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All artwork was cradled and visualized by the
post-industrial imagination of CHU; The Black
Country, tech savvy, rule-breaking, progres-
sive wordsmith and thinker – an ardent advo-
cate of aerosol painting and its vanguard for
over 30 years with global public works and
murals, 3D perspective illusions and many
group shows, under his Walsall leather belt.
CHU's work has included projects with Banksy
and Jamie Hewlett among many others, and
he has been described as the ‘Escher of UK
street art’ and founder of Graffiti Bastards.
The album is out now on Birmingham based
Iron Man Records.
The album appears beautifully packaged in a
double gatefold cd wallet with artwork by
CHU in full colour and a ten page booklet.
Mohawk illustrates the kind of care and atten-
tion a John Sinclair record deserves. After all,
he kinda helped start this underground art
explosion.
You can buy Books and Music by John Sinclair
in the Iron Man Records online Shop.
Visit John Sinclair:http://www.johnsinclair.us
Visit Steve Fly:http://acrillic.blogspot.co.uk
Visit Chu:http://www.schudio.co.uk
www.ironmanrecords.net
Steve The Fly is a native of Stourbridge UK, now
an Amsterdam resident who plays drums, spins
vinyl, writes novels and literary and cultural
commentary. He also maintains a flock of web -
sites and works in various other art forms with-
out visible restraint. His other music projects
have included New Flesh, Garaj Mahal, Temple
Dragon band, of course he is now full time with
John Sinclair.
These songs are further utilized by John's poet-
ic method so that each title and the rhythm of
his poetry can piggy-back upon the same song
title, and rhythm, of an original composition set
in history, for extra rooting. Steve put down
drums, turntables, cello-bass, flute, and glock-
enspiel, shooting to play around the vocal lead
lines and diverse expressions from John.
"to take the hair off
the sides of the head
& leave just a strip
along the top,
scalping pretense
for the baldness of statement
building a new music
on the bones of the old"
— John Sinclair from the title track “Mohawk”
The album was recorded diligently by Tim
Egmond at Ei Studios, Amsterdam and passed
along to Simon Reeves at Framework Studios,
Birmingham for mastering.Tim Egmond is a
music producer, engineer and studio whizz,
based in Amsterdam, who has worked with
scores of international and locally based artists
on a wide variety of projects.
Simon Reeves has completed many projects for
Iron Man Records already and he has been
described as one of Birmingham's finest inde-
pendent studio engineers who has worked with
bands from Napalm Death to Police Bastard,
and a host of other brutal metal and punk
bands.