Tymbal Tapes 3rd batch now available for preorder
From the headwaters of the heartland, Tymbal Tapes hopes to become a home for dense, idiosyncratic musical adventures from around the world. Our second batch features artists from Chicago, Texas/UK, Romania, and San Francisco. Our four new releases will become available to the public on 12/12/2015 in cassette editions of 50 each, as well as digitally formats, through Bandcamp (http://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com). Artwork and design for these releases was done by Tiny Little Hammers (http://tinylittlehammers.com).
Arvo Zylo - Upheaval, TT-08
https://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/upheaval
Arvo Zylo's work is often the product of literal years of toil, the potent result of countless hours refining, perfecting, and focusing wild energies. Projects like his "333" and "Assembly" feel more like they've been finished in a metal refinery than a mastering house, their labyrinthine vertical layers chosen and fixed in place with firm force.
These Upheaval versions, each created in a single sitting from one block of material, act as industrial etudes, a peek behind the curtain at Zylo's unique approach to sound, space, and the art of the edit. Enjoy these fluid sessions of extemporaneous work from a master aural sculptor.
IXTAB - Voice-Hand, TT-09
https://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/voice-hand
IXTAB create a music that resonates on many levels. Bringing prodigious intellect to body music, and blending vintage electronics with environmental atmospheres, Voice-Hand may metabolize your dreams and tone your subtle body. And savor your ride through occasional shadows--as Il hombre invisible himself once articulated:
"When I become Death, Death is the seed from which I grow" --WSB
Somnoroase Păsărele - GAMA, TT-10
https://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/gama
The followup to this Romanian duo’s brilliant ABECD on Baba Vanga, “GAMA” is an immersive, intuitive, cinematic suite. Recommended for headphones or robust speaker separation. Also stay tuned for a sort of companion album coming soon on Baba Vanga.
bran(...)pos - Prickers & Peckers, TT-11
Tymbal is vibrating with joy at this bran(…)pos album, as the label's name came from his excitement at the sounds of late summer cicadas at Tymbal Tapes HQ in the midst of a tour several years ago. And his observations about the chickens in our backyard led to this proposal for a conceptual trilogy, laid out in pairs of pieces across three tapes:
I. Insects (whose drones fuel our emotions)
II. Chickens (whose feathers steal our dreams)
III. Chickens and Insects
"During daylight hours hens love to dine on tasty protein-rich insects. Grasshoppers, crickets, flies, spiders, ticks, and just about any other six- or eight-legged creature they catch becomes lunch. They even snatch flies out of the air and consider them tasty snacks.
But, come evening, the relationship between insects and chickens switches. When chickens hop up on their roost and settle in for the night they are vulnerable to pesky mosquitoes, black-flies, and various species of gnats. There are even reports of birds being killed by enormous swarms of black-flies…" --scoopfromthecoop.com