1978 Hound Dog Recordings
(Ace & Duce / Negative Jazz) LP $15.00
Vintage antisocial punk from Los Angeles with obviously comic over-the-top attitude and sentiments. Four hilarious vile and hideous tracks. Liner notes by Tork Lugnutz. 2017 reissue, mastered from original tapes. Edition of 500
Discaholics! Record Collector Confessions Volume 1
(Marhaug Forlag) Magazine + 7-inch $37.50
Ten interviews conducted by the Swedish saxophone player / improviser / composer / music archivist with artists / record collectors Brian Morton, Byron Coley, Dennis Lyxzén, Elena Wolay, Harald Hult, Henry Rollins, Oren Ambarchi, Paal Nilssen-Love, Thurston Moore and Robert Crumb. 120 pages. One-sided seven-inch has an exclusive new track recorded using elements from Gustafsson’s record collection. Second edition.
In Praise Of Shadows
(Pica Disk - PICA045) LP $15.00
First-time collaboration by Singapore-based musician, artist, designer and curator whose stylistic oeuvre in improvised music is marked by internalized reflections on memory and loss, invisibility and indeterminacy working with the Nordic Miracle Worker himself. One side-long-track bearing a certain drone-ishness recorded during a humid all-night session at the now-defunct FluxUs record store in Singapore, backed with a more angular electronic recording captured ten years later in the daytime during the brutally cold January winter of Norway. Computer, electronics, guitar. Edition of 300
Accelerant
(Coherent States - CS29) Cassette + 3-inch CDR $22.00
Five massive drone repetitions (plus the fourteen-minute “Mind Gate” on the disc) by Heath Moerland that momentarily become hints of rhythm, only to retreat into subdued and atmospheric tape manipulation. No linear flow would emanate more an essence of synthesis and less a sustained improvisation. In stenciled drawstring cloth bag with six color prints. Edition of 20. C22
JEAN-MARC FOUSSAT / GEORGIOS KARAMANOLAKIS
Substunce Sans Scrupule
(Coherent States - CS25) LP $18.00
Ultra-vivid dialogue and communication, completely spontaneous, an immersive ritual of shocking sound, illusionary image and complementarity. Witness the union of musique concrète ideas with noise, of field recordings with vocal delays, of electroacoustic music with drone. Faraway splinters of jazz fuse with japanoise, the dreamy with the real, the Magical-Religious with the Scientific. 140g vinyl. Numbered edition of 300
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
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.”
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
Noncanonical Gospels From The Cult Of The Immortal Tapir
(Coherent States - CS28) Cassette $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Bren’t Lewiis’s after-hours guerilla performance at a Sacramento playhouse was the site of their latest maculate conception: desert-blind tales and sun-scorched allegories expunged from The Ongoing Dialogue during the greasy, soothing Council Of Nivea. Imagine an old-time radio broadcast of a pagan tent revival interrupted by shortwave transmissions from an isolated and weather-beaten theater where Swell Maps are stage-managing an all-nonmusical-interstitials variety show. The bizarre compendium of revelations include a beastiary by an unreliable ornamental horticulturist, a sampler inventory of treats-centered Eucharist self-abasement, a postcard texticle, ersatz Beat poetry, idealized warrior vows, shattered testimonials from addled pitchmen, and faith-based texts about: limbless lizard infestation; inter-dimensional chonch worship; the personal toll of crimes against humanity; the banality of insane self-pity; pepper abuse; autobiographical cannibalism; hemoglobin-and-fur-based cocktails; false Elvis resurrection and messianic flim-flam orchestrated by the pastel mafia; compulsions of infectious diseases camp prisoners; the psychic struggles of a pilgrim getting telekinetically bombarded by epistles from spiteful, sentient mass transportation; interspecies organ transplant; and heavenly expectorant. The ramshackle performances and sound design display a pattern consistent with questionable Sudarium stains. Created using toys, tools, objects, instruments, and found voices, some details about audio events bleed through time and space while others fade into dust and ash. c50