Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Neil Campbell
Rock on Brain

Gods of Tundra

C30 Cassette
£6.99


"Great stew from this towering figure in English underground music of the past few decades. This C30 displays some classic Campbell moves, as cymbals are pneumatically hammered to the bar room floor over tidal arcs of prepared tapes, bowed beer bottles and ever dissolving brain cells. The first track is a live jam from ’99 in Chicago featuring VT fave ‘Johnny Coors’ (Wolf Eyes/ Guam River/ Spykes/ Dead Machines/ Graveyards et al), whose sax playing is particularly harrowing, recalling Peter Brotzmann’s opening howl on Never Too Late But Always Too Early. Side two was originally intended as a 7” on American Tapes, and features some truly beautiful Pennine Primitive horizontal string spinning, ala Campbell’s sometime bed fellow John Clyde-Evans. Features cool full colour covers by Mike Connelly. Recommended."

Raven Strain
Old Sores

Gods of Tundra

C30 Cassette
£5.99


Matt Billings (aka Raven Strain) conducts this symphony for collapsing metal superstructures, as self-sustaining singing bowls probe through the shuffle of slowly contorting iron girders and bowed breezeblocks somewhere in the dark heart of the Motor City. The residual trail of gigantic heavy metal gongs are combined with short wave radio fuzz and barely-there singing to form an anaemic corona haloing an all but snuffed out sun. Sounds like John Truscinski, Gyorgy Ligetti and the Starving Weirdos jamming at the bottom of the river Clyde. Includes great full colour art by GOT boss Mike Connelly. Highly recommended. – Alex.

Walter Carson
Recalcitrants

Gods of Tundra GOT-010101

LP
£10.99


Limited full-length album (edition of 300 on clear vinyl) from Carson, a frequent collaborator with Robert Beatty of Hair Police/Three Legged Race/Eyes And Arms Of Smoke etc. First side pitches a staggering glut of invasive electronics against improvised crank, scrape and klang while the second side builds a muddy mire of celestially-encrypted electronics from particles of shredded tone.