“Sorry For Laughing” is the solo project of Gordon Whitlow, who has been part of the Biota collective for four decades. I followed his work since the beginning, so when he approached me to collaborate on a project involving dusty old hammond organs, a wheezy old accordion and various string driven things, I had no hesitation in shouting a loud “YES!!” As the project progressed , the idea arose of inviting Martyn Bates (Eyeless In Gaza) to join, who is another artist I’ve admired on a creative and personal level since the dawn of the Dots.

When violinist extraordinaire, Patrick Q.Wright is added to the mix, as well as interjections from Kiyoharu Kuwayama, Janet Feder and Nigel Whitlow, then a thing of serious beauty became inevitable.

The wonderful Klanggalerie released this small wonder as an immaculately packaged cd over here: www.klanggalerie.com/gg358

Slated for release on July 16th, pre-orders can be made for Curse and Island of Jewels.

Both newly remastered albums will soon be available in digital, CD and double vinyl formats with the vinyl as a limited edition of 500 copies.  Please use the linked images below for detailed information on the album, shipping and placing an order.

Curse

 Both releases include extra songs that were not on the original release from the 80s.

Curse bonus material is over both Sides 3 and 4 (or tracks 9 through 13), about 8 minutes previously unreleased and includes a fine remaster of the first version of “A Day At The Dreamies” and “Premonition 5” – all of which were in the timeframe of that album.

Island of Jewels

Island Of Jewels
Side 3 (or tracks 13 and 14) is the “Curious Guy 12/Premonition 16 ” 12″ single which always belonged to that album rather than The Lovers …it simply put history in it’s place. 

Side 4 (or tracks 15-20) is mostly unreleased (or at least very rare) material including a spectacular discovery of a version of “This Could Be The End” with Julia Niblock on lead vocal.

The Legendary Pink Dots- Chemical Snapshots

Edward Ka-Spel- The Neon Moon Weeps Tonight

By the way, what are Bandcamp Fridays?

On the first Friday of every month since March of 2020, Bandcamp has waived their revenue share to help support the many artists who have seen their livelihoods disrupted by the pandemic.  Read more about it here.

It may be a while before it emerges as vinyl pressing plants move at a snail’s pace right now, but I’ll be thrilled to see this one eventually emerge as a 10″.

Description:
The idea of a release by the founder of The Legendary Pink Dots on Lumberton Trading Company had been mooted for a number of years. In fact, we were close to issuing a 7″ around 11 or 12 years ago, but this fell through due to the usual problems facing small labels. The idea of still doing something with this prolific stalwart of music cut from those many folds where avant-garde abstraction locks horns with molten psychedelia, kosmische sounds, electronica and an approach to songwriting never afraid to go wherever the mood take, however, never left. Attached to all of this, as always, are Edward’s words, where wry everyday observations can mutate or be twisted into new forms given a distinctive surrealist slant.

Collected on this limited 10″ are five songs adding up to the length of a mini-album.

Edward may well be one of the most active artists to have first emanated from the early 1980s cassette network, but Lumberton Trading Company is more than happy to play a small part in this continually unfolding, and always interesting, story.

The masters are now in the hands of the plant, but please note that there are still significant delays with vinyl manufacturing, unfortunately. We hope we will have test pressings in June 2021 and that the records themselves will be ready to ship by the end of August. Perhaps we’ll be lucky and this will happen sooner.

You can pre-order now to secure your copy anyway.

Come Out From The Shadows Volume 4 – Live At Lounge Ax, Chicago can also be pre-ordered on Rustblade.

DELUXE ULTRA LIMITED ART PAINTED FAN BOX  only 33 copies!

• Double Marble Transparent Orange Vinyl live at Lunge Ax Chicago
• Bonus live vinyl live in Philadelphia
• Double gatefold cd
• Insert & 2 art posters (one signed by Matilde Giudicelli)
• Live in Philadelphia Test Pressing vinyl
• bonus cd -r live in philadelphia (complete show)
• Sculptured and painted box by Matilde Giudicelli (www.matildegiudicelli.com) each box is different

Limited deluxe Box– only 149 copies world wide!

• Double Marble Transparent Orange Vinyl
• Bonus live vinyl live in Philadelphia
• Double gatefold cd
• insert & art poster

2LP Box– 299 copies only!

• Limited Deluxe vinyl box with yellow vinyl and insert

Double Gatefold CD– limited edition