{"title":"Noveller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNoveller is the solo project of Los Angeles-based guitarist and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. She has performed in Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Army, and as a member of Glenn Branca’s 100 guitar ensemble. Noveller has toured supporting Xiu Xiu, the Jesus Lizard, Man Forever, and Emeralds. Lipstate is currently working with Carla Bozulich on an improvised duo release for No Fun Productions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2008, Lipstate performed as part of the Underground at the Abrons performance series at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. That December, she played at the Un Son Par Là, Music of Today festival in Nîmes, France. In March 2009, she performed in the revival of Rhys Chatham and Karole Armitage’s “Drastic-Classicism” as part of the Think Punk! program at The Kitchen in NYC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo Fun Productions released her debut LP Paint on the Shadows in April 2009. Following that release, Lipstate performed at No Fun Fest at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Her latest release Desert Fires is available on CD via Lipstate’s own imprint Saffron Recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"no-dreams","title":"No Dreams","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuilding on the breakthrough of her \"Glacial Glow\" album, and coming off of tours opening for St. Vincent and The Jesus Lizard (something that only makes equal sense for Noveller), guitarist and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate emerged with what AllMusic called \"an incredible and complex statement, and one that clearly stands as a challenge to herself and her audience alike.\" The album. \"No Dreams\" would continue to elevate her songwriting and soundscaping to new heights, with Pitchfork raving; \"Sarah Lipstate creates miniature musical worlds, places that you feel like you'll never leave as long as the record is playing.\" Lipstate, a former member of Parts \u0026amp; Labour and Cold Cave, as well as a collaborator with such luminaries as Lee Renaldo and Jim Thirlwell, along with being a member of both Rhys Chatham's Guitar Army and Glenn Branca's 100 Guitar Ensemble, has emerged as one of the most exciting and interesting guitarists of this era. \"No Dreams\" cements her as a talent on the rise. Originally released as a limited edition on the experimental label Important Records, following the success of her most recent \"Fantastic Planet\" album, Fire Records is reissuing the album on 180 gram vinyl to a wider audience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50491936571723,"sku":"394362","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50491939258699,"sku":"369940","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/19887f58-bd88-44b8-a89f-d2222e4b0395_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727689973"},{"product_id":"fantastic-planet","title":"Fantastic Planet","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Fantastic Planet' is the soaring, evocative new album from Noveller, the solo instrumental venture of Austin-based composer and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. The LP is a journey through eclectic sonic terrain, blending rich waves of synth with soaring cinematic guitar lines, guiding the listener through Noveller's most diverse and compelling release to date. Originally self-defined as an electric guitar project, Lipstate began recording under the name Noveller (pronounced \"know-veller\") in 2005 whilst living and studying in Texas. She uprooted to Brooklyn and subsequently made waves on New York's live scene and internationally, sharing the stage with the likes of Six Organs of Admittance, St. Vincent, Xiu Xiu, the Jesus Lizard, U.S. Girls, Aidan Baker and Emeralds, whilst capturing the attention of NPR, The Village Voice, Time Out New York and The Wall Street Journal. Noveller's prolific output has seen her release albums via No Fun Productions and her own imprint, Saffron Recordings, including the Desert Fires LP and the critically acclaimed Glacial Glow. She also released a split LP with unFact (David Wm. Sims of the Jesus Lizard) and has collaborated with several renowned musicians, including live improvised duo performances with Carla Bozulich (Evangelista, The Geraldine Fibbers), Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), and JG Thirlwell (Foetus, Manorexia).  She has previously performed as a member of Cold Cave, Parts \u0026amp; Labor, and One Umbrella.  Upon returning to Texas, Lipstate developed her signature cinematic soundscapes further, and it was here she completed her spectacular new release Fantastic Planet. It is an album largely steeped in place, both real and fantastical, and influenced by Lipstate's various interchanges and relocations, physical and emotional. Noveller takes the elements of rhythm and synth textures introduced in her previous album No Dreams and expands them to a new level of prominence through her guitar work on Fantastic Planet.  From the dark beat propelling \"Pulse Point\" to the distorted synth on post-punk track \"Rubicon\", Lipstate pushes her sound in new directions that complement and elevate her intoxicating filmic soundscapes.   \"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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50492952576331,"sku":"384273","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f6d04860-108c-463c-bdfc-3e85c6f29a30_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727694506"},{"product_id":"glacial-glow","title":"Glacial Glow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Noveller is the nom de musique of Sarah Lipstate, whose precise compositions build on a cathartic repetition of righteous riff action colored with gorgeous loopingfuckdoodlery and noise gush,\" explains The Village Voice in introducing her album \"Glacial Glow.\" The more mannered Wall Street Journal likens her \"use of her guitar to explore sonic territory similar to the mid-70s experiments of Brian Eno and King Crimson Robert Fripp.\" They only touch on the unique way that Lipstate interacts with her Fender Jaguar and a layout of pedals that Guitar Player has run extensive features and analysis on and inspired Red Bull to anoint her one of the Best 30 Guitarists Under 30. As a member of both Rhys Chatham's Guitar Army and Glenn Branca's 100 Guitar Ensemble, and as a collaborator with the likes of Lee Renaldo and Jim Thirlwell, Lipstate has emerged as one of the most exciting and interesting guitarists of this era. With \"Glacial Glow\" Lipstate honed Noveller into what Pitchfork called \"a stronger, bolder voice\" giving \"each track a distinct theme, telling wordless stories.\" Originally released in 2011 as a limited edition on Weird Forest, following the success of her most recent \"Fantastic Planet\" album, Fire Records is reissuing the album to a wider audience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50493798089035,"sku":"394365","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50493798809931,"sku":"394364","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d0ed1988-e417-4123-895a-0c20a44ed5be_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727700643"},{"product_id":"a-pink-sunset-for-no-one","title":"A Pink Sunset For No One","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Pink Sunset For No One\u003c\/i\u003e is the eighth studio album from Noveller, the solo electric guitar project from US composer and filmmaker. One of the most adept guitarists of our time, Lipstate returns with her signature breathtaking cinematic, experimental soundscapes. Eloquent and striking, her instrumentals evoke colourful and otherworldly imagery. 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Following several years spent collaborating with Iggy Pop, and touring the world as his guitarist, Lipstate returns with a new album of her own. I Am The Weather further expands her inventive explorations, creating what Pop once described to Jim Jarmusch as “symphonies for people that don’t have a lot of time.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah’s work as a composer, notably for the HBO Docuseries Breath Of Fire, as well as the Anthony Bourdain documentary Roadrunner, has greatly influenced her new constructions, incorporating piano, percussion and a new studio filled with excitement into her signature guitar sculpting. It is the baby grand at the center of her studio that welcomes you to the record on “Sunday in Copenhagen” before ceding to a celestial six string swell. The percussive rhythms of “Divining Dance” awaken a new morning in “The Way of Our Flood” and walk towards the bowed grace of “Otherside of Mountainside.” Surging into the sky, “Portmerion” allows “Beyond the Fells” to glide back down to Earth, revealing the album’s biggest surprise—a vocal track!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt seems fitting given their past, that the first vocals on a Noveller record would be delivered by the legendary Iggy Pop. Written specifically for The Godfather of Punk, a noirish tale of a man over-matched by a femme fatale, “The Girl Who Was Death” builds with tension and release. Following their collaboration on the title track to Iggy’s album Free, (also used in a global campaign for PETA) and their interpretation of Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gently Into The Night”, Iggy was eagerly awaiting the opportunity to add vocals to another Lipstate composition. A scene set as if on opposite ends of a corner booth at the Double R Diner in Twin Peaks, he delivers each line with the weight of a thousand lives lived. The result is a song so vivid that you can see it projected ten feet tall on the walls all around you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Experimentia","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":56937237971275,"sku":"R1013-3146","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed-2026-04-02T131047.497.jpg?v=1775131855"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_2047613c_thumbnail_4096_3c9365d9-1ecc-4d81-9321-4df5f0660dab.jpg?v=1727689943","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/noveller.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}