New Arrivals #290 / Initial Shock III!

New Arrivals 290: Advaita Records, Clangor Tapes, Dead Mind Records, Heavy Meditation, Helen Scarsdale Agency, Monday Press, No Holiday, Noise Receptor, Orb Tapes, Psychic Liberation, Satatuhatta, Total Black, Ηλεκτρικό Ταχύρυθμο

Initial Shock is back for a third edition. Lots of artist bios to come, here’s the first crop of them. Tickets are on sale now!

Mass Marriage is the sound project of Mel Paget. Working within the Power Electronics/Noise genre, texture, samples, loops, and synthesizers are explored and distorted into original compositions and often accompanied by vocals (live and recorded) and spoken word.

Eunuch God is a viscous compound of grinding noise, sci-fi soundscapes, strident shrieks and pummeling percussion. The project takes inspiration from every facet of human neglect, indifference and oppression. It crawled out of the muck and mire of Ottawa from sheer absence of human contact during the 2020 lockdown, and has now found its home in Montreal. Over five years and numerous self-released titles since its inception, Initial Shock will be the site of creator Louis Cyr’s first ever live performance under the EUNUCH GOD banner.

Anne-F Jacques is a sound artist based in Montreal. She is interested in amplification, oblique interactions between materials and construction of various contraptions and idiosyncratic systems. Her particular focus is on low technology, trivial objects and unpolished sounds. Also a member of a.hop and involved with presses précaires.

Lyndsie Alguire is a Tiohtià:ke-based artist who likes things bittersweet. Her work contains through-lines of stillness, vulnerability, and longing. Using piano, synthesizer, field recordings, and voice, her work evokes images and textures that are both ethereal and broken. Live performances incorporate improvisation that strives towards “pretty speaker abuse”.

Death Kneel is the primary recording outlet of Toronto based musician Max Klebanoff. His output is characterized by unyielding binaural manipulation and unapologetic octatrack abuse. Incidental sound and electroacoustic automatic drawings dismantled and deconstructed to be recycled, again and again. Since 2014, Klebanoff and has featured on notable labels Chondritic Sound, Total Black and his own imprint Life Of Sensation, with new releases forthcoming on Students of Decay and White Centipede Noise.

Mother Mary is noise about a people being abandoned by it’s creator. Utilizing the aesthetics of Christianity and preaching, MOTHER MARY screams from a dying planet to a god that is silent. Informed equally by power electronics, films like Winter Light, Silence and First Reformed, old radio broadcasts and preacher tapes, MOTHER MARY is a eucharist of feedback for a world with no God.

Advanced tickets available now!

Next up: Primitive Isolation Tactics will be playing with Worth, Pain Appendix, Jute, Taskmater and Frederick Maheux on May 23 at Batesmotel in Montreal.

Upcoming Events
6/13 – JHK / Valise / VOSP / Universal Cell Unlock (Error 403)
6/24 – Anju Singh: A Page of Madness (La Sala Rossa)
7/5-7/6 – Initial Shock III (La Sotterenea / P’Tit Ours)

New Arrivals

Advaita Records

• Incapacitants – Eternal Paralysis CS
• Incapacitants – Peony Crackers CS
• MikaTen – Live3 CS

Clangor Tapes

• Apple Cottage CS
• Slacking / Black Corolla – Lonely God CS

Dead Mind Records / related

• Dachise / Dave Gilden 7”
• Lettera 22 – Blue Telepathy CS + 7” Box
• Organ Of Corti – Locus LP
• Robert Turman – Distant Dosage LP

Heavy Meditation

• Gatha LP

Helen Scarsdale Agency

• Neutral – Lågliv LP

Monday Press

• MOR Book

No Holiday

• Merzbow – Circular Reference 2LP
• Merzbow – Circular Reference CD
• Merzbow – Red Magnesia Pink 2LP
• Merzbow – Red Magnesia Pink CD
• Nocturnal Emissions – Cathedral 2LP
• Nocturnal Emissions – Invocation Of The Beast Gods LP
• Skullflower – Last Shot At Heaven 2LP
• Total – Sky Blue Void 2LP
• Total / Merzbow – Merzbow Mixed Total LP

Noise Receptor

• Noise Receptor #13

Orb Tapes

• Clang Quartet / Crank Sturgeon CS
• Emil Beaulieau – Memories CS

Psychic Liberation

• Kevin Drumm + Joachim Nordwall – Old Pain CD

Satatuhatta

• Free Tala – Underwater Sounds To Lure The Fishes LP
• Jason Crumer – Lake Of Fire CD
• Jason Crumer – Lake Of Fire LP
• The Day Of The Antler – Rural Industrial 2016 – 2020 4CD Box

Total Black

• Incapacitants – “As Loud As Possible” T-Shirt
• Jackson-Pratt – Saliva Drip On Char CS
• Killer Bug – Beyond The Valley Of The Tapes 2CD
• Shredded Nerve – The Meaning Of Life CD
• Spate – Neuter CD

Ηλεκτρικό Ταχύρυθμο

• Nihilist Ambush – Subverting The Authority Of Our Established System CS
  

self-released

• Death Appeal – Endstate CD-R
• Death Appeal – Precipice CD-R

Second Hand Arrivals

N/A

Upcoming Events

Playlist

Birch Book, Nick Cave, Chemical Death, Lee Clayton, Fire + Ice, John Fleagle, In Gowan Ring, Willie Nelson, Sol Invictus, Strawberry Switchblade, Swans, The Young Tradition

Escape From Alcatraz (Siegel, 1979), Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961), Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973), The Shrouds (Cronenberg, 2024)