Call Back the Giants 'The Rising' LP £13 - In Stock

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Call Back The Giants first surprised and delighted the listening world in 2010, with their warmly-recieved eponymous debut album. Since that time, the duo of Tim Goss and Chloe Mutter have been locked in perfect isolation, teasing every nuance of their sound into sharp focus. The Rising presents the results of their toil, exposing Call Back The Giants as true masters of cryptic intent. Homespun keyboard minimalism, wavering teenage laments, and foreboding pronouncements of doom, synthesize into new, original matrices of thought. The Rising also introduces the guitar heroics of some-time third member, Big Rob Stewart, who lays down the law in crude basement style. The Rising is a masterpiece of ambition, that meets the expectations of its audience head on. The Rising arrives in a full-color, high gloss sleeve, with photography by Krysztoff Dorion, in an edition of 1000.

Helm Cryptography LP (Kye 11) £13

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Helm is the ambiguous solo moniker of London-based sound architect Luke Younger. Although, perhaps best known as one half of the pioneering avant-drone outfit Birds of Delay, it is in the more esoteric work of Helm that Luke's art takes on its most radical shape. 2010's debut LP To An End confirmed that in an age of fleeting trends and fly-by-night fancies, there were still a few old souls prepared to knuckle down and deliver the goods that people want to receive.

Cryptography carries forward that noble mindset, presenting a new five-part suite of expertly rendered electro-acoustic study. Using processed piano, Casio MT-40, cymbal and guitar strings Cryptography steers the Helm sound through a melange of fringe territories: glacial drone meditations, reconfigured gamelan clusters, and howling walls of organized feedback, all coalesced in classic UK post-industrial fashion. Indeed, had it been concieved of 30 years prior, it would be easy to imagine Cryptography winning a seat in the United Dairies, or Dom America catalog, such is its commitment to homemade exploratory zeal.

Cryptography was recorded at Highams Park, London 2009, with additional recording at No Recording Studios, London. Co-mixed, edited and mastered by John Hannon at No Recording, 2010. Cryptography arrives in a full color sleeve, with insert, in a hand-numbered edition of 400 copies.

Summary of goods currently for sale

Call back the Giants 'The Rising' LP £13
Helm 'Cryptography' LP (Kye 11) £13
Moniek Darge - Soundies (selected work 1980-2001) (KYE 05) CD £8
Moniek Darge 'Crete Soundies' (KYE 06) CD £8

Elklink 'The Rise of Elklink' LP (KYE 09) £13

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The Rise of Elklink originally appeared as a cassette on the storied Polyamory label in 1999. Behind the ambiguous moniker lurked core Shadow Ring member Graham Lambkin, aided by Adris Hoyos with a cameo from fellow Shadow Ring bandmate Tim Goss. Although The Rise of Elklink was produced in tandum with The Shadow Ring's Lindus LP, the two projects were different in intent. Song form and narration are replaced by walls of quiet, crumbling vocal concrete, meaningless stoned monologues and adjacent audio seepage, captured to 4-track in the backroom of a small Cuban crèche in Miami FL.
This LP reissue restores all six tracks from the original cassette, and adds the Elklink contribution to the Colour In Absence Sound CD comp from the same year. Lovingly remastered by Jason Lescalleet at Glistening Labs, The Rise of Elklink arrives in a sleeve design based on the original j-card with a deluxe insert reproducing Brad Sonder's classic period review, in a hand-numbered edition of 500 copies.

A track from The Rise of Elklink can be heard here

Graham Lambkin - Dripping Junk Hardcover Book & CD

Penultimate Press is proud to announce the publication of Dripping Junk- an all new collection of graphic work by Graham Lambkin. The 100 drawings gathered in Dripping Junk were made over a period of five days during a recent trip to Miami FL.


Lambkin's eye and pen guide us through a confusion of local observation. We find ourselves transported to the opulent sands of South Beach, the strip malls of Dade County, and the many tourists spots one would expect to engage. Yet Lambkin allows us to view these sites through his own distorted lens. This is not the Miami of common expectation. Lambkin throws us headfirst in to a hallucinogenic netherworld where logic and common sense cower in the shade of the palms. A world where fantasy and reality mix effortlessly and are drank as the cocktail of choice. A world where the skunk ape is king.

Dripping Junk contains 100 black and white drawings printed on high-quality paper and comes as a beautiful limited edition large format hardcover book of 250 copies. The first 100 are signed, numbered with cd attached. The remaining 150 are numbered with cd.



Graham Lambkin - Dumb Answer To Miracles Hardcover Book & CD


Limited edition book - 250 copies. The first 100 are hardcover, signed, numbered with cd attached. The remaining 150 are hardcover, numbered with cd.

Cover Illustration Graham Lambkin

'Dumb Answer to Miracles' is the first official publication of writings by Graham Lambkin. Previously 20 copies of a signed private edition entitled 'Tomb of Speed' were circulated amongst friends, collegues and mail order customers. This collection gathers all the 'Tomb of Speed' writings, a handful of Lambkin's lyrics he wrote for the band Shadow Ring and many unpublished works.

These writings entertain as much as they baffle, happily wandering the glorious pastures of open bewilderment. The ordinary dons the fantastic, the uncanny flirts with the comical and a private world is open to those with an explorative constitution. What response can one gain from such writings? It's this uncomfortable familiarity or comforting unease that haunts the entire oeuvre of Graham Lambkin. The beautiful odd. The eldritch normality. The leek in milk sauce.
Published by Penultimate Press, London, Dec - 2009

Signed / Numbered gig posted designed by Graham Lambkin - Edition of 20 £9



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Call Back The Giants - Call Back The Giants (KYE 07) LP



This is it. The debut LP by Call Back The Giants, the new project by former Shadow Ring keyboard governor Tim Goss. Fans of the recent Kye 7" will be thrilled to know that this LP is equally invested with strange, elegant horsepower. This is truly a record without a home. A record at odds with both the bottom feeders of the trad-folk revival, and the new merchants of digital gloom. With this LP Call Back The Giants offer up a Black Box of homespun mystery. A timeless attest to the worth of solitary vision in a hand-numbered edition of 300 copies. 2nd Pressing - 200 copies available now

Moniek Darge 'Crete Soundies' CD (KYE 06)



"Kye is pleased to announce the release of Crete Soundies, the major new work by Moniek Darge, and the follow-up to last years Soundies (1980-2001) CD. Crete Soundies presents three new pieces -- Magnesia (2006), Anemos (2007) and East Crete (2008-2009). These works were born from two years of Levka Ori sound research, and an additional year in east Crete in collaboration with fellow sound artist Francoise Vanhecke. Moniek Darge was born in Bruges, 1952 and studied music theory and violin at the Music Conservatory of Bruges, painting at the Ghent Royal Academy of Fine Arts; Art History, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Ghent, Belgium. She is active as composer, violinist, performer and audio artist and has built light and soundsculptures, installations, musical instruments and for many years has been constructing a series of alternative music boxes, with which she also performs. Darge has specialised in both soundscapes and live-art performances in which visual and musical aspects are combined and in interactional improvisation on violin. Since 1970 she has performed around the world and has been active on stage, first with the Logos Ensemble, then with Logos Duo (together with Godfired-Willem Raes), and more recently with the M&M robot ensemble. She also founded Logos Women, a small group specialised in intermedia improvisations performing their own compositions for various instruments, voices and music boxes. Crete Soundies comes housed in 6-panel digipak, in an edition of 500, and is released with the support of the Flemish Government." - KYE.

Moniek Darge - Soundies (selected work 1980-2001)(KYE 05) CD £10



Moniek Darge has been active as a composer, violinist, performer and audio artist since the early 70s. she is most widely recognized as one half of the pioneering new music group logos duo alongside her partner godfried-willem raes. the logos duo, which operates under the umbrella of the logos foundation, have been celebrated both at home in their native gent, belgium and on the international stage. they have performed their work in countries as diverse as brazil, new zealand, japan and the us. however, moniek's solo work has been harder to locate, the last published collection being sounds of sacred places (igloo records, 1987).

Soundies is the first in a series of releases from kye that aims to bring moniek's solo material before a wider audience. soundies contains the following work: sand (1980) - for two percussionists with tape (electronics) and one participant from the audience / stormfugle (1981) - for two performers, voice, tape (electronics and voice), slides, film, clarinet and violin / fairy tale (1983) - for vocals, violin and tape (koala sounds and dog-growling) / harpje (1995) - for harp samples and performance / caete (1997) - for soundscapes, live musical objects and duo / verbondenheid (1999) - for voices, turkish turtle and live musicians / turning wheel (2001) - for voice, live violin and soundscape.

Comes in an attractive 4-panel digipak graced with original art by moniek.


Graham Lambkin - Softly Softly Copy Copy KYE 04) CD £10



Softly Softly Copy Copy is the latest cd by Graham Lambkin, following on from 2007's salmon run (kye) and 2008's collaboration with jason lescalleet the breadwinner (erstwhile). softly softly copy copy is a two-part tape compostion - a shoreline odyssey where man and beast wrestle for absolute rule. recorded and mixed in upstate new york over a two year period, and aided by the talents of samara lubelski - violin, and austin argentieri - acoustic guitar.

Mastered by jason lescalleet at glistening labs. comes housed in an elegant 4 panel digipak.