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Small Life Form's process, theory and sound draw from influences of the post-WWII avant-garde. In this way, Small Life Form and Silber offer us another bridge between post-rock music & serious experimental composition, equal influences Gyorgy Ligeti & Cindytalk.
Recordings
started in 1998 & Small Life Form's debut album
One
was released in late 2003 on Silber. All tracks on One
are
meant to be played simultaneously and looped continuously.
Since 2007 Small Life Form has predominantly become a live project
touring throughout the american south & recording an album in a
nuclear cooling tower in the pacific north west with a scattering of
releases & compilation appearances.
Small Life Form discography | ||||
Small Life Form -
Fragments MP3 Album 2018 | Silber 260 10 tracks, 80 minutes $5 download Listen on Silber | Listen on Bandcamp | Listen on Spotify : Listen to the track Forgotten Summer : Press Release : Reviews |
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Small Life Form -
First Recordings MP3 EP 2017 | Silber 247 18 tracks, 25 minutes $2 download Listen on Silber | Listen on Bandcamp | Listen on Spotify : Listen to the track mouthed : Press Release : Reviews |
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Small Life
Form - Late MP3 EP 2016 | Silber 238 3 tracks, 30 minutes $1 download Listen on Silber | Listen on Bandcamp | Listen on Spotify : Listen to the track Days Late : Press Release : Reviews |
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It Is
Not Safe But It Is Warm MP3 EP 2015 | Silber 205 1 track, 12 minutes $1 download ~ Forestpunk Just in time for Christmas, Small Life Form delivers a pure slab of aggressive ambient drone. Just like home, it is not safe but it is warm. Jesus is coming to love & destroy us all. : Listen to the track It Is Not Safe But It Is Warm : Press Release : Reviews : Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? : Prefer to listen on Youtube? : Prefer to listen on Spotify? |
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Parts
for Holiday Projects MP3 EP 2014 | Silber 173 4 tracks, 14 minutes $1 download ~ Mark Barton, The Sunday Experience Small Life Form explores the secret sounds of jingle bells. : Listen to the track It's Not All Milk & Cookies : Press Release : Reviews : Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? |
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We Shall
Be One MP3 EP 2013 | Silber 145 5 tracks, 5 minutes $1 download ~ Beach Sloth Small Life Form returns with a feedback driven quest for sleep & the destruction of self. : Listen to the track we shall be one : Press Release : Reviews |
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voice in
the sky
MP3 Album 2012 | Silber 116 1 track, 45 minutes $5 download listen on Silber ~ Beach Sloth A 45 minute electro-acoustic drone piece from Small Life Form built from voice, melodica, copper pipe, optical theremin, super simple synthesizer, feedback, & aircraft lock. : Listen to the track voice in the sky (excerpt) : Press Release : Reviews |
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Satsop CD Album 2012 | Blondena Music 020 2 tracks, 39 minutes Order physical copies through Blondena ($5 download through Silber (320kbps, ~92 megs)) : Listen to the track A Year Is A Day : Press Release |
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CD
Release Improvisational Event
MP3 Album 2012 | Blondena Music 4 tracks, 65 minutes available through Blondena Music Bandcamp 2012 Blondena Music release party recorded including a 23 minute collaboration between Brian John Mitchell (Small Life Form), Bryce Clayton Eiman (Weather Machine), & Scott Berrier (Powercloud). |
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Lost
Kisses DVD - My Life is Sad & Funny
DVD 2009 | Silber 073 10 cartoons (plus three bonus bits), about an hour $12 ~ Dave Sim, Cerebus/Glamourpuss Well, it's finally here, a collection of cartoon versions of the first ten issues of Lost Kisses. It even includes a special making of thing & cartoons of Worms #1 & XO #1. The DVD includes a psychonautic electro-acoustic drone soundtrack of new music by Small Life Form. Lost Kisses tells snarky stories of life's perils with self -deprecating humor. So check it out & spread the word. |
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Small
Life Form
Lost Kisses Soundtrack MP3 Album 2009 | Silber 081 16 tracks, 68 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page When the time came to make a soundtrack to the Lost Kisses cartoons, Small Life Form’s brand of electro acoustics & aggressive ambient seemed like a great fit for the stories. The music is loop driven & sometimes barely noticed & at other times feels like a laser beam straight to the brain threatening to completely wash it clean. The soundtrack to an emotional acid trip - not necessarily positive or negative or menacing or soothing, but very physically present. The instruments used are the standards of the recent live Small Life Form shows including copper pipe, triangles, melodica, pitch pipe, harmonica, microphone feedback, & voice all washed & sculpted with distortion, reverb, & delay. Some of the pieces are shorter or longer than on the Lost Kisses DVD (adjusted for the length of the cartoons) & also included are the pieces for the menu pages that were eventually cut from the release. If you dig the soundtrack make sure to check out the DVD to get the rest of the story. |
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alive
MP3 EP 2008 | Silber 071 3 tracks, 21 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page 2007 marked Small Life Form’s live debut & over the next year the style refined, abandoning real horns for a piece of copper pipe, replacing organs with melodica, & vocals with feedback manipulation. Alive is collected from two live recordings in 2008. They are massive structures built from scratch using a loop pedal, distortion pedals, & reverb units. |
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one
CD Album 2003 | Silber 030 7 tracks, 48 minutes $12 ($18 international, $5 download (256kbps, ~92 megs)) : Press Release : Reviews |