WILL SHIP IN EARLY OCTOBER.

Not what I was expecting when Eric reached out and asked if I wanted to release a new record he was working on earlier this year. But it definitely WASN'T A Hannukah Dragula themed 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: The "Chaos Theory Edition" "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. Myt plastics guys cut 22 black discs that were off-center, so rather than throwing them away, there are now 22 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 plastic, but the plastic is 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.