Now:Potier. - Einsicht In Die Notwendigkeit
C-20 Tape
Chrome
Professionally Duplicated & Imprinted At National Audio Company
Springfield, MO, USA
Edition Of 100
Self-Release 2011
2 Tracks, Recorded & Mixed By Potier.
Mastered By Zach Adams. (seasonalaffect.com)
Artwork Layout By JLIAT. (jliat.com)
6 Dollars US incl. shipping within North America
8 Dollars US incl. shipping rest of world
This one is now also being distributed in Europe by Sincope.
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Reviews:
"A cassette which is a sound track to [...] urban failure and a cancer of body and soul." (Vital Weekly)
"...two side-long tracks of classic, self-loathing Noise"
"...disorienting and bluntly terrifying" (Animal Psi)
"...definitively bleak and oppressive..."
"...feels like windburn, but in a good way..."
"...a very rewarding listen for fans of harsh noise and walls."
(Memory Wave Transmission)
"It's a poisonous cloud. It shimmers while it thrashes. It tickles as it stings."
"Ear-splittingly and unapologetically rough..."
"Total sonic wreck. Positively murderous."
(Auxiliary Out)
C-30 Tape
Chrome
Duplicated by Parker
Artwork by Ocra
2 Tracks
A - Potier - AD-WX515
B - Ocra - Lucifer Sambuca
Edition of 50
Physical Copies
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8 Dollars US incl. shipping rest of world
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Also available from Listen Records & Blackbyrd Myoozik in Edmonton.
This one is now also being distributed by Absurd Exposition.
Review:
"The Potier track superficially could be described as sounding like a faulty air conditioning unit or industrial filtration unit, long clunky drones, these appear however to pan from channel to channel giving movement to what would otherwise be a dull monotonous sound wall. This might be a good or bad thing depending on your taste, or depending on some other aesthetic. The piece is thus located between noise, what could almost be a field recording, and the industrial genre. The Ocra track is very different, layered mechanical drones, slow oscillator sweeps which slowly evolve, again a mechanistic sound field but here it lies in heavy reverb pushing the sound from the banality of the industrial real into the fantasy fictions of science fiction. Its evolution of layers building before dying away giving it a symphonic form, the old male orgasm played out this time in a hyper-real space."
"Like a factory replacement unit the Potier work appears to be moving into some world of infinite warehouses, I think a step into mono might be fruitful here because just as binocular vision gives an animal perspective to the world a monaural cosmos has no perspective, no reverberation, and so is effectively infinite, like an airless planet lacking a sense of distance and scale, and sound, and so impossible for both territorialization and or de-territorialization of the peeing wolf."
(Vital Weekly)
Solo:
Peripherie - Self-Release - CDr - 2007 - Out Of Print
Schwere See - Self-Release - MiniCDr - 2007 - Out Of Print
Omnious Presentiments - Fingerbib Netlabel - MP3/256kbps - 2008 - Still available here.
Naturally Caged - Self-Release - C30 - 2011 - Limited Edition Of 18 - 2 more copies just dubbed! - Total Edition Of 20
Einsicht In Die Notwendigkeit - Self-Release - C20 - 2011 - Limited Edition Of 100
Potier.//Ocra Split C30 - Ramshackle Day Parade Records (RDP_003) - C30 - 2011 - Limited Edition Of 50
Compilation:
"Robotic Bishop" on "Various - HHHH006 1:01:36" - Hum And Hiss - MP3/320kbps - 2010 - Still available here.
"Untitled" on "Various - Second Bi-Annual Report" - Absurd Exposition - Various Formats - 2012 - Available here.
"Untitled" on "Various - Ramshackle Day Parade 2012 - Ramshackle Day Parade Records - CDr & other formats - Available from the label.
Live-History:
2011-02-22 - Ramshackle Day Parade @ Bohemia Cafe, Edmonton, AB - with Ocra, Zebra Pulse
Small excerpt is here.
2011-04-22 - Ramshackle Day Parade @ Bohemia Cafe, Edmonton, AB - with Wind Rose, Parker & others. Video is here. Thanks to Parker!
2011-06-15 - @ Bohemia Cafe, Edmonton, AB - with Zebra Pulse, Holzkopf & Mindkontrolultra
2011-08-10 - @ Wunderbar, Edmonton, AB - with Ocra, Zebra Pulse & Sir Ma'Am Ma'Am. Short clip available here. Thanks to Owen.
2011-10-21 - @ Bohemia Cafe, Edmonton, AB - as part of the "Symphony of Noise"
2011-11-22 - @ Bohemia Cafe, Edmonton, AB - with Commodities & Pigeon Breeders
2011-12-29 - @ Bohemia Cafe, Edmonton, AB - with Ocra & others
2012-03-17 - @ Pith Gallery, Calgary, AB - with TAIWAN, Pigeon Breeders & Zebra Pulse
2012-04-06 - @ Bohemia Cafe, Edmonton, AB - Tonus Vivus meets Ramshackle Day Parade - with Pigeon Breeders, Zebra Pulse (with Sean McIntosh), Mugbait, Allison Balcetis & Thom Golub, Dan Brophy & Ruth Guechtal
2012-04-22 - @ Bohemia Cafe, Edmonton, AB - with Meat Force, Vipers Without Vapours & Pizzarrhea
Samples:
Visit Potier. on SOUNDCLOUD for samples from the releases.
Contact & Inqiries:
MichaelToepfer@gmx.net
Michael Toepfer
11919 82 Street NW, Apt. 204
Edmonton, AB, T5B2W4
Canada
