Small Cruel Party
Ἡσυχασμός
*300 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* "These two pieces were recorded in Paris in December of 2017 at the request of Banned Productions who then released them as a cassette. However, only very few copies of the tape were made and dist…
E' Vago Fior del Tempo
Tip! * 200 copies, 2nd edition* The four pieces on this Small Cruel Party record all date from the late 1980s and predate any officially released material : "Cords" was entirely realized in Chicago, and the others realized, or at least finished, upon…
Do you Believe in a Pencil?
*200 copies limited edition* Ferns Recordings presents Do you Believe in a Pencil? by Small Cruel Party. Reissue of the first Small Cruel Party CD with different artwork done by Abo (Mark Schomburg/Petry Supply).
Cervorum Simulacra
*200 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Ferns Recordings presents Cervorum Simulacra by Small Cruel Party. The CD contains two live performances: the first one, "Cervorum Simulacra"- recorded in Paris in 2008 - was only released as a lat…
Stratégies Obliques Ø
Tip! **Limited edition of 200 copies on white vinyl** Over the last few years, we’ve been graced by a steady trickle of material from Steve Roden and Small Cruel Party, each drawing to power and creative rigor of both artists into the forefront of ou…
Bidödaren
**200 copies** Bidödaren means Beekiller, approximately... In Swedish there is a double meaning; bi is the insect bee (in English), but also has the meaning of something like a "side-effect". Like if the killing of bees is just something being done b…
La Chrestomathie du Désespoir
**200 copies** The first new Small Cruel Party vinyl release in over 15 years, two newly recorded 5-minute pieces for I Dischi Del Barone. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Small Cruel Party's work is focused on the inherent mysterious and beautiful quali…
Resin, Parched, Chthonic
Last copies, don't sleep. It's a new year. What better way to to kick it off than with some incredible sounds from a not too distant past, via Fern Recordings. Since launching during the middle 2000s, the Paris based imprint has shown an incredible d…
Islands of Sleep
Lovely archival work with sublime slices of musique concrète courtesy of Small Cruel Party, aka Seattle composer William Ransone. In his own words, this is “Manipulation of physical objects in acoustic space and a great deal of concentrated activity…
Ceremonies Of Memory I & II
Recorded in January of 1996 in a ravine in Seattle next to the house of Jim Woodring for a proposed and unrealized collaboration with this visual artist.
Unroof the house of the fishes
Long-awaited vinyl LP reissue of Unroof The House Of The Fishes by Key Ransone's Small Cruel Party. Originally released in 1993 as a limited to 50 copies tape on the Japan-based G.R.O.S.S label run by Akifumi Nakajima. Aube but now upgraded to vinyl …
An Accident In Substance
Many years in the making, An Accident In Substance collects all of the 7-inch tracks and a huge number of compilation appearances of Key Ransone's legendary project Small Cruel Party. Like the pungent scent of a campfire or the complex flavor of a …
