Zoned bluegrass moves from Pelt offshoot The Black Twig Pickers featuring Mike Gangloff on fiddle and banjo, Isak Howell on guitar and mouth harp and Nathan Bowles on banjo and washboard. Here they’re joined by Charlie Parr on resonator guitar and vocals for a version of Parr’s “Where You Gonna Be (When The Good Lord Calls You Home)?” and a cover of the traditional “Stepback Cindy”. UK tour 45 in an edition of 400 copies. 

Harvesting set of ritual brain clamour, drone-chuff and synapse chauffeuring blitz from this free-improvising big band consisting of members of Pelt and Rake. This inter-band ensemble blew across the States a bunch of times during their short existence – 1996/97 – and this limited to 330 copies vinyl LP is a beautiful document of their scorching style, an extract from a two-hour performance at Tommy’s in Richmond in April 1997. The line-up is: Mike Gangloff (guitar, shenai, electronics), Jack Rose (lap steel), Patrick Best (guitar, bass resonator, conga), ~SKB (bass and percussion), V2G2 (nylon string guitar, percussion, shenai and voice), Planet C (moog, sax, percussion), Mick (dumbek and dijembe), Beth Jones (dijembe).