Latest Releases
Quicksails - Sliver Balloons In Clusters [spire046]
Quicksails of the solo project of Tiger Hatchery percussionist, Ben Billington. Unlike his fierce work in Hatchery (or his staggering 90 minute solo percussion session for 905 Tapes) Billington indulges in synth and electronics as Quicksails. This is a vinyl issue of the tape for the Deception Island label and follows up a very cool tape on Cylindrical Habitat Modules.
2012 UTS T-Shirts [tshirt002]
Under The Spire tee designed by Jake Blanchard (www.jakeblanchard.co.uk) Gildan Ultra tee with discharge screenprint. £11.00 per tee.
Concessionaires - Artificial Interface [spire047]
Artificial Interface LP. Concessionaires is Pete Fosco & Brad Rose. PRE-ORDERS at discounted price of £10 now available!
Refractor - Locus Suspectus [spire044]
All sound passed through a single synthesizer. Mixing, panning, decay, and reverb manipulated within the instrument. This was to embrace the limitations of one-take recordings with no additional editing. Edition of 200 Vinyl LP's.
Steven Hess + Christopher McFall - The Inescapable Fox [spire043]
Quietly engaging, evolving tape music compositions conceived around Greek mythology and notions of light/dark. 200 LP's only in full colour sleeve.
Strategy - Super Awareness Is Fruit [spire042]
Limited edition of 200 copies on clear vinyl. One 20-minute, deeply layered and psyched-out dub track from Paul Dickow's Strategy project split over two sides* Super Awareness Is Fruit comes as a welcome expansion of the multilayered ambiences that made up Dickow's Music For Lamping long-player, tackling the contemporary drone-scape with an agenda that eschews minimalist convention in favour of a sparkling, densely populated narrative full of dissolved acoustic timbres, wah-wah filtering treatments, etc.
Black Eagle Child - Pages On A Plane [spire034]
Mere months after his Black Eagle Child full-length, Lobelia, appeared on Preservation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Michael Jantz returns with Pages On A Plane, an equally satisfying twelve-inch vinyl outing for Under The Spire. It's modestly ambitious in scope, with thirty-six minutes of music split across the disc's sides and available in an edition of 250 copies on marbled vinyl. Outdoor field recordings bolster the music's natural feel, with Jantz creating luscious tapestries of picked gui
Myrmyr – Fire Star [spire041]
This sophomore release from Agnes Szelag (Evon, Dokuro) and Marielle Jakobsons (Darwinsbitch, Date Palms) is an album of astonishing fragile beauty and darker, more foreboding atmospheres. Following their critically acclaimed debut album, The Amber Sea (Digitalis, 2009) Fire Star was recorded during a snowstorm on Shasta Mountain April 6-9 2010. The duo performs on violin, cello, voices, harps, bells, and electronics. It is recorded by The Norman Conquest and mastered by Miles Boison. Spire041
Matt Christensen – A Cradle In The Bowery [spire040]
Matt Christensen of Chicago’s premier pastoral bliss inducers Zelienople ventures out on his own with this triumphant set of dedications to his young daughter. Siphoning strains of melancholic Americana through the trancelike prisms of groups such as Spaceman 3 and Galaxie 500, he creates swirling vistas on tracks such as mesmeric opener Someday I Won’t Matter that’ll be familiar to his group’s many admirers.