Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Sam Goldberg
Winter Hallucinations 3

Pizza Night No Cat

Cassette
£6.99


All-new limited volume of forlorn, laminal string drone and phantom landscape construction from this close associate of Emeralds et al. Already sold out at source.

Revelation Blitz
s/t

Durable Stimuli #30

Cassette
£7.99


Edition of 100 copies cassette from this new duo project featuring John Elliott of Emeralds and George Viebranz of Pimlo. Malevolent waves of thundering far-off electronics over the sound of pure electricity. Long OOP!

Skin Graft/Pimlo
Split

Durable Stimuli #28

CD-R
£7.99


Split CD, hand-numbered edition of 100 copies, with six tracks of degraded violent mixer/effects sound from Wyatt Howland’s Skin Graft and four shots of hypnotic low-level electronics from George Viebranz of Pimlo, who plays alongside John Elliott of Emeralds in Revelation Blitz. 

Skin Graft
Cancerous

Pizza Night 45

2XCD-R
£9.99


Double CD edition of a double cassette from Cleveland’s Skin Graft aka Wyatt Howland. Skin Graft have a particularly puzzling/beguiling take on basic noise tectonics, sometimes worrying a single sound source to rubber, sometimes exploding nothing but a patch lead into countless formal contortions. Cancerous is particularly minimal, with flat-lined metal tones that pulse with primitive electricity and almost Hive Mind-style nada braincell rot. 

Mark McGuire
A Young Person’s Guide To Mark McGuire

Editions Mego EMego-0117

2xCD
£17.99


The perfect primer for the work of guitarist/composer and Emeralds member Mark McGuire, two CDs that compile the best of his material drawn from a bunch of long OOP private press releases, presenting tracks from Dream Team, A Pocket Full Of Rain, Patterns Of Development, Stranger Than Paradise, Light Movement, Open Chords, Between Family, a split tour cassette with Sam Goldberg, Losing Sleep, The Invisible World and Things Fall Apart. Perfectly programmed for maximal immersion, this makes for one of the best McGuire releases and takes its place as the go-to set next time you need to turn someone one to his magical soundworld. 

Telecult Powers
Stars Are The Eyes Of God

Draft 010

Cassette
£8.99


Limited cassette from the duo of visual artist Witchbeam and Mister Matthews, here joined by Lala Ryan who adds some high mass-style female vocal stylings to the A side’s vertical synth levitation while over on the flip there are heavy trio jams featuring John Elliott of Emeralds. Some kind of Typhonian theme is almost apparent but like much associated with Kenneth Grant, it’s pretty hard to put your finger on. 

Radio People
Hazel

Mexican Summer MEX-082

LP
£17.99


Brand new album from Sam Goldberg’s always-fantastic Radio People project with one of their most gloriously technicolour productions. Hazel features a guest appearance from John Elliott of Emeralds/Outer Space et al and the feel is of America Endless w/a synth music that relocates European notions of continent and space to the American landmass, a music of eternal expansion, of constant evolution. Tracks build from simple drum machine hypnotics into great vistas of overlapping synthesized heavens as melodies cohere in flat-lined pulse-based beams of pure electricity. God knows there’s a lot of mediocre synth-action out there but once more Goldberg (and Elliott!) prove themselves to be way ahead of the game. Hand-numbered edition of 750 copies on virgin vinyl with a download code. 

Outer Space
II

Blast First Petite PTYT-005

LP
£15.99


Second album of 2012 for the full-group line-up of John Elliott’s (Emeralds et al) solo project, now featuring Drew McDowall of Coil, Jeff Hatfield (Fragments/Field Of Hats), Andrew Vere and Adam Miller, with cover artwork by Graham Lambkin of The Shadow Ring: II presents a more expansive sound, with lucid classical synth stylings that part like slow moving clouds over achingly extended slow-motion melodies. Some of the doofier beat-driven tracks have the kind a-musical twonk of Conrad Schnitzler’s colour-coded LPs while the arpeggiated keyboard set-ups come across like the view over Dusseldorf circa 1973. Something a little more ‘stately’ about this one than previous blats from John which makes it all the more engaging. 

Skin Graft
Dystrophy

Hanson HN-236

CD
£6.99


First ever ‘real’ CD from Wyatt Howland aka Skin Graft with a set of wretchedly distorted, blown-apart tone threat that pushes ever deeper into explorations of entropic noise, sandpaper drones and the sound of twisted metal w/a black psychedelic aspect and found tapes/intercepted emergency calls incorporated in an odd textural/tonal manner that is profoundly disturbing: “Debut CD release for Cleveland's Skin Graft. Wyatt Howland aka Skin Graft has been blasting his crude noise in the filthiest Cleveland basements and scum punk bars every two or three nights… a week! for the past five or so years. He has a knack for writhing in the filthy underbelly of sound using junk metal, field recordings and primitive electronics. Dystropohy is complete audio horror texture…pulverizing harsh sounds of fluttering static, feedback and crushed metal… This is the sound you hear when you are stuck upside down in the backseat of a hit and skidding car.  Just horrible sounds!  The complete OPPOSITE to the sounds of his past collaborators Emeralds and Bee Mask. Whereas they have aimed for outer space… Skin Graft has aimed himself head first into a shitty old Cleveland gutter. Always touring, always playing gigs, and always recording…solo and as a member of long running Cleveland noise punks Dead Peasant Insurance as well as Power Violence heavyweights Apartment 213. Recommended for fans of Wolf Eyes, The New Blockaders, Napalm Death, Taint, Murder Corporatrion, Negative Approach, Prurient, and Controlled Bleeding. 500 copies packaged in black poly jewelcases.” – Aaron Dilloway.