recordings of Variable Quality

THIS WAS APPARENTLY RIGHT BEFORE HE DROVE A FORKLIFT THROUGH ONE OF THE WALLS, CAUSING MANY YEN'S WORTH OF DAMAGE.

City Pages' BLACKCLOUD STALLIONHEART Review

There are solo artists whose names appears on album covers even though a full band plays, and there are solo artists who make the songs their own, taking center stage and leaning on their own instrumentation and vocals to represent their work. Blackcloud Stallionheart, also known as Adam Burt (STNNNG, Total Fucking Blood, the Vets) is among the latter group. While Burt may be a veteran TC rocker, his Blackcloud Stallionheart moniker takes a new approach, bringing a contemplative and thoughtful artist instead of aggressive rock.

Beginning with the noisy instrumental title track, Burt quickly establishes an ambient, disjointed, and foreboding feel. As the opener bleeds into "Eternal Plamegate," the wandering licks and intermittent fingerpicking supply a more fluid, exploratory feel. With minimal vocals (all in Burt's tenor) and occasional rhythmic backing, the songwriting takes a personal, unadorned, and guitar-first approach. The lyricism adds to the already somber tone, and the music comes across as an atmospheric soundscape with guitar solos serving as the peaks and valleys. Blackcloud Stallionheart's songs craft moods by exploring the horizons and forcing unexpected turns rather than focusing on melody, hooks, or genre. 2009 is music to sit back and put your feet up to—it's thinkin' music, albeit with glimpses of humor and samples to lighten the mood. --LOREN GREEN

ADAM J. PATTERSON, BA: "recording of Variable Quality"

Above you can see the cover of our newest and eponymously-titled release, an abrasive, one-track, lo-fi-meets-macbook electronics meditation that was recorded, and manufactured in one afternoon before I took a shower and went out to play a show at the Bedlam Theater. I gave my copies away at the show, and it has been out-of-print since then. But now it's available on high quality CDr again for $3.00 through the mail.

The cover photo shows some cabbage toward the end of it's season out at Turnip Rock, our dear friends' farm in New Auburn, Wisconsin.

Accompanying video to an excerpt of the piece.

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CHARLEY LOWELL SMITH: dormitory monologues

During my freshman winter of 1995, I befriended the inimitable, Alaska-born Smith and frequently made recordings of his diatribes and free-form streams of conjecture at Bailey Hall on the U of MN's St. Paul campus. These conversations took place in my dirty collegepunk dorm room . Always a curious observer slash enquirer of the ol' human condition, and also a frank spewer of vitriol that spared no one, Charley has from the beginning been an enormous influence on my world-view (for better or worse). For the dying-to-know only we've presented here the audio from some of our original meetings. "Enjoy".

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BLACKCLOUD STALLIONHEART: 2009

CD-R

"The 'solo effort' these days has become just another thing we've come to expect and promptly forget, like new kid's breakfast cereals. Guitarist Adam Burt (STNNNG, Total Fucking Blood, The Vets) however has coughed up something pretty super and original to lay into with his Blackcloud Stallionheart thang and debut disc, 2009.

Appearing suddenly as an alarmingly curious songcrafter who deadpan baritones his way through simple hooks and lyrics, Burt's preoccupations seem to float around themes like mysticism, Old Testament name-checkin', science, and pop politics. His guitar playing, both acoustic and electric, would feel quite at home alongside a variety of other stylists at any given point on the 30 minute record (Ben Chasny, Richard Thompson, Joe Satriani, classic Popul Vuh's Conny Veit, and more song-style Ranaldo/Moore are a few that pop into the head), but the whole god-dang unified thing lightly rambles and shambles along with its own open-chord, strummy boldness that is really beautiful. This is- as they say- a guitarist's guitar album, but it's also a songwriter's album. You will also hear on this recording some minimal accompanying instrumentation breaking up the gaps and filling the pleasant rhythm box. It's silly and meditative at once, and it is also just so very awesome."

Worked on by an über-team of Minneapolis-based artisans: excellent mixing by Neil Weir, masterful design and art by Hannah Haugberg, and precision screen-printing by Danimal Graffixxx

THE NECRONOMICOMPILATION: a twin cities south-suburban punk record. 1995.

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Guys... I am part of a musical legacy:

GRAM

AUNIE VON FUCKUP

RICK

RONALD REAGAN & THE SECRET POLICE

JOE PUNK

AUNE

Actual, Real Bands.

tracks:

1-3} Adolescents Anonymous

4-5} Ronald Reagan & the Secret Police

6-9} The Bloody British Bastards

10-17} The Crusty Hells

18} my demo of the song "Remains" that I wrote for Young Little Meat

(tracks 1-12 recorded in one day in Aune's parents' basement; tracks 13-18 recorded earlier in the summer, in my parents' garage)

NECRONOMICOMPILATION OMG, wait till you hear the party/show tape I'm gonna upload soon. Chainless.

A brief survey of the music by Nick Zielinski (with help from others)

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Nick Zielinski is the most dear friend of Adam Patterson.

his BLOG) :

Do you know what else is really cool? Nick has a myspace page! The way to find his myspace page address is simply to move your cursor over the following words, and triple click: CLIC HERE NOW!

I've prepared a compilation of Nick's various musical endeavors for download. Here hear him on drums and various percussion stuffs, composer, one singing song, electronics, and more.

This is the first in what will be an ongoing series for the label, little showcases of some of my confoundingly talented friends' musics. Have at it here: .

ADAM J. PATTERSON, BA: qui-shma-tu!* (2003)

CD-R

(reprinted liner nuts):

was not recorded during the summer solstice, nor during any particular phase(s) of the moon, nor on any other dates significant to various pagan traditions.

october 03- april 04

St. Etienne, FRANCE

4-track tape

over 37 minutes of music!

Chorus:

cryin' all the time (repeat 3x)

sounds like:

"insects"

"scary children's music"

"charming"

"foxy"

recordings of Variable Quality

Beck Pera, Dave Hernandez, Dave O'Connell, Nick Zielinski, and Otha Lohse

should someday all be thanked in different ways for their different ways of help.

I realize that everything I'm into right now will eventually be irrelevent.

My days are filled with Music,

My Months are filled with Days,

and My Years count backward to Zero

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*you're a genius/ i love you!

ADAM J. PATTERSON, BA: les mongoliens et les mutilés (2003)

CD-R

mongoliens

mutilés

"Mixed and processed sounds, recorded between 1995 and 2003. Mongoliens et Mutilés is a CD compilation of disjointed ambience that takes you here and there in a sometimes chaotic, sometimes placid series of "experimental" sound chunks. It visits in no particular order the various vocabularies of pure noise, fake drill-n-bass, drone, and lo-fi spacey electronics, but before you can settle into each mode, it jumps to another node on the aural spectrum (sometimes within 10 or 20 seconds, and with no breaks or fades between tracks), thus resembling more of a drifting, inquisitive library record than a cohesive concept album of any sort. Maybe for listeners of Tod Dockstader, Ghostband, and any sort of strange music. Maybe."

2 parts, download available.

1:05:52 total.

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ADAM PATTERSON: think of someone (1996)

CD-R

My first, beloved release, originally released on cassette.

Recorded at home 1995-96 in my parents' garage in Inver Grove Heights, and Bailey Hall at the U of MN.

time: 21:13

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digitall downloadd in fake time

COOL RANCH: SIMULTANEOUS FESTIVAL CD (2007)

CD-R

1 steamroom
2 gribbities
3 the secret breakfast concerto

35:03

Prepared September 1, 2007 for the Twin Cities Simultaneous DIY Festival at the Soapbox Factory in Minneapolis.

Run of 30 CDs in custom-designed textile purse-sleeves, sold out. Re-issue now available.

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gank the music immediately