stutterin

treasures

Anybody in the creative business, as you might call it, has some sense of guilt about fooling around with fact, that you're committing larceny, that all of life is material for your fabulations

Selected Works Spring 2017 vol. 13

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Skrting On The Surface

My humble contribution to Tessellate Recordings' ambitious Earthtones compilation series.

"The Earthtones series spans the internet-based contemporary ambient music scene, with a concept that helps us concentrate more on the geography that lies between each artist. In making worldwide communication easier, the internet has made it easy to forget the sheer size of our planet. "

All funds will be put into future label releases.

Mastering: Tobias Hellkvist (www.tobiashellkvist.com) 

http://tessellaterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/earthtones-volume-2

Strings

Available as a free DL here https://thevariousunderground.bandcamp.com/
or to buy on EP here http://stephsweet.bandcamp.com/album/tesla-and-the-white-bird-ep
a true story about some venemous females....
Poison Girls.
Just when I think it is done.
Just when I think I have won some other life,
Where everything's bright.
Stay in my mind.
When all I see is the night.
They think it's all right.
Look at the lies in their eyes.
I am the thing they don't like.
When all I see is a life
Burning too bright in the wind,
Seeing all the sequins floating away.
Bring on the light.
Singing my life away.
My little light to keep back the night.
Bring on the light, light, light, light.
Bring on the lightning strike.
Bring it all blue and white, flaring bright, searing white,
Blazing through the night.
Bring on the wine.
Bring on good friends of false cheer,
Bring 'em all here tonight.
When all I see is the night.
They think it's all right.
Look at the lies in their eyes.
I am the thing they dislike.
Pretty poison girls in a line.
Pretty poison girls.
Pretty poison girls in a line.
Pretty poison.

Written, recorded and produced by Steph Sweet in England January 2015

poison girls

Rock & Roll will never die, it will live on until our final day.

Rock & Roll Soul

Recorded live at The Brixton Academy, 1993 during the Dusk tour. 
Track 7 credited as "Something Always Goes Wrong".

Roskilde Festival - Roskilde, Denmark 06-032000

Heartland

Black Marble 'It's Immaterial' LP, out October 14, 2016.

Order at The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/black-marble-its-immaterial
Or at the retailer of your choice: Ghostly.lnk.to/black-marble

It's Immaterial

Black Marble - Portland U

Julie's Haircut - Gathering Light

Taken from the album:
INVOCATION AND RITUAL DANCE OF MY DEMON TWIN
LAUNCH104
LP/CD/DL
17 FEBRUARY 2017

Album Itunes:
http://apple.co/2fyZlU3

Rocket Store:
https://rocketrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/invocation-and-ritual-dance-of-my-demon-twin

“Being from Italy and doing what we do - we are outsiders” says Luca
Giovanardi, a founder member of Julie’s Haircut, whose always incendiary
yet increasingly outlandish sound has found itself with few parallels in their
homeland since their inception towards the end of the last century. “We have
always been outsiders.”

Yet in following their own singular pathway, the band have arrived at the
deep-end approach to sonic innovation audible on their debut release for
Rocket Recordings, Invocation And Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin.
Seven albums into a mission initially inspired by the likes of Sonic Youth,
My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3, the band now find themselves at a
new plateau of small-hours elucidation and revelation that may summon the
spectres of the wayward squall of early Mercury Rev, the shamanic allure of
Dead Skeletons or the wild soundscapes of Amon Duul II to some,
yet essentially sounds like no-one but themselves.

It was in around 2005 that the band decided to pursue a more experimental
mindset, and central to this reinvention has been the evolution of an alchemic
compositional method which sees them triumph via intuitive processes to arrive
beyond notions of classicism, genre and contemporary reference, somewhere
in motion along the pathways of the consciousness-expanding psychedelic
continuum without paying lip-service to its well-worn signifiers.

“In fact we don’t ‘write’ songs anymore, not in the usual sense” he explains
“It’s more similar to what Teo Macero was doing on Miles Davis’s records:
improvising freely and then ‘finding’ the song, refining it until it comes out in its
final form. Can - whose former singer Damo Suzuki is now a very close friend
of ours and we’ve been performing with him many times - used a similar method.
And of course both Can and Davis have been two huge influences on our work
in the last ten years.”

The result is a record built on trance-like repetition that grows to mantric intensity to summon atmospheric plateaus redolent of the psychic and surreal
transgressions of its title - a double-helix tribute to both Frank Zappa and
Kenneth Anger. Coruscating guitar overload and jazz-tinged blowout collide
amidst hypnotic soundscapes like the shamanically inclined ‘The Fire Sermon’
and the eleven-minute motorik magnificence of the curtain-raiser ‘Zukunft’.
Yet atmospheric restraint, glacial texture and immersive groove play as large
a part in this blinding and beatific soundworld as droning darkness or
overheated amp tubes.

As the band elaborates, “Psychedelic music has always been about adventure
and loss of any safety net”. True to form, central to the succor provided whilst
lost within the grooves and headspace of Invocation And Ritual Dance Of
My Demon Twin is that it offers no security at all.

UK press: rachel.silver@silverpr.co.uk
Italian press: sandro@promorama.it
Label: rocketrecordingshq@gmail.com

Invocation and Ritual Dance of My Demon Twin

Julie's Haircut - Gathering Light

manie sans délire

The  Flatfield  "Grey City"

FoundFootage here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3zhoHoRHpo

ModeInGliany - Evocation

ft. home alone (https://myhomealone.bandcamp.com) 
https://foglake.bandcamp.com/album/dragonchaser

Fog Lake - Push

OZ WAVES: COMPILED BY STEELE BONUS LP/DIGI OUT NOW

Efficient Space continues to expose Australia’s esoteric musical history with Oz Waves - a collection of 80s DIY recordings, compiled by odd wave anthropologist Steele Bonus. Definitive proof that inhabitants of the Down Underground were links in a global network of creative kooks, Oz Waves connects those who utilised mobile recording rigs and small press releases to create and disseminate misfit synth-punk, tape loop experiments and inner city pop. Through overseas mail order exchanges, anonymous groups like Zerox Dreamflesh could find place on Belgian compilations, while Chris and Cosey lullabied their son to sleep with Irena Xero and her interdisciplinary art collective Zip.   

Bonus selects 10 survivors from this fertile period (1982-1989), most of which were only issued on cassette in tiny editions of 5 to 100 copies. M Squared affiliates Prod join the extraterrestrial Software Seduction, minimal wave neglect from He Dark Age and the irreverent cut ups of The Horse He's Sick and MK Ultra & the Assassins of Light. The remaining tracks have been sourced from musicians’ private archives and are being officially released on Oz Waves for the first time - Andy Rantzen’s industrial dub Itch-E & Scratch-E precursor, the buoyant vocal-drone of Ironing Music and Moral Fibro, Sydney’s short lived answer to Weekend and Marine Girls. With detailed track by track notes, lines are drawn to Severed Heads, Scattered Order and other antipodean post-punk royalty.   

As a DJ, Steele Bonus has gained notoriety via the exquisite selections that form his ongoing mix series Odd Waves. Sydney-born, Amsterdam-based, his graphic design has not only been responsible for sleeves on Efficient Space, but also trusted Amsterdam connoisseurs Music From Memory and Young Marco’s Safe Trip.

02 Andy Rantzen - Will I Dream 4:33 (ES004)

Freefall

the night was coming on as you
collapsed there 
in that hall of mirrors.
“what a laugh,”
said some vague passerby.
the note was in your pocket,
and your blade, 
also your broken locket…
the note said simply this:
it said goodbye

now you can lie on a tray,
or you could just float away,
or shrug 
as you are handed your disguise.
you and your tender crutch,
so many lonely companions
still to touch,
each of them soon to say
goodbye…
you don’t even know just why.

you can come out and play
or you could just float away goodbye

the night was dripping down
as you followed 
some carny’s sullen shadow,
following in search 
of haunted highs.
he led you through the rubble,
said, while making love 
on a pile of shovels: “so lovely
are your cemetery eyes”

now you can feel all betrayed
or you could just float away
or shrug
while you are casually denied.
you and your tender crutch,
so many lonely companions 
still to touch,
each of them soon to say
goodbye…
you don’t even know just why

you can come out and play
or you could just float away goodbye
goodbye

(c) 2017 PetPetPet Productions

cave dolls

The Goodbye Song

Venom

LTO - When (Siavash Amini Remix)

I Wanna Be Adored (Digital Single)

I Wanna Be Adored

Remind Me Tomorrow

Jupiter 4

When was the last time you truly felt alive

New LP  ***TERRORS*** Coming in January 2026!

The Goodbye Song

Secret Caves