[walnut + locust]

Established May 1999

Montreal

experimental label & independent webzine since 1999

www.walnutlocust.com
www.myspace.com/walnutlocust
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wl001 - v/a: "red: a [walnut + locust] compilation" (CD)
released: january 20th 2004

12 bands, 12 unreleased & exclusive tracks featuring: Pine Tree State Mind Control (Newport, USA), Letum (Lindesberg, Sweden), HIV+ (Marseille, France), Alexandre St-Onge (Montreal, Canada), Maggot Breeder (Montreal, Canada), Muckrackers featuring Shizuka (Metz, France), Black Sun (Glasgow, Scotland), .cut featuring Gibet (Lyon/Gap, France), Sklarska Poreba (Berlin, Germany - Clermont Ferrand/St Etienne, France), Earskin (Montreal, Canada), We Are Gentlemen (Lyon, France), Mr.Malinou (Marseille, France)
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wl002 - Zbigniew Karkowski: "Intensifier" (CD)
released: september 7th 2004

Zbigniew Karkowski is a polish-swedish composer/musician presently living and working in Tokyo, Japan. He has worked professionaly in the areas of written contemporary music, industrial music, pop music and experimental performance for the last 11 years with artists like Blixa Bargeld, Merzbow, Pita... his work has been performed throughout Europe, North America, Australia, and Japan. He is active in the underground noise scene in Japan.
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wl004 - Maggot Breeder: "Myiasis" (CD)
released: february 6th 2007

Maggot Breeder is the long term ongoing musical project of Reuel Ordonez, filipino by birth and now residing in Montreal, Quebec. Using the guitar as the primary sound source, Maggot Breeder creates a dark yet oddly serene soundscape which invokes images of war, conflict, pain, despair and suffering.
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wl005 - v/a: "CrO2: a tribute to analog" (CD)
released: july 18th 2006

featuring: Chris Carter (UK), Aube (Japan), Ulan Bator (Italy), Molasses (Canada), Maggot Breeder (Canada), Alexandre Pax (France), Empusae & Agathokless (Belgium), We Are Gentlemen (France), Pine Tree State Mind Control (USA), .cut featuring Gibet (France), Terminal Sound System (Australia), Kasper T Toeplitz (France), ...
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wl006 - Merzbow: "Live In Geneva" (CD)
released: december 13th 2005

Merzbow was created in Tokyo in 1979. His creator, Masami Akita is the godfather of noise as a genre and it is impossible to argue with his title. Merzbow's discography is about 300 seperate releases & collaborations and Masami reinvents himself on each new release.
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wl007 - v/a: "Dent De Lyon" (MP3)
released: january 3rd 2006

The first [walnut locust] virtual release: a panorama of the Lyon underground scene available as a free downloadable mp3 compilation. 17 bands, 18 exclusive tracks, featuring: Blackula, Brain Leisure, CeasE, .cut featuring Gibet, DEnTs, Ferry.Estreich, Frz, Imagho, N-Com.User, Omnicore, PicorE, Secret Name, Strigoï, TAT, Tada, We Are Gentlemen, Wired Brain.
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wl008 - .cut featuring Gibet: "Philippe F Remixes" (MP3)
released: april 25th 2006

.cut remixed by: E.Mission (France), JeFF (France), Botchan Karisen (France), D'Four Me (Chile), Mortal Manifest (Israel), The Vomit Arsonist (USA), Pine Tree State Mind Control (USA), .cut (France), Tada (France), Hieronymous (Japan), Half A Moment (Morocco), Reversibilidad (Chile), Brain Leisure (France), Ex_Tension (France), Dolls Of Pain (France), Blackula (France), Strigoï (France)
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wl010 - v/a: "Delicatessen: A Taste Of [walnut + locust]" (3" CDr pro)
released: september 11th 2007

6 unreleased tracks sampler featuring : AntiGlück (France), Cheerleader 69 (France), .cut featuring Gibet (Canada/France), Maggot Breeder (Canada), Pine Tree State Mind Control (USA), Thee Virginal Brides (Canada/Israël/USA)
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wl012 - v/a: "Twisted Faerie Tales: A [walnut + locust] Winter Compilation" (3" CDr)
released: december 18th 2007

9 bands, 7 exclusive tracks, featuring: Aidan Baker (Canada), .cut & Friends + Thisquietarmy (Canada), Farmacia (Argentina), Pine Tree State Mind Control + The Vomit Arsonist (USA), Alexandre St-Onge (Canada), Seven Morgues (Israël), Whilst (Canada).
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Upcoming releases:

wl009 - Thee Virginal Brides: "re/collection" (CDr pro - ltd edition)
expected: april 2008

The early works of the 3 countries noise/ambient trio released as a strictly limited edition of 99 copies, including 6 unreleased tracks.

wl011 - .cut featuring Gibet: "Theories Of Capitalism" (3" CDr pro)
expected: april 2008

Long expected brand new tracks for the Franco-Canadian experimental post-rock duo, often compared to Labradford, Tarantel or Tim Hecker.