peasant magik items
SPECIAL
Buy any 5 available releases, Peasant Magik items only. You must list the catalog number. Example: pm50, pm46, pm45, pm32, pm30. Double tapes count as two items, triple as three.




pm69 sun stabbed 'the world upside-down' cs
Following up a killer cdr on Pseudo Arcana, the French duo of Pierre Faure and Thierry Monnier return with over 40 minutes of expertly crafted, drifting guitar feedback. Ranging from Sunroof!-esque shimmering skree to glacial amplifier buzz.




pm61 sean mccann 'the truth is marching in' cs
Blistering circus whirl and warble. Reminiscent of wandering around a casino in the early morning. Slot machine melodies pan in and out of focus, all memories of the outside world fade, and everything around you is covered in a smokey haze.




pm51 antler piss 'ancestral feedings' cs
Every time I listen to this I am left with a n overwhelmingly uncomfortable feeling. Like I just witnessed someone drowning a squirrel in a trash can full of rain water. Number one in the leftover cassette series.




pm48 the north sea 'hundred flowers' cs
Brad Rose as been channeling some seriously heavy vibes lately. Picking up where Ajilvsga left off, Rose spews forth even more thick unholy shimmer. Hints of past pursuits loom just beneath the surface, lush forest drones are completely overpowered by caustic metallic doom.




pm47 ajilvsga 'three heaps of skulls' cs
With their third release for Peasant Magik, Ajilvsga push their sound even further. Huge slabs of densely layered scum continuously churn while Rose and Young summon shards of electricity from the high heavens.




pm46 hoor-paar-kraat 'graduating from clocks to watches (eureka tapes vol. II)' cs
The sound world that Anthony Mangicapra inhabits is totally unlike any other. Each listen reveals hidden elements and previously unheard sounds. Singular drones conceal a fragile universe of manipulated field recordings and mangled reverb. Meticulously constructed and skillfully executed, Hoor-paar-kraat displays a serious mastery of craft, frequently unheard of in an over saturated scene.




pm45 korperschwache 'fear the hex' 3xcs
Black Canyon Drone starts things off right away with a blast of hyper distorted guitar and doesn't stop for the remainder if the cassette. Hidden melodies float in and out, with the occasional riff and drum beat surfacing. Death Disco slows things down with stumbling drums over layers of murk and blackened filth. Dissonance and Submission finishes everything off with walls of buzz and shards of feedback. Not for the open-minded.




pm43 wereju 'dream / death' cs
Newest entry in Wereju’s sprawling catalog. Each release takes his signature blackened shimmer to the next level. Here melodies stretch towards infinity, guitar lines snake their way over fog covered rivers, and bleak, low end rumbles moan incessantly.




pm42 gareth hardwick 'carnations' cs
Through his Low Point imprint and solo outings, Gareth Hardwick has been releasing some of the most compelling sounds in recent years. Carnations, his first cassette release, consists of two ten minute long pieces, one each for guitar and organ. Both sides consist of layers of slowly evolving melodies, both effortless and affecting. With such simple sound sources and mastery of craft, Carnations recalls both early Stars of the Lid and Maeror Tri’s more uplifting sides.




pm40 monks of the balhill 'ten ways to get out of the water' cs
Vocal mantras, decaying guitars, and found sounds combined in totally refreshing way. Both sides constructed from similar pieces, but distinctive enough to show the endless stream of ideas pouring from these two Vincents. Made with love, guitars, wind instruments, field recordings, and tigers. Art by Adriane Dalton.




pm39 ondo '654 65 - 694 33' cs
Obsessively composed guitarscapes. Industry stretched to the point of total collapse. Bleak and without redemption. Look out for more Ondo on Peasant Magik in '09.




pm38 dukkha 'hail and farewell.' cs
Endless repetition. Keys spin over down tuned sludge, FX ridden guitars suffocate themselves, and utterly massive swells consume all laid before. TRUE SHEFFIELD BLACK PSYCHEDELIA.




pm37 xiphiidae 'wake of the hoods' cs
Xiphiidae is the solo project of Housecraft’s main man, Jeffry Astin. Side A is full of air-conditioned drones, nature sounds, and delayed guitars. Very sleepy, indeed. Side B could possibly be a recording of someone eating dinner while thousands of insects run wild over various stringed instruments.




pm36 sarah's charity 'mirror of abundance' cs
Squealing feedback and tortured guitar movements spread overtop thick black, droney buzz. Think Hendrix, but he accidentally set himself on fire. Or maybe Wall without the Wall? Simultaneously overwhelming and lulling.




pm34 "v" 'standing still in the celestial sphere' cdr
Second solo statement from Monks of The Balhill member, Vincent Caylet. Found within are pink guitars, accordion dreams, smoke, and ash. Songs move in an almost airy, whimsical fashion, while occasionally hinting at the black within. 2007 might have been the banner year of the French Psychedelic Underground, but 2008 will be the year of the Monks. Black CDs housed in white cardboard sleeve with full color wrap around art and handmade marble paper. Hand stamped and numbered.




pm33 diaphragm + migrations in rust 'framed of remission' cdr
The first time I saw these two play I was sitting, totally sober, in the back of a warehouse in Purchase, NY. Maybe it was the hours of Simpson's arcade game I had just finished, but it was one of the most focused and engaging shows I had seen in ages. Later that night I approached MIR about working together, and 9 month later this finally sees the light of day. Both Diaphragm and Migrations In Rust contribute one slow burner each, with a collaborative track to finish things off. Somewhere between the space of Andrew Chalk, layers of Birchville Cat Motel, and the sinister atmosphere of Abruptum.




pm32 robe. 'star form' cdr
With only guitar and trombone Robe. create haunted, drifting melodies buried under deep, narcotic wells of sound. Dark, horror movie style murk. Sounds as if a victrola is dying downstairs while construction workers are ripping up a street across town in slow motion. Black CDs housed in black cardboard sleeve with full color wrap around art and printed vellum. Hand stamped and numbered.




pm29 drunjus 'enceladus' cdr
The sound of mud, trees, crickets, and mosquitoes in sloooow motion. Hazed out Dream Porch sessions, field recordings from Cherokee Marsh, and full on drone assaults from Woodman, Endless, and, local analog synth compatriot, Crystal Dragon. Black CDs housed in black cardboard sleeve with full color wrap around art, printed transparencies, and handmade paper. Hand stamped and numbered.




pm25 a. jarvis 'she is also phasing' cs
Three tracks of total John Carpenter worship. Sweeping synths, pulsing bass lines, and Kurt Russell. Jarvis takes hints from Carpenter's classic sound and manages to incorporate elements from all of his previous work: swells of feedback, analog shimmer, and subtle, but damaged, percussion. Like all of his previous work, this is absolutely perfect. High bias chrome tapes, pro-printed covers.




pm23 one master 'forsaking a dead world' cs
"Accompanied by the bleak howl of February winds, Peasant Magik is proud to unleash the Northeastern horde One Master’s Forsaking a Dead World on cassette—six tracks of pummeling blasphemy, buzzing, cacophonous thunder, tortured black majesty and ritual worship at the bloodstained altar of True Black Metal. Unholy fucking grimness not meant for the false." - Vistiek






other items
pink desert lp $12/$14/$17
First vinyl release.




wether & methadrone collaboration 1-sided 12" (blue sky writing) $10/$12/$15
Recorded over three years ago.




blown doors 'into light' cs (no horse shit) $6/$7/$9
"Rotten guitar riffs blended with oscillating electronics. One twenty minute track split up into two parts. Mammoth buildups, droned crumblings, bubbling psych. Collaborative effort of Mike Haley (WETHER/HEAT CONFERENCE) and Sean Connolly (PYRAMIDS)"




wether 'uncertain ritual' cdr (crucial bliss) $6
"Wether is the blackened noise project from Mike Haley, the beardo that runs the classy Electric Human Project label and who is also half of Big China & Little Trouble...this entity has released an assload of cassettes and splits and even a wee bot if vinyl over the past couple of years, and all of it which I've heard has been excellent, a kind of formless, ganrled industrial blackness, usually very dirgey and crushing, possessed by the occasional blast of snarling black metal screams buried in distortion and awesomely malevolent synthesizer drones that, when they really get going, sound like the tarblack afterbirth of Wolf Eyes jamming on cues from John Carpenter's The Fog OST from '94. We finally hooked up with Mike to bring you this new full length of infernal hypnosis Uncertain Ritual, a collection of hellish mechanical atmospheres, meditative trance-loops constructed from machine clatter and blocks of white noise, torrents of bellowing distortion goo and black ambience that's creepy as fuck. This is super-high quality fx pedal/circuit-bent generated deathscape action, brutally heavy in spots with massive creeping industrial rhythms and whirlpools of ultra-distorted metal-like crunch, and tranquil and beautiful in others when Wether moves into placid drones and subdued underground vibrations. This is terminally evil shit though, and it falls somewhere in between the black ambient/industrial chaos of artists like Nordvargr and Abruptum, and the grinding electronic skum of Wolf Eyes and Anenzephalia."




belegost shirt $6
gold and gray ink on black t-shirts. printed on american apparel shirts. click here for larger image. illustration by james ulmer.