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LIVING RECORDS releases available for purchase
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Ben Miller: A Ripple in the Air (CDR)
Available on Living Records. Nov. 2011
LISTEN: Deep Water (excerpt)
Ben Miller; stereo arch top guitar, vocal. $8
Artsy, laid back, near-tonal acoustic-electric guitar dabbling. You need it.
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Ben miller: Traveling in The Dark (CDR)
Available on Living Records. Sept. 2008
LISTEN: Message to The Clandestine (excerpt)
Ben Miller; alto & c-tenor saxophone, MG1, SK1, tapes, electronics. $8
A venture into slow-moving dark ambience recorded shortly before performing a benefit for The Sonic Circuits Festival @ Pyramid Atlantic, MD. In spite of requests, no radio or zine wrote a review for this release. Miller takes this as a good sign.
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Ben Miller / degeneration: Sirens of Phobos (CDR)
Available on Living Records. Aug., 2007
LISTEN: Sirens of Phobos
Ben Miller; multiphonic guitar, radio, electronics. $8
"Sirens of Phobos" features resonating soundscapes devised primarily by radio, string vibration and electronics.
Includes collaborative voice and noise efforts by SPIN 17's Motoko Shimizu and Ed Chang.
"...This warped, questing music is sometimes like a game of blind man's bluff in a rotting warehouse: you feel that Miller has set things up so that he too doesn't quite know what's going on...Motoko Shimizu contributes clear-voiced singing, while Ed Chang tosses in skittish sampled loops. These two are members of New York pranksters Spin 17, and offer a playful foil to Miller's sombre preoccupations..." — Clive Bell / WIRE Magazine March 2008
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Ben Miller / degeneration: Layer (CDR)
Available on Living Records. Nov, 2005
LISTEN: 10/11/04; Pordenone, Italy
Ben Miller; multiphonic guitar, treatement. $8
"Layer" features Picture Music; sound collage composed according to visual art. In this case there are eight pieces written for eight of Roger Miller's frottage drawings. Titles for each piece are the same as the title for the drawings they are created for. These drawings allowed an overdubbed approach for its Sound response. Miniatures of each drawing included as a fold-out. In spite of requests, no radio or zine wrote a review for this release. Miller takes this as a good sign.
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Ben Miller / degeneration:
Over and Out (CDR)
Available on Living Records. July, 2004.
LISTEN: Catacombing (excerpt)
Ben Miller; multiphonic guitar, treatment. $8
Shortly after moving to NYC, Miller returns to a minimalist approach in prepared guitar.
" Ben Miller does just about everything to his guitar, except to play it conventionally...a wide range of wavering, droning tones and textures...more actively inventive than many more revered players. — Dream Magazine 2006
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Ben Miller / degeneration: Intercom (CDR)
Available on Living Records. Jan., 2001
LISTEN: FromTheGreatMileu.mp3
Miller's first solo release features multitrack sound collage using a stereo archtop guitar. Some selections include multiphonic guitar, analog synth and bass guitar. $8
"If new expressionists closed their eyes and painted what they saw
then Ben Miller must be taping shut his ears and playing what he hears…blood
thrashing through arteries, nerves popping, synapses burning,..doors
knocking, feet bounding up echoed stairways... Formerly a part of the "anti-rock
band" Destroy All Monsters, Miller takes the "anti" idea a step further." — Detroit Metro Times 2001
"...a genre-defying album...no chord progressions or standard picking techniques are displayed here...
a mesmerizing effort from one of the most progressive guitarists around. " — Reckless Records, Chicago 2001
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other releases
available for purchase
S & H $2 U.S.A. --- U.K., etc: $4
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Third Border: Return Return (CD)
release date Feb, 2010
Ben Miller; Guitar, Vocal. Gerard Smith; Bass. Jarrod Ruby; Drums.
special guests include Megan Leach; Viola and Chris Welcome; Cello.
most songs written collectively. Produced by Wharton Tiers $10
RETURN RETURN includes a unique arrangement of Laurie Anderson's "O-Superman!"
In spite of requests, no radio or zine wrote a review for this release.
LISTEN: 876 excerpt
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Third Border: Sun of Water, Sea of Light (CD)
Available on Radial Records. Sept. 2006
Ben Miller; Guitar, Bass, Vocal. Pinky Weitzman; Viola and Stroh Violin.
Jarrod Ruby; Drum Kit. special guests include Gerard Smith; Bass. Lisa Donald; Cello. Laurence Miller; Bb Clarinet and Soprano Recorder. Roger Miller; Cornet
all songs written by Ben Miller. Produced by Roger Miller and Laurence Miller $10
NOTE: "Sun of Water, Sea of Light" was chosen with only 47 other candidates for possible Grammy nomination in the
2006 'Alternative Album of the year' category.
LISTEN: After You
Ben Miller played alto sax for Ann Arbor legends Destroy All Monsters during the group's second incarnation
with Niagara and Ron Asheton at the helm. As the driving force behind Third Border, however, Miller's talent as a writer and performer becomes clear,
and what leaps out is not without its own quirky charm. Rather than simply replay Miller's art punk past, Third Border mix Prog with 60s UK psychedelic pop.
Their timely version of Syd Barrett's "Jugband Blues" is a fine example of the latter, an eccentrically
orchestrated tribute which goes out in fine style with a mad marching band of saxophones and kazoos. — WIRE magazine Oct. 2006
R.I.P. Syd
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Third Border: Third Border(CDR)
Available on Living Records. April, 2004
LISTEN: Invitation
Ben Miller; Guitar, Vocal.
Jena H. Kim. ;
Violin.
a five-song release; Third Border's first effort as a duet - $5
original release included some instrumental pieces using prepared stereo guitar
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M3: Unearthing (CDR)
Available on this website and on Sublingual Records.
Oct., 2001 (recorded Dec. 1998)
LISTEN: BatiqueSpaceXcerpt.mp3
Ben Miller: prepared archtop guitar, guitar, drums.
Roger Miller: prepared bass w/loops, electronics, drums.
Laurence Miller: drums, guitar, keyboards.
(Ben's fave release to date) $10
Psychedelic open improvisation with an occasional backbeat. Considered
to be akin to Syd Barrett playing with AMM.
"…operating in the realm where silence plays as much of a role
as sound, M3 builds soundscapes based on abstract scratching guitars,
ripples of electronic effects, and intermittent punchy drums....It's
clear from early on that very few rules govern the situation...M3 aims
to break stereotypes, and this the trio does with abandon." — All About Jazz 2001
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Xanadu: Blackout in The City (7")
Black Hole Records, recorded Jan. 1979
Out of Print / Art Punk Rock
Features X-Destroy All Monsters Cary Loren, Ben Miller, Larry Miller, and Rob King; a recording-only project initiated shortly after the Miller brothers left D.A.M. (this is the original 4-song vinyl with original cover from 1979) $30
Only 4 in stock.
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