Friday, August 22, 2014

shrouded recordings zine #1 (printed)

starts shipping 09/01/2014

https://sbtdoh.bandcamp.com/merch/shrouded-recordings-zine-1

interviews with the rita and negative paper assembly. all cassette tape reviews of no dreams, hell and more....



Tuesday, August 19, 2014

zine in print

due to a ton of reasons i have scrapped my first go at a physical zine and am going forward with the material i had for the second and have gathered since i started. in print reviews will be out soon, then i plan on moving forward with the next print zine as well as having monologues on this site etc......take care.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

tape trading

i want to get a good tape trading rally going. i have created a new double release tape of 'the gateway doublet'  it is a tape up for trade with others who want to receive more mail. each one may be unique or very similar. some may contain a special mix tape from my music collection, some may receive other things.  i can only afford to do this within the lower 48 states as I cannot afford to ship overseas. the pricing has killed me and if someone wants to help set up a network over there to get some trading going I might consider a occasional package shipped but it needs to be to someone i can trust will distribute tapes and participate in the fun of getting new tapes in the mail.



info:

C-64 solid black tape containing both full albums from the gateway doublet dual release (sounds for mass extinction & non-selective genocide) this will also become my 'trade tape' anyone interested please get in contact. simple solid black art with minimal info. this will be a larger unnumbered run as opposed to the earlier hand numbered releases. all handmade and comes with a free sticker & button.


please contact me about trades. i am looking for HNW,ANW, drone, black metal, blackened anything, dark music, etc. id love to get a network going of folks to have an active musical exchange going with.

i still love the mix tape. i want to make them with one of a kind art. search depths, feelings, emotions, terror etc with each other. i want to make things and send them away to people and get them back. i want to have awesome things going to help me forget the fucked up world we live in.....


-the hermit.

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Abandoned and deserted places...

based off a thread on a forum page i am envisioning a project that is a collaborative multi-sensory  artifact. here is a basic call to others i wrote in the forum. please get a hold of me f you would like to work on it....we will chat more:


---i dont know of any in portland that i could get into to record/play but i am utterly fascinated to the point of researching this every day recently. obsessively printing out tons and tons of pictures. i could of easily placed this on my recent list of obsessions. almost all of my recent album artwork has gone this direction and i see no stopping of that anytime soon. there are even some shows/ documentaries on it on netflicks if you have this topic. i rallied straight through everything i could find. i love the idea of post mass deserted places, how nature will take back over human scum and its just amazing to see places humans spent hours planning building, doing things in that are just totally vacated now. if i could, id just go to those places rather than human occupied zones. a recording session/ show would thrill me.




 I would love to do a project fully based around this topic....any collaborators want to do a project? how cool would it be if we did one of those bigger tape cases with like 3 or 4 tapes from various artists? get some photographers in on it to and some amazing imagery or prints to go with the release. so you would get sound and vision! i would be way into this idea. how else can we evoke another sense to the project?  if anyone would like to do this i would be willing to head up the collaboration and do many things if there were others who would also dedicate time to this idea.
im thinking like a companion booklet or individual prints.
or other suggestions. please hit me up if you would like to be a part of a collaborative project!

Sunday, August 3, 2014

i posted this on a board......

.....and was told it was inspiring. which always makes me tremble and happy etc. a fluttering of emotions.  anyways:


i have played in more traditional bands for years and always was planning on doing a 'noise, anw, hnw, etc' project someday. for me its been the best thing ever to happen. finally after devoting years to cancelled practices, members getting hooked on shitty drugs and leaving, new members coming and going, trying to maintain something magical that happened at a practice and translate that to a show in a room that you have never played in with people you realize you don't know that much in front of folks waiting to see another band, or maybe your band, and then awkwardly trying to keep dignity composure, etc...i think anyone who has been in a 'band' can relate to what I am trying to describe.

well. as much as i miss the 'brotherhood or whatever' of playing with others. starting finally on a project where its 100% in my hands whether anything happens, gets played, recorded, documented by tape or whatever etc is so much more fulfilling I really now wish i started years ago when i first had these urges.

in the short time i have had my current one-man-band thing going i have made amazing contacts all over the world. received and sent mail to multiple countries, let alone within the one im in.met some very beautiful sincere folks and have traded, sold, gave away, randomly sent lots of things. things i made all with my hands. from start to finish. its fucking so much more fulfilling right now than 20 plus years of being in traditional bands, touring, playing thousands of shows.

to me, its all about the process and the individual person. for me. i record, copy, make and distribute EVERYTHING all on my own. all with my own hands. its been the best thing to battle long term massive depression i have ever done, better than pills, alcohol, etc.

noise for me is perfect and of course that is just me. but that is the point. i always said in bands and ive continued it into solo noise "if its something i would like and want to play/listen to etc then its worth my time."

to me the "other" is out there and if i am to come into interaction then fucking great, but if not, im at peace with it. i cannot express how strongly i feel about this right now. i dont have to impress anyone, in noise you can fully be yourself in what you produce, how you present it, how much of it you give away, trade, sell, etc.

i adore the interpersonal interactions i have had. i love how ive been pushed to reconsider multitudes of things through sounds, art, etc.

if you do noise for the love of it, like anything else i can think of, you are doing it right.

i hope this makes some sense.