...has ten, yes, ten new tapes available to purchase.
Happy New Year everyone! It’s PFT’s 2nd Birthday & we’re celebrating our terrible Twos with 10!! New releases!BIG BATCH SALE only $55 ppd for all ten. Or go to the site and get the one's you want here
All tapes feature Pro-printed JCards, pad printed shells, pro- duplication, and downloads – we’re doing it up in STYLE!
PF 036 Greenhouse – Forever Tired c83
Long time PF friend Curran Faris returns for his third Prairie Fire
Release. Forever Tired debuted last year as a 3 track 60 minute
digital only release – but we’ve added another 20+ minutes to make
this an epic testament to Curran’s skills as a lone guitar droner.
We can’t be sure, but we suspect the title might allude to how Curran
was expecting to feel as the birth of his first child approached. Even
though his days are filled with child rearing, dog walking, and house
reno-ing, don’t expect Forever Tired to be an domestically chilled
endeavour. Elements of tense noise and synth explorations are
incorporated into the usual GH drift.
Find some decent headphones and a soft space to lay down and roll
though this - complete mesmerisation will occur.
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Design by Cole Peters
http://soundcloud.com/crizwell/sets/greenhouse-tired-forever/
PF 037 Grain Count – Ikeda Built One-Sided c40
Grain Count is Winnipeg noise artist Pat Klassen (Sleep, Diabetes
Foot). Our relationship with Pat started a few summers ago when he
left a shell of a Fuzzface pedal (painted with bits of fur and plastic
toys glued to it) on the doorstep of what was then PFT HQ. We were
charmed enough to seek out this mysterious pedal artist and foster the
mounds of sounds he was issuing forth.
After a series of self released tapes, Pat sent us a 20 minute track
of very minimal tones and severely restrained wall static meant as an
homage to Ryoji Ikeda. The beauty of the piece is the sustained
static contrasting with the occasional shifting of tones that makes
for four pieces in one. Neither overpowers the other, instead combine
harmoniously into a track that will appeal to sound art lovers as well
as HNW aficionados.
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Art/Design by Cole Peters
http://soundcloud.com/crizwell/sets/grain-count-ikeda-build/
PF 038 Wasted Cathedral – S/T c25
Wasted Cathedral is Chris Laramee, member of Saskatoon space
travellers Shooting Guns. When he’s not part of SG’s effort to become
the Canadian Hawkwind, Chris is laying down some brilliant Prairie
Kosmische Musik.
When we contacted Chris, he sent us a stack of recording to wade
through, all of which were amazing. We initially planned to release 2
WC tapes back to back – this the 25 minute teaser and a full 60 minute
mind melter. After some heavy deliberation, we concluded that offering
up too much too soon would probably create a soporific effect on the
underground community on a grand scale. While the idea made us giggle
a bit, we took the responsible route of doling tracks out at a
reasonable pace.
More WILL follow.
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Art/Design by Cole Peters
http://soundcloud.com/crizwell/sets/wasted-cathedral-s-t/
PF 039 Gomeisa – Death Poems c40
When Gomeisa dropped Treatise, his 4 hour box set on Phage, last year
– I was convinced that was going to be the final chapter. I was
partially correct.
Death Poems is a departure from the Gomeisa oeuvre both sonically and
visually. Death Poems teases with an static intro and then kicks into
a spastic and emotionally turbulent collection of blasts and calls yet
unheard by this artist. Even the cover art hints at something more
whimsical than minimal. Top marks all round.
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Art/Design by Cole Peters
http://soundcloud.com/crizwell/sets/gomeisa-death-poems/
PF 040 Adrian Dziewanski - Archival Anthems c35
Adrian contacted us this fall and sent some tracks over that we
couldn’t ignore. Beautifully crafted dronescapes that create stunning
isolated and cold atmospheres.
I don’t know about where you live – but there are times here in
Winnipeg (especially in January) where if there’s enough snow and the
temp is cold enough, say -45 degrees Celsius, driving around late,
late at night is like being on the moon. There is no movement,
everything gives off a blue hue, and if you stay outside too long, you
die. It’s the best combination of beauty, desolation, and danger.
Archival Anthems is a perfect mid-winter soundtrack – the point where
it’s undeniable that everything is in a dead state. It’s not a requiem
as there are hints of warmth and hopefulness of what is just ahead...
perhaps.
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Art/Design by Cole Peters
http://soundcloud.com/crizwell/sets/adrian-dziewanski-archival/
PF 041 T. Fuller – Eat Your Beets c30
T. Fuller is Terrence Fuller (Repulsive Bile & KkrakK). For his third
Prairie Fire appearance we asked him to put together some tracks based
upon a 2009 dub noise percussive performance. The A-Side is full of
Scorn induced electro-percussive workouts that become consistently
weirder as the last track fades out. The B-side begins to inhabit
sonic territories consistent with 70s Italian zombie/cannibal flicks
and Skinny Puppy’s mid-80s output.
While the inclusion of Eat Your Beets may seem to be a bit a stretch
for PF, we thought it a good match to the Crabskull and
Tyrannosaurusex tapes in this run as well as showing off another
dimension of the weird Winnipeg underground. Check it.. you’ll dig it.
Ed. of 75 w/Download
Art/Design by Cole Peters
http://soundcloud.com/crizwell/sets/t-fuller-eat-your-beets/
PF 042 Derek Rogers – A Crack In Everything c40
We’re really excited about this one. So excited in fact, that it’s
really tough to not veer into hyperbole while writing this.
After consuming a handful of DR releases over the last year and a bit
round the PF HQ, we were pretty sure we knew what we’d be presented
with – but to be honest, nothing prepared us for how awesome this tape
is. Melody meets sound exploration and harmony sides up against
discord, the mood effortlessly shifts from beautiful and enveloping to
flat out cranky over the course of 40 minutes.
The title track and end exit track “Ghosts of Melancholy” have a
dystopian sci-fi soundtrack feel (I was leaning toward Escape From New
York) while other likes “The Ones Who Love Us Least Are The Ones We’ll
Die To Please” have the potential to bring on a profound emotional
response from the listener.
Last year was a pretty big for Derek – what with his name was all over
Best Of.. lists and all. We’re pretty sure this tape will have 2012
pick up where 2011 left off.
Spin these tracks for yourself and get your head around what a monster
this is.
Ed. of 100 w/ Download
Art/Design by Cole Peters
http://soundcloud.com/crizwell/sets/derek-rogers-a-crack-in/
PF 043 Crabskull – Jovian Black Opera c60
Another major surprise. Chrys Fournier, Crabskull, Scab Smoker drummer
& Dub DJ, caught me at a local record shop in the Summer and told me
he had some tapes I might like. We have gave me was two 90 minute
collection of the wildest, creeped out dark hop this side of 2001.
After digesting 3 hours of the Crabskull experience, I was sold and
told Chrys to piece together a collection of the tracks he liked the
best from the two tapes… the result is Jovian Black Opera. It’s
analog, grimy, gritty, lo-fi, rough edged D’n’B that grabs hold and
drags you down deeper and deeper into the dark. Def. not the last
Crabskull release you hear on PF.
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Design by Cole Peters
http://soundcloud.com/crizwell/sets/crabskull-jovian-black-opera/
PF 044 Celer – In the Finger-Painted Fields of the Eyes c88
In the Finger-Painted Fields of the Eyes is everything you would
expect from a Celer/Will Long release. It’s subdued, introspective,
lonely, and beautiful. It’s almost as if a lifetime’s worth of quiet
moments were collected and then transferred onto tape. If you’re in a
space where you need something to bring you down and mellow you out,
this would be it.
Initially this tape was going to be roughly one hour long. As the
production process rolled on, Will sent us a second version that
pushed the length of the tape to be nearly 30 minutes longer. It’s an
astounding collection of music that we are very lucky and honored to
be able to present.
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Design by Cole Peters
http://soundcloud.com/crizwell/sets/celer-in-the-finger-painted/
PF 045 Tyrannosaurusex – Cities of the Red Night c40
We tracked down J. Wiley after he posted some wacky drum/space echo
dub like recordings and said throw us some tracks and tapes will be
made. He followed up on our offer and came through big time.
Cities of the Red Night offers up the occasional blast of computo-
krautisms in the form of bleeps and bloops backed with basic drum
patterns – but then comes the rumbles, the drones, the feedback’d Dead
C guitarisms, the obliterated loops – man this tape has EVERYTHING!
When someone has a debut release this strong – you can’t but get
shivers thinking about what will come next!
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Art/Design by Cole Peters
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