Friday, January 20, 2012

2011 Favorites by Christopher McFall





  1. Daniel Thomas Freeman - The Beauty of Doubting Yourself (Home Normal Recordings, http://www.homenormal.com/)
  2. Pavonine - Night Falls with Silver in its Mouth (Treetrunk Records, http://treetrunkrecords.wordpress.com/)
  3. Anduin - XXVII (SMTG Limited, http://www.smtgltd.com/)
  4. David Velez - Funza (Impulsive Habitat, http://www.impulsivehabitat.com/)
  5. Xela - Exorcism (Not On A Label/Self-Released, http://soundcloud.com/_type/sets/xela-exorcism)
  6. Nils Frahm - Felt (Type Records, http://typerecords.com/)
  7. Keith Berry - The Cartesian Plane (Elevator Bath, http://www.elevatorbath.com/)
  8. Israel Martinez - El Hombre Que Se Sofoca (Sub Rosa, http://www.subrosa.net/)
  9. Erstlaub - The Last Few Seconds Before Sleep (Broken20, http://www.broken20.com/)
  10. A Quiet Norway - Into A Mirror (Audiotalia Netlabel, http://www.audiotalaia.net/at045.html)

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Christopher McFall is a Kansas City-based composer and phonographer who has carved out a distinctive niche for himself in the experimental music scene.
Regular presence on this blog which, interested in him since his beginnings, keeps track of all his works.
Three releases in 2011: "Credence" and "The Alpha Is Strong And Amplifying Beta" on Impulsive Habitat netlabel, "The Inescapable Fox", in collaboration with Steven Hess, on Under The Spire (this last in our "best of the year" list).
He has also appeared in a compilation issued by Nitkie and a double CD on Monochrome Vision.

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Discography:


A Starved-Strafe Lancing Machine

















Label: CONV
Cat. #: CNV25
Format: File, MP3
Release date: 2005


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A Little Rouge
















Label: Earlabs
Cat. #: LM037
Format: File, MP3
Release date: 2006


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Grayscale Is Failing

















Label: Clinical Archives
Cat. #: ca030
Format: File, MP3
Release date: 2007


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Self-Preservation Intact With Teeth


















Label: Test Tube
Cat. #: tube085
Format: File, MP3
Release date: 2007


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Touch Type: The Rising

















Label: Alg-a
Cat. #: ALG028
Format: File, MP3
Release date: 2007


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Four Feels For Fire
















Label: Entr'acte
Cat. #: E42
Format: CD
Release date: 2007

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For Wings That Seldom Sleep
















w/ Jonathan Benham

Label: and/OAR
Cat. #: and.p31
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 2008

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Solemn Words For A Fabled Apparatus
















Label: Gears Of Sand
Cat. #: GOS 35
Format: CD
Release date: 2008

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All For The Terror That Sings Sweetly To You In The Night
















Label: 1000Füssler
Cat. #: 3" CD-R
Format: CD
Release date: 05/2008

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The City Of Almost
















Label: Sourdine
Cat. #: sd-002
Format: CD
Release date: 2008

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This Heat Holds Snow
















Label: Mystery Sea
Cat. #: MS48
Format: CD-R
Release date: 08/2008

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Red Is The Color Of Price By Relation
















Label: Moving Furniture Records
Cat. #: MFR002
Format: CD-R
Release date: 03/2009

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The Dirty And The Clean .EP
















w/ Ben Fleury-Steiner

Label: CON-v
Cat. #: CNV54
Format: File, FLAC
Release date: 06/2009


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Tactile.Surface
















w/ Luigi Turra

Label: Unfathomless
Cat. #: U02
Format: CD
Release date: 01/2010

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An Amber Hollowed Night
















w/ Asher

Label: taâlem
Cat. #: alm63
Format: CD-R
Release date: 01/2010

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The Body As I Left It
















Label: Sourdine
Cat. #: sd-004
Format: CD
Release date: 05/2010

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Lost At Sea And Seldom Found
















Label: Impulsive Habitat
Cat. #: IHab008
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 05/2010


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The Anatomical Submissiveness Of Lions
















Label: Entr'acte
Cat. #: E96
Format: Cassette
Release date: 05/2010

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An Eris 23
















Label: SiRiDisc
Cat. #:
Format: CD-R
Release date: 10/2010

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A Long Time Running For The Suicide Strays
















Label: Resting Bells
Cat. #: RB090
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 11/2010


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Credence
















w/ David Velez

Label: Impulsive Habitat
Cat. #: IHab025
Format: File, Mp3 / FLAC
Release date: 07/2011


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The Inescapable Fox
















w/ Steven Hess

Label: Under The Spire
Cat. #: spire043
Format: LP
Release date: 10/2011

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The Alpha Is Strong And Amplifying Beta
















Label: Impulsive Habitat
Cat. #: IHab033
Format: File, Mp3 / FLAC
Release date: 12/2011


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Disengaged Songs For Disenchanted Lovers
















Label: Mandorla Netlabel
Cat. #: MNL 026
Format: File, Mp3, 320k
Release date: 09/2012


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Epilog (Recombinant)

















Label: CONV
Cat. #: CNVR26
Format: CD-R
Release date: 12/2012

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Quivering Into Your Blood Night Radio
















Label: Impulsive Habitat
Cat. #: IHab064
Format: File, Mp3 / FLAC
Release date: 02/2013


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Appears on:
  • VV.AA. - Traces Of Artificial Memories (2012, Impulsive Habitat, IHab061) 
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Tracks appear on:

  • VV.AA. - Mandorla Autumn Soundscapes (2007, Mandorla Netlabel, MNL 010) track: Perplex Fable
  • VV.AA. - The Sound Ecology: Range (2011, Nitkie, patch two) track: An Arc Casting The Stitch
  • Simon Whetham & Friends - Meditations On Light (2011, Monochrome Vision, mv35) track: Blackout Carrier
  • VV.AA. - Mandorla Autumn Soundscapes II (2014, Mandorla Netlabel, MNL 030) track: Celsius Fondling 

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Other projects:

EARLabs 3 - Helix
















w/ Jos Smolders, Sascha Neudeck

Label: Entr'acte
Cat. #: E63
Format: CD
Release date: 01/2009

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Links:
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