Asylum Lunaticum by Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Bär

Intimate, absurd, feral and aggressive in its homemade weirdness, the music of Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Bär is deceptively simple - typically created using just their voices, a cassette-tape recorder and a microphone. Their astonishing suburban dramas are both charming and psychotic, frequently at the same time.

The husband-and-wife duo have self-published their Fluxus-influenced sound poetry and noise experiments on small-edition lathe-cut LPs, tapes, and CDRs for years, usually adorning them with elaborate junk sculptures and unique paintings. "Asylum Lunaticum" collects the best from their impossibly scarce early releases in one place. An ideal entry-point into the singular Hjuler/Bar universe. Recommended if you'd rather spend the big bucks on food and rent and if folks like Henri Chopin, Raymond Dijkstra, Ultra Eczema, Paul McCarthy, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Mike Kelley, LAFMS, Dylan Nyoukis, and/or Aaron Dilloway get you all excited.

Former label for experimental-type music. Foolishly founded by Howard Stelzer in 1997, mismanaged for more years than necessary, and finally put out of its misery in 2012. This page exists to keep some titles available.