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Jeph Jerman

born agana, guam jan. 16, 1959. began my musical \"career\" in high school, playing in various dance and show bands. sometime in the \'80\'s began seriously documenting my own sound work. founded the bands: big joey, blowhole, city of worms, and began working solo under the name hands to. released far too many cassetttes cds and lps. founded the big body parts label which existed from 1984 to 1989. moved around the country, sometimes taking my bands with me. since 1997 or so, have been releasing work under my own name. i am most interested in listening, in what happens when we listen.

born agana, guam jan. 16, 1959. began my musical \"career\" in high school, playing in various dance and show bands. sometime in the \'80\'s began seriously documenting my own sound work. founded the bands: big joey, blowhole, city of worms, and began working solo under the name hands to. released far too many cassetttes cds and lps. founded the big body parts label which existed from 1984 to 1989. moved around the country, sometimes taking my bands with me. since 1997 or so, have been releasing work under my own name. i am most interested in listening, in what happens when we listen.

Registro De Piedra
*165 (hand-numbered) copies limited edition* "Registro de Piedra plays with the idea of place memory. I have heard a few stories of people spending the night in or near ancient ruins and witnessing strange sights and sounds. What some might call ghos…
For Alvin Kelly
*120 copies limited edition* Tsss Tapes presents For Alvin Kelly by Jeph Jerman.
Et si c'​é​tait le Vent qui avait Raison ?
*200 copies limited edition* Great compilation from French label Fern Recordings. Featuring: Vincent Jehanno, Alice Kemp, BRB>VOICECOIL, Leif Elggren, Jeph Jerman, Yeast Culture, Aliénor Golvet, Anne Gillis.
Topology
Jeph Jerman (Hands To) and Joachim Nordwall (Organ of Corti) present "Topology," a stunning collaboration that brings out the best from both artists. Jerman's trademark field recordings are accentuated by Nordwall's electronics in a seamless fusion t…
Passenger
*125 copies limited edition.* Tsss Tapes presents Passenger by Jeph Jerman and Ted Byrnes.
Listen – Jeph Jerman in conversation with Aram Yardumian (Book)
This oral autobiography of the underground experimentalist also serves as a history of the 1980s tape and electronic music scene in the US
Tathata
Tathata is a central concept in Buddhism, literally translated from sanskrit as 'thusness' or 'suchness'. Tathata expresses appreciation of the true nature of reality in any given moment. As no moment is exactly the same, each one can be savored for …
Keep The Drum (Concussion Solos)
New Forces is pleased to offer a reissue of Jeph Jerman's "Keep the Drum," originally released on cassette by Apraxia in 1990. Since the 1980's Jeph Jerman has been a key figure in experimental music, from the textural noise of his legendary Hands To…
Hiss Lift
"What I remember … a car on fire alongside the highway in the middle of the night. Waking in someone else’s bed in London with an entire poem spilling into my head, and then recording it with Tim in the kitchen after breakfast. Seemingly endless car,…
Casual Collisions
Casual Collisions is a collaborative album by two of the most prominent voices in experimental sound, Aaron Dilloway and Jeph Jerman. Recorded in 2013 and originally self-released on CDR by Jerman in a small edition, New Forces and White Centipede No…
It Wasn't Until Weeks Later (LP)
Jack Callahan & Asha Sheshadri’s 'Misfired Empathy' was recorded and processed in April and May of 2020 in a number of temporarily shuttered venues and the artists’ apartments. This is their first record as a duo. Asha Sheshadri is a New York based a…
Popular Fictions
** Edition of 150 ** Tsss Tapes presents Popular Fictions by Jeph Jerman. Recorded throughout the spring and summer of 2020 in and around Cottonwood, AZ, utilizing mouth, stone, wood, glass, metal, paper, plastic, radio and the contribution of Doug T…
Cobbled
**Limited edition of 50 copies. Double cassette housed in a handmade silk-screened wooden box. Comes with a booklet with information and photographs, a bag with 4 small stones and a hand numbered print.** Jeph Jerman started recording and performing …
Imbrication
**150 copies** "The Verde River Valley is located in central Arizona, in a transition zone between low desert to the south and high mountains to the north. It has been my home for the past 17 years. Walking though the uninhabited areas outside of tow…
KIO GE
KIO GE is the result of the collaboration between the American sound artist Jeph Jerman and the Italian percussionists Paolo Sanna and Giacomo Salis. Twelve short improvisations that include minimal textures, field recordings, abstract atmospheres an…
Goethe
"Across a dozen years, the duo of Jerman and Barnes has offered powerful, minimal music rooted in a shared dedication to the creative act of listening. Jerman is a veteran of the creative music scenes in Denver and Seattle, and in more recent years h…
Versatile Ambience
On the second side of Versatile Ambience, Jeph Jerman utters an all too accurate observation of our overheated culture, describing us at “the smithy’s forge, replacing art with scrutiny.” Throughout their new record, Jerman and Barnes show us another…
Matterings
Field recording artist Jeph Jerman and percussionist and sound designer Tim Barnes are finally out with this fantastic collaborative work - here’s a certain patience that’s required to fully engage with Matterings. It’s a good twenty minutes longer t…
A fidgety and excitable engine
For more than 25 years Jeph Jerman, previously with the moniker Hands To, has heavily explored the realm of field recordings and the devices to record it.Over the years his sound has become gradually more gaunt and essential, leaving more and more th…
Ku
The act of conjuring remarkable sound from found objects is at the very heart of this recording from American musicians Greg Davis and Jeph Jerman. Having met in Arizona some years back, Davis and Jerman commenced working together on a series of reco…
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