Aranos

Aranos (pronounced aranyosh)is Petr Vastl who was born in Bohemia (now a part of Czech Republic). He has performed as a singer and instrumentalist since the age of 8 in folk ensembles, jazz bands, rock groups, gypsy bands, ceilidh bands and as a solo artist. Written and composed in various styles from classical music to rock. He sings and plays violin, viola, cello, bass, guitar, mandolin, piano, keyboards, banjo, Chinese and Japanese flutes, santoor, drums, percussion, etc and has collaborated with Steven Stapleton on two Nurse With Wound records, "Santoor Lena Bicycle" and "Acts of Senseless Beauty." He currently lives and works in the west of Ireland.



Transfixiatio (1997)

1 Enter (11:49)
2 Skip (5:33)
3 Light (6:45)
4 Neverflame (13:04)
5 Transfixiatio (22:41)




Every Bright Body Gleams Green (1999)

1 Testing (5:11)
2 Steel Jaw And Gentle Mirage On A (Cape) Horn Of Dilemma (22:21)
3 Ideogram Mountains Take Her And Shrine Bursts (2:32)
4 Sacrifices, Death And Companions (3:43)
5 Golden Underground Surfers Of Rosemergy (3:44)
6 Red Navy Trumpeteers In A Pianola Gale Force 9 (2:44)
7 Sunlight Perched Here (3:44)
8 Autumn Temple Grows Legs (27:15)






Making Love In Small Spaces (1999)

1 Russian Tanks
2 Confessions
3 Steady Job
4 Grim And Gray
5 New Guitar
6 Never So Good
7 Nervous Breakdown
8 Black Eyes
9 Likes Me Too
10 Beams Of Sunshine




Aranos / Jon Mueller / Chris Rosenau

Bleeding In Behind Pastel Screens 2001

1 Other Is B Flat (8:09)
2 Monstrous Majority Muddle (2:35)
3 Peculiar Atlantic Game Fish (4:30)
4 Thinking Of Penis And Vagina (5:03)
5 Hair Blond Like Summer Swingsets (2:57)
6 Now Sparkling Ice (11:37)
7 Boiled Pear (10:41)





Whilst Your Gaiety Melts 10" (2001)

A Sunset Beaches Crumble
B Octopus Field

Number 4 of 12 records in the Lactamase series.

Numbered edition of 500 copies.
Most copies were pressed on black vinyl, some were pressed on purple vinyl.







Magnificent! Magnificent! No One Knows The Final Word (2002)

1 Does the Boar Brew Ticket Alone?
2 Spring was Her Need
3 Out of the Void Leap Wooden Lambs
4 No, Ha! Spring was Her Need
5 Calm Splashes Drown Airports
6 Bed Down on Blackbird Feathers
7 Welcoming Body in Blossom-swiping Rain
8 Life in Bernard's Kitchen
Bass - Al Tiernan
Drums, Percussion - Bernard Tobias
9 Runaway Warmth Whirling Alone
10 Memory Sleeping Only Cloth-wrapped
11 And Floats my Unthinking Elevator On
12 In Soft Cavities
Vocals [Mezzo-soprano] - May-Britt Mitrovic
13 Spirit Fragrance
14 Night Offers Her Face
15 Ocean's Bed is Aflame

Hand-made beige paper from Nepal cover sealed by a rope.
Includes a Poster (with lyrics), a booklet (in green paper from Nepal) and the letter (A4) originaly delivered with the CD.




El Monte & Aranos

Allied Cooking But Not As You Know It!(!(2003)

1 Think Like Warm Intestinal Being! (6:58)
2 Think Like Stuffed Childhood Lampshades! (5:21)
3 Think Like One-Pan Twostep! (6:18)
4 Think Like Little Green Fellow! (2:29)
5 Think Like Hot Tree Halitosis! (6:37)
6 Think Like Eddie Rocket's Shitcake! (13:36)
7 Think Like Veering Toads And Rude Proons! (1:08)
8 Think Like Thick Carpet! (12:12)
9 Think Like Her Madly Projected Fleshcups! (6:39)
10 Think Like Oven! (7:13)
11 Think You Like Yogurt! (0:06)

wrapped in a A3 size color poster







Tangomango (2004)

1 Instant Father (3:36)
2 Return To Commercial Clowning (2:41)
3 69 Walton's Yamamoto Noodles (8:01)
4 Chammomile Galaxies Waiting (7:56)
5 Broken Eights (3:24)
6 A Day Shot (7:49)
7 All The Lost Turbans Will Be On That Speaker (9:43)
8 Julio Cruz (6:25)
9 Worryism (8:51)
Featuring - Jon Whitney



Packaged in a handmade silky purse with sixteen paged booklet of pictures and lyrics.





And Soon Coffin Sings (2005)

1 36 Overgrown Umbrellas (10:11)
2 Rocky Windows In Glum Horizons (20:46)
3 Drops Of Golden Clams Transcended Seething Blue Craters (41:20)

The album comes in a handpainted five-sided package that unfolds to reveal the picture of man with his arms outstretched, making a welcoming gesture.
Limited to ??? copies.







Bering Sea (2005)

1 Bering Sea (63:28)

Limited edition of 500, housed in handmade packaging.





No Religion 7" (2005)

A1 No Religion
B1 Spitting Revivalist Dreams Of Everlasting Pain

Realeased on green vinyl in a limited edition of 500 copies.
Pre-orders of this release came with the 'Otology'-compilation from Brainwashed Recordings.








Throat Clearance (2005)

1 Intro (1:47)
2 Weightlesly Orange Glow (4:30)
3 Breath Of Unknowing (9:38)
4 Yevka Sings (5:36)
5 Conundrum (8:43)
6 Crab Life (10:21)
7 Honky Tong (4:25)
8 Silver Goat (5:02)
9 Duo Perplex (2:58)
10 Sweaty Paddy In A Clear Storm (13:25)

First four tracks are live recording of a performance in St. Augustinian church in Galway.
Rest are studio tracks recorded over last couple of years.
Thanks to: Maja Elliott, Fr. Paddy, Diarmuid Dermody, Jon Whitney, Paul Roe and Steven Stapleton.
Packaged in a 6 panel folder with an extra, unique handpainted carton cover.
Limited to 99 copies





Banished In Spattered Relish (2006)

1 Shooting Toadstools On Shinobazu Plain (2:44)
2 Umpteen Moments Of Mildew Pleasure (4:36)
3 Nightingale In A Mighty Gale (3:08)
4 Inhaling Carpet (2:29)
5 Humberto Gastroni Spreads His Parachute Ears (2:34)
6 On Her Potency Pillow (6:55)
7 Impending Passion Blast (1:33)
8 Interviews With The Amighty Yayu (12:45)
9 Worldliness Pales Hereabouts (10:04)
10 When Sheep Reached Their Million (13:28)

Packaged in hand-made, hand-painted gatefold, oversized carton cover.
Limited to 500 copies.





Mother Of Moons Bathing(2007)

1 Awaking Horns (4:55)
2 New Boyfriend (5:22)
3 Some Clowns Are Not Funny (9:05)
4 Almost Pulled Through (5:19)
5 Legs Thighs Splits (1:55)
6 I Saw Women's Rising Fry (4:28)
7 Ta-taa-ta, Taah Merged (1:32)
8 Towards Glittering Warm Dumplings (21:16)
9 Invisibility Cloak Of Time (17:49)

Packaged in a hand-made silk-screened soft-textured folder with a pair a sparkly screen-printed inserts backing up the disc inside.
Limited to 400 copies.

Mother of Moons Bathing is his first release for Soleilmoon, but his lengthy discography includes releases issued by Beta-Lactam Ring Records, Brainwashed, Crouton, Klanggalerie, Noise Museum and United Dairies as well as his own label, Pieros. The album covers a lot of ground, and refuses to be categorized, unless 'Aranos' can be its own category. It opens with 'Awaking Horns,' a minimalist piece built around a simple repeating click track containing absolutely no horns whatsoever. 'New Boyfriend' begins as a jaunty ode to new-found love, but the conversation between mother and daughter turns dark as it's revealed that the new boyfriend has a dodgy past with little girls. 'Some Clowns Are Not Funny' and 'Almost Pulled Through' are a pair of scary electro-acoustic roller coaster rides that sound like they might have escaped from Steve Stapleton's little shop of horrors. The fifth song, 'Legs Thighs Splits' returns to the gently fun whimsy started with 'New Boyfriend,' but trades literal meaning for delicious texture and experimentation. 'I Saw Women's Rising Fry' is a song of fearlessly eccentric lyrics married to complex, brain-tingling instrumental arrangements. 'Ta-taa-ta, Taah merged' is a side dish of looped, sampled vocal minimalism leading into the the longest track on the CD, 'Towards Glittering Warm Dumplings,' a rolling trance-dance weighing in at more than 21 minutes. 'Invisibility Cloak of Time,' another minimalist electro-acoustic instrumental, closes the album. The total length of Mother of Moons Bathing is 71 minutes 41 seconds, and it's sheer bliss from start to finish."






Tax (2007)

1 Innocent In The Garden (7:05)
2 I Pay Tax (2:38)
3 You Pay Tax (2:48)
4 Wouldn't You Like To Know (7:39)
5 We Train (4:05)
6 Sargeant Zero (1:54)
7 Padre Speaks (6:31)
8 With Our Killing Costume On (3:17)
9 Interrogators (2:56)
10 Bus Conductor (6:03)
11 I Don't Want To Pay For War (2:43)
12 Bowling Along (10:59)

Rather than the studio twisted and manipulated approach to music he normally employs, Tax focuses instead on simple folk/blues guitar riffs and “Regular Joe” type lyrics. On “I Pay Tax” he begins by discussing his daily routine over delta blues inspired acoustic guitar before it hits him, just exactly how everything he has done so far is affected by tax. When he says “tax” it is with an entirely appropriate anger and vitriol that expresses disgust in ways digital media rarely does. This loathing carries over as he addresses the listener in the subsequent “You Pay Tax,” with a more jazz influenced drum and piano backing track.
Brainwashed




Samadhi (2008)


1 Untitled 58:35

This recording of 6 tibetan singing bowls and one large shakuhachi took place on the midsummer's night 2008.

Packaged in hand-made cover with a xerox insert.





Alone Vimalakirti Blinks (2008)

1 Rocket Sandals (19:39)
2 This Job Is So Boring (9:15)
3 Yellow Bedspring (9:52)
4 Better Universe No. 2 (7:40)
5 Seedling Awakes (6:08)
6 Swing Low (9:16)



His third full length release this year, this disc compliments the odd electronic elements of Koryak Mistress Stakes Golden Sky and the Tibetan chanting of Samadhi by focing more on the stringed instruments and less on the effects or electronic stuff, though it is still there. It is a bit of a scatter-shot approach, but here it works, mixing a variety of elements, electronic and acoustic, into an absurdly brilliant mix of styles.
Brainwashed