ELLENDE

Album	Format	Label & Cat. Number	Description	Year	Price (incl. 19% VAT)
Bitter Lemons	mCD-R	Taalem alm 18	oldest available release by the South African / Japanese mystery collective, these two tracks are of a rough / scraping / low fi ambient noise nature (sound objects are used and abused), with droning synth electronics and occasional spoken word elements, somehow eerie & surreal and trance-inducing... back in stock!	2004	€5.50
Growing A Beard, Driving A Bike With A Naked Girl On Your Lap Does Not Make You A Man	MC	Impulsy Stetoskopu IS027	back in stock last copies of this lim. tape (C-60) that was released after years of silence by the promising and mysterious (at that time anonymous) South-African / Dutch "experimental drone" project; this MC contains two live recordings (New York City 09.2009 + Pieterburen, NL, 06.2008) with rumbling transcension synth muzak.., lim. 100 professional cover	2011	€9.50
Odyssey, A Sentimental Journey	BOOK + 2 x 10inch	Smeerlappen - SMEERLAP 2	collector's item: impressive art-book (38 pages) and two 10" vinyls with four sides of dark nostalgic, acoustic / improv drone pieces by the mysterious South African art collective (residing in Tokyo), recorded in Cape Town 2018; the text in the book is centered about the odd sexual experiences of founding member Wim Bontjes with "Geishas" in Japan in the 90's, accomponied by "women's death-masks-like faces" graphics... beautiful and disturbing at the same time! ; numbered ed. of 300 copies, Japan import	2019	€38.00
Unintentional Consequences	10inch	Smeerlappen - SMEERLAP 3	the second part of the trilogy that started with "Odyssey", again centered around an autobiographical text about strange experiences made in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1970's... => multilayered, dusty, nostalgic ambience, full of warmth and melancholy... comes with excellent, somehow surrealistic / disturbing artwork (with printed stones on the sleeves, covering images of female dummy heads on the cover, with great effect), gatefold cover, 12 page booklet, lim. 150; excellent release again!	2021	€18.00
HALLO KAPTEIN	mCD-R	Smeerlappen - SMEERLAP	ETERNALLY ILLUSIVE DRONESOUP - another exceptional, highly unexpectable release by ELLENDE - this has more the form of an experimental collage, with dozens of hypnotic layers of found sounds they collected in a database starting already in the early 2000's, this extreme "overdubbing" concept lead to this release which was recorded & mixed already 2010/2011... it sounds pretty musical with sounds connected that you would normally not place together.. - lim. 25 copies only, with 20 page booklet in 5" case	2022	€9.50
10inch Trilogy Boxset	4 x 10inch + 7inch BOX	Smeerlappen - Smeerlap 008	collector's item! This beautiful handmade cardboard box holds all three 10" releases that appeared lately (Odyssee do-10", Unintentional Consequences 10", Plantation 10"), plus an extra 7" and a lovely 68 pages book = the story about ELLENDE's past in Cape Town; lim. 30 copies only, the definite jump into the "Eternally Illusive Dronesoup" of this most obscured and unique project from South Africa /Japan / Netherlands...	2024	€85.00
Plantation	10inch	Smeerlappen - 007	warm & ethereal synth ambience that holds an almost surrealistic melancholy inside.. this is the third part in a trilogy, dealing with ELLENDEs past in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1970's.. - the Plantation was their studio which got destroyed by a fire.. lim. 100 copies	2024	€15.00
This is My Song	MC	Smeerlappen - SMEERLAP 009	a very sensitive new 4-track tape by the South African / Japanese project with dutch roots, dealing with the shortness of "things" (life, relationships, etc.) and the ideal length => slowly moving ultra melancholic drone breezes, filled with emotions about loss and transitoriness that give deep consolation at the same time... - cassette ed. lim. 30 copies! - "And that's what great music should do: bring light and joy in a dark world." [FdW/Vital Weekly]	2024	€9.50