The Complete No Noise Reduction Redux

Moneyland records (Lisbon, Portugal), MR$ 0495 (CD)
Produced by No Noise Reduction.
Recorded between September 1990 and August 1993 at João Paulo Feliciano's place (Caldas da Rainha) or Rafael Toral's place (Lisbon).

 

Although this is a subscriber "Tapes" release, it's exceptionally packaged as a Record release: One single file containing all the tracks.

Available Downloads: 
WHERE ARE WE GOING? AND WHAT ARE WE DOING? 1' 40"  
PEACE BOOST 1' 25"  
TWISTER BLUESY 2' 28"    
CD PLAYERS 1' 14"  
TWO LOVING GUITARS 1' 00"    
BLACK CDTH 1' 01"    
GROOVE GRINDER 0' 50"    
SONIC SPRING 1' 38"  
THE SECOND GHOST 0' 45"    
GOING UP? 1' 32"    
NEGATIVE SUNDAY 2' 05"    
LANDSCAPE GENERATOR 2' 03"    
THE INCREDIBLE MARVIN 1' 02"  
A, PATTI, B 1' 21"    
DIE AND LIVE 4' 45"  
NO NOISE REDUCTION 0' 33"    
0'0,060" FOR A ROCK'N'ROLL BAND 0' 06"    
SHOOTING ASLEEP 3' 17"    
SOUTH WARP 6 0' 43"  
LICKABILITY 2' 44"    
ECHO DOGS 1' 37"  
SWEETEST VOLTAGE 3' 00"  
Cover Image (200x200 px)      
File Size (zip): 71.6 MB   DOWNLOAD

 

 

WHERE ARE WE GOING? AND WHAT ARE WE DOING?

excerpt from a 4-simultaneous-texts lecture by John Cage (1961).

Rafael Toral- voice, filters
Paulo Feliciano- voice

 

PEACE BOOST

PF- noise burst guitar, random tape edits
RT- bowed cymbals, mute switching, mariachi-tuned silvertone guitar

 

TWISTER BLUESY

Raquel Feliciano- wired harmonica
RT- harmonica wire jamming, keyboard (sinewave)
PF- les paul guitar, harmonica wire jamming

 

CD PLAYERS

the sound source is not the disc, but the mechanical sounds of the player
PF- cd player
RT- sampler (cd player)

 

TWO LOVING GUITARS

PF- two guitars touching each other

 

BLACK CDTH

PF- prepared compact disc
the prepared compact disc is a CD with narrow slices of tape stuck in the back. the laser beam stumbles on them and behaves in very unpredictable ways.

 

GROOVE GRINDER

PF- sunny-vox turntable
RT- silvano turntable

 

SONIC SPRING

RT- spring resonator

PF- sampler (spring resonator)
a spring resonator is a long coil spring with a contact microphone attached to one end.

 

GOING UP?

RT- contact microphone-recorded elevators
PF- early tape, mxr noise gate

 

NEGATIVE SUNDAY

PF- prepared guitar, sampler (bells)
RT- turntable, sampler

 

LANDSCAPE GENERATOR

RT- computer games
PF- computer games

 

THE INCREDIBLE MARVIN

PF- prepared compact disc

 

A, PATTI, B

a 7" single found broken in two halves glued back facing opposite sides
RT, PF- turntable

 

DIE AND LIVE

RT- guitars
PF- voice, sampler (bass)

 

THE SECOND GHOST

PF- guitar
RT- guitar

 

NO NOISE REDUCTION

PF- noise
RT- noise

 

0'0,060" FOR A ROCK'N'ROLL BAND

tina and the top ten blasting at full volume for 60 milliseconds.
PF- guitar
Falcon D- drums
Captain MD- bass
Johnny "boy" Santini- guitar
Mimi - silent
RT- precision edit

 

SOUTH WARP 6

RT- revox A77 tape recorder

 

LICKABILITY

RT- drone guitar
PF- sampler (his voice), guitar

 

44. ECHO DOGS 1'37"

PF- television, field recording
RT- drums, field recording, processing

 

45. SWEETEST VOLTAGE

RT- resonating fender jaguar, analog delayed ibañez.
PF- prepared gibson les paul deluxe, fender jaguar