Next Up: The Deadened Stream Of Eve

Proud to announce a forthcoming cassette release on a great label, Community College Records: PBK - The Deadened Stream Of Eve, 2009 (C-46 Limited 60 copies worldwide) Watch here for more info...

PBK / C. Reider - Discorporate

New PBK / C. Reider release now available on Impulsy Stetoskopu.

NoiseAmbient Catalog Site

NoiseAmbient is the catalog site for PBK. Any items we have a quantity of are listed there, currently the following CD's are available for sale:

- PBK - Under My Breath CD, 2009 (Waystyx)
- PBK & Telepherique - Noise-Ambient Connection CD, 2008 (Monochrome Vision)
- Government Alpha/PBK - Auditory Hallucination Of Drowsy Afternoon CD, 2007 (Xerxes)
- Vidna Obmana-Noise/Drone Anthology CD, 2005 (Projekt) ~contains one PBK collab track~
-PBK - Life-Sense Revoked CD, 1996 (Lunhare) ~out-of-print~
-PBK - Shadows Of Prophecy/In His Throes CD, 1994 (ND Records) ~out-of-print~
-PBK - Macrophage/The Toil & The Reap CD, 1992 (ND Records) ~out-of-print~

For more info:
http://noiseambient.com/

PBK & Jeph Jerman Reissue

Very pleased to announce the reissue of seminal 1980's noise collaborations between PBK and Jeph Jerman on the Cathartic Process label. Verfall and Melachoir by PBK & Hands To will be issued in one deluxe double package sometime in 2009. Will inform as more details become available. Meanwhile, check the Sound Genetic net-label for more info on this collaboration: http://soundgenetic.blogspot.com/2009/05/pbk-hands-to-verfall-1988.html

Tape Reissues Coming Soon!

First four will be classic-era cassette underground PBK tapes: Warfare State, Appeal, Metachromatism and Profusion. All will be limited edition expanded reissues on NoiseAmbient.

PBK-Appeal, 1989 (original cover)

PBK-Warfare State, 1988 (original cover)

PBK / ROE - F

New release (very limited edition) on Somnimage sub-label, Power Silence.

PBK - Under My Breath 2009 Release Out Now on Waystyx Records, Russia

Very pleased to announce the long awaited release of "Under My Breath". "Under My Breath" is an abstract contemplation on post 9/11 paranoia in the U.S. Most of the album was created in 2004, during the height of the Bush administration's crackdown on human rights via the Patriot Act. The resulting album reveals a new vernacular for dark ambient isolationist music and is an important key to understanding PBK's ambitions in the world of sound. Seeking expression through the use of drones, natural or man-made acoustic sounds, digital glitching and turntable noise, the effect is one of surrealist juxtaposition, not jarring, but totally organic sounding, that can be listened to and savored in an intellectual way.

This CD has collaborations with legendary ambient/industrial artist, Nigel Ayers (Nocturnal Emissions); the great U.S. noise group, Wolf Eyes; Japanoise ninja master, Aube; HBO sound composer, John Wiggins; French electroacoustic composer, Christian Renou (Brume); avant garde composer, Slavek Kwi (Artificial Memory Trace); field recorder extraordinaire, Dale Lloyd; ambient composer, C. Reider; and sound collagist from the Canary Islands, Tore H. Boe. Waystyx Records have created a perfect packaging design to exemplify the concept of "Under My Breath". Last, but certainly not least, many thanks to the amazing poet, Ms. Anne Waldman, for her permission in granting the use of her poetry to develop the titles and text for this project.

You can buy this now (via paypal) at the NoiseAmbient catalog site: http://noiseambient.com/ or Waystyx Records.

REVIEW: "PBK... is attached to the old and the new, the younger generation of sound artists. Pieces on 'Under My Breath' were recorded with people like Akifumi Nakajima (Aube), Christian Renou (Brume), Dale Lloyd, John Wiggins, Nigel Ayers, Slavek Kwi (Artificial Memory Trace), Tore Boe and Wolf Eyes. PBK uses 'natural or man-made acoustic sounds, digital glitching and turntable noise', but its his goal to create music that is 'organic' and not (too) noise based. He blends his various source recordings together and makes up a sound that falls half way in the old ambient industrial school and the other half shows an interest in using computer processing for his sounds. ...Throughout the material is quite strong. PBK successfully updates his own 'old' style and makes something new out of it." Vital Weekly