Cargo Records

Isle Of Dark Magick

Prepare yourself for this gem of free-improvised-found-sound-collage enriched with dark pagan folky vibes and supernatural horror noise dedicated to HP Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Austin Osman Spare!

Most remember Pestrepeller only as the source material for Sonic Boom's (Spacemen 3) Pestrepeller remix album. It's true, while they're a supergroup of sorts and are in their tenth year of existence they've still only released 3 proper albums not including the Sonic Boom remixes. When Pestrepeller does make a sound, they make it count sharing stages with Borbetomagus, David Shea and Alan Turner among others. Pestrepeller consists of long-celebrated illustrator and Wire journalist Savage Pencil, Evan Parker student and ex-Medicine Head member Peter Hope-Evans, comic artist Ed Pinset, cartoonist Harley Richardson and Rob Brown. "A quick trip to a psychedelic plane where Sun Ra's rocksichord pumps up the volume alongside krautrock kozmik couriers Ash Ra Temple, while the long shadow of Dada godfather Marcel Duchamp blots out the sun. The perpetrators are Sav X of Art Attacks/Kray Cherubs/Ether Hogg, cult underground comics artist/writer Ed Pinsent, and guitarist/writer Harley Richardson. -Sympathy Records