CJA
Born the year of the root, fell on stefan at a party, talked about plagal grind, co started the plop label in hamiltoninjatown, ealry releases included armpit/pumice/crawdads/ideal gus/cybernetic warlords etc...lived in the winterless rodney for a bit, went to art school & concentrated on solo releases (cja) & collabs with witcyst (wictsyt/cja), moved to dunedin & created the rock band the strange girls, joined the futurians, formed wolfskull, collabs (currently have claypipe going with antony milton, jorts with shelterdeath, thorax with dz, pigs of lead with lee noyes, bloodboil with mike palmer), playing live kinda sux, but sometimes fun, cant tune a guitar.
Born the year of the root, fell on stefan at a party, talked about plagal grind, co started the plop label in hamiltoninjatown, ealry releases included armpit/pumice/crawdads/ideal gus/cybernetic warlords etc...lived in the winterless rodney for a bit, went to art school & concentrated on solo releases (cja) & collabs with witcyst (wictsyt/cja), moved to dunedin & created the rock band the strange girls, joined the futurians, formed wolfskull, collabs (currently have claypipe going with antony milton, jorts with shelterdeath, thorax with dz, pigs of lead with lee noyes, bloodboil with mike palmer), playing live kinda sux, but sometimes fun, cant tune a guitar.
Sido Not Dead
** Edition of 200 copies in silk-screened sleeve. ** As reported by Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel, Our Love Will Destroy The World, C-Psi-P): "I narrowly avoided an English-second-language tete-a-tete in Belgium once when I refused to believe in the face of all evidence that Sunn O)))'s newly released Flight Of The Behemoth (2012) was not CJA. I was wrong, but whatever... I was already ascending Lucifer's path to the stars not garbed in chic grim-robes but a pilling homespun jersey that …
Silent Blood
New Full length from Armpits CJA. Even though a recurring theme throughout is a reflection upon the amount of time spent on his PC (the same analogue sound as ever, but the use of digital layering tech adds extra depths to the hum) this disk still has that wonderful lofi droniness, and CJA is as resolutely himself as ever. Includes an epic that threatens to rival the incredible headache. Degradation can be a beautiful thing.
Ironclad
This is the same Clayton Noone who isn't (but will soon be) a legend; the same man behind the art-punk Futurians and junk-noise Armpit. Nevermind his super obscure CD-R- only collaborations with Last Visible Dog label-mate Antony Milton, going under the name 'Claypipe.' Ironclad however differs from so much of Noone's output in that it is both more personal and more accessible. While none of the trappings of the low-fi New Zealand noise aesthetic are gone, this is more gentle, more melodic; a fo…