Coming in 2010:
Solo Guitar/Electronics album on Resipiscent

Preview:
Kiss of Fire
The Furious Harpy

Mute Socialite
Cheap Clocks 7"

"...cartoon-music like melodies and distorted riffs delivered with thrashcore levels of intensity, and the background swirls with various weird percussion sounds and herk-jerky rhythms being pounded out on junk objects, prepared guitar noise and tapes. Mute Socialite are in a similiar vein of heavy skronk as bands like Naked City, Last Exit and Flying Luttenbachers, and there's lots of free jazz in their sound with both songs often collapsing into all-devouring black holes of improvised blast, emitting a dense roar of horns, guitar noise, electronics and blastbeats before kicking right back into their funky cartoon jazz groove and angular prog.This 7" is limited to 531 copies and comes in a variety of orange vinyl variations and a couple of different covers." -CRUCIAL BLAST

Violet Smith

Mute Socialite
More Popular Than Presidents and Generals

"Mute Socialite... draw freely from free-jazz, improv, metal, and noise to create pounding and unorthodox sonic vignettes that are impressive for their velocity as well as their technical dexterity... the songs are engaging and controlled... and there's nothing fey or abstract about their demanding sonic wallop. This is an experimental / free-jazz album that hardcore metalheads can appreciate (or should that be the other way around?), with plenty of dynamics and surprising changes in direction to go with the hyperkinetic drumming, machine-gun riffing, and howling guitar excess." - The One True Dead Angel
"Rapid-fire, agile pieces, a slashing noisy attack with thickly dissonant chords. A sense of abandon but played with precision. Solid, crisp rhythms and speedy riffs -- so you can rock out *and* enjoy your brutal harsh noise all at once...The skeleton of prog's multifaceted writing, the blood of 150-degree speed metal, the overcaffeinated nerves of well executed punk rock." -Craig Matsumoto, KZSU Zookeeper

Lindsay/Mendoza/Smith/Walter
Jus

Jacob Lindsay (Ab, Bb, bass and contrabass clarinets); Ava Mendoza (guitar); Damon Smith (7-string ergo-bass and lloopp) and Weasel Walter (drums, percussion and bagpipe chanter)

"... tapestries of microtonal and adumbrating silences are woven into many of the tracks on Jus... As the growling undertow from the contrabass clarinet remains almost static, a sequence of pitch-sliding string movements takes centrestage. Adagio in tempo, Mendoza’s finger-styled picks and multi effects link up with Smith’s seminal string shaking and Walter’s rolls, pops and drags until the interface fades into intermittent silences." -Ken Waxman, Jazzword

"This is a particularly strong improv date from four of the Bay Area's finest." - Downtown Music Gallery

Ava Mendoza
Corporeal Crises

    A collection of tape (fixed media) pieces, created 2004-2007. The pieces form a five-part series based on the human body-- voice, blood, muscles, guts, and brain. Chaotic but highly organized, harsh but still melodic at times. Mixing board feedback, prepared guitar, tape-generated noise, moog and other analog synths, and Max/MSP were used.

to the larynx! metastasis
blood.pulse's memento song