Label: Art into Life - AIL005

シアトルの作家Mark Schomburgが80年代中期に始動したプロジェクトYeast Culture。1950年代に建設された古びたアパートの一室にてノイズ/アヴァンギャルドのレコードショップを運営、同時にその現場を制作拠点とし様々な出版を行っていたカルトな集団。彼らの出版物の中でも名高い(!?)、あの"枯れ葉"を封入した至高のハンドメイド作 1st LP [IYS](1989年)をArt into Life新装版として復刻。Mark曰く、リリース当時は秋田昌美 氏がスタジオ・ヴォイス誌で紹介されていたり、またその異様な装丁で多くのアートファンからも支持を得ていた模様。"大理石調"のカラーヴァイナルに収められた、空虚ながらも「ザワザワ」とした"生"の気配が詰まった有機的コンクレートは、ノイズ、アヴァンギャルド、サウンドアート系にまで幅広く知られている。Mark本人と話し合い"大理石調"はそのままに180グラム重量盤にてプレス、ジャケットには大きく変更を加える事で決定。オリジナルが青色ベースだったのに対し、本作は深い緑色と赤色を中心に使用、表、裏、レコードのスリーヴに至るまで全面何層にもシルク印刷を施し、あの独特の生っぽい感触を再現。更にノリ付けにより完全密閉されたカヴァー部分(破らなければ取り出せなかった)は、"2本の帯"でクロス状に閉じる仕様に変更(何度も取り外し可)。実物を手にしてこそ初めて分かる、彼らのマテリアルへの過剰な執着愛を「体感!!」出来る至高のアイテム。限定300。
(カビなどが発生する事などを考慮し、本作には"枯れ葉"を付属させる事は避けました)

Full color deluxe gatefold, 180g gray vinyl printed by original artists! Fully opens to tree diagrams poster!

“Certainly this LP set new dimensions in cause of its unity of package and sound recordings. It is a walk through a mysterious forest. The flourishing and dieing process of our nature that hints at development or stagnation. A wonderful release.” - Quiet Artworks, Cologne (Köln), Germany

“That Record!” - Ron Lessard, RRRecords

“I could turn a lot of people on to that record!” - Aaron Dilloway, Hanson Records

“This is a field of action implied, in the many possibilities and several contextualities of time...”,“...projecting music outside the realm of musicology, with a well structured leap into the biological realm of sound and perception...” citing the IYS LP for example in note 56.
– excerpted from Part II of THE NOISE OF HISTORIES by Giancarlo Toniutti, posted on http://www.23five.org

“AMAZING LP!!!!” - Howard Stelzer, Intransitive Recordings

IYS – stem, branch, expression. Radiative expansion.
The tree is silent. Make it speak. Assault on Venus.
Cartesian grid or dimensional zones? Plants & animals.
Airplanes, birds. When we hear a natural sound, how is it
perceived? Is destruction an abberation in space-time?
Process music. Nature can be quite quiet. Infrequent sounds in isolation. Overnight Campsite. Revealed roots. Primitive sound genesis. Time lapse structures. Wild environments. Some things in nature are meant to be broken, like the shell of a nut. Sound of life torn apart. Not the brittle crispiness of dried fall. Pattern perception. A specific, localized sound environment. Tree removal. Reverse animation. Search for the right sized subject. Madrona. Logging roads, island trek. Sacrifice. Microcosm in sound recording. Detailed exclusion. No looping. A finite numbered sequence. Its inversion alongside. A trailer full of dissected specimen. Ladder and camera. The cultivation of a sonic germ. Is the spirit intact? A single flower tops the tree. The waxy green leaves are first plucked. It's a skeletal reversal rehearsal. Displaced matter. Three days of taping. Prepared systematic process. Horizontal reorientation of sound contents. Wood audio emissions. Tanglewood. Time compression shifting. Tiny becomes tinier. Tinny becomes tinnier. Analog reels reality analogue. The beast has left. Careful with that axe! Levels zero and one on up to the branch tips. Field drawings and photos. Archeological dig in the dirt. Unearthed trunk. A missing organism is globally dispensed with. And still this thing persists. A strange evolution through sound. Creepy.

A. IYS* (20:50)
B. IYSo (20:50)