Rope and Pulley Recordings

Within This Tortured Land

2011-11-06T13:05:00.003-05:00

Composition and Performance by Bob Agamemnon.
Inappropriate digital manipulation by MC Perec.

Within This Tortured Land by fedorovavtomat

The Perils of Downtime

2011-09-25T14:42:00.000-05:00

Divided it up anyway you can.

The Perils of Downtime by fedorovavtomat

Ja Volt!

2011-08-14T19:50:00.000-05:00

A messy track from 2007 (predating Parapersonality Crash) wherein Fedorov Avtomat figured out a lot of things . . .

Ja Volt! by fedorovavtomat

Regularly Scheduled Broadcasting to Resume

2011-08-12T06:43:00.000-05:00

Rope and Pulley has been in the midst of a relocation to leafy South Orange, NJ. We are readying more rare and unreleased Fedorov Avtomat tracks from the archive in anticipation of the new material F.A. claims to be recording in his basement lair. Stay tuned . . .

Outtake from Parapersonality Crash

2011-07-09T08:44:00.000-05:00

While F.A. never finished this track, it does contain the apotheosis of his early style in its opening - a blistering robot drum solo.

(gulp!) [incomplete] by fedorovavtomat

Parapersonality Crash (The complete EP)

2011-07-02T19:16:00.000-05:00

Here it is, listeners, all in one place. Tune in next week for a bonus outtake.

Parapersonality Crash by fedorovavtomat

Parapersonality Crash Track Five

2011-06-24T19:51:00.001-05:00

The bolt slid back on the Avtomat,
but all that emerged was (sob!).

(sob!) by fedorovavtomat

Parapersonality Crash Track Four

2011-06-19T19:22:00.000-05:00

Happy "Father's Day" listeners. Another day, another dollar. The bigger they are, the harder the fall. The longer the wait, the sweeter the payoff. In for a nickel, in for a dime. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. What goes around comes around. Where there's a will there's a way. A stitch in time saves nine. The last mile's the hardest mile. Better late than never.

(sniff!) by fedorovavtomat

(sigh!)

2011-06-10T16:40:00.000-05:00

Parapersonality Crash track three. A "doozy." In the psychedelic sense.

(sigh!) by fedorovavtomat

(gasp!)

2011-06-03T19:52:00.000-05:00

Here's track two of Fedorov Avtomat's 2007 opus, Parapersonality Crash.

(gasp!) by fedorovavtomat

Parapersonality Crash

2011-05-27T22:40:00.001-05:00

In 2007, our man Fedya produced an EP. On the eve of its release and what was sure to be international electronic stardom, he withdrew it. Only now has he granted Rope and Pulley permission to release it to our faithful listeners. The first track, "(choke!)", is here for your enjoyment. Tune in next week for track two.

(choke!) by fedorovavtomat

Ruby Seychelle

2011-05-20T19:54:00.002-05:00

Continuing our series of rare and unreleased tracks by the enigmatic Fedorov Avtomat, we bring you 2007's "Ruby Seychelle." With an initial release of one, it's likely you've never heard it before. . . or read the dedication poem that accompanied the track when it was sent to its original recipient.

As it was explained to its dedicatee:

Most recently, Fedorov Avtomat sent me a CD containing "Ruby Seychelle" and asked that I send it to you as a gift. What's more, he (perhaps confoundingly) asked that I pass along a poem he intends to serve as a dedication.

Even more peculiarly, the poem takes the form of a dramatic monologue, the poetic conceit pioneered by the English poet Robert Browning, in which the speaker of the poem is a figure other than the poet, and the reader stands in for the intended listener.

In a final turn of the eccentric but ingenious mind of this young artist, Fedorov Avtomat has made me, D. Stuart Mullins, the speaker of the poem.

D. STUART:

In this scene
I'm the go-between,
A conduit cut in twain

From panel to panel
And page to page
Repeating the refrain

To Casanova,
F.A. bequeaths
A song from underneath

The layers of targets
Aimed at and missed,
Each shielding a private grief

Consider this track
Shrapnel, once again intact
Stolen back from the Explosion Thief.

Ruby Seychelle by fedorovavtomat

Fedorov Avtomat Reemerges?

2011-05-13T19:52:00.000-05:00

Via dark missives from covert locations, we are informed of the stirrings of the long dormant Fedorov Avtomat. High time then, it seems, to release some hitherto unknown but vital past works of our reticent Sweet F.A.

From 2008, a lifetime ago, comes "Death is the Black Racer."

Death is the Black Racer by fedorovavtomat

sttuttz on Matrixsynth!

2011-04-26T21:30:00.000-05:00

The synthesizer warrior Matrixsynth has posted the extramuros collection! Look here!

Bonus Track

2011-04-03T13:57:00.000-05:00

As a reward for the Rope and Pulley Faithful, a (perhaps undercooked) outtake from Roy l'Ambas's Dash, Dash, and Further Dash.

Solicitine (outtake) by dsmullins

Dash, Dash, and Further Dash Now Available!

2011-03-29T19:33:00.001-05:00

Rope and Pulley Records is giddy to make available to the broader listening public Dash, Dash, and Further Dash by Roy l'Ambas.

Declaims Roy: Go, my songs, to the lonely and the unsatisfied.

Long time listeners are encouraged to share this EP far and wide. As a reward, expect a bonus outtake to surface soon.

I remain, as ever,

Your Faithful Servant,

D Stuart Mullins

<p><a href="http://ropeandpulley.bandcamp.com/album/dash-dash-and-further-dash">Dash, Dash, and Further Dash by Rope and Pulley Records</a></p>

Texas Rumor Eight

2011-03-20T13:48:00.006-05:00

Obsessively, Roy makes of "extramuros eight" an ambience for your most neurotic daydreams.

texas rumor eight by dsmullins

extramuros eight

2011-03-13T14:24:00.005-05:00

In this montage, sttutttz assembles a device so ingenious that its function eludes even him. But at the end of the sequence, as the music fades, Our Hero finds himself back where he started.

extramuros eight by Rope and Pulley Records

Texas Rumor One

2011-03-05T12:52:00.003-05:00

Royal strikes again, scoring a direct hit on "extramuros one".

texas rumor one by dsmullins

Dash, Dash, and Further Dash

2011-03-02T21:11:00.006-05:00

Behold the cover of Dash, Dash, and Further Dash, the debut EP of Rope and Pulley wunderkind Roy l'Ambas. Mark March 29th on your calendar.

extramuros seven

2011-03-01T16:11:00.002-05:00

"How are you feeling, Sttuttz?"

"Bone dry, thanks for asking."

extramuros seven by Rope and Pulley Records

New Jersey Ambient 3

2011-02-19T21:18:00.003-05:00

Upon surveilling the grid, stuttz beheld another grid inside it, another one superimposed on it, and still another one, visible only to him. Faithfully, he reported his findings, but HQ had long since stopped checking the dead drop sttutz used.

New Jersey Ambient 3 from Rope and Pulley Records on Vimeo.

Texas Rumor Two

2011-02-13T15:20:00.005-05:00

In what's becoming a habit, Roy throttles another stuttz track in the newly named remix series. This time, "extramuros two" gets the treatment.

texas rumor two by Rope and Pulley Records

extramuros five and six, wherein sTutZZ

2011-02-05T10:31:00.004-05:00

observes the tedium of passion . . .

extramuros five by Rope and Pulley Records

. . . and eats a bowl of industrial sweetener. . .

extramuros six by Rope and Pulley Records

New Jersey Ambient 2

2011-01-28T16:34:00.005-05:00

It won't stop snowing. Stutzz is reduced, prelingual but still sentient. Other symptoms: vertigo, disorientation, blurred vision . . .

New Jersey Ambient 2 from Rope and Pulley Records on Vimeo.

Music and video by Sttutz.

extramuros four

2011-01-15T11:45:00.003-05:00

Back in 1987, StUtZZ removed the ROM cartridge from his left hip. It wasn't time yet. Having placing it in a brushed metal box, he left for the woods. Living as a hermit, gathering herbs and raising chickens, sTuTzz bided a while. Decades. In the box waited the cartridge. On its label, written in pen: "extramuros four."

extramuros four by Rope and Pulley Records

Roy L'Ambas remixes "extramuros three"

2011-01-10T16:04:00.005-05:00

Here's a noisy one-take remix of this.

extramuros three (r l'a remix) by Rope and Pulley Records

New Jersey Ambient 1

2011-01-05T20:02:00.007-05:00

Sttutz: "Let the reins go slack."

New Jersey Ambient 1 from Rope and Pulley Records on Vimeo.

Says Stutz

2010-12-16T15:55:00.004-05:00

"Live is hard."

extramuros three by Rope and Pulley Records

Inside Baseball

2010-11-21T19:58:00.010-05:00

Did you like the hand claps in SIGSALY? Wonder where they came from?

We at Rope & Pulley have a long-standing policy forbidding the sampling of artists outside our roster. In the prehistory of the label (1999), however, one finds an outlier. The Royal Ambassadors, including the young and fresh Roy L'Ambas - at the time recording under the name of Doctor Peter Venkman - used their Casio SK-1 sampler to lift a second or so from a track by hip hop greats The Roots.

Apparently, the theft left a niggling thorn in Roy's side and so, when he set to work on current pop hit SIGSALY, he decided to steal from himself. Those drums and hand claps, performed by Roy's very own hands and drums, have made a ten year journey from Red Pig Studios at 299 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY to Rope & Pulley's 2010 New Jersey digs.

Here's the untitled track 16 from Lubra-Smooth by The Royal Ambassadors, circa 1999.

L-S Track 16 by Rope and Pulley Records

Thus The Dubious Sttuttz

2010-11-20T21:21:00.004-05:00

"If I had had a father he would have told me 'My father always said 'Play it close to the chest, son.''"

"I would have ignored that advice, though."

Thus the dubious stuttz, on returning to musical life. Long time Rope & Pulley listeners will remember that our earliest mid-naughties releases issued forth from the untrained self-apparatus of avant-garde visual artist sttutz, who, having been given a PC loaded with cheap music software, was invited to produce tracks with the limitation that they be completed in one sitting. The results exhibit an idiotic, amateurish power. However, suffering from a short attention span and a nasty case of mysterious disappearance syndrome, stutz became unreachable, missing, withdrawn.

But no more.

We gave him this, this, this (Thanks, BH), this, this, and this.

And new rules:

1. Live mixes only. No edits or overdubs.

2. No software instruments or effects (exception: having grown enraged at this, sttuttz now demands that he be allowed to use this. Also, a bit of compression thrown on at the end never hurt anybody's purity.)

Good luck, sTutTz.

Love,

The Front Office

Behold:

extramuros one by Rope and Pulley Records

extramuros two by Rope and Pulley Records

SIGSALY

2010-10-18T19:15:00.004-05:00

Bloodless, in the popular style. As you demanded.

SIGSALY by Rope and Pulley Records

Six Guns Eight Hands One Bullet

2010-08-20T19:57:00.013-05:00

Cherishing each instant and refusing to let it go, Royal became cramped, loud, tense, unfun at parties. Friends approached him. "Stretch out. Embrace periodicity, transience. Widen your focus, man," they'd say. "No, no. That's okay. I'm okay. I'd like to fit it all in. All of it, you know. A detailed whole."

Days passed. For us. But not for Royal. He kept them all, not letting any slip by him. His hands full, he pinned seconds between his elbows and ribs, his apron pulled into a bag like a hausfrau coming in from the garden, fifteen minutes from 1997 even tucked under his chin. He knew it wasn't good for him. He knew he'd have to pay sooner or later.

Maybe if he'd been on point in 1968, surrounded by the NVA's invisible Kalashnikovs. Or standing in a trench, 1917, scrambling to stuff himself into a gas mask. Hell, Fallujah, 2004. Ugly enough to let go. Instead, even his worst days had seemed worth saving, hoarding even. Who knows, maybe he'd need them later.

Or maybe after he was gone, someone would find his notes, slog through them, see a pattern other than the trite one he'd found years ago and kept running his finger around the grooves of, over and over again.

Six Guns Eight Hands One Bullet by Rope and Pulley Records

Haunted Meat Taunted Me

2010-07-30T19:51:00.012-05:00

Collect the covers. Listen to the track. Consult your handheld device. Reach the apogee. Consider your descent. Thumb through the pages. Subscribe to the notion. Cradle your vices. Caress your frailty. Extend your lease. Fire your staff. Transfer your funds. Kiss your children. Wave your rights. Indulge in fantasy. Engage a tutor. Treasure the problem. Ignore the solution.

Haunted Meat Taunted Me by Rope and Pulley Records

The Experimental Philosophy Club

2010-04-23T20:00:00.004-05:00

The Experimental Philosophy Club by Rope and Pulley Records

"But given the nature of the cypher that I am using, chances are that you, reader, will never exist, and so I cannot see why I should continue running this needle through the dirty old cloth when I am so tired, and the rocking of the boat invites me to close my eyes."

Eruntics*

2010-02-19T18:08:00.004-05:00

Eruntics by Rope and Pulley Records

"Agar agar is my love as were stated above"

- E. coli poetica

*album track

V-d-- -il-ed th- R-d-io S---

2010-02-06T21:17:00.010-05:00

Rope and Pulley Proudly Presents:

A Promotional Video Drama Featuring A Variety of Scenes

Technical Note

2010-01-22T15:20:00.003-05:00

Dear Listeners,

Thanks to the incompetence of our webmaster, whom we will call "Steve", and who has now been fired, the tracks that Management intended to be freely downloadable were not made so. Steve's idiocy runs counter to the Rope and Pulley mission to freely provide revolutionary music to the people who need it most: you people. Rest assured that this error has been corrected and the past year plus of music is now available. So fuck you, Steve.

Sincerely,

D Stuart

R&P Division

Steranko Skull Device*

2010-01-18T20:20:00.002-05:00

01 Steranko Skull Device by Rope and Pulley Records

Main Line
Into the Center Stream
Watch the Waves [measure the amplitude]
Flow

*Album Track

Misery Quotient

2009-12-21T20:34:00.002-05:00

Into the tangle of unreleased tape Royal plunged his fingers.

misery quotient by Rope and Pulley Records

wutzatrker 8

2009-12-13T15:18:00.002-05:00

wutzatrker 8 by Rope and Pulley Records

Will Roy Lambas sip the rim?
The laptop's bright, the profits slim.
Will Roy Lambas the far crest reach?
The trough's traversed, the barrier breached.
Will Roy Lambas hoe this row?
The blisters smart, the black tears flow.

Listen to this track and say
What final epitaph to spray
Upon his stone with aerosol,
"Highest Rise", or "Steepest Fall"?

OKTOBER ZERO ZERO

2009-11-01T12:52:00.002-05:00

"Into the dust charged air."

OKTOBER ZERO ZERO by Rope and Pulley Records

Interview Excerpt 1

2009-10-30T19:57:00.003-05:00

Interviewer: So why the turn toward instrumental music?

R./B./F./A.: Why doesn’t your t-shirt say anything on it?

Interviewer: You’re saying your work is like a t-shirt?

R./B./F./A.: No. I’m saying you choose not to betray yourself when you got dressed this morning.

Interviewer: But I mean . . . the t-shirt you're wearing right now . . . it says-

R./B./F./A.: Look, maybe we should do this another time . . .

Down in the Valley Lay the City

2009-05-02T13:39:00.003-05:00

“murder gangs with machine guns”

Down in the Valley Lay the City by Rope and Pulley Records

Lord Death Man

2009-02-27T15:29:00.001-05:00

"It was just phosphorescent paint on black cloth."

01 Lord Death Man by Rope and Pulley Records

Whirl Shudder Repeat

2009-02-20T17:45:00.002-05:00

Lab coat pale as my skin. Assaying sound's tensile strength. Voltage corresponds to my science's heart, its hard core.

01 whirl shudder repeat by Rope and Pulley Records

Does the Jazz Lead to Destruction?

2009-02-15T21:32:00.002-05:00

The fiery furnace once survived asks its question: Now what? Count backwards, remembering to syncopate, and you'll feel your heels graze the Lake of Fire. In the meantime. . .

Does The Jazz Lead to Destruction by Rope and Pulley Records

Brake owt hit oh niner!

2009-01-22T21:09:00.001-05:00

Close the decade out. Anything it takes. Techno is not kind to the miniaturist. The size of a rat's skull, outlined in neon. We'll slip through, partner. Won't we?

Brake owt hit oh niner! by Rope and Pulley Records

2008-12-06T12:41:00.001-05:00

01 inbetween1208 3 by Rope and Pulley Records

Is each second a miniscule lead weight? Cumulatively burdening all one tries? No pressure is placed on this track. None.

adalos

2008-10-19T16:37:00.002-05:00

With no factories in the suburbs, and malaise common enough, question this track's genre's premise's authenticity.

adalos by Rope and Pulley Records

Estuary Victim

2008-10-19T08:27:00.002-05:00

Os Asimovos - Science Fiction - Brazil - 198? - Fax-age sexless funk.

Estuary Victim by Rope and Pulley Records

synth1 bukake

2008-10-18T19:10:00.001-05:00

Striking example of electronic sub-genre Bubble Rock forces compressed air into flexible rubber animals, forms transient beards from thick pink soap, gently melts frost to the slush-point.

synth1 bukake by Rope and Pulley Records

ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS Launches Blog!

2007-08-02T13:01:00.000-05:00

Brooklyn, New York
August 2, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS Launches Blog!

Ahoy, loyal ROPE AND PULLEY fans!

A long period of silence . . . BROKEN!

The Slouching Beast of inactivity . . . SLAIN!

Idle hands . . . EMPLOYED!

After a hiatus for corporate restructuring and distribution reorganization, ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS comes roaring back—shit-eating grin on face, fists full of digital music files—astride a five-ton black rhino called . . . the Official ROPE AND PULLEY Blog!

To mark the launch of the new central clearing house for Ideas, Sounds, and Attitudes, ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS offers . . . wait for it . . . EVERYTHING!

That’s right faithful listeners, the entire ROPE AND PULLEY catalogue from DJ Lonely Street to Webern and the Gynoids is available now for download in the convenient non-DRM format you know and love.

“Hell, we might as well just give it all away,” said a characteristically upbeat D Stuart Mullins, founder and president of ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS.

Also! Missed that historic press release? Need to get that pithy line you half remember for an article you’re writing for a major publication on ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS and the salvation of American Music? You’re in luck! All major press releases from ROPE AND PULLEY’s eventful life are now archived.

Plus! Just as a welcome aboard the H.M.S. ROPE AND PULLEY, four previously unreleased tracks! For you! Exclusively at http://ropeandpulley.blogspot.com!

Three from legendary art damage unit The Royal Ambassadors, recently reunited and drug into the studio:

1. Redpig Revisited
2. fbbbbbbbbbbbp.
3. Might Remembered

And one outtake from The Music of Reginald Gaylord—ROPE AND PULLEY’s most successful release yet!

4. Yargonomics2

“Why so fixated on the past?” the enlightened music consumer might ask. To “bid adieu” to the folly of youth! To “clear the decks” for the landing of the Future! That’s what ROPE AND PULLEY answers.

Coming up: Keep those ears open for rumors of fresh talent. Two words: Fedorov Avtomat. You heard them hear first, musicophile. Stay tuned! Subscribe!! Excelsior!!!

http://ropeandpulley.blogspot.com

ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS announces two new additions to its artist roster

2006-12-20T12:35:00.000-05:00

Brooklyn, NY
December 20th, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS announces two new additions to its artist roster.

As 2006 charges to a close, ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS wraps things up with a pair of groundbreaking releases!

La Lumine Cavrenozo's debut recording of Bob Agamemnon's Four Themes marks the year old label's first chamber music release. Bridging the divide between jazz, classical, film music, and even indie rock, La Lumine Cavrenozo's mission is to reinvigorate the instrumental music tradition in America. ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS founder and president D. Stuart Mullins: "These kids are obviously interested in more than high dollar sex and Italian sports cars. I'm interested in that too." Let the revolution begin!

Available now at myspace.com/laluminecavrenozo

1. 1st Theme
2. 2nd Theme
3. 3rd Theme
4. 4th Theme (Live)

Not a label to rest on its high-art laurels, ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS adds a dance floor yang to this orchestral yin with the debut release from DJ Lonely Street. This four track EP features TWO firsts!

The first first: Vocalist Lex Luxurious (appearing courtesy REPERCUSSION RECORDS) lends his not inconsiderable pipes to the first ROPE AND PULLEY track to feature singing! On "Fully Articulate," Luxurious proves a soulful compliment to DJ Lonely Street's combination of sampled kitchenware and deft House beats in a future dance floor hit. Luxurious' lyrics about "the politics of action figures" should provoke the mind as well as the hips!

What could follow such a momentous event in the history of creative music? What is the second first with which ROPE AND PULLEY draws the year to a close? The second first is a remix! DJ Lonely Street offered to mangle La Lumine Cavrenozo's rendition of "4th Theme" with her hardest beats and most science fiction bass, and ROPE AND PULLEY couldn't say no! Sick!

Available now at myspace.com/djlonelystreet

1. Fully Articulate (feat. Lex Luxurious)
2. Swami Clause
3. Contempo Tundra
4. 4th Theme (Lonely Remix)

ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS signs MC Perec

2006-05-13T12:49:00.000-05:00

Brooklyn, NY
May 13, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS signs MC Perec.

For fans of adventurous music smarting from the rumored breakup of electro-acoustic outfit Webern and the Gynoids, and those lamenting the "retirement" of sound collage artist sSStTTuUUTttz, succor is on the way.

Brooklyn-based ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS proudly announces the latest addition to its sound-addled roster: MC Perec, enigmatic producer-composer-scientist.

Recording under arbitrarily determined constraints involving the sounds used in individual tracks, MC Perec straddles the line between abstract sound art and dance floor beats. The notorious eccentric rarely releases his work to more than a handful of friends and colleagues, making his sizable oeuvre nearly impossible to track down.

Finally, after months of indirect negotiations and CIA-style "cold drops," ROPE AND PULLEY has succeeded in obtaining the right to distribute the four tracks available for listening now at myspace.com/mcperec.

1. Open Up With The 88s
2. Quiz The Skin
3. sssssssssssssssssss
4. Cryogenic Weekend

Said ROPE AND PULLEY founder and president D Stuart Mullins, "Those who know me know it's rare for me to throw around words like 'genius' lightly. But here it is: MC Perec is redefining music, track by track, much the same way Albert Einstein redefined physics."

The Music of Reginald Gaylord Rediscovered

2006-02-23T09:58:00.000-05:00

Brooklyn, NY
February 23, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS, still in its infancy as a record label, has already begun to make its mark on the 21st century music scene with a release that will go down as a heroic act of historical preservation.

Tragically overlooked genius Reginald Gaylord has yet to gain the recognition due his output, mostly because of the absence of surviving recordings. Many of the master tapes not destroyed by Gaylord himself met a fate perhaps much worse: they were banished to evidence lockers somewhere deep within the recesses of the Federal Communication Commission of the U.S. governement after being seized in a series of raids on the composer's Oklahoma City residence and other production facilities associated with the underground television movement.

After Gaylord's presumed passing in 1994 (although his death has never been confirmed, he has not been seen since the airing of the final brilliant episode of The Blame Infusion) his music was essentially silenced. Only the famous "Shawnee Notebook," so named because it was discovered at the composer's sister's home in Shawnee, Oklahoma has kept his legacy alive. This notebook, filled with scores, descriptions, and recording notes, all in Gaylord's own hand, became a kind of samizdat passed from musician to musician for the past ten years, greatly influencing a generation of artists.

Finally, ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS has taken the step of bringing these compositions to life with the release of The Music of Reginald Gaylord. ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS labelmates DJ Anton Webern of Webern and the Gynoids and sound collage artist Ssstutz have collaborated to faithfully recreate the soundtracks to several of the underground television programs scored by the troubled legend.

Four outstanding tracks, all culled from Gaylord's work on action series The Blame Infusion are available for listening, along with historical notes (available via the "lyrics" function on the audio player) and rare period photographs at myspace.com/reginaldgaylord.

1. Theme from the Blame Infusion
2. Agent Rocket's Memory Theme
3. Periscope Depth
4. Exotica, Espionage, Economics

"Words cannot express how excited I am to see this labor of love finally come to fruition." said ROPE AND PULLEY RECORDS founder and president D. Stuart Mullins. "I can only hope that this recording finds its place on the shelves of the serious music enthusiast alongside the indispensable works of such geniuses as Prince, Harry Partch, and Robert Smith."

Webern & The Gynoids release new track

2006-02-03T13:02:00.000-05:00

Brooklyn, New York
February 3, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Webern & The Gynoids release new track.

Lighting really does strike twice! Or in the case of Webern & The Gynoids, the FOURTH time's the charm! With rumors mounting that the group may call it quits, this latest opus may be a swan song. Listening to this masterful weaving of drug- tinged psychedelia, warm House beats, and High Modernest poetry, I sure hope not!

What are the critics saying about Webern & The Gynoids' latest track, "Vivid Villain, I Hardly Know You Anymore (Burnt Norton Mix)"?

"The most successful fusion of clubland and T.S. Eliot since Tyron Slothrop Trio's 1989 hit 'Those Were Pearls That Were His Eyes, Asshole'." -Ben Ratlifff, New York Times

"First there was Charles Mingus's 'A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry.' Now comes the Vivid Villain. That cat Webern can really blow!" -Nat Hentofff, Downbeat

"Whither mirth? Thither mirth!" -The Paris Review

Also available:
"Influenzal Creeps Aren't Getting Their Due"
"His Comm Link Was Down"
"Now For The Details, The Fatal Blow"

myspace.com/webernandthegynoids

Webern and the Gynoids release new track

2006-01-15T12:58:00.000-05:00

Brooklyn, New York
January 15, 2006
For Immediate Release

Anton Webern, supported as always by the lovely Gynoids, has done it again! His one minute and thirty-nine second dramatic setting entitled "His Comm Link Was Down" draws on the best elements of speculative fiction to enthrall the listener with an exciting entertainment that uses Technology to create its thrilling tension.

Also available for listening is future-classic "Influenzal Creeps Aren't Getting Their Due," a cut I'm sure music fans will be humming from the Paris Metro to the New York City Subway! It's just that good.

Join the fun today at myspace.com/webernandthegynoids.