Edition of 70 copies cassette from Zak Boerger’s bedroom psych project, here cutting up Renbourne/Jansch/Chasny styled acoustic jams with elegiac fuzz-punkers that reference UK punks like early Wickham-Smith/Youngs and Flying Saucer Attack. 

Edition of 100 copies cassette from this Michigan-based pastoral drone unit, with heavy/primitive beams of crunch dotted with singing percussion and tumbling acoustic reveries that would unite early American avant blues ala Loren Connors’ playing on the sides he cut with Kath Bloom and the baroque, circuitous acid folk of The Incredible String Band, Dr Strangely Strange, Roy Harper etc... April In The Orange take Flying Saucer Attack’s concept of ‘rural psychedelia’ and confuse it with drone settings and some great, lucid songwriting. 

Edition of 100 copies cassette from American Primitive banjo player, fiddler, accordionist and homemade marimba stylist and psychedelic Texan balladeer Ralph White. Some full group settings here that see Ralph detourning country swing with dark drones and weird world music polyglots, resituating the music of Dock Boggs and The Stanley Brothers in the context of DIY Southern psych, with sudden wormholes of reverb and echo working to give the tracks a feeling of infinite depth. White’s style is as laidback and gloriously stoned as Michael Hurley, even when he’s taking “Gallows Melody” at a galloping, transcontinental pace. 

Two long synth navigations from Belgium’s Jurgen De Blonde: heavy overloaded circuitry feel here, with planet bombing analogue overload married to busy, bubbling 20^th century electronics, monolithic slow-moving melodies ala Conrad Schnitzler and even some of the synth violence of Hiroshi Hasegawa/Astro. Edition of 100 copies on our favourite tape label.

Another fantastic addition to Sloow Tapes on-going documentation of fringe/counter-cultural poets that sits nicely on the shelf alongside the Louise Landes Levi and Simon Vinkenoog cassettes. Eddie Woods aka “The Gangster Poet” is a world traveller, poet and publisher now based in Amsterdam, best known for his 70s journal Ins & Outs and his Ins & Outs Press that published works by Jack Micheline, Jan Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Ira Cohen, Simon Vinkenoog, William Levy and more. This cassette consist of a series of readings – he still has the voice of a Soprano – of variously dated poems, kicking off with his amazing fantasy/fable of enlightenment and sexual gnosis The Faerie Princess which combines Tolkein-esque imagery with a libidinous commitment to the joys of fuck. Indeed, the bulk of his poetry is centered around a sensual reengagement with the world on its own terms and it feels so completely liberated, so Babalon-ian, it’s enough t make you wanna quit your dumb job yesterday and tickle your asshole with knee-high grass. The flip side of the cassette features “The Second Coming Of Kali”, a “surrealist sexual autobiography until age 37” begun in Kathmandu in 1976 and dedicated to Divine Mother. Fantastic and highly recommended.