Pineal Ventana

Kim Chee, Travis Kotler, Clara Clamp, Brian Cook, Mitchel Foy
1993

Someone told me it became hard to find Pineal Ventana's stuff online, so I thought that's a good reason for a PV mega post.. besides, it's PV, that's a fine damn reason for it's own.
This post is including everything I could lossless rip, and every other release I could find in highest quality possible. Still some tapes are missing, if you have, please share.

For those of you who aren't familiar with the group, do some google work to understand more how interesting these guys were. Probably my all time favorite Georgia band, Ventana weren't following any rules and did exactly what they wanted to, both live and on record. Live they were at times a mix between the art exhibitions of Circle X and the chaotic insanity of Butthole Surfers (including the winning elements of every family show- urine, fire, female organs constructions, etc..), while their music was so diverse I'm not gonna even try and describe it, let's just say that it's mostly free-form, heavy, tribal and noisy, just like the stuff you usually get here. I could long list comparisons to every free thinking 80's industrial/noise rock/goth/post punk groups existed, so let's just not go there.
Both line up changings and the fact that the staying members kept expanding their instruments variety, helped the band on their continuous evolution while always staying fresh, pushing new ideas.
Make sure you check some videos on youtube, The Point shows are few of my favorite ones.
Honestly I've no idea how not even one album has been re-issued by now, PV deserves one of those complete discography fancy box set, and since no such thing exist, catch your breathe, here comes the thunder..


1993 - Stagnancy Is Revolting [varied high bit rate]


Second PV was this self released 7", in the end of their formation year, featuring founding member Mitchell Foy (percussion, vocals) and Clara Clamp (Danette Haser, vocals), Kim Chee (guitar, percussion), Travis Kotler (guitar, replaced Doug Herring) and last to join as the first line up was initially without bass guitar, was Brian Cook.

1. Pathfinder
2. Umbilical Operator
3. Quince Minutos

1994 - Philosopher's Stone [partially, low quality]

1. Philosopher's Stone
2. Golden Return (missing track)
3. Cheese of The Month Club
4. Sour Sheet (missing track)
5. Attack of The 50Ft. Cannibal Clownz





1995 - Living Soil [lossless]

And than came the saxophone. Shane Pringle joined turning the beast to a twelve arms six headed monster with one common twisted mind. Debut full length came on local Half Baked Records showing more improv nature than prior releases. When you see their photo in the booklet, you realize these nightmarish sounds are made by the most odd looking weirdo geeks.

1. Indica
2. Uzi Does It
3. Big Dick Roast
4. Colon Caddy
5. T.L.T.
6. Abre La Ventana
7. Every Beast
8. Ode To Tetsuo
9. Descending Reminder
10. Do It
11. Mark Of Zero
12. Coming On
13. The Negate of Want
14. Kitty Katz On Dope (hidden track)


1996 - Let Them Fuck [partially, low quality]

1. Let Them Fuck
2. Vacant Twat
3. The Screen (missing track)

Clara Clamp, Jason LaFarge, Mitchell Foy, John Whitaker, Kim Chee, Shane Pringle
Breathe As You Might photo session, 1997 . By Laine Harris

1997 - Breathe As You Might [lossless]

By the time their second full length was released, PV saw some more line up changes, Jason LaFarge came instead Kotler, while on bass Cook was replaced by Ron Bon-> Leigh Jeffrey->Ryan Taylor (who is featured in track 13)->John Whitaker at last.
Featuring some old material by prior line ups and newly written stuff, this one is considered by some to be the best PV release, I believe it's just another blast one in a kind album by them, like the other three..

1. Untitled
2. Waterlogged
3. Dellamorte
4. Spatial Consequence
5. Spindlewick
6. Intrinsic
7. R
8. Deadlands
9. Leyner Notes
10. Parched Mind
11. Shauna Doll
12. Man Lies
13. The Slow Shock of Recognition
14. Cities In Linger



1998 - Expel [192kbps]


Three outtakes from the Breathe As You Might sessions and two more recently recorded at their rehearsal space at Black Box.

1. Walks Alone
2. New Spirits (For Old Rituals)
3. Dark Cloud
4. Effigy Burns
5. Calling Ø/Rid Rot



1999 - Malpractice [lossless]

First of two to be recorded and produced by Martin Bisi at his B.C. Studios, sure brought a level up sound-wise and brought the group towards bit more recognition. This one sounds more like a one complete unit, even though like both predecessors, it also contains few improv tracks recorded outside the studio. Was completed (probably even pressed) already in 1998.

1. Hollow
2. The Hooded Mirror
3. Crack In The Light (Crack In His Eye)
4. Taenia Solium
5. Dora's Deliverance
6. Rats For Belmer
7. Flesh That Moves
8. They Hide Life
9. Ruin
10. A Hollow Margin Forgotten
11. Practice


2000 - Axes To Ice [lossless]

PV's swan song and the second one involving Bisi saw the departure of Pringle, but as a quintet they still kept the bombastic exploding sound, and even draw a bit further into experimentation than previous one. Some of the music was acting as soundtrack for short film by Chad Rullman called Kotoran Jiwa, with PV's member acting in it, and stills from it portraying as the album's art. On one hand I really wanna watch this film, but on the other I'm scared to death..
Post release Whitaker and Chee left, and even though new players were joined (Brian Ginn and Lindell Todd) for a couple of live shows, 2001 saw the group's demise.

1. incarnia
2. Breach Denial
3. Control?
4. hark
5. S'vreem
6. Divide
7. One Held The Key - One Held The Sleep
8. SSS (The Land With No Heads)
9. Axes To Ice

Travis Kotler, Leigh Jeffrey, Clara Clamp
At Dottie's, Atlanta, 1996.09.13 . By Steve Pomberg

199X - Compilation Tracks [varied high bit rate, some lossless]

1. 199? - Flowers For The Dead (Unreleased ?)
2. 1993 -  D.yUle I. (Perimeter Records - Christmas '93 Compilation)
3. 1993 - Philosopher's Stone (Early version or just live ?) (Red Neon Tapes - Made In U.S.A. Vol. I)
4. 1995 - Alimentary School (Half Baked Records - Quadruple Felony!)
5. 1996 - For Christmas I Want A Way Out (Outer Loop Productions - First Annual Christmas Tape)
6. 1996 - Mended (Silber Records - Alleviation)
7. 1997 - Angel From The Realm of Glory (Outer Loop Productions - Second Annual Christmas Compilation)
8. 1998 - He Said "She Won't Dance With Me" (Scuss Media - Our Heat (Your Moisture))

That's all boys and girls, as usual, you have anything to add please do so, comments are more than wanted.. info, memories, missing tracks, missing releases, rarities of any kind, whatever..
Stagnancy Is Revolting !