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Geoff Mullen presents a new side of his ever-changing and open language, dealing here with his rawest material to date, and in many ways finding himself in a homecoming to the guitar. On ‘accidental guitars’ geoff expands his instrumental language with his unique variety of invented, accident-prone technique.Re-contextualized live performances are filtered through an intuitive sense of form and pretexts, leaving us with an intense, jarring, pointed, and textural compositional language. With little more than an electric guitar, he conjures abstract formations and clattering percussive tones that are starkly contrasted with tape hiss and sudden echoplex’d delay. Sustains calm the mood throughout and create a beautiful and oddly soothing atmosphere that seems to move in all directions at once. The music on ‘accidental guitars’ has an ability of creating form out of being lost, and achieves a lucidity through this sense. This record is a unique document, finding geoff between forms and excepted styles, and seeing him off, once again, in another new and exciting direction in his music. rel018 is pressed on heavy 180 gram vinyl, housed in a matte black inner sleeve, produced in a deluxe edition with multi screened designs on archival heavy stock with a insert and notes by the composer. R.E.L Records.

Multi-faceted composer and performer Ashley Paul releases her new LP 'Line the Clouds', out March 18, 2013, on Brooklyn’s REL Records. A hyper-intuitive record, where off-kilter instrumentation meets beautifully crafted melodies to convey the very essence of ‘musicality’, ‘Line the Clouds’ contains 44.18 minutes of sonic paradoxes and dichotomies. Stirring up a zephyr of twelve blissfully cacophonous sounds - singular moments of an indivisible whole – the focus is on guitar, voice and saxophone, but Ashley also employs everything from flute, clarinet, guitar, bells, percussion and prepared strings in her melodic endeavours which simultaneously plugs in the ghost of American song. From ‘Wide Expanse’ - where high-pitched reeds and whistles collide with richer tones and Ashley’s fragile voice - through the simple, sparkling beauty of the LP’s title track – with the guitar at the helm – and the multi-vocal flutterings of ‘Watch Them Pass’, there’s also the freeing experimentalism and atonal clatter of ‘Feb.21’ – a song which ably immortalises a feeling of stomach churning anguish – and the album’s gentle, abstract finale ‘You’re A Feeling’. This Brooklyn based artist is at the vanguard of the new wave of music currently rippling through the city where opposing strains of style and sound work in unison. In addition to her solo projects, Ashley plays saxophone and clarinet with Anthony Coleman as a duo and as part of his Damaged Quartet. With longtime musical partner Eli Keszler as Aster(both of which appear on Line The Clouds), she also performs as Aster, with Sakiko Mori as Paul & Maurey and with Geoff Mullen and Keszler as Oxtirn. Ashley has also performed or recorded with artists including Loren Connors, Roscoe Mitchell, Aki Onda, Joe Maneri, Greg Kelley, Joe Morris, Seijiro Murayama, Ran Blake, Bill Nace and Charles Cohen. She received a Masters of Music from New England Conservatory in 2007. ‘Line the Clouds’ will be available as a limited edition LP with a heavy jacket, on colored vinyl with a custom sealed package and screen printed wraparound of Ashley’s animal drawings which comes with a digital download, in addition to a stand alone digital version.

Oxtirn 'Live' documents a performance in New York City, by the new trio of Geoff Mullen, Ashley Paul and Eli Keszler. Following a score by keszler, the group performs on an array of instruments, using three guitars, drums, voice, auto-motorized harps, tenor harp, bass harp, microphones, clarinet, alto saxophone, crotales, drums and cymbals. the music drifts in a unique way between a wide variety of sounds, from incredible density of clattering metal textures and string attacks, wall of sound guitars, mechanical music, high pitched saxophone bends and an oddly dim shimmering high harmonic sound. all creating together, a harsh, jagged and angular wash of ricocheting materials. in other sections, metal and vibrating strings, crotales and horns create a calmer and high contrast atmosphere. in the end, the music evolves into an area of sustained sound, space and sparse gesture, featuring one of ashley paul's songs and vocals, where the music takes on a new formation, leaving the listener with a question mark, and in some way is a new form of intuitive song. the recording itself is a low fi document with a spacious, raw and aggressive timbre to it, adding to the all ready unique feel of the music. the packaging is intricately designed with a multi-color silk screen, based on a drawing by eli keszler. the cd itself is housed in a multi panel, fold-out, metallic paper print with pictures from the concert and excerpts from the oxtirn score, with gold stamping on the outside of the metallic paper. the cd is attached to a hub which sits on top of liner notes, with an embossed design on the flip. oxtirn live is a one time special edition of 300 copies. REL Records.

Red Horse is the self-titled debut lp by the providence/boston based duo of Eli Keszler and Steve Pyne. Across two sides red horse creates a unique sound combining pyne’s massive hand-constructed string instruments, motor-automated resonances, homespun multi-layered leslies, speaker arrays and sculptural electronics with Keszler’s swarming percussion, bowed crotales, metal and strings, guitar and microphones. The music moves fluidly between powerful grinding metallic clatter, psycho-acoustic string sustain, piercing bowed crotale tones and aggressive free drum and guitar blasts. Red horse seamlessly slips between areas with a dynamic and formal sense all their own. Recorded and produced over the course of 2 years, this lp comes in a limited edition of 300 copper plate pressed 200 gram virgin vinyl copies. Packaged in a unique thick silk-screened card stock cover with a hand-numbered vellum wraparound. The package also includes a silk screened poster and three screen printed cards depicting steve pyne’s invented instruments (string barrel, click box and speaker array). This edition is the culmination of many years of work together and represents the first in a series of red horse releases. R.E.L Records.

Paul and Maurey is the duo of Ashley Paul and Sakiko Mori. 'Satellite', is an extended album with new and unreleased material, based off the micro edition cassette released on Wagtail in late 2010 that sold out in an instant. This version reveals their expansive, open ended and dynamic approach, combining Ashley's intuitive writing and vocals, with their propulsive and multi-layered rhythms, clatter and dynamics from the ensemble sound. Both performing on a wide range of instruments - Sakiko on keyboards, percussion, harmonium and Ashley on guitar, green box, reeds and even tuba. these two play multiple instruments at once and often switching in the middle of songs. Together they create a unique world of small scale/micro-sounds and non-musical gestures, somehow fitting this all within a song structure that really needs to be heard to be understood. In doing this, Paul & Maurey make something oddly beautiful out of the rawest material. Satellite is an LP edition, printed on clear vinyl, pink labels, with black matter inner in a custom, hand painted and silk screened jacket, in a limited edition of 340 copies. REL Records.

A CD release from 2009 by New York City-based artist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Eli Keszler. Packaged as a "mini lp", with a cover printed on royal blue paper and containing multi-layered silk-screen drawings by the artist. The CD itself is housed in a fold out canary yellow silk-screened booklet (with another drawing by Keszler), with a vellum wrap around. The inside contains notes on dark grey cardstock with full color CD printing. A hand numbered one time edition of 300 copies.