Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Max Eisenslimer
The Ghost Safari

No Label

CD-R
£7.99


Brand new disc from Mr Max Eisenberg with a whole new layer of slime to his name and style thanks to the efforts of label boss/artist Mr Jelle Crama. Starts of with some heavy liminal electro pulse before moving into vectors of human tongue feedback and disobedient instant poetry that's somewhere between Jessica Rylan/Kites, Neil Haggerty's riff/rants circa Twin Infinitives and Jad Fair's early Half Japanese tantrums, all wrapped up in some beautifully invasive Amacher/Bennett-type feedback paralysis. Gorgeous hand-sewn sleeves with artwork by Crama too.

Max Eisenberg
Internal Breeding

Oceans Of Missouri 002

CD-R/Zine
£9.99


Great bundle of eye/ear control from this murky underground soundist, bundling a superbly crude black and white comic zine and a disc of sound-actions that feature cartoon vocal chorales, the sound of the old man of the mountains slowly winching a bucket of jabbering ferrets up the side of a rusty Destroyer, orchestras of helium-ingesting insects sing hypnotic constellations of gasp and woof and that all important tape-squelch aura that every Chocolate Monk fan knows - and loves. All packaged inside a large envelope with cool art.

Max Eisenberg
A Dog Dick Afternoon

U-Sound Vol-31

Book + CD-R
£14.99


New collection of buggered electro ephemera, jolting torrents of hi-jacked current, squelchy, pimple-squirting beats, cut-up DJ Dog Dick licks, crude adolescent punk raps and a whole host of unidentifiable crunch making up another slab of what the fuck from Nautical Almanac collaborator and full-time enigma Max Eisenberg/DJ Dog Dick. This limited first edition comes bundled in a large book that features a ton of crude cartoons, sketches, photographs and assorted visual violence.

Twig Harper
s/t

Hanson HN-237

CD
£9.99


Edition of 500 copies solo album from Twig Harper of Nautical Almanac in the mode of his classic Intuitive American Esoteric series. This is a massively psychedelic/continually unfolding series of tape works that move from moments of single string acoustic blues guitar through chattering voices, glitches, weird snatches of audio verite, what could almost be Industrial re-thinks of Suicide’s “Ghost Rider”, piano demolition ala Philip Corner… in many ways it makes me think of the place that John Fahey might have ended up if he had pushed through with the more extended experiments in concrete ragas that he was involved with near the end of his life, formulating  a particularly personal and future-visioned take on American Primitive that came from the sounds of his surroundings and the landscape itself and the way they operated within his own personal mythology. Few people can make tape work sound so musically expressive and, yeah, intuitively America as Harper and this is a real treat. “First proper CD release from Nautical Almanac’s Twig Harper. Twig was a big part in Hanson Records getting off the ground back in the mid-90's, so I'm very excited to release his debut solo glass mastered CD! Hot off the barefoot of his collaboration release with Daniel Higgs on Thrill Jockey... Twig Harper continues in the alternate universe tradition of his three volume Intuitive American Esoteric LP series, with 43 minutes psychedelic tape manipulations and droning synthesizer… electronic and organic sound mixed to brain warping perfection. Bell's, homemade electronics, synth, piano, strings, junk, horns and voice treated with tape for "full-on" musique concrete/sound poetry/electronic trance inducing confusion. Recommended for fans of Albert Hoffmann, Smegma, Pierre Henry, The Butthole Surfers, Maria Sabina, Dylan Nyoukis, Tobe Hooper, Criswell, Tod Dockstader, Sirhan Sirhan, The 13th Floor Elevators, Aliens, Humans, Jokes, and OBE's. 500 copies packaged in black poly jewelcases.” – Aaron Dilloway. 

Hatred
Pitted Water

AA Records 030908

CD-R
£7.99


New album from this solo synth/electronics project of Nate Young of Wolf Eyes. Two tracks, one an eerie duo performance from Young and Max Eisenberg recorded live in Detroit 2008, the second a trio set featuring Young, Eisenberg and Twig Harper of Nautical Almanac.