That Are
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Each piece on this CD is presented approximately as recorded in autumn 2025 at Olive’s studio in Kobe, Japan, with help from a certain amount of editing and superimposition to tighten up the dream logic. If you listen, you will see many things that are. Edition of 50
The Dripping Spirit
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Ross Scott-Buccleuch (aka Diurnal Burdens) and Daniel Vujanic from Zebularin return with a somewhat spontaneous, sombre and sometimes splatty sonic stain. Veering from astral cartwheels. The stasis of indelible glue. The planned misdirection of a spectre’s victory lap. It’s that old familiar suburban malaise. Punctuated by perpetually leaking boiler pressure and sleep without rest. Some residue may remain. Edition of 50
Habits
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. A soundtrack to a still life of objects arranged so-so along a skirting board, courtesy of Glasgow’s Rose Dagul (cello), Hannah Ellul (synth and tapes), Ben Ellul-Knight (vocals and samples), and Rebecca Wilcox (vocals and samples). Wafting around the carefully arranged scene in ‘besides bugs’ is a chamber music for the tiny beetles scuttling around the casting of a child’s feet; commemorative plates and a light bulb balanced on a jam jar. Photographs, domestic mutations abound in ‘slimy blobs’ — a shimmer of light from a fountain — lucky coins flipped, horse hair stripped, heard in submerged duet with the clicks and pops of plant life. Ah Ah Ahhh what ‘hangar’ repeats is the scrunch of a crisp packet, textures for dreaming picked apart by anxious hands. With the little bits and pieces re-forming as song particles that only ‘seems like a flow’ kicked up and disturbed in different directions when exposed to the light. Edition of 50
In So Far As
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. From an old stationary factory in Bow, Shiell played the building as an instrument — a resonant ear to the traffic on the A12, using a geophone to pick up the structure’s response to the constant flow outside. He improvised with it over 24 hours in a kind of trance, listening to the structure vibrate with the residues and histories of this ancient route: once a Celtic crossing, later a Roman road, and the more recent expansion splitting through communities. These timelines fold into one another through the building’s vibrations, echoes and elements drawn out through the improvisation. The resulting recordings became a meditation on the constant drone of the road as interlacing stories arose from the thrum of tyre on tarmac. Worse overlaid his own geographical references from listening to the tracks while walking the roads of his home in Melbourne, using sound to regulate sensory overload. He establishes a sense of location through his listening and his sonic responses explore sounds that support his movement through uncomfortable or overwhelming spaces. Together, these works map personal and collective geographies, listening closely to how bodies and architecture continually shape and reshape one another. Edition of 50
Parasite Expat
(Un Poco Fría) Cassette $11.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Objects, violin, Optigan, loops, location recordings, electronics, fails videos, thrift store cassettes. c40
Blob #3
(Neil Martinson) Magazine $12.00
Essays on exploitation movies, Hal Borske, UFOs, antigravity, Ahriman, plus the second installment of Prank Without Thanks. 48pp
Laguna Beach Happening
(Coq au Vinyl) LP $28.00
Live audience recordings from December 25, 1970, at a concert billed as a “West Coast Woodstock,” created by the Brotherhood of Eternal Love (aka the Hippie Mafia, best known as the international LSD trafficking ring that rubbed shoulders with Timothy Leary, Jimi Hendrix and — rumor has it — members of the Manson Family). Previously released as a ’70s bootleg called 100% Unknown Fibers: Odd Lots, the album boasts several amazing tunes by psych / blues rock / acid folk unknowns (and apparently Buddy Miles and Bryan MacLean of Love are present), along with plenty of between-band banter and rants from local burnouts, festival “security” and a Black Panther or two. White jacket with blotter paper front cover. Edition of 300
Russell Sleeping
(l’Esprit de l’Escalier) 20xCDR $48.00
Location recordings from Japan 2024, in the coexistence-of-persecution-and-flattery tradition of Beuys Laughing (Verlag Steidl / Edition Staeck, 2021), illustrative of nothing if not the artist’s statement “Even when I sleep far out of earshot of other people, I almost always wake up remorseful.” This nocturnal, gloriously fricative symphony of membranes sits at the center of a curiously busy crossroads, where extreme electroacoustics, nature recordings by Chris Watson, Spike Jones and his City Slickers researching new sounds, and “WTF, I can’t believe someone did this” intersect. Hand stamped discs, paper envelopes with windows, plain white card box, letterpress cigarband. Edition of 24