Bonus Track

As a reward for the Rope and Pulley Faithful, a (perhaps undercooked) outtake from Roy l'Ambas's Dash, Dash, and Further Dash. 

 Solicitine (outtake) by dsmullins

Dash, Dash, and Further Dash Now Available!

Rope and Pulley Records is giddy to make available to the broader listening public Dash, Dash, and Further Dash by Roy l'Ambas.

Declaims Roy: Go, my songs, to the lonely and the unsatisfied.

Long time listeners are encouraged to share this EP far and wide.  As a reward, expect a bonus outtake to surface soon.

I remain, as ever,

Your Faithful Servant,

D Stuart Mullins

Texas Rumor Eight

Obsessively, Roy makes of "extramuros eight" an ambience for your most neurotic daydreams.

texas rumor eight by dsmullins

Texas Rumor One

Royal strikes again, scoring a direct hit on "extramuros one".

texas rumor one by dsmullins

Dash, Dash, and Further Dash

Behold the cover of Dash, Dash, and Further Dash, the debut EP of Rope and Pulley wunderkind Roy l'Ambas. Mark March 29th on your calendar.

Texas Rumor Two

In what's becoming a habit, Roy throttles another stuttz track in the newly named remix series. This time, "extramuros two" gets the treatment.

texas rumor two by Rope and Pulley Records

Roy L'Ambas remixes "extramuros three"

Here's a noisy one-take remix of this.

extramuros three (r l'a remix) by Rope and Pulley Records

Inside Baseball

Did you like the hand claps in SIGSALY? Wonder where they came from?

We at Rope & Pulley have a long-standing policy forbidding the sampling of artists outside our roster. In the prehistory of the label (1999), however, one finds an outlier. The Royal Ambassadors, including the young and fresh Roy L'Ambas - at the time recording under the name of Doctor Peter Venkman - used their Casio SK-1 sampler to lift a second or so from a track by hip hop greats The Roots.

Apparently, the theft left a niggling thorn in Roy's side and so, when he set to work on current pop hit SIGSALY, he decided to steal from himself. Those drums and hand claps, performed by Roy's very own hands and drums, have made a ten year journey from Red Pig Studios at 299 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY to Rope & Pulley's 2010 New Jersey digs.

Here's the untitled track 16 from Lubra-Smooth by The Royal Ambassadors, circa 1999.

L-S Track 16 by Rope and Pulley Records

SIGSALY

Bloodless, in the popular style. As you demanded.

SIGSALY by Rope and Pulley Records

Six Guns Eight Hands One Bullet

Cherishing each instant and refusing to let it go, Royal became cramped, loud, tense, unfun at parties. Friends approached him. "Stretch out. Embrace periodicity, transience. Widen your focus, man," they'd say. "No, no. That's okay. I'm okay. I'd like to fit it all in. All of it, you know. A detailed whole."

Days passed. For us. But not for Royal. He kept them all, not letting any slip by him. His hands full, he pinned seconds between his elbows and ribs, his apron pulled into a bag like a hausfrau coming in from the garden, fifteen minutes from 1997 even tucked under his chin. He knew it wasn't good for him. He knew he'd have to pay sooner or later.

Maybe if he'd been on point in 1968, surrounded by the NVA's invisible Kalashnikovs. Or standing in a trench, 1917, scrambling to stuff himself into a gas mask. Hell, Fallujah, 2004. Ugly enough to let go. Instead, even his worst days had seemed worth saving, hoarding even. Who knows, maybe he'd need them later.

Or maybe after he was gone, someone would find his notes, slog through them, see a pattern other than the trite one he'd found years ago and kept running his finger around the grooves of, over and over again.

Six Guns Eight Hands One Bullet by Rope and Pulley Records

Haunted Meat Taunted Me

Collect the covers. Listen to the track. Consult your handheld device. Reach the apogee. Consider your descent. Thumb through the pages. Subscribe to the notion. Cradle your vices. Caress your frailty. Extend your lease. Fire your staff. Transfer your funds. Kiss your children. Wave your rights. Indulge in fantasy. Engage a tutor. Treasure the problem. Ignore the solution.

Haunted Meat Taunted Me by Rope and Pulley Records

The Experimental Philosophy Club

The Experimental Philosophy Club by Rope and Pulley Records

"But given the nature of the cypher that I am using, chances are that you, reader, will never exist, and so I cannot see why I should continue running this needle through the dirty old cloth when I am so tired, and the rocking of the boat invites me to close my eyes."

Eruntics*

Eruntics by Rope and Pulley Records

"Agar agar is my love as were stated above"

- E. coli poetica

*album track

Steranko Skull Device*

01 Steranko Skull Device by Rope and Pulley Records

Main Line
Into the Center Stream
Watch the Waves [measure the amplitude]
Flow



*Album Track

Misery Quotient

Into the tangle of unreleased tape Royal plunged his fingers.

misery quotient by Rope and Pulley Records

wutzatrker 8

wutzatrker 8 by Rope and Pulley Records


Will Roy Lambas sip the rim?
The laptop's bright, the profits slim.
Will Roy Lambas the far crest reach?
The trough's traversed, the barrier breached.
Will Roy Lambas hoe this row?
The blisters smart, the black tears flow.

Listen to this track and say
What final epitaph to spray
Upon his stone with aerosol,
"Highest Rise", or "Steepest Fall"?

OKTOBER ZERO ZERO

"Into the dust charged air."

OKTOBER ZERO ZERO by Rope and Pulley Records