two hour collage of sounds from throughout my career…
Interview and mix on Le monde va mieux Radio
•2025 • Comments Off on Interview and mix on Le monde va mieux RadioINTERIOR MUSIC
•2025 • Comments Off on INTERIOR MUSIC
New LP on the Portugal based DISCREPANT Records. The phrase interior music occurred to me a few years ago as a way to describe some recent work. It’s about the resonances inside of hollow wooden chambers (and hollow heads) like gramophones and talking machines, music boxes, instruments, metal containers, and resonant rooms. It’s about exploring tiny audio fragments—single notes, vinyl and shellac surface noise, recording mishaps and anomalies—and arranging them into something meaningful. It is about my own interior mishaps and anomalies and attempts to arrange THEM into something meaningful. It also references “interior design” with the placement of sounds in specific locations, layers or in juxtapositions. Inspirations include Steve Roden’s lowercase work, Toshiya Tsunoda’s field recordings, Eliane Radique’s slowly shifting ambiances, and the musique concrete of Pierre Schaeffer, as well as the dhrupad and kayal traditions of Indian classical music—especially Kesarbai Kerkar and the Dagar family who have a sublime way of stretching out individual notes and exploring their endless permutations, combinations and connotations.
Interview about Sublime Frequencies, Indian Talking Machine and more…
•2023 • Comments Off on Interview about Sublime Frequencies, Indian Talking Machine and more…
With Steve Elkins–can be read HERE
Climax Golden HISS
•2023 • Comments Off on Climax Golden HISSInterview about a very old Climax Golden Twins cassette on the All My Ideas are Stolen blog.
Read the INTERVIEW HERE.
New LP–IDOL KO SI
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New Climax Golden Twins 2xLP
•2023 • Comments Off on New Climax Golden Twins 2xLPThe first new Climax Golden Twins record in too many years.
This new double LP–the first from CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS in too many years–features contributions by friends from Seattle’s vibrant music scene and beyond including Alan and Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), Ko Ishikawa (master Japanese sho player), Greg Kelley (extended trumpet technique specialist), Porest (Sublime Frequencies’ Mark Gergis), members of Kinski, Diminished Men, the A Frames, Dreamsalon, and more.
Release on Fire Breathing Turtle, our long-time imprint.
Listen/purchase on BANDCAMP
New Cassette on Discrepant
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A Magnetic Road to Hell” is Robert Millis and Bardo Todol’s first release as a duo. Recorded transcontinentally throughout 2021 and 2022 they traded sounds and ideas between Cordoba, Argentina and Seattle, USA with a stop in Mexico along the way: screamings, rivers, kids, radios, mellotron, records, 78rpm shellac, wax cylinders, field recordings, birds, electronics, guitars, percussion, haze, static, a destroyed Indian piano, talkative violins, talkative people from the 1920s, talkative black and white dreams, tin cans from the streets, Argentinian children’s tales about cows being teachers, and more. You’re riding on an unspooling reel of tape, through sounds real and imagined, the tape flapping dangerously, shredding; we are all of us magnetized, attracting together, pushing apart, unwinding onto the floor, stumbling along the road to hell.
Robert Millis and Bardo Todol have each released music on many different labels: Sublime Frequencies, Dinzu Artefacts, The Helen Scardale Agency, Discrepant, Abduction Records, Dust-to-Digital, Fire Breathing Turtle, Sub Pop, and Ikuisuus.
Check it out HERE
Climax Golden Twins article/interview
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ESOTISMO
•2022 • Comments Off on ESOTISMODouble 7 inch collaboration with Italian experimentalist DJs, Ear Explorer
Robert Millis 