New London’s Michael Slyne joins us on the podcast this month. We talk about his hometown a bunch and the changes that have happened to the landscape of downtown and the town in general recently and over the years. We talk about Michael’s many projects / bands including most prominently Slyne & The Family Stoned.
MIchael Slyne at Redscroll
We talk about Michael’s show on WCNI (check it out!) and self-releasing records and his hopes for future releases and his recent trip to the UK. We talk about what we’re listening to and branch out in all directions. Give it a listen!
We’ve been working on this one for a while and it does not disappoint! A new record from CT’s spiritual cousins from Poughkeepsie, NY, Dissolve! We initially planned on doing a one sided cassette for a single long track. The band brought us 2 crushing and engaging works of force and finesse that are a never tiring 16+ and 20+ minutes each. We were so moved we decided there was no course, but to also offer it up on vinyl.
In addition to producing their usual brand of pissed-off Metal/Hardcore, the members of Dissolve have always dabbled in playing strange improvisational music. A few years back, the band started recording their rehearsals in an attempt to bring something tangible back from these sonic excursions into the far-out, deep space that they would travel to together. Burnt is the recorded artifact of these explorations and features two of Dissolve’s heaviest, and longest, songs ever.
DISSOLVE Burnt Back Cover image
“Shot Rocks” and “Eternal Sunshine” crush the listener with the brutal, down-tuned riffs and raving, street prophet vocals that people would expect from Dissolve, but then they also take a lot of unexpected twists and turns into blotter acid territory. The songs go deep into shadow realms of ambient whispers and electronic whirs that lead to gonzo guitar solos and bursts of noise. There’s a lot of wild sounds going on during these songs. Put on the good headphones, turn on, tune in, and drop out.
SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY!!! 9AM-7PM July 27, 2024
Flash 45 Sale featuring over 300 boxes of 7”s that have never been on the sales floor! We’re bringing out the tent to dig in the shade these thousands of 45s! Each one just 75cents! How many copies of Brass Bonanza may be hidden within!? 🐳
This month we talked on the podcast to Kane from Northern Void Records. We talk about what we’re listening to and quickly dive into how Kane developed his own music and metal fandom into a distribution operation and record label.
Kane of Northern Void Records holding a Nihil Invocation record
Kane dives into how he solicited releases and what he’d like to put out in the future – archival and new acts alike. We talk about his daily EMT life and veer off in a couple different pathways as well. Check it out!
Redscroll Records presents its very first jazz release!
Via Nicholas Serrambana: Trance Macabreis grateful for the opportunity to release their first vinyl statement with Redscroll Records. One track is available now onBandcamp along with digital and vinyl pre-order. Composer and bandleader Nicholas Serrambana plays fretless bass while joined by the ever urgent Wes Lewis on saxophone, the insightful Vigilance Brandon on brass, the uncanny Michael Larocca on drums, flute sorceress Autumn Asbridge, and Connecticut jazz pedagogue extraordinaire Noah Baerman on synth.
Vinyl comes out this Friday July 5.
This sextet reinvigorates the disenfranchised jazz fan through a punk theatricality and invites non-jazz listeners to enter the music without the dogma of genre. Though Trance Macabre presents compositions here, the presence of free improvisation is integral. Each of the four pieces here stretches out to prog rock lengths, but with both ample melodies and unscripted plateaus throughout. Those who are drawn in by the dissonant onset of the first song may find themselves surprised to discover the lyrical ballad that concludes side B. This record is for people who dare to recognize the singable in Cecil Taylor.
Trance Macabre Recording Session
Wes Lewis (saxophones)
Michael Larocca (drums)
Autumn Asbridge (flute)
Vigilance Brandon (brass)
Noah Baerman (keys)
Nicholas Serrambana (bass)
Artwork by Matthew Parks @amancalleddestruction
Mastered by John Miller
Pressed at Burlington Record Plant
this album is dedicated to the memory of Karim Rome April 7, 1993 – July 3, 2023
