we never post anything except products of our labels Nation,Kode,Dirtyblends and Unlimited Nation presentations on our platform here but decided to give the music community an opportunity to take notice and attention to this artist and very close friend of us named Jim Marlon Magas. last nite in chicago at Empty Bottle for Various Distractions nite from @beauwanzer and blake @signalrecordschicago Magas made his 1st live performance in 5 years returning with a reborn — or perhaps, more accurately, born for the first time in his most undiluted image. the song your watching is called: ‘Stone’ from his brand new album out now entitled: Confusion Is My Name his first album under his full given name, and the first album in over a decade to position him as a proper frontman at the microphone against the backdrop of his idiosyncratic electronic productions. It arrives as a statement of purpose, a detonation to vaporize the debris and clear out new territory. The album lays out his most diverse menu of styles and experiments to date, veering from technoid noise-pop animated by his maniacal vocal performances, to hallucinogenic psych rock with analog synths repurposed into bludgeoning guitar riffs, to something that resembles lounge music as performed by a delirious crooner on the eve of the world’s destruction. The full composite of Confusion Is My Name in all its twisted glory not only opens a new chapter in his career, but testifies to the undying drive that has motivated James Marlon Magas to create for thirty years. For all of its dense frameworks of production, James Marlon Magas’s vocal performances occupy our full attention throughout Confusion Is My Name. He takes chances on the mic, unafraid to dip into nearly atonal shouting matches with himself or launch into crumbling, woozy melodies. His style lands somewhere in the neighborhood of The Residents’ frontman Randy Rose’s theatrical caterwaul and the genre-blurring vocal sleaze of Captain Beefheart. this album is on his label @midwichproductions on vinyl and digital platforms.. suPPort reaL aRt Musicanship 🎶🎹 🎛🎸🎤 🎶