new album out on my bandcamp. The link will explain everything. The first of several releases to come out this year, some of which I am in the process of sending to various American (and I think one or two European) labels to see if they’re interested. Fingers crossed!

bomb shelter boogie (pat and chris collab)

Patrick Dolan (bass) and Chris Robertson (keyboards). This jam was spontaneous and I was using Pat’s casio so I didn’t have any of my pedals on me :( I still think it turned out pretty good, though.

gutter dreams (pat and chris collab)

Patrick Dolan (guitar) and Chris Robertson (keyboards). This jam was spontaneous and I was using Pat’s casio so I didn’t have any of my pedals on me :( I still think it turned out pretty good, though.

Finally got around to making some bandcamps. I have a lot of experimental improv post-rock noise ambient whatever stuff I’m gonna upload to the Mythshifter bandcamp above. One album, ‘Emanations From The Star Pyramid’, is already uploaded there. I will also be creating a Xylen Roberts bandcamp soon and a few new albums (and some old ones) will be given away there though I am saving a few albums to send off to various labels in a week or so. Anyway, enjoy.

mythshifter-something’s growing in a well out at murray’s field

three-track composition I made involving piano, effects processed harmonica, and effects processed Hawaiian tiple. This was filmed while I was laying down the tiple track.

Mythshifter-Fly Monster Mantra

23 minute noise piece played on a Hawaiian tiple, a zitheresque instrument. From an upcoming album, The Mangled Star Crashes Dried Scales Dissolve.

26 notes

xylen roberts-becoming the virus

one spends their whole life making the shirt that you throw away

one spends their whole life making sure an indifferent world is a-ok

one spends their whole life eating whats right just to contact food poisoning

one spends their whole life

a new breed of malaria, conditioned fear and hysteria

efficient lives so meta-meta, increasingly smaller smaller

becoming the virus, a host that eats its own body

becoming the virus, a host that attacks its own body

nanonuts and nanite dust, in our trust funds we now trust

saving all our hard earned cash as erosion eats away the Earth’s crust

becoming the virus, a host that its own body

becoming the virus, a host that attacks its own body

you always say how great it is to be blessed

as if we know something that the cursed don’t know

becoming the virus etc.

to me it seems more like matters of circumstance,

to me it seems like matters of chance

becoming the virus etc.

virus on the prowl moving ever steadfast

digitized sprawl collapsin’ the first last

jelly on the toast continental breakfast

matter eating matter, matter killing matter

matter mating with matter, mind over matter

its all matter in the end, it don’t matter in the end

its all matter in the end, it don’t matter in the end

oh baby let’s get real raw

and roll around on the dirty ground (repeat)

we built this city on a sturdy foundation of dirt and worms

we keep killing the bugs, they keep coming back

we built this city on a sturdy foundation of contradictions

we keep imprisoning the thugs, they keep coming back

we made our beds of dirt upon a single Earth

it’ll be around long after the last serfs die fightin’ over this or that turf

sometimes you’re born in the summer air,

sometimes with the sand that clogs your throat

sometimes you’re born with one little goat,

sometimes you’re born with the whole Greek coast

sometimes you get enough rope to hang yourself

sometimes we can boast about whose choking faster

sometimes we win the war, sometimes we’re toast (repeat)

^^^^^Chris Robertson, 2012^^^^^^^^

composition for contact micd and plastic rattled piano

just what it says—-I put plastic on the inside of my Wurlitzer piano, pressing up against some of the strings, then taped a contact mic to them and fed the piano through an effects pedal.

Xylen Roberts-Ghost Skin Shining


Just got a Bloggie recently. Films in HD. Anyway, here’s one of many videos made recently. Had a few melodic ideas and the lyrics were made up on the spot.