Some new Chocolate Monk releases for your consideration
choc.591 Grease Proof Kids - Frog Soil CDr
Another offering congealed and solidified from the amorphous GP Kids technicolour quasi-song noise deluge. Leeds oiks Hils (Yakkida!, Cowtown) and Theo (Territorial Gobbing) whittling cheapo keyboards, janky cassette loops, toys and bells into spontaneous slop-pop rituals while all singing together. Honky tonk country lurches, synth pop sweetness and mumbled abstraction all fed through the one tube into the one Tupperware.
"We're you're only friends, we're not your only friends, but we're little glowing friendd but we're not actually your friends, but we are." Numbered edition of 50
choc.592 False Face Society - At war With Windsor CDr
At War With Windsor is a collaboration between Hannah Walker (nee Salt) and Russell Walker (no relation) of Stevenage Road, Hitchin, inspired by cut up noise (NWW, Mixed Band Philanthropist, Gus Coma) and the British poetry revivial of the 1960s, as well as their own squalid and depraved domestic situation. Russell is a rock and roll singer and lyricist from Ruislip in Middlesex; Hannah is a self-taught artist from High Cross, Hertfordshire. Edition of 60
choc.593 Grey Windowpane- ABRACUJO CDr £5
"Abracujo was glued together with stream of consciousness poetry, field drip and mouldy lab manipulation. This compact disc is a part of a trilogy (the other two consisting of Barnie Bewail, a Film Soundtrack put out on cassette via the Half A Million/Belltower Records folks in Western, Massachusetts and the Churn Clockburner Ace cassette released by Torn Light out of Cincinnati, Ohio). ‘Cujo was recorded at Lincoln Shoppe and other parts of Brighton, UK then performed live (with visuals by Karen Constance) shortly thereafter at the Bees Mouth in Hove, UK early summer 2023. It’s alright, Satan’s calling you home." -Mazozma, Autumn 2023
Edition of 60
choc.594 Insect Factory - Nature CDr £5
Guitar and tape maestro Jeff Barsky wants you to talk to the trees. Talk to yourself when you’re around the trees. Let the sun devour you and bake your skin. Lie under the stars and let the constellations cool you down. Know that you belong to them. Percieve that the grass is even greener at night. Let the impossible light touch your internal organs. Peel off your old skin. And breathe. Again a little slower. Surrender to everything.
A few years in the making Nature is beautiful meditative throb of Frippy guitar and cassette scuttle that blossoms and stays ripe. Howard Stelzer contributes his ferric finery to a couple of tracks for added whumpf.
Numbered edition of 50
choc.595 Michael Ridge - Misc Loops #1-#3 CDr £5
The first three instalments in the Misc Loops series effortlessly compiled together onto CDr for the new decade. All three were originally released between 2017 – 2018 onto super limited and long unavailable cassette tapes, if you missed out on owning a physical copy now is finally the opportunity. Each one in the series exclusively utilises homemade/wobbly/crusty old tape loops that blend elements of field recordings with distorted and stretched spa/ambient music. Meditative loop exploration for drizzly late afternoons. All tracks were recorded in one take onto semi-functional and poorly maintained gear for that additional background noise, hiss, and distortion to bathe in. Edition of 60
As always you can hear samples HERE
The Chocolate Monk Top Ten Lists have been updated after a brief hiatus. More listage from lunks being added sporadically so keep checking back.
Some nice words about the lists from Marc Master in the Wire magazine this month too.
Thanks for looking. Aw the best ya bams
XDylan