Plastic Carved Out In The Shape Of The Music

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2xCD, 6-panel digipack with a 12-page, full-colour booklet featuring original release artwork, info and liner notes by Mike Trouchon. Compiles all the non-album releases of the 1990s by Dunedin free improvisation quartet/trio, Sandoz Lab Technicians. Edition of 500 copies.

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1.	A Barrel Of English Ale 02:17	info	buy track
2.	Fuck Me Silly 04:40	info	buy track
3.	Riding In A Supernova With Rufus 00:34	info	buy track
4.	Along Came The Rodent 02:13	info	buy track
5.	The Light At The End Of The Tunnel 00:30	info	buy track
6.	Braving Mrs D. 04:09	info	buy track
7.	Hurricane 02:46	info	buy track
8.	Stretcher 03:08	info	buy track
9.	If Ever He Returned 00:32	info	buy track
10.	Gently Breaking Heads 02:09	info	buy track
11.	Big Shiny Ship 01:32	info	buy track
12.	Night Side Of The Earth 02:25	info	buy track
13.	Cleaning Fluid 03:27	info	buy track
14.	The Day The Earth Stood Still 02:18	info	buy track
15.	Adjusted [Extended Version] 08:12	info	buy track
16.	Little Bag Of Chips 01:57	info	buy track
17.	Albumen 02:13	info	buy track
18.	Ebola (Death By Haemorrhagic Fever) 04:44	info	buy track
19.	It's All Just 05:57	info	buy track
20.	Signal Is Noise 01:35	info	buy track
21.	Golden Dawn 04:45	info	buy track
22.	Heady Musky Cents 02:44	info	buy track
23.	Strung Quartet 00:42	info	buy track
24.	Light Wave 03:02	info	buy track
25.	You And I, Me Oh My 02:50	info	buy track
26.	Sleeping Beneath The Clay 05:21	info	buy track
27.	Fuck Your Empty Promises 06:56	info	buy track
28.	Liquid Constant 04:43	info	buy track
29.	An Ounce Of Birds Blood 08:25	info	buy track
30.	Uvulae 02:14	info	buy track
31.	Siren 03:33	info	buy track
32.	Ra's Ark 06:33	info	buy track
33.	Decapitados 06:23	info	buy track
34.	Beyond The Wall Of Sleep 05:15	info	buy track
35.	Sewer Babies 01:21	info	buy track
36.	Southern Lights 10:33	info	buy track
37.	Heliopause 12:15	info	buy track

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Early lathe-cut records and compilation tracks • 1992 - 1999

All music improvised with no overdubs.
Recorded by James Kirk at 8 Canongate, Dunedin, New Zealand 1993-1999 except CD1: 1-5, 7-10 (Regent Theatre, The Octagon), CD1: 2 (Forth Street Dunedin), CD1: 6 (Totara Street, Ravensbourne) and CD1: 15 (debut live performance at Super 8, Moray Place, Dunedin, 30 April 1994).

Thanks to Forbes Williams, Matthias Andersson, Mike Trouchon and Jon Dale.

©2022 Sandoz Lab Technicians
Contact: bluntinstrumentals1@gmail.com
sandozlabtechnicians.bandcamp.com

Released as a double CD with 6-panel digipack with a 12-page booklet, by Fördämning Arkiv in an edition of 500 copies.

"Plastic Carved Out In The Shape Of The Music compiles all the non-album releases of the 1990s by Dunedin free improvisation quartet-cum-trio, Sandoz Lab Technicians. One of many hermetic enclaves of creative endeavour in the nineties NZ underground, Sandoz Lab Technicians are James Kirk (also of King Loser, The Stumps, Black Boned Angel, Renderizors, etc.), Nathan Thompson (Sleep, Renderizors, Eye, Expansion Bay, etc.), Tim Cornelius (Sky Blue Lodge, Three Forks, Ray Off, etc.) and, for their first few years, Mark Curragh.

"Like many of their peers, Sandoz Lab Technicians also ran their own label, Blunt Instrumentals, on which they released lathe-cuts of their own music, both with Sandoz, and in other configurations (The Cornelius Brothers, Unspecified, etc.); once word had spread, particularly thanks to the release of their debut album on Siltbreeze, their music also leaked out via an international network of small labels dedicated to underground experimental music. Plastic Carved Out In The Shape Of The Music features all their Sandoz self-released EPs, and a few extra bits and pieces, offering the listener an excellent overview of their music’s development, from their very first sessions, through to the wildly sophisticated free noise sculpting of their later material.

Sandoz Lab Technicians were always a curious proposition, even within the NZ free noise ‘scene’ (such as it was, or was not). Their early material has a particularly loose, suburban cast, not without some humour: the material sounds like it’s been recorded in scungy lounge rooms, dimly lit hallways, kitchens full of bric-à-brac, sharehouses with dusty curtains. Neighbours drop by to ask about their cats; guitars clang, drums tumble, all kinds of incidental instruments clatter and pulse, in a matter not unlike collectives like Smegma or Los Angeles Free Music Society (as mentioned in the excellent liner notes by Mike Trouchon).

As the group’s playing develops, the music becomes more expansive, patient, laminar. The audio verité recording techniques gift the music an unerringly right sense of space, place, and drama; the interaction between the musicians is always spot-on, growing in sensitivity and nuance over the course of these two discs, able to flip on a dime from all-in group-mind levitation to inhabiting parallel, coincident universes. It’s a bravura collection of music that tells us much about free and improvised sound from the South Island, while still holding its cards close to its chest.

- Jon Dale

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released January 9, 2023

Performed by Tim Cornelius, Nathan Thompson, James Kirk and Mark Curragh.

Special guests, Matt Cornelius (22, guitar) and Justin Bull (25, bass).

Mastered by Forbes Williams

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Sandoz Lab Technicians New Zealand

SLT are a free multi-instrumental improvising trio (originally a quartet) formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1993. Numerous releases, performances & activities hither & yon... Six albums to date, plus numerous EPs, singles and compilation appearances. New album out now and looking for a shiny vinyl home! ... more

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