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Released: May 30, 2011

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“Some artists traverse boundaries. Sarah Lipstate’s work seems to come from a world where they never existed. Her color-rich visual art has a mournful literary quality to it; her short films trigger collisions of emotional crosscurrents; and her instrumental music, which she makes under the name Noveller (emphasis on the middle syllable), seems to call to attention all senses at once, to the point where even the word music seems somehow limiting.” – Time Out NY

“…simultaneously soothing and mind-wrecking noise, along with a compositional depth that most loud-for-the-hell-of-it guitar droners never reach.” – NY Press

Noveller is the solo project of Brooklyn-based guitarist and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. Handling the electric guitar as her muse, Lipstate summons a sonic palette so rich as to challenge the listener to conceive of how it’s housed in a single instrument manipulated by a solitary performer.

She released her first two full-length albums on Brooklyn noise label No Fun Productions in 2009. Noveller’s latest full-length, ‘Desert Fires’, came out via Lipstate’s own imprint, Saffron Recordings, in July of 2010. Saffron Recordings also released a split LP between Noveller and unFact (David Wm. Sims of the Jesus Lizard) last year. Lipstate is currently working on ‘Glacial Glow’, the follow-up to ‘Desert Fires’ to be jointly released between Weird Forest and Saffron Recordings in May 2011.

Recently, Lipstate performed at the Suoni Per Il Popolo fest in Montreal, Decibel Festival in Seattle, and Unsound Festival in Krakow. Noveller has toured the U.S. and internationally, at times supporting acts such as Xiu Xiu, the Jesus Lizard, Man Forever, Aidan Baker, and Emeralds.

Lipstate has collaborated with several renowned musicians, including live improvised duo performances with Carla Bozulich, David Wm. Sims, Shahin Motia, and Lee Ranaldo.

She has previously performed as a member of Cold Cave, Parts & Labor, and One Umbrella. Lipstate has also participated in Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Army, and Glenn Branca’s 100 guitar ensemble.

Her short films screened at the SXSW film festival in 2006 and 2007, and earned Lipstate the “Diamond in the Rough Cut” award for exceptional emerging filmmaker at Cinematexas 2006. She debuted a new film, ‘Interior Variations’, at the New Museum as part of No Fun: Infinite Sound and Image in May 2009. The film also screened at the 12th Kyoto International Film & Video Festival in Japan, and as part of the ‘New York Avant Cinema Series’ at the 23rd Singapore International Film Festival. Lipstate’s film works were showcased in the Women of NY Cinema screening as part of the 2009 NY Eye + Ear Festival in Tribeca.

In March 2011, Lipstate showed ARTIFACT, a multimedia installation exploring process, rescission, and artifact in film and sound, at Splatterpool Artspace in Brooklyn. She collaborated with Chris Habib to create an interactive personal echo chamber fitted with a cassette player running one pre-recorded tape loop. Each time a participant engages the echo chamber, a switch activates an erase head atop the structure deleting a portion of the audio randomly from the loop. As more people visit the chamber, more silence is restored to the tape.

Lipstate received a BS in Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin in December 2006, and currently resides in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY.

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Noveller ‘Glacial Glow’ CD/LP
(Saffron Recordings/Weird Forest, 2011)
Edition of 500 on clear vinyl w/ 11" x 11" insert.
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Tracklisting:
1 Entering
2 Glacial Wave
3 Blue
4 Resolutions
5 Alone Star
6 Tuesday Before Poland
7 Waxwing
8 Ends
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Noveller ‘Desert Fires’ CD/LP
(Saffron Recordings, 2010/ Weird Forest, 2011)
Vinyl Edition of 500 with 11" x 11" insert
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Tracklisting:
1 Almost Alright
2 Same
3 Kites Calm Desert Fires
4 Toothnest (for Chris Habib)
5 Three Windows Facing Three Doors
6 Fades
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Noveller/unFact ‘Bleached Valentine’ split LP
(Saffron/Ox-Ghost Recordings, 2010) Edition of 500
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Tracklisting:
Noveller Side A
1 Starve
2 Happiness Can’t Make You Happy
3 Bleached Beach

unFact Side B
1 Hard World for Little Things
2 Valentine
3 Our Friend the Atom
4 Returning from Antartica
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Noveller ‘Beneath the Basin’ cassette (Neon Blossom, 2010) Edition of 50
Tracklisting
1 Before Sainthood
2 Riot
3 Wind Me Up
4 Parish Sketch
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Noveller ‘Red Rainbows’ CD (No Fun Productions, 2009)..
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Tracklisting:
1 Rainbows
2 Brilliant Colors
3 St. Powers
4 Tunnels
5 Bends
*Enhanced CD includes the short film Interior Variations by Sarah Lipstate..

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General Info

Genre: Ambient / Experimental / Visual
Location BROOKLYN, New York, US
Profile Views: 243851
Last Login: 7/23/2011
Member Since 4/4/2005
Website www.Sarahlipstate.com
Record Label Saffron Recordings, No Fun Productions, etc.
Type of Label Indie
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