The latest round of releases on Seith Communiti Imprint is now available for purchase. I am proud to announce that these releases were all lovingly assembled with the care and attention to detail I would give releases of my own – and it has been an important and humbling exercise releasing five (!) simultaneous releases that are all by artists other than myself. I would hate for Seith Communiti – despite it being largely inextricable from my personality – to be viewed as a vanity label to simply launder my own output unfettered by others’ input. It has been an entirely new experience over the last ten releases learning to embrace a curatorial role and connecting the dots between these artists’ work as something I am invested in proliferating and being influenced by as much as I am allowed to have an effect upon it. This realization of the balance one takes on as a curator and custodian of others’ work is a lesson I’m honored to be able to learn – and I extend a warm and humble thank you to all these artists past, present and future.
All titles are available via the Seith Communiti bandcamp page . Items will ship following Christmas.
SC.006 – Expugnantis – Old Raptures c-58
A stunning document of technoid constructions, fusing deep propulsive analogue rhythms, submerged textural synthesis, industrialist tape experimentation and concrete dub malaise. This long-overdue rerelease grants a physical format to a sublime collection tracks recorded between 2013-2014 by Marcus Mtshali in Columbia, South Carolina. Limited to 50 hand-dubbed cassettes and limitless digital edition, mastered by Kevin Bednar. Cover photography by Marcus Mtshali, layout and design by ae, printing by Outlandish Press.
SC.007 – Forbidden Colors – La Yeguada c-38
La Yeguada marks a beautiful shift in direction for Enrique Hernandez’s rhythmic noise project. Stepping away from (but not fully abandoning) the project’s harsh industrial roots, Hernandez makes use of confrontational electronics, shattered breakbeats, and lush synthesizer to render a portrait of their own autonomous existence and familial identity filtered through the historical lens of Panamanian resistance to the United States’ lust for dominion. Limited to 50 hand-dubbed cassettes and limitless digital edition, mastered by Kevin Bednar. Layout and design by ae, printing by Outlandish Press.
SC.008 – Béton Translucide – Chalet / Vortex c-22
The sound of a stinging 1987 Belgian winter locked away in a top floor studio apartment, plugging away at synths and rhythm machines in the hope of soundtracking a spun-out dungeon club rendezvous when the ice has finally thawed. Sublime moments of ascetic minimal wave, bounding synthpunk and warbling acid take shape over the course of this brief demonstration. Repress of the very limited cassette on Glacial Communications. Limited to 50 hand-dubbed cassettes and limitless digital edition, mastered by Kevin Bednar. Layout and design by ae, printing by Outlandish Press.
SC.009 – Toward The Total Human: A Pandrogynist Communist Manifesto zine
A meditation on identity, negation and totality. A New Institute For Social Research presents their ruthless critique of neoliberal gender performativity, proletarian valor, and a society which robs us of the potential for Being. This new physical zine edition includes a brief preface and full-color illustration by ae. Limited to 50 physical copies, text available at isr.press. Layout and design by ae, printing by Outlandish Press.
SC.010 – David E. Coccagna – I Watched The Dog Go Hungry chapbook
A sprawling mixed-media collection of poetry, prose, found object and xerox collage that ruminates on hazy summer-hot acts of self-harm, antihistamine-chewing abjection and territories of profound alienation. David E. Coccagna has distinguished himself as the creative force behind multi-disciplinary act Chaperone, whose sound art and writing has come to be associated with Bedouin Records, Enmossed, Great Circles Records and his own new venture Emmanuel Vincent Presents. It was an honor to allow him the space to create such a stark and emotive longform work, especially one which explores such claustrophobic psychological terrain as this. Limited to 50 physical copies with cardstock band. Additional layout and design by Priscilla Genet of Organ Bank, printing by Outlandish Press.