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a wee bit o' news

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:17:15 -0500

- wobbling roof magazine, issue #2 is shaping up to be a monster.

- I (as in paul) am sitting on so much new and unreleased Mercy Choir and Orchids music, I’m not quite sure what to do with it all. Any suggestions?

Wobbling Roof Magazine is official(ly recognized by the Library of Congress)! ISSN: 2151-5433

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:50:47 -0400

excitement.

Wobbling Roof Magazine is a multi-media arts magazine published...

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:16:00 -0400

Wobbling Roof Magazine is a multi-media arts magazine published by dead language records. Here you’ll find poetry, prose, audio, and visual art. Enjoy the first issue. There’s lots of great stuff inside…

The Dead Language Records staff is on summer vacation! We are...

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:41:00 -0400

The Dead Language Records staff is on summer vacation! We are kicking back on the beach and sipping frozen cocktails out of halved coconut shells. Enjoy all the free music and we’ll see you again soon. There’s plenty on the hopper…

Mercy Choir’s 3-song collaboration with Queens’ Speak...

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:07:00 -0400

Mercy Choir’s 3-song collaboration with Queens’ Speak Onion is avaliable now.

You can download it (for free!) here: http://www.immigrantbreastnest.com/releases/ibn007/

The songs:

Items of note:

Lyrics on Surface of Depth are by the wonderful Frank Critelli and the music was written by Paul Belbusti. Fans of Mercy Choir might recognize this song as it’s appeared in various forms during live shows.

The Fall is a Ministry song.

Enjoy this collaboration and be sure to listen to some of Speak Onion’s solo material.

MERCY CHOIR and SPEAK ONION recording collaboration

Mon, 18 May 2009 15:11:21 -0400

Mercy Choir (dead language records) and Speak Onion (immigrant breast nest) recently collaborated on a few tracks which will be released as a short E.P. by both labels in the coming weeks. The results are sure to be worthy of a chinscratch. IBN C.E.O. Derek Tibs was there to document the recording session:

more here: http://www.immigrantbreastnest.com/visuals

New Releases, New Music....

Tue, 12 May 2009 09:12:58 -0400

Hello All, Dead Language Records is proud to announce the release the new and first full length album by Canada’s Forms. The album is called R/S and is available now for free download here: http://deadlanguagerecords.com/forms.html Forms is a guitar and piano duo and R/S is a 12 track, instrumental, mostly improvisational album. It’s a beautiful sequence of songs that will become an essential part of your music collection, no matter what sort music you enjoy. These guys are great players and we look forward to many more years of music from them. We hope you love it as much as we do. The boys of Forms have created a limited edition CD version of the album (which looks great!), and you can inquire about it directly with the band by emailing them here: willb@live.ca —————- Other news: - Mercy Choir will be performing some shows in New York City and New Haven, CT this summer. Please reply to this email if you are a booker and have any open dates. Some of these shows will be sparse solo performances and some will be with backing musicians playing more fleshed out arrangements. - There are still a few copies left of Christopher Trull’s mind boggling instrumental guitar album Boxes of Dead Things. Get your copy now, before there all gone. Of course, go ahead and download the mp3 version of the album and enjoy. - Orchids is Paul Belbusti’s (that’s me) non-Mercy Choir project. The consist of various experiments (in the literal sense) in instrumental guitar and pedal soundscapes, piano plunking, and audio collage. Many tracks are now available to stream on the Orchids Muxtape page: http://orchids.muxtape.com An Orchids E.P. is in the works. From Wikipedia: “In the Greek world, Tuesday (the day of the week of the Fall of Constantinople) is considered an unlucky day. The same is true in the Spanish-speaking world, where a proverb runs: En martes, ni te cases ni te embarques, meaning, ‘On Tuesday, neither get married nor begin a journey.’”

Coming Soon: Forms - R/S Coming later this week is the debut...

Mon, 04 May 2009 11:39:00 -0400

Coming Soon: Forms - R/S

Coming later this week is the debut release of Canadian guitar/piano duo Forms. Their full length album, R/S is absolutely beautiful and will be available for free download in the very near future.

Just to wet your whistle, here’s the first track:

welcome.

Here’s a few words from the band about the album:

R/S is based on two recurring themes. The initial concept for the recording of R/S came from the Steve Reich composition “Clapping Music”. The first theme for R/S is the initial rhythmic motif from “Clapping Music” set to an E minor triad. The second theme is a chord progression based around the “basso ostinato” near the beginning of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 (3rd movement). It is transposed from the original key. In this recording the piano plays A B E A Bb F E C G F D Fmin7+imp. C while the guitar simultaneously plays A E A F E C G F. Almost all of R/S is improvisation stemming from the two themes or variations thereof.

Dead Language Records on Muxtape

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:17:16 -0400

Dead Language Records on Muxtape

Mercy Choir on Muxtape

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:39:11 -0400

Mercy Choir on Muxtape:

hooray for the death of myspace.

Immigrant Breast Nest. A net label you should be aware of...

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:12:22 -0400

A few of my dear friends have started a netlabel and if you are interested in experimental, noise, dancing, porch techno, black metal, etc… you’re going to want to stop by, download a bunch of free music, and get crazy. http://www.immigrantbreastnest.com/
Stay tuned for some potential Dead Language Records and Immigrant Breast Nest collaborations in the future. Just stay clear of C.E.O. Derek Tibs. That dude eats raw meat.

Christopher Trull CDs are here....

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:40:06 -0400

You may have already downloaded it, but you’re going to want to get you hands on one of these before they’re gone. These CDs are numbered 1-50 and feature artwork and liner notes by me (Paul). Each CD label is hand stamped. Not only are these CDs collector’s items due to their limited availability, they are collectable simply for the fact that they are Compact Discs. A genuine relic of the past. Hearkening back to a time when music files were not delivered by a series of internets tubes, but via a round piece of plastic, inside a plastic case. Some day your children will be looking through your boxes of old photographs and magazines and they’ll come across this Christopher Trull CD and you’ll say,

“Yes, Virginia…this is Boxes of Dead Things compact disc #26 of 50. Your mother has number 6! I saw her putting the CD in the player inside her gasoline car and I flagged her down. This is how we met. We sat for hours in the McDonald’s parking lot and talked about this album and discussed the war.”

“Which war, Daddy? The World War?”

“No, Virginia, this was about a year before that war started.”

http://deadlanguagerecords.com/dlr0011.html

Contest over! Thanks for playing and congrats to the winner. In...

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:15:25 -0400

Contest over! Thanks for playing and congrats to the winner.

In the mean time, stay tuned for the opportunity to buy one of these limited edition Chris Trull CD’s….

Contest!!!

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:53:04 -0400

First person to email: deadlanguagerecords@gmail.com with the subject “Contest” gets CD #1 of 50 of Christopher Trull’s album Boxes of Dead Things…. Sure to be a collector’s item.

Here’s a previously unreleased instrumental track by Paul...

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:46:00 -0400

Here’s a previously unreleased instrumental track by Paul Belbusti of Mercy Choir.

Download and enjoy:

Sand & Foam (circa 2004)

I told you they were coming soon….for real! Limited...

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:38:08 -0400

I told you they were coming soon….for real!

Limited edition CDs, numbered 1-50 with artwork by Paul Belbusti, avaliable soon. KaPOW! Till then, why not enjoy the mp3 version? http://deadlanguagerecords.com/dlr0011.html

Did you know Boxes of Dead Things was mastered by Jeremy Lemos? His extensive resume is pretty mindblowing (and he also happens to be a very nice guy, indeed). Right now, he’s currently on tour with a little band called Sonic Youth.

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Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:13:07 -0400

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the CD version of Boxes of Dead Things is coming soon…..

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:23:00 -0400

the CD version of Boxes of Dead Things is coming soon…..

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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:55:00 -0400

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Here’s the last few news items:

3/3/9 - Boxes Of Dead Things is here and available for free download now!

2/26/2008 - Waiting E.P., a short, new E.P. by mercy choir is is available for download here…

2/13/2008 - the new instrumental album by Christopher Trull is finished and will be released here very soon. Stay tuned for details…

11/17/2008 - the new mercy choir album Passagreen is here and here!…

9/13/2008 - welcome to the redesigned dead language record website. the good news? well, the new commuter record, of course…