Two New Releases on Karl Schmidt Verlag!

Goodlier Holes!

The CP is listening to "Heart and Soul", the second bottle of red has drained away, Tobi is gesticulating midway through a disquisition on pink pepper chocolate, and I've crawled away from the kitchen just long enough to spill the pintos on the two newest KSV orthostats!

Threaded foray? Sehr gut!

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KSV 051 Crvi - Two Adaptive Behavioral Collisions



KSV 055 Wohlklang: 14. Nov (Tomoko Sauvage)



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We're going out to Faust now, so I'll have to fill in the details (and upload sound/audio files) on the morrow. If you trust our obscenely high quality, don't require further info, and chose to order now, your panting parcels will go out in the morning's post!

Prices as always: € 8.49 each for the EU, and €10.00 everywhere else.

Gotta run!

Best,

Tom (Karl says Hallo too!)

Repenting Omit Worry...

Below, find a perfect segment from the (woeful, but in rosy retrospect, weirdly comforting) early 80s NBC series Real People.



Cheers to occasional KSV collaborator Tobias Prinz for the link!

Grief Preview Mixes Posted at Our MySpace Profile...

Go here, and here.

TS

Ranked Druthers: Terser Reducer...

Guten Tag,

Last night, Three Resurrected Drunkards met for the first time since our August stand at Baukasten. We rehearsed a new composition, ran through Rope Cosmetology's "I Must Mourn" (which we've adopted in the interim), discussed upcoming performance opportunities (we'll probably do a set soon at Wohlklang), and drank Pit's bitter, strangely satisfying coffee.









(Click for larger versions...)

Below, an audio excerpt, comprised of segments extracted from the various session takes.

Here.

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Drank darker crusts,

TS

Salvaged Emirs, Damages Livers...

Received the Magas track for the Grief remix box... Greatness, as expected.

Thank you Jim!

TS

Grief That Shrieked: New Promo Video...

Saturday Evening Recap...

Hello Everyone,

The CP and I are relaxing in the torpid aftermath of an action-smothered weekend. We just watched Tatort, and before, we tucked into Judd Apatow's most recent feature, Funny People.

(Which was very good. Trust us.)

Last night was exceedingly schizophrenic. We began with a Tomoko Suavage performance at Hannover's newest salon, Wohlklang. Très intime, superb all around. (There will be a KSV release.) This was followed by a colossal energy suck at Silke. (Exceedingly dire musical act, sub-standard DJ sets.) But, no need to gripe further. At least there were caches of simulated cocaine throughout the club...



(One of Ms. Suavage's axes. Click for a larger version.)



(Powdered sugar ODs rose dramatically between the hours of midnight and seven... Click, etc.)

Wish you all could have been there for Madamoiselle Suavage's set. Next time, drinks are on YOU.

Best,

Tom

Tom Smith & Kevin Drumm: Reconquer Sleep or Disappear

Droogettes,

Consider yourselves on notice!



Why? Coming early 2010 on Savage Land:

Tom Smith & Kevin Drumm - Reconquer Sleep or Disappear

Composed and performed by TS/KD, mixed and produced by TS, mastered by Weasel Walter, design by Karl Schmidt & Tobias Prinz.

TOTAL.

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Keep yr eyes pilloried,

TS

Entropy + Lethargy = Propulsive Polyphony...

Perhaps I should have applied this perfect aesthetic solvent to dissolve the complex grid of knots at the midpoint of the eternal TLASILA impasse.

Ladies and gents, Tex & Erobique. Watch it from beginning to end for the payoff...



(Vleien dank to the CP for the link!)

Televising a Sinew...

Ah, harsher rainmaker!



Brainchildren, no sons,

TS

Rivulets of Grief...

Good Morning,

The stragglers have awakened! Aussie sound demon Toecutter is completing his submission, and longtime Shavian comrade Newton will soon be fixing hellish hot rails to his mix. Three discs of madness, on their way to you, the faithful. I've updated the poster...

Watched (90% of) Jerzy Skolimowski's astounding, hallucinatory 1966 film Bariera last night with the CP.



(Jan Nowicki, on the always-smouldering suitcase, and the legs of Joanna Szczerbic, in Jerzy Skolimowski's near-perfect Bariera.)

Sleep intervened, but not from disenchantment - we'd already spent over an hour with Monday's Daily Show and the final (season three) episode of Mad Men, and as working stiffs, stamina extends only so far. Will lose myself in the remainder of Bariera later in the afternoon...

Love,

TS

The Grief That Shrieked to Multiply: Howl a Lil' Bit Longer...

The last minute submissions are flowing; the final mix (from the great Achim Wollscheid!) should be on my desk any day now. So, a reason to celebrate...



(Click above to view a larger version of the image.)

This album will be a sick, crippling beast.

Many thanks to the participating artists for coming through, and to John at Important for letting go at the proper juncture. Much of the credit goes to executive producer Graham Moore, about whom only absurdly flattering oaths need be flung. You ruled... And sincere thanks to Jakub at MonotypeRec for everything above and beyond the call.

Yours Faithfully,

TS

Illumination...

(Amended 10 Nov 09.)

Yanks possessing even the thinnest, least functioning neural filaments should be royally pissed about the Stupak amendment to the House health care reform bill.

Florida Democratic Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz speaks for many sentient Americans:

Contributor mcjoan at Kos goes into greater detail here.

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TS