My first noise album in 26 years. I reference all things I love and hate in the track titles. Did I sample these loves or the hates??? No. This whole recording was made with a cheap handheld cassette recorder and worn tape, digital audio recorder (my phone) and an old Yamaha synthesizer. All three sampling mostly musique concrete. The synth I did play some notes and chords on.
This is a WHOLENESS RECORDINGS release: WHOLE202601
recorded during 2017~2025: (1) recorded apr 2022 (2) recorded apr 2017 * (3) recorded jun 2022 (4) recorded dec 2025 (5) recorded jun 2022 (6) recorded sep 2017 * (7) recorded oct 2022 (8) recorded nov 2024 (9) recorded apr 2017 * (10) recorded oct 2022
* – taken from unreleased pre-flyoversx 12-track demo
Label Description: Tracks 1 to 14 are exactly the same as the original Junkpile album (unless I accidentally uploaded the wrong version…), nothing’s been remastered or anything. Tracks 15 to 20 are songs that I finished between Junkpile and Junk Drawer, but didn’t end up on that album for whatever reason.
Some words from Christopher Nosniborr regarding the release:
Journeys Through Inner Space
Art, in all of its many forms, often helps us to understand the world, and, indeed, ourselves. It’s also true that works which are the most personal for the creator have a wider resonance, in that they have the capacity to articulate for others something that reaches beyond art as entertainment, and that often, in the personal lies the universal. For a long time, I have found the act of writing has helped me navigate some of the most challenging times, and particularly recently, I have come to discover the catharsis of laying bare some of my most innermost thoughts on the page, and bringing these to performance.
The texts which form the narratives of Journeys Through Inner Space are taken from my novel The Deserted Island, and work in progress, Reflections on a Life, and explore themes of anxiety, bewilderment, and bereavement. These are not light or easy topics, and are topics we often shy away from. Because they are uncomfortable. But they are realities of life, and while we may wish otherwise, the stark fact is that they will likely affect us all in some way or another at some point. In these pieces, I speak only from my own experiences of my journeys through inner space.
‘Am I Really Having This Conversation?’, and ‘A Slew of Likes and Handy Hints’ – original texts appear in The Deserted Island (Clinicality Press, 2022).
All other texts from Reflections on a Life (unpublished).
The words to ‘Last Days’ appeared on a track bearing a variant title on the Last Days EP (self-released, 2023)