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Witcyst- The Black Album quadruple LATHE CUT 8” set [#3 in an edition of 20] (Crawlspace Artist Series 4.2/Life3space LS#065)
The final installment of the Crawlspace Artists Series was the 4 lathe
cut 8" leatherette covered Black Album from Witcyst. A handmade blast of
brilliance from one of New Zealand's (if not New Zealand's) most unique
artist.
This is one of the most limited of the Crawlspace Artist Edition with just 20 made. This is #3/20.
The set comes with a 7.5" by 7.5" collage print and a 12 page Witcyst discography/Crawlspace catalog.
Whangarei, New Zealand's Witcyst has been making tapes and micro edition
lathe records and CD's since the late 80's or early 90's. Witcyst has
released works on Insample, Crawlsapce, Witcyst's own labels
Extemporanious & Lifespace, Norway's Humbug, Canada's Bennifer
Editions, NZ's Root Don Lonie For Cash as well as appearing on Corpus
Hermeticum's Le Non Jazz, a split on Wolf Eyes' American Tapes with The
Spyke and compilations from Bananafish, Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon,
Drunken Fish, Pseudo Arcana and more.
Witcyst sprung from the same mad zeitgeist as CJA, Birchville Cat Motel,
Armpit, Peter Wright, Pumice, The Dead C, Total, Handful of Dust, Gate
and may appeal to fans of JOMF, Tower Recordings, Six Organs of
Admittance, MV/EE, The Sunburned Hand of the Man etc.
This is truely extemporanious music with a completely unique sound.
Witcyst developed in relative seclusion in New Zeland, simultaniously
with fellow avanteersin NZ and worldwide including CJA, Birchville Cat
Motel, Total, Handful of Dust, John Oswald, John Weise, Armpit, Peter
Wright, Pumice, Bastard Noise, John Duncan, Wolf Eyes, and in the wake
of people like The Dead C, Gate, Christian Marclay, Sonic Youth, The
Hafler Trio, Nocturnal Emissions, Oren Ambarchi, :zoviet*france:,
etc. Witcyst has appeared on releases on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon,
Insample, Humbug, Bennifer, Drunken Fish, Corpus Hermeticum, Ps
Teledu says of Witcyst: Witcyst is a collagist of discarded rubbish as
much as creator of more of the same. Muffled lullabyes, creepy
atmopsheres, low-fi skree, tape manipulation, found sounds and snippets
of all sorts of crap are attached to one another like a big, sick
worm-dog.
Big City co nz says of Witcyst:
Perhaps the most prolific artist new zealand has ever produced, Michael
Veet Ruiliude has produced as Witcyst, or as an number of his other
mysterious alias, Veetjist, M. W. Vit, Wytcystallio, MXVXWX, Thighte
Whistle, or a handful of groups - Falcoxi, Failian Falien, Naughty
Pakehas, G.A.M etc etc the list goes on. On his own extemporanious and
Lifespace labels there are over 600 documented Ruiliude recordings, and
this number is growing daily, as he tends to release pretty much
everything he records.
Purely a mail-order marvel, a Witcyst package contains a bizarre array
of musical snippets in any grab-bag stylistic approaches, and acompanied
by various pieces of visual artwork. With all this activity, Ruiliude
has also found time to collaborate with and contribute material with
Clayton Noone and his Root Don Lonie For Cash label, whilst still
maintaining a release schedule on his own labels of mammoth proportion.
Noise (dot) as says:
Roslyn the first CD release from Witcyst comes packaged in a full-colour
8 page 7-inch booklet almost outdoing the music in terms of intensity.
44 forbidding, austere tracks make up the CD, short noise pieces mixed
with distorted destroyed "songs" done with guitar and vocals. Not quite
what I'd expected from the Witcyst heard on compilations...it's more
like a dive into someone's psychopathologies. Kind of unique in the
current crop of new NZ music, and there's a whole lot more of his music
floating around out there.
Lathe discs are is MINT- (note that lathe discs are hand cut and
typically have some noise and lower fidelity)/Cover and inserts are
MINT to MINT-.
I accept payments through Paypal. I also accept payment by mail in US
currancy and Checks drawn on US banks (Checks require 10 days to clear
the bank). Please do not send cash by postal mail, I cannot be
responsible for cash sent by mail.
Buyer pays shipping:
Media Mail To USA : $3.50
Priority Mail To The USA: $7.25
Air Mail To Canada : $7.25
Europe/UK: $12.75
Australia/NZ/Asia/Russia: $12.75
I will ship internationally & I will provide proof of mailing but I
cannot guarantee delivery overseas (Italy has been a problem for many
sellers) unless the buyer elects to use international priority mailing
(ask for details...coverage is limited). It is essential that you
provide a clear and accurate address for mailing of a package. Domestic
packages to the USA are sent with delivery tracking.
I need to be clear that I can provide proof of shipping on any package
mailed, but I cannot be responsible for packages lost in the post. In
order to minimize the likelyhood of lost packages I print the address
from your paypal payment address and give you the oppportunity to
correct the address if necessary. If you pay by postal mail, I ask that
you email me your address so that I can print a label from your email.
These prices reflect Priority shipping with coverage of $63.78 added automatically up to 1 pound.
Western Europe: $23.00
Asia : $22.00
Australia: $21.00
New Zealand: $19.50
On Jan-27-12 at 19:33:05 PST, seller added the following information:
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