Bendle - compost - a slim book of lies (2023)

Friend of the show Bendle has a new book out:  compost - a slim book of lies

He describes it as "stories, poems, lies." 

I am still very proud of the music we did together back in the day 

You can check that out as well - this one is my favorite 

Putting the links for other music below, for your convenience. 

You can, of course, browse through the pages for artists. 

aboombong: apophenia

aboombong: asynartetic

aboombong: AGNOSIS
ABOOMBONG: articulations

ABOOMBONG: Aprhonesis
ABOOMBONG: adumbral

ABOOMBONG: anaphora

ABOOMBONG: atrophic

ABOOMBONG: admixture

ABOOMBONG: amnemonic
ABOOMBONG: asynchronic
ABOOMBONG: aboombong

Boom Dispenser: A Chronic Groove Feeder

dustdevil & crow: accidental music

dustdevil & crow : .​.​.​and chuang tzu dreamed that he was me
dustdevil & crow: while speaking softly you can hear the insects sing
ABOOMBONG (w/ dustdevil & crow): Taking Blue Mountain by Stages

AZWARM: shelter
AZWARM: a morning's work

¡para!helion: Midaq Alley
¡para!helion: 3 Miles From Mecca
¡para!helion: >3
¡para!helion: When Technology Fails
¡para!helion: Harpers Bizarre Film Festival
Icastico: The-ambient-Sundae bar
Icastico: Étude for Six Mirrored Hands

Blotter: Once and Again - Minus Four - in Stereono
Blotter: Sludge the Butcher
Blotter: Songs for Mommy
DJJ: Throw it out there, not away

Psychic Enemies Network: Valis (with bonus tracks)
Psychic Enemies Network: P.E.N. (with bonus tracks)

Punk; No-wave; Post-punk, etc.
Thorn: solace of noise

Waltz Bop Shop: All My Idears are Flawed in Sum Way + Quartet
Waltz Bop Shop: Name Dropping at Angela's and Melting
Waltz Bop Shop: All my idears are played live today
Waltz Bop Shop: A whisper in the airwaves

The Jonny Cats: Last- Ode to Sergio
The Johnny Cats: Burns Rubber 7"
Swayback: Outer Space Tonight

AOS: Rip It up! + live tracks
AOS: live and Raw in the Pit also (some cleaned-up live tracks)
Shoegaze; Rock; etc.
Choke: Choke (e.p.)
Choke: Hard to Swallow
Choke: Gauze/Total Reverence
[redacted]: left blank
Super Naam: two rough cuts

Alastair Galbraith

New Zealand's Alastair Galbraith is, to my mind, a singular musical voice that everyone should know - sadly few do. The first album I heard by him was mirrorwork. It changed the way I thought about the concept of "song" in ways that I can't really express. It is now available along with some of his other works at Bandcamp.

To my taste, the 2008 album Orb is, next to mirrorwork, the stand out from the four available on bandcamp.



But you really can't go wrong with anything that Galbraith has been involved with. If you can track it down his work with Plagal Grind is particularly nice.



Being immersed in Galbraith's works was a huge player in my being able to contribute in a small way to the Dustdevil & Crow records, which are really some of the work I am most proud of. Bendle's work is tilted on a different axis than Galbraith's, but they share some strange orthogonal relationship to each other and the rest of the musical world.

bendle - jesus

One of my favorite new releases, a little tune called jesus is from a great friend here at pen & mallet. The main instigator behind dustdevil & crow, bendle has been doing his own thing musically since the late seventies (e.g., the door and the window and The 49 Americans and many, many other projects you can check out at his bandcamp page). This one is a collaboration with rob tarana and has been in heavy rotation since I downloaded it.

aboombong: Fez Dispenser, DUSTdevil & Crow

This is just a quick note to pass along some aboombong news. The response to the latest, asynchronic, has been really great. Keep spreading the word. Aboombong and Fez Dispenser are working on a remix project that will be out later this year on Skin & Barrel Music. And I am currently working with DUSTdevil & Crow on some tracks for their latest project. If you haven't heard their last one, check it out here. One-half of DUSTdevil & Crow, bendle, has just put his latest up on bandcamp for your listening pleasure...check it out below.