“A new set of studio recordings from the latter day version of the A Band. As noted in previous musings (check out David Keenan's article on The Wire site) on this collective, the A Band follows in the tradition of the People Band, Scratch Orchestra, and Portsmouth Sinfonia (and oddly enough, Calgary's own Street of Crocodiles), ditching traditional notions of instrumentation and ability for a more disparate and unique flow of ideas and sounds. Standard instruments (piano, clarinet, electric guitar) sit alongside makeshift/found percussion, weird electronics, and vocal utterances, the elements shifting in and out of focus, often seeming as if players are walking in and out of the studio at their leisure, adding something then moving along. The first track is largely acoustic, featuring a swirling marriage of its rag-tag odd and ends, while the second main track (actually the third) features a much different feel and heavier usage of electric sounds. Totally bizarre, singular, and unlike anything else on Bug Incision. Treated white card sleeves with colour & b&w stick-on art, edition of 119.” – BI. 

Limited to 150 hand-numbered copies uncut 8" lathe, part of Alt Vinyl's new lathe-only series, with devotional pulse/drone from Neil Campbell of Vibracathedral Orchestra et al. recorded live with Arttu Partinen from Avarus.

Live archival find, newly released on Chocolate Monk, from the duo of Neil Campbell and John Clyde-Evans (now Tirath Singh Nirmala). An atmospheric punk-primitive ritual with slow flashing beams of cello and violin ala early Theatre Of Eternal Music boots combining in charcoal clusters of electric DNA. Campbell on cello and tapes, Clyde-Evans on violin, tape and voice. Features the ghost presence of Sticky Foster and art by Karen Constance.

Brand new big-band line-up release from Blood Stereo, recorded live in Leeds in April 2005. The duo of Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance are joined by Julian Bradley, Neil Campbell and Sticky Foster for an Ur-primitive UK underground freak-out that jams signals with electro-flesh conceptions that are as occult as Heathen Erath-era Throbbing Gristle and as ecstatically damaged as anything from the tongue of yr favourite dope-dosing guru. A whole mess of smeared vocals, slow helium of electronics, loops, reeds and - crucially - plenty of doof. Killer.

New duo punk magic from these two UK underground stalwarts central to the whole Vibracathedral Orchestra/A-Band axis. Uncut 8" lathe in an edition of 150 hand-numbered copies, part of Alt Vinyl's new lathe-only series. Featuring John Olson (Wolf Eyes) as MC on side 1.

Debut release by the duo of Neil Campbell (Astral Social Club/Vibracathedral Orchestra) and Paul ‘Nonnen’ Walsh, originally one-half of the legendary Smell & Quim. This is psychedelic electro-punk that has plenty of squelchy analog appeal. There are extended detours into blizzard-tunnels of hi-fi wipe-out and full-on noise usurped by weird, kiddy keyboard patterns. Really strange, lucid DIY electro jams that have one foot firmly in the whole UK Snatch Tapes/DIY zone and another in post-Noise timbres. Live two-track jams, 10 tracks.

New 40 minute collection on Neil Campbell’s own label of recent private tapes from Paul ‘Nonnen’ Walsh, one half of legendary UK underground actionists Smell & Quim. Minimal tape work, primitive concrete accumulations of cut and splice electronics, digital processing of rhythms and huge shadow-forms, dark monolithic drones: this one exists on the cusp of basement noise and 20^th century avant garde composition as previously hinted at by Dylan Nyoukis and Blood Stereo while expanding it with a glossier, hyper-digital patina.

New limited edition vinyl LP from the post-Neil Campbell line-up of Vibracathedral Orchestra in a hand-numbered edition of 600 copies on Sunburned Hand Of The Man's own private press label. Recorded live in London and Cambridge on the 26th and 27th of August 2007, this one features the line-up of Michael Flower, Adam Davenport, John Godbert, Bridget Hayden and Keith Wood (Hush Arbors). Advance word on this album was pretty wild but it more than lives up to the hype, functioning as one of the all-time best Vibra sides and showcasing alla their advanced drone/psych strategies to dazzling effect. The sound is beautifully primitive, running from deformed wordless ragas that explode in arc after arc of heavy atonal stasis through the kind of amazing six string ostrich guitar work from Flower that would hallucinate whole freak out tracks assembled from nothing but Lou Reed's blistering avant-frat style circa European Son/Run Run Run/All Tomorrow's Parties. The fidelity gives it the same feel of raw devotional music that colours much of the back catalogues of The Skaters and Matthew Bower but this is more rock inflected and self-consciously 'classic' than either of those two, effectively re-formulating hypnotic guitar rock as *the* ticket to the other side. The drone pieces feel like waves of razor blades, the rockers like every freeform guitar fantasy you ever formulated and the whole thing is threaded with weird, inexplicable bird calls that gives the otherwise claustrophobic guitar environments a beautiful shot of light. An immaculate album, highly recommended. Welcome the fuck back.

Hand-numbered edition of 50 copies 3” CD-R, part of La Station Radar’s ‘Fake Tape Series’.  More electro-raunch from the duo of Neil Campbell (Astral Social Club et al) and Paul Walsh, recorded live at Batley swimming baths in July of 2009. Aggressively nuanced electronics that combine chuffing rhythms with hotwired crackle and amorphous bass tones. Somewhere between the more ‘Industrial’ stylings of early Kluster/Conrad Schnitzler and Astral Social Club?