Holeist / Illusion Of Safety – Holeist / Illusion Of Safety [LP] (1989, Complacency)

Since 1983, Illusion Of Safety has been the ongoing project of Daniel Burke working alone and with various collaborators. They have released over 20 CDs on labels such as Complacency, Die Stadt, Experimedia, Odd Size, Silent, Soleilmoon, Staalplaat, Tesco, and Waystyx, and played over three hundred concerts in Europe and North America. IOS' work has been called ambient, post-industrial, electro-acoustic, noise, sound collage, improvisation, and power electronics, but they are unwilling to limit their work to any given style or method. The sonic character and affective substance of the music will often shift abruptly within each recording and live performance. Daniel Burke is currently working with conventional instruments, electronic synthesis, computer composition, samples, and highly amplified handled objects. He uses improvised and composed structures containing material that confounds memory and stimulates perception. The resulting music encompasses broken sound, disturbed ambience and unfiltered beauty that collectively evokes an awareness of the ineffable. The work activates modes of perception to facilitate direct access to the psyche, emotions, and the infinite in order to address the necessity of balance and the nature of dichotomy. 

 

Holeist is another Dan Burke's side project, with Eric Lunde and Jeph Jerman. Eric Lunde is an american musician and artist and also a member of Boy Dirt Car. Besides his musical releases and his artwork, he also published a book of poetry and wood-block prints entitled "LLND" (Alamut Records, 1991). 

 

Jeph Jerman began in 1986 recording and performing under the name Hands To. Most of the early soundwork was sampler and tape loop based, though over the course of ten years it evolved into using environmental recordings with very little to no manipulation or electronic processing. In 1996 in Seattle he embarked upon a weekly series of concerts at Anomalous Records which brought him into contact with the city's improvised music community. For the next three years he played with anyone who would have hime. During this time he began giving solo performances using only natural found objects (stones, shells, bones, driftwood, pine cones, etc), as soundmakers, a practice which continues to today. Eventually he stopped using the name Hands To. In 1999, the Animist Orchestra was founded. The AO focuses on making music that hopefully bypasses our individual egos. Most of his previous work could be interpreted as being 'idea-based'. He finds that most of his work nowadays is sound-based. He believes this is due to his growing interest in listening, in what happens when one listens, and his concomitant disinterest in contextualizing sound.

 

Label: Complacency – CPD03002 

Format: Vinyl, LP 

Country: US 

Released: 1989 

Style: Industrial, Experimental, Ambient 

 

Tracklist:

A1 Holeist – Soileth 

A2 Holeist – 'Unsheltered' 

A3 Holeist – Hazur 

A4 Holeist – Stahlmesser 

B1 Illusion Of Safety – 7•9•89 Chicago Laminating 

B2 Illusion Of Safety – 7•17•89 Club Lower Links Chicago 

B3 Illusion Of Safety – 7•22•89 Francis Ford Studio Milwaukee 

 

Notes:

Holeist: Recorded during the Hands To..., Eric Lunde split LP sessions in the comfort of Lunde's living room on equipment provided by Dan Burke. 7-24-89. 4 track with mirage sampler, alesis drum machine.

Illusion Of Safety: Live July 1989. 

 

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