The Painful Leg Injuries' The Quicker Are The Encumbered, 3" CD-R on Lona Records is now available! There's only 50 copies being printed, click here to order it ($5 US).

This 6-track collection is in my opinion the best music we've made so far. The tracks include :
1) An Ice Cream Truck Flipped Over and We All Got Some
2) The Broken Elevator's Spiral Descent
3) A Life By The High Tension Wire
4) Frozen Caverns Thrive In These Conditions
5)Everything That Comes In Stages Left In A Birthday Hat
6)I Must Listen To That Which Calls Me Back To The Sea

The Quicker Are The Encumbered is based on Einstein's theory of special relativity, that states that by the time an object has reached the speed of light it's mass would become infinite. Each of the six compositions on this release explore this notion, adding masses of layered sound with varying amounts of velocity in the music. An Ice Cream Truck Flipped Over And We All Got Some opens the set with abstract noise that evolves/devolves into a jingly swirl that reverses the suggestion of the song title. Everything That Comes In Stages Left In Birthday Hat begins with soft melody played by Suzanne on her cello, with Bill's very warped trumpet, that builds into large dynamic moments.

Thanks, everyone.

Happy Memorial Day, everyone.

New podcasts this week, El Plan De Aguavodka gives us an ominous journey through never-ending tunnels with his latest podcast Lullaby For Frank Bono. A very thoughtful, abstract work that's a pretty as it is mysterious.

The Painful Leg Injuries continue our latest series, Living Freely In The Underground Chambers, the PLI's third series of street musician field recordings collaged into new forms of group playing. This episode The Birdman Is Mocking All Of You! centers around samples of one of my favorite New Yorkers. The Birdman is the kind of guy you see if don't have a day job. He's very subversive sitting on the subway making birdcalls that you can't directly identify as him (at first, but once you know who he is, he only fools the German tourists) . The calls start out subtle and then as he walks of the train he will usually belt out loud "scraw!" So, I used samples of his calls as the structure to include a host of street players.

Have a great week and enjoy your holiday.

Thanks to everyone who came out to Monkeytown last night for the OKSRNA record release party.

Little Ricky's House of Chankletas tore the roof off of the proverbial "sucka" with a blistering and hilarious set, merging Lightning Bolt-styled noise, Stefan's operatic vocals, Yuletide cheer, a little Super Mario, and banana clad, uh, guys. I suggest adding witnessing a live LRHC set to the list of things you need to do before you die.



My band, The Painful Leg Injuries had the difficult task of trying to follow Little Ricky's, (one I wouldn't try to do again) so I hope our psychedlic take on David Lynch soundtracks was not too hard of a come down from Little Ricky's sugar-high.

Marco Oppedisano gave us a treat of a dynamic set with three duos with of guitar and Joe Bartollozzi's live electronics. Marco's gorgeous playing is never a let down and this set was a live wire.


New podcasts are now up. El Plan De Aguavodka's latest is a quiet natural whistle of beauty Wind In The Graves. The Painful Leg Injuries return to the Underground Chambers with their 18th series Living Freely In The Underground Chambers. The first piece of my third series of compositions made from recordings of street musicians was all sourced from one strange dairy loving underground experiemental electro-guy, enjoy An SK-1, Some Milk and The Stench of Urine As I Sleep.

Until next week.

Photos (PLI - Bryan Wetzel, Marco Oppedisano - Yours Truly)

Tomorrow night Marco Oppedisano, The Painful Leg Injuries and Little Ricky's House of Chankletas live at Brooklyn's Monkeytown! Click here for info, or to make reservations!

So Youtube mangled parts of my video, which of course I love, check this out!

Apologies, having YouTube difficulties, the video will be back up asap.


Don't miss Marco Oppedisano, The Painful Leg Injuries and Little Ricky's House of Chankletas on this Sunday, May 20th at 8pm at Monkeytown. It's the OKSRNA Record Release Party, celebrating releases by the artists listed above. We'll have copies of PLI's acclaimed If The Devil's In The Details Than How Many Details Can You Fit Upon A Match?, Marco Oppedisano's collection of various electric guitar and electronics workouts called Electroacoustic Works For Electric Guitar. Also the OKSRNA debut of avant-surreal jam band, Little Ricky's House of Chankletas' 27 New York Antisonnets. I will also be providing visuals during the evening. For more info about our show click here.

The final episode of my Conducted by the Wind video-podcast, A Dandelion In February. Next week, I'll begin my thrid series in the Underground Chambers vein which will be called Living Freely In The Underground Chambers. For those of you who are new here, the Underground Chambers podcasts are compositions I've made from lo-fi recordings of New York street musicians. This series will conclude with a twist, on June 20th I will be performing a mix of all my various UC pieces, on the street in NYC. So I will subject myself to the sampling of other electronic musicians. I'll make my recording of that set the 6th part of this podcast series.

El Plan De Aguavodka's latest podcast is friggin' phenomenal. Check it out, it's called Descend, bold traveller (into the crater of the jokul of Sneffels). It captures all the best moments of the recent electronic music movements, ambient, glitch, noise, it's unpredictable and melodic. Seriously, if John gets any more talented I'm going to punch him in the stomach. And he can probably kick my ass, too.

Until next week.

Hey it's been a while since I listed some recommended new CD's so, here's a handful of recent favorites:

1) Aufgehoben - Messidor
The first run out and get right now record of 2007. Finally someone has made a fast-paced, agressive, electro-acoustic improv record. There are points on this thing that get as intense as Lightning Bolt. It's a rusted thicket of barbed wire, rotted wood and you'll love it.




2) Carlos Giffoni - Arrogance
From the first low rumble, Giffoni's improv work on a mono-synthesizer is fierce and unrelenting. It's also full of great sonic detail. It's like Elaine Radigue dropped the spiritual meditation angle, or if Wolf Eyes lost any resemblence to a metal band. It's a killer.

3) Astral Social Club - S/T
Neil Cambell's Astral Social Club is much different beast than his band that he shares membership with Matthew Bower and Richard Youngs, Vibracathedral Orchestra. Though I do enjoy Matthew Bower's various projects (especially Hototogisu) I do think they occasionally lack any kind of surprise. Cambell's Astral Social Club project is completely the opposite, and this release even more so, as it combines and reconoiters many of Astral Social Club's out-of-print CD-R's. It's a drone-fest one one minute, a world music jam another, ambient-electronic and wildly psychedelic another and never feels like a hodge-podge.

4) Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
The slew of reunions over the last three years, across the boards from the avant edge (Throbbing Gristle) to pop (the Police), have predictably had varying degrees of success. There's the top tier, returning with material that stands up to their best quality of work, Mission of Burma, and Wire being a couple examples. The mediocre, such as Big Star and the Stooges (my opinion on the new Stooges album is greatly different from the consensus). The just awful and embarrassing, anyone dig that new New York Dolls? Luckily the new Dinosaur Jr. has them returning to top Bug or You're Living All Over Me form. Their timeless late post punk early grunge mix of Sonic Youth and Husker Du is totally tapped without sounding redundant.

5) Panda Bear - Person Pitch
I got this disc right before I went on a trip and missed all the initial press about it. I expected something along the lines of Panda Bear's Young Prayer. Well, after a few minutes into "Comfy In Nautica" I was totally hooked, and this is just an amazing record. Panda uses every great element of Animal Collective and integrates it with gorgeous Brian Wilson derived pop and delivers a record that has abandoned the normal rock band set-up for much more abstract territory. Highly recommended. This is one of those occasions, where the hype is not only believable, it's accurate.

Welcome back everyone, another week, another drone fest.

The 4th episode, A Budding Branch in video podcast series by the Painful Leg Injuries is a deep thick, riveting drone. El Plan De Aguavodka also hits hard and deep this week with his latest monster, Scaffolding on the LES a Tod Dockstader-esque springing reverb monster.

Until next week!

A quick interview with Marco - Click Here

Apologies for the brief delay, I was having some minor technical trouble with the Painful Leg Injuries Podcast feed yesterday.

Welcome back! May will be an exciting month for us here at OKSRNA, two new releases, are out this month. Little Ricky's House of Chankletas' A New York Romp! and Marco Oppedisano's Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar are both artists' debut release for our little label.

I pushed back the release of The Painful Leg Injuries' Unfrozen Architectural Arrays because our 3" with Lona Records, The Quicker Are The Encumbered will be released soon and I don't want to be one of those electronic guys that has five releases out at one time, even though I kind of am one of those guys. Another reason is due to the fact that Suzanne and I are preparing to move to Austin, Texas. Suzanne will be attending University of Texas at Austin this fall, so we are leaving our beloved Brooklyn behind for the time being, shouldn't have any effect on the OKSRNA label, maybe the podcasts will stop for a few weeks. Anyway, we are finally finishing up The Harmful Free Radicals album so you can expect that and the BIOS album in the late summer/fall.

Among Rocks, Trash and Snow is the third part of the PLI podcast/video series Conducted By The Wind. This one is another dense, mean drone, one I think you'll dig. Hard to Work for all the Noise of Other People's Work is the latest podcast from El Plan De Aguavodka, a thrilling drone piece that comes to a lovely crescendo.

Also, folks, don't forget Marco, Little Ricky's and PLI are playing a release party at Williamsburg's Monkeytown on May 20th, don't miss it. Have a great week.