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2000 marked Remora's first works done in standard recording sessions resulting in the more cohesive releases of the album Some Past's Future & the EP Some Future's Past recorded in bed room studios in New Jersey & Minneapolis as well as Raleigh, NC.
2002 was the year Remora took an excursion from effect pedals for a twelve-string acoustic guitar to record The Alcohol EPs.
In 2003 Remora toured northern Europe with Kobi & a recording of a live show in Oslo was eventually released by Morc.
2005 marked the release of Enamored, Remora's first full length in four years. It’s post-apocalyptic pop music. Love songs from a revolutionary ready to abandon his war grasping for hope. Lyrically inspired by pulp sci-fi from the 1970’s, songs like “Volcana,” “Champion,” “Kill My Way Out of Here,” & “Out of Air” paint portraits of love being the same after the crash of society while struggling to stay alive as it is now & as it was 3,000 years ago. Also in 2005 Remora recorded Reversion, an EP reflecting back to the earlier guitar experiments in support of a Pacific Northwest tour with Rollerball & Six Foot Sloth.
2007 showed Remora taking an excursion from guitar altogether with the release of songs i sing, a collection of acapella songs & the recording of Mecha (not released until 2010) featuring sub-midi computer derived versions of Remora's pop songs
In 2008 Remora recorded the collaborative album Clear Field with northern valentine & slicnaton & returned to the pure drone roots with Ensoulment a 70 minute long solo guitar piece.
In 2009 Remora released the album Derivative that collects songs based on hit songs by Hefner, Warrior Soul, Journey, Pere Ubu, Bob Dylan, Joe Jackson, Blue Oyster Cult, & Joy Division. Also released was the live recording Guitar Antihero.
In 2011 Remora released Scars Bring Hope which went back to the proto-punk & apocalyptic pop sounds of Some Past's Future & Enamored while putting the music in a much more commercial environment with Brian Lea McKenzie of Electric Bird Noise acting as engineer & co-producer.
In late 2011 Remora recorded The Heart That Kills as a responsorial piece to the death of Mitchell's grandmother released in 2012 by Fluttery Records.
In 2012 Remora recorded 13.9.2012 for Somehow Ecstatic's 24 hour album series & returned to some of the fun musical elements of the early 2000s live show on the five minute EP I Came To Party.
Remora in 2014 focused on live shows resulting in 2014's Christmas collection A Burning Lump of Coal EP & 2015's live band EP Swash.
Remora is currently working on two top secret themed EPs as well as another full length album.
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Remora - Warm Bodies MP3 EP 2018 | Silber 269 1 track, 26 minutes $2 download Listen on Silber | Listen on Bandcamp | Listen on Spotify : Listen to Warm Bodies : Press Release : Reviews |
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Remora - Scraps
& Scrapes MP3 Rarities Collection 2016 | Silber 233 98 tracks, 398 minutes $2 download Listen on Bandcamp ~ Floorshime Zipper Boots Scraps & Scrapes collects compilation appearances, alternate mixes, & demos from Remora's first twenty years. 98 tracks & 6.5 hours that haven't appeared on Remora's twelve albums & thirteen EPs, but document the progression & consistency of Remora's sound over two decades with new equipment & age only mildly impacting the weird post-apocalyptic musical vision - mixing up ambient drone, post punk, & americana into whatever hybrid you want to call it. : Press Release : Reviews |
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Christmas
Drones for One Guitar MP3 EP 2015 | Silber 204 4 tracks, 28 minutes $1 download ~ Forestpunk Four loop driven ambient guitar improvisations from Remora. Drink your eggnog until you think it's 1999 again. : Listen to the track Special Occasion : Press Release : Reviews : Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? |
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Almost
Live Series MP3 EP 2015 | Silber 197 8 tracks, 45 minutes $1 download : Listen to the track New Lycian : Reviews : Listen on Bandcamp |
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Swash MP3 EP 2015 | Silber 193 7 tracks, 24 minutes $2 download : Listen to the track The Doctor's Wife : Press Release : Reviews : Listen or download for free on Bandcamp |
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A
Burning
Lump of Coal MP3 EP 2014 | Silber 171 4 tracks, 18 minutes $1 download ~ Andy Armageddon, Bandjack Remora's music re-invisioned for tales of a post-apocalyptic Christmas celebration. : Listen to the track O Come, O Come, Emmanuel : Press Release : Reviews |
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I Came
To Party MP3 EP 2012 | Silber 122 5 tracks, 5 minutes $1 download Listen on Silber : Listen to the track I Came To Party : Press Release : Reviews |
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13.9.2012
(Scared of the Sun) CD-R Album 2012 | Somehow Ecstatic ODS9 8 tracks, 43 minutes
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The Heart That Kills
CD Album 2012 | Fluttery 041 8 tracks, 72 minutes $10 through Fluttery ($5 download through Silber)
: Listen to the track Bring You Back : Press Release : Reviews |
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My
Brother's Guns & Knives
MP3 EP 2011 | Silber 105 13 tracks, 59 minutes download zip file | listen on Silber Remixes & more of Remora's "My Brother's Guns & Knives." You'd think an hour of remixes of one song would be ridiculous & impossible to sit through, but half of the remixes are really derivative works merely using the original song as source material. We hope you dig it. : Press Release : Reviews |
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Scars Bring Hope
CD Album 2011 | Silber 097 12 tracks, 48 minutes $12 ($18 international, $5 download (320 kbps, ~106 megs)) :
Listen to the track My Brother's Guns & Knives
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Mecha
CD 2010 | Silber 085 16 tracks, 42 minutes $12 ($18 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~114 megs)) :
Listen to the track Nevada Smith |
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Guitar Antihero
MP3 EP 2009 | Silber 084 1 track, 25 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page At the request of Bryce Clayton Eiman, Remora prepared a piece for the Guitar Antiheroes 919 Noise Showcase on May 12, 2009. The showcase had performers pushing the idea of how to approach the guitar as an instrument. For Remora’s performance to push the sound to the next level from a standard Remora show (which is already often filled with guitar noise), Brian John Mitchell (Remora) boosted the sound to the next level by using five guitars, a bass, & four amplifiers instead of the standard single guitar & amp. The additional guitars were staged around the main amplifier to act as drone instruments. Probably the loudest Remora show ever (reports are it was heard clearly a block away) & often on the cusp of losing control of the wave of sound, the piece ended with Mitchell nearly throwing up from the volume exposure. Still the music somehow ends up as soothing as it is menacing. |
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derivative
CD 2009 | Gears of Sand 049 8 tracks, 42 minutes $12 ($18 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~75 megs)) :
Listen to the track Every Prince
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ensoulment
MP3 Album 2008 | Ping Things 1 track, 70 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page A 70 minute aggressive ambient guitar excursion from Remora. |
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remora
/ northern
valentine / slicnaton
clear field MP3 Album 2008 | Silber 072 3 tracks, 44 minutes free download from Archive.org The clear field recordings are a unique combination of elements of all three projects. You hear the loops & aggression of Remora’s guitar work, Northern Valentine’s ambient shimmering glacial guitars, & slicnaton’s orchestrated glitch & deep bass tones. While hearing all three individual musicians, it still is clearly a collaboration of the three rather than one of the projects with two special guests; it is a unique sound of its own. |
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songs i sing
CD EP 2007 | North Pole 005 13 tracks, 16 minutes, plus 1 video $9 ($14 international) : Listen to the track Job 39 : Press Release : Reviews |
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reversion
MP3 EP 2005 | Silber 044 4 tracks 30 minutes Download from Archive.org All guitar drone ambient like you love.... |
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Enamored
CD Album 2005 | Silber 038 14 tracks 57 minutes $12 ($18 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~105 megs)) : Listen to the track The One I've Been Waiting For : Press Release : Reviews |
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Live in
Oslo
Cassette 2005 | Morc 036 10 tracks, 37 minutes A capturing of Remora live
from spring of 2003 at the Mir in Oslo. Includes otherwise
unreleased
songs "New Loop," "Syd Song," & "Static is Motion."
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The Alcohol EPs
CD Split 2002 | Silber 022 14 tracks, 72 minutes $12 ($18 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~128 megs)) : Press Release |
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Some Past's Future
CD Album 2001 | Silber 018 21 tracks, 62 minutes $12 ($18 international, $5 download (256 kbps, ~107 megs)) : Listen to the track 10,004 : Press Release : Reviews |
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Some Future's Past
CD-R EP 2001 | BestKeptSecret 044 15 tracks, 29 minutes $6 ($12 international, $4 download (256 kbps, ~52 megs)) |
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Ambient Drones for One
Guitar
2CDR 2000 | Silber 009 20 tracks, 144 minutes Listen or Download on Bandcamp | Listen on Spotify Remora blazes away to the "beat" of the loops, guitar wandering & exploring the corridors of the universe & the possibilities of pure sound. In fact, it's the choice & use of sound rather than any sense of musical development that makes this an enjoyable listen. Remora does a good job of keeping my attentention & even at the most ear shattering, brain piercing moments manage to retain a sense of cosmic drift. ~ Jerry Kranitz, Aural Innovation |
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Anadia
CDR 1999 | Silber 008 21 tracks, 40 minutes $5 download ~ Vendetta |
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Amerse
CDR 1998 | Silber 004 23 tracks, 60 minutes $2 download ~ Origami Republika e-zine : Listen on Bandcamp |
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Eneded
Cassette 1998 | Public Demand 21 tracks, 60 minutes A collection of tracks recorded from 1996-1998 constituting a greatest hits of sorts. track listing: Angel Stalk (Anaaron), Escape, To Tell, Her Divinity is a Lie, Strange Design, Peace of a Slave, Return to the City, Hallow, Pneumena, Pteradactyl, Crave Coating, We've Only Just Begun (traditional), Free Before, A Newer World, C3GL, For This, A Perfect View, Slip Sky, MB2, Condone (live), Horizon (excerpt) |
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Acroyer
Cassette 1997 | Silber 003 8 tracks, 30 minutes out of print Eight droning trips into the psyche... ~ Outburn |
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Anaaron
Cassette 1996 | Silber 002 9 tracks, 30 minutes out of print Meandering lo-tech noise-song works. Tinny guitar strumming sometimes accompanied by cutting veils of feedback shrieks and gnarling lower rumbles. ~ AUTOreverse |
Compilation Appearances