Full album stream: Music For Honey and Bile by William Ryan Fritch
Full album stream: Music For Mysteries of Mind Space and Time by Comic Wow
MP3s: "When the Ground Is Numb" & "Jazz Computer" via Impose

You might have heard of a certain shoe company opening a certain studio for indie bands.

Very nice of them.

We went a step further. We here at Asthmatic Kitty contracted out established, recognized musicians like William Ryan Fritch and Comic Wow to record music that will fit perfectly into whatever life situation you are in. We designed this with your life stream in mind.

So-called stock music isn't just for corporations and television stations anymore. You are your own brand, and justifiably you need a life soundtrack to personally identify and reinforce your self/brand. No need to clutter one's life with subpar content/music! Hence the Library Catalog Music Series.

Today we are releasing two new volumes in the series: composer William Ryan Fritch's Music for Honey and Bile and sonic illustrators Comic Wow's Music for Mysteries of Mind Space and Time. You can stream both releases in full now. Enjoy!

Album art and bios after the jump.

WILLIAM RYAN FRITCH
Music For Honey and Bile
Volume 9 of Asthmatic Kitty Library Catalog series
out October 26, 2010

"Scores for high-budget thrillers shot in the dead of winter in some northern city." Impose Magazine

William Ryan Fritch is a film composer, recordist, songwriter, and multi instrumentalist living in Oakland, Ca. He records under the moniker Vieo Abiungo for Lost Tribe Sound Records, is a member of the trio Skyrider, the experimental post-hop outfit Sole and the Skyrider Band, and is a go to guy for a number of other recording artists and producers. Since 2008 he has scored nearly thirty films, several of which have premiered in film festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, Toronto, Los Angeles and Copenhagen.

Music for Honey and Bile is an album of filmic works in which unfettered optimism is loomed out of spectral melancholy, and the unflattering ruddy of such sanguineness stands naked in the midst of the noxious ether.

All pieces composed, performed, mixed and recorded by William Ryan Fritch.

William Fritch: Piano, organ, wurlitzer, pianet, guitars, pedal steel, drums, saxophone, percussion, marimba, cello, violin, viola, bass, contrabass, mandolin, banjo, hammered dulcimer, vibraphone, trumpet, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, programming, erhu, sarangi, and other various knick knacks

with the amazing help of -
Annie Lewandowski on track 8: chopstick prepared piano
James Diotte on track 13: vibraphone, jaguar organ, tape manipulation, and additional arrangement.

COMIC WOW
Music For Mysteries of Mind Space and Time
Volume 10 of Asthmatic Kitty Library Catalog series
out October 26, 2010

"Comic Wow's springy bass lines and vintage keyboards at times sound like they're straight out a British spy thriller soundtrack from 1967. But just when you think you've got Alonso and co. pegged, they bust a Todd Rundgren-esque slice of breezy AM radio psych-pop ("Jazz Computer") or a Giorgio Moroder disco-synth pulse ("Miami Song Tennis 2"). Rarely does anyone make retro-inspired music sound this futuristic." Andy Hermann, Metromix

Comic Wow are sonic illustrators, alchemists, designers, dilettantes', poets, teachers, Socialists, and outdoorsmen whose advocacy of affordable colored cod pieces helped influence the look of thirty-third century America. Incidentally, they've also released music as Feathers. All pieces composed, performed, mixed and recorded by Eddie Alonso, Eric Rasco, John McEntire, Chris O'Malley, Ken Champion, Roy Silverstein, Paul Mertens, Tim Iseler, Jeremy Lemos, and Matt Crum.

Eddie Alonso: guitars, farfisa mini compact, wurlitzer ep 206, rmi rock-si-chord, suzuki omnichord, baldwin electric harpsichord, chickering 5" 11' grand piano (re-built), percussion, marimba, banjo, vibraphone, cornet, electronics
Eric Rasco: bass, danelectro baritone, electronics, skeleton finger
John McEntire: drums, percussion, electronics, engineer
Chris O'Malley: drums
Ken Champion: pedal steel, dobro, guitar
Paul Mertens: flute
Tim Iseler: engineer
Jeremy Lemos: engineer
Roy Silverstein: guitar, engineer
Matt Crum: drums