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Dave Fuglewicz & Michael Thomas Jackson – The Sky Is Glowing (Split) [No Part Of It]

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Label Description:

Dave Fuglewicz’s work has been reissued on the NO PART OF IT label before, if only for additional posterity, in particular the “Selected Works 1990-1997” collection. Michael Thomas Jackson is also known under the project name “Cephalic Index”. “The Sky Is Glowing” was arranged in 2012.

Here is what Fuglewicz had to say:

“At the end of 2011, Michael Thomas Jackson sent me a CD of source files he had made (titled “Moog and turntable, Nov and Dec 2011”) for me to use as I saw fit. It was an unexpected but pleasant surprise, BIG thanks to Michael for this. I finally started working with the files a couple weeks ago, completing this first piece; “The Sky Is Glowing” of what will be a full release. FYI: I consider a full release to be about sixty minutes in length. I only used the files Michael sent me on this, modifying, editing and blendarizing them into the final form posted here. I hope you enjoy it. For those of you unfamiliar with Michael’s work, I highly recommend checking him out.”
credits
released September 1, 2025

Disintegrating Mirrors
August 2005
MTJ: acoustic feedback, amplified objects, heart monitor,
household appliances, synthesizers, turntable
Previously released on the compilation CDr “Botanical Isotopes : Phyllocephala Refoliated” by
Primecuts Recordings (prime#71) in 2009

The Sky Is Glowing
2012
MTJ: synthesizer, turntable

All compositions by Dave Fuglewicz
All sound sources by Michael Thomas Jackson

This incarnation of Blood Rhythms: Arvo Zylo & David Oakspawn
“Thin Places” was originally released on a tape for Personal Archives limited to 33 copies. “The Night Letter” was released on a netlabel compilation themed after public domain film samples.

Arvo Zylo & Hal McGee – The Bubblegum Variations (HalTapes)

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Label Description:

The Bubblegum Variations consists of more than 350 recordings by Arvo Zylo and Hal McGee mixed together in a chance process assemblage.

Arvo Zylo’s notes for The Bubblegum Variations:
— Hal McGee has been recording experimental music and noise since 1981. Arvo Zylo was born in 1981, and has been active since the year 2000. For this project, Arvo initially intended to contribute solely walkie talkie recordings of himself from 2014 and 2015; “Image streaming” in a free association, dream-like style. This audio has largely not been listened to by Arvo since shortly after it was recorded.
— That single creative spark gave way to other ideas, which included harmonium & toy pipe organ (thanks to Jason Lazer), and also stems from rare, long out of print tapes, unreleased recordings sometimes dating back to 2001, various field recordings, and occasional attempts at singing. Some of the recordings included a Yamaha RM1x Sequencer, a Casio SK-1 knock off called an “SS330”, some elements of the Korg Elektribe series, two Line6 Delay Pedals, A haunted BOSS Micro BR handheld recorder, a USB handheld recorder, a coronet, a belt sander, a sampler, a smart phone, and a laptop. Thanks Hal for your friendship!

Hal McGee’s notes for The Bubblegum Variations:
— I was quite happy in mid-May 2025 when Arvo proposed that we do a collaboration. I immediately started making recordings with two Sony ICD PX-470 stereo digital dictaphones, of sounds from my daily life, diaristic entries, my dog Stanley, my brother Mark McGee, circuit bent Casio SK-1, Stylophone CPM DS-2 analog synthesizer, KQ Unotone iPhone synth, Haltoid noise box, miscellaneous sounds from Apartment Music 54, and my friends Ben Keselowsky, Josh Tippery, and Alex Smith. I read aloud two texts by Lenny Pearlman.

Home-brewed CD-Rs of The Bubblegum Variations are available for sale and trade from Hal McGee — haltapes@gmail.com