Rocker #8
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Interviews with Nick Forte of Green Tea, Julia Spotts of Matriarch, and Gabi Losoncy.
Simple Version Of A Difficult Question
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. 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 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. 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
Visiting The Grave
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COMING SOON. 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
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COMING SOON. 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
Kuddelmuddel
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. 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
Medicine
(Tor Press) CD $10.25
Traditional folk and haunting drones recorded by Jake Blanchard in a gothic church and a wild, stout-fueled improvised jam, whose guests included members of Pelt, The Black Twig Pickers, Red River Dialect, Woven Skull, Core of the Coalman, Peat and more.
Music, Language and Environment
(Nyahh) 2xCD $19.00
Six composed performances that articulate an aesthetic of environmental interactivity through sound-making outdoors. Foremost in these experiments was a concern for sound as a means to explore the emergent intelligence of non-human living systems.
Fug Gum, Vol. 5
(Freakdom - FO3) CDR $8.00
Twenty-two tracks by today’s most nimble audio sherpas guide you to the apex of sour. Good luck coming down. Mind the partially thawed corpses, if you please. Tracks by Le Scrambled Debutante, Slums, Tom Recchion, Knurl, Zebra Secrets, Hastings of Malawi, Comfort Link, Puppet Wipes, Rump State, vrg bls, Tommy Birchett, Porest, Samara Lubelski, Mannlicher Carcano, Thomas Carnacki, Rin Peisert, Clarence Bison, Black Bikini, Microminx, Venison Whirled, Magneticring and Dr. Bruce Russell. Artwork by Ted Trager. The companion to Chocolate Monk’s Volume 6. Edition of 100.
VCU
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
Huff up the raw beauty of San Diego weirdies Nathan Berlinquette (drums/organ), Cameron Presley (guitar) and Ryan Ebaugh (saxophone) as they cook up brutal absurdism and free improv noises with abandon. They want to set fire to your consumer electronic dreams. Fractured melodies and broken patterns have all the huzz you would expect from those vibing on Black Beings while suppin on the Harry Pussy juice. This ain't noise, pal. This is a deliberate exploration of sound and non-musical activity. Sonics for uncertain times. Edition of 60
Slewn A Gout
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
Two of Los Angeles’s finest performance art freaks hold hands, hug and salivate together for your pleasure. This beautiful little creeper of a recording will wrap your head in smoke so tenderly that you won’t want to re-emerge. Listen to the ghost screams of two ungrown men, interpreted through heavy petting sessions where they were forced to unexplore consciousness and speak in hymn. Don’t leave your things slewn a gout. Is the faucet still dripping? Edition of 60
Fug Gum, Vol. 6
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
The companion to Freakdom’s Vol. 5 is here to ease all jitters on bleak bonkers Globe. Thirteen tracks by these classy reprobates: Waldorf-Astoria, Cigarette Factory, Johana Beaussart & Èlg, Insect Factory, Alice Kemp, Diurnal Burdens, Fish El Fish, Forrest Friends, Xelís de Toro, Oishi, Ripped Spit, Movie Actor, Mark Groves and Alvarius B. Edition of 100
In Brownswood
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
Billa Ensemble was formed in the winter of 2023 on the occasion of Michiu (electric guitars), the concept horse (no-input feedback, bells, reel to reel tape machine, dictaphone), Turmeric Acid (tapes, contact microphones, objects), and Marie Vermont (electronics, tape, keys, contact microphones, mixer, mallets, cymbal ) getting together in Vienna. Coming from different musical backgrounds, the members share a dedication to working with and manipulating magnetic tape in various forms (reel to reel, cassette, minicassette); their shared approach to music making, improvisation and listening embraces electroacoustic and analog instrumentation in live performance. Recorded in a small flat in June 2024 before a set at Café Oto. Edition of 60