STITCHING SMALL TEARS

Stitching Small tears is a compilation of artists in the Vancouver underground electronic music scene of the late 1970s into the early 1980s. It was originally released as a limited edition cassette tape of 500 which sold out almost immediately. This double vinyl version was released in 2021 on Alien Replicant. It was remastered for vinyl from digital transfers of the original analogue tapes by Blair Petrie. It features a new bonus track by Blair Petrie written and recorded specifically for this release and available nowhere else. Artist Listing and Further Recording history is available on the back cover and at Stitching Small tears.

Blair Petrie - Noise

C-50 Cassette on Interference Tapes (Intape 1842) 

Just a bunch of noise!  Try it, you'll hate it...                                               Released Spring 1984.

Noise was released as a cassette tape album with one side titled Pink Noise and one White Noise. These were roughly intended to convey material broadly encompassed by the parameters of the definitions of those sounds. The resultant sides of music were presented as suites.

So…

The first side, or suite, is entitled Pink Noise

a) Introduction and Overture (Including : Pleasant Noise)

b) Desubstantiate

c) Last Corridor

d) The Eastern Light on the West Dawn Corridor

e) See Through New Steel Eyes

The second side, or suite, is entitled White Noise

a) Gog Demands Love

B) Siuku i Kupa

c) Absorbed By Something Hideous

D) Kitchen Food [cut with a knife ‘til it bleeds]

e) That’s Not Music

f) Ugly Sounds

g) Untitled (one of, perhaps, hundreds)

h) Why Be a Man When You Can Be a Mannequin…

i) White and Pink

j) The Last Bliss

All pieces, except Last Corridor, were recorded onto an old quarter track stereo reel to reel in a 77 square foot apartment in January 1984. Last Corridor was recorded, and remained incomplete and only roughly mixed, on a rented one inch 8 channel reel to reel in an old warehouse during October 1981.

Due to the limited sound abilities of the recording equipment, and the ultimate medium of presentation being a cassette tape, much of the ‘noise’ aspect of the music was not achieved as desired.

Blair Petrie - Requested Music

Cassette EP on Interference Tapes (Intape Cr6854) 

A compilation of pieces composed by request.  For special Radio Broadcasts and unique compilation releases.  Released Spring 1985.

“The cassette tape (Requested Music) is actually extremely rare. I realized that I probably originally had, at most, 100 made. I did that tape during a break in Ultramarine when the band was down to Andy (Andrew Lissett - Guitar and Backing Vocals) and I and we were looking for new members. 

I had also formed another project with Andy called Pig Doctor which was my idea of uniting Nitzer Ebb with Accept. We actually wrote about six songs and started recording them when Ultramarine restarted. If we had stayed with that project I would now be credited with starting the industrial music genre instead of Al Jorgensen. He didn’t cotton on to the idea until 1988. Oh well, story of my life. And, as David Bowie once wisely said “It’s not who does it first that matters, it’s who does it second.” 

Stefan (Tischler) and I also wrote and recorded our project (Gorgons and Gargolyes) during this time, essentially, the summer of 1986. 

Anyway, getting back to the tape; I’ve found about fifty but I also remembered that I used a bunch of them for working on various musical ideas over the next few years as a sort of scratch tape for bits of music. I guess (can’t remember) Alex (Douglas of The Contact List of Electronic Music) tried to distribute some but not many, if any at all. I would have sent out a few freebies. All this to say that, at most, there are about thirty out there. ”

Blair Petrie

From an email to Peter Moser, January 2020

Stefan Tischler and Blair Petrie - Gorgons & Gargoyles

Cassette Album 

 Written and Recorded Summer 1986 onto four tracks at Blair Petrie's rehearsal Space and on the streets, in the clubs and Bus depots of Vancouver.  Mixed at Gerald Toon's Northlake Studio by Gerald Toon, Blair Petrie and Stefan Tischler.  Original release Autumn 1986 as a cassette album by Blair Petrie and Stefan Tischler.  Eventually, there were two more cassette releases: one by Stefan Tischler and, later, one by Generations Unlimited.  Finally, it was released on compact disc.  The Expected One was used as an introduction to Ultramarine shows. It has appeared on a few compilations, notably the 12" vinyl release from Generations Unlimited.

Blair Petrie - Metempsychosis …the unheard music

4 album vinyl release

Released May 12, 2019 on Obfuscate Perimeter Records.  A four album vinyl set of previously unreleased solo music (and a few uncompleted tracks which had small tape releases and are now finished and remixed) by Blair Petrie.  The recordings span mainly from 1978 to 1994 and represent a cross section of many of the styles explored as a solo artist.  The set comes with a poster, a booklet and lots of information: poems, lyrics, photographs, et cetera.  Over two and a half hours of music on this limited edition, vinyl-only release.

Available only At blairpetrie.com and discogs

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i have listened to so many diy-material and i can tell you that yours is definately in top 10 percent when it comes to the production and quality of music.

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/ Frank Maier, Vinyl On Demand (VOD) (Germany) /