Fusion Audio Recordings is excited to announce two new releases for the end of summer!
Aug. 13 will FINALLY see scarecrow electronics wizard James P. Keeler aka Wilt's 2001 earth sounds opus "Mold The Earth" arrive on compact disc. This was an album FAR had planned to release in the wake of early Wilt classics "Amidst A Spacious Fabric" and "Wither," but it was shelved and nearly lost forever when the label went on an unexpected and decades-long dormancy. The master was found in 2022 and returned to the artist, who put it out digitally as part of a commemoration of 25 years of Wilt.
While we deeply regret that it was left in limbo for so long, FAR couldn't be more pleased to present "Mold The Earth" in the format it deserves -- glass-mastered CD in a six-panel digipack with new artwork by Keeler. The visuals have been updated from the cover design that never saw the light of day, but the sounds remain true to the original concept. Crafted from field recordings and elements including wood, rock, dirt, metal and water with additional sounds provided by Steve Brand (ex-Augur), J. Benham and Jeph Jerman (Hands To), "Mold The Earth" is a mix of haunting ambience and natural textures.
Also premiering on Aug. 13 is a double dose from experimental sound art creator R4. The label founder and FAR flagship artist's "Repulser" is a two-disc set of droning ambient noise in the vein of the sounds found on a pair of mini CDRs he put out in 2022. It's the first full-length album from R4 since 2001, and with track titles such as "How To Spend a Weekend In Mariupol" and "Feeding a Misinformation Loop," he makes a passive aggressive comment on recent world events but otherwise lets the tone-generating circuitry do the talking. "Repulser" is a 2xCDR in a digipack lite limited to 100 copies.
"Mold The Earth" and "Repulser" are available at FAR's online shop (cheapest option for CDs, plus bundles available at discount price) and Bandcamp.
Fusion Audio Recordings is an experimental music record label founded in 1999. During its original 3-year run, FAR released 23 cassettes, CDs and CD-Rs (and one 7" record) by artists from Argentina, Germany, Puerto Rico, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. mainland. Artists to appear on the label included Aluminum Noise (Jason Crumer and Nathan Hobbs), Armitage VI (David Flick), Jorge Castro (solo and with Claudio Chea in Cornucopia), DBS (Scott Sturgis), Jliat (James Whitehead), Ovum (Karl Midholm), Pablo Reche, Martin Steinebach's Conscientia Peccati, Monoid and StillStand projects; Stolen Light (Brett Lunceford), Suspicion Breeds Confidence (Tobias Schmitt) and R4 (Barry D. Scheffel).
FAR relaunched in 2022 to release new music and offer some of the label's original releases to a new generation of experimental music listeners.
