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Like Light
C30 cassette on Rayon Records, a collaboration with Chora's own Mad Dog Morris. "Unconscious subliminals splut and ooze like festering open wounds from the magnetic tape" - Foxy Digitalis
Get it from Rayon Records
When Two Men Meet A Third Is Always Present, A Stranger To Both
Haunted jams from our front room in Brockley, plus a live line recording from a gig in Glasgow, aug 07. Artwork from Pascal Nichols (Stuckometer, UBOAT, Rayon Recs etc.)
Get it from Poot Records
Visions Versions
Collab with Dylan Nyoukis on Blackest Rainbow - damaged tape loops, deranged vocals, howls and swoops of windy feedback, and i reckon its a bit funky too... Ltd. Edition of 100
Get it from Blackest Rainbow Records or Volcanic Tongue
Those Who Do Not Believe In The Subversive Power Of Love Have A Corpse In Their Mouths
50+ mins of improv action with help from Sam Yeborobo, (Chocolate Monk 151)
Get it from Volcanic Tongue or Second Layer
Purges
A ghost-trawler adrift on cruel Northern seas. Fog banks of delay and the agonized voices of wretched spirit mariners. Edition of 40 copies with free pin badge.
Get it from Curor Records
Split w/BBBlood
A violent viscous mass against and in collaboration with prime London harsh noise man The Baron. Ltd Edition of 100
Get it from Transdimensional Sushi
Other TB related activities (click names for links):
Helhesten
- Ben freaking with Hannah and Greg (+ occassional hired hands)
Spoono
- Jack's solo guitar explorations
Psykick Dancehall - We put on gigs too
Hello myspace friend here is a free little comp of my past work from 2001 to 2008, Click the image to find it..it's cool, Free and you'll be able to wait for the album i'm working on:
WHITE premiere UK tour releasing new album produced by Blixa Bargeld(Einstürzende Neubauten). Cosmic industrial avant-garde music. Alex Chichile, New York based sound artist, use brain wave controlling modular synth, quatrophonic performance. Four Acts from Beijing, New York, Edinburgh, London Sandy Milroy 1/4 of the mighty tusk, effect pedals destruction. Eaten By Children Improvised electronics, amplified surfaces and Super-8 flicker films
29th April, Wednesday. The Bowery, Edinburgh, Door 7:30, Finish by 10:30. £6 / £5 Advanced List: Email your name to tickets@grindsightopeneye.co.uk for Advanced List.
Sat 16th May @ The Soup Kitchen, Spear Street, Manchester.
The Centrifuge @ Futuresonic Festival present Richard Devine, Puzzleweasel, NeuTek vs Boombots, missaw, Guide, Gareth Clarke, Mr Underwood & His MIDI Octopus and Scrubber Fox.
xNoBBQx Skewer 10" LP (Ltd to 300 copies) - Out May 12th
We first came across xNoBBQx (just call them No Barbeque, I guess) in Piccadilly Records last year when the Siltbreeze vinyl reissue of their first CD-r appeared on its shelves. The Siltbreeze label being a bastion of all that is great in terms of dirgy, lo-fi, transcendental unmusicality, we were thus intrigued to hear this slab. And, we have to say, it was one of the greatest shop-listening experiences of all time. Here was a duo, probably of fully grown men, bashing away at their instruments in a manner that suggested they had never really learned any 'proper' technique. We later read a review, in fact, that put it thus:
"So what exactly is the difference between an xNoBBQx recording and a couple of 14 year olds bashing instruments in the garage with record pressed down on one of their mum’s old tape recorders? Probably not a whole lot, actually, but I get the feeling that’s precisely the point. " (Cyclic Defrost)
Well, yes, that does largely seem to be the point. But it's a helluva point. The Australian duo, in spite of their unabashed simplicity, manage to create sounds that are warm as an old-fashioned blanket, each piece having the ability to induce a state of complete, dribbling mental stasis. It's disjointed, scratchy and 'difficult', yes. But it also manages to be completely absorbing. If you like your rock deconstructed to the nth degree, we highly recommend you dig this.
xNoBBQx will be touring the UK from 10th May 2009. We'll be putting them on in Manchester on 12th May (venue TBC), so keep yr eyes on this page.
OUT NOW on Idiosyncratics Records : Phil Maggi - Blue FIelds in Paramount CD
Blue Fields in Paramount is a very personal and fascinating opus, a beautiful introduction to the style of this talented artist, that could be qualified as 'dark psychedelia for daydream believers'. It has been mastered by James Plotkin (Khlyst, Khanate, Old, Phantom) and is out now as a limited to 300 copies ekopack release with a fantastic artwork by czech artist Jan Karpisek.