Road Despatch

Winebox05 - Whole Voyald Infinite Light 'The Horse of a Spirit' C30

Last release from Liverpool, and last for a while probably, = heavily zoned late night duo recordings from mid/late summer 2009. Guitars, voices, percussions. Companion release 'Polyhymnia' on Lotus Birth following soon. Meantime, edition of 30 copies from a small sort of a mini shelving unit that i was using for cut wood storage on previous projects. Additional materials ink, nails, tacks, elastic. Cost is £5 inc. UK postage.

Winebox04 - 'Solo Guitar'

Box is DONE and ready for order. Solo sides by: Ross Parfitt; Tom Carter; Matt 'MV' Valentine; Tom Settle; Jon Collin; Infinite Light. Screenprints by: Lucy Jones; Laetitia Glenton; David Bailey. Cost is £30 including UK postage. Edition of 64 copies comes from the front-and-backboards of a really very nice bed. Orders will go out early next week. Wells of thanks to everybody involved - special shout to Lucy for the screenprint.

On the Way...........

Two new wineboxes coming in the coming weeks, hopefully no longer than two of them:

Winebox04 - 'Solo Guitar' 3 x C20 (Ross Parfitt, Tom Carter, Matt 'MV' Valentine, Tom Settle, Jon Collin, Infinite Light)
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Winebox05 - Whole Voyald Infinite Light C30
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Drop a logjam for reserves - thewholevoyald (at) googlemail (dot) com

Growling in the Free World

The Whole Voyald 'In Repose'

Lord....... new release week? Stuart just served up a buffet of new Total Vermin sides, the mashed sweet potato of which is this, a quintet recording from the Heeley Institute, Sheffield, UK, date of December 20th, 2008. Features the classic line-up of Arnot trumpet, Nichols drumset, Serfs guitars, blissed out on this occasion by the festively plump addition of Jon Marshall (Hunter Gracchus) on holy harmonium.

'Burns like Santana circa '74, but with a hangover' - Ja!

'Mexican Divorce'

Hot off the doorstep, direct from Rayon of Lyon, France. 'One side Set-Dog, one JC', more of a separation than a d.i.v.o.r.c.e. Moody wraparound sunset photos hold one side of bird-watching double-neck lap steel and one of straight up six-string tipping a twin peak to Ryland P. Cooder. Goodnight Irene.

Whole Voyald Infinite Light 'Cathexis'

Meant to riff on this TIME ago. Still available in an edition of 60 copies courtesy of Lotus Birth - outhouse/parlour room duo guitar improvisations in a pretty classic line-them-up/knock-them-down configuration born of two sessions that happened circa Christmas '08 and Easter '09 at the respective homes of JC and BD. Fiesta mis amigos. Beauteous illustration is by Lucy Jones of Mount Pleasant.

The dude from Blastitude twittered on it like this: 'Two electric guitars play the zoner blues in a forlorn "Dead Man"/Loren Connors style.' Less of the forlorn, pal.....

Next Winebox in Real Time

Daily - almost daily - updates. More details soon.

'Knock, Knock, Knocking on the Dragon's Door....'

Winebox03, available now - weighing in as a C20 of medium-spiced trans-snake pass showtunes from Vampire Blues duo. Follow-up to last year's Blackest Rainbow cassette - maintains the harmonium/guitar dynamic, in a midwinter post-pest-control situation. 

Edition of 37 copies comes from the starting point of a stool (see 'Winebox' box right), augmented and held together by screws, nails, sand/glasspaper, typewriter ink, regular ink, pencil, spraypaint. Cost is £6 including UK postage, 10% more for paypal senders. For access, unscrew both screws two/three/four rotations anti-clockwise. Please drop an e-bomb on thewholevoyald at googlemail dot com for availability/more details.

'John Train's Blues'

Solo 3" available now on Colour Ride of London, UK. Four live songs recorded around Springtime 2008. Cover seems to be some kind of 'Self Portrait' tribute/reference.

Vampire Blues 'Turkish Petroleum Company'

Available now. Harmonium/guitar throwdowns, JC/JM of the Hunter Gracchus. Label is Blackest Rainbow Recordings of Sheffield, UK. Edition of 100 copies. Some available by emailing me, otherwise try Blackest Rainbow HQ.

Hunter Gracchus cassette is sold out from here - try the band, Blackest Rainbow or Volcanic Tongue.

Winebox02 -The Hunter Gracchus 'Lothal Shipbuilding' C30...

....is a real prince; a steam-cleaner, a vibrational cage fight, six tracks of mainly acoustic bowed/plucked/blown vibe with a dead man tremolo pulse. Available now at a cost of £5 including postage. Edition of 41 copies. 

More details obtainable by emailing thewholevoyald (at) googlemail (dot) com or by visiting the band. See more photographs by visiting the 'Winebox' box stage right. Packaging = drawer, card, screws, nails, ink, elastic, tape. Beautiful.