IMPORTANT SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENT: 2012. folkwaste will be out of operation for a little while. Why? I'm packing everything into my car and leaving my little island on the Canadian west coast. I'll probably end up living on a farm in Ontario. In the meantime please keep in touch. write me an email... and let me just say I feel blessed for all the wonderful artists I've had the pleasure of releasing music for and those artists that I have met and planned to do something with in the future.

See you on the other side!

Book of Shadows - "secret garden" deluxe - cdr

020

Sleepers awaken to a limited deluxe edition of this seminal work by the otherworldly Book of Shadows. Carlton Crutcher remastered the original tapes with a newly printed cover in golden ink with special new inner art and textured paper. Sounds, looks and feels better than ever.

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"Medicinal plants, strange berries, thick pollen, and brown dirt. Hailing from Texas, the Book of Shadows live in the soil trodden on by Jandek and Charalambides, sprouting from those voices, those guitar sounds. This secretgarden will grow on you, it's roots will envelope you, it's beauty overwelm you. Alternating between composition and improvisation the guitars echo down like the rain, drones warm the ground, thorny notes scrape up against the fragile skin of Sharon Crutcher's voice. Water your minds, shine from behind your eyes."

Limited to 42 copies. Send $8 for US or Canada or $9 for Rest of World : send paypal to individual6079 {at} yahoo {dot} com.

The Ghost and Swift Moths - "moon scooter" - cdr

019

When cosmic rays intersect with human tissue, some turn to stone others ablaze. The Ghost and Swift Moths gave us a taste of the cosmic truth on a much loved cassette way back when (see collage tape series volume 1), and return with a full length trip. Captain Jason Zenmoth ignites rockets, with Carlton Crutcher (Book of Shadows) orbiting from time to time. An alternate reality where Apollo’s crew Neil and Buzz are replaced by Lanois and Eno. As air supply runs low, they take one last ride on the Moon Scooter to the edge of the dark side. In zero gravity the brain partially separates from the physical body making mind expansion a total understatement.

Limited edition of 40. Hand made prints on recycled NASA dossier envelopes, sealed in twine, hand numbered, classified documents concealed within. Please send $7 for US or Canada or $8 for Rest of World : send paypal to individual6079 {at} yahoo {dot} com.

Summer Amp - "torch of the mistakes" - 7 inch

018

Burn holes in flannel work shirts, beer stains on Turkish rugs. Drifting feedback, clattering Hairy Partch rhythms, drowned surf guitars, sounds fall and bleed into one another, towards a cohesive, intoxicated whole. White light, bright beginnings indeed as summer amp's debut 7 inch crash lands getting the party stopped. Future letters from this nation's saving revelation... so good. Special limited edition of 100, thick vinyl pressing, cardboard covers all hand collaged front and back, each one unique, for a complete gallery check out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/folkwaste/

Choose your favorite (more coming soon), list an alternate just in case. Send $7 in north America, $9 rest of the world. Paypal to: individual6079 ((at)) yahoo ((dot)) com

Je Suis le Petit Chevalier / David Payne - split cassette

Volume 4 of the collaged cassette series:

Je Suis le Petit Chevalier: washed upon desertshores, abstractions of once familiar moments, impressions of naked bodies, tragic heroes in the seaweed, electronic impulses or psychic miscommunications? The distances are too great. Too many days on the road. I need to clear my head. My blurred consciousness awakens, staring past the burning sun and into a stranger's eyes. Did I say that out loud? Did we actually have this conversation or did I just dream it? (see also: feliciaatkinson.be)

David Payne: Fossils crushed into dust, distilled into it's purest form, no overdubs, no effects, no residue. Are these severe abstractions or disorientation by rare clarity? Basements dug into a bone filled ground. A lonely metal machine grinds out music, scraping it's way past the ghostly clouds of Steeltown's dark legacy. Confusing times indeed. SOLD OUT!

Limited edition of 18, hand numbered, eyeball tapes, collaged wooden popsicle stick covers. Each one beautifully unique. Please send $7 in North America or $9 for rest of the world... paypal to individual6079 {at} yahoo {dot} com

Andy Futreal / Moonwood - split cassette

Volume 3 of the collage cassette series:
Side A - Andy Futreal: Returning from Asian travels, Futreal combines a mysterious smoke blown through wooden flutes. Perhaps the malaria medication is giving us these intense dreams. Side effects merge into effect pedals, rivers of bicycles flowing through market streets, dodging cattle, their bells ringing in time with the chimes of metal hammered into unrecognizable tools.
Side B - Moonwood: Towers of Babel fall. The god of Reverb bears a human child. Meditation as medication. Religious experiences are discarded in favor of deep soul searching. Doors fly open as an organ signals new moonwood. Transcendental floss.

Limited edition of 18, hand numbered and painted cassettes. Collaged envelopes with storybook insert. each one unique. Sold out!!

Book of Shadows / Vishnu Woods - split cassette

Volume two of the folkwaste collage cassettes series:

Side A - Book of Shadows - "the initiate" - these unspeakably amazing and mysterious artists deliver here a sprawling side long track drawing out "...a particle of that infinite Beauty and Happiness latent in the mind..." like buzzing bees called out from the reverb depths, through a deep woods bass, and into flowering field of abstracted voices - full of grace, slick like honeyslides.


Side B - Vishnu Woods - "Nico teen" - a swirling mix of a decaying piano, vintage synth and harmonium. While VW's last release "Riley Rile" was a taste of the sugar cube of psych drone chant - this is a full dose. Three other tracks round out this desertshore, invoking everything from John Cale to John Carpenter and inbetween.

Super limited edition of 19 - handmade paper design, collaged innards, cassettes are hand painted and numbered, bound in twine - each one unique. SOLD OUT!!

New Yaki / Ghost and Swift Moths - split cassette

Volume one of folkwaste's collage cassettes series:

Side A - features the heavyweight meandering of New Yaki - four tracks to obliterate minds and expectations. Mostly recorded during an snowstorm at Gown's asbestos covered house in Nova Scotia. Some of their best since their ikuissus split cassette with the last night on earth. A long distance relationship can be pretty rewarding sometimes.

Side B - is "The Ghost and Swift Moths" the great new project of Jason Zenmoth. Collaborating here with Book of Shadows mainman Carlton Crutcher on the epic "Mind Alligned" - more excellent recordings to come from this psychic searcher. Reminding you that Eno is an effective antacid.

Super limited edition of 25 - book and vintage library card design, collaged, stamped and painted - each one unique... SOLD OUT!!

FOSSILS - good fridays - CDr

13

As the organic matter of Lou Reed, John Cage and Pierre Henry decay in the a sheath of heavy molten rock, minerals replace their fragile bodies and slowly change into Fossils. Recorded in late night duos and trios by Payne, Farr and Smith, Fossils reveal themselves as solid and delicate formations. Overdue from a million years ago. Awaking in a ditch between the cracked pavement and the musique concrete barriers after a long lost weekend. Good fried daze. How would you like your eggs? Intricately housed in torn OBI, vintage library card packaging. Limited edition of 39. SOLD OUT!!

PARTLI CLOUDI - rotten wood - CDr

12

Immigration problems plague these bedroom psych four trackers from leaving the house making spirit tape the medium for their blissful astral communication. Partli cloudi channel lustful demons and inner gods, focussing lower chakras to attract worshippers. Strange strings, odd percussion, smoky chanting, weird vibes. Looping delay pedals prove past, present and future no longer have meaning. No leaves were left unburned. Favorite things left unheard. 14 tracks. Limited edition of 25, with burnt wooden cloud sleeves. SOLD OUT!!!

Book of Shadows "secretgarden" - Cdr

11

Medicinal plants, strange berries, thick pollen, and brown dirt. Hailing from Texas, the Book of Shadows live in the soil trodden on by Jandek and Charalambides, sprouting from those voices, those guitar sounds. This secretgarden will grow on you, it's roots will envelope you, it's beauty overwelm you. Alternating between composition and improvisation the guitars echo down like the rain, drones warm the ground, thorny notes scrape up against the fragile skin of Sharon Crutcher's voice. Water your minds, shine from behind your eyes. Block printed book style packaging, limited to 55 copies. SOLD OUT new limited edition coming in 2010!!

various - Pins of Light resurrected - CDr

10
I figured we would have burnt up in the sun or at least fried our minds by now, but never thought we'd still be here to celebrate our tenth folkwaste release with this new compilation. Originally put out in scant quantities, totally undistributed and out of print before this website even existed, the very first "Pins of Light" compliation attempted to re-create the much beloved and/or much hated radio show of the same name. This time some new favorite artists to contributed, built on the foundation of tracks from the first incarnation, and reworked into this crazy psych drone MONSTER. Resurections and recollections. Reincarnations and zombies. Exclusive new tracks from Archers by the Sea, Enfer Boreal, Strongly Imploded, Newyaki, Vishnu Woods, imps, partli cloudi and an excerpt from the on-air VxPxC performance. Plus vintage maddness from Starving Weirdos, Shearing Pinx, and VxPxC. Super limited to 49 copies, mindburning art and third eye 3D glasses!
SOLD OUT!!! Track listing 1. archers of the sea "the lines in our eyes", 2. new yaki "broken feathers", 3. enfer boreal "untitled" 4. vishnu woods "two moron ever nose" 5. vxpxc "walking to shore" 6. strongly imploded "brigitte of refusal" 7. partli cloudi "last quarter" 8. imp(s) "drone end" 9. vxpxc "summer clothes - live" 10. starving weirdos "ice age" 11. Shearing pinx "nxvxs".

ANDREW COLTRANE "Chromosphere 1+2" cdr

09

Interstellar work from the legendary basement of Andrew Coltrane. Abyss level drones that are soul crushing and pure ecstatic joy. 40 minutes of force feeding black holes, burning treetops, melting psyches through glowing heavy beauty. AC weilds sax with charred electronics to masterfully merge the electro and acoustic planes, the results are cosmic meditations beyond mere noise. Essential listening for anyone who thinks they ever knew anything. Handstamped chrome covers, ink blot inner sleeve, each one unique. Edition of 59 copies. SOLD OUT!!!

VISHNU WOODS "Riley Rile/Shaman Tapes etc" cdr

08

Unearthed recordings reconstructed from a suitcase mysteriously marked: "V.Woods". Trip through RileyRile's too long in the sun baked meditations and Shaman tapes etc collage of ritual based drones. Epic tracks of harmonium, accordian, baglama saz and singing bowls all fed through massive effects pedals, this Woods serves up expansive cosmic gateways in confined spaces. Persian surgeries, Alice's organ, and deep space listening. Curry stained folkwaste covers, braille numbering, & luggage tag.

limited to 44 copies. SOLD OUT!!!

Gown - "truemanville" - CDr

07

Andrew McGregor is onto something really good. Time well spent with Thurston and Sunburned combines with an exile in Nova Scotia to yield this deeply fryed trilogy. Epic burnt instrumentals recall the entire Harmony of the Spheres, but these are no mere guitarscapes, truemanville's triptych is all at once fragile and crushing, both melodic and bleeding. This is the Gown we've been waiting for, a fucking maturity and complexity we always knew was in there. Spark, burn, blacken.

Woodblock printed sleeves with fabric spines, smoldering images, limited to 77 copies. Sold OUT!!

BROTHERS of the OCCULT SISTERHOOD - "EJe" - CDr

06

This is it. Smoke inhaled and blown out into the wide oceania sky. The moon just became brighter. Pathways revealed by songlines through high planes, drifting inward through oblivion. Ancestral footsteps, creaking cellos, smeared brown analogue electronics, alchemy rising, drums expanding, tied together by a delicate web of guitars... mere words fail the dark beauty of the Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood. In its invocation "Eye Joy Event" blinds the nonbeliever... converts the reverted. 7 tracks ensure you'll never be the same again. Musicyourmindwillloveyou forever.

Mystic woodcut prints on ouija board sleeves. Edition of 66. SOLD OUT!!!

HUNTON QUINTET - "Rugcode Reader" - CDr

05
Finnish psychedelic masters Uton and Anti unleash a new beast as the Hunton Quintet. Heavy hazy woven jams as Zelig Concrete and Agent Stepanoff. Clay whistles, wooden electronics, animal hide drums. Serious carpet tripping deep in the dark woods. 6 tracks straight outa Porvoo, Finland - namecheck all things Finnish and hard to pronounce: www.myspace.com/huntonquintet Deluxe handcrafted gatefold sleeves.

SOLD OUT!!

partli cloudi "for bear" - CDr

04
Ritual recordings from partli cloudi (one half/third of the NEWYAKI duo/trio with Gown). A missing Jorodowsky soundtrack by rainforest dwellers. Self medicated ragas, peyote tom tom percussion, bells, wah, mysterious strings plucked like chickens by a slow motion Raccooon. Recorded by Alien Lomax and Vishnu Woods- a true labour of loveliness. Handmade collages assembled by Meadow Sweetie, each one beautifully unique. limited edition of 34.

SOLD OUT!

HAT CITY INTUITIVE - ROCKS IN MY PILLOW - IMP(s) - CDr

03

"Book of 3" - triple split invoking the magik ESP impulse actuel trinity for our third release:

Hat City Intuitive - blasting minds since early days with Matt Valentine's Superlux label, a la otracina split, Cromagnon, Ayler-esque free form truth never hurt so good.

Rocks in My Pillow - threads of Graveyards, Celestial Communication Orchestra, grinding cellos with sheets of metal. Dark drones, lovely, and deep. AACM+(CCMC x MEV) = ???

Imp(s) - blew away minds opening Canadian shows for GHQ and NNCK. Mysterious beards reveal the Creator and Sharka has a master plan, bells, drumming, chants of a revolutionary cyborg nature.

Hand printed in antique style book covers. Limited edition 69. SOLD OUT!!

NEW YAKI "the music of the" - CDr

02
new yaki is the duo of Gown and partli cloudi, culled from fahey tributes, grain elevators, jazz vangaurds, and apartment recordings towering above blackball records. Exotic drones and percussive memory loss. Analog delayed reactions. also guests babel and matt o))) on a couple tracks. Vintage Folkwaste Library covers, Limited edition 69.

SOLD OUT!