CTI – Core (A Conspiracy International Project) (1988)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. Feeder (With Coil) 08:41
2. Trapezoid (With John Duncan, Joe Potts) 05:14
3. Future Shock (With Monte Cazazza) 07:23
4. Unmasked (With Robert Wyatt) 04:15
5. Over Abyss (With Lustmord) 06:40
6. Guest + Host = Ghost (With Boyd Rice) 04:38
7. Core 07:33

CTI (Creative Technology Institute) was an alias used by the duo Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti, 

more commonly known as Chris & Cosey and later as Carter Tutti.
"Core (A Conspiracy International Project)" was released in 1998 and each track on the album

was a joint project between Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti and the persons/groups credited.
Featuring participation from Coil, John Duncan, Joe Potts, Monte Cazazza, Robert Wyatt, Lustmord and Boyd Rice.
Sounds were mailed or brought to Studio 47 where they were manipulated, processed,

composed and mixed with the full collaboration of those involved.
Includes an insert with artwork, notes and photos on contributing artists

while some copies include a second, illustrated, insert with information on Play It Again Sam releases.

Memory

Moon Lore – The Spheres Beneath The Heavens (1997)

Country: Norway

Tracklist

1. There Again... 04:00
2. Lady Grief' Silver Mirror 03:07
3. Mephesti (A Perfect Picture Of Her Beauty) 03:55
4. Murder 01:22
5. The Spheres Beneath The Heavens 03:52
6. Vampire 04:43
7. The Silkenmasked Highpriest Of Dreamland 05:10
8. I? 04:09
9. Bitterness Engraved In A Heart Of Stone 02:18
10. Thou I Laugh, I Weep In My Heart 03:30
11. Outro 03:15

Moon Lore was formed in 1992 by Peter Pendragon.
He recorded the first two track demo using a brand new Fostex 4-track, a guitar,

a Boss drum machine, a cheap microphone and a borrowed delay pedal.
The demo was released into the tape trading underground in 1993.
After the release of the demo he started elaborating on the more gothic influenced track on the cassette, “There Again...”.
This resulted in a rehearsal tape and a demo created in 1994.
After receiving a lot of positive feedback on his releases he signed a deal with Avantgarde in 1995,

and went to studio to record his first album entitled "The Spheres Beneath The Heavens".
He found the recording studio, Frogner Lydstudio, through the yellow pages and started recording in the summer of 1995.
When "The Spheres Beneath The Heavens" was completed

Avantgarde licensed the rights of the album to the German label Malicious Records.
This caused the album to stay unreleased until 1997

and also was the last release for Malicious Records before they went defunct.
After the recording of the album Pendragon started to work with new material,

drawing even more on the gothic influence, with bands such as Christian Death, and The Sisters Of Mercy.
This led to the 1996 demo, "Sleeping With The Dead".
From 1997 and onwards Moon Lore became mostly an electronic band,

using a variety of synthesizers, drum machines and samplers.
In 2000 he used for the first time a PC for recording and made "Demo 2000", limited to 20 copies.
In the period between 2000-2003, now with some proper recording software in his hands,

Pendragon started re-vitalizing the metal part of Moon Lore.
In 2002 he also wrote the music for Maria Vennerød's play "Meir", performed at Det Norske Teatret.
In 2003 after a period of six month recording process

he released the two track demo "Two Evil Eyes", as a CD-r with a professionally printed cover.
After this release Pendragon focused on other band projects (Råte, Mök)

but he still kept on working on Moon Lore from time to time.

In 2007 he released the track "Her Essence" for the Norsk Urskog compilation CD.

In this period he also tried to revitalize Moon Lore as a full line-up live band,

but the band took had already took its own course and morphed into something quite different.

Memory

Death Ambient – Death Ambient (1995)

Country: Japan / England

Tracklist

1. Prophecy 07:23
2. Imperial Thorn 07:49
3. Hedgetrimmer 02:31
4. Alchemy 02:41
5. Heart Set 00:49
6. Rain 01:57
7. Broken Blue 02:17
8. Loquat Tree 02:51
9. White Eye 02:37
10. Coyote Got Away 04:43
11. A Dead Staphylococcus Looks Like A Skull 01:46
12. Heart Set 00:31
13. Loading And Running 01:14
14. Flash 05:33
15. Ways Out 03:54

 

Experimental/ambient music trio consisting of Kato Hideki (bass guitar), Ikue Mori (drum machines), and Fred Frith (guitar).

Death Ambient was formed by Hideki and Mori in 1995 and released three albums,

"Death Ambient" (1995), "Synaesthesia" (1999) and "Drunken Forest" (2007).
Kato Hideki, a Japanese bass guitarist and founding member of Ground Zero, moved to New York City in 1992.

He started working with Christian Marclay, Marc Ribot, John Zorn and also collaborated with Dying Ground.

In 1995, he began collaborating with Ikue Mori, who had been the drummer for DNA.

After DNA disbanded, Mori experimented with modified drum machines to play samples of music, 

before shifting entirely to laptop computer-based music creation.
Guitarist Fred Frith (of Henry Cow), who had lived in New York City for fourteen years

and collaborated with many experimental music musicians, was invited by Mori and Hideki to the join the group.
According to Mori, the aim of Death Ambient was "to create sounds and texture extravaganza.".
Death Ambient recorded their first self titled album at Green Point Studio in Brooklyn in 1995, 

featuring a collection of improvised pieces that included Mori's drum machine generated sound samples.

The album was released the same year in the New Japan series on John Zorn's Tzadik record label.
In 1997 guitarist James Plotkin temporarily replaced Frith for a UK tour that included concerts in London and Stirling.

The London concert was broadcast on BBC Radio 3's show, Mixing It.
Frith rejoined Death Ambient in 1998 and the trio gave a concert in Halle, Germany.
It was the first time the original trio had performed together as a group outside the recording studio.
In June 1999 they returned to New York City to record their second album "Synaesthesia",

using material from the concert in Germany.
In May 2007, after six years in the making, "Drunken Forest" was released,

also in Tzadik's New Japan series, with Jim Pugliese as a guest percussionist.
The trio (without Pugliese) performed the album live

at John Zorn's not-for-profit experimental music performance space, The Stone, on May 4 and 5, 2007.

Memory