NEW RELEASES - Feb 2013

NEW RELEASES

Prices include postage
All four of em postpaid - £15 UK, £18 Eur, £20 World 
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UN036 Fritz Welch & Duncan Bruce CDr (£4 UK, £5 Eur, £6.50 world)

Fritz Welch is a universal oddity, currently seeping ether paste from his Glasgow penthouse into the universal -  spraying muck over the soft handed GIO, dancing in Brazil, riding in cars in South Africa. Duncan Bruce, from my initial assessment, appears to be a resident of New Zealand, and has somehow located Mr Welch through the postal service to produce this disc of lost chatter and tinny scree. If I was writing in a magazine I’d say “singular”. Each sleeve is unique, hand stamped from a hand cut eraser.

UN037 Grant Smith and Greg Thomas CDr (£4 UK, £5 Eur, £6.50 world)

Endless corridors of mistrung violins, guitars played with traintrack teeth and it’s cold so you keep your coat on. Traditional instruments you may have heard of (violin and guitar, for the most part) being stretched to breaking point by hardy gents with no respect for your time. Electricity intervenes in the play like a weary ghost.

UN038 Sindre Bjerga "Smooth Operator" CDr (£4 UK, £5 Eur, £6.50 world)

Sindre Bjerga hails from the Northern Hemisphere, and each year on the same date he plays a live concert in Edinburgh. Every year, this falls on the same night as someone’s birthday, another concert or a prior engagement, and thus I have never seen him play live. I have, however, heard various recordings of his mind soup wildcard tonal interplay, of which this release is an example. Two long tracks, which might have been destined for an LP, except it’s all digital round here now, we’re entering the CD era…

UN039 Muscletusk "No Hink" 2CDr (£8 UK, £10 Eur, £12 World)

Follow up to LP “Ask The Universe”, with less fi as a result of being recorded underground and left to rot in the mice ridden vaults. Indeterminate timeframes collide under a haze of gristle. Rock band set up trying to erase itself. Peaks and troughs of red and yellow, bells and accelerator. Two discs worth, as intended as a premium slice. Here’s what someone said about another release: “Scattershot drum-powered metal guitars collide with washing machine electronics and manic wordless vocals that in the record’s quietest moments sound like some feral alien cave-creature’s mating call straight out of Quatermass” (Neil Cooper, The List). Plush coloured sleeves and grotty black and white inserts.

COMING NEXT: Chastity Potatoe, Marvo Men, Robert Ridley Shackleton, Dead Labour Process...

MANY NEWISH THINGS...

Been snoozing on a bunch of discs n tapes with my name on for a while now...Many VERY EXCITING releases to be snapped up for a pittance. Usual postage rates apply... Postage:
UK add 50p per CD
Eur £1 for 1st item, 50p each additional
World £1.50 first item, 50p each additional

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DEAD LABOUR PROCESS "SENTIMENT" CDR (Chocolate Monk) £4

Here's what Nyoukis has to say about it: "Edinburghs one man tape blub merchant presents recordings made in his home town and that of Offenbach, Germany. Warbling and clank are captured in loops. At one point there is some vague sense of a carnival tent in which the studying of stumps takes place and where bones tell tales. Croon dementia is set upon us, molecules warbled sideways, nausea. On the way out we get gnawing and gurgling camouflaged by mud, necks craned in formation. A goat haired bow and proclamations."


DEAD LABOUR PROCESS "RATS IN THE GRAVY OF KNOWLEDGE" CDR (PIFHO) £4

Long-form release of heavily milked recordings from across Europe in 2011, including some group drunk singalong jerk offs, 2 cover versions, various bumbling foibles and some personal 'issues' being worked out in public therapy. I will humbly give this my highest recommendation...


DEAD LABOUR PROCESS/KOMMISSAR HJULER UND FRAU "HAMBURG TAPES" (TOTAL VERMIN) £3

Recorded live in Hamburg, 2011. Two side long pieces for tapes, voice, biscuit tin, guitar and keyboard. Originally released on a DVD in an edition of about 2 copies or something, but to be honest there was nothing to see on it since we played in the dark! Much better in straight up audio and you can conjure up your own visuals. Here's what Arnot is saying: "Live hook-ups between Edinburgh's DLP, also to be found in noise rock shitkickers Muscletusk and certifiable droolers Brittle Hammer Trio, and Germany's Mr and Mrs Dada. They weave together an unremittingly strange noise, from sources familiar and unknown, simultaneously alien and as human as snot. As unhinged, confusing and ultimately beautiful as you could hope for.


BRITTLE HAMMER TRIO "OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS" CDR (Poot) £4

Debut release by the trio of Fritz Welch, Ali Robertson and Euan Currie. As much scrape, warble and tickle as you can shake a stinky duckcall at. Cover art by Fritz Welch.


BRITTLE HAMMER TRIO "COMMUNICATION METHODS" CDR (No label) £4

Special release for sale at Colour Out Of Space fest in Nov 2011. Recorded in my kitchen then fannied about by Fritz. This is in some ways a very broad concept album which has been continued in our recent live work, although this may be pushing it a bit...


VARIOUS ARTISTS "SONGS ABOUT DYING" CDR (Pjorn 72) £4

A various artists grouping of some disrepute...inc. Blood Stereo, UFO Antler Band, Nackt Insecten, Scrim, Jazzfinger, Culver, Wounded Knee, Fordell Research Unit and of course my good self. I guess most of these "songs" to touch on mortality, although perhaps Scrim's "Mangers and Bash" might require some explaining. Cover art by Karen Constance.

ALL RELEASES ARE IN VERY LIMITED QUANTITIES, SO DON'T SIT ABOUT STROKING YOUR TITTIES! Get to it...

NEW RELEASES - August 2011

NEW SHIZZLE! ALL WITH HANDPRINTED COVERS.

Postage:
UK add 5op per CD
Eur £1 for 1st item, 50p each additional
World £1.50 first item, 50p each additional

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UN033 Lovely Honkey "The Destitute Homeless Form Part Of The Scenery" CDR £4
"Album of the year!" - Ali Robertson (Usurper)

Isolated by the brown water, Luke Poot's one fingered directions into 4am TV-land feel like they've only seen the light of day seeping through stained curtains, then been so freaked out he scuttled back under the bed to fumble out some of that "music" he heard the neighbours talking about through the walls...Now stop talking with your mouth full...



UN034 Core Of The Coalman "Precambrian Figures" CDR £4

Metaphysical slabs of composerly wisdom mangled by intermittent mad-scientist haphazard whims. Praha's wizard of the viola gives the horse hair a rest, instead focusing his mind's ears on the sounds of slow moving rocks, fixed point synth channelling and hands catching lead (half speed, naturally...). Includes intimate explanatory notes by the artiste.



UN035 Hunting, Shooting and Fishing "Buckshot/Quiverful" CDR £4

Hot new East/West Coast hook up (by way of the South) featuring a member of Helhesten. What starts out like a bunch of kids from Alan Bryant's bouncing little people planet soon disintegrates into grainy unthunk smog. Both epic and intimate, stand back and its a hobo flute on the mountaintop and strings picking out a half-forgotten childhood melody; look at the details and it's two soft lads in motheaten sweaters hunched over their busted instruments in a freezing room, twitching to keep warm.

MUSCLETUSK "ASK THE UNIVERSE" LP

OUT NOW>>>>

Muscletusk "Ask the Universe" LP
Braw Records

£12 p+p (UK)
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"A relentlessly sludgy stew...Scattershot drum-powered metal guitars collide with washing machine electronics and manic wordless vocals that in the record’s quietest moments sound like some feral alien cave-creature’s mating call straight out of Quatermass. A perfect hallucinogenic Halloween accompaniment; this is an earth’s core horror movie soundtrack in waiting" - Neil Cooper, The List.

"It’s often easy to spot a Metal attitude lurking under the surface of a Noise group but, in the case of Edinburgh quartet Muscletusk, it breaks the surface like a particularly nasty zit. At heart, this is a heavy rock unit of guitars, drums and vocals, who have escaped the tyranny of the riff. On this debut vinyl release, drums clatter and thrash in a way that’s free-form yet devoid of jazz; guitars puke and churn extreme feedback and Industrial noise; wordless, abstracted vocals shriek and gibber. The resulting thuggish onslaught is bent into loops and swirling, queasy drones, several of which are stitched together here in a brutal, slightly nauseating collage. Taken in one go, it’s like drowning in a cement mixer" - Daniel Spicer

"From the darkest of scuzz-coated cellars comes the debut LP from Edinburgh’s finest proponents of creeping noise slime. If this retching onslaught was blasting out from under your neighbours’ door, you’d probably walk past shudde...ring and ready to invest in ear plugs. Opener “Rusted Horse” sets an immaculate tone, as decaying swathes of sickening electronics rush up to nauseous heights, complimented by hysterical chimp-like vocal chattering. Free drums skitter and scramble around somewhere down by the nether regions and, all in all, it makes for a pretty fantastic white-out. Six further pieces pursue this course before the final sputtering discharge of “Fingers Inside The Glove”. God knows what answer Muscletusk expects of the universe, but it could possibly be found by playing this LP at full volume while power drilling into your forehead in search of a third eye." - Euan Andrews, Rock-a-Rolla


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MUSCLETUSK UK TOUR!

Hi fudz

MUSCLETUSK are going on tour this week, ostensibly to promote our LP "Ask the Universe" on Braw Records. We won't actually have any copies as its delayed at the pressing plant, but should get em a couple days after we get back to begin shipping. We will be taking preorders at the gigs, so bring along 12 bones and you'll get one through yr letterbox! On all dates, you'll get the pleasure of hearing and seeing fellow Edinburgers SCRIM playing some tape and recorder wheeze.

LISTEN TO SOME SAMPLES FROM THE LP:





SEPTEMBER TOUR DATES

22nd Newcastle - Muscletusk, Scrim, Mechanical Children, Culver, Foot Hair - Northumberland Arms, Northumberland Street.

23rd Manchester - Muscletusk, Scrim, The Gamecock - The Engine House @ Islington Mill, James Street, Salford.

24th Brighton - Muscletusk, Scrim, Bolide, Teignmouth Electron- Cowley Club, 112 London Road

25th Nottingham - Muscletusk, Scrim, Morgan Caney, Modulator ESP - Chameleon Arts Cafe, 17 Angel Row.

26th Leeds - Muscletusk, Scrim, Mutant Ape, Castrato Attack Group - Cardigan Arms, Kirkstall Road.

ALL GIGS COST ROUND ABOUT £5, AND KICK OFF APPROX 7.30PM.

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RECENT THINGS, FREE FOR YOU

There has been so much weirdo shit happening in E'burgh recently that my fancy wee portable recorder has been ran clean out o' battteries. In thoroughly modern fashion, please stream and download many audio and visual delights hence...

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BRITTLE HAMMER TRIO - video AND audio from 14th June show with Spencer Clark & James Ferraro. Perfromance art extravaganza.




And here's the audio. Mind and crank it to hear those subtle pops and clicks that really make the whole "live experience" thing real...


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DEAD RIB STINK - live trio set from June 23rd at Canon's Gait, Edinburgh. Look out for more from this haphazard three way...




and while we're at it....Here's a solo Ash Reid aka Solipstink set from 22nd May 2010...



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MUSCLETUSK

We have an LP coming out soon on Braw Records. Here is a live set from the same date as the Solipstink set above...



And back in March, two Muscletusks collaborated with two Helhestens to form the controversially named MUSCLESTEN
Listen below.....




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Phew, almost there...

And further back, in February (I think) two Muscletusks collaborated with Marky Mark "Loose Cannon" Callan to perform under the name WinsorDamonBeast, which is usually the alter-ego of one of those Muscletusks, when in solo mode.
Got that? Here's the recording...

DEAD LABOUR PROCESS - WORLD TOUR!

Seen as this short jaunt has me playing a show in Toronto while I'm on holiday there, I thought I'd class it as a (caps lock on...) WORLD TOUR! I know that misses out a substantial portion of the world, and its pretty much only Prague, Germany and Belgium, but who knows, maybe more dates will get added due to phenomenal demand...Click on the abundant links below to get more info, kids...

Thurs July 15th: Toronto, Canada @ Teranga, w/ Bryan Ruryk, Kevin Crump, Safe

Monday August 2nd: Prague, Czech Republic @ K4 Students Club, Charles University, Celetná 20.

Tues August 3rd: Prague, Czech Republic @ Globe Bookstore, vocal/text set w/ Graeme Smith, Jorge Beohringer

Sat 7th August: Berlin, Germany @ Die Kunstapotheke, w/ Nude On Sand

Mon 9th August: Ghent, Belgium? Maybe just hanging out here and here

Tues 10th August: Brussels, Belgium – Radio Panik session 5-6pm, then gig at MicroMarche, doors 8pm.

Wed 11th August: Hamburg, Germany @ Horbar, w/ Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer (trio), Chad Popple?

Thurs 12th August: Offenbach, near Frankfurt, Germany @ Waggon