Idealstate Recordings

idealstate recordings is the home-imprint and outlet, active since mid-1990's. Originally releasing homespun cassettes, then CDR from 1999 onward, ISR now offers limited-run physical releases & lossless downloads from the idealstate website.
Artists include: Gabriel Edvinsson Barrie James Sutcliffe, Paulo Chagas Migual A. García Tomas Gris Phil Brownlee Johnny Chang Finn Loxbo Jérôme Poirier Richard Neave Alex MacKinnon phil hargreaves Motoko Kikkawa Sally Ann McIntyre (Radio Cegeste) Barry Chabala nv s bl axe and Je Serai Une Tombe.
  • "Noyes utilized his famous mini-sized kit, this time stripped back to absolute bare boner. What occurred was simply gorgeous – Noyes mirrored the chatter and crunch of radio by stretching drum-skins, scraping and sucking, blowing and shuttling, his kit transforms into an ululating backdrop... There is a delerium to this performance. And I don't think any one else would have had the imagination and responsive sensitivity to make it work."Matt Middleton - La Décennie Brut
  • "Every gesture is prudent and well-placed. Sticks, knuckles, brushes, fingertips, rubber balls, eraser-on-paper emulations etc. join skin and metal, Noyes analyzing all areas of his drum and cymbal with creative kindness/coercion... With extreme simplicity, intimacy at its most familiar and acute patience, Noyes... craft(s) intrigue."Dave Madden - The Squid's Ear
  • "Noyes manages to balance the tensions between sounds, noises and notes, by sprinkling a few short, sensitive melodic phrases or disseminating the rubbing and scraping wood and strings of his piano, in a territory that hesitates between the parentage of John Tilbury and Magda Mayas."Julien Héraud - Improv Sphere
  • "History feels challenged... very tense, angular work that succeeds through its own awkwardness and ability to sound unlike much else I have heard in a while."Richard Pinnell - The Watchful Ear
  • "Noyes, the free-improv percussionist, folds and subsumes his contributions into the whole."Jesse Goin - Crow With No Mouth