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Jess Rowland: Scenes from the Silent Revolution *

1 CD / Pax Recordings / 2005-08-09

Tracks: OM; Bird Signs; Invisible / Anymore; I Was Only Dreaming; Self-Adhesive Office Cubes; Valis Interlude; Signs; Vendicam; Happy Flowers; Ashcroft vs. The Space Librarians (Aclu Edit)
Artists: Jess Rowland

Ernesto Diaz-Infante: All the States Between *

1 CD / Pax Recordings / 2005-05-10

Tracks: Part I (Track 1); Part I (Track 2); Part I (Track 3); Part I (Track 4); Part I (Track 5); Part I (Track 6); Part I (Track 7); Part II (Track 8); Part II (Track 9); Part II (Track 10); Part II (Track ...
Artists: Ernesto Diaz-Infante

The Abstractions: Novo Navigatio *

CD / Pax Recordings / 2005-05-10

Tracks: Freedom From the Known; Our Gov. Schwarzenegger; Media & Money Our Demockracy; Lament the Fallen; Take Off Leave Now Never Come Back; Christian Bush; Noise?What!; Epiphany in Bitter Blue; Bronze Tear...
Artists: The Abstractions

Dave Tucker (Gtr/Cello): Tenderloin

1 CD / Pax Recordings / 2005-05-10

Tracks: Soma; Cow Hollow; Amoeba Cleaned Me Out!; Tenderloin; Tien I-Iou; Mission Dolores; Castro; Laguna; Nihonmachi; Crooked Lombard; Left Luggage; Presidio; Yerba
Artists: Dave Tucker (Gtr/Cello)

Mjane: Prayers From the Underbelly

1 CD / Pax Recordings / 2005-05-10

Tracks: Utterance; Summon; Pilgrim; (Dis)Solve; Bones; Birch; Edie; She; (And)
Artists: Mjane

Recorded live at the 2003 High Mayhem Festival in Sante Fe (New Mexico), Prayers From the Underbelly captures a young creative band in a state of surprising maturity, delivering a deeply moving and qu...continue...

Jess Rowland: H.29

1 CD / Pax Recordings / 2005-05-10

Tracks: I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII
Artists: Jess Rowland

Muck: Roc *

1 CD / Pax Recordings / 2005-05-10

Tracks: New Ritual, The; Sensation; Marcello's Angels; On Any Given Day the Inspection From Within; In This Hour of Only Illusion; Instrumental; Sad Song
Artists: Muck

The Pax Recordings roster is obsessed with slurred detachment. The relative light of post-rock doesn't even reach the deep space niche of types like Matt Davignon, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, and Muck; it c...continue...

Ian Yeager: Music for Guitar + Computer

1 CD / Pax Recordings / 2005-05-03

Tracks: I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV
Artists: Ian Yeager

This album came out as quietly as the music it contains. The solo debut by a guitarist from the Bay area, Music for Guitar + Computer is disarmingly simple and effective. Ian Yeager combines gentle st...continue...

Ernesto Diaz-Infante: Ernesto Diaz-Infante [Pax]

1 CD / Pax Recordings / 2003-03-11

Tracks: 1:04; From Henry Who Just Wrote; 1:03; :57; Fate Succeeds Because It's Obvious; 1:05; 1:02; 3:08 Cranking up Its Pathos; 1:02; 1:03; 1:05; 3:13; Ride to Cuba With Martin Sheen, A; 1:05; 1:09; 1:00; D...
Artists: Ernesto Diaz-Infante

Ernesto Diaz-Infante's previous solo album for Pax Recordings was Solus, released in March 2000. An instrumental piano album like its three older brothers, it gave no indication whatsoever as to what ...continue...

Ernesto Diaz-Infante: The Long Await Between Collasped Lungs

1 CD / Pax Recordings / 2003-01-07

Tracks: Slow in the Unday; Sunlight Fixed, Folded; Death Valley; Restless, Tired; La Cosa Pasada en la Noche; Still Endless & Drawn Out Toward You; Sans Division; Amor Fati
Artists: Ernesto Diaz-Infante

This is a cozy session of guitar free improvisation, avant folk style. San Francisco artist Ernesto Diaz-Infante meets the Texas-based noisicians Pablo St. Chaos and Bohol for an otherworldly set of g...continue...

Rev. 99: Everything Changed After 7-11 *

1 CD / Pax Recordings / 2002-12-24

Tracks: Christian Music; Price of Bananas, The; Britney Spears Autopsy; Eveything's Been Done Before (Remix); Where's the 3 Martini War?; Radical Episcopalianism; Etude Brute; Iron Engineer - 99 Hooker; Vari...
Artists: Rev. 99

This second album from the group/collective Rev. 99 is much different than 2001's Turn a Deaf Ear in terms of content, approach, and lineup. Still led by 99 Hooker and Ernesto Diaz-Infante, the outfit...continue...

Go-Go Fightmaster: Go-Go Fightmaster

CD / Pax Recordings / 2002-12-24

Tracks: Buffy Is Dead; Dream Song; Go-Go Fightmaster; No Memory; Newt in Space; Mistrophy; House Carpentar; Mac Attack; Perfect Man, The
Artists: Go-Go Fightmaster

Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra: Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra

1 CD / Pax Recordings / 2002-12-24

Tracks: C; D; E; B
Artists: Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra

The Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra? What does it eat in the winter? This nine-piece group is one of Aaron Bennett's projects. It actually has little electricity in it -- only John Finkbeine...continue...

Rev. 99: Turn a Deaf Ear

CD / Pax Recordings / 2001-07-31

Tracks: Das Capital Crime: Local Bomb; Pavement Jam: Hey Your Car's on Fire; Olde Tyme Unnatural Rock N' Roll; Your Title Here; Spank My Piano; We Should'ave Known; Possum Ridge Paralyzer
Artists: Rev. 99

Ernesto Diaz-Infante: Solus

1 CD / Pax Recordings / 2000-04-04

Tracks: I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII
Artists: Ernesto Diaz-Infante

As Ernesto Diaz-Infante's fourth solo piano CD, Solus was a surprise. His first three releases dealt with minimal piano playing in reflexive moods, delivering very soft and tonal music. Solus is all f...continue...

David Dvorin: With (In) Communicado

1 CD / Pax Recordings / 1999-11-09

Tracks: Method; Swelled Head; Breakdown; Jesart (3 in 1); Um OM; Beams and Struts; Rain; So Busy; One Step Forward, Two Steps Back; Music Is...; Calendar; Left Open; Petaling; Time Marches (On)
Artists: David Dvorin

With(In)communicado gathers works composed and recorded by guitarist David Dvorin from 1996 to 1998. The title-piece is actually as six-part suite scattered through the album. Its short movements all ...continue...

Ernesto Diaz-Infante: Ucross Journal

1 CD / Pax Recordings / 1999-10-05

Tracks: Ucross Journal Weeks I; Ucross Journal Weeks II; Ucross Journal Weeks III; Ucross Journal Weeks IV; Ucross Improvisations I; Ucross Improvisation II; Ucross Improvisation III; Ucross Improvisation IV...
Artists: Ernesto Diaz-Infante

Composer: Ernesto Diaz-Infante.

Audio Mixer: Steve Bird.

Photographer: Ernesto Diaz-Infante.

Ucross Journal is Ernesto Diaz-Infante's third release in his series of solo piano mus...continue...

Ernesto Diaz-Infante: Tepeu

1 CD / Pax Recordings / 1999-01-05

Tracks: As Above, So Below; Thesis; Tepeu; Antithesis; Synthesis; What Has Been, Will Be Again
Artists: Ernesto Diaz-Infante

Tepeu is the follow-up to Ernesto Diaz-Infante's 1997 release Itz'at: still solo piano improvisations, still a Mayan God name for a title (Tepeu is the Governor, the one who brings order to the univer...continue...

Ernesto Diaz-Infante: Itz'at

1 CD / Pax Recordings / 1999-01-05

Tracks: Pax Preludes I-XIII 53:38; Mariposa Liviana 13:54
Artists: Ernesto Diaz-Infante

Two original pieces for solo piano are on this CD named with the Mayan word for artist. The first, "Pax Preludes," is in 13 sections. Sparse and skeletal improvisations on a patient but fluid theme ma...continue...