"He asked me if I had read the stories of a certain Edgar Poe. I told him I knew them better than anyone and had good reason for doing so. The he asked me, in a very emphatic tone, if I believed that this Edgar Poe actually existed. I of course asked him who he thought wrote all the stories. He answered: 'A club of very clever, very powerful writers, who know everything that's going on.' " -Charles Baudelaire, letter to Auguste Poulet-Malassis, January 08 1860
Currently available:
- Blearyeared OST cassette on Tipped Bowler Tapes (available here)
- Warmth/MPA split 7" is out now on Small Doses/Phage Tapes (sold out here)
- mdc14: Something In The Weeds -- distro copies available at Black Horizons (sold out here)
Anything marked available here for six dollars US/eight dollars international or for trade -- email mpa cryptonarrative com for order (paypal/money order welcome). See the Discography for older releases. Thanks to this outstanding review/interview at Kid Shirt there's been a lot of interest in the Vons Serin bonus cdr, so I'm including a copy free with every order -- just make sure to ask for one if you want it.
Coming soon:
- Play Something Slow: favorite out of print and unreleased MPA songs, 1999-2008
- Mar'ah, out soonish on Ruralfaune
- A track on mymwly compilation Hand Rolled Oblivion
- And that's probably it for 2008.
Live:
- no shows scheduled
Unsorted mp3s:
- About As Scary As A Cloudy Day (Crying In My Corpsepaint) (22.8m) -- unused track from the We're A Monotonous Band sessions.
- The Circus Attacked By Lightning (6.91m) -- live excerpt from performance at City of Dogs, Cedar Rapids IA 2005.
- Teraphim Mystery Recording #8 (2.26m) -- excerpt from the TMR series of single-run cassettes.
- A few short instrument samples: mt240 . glaminator . squealerbox . skulleater . mt210 . touch and tell . pigital concussion
There's a pretty minimal bio up now; I'll try to add more soonish. Any questions while we get our shit together should be emailed to mpa at cryptonarrative dot com or else shivayanama at hotmail dot com.
MPA can also be found at Last.fm and myspace and as Provera at noisefanatics and noiseguide.
Thanks: Number None/Rebis, Knorosov, Maths Balance Volumes/Miscegeny, Gryphyns, Raccoo-oo-oon/Night People, MYMWLY, Volcanic Tongue, Hanson Records, Locrian, Black Horizons, To Live And Shave In LA, Peter B, Bread And Animals, Larkfall/Xenis Emputae Travelling Band, Axis Arcadiane, Misanthropic Agenda, Outsound Booking.