Squidco: Juice Machine: Yachats

Juice Machine

Yachats

(Love Earth Music

- USA)

Juice Machine: Yachats (Love Earth Music)

Click for larger image

[x] close image

Recorded across two seasons in coastal Oregon, Yachats showcases the late Heather Chessman and Roger Smith as Juice Machine, sculpting fragile, tape-based electro-acoustic collages that blend field recordings, loops, and discreet electronics into seven immersive vignettes — each a poetic meditation on place, memory, and sonic texture.

Price: $9.95

In Stock
Quantity in Basket: None

Log In to use our Wish List
Shipping Weight: 3.00 units

Sample The Album:

product information:

Personnel:

Heather Chessman-tapes, electronics

Roger Smith-electronics, tapes

Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist.

Label: Love Earth Music
Catalog ID: LEM-375
Squidco Product Code: 36007

Format: CDR
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded in Yachats, Oregon, in November, 2021, and May, 2023.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

Recorded amid the coastal quiet of Yachats, Oregon, in November 2021 and May 2023, Yachats captures the delicate electro-acoustic chemistry of husband-and-wife duo Juice Machine: Heather Chessman (tapes, electronics) and Roger Smith-also known from his Chefkirk project (electronics, tapes). Their music operates at the intersection of musique concrète, field recordings, and lo-fi electronics, layering samples and tape loops into beguiling collages. The album's seven thoughtfully titled tracks-like Rising Steam and Middens and Graves-reflect a deep engagement with place, texture, and time, as intimate sonic gestures coalesce into an immersive, serene-yet-fractured soundscape steeped in the Pacific Northwest ethos.

Tragically, Yachats stands as one of Heather Chessman's final recorded statements; she was an experimental artist born in 1977 in Windsor, Ohio, and passed away in early 2024. Roger Smith brings his background from the London Musicians' Collective and numerous improvisational collaborations to the project, weaving intricate tape and electronic textures with a restrained yet expansive sensibility.

Yachats provides a moving document of creative synergy and deeply atmospheric composition, making it a significant entry in contemporary electro-acoustic music.

Artist Biographies

• Show Bio for Heather Chessman

Heather Chessman was born March 31, 1977 and grew up in Windsor, OH. She moved to Virginia where she met her husband, Roger, as she attended and graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a bachelor's in art history. In her free time, she and her husband could be found making electronic music, playing live, and touring live with their experimental duo Juice Machine. She passed away in February, 2024.

-Discogs, Squidco (https://www.discogs.com/artist/3619815-Heather-Chessman)
7/7/2025

Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography.

^ Hide Bio for Heather Chessman

• Show Bio for Roger Smith

Roger Smith is a British guitarist known for his work with London Musicians' Collective, his duo with Neil Metcalfe, plus duos with Adam Bohman, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Pascal Marzan, etc.

-Squidco 7/7/2025

Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography.

^ Hide Bio for Roger Smith

Track Listing:

1. Against My Will 7:06

2. Rising Steam 5:20

3. Mother Of All 4:40

4. Theoretical Talk 3:36

5. Pit House 1:48

6. Middens And Graves 5:03

7. Rare Offshore Flow Event 3:58

Recommended & Related Releases:

Ironing & Juice Machine
S/T
(Hymns)

The Ironing project of Gainesville, Florida turntable and electronic artist joins with the Oregon-based Juice Machine duo of Roger Smith and late experimental musician Heather Chessman, both on electronics, tapes & sampler, for six unusual constructions of strange grooves over which concrete and obscure sounds swim about with a sense of wonder and humor.

Juice Machine
Broken And Dilapidated
(Love Earth Music)

An apt description for the layers of sonic decay and deteriorated sounds, loops and errata that underpin each of the five tracks on this elusively restrained noise album, Juice Machine, aka Roger H. Smith (Chefkirk) and Heather Chessman, use mangled field recordings and concrete elements of blurred looping structures and aberrant interjection, each unique work a fascinating curiosity.

Brighton, Ian
Marsh Gas [REISSUE]
(FMR)

Reissuing the 1977 album from UK guitarist Ian Brighton, written as an instrumental story for children, apparently very sophisticated children, in a mix of composed and freely improvised passages, using non-idiomatic approaches with unusual and extended techniques, open atmospheric passages and strange transitions, a peculiar and wonderful album of imaginative playing.

Smith, Roger
Green wood: Solo Guitar Improvisations 2002
(Emanem)

An excellent collection of solo acoustic guitar improvisations by Roger Smith that were digitally recorded at home in London during January, 2002.

Bjerga, Sindre
Decoy Sound
(Love Earth Music)

Two live performances from Norwegian sound artist Sindre Bjerga, capturing his signature blend of cassette-manipulated drones, lo-fi electronics, abstract vocal elements, and field-recorded textures in evolving soundscapes that evoke intimate, surreal, and psychedelically fractured environments.

Last Action
Alien Chrome
(Love Earth Music)

Belgian sound artist Carlo Steegen delivers a solo work of dense, textural abstraction under his Last Action moniker, blending elements of noise, industrial atmospheres, and electroacoustic experimentation into a raw and immersive studio performance recorded in the summer of 2024.

Abrasion Addict / Animal Machine
Split
(Love Earth Music)

Wallmart / Rubbish
Asset Protection [split CD]
(Love Earth Music)

A split release pairing Rubbish's abrasive industrial textures with Wallmart's ambient dissonance, presenting six tracks that explore themes of consumerism and surveillance through experimental noise compositions.

+Felladog+
+Felladog+
(Love Earth Music)

A high-decibel collaboration between harsh noise veteran Steve Davis (+DOG+) and Cleveland sound artist Jim Fellahean Szudy (Fellahean), recorded in Massachusetts and Ohio, blending subterranean industrial textures with metal scraping, low drones, and brutal sonic ruptures across 14 dynamic tracks, delivering an hour of immersive and confrontational electro-industrial experimentation.

Magical
The Gift Of Today
(Love Earth Music)

A visceral plunge into the depths of experimental noise from Massachusetts sound artist Magical, this release juxtaposes brief, deceptively titled tracks with relentless sonic assaults and divisive vocal moments, creating a disorienting yet compelling experience that shifts between the brutal and the mysterious.

+Dog+
The Family Music Book Vol. 5 [2 CDs]
(Love Earth Music)

A sprawling double-CD of feral live improvisations recorded across Northeastern U.S. venues in 2023-2024, this fifth volume from +DOG+ brings together noise and experimental artists Steve Davis, Bobby Almon, Chuck Foster, Edward Giles, LOB, and Mackenzie Kourie in shifting configurations that conjure raw energy, anarchic spontaneity, and ecstatic sonic disarray.

subservientdominance
Publicdominance
(Love Earth Music)

Live recordings from four Northeast U.S. performances by subservientdominance, the solo project of Doug DeWalt, blending power electronics, harsh noise, and deep vocal-driven textures into a visceral exploration of sonic dominance, with each set presenting a uniquely aggressive and immersive approach to raw electroacoustic intensity.

Chase, Caleb
Looking At Bugs Under A Log
(Love Earth Music)

Experimental composer Caleb Chase presents 15 succinct electroacoustic pieces that delve into intricate sound spatialization and panning techniques, crafting immersive auditory environments where layered textures and dynamic movements reveal hidden sonic details, rewarding attentive listening through headphones or stereo speakers.

Chefkirk
Giant Size
(Love Earth Music)

Eight distinctive works for electronics and sound from the alter ego of Roger H. Smith, using noise, percussive elements and unusual synthetics, layered around static and arpeggiated rhythms and punctuated with strange asides, the works run from 3:14 to 18:37 and were developed over a year and half; an excellent introduction to the sonic diversity Chefkirk revels in.