More Info On Physical Releases

We are pleased to announce that our first run of cassette releases will be available sometime in January. The following will be available in very limited quantities:

• analuesos- kronios (2006, c01)
• analuseos- myopic insignia (2006, c02)
• Quidditas- ΔV(2006, c03)
• Quidditas- Eternal Return (2012, c04)
• Quidditas- Whakaī (2012, c05)
• Faithful Mates- Trenches (2012, c06)

We decided to bring back some albums from our beginning years as well as some new ones. These cassettes will be available through our website and on the tentative Quidditas/Faithful Mates/They Say We're Sinking winter tour. For the time being we are holding off on cdr releases. 

More info TBA

Coming Soon- Physical Releases!

Iwithsiae has traditionally been a digital label/noise collective, but we are proud to announce that we will be putting out small runs of cassettes and CDRs in the coming weeks. We hope to partner with small distros and labels to get some of our stuff out there in a different way than we are used to.

More info coming soon.

Faithful Mates- Trenches (2012)

First noise album from our friend Ben Rosenbach (eerie electronic noise and manipulated samples).

Unto Sheol- Exhale Forever (2012)

A drone album centered around the concept of existence as being created and sustained by the perpetual breath of a divine being, such that when the exhale is complete, the being no longer exists except as the totality of its creation...

Quidditas- Whāngai Hau (2012)

Whāngai Hau is the second album in a two part series that revolves around the Maori concept of reciprocity and the ceremony of giving (Whāngai Hau). This second album is light in tone and is is antithetical to Whakaī, the first album in the series. 

In Maori culture, all possessions have a spiritual power (hau). Although hau is the literal word for wind, there is a deep spiritual component to the term. 

Whangai Hau is a traditional Maori ceremony where gifts are shared.The Maori view the exchange of materials and services as a balanced system. This balance is known as hau ngaaherehere (wind of the forest). Reciprocity is the guiding force between exchange, leaving a lack of social hierarchy and inequality. The hau (spiritual component) of a gift charges the receiver to return the favor, not necessarily to the giver, but to someone within the community in order to maintain balance. 

Taken from Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins

Analuseos- Transitive Symmetry (2012)

New album from Analuseos. This one was recorded back in 2010. A little more simplistic than previous works.

Quidditas- Whakaī (2012)

Whakaī is the first album in a two part series that revolves around the Maori concept of reciprocity and the ceremony of giving (Whāngai Hau). This first album is dark in tone and is is antithetical to Whāngai Hau, the second album in the series. 

Ka meinga e ahau ōu mano tini, te hunga nanakia o ngā iwi, rātou katoa kia hinga i ngā hoari a ngā mārohirohi: ā ka pāhuatia e rātou ngā mea whakaī o Īhipa, ka ngaro anō o reira mano tini katoa 

By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

Hammer Mountain- Coming Home

Last week, we were pleasantly surprised to find that our friend Hammer Mountain has wrapped up a new album titled "Coming Home". The album creatively explores a newfound interest and experimentation with blackened noise.

Welcome

We decided to create this site to commemorate, consolidate, and catalogue the now extinct Iwithsiae Records noise label. The sidebar contains artists who were at some point in time involved with the label. Most albums have a link to a site where you can listen/download. More recently released albums have been uploaded to bandcamp so you can hear them in higher quality; older releases are mostly relegated to last.fm.

A few artists are still involved with making music and continue to release albums. Iwithsiae will live on as a experimental/noise collective, no longer operating as a label.

Enjoy!

We are going to kick this off with a new release by \\\\////, enigmatically entitled "////\\\\".