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Deep Water Sonic Productions
In addition to words we're also keen on sounds, so since Summer 2005 we've been periodically releasing into the wild some limited CD-R editions under the Deep Water Sonic Productions banner (taking over the DIY object production that used to be the province of the Deep Water magazine, before this here Web thing took over publishing...).
Unless noted otherwise, all Deep Water CD-Rs are available for $10 (doubles $13) ppd to anywhere. You can order right here, if you use paypal (we may add other payment services if demand is high). Payment may also be met via check (made out to Kevin Moist), well-concealed cash, or barter (we love the barter system, but please get in touch before mailing us a chicken or something), sent to the usual Deep Water Acres address .
Just to be safe, it's probably a good idea to get in touch first and let us know what you'd like to order before sending payment by any method. Happy listening!
object medium
Unless otherwise noted, all releases are CDRs in a heavy clear vinyl jacket and full-color front/back cardstock cover (double CDRs are housed in clear vinyl clam-shell packaging). DW013, DW021, and all releases after DW024 are professionally-pressed CDRs with full-color printed discs.
Evening Fires - Medicine Man
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A friend recently described Evening Fires' music as sounding as though Krautrock came from the Appalachians; to be honest, we weren't really sure what he meant at first, since it's hard to pinpoint any obvious influences. There are definitely some shared creative techniques though - hypnotic repetition, free improvisation, communal folk trance, devotional electronics, periodic noise overload, psychedelic production flourishes - and in EF's case it's all processed via a group mind rooted deep in the eastern hardwood forest, so I guess he was probably onto something after all. The eighth Evening Fires release, Medicine Man was brewed up in the midst of troubled times (personal and worldly) in the first part of 2010, from elements created over the preceding several years, with the larger goal of what my alchemist buddies used to call "compounding the elixir" - transcendence via distillation, y'know. As such, it features an expanded roster (eleven contributors from various phases of the group's existence) and a more elaborate exploration of the studio as instrument, with dense and trippy arrangements creating a surreal sonic landscape in multilevel motion, resulting (paradoxically) in both their most experimental and most accessible release yet. Seven tracks, 57 minutes. |
$10.00
Enumclaw - Painted Valley of the Mineral Monks
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We’re pleased to help bring into existence the second full-length release by Philadelphia’s Enumclaw (in our world known as Norm Fetter; mainstay of space-rock champs Niagara Falls, he’s also been spotted playing with Golden Ball, Espers, and other Brotherly Love notables), following up last year’s lovely Opening of the Dawn on Honeymoon records. Compared with that LP, which received deserved praise for its vintage-style spiritual cosmic psychedelia, this new disc dials in the focus to a more tightly refined palette of gently buzzing, asynchronously looping, edgily insinuating patterns of synthesized tone generation. And while it’s easy to imagine this having great appeal for fans of the best current electro-drone artists (Oneohtrix Point Never, Emeralds, etc.), Painted Valley of the Mineral Monks also has an extension chord/psychic umbilicus plugged directly into the prime circuits of late-70s synthesizer pulsations, sounding not unlike the soundtrack to some lost educational film about ancient astronauts, astral projection and LSD as composed by Eno, Moebius and Roedelius. Five tracks, 32 minutes. |
$10.00
Adam Bugaj - Telegraphed
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“Telegraphed is the long-awaited follow-up to Adam Bugaj’s debut album from 2006 which, just as expected, has been destined to a life in obscurity. It was a disc overflowed by chopped underwater ceremonies and melodic fragments that were placed against a tapestry of tape-hiss and polyrhythmic psychedelia. Imagine a rousing but still downcast sound carousel reminiscent of Wilson/Parks as much as Dreamies and you’re in the right sketchy ballpark. This new disc treads over equally fragmentized terrain but at the same time it means a step sideward from the unconventional pop formula of the predecessor to something slightly more introvert. What we get is fragile song fragments interspersed with shimmering waves of warm electronic landscapes and bedroom experimentation. It all sounds like some nearly lost memory, or like being trapped inside a dream that’s all about subtle and beautiful disorientation. Simple melodies are embellished with a suggestive kind of brilliance and a great sense of melancholia, which seems to be grounded in the ordinary world, yet the sounds are otherworldly to say the least. Imagine watching home movies from another world and you’re getting close to what this one is all about.” – Mats Gustafsson. 16 tracks, 33 minutes. |
$10.00
Evening Fires - The Book of Wonders
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Evening Fires’ previous albums have been something of a challenge to peg stylistically, given all the various species of folk psychedelic noise space drone freeform rock comfortably coexisting out in their fields of sound. The Book of Wonders, the group’s seventh release, hardly tries to put up any fences, featuring as it does ceremonial synth destruction (with metal), rural space choogle, acid-etched guitar drone, shamanic tribal drums, and elevated raga extension. But with further organic integration of the elements and added electro-sonic muscle it does carve out some new-style earthworks of monumental intent across their Appalachian landscape. The world is the book, my friends, and the wonders are all around. Five tracks, 54 minutes. |
$10.00
The Goner - Behold A New Traveler
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Behold A New Traveler is the second Deep Water entry from Sweden’s The Goner (after H.H. , last year’s 2-disc reissue of super-limited self-releases), and it marks a confident move forward on all fronts. In contrast to earlier work, most of the new Goner material is song-based (just a pair of instrumentals on hand here) and full-band powered, making for an album that’s both thematically unified and stylistically varied, from solo acoustic melancholy to wailing psych-rock. While it is still possible to draw lines from Behold… to the music of other contemporary folk-derived artists such as Six Organs of Admittance, Palace Brothers, and Stone Breath, at the same time the overall feel owes as much to Westerlund’s own cultural roots (recall that Sweden produced some legendary psychedelic rock & folk back in the 1970s), and the Goner’s creative voice continues to develop with a clarity of purpose that offers much and suggests more. Seven tracks, 37 minutes. |
$10.00
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