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Artist: K-GROUP Title: Screen/Cars & Soft Network Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: World Resources Country: New Zealand Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: K-GROUP/OMIT Title: Storage Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Not a split release by these two New Zealand artists, but a collaboration, carrying on from their 1997 single on Colorful Clouds for Acoustics. The weapons of choice are analogue synthesizers and the approach is slowly unfolding drones and drifting veils of sound that part and close across the listeners third ear like storms on the surface of Jupiter.
K-Group is Paul Toohey, previously of noted NZ geological drone ensemble Surface of the Earth, who also has a solo album under this name on Corpus Hermeticum. Omit is Clinton Williams, who has also recorded for that notorious NZ un-easy listening label, as well as extensively on his own Deep Skin imprint. During 2000 and 2001, having failed to bring down the global economy with their now-forgotten Y2K scam [remember Y2K? - I thought not], this pair of Hidden Masters turned their efforts towards late-night kitchen jam sessions during their holiday moments. In these each would fire up an antiquated analogue synth and the resulting aural collisions would be recorded on a handy hard drive, then tweaked, inverted, eqd and edited to produce the immaculate slabs of sound contained within the tiny grooves of this ludicrously out-dated analogue sound-reproducing format.
These seven tracks simulate the calm of the newly sedated patient about to undergo a surgical procedure, just as he or she is starting to slip into unconsciousness. You can listen, but just when you think youre hearing something, you realise that 12 hours have gone by and you have a new and inexplicable scar on some unlikely part of your anatomy. Too late you realise that the sound you can hear at the very edge of audition is not this recording, but the sound of forty metal robotic insects starting to eat their way out through your still-sedated navel. Waking with a start in time to flip the album over on your turntable, you notice that subsonic frequencies have begun to rearrange the contents of your mantlepiece into a veritable Morris Dance of inanimate objects, when you thought the audio had not yet begun to play back. A vestigial bass throb starts up in the back of your cranium, as very slow-moving if not actually stationary spacecraft begin to land in the garden. Three days later they are still hovering as the seventh and final track of thr album begins to play, and infinitesimally subtle stereo effects start panning in impossible permutations audible only between your shoulder blades.
Apparent suspension of time, delirious interludes, interference with the basic laws of physics, all of these effects are possible results of listening to the beautifully poised, finely polished and unutterably beautiful sounds contained in this simultaneously forbidding and inviting artifact. If, like me, these are all the things you look for in a sound recording, then look no further. If its merely music you require, then I suggest you meddle not in the affairs of your betters and proceed directly to the nearest chain CD store and stock up big time." -Bruce Russell [Noise Legend], Lyttelton, NZ, May 2002.
"Heres a piece of wax that came out back in 2002, and its a title that we thought was long discontinued by Fusetron. But, luckily, somehow, a handful of copies still exist, and if youre keen on the stun-drone / brain-zonk electronics currently blasted by the EMERALDS axis, you NEED to investigate everything that Omit has ever released. Our words from way back when... Both K-Group and Omit have been longtime aQuarius favorites from the New Zealand experimental noise scene; but unfortunately, theyve been pretty quiet in their respective outputs during the past couple of years. K-Group is the solo project for Paul Toohey, who has also worked in the (defunct?) Surface Of The Earth, both of which centered around low-frequency tectonic drones coaxed from abused amplifiers. Clinton Williams has taken up the Omit moniker for his creepy, tape loop compositions loaded with bleak sci-fi / psychotic imagery. This collaboration between Williams and Toohey is actually their second, if you count a 7" which came out ages ago. In running Williams battery of analog synths through Tooheys cabinets, theyve constructed an eerie album of deep rumblings that are on par with anything that Coleclough, Koner, or Troum have managed to release. As the K-Group / Omit drones ripple with a gritty amplifier buzz often lacking in the driftwork of those aforementioned artists, "Storage" pulses with a subterranean heaviness, pushing this closer towards the Earth / SUNNO))) terrain. A really wonderful album!!!" - Aquarius. |
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Artist: K-SALVATORE Title: Ashmadai Format: Double LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Two adepts of the sonic arts return with a morality play in four sides. Gone are the appeals to the winged serpent, the tree of life, or other past luminaries; these days they can be seen in consort with only one: ASHMADAI. It is said that Ashmadai is not to be feared. When you say to it: "In truth thou art Ashmadai," it will give you a wonderful ring. It will teach you geometry, arithmetic, astronomy and mechanics. When questioned, it answers truthfully. Released on two twelve inch 45 RPM platters - wide grooves for maximum impact to the ear." |
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Artist: K-SALVATORE Title: Dead Central Format: Cass Label: Sangoplasmo Country: Poland Price: $7.50 |
| "K Salvatore is a duo offshoot of the No-Neck Blues Band. More than 40 minutes of dark free-noise and unexpected sounds. Limited edition of 100 copies." Sangoplasmo |
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Artist: K-SALVATORE Title: The Counterfeiter Format: LP Label: SIWA Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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Artist: K-SALVATORE Title: The Kermes Infestation Format: 6LP Box Set Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $182.00 |
| "PLANAM proudly presents K-Salvatore The Kermes Infestation 6LP box masterpiece. This is the first ever available edition as the elusive self published triple tape on Sound@One was originally released in 1996 in an invisible edition of just 10 copies. Pre-dating the glorious Four Impossible Puns double LP on Siwa these recordings represent one of the most solid and extreme accomplishments in a parallel to No Neck Blues Band early era universe. K-Salvatore is the enigmatic entity created by No Neck Blues Band founding members Pat Murano (Decimus, Key Of Shame, Malkuth, Raajmahal, Kelippah Records) and Jason Meagher (Black Dirt Studio and Records). During the summer of 1995, K-Salvatore purchased 10 copies of an instructional audio cassette package on remainder at a local Barnes and Noble. The group then endeavored to replace the originally contained instruction with their own. Over the course of the remainder of that summer, Jason Meagher and Pat Murano met once a week to record six continuous improvisations. One for each side of the Package. Once completed the 10 copies were distributed amongst friends and family for study. Akin to a 5+ hour kidnapping ordeal that culminates, not with freedom restored, but instead disembowlment in a sad mans bathtub. Available now on 6 LPs with individual silkscreened sleeves in a hand colored and silkscreened heavy box, in a numbered edition of 145 copies only." -Planam. |
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Artist: K-SALVATORE Title: Tsar Ova Elk Format: LP Label: Kelippah Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Jason Meagher(NNCK, Black Dirt Studio) and Pat Murano (NNCK, Decimus) have sporadically been releasing material as K-Salvatore since 1995. The sparse and disturbing electronics captured on this lp, their first since 2006, reflect the dark and cold of the winters night on which they were created.
Edition of 300 in jackets silk screened by Phil Franklin and Christine Shields at Bright Spot Ink. Recorded at Black Dirt Studio." - Kelippah. |
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Artist: K-SPACE Title: Going Up Format: CD Label: Ad Hoc Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "These recordings, with their disparate acoustic properties, are overlaid and overlapped to form dense sonic thickets alive with action and event, palpably embedded in the multi-dimensional flux of the world and lived social structures. Human voices conversing, footfalls on frozen ground, a blackbird singing, the sound of the wind or water, the crackling of wood in a fire, audience applause -- sounds from specific sites with their own peculiar resonance and significance leak through the K-Space mesh into the listening present. This layering and the filtering through of discrete geographic and temporal occasions compounds that superimposition already at work in the trio, the piling up and overlap of intense personal experience. Chamzyryn, a bona fide shaman and folk artist; Hodgkinson, academically trained in social anthropology, an exploratory rock musician, composer and radical improviser; Hyder, jazz drummer, free player, inveterate field worker in remote musical worlds." - Ad Hoc. |
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Artist: K2 Title: Chameleon Ballet Format: CDR Label: New Age Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: K2 Title: Dianetic Biodome Format: CDR Label: New Age Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: K2 Title: Encinoman: Cryogenic Awakening Format: CDR Label: New Age Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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James Ferraro from the Skaters.
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Artist: K2 Title: Silicon Oasis Format: CDR Label: New Age Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: K2/PUTREFIER Title: Split Format: LP Label: Gods of Tundra Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Gods of Tundra is honored to announce the release of this brand new LP from these certified masters of the scene. Recorded in 2001 and not released until this very day, these veterans of total NOISE churn out some serious mind and body damage. Both gentelemen take a side to destroy the others sound, and in doing so create a full flowing LP of 100% pure old school fucking insanity. Cut up, mangled and hung out to dry...your nerves will be severly fried after this one. Edition of 150." - Gods of Tundra |
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Artist: K48 Title: #4 Format: Mag/CD Label: K48 Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"The theme is cults and religion, and its pretty amazing. It includes Ra�??lians, Charles Mansons dirty stories, Genesis P-Orridge on the holy beggars of Kathmandhu, Scott Treleaven on sex magic, the work of over fifty artists and so much more. The compact disc includes everything from Avenue D and Phiiliip to Matmos and Wolf Eyes." - K48. CD also features Excepter, Angelblood, Sightings, Devendra Banhart, Centuries, Monotrona, Ghost Exits, Animal Collective, etc.. Squarebound, full color. Almost 200 pages.
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Artist: KAA ANTILOPE Title: VPRO RadioNome April 2 1982 Format: LP Label: Enfant Terrible Country: Netherlands Price: $25.00 |
| "Kaa Antilope from Belgium is possibly one of the better kept secrets from the 1980s. Known to few people but loved by those. The reason is simple... this band was unique with their wonderful neo romantic, playful and melancholy sound. Their songs are best described as experimental synthpop with a poetic touch. Only one 7" record was released in 1982. Even today their music stands out with its very special sound of its own. There has not been a single other band since the 1980s that can be compared to Kaa Antilope. This live studio session was done as part of the legendary RadioNome radioshow broadcasted by the VPRO in the early 80s. The session has been tranfered from the original tape and is edited and re-mastered to make it available for the ultimate listening pleasure the songs ask for. The liner notes have been written by a close companion of the musicians / member of Pseudo Code." -Enfant Terrible. Limited to 500 copies. |
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Artist: KABUKABU & KLEZMER CHIDESCH Title: The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland National Anthem #3 & 4 Format: 7" Label: Ash International Country: UK Price: $7.50 |
| "These recordings were regally made on October 21, 2006, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin at the opening of the Elgaland-Vargaland Embassy for Germany in the presence of the Kings, Michael I and Leif I, Consul Hans Ulrich Obrist (who made the inauguration speech) and the KREV Ambassador, Bernd M. Scherer. This 7" is the second in a series of vinyl acoustic versions of the National Anthems of Elgaland-Vargaland. "Kabukabu" is explosive Afro-beat, while "Klezmer Chidesch" is pure, heart-moving Klezmer." - Ash International |
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Artist: KADOTANI, MICHIO Title: Rotten Telepathies Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "This was a tribute CD of sorts to a late Japanese underground legend from the 70s, who never had anything officially released. His solo music, as documented here, was fuzzy, aggressive, angular-punk-influenced junk; at its best, a muzzy flair rears its head." - FE. |
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Artist: KAEZM Title: Hydrogen Falls Format: Cass Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Denmark is a place teeming with half fried organic drone crews such as Sarahs Charity and Family Underground. Kaezm is the solo output for Nicolas Kauffmann of FU; here he channels electricity through criss-crossing patterns creating a midrange din full of lament. Nics drones move with static builds from a variety of sources and multiple levels of echoing chorus: airy, buzzing mantras tinged with Middle Eastern vibes and a deepening sense of time beat down like an incessant rainfall in a storm of hiss. In an edition of 100 labeled tapes with full color art by Nic." - Arbor. |
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Artist: KAEZM Title: Loom Format: CDR Label: Into The Lunar Night Country: Denmark Price: $13.00 |
| "first full length solo from nicolas of family underground. two tracks." - into the lunar night. |
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Artist: KAHVAS JUTE Title: Wide Open Format: LP Label: Little Wing Country: Germany Price: $27.00 |
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"One of the most outstanding Australian LPs of the early 70s...a progressive Cream inspired guitar fire work ? sparkling and deep in feeling." This master tape reissue in elaborate gatefold is of the bands only LP, from 1972." - Little Wing. Members of Tamam Shud.
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Artist: KAISER NIETZSCHE Title: Heterology Format: LP Label: Noctovision Country: Japan Price: $25.00 |
| Original, unplayed copies from 1989. Japanese release of this 80s Canandian experimental/sound art collective who were involved with the Freedom In A Vacuum and Music Gallery Editions labels. |
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Artist: KAKERA Title: 02.10.03 Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut & CDR Label: Pale-Disc Country: Japan Price: $18.00 |
| "..edition of 40 set. two live recordings of anti-mixer performance track1.02.10.03. track2.01.08.02. track 1 recorded at lethe.voice festival vol 4 warehouse No 20 , garden pair in port of nagoya. Since around 1994, he started his activities. His abstractive impulse and performance which are defined as deconstructive replacement and abstraction of the existence (Ugyudoh). These are sprouted from subversion. That is described [absolute infinite ido(himself)]. And it proceeds with his mixers. Those are highly distracting and passing through the fundamental function. And they obtain his abstractive notes. His biased love toward anti-mixer is getting deeper and deeper year after year. He is constructing indefinite auto-loop-mixer. He had been voluntarily surrounded by smoke that was emitted by him and fainted on one day at the previous voice.festival." - Pale-Disc. |
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Artist: KALACAKRA Title: Crawling To Lhasa Format: LP Label: Garden of Delights Country: Germany Price: $33.00 |
| "A psychedelic jewel from Duisburg. The first legitimate LP reissue. Comes in deluxe gatefold cover. With (large-format) four-page insert. Strictly limited to 1000 hand-numbered LPs." -Garden of Delights "A psychedelic jewel from Duisburg. The first legitimate LP reissue. Comes in deluxe gatefold cover. With (large-format) four-page insert. Strictly limited to 1000 hand-numbered LPs." "Their music combined various folk and Eastern influences, slightly hinting at the Third Ear Band and Popol Vuh, but closest to Clark-Hutchinson on their album A=MH2. Kalacakras blend of mantras, blues, folk and stoned psychedelia gained Crawling To Lhasa a well deserved curiosity value, yet they were an altogether more eclectic and strange band than any of their possible mentors." -The Crack In The Cosmic Egg |
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Artist: KALEIDOSCOPE Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $44.00 |
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"Originally released in Mexico, 1969. Numbered edition of 500 pressed on 180 gram vinyl, housed in a heavy sleeve with a poster and 4-page insert containing an extra poster. "Kaleidoscope is one of best psychedelic albums ever been recorded and among the other 2 rare albums (Mariani from USA and Dark from UK) perhaps the rarest. Enrique Rivas located all original members as well as the original artist of the cover. Shadoks Music signed a deal with the band, so we can put this baby out for the first time legit. Actually this band was not from Mexico. The musicians came from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Spain and the album was recorded in 1967 in Dominican Republic. The manager took it to Mexico where it had a tiny release of 200 on the Orfeon label. They were friends of Addib Casta from Ladies WC, Venezuela, so one song is from Ladies WC; the rest are all original compositions. A collectors dream come true. The music is amazing heavy guitar-based psychedelic of the best kind, the cover artwork restored and complete (bootlegs were heavily cropped) with original label artwork for the first time, plus many photos, band history, 2 posters. We are proud to have this baby on our label. Please enjoy!" - Shadoks.
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Artist: KALEIDOSCOPE Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "Kaleidoscopes sole release is one of the best psychedelic albums ever recorded and also among the rarest albums of all time. Enrique Rivas located all the original band members as well as the original cover artist. Shadoks Music signed a deal with the band, and now puts this baby out legitimately for the first time, ever. The band was not actually from Mexico: the musicians came from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Spain, and the album was recorded in 1967 in the Dominican Republic. The manager took it to Mexico where it had a tiny release of 200 copies on the Orfeon label. They were friends with Addib Casta from Ladies WC, Venezuela, so one song is by Ladies WC -- the rest are all original compositions. The music features some amazing, heavy, guitar-based psychedelia of the best kind, and there are three bonus tracks here, including a live track from 1969. The cover art has also been completely restored (bootleg versions were heavily cropped) with the original label artwork for the first time. The package also includes many photos and a band history, making this a collectors dream come true." -Shadoks |
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Artist: KALENDAREV, YURI Title: Sound Sculptures Format: CD Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $26.00 |
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"Bronze silkscreened custom designed heavy natural cardboard digipak, complete with booklet in Italian and English. 300 hand-numbered copies. Yuri Kalendarev belongs to the generation of Russian underground non-conformist artists -- the dissidents of the 70s. He has been working for 30 years with different media such as granite sculpture, land art and light. He came upon the sonic possibilities of his work while exploring the intersection of sculpture and sound vibrations. His Sound Plates are forged with hammers and fire out of acoustic bronze compounds. They are designed to generate a large range of frequency oscillations, from massive low-frequency drones to deep percussive sounds that allow multiple interactions with the listeners inner being. In redefining the concept of sculpture in pure sound terms, the work of Yuri Kalendarev aims to explore a new aural experience beyond the act of listening, an investigation into the realm of pure acoustics. The performances captured on this CD represent the crystallization of the physicality of Kalendarevs sound sculptures, his attitude to rhythm, and his ability to create an atmosphere of deep concentration, silent communion, and mystery." -Die Schachtel
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Artist: KALI, MAITREYA Title: Apache/Inca Format: Double CD Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
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Restock of 1999 reissue; the original LP recently sold on eBay for over $10,000. Famously included in Paul Majors "Top Five of Weird Underground Psych/Folk", as revealed in Vice magazine. "First CD reissue of this strange late 60s set of artifacts (previously reissued as an elaborate 2LP set on Little Indians). This record is in Paul Majors "Top Five of Weird Underground Psych/Folk", as revealed in Vice magazine." - FE. "California deep Psychedelic loner. Acid leads, mystical vocals, tons of effects, completely stoned feeling. Came out as 2 single albums and even more limited as a double album. Only 3 copies known. The music is outta space psychedelic with great songs and beautiful vocals. A real killer from beginning to end." - Shadoks.
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Artist: KALLIO, ANNA/ROKKIRYHMA Title: Balladi Neidosta Joka Rakasti Varjoritaria/Sinenmaa Format: Cass Label: Sloow Tapes Country: Belgium Price: $11.00 |
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"This side are sweet and innocent ballads about Baader-Meinhof and Atari Teenage Riot by Anna R.J. Kallio, a seventeen year old girl from rural Finland. Other side is one long distance spacejam by crude teenage rockband Rokkiryhmä, youngsters getting things done with the outsideness of casio aficionados Kuupuu and Kulkiya. 70 copies." - Sloow Tapes
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Artist: KALMA, ARIEL Title: Le Temps Des Moissons Format: CD Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"After a long journey to India in 1975, where ARIEL KALMA learned the basics of modal music and singing, he undertook his first solo recording for LP. Ariel was inspired by the fusion of ancient and modern styles of playing music on saxophone, ethnic instruments, effects, electric instruments and electronic filters. Edition of 500 copies, includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks recorded during the same sessions." - Beta-Lactam Ring.
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Artist: KALMA, ARIEL Title: Osmose Format: CD Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Ariel Kalmas magical and weird Osmose originally released in 1978 masterfully matches Richard Tintis rainforest field recordings with Ariels left field minimalist compositional ideas. Rather than simply relying on the rainforest sounds providing a pleasant backdrop to the drones, the drones interplay with the pitches of the natural sounds to create melancholic, Popol Vuh like grandeurs. The natural chirps and creaks blend with the music to become similar to ambient loops themselves; such that their very tonal nature shifts from being recognizable jungle sounds, frequently phasing into blurred rhythmic elements under the electronic parts. Ariels musical minimalism avoids being serialist or academic, despite being part of the INA GRM studios for many years. So, neither is it concrete like Parmeggiani or Risset, nor is it classical like Philip Glass or Michael Nyman. If anything, Ariels music is deeply cosmic, sometimes even a bit psych, ala the great Krauts of yore: old Tangerine Dream, Sand, Cluster etc. His cathedral like tones and running counterpoints actually give the rainforest noise a sinister edge. The music absolutely subverts the traditional idea of the rainforest as that of a happy hunting ground for cause riddled yuppies with Benzes full of Kruggerrands. Osmose reminds that not only is the rainforest a place of awe inspiring beauty, but it is also something very dense and alien. It is a place of removal; it is a place of isolation; it is a kind of inner space; it is an extraordinary and surreal church of sorts; and it is deadly. The album has a progression thats almost a story in toto, where the next rise is finally crossed revealing the huge, seemingly impenetrable expanse of lush greens. The expanse is then explored with wide eyed wonder until the guide dies and the companions start succumbing to fever, ague, snakes and unseen primitives at home in the shadows. Appended by 3 previously unreleased tracks from the same sessions, this reissue finally allows the rainforest to live up to its natural state of untamed jungle." - Beta-Lactam Ring. |
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Artist: KAMIJO Title: Martha By Kamijo Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $42.00 |
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"Since this record appeared in Hans Pokoras 3001 book most collectors (including those in Japan) were searching for this album with no luck. So now its the time to solve another mystery. Beside the other unknown album shown in the same book "3/3" (who will be also out next year on Shadoks) Martha is the one everybody was talking about. What is it, somebody seen it, it must be so rare, is it any good? This album came to us in a big deal (the guy who owned it wanted $7000 cash for it). Martha is the first of three albums composed by the Japanese artist Kamijo. The other two are TOMO (also incredibly rare) and Tomoaki Kamijo KK Band -- dear my friend (pretty too). But Martha is the best of them all. All English vocals, lots of fuzz guitar, percussion, piano and great vocals. An underground-rock album with folky elements and a west coast touch. Kamijo is the Mick Stevens of Japan. ...you need a gun...I need a son.. Five musicians, 10 great songs." - Shadoks.
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Artist: KANAZAWA, KENICHI Title: Experimental Music of Japan Vol. 10: Solo Performance Format: CD Label: Edition Omega Point Country: Japan Price: $25.00 |
| "Edition Omega Point presents solo performance pieces by Japanese sound and visual performance artist Kenichi Kanazawa. "Oto no Kakera" ("Fragments of Sound") was based on his participation in an exhibition called Sound Garden in 1987. He cut thick steel plates like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, concerned with the thematic relationships of iron, figures, and sounds. He attacked the pieces with sticks, and then played with their sounds. Various pitches, tones and resonances of sounds were made from the area and shape of each pieces, extending the world of iron sound richly. This CD is a recording of performances in the exhibition "Kenichi Kanazawa, iron as a starting point 1982-2011." Solo Performance is housed in a cardboard paper gatefold sleeve, with newly-written liner notes in Japanese and English. It also includes a summary written by Kanazawa. Limited to 300 copies." -Edition Omega Point. |
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Artist: KANAZAWA/SHINJIRO YAMAGUCHI/HIROYUKI URA, KENICHI Title: Experimental Music of Japan Vol. 9: Fragments of Sound, Figure of Music Format: CD Label: Edition Omega Point Country: Japan Price: $26.00 |
| "Kenichi Kanazawa held the exhibition "Oto no Kakera" ("Fragments of Sound) and "Workshop" at the Kawagoe City Museum between 2006 and 2010. At the fifth and final exhibition, he did a workshop and performance with Hiroyuki Ura and Shinjiro Yamaguchi. This performance consisted of some fragments, with Yamaguchi adding his own details. According to his explanation, he tried to capture an invisible figure of music through composition using simple rules and styles. Housed in a cardboard paper gatefold sleeve with newly-written liner notes in Japanese and English. Also includes a summary by the artist. Limited to 300 copies." -Edition Omega Point. |
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Artist: KANDA, SATOSHI/HOFFMAN, NICK Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Pilgrim Talk Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Satoshi Kanda lives in Tokyo and plays milk bottles on this recording. Nick Hoffman lives in Chicago and plays computer programming on this recording. Uncomfortable..." -Pilgrim Talk |
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Artist: KANDALINI NIVAGRETSEVI Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Dear people at Destijl records,
I has come to my attention lately that the Kandalini Nivag Retsevi 7" has
been surfacing lately quite a lot. I bough that 7" with a promo sheet
that
read something along the lines of:
SHOCK.
BOOTLEG.200. $2.60. NO INVOICES/ TRADES ARE PREFERRED. SURELY YOU KNOW
WHO
NIVAG RETSEVI WAS: NO ONE ELSE HAS COPIES.
I picked it up at a second hand store in London 10 years ago because of
the
cover. I liked what looked like (actually is) a xerox of the back cover
of
V/A WEIRD NOISE 7" (Fuck Off Rcs). I didnt know of the WEIRD NOISE comp
at
the time and I was intrigued by the cover, the record lasted months at
the
record store and finally when it was reduced to £0.50 I bought it.
Ive been fascinated by it since then. I keep playing it to people and
trying to make any sense of it all this time. I searched online and in
fanzines and the only clue I got was Nivag Retsevi from TONGUE AVULSION
(V/A
Not so quiet on the Western Front LP) Secretly I had that record in my
pantheon of oddities since then and it has been only lately that doing
another random search I came across your website after finding a copy for
a
friend. All at sudden the record is for sale in Fusetron and a few other
places and I am puzzled of how a record absolutely no one knows about can
be
repressed and/ or in demand... I mean, it is the ultimate prank since it
can
be anyone farting on their backroom really.
Anyway, I just realized I may be wasting your time and not making much
sense
at the same time so all I ask for is some LIGHT. Please enlighten me, I
want
and need to know more about this record. Regards" - Paco Mus
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Artist: KANE, JONATHAN Title: I Looked At the Sun Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Jonathan Kanes rollicking, majestic and critically-acclaimed debut February set you up with his lustrous, deep-grooved sound; now comes the bare-knuckled knock-out punch. On the opening track, BQE, Kane compliments his signature wall of guitars with the high-lonesome serenade of pedal steel, then puts that pedal to the metal and barrels through the psychedelic badlands of Mississippi Fred Mcdowells classic I Looked at the Sun. Add the Dixie-fried strut of ZZ Tops Billy Giibbons to Glenn Brancas guitar armies and youre still only halfway to Kanes mind-blowing reinvention of both minimalism and the blues -- its a blistering days drive from anything youve heard before." - Table Of The Elements. |
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Artist: KANEKO, JUTOK Title: Endless Ruins Format: LP Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $38.00 |
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"Jutok Kaneko is not a name that will ring too many bells among lightweight cognoscenti of the Japanese psychedelic underground, but too those with sharper ears and deeper wallets the news that Tokyos OTHER black-clad guitar master has finally made a solo album is true cause for rejoicing. Kaneko is known, if at all, as leader of Kosokuya, one of the most idiosyncratic and least appreciated rock groups in Tokyo. The group have been in existence since the late seventies, pounding out a unique take on the space-rock idiom that sucked crushing chords and spiralling solos into the heart of blank, bleak emptiness. Not as career-minded as certain other scenesters, the group only released three albums over those 22 years ( Ray Night 1991-1992 Live on Forced Exposure, and The Dark Spot collaboration with Masayoshi Urabe on PSF [PSFD-90] are still available). Although Kaneko frequently guests at improv gigs in Tokyo, non-Kosokuya recorded appearances have been equally rare, encompassing only a duo album with Rinji Fukuoka on Pataphysique and a very limited live improv video with Chie Mukai and others. Hence the excitement at this solo release. Naked and mostly alone, Kaneko hurtles into a deep, dark hole of his own devising, his immensely distinctive vocals howling out his pain as his guitar shoots out pulsating tendrils of beautiful black light. Stylistically not that distant from Kosokuyas deployment of heavy space, its at once a depressingly nightmarish and exhilarating sound, utterly unique. On two tracks he ploughs a deeper furrow with the help of Takuya Nishimura (Che-SHIZU) on bass, and Koji Shimura (ex White Heaven, Mainliner) on drums. One for those select moments when you dream that Jandek had jammed with Quicksilver." -- Alan Cummings. Restocked!
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Artist: KANEKO, JUTOK Title: Live At Jerry Jeff Format: CDR Label: There Country: Japan Price: $14.50 |
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"Kanekos (OVERHANG PARTY) solo perfomance with acoustic guitar." - There. Limited to 100 copies.
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Artist: KANEKO, JUTOK & TAKAHISA KIKUKAWA Title: Wedged Night Format: LP Label: Siwa Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "October 2002 recording of improvisations and songs by Jutok Kaneko (guitar) and Takahisa Kikukawa (drums). Kaneko should be familiar to some as the man behind the heavy psychedelia of Kousokuya (whose much sought after debut LP from 1989 has finally resurfaced on PSF). Kikukawas name on the other hand will likely not ring too many bells outside of his home country but he did supply some sublimely spaced drumming to the dreamy Che-Shizu for a while and he plays percussion and piano in UZU. Both in Kousokuya and in Kanekos solo work the line between composition and improvisation is a very blurry one so its only in the loosest of terms that we say side one of this album is an "improvisation" and side two consists of a couple of "songs". The LP comes in an appropriately black and black on black silkscreened cover with two screened inserts." - Siwa. |
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Artist: KANENOBU, SACHIKO Title: Misora Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "Originally reissued in 2006 by Chapter Music, this is the 1972 debut album by Sachiko Kanenobu, an artist generally acknowledged as the first Japanese woman to release an album of her own songwriting. Its a near-perfect folk masterpiece, alternating full-bodied arrangements (produced by Harry Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra and Happy End) with Sachikos lonesome guitar and pure, soaring vocals. Discovered as a precocious 18 year-old in Osaka, Sachiko was signed in 1968 to Japans first real independent record label, URC (Underground Record Club), who changed Japans musical landscape irrevocably in the late 60s and early 70s with artists like Happy End, Folk Crusaders and Kenji Endo. Sachiko was the only female artist on this era-defining label. But just a few months before Misora (roughly translated as "Beautiful Sky") was released, Sachiko left Japan and secretly emigrated to America to marry music critic Paul Williams (Crawdaddy, Rolling Stone). She did not record again for almost a decade and didnt release another album until 1992. Instead, she settled with Williams in small-town California and raised two sons. Misora was released in her absence and promptly disappeared. World-renowned science fiction writer Philip K Dick, a Williams family friend, actually encouraged Sachiko to return to music in the early 80s. He was executive producer for a single recorded in 1981, but sadly died before he could realize his ambition to produce Sachikos comeback album. Still, Sachiko was inspired by his encouragement to reinvent herself as a "folk-punk" singer, forming new band Culture Shock in the mid-80s. Sachiko still performs to this day, and since Misora was rediscovered by Japanese fans in the early 90s, she has returned to her homeland many times to perform. Misora is now regarded as a landmark in Japanese musical history, and Sachiko is revered there as a true underground folk pioneer. Truly mellow, still relevant, and sounding as fresh as the day it was recorded, Chapter Musics edition of Misora is the first for the English-speaking world, featuring extensive liner notes, lyrics translated into English by Sachiko herself, and never-before-seen photos from the singers own archives." -Chapter |
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Artist: KANG, EYVIND Title: Visible Breath Format: LP Label: Ideologic Organ Country: France Price: $21.00 |
| "Eyvind Kangs tremendous efforts on Sunn O)))s Monoliths & Dimensions album helped elevate the groups presence to a new level creatively and aesthetically. We were fortunate and perhaps even destined to have this crossing. During this period Kang also premiered the pair of pieces presented on side A of this album, Visible Breath and Monodology. I was fortunate to witness an ensemble concert of these compositions titled Grass in Seattle which featured many of the same amazing musicians wed been working with on the O))) record, notably the most respected elders Julien Priester and Stuart Dempster. Their presence was such an honor and also an unpredictable inspiration due to their incredibly rich lives producing new and experimental music. The Grass recording done at the time lay dormant for many years. Its my pleasure to present these incredible compositions to the world through this humble effort. Side B is a new piece recorded in summer 2011 with pedal steel and cello, a beautiful excursion of harmonics, ghost tones, and integral interpretation titled Thick Tarragon. Delicate, enjoyable and translucent as white fields of grass." --Stephen OMalley, October 2011; Ideologic Organ curation and art direction by Stephen OMalley. Stewart Dempster (trombone); Julian Priester (trombone); Cuong Vu (trumpet); Taina Karr (oboe); Timb Harris (violin); Eyvind Kang (viola); Jessika Kenney (voice); Miguel Frasconi (glass); Cristina Valdez (piano); Steve Moore (electric piano); Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar); Janel Leppin (modified cello). Mastered & vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, October 2011. |
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Artist: KAPOTTE MUZIEK & LETHE Title: Tsurumai Format: CD Label: Intransitive Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Recorded in the industrial city of Nagoya, Japan, Tsurumai is an expansive album of rough electro-acoustic music. Starting from a few small clicks, the music steadily grows outward, uneasily shifting and expanding. Rude bumps interrupt narcotic drones, the telltale human hands of improvisation disappear into a mysterious group sound, acoustic and digital elements blur, vision fails, and time stops...Frans de Waard began his Kapotte Muziek (literally broken music) project in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in 1984, and went on to found the Korm Plastics label. In Nagoya, KM met up with Kuwyama Kiyoharu, aka Lethe, an omnivorous multi-instrumentalist whose work typically takes advantage of some acoustic peculiarity of the space in which it is recorded." - Intransitive. |
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Artist: KAPPI, PEKKO Title: Vuonna 86 Format: LP Label: Signing Knives Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
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"Pekko Kappi is a player of Jouhikko, the ancient Finnish-Karelian bowed lyre, in all-improvised settings and traditional folk songs.NB: Dont be fooled, this is a full-on, fucked-up, inspired, deeply innovative record with its teeth firmly in noise, sound-sculpture, improvisation and great song writing. The most obvious comparison would be Ghédalia Tazartès, as Kappi fuses a vast array of recording techniques with a love of the traditional, in full awareness of the avant garde. He remains, however, separate from pigeon-holing. I have used numerous comparatives through this review to depict the incredibly varied sounds of Vuonna 86. The LP is comprised of 10 short pieces playing in atypical pop division. Kappis voice is gravelled and strained, singing deep from the throat. He whistles and growls increasing the breadth of his vocal pallet. The undulating rhythms of his music depict a turbulent landscape, as if fried through the brain of the artist. The fuzz and distortion of the recording adds an unusual harshness that one would expect from lo-fi tape filth artists (Nevari Butchers, The Haters). All is composed with a control that juxtaposes some of the improvised nature of the original recordings. It lends a sculpted feel I find both inspiring and successful.
The Jouhikko is allowed room to lead by the forth movement. This is a beautiful little piece of seemingly traditional folk. It maintains the coarseness of previous recordings without veering to readily into the red. Its unbridled honesty and simplicity is quite overwhelming.
The use of the Jews Harp kickstarts a mad journey into a splattered landscape akin to the visions of Ralph Steadman. Its Gonzo lunacy sings with guttural vocals that bring to mind Tom Waits circus madmen. Further bizarre jigs bound with distortion and devilish decay. The short snaps of traditional, versus dirty analogue filth bears comparison to the recent output of Harappian Night Recordings.
Mad cocks crow to reveal a pounding agitated punk (Harry Pussy/Rusted Shut) type riff that absolutely knocks you for six. Its alien vocals land as if plucked from a European 80s bedroom Goth band. It makes you wish for a collection of killer 2 minute tracks to dance around to (preferably on your own, or with selected semi-naked friends). All burns away into field recordings that creep into view with an unleashed audacity. Noise splurge and free improv blast in a microcosmic vomit, then things take a deeper journey of heavy repetition that induces hypnotic trances. Wavering tones move the mind in subtle shifts beneath the din.
Finally things placate with a truly moving sprawl across arid landscapes and darkened skies, forever bereft of a long absent northern sun. The kin left to ponder the forgotten landscape that fades in recent legend. Desperate attempts to tune an old radio fail to inspire hope. The demons that stole the light taunt from afar, safe beyond the airwaves. Hope and prayer persist and we enthuse at the trials of this loner, this madman against the soil. Eventually all is consumed by the dark, the radio waves become malicious fingers that strangle sound to pitch nothing.
This is a great piece of work that is almost there, but simmers beyond complete digestion. It is utterly intriguing, brave and well worth falling into." -Foxy Digitalis
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Artist: KAPROW, ALLAN Title: How To Make A Happening Format: CD Label: Primary Information Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "The point is to make something new, something that doesnt even remotely remind you of culture. Primary Information is pleased to announce the CD release of Allan Kaprows How to Make a Happening LP�??making it available on a wide scale basis for the first time in the titles history. Originally released by Mass Art in 1966, the record never saw thorough distribution as the publisher went bankrupt shortly after its release. Later, in 1968, How to Make a Happening was distributed on a limited basis through Something Else Press�??A laminated and silk-screened cover by Alison Knowles distinguished this edition from its predecessor. Simple in construction, yet profound in context, How to Make a Happening is Allan Kaprow delivering 11 rules on how, and how not, to make a Happening, an movement begun by Kaprow in the late fifties that is known for its unpredictability, open scores, and constantly-evolving form. On the first track, Kaprow speaks plainly into a microphone, delivering a private cut-to-the-chase style instruction on Happenings that is both informative and contradictory. Kaprow, known as a great teacher of the avant-garde (from Rutgers to Cal Arts to finally University of California, San Diego), delivers both a practical and theoretical how-to with an oftentimes dead-pan humor. On the second track, which is constructed like the first, Kaprow reads the program and notes of three recent Happenings (Soap, Calling, and Raining), which serve as loose instruction, as they involve improvisation and forces beyond human control, such as acts of nature and other uncontrolled environmental forces. These elucidations further provide a clear, if somewhat circumstantial, distinction of what does and does not constitute a Happening. Perhaps, one of the more astonishing values to this recording is that it reflects and informs on a movement that fifty years on has come be seen as a seminal shift in postwar contemporary art and performance, yet is discussed by its founder without this hindsight�??it lacks sentimentality and most of all it lacks a sense of its relevance within this history. In fact, Kaprow shrugs off its place in the arts�??its rejections of their strategies become a starting point if not a hallmark of the Happening, as he claims in rule number one: Forget all the standard art forms�??dont paint pictures, dont make poetry, dont build architecture, dont arrange dances, dont write plays, dont compose music, dont make movies, and above all dont think youll get a happening by putting all these together. How to Make a Happening is being re-issued with the cooperation of the Estate of Allan Kaprow and the Getty Research Institute. Each CD is packaged in a hand-silkscreened jewel case that replicates the laminated edition by Alison Knowles and Something Else Press while preserving the original artwork carried out by Mass Art." - Primary Information |
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Artist: KARACA & MOGOLLAR, CEM Title: Live In Istanbul 1972 Format: LP Label: Turkish Vinyl Country: Spain Price: $32.00 |
| "What can be said about Cem Karaca and Mogollar that has not already been said before? Cem Karaca and Mogollar joined forces for a short period from 1973 until 1974, this collaboration was short lived with only 3 singles being released, making this live concert a real gem. We do know that their repertoire was more extensive than the recorded songs, thats what makes this concert so great, only one of the songs here (Sikayetname) was released by this band (in 1977). One song, Dadaloglu, had only been released by Cem Karaca Kardaslar a few years before, and the remaining 3 tracks are all new to the Cem Karaca repertoire of released music. But the real gem on this album and a fitting end to the concert. Paradox is one of Cem Karacas rare English language tracks, which was never released; the only version we have heard so far is from this concert. Sound has been taken from the original tapes and remastered, so sound quality is much better than the average live LP quality. Perfectly enjoyable. 500 copies limited release." -Turkish Vinyl. |
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Artist: KARACA, CEM Title: Resimdeki Gözyalar Format: LP Label: Turkuola Country: USA Price: $35.00 |
| "Legendary Turkish rock musician and instigator of the Anatolian rock movement, Cem Karaca was one of the most important rock singers in Turkey during the 1970s alongside the likes of Erkin Koray, Edip Akbayram and Selda. In addition to his poetic and politically charged solo work -- which at one point led the Turkish government to issue a warrant for his arrest -- he also produced and managed Bunalim, one of the most well-known underground rock groups, and created some of the most unforgettable Turkish psych as a member of bands like Apaşlar, Moğollar, and Kardaslar (who recorded 1971s "Ottoman Pop Musical" Püsküllü Moruk). Hes previously been featured on the Turkish Psychedelic Music installment of QDKs classic Love, Peace & Poetry series as well as DJ Fabyos brilliant Anatolia Rocks collection, but this mysterious compilation digs even deeper with an array of late-60s to mid-70s cuts, all of which are absolutely killer. He is also without a doubt one of the most attractive dudes in the 70s Anatolian rock music scene." - Turkuola. |
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Artist: KARACA/KARDASLAR, CEM Title: Cem Karaca/Kardaslar Format: LP Label: Turkuola Country: Germany Price: $31.00 |
| "Brief restock of this one... Limited edition of 500, 150 gram vinyl. The reissue of Cem Karacas most sought-after debut LP by legendary label Türküola. It is a compilation of his earlier works with the band Kardaslar and 4 works from his previous band Apaslar. The LP is a very good example of Turkish prog psych rock, features a lot of Turkish melodies, and ethnic string instruments." -Turkuola |
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Artist: KARATE PARTY Title: Black Helicopter Format: LP Label: S-S Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Maniacal p. rock by mid 90s Sacramento trio led by Chris Woodhouse. Influenced by Devo, Boredoms, & lifes unpleasantries. Was to influence the A Frames, Intelligence, & others. 1/2 original released on Moo-La-La but remastered and sounding much better, 1/2 unreleased or hopelessly obscure. Those are the dull facts. The exciting ones are that this fucking pup is insane, wild ass, monster killing pug rock. Endless riffs that will smash your nose against glass. No cd issue, vinyl only. Gold vinyl. A sample of Donut Room. A sample of Spawn (demo)." - S-S. |
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Artist: KARG, JURGEN Title: Elektronische Mythen Format: CDR Label: Creel Pone Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"Dark & atonal free-synth concrète & chiming metallic minimalism from one-time Wolfgang Dauner (aka the �??ring-mod jazz�?� kingpin) sideman Jürgen Karg; two 20+ minute/side-long suites... theres very little jazz-lineage vocabulary herein; much more in common with François Bayles 70s work & that of past Creel Pone candidates Reinhold Weber, Edward Zajda... hell even the krautrock lineage: early Schnitzler, Asmus Tietchens, Seeselberg, etc... yet another �??unheralded classic of electronic music�?�. -Creel Pone.
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Artist: KARK Title: The Hermit Format: LP Label: HP Cycle Country: Canada Price: $16.00 |
| "Debut album from this massive free ensemble from Louisville which features a revolving cast of over 50 musicians including members of Sapat, Valley of Ashes, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Son of Earth, Taiwan Death and the Belgian Waffles. The Hermit consists of three extended pieces that offer spaciously abstract atmospheres as well as moments of righteous cacophony. Utilizing a multitude of brass, reeds and percussion the album careens through numerous passages where intricate harmonics are created from the densely layered sounds. When the full force of the ensemble is unleashed individual elements appear and quickly recede into the squall. As the music nearly becomes unhinged, the sound disintegrates into a godzilla-like rockist thud propelled by the rhythm section and soaring horns before drifting to a sparse conclusion. The LP comes in a full colour jacket with homespun artifacts gracing the cover." - HP Cycle. |
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Artist: KARKI & PARTY, BHARAT Title: International Music Format: LP Label: EM Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "LP version. 1978 private production from Calcutta, India in a first time ever reissue. From beginning to end, this is a flood of weird Indian psychedelic funk, showering us with heavy percussion grooves in a borrowed "international music" style featuring elements of rock, as well as Latin and Arabic music, melded with chanted Hindu mantra. Electric guitar and bass, a bunch of Indian percussion, flutes, screams, organs and (maybe) Moog! An explosion of Indian youth music. Musicians: Bharat Karki, Utpal Dey, Provat Das, Biswanath Chandra, Bimal Biswas, Kany Roy, Chandan Roy Chowdhury, Benu Chatterjee, Badal Sarkar, Hillol Mandal, and Khoka. Vocals: Palash Mukherjee, Panchashil Dutta, Subhankar Sengupta, Miss. Sunanda Ghose Roy, and Miss. Mridula Bhattacharya." -EM |
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Artist: KARKOWSKI, ZBIGNIEW Title: One and Many Format: CD Label: Sub Rosa Country: Belgium Price: $14.00 |
| "Zbigniew Karkowski studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburgs Department of Musicology, and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology. After completing his studies in Sweden, he studied sonology for a year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Haag, The Netherlands. During his education, he also attended many summer composition master courses arranged by Centre Acanthes in Avignon and Aix-en-Provence, France, studying with Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, and Georges Aperghis, among others. He works actively as a composer of both acoustic and electroacoustic music. He has written pieces for large orchestra (commissioned and performed by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra), plus an opera and several chamber music pieces that were performed by professional ensembles in Sweden, Poland and Germany. He is a founding member of the electroacoustic music performance trio Sensorband. Karkowski has lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan for the past eight years, and is active in the underground noise scene there. Professionally active in contemporary, industrial, rock and experimental music for the last 15 years. One and Many: an ode to loudspeakers -- These life conditions lead to a radical conclusion: the traditional definitions of music are irrelevant and music theories and music as a cultural concept must be destroyed. That is what we find in his latest works, in which his main concern is to produce pieces out of electronic sounds and acoustic walls on scores developed from the architecture of ruins. His last opus called who am I is the exact development of years of theories and practices. As many of Karkowskis pieces, this is a highly delicate yet physical work, which can be seen as an ode to loudspeakers." - Sub Rosa. |
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Artist: KARKOWSKI, ZBIGNIEW Title: Reverse direction and let the sound reach out to you Format: Triple 3" CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $22.00 |
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"Zbigniew Karkowski was born in 1958 in Krakow, Poland. He studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburgs Department of Musicology, and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology. After completing his studies in Sweden, he studied sonology for a year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Haag, Netherlands. During his education, he also attended many summer composition master courses arranged by Centre Acanthes in Avignon and Aix-en-Provence, France, studying with Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, and Georges Aperghis, among others. He works actively as a composer of both acoustic and electroacoustic music. Zbigniew has lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan for the past eight years, and is active in the underground noise scene there."
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Artist: KARL GOTT Title: Jugend - Oh Susse Jugend Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $32.00 |
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"Featuring only classics from 1981-1984 released on private cassettes only. Including their hit Liebe ist Blaulicht known from the classic HEIMAT BIST DO GROSSER SOHNE. Oh yes, the band is from Vienna/Austria." - WSDP. Limited to 150 copies. |
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Artist: KARLHEINZ Title: Fucking Format: Picture Disc LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
| Karlheinz: "Right now, my music is noise - possibly harsh noise, possibly power electronics, depending upon your definition and which piece youre talking about. I used to do slightly different things - tape manipulations, junk instruments, classical samples, etc. Now its mostly just synth noise and effects with incomprehensible vocals." |
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Artist: KARLSSON, TOM Title: Pojnacke Format: LP Label: Lystring Country: Sweden Price: $18.00 |
| "Not sure where this LP is from, but it came fairly anonymously, in a stark white gatefold sleeve adorned with meticulously repellent hand-drawn artwork, at least on the inside sleeve and the labels, and I kind of wanted to listen to it once and get it out of the house... but the music is excellent. Having lost the one-sheet, I was thinking it was an album by sort of mysterious harsh industrial/power electronics band or project called Pojknacke, but the internet tells me that Pojknacke is the title, and the artist (musical and presumably visual) is actually Tom Karlsson. Hey, at least he was helpful enough to draw "A" and "B" as part of his label art, no one does that anymore! (And his name is on the spine, along with title and label, I just hadnt checked yet.) Anyway, this really is some sort of early-style harsh industrial album, but with a welcome profusion of quiet space, room for some jarring off-kilter samples, obscure but agitated European speaking voices that may even be samples themselves but mostly probably not... eventually some serious subtle (on side B not so subtle) heavy avant-rock improvisational jamming... a couple out-and-out tunes with goofy ranting punk vocals... it doesnt all work equally well, and its maybe 10 minutes too long, but its still really good." - Larry/Blastitude. Newest LP from the label that released the last BRAINBOMBS. |
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Artist: KARUNA KHYAL Title: Alomoni 1985 Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Karuna Khyals album Alomoni 1985, originally released on Voice Records around 1976, is widely acknowledged as years ahead of its time, preceding other Japanese underground experimental outfits such as Fushitsusha, White Heaven and Magical Power Mako by almost 20 years. The bands musical influences are, if anything, more Germanic than Japanese, with long, hypnotic free-form rock passages, a heavy use of tape loops, electronics, environmental sounds, distortion and backwards tapes underpinning some manic harmonica-playing on some gut-wrenching blues dirges. Can, Faust and Guru Guru clearly had an influence on the band, as did Captain Beefheart and Pere Ubu. Not much is known about the bands line-up, although it is widely thought there was some crossover in personnel with Brast Burn, another significant outfit of the same era which exerted such influence over newer participants in the Japanese psych scene as well as Nurse With Wound. At No.19 in Julian Copes Japrocksampler publication, this is a true hidden treasure buried deep in time -- unearthed and digitally-remastered by Phoenix Records. Package includes a replica of the original full-color insert in a numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies only, housed in a unique card wallet." -Phoenix |
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Artist: KARUNA KHYAL Title: Alomoni 1985 Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "180 gram LP version. Karuna Khyals album Alomoni 1985, originally released on Voice Records around 1976, is widely acknowledged as years ahead of its time, preceding other Japanese underground experimental outfits such as Fushitsusha and White Heaven by almost 20 years. The bands musical influences are, if anything, more Germanic than Japanese, with long, hypnotic free-form rock passages, a heavy use of tape loops, electronics, environmental sounds, distortion and backwards tapes underpinning some manic harmonica-playing on some gut-wrenching blues dirges. Can, Faust and Guru Guru clearly had an influence on the band, as did Captain Beefheart and Pere Ubu. Not much is known about the bands line-up, although it is widely thought there was some crossover in personnel with Brast Burn, another significant outfit of the same era which exerted such influence over newer participants in the Japanese psych scene as well as Nurse With Wound. At No.19 in Julian Copes Japrocksampler publication, this is a true hidden treasure buried deep in time -- unearthed and digitally-remastered by Phoenix Records." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: KAS PRODUCT Title: Try Out Format: CD Label: DSA Country: France Price: $15.00 |
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"Spatsz (electronics), born in Nancy (France). Left his job (in a psychiatric hospital) in 1978 to work on synthesizers and rythm machines. Mona Soyoc (guitar, piano, vocals). Born in Stamford, Connecticut (USA), from Argentinian origin. For 2 years she sung in a jazz band before she met Spatsz. In January 80, Spatsz and Mona Soyoc form KaS Product and work on their own material. Soon after, they record their first E.P., Mind Seven in a bedroom with a 2 tracks recording machine. This record is released by a local record label. During the summer 80, the duo records a second E.P., Take me Tonight , in the same conditions as the previous one . It is released on the same local record label, Punk Records (also a shop). From May to July 1981, KaS Product rehearse 11 new songs which are featured in their first album, Try Out , recorded in 11 days at Sunrise Studio in Switzerland. Produced by the band and Gerard Nguyen, this album has been released by RCA in 1982 in France, Germany, Japan and England where the duo plays 3 times (at The Embassy, The Rock Garden and The Venue) after huge articles in Sounds, Melody Maker and New Music Express. The second album, By Pass , is recorded in February 1983 in cold and snowy New York at Sorcerer Sound Studio (Swans, Sonic Youth, Laurie Anderson..) upon recommendation from Martin Bisi. KaS Product has toured extensively in France, and in England, Italy, Switzerland and Netherlands, playing with Tuxedomoon, Alan Vega, Minimal Compact, This Heat etc. They also made a concert at the Danceteria in New York. In 1984, Gerard Nguyen starts Les Disques du Soleil et de lAcier (DSA) and KaS Product records a third album, Ego Eye , for french label AZ. One of KaS Products last concerts did feature Rowland Howard (Birthday Party/These Immortal Souls) on guitar?20 and more years later, Try Out and By Pass are still essential records in the new/no wave scene, not only French but international." - DSA.
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Artist: KASTEL, SILVIA/KOMMISSAR HJULER /MAMA BAR/NINNI MORGIA Title: Live in Edinburgh Format: LP Label: Ricerca Sonora Country: Italy Price: $26.00 |
| "The two-part "Jericho" uses a backing tape group-prerecorded in a big theater-like room, a version of the lyrics spoken live onstage, and MAMA BAeRs video projections of the four standing against a wall. HJULER manipulates tape, Mama Baer and SILVIA KASTEL sing the lyrics, NINNI MORGIA bends, buffs and brushes guitar, and Kastels synthesizer growls from within the monsters belly. Tension, discomfort, love, pain, theater, music, art-four people immolating themselves for the cause. Silkscreened sleeve. Edition of 200 copies." - Ricerca Sonora. |
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Artist: KATCHMARE Title: Palisade Format: 8" Label: Pilgrim Talk Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Katchmare is the solo work of Nick Hoffman. Operator of 3 labels: Scissor Death, Pilgrim Talk, Ghost & Son. He has performed in the U.S. and Japan. Hoffman received a BA in music composition in 2008. His focus was/is electroacoustic music." -Pilgrim Talk. Numbered edition of 21 copies.
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Artist: KATH Title: 1 (Original Album & Unreleased Material) Format: Double CD Label: Lion Productions Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Not many albums can get you in the mood to blow out your speakers quite like Kath, a band that evolved from local Maryland 1960s band Badge. This is an authentic low-fi DIY effort, recorded in the home of the bands leader (and, yes, actually dedicated to his pet monkey - and his girlfriend!), originally released in 1974 in a micro edition of 60 hand-made copies, and later reconfigured for a legendary Rockadelic label LP version. Truth to tell, the Kath album is full of well written melodic songs with loose, semi-ramshackle, low-fi/no-fi production values. Nothing gets down and dirty quite like Say What You Feel, with its blown out bass, killer guitar and drums, echoed vocals and sound effects; well, actually, Love Me Down is equally potent. The band also had a fondness for tape experimentation (Seagulls) and simply screwing around (Toilet Theme). As Patrick the Lama said in Acid Archives, Obscure and impressive melodic basement garage/psych excursion with a lo-fi atmosphere that would have most purveyors flip out, hits the Ampex two-track echo & tinny drum sound dead on. At times the vibe is almost like Mystery Meat or Index, and thats not something you run across every day. A totally outside garage/psych/private LP that feels as personally projected as those Michael Yonkers sides. Nuts lo-fi recording quality and impossible-to-figure production values gives this a nicely zonked almost real-people vibe. Keyboards, fuzz, heap of amateur avant spirit and a cover of "Norwegian Wood" that ranks up there as one of the few listenable Beatles covers ever cut by teens with brains. Weve also included Badges excellent 1978 five-track EP as bonus tracks. And since too far is never far enough for Lion Productions, weve also added an entire second disc of outtakes from the Kath recording sessions, plus other related home recordings. This 140-minute double disc set comes with twenty pages of extensive liner notes by Kath and Badge leader Val Rogolino, and a plethora of photos from his personal stash." - Lion Productions. |
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Artist: KAUFFMAN, NICOLAS & STEFAN NEVILLE Title: Owl Low Format: CDR Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "46+ minutes of acoustic guitar, bells, woodwinds, primitive percussion, patented PUMICE-style buzzing guitar, organ/keyboard, drone-vocals and more from Stefan Neville (aka PUMICE) and Nicolas Kauffman (part of FAMILY UNDERGROUND - Denmark) . recorded 2005 in a giant concrete room, this release is a fine companion to Stefan and Nicolas other recordings on various other labels such as Last Visible Dog, Soft Abuse, Audiobot, Chocolate Monk, QBICO, Into the Lunar Night). [packaged in hand-silkscreened cardboard cover in various colors]" - Carbon. |
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Artist: KAWABATA, MAKOTO Title: Under Your Moonshine Format: LP Label: QBICO Country: Italy Price: $25.00 |
| "Makoto Kawabata -- electric guitar (with no overdubbing) recorded around 2003/4. The last Makoto Kawabata release for Qbico! And strange enough, Makoto told me that this was his last solo guitar recording with no overdubs. He gave to me this special solo a while ago, maybe 2003/4. I waited for the right moment to release it, just before the closure of Qbico, it all started with him." -Qbico |
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Artist: KAWAGUCHI, MASAMI Title: Live 2000 Format: CDR Label: Purifiva Country: Japan Price: $14.00 |
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"His first solo album.Psychedelic folk using only telecaster and voice.Simple but Deep." - Purifiva. Numbered edition of 100 copies.
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Artist: KAWAGUCHI, MASAMI NEW ROCK SYNDICATE Title: Cat vs. Frog Format: LP Label: Palindrone Recordings Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
| "Kawaguchi Masami is a Japanese guitar monster who has done time in Miminokoto, LSD March, and Broomdusters, and played with Keiji Haino for a time. This, his new band, also features bassist Akira Kikuchi and drummer Nao Shibata (Hijokaidan, Doodles). A track by New Rock Syndicate featured on the recent PSF compilation Tokyo Flashback Vol. 6. The new album is called Cat vs. Frog and clocks in at around 40 mins. Its exceptional wailing, burning garage psych-rock grounded in Kawaguchis trademark heart-breakingly melancholic emotional intensity, instantly hummable, head-nodding toe-tapping riffs and melodies and unavoidably air guitaring white light, white heat guitar solos. Cat vs. Frog is pressed on white vinyl, in an edition of 500."- Palindrone. |
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Artist: KAWAGUCHI, MASAMI NEW ROCK SYNDICATE Title: Live In Japan 2007 Format: Cass Label: Sloow Tapes Country: Belgium Price: $12.00 |
| "Kawaguchi Masami (Miminokoto, LSD March, Broomdusters) returns with his New Rock Syndicate, recorded live in Tokyo. Monster guitarpsych feedback screech and heavy dosed garagerock insanity. 100 copies." - Sloow Tapes. 2008 release. |
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Artist: KAWAGUCHI, MASAMI NEW ROCK SYNDICATE Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Purifiva Country: Japan Price: $10.00 |
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"New Rock Syndicate wont be known -- yet -- by most, since its a brand-new unit. Leader and guitar monster Kawaguchi Masami, though, should be recognized from his work with Miminokoto, the aforementioned LSD March, and Broomdusters, among others. Not to mention his solo work. Having brought Miminokoto to an end, New Rock Syndicate rises, with bassist Akira Kikuchi and drummer Nao Shibata (Hijokaidan, Doodles) filling out the trio. A new self-titled CDR, from Kawaguchis Purifiva label, contains the first five songs from the band, and theyre monsters. The projects name doesnt lie: while there are slower, shadowy dreams, much of the disc is heavy riffage in a Blue Cheer-meets-Rallizes-cum-Nuggets-style fuzz zone. Nice work."
-Mason Jones,OngakuBlog,July 11, 2006.
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Artist: KAWAGUCHI, MASAMI NEW ROCK SYNDICATE Title: The Psychedelic Sounds of New Rock Syndicate Format: LP Label: 8MM Country: Italy Price: $27.00 |
| "The new decade begins with a groovy explosion of sound and colors: Ladies and Gentlemen, here comes The New Rock Syndicate. Band leader Kawaguchi Masami is a veteran of the Tokyo underground scene, being former Miminokoto, Broomdusters and LSD March member, both seminal projects in the development of a certain way to make rock, looking back at the tradition with a new approach, open to psychedelia, noise and free improvisation. As it happens, Masamis activities soon became the object of a passionate cult among music lovers and record collectors. The Psychedelic Sounds of the New Rock Syndicate is the definitive statement of Masami as songwriter and ferocious guitar player, finding in Kikuchi Akira (bass), Kiyasu (drums) and Hasegawa Yohei (guitar on Dazzling Light and (Theme From) New Rock Syndicate) the perfect partners in crime for this unbelievable new studio work. The album opens with an almost sabbattesque anthem (Why) where a heavy riffage is accompanied by lamentous vocals; second piece (Affected Dance) is a deconstructed blues jam, with a touch of narcoleptic magic and simply beautiful. Side b is where the miracle actually happens: every single track is a banger, a compendium of 50 years of rock music compressed in 18 minutes of fire on wax. Songs like Repetition or Tottemo have been rotating non stop here since when we got the master recording. Every other word is useless: a monument. First edition 250 copies, with spectacular artwork by Standard In-Fi Visuals." - 8MM. |
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Artist: KAWANI, HIROSHI Title: Flashback Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Hiroshi Kawani is a little known figure in the West, but he has been crucially central to the Tokyo avant-garde scene since the fifties as performer, commentator, theorist, organiser, and agitator. He was part of the sixties experimental art nexus that included Takehisa Kosugi and Yasunao Tone as well as radical artists like Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Genpei Akasegawa (in the greatest cause célèbre of the 60s Japanese art world, the latter was prosecuted by the Japanese state for creating one-sided simulacra of bank notes). Later, as an editor at publishers Gendai Shichosha Kawani was responsible for bringing out Japanese translations of work by Artaud, Bataille, Derrida and others -- works that galvanised a new generation of radicals. Kawani has been active as a solo voice performer since the early 80s, and though now in a wheelchair he still performs regularly. The private home recordings presented here have been unearthed by alto terrorist Masayoshi Urabe from a mountain of cassettes of unknown provenance, and would seem to date from around 1983. Theres the unmistakable feel of low-level mania throughout, as Kawani moans, jabbers and obsesses wordlessly into a microphone over an patterned tapestry of feedback and amped everyday objects (rubber bands, cans, bottles, knives, steel pipes, shoes, chopsticks etc). This touches on all kinds of synapse-warping art bases from Robert Ashley to the Nurse With Wound in a gloriously messy, unacademic (and yes, psychedelic) way." - Alan Cummings. |
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Artist: KÄLLARBARNEN Title: s/t Format: 12" Label: Nattmaran Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| "This feedback loving duo from Gothenburg did a fierceful opening in 2009 with their uncompromising cassette on Gothenburg Blood Cult, a recording drenched in feedback and abuse. On this recording Källarbarnen is moving towards a more minimalistic and atmospheric sound, a bleak and dreary journey into the realms of suffocating isolation. Recorded directly to tape in June 2009. 5 tracks in 24 minutes." - Nattmaran. |
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Artist: KEBAB Title: We Live In A System Format: LP Label: Softspot Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"SoftSpot has delved back into the post-punk archives and unearthed another virtually unheard gem. Our first full-length LP features the recordings of Kebab, a short-lived quartet of punk-minded Belgian youths. Inspired by the Crass Records DIY mentality, the burgeoning UK art-punk scene, and their own boredom, Kebab combined anti-political punk diatribes with sharp guitars, plodding basslines, synth gurgles, and spastic electronic percussion. The result is an aggressively sparse take on post-punk that remains fresh and visceral sounding today.
Side A compiles all their known studio recordings, including the sought-after "Life Its a Joke" 7" from 1982. Side B features select tracks from their original demo tape, recorded in 1981 and limited to only 30 copies. All tracks have been remastered from the best available sources, and are presented on black vinyl in a full-size poster package containing lyric sheet, rare photos, and a vintage interview with the band." - Softspot. Highly Recommended!
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Artist: KEBNEKAJSE Title: Idioten Format: LP Label: Subliminal Sounds Country: Sweden Price: $27.00 |
| "Limited edition of 500 copies. Kebnekajse takes folk rock to new heights on Idioten. Forty years after their debut, the Swedish 70s folk rock pioneers have gathered no moss. A short biography for new listeners: During the 1970s, Kebnekajse was known as Swedens highest band, pioneering and leading the Swedish instrumental psych/progressive groups. They electrified folk music and made six albums from their inception in 1971 to 1978, after which they split up. Kebnekajse reunited during the summer of 2001 and in the early spring of 2009, they released their critically-acclaimed comeback album Kebnekajse (SUBL 026CD/LP), filled with pure Swedish folk songs. Two years later, and proven by countless tours, they now present what is perhaps their strongest recording ever. On this album, Kebnekajse widens views and lets the folk music tone find new forms, free from any tightly-held reins. As the band themselves explain: "We wanted to give the folk music new feet. From the vast canon of ancient Swedish folk songs we wanted to highlight songs that stand out, rare songs that leave room for improvisation and debauchery in the spirit of the psychedelic 70s." With these resolutions, the band got into the studio (the same one used for recording Dungen) for three sessions of four days each, from May to September. The result was 10 new tracks. This is unlimited music where intricate melodies and distinctive rhythms take unexpected turns -- electrical and eclectic while unified in a dynamic drive. Kebnekajse have deepened their interplay in their last years of touring. On the initial track "Barfota" (trans. "Barefoot") the electric guitar and violin weaves melody over pulsating drums, percussion and double basses -- heavy and soft at the same time. "Fäbodpslam" (trans. "Mountain Shack Psalm") breathes beautiful melancholy before the great polska "From-Olle" (trans. "Pious-Olle") whips up a furious pace. "Hans & Greta" is tight like a music box in its melody interplay while "Senpolska" (trans. "Late Polska") from Hälsingland becomes a drawn-out, distorted drone piece ("like a grunt from the deepest of halls of the mountain king"). The musicians also break up the action with jam trips and let loose the love of their musical roots. The title track "Idioten" (trans. "The Fool") madly mixes a Hälsingland polska with hard progressive rock. "Stockholmpolka" has a snorting, country feel mixed with dream-like Afro-funk psych and an Alpine feel. The closing Norwegian "walking tune" "Sangenuten" (trans. "The Song Without") is connected with a long tail of psychedelia. With Idioten, Kebnekajse lifts Swedish folk rock to new heights and new psychedelic overtones." -Subliminal Sounds |
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Artist: KEBNEKAJSE Title: Idioten Format: CD Label: Subliminal Sounds Country: Sweden Price: $18.00 |
| "Kebnekajse takes folk rock to new heights on Idioten. Forty years after their debut, the Swedish 70s folk rock pioneers have gathered no moss. A short biography for new listeners: During the 1970s, Kebnekajse was known as Swedens highest band, pioneering and leading the Swedish instrumental psych/progressive groups. They electrified folk music and made six albums from their inception in 1971 to 1978, after which they split up. Kebnekajse reunited during the summer of 2001 and in the early spring of 2009, they released their critically-acclaimed comeback album Kebnekajse (SUBL 026CD/LP), filled with pure Swedish folk songs. Two years later, and proven by countless tours, they now present what is perhaps their strongest recording ever. On this album, Kebnekajse widens views and lets the folk music tone find new forms, free from any tightly-held reins. As the band themselves explain: "We wanted to give the folk music new feet. From the vast canon of ancient Swedish folk songs we wanted to highlight songs that stand out, rare songs that leave room for improvisation and debauchery in the spirit of the psychedelic 70s." With these resolutions, the band got into the studio (the same one used for recording Dungen) for three sessions of four days each, from May to September. The result was 10 new tracks. This is unlimited music where intricate melodies and distinctive rhythms take unexpected turns -- electrical and eclectic while unified in a dynamic drive. Kebnekajse have deepened their interplay in their last years of touring. On the initial track "Barfota" (trans. "Barefoot") the electric guitar and violin weaves melody over pulsating drums, percussion and double basses -- heavy and soft at the same time. "Fäbodpslam" (trans. "Mountain Shack Psalm") breathes beautiful melancholy before the great polska "From-Olle" (trans. "Pious-Olle") whips up a furious pace. "Hans & Greta" is tight like a music box in its melody interplay while "Senpolska" (trans. "Late Polska") from Hälsingland becomes a drawn-out, distorted drone piece ("like a grunt from the deepest of halls of the mountain king"). The musicians also break up the action with jam trips and let loose the love of their musical roots. The title track "Idioten" (trans. "The Fool") madly mixes a Hälsingland polska with hard progressive rock. "Stockholmpolka" has a snorting, country feel mixed with dream-like Afro-funk psych and an Alpine feel. The closing Norwegian "walking tune" "Sangenuten" (trans. "The Song Without") is connected with a long tail of psychedelia. With Idioten, Kebnekajse lifts Swedish folk rock to new heights and new psychedelic overtones." - Subliminal Sounds. |
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Artist: KEBNEKAJSE Title: Resa Mot Okänt Mål Format: CD Label: Silence Country: Sweden Price: $16.00 |
| "2013 repress. First ever reissue of the first three Kebnekajse albums on Silence. This debut album (the title translates to (Journey to Destination Unknown) was originally issued in 1971. Liner notes for these three are in Swedish only, but English translations can be found on http://www.silence.se/nyheter/english.htm. Kebnekajse were a loud and hard Swedish rock band. References abound from Cream, Mountain, November and even Jimi Hendrix in a perfect amalgam of British hard rock and psychedelia from the American west coast enhanced by cryptic Swedish lyrics. There is something unmistakably Swedish in Kenny Håkanssons way of handling his guitar -- something unspecified, a tone, a Nordic mood. Kebnekajse did not play electric blues, or have its roots in Afro-American music but was rather torn up and then replanted into the Swedish soil --just to see if it could grow and flourish. Their name is taken from Kebnekaise, the highest mountain in Sweden." -Silence. |
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Artist: KEEN, JEFF Title: Noise Art Format: CD Label: Trunk Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "An album of unreleased music made by Jeff Keen, one of the UKs great avant garde artists. This is music found on cassettes in his studio after his death. It was made by Jeff (throughout the 1980s) using field recordings from his local amusement arcade: radio, TV, films, an Atari, a ZX Spectrum, a delay unit and a WASP synth. This is the first Jeff Keen album ever issued. Jeff Keen is one of the great undiscovered artists of our times. A missing link between the Dadaists, Cocteau, Warhol, Picasso, Jack Kirby, and just about anyone else you can think of. Jeff made art every day of his life. Art seemed to explode from him, and he worked across all mediums with boundless creativity and very much his own style. He developed his own graphic, visual, and spoken art language. The BFI (British Film Institute) have issued a 4DVD set of his films. His collages and paintings are currently being exhibited in Brighton, New York, and Paris. The Tate has started buying his work. Hes now dead and his stock is quickly rising. The music on this release was made in and around the 1980s, using methods unique to him; in his ramshackle studio hed have a mic, a radio, an Atari, a ZX Spectrum, a WASP synth, effects units and his own very unusual mind. He mixes field recordings with his very own language ("Bltazwurds") and takes on the characters he developed over his artistic life. This is very much an art/music release. The sound is a little like the industrial albums made in the late 1970s and 1980s, intense, odd, other-worldly, unpredictable. Includes notes by Jonny Trunk, and an important essay by David Toop and recollections by Will Fowler of the BFI, who worked closely with Keen." - Trunk. |
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Artist: KEFFER, LESLIE Title: Feels Like Frenching Format: LP Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "When Leslie Keffer lived in Athens, Ohio she was asked about the noise scene there. Youre looking at it, she responded. Indeed. Leslie is one of the more fascinating proponents of homegrown Middle American noise music. A single girl drawn to the more ravaged and magical aspects of noise as source music, art and lifestyle. She has since moved to Nashville where she has been developing and progressing her personal take on what is basically a highly marginal genre of music. Leslies sound has been heard on various cassette labels (Rampart, Gameboy, I Just Live Here, Epicene, Cherried-out Merch) and most recently, her own imprint, Action Claw. She has issued a number of hand-made CDRs with her own touch of knitted fabric pouches. She has two tracks on the 2CD Tarantula Hill Benefit, one with Baltimores Nautical Almanac who have been championing Leslies work for years now. We are only too happy to release this premier full-length LP of Leslies demonstrating where shes been and where shes going." - Ecstatic Peace |
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Artist: KEFFER, LESLIE Title: Provocative Oral Mics Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"was trying to find title for keffer cd few weeks back.... hanging at skylab party where elusive DJ EURO was playing, emeralds crew + connolly + keffer in da house..... all night big john and keffer coming at it each other with weird sexual tension vibes, calling each other names and shit with big john getting a bit out of control.... dude starts rappin "your music just sounds like a skeezy 16 year old..." everyones jaws drop, but dude keeps going "not like i dont like it... it turns me on... but it sounds like a slutty 16 year old girl..... all those cute little toys you use.... and those provocative oral mics.... it really turns me on" (to which she responded "you sing like a girl with 2 boys")..... i cant say any sort of mics or noise toys have ever really turned me on, but maybe it will for you..... 2 live shows from tour with lambsbread in sept...... 1st is nj rager, keffer in awful mood all day... not talking to anyone.... plays killer 8 minute super loud oppressive set, in great mood after.... 2nd = weird stoned vibes in pvd..... edition of 60" - Maim & Disfigure.
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Artist: KEFFER, LESLIE Title: Whorney 4U Format: Cass Label: Tusco Embassy Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Edition of 60" -Tusco Embassy |
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Artist: KEFFER, LESLIE & VALERIE MARTINO Title: Prissywillow Format: 7" Label: Tusco Embassy Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "collaboration between the two coolest girls in nashville. two sides of the most warped and undanceable dance music. #1 party record of the year. spraypainted & screened covers" - Tusco Embassy. |
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Artist: KEFFER, LESLIE / ROBEDOOR Title: Split Format: LP Label: Lost Treasures Of The Underworld Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"The new Leslie Keffer / Robedoor split LPs are now available. I pressed 300 copies (100 orange/gold, 100 solid red, 100 black). Gold on Black Screen-printed covers by Skylab (artwork by Doug Johnston (skylab) and Nathan Bowers (Tusco Terror) . Insert by Zac Davis (Lambsbread)." - Lost Treasures of the Underworld
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Artist: KEFFER, LESLIE/INCA ORE Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Cherried-Out Merch Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"After I pitched the idea for this tape to Leslie + Eva and they agreed to do it, I felt weird and gay like "oh god, a chick split noise tape, dum", but when I got their masters they worked perfectly together. Nice raw gutter scrape from both. Edition of 100." - Cherried-Out Merch.
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Artist: KEFFER, LESLIE/OUTMODE Title: Split Format: LP Label: Tusco Embassy Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Leslies post-techno slow sparse slosh beat blended siren drone retake of 2010 INC set. Smooth mental transfers of white static energy melted with phases of reality. Outmode side is a triage of ideas seamlessly merged. Phantom underlay of doom beats evolve into throwback late 70S cold wave. Underground party realm finds dark bowie vox in a geode of vibrations. Hand screen printed edition of 260." - Tusco Embassy. |
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Artist: KEIJO Title: Flying Over Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "The godfather of the Finnish Underground is back with his most complete album to date. Keijo Virtanens far-reaching hands can be felt throughout the Nordic peninsula from his home in Jyväskylä. While he often performs in numerous groups such as The Free Players and Kheta Hotem, it is in his solo work that he is most accomplished. Virtanen is not just a talented and prolific musician, but also an artist and published author. His inspiration and creativity know no bounds. At 54 years-old, Virtanen still rides his motorcycle all over the country and shows no signs of letting up. Virtanen finally took his show on the road this past autumn, touring with members of Uton and Vapaa throughout Northern Europe. He also released two CDs on the much heralded Last Visible Dog imprint. Flying Over is the culmination of a landmark year for this troubadour. These nine tracks run the gambit of all of Keijos talents, from the rattling blues transgressions of On the Edge, to the throat singing-laced organic drone of Late Night Here & Far Away. Virtanens range is pure magic. While the bulk of Flying Over is entirely Virtanens creation, he is joined by two of his closest collaborators on two tracks: Sami Virtanen and Jussi Karsikas, two extremely talented Finns in their own right. Whatever the moment calls for, though, Virtanen fills the void and the empty space with exactly what is needed. He is a wizard of sound and a seemingly endless well of magnificent music. It shouldnt be surprising for someone who makes their home at the center of the universe." - Digitalis. |
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Artist: KEIJO Title: Palla, Blown From Here Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Keijo hails from Jyväskylä, Finland - a small town in the north that claims to be the center of the universe. In the sprawling Finnish underground, Keijo is the wise sage who everyone admires. In his 52 years, he has travelled the world twice and seen his share of turmoil. He was nearly killed in a motorcycle accident and still bears a metal plate in his skull as a constant reminder. But these experiences have been essential in shaping the sound world he constructs with his fingertips. After releasing a handful of small-run CD-R releases on labels such as Pseudoarcana, Lal Lal Lal, and Foxglove, Palla, Blown From Here sees Keijo finally getting the larger audience he deserves. He has worked and collaborated with Finnish acts such as Vapaa, Avarus, and Kheta Hotem. This CD, limited to 500 copies, sees Keijo taking a more solemn path, reflecting on the quiet moments nature brings. These nine songs showcase Keijos array of talents, including his impressive throat-singing abilities. Palla, Blown From Here is the aural transition of summer into autumn. Over the course of this album, Keijos soft acoustic compositions flow from him like prose from a poets pen. The beauty this music exudes is a testament to his life and his work. This is Keijos world and we are just living in it. Packaged in beautiful imported paper in slip case." - Digitalis. |
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Artist: KEIJO Title: Soon With The Sun Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
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Artist: KEIJO Title: Unfolding Emptiness/ Decomposing Dawn and Dew Format: Double CDR Label: Pseudoarcana Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
| " Celebrating PseudoArcanas 50th release is a new double album by Finlands Keijo Virtanen. Keijos cdr on LalLalLal last year was one of my favourites of the year, and "Unfolding Emptiness" follows on from where that one left off. Keijo uses harmonic singing, home-made 2 string, chimes, electronics and maultrommel to create a hyper-atmospheric soundworld that somehow manages to convince one that Mt Kailash is perhaps actually in the middle of a forest in Finland, rather than in Central Asia... "Decomposing Dawn and Dew" is, if anything, even better! On this disk Keijo is joined by Juri Joensuu and Sami Virtanen. Where the 1st disk celebrates the chaos of eccentric juxtaposition, the 2nd focusses more resolutely upon the drone itself. All packaged in a fancy gatefold sleeve with art work by Keijo." - Pseudoarcana. |
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Artist: KEIJO Title: Whose Dream We Live In? Format: CD Label: Fire Museum Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Finlands master of psychfolkdroneblues music emerges with what may well be his most engaging release yet! Considered by many to be the forefather of the much lauded Finnish musical underground, Whose Dream We Live In? serves as Keijos sonic calling card -- bringing together many of the diverse elements that his music has been celebrated for into a joyous whole. From blues (by way of Jyväskylä) meditations to spaceship lullabies to psychedelic rave ups and beyond, Keijo has opened the door into his musical universe for all to enter. Dont miss your chance, accept his invitation or its your loss, friend. For the most part a solo outing (although he is assisted by Leila on four of the eleven tracks here) Whose Dream We Live In? assuredly answers the question it poses. For the duration of the disc, enjoy living in the dream that Keijo has conjured up for you. We will not be held liable if, upon awakening, your world never looks the same again." - Fire Museum. |
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Artist: KEINMENSCH! Title: Keinmensch! Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $23.00 |
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"the 1st LP by KeinMenscH! (WSDP 112), is out now: 15 Tracks with finest German new-wave synth stuff originally recorded in 1982. Featuring the classic KeinMensch!/Süchtig-7"." - Was Soll Das? Platten.
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Artist: KEITH, RODD Title: My Pipe Yellow Dream Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Song Poems Wanted" read the ads. "We need new ideas for recording!" The send-us-your-lyrics business was a borderline scam, taking whatever lyrics came their way from would-be songwriters and – for a fee – setting them to music. None of the results ever came close to being a hit, and to be sure, the vast majority was sufficiently bland or clumsy to insure no great karmic loss in their instant obscurity and miniscule press runs. But Rodd Keith – the late, great genius whose prolific output was almost completely confined to the song-poem industry – had a knack for turning sows ears into silk purses. The nature of the business required him to work quickly, with no second takes, and his skill at writing and arranging on the fly was not unlike that of a master improviser. When at his best, he put his unique musical stamp on some lucky customers submission. My Pipe Yellow Dream is the second Roaratorio anthology of the highlights of Rodd Keiths work. Compiling fifteen previously unreissued songs from 1966 through his death in 1974 – including a never-before-heard cover of "Choo Choo Train" – My Pipe Yellow Dream showcases the full range of his talents. From exquisite mid-60s pop balladry ("Deep Velvet") to blue-eyed soul ("You Dont Have To Alibi") to folk-rock ("Tired Of Waiting") to solo Chamberlain creations ("Red Sports Car") to gospel testifying ("O Jesus My Savior") to a pair of patriotic screeds (the all-spoken word "America The Not So Beautiful" and the bizarre-world lounge funk of "Search Out Your Soul, American"), this collection continues the rehabilitation of Rodd Keiths recorded legacy from thrift-shop throwaway to celebrated cult artist. A limited edition LP in a gorgeous gatefold jacket, with artwork by Josh Journey-Heinz and liner notes from song-poem vocalist Dick Kent." -Roaratorio. |
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Artist: KELDAY, PAUL Title: Beyond The Perimeters Format: Cass Label: Integrated Circuit Country: UK Price: $8.50 |
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"analog electronic recordings from July - August 83. cover by Jonathan Coleclough. Kelday was a common name on compilations of the early 80s including "The Elephant Table Album", "New Babel", "Journey to the End of the Night", "Sudden Departure", "Slaughter of the Innocent", and "Integration", although never had any full length releases outside of obscure cassettes like this one on Colin Potters label." - Eric Lanzillotta.
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Artist: KELDAY, PAUL Title: Centuries Format: Cass Label: Integrated Circuit Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
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"an hour of untitled analog synthesizer tracks on the border between cosmic electronics and the stark textures of early industrial music."
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Artist: KELDAY, PAUL Title: Computer Dream Format: 7" Label: Borft Country: Sweden Price: $7.00 |
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Keldays been making experimental electronic music since the 70s and has had releases on Colin Potters ICR label. This single was released in 1992 in a numbered edition of 200 copies. "analog sounds from space..." - Borft.
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Artist: KELDAY, PAUL Title: Eschatus Format: Cass Label: Integrated Circuit Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
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"perhaps more tense and aggressive than some of his others works, these two long pieces of analog electronics (from 1981-82) nonetheless retain his signature psychedelic feel. silly cover, but nice music." - Anomalous.
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Artist: KELDAY, PAUL Title: Odznsodz Format: Cass Label: Borft Country: Sweden Price: $6.50 |
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Keldays been making experimental electronic music since 70s and has had releases on Colin Potters ICR label. This cassette was released in 1992 but features tracks from 80 - 85. "analog sounds from space..." - Borft.
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Artist: KELDAY, PAUL Title: One Dimensional Format: LP Label: Borft/UFO Mungo Country: Sweden Price: $20.00 |
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Kelday was on many important early 80s experimental comps like "The Elephant Table Album", "New Babel", "Journey to the End of the Night", "Sudden Departure", "Slaughter of the Innocent", etc.. and had cassette releases on Colin Potters Integrated Circuits label. "Tracks are choosen from a period mostely recorded in 1985 but even as late as 1990. Some of the tracks has been available on tapes and compilations but even some exclusive material appears on this album. The sound is as usual with Paul Kelday very dark analog synth music, spaced out and psychedelic atmosphear. The Lp is limited to 300 copys." - UFO Mungo.
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Artist: KELDAY, PAUL Title: Worlds Apart Format: Cass Label: Integrated Circuit Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
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"Very intense, dark electronics. Amongst the best non-melodic electronic music being produced in this country at this moment." - Colin Potter. Cover by Jonathan Coleclough.
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Artist: KELLEY, GREG Title: 1 Hour As Something That Didnt Turn Out The Way I Intended It Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| ⿿Another exercise in failure. Spring 2003: With assistance from Vic Rawlings, I fill my room at Club Awesome in Somerville MA w/ electric keyboards, synth, a small organ and set them all for drone. A radio plays static. Record to MD, output MD through my stereo for low feedback. An electric fan is aimed at the microphone for the distorted vintage 78 effect (rpm, not the year). Vic bowed a single cello note at some point and a cymbal was scraped. The intent: record in mono for 2 hours, communicate with the dead. After 1 hour, I couldnt take it any more. My intended "Two hours as..." is now "One hour as..." I fussed over it for a while. Its kind of boring. I like boring, but... Late Winter 2004: I must do something with this recording. I decide to look backwards into the archives... January 8, 2000: I send out a call to arms: Meet me at Twisted Village Records, Cambridge MA at 8pm. Its Scelsis birthday and we will play a memorial drone for him. The call was met by Oliver Alden, Mike Bullock, James Baumgartner, Seth Cluett, James Coleman, David Dougan, David Gross, Tatsuya Nakatani, Howard Stelzer, Bhob Rainey, Vic Rawlings. Some automatic instruments played themselves. Others may have been there, but I dont remember. And you cant really hear them anyway. Back to Late Winter 2004: I record a new track onto my 4 track in my bedroom in Allston MA. Trumpet and radio static. (DJ Screws ghost inhabited my 4 track near the end of this track.) Then I record a burning guitar solo for the end of my new and improved "One hour as..." The mono drone, the Scelsi tribute band, the trumpet/radio track and the HOTT guitar track are all mixed down from 4 track to MD under the influence of Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout. A vocal intro and headphone feedback interruptions are then added. The task is complete. Its a bloodbath. What have I done? |
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Artist: KELLEY, GREG Title: I Dont Want To Live Forever Format: CD Label: Little Enjoyer Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "As a veteran of the Massachusetts experimental music community and Minister of Fanfares for the Kingdom of Elgaland-Vargaland, Greg Kelley is well known in his capacity as a trumpeter, with consideration to his input into such diverse ensembles as nmperign, The BSC, Heathen Shame, Cold Bleak Heat, and Damon & Naomi. Kelleys interests, however, span all varieties of sound arrangement, and on "I dont want to live forever" he shows his considerable merits as a composer of solo musique concrete. A co-release between Gameboy and the newly formed Little Enjoyer, this is Kelleys third solo release. For this recording he takes as source material recordings from minidisc and microcassette made during a tour with Mike Bullock and edits them into a single 35+ minute composition. The results are unlike anything Kelley has done before: rigorous, methodical tape-collage, in turns pensive and aggressive, brittle and supple. The record becomes a revolving exploration of a set of atmospherics, rigidly set into a rusty frame of tape-hiss, fragments emerging from the dreams of a long convalescence. Kelley openly acknowledges his musical reference points in the liner notes, but those citations serve only to make more unfamiliar what is already strangely shaped. Not one that assimilates easily to categories, its as uneasy as a pederast at a PTA meeting. Crucial stuff." - Little Enjoyer. Mastered by Jason Lescalleet, with liner notes by Oliver Alden and Leif Elggren. |
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Artist: KELLEY, GREG Title: Religious Electronics Format: LP Label: No Fun Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Two sides of melting electronics from Greg. This is not Jazz." - No Fun. Limited to 350 copies. |
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Artist: KELLEY, GREG Title: Self-Hate Index Format: CD Label: Semata Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: KELLEY, GREG Title: The Peeled Ones I-III Format: Double CDR Label: Fargone Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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�??Almost two years ago, improv trumpeter Greg Kelley released a pair of anonymous CD-Rs under the moniker the Peeled Ones. He made a webpage, sent out press releases, and received NO orders for the debut albums from this previously unknown and mysterious group. The discs, which almost nobody heard at the time, were wildly different from Gregs usual work: one disc of melancholic synth meanderings (I) and one disc of shredding guitar overload (II). This year, the Peeled Ones saga came full circle when Greg decided to record a third installment, returning to his synthesizer for a gorgeous and incredibly realized improvisation. This lavish package includes "reissues" of the two original, ultra-obscure Peeled Ones albums on the first disc, and Gregs fantastic new recording on the second disc. Each disc comes in its own cardboard slipcase with individual artwork (featuring creepy photos selected by Greg) and the whole thing fits in an oversized box along with an essay by Mr. Kelley himself and more haunted pictures. Greg Kelley fans, this is not to be missed; this box is a different and unexpected side to one of modern improvs most versatile and consistently rewarding musicians. LIMITED TO 120 COPIES.�?� -Fargone.
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Artist: KELLEY, GREG Title: The Traditions Of The Past Cannot Be Retrieved Format: CDR Label: 8MM Country: Italy Price: $9.00 |
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"The traditions of the past cannot be retrieved is a collection of five solo works Greg Kelley (known for his work in Nmperign, Heathen Shame, Cold Bleak Heat) recorded from 1997 to 2005 with his 4 track recorder. For those familar with his previous releases, here youll find some of those elements that make Greg a personal, surprising voice as a musique concrete composer: drones, loops, sonic detritus and short gaps of silence alternated with magnificent abrasive moments. The first 4 tracks are a real peach in this sense. The last track 4 Piezos is a 31 minute monolith which works as a second chapter for the whole album: a long, huge piece for(percussion/trumpet/electronix?) collapsing in a shocking finale. Totally amazing.
CDR released in an edition of 205 copies." - 8MM.
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Artist: KELLEY, GREG & ALEX NEILSON Title: Graveside Doles Format: LP Label: Ultra Eczema Country: Belgium Price: $24.00 |
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"two of the most intense young "free" dudes from different parts of the globe (kelley from boston, neilson from leeds) unite for this completely weird record, taking free music to a different level, recorded on top of eachother via mail. this sounds like moving the heaviest metal closet on a little rubber boat from brighton to the east coast of the united states, kicking off with a heavy free jazzy tune full of retarded trumpets stuffed with little babies screaming for a change slightly changing into ice cold acoustic metal scraping ambience. tons of different sounds to discover and very unclear whether they came out of a trumpet, a drumset, a mouth or a whale.
comes in a black and silver fine line drawn cover by dennis tyfus
limited to 400 copies"- Ultra Eczema.
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Artist: KELLEY, GREG & ALEX NEILSON Title: Passport to Satori Format: LP Label: Golden Lab Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
| "Fuckin fuck fuck fantastic duo LP by trumpet mangler maestro Greg Kelley and Scottish drum freak Alex Neilson called Passport To Satori (Golden Lab Records). Just kills. First side is straight up awesome lips on brass spoot ‘n spit tone with sweet tap tap. Side two is more manic, more off the fucking wall with Kelley sending air sound through sickened pedal puh while who one of these drunk fucks starts whooshing some kind of synth hell—really great improvisation and it takes you straight to that Satori joint (or whatever that place is) where blowjobs are as good as free jazz." - Thurston Moore & Byron Coley, Bull Tongue. 2009 release. |
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Artist: KELLEY, MIKE Title: Silver Ball (Light and Color, Mostly) Format: LP Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"One channel from the eight channel audio sculpture Silver Ball (1994) mixed with an ambient recording of the work in exhibition at the Rooseum, Malmo Sweden, 1997. Mixed by Mike Kelley and Scott Benzel, Compound Annex Studio, Los Angeles, 2003." - Table Of The Elements.
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Alkuhärkä Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "After recovering from a long illness I started searching through the shores and woods. I finally managed to locate Mr. Anderzén in the middle of an arctic desert. He sat there cross legged, eyes closed, calm as if on top of a mountain or in the bottom of the sea. No trees nor any other objects apart from ourselves interrupted the plain white landscape. Sun dragged itself slowly over the horizon. The air was still. My retreat will soon be over. His husky voice seemed to emerge from the field of snow itself. I didnt see his lips moving. As I asked about the last nine months he had been away he mumbled something about contemplation. Remember what Cocteau wrote in Opium about revealing the essence of plants? - I have gained sights of that different kind of speed of vegetation and I have heard the screams of plants he talked about. After six long days of silence spent mostly eating drought reindeers meat Mr A. talked again: I had this strangest of dreams. There was no space, no people, no traces of action, just this plasmoid machine out of which erupted sounds. And then as I was receiving those aural secretions of an ultra physical automaton from the seventh uppermost world, I woke up due to a butterfly itching in my ear. There I was all covered with sweat, heart beating furiously, yet the ear was empty. It took a long time to be able to sleep after that night. Heed my words dear friends; that butterfly preserved to the ears of ours which werent there is Alkuhärkä." - Ralf Normaali. Highly recommended! |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Alkuhärkä Format: LP Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $24.50 |
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"Ed. of 400 copies on 220 gm vinyl. KYs medieval ministrations make the Weird America movement seem like a furry load of Clay Aikens. This latest opus plots out like a secret musical map through a Bosch painting. It is not a horror show by any means. It is the sound of losing time and of losing bearings. A microverse full of familiar landmarks, populated by improbably strange shapes and beings. This could be Heaven; this could be Hell. Who are we to say which is weirder? What if Ilhan Mimaroglu traveled with Chaucer? What if Parmegianni was in the David Monroe Consort? What if In Gowan Ring got busy with Volcano The Bear? KYs psychedelic fusion of folk and musique concrete could almost be a sketch of the birth of music itself." - Beta-Lactam Ring.
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Kellari Juniversumi Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "Many are the rumors that revolve round the Tamperean tribe called Kemialliset Ystävät (Chemical Friends), regarding for instance the recipe for their brand of magic potion and their ethnic background. Contradicting the common beliefs, this group, which is now, depending on how you count, releasing its first or tenth album, does not consist of elves, gnomes or some lesser known folk of the forest, but is mainly the product of one human risen from the rotten ditch of Nekala (a Tampere suburb). With his vast set of allies he has by the power of his spirit carved a whole multitude of caves into the cellar of an otherwise unsuspect looking house. From that Cellar Yuniversum (a rough translation of the discs name) originates this record, which I myself regard rather as the first, as its many predecessors have been either halves of a long player, virtually unobtainable or partial rereleases. Now, at last, as we venture deeper into the cellar than ever before, we see the aforementioned elves and gnomes in their festivities, as the urbanization process has cut down the Tampere backwoods and has thus forced them to flee into the caves of Kemialliset Ystävät, who naturally are in good terms with all tiny earthlings with pointed ears. (Allow me to return to the subject magic potion: Ive heard that in order to compensate the Lebensraum, the forest tribes have provided for Kemialliset Ystävät an unlimited supply of bottled fairys pee, which is the strongest nordic hallucinogen known to man. Whether it ends up being sold at schoolyards and potato markets or to inspire this music, to that information Ive got no access.) By the time one has sunk deep enough into the world of the record, it isnt any more a question of seeing, but knowing in the sense of Platos anamnesis, re-remembering. The same bearded chap, the Fostex left to the cave by higher powers and a varied selection of nearly broken instruments guarantee that this certainly psychedelic avant folk which stutters just as much as it should makes me remember myself once more at the mountains, naked, as the only human in the whole world. Alone, but still in unity with the world. A mysteriously long trip across the stars too, and the smell of a Lettish fish factory and, yes, the Cellar Yuniversum is foggy." - Fonal. |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Kellari Juniversumi Format: LP Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
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""At last, a chemical spill good enough to eat. KEMIALLISET YST�?V�?T ("Chemical Friends") have previously spread their royal jelly in small doses with a number of micro-pressings. KY, besides being, like, totally rad, are one the best working proponents of acid folk today. The band display a natural knack for creating organic and moving musics out of what could by all rights be a pile of instrumental compost. Their sensibilities can be traced to classic forebears such as Emtidi, Comus, Broeselmaschine etc., while their skewed and rather awkward sense of harmony also owes some small debt to The Residents, mid-period Nocturnal Emmissions (World Is My Womb) and Makers Of The Dead Travel Fast. Medieval meets Appalachan mountain music whilst still reeling from the effects of that strange moldy bread."
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Kemialliset Ysavat Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.50 |
| "Please receive this carefully cooked porridge, the new untitled Kemialliset Ystävät full length album. Pulsating, radiant and turbo-charged, this music shares the groove of a junk pile AND a wild foal. It comes with the lovely smell of the chemical they spray on apple trees. Its a highly ambitious effort originally planned to become a defying message in a bottle, limited edition of one, addressed to the Man. Kemialliset Ystävät has been rocking out for some time now and there is no end in sight. Without all the experiments of the past, this record would not exist while theres still plenty of fresh perspective in the mix, too. Listen to Roope drum his belly, Laura play tambura and Jaakko go berserk on a Chinese flute. Listen carefully. Lots of energy went into the mixing: a million voices from friends are twisted into one hypnotic over-the-top sound textile that vibrates and grows to every direction resembling a living organism, a merry beast. Give it a hug and you will gain power, it is like shooting up echinacea. Wrap it around you and tune in to the blizzard. Sit down and blast as loud as possible!" -Fonal Records |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Kemialliset Ysävät Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "This is the fourth full-length album by Kemialliset Ystävät on the Fonal label, originally released in 2007. Pulsating, radiant and turbo-charged, this music shares the groove of a junk pile AND a wild foal. It comes with the lovely smell of the chemical they spray on apple trees. Its a highly ambitious effort originally planned to become a defiant message in a bottle, limited edition of one, addressed to the Man. Kemialliset Ystävät has been rocking out for some time now and there is no end in sight. Without all the experiments of the past, this record would not exist, and theres still plenty of fresh perspective in the mix, too. Listen to Roope drum his belly, Laura play tambura and Jaakko go berserk on a Chinese flute. Lots of energy went into the mixing: a million voices from friends are twisted into one hypnotic, over-the-top sound textile that vibrates and grows in every direction, resembling a living organism, a merry beast. Give it a hug and you will gain power -- it is like shooting up echinacea. Wrap it around you and tune in to the blizzard. Sit down and blast as loud as possible." -Fonal |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Latvasta Laho Format: CD Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $14.00 |
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"Goodness gracious. Them freaky Finns that got the whole Finnish thing a-rollin, roll on in with this warm pool of clatter-bash, strum-n-clunk, and electro-forest ya-ya. There aint many acts sharp enough to go whittlin with this gang and Latvasta Laho (literally rotten in the head) shows just why you shouldnt go foolin with what you dont know nuthin about. Monophonic wood goblins wiggle trees and a retarded werewolf banjo orchestra leaves cute piles of stones outside your tent. Comes complete with fleeting hip-hop stomp-a-tronics, and freefallin spookified blast-athons... huh?. Quite possibly the most fascinating/frightening night of 2005. Cuppa tea anyone?" - C/Psi/P.
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Lumottu Karkkipurkki (Vapaa Systeemi) Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "Originally Lumottu Karkkipurkki was released on cassette on Huutomerkki label, re-released on double 8 inch lathe cut on the Celebrate Psi Phenomenom label. Now finally available on CD remastered and remixed." - Fonal. |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Saija Format: 7" Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Taju Live Format: Cass Label: POK Country: Finland Price: $8.50 |
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"Have you ever wondered what would happen if the
incestuous beasts known as Kemialliset Ystävät
would
go and improvise in Hyvinkää, the town known for
the
pyramid and satanic ritual slaughter??? We think
you
should. The blood stained are: Jan Anderzén,
Niko-Matti Ahti, Tomas Regan, Merja Kokkonen and
Sami
Sänpäkkilä. 4-colour sleeves." - Pok.
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Ullakkopalo Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "LP version with full-color printed innersleeve and 24-page CD booklet. Includes MP3 download coupon. This is the first release from Finlands Kemialliset Ystävät since 2007. Kemialliset Ystävät equals Jan Anderzén. He is one of the few Finnish musicians to have achieved renown in the international experimental circuit. In the case of Anderzén -- who also plies a trade as a visual artist -- this is not a matter of juxtaposition between experimental and mainstream, or a calculated career choice. Using music and images, he is busy creating a world that is a law unto itself, a world of exceptional freedom and beauty. Earlier KY albums have been peppered with contributions by individuals such as Islaja, the members of Avarus and Sami Sänpäkkilä. It is not easy to distinguish who plays what on Kemialliset Ystävät recordings. Rather than a side project consisting of solo parts, the band is an ecosystem within Anderzéns reality. One of the essential techniques applied by Anderzén is collage, in sound as well as image. He is no conventional instrumental virtuoso; his music is created with a fluctuating array of instruments and equipment. The focus is less on instrumental prowess and more on the overall sound and impression as well as the tension between the various materials. As a manipulator of these elements, Anderzén is in a league of his own. His sampler-based solo performances as Tomutonttu have left no doubt about that. A close listening of Anderzéns music reveals its near-architectonic precision. He is known for an exceptionally painstaking approach to creating his music. All this hard work is readily evident in the finished product, not as an accentuated complexity but rather as a clear, independent vision. Kemialliset Ystävät is like a natural phenomenon. It is difficult to imagine anyone having consciously constructed it, such is the ease with which it presents itself to us. To be in the presence of Anderzéns work is captivating in the same way, simple yet inexplicable, as it is to stare into fire. It truly takes a master to create such an experience, but listening to this Kemialliset Ystävät album evokes just that: a feeling of lightness." -Fonal |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Ullakkopalo Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "This is the first release from Finlands Kemialliset Ystävät since 2007. Kemialliset Ystävät equals Jan Anderzén. He is one of the few Finnish musicians to have achieved renown in the international experimental circuit. In the case of Anderzén -- who also plies a trade as a visual artist -- this is not a matter of juxtaposition between experimental and mainstream, or a calculated career choice. Using music and images, he is busy creating a world that is a law unto itself, a world of exceptional freedom and beauty. Earlier KY albums have been peppered with contributions by individuals such as Islaja, the members of Avarus and Sami Sänpäkkilä. It is not easy to distinguish who plays what on Kemialliset Ystävät recordings. Rather than a side project consisting of solo parts, the band is an ecosystem within Anderzéns reality. One of the essential techniques applied by Anderzén is collage, in sound as well as image. He is no conventional instrumental virtuoso; his music is created with a fluctuating array of instruments and equipment. The focus is less on instrumental prowess and more on the overall sound and impression as well as the tension between the various materials. As a manipulator of these elements, Anderzén is in a league of his own. His sampler-based solo performances as Tomutonttu have left no doubt about that. A close listening of Anderzéns music reveals its near-architectonic precision. He is known for an exceptionally painstaking approach to creating his music. All this hard work is readily evident in the finished product, not as an accentuated complexity but rather as a clear, independent vision. Kemialliset Ystävät is like a natural phenomenon. It is difficult to imagine anyone having consciously constructed it, such is the ease with which it presents itself to us. To be in the presence of Anderzéns work is captivating in the same way, simple yet inexplicable, as it is to stare into fire. It truly takes a master to create such an experience, but listening to this Kemialliset Ystävät album evokes just that: a feeling of lightness." -Fonal |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Varisevien Tanssi/Silmujen Marssi Format: LP Label: Kevyt Nostalgia Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
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"Another great release from Kemialliset Ystavat after such mind-blowing works like Suurempi Pieni Palatsi and Kellari Juniversumi. Originally Varisevien tanssi(side A) was released by Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers(2001), but it was VERY limited edition. Silmujen marssi(side B) was released by Lal Lal Lal(cdr edition of 100 copies, 2002) but it«s sold out also. Now, first time
ever, this two-parted, ass-kicking folk-masterpiece is availeble on VINYL with totaly new covers drawn by the chemical master, Jan Anderzen himself!" - Kevyt Nostalgia.
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT/SUNROOF! Title: Split Series #19 Format: LP Label: Fat Cat Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
| "The 19th installment in FatCats acclaimed split series features Finnish noise/folk collective Kemialliset Ystavat and Sunroof!, the current project from Skulllflowers Matthew Bower." - Fat Cat. Comes in a hole-punctured outer sleeve with glossy innersleeve. |
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Artist: KENICHI, KANAZAWA Title: Fragments of Sound Format: CD Label: Aomori Contemporary Art Centre Country: Japan Price: $35.00 |
| "Sculptor Kenichi Kanazawas new CD was out now! This is a live recording during exhibition at Aomori Art Center in 2005. Sketched performance (not percussive) makes graceful resonance in the large space. "-Aomori Contemporary Art Centre |
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Artist: KENICHI, KANAZAWA Title: To Strike the Iron/Fragments Of Sound Format: CD Label: Niitsu Art Forum Country: Japan Price: $40.00 |
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"Kenichi Kanazawa is a sculptor (born in Tokyo, 1956) uses cut and cracked
iron plates mainly. He often performs during his exhibitions, the sounds of
plates striked by sticks and scrubbed by rubber balls are very static and
spacy like Harry Bertoia.
All tracks in this first released CD was performed by artist and
percussionist Sachiko Nagata.
with 34pp full color booklet (texts in Japanese)." - Niitsu Art Forum.
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Artist: KENNEY & EYVIND KANG, JESSIKA Title: Aestaurium Format: LP Label: Ideologic Organ Country: France Price: $20.00 |
| "Jessika Kenney is a vocalist known for her haunting timbral sense, as well as her profound interpretation of vocal traditions. Eyvind Kang is a violist for whom the act of music and learning is a spiritual discipline. Aestuarium is a meditation on a psalm of lamentation and the unary tone in the metaphor of salt and fresh water, inspired by Gaelic psalmery, Tibetan notational gestures, and the microtonality of the tetrachord. Recorded on the shore of Colvos Passage in 2005 by renowned engineer Mell Dettmer. Stephen OMalley comments: "Amongst many other amazing pieces Jessika & Eyvind collaborated on SUNN O)))s Monoliths & Dimensions album, Jessika leading the choir on the piece "Big Church" and Eyvind composing the acoustic arrangements for "Big Church" & "Alice." I learned an immense amount about music through these collaborations, specifically the idea of Spectral music through research and discussion/reference points of composers such as Grisey and Murail. Aestuarium is a beautiful piece of minimalist spectral music which has brought great pleasure to my ears over the years." Originally released on CD by Endless Records in 2005. Ideologic Organ curation and art direction by Stephen OMalley, manufactured and distributed by Editions Mego." -Ideologic Organ |
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Artist: KENNEY & EYVIND KANG, JESSIKA Title: The Face of the Earth Format: LP Label: Ideologic Organ Country: France Price: $21.00 |
 "The second beautiful album by the duo of Jessika Kenney -- a vocalist known for her haunting timbral sense, as well as her profound interpretation of Persian vocal traditions -- and Eyvind Kang -- a violist for whom the act of music and learning is a spiritual discipline. All tracks were composed by Kenney (voice, percussion, electronics) and Kang (viola, setar, electronics)." -Ideologic Organ.
"The Central Javanese Wangsalan is a kind of riddle (two lines, twelve syllables each, divided 4 and 8 ), sung by the female vocalist on the gamelan, often using images of natural phenomena alongside descriptions of human characteristics, invoking atmospheres of primordial knowledge, humor, heightened sensation, philosophy, with much hidden wordplay and reference." - J. Kenney. "Tavaf" is based on a ghazal by twelfth century Persian Sufi poet Attar (12th c.). Vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin October 2012.
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Artist: KENNEY, STEVE Title: Live Lex Format: LP Label: Nostilevo Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "hand-numbered edition of 149 copies, debut LP from Isis & Werewolves/Galen/Pterodactyls/Demons alumni Steve Kenney a.k.a. Smoke Dogg. as a founding member of Demons, Steve has become greater recognized over the past few years for his dirty synth and tape delay performance style exclusive to his own. his limited output began with a C30 for Nurse Etiquette in 2009, followed by various collaborations with Chris Pottinger, Heath Moerland (together as Slither), & Andrew Coltrane, + a myriad of limited cassette titles. "Live Lex" is his first piece of vinyl, and additionally, "Live Lex" is also one of the least pretty & welcoming synth records I have ever heard. a record that is clearly intended for a dark nite, from what maybe was a dark nite. brings to mind select works of Maurizio Bianchi, Franciso Lopez, & Asmus Tietchens, however this record does not mimic; Steves sound is one of his own. very stark, yet without a limited scope; exceptionally full synth accents through an extremely dense fog clatter; that of the pro-one death sound. Here, listen to Steve find true uncharted darkness within his vices." - Nostilevo. |
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Artist: KERKAR, KESARBAI Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "One of the greatest Indian classical vocalists of all time. Kesarbia Kerkar rose up from the bottom of the cast system in India to become one of the countries most respected vocalists. These recordings from 1947 through 1953 are beautiful ragas not to be missed. First LP issue of her material available in the US; a real treasure for fans of our Abdul Karim Khan and Pandit Pran Nath releases. Beautiful, detailed liner notes by Ian Nagoski complete with photographs and sacred Tantra art. Old school tip on cover. A co-release with Canary records." -Mississippi. |
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Artist: KESEY & THE MERRY PRANKSTERS, KEN Title: The Acid Test Format: LP Label: Sound City Country: Spain Price: $31.00 |
| "As essential a piece of 60s counterculture as youre ever going to find on vinyl, as stated in the Acid Archives book by author Patrick Lundborg. This legendary document, recorded in January 1966 in San Francisco, depicts the early scene of what would become the psychedelic epicenter of the world, in this Acid Test staged by psych-godfather Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, with the Grateful Dead playing somewhere in the background. This is as close to 1966 San Francisco you will ever get, if youve ever regretted not having been there -- or if you were and dont remember. Reissue of the mega-rare original private press artifact, which recently pulled over $2000 in an online auction. Limited to 500 copies." -Sound City. |
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Artist: KESZLER, ELI Title: Catching Net Format: Double CD Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "PAN presents a 2CD set from experimental composer/artist/multi-instrumentalist Eli Keszler. The first disc features two ensemble versions of Cold Pin (PAN 021LP), previously released in a 2011 LP of the same title on PAN, plus a 26-minute, previously-unreleased live ensemble recording (mixed sextet and piano quintet; these are captured in contrasting acoustical spaces). The personnel for all three tracks is Eli Keszler (drums, percussion, crotales, guitar); Ashley Paul (alto saxophone, bass harp); Geoff Mullen (prepared guitar); Greg Kelley (trumpet); Reuben Son (bassoon) and Benny Nelson (cello). The second disc begins with the title-track, "Catching Net," a 17-minute score for string quartet and piano with the "Cold Pin" installation. It is performed by pianist Sakiko Mori and the Providence String Quartet: Carole Bestvater (violin); Rachel Panitch (violin); Chloë Kline (viola); Laura Cetilia (cello). The score is fully notated, timed with stopwatch markings rather than tempo or meter. Following are two recordings of Keszlers large-scale installations functioning on their own. "Collecting Basin" features piano strings/wires up to 250 feet long splayed from a two-story water tower in Shreveport, Louisiana, across two large, empty water purification basins, which acted as an amplifier for the sounds produced by the installation. A "solo" version of "Cold Pin" (without live performers) concludes the album. Tracks 1 and 3 on the first disc and track 2 on the second disc were recorded at the historic Cyclorama, a massive dome at the Boston Center for the Arts. "Cold Pin" was installed directly on a large curved wall in the dome, using micro-controlled motors and beaters to strike extended strings ranging in length from three to 25 feet. The 2CD is mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk, in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. It is packaged in a pro-press digisleeve jacket which itself is housed in a silk screened PVC sleeve with extensive images from the installations, program notes, sketches of the installations, scores, electronic schematics from the projects, and accompanying drawings and artwork by Eli Keszler and Bill Kouligas." - Pan. |
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Artist: KESZLER, ELI Title: Cold Pin Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "Over two years in the making, Cold Pin is the new full-length record by Eli Keszler. Both a composition and stand-alone installation, 14 strings ranging in length from 25 to 3 feet are strung across a 15x40 curved wall, with motors attacking the strings, connected by microcontrollers, pick-ups and RCA cables. Recorded in Bostons historic Cyclorama, a massive dome built to house the Cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg painting in 1884. The B-side features, in addition, a "dry" version of the installation with motor attacks on metal squares rather than strings, creating dense percussive clusters. Cold Pin works within the frame work of left-to-right time and vertical structure. The installation acts as the architecture of the music, surrounding and immersing the live instruments into incredible density and sharp, angular mass shapes, and functions alone as the performers stop. Rather than an individual sound, the sustained horns, strings, drums and metallic attacks function as a singular unit, and continue, too, when they stop alongside the installation. Cold Pin features Eli Keszler (drums, crotales installation and guitar), Geoff Mullen (guitar), Ashley Paul (clarinet, guitar, greenbox), Greg Kelley (trumpet), Reuben Son (bassoon) and Benjamin Nelson (cello). Eli Keszler is a composer, artist and multi-instrumentalist based in New York City. In performance, he often plays drums, bowed crotales and guitar in conjunction with his installations. In his ensemble compositions, he uses extended strings, motors, crotales, horns and mechanical devices to create his sound, balancing intense harmonic formations with acoustic sustain, fast, jarring rhythm, mechanical propulsion, dense textures and detailed visual presentations. He has most recently won the Mata composers competition for the 2012 season. Eli Keszler is a graduate of the New England Conservatory in Boston where he studied with Anthony Coleman and Ran Blake. Limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140 gram vinyl housed in a silk screened PVC sleeve. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering." -Pan |
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Artist: KESZLER, ELI Title: Livingston Format: LP Label: Rare Youth Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Debut LP by drummer/multi-instrumentalist Eli Keszler. A distinct composition in four parts, Livingston is a brooding and dark meditation for drums, crotales, guitar, clarinet, bowed percussion, Fender Rhodes, nail violin, and tapes. This is a rare kind of solo record, in that Elis obvious instrumental virtuosity is tempered with a refined sense of composition and emotional space. You dont get the sense that this is the work of a single musician. Furious outbursts of raw percussive energy are kept in check by floating, distended melodies, and moments of silence are interrupted by the jarring clarity of high-pitched bells being bowed at close intervals. At times sounding like an Indonesian gamelan being put through the wringer, and at others like the massive drone of an aeolian harp being played by the wind -- Livingston effectively combines the influences of composers like Giacinto Scelsi and Iannis Xenakis with the improvisational energy and atmosphere of an artist like Keiji Haino. Clocking it at just over 23 minutes, this is a potent piece of music and an auspicious debut by a very talented young artist. Limited edition of 300, with hand-screened covers. Definitely recommended to fans of Mirror, Organum, ESPdisk, nmperign, Jandek, Evan Parker and Paul Lytton, Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, Phil Niblock, etc." -Rare Youth
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Artist: KESZLER, ELI Title: Oxtirn Format: LP Label: ESP-Disk Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Oxtirn is a truly unique and powerful blend of free energy, modern composition and mechanical music that defies genre. With two proper full lengths, and an array of self-releases under his belt, Eli Keszler has turned to ESP-Disk for the release of Oxtirn, his third, most composed and large scale effort to date. Oxtirn captures Keszler and crew at their most frenetic, and abruptly spills out into a cacophony of tuned brass, squeaking rust, and electrically shorting contact mics, taking the detritus of post-industrial existence (sheet metal, spring boards and motors wrenched from their initial hearths) and transforming that refuse into a twenty-first century musique-concrete orchestra. On the albums initial track, motors tumble across prepared sheets of metal as expertly placed squalls of bowed string and what could only be described as the sounds of a phantom brass band (courtesy of multiple horn player Andrew Fenlon and Keszlers longstanding partner Ashley Paul on clarinet) mesh transcendentally with Keszlers precise percussion and bursts of controlled chaos. Side B sees Eli and sonic artist Sakiko Mori on both prepared and installed pianos; as the two furiously scrape and agitate strings with a mix of switch-operated motors, contact mics and suspended preparations, slowly undulating resonant clusters float on top of the underlying din, creating a striking contrast. Here, the eerie timbre of Keszlers bowed crotales recall Italian futurist Luigi Russolos Intonarumori, and the string quartets of Dumitrescu. The vinyl is limited to 300 copies and comes packaged with a beautiful, hand-screened poster featuring original artwork by Eli Keszler." -ESP-Disk |
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Artist: KESZLER, ELI/ASHLEY PAUL Title: Aster Format: LP Label: Rel Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Aster is the debut LP release by the duo of Ashley Paul and Eli Keszler. Having spent the last 3 years performing all over the northeast, they have developed a unique sound, combining the piercing high pitched resonance of Keszlers bowed crotales and cymbals with altissimo sustains and drastic pitch bends of Pauls alto saxophone and clarinet. The split tone combinations from these instruments is surprising and overwhelming, creating continuous, multi-layered, dense, shifting harmonics and intense inner-ear sound. Spinning discs, invented resonating metal configurations, bending reed tones, and voice interference carefully blend, creating a wild texture that is both harsh and striking . This is contrasted with Pauls guttural string attacks, which meet the rapid-fire movement of Keszlers low end bowed cymbals and jittery crash. This is a live document recorded to 4 track, with no sound modification. This LP is the first official release in a planned series of releases by this long standing duo. Pressed on 160 gram copper plate pressed virgin vinyl with a black inner sleeve, the LP is housed in a textured paper cover that features a layered screen printed drawing. The inside contains grey pasted notes with an attached 8" x 25" 3 part multi-tone picture which has been printed across a fold-out frosted vellum book. All of this has been screen printed, drawn, and then hand assembled by Keszler and Paul. The record comes in a limited hand numbered edition of 300 copies." - Rel. |
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Artist: KESZLER, ELI/KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN Title: Split Format: LP Label: NNA Tapes Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "NNA is very excited to announce a split LP between world-renowned electronic music composer Keith Fullerton Whitman and multi-instrumentalist composer Eli Keszler. This LP is a conversation in sound between two prominent artists, one working in the electronic realm (Whitman), and the other in the world of live acoustics (Keszler). In fact, Whitmans piece was inspired and created as a direct response to Keszlers signature frenzied percussion style. Both sides of the record are full of incredibly detailed nuance-driven music. These artists work with sound on the microscopic level, deliberately placing each individual molecule of sound in its intended location. Whitmans piece Occlusion is automated machine music warfare, utilizing rhythm as a textural tool, while Keszler uses live percussion, bowed metal, and other acoustics to act as a humanized response to Whitmans machine-regulated assault, solidifying this record as a fantastic document of human vs. machine call and response. Original artwork by Eli Keszler." |
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Artist: KETAMINES Title: Line By Line Format: 7" Label: Hozac Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "How Calgary, Albertas KETAMINES can create such warming, vibrant sounds in the great white north is still confusing our team of scientists, but the three raw and sunny-sounding blasts of pop on this debut EP will surely have your chest pounding with excitement, and Im not even a doctor. Formed from the ashes of the revered MYELIN SHEATHS and ENDAGERED APE, and current Fist City and Mammoth Cave Recordings figureheads, Ketamines are truly the Calgary super group you need to hear. Its a rush of swirling pop psychedelia that doesnt veer too far off the deep end, and ropes you into a technicolor world conjuring visions of the UFO Club, cross-wired with luxuriously textured Simply Saucer vibes, all crushed comfortably around teetering lysergic pop song structures. Whether its the metronomically phased choruses and flanged nuances that shift effortlessly between the inescapable hooks, or the eerily cheerful songs you simply cant shake out of your head for days, the Ketamines debut EP is everything you wouldnt think theyd be based on their moniker alone. They still harness the hazy, confident stride of the dazed legends that came before them, and their psychedelic pop should carry them straight into the arms of todays most jaded with ease. First edition of 500 copies." -Hozac |
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Artist: KEY Title: Birch Skeletons, Skin Lanterns & Lake Of Stars Format: 3x10" Box Set Label: Handmade Birds Country: USA Price: $46.00 |
| "The vision of Kaarna of Somnivore and Rauta of CoO, this box set delivers the three demo cassettes that have been long sold out, on a trilogy of 10" vinyl records. Along with CoO, few have been able to present the clear evidence of a shift in the musical paradigm like these masters from Finland. The 3x10" records each in their own sleeves, each in their own color, and packaged in a box with foil stamping on the outside. Designed by Kaarna himself." - Handmade Birds. |
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Artist: KEY OF SHAME Title: s/t Format: Double LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $34.00 |
| "Key Of Shame is the most extreme entity to come out from two cult collectives of the New York underground, or No Neck Blues Band and Sightings. PLANAM proudly presents their first recordings, four threnodies for Judas Iscariota as performer by Mark Morgan (Sightings) and Pat Murano (NNCK, Decimus). Jesus answered and said You will become the thirteenth, and you will be cursed by the other generations - and you will come to rule over them. In the last days they will curse your ascen... Atmospheric radical electronics at their highest peak. Hand stenciled and silkscreened edition of 270 double-LPs released by PLANAM. And Jesus replied Friend, Do what you came for Matthew, 26:50." - Planam. |
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Artist: KEY OF SHAME Title: Threnody for Marcus Junius Brutus Format: LP Label: Holidays Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Atmospheric radical electronics at their highest peak. Key of Shame is the creature born from the collaboration of Mark Morgan (Sightings) and Pat Murano (No Neck Blues Band, Decimus, Malkuth, K. Salvatore) revealing the black side of psychedelics. This session has been recorded live in the WFMU Studio (engineered by Glenn Luttman) edited by Pat Murano and mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. A journey through industrial minimalism evolving from bubbling metal drones into indecipherable structures of subliminal details. A perfect companion to their stunning double LP recently released by Planam. At word of your treachery, the head of Pompey is wracked with tears. The work of an unlucky XIII undone. 200 copies on black." -Holidays |
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Artist: KHAN, ABDUL KARIM Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Compilation of 78s by the master of Indian classical vocal music. First U.S release dedicated to his work. Heavy & spiritual austere performances of 10 ragas. Not easy listening by any means but ultimately very rewarding. Comes in an old school tip on cover. Includes a 12 page booklet with many archival photographs & notes by Ian Nagoski." -Mississippi
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Artist: KHAN, USTAD ABDUL KARIM Title: 1934-1935 Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "More than seventy years since his death in 1937, Ustad Abdul Karim Khan retains his reputation as one of the greatest singers India ever produced. Possessed of an elastic, honed voice that poured out like mercury, he influenced generations of singers including Mohammed Rafi, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, and Pandit Pran Nath. Born at the end of the 19th century to a family of musicians that extended back in time for centuries, his art was formed in the culture of the courts of the maharajas under British colonialism but was changed by his genius and imagination and a life marked by sacrifices for love, unsatisfied ambition, abandonment and heartbreak. These performances were culled from sessions made during his peak final years 1934-1935, newly transferred and restored and with extensive notes by Ian Nagoski." -Important |
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Artist: KHAN, USTAD HAFIZULLAH Title: Khalifa Kirana Gharana-Sarangi Format: CD Label: Just Dreams Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"RE-RELEASE from the Just Dreams label--a true CD, not CD-R. First recording released by the late Sarangi Master,Khalifa and son of Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan of the Kirana Gharana. Exquisite intonation, pure tone, graceful command of the bow, effortless speed over the complete range of three octaves." - Just Dreams. "Tradition, love and devotion-a beacon of the Kirana Gharana in our time." --La Monte Young. 2000 release on La Monte Young and Marian Zazeelas label.
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Artist: KHORSHID, OMAR Title: Guitar El Chark (Guitar Of The Orient) Format: Double CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Double CD reissue of the out-of-print vinyl edition. With an additional ten bonus tracks and a 14-page booklet in a tri-fold digipak. The late Omar Khorshid remains an iconic legend of the Arab world, though hes received criminally little international acclaim. Born in Cairo in 1945, the glittering age of Egypts cultural reinvention, Khorshid was soon to become one of its luminaries and most well-known, if short-lived, voices. He is regarded as the greatest guitarist the Arab world has ever known. By the mid-60s, Khorshid was established with his group Le Petit Chats, an Egyptian beat group modeled after the prevailing influence of Elvis and The Beatles. It was at this time that one of the reigning figures of contemporary Arabic music, Abdel Halim Hafez, asked Omar Khorshid to join his orchestra. With Baligh Hamdi composing, Hafez with Khorshid in place would create some of the most innovative modern sounds in the Arabic musical canon. Time with the Hafez orchestra offered Khorshid instant fame, and it wasnt long before he was asked to play with the queen of Arab music, the voice of Egypt herself, Oum Kalthoum. Over the next few years, Khorshid became a well-established and integral part of the Arab musical landscape. He was featured heavily in live concerts, national TV and radio and studio recordings, playing for the leading artists of the day. The guitar had now become an essential ingredient in the Oriental orchestra. Khorshid began recording albums under his own name for the prestigious Lebanese record labels Voice Of The Orient and Voice Of Lebanon. Working with visionary engineer Nabil Moumtaz at Polysound studios in Beirut, Khorshid would take his music into some of the most progressive musical terrain of its time. The tracks included here in this retrospective are from the prolific span of Khorshids career in Beirut from 1973 to 1977. The venerable Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish best encapsulated this time in Lebanon: "unfortunately, it was paradise." Khorshids prolific instrumental music enjoyed recognition that transcended class and status during the brief period he shone. Its a testament to his immense talent and some of the finest guitar music the world has ever heard." -Sublime Frequencies. |
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Artist: KHOURY, MIKE/ANDREW COLTRANE Title: Sound Vibration Alchemy Format: Cass Label: Hermitage Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "part#1 mail collaboration tape=violin drones/improv/bowed metals: sounds of strange strings amped thru 1000 basements...B&W art blk. cassette shells w/ gold paint......" - Hermitage. |
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Artist: KID ROMANCE Title: Attack Time! Format: Cass Label: Skrotup Country: Denmark Price: $7.00 |
| "Schizoid doesnt really cover the approach of this young Boston band, which seems equally confident with spurts of dissonant confetti punk, arabesque shoegaze bliss and the droney banging of shiny trash can lids. Attack Time! is the follow up to Kid Romances Captured Tracks 7 debut, which came out in 2009, and if anybody felt puzzled upon listening to that, this one will most likely leave you itching and pulling your hair out at first. But, dont worry. Once you discover that there are actual songs and genuine hooks buried underneath the mountain of genre debris theyre rummaging through, theres no way back and youll find yourself thoroughly seduced by their probing and sassy approach to song sculpting. Edition of 100 incl. proof of purchase and fold out, full-color j-card." - Skrotup. |
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Artist: KID ROMANCE Title: Fuck Punx Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Two ultra-shambolic, lo-fi cuts from fresh-faced Massachusetts maniacs. This is the good stuff-dropouts, tape hiss, bad attitude and catchy songs. Packaged in an oversized envelope (a la Mayfair Set) with one of three Polaroid reproductions affixed to the front. Deluxe packaging at an economy price." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: KIILA Title: Silmät sulkaset Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $15.00 |
| "The music of Kiila has undergone something of a metamorphosis during the past three years. On the new album Silmät sulkaset, the band gently conjures up mildly otherworldly tunes with a peaceful air and feathered eyes. What was once free pop played by two is now free folk played by seven. The language of the songs has reverted back to Finnish, and the human voices rest on a warm texture of sounds from an array of acoustic and electronic instruments. Carefully arranged songs alternate with those improvised on the spot, all bearing the mark of a handcrafted article. Much has happened since Kiilas 2001 album Heartcore, then. The band spent nearly two years feeling for a direction and, once confident enough, completed Silmät sulkaset in less than a year (apart from the improvised piece Kiviä ja taivasta which dates further back to a wintry evening in Ulvila). The change in direction can be partly explained by the addition of new members. In the course of three years, five of our friends became bandmates. Juho Kaitajärvi, Markus Mäki, Laura Naukkarinen, Juri Puhakka and Sami Rouhento all brought many influences with them; thanks to their contributions, the new album is the fruit of a collective effort above all. The established yet highly flexible line-up has encouraged Kiila to play out considerably more often than in the past. Our area of operation has also extended well beyond our native shores: in March 2003, Kiila appeared live in Sweden, Denmark and Belgium as well as Finland. We slept little and drove lots, played some nice venues and met the nicest of people. In October, we celebrated the tenth anniversary of Kiila by recording a session for VPRO Radio and appearing at a soirée held by the station in Amsterdam alongside three notable American acts. Silmät sulkaset is jointly released by Fonal Records and K-RAA-K3. Later this spring, Fonal Records will also be releasing a collection of Kiila music videos on limited edition VHS. Contemporaries-VHS features eleven directors presenting their visual impressions of songs on Heartcore and the Free Will is Hard to Kill ep. Some of the videos have been shown in Europe and South America before. In early March, two Kiila videos were featured in the music video screenings at Tampere Film Festival. In 2004, we look forward to travelling around, making new friends, playing lots of music and having fun together while doing it. Chances are our next album will not take as long to appear as this one did. ⿿ Give them our fastest steeds!" - Niko-Matti Ahti and Sami Sänpäkkilä. 2004 release. |
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Artist: KIILA Title: Tuota Tuota Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "LP version. This is the third full-length album by Finlands Kiila. Born of peaceful, focused work and intense rehearsals with friends, interspersed with sleep and meal-times, Tuota Tuota ("Well, Well") features an eight-strong core line-up -- but, as always, the composition of the group varies according to need. This is an album that consists of many details: the sound is full, the web of acoustic and electric instruments more varied and carefully orchestrated than before, and now, it is completely unnecessary to separate the electronic from the non-electronic components. Different traditions of folk, psych and pop music intermingle with electronic music and improvisation, tones and sounds. From Incredible String Band-ish folk-troubadour jams to gentle acoustic fireside ballads rendered in plucked guitar and scratchy fiddle lines ala Vetiver or Espers, to freakier space-jazz meanderings, this albums ultimate reward lies in its commitment to solid, glorious song-structure rooted in a long-established folk-rock tradition. The motifs in the songs are not easy to convey in English, but the titles reveal some clues: master of the house, elk antlers, tree bark, sound of rapids, fog, letters, calves, fingers. The words sound archaic, anachronistic or timeless, the language of myth, even -- but can it be something else, too? Tuota Tuota is an excellent culmination of Kiilas history and cultural landscape, proving them to be among Finlands finest founders of the new-growth forest sound." -Fonal |
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Artist: KILGOUR, DAVID Title: Here Come The Cars Format: LP Label: De Stijl Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "A year after the Cleans reunion LP Vehicle (also their first proper album ever) put them back on the international-pop radar in 1990, guitarist David Kilgour retreated with his new Revox tape machine (which hed been singing about rapturously in his side-project Stephen and elsewhere: Have you seen my new tape machine?!) and cut his first solo album, Here Come The Cars, issued by Flying Nun in 1991. From the jarring cover image of David through to the last note, Here Come The Cars is a special pop album, even on a label that had no shortage of them. A sparkling gem cloaked in achingly atmospheric production (courtesy of Nick Roughan), Here Come The Cars has haunted us since its release -- its just one of those albums that exists outside of time, the opening chords of the title track never fail to draw you out of the world youre in and into its own magical space. The album was remastered and rereleased on CD by Flying Nun in 2004, but has never before been on vinyl -- which De Stijl is happy to rectify here in 2012." - De Stijl. Includes mp3 download. |
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Artist: KILGOUR, DAVID Title: I Caught You Lookin/Way Down Here Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Kilgour, David Country: New Zealand Price: $25.00 |
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Artist: KILGOUR, DAVID Title: I Lost My Name/Instru Two Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Kilgour, David Country: New Zealand Price: $25.00 |
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Way out of print lathe cut from one third of the Clean. Numbered edition of 75 from 1997.
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Artist: KILL DEVIL HILL Title: Ex-Kill Devil Hill Format: One Sided 7" & CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: KILLING FLOOR Title: Out Of Uranus Format: LP Label: Sommer Country: Spain Price: $27.00 |
| "The second and best of the albums released by this British group, originally on Larry Pages Penny Farthing label in 1970. The impressive opening track "Out Of Uranus" kicks off this great album, filled with acid-rock and blues-rock with an aggressive production and in-your-face guitar riffs all over. Also features a couple tracks more into psych-pop, all pretty well-executed. Fully licensed, 180 gram vinyl with mastertape sound quality. Housed in the original gatefold cover artwork. Limited edition of 500 copies." -Sommer |
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Artist: KIMIMIMIZU/HARUTAKA MOCHIZUKI Title: Shizuoka Live Format: 7" Label: Fuzainoisu Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
| "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. Kikimimizu is solo voice/acoustic guitar, very much in the ORG records vein. Packaged in a screenprinted cardboard box with string and button closure, with several inserts. Numbered to 100 copies. |
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Artist: KINDEST LINES Title: Covered In Dust Format: LP Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Covered in Dust the debut LP from Louisianas Kindest Lines, opens suitably with a beat that sounds a lot like like an industrial rendition of The Ronettes Be My Baby. Brian Wilson cited that song by the legendary New York girl group as the greatest pop recording ever, and many refer to it as the perfect example of Phil Spectors "wall of sound" production. Those artists established many of the templates for how modern music is made, but what still stands out is the sense of that music having been simply dreamed-up. With organic washes of layered melodic guitars and lush songcraft, this New Orleans-based trio is definitely doing some dreaming of their own. Kindest Lines are blazing a unique path into an enchanting realm of darkened electronic indie pop that is at once welcoming and foreboding. Just as Phil Spector clearly had his demons, and just as post-Katrina New Orleans in the wake of the BP environmental disaster has become as much an emblem of loss and destruction as of Mardi Gras festiveness and upbeat jazz, the tension between dancey jubilance and the cold heart of darkness lurks in each song. Lead singer Brittany Terry expertly navigates the listener through these terrains with a voice thats never so cold as to sound detached, and yet never saccharine. Her sultry earnestness effortlessly compliments primary songwriter Jack Champagnes moody, punchy compositions while her diary-like lyrics and unassuming delivery invite the listener into her charmed universe. The title of the albums second track sums it up: Destructive Paths to Live Happily. Its music by and for people who are neither committed to sullen defeat nor blind optimism, but rather for those that tend toward the kind of affirmative, outsider attitude that refuses to take either side and instead finds a way to embrace the ways in which the two coexist. As Running Into Next Year commences with its aggressive dance beat and ominous minor key synth melodies, the lyrics take an unexpected turn: its a song about the possibility of being happy in love. Colored though the scene may be by neurotic overthinking and booze-induced confusion, its an honest portrait of those most elusive pangs of longing that mean so much precisely because of the way that doubt interjects itself. Tracks like Record Party and Prom Song cement those themes as they play out like bittersweet, nostalgic audio snapshots. Produced by cerebral electro-experimentalists Alfredo Nogueira and Josh Eustis of Telefon Tel Aviv, yet brimming with spacey guitar work and hooks aplenty, Covered in Dust is a record that thrives on harmonious disparities while maintaining all of its thematic and sonic cohesion. The Ronettes pined, "Oh wont you please be my baby." Updated by Terry? "Psychotic outbursts in the name of love, always wanting." When you get down to the bleeding heart of the matter, its kind of all along the same lines." -Wierd |
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Artist: KINDEST LINES Title: Destructive Paths To Live Happily Format: 7" Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "The lead single from Kindest Lines forthcoming debut LP, Destructive Paths to Live Happily, is nothing short of a small Southern miracle. This New Orleans trio knows exactly how to craft a dancefloor anthem, and this track announces their darkly elegant arrival into the Wierd Records family with thumping rhythms, seductive vocals and chiming dream pop guitars. The b-side, Colors Treasured, adopts a slightly more abstract and apocalyptic industrial approach before opening up into a lilting, almost hopeful refrain." -Wierd |
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Artist: KING & BROWN SIERRA, ANDREW Title: The Kraken Format: LP Label: Dais Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Andrew King, along with collaborators Brown Sierra, send forth a follow-up EP to last years folk diamond Thalassocracy. The Kraken sounds like a traditional maritime shanty ripped from historys pages, laced with experimental beauty, electronic hisses, and static. Andrews own background as one of the primary members of Sol Invictus (alongside Tony Wakeford) and The Triple Tree mixed with his studies of ancient English folklore forged with Brown Sierras epic electronic noise instrumentation make this release one to be anticipated and easily one of the most remembered folk recordings of the past year. Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. With insert." -Dais |
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Artist: KING BLOOD Title: Eyewash Silver Format: LP Label: Ignorant Gore Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Little anonymous fuzz guitar rudiment blowdown from ex-Snake Apartment guitarist Ryland Wharton (also the man behind the excellent Skulltones and Twonicorn labels). As King Blood, he lays down eight instrumental four-trackers rendered over a three-year period, nothing but guitar, bass and cymbal to keep time, and in that space the artist gets real, with simple themes repeated in a noisy, low-rent, yet meditative space. For as thick as these vibes get, the music itself is not necessarily aggressive, which is why these big, billowing songs sound gentle and bluesy and introspective, even in the overblown treatment most of them receive. Early Wooden Shjips or the Purling Hiss LP (and above all, Les Rallizes Denudes) would be good signposts for this album, but without the obvious psych moves like wah-solos and acid burn motifs, or the heavy drumming to keep time; King Blood wants to get you down by volume, and in that it is a drifting, uncompromising, diffuse and very loud success. 100 copies for this world, in paste-on sleeves – a few contain a silkscreened design on Stonehenge paper that was allegedly runoff from a gallery exhibition held earlier this summer. Those are signed and numbered as well. (availability? ask the angels…)" -Doug Mosurock. 1 per person.
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Artist: KING BLOOD Title: Eyewash Silver Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "In late 2010 a record came out of nowhere and blew our minds. That record was Eyewash Silver by King Blood. Unfortunately, it was issued in a limited edition of 100 copies and it disappeared faster than a fugitive at a busted up coke party. Eyewash Silver is an incredible, dumbed-down, shit-fi, riff-drenched instrumental psych record that will KILL fans of Wooden Shjips/Les Rallizes Denudes. This limited reissue contains the same astounding sounds as the original pressing, but the artwork has been glorified. Each one of these 300 copies was lovingly hand-assembled, diligently hand-numbered, and carefully handled by Permanent staffers." -Permanent |
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Artist: KING BLOOD Title: Vengeance, Man Format: LP Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"Second offering from KING BLOOD & its a motherfucker. Throbbing, claustrophobic, triumphant, room shaking, and chiming electric guitar worship. The type of record thatll lodge into your head & reduce your mind to a luminous toxic jelly. Enters the static void alongside Earth, Skullflower, & Les Rallizes Denudes. 320 copies." - Richie. On KING BLOODs debut Eyewash Silver, Marc Masters at Pitchfork: "There are at least two ways to look at a guitar riff-- as a building block for a song, or as an end in itself. Ryland Wharton, aka King Blood, has taken the latter viewpoint to a mesmerizing extreme. � he treats fuzzy guitar riffs not simply as ends, but as mantras to be chanted and monuments to be worshiped. Each track offers one simple figure devoutly repeated, as if musical nirvana is always just one more riff away.... The album drips with overload, creating a raw, gut-level immediacy. The idea behind each song is delivered unwashed and unrefined. In that sense, Eyewash Silver reminds me of Neil Young, particularly his solo guitar soundtrack to Jim Jarmuschs 1995 existential western Dead Man. Whartons songs arent nearly as sparse or forlorn as Youngs score, but both share a near-anthropological fascination with the primal force of repeated notes. (Besides, the swinging hooks of "Poison in Jest" and "Sinfull Woman" sound extracted and extended from Crazy Horse tunes). Youll hear other reference points throughout Eyewash Silver-- the noisy wash of Japanese bands like Fushitsusha and Les Rallizes Denudes, the motor-garage of Wooden Shjips, and, on the near-perfect "End of a Primitive", the classic amp-melt of great Velvet Underground bootlegs. But I keep coming back to Young and his exploratory wanderings, a standard to which Wharton measures up well." |
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Artist: KING DARVES Title: The Sun Splits For .. The Blind Swimmer Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "So i would imagine that youd have one look at the photo of King Darves we have here and think "Oh brother! Another guy with a beard getting over what looks like a bad case of the clap and an acoustic guitar. Wheres my axe?" so were not gonna put it up here. (Mystique, dig?) But its really not like that, i tell you! The bedrock of King Darves New Brunswick based concoction is certainly folk based but theres no headband and hes not singing of pixies in the moss. This is somewhere between rolled cigs and the foggy vision of Big Pink from somewhere on Jersey Avenue, or maybe a one-manned Meat Puppets. This kid has really cobbled something together in his kitchen sink! The Sun Splits For ... The Blind Swimmer will shock and please when the prettiest sound of his deep, rich voice comes out of yr headphones, and itll make you tap yr toes and nod yr head like a little Jersey Goil." - Tony Rettman. |
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Artist: KING DARVES Title: The Sun Splits For... The Blind Swimmer Format: CD Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "So I would imagine that youd have one look at the photo of King Darves we have here and think oh brother! Another guy with a beard getting over what looks like a bad case of the clap and an acoustic guitar. Wheres my axe? So were not gonna put it up here. (Mystique, dig?) But its really not like that, I tell you! The bedrock of King Darves New Brunswick-based concoction is certainly folk-based but theres no headband and hes not singing of pixies in the moss. This is somewhere between rolled cigs and the foggy vision of Big Pink from somewhere on Jersey Avenue, or maybe a one-manned Meat Puppets. This kid has really cobbled something together in his kitchen sink! The Sun Splits For... The Blind Swimmer will shock and please when the prettiest sound of his deep, rich voice comes out of yr headphones, and itll make you tap yr toes and nod yr head like a little Jersey Goil." --Tony Rettman |
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Artist: KING DUDE Title: Burning Daylight Format: LP Label: Dais Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Last years release of King Dudes debut full-length masterpiece, Love, saw a beautiful vision of what was in store for the future…and that future is now. Dais is humbled and proud to be working again with Mr. Cowgill to bring forth Burning Daylight, the newest edition to the King Dude canon. Coal dust spirituals mined from the haunting backwoods landscape of the Pacific Northwest. Stories of the constant struggle of mans turbulent affair with his Lord and the Devil. Burning Daylight produces a maturity and direction that in unparalleled…showing us the word, the way and the light. Released as a limited edition vinyl LP in old-style foil embossed jackets with exclusive artwork by T.J. Cowgill." - Dais.
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Artist: KING DUDE Title: Love Format: LP Label: Dais Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Dark pagan-fueled folk wrapped tight with outsider Americana, steeped in themes of love, death and redemption. …an atmosphere filled with hope and salvation, drawing sound influence akin to Death In June & Sol Invictus but sewing together a hybrid of true folk tradition alongside Woody Guthrie and Johnny Cash. Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. Records come in thick die-cut cardstock sleeves revealing beautiful inner sleeve printed artwork beneath. Designed & conceived by T.J. Cowgill." - Dais.
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Artist: KING DUDE Title: You Can Break My Heart Format: 7" Label: Dais Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "KING DUDE returns hot of the heels of his prolific debut album Love, giving listeners a preview of two new tracks poetically titled You Can Break My Heart (which will be featured on his upcoming full-length Burning Daylight on Dais Records this summer). An exclusive unreleased b-side of "Devils Tail" wraps up the old world backyard gospel that King Dude has cemented himself in over the past year. Serves tribute to both sides of the coin, both sides work equally, paying service to the ones well never understand. Complemented with reverent artwork by TJ COWGILL. Limited to 500 copies." -Dais. |
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Artist: KING GEORGE DISCOVERY Title: Peace of Mind Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $44.00 |
| "King George Discovery Peace Of Mind was recorded in Sweden in 1968 with the US musician King George Clemens on guitar & vocals. A close friendship to Jimi Hendrix, who toured also Sweden in 1968, dropped many tracks from the release plan when the band was recording an album which also came out that year. All tracks who where competing with the music of Jimi Hendrix was not released, until now. A collector from England found the unknown tracks who were pressed only as a demo LP for the band. What a great find. Some tracks where placed on YouTube and collectors where starting raving about this album. It is so good, the guitar work is amazing, as psychedelic as it can get. We could release this album in cooperation with King George Clemens and we are proud to have this treasure released on vinyl. Its just great! One of the most important release this year for sure! Numbered edition of 500 copies in a heavy sleeve; 180 gram pressing; includes double-sided insert." -Shadoks. |
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Artist: KING TUFF Title: Mindblow Format: CDR Label: Spirit Of Orr Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Before there was a FEATHERS, or a WITCH, Kyle would play around town with various friends, and most times just at home in his basement room behind a hole in a wall. He would also draw pictures, lots of pictures. The MINDBLOW record was first laid on us early in 2003, and it was a monster collection of original power pop recorded for maximum love. At the time though, there were pictures to be drawn.. .and he laid the covers for a few record covers on us, and also completed a book of his art and exhibited it with the amazing LITTLE CAKES GALLERY in NYC, as well as here in his hometown. Then the FEATHERS project started to take root, and this record somehow got lost in all of the shuffle. Now here it is, MINDBLOW, as a limited to 100 CDr, a way to get it to some folks, and also to warn people of the upcoming KING TUFF TOUR this fall. The fun has just begun." - Spirit of Orr.
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Artist: KING TUFF Title: Was Dead Format: CDR Label: Vegetable Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Last month we offered up a re-issue (now out of print) of KING TUFF
recordings from a few years back. Sine that time, a newly recorded
collection of old songs, a tour, and the next phase of King Tuff are
under way." - Vegetable.
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Artist: KING TUFF Title: Was Dead Format: Cass Label: Burger Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "KING TUFF is the brainchild of KYLE THOMAS (WITCH, FEATHERS) . This is a most pleasing daydream of a record, one that straddles the line between partying and napping. Its the sound of one mans honest and unbridled supreme lifestyle concerning only TV, snacks, and personal expression via lazy and fuzzy-feeling power-pop rock n roll. Edition of 250 copies." - Burger. |
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Artist: KING, CAST Title: Saw Mill Man Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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LP version. "79 year-old country music journeyman Cast King hails from a small spot in the hills of Alabama between Heaven and hard luck called Old Sand Mountain where he has been distilling and refining original country music tunes for the last 6 1/2 decades. Saw Mill Man is his debut album and its a revelation of self penned murder ballads, heartbreak songs and some of the finest drinking numbers youre likely to hear." -Locust.
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Artist: KIPPENBERGER, MARTIN Title: Musik / 1979-1995 Format: CD/Book Box Set Label: Edition Krothenhayn Country: Germany Price: $79.00 |
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"Kippenberger unplugged! Martin Kippenberger skipped out on this world after just 44 years - in 1997, the art worlds flamboyant enfant terrible, one of Germanys most famous painters best known for his biting provocations and prolific output, died of the consequences of his equally prolific alcohol consumption. In 1978, Kippenberger moved to Berlin, launched Kippenbergers Büro (together with his future gallerist Gisela Capitain) and became the managing director of Kreuzbergs seminal venue SO36 where he proceeded to confuse the local punks with acts like Red Krayola, Scritti Politti, Kleenex or Kevin Coyne. His own band Luxus (featuring Christine Hahn of Malaria!, among others) released a limited edition single in 1979, available in homeopathic quantities. In subsequent years, he cranked out a steady stream of further singles, with fellow painter Albert Oehlen, among others. Kippenbergers not-so-secret love and passion, however, was swing music - expansive, and possibly pompous, big band jazz - and traces of this have found their way onto a Golden Kot Quartett release, which lists Kippenberger as its drummer. "Yuppi Du," on the other hand, makes the most of his Dadaist humor, while several versions of "Ja, Ja, Ja, Nee, Nee, Nee" pay tongue-in-cheek homage to Joseph Beuys. Now, give or take three decades later, Edition Kröthenhayn releases the surviving works of Kippenberger and his friends on CD and vinyl. Expect 60 minutes of music: jazz, noise and obscure sound experiments squeezed into a limited, hand-numbered (1,000 copies) CD box containing a 72-page book. Edition is replete with a slip lid box and banderole and is a prime example of luxurious, high-quality bookbinding. In addition, essays and writing by Max Dax (Spex), Wolfgang Müller (Die Tödliche Doris) and Frieder Butzmann are accompanied by many previously unpublished - and unseen - photographs." - Edition Krothenhayn.
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Artist: KIPPENBERGER, MARTIN Title: Musik / 1979-1995 Format: Triple-10" & Book Box Set Label: Edition Krothenhayn Country: Germany Price: $108.00 |
 "Kippenberger unplugged! Martin Kippenberger skipped out on this world after just 44 years - in 1997, the art worlds flamboyant enfant terrible, one of Germanys most famous painters best known for his biting provocations and prolific output, died of the consequences of his equally prolific alcohol consumption. In 1978, Kippenberger moved to Berlin, launched Kippenbergers Büro (together with his future gallerist Gisela Capitain) and became the managing director of Kreuzbergs seminal venue SO36 where he proceeded to confuse the local punks with acts like Red Krayola, Scritti Politti, Kleenex or Kevin Coyne. His own band Luxus (featuring Christine Hahn of Malaria!, among others) released a limited edition single in 1979, available in homeopathic quantities. In subsequent years, he cranked out a steady stream of further singles, with fellow painter Albert Oehlen, among others. Kippenbergers not-so-secret love and passion, however, was swing music - expansive, and possibly pompous, big band jazz - and traces of this have found their way onto a Golden Kot Quartett release, which lists Kippenberger as its drummer. "Yuppi Du," on the other hand, makes the most of his Dadaist humor, while several versions of "Ja, Ja, Ja, Nee, Nee, Nee" pay tongue-in-cheek homage to Joseph Beuys. Now, give or take three decades later, Edition Kröthenhayn releases the surviving works of Kippenberger and his friends on CD and vinyl. Expect 60 minutes of music: jazz, noise and obscure sound experiments squeezed into a limited, hand-numbered (1,000 copies) CD box containing a 72-page book. Edition is replete with a slip lid box and banderole and is a prime example of luxurious, high-quality bookbinding. In addition, essays and writing by Max Dax (Spex), Wolfgang Müller (Die Tödliche Doris) and Frieder Butzmann are accompanied by many previously unpublished - and unseen - photographs." - Edition Krothenhayn.
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Artist: KIRBY, LEYLAND Title: Eager To Tear Apart The Stars Format: LP Label: History Always Favours The Winners Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
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"James Leyland Kirby is a prolific artist with a remarkably long and varied career working inside, outside and beyond the electronic underground. From his roots as one-half of renowned audio pranksters and sonic agitators V/VM, to his critically-acclaimed work as The Caretaker and, most recently, Leyland Kirby -- hes always attracted the attention of an often bewildered audience, although his stature and position as serious auteur has somehow grown exponentially with every year that has gone by since his beginnings in rainy Edgeley back in the mid-90s. Eager To Tear Apart The Stars is his follow-up proper to the now-classic Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was trilogy of LPs, which were released in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim. Since then, hes quietly ushered in the demented white label vinyl series Intrigue & Stuff, and released another album as The Caretaker, An Empty Bliss Beyond This World. Eager To Tear Apart The Stars echoes and refracts the maverick solo synth classics of Roedelius and Harold Budd, but with a temporal warping and sense of decayed decadence individual to Kirbys oeuvre. Theres an ostensible sadness to these six pieces, but of a life-affirming and subtly ambiguous kind, evoking almost indecipherably mixed emotions of a rare and enigmatic variety which continue to haunt long after the record has come to a close. The album artwork features another specially-commissioned painting by Ivan Seal. Mastered and cut at Berlins Dubplates & Mastering." - History Always Favours The Winners.
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Artist: KIRBY, LEYLAND Title: Intrigue & Stuff Vol. 2 Format: LP Label: History Always Favours The Winners Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "James Leyland Kirby (aka The Caretaker) presents the second in a set of four limited edition vinyl pressings. Three tracks wide, 35 minutes long, all previously-unreleased retro-futurist recordings. Vinyl cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. 500 copies only." -History Always Favours The Winners |
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Artist: KIRBY, LEYLAND Title: Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was Format: 6LP Label: History Always Favours the Winners Country: UK Price: $65.00 |
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"One of 2009s most critically-acclaimed releases, Leyland Kirbys Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was is now available in an extremely limited collectors 6LP edition containing over 4 hours of music, shrink-wrapped and sealed with a custom-made obi-strip. The records themselves are packaged inside three beautiful LP jackets featuring artwork by Ivan Seal. As a document, its emotional and personal, heartbreaking and gentle, a 6-month fairy tale from the big city complete with heroes and villains, with winners and losers. Only 300 copies of this beautiful set have been made -- we strongly urge you to invest.
[Please note that the three Leyland Kirby LP sleeves are held together with glue spots. Please separate records very gently to avoid any damage to the sleeves.]" - History Always Favours the Winners.
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Artist: KIRCHIN, BASIL Title: Abstractions of the Industrial North Format: CD Label: Trunk Country: UK Price: $17.50 |
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Soundtrack to a film that doesnt exist, recorded in 1966! Reissued for the first time. "The complete album Abstractions Of The Industrial North is on this recording, and we have added a selection of recordings from other rare Kirchin, Jack Nathan and John Coleman productions, including The Wild One, Dont Lose Your Cool, Town Beat and finally Mind On The Run. These are all ten inch De Wolfe releases, are exceptionally rare and includes some incredible session musicians, including Jimmy Page and Big Jim Sullivan. As library music goes, Abstractions is unlike any other recording. Its possibly the most beautiful but worst library music ever made, in the way that it doesnt adhere to or follow any normal library music genre. It is wonderfully sad unforgettable music, with the signature Kirchin hypnotic grooves stirring it all up every now and again."
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Artist: KIRCHIN, BASIL Title: Abstractions of the Industrial North Format: LP Label: Trunk Country: UK Price: $17.50 |
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"Soundtrack to a film that doesnt exist, recorded in 1966! Reissued for the first time." - FE. "As library music goes, Abstractions is unlike any other recording. Its possibly the most beautiful but worst library music ever made, in the way that it doesnt adhere to or follow any normal library music genre. It is wonderfully sad unforgettable music, with the signature Kirchin hypnotic grooves stirring it all up every now and again." Just found out that Basil Kirchin (1927 - 2005) passed away 6/18/05, RIP. CD also available.
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Artist: KIRCHIN, BASIL Title: Charcoal Sketches/States Of Mind Format: LP Label: Trunk Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"This is not a reissue. This is the first time this music has been heard. Following on the recent success of the the Kirchin recording Quantum ... Both are very different recordings, but are important missing parts of the mysterious musical life of Basil Kirchin. The first part -- Charcoal Sketches -- were tracks recorded before Quantum was recorded. They represent the initial musical jottings made by Basil before he built up his ideas into the magnificent avant garde opus we all know and love. The music is far gentler than Quantum . Youll hear some fine and very different instrumentation, which includes some sublime piano and even the early use of slightly manipulated birdsong. This trio of Sketches is truly delightful and very different to anything you may have heard before. The Second part -- States Of Mind was a recording made by Basil in the late 60s for a medical documentary about mental disorders. Its important to note that this recording represents an early collaboration between Kirchin and the avant garde God Evan Parker, and this has to be one of the first times Parker is captured blowing in his new, free style." - Trunk. One time, limited edition of 500.
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Artist: KIRCHIN, BASIL Title: Particles Format: CD Label: Trunk Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "For the last five years Trunk Records have been issuing the great, lost work of pioneering British composer Basil Kirchin. Here is his last album, completed only a couple of weeks before he passed away in late 2005. It proves that Kirchin, even in his mid-70s, was still very much an experimentalist at the top of his odd game. Kirchin invented ambient music and set the template to which much of todays avant garde music sounds like. Highlights of Particles are many -- "The Atonals" for example, was made using conversations between musicians that Basil had secretly recorded over the years. These conversations were then processed into music and the results are quite startling. In fact, the whole album is brimming and bursting with odd ideas, new ways and the unique Kirchin sound. The current Trunk favorite is the last, epic ten-minute hypnotic monster simply called "E+Me." Its an obvious homage to his dear wife Esther, who actually sings at the end of this heavily rhythmic, modal tune. Tragically, Esther died a week before this last Kirchin CD was pressed. Particles adds further fuel to the glowing Kirchin legend, and increases his standing up there with all the other groovy weirdos of the world." - Trunk. |
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Artist: KIRCHIN, BASIL Title: Quantum Format: LP Label: Trunk Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
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"This is the first ever issue of this recording, and the first Basil Kirchin recording release for thirty years. Its a unique recording in every respect, afterall Basil is possibly the UKs most important composer than no one has heard of. This will soon change. Quantum was spliced together by Basil using jazz, field recordings (animals, insects, trams), his wife and Autistic children. Its all based on Basils theories of sound, and that when you slow down or speed up sound, you open up new doors, and new sound is revealed. Considering this recording was made circa 1973, one cannot underestimate the true genius and musical foresite of the man. Quantum has to be the crowning glory of this mans musical explorations and unique theory. It has remained locked away for thirty years and has been released now for the first time ever. You have been warned." - Trunk. Numbered edition of 500 copies.
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Artist: KIRK, RICHARD H. Title: Earlier/Later: Unreleased Projects Anthology 74/89 Format: Double CD Label: Mute Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
 "Selected from over seven hours of archive recordings, the majority of which has never before been available, Earlier/Later - Unreleased Projects Anthology 74/89 documents a fifteen-year period of private research and personal development by Richard H. Kirk. Committed to cassette and then forgotten, they have been transferred onto CD with a minimum postproduction. Throughout the two CD release is evidence of Kirk reinventing himself through the sparse dynamics of dance music and laying down the groundwork for his later Sandoz and Sweet Exorcist projects. The earliest material, recorded onto open-reel tape machines using the most basic equipment, is raw and inventive." - Mute.
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Artist: KIRSTEIN, TR & JACOB KIRKEGAARD Title: Imperia Format: LP Label: Posh Isolation Country: Denmark Price: $22.00 |
| "IMPERIA is an art work based on recordings from the now defunct Nuclear Power Plant Barsebäck located in southern Sweden, and is a recording unlike most. The incredible strength of the source sound dances delicate through the clear drones and balances the piece in a strange and alluring place, never too demanding yet never relaxed. An essential piece of danish modern sound art." - Posh Isolation. Edition of 300 copies. Letterpress jackets, a full-size letterpress insert, and an A4 insert. |
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Artist: KISSING SPELL Title: Los Pajaros Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $42.00 |
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"Beside BLO and El Congreso, this is the best album from Chile and the rarest one. Beautiful compositions and well-crafted songs sung in English and Spanish. Kissing Spell was born in 1967. One night after a gig they said: No more fucking other peoples music, it is time for something new, created by us and for people who want to see us and not some fucking Beatle clone. Kissing Spell was seen as a very elite group who played very few times for large audiences, and consequently the records did not sell much. After Kissing Spell the same band became Embrujo, which is the Spanish translation for Spell and recorded another album in 1971. A true masterpiece." #d edition of 550 copies.
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Artist: KITCHEN AND THE PLASTIC SPOONS Title: Screams To God Format: LP Label: Dark Entries Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "KITCHEN AND THE PLASTIC SPOONS formed at a basement rehearsal studio in Stockholm, Sweden during the spring of 1980. The band consisted of ANNE TAIVAN (vocals), HELENA LONGQVIST (synthesizer), IGGO KARLSSON (synthesizer), JACIE PAZDA (bass), and MATS WIGERDAL (drums). After a few concerts, Kitchen booked some free studio time and recorded their first single "Serve You!" in two days. Six months later PATRIK LINDVALL (guitar) joined the group and the band recorded their second single "Ice Cream To God" in early 1981. Kitchens sound was getting darker and heavier and so was the mood in the band. Anne shortly left and was replaced by IODINE JUPITER on vocals. This new line up recorded a few songs for local compilations. The band broke up in November 1981 before recording their debut LP. Screams To God collects Kitchen And The Plastic Spoons two 7" EPs, two compilation tracks as well as three demos from 1980 never before released on vinyl. Kitchen were part of the new DIY generation starting bands, making self- produced singles and rapidly breaking up. Their sound echoes the speedy chaotic energy with the synthesizer as its driving pulse. Annes vocals are barely understandable but they have a sense of urgency. They didnt sound like any other band in Sweden at the time, having more in common with American bands, Devo, The Screamers and Pere Ubu. Packaged in full color spot gloss jackest with a photo of Anne with bright magenta hair. Each LP includes an insert with liner notes, song descriptions and photos." -Dark Entries. |
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Artist: KITCHENS FLOOR Title: Live in Brisbane Format: 12" Label: Quemada Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Quemada Records is happy to announce the release of Kitchens Floor “Live in Brisbane” LP, the long awaited vinyl version of their “Too Dead To Notice” tape only release from the late Brendon Annesleys Negative Guest List Records. The record captures the band live in Brisbane (duh) in 2010 between the “Loneliness is a Dirty Mattress” (Bedroon Suck/RIP Society) and “Look Forward to Nothing” (Silbreeze) LPs and at a moment when the band was teetering on oblivion. This performance could easily have been the bands last and in fact was Julia Norris last stand behind the drum kit. The band was also without a bassist which left Kitchens Floor stripped down to main man Matt Kennedy, who had switched to acoustic guitar this evening, and Julia accompanied on a couple tunes by Andrew Mclellans (Cured Pink) stupor inducing organ. By all account the show shouldve been a disaster and maybe it was, but who the hell cares when the disaster sounds this perfect. And let us not forget: these are those moments when ROCK really happens, no matter what murk it must travel to get to your ears." - Quemada |
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Artist: KITCHENS FLOOR Title: Loneliness Is A Dirty Mattress Format: LP Label: Bedroom Suck Country: Australia Price: $17.00 |
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"Debut full-length from Brisbane downer pop trio. Songs frome the stifling heat of suburban sharehousing; the stinking carpet and broken showers. Absolute pop gems shrouded in mouldy spaghetti." -Bedroom Suck
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Artist: KITCHENS FLOOR Title: Look Forward to Nothing Format: LP Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Loneliness Is a Dirty Mattress, the debut LP by Australian trio KITCHENS FLOOR, made many ponderous pinetops top ten list in 2010 and with good reason. The band aptly channels an adroit cacophony that recalls the former glory of past Aussie noise / punk gnashers such as Rejex and Feedtime with such elan that one might suspect Tooheys Sheaf courses through their veins. On Look Forward to Nothing, new drummer JOE ALEXANDER (also found in the excellent combo, PER PURPOSE) gives Kitchens Floor a much more thunderous drive, with the the results sounding not unlike a cage match between (the Australian) X and The Gordons. True, the pummeling is without quarter and theres blood everywhere. But take stock, friend-its all yours! Which just goes to show that the best thing about beating your head against the wall is that its to Kitchens Floor. Look for the band Stateside late August through September, touring coast to coast and also dealing pain at Gonerfest 2011. Aloha. Includes download." - Siltbreeze. |
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Artist: KITES Title: Hallucination Guillotine / Final Worship Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "One-man organic sturm and scowl, while 2006s Peace Trials was a blend of campfire-informed Wilheim Reich downer crunch and burn, this new release journeys into deeper tunnels of solid frozen anthracite. While definitely part of the contemporary American noise scene, KITES (CHRIS FORGUES) blends percussive chug and homemade sine wave generation into a dynamic somewhere in between early 80s electro schoolyard loiterers Throbbing Gristle and Sheffields Cabaret Voltaire. Where Peace Trials took the song form to an almost confusing and happy place, songs on the new record feature a colder tone. Gone are the stringed instruments of the last record, replaced with more home constructed oscillation batteries. Disembodied voices ping-pong from speaker to speaker, dry percussive chatter fills the headphone foam and you are prisoner in a room you can never leave." - Load |
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Artist: KITES Title: Peace Trials Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Rewired neural strum and groam from the one man operation known as Kites. One minute EZ sounds pump from your jambox, the next a squaretone boxes you upside the head. Very much in the tradition of new school noize croppers such as Wolf Eyes and Die Yellow Swans, but turbolaced with a mutant virus of melody and folkery. Yes, acoustica based acid melt. Features a (beautiful)collaboration with Erin Rosenthal from Udog. Kites has played with the cream of todays new sounds krewz including Wolf Eyes, Double Leopards, Hair Police and many others and is considered a master on his own homemade equipment." - Load.
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Artist: KITES Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: KITES Title: Royal Paint With Metallic Gardener from the United States Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Hyper real poundings for the short bus from this one man electrical system operator. Simple songs taken to the edge of the cliff. Really simple songs, a virtual Casey Kasem Top Ten within one CD buried deep within a blanket. Kites has toured the netherworld of the Middle West of the United States of America and put out a shingle that few can deny. It may look like a man fighting a machine, but the battle is for your mind. Shows with Neon Hunk, Mindflayer and the Hair Police have resulted in unsupervised surgery and caused at least three (3) Amber Alerts. Join now for chewy choogle." - Load |
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Artist: KITES, THE Title: Sunfish Twins Format: 7" Lathe Cut/CDR Label: Epic Sweep Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
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"The Kites were an obscure acoustic duo from the 1980s (NZ) that wrote rough, wayward and beautifully honest and melodic songs in their bedroom. This 4 song 7″ EP comes with a 22 track CD compilation taken from their very limited cassette and EP releases from the mid to late 1980s." - Epic Sweep. Limited to 20 copies.
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Artist: KITES/ RODGER STELLA Title: Interior Moon Format: LP Label: Mutter Wild Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Pure electronic sound made with the care and craftsmanship of an old-school film editor: a series of throbbing electronic loops that seem to interlock like a Moebius strip, where a steady flow of waves interrupt natural awareness of body processes and redirect it to a more infinite concept of time. Less chaotic and haywire than RODGER STELLAs life-changing disturbo-analog epic Foucault Zombie (Gods of Tundra 2007), Interior Moon represents the concept of magnetic attraction, with a hypnotic pull that is both a meditation and a measured attempt to harness and control the surrounding environment. Silkscreened jacket, with inserts. Thirty minutes with locked grooves at the end of each side. Second edition of 100." -Mutter Wild. |
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Artist: KITES/EARTH CROWN Title: Split Format: LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"This is a cold vision of a dark trash covered future full of Sci Fi nightmares and strange out of body experiences. This is the final Kites recording and is perhaps the strangest and most chaotic piece in the prolific discography. Annihilation synth and tape collage, cut up, sped up and dialed to oblivion. Earth Crown steps it back, slows down the pulse, lets the edges of the static curl around the drone to the breaking point, where the damage is let loose, purged out and built again. This LP is a reminder of how cold, desolate, and haunting life can be. In an edition of 400 LPs with inserts, printed labels and silkscreened covers by Shawn Reed featuring art by Kites and Earth Crown. Co-released with Night People." -Arbor
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Artist: KITES/PRURIENT Title: Load Split Series #4 Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Another jammed-elevator mismatch between two of Providence, RIs hottest pedal jackers and circuit board melters. Kites has a record on Load already and this side of the split evokes a crunchy square toned melodic flair with organic almost organ-fueled Disneyland melodies. These are the rockers. Prurient is another Providence-based sound artist doing low toned rumble jammed up against cassette culture screech. Live shows are a blur of power and volume. Yes the cream of the noise crop. This record is a bit more subdued in all out attack and more drenched in total murk-o-phonic atmosphere. Percussive chug and downer vibes." - Load.
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Artist: KITO-MIZUKUMI ROUBER Title: Boseki ki Tatazumu KMR Format: CD Label: Papa Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
 "Kito-mizukumi rouber is Acid garage Enka(style of Japanese old song) that failed music. They are strange dance bands. Factory-pressed CD in a mini-LP style card sleeve." - Papa.
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Artist: KITO-MIZUKUMI ROUBER Title: Concert at the Royal Albert Hall Format: Cass Label: Rockatansky Country: Japan Price: $12.00 |
| "First release for the last 7" from Siltbreeze and also their first live recordings. KMR is the weirdest dance band ever that broken avant garde blues and garage rock failed into Japanese soul music, enka. They are freak, play freak and this is the document to know freak. All intense, the punkiest." - Rockatansky. |
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Artist: KITO-MIZUKUMI ROUBER Title: Midori Mushi San Connichiwa Format: 7" Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Plucking Kito-Miukumi Roubers lp out of an anonymous year end frying pan & into our Best Of 2009 fire seemed to confound toady taste makers & blog plonkers all around Hipster Haven. To them lists are a crucial element of.....something, & lets face it, peeps love lists. Sales are generated, no argument there. Why, Id wager that ringing endorsement of Otonaki Touge De Hagureta Kmr was instrumental in said lp essentially going from under the radar to out of print by early 2010. Fancy that! And now here we are, almost a year later & Siltbreeze is proud to offer its followup; a 5 track 7" ep entitled Midori Mushi San Connichiwa. If your a fan of the lp, I cant possibly see how this wont be in your wheelhouse. For the unfamiliar, K-MRs sound seems informed by old school Japanese genre snuffers such as Tako & Gunjogacrayon. Combining the jabbering, pan humanoid outthereness of the former w/the zoned, riffed, mutant indifference of the latter, K-MR have created a toxic, dripping blotter of sound that is most appealing to those of us who luxuriate in the humidity of the 1%. Plus, as an added laugh (theirs, mine, yours, ours) theyve tacked on an eerie cover snippet that is a stab in the heart to every campfire singalong & folksy hootenanny through time immemorial. Absolutely tremendous! Released in an edition of 286 to commemorate the year in the Japanese calendar when a wise man went to see the Emperor about a horse." - Siltbreeze. |
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Artist: KITO-MIZUKUMI ROUBER Title: Otonaki Touge De Hagureta Kmr Format: LP Label: Ultra Eczema Country: Belgium Price: $29.00 |
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"Another amazing Japanese weirdo band with members of the great old punks of Aburadako and the free birds of Hasegawa Shizuo, higher hair then Benny B or the Fresh Prince Of Bell Air, a mental Harry Pussy-like guitar style, dead pan free drumming and a voice that could be recorded somewhere else or under a public shower! A lot of energy crammed on one record, anyway, too much to dream of. They refer to themselves as: Kito-Mizukumi Rouber is formed at Tokyo. We are dance bands. Your ankle is be cramped with a rhythm! We are burst of laughter, drinks tea and digs the ground, and sometimes hungry!! Comes in a yellow and black splutter cover by Dennis Tyfus, and an insert! Limited to 300 copies." - Ultra Eczema.
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Artist: KITO-MIZUKUMI ROUBER Title: Ukkkara Tapeo Hikukmr Format: CDR Label: Papa Country: Japan Price: $17.00 |
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Artist: KIWI ANIMAL Title: Music Media Format: LP Label: Sonic Squid Country: Germany Price: $14.00 |
| "Heres an interesting curiosity from New Zealand: The Kiwi Animal was the creation of Brent Hayward and Julie Cooper; together they released two full-length LPs in the mid-eighties, 1984s Music Media and the following years Mercy. Music Media is an ethereally beautiful folk affair, at once sinister and lovely, and possessing of a clear experimental bent. Hayward was previously involved in the fantastic art-punk quartet Shoes This High." -The Doledrums. |
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Artist: KIYOKO, ITOH Title: Woman At 23 Hour - Love In Format: CD Label: Showboat/Sky Station Country: Japan Price: $28.00 |
| "Identical and deluxe reissue of this deliriously mega-rare and hardly known Itoh Kiyoko record. Normally if you want to score a copy of the original vinyl you are required to donate most of your vital organs to some yakuza-typed black marketer, but luckily enough, this one here is easier to attain without ripping out a lung or a liver to pound off. The CD is housed in an eye-popping foldout jacket. It was the final album Itoh recorded in 1971 and on this effort she got backed up by again a bunch of Tokyo underground heavy weights such as J.A. Seazer and Kuni Kawauchi of the Happenings Four. On this album, Itohs talent is fully flowering and apart from merely eargasmatic songs, she hushes into being, atmospheric city-life field recordings and well-balanced sound snippets find their way in and between her compositions. These flashes of cosmopolitan Tokyo city life grandeur and the feeling of desperate desolation it tails along elevate her impeccable melancholic love ballads and softly erotic excursions to even higher levels of artistic expression, catapulting the whole affair towards eerie, stratospheric, heavenly, delightful realms. Sadly enough, both of her albums failed to catch on, not poppy enough, too melancholic, way too creative, artistically too advanced, hard to categorize and probably even too erotically sophisticated without degrading herself to mere carnal sonic one-hit wonders. In one word, a delicate, soft, psychedelic wonderland avenue of an album that will entrap simple airhead listeners into a deadlock without giving them the chance to fully explore the absinthial pleasures it conceals. If one only cares to listen to what lies underneath its surface layer, a new form of aural addiction will commence to besiege you. One of the greatest underrated delicate psychedelic female vocal albums to seep out of Japan. Original copies just never surface and if they do, you have to trade in -- in most cases -- a limb in order to take one home with you. So this eye-popping delicately crafted reissue might be just the thing you need. If you got entangled into Kaji Meikos sonic universe, you should try Itoh Kiyoko. All-time highest recommendation and forget about original vinyl copies, they are even scarcer that all your Blues Creation, Too Much and Oz Days records together. Highest recommendation." -Showboat/Sky Station |
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Artist: KJERTL DEL BRONDO GROUP Title: Live At Bryne 18.6.99/The Refsnes Sessions Format: Cass Label: Kjertl Del Brondo Group Country: Norway Price: $7.00 |
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Artist: KK RAMPAGE Title: Start Format: 7" Label: Rococo Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "Holocaust rockers KK RAMPAGE unleash a new EP of absolute terror, and the bands first true sell-out effort. Recorded by the man they call "The Next Steve Albini", Sides E & F is the heaviest record this side of 1977. It not only continues the amazing growth KK has shown since replacing the original drummer, but also takes it to a startling new level. Louder than sound and brighter than the sun, this record will blast you through the gates of Valhalla. Imagine SUN RA crossed with a gasoline fire, imagine THE BEATLES...actually in a gasoline fire. This record shows you that just because its violent, misogynistic and heavily drugged, that doesnt mean it cant be overwhelmingly beautiful. Just check the critics -- "Theyre seriously a bunch of no talent hacks." -- Liz Armstrong (Chicago Reader), "America has run out of ideas. Anyone whose heard KK RAMPAGE will agree with me." -- Tony Herrington (The Wire), "Those poor, poor instruments." -- Greg Kot (Chicago Tribune). |
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Artist: KKYLP Title: fke-02 Format: 7" Label: fke Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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Recent, out-of-nowhere (2007) Bill Orcutt (Harry Pussy) project. Less than 80 of these were pressed (NOT a lathe cut).
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Artist: KLANGMUTATIONEN Title: Liturgie Format: CDR Label: Dreamsheep Country: Italy Price: $13.50 |
| "One of the most outstanding/uncompromising jazz collectives circulating right now is (without any doubt) Klangmutationen. Coming from the Eastern side of the world, they suddenly remind us of noise legends such as Masayuki Takayanagi, Kaoru Abe and Kousokuya. But you should consider them an exception because they come from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and they play organic free metal (!). Liturgie is a black ritual devoted to schizophrenia and otherworldly meditation which clocks at around 20 minutes. It is a burning candle for Shiva. For all you listeners, a final suggestion is to turn off the lights and immerse yourself into this deep black hole. CDR comes in a limited edition of 150 copies." - Dreamsheep. |
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Artist: KLANGMUTATIONEN Title: Schwarshagel Format: CD Label: Utech Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Klangmutationen are a mystery. More could be said about what their music isnt than what it is. Hailing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the underground experimentalists pierce the veils of Eastern and Western music. Recalling early sets on FMP as well as the Takayanagi/Abe axis of Japanese free music, Schwarzhagel is the sound of a spirit falling past its own life after death, forever." - Utech |
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Artist: KLANGMUTATIONEN Title: WeiBe Messe Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "KLANGMUTATIONEN is composed of individuals who are quite possibly the only figures within Malaysias recent history of underground experimental/avant rock music-if there even was one. The word "Klangmutationen" means "Sound Mutations" or "Sound Changes." Klangmutationen (excluding American MR. G) hail from a small town on the west coast of Malaysia called Klang. Although no Teutonic connection has ever been found to exist between the German word and the origins of the towns name, it is nevertheless a happy coincidence for the group. Sonically, Klangmutationen marries the heavier and primitive side of Krautrock with the relentless ferocity of avant-jazz-in particular the style expressed by early FMP releases and the Japanese variety as chiefly approached by the Takayanagi/Abe school. Other influential elements are the countless avant jazz/rock outfits who have surfaced throughout the decades-particularly jazz ensembles with loud electric guitars: Last Exit, New Direction Unit, the Blue Humans (and the Arthur Doyle Quartet feat. Rudolph Grey), Music Revelation Ensemble, Tony Williams Lifetime, Moderne Nordeuropaeische Dorfmusik, Blauer Hirsch, The Giancarlo Nicolai Trio, Ray Russel, Derek Baileys Arcana, Sprawl, etc..." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: KLEENEX/LiLiPUT Title: Kleenex/LiLiPUT 1977-1983 Format: 4LP Boxset Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $55.00 |
| "One of the most unique punk bands of our time, hailed from Zurich, Switzerland. From 1978-80 Kleenex gigged around, recorded 2 7"s and toured the UK with such acts as Gang Of Four, Subway Sect, The Swell Maps and The Raincoats. In 1980, the group changed their name to LiLiPUT (due to pressures from the Kleenex tissue company) and continued under that moniker until their demise in 1983. As LiLiPUT, 3 more 7"s and 2 LP were released as the band evolved through numerous personnel changes. Finally the entire contents of the ever-popular Kill Rock Stars double CD is now available as a 4 LP set. Housed in a sturdy tip-on sleeve slipcase and includes a full-color 12-page booklet." -Mississippi |
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Artist: KLEISTWAHR Title: Arsonicide Format: LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
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Reissue of a 1983 Broken Flag cassette (BF15). Kleistwahr is Gary Mundy (RAMLEH, SKULLFLOWER, S.P.I.T.E., TOLL, CONSUMER ELECTRONICS, etc). Edition of 250 copies.
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Artist: KLEISTWAHR Title: Myth Format: LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
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Reissue of a 1983 Broken Flag cassette (BF3). Kleistwahr is Gary Mundy (RAMLEH, SKULLFLOWER, S.P.I.T.E., TOLL, CONSUMER ELECTRONICS, etc). Edition of 250 copies.
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Artist: KLEISTWAHR Title: The Return Format: LP Label: Noiseville Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Gary Mundy from Ramleh/Broken Flag records fame returns with the ressurection of Kleistwahr, a project whose previous material is impossible to find these days. Just as youd hope and expect, this is a completely saturated mesh of tortured guitar, tormented vocals and extra noise added just to round things off. Brilliantly painful. As good as anything Ramleh has ever done, really." - Noiseville |
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Artist: KLEPTOMANIA Title: Elephants Lost Format: Double LP Label: Amber Soundroom Country: Germany Price: $31.00 |
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Gatefold sleeve. "Kleptomania came from Belgium and was founded in 1969 by Dany Lademacher, Roger Vollaert and Charlie DeRademaeker, who made experiences in other Belgian groups before. They played progressive rock with two guitars, bass, vocals and drums and were an important live-band in Belgium at that time. Their only self titled album was recorded in 1971 at Flame-Records, Hilversum, but could not be released, because Flame-Records broke at this time. In 1979 the record was released in Netherlands without the consent of the band in a very small quantity. Between 1969 and 1975 the band made also five singles, all very well done. This official reissue now includes the complete work of the LP and all five singles. It comes as double-album as 180 gram vinyl and is limited to 500 copies." - Amber Soundroom.
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Artist: KLEYN, CAROL Title: Love Has Made Me Stronger Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Recorded as the dust was settling on the unrest of the early 70s and people were in need of a little peace in their lives, Love Has Made Me Stronger recalls the free-wheeling West Coast world of geodesic domes, housemates named Luna, Star, Silver Bird and Nebula and a place called Perfect Park. The sound of Love Has Made Me Stronger is a sound of joy. Music is clearly meant to express love and happiness, desire and wonder, and Carol lets her voice communicate this as shed done at countless shows with only a single accompanying instrument underneath - harp in the early going of the record, keyboards on the second half. Ardent listeners may compare Carol Kleyn to West Coast singers of the era such as Joni Mitchell and Essra Mohawk, but it is our belief that Carol was singing a sound not just her own, but a sound that expressed the time and place that changed so many lives back then. Carols ethereal voice dances over her harp and keyboard arrangements as she sings her dreamy odes to nature, love and living with a full and open heart." -Drag City |
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Artist: KLEYN, CAROL Title: Takin The Time Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "The musical journeys of CAROL KLEYN continue with the reissue of Takin The Time, her eclectic second album, originally released in 1980. Eight years after writing her first songs and dropping out of college to pursue her passion as a street musician, Carol was still following the love, making music and magic as she roamed free up and down the California coastline. The harp that BOBBY BROWN gave her back in 1971 was still her main axe whenever she played, and the primary instrument she used on her debut album Love Has Made Me Stronger. That record had been self-produced, and Carol sold copies wherever she played, but for the production of Takin The Time, Bobby Brown stepped into the producers role. He had already produced two incredible albums for himself (The Enlightening Beam of Axonda and Bobby Brown Live) and in the studio, he succeeded in marrying his sound to Carols, producing a sleek, light vibe that conveyed all the hope and joy that Carols songs held within themselves. Carol played with a band for the first half of the record, while the other half embraced the more familiar solo setting that her audience knew and loved. These were smooth sounds for a new decade that included concerns about the environment and an ever present prayer for peace." - Drag City |
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Artist: KLIMEK, ANDREW Title: Afterbathinginturpentine Format: 7" Label: Mustard Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
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"Wonderfully damaged sounding post punk experimental rock in a disjunctive Beefheart-by-way-of-Tin-Huey stylee from this Cleveland underground scenester. Andrew was the brother of Styrenes/Mirrors member Jamie Klimek and a member of Ex-Blank-Ex, but the reemergence of this sick treasure should hopefully insure some notoriety for him in his own right." - Mutantsounds.
"...a neat slab that I recall reading all about (via the COVENTRY SHOPPING NEWS) at the REAL WORLD THEATER/Phantasy Nightclub back in July of 79 while awaiting Bernie and the Invisibles trek to the clubs tiny stage. And really, that article was a porverbial brain-buster for back then Klimeks future-and-ex-wife Charlotte Pressler made both Klimek and this upcoming EP out to be one of the more exciting efforts to come out of the Cle area in quite some time. Not only by detailing Klimeks varied history in the underground (having jammed with brother Jamies Mirrors in 1973 [age twelve] playing echoplex and stylophone before forming Tender Buttons and joining Ex-Blank-Ex/Johnny and the Dicks!) but with his entire home-spun musical vocabulary which once again took the Velvet Underground into even more uncharted realms that seemed oh-so-apocalyptic back in those brave new days. And yeah, even all that got dumped into the eternal commode of useless ideas we put so much stock in at one time once the eternal magic of the Velvets filtered down into the barren-brainfold of the likes of Michael Stipe, but back in 1978 the promulgation of post-Velvets rock was a mighty noble endeavor indeed and for that Klimek should be eternally saluted! Playing with an all-star band (former Ex-Blank-Ex bassist Jim Ellis of CLE fame, ex-Mirrors/Ex-Blank-Ex Michael Weldon on drums and Weldons brother Christopher on glass and electric saw), Klimek sure puts out one mighty fine slice of just what Cleveland meant for moren a few hungry rockists back in those best/worst of time days. And thats not only with a sound and vision thats firmly rooted in that citys Velvet Underground appreciation, but with the same wild approach to the rock subject-at-hand that has the same quirkiness and feeling which typified a whole lotta other smart projects that came outta the area at the time. Everything from Brian Sands REHEATED CHOCOLATE TANGOES to the early Pere Ubu sound was somehow channeled into this recording which takes the standard Velvets drone (thanks to Chris Weldons saw?) and reshapes it into something a whole lot more twisted, sort of like Brian Eno doing HERE COME THE WARM JETS after attending an abnormal psych seminar. Things do come to a head on "Drapery Hooks of my Love" where the admitted Beefheart influence spreads out into even more frightening vistas, especially when the music is suddenly being played backwards. I remember hearing this at the Drome back in 80 asking in jest how the guy playing it for me (some hippie who was biz partners with Johnny Dromette) got his turntable to spin backwards. I dont think the joke hit him in quite the right way, but it was rather invigorating." - Chris Stigliano, Black To Comm. Stash of original, unplayed and more or less NM copies (in storage for 30+ years!) of the most elusive Mustard release. #28 in J.Kugelbergs top 100 DIY singles, the second highest US entry after the Handgrenades, and regularly hitting $150-$200 the last decade, this is a classic of 70s mid-american avant-rock weirdness. Very highly recommended!!! |
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Artist: KLONDIKE & YORK Title: Holy Book Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "You know, I get a lot of records in the mail, and Id say that most of em are CDRs. The way technology has gone, thats only natural for independent music, and I try to give all CDRs a fair shake, but its just never as nice as getting a vinyl LP in the mail. When its on vinyl, you just know its probably going to be good, or at least carefully considered, which CDRs almost NEVER are, even when they ARE good. Now if this primitive/outsider sax/drums/electronics LP by Klondike & York had been a CDR, I wouldve still really liked it, but having it pressed onto vinyl with a cool-ass color cover, well, as Al Pacino would say, "Forget about it!" Its top-notch! Its essentially a sax and drums free jazz duo, one Chad Stockdale on sax and one Nate Beier on percussion, with a lot of heavy blowing and space-out time-keeping, but Im tempted to not call it free jazz. I mean was The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing free jazz? No, it was psychedelic saxophone, and so is The Holy Book. And, to help sew it up as something other, theres also some synthesizer on here. Its not credited to any one musician, the word just floats in the space right after the credits. This is pretty much what the synth does on the record too, it just sort of mysteriously appears now and then. Trippy silk-screened labels too. Actually, the whole LP, from the home-recorded vibe to the shadowy appearance to the Northern California return address, reminds me of when the first Six Organs of Admittance LP appeared and left blown minds in its wake. There may still be time to get your mind blown, but I really doubt there are any more than 500 of these floating around, so hurry up!" -Larry "Fuzz-O" Dolman, Blastitude. |
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Artist: KLOSOWSKI & PYROLATOR, A.K. Title: Home Taping Is Killing Music Format: LP + CD Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $23.00 |
| "Home Taping Is Killing Music is the first and only LP by Pyrolator (Ata Tak label operative and member of Der Plan) and tape loop tinkerer Arnd Kai Klosowski. The result: whimsical, raw sound experiments from the early days of sampling technology. Originally released in 1985 on Ata Tak/WR 30. It was in the mid-1980s when the unsuccessful blues guitarist Arnd Kai Klosowski realized that the DJ was the star of the show in the discotheque: not the music and not the musicians. He then asked himself: "What if it were possible to create something new, a mix of recorded and live music which could be switched on and off intermittently?" Klosowski built himself a mixing desk with eight inputs, plugged-in microphones, called up a few people and they improvised their hearts out. "I dont know what they played, exactly. But I do know that it simply didnt work," Klosowski recollects. And then he remembered the tape loop experiments he had worked on as a teenager. So he got back to inventing, tinkering, and soldering. The first recordings made with this new, homemade tape loop device found their way to ZickZack label boss Alfred Hilsberg, who decided to release an album. All he needed was a producer. At this point, Pyrolator finally enters the scene, a musician (as a member of Der Plan, for example), producer, and Ata Tak label operative. Similarities in the working practices and musical leanings of Pyrolator and Klosowski are there for all to see, or rather to hear. Both were interested in collage, obscure music, and technical innovation. They went into the studio together and recordedHome Taping Is Killing Music. The original plan was to issue the album on Hilsbergs ZickZack label, but it actually came out through Ata Tak. Why was that? Pyrolator: "We felt that the album was far better suited to Ata Tak, and so we came to an agreement with Alfred that we could release the record." Klosowski adds another significant detail to this explanation: "Pyrolator had to invest more time and work than anticipated. He had imagined it all to be somewhat easier. I lacked experience in studio technology, so Pyrolator had to bear the brunt of that. Two worlds collided, that of a trained musician and my own. We overshot the studio budget by some distance." The Klosowski album produced by Pyrolator thus became a joint Klosowski/Pyrolator album, with Ata Tak the logical label choice. Home Taping Is Killing Music is a rough diamond from the pioneering era of sampling technology. True, the Emulator 1 already existed and was used extensively, but the tape machine which Klosowski designed and constructed could play considerably longer loops and samples than the E-MU Systems product. And so it was that salsa trumpets and Gregorian chants were heard side-by-side, railway noises aligned with Cambodian music and gospel met Bavarian yodeling. At no time did technology become an end in itself: it always served the melody, the beat, the element of surprise. In short, it was in the service of listening pleasure. Comes on 180 gram vinyl with a CD copy of the entire album." -Bureau B. |
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Artist: KLOSOWSKI & PYROLATOR, A.K. Title: Home Taping Is Killing Music Format: CD Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "Home Taping Is Killing Music is the first and only LP by Pyrolator (Ata Tak label operative and member of Der Plan) and tape loop tinkerer Arnd Kai Klosowski. The result: whimsical, raw sound experiments from the early days of sampling technology. Originally released in 1985 on Ata Tak/WR 30. It was in the mid-1980s when the unsuccessful blues guitarist Arnd Kai Klosowski realized that the DJ was the star of the show in the discotheque: not the music and not the musicians. He then asked himself: "What if it were possible to create something new, a mix of recorded and live music which could be switched on and off intermittently?" Klosowski built himself a mixing desk with eight inputs, plugged-in microphones, called up a few people and they improvised their hearts out. "I dont know what they played, exactly. But I do know that it simply didnt work," Klosowski recollects. And then he remembered the tape loop experiments he had worked on as a teenager. So he got back to inventing, tinkering, and soldering. The first recordings made with this new, homemade tape loop device found their way to ZickZack label boss Alfred Hilsberg, who decided to release an album. All he needed was a producer. At this point, Pyrolator finally enters the scene, a musician (as a member of Der Plan, for example), producer, and Ata Tak label operative. Similarities in the working practices and musical leanings of Pyrolator and Klosowski are there for all to see, or rather to hear. Both were interested in collage, obscure music, and technical innovation. They went into the studio together and recordedHome Taping Is Killing Music. The original plan was to issue the album on Hilsbergs ZickZack label, but it actually came out through Ata Tak. Why was that? Pyrolator: "We felt that the album was far better suited to Ata Tak, and so we came to an agreement with Alfred that we could release the record." Klosowski adds another significant detail to this explanation: "Pyrolator had to invest more time and work than anticipated. He had imagined it all to be somewhat easier. I lacked experience in studio technology, so Pyrolator had to bear the brunt of that. Two worlds collided, that of a trained musician and my own. We overshot the studio budget by some distance." The Klosowski album produced by Pyrolator thus became a joint Klosowski/Pyrolator album, with Ata Tak the logical label choice. Home Taping Is Killing Music is a rough diamond from the pioneering era of sampling technology. True, the Emulator 1 already existed and was used extensively, but the tape machine which Klosowski designed and constructed could play considerably longer loops and samples than the E-MU Systems product. And so it was that salsa trumpets and Gregorian chants were heard side-by-side, railway noises aligned with Cambodian music and gospel met Bavarian yodeling. At no time did technology become an end in itself: it always served the melody, the beat, the element of surprise. In short, it was in the service of listening pleasure." -Bureau B. |
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Artist: KLUSTER Title: Admira Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Previously unreleased recordings from 1971. 2nd pressing, standard jewel case packaging. "Admira is sourced from original master recordings discovered by Kluster member and Tangerine Dream engineer Klaus Freudigmann. Along with Vulcano, also being released at the same time on Important, Admira is presented here for the first time in this deluxe package. These intense sessions were made with Schnitzler at the helm, as always, after the departure of Mobius and Roedelius from the group. Conrad Schnitzler founded Kluster in 1969 along with Roedelius, Mobius and often Klaus Freudigmann who had multiple roles within the group as a player, engineer and instrument inventor. Eventually Roedelius and Mobius left Kluster and continued on as Cluster while Schnitzler and Freudigmann continued as Kluster often exploring the communal aspects of music by bringing new people into the group." -Important |
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Artist: KLUSTER Title: Klopfzeichen Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $36.00 |
| "New, very limited versions of these seminal Krautrock albums. Special puffy plastic packaging thats actually pretty impressive! There are no "regular" editions of these albums in print at the moment, either. "Originally released by Schwann, 1971 & re-issued by Schwann, 1980, Hypnotic, 1996 & Think Progressive, 1998. In limited edition miniature plastic LP cover with a multi fold-out repro of original album insert. Includes additional track by Schnitzler, Seidel & Freudigmann, 1971. With Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius, Christa Runge, Sprecherin, Wolfgang Seidel & Klaus Freudigmann." Digital remaster + Miniature LP Jacket Series." - Captain Trip. |
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Artist: KLUSTER Title: Klopfzeichen Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "180 gram vinyl version. Imagine finding a message in a bottle, forty years after it was dispatched. That is what it feels like when you listen to Klusters Klopfzeichen for the first time, mysterious, hard to decipher, a relic of a time long since passed. The handwriting is archaic, barely legible, the complex contents only falling into place when examined through the light of historical context. Klopfzeichen is an incredibly important release for the time in which it appeared (1971), an extraordinarily significant document. More than anything, the three messengers Konrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius formulated a radical claim with Klopfzeichen: anarchic, unlimited freedom of art and music. Klusters music may have aged, but their message has not. That the recording session happened at all is, curiously enough, due to a church musician, a man one would then have described as extremely progressive. Oskar Gottlieb Blarr not only made it possible for these musical enfants terribles to work in Düsseldorfs Rhenus Studio, he also orchestrated the release of Klopfzeichen shortly afterwards through the Schwann Verlag, a publisher closely associated with the church, on their own record label, AMS Studio (subtitled "Werkraum für neue Kirchenmusik"/trans. "workspace for new church music"). This "ecclesiastical" affinity is probably the reason for the strongly-committed political and religious texts spoken over the music on the A-side. Kluster lyrics they are not, and they sound a little strange today. True to their understanding of artistic freedom (Joseph Beuys was undoubtedly an influence), Kluster improvised with all sources of sound they could lay their hands on: guitar, bass, cello, flute, drums and various other pieces of equipment not usually intended for musical use. None of them could profess to be an expert on any of the instruments. They were brilliant dilettantes, a decade before the concept was invented. Electronics? No sign of them. The budget did not stretch to synthesizers or anything of that ilk. That said, a certain Conny Plank was on board as sound engineer for the early recordings. He added an apocalyptic character to Klusters menacing and chaotic music. Klopfzeichen was the most radical album of the early German pop music avant-garde by a country mile. Its sounds and noises had nothing in common with the sequencer-generated electronic music emerging from Berlin or Düsseldorf. Kluster music was Angstmusik, the music of fear. Liner notes by Asmus Tietchens." -Bureau B. |
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Artist: KLUSTER Title: Schwarz (Eruption) Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Comes on 180 gram vinyl and includes download card for the album. The official Konrad Schnitzler discography lists Eruption, released in 1971, under the title Schwarz, as the first Schnitzler album. In actual fact, Eruption is the third and final LP by the group Kluster, following Klopfzeichen (BB 110CD/LP) and Zwei Osterei (BB 111CD/LP). The line-up printed on the labels leaves no room for doubt. Unlike the two previous albums, Eruption was not issued by the Schwann Verlag, but by the band on its own, hence the task of financing the record fell to the participants. Roedelius and Moebius, however, were either unable or unwilling to get involved in this risky business. Without further ado, Schnitzler decided to cover the cost of pressing up 200 LPs which he would bring out under his own name. This historical "error" has now been corrected: Eruption is a Kluster album. Seen alongside Klopfzeichen and Zwei Osterei, Eruption is a different beast altogether. The total absence of lyrics, to begin with; the music is music, nothing more. The listener revels in a pure symphony of sound, its dramatic artistry holding his attention until the very end. And that is the second major difference to the first two LPs. Whereas their furious intensity sounded almost brutally improvised, Eruption appears clearly structured throughout, musical freedoms notwithstanding. Kluster take their time in developing spontaneous ideas here, they get loud and then, for lengthier periods, go quiet, suggesting at times a sense of absolute emptiness, followed by outbreaks of dark anger. The possibilities opened up by live electronics were thrillingly exploited to the limit. And yet there is undeniably a method in the music. In the course of their many live concerts, Kluster had learned to use instruments and electronics constructively, reaching the zenith of their musical powers of expression on Eruption. Kluster disbanded after Eruption. The album is a revealing document of a band striving to stretch the musical spectrum during the early 1970s, and indeed, how capable they were of doing so. Moebius and Roedelius went on working together as Cluster, and Conrad Schnitzler (now with a C) began developing his own vision of electronic music, a project he continued assiduously until his death (2011). Still, all three had their roots in Kluster -- incredibly powerful roots. And Kluster have never ceased to be hugely fertile ground. May their creative inspiration never run dry." -Bureau B. |
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Artist: KLUSTER Title: Vulcano Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Previously unreleased live recordings from 1971, recorded in Wuppertal, Germany. 2nd pressing, standard jewel case packaging. "Vulcano is sourced from original master recordings discovered by Kluster member and Tangerine Dream engineer Klaus Freudigmann. Along with Admira, also being released at the same time on Important, Vulcano is presented here for the first time in this deluxe package. These intense sessions were made with Schnitzler at the helm, as always, after the departure of Mobius and Roedelius from the group." -Important |
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Artist: KLUSTER Title: Zwei Osterei Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
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"180 gram vinyl version. Zwei Osterei is the second half of a recording session which took place on a single day in November 1970. Klopfzeichen is the first part. Yet the uncompromising Zwei Osterei surpasses the earlier Klopfzeichen album by some distance in terms of its harsh noisiness and near brutal sonic attacks. Everything that was left of the revolutionary verve of the late 1960s seems to have been distilled into this music with a burning glass: aesthetic destruction to liberate the mind and ears for utopian designs; the definitive coalescence of art and pop into something completely new; unbridled musical freedom, coupled with a love of noise. Zwei Osterei is all of this. How unsettling Klusters music must have been for the professional avant-garde of the period (music journalists, critics etc.). Kluster turned pretty much everything associated with so-called progressive pop music on its head. No song structure, no rhythm, little more than muffled pulsation. No heroic poses, no transfigured gestures on stage. This attitude, or rather anti-attitude is particularly in evidence on track two of Zwei Osterei. Still no electronic instruments, just guitar, drums and non-musical sonic sources as Kluster unleash a sound spectacle which anticipates the industrial artists who emerged some years later. Conny Plank played a pivotal role as sound engineer with the relatively limited studio equipment available to him. His meticulous reading of the bands intentions led to the creation of pure, electroacoustic music -- loud, violent, real-time improvisation. Shrill feedback, tape echo loops and layers of sonic cascades dominate this section of the album. This was no longer psychedelic, nor "progressive." It was more like sonic warfare, waged against all musical categories and conventions. Many a listener posed the rather helpless question "What is that supposed to be??... art? Music? A happening?" According to statements made by the band, none of the above. It was simply Kluster. A lofty claim which Zwei Osterei fulfills one hundred percent. Translated, the statement is nothing more nor less than a challenge to ignore the accumulated theory of art and music, with all the risks and side effects this entails. Back in 1970, Kluster could not have known that they were setting in motion a process which would endure until the present day. But they no doubt hoped as much." -Bureau B.
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Artist: KLUSTER Title: Zwei-Osterei Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $36.00 |
| "New, very limited versions of these seminal Krautrock albums. Special puffy plastic packaging thats actually pretty impressive! There are no "regular" editions of these albums in print at the moment, either. "Originally released by Schwann, 1971 & re-issued by Schwann, 1980, Hypnotic, 1996 & Think Progressive, 1998. In limited edition miniature plastic LP cover with a multi fold-out repro of original album insert. Includes additional track by Schnitzler, Seidel & Freudigmann, 1971. With Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius, Manfred Paethe, Sprecher, Wolfgang Seidel & Klaus Freudigmann." Digital remaster + Miniature LP Jacket Series." - Captain Trip. |
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Artist: KLUSTER AND FRIENDS Title: 1969-1973 Format: 6LP Boxset Label: QBICO Country: Italy Price: $235.00 |
| Limited supply of this box, which has been made in an edition of only a couple hundred. Unreleased music from Schnitzler, Freudigmann, Seidel & Friends. "6LP (black vinyls/black labels/black inner sleeves) box, spray painted (stencil/lettering by Troglosound) in gold or silver or bronze (3 versions) and with clear plastic insert (rare photos). Unreleased music!" "Kluster was never over. There is KLUSTER until today. If we friends met, we didnt think about, under which name we met. It is the style of the music which comes out. No other group made such music. This is Kluster-music, it is a style.." -- Conrad Schnitzler. |
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Artist: KNEAD Title: This Melting Happiness - I Want You To Realize That It Is Another Trap Format: LP Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $30.00 |
| "Knead is Keiji Haino + Ruins. This second album -- Live in Tokyo 2001 -- is the very first recording of the band. Limited edition, 220gr. vinyl." - Fractal |
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Artist: KNEALE, CAMPBELL Title: Pink Stalingrad Format: CD Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
| "Imagine... a SOLO album! Some kind of loose-as-hell rumination on human tragedy of a magnitude beyond imagining. Take the everlasting, golden-superchord of Birchville Cat Motel, the growling tectonic, under-par riffage of Black Boned Angel, and the Burzum-o-phonic, cassette-left-on-the-dashboard fidelity disruption of Ming. A white-knuckled ride through snow and smoke and blood and fire. SHOSTAKOVICH!" - C/Psi/P. |
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Artist: KNIGHT SCHOOL Title: Revenger Format: LP Label: Make A Mess Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "KNIGHT SCHOOL is a fresh-faced duo (sometime trio) from New York City transmitting mesmeric frequencies like star students of a cassette-pop underworld. Revenger is their second full-length record following 2009s self-released The Poor and Needy Need to Party, and their first for a minor label: San Franciscos Make a Mess Records. Knight School populates gorgeous, entrancing melodies with opaque lyrics that are often bleak, sometimes humorous and often bleakly humorous (sometimes). Their concise songs have a strange air akin to a celebratory sadness, like bounding out of the house in the middle of summer to find yourself in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime snowstorm. KEVIN ALVIR and CHRIS BALLA wrote and recorded Revenger themselves, conjuring epic bedroom hypnosis from acoustic guitars, electric jangle and chime, primitive drum machines, tumbling drum kits and dreamy harmonies (and harmonicas). The album recalls early Guided By Voices, 60s folk-pop wonderment, The Go-Betweens and post-punk-era indie, but casts off into foreign waters on the strength of its own charmingly personal vision." - Make A Mess. |
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Artist: KNIT WITCH Title: Witchcraft Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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Artist: KNIVES Title: Switchblade Princess Format: 7" Label: Troniks Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "Final document of the crash & burn/pure hatred duo of Phil Blankenship (The Cherry Point/LHD) & Jon Borges (Pedestrian Deposit). Glass shards of black death for the TROUBLED YOUTH & BLACK MINISKIRT set. lim. 333 copies & going fast. double A side record." - Troniks. |
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Artist: KNIVES OV RESISTANCE Title: Prisca Sapienta Format: CD Label: Aurora Borealis Country: UK Price: $13.50 |
| "..Knives Ov Resistance eschews the cardigan and commune imagery of folk revivalists in favour of a darker more contemporary take. ...pastoral swells, buzzing stringed bliss, layered samples (from birdsong and choirs through to blankets of the indistinguishable) and electronic fuckery..." - Aurora Borealis. |
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Artist: KNIZAK, MILAN Title: Kissing Spell Format: CD Label: Broken Music Country: Germany Price: $24.00 |
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"..recorded in 1964-1965 and originally released in 1979 re-issued. Groundbreaking work of art damage. Music made with broken, scratched, burned, painted, glued records etc. Backwards compositions, upside down scores and so on." - Kissing Spell. "From 1963 to 1964 I used to play records either too slowly or too fast and thus change the quality of the music. In 1965 I started to destroy records: scratch them, punch holes in them, break them. By playing them (which destroyed the needle and often the record player, too) an entirely new music was created -- Unexpected, nerve-racking, and aggressive. Compositions lasted a second or for an infinitely long time (like when the needle got stuck in a deep groove and played the same phrase over and over again). Soon I developed this system even further. I began sticking tape on top of records, painting over them, burning them, cutting them up and gluing parts of different records back together again to achieve the widest possible variety of sounds. Later I began to work in the same way with scores. I erased some of the notes, signatures, and whole bars. I added notes and signatures, changed the tempo and order of the bars, played the compositions backwards, turned the lines upside down, pasted different parts of different scores together, and so on." - Milan Knizak. Highly recommended!!
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Artist: KNOTH, FELIX aka FELIX KUBIN Title: Die Pein vom Haupt entfernen Format: LP & Film Object Boxset Label: Rund um den Watzmann Country: Netherlands Price: $36.00 |
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"This box-set combines a mini-LP with 8 musical tracks with a primitive film projector called zootrope containing 8 short films. The 8 musical pieces are connected to the 8 short films, which can be both listened to and seen on your record player. No complicated assembly kit, no risk for your record player, everything is quickly installed and again adds,
as usual with these Rund um den Watzmann releases, a new dimension to the medium long player. Felix Knoth, also known as Felix Kubin, 1/2 Klangkrieg or 1/2 Liedertafel Margot Honnecker, realized a short film with the same title back in 1994. Both film and music are a restless self-reflection. This object is an archetype in the tradition of the Tšdliche Doris Box or the Vegetarian Bavarian in Exile Box. Apparently it has to be in a box. Edition of 500." - Rund um den Watzmann. When calculating postage count as 4 items.
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Artist: KNOTS Title: Heartbreaker Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Official reissue of 1980 NYC punk rock classic. All analog from masters. 500 pressed." - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: KNOTT, DAVID, JEFFERY TAYLOR, ROBERT MILLIS & RICK BISHOP [of the Sun City Girls] Title: Messenger Girls Trio Format: LP Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
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"Jeffery Taylor and I started playing guitars together last December 2000. Not long after we decided to invite Rob Millis in on the fun and pretty soon, word got around and Sir Richard was soon begging us to let him change our strings. We considered it for awhile and eventually conceded. The music ranges from soft to loud, and there are many familiar as well as unknown stylistic influences. Its pretty AND its ugly--sometimes at the same time." - Dave Knott, 10/15/01. "well, with that said, and after a long wait for the quartet to go through literally hours and hours of material which they recorded from these weekly get-togethers, they have selected about 40 minutes worth of incredibly varied material drawn all from acoustic guitars (well, there is also harmonium on one track too). this record is worth it for the opening banter alone, but proceeds into some wonderful territory. there is crazed and loud chaos, there are beautiful tuneful passages (after all Dave can play classical guitar and Ricks album on Revenant was no Sun City Girls racket), there is even a drone here. not hi fidelity, these are raw living room recordings, and bare witness that some evenings were more, umm, loose than others. a wonderful little document, and certainly a anomaly in the Anomalous discography (but how could we be Anomalous without anomalies?)." - Anomalous. Limited edition of 207 copies.
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Artist: KNOX, REVEREND LESTER Title: ..Of Tifton, Georgia; Put Your Face In Gwod: The 366th Revival Format: CD Label: Smack Shire Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"Unselfconscious displays of wanton primitivism making the most potent representatives of the Crypt/Norton synod sound like third-chair Ernst Krenek fetishists by comparison. WE KID YOU NOT. Knox managed to cough up the dough to buy local (South Georgia) airtime for well over half a century. Tom Smith got hip to his coruscating genius as a high school senior, but only found the presence of mind to begin recording broadcasts in 1980. Put Your Face in Gwod was compiled from the least sane of the over 80 hours of tape he archived from Knoxs prime 1982-1994 epoch. In our view, Knox was one of the ultimate sonic reducers. Youll laugh, but the man was not a joke. He took down Magical Power Mako, Don Dietrich, and the entire Selektion catalogue in a trillionth of a nanosecond, and hell do the same to YOU." - Smack Shire.
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Artist: KOBUKU SENJU Title: Joining The Queue To Become One Of Those Ordinary Ghosts Format: LP Label: MIE Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "TETUZI AKIYAMA (guitar), TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA (no input mixing board), MARTIN TAXT (tuba), ELVIND LONNING (trumpet), and ESPEN REINERTSEN (saxophone) "follow a calm through-line across turbulent free improvisation" explains The Chicago Reader, "finding austere and meditative beauty in a profusion of sonic details and textures that easily could be dizzying.... The performances are beguilingly rich and uncategorizable." An empire of exquisitely crafted noise recorded live in Oslo in 2011. Edition of 250." - MIE. |
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Artist: KODAMA Title: Turning Leaf Migrations Format: LP Label: Olde English Spelling Bee Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Kodama is the ongoing recording project of two well-known visual and sound artists - Hitoshi Kojo and Michael Northam - and this is their first widely available release as a duo. Recorded in various improbable locations whenever they crossed paths over the course of several years and then finally edited and assembled in a cluttered garage in the west side of Indianapolis. There is a decidedly more improvisational feel and crisp psychedelic aura to these recordings when compared to their other work and one can hear the influence of Ghedalia Tazartes in how the various recordings were stitched together. Limited pressing of 500 copies. Covers & insert printed on 2-color offset press with illustrations and design by Hitoshi Kojo." -Olde English Spelling Bee "We are the spirit of forest. Our howling has been offered to the many goddesses of the valleys. Teething our emptiness they, licking the stars, until white holes appear in our sky through them towards regenerative guides of the tonal-morphic omni-verses. Using found objects to seduce voices from unlikely sources as well as traditional instruments of wind, wires and wood. Kodama weaves between emotional poetry and dynamic forces of noises. The recordings have a strong atmosphere of each location - the top of a mountain in Switzerland, a campground in Ohio, Lofoten Island in Norway, the arctic circle in Finland, Niagara Falls, etc. It includes a lot of the dirts of the raw recordings, but also incredibly beautiful moments such as the session with an owl in a Slovenian forest, an alpine summit singing meditation under the vast galaxy, and an encounter with the small people through strange ritual..." -Hitoshi Kojo |
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Artist: KOERNER, SPIDER JOHN Title: March 1963 Format: LP Label: Neros Neptune Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "A major archival discovery, taped March 24, 1963 for a Milwaukee, Wisconsin radio program, on the eve of the very same day that the seminal Blues, Rags & Hollers LP by Koerner, Ray & Glover was created. Spider John Koerner is the man who first introduced a young Bob Dylan to the 12-string guitar, a bona fide legend who is acknowledged as an influence by artists as diverse as John Lennon, Beck, The Doors & Dylan himself. Nearly 50 years ago, Paul Nelson, writing in the Little Sandy Review and Sing Out respectively, said that "Koerners art is like Chaplins, as great and lasting as it is entertaining," while calling him "the most innovatively brilliant acoustic blues musician of his generation." In the year 2010 -- seldom performing and now in his 70s -- the reclusive Koerner is "one of the worlds greatest living practitioners of traditional American folk music." It is with enormous pride that Neros Neptune presents this long-lost piece of American musical history. Tip-on sleeves, pressed on 180 gram vinyl." - Neros Neptune. |
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Artist: KOERNER, SPIDER JOHN Title: Music Is Just A Bunch Of Notes/The Secret of Sleep Format: CD/DVD Label: Neros Neptune Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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Artist: KOES BERSAUDARA Title: Koes Bersaudara 1967 Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"The first in a series of (Sublime Frequencies) releases to chronicle the Indonesian popular music scene from the late 1950s through the late 1970s -- titles to come will consist of single artist releases and various artists compilations dedicated to specific styles or genres. This CD features the first-ever reissue of Koes Bersaudaras two extremely rare and almost impossible-to-find original recordings from 1967 -- To The So-Called "The Guilties" (12 song full-length LP) and Djadikan Aku Domba Mu (8 song 10" LP). Guilties has long been considered by Indonesian music historians as their nations legendary garage rock masterpiece, not to mention the first record to directly challenge or speak out against the Indonesian government. Recorded live in the studio in a few hours, the album is laced with a raw, guitar-driven sound that forays into previously unexplored realms of the mid-60s Beat generation. Though Guilties is obviously inspired by Western bands of the period, the record possesses a unique feel throughout and will challenge you to find obvious derivative Western sources (with the exception of the Byrds guitar style on "Apa Sadja"). Djadikan Aku Domba Mu was recorded a few months before the Guilties album and has a much dreamier feel overall. Some of the tracks are more psychedelic and reminiscent of the ballads the Koeswoyo brothers would create at the end of the 1960s. Also included in this set is the studio outtake "The Land Of Evergreen," the only cut in this collection that was recorded in stereo. One of 4 tracks on this CD sung in English, "The Land Of Evergreen" features an absolutely stunning guitar intro and is one of the best songs the band ever created. Koes Bersaudara (Koes Brothers) were originally from East Java but formed in Jakarta in 1960. At the beginning, the group consisted of five Koeswoyo brothers -- Jon, Tonny, Nomo, Yon and Yok. After their first album was released in 1964, older brother Jon quit, reducing the group to a four-piece. Tonny (lead guitarist and songwriter) was the leader of the group with Yon (rhythm guitar) and Yok (bass) handling the vocals along with Nomo on drums. Their early recordings were influenced by The Everly Brothers and Western ballads, but by 1965, the group started to grow their hair longer, wore high-heeled leather boots, and added Beatles songs to their stage show. This caught the attention of President Sukarno who began waging war against the "Western decadence" of Beatlemania which had taken hold of the Indonesian popular music scene. Koes Bersaudara was arrested and spent 3 months in prison for performing a Beatles song at a private house party. They were released from jail at the same time General Suhuarto launched his military coup and former restrictions on Western pop music began to be lifted. By 1967, Koes Bersaudara were back in the studio recording Djadikan Aku Domba Mu and To The So-Called "The Guilties" (what would become their most challenging music) on Dick Tamimis Mesra Record label. Nomo left the group in 1968 and after Tonny, Yon and Yok found their new drummer Kasmuri (Murry), Koes Plus was born in 1969 and became the most popular Indonesian band of the 1970s. These reissued tracks have been coveted by serious "in the know" collectors worldwide for decades and will surely appeal to all fans of the garage rock/psychedelic era of the mid-late 1960s as a significant missing piece of the global pop music history puzzle. Housed in a tri-fold digipack CD with a 20-page booklet featuring selected lyrics, rare & unseen photos provided by Koes Bersaudara for this specific project and extensive liner notes of the bands amazing history by compiler Alan Bishop." - Sublime Frequencies.
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Artist: KOES PLUS Title: Dheg Dheg Plas & Volume 2 Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Often referred to as "the Beatles of Indonesia," Koes Plus are the most beloved pop group in the history of Indonesian music, yet theyve been basically unknown to the rest of the world. Born in 1969 from the previously established roots of Koes Bersaudara, the group blazed a trail across the Indonesian popular music landscape of the 1970s, with a scope that reached from the archipelago out to Singapore and Malaysia. The band began as a psychedelic-era beat group and eventually streamlined their sound into a successful formula of hit-making success. Recording relentlessly during the 1970s (40 full-length albums plus countless compilations), the band delivered a solid and familiar pop style and simultaneously branched out with an astonishing onslaught of LPs catering to specific genres which set a precedent for other popular groups to follow in the ensuing years. More than three decades removed from the peak of their popularity in the late 70s, most major Indonesian cities have their own Koes Plus fan clubs, local weekly radio shows dedicated to their music, and frequent tribute band shows. There are currently more than 60 Koes Plus tribute bands on the island of Java alone ranging in age from kids under 10 to those in their 60s. Koes Plus has become a national symbol of pride, an Indonesian legend larger than life; their music seamlessly crossing over from generation to generation. Reissued here for the first time, this CD contains the first two incredibly rare Koes Plus albums in their entirety: Dheg Dheg Plas (commonly referred to as Volume 1) from 1969 and Volume 2 from 1970. Dheg Dheg Plas features spectacular beat rockers such as "Kelelewar" ("The Bat"), "Awan Hitam" ("The Black Cloud"), "Hilang Tak Berkesan" ("Gone Without An Impression") and the title track. It also includes the original versions of two of Koes Plus most brilliant and beloved ballads: "Manis Dan Sayang" ("Sweet And Dear") and "Tjintamu Telah Berlalu" ("Your Love Has Passed"). Volume 2 has spectacular late-60s moments: brilliant and highly resourceful use of electric organ, amazing vocals and the acoustic guitar as a primary rhythmic component in an otherwise electric psychedelic and pop environment. It also includes their heaviest freak-out track, "Pent Juri Hati" ("Heart Stealer"). Both records have been coveted by serious "in-the-know" collectors worldwide for decades and will surely appeal to all fans of the beat and psychedelic era of the late-1960s as a significant missing piece of the global pop music history puzzle. Tri-fold digipack CD with a 20-page booklet featuring rare & unseen photos provided by Koes Plus for this specific reissue project and extensive liner notes of the bands amazing history by Alan Bishop." -Sublime Frequencies
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Artist: KOI POND Title: So Higher Format: LP Label: Sonic Meditations Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Koi Pond is comprised of 3 friends who get together when the time is right to do what is known to many band participants as “jamming”. This term may be a bit harsh on your eyes, but when friends David Aron, Arik Roper and Pete Vogl some together to “jam”, its an epic dense solid session of heavy playing. Koi Pond originally released a cassette on Night People entitled Volcano, which I has the pleasure of happening on to. That limited cassette peaked my interest, sounding like a basement tape from Exmagma or some other lost recording from the mid seventies. After contacting the band to find out this is a one-off project between friends, I coerced the trio into reuniting for a recording, which became So Higher, a recording of 2 side dimensions between locked Krautrock groove with washes of synth exploration. Side two is a very different affair, more improvised heavy jamming comprised of solid bass line, dubby drumming and heavy psych guitar workouts. Those same elements from the cassette “jams” are there, but more focused and sonically represented. At times side A showcases a beastly resemblance to Monster Magnets 25 - Tab mixed with Spacemen 3, side B on the other hand, is a journey unto its own..." -Sonic Meditations. |
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Artist: KOI POND Title: Volcano Format: Cass Label: Night People Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Koi Pond is a three piece from NYC made up of some generally awesome dudes. Arik Roper plays bass and is a legendary artist/illustrator who does work for numerous bands, labels and publications such as Arthur, Southern Lord etc. while also playing in other bands such as Under Satans Sun and Mattalama. Pete Vogal plays synth while also jamming in Bow Ribbons, and designs arwork for clothes, David Aron plays drums, is the perpetrator for Little Cakes Gallery, used to skateboard alot, makes rad visual artwork, and jams in USUN with Mark Borthwick and Hisham Bharoocha. Despite these dudes epic resumes, Koi Pond is epic all on its own. Volcano is all about cosmic grooves, deep often minimal, endless repetitions that slowly evolve into more psyched out blissed out trances. Roper and Arons tight rhythmic foundations create the perfect backdrop for Vogals synth improvisations. This is a meditative listen that never gets old, it just keeps grooving on and on forever. Like Neu covering Dark Magus in a Tibetan Monastery. Artwork by Dave Aron, printing by SDReed." -Night People Tapes |
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Artist: KOJO, HITOSHI Title: Ezo Format: 10" Label: Alluvial Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The title of the pieces of this record, Hiruko and Ebisu, are the two names of one mythical being in Japanese mythology. Hiruko is a firstborn child of the god, who was deserted in the sea, because he could not stand up by three years old. He drifted ashore to the land of human beings, and was cherished by the people. Then he was brought up as a god, and was worshipped by the people as Ebisu. Somehow I was haunted by the story all the time during the working period. Therefore the names naturally became the titles. Afterwards I knew that Ebisu is also an alias of Ezo which was the old name of northern part of Japan. So it was adopted as the album title. Although the theory that Ezo equate with Ainu seems to be disputed sometime, I chose the name as a tribute to my favorite Ainu mythologies, and to the folks. The image on the cover is Ebisu which has visited in my mind at the time. Although its quite different from the traditional image, the sound source of the pieces were all produced by found-object which were mostly found from daily commodities. The resonance of the inside of objects and the resonance of the recorded spaces were also treated as the material. The process to find an object which is usually not used as a musical instrument was considered as a part of the execution. Therefore the founders name of some of the objects were mentioned in the cover. Also the vinyl record was fatally chosen for the album as an object which must be worn and be degraded by the condition and the frequency of the use. The noises by dusts and surface scratches on the disk should be listened as a part of the piece". -Hitoshi Kojo |
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Artist: KOLBERG, KÅRE Title: Electronic Works 1970-1973 Format: LP Label: Prisma Country: Norway Price: $23.00 |
| "Kåre Kolberg (b. 1936) is one of Norways foremost contemporary composers and is regarded as one of the pioneers of early electronic music and cross-disciplinary art in Scandinavia. He has composed music for film, theater, and chamber orchestras and for jazz acts such as Svein Finnerud Trio and Jan Garbarek. This LP contains three early electronic pieces by Kolberg and comes in a limited edition of 300 copies." - Prisma. |
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Artist: KOLLEKTIV Title: SWF-Sessions Volume 5 Format: CD Label: Long Hair Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
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"Kollektiv is the first band in the series of SWF sessions on Long Hair who, at the time of the SWF recording on 06.07.1973, was relatively well known.
In March 1973 the band recorded its first LP, with Conny Plank as co-producer and sound-engineer, for the legendary Brain-Metronome Label. Acclaimed by progressive and krautrock fans and critics alike, it showed a different, more innovative style of playing contemporary German rock music and was honoured with a nomination for the German Schallplattenpreis. A re-release of the LP on Long Hair is planned. Kollektiv recorded new versions of two of the titles from the LP in SWF’s Studio U 1 in Baden-Baden. The SWF versions of “Baldrian” and “Gageg” demonstrate the band’s ability to improvise, its successful efforts to develop its best ideas and a dynamic handling of basic themes. The other three titles are snapshots of songs subjected to continuous development, yet always revolving around a fixed framework, showing remarkable instrumental ability and the desire to experiment and explore the scope for development." - Long Hair.
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Artist: KOLOVOS, PETER Title: Black Colors Format: Triple LP Box Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $38.00 |
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"Over more than a decade Peter Kolovos has created an incredibly physical and dynamic musical language using the electric guitar. He plays music that unpredictably flows from electrified fragments of sound which fold and expand in dense layers and massive tones that surge and collapse in rapid succession. His approach has been called “massively a-formal” and his control of timing and texture “masterful.” Rather than set harmonic or rhythmic structures, he draws form from open sequences of sound events merged and propelled by a distinct internal logic. In his music Kolovos attempts to erase the line between intent and impulse and to create sounds that are immediate and unrepeatable.
Black Colors is the fullest realization of Kolovoss music to date. Over six sides of vinyl the album presents a vast world of intricate sound—at times dense and teeming with saturated bursts and drones and at others sparse with minute ticks and quiet tones that reverberate in open space. Without a preset listening sequence, the album is intended to be a shifting, prismatic work—with sides that can be arranged in hundreds of different sequences, each yielding a distinct sound experience.
The music on Black Colors is coupled with Zoe Croshers artwork. Eight photographs from her "L.A. Black Like" series present views from the black spaces and shadows of Los Angeles where light and color only pierce the darkness in filtered and obscured glimpses of the outside world. Beyond being created in the same time and place, Croshers images and Kolovoss music share a deeper consonance.
Deluxe Packaging: 3 x 180 gram high-quality vinyl pressed at Pallas Germany. Mastered at 45 RPM for volume, dynamics, and clarity by Rashad Becker at D&M Berlin. Full-color, heavy tip-on slipcase with three full-color sleeves. Digital download included." - Thin Wrist.
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Artist: KOLOVOS, PETER Title: New Bodies Format: LP Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| Full Color Heavy Tip-On Cover / 180 Gram Vinyl Edition of 500. "Peter Kolovos, guitarist in Los Angeles trio Open City, presents here three tracks of electric guitar improvisations. Each features successively recorded left- and right-channel guitars, in which the overdub responds asynchronously to the original. While Open City explored the electroacoustic interplay afforded by the two-guitar and drums line-up, in New Bodies, his first solo release, Kolovos lets rip with all the skronk and blurt hes been holding in for the last decade, in tiny, tightly gated segments. His sound vocabulary is very broad, and his control of texture and timing is masterful. Using equalisation, reverb, envelope shaping and volume control... He rapidly opens and closes the volume window on a dizzying series of extended guitar techniques, creating the inescapable impression of Derek Bailey covering The Residents Duck Stab. If that wont sell records, I dont know what will. This electrifying effect is enhanced by the crisp digital recording and the superb Dubplates and Mastering pressing job - every clang and buzz is right up in your grill. Released on Kolovoss own imprint, the packaging continues the good work. The cover features a magnificent photograph of the guitarist taken by Joyce Campbell using the mid-19th century tin type process, which requires a sitting of over three minutes. The resulting image is as physically time based as the recording it encloses, and has the distinctive look of a Victorian death mask - no posing or even facial expression is possible. In this regard the cover is an exact metaphor of the recording - what you perceive is exactly what you get." - Bruce Russell, The Wire August 2009 |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER Title: De Nye Rigspolitichefen Format: CDR Label: SHMF Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| Limited to 27 copies. |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER Title: Dissobedienti Format: LP Label: Kommissar Hjuler Country: Germany Price: $35.00 |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER Title: Endo-/Exocytose Format: CDR Label: SHMF Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| Limited to 42. |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER Title: Funky Warmechristkind Format: CDR Label: SHMF Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| Handmade sexy Chrismas cover. Limited to 27 copies. |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER Title: Jobeuysseph Format: CDR Label: SHMF Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| Handmade felt & wood packaging. Numbered edition of 30. |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BAER Title: Amerikanische Poesie und Alkoholismus Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "180 Gram Edition of 500. "Officer Hjuler of the Flensburg police, and his wife Frau Baer give an earsplitting lecture on sound poetry on the A side and lull us into a state of American Alcoholism on the flip. This German duo has over 200 releases on their own lathe cut/cdr imprint and is quickly racking up international honors, album credits and acclaim. This is their largest LP release to date. One side is Kommissar Hjuler und Frau : ONCE AGAIN concrete poetry (or was it the song?) a collage of US-american sound poetry, collected by Jean-Francois Bory, presented by Kommissar Hjuler und Frau. "One side is Mama Baer : Alcoholisme - brut field recordings with mama baers voice and treatment. "Amerikanische Poesie... is the duo at their most hilariously alienating and crudely sophisticated." -David Keenan in WIRE "this is, naturally, a batshit-crazy affair, with the two absolutely howling over the purported “legacy” materials (through a fender princeton from the sound of things) - its both terrifying and oddly inspiring (which sums up most of what makes this stuff so ... engaging)." -Keith Fullerton Whitman |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BAER Title: Asylum Lunaticum Format: CD Label: Intransitive Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Intimate, absurd, feral and aggressive in its homemade weirdness, the music of Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Bär has been a well-kept secret for too long. Hjuler & Bär have self-published their dada-esque sound poetry experiments on small-edition lathe-cut LPs, tapes and CDRs for years, usually adorning them with elaborate junk sculptures and paintings. Intransitive is proud to collect their best recordings so far onto a single, widely available CD so that anyone can hear the music without making a major financial investment. The husband and wife duo uses deceptively simple means -- typically just their voices, a cassette-tape recorder and a microphone -- to create astonishing suburban dramas that are somehow both sweetly charming and staggeringly psychotic, sometimes at the same time. Join Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Bär as they perform acts of banal heroics, like exploring the basement... taking their son for a bicycle ride... walking with a red shirt into a field of cattle... pondering reforms made to the Danish police system... all viewed through the unhinged lens. Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Bär are painters, sculptors, film-makers and musicians based in Flensberg, Germany, near the Danish border. Their artwork has been exhibited in galleries and at festivals around the world. They collaborated with like-minded artists such as Thurston Moore, Arnulf Meifert, John Weise, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Jan Iwers and Af Ursin, among many others." "Asylum Lunaticum is not just another name or title, its an almost too harmless a description of the family Hjuler/Bar. Over decades, Kommisar Hjuler provided me with his sick but mind-blowing art. So rare their works are, its truly time to dig em out and show the world! This CD shall do so." -- Rudolf Eb.er (R&G/Schimpfluch-Commune Int.) |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BAER Title: Das 77-Retect Format: CDR Label: SHMF Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| Various objects attached to the cover. Limited to 77. |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BAER Title: Heidi Format: CDR Label: SHMF Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| Limited edition of 36 copies. |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BAER Title: Kontaminierung Entekelung Format: CDR Label: SHMF Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| Limited edition of 27 copies. |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BAER Title: Mensen Die Format: LP Label: Ultra Eczema Country: Belgium Price: $28.00 |
| "Please translate all the titles and our names in Flemmish, Kommissar Hjuler asked me for this record. This record continues the German couples satirical approach to Fluxus, Dada, outsider art, whatever u wanna call it. Kommissar Hjuler is a police officer from a small village in Germany, Flensburg, where he lives and works with his younger wife, Mama Bär and their kids. Mama Bär is a full time painter. The Kommissar only started making music when he was already in his thirtees, heavily influenced by the strange music he had been collecting since the age of 16. This LP includes three long tracks; Its the last one in the Ultra Eczema 6-panel fold out cover series, limited to 300 copies." - Ultra Eczema. |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BAER Title: Once Again Concrete Poetry Format: CDR Label: SHMF Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
| Torn paper/stapled/collaged packaging. Numbered edition of 27. |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BAER Title: Perverse Schlaeuche Format: Double Cass Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $15.00 |
| "Ive had a hell of a week. Between going to work and assembling this release which contains 2 cassettes, an artist print of one of Kommissar Hjulers demented puppets and two stamped latex gloves in an edition of 150, I have been looking for the words to describe the music therein. And so, at my wits end, I have recruited this cat here to do that for me...................... nbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb edddddddmte mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm o n.............................................. 888888888888 sab deeeeeeeeeeeeeeek6 jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj ... Needless to say, another classic in the ever-expanding catalogue of this exciting and conceptually-intruiging duo. Do not miss out on this utterly confounding piece of freak-ephemera." -Beniffer Editions. |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BAER Title: Spongebob Duell Format: CDR Label: SHMF Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| XL Handmade collage covers. Limited to 18 copies. |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BAER Title: Vandroogenbroeck Format: CDR Label: SHMF Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| Full color and limited to 27 copies |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BAER Title: Wiederaufnahmeverfahren II / 06 Format: LP Label: SHMF/You Dont Have To Call It Music Country: Germany Price: $48.00 |
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"As a teenager Kommissar Hjuler began to look out for strange music. At Unterm Durchschnitt in Hamburg he found several records with electronic and industrial music. He then began to contact musicians like Steven Stapleton, Lt. Caramel, Merzbow or Due Process in order to get handsigned copies for his collection. At the age of 18 he was invited by Karlheinz Stockhausen for a concert of Hymnen. Kommissar Hjuler became a collector of any kinds of strange music with lots of contacts to the musicians, but he did not make any music at that time. He has a very creative mind. So whenever he recorded some tapes from items of his collection for some friend, he styled the tape covers as if they were little art objects. One of the musicians he had contacted was Jan Iwers (No One/No Records), who felt in love with the little tape covers he saw and asked for a styling of his next release.
So Kommissar Hjuler - 31 years old at that time - created some covers for a tape edition by Jan Iwers, then began to make some recordings together with him. They called their project TUULEN LAULU and made a double LP and some tapes, but he soon realized that he was not able to work in a band, his plans for music were too bizarre, so he started recording his own music �?? mostly with simple arrangements by using a mono cassette recorder.
His music might be called fluxus, for one will hardly find a name for it, some recordings are even more text sound collages or cut-up readings, some are simply bizarre music.
Soon after his first release by Tuulen Laulu he met his wife Mama Bär, she was only 17 years old. It was love at first sight. She did not know anything about strange music or arts, but soon showed a talent by nature for painting very abstract pictures (mostly acryl and wax) and creating songs in her very own vein. Both worked together as Kommissar Hjuler und Frau, whereas these recordings were dominated by Kommissar Hjuler. So she prefered to make her Mama Bär recordings without any others help.
They married, got their son Cy, built a house with a complete tone studio and gallery for her paintings and few collages by Kommissar Hjuler, both now work as artists and have released quite a lot of very limited releases on handcut vinyl, as CD-Rs or tapes. Covers were mostly created by Kommissar Hjuler.
Kommissar Hjuler joined the police, at the age of 16, then took evening classes and afterwards studied to become an police officer. He now works at 1. Police Department Flensburg. Mama Bär does no longer work in her job as chemical assistant, she now only works as an artist running a tiny gallery and mother.
Most of their spare time Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Bär use for any weird sound creations, paintings or sculptures. Not all ideas become realization, of course, otherwise their output would have been incredible, and in a way it is by now. But their world is dominated by art and who ever met them was astonished about their strange personalities, both can be regarded as one abstract organism of creative art in two persons belonging together." - Asylum Lunaticum. "Handstamped inner sleeve and 5 inserts (stamped inner sleeve, two textsheets, one printed photo and two coloured artwork prints signed by both artists).
Limited and numbered edition of 100 copies on pure black vinyl." - You Dont Have To Call It Music.
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Artist: KOMPLEKSI Title: (I Aint No) Lovechild/Moscow 1980 Format: 7" Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.75 |
| "Kompleksi ("complex" in Finnish) are Mike Not and pHinn, two ex-suicide candidates from Tampere, Finland, who ride in a red Lada through the gloomy streets of their rainy post-industrial town; the home of ice hockey fanatics, worlds last working Lenin Museum and countless sex shops. They started making music together in 2002, already having appeared on compilations of Mate Recordings (UK) and pHinnMilk (FIN). Mike Not (keyboards, production, programming, sound engineering) has produced music since the early 90s; pHinn (vocals, keyboards) has since 1996 maintained a Website called pHinnWeb on Finnish electronic, experimental and leftfield music. Kompleksi are now working on their first long play. They both also DJ in their hometown club called Eclectro Lounge. File under: post-industrial soul, post-Soviet electro. For more info, see: http://www.phinnweb.org/kompleksi Edition of 525. " - Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: KOMPLETA Title: Ministar Format: 10" Label: Feedback Country: NETHERLANDS Price: $16.00 |
| "2001, edition 0f 150. low fi electronics." The Feedback label (along with sublabel HYENA) release limited edition synth/minimal electronics/homemade new wave. |
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Artist: KONAGAYA, JUN Title: Organ Format: CD Label: Eskimo Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
 "This is Jun Konagaya (a.k.a. GRIM )s first solo album. GRIM released collection of complete sound sources from hanng niap records in 2009. and insanity live performance was resumed after it.
And having been released this time is not GRIM but a solo Jun konagaya name.
Atrocious feedback/roaring cannot be heard there.
"Organ" The malformed story about floating folk song of malformation, such as "Message" of GRIM.
Inner surface of the universe is filled with deep sorrow of Jun konagaya,
has been expanded to over 26 page booklet and beautiful sound.
Factory-pressed CD in a double gatefold digi pack.with 26P beautifle color booklet." - Eskimo.
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Artist: KONER, THOMAS Title: Nunatak Format: LP Label: Type Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
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"The Type label reissues German music producer Thomas Köners debut album, the first in a set of three, on vinyl for the very first time. Originally introduced to the world in 1990, Nunatak (then named Nunatak Gongamur) was shockingly ahead of its time, and it is hard to believe that it has been out of print and difficult to obtain for so long. Köner created the album with mood in mind; he has since been described as a "media" artist, and its easy to see why. While the music can be described as "dark ambient," these soundscapes elicit a widescreen collection of images. Through careful and measured use of gongs (recorded in different rooms and underwater) as well as homemade wind instruments, Köner created an album that would become a cornerstone of the genre and part of a triptych of records which have seldom been bettered. While the album is 20 years old at this point, it still sounds totally alien and totally unique. In these 11 brief, unnamed tracks, Köner guides us among battered lands, barren ice plains and damaged caves. Through the low-end resonance of his percussion, we are dragged into a hallowed chasm of doom-laden drone. There have been many tries at this style since Nunatak was first birthed, and many attempts to draw the genre into fresh and re-imagined territory, but few have come even close to the shadowy exclusion of Thomas Köner. Cut at Berlins Dubplates & Mastering." -Type
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Artist: KONER, THOMAS Title: Permafrost Format: LP Label: Type Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
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"Vinyl release. Permafrost was originally issued in 1993 and marked the conclusion of Thomas Köners epic and influential trilogy which included Nunatak (TYPE 069LP) and Teimo (TYPE 070LP). Darker and even more subdued and minimal than its predecessors, Permafrost was the album which saw Köner truly strip the sound back to the bare essentials; gone were the hints of harmony found in Teimo and the discernable gong sounds of Nunatak. All that remained were the deep, shadowy resonances, roomy ambience and gaseous drones that would become Köners calling card in the "dark ambient" genre. Listening to the record almost 20 years after its original release, the most shocking thing is how little it has aged. Its sound is so otherworldly -- the creeping low-end rumbles, distant icy tonal blasts and croaking occidental winds -- that it contextualizes the record with little else composed. The restraint Köner shows marks him out from his contemporaries and imitators -- there are few other records that have used silence (or near silence) so effectively. Quieter passages are employed to enhance the terrifying thrill of the more abrasive, rumbling peaks and the result is a narrative of unfaltering power. For instrumental music, ambient or otherwise, Permafrost is a foundational album. The word "classic" is bandied about all too often these days, but 20 years after it was first released, Permafrost is just as powerful as it ever was, and still absolutely unmatched in the genre. Cut at Berlins Dubplates and Mastering. Strictly limited copies only." -Type
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Artist: KONER, THOMAS Title: Teimo Format: LP Label: Type Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
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"The Type label releases a very special 2010 issue of this seminal album, the second in a series of three from Thomas Köner. Originally released in 1992 and never previously available on vinyl, Teimo is probably the most "tuneful" of Köners legendary triptych (Nunatak, Teimo and Permafrost). The submerged drones that became his signature are tempered slightly on this album, to give a hallowed, mournful edge which has been echoed on so much of todays darker ambient music. Indeed, at times throughout this cavernous album, there are hints at something orchestral in the layers of reverb and dense clouds of harrowing sound. It is hard to believe that Köner pieced this record together using recordings of gongs -- close miced to reveal their subtle overtones and resonance. At times, the resulting sound is so gloriously alien and so synthetic, that you would be forgiven for thinking it is a trick of synthesis, but the textures are always organic. Teimo is music which, like its companion pieces, inspires a rich, visual world; and if Nunatak suggested human ice exploration, then this record is set somewhere deep, deep underwater. The low-end resonance, which was later co-opted by so many drone and dark ambient practitioners, places us on the sea bed, muffled and disoriented, as sounds bubble and wash overhead. The distant sounds are almost dream-like, yet through the water, cracks of light and solace appear in the powerful harmonic elements." - Type.
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Artist: KONKRETE KANTILKE Title: Format: CD Label: Ventricle Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "more lo-fi underground classical, rattling of dungeon chains, +fleeting angelic vox, again making one ponder what medievalists might have done had they discovered a primitive form of electricity (making one realize the arbitrariness of progress) much of the silver series featured just voive+mellotron and could have been done centuries ago." - Ventricle. "Doomy church organ, clangy metallic percussion make for a cathedral dungeon sound, with angelic echoes from beyond." - Ventricle. All available titles from Mauve Sideshows (post-Kangaroo Kourt) long running label, exclusively releasing experimental, "mysterious female vox". "(Mauve Sideshow is an) extraordinary trippy US girl combo, sometimes kinda Current 93 meets "space whisper" era Gong, other times a weird space-trip, brain movie, noise & soundscape trip & flip out! There are numerous other Ventricle label interconnected acts to check-out, like: Angel Provocateur, Blessed Oblivion, Minus Infinity, Mistress Of Strands, Thistle, Torn Curtain, etc." - Ultima Thule. "A new CD on Mauve Sideshows Ventricle label is always a thrilling event." - FE. |
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Artist: KONONO NO. 1/THE DEAD C Title: Split Series 18 Format: 12" Label: Fat Cat Country: UK Price: $7.50 |
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Artist: KONSTRUKTIVISTS Title: Flowmotion Years 1980-1982 Format: Double LP Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $44.00 |
| Deluxe gatefold 2LP. "Dark-ambient/ritual-project Konstruktivists was formed by mastermind Glenn Michael Wallis in 1981/82 out of the ashes of Heute. Around this time -- in the late 70s/early 80s Glenn Michael Wallis was heavily involved with Throbbing Gristle, the U.K. pioneers of industrial. Between 1980 and 1982, Glenn/Konstruktivists has recorded several tracks of which one solo-tape and several Konstruktivists tapes found release in extremely rare and limited edition on the legendary tape label Flowmotion. Almost 2 hours of those early works are compiled on this double LP including his full solo-work (also released as Konstruktivists Vol.1) as well as tracks from Vol. 2 and other tracks released between 1980 and 1982." - Vinyl on Demand. |
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Artist: KONTRAVOID Title: Native State Format: 7" Label: Cititrax Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "The tracks Native State and Cut to Cleanse are exclusive 7" only versions. The record is pressed on clear blue vinyl and comes in a hand silk-screened sleeve, limited edition of 999 numbered copies. The name Kontravoid belongs on a limited run cassette circa 1980-something, the type of tape buried in lost upstate dustbins of pre-MIDI analog electronics, wedged between Cabaret Voltaire and Das Ding. The dark industrial and new wave influences are strong on ex-Crystal Castles drummer Cam Findlays new project - his voice is scary, like an echoing underwater growl - but the underlying pop melodies always afford a degree of breathing room." -Cititrax. |
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Artist: KOOLAID (GLOBAL TYRANNY) Title: S/T Format: LP + CD Label: Agitated Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "So, we get a tape of this in the post, yes, a tape, and thought it was pretty wild, then heard nothing...then we get a CDR, well two of them, some mix cassette, and a CD containing some OTT modern day Pop Art sleeve design that is retina rubbling!....with a scrawled note claiming, when you put the record out, you have to limit it to 500 LPs with a bonus free CD version that has a different mix of the music on it, NO Downloads whatsoever and the sleeve has to be wrap-around, like it could be a poster, on thicker card too, full colour mind!...we are KOOLAID (GLOBAL TYRANNY) on this record...send us some copies when its done....well that was telling us, so we had to put the record out. We listened to the CD again; it was bonkers, some wild psychedelic noise stomping round the room, meshed with some dark samples, really heavy and LIVE drums, almost a non stop mix of edge-of-the-seat paranoiac scuzz, with loops that pulse through the entire record. Like a modern day mix of the avant pop samplings and cut-up wizardry of Negativland, the obscure fractal pop psychedelic rock of the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, some of the white hot guitar of the Stooges / Loop variety, and a primal beat /rhythm that could have been lifted from Cro-Magnon."-Agitated. 500 copies only on vinyl, in deluxe wraparound color sleeve, with CD version (of different mixes of the four tracks)." -Agitated |
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Artist: KOPP, HERMANN Title: Japgirls In Synthesis Format: LP Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"unreleased (Der) Plan or Pyrolator-like material from early eighties." - Vinyl On Demand. "Hermann loves Amanda Lear and Paul Vrilio. Hermann started to make music
because the radio never played what he wanted to hear. He was taught to
play Violin for 5 years but never learned to play with the left hand so
that the tone would vibrate. With his first synthesizer Hermann has
played songs like John Caless "Heartbreak Hotel" and "I wanna be a good
boy" by Ramones.
Hermann made "Industrial-pop" with the german group "Keine Ahnung".
Hermann is somehow in charge of the "violent-movie-movement" with his
soundtracks for Jörg Buttgereit-movies. Hermann has played a lonely man
in the movie "Todesking" which will commit suicide in a bath-tub.
Hermanns first 12" is called "Aquaplaning in Venedig" which is long
deleted and highly collectable to minimal-wave collectors. SO is his
second M-Lp.
Hermann lives in Katalonien, but this can change very quick.
Hermann has his own style of music and usage of voice, hard to compare
to anything else. Very minimal, intellectual and dark on the one hand,
obscure, excentric, intellectual and somehow funny lyrics on the other
hand. Hermann Kopp, nothing else but Hermann Kopp." - Vinyl On Demand.Numbered editon of 500 in full color jackets.
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Artist: KOPP, HERMANN Title: Mondo Carnale - Best Of 1981-1989 Format: LP Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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Artist: KORAY, ERKIN Title: Meçhul: Singles & Rarities Format: LP Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Erkin Koray and Sublime Frequencies are pleased to present this collection of rare tracks and lesser-heard singles. All tracks were recorded and released in Turkey between 1970-1977 and culled from Korays personal vinyl collection. Includes exclusive photos and remastered audio. What more is there to say about Erkin Koray? An iconic guitar and songwriting genius. A voice of gold. Having founded the countrys first-ever rock and roll group in 1957, he is regarded worldwide as the father of Turkish rock. Forging Western sounds with his own inimitable musical mastery, he self-produced singles and LPs throughout the 1960s and 1970s that shook and altered Turkish society. Erkin didnt stop at rock and roll. Over time, he began to find inspiration in folk sounds from Turkeys Anatolian interior, and radio broadcasts received from Egypt and Lebanon. He looked to the East from his West-leaning Istanbul perch, and began incorporating these sounds into his own work. This amalgamation was as unprecedented and unorthodox in Istanbul at the time as rock and roll itself had been in the 1950s. The resulting hybrid sound ignited what became known as the Arabesque music movement in Turkey -- which continues to this day. While Erkin has recorded and performed tirelessly throughout the years (both as a solo artist, and with the powerful groups he formed), his extensive back catalog only began to be explored by the international community in the 1990s. He is now recognized as one of the foremost global leaders of psychedelic, folk rock, pop and balladry. His music has stood the test of time more than many of his Western contemporaries and influences have managed to, and his prolific work ethic has not ceased. He continues to live and breathe music, performing epic concerts, and continuously plotting new recordings and strategies. His vision and integrity, coupled with his pronounced world views and inherent musical greatness, have made him the unique and magnificent living legend he is today. This collection features tracks not found on the many unauthorized Erkin compilations and LP reissues that have emerged in the West over the years. Ranging from the sublime to the surreal, these tracks offer an essential glimpse into the extensive repertoire of the great Erkin Koray." -Mark Gergis, July, 2011 |
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Artist: KORAY, ERKIN Title: Mechul: Singles & Rarities Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Erkin Koray and Sublime Frequencies are pleased to present this collection of rare tracks and lesser-heard singles. All tracks were recorded and released in Turkey between 1970-1977 and culled from Korays personal vinyl collection. Includes exclusive photos and remastered audio. What more is there to say about Erkin Koray? An iconic guitar and songwriting genius. A voice of gold. Having founded the countrys first-ever rock and roll group in 1957, he is regarded worldwide as the father of Turkish rock. Forging Western sounds with his own inimitable musical mastery, he self-produced singles and LPs throughout the 1960s and 1970s that shook and altered Turkish society. Erkin didnt stop at rock and roll. Over time, he began to find inspiration in folk sounds from Turkeys Anatolian interior, and radio broadcasts received from Egypt and Lebanon. He looked to the East from his West-leaning Istanbul perch, and began incorporating these sounds into his own work. This amalgamation was as unprecedented and unorthodox in Istanbul at the time as rock and roll itself had been in the 1950s. The resulting hybrid sound ignited what became known as the Arabesque music movement in Turkey -- which continues to this day. While Erkin has recorded and performed tirelessly throughout the years (both as a solo artist, and with the powerful groups he formed), his extensive back catalog only began to be explored by the international community in the 1990s. He is now recognized as one of the foremost global leaders of psychedelic, folk rock, pop and balladry. His music has stood the test of time more than many of his Western contemporaries and influences have managed to, and his prolific work ethic has not ceased. He continues to live and breathe music, performing epic concerts, and continuously plotting new recordings and strategies. His vision and integrity, coupled with his pronounced world views and inherent musical greatness, have made him the unique and magnificent living legend he is today. This collection features tracks not found on the many unauthorized Erkin compilations and LP reissues that have emerged in the West over the years. Ranging from the sublime to the surreal, these tracks offer an essential glimpse into the extensive repertoire of the great Erkin Koray." -Mark Gergis, July, 2011 |
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Artist: KORAY, ERKIN Title: Tutkusu Format: LP Label: GDR Country: Italy Price: $34.00 |
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"This 4th album by the man had never been reissued on vinyl before, so its good news we have for you. This ones from 1977, and though Erkin went strongly ethnic with his previous album 2, here he went back on his steps and made another brilliant psych-rock album obviously adorned again with some Turkish traditional music elements, though not as strongly as with Elektronik Türküler. Here he even sings some tracks in English, giving the whole album a more occidental appeal but losing near nothing of the incredible enchantment of Erkins best recordings! Limited reissue of 500 copies with the original artwork in a beautiful gatefold cover."- GDR
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Artist: KORINE, HARMONY Title: The Collected Fanzines Format: Book Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Trade paperback approx. 350 pages, 24.98 list price. Reproduces all the original pages, mostly hand-written or featuring primitive xerox art, that were published in small editions, 1992 thru 1999. Youre excused if youve never seen or heard of these "fanzines". Influential line: "Janet Jackson thinks Christ is a Hoax." There are many other pages with similar sentiment, but dude, the vibe is a little scurrilous... "Going back through the years...its so hard to remember, I was always tripping and falling over myself. These zines were written over the last fifteen years, mostly in dark rooms and the basements of old people. With names like Adulthood, Foster Homes and Gardens, Pocahontas Monthly, Hümer, and others, they were sold in limited editions out of the Alleged Gallery and Andrea Rosen Gallery. Some were sold on street corners and given away to the tramp sects that were so prominent during that time period. Scraps of paper and half thoughts in the guise of art objects, you see. Not many people actually got a chance to have these but the ones who are still amongst the living have greatly benefited. I know one lady in Panama who has the complete set, her family has stopped referring to her as a gimp, now they call her Sue. They were never meant to be collectible -- just low-concept laugh-inducing juxtapositions of words and images, images and images, lists, monologues, cartoons, free verse, jokes, half-thoughts, fake/real interviews, innuendo and Matt Dillons phone number. If you sold them on eBay for a bunch of money, I want my cut. Or if you bought them then please spare a percentage to the dyke army and the flame militia, its a good charity and its ribbon buttons are invisible. Some of them read like letters from prison. I know these were popular in some prisons but Im not sure why." -Harmony Korine, 2008. |
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Artist: KORINE, HARMONY Title: The Collected Fanzines Box Set Format: Boxset Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $95.00 |
| "Limited deluxe box set containing exact reproductions of the original eight fanzines. "Some of these collected fanzines were done in collaboration with Mark Gonzales. Harmony and Mark would go back and forth, trying to make each other laugh. Theyd stay up for days writing poems based on the names of famous people like Mae West Go East. When there were enough sheets, theyd put them in some kind of order, a lot of time they would use the pages as pillows. It was a lot of fun, lots of laughs. Weve tried to reproduce them in trade paperback form with the same production values -- which is to say, not much. They also come in an ultra-deluxe limited-edition box-set containing replicas of the original fanzines, for those of you with your eyes on future auction profits. Fuckers. Harmonys house burned down around 2000 or something. At that point, the focus shifted. And he got lazy. But today, weve got this collection of seven fanzines from a time of innocence, exploration, experimentation, discovery, depression and hanging around. Including these fanzines: My Friend Or Sheep Boy, Adulthood, Adulthood 2, Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting, Foster Homes And Gardens, Humor. Pocahontas Monthly, Hümer." -Drag City. |
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Artist: KORINE, HARMONY Title: Trash Humpers Format: DVD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "In the Summer of 2010, the underground trend of trash-humping JUMPED the NASHVILLE CITY LIMITS as the film Trash Humpers spread across the nation, screening in movie theaters, galleries, bars and grills and anyplace, really, indoors or out, that could draw a crowd to see the thing. Filmmaker Harmony Korine often accompanied the film, standing around and answering questions when he wasnt doing something else. It was something to see, but the only problem was, all you could do once youd walked away was revisit the images seared into your brain for the rest of your life. Now, the official DVD release of Trash Humpers is here for you to take with you to whatever your destiny has to offer you. You dont know when youre gonna die. It could be tomorrow. But hopefully it wont be until after Trash Humpers becomes available on DVD, complete with the extra featurettes Mac and Plac, and Blood of Havana, as well as deleted scenes that everyone forgot about after making this but are actually kind of cool! About the filmmaker: Harmony Korine has been a party to some of the most enervating films of the last two decades, including Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, and Mister Lonely. Somebody said that Trash Humpers was his most baffling film yet. Okay..." All-region NTSC format; color; mono; total running time: 78 minutes. Includes a bonus 24-page fanzine. - Drag City |
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Artist: KOSMONAUT Title: Kosmonaut 1 Format: LP Label: Deep Distance Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Like the private pressings of Konrad Schnitzler from 1973 to 74, each album of Deep Distances series is a solid color. PATRICK R. PARK joins Schulze, Froese, Ashra / Gottsching and latter day celestial synth explorers Expo 70, Jonas Reinhardt, and Mist in a good ol fashioned kosmische collision. All tracks are previously released on the limited-edition CDR Voyage of Time (Ethereal Mother 2011). Six inserts. Blue vinyl. Edition of 250." -Deep Distance
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Artist: KOSMONAUTENTRAUM Title: Ungehörtes Unerhörtes Format: LP Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"A superb collection of mastermind Michael Jarick of his early 80s minimal 7" tunes, two of their hits, his first 7" plus six unreleased minimal-tunes from 1981." - Vinyl-On-Demand. "Early 80s Zick Zack style. Appeared on the compilation Lileber Zuviel Als Zuwenig, alongside Die Tödliche Doris, Abwärts, Palais Schaumburg, Andreas Dorau, etc." - FE.
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Artist: KOSUGI, TAKEHISA Title: Berlin Events Format: Book Label: Kuntsvereim Giannozzo Berlin Country: Germany Price: $11.00 |
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1989 publication featuring documentation (scores, text, photos) of Kosugis performances and installations. Kosugi is a former member of Group Ongaku & Taj Mahal Travellers, released the classic Catch Wave LP (whos score is featured in this book), participated in the Fluxus movement, is current music director for Merce Cunningham, etc.. Texts by David Behrman, Tom Johnson, Rolf Julius, Rolf Langebartels and Heinz Klaus Metzger. Edtion of 500.
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Artist: KOSUGI, TAKEHISA Title: Catch Wave Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Takehisa Kosugi is an inter-media artist and performer who started his career back in the 60s in Tokyo. With his first band Group Ongaku (free anarchist-conceptual improvisations) he was introduced to the Fluxus avant-garde movement. During the 70s, he was a member of the mystical, psychedelic, droning rock band Taj Mahal Travellers. He co-founded the band in 1969. Since the end of the 70s until now, he has released several solo albums and commissioned works for events and sound installations. His album Catch Wave (1975) is an absolute progressive masterpiece, bringing Takehisa Kosugis musical talent to territories usually reserved to kosmic Krautrock. Digitally remastered. Numbered, limited edition housed in an LP replica sleeve." -Phoenix. |
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Artist: KOSUGI, TAKEHISA Title: Catch Wave Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Takehisa Kosugi is an inter-media artist and performer who started his career back in the 60s in Tokyo. With his first band Group Ongaku (free anarchist-conceptual improvisations) he was introduced to the Fluxus avant-garde movement. During the 70s, he was a member of the mystical, psychedelic, droning rock band Taj Mahal Travellers. He co-founded the band in 1969. Since the end of the 70s until now, he has released several solo albums and commissioned works for events and sound installations. His album Catch Wave (1975) is an absolute progressive masterpiece, bringing Takehisa Kosugis musical talent to territories usually reserved to kosmic Krautrock. 180 gram vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve. Numbered edition of 1000." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: KOSUGI, TAKEHISA Title: Catch-Wave Format: CD Label: Showboat/Sky Station Country: Japan Price: $28.00 |
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"Official CD reissue (more recently reprod by World Psychedelia), licensed from Sony Japan. Originally issued by CBS in Japan-only in 1975, this album has been as difficult to find as either of the original Taj Mahal Travellers LPs. The descriptive text on the back jacket of this exact repro gives an insight: "sounds speeding on lights, light speeding on sounds, music between riddles & solutions." A devastating, drone-intense record (unlike Kosugis later solo recordings for Lovely Music or P-vine; Catch-Wave is the closest follow-up recording to his Taj Mahal Travellers group in the form of group improvisation), finally accessible." -Showboat/Sky Station
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Artist: KOSUGI, TAKEHISA Title: Studio Improvisations, Tokyo, 16th And 17th September, 1974 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Originally released on CBS Japan in 1975, this solo album by the godfather of Japanese avant-garde music was called one of the top ten Japrock albums of all time in Julian Copes Japrock Sampler. Red vinyl LP in clear plastic sleeve with black lettering. Limited edition 500 copies." -B13 |
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Artist: KOSUGI, TAKEHISA Title: Violin Solo 1980 N.Y.C. Format: CD Label: P-Vine Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
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"A previously unreleased solo violin performance by the founder of the Taj Mahal Travellers and legendary Fluxus conceptualist. Active since the 1960s, Kosugi has more recently served as the music director for the Merce Cunningham Dance Troupe. He is currently involved with the composing and performance of impromptu music and electronic multimedia music. To be brief, Kosugi is one of the most important and influential Japanese experimental avant-gardists, alongside the likes of Yasunao Tone, Toshi Ichiyanagi & Yuji Takahashi. This album was recorded by Kazunori Sugiyama, 6/22/80, in NYC, and features a breathtakingly live solo violin performance." - FE.
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Artist: KOUDEDE Title: Guitars From Agadez Vol. 5 Format: 7" Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "First American release for one of the leading lights from the Agadez guitar scene. Koudede Maman finally steps out of the shadows and delivers two scorching tunes recorded live from the European tour of last year. From the young visionary who made his first guitar out of a tin can to his current avatar as the heir apparent to the legacy of Ali Farka Toure in West African guitar music, Koudede has blazed forth from a relatively small following in Agadez and Niamey to take the world by storm. This is the truest music of revolution -- where the transcendence of historical poetry and the daily grit of human struggle are in dialogue, from verse to verse and refrain to refrain. Limited edition one-time pressing of 600 copies." -Sublime Frequencies. |
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Artist: KOUDEDE Title: Guitars from Agadez Vol. 6 Format: 7" Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "The second 7" from Koudede for Sublime Frequencies and the sixth volume in the now-legendary Guitars from Agadez series. The circumstances surrounding these recordings are the stuff of which legends are made: In January 2012, a major insurgency brewing in the far north of Mali turned Timbutkus Festival au Désert into a heavily fortified spectacle. Just one day after the festival, rogue Tuareg rebels launched a full takeover of northern Mali, armed to the teeth with weapons from the Libyan war that ended in the murder of Col. Gadaffi, the spiritual father of the Tuareg in their struggle with the surrounding governments. By the time Koudedes group made it back to the capital city of Bamako -- with Sublime Frequencies Hisham Mayet in tow -- discord had flared between the mostly Bambara ethnic south and the Tuareg community in the capital region. With a Tuareg exile already in progress, Koudede decided after much hesitation to follow through with a live concert at Toumast -- the Tuareg compound in Bamako -- in defiance of advice that all Tuareg should leave the city immediately. Recorded on location at Toumast by Hisham Mayet in January 2012, these two tracks are a scorching distillation of the urgency and fire in Koudedes music: the pure sound of his people and their constant struggles. Limited edition of 700 copies. p.s. With deep regret, Sublime Frequencies is saddened to confirm that on October 28th, 2012, Koudede was pronounced dead from a fatal accident on the road back to Niger from a gig in Burkina Faso. This news was delivered the same day as the test pressing was approved for this release. His legacy will live on through his music. RIP Koudede!" - Sublime Frequencies. |
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Artist: KOUSOKUYA Title: 1st Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Reissue of one of the absolute, no-doubt-about-it, stone classics of the Tokyo underground, with one bonus unreleased track. The first album by Kosokuya was originally released on the groups own Ray Night imprint in 1991. The original edition was of just 200, with very few copies making it out of Japan and as a result has long fetched huge sums amongst collectors. Kosokuyas unique brand of space-rock has been a fixture on the Tokyo underground rock scene since 1978, and both Narita and Nanjo (who would go on to form High Rise) were one-time members. By the time this album was recorded, though, the group had stabilized into the classic trio line-up of Kaneko, Mikk, and Takahashi -- the same line-up that appeared on the tracks on Tokyo Flashback, and on the Forced Exposure album. The infinite, echoing spaces contained in this music still sound unbelievably great. Kosokuya specialized in loud, very extended pieces with the capacity to utterly destroy your sense of time. Takahashis heavy drumming and Mikks bass lay down a defiantly non-linear foundation, layering just-out-of-time accents that perfectly fracture the cold darkness that envelops the group. Kaneko, armed with nothing more than a single Marshall amp and a beat-up old fuzz pedal, twists and weaves immense feedback fields and eloquent clusters of single notes in and around Mikks anguished voice. This is a heavy, heavy record, fully on a par with the early Fushitsusha classics or the second High Rise album." - Alan Cummings. Kaneko R.I.P. Highly recommended!! |
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Artist: KOUSOKUYA Title: Echoes From Deep Underground Format: CD/DVD Label: Archive Country: USA Price: $22.50 |
| "For those that dont know KOUSOKUYA are a cult garage pysch rock trio formed in the 1970s in the Tokyo underground music scene by main member, and recently deceased JUTOK KANEKO. Despite having existed for 20-plus years, the bands output has been fairly sparse with a few releases on PSF and one domestic US release on the Forced Exposure label. Originally the archive release was to be comprised of a fantastic live performance on CD from Osaka in 2001, but having discovered the existence of video footage from the same performance, a bonus DVD was added to the mix. This release represents to date the only video document of Jutok and Kousokuya released in official capacity and realistically represent a chance for fans of obscure psych to see a band, and artist, that basically played outside of Japan only a handful of times. This pressing of 700 copies comes packaged in heavy black stock covers with metallic silver and gloss varnish and silkscreen work by the wonderful ALAN SHERRY of SIWA records. The CD and DVD come in black envelopes held together by a silkscreened obi strip." - Archive. |
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Artist: KOUSOKUYA Title: First Live 1979 Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Miraculously unearthed live tape from one of the earliest incarnations of Tokyo heavy psychedelic legends Kousokuya. For a group with a 25-year history on the Tokyo underground scene, Kousokuya have left very little imprint of their activities. Once heard, though, their sound is unmistakable - a grinding, soaring sonic blackhole that charts the empty gulfs of tension-space like no one else this side of Fushitsusha. This tape, recorded at legendary 70s Tokyo underground venue Minor, captures Kousokuya at a formative stage in their existence - Micks blank, disembodied howl is present and correct, as is the choppy brilliance of Kanekos guitar playing. But the real surprise is synth player Hiroshi Yokoyama, who lasted just a few gigs with the group. He contributes great clots of synth-blurt to the mix, wailing and derailing, the soul of this groups genetic instability. Another piece of the jigsaw..." -Alan Cummings $14.25 UPC: N/A ROCK HAINO, KEIJI: Yaranaiga Dekinaikotoni Natteyuku CD (PSF 8024CD). "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 |
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Artist: KOUSOKUYA Title: Live At Shinjuku Jam, 2006 Format: DVD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $25.00 |
| "The sudden death of Jutok Kaneko in January 2007 robbed the Tokyo underground scene of one of its most startlingly original and emotionally devastating psychedelic free-thinkers. Kousokuya was the cold-space rock group that he led, on and off, since the late 1970s. This DVD documents two of the groups final concerts, in May and October 2006 at Shinjuku JAM in Tokyo. The groups unique sound was founded on the dark, staggered spaces set up by the jarring rhythms set up by bassist Mick and drummer Ikuro Takahashi (ex-Fushitsusha) over which Kaneko drapes some jaw-dropping guitar -- bleak, brutal power-riffing one minute, shading into deep-space feedback filigrees and baroque fuzz forms the next. Unbearably psychedelic, deeply affecting and a fitting memorial to one of the great rock groups of the last 30 years. 120 mins.; Color; NTSC region-free; Stereo Dolby Digital; 08:11:21." -PSF |
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Artist: KOUSOKUYA Title: Ray Night 1991-1992 Live Format: CD Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "First ever CD by this legendary and ultra-obscure Japanese psychedelic rock group. Kousokuya are from Tokyo, have donated some spectacular tracks to the first two volumes of the Tokyo Flashback compilation series on the PSF label, and self-released an extremely ltd. LP in 1991. The band has been around for quite some time; I originally was under the impression they formed around 1984, but was recently informed that an edition featuring Nanjo and Narita from High Rise existed going back to the late 70s!?. Either way, theyve always been pretty lo-profile, but this CD at least shines a bit of light on their extended, heavy guitar sound. An early press release for the bands describes them well: "The band name Kousokuya means a ray night. Since 1984 they have been playing their own high volume heavy driven avant-garde psychedelic music. Kaneko, he always plays guitar with full of feedback. One of the outstanding guitar players in the underground scene. No one can play guitar like him. Mick, she plays bass and is also main vocalist. She sings like an angle flying from the other side of the this world. Takahashi, he plays drums and percussion. He had previously played many other free formed rock music." 69 minutes of expansive psychedelic nirvana." - FE. |
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Artist: KOUYATE, SEKOU BATOUROU Title: Et Sa Cora Format: LP Label: Tembo Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "180 gram LP version with insert. This definitive example of Malian kora playing, by the legendary and influential Sekou Batourou Kouyaté was recorded in 1976, and has been digitally remastered for the first time, allowing the delicate notes of this instrumental album to shine through. Creating a melodious sound that resembles at times a harp and remarkably, the Delta blues guitar, the kora players are known as storytellers and historians, passing on traditions and folk tales. For the uninitiated listener, allow yourself the pleasure of hearing the kora played to perfection by the master of this mighty instrument." -Tembo. |
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Artist: KOWALSKY WITH JOZEF VAN WISSEM, GREGG Title: Movements in Marble and Stone Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "While these performances occurred on opposite coasts, the source material is closely aligned in both concept and process. These works highlight Greggs ongoing preoccupations with sound and setting, incorporating the focused blend of acoustic and electronic sources that Kowalsky is already well known for. Electronic Music for Square and Sine Waves documents Kowalskys contribution to the 2011 Activating the Medium festival in San Francisco. This commissioned piece continues Kowalskys interest in how sound engages, manipulates and modifies ones awareness of space. For Baroque Lute, Tapes and Resonant Space documents Kowalskys on going tape chants process, a project previously realized on both his Battery Townsley (2011) and Tape Chants (2009) LPs. For this iteration, Kowalsky tuned square and sine waves to Dutch lutanist Jozef van Wissems lute and then played these recordings through cassette players." - Amish. |
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Artist: KPLR Title: Tek No Muzik Format: 12" Label: Crazy Iris Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Cool, Vanity Records-style electronics. "introducing the first vinyl release from renowned norcal artists KPLR. weirdo acid music for a people tired of droning beauty. KPLR have releases on Sound Holes, Digitalis, Dial Square Tapes, DRAFT, etc., and have an LP coming out on Digitalis in late summer. 12" 45RPM EP. mastered for vinyl by brad rose. plates from aardvark, wax from bill smith. screen printed by the beauties at basecamp design. 200 pressings." - Crazy Iris. |
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Artist: KRAFTWERK Title: Live Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Founded in 1970 in Dusseldorf, Kraftwerk was the only German band to rise from the so-called krautrock scene to true international stardom. Of course, it was partially their distinct look that set them apart. At a time when long hair and scruffy clothing was the norm for musicians, Kraftwerk cut their hair short and wore handmade suits. And at a time when guitar rock reigned supreme, Kraftwerk did not even have a guitar player. In fact they soon did away with instruments altogether, becoming one of the first truly electronic bands. With the release of their fifth album Autobahn in 1975 (which mocked the glorification of the shiny modern world that had been built upon the rubble of post-war Germany), Kraftwerk finally achieved major stardom. Kometenmelodie 1 &2 was recorded live in Paris during the Autobahn tour and featured the classic Schneider / Hütter / Bartos / Flür line-up. Side B was recorded live in Utrecht in 1981 shortly after the release of their prophetic Computer World. It features their 1978 hit The Model plus hits from the album, Numbers and Pocket Calculator." - B13. 140 gram LP. Grey vinyl with blue label in PVC sleeve with red lettering. Limited edition 500 copies. |
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Artist: KRAFTWERK Title: Live 1971 Format: Double LP Label: B13 Country: Russian Federation Price: $55.00 |
| "Rare early Kraftwerk, now for the first time on double vinyl LP. Recorded live at the Gondel Kino (Gondola Cinema) in Bremen, Germany on 25 June 1971 (except for Interzone recorded on the TV program Beat-Club on 22 May 1971), with a rare trio line-up of Florian Schneider, Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger (soon to be of Neu!). This LP represents one of the very few recordings in existence of that brief period in Kraftwerk history after Ralf Hutter had temporarily left the band and before Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger went on to form Neu! Before morphing into the motorik juggernaut they would soon become, Kraftwerk was nothing more than Rother on guitar, Dinger on drums, and Schneider on a tricked-out flute. Just listen to Heavy Metal Kids to unlock the secret door to their past. Double 140 gram clear vinyl with multicolored labels in a PVC sleeve. Limited to 500 copies." -B13. |
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Artist: KRAKEN FURY Title: Burn In Earth Format: Double CDR Label: Rampart Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Thad Watson, formerly of Warmer Milks ("Radish on Light" era). Wildly ambitious, overdubbed instrumental basement prog. RIYL early Sun City Girls, late-80s SST, Attempt." - Rampart. |
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Artist: KRALLICE Title: Orphan Of Sickness Format: LP Label: From The Nursery Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Experimental black metal band KRALLICE-MICK BARR (ORTHRELM), COLIN MARSTON (BEHOLD THE ARCTOPUS, DYSRHYTHMIA), NICK MCMASTER and LEV WEINSTEIN return with a new EP in homage to their friend, the late BRENDAN MAJEWSKI of ORPHAN. Three Orphan tracks given the Krallice treatment, pressed on one-sided vinyl with insert and embossed covers in an edition of 250 copies." - From The Nursery. |
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Artist: KRAP Title: Live At the Common Ground Format: LP Label: Wabana Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| Limited release of a one-off collaboration between Mat Brinkman (see Forcefield, Mindflayer and last years Whitney Biennial) and friends. |
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Artist: KRAUS Title: Faster Than The Speed Of Time Format: LP Label: Dilettante Courtoisie Country: France Price: $27.00 |
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"The superpowered arrogance of the title (of an earlier KRAUS release called I Could Destroy You With a Single Thought)," observes NZ watchdog Jon Bywater, "Matches the pains taken to craft (it), somewhere between a pop Moog record and the harshest no wave. Short melodic and rhythmic figures are worked hard into the knife edge between queasy claustrophobia and rigorous brilliance." A resident of Auckland, Kraus plays guitar, drums, synthesizer, organ, tape loops and electronics; he played drums in THE MURDERING MONSTERS and THE AESTHETICS, co-founded THE FUTURIANS and played on their first album !Blastov! (Root Don Lonie For Cash 2001) and plays currently in POUFFE (with Matthew Plunkett), THE MALTESE FALCONS (with Duckling Monster of The Futurians), and OLYMPUS (with Stefan Neville). Edition of 300." -Dilettante Courtoisie
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Artist: KRAUS Title: Luxury and Mystery Format: 7" Lathe Cut Label: Epic Sweep Country: New Zealand Price: $15.00 |
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“Sounding like a Soviet-era Dr Who special invaded by 60s psych guitarists”, this is the latest release by Auckland based artist Kraus. Sci-fi soundtrack synth bleepery and guitar fuzz give way to Moondog-like time signatures with a dash of exotica. Phew! The ex-Murdering Monsters, Aesthetics and Futurians drummer and electronics whizz kid continues to evolve a sound all his own." - Epic Sweep. Limited to 40 copies.
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Artist: KRAUS Title: Sherry Format: 7" Label: Palto Flats Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Following a much-loved full-length, New Zealander Kraus (Klaus, drummer of Futurians, member of Olympus with Stefan Neville) really brings the goods on this four-song outing of pure Martian stomp. Analog synths, gritty low-end rhythm tracks, tangled/stumbled guitar melodies and above all DETERMINATION to get something done really push this one along in a way that the Kraus LP really didnt (or didnt need to, as these recordings may predate that work). These songs sound like progress, and its a doubly amazing feat as there arent really songs here; more like a bunch of low-tech machines set forth to follow a complex pattern, and listening to them complete it over and over is fascinating enough. Its like having a half-mile of slot car track, infinite terrain options, and the will to build something huge to scale. Also reminds me of those film clips of “The Worlds Biggest Domino Rally” that would get shows at the back end of local news or human interest shows on TV back in the 80s, where a bunch of dudes in a big room set off a huge chain reaction, patterns, etc. Really dig this one a lot."-Still Single/Doug Mosurock |
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Artist: KRAUS Title: The Facts Format: Cass Label: Imvated Country: Belgium Price: $11.00 |
| "a 30 minutes book on tape. Kraus, drumpad for acts like THE AESTHETICS and THE FUTURIANS, gives the humble an insight to his path of life. from deep listening spacesounds towards bubbly synth excursions: this is a unique vision. Pat Kraus manages to sound like the BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP run through the minds of alien creatures. this is truly my imaginary BAD CHANNELS OST. currently, Pat is working at an lp for ULTRA ECZEMA, because society wants more...." - Imvated |
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Artist: KRAUS, SHARRON/MEG BAIRD/HELENA ESPVALL Title: Leaves From Off the Tree Format: CD Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Bo Weavil is so excited to be releasing Leaves From Off The Tree: a three-way project of Sharron Kraus, Meg Baird (Espers) & Helena Espvall (Espers). This is a beautiful recording of traditional folk material, with the most stunning singing and arrangements of some of England and Appalachias finest songs. The songs on this record were recorded after many an evening swapping songs (and beers!) in Fishtown, Philadelphia, where Sharron had moved from her native England, and Meg and Helena were already installed. Meg and Sharron both had traditional music backgrounds and would meet up and teach each other Appalachian and English ballads, and improvise harmonies and alternate melodies. At some point, Helena was invited along and her voice and cello added a rich new layer. We wanted to record the songs in a way that would capture the relaxed atmosphere of our gatherings, so we recorded all nine songs live in one afternoon." - Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: KRAUSE, ANDRES Title: Move Ground Format: LP Label: Streamline Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "The development and reproduction of new sound spaces, Move Ground is based on the soundtrack of an audio-visual installation of the same title that was premiered at the third Horkunst Festival in Erlangen, Germany in 2005. Field recordings from locations with inspiring acoustic qualities in Cologne were edited and mixed with select electronic sounds to create a sonic journey exploring varying external and internal spaces, providing an experience of the atmosphere and the spatial dimensions of the different locations. Move Ground was recorded and mixed by Andrés Krause in 2004-2006." "From the top you can make out the wonderful and awesome sight of the plains that lie below, worn out at the foot of the city. On the horizon tall brick chimneys, round and square, vomit billows of soot into the clouds, while little further down, barely passing over the flat roofs of workshops covered in bituminized felt and sheet metal, whistling jets of white steam escape from thin aluminum flue pipes. A great silence descends over the plain as the rumble of the city dies out little by little and the noise from distant factories reaches you but falteringly. Sometimes, however, like a horrible complaint, you can hear the dull, raucous whistle of trains from the station as they pass, hidden by an embankment planted with acacias and ash trees. Finally, in the distance, in the far distance, a large white road climbs a hill and loses itself in the sky, its summit crowned by a billow of dust, like a cloud stirred up by an invisible horse drawn cart, hidden by the curve of the earth." - Streamline. |
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Artist: KRÖKTA RUM Title: Tankar & Syner Del I Format: LP Label: Järtecknet Country: Sweden Price: $21.00 |
"This is the first volume in the series, Tankar & Syner, where Krökta Rum explores worlds beyond the physical realm. Moving towards a space where the surreal meets the concrete. Like waking up from a dream where the abstract concious meets a world filled with sounds of everyday life. The clock is ticking.
Tankar & Syner Del I is divided into eight diffrent structures of sounds working together as a whole. They evolve and change and slowly complete a full metamorphosis. Forging together field recordings, reel-to-reel loops and diffrent kind of analougue manipulations the end result is a journey filled with both beauty and unease.
Krökta Rum is Jesper Canell and Viktor Ottosson. Recorded between August-December 2011.
Released in 160 copies." - Järtecknet.
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Artist: KREFTING, MATT Title: High Hopes Format: LP Label: Open Mouth Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "High Hopes is recording of music for cassettes. While the general tone is experimental, the structural elements of song are not left behind. Each side is a continuous statement comprised of brief motifs and repetitive strains bleeding into one another, coalescing into a cold narrative of half-remembered, slow mbiras, 78s of an orchestra in endless refrain, a confused piano, a vocal hosanna... While the pacing allows a certain introspection and the tape fidelity allows a certain detachment, direction and concision are not sacrificed. Elements from side A reappear on side B recomposed, and an overall tone of melancholy is maintained throughout. E.M. Cioran said, A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy. Here... youve got it all." -Greg Kelley. |
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Artist: KREFTING, MATT Title: I Couldnt Love You More Format: CD Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "My career in music is about to enter its 13th year. Lucky 13! Ive performed in at least 15 groups (probably more on the order of 20 if you count guest spots) over the years, the most prominent being the long-running quiet music combo Son of Earth and the short-lived-but-muchhyped Believers. Historically more of an experimental man, the Believers project showcased my always right-below-the-surface interest and passion for all things rock, and so, a couple of years after the demise of that group, I was approached by Ecstatic Peace, who asked me to produce a solo record. For the better part of a year I conceptualized, recruited, and eventually came up with I Couldnt Love You More. An early attempt to marry electronics, field recordings, and song was scrapped in favor of the personal and perhaps obvious choice of producing a covers record. It was the perfect idea, the realization of a dream. Years of singing in the shower and on long car trips had given way to the stuff of fantasy. Why stick to what you know when you can reach for what youve always desired? I asked friends to help with the realization. John Moloney, Phil Franklin, Ron Schneiderman, and Rob Thomas (all of Sunburned Hand of the Man), Ive known for years. Same with J Mascis. Old friends John Shaw (who Ive done more music with than anyone) and Lynn Meyers provide some vocals here and there, as does my wife, Jamie Jo Oltmans. The Wild Card here is John Townsend. Andrew Kesin of Ecstatic Peace introduced me to him, and he was a jack-of-all-trades. He plays on most of the tracks, sometimes exclusively, and co-produced. I chose songs from all over the map, from Rick Danko to John Martyn to the great Bill Fay. Not exactly lightweights, and quite intimidating when their full historical weight is taken into account. However, I attacked each piece with the intensity of one who truly loves these songs. I didnt concern myself with being overly arty or inventive in my interpretations (there are no truly radical re-workings of anything here), instead allowing my own emotional investment in the material to guide me and inform the other players. These are songs of love and longing. The themes are eternal. Its an honor to have had the chance to play them. Enjoy the music." -- Matt Krefting, December 2008 |
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Artist: KREFTING, MATT Title: Man in Revolt Format: Cass Label: Hank the Herald Angel Recordings Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"When checking if I wrote about Matt Krefting before, I came to the
sad conclusion I didnt. Which is odd, since hes closely
connected to
my beloved Idea Fire Company. Krefting is also a member of many
other
bands, such as Son Of Earth, Duck, Itchy Pits, The Believers,
Destroyer and many more. He plays everything, everywhere and with
everyone. Man In Revolt is the total opposite: hes alone at the
piano, plus perhaps a bunch of electronics, most likely guitar
effects. These are kept however to a minimum, as the main thing is
the
piano. Its an utter lo-fi, hiss covered tape, but no doubt its
intended to be like that. Minor keys are played, while the sustain
pedal is pressed down hard to add that darker texture to the
music. On
the B-side there is a short track Forgets Breakfast which is made
with fog horns (or so it seems). Its a great release, along the
lines
of the recent Graham Lambkin CD, or even Organums recent work
(Amen). A pity that its on cassette and not CDR - maybe I could
ask
for a re-issue?" - FdW, Vital Weekly.
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Artist: KRGYZ Title: Kyrgyz Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: United States Price: $11.00 |
| "Kyrgyz is a name that will be unfamiliar to most, but the bands members read like an all-star team of Bay Area improvisers. This quartet consists of Tom Carter (Charalambides), Loren Chasse (The Blithe Sons, Thuja, etc), Christine Boepple (Skygreen Leopards Skyband), and Robert Horton (Broken Mask, Infinite Article, etc). Kyrgyzs debut album is 60 minutes of droned-out bliss. With its roots firmly planted in trance-inducing soil, the six songs here stretch their branches toward the sun. When four artists of this calibre come together in a single setting, the expectations are high. There is tension to spare. But Kyrgyz is such a perfect blend of all their talents that it never implodes beneath the pressure. Horton is the hand that guides this mix of heavy, hypnotic drones, a thicket of acoustic scrawl, and even free jazz skronk. Each sound is carefully chosen and blended together magically. There are equal elements of Charalambides and Jewelled Antler throughout Kyrgyz, but again it is Horton that upsets the balance to create something completely new. In the end, this is nothing short of brilliant." - Digitalis. |
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Artist: KRIG I HUDIK Title: 2 Format: 7" Label: Skrammel Country: Sweden Price: $8.00 |
| "Krig i Hudik is member from Totalitär, Brainbombs and Missbrukarna doing Swedish Punk covers. First single came out on Feral Ward, this is their strong follow up. 500 copies made." - Skrammel. |
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Artist: KRIMINAALISET METSANHALTIJAT Title: Anarkkia, Kaaos, Maailmanloppu! Format: CD Label: Bloodlust! Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"A scarce recording by cult industrial noise group, Kriminaaliset Metsaenhaltijat-which barely saw the light of day when it was originally released on cassette (Triangle Records 2008). The members of this shadow group of old-school industrial acolytes originally hail from Finland and from Karelia-a region and an autonomous republic of northwest Russia, between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea. Kriminaaliset Metsaenhaltijat claim to have built their sound on the bones of S.P.K. and Throbbing Gristle, through a prism of Japanese harsh-noise and Finnish hardcore-punk, spewing out a nihilistic nightmare of diffused synth hiss, commanding metal percussion, waves of harsh-noise, anarcho-punk attitude, and dissident power-electronics. An exciting and satisfying introduction to this band in preparation for Bloodlusts release of the Koskemattomuus CD." - Bloodlust!.
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Artist: KRISTYL Title: S/T Format: LP Label: No Label Country: Europe Price: $15.00 |
| "Privately pressed and originally released in 1975, Kristyl was a Kentucky-based dual-guitar Christian psych band with a southern edge. Seven songs with lots of fuzz and heavy jamming. Comes on 180 gram vinyl." -No Label. |
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Artist: KRIWET, FERDINAND Title: Hortexte Format: 3 Picture Disc LP Boxset Label: Edition RZ Country: Germany Price: $90.00 |
| "Ferdinand Kriwet (*1942) its radio work 1961 with the language text began openly". "See texts", that left the traditional medium book and were published in displays and on placard walls, followed. Parallel in addition Kriwet developed theoretical manifestation to the acoustic literature, that became the base for its radio works. Picture and tone composed it to "text film", that were shown in Mixed-media-shows in art halls, churches and movie theater. For its manifold activities, it was priced with international praising. The sound material for its texts" "hear broadcast and television, a Sound pool, that permanently surrounds us on all waves, originates mainly. Organizes after semantic and musically rhythmic viewpoints, join itself the medium quotations to impressive auditiven Collagen. The hear pieces presented here process the massenmedialen representation of the first manned moon landing (1969) and the American presidency choices 1973, fragments out of sport coverage and further language material and sound material out of the broadcast. With "Voice of America", "Apollo America", "Campaign", "ball", "radio ball" (Karl-Sczuka-Preis 1975) and "radio" six of its legendary radio works are published here for the first time on sound-recording medium; on the six Picture-Disc-LPs, six of its legendary "see texts" are reproduziert." -Edition RZ (via freetranslation.com) "Absolutey stunning release - three picture discs with Ferdinand Kriwets legendary audiocollages and radioplays from the 1960s & 70s, comes in a deluxe box, with booklet (in german). "- Amusik. |
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Artist: KRUMM, PHILIP/"BLUE" GENE TYRANNY Title: Formations Format: CD Label: Idea Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: KRUSI, HANS Title: Ex Hk. Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $34.00 |
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"While preparing a new edition of Anton Bruhin works, Alga Marghen discovered some mysterious tapes by Hans Krüsi. Fascinated by the raw and brute contents of those sounds, mixing field recordings of insects, sheep and distant bells with primitive chanting, percussive noises and distorted radio folk songs, Alga Marghen started to conceive one of the most obscure editions in his catalog. The Swiss-born, self-taught painter Hans Krüsi (1920-1995) was a wiry man who eked out an existence on the margins of society. Even among outsider-art experts, his work is less well known than that of his Swiss compatriot Adolf Wölfli, who died in 1930 and whose richly patterned drawings have become treasures of classic European art brute, or raw art, made by untrained, visionary artists. Krüsi was orphaned as an infant and brought up on a farm in northeastern Switzerland by foster parents who largely ignored him. He scraped by with odd jobs (including gardening work) and eventually settled in the city of St. Gallen. There Krüsi lived in run-down buildings. In his late 20s, he began commuting by train almost daily to Zurich, to the west, where he sold flowers and, later, his artworks, on the Bahnhofstrasse, one of the most luxurious shopping streets in Europe. Among the wall-to-wall clutter of Krüsis ramshackle lodgings, where pigeons flew in and perched, evidence of an unexpectedly experimental spirit abounded, including Krüsis old cameras and the second-hand tape recorders with which he liked to capture the sounds of birds, insects and church bells. The artists inventiveness and fertile imagination seemed to contrast sharply with his humble way of life. Krüsi took subjects from the agrarian world that he knew: alpine farmhouses, forested mountains, cows, birds, rabbits and cats. In his varied oeuvre, the folkloric and the psychedelic often appear to converge. Some works are even hallucinatory, with bright, brushy passages of acid green, lemon yellow or Pepto-Bismol pink in which watchful, lounging cats, clusters of dithering birds or watery human figures huddle or writhe. LP edition limited to 200 copies, issued in collaboration with the Swiss Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau (the repository of the artists estate) and published on the occasion of Alga Marghens invitation to the Artists Record Pavillion at Art Basel 2008." -Alga Marghen
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Artist: KRYSMOPOMPAS Title: Gesa Format: 7" Label: Avant Country: Italy Price: $8.00 |
| "Krysmopompas gets back in with two darker and slower tracks, almost without drums, only an analogue Casio beat to create a real moody feeling. ..first release since their great double album on S-S Heute Schlafen Morgen Aufwachen. 2 new songs, big hole labels, 500 pressed on black wax." - Avant. |
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Artist: KTL Title: KTL3 Format: LP Label: OR Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "LP-only release. This is the third full-length release by KTL, the formidable collaboration between Stephen OMalley (SunnO))), Khanate, etc.) and Peter Rehberg (Pita, etc.). Another soul-destroying follow-up to the highly-acclaimed 2, with more accompaniments created for the theatre piece, Kindertotenlieder by Gisele Vienne and Dennis Cooper, which premiered in Brest, France, March 2007. Perhaps the broadest bulletin from the duo thus far, featuring two contrasting tracks. The layered dementia bliss of "Loud Game" counterbalances the fried dub of "Sunday." Stephen OMalley (strings, fx, amps, tube osc.); Peter Rehberg (digital osc, apps, drives). Produced by Stephen OMalley & Peter Rehberg on location at Vienne Wintergarden, Grenoble & Manoir Kéroual, Guilers, July 2006 and February 2007. One-sided heavyweight vinyl and etching by Savage Pencil (SAVX), packaged in a tip-on style outer sleeve, heavyweight inner sleeve and sticker." -OR |
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Artist: KTL Title: Live In Krems April 2007 Format: LP Label: Editions Mego Country: Austria Price: $26.00 |
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"LP-only release, in an edition of 500 numbered copies in a gatefold cover with poster. This is the fourth full-length release by KTL, the formidable collaboration between Stephen OMalley (SunnO))), Khanate, etc.) and Peter Rehberg (Pita, etc.). A scorching document of the first phase of KTL concerts in 2007. This is a different version than the Florian Hecker recording which appears on the KTL Live Archive podcast. Featuring stunning versions of KTL standards such as "Abattoir," "Forest Floor" and "Theme," as well as unreleased track "Coldest Piece." Multi-channel recording from April 30th, 2007 at Donaufestival, Krems by Throbbing Gristle and live sound by Charlie Poulet. Stephen OMalley: Guitar / 1606559580; Peter Rehberg: Computer / 1376480544." - Editions Mego.
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Artist: KTL Title: V Format: CD Label: Editions Mego Country: Austria Price: $16.00 |
| "Finally the fifth KTL studio album is ready for release. Whereas their previous album IV (EMEGO 089CD) was recorded and made in a relatively short period in a more traditional rock environment, V turns full circle, takes its time and tackles the complex working processes of the European avant-garde. Rooting themselves in such legendary electronic music studios such as EMS in Stockholm and GRM in Paris, Stephen OMalley (SunnO))), Khanate, etc.) and Peter Rehberg (Pita, etc.) have delivered a rich set of sound experiments far removed from the harsh metal/noise blizzards of their early albums. They took a step further by inviting Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson to orchestrate "Phill 2" (performed by City of Prague Philharmonic, conducted by Richard Hein), resulting in a towering storm of monumental classicism. Finally, "Last Spring: A Prequel" turns the whole album on its head with the abstract alien textures of the Gisèle Vienne installation of the same name, with text by Dennis Cooper spoken with devout intensity by long-term Vienne collaborator, Jonathan Capdevielle. With full-color artwork by Mark Fell, V is KTLs most sophisticated work to date. Produced by KTL. Photo by Estelle Hanania. Stephen OMalley (guitar, bass, modular synthesizer, computer, contact mics), Peter Rehberg (modular synthesizer, computer). Recorded September 2010-October 2011 at EMS, Stockholm; Tinitus, Bergen; Ina GRM, Studio 116, Paris; Smecky, Prague; Centre dArt Passerelle, Brest; Twisted, Wien. Mixed at Twisted, Wien, May 2011 - January 2012." -Editions Mego. |
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Artist: KTL Title: V Format: Double LP Label: Editions Mego Country: Austria Price: $31.00 |
| "Finally the fifth KTL studio album is ready for release. Whereas their previous album IV (EMEGO 089CD) was recorded and made in a relatively short period in a more traditional rock environment, V turns full circle, takes its time and tackles the complex working processes of the European avant-garde. Rooting themselves in such legendary electronic music studios such as EMS in Stockholm and GRM in Paris, Stephen OMalley (SunnO))), Khanate, etc.) and Peter Rehberg (Pita, etc.) have delivered a rich set of sound experiments far removed from the harsh metal/noise blizzards of their early albums. They took a step further by inviting Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson to orchestrate "Phill 2" (performed by City of Prague Philharmonic, conducted by Richard Hein), resulting in a towering storm of monumental classicism. Finally, "Last Spring: A Prequel" turns the whole album on its head with the abstract alien textures of the Gisèle Vienne installation of the same name, with text by Dennis Cooper spoken with devout intensity by long-term Vienne collaborator, Jonathan Capdevielle. With full-color artwork by Mark Fell, V is KTLs most sophisticated work to date. Produced by KTL. Photo by Estelle Hanania. Stephen OMalley (guitar, bass, modular synthesizer, computer, contact mics), Peter Rehberg (modular synthesizer, computer). Recorded September 2010-October 2011 at EMS, Stockholm; Tinitus, Bergen; Ina GRM, Studio 116, Paris; Smecky, Prague; Centre dArt Passerelle, Brest; Twisted, Wien. Mixed at Twisted, Wien, May 2011 - January 2012." -Editions Mego. |
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Artist: KUBIN UND DAS MINERALORCHESTER, FELIX Title: Music for Theatre and Radio Play Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
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"We are extremely excited to announce the 1st collaboration between the Dekorder label and our old friend, local conspirator and private hair gardener Felix Kubin.
Kubin has achieved world wide reputation by releasing post-dadaist, futuristic NDW-influenced Organ&Korg smash hits on his own Gagarin label, on A-Musik, Ski-pp, Meeuw, Diskono et al. He has collaborated with People Like Us, Coolhaven, Mark Boombastik, Asmus Tietchens, ensemble Intégrales, David Fenech, Ergo Phizmiz, Boris D. Hegenbart, Wojtek Kucharczyk and many others. His first recordings date back to his teenage years in the early 1980s, followed by his electroacoustic noise duo Klangkrieg and the pseudo-communist Liedertafel Margot Honecker.
Right from the start Felix Kubin has written and recorded music for films (hence the title of his first album) by the likes of Mariola Brillowska and Anke Feuchtenberger and continues the German tradition of "Hörspiel" (radio play) with works such as "Territerrortorium", "Nachtspeicher", "Orpheus Psykotron" and "Syndikat für Gegenlärm" (with guest appearances by Matmos, DAT Politics and Wolfgang Müller of Die Tödliche Doris).
Some of Kubins most gorgeous and adventurous works are his contributions to "The Raft" (a radio play by the mysterious Xentos Bentos of The Homosexuals, directed by Lukas Simonis of Coolhaven, Trespassers W, Dull Schicksal) and his soundtracks for theatre plays by Branko Simic ("Zufall", based on a short story by Vladimir Nabokov) and the notorious Schorsch Kamerun. The latter (known in Germany as a member of Goldene Zitronen) directed "Hollywood Elegien" based on a song cycle by Bert Brecht and Hanns Eisler. Now the best parts of these works are for the first time available on LP and CD, simply (and aptly) titled "Music for Theatre and Radio Play".
While the musical spectrum on this release covers a variety of styles and moods its still almost immediately recognisable as a typically Kubin-ist work featuring the main ingredients his records and body-and-mind-boggling live shows are famous for. Twisted rythms & playfully clever arrangements that could have been created by a mutated reincarnation of the legendary Juan Esquivel; hauntingly ethereal tracks sounding like a narcoleptic John Carpenter playing Angelo Badalamenti arrangements; contorted Big Band music, pre-war Schlager and Vaudeville sent through a malfunctioning pre-digital time machine; Ennio Morricone cloned as a Russian male choir; instrumental workers songs Hanns Eisler might have imagined in a feverish nightmare - its all there, and more!" - Dekorder.
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Artist: KUBIN, FELIX Title: Antarktis Slow Rock Format: 7" Label: Meeuw Muzak Country: Netherlands Price: $6.50 |
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"This was the first release, in 1997 by a man named Felix Kubin, before stepping into the world of fame. So riding on this fame its been re-issued with a new mix of the original b-side. The a-side is indeed a slow, rock-rhythm box pieces, with nicely humming organ lines, a sweet little melody. A quasi eastern-Europe feel comes to live in the form of wind blowing over the tundra. And tundras shaking ahead on the flipside, via a casio rhythm and a more up-tempo song. Here to similar eastern Europe feelings float by, in what is a very joyful and up-tempo song. Great to have it back in print." - Vital Weekly.
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Artist: KUBIN, FELIX Title: Idiotenmusik Format: 7" Label: Ultra Eczema Country: Belgium Price: $8.50 |
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"German FELIX KUBIN was a wonder child making analog synth punk when he was 9 or 10 years old, making beautyful electro acoustic music with KLANGKRIEG in 87, doing several radioplays and music for films, theater and exhibtions etc.. this new 7" has three extremely spastic retarded gogo dance yell songs on it, definatly his strangest work to date, and very different from his recent more "dancy" records such as his banana dance record MATKI WANDALKI (a musik). smelling like a 50s gogo devo like brassband on analog synthesizers and a hairy drumset! it comes in a full colour off set printed cover design by dennis tyfus full of unhappy returtled apples and pears, and a portrait of felix as a dripping pear. for fans of BRUCE HAACK, FRIEDER BUTZMANN, and even MELT BANANA or DEVO." - Ultra Eczema.
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Artist: KUBIN, FELIX Title: Jane B. Ertrinkt Mit Den Pferden Format: 10" Label: Diskono Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: KUBIN, FELIX Title: Teenage Tapes Format: LP Label: Minimal Wave Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
 "Minimal Wave is proud to present Teenage Tapes, an LP of selections from the early tape archives of Felix Kubin. The recordings span his adolescent years, when he was between 11 and 15 years old. He actually began playing music at 8 years old, when he studied piano, organ, and glockenspiel. In 1980, he acquired a Korg MS-20 synthesizer and his recordings took off from there. He began experimenting and recording a variety of tracks, adding his own bizarre lyrics to them. In 1982, he formed a band with Stefan Mohn called Die Egozentrischen 2. In 1984, they played a legendary live show at the Möbel Perdú in Hamburg, a small multifunctional gallery founded in the early 80s by a.o. Claudia Schneider-Esleben, who happened to be the sister of Florian Schneider (Kraftwerk). They were only 15 years old. Although Alfred Hilsberg of the notorious ZickZack label (Palais Schaumburg, Die Toedliche Doris, Einstuerzende Neubauten) had planned to release Felix Kubins early music in 1985, it took another 20 years until the French label SKIPP and the German label A-Musik put out a selection of tracks for the first time. Pressed on 180 gram black vinyl, printed on a heavy matte sleeve and presented with an innersleeve of all lyrics both in German and English text. Six of the twelve tracks on this album have never been released before." -Minimal Wave.
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Artist: KUBIN, FELIX Title: The Tetchy Teenage Tapes of Felix Kubin 1981-85 Format: LP Label: A-Musik Country: Germany Price: $15.50 |
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Vinyl version w/ different tracks than the CD. Four color cover and innersleeve plus lyric sheet. "The idea for the release came about as I was making a minidisk recording of German electronic music, for my friends of SKIPP label and as a gag mixed in some of earlier pieces on tape. My answer to the question, of what it be, knocked them off their feet: And the high voice & thats YOU? Once they asked me if I had any other material, I sent them a load of pieces, of which they then chose their favorites for a CD. For the planned LP version for A-Musik of Cologne, we followed the same pattern. So different were the results, that this lead to two variations for Tetchy Teenage Tapes. The cut amount from LP to CD lays around the 50%." - A Musik. Highly recommended!
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Artist: KUBIN, FELIX Title: TXRF Format: Double LP Label: Its Country: Germany Price: $21.00 |
| "Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence (TXRF) is a method used to analyze the surfaces of materials by firing extremely flat X-rays. Subsequently, the physicist Joachim Knoth (1941-2004) developed a patent for precise measurement of defects in semiconductor chips. In 10 sequenced-based electronic miniatures, Felix Kubin, who presently consists of dangerous uninsulated powerlines, conducts the TXRF through an acoustical test arrangement. The experiment consists solely of a synthesizer, filter and sequencer. Full-bodied consecutive organisms arise out of which kaleidoscopic iridescent blossoms sprout. At times they appear as acoustic by-products of high energy discharges on an X-ray picture and sometimes as quiescent fluorescent images. Who knows when the experiment will come to an end? Will X-rays break at irregularities? Will transparent ears crawl over fixtures and make laboratory benches corrode? In view of the entire events musical beauty, all these questions are completely unimportant. Felix Kubin is one of electronic musics most dynamic and versatile personalities. A love-child of the home recording era, his various experiments and epithets include radio playwright, composer of Futurist and Dadatronic experimental pop as well as chamber orchestra music, filmmaker, incendiary performer, record label owner, lecturer and curator. He has made artwork in all sorts of fields since the 1980s, after studying media art at the ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Enschede, Netherlands and illustration/animation at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. Kubins music is saturated with enthusiasm for disharmonic pop, industrial noise, and 20th-century avant-garde music." -Its. |
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Artist: KUBISCH, CHRISTINA Title: Invisible/Inaudible: Five Electrical Walks Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Christina Kubisch is a first generation sound artist of the highest order. She may now be most famously known for her Electrical Walks which she started in 1981 where listeners wear specially-built headphones that reveal electro-magnetic radiation emanating from the technological world around us. Invisible/Inaudible: Five Electrical Walks is her first collection of compositions utilizing material recorded during Electrical Walks." - Important. |
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Artist: KUBISCH, CHRISTINA Title: Minimal Disinformation Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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"This is one of our personally most exciting releases. If youve heard of her Electrical Walks but not had a chance to actually hear them, check this lathe." - AA Records.
"The magnetic headphones with their built-in coils respond to electrical fields in the environment. At first I tried to filter the soft hum of the electrical wires out of the headphones. Then, in 2003, the constant increase and spread of "unwanted" electrically-produced sounds triggered a new cycle of works: Electrical Walks. With special, sensitive headphones, the acoustic perceptibility of above ground and underground electrical currents is thereby not suppressed, but rather amplified.
The palette of these noises, their timbre and volume vary from site to site and from country to country. They have one thing in common: they are ubiquitous, even where one would not expect them. Light systems, transformers, anti-theft security devices, surveillance cameras, cell phones, computers, elevators, streetcar cables, antennae, navigation systems, automated teller machines, neon advertising, electric devices, etc. create electrical fields that are as if hidden under cloaks of invisibility, but of incredible presence." - Christina Kubisch.
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Artist: KUBISCH, CHRISTINA Title: Night Flights Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Reissue of this 1987 album, originally issued on Auf Dem Nil. Night Flights is a groundbreaking work from one of the most influential of the first generation sound artists. For some reason, this staggering work has been left out of print for over 20 years. Night Flights has been remastered and includes updated liner notes from Christina Kubisch. Night Flights is being released in conjunction with Kubischs release of new work for Important Records titled Invisible/Inaudible: Five Electrical Walks." -Important. |
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Artist: KUBISCH, CHRISTINA Title: On Air Format: CD Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $18.00 |
| "A spectacular all-transparent Audio/multimedia CD (a reprint of the 1984 cassette-only private release). A final and comprehensive document on the series of installations named On Air or Magnetic Air which C. Kubisch exhibited in Italy and Europe from 1982 to 1986. The relationship between specific locations and electronic music was explored through the use of magnetic induction cables and special earphones. Twenty years later, On Air has remained a fascinating listening experience, and represents a unique illustration of the artistic integration of sound and vision. The interactive section provides a virtual journey through the spectacular 1984 installation created for the medieval town of Gargonza in Tuscany, complete with 1 hour of music and a 15-minute video plus photos, a Bio, info and scores." - Die Schachtel. Enhanced CD; Audio and Interactive tracks. + 15 .MPG Video for PC/MAC. |
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Artist: KUBISCH, CHRISTINA Title: On Air Format: LP Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $125.00 |
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"99 pieces limited edition -- clear vinyl with no label -- multiple of the same title (On Air), contained in a special transparent/opaline sleeve, each individually hand drawn by the author herself. Contains a piece of the original wire used for the Gargonza installation in 1984, signed by the author." -Die Schachtel. "Same track listing as the CD , but a very special art-version for the serious Kubisch collector, well done." - FE.
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Artist: KUBISCH, CHRISTINA & FABRIZIO PLESSI Title: Two And Two Format: LP Label: Multhipia Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
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"Warehouse find at Cramps of the last few boxes of this original LP from the late 70s. Kubisch is more recently known for her CDs on the Edition RZ label (Dreaming of a Major Third & Sechs Spiegel). This is her only commonly available LP. Recorded in 1976 as an intermedia collaboration between Kubisch and Plessi, it is performed on alto flute, voice, viola, electric vibrator, whistle, accordion, electronic metronome, steeldrum. Laminated gatefold sleeve, somewhat crackly pressing ("in the tradition")." - FE.
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Artist: KUBISCH, CHRISTINA/9KHZ HEGENBART/DEMAND Title: Ohne Titel (Lichtbilder I-V/2001)/9KHZ Format: LP/Artwork Label: En/Of Country: Germany Price: $84.00 |
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"A pigment photo print (five different versions) with images of walls taken with ultraviolet light, together with a new record from 9kHz, the duo of Boris Hegenbart and Sascha Demand. Edition of 250." - En/Of. Christina Kubisch: Ohne Titel (Lichtbilder I-V/2001), 2005; Pigment Print, 30 x 30 cm; Edition of 250, Signed, numbered and dated. 9KHZ Hegenbart/Demand: 9KHZ, 2005; 12"
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Artist: KUDO, REIKO Title: Hito Format: CD Label: Hyotan Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "The use of amateurism and error as a compositional device characterize the music of Tori Kudo, particularly in his group Maher Shalal Hash Baz. His wife, Reiko, is nowhere near as prolific (just two short albums in the last ten years) but her interests lead her more towards the pursuit of spontaneity and a considered naturalness. Both share a desire to jolt the experience of playing and listening to music out of stale routines and atrophied sensibilities ⿿ but through play and a haiku-esque close attention to daily life, rather than with a gun to the head. The albums are suffused with a warm, almost alchemical domesticity, rooted in the familiar rhythms of home, community and the seasons. Hito was recorded from summer through to early autumn 2005 and the drowsy heat of the season lies over it like a mosquito net. The hesitant vocals and piano that open its first track are underpinned by what initially sounds like the faint wow and flutter of a cheap tape recorder. Suddenly, as though a window has been flung open, the distortion is revealed to be the pylon-buzz of cicadas in the garden outside. As the sound rises to fill the room, the senses are beguiled, place, time and sensation evoked with the most minimal of means. Kusa sounds slightly stiffer as it takes us from autumn through winter, but on both albums the spare instrumentation is enjoyably creative, with kitchen-cupboard percussion, a vacuum cleaner, the sound of the rain and a gang of local kids on recorders melded effortlessly around the romantic flourishes of Toris piano playing. Reikos albums are always song-based, miniature wisps of melody that sound like something composed over the washing-up, the words perfectly balanced between observation and signification. Her voice has that childlike upper register of many Japanese female singers, but with a definite strength in the low notes. Most striking is her enunciation ⿿ the slightest tremor of hesitation, a lack of demonstrativeness that makes Vashti Bunyan sound like Whitney Houston, the voice pitched uncannily into an area where the exhaled breath seems to shimmer naturally into song. This is captivating and at times heartbreakingly emotive work." - Alan Cummings, The Wire June 2006 |
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Artist: KUDO, REIKO Title: Kusa Format: CD Label: Hyotan Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "The use of amateurism and error as a compositional device characterize the music of Tori Kudo, particularly in his group Maher Shalal Hash Baz. His wife, Reiko, is nowhere near as prolific (just two short albums in the last ten years) but her interests lead her more towards the pursuit of spontaneity and a considered naturalness. Both share a desire to jolt the experience of playing and listening to music out of stale routines and atrophied sensibilities ⿿ but through play and a haiku-esque close attention to daily life, rather than with a gun to the head. The albums are suffused with a warm, almost alchemical domesticity, rooted in the familiar rhythms of home, community and the seasons. Hito was recorded from summer through to early autumn 2005 and the drowsy heat of the season lies over it like a mosquito net. The hesitant vocals and piano that open its first track are underpinned by what initially sounds like the faint wow and flutter of a cheap tape recorder. Suddenly, as though a window has been flung open, the distortion is revealed to be the pylon-buzz of cicadas in the garden outside. As the sound rises to fill the room, the senses are beguiled, place, time and sensation evoked with the most minimal of means. Kusa sounds slightly stiffer as it takes us from autumn through winter, but on both albums the spare instrumentation is enjoyably creative, with kitchen-cupboard percussion, a vacuum cleaner, the sound of the rain and a gang of local kids on recorders melded effortlessly around the romantic flourishes of Toris piano playing. Reikos albums are always song-based, miniature wisps of melody that sound like something composed over the washing-up, the words perfectly balanced between observation and signification. Her voice has that childlike upper register of many Japanese female singers, but with a definite strength in the low notes. Most striking is her enunciation ⿿ the slightest tremor of hesitation, a lack of demonstrativeness that makes Vashti Bunyan sound like Whitney Houston, the voice pitched uncannily into an area where the exhaled breath seems to shimmer naturally into song. This is captivating and at times heartbreakingly emotive work." - Alan Cummings, The Wire June 2006 |
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Artist: KUDO, REIKO Title: Licking Up Dust Format: CD Label: Hyotan Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| Newest release on Tori and Reiko Kudos (Maher Shalal Hash Baz/Noise/etc..) inhouse label. Backing Reiko this time around are TORI KUDO (organ, guitar), TERUKI TAMAYANAGI (bass) and KEIJI HAINO (guitar, drums and vocals!). "there are two songs about mountain, a song about butterfly and chestnut and loquat and so on.." - Reiko Kudo. |
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Artist: KUDO, REIKO Title: Rice Field Silently Riping In The Night Format: CD Label: Periodic Document Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "There are times when all the music your bruised psyche can take is the softest of whispers, the slightest of instrumental caresses. When an ounce too much pressure could make your veins cave inwards. At times like these, Reiko Kudos previous solo album ("Fire inside my hat", Org Records, 1997) has always been my balm of choice. A gauze-thin collection of songs with minimal piano accompaniment, sung in a voice half between a child and a deeply hesitant angel... For those who would rather trust a history lesson than their own senses, Reiko Omura, as she was known then, first came to light on the Tokyo underground in the late seventies and early eighties. She was part of the Minor circle (which also gave birth to Fushitsusha, High Rise, Kosokuya, Gaseneta and many others) of musical obsessives exploring new and highly personal collisions of noise, improv, rock. Reikos contribution was via groups like Worst Noise and Noise. The latters sole release, "Tenno", saw her trumpet and voice meeting the Bach-doom organ and drums of influential scenester Tori Kudo in a totally unique monument to no-wave noise depression. She later married Kudo, appearing occasionally with his avant-pop Christo-mystic idiot-savant group Maher Shalal Hash Baz, but releasing nothing under her own name until the Org disk in the late nineties. Rice field..." sees Reiko revisiting the pattern of short songs mostly based around one-finger piano motifs, so structurally simple as to be virtually transparent. This time additional flashes of sensitive instrumental colour are added by husband Tori and various members of the Puka-Puka Brians on wavering backing vocals, violin, guitar, percussion, euphonium and percussion. The music treads a sure and private path between a perfect childlike naivete and the amateur aesthetic that has long been Toris goal (he has spent twenty years arriving at a point of psychedelic mastery where he sounds like he bought his first guitar yesterday). Reikos songs and vocals are the weakly pulsing centrepoint though. She sings of life, dying flowers, love, and nursing home residents with the unforced naturalness of a mother alone with her child, a bird in the forest, her pellucid melodies seemingly accidental. It is nothing short of heart-stoppingly gorgeous. And as an honest-to-god example of happiness glimpsed through the quotidian, artistic perfection all the more perfect for not being striven for, you couldnt wish for anything more. A perfect prescription for those moments of fragility when you doubt your own pulse." - Alan Cummings. Highly Recommended!! |
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Artist: KUDO, REIKO & TORI Title: Light Format: CD Label: Siwa Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The CD is an edition of 500 housed in a hand assembled screen printed slipcase with 8 card inserts. Includes lyrics in Japanese and English. Artwork by Namio Kudo. Light was recorded live in 2005 and 2006 and features duo versions of tracks from the last three self released Reiko Kudo albums along with two previously unrecorded songs. Forgoing the big band explorations of Maher Shalal Hash Baz here Tori and Reiko offer an intimate live set of Reikos heartbreakingly beautiful songs of loss and longing." - Siwa. |
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Artist: KUDO, TORI Title: Piano Solo Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "I came up with the title He would come home through the window, job in hand for a dance performance by Mari Fujii. We hung a large frame made out of cardboard on the stage, and Mari would dance -- sometimes within the frame like a dancing girl at one of the old Nichigeki reviews, sometimes stepping outside it -- while I watched and played piano." -- Tori Kudo |
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Artist: KUDO, TORI/KINUTAPAN/YUMBO Title: Dont Fear An Adjoining Island Format: CD Label: Das Gemeine Country: Japan Price: $17.00 |
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"A live concert performance recorded at Martian
Gardens in Sendai, Japan, November 2002 featuring
TORI KUDO, KINUTAPAN, and YUMBO playing both
alone and together. TORI KUDO is the leader of
faves MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ. KINUTAPAN play
rarely, and only new songs, so this is the only
opportunity to hear this material. YUMBO, led by
KOJI SHIBUYA of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, sounds
much like that band, and performs with piano,
electric and acoustic guitars, bass, drum, toy
keyboard, trombone, kazoo, and more. Sixteen
tracks of great psych pop, packaged with a
40-page booklet (printed in Japanese). Imported
from Japan."
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Artist: KUDO, TORI/LA CONSUMPTION 4 Title: Atlantic City Format: LP Label: Siwa Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
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"Archive LP of material recorded by Tori Kudo and some fellow travellers during a stay in New York in the Summer of 1981. Originally released on cassette the approach on these recordings was a long way from the eerie organ driven Noise Tenno LP that Tori and Reiko released a year earlier. About half of Atlantic City consists of songs, teeth bared and falling apart as they come together but still in a style similar to Toris subsequent work with Maher Shalal Hash Baz. The other half is made up mostly of extended guitar jams rooted equally in rock and blues but retaining Toris rather unique take on the idioms. Screenprinted cover and insert art adapted from drawings and photos taken in NY and Atlantic City in 1981." - Siwa.
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Artist: KUGELBERG, JOHAN Title: Enjoy the Experience: Homemade Records 1958-1992 Format: Book/7" Label: Sinecure Country: USA Price: $65.00 |
| "Enjoy the Experience is the largest collection of American private press vinyl ever amassed and presented, featuring over 1,000 reproductions of the cover art of self released titles from 1958-1992. It is the seventh major book release by Johan Kugelberg, the author and editor behind The Velvet Underground: New York Art, Born in the Bronx and Punk: An Aesthetic (Rizzoli), True Norwegian Black Metal (Vice), Brad Pitts Dog (Zero Books), and Beauty Is in the Street: A Visual Record of the May 68 Paris Uprising (Four Corners). The subjects of Enjoy the Experience range from lesbian folk singers to psychedelic disco bands; awkward teen pop combos to pizza parlor organists; religious cult leaders to swank Sinatra imitators. But this is not a novelty freak show: also profiled and discussed are some of the most highly regarded rock, soul, jazz, funk and singer/songwriter albums from the latter half of the twentieth century. From the awkward-yet-talented to the genius-yet-bizarre, one thing unites all musicians presented here: they sincerely hoped to become stars, they committed themselves to record, and they left themselves vulnerable to an industry not understanding of nuance, not appreciative of character. Enjoy the Experience includes an introduction by editor Johan Kugelberg, a lengthy overview by legendary rare record dealer Paul Major, along with commentaries, hundreds of reviews and over fifty biographies by noted enthusiasts and collectors like Gregg Turkington, Will Louviere, Brandan Kearney, Geoffrey Weiss, Jack Streitman, Eothen Alapatt, Rich Haupt, and Mike Ascherman." 512 pages; hardcover with a removable OBI ribbon. Features a download card to select offerings featured in the book. Comes with a clear vinyl reproduction of a Century Records promotional 7" on "How to Press Your Own Record."" -Sinecure. Very highly recommended! |
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Artist: KUHN BROTHERS & THE MAD ROCKERS, THE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "Experienced jazz avant gardists Joachim and Rolf Kühn joined forces with Volker Kriegel, Gunter Lenz and Stu Martin to release this superb mixture of Krautrock, psych, funk and free jazz. With all kind of sound effects coming from distorted clarinets, Hammond organ, groovy bass/drums section, breaks and hot guitar licks The Mad Rockers paved the way for many Krautrockers to follow. Reissued in vinyl for the first time since its 1969 debut on the Metronome label, this is a basic record to showcase the rich mixture of different styles that would make the 70s German music scene so unique and appealing. The Kühn Brothers, Rolf and Joachim, were at first reluctant to the reissue of this amazing LP. They are highly trained musicians with a huge experience and a big sense of innovation and they felt they have many works which are much better than this one, which undoubtedly they do have since they started being really young and are still at it nowadays, but here at Wah Wah we do feel The Mad Rockers album is a landmark in krautrock story, since it anticipates the path that would be travelled by so many legendary krautsters of the seventies. Everything is there, the adventurous mixture of styles so diverse as psychedelic rock, jazz, funk... You name it, you find it. Plenty of excellent breaks, experimental in the quest for new sounds, with instruments run through distortion effects, the musicians involved are all key figures in the development of modern European of its era. You have Volker Kriegel, who besides his own solo recordings shall also be remembered for his great contributions to Dave Pike Sets classic albums or his work with Klaus Doldinger. There is Stu Martin, drummer also on other interesting projects like The Free Pop Experimental Concept also reissued on Wah Wah. Plus Günter Lenz on bass, jazz master who has worked among others with names like Krzysztof Komeda, Lighting Hopkins, Chet Baker, Coleman Hawkins or Olivier Nelson, and he has even done orchestral arrangements for Plácido Domingo! Jazz meets rock, funk and psych, absolutely amazing groovy LP! With 1 song compiled on Andy Votels Music To Watch Girls By, the rest of the LP is equally good! Gatefold sleeve." -Wah Wah |
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Artist: KUKKIVA POLIISI Title: Ilola Format: CDR Label: Audiobot Country: Belgium Price: $13.00 |
| "Tagged by Audibot as their gentlest release yet, Kukkiva Poliisis Ilola testifies to the labels extreme output. Calm and acoustic, Ilola nonetheless frightens with its eerie silence, jangly guitars, and backwoods-at-night vibe. Led by Johanna Lonka⿿whose releases as Kuupuu are a safer bet for those looking for soothing fare⿿this all-female quintet strips their music of all excess, leaving only stark lines for the listener to follow. A thin trail of blood snaking to a closed closet, a chunk of old bone jutting from the soil⿿minimal reminders of grisly scenes. The twelve-minute closer ⿿Pahasuo occupies over a quarter of the half-an-hour-and-change of Ilola, and in it, one can hear the hallmarks of Kukkiva Poliisi. Opening with lost, out-of-tune strumming and a creaky clock chime, the track builds into timid, terrified guitar squeaks and insistent, human-sacrifice hand drums. With human howls and the Pied Pipers very own death-flute, ⿿Pahasuo reaches a climax that abruptly ends. No resolution, no denouement. The players simply vanish into the fog of their haunted atmosphere. The remaining tracks are brief sketches, in which threatening rhythms and spiderweb guitars coax a singular sound⿿horror-movie violins, whirling synthesizer squiggles, ungodly chants⿿to a quiet death. Lasting long enough to evoke and exhaust a fragile, gloomy mood, these tracks are potent enough that their ending is both lamented and longed for." - Bryan Berge, Stylus Magazine. 2005 release. |
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Artist: KUMPINY NIGHT Title: Kumpiny Night Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"from jan 07.....ben chasney, elisa ambrogio, kim
gordon, thurston moore, bill nace, zac davis,
christian carter, gown, jessi leigh swanson, dredd
foole, matt krefting.... all inna combination....
duos/trios etc.... the whole gig on tape, hear all the
bad jokes made between every set.... everyone was
great this night, 5 minute set limit, names pulled out
of a hat for collabs...... edition of 126" - Maim & Disfigure.
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Artist: KUNITAKA, SATO Title: Wandering Shadow Of Southern Streets Format: LP Label: EM Country: Japan Price: $27.00 |
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"Subtitled: Blind Itinerant Musician From Amami Island. Em Records presents Wandering Shadow Of Southern Streets, 1970s recordings from Sato Kunitaka, dark star of the southern islands of Japan. Sato Kunitaka was born in 1919 in the Amami Islands, south of Kyushu. He lost his sight at eight months; his grandfather taught him to play sanshin, the southern shamisen, to ensure that Sato would be able to earn a living when he grew up. When he was 12, he began to play tategoto, a vertically-held form of koto. He developed a unique style on both of these instruments. From the age of 17, he began his wandering lifestyle, travelling through the Ryukyu Islands, a thousand-kilometer subtropical archipelago including Okinawa. He supported himself as a travelling musician, performing island folk songs, pre-War popular songs and his own compositions. Although he was a fine instrumentalist, Satos real power resides in his voice: a powerful, wailing, howling sound dredged up from the depths of his being. Some have likened the impact of his voice to that of Charley Patton -- a dark, intense sound-world most unlike the relatively smoother, sunny vocal styles of other Ryukyu/Okinawa singers. After World War II, Satos popularity spread to the U.S. troops stationed in Okinawa, and it is rumored that his wanderings took him to Hawaii. He continued his itinerant ways, travelling through the archipelago, singing, playing, living and loving (a man of rumor and mystery, he is said to have married at least eight different women during his lifetime). In the early 1970s, he came to the attention of Takenaka Ro, a writer and political activist, and through Takenakas enthusiastic support, Sato travelled to Tokyo in 1975 to record his first album. Satos fame continued to spread, and he performed at various folk festivals and made other recordings, some of which were released posthumously. Travelling and playing throughout the islands to the end, he made his last public appearance in Okinawa in 1985 and died the same year. "WSOSS" features recordings of Sato Kunitaka made in the late 1970s in Okinawa. These recordings, by Harada Kennichi, show Sato in his element, playing Ryukyu Island songs on his home turf, capturing his innate wildness and his elemental, raw spirit. Released on 12" vinyl, one side of "WSOSS" features Sato playing tategoto; the flipside is devoted to his sanshin. Both sides, of course, spotlight the mystery and majesty of his voice. Includes a 4-page insert with liner notes in both English and Japanese." -Em.
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Artist: KUNSTLER TREU Title: Treutronics 81 Format: 7" Label: Kernkrach Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| "Early photographs ex continuous fish and todays plan member, taken up in the childrens room EP, 33rpm, green Vinyl behind tape coil, side A: The Noie German wave, Maalox, fish under your socks side B: Orion." -Kernkrach (via www.freetranslation.com). Packaged with an empty film reel. |
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Artist: KUNTZ, HENRY Title: Speed Of Culture Light Format: 4 Cass Label: Imvated Country: Belgium Price: $30.00 |
| "an insight in the light of a free spirit. in the 70s, Henry was the editor and publisher of the internationally acclaimed newletter BELLS. his first musical output dates from 1977, when he played tenor saxophone on HENRY KAISERs album Ice Death. since the early 80s, Henry started to focus on solo music, using instruments like saxophone, flutes, musette, violins, gamelan, rhaita, etc. in 1986, he formed the free jazz troupe OPEYE. Henry ran the beautiful HUMMING BIRDS recordlabel, on which he produced several lps, cassettes and cd releases of solo and group improvisations. Speed Of Culture Light is a retrospective boxset (with material ranging from 1980 until present day) and shows a wide and varied collection of free jazz jams, solo improvisations and beautiful 6-track meditations. in 2008, we will release a compilation album of the HUMMING BIRD EARTH SERIES cassettes, wich was a series of 5 ethnographic tapes recorded by Henry in Bali, Mexico, Bolivia, and Guatemala between 1985 and 1991. "Any old school Bay Area improvisor/spirit music freak can tell you that Henry Kuntz has, since the late 70s, been one of the most audacious and interesting free improvisers on the scene non-stop. His documentation has been typically subterranean starting from his initial recorded sounds on Henry Kaisers 1977 Ice Death LP, a flashpoint record for many a guitar experimentalist (Jim ORourke e.g.). For most of the 70s Kuntz edited and published a great newsletter called Bells (available to read online at www.metropolis.com/bels). Throughout the 80s Kuntz released LPs, cassettes and CDs on his own Hummingbird imprint of solo and group free-playing, all of which have amazing moments of deep spontaneous thought-love-composition. A fantastic compilation of this material, plus recordings from Kuntz Opeye project self described as ⿿avant-shamanic trance jazz, can be had on the beautiful four cassette boxset, Speed Of Culture Light, from Belgium label Bread & Animals. The label plans on systematically re-releasing the Hummingbird cassettes throughout this year. Essential music for the ancient/modern axis alive in any sentient brain. And each package comes with complimentary plastic dinosaur. So no excuses." - Thurston Moore, Bull Tongue |
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Artist: KURENNIEMI, ERKKI Title: Aanityksi/Recordings 1963-1973 Format: CD Label: Love Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
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"Brilliant collection of obscure early electronic music, on one of Finlands longest running independent labels; packaged with detailed liner notes (Finnish/English). Not to be missed." - FE. "One of the undeniable pioneers of Finnish electronic music is Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941), who founded The University of Helsinki Electronic Music Studio in the early 1960s. Kurenniemi built his own series of synthesizers, named as DIMI, which are nowadays mostly possessed by Swedish collector and electronic musician Ralph Lundsten, and published some of his experimental compositions like Dance of the Antropoids. Alongside such Finnish pioneers as Eino Ruutsalo (for whose short films Kurenniemi composed music), Kurenniemi also did some early work on the field of Finnish media art and contributed to Finnish video art and happenings. Kurenniemi created the first commercially manufactured and marketed microcomputer already in 1973 -- two years before the American MITS Altair. These days Kurenniemi works as an independent researcher, specialising in such subjects as artificial intelligence." - Love. Highly recommended!
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Artist: KURIHARA, MICHIO Title: Sunset Notes Format: CD Label: Pedal Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
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"Stellar first solo adventure of former White Heaven and Stars lysergic guitar wonder Michio Kurihara. Comprised out of 9 tracks, Kurihara proves that he has more up his sleeve than merely being an extremely gifted guitar wonder. Here, he puts on display his song craftmanship and it surely stunned me. Kurihara sounds utterly mature, well structured and exciting compositions spared from guitar frivolics and instead focusing on the image of the composition. He gets assited by the rhythm section of Yura Yura Teikoku (Shibata Ichiro), Peace Music and Pedal Records spearhead Nakamura Souichiro and Ishihara You and Aso Ai who both breath some songs into being. This album grows on you the more you lend your ear to it and is, according to these humble ears, already one of the top 5 albums for 2005. Ultimate highest recommendation." - Pedal.
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Artist: KUUPUU Title: Illusia Format: 7" Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"vinyl debut from finlands finest fairy goddess, kuupuu (aka jonna karanka). beautiful extended tracks featuring piles of instruments and noisemakers all played by jonna. side one chugs along like a shimmering cosmic freight train, rippling with layers of hovering drones, looped and layered vocals, pitch ebb & flow, and loose tinkling percussion a disorienting & lifted vibration frozen in space. side two begins with sparse moaning vocals, klang, & bells, and slowly shifts into a stunning melancholy lo-fi folk/psych downer, with slow and beautiful vocals and plucked acoustic guitar. very sweet. plays at 33.3rpms... packaged in a lovely tri-fold heavy stock textured art paper cover, with beautiful full color art by jonna, and slick full color sunset label art. numbered edition of 600 copies." - Time-Lag.
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Artist: KUUPUU Title: Kulta Sulka Format: CDR Label: Kuupuu Country: Finland Price: $10.00 |
| "Its been well documented that something weird and wonderful is afoot in Finland, with legions of free folk experimenters emerging from the forests clutching recordings of handstiched psychedelia. Kuupuu is the work of Jonna Karanka, who has spent time in Avarus and The Anaksimandros, and her self-released solo outing Kulta Sulka is one of the many gems to hail from the Finnish scene. Her sound kaleidoscopes indicate a tenuous grip on the art of songwriting, often meandering into eerie loops of breathy woodwinds trapped in cyclonic infinitude, or murky collages distorted with cheaply rendered, sci-fi laser pings. Yet Karankas dreamily cracked songs are her strenght, and they ache with the melancholy of the best acid folk chanteuses the 70s had to offer. The elegant simplicity of her acoustic guitar and haunted toy box melodies shroud the album in dark, earthy spiritualism." - Jim Haynes / The Wire 268. |
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Artist: KUUPUU Title: Lumen Tähden Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "Although Finlander Jonna Karanka has been slowly leaking out little Kuupuu jewels for six years now, somehow its taken just that long to materialize her first proper album. Maybe it has something to do with the time shes devoted to her beautiful artwork, or her time spent in a highly impressive string of other bands, including Hertta Lussu Assa (with Islaja and Lau Nau), Anaksimandos, Avarus, and many others. But, you know, I always figured Kuupuu music didnt have much to do with time anyway. Its music from another reality, to put it bluntly. A beautiful place no doubt, but somehow totally other. You could call this music a lot of things, all without really saying much. Post-everything? Pre-birth folk? Bedtime acid-art? Naive avant-garde loop witchcraft? Maybe something like a thousand memories & vague images folded into each other and spooled out infinitely like a sloppy film loop. The sound of tiny bioluminescent insects systematically devouring an urban cityscape in hyper-speed, while just as quickly slithering neon flora entwine the metallic gray remains, only to then be gobbled themselves by a leaderless army of pulsating micro-robots. Got that? Now play backwards in slow motion. Surreal might just be an understatement. Packaged in a stunning ultra-heavy laminated full color gatefold cover with full color art labels, all created by Jonna. Pressed on audiophile 180gm vinyl. Limited edition of 750 copies." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: KUUPUU Title: Lumen Tähden Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Although Finlander Jonna Karanka has been slowly leaking out little Kuupuu jewels for six years now, somehow its taken just that long to materialize her first proper album. Maybe it has something to do with the time shes devoted to her beautiful artwork, or her time spent in a highly impressive string of other bands, including Hertta Lussu Assa (with Islaja and Lau Nau), Anaksimandos, Avarus, and many others. But, you know, I always figured Kuupuu music didnt have much to do with time anyway. Its music from another reality, to put it bluntly. A beautiful place no doubt, but somehow totally other. You could call this music a lot of things, all without really saying much. Post-everything? Pre-birth folk? Bedtime acid-art? Naive avant-garde loop witchcraft? Maybe something like a thousand memories & vague images folded into each other and spooled out infinitely like a sloppy film loop. The sound of tiny bioluminescent insects systematically devouring an urban cityscape in hyper-speed, while just as quickly slithering neon flora entwine the metallic gray remains, only to then be gobbled themselves by a leaderless army of pulsating micro-robots. Got that? Now play backwards in slow motion. Surreal might just be an understatement." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: KUUPUU Title: Tinakenkalurtta Format: Cass Label: Scumbag Relations Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "New Lady Garden secretions from Jonna! Two live sets...one recorded at home and the other on John Cavanaghs Soundwave." - Scumbag Relations. |
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Artist: KUUPUU Title: Unilintu Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Unilintu" is the second of two vinyl-only LPs on the Dekorder label compiling the best material from Kuupuus first four CD-R and cassette releases, this time presenting a slightly darker and even more coherent sonic vision compared to last years gorgeous "Yökehrä" LP.." - Dekorder. "Of all the many travellers in the Finnish psychedelia scene, Kuupuu is surely one of the most enigmatic.(.....) Among the Finnish leftfield, Yökehrä is second only to Ess Sateenkaarisuudelma in its meditative intensity." - The Wire, September 2006. |
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Artist: KUUPUU Title: Yakehrau Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
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"Jonna Karanka aka Kuupuu is one of the main movers of the (deservedly) much hyped Finnish Psychedelic Free Folk scene. Originally hailing from Tampere she is known as a core member of Avarus, Anaksimandros, Kukkkiva Poliisi and Maniacs Dream. Additionally, she has recently started Hertta Lussu ssä with Lau Nau and Islaja and has collaborated with Tomutonttu (aka Jan Anderzen of Kemialliset Ystävät) and Paavi (as Lussu ja Paavi).
"Yökehrä" is the first of two vinyl-only LPs on the Dekorder label compiling the best material from her first four CD-R and cassette releases, all of which immediately became much sought after collectors items, fetching ridicolous prices on the eBay market.
This LP is a beautifull collection of haunting (sometimes spooky) home baked freeform folk songs, strange lo-fi loops, vocal drones and psychedelic cut-ups, made using weirdly tuned plucked and strummed strings, bells, clattery percussion, unidentifiable wind instruments, backwards tape loops and a ton of other noisemakers all played and recorded by herself; accompanied by her distinctive voice (often looped and layered) with vocals sung and whispered in her native Finnish language making the whole atmosphere even more haunting and mysterious. Jonna Karanka creates an intimate space where the listener feels like sitting next to her in a small chamber or outside in the woods where Kuupuu sings a lullaby just for him.
Were proud to say that this has to be one of the most exciting debut albums of the year.
Housed in a full colour sleeve with beautifull design / drawings / collage artwork by Jonna Karanka herself." - Dekorder.
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Artist: KUWAYAMA-KIJIMA Title: 00/10/17d-00/10/17e Format: 7" Label: 20 City Country: Japan Price: $6.50 |
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"Midnight at a construction site in Naogoya, Japan, large and particularly loud fan vent whirling, Kuwayama Kiyoharu and Kijima Rina hit record and begin to play. Kuwayama uses a cello and Kijima a violin. Its an eerie setting to be recording, and the improvisations that flow from their instruments carry this beautifully. Setting seems to be a fairly important part of their recording technique as their full length cd, available on GG Records (www.lethe-voice.com/gg), was recorded in a large Warehouse. The space around them in those recordings is also very clear. Some truely fabulous stuff from this improv duo. Kijima Rina has a number of solo tapes out, Kuwayama Kiyoharu is very active in a number of groups in Nagoya. Together they organise the annual week-long Lethe-Voice Festival in Nagoya which brings together a diverse collection of Japanese and international sound makers. Kuwayamas solo work also featured on the split 7" with Toy.Bizarre (20C-5) under the name Lethe." - 20 City. Edition of 300 copies.
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Artist: KUWAYAMA-KIJIMA & CARTER THORTON Title: Shrine Format: LP Label: Conduit Creations Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Shrine presents a Summer of 2004, post-midnight, outdoor field recording made on the footpaths of Japan⿿s largest Shinto shrine and documents the first time meeting of Japanese improvising duo Kuwayama-Kijima with NYC⿿s Carter Thornton (Izititiz, Zashiki-Warashi, Enos Slaughter). Constructed with a mixture of cellos, violins, guitars, sticks, leaves, rocks, toys, security guards and wind, the music drones, hisses, screeches and whines with the humid Japanese dark within which it was created. Limited to 500 vinyl copies." - Conduit Creations. |
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Artist: KWJAZ Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "San Franciscan Peter Berends mystery mixtape unit, KWJAZ, flashed forth this debut self-titled slab of post-plastic sublime decomposed luxury grooves on cassette via his own rarified Brunch Groupe imprint early in 2011 and the 120 listeners lucky enough to grip a copy know who they are. It only took half a listen before we green-lit this tape-degraded gem for vinyl treatment and we are dee-lighted to present it thusly. Comprised of two side-long suites, Once In Babylon and the oddly monikered Frighteous Wane, KWJAZ nimbly ebbs and flows the proceedings through airy cloud-jazz passages (complete with smoky crystal vibes keys and narcotic hiss-hazed horn sections), bouncy weirdo dub-funk vignettes, stretched-out syrupy synth stews, and smooth faux-Steely D soft-rock abstractions, all without ever sounding schizo or style-hoppy. A major feat, and a real riddle of an LP that deepens and ripens with each spin. Hopefully you were savvy enough to catch him on his recent coast-to-coast summer tour with Swanox and Sudden Oak; if not, tune in to this. Black vinyl LPs (mastered at Dubplates in Berlin) in jackets with cosmic floral artwork by Austin Cho/Casey Grr. Edition of 700." -Not Not Fun |