The private label of multi-instrumentalist and composer Aram Shelton.
These recordings are available at Shelton's live shows and through this website.
Payments accepted through Paypal. For more information on these and other projects, please visit www.aramshelton.com
To contact, please email: info [at] singlespeedmusic [dot] org

Kjell Nordeson and Aram Shelton both found their way to the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-2000s, from Sweden and Chicago respectively. Their first project together was Cylinder (Clean Feed CF219) with Darren Johnston and Lisa Mezzacappa.  In 2008 they began playing as a duo, named simply Nordeson Shelton.

Incline was recorded over the course of a weekend in a cabin in the mountains near Lake Tahoe.  Nordeson Shelton allowed their musical and personal relationship to shape these improvisations, rather than incorporating predetermined melodies, structures, concepts or dogmas. The resulting music created by these two virtuosic musicians is complex and subtle, adventurous and focused.

An album of improvised duets between Kanoko Nishi on koto and Aram Shelton on soprano saxophone. The two instruments are quite different, representing wind & string families, with opposing Eastern and Western backgrounds. They share a common pitch range. Both are soloistic. The musicians explore a musical area far beyond the scope of either instruments' tradition. The resulting dialog is constantly evolving. The sound is the melody.

A download only partnered release with Candy Dinner.

In this quartet, Aram Shelton plays equal amounts of alto saxophone & clarinet, approaching each distinctly while displaying both the large and subtle differences of the instruments. Keefe Jackson contributes on tenor saxophone with a full sound and unique approach to the utilization of extended techniques. Anton Hatwich's bass playing grounds the music and drives it in a compelling way, while Marc Riordan's drums serve as backbone to the rhythmic aspects and a frame to the open sections.

Track Listing: These Times, Rings, Dusk, An Interrupted Stroll, Relief, Rise and Set.
Total Time 37:19.

Shelton and Jackson share a rapport that makes sessions like this one sound somewhat effortless even though the collaborative energy spent to get there was obviously deep and rewarding - Derek Taylor

An album of improvisations by Josh Berman on cornet, Aram Shelton on soprano saxophone & bass clarinet, and Weasel Walter on drums. Recorded in the summer of 2008, this album marks the first time Berman and Walter had played together since 1991. These spontaneously structured, fast-paced dialogues move from high energy extended technique mash ups to open spaced textural noise. The acoustic timbres of the instruments are raw, warm and focused.

Track Listing: Straw Men, Ad Hominem I & II, Broadened Issues, Marginalized, the Opposition, Scapegoats, Phenomena, Bandwagon. Total Time 75:19.

Shelton's bass clarinet work deserves special attention; both brash and nuanced. Invoking the music of Eric Dolphy? Certainly; but Shelton, with Walter's woolly and wild drumming, takes Dolphy to a new planet. In fact, Shelton travels to a galaxy of puzzling endgames that sort sounds into a jigsaw of styles, energies and perspectives. - All About Jazz

The debut album by Ton Trio and the first CD release by Singlespeed Music! Featuring Aram Shelton on alto saxophone and bass clarinet, Kurt Kotheimer on bass and Sam Ospovat on drums. These six compositions by Shelton cover alot of ground from high energy freedom to compositional rearrangement.

Track Listing: The Way, One Last Thing, Internal Frame, External Frame, Switches, Old Thoughts. Total Time 39:40.

Shelton, Kotheimer and Ospovat comprise a trio of utmost conviction.
- Paris Transatlantic

Kotheimer and Ospovat push “One Last Thing” with a driving, pulsing beat that moves in flux, stretching the rhythm allowing Shelton’s alto free rein to skim effortlessly above. - Cadence

Ton Trio: The Way.

SSM-005. 2009

$12.00 + postage

The quartet of Aram Shelton (alto saxophone), Jason Adasiewicz (vibraphone), Jason Roebke (bass), and Tim Daisy (drums). Recorded live at Elastic Arts in Chicago on December 20, 2007. This is a 4-track recording of Aram Shelton's Arrive which features 5 previously unrecorded tracks and a new interpretation of "All Dressed Up" from their 482 Music self-titled release.

Track Listing: Golden, Fifteen, the Cradle, Frosted, Lost, All Dressed Up. Total Time 48:38.

Arrive: Live at Elastic.

SSM-004. 2008

Out of Print

Limited release of 100 handmade CD-Rs!

Flockterkit is Aram Shelton on saxophone, Andy Strain on trombone, Caroline Penwarden on harmonium and pump organ, Kurt Kottheimer on bass, Anantha Krishnan on indian percussion and Jordan Glenn on drums.

Track Listing: We Begin, Forward Flock, A Thought to the Past, Reconstructed, Passing Darkly, Lock Step, The Only One, Finished. Total Time 42:42.

Aram Shelton's Flockterkit

SSM-003. 2008

$10.00 + postage

Aram Shelton's solo electroacoustic project. The music of Settled invokes moods in a cinematic style inspired by solitary walks, rainstorms with no thunder, fog & mist, the coast, empty city streets, the woods, books & coffee, bourbon & ice, and long afternoons. A bed of sounds created using field recordings & found sounds are combined with live processing of wind instruments, and melodies evolve from the existing tones found within the structure.

Track Listing: Wind, Drown, Rode, Beat. Total Time 29:08.

Aram Shelton: Settled (EP)

SSM-002. 2007

Out of Print

The first release by Singlespeed Music! Dragons 1976 is the trio of Aram Shelton (alto saxophone), Jason Ajemian (bass), and Tim Daisy (drums). Founded in 2001, Dragons 1976 takes their name from the Chinese Zodiac animal which represents their birth year. This is the second of three albums so far, serving as a transition between the debut album heard on Locust Music and their most current, the 2007 release on Polish imprint MultiKulti.

Track Listing: One, Brand New, Interlude, Passage, Drifting, Atlantic. Total Time 44:36.

Dragons 1976:
Winter Break.

SSM-001. 2006

Out of Print