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 is available here for streaming.
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OUT NOW (sham125) Ad Hoc “Corpse” cassette/digital
Out today (in conjunction with Albert’s Basement) – Ad Hoc’s obscure 1980 live cassette Corpse, recorded live at Clifton Hill Community Music Centre.
A startling sister release to the band’s Distance cassette of the same year, it’s hard to imagine a more different follow up than Corpse. In response to a review of the Corpse live performance in New Music #1, the band wrote:
* 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.
Available now digitally and on a limited edition of 100 cassettes with two-tone risograph covers.
More on Corpse from James Clayden, including the full New Music #1 review.
NEW RELEASE (sham125) Ad Hoc “Corpse” cassette/digital now available for pre-order
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 Corpse – available digitally and on a limited edition of 100 cassettes from September 2023.
OUT NOW (sham124) Ross Manning “Some Technical Drawings” LP
Very excited to present the first Shame File Music release for 2023 – Ross Manning’s “Some Technical Drawings” LP, his first album in about 4 years. His debut release for Shame File is a bespoke unique object; a limited edition of 100 copies on clear vinyl with hand-made/hand-ripped covers, and custom locked grooves – shipping now.
Ross Manning is a contemporary new media artist from Brisbane, Australia. He focuses on live instrument practises, kinetic and sound composition. He is an obsessive creator of systems that are driven by their own logic, exploring the rhythm and the recycling energy of them.
Manning’s new album is a collection of four new works created by his kinetic sound sculptures, sometimes solo, sometimes in concert with each other. The effect is of being in the room with these machines, as their compositional output resolves itself around you. The pieces range from industrial drone to delicate brush-like percussion, and the final piece approximates an automated string quartet; all cultivate close and compulsive listening.
(sham050) Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music: 1930-1973 CD – sold out but leftover discs/booklets available
The landmark “Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music: 1930-1973” CD has now sold out, but I have a few extra original discs and liner notes booklets that I’m selling for $10 if anyone wants them (digipaks are all gone). It’s also available digitally on Bandcamp (along with Volume 2, which I still have discs available of).
(sham096) Ren Walters/Clinton Green/Michael McNab “At The Salt Museum” now available in full digitally
At The Salt Museum is now available in full on Bandcamp for streaming and download.
The tracks that made this album were originally recorded on 4 December 2015, at the Murray Sunset National Park in North West Victoria. That will be 7 years ago on Sunday 4 December 2022, when Clinton Green & Michael McNab will be playing a duo in support of a rare Melbourne performance from Astasie-abasie.
A small amount of the original CD are still available.
OUT NOW (sham123) Chun-liang Liu “I Thought It Was Colourful, But They Said It Was BLACK” cassette/digital
Chun-liang Liu’s long-awaited follow up to her debut Friction album (2016) is out today. I Thought It Was Colourful, But They Said It Was BLACK is out now on a limited edition of 100 cassettes with full colour cover, and digitally.
Read Liu’s reflection on the album here.
Astasie-abasie interview & Melbourne performances
Ian Andrews of Astasie-abasie was recently interviewed about his work by Clinton Green for this special: Plateaus of intensity. In it, Andrews discusses his interest in sound in childhood, early projects, the development of Astasie-abasie, as well as his interests including turntablism, aleatoric art, and phenomenology.
Astasie-abasie will visit Melbourne in early December 2022 for two rare live performances, to celebrate the recent release of his Elliptical Gamelan LP:
- Sunday 4 December @ Static Open, Footscray (more details and pre-sales to come)
- Tuesday 6 December @ Make It Up Club, Fitzroy (duo with Clinton Green)
NEW VIDEO: Chun-liang Liu “I Kept My Soul in a Drawer”
Chun-liang Liu’s new album I Thought It Was Colourful, But They Said It Was BLACK is out on November 17, available to pre-order on limited edition cassette and digital
Undecisive God/Clinton Green “Archive” series digital release
The Archive series comprises ten volumes, issued on CDR from 2002-2013. The series collects out-of-print, rare and previously-unreleased material from Clinton Green’s Undecisive God project, beginning with nascent recordings made from 1991 through to 2007.
Primarily a private archival project, it has only been issued via on-demand CDRs. The CDR format will now be discontinued as the series moves to Bandcamp over coming months. The first two editions are now available on that platform, along with original liner notes:
Archive 1: 1991-4 (sham017) includes the debut cassette The Difference Between Light and Shadow in its entirety, plus some previously unreleased material and compilation tracks.
Archive 2: 1994-5 (sham019) features Undecisive God’s second release The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, plus 3 other compilation tracks and an early version unreleased of “Hallowed Be Thy Name”.
Preview tracks are available for free streaming (these are what I rate as the most-listenable tracks, the rest are really only for completists and the curious).