Simple Version Of A Difficult Question
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
Japan’s Buffalomckee grew up a solid second-generation LAFMS huffer, contracting all the telltale signs and ticks of that free music crowd. For many years in the Wild West (Osaka) he slathered himself in free improvisation, noise, avant-garde art, electronica, onkyo-psyche, and nazo-ongaku. Those in the know called him “LAFMS of Naniwa.” Now residing in Tokyo he continues to emit all kinds of fine audio gas: ebullient out-sound, tropical grease, broken leg dance, mouldy minimal. Sometimes burnt toast just tastes right. Edition of 60
intensior corda sonus
(Chocolate Monk) CD $16.00
Chocolate Monk’s third “proper” compact disc release, this time by the French Revox maestro, references the equivalence between the tension of a string and the elevation of the sound, but also the link between the intensity of the lived and of the musical. “Les objets inaudibles,” commissioned by INA-GRM, is musique concrète in four parts, composed in 2018 in the composer’s studio. “Erase my head,” a live-to-air performance originally commissioned for Radiophrenia, was created in Glasgow using a mixing desk with several inputs like CD players, cassette players, radio, each playing randomly, followed by recording, processing, layering, erasing, hiss and tape delay on the live loop. “Eloge des ruines” is a suite of five two-minute miniatures, based on the idea of slowing down and collapsing, using sound samples taken from vinyl records, with the playback speed changed from 78 to 0 rpm, as well as accelerated playback of old magnetic tapes. The work on this material is the result of the accumulation, editing, mixing and filtering of all these materials. Edition of 150
Kuddelmuddel
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
This meticulously arranged series of compositions is made from Hurdy-Gurdy recordings taken at the Bristol Renaissance Festival in Wisconsin; bagpipes, shortwave radio recordings, wax cylinder recordings of Native American chants, electric guitar, binaural tones, field recordings taken in a chocolate factory in Oakland in 2018; and BBC sound-library sourced recordings of Morse code transmitters and office buildings. Edition of 60
Visiting The Grave
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
This transatlantic collaboration by HM (Fag Tapes / Sick Llama) and JHP (Leer Ansturm / Concrete Stars / Mythofer) traverses strange a landscape located in and out of time. Barely there eerie electronic blip’n’ sizzle and ambient sound gestures soundtrack the silent waves of consequence in this remote location of disappearance – a secret cosmic language of images evolves. Can it be spoken? Should it be? How will you know what is being said? Edition of 60
Salvage Job Volume 2
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
Drone, nonmusical foraging and other refined audio by Adam Bohman, Hag Landscape, Weird Fields, Ones, Ashtray Navigations, Meadow Argus, TVE, Neil Campbell, Karen Constance & Elkka Nyoukis, Lonny Hoffmann’s Oonly Faces and Names Devine. Edition of 100
Salvage Job
(Chocolate Monk - choc.517) CDR $8.00
If it’s broken, don’t fix it. Further recordings made during the mess of the past year, which you may hear as a shining pathway out of the shit, or a “back to the egg!” warning cry. Pour yrself a drink, put on those headphones and let the gamble commence. With tracks from Hobo Sonn, Muyassar Kurdi & Ka Baird, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, A.S, Raymond Cummings, Hardworking Families, Stone Cornelius, Dora Doll, Duncan Harrison, LDSN, Angela Sawyer & Ethan Marsh, Glands Of External Secretion, Tania Caroline Chen, Mark Groves, Staubitz & Waterhouse, Kraus, Kate Armitage, Constance/Nyoukis and RRS. Artwork by Bill Nace. Edition of 100
Hideout
(Siltbreeze) LP $18.00
The quartet of Sonam Parikh, Pier Harrison, Juliette Rando, and Kat Bean twitches and gyrates in a Pere-Ubu-Kleenex mashup, with a distinct underlying New York-meets-Berlin No Wave tension. Their infective polygot of sound burns feverishly in the bloodstream.