ANTS RECORDS

R Keenan Lawler & John Krausbauer “Spectre of radiants” is a

droning, everlasting buzz of strings, gently undulating and

intersecting.

Unconventionally played, as usual, the resonator guitars and

the banjos, builds the perfect stream of sound to accompany

your longest days.

Fitting in the ultraminimalist/drone panorama, this acoustic

gem follow the lineage draw by authours like Phill Niblock,

Tony Conrad or Elaine Radigue, mixing and confonting it with

the direct attitude toward sound of people like Jim O'Rourke

to finally build another chapter in the investigation on

acoustic and physics that underline the very musical spirit of

the authors.

R Keenan Lawler is a Louisville, Kentucky based multi-

instrumentalist, improviser, composer, and sound artist.

Influenced and obsessed by post-punk, jazz, free

improvisation, ancient and modern classical music, blues,

nature, non-western music and a philosophy of

"transcendence through sound." He is best known for

developing a highly focused idiosyncratic language on the

metal-bodied resonator guitar, extending its timbral and

harmonic range far outside the usual role in bluegrass and

blues.

Lawler has performed solo in the US and Europe, and has

worked with a wide range of diverse artists including Matmos,

Pelt, Rhys Chatham, My Morning Jacket, John Butcher, Susan

Alcorn, Tatsuya Nakatani , Helena Espvall, Lukas Ligeti, Ignaz

Schick, Phillip Samartzis, Jack Wright, Tim Barnes and John

Krausbauer. His sound art has been presented in Moma/PS1,

Brooklyn, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, and in collaboration with

artists Thaniel Ion Lee, Sandra Gibson, Valerie Sutherland

Fuchs, and Russell Hulsey. He has shared stages with artists as

diverse as John Fahey, Widespread Panic, Sudden Infant, Jim

Carroll, and Vieux Farka Toure. He is presently performing

solo, with various collaborators, and as a member of music

collectives WET, Limited Hangout and Seismic Corruption

Band.

John Krausbauer is a composer/multi-instrumentalist/

improviser based in Oakland, CA and co-founder of the

Los Angeles publishing label, Besom Presse.

A long time purveyor of the ur-drone and trance-psychedelia,

his work involves audio transmissions for TOTAL/immersive

sensory experience. Transcendence through repetition,

duration, alternate tunings, maximum volumes, and

stroboscopic lighting.

He's performed and presented his music across N America,

Europe, and Japan in a multitude of settings - from

basements, sidewalks, and rock clubs to colleges, churches,

and art museums. Over 20 recordings of his have been

released on independent labels in the US, Europe, and Japan.

His group and solo music can be found on Important, Beta-

Lactam Ring, ANTS, Fabrica, Debacle, Autumn, Thin Wrist

(upcoming), and a number of other international labels.

His current music projects include the Ecstatic Music Band (a

10+ member-collective of strings players); solo music for

voice, violin, and synth; his collaboration with partner, Kaori

Suzuki, with bells, voices, strings, tape; the Minimalist psych-

punk group Night Collectors; his systems-based phase

compositions; and ongoing duo collaborations with

Kentuckian steel bodied resonator guitar player R. Keenan

Lawler, NYC bagpipe player David Watson, and Tokyo based

guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama.

track list

1) Spectre of Radiants 44:11

released 13/09/2019