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MONGOLBORD SURFINGTURD Newsletter 7Funky fresh greetings to thee, the fine people of the information intertubeway. We're having a lovely early spring here in Calgary, hanging out, drinking hot chocolate, and listening to some sweet sweet new music from a various friends.
Alejandro Mesa's
Amarok compositional project released their first collection Anosmian Flowershall last year, to wide-spread acclaim. We are proud to release their breathtaking second observation here, entitled Summertide Cyst - hinting perhaps at the record's darker nature.
Beyond that,
MGS return once again with LP #4, Clusters+Splinters, which is a veritable smorgasbord of avant musical styles, delicately/clumsily stitched/thrown together in the cold Albertan winter.
We hope that enjoy these exciting new records as much as we have.
May all that ye wish be thine, verily and with much haste,
Quentin Uderick Iain Phong
UPCOMING RELEASESbord38
Amarok – Summertide Cyst(2xLP/CD)
1. Obelus V (3:42)
2. The Seven Plow Oxen (7:09)
3. Dew Point (2:10)
4. Summer-Tied Sister (8:42)
5. The River Sweats Oil and Tar (5:26)
6. Caribou Mother (22:23)Just over a year ago, we were fortunate to work with Alejandro Mesa on his Amarok project, bringing together a group of musicians from across Alberta and wider Canada to perform his lengthy drone-oriented compositions.
Following that, Mesa has assembled another programme of material, drawing variously from likes of Theatre of Eternal Music, Sun Ra and Mare. There is a new emphasis on a gritty electric low end, but also an expansion of the raw vibrance on show in Mesa's own hammered dulcimer playing. This is dark and glacial jazz by way of Canadian First Nations and American folk traditions.
2xLP with hand-written graphic score extracts. CD digipack available. Download code with every copy.
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Mana Gunray Serpentine – IV: Clusters+Splinters(2xLP/CD)
Side A: CLUSTER
Cloud Cluster a Cardinal Sin/Chambered/Clouded Angelshark/Clustered/Cluster of Bears//And Bear This Cloud to Miss (21:31)
Side B: CLOUD
Cloud Cluster of Wind Pinned to the Card of Fine Art//Death Thorn Yo Blow a Fucking Horn Straight Into the Sky//Cumulonimbus Praecipitatio/"Tut-tut, it looks like rain..."//Cumulus Humilis/Morning Glory/Gathering//Bear a Cloud to Shroud the Clotted Clod Clapping Cloud/Cap a Cop/With a Club, in Jail/Tape a Rat Rape Tape a Tap to Prevent Leakage//Mammatocumuli/Card Shark Shard of Cork (20:29)
Side C: MAKO
Make a Mako Shark Park his Fat Ass Upon the Cloud of Life//Waiter Waiter, I Saw a Sawshark, he's Driving Me Nuts//Mako/Ovoviviparity/"... and we have been from the start"/Clustered Together for Warmth/Can of Tuna/Made out of Mana (19:48)
Side D: THORN
Arcus/Agony of a Starfish/An Anvil/Start of a Star War/Start of a Cartilaginous Fish/End of a Wishing Well/Stink of Seven Dead Skunks in a Crusty Cluster of Shit//And Bear This Thorn to Kiss//One Hundred Years of Sweet Poison Dreams From the Spindle that Pricked You (20:40)As you may know, I'm in this band. We've been working on this one for a while. We've split this record around four sides of vinyl, four connected but separated large-scale musical forms. Each side is in and of itself a complete musical exercise, though each also references the others.
On side A, we explore drone and long-tones, notes that are held and linger out into eternity. Side B develops this aesthetic into to its logical conclusion, developing into nebulous Pärt-inspired choral pieces. Side C is cut-up collage based music, composed in this way and then cut apart and re-edited back together. Side D dives deep into the murky realms of experimental black metal and then shoots back up to the surface for a light-filled mirror image of this aesthetic.
Also appearing throughout, guest vocalists from the wider Calgary region.
On 2xLP quad-fold, random colours. 2CD digipack also available. Art by Neil Gord. Download code with every copy.
CATALOGUEAll titles in print, unless otherwise specified
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Mana Gunray Serpentine – I: Montsalvat (2LP/CD)
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Mana Gunray Serpentine – 1.1 Ham (7”/CD)
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Mana Gunray Serpentine – 1.2 Ibis (7”/CD)
bord04:
Mana Gunray Serpentine – 1.3 Rust (7”/CD)
bord05:
Leopold Stokowski's Sports Jerkin - Hilarious Planetoids (CD)
bord06:
Strongarmed Colostomy Joe – Stamping Out Jingoism All Over the World (3LP/2CD)
bord07:
Ken West – Possible Hostage Situation (LP/CD)
bord08:
Krazee Kool Kong Donkey – People in Glass Houses Should Not Have Sex (CD)
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Mana Gunray Serpentine – II: Aux-Drawn & Quartz (2LP/CD)
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Mana Gunray Serpentine – 2.1 Ship (7”)
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Mana Gunray Serpentine – 2.2 Bastard/2.3 Bitch (12" EP)
bord12:
Child of Saturday – The Almighty Cod (CD)
bord13:
Krazee Unkool Serial Rapist – Sigh, Gurney Weaver (7”) LIMITED EDITION, SOLD OUT
bord14:
Lung! - Hail Ancestor (LP/CD)
bord15:
Cross Trumpet Express – The Beluga and the Dugong (2xLP)
bord16:
Plague Techtonics – Methereal (reissue) (LP/CD)
bord17:
Plague Techtonics – Urea (reissue) (LP/CD)
bord18:
Strongarmed Colostomy Joe – America is Probably Dying (2LP/CD)
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Mana Gunray Serpentine – Re: You (12” EP) LIMITED EDITION, SOLD OUT
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Plastik Oblong Orkestry – Sentinel Howard & the Annals of Punching (2xLP/CD)
bord21:
Lord High Empruss Celia the Fuckin' Lamp – Grapeshot (LP/CD)
bord22:
Ever the Aghast/Rodimus Prime – Beef Anchor (CDEP)
bord23:
Plague Techtonics - Void (reissue) (2xLP/CD)
bord24:
Plague Techtonics - Hornet (reissue) (2xLP/CD)
bord25:
Mana Gunray Serpentine - 3: Carnifex (2xLP/CD)
bord26:
The Only Significant Eyeball – A Fish For Which We Have No Name (2xDVD)
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Plague Techtonics – Plaque (7"/mini CD) LIMITED EDITION, SOLD OUT
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Mana Gunray Serpentine – 3.1: Sleep (7")
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Lord High Empruss Ceila the Fuckin' Lamp – Taiga (3xLP/CD)
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Various - Label Compilation #1: Shield-Eaters and World Leaders Have Many Likes Alike (CD) HALF-PRICE
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Plague Techtonics – Ferrum (2xLP/CD)
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Plastick Oblong Orkestry – The Crawdad Takes Command (2xLP/CD)
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Avuncular Orbital Ape - Man is in House, Man is Looking in Mirror/Man is Removing His Own Face With Knife (EP/CD) LIMITED EDITION, SOLD OUT
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Amarok - Anosmian Flowershawl (2xLP/CD)
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Temple Lantern Caravel – Pass Into Night (2xLP/CD)
bord36:
Uethröt – Situationists of the Future Will Dance on Your Grave (2xLP/CD)
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Trapped Giraffago Gun Fayre - (Please Help Me I am Trapped at the) Trapped Giraffago Gun Fayre (LP/CD)
PRICINGUnless otherwise specified
CANADIAN DOLLARS
7" = $10
EP/LP (12")= $15
2xLP = $25
CD = $10
2CD = $15
2DVD = $15
All releases (except vinyl-only limited editions) now come with download codes for 320kbps mp3.
Edited by user 13 March 2012 22:27:36(UTC)
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