It got away! The hounds are back on the leash for another session, as Montel makes a bid for better days with this all-out charm offensive of serenades, blissed up patter and emotional blackmail, Palmer-style.
The result is 12 tracks steeped in mind games, romance power plays and neurotoxin rollercoasters, with additional bonus strategies to dissociate with minimum dignity.
Big up Kiwi’s Kiosk..
Montel Palmer jump out of the plane with only a HVW8 parachute for company and land squarely on Chlodwig roundabout. Nod to Roy Ayers, nod to secret ingredients, nod to all the auntys and uncles who know where to go when the sun goes down...and then comes back up again…
U.S. pressed 7" flexi album sampler + foldout poster + full album (10 tracks) download code....
"As friends deep into the forest roamed,
they heard a low and wretched moan.
A pack of starkloons, savage and wild,
whooped and danced and drummed beguiled.
Til they faced each other, in dead of night:
a drum battle! To claim the right
Of soul and body to wander free,
beyond the clearing and the lands of tree."
Includes A3 poster print by Frank West . . .
Welcome denizens of disaster, one and all - please make yourselves uncomfortable.
Did anyone ever tap you on the shoulder as you were walking through an unfamiliar land, just to tell you to watch where you’re going? In this interlinked age of protocol-onies and networked nations, the only territory you can’t rely on is your own state of mind.
Mapped-out by a series of second guesses and double takes, Catastropheland is the one place you’re welcome to try and expand your diminished reality. In Catastropheland, the road signs are all traps, the charts are the wrong way round, the jokes fall flat, and it always rains upwards.
Meanwhile, nine tracks of virtual shapes are bounced off the dishes of an orbiting Syncom 7 and beamed straight into your personal space. The quest for the augmented self might not lead to the results you expect, but as a citizen of Catastropheland, your residency permit is never up for review, and you’re only a shipwreck away from being washed-up on a melting shoreline.
The music was performed by Montel Palmer in Cologne during summer 2018
Mastered by The Bastard
