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Hailing from Brighton, Bolide is an electro-acoustic improvising sextet formed in 2007. Main members are Spiceberg (aka Daniel Spicer), Tom Roberts, The Sultan and other mysterious individuals. Imagine going to a huge locals-only market outside the Medina, the air is heavy and dusty, the smell is funky, it’s noon & you forgot your hat, you see another goat head being cut and you start to think: maybe I’ll ride a donkey back? Imagine you could record the sounds both inside & outside of you in that moment… that’s sort of what Bolide sounds like. Except now, you can avoid the stressful experience and still enchant your neighbour’s snakes by having it in a pro-dubbed & imprinted pea green tape, with a double-printed collage Jcard. Edition of 100. Ultramarine Records.

Scumfried jazz slop from upstate New York meets charred freak sound murk from the UK. Bolide dish out a subtle bowl fried gimprovised jam, far from a face melter, this is a slow, humid, hypnotic affair, tangled and druggy. While the Rochester octet wheeze out three syrupy big band confusers with plenty of squawk and honk supplemented with electronic sputter and distorted bass wang, not to mention some smoked out odes. Large mouths, larger meals and more unmusic for your wedge. “NPV are totally and completely unselfconsciously strange & removed from their surroundings both sonically & mentally. Their sounds speak of bizarre & alien places your ears don't usually go.” - John Schoen, Pengo. Bolide & NPV Octet CDr on Chocolate Monk.