For the felicitous, it needn't.

In Canneto, In Vouves, Mnasthai strikes as a ray of moon curved off an olive. Dilloway, Vafai, and others murdered at this setting afterwards. The site now currently a Kombucha brewery.

This was the final iteration of "D.I.E.?" (originally titled "Does it End?"), grown full from the initial loop of acoustic guitar and story-tale-sung that Nola created around 2006.

LBB - Popped Music (LUNGS-135)

LBB - Popped Music

LP + Download (LUNGS-135)

A document of introductions and crude forms built rapidly from the excess ostraca of present students. Try to find parking in Kaisertown, find the correct address of your destination, and greet two equanimous beasts (one in sandals) moments before the rubber will meet the road. So potent the hours that naps were required after. 

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Cages - Kunzhi Namshe

Digital download (NJR07)

Initially conceived of as 4 separate cassettes or a 5-CD box set, constraint and limitations pushed this massive collection of live & rehearsal recordings into the digital home. In-the-moment recordings spanning 2005-2018 give but glimpse of the panorama that the group evolved through, not even beginning to hint at the possibilities to endure afterwards. 

From solo explorations into progressively larger mixed groupings, a focus shifted over the years towards staging one-time-only realizations of the duo's music by new and contrasting means in concert. This compilation offers 3 different types of trio configurations, works with string quintet, works with small ensemble, and works with gamelan orchestra (with nods to Badalamenti and Terry Allen along the way). 

This powerful collection exhibits growth, bolstered and pruned by the depth of talent and intuition found in the community.

This is BUFFALO sound.

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Listen on Spotify

 

Cages - Inside A Ringing Chord - NJR06

Cages - Inside A Ringing Chord - CD - NJR06

1. Savasana - 3:52

2. D. I. E.?  - 20:04

3. Disappearing Wall - 9:20

4. Something To Carry In The Dark - 4:49

5. Sufferer - 18:40

6. Devil - 22:58

In the works for 11 years and a lifetime ago, the new Cages album is finally released. Nola Ranallo & David Bailey began work on this group of songs in 2007, shortly after the completion of "Folding Space". After various setbacks and peculiarities, the duo began to revisit the material with the brilliance of cellist TJ Borden. TJ performed these songs live and wrote accompanying arrangements for string quintet. These string recordings were further stretched, mangled, and overlaid upon the original compositions, often times compelling us to re-work the initial song the new material was based upon. This process became an interesting spiral that grew hard to tell where it ended or began. Recorded over the past 10 years and featuring a poly-fi weaving of numerous live recordings and studio sessions, this release features our strongest material to date. Featuring the incredible talents of TJ Borden, Katie Weissman, David Adamczyk, Evan Courtin, Kyle Kresge, Mark Kedzierski, Juini Booth, Jon Mueller, Megan Kyle, Patrick Bolger, Joseph LoCicero, Mari Jones, Nick Jones, Vicente Rondon, and Justin Allan Kern. Limited to 200 copies.

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Out very soon

Why rush into it?

The final Gas Chamber release is nearing completion, should be finished before the year's end.

Cages will be releasing the "Inside a Ringing Chord" 2xLP on Nancy Jo. Ordering information will be posted soon.
Finishing mixes on 4 new live cassette releases.

Udjut Eye will begin work on a full-length lp in January.

Photo by Mark Duggan taken from the Cages - Pain Experience gig in October.

Glimpse of a Nick of an Eye

A human in Australia purchased the last copy of Sound Cartography Vol. 1, which is now completely gone from both labels.

Peterwalkee records has released the 4th tape in the Cages live collage series, "Complaint And Riots We Should Leave To Cats". Get a copy from him online or from Cages at a gig. Assembling the material for the 5th & 6th cassettes at the moment.

You were where?

While we tally it all up, let's take a look backwards.

CAGES:
Performed with God of Gaps at Black Dots in Febuary. Set was recorded and will be released.
Performed as a quartet with TJ (cello) & Kyle (bass) opening for The Body/Thou collab in the July.
Performed along with Drew McDowall, Winter Line, and York Factory Complaint at Silent Barn in August.
Performed with TJ (cello) along with Death Kneel in August.
Performed at the Hallwalls 40th anniversary party along with Tony Conrad and Karen Finley in October.

Recorded at GCR for 3 days in July with a string quintet. More recordings, etc over the winter.

"Vivipary" is released on Vinyl!! Available from NJR or Black Dots.

GAS CHAMBER:
Performed "Modern Vision of the Erect Nightmare" with an expanded 8 piece lineup on the Amherst St. subway station in October 2013.
Performed in Scandinavia from May 4-18.
Performed on the East Coast with D.O.C. October 3-11 2014.

Recorded "Hemorrhaging Light" and "Stained Hand".

"Hemorrhaging Light" currently sold out. Repress soon. "Stained Hand" to be released in March.

Two split releases in the works.

                                                                                            GC in Goteburg.

" I am not advocating a music of violence, although some of it may often appear to be just that."

BLACK MELODY CITY DWELLERS Vol.5

CAGES

Nola Ranallo: Vocals & Bells

David Bailey: Electric & Acoustic Guitars

TJ Borden: Cello

Jordan Dalton: Double Bass

Sandra Berdick: Violin

2 Sets.

5 Compositions.

"Wait for it......"

CAGES will be taking a brief sojourn in order to expose the past, present, and future of themselves to others. This will occur through physical motions and intangible repetitions. Can a pattern be frozen? I guess, we'll figure it out. 

Both nights will feature Jon Mueller's DEATH BLUES (presenting a new piece based on the DEATH BLUES and HERE releases) and Olivia Block ( presenting a new work, titled "Dialogue").

www.cagesmusic.com

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cages/410996715656632

http://rhythmplex.com/

http://oliviablock.net/

The Self, Terrible and Constant.

A fundamental account of being and nothingness by those dyed-in-the-wool.

The answer is "Possibly".

 CAGES will present an evening of music, with the assistance of allies, in duo, trio, and quartet configurations.

The back catalog has been mined, new material has been re-worked, and the golden anvil has been doing what it does best. 

Much like Jupiter; Further, Forward, and Upward. 

The answer is "yes, YES YOU SHOULD!"

www.cagesmusic.com

Dressed with a hat, apron and boots, and clean hands.

A mere 7 hours and 1 country later, NJR affiliates G.C. pushed forth 19 new minutes of convulsing, snaking motifs representational of two beasts; one of the earth and the other of the heavens.

Solving a Solution.

We are VERY pleased to announce that NJR affiliates CAGES will be performing with Jon Mueller and Group of the Altos from Milwaukee, Wisconsin on September 3rd at Soundlab in Buffalo, NY.

CAGES has had the pleasure, scratch that, honor, to be alongside these individuals of power in the past and feels that this installment of B.M.C.D. will certainly be of interest to anyone the least bit concerned about being alive.

Info about Jon Mueller's Death Blues can be found here:

http://hopscotchmusicfest.com/band/jon-muellers-death-blues/

Info about Group of the Altos can be found here:

http://altos.bandcamp.com/

Info about CAGES can be found here:

http://www.cagesmusic.com/

Stockpot Kissed By Fire.

14 hands have been tightening the bolts, checking the tires and salting the water. The results of what those hands have been up to, occasionally piloted by a matrix of thoughts, occasionally not, will be presented in a context unique this Sunday, April 29th, 2012.
"Modern Vision of the Erect Nightmare", a 7" by the group Gas Chamber will be released that day on the label Nerve Altar.

Squall Line.

NJR affiliates GAS CHAMBER live in Toronto at Siesta Nouveaux. Feb 25, 2012.

Psychopathy and DSC-4 usage were examined.

BLACK MELODY CITY DWELLER VOL.2

Saturday, March 3rd

CAGES

Scott Valkwitch

Pat Cain & Martin Freeman

The Vault 702 Main St.

8pm. Five Dollars

SOLUTIONS

Solutions - Human Meat by NancyJo

Nancy Jo affiliated artists SOLUTIONS contributed the track "HUMAN MEAT" to the Iron Lung Mixtape Vol. 1, which is now SOLD OUT. Here it is for those who missed the cassette.

7 more songs are currently being worked on.

Gone & Going.

I am now sold out of the SOUND CARTOGRAPHY VOL.1 LP. There are still a few remaining copies available which can be purchased from the WARM BATH label, located at myspace dot com/warmbathlabel.

I have ~50 copies left of the OTESANEK 12".

Both CAGES cassettes are now sold out.

More comprehensive updates on NJR and related activities forthcoming.