Tundraducks Records supremo Augustus Pokerback has shocked the music world by announcing that Max Eider’s new EP will be released on Glass Modern. ‘I’ve stitched Barker up like a kipper,’ Pokerback commented. ‘I can’t believe I’m rid of that idiot at last.’

In addition to the new title track, ‘All Shall Be Well’, the CD/DL features remixed/remastered versions of Eider’s last two digital single releases, ‘Go Gentle’ and ‘The Meek’, the latter including new vocal tracks by long-time collaborator and singer supreme June Miles-Kingston.

‘These songs belong together so it made sense to revisit the other two and do a physical release,’ Max says. ‘It’s great to be working with Dave again. Augustus will probably be devastated but to be honest I’m not sure he still has mental capacity, if you know what I mean. He’s 111 years old for fuck’s sake.’

Cover art by multi-award-winning cartoonist and old friend Dave Coverly

Includes digital pre-order of All Shall Be Well. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

In loving memory.

‘Earl Sikkorski’s Golden Treasury’, a facsimile of the Jazz Butcher fan club scrapbook, pinned out, examined under the microscope and expanded upon, by Philip Snow.  Hardback book out now.

A Meandering, Cacophonous Concordance of The Jazz Butcher Songbook, by Pat Fish & Philip Snow, will be officially published on the first day of May, 2022.

A 400 page volume with hundreds of illustrations, many uniquely sourced from the Fishy Mansions Archives and friends worldwide. Big Answers, finally.

It's not often that an artist gets to do a Bowie by consciously carving their personal epitaph into the grooves of their final LP. The Highest in the Land is that rarity of an album, and it could not have been made by a more brilliantly poetic and fearlessly sarcastic writer than Pat Fish, also known as The Jazz Butcher.

Four CD box set gathering A-sides, the would-be hits along with B-sides, tangential 12-inch tracks (the C-sides), and an excellent session for Los Angeles radio station KCRW from 1989.

Includes over a dozen indie chart hits including ‘Southern Mark Smith’, ‘Girl Go’, ‘The Human Jungle’, ‘16 Years’ plus a host of truly eclectic Butcher tunes from his early Glass recordings through his time at Creation.

Featuring ‘Bath Of Bacon’, ‘A Scandal In Bohemia’, ‘Sex And Travel’ and ‘Distressed Gentlefolk’.

The Jazz Butcher’s Brave New Waves session was recorded on June 5th, 1988 in CBC Studio 13 in Montreal. The recording is taken from CBC Archives reels and remastered at Grey Market Mastering in Montreal, by Harris Newman.

Crowd-funded in under 12 hours, recorded on 2" tape, lush and warm..