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Klondike & York The Holy Book LP
Klondike & York Holy Book LP

From Arthur Magazine: “Chad Stockdale seemed like a pretty unassuming guy when we met, but his recordings on tenor saxophone, recorded with percussionist Nate Beier, are really wild. Under the procedural soubriquet, Klondike and York, the pair has released an LP, The Holy Book that treads outsider jazz as strangely as Arthur Doyle might. Stockdale’s tone is fractious and scattery, but follows neither the bellow nor the tinkle of the Euro free jazz tradition. If anything, he recalls the strangest players of the American fire music underground, who investigated internal chambers of passion with their reeds blazing softly. Skronky sax, scuddering drums, some wall-eyed synthesizer, everything blended like some sorta weird stew of darkly boiling orgone. It’s one of the best free jazz duo records to come out of Sacramento since [your favorite here]. And frankly, it’s even better than that.” — Byron Coley

“You know, I get a lot of records in the mail, and I’d say that most of ’em are CD-Rs. The way technology has gone, that’s only natural for independent music, and I try to give all CD-Rs a fair shake, but it’s just never as nice as getting a vinyl LP in the mail. When it’s on vinyl, you just know it’s probably going to be good, or at least carefully considered, which CD-Rs almost never are, even when they are good.

Now if this primitive/outsider sax/drums/electronics LP by Klondike and York had been a CD-R, I would’ve still really liked it, but having it pressed onto vinyl with a cool-ass color cover, well, as Al Pacino would say, “Forget about it!” It’s top-notch! It’s essentially a sax and drums free jazz duo, one Chad Stockdale on sax and one Nate Beier on percussion, with a lot of heavy blowing and space-out time-keeping, but I’m tempted to not call it free jazz. I mean was The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing free jazz? No, it was psychedelic saxophone, and so is The Holy Book.

And, to help sew it up as something ‘other’, there’s also some synthesizer on here. It’s not credited to any one musician; the word just floats in the space right after the credits. This is pretty much what the synth does on the record too; it just sort of mysteriously appears now and then. Trippy silk-screened labels too. Actually, the whole LP, from the home-recorded vibe to the shadowy appearance to the Northern California return address, reminds me of when the first Six Organs of Admittance LP appeared and left blown minds in its wake. There may still be time to get your mind blown, but I really doubt there are any more than 500 of these floating around, so hurry up!” — Blastitude #17:

First 300 with hand-stamped yellow ink labels SOLD OUT!. Full color jackets with insert.
Limited to 500 copies. 200 with black labels still available.
$10

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