Druome + Flux Bikes @ Truly Spoken Cycles Dec. 17th

COME ON DOWN!!!

Druome and Flux Bikes.
Saturday, December 17th   6pm
@ Truly Spoken Cycles - 604. E. Center St.


 ---Free show!, donations for touring band encouraged and appreciated.
  


Check out Rob Frye's blog all about his bicycle performing/touring throughout america : (http://www.experimentalsoundstudio.org/pages/flux_bikes/128.php) 

Druome will also be playing a bicycle set...  one very similar but quite different form the 2009 (or was it 2010?) 24 hour bike race performance at Miles and Sarah's Finish Line Garage Party!

urma08 - Lucky Bone : Happy Birthday Lucky Bone (birthday field recordings and repetitions) (cdr)

urma08 - Lucky Bone : Happy Birthday Lucky Bone  (cdr)
$4
=====So here's the story:  on september 18th I took a bad-ass birthday trip down to chicago with my best friends Diane and Miggs.  I recorded snippets of it--riding in the car, hanging out with chickens, getting tacos, running around outside the zoo (which was closed!! by the time we got there), pretty much the whole day crammed onto one side of a c40.  I took that tape and used some very intricate and advanced manipulation techniques (i.e. hitting the rewind button like a thousand times), to turn the 20 minute tape into a 40 minute cd.  The most common noises in the world become indiscernible as they repeat---fragments of the english language mixed with xm satellite radio, the silence between words and the intricate noises we never knew we made, also whatever else was going on directly in front of me throughout the day.

hear some of it:
http://soundcloud.com/ursa-major-3/01-part-1a-happy-birthday
http://soundcloud.com/ursa-major-3/02-part-1b-happy-birthday

urma07/Lemon-o books - Ethan Krause/Lucky Bone/Slow Owls : Actual Bird Song - field guide and audio companion (booklet, cdr)

urma07/Lemon-o books - Ethan Krause/Lucky Bone/Slow Owls : Actual Bird Song (booklet, cdr)
$5
=====That's right...  hear the sights and see the sounds of Actual Bird Song: a booklet of photocopied collages of text book bird imagery by Ethan Krause (the hot dude I work with who makes the famous hairdos of popular music booklets/blog), accompanied by a split cd : Lucky Bone flying through a pile of bird song tapes as fast as he can, and Slow Owls (one half of milwaukee's  noise-brother-duo (sometimes trio) Mildew) making LP loops of his own bird song collection.  Three distinct moods throughout the book and music. different pieces of a single coherent whole (like yin and yang plus some bird poo) all tied together by a web of blurry feathers.  In all seriousness though, it's quite beautiful.  the inside-out boundaries it holds are great.  Does that make any sense? .  Is that a bird or a broken fourier synthesizer?  Who cares?


Check out some of Ethan's other work here:  thefamoushairdosofpopularmusic.blogspot.com

hear some of it:
http://soundcloud.com/ursa-major-3/lucky-bone-actual-bird-song
http://soundcloud.com/ursa-major-3/slow-owls-sctual-bird-song

urma06 - Lucky Bone : Basement-Land Blues (cdr)

urma06 - Lucky Bone : Basement-Land Blues (cdr)
$4
=====Various recordings from this great year of 2011.  recorded almost entirely in my basement (where I spent every moment of the year busting my ass for the 2010 Mary Nohl Fellowship).  As it spans a whole year in time, diversity is the name of the game: it's strangely normal, frighteningly beautiful, it's shit I found at the thrift store, and more!  Spending a whole year alone in the basement will make a man do some crazy things, hear them crazzies now!---released as a free cd for the Nohl Fellowship gallery showing sept-dec 2011,  now available for $$$.  Special bonus: 2 rare phoned nil trio cuts at the end!!

ear it:
http://soundcloud.com/ursa-major-3/lucky-bone-b-t-t-with-hot-gril
http://soundcloud.com/ursa-major-3/lucky-bone-basement-anger-is
...one more for good luck
http://soundcloud.com/ursa-major-3/lucky-bone-basement-land-blues

urma05 - Druome : untitled (3'' cdr)

urma05 - Druome : untitled  (3'' cdr, bookmark)
$3
=====a collection of older-ish recordings by the collaboration between myself (Lucky Bone) and Adam Krause (Los Guasos, Group of the Altos).  Elementary-school band percussion played by bow, stick, and speakers.  Sounds like some loser's stoned meditations during a melt banana show... quit spacing out and pay attention to what's going on in front of you!  Released in tandem with Adam's book release party for Art as Politics (that's what the bookmark is for ya dummy).  Check out this little interview for more info on Adam's book : http://new-compass.net/node/85



listen-to-a-song::gnos-a-ot-netsil
http://soundcloud.com/ursa-major-3/druome-untitlted

urma 04 - Lucky Bone : party party in stereo (3''cdr)

urma04 - Lucky Bone : party party in stereo (3'' cdr)
$3
=====My favorite things all rolled into one: guitars, dinner plates, indian pop, and grinding tape-player gears.  I wasn't getting much sleep at the time of recording this one, i think you can tell from hearing it: don't sleep don't sleep gotta go to work soon, go to work, feels like heaven, come home, can't close your eyes, too twitchy.  Actually, it doesn't sound like that at all... whatever.   Also, the last track isn't by LB, no sir.  It's by the lady pictured on the cover, whatever her name may be.  Comes with a little-comic insert written and drawn by Janet Jackson!!! (not the famous one, the other one, the one you've never heard of).




>>it sounds like this<<
http://soundcloud.com/ursa-major-3/lucky-bone-party-party-in
http://soundcloud.com/ursa-major-3/unknown-song-unknown-artist

urma03 - Lucky Bone - 3 nights at the minute gallery (3'' cdr)

urma03 - Lucky Bone : 3 nights at the minute gallery (3'' cdr)
$3
=====straight to the point no funny business.  3 live recordings from milwaukee's here today, gone tomorrow gallery.  2 recordings of genuine performances, 1 recording of cleaning up beer cans, deinstalling scott johnson's video piece, porch smoking, and we watched that documentary about Bozo Texino too.  Tape manipulated childrens story reading---color kittens for life!--, discernible turkish guitar, and chicks and dudes just chillin' in 5/8 quintuple meter timing.  A must have for fans of anything.



listen to us have fun and listen to me play in the living room:
http://soundcloud.com/ursa-major-3/lucky-bone-3-nights-at-the
http://soundcloud.com/ursa-major-3/lucky-bone-3-nights-at-the-1

urma02 - Phoned Nil Trio : 1-11-11 and the story of you and eye (cdr, booklet, t-shirt)

urma02 - Phoned Nil Trio : 1-11-11 and the story of you an eye (cdr, booklet, t-shirt)
$6
=====The second release by milwaukee's Phoned Nil Trio (Dan Schierl, Neil Gravander, and Peter J Woods) a 1:11:11 mind-melter recorded entirely on 1-11-11.  tape-manipulated vocals, modular synths, scraping metal, and the drone-unknown is the soundtrack to this exploration into the unspoken numerological truths within this world. 1-11-11, an important date fer-sure.  The Trio knows their place in the world, perhaps the booklet and t-shirt will help you find yours:  one is true for all when all are one in truth.  Don't forget your calculator!

put your ears to good use
http://soundcloud.com/ursa-major-3/phoned-nil-trio-1-11-11-track
http://soundcloud.com/ursa-major-3/phoned-nil-trio-1-11-11

urma01 - Permanent Waves : Yala (3'' cdr)

urma01 - Permanent Waves : Yala (3'' cdr)
$3
=====Daniel Raskin (from NC, and NY before that) lays down some bonkers tape manipulation.  Very swampy and pretty... like some sort of she-swamp thing.  If you ask me, it's about babies eating balloons in a cave occasionally putting on their favorite doo-wop LP that won't stop skipping.  If you ask Daniel, it's a political piece concerning Dominion Farms Limited and their activities in the Yala River Swamp wetlands in Kenya, as well as their inhumane actions against it's thousands of residents. Either way, it sounds like a combination of the two.

listen to 115 seconds of it here:
http://soundcloud.com/ursa-major-3/permanent-waves-yala-excerpt

coming soon... hopefully pretty soon

I just finished up a huge project, so now Im treating myself to a new huge project as a reward...
Welcome to my new label thing called ursa major!  

ursa major originated as a constelation, then in the 1980's, it became a wisconsin cassette label that released field recordings.  Im guessing these recordings were made in wisconsin, though that was never stated in any of the liner notes of the tapes I have.  Sometime between the 80's and now, that ended, and ursa major became a constellation again, until wisconsin beckoned once again in 2011 (that is now):

own-able and downloadable audio you can look forward to the next time you check here (as long as that is in mid to late november sometime):

the no-school drinkaholics---a tape I found/sorta stole from my friends attic.  Some 1980's trashy-sounding, european hardcore band.  The tape has no band name, but does have track titles.  They hate school, and they love to drink.




antique music boxes---not a band name, just straight up music coming out of old wood.

stevie b/jesse johnson's revue (split)---80's r+b at it's finest

the debut release by: burp and siren

an awesome pakistani pop compilation---i went to a thrift store in franklin that I had never been to before looking for tv's.  they had plenty.  I ended up buying 8 of them.  The manager was so happy I was buying so many, he sold them to me for 5 bucks a piece! since I saved some dough there, I told him I wanted to look around some more. Then i stumbled upon a huge pile of pakistani cassettes.  I picked through them all more than a hundred, and ended up buying about 60 of the most interesting ones.  tapes were $1 each, but the manager told the old shakey lady at the register to sell them to me 5 for a dollar!  I love that guy so much.


and hopefully a few more!



that's all for now.  see you at the end of november!
-neil