Albert & Henri Van Der Veen Collaborations
Albert ran Peuleshchille Tapes in Dieren, Holland. His audio project was called Schmuzorft and his brother did art and did a project called Ditto. We did quite a few collaborations.
Monday, January 30, 2006
(no mustache under his nose) - Vaseline
These (no mustache...) releases are alphabetized here, but actually Vaseline is the first (nmuhn) work. It and Saliva (the second work) featured an art series that appears on many ZH27 releases of that era, namely kindergarten art that was part of some Drake University students' long forgotten master thesis from many decades ago. I spent many an hour randomly combing the library at Drake while at college there in the mid 1980's and this is one of the things I found and fell in love with.
GundS+Shmuspag
The Shmuspags are recordings from the Big Blur in the 1st half of 1988. Belligerent mixes, unkind combinations, lush yet impenetrable mixing of Van Der Veens [nl] with Agog [ca] and Zurich [dc]. These have very strange and alien acoustic sounds, squealing noises, weird loops, bizarre voices and hazy electronics. Shmuspag by the was is a conglomeration of Agog's label Spagyric and Shmuzorft.