Small Cruel Party

Small Cruel Party

Real Name:
Key Ransone
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Small Cruel Party's work is focused on the inherent mysterious and beautiful quality of sound itself, with the emphasis on noninstrumental sound sources, the source itself not being readily apparent. Work generally involves manipulation of physical objects in acoustic space and a great deal of concentrated activity. Even in pieces involving dense sound at high volume the resultant effect is one of intense calm.
More recent work has incorporated various influences related to studies in Buddhism (zen and Tibetan) but without including or perhaps suggesting any obvious references.
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Albums

Outside

(Cass, C30)
Retching Wretch Records 1989

Les Anatomies Fantastiques

(Cass, Album, C46)
Retching Wretch Records 1989

La La

(2 versions)
Retching Wretch Records 1990

Do You Believe In A Pencil?

(CD)
Small Cruel Party 1991

Resin, Parched, Chthonic

(Cass)
A State Of Flux 1991

Three Simple Eyes Of The Insect Ancestor

(Cass)
Apraxia 1992

Unroof The House Of The Fishes

(2 versions)
G.R.O.S.S. 1993

Stercoranism

(Cass)
Sounds For Consciousness Rape 1993

Stain On Pure Glass

(LP, Ltd)
Harbinger Sound 2002

Singles & EPs

Urgent Tube

(3 versions)
Small Cruel Party 1991

Anodyne Effect Of Habit

(3 versions)
Small Cruel Party 1992

In Thicket

(2 versions)
Sounds For Consciousness Rape 1994

Small Cruel Party / Chop Shop (3) - Scmaolpl -C-r-u-e-l- Psahrotpy (2 versions)

RRRecords 1995

Before The Dream

(2 versions)
Drone Records 1995

Seminal Brainpan

(2 versions)
Dom America 1995

Daniel Menche / Small Cruel Party - Scratch Of The Mutilated / Sister Brother (Acetate, 7", Ltd)

MSBR Records 1996

Aube / Small Cruel Party - Across The Water (12", Ltd, Blu)

Ant-Zen 1996

Toy Bizarre / Small Cruel Party - KDI DCTB 15 / Traverse Above Goulier (I-IV) (CD, Mini)

Kaon 1997

The Subtle Body

(7")
Banned Production 1997

To Have Been Seen

(7", S/Sided, Ltd)
Shirocoal Recordings 1998

Islands Of Sleep

(12", Ltd)
G.M.B.H. 1998

Small Cruel Party / Sudden Infant - Play Stalker (7")

eM 13n 1998

Small Cruel Party / Kiyoshi Mizutani - Split (12", Ltd)

Flenix 2000

Scalar Redoubt

(CDr, Mini)
Generator Sound Art 2000

Ceremonies Of Memory I & II

(7")
Fylkingen Records 2002
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