03/01/2009

Tour is now over and I’m back in Western Mass, despite the 2 feet of snow that fell last night and this totally incapacitating illness that has taken over my body, it feels good to be home.  A lot of stuff went out of print (check the releases).  There are a couple new tapes to put up and a tide of new jams just screaming to get out.  My lack of job is making it a lot harder to get them all out and for that I’m bummed, but they’ll make it one way or the other.

Out NOW:

Anthro Rex & Id M Theftable.  A collab recording between these two northeast wooly mammoths of mind mush, a thirty minute trip down a drooling, foot stomping, wall slapping path of total weirdness.  Lots of awesome mouth gymnastics, environmental instruments and twists and turns in the recording that make it hard to believe it’s a live set.  Really excited by this recording; captures the spirit and daring of these two guys really well.  I wish i was smart enough to package it with actual beard hair.  Comes in a one color silk-screen sleeve drawn by Dan Cashman and George W. Myers.

Slaughtered Sandworm & Weirding Module.  Another duo / collab tape but this one definitely landing on the other side of the moon, maybe even…the dark side of it…  A real patient, almost tense tape, like a couple of snakes fighting and shedding skin at the same time.  great vocal work and prepared guitar by Fernando (S.S) to match the intermittent modular synth blobs that Weirding Module unleashes.  Could have been the alternate soundtrack to Dune if it didn’t feature any people.  Great jams!  Full color artwork by George W. Myers.

George W. Myers : Mushmouth V. 1 - Winter Tour 2009.  Made for the just finished tour, a cdr collecting new late night winter fuzz.  slow heavy beats mangled and untangled in a mush of electronics.  No vocals so i’m dropping the ‘mushmouth’ moniker, plus on tour i found out there’s a mushmouth in damn near every city, so…  Really happy with these recordings, pretty clean takes done “live” but in a studio setting.  40 minutes or so.  Cdr in full color / Black and White sleeve.

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I know it’s a total cliche to say they’re coming soon, but, i swear it, they are:

Pascal Nichols : Empty Bell Tower (c20 of mind-wind chimes ringing across the winds)

Alien Radio : S/T (c25 of modular synth from german label tape tektonik’s head squid)

I-Max : The Sonn Rises in the East (c30 beat tape from hobo sonn, totally amazing mpc head nodder)

Soaking Rasps : S/T (c30 from skoal kodiak singer/ ex-quad muth of amazing dubbed out grizz beats)

Steve Dags / Greg Thomas : split tape (c30 split, one side of lap steel drone another of awesome zither jams, co-released with french/uk label Rayon!)

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Also worth mentioning that I’ve been back at the tape reviews / editorship over at cassettegods.blogspot.com along with a few other writers and there are a bunch of others about to hop on board that i’m really excited about, stay tuned!

Up next, full tour recap (with pictures!)

Oh yeah, lastly, there were a few orders that slipped and didn’t get sent out before i left, will have those out ASAP, sorry bout that!

Keep in touch.

-George

01/16/09

Outta print:  The Ducktails 7″ and Bromp Treb 7″ have gone the way of the Bush Administration and are no longer with us.  If you want to check the Bromp Treb record Apostasy Recordings still have some available (along with the LONG out of print Tarp 7″) and i think Bromp Treb / Yeay! are almost out of theirs.  Along with those dudes, worth checking out the distros / stores that carry our releases, DNT, Tomentosa, deathbomb arc, mystery train records, golden age, along with a bunch of others.  If  yr a distro and interested in carrying stuff get in touch [ info @ breakingworldrecords . ]

Outta sight:  Working on the finishing touches of the Anthro Rex / Id M Theftable collab and the Slaughtered Sandworm / Weirding Module collab tape.  Can’t say enough good things about these tapes, the first being a total battle of epic mouth mangled mania and the latter being another trip into the Dune outtakes; ears 90% full of sand and spittle.  These two should be done in the next couple days and available for order BEFORE tour, every thing else will probably be done for tour and not on the site till I get back end of Feb, which is the next point.

On Tour: I’ll be headed on a couple week tour from western mass down to INC and back.  The tour will be me solo (as George W. Myers), Pak and Noise Nomads. There’s a chance we’ll play as our trio in there somewhere, Duper, but everything that is planned now is as three solo acts.  All shows are pretty much confirmed, more details forthcoming.  Schedule is as follows:

Feb 5th:  Pittsburgh (house show)

Feb 6th: Columbus, OH (Skylab w/ Ryan Jewell)

Feb 7th: Cleveland, OH

Feb 8th: Lexington, KY

Feb 9th: Murfreesboro, TN @ Megachurch

Feb 10th: Birmingham, AL

Feb 11th: Gainesville, FL (pre-INC fest)

Feb 12th: Miami INC (not-playing)

Feb 13th: Miami INC (all three acts playing)

Feb 14th: Miami INC (not playing)

Feb 15th: Tampa, FL (post-INC show)

Feb 16th: South Carolina

Feb 17th: North Carolina

Feb 18th: Philly

Feb 19th: New York City @ Silent Barn w/ Time Life, Watersports and Ducktails DJ set

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