ultrasound•hamesh

• james alexander.viola
• kirk laktas.piano,guitar
• rfovetz.bass, voice, harmonium, computer sampler, field recordings and digital tumlery
• carl smith.baritone sax
• travis weller.violin (new member)

with thijs sheele, guitar, and krista kielman, tibetan bowls.

performing in europe with dance and film; preparing the forthcoming 7" release on drone records (germany); trying to collect unpaid royalties from meme records (japan) and cake mix records (usa)

kirk laktas: formerly of stars of the lid; james alexander, kirk laktas and travis weller: cinders ensemble (http://cindersite.homestead.com/); carl smith: ecfa (http://europeanechoes.homestead.com/), east side babylon

Full Lengths:

• ultrasound•woonsocket LP, Another Autonomy Recording, Austin, USA, 1996.
• ultrasound•analogic double LP, Ba Da Bing! Records, New Jersey, USA, 1996.
• ultrasound•loom LP, Staalplaat/Korm Plastics, Amsterdam, NL, 1997.
• ultrasound•yerida, CD, Another Autonomy Recording, Den Haag, NL, 1998.
• ultrasound•hamesh, CD, Another Autonomy Recording, Den Haag, NL, 2001.

Compilations:

• 'agape agape love love null null,' film and soundtrack, 50 Feet of Love, VHS comp., In*Situ, Austin, Texas, USA, March 1996 (forthcoming re-release on entropic garden LP).
• the eye that looks ahead to the safe path is closed forever,' The Answering Machine Solution CD comp., Staalplaat, A'dam, NL 1996.
• 'pur-icity,' Angel Food Electronics double LP and CD comp., Kake Mix Records, Kansas City, US, 1997.
• 'to those around us' and 'all i have to say,' CD comp. with Ba Da Boom! Gramaphone, No. 2, Ba Da Bing!, North Carolina, USA, 1997.
• '709,' Vage Geluinden in Stereo 10" comp., Meeuw Muzak, NL, 1997.
• Co-Producer, production engineer and 'voor kugelfleisch,' In Keller CD comp., Gold Coast Records, Den Haag, NL, 1997.
• 'einsof,' 500 rpm CD compilation, HEDAH, Maastricht, NL, 1997.
• 'piloting vs. the glass suits', CD compilation, Meme Records, Japan, 1998.

Split LP:

• songs from the entropic garden: a tribute to popol vuh, split LP with drona parva, time lag records, US, forthcoming March, 2001

References

'serene, blissful music...' -Colin Helms, CMJ

'this music opens the mind to vast possibilities, and it's quietly magnificent' -Fred Mills, Magnet

"very sad and melancholical but in all its sadness beautiful." -Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

strengths:

1. lack of royalties means we're in it for the feeling
2. lots of cross-atlantic dreaming
3. emissaries of the oceanic teachings

weaknesses:

1. we've got the tonal harmonic monkey on our backs
2. lots of cross-atlantic dreaming
3. idealist faith in the inner goodness of undependable, dishonest and crooked indie label owners

drebbelstraat 161, 2522 ct den haag, the netherlands or ultrasoundings@hotmail.com

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