February Update

Cover for the Sterile Garden: Year Cycle One zine. To be released on Dumpster Score Recordings this spring.

Flier for the next Sterile Garden show.

Finished an interview with Little Fyodor this week at his residence here in Denver. Walls of Genius was this incredible group of weirdos that he moonlighted with in the early to mid-80s in Boulder. They released 30 tapes over the course of the band's lifespan. These recordings have been re-issued by Little Fyodor on cdr in 2005, and are well worth your $s, especially their compilation: "Madnesslives".
Next week I'll be interviewing with Joel Haertling of Architect's Office. Swan Lake is starting to take shape, and we are in the middle of lay-out.

September Update

Just returned from a short three-day tour with Civilized. We played with some great bands like Sucked Dry, Meat Mist, Much Worse, Brain Tumors, Cardiac Arrest, and Raw Nerve. If you haven't been to the City Museum in St. Louis, do yourself a favor and stop in there the next chance you get. Its magic! We finished our second demo tape. the first edition of 20 is sold out, and we are pressing another 80 of them this fall. We also have a t-shirt designed by the incredible Meatdog, the singer of Melbourne, Australia's Reckless Aggression. Demo tapes are $5 and shirts are $8. Please get in touch if you're interested.
Sterile Garden played a benefit show this past Saturday for the Silent Barn, which is a DIY experimental venue in NYC that was robbed several months ago. Our next show won't be for several months. I'm working on some newer material that will be a bit of a surprise for those who've been following this project. Some newer personnel will be added.
We're still looking for advertisers for the new issue of Swan Lake. It will be printed on newsprint, in an edition of 800 to 1000 copies. I'm also hoping to finish up some artwork for a Sterile Garden release on Dumpster Score Recordings as well this next month. Thanks to those who support. Keep your head above water. Don't hit your head on the debt ceiling.

PS: here's a video of Sterile Garden at the Titwrench Surfacing show a couple of months ago. Thanks to Kyle Warfield for taking the video!

August Update

My attention has shifted towards Civilized for the time being. The show last week with Ice Age was very rewarding, and the Danish lads were very much into our cover of Iron Cross' "Psycho Skin". Negative Degree and Tollund Men played solid sets as well. In a week we'll be sharing the stage with The Men and Religous Girls at Rhinoceropolis. Later on this month, we're playing with Punch and Loma Pieta(also at Rhino). At the beginning of September, there will be a weekend jaunt(not a tour, per se) with our friends Negative Degree(Denver). The cities of St. Louis, Kansas City, and Chicago will be covered.

Sterile Garden is still a concern, but we're taking time to set up some time to record two compositions that we've been performing recently, as well as writing some new material that is decidedly more 'song-like'. This will involve an expanded line-up of SG. Thanks to everyone that has supported this project over the years. Its been an interesting journey.

update

the show with Sisisters and Concrete Shiva was wonderful last night. It's an honor to play an event associated with the Titwrench Fest, as they are doing something that is refreshing and interesting. Poppy Red played her first set and it was a real treat. The last few shows with Sterile Garden have been very successful, though we are taking a break to finish some recordings and work on artwork for some upcoming releases. Our next show will be in November or December.

here's the Sterile Garden set from Denver Noise Fest a few months ago: video

INTERNAL LIGHT

Denver Noise Fest 2011

Sterile Garden performs on Saturday night at the outdoor stage. Thanks for everyone that came out to the Hedia/Luperci show last Friday.
There is a new Sterile Garden release, "Process" C-10, edition of 22. This tape is some material that we've performed in the past, and its been edited for brevity's sake. Also, there are some Sterile Garden releases in the works: 1) a 3"cdr on Dumpster Score Recordings. 2) a tape on Lazer Palace. 3) a tape on Bleak Environment
There are also plans to release the compositions 'Acreage' and 'False Digital' in some form in the next year. We're going to take a break from playing shows after this summer for a bit and focus on releasing old material and writing new compositions.

Sterile Garden performances

read about it HERE

another recent Abbreviated Glossalia show HERE

other upcoming shows:

April 22-24 @ Old Curtis Street Bar: Denver Noise Fest

Noise starts at 7:00PM each night
An +18 event
Ages 21+: $10/night or $25 Three Day Pass
Ages 18-20: $15/night or $30 Three Day Pass

April 15 @Rhinoceropolis(3553 Brighton Blvd.) :

Hedia(NM)

Luperci

Sterile Garden

May 19 @Rhinoceropolis(3553 Brighton Blvd.):

Slut Dungeon

Weak Sisters

Polyurethane

Chaperone

Sterile Garden

July 15: Denver Surfacing Showcase with Concrete Shiva/ SisSisters/Wrong Hole/Tarr/Baronic Wall/Trash Pop, Married In Berdichev

- Denver Surfacing Showcase w/ Married in Berdichev & Sterile Garden

taking a break

hey everyone, i'm still taking orders and trades. trades more than orders, please.

but there will be a lapse of me posting on this while i focus on school, a new band(ego complex), and finding work in Denver.

it was interesting to note the differences between the Rhinoceropolis and Astroland shows. People were actually paying attention to the sounds and moving around the "oh, so stinky" room at Rhino while i listened to people talk through almost every act in Boulder. No one in Boulder payed attention to any of the video art presented that night, and i distinctly overheard someone muttering, "when is it gonna get more dancey?"

REally? Boulder. pay some respect to Architect's Office, already and have a show for him. stop being into rave music and hipster garage rock. Rhino, you can keep on stinking of cat piss as long as the shows are quality like last time. Big up to MMC3 for manning the video for most of the acts that performed that night.

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LAVAS/MAGMAS: AMERICAN DNA C30 $5 PPD

STERILE GARDEN: HEADPHONE MUZAK CDR $4 PPD

LINDSAY NICHOLS: IN LIMBO ART ZINE $5 PPD

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Two December Shows

Lavas/Magmas tape

Available now. $5 PPD in the United States, $7 rest of the world. Color covers on thick glossy card stock, stereo-dubbed on type 2 cassettes. Edition of 50.

Video of Sterile Garden performing at Albuquerque Experimental Fest

video here: VIDEO

Also, another Sterile Garden performance in December:

DECEMBER 17

AT: RHINOCEROPOLIS, 3553 BRIGHTON BLVD.

Voices Of - Tape Release
with Sara Century and nervesandgel
(split tape release)
Thug Life - Zine Release Party

pictures from the art show

review of Sterile Garden youtube performance

There are two more copies left of Lindsay Nichols' photograph zine, "In Limbo". Here's a few preview pictures: $6 with postage, $5 in person

check it out here:

http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/?p=1909

also here's some other reviews:

http://existest.org/ee_v3/?p=1875

http://www.arma.lt/introspect/texts/introspect-review%20STERILE%20GARDEN-NOVASAK.htm

2 more reasons why I don't wanna be in the 'noise' ghetto. Let me out. Just to let you know, full discrepancy and all, I know Crawford Phileo, who wrote the piece for Foxy Digitalis.

Anyways, there's a lot going on around the Basement Tapes compound lately. There's a new project afloat called RECOMBINANTS. Pop music remixes in differing collaborative settings. The first to reach fruition is the S/T C20 which is with Matt Sage of M. Pyes/Patient Sounds Tapes/Castles. The first side is completed and we are starting the second side in the next couple weeks as time allows.

There's a new Sterile Garden composition in the works. It should be completed in the next two weeks, and we're going to try to perform it a few times here in Fort Collins and Denver before I go back to school in January. A few weekends ago with the help of my roommate Jared(Rad Vibes), Sterile Garden also recorded four versions of a piece that we've performed three times live, titled "False Digital". There will be two versions of the release; one being a 2 CDR(4-channel)/poster set, and the other being a stereo tape with art propaganda. We're very excited about this release as it has taken Sterile Garden in a different direction than many have heard at this point in our existence. We still have another 3-member composition for yet another SG piece that we've also performed three times in the past year.

Guest Mix Installment #2: Zach Reini

Zach said about the mix:

I think its a very common occurrence for people to get into daily situations that they wish they could get out of on

account of complete frustration or a sense of marginalization. Discontent is a normal feeling that is often clouded with happy-go-lucky positive outlooks, which are great in the right context, but there also exists the whole opposing spectrum that shouldn't be repressed. It's just unhealthy. These tracks help me, and I assume the musicians, cope with these mundane feelings and angst that still prevail from your teens into your 40's. Hate your job, hate your coworkers/colleagues, etc. A lot of cliches could come out of this, but frustration in all its aspects is at the bottom of my draw to this mix, so I hope this helps people find some music that aids the venting process.

Tracklisting:

1. Twin Stumps: Landlord

2. Drunkdriver: Quality of My Life

3. Fresh Meat: Bad Mask

4. Vile: I'm a Punk

5. No Trend: Killing Me

6. Slavescene: Fuck Off Away From Me

7. YDI: Not Shit

8. Swans: Time is Money (Bastard)

9. Dead Times: Christ Mourners I

10. Deep Jew: Virgin

11. Offerings: 11-Offerings-1

12. SNUFF: Male Supremacy

Contact info:

myspace.com/crawlhc
zachreini.blogspot.com

Zach's Mix

3 live sets download

here's some live performances from the past few years for your perusal:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/jmptp1

Headphone Muzak download

here's the link for the newly released "Headphone Muzak" by Sterile Garden:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/8s9xe7

Guest Mix Installment #1: Ryan McRyhew

This is the first in a series of mixtapes by friends and fellow creative minds. First, a little bit of background on the author of the mix. Ryan McRyhew is one half of the electronic dance duo Hideous Men, who seem to be spearheading a fresh direction in the arena of DIY music. For some reason I haven't been able to catch them live although they reside in Denver and play out on a regular basis. Their equipment was stolen at the recent Titwrench Festival a couple of months ago, but they are bouncing back and working on material for a new cassette and a split 7". Ryan also runs the Laserpalace label which has been releasing like-minded DIY dance-troniks for the past few years.

I asked Ryan to do a mix for the blog because I knew he was into early electronic music as well as newer synth-based bands. Its nice when someone makes you a mix and there's artists on there that you know(in this case Demons, Raymond Scott, Mort Garson, Morton Subotnick), as well as digging deeper into realms unknown. Its a well-balanced mix of past and present musics, and well-worth your time if you have any interest in synth/electronic based sound. He offered this explanation of the mix:

"Regarding my endeavors, i'm very much interested in the concepts of music and art existing in other dimensions, humans being the contact points for translating those dimensions. Especially within the synth/electronic realm, sort of a ghost in the machine idea. I'm also into building electronic music devices to communicate with those ideas, and very interested in modular synthesis. I've been recording a release based on these ideas for a while now, looking to release it on cassette in october. It's a cross between the paranormal and synthetic realm. Outside of the more esoteric, i just love meeting people and trying to experience what they experience through music, i love mixes. DIY and community keeps it altogether for me. Hope that gives you a little more insight. Really the mix was just synth music that inspired me, with a little bit of flow, but mostly just songs that I think people should listen to."

Tracklisting:

1. John Pfeiffer: Reflection of a String

2. Jean-Piere Decerf & Myriam Chadcar: Aquatic

3. Mort Garson: Black Mass

4. Altocumulus: My

5. Jean-Jacques Perrey & Gershon Kingsley: Stranger in the Night

6. Demons: Self Possession

7. Oneohtrix Point Never: Betrayed in the Octagon

8. Charles Dodge: Speech Songs - He Destroyed Her Image

9. Yip-Yip: High Heel To Mammal IV

10.Axxess: Kissing The Desert Ghost

11. Nik Tyndall: Strassen Der Nacht

12. Baby Sloth Spirit: Astromythics

13. Raymond Scott: The Rhythm Modulator

14. Morton Subotnick: Touch A

15. Survive: Glass Knives

download this mix here

KRAUT-MIX

get it HERE