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2011:

News April 2011

I'm working on the score to a film called 'My Loss, Your Gain' directed by Elli Raynai. Elli and I have known each other since we were 8 years old and we worked together on The Return (2008) and other wild stuff I won't get into here. This is a really cool 4 minute flick and I can't wait to get the fine cut into my hands. We have also co-written a short called 'The Lonely Organist' and are currently working on that as well. Look for more great work from this tenacious young man!

alittlefx.com
willhereturn.com
mylossyourgainthemovie.com

The Expo 70 black box is taking a bit more time. Thanks for your patience. The cost may change, But I will keep you updated - more info soon!

Future waves from Pauline Oliveros, Rafael Toral, Ashtray Navigations and more!

News March 2011

New editions this month from Rafael Toral's Space Collective. Next month:
Expo 70 'Black Box' Lathe.

News February 2011

New editions this month from Solar Fox and Steve Gunn. Please see the merch-zone for lots more detail.

Winter/Spring: Expo 70, Rafael Toral, John Fell Ryan (Excepter) Brothers In Milk and more.

Medusa One Year Showcase at Secret Location Sunday February 20, 2011. 8PM(Tickets - serious inquiries only.) Opening will be The Deeep, Carl Didur (Battleship Ethel/Zach Automaat) with Doc Dunn, Dave Nuss, & Ayal Senior performing new work. Environment by Jeff Garcia and resident artist Stan Krzyzanowski. DJ Longhorne Grille.

You can catch me on CHRY 105.5 FM on Friday. Februay 3rd and Thursday February 10 from 12-1pm playing records, cassettes and rare editions. CHRY is York University's campus-community radio station and I have a long relationship with them going back over 10 years when I used to be music director there. I'd been a long time volunteer before that as well. It's been a few years since I've been back on the air, but I'm excited about the possibilities about playing live to air sessions and rare editions. Check here for updates as things really get cooking in the next few months in this department.

Listen Live: http://www.chry.fm/

News January 2011

Doc and I are rehearsing material for a studio session and live music performance on Sunday February 20, 2011. It's going to be a Medusa Showcase night and I'm honored to say that accompanying us for those sessions will be Dave Nuss. Many will know him as the heartbeat behind the No Neck Blues Band and most recently, his contributions to Sabbath Assembly. Carl Didur of Zacht Automaat will open the set as well as a special DJ guest slot. This is going to be a very special evening, so please hold the date.

Steve Gunn will be issuing a lathe in February. Human Condition/Trances 7" 45 cut by pjmansion in Montreal. It will be available for pre-order this month. Edition of 25 and will be ready to ship at the end of January. The cost is $25.00. paypal to vietwow@hotmail.com

2010:

News December 2010

Doc's release should be ready next month sometime. Hold your horses. In the meantime, dig the new releases. 18 releases in about a year (still some surprises left, maybeE And see you in 2011.

A live recording I made of Skullbong from 9.2.08 in Toronto recently surfaced on their split cassette with Zodiac Toys on Bum Tapes out of Bristol, UK. Grab it!

http://www.myspace.com/skuledspiral
http://www.myspace.com/bumtaperecordings

News November 2010

This month we got new editions and bones from Doc Dunn and Kanada 70.

Doc's release is a cassette reissue of his 2004 private press CD-R, Mountain Wind, Mountain Rain. It originally appeared in a miniscule edition of 25 copies and included a small block of painted wood, wrapped in beautiful paper and some pine needles. Listening to this tape is like driving up a circuitous route around a holy mountain through dense fog, rain and sunlight. Carrying the weight of the psychic past ascending towards breaking though into the atmosphere in orbital spiritual modal nodes.

Also up for later this month is a cassette edition of some out of print brain damage from Kanada 70's infamous paper sleeve CD-R editions. Here is a listing of the tracks on the cassette. Classic thrash beat bangers that will have you rolling around naked in the streets.

A1 Whoop (for A. Dilloway & J. Wiese) (from K70-11, Whoop)
A2 Nohassle (from K70-4, Me Kanumble)
B1 Son Of Early Morning: Brothers (Tearing Up) (from K70-10, Scrap App)
B2 Crawdem Boogie (from K70-15, Parsse)

Stay tuned!

More to come in 2010 and around the sun in 2011, editions from Not The Wind Not The Flag, Ashtray Navigations, Zaimph, Steve Gunn, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Doc Dunn, Xenis Emputae Travelling Band, Pauline Oliveros, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Plastic Crimewave and more.

News October 2010

September, long gone. We'll be in 2013 in the blink of an eye. So here's what's new in the after-burn. I'm honored to say that Medusa is going to do a lathe release with Rick White. For those unfamiliar with his work as a vanguard musician and singer songwriter in Eric's Trip, Elevator, Perplexus and The Unintended, he is also a brilliant visual artist and one of the most visionary Canadian musical living legends around. Please see more of his work here and track down all of his music or else!
rickwhite.ca/
myspace.com/rickwhitealbum

Hand In Hand, which is David Nuss from the No Neck Blues Band, Jakob Olausson and Christelle Gualdi (Stellar Om Source) have also got new music in the works and should hit Medusa HQ very soon in the form of a lathe.

More to come from Not The Wind Not The Flag, Ashtray Navigations, Zaimph, Steve Gunn, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Doc Dunn, Xenis Emputae Travelling Band, Zacht Autommat and more.

August 2010

I have no idea what happened to the summer. Did anybody out there have one? This month I'm bringing you earthlings some of the rawest editions from some of the heaviest cats and it won't stop, till you tell me to. Here are the newest editions, that I guess you could call the Fall Catalog.

Ashtray Navigations - For The Skeletons Of Old Rhythm Guitarists 7" Lathe-Cut 45 with 4 panel 7.15 x 7.15, silk-screen artwork by Phil Todd. Designed by Jacob Horwood. Lathe-cut psych from Leeds, England. The man wears many hats and I, for one will let the tracks for this exclusive Medusa release do the talking. 20 copies for the world! Digital copy with purchase Cut at PJ Mansion. Here. http://www.myspace.com/ashtraynavigations

Not The Wind Not The Flag - Burn & Return 1 Sided C-20 Cassette So happy to be presenting this slab o'tape on behalf of the Medusa house band, heavy session cats Colin Fisher and Brandon Valdivia. The first in a proposed slew of releases by these incredibly versatile artists. This edition finds them incinerating the very mind's eye.
Here: myspace.com/notthewindnottheflag

Zacht Automaat - We're Glad You Agree C-40 Cassette
I have no words no describe how SICK this tape is. Buy 2.
Here: myspace.com/zachtautomaat

Glass Tomb - 2000 and Tomb C-50 Cassette.
Here: myspace.com/glasstombs

And finally, a 3" on inyrdisk with artwork by Randall Gagne by me.
dropproductions.com/khainey/_site/inyrdisk.html

News November 2010

This month we got new editions and bones from Doc Dunn and Kanada 70.

Doc's release is a cassette reissue of his 2004 private press CD-R, Mountain Wind, Mountain Rain. It originally appeared in a miniscule edition of 25 copies and included a small block of painted wood, wrapped in beautiful paper and some pine needles. Listening to this tape is like driving up a circuitous route around a holy mountain through dense fog, rain and sunlight. Carrying the weight of the psychic past ascending towards breaking though into the atmosphere in orbital spiritual modal nodes.

Also up for later this month is a cassette edition of some out of print brain damage from Kanada 70's infamous paper sleeve CD-R editions. Here is a listing of the tracks on the cassette. Classic thrash beat bangers that will have you rolling around naked in the streets.

A1 Whoop (for A. Dilloway & J. Wiese) (from K70-11, Whoop)
A2 Nohassle (from K70-4, Me Kanumble)
B1 Son Of Early Morning: Brothers (Tearing Up) (from K70-10, Scrap App)
B2 Crawdem Boogie (from K70-15, Parsse)

Stay tuned!

More to come in 2010 and around the sun in 2011, editions from Not The Wind Not The Flag, Ashtray Navigations, Zaimph, Steve Gunn, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Doc Dunn, Xenis Emputae Travelling Band, Pauline Oliveros, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Plastic Crimewave and more.

News October 2010

September, long gone. We'll be in 2013 in the blink of an eye. So here's what's new in the after-burn. I'm honored to say that Medusa is going to do a lathe release with Rick White. For those unfamiliar with his work as a vanguard musician and singer songwriter in Eric's Trip, Elevator, Perplexus and The Unintended, he is also a brilliant visual artist and one of the most visionary Canadian musical living legends around. Please see more of his work here and track down all of his music or else!
rickwhite.ca/
myspace.com/rickwhitealbum

Hand In Hand, which is David Nuss from the No Neck Blues Band, Jakob Olausson and Christelle Gualdi (Stellar Om Source) have also got new music in the works and should hit Medusa HQ very soon in the form of a lathe.

More to come from Not The Wind Not The Flag, Ashtray Navigations, Zaimph, Steve Gunn, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Doc Dunn, Xenis Emputae Travelling Band, Zacht Autommat and more.

August 2010

I have no idea what happened to the summer. Did anybody out there have one? This month I'm bringing you earthlings some of the rawest editions from some of the heaviest cats and it won't stop, till you tell me to. Here are the newest editions, that I guess you could call the Fall Catalog.

Ashtray Navigations - For The Skeletons Of Old Rhythm Guitarists 7" Lathe-Cut 45 with 4 panel 7.15 x 7.15, silk-screen artwork by Phil Todd. Designed by Jacob Horwood. Lathe-cut psych from Leeds, England. The man wears many hats and I, for one will let the tracks for this exclusive Medusa release do the talking. 20 copies for the world! Digital copy with purchase Cut at PJ Mansion. Here. http://www.myspace.com/ashtraynavigations

Not The Wind Not The Flag - Burn & Return 1 Sided C-20 Cassette So happy to be presenting this slab o'tape on behalf of the Medusa house band, heavy session cats Colin Fisher and Brandon Valdivia. The first in a proposed slew of releases by these incredibly versatile artists. This edition finds them incinerating the very mind's eye.
Here: myspace.com/notthewindnottheflag

Zacht Automaat - We're Glad You Agree C-40 Cassette
I have no words no describe how SICK this tape is. Buy 2.
Here: myspace.com/zachtautomaat

Glass Tomb - 2000 and Tomb C-50 Cassette.
Here: myspace.com/glasstombs

And finally, a 3" on inyrdisk with artwork by Randall Gagne by me.
dropproductions.com/khainey/_site/inyrdisk.html

July 2010

Two new Glass Tomb cassettes on Medusa, first one's called '2000 & Tomb' and the second's called 'Dealers'. Self described-free-jazz-mystic-psych super group featuring unknown heavy session players. live jams & excursions from 2009 taper's pit. In anticipation of some live sets we hope to do later this summer and fall. http://www.myspace.com/glasstombs

Smoker's Choice Vol. II U.S. Girls bootleg cassette. Live, 20 minute set from Teranga, 8.17.08. recorded by myself.
www.myspace.com/usgirlsss
www.siltbreeze.com/usgirls.htm

August will see the release of my first hand-cut lathe 7" single in an edition of 20 copies on medusa. The lathe will be $20.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling. You can pre-order a copy from me starting now. Jacob Horwood is working on the artwork as we speak and it's going to be another eye-melting classic.

May 2010

Forthcoming 3"CD on inyrdisk (www'inyrdisk.com), 'Botched Raga', featuring artwork by Randy 'Man Made Hill' Gagne. 40 copies. Look for it!

A couple new albums by way of MEDUSA for May that I'm excited to present:

Medusa 004 is another solo CD, this time, just 25 copies, Part one in the 'music for blown headz' series. A hallucinatory odyssey into the world of a paranoid video store clerk whose economic and existential depression mutates into a weight-loss mind control battle for self vs. drum machine meltdown gig in the sky of epic proportions. Like I said, it's one-time, 25 copies, 10 Songs, 60 Minutes

Medusa 005, Woods - Smoker's Choice Live Vol. 1, 'Blue-Bootleg C-40 Cassette'. (Sr.'s Pix #1) 33 minutes, recorded by yours truly on 5.21.09, The Casbah, Hamilton, 8.8.09, Sneaky Dee's, Toronto, ON and 3.14.10, The Horseshoe, Toronto. A surprising undocumented side of Woods that will draw you closer to this most beloved of bands. 5 tracks of extended jammerz featuring the songs you know and love. Comes with three silk-screen photo trading cards of the band. Collect 'em all! Edition of 25.

March 2010

Please check out the merchzone for the latest t-shirts for sale. Limited Supply - act now!

Doc Dunn and I have been recording furiously since Dec. 2009 on a yet to be released LP of raga/drone/devotional high mind psych tentatively titled LIGHTBORN for sometime in 2010. An 3" CD on inyrdisk is forthcoming.

Botched Robbery is the new drone/electronic project I've been devoting a lot of time to this winter.
www.myspace.com/botchedrobbery

The Glass Tomb 'Reverse Mutation' CD seems to have been permanently shelved for the time being. Look for future shows and recordings this Spring when Colin and Brandon get back from their insane NTWNTF tour. In the meantime, content yourself with Botched Robbery. Ha!

Forthcoming releases on MEDUSA for this SPRING/SUMMER 2010 include SPACEBRIDGE, MEDUSA MEGA-MIX Tape, Botched Robbery, Brothers In Milk, Not The Wind, Not The Flag, Glass Tomb, Kevin Crump, Space Crystals.

The ice is gonna MELT.

Jan. 2010

So. You made it to 2010. Or 5770 as we say in the lunar calendar parlance. Many things brewing over here in the Toronto bunker these cold winter months. SURGICAL STEREO is my new winter offering, spanning the last several months. Supremely insane edition designed by Jacob Horwood.

You asked for it, you got it!

More in the MEDUSA product line for the psychedelic lifestyle connoisseur, including private press designer towels, pillow cases, t-shirts and canvas bags. As always, check the merchzone for samples, sizes, colors and styles.

Coming Soon: swimcaps and ashtrays.

FREAKERS, directed by Michel Moon and shot in Italy with Hanne Steen, Daniel Schmaltz and Brian Robertson in 2009 is out on DVD! I worked on the score and plan on releasing an alternate soundtrack on Medusa later this year. A very cool little short with signs of great potential - so look into it. Contact See Daylight for distribution purposes. Check out this video excerpt with my tunes.

(Please see Sound Design/Composition section for an excerpt from Freakers with my music.)

Lots more to come this month and BEYOND so stay tuned!

2009:

Dec. 2009

- Brise-Cul Records releases History Delete's Itself
artwork by Joshua Bastien. Check out Brise-Cul.

November 2009

- Medusa Records launches with Sr. releases, Jacob's Ladder & Cathexis Vol. I.

- Works In Progress for December 2009 include the release of the SPACEBRIDGE 10.04.08. extended duration piece on the CN Bridge. Look to your orb for the warning. Were you there?

December:

December 2009 release of Glass Tomb's debut CD 'Reverse Mutation' on Pierpoint Recordings.
Tornoise Records website
Tornoise Records MySpace page
Pierpoint Recordings website

October 2009

Ayal Senior, 'Hebrew Lips', 17 tracks, 35 minute song cycle album on bennifer. 78 Copies, Die-Cut Cassette. Release date October 19. (see merchzone)
beniffereditions.blogspot.com

September 2009

Paypal added. See albums section.

Tuesday April 28, Music Gallery, St. James the Martyr, ayal senior's 'SPACECHURCH' opening for Matt 'Doc' Dunn & Mountains.

'The Last Screenplay' Journal Of Cinematic Thought published by Bennifer Editions Anthology

I continue to consult, compose and furnish music for film soundtracks, mind movies & astute labels of low/high brow distinction.

2008:

Important Records releases 3 Day Band, a group collaboration between myself and the late John Fahey recorded in his motel room in 1999.

Bennifer releases Garden/Braiincloud Cassette, SPACECAKES CD, & NORMAL GALAXY BLUES CD. inyrdisk releases CRYSTAL FINGERS CD. Edition of: 100 with full-colour double-sided poster. inyrdisk releases SPACECHURCH. Ayal Senior "Space Church" In Yr Disk Edition of: 100 with full-colour double-sided poster.

performed for 6.5 hours under the CN Bridge at Queen & Dufferin 10.04.08 as part of Nuit Blanche's gateway to Parkdale.