Out Now: Sypha Nadon: Lovecraft [MZR053]

 

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the Sypha Nadon LP LOVECRAFT. Unlike the conventional pop stylings of 2018's PLEASANT SONGS or the classy compositions of 2019's HIRAETH, this marks a return to the band's more experimental era, which is another way of saying lots of repetitious loops, pretentious song titles, unlistenable noise, and much pointless, meandering noodling. Disclaimer: aside from the album title and song names, this album actually has very little to do with Lovecraft.

As always it may be listened to/downloaded for free at the Mauve Zone Recordings Internet Archive page: 

https://archive.org/details/MZR053

Tracklisting:

1. From Beyond (5:02)

2. A Mountain Walked (5:55)

3. The Sad Shoggoth (5:08)

4. "Yes, My Dead Courtesan, I Remember the Red Hook Orgies" (5:36)

5. An Adequately Excellent Lover (3:21)

6. The Zann Variations (4:43)

7. Ambient Loop Parts 1 & 2 (6:35)

8. Owl With A Thousand Eyes (2:55)

9. Not Theirs the Cypress-Arch (5:09)

10. 9876√th Pulse-Beat of the Cosmic Fungus enveloping Yaddith (7:43)

11. Xibalba Chant (6:39)

12. Arkham House (2:54)

13. Destroy Creation (4:48)



Running Time: 66:30



All songs written, arranged, programmed and performed by Sypha Nadon
Produced, engineered and mixed by Sypha Nadon
Recorded at MZR Studios in 2017-2022
Art Design + Design by James Champagne
Background Cover Art by H.P. Lovecraft
Sample on "Xibalba Chant" from MELANCHOLIA
The voice on track 9 is reciting a Clark Ashton Smith poem (of the same name)
Caution: not for use with mono devices

OUT NOW: +Passover- : SYMPHONY FOR THE DEGENERATE AGE LP [MZR052]

 Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the release of SYMPHONY FOR THE DEGENERATE AGE, the second studio LP from +Passover-. 

+Passover-
Symphony for the Degenerate Age
[MZR052]
(Spiral 7)

Track listing:

SIDE A:

1. Billingate (4:45)
2. Relic of Backwards Time (3:40)
3. No Chance To Die Beautifully (2:50)
4. +Passover- Theme (3:04)

SIDE B:

5. Zos Kia Rodeo (4:48)
6. Electric Elysium (2:38)
7. The Wendigo (3:10)
8. Cubist Arsenal (3:17)

Total Running Time: 28:15

+Passover- is James Champagne
All songs written, arranged, programmed and performed by +Passover-
Produced, engineered and mixed by James Champagne
Recorded and mixed at Mauve Zone Studios (2017-2020)
Art direction + design by James Champagne
+Passover- uses Trajan Pro font
The music on this album was composed, programmed and orchestrated using FL Studio 10 Producer Edition. It was recorded using Goldwave.

As always it may be listened to/downloaded for free at our Internet Archive page: 

https://archive.org/details/MZR052

OUT NOW: James Champagne: Crooked Looking Glass (LP) [MZR049]

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the release of our 49th album, Crooked Looking Glass, which collects various cover songs recorded by James Champagne (under his Sypha Nadon, Boy Destroyer, and Death Head Moths aliases) over the last 20 years, from a dirge-like industrial cover of Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough" to an ambient version of "Melt!" by Siouxsie & the Banshees. 

James Champagne:
CROOKED LOOKING GLASS [MZR049]

TRACKLISTING

1. Just Can’t Get Enough (6:46) original by Depeche Mode/ interpreted by Sypha Nadon

2. Nibelungen (5:49)
original by Nico/ interpreted by Sypha Nadon

3. Flowers of Evil (2:33) original by Charles Baudelaire/ interpreted by Sypha Nadon

4. New Sadist (3:42)
original by Sutcliffe Jügend/ interpreted by Boy Destroyer

5. Discipline (8:23)
original by Throbbing Gristle/ interpreted by Boy Destroyer

6. The Demons From Adrian’s Pen (3:52) original by Bobby Prince/ interpreted by Death Head
Moths

7. Eraser (Polite) (2:29) original by Nine Inch Nails/Coil/ interpreted by Death Head
Moths

8. Rain of Ruin (5:02)
original by Suicide/ interpreted by Sypha Nadon

9. Politics (1:55) original by Whitehouse/ interpreted by Sypha Nadon 

10. Be (1:12)
original by Current 93/ interpreted by Sypha Nadon

11. Melt! (3:24)
original by Siouxsie & The Banshees/ interpreted by Sypha Nadon

Total Running
Time: 45:20

All songs
performed by Sypha Nadon, Boy Destroyer, Death Head Moths, and James Champagne

Art Direction +
Design: James Champagne

Recorded and
mixed at Mauve Zone Studios

Produced by
James Champagne

Recorded using
Goldwave

As always it may be listened to/downloaded for free at our Internet Archive page:
https://archive.org/details/MZR049

OUT NOW: Sypha Nadon: 20 [MZR048]

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce our 48th release, 20 by Sypha Nadon. A compilation album assembled to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the foundation of the Sypha Nadon sound, it collects material from close to a 20 year period and includes at least one track from almost every major SN album (with a few exceptions). Also included in the liner notes, for the first time, is a chronological discography listing all of the band's major LPs, EPs, anthologies, and compilation appearances (I hope to do a more detailed discography in the future, but for now this basic one will suffice).

 

As always, it may be listened to/downloaded for free at the MZR internet archive page:

 

https://archive.org/details/MZR048

 

OUT NOW: Sypha Nadon: Gothic (EP) [MZR047]

Mauve Zone Recordings, in celebration of Halloween, is pleased to announce the advent of our 47th release, Sypha Nadon's Gothic EP!

Track listing: 

1. Threnody for a Dying Leaf (1:23)

2. The Worm of the World's End (9:41)

3. To Reave the Stars (3:54)

4. Spooky's Nocturne (0:50)

5. Time's Cenotaph (3:09)

6. Seven Signs (4:40) 

Total Running Time: 23:38 

Sypha Nadon is James Champagne
All songs written, arranged, programmed and performed by Sypha Nadon
Produced, engineered and mixed by Sypha Nadon
Recorded and mixed at Mauve Zone Studios (2018) 
Art direction + design: James Champagne 

Front and back cover art: Arthur Rackham illustrations extracted from Poe's Tales of Mystery & Imagination 

Caution: not for use with mono devices 

 

As always it may be listened to and downloaded for free at the Mauve Zone Recordings Internet Archive page:

 

https://archive.org/details/MZR047

 

 

OUT NOW: Sypha NADON: Pleasant Songs (LP) [MZR046]

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the arrival of our 46th release, Pleasant Songs by Sypha Nadon. This LP, the first one of all-new Sypha Nadon studio material since 2015's Monolith album, is an anomaly in the SN discography in that, for the first time, the majority of the songs on the album contain vocals (around 75% of the album, to be precise), with only a mere 3 instrumentals. It also features a rare example of Sypha Nadon covering the music of another, in this case the song "Rain of Ruin" by Suicide. On a more familiar note, much like the 2008 SN album The Black Omen, this album was created entirely with MIDI (save for the vocals).

Track listing:

1. You Lost Her (2:54)
2. The Devil's Shrine (4:55)
3. Mockery of a Man (3:47)
4. Rain of Ruin (5:02)
5. Gray Day (3:18)
6. Monstertheism (4:13)
7. The Red King [Instrumental] (4:19)
8. His Voice (1:24)
9. Verdensur (The World-Clock) [Instrumental] (4:03)
10. My Life is a Horror Movie (3:57)
11. State of the Nation (3:17)
12. Aphex Twink [Instrumental] (4:51)

Total Running Time: 46:02

As always it may be listened to (or downloaded) for free at the MZR Internet Archive page:

https://archive.org/details/MZR046

OUT NOW: +Passover- The Death of Galaxies (single) [MZR045]

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the debut of our 45th release, The Death of Galaxies by +Passover-. This (non-LP) single is their 4th single overall, and consists of two tracks.

Track listing: 

A-side: The Death of Galaxies (5:11)
B-side: The Haunted Palace (9:29)

Track 1 contains samples of Ben Stein and Fred Savage from the TV programme THE WONDER YEARS. 

Track 2 contains a reading of Poe's poem "The Haunted Palace," this reading being performed by James Champagne, with some "help" from Amber the Cat (while recording the vocals, she jumped on my lap and kept meowing and trying to rub against the microphone, which explains why I laugh at one point: you can also hear her purring at the very end of the reading, right before the musical portion kicks in). Yeah, I mispronounced the word "Porphyrogene." 

+Passover- is James Champagne 
Recorded at Mauve Zone Recordings Studio in 2017-2018 
Design by James Champagne 
+Passover- uses Trajan Pro font 
MZR045
Spiral05

As always, it may be listened to/downloaded for free at our Internet Archive page:

https://archive.org/details/MZR045

OUT NOW: +Passover-: Billingate (single) [MZR044]

OUT NOW: +Passover-: Billingate [MZR044]

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the release of Billingate, the new (non-LP) single from +Passover-. The A-side, Billingate, is a somewhat conventional and driving cyberpunk dance-rock track, while the B-side, Xenodemon, is a more experimental and noisy affair.

As always, it may be listened to/downloaded for free at our Internet Archive page:

https://archive.org/details/MZR044

 

 

OUT NOW: +Passover- Hostile Architecture [MZR043] (Spiral03)

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the release of Hostile Architecture, the debut LP for +Passover-.

Track listing:

SIDE A:

1. Spike Field (4:34)
2. Rubble Landscape (5:19)
3. Leaning Stone Spikes (4:26)
4. Menacing Earthworks (4:14)

SIDE B:

5. Spikes Bursting Through Grid (3:42)
6. Landscape of Thorns (5:12)
7. Forbidden Blocks (5:35)
8. Black Hole (6:51)

Total Running Time: 39:22

+Passover- is James Champagne
All songs written, arranged, programmed and performed by +Passover-
Produced, engineered and mixed by James Champagne
Recorded and mixed at Mauve Zone Studios (Dec. 2016- June 2017)
Art direction + design by James Champagne
+Passover- uses Trajan Pro font

The music on this album was composed, programmed and orchestrated using FL Studio 10 Producer Edition. It was recorded using Goldwave.

As always, it may be listened to/downloaded for free at the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/MZR043

Thank you for your attention.

OT NOW: +Passover- Landscape of Thorns single! [MZR042]

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the release of Landscape of Thorns [MZR042], the second single from the band +Passover-.

This single consists of 3 tracks. On the A-side are two songs, the first being the LP mix of "Landscape of Thorns" (taken from the upcoming Hostile Architecture LP due out July 21st), while the second track is a remix, the "Broken Mix" of the song in question. The B-side, in the meanwhile, consists of the track "Arsenal Gear."

As always the album may be listened to/downloaded for free at our Internet Archive page:
https://archive.org/details/MZR042

OUT NOW: +Passover- Menacing Earthworks single [MZR041]

Mauve Zone Recordings is greatly pleased to announce the release of Menacing Earthworks [MZR041], the debut single by our new group +Passover- (and our first release since the Beyond the Mauve Zone anthology back in December, half a year ago). This single consists of two tracks: the a-side, "Menacing Earthworks," is taken from the band's Hostile Architecture LP, which will most likely drop sometime in July or so of this year, and it gives a good indication of the sonic direction that that album shall take. The b-side, "Pandemonium Matrix," is a longer, more experimental free-form improvised work: much like the band Siouxsie and the Banshees, it is my hope that the +Passover- b-sides show off a more experimental side of the group, while the a-sides will showcase more structure, rhythm and melody.

As always, the single may be listened to/downloaded for free from the Mauve Zone Recordings Internet Archive page:

https://archive.org/details/MZR041

For +Passover-:

A-side: Menacing Earthworks
B-side: Pandemonium Matrix

+Passover- is James Champagne

OUT NOW: Various: Beyond The Mauve Zone [MZR040]

 

 

Mauve Zone Recordings is thrilled to announce the long-awaited release of Beyond The Mauve Zone, our label's 40th release and second compilation album (following 2008's acclaimed A Dream as White as the Death of a Seagull). Featuring 15 songs and running to over 70 minutes, this compilation album (which has been months in the making) is surely one of the most epic creations to yet spring forth from the nightmare factories of the Mauve Zone.

 

As with all MZR releases, it may be listened to/downloaded for free here:

https://archive.org/details/MZR040

 

Track listing:

1. Orchestra 23: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman (Intro) 3:37
2. Boy Destroyer: Leonardo 4:38
3. ▼RIL Y▲: We Are The Void We Worship 8:08
4. Cadaver Synod: Five Billion Years of Hell-Engineering 5:52
5. The People’s Tongue: Shooby Laboof Propulsion 2:09
6. Thomas Moore: Sling 9:09
7. James Champagne: Beyond the Mauve Zone 7:19
8. Orchestra 23: Intermission 2016 1:54
9. M. Karo: Tiempo Peligroso 7:47
10. Zyklon Vagina: Bass Decay 3:19
11. Bryce Clayton Eiman: My Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist 4:27
12. Death Head Moths: Eraser (Polite) 2:29
13. Sypha Nadon: Melenkurion Skyweir 4:28
14. Orchestra 23: Dark House (Outro) 3:37
15. Mystery Guest: The Grand Feline-ale 3:19

Total Running Time: 72:15

Album Concept: Arthur Limbo
Art Direction + Design: James Champagne
Front cover illustration by James Champagne
Back cover illustration by Steffi Grant, extracted from the back cover of Kenneth Grant’s book Beyond the Mauve Zone (and further modified by James Champagne)

Artist/track information:

Orchestra 23
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Boy Destroyer is:
Sypha Nadon: Rhythm
Isabelle Ducasse: Electronics, Noises
Ray Pissed: Samples

▼RIL Y▲ is Choronzon as music, post- post -apocalypse bass. Identity vampirism thru genre raping time signature sigils and rerun ritual atavism. Chopped and Screwed cough syrup time dislocation. We are dancing across the abyss asleep on the basement floor of the neverending party. Ecstasy to dynamite the Daathian prison gate and return to ourselves beyond the stars.

Cadaver Synod
“Sounds are rabies, spread by rat tails.”
-Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia

The People's Tongue are two people who exist in Indianapolis, Indiana and Portland, Oregon. They crawled onto the scene in 2002 and deposited their first LP "Speedwalk Fantasy." That was followed by "Saturday Night Fever" and the MZR international hit "Sonny Bono's Favorites." "Shooby Leboof Propulsion" is an unreleased single created using the Five Obstructions method. Neither participate can recall the details of the Obstructions. They are at work on their fourth album.

Thomas Moore
"I don't make music anymore so this was fun. I tried to make a track that I'd like to hear in a cruise bar or a darkroom at a sex club, because more often than not, the music I hear in those places isn't my thing".

James Champagne
“…when in doubt, surrealism.”
-Quentin S. Crisp, “The Haunted Bicycle”

M. Karo
m. karo has been making music on and off for 30 years. His current projects are:
http://darkerthennormal.tumblr.com
http://admiral-byrd-the-band.tumblr.com
Many of his songs may also be heard on his YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/mkaro/videos

Zyklon Vagina
CLASSIFIED

Bryce Eiman (b. 1956) grew up on a farm a few miles outside St Joseph, MO. He learned the rudiments of music in public school and received instruction in piano and baritone horn, but was influenced mostly by the sound of farm equipment. He does not consider his own work music but rather therapy. His first release appeared in 1987, followed by a few handfuls of others.
Played in WOMB (with Peter Keller), Dirt Log (with Craig Hilton), Bicameral Mind (with Shaun Sandor), and Weather Machine (with Joe Hendrix). 

Death Head Moths is James Champagne
It was a Coil remix of the Nine Inch Nails song “Closer” (which appeared during the opening credits of the film Se7en) that served as my primary inspiration to begin recording electronic music of my own. It seems only fitting, then, that now I do this song, a cover of Coil doing a remix of the Nine Inch Nails song “Eraser” (as heard on the NIN remix album “Further Down the Spiral,” where it was known as the “Polite” mix). Lyrics by Trent Reznor.

Sypha Nadon
“What is your will?
To meet with Choronzon, between the Worlds.
To what end?
That I may be the Needle’s Eye for Chaos itself.”
-Maggie Cook, The Magickal Record of Nema 1975-1977: An Initiatory Journal For Admittance To The Typhonian Order

 

 

A big thank you to all the artists who contributed to this incarnation of the Mauve Zone.

OUT NOW: James Champagne: Experiment XX [MZR039]

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the release of James Champagne's Experiment XX [MZR039]. As always, it may be listened to/downloaded for free at our Internet Archive page:

https://archive.org/details/MZR039

 

This is not really a new album but a "lost" one. It was recorded at Mauve Zone Studios in October of 2009, when I was just beginning to use the FL Studio program for the first time and familiarizing myself with its operational procedures. Because back then I hadn't yet paid for the program and was only using the demo version, I was thus unable to save my work, so I recorded a number of songs (around six) as first... takes (this was also how the Boy Destroyer album Socialist Boy Scouts was created, as it was recorded shortly after these initial experiments). At the time I considered releasing these six songs on MZR under the Sypha Nadon name (with the working album title being either Experiment XX or Xperiment XX), but as I got better using FL Studio I began to see these tracks as very primitive and decided to not release them. This year I was bored one day and gave the album another listen, and to my surprise I found that I liked what I was hearing: it's true that as one-and-done tracks these are quite raw and glitchy, yet at the same time they have a sort of experimental/improvised psychedelic repetitive style that meets my favor: they really sound unlike anything else I've done. So I've decided to release them now, 7 years later, under my own name.

Track listing:

1. Industrial Concert for Faceless Dwarves (4:59)
2. The Bion Experiments (9:59)
3. Nude Frolic With Hyperspace Elves (9:59)
4. Et in Arcadia ego (9:51)
5. Masturbating Mugwumps (8:15)
6. Bloodstream of Tiamat (8:45)

OUT NOW: Death Head Moths: Second Report [MZR038]

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce our latest release, Second Report by Death Head Moths.

This is an album of all-MIDI music that was recorded during the months of April-June 2016. As this album was entirely created using Voyetra (the first such album I've done in this manner since 2008's The Black Omen LP), I've decided to release it under the Death Head Moths banner: the first album I've done this for since my very first album (First Report) back in the year 2000 (later on it was retconned a...s a Sypha Nadon album). Hence the title. Essentially, Death Head Moths is Sypha Nadon in lepidopteran drag.

Track listing:

1. Crionics 2. Monsters 3. Carnival 4. The House of Chthon 5. DAF 6. The Hollow City 7. Bobby Prince 8. Baroque 9. Borderlands of Sanity 10. The Elder World 11. Spider Mastermind 12. Eco-Gothic

Running time: 46:57

As always the album may be listened to/downloaded for free at the MZR Internet Archive page:

https://archive.org/details/MZR038

Creating an album using just MIDI is tougher then it sounds, so for variety's sake there's a lot of different musical styles utilized in this recording: electronic pop, classical, hard rock/metal, experimental noise, and so on. Something for everyone!

OUT NOW: SYPHA NADON: SELECTED AMBIENT TWERKS (LP) [MZR037]

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the release of Selected Ambient Twerks: A Sypha Nadon Retrospective 2009-2016.

Selected Ambient Twerks: A Sypha Nadon Retrospective 2009-2016 is the second “greatest hits” Sypha Nadon album, a companion album to 2009’s The Nightmare Factory collection. Whereas the former album collected music from the years 2000-2009, this new collection assembles tracks from the years 2009-2016, focusing on the following albums: Our Lady of the Flowers of the Red Night, Orheculegenias, 4NIC8, Litch, Canadian Atheist, and last year’s Monolith. It also includes a new, never-before released track, “A New Circle of Hell,” which was created shortly after the Monolith sessions. Once again, I would like to thank anyone who has listened to and appreciated my work over the last 16 or so years.

As always, the album may be downloaded/listened to for free at the Mauve Zone Recordings' Internet Archive page:

https://archive.org/details/MZR037

Track listing:

1. A New Circle of Hell (4:32)
2. Bleeding Edge 2016 Mix (3:24)
3. Ritual (3:11)
4. Everything Dies (4:49)
5. Ghost Mountains (3:42)
6. Tangerine Nightmare (7:12)
7. STRIPPER (3:04)
8. Interzone (4:57)
9. One Thousand Years (4:27)
10. Black Insect Laughter (6:23)
11. Coiled Horizons (3:01)
12. Dark Enlightenment (4:04)
13. The Acknowledged (4:24)
14. Yotsuba Corporation (2:57)
15. Piano Piece for Cocksucking (2:40)
16. America After the Rain (3:46)
17. Witnesses (2:15)
18. The Devil You Know (5:59)
19. Receiving the Logos (4:00)

Total Running Time: 78:56

Track one, “A New Circle of Hell,” is an entirely new Sypha Nadon song created specifically for this collection: it was written in 2015 and recorded in 2015/2016. With the exception of this track, all of the other tracks on the album have previously appeared elsewhere:

Tracks 2, 6, 11 off the “Litch” LP (2013) (Although track 2 has been re-recorded and re-mixed)
Tracks 3, 9, 12, 16 off the “Monolith” LP (2015)
Tracks 4, 10, 14, 18 off the “Orheculegenias” LP (2010)
Tracks 5, 13, 17 off the “Canadian Atheist” LP (2014)
Tracks 7, 15 off the “4NIC8” LP (2011)
Tracks 8, 19 off the “Our Lady of the Flowers of the Red Night” LP (2009)

All songs by Sypha Nadon
Produced by James Champagne
Vocals on tracks 1, 3, 5, and 9 provided by James Champagne

The majority of these tracks were programmed and arranged using FL Studio 10 Producer Edition, save for tracks 8 and 19, which were arranged via the Voyetra Digital Orchestrator. All of the tracks were recorded using Goldwave v.5.65.

Cover illustration from a 1972 textbook entitled "Biology Today," done by the artist Masami Teraoka: the name of the illustration is “Human Possibilities.” The back cover illustration is taken from the manga “Monster Musume.”

Cover design by James Champagne.

All songs recorded in the period from 2009 to 2016.

A NEW CIRCLE OF HELL LYRICS

The Moon reveals a gremlin face
That leers at us from outer space
The Sun grows an unblinking eye
That rains destruction from its throne in the sky
CHORUS:
This is not the Earth
This is a new circle of Hell
Circle of Hell
Circle of
This is not the Earth
This is a new circle of Hell
Circle of Hell
Circle of
I can hear the riots in the streets
We realized we’re just dreaming meat
We stepped into the alien’s trap
Now we’re on the brink of a psychic collapse
CHORUS REPEAT

Coming soon: an announcement on MZR038, which will hopefully be available later on this summer.