Hey everybody the "isolationist" cd has finally been released. Checkout the details here
www.isounderscore.com
Brandon who runs isounderscore wrote a great write up for the cd that you can read at the above website as well.. Order the cd while you can they are going pretty fast, and i am super happy with this release, my favorite so far. The art is also impossible to represent online the color of the art work is to neon to show up correctly on most monitors so you will have to see it in person, not to mention the really awesome spot varnish that is invisible unless viewed up close.........Good times all around.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
New Acre tour 2009
Heres some upcoming dates i have set up. All of these shows are going to be great.
10-29-09...Sutro bath ruins.(s.f.).not so secret show feat, acre,malefica,brandon nickell, and al qaeda.
10-30-09..kfjc radio(s.f.)..live in studio and interview session.I have never done this before,maybe ill
sound like an ass!
10-30-09..The Lab...(s.f.) Great show with Pedestrian Deposit,Work/Death, brandon nickell, and Infinite Body
10-31-09..The Smell..(l.a.) Halloween night with Work/Death, pedestrian deposit,terrors, and Oneohtrix
point never.
11-01-09..Totally intense fractal mindgaze hut! (oak)..with Burmese!,Deathroes!,Brandon Nickell, and Ohrima
11-03-09..Barnhouse(sea)..with Red squirrels,Cathartech, Brandon Nickell, and impact test dummy.
11-04-09..State and Quince house.(oly) with Cairo Pythian,Brandon Nickell, and Street without Joy.
11-05-09..Work Sound..(pdx)...Daniel Menche!!!!!, and brandon Nickell...tour end show..what a wrap up!
After all these shows are said and done, i will post some photos and comments..wish me luck..i hope to see a few of you as the tour goes on.
10-29-09...Sutro bath ruins.(s.f.).not so secret show feat, acre,malefica,brandon nickell, and al qaeda.
10-30-09..kfjc radio(s.f.)..live in studio and interview session.I have never done this before,maybe ill
sound like an ass!
10-30-09..The Lab...(s.f.) Great show with Pedestrian Deposit,Work/Death, brandon nickell, and Infinite Body
10-31-09..The Smell..(l.a.) Halloween night with Work/Death, pedestrian deposit,terrors, and Oneohtrix
point never.
11-01-09..Totally intense fractal mindgaze hut! (oak)..with Burmese!,Deathroes!,Brandon Nickell, and Ohrima
11-03-09..Barnhouse(sea)..with Red squirrels,Cathartech, Brandon Nickell, and impact test dummy.
11-04-09..State and Quince house.(oly) with Cairo Pythian,Brandon Nickell, and Street without Joy.
11-05-09..Work Sound..(pdx)...Daniel Menche!!!!!, and brandon Nickell...tour end show..what a wrap up!
After all these shows are said and done, i will post some photos and comments..wish me luck..i hope to see a few of you as the tour goes on.
Monday, September 7, 2009
New releases, and new tour!
Just finished all the artwork for my new cd "isolationist" which will be coming out in october thanks to the wonderful isounderscore label out of San Francisco..The cd is two tracks off of the very limited release of painless, which was originally released on students of decay, plus one new track, all of which were mastered my Thomas Dimuzio..I will be doing a short westcoast tour to support the cd including a record release show in s.f. on the 30th of oct.
The recording and soon the mastering for the foxy digitalis cd will also soon be finished. The cd took me over a year to produce, and after a few minor set backs will be seeing the light of day either sometime later this year or early next year..I have a tour in the works to support this cd as well, it will be a canadian,midwest, and eastcoast tour sometime in the spring or early summer.
The recording and soon the mastering for the foxy digitalis cd will also soon be finished. The cd took me over a year to produce, and after a few minor set backs will be seeing the light of day either sometime later this year or early next year..I have a tour in the works to support this cd as well, it will be a canadian,midwest, and eastcoast tour sometime in the spring or early summer.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
reviews that ive found
from last fm Acre - Candyflipping
This album is just epic, in every sense of the word. Bubbling buzzing sinewave sounds ebb along before finally coalescing into a huge mass of chords that just blows you off your feet. Repeat that process three times and you have "Candyflipping".
from unconscious repeat blog...
From Honey Owens' (Valet) Yarnlazer label, comes an all-time great drone record, Acre's Candyflipping. The only other drone full-length I've heard that can compete is Folke Rabe's What??, from 1970, although that one was too intense for me back when I heard it in '05, so I only listened to it twice. Both album's are as subtle as ambient, but far too heavy to meet the "ignorable as it is interesting" criteria--I mean heavy in the sense of undertow, rather than, like, doomy, colon-jamming low-end. That especially goes for track one on Candyflipping, "Moth". Its textures are unbelievable, and it continues to evolve over its whole length, first picking up force with speedier bass tones around the half-way point and then widening the sound pallette a bit for the climax. A label-making part of my brain wants to call this stuff "power drone": it makes you feel like you're being charged by a current so elemental you can't tell if its healthy or unhealthy. If Kevin Shields heard this, I think he'd probably cry. Sonic Boom would definitely smile...
expressway to my skull had this to say!!
Painless is a 70 minute long drone overload, much more straightforward than the releases I've come across. That, however, doesn't make it any less interesting. Painless is heavy on the layering of his droning synths, well, at least what I make out to be synths, most of which are likely to be of the vintage variety. Most of these untitled tracks begin with a simple cyclical drone which slowly pans back and forth between the speakers. Many more layers are slowly added over the course of twenty minutes (3 of the tracks on Painless are around 20 minutes), the panning picks up in pace until the speakers and your brain are rattling with ecstasy...or terror, depending on your threshold for such music. Painless is a great entry into the ever-widening world of Acre.
i finally got these posted im so lazy usually!!
This album is just epic, in every sense of the word. Bubbling buzzing sinewave sounds ebb along before finally coalescing into a huge mass of chords that just blows you off your feet. Repeat that process three times and you have "Candyflipping".
from unconscious repeat blog...
From Honey Owens' (Valet) Yarnlazer label, comes an all-time great drone record, Acre's Candyflipping. The only other drone full-length I've heard that can compete is Folke Rabe's What??, from 1970, although that one was too intense for me back when I heard it in '05, so I only listened to it twice. Both album's are as subtle as ambient, but far too heavy to meet the "ignorable as it is interesting" criteria--I mean heavy in the sense of undertow, rather than, like, doomy, colon-jamming low-end. That especially goes for track one on Candyflipping, "Moth". Its textures are unbelievable, and it continues to evolve over its whole length, first picking up force with speedier bass tones around the half-way point and then widening the sound pallette a bit for the climax. A label-making part of my brain wants to call this stuff "power drone": it makes you feel like you're being charged by a current so elemental you can't tell if its healthy or unhealthy. If Kevin Shields heard this, I think he'd probably cry. Sonic Boom would definitely smile...
expressway to my skull had this to say!!
Painless is a 70 minute long drone overload, much more straightforward than the releases I've come across. That, however, doesn't make it any less interesting. Painless is heavy on the layering of his droning synths, well, at least what I make out to be synths, most of which are likely to be of the vintage variety. Most of these untitled tracks begin with a simple cyclical drone which slowly pans back and forth between the speakers. Many more layers are slowly added over the course of twenty minutes (3 of the tracks on Painless are around 20 minutes), the panning picks up in pace until the speakers and your brain are rattling with ecstasy...or terror, depending on your threshold for such music. Painless is a great entry into the ever-widening world of Acre.
i finally got these posted im so lazy usually!!
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
NEWS!!!!!!!!
I just finished the first acre album..It has taken a really long time. Now i just have to mix everything! All of that will be taking place at the sweet Type foundry studios some time in august with the help of Jeremy romagna who has worked with some really great acts and is in one of Portland´s coolest bands johnny x and the groadies...I dont have a title for the album yet but i can say its going to be released on cd..its about an hour in length so no vinyl this time..vinyl is good for acre singles but to achieve true zone out potential i cant have anyone getting up to flip an lp thats part of some pretentious 6 record set!...hahaha..
Keep an eye out for the album im very happy about it..im not telling anyone who is releasing it yet but will say that im very happy to be working with such a label.
I have also had to postpone a u.s. tour that was going to happen in september which really sucks.. i was looking forward to that big time..just waiting on the album to be finished and getting a release date, hopefully after that an extensive u.s. tour will follow.
Keep an eye out for the album im very happy about it..im not telling anyone who is releasing it yet but will say that im very happy to be working with such a label.
I have also had to postpone a u.s. tour that was going to happen in september which really sucks.. i was looking forward to that big time..just waiting on the album to be finished and getting a release date, hopefully after that an extensive u.s. tour will follow.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
bay area at the moment
in the bay area until the 24th...i will be playing an acre set tonight at bay area 51. 1667 jerrold ave@ 3rd st...later this week ill be playing in some dark holler at terminal and with throbbing gristle at the regency ball room..
.hopefully when i get back to portland i can finish my cd that i have been working on for the better part of a year. It will be released by foxy digitalis and mastered by pete swanson..
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
movies..and things im into lately!
movies....
SALO.....good but not for everyone....all about consumerism and fascism....very graphic!
SWEET MOVIE...another great film about the death of liberal politics via modern consumerism!
BAD TIMING..another great movie starring art garfunkel? who knew
STRAIGHT TIME...this movie is why dustin hoffman was once considered a good actor! also has girl from bad timing in it..
FIVE EASY PIECES......karen black and jack nicholson are great in this..
PLAN 10 FROM OUTERSPACE...rad movie about teenage girl coming of age in salt lake city and aliens and the mormon bible.....rad...seriously...
PUNISHMENT PARK......it has to be seen to be believed...awesome movie.
political stuff....
THE RED ARMY FACTION.......really great and serious..political activists from west berlin..really active in the 70s..also check out commune1 and socialist patients kollective...all connected somehow.....
books....
BEHOLD THE MAN.......by michael moorecock...cool book about time travel and jesus?
very strange.. i wont give anything away but will say that this book is great..short too..for easy reading.....
BEST SHORT STORIES OF J.G. BALLARD..if you dont know who this is already check this guy out...great stuff....psychedelic sci fi at its best.....the movie empire of the sun is ballards autobiography.
SALO.....good but not for everyone....all about consumerism and fascism....very graphic!
SWEET MOVIE...another great film about the death of liberal politics via modern consumerism!
BAD TIMING..another great movie starring art garfunkel? who knew
STRAIGHT TIME...this movie is why dustin hoffman was once considered a good actor! also has girl from bad timing in it..
FIVE EASY PIECES......karen black and jack nicholson are great in this..
PLAN 10 FROM OUTERSPACE...rad movie about teenage girl coming of age in salt lake city and aliens and the mormon bible.....rad...seriously...
PUNISHMENT PARK......it has to be seen to be believed...awesome movie.
political stuff....
THE RED ARMY FACTION.......really great and serious..political activists from west berlin..really active in the 70s..also check out commune1 and socialist patients kollective...all connected somehow.....
books....
BEHOLD THE MAN.......by michael moorecock...cool book about time travel and jesus?
very strange.. i wont give anything away but will say that this book is great..short too..for easy reading.....
BEST SHORT STORIES OF J.G. BALLARD..if you dont know who this is already check this guy out...great stuff....psychedelic sci fi at its best.....the movie empire of the sun is ballards autobiography.
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