www.hotairpress.org
www.myspace.com/hotairpress
The florida=DEATH records are in! They will be shipping ASAP via media mail, so expect those soon if you ordered one, and if you didn’t yet, please do so!
Also, Chip at The Examiner did some coverage on Ipsissimus, so please check that out - http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-11991-Hartford-Metal-Music-Examiner~y2009m6d8-Ipsissimus-lead-the-Black-Metal-charge-in-New-England
There are VERY few records left and they’re going quickly, so if you’ve been holding off for whatever reason, please get on that soon.
Purchase some records. Tell your friends.
Also, on Monday evening, at the Wolves in the Throne Room show (flyer posted below), we have a surprise 12" that we will be releasing that evening.
If you can, come out and enjoy your weekend with us.
MAY 23rd @ THE WALLINGFORD HUNGARIAN CLUB
147 ward st, wallingford, CT
:: A BENEFIT FOR THE DUBEY FAMILY ::
THE FLAMING TSUNAMIS
HOSTAGE CALM
MY HEART TO JOY (tour kickoff)
STUCK LUCKY (TN)
ROCK n ROLL HOOLIGANS (TN)
+ 1 TBA
5 PM
$10 minimum donation
earlier this year Larry Dubey suffered a severe spinal cord injury while snowboarding, as a result he has become a C5 quadriplegic. The average first year cost of medical/rehabilitation/living for a C5 Quad is over one million dollars. second year expenses amount to roughly $600,000 and the expenses after that continue to be exorbitant. Please help us alleviate a portion of this expense by coming out and supporting a great cause! Ticket price is $10 but any extra donations are encouraged. no band is getting paid at this show, all money collected after paying for the hall goes directly to the Dubey family. PLEASE COME OUT AND HELP A FRIEND IN NEED! there will be screened posters, compilations, zines and more for sale as well, all proceeds to the Dubey family.
Full Interview with Inkwell
When did Hot Air Press begin?
Summer of 2007 is when I put out the first zine, but the actual Label/Press didn’t actually have a name/existence until Spring 2008.
What motivated you to start it?
I had lost my mind, quit my job and school and with nothing to do, eventually rediscovered a love for reading and writing. I compiled and printed two zines. I was gonna continue doing the same thing and thought it only appropriate to give a name to what I was doing. Nothing premeditated.
Do you work on any sort of deadlines (like monthly or bimonthly), or do you just publish whenever you voluntarily create material?
Not at all. I go through stretches of time where I barely write or want to do anything. The problem with releasing more musical projects at this point is all monetary.
I’m guessing you don’t limit yourself as far as different types of media projects go. Confrim/deny? (Bahaha.)
Not at all. Essentially Hot Air Press is a vehicle for the release of anything and everything that myself and the other people I’m working with, love. I want to expose people to things that they otherwise might not have been exposed to. Give them something new to enjoy. Something to talk about.
Your written work is pretty diverse, but do you draw from any common inspiration?
Understanding the extreme difference between liking someone and respecting them. The terror or tomorrow. 6am loneliness. The inability for one to cry. The entire human emotional spectrum when faced with the fact that life is too long and too short at the same time. Watching your friends be completely destroyed by anything and everything. Holding their hands as they walk through the flames and sometimes pushing them face first into it. Fear. A general distaste for my humans coupled with an extreme amount of compassion and understanding making it difficult to do anything. Things I find on the streets. Things said to me in passing. Participating in peer pressure. Violent thoughts. Circumstance. Timing. Good manners.
Dorchester, MA. Farmington, Hartford, New Britain, Wallingford, West Harford, CT. The Hostage Calm Van and its one red door. My grand desire to live by myself in a cabin in the woods.
Richard Brautigan. Cormac McCarthy. Charles Bukowski. Raymond Carver. Georges Bataille. Truman Capote. John Steinbeck. Sylvia Plath. Flannery O'Connor. JD Salinger. James Joyce. Ernest Hemingway. Norman Mailer. WS Burroughts. Denis Johnson. Philip Roth. Henry Miller.
Joseph Sulier and Get Born out of St. Louis. Dan and Palm Publications out of SF. Wesley Eisold and the Heartworm Press out of Philly. The We Da Best Tribe. YL’s. Cardboard City. All of my friends, near and far, old and new.
In reality, anything and everything has an extremely large impact on me. I am simultaneously completely fascinated and terrified of the extreme grandiosity of life and the fact that I do exist. Its a lot of pressure but I’m getting used to it.
Where/how do you distribute?
I carry around an old toolbox with me that has whatever I’m selling in it. I bring it almost everywhere, but primarily to shows. I occasionally have a big box with stuff in it too. We bring stuff into our good friends, Redscroll Records in Wallingford. We also have stuff for sale on the website - www.hotairpress.org. We should be distributing through various other retailers down the road as we release more.
What’s your audience base?
People who like to read and listen to music. Kids at shows in CT. Someone from Norway bought a Mammoth Hunter 7" from us. We’re always looking to find more people to share our work with. Tell your friends.
How has the general reaction been to the zine?
Positive and negative. I’ve shared a lot of very personal feelings and thought’s and the comments I’ve received has only been positive and a very driving motivational factor in my own pursuit of writing. I would say the only problem is that I don’t have much of a market in the Connecticut music scene besides the few people who already purchase everything I do and the random people who come from either out of state or don’t typically go to the same shows. I come from a scene of people who typically indulge themselves in music - not literature. I’ve sold out of some stuff and I haven’t of others. It doesn’t really matter to me in the end. I’d rather 3 people buy my work and really get something from it then sell hundreds of them to people who will let them sit on their shelves. Adore the goat.
You incorporate music into the whole project too- you recently pressed a florida=DEATH EP- how is working with music for you?
My life has revolved around music for the last seven years. It was a natural progression I think, to move from working strictly on my own personal writing projects, to putting out records. I don’t play any musical instruments (just yet) so I can’t put out my own records, so I might as well put out records from people whose music and company I love. It’s really exciting to be working in this realm because we’re trying to work with a variety of bands which will hopefully open the doors for us to hit a wider market of people. Hopefully those people who find out about who we are and what we’re doing, will look into broadening their own musical horizons. A lot of people I know are too close minded with what they listen to, and if I could help them find something new to listen to and enjoy, then I’ve accomplished something.
What takes up the majority of the work in this for you?
At this point, training myself to be a more compulsive writer. I find it hard to get motivated most days, and I need to get myself to be motivated everyday.
Is there anyone else helping out to share the load?
Hot Air Press is a collaborative entity of myself, Benjamin Levesque (Mammoth Hunter, Cold Snap, Poison Fingerz) and Kevin Zakszewski (formerly of Rapscallion Records). I asked Ben if he wanted to team up last winter and Kevin recently jumped on board. He’s awaiting his initiation. That release should be out sometime this year.
Any plans in the near future?
We’re awaiting the arrival of the florida=DEATH records. We’re working on a little surprise from our favorite Connecticut US Black Metal band which should be out VERY soon as well. We’re sitting on some cassettes from Baby Grand, a folk/acoustic project featuring former/current/future members of Hostage Calm, Jettison and Make Do And Mend. That should hopefully be in the hands of the public very soon. Once Torche gets home from tour, our friends in Homestretch will be able to finish up mixing and mastering their 7" and we’ll be putting that out. I’ve listened to some rough mixes, and it’s safe to say that it’s going to be my favorite hardcore 7" of this year - and that’s not just because they’re my friends. It’s that good. We’re going to do a split label release 7" in the future with Asbestos records featuring Make Do And Mend and My Heart To Joy doing covers of The Smiths songs. Expect stuff from Birth of Flower, Poison Fingerz, Hostage Calm, Jettison, and more as well. I just finished up releasing a mini-zine entitled “Randy.” It’s one short story. I’m also working on a collaborative zine with friends Alan Huck and Mitchell Dubey. I’m very excited about that. Christopher Zizzamia should also have a zine out very soon as well which I’m excited for people to get to read. He’s a great friend and a terrific writer.
We’re not stopping anytime soon. We’re just beginning. Thanks for your time.
sorry for any spelling/grammatical errors. its 5am and i feel like crap and am too lazy to go through and fix them.
So
Elise from Inkwell Press contacted me about doing an interview a little while back and the zine is done and online now for you to read.
http://www.inkwellpress.blogspot.com/
I might post all of my responses in the coming days. Who knows.
News soon. I’m not supposed to be awake.
ADORE THE GOAT
Annovncments soon. Nothing more vntil then.
April 18th @ Redscroll Records (24 North Colony Road, Wallingford CT) is Record Store Day. We will be at the store celebrating with our friends so please come in and celebrate with us.
We will have twenty five packages available in the record store day gift bags. They will go quick, so come out early and pick one up. Here’s what you’ll get:
- Mammoth Hunter 7"
- CD-R Compilation
- Tinnitus Zine (Containing work from M.P. Miglietta, A. Huck, C. Zizzamia, D. Aiken, and L. Rioual)
- Possibly more..
And now for the contest. There will be one Golden CD-R compilation, and if you are to recieve said Golden CD-R, you win the Win a Day with Jack Vibert competition. The details are slim to none - you get to spend a day with the Unionville All-star and his friends. Gravity and 7-11. Best of luck to all participants.
This weekend our friends in My Heart To Joy and Make Do And Mend are releasing their new albums on Friday and Saturday night, respectively. Come to the Wallingford American Legion (190 Ward St, Wallingford CT) and join in the festivities.
The florida=DEATH laquers are in. It sounds fantastic.
New Abraham King tracks are perfect.
Randy, a new zine from L. Rioual was completed yesterday. It’s a short story written in the winter of 2008/9 packaged in a stamped/numbered mini envelope and limited to 50. Each contains a personal note and clipping from one of two national geographics. You can find them this weekend and in the future from here on in.
Thanks.
Saturday April 18th is Record Store Day. We will be celebrating with our good friends, Redscroll Records. We’re working on a surprise for the day so come out, pick one up. There will only be 25 of them and they’re only available at Redscroll that day. Expect an annoucement of the first official Hot Air Press contest in a few days.
A Conversation with M.P. Miglietta
please note - this is unedited and straight from a late night internet conversation. enjoy. or don’t. www.hotairpress.org www.myspace.com/hotairpress - pre-order the new florida=DEATH one sided 12" ep entitled “Depression Era Music.” thanks.
mpmiglietta: hello
hello
hello
hello
Sent at 12:41 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: i am in your neighborhood
watching your women
and salting meats
Sent at 12:43 AM on Thursday
me: be back in a couple of minutes haha
implore yourself with this while i’m gone
http://www.flickr.com/photos/superbomba/3383942821/
mpmiglietta: yay YAY
Sent at 12:49 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: is that your grammie?
she’s got THAT ass
Sent at 12:51 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: its not like “bla-dow”, but more so a “ca-cow!”
Sent at 12:56 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: did you know kurt russel’s character in john carpenter’s “the thing” was an obsessive alcoholic with a penchant for buggering and very impressive water sports
me
me neither
Sent at 12:59 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: …
Sent at 1:00 AM on Thursday
me: i’m sorry that took so long
haha
mpmiglietta: ha its cool
its fun “leaving messages”
me: hahahaha its fun receiving them
mpmiglietta: spellbind me with your witch craft at your lezzur
until then, i will be using a random sentence generator to fill in dead space
me: hahahahah
i can’t be up too late cause i ahve to actually wake up tomorrow morning as opposed to snoozing the alarm for 3 hours (literally) so let me collect my thoughts for a brief moment of 2 seconds and begin
mpmiglietta: hollowed out organs lain prostrate on the apple colored snow remind me of eddie furlong
sure thang mang
greg and i have this massive bone to burn and i think we might even watch the thing now that i think about it
me: hahahahaha
Sent at 1:19 AM on Thursday
me: hi
mpmiglietta: hi
me: how are things?
mpmiglietta: i feel spongy
because things are great
BECAUSE
things are filling my porous body with fluids
me: that’s great!
mpmiglietta: how are you my friend?
me: i’m hanging in. saw some people tonight. hung out with my mom and ate some pasta. it was good. bought shampoo and deodorant. overall a very productive day.
mpmiglietta: i trust a healthy regiment of pelvic thrusting?
me: nah, just a lot of rap talking
mpmiglietta: yeah man, i ate a burrito the size of my first car, bought some records, and got high as fuck on sleeping giant with greg and the drip
me: now that’s a great evening
mpmiglietta: rap talking you say?
like
me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivjybzdXVmI
RAPTALK AIRLINES
mpmiglietta: its like soul plane!
only better
me: exactly!
so share with us for those who don’t know, what is florida=DEATH, the new hawaii, and why is mr hobbs so important to both?
Sent at 1:25 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: florida=DEATH is a band that has been together for roughly five years, with after a small series of various line-up changes has found itself in the current incarnation that is dave, greg, mike, nick, and james.
Sent at 1:26 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: the new hawaii is the house we inhabit in a viciously ignorant suburban town known as “southington”, and due to its denizens and convenient set-up beside a miserable old couple who leaves for the weekend and a cemetary run by a bunch of catholic fascists, has been host to well ovatholic fascists
sorry my chat window is skipping
somebody hit the dj booth
me: no worries
i hate southington for their apple festival that makes it hard for me to travel to the new hawaii, but that’s it
because it has dennys and that makes up for a lot
mpmiglietta: HAS been host to a series of free shows since 2007
the service staff at denny’s make it worth the conversation piece alone
me: exactly
mpmiglietta: fuck the apple festival, sans their over priced deep fried oreos
me: i need to have noe
one*
mpmiglietta: which, mind you, are not as good as some of the fried food we’ve concocted here at the stupid lazy cafe
nah man
to-go-zuphs are where its at
fried oreos only take you so far
you need to crawl that extra arm length
me: truth
mpmiglietta: we at the new hawaii are master cuisinartists
greg is legend around these parts for a hybrid fried peanut butter and banana sandwich that picks up where the king left off
but back to your question i SUPPOSE
mr. hobbs is an orphan child who was left on our front door step one windy february night last year
he was wrapped in a tortilla and had a message on tied to his jowls that read
“do not feed after the witching hour, for he gets gassy”
Sent at 1:36 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: since then we’ve been his family, and pay for his room and board because he’s too much of a lazy bitch to get a real job and pay off all that credit card debt he’s been racking up on amazonbooks
me: he’s quite the reader i hear
Sent at 1:37 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: he is, he once did a symposium at brown university on the logistical allocations of the heliosphere
me: quite advanced for his age
mpmiglietta: he, of course, comes from the thought school of dr. alber schweitzer, usually quoting his works on the psychology of the irish break dancer “jesus”
me: perfect
Sent at 1:40 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: but hobbs is a cool guy, and definitely a part of the momentum we here at the new hawaii have been harvesting as a collective
me: i’ve always enjoyed his presence
a true trooper
mpmiglietta: and quite the vocalist!
me: he’s got a strong pair of pipes
and a great range
mpmiglietta: hobbs is a huge fan of jazz great wynton marsalis
me: i hate that guy
if he’s who i’m thinking of
the prick that did all those videos that i was forced to sit through in elementary school
Sent at 1:43 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: i can’t hate on him, last appearing in new haven, he hosed these rich white women in the front row from his spit valve
me: i recant my previous statement about him and change my plea to he is fantastic
mpmiglietta: not a bad guy
me: so being a resident of the new hawaii, the recording station of florida=DEATH, what can you tell us about the process of recording and compiling the 12" EP
Sent at 1:45 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: well, i just so happen to have greg here to explain
me: perfect
mpmiglietta: greg, in your own words:
me: (hi greg)
mpmiglietta: hello
i didn’t say that
me: hmm
well
you had me at hell
o
mpmiglietta: so yeah
haha
Sent at 1:48 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: there are formed songs on the 12" that appear in an upcoming lp we have just finished that was recorded on cassette over the last year or so which was which we intended to put out earlier last year around may… but we had to many ideas to stop recording at the point .. and we finaly ended recording around nov
Sent at 1:53 AM on Thursday
me: fantastic
your thoughts/feelings on the completed project?
or product, rather
mpmiglietta: after that point we were less into recording part by part and started fucking around with live tape loops improving using more of those live sounds than manufactured like in the LP .. we ended up recording a bunch of improv and cut it up with songs from the LP
Sent at 1:59 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: Depression Era Music sums up a very exploratory time at the new hawaii all in all i thinks its FLY AS SHIT
Sent at 2:01 AM on Thursday
me: i’ll concur
mpmiglietta: werd! thanks
me: haha of course
mpmiglietta: hi its miggs
er
migz
me: mike - as a sort of “outsider” as in you are more of an observatory presence (considering greg is in the band, and ben and i have money riding on it…) in this whole thing, what are your feelings no the record?
Sent at 2:03 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: in my honest opinion, definitely coinciding with that position as being someone around the music constantly, i should, by all rights, be sickened to death by hearing them play or any of their recordings
me: one might figure
mpmiglietta: especially this day in age where music is so readily available through current technologies
Sent at 2:06 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: but as far as listening to music right now, and seeing where the world is headed, it makes sense as a capturing of the times
and its fly as shit
me: disconnected? myass
am i back? i’m not sure
mpmiglietta: but when i say capturing of the times, i mean also in the sense that things are changing, and music tends to evolve around the emotional impact that each generation comes from
yeah you are
you’re connected as hell
Sent at 2:10 AM on Thursday
me: awesome
i think at this point if people have listened to the teaser and aren’t sold and they don’t truly comprehend the power of it being fly as hell, they’re never going to get it and it’s their loss
Sent at 2:12 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: pretty much, its something that a lot of people are trying to do right now with music and can’t really pull off in an interesting way. they have definitely fucked with that staistic
me: my thoughts exactly
the record is all over the place - i’m hearing sounds that i’m hearing in 10 different bands hailing from so called musical meccas, but they don’t have it all and they don’t have hobbs so in reality, they have nothing
mpmiglietta: hobbs is an inspiration
me: you also are a hot air press “artist” (if you want to get technical and what not) - how have things been in the wonderful world of dvd cases with zines bookmarks and musical companions
mpmiglietta: he seems like an ordinary mutt to the general populace, but he’s been places
me: in suits and sunglasses as well
a well accessorized dog
Sent at 2:16 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: meh, as a first “official” release, it was my way of finally throwing out a piece of writing that i felt was necessary to release
me: understandable
mpmiglietta: it was a confessional piece
me: do you consider yourself to be that sort of writer?
mpmiglietta: nothing i would consider of importance to society, but more of a “jesus christ i think i’ve gone insane and i have it on tape…”
Sent at 2:20 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: i wouldn’t consider myself anything other than an introspective observer and a conniving opportunist
me: which is what we should all strive to be
i find it hard to put myself into the mindset of someone who is not completely self aware
mpmiglietta: and what i’ve found in my travels have been, in a matter of ways, a bizarre series of events after another
me: i’m overly aware of how my own actions play off onto other people and myself and for the past 21 years it has been nothing but crippling, but i’m learning to expand it into a sort of controlling power, allowing it to help me in life as opposed to holding me back like it has
mpmiglietta: you should start smoking pot
me: a lot of people tell me that
mpmiglietta: its like spinich for the spirit
put some meat on those bones man!
me: this one time my girlfriend got a fortune cookie that said something to the extent of “eat your vegetable (no S) and you’ll grow up strong like popeye” and she gave it to me because i was so excited about it
Sent at 2:24 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: hows a man supposed to stumble about the dark room after a long night of drinking that life is and deal with clipping your shins?
me: have another beer
mpmiglietta: pffffffff
me: thrust away the pain
mpmiglietta: you know what i like about the spring?
me: i don’t
mpmiglietta: you could smell the stink of golfers within a hundred feet of any country club, but you could also smell their trophy wives
me: you’re great
ryan calls the asshole the “shit pussy”
thoughts?
mpmiglietta: what does he call the regular one?
me: i’m not sure
mpmiglietta: what does a blind kid, who was born deaf, call the sun?
me: home
mpmiglietta: precisely
me: what have you been reading/watching/listening to?
Sent at 2:30 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: i have been reading steve martin’s “pure drivel”, studying for my cumulative finals, watching people walk, and listening to the new themselves release “theFREEhoudini”, back to back with depression era music
thefreehoudini mixtape they released recently actually follows depression era music as being a runner up for release of the year thus far
me: i’ll have to find it
the world ends in three days, what do you do?
mpmiglietta: masturbate until its over
and then wash my hands
me: i couldn’t formulate a more proper and fitting response
mpmiglietta: because i’ll be the only unlucky mother fuck left standing while all you dead fuckers are stinking up the place
me: before i venture off to sit at the bottom of the shower and scald myself with hot water because why not, if you could only offer one piece of advice to the public or to a certain individual, what would would it be?
Sent at 2:35 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: while my dumb ass was trapped in a linen closet in my old ass, asbestos insulated house, safe from the horrors of the folding cosmos, some asshole will trip over a wire in russia and ignite the whole god forsaken dimension
me: hahaha
Sent at 2:37 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: isms are for ists. what you believe in should not be in a category, but inside you. fuck twittering.
and fuck twitterists
me: any final thoughts/comments/shout outs/whatever?
Sent at 2:40 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: if anyone reads this, then you’ve made it this far. go listen to the preview luc and ben put up, go to the florida site, sit down and really listen to it. you might actually start liking music for the right reasons again.
me: <3
Sent at 2:45 AM on Thursday
mpmiglietta: luc, men like you are few and far bewteen, and what you and ben are doing with the art in connecticut is pretty fucking impressive, and incredibly diverse.if i can only speak for the new hawaii when i say thank you me: i like to make things and share them with people. that’s it.and extend that comment towards yourselves at the new hawaii, a TRULY magical kingdommpmiglietta: you are always welcome here, as a matter of fact, please, if you are available, join us this saturday me: … morrisseyhaha mpmiglietta: bah! i knew it! me: otherwise i would actually go mpmiglietta: hahaha me: and i’m putting this entire thing on the tumblrhaha mpmiglietta: we’re not going anywhere (much to the dismay of our neighbors) me: fuck them mpmiglietta: hahaha me: alright, i’m gonna go empty my bowels and put the shampoo i bought tonight to good use. my hair is the longest it’s been in over 7 years. it’s weird mpmiglietta: i wonder if i come off as insane in my online dialogue, as well as my real life me: i think more insanebecause there is extended pauses mpmiglietta: most of those extended pauses were the victim of a furious joint"behind the scenes" shit me: hahahaa mpmiglietta: go take that shit man,m do you want to prolapse your rectum for heaven sakes man!i always wanted to say MANme: i say man a lot"hey man" mpmiglietta: in the 50’s it was always used as an urgency to exlamation"get a hold of yourself, man!“ me: or "take a shit, man!" mpmiglietta: yeah! i hear that me: hahahaalright, sleep well my friend! mpmiglietta: you too, this was fun <3