#k-frame

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Here we have a dainty K-Frame Model 15 with a droolworthy Schneider heavy ~4″ barrel. Meaty!

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Polished stainless 6″ S&W 617 (.22LR). Though the 617 overwhelmingly shipped with 8- and 10-round cylinders, this example appears to utilise one of the old-pattern 6-rounders from the Model 17, as well as sporting gorgeous upsized faux-inlaid filligree stocks, complete with Colt-style goldtone emblem; a modern factory S&W target trigger and (PC) adjustable sights complete the package. The full-underlug 6″ bbl. likely renders it all but ‘recoilless’!

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A 6″ S&W 617 (10-rd. .22LR) having been polished to shit and fitted with fuckin' incredibly-gorgeous handlaid laminated-enamel stocks. A full-underlug .22LR? Why the hell not? Note the polished-to-hell S&W Custom Shop wide, ribbed trigger: has to’ve been started as an acid-wash and then spent thrice-as-long on with the most annoying of fiber-cone Dremel tips. This beauty and a Calico, you’re just about set for a primerless dystopia,

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by K-frame

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ZBEEN – K-Frame

Zbeen is the project of Ennio Mazzon and Gianluca Favaron and K-frame their first work together. Described as vectors to define space, K-Frame is a densely populated record that lives on the experimental side of electronic music.

K-frame is like sitting in at the middle of an electro magnetic field. Electrically buzzing signals move from left to right, intertwine with needle sharp high frequency tones and narrow field recordings. As much as it is not possible to focus on one element directly, the tension grows and the impression of swarms of electricity set into acoustic motion grows. This sounds like a messy version of Raster Noton or Ritornell releases. Messy not in a bad sense, but because Zbeen does not have the clinical strictness of the former mentioned. What they share is the way how they amplify structure.T he individual pieces have a nearly microscopic focus on detail, which show the fuzziness, the unschärfe of the elements. While Alva Noto and the likes rely on a very structured grid, with Zbeen sound seems to move rather by association; Permuting permanently, expanding at the seam and contracting more fluidly. At some points this reminds of early electronic forays of the Forbidden Planet variety, but with a strong computer based leaning. I'd love to hear this in 5.1 with all those rapidly moving sounds transmutating in the room around me. Just as with all Ripples Recordings releases, this is really good stuff and shouldn't be missed out.

Ripples Recordings