Available now from Ascetic House. Cover artwork courtesy of Aesthetikorps.
For a full catalog, please write: 725 W. Brown #21, Tempe, Arizona
1. GODHEAD by A. Jarson - 11 pages, screen printed cover. Spiritual insights to awaken the soul. Text + original artwork.
2. PARAKLETOS (HOLY SPIRIT) by J.S.A. - 17 pages, screen printed cover. One hymn for each month, twelve in total, dedicated to the Holy Sprirt, written from the perspective of 12 different, and troubled, biblical characters. Text + supplementary artwork.
3. DESIRE UNKNOWN by J.S. Aurelius - 10 pages, screen printed cover. A conceptual book of meditations on the “darkest blackness of night”. Original artwork.
4. BEYOND THE FLESH by A. Jarson - 8 pages, screen printed cover. A book of prose soaked in opium and cogniac. written in Berlin, Germany, Praying Monk, Arizona and Cefalu, Italy. Text only.
5. THE BIRTH by J.S. Aurelius - 11 pages. Philosophical treatise dealing with ideas of isolation and ego. Text only.
6. HOW THE MIND OPERATES ON ITSELF by J.S. Aurelius - 9 pages. A short story about a man seeking refuge from his own memories. Text + original artwork.
7. DIMETHYLTRYPTAMINE by A. Jarson - 13 pages. Musings on DMT. Text only.
8. TOWARDS DEATH by J.S. Aurelius - 11 pages. A book of meditations on depression, isolation and death. Text only.
9. A BOOK TO READ TO OTHER BOOKS by J.S. Aurelius - 4 pages. Zen koan in physical form dealing with the futility of searching for enlightenment outside yourself. Text + sandpaper.
10. HOARDER by A. Jarson - 8 pages. Short story dealing with what it is to be human. Text only.
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11. THE WANDERING I by A. Jarson - 17 pages. Short story of self discovery written in 2009. Text only.
12. TOWARDS MADNESS by J.S. Aurelius - 10 pages. Second edition reprint of the 2011 book of cut up poetry dealing with insanity and frustration. Text only.
13. MYSTICAL STATES by L. Locin - 8 pages. Philosophical essay dealing with mystical experiences. Text only.
14. RATIONALITY AND THE WILL by L. Locin - 8 pages. Philosophical essay that argues how the will may surmount rationality. Text only.
Otro Mundo Review
Here’s a review of our cassette “Jellied” from a Denmark blog:
Otro Mundo is Spanish for “another world”. In this case the two words are names of some youngsters from the small town of Tempe in the bone-dry state of Arizona. Four guys who play slacker noisepop and release it on the tapes.
I am a huge sucker for American alternative rock from just about 1983 and a decade - and it seems also to Otro Mundo is. This foursome captures the muddy but melodic post-hardcore sound of Remember You and guitar wailer known as J. Mascis and combines it with psychedelic elements from the happy ’60s. It all smacks of a sense of the good melody but smeared with fuzzy guitar and caught on spartan studio equipment.
Their debut EP called Jellied appeared on tape a few months ago. The poster for the release party was both The Men and like-minded Milk Music. The latter ensured that Otro Mundo was subjected to a shot of hype in the British tabloid music magazine NME as the recommended Arizona-boys as a group worth keeping an eye on in 2012.
Jellied EP can be downloaded free by following the link below. This is done with permission from Otro Mundo through MediaFire. The tape can also be purchased here. Interview with Otro Mundo coming soon.
Jellied Download here: http://www.mediafire.com/?eggtx22tdt4a7wp
Uncle Werewolf does the U-DUB STRUT: SHOW REVIEW -- Cloud Nothings/A Classic Education @ The Crescent Ballroom
stumbled upon this review of a show we played
CLOUD NOTHINGS/A CLASSIC EDUCATION/OTRO MUNDO
FEBRUARY 28TH @ THE CRESCENT BALL ROOM
Expectations were high for Tuesday night’s show at the Crescent Ballroom. The show featured Cloud Nothings (rated an 8.6 on Pitchfork under Best New Music), A Classic Education (dreamy surf/80’s pop from…
"He said, “Your trip was long, illimitable, you came to this raindrop called your life, and call it yours—we have purposed that you vow to be awakened—whether in a million lifetimes you disregard this Kingly Heeding, it’s still a raindrop in the sea and who’s disturbed and what is time—? This Bright Ocean of Infinitude sails many fish afar, that come and go like the sparkle on your lake, mind, but dive into the rectangular blaze of this thought now: You have been assigned to wake up, this is the golden eternity, which knowledge will do you no earthly good for earth’s not pith, a crystal myth—face the A-H truth, awakener, be you not knuckled under the wile of cold or heat, comfort or unrepose, be you mindful, moth, of eternity—be you loving, lad, lord, of infinite variety—be you one of us, Great Knowers Without Knowing, Great Lovers Beyond Love, whole hosts and unnumberable angels with form or desire, supernatural corridors of heat—we heat to hold you woke—open your arms embrace the world, it and we rush in, we’ll lay a silver meeting brand of golden hands on your milky embowered brow, power, to make you freeze in love forever— Believe, that ye have lived forever—overrule the fortresses and penances of dark isolate suffering life on earth, there’s more to life than earth, there’s Light Everywhere, look—"
Kerouac, Desolation Angels 1965
