Mark Durgan

17.2.11

      Mark Durgan @ Rising Sun Arts Centre, 26 - 30 Silver Street,
   Reading, RG1 2ST.

   Friday April 1st 2011. Doors @ 19:30.
Also with performances from Jonathan Coleclough, Cheapmachines, Felicity Ford, Martin Franklin & Simon Whetham.

This site will offer the most recent news updates regarding any releases of Mark Durgan's electro -acoustic recordings, as well as his more Noise-based work as Putrefier.

We will also supply any information regarding upcoming collaborative works and live performances.

Since 1986 Mark Durgan has released his recordings via a number of various legendary labels such as Broken Flag, MSBR, RRRecords, Harbinger Sound, Artware and others. Plus more recent releases on prominent newer labels such as Gods Of Tundra and Pan. Most of these have been under the Putrefier name. More recently he has been working and releasing material under his own name. Using an array of homemade devices, Modular, 'pressure' sensitive synthesisier and environmental sounds to create subtle electro-acoustic compositions with a flicker of Musique Concrete intuition.

Over the years he has played numerous shows and events around the UK and the globe, including tours of Europe, Scandinavia and Japan. The most recent festival appearances have been at No Fun (Stockholm), Colour Out Of Space (Brighton), The Lowest Form Of Music (London) , Broken Flag - Never Say When Event (London) and more recently at the HCMF performing sound for Maja Ratkje spectacular choral event Crepuscular Hour.

Details about all forthcoming events and releases will be posted here upon confirmation. Please check back regularly.

He is currently based in Bristol, England.

Available recordings :

* John Wall/Mark Durgan - 139. CD (Entr'acte) £10.00

*OSM - Supercharge. 2LP Reissue of the Putrefier/Evil Moisture collaboration cassette on MSNP with extra unreleased live material. (Harbinger Sound) £12.00

* Putrefier - Beyond Scathing. CD Reissue of 1986 Birthbiter cassette. (Industrial Recollections) £10.00

* Putrefier - Cog Dominance. CD Reissue of 1987 Broken Flag cassette. (Industrial Recollections) £10.00

* Putrefier - Unreleased and Compilation Archive 1987-1991 CD (Industrial Recollections) £10.00

A review of the above Putrefier retrospective CD's can be seen here:

http://heathenharvest.org/2012/12/17/putrefier-cog-dominance-beyond-scathing-unreleased-and-compilation-archive/

* Mark Durgan - Ploughing Furrows Into Rotten Burrows. LP. £20.00

* Mark Durgan & Dean Glaister - Live Interlacing. LP. £10.00

* Mark Durgan / Jazkamer - Split. 7". £5.00

* Putrefier - Solar Dragging. LP. (NEW on Noiseville) £12.00

* Putrefier - Simulated Vapours. LP. (Harbinger) £9.00

* Putrefier - Trace Element Syntax. CD. (Birthbiter Edition). £6.00

* Putrefier / Kazumoto Endo - Split. CD. £3.00

* Putrefier / The New Blockaders - Schleifmittelbogen. LP. (Birthbiter) £11.00

* Putrefier / K2 - Collaboration. LP. £11.00

* Putrefier - Hyper Tension Classics. 4CD Boxset. £18.00

* Putrefier - Pray For Fire. 7". £3.00

* The New Blockaders - Das Zerstoren, Zum Gebaren. CD. £10.00

* Nihilist Assault Group / Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Planned Obsolecence. LP. £12.00

More titles soon.

Postage costs are additional. Please enquire direct via the email address given in the Contact section.

Distributors, please enquire about wholesale rates.

A comprehensive discography can be found here :

www.discogs.com/artist/Putrefier

An extensive interview with Mark Durgan can be found in the first issue of As Loud As Possible magazine .