Bee Mask
Bee Mask was the project of Chris Madak, an American electronic musician who began releasing noise and drone recordings in the mid-2000s, mostly on small-run cassettes and LPs. He was one of the first artists on Spectrum Spools, the Editions Mego sub-label, which issued Canzoni dal Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico, the retrospective Elegy for Beach Friday and, in 2012, When We Were Eating Unripe Pears, a record assembled over several years from sessions in Cleveland and Philadelphia. Madak, by then based in Philadelphia, was named a Pew Fellow in music in 2015.
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In hindsight, the pairing of Chris Madak and Donato Dozzy was inevitable from the moment when the two connected on Mount Naeba, Japan at the storied Labyrinth party last fall. Both artists have worked to craft singular visions unlike anything else …
When We Were Eating Unripe Pears
The seven pieces on this LP were developed over a period of about five years; 'Rain in Coffee' is built on a Hyperborean Trenchtown-era demo, while 'Pinq Drinq' -- sorrel, for the record, and neither guava nor antacid as certain wags have already v…
Vaporware / Scanops
Limited Vinyl Edition - 500 copies only* Having been reasonably quiet on the release front - by his standards - since last year's 'Elegy For Beach Friday' collection on Spectrum Spools, Chris Madak aka Bee Mask turns up on Lawrence English's Room4…
Elegy For Beach Friday
CD edition: For the last few years, Chris Madak has been on a tangled and cryptic path toward the full realization of his Bee Mask alterego. Now, for the first time there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel - a chance for old plans to come…
Canzoni dal Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico
Canzoni dal Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico" is an outstanding document in the long and complex Bee Mask discography, part of an astounding body of work that's been brewing since the mid-00's, and a carefully and meticulously composed album on par w…
Hyperborean Trenchtown
The album resonates a future sound vision that can only come from an old soul destined to further pave the paths laid by electronic & minimalist pioneers. Undeniably pure processes of creating & sustaining sound visually, sonically & otherwise brings…