Pol Maló - Right Into The Sun (AMS-3)
Stern Records is proud to announce the first-time reissue of the self-perpetuating plunderphonic classic, Right Into The Sun by Pol Maló.
Originally released on CD-R in 1999 by Cha-Bashira Records Tokyo under the alias "Orange Head," this new 2xLP edition features fully remastered audio and new cover art by Pol. The release also includes a special riso print edition of the original artwork. Recorded using 3-6 portable record players, plus one MD player on tracks 2 and 4. All records used were melted, warped or broken by briefly placing them on a gas heater. The records were randomly altered this way to allow the styluses to find and stay in their own loops themselves on the wavy record surfaces. No samplers or editing - live aleatoric playback recordings only. Raw, cacophonous kinetic sound!
Pol's thoughts on the making of the album:
"Difficult to say what it was that made me interested in making music or actually audio art. In comparison, making visual art had always been there for me. But meeting several now generally known musicians as a student certainly left a very deep impact on me. While doing a DIY label and later kind of music store too, I became fascinated in accidental music, experimental sounds and all kinds of improvisations and bricolages. I think I wanted to try to make sound pieces from scratch, with the bare minimum and resulting in a way in found music. Rhythm and repetition seemed to go well with random audio coming from broken things. This way, I thought, I could create new meaning out of something existing by letting it come apart and back together again anew almost by itself. The album "Right into the Sun", I feel, can be listened to and read on various levels and I hope playback of it in all kinds of environments now will add to the original "spark" of it."
*Track 2 recorded live at Uplink Factory March 7, 1999. All other tracks recorded and mastered at Cha-Bashira Records Tokyo.
**Remastering by Sky Onion Mastering. Additional design & layout by Lionell Guzman.
About the artist:
Pol Maló is a transnational artist working across painting, sculpture, installation, audio art, talks, and text.
Exhibitions and events include Kinkan Gallery, solo show (2025, 2026); Critical Impulse Talk Series, Artcenter Ongoing (2022-2024); Galaxy Art Festival, Sado (2022); Roppongi Crossing, Mori Museum (2004); Komorebi, Mito Art Tower (2003); Sketchy Pop-Ups, solo show, SCAI The Bathhouse (2004); Phase of Post Music, live performance, ICC Inter Communications Center (2000); Variations on a Silence, Re-Tem Plant (2005);
Pol owned Cha-Bashira, a record, instrument shop, and exhibition space (1999-2001); and operates Cha-Bashira Records Tokyo, a record label (1999-ongoing).
1. Right Into The Sun
2. Broken Disco
3. Delirium
4. Warped, Twisted And Turning
5. The Cat Licked My Records