Fella, James

Fella, James

Inactive Parts

Weird Machine / Gilgongo

***Inactive Parts (as a release) follows a recent series of self-issued long-format CDs and cassette on Torn Light, but was originally a December 2014 installation at The Trunk Space in Phoenix, AZ consisting of paintings, screen printed Xerox pieces, lathe cut 7" records and two sets of two single-sided acetate LPs which used for a sound installation that could also function has "instruments" for a live performance. Two performances occurred: 12/05/14 (the opening reception, duration: 4 hours), 12/20/14 (for the Gilgongo Records 10 year anniversary event with Sissy Spacek, Stephen Steinbrink, Cherie Cherie and Maniac Cop (Mallevs), duration: approx. 30 minutes). Inactive Parts originally appeared as “New Material," an hour long piece which aired on Ricardo Wang’s “What’s This Called?” on KPSU in Portland, OR in August 2014. The content of that program, the acetate version and this final edition are all slightly different from one another. RIYL: Nurse With Wound, John Cage, Total, Xenakis. LP (edition of 450) includes three prints and two postcards from the installation, CD/digital edition includes "Inactive Portion," a 7" lathe which was part of the installation as well.

Fella, James

Slots / Inner Sanctum / Tusks / Desolation

Gilgongo

***Recorded in mid-April 2011, a single 1 hour and 16 minute long improvised piece ranging from free-form / non-music to harsh noise and drone, presented in it’s original raw form, with no edits made to the waves of electronics, voice and saxophone which were used to blindly craft an entity that existed in gradual flux, consisting of small scattered electroacoustic elements folding over on themselves until succumbing to a wall of scathing yet harmonious sound, volatile ambiance spouting off jagged shrapnel, eventually calming into a steady low-end migration and ultimately dispersing at the end of it’s descent. No run-on sentence describing it can possibly compete with the insatiable appetite exercised by the tools themselves during the recording of this movement, a process which was the product of a momentary black-hole in Tempe, AZ and specifically in the main operating room of Gilgongo Records, where the owner and operator could have feasibly been lost for an indefinable amount of time, as it’s very easy to lose control in certain situations, after all.