The HausLive series continues with new Moth Cock!
HausMoNauts Hear Ye! HausMo continues the HausLive series of live show recordings that capture some of the headiest moments in Chicago underground music, following volumes from Sunwatchers and Good Willsmith with a pair of Chi-town gigs from Kent, Ohio’s legendary carnival-core-free-jazz-noise duo Moth Cock — compiled together into HausLive 3: Chicago Twofer. The series channels the spirit of the informal bootlegging and tape trading of audience recordings as pioneered by the community surrounding the Grateful Dead, honing in on the raw live energy and in-the-moment emotions that make each show stand out in the stream of time. Selected as part of the label’s ongoing collaboration with the prolific Chicago taper and HausMo mega-friend Joel Berk, HausLive 3: Chicago Twofer documents two of Moth Cock’s sets at beloved DIY spaces in Chicago in 2023: one in May at Not Not, and another in December at Digital Art Demo Space (DADS) as part of the label’s HausMo Holiday Bash. Presented as a single release with two 40+ minute sets, HausLive 3: Chicago Twofer continues Moth Cock’s streak of continual evolution as an unpredictable live act whose loosely structured improvisations spiral off into confounding zones capable of inducing the deepest altered states of mind and body. The album represents a notable shift in Moth Cock’s recorded output from performances recorded for various remote livestreams during the pandemic back into the realm of live shows, a shift that corresponds with the ongoing reawakening and fresh openings of DIY spaces old and new that Chicago has seen over the last couple years of burgeoning underground activity.
d’Eon returns with Leviathan
HausMo Hear Ye! We’re pleased as pudding to present the second HausMo album from Montreal-based composer/producer d’Eon. With his ongoing focus on ornately composed digital chamber music that highlights synthetic orchestral tones and cascades of complex melodicism, Leviathan offers us an evolution of the forms explored on Rhododendron and Music for Keyboards Vol. 3 and 4 while leading us onward into untrodden pastures for the d’Eon project. Leviathan comes out on June 21st on tape, CD, t-shirt w/ DL code, and digitally via Bandcamp and all the other zones!
first HausMo of 2024: FIN – Cleats
Greetings HausMoNauts! So excited to share some spectacular news with you on this fine day. FIN returns to the HausMo catalog, a minute after 2017’s Ice Pix, with a new album of gorgeous idiosyncratic self-produced pop music. bizarro baroque jams, hymns for a ceremony in a holographic cathedral. Cleats comes out on May 31st on cassette, CD, and digitally.
music video by Mimi Bowman https://www.instagram.com/dallemimi
new zones from Quicksails / Tiger Village
OUT TODAY and available just about everywhere you listen to music:
⚫ Quicksails – “Surface”
👁️ Tiger Village – “The Celebration”
Two groundbreaking electronic albums from some of the deepest, most classic, most midwestern HausMo head artists known to us!
HausMo Honcho Batch
That’s right HausMoNauts – new albums from your HausMo Honchos – those two silly boiz who first climbed the mountain – the only two men who can communicate with The Great Porpoise King – Doug & Max.
Welcome to Euglossine’s Bug Planet
We’re thrilled to welcome Euglossine back into the HausMo village with Bug Planet Is the Current Timeline:
Dustin Wong returns to HausMo
Hey HausMoNauts – so excited to bask in the summer sun with you to these beautiful new tunes from Dustin Wong, returning to HausMo with his first album since 2018’s Fluid World Building 101 with Shaman Bambu.
Perpetual Morphosis presents a hybridized vision in which Wong’s previously long-held practice focused on live-looped guitar sessions is simply one element in his all-encompassing electronic productions. The album finds him further developing his affinities for digital instrumentation and complex sound design, all while positioning himself as the guitarist and vocalist at the heart of his multi-layered performances.