ghostbox cowboy by nqthqn

this guitar exploration finally asks the question, “what if travis went out into the desert but never actually came back”? ry cooder twangs start to melt, warp, bend and fall apart into a pile of dead bones for the vultures to chew on as the narrative changes turns like a tumbleweed and landscape morphs into unfamiliar dream/nightmare terrain.

A horizon is constructed, then deconstructed before your eyes and hills crumble down from erosion into sand piles late night winds… dehydrated, and exhausted…total heat-wave mirage with prickly pears that sting like Reinaldo Arenas’ Hallucinations

No water. No hope. No growth.

This release marks a return to early “prepared guitar” projects “Noise Reduction” (2006) and “Eliminate Death Phobia” (2006) and The Marf Loth Loloply (2006-2008) and is the first release under the project nqthqn after ten years of heavy distorted and foggy wall-of-sound improvisational concerts with CIA Debutante over the world it was now the time to put the overdrive pedals away and go direct straight cut to the bone, front porch avant-garde in anti-perfection, anti-AI replication total mess for the cane fields to wince.

The rules are simple: No effects, clean, finding and unfinding sound in the same space..

ghostbox cowboy is the name of a relatively unknown 2018 film by John Maringouin…

Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Loren Connors, US Maple unplugged, Nina Garcia, Patrick Lombe, Mai Mai, Li Jianhong, John Fahey etc
you know the drill.. this is the oil.

ROYA BLUES ABSTRACT.

Recorded by Cody Monroe
At Stranded Studios
2025

Label based in China, releases experimental/weird/beautiful/unknown music from China and beyond.