Twisted Knister  

"Massive new album in an edition of 300 copies from the duo of Karen Constance & Dylan Nyoukis: The Larval Tuning Fork consist of two side-long works judiciously edited and put-together with an easy/impenetrable logic from live shows and performances across the globe. Much of this is on the minimal side as is the contemporary Blood Stereo style, with plundered conversations and small-scale clatter and drone put to the service of long blanks of almost hypnotically monomaniacal accumulations of tape and twonk. The way the whole deal is constructed unfolds with alla the seamless surreal appeal of a reverie or a dream, with extremely subtle vocal sounds see-sawing over a bed of barbed wire while what sounds like a buncha farmyard animals read fairytales to each other. Blood Stereo’s last few releases represent a considerable leap forward for the group in terms of logistics and advanced compositional vision and this is pretty much the apex of their contemporary form. Beautiful full-colour covers with artwork by Karen and an insert with sleeve notes from Angela Sawyer." - Volcanic Tongue

Prices UK £12.00 GBP EU £14.00 GBP Rest Of The World £17.00 GBP

Be Saint 777  

Live collaboration recorded on bonfire night, 2010 at Wiltons Music Hall in London as part of the Cut and Splice festival. More objects, springs, radios, prepared & homemade gear than you could shake a contact mic at. Released by Japanese weirdo label Be Saint 77 in an edition of 100. Comes in full colour DVD case with 2 card inserts.

"Blood Stereo and the Bohman Brothers are drunk on the deep avant-garde of Swedish sound poetry, the damaged asylum-wall scrapings of outsider improvisation and the disruptive strategies of the Dadaists. These performers headbutt avant-middlebrow complacency into next week with an exclusive Cut & Splice collaborative showdown that will see their arsenal of tabletop clutter augmented by radio receivers."

SOLD OUT,, Go get it from Hitomis teat HERE.

 

Hot goobaaday goo, look like the chin-dribbler-about-town you surely are with this hot little canvas record bag. Illustration by Dylan Nyoukis, screened by the mighty Heavy Rock, and no doubt stump sewn by lepers. Comes in a variety of colours, please state if you have a preference.

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Singing Knives - Chocolate Monk  

Released in an edition of 500 on Singing Knives, this is the 'art' edition of 100 copies, which comes with bonus CDr 'The Strategic Sponge' which includes 3 tracks - 'Rough As Guts', 'Open All Minds' & 'Piece For Mic Stand' clocking in at over 30 minutes. Also comes with a A3 xerox insert and A6 original piece of 'art' (ink drawing? Collage? who knows?) for you to love and cherish. Signed and numbered. Heres what the people have been saying about 'Carrion Hut', Help ma boab!!

"With Dylan Nyoukis (of Chocolate Monk/Blood Stereo) at the helm you should already know it’s out there, the only question is how far out there this one is. This five-tracker of vocal-based flummox initially seems to have been built from the type of sounds heard on bleached-white wards and farms, but deeper listens end up on the border between metamachinery and man – a tetsuo snore with a dose of the flu. Nyoukis makes a music that’s so intrinsically human it feels like you're listening from inside of his jaws. “Carrion Hut” is a meat-mulch of an album, it’s a selection of field recordings of meat burrowing and it’s the leaked pus of worker bees. Sounds range from the describable (gloveless hands messing with steaming innards) to the impossible (Dylan as a match-striking dog), his range of squelch and rumble unconstrained by bodily functions. Most bizarre of all though is a strand of sound that resembles, at least to these ears, that African choir that Paul Simon hoodwinked back on “Gracelands”. Accident or design – does it matter? 9/10" - Foxy Digitalis

"The revered beard brandishes pick ‘n’ mix. Carrion Hut, which first appeared as a limited CD-R tucked marsupially inside the art edition of Nyoukis’ Inside Wino Lodge LP, collects five very different pieces recorded between 2003 and 2007. “The Frosted Growth” finds Nyoukis in Dubbletwee mode, snarling and barking at his multitracked self. While on the side-long “Late Night Vocal Gravy”, Nyoukis is at his most composerly. The real diamond, though, is the text piece “Strange New Ache”, originally written for Inside Wino Lodge but left off the final cut. The text – read out loud, inverted and mangled, by a half dozen-strong assemble of male and female voices runs. “These strange new muscles have started to ache, these new muscles won’t stop aching...”. Isn’t this what’s going on in Nyoukis’s lunatic sound poems? Psychosis felt as physical pain, delusions of the mind transferred into inexplicable sensation, expressible only in gibbers and howls." - The Wire

"Carrion Hut presents five pieces of body soundings, tape work, violin, industrial tools and electronics that make a convincing argument for the Nyoukis/Chocolate Monk aesthetic as the true heirs to the UK’s avant/improv scene even if most of those duds would be completely unable to recognise it. But really, is there anything less ‘idiomatic’ than Nyoukis’s completely untrained yet spectacularly articulate approach to found objects, brokedown junk and instant vocals? If you need map-points then there are aspects of Hugh Davies, Music Improvisation Company, Voice Crack, Minton’s FMP recordings, all rendered with a post rock/noise mindset that is extremely liberating. Some of the more minimalist sandpaper/scuffling tracks have a monochrome psychedelic edge that is as suburban bedroom as The Shadow Ring while the single track on side two, 2007’s “Late Night Vocal Gravy”, may be the most completely satisfying exploration of subliminal/organic complexity this side of Biota. Still one of the most singular voices in the contemporary underground, this is a major dazzler from Nyoukis." - David Keenan

"Vocal manipulations and rickety anti-percussive creaks. A brutally realist approach to psychedelia through ritual. A sonic hallucination in which Nyoukis patiently channels psychological dysfunction through bodily suffering and blurts it out into his tape deck." - Devil, Can You Hear Me?

"It kicks off with a bit of hilariously disturbing multitracked vocal fun which recalls that astounding collaboration with Udo Mich a couple of years back (still about the most mental record I’ve heard in my time here) before cutting, preparing and serving all manner of bizarre sounds for your listening delight.. I’m particularly enjoying the part that sounds like the Green Giant stamping on sheep to release some of his pent-up anger over what seem to be quite severe gastral issues. And the part that sounds like a zombie playing squash with his own head. And the weird cut-up shit about muscles and that. Oh, and the! bit that sounds like the goblins from Labyrinth having some sort of upsetting orgy while David Bowie’s bulging crotch is away. That bit might be my favourite." - Norman Records

"In a recent, characteristically combative interview in The Wire Dylan Nyoukis was keen to champion the exploration of a diverse range of noises and textures in opposition to the all too often one-dimensional monolith of Noise as a codified genre. Hardly a surprise, then, that his own work scuttles around in its own singular sound world with an organic contentment. Never one to chase after the ritualized mirage of the crescendo, on Carrion Hut the erstwhile Blood Stereo man infuses his pieces with prickly, invasive gurgles and rumblings. Originally a limited run CD-R found ensconced inside early editions of 2009's Inside Wino Lodge, Carrion Hut now sees a deserved stand alone release under the auspices of the joyously consistent Singing Knives label. The five tracks on this vinyl re-issue were recorded over four years from 2003 onward, lending the release a pleasing variety. 'The Frosted Growth' is an exercise in muddy barbarism; Nyoukis non-verbal snarls multitracked into a paranoid ooze that revels in its own ugliness. It's a gleeful incantation that recalls the genuinely unsettling soundtrack work of Blood Stereo collaborator and Fluxus-inspired multidisciplinary artist Ludo Mich. Like Mich, there is something of the eternal prankster about Nyoukis vocal manipulations and rackety anti-percussive creaks, which can sometimes distract from his wider thematic preoccupations, namely a brutally realist approach to psychedelia through ritual. This is best captured on 'Late Night Vocal Gravy', a side long experiment in the rendering of hallucination through sound in which Nyoukis patiently channels psychological dysfunction through bodily suffering and blurts it out into his tape deck. Yet amid the cantankerous bluster and fondness for sounds that mainstream convention dictates to be somehow "ugly", Carrion Hut's greatest achievement is in making the undesirable fun. 'Strange New Ache' retains an intense empathy. A text-based piece recited by a selection of alternate male and female voices, it's a Kafkaesque whirligig that emphasizes the timbral individuality of the vocalist even as they garble and malform each and every syllable. You get the feeling Nyoukis might have stumbled upon his forte here. In the past some of his collaborative work has tended (probably deliberately) to carpet bomb his co-conspirators into some form of submission, yet when engaging with the more authorial possibilities offered up by composition, he is oddly adept. "These strange new muscles have started to ache, these new muscles won't stop aching..." is the mantra in question and its hard not to come away with the feeling that this is a pretty apt distillation of the Nyoukis modus operandi. Like an animalistic satire of a society that has gorged itself silly on everything from junk food to credit ratings there is vulgarity in abundance on Carrion Hut, but that isn't even half the story. Dig a little deeper, and you'll be rewarded with a record that manages to humanize discomfort in the least pretentious way possible." - The Quietus

Prices UK £17.50 EU £19.50 Rest Of The World £22.00

BUFMS  

Hot new squeeze out from the big bellied beast of Bren't Lewiis, released in an edition of 75 to coincide with their appearance at Colour Out Of Space, we have a small handful that Seymour Glass traded us for one of those horrible 'All Day Breakfasts' in a can.

"Recorded in May 1987 at Wooj during one of Maria Estevez’s ambiguous and confusing events where performers didn’t really perform, and the audience — if you could call oblivious people stumbling around talking an audience — probably wasn’t aware anything of note was happening. It seemed like just another chaotic, decentralized party with pockets of inexplicable activity here and there, some of which included the Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble applying their singular style of awkward to guitars, bass, Casio, wooden recorders, mandolins. Cassette players throughout the house were recording, while others played loops, telephone answering machine messages, and field recordings. Numerous television sets broadcast anything from The Brady Bunch to cornball noir, while radios broadcast The Isley Brothers, Crosby Stills & Nash, XTC, Paper Lace, Malcolm McLaren, and The Archies. The floor was strewn with weirdo erotica magazines and supermarket tabloids. Including overlapping content, six hours of material recorded from different vantage points was edited to ninety minutes by Estevez in 1987. In 2011, Gnarlos sliced out 85 excerpts, ranging in length from a couple seconds to a minute in a half, reassembled them, and mixed in approximately twenty additional contemporaneous answering machine messages. Labor-intensive, perhaps, but the incidental, the involuntary, the unintended and the accidental take the lead on A Real Nice Clambake. Captured, repeated, made into something sounding casual and sloppy at first, indifferent even, sneezes, coughs, burps, mumbles, grunts, moans, clicks, clacks, and clunks all remain, as do the obnoxious zont of cables getting plugged in, tape hiss, bottles opening, keys and bottle openers rattling on tables, silverware scuttling on porcelain plates, and doors slamming. Mics are jostled and papers are shuffled, amid the spastic xylophone–windchime hybrid of coffee mugs getting stirred with strange vigor. The motor of one of the tape recorders wheezes so loudly that its own microphone picks up the sound. The group’s magical ineptitude perseveres through abrupt left turn after abrupt left turn, dizzying in their constancy, and through stretches of meandering guitar playing, repetition, interruption, and the peculiar declarations of those present."

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Red Bootkeh  

Three way split tape of crud-fidelity tape wooze and wheeze. Cracked reeds, creakings, field recordings from a far bubbling up in a soup of hiss. Like a walkman dipped in cough syrup.

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Red Bootkeh  

More late night broadcasts from his shed in Karkour. Bleary eyed tape loops piled high enough to cause his reality meltdown. Pull up a chair and listen in on his collapse.

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Red Bootkeh  

"love has gone....parallel depression is back!
60 minutes of reel to reality loops in 4tracks of deepression...
murmurings of FIRE!
various recordings from a catatonic phaze of the main wreck(gedem/brainholes)..."

Imagine if you will that someone put something rather unpleasant into the Duvel of one of them 'new age' artists from the lowlands. Very off kilter dreams might ensue.

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Red Bootkeh  

Video footage of the one footed freak know as Wreck aka Gedem aka Brainholes etc. Drunk and obnoxious hoe downs to put you in the party mood.

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self released  

The first release by Otomo Hava. More non logical cut-ups and general head scratch from this Greek freak. Numbered edition of 50 copies.
"Tapes, Effects, Electronics (synths), Radios, el. guitar, Turntable, Recorder -soprano."

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Fag Tapes  

"Amazing non-music poetry that transports you walking down the street and into the same room where this is taking place. A strange man wants you to give him what he asks of you and then tells you what you want. Don't get into his car. He will take you to the pickle factory. A total head-scratcher here from the realms of Chocolate Monk, United Kingdom. Hand-numbered edition 45."

SOLD OUT, but maybe try Fag Tapes direct?

My Dance The Skull  

First release in the 'Voice Studies' series On My Dance The Skull.
20 minute double sided cassette. Edition of 100. Side A: Vocals recorded live at Nefertiti Jazz Club, Gothenburg, Sweden on May 6th 2010. Reworked at home in Brighton, February 7th, 2011.
Side B: Recorded sometime in 2002 at home in Brighton, with Karen Constance, Patrick Wells, Cecile Gilbert, Caroline Lewis, Jussi Brightmore and Paul Wilson. Reworked at home in Brighton, Febraury 7th, 2011.
We are all out, but you can snag one direct from MDTS.

Dylan Nyoukis. Voice Studies. SideB (Excerpt) by My Dance The Skull

Scumbag Relations - Sleepy Cobalt  

A great stinker of postal collab glub from Ludo Mich & Burial Hex. Edition of 250 pro-dubbed chrome tapes with printed shell and full colour cover.

"Vocals composed and performed by Ludo Mich, recorded 15.2.2008 at Ludo's Place by Marc Van Tichel/Tape Modern. Edited and infused with Electronics, Spring-Summer 2010 at Harvest Abbey. All electronics designed and edited by Clay Ruby, with additional synthesizer contributions by Mumber Toes. Cover Artwork realised by Dylan Nyoukis"

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Smittekilde  

"Smittekilde is proud to present some of Karen Constances best work in one book. Squirrels eating babyheads, flesh-eating birds and eyebleeding humans all over the place. Comes with a Smack Music 7 single ,new nightmarish tunes for your listening pleasure...500 copies, Silkscreenprinted cover, offset print inside, half full color half red/black duotone. foreword by Byron Coley." This is GREAT

SOLD OUT, But more copies coming soon.

No Label  

"Sounding more like the viscera of harvested ghouls than a quartet of young ladies, this is definitive Chocolate Monk material. Overloading onto itself constantly, this is a barrage of out of order sounds that turn wrong into right." - Rock-a-Rolla Magazine. NOT actually a Monk release, but a great demeneted jammer from the ladies of mong.

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no label  

More 'in the red' ear confusion from these creeped out witches.

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no label  

Mangled reel to reel, electronics, free vocals and other muck. Some studio jams, and a live piece opening up for Hair Police.

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hells half halo  

Don't know how many of these babies actually hit the streets before HHH vapourised into the unknown. 3 tracks, two of which appeared on the 'two lessons for blackfoot vol.1" 7" lathe (imperial recordings), but its what is sandwiched inbetween that will get yr goat brain throbbing. A real fucking smoked out/processed jammer of a several of the bands NYC shows from 1999 = 'star spangled castro'. Originally intended as a sister release to 'Plate Of Failure'. You needs it.

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heavy rock  

Killer screenprinted poster for the Smegma show here in Brighton, April 30th 2006 with Runzelstirn/Gurgelstock, Blood Stereo, Birds Of Dealy & Green Mist Vs Injury Chic. Pink, black and puke yellow ink on card. A3 (aprox 30cmx16.5cm). Another fine job by our man Heavy Rock. Bring a touch of class to your cave.

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rayon records  

3-way split CDR. 1 hour of contortion/elation/misery/decay. Smack Music 7 = Karen Constance (Blood stereo/polly Shang Kuan), UBOAT = Pascal Nichols & Ben Knight (Stuckometer, Towering Breaker), Andy Jarvis = Andy Jarvis (Warm Palindrome, FirstPerson)Packaged in a 10 page A5 picture book with a lino printed cover." - label description

Prices UK £5.50 EU £6.00 Rest Of World £6.50

starlight furniture co.  

A glorious, unholy racket from these 3 frogs and the immense and intense Junko (hijo kaidan). A face peeling storm of screams and mangled vinyl spew. Really recommend this one. "The three tracks on Mommy Close The Door were all recorded live in France in late 2002 by Japanese vocalist Junko Hiroshige, whose murderous wail hypercubes Patty Waters, Yoko Ono, and the titular victim in Olivia de Havilland's 1972 crime flick The Screaming Woman, in collaboration with Yves Botz, Thierry Delles, Michel Henritzi, who extend the trad power trio into a Marclay mash with brutal rock'n'roll energies." - label description

Prices UK £9.00 EU £9.50 Rest Of World £10.00

no label  

All new (nov.07) self released confusion by your favourite female mongs. Track one is heavy on the vocals and tape manipulation, weirdo clanking and gurgling, animal sounds and general delirium. Track two is a more laid back loader with keyboard drones, feild recordings (?) and tape debris. Colour cover. Real good all round.

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