COLDSORE

DOOM /// DRONES /// LESS

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JOINED BY WIRE / COLDSORE - we are of dark rays (split-tape)

We are of dark rays, But we observe with the mystery to imagine Our angle limits, Our circle maps, Shadow Ellipse total uses of, Eclipses of Ether, Ecliptic face of obliquity Yet its scarcity of phenomena Nevertheless, to remain everywhere ,simultaneously With unexpected astonishment. (JBW) One month after the recordings 'we are of dark rays' (joinedbywire.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-of-dark-rays) has been released online by JOINED BY WIRE, a project me (grm) had been following for quite a while with great interest and admiration, the COLDSORE recordings were conducted during xMESS'24. Later on, i invited and we agreed to do split-tape cassette release with our recordings under the same title/concept. Recorded with different means and approaches, but with what i consider to be a suitable atmospheric overlap, we here present 90min of long form guitar based experimental ambient noise and modular drum'n'drone. One side of our tape has been recorded in a span of about a year and the other recorded in one night. Listen to in the dark, while positioned horizontally to let the dark rays in.  C90 split-tape cassette, milky white cassette body with a black and white label on one side and a 3-panel fold out J-card in black and white laserprint in a standard cassette case with a shiny white back part. hand numbered, limited edition of 30 copies.

Released by totes-format.weebly.com.

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COLDSORE - LOSS

it's getting darker + sadder, one sinks easier when the heart is heavy, even when the sea withdraws during low tide. loss/lost. please, listen to this in the dark. get low, i always lay down for it. [in memory of pille waldrand.]

--- graphic + audio, everything by grm. except the stolen voices, those are not. coldsore-sound.tumblr.com totes-format.weebly.com

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3 new limited edition CDrs available

spraypainted CDr with full color photopaper cover in plastic envelope, hand numbered limited edition of 15 copies. Order them here: https://totstellen-grmmsk.bandcamp.com

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COLDSORE - germoney mini-tour '24

I was kindly invited to play 2 shows in june '24 in enemy territory (germany). The first one will be in leipzig/Zoro, where i have been allowed to play with all my other projects before (TOTSTELLEN, GRMMSK) and now with COLDSORE as part of the Claws Of Saurtopia Noise Fest 2024 on the 7./8. June and one the weekend later in hannover/Oberdeck (formerly Silke Arp Bricht) on the 15.6.24. See you around.

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THE SORE BIRDS ARE COLD HERE

Here's the second release of THE SORE BIRDS ARE COLD HERE with 6 tracks of the same 'sessions' as the previous release (totstellen-grmmsk.bandcamp.com/album/rathill-pt-1). This time with slightly shorter tracks of experimental drone / field-recording assemblages. Recordings of reclaimed spaces, shelters, transitional zones and 'new homes lost'. Swallows nesting in flooded bunkers. City dwelling crows building nests from anti-bird spikes. Wasps building hives inside sheds from material they chew of the outer walls of the same structure. Clusters of material, repurposed, stolen, salvaged, reclaimed, re-assembled. Building another new home from the avalanche of debris pushed around for ages. It is all leaking, no matter how many layers we patch together. Between the construction noise, we even hear some melodies here and there, when the drones become less static and start to move around in the vast container spaces. We hope you like our sonic explorations, as much as we did. Keep moving. Find homes. Tear down borders. Give shelter. White translucent C90 tape in white backed standard case. the tape has a hand stamped sticker and has a blank B-side full of magnetic potential. the cover is a black and white laser print with fragments of a found wasp nest, that was already destroyed glued to it. the standard stock paper has the number of the copy and edition rubber-stamped on it's rear-flap. Limited edition of 34 copies. Released by Totes Format. totes-format.weebly.com THE SORE BIRDS ARE COLD HERE are Matt and Grm. Mastering, layout and production by GRM for TOTES FORMAT. THERE ARE NO BIRDS HERE: therearenobirdshere.bandcamp.com COLDSORE: coldsore-sound.tumblr.com

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THE SORE BIRDS ARE COLD HERE - RATHILL PT.1

after the previously released split-tape of THERE ARE NO BIRDS HERE and COLDSORE on TOTES FORMAT a few years back, we decided to collaborate under the new guise of THE SORE BIRDS ARE COLD HERE. we have done so on and off for about a year in a very relaxed anti-work manner, with zero stress about productivity, since we like work to be play. unfortunately very delayed due to a breakdown of the over 2 decades old CD-burner from extreme frost exposure in the TOTES FORMAT storage facility (a woodshed) we are happy to present you this first release of our new project. (behold: one 'digital only' tune has been already appeared on an conceptual compilation on HISTAMINE TAPES. check it out: histaminetapes.bandcamp.com/track/throwstones) after a new burner was assembled from scraps, it was possible to make the first batch of 25 mini-CDrs in hand printed covers made from recycled frozen pizza boxes. this CDr contains one long-form drone / field-recording assemblage, that is based on actions of trespassing and reclaiming zones, that once were commons and have now fallen into the greedy hands of those considered to be in power over our existence in the world (on the land). this is an ode to broken down fences, busted doors, cracked locks, ladders traversing walls and acts of tunneling free. white and silver mini CDrs in hand-printed recycled cardboard stock envelope. stapled with rubber-printed title info and label logo, as well as a copy number indicator. the printed pattern is done with found off-set ink and a piece of birch bark with bug larvae tunnels. the cardboard used to be frozen vegan pizza boxes. the top side of the CDr is marked with a X. limited edition of 25 copies. released by TOTES FORMAT.

Mastering, layout and production by GRM for TOTES FORMAT. totes-format.weebly.com THERE ARE NO BIRDS HERE: therearenobirdshere.bandcamp.com COLDSORE: coldsore-sound.tumblr.com

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SOMETIMES THINGS NEED A LITTLE PUSH.

raw electronic experimentation on supply chain crashing. consumerist hum and bad injection molding flash removal. primitive anger cast in dance-on-civilizations-grave-tunes.

THE CONTAINERS ARE CRUSHED. SWING A LEG.

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COLDSORE (Enjoy Tour 23/4) 12.12. Athens (Ov Off Studio) 15.12. Thessaloniki (Lula’s Trashyard) 16.12. Kavala (Αυτο/ζόμενο στέκι στο ΔΙΠΑΕ Καβάλας) 22.12. Bremen (Zakk) 28.12. Hamburg (Hörbar) 05.01. Hannover (Oberdeck, Silke Arp Bricht)

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COLDSORE - ZERO ABSTRACTION

In the current phases of severe C-PTSD flare-ups, when the terror of the previous existence transcends space and time to get me and i become a traveler into past and future at the same time, battling memory demons and specters of the abyss ahead, the desire for a disruption of the continuum is overwhelming. sometimes listening to my own sound-pain-tings helps to calm and sooth for a moment.

[intended to be listened in horizontal position in the dark.]

Sound + artwork by GRM for TotesFormat.

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NEW MACHINES AVAILABLE FROM METSÄÄN

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This one is a heartbreaker, for the heartbroken. X-press Feeders already sounds like greed. Billions of plastique pearls are not the worst of it. A temporally broken weapon manufacturing supporting chemistry supply-chain on the cost of the coast and it's inhabitants and the live-sustaining ocean. This is global capitalism, it's nothing but a POLLUTANT. The ship carried 1486 containers with around 42 chemicals in over 700. Low and high-density polyethene nurdles, caustic soda, methanol, sodium methoxide, nitric acid, urea, vinyl acetate, epoxy resin (349 containers), lubricant oil (39 containers), and other chemical containers were among the compounds. There were also 81 dangerous containers, including lithium-ion batteries, copper slags, lead ingots, and electronic items that typically contained hazardous compounds. Following the disaster, it was found that there was still a risk of bunker oil leaking from the ship. The disaster’s most immediate and substantial impact was raw material, plastic pellets and other debris washing up on the beach several days after the major fire broke out on May 25, 2021. --- these days and nights my C-PTSD has been a heavy burden on me, together with very recent expriences that are shattering my remaining heart fragments into dust, listening to my own recordings are my sleep-crutches. i listen to them when my mind boils over and the heart-aches need numbing. to be listened to in the dark, horizontal + loud.  All sound sources are METSÄÄN machines, build and played by GRM, recorded in the by now destroyed METSÄÄN studio in 2021. Artwork and mastering by GRM for TOTES FORMAT.

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COLDSORE -SINK SANK SUNK

in my lifetime the place i grew up in will be submerged.

i am not aware, if i have got ancestors, who are not to blame for it.

those that are alive have the illusion that their offspring will still float.

--- Mastering and artwork by GRM for TOTES FORMAT. totes-format.weebly.com

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RADIO FREE UL-QUOMA / COLDSORE

C40 tape in faintly marbled seaweed green shell made from recycled plastique in teal tinted transparent standard cassette case, that looks like the water in the holiday resort pool, where some rather go for a refreshing dip, because the beach is full of black corpses. also, a greyscale foldout j-card cover and some stickers. the first edition is limited to 20 hand-numbered copies. 'the governments of the global north choose to build walls & barriers, by these actions sanction murder of those worst affected by climate change. this is genocide by choice. my thanks to GRM for compiling this collection.' (radiofreeul-quoma.bandcamp) 'we stand against murderous white supremacist borders, that kill so many. we stand for the destruction of the state, that oppresses us, while keeping us over-feed, comfortable - silenced in the face of it’s murders. often when we are silent, it is equally reason for, as well as a result of the multitude of horrors that colonial extraction + destruction has flooded the world with for the profits we consume. we have to break the loop, challenge privileges of all kind, be they based on the fantasy of white supremacy, patriarchy, class structures, … this challenge will and cannot be comfortable for those who are privileged. to take part of the liberation of the world + it’s peoples from the said horrors, we will have to leave the silence of our comfort zone + start to make some noise.' (coldsore-sound.tumblr) All of the profits from this release will be donated to sea-watch.org in solidarity. "Sea-Watch e.V. is a non-profit organization that conducts civil search and rescue operations in the Central Med. In the presence of the humanitarian crisis, Sea-Watch provides emergency relief capacities, demands and pushes for rescue operations by the european institutions and stands up publicly for legal escape routes. Since a political solution in the sense of a #SafePassage is not on the horizon, we have expanded our field of operation and made new plans. We are politically and religiously independent and are financed solely through donations."  Layout and mastering by grm for Totes Format. totes-format.weebly.com

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COLDSORE - SOOT GROWTH

SOOT GROWTH SLOWLY CHOKES. CRAWLING SMOKE INVADING LUNGS. CURSED BE EVERY EMPIRE.

SOOT GROWTH EXTENDING ZONES. INVADED LUNGS COUGH UP ASHES. DEATH TO EVERY EMPIRE.

SOOT GROWTH ON SCORCHED EARTH. WE CARRY FIRE INTO YOUR EMPIRE. WE WILL IGNITE THE END PYRE.

this was the last recording made in my last lost home. the cover is a picture of a found post-war map of berlin, that had a lot of blanks, which i stained with soot raising from a piece of burning juniper tree root from sápmi/laplad. the map was pasted to my ceiling to keep the insulating sawdust and mouse shit from raining down on me. the place i was born in - germany - is also the cradle of war in so called europe. ever since fueling the fires with it's ceaseless mass production of weapons of war. some of these tanks are manned by fascist grey wolves destroying land and people in kurdistan in an imperial ottoman expansion, while other german tanks roll up against a rusisct invasion in ukraine, claiming to cleanse it's territorial claim from fascism, while nothing else can be said the russian state itself. we are mostly collateral damage of the crossfire of propaganda so delicate and subtle we hardly sense it when it passes us through. post truth paradoxxig turns some of US into 'war boys', others into 'crazies' and many just die. all this, while the general colonial destruction of land and people goes on uninterrupted since centuries all over the world, in all the places we rarely look at and where the color of peoples skin is different, than what is constructed as white. we chose to ignore their ongoing resistance, unless it is served to us in massive PR campaigns and hence we fetishize them. we dwell in the privilege of consuming the cruel harvests of resources, that our encapsulating systems feed us. extracted without mercy or regard of the misery, grief and death it causes, we don't taste the bitterness, when we drink from the blood chalice of this death-cult everyday. call it capitalism, call it white supremacy, call it fascism, call it patriarchy - we must destroy the seed of the imperial beast that is EVERY state, the best way to do that is from within. ERODE [SABOTAGE] EMPIRE Layout and mastering by grm for Totes Format. totes-format.weebly.com

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COLDSORE - GONE DARK (POLLUTANT 7)

GONE DARK [POLLUTANT 7] by COLDSORE

These recordings are part of the POLLUTANT series, informed by the ongoing destruction of earth in the name of civilization in the name of greed and the fantasy of supremacy that must be ended. Compared to the previous parts of this series, this one is rather quiet and melancholic - a sombre mixture of drum'n'drone with a few environmental recordings including those of acoustic instruments played in oppressive urban spaces for donations and a processed guitar recording of my friend P., that has been written during the eviction and destruction of the Hambacher Wald in favor of the ever expanding motorway network, a clear invitation to the fossil-fuel/rare-earth guzzling automobile culture to persist and by that continue to destroy this earth. I myself have tried for many years to defend some of the last remaining patches of forests and it’s inhabitants against these motorway expansions, that not only slice the habitats of wildlife into tiny pieces, but that are also the veins that pump the toxic sludge of capitalist trade, extraction and exploitation into the most remote places. Power + Solidarity to all Forest / Land defenders + Water protectors. 
RESIST TO EXIST

Many thanks to:  P., Nigel Ayers + Sterile Records. 

Limited edition Tapes / CDrs + Pin available ONLY today (3.3.23) from Sterile Records:  sterilerecords.bandcamp.com

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[LIVE at NOISE TRAFFIC '23]

[LIVE at NOISE TRAFFIC '23] by COLSORE

GRM performed as COLDSORE with an array of their self build METSÄÄN MACHINES, mostly the Musique Concrète Platform (bowed, plugged, stroked and scratched), Dirty Drone synth, ANAPHYLAXIS filter + some EHX pedals. Beware: This is the most 'dark ambient' recording of COLDSORE this far. Before the instrumental set, GRM made a short rather abstract vocal intro about noise, traffic, communication, transparency, responsibility, disruption of deeply engraved patterns of social behavior and complicity. Then asked the audience to talk more about normalisation + disruption! #ENDwhitesupremacy

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COLDSORE - betonkopf

betonkopf by COLDSORE

sinking lower + lower with my heavy heart + concrete head first ...

2 longform drone environs created from a heavy heart + a head full of concrete. Based on recordings with METSÄÄN machines.

Rubber-stamped white CDr in slim plastique case painted with a very raw matte grey concrete paint. Rubber-stamped copy number and artwork label on the in inside of the case. Limited edition of 20 numbered copies.

ONLY available from totes-format.tk !!!

Download ONLY available from: totesformat.itch.io/coldsore-betonkopf