DARKSMITH - Poverty Of Will (Booklet/CDr)

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Delighted to announce the sixth installment in Chocolate Monks Lunk Headed Library Series is by non other than west coast tape mangler Darksmith.
My Seymour Glass of Bananafish magazine has this to say

"With many of Darksmith recordings, one’s imagination doesn’t immediately conjure a person creating or manipulating sound, but rather drifts toward visions of depopulated areas getting damaged by alien weather events – choked by toxic dust, pelted by freeze-dried rocks of ooze, ruptured by shrieking subterranean trauma. Human agency, when its presence is unmistakable, occupies a position of forced abandonment, like cinematic ghosts unwilling to quit the material plane or an individual dehumanized by efficient banality. Through grit-flecked remnants of grainy field recordings from environs luscious and bleak; weighed down by cackles and croaks blurred by humidity and contact mics; tangled in rusted-over playgrounds dominated by geese and tumors; molested by magnetic tape instability, truncated fidelity, and corrupted modulation fur. As the companion book demonstrates, the lad has an eye for evoking from bland and wholesome portraiture the incipient horror unknowingly embedded within. Darksmith’s stark, high-contrast line art dispenses with gradation, a nice echo of the flatness of the subjects lives immortalized by disposable time-killing entertainment magazines ubiquitous throughout medical waiting rooms."
Edition of 60

we also have a few copies left of LHL #5 'Drool Freezers' by Evil Moisture (also booklet & disk) plus many other titles for your consideration over at http://chocolatemonk.co.uk/available.html

cheers
Dylan

[chocolate monk]

Black & White, 44 pages on 170gsm paper, stapled, 350gsm cover.