We’re very excited over here today. Our rudely-named noise band, assholeknife, is having a proper album release!
The good people at Naan cül Press have created a gorgeous cassette of Wakes Up, an album that features 10 new songs. Katie Haegele, Chris Baldys, and Joseph Carlough made the music spontaneously using several methods and instruments, including a Yamaha CS Reface Virtual Analog Synthesizer, audio samples from old videos and films, the MM-XX T-APE stereophonic bytebeat generator, Ethereal Dialpad for Android, and Joe’s human voice. As they always are, it was a cathartic, invigorating, messy, and surprisingly harmonious session. Noise music is good for the soul.
The cassette will debut this weekend at the Jersey City Art Book Fair. Thank you to Matt and Kaitie at Naan cül for all that you do! We’re so proud of this beautiful object and the music that’s on it—please consider buying a copy from them, either in person or through the press’s website. We will have our own copies for sale soon, too. Here’s a sneak peek at the cassette (photos courtesy of Naan cül):
And here’s a video Joe made for the song “wake up (earth rise) + breakbeat remix”: