JAMES FELLA

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SOFT SHOULDER - "People Problems" 7" (Gilgongo Records) $5ppd.
Two new addictive / damaged tracks recorded in one temporarily hollow corner of the infamous YOBS
house in Tempe, AZ by the illustrious Gerald Biggs. SOFT SHOULDER has been sporadically offering small
documents of skuzzy outsider-punk / no-wave and free-jazz noise since 2006 with various line-ups (this
incarnation includes James Fella and members of TENT/CITY, MANGLED MEN and PIGEON RELIGION’s live
band. New LP coming this fall. RIYL: Pussy Galore, The Hospitals, Old Time Relijun, Clockcleaner.
MP3: SOFT SHOULDER - "WRONG".

JAMES FELLA - "Weak Left Input" C-62 cassette (Gilgongo) $5ppd
Two half-hour long improvised recordings, electronics / guitars / voice. Swirling and layered helpings of
ricochet sound, ranging from soft, quiet ambient portions, to overblown guitar drone and scattered
malfunctioning machine "music", recorded direct to temperamental tape deck, dubbed on the same fussy
machine. Excellent for laying on the living room futon and falling asleep to, at times. Excellent for feeling
claustrophobic and uneasy at others.
FREE DOWNLOAD: AVAILABLE HERE.

JAMES FELLA / TIMELOAD FOWL - split LP (Gilgongo) $14ppd
James Fella (Soft Shoulder, Tent/City) offers a live recording from May 2009: Shifted sax, crackling electronics
and skeletal guitar drifting across 18 minutes of crowded, Ye Olde Bike Saviors Co-Op living room sound. Debut
vinyl release from Timeload Fowl, of San Luis Obispo: grim, bleak, but secretly meditative and beautiful. Includes
a collaboration with James that offers more of a thick brutal / buried approach. Short run LP, art by TimeloadFowl.
MP3s: samples from James' side | Timeload Fowl - collab with James Fella.

JAMES FELLA - "Singular Set" (Gilgongo) $5ppd.
Each “volume” of the “Singular Set” series is limited to one. There is no “master” on another tape or hard 
drive somewhere else. The 10-25 minutes of sound on each cassette was recorded directly to it, using a 
stereo mixer’s output directly into the rear phono jacks of the deck, and more often than not, using 
headphones rather than a monitor. The date and time of each cassette’ creation is marked on the spool 
casing.

The idea behind this series is to create unique connections with people. There is a non-uniformity to the 
approaches and feel, the range depending on mood and whatever devices are set up at any given moment, 
but the emphasis is on reaching out and sharing something specific with one other person, that an 
unrepeated portion of time and creation was individually cut and passed on to one other person to hold 
onto as their own.

JAMES FELLA / BRI WHITE- split 7" (Gilgongo) $5ppd.
Split 7" from two busy-bodies from Arizona. BRI WHITE (Flux Conquistador, Foot Ox), who usually creates pretty
piano based singer-songwriter music, offers a six minute piece which is both beautiful and haunting (primarily
using a weird piano / violin hybrid instrument called a pianolin, which is obscure enough to not even have an
article on wikidpedia about it), and falls somewhere between the blurry lines of Spires That in the Sunset Rise and
White Magic. (She is currently up in Portland)! JAMES FELLA (Soft Shoulder, Tent/City) offers layers of clarinet, guitar,
vocal-based sound and noise in a piece that is much more calm and quiet than the majority of his usual sound / noise /
splice work. Full color covers enveloping thick blue (w/ splashes of white) vinyl.

SOFT SHOULDER - "2 Song Hit Single" 7" (Gilgongo) $5ppd.
Two new songs from Arizona's SOFT SHOULDER, who play loud and noisy but equally catchy no-wave post-
punk (X-Ray Spex, Contortions, Sleetmute Niightmute). The A-Side being one of the original set's staple, "Mary Ann",
which originally surfaced in the form of a music video on a DNT VHS compilation with Shearing Pinx and others. The
B-Side is a slightly longer piece, the old set's staple closer, with a long, clean and broken bridge over trouble skronk.
Handmade covers (spray-paint, stencils, collages, burns, stains, ect) made by the band.