Epidose 23 - Flod In The Bunket

Imagine building an enormous sandwich packed full with all the world's rugs. That would take some serious eating. How big would one's mouth have to be to munch the ultimate rug sandwich? Pretty big mouth, I'm saying.  Spreading alternate layers of mayonnaise and mustard upon each rug before lifting the next carefully into place.

Listen Now.

Not all rugs are equal in size. It would be instructive to order them with the largest at the base. The modern world needs more wonders: behold, the Great Rug Pile of Prestonpans.

• Galoshins - The 4th Chord
• Raik's Progress - Sewer Rat Love Chant
• Los Marauders - Hell Will Come High Water
• Meredith Monk - I Don't Know
• Children Of Sunshine - Harmony
• XXYYXX ft Anneka - Overdone
• Eggs - Saturday's Cool

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Epidose 22 - Ruff Duck

A foul wind blew from the west, and deathly silence fell across the land. Winter fell.  The ground hardened, crusted over with ice sheets as hard as granite. Our hearts needs must become as the speckled lights of a hundred million tiny candles each kept sheltered and nourished through neverending night.

Listen Now.

It's Britpop Memorial Day down on Jollity Farm, and the bells ring wide with the mellow tinkling sounds of:

• Manic Street Preachers - IfWhiteAmericaToldTheTruthForOneDayItsWorldWouldFallApart
• Mission Of Burma - Weatherbox
• Passenger Of Sh*t - Suck Worms Out My Farting C**t
• Alice Donut - What?
• Luke Haines - I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass
• Jarvis Cocker - Running The World

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Epidose 21 - Hollentide Revels

Hoppo, Stadlin, Hellwain, Puckle:
Mony's the mickle that macketh th' muckle.

Listen Now.

Firestone, Malkin, Jinny-the-Green,
The crones of the coven work curses unseen,
Work hexes of horror to succour your fears,
Deathly, the evil they bring to your ears:

• The Hare And The Moon - The Willows
• Twink with Steve Peregrine Took - The Coming Of The Other One
• Balzac - Beyond Evil 308
• Fred Myrow, Malcolm Seagrave - Phantasmagoria / Silver Sphere Disco (from Phantasm)
• The Mellomen - Trick Or Treat For Halloween
• Captain Beefheart - When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy
• Blixa Bargeld, Nick Cave, Mick Harvey - Murder (from To Have And To Hold)
• The Mellomen - Trick Or Treat For Halloween (reprise)

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Twenty minutes. No refunds.

Epidose 20 - The Happenstance Way

The mist grows heavy, the cobblestones slicken and black, and treacherous rumours go murmuring along dark alleyways. Lantern candles amber the faces of wanton gargoyles, and polyvinyl curtains slap like sea-leather from cullis windows.  Out into this night ventures our hero, sideways-peeking behind from corner-folds, and yet though he does not pass unseen, by the gods he passes unnoticed...

Listen Now.

Pausing by a dismal doorway just long enough to find shelter from drizzle, he hears the drifting sounds of:

• The Ilk - Powerplant
• Kid Spatula - Shakermaker
• Maxïmo Park - Limassol
• Monitor - Amphibious
• The Kites - Bike Ride Pt. III
• Kimio Eto - Sakura, Sakura

Be vigilant! Whispered words may yet be dropped from eaves, treacherous rumours snagged upon concealed skyhooks.  Send your learnings to gcuesoterica@gmail.com for further analysis.

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Epidose 19 - Crow, Dog, And Bobby Hogg

It is certainly impossible to think; impossible, really, to do anything at all.  Circularity inhabits the wheel, and sheer exhaustion is all that keeps us pushing it forward.  Had we only the energy to see it, we might then have the energy to stop.  Centuries are dust; civilizations only the marginal scribblings in a disregarded apocrypha, the footnotes to the appendix of a volume of inconsequential trivia.

Listen Now.

In the abandoned archive, a cobwebbed librarian is trying to make sense of the following messages:

• Negativland - Time Zones
• White Noise - Love Without Sound
• Circus Devils - Yellow Cloud
• Kiyoshi Kobayashi & The Gypsy Swing Gang - Sous Le Ciel De Tamagawa
• S*** And Shine - Seeing Life Through A Young Man's Eyes
• Law Holt - Coins For You
• Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On

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Epidose 18 - Jam Bat Sonar

Throw open your curlews, gentlefolds, and behold the tremulous chirruping of damsel-pies in dewy-fronded distress.  What menacingly trite apparitions come emanating from yonder dismal crenels and merlons?  Be it bunyip?  Or quinkin?  Ebu Gogo?  Popobawa?  Oh, all of these, all of these crawling slimy things, all the nightmares that lay a clammy flap upon the prickling neck...

Listen Now.

All throughout the night come the wingtips of a moth to brush against the cheek, and the whispered sounds of:

• OOIOO - Gamel Uma Umo
• Silver Apples - Oscillations
• Marc Hollander - DBB (Double Bind Baby)
• Ant-Bee - Eating Chocolate Cake (In the Bath)
• Brothomstates - Qtio
• Bran Van 3000 - Stepchild

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Epidose 17 - Boneseeker Beach Barbecue

On the summit skyline, a series of T-shapes in silhouette against thunderclouds. The bearded ones wander freely, unnoticed and undetected.  Is it such a terrible thing, this thing they do?  Since when has justice not allied herself to persecution?  Parking restriction notices are the impenetrable glyphs of the apocalypse.

Listen Now.

The warden comes a-wombling with his blackbook and pen, whistling the following jaunty melodies:

• Adrian Baker - Vibrations
• Gros Phoque Sergio - Fruits
• Ivor Cutler - I Worn My Elbows
• Mayo Thompson - Venus In The Morning
• Kuricorder Quartet - Apao's Trip
• Narcoleptics - Bombs Away
• Luke Abbott - 2nd 5th Heavy
• Grandaddy - Go Progress Chrome

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