http://www.manifoldrecords.com/main.html

Squirrelgirl news Late June.

As some of you already know [sic] released a new full length CD on May 11th, 2004.
Here is a review by Raf Katigbak of the Montreal Mirror:

[sic] - Gorilla Masking Tape (Piehead)

Montreal audio-visual artist [sic] has been voluntarily hovering just below the radar for the past year,
letting her fan base - like her music - creep in slowly and steadily. For this release on Piehead,
[sic] has crafted a fine ambient release that shows a taste for balance, restraint and creeping people the fuck out.
Gorilla Masking Tape is the sound of warm analog textures, prepared guitar and bass, a bevy of effects pedals
and two months without sleep. Bleary-eyed and hazy, the sonic landscape has a moodiness that is at once peaceful
and unsettling, not unlike the feeling of successfully removing a small metal shard from your eyelid with a needle.

Review by Raf Katigbak

http://www.montrealmirror.com
http://www.pieheadrecords.com

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Look out for [sic]’s newest track to be released early July on German net label
Adozen

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[sic] has been working on a downloadable release for Squirrelgirl Records.
She has been working with friends to collaborate on tracks & upload them to this site.

Everyone is swamped with their own work, so this will be uploaded little by little.
Once the songs have all been completed, the tracks that sound nice along side each other will
eventually be downloadable to fit on a CD. Artwork will also be provided for you to print.
Until then keep an eye on the mp3 section.
[sic] is currently working on a collaborative track with Montreal starlet/gorgeous talented babe
Mylena Bergeron.

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If you are in Montreal this evening be sure to head over to
Casa del Popolo

too see [sic]’s friends play at the suoni festival.

David Kristian, Knurl, and Tim Hecker @ Casa Del Popolo
4873 boul. St-Laurent
Montreal, QC
Tickets: $8

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news from our fotze loving friends at Privatelektro in Germany

July 4th, 2004:
laptop battle 3.5. @ Automatenbar in Berlin, Germany
with triPhaze, miwon, lambent, taktik, menue:exit

July 12th, 2004:
resonance fm
on the frequenzen radio show in London, England
live sound material and interview with triPhaze

July 23rd & 24th, 2004.
headphone festival
in Leipzig, Germany
All privatelektro hardcore members are playing :
parachute
Rev. Benn Schipper
triPhaze
c: and more

July 31st, 2004
triPhaze plays ’music for fishes’ at the
Garage festival in Stralsund, Germany.

Hello

Due to an unforeseen amount of interest, we need to inform you that Squirrelgirl Records does not accept demos.

We would love to hear what you do, yet we just don’t have the time to deal with the demand, we are a small label and we have bands lined up for the next few years. We sincerely do not want artists spending their hard earned cash on sending us demos.

cheers

New [sic] track free download on ADOZEN

click to hear Bells of beaconsfield
click to read about the track
click to read about [sic]
click to read about adozen

also check out reviews for [sic] and sleazy listeners releases from Edgar Vareiko’s online music and non-music online magazine from Latvia.
GIAG - ELECTRONIC MUSIC & NON-MUSIC JULY 2004 http://www.giag.lv

NEW RELEASES:

ALEXEI BORISOV & ANTON NIKKILA - Typical Human Beings - CD
COBRA KILLER - 76/77 - 12" / CD
B. FLEISCHMANN & HERBERT WEIXELBAUM present DUO 505 - Late - 12" / CD
FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER - Looping I-VI (And Other Assorted Love Songs) - CD
JULIAN FANE - Special Forces - promo 7" / CD
KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF - Hysteria - CD
KLAUS FILIP / RADU MALFATTI / MATTIN / DEAN ROBERTS -Building Excess- CD
MAX EASTLEY / DAVID TOOP - Doll Creature - CD
TRISOMIE 21 - Happy Mystery Child - CD
V/A - Pepita vol.1 - CD

REVIEWS:

FRANCISCO LOPEZ - Untitled #119 - 3" CD
INSUMISION - Peru Pueblo Imbecil - CD-R
NERVE EXHIBIT - The Horror Of Amusement - CD
[SIC] - ...And Rabbits Named Friday - CD
[SIC] - Gorilla Masking Tape - CD-R
SLEAZY LISTENERS (THE) - The Romance Is Over - CD

V/A - Realmente Amas A Sandra Bullock? - CD-R
V/A - Rural Psychogeography - CD
VENUS FLY TRAP - Zenith - CD
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SQUIRRELGIRL NEWS SEPTEMBER 2004

***** [sic] and Roughage perform solo shows at the Send+Receive festival

Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat, presented at The Toronto Film Festival this September

Feature Documentary, Canada 2004
Director/Writer/Editor: Zev Asher
Producer/Co-director: Linda Feesey
Original Score: Roughage and [sic]

Toronto International Film Festival catalog

NOTE FROM [sic]:
Squirrelgirl does NOT condone cruelty to animals.
Before having a grand mal you may want to actually view the film.
[sic] and Roughage and all those at Squirrelgirl Records are fervent animal lovers. Please don’t quote a toronto tabloid and use it as a source for your deep rooted anger.
You outpatients are giving animal rights activists a bad name.

Read statement from Noah Cowan, Co-Director
Toronto International Film Festival

Sept 1st article from the globe and mail

CBC news

Toronto Star article Sept 2nd. (you’ll have to check the archive)
http://www.thestar.com

Toronto NOW review
http://www.nowtoronto.com/tiff/2004/review.cfm?filmID=58
CBC news sept 1st

CTV news

Send+Receive

Squirrelgirl artists [sic] and Roughage aka Zev Asher (of the sleazy listeners)
are both invited to play seperate dates in Winnipeg, Manitoba for the Send+Receive festival
in october.

The Brainwashed Brain
review of ’Gorilla Masking Tape’ by [sic]

"Having listened to and zoned out on this release at least half a dozen times, it should be obvious what it is that is so compelling about [sic]’s compositions of dusty long drones, deep ambient spaces and bump-in-the-night tension, but it’s not. On the one hand, this is difficult listening: all uneasy sounds and dischordant timbres rubbing up against one another to create an ambiguous feeling of dread. On the other hand, for those familiar with the work of like-minded artists like those featured on the quasi-legendary "Isolationism" compilation, [sic] fits perfectly into a already-defined niche of dark, brooding ambient characterized more by its claustrophobia than by its use reflection of space as an expanse. I could tell you that Gorilla Masking Tape is a beautiful, haunting record, or that it’s alpha-wave inducing at the right volume, or that it’s a perfectly quiet record for people who lead unquiet lives, but none of that really captures the force that these tracks embody. Perhaps the record’s most defining characteristic is that it is indeed so malleable that it can be both loud and quiet, both serene and disturbed, both beautiful and terrifying and that it does all of this effortlessly. I often wonder what more can be said about music like this that is both barely there and a force of nature all at once, depending on your volume knob. I always think that it will be impossible for someone to release yet another essential dark ambient disc in a world where artists who do this sort of thing tend to have voluminous discographies of equally affecting work already. I think that, and then I hear a record like Gorilla Masking Tape and it suddenly all sounds fresh and important and essential again and I’m left wanting more. It doesn’t get much better than that."
by Matthew Jeanes

samples:
Brine
Le Pukiste
Moray Firth

The Brainwashed Brain is a weekly digest from the staff and contributors of brainwashed V07I29 - 07252004

[sic] and Luca premiere ’Organic Debris’ at the
6ieme manifestation de Video et Art electronique
MONTREAL, SEPTEMBER 20-27, 2004
more details to follow...

cheers,
aiden

[sic] live at Les Digitales in Lausanne, Switzerland

Les Digitales de Mon Repos (Lausanne, parc de Mon Repos) Jeudi 28 juin 2007 de 16h à 22h avec

Iria Flavia

Collectif I+

Effedege

Radon

Tokoloten

Bacalao

[sic]

Consor

Larytta

POL

À faire se retourner Edison dans sa tombe, voici en première mondiale le pivophone, dont la performance sera retransmise en direct sur plus de 20 radios publiques européennes, dans le cadre du Art’s Birthday organisé à Lausanne par Espace 2 au Cinema Bellevaux.

Tournant dans la tête de Jen Morris depuis des lustres et réalisée avec Micheal Egger, cette nouvelle machine pourrait s’inscrire comme la cerise sur le gâteau d’une histoire des machines à bruits. Des Intonarumori futuristes aux tubes robotiques des frères Decoster, c’est toute une généalogie glorifiant la virilité agressive, la force, le pouvoir, l’industrie et la guerre que révèle le pivophone. Le pivophone met en doute ce qui jusqu’à son arrivée faisait autorité dans les arts du son. Alors, s’agit-il d’écouter des pives comme John Cage désirait entendre l’âme des cendriers ? Non, mais on se rapproche. Et oui il faut se rapprocher. On est dans l’art de la miniature. Miniature d’un gros show télévisé où les pop stars sont des pives. Miniature d’une scène faite miroir. Miniature d’une patinoire d’Holidays on Ice, où les danseurs-hockeyeuses sont finalement grandeur nature. Alors déjà assité à un ballet de pives majestueuses sous speed ? Déjà écouté le fracas d’une pive contre une autre ?

Jen Morris est une artiste sonore de performances électroniques, radicales et troublantes. De renommée internationale sous le pseudo [sic], Morris communique rarement avec l’espèce humaine. Mais lorsqu’elle le fait, à travers, aussi, la vidéo, l’installation, la bande son de films et son label Squirrelgirl, c’est frontal et désarçonnant.
http://squirrelgirl.com/releases/SIC/

Michael Egger est un artiste vidéo, bricoleur-inventeur, programmeur, musicien et pédagogue.
anyma.ch/about/michael_egger/

Et aussi au programme de la soirée:

Thomas Tilly, Abstral Compost, Louis Schild et Antoine Läng, Raphaël Raccuia.