FINGERLESS: 5:18 (AUSTRALIA 2011)

  

'5:18' is Fingerless’ debut release from 2011. The second album ‘Organ Control’ was released in 2012. The intervening years passed without comment. A new EP will be released soon.

 

""Hey Mr. Tambourine men play some backwards guitar for me." This would sum up Brisbane based Marc Cheeseman's music... partly. Good seventies influenced acid folk songs, where acid is the backward electric guitar, some reverbed flutes and soundeffects wrapped around great timeless bedroom folk music with some strong moments.” — Dying For Bad Music

“Two thumbs!” — J. Milgate

“I tried to listen to this on acid and all I could picture was your stupid face.” — M. Fresta

The 2011 album “5:18” is available here for free download:

https://fingerless.bandcamp.com/album/5-18

RECOMMENDED! 
Excellent dreamy psychedelic folk complete with some slide, some fuzz and some backward guitars, lots of reverb and far out vocals!
GET IT NOW!

Favourite tracks: The Dead Notes Edit and What's in Front

Moonwood - Aubade (CAN 2009)

MOONWOOD is an acid folk project by Canadian Jakob Rehlinger, who is also a member of the experimental noise trio NEW YAKI.

Aubade is a very fine improvised instrumental loose psychedelic folk record that creates an atmosphere of awe and mysticism.

Excellent!

Q: Where exactly are you from?

A: I am from Vancouver Island, British Columbia. But now I live in Toronto.

Q: Do you want your real name mentioned? If so: What is your real name?

A: My real name is Jakob Rehlinger.

Q: How recorded?

A: This album was recorded on a 16 track digital recorder in my living room. Though I suppose a lot of the actual "recording" was done within a looper pedal. Also because I was using the looper pedal to layer improviations live, each song only uses maybe four or five of the recorder's 16 tracks.

Q: When recorded?

A: Late spring of 2009, I believe.

Q: Who involved? Who played what?

A: I played all the instruments. This album is pretty acoustic guitar heavy.

Q: Any more releases? Any "official" releases?

A: I recorded 11 Moonwood CDs under the name Babel in 2007. The best of that material is collected on a Moonwood CD called "Forest Ghosts". That's also available through my label Arachnidiscs.

Q: Since when does this project exist?

A: This project evolved out of one of my other projects, Babel which I'd be working on since 1999. Babel started out as a sound-collage project with elements of minimalist composition. Eventually my interest in improvised psyche music started bleeding into that project until I decided a name change was in order to reflect the change in direction. Then Moonwood was born somewhere in 2008/09. - Ironically there's a new Babel CD coming out in the next month.

Q: Any previous bands worth mentioning?

A: Not previous bands but I'm currently in a trio called New Yaki with Stephen Wolf (Partli Cloudi) and Andrew MacGregor (Gown/The Bark Haze). Though we live in three distant cities and that makes it hard to be productive. A few different labels have put out cassettes by New Yaki.

Q: How'd you "label" your music? (I know... nobody wants to get labeled... bla bla bla...)

A: Psyche, free-psyche, improv, acid-folk. All the usual labels that apply to this kind of thing.

Q: Influences?

A: I have to admit I hear a lot of Six Organs of Admittance in this one. Though I'm not sure I'd ever say he's a a direct influence. The really early Pink Floyd (pre-Piper at the Gates of Dawn) is a big influence on everything I do. As is King Crimson. I suppose Espers, Pocahaunted, all the usual suspects. I really like a lot of the stuff on Digitalis.

Q: Website, Myspace?

A: http://www.reverbnation.com/moonwood - http://www.myspace.com/heavymoon - http:/www.arachnidiscs.wordpress.com

Q: Anything that you think is interesting, that you'd like to inform the blog readers about...

A: There's a new Moonwood album called "Coal Aberrations" which is almost ready. It features several other people for the first time. Ameen from Healthy Animal, Stephen and Andrew again. Cellos, horns and flutes, oh my. I'm pretty excited about it. It's the whole being greater than the sum of the parts thing. I'm fairly proud of "Aubade", but I think the new album is that much better because of everyone else's contributions.

Here is a video for hey judas, don't let me down from the new album "Coal Abberations":

- Oh one more thing: The physical release of "Aubade" comes with a DVD of Moonwood films.

MOONWOOD: Aubade (CAN 2009)

(mp3-zip, 6 tracks, 50 min, 69,8 MB)

Get it here or here or here!

The Altered States of the United Snakes (= AS*US) - American Hallucination (program one) + (program two: exiled from ohio) (USA 2009)

AS*US: American Hallucination (program one)

1. Colonial Hills

2. Went Away

3. Funny

4. Fuck You

5. Vegas Sweat

6. The Sunshine Space Explorer

Q: Where exactly are you from?

A: massillon, ohio

Q: Do you want your real names mentioned? If so: What are your real names?

A: (current):

davey highben*stay at home dad.

mat bisaro*father and grad student.

fred phening.(friend to industrial bakers)

adam smith. (Columbus Discount Records)

(has been through the years):

Greg Surrat*drums.guitars.keys.samples.

Lamont Bim Thomas*drums (Bassholes. This Moment in Black History)

Mike McKeegan*guitars.keys.

Chris Kaser*bass

Celeste Bicknell*voice

Kota Kakutani*drums (heavy johnson trio)

Dan Stanley*drums

Tom Derwint*guitars. (lost treasures of the underworld . com)

Adam Fleischer*guitars.keys.(swamp leather)

Dave Le Shock*bass.

with:

Jen Burton & Mark Van Fleet (face place)

Jon Chinn

Jim Shepard (V3)

Mike Rep Hummel.(the Quotas.Ego Summit)

Q: How recorded?

A: radio shack hand held. 2 track reel to reel. 4 track cass. 16. track one inch.

Q: When recorded?

A: 1989-2010

1. My Uncle Wayne 1989-1996 *(massillon, ohio./durham n.c.)

2. My Un*Kill Wayne 1997-2001*(columbus, ohio.)

3. The Hatchlings 2001*(PDX)

4. The United Snakes 2001-2008*(PDX/columbus, ohio.)

5. AS*US (the altered states of the united snakes)*(columbus, ohio.)

Q: Who involved? Who played what?

A: *see blog/ depends on line up.

Q: Any more releases?

A: !992. My Uncle Wayne "down with satan" 60min cass.1989-1992 spilt milk recordings.

1993. My Uncle Wayne "all dressed up with nowhere to go" 60 min. cass. spilt milk recordings

1994. My Uncle Wayne "1994" 30min. cass. spilt milk recordings

1995 My Uncle Wayne "duck kee sessions" unreleased.

1997 My Uncle Wayne " delusions of grandure (sic)" 7inch record. spilt milk recordings. 500 pressed

1999 My Uncle Wayne "Beat Hits" 7inch record. Seldom Scene Records. 500 pressed.

2001 My Uncle Wayne " Delusions of Grandure/Beat Hits" double seven inch. REDRESS RECORDS. 250 pressed

2003 The United Snakes. Executive Suites. cdr single. self released. 100 handmade copies.

2003-2009 The Altered States of the United Snakes.

have given away/sold/bribed into taking 1,279 handmade cdrs of various shapes and sizes.

2009-present: The Autistic Theater:

* a blog that features all the music worth sharing from all these years with all those peoples...

the names changed, yet the music was always the same, in spirit anyway...

2010 AS*US "I've been mad for quite some time now" 7inch record. TBA.

Q: How'd you "label" your music?

A: "outsider"

Q: Influences?

A: everything

Q: Website, myspace?

A:

http://autistictheater.blogspot.com

additional links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suckdog

http://mountainsofpaper.blogspot.com

http://wantwishlikedesireexpect.blogspot.com/

http://worldofwumme.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-uncle-wayne-beat-hits.html

http://smashintransistors.blogspot.com/search?q=the+altered+states+of+the+united+snakes

(answered by Davey Highben)

AS*US: American Hallucination (program two: exiled from ohio).

1. All I see is Chrome.

2. Fancy Lines.

3. tongue tied.

4. Phe*nix.

Amazing, hard to describe lofi experimental psych band. Mixture of many different elements and sounds – distorted country rock, noise, sound collages, experimental rock to name just a few. Somehow reminds me of the BUTTHOLE SURFERS...

"American Hallucination (program two: exiled from ohio)" is more in a grungey alternative noise rock style, while "American Hallucination (program one)" could be vaguely described as distorted country rock noise...

Has to be heard to believe!

Enjoy! And check out their website, if you like what you hear; lots of bizarre recordings can be downloaded here for free!

http://thealteredstatesoftheunitedsnakes.wordpress.com/

http://autistictheater.blogspot.com/

http://www.myspace.com/unitedsnakes

AS*US: American Hallucination

(program one and two) (USA 2009)

(mp3-zip, 5 tracks, 34 min, 38,3 MB)

Get 'em both here or here or here!