Live Aoiheya January 2003 documents an entire brief performance by this unique band, incidentally the first Maher show that Chapter boss Guy Blackman saw after moving to live in Japan in 2002 (he returned to Melbourne in 2004). It captures the band in a variety of guises unusual even for them, including an extended abstract [...]
Guy Blackman In Japan is a ragged but atmosphere-rich document of Guy’s time in Tokyo (September 2002 – March 2004). It features five songs recorded in one afternoon, with one microphone, the weekend before Guy got on a plane back to Melbourne, plus three songs recorded at the last live gig he played in Tokyo. [...]
Fourteen amazing Japanese folk-psych bands, most part of a Tokyo scene centering around the Majikick label, run by Ueno and Saya of the Tenniscoats, with older bands Maher Shalal Hash Baz and Nagisa Ni Te as two primary inspirations.
A reissue of Primitive Calculators’s sole album recorded in 1979, plus six bonus tracks (four by the Primitive Calculators, one by the Moths, and one by a nameless Primitive Calculators/Whirlywirld hybrid recorded in the UK), and a rarely seen video made for the I Can’t Stop It single by band friend Janis Lesinskis.
By Wagons Released March 2003
First and foremost, above any considerations of seriousness or parody, Wagons are a songwriting project. Henry Wagons’ skill with words and melody is a thing to behold on tracks like Send A Message and the album’s title track. He creates an archetypical, and of course parodic, country universe but within that explores personal ideas of [...]
A collection of gold nuggets from the Chapter archives, including tracks from long out of print cassettes and vinyl singles, plus exclusive tracks from a number of Chapter’s 2002 roster, such as Minimum Chips, Wagons, Sleepy Township and Tren Brothers. Imncludes a quicktime video for Jeremy Dower’s song Windy Ponies.
Sonic Investigations Of The Trivial compiles Essendon Airport’s first single from 1979, recorded on Wurlitzer piano, electric guitar and drum machine, their 1980 single with Anne Cessna, their contribution to the compilation New Music 1979-80 released on Innocent Records in 1983, and six previously unreleased live recordings from Essendon Airport’s first performance in 1979.
An essential collection of Minimum Chips’ early singles, compilation tracks and unreleased material, all recorded from 1994-1998 in Brisbane. With a sixteen page full colour booklet crammed with Minimum Chips photos, flyers, t-shirt designs and record cover designs, Portfolio is a beautiful document of an extraordinarily talented but slightly underachieving band.
By Jeremy Dower Released February 2002
Seven tracks of gentle, multi-layered faux-jazz electronica, featuring the pulsating shoulda-been a club hit Kermit Green. 12″ EP SOLD OUT – DIGITAL SALES ONLY!
By Jeremy Dower Released February 2002
Seven tracks of gentle, multi-layered faux-jazz electronica, featuring the pulsating shoulda-been a club hit Kermit Green. CD SOLD OUT – DIGITAL SALES ONLY!
