Sound design by @janjulius

Purchase: https://janjulius.bandcamp.com/track/april-dandelion

Wild endive, lion’s teeth, clockflower, worm rose, butter flower, the devil’s milk bin, blow-ball, telltime and the priest’s crown. Sometimes loved, sometimes loathed, but always there when you need them most. A healer of soil, a stimulating tonic for the listless - their basal rosettes form a brooch on the sidewalk. It’s golden hues are sympathetic to the jaundiced and stagnant, and they bring levity and motion to our most languid systems. They keep local and seasonal time and are one of the many earth clocks.  Just like their astrological counterparts, Leo’s, Dandelions are as loyal and generous as they come. 

Latin: Taraxacum officinale, roughly meaning “bitter herb of the apothecaries.”

Properties: Tonic for the liver, promotes lymphatic motion, alkalizes the body, stimulates insulin production, high in Vitamin A + C and minerals, stimulates appetite and digestion, cooling, drying, bitter and diuretic. 

Companions: Apples, peaches, strawberries, cherries, tomatoes, pollinators and runner beans. Dandelion makes for a great companion plant on fruit orchards. They naturally produce ethylene gas, which helps fruit ripen early and evenly, and they enrich the surrounding soil with important minerals and nutrients. 

Recipe: https://www.thespruceeats.com/how-to-make-dandelion-wine-1327932

Jan Julius ~ April (Dandelion)

https://youtu.be/O5LB5atRLdg

PORTAL___NTH
F44
F81
FF280 (S280F)
KUTHIJIN___DROOL
ARCA / JESSE OSBORNE LANTHIER___MUTANT / DISUSED LEISUREPLEX
S280F___6M (JOHN OBJECT) (FITNESSS)
TZUSING / JULIANNA BARWICK___SHAME / PYRRHIC
OLIVIER MESSIAEN___O SACRUM CONVIVIUM
F20

M06 / CURIOSITY

Sound by @plnt99

A drop of blood in the fallow, food for the farrow, rose of the sallow. A cherry in the dunes. Radishes are a cooling plant that symbolize vitality, renewal, strife and wind. Watermelon, Black, Easter Egg, Daikon, Green Meat, Perfecto and White Hailstone are just a few of our favorite varietals. Listen carefully and you can intuit all the gifts she has to offer. The spring thaw mirrors itself in radishes nature as the cooling, water-bearer. She is said to sweeten the blood, quicken the spirit and soothe the nerves.

Latin: Raphanus sativus, roughly meaning quickly appearing, cultivated root.

Properties: Radishes are a blithe vegetable, rarely suffering from blights or pests. One of the quickest producers of the spring, but has a very lengthy season of viability depending on the species. A burst of light in the white season, radishes contain Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Potassium, Phosphorus, B Vitamins and lots of trace minerals. Juice from the earthstone is a potent remedy for all of the stone ailments (i.e. gall, kidney and bladder) and quickens the homeostatic reflex, allowing the body to heal itself more quickly. 

Companions: Its sympathetic nature can readily be seen in its diversity of visual harmonics. Planted alongside cucumber and squash, radish helps to repel their biggest threats. Nasturtium, alliums, marigolds and the umbellifers form vital pheremonic allegiances, protecting your garden from bugs. Sweet peas and pole beans will enrich your soil with nitrogen, helping your radishes thrive. Under no circumstances should radishes be subject to the presence of hyssop - their only true antagonist. 

Recipe: https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/last-word with a side of raw radish

Planet 1999 ~ May (Radish)

Glasswort is and acts as a medium. A means of transmission, a channel, a liminal state, a container, an environment. A sympathetic vessel, a palette, a mirror - it centers itself in giving and receiving. In this it is both lost and found. Here it finds purpose, but not meaning. It transcribes and is transcribed in the process. As a lens, it brings those around it into focus yet cannot see itself. The soda ash from incinerated glasswort is used to make glass, valued for its crystal clear color. Sympathetic to the season, their stems take on rich purples, reds and pinks moving into leaf season - dappling the marshes like mome raths. You may also know it as swampfire, sea bean, samphire or pickleweed.

Latin: Salicornia depressa, roughly meaning depressed salt horn/branch 

Properties: A member of the goosefoot clade, Glasswort is equal parts vegetable, herb and spice. Much like oysters, kelp and other aquacultures - seabeans are a purifying force both within and without. As a halophytic plant (salt-tolerant) that can thrive in saline wastewater, it has the dual value of being a nutritious, commercially-valued vegetables and also treating wastewater from commercial fishing or shrimp operations. Glasswort is a vitamin and ionic mineral powerhouse; it is rich in calcium, iron, iodine, magnesium, copper, potassium, fiber and Vitamins, A, B, C + D. It is also very high in protein for a vegetable. You can find this small, bush-like succulent in the middle + lower levels of salt marshes in May-August in New England. Virginia Glasswort is widely distributed, from the coasts of FL to PEI in the Atlantic and from CA to BC in the Pacific. It is lovely raw, pickled, as a seasoning or cooked as a vegetable. 

Companions: Glasswort seeds are a vital food source for passerine birds and geese. It also provides a safe-haven for insects and snails, such as the marsh periwinkle and western pygmy blue, during high tides.The endangered salt marsh harvest mouse relies exclusively on Glasswort for its habitat and primary food source. They eat pickleweed and climb on top if its sturdy leaves to forage more efficiently. 

Recipe: https://honest-food.net/sea-beans-salicornia-samphire-saltwort

On Memory and Not Knowing

Giant Claw and Isabel Watson ~ June (Glasswort)

galen tipton - goddexx (deluxe edition) 

UNSL010D

Featuring music by @galentipton, @dianastarshine, @n_hell, & @junior-astronaut

Remixes by @sethaarongraham, @giantclaw, @user-tamanaramen, @swanmeat

Out now on deluxe limited edition 12" vinyl: https://o0o0o0o0.bandcamp.com/album/goddexx-deluxe-edition-unsl010d-2

Back cover by galen tipton

Released on unseelie, 2021

goddexx (deluxe edition)

galen tipton - cry gold (giant claw feat. tamanaramen remix)

@silica-gel-do-not-eat

Golden Chanterelle (Silica Gel)

Summer’s currency whorled in the peat moss. Turmeric dancers. The type species, the golden standard. Both yolks and yokes are rooted in the bestial. There’s a certain wild joy in the washes where water goes to rest, and the crow flies over the white oak tree. Here, the blades are mere wrinkles; here, time slows and smells of apricot.  

Latin: Cantharellus cibarius, roughly meaning culinary chalice.

Properties: The chanterelle is a cosmopolitan mushroom that occurs nearly worldwide; known as the pfifferling in Germany, the girolle in France and the gallinacci in Italy, it is beloved everywhere it occurs. It’s becoming clearer to science that there are many cryptic cibaroid species hiding within the “golden chanterelle” species complex. Golden chanterelles are one of the few mushrooms that have had no changes to their original latin binomial since it was assigned in the 1800’s. Like their illuminating star, Cantharellus sp. provide high amounts of Vitamin D and quicken the vision with carotenoids. 

Companions: Chanterelles are ectomycorrhizal with numerous hardwoods and coniferous trees; in these alliances, the chanterelles and trees exchange nutrients that they can’t synthesize on their own. In the eastern United States, chanterelles associate heavily with Quercus species, but they also find kinship with the dark, witchy hemlock forests of New England. Other companions include: beech, birch, eastern white pine, balsam fir and sphagnum mosses. Care should be taken to avoid poison ivy, as they’re often in cohabitation. 

Recipe: https://foragerchef.com/yellowfoot-chanterelle-vodka

Silica Gel ~ July (Chanterelle)

The forbidden fruit, the sister sun. A language of lust ripening as the sun stretches past its zenith. Inherently feminine in nature, the tomato is associated with Venus, Aphrodite and Hera. Like the great yew, the sentinel of immortality and death, the tomato is dichotomous. A foil to the largely toxic Nightshade family it belongs to, the tomato transmutes the toxic into the edible with its fruit. Originally thought to be poisonous, and even hallucinogenic, tomatoes were long considered a corrupting influence in Europe. A drop of sun under the shade of night, tomatoes can be used in place of other apples, earthapples and nightshades in witchcraft to ward off evil and malice. 

Latin: Solanum lycopersicum is a combination of both Greek and Latin, roughly meaning Persian sun wolf, or wolf peach. The wolf etymology comes from the fact that many members of the nightshade family are poisonous and “persic.” or peaches, were thought to originate from Persia at the time. 

Properties: Pinnate, hairy leaves with 5-9 leaflets; flowers with five petals. Fruits ranging from green, to orange, to yellow, to red, to purple. All parts of the plant, other than the fruit, are mildly toxic, but the leaves can be used in perfumery. Originally cultivated and treasured by the Aztecs and Incas, where other nightshades, like potatoes, were a critical staple in the diet. Tomatoes contain all four major carotenoids, bringing lycopene into focus in particular, which has the highest antioxidant activity of all. 

Companions: Many of tomato’s culinary companions are its spiritual allies as well. Basil will help repel harmful flies and worms. Asparagus will help clear the soil of root-knot nematodes attracted to tomatoes, and tomatoes repel asparagus beetles with a chemical called solanine. Nasturtiums are a self-sacrificing companion which keep black flies and aphids busy, so its companions can thrive. Mints, alliums and amaranth will also help with natural pest control. There’s a great deal of harmonic interference between brassicas and tomatoes, so they will stunt each other’s growth. Sympathetic to the rosehip, another red earth stone, tomatoes can protect roses from black spot disease.

Recipe: https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/cucumber-tomato-and-green-bean-salad

---__--___  ~ August (Cherry Tomato)

The first single from Millennium Bug Live 2018-2021 by https://soundcloud.com/giantclaw.
To be released on Genot Centre on tape & digital on October 10, 2021.
Limited edition of 151 C36 tapes with on-body printing pro-dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes. 
Preorder now.

Millennium Bug Live 2018-2021 (GEN047) by https://soundcloud.com/giantclaw presents an ensemble of living pieces, performance re-imaginings explicitly reframing these works as systems of possibilities and interpretations. Haptic, gestural, tense, constantly on the verge of transformation, these selected renditions reveal themselves not just as linearly sequenced polished constructions but as fluid textural zones to traverse freely, colorful scenes to zoom in and scope out of. Still, their presentation is no less lucid, precise or meticulous than the studio cuts, but offer clarification and new perception through staging them explicitly, resulting in a sound realm that is even more plastic, alive and in-your-face.

https://soundcloud.com/giantclaw is the musical project of visual artist and https://soundcloud.com/orangemilk co-founder Keith Rankin. His music has explored a wide range of electronic music since the early 2010s (as Giant Claw and also as part of the groups death’s dynamic shroud and Cream Juice) and his visual art has been seen on album covers from artists like Rico Nasty to institutions like the MIT technology review. The most recent Giant Claw album ‘Mirror Guide’ was released in May 2021.

Music by https://soundcloud.com/giantclaw
Visual art by Dave Shen: https://daveshenwebsite.github.io

Millennium Bug Live 2018​-​2021

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Giant Claw - Soft Target (GEN047)

Taken from Giant Claw (@giantclaw) new album Millennium Bug Live 2018​-​2021, out October 10, 2021, via Genot Centre (@genotcentre)

Read: https://bit.ly/3uNdxPA
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3lfkaaa 

Millenium Bug Live 2018-2021 (GEN047) by GIANT CLAW presents an ensemble of living pieces, performance re-imaginings explicitly reframing these works as systems of possibilities and interpretations. Haptic, gestural, tense, constantly on the verge of transformation, these selected renditions reveal themselves not just as linearly sequenced polished constructions but as fluid textural zones to traverse freely, colorful scenes to zoom in and scope out of. Still, their presentation is no less lucid, precise or meticulous than the studio cuts, but offer clarification and new perception through staging them explicitly, resulting in a sound realm that is even more plastic, alive and in-your-face.

Visual art by Dave Shen
daveshenwebsite.github.io
instagram.com/daveshen198

Released by Genot Centre

Premiere: Giant Claw - Mirror Guide Pt. I [Genot Centre]

Pre-Order: https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/soft-channel

Digital/LP/CS out 9.8.2017

Music by Keith Rankin
Visual art by Ellen Thomas and Keith Rankin
Mastered by Starkey at RBOS Audio

Giant Claw - Soft Channel 002

Sound design by @galentipton

Purchase: https://o0o0o0o0.bandcamp.com/album/march-norway-spruce

The spruce family is a family of particular warmth - drawing their warming powers into the white nights of the midnight sun and mild summers of the high north. Norway Spruce are sentinels that envelope their network of companions in a blanket of protective, feminine energy. A lymphatic, respiratory and immune system healer. Often used, alongside birches, for maypole traditions. A ballast of light in the darkest times.

Latin: Picea abies, meaning “fir-like”

Properties: Poultice for chronic and acute wounds, stimulates interior and exterior circulation (treating nerve pain, revitalizing skin, increasing blood supply and acting as an expectorant), high in Vitamin C, long living, evergreen, wind resistant and fast growing. 

Companions: Porcini, Yellow Fly Agaric, Solomon’s Seal, Wild Ginger, Spikenard, Lactarius and Agaricus. 

Recipe: https://foragerchef.com/cooking-with-spruce-tips-blue-spruce-ice-cream

Giant Claw - Soft Channel 002

Orange Milk Records

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