MARTÍN ESCALANTE / MATT MOTTEL
Chop Party
(Sploosh - SPLOOSH13) 7-inch $8.00
One half of Talibam! turns in some top quality rust belt synthesizer prowl in collaboration with Peru’s high priest of air-bending. “The frayed edges of jazz,” as one Bandcamp follower put it. Which must be code for “hornets the size of hippos.”
Destroyed On Every Level
(Sploosh - SPLOOSH07) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
“Saxnoise like I have never heard before,” according to Mats Gustafsson. “The energy and flow is amazing. This record is fuckin’ evil.” It sounds like children crying, a lonely yet comically energetic balloon orgy, and obese ducks getting electrocuted. Joe Moffett says, “This album is fire. The intensity and complexity of sounds is mind-boggling.” Produced by Lasse Marhaug. Edition of 250
MARTÍN ESCALANTE / CHARLIE MUMMA
Escalante / Mumma
(Sploosh - SPLOOSH14) Cassette $7.00
In which the Peruvian sax maverick and Sissy Spacek’s lord of percussion imagine a hospital getting ransacked by an insane porcine tyrant riding a donkey with a giant scrub brush jammed up its ass. Heavily wobbled screech delivered with cross-eyed power madness, blur-limbed hooves swatting at every sterile thing in sight. Fucking stellar. c22
Juanita
(Sploosh - SPLOOSH15) Cassette $7.00
Above a jagged undercurrent of pulsating wub, Escalante blasts strangulated heat on solo sax. c20
MARTÍN ESCALANTE / YOSHIHIDE OTOMO
Soto
(Sploosh) LP $18.00
Three tracks recorded in Kyoto — one guitar-sax duet and a solo by each. All three feel like getting trampled by psychotic mules. Just lay there and take it.