some old Hockyfrilla stuff

Spirit and Spector (Chocolate Monk)

“Some archival recordings from this annoyingly reclusive duo from Edinburgh. You may well know Rhian (aka CKDH) from doing time in Giant Tank, jamming with Kuupuu, looking fierce in The Barbarians, and she was recently seen performing as part of Smegma at the Smell in LA. Dora Doll was a founding numbnut of Prick Decay/Decaer Pinga, has performed in Smell & Quim and terrorized many a young man at 'noise' shows in her time. “Spirit & Spector” is a miasma of electrical smoke, the sound of wheezing subterranean light bulbs & a bucket load of mechanical schlub worms all wrapped up in the collapsing essence of muscled women. It all sounds broken to me, but hey you don't need no opulence, pauper.” – Dylan Nyoukis.

Vulpes Vulpes

'Murky electro-paralysis that moves in slow-spooling codes of ugh through barely-illuminated landscapes of blood, mud and aggressively formulated minimalism.' - Volcanic Tongue 

'Hockyfrilla makes some amazing continuous sounds and noises. Lots of plastic toys are mixed in free interplay with percussive wooden objects from non-western cultures. Perhaps this is Inuit technology at work here. There is certainly a machine like quality to some of the rolling continuities found in the temporal abyss of Hockyfrilla. This is also very well expressed on the disk Vulpes Vulpes...
'This disk is really really good, especially if you like mind melting washes of harmonic feedback and tape echo-esque friction.' - Jorge

I have to admit to a great ignorance for much of what happens in Brighton ... The scrape of Mr Nyoukis’s work has been there in the background seeping its way into the grey matter almost by osmosis but as for hard matter then no, none. At least now I have these two to go on. Hockyfrilla being Nyouki’s sister Dora Doll ably abetted by sole other female companion Rhian. A female duo then and how short are we of them? The more females inhabiting the male dominated experimental, noise drone arena the happier I am. Thus I am now in a state of half lidded, all knowing bliss having bathed the ears first in the twenty minutes or so of Vulpes Vulpes and then Feld Mose.

Catching up is never a chore and discovering that Dora Doll and Rhian make a kind of dying equipment, all falling apart, scuzzy, no-fi drone in which everything disintegrates into its constituent parts [at least on here it does] fills me the kind of joy equalled to that of discovering that your digs in Brighton has a quirky Belgian restaurant across the road that sells Bruges Zot. Three tracks and twenty minutes that scour the drone landscape with an array of dry joints, feedback, rustling and general murkiness all of which produces some kind of altered consciousness in those od-ing on Sussex ale. It must be the pebble beaches or the genial atmosphere that contributes to it all but I’m a fan. - Idwal Fisher

Cerebral Odyssey IV (Giant Tank)

The Polly Shang Kuan Band / Hockyfrilla  (Sickhead Tapes)

 

Broken Brain (V/A, Chocolate Monk)

Hockyfrilla / Deepkiss 720 (Archivo De Sangre De Dios)