Beginners Mind
(Chocolate Monk) Magazine + CDR $12.00
Recordings and paintings from summer 2024. Tapes, contact mics, loop pedals, objects, Yamaha PSS-50 keyboard, percussion and field recordings. The Haiku paintings were made by exploring the parameters of minimalism, with just a red circle and single black stroke allowed for each one. The gouache paint gives a distinctive and delicate texture to each untitled piece. The sounds and textures flow together in a spirit of meditative minimalism, with each element given space to breathe and unfold, much like the strokes in the pictures. 24 pages, full color, in hand-stamped envelope. Edition of 60
Chance Topographies
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Recorded on a dining room table in Tufnell Park in the summer of 2025, this explorative collaboration between two London-based artists drifts in spectral mode; you can almost hear lights flickering in the background and portals to nebulous realms opening up behind the net curtains. Crackling and thumping rhythmic passages bleed into subtle drones, wheezing accordions, and dense atmospheric smog. Edition of 50
Futile Phantoms
(Chocolate Monk - choc.597) CDR $8.00
Flout the floatation tank and the devouring of celestial orbs, lay down the pipe and lend your ears to the inimitable allure of sonic innovation of the two-headed nature. Atkins and Scott-Buccleuch seem to almost whisper out these transmissions of crisp psychedelic sound collage. Dictaphone scutter and vacillating tapes are folded into mellow drones and intoning loops deftly. Field recordings, electronic purr and gentle clatter infused with warm hiss. A sound paste that can be applied liberally to yr cracked case with rejuvenating effect. Edition of 60