Current mood:

pleased

Numinous Eye LP arrival!
I'm happy to announce that the new Numinous Eye release, the unimaginatively-titled "Studio/Live" from the Little Mafia label, has arrived! I know that some of the distributors have it already, but I finally received a nice heavy box that had the UPS guy wondering why this relatively small box was so heavy. When Loren informed him that it was albums, he asked "Like old records?" Yes, indeedy.

Side A was recorded back at the end of 2005 in Tokyo. I played a show with drummer Koji Shimura (Acid Mothers Temple, Mainliner, Miminokoto, etc) at a little bar called Chikyuya. When we finished, the bar owner introduced me to bassist Higo Hiroshi, who played in the legendary band Friction, and asked if we could play together. I said sure, that would be great sometime. She looked confused for a moment, and then clarified, "How about now?" So Hiroshi borrowed a bass from the opening band, and with Shimura we played a ~20 minute encore jam that is now side A of this LP. Side B's story is simpler, it's studio recordings from 2005 with ex-SubArachnoid Space drummer Chris Van Huffle.

See the newly-spiffied site at http://www.charnel.com/numinouseye and view the beautiful cover below. It was originally going to be screen-printed but I guess the guy who was going to do it flaked. Instead, we used the same artwork on non-glossy stock and it looks neatly old-fashioned. Just like a record album. Oh, and these are limited to 490 copies, on orange vinyl. Pretty pretty.