Muennich / Esposito / Jupitter-Larsen - The Wraiths of Flying A CD

Firework Edition Records (FER1102) November 2012, Edition of 300 copies 

A collaboration album by Michael Muennich, Michael Esposito and GX Jupitter-Larsen has just been released on Sweden's Firework Edition Records and is now (resp. very soon) available from FER (Swe), Fragment Factory (Ger), Rumpsti Pumsti (Ger), Tedium House (US), Metamkine (F), Die Stadt (Ger) and Infinite Limits (UK)

Original field recordings/EVPs captured by Michael Esposito at American Film Studios, Santa Barbara, CA (PAW case file: PAW109), additional sounds recorded by Michael Muennich at Fragment Factory, Hamburg during 2011/2012, edited and processed by Michael Esposito, Michael Muennich and GX Jupitter-Larsen, Chicago / Hamburg / Los Angeles.

Mastered by Phil Julian, London in September 2012.
Artwork by Philip Marshall, Berlin in May 2012.

Sound samples can be heard at:  
http://soundcloud.com/michael-muennich

more info/details: Discogs

Firework Edition Records
Michael Muennich
Michael Esposito
GX Jupitter-Larsen

Francisco Meirino & Michael Esposito - The Ghosts of Case File 142 CD

Firework Edition Records (FER1098) 2012, Edition of 500 copies

After a slight delay due to a major fuckup of the CD manufacturing company, the ghosts of 142 have finally been brought into the light of day in all of their intended complexity. Francisco was kind enough to provide a copy to fake dimensions, thanks a lot for that! While the visual design of recent Esposito releases on Firework Edition Records (which has obviously become a pleasant home to the works of Mr. E) was done by Philip Marshall, the artwork for this CD was accomplished by Francisco Meirino. I don't know how, but in some way the art manages to perfectly reflect this overall arcane atmosphere, that encompasses this and most of the other works by Michael Esposito (and so does Philip's artwork as seen on "Ghosts of Ogilvie Station" for instance). Case File 142 is based on recordings Francisco made on site in Lausanne at a former school for anatomy and EVP researches by Michael. It's a one-piece, totalling nearly 41 minutes, a rather quiet album on the whole, compared to some of the earlier releases by both artists. There's a lot of buzzing and hissing on here, paired with very well-placed sequences of nearly complete silence, undoubtedly bearing the hallmarks of Meirino. Most of the time the EVPs are rather looming in the background, ocassionally whispering from somewhere faraway, drawing the attention to something or someone being out there, someplace here or there, far-off or even very close by. Case File 142 is a piece that needs to be listened to very closely, to ensure you don't miss the many small details that pop up repeatedly in the course of this journey. If you listen closely enough it's almost like getting a story told, and although (or precisely because) its ending is vague, you will inevitably stick to it all along the way.

Firework Edition Records

V/A - Delirious Music For Delirious People CD / CDr

No Part Of It, September 2011

The first time I came across the name Arvo Zylo was sometime last year, a week or so before Halloween I guess. Somewhere on the web I read the announcement of a two-part live radio set by Michael Esposito and Jason Soliday, to be performed/aired on Halloween night during Arvo's "Delirious Insomniac" radio show on WLUW, Chicago. Said night I tuned in of course and ended up listening almost the full 4hrs long transmission. Delirious Music has been released in celebration of the 4th anniversary of said radio show on Arvo's own "No Part Of It" imprint and reached me along with another CD by himself early last week. Actually I meant to review both disks in one entry but after close consideration I decided that this one easily deserves its own. 20 or so contributions on here, some of them by bigger names such as Controlled Bleeding, Big City Orchestra, Boyd Rice (with Little Fyodor, whom I remember from his 20 seconds collaboration w/ The Haters in the late 90's) or Jarboe, most of them by lesser known artists and even some - and this is the most charming factor - by acts I would have never expected to be featured on this compilation. There's Gary Wilson for instance, whose influential "You Think You Really Know Me" LP dates back three and a half decades! Wow! Then there's Rancid Hell Spawn, the infamous british lo-fi noise punk unit, one hasn't heard of for ages, with a hell of a contribution! This is amazing. The range of contributions and styles represented on this disk is wide-ranging and the melange of Garage, Psych, Noise, Pop, Weirdo whatever certainly doesn't always work. This selection however is, beyond all doubt, very well-conceived and there's hardly any tracks that made me skip to the next one. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the appearance of Irene Moon, which was a special treat for me.
"Delirious Music For Delirious People" has been released in two versions, digipack --> CD // jewel case --> CDr, which is a bit cheaper I think.

full tracklist/info
No Part Of It
WLUW