Hot Joy - Quality Control / Leaning (TE218) out July 2025 on Tiny Engines

Leaning

[SAC0020] The Solanaceae Artist Collective: The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice
fivepecksofrice.solanaceaecollective.com/

Post-Rock, Experimental Ambient, Dark Ambient, Neoclassical, Ambient Trance, Psychedelia, Psychedelic Ambient, Rhythmic Noise
Instrumental

June 8th, 2020

The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice is a solo ambient post-rock project from Kit Carruthers. It is an exercise in hypnosis. The instruments used are a synthesizer, two electric guitars, a base guitar, two violins, a viola, a cello, a double bass, a flute, a piccolo, a clarinet, an oboe, a bassoon, a piano, a harpsichord, a harp and a sitar.

Concept by Kit Carruthers; composed by Kit Carruthers; performed by Kit Carruthers; Album art by Kit Carruthers.

It enters your soul and neutralizes it. Most will never know how painful it can be. Zap! Bzzt! Xbptzap!

Release date: Aug 1st 

Lyrics: 
suddenly, what’s left of me
a skeleton of what could be 
you gave me a lesson
there’s no need to keep pressing
your presence on to everyone 
they’ll hardly notice that you’re gone 
keep up your fences
shut of your senses 

let go, stay close 
what else could you need?
what else could you need?
let go, stay close 
let go, stay close 
what else could you need?
what else could you need?

see it all now that you’re gone
most of the time I was wrong
used to think I was so strong
most of the time, I was wrong

i’ve run out of sympathy 
for everyone but you and me 
they all seem so scripted 
can they tell I have drifted? 
my spine I’ve left somewhere behind
it’s done me good to kick it out
it’s weird when you care less
people think you are fearless

let go, stay close 
what else could you need?
what else could you need?
let go, stay close 
let go, stay close 
what else could you need?
what else could you need?

see it all now that you’re gone
most of the time I was wrong
used to think I was so strong
like with everything else, I was wrong
see it all now that you’re gone
most of the time I was wrong
used to think I was so strong
like with everything else, I was wrong

Fences

Behemoth "Satan's Sword (I Have Become)" from the album "Pandemonic Incantations"

Behemoth "Satan's Sword (I Have Become)"

From the album Wao, available August 29, 2025 on Western Vinyl
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In April 2024, Joseph Shabason and Nicholas Krgovich set off on a two-week tour of Japan, their first time performing in the country as Shabason & Krgovich. In an act of well-coordinated serendipity, Koji Saito of  7e.p. records enlisted Saya and Ueno of Tenniscoats, the revered Japanese duo, to tour with and perform backing band duties throughout their stops in Matsumoto, Nagoya, Kobe, Kyoto, and Tokyo.

The four could only rehearse twice, but it was all they needed. Their connection was immediate and felt in the music; their shows fluid, elastic, and just the right amount of unpredictable. Saito had anticipated this simpatico and arranged for recording engineers to meet them in Kobe, where they had a two-day stay at the famed Guggenheim House, a 117-year-old colonial-style residence that had been converted into an artist residency.

With no songs prepared, they began to play with melodies, improvising and pulling pieces from that spontaneity into wholes. Saya and Krgovich soon realized the closeness in their approach to lyric writing. From sharing Japanese nicknames for clouds while looking at the sky above a rest stop (fishscale cloud, dragon cloud, sardine cloud, sleep cloud, sheep cloud), searching for matching socks in a bin at a clothing store, to an ode to Tan Tan, a beloved panda who had recently died of old age at the Kobe Oji Zoo — they both seek out and sing to the magic in the everyday.

That’s what this experience came to feel like: magic, every day. As the group worked, they watched the Pacific Ocean advance and recede from the windows of the Guggenheim House. Over those two days, they’d compose and record eight songs, listed in order of creation, on the album that came to be called Wao.

"What is also cool about the album is that the house is very much not a recording studio so it sounds super live and because it's also right on the train tracks you can often hear the train in the recordings as it drives by. To me it adds so much charm and personality," Joseph describes. "The whole thing felt like a dream and was over so quickly so I kinda forgot about it until a few weeks after I got home. When I opened up the sessions is was really clear that we had done something special."

It all happened so quickly, an enchanting whirl. Dreamlike, they had fallen into and out of it. Only when the recordings arrived in the mail a few weeks later did that dreamy state sharpen into a memory and a moment that you can now revisit, over and over again.

"Shabason, Krgovich, Tenniscoats" - Our Detour

title track

black british music (2025)

From the album The Streets Like Beds Still Warm, available September 19, 2025 on Western Vinyl
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Wilder Maker - "Strange Meeting with Owls"

Wilder Maker - "Skewered by the Daystar"

From the album Wao, available August 29, 2025 on Western Vinyl
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Shabason, Krgovich, Tenniscoats - "Lose My Breath"

The Solanaceae Artist Collective is a group of arthouse indie musicians. We create music in a variety of genres. We are dark, pretentious and drug addled.