Well, this is very late, but such is the way of life.
New Dumbass Album: Robbing Graves
Robbing Graves, the new album
“The negative form of the self exercises a loosening power as well as a binding power; at any time it can quite arbitrarily start all over again, and no matter how long one idea is pursued, the entire action is within a hypothesis.”
Robbing Graves is the new release from Dumbass.
It is an intense expressionist and experimental suite of music in two parts. The first part (the title track), is a 54 minute piece of music that is both sonically and lyrically challenging. It is deeply intertextual, both formalist and freeform, with lyrics in 4 languages, and music that moves from minimal and quiet to brash and noisy.
Robbing Graves weaves the past and present together, figuratively and literally through extensive use of archival recordings and incisive self-reflection.
The second part plays more like a traditional album, with more manageable song lengths, but it is in fact a continuation of an overarching narrative that moves, from bar 1 of part 1 towards its inevitable conclusion in the final song.
The album is available to download for free here at the Dumbass website.
It is also available in a portfolio edition, with 2 CDs, a liner-book, and 4 hand printed woodcuts. Contact us through the Trash Records Facebook page if you are interested.
Finally, you can also stream the first Part of the album on youtube and vimeo.
The Fools: EP!
Here is the all new EP, entitled: “EP,” from the all new “The Fools.”
We hope you enjoy it!
New Noise Music: Barrow Island 2
We are very pleased to present the second Barrow Island album.
Barrow Island is instrumental noise music made with a single drum machine, a bass guitar, a mixer, maaaaany patch cables, and a big fat pile of effects pedals. like the first album it was recorded live in single takes.
Tracks:
2015 Annual Report
The 2015 Trash Records Annual Report is here.
We planned to have it done for the end of January… but better late than never.
New Pin Album: Internet Sarcasm
Here is the new album from Pin, “Internet Sarcasm.” We hope you enjoy it.
TRACKS:
01 FASTER, TASTIER, & ABOVE ALL, EASIER
08 & WHY NOT TOMORROW (PART 2)
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Visit the Pin homepage for album art, more information, more downloads, videos, and so on.
New Pin Single!
We are delighted to present the new single from Pin: “Faster, Tastier, @ Above All EASIER”
It’s from the forthcoming album: “Internet Sarcasm”
Download it here:
01 FASTER, TASTIER, & ABOVE ALL EASIER
02 DAY AND NIGHT IN THE BRAVE NEW WORLD
For more information go to www.trashrecords.org/pin
And watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC0oOEtLAn0
New Noise Music: Barrow Island 1
Happy New Year.
Here is a late Christmas present and a noisy new years… whatever.
Barrow Island is noisy. Made with one drum machine, one bass guitar, and a pile of effects pedals, recorded live in single takes… Enjoy!
New PIN!
“Tack” is the new single from PIN.
“Tack in” is the b-side for the new single (“Tack”) from PIN.
Together, “Tack” and “Tack in” comprise the new release from PIN.
Here is a link to download the new song “Tack” from PIN.
Here is a link to download the new song “Tack in” from PIN.
To the right of this text is the cover art for the single “Tack”, the new release from PIN.
Below this text is the full booklet for the single “Tack”, the new release from PIN.
We hope you enjoy “Tack”, the new release from PIN.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
New Dumbass Release
The Execution of Random Actions (2005)
Random Action #1
Random Action #2
Random Action #3
Random Action #4
Random Action #5
Random Action #6
Random Action #7
Random Action #8
Random Action #9
Random Action #10
Random Action #11
Random Action #12
Random Action #13
Random Action #14
Random Action #15
Random Action #16
Random Action #17
Random Action #18
Random Action #19
Random Action #20
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A Little History:
In 2002 Dumbass recorded an album called The Execution of Certain Actions, an album based on exploring the concept of ritual… particular actions taking place in particular ways, in particular times and places… As we put it at the time: “Time and space themselves are the instruments here. Recorded at night in scrap yards, railway tunnels, and atop a 40 foot metal tower, the recording process is ritualized and ritual represents the musical score.”
In 2005 we returned to the idea, but this time we decided to explore its opposite pole… we delved into the idea of randomness… if ritual is all about the significance of actions, we wanted to explore the meaninglessness of actions. As I put it in the recent retrospective:
“We explored the notion that human beings are no more able to be truly random than computers. We began each recording session with no pre-decided ideas or plans. We tried to do things randomly:
“I’ll record some drums.”
“I’ll record some bass.”
“I’ll chop up what you just recorded.”
“I’ll chop up what you recorded a week ago.”
“I’ll slow this down.”
“I’ll delete the guitar.”
Etc. etc. etc.
We plugged instruments in or miked them up and just pressed “record.” Lyrics were written the same way: I would randomly decide to lay down a vocal. Sometimes I would open my notebook and just write whatever came out, sometimes I would decide to edit this or that text, sometimes I would just stand at the mike and make it up on the spot. At one point I flipped through my notebook, reading lines and words from songs from previous albums at random. And yet…
And yet, it’s all strangely musical. And yet, lyrical themes developed (a series of song texts that revolve around the seasons, for instance). Random things should surprise you… what surprised us was just how un-random it all sounded. We had an inkling that this is how it would turn out, but not the extent (did this inkling affect the outcome?).
I like this album a lot, but it got a bit lost between the bigger projects that preceded and succeeded it. It’s nice then to put it out now where it can breathe a bit more.
This is a noisy album, it’s sonically harsh at times, but it has, I think, a strangely deep musicality to it that I have a hard time explaining (a result, no doubt, of the “random actions” forcing our musical subconscious, instincts, muscle-memory, etc. to take the wheel as our conscious planning-minds tried to forsake the driver’s seat). It’s also a lively and, I would say, again, strangely joyous album.”
I hope you enjoy it,
ZM