SOR50: SOLD OUT!

Strictly Limited to 50 copies on CD-R
£5.00 plus postage & packaging
Released 7th November 2011

To celebrate the 50th Sonic Oyster CD-R release, I asked all the collaborators, artists, groups, chancers and shysters associated with the label to dip into their archives and choose a curio for a compilation.

What we have here, ladies and gentlemen... is a 17 track album, featuring exclusive cuts by:

Richard Youngs & Andrew Paine

Alistair Crosbie

Buddha on the Moon

The Zero Map

Susan Matthews

Bolide

Astral Social Club

Will Klingenmeier (Soliloquy Sun)

Sindre

Andrew Paine (US)

Matthew Shaw

Book of Shadows

Brian Lavelle

Richard Youngs

Smoke Jaguar

Andrew Paine (UK)

Clutter

This is a strictly limited release of 50... and an essential must-have for any serious SOR fan.

Volcanic Tongue... on... Clachan Flats

"Stunning new cassette from the duo of Stuart Crutchfield and Kevin McCarvel that pretty much cements their reputation as the best ‘rock’ band in the UK right now, with six tracks of devolved drums/guitar/vocals/electronics that come over like the early Royal Trux cassette that Xpressway never released. McCarvel’s vocals exist on the very limits of subliminal sound with the feel of a more beatific Michael Morley hovering over raggedy guitar kinetics that stagger in and out of clipped melodies w/a martial aspect that is totally exhilarating. Throw in the collapsing universe feel of your favourite South Island satellite and the kind of epic fuzz/ reverb excursions that could easily be Japanese and you got alla the ingredients for the cassette release of the year thus far. And, sure, they may feature a baldy, but there ain’t no laptops in sight. This is bloodied freeform rock at some kind of deformed tactile apex and easily their most accomplished release to date. Edition of only 50 copies, already sold out at source, highly recommended!" David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue

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)