Future Pilot AKA is the ever-changing musical vehicle of ex-BMX Bandit/Soup Dragon Sushil K. Dade, and Secrets From the Clockhouse, coming out next week on Creeping Bent Records, is his latest attempt at trans-cultural pop. As on previous efforts Tiny Waves, Mighty Sea and Vs. a Galaxy of Sound, Dade pulls his gigantic Rolodex from his garage with a tractor, and enlists a stunning cast of collaborators for Secrets: Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, the Go-Betweens’ Robert Forster and Grant McLennan (RIP), Damo Suzuki from Can, and ex-Minuteman Mike Watt. As if that guestlist weren’t enough, the organ-laced ska of “Eyes of Love” is enhanced with the vocals of fellow Glaswegians Stuart Murdoch and Sarah Martin of Belle and Sebastian. Moore and Gordon are responsible for the certain-to-be-divisive cover of Sun Ra’s “Nuclear War,” although we’re not sure who plays the “Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys” saxophone part:

Future Pilot AKA (f. Stuart Murdoch & Sarah Martin) – Eyes of Love [MP3, link expired]
Future Pilot AKA (f. Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon) – Nuclear War [MP3, link expired]