We Drew Lightning - Swimming With Orange
We Drew Lightning utilizes different timbres and styles such as psychedelic rock, experimental, and electronic, creating complex textured soundscapes performed in conjunction with live visuals to bring the audience member on a journey. Every instrument and line of music, including the voices, melds together; no individual pushing to the forefront.

We Drew Lightning is Roland Ostheim (vocals, guitar, keyboard, piano, live loops) and Michael Smith (drums, electronics, samples, vocals), both formerly of DERAIL, and Steve Canny (cello). On this release, they perform with Alex Neville (bass guitar, banjo, vocals, electronics), Gretchen Yatsevitch (voice on “insectivore”) and Max Friedenberg (voice on “zombie t.v.”). Recorded at High Mayhem Studios by Carlos Santistevan and Max Friedenberg. NO animals were harmed during the recording process.

The cover art for swimming with orange was created by Vadi Grontis, who also does the live visuals for all of We Drew Lightning’s shows. You can't see them here, but they are bad-ass and everything.

 $14.00
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The Late Severa Wires and Synchronicity Pictures
DVD: Here With Your Eyes

This DVD documents the complete performances of The Late Severa Wires from the 2003 and 2006 High Mayhem Emerging Arts Festivals in Santa Fe, NM. The 2003 performance is 23 minutes long, and the 2006 performance is 46 minutes long.

Footage of the band at both performances is overlaid and intertwined with the moving images of Joe Picard that were created live at the performances. Much as The Late Severa Wires transform the air around them into a sonic scape in which sounds collide, interact, fuse, and co-evolve, the spectacular imagery of Picard manipulates colors and shapes in a corybantic dance. These images are continually morphing into something new, always reflective of the sounds being created. It is a frenetic connection between the music and images. Sometimes frantic, and often frenzied, the performances can reach plateaus where an uncomfortable, eerie calm is created, only to be agitated once more for an intense, emotional ride.

 $16.00
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Grilly Biggs-New Orleans/Katrina=Santa Fe+Chicago
Grilly Biggs is a not-so-traditional drum'n'bass band formed in the summer of 2004 and is made up of Matthew Golombisky (bass/live samples), Matthew McClimon (vibraphone), Quin Kirchner (drums/live and recorded samples), and Milton Villarrubia (drums/live and recorded samples). The recent history of the band is reflected in the title of the CD.

The group formed in New Orleans, but was displaced to Santa Fe, New Mexico and Chicago, Illinois due to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. This CD was recorded in October 2005 at the High Mayhem Festival in Santa Fe. This was the first performance of Grilly Biggs post-Katrina, and you can hear the pain and frustration of their loss, as well as the joy of friends reunited.

Taiji Pole-s/t CD
Taiji Pole’s music is based on continuous low-volume feedback with layers upon layers of tones, which are not guided by traditional rhythmic devises.

“A seamless journey through uncountable phases and facets, with the overall effect being one strange trip indeed. The dynamic range of the piece is astonishing with figures ferocious and lumbering counter imposed by delicacy, long shapes repeated unexpectedly and ephemeral filigrees.”

– Peter Breslin, Santa Fe Reporter

J.A. "Dino" Deane-uniflute
Carlos Santistevan-vertical bass
Matt Deason-horizontal bass

High Mayhem Festival 2005 Remix CD
This CD contains 5 remixes of audio documentation of the fourth annual High Mayhem Emerging Arts Festival, which took place in October 2005 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The challenge was not just to incorporate multiple performances, but to capture the emotional charge and artistic integrity of that weekend.

Tracks:
1) “New Surrealists” by J.A. “Dino” Deane
2) “Medicine Hat” by Ménage á Un
3) “10.666” by impacttestdummy
4) “Not Nearly as Dangerous-Cities Burning” by Walker
5) “Domino Re-mix” by CK Barlow

"Each mix is absolutely unique, reflecting the sound sculptor’s aesthetic while at the same time honoring the startling range and variety of the event itself. The CD succeeds at simultaneously documenting and re-creating the buzz of High Mayhem’s three days of peace and madness."-Peter Breslin, Santa Fe Reporter

Out of Context plays Wenomadmen by Theater Grottesco- CD-R release
Beautiful sound-design created for Theater Grottesco's summer 2006 production.

"In Theater Grottesco's new production, WENOMADMEN, we're instantly thrown into a brave new world with a fearful, subjugated class of slaves and craftsmen, lorded over by a futuristic, stylized clique of bureaucrats. Everything in this production is stylized, exaggerated, minimalist, but the echoes of our own society and its anxieties are everywhere."
-Jim Terr, KUNM News

brilliant Dullards-The Defector CD-R release
The Dullards home-recorded and produced CD-R. What happens when you put a penny on a penny on a railroad track, accidentally derail the train , and kill a bunch of people?.....Buy it and find out!

Limited to 100 copies

The Late Severa Wires-three minutes a second-LP only, that's right VINYL!, release
After a 3-year release hiatus the group spent 2 weeks in February 2006 fleshing out concepts they had been developing over the last year. From these sessions nine tracks were chosen for the vinyl-only release. Mastered by the infamous John Golden and pressed on clear vinyl at RTI. The Late Severa Wires has produced an album that accurately resembles what an experience at one of their live performances is like. No overdubs – raw and unedited. This is the Wires as they were meant to be heard

Limited edition 750

"a finely tuned accomplishment"-SF Reporter

HIGH MAYHEM FESTIVAL 2003
two disc set: A continuous audio CD of melded excerpts and a CD-ROM that includes 10 hours of MP3 documentation: complete sets of the 19 ensembles that played during the 3-day festival.

WATIV
From Iraq, active duty U.S. Soldier, William A.Thompson IV, assembled compositions from local and remote sources and improvised performance. Limited hand-printed edition of 500 multi media CDs with CD-ROM section; as of October 4, 05 - 400 left. Screamingly important to own. Check out the virtual CD-ROM section here. Read this review.

“He uses static as a rhythm instrument and incorporates eerie ambiances like the whining of an air conditioner, overheard conversation or random bits of shortwave radio. He says he adapted quickly to his new technology, but Thompson is less about the medium than about the moods he tries to capture, which he says come spontaneously” – Howard Mandel, NPRs All Things Considered

High Mayhem Festival ‘04
A 3-disc set - featuring 26 astounding artists, including: birth, Dub Trio, Out Of Context, mJane, Amitosis, Alchemical Burn, Freebass, The Late Severa Wires, Ether, Grilly Biggs, Last Chance for the Loneliest Kitten, DERAIL, Half-Normal, MEGMAN, Zimbabwe Nkenya Duo, David Stout, Ray Charles Ives, Audible Whispering Half-Quartet, David Stout and Cory Metcalf, Mike 360, Harris Eisenstadt - J.A.Deane - Chris Jonas Trio...more! Check out the virtual CD-ROM here!

"As refreshing as a tall glass of water on a hot Santa Fe summer day.” – Wire, UK

“A perpetual infatuation with an innovation” – Bad Alchemy, Germany

“One remains astonished by the impressive control which is proof each one of the groups are the worthy heirs to the American pioneers of the parallel music of the 60’s-70’s” – Liability Webzine, France

OUT OF CONTEXT - ONE INCH = 25 MILES
This is a sonic interpretation of Sumner Carnahan's book 1 inch = 25 miles. J.A Deane recorded samples of her book and created a beautiful musical performance by O.O.C. Co-released with Burning Books. Urgently Weird. Read this review.

“[There is] no question of this being a simple question of instrumental accompaniment – but their imagery works into the music at a deeper level, as the eleven tracks run together to form a continuous whole (suite? opera?)…Deane’s handling of the ensemble is nothing short of masterly…the texture remains rich and luminous, rather than dense and claggy, and the work as a whole is suffused with an authentic freshness and lyricism.” Paris Transatlantic

ZIMBABWE NKENYA - AND THE NEW JAZZ
High Mayhem is proud to release the long overdue debut album by this phenomenal musical force.

"A vibrant, joyful re-evaluation of a heritage that...must continue to grow or die." -MIC Line

Read this review of from "KFJC On-Line reviews"

DERAIL - ENGINE ROOM
Recorded live at High Mayhem Festival ‘04, this is DERAIL’s debut release. Psychedelic and explosive neuvo-rock. Limited hand-printed edition of 500 CDs.

Album of the month- Garden of Earthly Delights (UK)

THE UNINVITED GUESTS 01
Sonic evidence of visitations by The Uninvited Guests from 2002-05. Performers include: Carlos Santistevan, JA Deane, Chris Jonas, Al Faaet, Dave Wayne, Joshua Smith, Jeremy Bleich, Ultraviolet, Tom Brejcha and Milton Villarrubia.

“Roiling kineticism of the type practiced by Sun Ra and Miles Davis in their primes…centered around an emotionally committed ‘creative’ approach to music-making.” – Santa Fe Reporter

Experimental lbum of the Week-Vital Weekly, Netherlands

RAY CHARLES IVES - CLANDESTINE PEDESTRIAN Instrumental groove duo Ray Charles Ives tirelessly strives to provide a joyride by building up, from samples, layer after layer of performance. Ray Charles Ives' debut recording, is a five-song studio EP.

“Ray Charles Ives has you scrambling for old Shaft reruns while simultaneously pouring your heart out to the nearest heart that will listen...Their new album clandestine pedestrian is what funk would be if it had a bleeding heart and open mind.” – Rob DeWalt