drone
Skrow033
Bukkake Earlobe - Wide Asleep in a Den of Bees
A relatively succinct ode to our flying swarming f(r)iends, for which the adjective “spooky” insistently presents itself despite the unwanted and incorrigible Scooby Doo connotation on the word.
Nonetheless, bathe in the sweet, dark honeys of our discontent within the hive of drones hypnotic and insecure. Feed yourself to the queen.
Tracklisting:
- Wide Asleep in a Den of Bees (10:45)
Skrow032
Guitar Bastard - In the View of the Mind's Eye
Hypnotic buzz and swirling ghostly tones, a vortex of haunting sound for one to fall into. One extended guitar-based soundscape from the aptly named Skrow! newcomer, known in other circles as shawn phase of temp sound solutions, who had this to say about the work:
“27 minutes of prepared guitar by yours truly. steinbererish koa/graphite into behringer v-amp2, operating table, fan/duster recorded/postrecorded directly to sony tc-570 3 head reel to reel and digital hdd simultaneously. monitored and recorded in stereo using univox/lafayette 80 watt quadraphonic hifi stereo system and randall 150w amp ran to a 4×12″ speaker to simulate stereo effects.
thanks to sony, sanyo fans, the luthier that made my guitar, the skrow family for embracing my weirder side.”
Dark meditations for dark minds. Headphones required.
Tracklisting:
- In the View of the Mind’s Eye (27:00)
Skrow028
Ellipse - After the Sun
Ethereal sonorities in a shadowy berth, a meeting place for things both dark and light. Here are our dualities investigated, awash in colour and grey, claustrophobic in an infinite space: the locus of a soul.
Ellipse presents us with three pieces for electric guitar that are at times quietly introspective, and at others screaming at the heavens with fire and futility. Please adorn your ears and explore.
Tracklisting:
- Becoming Empyreal (18:22)
- The Immeasurable Breadth of Night (9:59)
- An Ocean Upon Us (23:17)
Skrow026
Ellipse / Saffron Slumber - Translucence
Awash in a ceaseless cloud of lost memories, reaching for light. We find ourselves in a sea of our own reckoning, clutching driftwood to our bared breasts, a subtle heat radiating from within that warms the cool mists around us. The atmosphere thickens, becomes as a gelatin which slows our existence and reflects us from within until, finally, we are encased in an unfrozen ice of our deepest fears and desires; static, yet internally vivified. We shatter into numberless shards, waltzing silently in scintillating bliss as we dissipate into the air. The cycle begins anew.
So it is that we present the first (and certainly not the last) split release from Skrow! fellows Ellipse and Saffron Slumber. It showcases arguably some of the greatest work of two fine artists of complimentary mentality and style while exploring a vast musical space of mystique and airy melancholia. Assume an appropriately fetal position and adorn your ears with a suitable binaural apparatus. Surround yourself in translucence, close your eyes and peer through.
Tracklisting:
- Ellipse - Drifting Endless Ethereal (11:33)
- Saffron Slumber - Viscosity (4:01)
- Saffron Slumber - Glass Variation (Silicon Dioxide) (5:46)
Skrow024
Bukkake Earlobe - Green Light, Motherfuckers
As proof of the adage “we only hurt the ones we love,” Bukkake Earlobe takes his friend Vito out to lunch but shoves him into traffic after they exit the restaurant. Where there once was a young man full of sound and musical ideas, joie de vivre, and beef lo mein, naught remains but a hideous smear of gore, twisted car parts, and partially digested soba. And yet, the modern artform that now decorates the nameless streets of this metaphorical city still resembles that which came before it, in a pseudo-neo-post-Surrealist kind of way.
In short: Vito brings the storms, the ‘Lobe brings the lightning rods. The masses scream for pause, but weathermen such as these see no red, like Bruce Willis in Color of Night. “Your traffic lights have no effect on us!” they shout in reply, careening through their craft heedless of the splattering of bodies and food, knowing full well that smearing themselves on the ground is all part of the process. Grab some headphones or crank those speakers and put your ear to the road. Hear the smear.
Tracklisting:
- How to Inject OxiClean (4:46)
- Compulsive Tupperware Party (3:33)
- Lunar Polygons (8:12)
- The Arsehole Capitalist (3:34)
- The Galaxy Got Me Drunk (6:07)
- Jackson’s Arm (5:11)
- Swinging a Steel Pipe at a Thundering Sky (9:09)
Skrow020
Bukkake Earlobe - Ixixix
Wavering wisps of warbling wash (I’m far too fond of alliteration), presented in honour of a calendrical anomaly the likes of which the vast majority of us shall not see again in our lifetimes. Primarily because we’re all going to die at the end of 2012 anyway, AMIRITE??? For the time being, however, enjoy your nine tracks totaling nine minutes and nine seconds of drone noise constructed of the word nine and named in roman numerals nine three times which equals twenty-seven and the sum of two and seven is in fact nine and today’s date is the ninth day of the ninth month of the supposed ninth year of the second millenium in the common era HOLY FUCK WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!~
Tracklisting:
- Programming a Dishwasher (1:04)
- Friendly Reminder (0:28)
- Egregious Spin Cycle Phenomena (1:23)
- Tezcatlipoca’s Revenge (1:51)
- Salo Goes to Primary School (1:58)
- Fractal Briefcase (0:54)
- Drive-by Shaving (0:24)
- Pardon the Mosquitos (0:23)
- Blame It on Yucatán (Maya Has Doomed Us All) (0:44)
Skrow005
Bukkake Earlobe - Tapemanipulator
Zounds! Sounds!
Digital deconstructions of old 2-track tape recordings of acoustic guitar by one Allen Thompson. Having been chopped, spliced, mangled, and all the other usual ‘Lobery, they become droning blasts of power noise with a melodic undercurrent. Play it loud and scare your neighbours.
Tracklisting:
- Rupturing Prunus Serrulata (5:56)
- Grumble of the Squonks (4:50)
- Eat a Bowl of Dicks (1:58)
- Darth Meatl (2:07)
- Monolithic Dominoes (5:53)
Skrow001
Bukkake Earlobe - Masturbatory Malfunction
A slew of disparate influences bring together this, the primal debut of Cleveland, Ohio’s own Bukkake Earlobe and the launch release of the fine burgeoning netlabel you see before you. Drones steeped in noise soak in harsh noise buried in drone while the occasional hint of melody pokes its head out of the roiling miasma to scream briefly for help before the cacophonous echoes of its own orgiastic dying throes obscure it forever.
Listening requirements: high volume, large speakers, open windows, lack of pants.
Tracklisting:
- Stroke My Cochlea (4:32)
- Metropolitan Foliage (7:13)
- Dreaming Insomnia (9:52)
- 遅く 爆発 する (4:25)
- Wake Up and Smell the Creampie (1:37)
- Porcine Carcass Festering on the Linoleum (14:50)
- Transcendent Realm of Trysting (8:35)