tart ape tour
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase • Shin Chida • S. Glass
6/12 - San Francisco CA at The Peacock Lounge with Danishta Rivero
6/13 - Petaluma CA at Mona Says with GW Green Law
6/14 - Sacramento CA at Creation District with Black Heart, Emrys Nox
6/15 - Chico CA at 1078 Gallery with *33*
6/16 - Eureka CA at Moss Oak Commons with Desiccant, New Saturday Mourning Light Through A Window,
6/17 - Eugene OR at Wandering Goat with Don Haugen, Free Static
6/19 - Portland OR at Turn Turn Turn with Hot Pockets, Cody Brant
6/20 - Olympia WA at Decay with Max Nordile, The Effluvium
6/21 - Bellingham WA at Make Shift Art Space with Soft Teeth, Pink Void
6/23 - Seattle WA at Bad Bar with RM Francis, Seed Order
6/24 - Ellensburg WA at Old Skool's with Delicate/Desolate
6/25 - Missoula MT at VFW Hall with Panic Boner
6/27 - Boise ID at Radio Boise
6/28 - Grass Valley CA at Unchurch with Jim Haynes
6/29 - Oakland CA at Temescal Arts Center with Shatter Pattern
6/30 - Los Altos Hills CA at KFJC with your host Cousin Mary
7/2 - Santa Cruz at Sub Rosa Books
Drawing by Matt Hall
S. Glass, The Grudgery of Drucks
c36 released by No Rent
Ecstatic turntable repetition and cassette manipulation in haunted, hypnotized unity. A sleepwalker in motion, sound moves unconsciously. Voices from religious sermons, self-help and philosophy tapes blend with junk pop culture, manipulated field recordings and internet bullshit (the new AM radio). A sleepwalker in motion, sound moves without adherence to genre orthodoxies. Seeking and finding in the grand tradition. Fucking experimental. Edition of 100
Order cassettes here and download here.
Glands of External Secretion, Baboon And Chest
c38 released by Coherent States
From the frayed edges of sound, the lingering ghost of forgotten amplifier feedback, and the echo of unanswered answering machine messages, Glands of External Secretion return with their most different album until the next one. This four-pronged stumble through usual-yet-unusual and weird-yet-not-weird auditory wreckage cracks open with “One of the Decorator’s FAQs Was a Twined-Together Mix of Doubt and Dread,” a sprawling tangle of recordings from Scotland with Ali Robertson and Malcy Duff (of the now-defunct but legendary Usurper), Firas Khnaisser, Buck Campbell, and Dan Vallor, knotted together with (more) home recordings and soundchecks from various other live gigs. A concise transmission, “George Lazenby” was originally beamed into Neil Jendon’s “One Electronic Sound For Five Minutes” podcast – a fleeting yet potent auditory jab. The new sound collage “You Haven’t Seen Me Without My Teeth” hints at unseen architectures within the noise. Finally, Baboon erupts with the untamed energy of “Wank Theme Song,” salvaged from a mid-to-late 1980s San Francisco one-off live improv free-for-all featuring approximately fifteen players in unfettered lo-fi caterwaul mode. Cover art by Malcy Duff.
Glands of External Secretion, Unexplained Bite Marks
LP reissue of live recording from 1994, coming in spring 2025 on Minimum Table Stacks
S. Glass, The New Basics Cookbook
CDR released by l’Esprit de l’Escalier.
An hour-plus of sound collages and j-j-jarring post-mortem artifacts. Highlights include: “Without Incident” — location recordings from Japan; “Swamp Yankee Eulogy,” a deconstructed version of which was presented at Polaris in Toyko opening for Bruce Russell and Keiji Haino; and a cover of the Sun City Girls track “Torch of the Mystics,” penned by Charles Gocher.
Order it here.
S. Glass, Housing Concrète
CDR released by l’Esprit de l’Escalier.
Four Ubu-friendly sound collages scraped into shape by lenient sentencing, including a tape piece created for Kryssi B’s Open Field show on WXOJ.
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S. Glass, Stock Footage
CDR released by l’Esprit de l’Escalier.
Incoherent disaster or a gaudy monstrosity? A real debate-starter, this. Includes “An Invitation To The Waltz Contains Sinister Motive,” a tape piece for Kirby Bell’s Field Day For The Sundays show on WKDU, plus four tracks glowing with more psychotic brightness than the LED headlights of oncoming traffic. Loops, cuts, field recordings, sounds appropriated from fails videos, voices forcibly relocated from their ancestral homelands on cassette in the bins of thrift stores. 59 minutes.
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S. Glass, Benign Neglect
CD coming in June on Public Eyesore