The Driftwood Manor - A Cross atop a Hill (SOC010)

The Driftwood Manor - A Cross atop a Hill (SOC010)

Release Date: 15th October 2012

Limited Edition of 50 Cassettes

Cost: £5.00 plus postage & packaging

The Driftwood Manor has gifted the Sonic Oyster Cassette series with a stunning album to round off 2012.

'A Cross atop a Hill' takes Irish Folk as a starting point and proceeds to defy expectation with a quietly emerging mix of traditional music, drone and experimental modes. 

‘A Cross Atop A Hill’ is the final cassette release on the sonic oyster imprint for 2012. This is strictly limited to an edition of 50 and is set for release on October 15^th.

If you would like to reserve a copy, please paypal to sonicoysterrecords@yahoo.co.uk.

Please note new pricing for POSTAGE & PAYPAL: - CD-R- In the UK, please add £1.00p towards p&p for one CD-R, £1.50 for 2 or more. Outside the UK, please add £1.50 towards p&p for one CD-R, £2 for 2 or more. Paypal is preferred - the address is sonicoysterrecords (at) yahoo (dot) co (dot) uk.


The Tongue Gets Rotten

"Totally mind-blowing new three-track EP, privately issued by Andrew Paine’s Sonic Oyster imprint that sees Youngs and Paine at some kind of high-energy peak, with a tribute to UK anarcho groups like Crass, Flux Of Pink Indians, Discharge et al cut with the aggressive a-formalism of Throbbing Gristle: the opening “Tomorrow’s Story” is hands-down the wildest vocal performance of Richard’s career, with a heady use of ring modulation coming over like a Dalek fronting Crass, with every line a negative statement, an absolute refusal. The music is amazing, with Paine holding down massively dunderhead one-note bass solos and punked electronics and as the EP unfolds the music becomes even more aggressive, with the closing “Wisdom” coming over like Discharge’s “State Violence State Control” as played by Tampax. Indeed, this is the crudest, wildest, nastiest refusenik Industrial punk of either players’ back catalogue, a stunning slab of righteously enraged avant-thug muscle that just keeps on keeping on. A non-stop addition to the VT turntable this week, in a run of only 250 copies of which 50 are part of an exclusive VT sub-edition personally autographed by both Youngs and Paine. Seriously, you need to hear this: highest possible recommendation!" Volcanic Tongue

Rotten Masters - Signing at Volcanic Tongue

Richard Youngs & Andrew Paine signing Volcanic Tongue's copies of their new Rotten Masters 7"! On sale in the shop starting Saturday and on the site starting Sunday! 

Richard Youngs & Andrew Paine - Rotten Masters e.p. (SOV001)

Richard Youngs & Andrew Paine

Rotten Masters e.p. (SOV001)

Limited Edition of 250

Release Date: 2^nd July

£6.00 plus postage & packaging

Taking pre-orders now

We’ve got questions for this so-called progress.

We do not offer this to you for your excitement.

This is our attitude, another fine clearance.

No place for Masters, there are no benefits.

It’s just an illusion to keep us in our places.”

                                                Paine & Youngs, June 2012

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Norman on Jazzfinger

Sonic Oyster have got another new tape out. I really liked that recent one from Buddha on the Moon so I have high hopes for this one. On here, “Chav's Finger” (as I like to call them) are dropping six sparse, mystical bong meditations with synthesizers and also proper grown-up instruments. Mellow drones with mellow twinkles over the top, sometimes melodic, sometimes freeform and a little bit chuntery...I guess you've got to get into the “zone” for this one and I've not smoked enough chong for that yet today.

The Buddha speaks to Norman

Ooh, this one's right up my street. On here the mysterious Buddha On The Moon bust out two side-long jams with elements of drone and psychedelic rock, which seem to be based around simple echo-laden bass guitar melodies alongside processing and programming and ethereal washed out background vocals which are blended with synth drones to fascinating effect. The simple, repetitive, slooooooow bassline that anchors everything on the first side is totally hypnotic and when the cautiously understated, primal drums start to emerge from the fug about halfway through it has a total ritualistic Master Musicians Of Bukkake feel going on that I know a lot of you will appreciate. The second side, 'Emergence', is far more of an ambient drone trip, with less bassy and more shimmering drones gradually shifting and morphing for a refreshing tone bath. There's totally immersive atmospheres here, but it's too busy to really call drone, especially on the first side. It's more of a slowed down, submerged psych drift with a nod to the post-dubby snail-like pacing of Sun Araw and the semi-musical psychedelic texturing of Expo 70. Sonic Oyster's output tends to be pretty consistent but I think this is my favourite thing I've heard from them yet. Great job lads! (Norman Records)

Tongue on Finger

Welcome return for this legendary UK underground cell from Newcastle, piloted by Ben Jones and Hasan Gaylani now for many, many years: edition of only 50 copies six-track cassette album that occupies a nocturnal zone of bowed and struck electro-acoustic soundings somewhere downwind of Organum, NNCK et al. That patented Jazzfinger dead-at-the-steering-wheel drone, achieved through the obsessive application of busted cassette decks, is at the heart of this new work, with pulsing low-grade atmospherics over slow Chalk-like accordion drones, buzzing, tactile string work... aspects of MEV’s sci-fi/Industrial masterpiece, Leave The City w/a similarly dramatic and atmospheric approach to junkyard ritual make this one of the highlights of the SOC catalogue to date: recommended! 

Jazzfinger - Night Fall At Borrowed World

Jazzfinger - Night Fall At Borrowed World
Sonic Oyster Cassettes (009)Limited edition of 50
Release date: 21 May 2012
Cost: £6.00 plus postage & packaging

Sonic Oyster welcomes in the night with brand new twisted entertainment from Jazzfinger.
'Night Fall At Borrowed World' serves up six episodes of absorbing, nerve shredding psychodrama. This is the soundtrack of perpetual darkness. Embrace it.


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Will Klingenmeier & Tim Dickson - A Cluster of Stars

Will Klingenmeier & Tim Dickson - A Cluster of Stars
Sonic Oyster Cassettes (008)
Limited edition of 50
Release date: 30 January 2012
Cost: £6.00 plus postage & packaging


"A twilight recording of cosmic star dust bringing into being ethereal guitar and transcendental piano, 'a cluster of stars' is an immersive journey to whence we came. Recorded straight to two track; it is the duo's maiden voyage." Will Klingenmeier

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Buddha on the Moon - Passage

Buddha on the Moon: Passage
Sonic Oyster Cassettes (007)
Limited Edition of 50
Cost: £6.00 plus postage & packaging
Release date: 30 January 2012

A new 'Buddha on the Moon' release to usher in 2012.

'Passage' takes its starting point from the mesmeric bass line of 'The Other Side of the Ocean' and gently sets sail on a calm and balmy voyage of the inner-psyche.

This is meditational music with a kick: as melody starts to boil and bubble: free-form percussion and barely-contained space drone providing rich, absorbing dark ambient tones.

If you were lucky enough to grab a copy of 'Between Seasons', then you're definitely going to need this. Already a contender for my record of 2012.

Please note new pricing for POSTAGE & PAYPAL: - CD-R- In the UK, please add £1.00p towards p&p for one CD-R, £1.50 for 2 or more. Outside the UK, please add £1.50 towards p&p for one CD-R, £2 for 2 or more. Paypal is preferred - the address is sonicoysterrecords (at) yahoo (dot) co (dot) uk.