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."

A Band - Abstruse

The A Band - Abstruse
Abstruse
Sonic Oyster Records (SOR 48)
Strictly limited (numbered) edition of 50 on 3” CDR
£5.00 plus postage & packaging

Simon Murphy
Karl M V Waugh
Alasdair Willis

Recorded live 18th November 2010 @ The Iron Duke

The A-Band deliver a righteous ritual of ‘primitive’, over 22 glorious minutes: fucked up free jazz: unfettered avant-abuse. It is a beautiful thing.

http://soundcloud.com/sonic-oyster-records/the-a-band-abstruse-edit
to listen to a short extract from 'abstruse'.

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


Andrew Paine - Lift Into My Hands

Andrew Paine – Lift Into My Hands
Three pieces for piano
Sonic Oyster Cassettes (SOR003)
Strictly limited (numbered) edition of 50.
£5.00 plus postage & packaging

Andrew Paine builds on last year’s ‘The Haunts of Ancient Peace’; his farewell to a fallen traveller, with this new solo work.

Three pieces explore the themes of emergence and resurrection: ‘Lift Into My Hands’ serving as the perfect counterpoint between ‘The Seeds of Intention’ and ‘Of Rabbits & Horses’: slow, unfolding, sparse, low-volume music.

http://soundcloud.com/sonic-oyster-records/of-rabbits-horses-edit
to listen to a short extract from 'Of Rabbits & Horses'.

POSTAGE & PAYPAL INFORMATION - Cassettes - 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.


Matthew Shaw - Goetheanum - SOLD OUT

Matthew Shaw – Goetheanum
Two pieces for guitar, piano, singing bowl and voice.
Sonic Oyster Cassettes: Strictly Limited (numbered) edition of 50
Release date 9 May 2011… taking pre-orders now.
£5.00 plus postage & packaging

‘Goetheanum’ comprises two beautifully measured slices of drone as cosmic debris: true knowledge falling in and around infinite dimensions in its quest for spiritual wakening.

Two sides of the most haunting and affecting music you will hear this year. Not to be missed.

http://soundcloud.com/sonic-oyster-records/goetheanum-ii-edit
to listen to an edit of Goetheanum (side 2)

The Zero Map - The Process of Sanitation

'The Zero Map' (Chloe Wallace & Karl M V Waugh), take time away from their jobs in 'The A Band', to bring us fearless experimentation with a hybrid dose of murky ambient and sugared soundscapes: imagine the bastard child of Hawkwind and Faust as conducted by Edgard Varese.

Mechanical, pastoral and relentlessly progressive, 'The Process of Sanitation', is strictly limited to 50 copies and is released on 21 March 2011. Available for pre-order now. The cost of the CD-R is £5.00 plus postage & packaging.

Listen to 'Notre Dame' at soundcloud:

http://soundcloud.com/sonic-oyster-records/the-zero-map-notre-dame

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


For further information on 'The Zero Map' go to http://www.thezeromap.wordpress.com/ or email sarcasticmuffin@hotmail.com