MOWING DOWN ROSES: 9/26/2023, One Guitar, Two Pedalboards, and Two Amps.
THE RED DESERT: 9/27/2023, Amplified Bul-Bul, Looper, and Electric Guitar.
THE CLEAN STORY: 10/9/2023, Effected Vocals and Electric Guitar.
SCREAMING BIRDS OF PYREX: 10/10/2023, Drone Machine and Electric Guitar.
A SMALL THING: 10/11/2023, Electric Guitar.
I hope you guys like this but, more importantly, I hope it can provide some benefit to the world. I think that music is the only thing in the universe.
‘So If You Want’ is the lyrical counterpart of the dark, at times unsettling ‘Mosisac’, and this compilation is a collection of mostly unreleased Batfinks tracks. He had been testing , with ‘lathe cut vinyls’, three albums, Dolly, False Fades and Wasps At Home. His family decided to carry on having a few albums made for his friends, later uploading them to Bandcamp. ‘Suzy Said’ and ‘All the Same’ are on the albums because Ste’ had originally released them on cassettes.
‘So If You Want’ is unmistakably Batfinksesque, but we also discover another side of the multi-faceted artist. We’ve heard him sing before, but never on ten tracks in a row – and on such a serious note. Quirky. Multi-instrumental. Eclectic. Absurd. Touching. Out there. Godspeed, wherever you are.
Many thanks and an incredible amount of respect to Chris for contacting us about these unreleased tracks.
Let this voice be theirs and let these sounds break the borders that restrict and kill them.
khassarat means LOSSES in arabic.
harald – guitar
nabil – bass
hamza – drums
ghas – lyrics / vocals
Recorded by Max Gosselin
at Showmedia Studios, may 2023
artwork and layout by ghas
a big thank you to our friends for their support and a special thank you to sandra for helping us with the arabic writing
Max writes: “My father was deeply passionate about music, physics, general science & socialism – all passions which I not only share, but which have shaped my life in ways that are impossible to understate. This track is dedicated to him with love.”
“We welcome back long time contributor John Beers aka Luciftias with a new album of subtle droning ambient, featuring contributions of his cousin and collaborator Caleb Beers. Like most of their work, Staring Into Oblivion is based on guitar sounds, often heavily treated but more recognizable on some tracks here – always hypnotic.”
