Dispatch 52: 4 New Thoughts by pallasCatfight

musician and poet pallasCatfight

Dispatch 52: "Both the price and reward of incarnation" is the latest poetic audio offering by pallasCatfight, an alter ego of SF bay Area based poet and musician Heather Salazar. Using just her voice, and knowing just when to break the pause, the thoughts about desire and emotions she delivers becomes a very intimate conversation.
 The poems were released on MCL Recording Co. thru the pallasCatfight Soundcloud page.
 Heather pallasCatfight is one half of psyche-drone duo Solar Maximum.

Dispatch 51: Happy new Solar Maximum...*spacetime distortion

Dispatch 51: With the new year comes a new release from the ultimate drone lords.
(*Some witnesses report actual spacetime distortion) pt1 is the title of this slow, deep emotional soundtrack. True to form, the low bass plows onward allowing the soaring nature of the astrobass to come clear. The temporal beat seems to emanate from under water and merely hints at the rhythm, leaving only room for the feelings angst, the wanting for closure. In the end, no such relief. Pt 2? Maximalist. Purely.
 The track is only available as a stream on the bands Soundcloud page but will hit the MCL Bandcamp store upon release of the EP, sometime very soon. Look back here for details.

Dispatch 49: DS Peligro Vinyl Now Available at MCL Bandcamp!

Thao's Sunday LP with poster insert

Dispatch 49: The DS Peligro album Thao's Sunday is out and  available at the MCL Recording Bandamp store along with the previously released digital download! It was made available with a record release celebration in Venice, Ca. on Oct.15th, just in time for xmas.
 Sit back and enjoy. It's a dark rock album with roots in dub and guitar rock. These eleven fantastic tracks tell a full story that is ripe for interpretation by the open mind of the listener.
  The classic black vinyl 12" album comes with partial dimensional printing on the jackets and the usual for all MCL albums, an inserted handprinted 11x17 poster. All the designing and printing was done at MCLscreenworks. Instead of the boring old download card, all our records have a card inserted prompting one to email us here at MCL Recording and we will send you a digital version for free. (I here the interns are throwing in freebies now and then!).
 Thao's Sunday is available here.

Dispatch 48: Digital Release for Thao's Sunday by DS Peligro (Vinyl Oct.15th)

Dispatch 48: The MCL Recording Co family is very excited to announce the digital release of the newest record by DS Peligro titled Thao's Sunday (MCL438) at Bandcamp. The album is 11 intellectual wanderings down heady side roads. Reflective and beautiful. From psyche to dub to noise and back around to guitar rock. Simply, purely premium experimentalism.
DS Peligro is a one man show, self composing, performing, producing and releasing his unique brand of experimental no-fi since the early 1970's on west side of L.A. and draws on that long pedigree to create some of the most unique and inspiring experimental music today.

The limited edition vinyl version comes with handprinted jackets and poster insert and will be available on about Oct.15th. This digital version is available at the label's bandcamp page.

Dispatch 47: Solar Maximum Releases New "Black Triagles/ExtraDimensional Love EP"

Dispatch 47: MCL Recording Co is happy to announce the release of the new EP by the ultimate drone lords, Solar Maximum. The EP features 2 heavy droning, yearning tracks. As Bill Boethius in England says about the EP, "what a beautiful contrast - the lightly skipping vocals over the deep lugubrious drones ... and yet the vocal is unsettling to .. opens out to a dark and immense dimension. This sets the mind to endlessly speculate on the black triangles on a subliminal level..."
Check it out for yourselves. Fortified with Poetry by pallasCatfight.

Dispatch 46: Solar Maximum Release Full Live Performance Video

Dispatch 46: On a warm summer evening in early September, Solar maximum did an intimately live in-store performance at Hercules Records in Berkeley, Ca. A single stationary camera documented their performance.

Dispatch 45: Solar Maximum Perform Live at Hercules Records in Berkeley

Sammy and Heather are Solar Maximum

Dispatch 45: Sometimes we are fortunate enough to be part of something that will only happen once in a lifetime! The MCL Recording Co. is very happy to announce the live debut by those ultimate drone lords, Solar Maximum! On Tues Sept. 6, 2016 at 7pm they bring their own unique brand of experimental psyche drone to Hercules Records for a rare in-store performance promoting their new album. The limited edition LP's with handprinted jackets and poster is available at Hercules while supplies last. Its also available online at MCL Recording Co. Bandcamp.

 Sammy and Heather started together with their fast and loud stoner-punk thrio Leather Pills in 1999, learning and jamming a whole set of Ramones songs for fun. A twist of fate and Leather Pills went live without a clue!  The Pills kept rehearsing, recording and gigging until 2004, and on more than a few occasions, supporting Marky Ramone and the Speedkings, D.I and The Lewd.  Since then, Sammy and Heather have continued to write and record at home both together and separately. Sammy has also become a principal in the Oakland Ca. music/art collective known as Her Majesty theE Spleen. 
 So in the early summer of 2015, coming together in the couples home studio, plugging in, turning on and tuning out as they say, Sammy and Heather began the sessions that have become the core of the bands existence to this point. Recording almost all of the sessions they have done, each session an event and throughout those events are moments. Those moments are Solar Maximum.

  This will be part of the monthly block party held first Tues of the month at Adeline/Alcatraz in Berkeley, Ca. which always includes Hercules Records, a really cozy indie record shop specializing in new and used rock, blues, soul jazz, hip-hop and Solar Maximum, you know the good stuff. Good selection is always changing and great prices. So come hangout and enjoy a nice festive evening with good friends, vinyl records and Solar Maximum.
"Heavy psychedelic droning riffs are what Solar Maximum is bringing to the party!"