HELLO SPIRAL

Guitarded

(Chocolate Monk - choc.596) CDR $8.00

This scruff really wants to put rock’n’roll in the ground. If you soak the ego in whisky long enough, it becomes a dissonant crank. Individually made collage covers, no two alike. Numbered edition of 50

ADAM BOHMAN / HELLO SPIRAL

Out Of The Unknown

(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

COMING SOON. On April 12, 2025, a strange man followed Joseph Baldwin home from the train station. Out of politeness Joe invited him in. The man had a large suitcase with him and what appeared to be an amplifier on a metal trolley. After perusing Joe’s books and records, the man took a seat and demanded a drink. Joe poured him a whisky, as well as one for himself. Glancing to his right, the man exclaimed, “Oh good! You have an Internet Computer!” At the man’s request and behest, Joe looked up trailers for obscure films and TV shows he’d never heard of before. The man’s knowledge in this area appeared to be prodigious and limitless. After several hours of this, the man opened his suitcase and started to unpack an assortment of objects. Joe wondered if he was selling antiques. The man then asked Joe to bring him the ironing board he’d spied in the hallway. On the board he began to arrange these objects in a way that appeared systemized, but not decipherable. He attached wires from the items to what he now confirmed was an amplifier after all. The man began to touch these objects and strange sounds emerged from the amplifier, seeming to make the furniture talk. Joe realized that half of this conversation was missing and quickly began to gather whatever was to hand around his flat and set up a folding table next to the man’s ironing board. He dragged his old practice amp from the storage cupboard in the hallway. Once sat at this table, he felt a tap on his shoulder. The man looked at him knowingly and anded him a small flat microphone attached to a cable, which plugged easily into his practice amp. Joe began to learn this new (or possibly very, very old) language and the conversation began in earnest. “So this is what it sounds like, when bricks cry” thought Joe. Edition of 60