With only the tools of the 'rock and roll' artisan (and a couple of household items), Chokchai 3K Battery seeks to plumb the void at the heart of the universe and in the heart of every human being, trying to find a key to unlock the secrets of Mother Nature's violence and of her chaotic beauty. It begins in the mess that 'classic rock' leaves behind; Chokchai 3K Battery makes good use of the things that it finds.

Chokchai 3K Battery is a disconnected limb of a fragmentary worldwide anarchist society of individuals, blindly seeking the ur-language that will re-unite the tribes of humanity.

Chokchai 3K Battery has made a record of baby-steps and half-truths entitled 'Cyclone Bones', available for purchase. The record features the performance by the group at the 'Winter' festival at the Project Arts Centre and is handsomely dressed in unique, handmade covers.

Personnel:
Paul Condon - Processed Guitar, Microphone
Brian O'Shaughnessy - Prepared Bass, Cell Phones
Diarmuid Mac Diarmada - Drums, Percussion, Toys, Vacuum Cleaner
With guest appearances from: John Dermody - Drums , Percussion (Track 2)
Jürgen Simpson - Drums, Percussion (Track 3)

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One-off cd-rs available on request

Safe's music combines treated field recordings, mixed live on an array of cd players and combined with electronics, no-input mixing desk, metals, vocals and keyboards. Pieces are entirely improvised, and span the range of sound from strange ambiences to overpowering noise.
Safe's first album, The Air is Full, was recorded at Intermedia 2002 (at the Triskel Arts Centre) and is a collaboration with performance and sound artist Danny McCarthy. It builds from atmospherics (including amplified stones) to a throbbing noise finale, over its 32 minutes. Shifting masses of sound, combining harsh electronic noise with field recordings to produce an intense, organic and at times psychedelic experience recalling Ground Zero, AMM and Fennesz.

Personnel:
Paul Hegarty - CD Machines, Metal, Keyboard, Voice
Brian O'Shaughnessy - CD and Tape Machines, 2-way Radio, FX Board
Danny MacCarthy - Monochord, Stones, Keyboard

Recorded Live at Triskel Arts Centre as part of Intermedia 2002.

Featuring exclusive tracks by Hans Roedelius, The Lothars (theremin quartet), Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple), Barry Guy, E.A.R. (with Delia Derbyshire), KK Null (Zenigeva), Guapo, John Butcher, Larry Polansky, Silver Apples, John Russell, Bhob Rainey, Volcano The Bear, Takashi, Toshimaru Nakamura, John Edwards, John Bischoff, Nick Didkovsky, Tamaru Shuichi, Tetsuro Yasunaga, Chris Grier, Scott Smallwood, Brett Larner, Burning Star Core, Scot Jenerik, Ven Voisey, Damon Holzborn, Mason Jones and many more..
Curated by Brian O'Shaughnessy.

PKD have been performing for 6 years but even though they have a wealth of recorded material, this is actually their first full length release.
It culls together 4 tracks, 2 live and 2 studio and gives an overview of what the band has been up to over the last couple of years. From drone experiments to primitive rhythmic assault to art-brut ecstatics.

Personnel:
Michael Browne - Fan, Toothbrush, Guitar, Keyboard, Voice
Brian O'Shaughnessy - E-bow Guitar, Cymbals, Voice
Diarmuid MacDiarmada - Percussion, Voice
David Jefferies - Saxophone, Voice
John Dermody - Piano
Belinda Quirke - Keyboard, Bontempi
Alex Walsh - Cymbals, Fan, Guitar

Safe follow up their 2002 release The Air is Full with a further set of combinations of field recordings, keyboards, microphones, vocals, no-input, metals, with the end result reminiscent of Nurse With Wound. Origin of Species comes from live, improvised performances using those materials. Except for the closing track, nothing was added to those live recordings, so as to preserve the clash between pre-recorded materials and improvisations. Darwin realised that species were not fixed, but accretions of different features, combining more or less at random, but resulting in identifiable forms. As here. This cd is double, with cd 2 a handscratched copy of the recordings, hopefully randomising the sounds further,

Personnel:
Paul Hegarty - Cd players, Metals, Voice, Electronics, Keyboards
Brian O'Shaughnessy - Cd players, Tape machine, No-input desk

KK.Null (born Kazuyuki Kishino) is one of the top names in Japanese noise music and in a larger context, one of the great cult artists in experimental rock. After playing the guitar as his main instrument for some twenty years, Null has gradually moved towards a more electronic approach. These days he mostly states the "nullsonic" as his primary instrument. Nullsonic is something of a variation of Robert Fripp's 1970's instrument "frippertronics" - a combination of electric guitar and effects units, which elevated the effects to equal importance alongside the guitar. Null, though, has gone even further than that by discarding the guitar altogether and making all the sounds with effects only. In recent years he has concentrated his efforts increasingly on his solo material. His cd for Cork based record label DotDotDot uses electronics to build dynamic soundscapes from the ground up, growing denser with each intricate layer of sound. This is an exhilarating and psychedelic trip with a few surprises along the journey.

The Harvest is about decay and the role insects play in the process. It is often assumed, perhaps as a sort of comfort, that we come from dust and return to it, but essentially, we are going to end up being eaten by insects and other small and microscopic lifeforms. This piece is made up entirely of insect sounds, from field recordings taken in various locations in West Cork and also from the following websites: cmave.usda.ufl.edu/~rmankin; mushinone.ne.jp; naturesongs.com. These sounds are then extensively manipulated, processed etc. The record itself is a 'dubplate', designed for a limited number of plays only, and will decay with each playing, so the plastic form reiterates the destructiveness the piece enacts formally. And the form becomes formless.

Of all the Americans peddling improvised free-folk and psychedelia, Jackie O-Motherfucker are without a doubt up there with the best. After countless studio and live albums, the sprawling band last year came out with Flags of the Sacred HarpÐ a veritable cornerstone of the genre. Blending all their influences and coming up with something focused and quite beautiful at times, they create a rare thing: psych/folk music that stands many repeat listens. (Text taken from Boomkat.com)

Circle are one of Finlands longest running psych-experimental acts, and have managed somehow to get progressively weirder with every release. Contemporaries would include Acid Mothers Temple, but Circle have always been more eager to blend in a space/kraut rock vibe or to drop in stoner metal influence into their work than anyone else in the scene. Very nice of the fellows then to drop this absolutely stunning 7 inch single for the lucky folk who will manage to obtain a copy. These tracks are just prime Circle experimentalism, with hints of psych/weirdcore hippies Sunburned Hand of the Man in there somewhere: feeding-back delays, deep drones, spiritual wails and chants. (Text taken from Boomkat.com)

Guapo have nailed a sound that takes in slow piano and lightly plucked guitar, mixed with deep reverberations and sub-bass to create a sound that will send shivers down your spine. This is a 7 inch to break out when the full moon rises over the moors, when the house is empty and the light in the basement is broken. (Text taken from Boomkat.com)

An eighteen minute slow explosion. The most dense and unrelenting recording yet, and previously only available at Safe performances. Now available to order.