Webbed Hand Records

A recent trend in spamming/adware insertion on the net is splogging. Foreign sites are storing large amounts of content from popular blogs, netlabels, and other sources of media, and hosting it on their pages, accompanied by ads, and apparently in some cases adware or malware. The worst thing of this is that they are using Search Engine Optimization strategies to position themselves higher on Google than the sites that they stole the content from.

The consequence of the growing popularity of Webbed Hand Records is that the works of some of our artists are showing up on sites like these, and even in some cases those sites are offering our works for sale. Naturally, attempts are being made to contact the owners of those sites to ask them to take the content down.

Presently, Internet Archive (who hosts our albums) is having some technical difficulties, and so it may be tempting for people to look for alternate sites to download from. Please don’t download from any of those flashy sites with “mp3″ as part of the domain name, and definitely don’t let anyone charge you for the privilege. There is a chance you will get a serving of malware along with your music.

We’re looking into ways to have the files available from this site when IA is down, and we’ll announce any solutions we come up with, but in the meantime, if you need a Webbed Hand fix, we have nearly all of the albums uploaded to last.fm (searchable by artist, album, or label).

Marco Lucchi continues his “Radure” series of conceptual releases with this fourth installment, centered on the Japanese word “iki” - a term (like the more familiar wabi-sabi) that is uniquely cultural, lacking a direct translation in our tongue. In one sense, it expresses a perception of an idealized aesthetic quality of ordinariness.

Lucchi composed a series of tracks inspired by “iki” and then recruited other artists to build onto this oeuvre with their own contributions. This release represents only a facet of that project.

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EXOXEN has spent over 15 years as a home-studio tape project among a group of friends. The sound of this group may best be described as a kind of twisted lo-fi psychedelic, mingling elements of rock, electronica, and noise, in a manner reminiscent of Chrome or Helios Creed.

In 2004 Webbed Hand released the first collection of works from the EXOXEN archives to reach a wider audience, the intense “1.0.” This new collection, “Shiny Moon Water,” draws together more works from the same period, this time with less emphasis on noise and more emphasis on the psychedelic.

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This is the first long-form recording by Saluki Regicide outside of the “Rain” project. Using as a foundation a long-form composition by Akashic Crow’s Nest, Saluki Regicide adds layers of characteristic embellishments: obscure samples, bizarre rhythmic loops, peculiar washes of sound, snippets of string melody, all adding up to an interesting meeting of styles.

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Mystified’s Rain 1 is a minimalistic and hypnotic composition intended for deep listening (or sleep listening). Panning across the stereo spectrum is a bright sound with a patter of rainy static in its wake. Strangely soothing and stimulating at the same time.

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Mystified’s Rain 2 is a shimmering hailstorm of mysterious percussive sounds resonating across a wide space. This is foremost an album of auditory texture which seeks to induce in the listener a reverie of vague mental associations and feelings.

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Kittenhead is the latest long-form (CD-length) production by Djinnestan, departing significantly from the Rain series and Purr. In many ways, it defies easy categorization. It is very ambient, but contains rhythms. It is dark, yet at the same time whimsical. It includes acoustic instruments and vocals, but they have been processed virtually beyond recognition. Nonetheless it is a subtle and pleasant listen.This release features vocal contributions by Aria Nadii.

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Here is a contribution to the acclaimed Rain series on Webbed Hand by 833-45, a project of the talented producer K.M. Krebs. A long-form ambient work awash in subtle throbs and hypnotic crackle, this entrancing recording presents the 833-45 sound in a CD length journey through a more hidden auditory spectrum of aerial electronic phenomena.

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Akashic Crow’s Nest’s first regular album release of 2007 continues ACN’s adventures in ambient sound generated from images. The tracks in “Hawk of an Uncanny Nest” explore different mythic ideas of the otherworld. The sound spaces themselves are sculpted to create soothing and transporting experiences for the listener.

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A third Rain-themed longform ambient composition by Djinnestan. Perhaps still in a forest, but now at the banks of a stream, with wisps of fog, chirping crickets, the moon, and other mysterious nocturnal elements. This CD-length work creates a nice acoustic mood for meditation or sleep. It is recommended that you play it at low volume, as it is meant to be listened to peripherally, not directly.

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