rive029 Eucci, Bright Lights and Cold Wet Sand [MP3,Remastered]
First release of the unofficial Eucci, Revisited series, Bright Lights and Cold Wet Sand
is now available, remastered, and in higher quality mp3 formats.
Up one path and down the other. Four tracks by Jeff Shell and Cybele
Roland for The Audio ELW, recorded late 1999. "Resurrection
Restraint" recombines the soundtracks for the Unusual Restraint
paintings and may be seen as a precursor to Eucci with its sparse analog
production. "Sleeper #4721" is exactly what it says it is, with
a bonus trip to the market. "A Misaligned Coil" and "A
Violent Compression" basically untouched from their appearance on the
long gone album "The Earth Shrunk On Speed".
Another Eucci travel piece - "Finest wintertime desolation - our favorite
summertime town in winter, with summer houses empty and fields, marshes, and
water's edges smothered by snow and ice."
Autumn 2007
rive052 Eucci, Dirty Modern Tapes, Fall 2007 [MP3]
The stylistic expansion and exploration started in Eucci's "Storm
Summer Sunhill" continues with jazz and breakcore joining a near
classical collection of analog / electro-acoustic bursts of flavor.
The heavy use of tape in recording and assembling the final product
yields a warm and gritty sound. Dirty modern indeed.
A collection of edited bootlegs, self and audience recorded, of AODL performances between November 2004 and August 2005. Murky and phased, the dust and tequila and shady electrical system of the metal shop seem to linger around the tape and minidisc sources used.
Remnants and fragments from 2000-2005 that never found their way into a finished product. A rare glimpse inside Eucci's production methods and studios. Low ambient noises, cut up percussion beats, scratches, series, and transformations.
Installation recording of the Table Stories composition. Generative electronic music in the old style - blips, banks, horns, with musique concrete touches of the installation environment.
Scenes from a life that inspired a summer catalog collection.
Jeff Shell's Eucci brings banjo, rhodes, aggressive leads, and more and runs it through the minimalist musique concrete tape machine, bringing a cut up and softly distorted sound to faintly recognizable objects and a touch of bluegrass.
Percussion, pops, and dusty instruments swarm around your ears like summer dreams in urban parks.
rive-046 Eucci, tah'naer (Halo and LGL Variations) [MP3]
Piano, prepared electric piano and tape variations of "tah'naer", a composition for piano, hospital, and typewriters by J.Shell.
tah'naer: Jeff Shell (Scream Sheet Studios, 1995)
Halo Variation: Fay Marcy (Halo Auditorium, 1999)
LGL Variation: Jeff Shell for Eucci (Eucci Pierpont 2005)
Halo + LGL Variations: Jeff Shell (Eucci Pierpont 2005)
Gritty tapes paint a downtown setting. Environmental sounds, sparse electronics, organ, and piano fill out a large and empty space. The leftover feel of memory and longing mark this as one of the most haunting and intimate releases yet from Eucci.
28 minutes of new online aodl material, continuing in the line of harsh noise release. Razorhug is harsh and aggressive, culled from a private performance in late fall 2004. Polymeric Lodowick has a soothing and rolling quality while remaining harsh and abrasive. Originally recorded in Summer 2004 prior to Muse Pile.
Autumn special 2004, taken over this season by aodl. Ten minutes. Harsh, gutteral, even lyrical? After a season of summer focused albums and singles, aodl looks back and addresses the remains, the outcomes, and new desires.
Filled with relentless gutteral intensity. aodl's machines find new models, characters, and even a spectral cheer baby to work with and release in the energy filled and overheated West Merediths.
Physical contact, metals, synths, knobs, voices, bondage tape, switches. Searing highs and grumbling lows mark the waves of summer and nasty surprises left behind. High amounts of calcium and fiber.
For a season of sunsets, glass, rocks, skin, and whiskey. Big noise summer fun from the hard bodies in the sun baked concrete+iron playpen known as West Meredith's.
From the Laa series of limited publications. Just over an hour of very bare electroacoustics. Slow bubbles in tepid water.
rive-031 aodl,Pachyderm y10 [??]
1994 collage release Pachyderm in 10th anniversary edition, with extra work from 1999 and 2003. Also includes Tune the Bean Jam, built from the rough live recording sessions used for Redbox.
Double noise album combining various efforts, public and private, from 2003 and 2004, in special packaging. Includes soundtracks for the Kate Cheuffer Sleep Experiments installation, the double live concretetapes, Marla Singer Hegemon, and more. 140 minutes.
Two tracks from the Redbox 2cd set available online for free. Includes Marla Singer Hegemon, written exclusively for whiskey valentines (a proud tradition of the Eucci Group).
Heartache? Nostalgia? Unintended sessions open old tapes and ideas to this quiet feature length release where even tape hiss becomes an instrument. Featuring the North Rutherford Chamber Society (friends of the ELW and participants in Fay Marcy's Rapid Composure Series), Sackcloth and Ashes, and a reconstructed moment from the unfinished radio play sessions, Piano Rose - described by an early listener as "near the four most beautiful minutes of my life".
Eucci's tiny sounds take us to the beach - three beaches in fact - and then into the mountains for three variations on a summer storm. Rain, sun, piers, lakes, joy, and longing permutate this new 33 minute package of seasonal goodness.
2nd edition, July 21 2003. Expanded to include the Scar Scar / Feed Circuit single. 18 minutes of new material and a new design have been applied to this heralded noise release.
EUCCI teams up with Fay Marcy for minimalist static bursts. EUCCI and Kate Cheuffer deliver a chilling work originally earmarked for Kate's "Projects for Prisons."