Description
A career-spanning overview of almost epic proportions, Miserable Poison is a massive 2.5 hour collection of Pumice recordings made between 1996 and 2021. The tracks on Miserable Poison are culled from a huge slection of often very limited lathe cut, cassette, CDr and vinyl releases originally put out on labels like Stabbies etc, Root Don Lonie For Cash, Audiobot, 8mm, Yellowelectric, Doubtful Sounds and Soft Abuse.
Mastered by Lasse Marhaug and packaged in a gloss 6-panel digipack. Edition of 500 copies.
“Everything Pumice owns is broken. Virgin audience members at his shows might think he is fucking up till half-way through when it becomes clear they are witnessing a perfect solo ballet of mini-cassettes, modified guitar, foot-pedal drum-kit & short-circuiting spring reverb croon. Deep into a genius career, Pumice still surprises with his subtle mastery of broke-down sounds, slowed-down Magic Band rhythms, crumbling chord organ hymns & tragic ballads that reach deep into the very soul of Flying Nun/Xpressway/Root Don Lonie For Cash anti-pop pop music.” – Glenn Donaldson
“Pumice is piloted by Stefan Neville. Sugar Jon Arcus was an original partner back in the day and will always be welcome back on board. Pumice originally appeared as part of the vituperative Plop recordings/Oats street gang in Hamilton in the early 90s amoungst the likes of Armpit, Grommet, Teen-x-ray, Thee Ideal Gus and Gfrenzy. Stefan has been doing Pumice for over half of his life. In recent years there’s been a lot of touring the world and wringing the shit out of himself. Pumice plays parties, bars, galleries, theatres, punk dives, squats, boats, churches and car parks.” – Audio Foundation NZ
CD1
1. From “19.4.96” lathe 8″ – Stabbies Etc 1996
2-4. From “I’ll Take No Chance Near A Volcano” cassette – Stabbies Etc 1997
5. From “Platter Two” lathe 7″ – Stabbies Etc 1998
6-10. From “Let’s Treat The Pigshead As Dip” lathe LP – Stabbies Etc 1998
11. From “Year Of The Root” CDR comp – Root Don Lonie For Cash 1999
12. From “Sexual” cassette – Stabbies Etc 1999
13. From “A Window Into A Egg” cassette – Stabbies Etc 2001
14. (By GFrenzy) From “Worldwide Skull” CDR – Audiobot 2005
15-16. From “Providence” 7″ – 8mm 2008
17. From split 7″ with Grouper – Yellowelectric/Stabbies Etc 2009
18-19. (19 by Bob Cardy) From “Persevere” 7″ – Soft Abuse 2009
20-21. From self titled 10″ – Doubtful Sounds 2010
CD2
1-4. From “Worldwide Gullet” CDR – Nyali 2010
5-6. (6 by Clovers/Ertegun) From “Phony” flexidisc 7″ – Soft Abuse 2012
7. From “Land” cassette – Soft Abuse 2014
8-9. From “Platelets” 7″ – Soft Abuse 2018
10. From “Worldwide Welts” cassette – Dubbed Tapes 2019
11. (By Cyril Tawney) “Table” outtake 2020
12-13. From “Worldwide Table” cassette – Dubbed Tapes 2021
