ALAN JENKINS - E. H. GORILLA LTD. ATOMIC ENGINEERING AND MOBILE LIBRARY

• Alan Jenkins: E. H. Gorilla Ltd. Atomic Engineering And Mobile Library
      (2025, download / streaming, --, bandcamp)
      (2025, cd, UK, Cordelia records cd121)

Excellent news from the U.K.
Alan Jenkins has a new album out !
Bandcamp and CD release.

NEW BANDCAMP RELEASE BY ALAN JENKINS AND THE KETTERING VAMPIRES

Back in the old days this would have been called an E.P. The title track is from the album "Painting the Horse's Nose in the Wrong Place". There are two unreleased tunes and a new mix of the Columbo song.

 

CULPHO DOG GYMKHANA

Culpho Dog Gymkhana is a bit of a mystery, although it can be assumed that Alan Jenkins is part of the band.
They have just released their fourth album.

THE MELAMINE DIVISION PLATES - NOVOSIBIRSK OUT-TAKES

Anyone in need for a bit more twang should check out The Melamine Division Plates' "Novosibirsk Out-Takes".
Only available through Bandcamp as a digital download, Alan Jenkins will take you for a fun journey.

Lovely melodies.
And I also learned that the typical surf guitar twang sound that you get by adding some reverb and vibrato was meant to emulate the sound of waves !!

ALAN JENKINS - THE WORLD OF STRING

• alan jenkins: the world of string
      (2012, download, --, bandcamp)

I received "The World Of String" as a digital download from a friend.
What a nice surprise.
"The World Of String" is another chapter in the wondrous world of Alan Jenkins, starring Alan's surf guitar.
Eleven instrumental tracks, celebrating surf music.

ALAN JENKINS AND THE KETTERING VAMPIRES

 Alan Jenkins And The Kettering Vampires have just released a new album : "Notes On The Life Cycle Of The Quantum Mouse".

Fifteen fine songs.
Fifteen fine pop / rock songs that I enjoyed listening to.

The album got released on Alan's Cordelia Records label.
Visit the label and check out the Frank Zappa tribute albums that he has released, plus the various projects that he is part of (The Thurston Lava Tube, Deep Freeze Mice,...)

http://www.cordeliarecords.co.uk/Pages/Buy%20Records.html

 Alan Jenkins And The Kettering Vampires  - "Notes On The Life Cycle Of The Quantum Mouse".
On Bandcamp:

On YouTube:

NEW RELEASE BY ALAN JENKINS

Cordelia Records · Horse Day

 Alan Jenkins And The Kettering Vampires have a new album out.

http://www.cordeliarecords.co.uk/Pages/Buy%20Records.html

NEW ALBUM BY ALAN JENKINS

Alan Jenkins, the man behind Cordelia Records and responsible for releasing Andrew's / The Idiot Bastard's Zappa Tribute albums,  has a new album out.
You might also know Alan from his Deep Freeze Mice and his Thurston Lava Tube projects. Or from his recent collaboration with R.Stevie Moore.

http://www.cordeliarecords.co.uk

R. STEVIE MOORE & ALAN JENKINS

R.Stevie Moore and Alan Jenkins recorded an album together : "The Embodiment of Progressive Ideals".
It's out on CD on Cordelia Records.

NEW ALBUM BY ALAN JENKINS

It's called "Disaster Cake Interrogation Bunny",
and Alan started a kickstarter campaign for it.

Check it out here :
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1585711746/disaster-cake-interrogation-bunny

FREE SURF MUSIC KICKSTARTER PROJECT

Alan Jenkins wants to release "Free Surf Music #4" on his Cordelia Records label.

Here's the kickstarter project :

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1585711746/free-surf-music-4

DEEP FREEZE MICE

The Mice biography from All Music:
Do-it-yourself post-punk band the Deep Freeze Mice released ten records in their decade-long existence. The original lineup -- guitarist/vocalist Alan Jenkins, bassist Mick Bunnage (of the Statics), keyboardist Sherree Lawrence, and drummer Graham Summers (also of the Statics) -- stayed intact until the release of the band's third record, The Gates of Lunch. After the departure of Summers and the acquisition of replacement Pete Gregory, the lineup remained until their breakup in 1989. Leader Jenkins (who was also involved with the Chrysanthemums and Ruth's Refrigerator during the existence of his primary band) continued afterwards in the Creams and the Thurston Lava Tube. All of Deep Freeze Mice's records were released in small quantities through the band's labels, Mole Embalming and Cordelia.

Alan Jenkins' Cordelia Records recently released the fourth album of the Deep Freeze Mice, "Saw A Ranch House Burning Last Night".
It includes a 20-page booklet and 12 bonus songs.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS FROM CORDELIA RECORDS

from Alan Jenkins / Cordelia records

www.cordeliarecords.co.uk

THE THURSTON LAVA TUBE HAVE A NEW CD OUT

The Thurston Lava Tube have a new CD out.  It's there on the record shop page at www.cordeliarecords.co.uk as we speak.

"The Poodle Collector" consists of 20 tunes that weren't released on their other albums. Some of them were already released on compilation CDs.

Including this version of Bohemian Rhapsody which you can listen to here: https://soundcloud.com/cordelia-records/the-thurston-lava-tube

TEENAGE HEAD IN MY REFRIGERATOR

a message from Alan Jenkins

There's a new CD by The Deep Freeze Mice available from www.cordeliarecords.co.uk - a new version of their 1981 second album "Teenage Head in My Refrigerator", which hasn't been available for 22 years. This edition has vastly improved sound quality, an album's worth of bonus tracks and a twenty page booklet with hitherto unseen pictures and unread writing.

To accompany this monumental event there is also a whole new album of rare tracks from the period which you can get here for nothing: http://thedeepfreezemice.bandcamp.com/

Here is an awful review of "Teenage Head" from rateyourmusic.com where some swine has the temerity to call it vacuous:

At their below average best, i.e. in a track such as I Like Digestive Biscuits In My Coffee and Esther they are a strange mix of funk post punk (probably APB being their nearest reference point) and slightly less irrelevant (and as equally less relevant) Half Man Half Biscuit. 

Although indie electronica darlings MGMT tend to name drop them as an influence in every interview they ever do, despite sounding nothing like them, it is hard to see what genuine relevance they have inasmuch that intermittently try to be funny but generally are not (although God is hilarious and guaranteed to drive god botherers who try to bother you from your door!) and try to be serious but have neither the lyrical ability or musical ability to struggle free from being vacuous. 

Perhaps being vacuous is the point…in which case they succeed with immense aplomb apart from in the albums only really genuine stand out, Vera which has a sort of lo-fi weird Ariel Pink homemade in the bedroom type feel to it.