music by Joel and friends...
Joel Stern and Friends
Gyanism - Yr Nicked
CDR 3" from Half/theory (HALF07)
Perhaps one of the loudest recordings on plastic. Gyanism is the group of Yusuke Akai, Diaji Igarashi, Scott Sinclair and Joel Stern. "Yr Nicked" is a live performance soundtracking the popular cop soap opera The Bill. A brutal and strange document.
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Joel Stern / Jim Denley - Tape and Paint Game
CDR from Splitrec (cdr09)
tape and paint game CDR 9 (Splitrec) joel stern - field recordings, contact mics, electronics, editing, mastering jim denley - alto sax, field recordings, editing, mastering 'This is a project developed over 2 years. We initially recorded, and then corresponded with our recompositions, recorded again, and recomposed again and again, adding and subtracting. So it feels to us, like a sort of finely honed collective cooking session'. recorded in melbourne and brisbane 2003 + 2004
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Joel Stern / Anthony Guerra - Outdoor Bowers
CDR from PseudoArcana
Australians Joel Stern (field recordings, manipulated objects and electronics) and Anthony Guerra (guitar and electronics) return with another example of their articulate hum and crackle and drone. Although recorded in London there is something recognisably Australian about the sounds on this disk. With its feral bird calls and dry twiggy rustles it somehow evokes the Aussie bush under an endless blue sky. Guerra's guitar loops and feedback drones craft the endless planes, the tentative human settlements and jagged ridges for the growth of Sterns brittle but miraculous organic life-forms. Occasionally harsh, but always warm, this disk is a majestic place to hang out.
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Joel Stern / Anthony Guerra - Stitch
CD from Impermanent Audio
"Guerras luminous drones loop through much of the music, refracted at times into recurrent sub-Frippertronics. Stern wafts clouds of interference into this radiant atmosphere, agitated particles of noise and found sound that either hang around like dust or cling together in a continuum that inverts the guitars serenity." Julien Crowley, The Wire September 2003
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Joel Stern / Anthony Guerra / Paul Hood - Low Resistance Group
CD from PARAdisc
low resistence group anthony guerra - electric guitar, electronics joel stern - field recordings, contact mics, electronics paul hood - GP3 record player, amplified objects, mixing desk six improvisations recorded in London 14 November 2002 18 Ausgust 2002 at resonanceFM edited/mastered by joel stern, melbourne april 2003 visual artwork / design michael rodgers
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Joel Stern / Michael Northam - Wormwood
CD from Groundfault
joel stern and michael northam wormwood Ground Fault series 1 The five wormwood pieces are taken from a single recording session which happened late at night, in a loungeroom borrowed from friends, at petticoat lane, east london, on dec29th 2002. michael had only just arrived fresh/weary from his explorations in malta, joel was preparing to leave london after 3 years and return home to australia. the music, in all its abstraction, reflects this transitory moment of shared sensibility and open exchange between two people heading in opposite directions.
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Loren Chasse - THE AIR IN THE SAND
CD from naturestrip (NS3004)
the air in the sand drawing dirt the tree on the sky the air inside the rain drawing water the air against the ground
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Toshiya Tsunoda - SCENERY OF DECALCOMANIA
CD from naturestrip (NS3003)
Unstable Contact Wind Whistling Cavity of Cylinder Curved Pipe Filmy Feedback Ferry Passing Cut Diagonally
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Various Artists - Overland
CD from naturestrip (NS3002)
Toshiya Tsunoda - Reclaimed Land Joel Stern - Saltwort Tarab - Of hollow traces Lawrence English - A Summer Crush
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Tarab - Surfacedrift
CD from naturestrip (NS3001)
surface iron leaf bottle
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Joel Stern / Richard Francis / Mattin / Anthony Guerra - Bluescreen 7"
LP 7" from CMR
edition of 250 by New Zealand imprint CMR, 2 sharp vinyl sides of lively hiss methodology improvisation from this multinational quartet
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Various Artists - sound surrounds us 5
CD from musicyourmindwillloveyou (mymwly0046)
number 5 is alive!! a: little head big body (stumble bum feedback sloppy heart drums) b: ray off (sweet psychedlic dream folk) c: no guru (jaggered circles of sound in search of a mantra) d: biffplex (reverse glacial decay)
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Impromptulons - mentha
Cassette from breakdance the dawn (bdtd20)
an assemblage of improvised moments recorded in brisbane in various basements and garages 2005 will - percussion, guitar, clarinet adam - bass and objects peter - saxophone alan - percussion, guitar joel - krar, trumpet, electronics marek - electric guitar rin - panda box
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ANTONY MILTON - guitar has strings
CDR from black petal (#4)
a year without your guitar can seem a lifetime. our hero returns from india to his beloved beast and makes this record. simple fucked up guitar figures break through cassette deck mud. we proudly guarantee no flash finger frenzies.. this is raw folk glories and blues for everybody. cdr with handmade covers.
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ANTHONY GUERRA - empty kingdoms
CD from black petal (#1)
melancholy guitar and disembodied moans of sadness. loner blues of a deeply personal kind. compact disc with handmade covers.
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MATTIN - songbook 3
CDR from black petal (#5)
post-VU down-strummed trash nihilism and savage intent. werner dafeldecker (autistic daughters, polwechsel, etc) adds his most bloody-minded bass playing on half the tracks, and the other half feature Noid of Vienna on cello. cdr with handmade covers.
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Eugene Carchesio & Leighton Craig - Leaves
CD from naturestrip (NS3005)
'In the backyard on a windy summer's day. Human sound cedes to the environmental symphony.'
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