Back again so soon? By the time this email autosends, I will most likely be in either Buenos Aires (installing a lathe) or Navagentes, Brazil (picking up the first batch of MiniCut-02 lathes (sold out in 2 days!).
If you've been waiting on your Jason Lytle repressing of the splatter LP, (because the initial batch turned out to be shitty) the repress is FINALLY here! But it took so goddamn long that we were almost ready to release the newest batch (timed around the Sept 26th release of the highly anticipated Geckos LP (which already sold out of the first pressing via distributors to record stores before it was even released!).
UPDATE Jason Lytle Order + New Releases COMBINED SHIPPING: SOoOOooo... If you bought the splatter, Patreon or test pressing Lytle LP and want to combine shipping with any of these new releases, go to the "COMBINE SHIPPING" item HERE and purchase it for $0.00 and that will be the signal to Sam, my long suffering Shipping Guru to combine your old order and refund you some shipping. 
1.Geckos - ST LP! (M Ward + Howe Gelb + McKowski)
So excited for this little slice of Southwestern Song Stylings featuring some of my favorite songwriters. Pick up the Geckos 7" as well if you haven't already!
Geckøs is the collective spirit of acclaimed songwriter M. Ward, Giant Sand visionary Howe Gelb, and Irish multi-instrumentalist McKowski. Born out of an impromptu recording session that was sparked by an encounter at the wedding of a mutual friend, the project blends the rich flavors of the Southwest with indie folk, Spanish influences, and a touch of Irish mysticism. While initial recordings took place in Tucson, it became a true transatlantic project when the members returned to their hometowns and continued trading ideas. The trio eventually regrouped in studios across Ireland, London, and Bristol, where renowned English producer John Parish mixed multiple tracks. Geckøs’ self-titled debut is steeped in story, spontaneity, and surreal charm, channeling the spirit of three singular voices discovering a new, shared musical language.
The album is released in partnership between Org Music and coconspirators PIAPTK Recordings. If I'm sold out, go to www.ORGMUSIC.com to find more. And check out their insane catalogue.
Limited to 400 copies on Metallic gold vinyl and 600 on Red Vinyl to stores.
2. Floating Action - Hand Carved Garden Tool LP
The next (Last?) in the series of FINAL ALBUMS from Floating Action Slash Final PIAPTK Release.. (One of these days you might not have FA/PIAPTK to kick around anymore. ;-) .
Available on "flower stalk green" vinyl or "Psychedelic Home Grown Peas and Carrots" Vinyl. All purchases include a packet of Floating Action "Bee Attracting Mix" flower seeds.
20 Seth Kaufman Handmade Test Pressings also available! As has been with every Floating Action PIAPTK has released, Seth went out into his garden and made 20 stencilled and painted covers for the test pressings. This time, he used a railroad spike from Marshall, NC "the most destroyed town in the hurricane last year" where the train tracks are still unusable. Hand Carved Garden Tool was written and recorded immediately after the Hurricane of 2024.
Floating Action Pile On Pack -
Includes:
-Hand Carved Garden Tool LP on peas and carrots vinyl
-Bee Attracting Mix Seed Packet
-Jinx Protecting LP on colored vinyl
-Jinx Protecting Incense Burner + Incense Pack
-Floating Action - ST LP reissue
-Floating Action ST Air Freshener
-Floating Action Glacial Speed Ice Scraper (Winter's coming!)
AND... if you missed out on Seth's first proper album, TING, there are a few copies in the Archives at Original Prices Section: Also put up some handpainted Almost Halloween time Floating Action Lps! http://piaptk.com/products/864329-archives-and-out-of-print-pressed
Official Statement:
Each Floating Action album seems like it’s going to be the last one ever. Fifteen albums, at a pace of roughly one new album per year- it seems like there’s no way to create more. But then the ideas start to creep in, and after a few months, there are suddenly, almost by surprise, enough to make another album.
A Hand Carved Garden Tool was created effortlessly, zero overthinking, leave the frayed ends on, classic Seth Kauffman approach.
Many lyric themes, including the album title, were inspired by a trip to Spain, and an interview with painter Joan Miro.
In many ways, the instruments, approach, and resourcefulness of how AHCGT was made, IS the musical equivalent of a hand carved garden tool.
This album has that perfect, organic, effortless flow - and is the pinnacle of that first-take (even pre-first take!) magic and rawness, that has become the unique stamp that Kauffman keeps searching for.
3. Eric Slick - Dragula LP
Not sure what I was expecting when Eric reached out and asked if I wanted to release a new record he as working on earlier this year. But it definitely WASN'T A Dragula themed Hanukkah jazz record. But, it is excellent and fits right in with my recent fascinations with instrumental(ish) music.
It also gave me the opportunity to use an idea I've been wanting to try for years. You know how 45s require a "45 adapter"? I always thought, why can't that "adapter" be obnoxiously specific and relevantly shaped to the concept of the album? For a while I was seriously considering doing a series of Texas bands from my formative years with a Texas shaped adapter, but Covid killed that one.
Sooooo.... we decided to do a BLOOD DROP AMULET... A DragulAmulet if you will, ready to hang on a chain of your choice, as the center adapter.
All LPs come in a handmade cover by Eric himself!
CHAOS THEORY EDITION: This "series" is the physical embodiment of PIAPTK's "It's not a fuckup, it's a feature" mentality. I could go into how and why this happened, but it is irrelevant. There are 25 copies of this release that are on Black vinyl with Red DragulAmulet center adapter, but this combination throws the center of the plastic off, meaning that the groove set is centered on the spindle hole, but the center hole is not centered on the plastic and the plastic spins off-center on a turntable. This will NOT play on a Crosley, automatic turntables, or any turntable that has an obstruction close to the edge of the platter, but should play on most standard DJ style turntables.
Blurb from Eric:
Do you want to dig through the ditches? Burn through the witches? Well, look no further than “Dragula: A Suite In Five Parts”. Composed in 2021, it’s the third and final phase of New Age Rage. I wrote it as a sort of a free jazz performance art piece for a solo show at Nelson Drum Shop in Nashville, and now you can enjoy it in the privacy of your own home. You may even notice some recurring motifs and things that eventually became full blown songs on New Age Rage. DRAGEULA. But really, it’s a tribute to poet laureate and horror master Robert Bartlett Cummings, aka Rob Zombie. In 2024, I assembled a crack team of jazz and improv musicians and we recorded it directly to tape in 4 hours at Zac Brown Band’s Southern Grounds studio. In fact, it was mixed to tape and we haven’t touched it since. We also got Natalie Prass and Jenn Wasner to sing on it, a decision I hope they don’t regret making. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Live, laugh, and most importantly, love in the back of my Dragula.
4. McKowski - The Bukowski Tapes 10"
I first met Irishman Mark McCausland when he came to Tucson for a few Geckos show (a band he shares with M. Ward and Howe Gelb) and we hit it off famously. This excellent EP of Bukowski readings set to Mark's fingerpicked guitar and strings vibey instrumentals will most likely be the first in a series of McKowski releases on PIAPTK.
PLEASE NOTE: due to the quiet nature of the music, the lathe cut surface noise is more prevalent than on a rock record, but it is not overly distracting and sort of fits the old-timey vibe of the music.
From Mark:
McKOWSKI / Bukowski tapes
Words and voice by Charles Bukowski, put to the music of Mark McKowski. Limited to 50 copies worldwide. Typewriter photo by Howe Gelb. Exclusively available at PIAPTK & www.mckowski.com.
Mark McCausland is an Irish songwriter/producer/musician known for his solo material under the name McKowski and his collaborations with an eclectic variety of artists – notably Nick Power of The Coral, as well as M Ward & Howe Gelb, (collectively known as Geckøs). More recently, one of his short stories got turned into a feature film, The Spin, which he also composed the musical score for. He continues to work from his home studio on the outskirts of Omagh, the town that he’s been trying to escape since birth.
5. Slant Can (Howe Gelb + Beth Goodfellow) - Aqua 8"
60% of the Geckos live band (Howe Gelb, Beth Goodfellow (Iron and Wine, Pokey Lafarge) and Thoger Lund (half the bands in Tucson), work out their improvisational itches.
Blurb from the band:
This band formed us.
A week’s worth of rehearsing for a Giant Sand European tour with Thøger Lund for the upcoming Danish line up, for Autumn 2025 led to this spontaneous creation instead that included newly Tuxoned Bethy Goodfellow.
Like a child meant to stay on course and finish his homework, instead would sneak out between songs needing to be gone over and instantly make up something new without losing the groove masters.
Bethy would call out an old Giant Sand song, like October Anywhere, from the first album back in 1984, and instead of wondering how she was aware of something so ancient and not even on the current rehearsal list of music between 2002 - 2012 with the Danes, we’d dive into it anyway.
And then upon surfacing .. Thøger might be coming up with a new bass line of random notion while Bethy instantly tucks in under it with a wonder beat and Howe then let’s loose with some chords and murmur that even he didn’t know had been lying dormant within until such evoking sonic gathering offers escape of.
And voila. Something unwritten a moment before impact of performance and capture.
A kind of improvisation that’s been looking ever since the get go of musical affiliation in this camp. An understanding that music is most alive when it’s not being copied, as if rehearsing was a big lie of eventual presentation, and instead true conglomeration of affiliates instantly come up with an excitement of instantaneous song combustion without losing the thread.
SLANT CAN
when straight can’t
- Howe Gelb