released June 21, 2022

01 123 Wiretap # Cumings, Vermeesch, Gruszin, Lonsdale
02 Slinging the Bat # Cumings, Vermeesch, Gruszin, Lonsdale
03 Y Die in Sinai? # Vermeesch, Lonsdale
04 Undersong # Cumings, Vermeesch, Gruszin, Lonsdale
05 Barbarism # Lonsdale
06 Mercifully Short * Vermeesch, Lonsdale
07 Boxmusik * Cumings, Vermeesch, Lonsdale
08 Uh-oh * Vermeesch, Declerc, Gruszin, Lonsdale
09 Concert * Vermeesch, Declerc, Lonsdale
10 Recital * Vermeesch, Lonsdale
11 Sine * Cumings, Vermeesch, Lonsdale
12 Resolution * Cumings, Vermeesch, Gruszin, Lonsdale
13 No Man Alone * Declerc, Lonsdale
14 Like Idiots + Cumings, Vermeesch, Declerc, Lonsdale
15 Does Not Equal + Vermeesch, Declerc, Gruszin, Lonsdale
16 Spine + Vermeesch, Lonsdale
17 Body of Light + Vermeesch, Lonsdale
18 Ray & Jim Talk Football @ Cumings, Vermeesch, Gruszin, Lonsdale
19 Modern Pop Epic #399 @ Cumings, Lonsdale
20 Earth Terminal @ Cumings, Vermeesch, Lonsdale
21 Red @ Cumings, Gruszin, Lonsdale
22 Nature & Objects @ Cumings, Gruszin, Lonsdale
23 Sanatron @ Cumings, Vermeesch, Lonsdale
24 Self / Not-Self @ Cumings, Vermeesch, Lonsdale
25 Self / Not-Self (Coda) @ Cumings, Vermeesch, Lonsdale
26 Insect March @ Cumings, Vermeesch, Lonsdale
27 Cadence @ Cumings, Lonsdale
28 Glass Machine @ Cumings, Vermeesch, Gruszin, Lonsdale
29 Iris East Theme @ Cumings, Vermeesch, Lonsdale
30 No Man Alone 2 @ Declerc, Lonsdale
31 Edge Effect @ Vermeesch, Gruszin, Lonsdale
32 Irregular Observance @ Cumings, Vermeesch, Lonsdale
33 Dark Space @ Vermeesch, Gruszin, Lonsdale
34 Advertisement @ Vermeesch, Lonsdale
35 Jazz to Sex like Death @ Cumings, Lonsdale
36 Knives & Forks at Four @ Cumings, Lonsdale
37 Variation @ Vermeesch, Lonsdale
38 Sedimentary Journey @ Vermeesch, Declerc, Gruszin, Lonsdale
39 Every Day Fiction @ Vermeesch, Gruszin, Lonsdale
40 Pop @ Vermeesch, Gruszin, Lonsdale
41 This Stinking War @ Cumings, Lonsdale
42 Spine Dub @ Vermeesch, Lonsdale

+ released on Boxmusik Tapes #9, "47 1/2 - ismISM", 1985 - recorded 1982-83.
* released on Boxmusik Tapes #1, "Aural Arkives", 1982 - recorded 1981-82.
# released on Boxmusik Tapes #0, "Aural Appetisers", 1981; & also #1, 1982 - recorded 1981.
@ previously unreleased, recorded 1981-83.

Some previously released tracks appear in new edits (mostly extended versions). One or two original cassette tracks, & several early sessions, were not able to be transferred. Most songs appear here in digital format for the first time. Recorded in various inner-Sydney households; except "Barbarism" & parts of "123 Wiretap" and "Knives and Forks at Four" in Rockhampton (1981)

ismISM improvised almost everything, & with the exception of "Y Die In Sinai?" never repeated a piece. ismISM played, composed, & recorded as a collective of people oriented to complete experimentation in "anti-pop" music. Andy edited, montaged, engineered, & persuaded the tracks into existence as tape / digital releases. Tracks are compiled from original session recordings that survive, & remastered into 24-bit digital audio in 2009. Everything was recorded & released on cassette. Some tracks were created by tape montage incorporating performance.

ismISM on these recordings were: Rob Cumings (keyboards, wind instruments, percussion, voice), Andy Lonsdale (tapes, edits, radio, voice, keyboards, guitar, drum machine, percussion, synth, processing), Jeremy Vermeesch [1962-2010] (guitar, keyboards, percussion, drum machine, bass), Yvonne Gruszin [1958-1983] (clarinet, wind instruments), and Jean Declerc (clarinet, voice, saw, jaw harp, percussion).

(c) ismISM 1981-83.

For Jez & Yvonne, who burn so bright.