SSC18 40 minute cassette x 50 + digital download
https://shiftingsandscongregation.bandcamp.com/releases
In addition to a bold union of choice ambient music, this split cassette marks three new directions for the handmade label, simeltaneously. shifting sands congregation announces it is now a collective, as it has always intended to be.
Renewal
mandolins and violins are tuned the same. Kazdin lives in Arizona and he’s full of vitality.
cassettes and new design direction.
Rain Drinkers//Rats Heap The Cairn split cassette and digital download coming the end of July. Stay Tuned.
SSC18 double business card 3”cd-r + digital download code
x 20
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“A funereal echo emanates from deep within the abandoned outskirts of Antigo, Wisconsin.
Hidden among the rusty detritus of a long-since boarded up pea canning factory you will find the Tiki Room, and nestled within its hundreds of Polynesian idols and unused bar ware resides our mournful heroes, Wyrding. A group of reunited childhood friends, Wyrding set forth to take the slow, agonic sounds of the early Finnish “funeral doom” sound, translated into a lyric-based “word ritual” setting. Performed entirely on acoustic instruments, that is to say, stripped of their predecessors’ volume and bombast, Wyrding concentrates on the style’s essence: raw emotion, atmosphere, and a distinct concentration on melody. A play on the old word for “fate” or “destiny,” Wyrding’s celestial, doomed folk sounds were derived from an aleatoric re-arranging of words, using chance to define structure. It was fate, nay, Wyrd which reunited these wayward souls, and it was Wyrd which defines their unique, mournful sound.”
– Jon Rosenthal
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Brett Hartl
Troy Schafer
Antigo, WI
2014
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Joel Shanahan performed acoustic guitar on the opening of (disc 2)
Joseph Taylor performed wood flute on the conclusion of (disc 2)
US – paypal $6.66 to troyallenschafer@gmail.com
Elsewhere – please contact me first
SSC17 business card 3”cd-rx50
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slipping from Stars forsaken in little Nightleaves
the Chain untaut sings against the sky
and the Stars black-fleshed will take the Soil
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schlupf auf Sternen verlassen in kleinen Nachtlaub
der Kette unstraff singt gegen den Himmel
und die Sternen düsterkonkretisiert wird die Erdreich nehmen
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Val Dorr
Troy Schafer
2014
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text and translation by Val Dorr
SSC16 3”cd-rx50/4.7”cd-rx50
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Recording in solitude for years, the Conjuror finally emerges from the charnel grounds of Madison, Wisconsin with six pieces of deep droning metamusik alchemy constructed for total sonic trance immersion.
Recorded 2011-2013
Ian Adcock- Synthesizer, Keyboards
http://earbleed.wordpress.com/conjuror/
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SSC15 4.7”cd-rx50
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We are proud to reissue the well received 2011 release, Urthen Web. Dani Schafer‘s design for the original cassette tape has been reworked to a dimension that holds this 4.7″ CDR. With a standard white disc in poly sleeve, the simple manner of presentation is cohesive with the band’s highly sought after series issued via Reverb Worship.
As the mighty Brave Mysteries stated, “Rain Drinkers is the duo of Wisconsinites Joe Taylor and Xavier Kraal, creating evocative chamber music that flows through a wide range of contrasting movements with a cinematic ease. From spaghetti western-esque horn arrangements through hypnotic electric piano dirges overcome by adept hand drumming and delivered unto comforting cosmic resolve. Moments bring to mind an ecstatic yet equally patient take on the early Popol Vuh albums, but radically dynamic and steeped in a wide variety of organic atmospherics and fidelity. Another kindred vision is a specifically northern and wintry rendering of the soundtrack to Jodorowsky’s “El Topo”. Unknown to majority of the sonic voyager scene in the midwest, for the last two years these isolated mystery men have conjured and realized an inspiring new world of spiritist sound and we are proud to present this document as a small window into their astounding pocket of the universe.”
Take note that the original 100 cassettes sold out quickly. This hand numbered CDR edition is exactly half that size.
SSC14 3”cd-rx50
Manipulating electric signals as a performative event, dronescape duo Jivas once again dive deep into their unique brand of textural storytelling. This document is a sonic remembrance of the lives and deaths of rodents nesting inside an organ within the home of said performers.
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Jacob Zeldin
Joel Shanahan
Madison Wisconsin
2013
SSC13 3”cd-rx50
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Mystery man Sonny Blood has been inspiring a world of free jams and outsider sound collages since the cows went over the hill. Here, he humbly takes our hand, leading us down a pathway of the heart. Listen. Learn. Yearn. Run river, run. Released on the summer solstice of 2013.
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Sonny Blood
Madison Wisconsin
SSC12 3”cd-rx32
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On the twenty second day of the ninth month of the two thousand twelfth year, the sixth annual Milwaukee Noise Festival hosted a blistering performance by two of three members of the Old Northwestern sect. of the ever prolific Spiral Joy Band.
Troy Schafer – amplified viola
Patrick Best – amplified viola
Jupiter Junior
with tenderest love and deep appreciation to Mikel Dimmick
Milwaukee Wisconsin
released in 2013
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SSC11 3″cd-rx50
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Xavier Kraal
Ian Addcock
Jerry McDougal
mastered by Nathaniel Ritter
Ian Adcock of Second Family Band and Xavier Kraal of Rain Drinkers reunite to inspire and document a second drunken illusion of grandeur, this time on moonlit waters of the Wisconsin river and home to legendary horror novelist August Derleth. They are joined by bass guitarist and tube amp guru Jerry McDougal to open a 22 minute portal leading no one anywhere but therein another.
Village of Prairie Du Sac, WI
2013
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