SHEL PLOCK and the GRAVE DOMAIN

Shel Plock (b. 1974, aka Shelly Blake-Plock, R. Richard Wojewodzki) is a writer and a performer of a variety of musical styles. He started out in 1988 playing folk music in the vein of Pete Seeger before joining a variety of rock and punk bands starting in 1989. From 1994 to 2006, he performed and recorded avant-folk under the name Shelly Blake. From 2007 to 2018, he performed as Shelly Blake-Plock — during which time (2008-2013) he served as a member of the Red Room Collective in Baltimore and helped co-organize the annual High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music. 

Concurrently, he played guitar in a Baltimore-based honky-tonk band called Oella and led a free jazz group for children called Ear Monsters. In 2015, Shel and MJ Wojewodzki collaborated for the first time in a project called Arts and Remedies. In 2017, Shel reconnected with Baltimore musicians Matthew Welch and Bill Shade to record a quasi-concept album called The Unreliable Narrator, and the following year he joined forces again with MJ Wojewodzki to put out a handful of singles under the moniker The Preambulators. In 2019, under the name Pentary Th' Mos, he issued a series of ambient and electronic EPs. And during the pandemic years, he recorded and released several anonymous underground metal albums. In 2023 he released two albums, the first being an instrumental avant-jazz album under the name Shel Plock and the second being a gothic-tinged metal album under the name Grave Domain. 

For the foreseeable future, new material will be released under the name: Shel Plock and the Grave Domain, beginning with the early 2024 release of a new album of country-and-western songs.