MAMIFFER ART BOOK NOW AVAILABLE

A nice event to share from SIGE Records:

We're very happy to announce that after several years of trying to get this out, SIGE's very first book publication is now available. Here are the details:

SIGE 008 
Mamiffer Mare Decendrii 
An artist book by Faith Coloccia 

Includes artwork, documentation and composition notation from the album "Mare Decendrii". Limited edition of 100 copies. 60 pages, 7" x 8", perfect bound, professionally printed on uncoated heavyweight stock, full color and black and white, hand numbered.

As of now the book is only available as direct mailorder from SIGE Records. Price is $28 ppd in the US, $35 ppd for the rest of the world. Paypal payments can be made to SIGErecords@hotmail.com.  If there are enough copies left over this will eventually be available in our webstore and through select other outlets at slightly higher cost. Here are some further spreads from the interior of the book:

HOUSE OF LOW CULTURE VINYL REISSUE

Above: LP jacket for the reissue of the second House of Low Culture album, "Edward's Lament". The cover is an adaptation of the original, and new hand lettering for the back cover was created by Faith Coloccia. The album was originally issued by Neurot Recordings on CD in 2003, Misanthropic Agenda have been kind enough to agree to a new vinyl edition, coincidentally coinciding the 10 year anniversary of the first release. Exact release date isn't available at the moment, but more info will be posted on that as it becomes available.

Currently enjoying: Kreng "Monkey", Kuxan Summ - s/t, JK Huysmans "Là Bas", Bell Witch "Longing", Wreck and Reference "No Youth", Aura Noir "Out to Die", Arvo Pärt "Te Deum", Neil Gaiman "Absolute Sandman Vol I", etc.

OLD MAN GLOOM REISSUE #3 + TOUR DATES

Notes on the Old Man Gloom Japanese reissues: Photos for Seminar II & III by Jason Hellmann. All artwork based on original layouts with some recent modifications/manipulation. Hand rendered text is new for these editions. Audio for these reissues has been remastered by James Plotkin, and bonus live tracks culled from various 2012 Old Man Gloom performances have been added to each disc.

In other Gloom news a recent live video shot and edited by Kenneth Thomas from one of those 2012 performances can be viewed here - and there'll be more of that to follow in some form down the road....
Old Man Gloom is about to embark on a living adventure with Converge in New Zealand/Australia/Japan. Dates are below. Thank you.

02/10 Auckland, NZ – The Basement Bar

02/12 Perth, AUS – Amplifier

02/13 Adelaide, AUS – Fowlers
02/14 Hobart, AUS - The Brisbane Hotel

02/15 Melbourne, AUS – Billboards

02/16 Sydney, AUS – Manning Bar

02/17 Brisbane, AUS – Hi Fi

02/19 Shibuya, JAP – Club Quattro
02/20 Imaike, JAP – Bottom Line
02/21 Umeda, JAP – Akaso

OLD MAN GLOOM JAPANESE REISSUE #2

Enjoying: Aluk Todolo "Occult Rock", Raime "Quarter Turns...", "Oren Ambarchi & James Rushford "Wreckage", JK Flesh/Prurient "Worship is the Cleansing of Imagination", Drumm/Elggren/Gustafsson "DEG", etc...

OLD MAN GLOOM JAPANESE REISSUE #1

Enjoying: Kreng "Works for Abattoir Ferme" box set, Scott Walker "Bish Bosch", Andre Breton - Nadja, Michael Deforge - Lose #4, Deep Listening Band "Octagonal Polyphony", True Radical Miracle "Cockroaches", Black Swan "The Quiet Divide", Burning Love "Rotten Things to Say", Anthrax "Among the Living"....

OLD MAN GLOOM REISSUE LETTERING

Listening: Kristian Olsson "Att Vara...", Bell Witch "Longing", Swans "Soundtracks for the Blind", Krallice "Years Past Matter", Mike Shiflet "Omnivores", Haemoth "In Nomine Odium", Aaron Dilloway "Tractor Cuts", Woven Hand "The Laughing Stalk", etc

HYDRA HEALTH - ART FOR SALE

Above: original artwork (Boris/Torche, Bozzov*en, Melvins/ISIS, Old Man Gloom, Pyramids/Horseback), all up for sale as part of the Hydra Health fundraising project.

You can read more about the project on the Hydra Head news page here and find some of the artwork up for sale in the RTK store here. Some of it is already sold, but I'll be adding a couple more pieces in the near future, as well as more of my own musical equipment, test pressings, etc. I would like to extend a massive thank you to all the supporters of this effort so far - the response has been positively encouraging and will surely help us continue on in some form or another.

Thank you.