “People Pleaser”, a discographic act between an autographical assessment, the parenthesis and the musical UFO. A singular exercise in Guthrie’s discography, “People Pleaser”, a series initiated in 2017, sees the Australian partially put down his drumsticks and wear a p...

PRE-ORDER: MP Hopkins "Misting" CD.
29/08/2023

PRE-ORDER: MP Hopkins "Misting" CD.

Hopkins’ solo work to date via the likes of Regional Bears, Penultimate Press and Thalamos fitfully caresses tape collage, found sound, speaker feedback and electroacoustic techniques. 7 years on from ‘Blue-Lit Half Breath’, ‘Misting’ immediately arrests with vibrant frequency and fidelity...

IN STOCK: Benaud Trio “Empyrean Traces” LP (CD available on back order).
08/08/2023

IN STOCK: Benaud Trio “Empyrean Traces” LP (CD available on back order).

“★★★★ Exquisitely performed by the Benaud Trio … a meditative stillness and a quality of confiding sincerity … heightened by the unpredictability with which notes appear and disappear … there are special joys here.”

PRE-ORDER: Ad Hoc "Co**se" cassette. Shame File Music and Albert’s Basement follow up the critically-acclaimed 2022 reis...
30/07/2023

PRE-ORDER: Ad Hoc "Co**se" cassette. Shame File Music and Albert’s Basement follow up the critically-acclaimed 2022 reissue of seminal Melbourne band Ad Hoc’s Distance cassette with the band’s obscure barely-released (perhaps six home-dubbed copies) live cassette "Co**se" – available digitally and on a limited edition of 100 cassettes from September 2023. Preview track now available.

2 track album

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Sonny Downs Quartet "The Village Pond" LP.
15/07/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Sonny Downs Quartet "The Village Pond" LP.

The Village Pond was composed over 2020 to 2021 in Coffs Harbour, NSW, by Adam Erbringer on a Buchla 200e modular synthesizer. No external MIDI devices or DAW were used. All pieces were live-performed and recorded direct to stereo.

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Sweat Lung Records back catalogue, featuring releases from Rahdunes, Sissy Spacek, Ian Wadley, P...
14/07/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Sweat Lung Records back catalogue, featuring releases from Rahdunes, Sissy Spacek, Ian Wadley, Pig Heart Transplant, Blarke Bayer, Magnetics and more. The standout for me is the Chris Smith/Justin Fuller CD - Classic Melbourne noise/ambient guitar slingers collaboration, recorded 1999-2005, released about a decade later, still a joy to hear.

Classic Melbourne noise/ambient guitar slingers collaboration. Recorded 1999-2005, released about a decade later, still a joy to hear.

PRE-ORDER: Leitmotiv Limbo "Superior State" LP.
13/07/2023

PRE-ORDER: Leitmotiv Limbo "Superior State" LP.

Superior State is the second Leitmotiv Limbo album released by Port Adelaide’s De la Catessen Records, after the 2022 CD Spiritual Disturbance. This time, Leitmotiv Limbo’s isolationist studies have been bumped to vinyl, which feels like the perfect format for these twelve miniatures. The projec...

PRE-ORDER: Benaud Trio "Empyrean Traces" LP/CD.
12/07/2023

PRE-ORDER: Benaud Trio "Empyrean Traces" LP/CD.

“★★★★ Exquisitely performed by the Benaud Trio … a meditative stillness and a quality of confiding sincerity … heightened by the unpredictability with which notes appear and disappear … there are special joys here.”

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Sissy Spacek "Gore Jet" CD.
11/07/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Sissy Spacek "Gore Jet" CD.

Sissy Spacek’s Gore Jet CD is a collection of 7″ & compilation material. 20 tracks of material spanning the group’s ten year existence. Gleaned from 7 releases the material features: Sarah Cake, Jesse Jackson, Danny McClain, Andy Ortmann, Sam Ott, Corydon Ronnau, John Wiese, C Spencer Yeh & Th...

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Whitehorse "Death Weight" CD.
10/07/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Whitehorse "Death Weight" CD.

Having burdened the Earth with thunderous, noise-ridden sludge since 2004, the great unholy beast known as Whitehorse has dragged its carcass around the world, spewing audible viscera in its wake — and the band have the scars to prove it. For two decades, Whitehorse has toured extensively through ...

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Whitehorse/The Body LP/CD/cassette.
10/07/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Whitehorse/The Body LP/CD/cassette.

Having seen its release in 2019, as a limited tour edition CD when Whitehorse and The Body toured Australia together, this much sought after collaboration is finally seeing a vinyl release in two different pressings with the collaboration of Sweatlung and Tartarus Records.

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Anthony Pateras "A Dread Of Voids" CD.
02/07/2023

NEW IN THE ONLINE SHOP: Anthony Pateras "A Dread Of Voids" CD.

Two beautiful recent works for ensemble by Australian composer Anthony Pateras, one performed in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia, the other in Berlin. These works fit alongside Pateras’ recent works in the perception they create of floating, crystalline constructions, slowly rotating around each othe...

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