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ARTIST: THE THREE TRIALS (RANDY GREIF) TITLE: Adventures in Psychotica LABEL: SWINGING AXE PRODUCTIONS   DESCRIPTION: "This is a film that doesn’t sit comfortably in any genre but one that very effectively pulls together elements from a variety of influences to create something that both unique and very powerful indeed.” --- from pulpmovies.com---- Catherine, a nun with a unique form of narcolepsy, attempts to lose herself in the worlds of religion, adolescent fantasy, and finally masochistic devotion to a man. Her husband accommodates her masochism with increasingly extreme and bizarre rituals. With an experimental and ground-breaking format, The Three Trials incorporates surreal narrative, music video, and abstract imagery. The viewer is left to interpret what is real, what is dream, and what is false narrative in this feverish, pitch-black comedy with a smorgasbord of sexual fetishes. The soundtrack features musical artists from the post-industrial, ambient and uncategorizable music world including: Nurse With Wound SPK Rapoon Controlled Bleeding Lustmord Illusion Of Safety Muslimgauze Shadowbug 4 Skin Chamber Nocturnal Emissions Colorblind James Experience and AESTHETIC MEAT FRONT ITEM NUMBER: 09051 FORMAT: DVD PRICE: $18.99

ARTIST: GREIF, RANDY TITLE: Alice in Wonderland LABEL: SOLEILMOON DESCRIPTION: TO BE RELEASED JULY 12, 2010. PRE-ORDER TODAY. Any regular in-stock items ordered at the same time (in the same shopping cart) will be held aside and sent with your pre-ordered goods as one shipment. Orders with multiple pre-orders will be sent as one order, when all of the items in the order are available. If you want an order to ship immediately, or want your pre-ordered items to be sent out as soon as they arrive here, rather than in a group, you must order them separately. We won't charge your credit card until we ship the order. Please make sure your card number and expiration date are up to date when before you complete the check-out process. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- “Alice In Wonderland”, by Los Angeles, California composer and musician Randy Greif, is a gripping and imaginative telling of Lewis Carroll’s classic story. Using electronics and altered acoustic sounds, along with more traditional instruments, Greif creates a dark and beguiling atmosphere that captures the listener’s imagination. The spoken text is deconstructed into indecipherable phonemes, or laid into rhythmic, musical structures roughly approximating songs. At times, the sonic backdrop is used in a cinematic style behind electronically manipulated voices. Running about six hours, the work was created to move within the real-time cycles of a psychedelic experience. Although the original story has many layers of meaning, Greif intends this interpretation to include some that may be beyond the scope of the original, such as a little girl's shift from childhood to adolescence, and our species' evolution into technological beings. This is not your father’s audiobook. Unless your father was Timothy Leary. The CDs are presented in tall DVD case, with and 8 page color booklet. Most interesting to collectors are the “Alice in Wonderland” trading cards published in conjunction with the release. Sixty different cards have been created, each one corresponding to one of the sixty tracks on the CDs. The image on each card evolves from the last, like the frames of an animated film. The cards have each been printed in different edition sizes so that only 410 complete sets are possible. Five cards are included with each CD box set, but the cards are also sold in packs of 10, in the tradition of collectible trading cards. Randy Greif has released nearly two dozen CDs, LPs and cassettes of electronic soundscapes under his own name, as Shadowbug 4, and with the group Static Effect. He has collaborated on projects with Robin Storey (Rapoon), Nigel Ayers (Nocturnal Emissions), Dan Burke (Illusion Of Safety), R. Kitch (I.A.M. Umbrella / Stylus / His Masters Voice), Anna Homler, Kenji Siratori, Brad Cooper and Atom Smith. In recent years he has moved into film production. 2003 saw the DVD release of “Paraliminal”, a collection of three short pieces, and in 2006 he directed, “The Three Trials”, a surreal film about a nun who finds herself in a number of distressful situations before being rescued by a monster who later transforms into human form (and satisfies her in every way possible). ITEM NUMBER: 02183 FORMAT: 5xCD BOX PRICE: $26.99

ARTIST: GREIF, RANDY TITLE: Alice in Wonderland trading cards LABEL: SOLEILMOON     DESCRIPTION: alice in wonderland trading cards-trading cards that are being published in conjunction with the release. sixty different cards have been created, each correspinding to one of the sixty tracks on the cds. the image on each card evolves from the last, like the frames of an animated film. the cards have each been printed in different edition sizes so that only 410 complete sets are possible. these will be sold in RANDOM packs of 10, in the tradition of collectible trading cards. ITEM NUMBER: 02184 FORMAT: CARD PACK PRICE: $3.50

ARTIST: GREIF, RANDY TITLE: War Of The World LABEL: SOLEILMOON   DESCRIPTION: Soleilmoon Recordings is proud to announce the release of Randy Greif’s CD "War Of The World". As a follow-up to his 6 hour electro-psycho adaptation of "Alice In Wonderland", Greif returns to putting classic literature through the sonic meat-grinder with H.G Wells’ "War Of The Worlds". This time around, though, the work is far more abstracted, and uses the novel as more of a springboard for contemporary ideas relating to war--on a global level, a psychological level, and our own resistance to evolving from organic to digital beings. Even more than the novel itself, Greif incorporates the Orson Welles radio-drama hoax to explore the realm of dis-information and scrambled information, as well as the audience reaction of fear, even to the point of suicide, when faced with the unknown. "War Of The World" is subtitled "an emergency broadcast" as its overall effect was to approximate the feeling of listening to radio transmissions in an emergency situation (inspired during the Northridge earthquake). The feeling is sometimes a jumbled confusion of reports, snippets of speech with interference, electronic noises, and other mysterious bits and pieces. Then, later, to actually meld into the emergency drama itself complete with (non-musical) soundtrack. But don’t expect a book-on-tape sort of thing--not even close. The CD is delivered in three broad sections which, all at the same time, mesh electronic and manipulated natural ssounds with the original Wels radio hox, and interviews with peple who had listend to the the original brodcast, along with an electronic score "Section W". One is wordless drama about Earth’s cultural and intelectual output be-ing flung out to spac in a grat stew of radio, TVv, and cel phon f ragments. The informnation eventualy be-iing i ercepted bi inter( ( +planetary beings w ho decipher it it and and us it to gid them to Erth in or derrr to spong the h-uman in for ( )mation into the ir o..n digital liform. Se ction To uses t he radio draama in the micks to de fin thh batle ith th b ings, a me-ta-ph-4-r fr our on @@ >digitital futur. tThhe fi al ection dels wth afte math. The aftermath the drdaamatized batl the hrsh ele tronic sic scor; the math of t e r dio broodcas thrgh heavilly abrstacted in-ter-vi ws of teror-strik n r dio... li teners; & .the after math mathxxx ^--= a r aadical ev lutushnary channnnng to ooooour spppeeeecs. ITEM NUMBER: 03928 FORMAT: CD PRICE: $3.99

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