SUPERBUGGER- 'small disk'.
Debut release for this Stumps offshoot of Antony Milton (guitar) and James Kirk (drums). Extremely distorted psyche rock that sounds like members of the Dead C getting into a back alley fist fight with Mainliner outside some dodgy fishermans bar in Greenland.
World weary vocals are buried somewhere in the mix below pummelling bass heavy riffage that sounds like its being sucked down into some black hole as the room mics implode.
Short sharp tracks with about the same fidelity as one would expect from a circa 1980s cellphone.
Gobsmacking.
3" CDR US$6 post inclusive.




 

PERALES/MILTON. -'Cuartos Azule'.
Scorching prepared guitar pieces recorded in Buenos Aires in November 2009. Ex-boxing coach Fernando Perales was one of the original Reynols and currently tours and plays regularly with his solo table guitar project Viva la Muerte. Antony Milton is a guitarist and sound artist from New Zealand perhaps best known for the gestural drone blues project The Nether Dawn.
Documenting a meeting of the concrete improv of Perales's steel-on-strings guitar and Miltons almost melodic drones this release discovers a sublime cohesion in both its moments of harsh noise and blissed out drone.
This cdr presents the highlights from a series of recording sessions and culminates with a 30 minute live session that took place at the opening of a gallery installation by Perales.
CDR. US$8.50 Post inclusive




 

PW/AM. 10" lathecut.
More rocking ecstatic psyche/noise from the South Island of New Zealand this is the first collaboration work to appear from Peter Wright and Antony Milton. Previous recording sessions exist somewhere on tape but who knows what box those are in??
This current record was recorded over one afternoon in Christchurch. The following day a pilgrimage was made down to Peter Kings lathe factory (read back blocks shack constructed of the same plastic from which he makes his records..!) to see the magic of sound being etched into acetate in person.
And the music? You will perhaps be unsurprised to learn that this release contains guitar drones- and noisy clattery bits, but then theres even a little singing..
Lathecut 10" record. US$25 Post inclusive.




 

Antony Milton. -San Miguel del Bala. DOWNLOAD
In September and October of 2009 Antony Milton spent 3 weeks working as a volunteer for the San Miguel del Bala community in the Bolivian jungle. His project for this time was to record a work representing the sound environment of this location, the sounds of the jungle and of the local village and its musicians.
This experience was a real adventure and involved a 3 day journey in dugout canoe up into the deep jungle of the Madidi National Park in order to record Howler Monkeys and other more exotic animals.
The final album is a filmic 35 minute suite of sounds and music. Upon receiving payments an email will be sent back as soon as possible (I am in Sth America and checking email every 2 or 3 days) containing the download links.
The download includes a txt file documenting the sound sources for these recordings.
All money from this release will be forwarded to the San Miguel del Bala Community Trust, an initiative set up by Conservation International as an alternative to the logging which was the main source of income for villagers prior to the trust funds various tourism based operations.
There is a lot more information about this album on Antony Miltons myspace blog. www.myspace.com/antonymilton

DOWNLOAD: US$5 donation to the San Miguel del Bala Community Trust.




MRTYU- Ornate Shroud LP. (Tipped Bowler/Faunnasabbatha).
I finally have some copies of this available for sale. Its not PseudoArcana but I thought I would put it at the top of this list anyway because its the most recent PseudoArcana related thing I have available. Recorded away back in 2006 it finds itself etched into 160 gram black vinyl and released in both France and the USA simultaneously.
Ornate Shroud finds Mrtyu taking an overtly black metal turn whilst trying to retain the sonic heaviness of old. There are more songs, and more melodies on this than previous Mrtyu albums. Personally I also think it contains some of the most supremely violent and dark sections yet released (though reviewers seem to insist on talking about its lurking beauty..- oh well...).
Some people describe it as a dark free folk album, others as an extreme noise record. Make up your own mind. To me its a Mrtyu record!
LIMITED TO 350 COPIES. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Housed in hand screened linen paper sleeves.
LP US$25 post inclusive.




The Stumps. -'Live At Happy Sept 1 2007'.
I have waivered under the pressure and done one final release before taking off to Chile in a couple of weeks. The Stumps... Antony Milton on guitar and vocals, Stephen (seht) Clover on bass and James Kirk (Black Boned Angel/Sandoz Lab Techs) on drums. And for this outing they are joined by Ben Spiers (Glory Fckn Sun etc) on 2nd guitar.
People had been asking if there were any releases out that sounded more like our live shows. This was a valid question because up to this point all the releases have been dominated by the drones and ambient fumblings that are perhaps natural to a relaxed studio setting with a well stocked beer fridge. But live The Stumps are another band entirely, far more intense, far more noise, far more rock...
So here in its entirity is a Stumps show from 2007. Complete with fuck ups and off key vocals. A big fuckin psychedelic roar of a show that was recorded onto Ben Spier's walkman.
CDR US$8.50 post inclusive.




Birdcatcher. -'The Sky Tied Down'.
There has been some competition to see who would get the 1st Birdcatcher release out and PseudoArcana has won the race!
'The Sky Tied Down' finds the duo of Bill Wood (1/3 Octave Band) and Antony Milton (Nether Dawn etc) settled down for a long session of epic dark and heavy drone-manship. Utilising heavily processed lapsteel guitars and banjo Birdcatcher embark on a glacially paced expedition to the slow beating heart of the dark eyed uber-drone.
The textural complexity of these drones retain the evidence of their instrumental sources but are transformed into something that is perhaps closer to dark electronic ambient music than might be expected from these instruments; the timbre of the banjo and guitar more reminiscent of doom metal than any sort of free folk.
Recorded in a single session direct to magnetic tape the overall sound is grainy, dense and loud. 90 minutes spent in the company of Birdcatcher is virtually guaranteed to invoke monochrome visions and weird ecstacies...
Packaged in a 16pg art-book of images that seek to dispel any anthropomorphic tendency in ornithology. Birds are by definition inhumane; alien.
2xCDR packaged in 16pg book. SOLD OUT.








GLORY FCKN SUN. -'Vision Scorched'.
Reissue in new packaging!
Formed in 2003 as a conduit for intense ritualistic sonic exploration Glory Fckn Sun is the ecstatic psyche-noise trio of Antony Milton (guitar/electronics), Ben Spiers (guitar/violin/electronic) and improv percussionist Simon O'Rorke (gongs/percussion).
'Vision Scorched' collects together one studio track and two live pieces. These range through long form rumbling distorted deep space explorations (complete with supernova and the odd blackhole), intense yet ethereal harsh noise to close with a droning metaphysical raga-esque paean to the great cosmic inevitable of the collapse of the sun, And of light itself.
Glory Fckn Sun have been described as having a sound that is like a cross between Flies Inside the Sun and Keiji Haino.
The 1st edition of this release sold out in a matter of weeks and gained rave reviews. This 2nd edition is also limited. There are 250 copies.
CD US$9.50 post inclusive.


A.M- 'Rag Red Reverie'.
Full on over-the-top psychedelic noise guitar assault from Antony Miltons A.M project. With beats!
Eschewing the last vestiges of embarrassment at several years 'lost' to rave culture in the late 90s A.M channels the furious ecstasies of phasing tones and pounding beats through electric guitar lined red hot into an ancient tape recorder to produce a riff driven avant-party album... With its endless driving riffs and noise incursions ascending to ever higher levels of intensity the sudden free falls into sudden deep ambient bliss are like the first glimpses of dawn on a mountain top on acid..
And then the beats kick in again.
A 'wave your arms in the air' boogie noise guitar record? Who would have thought?
CD US$9.50 post inclusive.




THE BAD STATISTICS.- 'Lucky Town Gone'.
On the follow up to last years debut "Static" LP ((Kr-aa-k)3) The Bad Statistics have set about laying waste to the New Zealand suburban dream with this album, a much darker and heavier affair than their debut. Led by a bald suit clad psychopath named Thebis Mutante (rumoured to be the alter-ego of NZ improv/fire music impressario Jeff Henderson) who chants and howls and grunts throughout their doom laden droning rock mantra the closest comparison I have been able to come up with is some sort of hybrid of The Birthday Party, Circle, and The Reynols.
If the debut LP were to be regarded as the Mission Statement of Bad Statistics Great Annual Report in the Sky, "Lucky Town Gone" is not the Business Highlights chapter to be expected next, but a sideways lurch straight to Appendix 17: Corrupted Data.
Recorded onto degraded old cassette tape, "Lucky Town Gone" is a collection of mean-spirited practice room jams that sees the core four-piece of BAD STATISTICS further embracing the stoner doom drone rock that already defined large parts of "Static".
The seven tracks of "Lucky Town Gone" are again spearheaded by the abrasive, sense-eluding vocal emissions of Thebis Mutante. Critical response to Mutante�s contributions on "Static" was deeply divided, and the new album is expected to further polarise opinions. Mutante is backed by Mark Williams (Marineville, Idle Suite, Cookie Brooklyn) on guitar, Justin Barr (Raskolnikovs, Users, Wrongdoings, Delaney Ghost Orchestra) on bass, and Johannes Contag (Jay Clarkson, Cloudboy, Sleepytime) on drums and production.
CD US$9.50 post inclusive.




Paper Wings.- 'Ash Field' CD. (PseudoArcana/Black Petal)
Paper Wings is the electric guitar duo of Australian Anthony Guerra and New Zealander Antony Milton.
Recorded in a small room on a winters day in Sydney in 2005 Paper Wings full-length debut drifts through beautiful bowed drones, tender melodic excursions and harsher sonic adventures. Four pieces that find these two guitarists at the top of their game.
(Paper Wings previously appeared on the Last Visible Dog compilation 'Crows of the World (Volume 1)' with the track "Horse Lattitudes'.Reviews said:
".. The real reason to pick this [compilation] up, though, is to hear Paper Wings' "Horse Lattitudes", an extended twin guitar dirge layered with whispered and wailing vocals. Beginning slowly and chaotically, it unfolds into a colossal mesh of The Velvet Underground at their most primal and Earth at 16rpm. Just when it threatens to peak, the duo fall back into another bout of feedback induced guitar meltdown, wringing every amplified note out of their instruments until the bones of the piece have been picked clean"
Edwin Pouncey, The Wire
"A masterclass in free improv that is even better at ear-splitting volume"
Simon Lewis, Terrascope.
CD in hand painted Japanese artpaper sleeve. CD US$9.50 post inclusive.





Seht.- 'Dead Bees ((the((quiet)earth))suite)'.
Campbell Kneale once explained that to describe Wellingtons Seht as drone music is much the same as describing Antarctica as white. Where as many of us utilise the drone as an ingredient, a point of departure, Stephen Clover's Seht project distils drones to craft something very like a fine liquor.
'One Moment', the 35 minute first track on 'Dead Bees' is Clovers somnambulant ambient drone masterpiece. A famous insomniacs grand fantasy of sleep. Setting sail with the gentle sound of submerged bells one sinks deeper as lush rich tones gradually merge into a swell of dreamscape waves. Deeper still and one finds oneself glowing in a deep warm golden molasses that shimmers and sways until time somehow folds in upon itself and loses all meaning as ones consciousness shifts into angel gear for the lonnnng coast out.
But Clover is also agent provocateur- a wry and acerbic wit. To say that there are surprises to follow is an understatement!
CD US$9.50 post inclusive.
You can hear a sample from the album here .




SUNKEN.- 'Eye Electric Organ, Brain Electric Nerve'.
Deep in the swirling depths of the ocean a terrible yet wondrous beast stirs slow but sure amidst great forests of sea algae. Taking on the form of a pair of conjoined drown-ed sailors it sets forth upon the currents determined to loose its apocalyptic vision upon the earth via droning sea shanty and great humming hymn.
Sunken is the duo of sunken sailors Stefan Neville (Pumice) and Antony Milton (Nether Dawn/A.M etc). Using a range of organs, sonar gear, live tapeloops, vocals and an unhealthy amount of submarine reverb they create a glorious droning pop noise. 'Eye Electric Organ, Brain Electric Nerve' follows on from their acclaimed self titled debut (also on PseudoArcana) and various compilation appearances.
You can read reviews and hear a sample from the album here .
CD US$9.50 post inclusive.




DIALING IN -'Cows In Lye'.
Dialing In is the ecstatic roaring psychedelic drone project of Seattle based sound artist Reita Piecuch. Utilising the natural acoustics of a series of reverberant spaces she weaves together super saturated soundscapes by recording in one environment, playing back in another, and then re-recording this recording playing back in yet another environment (etc..).
On 'Cows in Lye' the original sound sources range from loops of field recordings from a trip to India, piano, and the shifting drones of a "Shruti Box" (electronic Tamboura). One track also features a long stream of consciousness vocal performance from avant-crooner 'Herb Diamante'..!
After a trek with recording gear through the caves, cathedrals and bunkers of Seattle these ingredients are transformed into huge and sublimely distorted quasi-melodic dreamscapes. The album lifts off with an ecstatic roar and the intensity doesn't let up until one is released exultant in the green flash of a setting sun...
CD US$9.50 post inclusive.






THE LOST DOMAIN -'Palace'.
Brisbane avant-blues practitioners The Lost Domain have been stalwarts of the Australian underground for nearly 20 years. Formed around the core duo of guitarist David MacKinnon and organist/vocalist Simon Ellaby they have released a consistently inspiring but all too rare trickle of cdr's and have only recently begun to get the attention that they deserve (via the "Sailor Home From the Sea" CD (Broken Face/Digitalis 2004 (who incidentally promise a follow up "White Man at the Door" later this year)), and some choice compilation slots and magazine interviews).
One of the most intense and engaging live bands I have ever seen their sound is something like a gritty cross between the spacious psychedelic ambient improv noise of New Zealand's Sandoz Lab Technicians, and the weirder swampier blues-stomp of Captain Beefheart.
'Palace' presents a remarkably restrained series of subtle movements and moods that were recorded over a few weekends in the ballroom of 'The Pink Palace', an old and virtually abandoned hall in Brisbane. This is The Lost Domain in full band mode with a line up that includes Leighton Craig, Eugene Carchesio and Rick Neville. Organs and plaintive feedbacking guitars call to each other through the reverberant emptiness. There are dream like peaks and lulls as the dynamic slowly intensifies into a deep deep blues howl before the whole band once more drifts away into the ether. CD US$9.50 post inclusive.




ANTONY MILTON. -'The End of This Short Road'.
Released on the Deserted Village label in Ireland I thought that I would list this here as well. I send these without the jewelcase to save you postage.
"This is release number 27 on Deserted Village and it's another CD this time. Many of you will know Antony Milton as the New Zealander behind the mighty PseudoArcana label. This album was recorded 6 years ago on 4-track and differs from Miltons many other solo projects. It's a collection of short songs with insistent violin orbiting stark acoustic guitars. There's more to it than that but we won't spoil the surprise. Antony himself tells us that the music he releases under his own name is the most direct and unadorned". Read liner notes here.

CD.US$8 post inclusive (without jewel case).






�The Nether Dawn. -'Outer Dark'. (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon CD)
Thought this was sold out but I just found another small box. Moody midnight psychy drone blues. The follow up album to 'Whisky Mute Down' this album has been released by Celebrate Psi Phenomenon who have this to say:
"Filthy, ragged, drone-damage from Antony Milton, the mastermind behind the insanely credible Pseudoarcana label, and recently crowned third member of Black Boned Angel. Crackle and smoldering fuzz turn over and over on itself at ever more terrifying pace until everything within its gravitational grasp begins to smell of burning plastic. Frightening, shamanic, and dare-I-suggest BLUESY (think Fushitsusha not Gary Moore!) yet set within a down-on-the-farm, Antipodean, post-Xpressway context. The future of drone. The future of rock. The future of goddamn everything!" CD. US$10 post inclusive.





PETER WRIGHT. 'Yellow Horizon'.
New Zealand guitarist and sound-artist Peter Wrights back catalogue stretches to something like 30 releases over the last dozen years. 'Yellow Horizons' is the most recent of these and follows on from 2004's 'Distant Bombs' (Last Visible Dog), and 'Desolation Beauty Violence' (Digitalis). This CD finds him relocated to dirty old London town from where he has written a series of love-drones to the wild South Island of his homeland.
Wrights guitar craft opens vistas that are as contemplative as they are emotionally engaging. Periods of preperatory silence awaken into long slow shifting drones; layered 'folk' patterns build to an almost psychotropic intensity before being subsumed once more within the drone... These scenes are as varied as the South Island itself. There are glaciers as well as sunburnt plains.
CD. US$9.50 post inclucive.




NthNth/SthSth. LP (Release the Bats).
NthNth/SthSth is the duo of myself (Antony Milton) and Jani Hirvonen (Uton) from Finland. We had a release out on C-Psi-P a few years back, as 'A.M/Uton' that was titled 'NthNth/SthSth' and have now chosen to use that title as our project name.
This new LP is released by Release the Bats out of Sweden. Its a beautiful object- with a front cover by Jani, and the back one by me. It has liner notes by Jon Dale.
Musically it sets forth on a bed of weird psychedelic drone that morphs through entranced chanting to become a black metal rattle and then an explosive psyche out hoedown... Or something like that...
This is limited to 520 copies of which I have 10 or so left.
LP US$25 post inclusive.






THE STUMPS.- 'Split Fleet Dodge'.
The Stumps are an improvising psych/noise/rock band from Wellington, New Zealand. They have been described as a NZ underground "super-group" by one writer; a "power-trio" by others. Although no-one is completely sure what these terms actually mean, what is certain is that The Stumps bring a wealth of talent and experience, and a certain heavyweight clout, with them to the table. The core lineup of The Stumps features Antony Milton (A.M., Mrtyu!, Nether Dawn, PseudoArcana label, etc), Stephen Clover (seht), and James Kirk (Sandoz Lab Technicians, Gate, Black Boned Angel, etc). The band also regularly collaborates with other improvising musicians; on Split Fleet Dodge the trio team up on one side of the LP with Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel, Black Boned Angel) on keyboards and electronics.
The Stumps have played extensively in New Zealand, including support for the Grey Daturas; two brief tours in Australia have been very well received, and plans for tours of Europe and the USA are underway.
This LP is the debut release for Stephen Clovers vinyl only Palindrone label.
Vinyl LP US$30 (last copies anywhere!) post inclusive







Keijo -'Carry On With Us' cdr/book.
Latest missive from Finlands motorcycle crazed improvising drone shaman. 'Carry On With Us' features extended percussion rites and long sections of uber-blues guitar. In some ways this is a challenging record with Keijo veering into Jandek like atonality at times. But there are also moments of lush sublime beauty.
Overall it reflects honesty and frankness. Sure signs of 'true' magic..?
Packaged in a high quality 12 page book of photos and collage works by Keijo.
CDR/BookUS$10 post inclusive.



A.M -'Tour Disk 2006'.
I found a small box of these when I was packing up my storeroom and it has never been listed here before. This release was an edition of 120 from my US/European tour of 2006 and is actually some of the most 'refined' of the A.M drone recordings. I fully intended to either find a home for it on another label or reissue it myself at some point but somehow forgot all about it as new projects came up.
It is perhaps more 'electro' than some of the other A.M stuff. I was using small cheap mp3 players as recording loopers at the time and mixing this with guitar tones and keyboards.
Its a nice record. The last track is more of a noise-rocker..
CDR. US$8 post inclusive.


AGITATED RADIO PILOT/NETHER DAWN (cdr reissue)
After years of preperation the long rumoured split lathe made its its appearence in 2007. Beautiful it was too with individually hand-printed/painted covers by United Fairy Moons Jim Currin. I pressed 2 editions- a total of 130 copies, both of which sold out in days. Anyway, after some pointed reminders I've finally gotten around to re-releasing this on cdr.

Irishman Dave Colohan's Agitated Radio Pilot project brings us a suite of sad sweet beautiful folk drones called 'The Ghost of Medb'. Said ghost shimmers and weeps diamond tears over the course of this side.
On the other side Antony Milton's Nether Dawn presents 'Under Your Night'. This consists of a song that is gradually enveloped in electronically treated noise violin before departing for hummier and droney aires and a live rock out (accompanied by James Kirk) for the final movement.
CDR. US$8.50 post inclusive.






 
      THE FREE PLAYERS -'Snakes From Space'.
Latest missive from Keijo Virtanen and friends captures them getting well and truly "into the zone". With all the insane yet serious intensity of Sun Ra they load up this stellar flying disk with a free range of instruments and head into space to find - um - snakes... (Maybe they don't have snakes in Finland?)
With their ears and eyes devoutly focussed on their task their trip is one long sinuous boogie to the sweating solar heart of the icicle mamba. Upon arrival wreaths are laid with solemn prayer before a poignant ecstatic blues heralds the certainty of farewell and is, appropriately enough, cut off in mid stream by a sudden.........
CDR. US$8.50 post inclusive.
 









CJA.- 'Pink Metal'.
Clayton Noone should need no introduction here, one half of the jaw-dropping Armpit, one third of the terrifying Wolfskull, and lest we forget that he also adds his essential self in The Futurians, Claypipe and a dozen other bands.
As Noone's solo project CJA catches his sublime nonchalant strum and blur in its most distilled form. Sprawling over 2 disks 'Pink Metal' gathers together songs and drones, weird incidents and hard-out noise to present what is perhaps the definitive CJA statement of intent.
Packaged in a booklet of macabre full colour sci-fi comics (drawn by brother Richard Noone) 'Pink Metal' is perhaps the most collectable of Noone's releases to date.
2x CDR in 16 page full colour art-book. US$11 post inclusive








FORMATT.-'Minor Curations'.
I first heard Peter Smeekens Formatt project on a 3" CD put out by RoboRecords and was an overnight devotee. In fact I was such a fan that I've been harassing him for a release ever since and I'm excited to be able to say that my dream has come true and that its finally available.
Hailing from Belgium, Formatt is resolutely a digital artist. He creates his pieces from heavily processed glitches, chimings, loops and drones, the original sound sources virtually impossible to discern. In an over-crowded genre Smeekens manages to transcend the clich�s of his umpteen thousand peers. Somehow simply bathing in the complexity of the not-quite abstract rhythmic patterns of his music makes one feel SMARTER, like one could sit down and pluck radical new mathematical theorem out of the air. The intuitive patterns created are as electrically stimulating as a cluster of synaptic sparks.
'Minor Curations' is a single 17.55min piece that hums and rings and glips through 2 short movements. Your room will vibrate with atomic activity and your pictures rearrange themselves on the wall.
3" CDR. US$7 post inclusive.










A.M -'Yet Marvellous Stasis"/ 'Strata".
This release brings together the 'sister albums' from Antony Miltons 'A.M' project recorded in 2003.
Recorded simultaneously (and released on Haamumaa and Humbug records respectively) these 2 disks document a particularly productive year. Ranging from ecstatic tape noise works through gestural instrumental pieces, field recordings, drone worksand live tracks this is a great introduction to the work of A.M.
Double CDR. US$10 post inclusive.






� Sunken. "untitled".
Sunken is the duo of Stefan (Pumice) Neville and Antony Milton. Their debut release features longplayer drones built from the interplay between 2 reed organs (and various gadgets- tapeloops, intercom, contact mics). The end result is an ecstatically transcendent and strangely luminous hour of music...
CDR. US$8.50 post inclusive.


�The Stumps.- 'If I Gave You Some Concrete Slippers Would You Wear Them When You Jump Off The Pier?'.
Atmospheric reverb rock swell and sprawl. Deep space exploration from James Kirk (percussion), Stephen Clover(bass), and Antony Milton (guitar). Recorded 'live' in Wellingtons biggest garage.
3" CDR. US$7 post inclusive.


�Paintings of Windows -'Canvas'.
A new project from Antony Milton, Paintings of Windows attempts to light a cosy campfire in the midst of the digital tundra. Field recordings, some capturing spare use of 'trad' instruments, are manipulated and shaped using basic software to produce a peaceful, minimal, and warm electronica. The source tapes for 'Canvas' were recorded in a tent at Paikakareiki during midnight showers and summer dawns.
3" CDR. US$7 post inclusive.



� (p.o.w)- 'Northwest Frontier Province'.
Always on the lookout for new controversies the P.A. catalogue veers off into cultural appropriation! Of all the field recordings collected during a year in 'Southern Asia' these are the ones I (Antony Milton) have returned to most. Recorded in Pakistan in 1999 these tracks document the sound of (mutiple simultaneous) calls to prayer echoing back from the sheer mountain walls surrounding the town of Gilgit. Incidental sounds abound, not least of all the vagaries arising from blank tapes bought for 30 rupees from a street vendor, but I'm sure most of you will agree that such phenomena often add to the overall aural experience rather than detract. (Subtitled 'how I came to love Islam').
3" CDR US$7 post inclusive.


�The Stumps. -'Exigence'.
Previously released on US cassette label Ladygarden this gets a reissue here.
Probably my own favourite Stumps release so far Exigence gathers together scorching loud live recordings and weird droney studio pieces to make a devils potion of a dark brew.
Think coffee infused with mescalin. Dayglo vista viewed through a tunnel of reverb.
The Stumps are Stephen Clover (seht) on bass and synth, James Kirk (Sandoz Lab Techs/Black Boned Angel) on Drums, and Antony Milton on guitar and electronics.
With wonderful art by Yunico Uchiyama.
CDR US$8.50 post inclusive.



�A.M- 'Episteme'.
Reissue of the 2002 album originally released on Peter Wrights Apoplexy imprint. Definately one of the best A.M albums to date!
CDR US$8.50 post inclusive.




�Claypipe. 'Crescent'. (Split label release with Root Don Lonie For Cash).
Finally the 1st Claypipe recordings (the duo of Clayton Noone (cja) and Antony Milton) found themselves transferred to acetate. Its already sold out however but don't despair- the good news is that we decided to do a cdr run as well. (Which will at least be in stereo... (Lathes are a warm textured mono)).
These recordings actually pre-date the releases on Jewelled Antler and catch Claypipe engaged in clattery huge epic dronings which were in no small part fuelled by a peculiarly green tinged cake (ahem..). Organ, sampler, violin, guitar and percussion - there are not so many vocals on this one - the instruments sang for themselves, with nuanced and articulate tongues!
Original Lathe Cut LP Sold Out. This is the CDR reissue.
CDR US$10 post inclusive.

MRTYU! -'Blood Tantra' (20 Buck Spin 2cd)
Double CD reissue of 2 out of prints cdrs from Antony Miltons Mrtyu project. Dense heavy drones and uber-metal darkness. Exploring the dark side of his psyche these recordings represent some of the noisiest and most intensely violent of Miltons recordings to date..
2CD US$10 post inclusive.

�Swagger Jack- 'The Feral Blood of Swagger Jack -A Compendium.'. (Last Visible Dog CD)
Veering between abstract 'folk-noise', hillbilly thrash and some of the most finely crafted and poignant pop songs of his career,'Feral Blood' brings together the best tracks from Swagger Jacks various solo cdrs on Wire Bridge.
Join him as he wends his lonely way around the backroads and 'rest-areas' (picnic spots where one can usually camp a few days for free) of New Zealand. He's old enough, and wise enough, to know better (its the 21st century after all) but he just doesn't seem to be able to give up his great romantic dream of freedom from the trial of modernity, nor lose his passion for recording his rattley folksongs onto an old car battery powered 4-track. Sometimes ecstatic, sometimes meditative, but always, well, 'textured' and original. All acoustic rattle-'n-roll; happy, sad, poignant; and downright nasty if you rub him up the right way.
(Swagger Jack is an alter-ego of Antony Milton).
CD US$8 post inclusive. (No jewel case)

�With Throats As Fine As Needles -'s/t' (Digitalis/Students of Decay cd)
Candle driven bunker drones from the subterranian depths by the duo of Campbell Kneale and Antony Milton, joined on this excursion by Richard Francis and James Kirk.
CD US$10 post inclusive.



�Antony Milton.- 'Sirens'. (Last Visible Dog CD)
I have copies of this compilation of 2 earlier cassette releases (from 1997/98) available. Chris Moon says:
An essential CD for those into the outsider NZ 'pop' scene--you know, the one that includes the likes of This Kind of Punishment, Pin Group, Victor Dimisich Band/Terminals, Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos...in fact, if you know the Xpressway sound (that label Bruce Russell ran back in the day) you should know what to expect here. That SHOULD translate for most of you as: Really fucking great. Buy now. Add to cart. Etc. But not everyone thinks like I do. Milton's music comes just half a decade too late to be part of the classic Xpressway sound, but it is totally there. In my world this is what pop music would sound like!
CD US$8 post inclusive. (no jewel case).



�Clay Man in the Well.- 'House of Dust and Wood and Light'. (Foxglove CDR).
Heavy earth-bound human ritual that works soil-caked drones, the fibre of strings and ropes, little shrugs of guitar-based melodies and a cavern full of static into noise/song assemblages that are reminiscent of Virgin-era Faust, Siloah and Ghost at their most washed-out. (David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue).
When i first heard the name, 'clay man in the well,' i got images in my head of archaelogical digs and ancient civilizations. PseudoArcana chief Antony Milton brings us a brand new album of dirt-infused jams, uncovered after years of digging. With scores of music boxes and simple drones, milton's affected whispers treat these hymns with formaldahyde, preserving them for a million years. This is timeless. This is music for the archives.
cdr US$8.50 post inclusive.

�V/A.- 'Witching Hour' - (CLaudia cdr).
A collection of a wide variety of approaches to Field Recording (all made at night-time); processed computer ambiences, subtle collage, free improvisation with insects singing, contact recordings of rain, silent houses, kitchen activity, exotic holidays and troubled sleeping.
With tracks by: P. Westbourne, Un Ciego, Tim Coster, Richard Francis, Paintings of Windows/Antony Milton, and Phil Dadson (all from NZ), Lau Nau (Finland),and Felicity Ford (UK).
cdr. US$8 post inclusive

�A.M- 'Tasman' (Foxglove)
This 2004 release documents where the A.M project was at at the time of my tour of Australia. Violin, voice, organ, electronics and field recordings are mixed live to a 4trk tape-loop building up huge ecstatic drones.
I have limited copies.
CDRNZ$8.50 post inclusive


�Witcyst.- 'Roslyn' (Insample CD)
Rare as hens teeth CD from 2006 by Whangarei lunatic noise shaman.
Comes packaged in a multi paged full colour 7" sized booklet.
CD US$10 post inclusive





Antony Milton. -'Summit is Fragile'. Lathe cut LP.
"In the early Spring of 2007 I managed to escape the city for a week in Arthurs Pass in the Southern Alps of the South Island of New Zealand. I took with me a banjo, an ebow and some effects pedals; a loop station pedal and cassette walkman with which to record.
The plains were foggy on the drive up toward the mountains but it was sunny in the high reaches as we arrived at the small cabin we had rented. That evening it snowed and we actually saw very little sun for the rest of our time there. This didn't stop us exploring mossy valleys or clambering up small mountains but did make the time spent by the fire in the evenings all the more appealing.

'Summit is Fragile' is a collection of tone poems, field recordings, song sketches, ecstatic drone pieces and gestural constructions stitched together with short banjo ragas composed over this period. A rendering of the feelings of a place in time that now seems more an impossible dream than a reality. I consider it one of my very best works to date."

This is an ultra limited edition of 40 copies only that comes packaged in covers screen printed by Jim Currin.
Lathe cut LP. SOLD OUT. Look for vinyl reissue later in 2009.




MY CAT IS AN ALIEN. -"8inch triangular lathe cut record".
I have long been in awe of the superior control of musical cosmonauts Roberto and Maurizio Opalio. The grace and simplicity of their touch.
I feel that it is a privilege to able to introduce this new work, 2 short sides etched into a triangle of acetate that illustrate the potentially eternal depth of the subjectively experienced universe.
This record is far less electr(on)ic than some of their pieces. Driven largely by plaintive bell like guitar and a sparse haunting ethereal wordless vocal it sounds like a prayer sung in a chamber deep within some dark crystalline moon.
A limited numbered edition of 80 triangle records in specially designed triangular sleeves.
SOLD OUT.