Live in Austin, March 2009 - projections by Paul Baker
Part two: Live in Austin, March 2009 - projections by Paul Baker
Zanzibar Snails with Swiss sound artist Jason Kahn at the No Idea Festival in Ft. Worth, TX.
The Snails are the abstract, communal improv/drone collective/project of Nevada Hill & Michael Chamy, previously co-founders of aleatory Denton, TX combo iDi*amin, along with a rotating cast of intrepid explorers, both along for the ride and pointing the way ....^^=_=_=^^^=_=_=_=_=_=_=_+_=_+_=-_=_=_++_=__+..=.._+=_=
The Snails have shared stages w/ the Silver Apples, Harvey Milk, Six Organs of Admittance, Barn Owl, Suishou no Fune, Indian Jewelry, Jason Kahn, Wooden Shjips, Greg Ginn (Black Flag), Rahdunes, Magic Lantern, Mike Tamburo, Robedoor, Social Junk, Monsters of Pot, Dennis Gonzalez's Yells at Eels, Future Blondes, Aidan Baker, Medio Mutante, My Education, Mugu Guymen, ST 37, Shawn David McMillen, Nick Hennies, Stumptone, Winters in Osaka, The Great Tyrant, Ghost of Falco, Shiny Around the Edges, Nouns Group, Treewave, Daniel Francis Doyle, Venison Whirled, Finally Punk, Cue, Balmorhea, Dust Congress, and many more .... |z..{..&} ... voted Best Noise/Avant garde in 2008 by the readers of Dallas/Denton music blog We Shot JR .... and a critic's pick for best Experimental in 2007 ...
Participated in 2009 installment of the No Idea Festival in Ft. Worth, TX alongside European sound artists Annette krebs and Jason Kahn; played a collaborative set with Kahn. In fall 2009 Snails Nevada Hill and Sarah Alexander collaborated live with Greg Ginn (Black Flag)'s Texas Corrugators.
FUTURE
split 7-inch with Denton's Slackbeat
early 2010
2010 releases on Ikuisuus, Mayyrh, and ???
NEWEST
Vitiligo CDr
( Tape Drift ) TD24
"March 09 recordings from this phenomenal and mysterious Texas group with the ability to hypnotize listeners and create a swirling vortex of magical sound. Occupying some nether territory between collective improv, grainy atmosphere building, and structured chaos, Zanzibar Snails follow in the tradition of the great Texas psych dreamers in their quest for exploration. Vitiligo is the disease than turns the black man white (the most famous case being the macabre Michael Jackson), and the word accentuates the close relationship between darkness and light, luminescence and void, order and entropy. The first Zanzibar full-length to feature vocalist/sound sculptress Sarah Alexander. Amazing silkscreened gatefold sleeves (designed and screened by Nevada Hill) in stamped vellum envelopes." - Tape Drift
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Journey Into Amazing Caves! CD + DVDr
Mayyrh, MYH06
Two discs, one audio, one video montage by David Lee Price with a separate Zanzibar soundtrack. LIMITED EDITION of 100, screen printed by Nevada Hill. Audio 4 tracks, 53 minutes. DVD 26 minutes-plus.
AUDIO:
An ebbing series of hypnotic fjords that whisper, banter & barter, commingle,
converge & break apart, pile up and explode.
Michael Chamy & Nevada Hill w/ guest spots from Mike Forbes, and David Lee Price, who re-imagines the epic opener in flashback form.
“At first it kinda reminded me of Xenakis’ electronic stuff or Conrad’s darker synth stuff, but then it went into this avant guitar drone jam like if Earth and AMM had a baby ….†– our friend Tiago
VIDEO
A hallucinatory montage by David Lee Price titled “Carbage Goma,†with Zanzibar Snails producing the soundtrack. The audio is taken from a live performance by a five-piece lineup feat. Price, Seth Sherman & Josh McWhirter ... a chanting, clattering cry for help giving narrative to Price’s shifty, swirling ode to the primeval takeover of a technocratic society by a battalion of mutated Hervay Villachaize clones & his pet cadre of mutant wombat larva sporting oversized rhinestone sunglasses.
$10 postpaid U.S.
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Vanadium Dream CDr
( Phantom Limb Recordings ) ARM025
Organic hash-dream cornucopia
"Unexpected sounds from unexpected new friends, the drone of Zanzibar Snails is both familiar and wholly indescribable. Music made by inhuman means, an alchemy of sounds blasted and scorched, "Vanadium Dream" is a
thick radioactive depth charge to our oceanic roster of drone and trance sounds. It is an attack on the senses, staged
in three sections, a triptych of doom and resurrection. - Phantom Limb
Packaged in a beautiful 5 screen / 9 color silkscreened fold out cover by Nevada Hill, this is a looker to behold and a sounder to listen
at..." -- Phantom Limb
3 tracks/38 mins
Numbered Limited Ed. 100
Phantom Limb is sold out but we have a couple of copies left.
From the back:
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BROWN DWARF CDr
MAYYRH Records , MYH05
A power drone odyssey featuring the strings of Josh McWhirter gone Conrad, wrapped around staticky innerspace implosions. Progresses through ebbs & flows of decay and release, meditative balms and disorienting headfuck. Peppered with disembodied voices, haywire electronics, and introspective cadences. Five tracks, 35 minutes.
Deluxe digipack by Nevada Hill & David L. Price.
“Mesmerizing in a strange and alien way.†– Dead Angel
†… the music has a crackle of electricity running through it, mixing acoustic and electric instruments into a highly listenable, yet challenging, whole. – Terrascope Online
“… a mightily twisted and incredibly dense lump of sonic dough … it’s impressive how some of the key instruments – the sharply-angsted viola of Josh McWhirter for example – manage to float to the surface of this rolling planet of rich electro-acoustic swampery. – The Sound Projector
“… the listener can hear how all the disparate elements cooperate and contrast one another…maintaining a firmly free-improv experimental feel, while communicating a sense of direction and control.†– Jerry Kranitz, Aural Innovations
â€Alternately distressing and soothing, Brown Dwarf is an immersive and perversely enjoyable experience.†– Jesse Hughey, Dallas Observer
“A richly compelling piece of music, suffused with nods to rock, doom, and electro acoustic improvisation, yet ultimately resulting in its own conglomeration of influences. … The rare album that crosses boundaries and at least suggests new ways to look beyond the often narrow confines of psychedelic improvised drone music.†– Eric Hardiman, Foxy Digitalis, (9 / 10)
$7 postpaid U.S.
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KRAKKATOWIAK
(Mayyrh) . MYH04
3-inch CD
17-minute studio recording featuring David Price on percussion, handmade design by Nevada Hill and David Price.
"“Ah, Zanzibar Snails,†I thought, “some nice folky drone and melodyâ€. How wrong can you be as free form noise, sax wailing, and a tendency to be atonal, leapt from the speakers. Released on 3†CD, ‘Krakkatowiak’ is an improvised dissonant delight, seventeen minutes of sonic fury in a handy package, play it loud and get lost in its difficult beauty." – Terrascope Online
"From Denton, the past home of Texas’s space rock programme, The Zanzibar Snails have emerged as one of the region’s more interesting units over the past couple of years. They appear as a quartet here, using feedback, sax, electronics and percussion to creat an extremely neat kind of racket. The feel is akin to The Dead C jamming with Paul Flaherty, and you’d have to agree, that’s a good goddamn feel." - Byron Coley, THE WIRE
$5 postpaid U.S.
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ALSO
Introdewcing .... The Zanzibar Snails
MAYYRH Records
MYH01
OUT OF PRINT
Live at the Cavern in Dallas, 1/16/08 show with Six Organs of Admittance
In Zanzibar, land snails include one species of the giant land snail (Achatina reticulata) that can reach a length of more than 15 cm and the smaller ( Achatina iredalei). There are also aquatic snails belonging to the Bulinus africanus group (e.g. B. globosus and B. nasutus) that are known to act as intermediate hosts for the parasite that cause Urinary Schistosomiasis. Slugs, which are closely related to snails but have no external shells, are found in Zanzibar in wet or moist areas.
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