MORGAN EVANS-WEILER / LUKE MARTIN

Pleiades

(Phons) CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

COMING SOON. Improvised live recordings with an expansive sense of simplicity and togetherness from 2017. The environments and the bodies present in Holyoke, Buffalo, and Baltimore imbue the sounds of the performers’ no-input mixing board, cassettes, violin, sine tones with indistinct crosscurrents of lightness and heaviness, clarity and darkness, stasis and dynamism. Alongside subtly shifted pressures of the room, time slows and slips in these improvisatory currents, marked by unexpected points, across all three recordings, of a faint sonic and spatial constellation.

BLOB

Blob #4

(Neil Martinson) Magazine $12.00

Finding the Findlays; Red Hot Scandals of 1968; Calling Earl Hindeman; Mnasidika / Bacanale; Joseph and Peggy Sarno; Take My Head! (Vice Versa); Francis Ellis / Jack Bravman; Meeting Jeff Jacob Lourie; Shadows and Visitations; Sitting with Roberta Findlay. 56pp.

DAN MELCHIOR

Rippelpics & Rippelsounds

(Chocolate Monk) Magazine + CDR $13.50

Up at dawn, sweating like a dog, all senses afire, Dan Melchior wails into the void and uses his best crayons to make you some pix. The struggle is real, disappointment is not an option. Enter the puce room of his illusions at your own leisure. Edition of 50

TOM BETTERIDGE

At the Buttock End

(Chocolate Monk) CDR $7.00

Hi, me again, no reception. Soft estrangement, isn’t it. White-chested laughing thrush? Somewhere between the Donisthorpe Colliery winding wheel, some chalk banks and Maghera beach’s open lagoon and delayed cliff echoes. Strung out, desperately cupping. Alfred got caught at the buttock end, RIP. Well, anyway. I’ll be thick for you here so you can go along now smarting, right? I’d say raise your head a bit and get breath in the pipes, maybe clout the keeper. And the field crisps up, mind you. Fol de rol, tora lie day. Edition of 50

T. MIKAWA / MANABU SUZUKI

Live at Bar Isshee

(Chocolate Monk) CDR $7.00

In these times of tit-imposed tariffs, Uncle Shonky and Little Big Man step up with an ear tax that is guaranteed to leave the more sensitive listener bow brained. This tête à tête of shop-bought and home-brewed electronics might have given ol’ Dave Tudor cavities but you respiring dweebs can wallow in the electrode slurp, drill, pitter and crunkle while feeling all the more peepy for it. Almost 80 minutes blissfully free of the curse of music. Cover art by Bill “The Face” Nace. Edition of 60

CUDDLES

Forever 12

(Chocolate Monk) Cassette $8.00

Brian Ruryk, the harmless guitar bully, whose bark is worse than his bite. Andrew No C Zukerman, the sound effect collector, audio pathfinder, maker of fine quilts (also known as Fleshtone Aura). When attempting to conjure the entity that is Cuddles, perhaps think big, loopy Baby Huey type cartoon character, or perhaps the sound of a male voice being sloooooowwwwwwed waaaaaaaayyyy the fuck doooooowwwnn. Both artists’ trademarks survive: broad moves; botched clots; supra precision; magic kingdom; asterisks; ellipses. Yes, it’s all here, my friends! Edition of 50