|
|
|
Artist: H.N.A.S. Title: Küttel Im Frost Format: CD Label: Dom Country: Germany Price: $21.00 |
|
"The long overdue official CD issue (77 min.!) of the long-deleted and sought after third H.N.A.S. album, originally released on DOM in 1986." - Dom.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAACK & MS. NELSON, BRUCE Title: The Electronic Record For Children Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
|
"Recorded in 1969 , early electronic music pioneer Bruce Haack and child educator Ms. Nelson go bravely and deeply into psychedelic music compositions designed to open the minds and hearts of the young. Truly far out electronic music that evokes a space age alternate universe. Bruce and Ms. Nelson are joined by pianist Praxietellis Pandit and their relaxed sounding friend Chris to bring you songs about everything from ancient folk tales to outerspace to what the world sounds like when you listen with your inner self. Real great stuff, not for the faint of heart. Avante garde music by and for the people. Old school tip on cover." - Mississippi.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAACK & MS. NELSON, BRUCE Title: The Way Out Record For Children Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
|
"Recorded in 1968, a true psychedelic masterpiece for the kids. Ms. Nelson (a child educator) and Bruce Haack (an early electronic music pioneer) designed this record to open the minds and hearts of children to deeper levels of insight and culture. Not condescending in the least and with a childlike sense of wonder, Bruce and Ms. Nelson lay into some heavy songs about everything from Robots to Indian Mysticism to Motorcycle riding fantasies. Its all in here. The music is all generated by Bruces homemade electronic instruments which churn out proto hip hop beats and straight up avante garde moments left and right. The kids in Ms. Nelsons community chime in with their voices here and there and the record ends with a haunting existential twist thatll leave you screamin for more. A great record for children and adults of all ages. Old school tip on cover." - Mississippi.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAACK, BRUCE Title: Haackula Format: CD Label: Omni Recording Company Country: Australia Price: $22.00 |
| "Deemed to be too dark and offensive for release when it was recorded in 1978 and bootlegged ever since, this is the first official release of Haackula. Haacks anger with society is palpable as he hisses and cusses his way over elastic electronic backings. Imagine a very, very bummed-out Kraftwerk scowling as they play childlike melodies and sing under their breath of fear and abandonment. Also included for the first time is Haacks extraordinary 1982 collaboration with Russell Simmons on the track Party Machine and the incredible 32-minute soundscape of Icarus from 1979. All tracks make their first official release here and are lovingly remastered from the original tapes. Includes liner notes, photos and full lyrics." -Omni Recording Company. |
|
Artist: HABEAS CORPUS Title: My Roots... Format: LP Label: Anazitisi Country: Greece Price: $44.00 |
| "Habeas Corpus formed in Athens, Greece in 1977. Originally a trio of guitar-bass-drums and occasionally, at some live gigs, a quartet with the addition of a keybordist/guitarist. At the end of 1981, all three members participated to the foundation of the more well-known band, SYNDROMO and made an album for Vertigo in 1982. Habeas Corpus music is instrumental (no vocals) and combines heavy progressive rock and jazz/fusion rock with classical and Greek traditional tinges all around. This limited release, collects all their recorded material from 1980-82. A couple of the tracks are from a studio demo while the other 6 tracks are recorded "live". All tracks are unreleased and uncompiled. From the original 2-track master tapes and fully licenced by Stavros Theodorakos. It will include a 20x20cm triptych (6 pages in total) with bio, photos and memorabilia and a big gig poster from their last appearance, early 1982. PVC protective outer-sleeve. 180gr. vinyl as usual. It will be a strictly limited, to 150 hand-numbered copies, edition. " - Anazitisi. |
|
Artist: HABIBIYYA, THE Title: If Man But Knew+ Format: CDR Label: Qasida Country: Spain Price: $16.50 |
| "(Habibiyya were a ) buncha british rockers from the end of the 60s (some were in Mighty Baby) ... seems like they flipped out on sufic islam + cut a beautiful slice of eastern-influenced dronefloat for Island recs right at the start of the 70s ... well, i picked up the rec for 25p in a charity shop many moons ago, and its a real head-turner, lost classic, but not so many seem to know about it ... ANYWAYS, im only posting this because ive just found out that one of the guys in the band has made it available again on swish-looking CDR . I reckon a lot of you out there would really go for this, if you enjoy NNCK, jewelled antler, sunburned hand, sun city girls, hell even vibracathedral. Someone shd give this one the full reissue treatment some day, but until then, its nice that you can get yr hands on it if you want." - Neil Campbell. "Habibiyyas sole album stands as one of the earliest and most beautiful pieces of world music ever recorded in Britain. The musicians involved (including three members of UK underground legends Mighty Baby) had been profoundly affected, both musically and spiritually, by visiting Morocco in 1971, and became adherents of the Sufi faith. Upon their return to London they made If Man But Knew, featuring exotic instruments such as koto, shakuhachi and mandola alongside guitar, organ and drums, conjuring a hypnotic, otherworldly ambience in the process." Picked these up a year or two ago but were listing them for the first time.. Very nice full color printed artwork and CDRs, all signed by Ian Whiteman. Includes 3 unreleased tracks from the original recording session. Highly recommended! |
|
Artist: HABIBIYYA, THE Title: If Man But Knew+ Format: Double LP Label: Sunbeam Country: UK Price: $32.00 |
| "Previously reissued on CD by Sunbeam, now issued on deluxe 2LP format as well; 180 gram pressing. The Habibiyyas sole album stands as one of the earliest and most beautiful pieces of world music ever recorded in Britain. The musicians involved (including three members of UK underground legends Mighty Baby) had been profoundly affected, both musically and spiritually, by visiting Morocco in 1971, and became adherents of the Sufi faith. Upon their return to London they made If Man But Knew, featuring exotic instruments such as koto, shakuhachi and mandola alongside guitar, organ and drums, conjuring a hypnotic, otherworldly ambience in the process. Housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve, accompanied by detailed liner notes, previously-unseen photographs, five rare bonus tracks and an introduction by the groups leader, Ian Whiteman. This 1972 psych-folk classic is now available in its first official vinyl reissue including five bonus tracks. Housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve with band history, rare photographs, and an introduction by the groups leader, Ian Whiteman." - Sunbeam. "Eastern-influenced hypnotic psychedelic music." --The Tapestry of Delights . |
|
Artist: HAFLER TRIO Title: If Take, Then Take--Tricks, Half Tricks, and Real Phenomena Format: LP/Booklet Label: Crippled Intellect Country: USA Price: $38.00 |
|
Artist: HAGAR THE WOMB Title: A Brighter Shade of Black Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "HAGAR THE WOMB is for many, the missing piece of the UK anarcho punk scene. Formed in 1981, Hagar The Womb was not a typical example of that scene, for they refused to conform to the dress codes and dour seriousness of their peers. What first started as a sextet sporting three female vocalists, soon experienced a healthy bit of turnover. Circulating through at least a dozen band members, Hagar The Womb was often identified by bright colored artwork and outfits, as well as bringing an original and upbeat sound to an otherwise homogenous scene. A week after their inception, they were sharing a bill with The Mob and Zounds. Hagar The Womb would go on to play with the likes of The Apostles, Poison Girls and Rubella Ballet before breaking up in 1985. A Brighter Shade Of Black puts together both of their 12" EPs, Word Of The Womb and Funnery in the Nunnery, as well as a common compilation favorite called "For The Ferrymen." The latter recorded by POISON GIRLS sometimes bassist, PETE FENDER, in the Poison Girls own X-N-Trix Studios. Reissued for the first time and limited to 1,000 copies." -Mississippi. |
|
Artist: HAGERTY, NEIL Title: Public Works Format: Book Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Public Works is a collection of 17 satirical essays and short stories by Neil Hagerty. It brings together for the first time all of Hagerys short pieces which appeared in magazines and journals during his travels through the past ten years. Collected and revised, they form a newly realized endeavor which embraces a broad set of concerns: the starkly pallid Travel Diary abets an elegy for the humor magazine CAR-toons, a short story set in the nexus of boxing and right-wing activism appends a conversation with the ghost of Al Jolson. We visit dark, dusty border towns and encounter the world within a dirty mattress. Such a classic literary genres as the western and the detective story are revisited through characters who are the compelling, ironic and humorous people we meet every day, as well as a few whom we pass without notice. Baked beans are also discussed." - Drag City. |
|
Artist: HAGERTY, NEIL & THE HOWLING HEX Title: Section 2 Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
|
"The Howling Hex return with Section 2 in the limited edition developmental series launched in conjunction with Drag City. Superimposed over this network of connections two linear timestreams cross at the midpoint of Section 2. One flows forward and dissolves concrete memory into distant, lazy elegy. The other flows backward as in an anxiety attack, vague sensations of terror become central and vivid and the mechanics of nostalgia dissect the embrace by seducing memory to fixate on a moment before the benighted opposition attained solidity. The Section 2 vinyl-only format physically represents a point of differentiation that may be examined repeatedly while remaining free from the vagaries of human memory." - Drag City. Second volume of this series. Vinyl only edition of 500. Highly Recommended!
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAGERTY, NEIL & THE HOWLING HEX Title: The Return of the Third Tower Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Pissing in the wind, flying the flag in a fogbank, watching pornography featuring the Invisible Man -- and so, whereas, we arent doing that, as I mentioned, no hoarding on our part is invoked and we are grateful to you. It is consistent with this to exploit specific interests in the form of questionnaires or persuasive invitation and to invoke expectation confounded by events both current and persistent. Elements include: the day I handed the singer from the Durango Scorpions a laundry list and he sang it straight from the page in a crippled accent, the audience loved him for it; strict diagram of what the resulting development this is, to be used as a model for all future Howling Hex to be repeated without question; hiding in a tower that was overlooked -- perhaps it didnt exist yet it is erect." - Drag City. One time pressing of 500 copies. |
|
Artist: HAGGART, SCOTT Title: 117 Format: LP Label: Diskono Country: UK Price: $13.00 |
| "DISKONO 017 is a 45rpm 12" conceptual LP by Scott Haggart titled "117" . The A-Side Scott Haggarts original edit is "psychotopologically derived from a 0.7 millisecond recorded extract of a DISKONO performance (2000)." Six others (SCOTT HAGGART, EVOL, FELIX KUBIN, LARY SEVEN, CHARLIE MCALISTER, JAN VEN DEN DOBBELSTEEN) created alternate versions (resulting in seven total variations). Strict adherence was required to a rule of the versions being 1:17 seconds in duration, so as to absurdly explore the potentials of this 0.7 millisecond sound. Keywords : analog, feedback, fridge, beauty, horror sound pressure levels, implode. note : The performance is inspired by the presence of Diskono in Eindhoven, 2003 where they held a transatlantic telephone interview with PHIL MILSTIEN at the opening of the exhibition I AM A CAMERA (a JaDa-Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen/Danielle Lemaire concept-curators, also behind the telephone piece). Founded in the spring of 1998 and described as a "a Scottish multi media cabal masquerading as a record label" , DISKONO was initially based in Central Scotland but befitting its constitution as a complex carbohydrate, the constituent pieces of its chemical structure are now strewn all over the globe ; New York, London, Moscow, Brussels etc. The known and affiliated elements of Diskono were/are Klaus Oldanburg, Ruth Random, Findo Gask, Dr. Barnes Advocaat, Gunter Saxenhammer, Ttocshagg Forfib, Joel Ongthorne, Kosten Koper ; although these may be pseudonyms for the same person or persons. Together or alone, they / he / she operated a record label releasing sound art & "avant-garde flicks of the wrist" as well as curating savory pretentiously artistic projects such as the exhibition Revisionland by Alejandra and Aeron (which won an Award of Distinction in Digital Music at Prix Ars Electronia 2002) and physical remixseries of 7" records with Aerospace Soundwise and Prix Ars Electronica winner Janek Schaefer. Diskono also released music by blue-chip figures such as Felix Kubin, Alejandra and Aeron, Kid 606, Pimmon, Nomex, Ashtray Navigations, JaDa, People Like Us, Francisco Lopez, Boards Of Canada, Goodiepal, V/vm, Hrvatski, Aavikko." - Diskono. |
|
Artist: HAGOOD, LINDA Title: Pink Love/Red Love Format: LP Label: Awesome Vistas Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Appalachian-born singer/songwriter LINDA HAGOOD (DOUBLE-U, SMACK DAB) releases her first solo album Pink Love/Red Love on famed artist CHRIS JOHANSONs Awesome Vistas label. Conjuring a kaleidoscopic, magical, and visionary sonic landscape, Hagood pays tribute to her own unique iconography with lyrical elegies to crabs, kangaroos, caducei, pink and green vampires, and little hyenas. An enchanting and unique hothouse of seeming contradictions -- fierce yet funny, strange yet familiar, hypnotic yet surprising-these songs are also a fully realized musical vision for this soulful, peculiar, and accomplished artist. Beautiful cover artwork by CHRISTINE SHIELDS." -Awesome Vistas |
|
Artist: HAINO & YOSHIDA TATSUYA, KEIJI Title: Hauenfiomiume Format: CD Label: Magaibutsu Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "The controversial work which stepped into the forbidden territory of editing the performance of Haino Keiji. Yoshida breaks up their studio session boldly and restructures it from the unacceptable tune reproduced by extreme editing to the pop song thing that it is surprised. From the irregular hard core to heavy tune. From the modern music short piece, to the lyricism acoustic number. This album shows new possibility with union/condensing the music of Haino & Yoshida. This time they made 2 different (but similar) albums." 16 tracks, 50 min.-Magaibutsu |
|
Artist: HAINO, KEIJI Title: 21st Century Hard-y-Guide-y Man Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
|
"Solo hurdy-gurdy improvisations. Haino has long been a fan of medieval music, which is one of the few places where the hurdy-gurdy makes an appearance. Its a pity that the instrument isnt more used since it has great possibilities for higher-minded multiple drones that can vary in sound from a high-pitched violin-like scraping and squealing to deep quaking resonances. The beauty of the instrument is that you can combine the various drones to build up a multi-layered effect...Hes been experimenting with them over the past year or so in various permutations -- solo, with Fushitsusha, with Vajra and in duos with other musicians. The sounds produced have ranged from gentle accompaniment to a dense brain-altering fug that blows everyone else off stage...Five tracks of beautiful late-night drones, suffused with instantly recognizable Haino atmosphere of mystery." - Alan Cummings.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAINO, KEIJI Title: Affection Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
|
"This is another side of Haino. Full of dark and beautiful atmosphere." A live solo performance from 91, vocals and guitar. Stunning folked-out passages elevate into new parameters of density. Truly peaked, alien music." - FE.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAINO, KEIJI Title: Black Blues (DSA 54087) Format: CD Label: DSA Country: France Price: $15.00 |
|
"Haino Keiji, Japanese wizard but true star, who already made two recordings for DSA, A challenge to Fate (solo) and The Caution Appears (Fushitsusha) is back with 2 (two) new studio albums (not a double CD). Entitled Black Blues , both albums feature what Haino Keiji calls sad and secret songs (AihIyo project). Black Blues (DSA 54087) features 6 long songs which Haino Keiji plays and sings in a quiet and acoustic way. .(soft acoustic version). Black Blues (DSA 54088) features the same 6 songs which Haino Keiji plays and sings in a violent and noisy way ! (violent electric version). To respect Hainos own wish, there is no Name and Title on the front and back cover! On the quiet acoustic version, Haino is looking at the left. On the violent electric version, Haino is looking at the right." - DSA.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAINO, KEIJI Title: Black Blues (DSA 54088) Format: CD Label: DSA Country: France Price: $15.00 |
|
"Haino Keiji, Japanese wizard but true star, who already made two recordings for DSA, A challenge to Fate (solo) and The Caution Appears (Fushitsusha) is back with 2 (two) new studio albums (not a double CD). Entitled Black Blues , both albums feature what Haino Keiji calls sad and secret songs (AihIyo project). Black Blues (DSA 54087) features 6 long songs which Haino Keiji plays and sings in a quiet and acoustic way. .(soft acoustic version). Black Blues (DSA 54088) features the same 6 songs which Haino Keiji plays and sings in a violent and noisy way ! (violent electric version). To respect Hainos own wish, there is no Name and Title on the front and back cover! On the quiet acoustic version, Haino is looking at the left. On the violent electric version, Haino is looking at the right." - DSA.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAINO, KEIJI Title: Global Ancient Atmosphere/Konokehai Fujirareteru Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Rhythm, duration and silence lie at the foundation of all of KEIJI HAINOs music. After a clutch of documents of his hair-raising solo performances for both acoustic and electric percussion, this latest album presents Hainos first recorded outing behind a regular drumkit. Haino has long desired to release a solo drum album, and he has been playing a regular kit occasionally live for several decades now. Global Ancient Atmosphere (the alternative Japanese title means These Signs, A Sealed Beginning) contains nine tracks that showcase an austere yet thrilling investigation of attack and decay on nothing less than the molecular level. As inimitable, and as life-affirming as ever." - PSF. |
|
Artist: HAINO, KEIJI Title: Koitsukara Usetaitameno Hakarigoto Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "The return of the "21st Century Hard-y-Guide-y Man"! "With its crank handle mechanism and drone strings out-numbering melody strings, the hurdy-gurdy is the Ur-industrial instrument par excellence, a connection Keiji Haino makes abundantly clear on the opening track of Koitsukara Usetaitameno Hakarigoto, the third album he has made under the tortuously punning banner of the 21st Century Hard-y Guide-y Man. The terrifying density and textures of his bone-shearing noise immediately bring to mind the arresting closing sequence of Halber Mensch, Japanese director Sogo Ishiis document of Berlin group Einstuerzende Neubautens mid-1980s visit to Japan, when he filmed them in all their destructive glory at a busy intersection bringing the city to a standstill with their armoury of scraped metal and heavy machinery. The major difference is Haino achieves his pandemonium totally alone on an electrically amplified medieval instrument, and the chaos he invokes is of a wholly other kind to that of the displaced Berliners. Rather than creating chaos, he accepts it, even as he taps it for the tremendous energies needed to generate the overarching schemes that shape and contain his monumental works. Haino is not the only person using the hurdy-gurdy as something more than folksy color. Theres Stevie Wishart working at the interface of contemporary composition and improvisation; and hurdy-gurdy player Cliff Stapleton featured strongly in the late output of Coil (the UK outfit of John Balance and Peter Christopherson, not to be confused with the Japanese unit of the same name with whom Haino has performed blues sets live). And though the hurdy-gurdy is but one of the hundreds of instruments he has gathered during his frequent working trips around the world, next to guitar, voice, percussion and electronics, its the one on which Haino continues to evolve a distinctive body of work that is at once of a piece with and different from the main thrust of his music. Not that any one style holds true, mind, in a discography that is approaching 200 entries. As with his other instruments, Haino has developed methods of playing the hurdy-gurdy that both exploit and defy its particular character. Asked what compelled him to acquire one on a trip to France in the mid-1990s, he replied by mimicking the turning of a handle, saying it was the only instrument he knew of that you played that way, as opposed to striking, blowing, bowing or plucking it. His long-held interest in medieval European troubadour music might well have been another contributing factor. However, the hurdy-gurdy is more than the purely mechanical cranked instrument such as the barrel organ which it is sometimes confused with. The handle turns a rosined wooden wheel that bows a melody string, whose pitches are determined by pressing the tangents, or keys, with the other hand. The instrument usually contains two more sympathetic drone strings. How the player jerks or cranks the handle creates the fluttering beats and rhythms characteristic to its traditional use as a folk instrument at carnival or festival dances. Knowing as much is only so helpful to understanding the way Haino plays it. He hadnt had the instrument long when he released his first hurdy-gurdy album, Twenty-first Century Hard-y- Guide-y Man, on PSF in 1995. It was followed in 1998 by Even Now, Still I Think, released by the Japanese major label Tokuma as part of an extraordinary deal that saw the release of eight Haino/Fushitsusha projects in two stages (and if you think signing to a major in any way compromised the artist, you only have to check the number of CD length tracks of unrelieved intensity produced during the deal). First impressions from both is that Hainos instrument of choice is immaterial, that Haino plays Haino regardless, and on these two occasions the hurdy-gurdy just happened to be the tool selected to do so. To be sure, they both set out an extreme position from which they rarely retreat, with Haino sounding like hes pushing the instrument to the very limits of endurance. This is especially the case on the barely wavering 72-minute assault of the Tokuma disc. But as with much of Hainos music, it rewards the listeners perseverance through its most extenuated passages, which often come right at the front of his work, with moments of otherworldly, overwhelming beauty amid the swarming overtone activity generated at this volume. Before returning to his 21st Century Hard-y Guide-y Man persona on Koitsukara Usetaitameno Hakarigoto here, Haino dedicated a hurdy-gurdy disc apiece to the two double sets, Abandon all words at a stroke, so that prayer can come spilling out (released in 2001 by the Canadian label Alien8) and Reveald to none as yet -- an expedience to utterly vanish consciousness while still alive (recorded live at Tokyo Super Deluxe in 2005 and jointly released in December that year by the U.S. labels Archive/Important). Through them, all its possible to discern id an increasing awareness and appreciation of the hurdy-gurdys character. Its very much evident in this discs opening track, alluded to earlier, in the way the turning crank handle sinks its drone deeper to the core, even as it sends up the baleful clouds of overtone dust that hover above the churning chaos. Tracks two and three make play with the bowing mechanism of the hurdy-gurdy wheel, its sorely tested violin tone transformed into an electric buzzsaw over rasping tones that simultaneously betray and exploit the hurdy-gurdys fundamentally primitive construct. The third track, incidentally, is the albums magnificent centerpiece, evolving from a manic hoedown into a frenzied dance warding off the onset of melancholia represented by a buzzing secondary drone. Elsewhere the sounds Haino draws from the instrument range from delicate music box prettiness to something altogether darker, conjuring an image of a creaking ghost ship whose fate it was to be sealed at the point of breaking up in a storm for all eternity." -Biba Kopf |
|
Artist: HAINO, KEIJI Title: Mazu Wa Iro O Nakuso Ka Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
|
(Translation: First Lets Remove the Color). "Gorgeous new bag of home-recorded mystery from Haino. Apparently recorded alone, late at night and at minimal volume, these latest recordings tremble with the same deep-welled emotional sensitivity and sense of veiled threat that animated classics like Watashi Dake?, Affection and Era of Sad Wings. With the trademark roar of his guitar held in check by necessity, Haino instead builds up a base of gently fractured looped riffs, over which he unfurls snaking, jagged ribbons of blue notes, layers of choral chant and whispered warnings. The atmosphere is replete with suggestions of medieval music, delta blues, and jazz - but glimpsed through a constantly shifting, dark and alien fog. The effect is entirely beautiful, managing to be impossibly touching, deeply meditative, and truly scary all at once. This is one that will suck the air out of the corners of your room late at night." -- Alan Cummings.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAINO, KEIJI Title: Next, Lets Try Changing the Shape Format: CD Label: Swordfish Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
|
"Featuring 6 pieces, featuring Hainos voice, guitar and sampled guitar. It sees him developing themes on from his last PSF release." - Swordfish.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAINO, KEIJI Title: Nijiumu Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
|
"Solo project from Haino, with his voice/ guitar/ percussion combining to make up one of the most alien, "mysterious energy" listening experiences imaginable -- a careening excursion into the ecstasy-sounds of train wreckage and higher consciousness. Evidently this is the result of a study of Chinese breathing methods, 12th century troubadour music and Blue Cheer." - FE.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAINO, KEIJI Title: Uchu ni karami tsuiteiru waga itami Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| Keiji Haino (digital theremin, air synth, air FX, etc). Another step into previously unexplored territory for Haino - his first ever all-electronic album. Uchu ni karami tsuiteiru waga itami (the title means roughly Tangled up in the universe, my pain) sees Haino using a bewildering range of electronic instruments. However, these are not the vintage synthesizers and analogue modules so beloved of some other Japanese electronic units. Rather Haino has chosen instruments whose user interface is close to magical: theremin-like devices such as the air-synth and air-FX, both of which are controlled by hand movements in three dimensions. Recent live shows have seen him hovering and jerking wildly over these devices, like some demented conjuror trying to levitate a table. The results are as purely Haino as everything else he lays his hands to. Sub-atomic particles and dark matter collide endlessly in the black and coiling chaos space of some just-appeared proto-galaxy." - Alan Cummings. Highly recommended!! |
|
Artist: HAINO, KEIJI Title: Watashi-Dake? Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
|
"Much needed reissue of the first solo Haino, a self-released album from 1980. This is an incredible record, guitar and voice and the extreme personal depth that every Haino release exudes. This CD adds an unbelievably good 28 minute previously unreleased track that is possibly the single greatest guitar overload blow-out of all time. An absolute must." - FE.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAINO, KEIJI Title: Yaranaiga Dekinaikotoni Natteyuku Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
|
"Following Keiji Hainos recent experiments with acoustic guitar, solo Theremin and electronics, and percussion, this is his first guitar and vocal album in a couple of years. Emotionally devastating, gorgeously intense free-floating atmospherics that hark back to the folk-ed out genius of Affection, with a caustic blending of the layered, late-night guitar extrapolations of First Lets Remove the Colour. As masterfully singular as ever." -Alan Cummings
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAINO, KEIJI & MICHIHIRO SATO Title: Tayutayuto Tadayoitamae Kono Furue Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Fascinating and incendiary string-meshing duel between two contemporary masters of musical metaphysics. Michihiro Sato is a master of the tsugaru-jamisen, a traditional plucked and strummed stringed instrument. But forget anything you may have heard about the delicate restraint of Japanese traditional music. Sato plays in the rough, ultra-speedy, explosively percussive style associated with the bleak, rural and snowbound far north of Japan. Originally associated with blind minstrels, the instrument underwent a huge revival in the sixties and seventies, becoming a counter-cultural symbol of brutal hardship, rural authenticity, and indigenous creativity. In the hands of a virtuoso like Sato (a two-time winner of the national championship), the shamisen is an instrument that can generate emotional involvement and pulses of sheer, untrammelled excitement. Sato is also unique in his field for his willingness to experiment and play with other improvisers -- previous collaborators have included John Zorn, Fred Frith, Bill Frisell, Butch Morris, Christian Marclay, Sean Meehan and Kan Mikami. Satos first studio meeting with Keiji Haino sees a rare melding of open minds and taut strings. Common languages are invented, experimented with and discarded at will. Haino revisits the evocative nylon-strung guitar style he first explored on Hikair yami uchitokeaish kono hibiki (PSFD-8017), laying down fields and forests of string texture, while Sato burns blazing trails of narrow-beam intensity straight through the middle of your skull." -- Alan Cummings. |
|
Artist: HAINO, KEIJI/JIM OROURKE/OREN AMBARCHI Title: Imikuzushi Format: Double LP Label: Black Truffle Country: Australia Price: $28.00 |
| "Limited gatefold double LP version with printed innersleeves. The yearly summit of Keiji Haino, Jim ORourke and Oren Ambarchi continues with Imikuzushi, which finds the group extending the power-trio strategies of 2011s highly-praised In A Flash Everything Comes Together As One There Is No Need For A Subject (BT 005LP) and bringing to them a newly-sustained intensity. For this performance, Haino limits himself to electric guitar and vocals, forming complex networks of slashing rhythm work, noise squall and chromatic shredding, moving at times to near-silent passages of howled vocals and isolated, hanging guitar strums. The tendency towards driving free-rock which surfaced on moments of the trios last release is cemented here, with ORourkes fuzzed-out, non-linear bass riffing moving the music into almost garage-rock areas, combining with Ambarchis drums to form a bedrock of hypnotic, metronomic pounding which transforms itself effortlessly into passages of flowing free-time. Like all of Hainos best work, the trio transcends any rock genre exercise to enter a non-idiomatic zone of ritual intensity, creating a music formed purely out of instrumental and group-mind possibility. Presented as four unedited excerpts salvaged from an epic show that lasted well over three hours, the sometimes raw nature of the recording only adds to its directness and harshly emotive quality." -Francis Plagne, Melbourne, November, 2011. "Design by Stephen OMalley (Sunn O)))) with high quality live shots by Ujin Matsuo and stunning images by Tokyo-based photographer and sound artist Shunichiro Okada." - Black Truffle. |
|
Artist: HAINO, KEIJI/LOREN MAZZACANE CONNORS Title: Live At Downtown Music Gallery Format: CD Label: Persona Non Grata/Father Yod Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
|
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAINO/JIM OROURKE/OREN AMBARCHI, KEIJI Title: Now While Its Still Warm Let Us Pour in All the Mystery Format: LP Label: Black Truffle Country: Australia Price: $25.00 |
| "Following on from 2012s acclaimed Imikizushi (BT 007CD/LP), Now While Its Still Warm Let Us Pour in All the Mystery is the fourth release from the established power trio of Keiji Haino, Jim ORourke, and Oren Ambarchi, recorded in January 2012 at their yearly concert at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo. While the trios two previous double LP releases featured sprawling, side-long performances, the music here is presented in six shorter pieces, each one displaying a different side of the trios interactions, from holy minimalism to cave-man rock. The record begins with the trio joined by special guests Charlemagne Palestine and Eiko Ishibashi, conjuring ghostly tones from wine glasses as an accompaniment to Hainos angelic vocals. This 10-minute piece, which moves from near silence and the sound of onstage footsteps to a stunning passage of clean guitar work from Haino, is steeped in the same mysterious atmospherics as Hainos great folk-drone project, Nijumu. When Haino turns to the flute on the LPs second track, a performance that clearly demonstrates the importance of the special concept of space and silence (ma) that Haino has developed from traditional Japanese aesthetics, ORourke and Ambarchi transform into the delicate and probing rhythm section of a classic 70s fusion side. When the trio returns to the crushing free-rock of their last two records, ORourkes heavily effected bass rolling alongside Ambarchis tumbling rhythms as Hainos guitar squeals and slashes above them, their performances display a new purposefulness and concision. Now truly operating as a band after a number of years of playing together, the pieces here feel like instant rocks songs -- ORourke and Ambarchi instantly locking into solid riffs over which Haino alternates between jarring no-wave chords, intense soloing and his signature vocalizations. When the trio slow down and stretch out, the rhythm section plods like an abstracted Crazy Horse on the brink of collapse, and Haino elicits long, mournful solos reminiscent of the first classic Fushitsusha double live LP. Perhaps more accessible than the trios previous recordings because of its range and concision, Now While Its Still Warm... exudes the dark, alien quality of Hainos greatest recordings and testifies to the strength of the musical bond that has developed between these three players." -Francis Plagne, Jan 2013. |
|
Artist: HAINO/MAKOTO KAWABATA/TATSUYA YOSHIDA, KEIJI Title: Ichi To Ichi To Ichi Ga Kasanatte Shimaumade Format: DVD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $26.00 |
| Live At Missions, December 19th 2008. "Second release by a new super-group featuring Keiji Haino, Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), and Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins). Recorded live in Tokyo in December 2008. An hours worth of sharply photographed alternately dense, brutal, coruscating and beautiful interplay from three of the hardest hitters in the Japanese underground, with the interplay between Hainos scalding, molten darkness and Kawabatas crunch and ripple particularly invigorating. For those confused by the title, the trios previous release on Magaibutsu was entitled Ichi to ichi ga kasanatte shimaumade (Until one and one come to overlap). This one is Ichi to ichi to ichi ga kasanatte shimaumade (Until one and one and one come to overlap). Just so you know. Fifty-nine minutes. Region-free NTSC DVD." -- Alan Cummings |
|
Artist: HAINO/MASAMI AKITA, KEIJI Title: Kikuri Format: CD Label: Victo Country: Canada Price: $15.00 |
| "1. That which will rise from death here tonight will go hand in hand with a glittering echo burdened with the sin of joy (10:15) 2. By mischance that soul I devoured was a transparent, vertical blues (10:03) 3. Give me back that color you stole from my guts (12:44) 4. That place into which you fell was lined with a cushion of pain and is no proof of your continuing existence (5:55) 5. Pulverized Purple (30:20.) "Two living legends of extreme Japanese music sharing the stage for the first time outside their country."-Victo |
|
Artist: HAINO/MIKAMI/YOSHIZAWA Title: Live In The First Year of Heisei Vol I Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Live improv folk-noise, between Keiji Haino (guitar), Kan Mikami (guitar, vocal) and Moto Yoshizawa (bs). These 2 companion volumes were (as LPs) amongst the first batch of releases on the fledgling PSF label in the late 80s. Now available on CD as well. Accurately described as "twisted folksongs, harsh voice and noise guitar passage. Very strange atmosphere."" - FE. |
|
Artist: HAINO/MIKAMI/YOSHIZAWA Title: Live In The First Year of Heisei Vol II Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Live improv folk-noise, between Keiji Haino (guitar), Kan Mikami (guitar, vocal) and Moto Yoshizawa (bs). These 2 companion volumes were (as LPs) amongst the first batch of releases on the fledgling PSF label in the late 80s. Now available on CD as well. Accurately described as "twisted folksongs, harsh voice and noise guitar passage. Very strange atmosphere."" - FE. |
|
Artist: HAINO/PHILLIPS/TOYOZUMI Title: Two Strings Will Do It Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "A trio improvisation between Haino (guitar), Barre Phillips (bass), and Sabu Toyozumi (percussion), recorded in 1991. Four tracks of sparse, very free-form improv, more in the FMP or Incus mode." - FE. |
|
Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: Blind Kingdom Format: LP Label: Ultra Eczema Country: Belgium Price: $26.50 |
| "Odd colored carpet of bizarre 3D fields dominate the bright and lurid psychedelic forests youll have to run thru to grab a mug a brew at the end of the trip! Hop on the back of a giant pink elephant and let go, eventually follow his tiny dick-like tail if u are too small to climb up this pink turt in space! But do give it a try and check out whats left? Thats right: nothing! Just a puddle of restless throbbing poop in different colours. The elephant turns out to be a puddle as well and the sounds youre hearing are all on the most psychedelic Hair Police LP so far! This is definitely way different then any of their other recordings, way more high bliss, blown out delayed voice and hardly any harshness. Originally recorded as a Hair Police radio special for Radio Centraal in Antwerp! Thick black and neon blue eye destructive cover design and a psychic laser etch on the B-side of this 180 grams wax!" -Ultra Eczema. |
|
Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: Certainty Of Swarms Format: LP Label: No Fun Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The fusion of metal, noise rock, free jazz, industrial, and harsh electronics that makes up The Certainty of Swarms is the rare kind of heterogeneous concoction that is carefully matured, but never lost in pedestrian calculation. A blistering onslaught of metallic-fused noise-murk, Swarms is considered by the band to be one of their most complete statements to date, an aptly blindsiding and developed work drawing from all quarters of their craft. Lp Version of this classic is finally here! limited to 500 copies." -No Fun |
|
Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: Constantly Terrified Format: CD Label: Troubleman Unlimited Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The latest from Kentucky overpower trio HAIR POLICE. Four tracks of all-consuming sensory attack that can run from absolute crushing destruction to subtle beauty at the drop of an axe. For fans of Black Dice, Wolf Eyes, Animal Collective, Lightening Bolt, etc." - Troubleman Unlimited. |
|
Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: Drawn Dead Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Whats inside the putrid, rotting, decrepid bandages ruined by the slow feral decay of time... its in your ears, that noise that creeps up in one small, rat-like, continous tonality of frozen windshields cracking from the chill of mortality that pulsates louder and louder and you caress the bandaged corpse and the dust of the long-deadened flesh shuffles from the caked, pale red cloth and the pulses turn to howls which are slashed quiet by the bludgeoning sterility of your mundane existence. Take this with you under the dirt. This is the lp version of the cd released on Hanson Records. Limited to 475 copies with insert." - Weird Forest. |
|
Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: Empty Quarter Format: LP Label: Troubleman Unlimited Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "New 2007 recordings from the BEATTY/TREMAINE/CONNELLY trio. Recorded in Ypsilanti, Michigan, January/March 2007. Limited edition pressing of 1,000 copies." - TMU |
|
Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: Live at the Asylum Inn Format: One Sided 7" Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
|
" Yeah
man...that Lex/Ypsi killer crew, Midwest locals. Them mugs came up for
the killer Lansing Noise fest this winter and tried a new Rad style,
apartment electronic lurk, late night style, no drums. They stayed up
all night and jammed, sounded completely weird and ace. I joined em
on some sessions with downtown reeds and flute. This release contains
completely grim moments from those sessions and the live gig that
night. A new horrible dawn of sound from the Police. Look out when
they bust this drumm-less style live....will be flipping it like a
dolphin trapped in pudding and barbwire. This is downer-sound- dolp
big time. Could have been recorded 78 at the Air Gallery. Stoked. Same
deal, Edition of 200, color vinyl/art, and speed homey." - American Tapes.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: Mercurial Rites Format: LP Label: Type Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Working tirelessly at their craft since 2001, Hair Police are survivors of the rapidly-dissolving U.S. noise scene. Made up of Mike Connelly (aka Failing Lights), Robert Beatty (aka Three Legged Race) and Trevor Tremaine -- the three Midwesterners have amassed quite a catalog between them, but somehow always hit hardest when they fuse their talents and work together. Mercurial Rites is the trios first proper full-length since 2008s Certainty of Swarms, and in typically obstinate form doesnt pander to the noise scenes mass exodus towards the dancefloor. Instead, the record is as dirt-sodden and gruesome as the band has ever sounded, and marks an evolution in industrial noise without straying far from their original intentions. Theyve always been a consistent band, but Mercurial Rites does a pronounced job in distilling the raw energy of their defining early LP Obedience Cuts and fusing it with the disturbing soundscapes of later records Drawn Dread and Prescribed Burning. Tape-saturated bells and gongs push up awkwardly against pounding, funereal percussion and the kind of disembodied screams we last heard on 80s-era Whitehouse sides, and while the result might terrify some, it re-affirms what made the noise scene so alluring in the first place. Its an unsettling, punishing sound that revels in its own abstraction, yet every clank is meticulously placed, every screech of feedback so pointed that at times you forget the layers of distortion and fog altogether. Were simply left with sparse vignettes of darkness, and in the empty silence in-between the blasts of synthesizer or white noise, theres more horror than you could possibly imagine. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin." -Type. |
|
Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: Our Minds Problems Vol. 2 Format: CDR Label: Gods of Tundra Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Hair Police "Our Minds Problems" Vol. 2--A full live show from 2006. The show has tunes from every record, including a version of "Vocalist Dan Marino" from the "Blow Out Your Blood" album, with original member Matt Minter on vocals. Also in the set are unreleased tunes that will be on the boys upcoming full length album on No Fun Productions. 9 songs, 1 track, total fucking madness. Note: this is from the show that is on the dvd that was included in the special editon of "Obedience Cuts" only available on the 06 UK tour." ⿿ Gods of Tundra |
|
Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: Prescribed Burning Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "arising from the smoldering ashes of early morning fallout settles six reverberated blackened altars settled in the embers of industrial noise. slow motion feedback dissolve and dance macabre with raped guitar entanglement and roving percussive loops. scathing hard noise eruptions like drool through the hounds teeth that hold tight and lets loose the bizarre ordeal that is hair police. prescribed burning worships wet atmosphere and tape cut obsessive noise with raw chaos! always away from the pack yet defines the cult. limited to 600 copies with the traditional silk screened 2 sided fold out cover." - Hospital Productions. |
|
Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "basement noise dirge death skuzz hell. compiles the long out of print hospital cassette and mortuary servants ep while adding new exclusive mud/noise constructions from the drawn dead sessions." - Hospital Productions. |
|
Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: Strict Format: 7" Label: Troubleman Unlimited Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "A limited edition teaser single from the upcoming full-length, due in the spring. Contains two exclusive songs that wont be on the full-length. HAIR POLICEs music has been called "soundtrack to a nightmare" and "the sound of an elongated car crash." Its progressed over the years, taking on hardcore punk aggression and black metal ambience. Vocalist MIKE CONNELLY also plays in WOLF EYES." - Troubleman Unlimited. |
|
Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: The Certainty of Swarms Format: CD Label: No Fun Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "First Full length release from hair police since 2005, and their most masterful yet, combining signature piercing vocals with walls of guitars, precise heavy electronics and thundering drums. The fusion of metal, noise rock, free jazz, industrial, and harsh electronics that makes up The Certainty of Swarms is the rare kind of heterogeneous concoction that is carefully matured, but never lost in pedestrian calculation. A blistering onslaught of metallic-fused noise-murk, Swarms is considered by the band to be one of their most complete statements to date, an aptly blindsiding and developed work drawing from all quarters of their craft." - No Fun |
|
Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: The Empty Quarter Format: CD Label: Harbinger Sound Country: USA Price: $11.50 |
| "New 2007 recordings from the Beatty/Tremaine/Connelly trio. Digipack. 1000 copies." Recorded in Ypsilanti, MI, Jan/March 2007. |
|
Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: Totaled and Stranded Format: LP Label: Hundebiss Country: Italy Price: $18.00 |
| ⿿Recorded in a hotel room after we totaled out tour vehicle and became stranded in the worst snowstorm in Ohio history -Beatty, Connelly, Tremaine |
|
Artist: HAIR POLICE/WOLF EYES Title: Live!!! Format: Cass Label: Purple Stuff Country: Worlds Leading Terrorist State Price: $6.00 |
|
Plus very special guest, heh. Limited!!!
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAIR STYLISTICS Title: AM 5:00 + Format: Double CD Label: Boid Country: Japan Price: $29.00 |
| "Hair Stylistics (a.k.a. Violent Onsen Geisha, Masaya NAKAHARA) Profile: Born in 1970 at Tokyo, Nakahara started making music with MTR and sampler around 88, He released his first split LP from the U.S. independent label RRRecords as Violent Onsen Geisha in 90. He released unique records such as "OTIS" and "QUE SERA SERA (THINGS GO FROM BAD TO WORSE)" in mid 90s. Nakahara changed his artist name from "Violent Onsen Geisha" to "Hair Stylistics" in 97. The long-awaited latest album "custom cook confused death" was released in 04. Along with musical activities, he is known as a film critic and a book "Lost Memories of Cinema" cowritten with a novelist Kazushige ABE is just out. He also started writing novels in 94 with "Mari and Fifis Massacre Song Book?. "Bouquets of Flowers Everywhere" got Mishima Yukio Prize in 01. He was nominated for the Akutagawa Award in 06. He is attracting much attention as a novelist recently." "Hair Stylistics (a.k.a. Violent Onsen Geisha, Masaya NAKAHARA) long-awaited new album! Including 2 CDs with a poster by Masaya NAKAHARA, limited only 1,000 editions! The disc I "AM 5:00" is a live recording for 74 minutes which started in his apartment at 5:00 AM as the title says. The disc 2 consists of 3 commissioned works and 15 new tracks reconstructed from many recordings at various places in recent years. Both CDs are multi-track recording with analog tape machines without using any digital recording/mixing technique. "This is my small resistance to all that are made by copy-and-paste of digital data." (Nakahara) This inconvenience (= blood, sweat & tears) makes the sound vast and microscopic. The double CDs are packaged in a special 7" paper cover with a sticker and a gate-folded poster made by Nakahara." - boid. |
|
Artist: HAIR STYLISTICS Title: Hustler Power Electronics Convention Format: LP Label: Ultra Eczema Country: Belgium Price: $27.00 |
| "you must live in tokyo to be able to follow the immense output of the soundburrier that is MASAYA NAKAHARA, aka VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA, most of his work doesnt make it out of Satou Dans Tatsunoya bar in Shinjuku, not because noone wants it, just because the tokyo noise scene seems to gather there late at night to forefil their pork anus - chicken paw needs, and NAKAHARAs last 40 cdrs were the ideal soundtracks for this ritual. the old skool dead pan electronics, plunderphonics, parodies, noise blasts and synth madness that VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA or HAIR STYLISTICS released, have always been accompanied by titles and artwork that made you doubt if it was even necessary to listen or look at anything else, much like the lafms box on rrr now that i think of it. bullshit of course, like every record announcement! When i visited Tokyo in January i accidentally met Nakahara in a recordstore, we mainly communicated in sign language but he did remember that i asked him to do a record some years before, he sign languaged that he was bad with sending stuff in the mail and asked how many days i would stay in Tokyo, i made the rather simple hand gesture of putting 3 fingers in the air, which he replied to with the words "A side tommorow". As accidentally, i bump into him again the next day carrying around the A side in his pocket, all made on that day with a heavy flu, which is hearable on the lp, a stripped down heavy dim sum of collaged tapes, mini electronics, coughs, sneezes, and ants! his big synths etc were all locked up somewhere. "B SIDE ON MONDAY", which was the day i left, the legend goes that Tokyo airport had to call my name on the speakers as Nakahara brought the master to the airport, seriously a minute before my plane left to belgium again that monday. the cover design and insert was a trio work of Nakahara Masaya, Tomoo Gokita and Dennis Tyfus. this record is limited to 300 copies." -Ultra Eczema |
|
Artist: HAIR STYLISTICS Title: Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.2: Gracia A La Viva Format: CD Label: Boid Country: Japan Price: $15.00 |
|
Artist: HAIR STYLISTICS Title: Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.3:Hard Marchen Format: CD Label: Boid Country: Japan Price: $15.00 |
|
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAIR STYLISTICS Title: Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.4:Electric Success In The Ghetto Format: CD Label: Boid Country: Japan Price: $15.00 |
|
Artist: HAIR STYLISTICS/JOHN WIESE Title: Neu Dimension Format: 7" + Double Cassette Box Label: Helicopter Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
| "Two sessions, one recorded by mail in 2004, and one recorded at a studio in Shinjuku, 2009, alternating between sharp, cut-up collage, fleeting junk sounds, hard electronics, noise, and vocals. Boxset with many inserts from MASAYA NAKAHARA (formerly VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA)." - Helicopter. |
|
Artist: HAIZEA Title: s/t Format: Label: Elkarnean Country: Spain Price: $16.00 |
| "First LP, from 1977. Over the top, folk-psychedelic at its best, fragile acoustic sound with male/female vocals, sinuous percussions." - Elkarnean |
|
Artist: HAKANSSON, CARL Title: Candles Glow Format: CD Label: Riverman Music Country: Korea Price: $19.00 |
| "Completely obscure private press from central Massachusetts, 1979. Candles Glow was recorded predominantly in the attic of an old farm house in northern New Hampshire. This is the same little corner of the world where Bobb Trimble made two of the best psych records ever, also around 1980. This albums not as out-there as Bobbs, but its completely unknown as far as you can tell and several tracks have got a nice rural psych feel with great, garage-y guitar work from Richard Thyng, as evidenced on "Morning Bird." Neil Youngs definitely an influence here, and the rest of the record is a lot mellower, with a few solo downer-folk numbers by Carl Hakansson and one really spooky and somber kind of chanted mantra a cappella track "Alone They Ride," credited to The Thyng-Hakansson Chorus." -Riverman |
|
Artist: HALA STRANA Title: These Villages Format: CD Label: Soft Abuse Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Three albums in, Steven R. Smiths new Hala Strana project has delivered its first masterpiece. Following his first two full-lengths from last year (Hala Strana on Emperor Jones and Fielding on Jewelled Antler) comes These Villages, a further culmination of Smiths interest in Eastern European folk music. Smiths original compositions are peppered with interpretations of traditional songs, presenting the collision of his musical interests throughout his rather prolific career over the past decade. Built upon layers of sustained drone & delicately plucked and bowed strings, These Villages creates a seemless, almost raga-like environment, with quiet-loud dynamics aplenty. Its a dark record, a definite work of beauty, and a perfect soundtrack for autumns changing leaves and howling winds." - Soft Abuse. |
|
Artist: HALANA Title: #4 Format: Mag/CD Label: Halana Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
|
"Everything about this arty American New Music zine squeals quality, from its ridged cardboard, metallic-inked cover and enduring paper-stock, to the hefty price tag. But your bucks include a CD with tracks by Rafael Toral, Sun City Girls founder Richard Bishop, id battery, Motoharu Yoshizawa, plus a piece by David Tudor and more�??all of which feature in the mag. Opening with a brilliant, often scary travelogue by Richard Bishop (from spontaneous busking sessions in Morocco to self-induced vomiting in Calcutta), we get a long and fairly boring Joe Maneri Q&A; a piece on Portuguese guitarist Rafael Toral (just a monologue distilled from a long e-mail correspondence); memoirs of Yoshizawa and Tudor from various acquaintances, preciously poetic notes on location recording from id batterys Loren Chasse; and endless split columns of CD reviews. But the real gem here is the feature on little known American renaissance man (and pretender to Harry Smiths crown in the realm of eccentric sonic research) Ralph Haxton, who has had at least three groups including Californias rhBand, named after him."�?? Rob Young, WIRE.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HALFLINGS Title: Self Esteem Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| Debut LP, limited to 500 copies. "The Halflings are one of the best and most intense up-and-coming power electronics artists in the U.S. right now." -- Blood Ties. |
|
Artist: HALIBET TIN METAL SEWAGE BAND Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "man! amazing all male/female vocal group. jamie easter [of the parahnas] a.k.a. germaine shepard pulled together a bunch of wierdos along with his main shorty to create this.....recorded in a huge, freazing dark hall by warren defever yo. amazing sounds!" -Fag Tapes. |
|
Artist: HALIBET TIN METAL SEWAGE BAND Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "all male/female vocal freak wierdo group. recorded in bedroom studio and one live track from The Outer Limits Bar in Hamtramck, MI. cool, strange voice incantation melt. edition 77." - Fag Tapes. |
|
Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "New York Citys Hall of Fame tread similar aesthetic waters as the psyche folk of Tower Recordings and the improvised partially composed music of the Dead C. Their debut is filled with primitive rhythms, droning violin, skipping records, unplugged electric guitars, bowed cymbals, violin, drums, bass and a wealth of found sounds. Especially beautiful is the Dada inspired sound collage of "78 Expansion" which randomly juxtaposes live and recorded sounds. This record also documents improvised songs, which were later covered as part of their live set ("Sunset Spiral "and "I Woke Up Today"). Hall of Fame consists of multi-instrumentalist Dan Brown (ex-Salmon Skin, God is my Co-pilot), Samara Lubelski (ex-Salmon Skin, and current Sonora Pine) and artist Theo Angel." - Amish. |
|
Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: Cannibal/Superstring Theory Format: 7" Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.75 |
| "Two gems by the amazing and magical Hall of Fame (Samara Lubelski, Dan Brown and Theo Angell), both recorded as early as 1997. ⿿Cannibal presents a fluent storm of electric aces and aural snakes. It offers a short moment in the galaxy of fantastic rainbows of sound. ⿿Superstring Theory is definitely among the most danceable free folk pieces ever. Its a marriage of repetitive acoustic groove and a fan of colorful strong noises. Edition of 525." - Lal Lal Lal. |
|
Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: Coliseum Rising Format: 7" Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Hall of Fame is back with three atonal campfire songs. Dan and Samara split the vocal duties on their first pop outing. This single reveals a more song-based side to the band. Whatever it lacks in drone, it provides with rock and hook. The two color screen-printed jackets were done by Wiggly Printing (Brooklyn, NY) Edition of 500." - Amish. |
|
Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: First Came Love, Then Came the Tree... Format: LP & CDR Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "New York Citys Hall of Fames second album First Came Love, Then Came the Tree... was recorded by Nicolas Verhnes on an island in Long Island Sound in 1998 at a time when the group was at the top of their form. The year after the release of their debut album saw the release of an Amish Records single and the band play shows with Tower Recordings, Ghost, The Major Stars and others. The album was originally released in 1999 on CD only (currently out-of-print) and Amish is pleased to offer (for the first time on vinyl) a limited edition deluxe LP version. The LP also comes with a bonus CD- R of a live set recorded at the short-lived Louisville venue, The Mercury Paw from 1998 right after First Came Love, then Came the Tree... was recorded." - Amish. Hall of Fame was Dan Brown, Theo Angell (filmmaker, Jackie OMotherfucker, recent release on Digitalis) and Samara Lubelski (solo works on Social Registry, Tower Recordings, Thurston Moore, Metabolismus and more). Limited to 250 copies. |
|
Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: Paradise Now Format: LP Label: Social Registry Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Hall Of Fame is a trio out of NYC comprised of Samara Lubelski, Dan Brown & Theo Angel. Paradise Now is their fourth full length album since their inception in 1995. Though hinted at on their previous Siltbreeze effort; this record is not a departure from their trademark psychedelic excursions but an evolution from their bedroom recordings, allowing their sound to be captured in a more fully realized dynamic staging. Carefully sculpting not only the inherent energies of the compositions but also drawing every audible element into the fold whether it be a slow drawn violin scrap, fluttering percussion or the slow echo of a vintage Ampeg Amplifier. This record exemplifies the kind of precision and subtle craftsmanship that exemplifies the honing of their abilities." - Social Registry. CD also available. |
|
Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
|
"New York Citys Hall of Fame tread similar aesthetic waters as the psyche folk of Tower Recordings and the improvised partially composed music of the Dead C. Their debut is filled with primitive rhythms, droning violin, skipping records, unplugged electric guitars, bowed cymbals, violin, drums, bass and a wealth of found sounds. Especially beautiful is the Dada inspired sound collage of "78 Expansion" which randomly juxtaposes live
and recorded sounds. This record also documents improvised songs, which were later covered as part of their live set ("Sunset Spiral "and "I Woke Up Today"). Hall of Fame consists of multi-instrumentalist Dan Brown (ex-Salmon Skin, God is my Co-pilot), Samara Lubelski (ex-Salmon Skin, and current Sonora Pine) and artist Theo Angel." - Amish.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Hall of Fames third full-length album finds these NYC indoor miners forging even deeper into their secret cave of gems (financed with new picksnshovels on the Siltbreeze tab). Like their previous output on the Amish label, this ones a melange of tribal thump, eastern drone, raga concrete and melodious melancholia. Hall of Fames unique, not easily identifiable sound has been compared to revered oufits such as Flies Inside the Sun and The Shadow Ring, sometimes even in English. If, like the young scribes from Hayfever magazine, your recollection and your record collection go back further than a time we like to call ⿿the early 90s, its okay to shout ⿿king me! and move on. But if you really wanna sit around the ol checkerboard discussing strategy, then your next stop is a Lower East Side of the late 60s; Hall of Fames healthy smattering of influences stretches back to Ludlow Street-era Velvet Underground, Prestige-era Moondog, The Godz and Angus MacLise. Recently the band played a series of shows with The Red Krayola, impressing the hell out of that old Quixotic Dadaist Mayo Thompson and his erstwhile Sancho Panza, David Grubbs. Senor Grubbs was so impressed that he enlisted HoFs Dan Brown to do some drumming for his forthcoming release of covers from various performances from the King Biscuit Flower Hour. Only in New York!" - Siltbreeze. |
|
Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Hall of Fames third full-length album finds these NYC indoor miners forging even deeper into their secret cave of gems (financed with new picksnshovels on the Siltbreeze tab). Like their previous output on the Amish label, this ones a melange of tribal thump, eastern drone, raga concrete and melodious melancholia. Hall of Fames unique, not easily identifiable sound has been compared to revered oufits such as Flies Inside the Sun and The Shadow Ring, sometimes even in English. If, like the young scribes from Hayfever magazine, your recollection and your record collection go back further than a time we like to call ⿿the early 90s, its okay to shout ⿿king me! and move on. But if you really wanna sit around the ol checkerboard discussing strategy, then your next stop is a Lower East Side of the late 60s; Hall of Fames healthy smattering of influences stretches back to Ludlow Street-era Velvet Underground, Prestige-era Moondog, The Godz and Angus MacLise. Recently the band played a series of shows with The Red Krayola, impressing the hell out of that old Quixotic Dadaist Mayo Thompson and his erstwhile Sancho Panza, David Grubbs. Senor Grubbs was so impressed that he enlisted HoFs Dan Brown to do some drumming for his forthcoming release of covers from various performances from the King Biscuit Flower Hour. Only in New York!" - Siltbreeze. |
|
Artist: HALL OF FAME/GOLDEN CALVES Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Polyamory Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
|
Unearthed stash of this 1999 single.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HALLELUJAHS Title: Niko Wo Kuraite Chikai Wo Tateyo Format: LP Label: Rover Country: Japan Price: $32.00 |
| "Hallelujahs were a band led by Shinji Shibayama, during the mid-eighties. This was their sole album, released in 1986 in an edition of 300 on Shibayamas fledgling ORG Records label. ORG went on to release some great records by Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Reiko Kudo and Love Beach (Shibayamas current dream-pop psych band). Musically, pop psych is about as close as Im going to want to get to a description of what they do. Theres something about this record thats hard to get a grip on. It seems to float on layers of melody rather than rhythm, and in places it has an incomparable start of autumn melancholic atmosphere. Subtle, but a grower if you give it enough time. Part of yet another invisible Japanese scene." - Alan Cummings. Highly recommended! This is the remastered, 180 gram vinyl reissue which came out in 1997 in an edition of 500 a few years prior to the PSF CD. Includes obi strip and an insert (with lyrics and newly found photos). |
|
Artist: HALLOCK HILL Title: Union/A Hem of Evening Format: Double LP Label: MIE Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| "TOM LECKY stacks and layers acoustic, electric and lap steel guitars, delivering a new kind of studio improvisation-spontaneously made, yet feeling composed, gliding from harmonious to dissonant. MIE Musics vinyl reissue of his debut CD (Hundred Acre 2012) sweetens the deal with A Hem of Evening: six interlocking acoustic pieces that extend the structural themes of The Unions central acoustic tracks. Lecky again works with a range of overlapping improvisations and twisted melodic weavings, but here within a more naked and spare atmosphere. The Union is structured by continually stacking great density of sound and involutions, but A Hem of Evening works with a different geometry. In the words of Fluid Radios Andy Gillham, "A Hem of Evening shows "a canny ability to build meaningful musical structure from free-form composition." Includes a book of prose poems and photographs." -MIE. |
|
Artist: HALO RAZOR HEAD Title: Boogie Punks Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
|
"also known as
"the bp band", this is one of our best releases
ever.... weirdest rock/improv unit ive ever heard....
guitar goes from weird waves of in and out volume to
complete mars style atonality into straight up hendrix
destroyed blues mania..... drums are like no other
drummer ive heard; dude plays a line, tries to copy it
but does a bit off, repeats this 3 or 4 times, then
goes into strange open wasted bashing that somehow
still retains logic... gonna be playing some gigs with
us in the next few weeks (chicago, stl and lexington)
so come check em ltd to 60" - Maim & Disfigure.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HALO, LAUREL Title: Quarantine Format: CD Label: Hyperdub Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "Since 2010s King Felix and into last years highly lauded Hour Logic, Laurel Halo has developed a self-contained take on electronic music, collapsing the boundaries between ambient, pop, synthetic psychedelia, dub and the techno music of her Midwest roots. Fixed stylistic territories fold in on themselves, time quickens--her music is meant for transit, body listening and loud soundsystems. Quarantine, her debut album and first release on Hyperdub, is her most focused and evolved recording yet. This is an album of transporting songs, various altitude shifts via effecting pop-concrete, built on a rich synthesis of intuitive but exacting electronic abstraction, bass pulse and heartfelt songwriting. Like her previous releases, Quarantine slams ambient suspension and disorienting detail up against each other. The 12 songs here operate as complex vacuums, airborne harmony and movement met with inci-dental noise and sub bass pressure, sample details and synth lines as trails across a mutilated sonic topography." -Hyperdub. |
|
Artist: HALO, LAUREL Title: Quarantine Format: LP Label: Hyperdub Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "Since 2010s King Felix and into last years highly lauded Hour Logic, Laurel Halo has developed a self-contained take on electronic music, collapsing the boundaries between ambient, pop, synthetic psychedelia, dub and the techno music of her Midwest roots. Fixed stylistic territories fold in on themselves, time quickens--her music is meant for transit, body listening and loud soundsystems. Quarantine, her debut album and first release on Hyperdub, is her most focused and evolved recording yet. This is an album of transporting songs, various altitude shifts via effecting pop-concrete, built on a rich synthesis of intuitive but exacting electronic abstraction, bass pulse and heartfelt songwriting. Like her previous releases, Quarantine slams ambient suspension and disorienting detail up against each other. The 12 songs here operate as complex vacuums, airborne harmony and movement met with inci-dental noise and sub bass pressure, sample details and synth lines as trails across a mutilated sonic topography." -Hyperdub. |
|
Artist: HALO, LAUREL Title: Sunlight on the Faded Format: 12" Label: Hyperdub Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Sunlight On The Faded is energized and geometric, with lush chords built around hard, sparse drums and Laurels harmonized vocals. Choked samples and illusory FX support the vocal phrases, the lyrics hinting at a resolution from the pain of the albums themes, and a hopefulness too." -Hyperdub. |
|
Artist: HALPER, JONATHAN Title: Leaving My Old Life Behind/I Am A Hermit Format: 7" Label: Puck Productions Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
|
"(these tracks) honestly sound like they influenced Alastair Galbraith, Simon Finn, Michael Yonkers, or mid-to-late 80s Tall Dwarfs in their shambly, Barrett-esque presentation, complete with backwards primitive psychedelic guitar solos and the effect of lo-fidelity recording techniques to showcase the light and weirdness through undeniably twisted pop." - Brian Turner, WFMU. 1968 recordings featured in Kenneth Angers Puce Moment. 300 copies.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAMANA Title: Hamana Format: LP Label: World In Sound Country: Germany Price: $38.00 |
| "Hamanas debut album recorded in 1974, was issued on the local Phoenix label, Canyon Records. To most of the 60s psychedelic rock/folk fans this is almost an unknown album, original pressings seem to have disappeared, only a few copies are known in collectors hands. Bruce Hamana, a native American, is a member of the Indian Hopi Tribe and went in 1969 to college near San Francisco to live in the white mans world. Instead of traditional native American themes he felt like writing modern, revolutionary, contemporary music -- the result you hear on this album is powerful and melodic, and expresses perfectly the sunny California peace, love & freedom feeling, but also contains a social-critical message.One of these days everything is gonna change, things you take for granted will be taken away from you. The music itself is emotive with strong vocals, lots of Westcoast psychedelic guitar flashes, a bit garage feeling but also loner folk style with native American elements. The appeal of this album reminds of Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Byrds, X.I.T, Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield, Garrett Lund. Near unbelievable that on these recordings all instruments, bass, guitars, vocals and drums have been played by Hamana himself, to get overdubbed and to become finally a tasty and atmospheric stereo acoustic/electric mix." - World In Sound. |
|
Artist: HAMBURGER, NEIL Title: "Alive (with pleasure)" At Taylor Brigodes Bachelor Party.. Format: 7" Label: Boo-Hooray Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| ..Recorded Live in the Party Room at Arcadias Zelo Pizzeria, Friday, May 13th, 2011. "An unauthorized live recording of world-famous Neil Hamburger at Taylor Brigodes bachelor party. Hamburger delivered both classic gags and brand-new zingers to a half-full Party Room at Zelo Pizzeria in Arcadia, California. Hear all of the tasteless shenanigans that ruined poor Taylors pizza party on this collectable 7" pink vinyl disc. First 25 000 copies come in a limited and numbered picture sleeve." - Boo-Hooray. |
|
Artist: HAMEL, PETER MICHAEL Title: Hamel Format: Double LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $41.00 |
| "First ever reissue of P.M Hamels debut album, originally released by Vertigo in 1972. An extended trip through meditative and minimalist territories that has its roots both in western avant-garde and Indian classical music. Organ and synthesizer drones mix with natural sounds in a flowing, ever-changing soundscape. For fans of Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Popol Vuh, Taj Mahal Travellers, Deuter and anyone into ambient and meditation musics. With Peter Michael Hamel (organ, voice, electronics, piano), Anatol Arkus (synthesizer), Ulrich Kraus (synthesizer)." Deluxe gatefold sleeve with 4-page insert featuring photos and liner notes written by Ulrich Kraus and Terry Riley." -Wah Wah |
|
Artist: HAMILTON, SAM Title: Tropics Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $15.00 |
| "two lovely looping tracks made from electric guitar, sampler pedal, spring reverb, computer and lathe. Music thats perfectly suited to the format, loops that shift and change over the 4 mins or so per side. When the records came back I wasnt sure if my old Garrard was sticking on a groove or playing the piece. It was playing, nice... Sam is currently in South America on various recording projects, an old bio below: sitting free from the shallow waters of borderline music, watching stones sink and demanding rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty in the ripples: "hey dickhead,your guitar is out of tune!"" - CMR. Edition of 45. |
|
Artist: HAMILTON, TOM Title: Pieces For Kohn/Formal & Informal Music Format: Double CD Label: Kvist Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Kvist Records presents this 2CD release, reissuing out-of-print works originally released on the artists own Somnath label. Although Tom Hamiltons more recent CDs (London Fix, Off-Hour Wait State, and Shadow Machine) are well known to fans of electronic music and reviewers alike, his earlier LP recordings became known as underground classics to the collectors of independent music from that era. This 2CD set was made from the original master tapes, and brings to light some of the best work of Hamiltons highly prolific St. Louis years, starting decades before he became involved with musical life in downtown New York. In the 1970s, Hamilton was working in semi-isolation, though connected to a burgeoning arts scene in St. Louis, and developing his idiosyncratic techniques with the ARP and Serge modular analog synthesizers of that era. The first CD, Pieces For Kohn, is comprised of four multi-layered electronic pieces, musical responses to four paintings by artist Bill Kohn. The second CD, Formal & Informal Music, contains the title piece Formal & Informal Music (1980), and Crimson Sterling (1973) -- both featuring improvisations by JD Parran, woodwinds, Rich ODonnell, percussion, and Hamilton on analog synthesizers. The music on these CDs establish some of Hamiltons most prominent style characteristics: clouds of fast pitches hinting at pointillistic and kinetic imagery; suggestions of tonality without real resolution; and highly-charged rhythms contributing to intricate textures -- sometimes existing on their own, sometimes offering accompaniment to improvising soloists." - Kvist. Includes a 20-page booklet with liner notes by Hamilton and historic photos. |
|
Artist: HAMMER DAMAGE Title: Automatic Lips Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "When Mike Hammer and Donny Damage bowed out of Akron, OHs Rubber City Rebels, they wasted no time in forming a band that would top anything their previous groug would ever do. Hammer Damages sole 45 lassos the best elements of punk, pop and hard rock, delivering a killer one-two punch in the snotty Laugh and the infectious, anthemic Automatic Lips. Sadly, major labels and critics were blind to this foursomes genius during the feeding frenzy that spawned much-lauded LPs by Devo & the Bizzaros, but you can correct their oversight by nabbing this reissue of one of the best singles in the KBD canon." - Last Laugh. |
|
Artist: HAMMER, JOSEPH Title: I Love You, Please Love Me Too Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
|
"With I Love You, Please Love Me Too, Joseph Hammer continues his journey into playful yet heavily focused idiot-savant infinite psychedelic inertia. Utilizing consumer audio technology and 20th century detritus, Hammer lovingly decodes his passion for mid-century sci-fi and AM radio stations beyond all point of recognition like a snake charmer. Multi-dimensional audio collage techniques to a freeform and completely unorthodox plunderphonic hypnosis. Baked devotionals for tape loop minds. Joseph Hammer, a sound artist from Los Angeles, has actively created experimental works since 1980 as a member of the LAFMS collective. His practice draws on the complexities of the process of listening and playing, reflecting on the role of the audience versus the performer, and uses music as it influences our notion of time, memory and intimacy as the basis for improvisation and abstraction. In various collaborations, solo, and as a founding member of the trio Solid Eye along with several other projects (Joe & Joe, Dinosaurs With Horns, Dimmer, Points of Friction), Hammer has performed widely and is an influential contributor to the Los Angeles underground scene. The LP is mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket, which is itself housed in a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs. All artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas." -Pan.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAMMERING THE CRAMPS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Wormwood Grasshopper Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
|
"Hammering The Cramps were a Hobart band active between 2005 -2007, with this LP being recorded at a rehearsal in Janurary 2007. In Hobart their audience was sadly limited at the time (and still is) and it would be a shame for them to fall between the cracks, because theyre one of the greatest groups to come out of this town. Their sound is loose, loud and heartfelt and has a similar charector to that of Xpressway artists, Roky Erickson and Brian Enos "Here Come The Warm Jets"." - Wormwood Grasshopper.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HANA, ANDERS Title: Dead Clubbing Format: One-Sided LP Label: Drid Machine Country: Norway Price: $20.00 |
|
Artist: HANATARASH Title: We Are Nuts Format: CDR Label: Superman Cha Cha Country: Price: $13.50 |
|
Reissue of The Hanatarash-"We Are Nuts" (?LTD-003 [C10]) cassette from 1990 with full color reproductions of the original cover art and sticker.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HANATARASHI Title: We Are Hardcore Format: 5 x CDR Set Label: Superman Cha Cha Country: Price: $44.00 |
|
"We Are Hardcore 5xCDR set compiles tracks from the following cassettes on EyEs (Boredoms) old tape labels "Condome Cassex" and "?LTD":- Hanazumari (Nohara Seion (Japan)-NT-1) 1984,
Live Axtion 84.4.20 & 1.29 (CassexCondome-2) 1984,
Noisexa (Condome Cassex-3 [C46]) 1984,
Bombraining (Condome Cassex-4 [C46]) 1984,
The Hit Parade 1 (Condome Cassex-5) 1984,
The Hit Parade 2 (Condome Cassex-6) 1984,
Hane Go Go (Condome Cassex-7) 1984,
Live! 1984 3.24 (Condome Cassex-10 [C120]) 1984,
8448-412 (Condome Cassex-11) 1984,
Live Action 84.1.29 (Condome Cassex--#?) 1984,
The Hanatarashi-Live Act 16.Dec.1984 at Zabo Kyoto (Condome Cassex-18) 1984,
Merzbow & Hanatarashi (Condome Cassex--#?) 1985 and
The Hanatarashi--Worst Selektion (PCM/MARS (Japan)--13) 1985." - Superman Cha Cha. Packaged in stapled, red sleeve with full color artwork.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HANDGJORT Title: Handgjort Format: Double LP Label: Psykofon Country: Sweden Price: $66.00 |
|
"A strange and, as the group name indicates, meditative handmade
acoustic fusion of Indian raga music and Western folk rock.
For comparison one can mention British hippie folk rock such as Dr. Strangely
Strange,The Incredible String Band (and also) reminds us of
Japans Maher Shalal Hash Baz." - Dan Backman, SVD. "Handgjort (trans. "Handmade") recorded a legendary album in 1970 released by Silence
Records. All covers were hand-painted by the band members. The music is moody
underground folk with Eastern influences. The album sold very poorly and is a serious
collectors item today. The original band members were: Marcus Brandelius aka Greg
Fitzpatrick (esraj and vocals), Guy Öhrström (acoustic guitar), Stig Arne Karlsson
(sitar), and Theo Greyerz (tablas). After over three years of preparation, Handgjort is
reissued, released as a coproduction from Silence and Psykofon records. This is an exclusive
replica, with hand-painted covers by the band members once again! The original album was
remastered from the master tapes without digitalization. The previously-unreleased bonus
tracks were all recorded live at the festivals at Gärdet in 1970 and 1971. Strictly limited
edition of 600 copies done with the full cooperation of the band. The deluxe vinyl version,
released by Psykofon Records, includes the previously-unreleased live material on a bonus LP." - Psykofon. Very highly recommended!
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HANDGJORT Title: Handgjort Format: CD Label: Silence Country: Sweden Price: $33.00 |
| "Handgjort (trans. "Handmade") recorded a legendary album in 1970 released by Silence Records. All covers were hand-painted by the band members. The music is moody underground folk with Eastern influences. The album sold very poorly and is a serious collectors item today. The original band members were: Marcus Brandelius aka Greg Fitzpatrick (esraj and vocals), Guy Öhrström (acoustic guitar), Stig Arne Karlsson (sitar), and Theo Greyerz (tablas). After over three years of preparation, Handgjort is reissued, released as a coproduction from Silence and Psykofon records. This is an exclusive replica, with hand-painted covers by the band members once again! The original album was remastered from the master tapes without digitalization. The previously-unreleased bonus tracks were all recorded live at the festivals at Gärdet in 1970 and 1971. Strictly limited edition of 600 copies done with the full cooperation of the band. CD includes a 32-page booklet telling the complete, uncensored story of Handgjort, featuring unique photos and lots of reproductions of original Handgjort hand-painted covers. The CD also includes one exclusive bonus track, "Gregs Recitation," not featured on the LP version." - Silence. |
|
Artist: HANDICAPPER HORNS Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Weird as shit older Olson project resurrected. Handicap - Retard - Slow - Horns..... Slow Bassy Horns... Rules. Alien music made on Saxaphone." -Hanson. |
|
Artist: HANDICAPPER HORNS Title: Sax in the City= One Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
|
"one-sided LP/ BLACK TO ATTACK!!! Old solo reed project now a fleshed out band with Thrasher Slowson and Sara Okeffe from ARA (whose LP on WHAT THE?? is a stone ruler of sweetnezz) on tenor and alto saxes, bass and regular clarinets and mangled electronics. Debut platter after a handful of gigs in the Natti, Lexington and No Fun 08. Drifting and subterranean noisez that attach on your brain and plant seeds of slow motion anti-body lurking sound creatures inside the shadowz of your skull. Warning: Cemented Freeze Zone. #erd Edition of 100, paste on sleeves of inzane art."-American Tapes
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HANDS TO Title: Flatline Format: LP Label: Petri Supply Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
|
"LP on 2 one-sided screen printed color vinyl 12"s.
In totally hand-fabricated recycled paper sleeves with full color art. This is ambient rhythmic noise by Jeph Jerman decomposing his favorite musics, and at his best." - Petri Supply
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HANK IV Title: III Format: LP Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "I dont care how many goddamn cute hobo bands there are out there right now. Not two runny shits. Theres something HANK IV knows that few other current of interest bands realize, and its a painfully simple thing: guitars were meant to sound like this, not that (pick something). Thats as plainly as it can be put. This is twin-guitar punk rock in a class of its own, driving more than dueling and hot-sauce-free. III is Hank Babys third and finest album yet and they are, in short, a band whose every move is worthy of your utmost attention. For this record (their second for Siltbreeze), Thee Hanks opted to spend zero dollars and buried themselves deep inside their very own Shill Building studio for a good, long while. Sightings became scarce. Promises of work being done were made but who really knew what was going on? To be fair, The Shill has its fair share of distractions. Imagine Platos Retreat, except like a basement in the Tenderloin. Anyway, the result of their self-imposed exile is this album bearing the aroma of fuck you coupled with a faint flutter of fuck me. Its eight songs in 25 minutes of loud, angry, intelligent, rock n roll punk and its from San Francisco. Beyond that, the rhythms actually have a rhythm-a loud, all-rock rhythm, in fact. Its shocking and practically akin to reinventing the wheel round these un-rocking parts. Great-and now the worldll probably explode. Do I gotta pick a cut to exalt? Down in the Dumps springs forth. Hopefully the punks follow suit."-Mitch Cardwell . Includes free digital download coupon and insert. |
|
Artist: HANK IV Title: Refuge In Genre Format: LP Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "A decidedly meaner, sharper, and more pummeling affair than their critically acclaimed debut, Hank IVs second album, Refuge in Genre, sports eleven songs in 30 scorched-earth minutes. No visit to the lo-fi or "shit-gaze" Quonset huts this, Refuge in Genre was recorded in shattering hi-fidelity by Tim Green (The Fucking Champs) and mastered by Bob Weston (Shellac). The rollicking San Francisco quintet has been in the crosshairs of the Siltbreeze hunting rifle since just after the release of their debut LP, Third Person Shooter, was (Hook or Crook, 2006). Attempts to release their Dirty Poncho 7-inch were squashed (the honor went to Plastic Idol) so Siltbreeze did what any jilted paramour would: decided to get even. The sound of Hank IV is a bit too wily and scrambled to pigeonhole as any one type of honk. Forward thinkers might tag em as panic-skiffle, combining the cunning and menace of compadres such as Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments or Country Teasers, with a dual guitar attack that nods toward the Bailey / Kuepper-era Saints as much as those dudes looked at Smith / Kramer for their nascent moves. Through all this stutter and pummel, vocalist Bob McDonald (formerly of Denver hardcore icons Bum Kon) doesnt throw caution to the wind so much as atomize it. If a shattered leg cant keep this herc from heralding the apocalypse, do you think your tender widdle ears have a chance? Not likely, bub. San Francisco quintet Hank IV has no relation whatsoever to the Hank Williams clan. Their hard-charging and visceral dual-guitar rock punk has been likened to "Crime meets Viletones meets Styrenes punk" (Z-Gun Magazine) and by WFMUs DJ Terre T as "a sick combination of Volcano Suns and Blue Cheer and Chain Gang!" Third Person Shooter was called "one of 2006s top punk albums" by Maximum Rockandroll, "Best of 2006" by Terminal Boredom, #2 album of 2006 by WFMU DJ Evan Funk Davies, and the #8 album of 2006 by Terre T. The band has played twice at SXSW, including 2008 for the WFMU 50th anniversary showcase, and performed at Gonerfest IV in Memphis in 2007." - Siltbreeze. |
|
Artist: HANK, CANDIE Title: Kimouchi Format: LP Label: Gagarin Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
| "Patric Catani started to make music very early, in his teenager age he used to program on his C64 Computer and used to rip the old arcade game music out of games. He continued to work on the home computer and made his first Hardcore/Techno Candie Hank is a grotesque entertainment show with no limit, a collision of Rock´n Roll, Moog influenced but harsh synthscapes breakcore but Belly Dance Punk and Gabba like Proto Pop. His debut LP Kimouchi just got released on Gagarin Records run by Felix Kubin who couldn´t deny to release the Candie Hank stuff and even called it a landmark. Candie Hank calls it Lubricant Sleazecore.Gabba record in the age of 16 in the year 1992 on his Amiga 500 computer." -Gagarin |
|
Artist: HANKIL, RYU/ HONG CHULKI/ NATE HOFFMAN Title: Sonne Format: LP Label: Pilgrim Talk Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
|
"Recorded live at Art Space Mullae, Seoul, June 2009
Drawing and design by N. Hoffman. 108 copies." -Pilgrim Talk. |
|
Artist: HANO, SHOJI & DEREK BAILEY Title: Fish Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Latest in a very long line of guitar and drums duo releases from Bailey, encompassing sessions with Han Bennink, Jamie Muir, Andrea Centazzo, John Stevens, Cyro Baptista, Tony Oxley, Susie Ibarra, Eddie Prevost, and probably several more that have slipped my mind. This is his first record with Japanese powerhouse drummer Shoji Hano, recorded at Moat Studios in London in June 2000. Hano is best known outside of Japan for his brief tenure as drummer in speedfreak rock band High Rise. But he has had an even lengthier career as an improv drummer, with his own roster of groups (including the Polybreath Percussion Band, as documented on PSFD-92) and with the likes of Peter Brotzmann and William Parker. This session with Bailey was the realisation of a long-held dream for Hano, and he was fully psyched up for the date. Baileys playing is squarely in his recent style, centering around dry note clutches and some gorgeously controlled feedback swells. Hanos drumming here sacrifices his exemplary rock motion in favour of a more pulse orientated approach. He brings a weighty presence to his work on toms especially, the result of years of rigorous training in locating the spiritual through the physical. The results are pleasingly heavy, with a density of detail that repays high-volume playback. Four tracks, two of them just under the twenty minute mark, the other two hovering around five or six minutes. Each one named after a species of fish. Very fetching picture of a monkfish on the cover, too." - Alan Cummings. |
|
Artist: HANOI JANES Title: Across The Sea Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Im getting majorly sore cheeks from grinning and top tapping to these freewheelin bung pop gems from Sachsen, Germany, while being simultaneously amazed at how they explode in rich technicolour with such a full sound - fried guitar licks, cheery vocal squeaks and twinkling xylophone runs - but are largely the work of one guy named Oliver Scharf. I found Oliver through his Zac Efron-channeling solo project Male Models, but soon learnt it was just "a one afternoon project" - and that his other moniker Hanoi Janes will be used for all future musical forays, along with a couple of pals banging some drums from time to time." -Rose Quartz. |
|
Artist: HANOI JANES Title: Specks Ho! Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Hanoi Janes is back for his first release since the critically acclaimed "Year of Panic" LP. Five (FIVE) songs on this 7" in vein of his earlier 7" and LP, pushing the envelope in Olivers vision of cacophonous pop to the hilt. The soundtrack for the only party episode ever filmed for the Twilight Zone? Probably." -Captured Tracks |
|
Artist: HANOI JANES Title: Year of Panic Format: CD Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "With the obvious homage the name implies, youd expect Hanoi Janes to be a group of riot grrrl angnsty types, displaced in time by about 20 odd years. Having taken on the nickname given to Jane Fonda in the 70s because of her anti-war stance on Vietnam, these girls would be all bent up about, well you know, stuff. Youd expect that, but youd be wrong. It is in fact primarily the work of one guy from Sachen, Germany �?? Oliver Scharf. But then Hanoi Janes album, Year of Panic, is able to inspire all kinds of misconceptions. Name of the band aside, would you expect a German guy (whos a bit handy with an eight-track) to produce a series of beautifully lo-fi, sub two-minute, surf-pop tracks, full of buzzing guitar and bubblegum spirit. Maybe �?? maybe not. But thats just what Scharf has done. The sound is distinctly garage, reminiscent of a 70s surf sound, and like The 5. 6. 7. 8s, Hanoi Janes are able to launch into the genre with the luxury of being removed from the scene itself. Tracks like opener, The Boys Are Out and Beach Kids are unashamedly infectious, utilising catchy hooks, hand claps and the odd Ooo ooo ooo to great effect. The production is fuzzy, but that only adds to the overall charm of the album. Because charming is what it is, as Hanoi Janes have packed Year of Panic with some real gems. Summer of Panic offers something tinted with psychedelic sounds; Our Lives could have been an early track by The Strokes had they been influenced by the Californian sun rather than the New York shadows; Good Bone is a track which can only be performed if there are several oversized surf-boards nearby. Year of Panic is lo-fi, scuzzy garage surf-pop at its finest and it deserves to be the sound-track of your summer" -Bowlegs. |
|
Artist: HANOI JANES Title: Year of Panic Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "With the obvious homage the name implies, youd expect Hanoi Janes to be a group of riot grrrl angnsty types, displaced in time by about 20 odd years. Having taken on the nickname given to Jane Fonda in the 70s because of her anti-war stance on Vietnam, these girls would be all bent up about, well you know, stuff. Youd expect that, but youd be wrong. It is in fact primarily the work of one guy from Sachen, Germany ⿿ Oliver Scharf. But then Hanoi Janes album, Year of Panic, is able to inspire all kinds of misconceptions. Name of the band aside, would you expect a German guy (whos a bit handy with an eight-track) to produce a series of beautifully lo-fi, sub two-minute, surf-pop tracks, full of buzzing guitar and bubblegum spirit. Maybe ⿿ maybe not. But thats just what Scharf has done. The sound is distinctly garage, reminiscent of a 70s surf sound, and like The 5. 6. 7. 8s, Hanoi Janes are able to launch into the genre with the luxury of being removed from the scene itself. Tracks like opener, The Boys Are Out and Beach Kids are unashamedly infectious, utilising catchy hooks, hand claps and the odd Ooo ooo ooo to great effect. The production is fuzzy, but that only adds to the overall charm of the album. Because charming is what it is, as Hanoi Janes have packed Year of Panic with some real gems. Summer of Panic offers something tinted with psychedelic sounds; Our Lives could have been an early track by The Strokes had they been influenced by the Californian sun rather than the New York shadows; Good Bone is a track which can only be performed if there are several oversized surf-boards nearby. Year of Panic is lo-fi, scuzzy garage surf-pop at its finest and it deserves to be the sound-track of your summer" -BOWLEGS, UK |
|
Artist: HANS-A-PLAST Title: 2 Format: LP Label: Re-Force Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "An official reissue of the 2nd album by this very popular German punk band, first released on the No Fun label in 1981. More catchy tunes in a style reminiscent of 70s British punk� meets German cabaret, with snotty, sarcastic female vocals and�lots of musical clowning around.� With 24-page booklet of lyrics, photos, artwork, rants, jokes, etc." - Re-Force. |
|
Artist: HANSEN, AL Title: Joseph Beuys Stuka Dive Bomber Piece & Other Stories Format: LP Label: Slowscan Country: Netherlands Price: $48.00 |
| "LP limited to 300 copies pressed in blue vinyl. Including "Balloni Brothers Balloon Work" (1987), a Fluxus piece for ballons whistles; the fantastic sound poetry title track "Joseph Beuys Stuka Dive Bomber Piece" (1987); "Car Bibbe" (1959) for concrete car sounds and "The Futuristic Chattanooga Choo Choo in the Mongolian Desert" (1989). All tracks performed by the author. Slowscan Editions are now manufactured by Alga Marghen and sort of available (at least for a short while)!" - FE. |
|
Artist: HANSON, STEN Title: Canned Porridge Format: Double CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $20.00 |
|
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HANSON, STEN Title: Text-Sound Compositions Format: LP Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $28.00 |
|
"Sten Hanson has worked in the area of experimental music, literature and intermedia art since the early sixties. His large and varied production includes instrumental and electronic music, music drama, performance, music for dance and theatre, works for radio and television, literary works and large outdoor events. This record presents his main work in the text-sound field -- The Trilogy of Vocal Energy -- and also two examples of the shorter works of which he has produced many during the years." - Fylkingen. New/Unplayed copies of this 1978 release.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HANSON, STEN Title: The Sonosopher Retrospective Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $31.00 |
|
Artist: HANSON, STEN Title: The Sonosopher Retrospective Format: CD/Book Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $85.00 |
| "This edition is the digital version of the LP issued some years ago in the VocSon series and is only available with the alga marghen copies of Sten Hansons heavy hardcover luxury book titled Works / Oeuvres / Werke /Arbeten. The cd contains works from more than three decades, thus covering almost the entire career of Sten Hanson as a sound artist. All these works were previously released on record by alga marghen on the now sold out LP with the same title, as well as in various Text Sound Composition rare LP anthologies issued in Sweden between 1968 and 1970. The oldest work on the record is Danse figure (for EP) which was first performed at the Pistol Theatre, Stockholm in 1965. The work is inspired by a poem by Ezra Pound with the same title and is made out of recording of the first two lines in that poem. This work is followed by three examples of Hansons shamanistic poems: Hermetic Back Piece, The New York Lament and Skärp dig, för fan!. Lettre dun etranger deals with the problems of communication between people close to one other and was first performed in the framwork of Polyphonix 13, Paris in 1988. Am strengsten verboten is the contribution to an intermedia event by Charlie Morrow, Carles Santos and Sten Hanson himself performed in two boxing rings at Bobby Gleasons Gym, in the shadow of Madison Square Garden, New York in 1981. Les Martyrs was a part of the intermedia opera Robespierres Last Night, first performed in Hudiksvall, Sweden in 1975. Les sabots de bouc is a poem without words telling a story like a medieval morality from the times when the cathedrals were built and the devil was a force to be reckoned with. Che is a pamphlet based on a speech by Ernesto Che Guevara, while Coucher et soufler is a play on the problems of human communication. Western Europe 1969 is a satire on superficiality. The Destruction of Your Genetical Code by Drugs, Poisons and Radiation is based on a visual poem already conceived in 1960, when the idea that genetic damage could affect mans offspring for coming generations was a fairly new and shocking one. Au 197.0 was composed at the request of choreographer Susanne Valentin, who wanted a piece for a work on rites; as rite demands religion and it seemed clear to the composer that materialism is the only real living religion of our time. Finale, a piece to end with, was first performed in Annecy, France in 1995. Edition limited to 90 copies, including a 12 page booklet with liner notes, photos as well as concrete and visual poems." -Alga Marghen. 100+ page hardcover book with CD. |
|
Artist: HANSON, STEN Title: The Sonosopher Retrospective Format: Book/CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $85.00 |
| "This edition is the digital version of the LP issued some years ago in the VocSon series and is only available with the alga marghen copies of Sten Hansons heavy hardcover luxury book titled Works / Oeuvres / Werke /Arbeten. The cd contains works from more than three decades, thus covering almost the entire career of Sten Hanson as a sound artist. All these works were previously released on record by alga marghen on the now sold out LP with the same title, as well as in various Text Sound Composition rare LP anthologies issued in Sweden between 1968 and 1970. The oldest work on the record is Danse figure (for EP) which was first performed at the Pistol Theatre, Stockholm in 1965. The work is inspired by a poem by Ezra Pound with the same title and is made out of recording of the first two lines in that poem. This work is followed by three examples of Hansons shamanistic poems: Hermetic Back Piece, The New York Lament and Skärp dig, för fan!. Lettre dun etranger deals with the problems of communication between people close to one other and was first performed in the framwork of Polyphonix 13, Paris in 1988. Am strengsten verboten is the contribution to an intermedia event by Charlie Morrow, Carles Santos and Sten Hanson himself performed in two boxing rings at Bobby Gleasons Gym, in the shadow of Madison Square Garden, New York in 1981. Les Martyrs was a part of the intermedia opera Robespierres Last Night, first performed in Hudiksvall, Sweden in 1975. Les sabots de bouc is a poem without words telling a story like a medieval morality from the times when the cathedrals were built and the devil was a force to be reckoned with. Che is a pamphlet based on a speech by Ernesto Che Guevara, while Coucher et soufler is a play on the problems of human communication. Western Europe 1969 is a satire on superficiality. The Destruction of Your Genetical Code by Drugs, Poisons and Radiation is based on a visual poem already conceived in 1960, when the idea that genetic damage could affect mans offspring for coming generations was a fairly new and shocking one. Au 197.0 was composed at the request of choreographer Susanne Valentin, who wanted a piece for a work on rites; as rite demands religion and it seemed clear to the composer that materialism is the only real living religion of our time. Finale, a piece to end with, was first performed in Annecy, France in 1995. Edition limited to 90 copies, including a 12 page booklet with liner notes, photos as well as concrete and visual poems." - Alga Marghen. 100+ page hardcover book with CD. |
|
Artist: HANSSON, BO Title: Sagan Om Ringen Format: CD Label: Silence Country: Sweden Price: $16.00 |
| "2013 repress. Reissue of what was the first ever release on Silence, initially issued in 1970. This was also the first Bo Hansson album, the Swedish legend known to be one of the earliest to place "space music". Produced as a tribute to the Tolkien trilogy, this is stunning instrumental psychedelic music, with plush atmospherics -- Dont Fear The Hobbit! This version is the original Swedish titled version, with one bonus track ("Tidiga skisser Från Midgård"); there is also an English-titled version with different bonus tracks. This is a digitally remastered issue from 2001. Performed by: Bo Hansson (Organs, guitar, moog, bass), Rune Carlsson (drums, congas), Gunnar Bergsten (saxophone), Sten Bergman (flute). "Lord of the Rings was released late in the fall of 1970 and became an immediate success. Bo himself was in the midst of a very creative period, new melodies were constantly popping up in his head, so when Lord of the Rings finally got released in other countries there were already three more tracks added compared to the first Swedish issue. In the encyclopedia Guide to Progressive Rock, Bo Hansson is mentioned with reverence and respect. He is the first to play space music, he is a precursor to the French prog-celebrities Gong and English Henry Cow, and contemporary style-formers as Genesis and Yes. Bo Hansson is an innovator in the most noble sense of the word."" -Silence. |
|
Artist: HAPPY BITCH HEAD Title: Kick It Fuck Amen Format: 10" Label: Hells Half Halo Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
|
"Naomi Shimada returns from her post-Superball hair vacation with a pants-off take on glass fires style disco for kidults and middlscents a like. With more menthol than a noxema menthol shave, this 10 inch reeks wilder than her infamous backstage demands. Poor pissy dhr-pukes can now taste the true techno python." - Hells Half Halo.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAPPY DRAGON BAND, THE Title: The Happy Dragon Band Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
|
"Following the lack of success generated by The Phantoms Divine Comedy which briefly appeared on Capitol circa 1974, Tommy Court, the tortured genius behind the bands Doors-like facade, dropped the mask and wrote and produced this album of electronic gymnastics and fuzz guitars which appeared on the Fiddlers Music label (Fiddlers Music Company) in 1978 under the guise of the Happy Dragon Band. The album features loads of synthesizers, electronic sound effects and spacey, cosmic electronics. Every track is uniquely engaging, with the stand-outs being Positive People, In Flight and 3-D Free (the last being a total electronic freakout from start to finish), maintaining their high level of originality and a clear penchant for electronic experimentation." - Radioactive. Very highly recommended!
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND Title: Hotel Double Tragedy Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Edition of 250. The Hotel Double Tragedy is constantly burning. You will be too with these new hits from the family! Simply listen to the album at a decent volume and watch your life fall apart. We were thinking of releasing this album under the pretense that it was found under the bed of a dead priest who was the grandfather of a couple of members of the Vaselines, but we thought better of it. You deserve the TRUTH! You deserve magic in POP ATTITUDE! You deserve ONE ANCIENT JANGLE! In ten seconds FLAT! You deserve HOTEL DOUBLE TRAGEDY! Get one today for yourself or for someone you care about." -Feeding Tube |
|
Artist: HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND Title: OK Midnight, You Win Format: CD Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The second LP (fifth album) by this Vermont/Colorado quintet finds them traipsing ever deeper into the kind of mythic American territory we usually associate with bands who view our landscape from far outside its windows. Think of Australias Triffids or New Zealands Renderers and cross their brilliant Southern Hemisphere inventions with truths only wrenchable from the heart of the beast. Theres a genuine ruralist hoot factor here so smooth that it hits like a ton of silk, but theres enough killbilly undertow to keep everyone standing nervously around that jug of magic moonshine" - Feeding Tube. |
|
Artist: HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND Title: OK Midnight, You Win Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "The second LP (fifth album) by this Vermont/Colorado quintet finds them traipsing ever deeper into the kind of mythic American territory we usually associate with bands who view our landscape from far outside its windows. Think of Australias Triffids or New Zealands Renderers and cross their brilliant Southern Hemisphere inventions with truths only wrenchable from the heart of the beast. Theres a genuine ruralist hoot factor here so smooth that it hits like a ton of silk, but theres enough killbilly undertow to keep everyone standing nervously around that jug of magic moonshine" - Feeding Tube. |
|
Artist: HAPPY REFUGEES Title: Return To Last Chance Saloon Format: LP Label: Acute Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
|
"U.Ks Happy Refugees never fit in with the scene of early 80s British pop music and they knew it. They knew it when they wrote "as far as music is concerned it is almost an overwhelming embarrassment to be associated with it in any way"� on the back sleeve of their first record. They knew it when they said "we play with a total disregard to a record buying public"� in one of their rare appearances in the press. In the liner notes to this compilation they acknowledge their self-fulfilling prophecy, "We received little recognition and we were reticent to try and find it. Enthusiasm was vulgar to some extent, the band seemed to sit outside everything else that was going on, which of course is a good thing." The music they wrote and self-released can only be described as rock-and-roll. They liked Iggy and the Stooges and John Cale. They liked Richard Hell and the Fall. It was acceptable to like Joy Division, "but slavish enthusiasm was considered spooky and weird." What they hated was heavy metal, goths, "long songs played in strange time signatures by fey bands with long hair" and all the bland music as the post-punk scene gave way to fashion bands aiming for the charts. That first record sleeve made their intentions clear; "I hope Happy Refugees can breathe a breath of fresh air with this record, not just because of the songs but also because it is no way produced with the infatuation of becoming a pop-star."� They wrote songs that were personal and honest. Production and musical chops were rough around the edges, but with 6 members at times, they had a full and layered sound. Scratchy guitars and incessant bass buoyed by a pounding piano created a post-punk jangle meets wall of sound bed for intensely raw songs about lost relationships and lost loved-ones. No matter how abrasive the sound gets, every song is filled with catchy and heartfelt hooks.
Its hard to understand why a band this good didnt find a home on Rough Trade or the like. A few years earlier perhaps theyd fit in better with the great DIY bands like Desperate Bicycles and Swell Maps (not exactly rock stars themselves). A few years later they mightve been C86 superstars. As it was, they slipped through the new pop era with only a self-released 7"� and a mini LP to their name, and into cult legend.
Return to Last Chance Saloon contains both the Last Chance Saloon mini-LP and the Warehouse Sound single as well as 3 unreleased demo recordings. This compilation also features a 16 page booklet and a download card including the LP and 7 alternate versions." - Acute.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAPSHASH & THE COLOURED COAT Title: Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids Format: LP Label: Akarma Country: Italy Price: $22.00 |
|
"Their 1968 first classic album (originally on Minit) is something of an electric mayhem and freeform freakout. Art students/designers Michael English and Nigel Weymouth, whose striking graphics were seen on many bright and trippy posters for psychedelic clubs like the Ufo and Middle Earth in London, were the creative talent behind this band along with DJ and manager Guy Stevens. Not far from what the Godz were creating in NYC, an underrated document of its time. A band like this, incorporating flower power, love and peace, acid and psychedelic rock lifestyle, tainted with freak out, drop out, hippy and underground trends, could not have existed in any other era than the late sixties. The Heavy Metal Kids, the alter ego of the proto-Spooky Tooth group Art (comprised of Mike Harrison, Greg Ridley, Mike Kellie and Luther Grosvenor) appeared backing. But who was The Human Host? Original artwork." - Akarma. CD version also available.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAPSHASH & THE COLOURED COAT Title: Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids Format: CD Label: Akarma Country: Italy Price: $11.50 |
| "Their 1968 first classic album (originally on Minit) is something of an electric mayhem and freeform freakout. Art students/designers Michael English and Nigel Weymouth, whose striking graphics were seen on many bright and trippy posters for psychedelic clubs like the Ufo and Middle Earth in London, were the creative talent behind this band along with DJ and manager Guy Stevens. Not far from what the Godz were creating in NYC, an underrated document of its time." |
|
Artist: HARANGUE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Wilder Prior Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
|
"This expansive LP from Pittsburgh mainstays HARANGUE is a dreamwalk through the minds of its makers, replete with unexpected vistas from this quartet of piano, guitar, bass and drums. Opening with the taut bounce of "Wisteria," the band jumps off with brisk melancholy, weaving and unraveling the layers and hooks of this standout track. Wisteria is a defined aesthetic statement, the sound is fraught with false nostalgia for nature, for simpler times.
"Uniformly Chaotic" turns on dimes, steadily driving through flowing melodies and subtly continual dynamic shifts. Harangues energetic piano and rhythm section pound while the guitar snakes in and out of contrapuntal bliss, hissing out reverb and fuzz like the Kinks Dave Davies, and countered with desperate lyrical themes suggesting Street Hassle-era Lou Reed.
Side B continues Harangues sojourn with "The Valley," an epic trip of yearning through noir-ish shadows yielding to brilliant glimpses of sunlight through spring-reverb guitar texture and earth-rumbling, feedback-laden solos.
The LPs closer "Whitewashed Wall" rides through the end of nights tunnel, using negative space like a magic marker. Talking deliverance and sounding dark before sunrise, the song sways between half-tempo slow dance and full-on haunt before the backbeat swings and ascends with a bubbling line of guitar triplets that bloom into grand sonic swaths--triumphant, immersive, nearly decadent, harkening back to an imaginary jam between George Gershwin and Pink Floyd in 75.
Harangues lyrics sketch images of uncertain futures and abandon--a personal search for clarity, perhaps. But the album as a whole should end that search; it is a gem shining amidst static and snow." -Chicago Independent.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HARAPPIAN NIGHT RECORDINGS / KOMMISSAR HJULER Title: Karawane/6 Reviews in Psyopathic Alchemy Format: LP Label: Shamanic Trance Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "KOMMISSAR HJULER impales Lord Hugo Balls classic dada poem on a Marie Osmond shaped spike, while on the flip, SYED KAMRAN ALI scorches beaucoups earth with a "gain-destroyed suite of ethnic improv." Colored vinyl." -Shamanic Trance. |
|
Artist: HARBINGER Title: Second Coming Format: LP Label: Guerssen Country: Spain Price: $24.00 |
| "Unknown to most 60s/70s collectors until its discovery a few years ago, this is the beyond rare second album released by loner/downer folk legend Dave Bixby, recorded around 1969, the same year as his first one, the now-famous Ode To Quetzalcoatl. Musically, Second Coming is equally as good and very similar to the first one, but this time the recording took place in a professional studio, so the sound is improved. Bixby is joined by Brian MacInness on guitar, Sandy Johnson on vocals and Don DeGraaf on bass and production duties. Don was in fact leader of the, in the end, destructive religious cult known as "The Group" or "The Movement," of which Bixby and Brian were part of. The sound is more up-front and the songs are slightly optimistic compared to the ones on Ode To Quetzalcoatl, and theres plenty of acoustic 12-string raga guitars and harmony male/female vocals. The lyrics deal with cosmic imagery, psychedelics and religious/biblical references, but this goes much deeper than any Xian record youve ever heard -- titles such as "Cosmic Energy," "Time To Clear Your Mind," "Rainbow," and "Circus World" point towards some sort of New Age/post-Revelations utopian consciousness. Reissued for the first time under license from Dave Bixby himself, and carefully remastered from a clean vinyl (no master tapes exist) at Shadoks Music Studios. Includes an insert with extensive and detailed liner notes by Matvei Procak -- the guy who found Bixby in 2006 -- plus some rare pictures. Also includes a free mp3 download code." - Guerssen. |
|
Artist: HARBINGER Title: Second Coming Format: CD Label: Guerssen Country: Spain Price: $18.00 |
| "Previously released on vinyl by Guerssen Records, now available on CD. Unknown to most 60s/70s collectors until its discovery a few years ago, this is the beyond rare second album released by loner/downer folk legend Dave Bixby, recorded around 1969, the same year as his first one, the now-famous Ode To Quetzalcoatl. Musically, Second Coming is equally as good and very similar to the first one, but this time the recording took place in a professional studio, so the sound is improved. Bixby is joined by Brian MacInness on guitar, Sandy Johnson on vocals and Don DeGraaf on bass and production duties. Don was in fact leader of the, in the end, destructive religious cult known as "The Group" or "The Movement," of which Bixby and Brian were part of. The sound is more up-front and the songs are slightly optimistic compared to the ones on Ode To Quetzalcoatl, and theres plenty of acoustic 12-string raga guitars and harmony male/female vocals. The lyrics deal with cosmic imagery, psychedelics and religious/biblical references, but this goes much deeper than any Xian record youve ever heard -- titles such as "Cosmic Energy," "Time To Clear Your Mind," "Rainbow," and "Circus World" point towards some sort of New Age/post-Revelations utopian consciousness. Reissued for the first time under license from Dave Bixby himself, and carefully remastered from a clean vinyl (no master tapes exist) at Shadoks Music Studios. Includes an insert with extensive and detailed liner notes by Matvei Procak -- the guy who found Bixby in 2006 -- plus some rare pictures." -Guerssen |
|
Artist: HARD CORPS Title: Clean Tables Have To Be Burnt Format: LP Label: Minimal Wave Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Minimal Wave is proud to present our 35th release, a full length LP release entitled “Clean Tables Have To Be Burnt” by UK legends Hard Corps, a band weve been long time admirers of. Aside from their releases on Survival and Polydor, Hard Corps gained some notoriety for their unique and uncompromising live shows throughout the 1980s. It was the juxtaposition between their hard edged industrial sound and the fragile and enigmatic vocals of French frontwoman Regine Fetet that created an unusual dichotomy, lending to their strength of character as a band and thus allowing them to stand out from the rest. A 12” white label, released by Survival Records, containing the hammering rhythmic attack of Dirty and the softer, melodic, pulse of Respirer (To Breathe) was circulated around Londons dance floors. In no time a wave of attention hit them and throughout 1984 and into 1985 they dominated the independent pop charts. John Peel championed them on his infamous late night Radio One show and they headlined at his ICA Rock Week in the Mall, London. By 1985 Hard Corps had signed with major label giants Polydor. This enabled the band to work with a couple of their favoured and respected producers, Martin Rushent (known mostly for his exceptional work with the Human League) and Depeche Mode producer and Mute Records supremo, Daniel Miller. These sessions provided the public with just one single due to the labels non-promotion, Je Suis Passee, a sweeping arrangement of breathtaking beauty, combining pumping sequences and sheer power of emotion of Regines voice. The band went on a major tour with The Cure in 1985 and Depeche Mode in 1988, before finally disintegrating. Now for the first time ever, rare unreleased versions of Hard Corps tracks from the 1980s have been remastered and are being made available. “Clean Tables Have To Be Burnt” is a 180 gram vinyl pressing limited to 999 copies with double sided inner sleeve featuring a beautiful group shot and all of Regines lyrics." -Minimal Wave. |
|
Artist: HARDAL Title: Nasil? Ne Zaman? Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $46.00 |
| "From Turkey, 1978. Edition of 500 numbered LPs, glossy heavy sleeve, 180 gram pressing, with insert. "This first album of the Turkish band Hardal (mustard) with the title Nasil? Ze Raman? (where from? where to?) was recorded in Turkey in 1979 by Sükrü Yüksel (guitar), Aydin Sencan (bass), Cahit Kukul (guitar) and Sedat Avci (drums). The band was only known by a very small insider-group, but those fans just adored Hardal. The secret of Hardals small popularity is that in 1979 the Turkish rock scene was comatose. Cem Karaca left to Germany, Erkin Koray moved to Canada, Edip Akbayram got stuck because of his political ambitions. Only Baris Mancho was still on the road. To start a new band was tough in Turkey. Hardal also recorded 2 albums later. The music is the best Turkish progressive underground you can think of. Filled with guitars, synth sounds, great Eastern vibe vocals and harmonies, pumping rhythms. As good as the best Koray tracks for sure. This album was never reissued before, so we are sort of proud to present it to most people for the first time." -Shadoks |
|
Artist: HARMONIA Title: De Luxe (Immer Wieder)/Monza (Rauf Und Runter) Format: 7" Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
| "Officially licensed exact repro of this 1975 single, originally issued on Metronome. The sweet, hypnotic melodies and the monotonous beats by Michael Rother (Neu!), Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster) and Dieter Moebius (Cluster) and the repetitive lyrics, "immer wieder ... rauf und runter..." make up this Krautrock/electronica classic." -Bureau B |
|
Artist: HARNETTY, BRIAN Title: Sociophonic Key (from the Sun Ra / El Saturn Archives) Format: 7" Label: Scioto Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "When BRIAN HARNETTY was commissioned to work with the Sun Ra/El Saturn archives in Chicago, his goal was to develop a series of conversations with SUN RA through the many recordings in the collection. On one level, the resulting pieces combine these diverse materials to create a sonic collage. On another level, Harnetty uses these elements to reveal multi-layered stories, drawing out the many connections and complexities of the Sun Ra archives. For this 7-inch single, entitled "The Sociophonic Key," Harnetty has created a stand-alone work drawn from "The Star Faced One," a 2010 sound installation at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. Despite the variety of samples used many subtle relationships are heard--both literal and fantastic--from Sun Ra rehearsing a group of children fading into an answering machine, to the intensity of a gospel preacher alongside the Arkestras invitation to join them in outer space. Edition of 500 copies." -Scioto. |
|
Artist: HARPER & DANIEL HIGGS, TWIG Title: Clairaudience Fellowship Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Twig Harper has been a force in the noise/experimental scene since the mid 90s with his group Nautical Almanac, touring worldwide and releasing recordings on Hanson, Load, and Heresee. He also runs Tarantula Hill in Baltimore - a space that includes a performance area, recording studio, esoteric library, and rooftop beehives & gardens. Daniel Higgs is best known for his work as the lyricist and frontman of Lungfish, whose work on Dischord Records has spanned 3 decades. He is also a very prolific solo artist with works on Thrill Jockey, Holy Mountain, Northern Liberties, Open Mouth, and Ideal Recordings. Clairaudience Fellowship is released on LP-only in an edition of 1,000 copies housed in full-color jackets with a coupon for DRM-free MP3 download. The download coupon includes one additional bonus track that is not on the LP." - Thrill Jockey. |
|
Artist: HARPER, ARTHUR LEE Title: Memories Format: LP Label: RD Country: Switzerland Price: $32.00 |
| "What we have here are songs Arthur Lee Harper recorded during the time of his 2 albums Dreams and Imagination and Love is the Revolution. These songs are on neither album. Imagine the best you know of him. Sadly, Arthur Lee Harper died in 2002 the night after his wife was killed in a car accident. What you hear on this album is his legacy, authorized by his children.Lp comes in ULTRA THICK DELUXE COVER!" - RD. |
|
Artist: HARPER, TWIG Title: Intuitive American Esoteric Vol. 1 Format: LP Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
|
"New solo LP from Twig Harper of Nautical Almanac. Side 2 stamper mastered from home cut lathes - side 2 play varies depending on your tonearm setting. 180gram vinyl. Screen-printed paste-on covers. Edition of 555 co-released by Heresee, White Tapes, Ignivomous, No Sides, and Audiobot." - White Tapes. Higher price due to these being Audiobot copies.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HARPER, TWIG Title: Intuitive American Esoteric Vol. 2 Format: LP Label: American Tapes/Gods Of Tundra Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
|
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HARPER, TWIG Title: Intuitive American Esoteric Volume 3 Format: LP Label: Here See Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| 2006 release. "40+ mins of music on LP record with screenprinted cover in a numbered limited edition of 200." - Here See. Third entry in this series (volumes one and two on White Tapes/Audiobot and American Tapes/Gods of Tundra, respectively.) |
|
Artist: HARPER, TWIG Title: Twig Harper Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "First proper CD release from Nautical Almanacs Twig Harper. Twig was a big part in Hanson Records getting off the ground back in the mid-90s, so Im very excited to release his debut solo glass mastered CD! Hot off the barefoot of his collaboration release with Daniel Higgs on Thrill Jockey. Twig Harper continues in the alternate universe tradition of his three volume Intuitive American Esoteric LP series, with 43 minutes psychedelic tape manipulations and droning synthesizer, electronic and organic sound mixed to brain warping perfection. Bells, homemade electronics, synth, piano, strings, junk, horns and voice treated with tape for full-on musique concrete/sound poetry/electronic trance inducing confusion. Recommended for fans of Albert Hoffmann, Smegma, Pierre Henry, The Butthole Surfers, Maria Sabina, Dylan Nyoukis, Tobe Hooper, Criswell, Tod Dockstader, Sirhan Sirhan, The 13th Floor Elevators, Aliens, Humans, Jokes, and OBEs." - Hanson. |
|
Artist: HARRIS, LIZ (GROUPER) Title: Divide Format: Book/DVD Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $36.00 |
| "Divide is the long-awaited book of drawings and an accompanying video by Liz Harris, aka Grouper. Harris visual work runs in parallel to her music as Grouper, and often overlaps into the same vision. Divide maps out dense organic patterns, passages filled to the edges with overgrowth and fractured geometry. Minimal strokes are taken to maximal repetitions to form complex mazes in high contrast. Other images float in space like hex symbols from prehistory, portals to some other place & time. The accompanying video (with soundtrack) of black & white Rorschach voids should be familiar to anyone who has seen a recent Grouper show. Book is 7" by 7", 60 pages, soft cover with a color cover & black and white images. DVDR is all regions. Edition of 500 copies only" |
|
Artist: HARRIS, XANDER Title: I Want More Than Just Blood (High Heels Mix) Format: 12" Label: 100% Silk Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Italians may do it better -- ice cream, genuine leather, synth splatter -- but everythings still bigger in Texas. Like this X Large redux from Austins X Harris. He calls side A the high heels remix which is chop-shop talk for shoegaze if yr shoes happen to be red patent pumps. Less gore than before, more vast unknown than hes ever shown, side B soars like the flight of a DJ navigator whos recently returned home to realize hes left the 80s far behind, its almost 2012, and everyone he loves has aged and moved on without him. But the force is still strong with this one. If Xander Harris had a hammer, hed beat down John Carpenters door, turn that Carpenteria into a Danceteria, and make that grave-waver Sweatt. Finally, an escape from New York." -100% Silk |
|
Artist: HARRIS, XANDER Title: Urban Gothic Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Debut full-length by this classically trained Austin synth/drum-pad whiz rips like an 80s horror-stalker VHS take on Umbertos 70s giallo/Goblin-isms. Creepy neo-Carpenter action in the best possible vein.." -Not Not Fun |
|
Artist: HARRY PUSSY Title: Lets Build a Pussy Format: Double LP Label: Editions Mego Country: Austria Price: $29.00 |
 "Editions Mego is happy to announce a vinyl reissue of the long out-of-print and impossibly rare final Harry Pussy album, the monumental Lets Build a Pussy. Originally released in 1998 after the band broke up, this has always been an elusive release. "You cannot buy this anywhere and you will never find one!!!" was what one writer exclaimed. Consisting of an hour-long piece of Bill Orcutt time-stretching a second of Adris Hoyos voice into a slow, shifting drone. A piece of music you will love or hate, with not much room for anything in between. As Alan Licht states in his liner notes: "Lets Build a Pussy is a requiem, of sorts; Adris opening one-second vocal noise has been variously termed a yelp or a shout, but I prefer to think of it as Bill and Adris mutual last gasp, a band death-rattle. Put in a computer program, Adris protracted utterance becomes, almost literally, the ghost in the machine. Lets Build... is something of a late 90s audio inheritor of 19th-century spirit photography. Paradoxically functioning as both Harry Pussys curtain call and final act, Lets Build a Pussy is an altogether unique past-tense statement from a band whose members were not immediately going on to solo careers or to other bands." Bill Orcutt (Mouse), Adris Hoyos (Mouth). Available only in this format. Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering, Berlin, June 2012. Housed in a gatefold sleeve." -Editions Mego.
|
|
Artist: HARRY PUSSY Title: Live In Austin Format: CDR Label: Sister Skull Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
|
"..high quality
cdr with handmade cover. recorded during their last tour, and it is really ferocious.
recorded very raw on cassette, some awesome gtr/drum
fuckery going on." - Sister Skull. Live 4/5/97 at the Blue Flamingo, Austin , TX.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HARRY PUSSY Title: One Plus One Format: Double LP Label: Palilalia Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Gatefold double LP compiled from hours of early walkman recordings documenting the duo of Bill Orcutt and Adris Hoyos. Recorded 1992-93, One Plus One combines the best of key early releases (the Vigilance cassette, the Planet & 2nd Esync singles) with 40 minutes of unreleased contemporaneous material" - Palilalia |
|
Artist: HARRY PUSSY Title: Ride A Dove Format: CD Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
|
Artist: HARRY PUSSY Title: Ride A Dove Format: LP Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
|
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HARRY PUSSY Title: Toxic Drunks / Radiation Nation Format: 7" Label: No Label Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
|
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HARRY PUSSY Title: What Was Music? 1992-1995 Format: CD Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
|
Artist: HARRY PUSSY Title: Youll Never Play This Town Again Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
|
"Scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced and peppered American free rock from a Clinton-era three piece. This Miami trio left rug burn on modern music in the 90s. Here a deluxe remastering of their out of print releases with a swank digipak filled with sweaty photos & heart-racing energy sounds. Complies the long out of print self released tour 12-inch, the Cherry Smash live 10-inch, Live at Salon Zwerge 12-inch, Pelt & Frosty spilt 7-inches and the De Stilj 7-inches." -Load
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HARRY PUSSY/FROSTY Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Menlo Park Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
|
Unplayed copies.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HARUTAKA, MOCHIZUKI Title: Solo Document 2004 Format: CD Label: Bishop Country: Japan Price: $17.50 |
| "Mochizuki Harutaka is a Tokyo-based "next-wave" multi-instrumentalist who combines blasted vocals with solo saxophone, bells, guitar and piano. His haunted vocal style is pitched somewhere between Jandek, Keiji Haino and a death-decadent torch singer, while his saxophone improvisations orbit the same lonely satellites as solo thinkers like Masayoshi Urabe, Arthur Doyle, Anthony Braxton and Kaoru Abe. Nerve-flaying blues from a player who has been there and back." -Le Weekend Festival. |
|
Artist: HARVESTER Title: Hemåt Format: CD Label: Silence Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| 2013 repress."2001 CD reissue of this psychedelic underground masterpiece from 1970, with a 12-page booklet, including English liner notes and photos. Includes one bonus track not found on the original LP. Recorded 1968-69, digitally remastered in 2001. The lone album by this post-International Harvester group, originally issued in 1970, once again led by the academic tape-composer turned radical folkie psychedelicist Bo Anders Persson. Accompanied by an able body of co-conspirators including Thomas Gartz (drummer/glue of the Mecki Mark Men, whose LPs on the Limelight label are not to be missed), Torbjörn Abelli, and lets not forget Ulla on small cymbals. Thunder-plod of magnificent tidal proportions, recalling the burnt splendor of the Träd Gräs och Stenar Live Gardet 1970 set - TGOS in fact were nothing more than a stripped down quartet version of Harvester!" - Silence. |
|
Artist: HASEGAWA-SHIZUO Title: 110724 Format: Cass Label: Haang-Niap Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
|
"This recording is the result of an unedited improvised live performance in Tokyo, Japan. It is not a perfect recording. But, this material is document." - Haang-Niap. Self-released cassette from these two members of Kito-Mizukumi Rouber, Keiji Hainos Nijiumu project, etc. First in the "Rare Air Bootlegs" series.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HASEGAWA-SHIZUO Title: I Know A Chord Buried Into The Ground And A Tongue On A Cloud Format: CD Label: Haang Niap Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Hasegawa-Shizuo is the duo of Hirotomo Hasegawa (Aburadako,Kito-mizukumi rouber) and Shizuo Uchida(Kito-mizukumi rouber, ex Shokubaiya,ex nijium). Central to our sound is Hasegawas hichiriki (a flute used in gagaku) and Uchidas bass. Our performances are all real-time improvisations with no-overdubbing. "I know a chord buried into the ground and a tongue on a cloud" is our third album - previous releases were on PSF and Tiliqua. Its a live-in-the-studio improvisation. Factory-pressed CD in a gatefold mini-LP style card sleeve." - Hasegawa-Shizuo |
|
Artist: HASEGAWA-SHIZUO Title: Songs of an Umbilical Cord Format: LP Label: Tiliqua Country: Japan Price: $32.00 |
|
"Ltd edition LP of their 2nd release following their debute on PSF. Killer release if I say so myself. Imagine La Monte Young crossbreeding with Takayanagi Masayuki. The disc is made up out of 2 sidelong tracks that entwine around a minimal music aesthetic junked up with an improvisational free jazz like exploratory approach. The panoramic sonic outcome floats somewhere between the controlled burn of a detuned jet engine and the boundless fury of nomadic hordes on a rampage through the open Mongolian plains. Sucking in influences as wide ranging as Takayanagi, La Monte Young, esoteric Buddhist ritualistic mantras, Gagaku and a free-form psychedelic aesthetic, Hasegawa Shizuo succeeds brilliantly in resonating out a Dionysian vibration of harmonical tones pregnant with a pulsating intensity. Without a doubt one of the most interesting and intuitive sounds graced with a shamanistic sense of poetry to emerge out of deep subteranean belly of Tokyo. Still undetected but sure to blow headz worldwide. One time only edition of 400 copies housed in thicker than life jacket and high quality Japan pressed vinyl. LP only." - Tiliqua.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HASSARA Title: Backyard 1-3 Format: CD Label: Three Lobed Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
|
Artist: HASSARA aka WOODEN WAND Title: Backyard Volume 3 Format: CDR Label: Hassara Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Third volume in this popular series of solo electric guitar improvisations by Wooden Wand in his �??Hassara�?� guise. For this one, Hassara is back to exclusively playing guitar (no vocals, harmonica, bass, etc as on Volume 2), with a heavier emphasis on drone. The trademark boogie of previous releases is still intact �?? in fact, the brief �??Zodiac Blues (w/ intro)�?� is the ruling-est stoned blues jam Wand has ever committed to tape �?? but for the most part, Volume 3 chooses to explore the dark side, with the two part �??Road to Nowhere�?� (a reference to the Carole King song of the same name?) taking up the bulk of the disc. A friend said: �??Sounds like brothers been sniffing around for affordable real estate in New Zealand.�?� WhatEVER, chump." - Hassara. |
|
Artist: HASSARA aka WOODEN WAND Title: Backyard Volume Two Format: CDR Label: Hassara Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Second volume in this popular series showcasing the electric guitar-based music of Wooden Wand in his �??Hassara�?� guise. While the premiere volume was based conceptually around the Tarot and numerology, this latest installment deals with themes of displacement and alienation, and adds the occasional vocals, harmonica, drums and bass to the mix. Though defiantly repetitive, the music of the Backyard series is not what youd call �??drone music - this is seriously broken blues captured under the spell of the Private Press, and recorded, as per tradition, at the apex of High. Rumors that the entirety of this CD was recorded while other records played on headphones are entirely unsubstantiated at this time, but wholly probable, so try to spot the Fraction licks! Maybe... Strictly limited to 99 copies, with a full color cover." |
|
Artist: HASSELL, JON Title: Dream Theory in Malaya: Fourth World Volume Two Format: CD Label: EG Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Seminal 1981 recordings; Mati Klarwein cover. Personnel includes: Jon Hassell (trumpet, pottery drums); Michael Brook (bass); Walter DeMaria (drums); Brian Eno (drums, bowl gongs, bells); Miguel Frasconi (bowl gongs); Daniel Lanois (mix). "Volume One of Jon Hassell and Brian Enos Fourth World report remains a classic recording of electronic, mutant gamelan and exotic indigenous musics that truly bridges many worlds. Dream Theory In Malaya picks up right where its predecessor left off, eking out even more convoluted paths into the dense shrubs and foliage of the cyberjungle. Dream Theory In Malaya, featuring collaborators Eno and Daniel Lanois, is one of Hassells finest moments. Hassells remarkable trumpet tone, all tone smears and monsoon breaths, is at its peak on Dream Theory, wherein insect-like tribesmen make ritual whoopee amid cavalcades of thick, throbbing log drums. At once alien and awe-inspiring, this music is so highly individual that it has yet to be eclipsed -- even by Hassell himself. Datu Bintung at Jelong further probes the gamelan/juju interface, splicing in the respiratory sounds of metallic harps, vibrating electronic chorales and strange, mechanistic breathing." - EG. |
|
Artist: HASWELL, RUSSELL & FLORIAN HECKER Title: Kanal GENDYN Format: LP + DVD Label: Editions Mego Country: Austria Price: $31.00 |
| "Editions Mego is happy to announce the release of Kanal GENDYN, a vinyl and DVD set by Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker. This is the first full-length release by the artists following their highly-acclaimed albums, Blackest Ever Black and UPIC Warp Tracks. In the late 90s/early 2000s, it became common for bands, or solo artists to perform live -- often alternative -- soundtracks to feature films or silent classics. Critical of obvious instrumentation and the combination with known classic film, the artists Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker chose to create a real-time soundtrack to an un-scored film, Kanal Video (1992, 60 min.) by the Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli & David Weiss. Core to Kanal GENDYN is Haswell & Heckers ongoing research on the legacies of polymath Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) and in particular, his concept of the Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis, an abstract sound synthesis procedure that creates "sound out of nothing." In an interview with Peter Hoffmann, the artists recall: "This video, which consists of an hour-long ride through the Zurich sewage system, with a remotely controlled maintenance vehicle equipped with a video camera to survey the sewers for eventual irregularities of defects -- struck us both as an ideal piece to be projected in a nightclub or music venue with a GENDYN only performance. We found twisted relations with such an hour-long tunnel vision. Once with the seemingly endless amount of computer-generated video projections used as visuals accompanying raves and techno parties during the 1990s -- and also to the accounts of visual hallucinations induced by mescaline as described by Heinrich Klüver in the 1920s -- with the so-called form constants -- where he mentions amongst others, tunnel-like patterns. The particularities of GENDYN, with its ever-changing and meandering waveforms appeared to us as an ideal counterpart." Kanal GENDYN was performed on the occasion of the event "Musterraum 9. Dual Presentation -- Peter Fischli & David Weiss -- Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker" at Musterraum, Munich, 1/30/2004. Originally constructed as an experimental building, "Musterraum" -- German for "sample" or "reference room" -- was a freestanding cube with a base area of 10×12 meters. Built as a test and reference space for the planning and construction of the adjacent Pinakothek der Moderne. Two stereo feeds were crossed for quadraphonic (4.0) diffusion using a L&B F12/B12 loudspeaker system. Performed concurrently to the Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Kanal Video (1992, 60 min.) screened on three facing walls. Kanal GENDYN is released as a stereo vinyl LP + 4.0 DTS 24 Bit/48 KHz DVD (audio-only) set. The cover features 10 stills from the original Fischli & Weiss video, included inside is a 30x30 cm 170 gram paper insert with a further, full-page still, plus extensive sleeve notes by musicologist and software developer Peter Hoffmann, and everything was designed by NORM, Zurich. Its also worth noting that, with a running time of over an hour, this is one of the longest single LP releases you will come across. Cut by Rashad "The Master" Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, September 2011." - Editions Mego. |
|
Artist: HAT CITY INTUITIVE Title: A Ticket For Decay! Format: LP Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Hat City Intuitive have long been the mainstays of the Danbury, Connecticut free improvisation scene and, as such, are regal. Yet this crown of creative impulse and desire does not cloud their intention of celebrating the NEW. When they gather, and whoever they may invite into their high flying midst, the vibrations are a fresh fire and are wholly positive, forsaking the droll techniques of free jazz blather, and licking the under shine of night stars howling light into the black. This session has most recent member Gene Moore (guitar/reeds) showing up with his kid bro Thurston, who plugs into the nearest amp and is only too happy to just GO, as TM is a long-time fascinant of the Hat City Intuitive, having grown up in the same Nutmeg State environs just 30 some years prior. Compiled from hours and hours and hours of basement mind/spirit autumnal wine-soaked pot-smoked camaraderie, this recording is where the dirt meets the concrete and winks up to the forever sky." -Ecstatic Peace |
|
Artist: HATCHER, NOLAN & CRAIG NUTT Title: Dinosaur Time Format: LP Label: Say Day-Bew Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
|
"an overlooked LP from 1980 by Alabama free music pioneers Hatcher and Nutt. best known as members of Ron Pates Debonairs and The Blue Denim Deals (the bands released on the first two Say Day-Bew LPs, with the Debonairs being included on the NURSE WITH WOUND list), these two started creating music together at least as far back as 1970. for this LP, the last on Say Day-Bew, they play piano, clavichord, harpichord, and Folgerphone (an instrument of their own design using an alto sax mouthpiece with copper tubing and a coffee can) in a very avant-garde style. in folder sleeve, with liner notes by Anden Houben and Davey Williams." - Eric Lanzilotta. Original, unplayed copies from 1980.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HATEFUCK Title: Rock N Roll Let Down Format: 7" Label: Negative Guest List Country: Australia Price: $11.00 |
| "330 copies pressed. First official release from Hatefuck, wherein lies an embryonic Pink Reason. The Hatefuck crew (HFK) existed in the early 2000s, their legacy left in a number of legendary live shows and a handful of demo recordings, from which these tracks were decalcified. Rock N Roll Let Down contains three cuts of amphetamine hardcore. A side “When Time Takes Over” is a long rock-based tune that necessitated the 33RPM run time speed. The flip offers three faster cuts, from the high octane punk of “HWY 10” to the Stoogoid rumble of “Little Girls Make the World Go Round.” -Negative Guest List. |
|
Artist: HATERS, THE Title: In The Shade Of Fire Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Hanson Records is proud to present the first LP from The Haters, In The Shade Of Fire, reissued for the first time on the CD format and for the first time in its original entirety. Originally released on LP by Silent Records in 1986, this digipak CD edition has been remastered by Warn Defever from the original master reels, and includes the full complete album as two of the tracks had to be shortened to fit on the original LP issue. Back during my Bachelor of Fine Arts, one of my fellow students was a woman who was eventually obsessed with the idea, systems, and eventual remnants of process. One of her key pieces involved hundreds of raw eggs which she carefully emptied, cracked open, and systematically peeled the delicate membranes from inside of the eggs. She carefully laid out the hundreds of membranes as they assembled in a giant area to the side of the studio. I swear that she didnt even have some grandiose idea for the membranes as the peeling and assemblage system(s) evolved into something that was simply beyond any eventuality and initial idea for the piling skins of the eviscerated eggs. The deconstruction and conception behind the act of pulling apart the eggs into a vast collection of grimy, translucent membrane piles suggested something so much more than even a final constructed piece. Watching her as she realized that the true crux behind the piece was the process alone was astounding as the membranes were laid to rest to represent an almost sudden and powerful eventuality that acted as a piled testament to process. The harsh sound works of The Haters over artist GX Jupitter-Larsens long and established career also powerfully bring to mind the idea of process. Most of The Haters works are ideologies behind something being destroyed or manipulated; the amplified and sometimes distorted sounds of the processes representing a document that exemplifies the acts carried out upon the objects, machines, or otherwise. The act of recording the processes alone is evidence of an eventuality (to possibly be edited further) in the form of a possible final piece of vinyl, cassette, or CD, but the tendencies of The Haters material also intend the listener to experience the process of the audio lines as they were primarily constructed in the recording area. There is no doubt that GX appreciates the totemic quality of his personal objects physical aftermath, that is sometimes documented with video or photographs, but the powerful beauty of a The Haters audio piece is the experience for the listener that acts ALSO as a final document of sound that represent clearly the certain idea and sometimes violent act. The Haters celebrated early work In the Shade of Fire acts a document collection for the listener that also reflects The Haters strong textural aesthetic through object manipulation and recording that defines GXs place in the world of harsh noise. Listening your way through the material is a studied and defined testament to different representational fragments of heavy sound and source manipulation. The tracks Glsam and Diti are explosive introductory and side concluding / framing pieces that highlight and pronounce the breaking and crashing down of material, all gelled with bass driven strikes whose trails deteriorate into hints of cascading dirty and dark Americanoise distortion. Bebas powers through a heavier dynamic with conscious falling apart of source material, but in abstracted waves that suggest the material being rebuilt just to simply fall and crash apart again with a sense of powerful futility. Thuch enhances the textural elements of the explosions and crashing as the sharpness of the strikes are slightly rounded at the edges to expose an almost gurgling texture that moves and slaps with vicious perplexity. Taisic represents a very early Americanoise study of hiss manipulation that is accented with minimalist scraping that bring to mind the force of process on top of the white noise line. Cassas is the albums meditated example of sharp shot-driven violence; articulated and seemingly layered for optimum cutting and breaking which bring forth sound dynamism from very physical deterioration. Fire 5 is an amazing example of a highly textural wall of sound that, to the contemporary fan of gritty and dirty crunch waves, is a primary early example of powerful crackle lines that focus on the inner dynamism of the sound itself. All of the material discussed above is made up of elements of physicality and process, but the tracks Iny 1 and Iny 2 act, for the listener, as the notes for the ideology of process and falling apart as they act as a more minimal, subtle, and exacting study of the scraping, scuffing, and hands on work of the artist as he manipulates the deteriorating materials. In essence, Iny 2 is an amazing concluding track that reminds the listener of the core focus and ideology behind The Haters exemplification of grating sound via concept driven manipulation of tangible sources, the process, the aftermath, and the eventual recording that reflects all of the above sound qualities." -Sam McKinlay |
|
Artist: HATRED Title: Kreep Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: AA Country: USA Price: $34.00 |
|
Double sided , insanely thick, block printed handmade record with printed inner sleeve and oversized outer sleeve. Nate Young of Wolf Eyes.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HATRED Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Alleypiss Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "A rhythm awash under waves of strong sonic fumes. These old sounds ebb and flow as youre lured deep into the high tide. Death by irresistible nausea. Crystal clear vinyl/pro printed jackets. All sounds and wretched cover art by NATE YOUNG. (Wolf Eyes)" -Alleypiss |
|
Artist: HATRED / VIKI Title: Live Format: Cass Label: Meu Dia De Morte Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| "Holy crab! Two live shows on one cassette! Nate Youngs Hatred with creepy electronics and synths. Viki with a hybrid of industrial/noise and dance music created using her own modified instruments and processors." - Meu Dia De Morte. |
|
Artist: HATRED/DEMONS Title: Split Format: Cass Label: AA Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
|
"Hatred/Demons - documenting the confusion/transition of these two
bands. Early Hatred demos - Nate Young electronics, Spence Bryant on
drums, Steve Kenney on synth and guitar.
First release by Demons - Young and Kenney split from the drums of
Hatred and start a synth duo. Psychedelic depression." - AA Records.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAUGHM, JOHN Title: +46 17 36.39", -124 4 20.13 Format: 7" Label: Anthem Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "A solo recording from JOHN HAUGHM of AGALLOCH. Lush melodic and beautifully improvised guitar experiments that are sonically and spiritually aligned with originators of such ambience as Manuel Gottsching, Tangerine Dream or Popul Vuh, and contemporary practitioners such as Burning Star Core, Oneohtrix Point Never or Emeralds. Limited edition pressing of 500 copies on one-sided white vinyl packaged in hand-stamped, numbered sleeves." -Anthem. |
|
Artist: HAUNTED CASTLE/GRAYSKULL Title: Split Format: 10" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
|
"He-Man used to live in Castle Grayskull. That place was fucking haunted (proof? you point a sword at the sky, chant "I have the power", and turn into a hulk). So is this black-on-black 10" of wretched hallows eve spook-noise. Haunted Castle are a suburban Detroit duo of tortured basement clatter and poltergeist attack thrash, and their cacophony ritual here ("Rainbow of Octopi") is a cauldron of psychic evil and wraith frenzy. Easthamptons Grey Skull are a little more physical, starting a skeleton brawl with harsh tones, seizure shriek, and occult war drums. A trio of rad dudes (and sweet artists), GS bury their record in a mean, dead haze. Insanely awesome screen-printed, die-cut covers by Shawn Reed of Raccoo-oo-oon. Also, first 40 copies come with a bonus 3" CDR (either Haunted Castle or Grey Skull)." - Not Not Fun.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAUNTING, THE Title: Chamber Maid Format: Cass Label: Gods of Tundra Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "First utterance of 2010 from the coffin lid couple. New worn sounds completely opposed to the modern world. The dread continues..." - Gods of Tundra. |
|
Artist: HAUSCHILDT, STEVE Title: Rapt For Liquid Minister Format: Cass Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
|
"Still-moving loops repeat and build themselves in deep washes of aural hallucination. Steve is known for his work in Ohio synth-drone unit Emeralds. Like the other output from the Emeralds crew, it is hard to believe that todays best synth music is being made by twenty year old dudes from the Cleveland suburbs, but they seriously just have it figured out. Steves smooth and densely layered drones, heavy in Kraut influence, are as huge as any of his contemporaries and as rich as his predecessors. Vocal incantations reminiscent of "Way Their Crept" era Grouper place Steves compositions on another level. Deeply thoughtful and knowledgeable zones floating in and out of reality. In an edition of 150 labeled tapes with full color cardstock J-cards." - Arbor
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAUSCHILDT, STEVE Title: Sequitur Format: LP Label: Kranky Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "From Steve Hauschildt: This new album was recorded in both Vancouver and Cleveland. I used almost 20 different instruments, from every decade from the 60s to the present, most of them synthesizers, drum machines and effects. This gives the album a much wider palette than my last, Tragedy & Geometry, and it also gives it a more classic/new sound, yet it is still a logical follow up to that LP. I also used some techniques in the studio where I controlled older instruments with the computer and this opened up new ways for me to explore their potential as well as their innate idiosyncrasies. I was very interested in the artificiality of vocal or choir-like sounds that emulate a person or group singing, and how this has evolved with the advancement of musical technology over the years. I also sang myself, and used a vocoder, not to sound robotic, but to remove the connotations of gender. Those sounds are androgynous because they carry both masculine and feminine characteristics. I was inspired to carry this idea into music mainly because of the work of Camille Paglia and Donna Haraway. I feel that the album in a sense treads the imaginary boundary between nature and artifice. It is postmodern, but not necessarily a post-Freudian statement on cyborg theory or feminism. Rather it is a musically mimetic domain where these ideas freely collide and coalesce. Exactly one year on from his last album, Steve Hauschildt returns with his most commanding work to date. Dense and lush arrangements conjure a retro-futuristic soundscape for a time that never was, or one that may yet arrive." - Kranky. |
|
Artist: HAUSCHILDT, STEVE Title: Tragedy & Geometry Format: CD Label: Kranky Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Perhaps the least prolific and quietest of the three members of Cleveland trio EMERALDS, STEVE HAUSCHILDT is usually found at their live performances playing the serious scientist as foil to the other two members more animated stage presence. As a teen, Steve bypassed the typical young music fan obsessions over punk and hardcore musics, drawn instead towards mid-late 90s techno/electro-revivalism and finding himself alone in an electronic universe of his own choosing. Steve has always considered himself more of an artist than a musician, and sees his work both in group and solo settings as much a visual experience as it is an aural one. The title Tragedy & Geometry is an ambiguous but subtle reference to Melpomene (Muse of Tragedy) and Polyhymnia (Muse of Geometry), or more specifically the collision/overlap of what they invoke. The opening track is also a direct reference to "Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence", the painting by the French artist Charles Meynier on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The album is a treatise on the idea that technology is becoming more disposable as its becoming more accessible, and how this circumstance has a more evident/direct effect on the interpersonal, i.e. relations, with others in the so-called Age of Information. What results is a gorgeous, flowing, floating world of post-kosmische musik, Steve Hauschildts first widely available release, and his first major statement as a solo artist." -Kranky. |
|
Artist: HAUSCHILDT, STEVE Title: Tragedy & Geometry Format: LP Label: Kranky Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Perhaps the least prolific and quietest of the three members of Cleveland trio EMERALDS, STEVE HAUSCHILDT is usually found at their live performances playing the serious scientist as foil to the other two members more animated stage presence. As a teen, Steve bypassed the typical young music fan obsessions over punk and hardcore musics, drawn instead towards mid-late 90s techno/electro-revivalism and finding himself alone in an electronic universe of his own choosing. Steve has always considered himself more of an artist than a musician, and sees his work both in group and solo settings as much a visual experience as it is an aural one. The title Tragedy & Geometry is an ambiguous but subtle reference to Melpomene (Muse of Tragedy) and Polyhymnia (Muse of Geometry), or more specifically the collision/overlap of what they invoke. The opening track is also a direct reference to "Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence", the painting by the French artist Charles Meynier on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The album is a treatise on the idea that technology is becoming more disposable as its becoming more accessible, and how this circumstance has a more evident/direct effect on the interpersonal, i.e. relations, with others in the so-called Age of Information. What results is a gorgeous, flowing, floating world of post-kosmische musik, Steve Hauschildts first widely available release, and his first major statement as a solo artist." -Kranky. |
|
Artist: HAVERGAL Title: Trash Format: 10" Label: Elevator Bath Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "The five instrumental compositions, which comprise this EP from 1999, are contemplative and melodic sound experiments. Traditional instrumentation (guitar, percussion, etc.) mixes with found sounds and samples to create wisely restrained, yet emotional music. On transparent vinyl with clear plastic sleeves, in an edition of 550 copies." - Elevator Bath. |
|
Artist: HAWKWIND Title: Leave No Star Unturned: Cambridge January, 1972 Format: Double LP Label: Dirtier Country: UK Price: $36.00 |
| "Dirter Promotions presents on double vinyl a previously-unheard and unreleased live Hawkwind show from the Cambridge Corn Exchange in 1972. "Though the tapes were listened to in the weeks after the show, Lucas and Kemp upgraded their recording equipment to half-inch a few months later and the quarter-inch reels disappeared, thought perhaps to be lost forever. Fortunately, that wasnt the case. In 1985, a reel was unearthed at Spaceward Studios, noted to contain the Syd Barrett element of the show plus parts of the Hawkwind and Pink Fairies sets, and in 2005 a second copy of the recordings was unearthed in a collection of tapes stored in Gary Lucas attic. Its the Lucas tape, via an appearance on the auction lists at Bonhams in Knightsbridge, which has enabled the release of this pivotal show. Dirter Promotions is very pleased to present these recordings, cleaned-up and remastered, enabling Hawkwinds dedicated fan base to experience the band in full flow, poised to fly high and fly far, making the very concept of space-rock their own in perpetuity." - Ian Abrahams (taken from sleeve notes). Features "classic line-up" of Dave Brock, Nik Turner, Lemmy and Robert Calvert. |
|
Artist: HAYDEN, BRIDGET Title: An Indifferent Ocean Format: LP Label: Kraak Country: Belgium Price: $18.00 |
|
Limited to 500 copies. "Previously found prizing atom splitting feedback through a horizontal guitar, Bridget Haydens solo experiments have more lately sought the brooding, layered blues that we find resonating in “An Indifferent Ocean”. A stripped down set up, featuring an out of tune, hand me down guitar, two pedals of similar origin – no delays – and a donated fourtrack port-a-studio found on the street, has converged to form a crafted storm of abyss kicking improvisation.
Best known for her involvement with the hypnotic, shambollic and critically acclaimed drone band Vibracathedral Orchestra, Hayden split in 2006, desiring change and a new vein to hone.
She toured solo with kindred freaks such as The Aethr Method, Melanie Crowley-Delaney, Marcia Bassett and Sunburned Hand of the Man, later teaming up with The Telescopes henchman Stephen Lawrie to begin a noisy collaboration that continues to confuse and electrify.
Here, in her first official and long awaited solo release, you will find a spectrum of somnambulist trances that seamlessly conjoin dense and frantic depth with delicate fracture. Relentless guitar shredding epics are interspersed with graceful, drifting melancholia that lull the listener back to shore with a warm, whispered dream after being crashed mercilessly against the rocks." - Kraak.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAYDEN, BRIDGET Title: Exquisite Falling Dust Format: CDR Label: Bridget Hayden Country: UK Price: $5.00 |
|
Artist: HAYDEN, BRIDGET Title: The Nights Veins Format: CDR Label: Bridget Hayden Country: UK Price: $6.00 |
|
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAYDEN, BRIDGET Title: Untitled Format: CDR Label: Golden Lab Country: UK Price: $5.00 |
|
"Bridget has started playing songs of late and theyve turned out to be beautiful clumps of carefully executed guitar dirge with haunting vocals. THIS monster of a disc, though, was recorded right before she got into that zone and its an improvised blast of buckshot, right to the face. It was recorded at a show in Manchester that she opened for Marcia Bassett and it shares much in common with the latter. If youve heard those Hototogisu records, then think along those lines. Its so heavy it almost becomes meditative." - Golden Lab. 2009 release.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAYDEN, BRIDGET & MELANIE DELANEY Title: Ground Zero Cerebration Pessary Format: CDR Label: Smokers Gift Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Collaboration between members of Vibracathedral and Ashtray Navigations. Time is stretched, squished and flip-ended in a vein popping psychadelic whirligig. This is a CD re-issue of the Memoirs of an Aesthete tape release #30. In hand spray-painted covers, limited to 30 copies." - Smokers Gift. |
|
Artist: HAYDEN, BRIDGET/MELANIE DELANEY/PHIL TODD Title: Play Freeway Alabama Format: CDR Label: Smokers Gift Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
|
"Yowsa folks!! Hot new interstellar truckin
frizzlings from mong-headed Leeds freaks
Phil Ashtray Todd , Bridget Vibracathedral
Hayden and Melanie Crowley Delaney. The three
hammer down a multicoloured dustbowl in the
minds ear, across 4 blazing cuts clocking in at
nearly an hour. Recorded live at Aesthete
Towers, with cracking artwork by Mr Todd, and
spray stencilled disks. limited to 100 copies." - Smokers Gift.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAYLECK, ANDY Title: Two Gong/Wire Pieces Format: LP Label: Ehse Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Baltimore-based sound artist Andy Hayleck has worked primarily with field recordings and bowed metal over the past seven years in improvised settings, installation and solo composed works. His previous recordings include The Disappearing Floor (Recorded), a suite of edited field recordings and vibrating metal sounds; Various Recordings Involving Ice (Fairfield/HereSee), a set of field recordings of crystallized H2O; and his bowed saw and cymbal performances with fricative free music collaborative group Trockeneis (Ehse). Two Gong/Wire Pieces presents side-long live-to-tape performances using a special system which Hayleck has invented and with which he has performed widely - bowing a long wire attached to a Chinese gong, allowing for special control of the irrational vibrations of the metal plate through careful control over the tension of the wire and place and style of bowing. The resulting masses of beating tone-forms are lakes and pools of eddies or whirlpools born from a deceptively simple and carefully considered system and a seemingly enormous pair of ears." - Ehse. |
|
Artist: HAYLECK, ANDY/THURSTON MOORE Title: The Demolished Man/Touch You Format: 10" Label: Endleseries Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
|
"ENDLESERIES is a collection of music exclusive to our catalog. The catalog is continuously growing. We hand lathe cut 10" virgin lacquers with aproxamately 9 minutes of audio
per side. Each lacquer is cut to order. The records play at 33rpm." - Endleseries. New series of customized split 10"s from Caleb Johnston (Anonymous, Nautical Almanac, etc..).. Beautifully packaged, metal-core virgin dub plates, with handstamped, old style 78 sleeves and labels.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAYNES, JIM Title: Eraldus/Eravaldus Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Elevator Bath Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Beautiful picture disc LP featuring two full-color reproductions of visual works by Jim Haynes and two new side-long solo compositions. The ideal companion piece to Jim Haynes masterful album, Telegraphy by the Sea. Eraldus and Eravaldus are both shadowy concoctions built from agitated objects and amplified spaces (a lighthouse, some high-tension wires driven by wind, a very large pile of sand, etc.). These are subtly manipulated field recordings, rusted to perfection and fine-tuned into scraping and humming machinations. The artwork comes from two corroded photographs, one of which was created especially for this LP. Haynes has worked with this process for almost 15 years and, here, the resulting images are as beautiful and mysterious as the audio is nuanced and evocative. In addition to his solo work, Jim Haynes has participated in a number of fruitful collaborations over the years with Loren Chasse (as Coelacanth), Keith Evans, Steven Stapleton/Nurse With Wound, and irr. app. (ext.)/M.S. Waldron. He currently resides in San Francisco. This picture disc LP has been released in an edition of 260 copies." -Elevator Bath |
|
Artist: HAYNES, JIM Title: The Decline Effect Format: Double Lp Label: Helen Scarsdale Agency Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "Parapsychology introduced the notion of the decline effect as a statistical phenomenon of diminishing results whilst investigating extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis. Where initial findings might substantiate proof of such abilities, further studies would almost always demonstrate the contrary. As such, this ontological disappearing act stands in allegorical parallel to the entropic art of Jim Haynes and frames his 2011 opus of the corroded drone and a compacted disintegration of sound. This San Francisco Bay Area artist has long defined his work through the pithy phrase: I rust things. The Decline Effect continues his investigations with electroacoustic decay through four bodies of evidence left behind from ephemeral aktions, shipwrecked electronics, re-engineered field recordings, and transmissions from the ether. Haynes composes through all of these sources through a patient suturing of sympathetic elements, whether they be textural, tonal, visceral, heavenly, sodden, or monolithic. Here, embers foretelling a nuclear winter gently waft upon industrial chorales amassed from an army of fidgeting motors; the sulfur-laden hiss from volcanic vents erupts from an organic thrum into boiling crescendos of environmental noise; geiger counter palpitations stream along a leaden sea of modulated radio noise; a warm explosion of sun-bleached distortion caresses the evanescent halos from an undulating mesmerism inexplicably not sourced from a guitar and/or digital patch authored by Christian Fennesz. Haynes broken minimalism orbits somewhere near the work Joe Colley, G*Park, Nurse With Wound, and BJ Nilsen. The 2LP of The Decline Effect is strictly limited to 350 copies, comes in a handsome gatefold sleeve, and sports the necessary download coupon. Zener cards not included." - Helen Scarsdale Agency. |
|
Artist: HAYNES, JIM Title: The Wires Cracked Format: LP Label: Editions Mego Country: Austria Price: $21.00 |
| "The recordings for The Wires Cracked were completed in a frenzied two week period in October of 2012. I had mentioned in discussing a previous albums construction that I prefer to forget how I build any particular electro-acoustic amalgam. This is so that I dont get to precious with them, so that I could refine them further, so that the sounds themselves speak beyond their aggregate parts. With the album being relatively fresh in my mind, I can still recall various components to "The Wires Cracked" -- the desolate howl of a metal screen activated by a desert wind, the hissing air compression from the cooling apparatus for a laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory operated by Stanford University, and the tremolo rhythms from a thin wire that still get me thinking fondly of Günter Schickert -- but much of the caustic drone, thrumming reverberation, and tactile grit thoroughly escapes me. Thats probably for the best, since these various parts speak to an existential rupturing, the collapse of the self, the aftershocks of dark energy, and a belief in the hope for renewal. Describing his work through the pithy phrase "I rust things," Jim Haynes is an artist who has developed a vocabulary of decay that he has applied to photography, video, installation, and sound. Haynes sound work draws from shortwave radio static, electric field disturbances, controlled feedback manipulation, and numerous textural scrapings, manifesting broken minimalism of magnetic drones and volatile tactility. This engineering of disparate materials and media seeks to evince the unpredictability of decay, to manifest its potential for a rough hewn beauty, and to bare witness to its inevitability. He has exhibited internationally at Electric Works (San Francisco), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , the Bekerley Art Museum, The Exploratorium (SanFrancisco), WestSpace (Melbourne, Australia), Jack Straw Productions (Seattle), Eyedrum (Atlanta), Diapason (New York), and The Lab (San Francisco). Haynes has published his work through the Helen Scarsdale Agency, 23five Incorporated, Intransitive, Observatoire, and ElevatorBath. He has collaborated with Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), M.S. Waldron (irr. app.(ext.)), Keith Evans, Allison Holt, and Loren Chasse. Haynes is one of the directors for 23five Incorporated and is the sole occupant at the Helen Scarsdale Agency." -Editions Mego. |
|
Artist: HAYVANLAR ALEMI Title: Guarana Superpower Format: LP Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
|
"Hailing from the Turkish capital of Ankara, Hayvanlar Alemi is a group of contemporary players steeped in the art of psychedelics, surf, and expansive rock instrumental grandeur. Formed in 1999, the band is led by Özüm İtez (electric guitar) and Işık Sarıhan (percussion) and theyve released a variety of CDs and mp3 tracks in Turkey and beyond leading up to this, Guarana Superpower, their first-ever vinyl LP. The tracks drift from majestic beauty to blazing delirium with İtez etching his manifesto for electric guitar every step of the way backed by Sarihans wide variety of percussion styles. Although the group is rooted in classical and modern Turkish psych-rock in spirit, they draw on a large range of sounds and influences, and traces of Turkish styles are hard to pin down. Two of the tracks, "MEGA Lambada" and "Guarana Superpower," are more reminiscent of late 80s post-punk experimental mind-melting, referencing Torch Of The Mystics-era Sun City Girls in grand fashion. Other cuts expand on a diversity of areas including tripped-out surf, retro Cambodian rock, electrified Thai Mor Lam and Saharan guitar music. Every single track is memorable and the incredible variety helps confirm the fact that Hayvanlar Alemi is one of todays great rock instrumental combos. This extremely limited one-time LP pressing comes in a full color heavy-duty tip-on jacket." -Sublime Frequencies
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAYVANLAR ALEMI Title: Guarana Superpower Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Hailing from the Turkish capital of Ankara, Hayvanlar Alemi is a group of contemporary players steeped in the art of psychedelics, surf, and expansive rock instrumental grandeur. Formed in 1999, the band is led by Özüm İtez (electric guitar) and Işık Sarıhan (percussion) and theyve released a variety of CDs and mp3 tracks in Turkey and beyond leading up to this, Guarana Superpower, their first official release outside their home country. The tracks drift from majestic beauty to blazing delirium with İtez etching his manifesto for electric guitar every step of the way backed by Sarihans wide variety of percussion styles. Although the group is rooted in classical and modern Turkish psych-rock in spirit, they draw on a large range of sounds and influences, and traces of Turkish styles are hard to pin down. Two of the tracks, "MEGA Lambada" and "Guarana Superpower," are more reminiscent of late 80s post-punk experimental mind-melting, referencing Torch Of The Mystics-era Sun City Girls in grand fashion. Other cuts expand on a diversity of areas including tripped-out surf, retro Cambodian rock, electrified Thai Mor Lam and Saharan guitar music. Every single track is memorable and the incredible variety helps confirm the fact that Hayvanlar Alemi is one of todays great rock instrumental combos. CD version features two bonus tracks and includes an 8-page color insert with photos of the group." -Sublime Frequencies |
|
Artist: HAYVANLAR ALEMI Title: Yekermo Sew Format: 7" Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Hayvanlar Alemi comes smashing out of the gates in 2012 with a jaw-dropping version of Mulatu Astatkes "Yekermo Sew" as the A-side of this single. Side B is an unreleased improvisation featuring the quartet version of the group. This limited one-time pressing vinyl single was made for the band to sell on their European tour, which begins in May of 2012. Limited copies, however, will be available through normal distribution channels. 45 rpm." -Sublime Frequencies |
|
Artist: HAYWARD, CHARLES Title: Live In Japan Volume One: Escape From Europe Format: CD Label: Locus Solus Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "A trilogy of live CDs, only released in Japan by Locus Solus. Volume One is a mostly solo affair from the legendary drummer and This Heat founder, Charles Hayward (drums, voice, tapes, melodica). Makoto Nomura (piano, melodica) and Akira Toyonaga (guitar) guest on one track. Recorded April, 1996." - FE. "Solo performance in his unique style. He sings, plays drums, operates two or three cassette players by means of an MTR, and a tape machine with foot switches, all at the same time." - Locus Solus. |
|
Artist: HAYWARD, CHARLES Title: Live In Japan Volume Three: Near + Far Format: CD Label: Locus Solus Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Tracks 1-4 are from his solo performances, songs that werent able to be released on Escape From Europe. Tracks 5-7 are new songs composed in the studio by remixing and overdubbing sessions with Tatsuya Yoshida, Yoshihide Otomo, Kazuhisa Uchihashi. Track 8 features Hayward singing with a melodica, recorded in a temple garden by Tatsuya Yoshida." - Locus Solus. Recorded April, 1996. |
|
Artist: HAYWARD, CHARLES Title: Live In Japan Volume Two: Double Agent(s) Format: CD Label: Locus Solus Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Very exciting live improvisations with Tatsuya Yoshida (drums & voice), Yoshihide Otomo (turntables, CD player & sampler), Keiji Haino (guitar & voice), and Peter Brotzmann (tenor saxophone & clarinets)." - Locus Solus. Recorded April, 1996. |
|
Artist: HAYWARD, CHARLES Title: Out of Order b/w Beside Format: 7" Label: Dot Dot Dot Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
|
"Two 7 min+ tracks, one with vocals, one without. 250 copies only, marbly grey/green vinyl." - Dot Dot Dot. Recent solo recordings from from Hayward (This Heat, Quiet Sun, Camberwell Now, etc...)
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HAZMAT Title: Pfrank Calls Format: Cass Label: Nihilist Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
|
Artist: HEAD BOGGLE Title: Headboggle Format: LP Label: Spectrum Spools Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Spectrum Spools are beyond excited to present you with the highly-anticipated vinyl debut of the Head Boggle project. The world has been waiting for this day to come, and finally a full-length long player has arrived. Recorded at his apartment studio, Headboggle is the manifestation of Derek Gedalecias acoustic/electronic research utilizing the "kitchen sink" in every sense of the idiom: Moogs, harmonica, banjo, harpsichord, Irish harp, EMS Synthi, violin, drums, clavinet, Serge Modular, field recordings and more! What makes Headboggle so special is the careful arrangement of sound, with painstaking attention to composition and sound direction. Disorienting magic is a key trait of the Head Boggle sound, one which captivates and commands repeated inspection. Like any great, focused album effort, there is a narrative arc -- from the introductory "Flourescent Star" with its dizzying, fractured crackle and bizarre piano float to the tension-packed, information-overloaded squabble and squawks of the "Dream Diary" and "Europa Astrobiology Lander" tracks. Head Boggle is a dedicated and devotional effort -- one with precision and prodigious vision. Equal parts François Bayle and Tod Dockstader in the best possible way, its still hard to pin such a multifaceted talent to any kind of descriptor. Derek has been honing his sound for years with loads of releases on almost every essential tape and CD-R label out there. Here we have his finest set of compositions yet in hi-fidelity, tight and tediously packed, forming his most concise release to date. The Head Boggle debut has raised the bar for classical electronic composition with the greats, a feat of rare occurrence." - Spectrum Spools. |
|
Artist: HEAD OF WANTASTIQUET Title: Mortagne Format: LP Label: Ecstatic Yod Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Head of Wantastiquet is the solo project of Sunburned Hand of the Man"s Paul Labrecque. This is the long awaited follow-up to Paul"s debut cassette release on Open Mouth. This LP is luscious and layered with psych banjo based pieces spread over 12 tracks. I"d compare it to a cross between Daniel Higgs and Doc Boggs sans vocals. A truly beautiful record which comes in a VG Kids screenprinted double sided sleeve sleeve in a one time edition of 500." - Ecstatic Yod |
|
Artist: HEAD OF WANTASTIQUET Title: West River Realizations Format: Cass Label: Open Mouth Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
|
Solo project from Paul of Sunburned Hand Of The Man.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HEAD RESONANCE COMPANY/PETER PIXEL PROJECT Title: 15 Tracks For Unknown People: 1980-84 Format: Double LP Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $26.00 |
| "Early eighties avant-garde /ritual / Industrial with an incredible 5-track minimal Lp by Peter Pixel (member of Head Resonance) incl. the upcoming minimal-hit ⿿Ich und meine Mammaschin in the style of best early eighties minimal-electronics with voice." - Vinyl On Demand. Numbered edition of 500 in color/embossed jackets. |
|
Artist: HEART LAND Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Tequila Sunrise Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Heart Land hail from New Hope, PA. Its a liminal place, halfway between everything, where all the lines blur and where things arent always what they seem. I remember one autumn evening a quarter-century ago, when New Hope first got under my skin. In that twilight moment, legendary psychedelic LP collector Veronica Breth (then still known as Gregg) let me in on her little secret: Its better to sell 100 records at $150.00 apiece, she whispered in her kiss-of-the-spider-woman purr, than it is to sell 1000 records at $15.00 each... I dont know if it was the ginseng wine, or the unbearable straightness of her long blonde hair, or the way s/he French-inhaled her clove cigarette, but the whole conversation made me a little light-headed. At that time, the notion struck me as elitist to the point of vampirism, but Ill be goddamned if her words arent truer now than when s/he uttered them. What with the internet both hipping everybody to everything and making it all available at any time, rarity itself is as rare as a day in June (as they say). Which brings me back to Heart Lands self-titled LP on Tequila Sunrise Records, one in a series of on-going collaborative co-releases, this one with Cream of Turner Records. Its a limited edition of 200, all with hand-made library-binder style covers, and very sharp-looking indeed. But not only is every sleeve different and unique, but every record is different, too -- at least, thats how it sounds! What do I know? Every time I play it, it sounds different. Seriously. All I know is that the guys from Heart Land burrowed into the outside-psychedelic-trance-noise-improv badger-hole like a dachshund (albeit one with an un-German sense of humor) and came back with a mash-up of every track on the NWW want-list plus a few imaginary tracks mixed in (only it turns out none were really imaginary after all, if you get my drift). Are these songs 30 seconds long, or are they whole sides? Are they soundtracks for unseen cinema? Who can say? I cannot answer these questions, I can only raise them. Heart Lands inspired throb is a true rarity, sand thrown into the gears of the reality studio machine, and you dont have to be a Swiss collector to afford it. Yet. Listen, wonder, and ride a white dove, luv!" -Carlos Ramirez, San Tanco, Puerto Rico |
|
Artist: HEATER Title: God and Hair Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "HEATER is a three-piece Columbia super group, if such a thing exists. Heaters guitarist and lead singer, ZACH "ZZ" MCLUCKIE, used to be a member of CAVE and SNEAKERS), among others. Heaters bassist / second guitarist, JEREMY "JERUSALEM" FREEZE also plays guitar in JERUSALEM and the STARBASKETS, and both he and Heaters drummer, JON "WUJJ", formerly jammed together in CALIFORNIA RAISINS (their only release was a split 10-inch with Cave, also on Permanent). God and Hair is a super upbeat, melodic pop record in essence, but as mentioned before, these guys come from a very DIY background. Its got some fast repetitive lo-fi punk rock jams with reverb enhanced vocals similar to those found on the Sneakers Children Into People EP, and some Clean-esque pop elements, but its also got tracks with a great laid back summertime 90s alt-pop vibe not too dissimilar from the least noisy 90s moments of Sonic Youth and Sebadoh. All of these elements come together and make for a unique sound, and make for one hell of a summertime DIY pop jammer." -Permanent |
|
Artist: HEATHEN SHAME Title: Heathen Shame Format: LP Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
|
"Heathen Shame is the trio of Wayne Rogers, Kate Village, and Greg Kelley. They make a howling racket on guitar, trumpet, Moog, and drums. All techniques borrowed from Mauricio Kagel, never to be returned." - Twisted Village.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HEATHEN SHAME Title: Speed The Parting Guest Format: CD Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "The second album from Cambridge, MA-based Heathen Shame. The trio of Greg Kelley ,Wayne Rogers , and Kate Village formed under the banner Heathen Shame in the fall of 1999. After a handful of one-off shows they recorded their self-titled debut LP in May of 2002, which caught them just as their sound was starting to gel. They then embarked on a three week tour of Americas heartland with Double Leopards (including at least one outdoor show that could be termed a "gathering") in an attempt to share their unique brand of high decibel improvisation. Although they drove away as many people as they converted (OK, maybe a lot more than they converted), the steady gigging continued upon their return and soon the Heathen Shame were playing as one mind rather than three. Speed The Parting Guest is a carefully paced but blazing affair that shows how seamless a unit theyve become. In contrast to the abstract feel of their debut, Speed The Parting Guest finds them swinging large blocks of sound around their heads for hours before launching them at you. Their wall of sound is now a sonic universe that they can manipulate with slow malice or lightning precision. Heathen Shame are destined to be THE most talked about two-guitar-and-trumpet combo of 2005 and beyond." - FE. |
|
Artist: HEATSICK Title: Convergence Format: 12" Label: No Label Country: Europe Price: $14.00 |
| "The enigmatic Heatsicks CasioTones evolve over this EP with the inclusion of accompanying drum machine -- four focused tracks that express the overload from stimuli and expansion from time space compression. Label art by Jean-Michel Wicker." |
|
Artist: HEATSICK Title: Deviation Format: 12" Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
|
"Equipped with only a Casio keyboard, Heatsick has played alongside everyone from Omar Souleyman to DJ Harvey, Daniel Wang and Legowelt, and has demonstrated his ability not only to extend his keyboard to its limits, but to transcend its musical territory. Déviation features four tracks of kaleidoscopic house that combine a lo-fi aesthetic with clear, textured structures. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M and pressed on 140 gram white vinyl, housed in a silk-screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas." -Pan. Heatsick No Fixed Address (PAN 29) from Bill Kouligas on Vimeo. |
|
Artist: HEATSICK Title: Intersex Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
|
"Intersex is the debut LP by Steven Warwick aka Heatsick. The title references the work of German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, looking at how music and sexuality can operate in flux on a constantly sliding scale. Executed on just a Casio keyboard and manipulated loops via guitar pedals, Intersex deliberately evokes "ersatz" notions of electronic dance music and early electronics in the line of Roberto Cacciapaglias Ann Steel record, the work of Warner Jepson and the kaleidoscopic sound of Ron Hardy, pushing dance/body music through a saturated psychedelic lens. Steven Warwick is a Berlin-based performer, also known for his work in the electronic duo, Birds Of Delay. His approach is one of carefully thought-out loops which are then sent into varying interactions and play. Active in the club, art and music scenes, Warwicks work is one existing in a luminal space, meditating both at once in real time and the "just past." The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, in a limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140 gram vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silk-screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Steven Warwick, Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas." -Pan
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HEATSICK Title: Perpendicular Rain Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
|
"steven warwick is a wonderful character on the alien electronics
landscape, and the vast bulk of his Heatsick tapes are spools worth
hording. this one lands high on his heap, freaked out innerspace vision
trances that blow a lot of comparable types outta the water. pro-dubbed
tapes in double-sided full-color j-cards w/handcut labels and a stenciled
case." - Not Not Fun.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HEAVENS BURST Title: Craetion Horizonz Format: CDR Label: Nature Tape Limb Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
|
"ULTIMATE REALITY HAS BEEN SEEN AND HAS BEEN PLACED" - Nature Tape Limb. James Ferraro of the Skaters.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HEAVY HAWAII Title: S/T Format: 12" Label: Art Fag Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "6 song EP for San Diegos Heavy Hawaii, featuring Matt Bajaras, former band mate of Nathan Williams of Wavves. The Heavy Hawaii EP was produced by Jon Greene (Crocodiles, Dum Dum Girls) and Brandon Welchez of the Crocodiles. On red vinyl with glossy insert." -Art Fag |
|
Artist: HEAVY TAPES Title: Format: T-Shirt Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Dark grey shirts with the Heavy Tapes logo in black and dark purple print. Only Small available at the moment. |
|
Artist: HEAVY TIMES Title: Lost Dogs Format: 7" Flexi Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| One of four installments in Rotted Tooths Summer Flexi Series. "HEAVY TIMES brings their A-game with their two flexi tracks. Lost Dogs is an upbeat windows-down, girl-on-your arm, open container summer jam if weve ever heard one. Try not to sing along with the chorus, I dare ya. The second cut, P.O. Box, is a more mischievous little critter. The opening riff runs circles around your hungover ass for a minute and casually transitioning into the catchy second part. Then back to part one, an extended part two, and a heavy outro and DONE. Wham bam thank you maam. Heavy Times at their finest."-Permanent Records. Limited to 250 copies with silkscreened jackets by Jo Dery. |
|
Artist: HEAVY WINGED Title: Alive In My Mouth Format: LP + CD Label: Three Lobed Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Last summers CD release for HEAVY WINGED, Blacc Lust, flew out of here and really seemed to find a good home with folks. Following up on that response comes the massive and dense blowout that is Alive In My Mouth. Comprised of two of the bands dirtiest and, quite simply, heaviest tracks, it is music for tearing down physical walls. Each copy includes a complete CD that features both of the album tracks in addition to a "bonus" 17 minute track. Edition of 647 copies pressed on 180-gram RTI vinyl, housed in heavy art sleeves bearing new artwork by MICHAEL CANICH and letterpressed by Dexterity Press." - Three Lobed |
|
Artist: HEAVY WINGED Title: Feel Inside Format: CD Label: Archive Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "A brand new three-track release from Portland/ Brooklyn based unit, HEAVY WINGED, following a recent reissue CD, and the excellent Three Lobed release Blacc Lust. Feel Inside is a long playing journey into psych-noise dronedom, and has been hailed as being akin to the Bardo Pond brothers recording in the lo-fi/high-fuzz-induced kitchen of the Goslings. Packaged in double cover center opening sleeves with an outer vellum overlay shell designed and executed by CHASED MIDDAUGH. Single pressing of 600 copies." - Archive |
|
Artist: HEAVY WINGED Title: Fields Within Fields Format: LP/CD Label: 3Lobed Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Theyre back. Heavy Winged has continued to stretch their leathery, scarred, er, wings and grow since their last release for Three Lobed Recordings, 2008s Alive In My Mouth. The band was determined to make Fields Within Fields into a significant part of their discography from the very outset. In October 2009, the band decided to enter the 5D Studios in Brooklyn to engage in what would be a first-time experiment - recording in a multi-track studio with overdubs planned from the sessions start. Prior to this experience the bands entire catalog was centered on displaying their ferocious live spirit. Having already proven themselves to be adept at creating grand and heavy statements in an improvised, one-take-only setting, they felt that were ready for the challenge of being both improvisational and composition-minded. The band hunkered down for the session and even brought in some friends to help augment the Heavy Winged vibe. Their time in 5D yielded the two dark fruits which combine to form Fields Within Fields. Brutal and hard, Among The Maori leads the album off and encompasses the entire first side of vinyl. The track opens with a slow, deliberate fade into Jed Bindemans (Eternal Tapestry, Jackie-O Motherfucker) tribal drumbeat. This beat may start controlled but the tracks velocity and volume continue to accelerate, eventually turning Among The Maori into a highly tuned jet engine. Ryan Heberts guitar playing is exceptional throughout, beginning with an initial prolonged banshee-like wailing and slowly building and fully giving way to a fantastically cranking and grinding post-metallic din by the tracks conclusion. Among The Maori stands out among the bands entire catalog as perhaps their truest moment. The albums second side is fully dedicated to the drone doom opus The Hum Of The Universe." Includes insert and bonus CD entitled Infinite In Every Direction." -3Lobed |
|
Artist: HEAVY WINGED Title: Shaking, Waking Format: LP Label: Aurora Borealis Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "The Shaking, Waking LP consists of two lengthy tracks: "Tidal Blackness" is a 23-minute cloud of improvised guitar and bass drone, underpinned with sparse percussive elements and dappled with the rays of ethereal melodies. This track, recorded live in Oakland in 2008, represents the more gentle side of HEAVY WINGED in some ways and is largely soothing. The second side harbors "Morning Flesh," 18 minutes that veer towards the caveman Krautrock of the recent Alive in my Mouth LP, drums pounding, Neanderthal guitar chugging, though with a melodic haze drifting across the musical landscape like a lysergic mistral, leading the listener ever further into the shifting sands of the forbidden zone. Pressed on 180-gram transparent pale gray vinyl, limited to 500 pieces in a heavyweight matte sleeve." - Aurora Borealis. |
|
Artist: HEAVY WINGED Title: Spreading Center Format: CD Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| "Two new long tracks from Heavy Winged, following up releases on Three Lobed, Archive, Not Not Fun etc. Massive and big-sounding stuff, but with more subtle and quiet openings and endings, and without ever loosing the abrasive feeling of being dragged in grit and dirt forever and ever. Driving and powerful proto-psych-metal that manages to sound very much improvised and extremely focused and precise at the same time. Both tracks recorded live, Loudun recorded in Davis, California on 6/30/08. Strigoi recorded in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York on 11/2/07. Limited one-time pressing of 500 copies. Dual Plover gatefold sleeve with black felt and artwork by Twin Vixen. Play it loud." -Release The Bats |
|
Artist: HEAVY WINGED Title: Sunspotted Format: LP Label: Type Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Heavy Winged are a sprawling North American trio made up of drummer Jed Bindeman, bassist Brady Sansone and guitarist Ryan Hebert. Over the last few years, the band have released a cacophonous splatter of cassettes, vinyl and CD-Rs for Not Not Fun, Digitalis, Aurora Borealis and a handful of other esteemed imprints. Most of these have been mercilessly grimy signifiers of their buzzing free-rock style, and were recorded poorly to almost accentuate the harsh guitar tones and double-time blast beats. This latest jagged offering, however, is a rare beast in the Heavy Winged canon, offering a higher-fidelity peek into their muddled world. This time around, the band escaped to a "real" studio to record two slices of extended sludge rock, which come across as wider than ever, thanks to some fresh recording techniques. Something like an unholy union between the sheet-noise of Yellow Swans and the blissful sub-harmonic transcendence of early Mogwai or Sonic Youth, Sunspotted is an album that takes tried-and-tested sounds and bends them beyond recognition. Sure, plenty of bands have made distorted, blurred, guitar noise before, but rarely with the conviction and wit of Heavy Winged. With their early explorations into doom and metal, we find the band on a high, framing their high-octane jitter into something that could almost be mistaken for beautiful. Just as the aforementioned Yellow Swans took their sound from the outer reaches of noise to something, dare I say it, pretty, Heavy Winged have focused their three individual powers to come up with an album that revels in its depth and shimmering beauty. It might take a few listens to reveal its layers, but Sunspotted is a challenging and rewarding listening experience. Standing at the top of the bands already estimable catalog of albums and EPs, this album finds them at a key moment, a moment where they have found a balance between fidelity and grit, harmony and discord. Step in, turn it up and let yourself descend. Cut at Berlins D+M." - Type. |
|
Artist: HEAVY WINGED Title: We Grow Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
|
"Today is the greatest. Cause time has come for total take off. Brooklyn/PDX instrumental interstellar overdrivers Heavy Winged deliver the most gravity-crushing pair of fight-flight journeys in their entire cumulative psych revolution thus far. And it is glorious. We Grow is the apex realization of every tectonic assault, wind tunnel vortex, and outer space meltdown HW have ever unleashed across the past 15 months worth of stunning CDRs, splits, and comp appearances. The A side, A Stretch of Time,slow-burns an ascent into explosive galactic violence, guitars, bass, and drums detonating into endless feedback fireworks. Then Shifting Cloudscloses the album, marching a drifting riff of haze and mass into a majestic no mans land of darkening space. A masterpiece record, and packaged accordingly. Blackened-blue vinyl LPs with collage center labels housed in full-color pro-printed jackets, in sleeves adorned with rad oval vinyl stickers." -Not Not Fun.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HEAVY WINGED & INCA ORE Title: Ring Mining Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
|
Artist: HEAVY WINGED/BLUES CONTROL Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
|
"Brooklyn/PDX wrecking crew Heavy Winged lurch out a riff monster of concrete crush, while NY groove-riders Blues Control trip the cosmos with space-drug arkestral maneuvers." - Not Not Fun.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HEAVY WINGED/TAIGA REMAINS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
|
"glorious & glorified re-issue of the long-gone split CDR on MYMWLY. HW
turn in one of the most blazing ragers of their entire discography (the
version here is a fresh edit, FYI) and Alex/Remains spins a stunning,
spiralized tone-fog that gleams off the wax (plus theres an unreleased
bonus track!). on coke-bottle clear vinyl, in intricately silkscreened pic
disc sleeves adorned with elaborate full-color textile sticker
arrangements. limited to 300." - Not Not Fun.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HECKER Title: Live @ ZKM Format: Cass Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $12.50 |
|
"Side 1: Live @ ZKM / Side 2: Standard Map & Cusp Map (Binaural Mix)
Produced & Performed by Florian Hecker. Track 1 recorded with Neumann KM 100 Microphones direct to DAT
at the ZKM Medientheater on 28.04.2005 by Hartmut Bruckner. Mastered by Denis Blackham @ Skye Mastering.
File under: mean & abstract contemporary lsd computer-music. Second Edition of 34 Copies available." - Tochnit Aleph.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HECKER & DANIEL LOPATIN, TIM Title: Instrumental Tourist Format: Double LP Label: Software Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "The first chapter of SSTUDIOS (Software Studio Series), a new venture in the Software Recording Co.s expanding catalog. SSTUDIOS invites artists in the field of electronic music to create collaborative works of quality and vision. With a deliberate focus on source material of a synthetic and mimetic nature, Hecker and Lopatin designed a sound palette from the acoustic resonance of digitally-sourced instruments of the world. The intrepid cowboy sound-voyager was inverted, forging a synthesis with the ecstatic other; digested exotic instrumentation fuel the tepid journeys of a sampler tourist. Instead of leaning heavily on the proverbial Malian time signatures sublime truth, Instrumental Tourist pictures the synthetic veneer of exoticism as pushed air captured by oscillating ribbons. The studio meetings between Hecker and Lopatin were conducted to mimic the tropes and techniques of jazz-based improvisation, with little preparation prior. In an era where electronic production can produce the totalities of symphonic effect, and solo sound composition is easier than ever, the necessity of collaborative work is questioned. Could their own respective artistic pursuits be neatly compiled and encapsulated by the very sound bank paradigm that theyve exploited? Why work together at all? Instrumental Tourist finds two artists transcending their respective visions by agreeing to a new language, one which verbalizes their mutual infatuations and apprehensions with the systems theyve both built and are buried by." - Software, Housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve; hand-numbered edition of 2000; includes download code. |
|
Artist: HECKER, TIM Title: Ravedeath, 1972 Format: Double LP Label: Kranky Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Tim Heckers latest work approaches a form of secular musical transcendentalism from within the battered temple of spirituality. Recorded in a church in Reykjavik, Iceland and using a pipe organ as the primary sound source, this new piece is essentially a live recording. In reality, it exists in a nether world between captured live performance and meticulous studio work, melding the two approaches to sonic artifice as a unity. It is in parts a document of air circulating within a wooden room, and also a pagan work of physical resonance within a space once reserved for the hallowed breath of the divine. While the title of the piece Hatred of Music might be a clue, the album is also partly an attempt to confront a pervasive negativity surrounding music. Historical rituals of destroying pianos, mountains of pirated CDRs pushed by bulldozers in Eastern Europe, or the melancholy of the digital music era began as sideline motifs which quickly informed the work on this record. They also really didnt at all. Despite that the context is wide open in such a form of musical abstraction, the substance of these immersive compositions showcases Heckers continued mastery of organizing sound into a visceral near entity. It is an almost physical presence that the listener feels as much as hears. This work is a significant contribution to Heckers oeuvre, one which spans over ten years of musical production. Ravedeath is an enigmatic document of beauty and force. The album was recorded mostly over the period of one day in July of 2010. Iceland-based musician Ben Frost assisted with the engineering and performs on this recording." -Kranky |
|
Artist: HEDAYAT, DASHIELL Title: Obsolete Format: CD Label: Mantra Country: France Price: $18.50 |
| "New deluxe digipak version (on the long defunct Mantra label?) of this 1971 classic. The LP was originally released on the legendary Shandar label. Hedayat sang lead vocals, played keyboards and "cosmic-hedayat-rumble and cut-ups," coerced Daevid Allen and Gillie Smyth (of Gong), William Burroughs, Robert Wyatts son Sam and others to join him in recording this stoned, prog-psych masterwork of two long tracks. The memorable message: "This record must be played as loud as possible, must be heard as stoned as impossible, and thank you everybody" is still intact. A classic deserving of its cult." - FE. |
|
Artist: HEDAYAT, DASHIELL Title: Obsolete Format: CD Label: Mantra Country: France Price: $21.00 |
| "New remastered CD version (from original tapes according to the cover info), in cardboard sleeve (aka "vinyl replica" packaging); edition of 999 copies. "When Obsolete was published in November of 1971, the reporter from the magazine of reference, Superpop Hebdo (Superpop Weekly), questioned the repetitive aspect of this disc. He couldnt know that this musical approach would take flight thanks to English and German groups like Hawkwind, Amon Düül, and soon after, Gong, in France, whose founding members (Daevid Allen, Didier Malherbe, Pip Pyle, Gilly Smith, Christian Tritsch) accompany Dashiell Hedayat. From this space-rock album is torn Chrysler Rose -- a little known masterpiece in its day, but which has today become a cult anthem to the joint at all hip celebrations, revered by multiple generations of partiers. Humor and derision exist alongside the unreal on Love Song for Zelda, realized with the help of William Burroughs, author of the hippies must-have bedside book Junkie. Drugs are omnipresent in the hallucinatory texts of Dashiell Hedayat. The musical and lyrical composition date from the autumn of 1969, from whence the choice of the title Obsolete. An avant-garde disc so cool, itll never go out of style! After having composed a second, very rare, opus under the pseudonym Melmoth (the beginning of intoxication), Dashiell Hedayat has since adopted a different type of writing, and today has authored novels and Hollywood screenplays under the name Jack-Alain Léger." -Mantra |
|
Artist: HEEMAN, CHRISTOPH & ANDREW CHALK Title: Cassia Fistula Format: 7" Label: Idea Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
|
"Christoph Heemann & Andrew Chalk of Mirror each remix a track from the Brendan Walls Cassia Fistula CD (see self released Walls CDR listed below) for this limited edition vinyl 7". The A side features CH Heemann taking control and moving things into the darker regions of the of the expanse that is CASSIA Fistula (golden shower tree for those who dont know the Scientific lingo). Heemann slowly disintegrates all that is tangible and leaves us with an empty black ocean. Mr. Chalks mastery of organic sound bliss transforms the pure golden tones of Cassia Fistula in order to weave the very thread that holds this universe together. LTD Edition of 300 copies." - Idea.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HEEMANN, CHRISTOPH Title: The Rings of Saturn Format: LP Label: Robot Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "Originally only available as an artist-released CD, The Rings Of Saturn spans a lengthy narrative of music prepared over the years 1997-2008. Infusing early field recordings along with recently completed studio compositions, this new album of cinema pour loreille (cinema for the ear) transports the listener to discrete locations that evoke rich memories and sympathetic recollections. This remastered vinyl edition is pressed on clear wax in a beautiful, full-color jacket. Available initially during the recent Christoph Heemann US Tour (October 2010), The Rings Of Saturn is one of Heemanns finest and most anticipated new solo works." -Robot |
|
Artist: HEEMANN, CHRISTOPH Title: The Rings of Saturn: Complete Edition Format: CD Label: Robot Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "This new CD edition features an additional 13 minutes of music not included on the previous LP and artist-released versions. The Rings of Saturn: Complete Edition encompasses a lengthy narrative of music prepared over the years 1997-2012. Infusing early field recordings along with recently completed studio compositions, this new album of cinema pour loreille (cinema for the ear) transports the listener to discrete locations that evoke rich memories and sympathetic recollections. This freshly remastered complete edition updates one of Heemanns finest and most anticipated new solo works. Packaged in a Japanese style tip-on mini jacket reproducing a beautiful variation of the original album artwork." - Robot. |
|
Artist: HEIDECKER, TIM Title: Titanic and Other Songs Format: LP Label: Orion Read Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
| "After reading that Bob Dylan’s forthcoming album, Tempest, will include a 14-minute song about the Titanic, comedian Tim Heidecker set out to record an equally epic song about the ship, to “see if I could beat the master to it.” The rhyming ballad begins in 1912 and ends in the present day with James Cameron’s decision to re-release The Titanic (1997) in 3-D. “I can’t wait to see how close I got to the real thing!” The album also includes a cover of Dylan’s All the Tired Horses (1970), along with previously unreleased songs inspired by: the failed sequel to suburban biker movie, Wild Hogs (2007); life at home; an assignment from a friend; and fear of death and earthquakes. Heidecker (Tom Goes to the Mayor, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Billion Dollar Movie, is also half of the soft rock band, Heidecker and Wood. 2012, edition of 500, vinyl only." - Orion Read |
|
Artist: HEIDSIECK, BERNARD Title: 50 / 70 Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $15.00 |
|
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HEIDSIECK, BERNARD Title: Poème-Partition X Format: CD/Book Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $66.00 |
| "Poème-Partition X was created by Bernard Heidsieck during 1960 and recorded in October the same year. A few excerpts of the 1st and 4th movements were performed on November 22nd, 1960 at the Quatre Saisons Gallery in Paris, during the Festival of Avant-Garde Art. Poème-Partition X might be considered Heidsiecks first major work, whose duration (more than 40 minutes long) never allowed the author to give a public reading of it. Its destination was a record (released by Alga Marghen in 1996, starting the VocSon LP series, 36 years after its creation)! Alga Marghen is proud to now present this new edition of Poème-Partition X, extended to the CD format and included in a luxury 96 page hardbound book, limited to 350 copies. The book reproduces for the first time the complete score, a visual wonder and a major experimental printed work. Bernard Heidsiecks memories of an historic lecture at the Jean Tinguely atelier is included as an introduction, as well as his testimony on Ian Sommerville and Brion Gysins Dream Machine. Also on the CD is a lecture of extracts of Poème-Partition X accompanied by the saxophone of the American painter Larry Rivers. This recording from 1962 was not included in the LP edition and is here presented for the first time. In August 1962, Bernard Heidsieck went with John Ashberry, the American poet, to dinner at the studio of Jean Tinguely and Niky de Saint Phalle. Larry Rivers had a studio in the same place and was also there. Tinguely prepared grilled meat, skewered on one of his rotating sculptures. After dinner Rivers returned to his studio and began to play, alone and for himself. He earned his living, at the time, by playing sax at an after-hours jazz club. So, while he was playing Bernard Heidsieck joined him in his studio and suggested that they do an improvisation together. Something that Heidsieck had never done before, and has never done since! Larry Rivers immediately accepted, and an appointment was set up at Heidsiecks home a few days later. August 6th, 1962. A dinner party was organized for the same guests who had been at Tinguelys place and this unique 17 minute improvisation was recorded, but until now never released. It was, however, presented at the first Fylkingen Text-Sound Composition Festival in Stockholm in 1968. Luxury hardbound edition limited to 350 copies." -Alga Marghen |
|
Artist: HEISZENBERGER, ANDREAS Title: Solokarriere Format: LP Label: Eventuell Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
| "A few months after his contribution (I Hate You) on Matthias Schaffhäusers Warenkorb #4 , the new Cologne-based label Eventuell is proud to present the first longplayer of visual artist and electronic musician Andreas Heiszenberger from Nürnberg. Heiszenbergers concept of House might remind of Jan Jelineks Farben and Ekkehard Ehlers Betrieb , but is also characterized by his refreshing DIY-approach, experimentalism and very own humour and, its not only because of Heiszenbergers vocals that Solokarriere will suit fans of Justus Köhncke or the new Kompakt Pop serie. Next to the electronic and dance tunes youll find short, narrative interludes of soundpoetry and fieldrecordings together with his regular use of unusual samples, Solokarriere defines a completely new way of compiling a longplayer in electronic music. The record comes in a very special gatefold-cover with sticker, with paintings by Andreas Heiszenberger who also studied with German artist and musician Albert Oehlen (Leiterwagen Records). On the inside youll find a documentation about his visual art work (many coloured paintings and drawings) and a text by Wolfgang Brauneis (in german). This first edition is limited to 280 copies plus 20 copies numbered and signed special edition with an original drawing by Andreas Heiszenberger (now sold out). Eventuell is run by the tonschacht-crew and will be specialised in artists records. Forthcoming releases are planned with Sven-Ake Johansson, Jason Forrest (aka Donna Summer), and a collaboration between Blank with Raymond Pettibon and Tobias Rehberger (together with Grob)." - Eventuell. |
|
Artist: HEITKOTTER, STEPHEN DAVID Title: Heitkotter Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $32.00 |
| "Reissue of this legendary super-rare private press. A three-piece band plays sprawling, inept baked blues led by a mysterious mental patient. Housed in an ultra heavy cardboard sleeve on 180 gram vinyl, with an insert of insightful and speculative liner notes -- the most information youll ever find about this mythic record. Truly one of the great outsider creations ever spawned under a full moon." - FE. "The circumstances behind Heitkotter are obscure and confusing: all that is known for certain is that Steve Heitkotter recorded the LP sometime before 1971, when he and his reluctant brother Bill took unsolicited promotional copies to eight local FM station in Californias San Joaquin Valley. Whoever else may have participated is a mystery: Steven had spent the mid 60s drumming for Fresno garage mainstays the Road Runners, so he had some connections left, but the time after the Runners had reportedly brought him to psychotropic drugs and mental instability, and his family doubts that he was on good terms with enough musicians even to organize a drag jam of messed up desert loner westcoast churning and meandering, like a Magic Band gig falling apart (Paul Major). The LPs murky sound and symbiotically disintegrating musicianship do seem to suggest that the session was cut live to four track, but Bill Heikotter swears that Steve was a loner at the time, alienated from his former bandmates, and that he recorded the album entirely by himself. That makes the amnesia of the musicians, who intermittently forget how to play their instruments, all the more curious, as Steve himself was a good guitarist and quasi-professional drummer, though the influence of drugs, fatigue, or apathy seems plausible enough." - Time-Lag. |
|
Artist: HELDON Title: Agneta Nilsson Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "After our acclaimed reissues of the previous three LPs by Richard Pinhas project Heldon, here is their fourth LP originally issued on Disjuncta/Urus in 1976. Agneta Nilsson is an interesting step in Heldons development: it gives a twist to their classic sound, which was mainly built around Pinhas Fripp-esque guitar work and ambient synth experiments to begin to explore a more rhythmic territory. Drums and bass take more presence here, offering a rockier feel, but somehow retaining the mysterious ambience of its predecessors, while adding an extra touch of sinister aggressiveness. Featuring among others Magmas keyboardist, Patrick Gauthier, it starts pretty much in the same ambient, spacey, minimalist electronic mood of the previous Heldon releases, but as the development of the main title Perspective goes ahead the move towards the more guitar and drums sound of the next to come Heldon sound is evident. Agneta Nilssons sound has been described somewhere as a more sinister Tangerine Dream mixed with a more jammy King Crimson. Our reissue comes housed in a faithful reproduction of the original sleeve. It is made in a strictly limited edition of only 500 copies." -Wah Wah |
|
Artist: HELDON Title: Electronique Guerilla Format: LP + 7" Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "After our string of releases centered around the diverse German 70s scene, were happy to introduce the next installment in the Wah Wah LPS reissue series. This time we move over to France to re-discover the beginnings of one of the most adventurous, influential and innovative French bands of the seventies: Heldon. Centered around guitarist Richard Pinhas and featuring a floating cast of regular collaborators (Didier Batard, François Auger, Patrick Gauthier, Alain Renaud, Georges Grunblatt; Coco Roussel amongst others), Heldon will marry Pinhas personal obsessions of modern philosophy (Deleuze, Guattari), science-fiction (Norman Spinrad, Philip K.Dick), progressive rock (King Crimson, Fripp & Eno), American minimalism (Terry Riley, Steve Reich) and electronic music into a diverse musical cocktail that goes from the violent to the relaxed, but always retaining a dark and mysterious vibe. Often linked by critics and listeners to the experimental German bands of the era (Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel..), Heldon will release six crucial albums before being closed down by Pinhas in the late 70s. Since then, Pinhas has developed a long solo career that lives up to this day, releasing several albums and collaborations (Pascal Comelade, John Livengood, Maurice Dantec), including with Japanese noise king Merzbow. Dedicated to Robert Wyatt, Heldons debut contained a puzzling collection of tracks that serve as a perfect introduction to Pinhas universe: science-fiction, philosophy and musical experimentation collide in a harsh lo-fi tapestry of sounds dominated by Pinhas 1954 Gibson Les Paul guitar and AKS synth. Not unlike some contemporary German bands, Heldon manages to take rock n rolls language to a new experimental stage. Convulsive and evocative soundscapes recommended to all lovers of innovative and ground-breaking music. Strictly limited to 500 copies. High quality sleeves reproducing the original artwork from 1974s first press on Disjuncta. Includes insert with extra liner notes by Spanish journalist and long-time Heldon fan Paco Peiró. Bonus 7" EP with tracks taken from Heldons predecessor band Schizos two EPs. 7" tracklist: A1. Schizo (and the little girl) A2. Paraphrenia Praecox (originally released in 1972) B1. Le Voyageur B2. Torcol (originally released in 1973)" -Wah Wah |
|
Artist: HELDON Title: Third (Its Always Rock n Roll) Format: Double LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $45.00 |
| "After our acclaimed reissues of the first two LPs by French electronic rock pioneers Heldon, we are proud to offer a lavish vinyl version of their third album (also known as Its Always Rock n Roll), where Pinhas and Co. follow the same paths he created with Electronique Guérila under the strong influence of works by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, and of course the contemporanean Krautrock movement. For those of you following our line of releases there will be no need to say that composer, guitarist & electronics innovator Richard Pinhas is recognized as one of Frances major experimental musicians and is a pivotal figure in the development of electronic rock. This third delivery of Heldons works was first released on Disjuncta in 1975 as a double LP and features Richard Pinhas (ARP & VCS3 Synthesizers, guitars, bass, Mellotron) and George Grunblatt (Mellotron, guitars) plus contributions from some other greats of the genre like Patrick Gauthier (ARP synthesizers), Gilbert Artman (of Lard Free fame on drums), Jean My Truong (also on drums) and Ariel Kalma (Indian Harmonium). The double LP set came housed in a beautiful 7-ink gatefold sleeve that we will faithfully reproduce in full glory (that is, including the two extra gold & silver inks print). Four page insert with notes by Paco Peiró relating the story of Pinhas early years is included. Only 500 copies will be pressed! Once they are gone, they are gone -- do not miss it!" - Wah Wah. |
|
Artist: HELL & BUNNY Title: Better Eulogies Are On Their Way Format: Cass Label: Tape Tektoniks Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| "30 minutes of creepy and jazzy improvisations by ben (percussion) and hans (cello) of graveyards and melee fame." - Meu Dia De Morte. |
|
Artist: HELL AND BUNNY WITH GREG KELLEY Title: Burn It For The Nails Format: CDR Label: Brokenresearch Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
|
"After a garish trio-supposed to be a Melee plus Kelley---date in Western Mass it was only a matter time before this trio got together to do the scrape and crunch. Its interesting to see how Kelley approaches the 1/4 speed lurch. In comparison with Olson and Wooley its a bit more fireworks
oriented but there are plenty of glacial exhalation, abrasions and slow wallops to extend the gravenights vocab. Also where Wooley and Olson are fully complicit Kelley is a bit more argumentative--in the best way
possible--in doling out his own formal demolitions that end up with almost downtown moments of cross-pollination and genre car crashes." - Brokenresearch
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HELL PREACHERS INC. Title: Supreme Psychedelic Sound Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $19.00 |
| "A big classic from the psychedelic era, the SUPREME PSYCHEDELIC UNDERGROUND exploitation album is said to have been recorded by DEEP PURPLE, which band members Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore and Ian Paice have always denied. In any case, this sounds more PURPLE than Lord & Co. themselves! Very close to the sound of SHADES OF DEEP PURPLE, it contains some great Hammond works, guitar pirotecnics with loads of wah wah and distortion and psychedelic vocals. The whole album is a sonic blast that will appeal to fans of Deep Purple, psychedelic hipsters and of course general collectors and afficionados." - Wah Wah. |
|
Artist: HELLER, ANNE Title: Fountain of Annihilation Format: LP Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "This is a very harrowing, very out record. The title track covers all of side one, and it is a heaving, heavily-effected monolith of sound, which as the needle draws closer to the inherent black hole of the record, seems to pulverize all the sounds and grooves and then shoot them back out at you as tiny sonic shrapnel. Side two is broken up into more readily digestible pieces, an d showcases Ms. Hellers ability to coax sounds out of clarinet, guitar, theremin, keyboard, castanets, and tapes, all to varying degrees of effect. A track like Vestigial Digit features some low-in-the-mix guitar laid under a wigged and sinister keyboard quiver. Phosphene Damage on a Primal Wave harkens back to the tapestry of side one. The tape insects of the last piece let you down and show you the door back out to the silence." - Luna Kafe. |
|
Artist: HELLVETE Title: Een Duvelse Zak Is Nooit Gevuld Format: Cass Label: Sloow Tapes Country: Belgium Price: $11.00 |
|
"Evil Silvester Anfang boggart passing the gate to the Other World, sucking Liliths breasts on stones of fire while conjuring peacocks of pure form. Flowerpower romance of 80 copies." - Sloow Tapes
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HELLVETTE Title: De Gek Format: LP Label: Kraak Country: Belgium Price: $18.00 |
| "Hellvete is one of the three members who founded the Flemish Funeral Folk collective and a key figure of the satanadelic combo Sylvester Anfang II. Similar to the mothership, his solo work spans from folk-inspired guitar drones to minimalist keyboard esoterica. The significant difference is that his solo songs are more composed and less improvised. De Gek (meaning The Fool) is an epic trip through the different zones of the Hellvete Empire: layered guitar eruptions mix in with modern classical orchestration and dark folk tales. Influences such as Stephen R. Smith and Manuel Göttsching result in abstract sound narrations, that might just as well make one think of medieval folk or Rock In Opposition. On this debut LP all the aspects of what has been baptized the Belgian dronevolkscene culminate in an extraordinary exploration of the Self: a sonic exorcization of old demons and a return to the nostalgic peace of the country side. De Gek is a new interpretation of the modern psychedelic idylle. The Rochefort 10 of the new Belgian guitar folk tradition." - Kraak. |
|
Artist: HELM Title: Cryptography Format: LP Label: Kye Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
|
"Helm is the ambiguous solo moniker of London-based sound architect Luke Younger. Although, perhaps best known as one half of the pioneering avant-drone outfit Birds of Delay, it is in the more esoteric work of Helm that Lukes art takes on its most radical shape. 2010s debut LP To An End confirmed that in an age of fleeting trends and fly-by-night fancies, there were still a few old souls prepared to knuckle down and deliver the goods that people want to receive. Cryptography carries forward that noble mindset, presenting a new five-part suite of expertly rendered electro-acoustic study. Using processed piano, Casio MT-40, cymbal and guitar strings Cryptography steers the Helm sound through a melange of fringe territories: glacial drone meditations, reconfigured gamelan clusters, and howling walls of organized feedback, all coalesced in classic UK post-industrial fashion. Indeed, had it been conceived of 30 years prior, it would be easy to imagine Cryptography winning a seat in the United Dairies, or Dom America catalog, such is its commitment to homemade exploratory zeal. Cryptography arrives in a full color sleeve, with insert, in a hand-numbered edition of 400 copies." -Kye.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HELM Title: Impossible Symmetry Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
|
"Impossible Symmetry is the third full length record by Helm, the project of London-based artist Luke Younger. It marks a new chapter in the artists canon as its his first to be informed by live performance rather than studio experimentation. The recording and engineering was primarily a solo venture, with some technical assistance from John Hannon on a few tracks. Most of the compositions were created out of ideas/improvisations that were conceived in a live context and then fed back into the studio work. The album was recorded over the duration of a year in London with source material culled from acoustic sound sources in a similar methodology to his previous album, Cryptography, while also simultaneously incorporating more extensive use of electronic elements and moments of rhythmic dark ambience recalling the outputs from early Coil and Cabaret Voltaire to even Traversable Wormholes industrial minimalism. His last LP, Cryptography, presented a five-part suite of expertly rendered electro-acoustic study which uses processed piano, Casio MT-40, cymbal and broken guitar strings. Younger creates a world where these instruments morph into spectral rust, a shimmering klang swims alongside passive noise and the relationship between acoustic and electronic derived sounds forms a solid foundation. This sound is steered through a mélange of fringe territories: glacial drone meditations, reconfigured gamelan clusters, and howling walls of organized feedback, all coalesced in a post-industrial fashion with a commitment to homemade exploratory zeal. For the past ten years, Younger has also performed extensively in Europe and the U.S. with Steven Warwick as pioneering avant-drone duo Birds Of Delay. The LP was mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, pressed on 140 gram vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silkscreened PVC sleeve with photos by Traianos Pakioufakis and artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas." -Pan.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HELM Title: Origin Of Misery Format: 3" CDR Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $11.50 |
| "Helm is a new project from Luke Younger who also plays in Birds of Delay. Heavy punishing drone screech noise. Limited hand numbered edition of 50. Comes in professionally printed 4" by 7.5" sheet folded to make a small black booklet." - Blackest Rainbow. |
|
Artist: HEMATIC SUNSETS Title: Aroma Club Paradox Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
|
"Hematic Sunsets is an alias (an anagram to be exact) for German Soundartist Asmus Tietchens from Hamburg. Tietchens is a self taught artist with more than 50 LP and CD releases on numerous labels (Nurse With Wounds United Dairies, Sky Records, the Mille Plateaux sub-label Ritornell, Staalplaat, Selektion, recent albums on Richard Chartiers Line label and a massive reissue series on Die Stadt, to name but a few). His solo works are mainly concerned with the manipulation of concrete sounds and (most recently) pure sine waves (on his Mengen series) and their placement (assemblage?) in time and space.
While his solo efforts are often austere formal works (yet never lacking a twisted humour),Hematic Sunsets is a different beast altogether. Reminiscent of his Sky-era attempts with rhythm and melody, the Aroma Club series is Tietchens warped, almost parodic (per)version of lounge music. Each record of the series is based on the sounds and rhythms of one particular (preferredly cheap) organ/keyboard, usually a Yamaha product (this time its the PSR 36). While the last Club LP was recorded with several guests (Felix Kubin, Michael Rother...) and the 2007 X-mas 7" was a collaboration with long-time "producer" Okko Bekker, "Aroma Club Paradox" is another solo effort (collaborating with several fictitious anagrams/characters though).
The result is a timeless and completely unique take on muzak using cheap keyboard sounds usually associated to drunk wedding bands or your grandmothers home organ family music. Tietchens elaborately transforms the cheesy associations into cold, bloodless, almost unhuman pop tunes totally lacking the sensationalism and pseudo-fervour of most music, especially modern pop music.
Limited edition of 500 copies in baby blue heavy vinyl!" - Dekorder.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HEMATIC SUNSETS Title: Zu Gast in Aroma Club Format: LP Label: Klang Der Festung Country: Germany Price: $21.00 |
|
"Hematic Sunsets is Asmus Tietchens. The music he releases under this name is sometimes similar in style to the Pop Music he produced in the early 80s during his SKY phase. This is the third LP release on his own Klang Der Festing label following Musik aus dem Aroma Club (KdF1) and Rendezvous im Aroma Club (KdF2) which were both recorded by himself. With Zu Gast im Aroma Club he, for the first time, invited guests to join him in his club: Michael Rother, Okko Bekker, Felix Kubin, Jetzmann, Stefan Ebinger." - Klang Der Festung. Highly recommended! 2004 release.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HEMATIC SUNSETS & OKKO BEKKER Title: Weihnachten Im Aroma Club Format: 7" Label: Meeuw Muzak Country: Netherlands Price: $6.50 |
|
Asmus Teichens side project. Limited to 300.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HEMPHILL, SID Title: The Devils Dream Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Multi-instrumentalist, band-leader, and composer Sid Hemphill (1876-1961) was for decades the musical patriarch of the Mississippi Hill Country. He and his band -- comprised of Alec Turpentine Askew, Will Head, and Lucius Smith were fixtures at dances, picnics, and frolics throughout the right triangle formed by Memphis, the Delta, and the Hill Country. This LP features Alan Lomaxs first recording of Blind Sid in August 1942, near Sledge, Mississippi, where the Hemphill band was appearing at a country picnic. By that date hundreds of commercial records had been made of the music of the Delta, and the preponderance of those were of or relating to the blues form, with guitar or piano accompaniment. Lomaxs recordings were the first made of the Hill Countrys local music, and contributed to a broader perspective of black vernacular instrumentation with their inclusion of the fiddle and banjo of the string band, the fife and drum ensemble, and the cane panpipes or quills. This music is wild & loose & of a style seldom heard. Includes liner notes insert by Nathan Salsburg." -Mississippi. |
|
Artist: HENDERSON WITH JOHN RENBOURN, DORRIS Title: Watch the Stars Format: CD Label: Fledgling Country: UK Price: $15.50 |
| "First released in 1967, Watch The Stars is a remarkable long-lost gem from the mid-sixties British folk revival. A beautiful collection of folk, blues and haikus, the album melds a folk-boom topicality with a fine beat sensibility; uniting the Afro-American West Coast with suburban London. Long out-of-print, the record is an early milestone in the careers of Dorris Henderson and John Renbourn. On Watch The Stars Dorris and John are joined by the classical guitarist Tim Walker and Danny Thompson (from Pentangle) on double bass. Contains two songs written by Anne Briggs and an early cover of Arthur Lees Message To Pretty. For this carefully remastered edition Fledgling have restored all the elements of the original artwork and added several previously unpublished photographs. Not previously available on compact disc. Deluxe slipcased packaging." - Fledgling. |
|
Artist: HENN, JASON Title: Sunburst Farms Format: CDR Label: Lrrc Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "pieces inspired by recent employment in the lower ranks of a flower factory. cdr in 12" sleeve, includes an assortment of collage cards. great improvs and three tracks of unaccompanied yelling." - Lrrc. Jason Henn from Elephant Micah. Numbered edition of 50. 2006 release. |
|
Artist: HENN, JASON/KITCHEN TYPISTS Title: Oh, Look Out Format: CDR Label: Third Uncle Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "jasons work as kitchen typists has always juxtaposed humorous with harmonious sound environments. often noisy, always changing. this disc includes the audio from first announcements, originally a 78 rpm 10 inch lathe hand-cut by nemo at time-lag records. lots of other material on here, too. black cdrs. 50 copies made." Jason Henn from Elephant Micah. |
|
Artist: HENNEMAN, SIMON Title: Black Magic and Mustache Format: LP Label: Assophon Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Seattle-based Simon Hennemans first solo vinyl release is here. Mr. Henneman has worn many hats in the musical vortex of the Seattle sub-underground, most "famously" as one of the Diminished Men, who released an LP on the Sun City Girls Abduction label in 2009. That LP gave the lucky few who procured a copy an idea of the talents of that great band. Here, Mr. Henneman strikes out on his own and creates a solo journey of a much more intimate palette. Playing every instrument on the record (guitars, bass, saxophones, clarinet, percussion, keys), Mr. Henneman evokes a mood and mystery unmatched. From the ethno jazz/noir played in a Turkish harem vibe to the soundtrack for flipping through a Raymond Carver novella illustrated by Raymond Pettibon, this LP slithers into the subconscious and throws you against a back alley wall to seduce you into making a real bad decision seem OK! Limited edition of 300 copies only." -Assophon. |
|
Artist: HENNIX, CATHERINE CHRISTER Title: Live At The Grimm Museum Vol. 1 Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| 2013 repress. "Blues Dhikr Al-Salam (Blues Al Maqam) for voice, brass, computer and live electronics in the mixed-media environment Nur/Soliton(E) Star. The world premiere of the infinitary computer animation NUR and the accompanying infinitary computer sound composition Soliton(E) Star were given at Diapason Gallery (NYC) for the celebration of La Monte Youngs 70th birthday in 2005. Catherine Christer Hennix has now extended this installation in the venerable tradition of the pentatonic blues for a live-electronic ensemble. Recorded live on Sunday August 14, 2011 at the Grimm Museum, Berlin." - Important. |
|
Artist: HENNIX, CATHERINE CHRISTER Title: The Electric Harpsichord Format: CD/Book Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $21.00 |
| "2nd pressing with new lower pricing. After the limited art edition quickly sold out, The Electric Harpsichord is now reprinted -- in its complete form -- in a new elegant white boxed edition. Known to the very few, The Electric Harpsichord is possibly THE obscure masterpiece of early American minimalism. Recorded live in 1976 after many years of study under the guidance of Pandit Pran Nath and La Monte Young, it has finally found the perfect home in the Die Schachtel catalog, now in an elegant white boxed 56-page book+CD edition, that gives the work the space and merit it deserves as a unique work of art, complete with two poems by La Monte Young especially written for this edition, and an extensive essay by Henry Flynt. An improvisation performed on just intonation-tuned keyboards put through time-lag accumulators similar to those used by Terry Riley, Hennix has produced one of the most remarkable pieces of music to emerge from the La Monte Young school of minimalism. A Sweden-born composer, who studied in the tradition of Xenakis and Stockhausen in the 1960s, Hennix met La Monte Young and Hindustani raga master Pandit Pran Nath at the Nuits du Fondation Maeght festival in 1970, and pursued studies with both men during the 1970s. While the use of the time-lag in Rileys works such as "A Rainbow In Curved Air" results in an experience of blissful, focused, samadhi-like calm, Hennixs drone work has more in common with the chaotic fluxes of psychedelic experience or the mandalas of Tibetan Buddhism. This is a moving eternity, a pulsating, shifting-something like a raga perhaps, insofar as a raga is a specific deity invoked into sound, fluttering inside the matrix of the drone. Catherine Christer Hennix: keyboard and custom sine wave generators. Recorded live at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi." - Die Schachtel. |
|
Artist: HENRITZI, MICHEL & JUNKO Title: Fear of Music / Berlin, With Love Format: 7" Label: lEsprit de lEscalier Country: France Price: $20.00 |
| "The stamina-defying screamer of Japanese noise and longtime vocalist for HIJO KAIDAN joins wrecker of civilization and one-third of THE DUSTBREEDERS for two sides of very pleasant unpleasantness. MICHEL HENRITZIs improvised guitar-playing is the real surprise here, with its curiously cinema-conscious restraint, hovering around the perplexing intersection of an imaginary Giallo scored by Morricone and the calm brunch entertainment at a grim eastern European cafe. Quite a deviation from the "glorious, unholy racket" of his vinyl-noise trio. JUNKO, meanwhile, colors the foreground with her trademark bird-getting-strangled-by-a-dentist-on-a-chalkboard vocals (say whatever you want, comedian, shes heard it all before) but here shrieks with almost zero adornment, to the point where she achieves an unusual variation on repetitive minimalism. The sublime tension between the two players forms a rarely heard, abject desperation that seems impossible to satisfy. Edition of 100." -lEsprit de lEscalier. |
|
Artist: HENRY & HAZEL SLAUGHTER Title: Freeform Crawlin Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "new recordings in FREE FORM style, welcome to a strange and entangled living yo...color covers, edition of 40 numbered" - American Tapes. |
|
Artist: HENRY & HAZEL SLAUGHTER Title: Permanent Collection Format: 4 CDR Set Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
|
"Four cd collection of a gaggle of H & H songs. Handmade covers." -American Tapes
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HENRY & HAZEL SLAUGHTER Title: Sideways Gas Washers Format: One-Sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
|
"Debut LP of homemade raw basement techno. Ten Tracks all ending in lock grooves. Color vinyl. Handmade covers. Edition 200 numbered." -American Tapes
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HENRY, PIERRE Title: Le Voile dOrphee Format: LP Label: Doxy Country: Italy Price: $25.00 |
| "Pierre Henrys 1953 Veil of Orpheus is the first example of symphonic musique concrete, the use of non-traditional sources and real sounds like trains, dogs barking, footsteps, etc., in place of actual instruments and then electronically manipulating these sounds in new ways. It was originally composed for the opera Orpheus 53, which was written with movement founder Pierre Schaeffer for the Donauescliingen Festival. Despite the quantum leaps made in the field of electronics over the past 50 years, this initial experiment still manages to convey its original importance. The piece uses concrete sounds much in the same way a traditional orchestra would use individual instruments. Besides two versions of Veil of Orpheus (the original 27-minute version and the second 15-minute version used in the Maurice Bejart-Pierre Henry ballet Orpheus in 1958), there are two shorter pieces -- Entity and Spiral -- which evoke an unsettling search for meaning that is so often associated with Henrys work." -Doxy. |
|
Artist: HENRY, PIERRE Title: Musique Sans Titre/Spatiodynamisme Format: LP Label: Doxy Country: Italy Price: $25.00 |
| "Musique Sans Titre, composed in 1951 at the Studio dessai of the RTF, was one of Henrys earliest attempts at musique concrète. Spatiodynamisme, on the other hand, was based on the 1954 recordings of a Nicolas Schöffer sound sculpture. Metallic parts, mirrors, lights and sounds emanating from a 50-meter building interacted with the environment and visitors. Henry recorded various grating and scraping sounds from the metallic sculpture and then manipulated them for this piece, which was influenced by Italian Futurist Luigi Russolos LArte Dei Rumori." -Doxy. |
|
Artist: HENRY, PIERRE/GEIR EGEL BERGJORD Title: Pierre Henrys House Of Sounds Format: Hardcover Book/CD Label: Gilka Country: Norway Price: $52.00 |
|
"Since 1971, Pierre Henry has lived and worked in one of the remaining buildings in the Picpus area of Paris. Not only the composers workshop, a place to create music, his four storey house is a true museum of sounds, objects and assemblages put together by this genuine innovator. In addition, with the audience seated in separate rooms, the house occasionally serves as a venue for concerts generously conducted in his own home. The book is a meeting between the camera of Bergjord, who seems to track the invisible through the object, and this oneiric world created by Henry in his house. The result creates its own imaginary structure, moving room by room, like a visit in the house, from macro close-ups to overviews. A seemingly endless flow of photos – accompanied by a CD with previously unreleased pieces by Henry." -Gilka. SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HENSKE & JERRY YESTER, JUDY Title: Farewell Aldebaran Format: LP Label: Klimt Country: France Price: $23.00 |
|
"Originally released on Frank Zappas Straight! Records in 1969 and limited to 1,000 copies, Farewell Aldebaran is an inspired one-off project by singer Judy Henske and (ex-Association and Lovin Spoonful member) Jerry Yester. Henskes amazing vocal range and the albums wonderfully eclectic feel (while still firmly rooted in psychedelia) makes one wonder why Henske & Yester did not become bigger stars. A true cult item, combining the help of guest musicians of the calibre of Bernie Krause (Beaver & Krause), Solomon Feldthouse/David Lindley (Kaleidoscope), Ry Cooder and Dick Rosmini. Now reissued for the first time ever on vinyl!" -Klimt
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HERBCRAFT Title: Ashram To The Stars Format: LP Label: Hello Sunshine/Woodsist Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "One of the most gifted abstract sonic pilots from the Vacationland stable, Portland, Maine, artist MATT LAJOIE enjoys a larger-than-Sasquatch reputation for his free folk personality and unpredictable takes on Spectrasound techniques. Although he and his merry band are one of the most charismatic tribes of the New England underground-you gotta see them live-they blossom from psychedelic occurrences that lead to bursts of pacifist oblivion which can only be redeemed inside their studio output. The momentum Lajoie deploys in his polar expressions indicates a supply of time-manipulated balance. An accretion of bucket brigades warping wildly at first breath, generally considered a condition of primitivism, this is searchlight abandonment with purely spirited jams more akin to the tapers pit than slam continuance. In fact, the only thing slammed here (other than the muted poetry echoing like buoys in Golowins harbor) are the in the red meters on fire signs from fire music providing ease with earth, wind and air. Long may we inhale. "This is a heady atmosphere, an atmosphere for heads, and it not only delivers the contempo dreamlike aspect at the apex of its form, but transcends it to those revolving with them. Take this fucker for a spin."-Matt Valentine, Vermont, 2011. "Limited edition of 500 copies. July 2011 US tour dates in the works." -Hello Sunshine/Woodsist |
|
Artist: HERBCRAFT Title: Discovers the Bitter Water of Agartha Format: LP Label: Hello Sunshine Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "December 2009: Inspiration dependently arising; Blows Against The Empire in one hand, Admiral Richard Byrds secret diary in the other. Days after returning to Maine after three heavy months on the road, Matthew Lajoie (Cursillistas) awoke one morning having dreamt the existence of a lost 1973 private press concept record about the exploration of inner Earth and the advanced civilization thriving at its center. Agartha; Shambhala: the domain of the Arianni. Using Byrds account as the thematic framework for the album, he feverishly poured forth a representation of the dreamt record, writing and recording the entire LP in a single 24-hour period - guided by sonic Ouija. The result is a cosmic antenna with dials tuned to the Planet Earth Rock & Roll Orchestra, obscure psych-prog spacecasts, and classic rock radio, all refracted through the dusty, cracked and scratched Cursillistas prism. Performed entirely on a borrowed thrift store electric guitar and broken microphone, Herbcraft Discovers The Bitter Water Of Agartha was birthed in the Now to scatter the seeds of Agarthas message in our Aquarian Dark Age." - Hello Sunshine. New label run by the folks at Woodsist. |
|
Artist: HERBCRAFT Title: Papers Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "This 43-minute cassette compiles previously-unreleased material recorded between the Discovers... Agartha LP and the first live band performances. Includes live rehearsal tape versions of two songs from the LP, plus five brand-new songs. Recorded at New Wyrd 33, February-March 2010." -Fuck It tapes. |
|
Artist: HERBERTSON, SIMON/E.H.I. Title: Split Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Matching Head Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
|
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HERESY OF THE FREE SPIRIT Title: A Prayer For Light Format: LP Label: Incunabulum Country: Netherlands Price: $18.00 |
| "Heresy of the Free Spirit is a trio comprised of Dutch lute player, Jozef Van Wissem and Brooklyn based multi-instrumentalists, Che Chen (of True Primes) on violin, bowed rawap, bass recorder, percussion and tape machines, and Robbie Lee (of Howling Hex, Baby Dee) on portative organ, bass recorder, guitar, banjo and electronics. Using early European as well as non-western instruments and electronics, the trio plays arrangements of Van Wissems lute compositions as well as free improvisations that draw on early music, folk traditions, minimalism and noise. Fully utilizing the extended techniques, unique textures and tuning possibilities of their unusual instruments, the trio use both repetition and silence as ways of entering trance-like states. Their record, A Prayer for Light is a radical re-imagining of early European and American primitive music in which the sources are stretched and re-purposed to accommodate free improvisation, extended, repetitive song forms, and tape manipulations." - Incunabulum. |
|
Artist: HERO WOUTERS Title: Muziek voor Leven en Dood Format: LP Label: Enfant Terrible Country: Netherlands Price: $22.00 |
| "Psychedelic minimal electronics from the early 80s by Dutch artist Hero Wouters. The LP comes on crystal clear vinyl, with two inserts and a beautiful sleeve with an artwork by Maaike." -Enfant Terrible. |
|
Artist: HEROES OF HISTORY Title: Lightning and Thunder Format: LP Label: Monster Claw Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
|
"I was pretty impressed right off the bat by the artwork and lo-fi promo material sent along with this. The kind of aesthetic and attention to detail usually reserved for high school notebook covers or Dungeons and Dragons character sheets. Then you notice that this was actually recorded at Used Kids by Mike Rep?! I thought that was odd, but after you listen to this you realize it does have whatever you want call the Columbus "vibe", which is just another way of saying this is music made by weirdos. Semi-inept garage-rocking with a heavy metal influence. The Gizmos if they wrote songs about swords and sorcery instead of muff diving and partying? Early Rep/Jay catalog if they were more concerned with horror movies and fantasy novels instead of Lou Reed? Midnight doing Penetrators covers? Only in Ohio, Ill say that for sure. Mid-tempo rockers with dum-dum riffs, an eccentric singer who actually pulls this shit off sounding great and just goofily enough to make you really like his style. Backing vox are wonderfully dumb as are most if not all of these tunes. Rep gets the most out of these guys, making it sound just cruddy enough, guitar is solid, drums have just the right trashy sound, bass holds it all steady. There are at least ten songs here I love out of fourteen, which are all listenable at the very least. "A Quarter Werewolf" is the hit, "Zombies Gots To Eat", "Witch" (not a cover), "Welcome to My Grave", "Wormhole", all winners. "Rock Assassins" is their tough guy statement, and Im a believer. Loner-outsider-whatever garage-punk rock, this thing is really likeable for obvious reasons. I dont think theyre trying really hard to be funny-dumb here, I think theyre just trying to kick ass and fucking succeeding at it, with maybe a few laughs along the way. Id buy this on vinyl in a second, as long as they include the lyric sheet and band photo (pictured), which are very entertaining in their own right. Another one of those bands you could mistake for a KBD-punk classic if you didnlt know they were modern. Recommended to the highest degree!" -Rich Kroneiss, TERMINAL BOREDOM (Review of the CDR version from earlier this year).
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HERTTA LUSSU ASSA Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Gnomic no-fi plunk, wheeze, rattle and moan courtesy of an unfortunately monikered (well...at least to English language readers anyway...it probably means something just lovely in Finnish...) supergroup comprised of Jonna Karanka aka Kuupuu, Laura Naukkarinen aka Lau Nau and Merja Kokkonen aka Islaja that draws from the seemingly eternal well of stoned detuned mischief that feeds the viaducts of the Finnish underground. The sheer density of acts positing variants on this same post-Amon Duul/Siloah-like freakout stylee there gives rise to questions of bandwagon hopping, but thats a discussion for another time. For the here and now, this first release of theirs is a choice manifestation of heavy-lidded third-mind acoustic weirdity thats as ungainly as it is mystically/chemically blasted." -De Stijl |
|
Artist: HESSEN GANZ GROSS Title: Hessen, Ganz Groÿ! Format: 12" Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
|
"6 Songs taken from their one and only Cassette on the DISKRET Label, recorded in 1981. 20 Minutes of pure Minimalism. "Unter der Achsel" aka "Die Urgesile" appeared on the rare KASSETTENTÿTER Vol.1 Bootleg LP. This one is a SYNTHETIK TANZHAMMER if you know what I mean." - WSDP.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HEVOSET Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
|
"Hevoset is the duo of two of the most enigmatic individuals of the Finnish Underground, namely Jan Anderzen and Jani Hirvonen, both hailing from Tampere. Anderzen is ringleader of a mysterious multitudinous beast known as Kemialliset Ystävät (Fonal Records), a part-time member of Avarus and Islaja and records solo as Tomutonttu (Ultra Exzema, Beta-Lactam Ring Records) with a new album coming out on Dekorder this year (hopefully). Hirvonen is best-known under his Uton monicker with two LPs on Dekorder and a stream of releases on Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, Ruralfauna, Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana and his own Ikuisuus label.
While most one-off meetings between so-called experimental and improvising musicians often sound like bad excuses for a few beers and endless jams this is quite the opposite - a heavy weight championship finale of two like-minded whizkids cross-fertilizing each other with idea after idea, leading to some of the weirdest and quixotic recordings you will have heard of the two.
Everything you loved about Kemialliset Ystävät, Uton and Tomutonttu is contained in Hevoset.....and more. Rural psychedelia, out-of-tune plucked and strummed strings, overloaded organs and effect pedals, Jani Hirvonens sweet wordless vocals, ecstatic improvised drone collages, bells, backward loops, jungle percussion and tons of unidentifiable sounds and noises shaped into tight 4 - 6 minute tracks." - Dekorder.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HEXLOVE Title: Holy Mountain Format: CD Label: Knew Abloom (Lifes Hood) Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Southern Illinois native ZAC NELSON is a drummer, and knowing that you should also know that he is a madman. One of the few known photos of him looks like a cult leader or someone who might know a thing or two about eating diamonds. While he is a current member of WHOS YOUR FAVORITE SON GOD and PRINTS, HEXLOVE is Nelson all by himself going nuts. Nelsons enthusiastic mania is not just in the realm of Keith Moon-ness but as a multi-instrumentalist who channels Dennis Wilson, Neil Michael Haggerty, and post-Vision Creation Newsun Boredoms, and combine it all and play it off like it was mixed by Tod Dockstader. No one is ever going to think you should listen to Knew Abloom on nitrous because it already sounds like its on nitrous. Simply put, Hexlove is unlike anything and sounds exactly like right now should." - Holy Mountain |
|
Artist: HEXLOVE Title: Want To Be Nice Format: CD Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Hey, sometimes everything gets a little too much and the ol nostrils feel constricted and the stomach feels empty and inside out. Just step out of it [like a transparent sphere]. I was always told to use a warm towel. However. What is this Hexlove shit doing to me right now? Putting me on the ropes, yo. West Coasting Zac Nelson double-doses and lifts this rump roast with layers of sprite-like bliss wafting; a come-and-go series of ghosts over spans of time then in fact here comes a complete cosmic sine-flute journey. I dont know, maybe Vangelis and Klaus Schulze get fed each others good vibes and then, oh yeah, the realness of the sound and a weight or extreme heaviness. Walls, sheets, large tarps of these good vibes get spun by a sampler dish of Sunroof-esque absolute humnburn clatter, completely searing, straight-up whopper, and somewhere around the near edge of celestial submerged polyorchestral non-existence emersion into microshard peaks of looping bucolic, stoney walk-on-the-water synth(?) fragment melody permeation you -- eventually, no matter where you are -- youre pretty much lost in a mellow excitement/familiar space I think someone whispered my name - type deal. All the mentioned unfolds in one 39 minute track." -Loren Shimanek |
|
Artist: HEXLOVE/FAULOUAH Title: Free Jazz From Slavery Format: Double LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "If one were dim enough to go about explaining the new double LP from Hexlove/Faulouah by pointing up parallels between it and the future-thinking music which has surely influenced its creator, I imagine the task wouldnt be too daunting. One may first notice that Free Jazz From Slavery is awash in the sublimely complex percussion patterns of 20th century composers like Harry Partch, Eugene Kurtz, and Iannis Xenakis. Or one might wonder if Zac Nelson, the man in the cockpit of this thing, hadnt been listening to Another Green World since he was in the womb. And certainly it wouldnt be a stretch to say that the jibing spirit of early-80s Pere Ubu experimentation is all over the more flippant efforts like Dont Say I Didnt Warm Yah and the watery blurb that opens the record, Aztec vs. Dolphin. This, though, is the wrong way to go about listening to or talking about any of Hexlove/Faulouahs work. Musical ancestors are worn proudly on Nelsons sleeve, but as eagerly as he celebrates them, he also delights in taking them, along with himself, down a peg. The snarky punning of the albums title, the faux-shamanic chanting and cooing, the deliberately murked-up and buzzing arrangements, all belie an agenda that involves not only a glad embrace of the less austere reaches of avant-gardism but a pointed critique of its elitism and intellectual posturing. Tracks like the doom-laden Lots of Wings Carry Seeds, which pulses like the metabolism of some slumbering extinct beast, display a staggering sense of grey beauty but are quickly undercut when Nelson begins to take a more blithe and self-deprecating tack. This, though, is not to the records detriment; it never falls into mere novelty or self-parody. The sheer technical brilliance, evident on every track, earns quite a big spot on Nelsons cheek to put his tongue in. The most glorious moments, though, are those in which he is able to marry these two tendencies, as on the desperate and busy Grump up the Volume, which opens the second side of the first record. And this is just the first record. All doubts that may have been lingering about Nelsons seriousness or capabilities vanish completely after even the most cursory listen to the second record. Alone, it is a startlingly focused and beautiful ambient masterwork, but it shines all the more when it is coupled with the chaos of the first record. The long, breathing pieces are tranquil and meditative, yet never naïve or on the look-out for a place in The New Age. Under every track, however, spare and delicate, lurks an anxiety that constantly threatens to swallow all delusions of well-being. Though it drones and broods, it is never without texture. Alive with the haunting organ of Exits Very Damp or the subtle xylophone flourishes of Big Happy Lotus, it manages to maintain a clean, coherent spirit without becoming sterile or devolving into massage music. The side-long closer and centerpiece of the album, Psychopomp, though, is as sparse and heavenly as music gets, but it still attains such a raw human beauty that after you hear it, the last thing you want to do is lie down for a massage. Rather, you want to run out and find the human who created it and thank him." --Steve Rodgers |
|
Artist: HEXMORB Title: Piss Rotten/Shit Ass Weird Format: Cass Label: Unskilled Labor Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
|
Limited hand stamped cassette on Christopher Forgues (Kites) Unskilled Labor. features: Dribble Dutch- Vocals, Gnome Silent Wind- Drums, Electronics, and Kim Guillotine- Tapes, Pedals, Reverb, Mix. Recorded April 2007
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HEXMORB Title: Red Lights In The Reflective Cave 1 Format: Cass Label: Unskilled Labor Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
|
Limited hand stamped cassette on Christopher Forgues (Kites) Unskilled Labor. features: Dribble Dutch- Synth, Tapes, Vocal Kim Guillotine- Synth, Tapes, Vocal, Mix Ferox Head- Tapes, Mix Superior Human Vomit- Strings
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HI GOD PEOPLE Title: Play To The Temple Of Depth Format: CD Label: Spill Country: Austrailia Price: $12.50 |
|
"HGP make improvised music which draws from sources such as space rock, musique concrete, experimental electronics, and Balinese and Middle Eastern music. The band consists of Dylan Krasevac (Snawklor, Fong), Dion Nania (Panel of Judges, Golden Lifestyle Band), Greg Wadley (New Waver, Thou Gideon, Tedium, Spill label) and Julian Williams (Solids, Above Ground Pool, From The Same Mother label). These diverse backgrounds make for an unpredictable outcome. Instrumentation is sometimes guitar, bass, drums, vocals, percussion and sound effects, but diversifies frequently. Recent live shows include a performance on sine wave generators at the Planet Cafe, and another using portable keyboards at the Builders Arms. The band began playing in 1997, and released their first cd Nega the Eight-Headed Serpent on the Varispeed label in 1998. To make their new cd, HGP collected live and studio recordings over a period of two years, then spend a year chopping them up and mixing the bits together. About seven hours of material was distilled into 35 minutes of cutup / remix hell, spread over 13 tracks on the cd. The disc also contains a video, for playing on a computer. The footage is from a recent play by Julian Williams, which was performed in 2001 at a car park at the Collingwood Housing Estate." -Spill.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HI-GOD PEOPLE / ZOND Title: Split Format: LP Label: Spanish Magic Country: Australia Price: $27.00 |
| "The HI-GOD PEOPLE side was recorded around the same time as their recent split 12-inch with fellow NZers The Dead C; it has live snippets from their show at The Palace supporting Sonic Youth and recordings from a radio 3CR session. Their live shows vary from cosmic rock jams to evolution performance art epics. Pop stars doing the tango with some psychedelic monk. Named after a satellite of the USSR, Melbourne Australias ZOND broadcast dark ecstasy from a place far below outer space, like a Rorschach blot or a Freudian analysis gone wrong. Their live shows vary from a screaming psychedelic car crash to ambient metal. With current and past members of ON, FONG, LIBRARY PUNKS, MUM SMOKES, NED & THE MEDS, and THE STABS. All covers are handmade (screen prints, stencils, hand carved stamps). Australian import." - Spanish Magic |
|
Artist: HIATUS Title: Zero Equals Infinity Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: High Tension House Country: New Zealand Price: $12.00 |
| "Christchurchs premier free jizz trio create enough nervous tension to collapse the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Two conflicting pieces of abstract sound constructions... One hour beats your year." - High Tension House. Features Hamish Noonan, Tim McDonald, and Nick Hodgson. 1998 release. |
|
Artist: HICKORY WIND Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Merry Go Round Country: Korea Price: $20.00 |
|
"This Indiana based band released only a handful of copy which full of variety with psychedelic tunes. Sounds much alike the acid rock era of The Byrds & Buffalo Springfield. Also this reissue features 4 bonus tracks of B.F Trike which founded by three members after disbanded Hickory Wind." Packaged in a high quality mini-LP style gatefold jacket, with insert, Limited to 1000 copies. "-Merry Go Round
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HICKORY WIND Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Klimt Country: France Price: $25.00 |
| "Before morphing into the excellent psych trio, B.F. Trike, Hickory Wind (from Evansville, Indiana), released one brilliant, and extremely rare, country psych album in 1969. Just 100 copies were pressed for the Gigantic label, and originals have been known to change hands for a small fortune. The album features excellent vocals, plus an interesting mix of fuzz guitar, and droning organ, as well as some wonderfully melodic songs. This reissue also features four bonus tracks from the B.F. Trike album session, recorded for RCA Records in Nashville, Tennessee in 1971. The B.F. Trike album, however, remained in the vaults for 25 years, before it was finally uncovered and given its just recognition in the mid-nineties." -Klimt. |
|
Artist: HIDALGO, JUAN Title: Tamaran (Gocce di sperma per dodici panofori) Format: LP Label: Get Back Country: Italy Price: $15.00 |
|
"Originally released in 1974 on Cramps as number 2 in the Nova Musicha series, this is a brilliant conceptual work for 12 pianos. Juan Hidalgo, a leading figure in the Spanish avant-garde scene, is assisted here by Walter Marchetti. Contains photos and excerpts of musical score. Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram HQ vinyl."
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIDALGO, JUAN Title: Una Voz Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $17.50 |
|
"ZAJ has always been located close to the limits of the arts, the music, the theatre, the writing, the word, the object, the body. This has conducted to stay at the borders of the traditional artistic circuits, of the institutional spaces and, curiously enough, of the official vanguardias (fluxus, wiener aktionismus, etcS?). Since 1964 ZAJ organise several festivals and premiered most of the compositions of Walter Marchetti and Juan Hidalgo. They also invited other composers including the devastating performance of Fontana-Mix-Feed by Max Neuhaus in 1965 and a reading of Bernard Heidsieck in 1967. They privately issued 5 ZAJ-books: Juan Hidalgo Viaje a Argel, 1967, and De Juan Hidalgo, 1971; José Luis Castillejo La Caida de lAvion, 1967, and La Politica, 1968; Walter Marchetti Larpocrate seduto sul loto, 1968. But they never produced a recordS? And here it is, the first ZAJ record ever issued: Una Voz, written by Juan Hidalgo, read by Javier Martinez Cuadrado and recorded by Walter Marchetti who also added some music by opening the windows on Paseo de Santa Maria de la Cabeza. An evening in Madrid on September 1967. As Juan Hidalgo wrote for the liner notes: I spent about 10 years reading, hearing and meditating, outside, around and inside Zen Buddhism. Una Voz, this repetitive vocal music, couldnt have been conceived without these circumstances. This metaphysic work developed in the years I was living in Italy; first in Milan and then in Rome. Walter Marchetti and John Cage supported all this with their knowledge and friendship. The final result is a reflection on life, non-life, pain and pleasure. This project has been coordinated by Walter Marchetti who strongly wanted this LP to be the first ZAJ record. This edition also includes a 16 pages booklet (size cm. 30x30) with the complete Spanish text (first published in De Juan Hidalgo) and the English translation. Edition of 323 copies." - Alga Marghen.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIEROGLYPHIC BEING Title: A Romance of 2 Planets Format: 12" Label: Alter Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "All-new EP from Hieroglyphic Being aka Jamal Moss, who has nailed a highly unique sound that draws from acid, Chicago house, industrial, and new age music, produced through primitive means which successfully captures a raw intensity. A Romance of 2 Planets presents three lengthy pieces, comprising of off-center techno which incorporates primal four-to-the-floor drum machine stabs, erratic and disjointed melodies that duck and dive around arpeggiated synth lines, and a self-imposed rough style of editing. Limited to 500 copies housed in color LP sleeves." - Alter |
|
Artist: HIEROGLYPHIC BEING Title: Le Jardin des Chemins Bifurquants Format: LP Label: audioMER Country: Belgium Price: $25.00 |
| "2011 release. Le Jardin des Chemins Bifurquants is the first full length album from Chicago based electronic music artist, producer, and DJ Jamal R. Moss aka Hieroglyphic Being. Educated by house legends Adonis and Steve Pointdexter, hes been following a singular musical path, producing a gritty futuristic meltdown of house, free jazz, new age, and noise. For this record, Jamal worked with the concept of plants having a religion, and the question of what their way of worship would be. This resulted in a dark, deep-space overture with raw synth stabs, extreme pitch-shifted textures, and hypnotic tribal rhythms somewhat reminiscent of Sun Ras interstellar electric keyboard explorations. Le Jardin des Chemins Bifurquants is an unclassifiable tour de force that is oozing with profound cosmic meaning. Artwork by visual artist Robert Beatty (Hair Police)." - audioMER. |
|
Artist: HIGASHI, HIROSHI Title: Solo Format: LP Label: Eclipse/Galactic Zoo Disk Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
|
"Gorgeous soundscapes by Acid Mothers Temple wildman Hiroshi Higashi. As 2nd guitarist in AMT (dont dare say rhythm guitarist hes so much more!) and synth abuser holy man extreme, hes dazzled audiences the world over with his mixture of controlled acidic sounds and utter reckless abandon damaging nearly as many instruments as master Makoto. We are granted this gift from the same gods that oversaw the experiments of Florian Fricke, Rudolph Grey, and some Pink Floyd worshipping stoners throughout the ages. Yes folks, these are some shimmering meditations that test the boundaries of electronic equipment, while maintaining a creamy center. Call them audio hallucinations or new age if you must, just dont blame me when youre looking down at your body. To support his numerous travels and devil-may-care lifestyle, most of the sound generating devices are in hock now so dont expect another anytime soon or ever." - Galactic Zoo Disk/Eclipse.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIGGINS, DICK Title: The Thousand Symphonies Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $21.00 |
| "Alga Marghen presents the first edition ever issued of Dick Higgins music. Fluxus founding member, in 1958 Dick Higgins studied Composition and Experimental Music with John Cage in his class at the New School for Social Research in New York together with, among others, La Monte Young, Richard Maxfield, Toshi Ichiyanaghi, George Brecht, Allan Kaprow, Al Hansen, Jackson Mac Low. In the Spring of 1968 Geoffrey Hendricks and Robert Watts told Dick Higgins of a project that was afoot at Douglass College, where both were teaching at the time, to organize a show around guns. At that time the USA police seemed to have nothing better to do than to chase down teenagers for possessing miniscule amounts of marijuana and throwing them in jail, thus ruining their lives. Dick Higgins decided it would be more worthy if one could set all the policemen in the USA to composing symphonies themselves. So he proposed that the beautiful music paper be machine gunned and that symphonies be derived from the result. Geoffrey Hendricks arranged for Captain Toby of the South Brunswick Police to do this, which duly happened with a 9mm MP40 Schmeisser submachine gun, filmed by Alison Knowles. A volunteer orchestra, conducted by Philip Corner and including Charlotte Moorman, performed nine of the resulting symphonies at Douglass College on December 9th. The Douglass concert was taped, but the only copy disappeared when the Ars Viva! Gallery in Berlin, Germany, went bankrupt in 1984. The whole situation was documented with photographs in Source Magazine in 1970. As Philip Corner, conductor of the recordings presented here, said: Leave it to Dick Higgins to come up with the most spectacular way to generate a page of patternless notes. Once over this dramatic gesture with machine-gun bullets leaves a stack of paper full of holes. I had not thought of this before but there must have been a conscious connection to the social turmoil of the 60s - all too unfortunately, come back around to high relevance these days. First press limited to 500 copies with digipack sleeve, also including a 16 page booklet with full documentation presenting 2 texts by Dick Higgins from the 1960s as well as a Philip Corner testimony, original photos and original scores." -Alga Marghen. |
|
Artist: HIGGINS, GARY Title: A Dream A While Back Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "GARY HIGGINS is back from the time-space continuum with previously unheard moments from his storied past. Way back in 2005, Drag City reintroduced his 1974 psych-folk classic Red Hash to listeners around the world, who were acutely touched by Garys carefully-arranged, darkly utopian songs. Since then, Red Hash has been widely recognized as a classic of its time. Since then, Gary has played shows around the U.S., something that he was unable to do in the mid-70s when Red Hash came out, due to incarceration on trumped-up drug possession charges. It was a good feeling, playing his songs for people who were moved by them, so Gary decided to record some new ones, and in 2009,his first new recordings in over thirty years were issued as the album Seconds. His sound was neither revisited nor updated; natural evolution had occurred and the songs were unmistakably Gary Higgins; older, and different, yet unchanged. Fresh from his trip to the present, Gary is back in the past for this EP of songs, all of which were written and recorded circa 70-71, in the same time that the songs that would form Red Hash took shape." -Drag City |
|
Artist: HIGGINS, GARY Title: Red Hash Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| First reissue of this underground folk-psych classic, originally released in 1973 as a self-released LP. " Red Hash features eleven haunting tracks of folk-pop played on acoustic and electric guitar and arranged with percussion, cello, flute, piano, organ, bass and mandolin. This plus Garys transcendent vocals bring to mind the perfectly-damaged vibes found in David Crosbys masterpiece of peace, love and paranoia, If I Could Only Remember My Name and the recently re-discovered and acclaimed Parallelograms by Linda Perhacs. This is the first-ever authorized reissue of Red Hash -- direct from the original master tapes. The Red Hash CD includes two unheard bonus cuts and never before seen artwork/photos. Red Hash is held in very high regard by current torch-bearers/taste-makers: Animal Collective, Joanna Newsom, WFMU, Devendra Banhart, Ben Chasny, Sunburned Hand of the Man, White Magic, and Espers." - Drag City. |
|
Artist: HIGGINS, GARY Title: Red Hash Format: LP + 7" Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "1973: Connecticut native Gary Higgins and his friends record Red Hash and release it on Garys own Nufusmoon Records. Following the release, legal issues halt all promotion and sales, rendering the small pressing of Red Hash a hotly-rumored and much sought-after lost album of rock and roll lore. 2005: Drag City is honored to present the first-ever authorized reissue of Gary Higgins acid-folk gem Red Hash -- mastered from the original master tapes with two previously unheard bonus tracks. The reviews are glowing: the haunting sound of Garys meticulously arranged folk-pop is a sound that everyone can relate to, and Red Hash makes many year-end lists around the world as Top Reissue. 2007: What do you mean, we forgot to make a vinyl version of Red Hash in 2005? Really? Well, lets not wait another minute, we might forget again... And so, after thirty-five years, Red Hash vinyl is back in stock, with a limited-edition LP that includes a 7" single featuring the first-ever vinyl pressing of the CD bonus songs Dont Ya Know and Last Great Sperm Whale. This is your chance to grab at a letter-perfect reproduction of a folk-rock classic from the early 1970s. Dont space it -- score yourself a copy of Red Hash."-Drag City |
|
Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: Ancestral Songs Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "A brand new solo release from legendary poet, painter, Jews harpist, tattoo artist, and singer and lyricist of LUNGFISH, THE PUPILS and CONE OF LIGHT, DANIEL HIGGS. Higgs has an unparalleled presence in both body and voice, and this, combined with hypnotic repetition, gives the material on Ancestral Songs both a loose discipline and an immense yet serpentine power. Ancestral Songs is comprised of apocalyptic tunes, a banjo raag, mellifluous birdsong, and the sci-fi-sounding duet of a searing Jews harp and toy piano. "Are You of the Body?" brings out the electric tamboura tone and an accompanying acoustic guitar to melt the spine. A distorted motorik guitar riff propels Ancestral Songs to a close by focusing on the consistent tone and vibration that flows throughout the album." - Holy Mountain. |
|
Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: Artist Music Journal Volume 1: Edition 03 Format: Book Label: Soundscreen Design Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
|
"Daniel Higgs is a musician and artist from Baltimore, Maryland, who has been a contributor to the independent art and music community for nearly 3 decades. His artistic work ranges from musical records to books of poetry to visual collections of his drawing, painting and collage work.
Higgs is known primarily for his work as the sole lyricist and frontman of the band Lungfish, a four-piece juggernaut who has released over 10 full lengths in their 20+ year career. In recent years, Higgs has released a number of solo outings including the record / book combination Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot. On much of his solo work, Higgs uses very varied instrumentation, including acoustic and electric guitar, upright pianos, banjo and Jews harp, and generally records entirely at home on cassette recorder.
Higgs has always worked in the mediums of music and art simultaneously, and for his Artist Music Journal Higgs mined his archives and notebooks from the past 10+ years. The original works were photographed to scale." - Soundscreen Design.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: Devotional Songs Of Daniel Higgs Format: Cass Label: Open Mouth Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
|
"Recorded Dec 2008 aboard the Starship W.F.L. Omphalos/Baltimore"
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: Metempsychotic Melodies Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "DANIEL HIGGS returns with his second full length recording for Holy Mountain after last years critically acclaimed Ancestral Songs and his contribution. Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot, to Thrill Jockeys series of books collecting art and music. Metempsychotic Melodies continues to document Higgs rise as a solo performer. Raw picked acoustic guitar drones dominate Metempsychic Melodies as the instrumental "Universal Salutation" fades into the waking dream soliloquy of observation "Love Abides." "Leontocephaline Rhapsody" is a long waltzy drone with enough spooky atmosphere for one to think that it could have been recorded at Sunshine studios as there is a heavy Vogel vibe to the whole thing. Rumor has it engineer TIM GREEN told Higgs that he had to fade the track otherwise they were going to be arrested. Vocals return for the closing track "All Cherished Things" an epic about change, sound and transformation." -Holy Mountain. |
|
Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: Metempsychotic Melodies Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| CD version. |
|
Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: Plays The Mirror Of The Apocalypse Format: Cass Label: Open Mouth Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
|
Solo recordings From Daniel Higgs of Lungfish.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: Plays The Mirror Of The Apocalypse Format: CD Label: Open Mouth Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| 2005 solo recordings from Daniel Higgs of Lungfish originally released on cassette a few years back. |
|
Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: Say God Format: Double LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "In recent years, Higgs has released a number of solo outings that can only be described as the ultimate in isolation, worlds away from the hypnotic, communal rock of his band, Lungfish. Higgs follows up the 2007 album/book release Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot with his new double album Say God. Say God is an album of gospel songs and poems as presently received by this Daniel Higgs. Recorded with the help and enthusiasm of David Andrew Sitek, who graciously provided this Daniel Higgs with an environment in which to prosper and enjoy the adventure of recording, or, if you will, the ensnaring of songs as they migrate through time and mind, that they might be heard many places at once, with the singer absent. Song seeds cast abroad, that their message, The Advent Of The Songway, the Way Across, might take root, twist and fruit, light for all. It is the simple hope of this Daniel Higgs that the album Say God may be of any use to the listener, may serve the listener, may accompany the listener in clairaudient fellowship." -Thrill Jockey |
|
Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: Surrender To Love Format: Cass Label: Wild Sages Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
|
"Wild Sages presents DANIEL HIGGS hypno-poetry Surrender To Love and the door opts to open & blow off the hinges revealing the Milky Way. Drone riffs & banjo tide pools are the musical instrumentation a amidst reverbs & vintage Depression era EQs. Recorded by NATHAN BELL and remixed by N. SHINEYWATER. Two-sided cassette." -Wild Sages.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: The Godward Way Format: CD Label: Latitudes Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "Limited edition of 500 in foil blocked, envelope style folder. One track of a 24 minute mind-blow from Daniel Higgs (Lungfish, Skull Defekts). Like passages from some archaic ur-song, Higgs summoned the elements, and sound issued forth." - Latitudes. |
|
Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: The Measure of Mystery Format: Cass Label: Gnomelife Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "The Measure of Mystery" was recorded (by Fletcher Tucker of Bird By Snow & Yurt) on cassette tape in Big Sur, California in the late night hours when the 29th of October was gradually becoming the 30th (2011). Song flowed forth from Source in a circular redwood room perched just above a waterfall, which itself flows steadily toward its own source (the Pacific Ocean). You may observe the sounds of both ocean and river on these recordings...and a closer listen may also reward you with the sounds of starlight, mycelium growth, molecular revolution, and an untold number of cosmic musics. This tape is a 45 minute magnetic fossilization of Daniel Higgs energy field. It is divided between three tracks of epic proportion: a revelational instrumental banjo improvisation, an entheogenic song performed on banjo and larynx, and an ecstatic mythopoetic recitation. Fans of Daniels previous albums are surely aware that an exceptional recording of "Say God" already exists, this new incarnation however is nearly twice as long with over 100 verses! Truly an awesome artifact, offered to you in the hope that it will inspire awe. Photcard by Fumie Ishii. This volume of Echomancy is represented by the symbol for the planet Mercury." - Gnomelife. |
|
Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL A.I.U. Title: Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot Format: Hardcover Book/CD Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Daniel is best known for his work as the lyricist and frontman of Lungfish, whose work on Dischord Records spans 3 decades. This release is a limited edition full color 6x8" hardcover book + CD. This is the 2nd release in the series (the 1st being Hokane by Aki Tsuyuko), and contains 48 pages of Daniels paintings and writings of guitar and piano drones, Jews harp, and banjo recorded by Daniel in his home is inserted in the front cover of the book." -Thrill Jockey. |
|
Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL/ANGST HASE PFEFFER Title: Recitation/Reveitte & Commiseration Format: 10" Lathe Cut Label: Endleseries Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
|
"ENDLESERIES is a collection of music exclusive to our catalog. The catalog is continuously growing. We hand lathe cut 10" virgin lacquers with aproxamately 9 minutes of audio per side. Each lacquer is cut to order. The records play at 33rpm." - Endleseries. New series of customized split 10"s from Caleb Johnston (Anonymous, Nautical Almanac, etc..).. Beautifully packaged, metal-core virgin dub plates, with handstamped, old style 78 sleeves and labels.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIGH RISE Title: Desperado Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Long awaited sixth album for PSF (following the epics II, Dispersion, Live, and Disallow) by this time-honored post-motor-city rave up clan, featuring Nanjo Asahito on bass/vox, Munehiro Narita on motor-cycle-guitar? and Shoji Hano on drums. Phrases like in the red or amped-up dont even begin to relate present levels of near-fatal voltage abuse. Contains some off-kilter exploratory cuts that dont veer too far from paths cut by sister ensemble Musica Transonic, which I suppose could be determined as a new direction. Still, a ridiculous display of caffeine/sugar energy converted into audible wavelengths by Tokyos premiere baff-rock scuzz-manics." - Hrvatski. |
|
Artist: HIGH RISE Title: Disallow Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Fourth High Rise CD (fifth album overall) and first studio production in quite some time. Utterly massive trio psychedelic heavy rock. With new (and amazing) drummer Pill, the guitar/bass duo of Nanjo & Narita blast the spheres like nobody else, in a seemingly more complex manner, but just as pure in their pursuit of the deeply submerged." - FE. |
|
Artist: HIGH RISE Title: Dispersion Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Third album. Studio recordings of severe-grunge extendo guitar anthems in a most identifiable style. Original Japanese CD edition, US edition on Squealer seems to be defunct..." - FE. |
|
Artist: HIGH RISE Title: II Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Reissue of the 2nd High Rise LP, with 2 bonus tracks. Ultimate all-in-the-red distortion-psych monster. Blew away the few who heard it on first release in the mid 80s and continues to convert people along the way. Original Japanese CD edition, US edition on Squealer seems to be defunct..." - FE. |
|
Artist: HIGH RISE Title: Live Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Trio heavy fuzz blasts of near speaker blowing proportions. Their third CD (fourth album overall) and possibly their most flat out insane. Original Japanese CD edition, US edition on Squealer seems to be defunct... " - FE. |
|
Artist: HIGH RISE Title: Psychobomb - US Tour 2000 Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "First live High Rise album on PSF since the still astounding peak of Live (PSFD-48). Seven tracks, fifty-two minutes. If theres anyone that doesnt already know, High Rise were where it all started. A group that boiled down improv, the hardest psych, the fastest punk into an injectable shot of accelerated adrenaline. The group were source of the first psychic rumbles to reach the West, indicating that something quite remarkable was happening in the Tokyo underground. Without High Rise there would have been no PSF (the acronym stands for Psychedelic Speed Freaks -- the groups early moniker and the title of their debut album), no Musica Transonic, no Mainliner... This latest release features the group live in New York and Seattle on their most recent US tour, before an adoring audience of speedfreak boneheads (maybe youll even hear yourself hollering louder or faster). Surprisingly, the trademark Nanjo production aesthetic has been toned down a notch, leaving the splattered acid genius and tonal control (!) of Naritas solos the most evident theyve ever been. Nanjo and ex-White Heaven drummer Koji Shimura are as poundingly heavy a rhythm section as you could wish for. But its the guitar where it is at: theres still nothing quite like Narita kicking open the throttle and tearing into a manic solo, leaving shit-eating grins to eat dust in his wake..." - Alan Cummings. |
|
Artist: HIGH WOLF Title: A Guide to Healing Format: 7" Label: Bathetic Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "A particularly potent missive from the Gallic psyche enigma, HIGH WOLF. From the first bars of Free Your Energy Field we can feel ourselves being sucked in reverse towards the kaleidoscopic vortex of High Wolfs loops, tempered tape distortion at the edge of event horizon buffering a stream of chromatic synth colours and spiraling raga scales towards the inky abyss of your psyche. Once on the other side we Swallow Pills with Ganga River Water, where babbling rhythms split off into stereo swirling formations curling around the head and hallucinatory images of astral harmony begin to form in the third eye, glands swelling in the frontal lobes to perfume the senses into a deeply spiritual reverie. Lush." -Boomkat. |
|
Artist: HIGH WOLF Title: Ascension Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Pyramidal meditationist High Wolf has been highly active since last summers Animal Totem tape dropped on NNF: hes released three full-length CDRs, started his own record label (Winged Sun), begun a mail-collab with Astral Social Club (as Iibiis Rooge), embarked on two UK/Euro tours (one with heavyweights Gnod), plus trekked out on a month-long solo journey through India to collect field recordings and get deep. Whoa! Makes you feel lazy right? Well actually thats not all, as he also spent a few months somewhere in there recording, mixing, and re-recording the five multifaceted ethno-flux odysseys that comprise Ascension, his debut vinyl full-length. Utilizing his usual toolbag of looped tablas, fuzz guitar leads, chiming white light guitar, synth swells, and cloud-climbing electronics, the album safaris through a host of ecstatic ritual landscapes with more focus and magic than any other High Wolf hunt to date. A beautiful album for dissolving, dreaming, dancing (in a certain way). Been spinning this one weekly, share the flight. Black vinyl LPs mastered by Pete Swanson and housed in jackets with artwork by Kaugummi Magazine captain Bartolome Sanson. Edition of 400." -Not Not Fun |
|
Artist: HIGH WOLF Title: Atlas Nation Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Frances HIGH WOLF possesses a natural-born ability to produce tones most conducive to inducing transcendental states. Prolific without wearing out his welcome, the guitarist and effects box manipulator sets loose fervid streams of fever-dream drones. High Wolfs tracks sound as if theyve been sluicing since the beginning of time, siphoned for teasingly brief absorption before they shimmer off to the vanishing point. This elite droneur is one of the few musicians who could title a 7-inch A Guide to Healing without it coming off as an ironic gesture or a laughable boast. Atlas Nation-recorded in 2010 after a long trip to India and Nepal-deepens High Wolfs penetration into the mystic. It evokes an uneasy peace with a new breed of tribal psychedelia shorn of all hokey signifiers. "Fuji Descent" starts the album with what could be a languid, paradisiacal soundtrack to a scrapped Alejandro Jodorowsky film. "The Dawn of Man" is a stark, stoned processional burrowing into malarial climes where guitars squawk in ominous tongues while congas cave in chests and clear brush with a vengeance. "Raagini" magnifies and psychedelicizes Rapoons mantric, ritualistic hand-drum patter and tropical-forest drones while hinting at Don Cherrys jazz-raga peregrinations. High Wolf claims that "Haiti" was "recorded in a couple of hours [on] the day of the big earthquake in Haiti, so its the darkest / saddest High Wolf track ever." Its a fittingly miasmic, climactic threnody. Think of Atlas Nation as a surreal aural travelogue that takes a giant step beyond Jon Hassells "Fourth World" music-a humid milieu teeming with alien tonalities and oracular currents. Its as welcome as a new, improved entheogen on the streets." - Holy Mountain. |
|
Artist: HIGH WOLF Title: Incapulco Format: LP Label: Sergent Massacre Country: France Price: $27.00 |
|
"Unmapped land, a place under mystic light accessible only via HIGH WOLFs fuzzy wah guitars, trancey keyboards, delayed vocals, groovy percussion and jungle spirit. This vinyl reissue of the CDR (Winged Sun 2009) was remastered by PETE SWANSON. 180-gram vinyl." -Sergent Massacre
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIGH WOLF/SAVAGE YOUNG TATERBUG Title: Bored Fortress Club Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Frances fave psych-snakecharmer trances a new coiled creature from the same thatched basket of white light fuzz, canned drums, and keyboard sign language. Over on the wrong side of the tracks theres Midwestern madcap CHARLES "FREE" TATERBUG, perched on a fence with a 2-string and some rusted tape machines, crooning to the crickets in the parking lot. Sleeve art by CARLOS GONZALEZ." - Not Not Fun. |
|
Artist: HIGNEY, KENNETH Title: Attic Demonstration Format: CD Label: Kebrutney Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Kenneth Higney was a struggling singer-songwriter when he cut Attic Demonstration in 1976, a demo record of such massive outsider vision that it dropped straight into the void, as well as the deep pockets of a band of committed record collectors. Initially intended as a calling card to help him get his songs covered by other artists, Higney soon branched out into selling the disc as an actual album, placing low key ads in a couple of NY papers and sending out a bunch of review copies. Only Trouser Press took the bait, saluting Attic Demonstrations "cross between Lou Reed and Neil Young without the aid of melody." Now officially available for the first time, Attic Demonstration is one of the most endearing and intensely human real people discs to turn up for a while, boasting Modern Lovers-styled road ballads sung with a Jagger-esque snear and propelled on pegleg rhythms that would do The Shaggs proud, through meandering tonal wastelands where Higneys eye-wateringly unarmoured vocals are supported by minimal chord patterns that progress according to the position of the stars. Best of all is the addition of both sides of Higneys funk/punk tribute single, where he namechecks contemporaries like The Dead Boys and Johnny Thunders and rhymes "dirty downtown bar" with "the sissy music of John Denver". Almost too good to be true." - David Keenan; The Wire. "New Jersey open wounds real person basement psych damage strums with buzzfuzz bursts. mix of Spencian floaters and warped rhythm ravers. At times sounds like 1/2 Japanese doing Cale-era Modern Lovers outtakes. way lost no-fi monsterdom..." - Ron Moore. Official CD reissue of this 1976 classic. Includes tracks from his 1980 7" release. Highly recommended! Restocked yet again.. |
|
Artist: HIGNEY, KENNETH Title: Attic Demonstration Format: LP Label: One Kind Favor Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Often considered the Holy Grail of "real people" records, Kenneth Higneys "Attic Demonstration" was never actually intended to be an official release. It was recorded in New York City by Higney and his accompanist Gordon Gaines (R.I.P.) as a vehicle with which to sell Higneys songs to other artists and was only pressed to vinyl in 1976 when he grew tired of duplicating cassette tapes. Apparently the Jandekian dissonance of the "A. Demo." sound was an unintended by-product of the one take demo sessions. Be that as it may, "Attic Demonstration" is a strange sonic world all of its own. It is neither too weird to be unappealing to "regular" music listeners nor is it one of those "discoveries" that leaves you wondering what all the hype was about. Acoustic guitar ballads of nearly atonal desolation mix readily with rock n roll numbers featuring hiccuping drums and alien sounding electric guitar. Hingeys vocals are by turns sneering and mournful as he sings about lost love and the desire for fame all filtered through his uniquely bent worldview. Although a few ads were placed for the record in The Village Voice and The Aquarian, the fame that Higney sought eluded him (a semi-positive review in Trouser Press notwithstanding). That is, until the album was discovered and distributed by record dealer Paul Major. "Attic Demonstration" has been featured in the Acid Archives and copies of the original LP have soared in price over the years, but you no longer have to pay $100, $200 or even $300 to obtain a copy of this monumental album on vinyl. One Kind Favor and Kenneth Higney have teamed up to bring you an official reissue of "Attic Demonstration" remastered and with all the original artwork." - One Kind Favor. |
|
Artist: HIGNEY, KENNETH Title: Funky Kinky/I Wanna Be King Format: 7" Label: One Kind Favor Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
|
"Official reissue of Kenneth Higneys 1980 private press 45rpm single. Compared to "Attic Demonstration," the recordings are much more polished. Synthesizers and "pop sensibility" have found their way into Higneys music, and the more I listen to it, Im convinced this could have somehow taken the world by storm in some sort of post-No Wave context. Dont get me wrong, this is still incredibly strange stuff, with Higney triple tracking his vocals in different registers. "Funky Kinky" is an especially unique come-on to a lady and "I Wanna Be The King" is an "ode or tribute, whatever youd like to call it, to the NYC punk scene of Maxs Kansas City and CBGBs in general and Johnny Thunders (the "King") in particular," according to the artist. "I wanna be the king, I wanna play guitar. I hate the sissy music of John Den-var." Higney goes on to say: In June of 1980 Kebrutney released a seven inch single of "I Wanna Be The King" b/w/ "Funky Kinky." This was my shot at being a performing writer and these were my first recordings done with the intent of being released to the general public. They were not demos. My thinking was to release a "double A side," which was reflected by the catalog numbers on the label: "KBH-516RAS" for "I Wanna Be The King" was the rock ("R") side and "KBH-516FAS" was the funk ("F") side. A monster record which drowned in the swamp after being chased by the villagers." -One Kind Favor. |
|
Artist: HIGUMA Title: Pacific Fog Dreams Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Over the past few years Higumas Evan Caminiti (of Barn Owl) and Lisa McGee have slowly evolved their sound from shamanistic acoustic dirges into shimmering metallic blast-off hymns, hair-raising eulogies to the cosmos. Pacific Fog Dreams is a set of seven such songs, all beautifully distant and drenched in layers of earth-toned echo, balanced in dream time between melodies and all out electric whitewash. Delayed strums hang in a beyond background, a ghost world of songs from some other place and time, channeled onto the hiss of a cassette tape to remind you. Caminitis guitar is often on the verge of taking the whole thing down, sporadically billowing into colorful feedback, huge blocks of impenetrable sound. McGees vocals are sometimes discovered, but just as distant smears, or riding the peaks, coaxing out phrases of hidden origin, maybe singing of intimacy, memory, nature or magic." - Root Strata. |
|
Artist: HIJOKAIDAN Title: Zouroku no kibyou - Ltd Edition Format: Double LP/DVD/T Shirt Box Set Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $88.00 |
|
"Official reissue of the first recordings of this Japanese noise group, primarly made up of the duo of Jojo Hiroshige (guitar) & Junko (vocals). This was their first LP, originally released by Unbalance (later reissued on CD by Alchemy). This VOD edition is expanded into 2LPs with bonus live material from 1988, live at the Shinjunku Loft." - FE. "The first official release from 1981 of the legendary giants of Japan noise / avantgarde mit unveröffentlichten bonus/live material. This release is also available in limited quantity as box-set with live DVD (from 1990 & 1999) and t-shirt."- Vinyl-On-Demand.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HILL, JEFF BAND Title: Somethings Wrong With My Baby/Whatever She Wanted Format: 7" Label: Sing Sing Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Immediately after the release of the Chiswick single, Jeff Hill recruited drummer Dave Buckley (ex-Moonshine, who recorded a 1976 EP titled TOO YOUNG TO LOVE ME) and bass player Ray Humphries: the Jeff Hill Band played their first gig in Burtonwood on October 19. A few demos were taped in Warrington on November 26, two days before entering Londons Pathway Studios to record a second 7” for Chiswick which never saw the light of day. In the second half of 1978 a deal with Rabid Records was negotiated and two tracks were taped at Cheshires Revolution Studio on February 19, 1979, with Steve Hopkins (k) as guest musician and Andy Mac taking production duties. Rabid planned the release of a single then decided to include the two tracks on a compilation album: both projects were eventually aborted. Undeterred, the Jeff Hill Band decided to found their own label, Balloon Records, and self-financed the pressing of 500 copies of a 7” housed in a cartoon picture cover with a Ramonesy drawing of Jeff wearing a gabba gabba hey badge. The record emerged on December 20, 1979, and is worth tracking down, though it is quite hard to locate: its two Punk/Powerpop songs are enjoyable efforts with the A-side SOMETHINGS WRONG WITH MY BABY arguably being the better track. Plagued by sparse distribution, sales were minimal causing the combos demise after a final gig in Warrington on April 19, 1980." - Sing Sing. |
|
Artist: HILLARY BLAZE
Title: Exposure Format: CD Label: Rockadrome Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Official reissue of sought after 1977 metallic sci-fi hard rock private press record, featuring ex-members of the psychedelic 60s group Paper Garden. Available again for the first time in over 30 years! Recorded and mastered during the summer of 76, Exposure was originally released in 1977 on their own 30th Century Fox label. Music fans re-discovered this gem sometime in the 90s and the original pressing has since become a record collector prize. The spacey punk vibe, sizzling guitar and snotty vocals give the album a unique and ear-catching sound for its time. Re-mastered for compact disc from the original tapes, the resulting sound is nothing short of killer! Play this one loud! Enjoy another fine addition to Rockadromes Vintage label catalog." |
|
Artist: HILLER, HOLGER & THOMAS FEHLMANN Title: Wir Bauen Eine Stadt (We Build a Town) Format: LP Label: Gagarin Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
|
Interpreted by Holger Hiller and Thomas Fehlmann. "In 1930 the German composer Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) wrote a series of small pieces for school orchestras. It was described as a play for children depicting the construction and survey of a modern city. The unusual thing about it is the age of its inhabitants: In our city the grownups have no say... Our mayor is seven years old, and all uncles and aunties are children. Even the traffic warden is a child. We Build A Town comes across as strange in more than one way. Firstly, as a bizarre alternative blueprint to an elderly society. Secondly, as a combination of constructivist music and antiquated-modernist lyrics. These lyrics reflect traits of naïve belief in progress and open repression. Half a century after the original was created, two German artists with a punk and new wave background reinterpret the play and release it in 1981 as a cassette tape on Ata Tak, a label based in the German city of Düsseldorf. The classic orchestration of the original is replaced by synthesizer and manipulated voices. Apart from that, the original score is strictly adhered to. The use of electronic instruments and voice effects not only gives new life to the futuristic character of the pieces, but also subtly hints to its origins in the world of adults. Like the flame of a burning fuse leading to a bundle of explosives, the tape wanders through the childrens bodies and back into the heads of the grown-ups." - Gagarin.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HILLS Title: Master Sleeps Format: LP Label: Intergalactic Tactics Country: Sweden Price: $22.00 |
|
"The 2nd album from Swedish heavy psych / spacerock band is nothing else than a masterpiece! Music taken from parts of psychedelic, drone and evil death. Unsacred mantras echoing from the depths below! Recommended for friends of THE STOOGES, GILA, GERMAN OAK, SYD BARRETT, YAHOWA 13, BARN OWL, WOODEN SHJIPS to mention a few." - Intergalactic Tactics.
"Though they dont quite hit the same level of fiery abandon as their similarly named American brethren White Hills, these Swedish psych rangers do share quite a few things in common with the NYC noisemakers. Germinating from the same love of the Space Rock-Krautrock axis that brought forth Wooden Shjips, Expo 70, and forefathers like Hawkwind and German Oak, Hills inhabit a low gravity, groove-oriented plateau of guitar-heavy psych that at times ventures into the same Eastern territories that UK guitar-slinger Rick Tomlinsons explores in his Voice of the Seven Thunders project. Hills S/T debut sold out in a quick run of 300 and was a worthy piece to get your hands on; this will surely go just as quickly, and is just as much fun as its predecessor." - Andy French, Raven Sings The Blues/Altered Zones. SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HILLS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Intergalactic Tactics Country: Sweden Price: $22.00 |
|
"Swedish rock / kraut / psyche outfit Hills deliver some varied styles across this limited slab of import wax. "Death 1" is a gritty, low-slung piece of psycedelic post-punk jamming. A gorgeously filthy bass holds the grooves while feedback experiments and time mangled vocals flood the mix - sweaty and dirty music for the dungeons. "Ex Oblivious" is a tripped out interlude track with some sci-fi guitar picking and dreamy sea tones. On side B we get some echoed flute accompanying lush guitar licks and a live jam thats got some of Wooden Shjips epic tones and resonances. The record as a whole has a warm organic feel to it that hugs the sences and rubs the mind. I love it!" - Picadilly. Edition of 300 copies.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HINDEMITH, PAUL Title: Wir Bauen Eine Stadt (We Build a Town) Format: LP Label: Gagarin Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
|
"One-sided reissue of a very obscure 1981 cassette on Ata Tak! Music of Hindemith, interpreted by Holger Hiller and Thomas Fehlmann. In 1930 the German composer Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) wrote a series of small pieces for school orchestras. It was described as a play for children depicting the construction and survey of a modern city. The unusual thing about it is the age of its inhabitants: In our city the grownups have no say... Our mayor is seven years old, and all uncles and aunties are children. Even the traffic warden is a child. We Build A Town comes across as strange in more than one way. Firstly, as a bizarre alternative blueprint to an elderly society. Secondly, as a combination of constructivist music and antiquated-modernist lyrics. These lyrics reflect traits of naïve belief in progress and open repression. Half a century after the original was created, two German artists with a punk and new wave background reinterpret the play and release it in 1981 as a cassette tape on Ata Tak, a label based in the German city of Düsseldorf. The classic orchestration of the original is replaced by synthesizer and manipulated voices. Apart from that, the original score is strictly adhered to. The use of electronic instruments and voice effects not only gives new life to the futuristic character of the pieces, but also subtly hints to its origins in the world of adults. Like the flame of a burning fuse leading to a bundle of explosives, the tape wanders through the childrens bodies and back into the heads of the grown-ups." -Gagarin
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIRANO, GO Title: Corridor of Daylights Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| Go Hirano (piano, pianica, glockenspiel, accordion, windchimes, thumb piano, percussion, voice, etc). "Its been a long time coming, but Go Hiranos stunning new album has finally been released. Hirano is known as a sometime White Heaven collaborator, renowned expert on Canadian psychedelia and acid folk, and ultra-sensitive sound artist. His previous two albums on PSF have wound lo-fi wisps of fragile piano melody and bell chime around nagging, sometimes subtly unsettling field recording techniques. Corridor of Daylights resurrects the absolutely exquisite instrumental palette of his second, Reflection of Dreams (PSF 071). It is a dreamy walk along insubstantial, lysergic paths where all-too breakable souls breathe shallowly and insects hum in sympathetic resonance. An almost flawless album of touching late-night psychedelics." - Alan Cummings. |
|
Artist: HIRANO, GO Title: Distance Format: LP Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $34.00 |
|
"The first Go Hirano album, only issued on vinyl, from 1995. Last available copies and long o/p elsewhere. Curious, beautifully produced violin, guitar and electronics improvisations, vaguely referable to the Organum school of music." Highly Recommended!
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIRANO, GO Title: Reflection of Dreams Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| 2nd album for PSF, that is nearly an all-solo affair, with Hirano playing piano, pianica, organ, windchime, glockenspiel, percussion, voice. "...a compilation of 14 short tracks recorded between 1990 and 1995. There is a genuine late-night quality to most of the tracks -- delicate, almost hesitant in places, gorgeously lyrical in others -- a real contrast to the buzzing harshness of his last album. Id almost be tempted to use the word ambient to describe a lot of this album, but that word has become particularly debased of late... and besides, there is a quality of surreal, dreamlike naivete to Hiranos works thats thousands of miles away from most purveyors of fleaty textures... puzzling, but good." --Alan Cummings. |
|
Artist: HIROSHI Title: Where Do You Come From Format: CD Label: Dead Flower Country: Japan Price: $28.00 |
| "Anthology for Hiroshi who played in Datetenryu, Zuno Keisatsu, Rallizes, Niplits, etc. Point is Hiroshis vocal version of Zuno Keisatsus song and "Arayuru Yami" the live that maniacs regard it as best live." |
|
Artist: HIROSHIMA ROCKS AROUND Title: Matter of Fact Format: 7" Label: S-S Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "More proof that Italy is getting to be a hot spot form rock y roll moderne. These two HRA songs will remind you a bit of Cheveu, maybe some Crash Normal, perhaps some Another Mans Sac. I dunno. You can figure out the comparisons. I do think you will dig this one."-Scott Soriano (S-S). Edition of 600 copies. |
|
Artist: HIROSHIMA ROCKS AROUND/ BIPOLAR BEARS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Kill Shaman Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "HIROSHIMA ROCKS AROUND are from Italy and BI-POLAR BEAR is from Los Angeles. Two crazy loud bands with very different styles. BPB has releases on Kill Shaman, Mexican Summer, Deleted Art, Rococo, Yosada and more. HRA have 7-inches on S.S. and Avant." - Kill Shaman. |
|
Artist: HIS ELECTRO BLUE VOICE Title: Duuug Format: 7" Label: Sacred Bones Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Italian punks His Electro Blue Voice mine territory first scoped out by Crisis, Warsaw, and early Xmal Deutchland. Two sides of serious Italian dark punk. Fans of last years Fog single on S-S Records and their split with Nuit Noire take note."-Sacred Bones. Repressed, white vinyl. |
|
Artist: HIS ELECTRO BLUE VOICE Title: Fog/Das Format: 7" Label: S-S Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
|
"Remember the Rough Trade shop in San Fran?. Great store, all kinds of weird shit that youd never find anywhere else. Thats where I got the Nag, Nag, Nag 7" back in the day. I went there one other time around 85 or so & it had moved. Still had some killer stuff, like this one 7" I got from an Italian band, Rivolta Dell Odio, that had the most amazing post industrial, creeped out Goth thing goin on. Just totally fried shit & I aint never heard anything likeem before or since. Till now. These guys nailed it. And theyre Italian too? This is like the 2nd coming of the Il Cuore Della Bestia ep! Amazing. Where does the S-S Records guy find this stuff? Hey, more power to him. He aint shit the bed once this year. His Electro Blue Voice huh? The names a little....you know what....but they tear it up. Keepem comin!" - Silt Blog.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIS ELECTRO BLUE VOICE Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: S-S Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
|
"Man o man, is this what it is like to give birth? The puppy was conceived last year and, through much pain and language snafus, it is finally being birthed. So what does this little monster sound like? Ahhhh lets go back in time to 1983 and a place called Europe where tons of DIY bands were releasing their take on gloomsters like Joy Division, Crisis, and the Cure. The sounds were a bit more primitive than that Holy Trinity, and also rawer and wilder. Fast forward to now and that sound is currently being tapped into by Frustration and now HIS ELECTRO BLUE VOICE, a mysterious trio from Lake Como, Italy. Much more emotive than their Paris cohorts, fronted by a semi-unhinged, charmingly incoherent vocalist, HEBV teeters on the edge and twists into odd deconstruction of their songs. Hand screened sleeve." -S-S
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER Title: Haw Format: LP Label: Paradise of Bachelors Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Comes in a tip-on jacket with full color inner sleeve and digital download coupon. Haw, herein, is an album of eleven songs about family, faith, and an ill-prophesied future, an artifact almost as archaic, lovely and seldom heard today as directional commands for beasts of burden. M.C. Taylor, who wrote these songs, once lived hard by the Haw with his wife Abigail and their son Elijah ? Well I come from the bottom of the river Haw, he sings -- but he doesnt live there anymore. Having followed the slipstream to the relative bustle of nearby Durham, North Carolina, he has composed a new clutch of tunes that conjure the half-remembered dreams of peace promised by our pasts. Taylors writing and singing here achieve a tenebrous clarity, invoking -- and occasionally challenging -- a intermingling cast of prophetic characters both sacred and profane: Daniel, Elijah, the Apostles, and the Son of Man, sure, but also the Peacock Fiddle Band, Mississippi John Hurt, and by implication, Lew Welch, Waylon Jennings, Michael Hurley, and our friend Jefferson Currie II. Say whatever prayer you want: to Jehovah or Yahowah, or Red Rose Nantahala. More than ever before, the supporting players of Hiss Golden Messenger feature as tellers of the tale. Each episode earns a meticulously turned ensemble statement." - Paradise of Bachelors. |
|
Artist: HITE, BOB Title: Dr. Boogie Presents Rarities from the Bob Hite Vaults Format: LP Label: Sub Rosa Country: Belgium Price: $15.00 |
| "This is the first volume of a collection devoted to rare and lost recordings from the 20s to 60s. These rare pieces span the years 1941-1958 and are taken from Bob Hites fabulous collection of 78rpm records: a historical archive that has helped to, in its own way, save from oblivion the rural bluesmen who had dropped out of the scene decades ago and make possible their reintegration into musical history. Everyone is now entitled to hear this chunk of the treasure. Compiled by the famous DJ Dr. Boogie with the help of Fito De La Parra (drummer for Canned Heat). Bob Hite, founding member and singer of the unforgettable group Canned Heat, owned one of the most impressive collections of U.S. 78rpms. He started gathering these records at a very young age and always dreamed of being in a boogie band and paying tribute to the pioneers, drawing inspiration from all the greats who set the foundations for blues music. Before he joined the band, he was already working in various record stores in Venice Beach, and through the years he came to acquire extraordinary items -- mostly thanks to the success of the 33rpm, which quickly replaced the 78rpm format. Bob Hite never stopped expanding his collection; he bought records all around the world. He was known to throw huge parties at his house, where he spent hours, sometimes whole nights, unveiling gems from his collection. After Bob Hites death, the fabulous collection was decimated, partly sold, dismembered, and even plundered. Now the public is privy to pieces of his exquisite archive of forgotten greats and lesser-knowns, such as Pete Johnson: a boogie-woogie expert and one of the first piano legends, or Clarence Brown, whose majestic guitar playing and recordings for the Peacock label remain unmatchable. Elmore James makes an appearance with some of his more obscure tracks, as well as Mad Mel Sebastian, who remains a complete mystery. Other artists include: Eddie Hope, The Hot Shots, Earl King, Googie Rene, Chuck Higgins, Johnny Otis, Bill Haley, Otis Rush and Etta James." - Sub Rosa |
|
Artist: HITMACHINE, THE Title: Music From Nijmegen - Trouwen Met Je Neef Format: LP Label: Ole Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
|
"Theres nothing mechanical about this outsider extravaganza from Nijmegen. Its electro-acoustic singer/songwriter material mixed with noise escapades and weird lo-fi interludes. Many enthousiastic and proud owners of this limited edition 12 were stunned finding out it was not a compilation of various artists. "trouwen..." has been made by Pieter Kock and his merry men. The Hitmachine performes live and is a real band. Notorious for being the most vivid improvised beefheart-core band in the world."-Ole
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HITMACHINE, THE Title: Viel Zu Viel Fine/Schönbrunn Format: 7" Label: Ole Country: Netherlands Price: $7.00 |
| "Like the Rolling Stones kept house in the Amstel hotel, the Hitmachine redecorates the Austrian palace Schoenbrunn. They proclaim: It feels zu viel fine. A distorted playing band on the edge of feedback sticking to one beat on side a; Side b provides a whirl off phasing polyrhythmic noise This 7 contains one of the bands ugliest faces: a live recording of The Hitmachines core business today; putting conventional rock n roll instruments to the test. This is a beautiful addition to their diversity of musical styles, ranging from popsynthsongs to electro-acoustic pieces, as can be heard on their first 12" release Trouwen met je Neef" on Olé-records." - Hitmachine. |
|
Artist: HIVE MIND Title: A Feast Within Format: Cass Label: Gods of Tundra Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
|
"The conflict between Hive Mind and body
spills into the real world in a decades-long feud, distorting reality and affecting the entire human race." -Connelly
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIVE MIND Title: Ancient Slate Format: Double Cass Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
|
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIVE MIND Title: Cast Through Shallow Earth Format: LP Label: No Fun Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
|
"Synth music for the exploration of desolated lands, slow and detailed
side long movements of pure tonal sound. After millions of years when
everything has withered away and nothing survives what will remain in
this earth? Minerals, boiling lava, smoke, and corrosion in a shallow
earth.Limited to 400 copies. White vinyl!" - No Fun.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIVE MIND Title: Death Tone Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
|
"Weird dudes jamming synths. Alone. Social Problems. Problems. Recorded late into the night. Fucking A. That is the business, right there. Check Ze Wormnest or Matthew Young for bleary eyed-no-fan sound destruction. Shit is just creepy-gets under your skin. While most noise youth get their chocolate fingers lost in gadgetry and posturing-something about a synth jam thats just.... Human ... humanly wrong. But fucking right. Right on Hive Mind. Out of some strange comic miasma emerged this hulking thing known for playing in corners or under black sheets with short fingers churning out cosmic tales of bass heavy sheets of molten alien sound cut with xray pirate eyes. Dude is some serious Michigan shit. This sound-injecting terrorist is crew to all the like minded and total jag-off MI underground weirdo brethrens. I think he soaked his pyramid genitals in ice cold antifreeze to get where Death Tone lives in underwater-cave life. Jamz are just lurking around your chest buzzing like a Mike Tyson bee until a nuclear war-spear goes directly into your chest leaving your breath exchanged for Korean X-Files future creature Autopsy scenes. Ive been to Roswell, shit is creepy, even at Pizza Hut, mid day. None of my crew jamz synths, some dabble but dont have the slomo overbite terror vision of my man Hive Mind. Isnt your jellied brain a fucking hive? Mine has a really big queen in the center telling me to keep watching The Thing (remake) with the sound off in a super warm birth room while listening to Death Tone on a dying Walkman. I dont listen to the queen, or take advice. Me and my man the Kid thought all Hive Mind needed to hone in his awesome social synth prowess was to be locked in a room with Richard Pinhas for a year on a diet of nothing but snake burritos-but again-no one listens to advice, especially a homeboy. Psychotic drugs, cheap beer, shorties, the Roach, assholes, hung over at work... yesss, heroes to the High Life." - John Olson.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIVE MIND Title: Elemental Disgrace Format: LP Label: Spectrum Spools Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Elemental Disgrace is an album that needs to happen now. Finally, the next phase has arrived -- a stunning double side-long record of some of the U.S. best underground synthesizer music. Whatever rise to the synthesizer came later on in the 00s is hardly of any concern to Greh Holger and his Hive Mind project. Having released private press cassettes of solo synth works as far back as 2002, Hive Mind exists as enigmatic in the world of new-jack synth-heads and the tidal wave of "neo kosmische" flying far under the radar. The silence is now broken and here we are treated to some of the most unique sounds Spectrum Spools has yet presented. No blisscapes to be found here. No soaring latched arpeggios, no cosmic vistas. Not a single melody. This is two sides of ancestral ruin in its clearest and most focused presentation. The brutality of the Earth and the harsh reality of all that it holds. Unknowable sounds -- that of the dawn of the Earth, or perhaps the sound of its demise. A toxic swamp of chemicals and mutated creatures left behind long after man has wiped himself away for good. Field recordings from the end of the world. While others are racing for the stars, Hive Minds tectonic plate-shifting and brutal rumble will give you a brand new way to look at modern synthesizer composition. With a focus on textural sounds and shifting frequency registers, this album gives the listener a full range of listening possibilities with infinite replay value. Its worth noting that Spectrum Spools as a label would not exist without Hive Mind. An inspiration and a pioneer in the U.S. synthesizer circuit, its with pleasure and honor that they release Elemental Disgrace into the world. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin August 2011." - Spectrum Spools |
|
Artist: HIVE MIND Title: Metallic Thaumaturgy Format: CDR Label: Chondritic Sound Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
|
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIVE MIND Title: Spectral Activation Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
|
Creepy full color cover. Limited to 50.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIVE MIND Title: Untitled Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
|
Screenprinted, one sided square 7" from Nate Youngs (Wolf Eyes) AA imprint..
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HIVE MIND Title: Untitled Format: 8' Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "Classsic Hive Mind action from Chondritic Sounds main man Greh Holger. Side A could be igneous recordings of granite mantle motors powering lichen-slow tectonic shifts within the crust of some ancient moon. The flip side has a slightly more organic feel... the heartbeat of a dying whale as heard by the ocean floor..." -Altvinyl |
|
Artist: HIVE MIND Title: Writhing Flesh Format: LP Label: Tone Filth Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Writhing Flesh" was originally issued as a cassette on Chondritic Sound in a small hand-numbered edition of 35 copies. It documents two very early Hive Mind live shows. The sound contained on this cassette was unique in the Hive Mind discography, although it still has the throbbing bass tones and bleak resonance, it contains more raw aggression. It was the first Hive Mind recording I had heard and to this day remains one of my favorite tapes. Edition of 300 copies with hand-screened and painted covers by the artist himself." - Tone Filth. |
|
Artist: HIVE MIND & AARON DILLOWAY Title: Forgotten Thrist Format: LP Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
| "While staying in Nepal I found a CDR Greh had givin me to listen to of his upcoming cassette FORGOTTEN THIRST on GODS OF TUNDRA. Haunting waves of organ drones. I tweaked it a bit and added some sparse tape disgusto. One of my personal favorite recordings. Misspelled title in tribute to my old band UNIVERSAL INDIANS. One sided clear blue vinyl with circle of fish screenprinted on the b-side. Watch em swim while it plays! screenprinted 12x12 insert in picture LP sleeve. Edition of 500 copies silkscreened by GREH HOLGER. Co-Released with CHONDRITIC SOUND." - Hanson. |
|
Artist: HIVE MIND & JOHN WIESE Title: s/t Format: 10" Label: Chondritic Sound Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
|
Artist: HIVE MIND/WORKBENCH Title: Permanence Format: LP Label: Heavy Tapes/Chondritic Sound Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
|
Artist: HNY Title: Here You Can Touch The Sky Format: LP Label: Amethyst Sunrise Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Very excited to be able to present the vinyl issue of HNYs Here You Can Touch The Sky. Over the past few years, HNY has released some stellar cassettes through Ranky Tanky, Not Not Fun, and Goaty Tapes when finding some free time from shredding with Social Junk. Here You Can Touch The Sky is a half hour full of haunting guitar + vocal work that was released in 2008 through Ranky Tanky and is now ready to shine on vinyl. This record collects all the songs from the original cassette release and includes one previously released instrumental. Limited to 500 copies on clear with orange splatter with a printed 11x11 insert with lyrics." - Amethyst Sunrise. |
|
Artist: HOBO SONN Title: Thundering Nature Of Reality Format: LP Label: Rotten Slushy Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
|
"Highly recommended slab of bedroom concrete, electronic blurb and lo-fi tape mangle"- Chocolate Monk, D.Nyoukis.
"This ones a big-time winner, and just in time for those wretchedly cold winter nights. Hobo Sonn is the solo guise of the UKs Ian Murphy. Hes in a bunch of groups like Gryn Brvs and Copper Mahks. This is one thick slab of luscious wax, gritty to the bone and full of spastic, electronic drones. What makes this thing so great, though, is how it seamlessly alternates between harsher landscapes and sickly sweet drones. Add in some mangled tape loops and buckets of hiss and youre getting in the ballpark. Its like a twisted acid flashback for someone whos never dropped acid. You want on this scuzzy ride and youll just want to keep riding it over and over and over. Big time recommendation" - Foxy Digitalis, B.Rose.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOBO SONN Title: Wary The Mind Format: LP Label: Amen Absen Country: Canada Price: $18.00 |
| "Wary the Mind is the long awaited second LP by Hobo Sonn following the self-released debut - The Thundering Nature of Reality. Constructed using electronics, effects, piano, sampler, mixer, field recordings, etc., this album presents an audible voyage that meticulously weaves together seemingly random reference points into a cohesive yet perplexing whole. Side one begins with processed feedback shifting amongst tape hiss/static and muted drones where intermittent signals of disintegrated sound seep in like a new breath and then recede leaving near silence. This sparseness provides the opportunity to contemplate the space between each frequency and brings to focus the sequence of the sounds as they have been assembled. A hypnotic and glistening piece for piano introduces the second side which evolves into an electronic buzz accented by a raga-esque feedback swirl coaxed from the unexpected sound-source. The well placed field recordings, with the chimes, clatter and chattering, bring things to a gently decaying conclusion. The album is pressed in an edition of 330 copies." - Amen Absen. |
|
Artist: HOCHMAN & HOPKINS Title: Live NYE Format: Cass Label: Night People Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
|
"Jonathan Hochman (Holy Balm, Pagan Dawn) and Matthew Hopkins (Naked on the Vague, Near Tapes etc.) are from Sydney AU and this is there live Synthesizer project focused around otherworldly tonal eruptions, trance inducing electronics washes, science fiction fucked vocal sludge, and generally weird psych synth vibes. Lost mind submarine rides, drifting sitting at the point where the desert meets the sky, volcanoes erupting onto cities, all moving along past out of your control in your ears and across your mind. Artwork by SDReed." - Night People.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HODELL, AKE Title: 220 Volt Buddha Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Sweden Price: $20.00 |
|
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HODELL, AKE Title: Invokation (till Oyvind) Format: 3" CD Label: Kning Disk Country: Sweden Price: $12.00 |
|
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HODELL, AKE Title: Verbal Brainwash and Other Works Format: Triple CD Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $26.00 |
|
"This is the authorized edition of the collected text-sound compositions of Åke Hodell. It includes all titles which Hodell himself has described as text-sound compositions. The collection is taken from the time of the premiere of General Buddy-Buddy and Presentarms in 1963 up to Spirit of Ecstasy from 1977. During this period, Åke also worked with radio drama that often had certain parallels to text-sound composition, but never had any doubts himself as to which of his works were text-sound and which were drama. This CD-box is a living example taken from the most vital period in the history of the Music Department of the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation (Sveriges Radio, SR) and a monument to the fruitful collaboration between Fylkingen and SR. I enjoyed close collaboration with Åke Hodell during the work on this production. We had our last conversation about two days before his death. He had approved all three discs and had the day before received a 30% scale copy of the sleeve, which he had managed somehow to proof read, probably with the help of a magnifying glass and considerable exertion. We communicated what changes should be made and thereafter he approved the release. He left all further responsibility with me and bade me farewell, the import of which I did not realize at the time. Åke listened patiently to all the new edited versions of the pieces included here, always giving fresh views. All changes to the original tapes were made in cooperation with Åke. Sylve Sjöberg, the engineer who realized most of Åke Hodell´s works for the Music Department of SR, oversaw the mastering from the original tapes." - Fylkingen.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOFFMAN, KAY Title: Floret Silva Format: CD Label: Robot Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "1977 avant/folk progressive masterpiece from minimalist composer Kay Hoffman. Includes collaborative performances from Jacqueline Darby and Gaio Chiocchio -- members of the legendary, Italian progressive group Pierrot Lunaire. Originally slated for release on RCA/IT (Italy) in 78, the album was later rejected due to recording deadlines, release schedules, and requests by RCA for other artistic/musical considerations. However, many years later, Floret Silva did end up surfacing on a very different shore. Copies of the masters found their way to the highly eclectic Japanese label Belle Antique, whose musical director had heard rumors about the early project in the mid-1980s. As a result, Floret Silva was finally released eight years after the completed sessions in 1985 as a small edition, but very well received LP (Belle Antique 8502, Japan). Apparently, not many copies of the record were exported outside Japan. This merely created even more mystery surrounding the recordings as well as rumors associated with a Pierrot Lunaire-related project. The recordings were based on the Carmina Burana -- a collection of medieval poetry written by various authors of which little is known. Floret Silva was an attempt to find a voice for these anonymous authors in the late 1970s in Florence. Now, nearly 30 years after the completed sessions, Floret Silva blooms again...this time in the US. Available for the first time on CD with remastered sound, including a 12-page booklet with full lyrics and English translations. A lost (but now reclaimed) gem from the Italian progressive underground." - Robot. |
|
Artist: HOFFMAN, NICK Title: Anima Format: Cass Label: Pilgrim Talk Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Midwest tape scum from the Pilgrim Talk CEO... Trumpet and voice improvisations recorded on the “ancient tape machine” which itself acts as another instrument – changing speed, adding surface noise, unexpected volume changes, etc." -Pilgrim Talk |
|
Artist: HOFFNUNG & PSYCHE Title: Format: 7" Label: Kernkrach Country: Germany Price: $13.00 |
|
"Stefan gets this band ca. 1980. He played in this time in a second band with name Fröhliche Eiszeit (LP-release dec.2004 by KernKrach). Hoffnung & Psyche is some of the greatest minimal-synth sound, recorded in the years 1981-82. On side A you can hear the track Sie bleibt kalt, absolutly fantastic sound with girl vocals (this girl came to visit him, and so they recorderd in his living-room 4 tracks, afterwhich he never saw her). On side B there is the instrumental track Das Auto, which sounds like DER PLAN. A lot of people like this record and want more!!!" - Kernkrach. Limited single with spray painted, handsewn cloth sleeve with one of a kind photo attached.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOKE, RUSSELL Title: Comet Of Despair Format: LP Label: Unheard Of Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "...much of his material was actually recorded throughout the 80s and 90s, but is only now, in recent years, being released in small quantities by Hoke himself. His work brings to mind various left-of-center songsmiths such as Michael Hurley, Holy Modal Rounders, Lee Hazlewood, Syd Barrett, Daniel Johnston..." - Free Form Freakout. "In the age of social networking and digital distribution, where music fans are inundated with an endless barrage of preview tracks, video clips, and promotional blurbs, the story of little known Texas-based songwriter, Russell Hoke, reads almost like something swiped from the pages of The Acid Archives than from someone who has released four albums in 2011 alone. The truth is that Hoke had recorded a bunch of songs in the Eighties and Nineties, but has only, in the past few years, begun to actively release this material in limited, hand-assembled editions on his private press imprint, Unheard-Of." - Foxy Digitalis. |
|
Artist: HOKE, RUSSELL Title: Cosmic Outlaw Format: LP Label: Unheard Of Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "...much of his material was actually recorded throughout the 80s and 90s, but is only now, in recent years, being released in small quantities by Hoke himself. His work brings to mind various left-of-center songsmiths such as Michael Hurley, Holy Modal Rounders, Lee Hazlewood, Syd Barrett, Daniel Johnston..." - Free Form Freakout. "In the age of social networking and digital distribution, where music fans are inundated with an endless barrage of preview tracks, video clips, and promotional blurbs, the story of little known Texas-based songwriter, Russell Hoke, reads almost like something swiped from the pages of The Acid Archives than from someone who has released four albums in 2011 alone. The truth is that Hoke had recorded a bunch of songs in the Eighties and Nineties, but has only, in the past few years, begun to actively release this material in limited, hand-assembled editions on his private press imprint, Unheard-Of." - Foxy Digitalis. |
|
Artist: HOKE, RUSSELL Title: Dont Fret Format: LP Label: Unheard Of Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "...much of his material was actually recorded throughout the 80s and 90s, but is only now, in recent years, being released in small quantities by Hoke himself. His work brings to mind various left-of-center songsmiths such as Michael Hurley, Holy Modal Rounders, Lee Hazlewood, Syd Barrett, Daniel Johnston..." - Free Form Freakout. "In the age of social networking and digital distribution, where music fans are inundated with an endless barrage of preview tracks, video clips, and promotional blurbs, the story of little known Texas-based songwriter, Russell Hoke, reads almost like something swiped from the pages of The Acid Archives than from someone who has released four albums in 2011 alone. The truth is that Hoke had recorded a bunch of songs in the Eighties and Nineties, but has only, in the past few years, begun to actively release this material in limited, hand-assembled editions on his private press imprint, Unheard-Of." - Foxy Digitalis. |
|
Artist: HOKE, RUSSELL Title: Driftwood Format: LP Label: Unheard Of Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "...much of his material was actually recorded throughout the 80s and 90s, but is only now, in recent years, being released in small quantities by Hoke himself. His work brings to mind various left-of-center songsmiths such as Michael Hurley, Holy Modal Rounders, Lee Hazlewood, Syd Barrett, Daniel Johnston..." - Free Form Freakout. "In the age of social networking and digital distribution, where music fans are inundated with an endless barrage of preview tracks, video clips, and promotional blurbs, the story of little known Texas-based songwriter, Russell Hoke, reads almost like something swiped from the pages of The Acid Archives than from someone who has released four albums in 2011 alone. The truth is that Hoke had recorded a bunch of songs in the Eighties and Nineties, but has only, in the past few years, begun to actively release this material in limited, hand-assembled editions on his private press imprint, Unheard-Of." - Foxy Digitalis. |
|
Artist: HOKE, RUSSELL Title: He Would Have Been a Fine Young Man Format: LP Label: Unheard Of Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
|
"And what an amazing record it is!! The album is a haunting work of psych-tinged folk and bluegrass that sounds like some lost late-sixties/early-seventies gem, adding a bit of intrigue and confusion to the 2011 copyright date." - Free Form Freakout.
"...much of his material was actually recorded throughout the 80s and 90s, but is only now, in recent years, being released in small quantities by Hoke himself. His work brings to mind various left-of-center songsmiths such as Michael Hurley, Holy Modal Rounders, Lee Hazlewood, Syd Barrett, Daniel Johnston..." - Free Form Freakout. "In the age of social networking and digital distribution, where music fans are inundated with an endless barrage of preview tracks, video clips, and promotional blurbs, the story of little known Texas-based songwriter, Russell Hoke, reads almost like something swiped from the pages of The Acid Archives than from someone who has released four albums in 2011 alone. The truth is that Hoke had recorded a bunch of songs in the Eighties and Nineties, but has only, in the past few years, begun to actively release this material in limited, hand-assembled editions on his private press imprint, Unheard-Of." - Foxy Digitalis. |
|
Artist: HOKE, RUSSELL Title: If I Had Been the Universe Format: LP Label: Unheard Of Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "...much of his material was actually recorded throughout the 80s and 90s, but is only now, in recent years, being released in small quantities by Hoke himself. His work brings to mind various left-of-center songsmiths such as Michael Hurley, Holy Modal Rounders, Lee Hazlewood, Syd Barrett, Daniel Johnston..." - Free Form Freakout. "In the age of social networking and digital distribution, where music fans are inundated with an endless barrage of preview tracks, video clips, and promotional blurbs, the story of little known Texas-based songwriter, Russell Hoke, reads almost like something swiped from the pages of The Acid Archives than from someone who has released four albums in 2011 alone. The truth is that Hoke had recorded a bunch of songs in the Eighties and Nineties, but has only, in the past few years, begun to actively release this material in limited, hand-assembled editions on his private press imprint, Unheard-Of." - Foxy Digitalis. |
|
Artist: HOKE, RUSSELL Title: Oooh-Ahhh The Warped Wave Format: LP Label: Nowhere Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| Mid-eighties recordings featuring Mark Semmes of the Rejects and Lung Overcoat. "...much of his material was actually recorded throughout the 80s and 90s, but is only now, in recent years, being released in small quantities by Hoke himself. His work brings to mind various left-of-center songsmiths such as Michael Hurley, Holy Modal Rounders, Lee Hazlewood, Syd Barrett, Daniel Johnston..." - Free Form Freakout. "In the age of social networking and digital distribution, where music fans are inundated with an endless barrage of preview tracks, video clips, and promotional blurbs, the story of little known Texas-based songwriter, Russell Hoke, reads almost like something swiped from the pages of The Acid Archives than from someone who has released four albums in 2011 alone. The truth is that Hoke had recorded a bunch of songs in the Eighties and Nineties, but has only, in the past few years, begun to actively release this material in limited, hand-assembled editions on his private press imprint, Unheard-Of." - Foxy Digitalis. |
|
Artist: HOKE, RUSSELL Title: The Magic of My Youth Format: Double LP Label: No Label Country: USA Price: $38.00 |
| "When Russell Hoke first set out to put out a record - a decade or so back - he did it with the simple idea of just having a copy for himself to play on his old record player. He pressed up 100 of the now long gone "Cosmic Outlaw" and then, with no real plan in place for distributing it, he simply started donating them to charity shops and second hand shops in the area Johnny Appleseed style. Some years went by and, once again, Russell had the impulse to get more of his music back on record - again so he could have a copy to play on his record player. Thus was born "The Magic of My Youth"- an out of nowhere double lp of warped real people outsider banjo & singin folk comprised of twisted moans, surreal meditations and inverse field hollers that were mostly recorded throughout the mid-1980s. Russell pressed these up in an edition of 100 copies and packaged them in a gatefold jacket with hand pasted front and back covers. Features such non hits as ive got a desire to go sailing, youre darned tootin, utmost la,twisted mountain." |
|
Artist: HOLCOMB, ROSCOE Title: The High Lonesome Sound Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
| "The third release from London based label Bo Weavil Recordings, goes further into the depth of traditional American folk music with the legendary Roscoe Holcomb performing 17 powerful songs shaped by the hard times and conflict between old and new that marked his life in the rural Appalachian mountains. The sounds on this record were collected 40 odd years ago. Sometimes when you listen to Roscoe Holcomb sing it mightve been 400 years ago. Sometimes it could be happening to you right now. These songs and instrumental pieces go back to the 20s and 30s and beyond, into the mists of pre-recorded time. They are the traditional songs of the Kentucky mountains before the advent of radio and record player when itinerant musicians, market places, church and country fair were the conduit of tradition. But these songs, recorded in the unique high and lonesome style of Roscoe Holcomb, were the last folk songs. Already, 40 years ago, Holcombs music was not appreciated in his own community. He was a throwback, a dinosaur in the age of the Twist. A singer with a truly high lonesome sound that sends shivers down the spine, and a hard-hitting wonderful banjo-player/guitarist. This LP also contains Roscoe performing unaccompanied ballads, banjo and harmonica solos. These recordings were previously released by Folkways in 1968 that had a powerful influence on the folk music revival, and has been crying out for a new vinyl release. Accompanied by some of the original notes on the lyrics and history of each song and some new comments on Roscoe in 2005." - Bo Weavil. |
|
Artist: HOLDEN, RANDY Title: Population II Format: LP Label: Hobbit Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
|
"Perhaps the first legitly authorized version of his absolute monster heavy guitar album by the one-time Other Half/Blue Cheer guitarist. Randys work with Blue Cheer (limited to side 2 of New, Improved!) is the stuff of legend, but with Population II, he re-wrote the books on what it means to be "heavy". Bootlegged many times (since its famous re-release on Line Records in the 1980s), this version is signed in gold marker by Holden himself (!), pressed on 180 grams, in an exact facsimile of the original Hobbit Records release. Briefly available in 1970, it was his only solo recording until Randys 1997 resurrection album on Captain Trip. Population II is merely the heaviest rock record of all time, deserving of its own genre: monster-plod, power-surge sonic deconstruction -- like nothing else before or since (forget about "doom"). A duo only recording, featuring: Holden (guitar, bass, vocals) & Chris Lockheed (drums). Special guest stars: Sunn Amps!" - FE. Highly recommended!
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOLE CLASS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Meds Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Mostly recorded on a farm in Ohio in 2006 by Beth Murphy (Times New Viking) & Rob Enbom (Eat Skull). Great pop songs from this duo with a "gothic country" vibe that vaguely calls to mind an interpretation of Nancy & Lee by Neil & Jennifer. There is a stripped down feel and intimacy to everything here. From roadtrip singalongs to true heartbreakers, a perfect album." -Meds. |
|
Artist: HOLGER, GREH Title: Paralysis Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Breaking my recent c-30 rule to release this intense c-60 of Hive Minds main man Greh Holger. Two 30 minute sides of motionless, uneffected modular synth. Slow as hell modulations, which take a full side to change and I think the tape runs out before that even happens.. For fans of SUPER EIGHT LOOP." -Hanson. |
|
Artist: HOLLOW BUSH Title: Negative Line Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "TOTAL SHIT-FI BRUTALITY from the new project of RODGER STELLA of MACRONYMPHA...Sickening walls of full blown scummy psychedelic HARSH NOISE! This shit is some live SCUM recorded by STELLA and BUSH partner BRYAN MARTIN." - Hanson. |
|
Artist: HOLOGRAMS Title: ABC City Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
|
Artist: HOLTER, JULIA Title: Ekstasis Format: Double LP Label: Rvng Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Julia Holters second album,Ekstasis, is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years in Los Angeles, California. Ekstasis marks a return to the playful searching of her 2007 Eating the Stars EP, but guided by newly-learned disciplines, slightly better technology, and nearly limitless home recording time. Holters songwriting stems from a mythological reverence of that which is incomprehensibly beautiful. Stars was a first attempt at musically transcribing this beauty, while discovering the honest enjoyment of unadulterated creativity. Holters critically acclaimed debut album Tragedy (Leaving Records, 2011) embraced Stars strains of shimmer, but used sparser textures in a narrative context. While Ekstasis reflects the conventions of her classical training, the album is also uncannily, if unknowingly, poppy. Holters approach to crafting the songs of Ekstasis centered around what she describes as, open ear decision: what seemed to sound best for that moment. This blindness to reverence unintentionally steers Ekstasis along the experimental pop spectrum most commonly associated to New Yorks Downtown music micro-universe of the 80s, specifically the works of Laurie Anderson and Arthur Russell. Repressed with mp3 download." -Rvng. |
|
Artist: HOLTER, JULIA Title: Maria/2HB Format: 7" Label: Human Ear Country: Germany Price: $9.00 |
| "Part of Julia Holters "Phonetic Translations" series, in which she interprets global kitsch music by translating foreign word-sounds into surreal poetry in her native tongue, English. Features side-by-side lyrics in the original Russian, and in Holters phonetically-translated English, both printed on the vinyls inner-sleeve. Side B holds a Roxy Music tune covered back in 2009 on KDVS radio. Includes a download code to redeem for the entire KDVS radio set in 24bit and mp3 formats. Comes on deep purple vinyl with ivory inlay." - Human Ear. |
|
Artist: HOLTKAMP, KOEN Title: Field Rituals Format: Double LP Label: Type Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
|
"Field Rituals is the first solo album to come from Koen Holtkamp, an artist probably better known as one-half of ambient duo Mountains. Based in Brooklyn, Koen created the album slowly and as a love letter of sorts, taking in delicate field recordings and using them like faded photos, representing his distinct memories of the people and places he chanced upon. Taking cues from the classic ambience of Brian Eno and fusing it with the instrumental subtlety of Swedens Tape, Koen has come up with an aural book on his subject matter. Each track feels entwined in the next and feels like a part of something much bigger. Sure weve heard field recordings, synthesizers and guitars before, but rarely have these instruments been injected with such a lightness of touch and with such a delicate open ear. Each listen reveals more, like peeling back layers of onion skin -- take the albums epic centerpiece "Sky Flowers" for example, which blends slow-moving synthesizers with good-natured environmental recordings and shimmering strings. The result is explosive somehow, with the grandeur more usually exploited by Arvo Pärt being framed with a distant electronic ambience. The slow-burning pace is probably the single most important facet and reveals an artist at ease with his musical choices, something unusual in a genre brimming with young hopefuls. A good comparison might be Stars Of The Lid, but Koens music is more organic and more humble somewhat than the ex-Texan duo. This is a look into Holtkamps most personal of works. Double LP version. Includes two vinyl-only remixes by Aubrey Lowe and Xela." -Type
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOLTKAMP, KOEN Title: Make Haste/Free Birds Format: LP Label: A Room Forever Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "Third volume to be released in this amazing new series. Koen Holtkamp is from Brooklyn, NY and runs the Apestaartje label and records as one half off the group Mountains. "Room Forever. Concept and art direction by Joshua Zucker. Photography by Kurt Mangum. A Room Forever is an art project realized as a curated series of limited edition 12" record LPs. Packaged in a custom-made box with high quality digital C-print covers and letterpressed inserts, each record features an original musical composition on one side and a field recording on the other. Pressed in one-time editions of 300, A Room Forever takes a unique and personal approach to the vinyl record LP. Conceived as a physical manifestation of the Roadside Picnic Radio podcast, the project draws upon the rich history and mythologies of audio recording to produce a final object of art that will resonate uniquely within each listener. More than anything, A Room Forever is inherently about the act of listening." Please note that these records are cut at the Dubplates & Mastering lab in Germany and are designed to be played at 45 r.p.m."- A Room Forever |
|
Artist: HOLY ANGELS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Prescription Disc & Acme Country: UK Price: $75.00 |
|
*PRESCRIPTION SERIES: These are the remaining copies of the ACME labels late 90s Prescription series. This run of 8 LPs was inspired by the private pressings phenomenon of the late 60s early 70s. All are editions of 99 copies on 180 gram audiophile vinyl (cut from original quarter inch master tape by direct copper plate lacquers) with handmade jackets and were until now only available via yearly subscriptions of 4 LPs for 100£ (which comes to about $170.00 for 4 LPs). "To Insure the mystique of these recordings, we will be destroying the master tapes and metal work of each release ensuring that these releases can only be accurately enjoyed via this vinyl format" - Acme. "All girl psychedelic band from Tokyo featuring Nanjo from Seventh Seal/High Rise and Mainliner. Long psychedelic tracks! Comes with insert and paste on sleeve." - Acme. "Japanese underground psychedelic group centering around female members. This album curiously fuses delicate trip-psychedelic vibes with heavy progressive sounds. Cult female group who base their activities around ideas of the microcosmos as a holy space. Also features Asahito Nanjo on electric sitar." - Holy Angels. Recorded in 1994.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOLY GHOST RECEPTION COMMITTEE #9 Title: Songs for Liturgical Worship Format: LP Label: Void Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
|
"Exact reissue of this Christian psych album from 1967. Great Christian psychedelic songs that are sure to blow your mind. These boys were going to Catholic High in the late 60s, dropping acid, and listening to The Beatles. The result is cool, intelligent, raw, psychedelic sounds. This is the best example of what Christian psych can be." - Void.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOLY STRAYS Title: Enlightenment Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Parisian Stereolabbers vinyl debut (after an earlier cassette EP on NNF) is a lovely pair of minimal keyboard hypno-pop sketches, tranced and translucent. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun. |
|
Artist: HOLY STRAYS Title: Hyperion Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
|
"French newcomer blends a spectrum of post-kraut elements into a fresh private hypnosis. been spinning this one a ton." -Not Not Fun
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOLYDRUG COUPLE Title: Ancient Land Format: 12" Label: Sacred Bones Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
|
"Statement From the Artists: "Two forest travelers, united by the will form the Holydrug Couple. With a minimal formation they managed to create a bluesy exploration, which takes the audience to a psychedelic trance. Like the rhythm of a train, with mid-tempo songs, they provide the audience a dense and misty energy. Without caring much about the contemporary scene they stand up for their own fascination about blues heroes, indian raga and hidden arts." Ok, so English isn t their first language. But the jist is pretty basic-- these two soul brothers got together in Santiago, Chile, started jamming and formed a pretty serious spiritual bond. Part of the ever growing Chilean Psychedelic underground scene (F?kzoid, La Banda, The Cindy Sisters, La Hell Gang, This Schafferson Jetplane, et al.), Holydrug offer up more pop structured/ vocal heavy tunes than their mates F?kzoid despite the fact that Ives plays in both bands. We hope to bring both bands over for a US tour next year." -Sacred Bones
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOME BLITZ Title: A.T.K./Last Cycle Format: 7" Label: Mexican Summer Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Its okay there arent any two Home Blitz releases which sound alike. Sure, bandleader Daniel DiMaggio is involved in all of them -- thats his voice, a British scouser trapped in a latent New Jersey teenagers body -- and theyre all pretty much as lo-fi as you can get without the tape disintegrating, but its his approach to songwriting that changes things up on each new record. Here we have two new ones, songs about nostalgia for experiences not had (A.T.K., which shifts from Incredible Kidda Band style energy to Pavement-esque slacker downbeats in just over two minutes), and experiences in interstate travel and estimation of ones worth (Last Cycle, doing a completely different trick in something more like three). Both songs bristle with the sort of nervous energy that powered groups like the Feelies and Game Theory, two distinct touchpoints in Home Blitzs sloppy, floppy sound, and when they power through it in the live setting (with guitarist Theresa Smith, bassist Jason Sigal and teenage drummer Henry Hynes in tow), they become the greatest band on the East Coast for that moment." - Mexican Summer. |
|
Artist: HOME BLITZ Title: Apocalyptic Grades 2005 A.D. Format: 7" Label: Home Blitz Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
|
"..great individualist punk rock much in the same way Half Japanese is. There are times where you have to say "What the fuck?" and that is good. Man, I really dig this record. Refreshingly no bullshit and all its own thing." �?? Scott Soriano, S-S Records. "Wow! A lotta punk singles pass through here and most go unnoted because theyre so by the numbers. The debut record by New Jerseys Homeblitz, Apocalyptic Grades 2005 AD (Homeblitz 7"), is a different kettle of stink. Although one senses that the underlying concept is not inimical to the concept of pop-punk, the execution goes far beyond that. The final track, "Hey!" does have the same kind of lost yard jumble classicism as, say, Mike Fornatales "Kickin Chickens", but the lead off tune has an avant-pumice edge that recalls nothing less than The Electric Eels "Cyclotron". And 28 years after the fact, I can still remember my first hearing of that side, in Andy Schwartzs old pad on East 10th Street. Since Ill be dead in another 28 years, this wont have the same kind of personal legs, but what the heck?" �?? Byron Coley, the Wire.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOME BLITZ Title: Frozen Track Format: 12" Label: Mexican Summer Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Six more tracks by the coolest band in the Tri-State area. Daniel DiMaggio is living in the big city now and as the driving force behind Home Blitz, he keeps the rhythms crazier and the feelings more nervous than ever, having fully adopted the restless jangle of Hoboken 81, the working class anger of Londons East End in the mid 70s and the starry-eyed wonder of the Sunset Strip in 78. You can choose which lens you want to view them through, though theres only one right answer: that which is the most sincere, because Home Blitz is nothing if not real. If they align most closely with the sort of bespectacled guitar pop-in-the-wake-of-punk that gave rock critics the chills way back when, its because thats where the heart of this music resides, the thrill of excavation and discovery of an era before ones own, the one that speaks to you the most clearly. There is real love in these songs, five new originals and a reverent cover of Game Theorys Rolling with the Moody Girls. What a great time youre gonna have with this one. Includes mp3 download; hand-numbered edition of 1000 copies." -Mexican Summer. |
|
Artist: HOME BLITZ Title: Out Of Phase Format: CD Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Heres the music that weve all been waiting for. Its called ⿿Out of Phase and its first full-length album from NJs HOME BLITZ. Negotiating this deal took all types of backroom dealing and late-night, unsavory tactics. Some egos may have been bruised, but the slugfest was worth the coup in welcoming this high-profile act to the RR//TT roster. ⿿Out of Phase forges a blazing 13 track romp through hard rock, power-pop, and even oi territories, and its got some of the crispest licks since Meat Puppets II (or Priests Defenders of the Faith). HOME BLITZ broke out a few years ago as the recording project of Daniel DiMaggio, an under-aged jock on Princetons WPRB known for compiling playlists of deep depth and wide breadth. Early singles showed flippant naïviete and early live shows (with a somewhat stable backing band), were marked by purposeful self-implosion. This time around, HB trucks ahead with straight up, timeless, rock tunes." -Richie |
|
Artist: HOME BLITZ Title: Out of Phase Format: LP Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Heres the music that weve all been waiting for. Its called �??Out of Phase�?� and its first full-length album from NJs HOME BLITZ. Negotiating this deal took all types of backroom dealing and late-night, unsavory tactics. Some egos may have been bruised, but the slugfest was worth the coup in welcoming this high-profile act to the RR//TT roster. �??Out of Phase�?� forges a blazing 13 track romp through hard rock, power-pop, and even oi territories, and its got some of the crispest licks since Meat Puppets II (or Priests Defenders of the Faith). HOME BLITZ broke out a few years ago as the recording project of Daniel DiMaggio, an under-aged jock on Princetons WPRB known for compiling playlists of deep depth and wide breadth. Early singles showed flippant naïviete and early live shows (with a somewhat stable backing band), were marked by purposeful self-implosion. This time around, HB trucks ahead with straight up, timeless, rock tunes." - Richie. |
|
Artist: HOME BLITZ Title: Perpetual Night Format: 7" Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Perhaps Daniels most accomplished recordings to date. Mastered loud and clear by John Golden. Full color / heavy weight pocket sleeves. If you buy one modern single this year...this be it!" - Almost Ready. |
|
Artist: HOME BLITZ Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Gulcher Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
|
"HOME BLITZ is 21-year-old DANIEL DIMAGGIO from Princeton, New Jersey. He recorded and released his first two singles on his own. Those two early gems are a magic whirl of early Modern Lovers, Big Star, and Flamin Groovies circa 72-but with a casual no-fi vibe that sounds closer to the first couple Harry Pussy singles. On this new CD release, Gulcher has collected those first two singles (way out of print), material from a cassette release, a new HB 12-inch EP, and two otherwise unavailable tracks. From the first single, "Apocalyptic Grades 2005" is a powerpop / postpunk hybrid with guitars that sound like the Fall circa 78 covering the Flamin Groovies. The very bratty "AC S.S.," sounds like early Screamin Mee-Mees crossed with early Modern Lovers, and "Hey!" comes on as if Big Stars Radio City had been recorded under the more addled conditions of Alex Chiltons Like Flies On Sherbert." - Gulcher.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOME BLITZ Title: Stupid Street Format: 7" Label: Home Blitz Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
|
"Princetons finest drag their equipment out to the corner of Mercer & Hibben Streets and perform a few songs to cars and a strange "figure that appeared in the distance." Two smart poppy songs that are held together with brittle string. The Modern Lovers and Velvets lurk in the background but the execution could have landed this on the Secret Center label. A great follow up to an equally great debut. Complete with passing car sounds. Hopefully more Home Blitz will come to the surface." �?? Scott Soriano, S-S Records.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOME BLITZ Title: Weird Wings Format: LP Label: Parts Unknown Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
|
"This is the sound of a bedroom garage rock band getting inside a refrigerator carton and being pushed down a steep hill. The Home Blitz 12? bangs through five songs, including Slades ode to civic pride, "My Town". Internet superstar Sarim on drums. Highly American music from three guys into good times." - Parts Unknown.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOMER Title: Grown in U.S.A. Format: Double LP Label: Guerssen Country: Spain Price: $35.00 |
| "With their roots traced in two legendary 60s garage bands, The Outcasts and The Stoics, Homer were without doubt one of the best psychedelic/hard-rock outfits from Texas. Grown in U.S.A. was their only album, released as a private pressing in 1970. Rural psychedelic rock with early prog hints fuelled by stunning lead/dual guitar, melodic vocals and occasional mellotron. Presented in a 2LP expanded edition including their early singles, which are prime examples of 60s Texan garage-psych, plus previously-unreleased studio demo tracks recorded at the same time as the album. Newly remastered sound especially for this vinyl release, housed in a gatefold sleeve with detailed liner notes and rare pictures. 180 gram vinyl. "A Texas private press classic that spans several early 70s genres but still manages to sound like a coherent, personal work. A strongly played melodic rock trip somewhat like Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck." -Patrick Lundborg, Acid Archives. |
|
Artist: HOMESTEAD & WOLFE Title: Our Times Format: CD Label: Anopheles Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| Subtitled: The Gold Star Tapes (1973-75). "Originally released in 1975, Homestead & Wolfes lone and unknown privately pressed LP is an artifact so lost to time, it has never appeared in any discography, list of rare records, or catalog, anywhere. However, exist it does, and now their story can be told. Anopheles Records has sat tight lipped on this discovery for the last year while researching and preparing this reissue from the original master tapes and with full cooperation of the group. Homestead & Wolfe was a folk-harmony group based around the United Methodist Good Samaritan church in Cupertino, CA. Comprised of two female lead vocalists, one male lead vocalist, and buttressed with superb male and female harmonies throughout, H&W performed original material in a rich, melodic folk-rock-country style that is well executed, as well as earnest and personal. These 15 tracks were recorded at the legendary Gold Star Studios in Hollywood between 1973-75. Engineered by Stan Ross, these recordings feature top flight studio musicianship from legendary wrecking crew drummer Hal Blaine, guitarist Ben Benay (Goldenrod, Darius), acoustic guitarist Al Casey, monster bass player Ray Pohlman, not to mention one of the worlds most renowned and respected pedal steel guitar players, Jay Dee Maness (Buck Owens, the Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo LP). The harmonies and arrangements of H&W recall both the Mamas and the Papas and the Carpenters at times, but much of the music deals with darker themes: the story of Wounded Knee told in See The Children Die, the organ fueled psychedelia of Your Freedoms In Question, aimed at the Nixon administration at the time, remains apropos today, and recalls the work of Growing Concern, Birmingham Sunday, Art of Lovin and the Poppy Family. There are plenty of surprises here, as we located 6 unreleased tracks to augment the 9 tracks on the original album, including the startlingly great and dynamic cut, Beat of the Drum, which sounds as if the Bangles were hired to front Goldenrod for a one off single. The full color 16 page booklet tells the story in their own words, features images of the touring group and recording sessions at Gold Star, and maintains the high standard of archival work Anopheles Records is known for. Homestead & Wolfe represents a highly unusual and strikingly original blend of unproven but talented young vocalists, top quality session players and engineering, and a truly rare chemistry that makes this one of the great folk-rock discoveries of the last 10 years." - Anopheles. |
|
Artist: HOMETOWN FEILDING Title: Clouds Across The Bay Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $14.50 |
| "Mark Sadgrove is the man behind Hometown Feilding, as well as his other excellent solo sound project MHFS. He⿿s also one part of Infinitesimal, one sixth of Plains etc. Hometown Feilding is defined by rough textural electronic sound generated by Sadgrove⿿s mastery of sound generation application C-Sound which he uses to twist sounds in on themselves - like a hard drive driven to self mutilation. Great stuff, especially cut by Peter Kings lathe machine to polycarbonate plastic in mono." - CMR. |
|
Artist: HOMOSEXUALS, THE Title: Astral Glamour Format: 3CD Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
| "The Homosexuals created a musical world of their own. Holed up in no-rent studios and squats, they mined every genre from psych-folk and Afrobeat to punk and dub, added killer hooks, then exuberantly tore it all apart. They wrote and recorded for five years, but they never took out an advert, sent out a promotional record, or got paid for a gig. The legend has grown, and today the Homosexuals are arguably the most acclaimed-and-least-heard band of the postpunk era. After more than a year of research and restoration, a hundred hours of conversations with band-members, and endless surprises, the story of The Homosexuals can now be told. Astral Glamour gathers 81 songs and three-plus hours of legendary 1977-1983 artpunk -- every Homosexuals song from their records and the C-60, plus a dozen other tracks never released anywhere before. Astral Glamour also features a full-colour 32-page booklet with scores of unpublished photographs, posters, lyrics, songby-song comments and an extensive history of their early years." - Hyped2Death. |
|
Artist: HOMOSEXUALS, THE Title: The Homosexuals Record Format: CD Label: Morphius Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "One of the most enigmatic bands of the UK art-punk, sex pistols era UK scene, The Homosexuals carved a subterranean legend that far exceeded their discography of self released 45s and the posthumous release of The Homosexuals Record as a Recommended Records LP in 1984. Now, for the first time, UK experimental label ReR Megacorp in conjunction with Morphius Archives are happy to present the entire Homosexuals discography on one CD, including an audiophile restoral of the original 1984 ReR release The Homosexuals Record, plus the remainder of their entire recorded discography on one 73 minute CD (including four recently unearthed and previously unreleased/unmixed tracks which were only recently discovered to exist)." - Morpheus. "For fans of: 1977, 1978, 1979, the genesis of art punk worldwide, Wire, Fall, Television, Gang of Four, Pere Ubu, Adam & the Ants, Swell Maps, Desperate Bicycles." - FE. |
|
Artist: HOMOSTUPIDS Title: Cat Music Format: 7" Label: Fashionable Idiots Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
|
Artist: HOMOSTUPIDS Title: Glow Format: 7" Label: My Minds Eye Country: US Price: $4.50 |
|
"Deranged, spitty, and lo-fi, they bring to mind a meaner Reatards or a garage-damaged Negative Approach. (Or, if this helps you: The Dirtys.) Broken knife, dirty needle, rusty chains, in-the-basement punk rock. Comes in a simple white paper sleeve with a picture that looks like a Vietnam veteran-era tattoo of a skull with a lightning bolt through it. Well done."-Todd Taylor (Razorcake).
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOMOSTUPIDS Title: Night Deacon Format: 7" Label: Fashionable Idiots Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Here we have six brand new tracks from the best band in America. The songs featured here are better than all previous recordings, side B kicks off with a stupids traditional re-recorded by a mandolin quartet. This wonderful record is a must have for morons worldwide." - Fashionable Idiots. |
|
Artist: HOMOSTUPIDS Title: The Brutal Birthday E.P. Format: 7" Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
|
"This is the 2nd 7" the Homostupids have released this yr & while the 1st one mightve filled the void left since Iron Cross slammed into the cement, this one practically recalls Chromes hallucinatory transformation from demi-god to deity in the sonic, thunderous moments between Alien Soundtracks & Half Machine Lip Moves. Word has it that these tracks actually precede those laid down on their debut & as good as that is, I prefer the yak off this one a whole lot more. And its all there on one side too, 6 tracks worth. No flipping!" - SIltblog.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOMOSTUPIDS Title: The Intern Format: CD Label: Parts Unknown Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "After two singles, Cleveland, Ohios Homostupids give up their debut full length to the Parts Unknown empire. A perturbing stew of full-bore garage spew and psychedelic punkaroo, this disc will be the soundtrack to many losers bad drug parties for centuries to come. "The Intern" LP is fourteen songs and one big headache." - Parts Unknown. |
|
Artist: HOMOSTUPIDS Title: The Intern LP Format: LP Label: Parts Unkown Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
|
"After two singles, Cleveland, Ohios Homostupids give up their debut full length to the Parts Unknown empire. A perturbing stew of full-bore garage spew and psychedelic punkaroo, this disc will be the soundtrack to many losers bad drug parties for centuries to come. "The Intern" LP is fourteen songs and one big headache." - Parts Unknown.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOMOSTUPIDS Title: The Load Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Clevelands HOMSTUPIDs new record is a tunnel ride through a reverb soaked youth hall that spreads confusion like manure in the spring soil. Fast, noisy, garage rock. A buffet of great taste and unparalleled ear fakery. Dont worry, its skull music so you can rest your nappy dome assured. Limited run of 500 CDs. No Export to the UK." -Load |
|
Artist: HOMOSTUPIDS, THE Title: Strawberry, Orange, Peach, Banana Format: 12" Label: Fashionable Idiots Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Cleveland kings of Skull Music return to smash with this brand new mini album. Nine more tracks of their signature primitive retard rock done to perfection. This time around the Stupids see themselves recording in a real studio, oh my! and the results are crushing. Buy this great new album right now." -Fashionable Idiots |
|
Artist: HOOKER, D.R. Title: The Truth Format: LP Label: Here Music/On Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "2013 repress; 180 gram exact repro reissue of this legendary, super rare U.S. psych LP, originally recorded during the dawn of mankind or in Connecticut in 1972." - Here Music/On. "This is a messed-up, freaky mix of folk-rock, psychedelia and heavy rock. There appears to be somewhat of a Christian vibe lyrically, but not overt enough to make it too cheesy, just adds to the overall bizarreness of this almost indescribable artifact!" -- Cosmik Debris |
|
Artist: HOOR-PAAR-KRAAT Title: Elbow Drops Effortlessly Format: Cass Label: Robert & Leopold Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Most recently, Anthony Mangicapra has expanded his studies with his projected vision as Hoor-paar-Kraat, taking on a subtle form of layered density and broken theater to what some would call a step into the hypnagogic unknown. Always incorporating a sense of textural beauty found in everyday objects, each piece uses its own sculpted resonance that only HpK can bring out into the open for us, as listeners, to interpret. Typically releasing his recordings through his own imprint, Goat Eater Arts, and only on select occasion does HpK release compositions on outside labels. With the release of Elbow Drops Effortlessly, HpK encompasses an additional contribution by artist Ryan Lamm along side Mangicapra, focusing on taking this endeavor to a more mature, dream-like state." - Robert & Leopold. |
|
Artist: HOPE-EVANS, PETER Title: Cast-Offerings: Visitations, Fetches, Revenants Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only release in a limited edition of 200 copies. Peter Hope-Evans was a member of Medicine Head, a British 70s blues band championed by John Peel and signed to his legendary Dandelion label. The creation/recreation/wreck creation/of the precursor -- The Coasters/Donovan/Sleepy John Estes/Blind Mamie Forehand/The Fugs/Skip James/Peggy Lee/Lotte Lenya/Sherrie Levine/Uncle Dave Macon/Moby Grape. Peter Hope-Evans: mouth organs/organs of the mouth/Jews harps/trinklets/reception bell. Collaborator: Mick Mahoney. Guitar: Baby Taylor. Recorded aboard Micks canal boat "Cornwall," Grand Union Canal at Cowley Peachey on Tuesday afternoon, November 2nd, 2010. Cover illustration by SavX." -The Tapeworm |
|
Artist: HOPKINS BRADLEY Title: Nothing Hides Better Than Darkness Format: LP Label: Void Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Legendary folk psych duo recorded a very rare private LP back in 1973. Originals go for big bucks. Every song is well written and played. All originals including title song. 700 pressing from master tapes on black vinyl, including lyric sheet. The original had just a blank white cover. Here we have a glossy cool color cover approved by the band. This is somewhat like a more folky Stone Harbour in its basement sound and eclectic vibes. Even has a Lennon-McCartney feel if they did acid folk loner vibes. We picked this for our 50th release because I love the music here. Highly regarded by all collectors who have heard it. Includes lyric sheet." -Void |
|
Artist: HORACE Title: Waiting For the Moon Format: 7" Label: Shagrat Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Hugely obscure, Horace grew out of some informal hash jams that guitarist/bass player Jim Mercer and drummer Ric Parnell held in the autumn of 1970. The music has a strong bucolic yet at times experimental feel to it, conjuring up comparisons with Traffic, Caravan, Frank Zappas seminal Hot Rats album, and the more pastoral moments of early Stackridge. Ric Parnell, perhaps best known for his role as the spontaneously combusting drummer Mick Shrimpton in This Is Spinal Tap is a revelation as the bands lead vocalist and the tracks are made even more special by Mike Piggotts magisterial violin playing, adding edge, textures and atmosphere to the songs. Waiting for the Moon is a moody blues shuffle somewhat reminiscent of the Greasebands debut LP for Harvest cut around the same time, whilst See the Sun shines with an exquisite West Coast aura, Parnells scatting in the closing moments reminiscent of the great David Crosby! The closing instrumental, Mongrel Polyop based around some haunting violin riffs is just plain beautiful - a kind of Brit version of Peaches en Regalia with Curtiss cascading grand piano runs to the fore. The 7" comes in a beautiful full-colour gatefold sleeve, and inner bag designed by psychedelic artist John Hurford with extensive sleeve notes by Colin Hill. Pressed on heavyweight 70g vinyl, it is a limited to 250 copies and is available only on this format." - Shagrat. |
|
Artist: HORAFLORA Title: Craterellus Cornucopioides Format: LP Label: Crazy Iris Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Horaflora is the moniker of Bay Area resident Raub Roy and Craterellus Cornucopioides represents his most seminal work to date. A heavy dose of electronic treachery awaits as Horn of Plenty cracks open your ears. Skewed waves flash out and ricochet off every surface in the room like little sonic bullets just waiting to load you up with shrapnel. Roys like a puppet master, wielding bleeps and squirts as his arsenal, bending them into unexpected shapes. Every crackle, every turn is the right one. Its an awesome exercise in trashcan electronics. The flip, Trumpet of Death, gets even more medieval. Horn squalls are burnt into charred deliciousness. While oscillating squelches are lined up to infinity, endless loops recoil, destroying each other and leaving the ground littered with caustic tonal debris. If these are the death throes, color me fucking excited. Recommended." - Brad Rose, Experimedia. Limited to 250 copies. |
|
Artist: HORAFLORA/SECRET BOYFRIEND Title: Split Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "I met Raub of Horaflora during his tour down from New England when he had his entire set-up on a bicycle. Using a clever and economical system that included a hand drum, trumpet mouth piece, balloon, computer sub-woofer, transducers, hand-held tape recorders and various found objects, he created an immersive shuddering meadow mecha-organic sound environment. Empty cans and scrap metal rattled to the same pulse, balloons exhaled lost-in-the-fog tones on the taut drum skin, tapes whirred weird in their lascivious carriage in the front and back : the sum being a barnyard of coldly throbbing sounds from all angles harmonizing with the resident frogs and insects. Two years later we have this, the vinyl debut of both Horaflora and Secret Boyfriend. On his side, Raub wrings pleasingly alien sounds from his systems - taken in this instance from a live session with Andrea Williams on KALX. The electro-acoustic room-rattling is crisply recorded but still very inscrutable ... strange sounds mingling spatially guided by unseen hands of a restless poltergiest . . . The Secret Boyfriend side begins stunned in the still room where Horaflora left us, oozes and flirts with a baroque chamber mentality giving away to exquisite / blown speaker melodies and drooling song-form, morbid and tender. A sense of calm and peripheral melancholy is held, abrasion dialed back. One quarter alive in a cold apartment for twenty years. The windows are open. Pro-printed jackets, 300 copies." -Hot Releases |
|
Artist: HORMANN, VOLKER Title: Jungle Guitar Music Format: 7" Label: Happy Zloty Country: Germany Price: $6.50 |
| "-Working partly with atonal playing techniques, Volker Hormann creates a kind of impressionistic program music on this 7". The title track provides an audible jungle atmosphere, made with several layers of fx-pedaled guitars. Everythings there: the trees in the wind, animals and whatnot. Hen Music, the first track on the b-side is inspired by the way chickens move and search for food. The thing is, what Hormann really does here is creating free rhythmic structures and hilarious, picturesque sounds that leave much space for endless association. Oswaldo, the lyrical second track on the b-side comes up with an entirely different, pretty melodic approach. Played on a regular concert guitar, this song moves in between minor harmonies and the rough and cold sounds the steel strings produce. What a highly interesting contrast..." - Happy Zloty. HAPPY ZLOTY is a small label from Bremen that has released a series of beautiful 7"s and LPs. All are editions of 200 or 300 in silkscreened sleeves. |
|
Artist: HORNS OF HAPPINESS, THE Title: Weathering Alterations Format: LP Label: St. Ives Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The Horns of Happiness return to the recorded world with their first release since 2007s What Spills Like Thread EP. Here we find the band in concept mode, balancing its pounding rhythms and airy melodies to create a soundtrack piece entitled Weathering Alterations. The bands normally speedy and structure-damaged tunes begin to stretch out, allowing repetition and space to create new moods. Originally performed as an accompaniment to the J. Shelley Harrison installation piece Dont Rain On My Parade, the recording focuses on the reaction of the psyche to unexpected changes in environment. While this is not the true follow-up to the bands only full-length album, 2004s A Sea As A Shore, the record is a moody, rocking, and nonsensical song cycle. As with all St. Ives releases, this album is available as a hand-made limited edition vinyl (only 200 copies)." - St. Ives. |
|
Artist: HORRID RED Title: Celestial Joy Format: LP Label: Terrible Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Horrid Red first appeared in 2010, emerging from the ongoing German/Cali Kraut-Punk institution that is Teenage Panzerkorps (est. 2001). While that band is known for its violently propulsive sound, Horrid Red was established to explore the more elegant and arcane aspects of post-punk & pop. Centered around grandiose bedroom productions of San Franciscan Edmund Xavier & the incantations of Bunker Wolf beamed in from Aachen, Germany, Horrid Red is in full bloom for 2012. Celestial Joy is the debut full-length for Terrible Records, following three EPs released on Soft Abuse & Holidays . The album also features Clay Rub of Burial Hex, who contributes heavenly keys & noise detail to many of the tracks." -Terrible. |
|
Artist: HORRID RED Title: Pink Flowers Format: 7" Label: Soft Abuse Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "HORRID RED is an offshoot of ex-Siltbreeze creeps TEENAGE PANZERKORPS (DER TPK). While DER TPK stirs a blown-out post-punk frenzy, Horrid Red takes a slightly more delicate approach. Pink Flowers EP is far more pop oriented, though in the way Cans Future Days or mid 80s Fall records are pop. German-born vocalist BUNKER WOLF remains as disturbing as ever and almost more bizarre when set against these melodic guitars ad synth- drenched propulsive rhythms. Vinyl version includes digital download coupon with extra tracks. Edition of 300 copies." -Soft Abuse |
|
Artist: HORRORCOMIC Title: Im All Hung Up On Pierrepoint Format: 7" Label: Lightning Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| Unplayed "dead stock" of this London bands first single from 1977. Some slight storage wear on the sleeves."Halfway between Deep Purple-influenced Hard Rock and the new Punk sound, with a peculiar taste of the macabre pervading both the lyrics and the artwork." - 45 Revolutions. |
|
Artist: HORSE DWARVES Title: 1st Adventure Format: Triple 3" CDR Label: Deathbomb Arc Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Collection of the first 3 Horse Dwarves releases, DBA045, 46, and 47. feat members of Friends Forever, ex-Hale Zukas, Foot Village, Gang Wizard, etc..." - Deathbomb Arc. |
|
Artist: HORSE HEAD Title: Make It Something Else Format: CDR Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "I remember when the Zelda game came out for N64. I was all over that shit, but then forgot about it and never beat it. The thing I do remember is the sweet soundtrack it had. So-cal sunshine kids Horse Head have inadvertently recreated the sounds of the ocarina of time with guitars, drums, and voice. Past releases are hints of songs, these are "songs". Lyrics with all the joys and unjoys of being a human. Psych-pop for the kids. Down tempo tribal beats. Their most song based release yet(ever?). Upcoming album on Not Not Fun. In hand crafted/sewn cardstock pocket folders with conch shell stamped discs in an edition of 50." - Arbor. |
|
Artist: HORSEBLADDER Title: Not, Ill Not Format: LP Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Not Ill Not is the debut LP from Horsebladder aka Elaine Kahn, a poet & musician currently living in Northampton, Massachusetts. Kahn uses minimalist loops & incantation to create primitive pop songs for the second body. Vocals range from ethereal to ragged, music is a corporeal daydream of night sweats & sad sex, laced with preconscious allusions to Dome, Two Daughters & Catullus. Previous releases on Yod Tapes & Night People. This recording will spook you into a third-floor poet mind devising schematics for basement loveletter. The sounds of a heart beating through raw chambers of reverb and rhythm. Engrossing, exquisite and holistically haunting. 300 copies." -Ecstatic Peace |
|
Artist: HORTON, ROBERT Title: Dirt Speak Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Robert Horton made a monumental splash into the scene of free music in 2005. With nearly 30 years of experience under his belt, the catalog of recordings hes accumulated is enough to make even the most prolific artists blush. After taking a hiatus from releasing music from the mid 90s until now, the dam finally broke in 2005 with the release of Angel Humming Through Wire on Foxglove. Ever since, Horton has released albums on Celebrate Psi-Phenomenon, Jyrk, Important, Nosordo, Last Visible Dog and more. Dirt Speak is Hortons first solo CD release under his own name. When he plays with close collaborators Tom Carter (of Charalambides), Yellow Swans, and others, Horton takes on the role of primary curator. He weaves his magic into the sounds of others with mathematical precision. In his solo works, he takes this boundless inspiration and pushes it even further. Organic, insular drones are the backbone of Dirt Speak, but the heavy tinges of folk, jazz, and musique concrète are equally important to its unique sound. Horton will use anything that makes any kind of sound as a source for his music. In addition to more traditional instrumentation, Dirt Speak also features the use of vibrators, an electric toothbrush, and even the sound of contact mics in a fire. In a world full of copycats and fakers, Robert Horton is one of the most original voices to emerge in music in recent memory." - Digitalis. |
|
Artist: HORTON, ROBERT Title: First Light Format: CDR Label: Onomato Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Robert founded the Appliances, part of SFs first wave of punk bands in 1979. Then later formed the Plateau Ensemble in 1983, a tribal noise drone group who played in the Bay Area until 1987. From the early 90s until 2004 Horton continued to compose and record, but didnt release any of it publicly until 2005, when he put together First Light. Originally released on the Finish label Outta (now defunct), in a tiny edition of 50 copies. Anyways were all glad Robert has opened up the floodgates, and Im pretty excited to get to re-issue this thing in a slightly larger edition. Edition of 100, photo/screen-print cover, inserts, black cds, heavy vinyl sleeves." - Onomato. |
|
Artist: HORTON, ROBERT Title: Washed Out Headspace Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| "A brilliant adventure that should not be missed. Its hard to say where to start when getting into Hortons ever-growing catalog, but this is as good a place as any. Really, its hard to go wrong with an artist like this. 8/10" ⿿ Foxy Digitalis. |
|
Artist: HOSPITALS Title: Hairdryer Peace Format: CD Label: Meds Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Finally available on cd. Ranked 3rd best album of 2008 in The Wire magazine. Intensely psychedelic and mixed for maximum hallucinations, this marks a pretty heavy departure from the Hospitals of old. Heavy tranced out riffs, weird pop, cracked folk, disorienting noise, paranoid vibes...Main Hospital Adam Stonehouse with Rob Enbom & Rod Meyer from Eat Skull and Chris Gunn from The Hunches. The most forward thinking album of 2008 but also an album of songs with actual emotional intensity. Not a party record and definitely not background music. Best listened to loud, alone and with herbal assistance." -Meds. |
|
Artist: HOSPITALS, THE Title: Hairdryer Peace Format: LP Label: Hospitals Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
|
"After a nearly Chinese Democracy situation, the new Hospitals LP "Hairdryer Peace" is being pressed and.. put out by the band. Its a ripper/apology for the bands previous two albums."-Hospitals.
"Doesnt really matter whether you loved or hated The Hospitals before, cuz this is some year zero shit. This is the most psychedelic fucking record in a long time and there are no rainbows - no feather earrings - no beards. Mixed for maximum hallucinations, it has the stoned riffs of a killer rock record, totally cracked pop, pure headfuck, but more than anything else just an all around perfect album. Its Chief Hospital Adam Stonehouse with oringal Hospital co-founder/shredder Rod Meyer and Rob Enbom from Eat Skull and Chris Gunn from an island off the coast of the future. Sounds nothing like any bands or anything else.. Seriously, if a better record comes out this year, next year, whenever.... I promise. Edition of 500. Dont be an asshole." - Scott Simmons.
"and when I announced as a
masterpiece and a real departure into a ZONE, theyre getting VERY
curious." - Hicham Chadly.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOSPITALS, THE Title: Ive Visited The Island Of Jocks And Jazz Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
|
"San Franciscos The Hospitals have arrived with their second record guaranteed to confuse the garage rock crowd something powerful. The records got plenty of their smothered, covered and muffled sounds of the last record, but with an extra helping of what the fuck. At the same time, its got hooks as big as an oil well fire burning bright. On their most recent 12", The Hospitals go do some covers and this may give you an idea of what to expect: Harry Pussy, the Homosexuals, the Kinks, and Royal Trux. The Hospitals are a two piece with drums and guitar... vocals ping pong in all manners like a drug holiday weekend."
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOT GUTS Title: Ballad of Jon Simon Format: 7" Label: Badmaster Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "The debut 7-inch from Philadelphias HOT GUTS. Greatness is spread thick across each song. "The Ballad of Joe Simon was particularly striking right off the bat, and it must be placed on the table that this is not the type of great in which theres no hint whatsoever as to how it relates to the bands record collection. Definite Swans-love happening here, both in the pummel and the Gira-deep vocals, and this is tastefully if not predictably matched with some other industrial/early-noise creep-os like Chrome and the venerable Throbbing Gristle. I heard early Killing Joke and Nick Cave, too, but to drive home an adage that cant be driven hard enough, its all what you do with the source material. Now, looking at that layer of Hot Guts, and no, I have never heard anything like this, ever, and thankfully, its a good thing this time."-Andrew Earles |
|
Artist: HOT GUTS Title: Edges Format: LP Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Edges is the long anticipated debut album from Philly’s Hot Guts (founded in 2007 by frontman Wes Russell and drummer Greg Frantz as a sonic reflection of the rotting urban hell hole that surrounded them). Previous releases included a 7” on Badmaster Records, a cassette, and a split 7” with NY’s Pop. 1280. Edges is a perfect blend of sullen and morose post-punk, catchy synthwave, and industrial nihilism that is somehow overshadowed by a sense of a youthful optimism. Comparisons could certainly be made to bands like Savage Republic (Tragic Figures era) or Cop Shoot Cop, but they would have to be tapered with the side of things that could fit seamlessly alongside classic early Factory Records bands. Ultimately, these comparisons are useless since Edges is a solid album that really just needs to be listened to start to finish. Russell and Frantz were joined on this recording by Philly musicians Michael Reaser (FNU Ronnies), and Adam Cooper (Tickly Feather). Edges also features contributions from legendary Philly-based experimental musician Charles Cohen (on the Buchla Box), and the lovely Miss Shari Vari (AKA Void Vision). Edges is available as a deluxe gatefold edition and comes with a free digital download. First 100 mailorder copies come on clear vinyl." -Blind Prophet. Preview here. |
|
Artist: HOT GUTS / POP. 1280 Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Badmaster Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "A new 7-inch split between Phillys HOT GUTS (members of FNU RONNIES) and NYC creeps POP. 1280. Edition of 500 copies." -Badmaster |
|
Artist: HOTCOMB, JETT AND THE TALENTED HAIRDOS Title: Give Us This Day Our Swingin Bread Format: 7" Label: B.U.F.M.S. Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Homemade Christian lounge music from the late 70s, previously available as a free cassette (self-released via the Jett 3:16 label) for guests at a now-defunct rural motel in Butte County. Two tracks with a full band ("Jesus Digs Me" and "The Lords Prayer") and two recorded a cappella in the shower ("Live and Let Die" and "Shampoo Bottle"). Includes reproductions of four period handbills and business cards, as well as a Butte County Free Music Society pink flamingo swizzle stick. One-sided 7-inch pressed in an edition of 200." - B.U.F.M.S. |
|
Artist: HOTEL MORPHILA ORCHESTER Title: Schwarze Energie Format: LP Label: Cien Fuegos Country: Austria Price: $28.00 |
| "The Hotel Morphila Orchester was founded in 1978 by Peter Weibel (voice/lyrics) and Loys Egg (guiter/composition). "In the old times in Vienna, every good hotel or coffeehouse had their own orchestra. Since this tradition is extinct today, we call ourselves after a hotel that doesnt exist either. Hotels have a good tradition in rock music: Heartbreak Hotel, Morrison Hotel, Hotel California.... The name of the hotel swings between morbid, morphium, Morpheus (god of dreams/sleep), Mephistopheles, Morphe, Godzilla and indicates the character of the hotel, the guests, the music: monster-rock by machines, music of the metropoles, neon-rock, code-breaker, clinic-music for patients of all kinds." --Peter Weibel; In his unmistakable flow of speech, where no syllable can be assured that it wont drown in the flood of words, Peter Weibel recites the sincere lyrics, pushed by a heavy beat. Peter Weibel is internationally-known for his work as an artist (conceptual, video, media), and he has worked with the Viennese Actionist group, lecturing at various universities since the 70s. Since 1999, he has been the head of the ZKM/Center For Art and Media Karlsruhe. In the 90s, Germanys Chicks On Speed had an underground hit with their cover-version of Hotel Morphila Orchesters "Sex In Der Stadt" (trans. "Sex In The City"). Their only full-length album Schwarze Energie from 1982 is an international collectors item; the re-issue was remastered from the original tapes and pressed to 180 gram vinyl. Includes lyric sheet." -Cien Fuegos. |
|
Artist: HOTGUITARS/DRAKES MEDICINE Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Kevyt Nostalgia Country: Finland Price: $6.50 |
| "Avant grind vs. Free heavy. Limited to 200 copies" Out of print. |
|
Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Befriending Demons/Nepenthe Format: 3" CDR Label: Mallard Lake Country: Sweden Price: $7.50 |
|
"A population of singing birds. How nice. But armed
with rusty metal strings and heavy amplifiers executed
in a freakout state of mind, it gets nasty.
UltraFuzzDronePreacher Matthew Bower, known from
Skullflower and Sunroof!, unveils another episode of
the Hototogisu, in a collaboration with Marcia Bassett
from the Double Leopards." - Mallard Lake.
"The three inch cd seems to be the format of choice
these days for all things avant / drone related. I
guess its part the novelty, but also the 20 minute
limit is just perfect for one big long track. Like the
modern day drone rock equivalent of our old friend the
seven inch single. This super limited three inch just
so happens to be the latest missive from Mr. Matthew
Bower of Sunroof!, Skullflower, Total, etc. Bower is
the Hototogisu, and on this disc that means gorgous,
pulsing free noise, taking the crushing power of
Skullflower and smoothing it out with the bliss of
Sunroof! Two tracks merged into one twenty minute
piece of strangled guitar chords, droning and
throbbing, becoming more and more machinelike, until
the whole thing is a keening, looped mass of distorted
grit and vibrating hum, like an industrial Steve
Reich, or a noise rock Terry Riley. Caustic and
abrasive, but also hypnotic and beautiful. These are
ultra limited so you can bet they wont be around for
long." - Aquarius.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Chimärendämmerung Format: CD Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Hototogisu are Marcia Bassett and Matthew Bower, and they dwell upon two continents (Marcia in Brooklyn NY and Matthew in Leeds UK). Both share rich discographical heritage. Marcia has recorded with numerous labels (Siltbreeze, Timelag, Eclipse, Troubleman Unlimited, etc.) with UN, GHQ and the Double Leopards, and Matthew with Total, Skullflower, Sunroof!, Vibracathedral Orchestra and more. A Wikipedia entry in his name clearly (sic) illustrates his cultural heft: Bowers huge discography of visceral, free drone-rock is probably the most formidable of its kind and he was rightly considered in 2005 by The Wire to be one of the map co-ordinates for much of what passed for a post-punk UK underground during most of the 80s and 90s (issue 259) . Chimärendämmerung is the 3rd Hototogisu release on Destijl and the 5 untitled walls of vertical viola drone/overtone, lapped by shifting electronic waves of feedback, blackened guitars, rhinegold cast deep into dying rivers, an instrumental cycle of conflict of the birth of a supreme aristocratic beauty into a fallen world, and its inevitable conflagration, then a glimmer of hope of escape from the cycle, in tune w/ the breath of the cosmos, like a glacial reimagining of Van der Graafs A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers, and it represents a current plateau for the duo." - Destijl. |
|
Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Floating Gardens Format: Triple LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $38.00 |
|
"the hototogisu is one of several pieces of japanese cuckoo. since the song of the hototogisu traditionally signaled the arrival of japanese summer, it was as eagerly awaited as the trimming of la monte youngs nose hairs. the text of this piece likens the long-awaited first notes of the bird to the arrival of ones lover. floating gardens compositions are mainly narrative in style and more dramatic in character than anthony moores drooping bamboo shaft. however, also contained are light and lyrical pieces which will touch the sentiments of the people of this time as deeply as terry rileys toes are dug in the sand. the package is impressive, a kaleidoscope of color, as flamboyant / indulgent as chalemagne palestines brandy-sogged teddy bears and when it meets your gaze, youll be as bug-eyed as phil glass. floating gardens is the best known of these." - Destijl. Insane full color paste-on jacket. Limited to 300 copies. Highly recommended!
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Floating Japanese Oof! Gardens of the 21st Century Format: Double CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Floating Japanese Oof! Gardens Of The 21st Century was originally released on the De Stijl label in 2005, spread out over 3 LPs in hand glued packaging featuring colorful prints of Matthew Bowers compelling artwork. To date, this remains a singular release in the Hototogisu discography. The original press info from the always interesting De Stijl label says it all: The Hototogisu is one of several pieces of Japanese cuckoo. Since the song of the Hototogisu traditionally signaled the arrival of Japanese summer, it was as eagerly awaited as the trimming of La Monte Youngs nose hairs. The text of this piece likens the long-awaited first notes of the bird to the arrival of ones lover. The compositions on Floating Gardens are mainly narrative in style and more dramatic in character than Anthony Moores drooping bamboo shaft. However, also contained are light and lyrical pieces which will touch the sentiments of the people of this time as deeply as Terry Rileys toes are dug in the sand. The package is impressive! A kaleidoscope of color as flamboyant/indulgent as Charlemagne Palestines brandy-sogged teddy bears and when Floating Gardens meets your gaze, youll be as bug-eyed as Phil Glass." - Important. |
|
Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Ghosts of the Sun Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The Hototogisu masterfully create a dense sediment of Teutonic drone with the thickest layers of guitar, vocals and electronics. The Hototogisu are obviously seasoned sonic travelers, featuring the seminal legend Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Sunroof!) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards). Ghosts Of The Sun is one enormous composition, nearing two hours in length, unfolded and nailed together in seven movements. Starting with a slow drone electronic crawl and climaxing with crackling bone percussion buried howls of haunted minds, Ghosts Of The Sun cries out from beneath an earthquake of guitar feedback and distortion. Ghosts Of The Sun compresses eternity, from the creation of humanity to its own destruction, into seven parts on one double album. This is epic and total sonic overload, by way of The Hototogisu." - Important. |
|
Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Pale Fatal Sister Format: Double LP Label: Important Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
| "Limited edition of 700 copies. Double LP pressing housed in a gatefold jacket. Being a Nabokovian and visceral garden of delights, a musical evocation of memory and desire spread over four sides of vinyl. The sound is conjured forth from dark wells to be birthed, twisting and screaming in silver winds. Recorded at Black Dirt Studios, over an intensive three-day period of hermetic isolation, while snow blanketed the surrounding fields, this work is both more detailed and conjures a heavier, more brooding occult atmosphere and sound, than any previous Hototogisu release." -Important |
|
Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Prayer Rug Exorcism Format: CD Label: Heavy Blossom Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Most barbaric installment yet in the blood n groan saga initiated with Ghost From The Sun; Prayer Rug Exorcism is a monolithic single disc in four parts. Opening with a brooding nocturnal labyrinth, and ascending through a dark power-drone into sky-high ribbons of blasphemous feedback traceries, and the annihilating ghostly machine clank of part 4, like TGs old analog set up, running freeform and haunted in a hermetically sealed bunker. Recorded: The Black Chapel, Leeds; CCA, Glasgow; Holy Trinity Church, Leeds, and Brudenell Social Club, Leeds in 2005. Full color deluxe artwork delineates the unusual arcana, and some new clues for the pictorially fetishistic. Edition of 1000 copies." - Heavy Blossom. |
|
Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: s/t Format: Mag Label: WFOT Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Twenty full color images produced by Marica Bassett and Matthew Bower from 2003 to 2005. Recommended for late night viewings when the windows are lit and the television is off. Limited to 125." - WFOT. |
|
Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Sculpture Built Upon The Graves Format: CDR Label: Heavy Blossom Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "2006 cdr, recorded in bradford england, except for live track paris, noharm recorded at instants chavires, paris, spring 2006. A four movement midnight symphony of haunted electricity. one of the most evocative and strange hototogisu recordings." - Heavy Blossom. |
|
Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Some Blood Will Stick Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Hototogisu is Matthew Bower (Skullflower/Sunroof!) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards). Theyve been laying down billowing sheets of Teutonic guitar drone-noise since 2003 with the thickest possible helpings of vocals and electronics. Some Blood Will Stick is a collection of tracks from their ultra-limited self produced label Heavy Blossom. Songs were taken from Swoon Scream (2004) and Awful Symmetry (2005) with one additional track." - Important. |
|
Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Under the Rose Format: LP Label: Heavy Blossom Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Hototogisus first LP release on their own imprint Heavy Blossom! Under the Rose is a pair of incantations for the dark and vengeful animal spirits. Sung in two parts Malignant Coronation and Origami Skulls are blackened arias, dizzying vortexes and canyons of screams, guitars and chaotic rhythms. Arising from this richly recorded and mastered vinyl slab come black tarpits of malevolence and savage beauty, harking back to a pre-Christian universe of animating spirits and tutelary daemons . Comes in black jacket with a full color photograph attached to the front cover and thickly inked silk-screened backs. Edition of 600." - Heavy Blossom. |
|
Artist: HOTOTOGISU & BURNING STAR CORE Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Yik Yak Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Hototogisu ⿿ the duo of UK experimentalist Matthew Bower (Skullflower/Sunroof et al) and New York-based-guitarist Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards/Zaimph/GHQ) ⿿ are all about impact, about taking the physical aspect of sound and hallucinating it to the point of abstraction, so much so that for all of the complexity of their music it often sounds like its standing still, simply hanging in the air and vibrating without anything approaching a plot to bring it to a point. By contrast, Burning Star Core, the trio of drummer Trevor Tremaine, Robert Beatty on electronics (both of whom also play in Hair Police alongside Mike Connelly of Wolf Eyes) and C.Spencer Yeh on violin and electronics, are more overtly propulsive, usurping classic rock form via electronics and drums but still focused on momentum, on the jam as a form of structural gravity, on the unfolding of action via development over time. This all-improvised studio meeting is the perfect reconciliation of both tendencies, of Hototogisus obsessive layering of strata after strata of violently conceived noise and of Burning Star Cores epic, post-Kraut thunder-punk style. Bower has long been on record about his opposition to anything approaching dialogue in improvised music, favouring a senses-devouring simultaneity over anything that might pass for actual exchange, so its no surprise that there is little on this new record that sounds even close to conventionally improvised music. Instead, it feels more focused towards the zone where energy begins to spontaneously birth form, where the monomaniacal pursuit of the nowhere zone bears fruit in the shape of a music that transcends its constituent parts while being totally based around ⿿ and rooted in - the individual response to the moment. BXC play it ginchy and garage-pop right from the start, simultaneously inverting and amplifying Bower and Bassetts vertical constructs with drums that sound like they might have been lifted straight from the most flower-power parts of the Silver Apples back catalogue and bass patterns that are as tactile and rock-anchored as Cans Holger Czukay. To hear Hototogisus music given this kind of injection of dynamic energy makes them seem more obviously sourced in classic rock music than you might otherwise have guessed, with a dense, implosive sound that feels like a hyper-distilled take on all of rocks most outlaw aspects, the feedback that makes you feel like you could explode in a ball of electricity, the anti-gravity effect of heavy fuzz, the seductive, alien tongues. Its certainly the most garage band side that either of the groups have cut to date, albeit in the form of a Gnostic, post-acid re-think where the vibration is more important than the outer forms, where energized enthusiasm makes for a more fundamental guiding principle than verse/chorus/verse and where the only direction left is out. Which is another way of saying it feels genuinely bad-ass. In an era where even the best groups seem polite, pro, participatory, democratic, this is music that is disregarding in its overwhelming power, exhilarating in it irresponsible spontaneity. And in an underground scene where self-conscious notions of avant-garde and free improvisation have long displaced any concept of an intuitive rocks off-style, well, it feels like a re-connection to the source. So file this one closer to Kill City or Sticky Fingers than Persian Surgery Dervishes or The Black Album and feel the gravity of your whole record collection shift." - David Keenan, Glasgow, November 2008. |
|
Artist: HOTOTOGISU & BURNING STAR CORE Title: Volume 1 Format: CD Label: Dronedisco Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Live in-person" collaborations between Hototogisu and the BxC. Hototogisu, as you know, are the time-defying duo of Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Ramleh, Sunroof!, Total, etc.) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, GHQ, Zaimph, etc.). For these sessions, Burning Star Core was C. Spencer Yeh, Robert Beatty, and Trevor Tremaine (the latter two being of Hair Police, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Sick Hour, etc.). Note that the music on this disc is different material from the Heavy Blossom companion volume "HG/BxC II" released earlier this year. Five tracks, totalling approximately fifty minutes. Packed into the small Horrible Room (RIP) inside the Cedar House (RIP) down in Lexington KY (still alive), individuals huddled in every corner, painting the room in colored cables, glossy wood and metal boxes. Deafness and disorientation was administered through the afternoon on into the night. Summoning over two hours of recorded tape, it was decided to cut the baby in half for adoption between two imprints. Heavy Blossom ferried away the long thick sides of torso, and Dronedisco seized the hooves, antlers, and jaw. The disc starts off with an appropriate invocation; from there punches blindly through one stone cloud after another, coughs and gasps from exhaustion, stumbles and lies motionless. The ritual concludes with a moment of naked acoustic/instinctual spasm, then a cut-off. Originally released in a very small quantity on CD-R as merchandise during various US and UK spring tours, the Dronedisco half of these sessions has been edited and resequenced for this release in the autumn. The pro-pressed disc comes in a black polycase with black and white inserts and a special randomly-selected 1" button (there are five button variations in all)." - Dronedisco. |
|
Artist: HOTOTOGISU & PRURIENT Title: Snail On A Razor Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "live in person collaboration of mid ranged feedback hell laden with raw human drones of cosmic existential turbulence from from matthew bower (legend of total, skullflower, ramleh etc) marcia bassett (double leopards, zaimph, ghq etc.) and dominick fernow (vegas martyrs, nihilist assault group, ash pool, etc)." - Hospital Productions. |
|
Artist: HOUSE, RON Title: Blind Boy in the Backseat Format: LP Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
|
"Reissued for the first time on vinyl! This is the second of three Old Age/No Age re-issues we will be releasing in 2010. Mastered directly from the original 86 cassette (not the bass-less re-mix that was used for the "New Wave As The Next Guy" cd compilation in 97). Blind Boy In The Backseat has been one of our fantasy releases since we started the label, so the fact that it has become a reality is a bit unreal. A true classic. You get selections from Houses two legendary pre-Great Plains bands - Moses Carryout and Twisted Shouts - as well as some solo stuff recorded with Mike Rep and Moses Carryouts Kim Workman, and to top it all off theres the version of "Chuck Berrys Orphan" backed by the True Believers! Definitive." - Columbus Discount. Highly recommended!
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOUSECOAT PROJECT Title: Girlfriend Format: LP Label: Subterranean Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
|
Artist: HOUSEHOLD OBJECTS Title: Sawdust Land Format: 7" Label: Stomache Ache Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| Mid 90s, mail collaboration between Coffee and Prick Decay. |
|
Artist: HOW PEOPLE SPEAK Title: I Was Tempted To Tell Him That I Had I No Idea What I Really Wanted But Decided To Keep It To Myself Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Killer new strange-home-eerie boundary-limiter language-soundtrack unit. Uber ???? Very similar to going to a Drive Inn in a summer afternoon with a trunk full of rotting mulch which you eat by the handful while you watch Happy Days bloopers in reverse. And the Roach is in the backseat, chuckling along to very strange parts of the flick. Complete frozen non sensica la muscia. Double Right Hand Style electronics and autosuggestive digestive statics cover the sky. Title is a quote from Bolanos mind-blowing "Savage Detectives" book. Color Covers: Numbered Edition of 50." - American Tapes |
|
Artist: HOWARD & JOE PHILLIPS, NORMAN Title: Burn Baby Burn Format: CD Label: ESP-Disk Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Featured artists: Norman Howard (trumpet); Joe Phillips (alto saxophone); Cornelius Milsap (percussion); Walter Cliff (bass). Thought to have been lost, ESP recently recovered this master tape by Norman Howard (once side man to Albert Ayler), and is now releasing this exceptional album for the first time. Digitally remastered. Manufactured in the USA by the original label. Never before released studio recording." -ESP-Disk "Flame-throwing trumpeter Norman Howard has been long lost in the American free jazz void. He appeared on Albert Aylers Spirits alongside heavyweights Sunny Murray and Henry Grimes in 1964, and penned the tune Witches & Devils. In the year of freedom, 1968, he cut apparently his only sides as a leader, which were unreleased and vaulted for twenty years. Furthering the legend, 1988 saw an ill-circulated, microscopic 100-copy cassette run from the Scottish Homeboy label, who had acquired the master tapes. In 1997, Henry Rollins was rumored to have bought the tapes and earmarked them for release on his 2.13.61 label, but Bernard Stollmanns resurrected ESP-Disk -- who the tapes apparently originally belonged to -- has now overtaken the undertaking. Rivaled only by Don Aylers legendary ca. 1968 unreleased session for Amiri Barakas Jihad label as the most prayed for, prime-era reissue by an otherwise unrecorded band leader from the riot time, this blown-out, sidewinding freedom scrawl has finally found its way home. Now dig." -Kris Price |
|
Artist: HOWARD, NOAH Title: The Blark Ark Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Its no understatement that The Black Arc is one of the most sought-after underground free jazz releases of all time. The original Freedom vinyl LP and the brief Japanese CD reissue were criminally out-of-print and impossible to find. Both versions popped up on internet auction sites once in a blue moon but when they did they always fetched insanely astronomical prices This record simply is THE BOMB -- a perfect combination of Noahs soulful compositions and playing, infused with plenty of sweet/sour/in/out forms and shapes from the incredible line-up assembled for this release. Plus we get to experience Arthur Doyles outrageous debut on a recording session, increasing the playing and feeling to an intense level throughout. And dig the spaced out afro-delay on Jumas percussion (yes, that Juma from Hendrixs killer Woodstock show of the same year). All of the players on this record combine to make it a CLASSIC and its esteemed reputation is well earned." - Oren Ambarchi |
|
Artist: HOWELL & JOHN FERDINANDO, PETER Title: Tomorrow Come Someday Format: CD/DVD Label: Acme Gramaphone Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "The second release (1969) from the home studio of future BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer Peter Howell and his musical partner John Ferdinando, makers of legendary albums under the names Alice Through the Looking Glass, Ithaca, Agincourt, and Friends. This private press album was recorded as the soundtrack for an underground film production by (later to be) renowned television director Ian Hamilton: Tomorrow Come Someday. The soundtrack album, now presented from the master tapes, was originally pressed up in a tiny quantity for friends and people involved in the production; certainly no more than 70-80 copies were made. So what do we find here? A concept piece revolving around a village threatened by motorway expansion, and the efforts of short-skirted guitar-slinging young painter Emma Stacey and a local boy to save the day, and perhaps preserve their growing love. The film is described on the album jacket as a musical comedy, shot on location in the Sussex village of Lurgashall, during August 1969, which of course, doesnt begin to tell the tale. Think perhaps of the Kinks Village Green Preservation Society characters come to life. See for yourself! For this is both the compact disc and DVD debut of Tomorrow Come Someday, film and soundtrack, together at last in a double-disc set. Chunky booklet with plentiful photos gives the full story of what we like to call The Wonderful Musical World of Peter Howell & John Ferdinando." DVD: NTSC format; 50 min. running time; color." - Acme Gramaphone. |
|
Artist: HOWLIN MAGIC Title: The Dreaming Format: CD Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $16.50 |
| "Fascinating psychedelic noisy blues by Jesse Rakusin from Santa Cruz, USA. This is what you have been waiting for if you have been waiting for the sound of shit being beaten out of a drumkit. Also in the mix: delicate keyboard studies about freedom, warped guitar melodies, solar-powered chord slamming and fuzzed out blues solo-madness. Comparable to Blue Cheer. Includes the hit Mac and Bloo" - Lal Lal Lal |
|
Artist: HOWLIN RAIN Title: Magnificent Fiend Format: LP Label: Birdman Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Having recorded a fistful of critically acclaimed-and increasingly successful-albums with neo-psychedelic pioneers COMETS ON FIRE, frontman ETHAN MILLER lit out for fresh musical territories somewhere between the Santa Cruz, CA-based bands familiar maelstrom and a more organic, melodic, groove-oriented rock that hearkens back to his halcyon daze growing up on Californias "Lost Coast" (Humboldt County). Completing HOWLIN RAIN is IAN GRADEK, GARETT GODDARD (THE CUTS, COLOSSAL YES), MIKE JACKSON, ELI ECKERT (DRUNK HORSE), and JOEL ROBINOW (Drunk Horse). By turns pummeling and pastoral, Magnificent Fiend oscillates between roaring, all-stops-out, Hammond organ-driven tracks and delicate electric piano passages, topped by harmonized, often dissonant guitar lines. Toss in counter-melodic bass, sometimes quirky breaks, and extended instrumental sequences that ascend to the heavens or cascade softly, softly from the skies in sparkling showers of gunpowder and smoke. Its all held together by Millers distinctive, crushed-velvet roar, which extends to a sweet, plaintive falsetto; and, as the albums oxymoronic title might imply, the lyrical content." - Birdman |
|
Artist: HOWLIN RAIN Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Birdman Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "HOWLIN RAIN came together with the intention of making a good, old-fashioned, free-wheeling rock album with a bared soul and a body that hangs joy, hysteria and darkness on the same rambling bones. They play unfiltered music in all its grit and all its glory; music to beat the steering wheel of your van to or sing along with while drinking whiskey in the bathtub with your dog on a Saturday night. Formed in 2004 in San Francisco, the band features ETHAN MILLER (singer and guitarist for COMETS ON FIRE), JOHN MOLONEY (shaman leader and percussionist for Bostons SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN) and IAN GRADEK (bassist, iron worker, banjo-picker and world traveler). For a group of musicians who spend most of their time playing napalm-wrecked avant-rock or underground improv, this is an opportunity to downshift and ease into some classic good-time jams-some yin to the more experimental yang of their better known projects. Howlin Rain makes music thats not out to blow your mind but the shit thats ingrained in your heart." - Birdman. |
|
Artist: HOWLING HEX Title: Best of the Howling Hex Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "THE HOWLING HEX are back in town-you can feel them in the air, man! The Best of The Howling Hex is a new album of new music by a new incarnation of The Howling Hex, now broadcasting as a band from the big town of Denver, Colorado. After years staked out in the border country of southern New Mexico, guitarist and leader NEIL HAGERTY is back in the phonebook, giving The Hex an urban soapbox on which to stand for the first time in their ten years of re-re-revisionist history. Mile high style seems to be a good match for the mercurial back-road attire of The Howling Hex. For this new album, the wide-opens spaces and New Border rhythms of recent albums have been telescoped and accelerated into a high-stepping, uptempo night on the tiles. Kicking the beat with New Border funk is a rhythm section complete with drummer, last heard on a Howling Hex record back in 2007. Also redux is the functionality of the "ditty"-most recently experienced on Earth Junk. The Best of The Howling Hex includes seven shortish songs that weave the wild spirits and far-flung textures of Wilson Semiconductors into tightly compressed sing-songs, before turning the jam out to bring the levee home. Hagertys guitar tone is an alien wonder, and the careening beat of the band unleashes him to fill solo spots with fervor." -Drag City. |
|
Artist: HOWLING HEX Title: Wilson Semiconductors Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "THE HOWLING HEX, Wilson Semiconductors: one guitar, four songs, a multitrack recording unit. Out of the desert and into the mountains, The Howling Hex are at large once again, upping the ante by lowering the body count this time around. Recorded and mastered at Sonic Ranch in the tiny township of Tornillo, a border town in El Paso County, Wilson Semiconductors is a pure strain of The Howling Hex-a Hex of one, one NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY, who did everything on the record after the writing, which was shared in spots with longtime Hex-mate MIKE SIGNS. Alone at the wheel dont necessarily want for company though-with time and space on his hands, Hagerty rolls out elegant norteo bass lines and then vocals and guitars that mesh like homemade gears with the beat. Despite the unbending pace, something seems to be melting as if the merry-go-round done broke down-but thats just the sound of you hearing the music, a common by-product of The Howling Hex listening experience." -Drag City. |
|
Artist: HOWLING HEX Title: Wilson Semiconductors Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "THE HOWLING HEX, Wilson Semiconductors: one guitar, four songs, a multitrack recording unit. Out of the desert and into the mountains, The Howling Hex are at large once again, upping the ante by lowering the body count this time around. Recorded and mastered at Sonic Ranch in the tiny township of Tornillo, a border town in El Paso County, Wilson Semiconductors is a pure strain of The Howling Hex-a Hex of one, one NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY, who did everything on the record after the writing, which was shared in spots with longtime Hex-mate MIKE SIGNS. Alone at the wheel dont necessarily want for company though-with time and space on his hands, Hagerty rolls out elegant norteo bass lines and then vocals and guitars that mesh like homemade gears with the beat. Despite the unbending pace, something seems to be melting as if the merry-go-round done broke down-but thats just the sound of you hearing the music, a common by-product of The Howling Hex listening experience." -Drag City. |
|
Artist: HOWLING HEX, THE Title: All-Night Fox Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Deeply grooved and stomping, alive with a triple-headed vocal attack, aloft on clouds of reverb, All-Night Fox can be heard in a variety of tongues. As in so much of life, meaning comes after the moment of impact. This is built into the design. The songs on All-Night Fox are free from structural cliché -- verse, chorus and solo have been incorporated into a stream that runs through the entire album. Additionally, the generic designations rhythm and blues and rock and roll are surpassed. The Howling Hex play their music beyond genre, with the reality of rhythm and blues inherent in the music, regardless of whether or not it is exploited for their image. The Howling Hex features Neil Michael Hagerty on guitar, vocals, production and songs." - Drag City. |
|
Artist: HOWLING HEX, THE Title: Earth Junk Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Come back to the world of the all-new, all-different Howling Hex, the planet of Earth Junk. Three targets are routinely sighted during the genesis of new music in The Howling Hexs free-ranging New Border Sound: observation and incorporation of space/time around the band in the period preceding the recording of the album (aka, the writing process); a consideration of the nature of the worldwide audience of The Howling Hex, whoever they may be (i.e., the marketing meeting); and additionally, the consideration of equally unpredictable future listeners (with nominal input from Drag City account executives). Each time around, this method elicits new sounds from The Howling Hex in a divergent, entirely refreshing manner. What does that make Earth Junk? Take a guess. If you figured on an electric country-pop hoedown for small ensemble (featuring circus organ), as minimal and repetitive as all rock and roll, youd be getting somewhere. If youre concerned it might create a bit of curiosity or perplexity, youre on the right track. The Howling Hex are convinced that as musical entertainers, they owe the audience (an audience? Any audience!) something of value for their money. Emblematic identity and presentation doesnt fall under their umbrella of worthwhile experiences -- and furthermore, what seems dire and spacious can also be sly and hellacious. With The Howling Hex, youre free to get up or get down, and know theres room for one more -- and another beyond it. As test listeners, we concur. Recorded in Austin in the late winter of early 2008, Earth Junk is a ramble in the dappled sunlight of the American southwest, twisted metallic folk-art in the ever-changing breeze, an offering to all nations. Throw Earth Junk in your sound-trunk and keep on rolling. The Howling Hex will be there to greet you whenever -- and wherever - you arrive." - Drag City |
|
Artist: HOWLING HEX, THE Title: Navajo Rag Format: Cass Label: OSR Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Navajo Rag: long form psychedelic mixing by Neil Hagerty and the Howling Hex, with mixing by Harpoon Forever & artwork by RAFTAR. 44 minutes" - OSR |
|
Artist: HOWLING HEX, THE Title: Nightclub Version of the Eternal Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Existing simultaneously below the crust of the earths war-torn culture and on the main street of consumer America, The Howling Hex spend their time pushing their trademark New Border Sound to the bold, the curious, and the jaded alike, crafting sonic pleasures for all needs. Albums such as All Night Fox and 1-2-3 have explored frontier sounds and sampled local cultures while brewing an unmistakable essence of rock and roll as never heard before. The A-V approach of You Cant Beat Tomorrow caught these two Americas in the frame as The Howling Hex jammed their unmistakable sound. Now come seven new songs that take it higher. Nightclub Version Of the Eternal builds, builds and builds in the manner of The Howling Hex live shows seen across America funking on and on with a collective abandon, while dispensing information with g-g-generous style." - Drag City. |
|
Artist: HOWLING HEX, THE Title: Rogue Moon Format: LP Label: Golden Lab Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
|
"12 songs, four penned by Neil Hagerty, all featuring his whacked production and harmolodic rock guitar. The ninth Howling Hex Records in as many years and one of the best yet." - Golden Lab. 2009 release.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HOWLING HEX, THE Title: Victory Chimp, A Book Format: 4 CD Box Set Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
| "In 1997, Drag City published Victory Chimp, a paperback book. This had been committed to text by Neil Hagerty from memories, wire photos, sheet music, cobol computer printouts and his own typewritten notes circa 1980-88. The story had to be told, but in 97 the long-form radio show was not quite the fashion and we certainly werent thinking about the coming onslaught of media mash-ups that would develop in our new millennium collage culture. But now, in 2011, Victory Chimp returns as an audio book. Not just any audio book, but a nextlevel audio book, which is only fitting given Victory Chimps once-and-future status as an out-level sci-fi paperback. The concept of reading with your ears is surely a nonsequitur that fits the logic of Victory Chimp, where sound is used not simply to create atmosphere, but to pace and forward the narrative. Its not quite the total work of art imagined by Wagner before he soundtracked the Holocaust, but VC pictures fascism as well, albeit from a radically different angle. And so we make the comparison. Not many things compare to Victory Chimp when it comes to form, largely due to its elusive play with it. Even Dos Passos caught shit for skewing structure once upon a time." - Drag City. |
|
Artist: HOWLING HEX, THE Title: XI Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: US Price: $18.00 |
| "Off in the distance, the sounds of cities and towns groan, rumble and heave. It might be bustling industry or some strange storm that stuck around so long that inhabitants forgot it was ever supposed to leave. In some places, it is rumored that sirens are forgotten altogether. Can you imagine? OMG! With this in mind, The Howling Hex congregated. A tour had been booked and there was work to do. Working collaboratively with each other, the band descended upon each city in turn. Nightly, they gathered with the citizens and took note. Wherever The Howling Hex went, they heard the sirens - howling, screaming, soothing. They put them in the grooves of their new songs. Writing songs on the road and playing them, night after night, led them and us to this moment-defining statement: XI. This unnameable thing we know as rock is matched on XI with sharp-eyed lyricism and a multiplicity of vocal approaches." - Drag City. |
|
Artist: HOWLING HEX, THE Title: You Cant Beat Tomorrow Format: CD/DVD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The DVD contains the pilot episode of The Howling Hexs variety show, You Cant Beat Tomorrow , while the CD is the soundtrack of the same name, containing complete versions of the songs featured in the show -- and more. Listeners whove already sampled the high-energy sounds of The Howling Hex (as heard on their CD, All-Night Fox ) will be thrilled by the expanded lineup, featuring The Theatre Fire on banjo, violin, trumpet and pedal steel guitar and Neil Michael Hagerty on lead vocals and guitar. The video presentation weaves a collage of every-day images, musical segments and a hilarious animated serial following a group of all-American types down at Henrys bar." - Drag City. |
|
Artist: HOWTH CASTLE Title: Good Morning Mr. Nobody Format: LP Label: Father Yod Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "A graphically superior and mysterious LP issue of the CD (FYP 10). Howth Castle are an Italian male/female duo who play an exotic brand of acid-wind folk. They released one LP around 1990 that caused a big ruckus when it was discovered a few years later (in certain very small circles). This is their follow up, co-released by the Italian Blu Bus Label & Northampton, MAs Father Yod. The main instrumentation is acoustic guitar and vocals with occasional accompaniment (electric guitar, keyboards, saxophone, trumpet, etc.). Female vocalist Lalli has a unique, deep voice that can really scatter time (once compared to "a cross between Marianne Faithfull ca. Broken English and Nico in duet with Vince Martin backed by the Temple Creatures,"), and the bands use of odd, non-traditional elements helps blur the wind with this as well." -Father Yod. Mid 90s release. |
|
Artist: HRVATSKI/ KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN Title: B/W Butcher Shop Format: Cass + Poster Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $15.00 |
| "We here at Beniffer are pleased to bring to you two projects by the ever impressive Keith Fullerton Whitman who not only runs the most thorough and tasteful distro on the internet these days but has, in his possession, the magic wand that only true electronic music wizards can lay claim to. The Hrvatski side seems to me like the wettest, wildest dreams of Alex Empire who has been institutionalized after seeing god in the pages of a Bop magazine which he systematically ate out of a blender which wouldnt turn off. There is a lot of things happening here, but at the center of it all is a relentless sort of car chase beat pattern that never lets up which is perfect if youre late for a blowjob scene in a Michael Bay movie. The KFW piece, bereft of the onslaught of side one, nonetheless bows to the same caffeinated deity. This time around the main attraction is mysterious foreground warble, like intercepted noise off a sphinxlike anomaly, transmitting vague messages from a subterranean religion, washed out in the last ice age. The cassette comes in a sleeve with a full size double sided poster with silkscreened art by Jacob Horwood on the cover, something else on the back by Andrew Zukerman. " -Bennifer Editions. |
|
Artist: HSDOM Title: No Title Format: Cass Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Biographical clues to old Germany. Four Compostions void of contemporary audio programming software, built around a complex self-written digital synthesis language, layered with outboard effects and hints of spoken word. Psychological Surrealism, recalling the more esoteric industrial of the past. Marking what could possibly be the most evasive release in the dystopian inspired HSDOM catalog. Letterpressed J-Card, and Pro Duplicated Tape." - Phaserprone. |
|
Artist: HsDOM Title: VOMC Format: CDR Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Re-release of classic HsDOM album from 2001, that was originally released in unknown quantities with different packaging to friends only. Jochen Hartmann of UW OWL presents 12 tracks of sound collaged, apocalyptic, electronic renderings of 80s styled minimal taunts. In his own words - excursions to lakes, the apartment at the canal, branches on the shore and other subjects. Packaged in a self assembled hand razor scored, photo-tipped, letterpressed CD gatefold, with insert. Edition of 135." - Phaserprone. |
|
Artist: HUBBLE BUBBLE Title: Faking Format: LP Label: Radio Heartbeat Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The second Hubble Bubble LP from 1979, faithfully restored to the vinyl format. This LP is a less a follow up to to the first than its own entity entirely. If not for the long shadow cast by the S/T LP, its easy to imagine that this would be more highly regarded for the brilliant blend of punk and edgy pop that it is. Theres much here to please fans of the raw punk of the first LP. However, "Faking" also exhibits more of an attention to hooks as it makes more than a slight nod toward Pub Rock and Glam: Just hear their devastating version of Kim Fowley and Michael Lloyds "Motor Boat!"" - Radio Heartbeat. |
|
Artist: HUBBS, STAN Title: Crystal Format: LP Label: Companion Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
|
"..the official vinyl reissue of Stan Hubbs 1982 Crystal LP is available. 500 faithful repros were made of this confounding slab of stoner rock, each including a replica of the original 16 page booklet.
Crystal was recorded in Hubbs rural Sonoma county living room and just like the original, this reissue was mastered and cut by Paul Stubblebine, pressed by RTI and housed in heavy, old-style jackets." - Companion.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HUBCAP CITY Title: Five More Minutes Format: 7" Label: Ponce De Leon Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "...Hubcap City plays a kind of loner-volk-whatsis with edges that recall mock trumpet-era Michael Hurley and some of Kweskins rare slow tracks. Its the type of sound that makes you think about sneaking onto a freight train, but theres a definite weirdo overlay as well. They certainly seem as though they have tuned themselves to some of the universes looser strings, and it sounds great. " - Byron Coley, THE WIRE. Painted sleeves with attached photograph. |
|
Artist: HUDSON, JEFF & JANE Title: Flesh Format: Double LP Label: Captured Tracks/Dark Entries Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Dark Entries and Captured Tracks have teamed up to re-issue the debut album "Flesh" by Jeff & Jane Hudson expanded with an extra LP of singles and EP material. Jeff & Jane Hudson are a husband/wife duo from Boston who got their start in the art punk band The Rentals in 1977. The Rentals broke up in 1980 and Jeff & Jane relocated to Manhattan where they opened for Suicide and quickly signed with No Wave label Lust/Unlust. Their first single "No Clubs" was released in late 1980 and showcased a lo-fi avant garde all synthesizer band. The "World Trade EP came next in 1981, expanding their brand of post-nuclear electronic pop. The duo reached their pinnacle with 1982s seminal "Flesh," perhaps one of the United States biggest achievements in the entire "synth" movement of the era. The music was electro-pop employing early Roland synths and the TR-808 drum machine. Jeffs lyrics flirted with technology and politics, while Jane wrote about cultural and psychological situations. Completely self produced by the band, the record has since been oft-cited as a groundbreaking and pivotal LP of the post-punk era, whos original copies are now heavily coveted by collectors. Completing the discography is the "Special World" 7" released in 1983 before the band emigrated back to Boston and stopped recording and performing. This deluxe edition has been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley directly from the original master tapes. Each double LP set comes in a gatefold sleeve with unreleased photos, original artwork and a lyrics sheet. The front cover is a photo by Mark Morrisoroe, downtown NY 80s punk and art photographer. This the first time since the original issue that "Flesh" is reappearing on vinyl format and the first wide-scale digital and CD release these recordings have yet to see." - Captured Tracks/Dark Entries. |
|
Artist: HUE BLANCS JOYLESS ONES Title: Arriere Garde Format: LP Label: S-S Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
|
" The Algoma Chamber of Commerce says, Algomas current population is approximately 3400. Visitors to Algoma are amazed by the diversity of the options offered to them. What we have here is the most diverse option that little corner of Wisconsin has to offer: Hue Blancs Joyless Ones. The four guys who make up the Ones have a wretchedly fine angle on rock & roll that constantly spellbind the folks at the Captains Mistress. Whose dat sound like they ask. The same question comes up when the fellas take the stage at Shanty Days. But editor Lee Lawrenz of the Kewaunee County News knows whats up. He writes, You might listen to Hue Blancs Joyless Ones and think, That sounds like the Scientists, or I think they stole that from the Gibson Bros., or That boss sound reminds me Neil Young with a flame in his ass and youd be right and wrong. The Joyless Ones are all that and none of that, too. They are Algoma boys and we are proud of them. This is Hue Blancs third record. Previously they released a 7on Trick Knee and then a LP on P Trash. We think this one is the best yet. White vinyl. Some of Venice Sun. A smidge of Bloody Nights... A diddle of Fer de Lance."- S-S
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HUM OF THE DRUID Title: Societal Format: LP Label: SNSE Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Debut pro-pressed release from the frighteningly talented E. Stonefelt, aka Hum of the Druid. For those familiar with his prior limited edition and self-released cdrs, this one picks up right where Trials and Mountainous left off and continues to refine the unique style of harsh crunch and spooked ambience. For the uninitiated, HOTDs sound has been likened to being caught under an avalanche of grit. The wall of earth rumbles in from the distance, getting closer, a huge rush of wind before you are overtaken by half a mountainside of rock, dirt, stick. The sound surrounds and pounds. Finally, when left trapped under eight feet of crud, the chaos of the slide gives way to the sound of only lungs fighting for breath, mind drifting towards the light. No ones coming to help. This album is released in an edition of 291 copies on black vinyl. The pasted-on textured cardstock LP jacket and album insert both feature the intense artwork of Mr. Stonefelt himself." - SNSE. |
|
Artist: HUMAN ADULT BAND Title: Mugwort and Sage Format: LP Label: Scumbag Relations Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Through the standard haze, the Band unfurls as rolling percussion and mumbled verses, an explosion which may never happen, peering beyond the anti-rock of Sightings to the post-ism of Bitch Magnet of old with contemplative guitar lines and highly motile drumming. The metallic stomp of the following piece whistles with a suspended hardcore clearly showing in their roots - whips of distortion licking the ceiling like flames while vocalist Trevor barks a melodic zealotry." -animal psi. |
|
Artist: HUMAN BEAST Title: Volume One Format: CD Label: Deram Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
| "The music of this young Edinburgh trio was described in 1969 as "electro-flagellation," a phrase that aptly describes their vicious, Eastern-inflected guitar lines, pounding bass and frenetic percussion. Taped in a single twelve-hour stint in London that December and released in 1970 on Decca, their sole album stands as one of the most distinctive and unsettling pieces of rock music ever recorded. Issued here with their full participation, their story -- an enigma for decades -- is finally told for the first time in an accompanying 16-page booklet, packed with previously-unseen photographs, making it an essential purchase for all fans of heavy psychedelic rock and roll." |
|
Artist: HUMAN INSTINCT Title: Burning Up Years Format: LP Label: Sunbeam Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Gatefold LP version. Having spent 18 months playing the British circuit alongside The Jeff Beck Group, The Moody Blues, The Nice and many others, the original Human Instinct folded in the spring of 1968. Undeterred, leader Maurice Greer returned to New Zealand and recruited guitar legend Billy Te Kahika to form a new, harder-hitting version of the band. After honing their incendiary act in the countrys leading clubs, they recorded this blistering, bluesy set in late 1969. Presented here complete with rare photographs and detailed notes by Greer himself in a double-sided insert, its truly essential for all fans of hard psychedelic rock. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl." - Sunbeam. |
|
Artist: HUMAN INSTINCT Title: Day In My Minds Mind/Death At The Seaside Format: 7" Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $11.00 |
| Reissue of 1967 single. |
|
Artist: HUMAN INSTINCT Title: Stoned Guitar Format: LP Label: Tapestry Country: Germany Price: $26.00 |
|
"Aborigine guitarist Billy TK was the Jimi Hendrix of the Southern Hemisphere. He obviously took the lessons of the Master to heart and on his albums with Human Instinct, he took Hendrixs psychedelic approach to absurd new extremes. Not necessarily the greatest listening experience, but definitely the farthest out of any guitar psyche youre likely to ever hear. This album, splendidly reissued, is one of the most important chapters of rock from that era and a not-to-be-missed masterpiece for all collectors." 180 gram virgin vinyl, limited edition of 1000 copies.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HUMAN LIBERATION TECHNOLOGY Title: Fair Game Format: One-sided LP Label: Gods of Tundra Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Penalties for lower conditions. Any suppressive person is Fair Game. A dirty grey rag on the left arm. Black mark on left cheek. Minimal electronic noise for both organizations. Hand painted and torn covers. Edition of 100. " - Gods of Tundra. |
|
Artist: HUMAN NEUTRON MISSLE SQUAD Title: Knut - Rip-off Edition Format: CDR Label: Musically Incorrect Country: Finland Price: $9.00 |
| "Knut was originally self-released by the band back in 2000. This re-release features the original recording minus some useless tracks plus some unreleased masterpieces from the groups archives. The music? Well, its totally tasteless no-wave experimental trashnsplash, some tracks have been compared for example to Dead C. and the Ex! Limited edition of 50 copies." - Musically Incorrect. |
|
Artist: HUMAN PUPPETS Title: EP Format: 7" Label: Kernkrach Country: Germany Price: $13.50 |
|
"With the Zeus: Electrical Beat from Greece! From the duo Stathis L and Nikos K. gives it: Funny men, Every day without your love, CLOSE you eyes - start ton dance and sound innovator. Coated of shining ground electrode aluminum foil." - Kernkrach (via www.freetranslation.com). Limited in foil/"gimmix" cover.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HUMAN PUPPETS Title: The Future From the Past Format: LP Label: Kernkrach Country: Germany Price: $26.00 |
|
"From Greece come the Human Puppets.
Human Puppets have grown a lot in a short period of time. The songs are better and their sound has become darker and less poppy. On tracks like Lost Loves, Chords Of Minore and International the band sounds even a bit like (early) Echo West and Silent Signals. Heartbeat, Minimal Man and In The Night are nice melancholy classic minimal elektro wave tracks. And, real hits for the dancefloor." - Funprox.com. 2006 release.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HUMAN SKAB Title: Stay Thirsty Format: LP Label: Family Vineyard Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
|
"Human Skab was a 10-year old singer from Elma, Washington. Stay
Thirsty is one of a half-dozen or so cassettes recorded by the soccer
player during the mid-late 1980s and injected into the underground
postal network of cassette traders, zine scribes, DJs, and freak
seekers. In a way, this is Skabs response to He-Man, the smoldering
Cold War, living near the abandoned Satsop Nuclear Plant, and heavy
metal (the title has gotta be response to Twisted Sisters classic
Stay Hungry LP!).
Rumors maintain Human Skab opened for David Thomas at the Capitol
Theatre in Olympia, Washington before focusing on baseball card
collecting and growin out his mohawk.
As Bruce Pavitt wrote in the 1986 Sub Pop zine: the Skab zips around
the living room shooting toy guns. He hits the family piano with his
fists. He tries real hard to play guitar. He makes up songs about
terrorism and radiation and throwing rocks at windows. Cool!
Now, 23 years later this is the first time any of the Skabs rare
recordings have been reissued or even made available outside of dusty,
personal collections. You cant find this stuff on blogs. Family
Vineyard will follow up this ultra-limited 105 edition LP with a
full-length CD reissue of the stunning and epic Thunder Hips and
Saddle Bags cassette, expanded with a bonus radio interview from the
time, in late 2009. Cmon, baby mohawk!" - Family Vineyard. Limited to 105 copies.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HUMAN SKAB Title: Thunder Hips And Saddle Bags Format: LP Label: Family Vineyard Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Human Skab was a 10-year old boy from Elma, Washington who played African music with buckets and spoons. Thunder Hips and Saddle Bags is a 1986 cassette recorded by young Travis Roberts with his neighborhood pals and siblings. It was injected into the underground network of tape traders, zine scribes, college DJs, and freak seekers who were universally bowled over by its bewildering and utterly poignant snapshot of the mid-1980s. Skabs music -- an orchestration of pots n pans, three string guitar, poorly-tuned upright piano, broken bottles, toy guns, a garden rake, and a "Snake Mountain" microphone -- is a response to fear of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, He-Man cartoons, Twisted Sister, the coolness of dinosaurs, the uncoolness of John Wayne, and Ronald Reagan. Roberts captures the fervor of do-it yourself ethos, punk energy and the rawness of early American folk by acting on his wild child imagination and enigmatic sense of song. These rare recordings have never been made widely available until now. This reissue includes the complete 1986 cassette. The CD and MP3 version contain a bonus 1987 radio interview. The 16-page booklet in the 500 edition LP and CD contains liner notes by Roberts and Cousin Franky along with many full-color photographs and news clippings. As Bruce Pavitt wrote in the 1986 Sub Pop zine: the Skab zips around the living room shooting toy guns. He hits the family piano with his fists. He tries real hard to play guitar. He makes up songs about terrorism and radiation and throwing rocks at windows. Cool!" - Family Vineyard. |
|
Artist: HUMAN SKAB Title: Thunder Hips And Saddle Bags Format: CD Label: Family Vineyard Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Human Skab was a 10-year old boy from Elma, Washington who played African music with buckets and spoons. Thunder Hips and Saddle Bags is a 1986 cassette recorded by young Travis Roberts with his neighborhood pals and siblings. It was injected into the underground network of tape traders, zine scribes, college DJs, and freak seekers who were universally bowled over by its bewildering and utterly poignant snapshot of the mid-1980s. Skabs music -- an orchestration of pots n pans, three string guitar, poorly-tuned upright piano, broken bottles, toy guns, a garden rake, and a "Snake Mountain" microphone -- is a response to fear of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, He-Man cartoons, Twisted Sister, the coolness of dinosaurs, the uncoolness of John Wayne, and Ronald Reagan. Roberts captures the fervor of do-it yourself ethos, punk energy and the rawness of early American folk by acting on his wild child imagination and enigmatic sense of song. These rare recordings have never been made widely available until now. This reissue includes the complete 1986 cassette. The CD and MP3 version contain a bonus 1987 radio interview. The 16-page booklet in the 500 edition LP and CD contains liner notes by Roberts and Cousin Franky along with many full-color photographs and news clippings. As Bruce Pavitt wrote in the 1986 Sub Pop zine: the Skab zips around the living room shooting toy guns. He hits the family piano with his fists. He tries real hard to play guitar. He makes up songs about terrorism and radiation and throwing rocks at windows. Cool!" - Family Vineyard. |
|
Artist: HUMAN TEENAGER Title: Animal Husbandry Format: LP Label: Spectrum Spools Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Animal Husbandry is the result of absolute, genuine obsession: a devotional masterwork with song craft, exquisite production and aesthetics regarding the ultra-damaged times we live in, all in perfect harmony. Burrowed away in private studio sessions over the course of a year, Human Teenager have emerged with a profound and colorful masterpiece. Like Chrome before them, the effects of a carbon copy community of lemming rock groups were avoided and ignored, and the vision of creating a pure, singular work was achieved. Rarely does an album with complex structure and abstract tendencies sound as organically catchy as this. The duo spawn a brand-new sound that ranges somewhere between Ilitchs 10 Suicides to the work of The Cleaners From Venus. To be clear, however, it would be impossible to plaster genre descriptors onto an album with such enormous scope. Terms like "synth-pop," "rock and roll," "punk," et cetera, can all be applied on a surface level, but at the end of the day, its none of and all of these things at the same time, more or less. Few projects are able to create and exist in a personal universe that hits the nail right on the head the way Animal Husbandry does. From "Fourth Reich," the albums opening cut, its very apparent that Human Teenager has created an album that you will not be able to stop listening to with its wildly-morphing vocals, strafing synthesizer arrangements, and prismatic guitar detail. Police, The New World Order, YouTube, New York; its all a drag, and Human Teenager captures the horrors of everyday life in "the future" and holds them hostage. Spectrum Spools is very pleased to present you with an instant classic. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering, Winter, 2011." -Spectum Spools. Human Teenager is Gary War and Taylor Richardson. |
|
Artist: HUNGER Title: Lost Album Format: LP Label: Void Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
|
"Warehouse find of the last copies of this earlier reissue. "Just a few copies left of this long OOP Void classic. Heres the scoop -- The Hunger released their only LP on the Publix label way back in the 60s. This edition did not have (or had very little) guitar. Though it was a classic LP, it needed the guitar. Sometime later a friend in California found an alternate acetate with a stirring guitar versus organ sound and different arrangements and song lengths. Brian Hulitt contacted Mike Parkison and Willie Daffern about this lost sound and they claim that it was none other than Ed King who stopped in to put the guitar parts on this version! The rest is history, as they say. Here is the classic Hunger The Lost Album as it originally was and should sound. Liner notes by Clark Faville." Limited remaining stock..." -Void
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HUNGOVER BREAKFAST Title: Gateway To Feather Format: Cass Label: Alcoholic Narcolepsy Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "As soon as I had begun my fixation on Steve Warwicks Heatsick project, he turns around and starts another one: Hungover Breakfast. This debut one-sided C30 feels more like a strong jab than a first round KO. Running around ten minutes or so, this is a spluttering mass of viscous feedback clouds. Like Heatsick there are winks of recognisable guitar parts / sounds at the edges, but the focus is on frequency fucking. Patterns emerge as the choppy sounds begin to resemble Qbert-like scribbling; Warwicks ill treatment outlines tentative images that are burned quickly into the head. Things go briefly haywire as a ZX breakdown almost brings the piece to a full halt before zipping back into and through higher micro frequencies." - Scott McKeating, Stylus Magazine. |
|
Artist: HUNT, ROLLIN Title: Criminal/Castle of Nothing Format: 7" Label: Moniker Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Rollin Hunt doesnt say publicly what planet hes from, but its safe to say it isnt ours. Disguised as a healthy midwestern boy, Rollin began infiltrating human society at an early age. As a teenager in Chicago he was never seen without a tape recorder or video camera, using the flimsy pretext of "art" to collect data for his extraterrestrial research. By his early 20s, he began recording pseudo-popular music as a way to synthesize and transmit his findings. A capable anthropologist, Rollins songs deftly penetrate various human types--the Criminal, the Bum, the Waitress--while his music has the odd quality of being both robotic and soulful. Rollin Hunt may in fact be a cosmic being who has been programmed for earthly love. There are echoes of other aliens whove come to visit our turntables--Joe Meek, Roky Erickson, Sun Ra--but Rollins outsider take on humanity has the unique quality of tenderness. Much of his charm comes from his bumbling attempts to approximate our culture--like Balki Bartokomous of TVs Perfect Strangers, he can be painfully foreign, employing stilted grammar and forgetting the names of holidays. His pop sense is likewise skewed; Jessica Hopper, writing in the Chicago Tribune, describes his sound as "unearthly shoo-be-doo... as if someone was trying to imitate the Shangri-Las or the Ronnettes but only knew them from a thirdhand description." Its not surprising, then, that hes caught on among certain warped segments of music-lovers. A bunch of worshipful foreigners have even put together a tribute album, cryptically titled Him Who Is There, that portrays Rollin as some sort of oddball Messiah. Theres a sense that this visitor, this interplanetary innocent, might have something important to teach us about human life. The two songs on this 7" serve as a raw and startling introduction to Rollin Hunt. Already hailed as "savant-garde," his musical explorations of Life on Earth will continue with a full-length album due later this year on Moniker Records (recorded with whiz-kid producer Donny Schroeder). As suggested by one of his early home recordings, titled (significantly) Dear People of the World, Hunts musical messages are meant not only for aficionados but for our entire species........................................Are we ready to listen?" - Moniker. |
|
Artist: HUNTER GRACCHUS/KOMMISSAR HJULER UND FRAU, THE Title: Split Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Meeting of melted minds on this split LP featuring Sheffield based long time local buddies Hunter Gracchus and Germany based performance and musical duo of Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau (aka Mama Baer). The Hunter Gracchus have released an ever growing catalogue of super well received releases for the likes of Chironex, Golden Lab, Recollections of Knulp and Chocolate Monk. They also collaborated with Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides and Chora as Le Drapeau Noir, as well as performing solo and in other fantastic far out acts such as Vampire Blues, Harappian Night Recordings and Blue Yodel, as well as two thirds of the trio running the excellent Singing Knives label and all working full time. I have to admit, I have no idea how they can manage to do all this, pretty damn impressive. Their side is an amazing live recording from La Planta, Argentina entitled Mujeres De La Boca, and if youve ever been to their Furniture Makers practice space, it sounds like Hunter Gracchus somehow managed to transport its entire contents of obscure musical objects over there with their peculiar brains to record some of the best live shit theyve produced so far... a really great side long free playing improvised weird out with screwed up voices, skronky blurts and freestyle tribal percussion. Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau have been releasing material for quite some time on their own Der Schöne Hjuler-Memorial-Fond label, including a host of obscenely limited CDRs, cassettes and records. On top of that theyve found the time to release some truly astounding genre blending avant craziness on Ultra Eczema, Scumbag and Blossoming Noise. For this split LP, KHJ & Fs Zwei Einenperson (Pt. 2), is a manic 22 minute side of avant garde experi-mentalism, with Kommissar Hjuler shredding electric guitar strings and destroying tapes while Mama Baers insane vocal fluctuates between the erotic and pure demonic screaming. This recording of Kommissar Hjuler und Frau was made in March 2009 when working on the set for the performance of Zwei Eineperson. This was presented live at the vernissage of Mama Baers and Kommissar Hjulers exhibition Geteilter Raum at Kunstraum Winterthur, Switzerland on 2nd April 2009. A CD-R with several parts from their work on this set was previously released on their SHMF label in a very small edition. This is the re-issue of part 2 from their recordings, live in their living room. Edition of 500 on heavyweight vinyl with pro printed jackets, and insert." -Blackest Rainbow |
|
Artist: HUNTER, JANA Title: Blank Unstaring Heirs Of Doom Format: Double Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
|
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HUNTER, JANA Title: Carrion Format: One Sided LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Half of the six songs on Jana Hunters Carrion are unreleased hangers-on from the writing sessions that produced her most recent full-length, Theres No Home, while the other half are alternate renditions of works that appeared on that release. But this is no mere grab bag of remnants; its a real tight product, all around. "Paint A Babe" is a throw-back to Hunters earlier material, written and recorded simultaneously on a borrowed four-track recorder. A real sad, longing song. "A Goblin, A Goblin" took a little more time to create: this strong, sturdy number, replete with violins and creepy harmony, tells the tale of an indignant outcast. "You Will Take It and Like It," turns one central, pretty and proud guitar part over and over and over, with others mirroring it, leeching from it, grabbing on like little parasitic danglers. The original version of "Theres No Home" is here, the track that spawned an entire record title, followed by "Sleep" (titled, as it was originally, "Ooh Uuh"), from the recording that ended up on a lullaby compilation. Concluding Carrion is an acoustic re-presentation of the country-minded "Oracle," stripped down to one guitar, one melody, and one harmony, as it was originally conceived in its creation as homage. CD on Gnomonsong" - Woodsist. |
|
Artist: HUNTING LODGE Title: 8 Ball Format: LP Label: S/M Operations Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
|
Sealed copies (though they do have small cut corners)of this 1987 release.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HUNTING LODGE Title: Shadows Out Of Time 82-83 Format: 3 LP Box Set/ 7" Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $90.00 |
|
"Shadows out of Time is a collection of three LPs with unreleased and formerly cassette-only material from Hunting Lodge, representing the first blush of their creativity, a time when each sonic experiment festered into a beautiful sore. Dark ambient, noise, power electronics, all represented here before these pigeons had holes in which to fit. One LP is comprised of the now-legendary Exhumed, which was formerly released cassette-only, heard here in better shape than ever - direct-metal mastered from the original two-track mixes. The second LP is all unreleased material, highlights of which include never-heard gems from the recordings for the promotional cassette 23 Minutes Of Murder. On the flip-side, both literally and figuratively, are the electro-disco-teckno recordings used for intermission music at Hunting Lodge live shows in 1983. The final LP contains live material which was formerly cassette-only, including tracks from At The Harrington Ballroom and S/M Operations Live, as well as much of the formerly unreleased Live At The Lodge. Oft-bootlegged, this performance is pressed here direct from the original masters, representing the two-piece early noise-unit of Hunting Lodge in harrowing live intensity. Furthermore featured in the box-set is an additional bonus 7" including studio cover version of John Wrights Stellazine Shuffle b/w Learn to Will II, formerly released on Nekrophile Rekords Beast 666 cassette compilation in 1983. These LPs and 7" are presented with period-accurate, gloriously bold, black and white artwork. Each LP comes in its own printed sleeve inside of a box printed with the Thomas Nordstrom artwork previously only seen on early Hunting Lodge stationery. Also included are liner notes by Jeff Central Chenault and recording details, including information on equipment used, and never before seen photos of live Hunting Lodge and of collectors minutiae. The scars will never completely heal." -Vinyl-On-Demand
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HUNTING LODGE Title: Will Format: LP Label: Dark Vinyl Country: Germany Price: $26.00 |
|
"Essential cult release from 1983. Besides the early releases of SPK, THROBBING GRISTLE and LUSTMORD one of the most important releases in the real industrial movement. Limited to 449 copies." - Dark Vinyl. Last copies of the 1996 reissue. The origins of Michigan noise..
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HUNTING RITUALS Title: Brooding Forest Format: LP Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Hunting Rituals is the moniker of Scott Johnson (also Scott Cloud, Thoughts On Air) which was inspired from many impromptu collaborations with other weirdo musicians within the city limits of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Brooding Forest was the first recording to feature a second member, a fellow collaborator Jeremiah Buchan from Bottom Feeder who was also a main influence on the overall ritual sound process. This recording fuses Scotts focus of feral improv with Jeremys premeditated landscapes of organic creep sound. Brooding Forest was recorded in Sonic Unyons basement, originally released as a cassette on Myiasis Tapes. This is the true underground shadow music of Ontario improv/drone/outsider accidentalia. Startling and hypnotic. Limited pressing." -Ecstatic Peace |
|
Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: Armchair Boogie Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
|
"First ever vinyl reissue of Michaels hard to find classic 1972 2nd album. Hurley is a much respected singer songwriter (former member of the Holy Modal Rounders), & it is an honor for us to put this out. Features the following songs: Werewolf (a beautiful haunting song later covered by Cat Power), Grand Canyon Line, English Nobleman, Be Kind To Me, Troubled Waters, Red Ravagers Reel, Sweedeedee (also covered by Cat Power), Open Up, Jockos Lament, Light Green Fellow, Get The Best Of Me, Biscuit Roller, When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano, & Penguins (a beautiful dirge played by trumpets & guitars). New back cover & label designed by Michael himself." -Mississippi. Restocked.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: Back Home with Drifting Woods Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Unbelievably great Hurley recordings from 1964, never before heard. Recorded by Fred Ramsey as part of the same sessions that resulted in Michaels First Songs LP on Folkways. Side A starts with Whatll You Say, Whatll You Do, a pretty psychedelic classic that can very well put you into some kinda trance. After that we hear The Blues Comes Around - a sad drifty little tune, then Little Girl On Roller Skates with a rare Hurley harmonica solo and hallucinatory lyrics worthy of some examination and then a beautiful alternate take on one of Michaels all time greats - The Tea Song. Side B starts up with yet more alternate takes of songs from the Folkways LP - this time of Intersolar blues and I Like My Wine. After that we get to hear two great compositions for the first time, and man oh man are they pretty - Hey Hey Hey Hey and I Love You Babe. Real great stuff all around that we recommend for deep into it Hurley fans and newcomers to his art alike. Michael Hurley is a great American song writer with his own unique way of seeing the world and this LP is a great testament to his vision. Faux folkways wraparound cover with liner note insert by Hurley himself. Co-release with our friends Neros Neptune." - Mississippi. |
|
Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: Blue Hills Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "New recordings by Michael. On this LP we find Hurley stretching out on six longer than usual compositions that are heartbreaking & beautiful as anything hes ever done. Side one features Hurley on a creaky pump organ & a hammond organ. Side two starts out with two newer compositions - just Michael on guitar & vocals. The record ends with a stunning version of Tea Song (which Michael originally wrote & recorded way back in 1963). We rarely resort to hyperbole on these descriptions, but we have to say that this LP is one of the more moving things weve ever heard. A sustained feeling of loss & need for redemption haunts this record. It aint easy listening, but then what worth a damn is?" -Mississippi. |
|
Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: Fatboy Spring Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
|
"A full LP of never before released Hurley recordings from 1972-73! Great early versions of classic Hurley songs such as Automatic Slim & the Fatboys, Drivin Wheel, Ghost woman Blues, Watchin the Show, and The Portland Water that come off for the most part better than later releases of these songs. Hurley is backed up by The Fatboys - not the rotund hip hop crew from the film Disorderlies, but rather a bunch of not so fat nice guys in Vermont who played mostly for the local dairy farmers. (Later they were known as Sheriff Mocus & the Deranged Cowboys) A laid back countryish album sure to please the hardcore Hurley fan and casual listener too. Deep and breezy. Cover painting by Michael. A co-release with our friends label in San Francisco, Secret Seven." - Mississippi.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: First Songs Format: LP Label: Folkways Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "MICHAEL HURLEY is one of the most beloved cult figures of the Greenwich Village folk scene and his songs have been recorded by everyone from the Holy Modal Rounders and the Youngbloods, to Vetiver and Cat Power. First Songs, recorded in 1964 when Hurley was only 22 years old, shows that his charming, bumming, hippie, wino persona was fully formed at an early age. The album features the first recorded versions of such Snock classics as "The Werewolf Song" and "Captain Kidd." Reissued on LP for the first time ever, with deluxe packaging including faithful reproductions of the original jacket and insert." -Folkways |
|
Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: Have Moicy! Format: LP Label: Light In The Attic Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Tracing the lineage and citing the fore-bearers of the New Weird America, one cant help but mention the music of bizarre folk singer/guitarist/artist Michael Hurley. If you havent been following his career since the 1970s (when he was collaborating with the likes of the Holy Modal Rounders and Jesse Colin Young) then you probably discovered him in the past couple of years via Devendra Banharts & Andy Cabics label Gnomonsong, who have released Hurleys recent recordings. Hurleys debut album, First Songs, was recorded for Folkways Records in 1965 on the same reel-to-reel machine that taped Lead Bellys Last Sessions. He was discovered by blues and jazz historian Frederick Ramsey III, and subsequently championed by boyhood friend Jesse Colin Young, who released Hurleys next two albums on The Youngbloods Warner Brothers imprint, Raccoon. Hows that for cred? In the 1970s, Hurley made three albums for Rounder Records; Have Moicy!, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice called The greatest folk album of the rock era. First ever reissue on vinyl; re-mastered; 180 gram LP housed in Stoughton tip-on old school type jacket including faithfully reproduced original artwork by Michael Hurley." -Light In The Attic |
|
Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: Hi Fi Snock Uptown Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "A reissue of MICHAEL HURLEYs third LP. Originally recorded in 1972, this record finds Hurley exploring the full range of his stylistic canon and features some of his most loved songs such as "Water Train," "The Twilight Zone," "Eyes, Eyes" and "Blue Driver." Remastered from the original tapes." -Mississippi |
|
Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: Ida Con Snock Format: LP Label: Gnomonsong Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Michael Hurley is one of the last remaining ramblin American folk troubadours. Hobo-ing around the country, making music since the days Bob Dylan first set foot in New York Citys Gaslight club, Hurley recorded his first album for Moses Ashs legendary Folkways label in 1964 and continued to release albums for both Warner Brothers and Rounder. His mid-70s Have Moicy album was among the top ten for the decade selected by Rolling Stone magazine. While many of his contemporaries are long past their prime (or deceased), Hurleys muse is still intact. Hurleys songwriting talent hasnt gone unnoticed by a new generation of musicians. In recent years, he was invited to tour with alt-country heroes Son Volt and Lucinda Williams. Hes also shared bills with Smog and Palace Brothers, played with the Giant Sand rhythm section, and has of course appeared with (and been covered by) Vetiver and appeared on their records. His songs have also been covered by indie stars Cat Power and Yo La Tengo, among others. So, the matter at hand, a new album of recordings sung and played by Hurley, backed by Ida, appropriately titled Ida Con Snock: Snock himself marvels at this 21st studio album, recorded at Levon Helms studio in Woodstock, NY. Idas less-is-more finesse shines on these rich recordings, melding perfectly with Hurleys playing and singing. Many of these songs are already well familiar to Hurleys devotees. There are seven originals and five loving covers of 50s rock n roll, C&W, and vintage folk, each tune capturing Hurley and band at peak performance levels." -Gnomonsong |
|
Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: Long Journey Format: LP Label: Light In The Attic Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "This 1976 masterwork is remastered and back on vinyl for this first time in decades. Peter Stampfel and Dave Reisch of the Holy Modal Rounders lend a hand to this bizarre and earthy collection from one of Americas finest singer/songwriters. Features the song Hog Of The Forsaken as heard in HBOs Deadwood. 180 gram wax." -Light In The Attic. |
|
Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: Parsnip Snips Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Originally released in 1997 in Germany in a press size of 500. These original copies were seized by the government shortly after the records release. Only 150 or so were sold before the seizing, but since then copies have leaked out of whatever dank German bureaucratic basement they were relegated to. Still, a very hard record to find for years, now back in print. Our current reissue was re-mastered from the original tapes and has superior sound quality to the original. Culled from Michaels unreleased output between his First Songs LP from 1964 and Armchair Boogie in 1972. All tracks feature just Michael and guitar. Absolutely beautiful folk music by the singular Snock -- in our opinion, one of the greatest singer/songwriters of all time." -Mississippi |
|
Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: Snockgrass Format: LP Label: Light In The Attic Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "First ever vinyl reissue and remaster for this 1980 album that features Peter Stampfel and other members of the Holy Modal Rounders. As Hurleys surreal cover painting suggests, this is woozy and charming musical folk art. 180 gram wax." -Light In The Attic. |
|
Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: The Ancestral Swamp Format: CD Label: Gnomonsong Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
|
Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: The Words to the Songs of Michael Hurley Format: Book Label: Loie De Cravan Country: Canada Price: $16.00 |
|
"American folk legend Michael Hurley is considered a master of songcraft by fellow musicians, and it is easy to see why. His songs can be highly eccentric, populated by werewolves, sign-painters, tea and whiskey-drinkers, pork chops and hot dogs, wild geese, intoxicated lovers, and blue navigators, but above all, they always manage to be moving and funny. The perfection of his peculiar, personal, and utterly unique oeuvre is even more apparent on paper and in print. The Words To The Songs Of Michael Hurley presents lyrics to 19 of his songs and marks the first time Hurleys lyrics have been published in book form. It includes a foreword by the music critic Byron Coley and a French version by Marie Frankland, winner of the 2007 John-Glassco Prize for translation. All songs are calligraphed by the author. Michael Hurley (aka Doc Snock), is an American songwriter, reputedly born in 1941, whose songs have been seeping into the folk unconscious for almost 50 years now (including covers by Cat Power, Yo La Tengo, Espers and others). Hurleys melodies and lyrics take flight into a world of plenty, inspiring wonder and humor, sin and slowness, laziness and longing. His music is often coined as "outsider folk." His hobo lifestyle indeed could be looked upon as eccentric, but it might be better to regard him as one of the last insiders keeping alive the traditions of the folk troubadour. Hobo-ing around the country, making music since the days Bob Dylan first set foot in NYCs Gaslight club, Hurley recorded his first album for the legendary Folkways label in 1964 and continued to release albums for Warner Brothers, Rounder or Devendra Banharts Gnomonsong label. His mid-70s Have Moicy album was among the top ten for the decade selected by Rolling Stone. While many of his contemporaries are long past their prime (or deceased), Hurleys muse is still very much alive. Cover drawing by Michael Hurley, cover typography by Kiva Tanya Stimac. Presented in a hand-stiched, 48-page book; 5,75 x 7,75"." - Loie De Cravan.
SOLD OUT
|
|
Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL & BETSY NICHOLS Title: Jockos Lament Format: 7" Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "This little gem has four gentle, wistful, homespun duets recorded with a bit of humor in March 2009. Board sleeve with nice artwork by Hurley." - Mississippi. |
|
Artist: HURRAY Title: Anytime You Want Format: 7" Label: Hurray Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Two real-time songs, recorded direct to phone. One more skeletal but not too slow, with wrong bass notes and a story being told. The other side is a fast rocker, with the vocals buried and two drummers. This record is Hurrays new music, with words, beats and notes. Gli Sono Hurray." - Hurray. |
|
Artist: HURRAY Title: Dreams, Not Soft Illusion Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Hurray is Zak Prekop, Josh Brand, Pete Mandradjieff & Rich Aldrich. They hail from the hidden sectors of New York City, and have released one 7" on the skul record label and recently presented their first art show at the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery also of New York City. This is their first full length recording and is a must for fans of ambiguous, anomalous, and unobtrusive sound creation whose mystery is not invoked by hyperbole, pseudo-mythology or fake histories, but by giving full allowance to otherness and seeking beauty by allowing it to happen, which often means allowing it not to happen. Mishandled guitars, unknown electronics, amplified percussives and various layers of buzz coagulate and dissipate in measured restraint. I hesitate to use blighted terms like "lowercase" music, as Hurray shys not from some harsher territories and melodic (if emaciated and ghostly) material sometimes drifts into consciousness; two things I think of as contrasting w/ the more didactic, "European" music associated w/ said term. So, Ill avoid terminology and just say Im very glad to know this record." - Greg Kelley, 12/27/05. |
|
Artist: HURRAY Title: Hands Format: 7" Label: Skul Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "-Hands- is the first release from ecstatic slow-jazz sensation hurray. Hurray is Zak Prekop, Pete Mandradjieff & Rich Aldrich It was recorded in Chinatown in 2002 & 2003 with Mitch Rackin. The instrumentation is electric piano, guitar and drums. Hurray was once described as "jazz by nervous and distracted children". In both songs the piano acts as the structural background upon which the guitar reacts. Sometimes the guitar plays counter melodies and sometimes it is just bleeping and creaking away. The drums come in here and there to accent and add direction. On the second side, at the end, all three parts finally coalesce into a minor finale. -Hands- was done in an edition of 300, each cover is hand made and the records are white vinyl." - Skul. |
|
Artist: HURRAY Title: I Am My Own Worst Enemy Format: LP Label: Modern Claire Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "I Am My Own Worst Enemy is Brooklyn band Hurrays third LP following Dreams Not Soft Illusion (Fusetron) and Treasure Chest (Galleria Paolo Bonzano.) This one divides two kinds of music across its two sides of vinyl. Side one exhibits the band patiently spending time with their instruments, playing them a bit, or not. The result is a field of fragile rhythms and unidentified sounds, suggestions and tests. Density, volume and pace escalate and dissappear to tell the musics story. Side two begins with a concise variation on where side one left off, with the addition of a loop and a submerged metal vocal. IAMOWE continues however, with a series of considerations of pop-song structure. Melodic hesitation in the first few of these improvisations gives way to something like confidence as the band learns to play standing up. Hurray is Richard Aldrich, Josh Brand, Peter Mandradjieff and Zak Prekop." - Modern Claire. "Hurrays music accumulates power through carefully timed restraint." (The Wire, reviewing Dreams Not Soft Illusion) "Hurray [is] an ensemble devoted to various terminal branches of sonic architecture. . .what [Treasure Chest] actually sounds like is a few guys up in a treehouse, throwing sticks and stones at some guys with guitars who are trying to climb their special ladder." (Bull Tongue in Arthur Magazine). |
|
Artist: HURRAY Title: Live Champion Format: One Sided LP Label: Hurray Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "LIVE CHAMPION show the first Hurray live performance. As one side of a record, it is fifteen minutes. Recorded w/ a video camera in 2002 or 03, it was played to accompany two dancers. Chronologically, it follows the bands first 7-inch -- Hands -- and predates their first full-length LP Dream, Not Soft Illusion. The sound falls closest to Treasure Chest, the bands 2004 LP of home and practice space recordings. Less than noise, it is skittering and intimate, like a rocking-chair attached to instruments. Four people play in and out of primitive rhythms, some melodies, and changes of time. The video recording dissolves before the end, but a listener can still sense the whole of the song. An early time in the band, it was one of their happiest live performances. Hurray continue to exist and will soon release a double LP of out-takes from their first studio LP (DNSI) alongside a new song long-player." - Hurray. Edition of 100 copies. |