New Chocolate Monk releases
 

finally anew batch of weirdo sounds on Chocolate Monk are available. not up on the website yet. All the old shit tis still available also. now accepting paypal.



Pee In My Face With Surgery - Damnation Road (cd-r) £5
The hi-brows reckon PIMFWS is a “live performance duo that explores the liberation of the definitions of emptiness and the clogged distribution of aural quantity.”, while us garbage-brow types just reckon this is a joyous ear rot riot. New York based hoodlums Jaime Fennelly & Fritz Welch emit some brain blackness via vocals and electronic crack. Recommended for those who enjoy a 'swissotic' type of tickle.


Greg Kelley – 1 Hour As Something That Didn't Turn Out The Way I Intended It To (cd-r) £5
“Another exercise in failure. Spring 2003: With assistance from Vic Rawlings, I fill my room at Club Awesome in Somerville MA w/ electric keyboards, synth, a small organ and set them all for drone. A radio plays static. Record to MD, output MD through my stereo for low feedback. An electric fan is aimed at the microphone for the distorted vintage 78 effect (rpm, not the year). Vic bowed a single cello note at some point and a cymbal was scraped. The intent: record in mono for 2 hours, communicate with the dead. After 1 hour, I couldn't take it any more. My intended "Two hours as..." is now "One hour as..." I fussed over it for a while. It's kind of boring. I like boring, but...

Late Winter 2004: I must do something with this recording. I decide to look backwards into the archives...

January 8, 2000: I send out a call to arms: Meet me at Twisted Village Records, Cambridge MA at 8pm. It's Scelsi's birthday and we will play a memorial drone
for him. The call was met by Oliver Alden, Mike Bullock, James Baumgartner, Seth Cluett, James Coleman, David Dougan, David Gross, Tatsuya Nakatani, Howard Stelzer, Bhob Rainey, Vic Rawlings. Some automatic instruments played themselves. Others may have been there, but I don't remember. And you can't really hear them anyway.

Back to Late Winter 2004: I record a new track onto my 4 track in my bedroom in Allston MA. Trumpet and radio static. (DJ Screw's ghost inhabited my 4 track near the end of this track.) Then I record a burning guitar solo for the end of my new and improved "One hour as..." The mono drone, the Scelsi tribute band, the trumpet/radio track and the HOTT guitar track are all mixed down from 4 track to MD under the influence of Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout. A vocal intro and headphone feedback interruptions are then added. The task is complete. It's a bloodbath. What have I done?”

Robedoor – Christs Vipers (cd-r) £5
Slow smoke jams from Californian sloth worshipers. Total monochrome lurches into the feedback hole. Like a mouthful of black strawberries. Great dementia. “Voices, confusion, poisons. An endless fade to grey.” - Not Not Fun




Ashtray Navigations – Sweet Iron Feet (cd-r) £5
More hot orbit action from Mr Todd. Perfectly formed fog sounds via guitar, violin, electronics and who knows what else, all drenched in fx spit. Gloaming smoke rings float high, man.




Gas Shepherds (cd-r) £5
These uk primitives are drooling. Salivating some wild liquids, most probably brought on from licking a finish mushroom, or toad. Bedroom plucking, strange clank and paranoid electricity. Its enough to send you back to the cave, asshole.




Blood Stereo – For Heavy Lung (cd-r) £5
A one night only 5-piece when we were joined by Julian Bradley, Neil Campbell and Sticky Foster in Leeds. Just what you would hope for, tape loops, drone, vocal damage, confused percussion, reeds etc. A ten legged brew-up.




Blood Stereo – Little Creeper (cd-r) £5
Recorded live at Resonance FM. Full on duo in kick back mode, trying to burrow out of the airwaves into the listeners spine via tapes, voice, violin, oscillators, percussion and various other junk. A very pleasant magnetic headache.




Dylan Nyoukis – Owl Tapes (cd-r) £5
Two solo pieces for voice and reel to reels (well one also has oscillator), plus one interlude. Includes the first ever solo live joint. Like if Terry Riley had down syndrome when he hooked up his time-lag accumulator. “Like he was being eaten alive by goblins.” - audience member

EXCELLENT. More people who want to steal my money.

not steal,, exchange for some fine ear spittle.

Hehe. Well, any label putting out the mighty Ashtray Navigations gets my hearty endorsement.

And any band CALLED Ashtray Navigations deserves sainthood and endorsement!

Ugh...more stuff. I have mentally stored up a bunch of choco monk stuff I want and the list is getting bigger. I should actually buy some stuff soon....promise.

choco monk doesn't get distributed to the shores of the american continent, do they?

I'd bet that eclipse-records.com or somewhere like that has some stuff.

i'll check out some of those websites

yeah Fusetron and eclipse both occasionally buy a bunch of stuff from us. now we are accepting paypal though, so its easy to get shit quick direct from us..

cool.

how much is shipping and handling to mexico?

£2 for the first disc and 50p for each additional!!!!!!!!!!

cool, thanks man. seems decent.