My new tape Santé Et Efficacité is now available on the awesome Falt label.
Recorded in the summer of 2020, during a climate change heatwave & in quarantine with a Covid infection, these four songs deal with apocalyptic dread from a strictly personal perspective.

The title is borrowed from This Heat’s last EP Health and Efficiency.

Bottlefly Blues is a nod to the blue bottle fly (calliphora vomitoria), a species of fly that feeds on corpses and is used in forensics.
I Want To Be An Insect is the title of a sculpture made in 1960 by Leonora Carrington.
The World’s Curling Up Like An Autumn Leaf is a line lifted from Derek Jarman’s film The Last of England.
D’ailleurs, C’est Toujours Les Autreus Qui Meurent is the inscription on Marcel Duchamp’s tombstone.

Überlebenschancen (Chances of Survival) is a series of four new releases: sessions recorded live to C20 tapes without editing or overdubbing. Limited editions of one with collage cover-art. No time spent on the computer during the recording process.

James Main and me started a new project last year. Our first album Optimistic About Nothing was recorded in November 2022. We’re currently looking for a label that interested in giving these songs a physical from.

Shows will be announced in the near future.

L’Ombilic des Limbes – new song on a single sided 10“ lathe cut disc. Limited edition of 30, shipping starts on 01/23/2023.

Unpleasant Knowns – a five song C20 tape. Austere pop songs with a noise-infection. Limited edition of 15. Starts shipping on January 23rd.

Also available on the 23rd of January: The World Can Be As Sad As It Seems set (sticker and postcard in a Covid-test biohazard bag) and special merch package containing 10“ vinyl, tape, sticker, postcard and a hand made collage (limited edition of five).

During the past weeks some tracks I did got released on these compilations:

Released on November 25th, the third Rental Yields compilation by Front & Follow is now available. All songs are remixes, one artist ’steals‘ from another to generate ‚yields‘. The project raises money to tackle homelessness in Manchester. My contribution is a remix of the song Silent Night by Manchesters Opium Harlot, now titled Houses in Slow Motion.

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Out on Econore is Flag, featuring the song Fin du Monde, Fin du Mois (previously self released on the ‡ ‡ ‡ tape in 2021).

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Machina ad Noctem has released Landscapes and Emptiness: A Tribute to J. G. Ballard. 35 tracks by different artists, all inspired by the short stories and novels by the legendary Sci-Fi writer. My contribution draws on the 1974 novel Concrete Island. Using a recently acquired old Yamaha organ, I tried to evoke the feeling of being stranded on a median strip surrounded by motorways with only a stash of wine for sustenance.