Sunken Cheek - (2017) Phosphenes & Dissonance CS

Phosphenes & Dissonance is a collection of work spanning nearly the entire Sunken Cheek timeline. In 2011 a one-page zine was written to be distributed at the 2011 ACHC Fest in Syracuse, NY as per the festival's tradition for admission. The following year the words were put to music in three parts, recorded and released as a limited CDr with copies of the zine. Crude, early dabblings with industrial PE served as the conduit. More missives were written between 2012-2017 whenever the timing has seemed appropriate.
The most recent missive "Historic Betrayals" was written as a lyrical/visual companion to the live performance composed for spring Sunken Cheek performances. It was distributed at the events and the audio work was then recorded to be presented here. A 16 minute movement of tape manipulation and myriad field recordings. While there is much growth displayed compared to it's A-side, the tape demonstrates the full scope and intention of Sunken Cheek's sonic paranoia. The writing unveils the dreams and occurrences themselves while the cassette serves as a contextual companion, akin to musical accompaniment.
This collection is 6 years' worth of recurring dreams and cyclical events. This is the last time these zines will be reprinted or these songs will be released.
Guilt and vengeance.
Echoes and deja vu.
Nightmares and premonitions.
Phosphenes & Dissonance.
presented in a VHS case: a c34 cassette housed inside a soft poly-norelco and 4x one-page zines (three 8 1/2 x 11 and one 8 1/2 x 14) in a printed and wax-sealed envelope. Full wrap-around cover and liner notes insert.
self-released
50 copies

Subliminal - (1986) SLEEP LIKE A BABY CS

Institute Of Human Development - None

Inner Fare - (2011) Dirty Doubler CS

Jeff Zagers and Rick Weaver
way back to the day
"The first side is an excerpt of our seemingly endless "drums on tape" composition entitled 'Dirty Doubler.' Also bearing the name of Dirty Doubler is a sound installation, a Family Visions movie, an object (or two), and a festival in St. Louis.
The second side is an introduction to the Inner Fare code of conduct. Musical moments captured between our initial 'meeting of the minds' in Mt. Airy, Maryland, May 2009 up until a Florida excursion laced with pure luck in February 2011."
original press c92 was limited to 30 copies

credits

released January 1, 2012

Jeff Zagers and Rick Weaver
cameos by
Alex Hampshire
Ben Kelley
Noah Anthony
Kylie Lance 

 

Rites OF Spring - (1985) ST LP

  Dischord Records ‎– № 16

The Dicks - (1980) Ten Inches 10''

 Delta Pop Music ‎– DPM007

Capitalist Casualties & Man Is The Bastard - (2009) Split LP

 Six Weeks ‎– SW 03.5

Abner Jay - (2010) Folk Song Stylist LP

 Mississippi Records ‎– MR-068

Howlin' Wolf - (2011) Moanin' In The Moonlight LP

 Chess ‎– LP-1434

The Third Eye Foundation - (1997) Sound Of Violence CD

 Merge Records ‎– MRG134CD

Hood - (1998) Rustic Houses Forlorn Valleys LP

 Domino ‎– WIGLP 42

Hood - 1996 - Silent '88 LP

 Slumberland Records ‎– slr 59

Silent ’88 is one of those records where the surface quiet is deceptive. Hood did not make silence as emptiness. They made silence as weather: grey streets, distant rooms, tape hiss, half-melodies, small guitar figures, and songs that seem to arrive already worn from memory. The music sits between lo-fi indie rock, early post-rock, and experimental home-recording culture, but it never feels like a genre exercise. It feels like a place.

The Slumberland release gives the album an interesting double identity. Hood were from Leeds, carrying that unmistakable Northern English dampness and restraint, but Silent ’88 also entered the American indie underground through one of its most beloved labels. That crossing makes sense. Slumberland understood records that could be fragile without being precious, melodic without becoming glossy, and rough without treating roughness as a gimmick. Hood fit that world perfectly while still sounding like they had brought their own weather system with them.

The LP plus 7" format adds to the charm. Silent ’88 is not just a sequence of songs, but a small physical arrangement: the album, the extra disc, the label design, the pause required to change sides, the little ritual of handling the object. That matters even more here because this post comes from your own rip. The file is not just a copy floating loose from nowhere. It carries the path from a physical record through your playback chain into the archive.

That transfer history feels right for Hood. Their music has always been full of traces: room noise, distance, blurred edges, sounds that feel found as much as played. A personal FLAC rip preserves the record as both music and encounter. Silent ’88 remains beautifully unresolved, half song and half fogged window, but the post gives it another life in the open air. Not restored into brightness, thankfully. Just carried forward with the weather still inside it.

Hood - (1995) Cabled Linear Traction LP

 Slumberland Records ‎– SLR 46

Infest - (1987) 1987 Demo LP

 Unoffical Release - None