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Catalogue - March 2008



Kin01   Kindling (zine, A5, 36pp)   Kin02 Terminal Moraine (cassette, C20)  
In house zine from ’96 featuring a lengthy postal discourse with Danny Butt (Crabstick, Rain, Flies Inside the Sun, Tanaka-Nixon Meeting). Also includes Mr Butt’s piece “half thoughts on the music of Eugene Carchesio whilst riding to the beach”.

out of print
Mysterious debut release of dense keyboard drone. The movement of plate tectonics.

“…sonic detritus hovers like flotsam…shifts mercurially between several short ‘themes’ all accumulating around a languid horizon pinned drone” – Jon Dale, Astronauts #3

out of print 		 
 
   
Kin03
Leighton Craig
Organ Notes (cassette, C15)
Kin04
 Eugene Carchesio / Leighton Craig (3"cdr)  
Keyboard miniatures weaving minimalist patterns amidst tone studies and distorted hymnals. Soft geometry with blurred edges.

“hazy minimal organ tones … feel-good mind-body static. Turn up loud and let it float.” – Eddie Flowers, Slippytown

out of print

reissued on The Rhizome Label
Organ tones collide and vibrate, sweeping the corners of a lofty gallery space. Improvised devotional melodies captured on glorious humming one-track. 2nd Edition.

“…stunning tone cathedrals using gently modulating organ/keyboards... echoes of Eno, Robert Wyatt (minus vocals), church music...” – Glenn Donaldson, Routes for War and Travel

$12
 
 
   
Kin05
Eugene Carchesio / Leighton Craig Community of Opposites (3"cdr)
Kin06
 Stuart Busby
Breathe (3"cdr)		  
Capital A ambient. 19 minute real time keyboard cycle dripped through a computer to produce crystalline electronic music. Delicate and hypnotic. Play at low volume.

“...awed reverence at the beauty of stasis.” – Jon Dale, The Wire

$12
Beautiful debut release of desolate effects-laden trumpet. Multi-tracked trumpet coils and echoes within a space expansive yet personal, mining the sound possibilities of breath with a deftly melodic touch. Fourth world shadings.

“Easily my favourite release of 2004 bar none...a beautiful muted work.” – Kami, Funhouse

$12
 
 
         
Kin07
D.N.E.
47 Songs Humans Shouldn’t Sing (dbl 3"cdr)		   Kin08 Eugene Carchesio / Leighton Craig
The Hunter Constellation Session (3"cdr)		  
Long overdue reissue of this self-released 1990 LP from Eugene Carchesio. The 47 ‘songs’ in this collection point in many directions - a suggestion of Ayler, a Chadbournesque styling, a No Wave propulsion… Beautifully recorded in 3 days on 4 tracks. The sum of these parts is truly a lost Australian classic.

coming soon 		 

Performed in the luminous presence of six paintings by the great Australian minimalist Robert Hunter. Keyboards, saxophone and violin entwine, exploring the resonance of space. Dissolve into whiteness.

Special numbered edn of 30 - scored and painted balsa wood insert.

$20

 
 
         
Kin09
Eugene Carchesio / Leighton Craig
Leaves (cdr) 		  Kin10 G55
1 (cdr)		  
Recorded in the backyard on a windy summer’s day. Human sound cedes to the environmental symphony. The defining moment of this duo’s ambient work. Edn of 30.

“an organic exorcism of the trees…the music of the earth....” – Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis.

out of print
reissued on cd by naturestrip
   New boy band featuring three renegade Lost Domain pin ups. A healthy brew of kraut beats and no wave primitivism mixed with a dash of “I can play louder” hijinks. Mr Ellaby’s string action and amp smoke will rekindle the flame for more than one retired air guitarist. Keeping the faith.

out of print		  
 
         
Kin11
Fractions
Barometer (3"cdr)		   Kin12 G55
2 (cdr)		  

Deep water sonar explorations from Mssrs Busby and Craig, recorded in a house perched over the ocean on a rainy weekend at the beach. Trumpet loops and synth gurgle garnished with micro scrapings of rock and shell collected on walks around the headland.

“Deep gurgling sound explorations reminiscent of This Heat at times amid sunbursts of gentle repetitive instrumentals.” - Gayle Brogan, Melody Bar

$12
  Northgate’s favourite sons return with casiotone beats propelling saxophone/gtr duals. Features bar mitzvah tunes, an ecstatic blow-out, two-note pile-drivers and the dancefloor hit “2.6”.

out of print		  
 
         
Kin13
Eugene Carchesio
Garden of Souls (3"cdr)		   Kin14 The Deadnotes
The Deadnotes (cdr)		  
Mr E’s most recent recording and his first ‘available’ work since the landmark DNE LP released in 1990. Garden of Souls seamlessly melds his recent explorations of percussion and electronic sound in a typically playful suite of organic and minimal compositions. Another small but precious drop in the pond.

$12 		    The Deadnotes are Eugene Carchesio, Leighton Craig and Stuart Busby. They enjoy playing two notes on three instruments for one minute…and are partial to a good pasta.

“Fabulously jerky bursts of jagged guitar, drums and trumpet - imagine if Maher Shalal Hash Baz tried to make mariachi music with only half their band members. Other tracks recall Morricone in miniature. Rough and utterly great - actually, post-punk mariachi ain't a bad idea!” – Gayle Brogan, Melody Bar

$15 		 
 
         
Kin 15 Stuart Busby
Radiance and Decay (cdr)		   Kin 16 The Deadnotes
Live (cdr)




This fourth solo release features our man kayaking deep into the Tasmanian wilderness with his pocket trumpet to commune on the banks of the Arthur River with feathered brethren. Elsewhere, field recordings of native bees and fencing wire comfortably neighbour short unaccompanied trumpet melodies, soaring keyboard works, ukulele and xylophone. There is an emerging playfulness to this work which complements the swooning ambient explorations that have become the Busby trademark. Essential.

$15

   Recorded live in Bellas Milani Gallery in December 2007 as a tribute to Mr. Peter Bellas. With the BBQ in action on the street outside, the band rips through a rough-cut set of party favourites, from the 20 second hit “Gigantor” to the epic tone battle “Moods”.

$15