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winebox15 - J. Collin 'Untitled (High Peak Vibrations Vol. II)' C41

2012-01-17T17:49:00.012Z

First release of 2012 is the second part of a bucolic trilogy (the first of which is soon to be released on Giant Hell) recorded over the winter. This one is all acoustic, mixed nylon and steel, and comes wrapped in the remains a weathered wooden armchair found outside the late Hunters Arms, Chisworth, in an edition of 57 copies. Cost is £7.50/£8.50/£9.50 to the UK/Europe/World.

Wire Post/Upcoming Related

2011-11-29T13:43:00.005Z

There are a few words and pictures about the latest Winebox release on the Wire magazine's Tumblr page here, also a review of the Chora tape by Byron Coley in the most recent issue.

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There are a number of upcoming releases I'm in/on, listed below in the order that they might appear. Look up the label websites or email for more information:

- J. Collin 'Follow the Great Road (High Peak Vibrations Vol. I)' cdr (Giant Hell)

- Serfs 'Moon-Mellowed River' cassette (Golden Lab Records)

- Serfs 'Good Morning Mr Railroad Man' cdr (Poot Records)

- Vampire Blues 'Epistemological Relativism and the Missionary's Position' cassette (Total Vermin)

- J. Collin 'Albert Road Room Odoriser' 3" cd (Makrame Records)

- Vampire Blues 'All India Radio Ban' LP (Blackest Rainbow)

There are a couple of excerpts from the solo ones here.

winebox14 - Roman Nose 'Black [Silk] Death on Silk [Silk] Road' C30 - SOLD OUT!

2011-10-30T18:15:00.009Z

Completing a triptych of Hunter Gracchus solo pieces, Roman Nose is the solo work of Jon Marshall (who also plays in Akke Phallus Duo and Vampire Blues). Using harmonium/voice/various free reed aerophones he creates drones that are fairly radical in their nakedness, far removed from the smooth edges of dream pop, with a Tazartès-esque 'world' aesthetic that takes in Antarctica (specifically Douglas Quinn's recordings of Emperor Penguins), the Middle East (the third track comes on like a pitch-shifted call to prayer) and Indonesia, while the sidelong track that makes up the second side is both centrepiece and climax, pulsating wildly with an urgency not dissimilar to Blue Yodel.

Edition of 53 copies comes, at the insistence of the recording artist, from the usable parts of a pretty gnarly old couch, so if anything crawls out of it blame him. Cost, to the UK/Europe/World respectively, is £8/£9/£10.

winebox13 - Ø+yn 'He Resucitado en la Montaña' C43

2011-09-28T12:01:00.004+01:00

Hot on the heels of the Chora tape, this new release floats in all the way from another hemisphere but is a pretty ripe southern companion to the free movement of certain UK underground tribes. Ø+yn (said 'Omasin') come from the inland badlands of Córdoba, Argentina, and 'He Resucitado en la Montaña' is quite a trip, taking all kinds of unexpected yet smooth turns: from the occult church to the carnival to the Balinese woods at midnight, taking a detour up 6th Avenue to jam with Moondog before shifting gracefully towards a climactic scene with what sounds like a swarm of angry bees taking the guitar player for a ride at dinner time.

Ma-hu-sive edition of 84 copies coming from an old school desk containing some right-on graffiti ('WINGS') and no bubblegum skeets that i can see. Cost is £8.50 inclusive of UK postage. Drop a line about Euro/World rates and wholesaling.

winebox06 - Chora 'Songs from the Husk-Hair Malt' C73 - SOLD OUT!

2011-09-28T11:59:00.001+01:00

Almost - no joke - three years in the planning, the best thing about London since they moved there drop in with an epic that's worth the wait plus one. Shifting over eight tracks from a minimal vocal/mouthpiece/cymbal feedbacking opener through air-raid free rock and spooked Taj Mahal Travellers-esque live séance to full-on big band shakedown; it sounds like there's even some overtone singing in there too. Line-up changes abound around core members Ben Morris and Rob Lye, with free blower Karl Brummer, percussionist Patrick Farmer, guitar/everything-ist Ben Nash and Hunter Gracchus freedom riders Fiona Kennedy and Jon Marshall all aboard at various points. Seems like there's a riot going on in South London.....

Edition of 74 copies from some floorboards, drilled and sprayed through the hole, with eye-popping wraparound fold-out artwork by David Bailey and typewritten card spine. Cost is £10 including UK postage, ask about postage elsewhere.

Sell-Outs/Boudoir Finds

2011-07-07T10:22:00.003+01:00

All releases are currently sold out from me. I know there are still copies of the Plum Slate tape available from Plum Slate himself at totalvermin.blogspot.com. For others, try the following online joints:

www.volcanictongue.com (UK)

www.apexonline.com/melodybar (UK)

www.art-into-life.com (Japan)

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Also, in the act of moving house i happened upon copies of some sold out related releases. Get in touch for prices if you're interested in any of the following:

T. Settle/J. Collin Mexican Divorce (Rayon)

Axis Mundi/John Fante split (Lotus Birth)

Whole Voyald Infinite Light Non-Teleology (Lotus Birth)

winebox12 - Serfs 'Untitled' C41 - SOLD OUT!

2011-04-13T12:09:00.007+01:00

Highly zoned end-of-Winter nighttime attic acoustic guitar duo vibrations from early 2011. A reunion of sorts, and i think the first ever all-acoustic Serfs release. I could be wrong though. Anyway, you don't dance to the information. Edition of 47 copies from a former bedside cabinet, broken down and put back together in the shape and form of a classic cassette box; a fragile one mind, so open with care. £9 including UK postage.

winebox11 - Plum Slate 'The Loathsome Bough' C36 - SOLD OUT!

2011-04-13T11:57:00.010+01:00

Plum Slate is the sensitive solo side of Stuart J Arnot, who can also be found eating fried feedback for breakfast as Smear Campaign, pounding the electronic drums in The Gamecock and psyching out with Nackt Insecten in Mid Leopard Violet Prism, as well as bossing the label Total Vermin. 'The Loathsome Bough', however, consists of five tracks of straight-up no-effects prepared acoustic guitar, with atonal chords plucked and arpeggiated in a way that's sometimes sparse, sometimes frantic, and so hauntingly lonesome that it reminds of Jandek - which is funny 'cause when I first saw that video of Jandek grinding with the Sugar Hill rhythm section it reminded me of Stuart.

Package comes from the drawers of the dresser that was broken down to house the Blue Yodel tape and the final edition is 42 copies. £7 including UK postage.

winebox10 - Blue Yodel 'The Creation of the World and Expulsion from Paradise' C51 - SOLD OUT!

2011-03-02T19:21:00.009Z

Blue Yodel is the perfectly named vocal solo concern of Hunter Gracchus member and Singing Knives Records co-captain Fiona Kennedy. 'The Creation of the World and Expulsion from Paradise' is her first solo full-length release (following a very recent and i think still available split 3" on Rayon Records) and arrives in a screened-on-wood edition of 58 copies, housed in a hangable picture frame cut from the shell of a dresser (the drawers of which will form one of the next two releases - more on those soon). Smashing glass announces it's on, then comes a five track assault course of beautiful howling voice and wailing distorted strings that brings to mind Poetry Out Loud, Dylan Nyoukis and Patty Waters when she really lets loose. More photographs here.

Cost is £10 including UK postage. Drop a line about international postage and wholesaling.

winebox09 - Tom Settle 'Dried Plumes' C38 - SOLD OUT!

2010-11-30T11:16:00.010Z

Tom Settle is known for playing guitar in a bunch of northwest psych bands (Serfs, Beach Fuzz, etc.), drums in some more (Former Bullies), and for not playing solo nearly enough. After a side of a split tape on Rayon Records and a side on the Winebox Solo Guitar box (which some people are saying tore up the rulebook by employing lapsteel...), this is a first proper full-length solo workout, and it's a beaut; ten tracks of warm, casualised 'Basement Tapes'/'All Things Must Pass' bathroom psychedelia that reminds at various points of Comus, Incredible String Band, Jakob Olausson, the Dead (especially the one where he covers 'Dire Wolf', straight up), and John Fahey. And the Simon and Garfunkel concert in Central Park.

Miniature edition of 26 copies is due to the remains of the old back door of 23 Kimberley Street from which it comes being mostly rotten. Each copy comes with hand multi-coloured and colour-charted shell by Lucy Jones and an iron-burned wooden insert and costs £8 including UK postage. Video here in case you need persuasion. Photogs can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/wineboxpress.

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I still have a couple of copies, the very last ones, of the last two releases, by Harappian Night Recordings and Whole Voyald Infinite Light, and also of the most recent two WVIL tapes on Lotus Birth (details here). Drop a line if interested in any.

Reviews and Next Up

2010-09-15T17:53:00.003+01:00

Got a heads up that there are reviews of the last two Winebox tapes as well as the latest Whole Voyald Infinite Light Lotus Birth jams and a Serfs/Infinite Light cassingle (below) in the new Wire....

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Word to the wise that this guy just dropped in with a full-length's worth of sweet psychedelic music. It'll be ready soon and highly limited in an edition of approx.25-30, each copy hand-coloured by this gal, so feel free to drop a pre-order.

winebox08 - Harappian Night Recordings 'TABASSUM' C46 - SOLD OUT!

2010-06-10T13:48:00.007+01:00

Very psyched to be presenting the third release from Hunter Gracchus member Dr Syed Kamran Ali's turbo folk/eastern swing ethno-garage collage solo trip. 46 glorious minutes of banging percussions, vocal heaving, warped bootleg garage rock and some disarmingly straight-up riffs. Packaging was originally a set of stepladders, broken down and put back together with baker's twine, tacks and some flamboyantly camouflaged brown paper. Edition of 69 copies, cost is £7 including UK postage.

winebox07 - Whole Voyald Infinite Light 'Through the Darkness of Night/Through the Brightness of Day's Light' 2 x C35 - SOLD OUT!

2010-06-10T13:24:00.009+01:00

Fifth full-length release from Lotus Birth/Winebox head chefs. Large double set from Winter/Spring 2010 of very wild guitar/guitar/vocal VU/Satwa psych. Package comes from a felled tree, angularly sliced, wood-block printed and affixed with screws, twine, marbled paper, elastic. Unseasoned wood, so give it a couple of years before burning. Edition of 44 copies, cost is £10 including UK postage.

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Both releases available for now by emailing thewholevoyald (at) googlemail (dot) com or by visiting Manchester's newest and best zine/tape retailer Good Grief on the top floor of Affleck's Palace. Completists, don't worry, no. 6 is still slow-baking...

Ross Parfitt Performing 'Forever Got Shorter' by Seth Kim-Cohen/New Releases

2010-06-07T14:34:00.005+01:00

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New Winebox tapes from Whole Voyald Infinite Light (a double!) and Harappian Night Recordings be ready this week, email heads-up going out soon. Click the winebox box right for sneak previews, email me if you want to book copies.

Compiled (II)

2010-03-31T12:48:00.002+01:00

New Singing Knives compilation 'Thoughts From Screeching Lake' came out recently too, i think just as a download (from here) but might be physically manifest at some point too, hope so. Serfs track alongside fine likes of Harappian Nights Recordings, Alberorovesciato, Infinite Light, Pekko Kappi, Ross Parfitt, Dylan Nyoukis, a lot more....

Compiled (I)

2010-03-31T12:18:00.008+01:00

Behind time again, this came out a couple of months ago on Psykick Dancehall Recordings of Glasgow, the second in their 3"/7" series of UK underground movements. 4 x 3" cds in a seven-inch sleeve that folds out in a concertina formation to reveal artwork by each of the eight shakers featured (Serfs art collab with LJ below). Edition of 140 copies (i think) available from the label.

Reviews

2010-01-23T13:01:00.003Z

There are write-ups of the Hunter Gracchus, Solo Guitar and Whole Voyald Infinite Light releases in the latest issue of the Wire. All are sold out but I think there might be a couple of copies the Solo Guitar box at Volcanic Tongue.

2010-01-11T12:47:00.001Z

Road Despatch

2009-10-01T13:12:00.000+01:00

Winebox05 - Whole Voyald Infinite Light 'The Horse of a Spirit' C30 - SOLD OUT!

2009-09-16T23:55:00.006+01:00

Last release from Liverpool, and last for a while probably, = heavily zoned late night duo recordings from mid/late summer 2009. Guitars, voices, percussions. Companion release 'Polyhymnia' on Lotus Birth following soon. Meantime, edition of 30 copies from a small sort of a mini shelving unit that i was using for cut wood storage on previous projects. Additional materials ink, nails, tacks, elastic. Cost is £5 inc. UK postage.

Winebox04 - 'Solo Guitar' - SOLD OUT!

2009-09-09T12:20:00.010+01:00

Box is DONE and ready for order. Solo sides by: Ross Parfitt; Tom Carter; Matt 'MV' Valentine; Tom Settle; Jon Collin; Infinite Light. Screenprints by: Lucy Jones; Laetitia Glenton; David Bailey. Cost is £30 including UK postage. Edition of 64 copies comes from the front-and-backboards of a really very nice bed. Orders will go out early next week. Wells of thanks to everybody involved - special shout to Lucy for the screenprint.

On the Way...........

2009-09-01T18:15:00.007+01:00

Two new wineboxes coming in the coming weeks, hopefully no longer than two of them:

Winebox04 - 'Solo Guitar' 3 x C20 (Ross Parfitt, Tom Carter, Matt 'MV' Valentine, Tom Settle, Jon Collin, Infinite Light)
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Winebox05 - Whole Voyald Infinite Light C30
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Drop a logjam for reserves - thewholevoyald (at) googlemail (dot) com

Growling in the Free World

2009-06-25T14:08:00.002+01:00

The Whole Voyald 'In Repose'

2009-06-17T09:53:00.003+01:00

Lord....... new release week? Stuart just served up a buffet of new Total Vermin sides, the mashed sweet potato of which is this, a quintet recording from the Heeley Institute, Sheffield, UK, date of December 20th, 2008. Features the classic line-up of Arnot trumpet, Nichols drumset, Serfs guitars, blissed out on this occasion by the festively plump addition of Jon Marshall (Hunter Gracchus) on holy harmonium.

'Burns like Santana circa '74, but with a hangover' - Ja!

'Mexican Divorce'

2009-06-15T11:46:00.003+01:00

Hot off the doorstep, direct from Rayon of Lyon, France. 'One side Set-Dog, one JC', more of a separation than a d.i.v.o.r.c.e. Moody wraparound sunset photos hold one side of bird-watching double-neck lap steel and one of straight up six-string tipping a twin peak to Ryland P. Cooder. Goodnight Irene.

Whole Voyald Infinite Light 'Cathexis'

2009-05-29T17:46:00.003+01:00

Meant to riff on this TIME ago. Still available in an edition of 60 copies courtesy of Lotus Birth - outhouse/parlour room duo guitar improvisations in a pretty classic line-them-up/knock-them-down configuration born of two sessions that happened circa Christmas '08 and Easter '09 at the respective homes of JC and BD. Fiesta mis amigos. Beauteous illustration is by Lucy Jones of Mount Pleasant.

The dude from Blastitude twittered on it like this: 'Two electric guitars play the zoner blues in a forlorn "Dead Man"/Loren Connors style.' Less of the forlorn, pal.....

2009-05-27T11:59:00.000+01:00

Next Winebox in Real Time

2009-04-30T10:07:00.004+01:00

Daily - almost daily - updates. More details soon.

2009-04-24T10:11:00.001+01:00

winebox03 - Vampire Blues 'Knocking on the Dragon's Door....' C30 - SOLD OUT!

2009-03-23T10:58:00.007Z

Winebox03, available now - weighing in as a C20 of medium-spiced trans-snake pass showtunes from Vampire Blues duo. Follow-up to last year's Blackest Rainbow cassette - maintains the harmonium/guitar dynamic, in a midwinter post-pest-control situation.

Edition of 37 copies comes from the starting point of a stool (see 'Winebox' box right), augmented and held together by screws, nails, sand/glasspaper, typewriter ink, regular ink, pencil, spraypaint. Cost is £6 including UK postage, 10% more for paypal senders. For access, unscrew both screws two/three/four rotations anti-clockwise. Please drop an e-bomb on thewholevoyald at googlemail dot com for availability/more details.

'John Train's Blues'

2009-03-10T10:33:00.006Z

Solo 3" available now on Colour Ride of London, UK. Four live songs recorded around Springtime 2008. Cover seems to be some kind of 'Self Portrait' tribute/reference.

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2009-02-09T11:24:00.000Z

Vampire Blues 'Turkish Petroleum Company'

2009-02-02T10:47:00.008Z

Available now. Harmonium/guitar throwdowns, JC/JM of the Hunter Gracchus. Label is Blackest Rainbow Recordings of Sheffield, UK. Edition of 100 copies. Some available by emailing me, otherwise try Blackest Rainbow HQ.

Hunter Gracchus cassette is sold out from here - try the band, Blackest Rainbow or Volcanic Tongue.

Winebox02 -The Hunter Gracchus 'Lothal Shipbuilding' C30 - SOLD OUT!

2009-01-15T22:34:00.011Z

....is a real prince; a steam-cleaner, a vibrational cage fight, six tracks of mainly acoustic bowed/plucked/blown vibe with a dead man tremolo pulse. Available now at a cost of £5 including postage. Edition of 41 copies.

More details obtainable by emailing thewholevoyald (at) googlemail (dot) com or by visiting the band. See more photographs by visiting the 'Winebox' box stage right. Packaging = drawer, card, screws, nails, ink, elastic, tape. Beautiful.

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2008-10-21T10:34:00.000+01:00

Clearing house, garage finds....

Found a number of skeletons (not the yellow one, that's pretty current - i have some copies or take it over to Barry's e-house), mostly - maybe all - solo trips, some as vintage as early 2005. There's a couple of CDs in the stash too, they just didn't make the shoot - write for the full log-jam.

2008-10-19T20:36:00.000+01:00

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2008-10-15T17:51:00.001+01:00

Shallow-end big band, Serfs in Victoria Baths available now, old news

Bottom right is us drowning in a 1.2m depth of vibe. Subterranean sextet of the usual joe strummers plus the percussive compass points of Pascal Nichols on drum kit; Barry Dean on cymbals, chains & gurns; Stuart Arnott on cymbals and bows; T David Hardman on boiler and celebrations. If you think we didn't float over to the Pyramid Arts Centre in Warrington for a duo slow-burn after this you better think again. Then I got food poisoning. What a day!

Go and blow Stuart a kiss and he'll probably do you a deal.