Smoke Jaguar - Clachan Flats: SOLD OUT!

Strictly Limited to 50 copies on Cassette
£5.00 plus postage & packaging
Released 3rd October 2011

Smoke Jaguar are that rare thing: a guitar / drum / vocal / duo who embrace instant form with honesty and authenticity: embellishing on the kind of myth, legend and folklore first lain bare by the likes of early Fushitsusha and Skullflower.

‘Clachan Flats’ introduces a wholly new narrative: six pieces unfolding through improvisation and raw instinct: complex electrical storms of spit and spunk: rudimentary free-drones, carving themselves onto your brain, like sonic cave drawings.

Essential. Seriously, what are you waiting for?

You can listen to 'the inside of both of his hands' at http://soundcloud.com/sonic-oyster-records/smoke-jaguar-the-inside-of

Brian Lavelle - Empty Transmissions

Strictly Limited to 50 copies on Cassette
£5.00 plus postage & packaging
Released 29 August 2011

Brian Lavelle has gifted the Sonic Oyster estate with possibly its finest release of the year:

‘Empty Transmissions’ builds on a melodic synthesizer groove and heads into space, bound for the cosmic territories last orbited by Manuel Gottsching’s ‘E2-E4’.

POSTAGE & PAYPAL INFORMATION - Casette - In the UK, please add 50p towards p&p for one cassette, £1 for 2 or more. Outside the UK, please add £1 towards p&p for one cassette, £2 for 2 or more. Paypal is preferred - the address is sonicoysterrecords (at) yahoo (dot) co (dot) uk.


You can here an excerpt from ‘Corridor of Stars’ at http://soundcloud.com/sonic-oyster-records/brian-lavelle-corridor-of

Susan Matthews & Richard Moult - Music For Two Pianos Vol 1 (SOR49) SOLD OUT

Strictly Limited to 50 copies on CDR
£5.00 plus postage & packaging
Released 20th June: SOLD OUT

Susan Matthews is a UK based composer/musician, known for her intense, ambitious, hypnotic harmonies and industrial noise creations: Richard Moult is a poet, painter and composer, and a member of Irish psych-folk band United Bible Studies.
‘Music For Two Pianos Vol 1’ is their first collaboration: a ‘classical’ transmission: personal, meaningful, emotive.
The playing is beautiful: the dynamics, tempo and expression of the music located somewhere between creative improvisatory deviation and the discipline of trained musical tradition.

Listen to ‘Aria’ at http://soundcloud.com/sonic-oyster-records/susan-matthews-richard-moult

Astral Social Club - Wheezy Paradise (SOC004) - SOLD OUT

Strictly Limited to 50 copies on Cassette
£5.00 plus postage & packaging
Released 20th June: SOLD OUT at source - copies available from Norman Records & Volcanic Tongue from 20th June

Neil Campbell unleashes a seminal slice of full-on mutant techno ambient metal music: a psychedelic dawn-chorus with all-important critical beats, jarring, distorted electronic soup and a large dose of tongue-in-cheek.

This is fabulous, bonkers and guaranteed to put bird-song on the electro-map. What are you waiting for?

Listen to an extract from ‘Wheezy Paradise’ at http://soundcloud.com/sonic-oyster-records/astral-social-club-wheezy

Volcanic Tongue... reviews the A Band

"Edition of 50 numbered copies 3” CD-R documenting a rare trio performance from long-term UK free/freak ensemble The A Band, here represented by Simon Murphy, Karl M V Waugh and Alasdair Willis. Recorded live at The Iron Duke in November 2010, there’s a great cracked free jazz feel to much of this, with someone slow-dialling cold war electronics beneath an eerie melodic/reeds back and forth that could almost be session players from The TV Personalities’ Mummy You’re Not Watching Me channelling the ghost of Anima Sound during downtime or a more punk-primitive This Heat pitching for a gig with The Shadow Ring. But where’s Walden?" (Volcanic Tongue)

Volcanic Tongue visits the Goetheanum

"Hovering edge-of-the-void style psychedelic drone from Matthew who runs the Apollolaan Recordings label and also records as Tex La Homa and Fougou with Brian Lavelle. Some of the mystery of Thomas Koner’s endlessly bleak gong works, aspects of the sidereal Masami Akita/Christoph Heemann collaboration, all rendered with a reverb heavy/ritual atmosphere that is almost Japanese. Music for guitar, piano, singing bowl and voice. Numbered edition of 50 copies." (Volcanic Tongue)

Volcanic Tongue Lifts Into My Hands

Thanks to Heather and David from the ever excellent Volcanic Tongue, for the lovely review of 'Lift into my Hands' by Andrew Paine:

"New solo piano work from Andrew Paine that operates on the very extremes of volume/fidelity: following on from his earlier solo piano work, The Haunts Of Ancient Peace, Lift Into My Hands dissolves the instrument in foggy blooms of tone that expand with all of the slow-motion majesty of colour into water. The percussive aspect of the keys is completely submerged so that instead there are just sighing clouds of melody that move in forlorn shapes across landscapes shaped like memories. If you’re a fan of Andrew Chalk you need to check in. Numbered edition of only 50 copies. Recommended."