Replica Skulls

BOWIE

2011-12-22T22:48:00.000Z

ZEROES

2011-12-06T00:12:00.001Z

Mother told me; "You will never know
any farther than the stone is thrown"
and as far as I can tell I won't.

/\ ( () U S T | ( _ |\/| | R R () R Z

2011-11-28T17:11:00.002Z

R-E solo acoustic,
2nd December 2011,
Wheelbarrow,
Camden.

Supporting Bad Idea.

Utopia Tapes remix of Maybe Another Day by Clout!

2011-10-16T23:53:00.000+01:00

MAYBE ANOTHER DAY (UTOPIA TAPES DUB) by CLOUT!

19th October

2011-10-12T00:13:00.000+01:00

I'm playing some new material from "The Exploded Woods" at Servant Jazz Quarters on Wednesday 19th October as part of Folk Modern 7. Free entry, solo acoustic. I'll probably play an old song too, why not. Rad.
Facebook event here

UTOPIA TAPES

2011-10-09T23:56:00.001+01:00

Lydia Donut

2011-06-29T21:02:00.002+01:00

http://lydiadonut.tumblr.com/

Lydia's artwork was the standout contribution to It's After the End of the World, here is a link to her tumblr. Epic monochrome psychedelia.

RX

HH 2 23/06 @ SJ 1/4s

2011-06-23T01:21:00.000+01:00

Happy Home duo (Bears & R-E) are performing at Servant Jazz Quarters at around 9ish Thursday 23rd.

It's After the End of the World - NEW DATE

2011-06-19T19:43:00.000+01:00

Hi all,
We've added Tuesday 21st June to the dates.
R-E will also play a short solo set of guitar tunes written for the exhibition but that we didn't have time to rehearse properly. The set will begin at about 6:45 cos we've got to be out of the gallery by 8:00.
Come along,
RX

| /\ T E 0 T \/\/

2011-06-08T01:03:00.003+01:00

hh@atp

2011-06-07T09:50:00.000+01:00

Live, Not Live at Fort Normal

2011-05-16T18:57:00.000+01:00

Hi all, some of you caught our recent Happy Home sets playing as a duo, some of you didn't. But whatever, I recorded all the practices and the last one was pretty close to how we intended it all to come out, so you can all hear roughly how it sounded here on our Bandcamp page.
I hope you enjoy it,
Peace - RX

fortREss + maMMoth = happy home

2011-04-07T13:45:00.003+01:00

3rd april... an alternative hh gig at hoxton bar + grill sadly missing bearzzz...

photos by super sinister

Happy Home Live

2011-03-28T11:19:00.000+01:00

April 3rd @ Hoxton Bar + Kitchen.....

COME

2011-01-24T20:27:00.003Z

gun

2011-01-17T01:30:00.005Z

welcome to 2011. heres a nuke

COME ON OVER...

2011-01-10T21:21:00.001Z

swans

2011-01-07T02:29:00.001Z

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2010-12-10T10:33:00.003Z

holy vapours

2010-12-07T21:52:00.000Z

R-E "LO/60" EP

2010-12-05T23:18:00.002Z

Download for free from HERE

The LO/60 EP is a 9-part exploration

of electronic crunchiness and synthesized

psychedelia, coming close to pure

white noise at times and pure rhapsodic

melodics at others.

Peace and out - RX

LITTLE BLACK STAR

2010-12-04T00:31:00.002Z

via Shanaz Mon Zaki:

death mask

2010-12-01T23:23:00.001Z

\/\/ E _ |\/| | G |-| T _ |-| /\ \/ E _ T () _ |\/| E |) I C /\ T E _ Y () U

2010-11-30T16:02:00.006Z

Y () U ^ R E |_ () () |< I |\| G /\ \/\/ F U |_ |_ Y () |) |)

Y () U R E Y E 5 /\ R E |\| ^ T U |\| |) E R

Y () U R C () |\| T R () |_

|3 U T T |-| E |\| |\| E I T |-| E R /\ R E |\/| I |\| E

T |-| E I R E Y E 5 /\ R E R () |_ |_ I |\| G |) I C E

T |-| E Y C /\ |\| T R E /\ D T |-| I 5

|3 T \/\/

|3 U T T |-| E |\| |\| E I T |-| E R C /\ |\| I

wisdom removal

2010-11-29T21:27:00.012Z

T |-| E |\| E \/\/ D /\ R |< /\ G E [2]

2010-11-27T23:30:00.001Z

Quoted from BJ & da Dogs (c) Ben Jones

This is a story about the future, and also, about 3 dudes... (...) ...but forget about them for the moment. So...
It's the future now. Mistakes have been made, the earth's humans have scattered to be alone and brainstorm ideas... in space.
Inside spaceships they ponder what went wrong, some trace it back to the shortening of time between Holiday marketing, some to "The Incident" others to global poverty.
It's hard to ignore some facts though, men have ushered in a time of dark shitty chaos.
Of grabbing their genitals, acting like assholes and ushering in shitty brown darkness.
The New Dark Age.
One of fear, and punching darkness.
Smearing shit to draw their horrible self-portraits.
It's partly a reduction of male sexuality.
But it's mostly the American future that's shocking you.

T |-| E |\| E \/\/ D /\ R |< /\ G E [1]

2010-11-25T21:58:00.009Z

Ben Jones installation views from "The New Dark Age" from 2008-9:::

+ here's a quote from BJ & Da Dogs, actually a re-quote from Hafiz:::

the novice will often

lay down his tool

or brush

then pick up an

invisible club

on the mind's table

and helplessly smash

the easels

and jade

whereas

the vintage man

no longer

hurts himself

or anyone

and keeps sculpting

light

[Words I'm trying hard to live by]

all images (c) Ben Jones
more here

three dee room

2010-11-25T14:00:00.011Z

100 photos of pizza

2010-11-24T16:20:00.007Z

R-E "LO/60" EP - 6th December

2010-11-23T00:39:00.003Z

LO / 60 EP

1. 1st Part

2. 2nd Part

3. 3rd Part

4. 4th Part

5. 5th Part

6. 6th Part

7. 7th Part

8. 8th Part

9. Last Part

Solo Analog Electronics EP by R-E

Cover by R-E

Out on 6th December for free download

From Your Correspondent

2010-11-19T11:03:00.007Z

Check out this lovely review of Legendary Weapons of China's Molten Mirrors here on the excellent Not For Resale blog.

The Happy Home LP is going to be called Forts. I'd hope to share some of it pretty soon, in the next month or so. I'm trying to finish "True Believers" first cos Super Sinister is shooting a video for it, so that'll probably be the first thing you'll hear.

Lydia Whitmore /// Super Sinister has made some beautiful photographs of me. She's getting a deer's head in next week, and piles of green beetles. Intense times.

ALL LOVE,
RX

QQQuote of the day

2010-11-12T17:19:00.001Z

How to play Guitar
by David Fair

(via Yuri Landman's Hypercustom site, here)

I taught myself to play guitar. It’s incredibly easy when you understand the science of it. The skinny strings play the high sounds, and the fat strings play the low sounds. If you put your finger on the string father out by the tuning end it makes a lower sound. If you want to play fast move your hand fast and if you want to play slower move your hand slower. That’s all there is to it. You can learn the names of notes and how to make chords that other people use, but that’s pretty limiting. Even if you took a few years and learned all the chords you’d still have a limited number of options. If you ignore the chords your options are infinite and you can master guitar playing in one day.

Traditionally, guitars have a fat string on the top and they get skinnier and skinnier as they go down. But the thing to remember is it’s your guitar and you can put whatever you want on it. I like to put six different sized strings on it because that gives the most variety, but my brother used to put all of the same thickness on so he wouldn’t have so much to worry about. Whatever string he hit had to be the right one because they were all the same.

Tuning the guitar is kind of a ridiculous notion. If you have to wind the tuning pegs to just a certain place, that implies that every other place would be wrong. But that’s absurd. How could it be wrong? It’s your guitar and you’re the one playing it. It’s completely up to you to decide how it should sound. In fact I don’t tune by the sound at all. I wind the strings until they’re all about the same tightness. I highly recommend electric guitars for a couple of reasons. First of all they don’t depend on body resonating for the sound so it doesn’t matter if you paint them. As also, if you put all the knobs on your amplifier on 10 you can get a much higher reaction to effort ratio with an electric guitar than you can with an acoustic. Just a tiny tap on the strings can rattle your windows, and when you slam the strings, with your amp on 10, you can strip the paint off the walls.

The first guitar I bought was a Silvertone. Later I bought a Fender Telecaster, but it really doesn’t matter what kind you buy as long as the tuning pegs are on the end of the neck where they belong. A few years back someone came out with a guitar that tunes at the other end. I’ve never tried one. I guess they sound allright but they look ridiculous and I imagine you’d feel pretty foolish holding one. That would affect your playing. The idea isn’t to feel foolish. The idea is to put a pick in one hand and a guitar in the other and with a tiny movement rule the world.

Legendary Weapons of China - "Molten Mirrors" LP

2010-10-28T11:41:00.002+01:00

Molten Mirrors will be available from Monday 1st November on the Legendary Weapons of China Bandcamp page HERE.

A few physical copies (CD only) will be made available either thru the bandcamp page or by contacting us via legendaryweaponsofchina(at)gmail.com...

The tracklist is:

1. "Royal Herbs" (2:57)

2. "Dumb Dust" (5:20)

3. "Rise Home, Rise Home" (6:35)

4. "High Roots" (7:15)

5. "Molten Mirrors" (14:10)

All songs written/arranged by Shanaz Mon Zaki and R-E
The album was recorded by R-E, throughout the summer of 2010.
The cover art is by Super Sinister.

Happy Home R'n'R

2010-10-23T17:05:00.003+01:00

Shanaz Mon Zaki

2010-10-16T17:50:00.003+01:00

Check him out HERE

Shanaz Mon Zaki writes incredibly beautiful vapourous spirituals, like a kind of nourished haunted reverb. He's also half of Legendary Weapons of China.
I hope to record him sometime soon.

Autumn Rays

2010-10-09T11:43:00.001+01:00

dedicated to Joan

HH REXX

2010-09-26T21:21:00.006+01:00

*******************************
Happy Home are recording an LP

at the moment. We're about 40% or

so of the way through it I'd guess.

Something like that. We think it

might be called "IRREAL TAPES"

but maybe a better idea will come

along in the meantime, let's see.

Further updates coming soonish.

- XXX R-E

MLTN MRRZ CVR

2010-09-19T02:55:00.003+01:00

the gorgeous cover for the "Molten Mirrors" LP, by Super Sinister.

EASTER ISLAND

2010-09-18T00:18:00.005+01:00

by Super Sinister / Lydia Whitmore

Legendary Weapons of China perform "High Roots" b/w "Utopia Modes"

2010-09-11T11:01:00.002+01:00

As an ambling precursor to the Molten Mirrors LP here's the centrepiece song "High Roots", along with the singularly strawberryish "Utopia Modes". Available for free, digital download here.
The album should be out soon, we're a bit sketchy with dates and all.

Cover art by R-E.

"High Roots" b/w "Utopia Modes" by Legendary Weapons

R-E plays IIIrd I

2010-08-17T10:59:00.004+01:00

photographs by Super Sinister

I played the inaugural Third Eye Club last Friday, the 13th, definitely an auspicious number. Many thanks to the organisers Self-Existing Eagle and Shanaz Mon Zaki for asking us to play, Luciano Foglia who did the lighting, Elian Gray for coaching duties and Super Sinister for the photographs.

Hopefully it will be the first of many of these.

Bears was exploring the desert and Mike Mike was exploring the valleys, so the set ended up as a lone wander thru the Happy Home...

Also there was a little preview of "High Roots" from the Legendary Weapons of China LP...

I heard a rumour that the set was filmed, you'll be the first to know if it was.

Love,

MLTN MRRZ

2010-08-02T16:24:00.007+01:00

The first Legendary Weapons of China LP is going to be available in the next month or two, assuming we put it out ourselves. It is called Molten Mirrors.

side 1
1. Royal Herbs
2. Dumb Dust
3. Rise Home, Rise Home
4. High Roots
side 2
5. Molten Mirrors

The cover is by Super Sinister. I'll post it when finished, in the meantime here's some other awesome thing by her...

Legendary Weapons of China

2010-07-02T23:30:00.006+01:00

Legendary Weapons of China are:

Shanaz Mon Zaki --> Synthesizers, Voice
R-E --> Drums, Voice

Here's some early versions:

Molten Magnets Set by Legendary Weapons

Solo version

2010-07-01T16:50:00.000+01:00

First Third, Otherwise Electra by R-E

^^^this is the solo instrumental version, the happy home (autobiographical) version can be heard here.

The Happy Home, live, not live at the dilapidated house...

2010-06-27T12:16:00.002+01:00

We didn't get to play this set at the dilapidated house as planned, so instead here is the rehearsal recording for you to listen to.

download

Work in progress...

2010-06-16T11:55:00.001+01:00

I Read the Street Name by R-E

3rd June @ The Flowerpot

2010-06-06T02:16:00.003+01:00

photograph by Harky

Deranged, Dice + 4 Skullzz

2010-03-04T15:55:00.002Z

INTERPOLATED MICE no99

2010-02-28T23:46:00.005Z

"The Saw-Tooth Won't Help Me Understand,

Mickey"

whip

2010-02-25T14:03:00.005Z

14 Strings

2010-02-01T14:04:00.000Z

4 People

2010-02-01T14:03:00.000Z

a page from "Hermitage Music" journal

2009-12-13T14:23:00.002Z

Fall-Out

2009-12-09T11:13:00.002Z

new

2009-12-03T13:12:00.009Z

Three Dee

2009-11-12T21:46:00.002Z

bisons. also extinct

2009-10-20T23:05:00.003+01:00

mandolin grandad

2009-10-20T13:13:00.002+01:00

puppy vs magician

2009-10-15T15:02:00.000+01:00

sad unicorn

2009-10-14T11:42:00.003+01:00

why sit in traffic empty handed?

2009-10-09T02:34:00.003+01:00

eat this instead

Traveller Blues

2009-10-03T20:19:00.002+01:00

Jan Peknik - "I Cut My Finger on a Mirror-Ball (The King is Dead)" L-P
This deserves to be heard a lot more, so here it is.
Beats / Words by Jan Peknik
Production / Sound-effects / Montage by R-E

chilli pepper vs teddy bear

2009-10-03T18:35:00.000+01:00

mike shoots R

2009-10-02T21:58:00.000+01:00

illuminated milk #R10_17 (Night-Time B+W)

2009-10-01T00:18:00.000+01:00

some excerpts:

Marshland Mazings E-P

2009-09-30T23:47:00.003+01:00

an E-P of little soundscapes made with my Wonderland comrade... R-E and Alice Old - Marshland Mazings E-P

owl vs alligator

2009-09-27T20:33:00.003+01:00

skull-top with gold maggots

2009-09-26T10:08:00.001+01:00

cocoa

2009-09-24T20:25:00.005+01:00

pugswald

2009-09-24T20:16:00.004+01:00

tzar

2009-09-24T20:14:00.002+01:00

one of the most beautiful things ive ever seen. also pretty ugly. the military connotations have been dropped so heres some of the military's finest

illuminated milk #8 (irradiated murk)

2009-09-24T19:41:00.001+01:00

cymbal fuzz echo

2009-09-24T11:20:00.004+01:00

Rose-Vapour Lion

2009-09-23T19:48:00.003+01:00

<<<>>><<<>>>for C-H<<<>>><<<>>>

shiny self-love

2009-09-23T12:17:00.003+01:00

R-E - Baby Bearzz cyber 7"

2009-09-23T10:22:00.002+01:00

Baby Bearzz
guitars, fuzz-bass, glockenspiels, percussion, echo. fake spector shit.

Jan Peknik & R-E - Summer Studies E-P

2009-09-23T10:19:00.004+01:00

Summer Studies E-P

This is an E-P Jan + me recorded as light relief from the (permanently unfinished) "Field-Work" project... A collection of pretty hazy instrumental psyche-hop jamzz, studies for later work, bits and pieces from "Ships Going Down", me blasting out on a shenai. Most of Jan's bits were recorded in his Czech treehouse, summer 2007.
Jan - Guitars, Bass, Percussion, Accordian, Metal Rings
R-E - Guitars, Bass, Harps, Percussion, Double Bass, Woodwinds, Harmonica

illuminated milk #1 (mice 9)

2009-09-22T22:26:00.002+01:00

illuminated milk #137a

2009-09-22T21:56:00.001+01:00

drawingzz at cargo

2009-09-22T21:22:00.003+01:00

the beginning of what I know will be a lifelong love for wood panelling + UV masking tape. love + thanxx to emmet + noemie.

<<<>>> <<<>>> <<<>>> <<<>>>

2009-09-22T17:37:00.001+01:00

fields of nothing but black glass
and all I have in my head is white smoke from burnt plastic
and the little grey flowers are mushrooms if you look closely
but it'zz cool because maybe I'll rename myself