NOW ACCEPTING PRE-ORDERSPBK / Spybey / Butcher / JohnsonHeat On Earthhttps://humanhoodrecordings.bandcamp.co ... t-on-earthHeat On Earth features a quartet of international experimental musicians comprised of PBK, Mark Spybey, John Butcher and Travis Johnson. Spybey's lush rhythmic settings seem to have been influenced by his work with members of Can, they pulsate and swell as other sounds envelope them in a drone. John Butcher utilizes electronics to extend the potentials of sound on his saxophone, multiplying split-tones into abstract orchestras and using slap tongue techniques to create exotic percussion sounds. A highlight here, Travis Johnson's brilliant contributions on the cello using bowing, scraping and other extended techniques while recording in the Floridian environment with the sound of insects and frogs. PBK's ambient textures, noise and electronics fill in the spaces with dark forms and brooding colors. The result is a unique hybrid of krautrock, free jazz and post-industrial music.  ARTIST BIO'S  Mark Spybey:  Born 1961, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Spybey was a member of the legendary experimental group, Zoviet France and later, the industrial band Download (with cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy). He has also collaborated with bands such as Can, Not Breathing, James Plotkin, Pigface, Legendary Pink Dots, Mick Harris and many others. He is currently working under the moniker, Dead Voices On Air. DVOA blends processed sound from primitive instruments and toys into rhythmic structures or dark clusters of ambient sound.  Travis Johnson  Born 1979, Florida, USA.  Johnson began experimenting with radios, tapes and open circuits as a child, inspired by the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop for Doctor Who and also by the rural isolation of his Suwannee County, Florida home. He is a multi-instrumentalist who works with stringed instruments as well as synthesizers and varied electronics. Even when playing an acoustic stringed instrument, his approach is informed primarily by electronic and electroacoustic music. He has curated several labels, including Ilse and Poverty Electronics.  John Butcher  Born 1954, Brighton, United Kingdom.  Butcher had in mind to become a physicist and actually began his Ph.D. before turning to music full-time. Self-taught on the tenor and soprano saxophones since the late '70s, he began to play jazz, both conventional and unorthodox, while attending university in Surrey. A boundless improviser with a long list of collaborators that includes Derek Bailey, Eddie Prévost/AMM, Keiji Haino, Matthew Shipp, and many others. Butcher has used electronics to extend the possibilities of his voice on the saxophone while exploring split tones/overtones and also moving into silence and microsound.  Phillip B. Klingler  Born 1960, Michigan, USA  Klingler, better known as PBK, has been active in the experimental music underground since the 1980's. His work first became known via the U.S. independent cassette culture scene. A restless composer with equal interest in noise and ambient music, he has worked with many of the most respected names in experimental music including Asmus Tietchens, Jim O'Rourke, Vidna Obmana and Wolf Eyes. Using extreme turntable manipulation, sampling, analog/digital synthesis, Klingler's soundwork can be noisy, droning and oppressive but can also contain ambient textures and, at other times, aspects of glitch.Phillip B Klingler - Electronics, Production, Mix  Mark Spybey - Electronics, Rhythms, Production  John Butcher - Soprano Saxophone, FX  Travis Johnson - Cello, Field Recordings