OUT NOW!
SHRIMP - BRINE SHRIMP
A year after last year’s Shrimpin’, the recordings emerge! Fully pickles and ready to confuse your eardrums! Double cassettes up on the bandcamp! Get yours in the comments!
“Another seething mass of chitinous mayhem from Shrimp.
Recorded in August of ’23 at First Avenue Studio and including the live recording from that year’s performance; Brine Shrimp was left to steep for year before being released in time for the 2024 rendition of the band.
Weighing in at a hefty two hours and fifteen minutes, and with a queasy spatial mix by David Curle, Brine Shrimp is a sprawling mass of free-form guitar, vocals (an associated miscellanea), effects and percussion. The listener is thrown about the room with the sound, as the initial dirge collapses into a frantic scramble of activity, glitch and movement as the various pincers and claws dart out from the sonic mass. The sound field shifts as elements are isolated or the entire band is channelled through the snare, sometimes in line with the music and others completely of its own accord. Not even the platform you are listening from is stable.
Brine Shrimp concludes with Pickled Air - which was recorded live and draws the band into a more straight-ahead pummeling sound, with an artefact of that performance.“
RYOSUKE KIYASU / HELL ON HEARTH / SHRIMP
Huge thanks to everyone who popped down Zerox on Friday and extra huge thanks to Kiyasu, Hell on Hearth and the Shrimps (Esmé, Jon, Kiyasu, Theo and me I suppose) for playing. Cheers to Byker Grave for co-promoting and Zerox for hosting. There’s a mega double cassette up tomorrow from last years recording session, so keep and eye out for that (or grab one direct from Kiyasu if you’re catching him live), and some more things in the works. Nice to be doing stuff again.
RYOSUKE KIYASU / HELL ON HEARTH / SHRIMP
TOMORROW! Come to Zerox for a lovely time with snare maestro Ryosuke Kiyasu, Shrimp and Hell On Hearth! Tix in the comments or you can pay a bit more on the door!
THIS FRIDAY! Ryosuke Kiyasu returns to Newcastle and the walls of Zerox ring to the sound of his snare! Come have a lovely time with Shrimp and Hell On Hearth too. I’m going to be picking up some nice tapes tomorrow that you’ll get your first dibs on if you turn up on Friday and there are going to be SEVERAL TELLIES in the Hell On Hearth set. Classic Shrimp madness expanded to a five piece and featuring Theo of Territorial Gobbing/Solderer/Garbage Pail Kids/etc etc etc fame on the keys! Tix in the comments.
RYOSUKE KIYASU / HELL ON HEARTH / SHRIMP
THIS FRIDAY! Ryosuke Kiyasu returns to Newcastle and the walls of Zerox ring to the sound of his snare! Come have a lovely time with Shrimp and Hell On Hearth too. I’m going to be picking up some nice tapes tomorrow that you’ll get your first dibs on if you turn up on Friday and there are going to be SEVERAL TELLIES in the Hell On Hearth set. Classic Shrimp madness expanded to a five piece and featuring Theo of Territorial Gobbing/Solderer/Garbage Pail Kids/etc etc etc fame on the keys! Tix in the comments.
RYOSUKE KIYASU / HELL ON HEARTH / SHRIMP
Coming up fast! In a couple of weeks Ryosuke Kiyasu returns to Newcastle alongside Hell On Hearth and SHRIMP. Should hopefully even have some new and relevant tapes by then too! Loads of cacophonous madness at Zerox Tix in the comments.
Running a bit behind still, so there’s no new Panurus releases for this Bandcamp Friday. Some announcements to come soon when I’ve finished some art and sorted myself out a bit. In the meantime I’ve chucked up a sale, so you can fill any gaps in yer collection or take a punt on something you’ve not heard. 50% off with the code BARGAINS. Grab some tapes yeah? Should have all releases set as pay what you want too so now’s a good time to chuck a few quids at something to add it to your collection.
Hello everyone, nothing new up from us today (having March off as I need to catch up on a bunch of jobs and projects), but we’ve still got loads for you to dig into! Have a little browse through the site, and a little trip across to the loads of other people that have got good things out today too. I’ll chuck a bunch of things in the stories in a second. We’ve got things to announce in April I reckon.
Big cheers to everyone who popped down to The Little Buildings last night, Sgerbwd, Geheimnisknecht and Knifedoutofexistence absolutely smashed it and it was lovely to get out the first Dolmen Dweller set in a good number of years. Big thanks as ever to Queer Love for co-promoting duties, and to Tomm for sound, and the S Club Party.
Extra thanks to Logan and Sam who’s footage I’ve half inched for some of the reel.
Big ol’ mega cheers to everyone who ventured out on Sunday for hefty helpings of Lava Mouse, Melting and Tim Holehouse! A proper lovely time. Cheers to Queer Love for continuing co promotion duties, The Little Buildings for having us, Sam for excellent sound as per and just everyone for contributing generally. Everyone on that bill has a Bandcamp so do yerself a favour and go pick some stuff up, yeah?
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Next up for us is Knifedoutofexistence and co THIS FRIDAY! With a Queer Love night on directly afterward!
Big cheers to everyone who came down to The Little Buildings last night and to Dan Johnson, Bartholomew and Lucy Valentine for stellar sets across the board, and Sam for excellent sound as per. Extra shout out to Queer Love for co-promoting duties even though Esmé couldn’t make it on the night. We’ve still got some tapes up for sale but they’re shifting pretty fast so grab one quick if you want one.
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Next up for us it Tim Holehouse on the 18th! Will pop links for that in the comments in a second.
The Bellflower by Dan Johnson is out very soon! And alongside it are a bunch of gigs that your really don’t want to miss! The recording on the tape does a great job of capturing it, but Dan is a force of nature live and that’s where you want to experience it.
DAN JOHNSON / LUCY VALENTINE / BARTHOLOMEW
Here’s what Bartholomew’s been up to in the run up to the gig in 4th Feb - come along to see it live!
DAN JOHNSON / LUCY VALENTINE / BARTHOLOMEW
It’s a new year and we are DELIGHTED to be starting it by announcing we’re putting out The Bellflower by Dan Johnson! We caught Dan (and this specific performance) at SUPERNORMAL in 2022 and were absolutely blown away. Sonically heavy but ultimately cathartic and light, this is only one iteration of the performance and represents a particularly sun drenched and visceral version. .Dan’s got some dates booked in around this and is looking for some more, if you fancy having him in your neck of the woods. Pre-orders are up at our bandcamp and the Newcastle live details will be up very soon!
It’s a new year and we are DELIGHTED to be starting it by announcing we’re putting out The Bellflower by Dan Johnson! We caught Dan (and this specific performance) at SUPERNORMAL in 2022 and were absolutely blown away. Sonically heavy but ultimately cathartic and light, this is only one iteration of the performance and represents a particularly sun drenched and visceral version.
Dan’s got some dates booked in around this release and is looking for some more, if you fancy having him in your neck of the woods. Pre-orders are up at our bandcamp (in the comments) and the Newcastle live details will be up very soon!
“I’m going to play a piece called The Bellflower. It’s for everybody, thanks for being here”
A short pregnant pause then an eruption of rolling percussive force. An ecstatic landslide of durational drumming lasting just over thirty minutes in total, and as rich in texture and nuance as it is in visceral intensity. Straining muscles and tendons translate to thundering bass currents, snaps of snares and crashing waves of cymbals - eddies of frequency emerging and shifting amongst the torrent.
The Bellflower is a record of the piece performed at Supernormal Festival in 2022 under blazing August sunshine; befitting the light and dark contrasts of pummelling force and cathartic exertion contained within.“
Big cheers if you popped down to The Little Buildings on a cold Sunday night to catch Territorial Gobbing, Afterschool Teatime and WATTS. Lovely times and weird noises. Some more stuff to announce very soon, quite possibly before Xmas.
TOMORROW! Panurus Productions and Queer Love give to you Afterschool Teatime, Territorial Gobbing and WATTS! Come get weird on a Sunday evening at The Little Buildings! Ticket link in the comments or you can give us some cash on the door! Come have a lovely time!
AFTERSCHOOL TEATIME // TERRITORIAL GOBBING // WATTS
We’ve FINALLY got all the bits for the Zero Gravity Tea Ceremony tapes! These’ll be going out over the weekend. Sorry for the delay folks, and thanks for bearing with us. Hopefully you’ll agree that these look excellent, and they sound lovely too! Let us know if you use the composition cards to make your own versions!
OUT NOW
SPLAT R. - KILL SPILL THRILL
Kill Spill Thrill is out now! AND Jeremy's sorted us out a lovely video to go with the track, 'To Create Crime, Create Laws', which you can watch below! Link to the tapes in the comments.
"Glitching and laced with interference from its temporal transit, Splat R. intercepts nine broadcasts of lo-fi noise drenched beats from a possible future.
Hooks lead you through what could be samples, generated electronica or interference noise, that at times meshes and augments the beat and others swells over and underneath it with a sense of menace. There’s a sense of retro-future to the album in its tones and the recognisability of some of the sound used, but presented as if those ideas were carried further forward before being thrown back towards us, warped and distorted; as if it was constructed from pieces of culture scavenged in the aftermath of some distant cataclysm.
Splat R. is a new collaboration between Jeremy Hunt and Jon Paul Robles, bringing to life one of the future bands from QOHELETH's Black Kite Broadcasts. It's the second installment in the NoiseFeast series (an offshoot of QOHELETH), highlighting a total of four of those post-apocalyptic groups from that album. This record offers up a shared love of electronica, lo-fi hip-hop, and noise. Thematically, these pieces are inspired by the authors, philosophers, and anarchists whose quotes form the track titles: Leo Tolstoy, Simone Weil, Albert Camus, Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, and more."
Going to do that irritating @followers tag in an effort for as many of you to see this as possible, soz.
Big cheers to all you came down to The Old Coal Yard last night for a lovely time with Mister Lizard , Fashion Tips and Lovely Wife to Queer Love for co promotion duties and Tomm Oo for sound. Excellent stuff
