Lately I've Been Under a Lot of Impressure

Impressure was set up by the Freedom in a Vacuum label to release five limited edition albums, exquisitely produced & packaged. They were to include Aegri Somnia Vana by Empirical Sleeping Consort, along with works by Tibetan Red, PBK, a  split with Kaiser Nietzshe & Yuzuru Syogase, & a collaboration by Hirsch Quadrant & Merzbow. Only two of the five were released. The Empirical Sleeping Consort release that follows was the first one.

 

Empirical Sleeping Consort – Ægri Somnia Vana, Impressure IMP.01, 1990.

all decryption codes in comments

Dream Side –

pt. I – ever of thee I’m fondly dreaming

pt. II – in the lap of Morpheus

pt. III – la colonne brulee

pt. IV – the ravell’d sleave of care

untitled mystery track after locked groove

EEG Side – 

pt. V – between Scylla & Charybdis

The second one was the Yuzuru Syogase / Kaiser Nietzsche split LP. Kaiser Nietzsche is: John Kamevaar & Thomas Hardy. Yuzuru – himself.

Kaiser Nietzsche / Yuzuru Syogase – Untitled, Impressure IMP.02, 1994

Kaiser Side –

Negative Space 11:34

Ceteris Paribus 10:04

Yuzuru Side –

Bichanco 11:41

Divizadero I 4:34

Divizadero III 2:30

Also from the same era, by the bands Impressure was intending to represent.

Tibetan Red – Tibetan Red cassette, Freedom in a Vacuum VACT.01, 1985.

Side A –

Scanning

Side B –

Kalahari Fire Birth

PBK – Vivisection cassette, PBK Recordings, 1988.

Side A –

Untitled

Untitled

Side B –

Untitled

Untitled

Never have been able to find a compilation of Merzbow & Hirsch Quadrant(???).

Enjoy,

NØ