Brand new big-band line-up release from Blood Stereo, recorded live in Leeds in April 2005. The duo of Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance are joined by Julian Bradley, Neil Campbell and Sticky Foster for an Ur-primitive UK underground freak-out that jams signals with electro-flesh conceptions that are as occult as Heathen Erath-era Throbbing Gristle and as ecstatically damaged as anything from the tongue of yr favourite dope-dosing guru. A whole mess of smeared vocals, slow helium of electronics, loops, reeds and - crucially - plenty of doof. Killer.

Massive new album in an edition of 300 copies from the duo of Karen Constance & Dylan Nyoukis: The Larval Tuning Fork consist of two side-long works judiciously edited and put-together with an easy/impenetrable logic from live shows and performances across the globe. Much of this is on the minimal side as is the contemporary Blood Stereo style, with plundered conversations and small-scale clatter and drone put to the service of long blanks of almost hypnotically monomaniacal accumulations of tape and twonk. The way the whole deal is constructed unfolds with alla the seamless surreal appeal of a reverie or a dream, with extremely subtle vocal sounds see-sawing over a bed of barbed wire while what sounds like a buncha farmyard animals read fairytales to each other. Blood Stereo’s last few releases represent a considerable leap forward for the group in terms of logistics and advanced compositional vision and this is pretty much the apex of their contemporary form. Beautiful full-colour covers with artwork by Karen and an insert with sleeve notes from Angela Sawyer. 

Inspired and inspiring collaboration between English weirdo ‘improvisers’ The Bohman Brothers and Scottish weirdo ‘improvisers’ Blood Stereo aka Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance. Recorded live in London in November 2010 this is a beautiful traverse of pointillist small instrument confusion with violins, loops, tapes, springs, vocals, wine glasses and radio receivers conjuring form from straight out of the air. The use of the receivers in particular adds a fuzzy nocturnal/psychedelic muzz to the proceedings while the logic of the jams follows an eccentric arc that really sounds like little else in ‘improvised music’. An inspired hook-up between a bunch of genuinely eccentric and creative fringe artists. Comes packaged in a DVD-style case with three photo prints inside. Edition of 100 copies. Recommended.