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soundBarn The Gunpowder Conspiracy

Tape Drift Records TD55
"Second TD outing from this upstate NY pair of deconstructionists.  Lail and Weklar continue in their quest to explore the outer realms of the guitar.  Drawing their name from the cavernous reverberating room where they record, these two tackle the challenge of making their guitars sputter, snarl and growl in tandem.  The resulting textures are thick, dark and ominous, with smoky trails of feedback framing a journey into sound itself.  The clanging metallic scrapes of Russell/Morley and Moore/Ranaldo are the starting points, yet these two extend the path into infinity.  Take the ride."



"The connection between the music of soundBarn and Sonic Youth is apparent on the duo’s 2011 CD Valentine whereby–true to Sonic Youth ideals–the duo utilizes prepared guitars to create sprawling tracks loaded with feedback-laced mayhem.". WBNY Upstate SoundScape

Excerpt from the first track:
http://soundcloud.com/tape-drift/soundbarn-gunpowder-i-excerpt

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soundBarn: valentine
soundBarn has been mining the possibilities of extreme guitar for years, and Tape Drift is thrilled to present their debut recording. The single long-form track of Valentine finds the duo creating fields of sonic sprawl that defy easy definition.
Recorded live in their performance space/ studio at a turn of the century, rural, Upstate New York orchard, soundBarn’s Thomas Lail and Patrick Weklar ply prepared and altered guitars, overprocess signals and pile loops of sound to orchestrate an arching instrumental tale of creation and destruction.


Weklar and Lail have been collaborating for over twenty years and were founding members of Upstate New York’s long-ago post-punk band, The Fauves. Tape Drift's release of Valentine includes cover and a trifold insert images by artist Tara Fracalossi and soundBarn images by Mark Lunt, Larissa Tapler and Lail.

soundBarn- Valentine (excerpt)

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soundBarn Press:  YearOne
The complete soundBarn Press releases from 2011 at a special price.   
Poetry from Thomas Lail, Lee Ranaldo and James Cullinane.
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soundBarn Press:  Individual Titles











Thomas Lail:  May 08/ Feb 10
The innaugural publication of soundBarn Press, Thomas Lail's May 08/ Feb 10 is the first publishing of Lail’s poetic writing.  His poems, like his other works in sound and collage, combine and juxtapose fragmentary glances into arcing structures.   They are populated with history, ideas and stolen fragments of the everyday.  Thomas Lail is a musician and artist whose works have been shown nationally and internationally.   He is Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Hudson Valley Community College, SUNY, Troy, New York.
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Lee Ranaldo:  how not to get played on the radio
Lee Ranaldo is a musician/visual artist/writer and founding member of rock band Sonic Youth.   “how not to get played on the radio” collects twenty-two of Ranaldo’s signature poetry writings, many never before published.   His swirling fragments of observed and found text map an American terrain seen through the hazed glass of tour busses, airports windows and the avant-garde voices of the past century.
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James Cullinane:  Found a Little Jawbone...
James Cullinane is an artist and writer whose visual works have been seen in New York for the past twenty years.   History , politics and the heritage of Williams and Olsen find new footing in the twenty + poems of “Found a Little Jawbone…”    From the opening epigram to the concluding image of a ruined  roman aqueduct, Cullinane assembles the triumphs and failures of his surrounds.   This is the first publishing of Cullinane’s poetry.
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