ENDLESS FASCINATION, VOLS. 1, 3 & 4

A new series of CDR releases from Marshall Avett - each limited to 26 copies, lettered A to z - featuring nothing but the sounds of skipping records.

VOLUME 1: Gospel Pet Fat
Recorded around 1997, this one features a wide range of records that might play for a bit but then start skipping, natural skips, forced skips, warped LPs, you name it. One track, 45 minutes. Orange spray painted case and disc.

VOLUME 3: Sea is for Cookie
Features Bella Avett in the background on keyboard and toddler talk. Heavy on the Sesame Street Live, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Erik B. & Rakim, TGT, Phil Collins, Lil Jon, etc. One track, 45 minutes. Blue spray painted case and disc.

VOLUME 4: Crictor
Was going to spray paint over this story book seven inch then started listening to it. Sheesh! Weird story, weirder skips. Down right creepy in places. One track, 36 minutes. Red spray painted case (with google eye on snake) and disc.

$5 each. Please specify which volume or volumes you want when ordering.

Quantity

One disc $5.00 Two discs $10.00 Three discs $15.00

More volumes on the way, including VOLUME 2: Another Brick in the Head and VOLUME 5: Beach Stones.

I GOT MY HANDZ FULL!

Oh boy. DJ Dirty Pillowz is known to wreck vibes at otherwise groovin' get togethers. Why people keep asking him to spin is beyond us. Yet there he was recently kicking a lone turntable to change up the skipping vinyl he was playing for a "crowd" at a "show." Apparently, he thought enough of himself to put together a cdr of sliced up hip hop 12" singles that he reconfigured and played on shitty turntables. He gave us a few copies done in a totally bootleg street vendor style - crummy cover image, blurry porn, and no info whatsoever anywhere - and we're passing them on to you if you dare. So, like, it's an edition of 4 copies (about 50 minutes of music) for $5. Please.



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LUCKY WAFFLES

Stewart Voegtlin and Marshall Avett were invited by Todd the Werewolf to do whatever they wanted in an old warehouse before it was converted into - guess what? - lofts! So they dragged a drum kit, some horns, other percussion items, a reel-to-reel machine and some microphones and hit it. The result is this recording, which shows the depth of the space they invaded and just how cool nails sound when hurled across a cement floor towards a shitty microphone. Is it jazz? Is it metal concrete? Uh...
Edition of 50, color inserts, $5 each, and named after their cats (circa 2001).

"The strangeness of this artifact may derive from the fact that it was recorded in an empty warehouse... you wont know where to put yourself as you spin this blarting oddity and succumb to its acoustical conundrums." - Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector



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NUCLEAR WINTER

Two lengthy ice-cold jams from Zandosis recorded in an empty concrete and glass room in February of 2005 or 2006. After the war, you spent weeks? months? years? in that bunker trying to tune your emergency radio in to any signs of human life out there. Finally, you decide to open the hatch and venture out. Your house is gone. Your neighborhood is gone. Your city is gone. There is only a gray landscape and these constantly falling big fat snowflakes that seem to glow in the white sky. You stick your tongue out, catch one of these flakes, and taste these sounds. Edition of 50, color cover, $5 each.

"This one could be something of a grower; it has some sense of rawness and import which you wont find among the more polite end of the acoustic-improv spectrum." - Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector



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LA LUBA MIA

Released in 2004, this is the last More collection to see the light of day. We think La Luba Mia means "my she wolf" in Spanish. But it might not. This one is subtitled "an old gold kind of punishment," though there's not much on here that fits the usual M.O. of More (that being atonal assault). Instead, this cdr collects snippets captured on tape recorders and four-tracks in basements, farm houses, bedrooms and a burrito restaurant. Some real beauty on display from time to time, abstraction shines through on a few short cuts, and there are three actual songs including the first version of "Carson Jones," a sweet version of "Dial Tone" (check the audio sample here), and a Fugs cover. Not only that, but this release has the greatest photo ever taken on its cover (courtesy of Matt Miller's found photo collection). 15 tracks, probably 50 or 60 minutes long, and $5 each. Damn!



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INSTA-LABEL

Christ almighty. Well, this was bound to surface sooner or later, and here it is for a few lucky souls. Two hours of sounds spread across two cdrs that capture the best/worst of a monthlong project Old Gold put together to mark its fifth anniversary back in 1999. Anyone visiting the Eyedrum music/art/beer space in Atlanta could record their own six-minute-long cassette and create a cover and name for it. In the end, 40 tapes were put together to form the genesis of a new label that we tried to auction off for like $30. No one wanted it, so we kept it. And now in honor of Eyedrum's 10th anniversary and Old Gold's 15th, here ya go. Drunken conversation, bootlegged performances, street noise, urination, sex talk, improv blues and folks tunes by "groups" with names like Grand Dysentary, Florida is Death, A Beautiful Indian Pancake, Slowmobile and my favorite, Formula 44DD.

Packaged almost professionally in a 2CD case with color cover and insert. Edition of 13. $12 each. Will not ship to Georgia.



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OUR TEAPOTS ARE BROKEN

Double three-inch cdr set by Marshall Avett with one disc containing something like 92 clips from spoken word-type records, and the second disc featuring a 20-minute jam-packed collage of layers of all the clips. Which is more psychedelic? Bad question with a good answer.

Edition of 15 in hand-stamped paper covers. A few left. $6 each.



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THE DOG WITH A CHICKEN LEG IN HIS MOUTH WHO THINKS HE HAS THE WHOLE CHICKEN IN HIS MOUTH

First official release by this loose collective of freaks called Dirtbrain. This cdr compiles some hits and misses, shits and pisses from their live shows. Instrumentation ranges from saxophone, acoustic guitar, turntables, sitar, drums, percussion, radios, "bass," piano, toys, voice, stray dogs, vehicles, etc. Pretty much laid back with its mind dipped in honey and its honey dipped in moonshine. Hard to tell what the heck is going on most of the time, but overall the experience of listening to this beginning to end is the equivalent to locking yourself in the trunk of your car and letting your pet drive you through a shopping mall surrounded by zombies. You'll never forget, but it could have very easily killed you.

Edition of 50 cdrs, around 50 minutes long. $5 each.



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SVRD HDS #1

First issue of visual/audio mayhemics from November 2008. 24 pages (8.5" x 11") of collage, enlargements, commentary, drownings, and a nude model on a church altar. Seriously. Works by Steve Pomberg and Marshall Avett. Edition of 50. First 25 copies come with CD featuring sounds by ZANDOSIS, WILSON & HEATH, FREEBASS, and M. AVETT (each labeled with a different adult female Halloween costume model). $5 per copy cdr or not.

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