In Brownswood
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. 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
VCU
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. 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 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. 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
Life On Bob-Lo Island
(Chocolate Monk - CHOC.407) CDR $8.00
Your man inside Coaxial Arts in Los Angeles remains an outsider lurking in the dreams of discarded mannequins. This concept album, about an abandoned amusement park outside of Detroit, Michigan — with its wooden rollercoasters, funhouse, drunk clowns, buzzing taffy machines, identical twins on the boardwalk, poisoned water slides — which became a hobo squat, a decrepit kingdom where strange men lurked, a sort of island of the dammed, cloaks Detroit darkness in a clown’s shroud. Holes puncture a laughing reality as a mask of spinning dice reveals the corroded dream: children playing in yellow haze, black corn swaying to the machines, families disappearing into the night like Polaroids developing in reverse, dogs conspiring with the shadows, machine laugher trapped in the bog, a UFO made of straw slowly crashing into a black swamp, abandoned vacations vacated by lost men. Give one an offering and maybe he’ll tell you a story.
Fug Gum, Vol. 6
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. The companion volume 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
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. Edition of 100. Volume 6 coming soon on Chocolate Monk