Rocker #7
(No Rent) Magazine $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Jacob Winans, Monte Cazazza, Vomir, Odal. #12
Dumpsters & Attitude Vol One
(Rockatansky) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Nate Young’s spoken word vocals. Dank, zoned, grueling, mind-frying electronics that creep, crawl and bleep along. John Olson’s trip metal approach to free jazz. Horns, mutant reeds, mysterious f/x chains. Includes obi and sticker.
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(Medama) Paperback book + DVD $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
In the book:100 pages of otherwise unpublished photos and interviews in Japanese and English. On the DVD: all 178 minutes the quintet’s final performance with Yashushi Ozawa, who passed away in 2008. This collective improvisation project of former Kosugi pupils also includes Kazuo Imai (who studied guitar with Takayanagi from 1972 to 1985), tape music master Tomonao Koshikawa, designer of sensor-centric installations and sound systems Kei Shii, and founder of late ’70s improv group Gap Masami Tada. Preview the DVD here: https://youtu.be/eDyMJIkFd7g
Demonstration Record
(Carbon) LP $23.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Recorded on a mobile phone in the southern summer of 2023-24, this collection of live performances, collages, and solo improvisations dismisses stereo-imaged, mastered sound, yet reveals an expansiveness despite the minimal setup. “Quattro Pezzi Su Due Note” and “Holly Springs #2” appear sparse and guitar-centered, but open up with shimmering modulation pedals and scattering slide guitars that create synthetic textures with as much detail as a wavetable or granular synthesizer. The dirty, snarling “Metal Pedal” and “Modulationism” produce maximalist rhythmic growls and sweeps with just a distortion and modulation box. The “Climate Study” tracks provide a more laid-back window into Russell’s creative patchwork, the slowed down overlay of pans, door hinges, and machinery creating ecosystems of industrial sound. This is, as John Shoen of Uncomfortable Communications says, “the soundtrack of the last dinner party on the sinking ship of humanity.”
Live In Japan
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Half comedian, half performance art disaster. No script, no rhyme, no reason. When the audience doesn’t laugh or doesn’t understand him, he just speaks in tongues. Full-blown, sweaty, gibberish-heavy rants that came out in wild spurts, his voice rising and falling like some deranged preacher at a revival meeting. He doesn’t have an act so much as a vortex. A tornado of confusion, punctuated by nonsense about chili, Fritos, and “real” American comfort food. Edition of 60
Cochon
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Heady blurt and saucy wheeze and heavy strangeness via glorious saxophone by Claude Spenlehauer of French weirdos micro_penis. Edition of 60
Green Glass
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
Further broadcasts from two champions of true-brow / street level sound art, or is it an imageless art movie for your ears? Either way, belief makes real. Edition of 60
Daily Basic
(Phons) CDR $14.25
3 gon’s debut album consists of one recording and seven others related to it. This synthesis of electrical signals, speaker cone displacement, air compression and rarefaction, textual differentiators, image-borne aesthetic contaminants, and a dynamic web of social relations describes itself when in use. Edition of 50.
An Event In 4.75 Time
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Mystery noise from the always ripe Mr. Eastman, recorded live in the Garden State, originally broadcast on WFMU. Excerpts were previously released on The Glamorous Life cassette (Throne Heap, 2024), but the reworking here is guaranteed to puff green smoke puff out of your ears. Edition of 60
Chilly Mortal
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
Matthew’s parents’ neighbor Joan came over for a drink during the 2023 Christmas period and at one point admitted, “I guess I’ll just have to face the prospect of ginormous bills this winter. I have to have the heating on, see. I’m a chilly mortal.” All of the voice recordings on Chilly Mortal that aren’t Greg’s grandad Charlie talking about a car he used to own in the 1920s come from Matthew and Lila’s neighbor Bob, who, during one of his daily tea-over-the-fence meet-ups with Matthew, revealed that in the late ‘80s he used to go to Sneinton Market to buy used tapes to record over, but “kept the ones of interest.” Lucky for us, Bob’s fields of interest include weird voice messages. Guest appearance by Theo of Territorial Gobbing just to offset the purely old person vibes. Edition of 60
Standard Pub Music
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Lovely anti-music from two of the UK’s most bent-out-of-shape gents. Tom Bench (Hardworking Famlies) brings guitar, coffee machine, electronics and ghosts, while Joe Baldwin (Hello Spiral) settles for guitar, data corruption, taking out the bins and Casio VL-Tone. Edition of 60
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
Underthought
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. The court jester of the new Canadian Confusion Sound, our man Nate is the master crafter of the disorienting, almost meditative experience. Lowkey field recordings and warm tape hiss lick lobes. Distorted, grainy, and slightly out of focus, yet undeniably present, Underthought has the same uncanny quality of a reproduction as a photocopy, where the original source feels just beyond reach, blurred and fragmented by the process of duplication, a distortion that holds you in a state of weird, suspended discomfort. Edition of 60
Psychic Hygiene
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Mangled pop loops squirm in and out of the stereo field like a million thoughts drifting through your mind in the midst of a hot shower. Vocal chants greet you with the ethereal charm of a fine seaweed face mask. Synth textures possess a smooth quality that is not far off from a freshly shaven face. For a moment, pure bliss; the work day is over, the outside world no longer exists behind this closed door... Until you cut yourself shaving; blood drips from your face. The drums begin picking up. Horns that serenaded you earlier now blare at volumes far beyond “discomfort zone.” What Panic Boner presents here is no different from the age of self-care that envelops us all today. Equal parts ugly and transcendental, this is a record for the listener who understands the high risk / high reward nature of improvisational music. Edition of 60