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

Wilgira

Been awhile since I did a friend of the show post. My old buddy Keif, from WALTZ BOP SHOP was in a very cool band after our break-up. Wilgira allowed Keif to go more out than WALTZ ever went. Just saw that their stuff is on bandcamp. Check it out.

 

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

Sister Black Lagoon

First it was the The Sisters Doom, now Sister Black Lagoon. More from the fertile roots of the Las Cruces, NM music scene circa the mid 1980's Raul, from AOS and his long time collaborator Alex have let their first EP as Sister Black Lagoon drop. Since fishy love was all the rage at the Oscars...it is time for you to give it a try yourself.

Sisters Doom; Dynamo Stairs

Lots going on from the Las Cruces alumni this month.

First up is The Sisters Doom from Vague Choir leader Mark Earnest. Roots metal hitting all the right notes. Just straight up, balls out, rock. Buy it.  Next up two from Dynamo Stairs spanning 30 years of creativity. David Liso of Choke has been releasing music as Dynamo Stairs for 30 years. This month he has released new music and a great historical re-issue of his first release. This one includes unreleased tracks from 30 years ago and a pristine re-mastering of the original cassette release from 1988. And, impossible to ignore is a new plead for sanity from Dynamo Stairs with new songs in a well-practiced mode, Seasoned. Check it.

I-25 - various artists (1988)

An old buddy from Las Cruces just posted this compilation from 1988 on his Soundcloud. It includes AOS and a one-off project I was in called Ferdinand and Imelda's Ragtime Band (with Grant from Choke) Lots of variety from the spectrum of mid-eighties college underground styles and future members of Vague Choir, & Jonny Cats. Those of you who pay attention to posts here will recognize Gahenna Noy$ Choir, The Young Professionals, and Dynamo Stairs (still going strong almost 30 years later). Digitizing this has been on my to-do list for ages, so thanks to David Wheeler (of Studio 603) for this. 

Backyards: a film by Raul Dorn & Circle of Bears

Raul from AOS made this video for his son's band Circle of Bears. For more visual art from Raul go to http://matrixfineart.com/raul-dorn-2/  or https://www.oacgallery.com/artist/raul-dorn/. Sound and vision.

Out Standing Rock - Turqouiz Noiz - Sweat Lodge (2016)

The perfect soundtrack for your road trip to North Dakota. Punk rock. 

Vague Choir - Great Big Fight

The latest from Vague Choir. Vague Choir is headed up by now guitairist, and former Splayfeet drummer/frontman Mark Earnest and is at the center of the flourishing Reno, Nevada genreless genre scene. Check it out. 

Also check out Mark's cover of a couple of old AOS tracks here.

the door and the window-singing on the roof

From Bendle's garden...

 
Other stuff to sample

Dynamo Stairs - DImwit (2016)

The latest from the most active Choke alumnus. Tight.

Bandcamping

 Some nice stuff on bandcamp to take note of...

BenenC - Imagine That

Some six-year-old introspection. 

Welcome FunkFans - a madrotter joint

A new one from our friend the madrotter...
  More here: https://archive.org/details/MadrotterPenMalletMix

Dynamo Stairs - Art Direct

Dynamo Stairs has a new one out. Get it (name your price) on bandcamp. This one is a particularly nostalgic take on pop tropes from the last 30 years or so.
Dave is, of course, the main singer/song-writer from Choke.

Empathy Circuit (Oddeo Netwerx) featuring Psychic Enemies Network

After a short 15 year break, Psychic Enemies Network has a new song available as part of the 2015 Oddeo Netwerx release Empathy Circuit. Available at your favorite on-line music source as single tracks, or as a continuous ambient mix. 

You can listen here. 

And here's a video from the album.

Epic Deluxe Comix

This is D.I.Y. - stories, comix, epic.

Epic Deluxe Comix

Atlatl - Piano Finalist

Just noticed this one. Nice...and check out the photography. Damn.

Dynamo Stairs: Togetherness

A new one from the former choke frontman. A tribute of sorts...

Soundclouding: Clay Christopher Harris

I can honestly say my favorite musical experience ever was seeing Gehenna Noi$e Choir play in my living room back in the mid 1980's (see above). No better outsider music was ever made. Clay was one of the guitarists and the creative mass attractor. He's got a couple new things posted on soundcloud. Still raw and cool to my ear.

Vague Choir: Non-Ultra Joy

My old buddy Mark has a new record out.
This time with his group Vague Choir. 
Well worth your time.
 Check it out.
And here's Mark as a youngster (he's the one on drums).