Id Battery - Inferno From An Occult Diary (Siwa, 1999)

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L'alchimie du duo Brandon LaBelle - Loren Chasse fonctionne à plein pour créer des drones lo-fi paisibles....

Recorded almost two years ago, "Inferno From An Occult Diary" is the fourth album from the lo-fi dronologist outfit Id Battery. Here, Loren Chasse and Brandon La Belle present their alchemical duets crafted around field recordings, slow rumbling bells, creeping organ drones, and the lo-fi errors of cable buzz. Between the seemingly placid aquatic sounds of rain tumbling onto sheet metal and the sounds of electricity, an ominous realization occurs that these sounds - however tranquil - are also charged with a certain life threatening danger. Recommended as with the rest of Id Battery catalogue!
Aquarius Records

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Id Battery - Last Blue Before Black (Unique Ancient Tavern, 1998)

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4 Untitled (17:42)
5 Untitled (9:49)

Drones subtils, bruit mininal pour impact maximal...

Architectural ruins, industrial detritus, trodden footpaths are turned into sonorous landscapes, and combined with minimal electronics, we get the latest environmental/ambient journey from this increasingly well-known duo of sonic investigators. ID BATTERY's instrument consists of nothing more than their ears and a belief in the moment.
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Id Battery - The Foot (Drone Records, 2002)

1 Sea
2 Sky

Loren Chasse et Brandon LaBelle: lo fi, field recordings, musique répétitive et électronique....

"The Foot" is perhaps the last document to be released from Id Battery, the collaborative effort between Loren Chasse and Brandon LaBelle. With Chasse well entrenched in the Jewelled Antler Collective (Thuja, Blithe Sons, Child Readers, etc), in Coelacanth, and in his solo projects, and with LaBelle pursuing a career in the academic realms of avant-garde composition, the likelihood of Id Battery recording again is small. Nevertheless, the acclaimed duo's Drone single "The Foot" is another wonderful document of their organic textures through low-fi found sounds, repetitive rock scrapings, soft electrical field disturbances, and strange hummings. "The Foot" is edited from the recordings made during Id Battery's performance during the Activate The Medium festival in San Luis Obispo in 1998. Artwork by Loren and AQ's Jim Haynes, and limited to 250 copies on marbled yellow and green vinyl. Very nice!
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Id Battery - Lily Events (Unique Ancient Tavern, 1997)

1 A Man And Woman Looking For Lilies (1:06)
2 All The People Going Down To Look For Lilies (5:06)
3 Mud Taken Up Looking For Lilies (12:53)
4 Washing The Lilies In The Water To Remove The Mud (9:27)
5 Washing Themselves Off After The Mud Has Got On Them (5:49)
6 Lilies In A Basket (3:43)
7 Walking From The Lily Place "To Go Look For A Dry Place To Sit Down" (17:03)

Groupe formé de Loren Chasse et de Brandon LaBelle, rythmes et field recordings, drone ambient et musique concrète relaxantes...

Id Battery is a group with Brandon (LaBelle and Loren Chasse) as one of
its members. 'Lily Events' was  released last year, but shamefully ignored
by us. The difference between Brandon's solo work and Id Battery lies for
me in the fact that Id Battey operates more from a musical background. There
is rhythmical banging on various metallic objects, tapes played backwards,
sea sounds etc. But alike Labelle: relaxing experimental.
Staalplaat

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