Various Histories, by Katsura Mouri & Tim Olive

Various Histories

by Katsura Mouri & Tim Olive

supported by

Edging the Aftertimes I have thrown everything into the furnace. The flames melt my fear. My eyes glow with hope. Favorite track: Track 5.

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$5 USD or more
Full Digital Discography

20

releases

Get all 20 845 Audio releases available on Bandcamp and save 60%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Kanpuu, Spot of the Foul (total mass retain), Rasputitsa, Eidolon, Nice You!, Invoer, Charm Point, Telquan, and 12 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$41.60 USD or more (60% OFF)
Limited Edition CD
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Recycled chipboard packaging, with excellent letter-press art by Marc Bell

Includes unlimited streaming of Various Histories via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Sold Out

	1.	Track 1 03:46
	2.	Track 2 04:04
	3.	Track 3 01:45
	4.	Track 4 09:24
	5.	Track 5 15:19

about

Katsura Mouri: turntables
Tim Olive: pickups, metals

Recorded in Kyoto, Aug. 2010
Five tracks, total length of 34:20
Glass-mastered CD, recycled chipboard package, art by Marc Bell
Catalog Number: 845-2

Recorded near Kyoto on a sweltering summer day in 2010, in non-air-conditioned discomfort. The density of the air and the heavy fug of heat is fully present in these five untitled tracks, with distant thunder tumbling down the mountainsides and sudden nearby rumblings charged by brutal flashes of electricity, gritty heat-static and the relentless life-song of subtropical summer. Or perhaps it’s all coincidence…
Mouri’s low-tech turntables and prehistoric analog delay unit along with Olive’s magnetic pickups and variously-activated metal, wood and plastic objects merge and meld, diverge and re-combine across thirty-four abrasive, foreboding and somehow beautiful minutes.

credits

released April 1, 2013

Brian Olewnick, Just Outside:
Five tracks that, at their best, sound like where Voice Crack should have been by now had you taking their turn of the century work and plotted an upward quality graph... a brew both thick and spiky, with enough liquid continuity to flow easily but enough hard nodes to provide plenty of tooth. An implied, buried pulse often serves the music well as does a kind of transparency in the multitude of layers piled atop–there’s a fine sharpness here and a sense of unwasted action. Also a welcome habit of saying what needs to be said then stopping. All too rare, nowadays. The pieces are well varied, covering ample ground quickly and with imagination, the closing track venturing into spacier territory, a stringent whine carving out a large room sparsely occupied by dull, echoing metals–very, very well done.

Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly:
Improvising noise maker Tim Olive strikes again here, with a new disc which he recorded with Katsura Mouri over the years 2010 to 2012. Mouri (wo-)mans the turntables and is also responsible for edits and mix, while Olive plays pick-ups and metals. A five piece disc, with a total of thirty-four minutes of music, all of a more heavy nature. Its not that we are dealing with heavy noise here, but the sounds played with turntable and pickups on metal objects are recorded quite directly in a no-victims-spared manner. It bumps and bounces here, with some mighty fine deep end sound and occasional collapse in the higher frequency range. It’s the heavy weight version of AMM going all for the noise generators and without any instruments. Mouri and Olive play with great care and style – true noise is, as said, far away from this, but they are not entirely shy of it also. When it happens, it happens. In other occasions they manage to arrive at a standstill and they look around – just as in the fifth and longest (all untitled) piece happens. They stumble upon feedback and let it flow for a while and play some softish rumble with their equipment. In terms of improvisation meets noise, I thought this was a pretty fine disc, which was played in an excellent manner and had a whole bunch of interesting notions on the subject.

license

about

845 Audio Kobe, Japan

Recommendations

contact / help

Contact 845 Audio

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

845 Audio recommends:

Scrine (1988)
by Hands To

These 1988 recordings are dense, eventful and involving. Pleasingly abrasive with a joyful sense of mischief. 845 Audio
go to album
wilt
by Phil Maguire

Patient, absorbing investigations of steady states, as lovely as the cover image. 845 Audio
go to album
Mariachi
by no lagos musique

One guitar, one distortion pedal, an amp. And so good. 845 Audio
go to album

If you like Various Histories, you may also like:

Winterist
by Jeph Jerman

supported by 13 fans who also own “Various Histories”

Always happy to hear some rhythmic rustle clank scritch-scratch by the maestro! standard grey's collection
go to album
without
by Anne-F Jacques/Ryoko Akama

supported by 11 fans who also own “Various Histories”
go to album
Lives
by St Celfer™

St Celfer returns with tracks culled from a series of live shows, each one a showcase for his inventive experimentalism. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 26, 2023
go to album

Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now