Excellent trans-Atlantic collaboration between these two poets, with Shute writing from Texas, Crutchfield from Glasgow. Parallel texts that work multi-directional narratives connected by a thin, silvery logic. Hand-numbered edition of 35 copies.

Stunning new cassette from the duo of Stuart Crutchfield and Kevin McCarvel that pretty much cements their reputation as the best ‘rock’ band in the UK right now, with six tracks of devolved drums/guitar/vocals/electronics that come over like the early Royal Trux cassette that Xpressway never released. McCarvel’s vocals exist on the very limits of subliminal sound with the feel of a more beatific Michael Morley hovering over raggedy guitar kinetics that stagger in and out of clipped melodies w/a martial aspect that is totally exhilarating. Throw in the collapsing universe feel of your favourite South Island satellite and the kind of epic fuzz/ reverb excursions that could easily be Japanese and you got alla the ingredients for the cassette release of the year thus far. And, sure, they may feature a baldy, but there ain’t no laptops in sight. This is bloodied freeform rock at some kind of deformed tactile apex and easily their most accomplished release to date. Edition of only 50 copies, already sold out at source, highly recommended!

Unbelievable two-fer from the best band in Scotland, Glasgow’s phenomenal Smoke Jaguar, following up their recent cassette on Sonic Oyster with two live recordings, one from Glasgow’s Halt Bar in June 2010 and one from their appearance at VT’s own Subcurrent fest in August of 2010. The Halt show is totally explosive with twin guitars set to stun, Crutchfield’s just dissolving in walls of pure electricity while McCarvel picks out elegiac single notes with all of the anti-gravity appeal of your favourite Japanese head. The Subcurrent set, where they played on the same bill as Richard Youngs, Heather Leigh, Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides and MV/EE/Flower, is a little more hi-fi with epic peaks of feedback shot to ribbons with sky-scraping lead guitar. Hard to believe there’s a band this good outside of Tokyo never mind active in Glasgow right now. Hand-numbered edition of 77 copies.

Latest in Bill Shute's series of poetic meditations inspired by phantom narratives suggested by various recordings of library music. This one is dedicated to Frank Samperi, although when Bill mentioned that the atmosphere somehow relates to the early Wadada Leo Smith recordings (specifically, to these ears, the Kabell years) it instantly made sense. That same feel of single notes isolated by a vast expanse of silence that serves to completely focus your attention on the flux of now. Hand-numbered edition of 49 copies printed by Bill himself.

New themed series of poems from this great US writer/critic/thinker, based around hallucinated phantom narratives scored to accompany relatively blank-slate library music recordings. Hand-numbered edition of 46 copies. Recommended, as is everything from his hands.

New themed series of poems from this great US writer/critic/thinker, based around hallucinated phantom narratives scored to accompany relatively blank-slate library music recordings. This volume is one of Shute’s most affecting collections to date, with all of the illuminating personal details that define his work put to the service of ghosted female biography. Dedicated to Diane Wakoski. Hand-numbered edition of 46 copies. Recommended, as is everything from his hands.

Another new instalment in Bill Shute's on-going series of poetic meditations inspired by phantom narratives suggested by various recordings of library music. This one is "recorded in duophonic stereo" and features a narrative that unravels in various parallel flashes and multiple perspectives. Dedicated to Jake Holmes and Willie Mitchell. Hand-numbered edition of 40 copies printed by Bill himself.

Penetrating new work from Bill Shute, hand-numbered edition of 33 copies that peels back the veil in the corners of coffee shops, diners and country clubs and the brains of co-workers, immigrant labourers and small, private press poets. The last piece functions as a particular smack in the mouth. Dedicated to Swami Vivekananda.

Volume 13 in Bill's on-going Sound Library Series, inspired by P.O.E., "There Is A River" 45, UNI 55282 B. Hand-numbered edition of 21 copies.

Volume 17 in Bill's Sound Library Series, this one takes off on Willie Mitchell's It's What's Happenin' LP on Hi Records and is dedicated to "Cicely Tyson, Kurt Vonnegut, David Bowie and the rest of the 1980's 'Coffee Achievers' - my peer group!". Hand-numbered edition of 49 copies.

Collection of poems inspired by Winchester Hospital Radio and dedicated to Cid Corman, hand-numbered edition of 42 copies.

A very affecting collection of poems from Bill Shute, inspired by Bosworth Production Music and dedicated to John Wieners. Bill does a great job of plotting the arc of Wieners' trails, with lots of movie star references and watching old movies in the bath moments that serve to effectively locate the particular co-ordinates of his life. Particularly psyched to see John Felice and Frank Wright listed among a role-call of artist/poet/musicians who spent extended periods gazing straight into the void. Hand-numbered edition of 44 copies.

Bill's tribute to honk-tonkin' Hammond huffer and ram-bunk-shush soul/jazz survivor Bill Doggett in a hand-numbered edition of 44 copies. A series of still-life snapshots that move in the shadows of gang hits, runaways, beaches in winter, dating service blues and the narcotic of dreams.

Excellent new work from Shute - one of my favourites to date - dedicated to Skeeter Davis and consisting of a series of profound meditations on the mechanics of time and space and associated details of personal navigations, here and now, with references to the Peace Eye bookstore, Eddie Condon, Sam Morales et al...hand-numbered edition of 29 copies.

Latest instalment in Shute's on-going Sound Library Series, with a series of lonely portraits inspired by Mercer Ellington's Colors In Rhythm LP. Hand-numbered edition of 39 copies.

New Sound Library instalment from Shute, inspired by George Harrison's Wonderwall Music and Mr Frank Samperi. A very beautiful slow-moving survey of local topography that scans from the spiders in the desert and rundown shacks all the way up to quietly blinding visions of solar magic. Excellent. Hand-numbered edition of 44 copies.

Latest collection from the prodigious Texas poet Bill Shute that weaves a bunch of dead-end narrative flashes and quietly desperate vignettes into a series of diamond-sharp moments that work to foreground alla of this petty sadness in the movement of the stars and compassion and spiritual advancement in the face of this great, endless procession of meat conception. Very powerful stuff. Hand-numbered edition of 37 copies.

Latest Sound Library edition from Texan poet Bill Shute, inspired by The Fireballs' "Come On, React!". A series of visions of alchemically illuminated hope and despair running through backstreets and nursing homes of Southern Texas. Hand-numbered edition of 44 copies.

New solo work by Texan poet Shute that reconciles parallel timelines in order to trace relationships, fall-out and flashes of communication/contact in the dusty shadows of B-movie theatres and old western reels. Hand-numbered edition of 34 copies.

Latest volume of Shute's Sound Library series is scored to match the contours of Lennie Tristano's The Essential Keynote Collection 2 and based around evocatively fractured textual hymns to sensual/social interaction and dislocation, the nature of vision, subtle map-points derived from art and literature and the assertion that "poetry/ leads us back/into life". Hand numbered edition of 38 copies.

New volume of dilated experimental prose/poetry from Bill Shute, written under the spell of Paul Boisselet's Symphonie Rouge, recently re-issued by the sainted Creel Pone. Numbered edition of 39 copies.

Excellent new work from Bill Shute that peels off layer after layer of import, synchronicity and poignant detail while weaving biographical fact and psychedelic fantasy around the tale of an aging beat poet and ending with a masterful parody/tribute to an original voice from the source. One of Bill's best. Hand-numbered edition of 29 copies.

New work from Shute inspired by the recent Creel Pone reissue of Ruth White's great Seven Trumps From The Tarot Cards, specifically teasing out the spiritual/transformational repercussions of Tarot Key 12: The Hanging Man via reflective, diamond-sharp wordage and illustrations by B.J.Griswold from 1913. Hand-numbered edition of 29 copies.

New work from Shute inspired by the recent Creel Pone reissue of Anestis Logothetis's Fantasmata 1960, with room upon room of revenant memories given a psychogeographical shakedown as he turns up the sounds of silence reveal the constant colliding echoes of past and future in an abandoned, burned-out building situated in Brockton Massachusetts. Hand-numbered edition of 29 copies.

New work from Shute that focuses in on the movement of people and the displacement of lives across one day in San Antonio, Texas, inspired by Thorkell Sigurbjornsson's 1975 recording La Jolla Good Friday, recently reissued by Creel Pone. Hand-numbered edition of 59 copies.

New one from Shute that launches a new Kendra Steiner series dedicated to poetic ruminations on obscure Z-grade movies as windows on the culture at large. This one is based around the 1958/1961 Barry Mahon flick Rocket Attack USA and is an extended meditation on the Cold War, masculinity and black/white, either/or thinking. Hand-numbered edition of 29 copies.

New very limited (only 19 hand-numbered copies and already sold-out at source) collection of poems from Bill Shute, this time out themed around visions of New England refracted through the aesthetic of Francis Bacon to create collaged synaesthetic word-instants that transport you right into Bill's eyeballs. Shute describes it as being "like a literary New England-based take on The Faust Tapes." So dig in. Recommended.

Another very limited new collection from Shute in a painterly style that seems to reflect back to some of his earlier Kendra Steiner work. These are sketches of North Texas done under the spell of David Hockney, Vanessa Bell, Francis Bacon and Stanley Spencer and they are supremely tactile, sensuous evocations of overloaded vision in space.

Excellent new work from Shute, inspired by Edward Hopper and Tristessa. A series of poetic reports from inside a smalltown rainstorm as images and thoughts snowball from cold bones to lonely map points across the world in a rolling/visionary Kerouac style. "From this perspective/everything/seems periphery". Recommended. Hand-numbered edition of only 46 copies.

New entry in Kendra Steiner's long-running series of poetry inspired by music, this new chapbook from Bill Shute takes its' inspiration from The Electric Toilet's In The Hands Of Karma LP. Hand-numbered edition of 47 copies.

Another new one from Shute, this time with a run of poems inspired by the Catalan painter Antoni Tapies and the American poet Ted Berrigan. Hand-numbered edition of 32 copies.

New work from Texan poet Bill Shute with an extended experimental piece inspired by The Arditti Quartet’s recording of John Cage’s “44 Harmonies From Apartment House 1776”. Hand-numbered edition of 37 copies.

New instalment in Shute’s on-going series of poetic sound studies that use various avant garde reissues presented on the Creel Pone label as jumping off points for meditations on force and form. This one is based around UK resident composer Denis Smalley’s excellent 1979 recording, The Pulses Of Time. Hand-numbered edition of 31 copies.

New work from Shute inspired by a trip to visit fellow-poet Brad Kohler’s neighbourhood in Pittsburgh and Scott Walker’s And Who Shall Go To The Ball? And What Shall Go To The Ball? soundtrack. Hand-numbered edition of 36 copies.

New collaborative work from poets Shute and Bush inspired by Emerson Meyers 1969 composition "Intervals 1" included on the Creel Pone CD Provocative Electronics. Hand-numbered edition of 39 copies.

Fantastic setting for Bill Shute’s poetry by Derek Rogers with fragments of speech floating up though ethereal/doomy organ drones and tone in a way that somehow reminds me of Lothar & The Hand People’s classic “Space Hymn” (!!??)... Four Texas Streams remains one of the most evocative Shute’s early works and to hear it this dilated is just fantastic. Hand-numbered edition of 55 copies. 

Texan poet/curator/publisher and all-round force of goddamn nature Bill Shute’s previous spoken word recording was easily one of our most popular sides of collected pomes and it turned a slew of heads onto the musical cadence of his work. This new collection feels even more assured, with Shute’s approach - a combination of intimate internally-implosive wordage, the kind of rhythmic grasp of a improvising musician and a voice that is deeply American while refusing any contemporary definition – serving to bring his impressionistic/documentarian visions of the contours of Now to technicolour life. Shute is a lifer, having been involved in some of the most important under-the-counter-culture moments, from his zine and label The Inner Mystique through his life-affirming column in Black To Comm – when is someone gonna collect those? – through his amazing poetry and music imprint Kendra Steiner Editions. And while Lester Bangs has gone on to be some kind of mainstream touchstone for all that is ‘gonzo’ Shute has maintained his connection to grassroots culture. Junk Sculpture... collects a bunch of his best recent writing 2010-2011, from sketches of nowhere America to the sounds outside your window to verbal constructs inspired by Lennie Tristano, this is the real deal and anyone w/a love of the kind of deeply personal poetics of the Beats and a belief in the magick of the word will find much to affirm in here. I still rate “The Mosquitoes Of La Marque” as one of his best and the closing rendition of it takes me out of myself every time. Can’t recommend this one enough.