Juanita
(Sploosh - SPLOOSH15) Cassette $7.00
Above a jagged undercurrent of pulsating wub, Escalante blasts strangulated heat on solo sax. c20
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
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.”
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.
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
Concepcion Huerta / Eve Matin
(Sploosh - SPLOOSH11) Split cassette $7.00
Damaged, pock-marked textures roll around inside oblong funnels on one side (Ms. Huerta uses tapes and contact microphones), while Ms. Matin on the flip grinds a harp into dark zones previously regarded as the exclusive domain of didgeridoos blown through the eye sockets of charred giraffe skulls. c48
LASSE MARHAUG / GURO SKUMSNES MOE
La Región Salvaje
(Sploosh - SPLOOSH12) LP $18.00
Exquisitely heavy, skin-moistening soundtrack to Amat Escalante’s film The Untamed. With Moe on octabass, contrabass, voice and synthesizer, and Marhaug on electronics, plus Ole-Henrik Moe on violin and violincello, Kari Rønnekleiv on violins, John McCowen on bass clarinet, Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen on percussion, Jenny Hval on voice, Jacob Felix Heule on drum, Håvard Skaset on guitar, and Danishta Rivero on hydrophone.
Huachafa
(Sploosh - SPLOOSH09) Cassette $7.00
Disorienting grit-befouled gusts from the ledge of a skyscraper by Messrs Escalante and Leguia, the former a lone gunman whose weapon of choice is brass AF, the latter your apex improviser from Lima. c60