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"What if Sonic Youth wanted to sound like This Heat taming a hive of bees?" Bill Meyer, Still Single
Personnel
Aaron Dugan (guitar)
Casey Block (electronics)
Jeff Arnal (percussion)Track Listing
Side A:
Deathless (5:39)Side B:
Lifeboat (4:56)Format: 7" Record - 33 RPM
Release date: 2011
Recorded by Seth Misterka
Newsonic Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Cover art: James MerchantAvailable Now!
• Online at Squidco
• Online in Europe at Oaksmus
• in NYC & online at Downtown Music Gallery - 13 Monroe Street;
Other Music - 15 East 4th Street; Mondo Kims - 124 1st Ave;
Academy Records - 12 West 18th Street; AR Annex Williamsburg - 96 north 6th Street
Silver Ash - live on WFMU - June 20, 2011
Lifeboat / Intermission (9:22)
Selected Press
"Silver Ash tossed two kinetic and utterly fearless songs onto this tiny slab.. Strikingly awesome." Jon Worley, A&A
"Propulsive, but abstract and really quite dithery. I like." Byron Coley, The Wire
"You can almost smell the opium and see the haze; the jam continues to unwind in slow motion. There is no grand gesture, but a fluid ride through orbit." Derek Morton, Furthernoise
"The B side "Lifeboat" keeps the edgy intensity in full force as a droning swarm of electronic noise threatens to strike at any moment. There is a beauty in hanging on for dear life.." R.A.D Vinyl
Artist Bios
CASEY BLOCK is a multi-instrumentalist specializing in experimental sound textures and ambient drone improvisations and compositions - mostly created with processed analog synthesizers and electric guitars. Currently Block performs and records with Long Distance Poison, Silver Ash, Mushroom Cloud as well as other projects. He has a long history as a DJ with a weekly radio show called "just music" on East Village Radio. Block is the proprietor / curator of Eat Records, a Brooklyn based record store, cafe and performance space.
AARON DUGAN is a guitarist, composer and songwriter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dugan has performed and recorded with a wide variety of musicians and producers including Roots Tonic, Matisyahu, Trevor Hall,Bootsy Collins, Amy Carrigan, John Zorn, Maya Dunietz, Chris Tunkel, Mark Guiliana and Bill Laswell. Dugan has clinched two Gold Records as lead guitarist on Matisyahu's Live at Stubb's and Youth, and has recorded two solo albums featuring his own compositions.
"Percussionist JEFF ARNAL's balletic sense of time and imaginative deployment of colour have combined into a highly original concept." (The Wire) Arnal performs and collaborates with a wide range of musicians and choreographers in the U.S. and Europe. He has received grants and fellowships from ASCAP, Brooklyn Arts Council, Meet the Composer and Art Omi International. His music can be heard on a number of independent record labels, including Transit (Clean Feed 2009 & 2005), Rogue States with Gordon Beeferman (Generate 2006), MEJA with Michael Evans (C3R 2006) and with Dietrich Eichmann (Broken Research 2007 & Leo 2004).
Links
www.aarondugan.com
www.eatrecords.com
www.generaterecords.net/JeffArnal.htm
Dog Day: Aaron Dugan & Jeff Arnal 2007 CD
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Silver_Ash/For more information contact: jeff [at] generaterecords [dot] net
Photo by Amy Carrigan
