Oozetones / Fleshscapes

Limited Edition LP

kHz-1015

Released 2025​​

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"Many instruments and processes were used during the making of this space-bending work that straddles field recording and installation with complex and jarring audio engineering. Much of these instruments and tools are hand made or bastardized objects.  The ooze as concept is a result of this material process.  While collage is a technique that Ruehlen often composes through, all sounds were sourced from his own live recordings and constructs that happened either in the studio or out in the field. Visual Artwork, design and limited edition artist book created by Cecyl Ruehlen"

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A chaotic vortex of inner worlds falling into disarray, Oozetones/Fleshscapes reflects a decade long refinement in Cecyl Ruehlen’s idiosyncratic approach to improvising, installation, and sound engineering as a method of multifaceted composition. An exercise in mania, the album is saturated with dense fields of phantom soundings, sonic toilet flushes, dripping mouths, screaming horns, earworms, and ego-dissolving scattershot. The ooze, or the psychic warbling that underlies all of Nature, takes shape, or perhaps deforms, through the erosion of background and foreground, evading category through sudden escapes past elusive doorways, crushing gates, flickering envelopes, and walls of thought. The slippages that lead the ear to moments where quietude enters the body are equally as unsettling and pulse with nervous rapture. 

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Oozetones/Fleshscapes was featured as "Best Experimental" on Bandcamp In Summer 2025