Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Co., Inc.
Nerve Pluck Game

Sdn Rex 05

CD-R
£6.99


“Switched-out surge-and-spike, drum-and-treble, thrum-and-tremble from Co., Inc. (Jon Chapman: ex-Double Leopards, Rory Storm and the Invaders, Ray Off, Sinking Infinities). Unvarnished digital and vintage analog constructs: solo improv dissected and interleaved upon solo improv; all hard-/ no soft-ware. Covers hand-built of cotton rag matboard and gummed linen tape, with woodcut-printed titles, and artwork of shaved willow charcoal and archival book-repair tape. Numbered edition of 100.” – CI.

Double Leopards/Sunroof!/Mouthus
Crippled Rosebud Binding

Music Fellowship LPDOUBLCRIP

2xLP
£15.99


Much anticipated hook-up between these three trans-Atlantic monsters. One-side each and then a third monster inter-band jam. Leopards side is a classic haunt, with wraiths of hovering drone peaking in eye-rolling vocal confusion, while the Mouthus track is a fabulous punk trouncing of fuzz-impacted guitar and clattering electrified skin. Sunroof! jams are the real highlight though, especially the doofily-named “Cortez Tha Killa” that features Matthew Bower on repeat-riff nirvana while Mick Flower of Vibracathedral Orchestra lets his wrist fly with some of the most insane and righteously piloted post-Young acid delirium of anyone’s career. Too fucking much. Final big-band side presents a beautiful void of spooked eternity, with shadow forms moving in and out of earshot like so much hallucinatory cumulus. Comes in a full-colour gatefold sleeve, already sold-out at source, so move it.

Workbench + Black Quarter/Cornucopia
Live In San Juan

Heavy Tapes No Cat

Cassette
£6.99


Mike and Maya Bernstein (Double Leopards/Religious Knives et al) live at the San Juan noise fest, with a wash of sandpaper-toned judder giving way to what almost sounds like one of John Fahey's concrete ragas for locomotive, helicopters, angel vox and eerie wide-open space. B-side features a set from renowned Puerto Rican noise outfit Cornucopia. Comes in the gorgeous new Heavy Tapes (run by Mike and Maya of Double Leopards, Religious Knives et al) packaging with letterpressed custom fabricated cardstock tape covers which wrap around and tuck into themselves and black ink on white cardstock artwork by Maya. Just about the most beautiful run of tapes you're ever likely to fondle.

Zaimph
La Nuit Electrique

Utech 011

CD
£8.99


Excellent new album from Marcia Bassett (Hototogisu/GHQ/Double Leopards) with vocals, guitar and electronics piloted into some weird tonal/melodic drone areas that combine serrated string logic and solitary tones with child-like music box melodies and a black hole of processed fuzz and doom to birth one of the most beautifully disturbing Zaimphs to date. Hints of LaMonte Young, William Basinski and even Nurse With Wound are cut into solitary cells of flesh and covered in tar-thick noise. Highly recommended. Edition of 500 copies.

GHQ
Requiem For Bhopal

L'Animaux Tryst Field Recordings #720

7”
£8.99


Thick, murky drone work from the duo of Marcia Bassett and Steve Gunn, with a smog of almost Double Leopards-proportions topped off with arid single note guitar lines. Hand-numbered edition of 300 copies in black art paper sleeves with gold ink offset printing on the back and paste-on on the front.

White Rock
The Exploder

Our Mouth #7

CD-R
£8.99


Self-released album from this Mouthus/Double Leopards supergroup featuring botha Mouthus and Mike and Maya from Leopards. Sound is as beautifully Euro-fixated as the recent Religious Knives stuff, with soft oceans of glazed 1970s synth patterns washing across the backs of yr eyelids like the Cosmic Couriers play the brain scores of Terry Riley and Klaus Schulze. A beautifully pink stone and highly recommended for fans of soft dopey muzz.

Purple Haze
Perpetual Shopping

Heavy Blossom No Cat

Cassette
£7.99


Limited self-released cassette from the duo of Marcia Bassett (GHQ/Hototogisu/Double Leopards) and Taylor Richardson (who played alongside Daniel Lopatin in Infinity Window). Delayed drum machine settings, heavenly synth and transparent choral vocals, somewhere between the more slow-burning Zola Jesus settings and the Gothic euphoria of Harmonia’s Deluxe. Recommended.

Zaimph
Coast To Coast

Gift Tapes GT-024

Cassette
£6.99


New set of solo electric guitar recordings from Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards/GHQ/Hototogisu et al). Tectonic string work that has the weight of planets, with high, eerie melodies threaded through massive baseline drones. Aspects of Keiji Haino, Charalambides and Electronic Meditation-era Tangerine Dream make this a particularly explosive set. On Brother Raven’s label, hand-numbered edition of 200 copies. 

Ray Off
Ghost Wolf Of Thunder Mountain

United Fairy Moons

CD-R
£6.99


Ray Off is the solo guise of James Currin, who also runs the United Fairy Moons label, a small New Zealand imprint that looks to be one of the most consistently interesting purveyors of avant-thought this side of Corpus Hermeticum. Ghost Wolf Of Thunder Mountain is a fabulously eerie trip, combining evocative hillbilly guitar shapes (reminiscent of Six Organs Of Admittance at points), a Morricone-esque feel for spatial dynamics, some disconcertingly abstract electronics and a dimensionally fucked use of field recordings. The whole thing unfolds with a sense of narrative purpose that makes a lot of intuitive structural sense even as it swerves into wildly diverting passages of digital disruption and heavy drone: “Ghost wolf traverses inlet, plain, city and sky, battling altitude sickness and dreaming a crystal cloud beneath his limping, sticky pins.” Limited in a beautiful looking screened hard card gatefold sleeve. Recommended.