Hey everyone! hope the summer is treating you good!

Fantastic new Starving Weirdos release on the Blackest Rainbow label. it's an LP entitled 'B-P-M Series 1'. piano-bombs in the classic AVANT-WOW tradition. probably the most unique release coming from our camp yet. we recorded legendary BOP-PIANO player Darius Brotman and then used the recordings to create whole NEW compositions. we had one rule...ONLY the source recordings could be used to create the pieces...the wonderful graphic artist Mick Wiggins designed the cover and i have to say...not only is this release our most unique...it is the coolest cover we've had yet!!! fucking GREAT looking! thanks Mick!!! throw in the 180 gram vinyl and presto! one excellent release! look for copies soon at our store.

new mp3 up over at the sounds section 'Edge Of The Desert, Red Moon Rising'. new work, not quite finished but almost! wanted to give ya'll a taste of what we've been cookin'! also up is a cut from our 'Into An Energy' release, 'One White Candle, No Moon Night'.

europe trip is in the works! Staring Weirdos and the KILLER outfit Nudge...rollin' through the Netherlands/Germany in late Oct. and UK in early Nov...anyone out there know of any good places for us to play or help in that regard...shoot us an email!!!

talk soon!!!!!!!!

laters...........
sw
so for the past couple years i've been mastering all of the Starving Weirdos and SW-related projects...through mastering these many albums i've developed many unique methods and techniques for making music sound better and now i'm ready to offer my services to the world at large!

so if anyone out there wants that starving weirdos, wall-of-sound style please hit me up!

my rates are CHEAP!

20$ a track or every 5 minutes of material.

i'll def. make whatever you send me much better! and of course you'll be able to hear what i can do with the material before you have to pay me anything!

i can also give you a specific sound if you give me an example of what your looking for, otherwise i'll just make it RAD!!!

talk soon
brian
Out today!!!

hey ya'll

new Starving Weirdos CD on the most excellent Bo'Weavil Recordings imprint.

official release date is may 12th...today...so fucking stoked on this...can't wait for it to get out there!

we came back from europe so fucking charged up with ideas...we did our best to channel this energy/inspiration into these sessions...and i think(hopefully) it comes across on the album.

needless to say we are honored to be working with Bo'Weavil and just so godamn-excited about this release.

fuck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

copies for sale at our store!

here's a nice description of the work.

When Merrick McKinlay and Brian Pyle played me the master tapes for this CD, I can't say I was surprised. These eight new pieces bore all the hallmarks of Starving Weirdos' greatest work: the dizzying mixture of instrumental sounds, electronics, and field recordings, the pointillistic attention to sonic detail, the duo's post-production technique, which achieves something like the aural equivalent of deep-focus photography. Yet there was something... different about this particular disc, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it. When I told 'em so, they just nodded and smiled in that aw-shucks manner of theirs. "That means we're doing something right," said Merrick. On Into an Energy the duo is joined by occasional collaborators Steve Lazar and Greg Devaney for the length of the record, and perhaps their chemistry together accounts for the elusive shift in focus heard on these cuts. But the group dynamic is a dodgy matter with these guys, unless you happen to catch one of their live performances (good luck with that!) You see, even though Starving Weirdos routinely break out the rain sticks, the horns, the hand drums, the gee-tars, or the cup-and-ball, at its core their art is a kind of deep-forest-ghetto-musique-concrète. You can never tell if what you're hearing is a real-time performance or a product of copious editing and overdubbing, whether those sounds emanated from tapes or from live instruments, whether it occurred in a tangible three-dimensional space or in a virtual sound-card reality. Most of the time, it's a combination of all these, and the results are profoundly transportive, disorienting. Yet while the Weirdos' song and album titles suggest an esoteric or spiritualist bent, their music is always reassuringly lucid, even earthy. Theirs is a mysticism grounded in the ordinary sounds of everyday life in their native Humboldt County, California, in the little ecstasies of common experience. At their best, Starving Weirdos achieve that, ahem, high romantic ideal: to make the familiar strange, and make the strange familiar, just as they do on this disc. --Acapulco Rodríguez New York, NY .


new releases!

hey all

got 5 new releases out and we are stoked!

our epic collab with the artists Wilhelm Sasnal & Roman Dziadkiewicz for the EN/OF series has been unleashed---STOKED!!! the art is so goddamn GREAT and the record ain't half-bad either! more info here

http://www.bottrop-boy.com/?page=842496

couple of stellar tapes are out in the ether as well---an acoustic guitar meltdown jam 'Today is The Clearest Stream' on Blackest Rainbow and our FREE-JAZZ type explosion shit 'Spirit Activity' on Root Strata---both of em sound fucking awesome!!! look for copies soon over at our proper website.

also we have our first full-length LP 'Blue Herons' on the GREAT NY-based imprint OESB. more of our sound-sculpture-type stuff on this LP. with a most fantastic design and art from the great nate(mouthus, RK, much more)---go track it down!

and last but not least is a cassette release on new belgium imprint 'Taping Policies'

http://www.tapingpolicies.be/releases.html

the above link will give you all the gory details---it's a one-sided cassette recorded live in Brussels last fall---great recording and super-document in terms of really being able to hear the set we toured europe with last fall.

talk soon
sw
what a fucking trip!!!

we met so many great people and made so many new friends, words really do fail how fucking rad our tour was. epic inspiration.

UK leg
MASSIVE thanks to chris and claire over at UpsetTheRythym for our 2 London affairs.
to ian, tom, and darius for our brighton gig, to Ruaraidh in glasgow for all his radness and to Amos, Hannah and Toby for opening their home to us and really making us feel right at home! and to claude at europecar for teaching us patience. and we can't forget Marek, the raddest SW fan on the planet!!!

the continent leg
to Eric in Arras, an amazing guy and host, to Koen for Hasselt and a warm bed in Antwerp, to Sjak and Ari for our tilburg romp and the ZXZW crew for treating us well, to maurice for everything(haarlem had the best baked goods), to the Occii crew in amsterdam, to Kendall(steepest staircase in the history of staircases), to VPRO for doing us right(barry, fucking awesome guy), to manual and Helbaard in Den Haag for our favorite space on tour(a squatted church!!!), to nico for his hosting powers, to the lodgement crew in antwerp(liva and phillip!!!), and to the Kraak heads for an amazing show in brussels.

huge thanks to all the bands that performed with us and to everyone we met and helped us along.

see ya'll in may!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

deepest love,
Brian, Merrick, Steve, Gregg, and Phoenix(sw road crew)
Hey folks!
Our 7" 'Absolute Freedom' is now available in our store---only got a few left!

euro tour news soon!
wellwellwell!

our 7" landed last month and we couldn't be happier!!! 'Absolute Freedom' on the outstanding Abandon Ship imprint.

Look for copies in our store very soon!

Gearing up for our european vacation, fucking stoked!

Hopefully we'll be able to catch some full-on spectacle style football!

Been a KILLER summer---had an insano Solstice Party here in Manila---full-on driveway/porch explosion, complete with lightning storm! Look for the VHS release of the JAM in the following months! Met so many awesome people! Great time!!!

EPIC sw remix disc is almost finished with remixes from Ramesis III, White Rainbow, VALET, MV, Cloaks, Mr. Dorgan, To Live and Shave in LA---RAD!

LP'S dropping soon!

big thanks to roger over at musiquemachine for the 'Sudden Fear' dvd review---dig

http://www.musiquemachine.com/articles/articles_template.php?id=126

more news

Ensemble Economique(brian pyle solo) CD coming soon on digitalis.

SW root strata TAPE!
SW cd 'Pretense To Destroy' on Students Of Decay

more SOON!
bit of a heavy december but with the new year comes all sorts of great shit namely our cd for Bottrop-Boy 'Summon With Electronic Sorcery'!!!! don't have any copies for sale but jam over to AQ and they'll get you sorted. Also in the works and coming out soon is a 7" for the Abandon Ship imprint---crazy 7"---deconstructed punk, vocals! and an absolutely wailing zorna---can't for ya'll to hear this---some of these sounds are just fucking nuts on a 7".

what else---snow down to 2000 feat! haven't jammed the snow boogie but we hit the dunes and it's almost just as good!!! year-round sledding!

killer show last month with David Daniell and local great Sahaja---got some stellar high-8 footage of the show---hopefully we'll transfer it soon and post it somewhere.

OESB LP coming
Root Strata cassette coming
EN/OF LP with Wilhelm Sasnal coming


dig the 'within the ashen glow of earth shine'(working title) mp3 over at the sounds page---sneak peak of the upcoming athiestaregods SW LP Brottman/McKinlay/Pyle
Dig this fucking great Cloaks review over at Foxy Digitalis. Spencer has set the bar high for future AthiestAreGods releases, great to read somebody else who recognizes this immense talent and the level of excellence displayed on 'A Crystal Skull In Peru'.

http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=2718
hey ya'll
cruise over to the wire website and dig on three exclusive mp3s we have up there.

here's a little extra info on the track Lust(a very different sounding SW track)

the title is actually "LUST 158" and was part of a
series i was doing- setting the words of fave authors
to music. this track was from LUST, words taken from
Elfiede Jelinek's book. all the words were taken from
particular pages in the book, hence the 158.

killer
very exciting update---starving weirdos have a feature in the sept. issue of WIRE!
stoked!!!

and some very exciting releases on the way

-LIVE CDR with Digitalis for the arroyo series

-CD w/ Bottrop-Boy 'SUMMON WITH ELECTRONIC SORCERY'

-LP w/ O.E.S.B.

-DVD-r w/ CutHands(chopped and screwed 30 minute gem from the classic noir film Sudden Fear)

-7" w/Abandon Ship

-LP for the EN/OF series

-couple Doubles on the fucking awesome Weird Forest imprint. one will be new work and the other a reissue of our JYRK CDR SELF-HYPNOSIS with an extra track

-cassette for our beloved Root Strata(our first release on this immortal format)

collabs.......

double cd bruiser---SW along with Ghosting, GMS, and Bonus---Students Of Decay and NotNotFun are releasing this one together.

SW w/ Tom Carter&Shawn McMillen LP w/ Ultra Eczema.

split LP with Jazzfinger for Curor Recordings.

gonna have a killer new website for our in-house label AthiestAreGods real soon!
we'll let you know when it's up.

still have copies from the third AAG release the very stellar Cloaks-A Crystal Skull In Peru.

and work has been started on AAG #4. a very rad collab. McKinlay/Brottman/Pyle---merrick and brian working with local piano god Darius Brottman---taking his piano workouts and giving them the 'treatment'.

oh yeah RV Paintings website will be completed soon as well. this closely related SW project has been very warmly recieved---stoked!!!

more news soon.
well perhaps a bit of an overreaction to our wire review but hey it was a hack job and i needed to get that shit out of my system and i felt as though the work should be defended, totally over it. big thanks to all the wonderfull emails we've recieved from many of you in support of Shrine---TOTAL RADNESS!!!

okokok enough review bullshit let's get down to why we're here---NEWS!!!

well the weirdos just returned from our first mini-tour and i have to say it was stellar!!! had an excellent show with xela and tarentel at the hemlock in the city and then we headed on to L.A. for the bottled smoke fest. it was RULING!!! we had the full-on lincoln boombox shrine in effect along with a couple of out-of-town weirdos whom we never get to play with---it was one of our all-time favorite sets. so many great people and excellent music at bottled smoke we really had a great time---thank you so much to everyone who helped out with this trip and all the bands that played at bottled smoke---and a massive thanks to Jefre over at root strata---such a bro and largely responsible for turning many of you on to our sound.

here's the links to a couple of excerpts of our set.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2hwrzN0RRs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HFme9g6IJE&mode=related&search=


also wanted to correct a statement from the previous post. we don't have 10 more releases coming out this year, we have 10 more releases coming out in the next year (12 month span) and for the record we've only had 3 releases this first half of 2007 with one of them being a very limited one-sided LP(we have a couple left in our store!) but yeah lots of stuff coming up---we'll post an update soon with more info.

RAD!!!
what an awesome review!!! nick cain really knows his shit!!!

after describing the last track he goes on to say "the remainder fecklessly overemphasis derivative noise-drone guitar" the only guitar on the entire album is the opening track about 10 minutes!!! and i'd be curious what it's derivative of. the other 25 minutes has no guitar. i guess it would sound like derivative noise drone-guitar if there was an actual guitar being noisily derivative!!! he gives the album such a passive listen he's not even sure what he's listening to so he resorts to some flippant, bullshit description---well done!!!

he continues with his description of the title track "field recordings of waves lapping on a shore and seagulls are barely distinguishable from Ambient cliche" this guy's ears are fucked, such a lazy listen. waves lapping on a shore and seagulls are where we live!!! i guess that's ambient cliche when used in a composition. no mention at all of it's compositional elements or it's construction or the other sounds involved. as if you hear sounds like this used in this manner all the time!!! please show me an example!!! so lazy.

if your going to critique something why not put in the time to give an honest critique. then you could rip the album to shreds, totally destroy it...instead of this bullshit.

to be fair i can totally picture it. it's late at night your hella stoned i'm talking hel-la you got a stack of cds in front of you waiting to be listened to your tired it's been a long day you pop in the weirdos shrine album and your like "oh fuck not this bullshit and this lame fucking band name no way!!!" but then the last track starts and your all settled in and your like "this shit's not tooooo bad, it's actually pretty good fuck it."


well get bummed!!! we got 10 more releases coming out this year for you to wipe your ass with.
bunch of new stuff

U-Sound cdr---vol.30
SPLIT CDR WITH INCA ORE/LEMON BEAR
AUDIOBOT cdr---WITH ALL THE THE HUES OF THE RAINBOW
AZUL DISCOGRAPHICA CD---FATHER GURU
ROOT STRATA ONE-SIDED LP---HARRY SMITH
ROOT STRATA CD---SHRINE OF THE POST HYPNOTIC.
killer

coming soon to our store---killer split with us and inca ore/lemon bear---total radness abounds on this one---a heady blend of both the light and the heavy.
rad new photos courtesy of dan & dana
our humbodlt photo experts
hey everyone this is some unrelated sw news but i feel compelled to write a little something---this past week i lost someone very special to me and it's been fucking hard---to anyone out there reading this who is dealing with some major tragedy don't close yourself in---let the sadness envelope you and cry like hell---LET IT OUT!!!---don't let your heart harden---life is so fucking precious and every moment is a gift---tell whoever you love you love em and hold em tight.

love
brian
hey everyone---our first "real" cd FATHER GURU is out on the rad new imprint Azul Discografica---should be available in our store and other places soon.
For those of you who have heard our previous work prepare yourselves for a very different type of sw experience as this cd features a whole new side of our sound yet to be heard.

killer
s...

Eastern Light Reissue

11-14-2006

hey folks the eastern light double is back so jam over to the store and get yourself a copy---we only got 20 of em.

killer

dig this clip

10-24-2006

sw w/tom carter&shawn mcmillen at the accident gallery in eureka
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