Kiln links:
Kiln is collaboration of KEVIN HAYES, KIRK MARRISON and CLARK REHBERG III
Any questions regarding KILN releases call
Brett Marion of Thalassa at 1-248-586 0519 or email him: neptune@rust.net
Releases accessible worldwide through
AVANT GARDE/CARROT TOP/FORCED EXPOSURE
Discography:
Fibreforms "Treedrums" 1996 on Earthtone
Waterwheel "Panchroma" 1997 on Alley Sweeper
Earthtone Collective 7" 1997 on Mind Expansion
Fibreforms "Stone" EP 1998 on Roomtone
Kiln "The Kiln" EP 1998 on Roomtone
Kiln "Holo" 1998 on Thalassa
Kiln "Ampday" 2000 on Thalassa
Info off Forced Exposure:
Artist: KILN
Title: Holo
Label: THALASSA
Format: CD
Price: $12.00
Catalog Number: TA 001
Excellent sound/textural instrumental presentation by this
American trio, recorded in Tempe, Albuquerque & New Orleans.
"Kiln (ex-Fibreforms/Waterwheel members) returns with their first
full-length release, presenting a new plateau in lush musical
event construction. This experimental pop 'sound furnace'
utilizes only the finest textures to deliver its goods. Layers of
spacious southwestern guitar melodies and slipstreams of
overdriven harmonics dance with precise, sometimes funky
earth-kin drums and found sound electronics. Makes use of more
detailed, diverse and colorful palette than employed in previous
projects; Holo offers a composite of 3D, human sized environments
and massive, bright spaces."
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Artist: KILN
Title: Ampday
Label: THALASSA
Format: CD
Price: $12.00
Catalog Number: TA 002
Second full length from this MI-based trio, following the
prior Holo, as well as an EP and Tarwater remix for Room Tone.
"Generating radiant soundfields with a watch-maker's eye for
minutia and precision, Kiln's Ampday stomps like nothing we've
seen from this American trio of sonic machinists: momentum based
views constructed utilizing naturalist recording techniques.
Trademark Kiln quality intact, Ampday presents something for
sound-hounds and pop-junkies alike. Sun-soaked melodic toneforms,
propelled by site specific earth-kit beats, churn color in a
one-size-fits-all humanist gallery. Uniquely produced and
recorded by Kiln in their home hybrid studio, Ampday offers 13
new electrified panoramas for immersion and invigoration. Prepare
for Kiln'sAmpday sparks."
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From Brainwashed:
KILN, "HOLO" Kiln create epic widescreen pictures for your
stereo. The three members of Kiln (who have in the past operated
under the guises of Fibreforms, Waterwheel, or Owl Eye) stitch
together a world of standard rock trio line-up, heady
atmospherics, and a wise use of noise, echo, and space. Tribal
beats propel ancient drum machines riding on their backs, static
and bubbling synths float around the room, and a repetitive
guitar riff is plucked somewhere off on the horizon. This, and
more, is the 3d soundworld Kiln conjure up on "Holo". "Kekker"
bears quite a lot of resemblance to latter-day Bark Psychosis,
but doesn't imitate them outright. Instead, it takes their
shuffling, jazzy drum/bass/guitar interplay and turns it into a
laid-back swagger. And on "Squarewave Colorwheel", a subtle
motorik pulse provides the timekeeping for layers and layers of
crunchy static and dusty oscillators, painting a picture of a
rusted future-primitive Can. I haven't heard an album so
completely immersive, so utterly beautiful, in quite a while.
Released a few months ago, "Holo" has received little press and
attention, possibly due to Kiln's reluctance towards media
interaction. Next time your room feels a little too empty, pick
up this Cd and let the sound fill every void. - Jason Olariu
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Picked somewhere on the Net:
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There's also a newish album out on Thalassa. The following review is from the
brainwashed site - there's also some sound samples there too
http://brainwashed.com/brain/brainv03i15.html
That said, I didn't like it as much as the earlier one - hard to say why,
though haven't really given it justice yet.
KILN, "AMPDAY"
With "Ampday", the now canyon-sized fissures that were once
tiny cracks in Kiln's parched-earth facade show more than mud and
stone. Where in the past, Kiln releases provided the smallest bit
of info possible, with only artwork and titles to satisfy eager
minds - now, no longer must we wonder about our once- faceless
Gaian scientists, and what arcane incantations were used in the
creation of such wonderful sounds. Messr's Marrison, Rehberg, and
Hayes, still playfully obtuse (what sound did the "levitating
catslide" make?), seamlessly blend their twisting, ethereal
instrumental pop with soundscapes that imitate the sounds of
spreading rust or moss. "Tinsunshine" is acoustic-driven and
electrified at the same time, like a drum circle in a
thunderstorm, with intermittent breaks of ear-tickling static and
strummed guitar harmonics that mimic what must be the sound of
angels crying; out of the itchy sound of pencil scratching paper
on "Learning To Draw" grows an urgent ambulance siren/dopplered
guitar, which gives way to calm meanderings of the trio,
conjuring images of Ry Cooder's soundtrack to "Paris, Texas"
redone by The Cocteau Twins. The attempts to integrate the group
interactions with their penchant for earthy atmospheric
wanderings are more apparent on "Ampday" than on previous
releases, and it's done a deft touch. With each album, Kiln
consistently shatter the Platonic Ideal of beauty and grace in
music, only to rebuild it to a height out of reach of anyone but
themselves. - Jason Olariu
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From Konketsu:
Artist: Kiln
Title: Holo
Label: Thalassa
Lushly spread-eagled like a rusty desert at dawn, Holo is the
first full-length release for Kiln. KR Marrison and Joseph Hayes
are the evolutionary link that connects Waterwheel and Fibreforms
to this East Lansing space exploration team, and Kiln shares much
of the same ambient aesthetic as those incarnations. I don't know
if it's the keyboards or the clean floating Southwestern guitar
of opening track "Sienna" that threw me into an early state of
new-age prejudice against this record, but subsequent listens
have endeared me to it in the same manner that I fell for the
Kiln or Fibreforms releases on Roomtone. There is more a feeling
of wide open spaces on this album, and I speak not musically but
metaphorically because aural space/silence is crucial to all of
these records. This album makes me feel like I'm flying above the
aforementioned desert, hypnotized by the infinite sand and
distant mountains that distort into mirage at the edges of my
vision (significantly perhaps, recording took place in Tempe and
Albuquerque...), while the others felt much more insular, dank
and watery, filled with the sounds of trapped insects. Not far
from Eno or Budd at moments but with a contemporary feel for
looped percussion and technology, Holo tip toes along the jagged
edge between ambient electronica and electroacoustic
experimentalism. Lines blur, genres implode and I think you'll
have to agree that these sounds stand apart. Jarin .
The Bottom Line: Sand and rust as far as the ear can hear.
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A snippet off Pure-Impure mailing list:
From: Christian Hartwig
Subject: Re: Kiln/fibreforms
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:07:32 -0500
> "Dueso, Danny" wrote:
>
> Kiln is the group that was born out of the ashes of Fibreforms.
> Fibreforms has one release on their own earthtone collectiv imprint
> called "treedrums" which is very good and hard to find. They have an
> ep out on room tone records & I think it's called "gryphons", and that
> is very good as well. The kiln ep on roomtone is only one member of
> Fibreforms (cfr clark). They also have recorded one album under the
> name waterwheel called "panchroma" on alleysweeper. They also have a 3
> way split on mind expansion with waterwheel, owl eye & Fibreforms. I
> spoke to clark (kiln) and he told me that there would be some new
> material coming soon on their own label.
> I have a question....On their cd's, they have written on them
> installments (in vol.'s), when I spoke to clark he told me that they
> used to release cassettes at their live shows with either unreleased
> material or live stuff...has anyone ever heard any of these
> recordings?
I've got a cassette (by fibre, I don't know why they changed their name)
called "Gryphons." Its beautifully packaged with hand lettering and
homemade paper. It has seven songs, two live, and is from 1994. Its a
little more loopy than treedrums but along the same lines. I don't
remember where I got it from but it must have been a live show at the
Lonely Planet in E. Lansing, Michigan in '94.
I listen to treedrums often but the Waterwheel album doesn't seem to
have the appeal for me that Fibreforms does.