DISCO SPLENDOR AND MINÓY/PBK REISSUES
"In late 2023, I completed work on the Minóy archive, a ten-year endeavor that resulted in 160 releases, many of them previously unheard. Along the way, I uncovered collaborations with key figures in American experimental music: Al Margolis, Dave Prescott, John Hudak, Zan Hoffman, even Alien Planetscapes. But one set of recordings wasn’t part of the archive, my own collaborations with Minóy.
Between 1987 and 1988, Minóy and I released eight cassette albums together. The first, Disco Splendor, was our self-aware noise-joke project: absurdist, static, intentionally aimless or brainlessly minimalist, and for that very reason, completely unique.
We also worked under the name Minóy/PBK, releasing Chansons Mystiques, Cloisters, and Live Devil Music, all in 1988. These recordings are a dive into industrial collage and sonic disorientation, epic montages of static noise, shortwave radio fragments, and machine-like howls. They’re heavy, minimal, absurd, and immersive all at once.
I’ve just reissued these albums on the Minóy Bandcamp site for $2 each. They remain an important link between our solo paths, and I’m happy to make them available again after more than a decade."
Phillip B. Klingler
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