Recorded on San Juan Island of the Pacific Northwest, Fortune & Folly is the fitting second volume of Birch Book. Assuming the allegorical emblems of The Wheel of Fortune and The Traveling Fool, Fortune & Folly distill the introspections of a perennial rambler reckoning "the Bitter and the Bliss" of The Road Less Traveled.

The gangly orangutan behind Earthmonkey happen to be Peat Bog (Nurse With Wound, Inflatable Sideshow) with production and sound samples by Steven Stapleton.

"These legendary 'godfathers' of industrial have influenced everyone from Nine Inch Nails and Ministry. For those of you that know and love this band then you need to have this to complete your collection. For those of you who don't know of these industrial pioneers then you definitely need this to discover where ol' Mr. Reznor stole all his ideas from."

• - Faze 3

Do you feel adrift amongst an endless sea of Transgressions? Does your soul feel like a plateau as opposed to a gargantuan mountain composed of pure Life-Light? I was there once too, and a part of me still is, but that part of me is merely my one remaining kow-towance to the FORMER LORDS OF MISREALITY.

Do you feel adrift amongst an endless sea of Transgressions? Does your soul feel like a plateau as opposed to a gargantuan mountain composed of pure Life-Light? I was there once too, and a part of me still is, but that part of me is merely my one remaining kow-towance to the FORMER LORDS OF MISREALITY.

From across a veiled and ashen cosmos, well, from across the Sea Of Japan anyways; from the Planet Orange, hidden somewhere in the bosom of Nippon, gushes forth a froth of Green Milk.

Ariel Kalma's magical and weird Osmose originally released in 1978 masterfully matches Richard Tinti's rainforest field recordings with Ariel's left field minimalist compositional ideas.

This is a fully fleshed out beast of original design. Martijn's vocals occasionally punctuate the parade, but the majority involves instrumental clusters, some based in rock form & others more like giant swelling clouds, all thick with psychedelia (acid rain?).

Bill Laswell is internationally hailed for his genre-breaking, innovative and revolutionary musical concepts - daring, original ideas that consistently transcend boundaries of musical content and context. By relentlessly rendering obsolete the comfortable delineations separating genres, techniques and cultures, he has become one of music's most controversial figures.

"The Legendary Pink Dots have created some of the most enigmatic and challenging compositions in modern music."

• - Rolling Stone

"This album arrived somewhere after a dream meeting of several individuals, Graham Bond, Joe Meek, Jacques Berrocal and myself. After a few beers and a heated disscussion of puncture repair we all lay down in a circle and point our penises at Venus, telepathic messages are sent out to Colin saying he can use the two golden microphones. He did, and here we are. Steven Stapleton, 17.1.94. What a strange story."

"This imaginative Colorado quartet gently weaves acoustic guitar, soft electric guitar, tranquil drums and often subliminal keys, bass and accordion into a dreamy mix"

• - Bryan Reesman, Downbeat Magazine

"This band is in a class of its own, where the more sociopathic side of Pink Floyd meets the twisted musical imagery of the Legendary Pink Dots and Edward Ka-Spel, as unlikely as it seems. Emotionally draining and highly recommended."

• - François Couture, All Music Guide