Sunshine has Blown - s/t

CDR from musicyourmindwillloveyou (mymwly0048)

Archived item from Joel Stern and Friends

gorgeous solar aquatic noise scapes from this Joel Stern and Adam Park led ensemble, weaving tones amongst abstract structures...electric, meyeopic, static, streams of image noise like pictures...good to grow packaged in beautiful textured paper with inner sleeve artwork by velvet pesu... S U N S H I N E H A S B L O W N 1. Governor's House Brisbane 25th November 05 2. Mormon Gibbon Brisbane 19th Feb 06 3. Muji Judith Wright Centre Brisbane 19th December 05 4. Governor's House Brisbane 25th November 05 joel stern (1,2,3,4) – electronics, violin, guitar, mbira, trumpet, objects adam park (1,2,3,4) – reel to reel tapes, electronics velvet pesu (2) – cello, mbira, percussion joe musgrove (3) – turntable, voice, objects Scott Sinclair (3) – drums, voice, pc edited and mastered by Joel at Governor's House March 2006. Thanks salad, michael, collage planning, raffael, wilhelm, jeremy, noble, deadnotes..... review from Boa Melody Bar (scotland): Packaged in hand-made paper that looks like animal hide, this is a lovely disc from Joel Stern-led Sunshine Has Blown. Sounds seem to emerge from an inky blackness like little bubbles of light, unrecognisable tones rung from instruments such as cello, thumb piano, violin, guitar, percussion. Lovely stuff. review from Rave Magazine August 1-7th 2006: SUNSHINE HAS BLOWN – S/T (Music Your Mind Will Love You) >>> Avant-psychedelia collaboration between local sound artists Recently released by prolific sound collective Music Your Mind Will Love You (home to Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood, Terracid, 6Majik9, et al), Sunshine Has Blown documents a collaboration between Brisbane experimental artists Adam Park and Joel Stern. In partnership with Joe Musgrove, Scott Sinclair and Velvet Pesu's string, percussive, vocal and processing contributions; Park and Stern on Sunshine Has Blown have created a subtle aural voyage, with its four tracks exploring sonic elements including tape loops (both contemporary and antiquated), bursts of static, haunting piano, musique concrete elements and understated drones. Park and Stern's contributions are both of utmost importance to Sunshine Has Blown; with the space and respect the pair allow each other's input resulting in seamless waves of sound. Lovingly housed within painstakingly created packaging and released as a limited edition release, Sunshine Has Blown is a valuable document of experimental music unfettered by the demands of commerce. 4/5 - ANDREW TUTTLE Review from Bagatellen by Brian Olewnick Crowd sounds, an insistent ratchet, harsh metallic rubbing. Still, the initial impression one gets from the opening track here is one of tonality. Roundabout, perhaps, but you're pretty sure it's going to get there—except that it doesn't, not quite. It teeters, giddily if not drunkenly, on a thin edge between repeated, backwards tape loops and a low thrum of possibly guitar-ish origin on the one side and blithely diffident noise on the other. The listener is almost forced to imagine a physical location, maybe some strange arcade, where the host of simultaneous and contradictory sounds can be reconciled, Fascinating, unbalancing music, this. Sunshine Has Blown is an initiative led by Joel Stern along with Adam Park. The latter supplies the almost omnipresent tape manipulation while Stern divides time between electronics, guitar, trumpet, violin, mbira and other objects. The four performances are from live events in late 2005 and early 2006 during which they were occasionally joined by Velvet Pesu (cello, mbira, percussion), Joe Musgrave (turntable, voice, objects) and Scott Sinclair (drums, voice, percussion). They're rather unique. (I should also make mention of the lovely cover, printed on a delicate, tissue-y paper wrapped around a matte black sleeve). The second piece sounds, at its start, like an unknown tape from the "Bitches Brew" sessions that's been sitting in a basement puddle for several decades. Fugitive, vaguely funky bass thwomps, scatter-spray trumpet and ultra-low bowed string growls are all smeared under a grimy film. This gradually morphs into thumb piano and reverse tape, suction-y sounds that cast a slightly warped gamelan spell before—what was that? —some Venusian lounge band? Ah, it seems Sun Ra has entered the premises. Didn't see the rings. There's no sure footing here despite the relative easiness on the ears; everything's in dream logic. This oneiric rambling continues into the next cut, shards of hazy cocktail piano placed among the constant backtracking tape blips fading in and out amidst static and subaqueous mbiras. It's murky and eerie, reminding me a little bit of the feel imparted by Bryars' "The Sinking of the Titanic" in its submergence of music that's almost banal (at one point you hear a sequence that's uncomfortably close to the first five notes of "What the World Needs Now") within an a-musical brew. The final work contains some backwards tape with a slightly march-like cadence that recalls "Are You Experienced?", an unsettling referent in this context. Whether or not it succeeds in suspending the listener's sense of disbelief is the question. I wavered back and forth, the first track being by far the most convincingly hallucinatory, though all four pieces have their moments and plenty of them. Sunshine Has Blown manages to sound like nothing else I've heard recently, an unusual enough achievement. It's engaging, awkward, troubling and thought-provoking. In other words, check it out.