I Saw The Light In Your Arms
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Accorodng to Sloterdijk Teleport, this collaboration by Sourface Lil and Carnivorous Plants, “sounds like a dribbling tin of old Tomutonttu with a crumpled can of Kuupuu. Moist and much needed.” Hanging, dew-speckled spiderwebs between duo, dripping with melody. Misheard lyrics as foundations spell out an album as a winged map. Smearing the sun across the sky to cast strange shadows. In time of crud, let elevating music float you to fifth world whuzz. Hand-collaged and hand-assembled covers. Edition of 53
Stop Being A Dick In My Mouth
(Chocolate Monk) Magazine + CDR $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. You want to tap into the grey, vapid underbelly of this septic Isle? Then look no further than Lovely Honkey aka Luke Poot, for he is the antithesis of the rage-faced Gammon. He need not cast blame on the “other,” for this colorful yet dour Jester knows the real joke is inside us all, swimming about in our tepid head pans. Let his misery bring youcmerriment, peasant. Thirty-six-page full-color booklet with Poot’s drawings, ramblings and writings, and an interview by S. Glass. Edition of 50
KAREN CONSTANCE / DYLAN NYOUKIS
The Final Fumes From The Soup Bowls
(New Forces) Cassette $10.00
The downside of early parole — no more prison experiments for you, just a resumption of your assigned position within the ranks of fleshapoids cranking out respectable contributions to society until the sweet chariot swings low. But your remaining time doesn’t have to be like this, citizen. Send the caterers home already and bib up for a 30-minute sound collage spewt from Brighton’s well-tended psychotropic brine pool. Your interior miasma craves what people like Constance and Nyoukis deliver with tape music: the spontaneity of the deeply fogged forever at odds with the severity of composed gelatin sculpture. All experiential accretion in vividness, no erosion. Were your eyes literal windows, what a delight it’d be for others to observe your neurons sparkle as you listen to The Final Fumes From The Soup Bowls. With customized oven mitts drying on screens, the jubilee sneeze guards stacked in crates on the loading dock ready to be unpacked, The World’s Toughest Milkman breaches the servant’s entrance to accompany the winner of last year’s Mme Beyond Peppersteak crown for the third and final nugget in the duo’s series dedicated to and inspired by wet supper. Disembody and plunge into the plasma, the turpentine, the microplastics-tainted Lea & Perrins, and the layers of desquamated skin undulating in a fiery bog. So much awaits: electronic yelps from the void; mechanical gurgles a-plenty; amphibian distress calls — fragmented, curled, stomped upon; juddering rasps; the degree of suave editing we have every right to expect from sound collage and side salads; stunt panning; loops; field recordings. Environ nirvana. Includes DL code. c30
HVAC Scrape
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Those far more filthy and grime-encrusted might try and turn their grate and scour bedlam into a heavy cosh to bash your noggin in. However, these two refined greaseballs like to wrong-foot us punters and instead enshroud their fragmented dumpster dreck and in a cloud of David Jackman dust before blowing it up our nasal cavities like a heavy dose of ceremonial snuff. Careful with that tepi, Arnold. Or take it from Brant himself, who says, “Abstracted shrapnel tuned to scrape. Floating on boards, creaking with waves. Soaked in St Bernardus Abt 12, and choked by smoke. Twelve natural acts captured live to device.” Edition of 60
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
Instant Pause
(Happy Endings) Cassette $15.00
Once-forbidden but now at liberty to make its existence known, Shin Chida’s tour cassette contains all the tape and contact mic noise, loops, and sweet burning murk redolent of an overcast Oberlin exhumation. C34
Alien Territory Archives - A Collection of Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music from 1970s San Diego
(Nyahh) 4xCD $60.00
In the early 1970s San Diego was a sleepy Southern California Navy town on the Mexican border and a seemingly unlikely gathering point for some of the most innovative, unclassifiable American artists of their era. Yet the presence of Harry Partch — hobo composer, iconoclast and inventor of instruments such as the Harmonic Canon and Quadrangularis Reversum — and a newly established and highly experimental music department at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) ushered in a revolution that was as much social as it was musical. Drawing from the occult, self-realization and radical political movements of 70s Southern California, these artists sought to dismantle the established control systems of American life, looking to the future even as they sometimes referenced a distant, idyllically imagined past. In their pursuit of “Irrelevant Music” — Kenneth Gaburo’s term for an untainted music free of constraint and compromise — these disparate artists constitute a shadow history of American experimental music far removed from the European and East Coast models of the time. Sonic Meditations, compositional linguistics, microtonality, invented instruments, cutting edge electronics, underwater synthesizers, Tibetan throat singing, environmental sound and pure noise were their tools. With the exception of “Noyse” by Kenneth Gaburo, which was released on a Musicworks compilation in 1999, as well as a couple Warren Burt tracks available for purchase directly from the artist, all tracks in this set are previously unreleased. Robert Turman, David Dunn, Ernie Morgan, Harry Partch, Allen Strange, Warren Burt with Pauline Oliveros and Reinhard Berg, Citizen Band, Joseph Julian, KIVA, Dary John Mizelle, Diamanda Galás, Joji Yuasa, Alexina Louie, Kenneth Gaburo, Peter Gordon (featuring Kathy Acker), David Gamper, Robert MacDougall, Frank Mccarty. With 24pp booklet.