Tiny Hairs released two CDs on False Walls: Subtle Invisible Bodies and Coldless.

They improvised their live shows, between 2000 to 2009: http://www.tinyhairs.com/dates.html

From The Onion’s listing for Tiny Hairs w/Pow!ers/Cozzolino (at Mother Fool’s, 1101 Williamson St., Madison, WI), July 21, 2001:

“Tiny Hairs has a penchant for long songs with longer titles (“The Water has its Skin as Does the Sky,” “The Sun behind you makes your ears look red”). “Songs” might be the wrong word to describe Tiny Hairs’ minimalist improvisations, which combine the sound of traditional acoustic instruments with often-random electric noises — interrupting, say, a lovely violin melody with the sound of a short-wave radio transmission. It’s spontaneous music without the frequently punishing atonality of free jazz, proving that experimental doesn’t necessarily mean unlistenable.”

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Tiny Hairs at Lula’s Cafe, 2537 N. Kedzie, Chicago, IL.  March 11, 2000

March 30, 2002 at the Empty Bottle, Tiny Hairs’ Subtle Invisible Bodies (fw01) and Ribbon Effect’s ep98 (fw02) were launched. Lou Mallozzi and Michael Zerang also performed.

from the Chicago Reader, 2001:

“This is a party for the two initial releases by the Chicago label False Walls; both Tiny Hairs’s second release, Subtle Invisible Bodies, and Ribbon Effect’s EP98 (recorded before last year’s debut album, Slip) come out April 1. Both bands rely on improvisation to generate ideas; though Ribbon Effect consider themselves a song-oriented band, none of the four long tracks on the EP coalesces into a pop structure. Nonetheless they seem the more light-footed of the two, percussive and sometimes even effervescent as keyboards and drums interlace; the very analog accordion challenges the electronics to a playful duel. Tiny Hairs go into darker territory; the tracks unfold gradually and with a slow pulse; if you follow Peter Rosenbloom’s violin it behaves like a fairy light, getting a listener more and more lost in the moonlit forest of Charles King’s magical miscellany (“electronics, turntable, shortwave, electromagnetic bicycle/shelving/fan/jar of bolts”).

March 14, 2004 at the PAC/edge Performance Festival, Tiny Hairs’ second album Coldless (fw01) and Molar’s The Time and Motion Studies (fw05) were launched. Gene Coleman (from Storobo Imp., fw04) and Jon Chen also performed.

Between 2002 and 2004, the Chicago-based False Walls label released six CDs. Run by CJ Mitchell alongside his other work in the performing arts, the CDs were predominantly instrumental and experimental: including post-rock, acoustic improvisation, electronics and a radio project.

After 2004, the label went dormant, with the original six CDs out of print.

In 2021, following CJ’s re-location to Faversham (UK), the label launches again, with its old catalogue of six releases being made available for download for the first time.

New releases will follow in 2022: a new CD from Cindytalk and a boxset of live recordings and writings from Andrew Poppy.

Image: variations on the False Walls logo design, by John DeVylder http://john.devylder.com