MISSION:END

It seems i've overlooked this...

but, Black Summer was the last GRIZ+ZLOR release ever...
this blog will stay as a digital footprint.

ALL new works (art+noise) will be here:

http://paul-dvr.blogspot.com/

GRIZ+ZLOR - BLACK SUMMER

From the AMAZING Phage Tapes!

PT:171 Griz+zlor “Black Summer” 2xc62

Edition of 90 copies in side by side Norelco cases. The cover is a 3 color screen print with the first layer of ink being flat black, second layer being clear gloss and third layer a metallic black. The design is the abstract layering of Paul Dever. The cassettes are spray painted green and stamped with a hand made lino cut.

Here Griz+zlor supplies the last HNW release for the project. Black Summer is a slow low end rumble of the dark days that have past.For maximum effect play at extremely loud volume.

http://www.discogs.com/Grizzlor-Black-Summer/release/3391362

i'll have a deluxe edition available with a book soon. i will not be trading unfortunately, so if your not interested in the book please order or send trade requests to phage tapes...


And with this release, i mark the end of an era and the END of the GRIZ+ZLOR mission...
i will continue under my own and a few other monickers here:

http://paul-dvr.blogspot.com/ 

thank you for all the support this project has received over the years...

The Amy Grant Experiment

I know sometimes i neglect updating the blog with digital only downloads from bandcamp, and i apologize for that... but if you didn't hear about it yet, i will inform you now. While digging through my boxed up remnants of my old apartment, i found quite a few random tapes. I've been listening to these tapes to see if they are recyclable or not, and i have found quite a few with some of my recorded output on them. An older habit of mine, for when i recorded, was that i would route my mixer to a cassette player, before my usb recording hub. I very much liked the sound i got by doing that, well some time before i found out i could just leave it on pause, i'd just go ahead and burn through a tape. This tape marked Amy Grant "Lead Me On" is the source for this experiment.

I took the tape and played it back slowed down, and recorded the sound presented(that is pass one). I then took that audio recorded it to tape, and again played it back slowed down and recorded that. From there every couple of weeks i'll upload another pass...

Bootleggg cdr's

It's time to start up the Bootleggging idea again...

so, if there is something in my discography that you want a copy of (as long as i have a copy of what you want that is, i know some things i do not.) be it GRIZ+ZLOR, Cursed Aether, DVR, Mystic Soul Alliance, Muff Obsession, or even Failure of a Great Machine Stuff:

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Griz%2Bzlor
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Cursed+Aether
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mystic+Soul+Alliance
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Failure+Of+A+Great+Machine
http://www.discogs.com/Unknown-Artist-Muff-Obsession/release/1517321

i will make a one-of-a-kind bootleggg cdr (set where applicable) for you.
prices will be approximately $4 per cdr shipped in the u.s. and  $6 everywhere else.

you can also check the bandcamp pages for stuff that was never really in print:

http://caveofthegrizzlor.bandcamp.com/
http://devotionalvocationalrecreational.bandcamp.com/

also in case you missed it,
my Imperial Noir Label has just released a couple of new items:
http://caveofthegrizzlor.blogspot.com/p/imperialnoir.html

http://imperialnoir.bandcamp.com/

The Long Awaited?, The Reissue, and The New!

The Long Awaited?:

MUFF OBSESSION II
c-100 Type II Chrome

Lo-Fi HNW mud worship, again paying Homage to the Sovtek Big Muff Pi.
Many russian units were in servitude for  this outing.
There's really not much to say here, most won't like it, as it concentrates on a very specific sound.
But those that do will be heaven.
Limited to 21 copies, early birds get worms...

http://caveofthegrizzlor.bandcamp.com/album/muff-obsession-ii




The Reissue:

GRIZ+ZLOR - GLACIATING 1 & 2

c-95's Type II Chrome

original vocab:
glaciating is a noun (glacier) which becomes a verb, when used in the context of wall building.
glaciers are icy monuments which creep along slowly, exposing crevices in the surface.

no distortion (technically) and no muffs...
relatively cold sounding material, but it still has a bite of bitter crackling.


additional vocab:
Highbrow texture patterns...
not pure enough for the militants, but not variated enough to be JUST harsh noise, 
this time available as single cassettes, so HNW addicts can own both, 
and occasional texture freaks can own one...
good news is, if you buy one tape from bandcamp, you get all tracks in your favorite form of digital file (flac included)...

http://caveofthegrizzlor.bandcamp.com/album/glaciating




The New!:

DEAD BODY COLLECTION & GRIZ+ZLOR COLLABORATION
cdr

Two HNW heavyweights combine to leave you hip deep in the trenchs...
First in a series of collaborations themed around Military Divisions...
not all will be with HNW peeps, so stay tuned...

http://caveofthegrizzlor.bandcamp.com/track/big-red-one

Nocturnal Beasts

is available at the HNW Graveyard:

this is the full double tape version:
http://harshnoisewall.blogspot.com/2011/05/grizzlor-nocturnal-beasts-full-length.html

TWICE CURSED

See that new tab up there...

that'll explain the project.
copy #001

$5 u.s.
$6 world

e-mail for payment info/ project questions...

grizzlorsmash [at] gmail [dot] com

GLACIATING

glaciating is a noun (glacier) which becomes a verb, when used in the context of wall building.
glaciers are icy monuments which creep along slowly, exposing crevices in the surface.

no distortion (technically) and no muffs...
relatively cold sounding material, but it still has a bite of bitter crackling.
digital only name your own price (even free) on bandcamp...
 




review from Vital Weekly 791:

GRIZ+ZLOR  GLACIATING 1 & 2 ( 2 x  C-90's by Desiccated Husk)
Civilization, any civilization, is doomed because of the goldfish/castle phenomenon. This follows from an understanding of both Laurelle's non-philosophy and also from Deleuze's actualizations of the virtual. (I.E. The last instance for and of The One becomes only seemingly ever and ever present, not that it is, for it's a limit.) Memory and information, supplemented as it is now by the Wiki phenomenon brings with it the need to actualize phenomenon (create intensities) on global and Chaosmosic scales, the ability to instantiate and visualize, viralize the cosmos in
meta-phenomenonologies  and a kind of wishful thinking or ontologizing a real. The more we remember the more that there is to remember, - we remember to remember, place mark the place marks of a life, in other words as language is memory, differentiated memory capable of infinite flux, differentiations - Dx,Dy…or the empty set…  being as it, in itself is re-folded, music like everything else becomes more complex. Reality escapes us  in its superabundance, for example in the very act of reading say Joyce's Ulysses reality is mirrored and so escapes us in our inability to move into the mirrored world, we stand outside of it, suffering from but being aware and so scared - an Alzheimer's which is common to all systems of large dynamic memories… whereas it can distort, shape, enfold, endlessly re-reflect we remain static in front of it, only mentally as well as physically excluded. A tactic is to become a clone, a simulacra. Goldfish music is noise, yet one where even the cas
 tle has
been removed or destroyed in a granulation of sound. A sound of constant low static without synthesis so without time, so without  "ing", only the mundane reality outside of noise provides the real, rather than the complex illusions of mirror play - each telling the truth, each reflection univocally the world which is not noise. Thus HNW effectively walls off the mirror, or mirrors, like an opaque goldfish bowl of infinite size - being dimensionless, well 2x90 minutes here! though this 'time' can  only be given exterior to the work unlike musics internal clocks… and so becomes the limit as *reached*, leaving what could be called if we had a language- self, reality, the real, "This" (my favorite from java) but not The One, not being… better the Hollywood IT! or The Goldfish that is me. (Jliat)
Address: http://caveofthegrizzlor.bandcamp.com/album/glaciating

DVR - DIII

over on the dvr bandcamp i dropped this gem...

a couple of years ago a label that shall remain nameless, had an idea for a series of tapes where the artist uses/destroys another artists work. most people went to reworking non-noise material, i was of no exception...

for whatever reason, this series never took off (at least my tape wasn't done). i still very much love this track. it's built using danzig III as a source. and i turned it into a ghostly hissy mess. if you know the album well you'll here some real familiar parts and could easily follow along if you played them side by side. it's on bandcamp now, and it's a name your own price download, even $0 will work so enjoy...

New Interview + other wreckage

a new short interview is posted over at nihilistic propaganda:
http://hnwpropaganda.blogspot.com/2010/10/grizzlor-interview.html

other wreckage...
there is a new 10x c60 set on fusty cunt that i am a part of.
price is $30 us $35 world, i'll post pictures in it's own thread when i can
but it's still available so contact: jimharas@yahoo.com for details

and here is the line-up:
Damsel In Distress
Ghoul
Griz+Zlor
I Am A Slut
Midnight Heat
Shining Sex
Skinflint
Sjalvhat
Svartvit
Vomir

other wreckage pt. deux:
if you blinked you may have missed it...
but the hnw artist known as dead body collection recently did a box set using a sound sources
form other hnw artists, including me...
the actual disc breakdown here:

Soundsources:
Cdr 1:
01. Grind [Griz+zlor]
02. Tystnad [Självhat]
Cdr 2:
01. Remains Of The Winter [Smrznik]
02. Proanomie [Vomir]
Cdr 3:
01. Le Travail Doit Être Maudit [Å]
02. Grey Area [Oblive]
Cdr 4
01. Dodecafonie [Svartvit]
02. Maniac Responsible [Werewolf Jerusalem]

i'll upload pictures when i can...

Static Corps

first in a (hopefully) long line of thematically militarized HNW.
VERY slow belly crawling, small arms (single chain) HNW. 
The first TWO chapters of the Field Manual, this is basic training essentials.
we are not a cult...
WE ARE A MILITIA.

you will be able to stream the tracks in full (when uploaded) from bandcamp, and purchase DIRECTLY through bandcamp:

http://caveofthegrizzlor.bandcamp.com/album/static-corps

EACH cassette is MADE TO ORDER and hand numbered.
still $5us $6 rest of world
purchase will also include a digital download.

or if you just want the digital tracks
1$ to download the album (which also includes a pdf for a cd insert)
this release will ONLY be available for 3 months or for however long the interest is there over 3 months...

HUM AND HISS: ONLINE COMP

HUM AND HISS is a netlabel releasing harsh noise and HNW material.

here is a comp they just released, that i have a track on:

http://humandhiss.blogspot.com/2010/10/va-hhhh006-10136.html

you might also want to check out the first part here:

http://humandhiss.blogspot.com/2010/10/va-hhhh005-11110.html

OTHER HNW BANDCAMPS

TAKING A CUE FROM A VIEW FROM NIHIL:

HERE ARE A FEW OTHER HNW ARTISTS BANDCAMP PAGES:

A View From Nihil
Anarcho Freaks Production
Die Reitenden Leichen
Finality
Hash
Placenta Lyposuction

DVR BANDCAMP

I ADDED A DVR BANDCAMP PAGE, MOSTLY BECAUSE IT'S VERY DIFFERENT WORK FROM GRIZ+ZLOR AND CURSED AETHER MATERIAL, AND WOULD DO BETTER ON IT'S OWN LITTLE ISLAND.

http://devotionalvocationalrecreational.bandcamp.com/

RIGHT NOW HOW THE SOIL IS NAMED IS ON THERE,
$1 PER TRACK JUST AS DOWNLOAD, OR BUY THE PHYSICAL RELEASE
FOR $5 (+SHIPPING IF OUTSIDE THE U.S.)

ONCE I'M OUT OF DISCS IT WILL BE CHANGED TO FREE.

OUTPUT:NOISE DOCUMENT NO. 011 [DVR]

OUTPUT:NOISE IS NOT A SET GROUP, IT'S NOT A PERSON IN PARTICULAR. IT'S AN IDEA BASED ON IMPROVISATIONAL MUSIC/NON-MUSIC, SOMETIMES THERE ARE SET RULES TO THE COLLABORATION AT HAND, SOMETIMES THERES NOT. THIS DISC IS AVAILABLE FROM O:N VIA SUBSCRIPTION ONLY, AND FEATURES JEREMY DZIEDZIC AND PAUL DEVER, BOTH ON VARIOUS ELECTRONICS. THIS MATERIAL IS MORE IN-LINE WITH MY DVR MATERIAL, NOT REALLY HARSH (IT HAS IT'S MOMENTS), MORE DRONEISH, BUT IT'S TRUE FOCUS IS ON MOOD AND THE EXPLORATION OF TONES AND THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH EACH OTHER. I AM OF THE OPINION THAT I ALWAYS SOUND GOOD WITH OTHER PEOPLE (DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S BECAUSE I SUCK, OR AM JUST MORE OF A TEAM PLAYER THAN I THOUGHT). IT'S A GOOD BET, I'LL REAR MY UGLY MUG ONTO FUTURE EDITIONS OF O:N, AND IT MAY NOT SOUND THE SAME AS HERE, BUT THAT'S WHAT YOU GET WITH IMPROVISED MUSIC, A SNAPSHOT OF THE ARTISTS IN A SMALL MOMENT OF TIME...

INTERNETS SOUNDS...

CURRENTLY THERE ARE A FEW OPTIONS TO HEAR MY TRACKS ONLINE, BANDCAMP AND SOUNDCLOUD. I'LL PROBABLY CONCENTRATE MORE ON BANDCAMP IN THE FUTURE:

http://caveofthegrizzlor.bandcamp.com/

http://soundcloud.com/grizzlor

NEW HORIZONS + OLD WRECKAGE PT.I

NEW HORIZONS:

i always wanted to, even from the beginning, make my own set-up, so it would be a one-of-a-kind thing.
my gear whoring has always stood in the way, i've started the long process of selling off most of my gear.
so i have no choice but to make my own in order to record, a bit of tough love on myself, but i'm sure i can follow through. so one could only expect a bit of a hiatus until i finish my gear purge and begin/complete the making of new equipment.

i have about eight releases out in the aether at this point...
i expect to see four of them materialize at some point, the other four i've given up hope on long ago, for the best i assume, i probably wouldn't like any of that audio now...

Cursed Aether - i think has run it's course, maybe it'll appear again, but there are no other current releases planned for this project, and i might get to uploading the mp3's for this project soon...

DVR - i have one last thing to record for now, then i'll purge that gear and follow suit with a new era of electronics... a few early works will be uploaded shortly

GRIZ+ZLOR: the last official recording (for now) will be the 12 month cassette tape swap hnw edition, there is of course muff obsession II, but again that won't be credited to anyone in particular (the muff is the only thing important), a collaboration with infirmary has been in the works for a while now and is probably the only thing kinda imminent on the release table... some early works, and some wreckage that just never made it will be uploaded asap.

Mystic Soul Alliance -  is done, anything i have done under this name will fit under the dvr banner. all this work will be uploaded asap...

WRECKAGE:

here are some un-realized releases as well as some un-used artwork for real life releases...

Devil Man was supposed to be a 1 of 1 tape using a recycled cassette box, well i never got to actually recording it and it's for the best, the label came right off... (p.s. same story for metamorphosed into stone)

Huginn & Munnin

thought and memory, Odin's Ravens

was gonna be a double cdr set available individually as well.

Here's the original layout for the Audial Decimation comp booklet...

it really needed color, even though the statue series was all b&w

The original single tape version looked a lot like the deluxe version,

i just thought that needed to change.

Following are a series of layouts for the Enemata tape, which may never come out,

that's probably for the better though, and certainly no hard feelings, times is tough all over.

a random image made from the statue images used on adr, i like the way it looked,

just no way to use it at this point.

and finally metamorphosed into stone, same story as devil man

CURSED AETHER - IV

repost from Desiccated Husk. I'll add more thoughts/reviews when they come in.

CURSED AETHER - IV c-100 edition of 40 copies
(standard norelco boxed, and standard d/s color printed insert [even though the artwork is all b/w]

like all cursed aether, 

the track is a very minimal no movement...

recorded 12.31.09 during the Blue Moon

(also happened to be my birthday)
it looks like Muff Obsession II is gonna be quite a few more months away so i won't hold this back any longer.

$5 u.s  $6 everywhere else
paypal to: grizzlorsmash [at] gmail [dot] com
or you can just click here:

http://desiccatedhusk.bigcartel.com/
p.s. no trades on this right now.
that will change in a couple weeks though hopefully.

DVR - HOW THE SOIL IS NAMED...

DEBUT 3" FROM THIS PROJECT

DVR IS MORE OF A CONTINUATION OF MY FAILURE OF A GREAT MACHINE WORK, JUST IN A SOLO SETTING. SO PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING I CAN'T SAY WITH GRIZ+ZLOR/CURSED AETHER I SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO WITH DVR. SO EXPECT LOTS OF VARIATION OF RELEASE TO RELEASE (OR Y'KNOW MAYBE NOT...)

PUT TOGETHER USING SLOWED DOWN DISTORTED TAPES, I BUILT ONTO THAT USING THE DRONE COMMANDER, AND THE BASTARD NOISE ESQUE SQUEALS COME FROM MY BENT IBANEZ POWERLEAD THAT I HAD ALWAYS MEANT TO USE FOR F.O.A.G.M. BUT NEVER DID.

GRIZ+ZLOR PATCHES

SCREENED BY PHAGE TAPES
8" X 5" (ROUGHLY)

USING ONE OF MY LOGO ASSEMBLAGES I PROVIDED FOR THE THIRTEEN FINGERS/GRIZ+ZLOR/MIKE PAYNE/BACULUM SPLIT.
SAM (PHAGE, BACULUM, GRAINBELT...) DID A REAL NICE JOB WITH THESE.