"Many instruments and processes were used during the making of this album. Much of these instruments are hand made or bastardized objects.  The ooze as concept is a result of this material process.  While collage is a technique that Ruehlen often composes through, all sounds were sourced from his own live recordings that happened either in the studio or out in the field."-- Oozetones / Fleshscapes

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A chaotic vortex of inner worlds falling into disarray, Oozetones/Fleshscapes reflects a decade long refinement in Cecyl Ruehlen’s idiosyncratic approach to improvising, installation, and sound engineering as a method of multifaceted composition. An exercise in mania, the album is saturated with dense fields of phantom soundings, sonic toilet flushes, dripping mouths, screaming horns, earworms, and ego-dissolving scattershot. The ooze, or the psychic warbling that underlies all of Nature, takes shape, or perhaps deforms, through the erosion of background and foreground, evading category through sudden escapes past elusive doorways, crushing gates, flickering envelopes, and walls of thought. The slippages that lead the ear to moments where quietude enters the body are equally as unsettling and pulse with nervous rapture. 

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Cecyl Ruehlen (b. 1984) is an intermedia artist, composer, educator and curator. While he has led a relatively nomadic life across the US, Ruehlen has made his home in the Sonoran Desert, morphing iterative actions, collaborative projects, and varying recording processes into a topological contortion with an array of chimeric instruments and extra-territorial sound forms. His forensic mode of composing is guided by deep listening and meteoric super-impositions that distort, abstract, decompose and explode internal and salvaged materials, shaping a practice that is as much drifting through temporary obsessions as it is devotional and steadfast in study. His prolific and heavily collaborative art life has placed him as a central node of underground and experimental scenes in the western United States in recent years, pouring forth countless albums, performance ventures, shifting monikers, and cultural synergies, largely through his operating of a label, DIY spaces, teaching, and touring sporadically since the late '00s. 

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RECENT DISCOGRAPHY:

Sferics (2023, Harmonic Ooze Records)

Deluge Array (2022, Falt Records)

Tropic Of Paranoia (2022, Self Release)

Levitation Elixir (2022, Harmonic Ooze Records)

Where Tremble Heart (Duo with John Melillo, 2021, Harmonic Ooze Records)

Wooden Ox Or Barew Music (2021, Harmonic Ooze Records)

64 Verses For Crane Fly (2020, Self Released)

Nervous/Splintered/Circular/Breath (2020, Self Released)

OQ (2020, Self Released)

Topaz Discreet (2019, Never Anything Records)

Ectoplasmic Food Offerings To The God Anubis (2020, Ingrown Records)

Pitched Lung In Bell Streams (2019, Ephem-Aural Recordings)

Xenomachinx Horizons ( Channel Worker, 2019, Shadowtrash Tape Group)

Wounded Northern Curve Of Light (2019-2020, Self Release)

Time Agnosia (2019, Shadowtrash Tape Group)

Silt Ond Loess En Solstice (twelf tacna, 2019, Shadowtrash Tape Group)

Spells & Other (2018, Shadowtrash Tape Group)