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Artist: R.O.T. Title: Batman & Snake Format: CDR Label: Imvated Country: Belgium Price: $10.00 |
| "after numerous outputs on various labels (morc, foxglove, veglia, slooow, ...), finally they found a place in their hearts for imvated again. for the second time that is!! R.O.T. is realy the bunch of people you can call friends. batman & snake is droning R.O.T. at his "vaguest". no sense of drama whatsoever.... i think this is their best album to date?" - Imvated. |
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Artist: R.O.T. Title: Ceci Nest Plus Avioth Format: One Sided LP Label: Morc Country: Belgium Price: $20.00 |
| "Since the start of this free-music collective in 1998, R.O.T. rogressively took the shape of a mainly acoustic big band introducing a lot of different analog sound sources (guitars, organs, wind instruments, percussion, objects, modified electronics, etc...). This record is perhaps R.O.T. at its most minimal. Ceci nest plus avioth is their first vinyl release since their well acclaimed LP on (k-raa-k)3 in 2006. The one-sided LP comes in a jacket silkscreened by Jelle Crama and is limited to 175 copies." -Morc. Last copies of this release from a year+ back. |
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Artist: R.O.T. Title: Des Lands Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: Morc Country: Netherlands Price: $14.00 |
| "..freenoise allstar bigband r.o.t.. (feat. members of toss, dirk freenoise, soft cushions, moysk, vp broem, benjamin franklin, ysegrynus...) - it was recorded live last august, at the afrika squat (which was closed by the police last week). if theres something like quiet noise, Rot comes pretty close... this record will definatly please fans of combos like ashtray navigations, avarus or sunroof." - Morc. |
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Artist: R.O.T. Title: Rome Format: Cass Label: Veglia Country: Belgium Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: R/S (PETER REHBERG/MARCUS SCHMICKLER) Title: USA Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "2011 release. Archival release documenting the 2009 USA tour of Peter Rehberg and Marcus Schmickler under the R/S moniker. Real time extreme music improvisations recorded at Lampo in Chicago and No Fun Fest in New York City. USA is the second full length release by the leading electronic music duo, follow up to their 2007 One (Snow Mud Rain) on Erstwhile Records. The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140 gram vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silk screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas." -Pan |
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Artist: RAAJMAHAL Title: Celandine Format: Cass Label: Digitalis Ltd. Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Beautiful, ominous grit from members of NNCK, flower orgy, etc." -Digitalis Ltd.
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Artist: RAAJMAHAL Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Kelippah Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Its a mournful processional as guitar notes and gentle echo match the timbre of weeping voices. This is cast-your-body-on-the-casket shades of slobbery meditation, though the Eastern influence finds Raajmahal resembling the overcrowded Ganges rather than a stuff funeral plot. Youll bathe in it alongside floating bodies, as they wade in centuries of bones, flesh and sacrifice. I want to turn to ash with Raajmahal guiding me to eternal light" Justin Spicer, Tiny Mix Tapes.
Edition of 300 in jackets silk screened by Phil Franklin and Christine Shields at Bright Spot Ink.
Raajmahal is Carla Baker(Baba Yaga, Flower Orgy), Pat Murano(NNCK, Decimus) and Santa Wolanczyk(Flower Orgy). SOLD OUT
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Artist: RAAJMAHAL Title: Tishna Format: Cass Label: Sloow Tapes Country: Belgium Price: $8.00 |
| "Two spaced-out tracks by Pat Murano (Decimus/NNCK) and Carla Baker (Baba Yaga/Flower Orgy), a trip beyond Cartesian dualism into dark waters of other-consciousness scented with Eastern spiritualism and quiet contemplation. Floating bodies of restrained guitar and ethereal vocal chants summon Apsaras bearing cups of psychedelic nectar. 100 copies." - Sloow Tapes. |
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Artist: RABE, FOLKE Title: What?? Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "What?? is a focused and grounding work produced by Swedish composer Folke Rabe in 1967. From his interest in sound phenomena and harmonics Rabe was able to make one of the most deep, moving pieces of sustained sound generated in this formative era of minimalist electronic composition. Initially reissued on Dexters Cigar in 1997 and now available on Important with expanded packaging including archival materials furnished by the composer. Amplified infinity." - Important. "My interest in the makeup of various sound phenomena began many years ago. The basic physical preconditions were familiar to me, but I wanted to experience the components of the sound with my hearing. I attempted to hear into the different sounds in order to grasp the components that made them up. I experienced how the overtones in a tone sounding on the piano change slowly as they die away. I also attempted to grasp the brittle arpeggio of formants that arises when a vowel is slowly changed at a particular pitch. I also tried, as far as possible, to train my hearing to tease out the complex processes that occur at the origin of sound... About 85% of the material is made up of electronically generated tones, which however are never present in their static, original form. Each partial has been specially treated in itself, which can at times yield a very rich result. What?? was created in the late summer of 1967, and was realized by me in the electronic studio of the Swedish Radio. The piece was presented for the first time in the same year as part of a collective evening performance (Signery) in the Stockholm Radio Hall by Jan Bark, Bo Anders Persson and myself." - Folke Rabe. |
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Artist: RACCOO-OO-OON Title: Behold Secret Kingdom Format: CD Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $14.50 |
| "Behold Secret Kingdom is the first proper fullength release from Iowa Citys Raccoo-oo-oon after several limited cd-r/tape/vinyl releases (including cd reissues on Time Lag and Release The Bats). The band spent the last year working with Behold Secret Kingdom, tremendous amounts of love and hard work has been put into this recording which now will be unleashed by Release The Bats! 8 new songs that takes the bands psychedelic and dynamic free-form punk from previous releases to new heights, this is definitely their most focused and perfected recording so far. Darker, denser and almost brutal at times, Behold Secret Kingdom is also the heaviest recording they have done. It only takes a few seconds into Black Branches and the mood is set for the rest of the album immediately. The stunning closer Tail At Prospect Peak could easiest be described as campfire-doom with its slow riffing, heavy use of percussion and chanted vocals (everything suddenly bursting out in a chaotic crescendo�?�). The trademark tribal-like drums is still present, as is the vocal drones and the furious saxophone swirls. Behold Secret Kingdom is a epic masterpiece, there is really no other way to describe it. Chaotic and all over the place, yet so beautiful. Puts earlier comparisons to bands like Excepter and Animal Collective to a shame! Recorded by Mike Dixon in Bloomington, IN. Full colour digipack with the bands now well-known amazing artwork." |
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Artist: RACCOO-OO-OON Title: Is Night People Format: CD Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $16.00 |
| "Swirling sax-and-effects-heavy free-form punk from Iowa Citys Raccoo-oo-oon. Is Night People is their first magical recording, 7 organic rituals creating a majestic outlet of neverending energy. Beautiful cascades of manipulated vocals and layers of feedback melting together over sunny explosions of insane drumming. In the vein of Sun City Girls, Here Comes The Indian-era Animal Collective, Excepter etc. The cd comes in a letterpressed black Arigato Pak with gold ink made by Stumptown Printers and stunning art by Shawn Reed in the band." - Release The Bats. |
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Artist: RACCOO-OO-OON Title: Mythos Folkways 5 Format: Cass Label: Night People Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Final installment in the Mythos Fokways series, recorded late summer 07 by Mike Dixon in Chicago, mastered by Pete Swanson, the companion piece to the epic final double LP on NNF/RTB. Dark drifting psych rock, circular and uplifting, guitars weave around atmospheric electronics and R. Garbes signature propulsive drumming. Late dead encrusted shrine rock for the end times. Art by Garbes/Reed." -Night People
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Artist: RACCOO-OO-OON Title: Raccoo-oo-oon Format: Double LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "All things must come to pass, if you love something set it free, its better to burn out than fade away, blah blah blah. No platitude can mask the permanent bummer of a favorite band breaking up in their prime, and such is the case with Iowa Citys most untamed civic treasure, feral-psych foursome Raccoo-oo-oon, who decided to dissolve this year after nearly half a decade of radical and galvanizing activity (tapes, tours, t-shirts, etc). Fortunately theyre generous sorts, so their parting gift to the fans/haters/planet is a vicious, thorny wilderness of endless, nameless songs heaved across four fried sides of black vinyl. Crawl a mile in their shoes. As far as R.I.P. band statements go, this self-titled monster is tough to beat, by far the most ambitious slabs of sounds the RAC pack has ever put together. Doomed, desperate prog-rock flailings decay into hollow purgatories of dimly pulsing ambience, only to re-erupt into pissed percussion firestorms and experimental electricity. There are a few moments of Behold Secret Kingdom-style focus, but for the most part the mood remains raw and acidic, four souls on edge, backs to the crowd, channeling everything they have left inside. Its deconstruction time again. Nearly 80 minutes of music, mastered by Pete Swanson, housed in reinforced double LP jackets with Andy/Daren in repose photo artwork, plus a pro-printed 11x11 insert. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: RACCOO-OO-OON Title: The Cave Of Spirits Forever Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "hot new real cd reissue of the cdr version that went instantly out of print last year... raccoo-oo-oon are one of those bands that can somehow shift between seemingly divergent genres, while the whole time keeping a sound very much their own. the disc launches with a speed blasted, noise fueled, psych/punk rocker, slides into nearly grooving free-jazz territory, then into a gorgeous, buzzing/floating/tinkling bliss mantra, and thats just the first 3 tracks. things continue unfolding from there, but the overall sound constantly slips back to the sort of mantric, damaged rock thud these guys are clearly fond of. a rather thrilling and quite great ride... remastered by pete swanson (yellow swans) for extra punch. packaged in a full color off-set printed tri-fold art paper cover, reproducing shawn reeds original eyeball frying art, inside and out. woven japanese innersleeves. limited edition of 1000 copies." - Time Lag. |
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Artist: RACE, THE Title: Exiles Format: LP Label: St. Ives Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Exiles is meant to be an over-the-top experience sonically, lyrically and thematically, conjuring the desert, its dunes, mirages and holy mountains and the outsized personalities of the outlaws, searchers, escapists, wanderers, drifters, pariahs, prophets, misfits, mystics, miscreants and all the other sorry suckers whove called the dusty road home. As dark and serious as it may all sound it was a hell of a lot of fun to make and we hope an enjoyable listen. Exiles is available as a limited edition vinyl pressing of 220." -St. Ives |
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Artist: RADIGUE, ELIANE Title: Feedback Works 1969-1970 Format: Double LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $51.00 |
| "Alga Marghen very proudly presents the complete documentation of Eliane Radigues sound installations from 1969-1970. These previously unpublished recordings include the broad tectonic vibrations of Omnht, the celestial voices of Usral, Stress Osakas massive chant, and the moving horizon in Vice-Versa, Etc... The works of the feedback period finally revealed! It is amazing that she could build such formidably organic sonic edifices in her home studio with the primitive machines given to her by Pierre Henry: three tape recorders, a mixing board, an amplifier, two loudspeakers and a microphone. Eliane previously worked for him at the Studio dEssai of the R.T.F. from 1955 to 1957, after having met Pierre Schaeffer almost by chance, who invited her to learn the techniques of musique concrète. Created 10 years after her Studio dEssai experience, the Feedback Works of Eliane Radigue immediately take a new direction from the explorations of musique concrète. Her adventure is intuitively going toward flux, toward contemplative stasis: a music of continuous sounds, of apparently simple structures, which permits the revelations and expansion of rich acoustic phenomena. It is as if her musical work was in some way a martial art, as if she meditated for 10 years before striking the first blow, with an impressive precision! First pressing of 400 copies also including a 16-page LP-size booklet with original photos, scores and liner notes as well as a second LP titled Vice-Versa, Etc..., originally a small handmade box, signed and numbered, realized as a multiple on the occasion of a show at Lara Vincys gallery in 1970, which contained a reel of magnetic tape and the instructions for use. It indicates that all playback speeds are possible, forward or backward, as well as any combination of two channels, on several recorders, ad libitum... This LP presents two versions done by Emmanuel Hoelterbach following the indications of Eliane Radigue to the letter, respecting her composition methods." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: RADIGUE, ELIANE Title: Jouet Electronique/Elemental I Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Alga Marghen proudly presents two sublime pieces by Eliane Radigue, Jouet Electronique (1967) for feedback on magnetic tape and Elemental I (1968) for feedback of natural sounds on magnetic tape. Both works, recorded at Pierre Henrys Studio Apsome in Paris, have not been published before. Between 1967 and 1968, Eliane Radigue was the assistant of Pierre Henry in his studio, mainly for the editing of LApocalypse de Jean. He also put her in charge of organizing his sound archive according to different criteria. It was endless work -- there were incredible sounds, a true sound library! Eliane Radigue really enjoyed doing this work, even if it took a long time. So, sometimes she decided to set the machines of the studio to do some little work on her own. Jouet Electronique and Elemental I were born this way as a kind of recreation during her time as a studio assistant. Working with feedback is something that Eliane Radigue learned through Pierre Henry. Do you remember Voyage? Theres that fluid part which is made of feedback constructed with a microphone. Everything had to be set at a precise distance from the loudspeakers because that is the specific problem with feedback -- you have to be at the right distance. Afterwards, these high tone recordings were slowed down in order to discover the deeper character of their color. This work with feedback was in the end quite limited and the composer preferred working with two reel tape machines to produce sounds. The first was set on the recording mode while the other was playing and it was the accidents happening in this phase that made the feedback richer. With some fine-tuning you could reach very beautiful results: low pulsations, very high-pitched sounds -- sometimes both at the same time -- or long sounds. All of these sounds could be slowed down or accelerated, which gave her a beautiful material to work with. With Jouet Electronique Eliane Radigue had a lot of fun, hence the title. As far as Elemental I is concerned, it was the first attempt at something which was very important to her based on the theme of the basic elements: water, fire, air and earth. Eliane had the chance to record in open air thanks to a small Stella Vox that Arman gave her in the beginning of the 1960s. At the time she was still living in Nice and every now and then she went for a walk to do some recordings of the sea, the wind, the rain, the fire -- Eliane Radigue continued this way to build her very minimal sound library, consisting of not more than ten reel tapes. This was the starting point and in 1968 she used these recordings for her work with two reel tape machines. First pressing limited to 300 copies, with a text by Emmanuel Holterbach and a photo portrait by Arman." -Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: RADIGUE/PAULINE OLIVEROS/YOSHI WADA/SUN CIRCLE, ELIANE Title: Attention Patterns Format: Double LP/Book Label: Important Country: USA Price: $36.00 |
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"Attention Patterns is a 2 LP set featuring new and archival compositions by Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Yoshi Wada and Sun Circle, as well as a 48-page booklet containing interviews with the composers and related texts. This release brings together composers with shared affinities for long, slowly unfolding durations and unconventional, harmonic approaches to tuning. Each has contributed a full LP side to the compilation. Edition of 600. Pauline Oliveros Horse Sings from Cloud (Encore) is a live performance from 1977 that finds her at her most distilled, performing alone with her justly tuned accordion and voice. Eliane Radigues electronic work Biogenesis, from 1973, uses her ARP synthesizer and recordings of human heartbeats as its main constituents and is the only piece included on the LPs that has been previously released. Sound artist and instrument builder, Yoshi Wada, appears with Reed Modulations, a new work for harmonium, audio generators and bagpipe, made in collaboration with his son, Tashi Wada. Greg Davis and Zach Wallace, better known as Sun Circle, have contributed For Yoshi Wada, an ecstatic and fitting tribute with its oddly tuned free reed drones and percussion. The accompanying booklet includes several of Oliveros Sonic Meditations -- verbal scores that formed the basis for her concept of Deep Listening -- and interviews with Radigue, Wada, and Sun Circle, as well as an in-depth article on collaborating with Radigue by cellist Charles Curtis. Attention Patterns was compiled by Che Chen (whose other outings as anthologist have included the no longer extant, O Sirhan, O Sirhan, a zine that counted Henry Flynt, Bruce McClure, Sir Richard Bishop, Sublime Frequencies, Jessica Rylan, Animal Collective, Deerhoof, Jorge Boehringer and others among its featured) and is a co-release between his new imprint, Black Pollen Press, and Important Records. Two LPs, 48-page booklet, letter-pressed sleeves." - Important.
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Artist: RADIO NEPAL Title: Volume 1 Format: CDR Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Three CDs worth of shortwave radio recordings I compiled while in
Nepal last year. Includes everything...Static, Nepali radio ads,
Nepali folk, Bollywood hits, Elvis, Billy Joel, Nepali IDOL!!,
horrible dance music, and tons of other randomness..oh and TONS of
shortwave static!" - Aaron Dilloway.
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Artist: RADIO PEOPLE Title: Hazel Format: LP Label: Mexican Summer Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Slowly drifting over the horizon, into the realms of Mexican Summer, comes Radio People. The return of Cleveland, Ohio man Sam Goldbergs cosmic synthesizer project is cause for fanfare of the most blissful kind – his music is, after all, a beautiful, hovering behemoth worthy of celebration. Since 2007 Goldberg has become renowned for his slew of highly collectable cassettes, CDRs and VHS on such labels as the Emeralds-curated Wagon and Gneiss Things, Weird Forest, 905 Tapes, Catholic Tapes and Tusco/Embassy, while also finding the time to found his own prolific imprint Pizza Night. Radio People appeared in 2009, producing a similar cascade of material, with Digitalis Records carefully gathering a selection and committing them to vinyl a year later. Mexican Summer is proud to contribute to this legacy with his new album Hazel, a collection of dream-like soundscapes, billowing clouds of synthesizers cut with poignant razor drones, expansive sweeping melodies and suspended harmonies. When brought out of reverie, Radio People pushes ever onward with Italo and Kosmische pulses, concise percussion and sombre vocals, but when left for a while it is always happy to melt back into music for drooping eyelids and swollen hearts. Intergalactic drama at its best and most essential. 750 pressed." - Mexican Summer |
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Artist: RADIO PEOPLE Title: Radio People Format: LP Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "LP release; limited to 500 copies only. Radio People is a project from Ohio-stalwart Sam Goldberg. After a handful of solo releases under his own name on Weird Forest, 905 Tapes and the Emeralds-run Wagon & Gneiss Things labels, he debuted Radio People on an ultra-limited self-titled cassette on his own Pizza Night imprint. At that point, there was no way back and the only move was to push forward with this cosmic beast. Two more short-run tapes followed and it was clear that this new chemically-imbalanced synthesizer project wasnt just a quick hit one-off. Radio People is here to stay. On this, his debut vinyl effort, Goldberg has compiled the best elements of those three, long-gone cassettes. This Dubplates & Mastering-cut slab of wax is the strongest statement Goldberg has made, proving his talent lies far beyond ambient soundscapes and well into the world of pop-infused synthesizer chaos and Kraut-inspired composition. Major hooks sit alongside dense planetary drones. Goldberg pairs rivers of polysynth tracery with deep shards of droning organs, minimal live percussion and a whole host of drum machine backbone. This really is the best of both worlds. Melodies suck you in, beats get your head bobbing and then youre sucked down a complex tonal wormhole of introspective loops and ambient synthscapes. Pop song frameworks nestle themselves neatly beside somber soundscapes, sometimes jumping back and forth in the same track. Barely-there vocals foil the stasis, leaving the listener guessing and wondering if theres a ghost in the mix. Radio Peoples embracing of simple Kraut rhythms to underscore the catchy, kosmische wanderings give this music an accessibility not present in much of Goldbergs previous work. It crosses boundaries and comes back and shows still-untapped wells of talent and ideas in Goldbergs bag of tricks." - Digitalis. |
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Artist: RADIO SHACK/RADIO SHOCK Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Roger/Breathmint/Carbon/Ignivimous/Sunship Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "...this release includes a side of lo-fi electronics/noise and a side of one-man band driven rock/dance-party! packaged in a RadioShack-modified bag." - Breathmint. "a joint release with such other prestigious labels as Breathmint, Ignivomous, Sunship, and Carbon Records! RADIO SHACK is a pair of robots, rumored to have been built by members of ORTHO, who make electronic glitch soundscrapes. RADIO SHOCK is the one-man disco/no-wave band of M.P.Lockwood of COCK ROBOT." - Roger Records. |
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Artist: RADIO/GUITAR (BARBARA ESS AND PEGGY AWESH) Title: Radio Guitar Format: CD Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "RADIO GUITAR is nine tracks of fantastic music and noise utilizing radio sound and electric guitar as realized by Peggy Ahwesh and Barbara Ess respectively. Filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh came of age in the 1970s with feminist politics and the experimental film underground. She started working with Super-8 film in her teens and went on to make feature films, including Splice This (1999) and Girls Beware (1997). Barbara Ess has been performing music in NYC since the 1970s w/ such famed no-wave groups as The Static and Daily Life as well as The Glenn Branca Ensemble and Y Pants, a trio of women playing music on toy instruments. Most recently she has been a member of Ultra Vulva. She has also worked as a publisher of Just Another Asshole - a series of anthologies of artists works in various formats." - Ecstatic Peace. |
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Artist: RADIO/GUITAR (BARBARA ESS AND PEGGY AWESH) Title: Thrum Format: LP Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Latest in Table of the Elements 10th anniversary Lanthanides series of single-sided, silkscreened LPs: Radio/Guitar is fantastic music and noise utilizing radio sound and electric guitar as realized by artists Peggy Ahwesh and Barbara Ess respectively. Filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh came of age in the 1970s with feminist politics and the experimental film underground. She started working with Super-8 film in her teens and went on to make feature films, including Splice This (1999) and Girls Beware (1997). Her work has recently been shown at Rotterdam, Osnabrook, and The New York Film Festival. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the NYSCA Film Production Grant, Jerome Foundation Grant and a grant from Art Matters, Inc. She is presently teaching at Bard College. Barbara Ess has been performing music in NYC since the 1970s w/ such famed no-wave groups as The Static and Daily Life as well as ensembles led by Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham, and Y Pants, a trio of women playing music on toy instruments. Most recently she has been a member of Ultra Vulva. She has also worked as a publisher of Just Another Asshole -- a series of anthologies of artists works in various formats. She concurrently works as a visual artist making and showing large-scale photographs. A book of her photo work, I Am Not This Body, has been published by Aperture to resounding critical acclaim. This exquisite, limited-edition disk is only their second release." - Table Of The Elements.
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Artist: RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP Title: The Seasons Format: LP Label: Trunk Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "At long last the rarest and most peculiar of all Radiophonic Workshop albums is available. Originally issued in 1969, The Seasons has become almost mythical over the last few years. With its mix of unexpected electronics, percussion, tape manipulation and austere poetry, it sounds like no other. The Seasons has also become a major influence on bands such as Broadcast and a key reference in the development of Ghost Box and the whole "hauntology" soundscape. It is seen and heard very much now as an important and lost classic. And after over one year of detective work and rights investigation (which is a lot in this modern world of instant communication), this impressive, strange and wholly unique album is seeing the light of day once again. Originally made as part of the BBCs Drama Workshop broadcasts, this album was meant for educational purposes. Coming in the later period of what is commonly known and remembered as "Music and Movement" or "Movement and Mime Classes," the album was issued briefly as a teaching aid for the modern thinking 1960s classroom. The idea was to play the album and get the school children to dance, improvise, think and create to the sounds and words. The music was originated by one of the early pioneering Radiophonic musicians, David Cain. Very little of his music has ever been made available (except on the classic BBC "pink" album) but to some followers of early British electronics, he is the forgotten master. And for this release he has been interviewed by Julian House (The Focus Group) with a fascinating Q&A, which will appear in the new sleevenotes. As for the poet Ronald Duncan, he is now deceased, but had an interesting and inspired life. A born pacifist, he famously wrote the libretto for Brittens opera The Rape Of Lucretia, wrote the script for Girl On A Motorcycle, and started the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre. His poetry was published by Faber And Faber by T.S. Eliot, who became a friend. Duncans 16 featured poems were specially written in 1969 just for this project. The album sold in tiny quantities when it came out and was quickly deleted by the BBC. Even the BBC Archive doesnt have a copy. In fact the albums scarcity has only added to its mythical status. A handful of originals started appearing in bargain bins throughout the mid-1990s, and as interest in British electronics and the Radiophonic Workshop started to grow, the albums reputation began to gain a little momentum. The album rarely surfaces, but Jonny Trunk and fellow collector Martin Green found three copies at back in about 1998, one of which was passed on to Jarvis Cocker. This limited edition LP comes with the original 1969 BBC sleeve and an insert of all the poetry. Also worth noting is that this album has been remastered from the original Radiophonic Workshop tapes." - Trunk. |
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Artist: RADULESCU, HORATIU Title: Clepsydra Format: LP Label: Edition Rz Country: Germany Price: $24.00 |
| "1990 release. Two 22+ minute works by this Romanian composer. ("Clepsydra" for 16 sound icons [a grand piano laying vertically on its side, with the strings played by bowing]) & ("Astray" for 6 saxophones and sound icon). "Clepsydra" is a massive, rumbling work of outstanding darkness, and needs to be heard." -Edition Rz. |
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Artist: RAGAB AND THE CAIRO JAZZ BAND, SALAH Title: Egyptian Jazz (Deluxe Edition) Format: LP Label: KS Art Yard Series Country: Netherlands Price: $25.00 |
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"The KS Art Yard series is a collaboration between Kindred Spirits and Art Yard, presenting high-quality collectors editions of these classic records.
Salah Ragab formed the first jazz big band in Egypt (The Cairo Jazz Band) in 1968. He was also the leader of the Military Music Departments in Heliopolis and some of the best musicians in Egypt of that time were members of the band such as Zaki Osman (trumpet), Saied Salama (tenor sax), Khamis El ‐Kholy, (piano) and Ala Mostafa (piano). On this recording, the band consists of five saxophones, four trumpets, four trombones, piano, bass, drums, percussion and other exotic instruments. Salah Ragab accompanied the great band leader and composer Sun Ra on a tour in Egypt, Greece, France and Spain in 1984. He also studied jazz theories and improvisation with the jazz musician and composer from Kansas City Osman Kareem, with whom he formed the first jazz quintet in Cairo in 1963, recording with the Radio Service of Cairo. These recordings present Salah Ragab And The Cairo Jazz Bands definitive work, recorded in Heliopolis, Egypt between 1968 and 1973. The definitive work corresponds to the cross‐over of musical styles at the time of the recording, which were produced 6,000 miles away across the Mediterranean and Atlantic in New York with releases on Moodsville by Yusef Lateef and RCA by Ahmud Abdul‐Malik. Egyptian Jazz represents The Cairo Jazz Band responding to the American jazz scene of the 60s and 70s with influences from Mongo Santamaria to Randy Weston and Sun Ra. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl, limited to 500 copies. Housed in a rigid cardboard sleeve featuring a printed inner sleeve with pictures." -KS Art Yard Series
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Artist: RAGAB AND THE CAIRO JAZZ BAND, SALAH Title: Present Egyptian Jazz: Ramadan In Space Time Format: CD Label: Art Yard Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Salah Ragab formed the first jazz big band in Egypt (The Cairo Jazz Band) in 1968, he was also the leader of the Military Music Departments in Heliopolis. Some of the best musicians in Egypt of that time were members of the band such as Zaki Osman (trumpet), Saied Salama (tenor sax), Khamis El -Kholy (piano), Ala Mostafa (piano). On this recording, The Band consists of five saxophones, four trumpets, four trombones, piano, bass, drums and percussion. This record represents The Cairo Jazz Band responding to the American jazz scene of the 60s and 70s with influences from Mongo Santamaria to Randy Weston and Sun Ra. These tracks were first presented by The Ministry Of Culture in Cairo as a Prism Music Production and released with an additional disk by the composer Soliman Gamil. This release marks the first time Salah Ragab and The Cairo Jazz Bands definitive works are presented to the West." - Art Yard. |
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Artist: RAGAB, SALAH Title: Unreleased Egyptian Jazz Format: Double 7" Label: Jazzman Country: UK Price: $31.00 |
| "The name Salah Ragab was best known to jazz fans and record collectors by way of another LP that was recorded with Sun Ra in the early 70s. His album Prism Music Unit with the Cairo Jazz Band was released in Egypt with another by the Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble, but perhaps only Salah himself knew of the other songs he had recorded at the time that didnt make it onto these LPs. Entombed within a hand-printed, hand-made pyramid-shaped box, this is the first time in 40 years that these recordings have come to light." -Jazzman. |
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Artist: RAGLANI Title: Husk Format: Double LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
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"Husk, a career-spanning double-LP retrospective marking Raglanis "early period" (2004-2009), is both the artists "Best-of" collection*, as well as a document of a personal orientation within the canon of electronic music. As a devoted student of E.M. history and synthesis techniques, Joseph Raglani has spent the past decade in his St. Louis studio consuming and refiguring. While highly-informed, these tracks avoid simple derivation, the traces of influence are not easily decipherable; the common descriptors fall away. The sonic legacies orbiting the INA GRM axis cross paths with pop sensibilities more akin to the sensuous pulse of New Order. Raglani mines the expressiveness of this fertile boundary space. The compositions on Husk are dense featuring a palette of analog and digital electronic instruments as well as guitar, voice, pedal steel, organ, melodica. Disparate elements find a way to resonate to maximum emotive effect. The sonic energies are not bound to their sources, but are rather utilized for their ability to express. One fourth of the material is available here for the first time; the remainder from private-press and small run releases has been remixed by Raglani and re-mastered by Greg Davis for presentation in this collection. Husk is Raglanis second mass-market release following his 2008 CD Of Sirens Born released on Kranky Records. Artwork by Robert Beatty (Three Legged Race / Hair Police / Resonant Hole). In an edition of 500 copies with printed inner-sleeves." - Arbor. *Featuring tracks from the following releases: Pastiche Electronic (Pegasus Farms CS, 2008) May Tour 2009 Split With Steve Hauschildt (Pegasus Farms CD-R, 2009) Oneism (IDES CS, 2007) Empire Trilogy (No Label/Artists Edition, 2008) Classically Sprained (Arbor CS, 2009) Vanity Well (Chondritic Sound CS, 2009) Raglani & Scenic Railroards (Gameboy / Pegasus Farms CD, 2005) |
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Artist: RAGLANI Title: Real Colors of the Physical World Format: LP + 7" Label: Editions Mego Country: Austria Price: $24.00 |
| "Real Colors of the Physical World is a title whose parameters of reference may at first seem obvious, but a moments consideration renders it strange. The physical world, as opposed to the phenomenal, is, as we are able to suppose through the insights of science, an invisible place, if it is even enough to count as a place. What, then, are the qualities being named here? By way of an answer, it is worth recalling that musique concrète has not only an historical but a conceptual priority over kosmiche musik. The concrete in the cosmic: electronic music concerned itself from the beginning with getting past the emotional, historical, and religious themes that had defined traditional composition in order to head straight into the very matter of sound. For the concrete composers, this meant literal experimentation, stretching, analyzing, and recombining the properties and limits of auditory material and its perception. The kosmiche musicians conserved those approaches through metaphor as much as technique. The continuity between them involves a vocabulary of fundamental concerns: space, time, shapes, speed. Electronic music arguably allowed for music to become actively self-reflexive, even ontological, for the first time. Its natural epic form has always been the cosmogony. The kosmiche focus on space travel and cybernetic futures has its roots in the earlier electro-acoustic renderings of a universe whose deepest origins are electrical and sonic. Two tacit, convergent metaphors structure the conceptual explorations of both approaches: that "electronic composition" accurately describes the activity of the human nervous system; and that cosmic evolution may be legitimately qualified as an act of modular synthesis. But much electronic music today has lost sight of the ambition to map that convergence, giving way instead to an emphasis on superficial prettiness, period nostalgia, the merely pleasant stupor of the new age; or else to a vacuous static of technical fiddling. Raglani has never abandoned the grand vision that distinguished his ancestors, and this is his most determinedly comprehensive piece of work. It revisits the promise in the electronic synthesis of sound, implicit from its beginning, to construct a plastic image of the imperceptible dynamics beneath the surface of the world. This is a drama realized at constantly telescoping scales, in all directions. If the disintegration of a divine voice into the skittering communications of machines, or the transformation of a densely alien jungle into the promise of personal redemption, can count as objects of experience, they can do so only here, through the condensation of sound. But this hectic, exotically diffuse rendering has more in common with the world as we know it than does the placid stability of actual things; inner life has its own geometry, its own physics. The cosmic in the concrete: real colors remain within. Raglani has been making electronic music since he saw Otomo Yoshihide perform while under the influence of severe fever. This is his first full length album under his own name since 2006s Of Sirens Born. LP comes with a bonus 7". Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker." -Editions Mego. |
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Artist: RAGLANI Title: Web Of Light Format: LP Label: Kvist Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Raglanis use of analogue electronics is tied to traditional Krautrock by a thread of dark romanticism extending, in Germany, back to the work of Caspar David Friedrich. Epic and tumultuous landscapes as images of psychic space; hazardous journeys through awesome and forbidding worlds; the hair-blown viewer looking down onto incredible canyons The entire extended metaphor of Friedrichs work, linking the arc of a spiritual journey to the beautiful and tumultuous work of nature, is conserved in the work of the kosmische school. Raglanis relationship with the music of Schulze or Fricke is not retrospective, but contemporary. The musical commonalities proceed from a shared commitment to the elaboration of exotic musical spaces, pursued chiefly through melody, adorned by figurative electronic flourishes and concrète motifs. What is missed in alot of drone and noise is the ability of the sound to paint a scene; too often, were presented with a blandly ecstatic wash of lo-fi murk, more stoned than psychedelic. Raglani avoids these generic limitations by engaging more directly with the tradition to which his peers owe, arguably, the most considerable debt. What he deepens in that tradition is in the abstraction and development of themes spreading out the narrative through textural variation, rather than driving ever forward through arpeggios and circular rhythms. If Raglani avoids the ascending freakouts of early kosmische music, however, it is because everyday life today is freaked out enough on its own. What is needed, rather, are sounds that can address our already-piqued uncertainty by involving it in a story it might recognize as its own. So there is little here, also, to tether Raglani to the generic vibrations of noise and drone, though he uses some of the machines that make them; instead of any massive simultaneous display, secrets are revealed gradually and cumulatively. Raglanis voice may sound familiar at first, and there is no doubting its context and sources, but the events described by his music trickle out in shapes, and at a pace, uniquely his. The scenes he composes, surreal but distinct, have all the luster of real paint." Mike Ferrer. |
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Artist: RAGLANI/OUTER SPACE Title: Split Format: LP Label: Nihilist Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "An incredible journey into the inner-space of analog synthesis. Soothing, pleasant, hypnotic and manic are thoughts of the day. This cosmic oozing mess of layered sequencers as swirling syrupy frequencies come raining down. Raglani serves up some sickly sweet synthy songs and Outer Space forge a thick gooey side long track of psychedelic electronic mind muck. John is in another band called Emeralds. Guest appearance by C.Spencer Yeh on Raglanis Heart Of Glass adding a slice of nice on the violin. Artwork and layout by Jeremy Kannapell. Edition of 500 copies in pro-press full color jackets and insert. For fans of early Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk & Nik Pascal." - Nihilist. |
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Artist: RAHDUNES Title: S/T Format: Picture Disc LP Label: QBICO Country: Italy Price: $24.00 |
| "Originally from Sacramento, CA this is a rude boy duo. The record begins with some of the most crude and rough guitar/drums duo mu ever! Then youll drift toward a far away place... to be finally hypnotized for 25 minutes by a side-long track... derailing!" - Qbico |
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Artist: RAHMANE Title: Islands Of Pathos Format: Lathe Cut Square 7" Label: Root Don Lonie For Cash Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
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"nz recluse, lives in the bush with his old lady & son, when not being a house hubby he sneaks into the basement & tinkers on piano & saxaphone to make some wonderful spirit free music. square eastern style lathe record" -Root Don Lonie For Cash
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Artist: RAICEVIC, NICHOLAS Title: The Complete Narco Records And Tapes Recordings (1971-1975) Format: Double CDR Label: Creel Pone Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"a reproduction of all four lps originally self-released by nicolas nik pascal raicevic on his narco records and tapes label (rumored to be one of the first truly independent labels...) between 1971 and 1975.
the music is nothing short of genius; a fine beaded mist of exceedingly lo-fi (tape drop-outs are prevalent, entire frequency ranges completely excised from certain tracks... not to mention the piss-poor quality of the original pressings) hands-off psychedelic synthesizer fumblings (paralleling only douglas leedys entropical paradise in its seemingly arbitrary rhythms & note-choices) & rudimentary drum-machine / bongo diversions.
1971s beyond the end... eternity consists solely of loose, exploratory moog modular dirges; raicevic is clearly still in the early learning-curve stages... yet by the following years the sixth ear, more complex gated passages & rhythmic activity begins to surface (including a few bits that rival pierre henrys mise en musique corticalart in their sheer monolothic joy...) along with overdubbed bongo jams and a few actual chord progressions...
by 1973s magnetic web, raicevic has added an arp 2600 and a few rhythm-boxes (often running a few bpm apart, yielding some rather zonked phase-effects) and hand-percussion (tibetan finger-cymbals) to his arsenal, increasing the levels of raw synth-blat tenfold (more than a few tracks stream sample-and-hold layers throughout.) - in my mind this is his masterpiece. finally, after a year off, nik drops his last album, zero gravity, the side-long title-track working a harmonic-series patch with drizzles of space-dusted echo & miniature alien-tongued white-noise licks, the b-side offering a set of shorter songs...
as far as early-mid 70s american bedroom electronic music goes, these lps have to be among the first transmissions from this sector, made all the more attractive when coupled with raicevics alien topography (the covers are high-color portrayals of venusian lanes, knotted growths, & future-past architecture) & copious downer sentiment... this music is imbued with a sort of lonely, anti-social sensibility thats about as far as you can get from the academic early electronic vector. while im not going to blanket-recommend this one for all followers of the creel pone series, i will say that if the steve birchall, cellutron & the invisible, and/or pythagoron replications seed your garden, this will likely do the same..." - Creel Pone. Great to have these classics "available".. Very highly recommended!!
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Artist: RAIL BAND Title: Orchestre Rail-Band de Bamako Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Reissued for the first time, the legendary Malian Rail Bands classic 1970 debut LP. Based out of the Buffet Bar of the Station Hotel in Bamako, the band was sponsored by the Ministry of Information. Swirling Afro-Latin guitars & horns. Malian folk songs modernized & played by some of the countrys finest musicians including Tidani Kone & Salif Keita." -Mississippi |
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Artist: RAIN Title: Norsk Suite Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $44.00 |
| "Rain, Norways most well kept secret has been betrayed and solved! This great band has only released a very rare 45 EP as a soundtrack for the Norwegian movie Rivalen. Very much like Frank Zappa and The Mothers, Rains complex compositions are based on the skills of modern classic composers such as Varèse and Stravinsky. As a strong influence, theyve mentioned Vanilla Fudge. Ten great tracks with horns and orchestra arrangement, with great fuzz guitar, Hammond organ and amazing vocals. A Norwegian rock band who had the urge to exceed limits, both musically and technically. Rain was Carl Jorgen Kionig (drums), Knut Heljar Hagen (organ, piano, vocals, bass), Asmund Feidje (guitar, violin, vocals, bass). This album was recorded in 1969/1970, and beside their seven original compositions they play mind-blowing versions of A Day In The Life, Strawberry Fields Forever and Isolation. Their very complex and difficult arrangements required a lot of practice to turn their concerts into a total experience with a spectacular psychedelic light-show and experiments with surround sound. What a great album this is! 500 numbered/heavy sleeve/180 gram pressing/printed inner sleeve/insert." -Shadoks |
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Artist: RAINBOW FFOLLY Title: Sallies Fforth Format: LP Label: Guerssen Country: Spain Price: $31.00 |
| "Underrated UK psych-pop album from 1968 originally released on the Parlophone label. This is one of the most sought-after artifacts from the British psychedelic scene. Sallies Fforth will transport you to the swingin London-era in its full glory: well-crafted songs, inventive arrangements, charming home-made sound, nice vocal harmonies, crazy sound effects and more. Highly recommended to fans of Toytown pop-sike and sunshine-pop. File next to Koobas, Forever Amber, Ora, Kinks, Millennium-Sagittarius and the likes. Housed in a high quality carton cover with old-style backflaps and pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Mastertape sound quality. Includes one bonus track taken from their rare non-LP 45 and an insert with extensive liner notes by Brian Hogg." -Guerssen |
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Artist: RAINCOATS, THE Title: Odyshape Format: LP Label: We Three Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "The Raincoats own label, We ThRee, reissues Odyshape, originally released on Rough Trade in 1981. "Re-mastered from original masters." -We Three |
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Artist: RAINEY, BHOB Title: Two Bites Of A Bitter Sweet Format: 7" Label: Evolving Ear Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Very first release of all electronic music from this bigwig of the global improv/noise/experimental underground, known for his work alongside trumpeter Greg Kelley in the influential duo, nmperign, his direction of the improvising juggernaut, The BSC, and collaborations with Jason Lescalleet, Gunter Muller, Ralf Wehowsky, Le Quan Ninh, Alessandro Bosetti, and Michel Doneda, among others. This new music ranges from homemade synth textures to field recordings from Lisbon, Venice, Huelva, and other, unremembered locations. Theres some singing by Naomi Yang (Damon and Naomi) and Bhob himself, and some words of wisdom from Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Overall, a woozy alternate reality is offered for repeated dream pool swims. Edition of 300." - Evolving Ear. |
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Artist: RAIONBASHI Title: Cloral Works I & II Format: One Sided LP Label: Entracte Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
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"Two symphonic compositions for yodeling voice and electro-acoustic body functions performed by Doreen and Daniel Kutzke-Lowenbruck. First edition of 250 copies." - Entracte.
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Artist: RAIONBASHI & KUTZKELINA Title: Aktion 091216 Berlin Format: One Sided 12" Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
Recording of a performance at Raum 18, Berlin, December 2009. Edition of 150 copies.
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Artist: RAKHIM Title: Rakhim Format: LP Label: QBICO Country: Italy Price: $24.00 |
| "Jussi Lehtisalo - vocals; Janne Tuomi - percussions. Rec. somewhere, sometimes in Finland. "Dark side project by members of the Circle band: tribal/primitive percussions, archaic and mysterious voices/vibrations..." - Qbico. |
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Artist: RAKOTOMALALA, YVES Title: Ce Matin Encore Format: LP Label: Golden Pavillion Country: Portugal Price: $32.00 |
| "Yves Rakotomalala, from the acclaimed Yves, Serge & Victor album Cagibi, recorded this elusive album a few years after he left the group. Musically we are in the same vein as Cagibi: A delicate fragile westcoast-tinged psych-folk with acoustic/electric backing & amazing vocals, very close in sound and style to Neil Young in his After The Gold Rush period. Every track is excellent with one side sung in English and the other in French. Originally released as a private pressing of 200 units. This is a fully licensed exact reissue limited to just 300 copies on black vinyl." -Golden Pavillion |
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Artist: RALE Title: Whispering Gallery Format: LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Following recent tape releases on Young and Ekhein, Bill Hutsons Rale project should no longer be an elusive one. His modular synthesized low-end focus reaches new depths with each release; managing to provide a richness in texture and a deep listening experience in slow moving forms. Hutson exercises a dedicated control and mastery in composition as a result of his overwhelming knowledge of the potentials of sound. ⿿Far off organ chords become enveloped by an atmospheric heavy air; melody isnt shunned, but obscured. Frequencies arranged seamlessly, with a modest approach; like the growth of a grey cloud. In an edition of 400 12 EPs in proprinted cardboard sleeves with printed labels." - Arbor. |
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Artist: RAM UMBUS Title: Swing Low Format: LP Label: Ecstatic Yod Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Volume 5 in the Center Of The Ass Run series. "Did I ever tell you about my new wicker pants, well I bet I have the only ones in town. They are stiftly ribbed and that preset form gives me all the support that Ive always needed. And just because I cannot wear them right now, you can bet I will be stylin, just as soon as loose these eighteen pounds. Then I wont have to worry about them leaving basket marks on my arms." -Ecstatic Yod. Mid 90s release. |
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Artist: RAMASES Title: Space Hymns Format: LP Label: Mexican Summer Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| Hand-numbered edition of 2000. "In 1971, a message was delivered from an Egyptian god through his vessel to the youth of the world via the infamous Vertigo label. That vessel was one Martin Raphael, an central heating salesman from Sheffield, shocked into servitude by Ramases in order to preach his word. Backed by the band Hotlegs, who were moments away from being known as 10cc, Ramases created this one-of-a-kind cosmic folk rarity, a bizarre and alluring message of peace and the supernatural, housed in a six-panel Roger Dean gatefold designed to make your pupils dilate. Mexican Summer proudly presents an exact reissue of the first Ramases LP, available domestically after almost 40 years of a secret existence." -Mexican Summer |
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Artist: RAMIREZ & MSBR, RICHARD Title: Negative/Offensive Format: LP Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "A project in celebration of the work and influence of mysterious UK (anti) artist noise outfit The New Blockaders as constructed by Houston, Texas black whips and male-on-male noise pioneer Richard Ramirez (Black Leather Jesus et al) and the sadly departed Japanese harsh noise maestro Koji Tano (MSBR). A mail collaboration where each artist would send source materials to be decomposed by each other. Fantastic walls of brutal shard skum splatter taken to points of demented anguish and resultant cosmic implosion/explosion. Exquisite cover art by Stan Reed of Blue Sabbath Black Cheer." -Ecstatic Peace |
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Artist: RAMLEH Title: Hole in the Heart Format: Double CD Label: Dirter Promotions Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
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"Originally issued by Gary Mundys own Broken Flag label in 1987 on cassette, this is UK noise/industrial/power electronics wizards Ramlehs Hole In The Heart, now expanded and remastered on a double CD set, also including material from their 1987 Nerve cassette release. Here at last, is part of the "missing link" in the long and ever-evolving history of Ramleh. This material bridges the gap between the (for want of a better description) early "power electronics" material and the (for want of a better description) later "noise rock." Neither of these terms do justice to this pioneering group led by Gary Mundy. To quote Anthony Di Franco (the other half of the band these days): "...swirling phased feedback, fuzzed vocals and guitars. At the same time there were melodies, words and structures in the music, which itself consisted of very simple electronic and acoustic elements magnified to a colossal scale...." This music has a harmonic beauty, if you look for it, that all its imitators lack. Listen and you will hear the genesis of what was to follow from many 90s underground bands such as label mates and close collaborators, Skullflower. This double CD set is packaged in the classic Broken Flag stark, monochrome style." - Dirter Promotions.
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Artist: RAMLEH Title: Night Hair Child Format: 7" Label: SFTRI Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: RAMLEH Title: Switch Hitter Format: 10" Label: Broken Flag Country: UK Price: $13.00 |
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"Black Rose Recordings and Broken Flag are proud to present the new 10�"� single by the legendary group Ramleh. Limited to 500 with black and white artwork this is their first new material since 1998 and it doesnt disappoint. Powerful droning intensity, motorik rhythms and warped guitar riffs dominate these two songs with one containing Ramlehs distinctive distorted vocals weaving in and out of this inventive chemistry. �Switch Hitter� �could almost be described as a full on dissonant rock track, but Ramlehs desire for experimentation and improvisation lifts it way above the general rock mindset.
Ramleh have been active since the early 1980s, first as one of the UKs pioneering power electronics groups and then towards the late 80s they, along with Skullflower, laid the foundations for the UKs improvisional noise rock scene. In fact Gary Mundy from Ramleh was also one of the founding members of Skullflower (there was an overlapping membership of both bands, yet Ramleh always managed to retain their own unique identity regardless of musical genre). They returned to the live scene last year with well received shows in London (one with Whitehouse the other with Merzbow), and New York, whilst a new album release and planned re-issues from their back catalogue are due late 2009 proving they have not lost any of their energy, excitement and ability to explore all possibilities." - Black Rose.
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Artist: RAMLEH Title: Too Many Miles: Complete Singles 90-95 Format: CD Label: Dirter Promotions Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
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"This is the CD collection of all the long-unavailable Ramleh singles spanning the years 1990-1995, now reissued due to Ramlehs sprawling 6-page feature in The Wire (issue #305, July 2009). Ramlehs history goes back to the early 80s, when their brand of "power electronics" caused outrage, along with their contemporaries Whitehouse. Much has changed since then, and over the years, they developed a reputation as one of the leading exponents of UK "noise rock." Along with the likes of Skullflower, Splintered, etc., they made the genre their own, to much acclaim from not only the UK, but Europe and America as well. In fact, many of the singles compiled on this disc were U.S.-only releases by such labels as Sympathy For The Record Industry. The CD is packaged in the same style as many of the singles were, featuring artwork culled from former member Philip Bests personal collection. They continue to have a loyal fan base, and still perform (the current line-up is comprised of founding member Gary Mundy, bassist Anthony di Franco, drummer Martyn Watts), and a collection such as this will never not be in-demand. The songs on this compendium will cement Ramlehs reputation as geniuses in your memory, as they pretty much summoned, prefaced and heralded every crushing, free-form, feedback-worshipping, extreme noise/avant-rock moment that was to follow them." - Dirter Promotions.
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Artist: RAMPAZZI, TERESA Title: Musica Endoscopica Format: LP Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $31.00 |
| "Following the acclaimed CD edition released by Die Schachtel in 2008, heres the long-awaited limited "silver" LP edition of Teresa Rampazzis incredible early electronic music. It differs from the CD edition with the inclusion of "Metamorfosi," a previously-unreleased and magnificent drone piece. Teresa Rampazzi, a seminal yet very little-known female Italian composer/musician, founded the NPS - Nuove Proposte Sonore -- an experimental music collective formed in the late-60s. She was also one of the founders and main figures of the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale, a computer music research center active from the early-70s at the University of Padua. It would be easy to see electronic composer Rampazzi as Italys equivalent of Daphne Oram or Delia Derbyshire, those long-neglected pioneers behind the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. But zoomed in closer, though, a more intriguing picture begins to emerge: Musica Endoscopica is in fact an immersive journey into a futurist-ic/early digital electronic music with dense, long drone pieces made of complex textures that explore the computers capacity to produce endless variations of source material, at times anticipating some of the electro-feel to emerge in the years to follow. A welcome return of Die Schachtels celebrated "metallic" series vinyl LP editions, dedicated to early electronic Italian composers. Housed in a deluxe silver cover with silver foil design with a custom inner sleeve and a 4-page booklet in English and Italian." -Die Schachtel |
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Artist: RAMPAZZI, TERESA Title: Musica Endoscopica Format: CD Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $18.00 |
| "2008 deluxe CD box edition of Teresa Rampazzis incredible early electronic music. Teresa Rampazzi, a seminal yet very little-known female Italian composer/musician, founded the NPS - Nuove Proposte Sonore -- an experimental music collective formed in the late-60s. She was also one of the founders and main figures of the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale, a computer music research center active from the early-70s at the University of Padua. It would be easy to see electronic composer Rampazzi as Italys equivalent of Daphne Oram or Delia Derbyshire, those long-neglected pioneers behind the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. But zoomed in closer, though, a more intriguing picture begins to emerge: Musica Endoscopica is in fact an immersive journey into a futurist-ic/early digital electronic music with dense, long drone pieces made of complex textures that explore the computers capacity to produce endless variations of source material, at times anticipating some of the electro-feel to emerge in the years to follow. Includes a 40-page booklet with extensive notes in English and Italian." - Die Schachtel. |
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Artist: RANALDO, CODY Title: Beating You Up Format: Cass Label: Western Unconscious Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Ranaldo here offers what we believe is his first available recording. Side A is a hypnotic exposition of a single eastern-tinged theme, delivered on a guitar whose beautiful open tuning clearly reveals his lineage. Side B is a foray into unexpected territory: damaged synth and drum machine with swirling feedback loops, just shy of confrontational. Ranaldo wisely presents his tape like the two sides of a coin; treasure hunters take note. Edition of 100."
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Artist: RANALDO, CODY Title: Boneless Format: Cass Label: Western Unconscious Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "a lot of really spare beats and exploring heavy drum sounds in a really loose format with no regard for beginnings or endings" |
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Artist: RANALDO, LEE Title: Countless Centuries Fled Into The Distance... Format: LP Label: Table of the Elements Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Sonic Youths Lee Ranaldo was part of the original Table of the Elements Guitar Series in 1993; now he returns with Countless Centuries Fled into the Distance Like So Many Storms. Its an epic earful, replete with shimmering textures and an inimitable charging clangor. With ecstatic, rocking squalor, he summons some dazzling shronk, reminiscent of early SY, the soaring drone of John Cale, and even the looping orientalia of Dream Syndicate-era La Monte Young. So duck and cover, as Lee fires an impeccably aimed fusillade across the screaming fields of sonic love." - Table of the Elements. Pressed on sea-foam green marbled, etched vinyl. Etched artwork on the b-side by Savage Pencil. |
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Artist: RANALDO, LEE Title: Outside My Window The City Is Never Silent - A Bestiary Format: LP Label: Hells Half Halo/Chocolate Monk Country: USA/UK Price: $12.00 |
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"This compendium utilizes selected material from the following titles: Amarillo Ramp, The Bridge Deva, Spain; Fragments El Oido, first computer piece: the View From Here [Root (for TM)] Sudden Infant (remix) to Mary Walker Groves. Sounds by: Kim Gordon, William Hooker, Takehisa Kosugi, Alan Licht, David Linton, Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, Jim ORourke, Lee Ranaldo, Sudden Infant, William Winant. The voices of: Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver, George Cowdery, Thom Degesu, Kim Gordon, Courtney Love, Thurston Moore, Cody Ranaldo, Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer. You Are Everywhere And Nowhere, All At Once: the sounds of forgotten conversations, voices of loved ones, talks delivered via wire, crosscut with various tone poems (music(s)), with the hope of formulating new dream theories. You are listening to a conversation that took place in heaven, some time ago. This piece grows out of recent works I have been creating dealing with the phrases constructed from various recycled bits of voice and sound, the silences between them, and the cross-pollinations which occur as they are combined in different ways. The sound components have been gathered from across a large number of works Ive done through the years. I decided to use these bits and selections as the raw material from which to create a sort of (Esonic journal or notebook. In the last few years Ive done a few sound installations based around a set of fragments of voices which Ive collected, and most of these are drawn upon here. The voices are those of friends, family, and loved ones, and other artists, and although chosen for personal reasons, my hope is that the various voices will overlay to create a narrative of their own. This piece was originally created for a Belgian radio broadcast in 2000." - Lee Ranaldo.
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Artist: RANALDO, LEE Title: Scriptures Of The Golden Eternity Format: LP Label: Father Yod Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Orig. issue of a wonderful live solo LP by this baby baby beat. A mixture of savage guitar ronk and delicately textures readings, this emerges from yr speakers like a gust of pure feedback on a gray and rainy morning." - Byron Coley. From 1993.
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Artist: RANALDO, LEE Title: Vancouver Ambients 1-4 Format: 7" Label: Important Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "The sixth installment in Important Records Arts & Crafts series is this 7" from Sonic Youths Lee Ranaldo, recorded with Alan Licht on guitar, Christian Marclay on turntables and William Hooker on drums. Pressed on clear vinyl and packaged with a screen print designed and signed by Ranaldo, this release is limited to 500 copies." - Important. |
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Artist: RANALDO/JIM OROURKE/CHRISTOPH HEEMANN, LEE Title: Bloomington, Indiana...Autumn Format: LP Label: Streamline Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Two side-long pieces from the early 90s released here for the first time ever. Part One, May 1994 - Lee Ranaldo lends the voice and words of his Bloomington, Indiana piece to Jim ORourke and Christoph Heemann for a text-based collaborative composition that turns into an electro-acoustic exploration making use of Ranaldos voice exclusively. A critics remark made after a first version of this piece was premiered at a sound art festival in the Netherlands that same year: Rock and roll burnout syndrome goes whistling down a dark and lonely street, still appears as peculiar as the piece itself. Part Two - Autumn goes back further to the time when Heemann and ORourke produced several pieces for their Plastic Palace People project (of which more releases are in preparation now)." "Well then - a painting or a piece of statuary is a thing outside the human life, your life. It is an emotional experience only. It has actually nothing to do with you yourself. You could live very well the rest of your life if you never saw it again, although you would remember it every now and then the ache would come again at the memory of it. But imagine a form of life, a culture, a way of life, a way you yourself could live, so beautiful that it made you ache just like the painting, but a thousand-fold more so..." - Streamline. |
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Artist: RANCID HELL SPAWN Title: Abolition of the Orgasm Format: 7" Label: Wrench Country: UK Price: $7.00 |
| "Making awful noise since 1988, this straight-outta-Croyden one-man abomination has specialized in catchy, mondo-distorto one minute punk burnouts for the truly twisted, with record sleeves to match, and how! This one is no exception, and with song titles like "Dengue Doll" and "My Favourite Disease," how can you miss? Full color board sleeve and labels." -Wrench. |
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Artist: RANDOM NUMBER/STRAIGHT OUT OF MANGOLIA Title: Its Time Honey/Raver Format: 7" Label: Fencing Flatworm Country: UK Price: $5.50 |
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Artist: RANGDA Title: False Flag Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "RANGDAs been building up behind the scenes for some time now. As label mates and members of an exclusive mutual admiration society, SIR RICHARD BISHOP and BEN CHASNY thirsted for a conflagration involving two electric guitars plus a drummer. Bringing in CHRIS CORSANO they recorded a studio session with Seattle sound guru SCOTT COLBURN. Beforehand, a mere ninety minutes was allotted for the three to further discuss ideas and play together for the very first time. What would happen? What do you think happened, stupid? Of course they planted a garden of lyricism seeded with several compositions and several improvisations! Placed end-to-end, the six pieces of the Rangda saga (part the first) rock from splintering onslaught to soulful meditation and back again with manifest precision - this was a planned attack. Unceasing battery slides suddenly into ritual form with elemental ease. The fretworks of Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny split time while Corsano shapes the air around them. Each players moves as part of the whole of Rangda, and whether surging, cycling, or in pastoral, they are never less than explosive. This initial foray flies under the banner of False Flag. No Export to Europe." -Drag City |
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Artist: RANGDA Title: False Flag Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "When witch-gods collide, it might sound something like this. Six Organs of Admittance...Richard Bishop...Chris Corsano. Riders of the apocalypse, its them vs. us. After absorbing their über-holy dynamo, youll be prepared to join up with these wraiths, making it all of us against...well, whomevers fool enough to stand in our way. To evil! Rangdas been building up behind the scenes for some time now. As label mates and members of an exclusive mutual admiration society, Sir Rick and Kid Chasny thirsted for a conflagration involving two electric guitars plus a drummer. In such an environment requiring excellent survival skills as well as composition and improvisation rhythms, who better than Chris Corsano to work the skins... On paper, this was colossal, but actually getting everyone together proved awesomely impossible, with each man in a different city sprawled across the vastness of the United States -- not to mention each mans diverse state of mind sprawled across the vastness of inner space. And so, time passed. Chuckling, the guitar men dreamed of visiting Rangda on our world, working figures on their necks in anticipation. Finally, with the desperate recklessness of the ancient witchsoul herself, they booked a live show, followed by a studio session with Seattle sound guru Scott Colburn. Beforehand, a mere ninety minutes was allotted for the three to further discuss ideas and play together for the very first time. What would happen... What do you think happened, stupid... Of course they planted a garden of lyricism seeded with several compositions and several improvisations! Placed end-to-end, the six pieces of the Rangda saga (part the first) rock from splintering onslaught to soulful meditation and back again with manifest precision -- this was a planned attack. Unceasing battery slides suddenly into ritual form with elemental ease. The fretworks of Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny split time while Corsano shapes the air around them. Each players moves as part of the whole of Rangda, and whether surging, cycling, or in pastoral, they are never less than explosive. This initial foray flies under the banner of False Flag. Yet this is only the beginning, for Rangda is alive. To ensure your future in the endless cosmos, march forward with the forces of Rangda, heart and soul, now and forever." -Drag City |
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Artist: RANGDA Title: Formerly Extinct Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "How we can even claim that Formerly Extinct displays a greater fluidity than the well-oiled zero-to-60Khz hairpins of False Flag is a matter of debate around DC corporate HQ. It seems to depend on how you define the semi-metallic element of sound sometimes called sharp. False Flag featured a tune called Serrated Edges, which made sense in the knife-flying arc of that album. Sharp is a claw-like quality in generous supply on Formerly Extinct as well - a graphic picture in sharp focus, perhaps with cleaner edges yet unmistakably gruesome subjects. While False Flag found these slingers in a whirlwinded shred-fest, each trying to out do each other with what they brought to the Rangda lair (er, recording studio), Formerly Extinct blossoms like the home-grown hybrid of a three-headed beast well-practiced in its body. A lean n amazingly mean, greased-up, child-eating machine. Born to the lower-income caste of the bohemian, Rangda maul the underbelly for fun and profit. Thank Kali that all they need is love! These songs, newfangled and shrouded by ancestral awakenings, bore deep into the layers of consciousness to divine meeting. Like, dig Majnun, for instance. Everybody always talks about Layla, but when does anyone ever pull Majnun out the hat? Enter Rangda with sympathy for the obsessed. To them, the Persian wanna-be lover of classical lit and lore is worth more consideration than George Harrisons ex-wife! Thats the way the Rangda madness lies. Theres no value among the flies of the marketplace - unless you find a copy of Rangdas latest there. Formerly Extinct lives large, no matter how small the arch overhead." |
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Artist: RANGDA Title: Formerly Extinct Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "How we can even claim that Formerly Extinct displays a greater fluidity than the well-oiled zero-to-60Khz hairpins of False Flag is a matter of debate around DC corporate HQ. It seems to depend on how you define the semi-metallic element of sound sometimes called sharp. False Flag featured a tune called Serrated Edges, which made sense in the knife-flying arc of that album. Sharp is a claw-like quality in generous supply on Formerly Extinct as well - a graphic picture in sharp focus, perhaps with cleaner edges yet unmistakably gruesome subjects. While False Flag found these slingers in a whirlwinded shred-fest, each trying to out do each other with what they brought to the Rangda lair (er, recording studio), Formerly Extinct blossoms like the home-grown hybrid of a three-headed beast well-practiced in its body. A lean n amazingly mean, greased-up, child-eating machine. Born to the lower-income caste of the bohemian, Rangda maul the underbelly for fun and profit. Thank Kali that all they need is love! These songs, newfangled and shrouded by ancestral awakenings, bore deep into the layers of consciousness to divine meeting. Like, dig Majnun, for instance. Everybody always talks about Layla, but when does anyone ever pull Majnun out the hat? Enter Rangda with sympathy for the obsessed. To them, the Persian wanna-be lover of classical lit and lore is worth more consideration than George Harrisons ex-wife! Thats the way the Rangda madness lies. Theres no value among the flies of the marketplace - unless you find a copy of Rangdas latest there. Formerly Extinct lives large, no matter how small the arch overhead." - Drag City. |
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Artist: RANGE RATS Title: Range Rats Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Recorded in 1986 & completely unreleased until now - this is Fred & Toody Coles (Weeds, Lollipop Shoppe, Zipper, Torpedoes, Rats, Western Front, Desperate Edge, Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows, & so on) great lost country LP! All original compositions...some sad lilting ballads & some punk as hell. Two songs feature Fred & Toddy playing with Rollie, a janky Roland drum machine that didnt keep a consistent meter very well. The rest of the songs were recorded with a lean mean band. We are very proud to bring this LP into the world for the first time - another facet of the genius of Fred & Toody Cole & low-fi as can be. Housed in an oldschool tip-on sleeve." -Mississippi |
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Artist: RANGERS Title: Pan Am Stories Format: Double LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| "Tape-warped phantom band Rangers finally unleash the lush, soaring, expansive prog-pop opus we always knew was floating inside the fretboard (and imagination) of multi-instrumentalist mystery maestro Joe Knight. The north Dallas-raised, San Fran-residing head Ranger grew up taking classical guitar lessons from a dude who claimed to have toured with the Dead, and some of that brain-wonked jam agenda obviously seeped into the young Knight, who began recording his own loose, lo-fi jangle sprawls in 2005. But whereas last years critically lauded Suburban Tours LP found him condensing his cassette-crushed alien pop into 3 minute radio nuggets, Pan Am Stories uses the reverse strategy, letting each blurry strum pattern coast away and ride the breeze a bit before steering it into a fresh counter-melody or flanged-out guitar comedown. The extra breath and space gives the 13 songs a real sense of freedom and lightness and flight, layered in gentle blankets of fuzz, silky reverb, and audio collage riddles. A total saga, and a summit achievement of next-level invention for Knight as a musician (its insane he played/recorded every instrument on this thing!) and artist. Have been soaking in these tracks non-stop since we first heard em this summer and are thrilled to get to share Stories with the world. Black vinyl LPs (mastered by Carl Saff, who worked on Suburban Tours too) in gatefold jackets with micro-detailed collage art by Mr. Rangers himself; interior artwork by Knight and Anthony Yuen. Edition of 850." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: RANGERS Title: Suburban Tours Format: LP Label: Olde English Spelling Bee Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Rangers is Joe Knight. "Suburban Tours" is his debut vinyl release after a string of popular cassette albums last year - including "Low Cut Fades" on Not Not Fun. His sound has been referred to out in blogland as "elevator psyche" and "mirrorball funknagogic pop" - and thats not a bad start considering his music is often bass-driven with washes of synth and prog-psych guitar riding over the top. Unlike the extended side-long collages of his cassette releases, "Suburban Tours" is a collection of eleven concise "pop" songs that were written and recorded after moving to San Francisco from his native Texas. Not knowing anyone in this new locale, he describes the period after the move as being extremely lonely and plagued with near-constant rainfall. So he holed up and focused his attentions on recording a batch of songs that reflected on his suburban upbringing outside of Dallas and what he calls the "failed connections with nature" that exist in these suburban zones (fake lighting, cranked-up air conditioning, golf courses, and gated "communities" where everyone keeps to themselves). But despite the loneliness and melancholic themes there is a remarkable amount of color to his music. Like its the sound of what hed want to have playing on his headphones while riding a bike thru these neighborhoods -- the sound necessary to make these places seem lively and fun. Music blog Visitation Rites hits the nail on the head when saying "his music reflects a parallel fixation with the tape reel as a cutting board for the psychic trappings of middle class American youth." Rangers is drawing from an entirely different set of musical influences than the rest of his peers - combining a passion for Manchesters Northern Soul sound with early 80s rock radio staples like Rush and The Police and the 70s prog-fusion of Weather Report. Plus hes got the chops to pull off this unlikely union -- in fact the cutting engineer for "Suburban Tours" was utterly baffled and commented that it sounded to him like a lost Steely Dan session recorded onto a mangled microcassette tape. Thats a good thing, right? Full color pro-printed covers and insert - also includes a download coupon for the mp3 version." - OESB. |
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Artist: RANK / XEROX Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Mongo Bongo Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"The debut 7-inch of San Francisco band RANK/XEROX. Their previous release was a split cassette with Grass Widow, now sold out. They might very well admit to being a part of a nebulous, fractured SF art punk scene which could encompass acts like Brilliant Colors, Culture Kids, Nodzzz, Traditional Fools and the aforementioned Grass Widow. The sound of Rank/Xeroxs four-song 7-inch is one of post-punk tension, messy but vaguely pop in a fractured fashion, equal parts guitar scratchers and synth screamers." - Mongo Bongo.
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Artist: RANK / XEROX Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Make A Mess Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"The debut LP from San Francisco post-punkers RANK/XEROX. The album follows a now-out-of-print four-song 7" and a split cassette with Grass Widow. Their sound is one of post-punk tension, messy but vaguely pop in a fractured fashion, guitar scratchers and synth screamers. The LP inhabits darker, danker spaces than previous recordings; damaged dirges seep out from a confused consciousness and are stared down by obtuse ragers and disorienting excursions into the synth zone. Recorded in a Chinatown dungeon by San Francisco luminaries ERIC BAUER (aka King Riff) and TY SEGALL. " - Make A Mess.
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Artist: RANKO, SLAVA Title: Arctic Hysteria Format: LP Label: Adolescent Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"ORIGINAL SEALED COPIES of this intense synth weirdo LP from 1981..Strange mix of dark synth and Classical Japanese melodies...contains insert.
From back cover notes: "I do not want to play music which sounds as if it comes from familiar instruments, music which is based on chord patterns, or music which fits nicely within any particular stereotyped tradition... What I want is the terrifying, the menacing, the cruel, the chaotic, the darkly exciting, the ecstatic, the irrational -- music that resounds between the cells and in the intergalactic voids..." --Slava Ranko.
Nuff said there really... if you are into fucked up synth records you NEED to own this. He was also the producer for FACTRIX and TUXEDOMOON if that means anything to ya... HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!" - Aaron Dilloway. |
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Artist: RANTA/MIKE LEWIS/CONNY PLANK, MICHAEL Title: Mu Format: Double CD Boxset Label: Metaphon Country: Belgium Price: $44.00 |
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"The only time this ensemble got together before was for the singular and legendary Wired session recorded in 1970 and published on the Deutsche Grammophon box set Free Improvisation in 1974. The Wired session also included Karl-Heinz Böttner while this release of Mu just has the trio of Ranta, Lewis and Plank. Mu got recorded a few months after the Wired session, in Planks studio, but never got released strangely enough. Yet its a true hidden treasure of marvelous minimal psychedelic improvisations with an oriental touch controlled and mixed by Diabolis in Musica Conny Plank. Although the intense recording session ended early in the morning the mixdown was still done straight afterwards of which this is the direct result for MU1, Mu2, and Mu4. For Mu3 Michael Ranta added live percussion to the original tape mix and dedicated it to Mike Lewis. Due to circumstances and moving to different continents they never had the chance to meet again. Previously unreleased studio material from 1970 recorded a few months after the legendary Wired session. Hardboard linen CD box contains 2 CDs and a 28-page booklet with biography text and notes from Michael Ranta (in Dutch, German and English). Edition of 500 copies." -Metaphon
Michael Ranta : percussion, guitars and prepared thundersheet
Mike Lewis : keyboards, wind instruments and percussion
Conny Plank : live electronics, sound control, recording supervision, mix
"What a stunning surprise discovery of this obscure ensemble with Michael Ranta, Mike Lewis and Krautrock master Conny Plank. As on the legendary Wired LP on the Free Improvisation box set (Deutsche Grammophon 1974) they created an amazing free form abstraction, a floating resonant and timeless music, similar in many ways to the early experiments of Tangerine Dream but in a world of its own, in all their twisted exotic and melancholy beauty... To be filed under classic Krautrock, a masterpiece!" -Steven Stapleton
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Artist: RANTA/MIKE LEWIS/CONNY PLANK, MICHAEL Title: Mu Format: Double LP Boxset Label: Metaphon Country: Belgium Price: $100.00 |
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"The only time this ensemble got together before was for the singular and legendary Wired session recorded in 1970 and published on the Deutsche Grammophon box set Free Improvisation in 1974. The Wired session also included Karl-Heinz Böttner while this release of Mu just has the trio of Ranta, Lewis and Plank. Mu got recorded a few months after the Wired session, in Planks studio, but never got released strangely enough. Yet its a true hidden treasure of marvelous minimal psychedelic improvisations with an oriental touch controlled and mixed by Diabolis in Musica Conny Plank. Although the intense recording session ended early in the morning the mixdown was still done straight afterwards of which this is the direct result for MU1, Mu2, and Mu4. For Mu3 Michael Ranta added live percussion to the original tape mix and dedicated it to Mike Lewis. Due to circumstances and moving to different continents they never had the chance to meet again. Previously unreleased studio material from 1970 recorded a few months after the legendary Wired session. Hardboard linen 2LP box version, containing 2 LPs and a large-format 16-page booklet with biography text and notes from Michael Ranta (in Dutch, German and English). Edition of 300 copies." -Metaphon
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Artist: RAPOON Title: Ghosts From A Machine Format: 3 LP Box Set Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $82.00 |
| "Rapoon is the ethno-ambient solo project of Zoviet France co-founder Robin Storey. The music of Rapoon reflects the fascination for the minimalistic but rhythmic music of West-Africa and India. Rapoon uses the musical construction techniques of loops and rhythmic repetition as a kind of platform for inducing a sort of trance like reception. The tracks chosen on this box-set are taken directly from the original 4 track cassettes. These recordings are sometimes copies of complete mixes that found their way onto released albums, sometimes sub-mixes and parts of mixes, and sometimes elements that were never used in any released material. Working with multiple 4track machines which remained non-synchronised, these are the re-discovered compositions which have remained hidden until now." -Vinyl-On-Demand |
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Artist: RASPBERRY BULBS Title: Nature Tries Again Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"We are proud to announce the first vinyl offering from this lone black metal band which calls into questions the dilemma we are faced with in this world of consciousness and the quickening pace that we approach the unknown. Recorded Winter 2010. Edition of 500." - Hospital Productions. Solo project from the drummer of Bone Awl.
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Artist: RATAS DEL VATICANO Title: Mocosos Pateticos Format: LP Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Ratas Del Vaticano ("Rats of the Vatican") are a quartet hailing from Monterrey, Mexico, who assail ears with a most excellent assemblage of punk spew that can best be pitched as "KBD-like." Some of the slicker dicks out there will be familiar with Mocosos Pateticos ("Pathetic Kids") already, as it was available for a short time in 2008 as a download on David Serranos Nene label. But for those unconcerned with being the emperors of ice cream, Siltbreeze put their money where your mouth is and are making this fantastic release available on the much-in-vogue LP format. Originally formed as a drunken joke (where have you heard that one before?), Ratas Del Vaticano quickly realized they were onto something. With the addition of Violeta on bass (fresh from a quick stint as second guitarist for Los Llamarada), the band felt solidified enough to cut some tracks. And, man, can these guys slice n dice! Guttural, sneering, cynical, sarcastic, Ratas Del Vaticano dish it out in buckets like rancid pozole. Tack on the crude, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants recording quality, and youve got a monster to rival the likes of Sods, Mentally Ill, Guilty Razors, Sperma, or Tampax in the pantheon of Killed By Deaths greatest scuzz gladiators. Pressed in an edition of 700; look for Ratas Del Vaticano to play the Siltbreeze showcase at the forthcoming 2009 SXSW in Austin, and maybe even a US tour later in the year." -Siltbreeze |
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Artist: RATAS DEL VATICANO Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Volar Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Here we have four songs by the great Monterrey, Mexico punk band, their first release after their Siltbreeze-released LP Mocosos Pateticos-their Killed By Death-meets-Dead Moon punk winning over audiences across the US. Along with their neighbors Los Llamarados, XYX, and Inservibles, RATAS DEL VATICANO play a large part in the recent resurgence of Mexican punk and general musical weirdness that has caught on this side of the border." - Volar. |
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Artist: RATAS DEL VATICANO Title: Tiempos de Austeridad Format: LP Label: Captcha Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "More primo, kick-ass punk rock from Monterrey, Mexicos RATAS DEL VATICANO. Pressed on one-sided vinyl with an etching on the B-side. Edition of 500 copies." -Captcha |
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Artist: RATKJE, MAJA/LOTTA MELIN Title: Illegal Parking Format: 12" Label: Kning Disk Country: Sweden Price: $14.50 |
| "Limited Edition of 450. Maja S. K. Ratkje: Microphone (track 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12) and theremin (track 3). Lotta Melin: Theremin (track 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12). Recorded, produced and mixed by M. Ratkje at The Best Studio in Oslo/SPUNK studio, spring 2006." - Kning Disk. Maja Ratkje of Fe-Mail. |
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Artist: RATS WITH WINGS Title: Aide-Memoire Format: Double LP Label: Rats With Wings Country: Australia Price: $40.00 |
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"Double LP of material taken from CD-R releases: The Fish Rots From The Head (unreleased), Southern Oscillation Index (HoLR) CDR-RWW (MIR), Ratified Loopholes (AEN), Ashtray Cabbage (Fiend), Get And Put (Deadline), Out Vile Jelly! (Gold Soundz), Night Science and Underground Australia compilations (Cipher Productions). All covers with fried compact disc glue to the cover. Extremely limited."
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Artist: RATS, THE Title: Intermittent Signals Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"The second release by Portlands own Rats, Fred and Toodys pre-Dead Moon outfit. This record hails from 1981 and holds a place in Portland punk history. Considerably better sound quality compared to the first record. Poster included and tip-on jacket." -Mississippi
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Artist: RATS, THE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Formed in 1979 by Fred Cole from the 1960s garage rock band The Lollipop Shoppe. Cole played guitar and sang, his wife Toody played bass and sang, and initially Rod Rat played drums. Their sound was a raw mix of punk rock and garage rock with occasional country touches. Mississippi Records is the first to reissue this pre-Dead Moon classic." -Mississippi
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Artist: RAUDIVE BUNKER EXPERIMENT Title: Falling Format: 7" Label: You Dont Have To Call It Music Country: Germany Price: $7.00 |
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Artist: RAUDIVE BUNKER EXPERIMENT Title: S/T Format: Double LP Label: You Dont Have To Call It Music Country: Germany Price: $30.00 |
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"Reissue of the rare LP from 1982 and additional material from various
tapes of that period. Includes two long Industrial tracks in the way of
Throbbing Gristle and 22 tracks of experimental minimal synth music,
comparable to Cabaret Voltaire and Conrad Schnitzler. The 7" includes
two tracks with voice in best minimal synth style. All composed and re-
corded in the early eighties by Andy Wilson, who also played with
Bourbonese Qualk, released a book about german band Faust and
nowadays plays as "Sunseastar" and "The Grand Erector".
Comes in gatefold cover with special finish print and stamped inner
sleeves. Limited and numbered edition of 500 copies." - You Dont Have To Call It Music. "Absolute stunning compilation of this early 1980s minimal electronics/ industrial band. The 7" is great but the 2LP document is even more mind- blowing. This is where minimal electronics and psychedelic music meet. Truly old style industrial music as it should be... not aiming at noise for noise but at delivering a great listening experience. A massive compilation that is besides a great document also simply a brilliant release to listen to." - Martijn van Gessel, Enfant Terrible. SOLD OUT
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Artist: RAUHAN ORKESTERI & LAUHKEAT LAMPAAT Title: Sylissain Oot Format: CD Label: Ache Country: Canada Price: $14.00 |
| "A CD reissue of the RAUHAN ORKESTRI (PEACE ORCHESTRA)/LAUHKEAT LAMPAAT (MEEK SHEEP) album originally released on LP in 2006 by Italys QBICO label. Ten pieces of free-improv-folk-jazz from Finland, with a distinctive foundation of playful vigor and heartening spirit. Some of the tracks take on a higher timbre and slightly more tongue-in-cheek feel as the quartet splinters into the duo Lauhkeat Lamaat." - Ache. |
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Artist: RAUHANORKESTERI Title: Felix Format: 3" CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $8.50 |
| "Mellow but mind-blowing free-jazz. First edition of 100, sold out. Second edition in yellow sleeve available." "If you havent already picked up this free-jazz combos recent full-length LP you should try to get that one along with this shorter sample of their sound. Its an organic improv session that breathes countryside air, sensing the grass between its toes and quietly blowing us away. theres not many contemporary free jazz outfits being this quiet but still somehow unleashing so much power. If Felix does not impress you Im guessing no free jazz will." - Mats Gustafsson, Broken Face. |
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Artist: RAUHANORKESTERI Title: Hyppy Tunti Format: 7" Label: Pohjoisten Kukkaisten Aanet Country: Finland Price: $7.50 |
| "We have just released a great party-7" of Rauhan Orkesteri, the best free jazz band of the whole Finland, at least! The records name is "Hyppy tunti" and it continues where the orchestras debut LP left. Birds are singing and the ceiling is coming off the walls. For some free-music diggers this has been the best Finnish 7" of the year!" - Pohjoisten Kukkaisten Aanet. First release since the Lal Lal Lal LP. Limited edition, hand painted sleeves. |
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Artist: RAUHANORKESTERI Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $15.00 |
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"Finnish free jazz masterpiece, co-released with three other small Finnish labels. LP contains lots of beautiful music, joy and energy. Thats why even the birds are singing along with the band." - Lal Lal Lal.
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Artist: RAVEN Title: Back To Ohio Blues Format: LP Label: Owl Country: USA Price: $34.00 |
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"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN -
I am most pleased to announce that despite decades of rumors to the
contrary.... RAVEN LIVES!!!! After he recorded and pressed 300 copies of the
legendary "Back to OHIO BLUES" LP in 1975 at Columbus, Ohios legendary Owl
Studios, (of which you are now holding the only LEGITIMATE reissue) he split
for California and later joined the Armed Forces and ended up in Europe,
recording what he calls Basement tapes. Raven (he prefers his real name be
kept anonymous for now) still writes songs and goofs off alot in his studio.
According to family sources, hes been working with a few people on (
Believe this or not RAVEN BACK TO OHIO BLUES TWO ).
So when recently informed of the Mythical status of this LP of 30-some years
ago,(which sells for well over $IOOO a copy), he laughed heartily. Makes
sense considering that back in the day he NEVER SOLD A SINGLE COPY ; it was
a pure vanity press which he made to give away to friends and whoever
cared to listen!! and so his amusement is certainly understandable. Recorded
with the help of musician friends who never performed live together, only
during these studio sessions. Raven is one of the classic D.I.Y. characters
who never really had much use for the "Rock N Roll Dream Machine" of being
a rockstar. He made the music because it was INSIDE of him & needed to be
expressed, the true measure of all forms of genius (in my "Hummel" opinion).
Like a shark has to swim to breathe, Raven had to record his honest
gut-wrenching creations, perhaps exorcising his demons onto wax one could
say. Anyone who has already heard this amazing Psyched-out Blues Rock
classic KNOWS just what a beast he unleashed on an unsuspecting world, and
now YOU dear reader have an opportunity to hear for yourself the awesome
angst -driven RAW POWER that is "Back To Ohio Blues".
One question many of you may have is, "Is there MORE of this stuff yet
unreleased?" and the answer is... YES!!! A release of this material is also
in the offing so keep your ears peeled for a future Raven release too!
Personally I cant wait, and I consider being one to help spread this Good
News a true honor. Its great to know Raven is alive & well and again ready
to spring his unique sounds upon an unwary world! - hopefully this time
around, the world is ready." - Mike "Rep" Hummel/Old Age/No Age. Signed and numbered by Raven. Previously "unoffically" reissued by Rockadelic. Highly recommended!
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Artist: RAVEN Title: Back To Ohio Blues Format: CDR Label: Owl Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Raven had 100 Back To Ohio Blues CDs made at Musicol Studio from the master tape. He added 1 additional track, "Evil People". Each CD is signed & numbered." - Owl
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Artist: RAVEN Title: Back To Ohio Blues Format: CD Label: Owl Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - I am most pleased to announce that despite decades of rumors to the contrary.... RAVEN LIVES!!!! After he recorded and pressed 300 copies of the legendary "Back to OHIO BLUES" LP in 1975 at Columbus, Ohios legendary Owl Studios, (of which you are now holding the only LEGITIMATE reissue) he split for California and later joined the Armed Forces and ended up in Europe, recording what he calls Basement tapes. Raven (he prefers his real name be kept anonymous for now) still writes songs and goofs off alot in his studio. According to family sources, hes been working with a few people on ( Believe this or not RAVEN BACK TO OHIO BLUES TWO ). So when recently informed of the Mythical status of this LP of 30-some years ago,(which sells for well over $IOOO a copy), he laughed heartily. Makes sense considering that back in the day he NEVER SOLD A SINGLE COPY ; it was a pure vanity press which he made to give away to friends and whoever cared to listen!! and so his amusement is certainly understandable. Recorded with the help of musician friends who never performed live together, only during these studio sessions. Raven is one of the classic D.I.Y. characters who never really had much use for the "Rock N Roll Dream Machine" of being a rockstar. He made the music because it was INSIDE of him & needed to be expressed, the true measure of all forms of genius (in my "Hummel" opinion). Like a shark has to swim to breathe, Raven had to record his honest gut-wrenching creations, perhaps exorcising his demons onto wax one could say. Anyone who has already heard this amazing Psyched-out Blues Rock classic KNOWS just what a beast he unleashed on an unsuspecting world, and now YOU dear reader have an opportunity to hear for yourself the awesome angst -driven RAW POWER that is "Back To Ohio Blues". One question many of you may have is, "Is there MORE of this stuff yet unreleased?" and the answer is... YES!!! A release of this material is also in the offing so keep your ears peeled for a future Raven release too! Personally I cant wait, and I consider being one to help spread this Good News a true honor. Its great to know Raven is alive & well and again ready to spring his unique sounds upon an unwary world! - hopefully this time around, the world is ready." - Mike "Rep" Hummel/Old Age/No Age. Previously "unoffically" reissued by Rockadelic. Highly recommended!
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Artist: RAVEN STRAIN Title: s/t Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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Artist: RAVEN STRAIN Title: Trisagon Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Ever heard of the NORTHVILLE TUNNELS?? Its these underground tunnels in Northville, MI that lead to an old abandoned Mental Hosptial. A teenaged RAVEN STRAIN aka MATT BILLINGS used to hang out in those tunnels... ALOT! This is totally the sound of creeping thru there high on paint, seeing only by the light of a shitty BIC mini lighter... runnin around the hospital and reading the forgotten files of the inmates that once lived there. I remember him telling me a story of snakin some old filing cabinet from there and draggin em home thru the tunnels. I think he recorded that and put it on this tape. Total abandonment, illness, and drugs." - Hanson. |
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Artist: RAVERS Title: Bad, Bad World (Ravers Going Underground) Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "Wah Wah proudly unearths another lost gem from the past, this time by studio-exploitation German band The Ravers, a.k.a The Tonics. Under the production of Herbert Hildebrandt (ex-member of The Rattles, credited on some internet blogs to be some kind of German Kim Fowley), members of The Rattles/Wonderland (Achim Reichel) and The German Bonds produced a series of studio albums as cash-in operations, among them some very known works like Hell Preachers Inc. or Bokaj Retsiem. Bad, Bad World is one of those amazing releases. Having in mind the hardest beat/psych rock sounds of the era (the LP was originally released in 1969) and the rhythms that move a dancefloor, they produced this superb collection of groovy Hammond/fuzz/wah-wah driven freak rockers. More than one song here should be on any genre DJs bag, the most direct one being What You Can Do For Your Country, but with the whole LP packed with cool songs moving from the Kinks inspired Weve Got Too Much to early Deep Purple Hammond versus lead guitar duels." - Wah Wah. |
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Artist: RAXOLA Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Radio Heartbeat Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Raxola hailed from the same classic Belgian punk scene as The Kids and Hubble Bubble. Amazing that three groups all put out such staggering LPs! Long regarded as one of the all-time best European punk LPs, Raxola finally gets a legit repressing. Winners such as "84s Man" "Wildcat" and "Old Rat" will continue to quench your sonic palette for years to come." - Radio Heartbeat. |
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Artist: RAY OFF Title: Ghost Wolf Format: CDR Label: United Fairy Moons Country: New Zealand Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: RAY OFF Title: I Am Not In The Racing Sky Format: CDR Label: United Fairy Moons Country: New Zealand Price: $10.00 |
| "Ray Off and his three year old son were staring at the clouds one day when the boy made a comment that became the idea behind and the title for Offs first large-scale band "composition". Realised by a crack pick-up group in three weeks and performed to an unprepared gathering at Dunedins None Gallery space, the piece is a fog of harps and sheeps; a cello dissolving in tears to chanteuse Pamela Poppins heartening sirenic solfege. The 27 minute recording seemed a good centrepiece for a cd celebrating a year of "off" actions, and is bookended by two live improvisations. "First Ray" starts off sounding like Black Dice on Sunday morning, before giving way to a cellos conversation with a cliffs edge; "Chinese New Year" sticks one half-thought-out guitar riff into a pipette and attempts to build a ship in a bottle out of broken biscuits." - United Fairy Moons. |
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Artist: RAY PACINO ENSEMBLE Title: Be My Lonely Night Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.50 |
| "Albumful of recordings from the late 90s by this wonderful Swedish trio closely connected to Johannes Nilsson. Packed with folkish wibes and hypnotic hi&lo-fi grooves they sound like the summer sun shining through the smoke of tar production. At the same time it gives you a feeling of eating well and starting to get drunk after a long day in the tar fields. Every song is great like every dance you dance on the dancefloor on a cruiser on the same night. The tape stops just before the police takes you to prison because of otherworldly dancing and wrestling with your beloved ones." - Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: RAY PACINO ENSEMBLE Title: Be My Lonely Night/ Golden Greats Format: Double LP Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $32.00 |
| "This time we have a good reason to wave Swedish flags, because both of our fresh vinyl-releases come from that beautiful country with the lamest beer on earth. Thats maybe the reason for all this incredible music �?? you have to find out something to do because the beer doesnt make you drunk. This incredible 2LP is released together with Jelle Crama, who is also responsible for the beautiful silk screened covers here. The release was fertilized from our love towards the TRPE tape Lal Lal Lal had already put out. It had to be on vinyl and we needed more of those outstanding songs. TRPEs (formerly known as Johannes Nilsson) music is hard to describe. Its joyful, catchy, repetitive and earthbound. To name some collagues, you could find their sound waves vibrating somewhere between The Plastic People of the Universe, Pärson Sound, Caroliner or Philemon Arthur and the Dung. The band comes from a small village of Järna where the members have played together since babies, making music for something like 15 years. Thats where the unique style and excellent songs have slowly gained their form. Edition of 330." -Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: RAY, BRENDA Title: DYa Hear Me!: Naffi Years, 1979-83 Format: LP Label: EM Country: Japan Price: $23.00 |
 "Sweet post-punk, with a heartfelt reggae/funk influence, analog dub effects and lovely femme-vox. A unique slice of late 70s/early-80s goodness, starring Brenda Ray, whose previous release on EM Records, "Walatta" has been embraced by a large number of listeners. Recorded in Northwest England, DYa Hear Me! is warm-hearted, open, fresh and slyly experimental. With an independent spirit and a true D.I.Y. soul, these 13 tracks, originally released in various formats by Ray aka Brenda Kenny aka Natalie Sand aka Polly Rithm and her musical friends under the moniker(s) Naffi/Naffi Sandwich, were recorded in a simple homemade studio, making full use of the creative options opened up through the full use of simple means -- although the warm, full audio belies any notions of primitivism. Far from media-crazed London, Naffi created a musical world free from lust for the spotlight, focusing solely on the music, and the results are fittingly pure. DYa Hear Me! is a wide-ranging release, with lovely vocal tracks, warm dubs and pleasingly odd instrumentals, all knitted together with a special trans-Atlantic rhythmic sense. Two songs of special interest here are "Moonbeams" and the Young Marble Giants-esque "Everyday Just Another Dream," which are early versions of "Starlight" and "Another Dream" from Walatta. Also noteworthy are several previously-unissued longer versions of some songs. Comes with an insert with (Japanese & English) liner notes written by Brenda Ray, plus rare photos." - EM.
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Artist: RAY, BRENDA Title: DYa Hear Me!: Naffi Years, 1979-83 Format: CD Label: EM Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
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"Sweet post-punk, with a heartfelt reggae/funk influence, analog dub effects and lovely femme-vox. A unique slice of late 70s/early-80s goodness, starring Brenda Ray, whose previous release on EM Records, Walatta (EM 1071CD/LP) has been embraced by a large number of listeners. Recorded in Northwest England, DYa Hear Me! is warm-hearted, open, fresh and slyly experimental. With an independent spirit and a true D.I.Y. soul, these 13 tracks, originally released in various formats by Ray aka Brenda Kenny aka Natalie Sand aka Polly Rithm and her musical friends under the moniker(s) Naffi/Naffi Sandwich, were recorded in a simple homemade studio, making full use of the creative options opened up through the full use of simple means -- although the warm, full audio belies any notions of primitivism. Far from media-crazed London, Naffi created a musical world free from lust for the spotlight, focusing solely on the music, and the results are fittingly pure. DYa Hear Me! is a wide-ranging release, with lovely vocal tracks, warm dubs and pleasingly odd instrumentals, all knitted together with a special trans-Atlantic rhythmic sense. Two songs of special interest here are "Moonbeams" and the Young Marble Giants-esque "Everyday Just Another Dream," which are early versions of "Starlight" and "Another Dream" from Walatta. Also noteworthy are several previously-unissued longer versions of some songs. Liner notes written by Brenda Ray. Includes rare photos." - EM.
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Artist: RAY, BRENDA Title: Starlight Format: 12" Label: EM Country: Japan Price: $18.00 |
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Four 12" tracks cut from the album Walatta (EM 1071CD/LP). Handmade silkscreen print sleeve in a 2-holed disco bag. Super limited edition.
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Artist: RAY, BRENDA Title: Walatta Format: CD Label: EM Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "2012 repress. Certainly the most unusual reggae album ever made. Augustus Pablo, King Tubby, Asha Puthli with Ornette Coleman, Lonnie Liston Smith and Pharoah Sanders -- very disturbing slices of psycho-dub/doo-wop/jazz-fusion/exotica music. Her breathy Chordettes meets Susan Cadgan vocals, multi-tracked whisperings about inter-galactic Bluebeat starlights over what sounds like a modulated cut of heavy rhythm. Brenda Ray will be familiar to observers of the Liverpool scene as part of the NAFFI organization through the 80s, also famed as Brenda & The Beachballs. Over the past years, together with cohort Sir Freddie Viadukt (aka The Minister of Noise), she has been aiding and abetting the reggae producer Roy Cousins, once of The Royals, in his program of remastering and reissuing selections from his Tamoki Wambesi imprint. Cousins suggested she record an album using original roots reggae tracks from original tapes. The whole album was overdubbed, played, recorded and mixed between 1995-2005 at NAFFI Studios. Everything was done by herself except the final mix-down with Sir Freddie. The cover photo has Brenda in a pose somewhere between Pharoah Sanders Thembi and Augustus Pablos East of the River Nile with a melodica pointed towards the water." - EM. |
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Artist: RAYMILLAND Title: Recordings 79-81 Format: LP/CD Label: BDR Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "A collection of archival recordings by this St. Louis postpunk band that had gained an underground reputation in the late 70s through a single released by the influential music and art magazine Praxis, their appearances on Sub-Pop and Dong Dong Tapes cassette compilations, and a self-released demo cassette, as well as rare live performances. Though a bit on the dark side, their songs arent gloomy, but instead full of fractured, angular, angst-driven noise and energy. The 7- track LP comes with an included CD with 5 extra songs, plus a 2-sided photo insert. Limited pressing of 500 copies." - BDR |
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Artist: RAYNE Title: Rayne Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $42.00 |
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"LP 450 numbered/heavy sleeve/180 gram pressing/insert. "Frank Saucier and his 3 brothers formed Rayne in 1977, located in a New Orleans suburbia. They recorded the album with good home equipment with no overdubs. The original album (the black album, as they called it) was only pressed 300 times and during a moment of frustration they took a box of the albums and shot them with a shotgun. So, not many left to sell. The music is first class psych rock, strong compositions, great guitars & vocals, just everything right, something you would expect from a band located in New Orleans. Southern spirit and the tough guys dont dance, they play music instead." - Shadoks.
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Artist: RAYON BEACH Title: Memory Teeth EP Format: 12" Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "We get really excited about bands sometimes, right? Well folks, RAYON BEACH are one of the most head-blasting, endorphin-rushing musical anomalies weve stumbled across in a while, and these six tracks of exotic punk psychedelia are just what the doctor ordered. Located terrestrially in Austin, TX but borne of outer limits only imagined by acid casualties trying to find where Syd Barrett lives, Rayon Beach take us on an incredible ride through surreal soundscapes and off-center arrangements, and pull it all together under a tight black umbrella, soaked in afterbirth and glowing like weird moon rocks. With aural slices so scrappy and inspirational, they effortlessly conjoin shards of obscure noise, not unlike the uncategorizable brilliance of The Deviants, Swell Maps, and The Soft Boys, in that inescapable running of the primal Pink Floyd nuance through the chainsaw-style state of mind. With no Gold edition, and only 550 black vinyl copies available of this high-powered 12" EPs maiden pressing, you might want to jump all over this before its morphed into something unrecognizable from its original state. Watch out for Cryptic Scissor as well, a side-project emanating from Rayon Beach and Woven Bones as part of the next round of the HoZac Hookup Klub, coming soon."-HoZac. Limited to 550 copies. |
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Artist: RAZAR Title: Stamp Out Disco b/w Task Force (Undercover Cops) Format: 7" Label: Sing Sing Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Brisbane in the late 70s seemed to encourage more than its share of youthful rebellion. While the Bjelke-Peterson regime didnt encourage protest, it provided lots to protest against. Punk musics do-it-yourself ethos encouraged ordinary people to take control and have their say. Police harassment, the onslaught of disco, money or the lack of it, television news sensationalism and pre-packaged teenage entertainment such as Countdown meant there was a lot to sing about. And the vibrant Brisbane music scene produced a remarkable number of you bands that, while not achieving the international fame of The Saints, made their mark on the hearts and minds of the local audience.
Razar was formed in Brisbane in 1977. The band featured vocals by seventeen year old Marty Burke, with fifteen year old Bob Wackley on bass, his eighteen year old brother Greg (Keg) Wackley on drums and sixteen year old Steve Mee on guitar. All four had known each other at school and had performed in earlier cover bands. The boys were keen musicians, and were already starting to write their own original material.
With Razar, the music and the thrust hit you somewhere between Gut Central and the Pleasure Centre - you just cant help but feel great. The playings sharp as the name. Each number was like a jolt of power, the whole thing sussed for maximum effect. No sloppy intros, missed lines, fuzz out anti-climaxes. Just a two-three minute surge, then cut." -Sing Sing.
"Every song we has was very fast. Out policy, our slogan at the time was YOUNG, FAST & NON-BORING" -Marty Burke. |
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Artist: RAZIKA Title: Nytt Pa Nytt Format: 7" Label: Smalltown Supersound Country: Norway Price: $9.00 |
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"Razika are four 18 year old girls from Bergen whove sweetly stumbled upon a killer mix of Slits style get-up-&-go, ultra catchy pop-hook mayhem & a shamble-punk attitude which makes this, their debut 7", infinitely irresistible. Theyve also thrown in a dollop of 2-tone stolen from that labels best 45s but shot through with power-pop veins. Its a sound that speaks of pre-internet basement parties, raiding charity shop bins for threads to impress someone no good for you & living each day like its the last one of summer." -Smalltown Supersound.
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Artist: REACTIONARIES, THE Title: 1979 Format: LP Label: Water Under the Bridge Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"The precursor to The Minutemen. Side one documents a 10-song practice tape recorded in 1979, plus a bonus side of mostly knuckleheaded San Pedro people doing their renditions of the same ten songs. 12-inch vinyl-only release brought to you by Water Under The Bridge and 45 rpm Records. Practice tape recorded in San Pedro, CA at the shed in back of Georges house on 17th Street, across the street from San Pedro High School, January 1979. Bonus side features ten Reactionaries songs from Side A covered by 38 members of different San Pedro-affiliated bands, both past and present. Cover art by Joe Baiza. The Reactionaries: Martin Tamburovich - singing, D. Boon - guitar, Mike Watt - bass and back-up, George Hurley - drums." - Water Under the Bridge.
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Artist: REACTORS, THE Title: I Want Sex Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Official reissue from masters. Only 100 pressed back in 1979...20 of which were destroyed in a flood. Heres your chance to own one of NYCs finest (and rarest)...without breaking the bank. First pressing of 500...dont sleep on this!" - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: READING RAINBOW Title: Restless Format: 7" Label: Zoo Music Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "READING RAINBOW, aka the Philadelphia duo of ROB GARCIA and SARAH EVERTON, have a new 7-inch out now on one Zoo Music, the San Diego label run by DUM DUM GIRLS DEE DEE and BRANDON from the CROCODILES. The A-Sides the revved-up Restless, which finds Reading Rainbow sounding more like an echoing noise-pop choir than a twosome. They do a cover of the Velvet Undergrounds Stephanie Says on side B. For now, get hooked on this."-Stereogum. Limited to 500 copies." - Zoo Music. |
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Artist: REAL ESTATE Title: Fake Blues Format: 7" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"REAL ESTATE is songwriter MARTIN COURTNEY on vocals and guitar, MATT MONDANILE (DUCKTAILS, PREDATOR VISION) on guitar, ETIENNE DUGUAY (Predator Vision) on drums, and ALEX BLEEKER on bass. Having grown up playing shows with friends from Vivian Girls and Titus Andronicus, the members of Real Estate have played together in a variety of incarnations since their middle school years in Ridgewood, NJ. Real Estates songs reflect influences from Paul Mccartney and the Grateful Dead to the Clean and New Jerseys own Yo La Tengo and The Feelies, all the while crafting unique pop songs about what they know: growing up in suburbs and hanging at the shore." - Woodsist.
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Artist: REAL ESTATE Title: Fake Blues Format: 7" Label: Half Machine Country: UK Price: $7.00 |
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Artist: REAL ESTATE Title: Reality Format: LP Label: Mexican Summer Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"Long-awaited 12" from one of the most blogged about bands in Brooklyn. Amazing, infectious fuzz-pop that establishes Ridgewood, New Jersey as the current cultural center of these United States. Genre straddling, mind-bending, indierockpopsurfjanglepunk craziness. The massive amount of press attention given to these guys doesnt begin to do justice to their universal appeal and brilliant songwriting. One of the most anticipated records in the history of Mexican Summer and well worth the wait. Features Matt Mondanile of Ducktails." - Mexican Summer. Repressed.
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Artist: REAL ESTATE Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Real Estate waft in on vibes of hazy summers past. The New Jersey quartet of Martin Courtney IV, Matthew Mondanile III, Etienne Pierre Duguay and Alex Bleeker cut the sleeves short and the pop smooth to shade you from the midday heat. Every song works its way to that part of your consciousness that reveled in the fleeting waves of freedom that eked in once classes broke and the sun lingered a little longer over suburban roofs. And with three quarters of the band holding down Garden State roots its no surprise that a bit of Jersey indie-pop heritage sneaks its way into their sound, lifting the most sun streaked moments from The Feelies and Yo La Tengo and filtering them through the kaleidoscope of memories aimless drives through parched neighborhood streets. Martin Courtneys songwriting has a way of wrapping up the immediacy of youth with the ennui of age for the perfect shade of bittersweet bliss, mind you though, much heavier on the sweet than the bitter. Add to this Mondaniles (Ducktails/ Predator Vision) shimmering guitar strains full of equal parts sea foam and beer foam, pepper in the boardwalk clatter of Duguays drums Bleekers staccato low end and the perfect afternoon is just a lawn chair and boom box away." -Andy French/raven sings the blues |
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Artist: REAL ESTATE Title: Suburban Beverage Format: 7" Label: Underwater Peoples Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Real Estate is songwriter Martin Courtney on vocals and guitar, Matt Mondanile (of Ducktails and Predator Vision) on guitar, Etienne Duguay (of Predator Vision) on drums, and Alex Bleeker on bass. Having grown up playing shows with friends from Vivian Girls and Titus Andronicus, the members of Real Estate have been together in a variety of incarnations since their middle school years." -Underwater Peoples
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Artist: REALICIDE Title: Ready to Fight! Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Edition of 350 copies, silk-screened cover -- 1st LP from noisecore/gabber/screamo project from Ohio." - RRR. |
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Artist: REALLY RED Title: Crowd Control Format: 7" Label: C.I.A. Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue. "Nineteen seventy-nine debut single from one of Texas, if not the whole damn countrys, greatest punk bands. Immortalized on the second side of the finest of the original Killed By Death comps (#2), Crowd Controladdresses the hassles of serving the public, whether its food or propaganda, via brawny, agile punk and singer U-Rons full-throated roar. Corporate Settings features their soon-to-be trademark sarcastic post-punk edge , but also features some killer melodies underneath the well-deserved bile. Essential." |
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Artist: REBEL, THE Title: Exciting New Stadium Venue For Soccer And Execution Of Women Format: 7" Label: SDZ Country: France Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: REBEL, THE Title: Five Year Plan Format: LP Label: Monofonus Press Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "We couldnt be happier to present to the world a new release from one of our favorite recording artists OF ALL FUCKING TIME! BEN WALLERS aka THE REBEL is the main man behind COUNTRY TEASERS, and continues to amaze with the near constant flow of material out on a variety of labels including a 2007 release from Austin label Emperor Jones. Since playing in our garage in March of 2006 weve kept in contact (aka drunk g-chatting), and a couple months ago he was generous enough to send us 13 songs to choose from. Weve selected our three favorites, and pressed them up proper on a 12_ EP titled The Five Year Plan. Full color everything.... label, jacket, and screen printed B Side. Looks/Sounds amazing. Fans of Ronnie OSullivan will be extra stoked. Limited to only 300 copies." -Monofonus Press |
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Artist: REBEL, THE Title: Incredible Hulk Format: LP Label: Junior Aspirin Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
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"A new full length LP by COUNTRY TEASERS frontman BEN "THE REBEL" WALLERS is always something to be savored. The Incredible Hulk is a brooding and brilliant work. Its darkness is punctured by skewed, experimental pop songs. The epic, pitch-black opener "Ambient Pasteman" details childrens TV character Postman Pats relationship problems ("Postman Pat booted out his wife because Postman Pat didnt like his wife") and is followed by the poppier "Cherish" ("we must cherish the drugs we have, for as long as we have the drugs") and the anthemic "Aiming Low, Getting High" (released on 7-inch by Lexi-Disques last year). "Christmas Every Day" is a snapshot of a nightmare-a man talks in earnest about how he celebrates Christmas every day, watching the Queens speech on endless video loops. The voice emerges from monstrous guitar noise and machine gun fire. Wallers satirical brilliance is to the fore with "On My Own"-it has a rather catchy chorus but the lyrics are an interpolation of a popular pedophile joke which then works as an intro for "The Forest"-a psychotic recontextualization of "A Forest" by The Cure. A crackling copy of that record is put on and gets stuck on Smiths familiar vocal "again and again and again"-looping over and over. Is this an acid blast at 60s-80s recycling in the moribund British pop scene, a twisted tribute, or a sick joke? Or all of the above? The Rebel is fucking with us again-thank God. Limited edition of 500 copies. UK import, no exports outside of North America." -Junior Aspirin
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Artist: REBEL, THE Title: Northern Rocks Bear Weird Vegetable Format: LP Label: Sacred Bones Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Sacred Bones Records presents Northern Rocks Bear Weird Vegetable⿿the next full-length from London, Englands The Rebel. The alter ego of Country Teasers Ben Wallers, The Rebel dates back to the tail-end of the 80s⿿having existed side-by-side throughout the Teasers prolific career⿿often releasing records at a steadier clip than Wallers main project with songs too madcap to fit into even their William- Burroughs-by-way-of-The-Residents take on country music. Wallers characteristic self-aware irony and surreal gender/race ruminations are still present but sitting backseat in this more fleshed out concept album about decaying conditions on the planet 3ar7h. Although Burroughs comparisons are inevitable, Northern Rocks Bear Weird Vegetable could only have been scripted by The Rebel. The albums narrator is in a band, has a valet named Mulholland, but inhabits an otherwise unrecognizable dystopian landscape where evil science laboratories combat college radio personalities, and nuclear war with Iran is well underway. Important issues of today and tomorrow are touched on. In ⿿Why Must I Pay? Mr. Thatcher, a future Prime Minister, is excoriated for the rising costs of tea, rent, drugs and sex. In ⿿Scarlett Johansen Conceiving the Design we are shown a horrific world in which starlets replace scientists as consumerdoms inventors. In ⿿Youre Just Like Tammy Wynette the Radical Islam Problem is diagnosed by looking at the politics of ladies headgear, while in ⿿Turtle v. Octopus a battle between Lovecraftian ancient adversaries plays out, potentially affecting the future of Music itself. This is the first Rebel album to be recorded in the studio with a live backing band...that band being Country Teasers. In terms of sound, Northern Rocks Bears Weird Vegetable exchanges The Rebels clautrophobic home studio layers and d.i.y. effects for the improvisational band chemistry and controlled looseness of Country Teasers infamous live act." - Sacred Bones. |
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Artist: REBEL, THE Title: Race Against Time Hots Up Format: LP Label: Junior Aspirin Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
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"The Race Against Time Hots Up is a big time return to songwriting from COUNTRY TEASERS frontman BEN "THE REBEL" WALLERS. Wallers albums are always something to be savored-but skewed, experimental, sardonic pop music is his metier and The Race Against Time Hots Up is up there with his best albums (such as cult favorites Prawns and Satan Is Real Again). Check out the songs "Tyme," "Colaboration," "Adam, Eve, Mary and Fumeha" or "Keen Air for Chasseur John"-in fact check all tracks, this album is pop-chock-stock full o goodies from the renegade master. Vinyl only, limited to 500 copies only." - Junior Aspirin.
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Artist: REBEL, THE/BOMBER JACKETS Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Savoury Days Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "A brand new split release between Ben Wallers (Country Teasers) The Rebel and James Pheromoans (Pheromoans) Bomber Jackets. Limited to 300 copies and released as a split release between Kill Shaman and Savoury Days (UK), we have less than 100 copies here in the US after the bands got their share, we split the rest with Savoury Days, then sent a bunch out for radio and stuff. Each band gives out 2 tracks of epic post-whatever weirdness. If youre a fan of the output from any of the people involved in this thing, this is a must have." -Savoury Days/Kill Shaman |
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Artist: RECCHION, TOM Title: Proscenium Format: LP + 7" Label: Elevator Bath Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Proscenium is a subtle and remarkably controlled collection of atmospheres. The air of mystery, deliberate pacing, the deep tones and unidentified sounds of Recchions 2006 album Sweetly Doing Nothing have been explored even further here. Its a logical development but the results are unexpected and strikingly original, sounding wholly unfamiliar and yet like no ones but Tom Recchions. Prosceniums six pieces mostly began life as music for filmmaker/puppeteer Janie Geisers play "Invisible Glass," an adaptation of Poes "William Wilson." The plays intricate beauty and the storys moody confusion have been perfectly mirrored and expanded on by Recchion who used that inspiration as a leaping off point for Prosceniums rich and surprising compositions. "It was an attempt to create a sound world for the viewer that started as they entered the theater and drenched them until they left in an ongoing series of atmospheres." Tom Recchion has been a sound and visual artist/composer/art director and graphic designer in California since the 1970s. He is the co-creator of the legendary Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) and has collaborated with David Toop, Christian Marclay, Oren Ambarchi, Keiji Haino, and Max Eastley, among many others. Though Proscenium is only his sixth album as a solo artist, Recchion has had many recordings released by labels such as Birdman, Touch, PSF, RRR, Idea, Staubgold, and the Cortical Foundation. He has also written for The Wire magazine. Tom Recchion lives in California. Proscenium consists of one 180-gram virgin vinyl LP inside a black poly-lined sleeve, plus 7" record, each with five-color labels, housed in a full-color gatefold jacket. Included with each copy of this set is a full-color download card featuring access to high-quality MP3s of the complete contents of the vinyl records. Package imagery was created by artist Pae White and photographed by Recchion’s long time music and visual collaborator, noted photographer Fredrik Nilsen and was designed by Colin Andrew Sheffield and Tom Recchion. This package has been issued in an edition of 500 copies." -Elevator Bath. |
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Artist: RECCHION, TOM Title: The Incandescent Gramaphone Format: 10" (78 RPM) Label: Poobah Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "This project was done as a cross between a community art project and an experiment with crossing new and old music technology. Recchion wanted to make an object out of its time but still utilize current methodologies as well as older mediums of sound reproduction. The output of that effort is this new 78. The compositions on the record all derive their sounds from 78rpm records- the clicks, the scratches and samples, as well as the sounds that the record makes as an object in 3 dimensional space. **This 78 is limited to 500 made, with 100 being strewn across Old Pasadena as a found object.**" - Poobah. |
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Artist: RECCHION, TOM Title: Where Were You On Christmas?/Christmas Filled With Tears Format: 7" Label: Meeuw Muzak Country: Netherlands Price: $7.25 |
| "Tom Recchion founded the Los Angeles Free Music Society in the late seventies (and if you can find it, try and get the 10 CD box that was released on RRRecords a while ago, which is an excellent documentation), and later on worked with David Toop, Keiji Haino, John Duncan and Smegma. For his solo work he loves exotica, which was ten years ago a term for lounge music of an exotic nature. Mood music played on an organ. These titles, Recchion uses a laptop with Ableton live.. Some strict editing certainly worked well on Tom Recchion contribution to what I call the darkest days of the year, or at least the most boring days. Like Mister Meeuw I dont like Christmas very much, but its a fine day to play all your alternative tunes and avoid Last Christmas and Mister Meeuw adds every year a new tune. Tom Recchion puts on his mood tune hat, and digs for some gospel preacher preaching where you were on christmas. The b-side has an even more sorrowful tune from a guy who lost his father and now he is all alone. Both pieces are precise and to the point. Let the season begin!" - Vital Weekly. |
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Artist: RED CRAYOLA Title: On Forty-Five Format: 7" Label: Leiterwagen Country: Germany Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: RED CRAYOLA WITH ART & LANGUAGE Title: Kangaroo? Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Repressed! Reissue of long o/p LP from 1981 (Rough Trade UK). Features guests like Epic Soundtracks, the Raincoats Gina Birch, Allen Ravenstein, Laura Logic, etc." - FE.
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Artist: RED FAVORITE Title: Red Favorite Format: LP Label: Streamline Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
| "Red Favorite, a cycle of compositions for guitars, electronics and voices created by Jeremy Pisani was first released as a limited edition CD on Spirit of Orr and is now offered, as it was originally conceived to appear, on an LP. He moved closer and looked through the peephole. And he saw: the world stretched out before him, a quiet and gentle space with a broad expanse of grass that practically glistened in its greenness. A sparkling brook ran through the meadow in the middle distance, and now he saw that the grass was dotted with the pale blue and soft yellow of many blooming flowers, which, half hidden in the grass, stared out at him like so many frightened eyes. On a distant hilltop stood a grove of small pink trees, covered and obscured by the astonishing pinkness of their blossoms. The world had a sense of freshness, as if it might only be minutes old -- washed clean by a careful springtime rain, dried and scrubbed by a solicitous breeze, burnished to its brightness by the rays of a gentle sun. It was an uncomplicated place, a very simple place. But what it had was quite enough; it had all it needed." -Streamline |
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Artist: RED HORSE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Type Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Red Horse is the blistering free-post-everything project of drummer/multi-percussionist Eli Keszler and guitarist/mad-scientist Steve Pyne. While both musicians are active in a number of different projects (you probably wouldnt believe Pynes day job even if we told you), Red Horse catches them working with a distilled sense of focus and is for many their breakthrough project. Red Horse (not to be confused with the similarly-titled debut) is the duos second album, and follows the rush of critical acclaim for the first which saw thick-skinned musos wowed by their blistering combination of rhythm and dissonance. As youd expect in a sequel, the budget is higher and the production more widescreen, and a far cry from the near lo-fi grind of its predecessor, this new full-length is exposed to the miniscule detail. The production technique might scare some, but the crisp sound of Keszlers innovative drumming and Pynes complex instrumental destruction has never sounded better or more fitting. Garnishing Keszlers well-worn patented hyperactive splatter-beats, Pyne experiments with a veritable arsenal of home-made equipment -- from gargantuan electrified, automated string sculptures to confusing sequences of reclaimed speakers (taken from a very well known Eastern-themed music box) wired together, creating a wall of screaming feedback. In the wrong hands their sound could easily be stuffy and academic, but Red Horse inject their experiments with a punk spirit rarely heard in the avant garde. Sure, the instruments are being handled by a couple of the best musicians in their field, but it hardly matters -- this is the sound of beautiful cacophony, and like Supersilent before them, theres something undeniably attractive about that concept. Its not your average noise, rock, improv, jazz or experimental record -- its all of the above and a great deal more. Just make sure you listen loud, theres a lot to hear. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin." -Type |
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Artist: RED KRAYOLA WITH ART & LANGUAGE Title: Sighs Trapped By Liars Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "With the entirely new music statement, Sighs Trapped by Liars, The Red Krayola renew their association with conceptual artists, Art & Language. Beginning in 1973, their collaboration includes the video projects Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors, and Struggle in New York, as well as the much-acclaimed and decried music releases, Corrected Slogans, Kangaroo?, and Black Snakes. Thirty years has mellowed the various parties not at all. The faint-hearted might want to swallow something calming before giving Sighs Trapped by Liars a spin. Sighs Trapped by Liars is as much a delightful bit of latter-day entertainment as it is a sensational musical excursion not trapped in any era. The composers of Red Krayola classics such as Keep All Your Friends, Portrait of V.I.Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Black Snakes, and Born In Flames have made another try at negotiating the relationship between language and music in this new collection. Speaking in a contemporary (and frequently foul-mouthed) voice they say something we could all stand to hear - in a popular music format that we can all enjoy. Those expecting a further trip into the radical leftist pamphleteering of the former works will have to listen closely; these are new songs for new days. Perspectives are taken from quotes, exhibits and jokes of history are translated into material that addresses the state of the art. This music couldnt be made without the experiences and politics of former days. The questions the 60s asked about the very idea of music and objects inform the practice today; the relationship of these new songs to the old ones is projective and analytical, subject to change without notice." -Drag City. |
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Artist: RED RIPPERS, THE Title: Over There... And Over Here Format: CD Label: Paradise of Bachelors Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Paradise of Bachelors presents the first-ever reissue of the previously obscure 1983 LP by the Red Rippers. Written and recorded by Navy pilot Edwin Bankston, the albums nine battle-scarred country-boogie dispatches chronicle the experiences of Bankston and his fellow vets in Vietnam and back home. Scarce and seemingly inscrutable, the sole recording credited to the Red Rippers has long captivated and mystified record collectors. When we first encountered Over There... and Over Here, we were fascinated by the prescient, genre-dredging synthe- sis of Waylonesque honky-stomp with early 80s new wave production values and eerie, out-of-time psychedelic guitar leads, weirdly reminiscent of the Blue Öyster Cult and the Meat Puppets at their most desert-drunk. We were intrigued by the records ambiguous provenance (Oracle Records?) and moved by its complex, apparently deeply personal articulation of an enlisted mans efforts to break on through his fear, anger, and disillusionment during and after the Vietnam War." -Paradise of Bachelors. |
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Artist: RED RIPPERS, THE Title: Over There... And Over Here Format: LP Label: Paradise of Bachelors Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Vinyl edition housed in a thick 24 pt matte jacket, including a digital download coupon and insert. Paradise of Bachelors presents the first-ever reissue of the previously obscure 1983 LP by the Red Rippers. Written and recorded by Navy pilot Edwin Bankston, the albums nine battle-scarred country-boogie dispatches chronicle the experiences of Bankston and his fellow vets in Vietnam and back home. Scarce and seemingly inscrutable, the sole recording credited to the Red Rippers has long captivated and mystified record collectors. When we first encountered Over There... and Over Here, we were fascinated by the prescient, genre-dredging synthe- sis of Waylonesque honky-stomp with early 80s new wave production values and eerie, out-of-time psychedelic guitar leads, weirdly reminiscent of the Blue Öyster Cult and the Meat Puppets at their most desert-drunk. We were intrigued by the records ambiguous provenance (Oracle Records?) and moved by its complex, apparently deeply personal articulation of an enlisted mans efforts to break on through his fear, anger, and disillusionment during and after the Vietnam War." -Paradise of Bachelors. |
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Artist: RED ROT/HAIRPOLICE Title: Live Halloween 2006 Format: Cass Label: AA Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "An amazing live recording of Red Rot Live Halloween 2006. This one will bring your brains right thru your ears! LOUD! Dont know whos more excited, Ryan or the audience. Its not something you had to be there for; you can hear it on this tape. Hair Police is in rare form on these tracks. Brutal skin-peelers. Recorded by N. Young and H. Moerland. " - AA Records. |
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Artist: RED ROT/HAIRPOLICE Title: Live Halloween 2006 Format: CD Label: AA Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "An amazing live recording of Red Rot Live Halloween 2006. This one will bring your brains right thru your ears! LOUD! Dont know whos more excited, Ryan or the audience. Its not something you had to be there for; you can hear it on this tape. Hair Police is in rare form on these tracks. Brutal skin-peelers. Recorded by N. Young and H. Moerland. " - AA Records. |
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Artist: REDBIRDS, THE Title: Truth Justice and a Wholesome Packed Lunch Format: 12" Label: Shagrat Country: UK Price: $7.00 |
| 1992 4-track Larry Wallis project (ex-Pink Fairies). |
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Artist: REDGLAER Title: American Masonry Format: 10" Label: Anarchymoon Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "amazing stuff." - John Olson. "loud and blistering document recorded in a stupefyingly large concrete warehouse in Tulsa. the space speaks in subconscious tones, rippling walls, ions seduced by power washes/ sunstorms. quiet resonant sections, pushing sound around upstairs, whistles. no post-processing, just edits and gain. good quality cut on black vinyl, run of 330. from a review in The Wire (Dec 06 "size matters"):: "Redglaer is Bob Bellerues experiment in harsh textural environments, and he finds himself a dandy of a harsh one inside a huge concrete warehouse in Tulsa. American Masonry is the celebration of the spaces acoustics. Filling the booming structure with dark rumbles, antic squeedles and sheer blather, Bellerue fully engages the cavernous sonics, creating chittering walls of echoed overtones and hints of eternal combustion. He roars through the space like a giant robot, spluttering sparks and evil intent all the way." black 10" 45rpm, plain chipboard jackets with hand-drawn stonrzen designs using ink and silver powder, each design differs. back cover color print glued on. color insert, plain silver labels. crystal-clear resealable sleeves. order soon, the best designs go first." - Anarchymoon. |
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Artist: REDGLAER Title: Cranky Format: 7" Label: Static Aktion Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Screaming Feedback And Gutter Sounds Laced With Heavy Metal / Contact Mic Crunch. Edition of 332 / Pro-Printed Cover"-Static Aktion |
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Artist: REDWOUND Title: Dark Bog Blaze Format: LP Label: Anarchymoon Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Burning blisters in the bowels of a bayou petroleum biyotch. Redwound == Circuit Wound ++ Redglaer collab. Super-awesome screen printed fold-over jackets (silver ink on white), and on the blank side of the record (silver-red ink, looks like bloody grip tape), in a plastic sleeve. lim 129, get em quick"- Anarchymoon. |
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Artist: REED, LOU Title: Metal Machine Music Format: Double LP Label: Sister Ray Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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"180 gram and double gatefold vinyl. This LP contains a stereo reproduction of the original quadrophonic master, playable on home theater systems. Program ends in a locked groove, just like the original. This is the one and only official re-mastered Metal Machine Music reissue, supervised and approved by Lou himself. The original. The one that started it all. Noise rock -- industrial rock. Underground for years, it survived on the power of an idea. No key, no vocals, no set rhythm.... hhhmmmmm feedback forever. Supervised by Lou Reed and faithfully remastered to the last squeal. The out-of-print Quad has been replicated for a perfect vinyl version playable on your stereo turntable with the original rear sections moved to the center of the front left/right speakers. Its worth getting a turntable to hear this. We worked from digital transfers (96k 24bit) made from the original analogue masters. The original label supplied us with these files and photo copies of the analogue reels including copies of Bob Ludwigs mastering notes. An act of love for an act of sound." - Sister Ray.
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Artist: REED, RICK Title: Dreamz / Blue Polz Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Elevator Bath Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Beautiful picture disc LP featuring two full-color reproductions of visual works by Rick Reed and two new side-long solo compositions. Reeds fascinating, highly evolved world is represented well by these two new pieces, each of which offers up the kind of droning intensity and unsettling beauty that this veteran noisemaker has come to be known for. Reeds work is very obviously that of an experienced craftsman - one whose sound is a reverent nod to early electronic music underscored by an enduring sensibility for atmosphere and ethereality. "Dreamz" began life as the soundtrack for a live visual display by filmmaker Ken Jacobs, which was performed live by Jacobs and Reed at the 2007 New York Film Festival. The records flipside, "Blue Polz," was also inspired by the work of a filmmaker (originally conceived as a kind of alternate soundtrack to a piece by Fred Worden). All of the music was created using an EMS Synthi A, plus 2 sine wave generators and a shortwave radio. The artwork comes from two original paintings. Reed has been active in the visual arts for more than 20 years; his work is utterly abstract, beautifully enigmatic. These images are the perfect accompaniment to Reeds otherworldly audio counterparts. In addition to his solo work, Rick Reed has participated in a number of productive collaborations over the years with Keith Rowe, Jgrzinich (in Frequency Curtain), the Abrasion Ensemble, and SIRSIT. He currently resides in Austin. This picture disc LP has been released in an edition of 260 copies." - Elevator Bath. |
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Artist: REEG & TUNIS Title: ....shhh... this is for Derek Bailey Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "recorded in the days and weeks after Derek Baileys death on xmas of 2005, the daughter/father duos of Ella and Joe Tunis and Ada and Chris Reeg, joined forces for this ultra-limited split lathe-cut release. Joe plays in Joe+N, Hilkka and used to be in Pengo. Chris plays in Blood and Bone Orchestra and Ian Downey is Famous. Together, they play in Crush the Junta, Entente Cordiale and Ada le O. the Tunis side is sparse acoustic guitar, vocals and running, while the Reeg side is overblown cymbals and keys. the duos also go together to create the covers. 3 seperate 2x4ft wood panels, painted, stamped, rubbed, scratched, sprayed, walked on, etc, and then cut into 7x7in squares. [7" lathe-cut. limited to 50 copies!!!!]" - Carbon. |
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Artist: REGRESSION Title: Sun Damage Format: Cass Label: AA Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"With a changing of the season an anxiety is created. Tapes, electronics, vocals." - AA. Nate Young of Wolf Eyes.
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Artist: REHNLUND, JEFF Title: Gangnam Basement Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "A completely idiosyncratic and slippery album of honey religious field recordings, noise, tape collage with sprinklings of nitrous-damaged pop recorded during a year abroad in Korea. Highly listenable, Jeff has it going on. Handmade art, 300 copies. Paste-on front and spray-painted back cover." -Hot Releases |
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Artist: REHNLUND, JEFF Title: Smoke From The Mirror Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Mostly recorded during a year in Las Cruces, New Mexico with a reverb unit and other gear found in a spider- and cat-infested geodesic dome in the desert. Smoke is a mottled sound diary of sweltering mutant pop, distressed voices, sweaty-dense-and-deep drone in a wider, darker sky, wretching cassettes, sparse stone garden melody, gamelan, plus a lengthy field recording of an exorcism in India that was interrupted by a wandering bull. All tracks evoke an overwhelming sense of heat and empty space, life and death, distance, isolation -- carved with broader, more direct gestures than Jeffs previous releases, but still with flourishes of his trademark bewildering, confusing sonic style. Pro-printed jacket, 300 copies." -Hot Releases |
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Artist: REIBEL, GUY Title: Choeurs Imaginaires Format: CD Label: Ina Grm Country: France Price: $16.00 |
| "CD issue compiling three of Reibels voice-themed works over the years: On eût dit des coups dailes (an homage to Pierre Schaeffer from 1996 incorporating digital processing into a post-Penderecki/Ligeti landscape), Suite pour Edgar Poe (a super-bleepy setting of three poems from the Beaudelaire translations of Poe (Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires) to concrete sound from 1973), and a section of Langages imaginaires (also a grouping of poetry, in this case Rimbaud and Butor, and word-sound from 1981). Reibels up there in my book with Parmegiani and Bayle as one of the chief architects of the digital-age INA sound and this serves as a fine introduction to his monde de bruit. For those who dont mind a little human breath in their computer world." -Hrvatski. |
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Artist: REIBEL, GUY Title: Granulations-Sillages/Franges Du Signe Format: LP Label: Recollection GRM Country: Austria Price: $23.00 |
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"Franges Du Signe, the third part of an electroacoustic triptych completed in 1973-1974, is the first major "purely acousmatic" work composed by Guy Reibel. Franges Du Signe explores the mathematical idea of the limit by translating it musically, searching for unstable states of equilibrium. Thus, several conflicting tendencies or logics act upon the sounds. They overlap and fight, each one seeking to assert its trace on the phenomenon in progress, generating de facto an ambiguity that is unique to all phenomena that obey the "logic of the living." Granulations-Sillages (1976) develops an idea glimpsed at in Franges Du Signe: the existence of extreme times at the edge of our faculties of perception, which only the electroacoustic music tools allow us to realize. Two natures of phenomena, opposed in all respects (the "Granulations-Trails" and the "Tutti"), alternate through seven movements that constitute the piece. The work is designed for six channels diffused in concert on a main stereo system facing the public and two auxiliary stereos (group of crossing speakers: front-back and left-right in the room). Featuring bi-lingual (French/English) texts, with translation by Valérie Vivancos. Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, March 2012. Layout: Stephen OMalley. Executive Production: Peter Rehberg." -Recollection GRM. SOLD OUT
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Artist: REICH, STEVE Title: Four Organs/Phase Patterns Format: CD Label: New Tone Country: Italy Price: $19.00 |
| 1990 CD reissue of this classic album, originally issued by the Shandar label, 1971. A core set of Minimalism icons, these 2 works are as significant as significant gets. These are the original and best recordings (there are a few others, none terrible, but you wouldnt want to start out with Bang On a Cans versions, please!). Listed as #4 on Alan Lichts "Minimal Top Ten". "This is an important and peculiar recording. Important because it is the first available recording of a live performance of Steve Reichs music played by real musicians and moreover by an ensemble. Up to then his main work Its Gonna Rain and Come Out for magnetic tape and the various phase (violin phase, piano phase, reed phase) for solo/duo instruments. Performed by Reich, Philip Glass (today very well-known American composer) on keyboard, Jon Gibson, composer and saxophone player with the P. Glass Ensemble, on keyboard and maracas, Art Murphy, keyboard, also with P. Glass Ensemble during the 70s, and Steve Chambers, composer and keyboardist, first with the P. Glass Ensemble, then in solo. Peculiar recording both for the instrumentation: electric organs and for the music. Reich has used very rarely electric instruments in his music. The choice of four electric organs, here, gives a strange sound to the music, very different from other pieces of the same composer. At a superficial level it resembles very much of certain recordings of Philip Glass in the seventies." - New Tone. |
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Artist: REIKO, IKE Title: Kokotsu No Sekai Format: LP Label: Bamboo Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Although Ike Reiko was a mere 17 years of age when she recorded 1971s Kokotsu No Sekai, she was already a star in the world of Japanese erotic movies. Despite the tough-gal image, the music is pretty darn life-affirming, so dont think for a second youre getting an easy listening album here -- this is about as sexual as music can get. Throw "French Kiss" out of the window and give a kiss goodbye to your Serge Gainsbourg records, Ike Reiko is more sizzling than a branding iron as it makes its mark on the farmers herd. The sex is literally dripping from every note on this record -- the style is "Iroke Kayôkyoku" or erotic kayôkyoku (kayôkyoku being a style of Japanese pop) but the sort of naïve jazz and pseudo spy theme movie music is all draped in a shroud of sexual shouts, screams and coos from the clearly excited Reiko. One must assume that she was in some kind of state of euphoria in the recording studio from the evidence on offer here, either that or shes a pretty realistic faker -- its a smouldering collision, and thats about all that needs to be said. Kokotsu No Sekai has to be one of the finest gifts for the music fan in search of that killer oddity. First 180 gram vinyl reissue." -Bamboo. |
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Artist: REINES DANGLETERRE Title: Globe et Dynastie Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| "Limited to 500 copies. Bo Weavil is totally psyched to have the opportunity to release the second album by Reines dAngleterre -- this time, a thoroughly studio affair. Reines dAngleterre is a fascinating collaboration between avant-outsider musician Ghédalia Tazartès and two electronic botanists, èlg and Jo aka Opéra Mort. This album covers more of the wild ground the band started with on 2010s Les Comores (SIDRA 003LP), but going further into a musical terrain that defies definite description -- a slow trip into wizards intimacy, synthetic jungles, undersea zoos and Tibetan-industrial complexes. It feels like one has stumbled into disturbing dreams from a different realm. A quality of mystery, trickery and hallucinatory movements slip and shift across the recording. This is out-there, experimental music with no fixed idiom, with a unique quality that defies most of todays recordings. Embossed card cover." -Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: REINES DANGLETERRE Title: Les Comores Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| "Reines DAngleterre (trans. "Queens Of England") is a band made up of French avant-garde legend Ghédalia Tazartès and a couple of hyperactive young Parisian upstarts, Jo Tanz and él-g. Both of these characters are steeped in subversive operations covering psych-folk and "toon-psych" films (él-g), and the Tanzprocesz label (Jo Tanz). They also both perform under the moniker of Opéra Mort and have made work as Lö Jengi. Reines DAngleterre are a damaged conglomeration of live concrète, sound poetry, faux ethnicity and sincere eccentricity. Les Comores (a reference to the island off the eastern coast of Africa which France still administers as an "overseas collectivity") is comprised of inexplicable ethnic residue and feasts on duality: chaos and order, narrative and anti-narrative, construction and destruction, comedy and dread. The glottal panoply of vocals ride in tandem with electronics: cracked, beaten, weathered and bruised. This is a brain-meltingly dark, gloriously unstable affair, but not one devoid of emotion. Edition of 400 hand-numbered LPs, housed in a heavyweight matte black embossed sleeve with insert." -Bo Weavil |
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Artist: REINHARDT, JONAS
Title: Music For The Tactile Dome Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The hermetic kosmische lexicon of San Fran-based synth synthesist/composer Jesse Reiner (Jonas Reinhardts founder and principal architect) has been simmering and swelling at a steady clip the past few years (2010s Powers Of Audition was def a highlight), but the added talents of drummer Damon Palermo (Mi Ami), bassist Diego Gonzalez (Citay, 3 Leafs), and guitarist Phil Manley (Trans Am, more) has levitated the JR Experience to a whole new head-music hall o fame. Recorded in Berlin, mixed in SF, then mastered/cut back in Berlin at Dubplates, Music For The Tactile Dome is easily the most deep-trip micro-focus Jonas odyssey to date, nine technicolor fractals of glittering synthesizer skyways and master-crafted pulsing kraut terrariums. A handful of tracks (Smokey Jotus, Hander Zader, etc) invoke more of the classic live JR vibe, with propulsive cold-grooved rhythm sectioning, but by and large Dome is designed for heavy headphone communion, an expanding magic eye tapestry of brainwave activity constellations. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with beautiful spectrum-assemblage cover art by Sean Patrick. Edition of 650." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: RELATIVELY CLEAN RIVERS Title: Relatively Clean Rivers Format: LP Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
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"Former Beat Of The Earth leader Phil Pearlman assembled Relatively Clean Rivers in the early 70s and eventually recorded this excellent rural rock album in 1975. Although it should be easy to pigeonhole the sound of Relatively Clean Rivers, it is actually anything but. At times sounding like The Grateful Dead in all their American Beauty pomp, or CSNY circa Déjà Vu, this tight, richly talented ensemble produces an album of almost majestic quality. The sound is superb, and clearly no time or expense were spared to produce an album which is probably the most flawless snapshot of Californian 70s under ground music that you will ever here. Originally there were 2 pressings of this unique album, each of only 500 copies each, and this is the first time that this, or any of Pearlmans other recordings has been reissued. An album highly recommended to anyone even remotely interested in 70s West Coast music or simply top-notch music in general." -Radioactive. Full color gatefold sleeve. CD version also available. Highly Recommended!
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Artist: RELATIVELY CLEAN RIVERS Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "Former BEAT OF THE EARTH leader PHIL PEARLMAN assembled this band in the early 70s and eventually recorded this magnificent rural rock album in 1975." - Radioactive. |
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Artist: RELAY FOR DEATH Title: Birth Of An Older, Much More Ugly Christ Format: LP Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"This shit is DARK...and Im not talking about some fucking I sleep during the day dark. Im not talking some Cannibal Corpse shit -- Im a fucking mutilator dark. And Im not talking Im a noise dude into black metal dark. Im talking total fucking end of the world shit. Like everyone is going to die and its gonna be fucking terrible. Recorded in 2009 by sisters Roxann and Rachal Spikula while in a hospital doing some fucked up health study where all they could drink was Shasta for like 2 weeks. No joke! Master tape arrived wrapped in a duct-taped hospital gown with my address written on it in sharpie. Side A: The tape becomes un-paused and kicks in with a menacing organ drone that mutates into the lo-fi skree of an empty room, eventually becoming a swirling abyss of tape hiss and the sound of nothing happening in a hospital; distant creaks, buzz, and hums littered with hiss and garbage-sound layered into a very unsettling frenzied drone. Side B: A crunchy noise inferno that eventually leads us to what sounds to me like being in outer space watching the earth exploding. As you watch everything we know of destroyed, a saddening, descending synth wave appears, buried by blasts of destroyed earth. It ends...and you are disturbed. Limited to 300 copies. Pitch black vinyl with pitch black labels. Heavy duty black and silver silkscreened covers with the Hanson Droll Flaps. Take a break from yer most recent mediocre synth bliss-out tape and take a trip back to the real fucking world -- where everything fucking SUCKS." - Hanson.
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Artist: RELIGIOUS KNIVES Title: Format: CDR Label: Heavy Conversation Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Mike and Maya from Double Leopards.
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Artist: RELIGIOUS KNIVES Title: Blackbird/Wax & Flesh Format: 7" Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: RELIGIOUS KNIVES Title: Evidence: Vol 1 Format: CDR Label: Religious Knives Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "The long threatened live series of Religious Knives discs is finally ready, just in time for our european tour. 150 copies of each CDR, sold as separate volumes, will be available first in Europe and then more widely when we return. Both discs document relatively recent RK outings, and contain selected jams from various gigs, including a rare document of the �??RK2? duo live at Big Jar Books, RK inna �??Wierd style,�?� and more. The series is called �??Evidence�?� and thats what were trying to drop." - RK. Live @ WHOM 1/11/08, Hemlock SF 3/19/08, @ Death By Audio NY (with Pete Nolan of Magik Markers) 7/19/08, and Wierd NY 9/10/08. Remaining copies of Euro tour CD. |
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Artist: RELIGIOUS KNIVES Title: Evidence: Vol 2 Format: CDR Label: Religious Knives Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"The long threatened live series of Religious Knives discs is finally ready, just in time for our european tour. 150 copies of each CDR, sold as separate volumes, will be available first in Europe and then more widely when we return. Both discs document relatively recent RK outings, and contain selected jams from various gigs, including a rare document of the �??RK2″ duo live at Big Jar Books, RK inna �??Wierd style,�?� and more. The series is called �??Evidence�?� and thats what were trying to drop." - RK. Live @ 66 Hope NY 6/27/08, and Big Jar Books 5/31/08. Remaining copies of Euro tour CD.
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Artist: RELIGIOUS KNIVES Title: Live at Bigjar Format: CD Label: Archive Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "RELIGIOUS KNIVES represent the former output of DOUBLE LEOPARDS, and the output from this quartet is anything but. Raw and dirty garage rock for keyboards, bass, guitar and drums that sounds more comfortable being off the Doors early demo days box set rather then a no fun offshoot band. Comes in a panel sleeve graphic work by now frequent archive art collaborator CHASE MIDDAUGH." - Archive. Pressing of 600 copies. |
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Artist: RELIGIOUS KNIVES Title: Remains Format: CD Label: No Fun Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Religious Knives is Mike Bernstein, Maya Miller and Nate Nelson. Remains is a psychedelic epic, completely beautiful, dark and overtaking. Dedicated to all believers of true infinity, Remains collects a series of early limited and out of print recordings, fully remastered and slightly reworked for this release full of slowly shifting synth melodies, atonal guitar, twisted percussion and haunting vocals. Long live eternal psychedelic dark beauty. Artwork by Maya Miller." - No Fun. |
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Artist: RELIGIOUS KNIVES Title: The Door Format: CD Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| ""Maya Miller and Michael Bernstein met in New York a decade ago, and began making music together as half of strum und drone quartet Double Leopards a few years after that. Religious Knives came later still, away from the road and the rehearsal space, borne and nurtured in cramped apartments throughout Kings County. Beginning in 2005, the pair released a string of CD-Rs and cassettes, both on their own Heavy Tapes imprint and through the labels of kindred spirits. Steadily moving away from the psychedelic tone baths and modern industrial scrape for which the Leopards had become known, Religious Knives coursed through minimal synth oscillations and spare Kraut repetition. Mouthus Nate Nelson joined the pair in 2006, lending a powerful presence behind the drums that shaped Religious Knives rudimentary jams into rough-hewn, long-form paeans to tar-blackened bummer psych. Soon after that, old friend Todd Cavallo completed the quartet on bass, adding a sturdy low-end and dubwise groove that lifted Religious Knives from cellar murk to black cloud puffs of bone-deep alarm. An active four-piece for a little more than a year now, Religious Knives have presided over a pair of 12"s, a couple of collections of out of print singles and long gone burns, and one full-length. All throughout, these four have traced a path away from the clamor they once knew, bathing slight guitars, interlocking vocals, and solemn bass lines in reedy organs and recalcitrant modular synths. The seemingly tin-eared would call it noise, but in these eight hands, such a set plays as anything but, instead a (cough) syrupy stroll in search of the ghosts of rocks classicist past. With The Door, Religious Knives have not only found those bygone days, but broken them apart. There are bookmarks to be found here, pages creased in well-worn chapters. But make no mistake -- theirs is a sound tied to the here and now, a summer record for those dread days when the heat holds low and skin sticks to cheap car seats and old patio furniture. These six songs are brighter, sharper than anything that has come before, locking in tight on jugular rhythms. Its the score for disappearing neighborhoods and crumbling buildings, a hope of holding onto the past as those around us move fast to forget it. It is scent as sound, the stench of smog and sickly smoke spiraling towards the sky. It is Brooklyn, July of 2008. The sun has left us in the East, disappearing somewhere behind Jersey, leaving our borough to find the pulse of another night deep with the citys streets." -Ecstatic Peace |
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Artist: REMORA Title: The Clockwork Ammonite Shells Format: CD Label: Worry Country: UK Price: $13.00 |
| "Ian (aka Remora) was a somewhat prolific figure of the 90s UK underground scene, both with his music and his visual art... Ians music has always had both organic and artificial elements combined with the vague melancholy of distant beauty." - Scott Foust (Swill Radio, Idea Fire Company). |
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Artist: RENDERERS Title: A Rocket Into Nothing Format: CD Label: Ba Da Bing Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Over the past two decades, THE RENDERERS have crafted half a dozen albums of intimate psychedelia infused with Americana and noise. A Rocket Into Nothing is another extraordinary display of BRIAN and MARYROSE CROOKs talent as songwriters and sound sculptors. The Renderers are still as essential a piece of the diverse New Zealand indie rock puzzle as they were on their first Flying Nun album. Crafted during the series of earthquakes that hit the country in 2011, A Rocket Into Nothing seethes with the anxiety born of life-threatening experiences. On opener "Down River," slippery minor key melodies lie on beds of shaky feedback. Even the upbeat "This Shining Life" features wild, overblown guitars and subtle synth squeals. At any point, close listening reveals unexpected textures and tectonic shifts hidden just below the surface. More successfully than on any previous release, the band balances detail-oriented and spontaneous songwriting and recording techniques. Uncertainty plays a key role. Twenty years into most careers, bands lose the edge of their earlier work, but The Renderers music is as exciting as ever." - Ba Da Bing. |
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Artist: RENDERERS Title: Monsters and Miasmas Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Brian Crook (from The Terminals, Max Block, solo releases) and wife Maryrose make up the long-running Renderers whos releases on Ajax/3 beads of sweat and Siltbreeze records have continued to tread a line between haunting contry-esque ballads and the brand of noise-rock for which the Terminals is known. From a review of their previous album (Ghosts of Our Vegas Lives): A charred near mythical psychedelic wasteland sparsely populated by tortured souls and twisted creatures. Brian Crook (her husband) is the perfect foil for such surrealism-meets-rustic imagery, whether lathering melting feedback on top of ghostly ballads or kicking up a slash and burn racket, captured with garage rock immediacy. ....a world where Hank Williams and Townes Van Zandt are revered as preciously as Sonic Youth, the Dead C and Can, to name but a few. A different kind of transcendance indeed. -- Lee Jackson,Womblife. Monsters and Miasmas continues upward from the foundation that the Renderers have built over the previous two decades while losing no ground from their previous accomplishments. I doubt any of us no exactly what genre this is, but theres no one out there doing what the Renderers do better." - Last Visible Dog |
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Artist: RENE HELL Title: Lucifer Pt. II Format: Cass Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Jeff Witschers Rene Hell has been steadily developing a hybrid form of digital synthesis; existing in a space of inquiry somewhere between science fiction futurism, baroque classicism, and minimal techno machination. Almost as if an equal consideration has been placed on the past as the future; cancelling their effects, channeling both through the present. Syncopated patterns interweave with a distinct precision; constantly developing, mutating. Recorded Summer 2010 in Vienna, Austria. In an edition of 150 copies with professionally duplicated/imprinted cassettes and cardstock covers designed by Witscher." -Arbor
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Artist: RENE HELL Title: The Terminal Symphony Format: LP + CD Label: Type Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
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"Includes a 40-minute bonus CD, The Hilton, featuring previously-unreleased material. Since Porcelain Opera (TYPE 077CD), his debut for Type, U.S. noisenik Jeff Witscher aka Rene Hell has put out a whole series of collaborations, 7"s, tapes and splits. Looking to his love of classical minimalism, Jeff took it as the starting point for this new record. The result is a deeply electronic rendition of a classical electronic formula; the digital and analog synthesizer and drum machine sounds that brought Porcelain Opera to life are reframed and transferred into a very different compositional structure. The Terminal Symphony is Jeffs attempt to write tighter, more composed pieces of music -- something of a reaction against the glut of long, often-flabby drone compositions that have become a mainstay in the scene. The pieces here are short, concise, and packed full of ideas that can take multiple listens to unravel, and the album as a whole is almost obsessively structured and complex. Each side of the record is composed very specifically with a beginning, middle and an end, and when we begin with the familiar grunt and grind of "Chamber Forte," it is only mere minutes before the track dissolves into the main theme of the album. An appropriate enough comparison might be arch-recluse Aphex Twin, but there is no pandering to dance music culture here. Rather, Jeff has used his enviable background in noise, punk and synthesizer music to come up with something totally removed from the current Kosmische revival. The album comes to a close with the hauntingly melancholy and purposefully referential "Adagio For String Portrait." The dancing synthetic blips that pirouette across Witschers mournful electronic waves not only re-enforce the decades-long love affair between electronic and classical music, but help to define it in 2011." -Type
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Artist: RENE HELL/BEAR BONES, LAY LOW/ JONATHAN FITOUSSI/JONAS REINHARDT Title: Manoeuvers Format: 7" Label: Kraak Country: Belgium Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: RENE HELL/PETE SWANSON Title: Waiting For The Ladies Format: LP Label: Shelter Press Country: Belgium Price: $15.00 |
| Repress of a limited tour-only LP. Edition of 500 copies. |
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Artist: RENE HELL/THREE LEGGED RACE Title: Violin Petal {Auden}/Whipped Secrets Format: LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Rene Hell and Three Legged Race investigate the space where classically outsider musical forms begin to intersect with more popular ones. Taking cues from science fiction and early electronic / tape music and translating them through lens of minimal techno and the personal logic of bedroom recording; both creating something unclassifiable in its hybrid form. Rene Hells four part suite Violin Petal {Auden} follows his recent LP on Type with its distinct form of digital synthesis and future-concrète; cyclic music expanding and contracting throughout a cybernetic space. The confusion of communication, control source unknown. Signals crossed along a technological drift. Robert Beattys Three Legged Race presents a three part suite, Whipped Secrets. Investigating herein an application of early automatic synthesizer music manipulated into linear form based song structure. Developing softly, the first movement sounds like a loner folk recording from a distant future time; complete with vocals, staring sad eyed across an open expanse, contemplating the state of things. Slowly, this form unravels into a more abstract and automatic based territory; rhythmic and melodic staccato signals possessed with an almost intelligent logic of their own. Communication shifts from the man to his machine. In an edition of 400 copies with glossy jackets featuring images by each artist and printed inner sleeves and center labels designed by Jeff Witscher." - Arbor |
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Artist: RENEGADE SCANNERS Title: Hands on Future Format: LP Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $23.00 |
| "Lal Lal Lal proudly presents the debut album by Swedish Jacob Olaussons new project called Renegade Scanners. Olausson has previously reached for more folky atmospheres, especially on his beautiful LP on De Stijl. Some people may also know his work as Joshua Jugband 5. Renegade Scanners is a pure 4-tracker space rock feast with psychedelic bulbing synthesizers and Chrome-ish guitar riffs. But what makes it different from many others, Olaussons sonic space ship seems to be launched some lightyears before he started to record the music. The sounds are already out there and stay there, with their Hands on Future! The record comes in cooool silk screened covers in an edition of 330." - Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: REP, MIKE & THE QUOTAS/SCREAMING MEE MEES with NUDGE SQUIDFISH Title: Aliens In Our Midst/Cartoonland Format: 7" Label: New World Of Sound Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "The Twinkeez attained legendary cult status when Anopheles lovingly re-issued their complete discography on CD a few years ago. Mike Rep and Bruce Cole remembered the late 70s Sacramento punk band and each recorded a song in their own contemporary way. Rep does a fairly true to original version of "Aliens in Our Midst" which typically sounds a bit Roky, while Cole out-cartoons Cartoonland." - NWOS. Restock of this mid-90s release. |
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Artist: REP, MIKE AND THE QUOTAS Title: A Tree Stump Named Desire Format: CD Label: Anyway Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: REP, MIKE AND THE QUOTAS Title: Black Hole Rock -The Harrisburg Ohio Sessions 2004 Format: CD Label: Old Age/No Age Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Original 70s Quotas lineup returns (w/ sonic-psych guitar sidekick) to reinvent riff-heavy prog-punk for the 21st Century - Rep calls it "his best batch yet" - Old Age/No Age.
New self-released disc featuring Rep, Tommy Jay and Nudge Squidfish.
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Artist: REP, MIKE AND THE QUOTAS Title: Mama Was a Schitzo, Daddy Was a Vegetable Man/Rocket Music On Format: 7" Label: Old Age/Sverige Age Country: Sweden Price: $10.00 |
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"Two songs from 75 and 76. 500 pressed. With great ink drawing cover and hand written insert by Rep himself. The songs were recorded around the same time as his legendary "Rocket to Nowhere" single that came out on Moxie in 76. Killer stuff!!" - Old Age/Sverige Age. "Broken speaker bliss. I havent been this excited about a single for as long as I can remember." - Karl Ikola/Anopheles. Very last copies. Highly recommended!
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Artist: REP, MIKE AND THE QUOTAS Title: Rocket To Nowhere Format: 7" Label: Mighty Mouth Music Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Official 2012 reissue of Reps 1975 single. |
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Artist: REP, MIKE AND THE QUOTAS Title: Songs The Grackles Liked Format: 12" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "After a rather lengthy hold up in manufacturing, the new Mike Rep & The Quotas EP, Songs The Grackles Liked, is finally in stock. It is a 45RPM 12" EP. It contains the Quotas takes on Tommy Jays I Was There (which appeared on last years Tommy Jays Tall Tales of Trauma (LP/CD), T.A. Laffterys Time on My Hands, An early 70s Tommy Jay gem called Im Goin Down and Reps own Lemuria. Its the first new Rep record since 2005s Black Hole Rock and the first on vinyl since 2001s Mama Was A Schitzo, Daddy Was A Vegetable Man / Rocket Music On." -Columbus Discount |
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Artist: REP, MIKE AND THE QUOTAS Title: Stupor Hiatus Format: Double LP Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Stupor Hiatus culls the complete recorded works of the original MIKE REP AND THE QUOTAS, dating back to 1974 and moving forward into the early 1990s. Essentially a reworking of the Stupor Hiatus Vol. 2 LP released by Siltbreeze in 1992 (minus the questionable original artwork and mysterious French-language insert), this definitive collection is that record in its entirety plus six additional tracks, four of which have never before been released. This double-LP includes the legendary "Rocket to Nowhere," a lovely instrumental interpretation of the 13th Floor Elevators "She Lives in a Time of Her Own," a cover of Roky Ericksons "Creature with the Atom Brain," a shout-out to the Strapping Fieldhands ("In the Pineys") and fifteen other immortal tracks. Those who already know, know. But if youre only familiar with the name Mike Rep as a producer for such acts as Guided By Voices, Strapping Fieldhands and Times New Viking, heres your chance to get caught up with a back catalog of extraordinary capacity. Before there were peckerwoods buzzing about lo-fi, Mike Rep--fed by a love for B-grade horror flicks, (the aforementioned) 13 Floor Elevators, Velvet Undergound, Kim Fowley and (blech!) The Doors-was concocting a mash of home-recorded punk, pop and psychedelia for a few fortunate ears. This isnt the Sunset Strip or Lower East Side, folks, its Grove City, Ohio, a scene ruled by codeine, cannabis and Carling. So be prepared to hunker down with a fuzzy, furry and fried collection of 20-plus years of sound from the vaults of one of Americas most important legends in the flesh. The Creeping Flesh, that is. One-time vinyl edition of 1000, includes download card." -Siltbreeze |
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Artist: REPULSE Title: Habershon Ways Format: 7" Label: Cameleon Country: France Price: $12.00 |
2012 reissue. Rough translation of the labels writeup...
"A Cardiff band featuring musicians from Brest,managed by Molly Edmunds, mother of Dave Edmunds. 4 tracks recorded live on an Akai stereo in their living room in 1981 in "sound on sound," without mixing, bass in the front, fuzz on all the songs, reference points are punk urgency, the Velvet Underground, sixties U.S. garage guitars, psych, a real curiosity. The band members are Alana Camus Holland, Jean-Pierre Jézéquel, Alec Ansons & Thierry Lefevre. The name REPULSE is one of the numerous names of English ships, that of the EP comes from the street in Cardiff where the musicians lived, Habershon Street. The front cover has a drawing by Thomas Maybank found in a directory of the 1920-1930 Royal Navy ("The Wonder Book of the Navy"), the back has a picture from a movie starring Christopher Plummer, 1979s "Murder By Decree." 500 copies were pressed by Kiosque dOrphée in 1982, the covers were handmade."
"Groupe de Cardiff, incluant des musiciens brestois, managé par Molly Edmunds, mère de Dave Edmunds, 4 titres enregistrés live sur un Akaï stéréo dans le salon en 1981. en "sound on sound" sans mixage, basse en avant, fuzz sur tous les titres, les références sont punk pour lurgence, Velvet Underground, guitares garage psyché sixties US , une vraie curiosité. Les membres du groupe sont Alana Camus Holland, Jean-Pierre Jézéquel, Alec Ansons & Thierry Lefevre. Le nom REPULSE est un des nombreux noms de bateaux anglais, celui du EP vient de la rue située à Cardiff où demeuraient les musiciens, Habershon Street, Le recto de la pochette est un dessin de Thomas Maybank reproduit dun annuaire des années 1920-1930 de la Royal Navy (The wonder book of the navy), le verso est une photo extraite dun film avec Christopher Plummer de 1979 "Murder By Decree". 500 vinyles ont été pressés par Kiosque dOrphée en 1982, les pochettes sont faites main." - Cameleon. Preview here. |
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Artist: RESIDENTS, THE Title: Meet The Residents Format: Flexi-Disc 7" Label: Ralph/File Magazine Country: USA/Canada Price: $7.00 |
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One-sided flexi produced for the Canadian magazine File in 1974. Includes extracts from the first Residents LP.
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Artist: RESIDUAL ECHOES Title: California Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "After returning to their native state of California from a national tour, RESIDUAL ECHOES went in to the studio immediately, for their most cohesive effort yet. California is comprised of four songs. "White Cloud" and "Julie Patchouli" could be called "pop songs," and they are rock and roll to the fullest, but also ensconced in luscious, freak-out arrangements further enhanced by a select group of special guests. The second side of the LP is a suite dedicated to the state of California complete with references ranging from the construction of the railroads, the natural beauty of the land and the mating rituals of elephant seals. It ends with a distorted take on Los Angeles via UK-colored glasses with the title track which erupts into epic, pulsing, skronk-raunch riffs that cease to abate for the duration of the songs 10-minute length (all the while making references to summer, SST records, earthquakes and helicopters flying through the streets of Hollywood seeking out pillaging Slayer fans. Really. Its all there). The fourth release of deep-fried, DIY psych-rock from Santa Cruz guitarist ADAM PAYNE . For fans of Comets On Fire, Monoshock, and the Golden State." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: RESIDUAL ECHOES Title: First Album Format: LP Label: Re Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"Fried, DIY psych rock from a
devoted fan of Comets on Fire and Six Organs of
Admittance (theyre thanked for their wisdom) and
Pink Floyd. Long, distorted meandering tracks
featuring "that sound" from an indiscriminate
time where drugs reign above all and the clock is
always set for snooze. Years down the road, you
will be playing this for someone and you will
honestly have to tell them, "I dont know," when
they ask where they can get one. Packaged in
handmade sleeves."
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Artist: RESIDUAL ECHOES Title: Firsts EP Format: CD Label: Elevation Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "ADAM PAYNE and his psych cohorts deliver a 20-minute EP of a skronky psych amalgamation of everything theyve has done before-lo-fi freakouts, krautrock vibes, guitar tsunamis-yet this time around they also seem to find their pop voice and channel some amazing early-60s vibes and touches of 70-80s So Cal punk around the edges. This one will definitely put a smile on any RESIDUAL ECHOES fans face. Five tracks, one-time limited edition pressing of 2,000 copies." -Elevation. |
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Artist: RESIDUAL ECHOES Title: Phoenician Flu and Ancient Ocean Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The sophomore release from ADAM PAYNE under his RESIDUAL ECHOES banner, and another seething mishmash of psychedelia, krautrock, and free-noise magic. A staggering seven-track blend of self-recordings and studio numbers that runs wild from endless riff-sanity to billowing aural smoke to fuzzy pop, reverbed noise, depraved psychedelic dub, odes to the acoustic guitar, and Monoshock-like rock glory. Were generally considered to be "most awesome" at the recent Arthurfest." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: RESIDUAL ECHOES Title: Phoenician Flu and Ancient Ocean Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The sophomore release from ADAM PAYNE under his RESIDUAL ECHOES banner, and another seething mishmash of psychedelia, krautrock, and free-noise magic. A staggering seven-track blend of self-recordings and studio numbers that runs wild from endless riff-sanity to billowing aural smoke to fuzzy pop, reverbed noise, depraved psychedelic dub, odes to the acoustic guitar, and Monoshock-like rock glory. Were generally considered to be "most awesome" at last years Arthurfest." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: RESIDUAL ECHOES Title: Residual Echoes Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "The Residual Echoes were formed by Adam Payne after he moved to Santa Cruz and met the encouraging forces of Ethan Miller (Comets on Fire) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance). They have blossomed into one of that citys finest groups. Their sound is a vibrant collage of everything that has ever happened in music, all deftly manipulated and manicured by Mr. Payne into some of the most farfreaking-out jams ever heard." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: RESINEATORS Title: Dont ____ With Fantasy Format: CD Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Get ready to match the stars! The Resineators deliver the ultimate $500 response on their second full-length player, Dont ____ with the Fantasy, an instant California drug-classic of psych-expanded rockers, white-line fevers, and black-hole crawlers from San Franciscos overlords of panic. Panelists David Nudelman (3 Stoned Men, The Wild Breed) and Anthony Bedard (Icky Boyfriends, The Leather Uppers) have augmented their telepathic, two-man collision drill with Aaron Nudelman (Sunless Day) and Andy Oglesby (The Roofies) to forge this collection of 10 flypaper-melodic, primal-concussive, battered and deep-fried cans of corn. This statement episode was captured at TinTel Park in all its shimmering clarity and pummeling hi-fidelity by pause-button operator Greg Freeman (Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Pell Mell) and mastered by John Croslin (Beulah, Guided by Voices). Over the past two seasons, The Resineators have thrilled spectators at national SuperMatch exhibitions against teams such as Jonathan Richman, Mudhoney, In The Red recording artist Andre Williams, Quintron, and Deerhoof. Their most recent Philadelphia appearance concluded with David "The Nude" Nudelman sailing through an open door on the Khyber Yards leftfield wall, out onto the street, and straight into the emergency ward of Siltbreeze Childrens Hospital, where the rarely smiling orthopedic trauma clinical director, Tiberius J. Lax, awaited, pen in hand, with a Vicodin-laced, cheesesteak-covered contract." |
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Artist: RETROS Title: Inner City Rockers-The Retros 1979 Format: LP + CD Label: BDR Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "THE RETROS were arguably the best punk band in St. Louis during their brief existence. From 1978-1981 they wowed crowds at parties, VFW halls and bowling alleys with their infectious punk pop anthems. A couple attempts at recordings were made, but the Retros produced no official released during their lifespan. In the Spring of 1979, the band was the subject of a final exam for a friends studio recording class at Webster University. When the exam was finished, the Retros took advantage of the couple of hours of leftover studio time. They ripped through twelve originals ina quick, live-in-the-studio type set up with limited overdubs and only a couple of retakes. The tapes ended up in soundman/manager DON HOLLENBECKs closet and were nearly forgotten until now. LP includes the entire twelve-song session and the CD adds four bonus live tracks. LP limited to 300 copies in a silkscreened sleeve with full-color insert with photos, posters and notes, and includes a CD version." -BDR |
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Artist: RETSEPTI Title: Anthology of Georgian Underground - Tbilisi, 1987-92 Format: CD Label: Supreme Echo Country: Canada Price: $13.00 |
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"Could any Western music critic really comprehend the reality of the soviet state of Georgia during the 1980s? Let alone, being a complete anomaly in the countries contemporary music scene? This small and beautiful country in the Caucuses is world renown for its polyphonic vocal music “ however, little is known of contemporary Georgian music. Tbilisi, an isolated capital city. Isolation brings character. By way of definition, Retsepti represent what should be considered the most relevant contemporary music group to have existed in the Republic Of Georgia during the 1980s. If one is to summarize the history of underground music in ex-socialist countries, they will find very few which rank alongside the maturity of composition and stylistic character which Lado Burdulis group accomplished during their short and troubled existence. Retsepti was formed in 1987 by vocalist/leader Lado Burduli. A child prodigy - Lados first group was in fact 15 years earlier at the age of 7-8. His father being a famous actor of Soviet cinema; Lado himself partook in many films, including lead-roles. Growing up amidst a period which witnessed the Soviet Unions first official rock festival (Tbilisi 1980), the group distanced themselves from the vocal instrumental ensemble and youth music of the Soviet Estrada. ⢏ur attitude of the band was no interviews and no relationships with anybody " starting from the other bands existing during that period, to the journalists, and generally whomever "no relationship with anybody at all!". Retsepti means recipe, or prescription"We chose the name because at that time, the Soviet society needed some treatment, and we were the "retsepti" for this treatment which would eventually cure them (the people of this society)." - Lado. Existing throughout the fall of the Soviet Union and a five year period of civil war within Georgia, Burdulis lyrics bare a consistently similar theme; the struggle to sustain compassion and love within an intolerant society. Retseptis music is extraordinary – original, well arranged dark punk and wave sung in Georgian with a raw voice which has melody under its surface. The Caucasian language group is delightfully unique sounding in its percussive and even abrasive tones. This documentation offers the listener a rare chance to experience the groups entire recorded repertoire; from the odd sized Russian 1/4” master tape discovered in an empty building two years after the civil war, to the sole remaining copies of songs on cassette tapes; all songs suffered substantial deterioration of sound, requiring meticulous audio restoration. Retseptis story is a fascinating one, and the inclusion of an interview pried out of Burduli over five years, along with his original lyrics translated into English, only seem to conclude with a stronger sense of mystery. After six long years with innumerable set-backs, I am very proud to present, the definitive Restepti." "A true pearl of the Soviet-era underground, well arranged unique mix of NWOBHM, dark-punk / cold-wave, and garage with abrasive Georgian vocals, recorded 1989-90. Raw & angry enough for the punks yet dark enough to please the post-punks. Musically comparable to SECTION 25, GRAZDANSKAYA OBORONA, early KILLING JOKE, STOOGES, JOY DIVISION, SIEKIERA, etc. Anglophones do not fear, this anthology will amaze! "A dark, desperate feel, interesting guitar work, and a twisted vocalist!" (MRR - Oct. 2006) "very glad to have it" - Middle Eastern Division, Harvard University (May 2009). 10 songs, professionally 24-bit re-mastered. Deluxe gatefold ecopak cover, hand stamped inner-sleeve, plus 16 page booklet with lyrics / photographs / interview & history of underground music in the ex-Soviet Republic of Georgia." - Supreme Echo. |
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Artist: RETTMAN, TONY Title: Why Be Something That Youre Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979- 1985 Format: Book Label: Revelation Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "In the early 70s, Detroit was the musical hub of America, but by the early eighties, it was a wasteland. It took a group of skateboarders, a teacher and a census clerk to wake the city up and start one of the first hardcore punk scenes in America. "Why Be Something That Youre Not" chronicles the first wave of Detroit hardcore from its origins in the late 70s to its demise in the mid-80s. Through oral histories and extensive imagery, the book proves that even though the California beach towns might have created the look and style of hardcore punk, it was the Detroit scene - along with a handful of other cities - that cultivated the musics grassroots aesthetic before most cultural hot spots around the globe even knew what the music was about. The book includes interviews with members of The Fix, Violent Apathy, Negative Approach, Necros, Pagans, Bored Youth, and L-Seven along with other people who had a hand in the early hardcore scene like Ian MacKaye, Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson." - Revelation. |
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Artist: REV, MARTIN Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Superior Viaduct Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "In 1980, shortly after SUICIDEs second full-length, MARTIN REV released his first solo album on preeminent No Wave label Infidelity (Lust/Unlust). Uninhibited by the trappings of a collaborator, Rev was freed to explore his most experimental and pop leanings with dirty synths, dark melodies and dreamlike textures, and produced a masterpiece of modern alienation that captures a uniquely New York landscape. Echoing other electronic forerunners such as Silver Apples and Kraftwerk, and foreshadowing the work of Aphex Twin and Air, Revs solo outing rests firmly in the lineage of unnerving sounds from the furthest fringe of maladjustment. Includes an insert with a new Rev interview by musician / critic ALAN LICHT, as well as a digital download card." -Superior Viaduct. |
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Artist: REVERSE MOUTH / BLASTOCYST Title: Split Format: LP Label: Heat Retention Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Blastocyst delivers free rock noise madness at its very unique best, here offering 4 spastic grooveable shoothing punk jams. The guitar duo of Reverse Mouth taking over side B w/ a 17-minute deodorant crystal filth statement, much different from they usually deliver. Limited edition of 100 w/ screenprinted jackets by Mr. frenchie-fabulous Marc Zajack + b&w insert."- Heat Retention |
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Artist: REVIS, KEVAN Title: Sollicitudo Format: LP Label: Boxer Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"This really is a tremendous album-I stumbled across it when I stumbled across Boxer Records. It seems to strike just the right balance between creepiness and approachability-creepy in the sense of dark sounds that remind you of strange noises you might hear in an abandoned building in the middle of the night; and approachable in the way it blends those sounds together into a tapestry of electronic and manipulated noise that you feel drawn to, every bit as much as you feel spooked by it. The first part feels more like a continuous story than the second, where there is more of an edginess to its short, individual bursts of sound. Together, the two parts give a tremendous picture of KEVAN REVIS creativity, originality and sense for what works." -Ian Parsons
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Artist: REVOLUCION DE EMILIANO ZAPATA Title: Revolucion de Emiliano Zapata Format: LP Label: Emiliano Zapata Country: Worlds Leading Terrorist State Price: $28.00 |
| "First album of this Mexican legend, one of these albums that you must own. Probably the best acid rock album ever made in Latin America, plenty of fuzz guitars and excellent compositions. New and limited reissue, including the original poster and a promo sheet." |
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Artist: REVOLVER/ IMPERYA SNEGOV Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Tian An Men 89 Country: France Price: $9.00 |
| "A totally fun little record, this has 9 songs by 2 bands from different republics of the Russian Federation: REVOLVER is crazed, 60s-style garage/sci-fi/lounge/surf from Petrozavodsk in Karelia, but IMPERYA SNEGOV is even more crazed punk/grind with folk influences from Ulan-Ude in Buryatia, and might remind you a bit of freakazoids like MELT-BANANA. Released in June 2004, this is a numbered edition of 500 in a fold-out sleeve with liner notes and lyrics." -Tian An Men 89 |
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Artist: REYNOLDS, BEN Title: Basic Consciousness Format: Cass Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $8.50 |
| "Ben from ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS, UNCABINETED DUO, etc... a real circular psych dreamer. 4 songs of muddy water." - Cauliflower Dreams. |
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Artist: REYNOLDS, BEN Title: Special Noises Format: CDR Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: REYNOLDS, BEN Title: Third Tongue Meditations Format: 3" CDR Label: Memoirs Of An Aesthete Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
| "Final wheel on the psychedelic wagon for you. Three tracks of blissful muck. In case you?ve been hiding under the fridge for the last 12 months, Mr. R is a citizen of the Glasgow (nee Stoke On Trent) and has been a recording artist for Time-Lag, 267 Lattajjaa, Ikuisuss, First Person, Foxglove, Pseudoarcana and others and you can see his happy smiling blue face at http://www.benreynolds.tk" |
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Artist: REYNOLDS, MALVINA Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Omni Recording Company Country: Australia Price: $22.00 |
| "Malvina Reynolds was the grooviest grandma to ever strut across the folk singer stage. At the ripe age of 70 (in 1970) she joined forces with members of The Byrds, The Dillards, The Sunshine Company, producer Alex Hassilev (of fabulous folkies The Limeliters) and others to cut her self-titled psych-protest opus. With a heart of gold and an acid tongue, Malvina wraps her creaking, aching voice around the hot topics at the close of the tumultuous 1960s. Rounding out the collection are a handful of extremely rare 45-only cuts, alternate versions and six astounding previously-unreleased tracks. Lovingly remastered from the original tapes, all selections make their first appearance on CD here. Deluxe packaging, 16-page full color booklet with exclusive notes and rare photos." - Omni Recording Company. |
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Artist: REYNOLS Title: Rampotanza Ronil Rempelente Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "The primordial psychedelic sounds of Argentinas Reynols continue the Met Life Series with the raw, rhythmically entrancing field recordings of city workers in Buenos Aires drilling a hole into a busy city street. The natural response by this mysterious quartet doesnt drill so much as gleefully massage the head with a monumental freakout of onomatopoeia and uber-intonation commandeered by the bands lead vocalist Miguel Tomasin with the accompaniment of some seriously spaced-out delay driven tribal percussion, bellowing horn, piano plod and guitar plunder." - Locust |
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Artist: REYNOLS/DAN WARBURTON Title: I Am Not Sitting in A Room With Reynols Format: CDR Label: Absurd Country: Greece Price: $10.00 |
| ⿿When in March 03 Dan was interviewing Reynols and was wondering of how to use the recorded tape, Alan suggested he put the tape recorder in the washing machine & tape the result. No matter that finally he didnt he managed however to surface w/ a new idea & under the great influence of Alvin Luciers I Am Sitting in A Room contemporary classic he started scratching, taping, editing, pasting the interview into a completely different and new thing, adding also in the mix Reynolss live from lile the result turned to be a thrilling broken psych electroacoustic recording that stands for me one Absurds out weirdos!!! You can can get more infos on it at www.paristransatlantic.com/warburton/reynols.html. Comes in a limited edition of 166 copies. - Reynols. |
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Artist: RFD Title: Lead Me Home Format: CD Label: Riverman Country: Korea Price: $18.00 |
| "This is the first-ever authorized reissue of this 1971 Christian classic, now remastered in a 24-bit remaster. Housed in an exact reproduction paper sleeve. Pretty intensely amazing songs of devotion couched in lazy, laid-back, skillfully-crafted pop/country/psych tuneage, chock full of harmonies and vibes so mellow, you wont know whether theyre singing about God or really good weed. "The RFD stands for Russ, Fred, and Dan and heres the deal -- these guys (and girl) put out a record in 1971 that went onto become universally-hailed by the thousand or so people in the world with an opinion on the matter as one of the five or ten best Christian records of all time. Now if youre like me, the initial thought of good Christian music seems like more than a joke than anything else. But then you hear artists like The Search Party or Marj Snyder or The RFD and you realize that these people are the real deal. Good Jesus music doesnt preach or even really announce itself as Christian music, at all. You have to listen real close to hear a message, and if you do hear it, youre free to ignore it and go on with your sinful existence. Good Christian, or Xian as we call it in the record biz, is good music whether you get it or not, no matter what you may believe. It usually has a beauty and a purity you can hear in secular records like Linda Perhacs or Wendy and Bonnie. But usually, as with these albums, theres also a darkness there, lingering and undenied, feeding the music with added complexity and gravity. This isnt glassy-eyed Jesus freak music, and the best records are by real people living real lives full of pain as well as joy and love. I wont lie and say its anywhere as rich as the secular field, but there are some gems to be found and The RFD most definitely are one of them." -Douglas McGowan, Yoga Records |
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Artist: RFD Title: Lead Me Home Format: LP Label: Out-Sider Country: Spain Price: $31.00 |
| "USA 1971 obscure Christian folk-rock album with an appealing, understated feel. Close male/female vocal harmonies and ringing guitars create a secular late 60s California sound, with strong songwriting that reaches back to a Byrds / Simon & Garfunkel hook sensibility. Fully licensed, first ever vinyl reissue. Monster rarity going for $700+ when showing up. Limited reissue of 500 copies, printed in HQ 350g carton and 180g vinyl. Unbeatable 24bit remastered sound quality. Including an insert with liner notes by Patrick Lundborg." -Out-Sider |
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Artist: RFD Title: Lead Me Home Format: LP Label: Out-Sider Country: Spain Price: $27.00 |
| "USA 1971 obscure Christian folk-rock album with an appealing, understated feel. Close male/female vocal harmonies and ringing guitars create a secular late 60s California sound, with strong songwriting that reaches back to a Byrds/Simon & Garfunkel hook sensibility. Fully licensed, first-ever vinyl reissue. Monster rarity going for $700+ when showing up. Limited reissue of 500 copies, printed on a high-quality 350 gram carton and 180 gram vinyl. Unbeatable 24-bit remastered sound quality. Including an insert with liner notes by Patrick Lundborg. CD version available on Riverman (BTR 018CD)." -Out-Sider. |
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Artist: RHYTON Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Rhyton is an experimental/improv/psych trio based in Brooklyn that features Dave Shuford (D. Charles Speer and the Helix, No Neck Blues Band), Jimy SeiTang (Psychic Ills) and Spencer Herbst (Messages, Matta Llama)
LP version is limited to only 500 copies worldwide and includes a postcard insert and free download coupon.
Rhyton pours out a sonic libation unto the liberated world. Waveforms ring out, alternately frozen and blazing, wrenched from an improvisational method. They seek to loosen the gaze so as to widen focus, taking the unity in hand, not grabbing for the micro-constituent. Using the dynamic levels of rock, Rhyton carve out an edifice of sound on their debut LP that centers upon repetition and modal excursion. Recorded and mixed by Jason Meagher at his Black Dirt Studio, this self-titled release is culled from a highly fruitful three day recording session. Seeking to capture the cutting intensity level of their live performances, the band takes the ethos of full engagement. The multiple amp setup at hand in the studio helps imbue the ear with "second hearing". The split stereo, dual amped electric leads utilized throughout the record are best experienced on tracks like "Pontian Grave" and "Teke" where phase and tremolo patterns bounce and surge from ear to ear, warping senses of both time and space. These two distinct sound sources are a manifestation of dual perspectives derived from a single emanation: this is not the fracturing of a voice, but rather its multiplying into a unified but complimentary chorale as different delay lengths and distortion levels cohere into an ensemble greater than its parts. On "Dale Odaliski" the rock trio trappings are stripped away as a booming tom tom, oscillators and delay loops evoke a kind technological primitivism that seems akin to a message from a shattered, distant future. Extreme attention to auditory detail is apparent throughout the album, as blasts of varied gain stages writhe within fields of phased cymbals and bass throbs. Taken from repose to ekstasis - as mental impulse reigns above, so the body below records.
Rhyton is a band with an organic genesis, born from late night rap sessions at a local Brooklyn watering hole. Heads of certain vibe gathered together to tap into the underlying flux form of transportational music. Dave Shuford (D. Charles Speer, No Neck Blues Band) had been knee deep in research and practice in the realm of middle eastern musics during the recording of his solo LP Arghiledes. From that album, the track "The Heavy Heart of Ando-Yeap" was used as a leaping off point for the gestation of Rhyton. Shuford brought his personal selection of varied string instruments to the table, seeking to create a heavier electric syntax for mandolin, saz and baritone guitar. Jimy SeiTang (Psychic Ills) emerged as a sonic surgeon, creating wave patterns with his bass and pulses of tape delay tales. Spencer Herbst (Messages, Matta Llama) injected his flowing, highly energetic style of percussion and brought in visual conundrums by way of videocassette. An instant near-telepathic bond was established, making improvisations seem like composed forays even to the closest confidants. With variants and heads situated as a point of departure, Rhyton explores the inner workings of the ear and seeks the latent brain bulge within the listener." -Thrill Jockey. |
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Artist: RHYTON Title: The Emerald Tablet Format: LP Label: 3Lobed Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Rhyton is an experimental/improv/psych trio based in Brooklyn that features Dave Shuford (D. Charles Speer and the Helix, No Neck Blues Band), Jimy SeiTang (Psychic Ills) and Spencer Herbst (Messages, Matta Llama). Rhyton pours out a sonic libation unto the liberated world. Waveforms ring out, alternately frozen and blazing, wrenched from an improvisational method. They seek to loosen the gaze so as to widen focus, taking the unity in hand, not grabbing for the micro-constituent. Using the dynamic levels of rock, Rhyton carve out an edifice of sound on their debut LP that centers upon repetition and modal excursion." - 3Lobed. |
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Artist: RIBA, PAU Title: Jo, La Donya I El Gripau Format: LP Label: Bankrobber Country: Spain Price: $34.00 |
| "Pau Ribas 1971 masterpiece Jo, La Donya i el Gripau" is finally reissued on vinyl. One of the highlights of Catalan 70s music, this psych-folk record was recorded open air in the Formentera Island, using a Nagra magnetophone. That was the hippiest of Paus times. The music is highly influenced by Catalan popular songbook, and also by the Incredible String Band. This limited reissue (500 copies only) comes with the original artwork, and has inserts with lyrics, extensive interview with Pau (sorry guys, in Catalan only), some unseen photos and a new illustration by artist Miquel Barcelo." -Bankrobber |
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Artist: RICE, LARRY SUNSHINE Title: Heres Sunshine Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
| "Top quality official reissue of this wonderful album. This project is a bit different from other Time-Lag reissues, as the original isnt exactly a mega-rarity. Thats not to say that theyre easy to find, but our motives for the reissue have more to do with the fact that this great LP has been seriously overlooked by so many, and feels very ripe to reach some new ears. This ones got a pretty wild backstory too, being a rather undiscussed piece of 60s Texas underground history: in 1966 Larry Sunshine Rice was feeling burnt by the increasingly superficial hippy scene in San Francisco, so headed to Dallas, Texas, the center of darkness and the place he was raised, with a vision to transform minds. A random gig doing psychedelic light shows at a local bar led to a job managing a new hip church. And so the Satori House was founded. Through this outlet Sunshine held experimental light & sound worship sessions, began hosting underground rock concerts, launched a free press, and just about any & all other activities towards the goal of turning on Dallas. It was, of course, a great success while it lasted, which was not long once a federal drug bust (total set-up) went down, and the higher-ups in the parent church organization got wind of just exactly what their cash had been backing. During the extended trial that followed Sunshine split the city for tiny Justin, Texas and founded The Church Of Changes Texas first marijuana church, claiming grass as their sacrament and legal right. It was at this point that a series of truly unlikely synchronicities led to a record deal & recording session, but by the time Heres Sunshine was released in the summer of 1969, Sunshine was back in California living as a fugitive. He never showed up at his meeting with the bigwigs at blue thumb records who were planning to release his follow up album, thus quickly and purposely ending his connection to the music industry. If thats got your head turned, youll almost certainly dig the music. Its a mystical and convoluted folk trip, executed with the lonesome single-mindedness of a true searcher. Warm intense vocals are delivered in a magically loose, flowing style. Tim Buckley comparisons pop up, and thats not totally off the mark if you replaced any avant/jazz leanings with more of a tripping-in-the-desert vibe. Lyrically things get truly bent, venturing into some deeply surreal & glassy-eyed zones. There are a few grasps towards religious ponderance, but its very far from a xian album. Stream of consciousness broodings on nature, work, love, god, Satan, sex, hallucinations, and so forth. Its a totally solo recording centered on understated but effective acoustic guitar, and fleshed out via overdub with rather unusual use of electric bass, organ, banjo, mandolin, and harmonica. Things get especially psychedelic when the bass comes in, either as an ultra-minimal echo-drenched pulse or a flowing tonal improvisation. The hyper compressed and reverb saturated production somehow suites the material perfectly, and the combination of elements creates quite an immersive, mirage-like and exploratory space. This one is far stronger, more hallucinogenic, and has gobs more personally then most of the over-hyped, mega-bucks coffee house folk strummers passed off as loner/downer/acidfolk these days. This records got a real spirit of its own, that with repeated listens will sneak right into your mind before you even know it. And Im sure thats the way Sunshine intended it. Beautiful exact reproduction art packaged in a lovely heavy 60s style cover and pressed on 180gm audiophile vinyl. Includes an insert with new notes from the artist, as well as a short except from his book Morning Glory, which was written in 1968 and tells the story behind the album, but has yet to be published. One time vinyl only edition of 500 copies." -Time-Lag |
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Artist: RICTUS Title: Christelle ou la decouverte du mal Format: LP Label: Strawberry Rain Country: USA Price: $33.00 |
"LP version in a high quality paste-on cover with insert with photos and band notes.
"Christelle is a 6 year old girl. She is happy. One day she meets an evil genius who makes her have bad hallucinations. Each song is one of her hallucinations. Reissue of a rare, 250 copy private press progressive rock album from France, rated five stars in the Pokora Books. Recorded on a four track Akai in the small town of Luxueil-les-Bains, this album was only sold at a few shows and in one local shop. Pressed at the small Le Kiosque DOrphee pressing plant, this was truly a private offering with the band having made and glued the covers themselves. A long album, including the 14+ minute progressive gem Theme Guerre, the music spans from lo-fi fuzz laden numbers to strong progressive songs with numerous bridges and changes. Conceptually a rock opera, but plays like a full length progressive album that could rival anything from France at the time. Remastered with wonderful sound quality, this is sure to open the ears of many whove overlooked the band until now." -Strawberry Rain.
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Artist: RIFF VISITORS Title: Live At The Davistown Museum Format: Cass Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "12 weirdos ranging in ages 21 to 66 get loose in a museum of ferous metalergy, communicating with eachother using hammers, drums, bones,horns, stringed instruments,and voices which are all processed through delay, flange and distortion by two "interviewers" then puked back into the room where it mixes with the live sound..." - Trd w/d. Members of Impractical Cockpit, Flak Mask, etc.. |
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Artist: RILEY & MICHAEL MCCLURE, TERRY Title: I Like Your Eyes Liberty Format: CD Label: SRI Moonshine Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "A new collaboration by poet Michael McClure and Terry Riley recorded at the Sri Moonshine Ranch (2003-2004) features the mesmerizing voice of McClure on his own Plumstones: Cartoons Of No Heaven and Ghost Tantras . Riley creates a spellbinding counterpart on his Yamaha Midi Grand piano improvising an effortless undulating sound current which sensuously embraces the rich imagery. A real marriage of two masters of psychedelia." - SRI Moonshine Music. |
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Artist: RILEY, TERRY Title: Atlantis Nath Format: CD Label: SRI Moonshine Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| The debut release on Terry Rileys new label, from 2002; no longer available as a limited/signed edition, this is now released in mass market fashion, but with the same deluxe packaging. "Sri Moonshine Studios is happy to announce its first release, Atlantis Nath , recorded, mixed and edited during the period of 1993-98 in Nice France at the CIRM studios. Terrys first big studio production since the 1978 Shri Camel is a 74-minute seamless journey featuring voices, strings, synthesizer, piano and loops from India. The CD is packaged in a natural paper 6-panel foldout with radiant Asian inspired illustrations meticulously designed and rendered by New York artist, Chris Harvey. Included on the recording is the final scene of Terrys opera based on the life and works of Adolf Woelfli, The Crucifixion of My Humble Self as well as Emerald Runner, Ascención and Remember this O Mind. Produced by Terry and the masterful CIRM Studios team of Luc Martinez and Michel Redolfi, this recording shines with state of the art sonics and performance. Terry sings and plays all voice, piano and synthesizer parts on these tracks with guest appearances by the Nice Opera String Quintet and Frédéric LEpée, Guitar." - SRI Moonshine Music. |
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Artist: RILEY, TERRY Title: Last Camel In Paris Format: CD Label: Elision Fields Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Throughout the 1970s, legendary American composer TERRY RILEY toured regularly in Europe, performing solo organ concerts. In October 1978, Rileys personal technician CHESTER WOOD built a stereo digital delay out of an ancient computer he had procured from DON BUCHLA, and the subsequent tour was the maiden voyage to try it out. Rileys specially modified two-manual Yamaha YC-45D portable combo organ had a Just Intonation setting and allowed him to feed stereo signals to the digital delay. The Yamaha had been manufactured with single mono output, but now with the modification it had a separate output for each manual eventuating in four channels (two live and two delayed). During a residency as a Fellow at DAAD in Berlin, Riley fine-tuned the delay speeds and experimented with different stereo combinations so that by the time of this Paris concert, the tape delays worked well with the tempos he was using. This all came on the heels of the Shri Camel recording Riley had just made in San Francisco for CBS. The musical materials of The Last Camel in Paris are second generational, belonging to the Shri Camel family while manifesting their own distinct shape and flavor. Includes never-before seen archival photographs." - Elision Fields. |
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Artist: RILEY, TERRY Title: Les Yeux Fermés & Lifespan Format: CD Label: Elision Fields Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "After changing the world in the late 60s with In C and A Rainbow in Curved Air, legendary American composer and father of minimalism Terry Riley abandoned tape manipulation and written composition to concentrate on longform keyboard cycles and improvisations. In the early 70s, while in Europe, he was invited to create scores for two films. The first, in 1972, was Joel Santonis Les Yeux Fermés, a feature-length art film that instantly became a cult classic by virtue of its never having screened in the USA. The second, Lifespan, directed by Alexander Whitelaw in 1974, featured Klaus Kinski. Both soundtracks were released in limited editions on LP and have long been out-of-print. This first-ever CD release of these two classic Terry Riley soundtracks - both on one disc - was remastered from the original tapes, the hypnotic songs sounding far superior to the below-average vinyl pressings." - Elision Fields. |
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Artist: RILEY, TERRY Title: Music For The Gift Format: CD Label: Cortical Foundation Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"The earliest and most heavily anticipated release yet in the Cortical Foundation series of archival TERRY RILEY releases, and the first time any of these pieces have been commercially available. Four seminal tape works-The Gift performed in Paris in 1963 by CHET BAKER with tape manipulations by Riley, Bird of Paradise a very early and radical tape manipulation work, Mescalin Mix a tape-loop recording from 1960-62, and Concert For Two Pianos and Five Tape Recorders performed and recorded live in Berkeley in 1960 by Riley and LAMONTE YOUNG, with a humorous play-by-play broadcast narrative by GLENN GLASOW." - Cortical Foundation.
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Artist: RILEY, TERRY Title: Persian Surgery Dervishes Format: Double CD Label: New Tone Country: Italy Price: $27.00 |
| CD reissue, original recordings from 1971/2. Terry Riley: electric organ + feed back. "This is the reprint, in CD format (2 CD), of one of the masterpieces of American minimal music: Persian Surgery Dervishes by Terry Riley. Originally issued by Shandar in France as double LP album, the recording went out-of-stock in the early eighties and since then became a collectors item. Recorded in two different concerts in 1971 and 1972 in Los Angeles and Paris, Persian Surgery Dervishes presents two different versions of the title track. Terry Riley, all alone with his keyboards and feed-back, improvises on a basic structure strongly influenced by the emotion and the relationship with the audience. The results are two very different versions: one, the American, very dynamic with moments that reach trance-like peaks resembling the dance of whirling dervishes. The other one, recorded in Paris, is more meditative and thoughtful, dominated by a deep sense of quietness. The music is organized in the typical minimalism vein but it is rich in emotion, an element not always present in such intensity in the music of any style. The emotion is strictly related to the high degree of improvisation we can find in Rileys music that mixes the traditions of the Western and Indian Classic Music. Persian Surgery Dervishes is also one of the milestones of the psychedelic era of the 70s." - New Tone. |
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Artist: RILEY, TERRY Title: Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band All Night Flight Format: CD Label: Elision Fields Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| TERRY RILEYs classic "All Night" album originally released as part of the Organ of Corti Archive Series. "The live recording of Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band All Night Flight taken from a 1968 concert titled "Purple Modal Strobe Ecstasy with the Daughters of Destruction" is the perfect trigger for what anthropologist Jean Rouch called The Strange Mechanism, the trance state which most of this decades electronic music aspires to induce. The immediacy and the spectral filigree-the dervishes summoned during Rileys nocturnal concert-have been faithfully preserved on this CD."-Richard Henderson, The Wire. Packaged with new cover art and photography. |
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Artist: RILEY, TERRY Title: Two Early Works Format: LP Label: 75 Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| Two pieces from 1960 and 1961 respectively, performed in Los Angeles in 2008. "Comes in an archival sleeve package created by Really Fake with art by Dave Muller." "We met Terry for the first time at the LA Philharmonics Minimalist Jukebox Festival in 2006. We performed his Trio and Quartet, which had been sitting on a shelf for over 40 years. Bringing these pieces back to life for him was exciting- he likened it to "being reintroduced to old friends." - Calder Quartet. |
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Artist: RILEY, TERRY & DON CHERRY Title: Live Koln 1975 Format: LP Label: No Label Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
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Artist: RILEY, TERRY & GYAN Title: Terry Riley & Gyan Riley - Live Format: CD Label: Sri Moonshine Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Terry Riley, piano and vocals; Gyan Riley, classical and electric guitars, harmony vocals on "Emerald Runner." "Nothing I have done in this life has given me more satisfaction than improvising on these songs with Gyan. Nothing I have done can match the intuitive synchronicity we have shared many times on the stage. Gyan supplies a brilliant counterpoint to the strands and moods of these pieces always surprising me with a virtuosity that serves and energizes his musical invention. I could not have dreamed up a better marriage of mind and spirit than this collaboration." -Terry Riley "Being able to perform with my dad has been without question the most enriching, challenging, inspirational musical experience Ive had. His music is bountiful! I love the rich harmonies, the colorful lyrics, the subtle pitch inflections (stemming from his long-time devotion to the North Indian kirana tradition), and the lengthy and often complex partially improvised structures. But I think the most unique musical quality about my dad is his ability to get deeper and deeper into the mood of a piece, leaving all other concerns behind, transcending the listener. Weve been talking about making a record together for years, but each time we plan to record we just end up mostly cooking and hanging out, and playing of course (we just forget to press record!). So we decided on this live release, featuring some of our favorite moments from 3 different concerts given over the last 7 years." -Gyan Riley |
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Artist: RIMARIMBA Title: In The Woods Format: LP Label: Unlikely Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
 Original unplayed/copies of this 1985 LP by post punk/homemade avant-garde artist Robert Cox. Features Dave Walklett.
Restock of all the available releases from Alan Jenkins (main man behind Deep Freeze Mice, Chrysanthemums, etc..) late-70s-through-mid-80s Cordelia label and a few other related titles. "Rimarimba and Unlikely Records were the brainchild of Robert Cox. Between 1981 and 1985, Unlikely released cassettes and LPs by Coxs own projects under various guises, as well as Milovan Srdenovic ‘Voodoo Bastard. ‘In The Woods is the second Rimarimba LP, this time with the assistance from Davy Walklett (guitar) and Lenny Bove on a few tracks. Rimarimbas music is mostly keyboard based with the occasional sampler oddity, weird treated vocals or guitar. Tracks are build on synth loops, interesting electronic sonorities, melodic counterpoint and humour. Rimarimabas great achievement on this LP also relies on rhythm, with the use of complex rhythms intertwined with exquisite melodies. To this listener, the music is reminiscent of post-RIO bands like ZNR or Débile Menthol, with a naivety a la Look De Book or even Klimperei. Track titles are indeed very descriptive of the content, and very funny at that. This legendary LP still sounds fresh today." - Continuo blog.
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Artist: RIMBAUD, PENNY & LOUISE ELLIOT Title: Not Them/Not Us Format: 7" Label: Boo-Hooray Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"Penny Rimbaud is a poet, drummer, writer, former member of the performance art group EXIT and co-founder of the anarchist punk band Crass, with Steve Ignorant in 1977.
He also set up the anarchist/pacifist Dial House community in 1967 with Gee Vaucher and Phil Russell and helped to instigate the free festival movement.
An ardent, articulate and still angry polemicist, his works include Reality Asylum, Rocky Eyed and Oh America. Says Rimbaud of his own legacy: "our response to things wasnt a musician or a lyrical response, it was a political response."
Louise Elliott an Australian tenor saxophonist and has performed with a wealth of international musicians. Originally known for her appearances with cult rock outfits Laughing Clowns, The Saints, Ed Kuepper and Paul Kelly, Louise has a fiery commitment to inspiring and energetic live performance which has been referred to in the media as "her profoundly diverse smorgasbord of funk, blues and rock" and "an African inspired jazz explosion". She has played with Penny Rimbaud for 9 years." - Seomra Spraoi.
"A 7" record of a new piece of poetry and music by poet and Crass co-founder Penny Rimbaud and Louise Elliott, with cover art by Gee Vaucher. Published jointly by Boo-Hooray and Exitstencil Press in an edition of 500 copies." - Boo-Hooray. |
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Artist: RIMPOCHE, BOKAR Title: Sacred Chants & Tibetan Rituals from the Monastery of Mirik Format: CD Label: Sub Rosa Country: Belgium Price: $15.00 |
| "Recorded in Mirik Monastery (located in the Himalayan Mountains in Northern India, between Bhutan and Nepal) with the total collaboration of meditation master, Bokar Rimpoche -- all pieces edited by the filmmaker Guy Maezelle. Bokar Rimpoche (1940-2004) is acknowledged as a Great Master of Tibetan Buddhism who devoted his whole life to meditation. Having fled Tibet in 1959, he lived in exile, isolated in a little monastery in the mountains. The spiritual son of Kalou Rimpoche, a close relation of the Dalai Lama and Meditation Master of the 17th Karmapa, Bokar Rimpoche was the heir and representative of an ancestral knowledge (of the Kagyü line) passed along from generation to generation and holding wisdom that still enlightens today. These recordings make up the soundtrack to Guy Maezelles film, Bokar Rimpoche: Maître de Méditation and feature sacred chants recorded by Bokar Rimpoche himself and ritual music from the Mirik Monastery. A message from Bokar Rimpoche: "We, practicing Buddhists, must understand that all that we accomplish in this life results originally from our mothers goodness. For it is first thanks to her that we are able to survive. It is her that fed us, clothed us, and who took care of our education. But in reality, our whole life depends on all the other beings and their activities. For example, meat, milk and butter are given to us by the animals. Our food, our clothes, our home depend on the work and effort of many other beings. In other words, on this earth, every day of our lives is lived depending on an infinite number of other beings for no one, since their birth, can survive alone. They would have no food and no clothes. So we must be aware that our life depends on the contribution of many other beings who show goodness towards us. Therefore it is all beings, without exception, that we should hold dear! Even without referring to the word of Buddha, this interdependence between all beings is easy to understand." - Sub Rosa |
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Artist: RIP/ESKORBUTO Title: Zona Especial Norte Format: LP/Mag Label: Munster Country: Spain Price: $23.00 |
| "Zona Especial Norte (this was the code denomination that Spanish Guardia Civil and police gave the conflictive Basque region back in the 1980s) was a split album shared by RIP and Eskorbuto, two of the wildest and more radical punk bands from the Basque Country. The original record, released in 1983, was out-of-print for two decades and is one of the most sought-after LPs of the era. Munster Records 2008 reissue quickly sold out, and now 30 years after its original release, the label (together with Spansuls/Lollipop, owner of the masters and rights) brings back in print this influential record -- a true sonic reflection of those difficult, tense, crude and rough years. This special reissue consists of a colored vinyl 12" accompanied by a 20-page fanzine full of pictures (many unseen), with fantastic liner notes by Roberto Moso, singer of Zarama, written in Spanish and English." - Munster. |
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Artist: RIS-TO Title: Hessu Kostaa Ja Muita Hiiritarinoita Format: 7" Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $10.00 |
| "Risto from Tampere, Finland releases a seven inch EP Hessu Kostaa Ja Muita Hiiritarinoita under an alias Ris-To. With this new product the saviours of Finnish indie-pop broadens their output. This time in the direction of childrens songs. It should be clear however that this is not to be played to the minors. The title translates as Goofy avenges and other mouse stories. I tell you its tough stuff." - Fonal. |
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Artist: RISTAGNO, RICH Title: What Would It Be Like To Be Rich Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Detroit is, as ever, a mystery wrapped in a wasteland. After Motown blew out of town, as if on the last chopper out of Danang, the volatile periphery remained intact-minus its binding barycenter. A young RICHARD RISTAGNO was there, naively participating in the riots that cancelled Detroits application to the echelons of the modern American cities. After hearing about the riots on the radio, he and his MIDNIGHT RIDERS garage band ventured into the periphery, only to get busted for looting. He would be detained again, a year or so later, by Selective Service. Narrowly escaping an uncertain fate in Vietnam, Ristagno served his time in sleepy zones like Fort Knox in Kentucky and German outposts. Returning to Michigan in 1971, he plotted his first recordings. With two original songs in mind, he found a vanity operation jand stamped out what was to be an initial pressing of 500 copies, nearly all of which were sent to radio stations nationwide. After the world failed to beat a path to his door, the initial pressing became the only pressing. He moved on... finding work at a steel treatment plant, where he managed to accumulate the largesse for a more grandiose scheme. What Would It Be Like To Be Rich was to be an autobiographical concept album. In 1981, nearly ten years after his ill-fated single, Ristagno saw an ad in the Detroit News for a recording studio called Soular Sound, and submitted an inquiry about availability. To complete his vision, he would need to hire a band... not surprisingly owner/engineer CONLEY ABRAMS was the bassist of a local funk band called SOULAR FLIGHT. The recordings occurred quickly in 1981. The fusion of Soular Flights disco tendencies with Ristagnos angsty delivery seemingly anticipates industrial and techno, and reflects contemporaries like The Contortions or DNA. In reality, Ristagno remained blissfully ignorant, and cites influences such as Aerosmith, Fleetwood Mac, and the perennially influential Beatles. Despite a cover concept, Ristagno took the completed LP to Archer Record Pressing and manufactured 100 copies. He had, perhaps, jumped the gun... though he had a cover concept, he didnt have the means to execute the artwork. His initial pressing remained in his parents basement, completely undistributed, underclothed in just frail paper sleeves. It was the 45 single, strategically planted randomly outside Ristagnos domicile, that saved its doomed younger brother. Michigan rock specialists DANIEL SCHLOSSER and BEN BLACKWELL approached Ristagno and freed his personal opus from private imprisonment. Although the grim worldview presented within seems to beg for isolation, its not the work of music lovers to enable further isolation." -Rob Sevier, 2012. |
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Artist: RITA, THE Title: Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence Format: CD Label: Pacrec Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "ABSOLUTELY UNCOMPROMISING. Pure sound influenced by Italian Giallo violence & harsh noise cassette culture. Extreme, dirty, low-end electronic crust. First proper cd release from this long-running Canadian cult act, following notable cdrs on Self Abuse Records & Chondritic Sound as well as several self released cassettes. Two tracks, 60+ minutes, including a collaboration with Texas sleaze sicko Mania (Taint). black gloves and razors." - Pacrec. "This has to be the harshest, most violent and extreme exercise in noise that Ive ever experienced" - Rue Morgue Magazine. |
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Artist: RITA, THE Title: El Lago De Los Muertos Vivientes Format: 3 Label: Audiobot Country: Belgium Price: $12.00 |
| "New low-end electronic onslaught by Canadian piledriver The Rita, once again highly influenced by Italian gore, utter violence and harsh noise cassette culture. Notorious layers of gut-munching perverted sounds, ripening blasts and darkened skies crack open with the smell of necropsy. A gross hallucinogenic ride that will turn your brains to pus. One solid track of purulent harsh noise the way its supposed to sound. Hot on the heels of his uncompromising proper CD release on PacRec. Packaged in fold out covers by Pointdxtr. Limited edition of only 88 copies." - Audiobot. |
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Artist: RITA, THE Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: RITA, THE Title: Snorkel/Skate Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Recording specs of the SKate material: For clarification - the first track on the SKATE side of the LP is the best cut of the original amplified railing work/video above, but for the LP the audio was isolated from the original tape by Christian Nicolay (who is the artist manipulating the effects at the table during the skateboarding) and then heavily remastered by myself for the official RRR vinyl release. The audio is obviously very poor on the youtube video and the performance never saw any kind of official release so i thought it was best to master and rework the material for an optimum audio version (vinyl no less) that can be played through a proper stereo system. The material ends up being a much different and real experience after the remastering and heavy amplification. The second track on the SKATE side is a completely new recording that take cues from the first, but is working with different distortion chains and ideologies to try and fully manipulate the live skateboard trucks to the steel and their tendencies when effected. We originally were supposed to skate/perform the railing live in SF, but customs denied Christian from entering as they, to make a long story short, didnt believe that two artists with our international resumes were only getting paid what was actually stated in the invitation/paperwork. Christian drove ahead of me in a van with the gear as I had to work when he got stopped and turned away. They said that if i tried later - wed both be banned from the US for some time. Hence, the impromptu making of the short video instead (which still amazes me that i landed that many 50/50 grinds in a row). I am extremely happy that Ron made it possible to release the audio in a properly mastered format plus even more railing recordings and alongside the snorkeling foley work that prompted the release in the first place." - Sam McKinlay, The Rita. |
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Artist: RITA, THE Title: Thousands of Dead Gods Format: CD Label: Pacrec Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "THE RITA returns with his second full length CD, an an ultimate tribute to the GREAT WHITE SHARK. Almost academic in his noise purity obsession, The Rita mercilessly charts every nuance of crunch and crumble, the space between demolition, white out and heavy flood. Dead Gods pushes nearly 60 minutes thick of RAW WALL, recorded live using source sound from great white shark cage diving." |
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Artist: RITCHIE VENUS Title: Rocking To The Grave Format: LP Label: Unwucht Country: Germany Price: $15.00 |
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"RITCHIE VENUS accomplishments going back to the mid-60s include impersonating Elvis, making films, writing 500+ songs, releasing a 7-inch on Flying Nun in 1983, touring with The Troggs, and releasing numerous LPs, singles, cassettes and CDs on Christchurchs Onset Offset, the label he still runs with Campbell McLay. Unwuchts reissue of his 1998 cassette, recorded at home with a drum machine and cheap gear, shows off Venuss talent as a songwriter, musician, singer and arranger. This desperate glance backward at an aging rock singers career is full of sorrow, failure, and humor (when the last of the audience is dead, he kills his band and rocks on forever). One particular highlight is "Listen, World," written in 1975, with AXEMENs STEVE MCCABE on noise guitar and PATRICK FALGAN of SAY YES TO APES / BROTHER LOVE on drums. Screen printed jacket. Edition of 150." - Unwucht.
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Artist: RITCHIE VENUS & L STEVIE MCCABE Title: My Precious Things Format: 12" Label: Unwucht Country: Germany Price: $27.00 |
| "Four collaborations recorded 1988-92 at various locations including Steves home and a Boston radio show, with help from Mick Elborado, Patrick Faigan and Phil Hubbard. 150 copies in hand made US style sleeves including an insert of liner notes by Ritchie Venus." - Unwucht. Over the last 3 decades these guys have done time in the AXEMEN, THE BLUE BEETLES, TERMINALS, SCORCHED EARTH POLICY, SAY YES TO APES, SPACE DUST, NUX VOMICA, GAS, BROTHER LOVE, DADAMAH and probably a few more... |
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Artist: RITUAL ABUSE Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| Boston hardcore band, Mind Eraser w/ Zac Davis |
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Artist: RIVERS, BOYD Title: You Cant Make Me Doubt Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "First full length album by one of the greatest gospel musicians of all time! Boyd Rivers was an amazing but unfortunately, little known gospel artist. Comparisons could be made to Charlie Jackson, but in the end not too many people sound anything like Boyd Rivers. Side one features Boyd playing stunning electric guitar & belting out 6 incredibly heavy songs. Side two finds Boyd playing acoustic guitar -- a bit mellower but still impassioned. All the material on this album has never been released, with the exception of Fire In My Bones -- the title track of the Case Quarter 3 CD gospel compilation. (Its also on our Last Time Around compilation) Its somewhat unbelievable that Boyd has not been heard more out in the world -- but so it goes. Includes liner notes by Amos Harvey. Old school tip on cover." -Mississippi. |
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Artist: RIVIERE, ARNAUD & JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSS Title: Monoface Format: One-Sided 12" Label: Riviere/Gross Country: France Price: $18.00 |
| "Jean-Philippe Gross and Arnaud Rivière are both using mainly mixing board and put the electric nature of this tool at the center of their music, playing with interferences and feedback. Improv & noise : from microsounds to high energy active masses of sounds. On the left channel "WHEN YOU GO TO THE SWIMMING POOL PLEASE THROW AWAY YOUR GUITAR AND REMOVE YOUR SHOES" played by Jean-Philippe Gross, recorded end 2006 in Metz. On the right channel "NANALOG SYNTH" played by Arnaud Rivière, recorded mid 2006 around Paris. In the middle an unexpected stereo made by hazards of collage. Cuted in early 2007 in Paris. One side cuted / one side silk-screened 300 copies." -Riviere/Gross. |
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Artist: RLW Title: Fall Seliger Geister Format: CD Label: Dirter Promotions Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Dirter Promotions presents a stunning new album by Ralf Wehowsky. He is currently one of the most respected electronic composers of our day. Ghostly creaking sounds mix with highly complex electro-acoustic and electronic sounds. This description may sound familiar, but no sound is what it seems and RLW always manages to stay far ahead of his contemporaries. His music is impossible to pigeonhole into one simple bracket. It is neither industrial nor musique concrète, nor computer music nor improvisation. Limited to 500 copies, the CD comes packaged in a Japanese mini LP-style sleeve with textured reverse board printing and black inner sleeve." - Dirter Promotions. |
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Artist: RLW Title: I.K.K Format: CD Label: SIRR Country: Portugal Price: $14.50 |
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"The I.K.K.-project is the new project of Ralf Wehowsky (RLW), the influential German electronic music composer who started his recording career in 1980. And following his inclination for collaboration it counts with contributions from Dan Warburton, Andrew Deutsch, Chris Halliwell, Strotter Inst., Stephen Vitiello, and Frisch/Rainey/Wehowsky. I.K.K. Purpur started in 1794, when Christoph Schmid wrote the lyrics for Ihr Kinderlein Kommet, using a melody by contemporary composer Johann Abraham Peter Schulz. It was performed soon after in Thanhausen an der Mindel for the first time. In 2001, a few weeks before Xmas, RLW recorded his daughter Sonja (aged 5 then) singing some of her favourite Xmas tunes." -SIRR.
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Artist: RLW Title: Merry Merry b/w Ihr Kinderlein... Format: 7" Label: Meeuw Muzak Country: Netherlands Price: $6.00 |
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"this years xmas hit is by ralf wehowsky. he recorded his daughter sonja
"singing" silent nite, with an electronic version on the flip. lovely.
MM027, white vinyl, 300 copies" - Meeuw Muzak.
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Artist: RLW Title: Sechs Abstande Format: LP Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Five dense movements from abstract composer, Ralf Wehowsky, co-founder of the vital Wahrnehmungen & Selektion labels. Pressed on 150 gram virgin vinyl. Edition of 300." - Blossoming Noise. |
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Artist: RLW Title: Views Format: CD Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "In the 25th year of Ralf Wehowskys recording career, Anomalous Records presents his first truly solo release featuring four new compositions based on instrumental improvisations. Using simple devices (tone-generators, percussion toys, music boxes, an electric toothbrush and an electric guitar) played in unusual ways, he builds up layers of each sound to create a suite of textural pieces. Each of the four tracks takes on an identity unique from the others, as the first three each focus on one of the sound sources while the last combines elements from the previous three to make something else. The disc opens with a 20-minute piece of mysterious and drifting electronic tones. Other tracks highlight very tactile sounds and bring a much more live element to his work, while retaining his skillful use of dynamics and placement of silence which have gained him so many fans. Previous releases by RLW have seen him collaborate with such diverse artists as Achim Wollscheid, Bernhard Günter, Andrew Chalk, David Grubbs, Jim ORourke, Kevin Drumm, and Bruce Russell. He is the founder of the now defunct group P16.D4 and the still active label Selektion." - Anomalous. |
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Artist: ROACH CLIP Title: Al Pastor Format: 7" Label: Nostilevo Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
"music for blown-out punk fiends that minds the gap between rotten psychedelia and acid dirt rock. originally released as a "private press" cassette in an edition of six copies." - Nostilevo.
 "Every year to commemorate the Carnaval of Santiago, my Cuban buddy Fortunado constructs this enormous structureve hollowed out flan in his back yard n then invites bands what to come play inside. Is am always surprised the thing never gets ate down (at the end theys douse it w/brandy, then set it ablaze) but thats another story. So this time someones called K-9 Sniffies & Roach Clip was the featured acts. Now Is have to come clean n say I didnt see neither ofem. Was way in the thickve of judgin a serious cachete taco eatin contest. And them Cristals was goin down like water too. Plus anytime I gets close to that flan hut I just feel all custardy. No thanks! Word was theys was both top notch. Always a plus. Anyhow, at some point in the evenin I seen Fortunados wife, Yanela, fannin herself w/this Roach Clip record. She looked pretty relaxed & maybe not a little too familiar w/the pitcherve sangria plopped down right in frontve her. She spied me makin my way, stood, smiled & breathed a sigh of relief. "Ah, senor Woodbean, eh, the band, they want for you to have they record. So was for me to keep. My favor, you know? As music.......I am not so sure, but for, eh, ventilador, is most useful. Here", she thrust the record into my hand, "now is no more for me to look after. And I must go, wait for you has made me to starve. Lead me to the sesos! I can smell them frying. Or perhaps that is you, eh, Woodbutt"? With that she threw her head back n laughed. It sounded like a hyena bein impaled on a pike. Thank heavens she werent much ever in a good mood. Them jolliesd curdle milk. Despite Yanelas opinion, as music goes, this Roach Clip ep is a doozy. And w/a title like Al Pastor, is most prescient too. Its a rollickin ride through a panaceave frizzled audio crackle. Not unlike the Meat Puppets, 15 minutes after sheddin theys skin of the eponymous 1st lp but still burnt from that peyote scorch. Or maybe the Godz, lost somewhere in them 10 matrix numbers between Contact High & Godz 2, sortin it out through a Dubonnet hookah. Either way you bake it what yous got here is sounds as crisp as a chicharron gordita.So let your ears inhale." - Siltblog. Second pressing in new sleeves (pictured).
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Artist: ROACHCLIP Title: Discovery Park Format: 12" Label: All Gone Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "A year in the making for this psych monger, finally going to be launched into the threshold. Our local friends Kevin and Alex say hey it sounds like a "lazy version of the desperate bicycles", Morgan seems to think its "groovy"... Some guy at a gig said "Youll sound like the Doors if they were good" but The doors are good hombre... Maybe if a lost Vacuum record crossed ways with them folky/jangle Rayne styles blended in the spice of DIY basement ethos, youd find the Godz have spoke in tongue. Stand in line for "this Bloody Mary"....." - All Gone. |
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Artist: ROB JO STAR BAND Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Pomme Country: France Price: $19.00 |
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"One of the French mega-rarities, released on the same label as Zartong. The content is deranged psychedelic underground with strong guitars, studio effects and vocals in English. The album has been the subject of much hype among record dealers recently." -Asbjornsen-Scented Gardens Of The Mind.
"Very great & unknown French quasi prog/psych hard rocker originally released on the Dom label in 1975. Even amongst the European psychedelic cognoscenti, Rob Jo Star Bands sole lp is somewhat of an enigma. Careening forward & stumbling over 13th Floor Elevators bleeb alien moves, Velvet Underground sustained vibes & Stooges-like guitar fuzz, Rob Joe Star created a singular masterpiece that is truly incomparable to anything released in or around its time (circa 1975). Along with the Angel Face Wild Odyssey lp, one of Frances long obscured musical treasures. French import, edition of 300." - Pomme. Very highly recommended!
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Artist: ROBB, J.D. Title: Rhythmania: Electronic Music From Razor Blades To Moog Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| Reissue of a 1970 Folkways electronic music album. "Not many people walk away from a successful international law career to devote their time to making electronic music at the ripe age of 49 years. John Donald Robb did just that when he set up shop in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1941 and dove head first into a career as a composer, ethno-musicologist and an early electronic music noodler whose bizarre and singular electronic music recordings are short on same old same old and long on quirky, beat audacity. This exciting collection combines the choicest cuts off of his two off beat Folkways records into one great package of out there moog music." - Locust |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Burners Format: LP Label: Important Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Limited edition of 500 copies. Mastered by James Plotkin. Recorded and mixed from April-September of 09 at the same East L.A. hillside studio (Green Machine) where Raiders was tracked. The goal with Burners was to make a record fusing the recent-ish song-based structures of Raiders and the Pagan Drugs 7" into some of the older-style Robedoor drone-sprawl architectures. All songs were written/sculpted over the course of constant live shows (Burning Man in particular was an 09 live staple)." - Important. |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Endlessly Blazing Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Eagle Rock, CAs Robedoor are back with another doomed out K-hole.
Slow creeping drones building to some nice loner caveman pound/ real
song territory. Three tracks in just under 40 minutes. edition of 500
with full color jacket. Artwork by Jeremy Earl." - Woodsist.
"Another bowl of black wax lit up and littered into the smogset. Another
half hour in the haze, burned and overturned. "Endlessly Blazing" loads
together a trio of semi-recent resin sessions: the A is a sidelong
sinkhole into lava and quaaludes, the B starts with a sprawling spiral
sweetleaf ballad before convulsing into a pissed withdrawal of dread
drums, electronic fumes, and damaged howling. Hold it in as long as you
can" -?
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Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Exorcist Blues Format: Cass Label: Monorail Trespassing Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "transitional release that sees the group expanding on their previous incarnation with more control and composition; not quite becoming a full-out jam band just yet. a peak effort. 150 copies." - Monorail Trespassing |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Faded Crusade/Pitiless Messiah Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "Limited edition of 100, clear, square, hand-cut by peter king 8" lathereview:Frankly terrifying blast of thunder from these LA noise monsters. Here, their towering funnel of sound is channelled into a night-time ditch of punk bastardism. Its spat out on the floor, trodden on, then blown up to a thousand times the size of a moon and thrown at the head of modern man. This is raging, yes, but there is much beauty at work here too, a subtlety below the raging surface that is present in all this bands work." -Alt.Vinyl |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Pacific Drift Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Way too much is made these days of looking back, memory, social network fantasias. What a bummer, cause realitys a bad experience and 2012 is on deck; we deserve whatever we get. Evolve or erode, dudes. LA visigoths Robedoor slip into another sinkhole of voidist shadow-rock with Pacific Drift, three new tracks recorded across the last greylight winter. The A side stirs into a jazzy apocalypto depression with flute-keys and an overdriven OM groove that spirals in a web of distortion before drifting out to sea/silence. The flip finds a pair of deeply mutated RBDR genetic codes, one a mantric death-punk protest song cloaked in smoke and speed, the other a 3 AM slow-motion soul implosion set to upright piano, descending bass, tear garden guitar, and acid rain. The coast is a ghost, the city seethes. Mixed and mastered by M. Geddes Gengras at Green Machine in east LA. Black vinyl 7 inches in sleeves with corpse-diver artwork and a band photo by Caitlin C. Mitchell. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Pained Transformation Format: CDR Label: House Of Alchemy Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| Compiles two out of print cassettes with a new track and a badge. |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Raiders Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Following their 2008 East Coast tour with Woods and Pocahaunted the Robedoor agenda has mainly been: hibernating in the City Terrace zone above east LA, adding a drummer/modular synth dealer, and letting the smoke rise. Raiders is the first RBDR LP since 2008s Endlessly Blazing and is the result of almost six months of slow-burn transformative tape machine meditation helmed by Mr. Ged Gengras. Bummed guitars, loner drone tones, low caverns of reverbed drums and rumble, echo dislocation, and dead voices cascade down into the isolated highways. Song modes are carved out and then left to rot. Features early trio live set staples like Indo Shadow and The Downcast Eye. You cant stick your hand in the same black river twice. Change or be changed. LPs in jackets with cover photo by Caitlin C. Mitchell. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Shapeshifter Slave Format: LP Label: Olde English Spelling Bee Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Shapeshifters are messengers and imitators of the gods. Shapeshifters can be divine or human. Crossing boundaries between sacred and evil, they often bring messages, power or punishment from the gods. Shapeshifting is used to gain access to the tower. They are able to turn any situation around. Nothing is too much or too little. The shapeshifter can invert a life-threatening situation into one where he triumphs. This form of shapeshifting is most commonly painless but can be traumatic if the change was unintentional; clothing is rarely lost in this process. Edited, assembled, and mastered with assistance from Pete Swanson of the Yellow Swans. Ectoplasmic cover art conjured by Frances Parisse Bruno. Pro-printed black and white covers and insert. Limited edition of 425 copies." - Olde English Spelling Bee. |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Shrine To The Possessor Format: LP Label: Music Fellowship Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "New batch of brutal minimalism from Robedoor on their first vinyl full length, Shrine to the Possessor. This one is pure darkness - no light, no air, just tortured souls and echoed cries. Three epic droning processionals built from the heaviest, thickest low-end tones. The sound of indentured servants from a scorched dustbowl wasteland. Caveman aesthetic pushed to its limits by recording to eight analog channels. Robedoors storied back catalog includes full length CDs on Release the Bats and Interregnum, collaborative albums with their sisters-in-arms Pocahaunted on Digitalis, Ecstatic Peace, and Blackest Rainbow, and countless other long sold-out CDRs and tapes, several on the bands own label, the undeniably prodigious Not Not Fun, as well as on Ruralfaune, Chocolate Monk, Chondritic Sound, and many others. Recorded by Bobb Bruno at Bored Fortress HQ in Eagle Rock, CA. Artwork by Andy Spore. Includes silkscreened 11x17 poster. Limited and numbered to 500." - Music Fellowship. |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Too Down To Die Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Not Not Funs most form-destroying release from Robedoor. Seismic future-primitive energies on side-long track "Parallel Wanderer." Continues the incarnation of Robedoor featuring MG Gengras (Personable, Pocahaunted) on drums, moog, bass and piano." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR & POCAHAUNTED Title: Colaboration Format: CDR Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
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"ROBEDOOR have had releases on Chocolate Monk, Not Not Fun, Fuck It Tapes, Audiobot, Buried Valley, Feral Debris, Arbor and more. POCAHAUNTED have stuff out on Not Not Fun, Arbor and Buried Valley. Britt described it as 27 minutes of tripped out tribalism and voice seance." - Blackest Rainbow.
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Artist: ROBEDOOR / YELLOW SWANS Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Its about time that two of the West Coasts best units share a slab of vinyl together. This is an epic coupling. LAs Robedoor (an obvious Arbor favorite) present what might be their best work yet, "Tremor Deliverance". Synths and subdued vocals weave together into an ornamental sound tapestry with heavy Middle Eastern influence. Total satyagraha. Portlands Yellow Swans are constantly touring (just now embarking on a multi-month European jaunt) and spreading the word of sonic liberation. Their untitled piece is a wall of sound, totally alive and growing, infinitely large. In an edition of 500 copies with printed labels and silkscreened art by Shawn Reed of Raccoo-oo-oon." - Arbor
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Artist: ROBERT PIOTROWICZ/C.M. VON HAUSSWOLF Title: Split Format: LP Label: Bocian Country: Poland Price: $32.00 |
| ROBERT PIOTROWICZs single long track, "Clinamen 3" continues his study of the analog modular synthesizer. The first movement is characterized by a high-frequency tone and an erratic rhythmic bass pulse that slowly build to a wall of symphonic roar. The second movement, a low-end, dark passage, infests the symphonic leads with a sense of evil and menace, the two writhing together in a horror movie haze. The third goes all out, mixing a low end thump with a siren melody lead, dropping subtlety in favor of pure force, before going out like a lamb with a short, simple melodic coda. The first of C.M. VON HAUSSWOLFs quiet, textural studies of sound, "Ritual Shaving of an Ass in Belgium (aka Eating A Piranha Wouldnt Be So Bad The Way Things Are These Days)," is based on loops composed for an installation performance. The textures are light and scratchy, with careful variation on the crunchy textures, with the vaguest insinuation of bass hidden. "Ritual Shaving of an Ass in Poland (aka The Snoring Innocence)," is rawer, static, heavy, and abrasive. With extraneous sounds and audience conversations captured on ragged audio tape, its mangled, worn, decaying nature gives it an historical, hollow quality. Edition of 200." - Bocian. |
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Artist: ROBIN WILLIAMS ON FIRE Title: Jungle Gym of Crucifixes Format: 7" Label: Deathbomb Arc Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Over the top rebel-mockers, crowd pleasing self-abusers, nudists, treble enthusiasts, and all around good ol boys bring out the noise and the punk. Somewhere between XBXRX and Harry Pussy is the chaotic sound that has earned these youths the title of "best band in LA" even though they are from San Francisco (or Santa Barbara or something). For anyone that wanted to know what happens when you play with fire, and the fire loses, then make sure to pick up a copy of this wax... if you think you can handle it. No refunds if the music bullies you around too much." - Deathbomb Arc |
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Artist: ROBOTNICK, ALEXANDER Title: Ce Nest Quun Début Format: LP Label: Medical Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"ALEXANDER ROBOTNICK (aka MAURIZIO DAMI) is an Italian electronic musician. He made his debut on the Italian music scene as the founding member of AVIDA, a dance-cabaret band featuring Daniele Trambusti and Stefano Fuochi. In 1983 he attained international popularity with his track "Problemes DAmour," published first by the Italian label Materiali Sonori and then by Sire-Wea. "Problemes DAmour" went on to become a "cult track" of the disco scene. It became quite an import hit in Americas underground club scene, and sparked the mini-LP Ce Nest Quun Debut that same year (originally released on Materiali Sonori in 1984). Ce Nest Quun Debut consists of six captivating tracks including the hit "Problemes DAmour," as well as the track "Dance Boy Dance," which has appeared on other cult disco compilations. Ce Nest Quun Debut will appeal to lovers of Italo disco, early new wave, and minimal pop." - Medical. Limited edition of 500 copies (individually numbered).
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Artist: ROBOTNICS CROSSING Title: Trigger Happy Format: 7" Label: Betley Country: UK Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: ROBUST WORLDS Title: Emotional Planet Format: LP Label: De Stijl Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Chris Roses Robust Worlds has impressed us since first glimpse. He was actually barefoot, if you can believe that, and his set had the feel of a way more lysergic Kevin Ayers. It was freezing fucking cold and Im pretty sure he wore a Hawaiian shirt. His debut LP is called Emotional Planet, and its deceptively simple. Voice, guitar, some noisy shit, whatever. His playing is sick: fluid, unforced, warm, soothed and soothing. Its a bath you dont want to exit. Seriously, if yr going to play guitar, play it like he does. With a trick in his back pocket and a heavy moon on his mind, Rose utilizes the sort of neo-noir narratives that you hear thru Neil Michael Hagerty, James Jackson Toth, Kurt Vile and other keen observers. Handguns, B&E, two-lane black tops, love, lust, and hard drugs. Life: summed up!" -De Stijl. |
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Artist: ROCCHI, CLAUDIO Title: Suoni Di Frontiera Format: CD Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $18.00 |
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"2009 reissue of this Italian psychoacoustic obscurity, originally released in 1975 on Ariston. Slick tri-fold digipak release with 12-page booklet and gloss varnish cover." - FE. "Back in 1975 when Suoni Di Frontiera (Borderline Sounds) was released, Claudio Rocchi was already a well known figure in the Italian pop scene. In the late 60s Rocchi had burst onto the scene as a member of Milanese psych-prog legends Stormy Six. He performed on their Le Idee Di Oggi Per La Musica Di Domani LP in 1969 and soon after, the acid folk of Viaggio, Rocchis solo debut, was released in 1970. That same year Rocchi hosted an influential radio show on the Italian national broadcasting station, RAI. 1971 brought the simply awesome Volo Magico No.1.
An acknowledged classic, it emerged as not dissimilar to Roy Harpers landmark song cycle of progressive/psych folk, Stormcock. The album -- especially the epic 18 minute title track -- established Rocchi as the Italian psych-folk minstrel par excellence. Then, after traveling to India, improvisation and Eastern philosophies began to shape his next few albums, Essenza from 1973 being a high point. 1974s Il Miele Dei Pianeti Le Isole Le Api (The Honey Of The Planets The Islands The Bees) featured guitars, tabla, strings and percussion but the following album from 1975, Rocchi was, according to the man himself, a real U turn. It featured a handful of songs, though Rocchi baffled his hardcore following by introducing cut-ups, environmental sounds and analogue synthesizers recorded at his home studio using a Revox A70.
This brings us to the experimental electronics of his next album Suoni Di Frontiera. Consisting of 16 sketches made at home, this recording went much further out than Rocchi. Described by so-called authorities to be naïve and unsophisticated, to these ears Suoni is a highly personal and extremely charming collection of psychedelically damaged constructs. All of Rocchis celebrated and highly-recognized vocals were now processed and modulated -- if they were heard at all. They sat alongside his spacey and dislocated homespun synth stylings that sound simultaneously retro and futuristic. What more can one ask for?
Rocchi described the release as "diving deeper into psychoacoustics, a practical theory on healing music, mind resonances, inner flows." Yep. And thanks to the good folk at Die Schachtel, another crucial piece of the 70s Italian puzzle has been unearthed for our pleasure. Dig in." - Oren Ambarchi.
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Artist: ROCK MAG Title: #3 Format: Mag Label: Rock Mag Country: USA Price: $2.50 |
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Great Sproton Layer interview/article, no wave guide to Pink Floyd, reviews. See also Modern Rock Mag.
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Artist: ROCK MAG Title: #6 Format: Mag Label: Rock Mag Country: USA Price: $2.50 |
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Essay on late period George Harrison solo LPs, Superdope supplement, reviews. See also Modern Rock mag.
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Artist: ROCKCELONA Title: La Bruja Format: LP Label: Estereo Fonico Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "Considered by many worldwide collectors as one of the best hard-rock albums ever, Rockcelonas La Bruja saw the light in 1978 and sank without trace. The band came from Barcelona and could be seen as one of the early Spanish proto-punk bands along with La Banda Trapera Del Rio. Killer sound with primitive English/Spanish vocals and heavy, and I mean heavy fuzz-wah wah assaults from start to finish! First time ever reissue with remastered sound and original artwork. A must!" -Estereo Fonico |
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Artist: ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS Title: The Day The Earth Met The. . . Format: CD Label: Smog Veil Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"Clevelands only real legitimate claim to house the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame is a band that will never be inducted there. In fact, it is more than 25 years after the group broke up that a legitimate album of their material is now available on Smog Veil. This was Rocket From the Tombs -- the mutant daddy to Pere Ubu and the Dead Boys. Originally, singer David Thomas started the band in May 1974 as a kind of comedy act, though later the group would have a good grasp of theatrics. A gifted guitarist/writer named Peter Laughner showed up at some of these farce-filled gigs, jammed with the band and joined soon after that. Thomas and Laughner would make a new more musical lineup that included Gene OConnor (AKA Cheetah Chrome) (guitar), David Bell (bass) and Johnny Madansky (AKA Johnny Blitz) (drums). Somehow this disparate crew got opening gigs ranging from Iron Butterfly to Captain Beefheart to Television (who Laughner actually joined briefly). Without Rocket From The Tombs, the world may have never heard Thirty Seconds Over Toyko, Final Solution , Aint It Fun, Sonic Reducer, and Down in Flames -- all Rockets originals, and all contained on this release, along with 14 other tracks culled from archival live recordings, some of which have never previously been bootlegged. Comprehensive liner notes and never before seen photos are jam-packed in this complete retrospective that showcases the true inception of the Cleveland underground sound." -Smog Veil
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Artist: ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS Title: The Day The Earth Met The... Format: Double LP Label: Fire Fidelity Country: Italy Price: $48.00 |
| "Subtitled: Live From Punk Ground Zero, Cleveland 1975. Fire Fidelity is thrilled to bring you this historic reissue by Ohio legends Rocket From The Tombs, The Day the Earth Met the Rocket From the Tombs. The Cleveland five piece (consisting of David Thomas and Peter Laughner, later with Pere Ubu, as well as Cheetah Chrome and Johnny Madanksy, later with the Dead Boys) formed in 1974, played only a handful of shows, never put out a record, and just 12 short months later called it quits, but in 2002 previously unheard demos, live recordings and bootlegs were unearthed culminating in enough material to make this album. These rare 1975 recordings come from three sources: the RFTT Rehearsal loft on Jul 18, the Picadilly Inn on July 24 and the Agora on May 5, and all serve to bear witness to the undeniable fact that Rocket From the Tombs brand of proto-punk represents ground zero, and remains unmatched even 37 years later. Essential! Housed in a full-color gatefold sleeve; with download code." -Fire Fidelity |
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Artist: ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS Title: The Day The Earth Met The... Format: Double LP Label: Smog Veil Country: USA Price: $35.00 |
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"Rocket From the Tombs (or RFTT) was an American rock music band originally active from mid-1974 to mid-1975 in Cleveland, Ohio. Heralded as an important protopunk group, they were little known during their lifetime, though various members later achieved renown in Pere Ubu and the Dead Boys. Billy Bob Hargus wrote, however, that "The sound of the Rockets is much more ferocious than Ubu or the Dead Boys."
There was some fluctuation of the groups personnel, but the classic lineup was David Thomas (then known as "Crocus Behemoth" - vocals, sax), Peter Laughner (guitar, vocals), Craig Bell (bass, vocals), Gene OConnor (a.k.a. Cheetah Chrome, guitar, vocals), and Johnny Madansky (presently known as "Johnny Blitz," drums).
When RFTT disbanded, the personnel formed two different musical groups:
OConnor and Madansky joined with singer Stiv Bators (who made a guest appearance on-stage at the last RFTT show) to form Frankenstein, which later morphed into the Dead Boys, a more straightforward punk rock group.
Laughner and Thomas went on to form the more experimental Pere Ubu with Tim Wright (RFTTs soundman).
Both groups used songs first written or performed by Rocket From The Tombs as parts of their repertoires: the Dead Boys were known for "Aint It Fun," "What Love Is," "Down in Flames," "Caught With the Meat in Your Mouth" ("Im Never Gonna Kill Myself Again" as done by RFTT) and "Sonic Reducer"; Pere Ubu went on to reinterpret "Final Solution," "Life Stinks" and "30 Seconds Over Tokyo"."
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Artist: ROCKEY, LEE Title: Brass Ring Format: Cass Label: Pigface Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Recorded , Edited, Mixed and Played in Portland Oregon in the late 1970s By Lee Rockey. Final Editing for this Album by Ju Suk Reet Meate at Smegmas Studio January 2013.
Lee Rockey gave up being the best jazz drummer in Portland sometime in the
Late 1960s and started playing a modified flat bridge Violin, Cello , Oscillators
and free Drumming using a Teac 2340 4 channel tape deck as soon as they were available to layer tracks . Brass Ring is one of the very rare finished, named compositions that was originally a Cassette dub that I managed to borrow and copy." - Pigface.
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Artist: ROCKEY, LEE Title: Jazz Drummer Extraordinaire Format: Cass Label: Pigface Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
 " Side one Recorded at various NYC locations including Lees EXTRAORDINAIRE Apartment 1952-1955 .
Side two Mostly Recorded at the Way Out Club Portland Oregon
May 16 1961
Final EQing and Album Concept by Ju Suk Reet Meate
February 2013
One of the most unique and unsung Artists in Portland history,
Lee Rockey was born in Vancouver Wa. 1926 and from 1942 untill
1965 or so was the most modern and best "Jazz Drummer" in the area.
One of the" Vancouver Whiz Kids" he wore a Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat
and still spoke "Jive" when I met him in 1976. After playing all types of Gigs in Portland including sitting in for touring R&B acts such as The Treniers, he Moved to NYC in 1952 ,and was hired by Neil Hefty (who had just revitalized Count Basies Career with his great arrangements and written his last big hit Little Darlin ) for his first big band. Later he was in the studio for Herbie Manns debut 10" in 1955. Also on this album
are Homemade Tapes with his friend Pianist and vocalist Ed Beach Jamming
and being silly in there apartment in NYC.
Moving back to Portland Lee was the go-to Drummer for the most ambitious Jazz Musicians including Jim Smiths "The Way Out Band" 1961-63
featuring amazing arrangements by Bill and Ernie Hood and others. WARNING: This Album contains Serious High Class music originally intended for Adults of the Mid 20th Century." - Pigface.
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Artist: ROCKEY, LEE Title: Music Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "destijl is pleased to present the first archival digs into the wondrous world of lee rockey. lee was a hardswinging jazzbo who had mastered the modern style by 46, and became known as one of the vancouver whiz kids. he went to the city in 53, jammed with neil hefti, and appeared on the first few herbie mann recs ( plays bethlehem BCP-58, east coast jazz / 4 bethlehem BCP-1018). upon his left coast return, he began developing his own sound / style, with an intent of transcending traditional musical forms / expectations. ju suk reet meate caught one of his performances in early 76, and lee became a figure of big inspiration. hed eventually invite lee to play on a few early smegma recs. aside from a few record booth lathes cut in the 40s / 50s, this is his first solo release. on first spin there are a few brief moments when the sounds of toshi ichiyanagi come to mind, but these sounds inhabit a universe that is entirely that of lee rockey. tho the pieces contained on this rec were recorded from the yrs 59 to 73, they own a keen third eye prescience that portends the likes of c spencer yeh and axolotl. this is far / away the most modern sounding rec to ever brandish the destijl logo, and youll scratch yr head until the kingdom comes.." - Destijl. "Portland oregon, art museum, early 1976. in the auditorium, drums / electic violin / and cello played thru an echoplex, a 4 channel tape deck was playing pre -recorded electronic skronks, flutes, and off speed voices, dancers were holding video cameras, connected to a paik video synth that was creating a live video projection. The music was crazed, scary and funny and beautiful. of all the live shows Ive seen, this one stands out. The man behind all this was Lee Rockey. 1926 -2002. this was the second (and last) of his full blown personal music / art world performances. A few months later I saw lee on drums with Kenneith Rexroth poetry and jazz. after that lee mostly played at home and a few low key gigs in town. Lee rockey was a hardswinging jazz drummer who mastered the modern style by 1946 and became known as one of the Vancouver whiz kids. Went to NYC in 1953, worked and recorded with neil hefty and herbie mann later moving back to Portland and playing with the top modern jazz artists. He was also developing his own music and painting style and appeared on a few smegma records. this record (his first solo release) is from 7 inch reel tapes recorded mostly early 1960s, early 1970s with lee on home made electronics loops, horns, violin, cello, drums, bells, and poss dick Knudsen on cello." -Ju Suk Reet Meate / Smegma, Portland OR 2006. |
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Artist: ROCKIN HORSE Title: Yes It Is Format: LP Label: Sing Sing Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "ROCKIN HORSES Yes It Is has been critically hailed as one of the true lost British power pop relics. When the late Greg Shaw (Bomp Records & Magazine) created his Voxx subsidiary, the first single he decided to reissue was Rockin Horses 1971 magnum opus single, "The Biggest Gossip in Town." Shaw declared that the single was the greatest power pop song of all time-heady stuff. The power pop sounds of Yes It Is have been favorably compared to the best of The Beatles Let it Be era and Badfingers early 1970 efforts. As an homage, the bands name was drawn from The Beatles "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and the album title itself from The Beatles B-side of "Ticket to Ride." Rockin Horse was formed in 1971 by lifelong best friends JIMMY CAMPBELL (THE KIRBYS, 23RD TURNOFF) and BILLY KINSLEY (THE MERSEYBEATS, THE MERSEYS) after the end of their respective Liverpool bands had split. Joining the Liverpool core duo were hired studio guns: BOBBY FALLOON (guitar), STAN GORMAN (drums) and MICHAEL SNOW (keyboards). Having been schooled in the very same musical influences as the Fab Four, the end result is eerily similar to the sound the Beatles were creating at the end of their career during 1968-1970. The album was not an attempt to "ape" The Beatles sound, but more the end product of having grown up as contemporaries of The Beatles in Liverpool and listening to the same records and playing the same circuits . How could they not end up sounding similar? Locating a copy of the original album is close to impossible and very expensive. Now you can own one of the greatest power pop recordings of all time on vinyl with its original Hipgnosis sleeve design. - Sing Sing. |
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Artist: ROCKMORE, CLARA Title: The Art Of The Theremin Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"This LP, originally recorded and released by Delos International in 1977, features the eerily beautiful theremin accompanied by piano. A record of stark simplicity & emotional intensity. We are proud to present the first ever vinyl reissue of this material. Gatefold tip on cover with extensive liner notes detailing the history & inner workings of the theremin & Clara Rockmore." Presented by Shirleigh and Robert Moog, with piano accompaniment by Nadia Reisenberg. This is actually a reproduction of the (superior) 1981 Japanese pressing of the original 1977 Delos International release." -Mississippi
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Artist: RODEN, STEVE Title: ...I Listen To The Wind That Obliterates My Traces Format: Hardcover Book/2CD Label: Dust-to-Digital Country: USA Price: $52.00 |
| "I Listen To The Wind That Obliterates My Traces brings together a collection of early photographs related to music, a group of 78rpm recordings, and short excerpts from various literary sources that are contemporary with the sound and images. It is a somewhat intuitive gathering, culled from artist STEVE RODENs collection of thousands of vernacular photographs related to music, sound, and listening. The subjects range from the PT Barnum-esque Professor McRea-"Ontarios Musical Wonder" (pictured with his complex sculptural one-man band contraption)-to anonymous African-American guitar players and images of early phonographs. The images range from professional portraits to ethereal, accidental, double exposures-and include a range of photographic print processes, such as tintypes, ambrotypes, CDVS, cabinet cards, real photo postcards, albumen prints, and turn-of-the-century snapshots. The two CDs bring together a variety of recordings, including one-off amateur recordings, regular commercial releases, and early sound effects records. There is no narrative structure to the book, but the collision of literary quotes (Hamsun, Lagarkvist, Wordsworth, Nabokov, etc.). Recordings and images conspire towards a consistent mood that is anchored by the books title, which binds such disparate things as an early recording of an American cowboy ballad, a poem by a Swedish Nobel Laureate, a recording of crickets created artificially, and an image of an itinerant anonymous woman sitting in a field, playing a guitar. The book also contains an essay by Roden. Hardback book, 8.5 x 6.5 inches, 184 pages, 150 photographs reproduced in full color and two audio CDs from the authors collection." - Dust To Digital. |
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Artist: RODENT PLAGUE Title: Blue Wave Format: 7" Label: Kill Shaman Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Rodent Plague is the home project of Erin Sullivan, singer and guitarist of the A-Frames and AFCGT. His solo recordings are wildly different from the post-apololyptic and angular punk of A-Frames, however the underlying sentiments of death, destruction and horror still remain. Rodent Plague songs are composed from guitars, synths, drum machines and other reandom sounds to build an eerie kind of angular surf sound. Imagine if Brian Wilson was raised in the poltergeist house and recorded an album. Seriously evil black vinyl with evil black sleeves and black songs that will relax and mystify you at the same time." -Kill Shaman |
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Artist: RODER, KLAUS Title: Kristallisationen Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Klaus Röder is a guitar virtuoso and electronic music artist who studied with Kelemen and joined Kraftwerk for their famous Autobahn LP. He often works with very small sound particles, whose sound comes from different sources, like tearing paper, the voice, a musical instrument, synthesizer or computer sounds. Sound structures are built by joining together those sound particles and, by mixing those structures, Roeder forms chords. Then the process of crystallization begins. Usually crystallization means that small parts are deposited around a germ and form a growing crystal. The shape of the complete crystal is a consequence of outer influences. A series of sound crystals form, then the complete musical composition. Side 1 presents two electronic music works: 10: 11: 12 (1980) for self-built Impulse Generator is an obscure, very minimal and abstract pulsating piece, while Kristallisation 4 (1991) for Computer Sounds and Yamaha DX 802 might be considered one of the peaks of Klaus Röder Kristallisation series. Side 2 introduces us to a different formal result of Röders crystallization process: the short Haenschen Blues (1993) for children singing and crying, Yamaha TX 802 controlled by selfmade programs for Atari TT is a both playful and sinister electronic assemblage anticipating the peak of this record, Potpourri (1985) a collage of short sound particles from German pop hits of the 1970s and 1980s. In the perspective on sound collages (from Battiato Ethika Fon Ethica to Bladder Flasks first LP, from NWWs most surrealistic works to John Oswald classic plunderphonics) Potpourri might be more close to the brut masterpiece InOut by Anton Bruhin, only constructed in a more advanced and scientific way. Edition limited to 300 copies, also including a series of inserts with the diagrams and schedules of the 4 compositions presented on this LP." -Planam |
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Artist: RODER, KLAUS Title: Kristallisationen 2 Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Planam proudly presents the second LP production by Klaus Röder featuring two more pieces from the electronic Kristallisationen series, or Kristallisation 5 (1993) for microphone recordings of children chimes (played by children), Yamaha TX 802 digital synthesizer and EMS Synthi A analog synthesizer, Kristallisation 7 (1997) for microphone recordings and computer sounds, as well as Frozen Sounds (2002) for electric guitar sounds and computer sounds and the more concrete Life-Music 1 (1999) for microphone recordings in the zoo of Wuppertal, computer sounds and Yamaha TX 802 digital synthesizer. Klaus Röder is the archetype of the challenging challenger -- the perfect outsider. Nothing bad about it -- true geniuses often are hiding behind their uncompromising ethic. Ethic in the attic would define the home-studio work of this ex-Kraftwerk banned banned banned auf Die Autobahn. The independent, time-stretching composer Klaus Röder is by necessity an inventor. Systems, machines, treatments, everything is (hand)made to provoke, to induce a musical result not only technically superb but loaded with the authors intimacy: humour, sound elements of a private life, a kid giggling... indeed a highly emotional and poetical approach. Klaus Röder mixes and plays with outside influences -- cut-up, musique concrète, psychedelia, plunderphonics, pop, even blues! -- in order to create a patchwork-like but coherent corpus over nearly 40 years of compositional activity. His music blends the warmth of strings and of humanity with the icy matter of electrical components and seems to have just one borderline: that of our ears. Edition limited to 420 copies. - Planam. Side-label of Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: RODIER, ROGER Title: Upon Velveatur Format: CD Label: Sunbeam Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "Often compared to the work of Nick Drake, Upon Velveatur is a dense and mysterious French-Canadian folk-psych suite, featuring beautiful melodies, lush orchestration and scorching electric guitar. Barely circulated on its original release in 1972, it has gathered a major cult following and is now making its first appearance on CD, complete with five bonus tracks, rare photographs and sleevenotes by the enigmatic Mssr. Rodier himself." |
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Artist: RODRIGUEZ CASTRO, PLÁCIDA Title: Cantos Icaros Format: Cass Label: Masstropicas Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "...a collection of icaros or shamanic chants by Placido of Sensación Shipibo. They were recorded in Peru while the Masstropicas crew were there on a recent trip." - Culture Remixed blog. "[L]imited to only 100 copies and the funds made from selling will go towards building him a new home in Yarinacocha which burnt down in August leaving him and his family homeless." - Masstropicas. |
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Artist: ROE ENNEY Title: Damnatio Memoriae Format: Cass Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Loner voyeuristic psychedelicia, with a tendency toward the neurotic or the surreal, lamented with voice and occasional spoken word. A peculiar nod to the New Romantics. Letterpressed J-Card, and Pro Duplicated Tape." - Phaserprone.
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Artist: ROEDELIUS Title: Lustwandel Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "180 gram LP version. The third studio album by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released by Sky Records in 1981, fulfilled a dream he had long cherished. A series of chamber music pieces, with grand piano solos taking center stage in some places, archaised percussion patterns in others. Lustwandel represents a logical progression, following on from Jardin Au Fou (re-released on Bureau B in 2009). Both albums were recorded at Paragon Studios in 1979 and produced by Peter Baumann (Tangerine Dream). Electronica in the sense of synthetic sound sources or rhythm are absent from Lustwandel, in keeping with so many Roedelius solo works. This led to lively action amongst Cluster fans 30 years ago, as they divided into different camps. Roedelius unique musical style and irrepressible enthusiasm take his listeners down more of a sidetrack to the aural landscape of European harmonic and rhythmic tradition. There are obvious parallels to so-called serious chamber music, if not all the way along the route. His music has never been bound by contemporary aesthetic debate nor susceptible to emerging theory. As an autodidact, his techniques of composition and piano-playing are so well developed, that Roedelius has never wanted, nor needed to bother himself with any of that. It is a carefree Roedelius who saunters through both the 19th and late-20th centuries. Boundaries dissolve in his music. Here the glow of a magic lantern, there the glare of a neon light. Herein lay the originality of Lustwandel: he availed himself of traditional forms yet expressed them in contemporaneous fashion. Roedelius and Lustwandel could easily have been assimilated into the postmodern era which arrived in the 1970s. But, as usual, he was many miles away from the hub of cultural activity, without the slightest inclination to pay any attention to new phenomena. This child of the sun walks some very different paths indeed. Printed inner sleeve with photos and an essay by Asmus Tietchens." -Bureau B |
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Artist: ROEDELIUS Title: Offene Turen Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| 180 gram vinyl. "Offene Türen is a purely electronic album. Without losing himself in their infinite tonal possibilities, Roedelius delights in playing a selection of synthesizers. He even deploys an analog rhythm machine now and then to discreet effect. Roedelius takes great care to steer well clear of any cosmic fog or de-personalized abstractions. Nothing of the sort can be heard, as he focuses intensely and exclusively on the relationships of rhythm, harmony, and melody. Roedelius conjures up their delicate timbres on synthesizer with the greatest of ease. The seasoned electronic musician would have found similar results beyond the reach of his good old Farfisa organ. Offene Türen is an album of electronic chamber music and only someone with as sunny a disposition as Roedelius could be its composer and performer. Indeed, the unfettered Roedelius knew no artistic barriers in the early 1980s, following a turbulent period of personal upheaval amidst the musical revolution going on around him. He began to open up a brand new musical world, venturing forth with typical humility, as quietly and steadfastly as ever. Offene Türen marks a kind of threshold which Roedelius crosses in the moment of its inception: one foot in the glorious 1970s, the other already reaching into the uncharted future of the 1980s. Roedelius did not surrender his musical identity in the process, nor did he modify his inimitable artistic handwriting. Both had attained a level of complexity that perhaps he himself would have found surprising in earlier days. Those who have listened carefully to Roedelius both before and after Offene Türen will appreciate the albums significance. But even leaving such historical reminiscences aside, this music is incredibly vibrant and beautiful. Listening to it now is as great a pleasure as it was at the time of its creation. Clearly, Roedelius has always been an absolute master of timelessness." -Asmus Tietchens. |
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Artist: ROEDELIUS Title: Plays Piano (Live In London 1985) Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| LP version. Breathtakingly beautiful piano fantasies from the year 1985 -- released for the very first time! In 1985, Hans-Joachim Roedelius was still perceived by the music community as an electronic artist. Yet ever since acquiring his Bösendorfer grand piano in 1983, his interest had grown in the most royal of instruments: the piano. While staying with Brian Eno in 1985 (they had collaborated earlier in the 70s), Roedelius composed a wealth of new material on his friends two grand pianos (or, as Roedelius would say: the music flew to him). He organized a series of concerts to introduce his new musical direction, with the Bloomsbury Theatre in London amongst the venues. Guests included Brian Eno and The Edge, with Roedelius taking the belated opportunity to use the artwork to thank them accordingly for their support. For Roedelius, this London concert remains one of the highlights of his career: "At the Bloomsbury Theatre I encountered a Steinway grand piano of exceptional quality. I was thus given the perfect opportunity to put my ideas of simple piano rendition into practice. For me, the aural explorer, it was a gift from heaven," he describes of the instrument. The audience responded enthusiastically. "People were kneeling down before me in gratitude and happiness," Roedelius recalls. And anyone who listens to the recordings will understand why. Roedelius plays his way through 21 delicate, drifting piano fantasies, sometimes meandering dreamfully, often progressing towards gorgeous, deeply moving melodies. Asmus Tietchens musings on Roedelius 1991 opus Piano Piano are just as valid here: "His music is quiet and focused, but to call it contemplative or even meditative would also be wide of the mark: not all music which draws us out of ourselves is accompanied by spiritual pomp." (Fortunately, there is no audible trace of the audience at any point of the recording.) Which leaves us with the question: why did we have to wait 25 years for this treasure to see the light of day? Roedelius explains: "I always knew that this concert would have to be made available some day, I was just waiting for the right moment, for the right partners who would do it justice. On 180 gram vinyl with free download code." - Bureau B. |
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Artist: ROEDELIUS Title: Selbstportrait Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "LP version on 180 gram vinyl. This is the third solo album by German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released in 1979 on Sky Records. Alongside his ongoing work with Cluster and Harmonia, Roedelius amassed an almost incalculable number of musical notations during his time in the idyllic Weser Uplands. Fleeting sketches, spontaneous improvisations, implied miniatures, rough compositions -- Roedelius recorded virtually every idea he came up with outside the studio sessions on his Revox A77 reel to reel; with the basic intention of capturing his moments of inspiration, he simply let the tape run as he played around on the Farfisa organ. Sound quality was not his prime concern, as he was not as yet entertaining any notion of releasing the results. As Roedelius recalls, costly tape spools were at a premium, so he recorded over older tapes in mono, at a less than ideal speed. Substandard, technically speaking (or listening), but as a self portrait, nothing short of a masterpiece. It would be inappropriate to measure this album by the hi-fidelity yardstick; see it as something closer to an intimate confession, an unguarded communiqué from one person to another. Bordering on naivety and free of conceit, Roedelius introduces us to his world through these chiffonesque études. There may be little variation in the Farfisa sound, but this is soon forgotten when Roedelius invites us to listen, to enter the experience. No expensive technology, no producer, no collaborators. This is unfiltered personality, the real Roedelius. Musically, Selbstportrait is characterized by a combination of ländler, minimalism and harmonic simplicity. The Weser Uplands, where Roedelius recorded his music, are certainly no Arcadia and the village of Forst is anything but Atlantis, but perhaps it could become the Graceland of German electronic music. Printed innersleeve with original liner notes and new notes by Asmus Tietchens." -Bureau B |
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Artist: ROEDELIUS Title: Selbstportrait Format: CD Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released in 1979 on Sky Records. Alongside his ongoing work with Cluster and Harmonia, Roedelius amassed an almost incalculable number of musical notations during his time in the idyllic Weser Uplands. Fleeting sketches, spontaneous improvisations, implied miniatures, rough compositions -- Roedelius recorded virtually every idea he came up with outside the studio sessions on his Revox A77 reel to reel; with the basic intention of capturing his moments of inspiration, he simply let the tape run as he played around on the Farfisa organ. Sound quality was not his prime concern, as he was not as yet entertaining any notion of releasing the results. As Roedelius recalls, costly tape spools were at a premium, so he recorded over older tapes in mono, at a less than ideal speed. Substandard, technically speaking (or listening), but as a self portrait, nothing short of a masterpiece. It would be inappropriate to measure this album by the hi-fidelity yardstick; see it as something closer to an intimate confession, an unguarded communiqué from one person to another. Bordering on naivety and free of conceit, Roedelius introduces us to his world through these chiffonesque études. There may be little variation in the Farfisa sound, but this is soon forgotten when Roedelius invites us to listen, to enter the experience. No expensive technology, no producer, no collaborators. This is unfiltered personality, the real Roedelius. Musically, Selbstportrait is characterized by a combination of ländler, minimalism and harmonic simplicity. The Weser Uplands, where Roedelius recorded his music, are certainly no Arcadia and the village of Forst is anything but Atlantis, but perhaps it could become the Graceland of German electronic music. Liner notes by Asmus Tietchens." -Bureau B. |
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Artist: ROEDELIUS Title: Selbstportrait - Vol. II Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "180 gram LP version. This is the fourth solo album by German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released in 1980 on Sky Records. With Selbstportrait, Roedelius gave unequivocal confirmation that he no longer was treading the hitherto common paths of electronic music. Selbstportrait - Vol. II corroborated the findings: for Roedelius, electronics would no longer be a means of creating abstract, noise-like music in the future, nor of generating utopian, mechanical rhythmic structures. His own utopia was quite a different place, more in keeping with his own personality and view of the world. Hence both self-portraits, in particular Selbstportrait - Vol. II, are programmatic. Uniquely among musicians of the German electronic scene at the time, Roedelius succeeded in blending European and extra-European musical styles quite intuitively, developing his own language of music, neither epigonic nor weighed down by stereotype, as often occurred in the emerging world music genre of the period. There is a fascinating simplicity to the music of Roedelius: his vision does not reside in cloud-cuckoo-land. His utopia is founded in reason, his vision sustained by a simple base: not only did he ignore musical traditions, he also sought to create something new out of them. He succeeded where many of his contemporaries failed, going to ground as they attempted to bridge the postmodern gap. Not Roedelius. Roedelius music is littered with stumbling blocks. The listener may not necessarily lose his footing, but will not exactly find himself sitting comfortably as he listens. With this album, Roedelius has drawn a clearly delineated picture of himself. Few musicians can say the same, few even harbor such aspirations. Transcending styles, hypes and modernisms, Selbstportrait - Vol. II is electronically-sourced music, yet sounds anything but technical, dismantling the misconception that electronic music has to sound cold and distant. Selbstportrait - Vol. II has never been released completely before. Printed innersleeve with original liner notes and new notes by Asmus Tietchens." -Bureau B |
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Artist: ROEDELIUS Title: Selbstportrait - Vol. II Format: CD Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "This is the fourth solo album by German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released in 1980 on Sky Records. With Selbstportrait, Roedelius gave unequivocal confirmation that he no longer was treading the hitherto common paths of electronic music. Selbstportrait - Vol. II corroborated the findings: for Roedelius, electronics would no longer be a means of creating abstract, noise-like music in the future, nor of generating utopian, mechanical rhythmic structures. His own utopia was quite a different place, more in keeping with his own personality and view of the world. Hence both self-portraits, in particular Selbstportrait - Vol. II, are programmatic. Uniquely among musicians of the German electronic scene at the time, Roedelius succeeded in blending European and extra-European musical styles quite intuitively, developing his own language of music, neither epigonic nor weighed down by stereotype, as often occurred in the emerging world music genre of the period. There is a fascinating simplicity to the music of Roedelius: his vision does not reside in cloud-cuckoo-land. His utopia is founded in reason, his vision sustained by a simple base: not only did he ignore musical traditions, he also sought to create something new out of them. He succeeded where many of his contemporaries failed, going to ground as they attempted to bridge the postmodern gap. Not Roedelius. Roedelius music is littered with stumbling blocks. The listener may not necessarily lose his footing, but will not exactly find himself sitting comfortably as he listens. With this album, Roedelius has drawn a clearly delineated picture of himself. Few musicians can say the same, few even harbor such aspirations. Transcending styles, hypes and modernisms, Selbstportrait - Vol. II is electronically-sourced music, yet sounds anything but technical, dismantling the misconception that electronic music has to sound cold and distant. Selbstportrait - Vol. II has never been released completely before. Includes 5 tracks never released on CD! Liner notes by Asmus Tietchens." -Bureau B. |
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Artist: ROEDELIUS Title: The Diary Of The Unforgotten (Selbstportrait VI) Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "Pressed on 180 gram vinyl. The Diary Of The Unforgotten is a collection of recordings from the years 1972 to 1978 and was first released in 1990 (with different artwork). Between the years of 1972 and 1978, Hans-Joachium Roedelius and Dieter Moebius, later joined by Michael Rother, lived out on a country estate in the idyllic, diminutive settlement of Forst in the Weser Uplands. It was here that the Harmonia albums, legendary recordings with Brian Eno and various splendid Cluster albums were created. Both the house itself and the surrounding landscape held a magical fascination for Roedelius. The time he spent here was intense in every sense of the word. He translated his feelings and impressions into music, giving rise to the "self-portrait" series. His sixth self-portrait bears the title The Diary Of The Unforgotten and offers a compelling aural record of the Roedelius psyche of the period. For Roedelius, Selbstportrait VI, in particular the 24 minutes of the "Hommage ÿ Forst" centerpiece, were like messages in a bottle, cast into the water in 1990 and now ready to be discovered on the different shores of 2010. Every track on the album is a distant echo from the Forst era. "Even today," Roedelius writes in the original liner notes (1990), "these pieces retain the spirit and atmosphere of those days in Forst, where I learned so much about life." The windswept character of Selbstportrait VI is underlined by the sporadically lo-fi quality of the recordings: Roedelius just let the tape machine run, without overdubs. In the booklet, Roedelius casts his mind back again to the detailed creation of the tracks and their relevance to his later works: "At the end of the days sessions, I would sit in our small, makeshift ground floor studio almost every night. With the window open in summer, I could hear the ducks quacking on the river, the horses snorting and the cows mooing on the meadows across the water, the wind rustling through the leaves of old elm and oak trees on the riverbank behind the house. This set the scene for my first self-portraits, as well as providing the basis for subsequent studio productions, and other compositions which, in a way, could also be seen as self-portraits." Printed inner sleeve with an appraisal by Asmus Tietchens." - Bureau B. |
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Artist: ROEDELIUS Title: Wenn Der Südwind Weht Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "180 gram vinyl LP version. Wenn Der Südwind Weht ("When The South Wind Is Blowing") is the seventh solo album by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released on Sky Records in 1981 (also known under the title Selbstportrait IV). "Where on earth does Roedelius find such a beautiful array of notes?" wonders Asmus Tietchens in his sleeve notes for this reissue. Not an unreasonable question. Roedelius, a pioneer of ambient music, Krautrock and, arguably, synthesizer pop, member of such seminal bands as Cluster and Harmonia, revels in alien worlds on this record. This is "Music to be listened to quietly," as Roedelius advised on the LP cover. Indeed, listening at low volume enhances the sense of otherworldliness quite considerably. And yet, this album can hardly be termed "spacy" nor psychedelic in the slightest. Electronic excesses are absent, aural exotica off-limits, bizarre cacophonies non-existent. The individual tracks are compact, lined up in quick succession, like a string of pearls. Wherein lies their fascination? From what distant place do they reach out to the listener? First of all, there is the Roedelian "quietitude." Even when the music is turned up, it remains quiet in character, almost as if wrapped in cotton wool. The quiet nature of this music is inseparable from the serene and tranquil manner in which Roedelius goes about creating his typical harmonies and melodies on an electric organ of decidedly limited sonic variability. He leaves in the occasional blip and electric interference or tape hiss, but nothing can distract him from the inspiration of the moment as it feeds his music. The contrast with the perfect, yet impersonal precision of minimalism could not be greater. Improvisation is the driving force of Roedelius music. Without a trace of exhibitionism, he externalizes himself through his music with an honesty that could move one to tears. As a member of Cluster and Harmonia, such radicalism was never open to him. Südwind is an undisputed highlight in the Roedelius canon. Inner sleeve with liner notes by Asmus Tietchens." -Bureau B |
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Artist: ROEDELIUS Title: Wie Das Wispern Des Windes...Like The Whispering Of The Wind Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "180 gram LP version. Bureau B reissues the eleventh solo album by German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released in 1986 on the small Norwegian label Cicada. If we can agree on 1969 as the year of Clusters inception, then Roedelius needed a good 17 years to discover the aural qualities and musical beauty of the grand piano for his own compositions. More precisely, he must have become aware of the grand piano during the recording sessions for Jardin Au Fou (1979) and Lustwandel (1981) in Peter Baumanns Paragon studio. Another five years would pass before he built an album entirely around the piano, with electronic elements altogether absent. There is no sign of the Farfisa organ or indeed any of the synthesizers which had previously been such a common feature of Roedelius solo works. The piano sounds were left untreated. Indeed, he was clearly so fascinated by the sonority and potential of the Bösendorfer grand piano that, a few overdubs notwithstanding, he dispensed with virtually all distinguishing features of his musical approach. On Wie Das Wispern Des Windes, Roedelius played his way into virgin territory, as new to his listeners as it was to him. Its no wonder that Wispern was released not on a specialist electronic label in Germany, but on a small Norwegian label called Cicada. Rarely has the title of a Roedelius album (trans. "Like the whispering of the wind") so poetically and yet so accurately described its content. Roedelius expands his études towards amorphousness; then suddenly, a disarmingly familiar melody appears, from a completely different source, perhaps (Harmonia? Cluster?). To continue the poetic theme of the LPs title, Roedelius is not only listening to the wind, he surrenders to it, allowing himself to be carried hither and thither; effortlessly, weightlessly transported to where the sun shines brightest. In this context, the image of a butterfly may be pushing the metaphor a little too far, but an apposite one nevertheless. Liner notes by Asmus Tietchens." - Bureau B. |
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Artist: ROEDELIUS, HANS-JOACHIM Title: Geschenk Des Augenblicks - Gift Of The Moment Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "180 gram vinyl. This is the tenth solo album by German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released in 1984 on Editions EG. On Geschenk Des Augenblicks - Gift Of The Moment, Roedelius broke away unequivocally from purely electronic music. If Lustwandel (BB 055CD/LP) and Jardin Au Fou (BB 023CD/LP) had seen the process set in motion, this was the album that completed the transition. Following the Selbstportraits, which had at least been created through the use of electric organ and synthesizers, Roedelius focused on the grand piano, sometimes accompanied by a cello, violin and guitar. Distant echoes of a not-so-distant musical past could only be detected in the occasional appearance of sparse chords played on a polyphonic synthesizer. Significantly, his arrival in Austria (having moved there a few years earlier) was much more than a geographical relocation. Roedelius responded to the musical culture of romanticism and the Biedermeier tradition, their influences seeping into his essentially modern understanding of composition in bewildering fashion on Geschenk Des Augenblicks - Gift Of The Moment. It was all too much for his listeners, reared on the more familiar sounds of Cluster and Harmonia. Moreover, the album wore a veil of delicate melancholy: no vibrant folk dances, no colorful carousels, no cheerful melodies. Instead, Roedelius offered a calm, almost detached form of music, openly acknowledging romantic heritage. Geschenk Des Augenblicks - Gift Of The Moment eluded contemporary definitions of the "experimental" concept, as Roedelius was now experimenting in new, eclectic areas, too weighty, too grainy to be labeled "proto New Age." Roedelius was not striving for perfection, but for authenticity -- a music stripped of disguise; and to this end he left little playing errors in the mix, fading out tracks rigorously to eliminate any bigger blunders. Such artistic honesty bears no relation to reality-free New Age music. Printed inner sleeve with notes by Asmus Tietchens." -Bureau B |
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Artist: ROEDELIUS, HANS-JOACHIM Title: Momenti Felici Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "180 gram vinyl version. Bureau B reissues Momenti Felici by German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released in 1987 on the Virgin label Venture. Since the early 80s, Roedelius had more or less dispensed with electronics, focusing increasingly on the grand piano. He also collaborated with various combinations of musicians to create a new kind of music, vastly different from Cluster and Harmonia aesthetics. For Roedelius, it was not only a period of reorientation in musical terms, but also geographically: Austria was now his home. "Tu Felix Austria" (trans. "Oh, Happy Austria"), a time-honored Austrian campaign slogan, became his very own motto in no time at all. The pleasure he derived from playing the piano and meeting musicians on the same wavelength did the rest: an enthusiastic Roedelius allowed new impressions and discoveries to flow virtually unfiltered into his music. Momenti Felici is one of the finest examples hereof. With characteristically exuberant inventiveness, Roedelius tickles the ivories lightheartedly, or, entering into a more pensive mood, seems to caress the keys. With saxophonist Alexander Czjzek dueting on some of the pieces, Roedelius shuffles a pack of disciplined compositions and carefree improvisations. In this respect, Momenti Felici most closely resembles Jardin Au Fou. On closer listening, however, the length of time between the two albums can be discerned. Roedelius honed both his compositional and, more than anything, his playing skills in the lengthy period in between. Naturally, Momenti Felici saw Roedelius distance himself further still from the electronic scene. The signs had been there on his preceding albums and this release simply removed any last vestige of doubt. Roedelius had, in any case, long since found a new audience, who continue to follow him avidly today. With the passage of time, many of his companions from earlier days have come to realize that a beautiful melody and a rich piano chord can be just as pleasing to the ear as pure tones and rhythm machines. With liner notes by Asmus Tietchens." -Bureau B. |
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Artist: ROEDELIUS, HANS-JOACHIM Title: Wie Das Wispern Des Windes...Like The Whispering Of The Wind Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "180 gram LP version. Bureau B reissues the eleventh solo album by German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released in 1986 on the small Norwegian label Cicada. If we can agree on 1969 as the year of Clusters inception, then Roedelius needed a good 17 years to discover the aural qualities and musical beauty of the grand piano for his own compositions. More precisely, he must have become aware of the grand piano during the recording sessions for Jardin Au Fou (1979) and Lustwandel (1981) in Peter Baumanns Paragon studio. Another five years would pass before he built an album entirely around the piano, with electronic elements altogether absent. There is no sign of the Farfisa organ or indeed any of the synthesizers which had previously been such a common feature of Roedelius solo works. The piano sounds were left untreated. Indeed, he was clearly so fascinated by the sonority and potential of the Bösendorfer grand piano that, a few overdubs notwithstanding, he dispensed with virtually all distinguishing features of his musical approach. On Wie Das Wispern Des Windes, Roedelius played his way into virgin territory, as new to his listeners as it was to him. Its no wonder that Wispern was released not on a specialist electronic label in Germany, but on a small Norwegian label called Cicada. Rarely has the title of a Roedelius album (trans. "Like the whispering of the wind") so poetically and yet so accurately described its content. Roedelius expands his études towards amorphousness; then suddenly, a disarmingly familiar melody appears, from a completely different source, perhaps (Harmonia? Cluster?). To continue the poetic theme of the LPs title, Roedelius is not only listening to the wind, he surrenders to it, allowing himself to be carried hither and thither; effortlessly, weightlessly transported to where the sun shines brightest. In this context, the image of a butterfly may be pushing the metaphor a little too far, but an apposite one nevertheless. Liner notes by Asmus Tietchens." -Bureau B |
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Artist: ROGER & WENDY Title: Love Rog and Wem Format: LP Label: Horny Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Formerly of 1960s US psych-folk band Euphoria, Roger & Wendy financed this privately pressed album for family and friends in 1971, in an edition of 50 copies. They later renamed themselves Bermuda Triangle (their recently reissued 1977 album has garnered terrific reviews throughout the years). The Roger & Wendy album is the rarest of the lot ($900+), and is a top notch collection of psych-folk gems. A superb artifact from the early 1970s US underground psych folk scene. Taken from the original master tapes, and using the original sleeve artwork, this is a strict limited edition of 450 copies pressed on virgin DMM vinyl." -Horny. |
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Artist: ROGERS, WAYNE Title: At Home Format: LP Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Mr. Rogers turns his back on 8-track & pulls out the cassette 4-track in an attempt to find new anti-structures in which to frame electric guitar music. Four long monotone no-chord instrumentals and a postscript. Inspired by/dedicated to Kaoru Abe and cough syrup." -Twisted Village. |
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Artist: ROGERS, WAYNE Title: Blues-Ul Alb Format: LP Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: ROGERS, WAYNE Title: Constant Displacement Format: LP Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Fifth solo album, featuring 9 tracks recorded at Twisted Village, 12/95 to 6/97. Written and played by Wayne Rogers, except "Something In The Air" written by Speedy Keane. Limited vinyl version in hand-printed sleeve; (CD version on Drag City). Descriptive information about this one took its time forthcoming, but here it is: "The album in the words of its creator: Its rather like minimalism, except within one tone there is a thousand, and then several layers of a thousand, piled high like blankets of snow on a volcano. Actually, I didnt mean to say minimalist, I meant to say obnoxious. Its rather like obnoxiousism. Constant Displacement began as a series of experiments in song form, mainly to satisfy the whims of the artist himself, who never intended it to be issued. How else to explain the wispy balladry, the balls-to-the-wall rock n roll, or the six-minute version of a lousy Thunderclap Newman song? Constant Displacement is his fifth solo album, a tribute to Rock formalism based on traditions no loftier than Danish and South Asian renditions of Stepping Stone, though he is apparently hearing something in them that no one else is." -Twisted Village. |
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Artist: ROGERS, WAYNE Title: Infinite For Now Format: LP Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "After spring pray for fire. Its spring, act immodestly: rip the peels off oranges, make a mess of the overripe, spill on yourselves. Remember the amarylliss singed red conical bud is tipped in black. Its spring, And we are acting immodestly: ripping the peels off oranges, But given fire, there is always smoke, then ash. Leaves have burned. Among these embers lay ash from other fires. Given fire there is always smoke, then ash. The smoke drives the memory out, the ash remains beneath. In these embers lies ash from other fires. After spring, pray for a furious fire." --Shell Riehl Recorded at Twisted Village, Summer 2007. Drums: Casey Keenan. Songs, guitar, vocals, "production" and everything else: Wayne Rogers. |
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Artist: ROGERS, WAYNE Title: Infraction Format: LP Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Written, played and produced by Wayne Rogers,December 95 -- July 96. Waynes fourth solo work finds him deep in the basement at Twisted Village, moving on after his last band, Magic Hour, parted ways. Infraction is forty minutes and forty seconds of instrumental bliss. Within the forty-forty dwells eleven distinct movements, strung taut with guitar heaviness and organ overdrive. As the liner notes say, Surprise dumping in the lake for next year...Four strong winds from the balcony..." - Twisted Village. CD also available.
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Artist: ROIGK, STEFAN Title: Up Rising Format: LP Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $24.00 |
| "First solo music-record by Berlin-based multi-disciplinary artist Stefan Roigk featuring two excellent tape-music / musique concrete compositions. One-sided 12"LP Edition of 130 numbered copies. 1. WALKMAN (6:11min) recorded, arranged and mixed in 2006; 2. BILDER MEINER AUSSTELLUNG (11:31) recorded, arranged and mixed between 2004 and 2007" - Tochnit Aleph. |
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Artist: ROLL THE DICE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"Limited vinyl pressing of 500 copies only for the world. Though this is the official debut recording from Swedish duo Roll The Dice, Malcolm Pardon and Peder Mannerfelt are certainly not strangers to the world of independent music. Mannerfelt has been producing records for years as The Subliminal Kid and also produces for and tours with Fever Ray while Pardon continuously composes for film and television. Having shared a studio in southern Stockholm for several years, they finally decided to join forces in something musical. Each of their sessions together started and ended in the same way. There were to be no pro-conceived ideas going in, but there had to be a completed track at the end of each day. These forced limitations led to a creative cloudburst, finding unexpected passages from beginning to end. Elements of early analog electronics bleed into hints of minimalists such as Terry Riley and Arvo Pärt. Repetition and understated progression engage the listener subtly. It may bring a piece of Basic Channel to mind, but its another beast entirely. Each track consists of only synths and piano. Nothing more. No computer processing. No drum machines -- pure analog. The result is something warm and emotive. There may be a murky darkness underlying these tracks, something almost sinister, but theres a streak of something comfortingly familiar running throughout. Two years after their first session together, they put the finishing touches on the record through the API desk at the legendary Gröndal studio in west Stockholm. It is music that etches itself into your mind like diamond on glass. Pardon and Mannerfelt operate with absolute precision, expressing raw emotions and ideas that are as flitting as they are unforgettable." - Digitalis.
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Artist: ROLLERBALL Title: Savage Eyes/Lay You Down Format: 7" Label: Sing Sing Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "No, nothing to do with the "Teach Me To RocknRoll" lot, its way more important than that. This Rollerball was a pre-Elton Motello thing involving Alan Ward and Mike Butcher (Jet Staxx). Heres what Mike revealed... Rollerball was just a one off, with me on guitar, Alan on vocals and 2 studio assistants, Alex on bass and his brother Pascal on drums. Pascal also played the drums on the Jet Staxx singles. We never played a gig and I dont think we even got many radio plays."Savage Eyes" and B-side "Lay You Down", both Ward/Butcher compositions, were recorded late 1976 in their adopted home of Brussels, Belgium (the mecca of pseudo punk), with a production credited to Rollerball as a band. It seems that it was only released in Holland on CNR Records in the first half of 1977 with the Dutch copies also being distributed in Belgium.The B-side is a decent rock number with a few New York Dolls moves, but the real action is on the glorious glam/punk of "Savage Eyes". Considering who was behind this record and how great it is, its a total mystery why its remained unknown for over 30 years." - Worthless Trash. |
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Artist: ROMAN SOLDIERS Title: Warmer/Yuppie Fires Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Two new tracks from this gloomy-lo-fi supergroup. Mister Blank Dogs and Mister Gary War collaborate on fuzzy, bad-dream almost-pop. Two tracks, color sleeve and color insert." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: ROMAN TORMENT Title: Masculine Failure Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"first full length vinyl offering from the combined efforts of impregnable and moth drakula.
a bitter storm of jagged and sharp rage with escalating fury! opening with the perfect
servant and closing with shades of pain roman torment sews a disturbing thread of
sexual and fetishistic demise through a wilted fabric of introspective violence. reference
points to the incendiary violence of massona with the sinister mood of mlehst, and roman
torment churn forth a wall of trembling destruction set forth with erect tunnel vision
blurred with tender malaise. limited to 200 copies with the traditional silk screened 2
sided fold out cover." - Hospital Productions.
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Artist: ROMAN TORMENT/FEED THE DRAGON Title: Split Format: 12" Label: Anarchymoon Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "a floral assault of carbide-tipped blades, underground atomic collisions, dripping with sorbet and liquid silver. an unrelenting abuse of the artists ears and throats for our benefit. Feed the Dragon "Bromide Romance" - narcotic ritual. the history of desperate ages and the final moments of delivery into chaos / nothingness, scorpions erupting from cactii. who will be left to laugh about the death of civilization??? good loud cut on black 12" vinyl 45rpm, white jackets with color prints glued on the outside, color insert, plain gold labels. lim 300" - Anarchymoon. |
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Artist: ROMERO, DAMION Title: Birth Twin Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Damion Romero is a Los Angeles based practitioner of power acoustics and intense low-level sound manipulation. He has recorded as Speculum Fight, and collaborated with MSBR, Astro, Spencer Yeh, and many more. He is a consistent source of fascinating buzz and drone and somehow manages to translate inherently physical and spatial sound amazingly onto analog and digitally recorded media. Birth Twin is a deeply focused and dense piece of sound that tests the limitations of concentration and movement." - Heavy Tapes. Edition of 150. |
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Artist: ROMERO, DAMION Title: Missing Link Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "30 minutes of Burl from the mysetrious boxes. Heavy thick piles of drone upon drone of heavy electronic buzz, creating an intense wall of multi-layered sound attack. INTENSITY." -Hanson. |
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Artist: ROMERO, DAMION Title: Twins Format: Double LP Label: Tone Filth Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "For over a decade Damion Romero has been crafting minimal sub frequencies to create some of the most interesting and unique experimental music. Twins is Damions most impressive document to date; it contains four sides of intense and focused pure sound, recorded live with no overdubbing, effects, tapes, or feedback. Twins utilizes many varying textures and layers of sound offering many rewarding engaging listens. Edition of 500 copies in professionally printed INA/GRM "Serie Gramme" style gatefold sleeves. Co-released with P-Tapes." - Tone Filth |
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Artist: ROOTH, JERRY Title: But You ll Try...Again Format: 7" Label: Kebrutney Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Original copies of this 1980 single released on Kenneth Higneys Kebrutney label (see his classic Attic Demonstration CD reissue). Excellent Neil Hagerty/Higney-esque, slighty skewed, private press style rock-n-roll with awesome cut and paste front cover artwork. Highly recommended!
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: 7 October 1974 Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Weird mix of avant jazz and british ballads." - Lonely Whistle. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Blind Music Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Mock Tunisian, avant jazz, ensemble compositions, Lorenzo Milam speaks and sings. 1974" - Lonely Whistle. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Brunch With Chef Madness Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Saxophone, guitars, percussion workouts, Geoffs satiric poetry and lampooning, avant shortwave improvs, chamber jams." - Lonely Whistle Music. Recorded 1972. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Constructive, Progressive, Loyal Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Suburban blues to Dons Dad and the usual array of strange and socially unaceptable behavior committed to open reel tape." - Lonely Whistle Music. Recorded 1972. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Early Efforts Vol 1 Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Recorded 1970-71; San Jose, CA. "Raw and blistering clarinet, piano percussion skronk, electric suburb blues, microphone feedback. Insanity and totally lo fi." - Lonely Whistle Music. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Early Efforts Vol 2 Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Recorded 1970-71; San Jose, CA. "Raw and blistering clarinet, piano percussion skronk, electric suburb blues, microphone feedback. Insanity and totally lo fi." - Lonely Whistle Music. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: End Of The Earth Part 1 Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Recorded 1971. "Group improvs, twisted blues, screeching reeds, long rambling jams." - Lonely Whistle Music. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: End Of The Earth Part 2 Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Recorded 1971. "Group improvs, twisted blues, screeching reeds, long rambling jams." - Lonely Whistle Music. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Ham In The Oven Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Fake Jazz at the Philharmonic riffing, rock jamming, acoustic guitar piece and a religious testamonial sing a long." - Lonely Whistle Music. Recorded 1972. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Junior Achievement Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Fake Schoenberg, Pseudo ethnic jamming, long and ridiculous antics." - Lonely Whistle Music. Recorded 1972. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Just Plain Gare Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Gary Campau drum solos, JATP showdowns, free jazz." - Lonely Whistle Music. Recorded 1973. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Live On KTAO, 10 February 1974 Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Ostinato bass with guitar solo, fucked blues, chinese flute piece, pre-punk rumble." - Don Campau. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Macho Madness Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Long jazz and blues jams featuring a very young Russell Ferrante (The Yellowjackets) and San Jose altoist, Danny Hull. The Roots destroy any idea of continuity as they join in on sax, guitar and the kitchen sink." - Lonely Whistle Music. Recorded 1972. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: My Name Is Danny Kaye Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "The final chapter of The Roots recording saga is highlighted by a long improv featuring several pinball machines and raucous banter. Some wild clarinet by Dave Dolphin too." - Lonely Whistle. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Program Music Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Free jazz, rawkish jams, a Caribbean mockup, Jims Dream Band plays blues, Geoff and Don play swami." - Lonely Whistle Music. Recorded 1972. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Roots Of Madness Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "The complete recordings of the session most of the LP was taken from. Recorded on or near August 14, 1971." - Lonely Whistle Music. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: The Girl In The Chair Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "1971 heavy private press free blues/psych from the left coast cortical geo zone of the US underground chain spearheaded by Don Campau and essentially the Californian amalgam of the Gate 5 as ESP disk punk/jazz 3rd eye. A higher key farrago of hypercosmic extended runs that oscillate between the tubular philosophy of the Sun City Girls sound/art and the aloneness of stoned blues concréte. A refreshing lost artifact of pure American fizz resurrected from the iconoclasm void and perfectly reissued in a joint effort from De Stijl and Child Of Microtones. An essential LP for anyone concerned with the paramount energy fields of all the above ground sound subterrains." - Destijl. Highly recommended! Tons of Roots Of Madness and related CDRs also available from Dons label, Lonely Whistle Music. See: http://www.fusetronsound.com/index.php?whomlab=LonelyWhistleMusic |
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Artist: RORN Title: The Mechanical Weather Cousin Format: 7" Label: Nauscopy Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "18 tracks of digital weirdness. Compared to Tetsu Inoue. this is a limited edition of only 100, pressed on white vinyl." - Nauscopy. Cool single! |
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Artist: RORY STORM Title: Cheap Utopia Eats Cheap Utopia Format: 7" Lathe Cut Label: Epic Sweep Country: New Zealand Price: $15.00 |
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"A soundtrack of industrial tones and drones swirl around hushed vocals. Mixed, layered and morphed in three parts per side, this is the latest and long overdue offering from the incredibly talented Rory Storm." - Epic Sweep. Limited to 20 copies.
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Artist: RORY STORM Title: Wirewreath Format: Cass Label: Epic Sweep Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"More intense transiting of sounds and beats with unexpected surprises throughout make this latest release from Rory Storm all the more engaging through its 30 minutes." -Epic Sweep
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Artist: ROSE FOR BOHDAN/BOOKS ON TAPE Title: Sunglass Sonnets For Springtime Sharks Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Deathbomb Arc Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Books On Tape and Rose For Bohdan do a very limited edition split 7" for their tour together (with Creepy Crawly Claw) in June 02.The art for this 7" is handmade by Grace Lee of R4B. Each cover can be disassembled and turned into no-wave jewelry. Sounds like weird electronics and collaborative mayhem." - Blackbean. |
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Artist: ROSE WITH D. CHARLES SPEER & THE HELIX, JACK Title: Ragged and Right Format: 12" Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "This slab of gripping sound was brought about by Jack Roses exuberant love of lowdown music. Inspired by the Mordicai Jones/Link Wray 3 Track Shack sessions, the idea for this collaboration was germinated while Rose was traveling through the heartland on a tour with D. Charles Speer & the Helix in spring 2008. Musicians used to the road are familiar with the phenomenon wherein a certain tape or recording becomes the thematic soundtrack to the tour at hand. In this case, daily doses of Scorpio Woman and In the Pines as performed by Link Wray became the touchstones for their travels together. Jack got so excited by the vibes emanating from these songs that he thought to break with his usual acoustic approach and get some electricity in his life again. So he enlisted the Speer band to join in some unhinged and unrepentant fun in the studio. Recorded using an all live, no overdub approach, the resultant session was deemed an all time favorite experience by everyone lucky enough to partake in it. A gleaming bottle of Buffalo Trace helped shepherd us through the dark hours of the night, and in turn that spirit animal adorns the front cover of the record. As producer, Jason Meagher was able to capture the visceral rough and tumble feel that invigorated his Black Dirt Studio in the dog days of August 2008. Featuring the original lineup of D. Charles Speer & the Helix in peak form and rare lap steel and Telecaster stylings from Rose, Ragged And Right displays a vibrancy and depth of feeling that is striking and unforgettable." -Thrill Jockey |
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Artist: ROSE, ETHAN Title: Ceiling Songs Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Between the machine and the composition there are the wonderful accidents. Whether it be taped-up player piano rolls, broken music boxes, or instruments of a more traditional sort, all the sounds on this album were carefully and randomly interrupted by my hands, before being arranged into larger pieces. For the most part it is a love of the archaic mechanizations of gears spinning and paper scratching, of textural sounds discovered in old things, that propelled me into making these songs. But, as the ideas came from the outside in so did they return from the inside out, blurring the line between my own artistry, and the natural inclinations of the materials at hand. This is what made the Ceiling Songs." -- Ethan Rose. Ceiling Songs is the first full-length release by Portland, Oregon musician Ethan Rose following a handful of long out of print small edition multiples issued on Locust over the last two years. Limited 180 gram vinyl only release w/ handpasted covers." - Locust. |
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Artist: ROSE, JACK Title: Dr Ragtime and His Pals/Jack Rose Format: Double CD Label: Tequila Sunrise Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "This double-disc features a brand new album from Philadelphia guitarist Jack Rose along with his highly acclaimed and out-of-print self-titled record (originally a limited release on the Archive Recordings label). On Dr. Ragtime & Pals, Rose duets with Glenn Jones, Micah Smaldone, Mike Gangloff, Harmonica Dan, and Sean Bowles. This is a major work from a big player in the modern American Primitive world, often compared to the likes of John Fahey."- Tequila Sunrise |
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Artist: ROSE, JACK Title: Dr. Ragtime And His Pals Format: LP Label: Tequila Sunrise Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "LP version. Limited edition of 960. Domestically-pressed vinyl, housed in a European manufactured hard board inner-sleeve slipped inside a matte board jacket with j-card style obi. Jack Roses lastest full length, Dr. Ragtime And His Pals was originally issued on CD by Tequila Sunrise in April 2008. "The Appalachian Trail runs 2175 miles south from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia, though there are those who want to stretch it further, into Alabama, because the mountains go there. Why not extend it? Trails are made for that. But theres another Appalachian Trail, too -- one that goes through time, extending from unfinished studios in Williamsburg, NY, winding down the grooves of ancient 78s to the 1920s or even earlier, past Stephen Fosters wet dream to a place beyond the compass of change. If youre hiking on *that* trail, youre likely to run into a lot of post-grad Parsifals with inscrutable hair and de-tuned banjos -- these days, you cant swing a cat around without hitting one! But if youre lucky, you might stumble across a clearing somewhere south of Lily Dale, where revolutionists stop for orangeade and Dr. Ragtime hangs out with his pals. If you ask him politely, he might offer you a taste of his elixir -- made from codeine, sarsaparilla, and goat-gland extract -- guaranteed to restore memories that never were. And if youre quiet, he might let you stay and listen to the music: Ethiopian novelties, characteristic marches and parlor favorites -- bittersweet slices of Methodist pie, familiar tunes, at least in those sections where the square dance has not yet been supplanted by the fox-trot. And if you have a couple of dimes to rub together in your pocket, youll want to purchase his newest, electrically-recorded phonograph recording, entitled Doctor Ragtime And His Pals. The Doctor, who hitherto has recorded only on his own, is joined here by Micah Blue Smaldone (who has been compared to both Tiny Tim and Kierkegaard), Glenn Jones (of Cul de Sac, last seen around these parts urging college students to contemplate the prospect of their own death on a balmy September evening), Michael Gangloff (late of Pelt and the Black Twig Pickers), Nathan Bowles (also of the Black Twig Pickers as well as the Spiral Joy Band) and the mysterious Harmonica Dan (from Pennsauken, New Jersey by way of ethereal caminos). This release is conjoined with a recording by Jack Rose, the Mike Morgan of the American minimalist neo-primitive sub-underground. This recording, entitled Jack Rose -- previously available to the buying public only in severely limited forms -- is here presented as a bonus to the consumer and perhaps as an act of folly for the producer." -Charles Fourier, Tequila Sunrise Records |
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Artist: ROSE, JACK Title: Kensington Blues Format: CD Label: VHF Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Kensington Blues, the fourth full-length release from JACK ROSE (PELT), is an inspired mix of styles and sounds that brings his in-person steel string guitar mastery down to CD scale. This is Roses most diverse outing by far, with straight ragtime, heavy 12-string, and that sweet, sweet Weissenborn lap guitar all checking in. Honed during endless touring in 2004, the repertoire here is delivered with maximum authority in a series of first-take performances recorded in early 2005. Eight tracks, including a fine cover of John Faheys "Sunflower River Blues." - VHF |
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Artist: ROSE, JACK Title: Kensington Blues Format: LP Label: VHF Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
| "Fourth full-length from Jack, an inspired mix of styles and sounds that brings his in-person mastery down to CD scale. Kensington Blues is Jacks most diverse outing by far, with straight ragtime, heavy 12-string, and that sweet sweet Weissenborn lap guitar all checking in. Honed during endless touring in 2004, the repertoire here is delivered with maximum authority in a series of first-take performances recorded in early 2005. "Cathedral et Chartres" and "Calais to Dover" are dense, brooding 12 string numbers, recalling the key tracks on 2004s Raag Manifestos CD. "Calais" features a sequence of right hand picking furious enough to evoke a dream state ala Charlemagne Palestines "Stumming Music." "Rappahanock River Rag" and "Flirtin With the Undertaker" are pure syncopated ragtime, while "Kensington Blues" offers an almost regal take on the intersection of Anglo and American trad. The epic "Now That Im A Man Full Grown" was the signature piece of many of 2004s live shows, a display of mind-boggling slide invention that straddles the line of east and west ala "Yaman Blues" from the Opium Musick LP. In something of a surprise inclusion, Jacks take on Faheys "Sunflower River Blues" (long a staple of Pelt and J.R. gigs but never included on a record) is subtle and expressive, with a wonderful rise and fall that perfectly accentuates Faheys beautiful melody. LP is a new cut by John Golden, pressed by RTI, and sounds glorious. Gatefold cover."- VHF |
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Artist: ROSE, JACK Title: Luck In The Valley Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Limited repress of 500 copies on RTI 180 gram vinyl presented in an old-style tip-on jacket with a hand-pasted letterpressed cover. Includes download coupon. Like all pre-war recordings and all of Roses releases, this album was recorded live. It was not created using overdubs but rather by recording a few takes and selecting the best performance out of those. Rose stated, I wanted the songs to have an immediacy and spontaneity as they were being recorded. All the musicians chosen for the record know how to play the songs without overworking the material, but at the same time creating memorable accompaniments on the spot." -Thrill Jockey |
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Artist: ROSE, JACK Title: Raag Manifestoes Format: CD Label: VHF Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Released in conjunction with JACK ROSEs first major European and West Coast U.S. tours. Compiled from a variety of sources, Raag Manifestos cuts across various acoustic styles much like Roses Opium Musick LP, but with a more aggressive attack. "Black Pearls from the River" and "Hart Cranes Old Boyfriends" are dense, serious assaults on the 12-string, with the intensity of the latter enhanced by IAN NAGOSKIs roaring electronic backdrop. With subtle tabla accompaniment by ERIC CARBONARA, "Crossing The Great Waters," is another epic modal journey in the style of Pelts "Road To Catawba" and Roses own "Red Horse." The traditional "Blessed Be the Name of the Lord" finishes off the CD on a calming note." - VHF. |
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Artist: ROSE, JACK Title: The Black Dirt Sessions Format: LP Label: 3Lobed Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Lets get the dirty work over with first. The Black Dirt Sessions is, all hyperbole aside, Jack Roses most complete and telling work to date. Those who have been following this Philadelphia wanderers development and growth as a solo artist (both live and on record) know that such a statement is strong praise, as Roses catalog is certainly not devoid of unqualified classics. The album takes its title from the studio where it was recorded -- Jason Meaghers Black Dirt Studios located in Westtown, New York. Old friends Rose and Meagher developed a good working relationship and full understanding of each others work habits and styles over the course of a spring 2008 joint tour between Rose and one of Meaghers bands, D. Charles Speer & The Helix. Rose, that eternal road warrior, booked some time at Black Dirt between tours in August, September and October of 2008 to lay down some new and fully realized material. This album is the complete result of those sessions. Roses prior albums have tended to both pick and remain true to a musical theme. The Black Dirt Sessions excels by displaying fully-honed examples of all of Roses various styles and themes -- traditional, raga and ragtime. Central to the albums spirit is the absolutely epic Cross the North Fork. This thirteen-minute revisiting of a track first laid down on the great Kensington Blues is a winding, thoroughly engrossing journey. This new version is the product of Roses perfectionist streak, which constantly pushes him to re-explore and re-visit his prior works. As presented on The Black Dirt Sessions, the new track is full of rich nuances from Roses years of additional scrutiny of the original composition. Much like Rose himself, Cross The North Fork is certainly comfortable in its skin and helps make it a welcome neighbor to the albums other splendid joys ranging from the jaunty and infectious Fishtown Flower (featuring a guest appearance from D. Charles Speer & The Helixs Hans Chew on ragtime piano) to the pensive and appropriate melancholy punch of Box Of Pine. The albums artwork is somewhat of the yin to the yang of Roses 2008 release on Three Lobed Recordings, I Do Play Rock And Roll. Bearing the same overall design aesthetic as that prior release, albeit presented in a contrasting white with black print, The Black Dirt Sessions features a photo of Rose performing in New York in 2006. The LP is pressed on 180g RTI vinyl and housed within an old style high gloss Stoughton cover. The record is from a one-time pressing of approximately 2,000 copies." -3Lobed |
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Artist: ROSE, JACK & THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Klang Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Raw and rocking collaboration between JACK ROSE and THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS with some of the most swinging, hard-hitting string music waxed in many a decade. Roses solo playing has always had a tough edge, with his prodigious technique often employed in the service of dropping right-hand bombs-his use of a thumbpick originates from his years of duets with Twig MIKE GANGLOFF, struggling to make his guitar heard over Gangloffs crashing banjo. The front line of Rose and Gangloffs strings are joined by ISAK HOWELLs no-nonsense guitar and harmonica and NATE BOWLES variety of expert percussion. The four players lock together with a sure-footedness honed by frequent touring and a singularity of intent to rock. Gangloff takes the vocals, howling out standards like "Little Sadie" firmly in the old-time tradition-without reserve. A few of the tracks here are updates of Rose & family classics, with the group turning the stately "Kensington Blues" upbeat and an issuing an assured take on "Bright Sunny South," first recorded by PELT (with Rose and Gangloff) back in 2001 on their gonzo classic double Ayahuasca." - Klang. |
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Artist: ROSEMARY KRUST Title: Bernt Anker Format: 7" Label: Dull Knife Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Four songs of noisy, delicate, barely there pop⿿all hanging together by a thread. The Baltimore duo of KATHARINE PLUMMER and WILLIAM HARDY have a sound that harkens back to a time when twee wasnt a bad word and lo-fi wasnt marketing jargon. ROSEMARY KRUST seemlesly blend the fuzz and fumble of Charalambides with the naive pop of Beat Happening, finding their own charming niche. Theyve even been called an American Garbage & The Flowers, which certainly isnt a bad thing. 300 hand-numbered copies." - Dull Knife. |
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Artist: ROSENBLUM, AARON Title: Among the Jackdaws Format: CDR Label: Hank Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Very sweet solo releases from son of earths hairiest member, and somehow that should give to an idea of the sounds here. alternating between vibratory ultra-minimal tones and acoustic folk minitures. a real fine listen for the micro-minded. beautifully packaged in a oversized screenprinted envelope, with classy letterpressed innersleeve & stamped cdr. self released & limited to 200." |
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Artist: ROSENBOOM, DAVID Title: Brainwave Music Format: CD Label: EM Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "CD reissue of biofeedback/brainwave music masterpieces from 1971 to 1974, using analog synthesizers, piano, and text. Includes a bonus track, a previously-unreleased 2001 piece featuring biofeedback-driven computer synthesis, violin and oboe. With original cover art." - EM. |
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Artist: ROSENFELD, MARINA/METALUX Title: Untitled/Czar Rust Repair Format: 10" Label: Endleseries Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| ENDLESERIES is a collection of music exclusive to our catalog. The catalog is continuously growing. We hand lathe cut 10" virgin lacquers with aproxamately 9 minutes of audio per side. Each lacquer is cut to order. The records play at 33rpm." - Endleseries. New series of customized split 10"s from Caleb Johnston (Anonymous, Nautical Almanac, etc..).. Beautifully packaged, metal-core virgin dub plates, with handstamped, old style 78 sleeves and labels. |
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Artist: ROSENHOLM, ELEANOORA Title: Ala kysy kuolleilta, he sanoivat Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $17.00 |
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"LP version. This is the second full-length release from Finlands Eleanoora Rosenholm on the Fonal label. Campy synth-pop melodies, dramatic guitar riffage and simple programmed beats dance over sweet Finnish vocals. It all sounds like a score to a happily-weird Euro disco-musical, but underneath it all is this vague threat or dark fear, which may explain the bands own description of this album: "Eleanoora Rosenholm and her six orphan brothers step up on the altar hunted by an unexplainable grief and misery. The nun has been desecrated in the monastery and the schools principal mutilated in the primary schools woodshed. A Russian prisoner of war draws his last breath on a snowy potato field. The relentless fist of war strikes fire in the horizon. We will never understand why things in life turn out the way they do, for they form and grow deeper meaning despite us. Chaos has its own will and its boot does not step to the General officers lash." Yup." - Fonal.
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Artist: ROSENHOLM, ELEANOORA Title: Vainajan Muotokuva Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $22.00 |
| "180 gram vinyl version. This is the debut full-length by Eleanoora Rosenholm. Eleanoora Rosenholm comes from Pori, Finland and is a project began by Noora Tommila, Pasi Salmi and Mika Rättö. They crafted a genius pop album with murderous lyrics inside the dark stone walls that surround SS-Palace studio. The time came to take the show on the road and the band evolved into a full 8-piece. Weird, almost avant synth-pop harmonies with creepily-sweet Finnish vocals, sometimes vocoded. Combining the best of karaoke-backed dance tracks with propulsive 80s sheen and tastes of Bow Wow Wow/Lizzy Mercier Descloux-esque tribe-pop irreverence. Totally addictive and hook-ridden, like you cant stop eating candy -- this is weird-disco any housewife serial killer would be proud to dance to." - Fonal. |
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Artist: ROSENKOPF Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Tension develops at the points where modernity and the ageless meet. That tension has a rhythm that has incarnated itself in various forms of contemporary music, and sometimes the sound it makes stands out more than others. ROSENKOPF channels that deep, relentless sound that feels at once like urban ruin and primordial nature, as if the unyielding cycles of ritual and decay are echoing through each instrument. As the latest addition to the Wierd Records roster they embody one of those standout moment. Melding electronics, guitars, bass and live drums, samples, and confrontational vocals together in a seamless, non-hybridized way, ROSENKOPF has found a motley group of admirers, from those those attracted to the experimental end of black metal to those that gravitate toward the recent mutation of codeine-slowed hip-hop and demonic drone. But looking closer at the bands unmistakable spiritual bond to monolithic giants of the deathrock and crustpunk past, the gravity of their preoccupations and the singularity of their sound anchors them in a specific and unique place. While the band members have roots that reach far into the punk underground (Detestation, Question, Thriller, Dawn of Humans etc.), that serves only as the soil out of which ROSENKOPF has grown its poisonous flora. "Burning Spirits" opens the LP with bassist Saira Huffs hypnotic bassline. Groove-oriented drum machines are gradually washed over with vocalist Soren Rois urgently abrasive vocals and live metal percussion reminiscent of primitive industrialists Einsterzende Neubaten or Crash Worship. "Heed," with its charging drums and crushing guitars sounds appropriately like the fearless summoning of an as-yet-unnamed menacing force while still managing to sound anthemic. By the time "Troth" kicks in with its psychedelic overtones, the ever-increasing tempos evoke the ecstatic qualities of religious ceremony and carnal sexuality. Throughout the closing track, delicate synthesizers float atop more impatient rhythms and unwelcoming textures as moments of sonic violence are severely punctuated by pressure-inducing, almost ruthlessly patient restraint. Taken as a whole, ROENKOPF is a debut remarkable for its ability to conjure atmospheres that might have provocative names like "apocalyptic optimism" or "brooding grace." Its a darkly focused pandemonium of resistance that names no enemy. Instead, they paint its face and rally around its effigy." -Wierd. |
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Artist: ROSENKOPF Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Tension develops at the points where modernity and the ageless meet. That tension has a rhythm that has incarnated itself in various forms of contemporary music, and sometimes the sound it makes stands out more than others. ROSENKOPF channels that deep, relentless sound that feels at once like urban ruin and primordial nature, as if the unyielding cycles of ritual and decay are echoing through each instrument. As the latest addition to the Wierd Records roster they embody one of those standout moment.
Melding electronics, guitars, bass and live drums, samples, and confrontational vocals together in a seamless, non-hybridized way, ROSENKOPF has found a motley group of admirers, from those those attracted to the experimental end of black metal to those that gravitate toward the recent mutation of codeine-slowed hip-hop and demonic drone. But looking closer at the bands unmistakable spiritual bond to monolithic giants of the deathrock and crustpunk past, the gravity of their preoccupations and the singularity of their sound anchors them in a specific and unique place. While the band members have roots that reach far into the punk underground (Detestation, Question, Thriller, Dawn of Humans etc.), that serves only as the soil out of which ROSENKOPF has grown its poisonous flora.
"Burning Spirits" opens the LP with bassist Saira Huffs hypnotic bassline. Groove-oriented drum machines are gradually washed over with vocalist Soren Rois urgently abrasive vocals and live metal percussion reminiscent of primitive industrialists Einsterzende Neubaten or Crash Worship. "Heed," with its charging drums and crushing guitars sounds appropriately like the fearless summoning of an as-yet-unnamed menacing force while still managing to sound anthemic. By the time "Troth" kicks in with its psychedelic overtones, the ever-increasing tempos evoke the ecstatic qualities of religious ceremony and carnal sexuality. Throughout the closing track, delicate synthesizers float atop more impatient rhythms and unwelcoming textures as moments of sonic violence are severely punctuated by pressure-inducing, almost ruthlessly patient restraint. Taken as a whole, ROENKOPF is a debut remarkable for its ability to conjure atmospheres that might have provocative names like "apocalyptic optimism" or "brooding grace." Its a darkly focused pandemonium of resistance that names no enemy. Instead, they paint its face and rally around its effigy." -Wierd. |
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Artist: ROSS, ALEXANDER Title: Grandfather Paradox Format: LP Label: Vauva Country: Finland Price: $20.00 |
| "Critically celebrated for his candy coated biomorphic abstractions, Alexander Ross equally visionary feats of sonic Surrealism have until now remained an insiders secret. Thanks to Kemialliset Ystavat and Tomutonttu mastermind Jan Anderzen, the resplendent oddness of Ross musical imagination is now finally available to be rolled around on the collective tongue of humanity once again via this vinyl reissue for his Vauva imprint. Originally issued as a cassette on the cult electronic label Generations Unlimited, this freak fringe tour de force from 1989 has its navigational coordinates governed by the kind of psychically dislocating dream logic more associated with Nurse With Wound. Across the epic suite that comprises these two album sides, Ross musical syntax pops with all manner of unexpected rhythmic and textural detailing. The friction and frisson generated by raking kernels of assorted organic ephemera from rolls of dice, clinks of ice or the rattle of bamboo wind chimes against the fur of his countervailing compositional gestures is responsible for generating a lot of the drama heard here. On the excerpt from Side A found below, they counterpoint foghorn-like trombone fanfares, ecstatic ethnological forgeries and welling tides of smeared orchestration." - Eric Lumbleau (of Mutant Sounds), Ad Hoc. |
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Artist: ROSSETTO, VANESSA Title: Exotic Exit Format: LP Label: Kye Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Exotic Exit is the latest LP by Austins Vanessa Rossetto, and her second for Kye following 2010s groundbreaking Mineral Orange. The three new compositions that make up Exotic Exit were developed between 2010-2012 in both live performance and home studio settings. Mundane field recordings taken in Austin, TX and NYC are laced with viola, violin, cello, dulcetina and glockenspiel to create densely structured sound beds that smudge the line between Ferrari-esque audio travelogs and the hallucinatory sound processing of prime Asmus Tietchens. Exotic Exit arrives in a full color high gloss sleeve with design/layout by Matthew Revert, in an edition of 400 copies." - Kye |
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Artist: ROSSETTO, VANESSA Title: Mineral Orange Format: LP Label: Kye Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"Vanessa Rossetto is a composer and painter living in Austin, Texas. She uses primarily chamber instrumentation, field recordings, electronics and a wide array of different objects, exploring them through extended and traditional techniques. In 2008, she launched her own CD-R label, Music Appreciation, and through this imprint has released four solo albums: Misafridal, Imperial Brick, Whoreson in the Wilderness and the award-winning Dogs in English Porcelain. Her most recent release, the PDD-NOS (Period Tapes) cassette was described by Byron Coley in The Wire as sounding like being under attack from slow-moving dune worms. Mineral Orange presents four new works, each showcasing Vanessas deep commitment to abstract sound situations. These pieces exist as precision-edited travelogs of Vanessas questing. Local sounds, audio verite and overlayed string interludes are scrambled into surreal matrices of time, place and event. Mineral Orange was recorded and produced in Austin, Texas in 2010, with additional production by Steven Flato and mastering by Jason Lescalleet at Glistening Labs, ME. Mineral Orange arrives in an elegant Rossetto-designed sleeve, in a hand-numbered edition of 300 copies." - KYE.
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Artist: ROSTAD, NILS Title: Ujamt Format: LP Label: Tallerk Plater Country: Norway Price: $30.00 |
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Limited to 100 copies. "Rostad plays like a pig and that is meant to be a compliment. Fake jazz drumming, humming like a monk, improvising all freely around weird guitar/bass parts, and pressing down random keys on the keyboard, something attempting at a melody, such as in the fifth track on the a-side. Its all actually quite diverse, from quite loud bits of noise like material to more introspective moments. Everything has that direct in yr face quality, no hiding from there. It all sounds great (no doubt to the mastering qualities of Jos Smolders).100 made, so hence no promo, but a fine quality all around." - Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly.
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Artist: ROT SHIT Title: Have You Scene Rot Shit? Format: 7" Label: Fashionable Idiots Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: ROT SHIT Title: Youre Welcome Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Our favorite Pittsburgh-ers proclaim "2009: punks finally dead" on this the final(?!) entry of the Rot Shit saga (other entries include: 2006s The Worst Kids Ever, and 2007s on Have You Scene Rot Shit(?!) on Fashionable Idiots). Do we dare call it mature just because it has a free-jazz sax solo? NEVER! By the time the B-side rears its head, its 2010 and PUNK... has miraculuously returned(?!) Its about damn time I guess (?!) Edition of 500 (?!). 100 on red vinyl. Pivotal lyric sheet insert and full-color sleeve." - Columbus Discount. |
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Artist: ROTER STERN BELGRAD Title: Revisited Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"Roter Stern was a project from Rainer Rabowski who did the Klar!80 Cassette store and label in dŸsseldorf in 1980. The sound is very hard to describe, some people call it pre-Techno, some people electronic world music. I just can say that this record has it«s very own sound and if you listen to it you wouldn«t think that the music is from 1981 and not from 2001. Experimental Minimalistic-Electronics, and actually sounding "top-modern" - this could have been recorded as well just recently...The recordings are taking from a cassette-only releasen called "Regenmacher" which was released on Klar!80." - Was Soll Das? Platten. Limited to 200 copies.
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Artist: ROTH, DIETER Title: Harmonica Curse (1981) Format: Lathe Cut LP Label: Kikusui Country: Europe Price: $78.00 |
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Yes, a Dieter Roth lathe cut LP. Full color cover/very limited stock.
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Artist: ROTH, DIETER/GERHARD RUHM/OSWALD WIENER Title: Selten Gehdrte Musik von den 3. Berliner Dichter Workshop - 12./13.7.73 Format: LP Label: Edition Hansjorg Mayer Country: Germany Price: $38.00 |
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Artist: ROTHER, MICHAEL Title: Flammende Herzen Format: LP Label: 4 Men With Beards Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Michael Rother (half of the influential Krautrock group Neu! and a founding member of Kraftwerk) recorded this first solo album with producer Conny Plank in 1976. Rothers signature guitar sound, the mechanical percussion (Jaki Liebezeit of Can) and the simple yet outerworldly anthemic melodies make Flammende Herzen an outstanding and visionary record." -4 Men With Beards |
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Artist: ROTHER, MICHAEL Title: Flammende Herzen/Karussell Format: 7" Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
| "This is the sixth round of the Bureau B vinyl single reissue series which started successfully with reissues of Harmonia, La Düsseldorf and Palais Schaumburg. This 7" features German artist Michael Rother (Kraftwerk, Neu!, Harmonia) -- an officially licensed exact repro of this 1977 single, originally issued on Sky Records. Featuring Jaki Liebezeit (Can) on drums and the legendary producer Conny Plank. Includes the original artwork and a new mastering from the original master tapes." -Bureau B |
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Artist: ROTOMAGUS Title: Sky Turns Red: Complete Anthology Format: Double LP Label: Lion Productions Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Theres no way to know why CBS Records unceremoniously dumped ROTOMAGUS and the after one single; suffice to say that decision was a poor one, as the band has (quite rightly) developed a cult-like following over the years. All in all, the artistic trajectory of Rotomagus was peculiar: they started out as a harmony pop-psych band, shifted through a brief Jimi Hendrix-ian interlude, straight into a Vanilla Fudge groove; they then went down in flames as a hair-raising monolithic heavy rock power trio. On Julian Copes excellent Head Heritage web-site, the Seth Man raves about Rotomagus thus: "The first time I heard this track (Fighting Cock), I did not freak out. I merely walked into a nearby closet and screamed my head off for a minute solid, beat the floor and ripped my t-shirt... then I cowered when it hit me: this thing came out in 1971? Before Raw Power?! I just lost my mind... The only thing that predates this monster in terms of being a full-on amassing of all things heavy are all the many key points on Sir Lord Baltimores Kingdom Come LP and THATS it, brother." French magazine Rock & Folk was succinct: "Rotomagus create an emotional music, violent, even aggressive." Violent. Aggressive. Intense. On this disc we bring you the entire output of Rotomagus, including an album-length demo from 1971, the bands tumultuous, thunderous swansong, recorded as a super jam." - Lion Productions. |
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Artist: ROTTEN PIECE Title: Split Head Format: 7" Label: Lazy Squid Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Rotten Piece has been one of Houstons most adventurous experimental/noise-rock /psychedelic/time-lag/hallucinated/film-munch/ continent-hopping units for 20 years." - Houston Press. "As if a bunch of chainweilding, chanting eskimos had all their limbs and skin ripped off and sewn back on just in time to open up for a dying giant bagpipe, skewered by spears from all sides by...ok, Im too into this....." -A. Wagstaff. Members of Sad Pygmy. 1994 release, limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. |
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Artist: ROTTWEILER Title: Im Down b/w Wanna Be Your Friend Format: 7" Label: Sing Sing Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Consisting of Bengt Johansson (b), Lars-Göran Bäck (d), Håkan Schüler (v) and Per-Erik Johansson (gtr), Rottweiler originally started in the town of Nässjö 1979 but moved on to Lund and Malmö in the very south of Sweden in 1980. The band´s first and only recording was released just before the move and issued in an edition of 500 copies. The B-side appeared on Powerpearls Vol. 7 but until now Im Down existed solely on the original pressing. 1981 the band decided to change names, add another bandmember and started to sing with swedish lyrics; at the same time - Perfekt Alibi was born." - Sing Sing. Originally from 1980. |
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Artist: ROWE, KEITH / JULIEN OTTAVI / WILL GUTHRIE / MANU LEDUC Title: November Quebec Format: CDR Label: Esquilo Country: Portugal Price: $15.00 |
| "The radio. Its possibilities and extensions. This is what (N:Q) explores: the use of the radio and its meanings. An electroacoustic ensemble, perpetually in movement, forging a soundworld of its own. Like airwaves transformed into music transformed into airwaves. The second number on the Variant Series presents the Radiophonic Quartet of Keith Rowe, Julien Ottavi, Will Guthrie and Manu Leduc in a truly unique release. Active since 2000, this is only the second release of the group - the follow up to the highly acclaimed self-titled on Fibrr. November Quebec comprises two tracks: a solo track by Keith Rowe, recorded live while being broadcasted; and that same piece as viewed by the Quartet. This edition comes in a blue deluxe gatefold cardboard sleeve with sikscreened original art by Keith Rowe. Limited to 250 copies." - Esquilo. |
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Artist: ROWENTA, FRANK Title: Weingüter Format: CD Label: Dom Country: Germany Price: $21.00 |
| "Franks newest output on Dom Elchklang features music that he originally composed for an exposition of french architecture in Bordeaux, France. Weingüter, a quadrophonic piece in 4 parts (for 4 tube amplifiers) was actually never performed, as his concert at the exhibition had to be stopped when Frank began to throw grand crus at the audience. 10 years after this event the original composition is available to the recordbuyer for the first time (carefully mixed down to stereo by Achim P. Li Khan). Compared to its predecessor Schuss in den Ofen, Weingüter shows Frank in a more power-electronics mood, featuring some adventurous use of synthesized amplifier sounds."- Dom. |
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Artist: ROYAL BATHS Title: Litanies Format: CD Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "ROYAL BATHS havent had it easy. In a city where garage rock reigns supreme and new bands form and fade away with the blink of an eye, its tough to get noticed unless your songs can satisfy punk rock attention spans. But with four- to six-minute tracks and slow, methodical drum beats, ROYAL BATHS have won their way into the hearts of even the most raucous audiences-a testament to both the ability that San Franciscans have to recognize talent when they see it, and also to the incredible music and spectacle that the ROYAL BATHS have created. The band has its obvious influences-The Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3-but to define them by these comparisons would be to vastly oversimplify their sound. Songwriters JEREMY COX and JIGMAE BAER draw from psychedelic soundscapes; dark, personal, and esoteric subject matter; and a bit of punks apathetic humor and exigency. They conjure up haunting, reverb-heavy hymns to the degenerate and the broken."- Emily Rose Epstein (SF Weekly, Thrasher Magazine, drummer for Ty Segall). Vinyl includes coupon for free digital download. |
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Artist: ROYAL BATHS Title: Litanies Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "ROYAL BATHS havent had it easy. In a city where garage rock reigns supreme and new bands form and fade away with the blink of an eye, its tough to get noticed unless your songs can satisfy punk rock attention spans. But with four- to six-minute tracks and slow, methodical drum beats, ROYAL BATHS have won their way into the hearts of even the most raucous audiences-a testament to both the ability that San Franciscans have to recognize talent when they see it, and also to the incredible music and spectacle that the ROYAL BATHS have created. The band has its obvious influences-The Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3-but to define them by these comparisons would be to vastly oversimplify their sound. Songwriters JEREMY COX and JIGMAE BAER draw from psychedelic soundscapes; dark, personal, and esoteric subject matter; and a bit of punks apathetic humor and exigency. They conjure up haunting, reverb-heavy hymns to the degenerate and the broken."- Emily Rose Epstein (SF Weekly, Thrasher Magazine, drummer for Ty Segall). Vinyl includes coupon for free digital download. |
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Artist: ROYAL TRUX Title: Accelerator Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "As we steer ourselves away post-haste from the (semi-arbitrary watershed) year 2000 (or 2001, if youre that kind), many among us are still unsure of which stance to prefer: that of the forward-looking visionary elite or the historically-informed cult of the sentimentalist. Confusing times, but timely times for the reissue of Royal Truxs 1998 masterpiece (according to many, though we are inclined to believe that all of their releases were equally masterful), Accelerator. This album split the difference and intersected both angles to create an ass-kicking music machine that still confronts today with its dialed-out production values rendering ten tunes of glittering platinum hooks and colored by numbers with hooligan-outfitted choruses." - Drag City. |
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Artist: ROYAL TRUX Title: Accelerator Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "As we steer ourselves away post-haste from the (semi-arbitrary watershed) year 2000 (or 2001, if youre that kind), many among us are still unsure of which stance to prefer: that of the forward-looking visionary elite or the historically-informed cult of the sentimentalist. Confusing times, but timely times for the reissue of Royal Truxs 1998 masterpiece (according to many, though we are inclined to believe that all of their releases were equally masterful), Accelerator. This album split the difference and intersected both angles to create an ass-kicking music machine that still confronts today with its dialed-out production values rendering ten tunes of glittering platinum hooks and colored by numbers with hooligan-outfitted choruses." - Drag City. |
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Artist: ROYAL TRUX Title: Hand Of Glory Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Hand of Glory is a missing piece of the Royal Trux puzzle, circa 1989-90! Twelve years on, its still a mind-boggler. Twin Infinitives fans, rejoice -- your sick fantasies have actually been true all these years." - Drag City. "I thought it was a good idea to put this out since the last Royal Trux album will now be Hand of Glory. Theres a certain charm to this for me. There wont be any more for me. The instrumentation for Hand of Glory is: Voice, Percussion, Drum Machines, Mechanical Monkey with Cymbals, Moog, Guitars, Violin, Bottles, Pump Organ, Radio, Record Player, Piano, Harmonica, Tape Machines. - Neil Hagerty. Easily as "difficult" as Twin Infinities, or most titles on this site for that matter.. Amazing. CD also available.
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Artist: ROYAL TRUX Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "First vinyl pressing since the original 1988 Royal Records LP issue. First time on Drag City." -Drag City |
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Artist: ROYAL TRUX Title: Singles, Live, Unreleased Format: Double CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "This 32-song bomb was dropped on a highly suspect America back in the early winter of 1997. It was a celebration of the then-major label act known as ROYAL TRUX. The songs were collected from along the various ways theyd passed by from 1988 to around the time they were signed to Virgin in 1994. The title really says it all, without delivering strictly on the promise; rather than divide the album into sections dedicated to each of the above, the singles, live and unreleased tracks were scrambled in unchronologic / anthropomorphic / anti-idiomatic fashion to represent a living, breathing entity built of contradictions, rhythm, gleeful exploitation of limitations and cliches, the short con (and when you finally notice, theyd slip into the long one) and above all, total commitment. This was a band to which the word "definition" had no meaning, other than as the punch-line to a variety of jokes that we wont bore you with right now. You may never understand unless you sit in a crouch for three days, on the balls of your feet with the knees pointing out like arrows before you. And then maybe youll know how it feels. Some people in this life have no choice, theyve been Indians since the day they were born. Others take it upon themselves. This was Royal Trux. And when Makers Day finally comes, when we humans are finally judged on intention-Royal Trux will roll in to heaven heavy with it, 100% pure and solid." -Drag City. |
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Artist: ROYAL TRUX Title: Singles, Live, Unreleased Format: Triple LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $33.00 |
| "This 32-song bomb was dropped on a highly suspect America back in the early winter of 1997. It was a celebration of the then-major label act known as ROYAL TRUX. The songs were collected from along the various ways theyd passed by from 1988 to around the time they were signed to Virgin in 1994. The title really says it all, without delivering strictly on the promise; rather than divide the album into sections dedicated to each of the above, the singles, live and unreleased tracks were scrambled in unchronologic / anthropomorphic / anti-idiomatic fashion to represent a living, breathing entity built of contradictions, rhythm, gleeful exploitation of limitations and cliches, the short con (and when you finally notice, theyd slip into the long one) and above all, total commitment. This was a band to which the word "definition" had no meaning, other than as the punch-line to a variety of jokes that we wont bore you with right now. You may never understand unless you sit in a crouch for three days, on the balls of your feet with the knees pointing out like arrows before you. And then maybe youll know how it feels. Some people in this life have no choice, theyve been Indians since the day they were born. Others take it upon themselves. This was Royal Trux. And when Makers Day finally comes, when we humans are finally judged on intention-Royal Trux will roll in to heaven heavy with it, 100% pure and solid." -Drag City. |
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Artist: ROYAL TRUX Title: Thank You Format: LP Label: Plain Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "This is their 1995 Virgin label debut produced by long time Neil Young collaborator David Briggs. Thank You was recorded almost completely live in the studio and Briggs production and influence is readily apparent in this grimy piece of rocknroll. Neil Hagertys guitar playing is wandering into noiseland via unique and memorable solos but also transforming into something resembling 70s riffs while Jennifer Herrema outdoes herself and actually sings. Thank You, giving way to some surprisingly catchy tunes, is as good as modern rock classics go. A great, greasy work of non-commercial alternative rock fueled by cigarettes and junk food." - Plain. |
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Artist: ROYAL TRUX Title: Twin Infinitives Format: Double LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"First vinyl pressing of Twin Infinitives since the original LP issue in December 1990. Gatefold sleeve." -Drag City
"We wanted to let things happen. I took all the tapes I had: rehearsals, studio stuff that survived, other random shit like shortwave recording etc and cut that together in a long collage. Then I broke that into short segments arbitrarily, about the length of a good rock song. We dumped those segments onto multitrack, called them songs, and just started putting little patchwork bits here and there for the next year and a half or whatever it was." -Neil Hagerty. Very highly recommended!
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Artist: ROZENHALL, DANIEL Title: Eyeland Format: LP Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
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"Eyeland" was recorded by D. Rozenhall at EMS, Stockholm, 2000-2002.
Cover artwork by D. Rozenhall.
Subsidized by the Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs.
Limited edition 1000 copies (500 in yellow vinyl, 500 in black vinyl).
Play loud!" - Firework Editions.
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Artist: ROZENHALL, DANIEL Title: Miasmasun Format: LP Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
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"Music by Daniel Rozenhall. Made at EMS, Stockholm, 1999-2001. Cover artwork by D.R. Thanks to EMS, Kent Tankred, Leif Elggren and Daniel Eideholm. 33 1/3 RPM. Play Loud!" Numbered edition of 500 copies.
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Artist: ROZMANN, AKOS Title: 12 Stationer VI Format: Double LP Label: Ideologic Organ Country: France Price: $31.00 |
| "Ákos Rózmann (1939-2005) studied at the Bártók conservatory in Budapest and took diplomas in both composition and organ playing at the Liszt Academy. In 1971, he was given a scholarship to study electronic music in Stockholm. His encounter with the electronic tools was a revolutionary experience for him and was to give a whole new direction to his work. Soon he abandoned composition for acoustic instruments and was later to claim that instrumental music had no future. For several years, he earned his living as an organist at St. Erics Catholic Cathedral in Stockholm, often using recordings of organ sounds made in the dead of the night as a source for his electronic works. Rózmann often preferred monumental forms and several of his most prominent works, such as 12 Stationer (trans. 12 Stations) and Mässa (trans. Mass), grew side-by-side over a long period of time. With a few rare exceptions, the conflict between good and evil was the basic theme in his works. The fight went on continuously in arenas and within power relations that would suddenly change. In Rózmanns imagined world, no room was given to chance. Big powers, luminous or dark, would lie behind the most trivial everyday events. A large portion of Tibetan Buddhism gradually infiltrated his Catholic Weltanschauung, and 12 Stationer, composed between 1978 and 2001, is a musical interpretation of the Tibetan Wheel of Life. The last part of the 12 stations, old age and death, is called the celebrators in Rózmanns version (completed in 2001). When asked what sort of celebration he meant he replied: the merriment you hear is false, it is not genuine, it is empty. Dörr Med Tårar (trans. Door With Tears) from 1988-1989 is unmistakeably an homage to Pierre Henry and the title alludes to Variations For A Door And A Sigh. During one of my last encounters with Rózmann, he told me in depth about how Henrys influence was significant in leading him to choose electronic music. He regarded Le Voyage from the Tibetan Book of the Dead to be the most important pioneering piece in the history of electronic music. Ákos Rózmann showed particular devotion to his work during more than thirty active years. During his lifetime he never sought, nor did he win any mentionable recognition. As a true modernist, he didnt compose with an audience or the critics in mind. His mission was to compose for the future. It was his conviction that the mystical energy for compositional work should derive straight from God. It is a truly great thing to witness the publication of this album." -Mats Lindström, Stockholm, February 2012. "lona Maros (soprano), Miklós Maros, Viveca Servatius (voices), Ákos Rózmann (piano and voice). Composed at EMS elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm, by Ákos Rózmann. Vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin May 2011. Ideologic Organ curation and art direction by Stephen OMalley." -Ideologic Organ |
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Artist: ROZMANN, AKOS Title: Implusioni I, II, III, De Tva, Med Tre Instrument Format: CD Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $17.00 |
| "1999 release. Impulsioni is the collective title of three works which comprise the beginning of Rozmanns work within the field of electroacoustic music. Seen as compositions, Rozmann himself sees Impulsioni I-III as the earliest, almost primitively simple results of a line of composition which nonetheless has kept its importance for him. Impulsioni I is a true start from scratch for him, with the low first tone followed by soft, silvery sounds. The second piece utilized a pulse generator, and the third a machine available at the Royal Conservatory called a synthi. During this period, the composer used only synthetic sounds. It was not until later that he turned to concrete sound samples, such as organ tones, voice and other material. Despite the simple background of Impulsioni I-III, it was here that Rozmann became convinced that electroacoustic music is the greatest expressive device of all time, an opinion which he has steadfastly held throughout the years. Rozmanns art moves between many forms of society and civilization. Gregorian chant is placed next to songs by Buddhist monks, childrens voices next to the laugh of someone who is probably the Devil himself." -Hans Gunnar Peterson. |
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Artist: RPMS Title: I Dont Wanna Be Young/Loved By You Format: 7" Label: Sing Sing Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"The RPMS, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, began as a cover band playing with pickup drummers at local bars. An impromtu practice at Jill Kossoris (Shivvers) house and the introduction of her friend, drummer Rob Mccuen took the band out of the cover circuit and focused their talents on writing original material. The bands only 45 was released in November of 1980 and ranks as one of the best two siders to emerge from the incredible Milwaukee music scene of the 1980s. The single was released in a run of 500 copies on the bands own Hit-Man records and is highly sought after today as both cuts are flawless powerpop tunes." - Sing Sing.
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Artist: RSO Title: Row Format: LP + CD Label: Parkway Steel Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Debut LP from North Jersey downer-punk 3-piece, the spiritual brethren of those who fought their own war, saw god in the desert, lived in a hole and were a mess. "ROW" acts as the title and artwork implies - churning forward, adrift. LP comes with CD version including two non-LP bonus tracks." - Parkway Steel |
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Artist: RST Title: Axes Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: US Price: $12.50 |
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"While clearly responding to the same imperatives as the nearly-contemporary Surface of the Earth, his sound effectively came out of nowhere. Indeed, at that point, one of the few things Id heard operating in the same area was Earth itself. While now the plague of black metallers and second-rate drone-istas have made this seem like a starting-point obvious to the point of being passé, 12 years ago that was far from true. So its easy now to listen to the new rst album, his third in the last decade after releases on Ecstatic Peace! and Corpus Hermeticum, and think Ive heard that before. But in fact, all youve heard is everyone who copped this shit from the originators. This immaculate blend of scrubbed and polished metallic tones, layered and sculpted like automotive bodywork of the first order, is in fact the real deal. rst had this first, and remains best at doing it, because hes kept his head down, kept off bad drugs, and continued to refine his work in relative obscurity -- not caring whether or not you know about it. Its hard not to lose yourself in this because for me it sounds like the operation of the cosmos, amplified to audibility. This is electric guitar sound with all the extraneous music stripped out. Electricity in action: natural like electro-magnetism, and devotional like the wind from the sun." --Bruce Russell.
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Artist: RST Title: The Sunset Limited Format: CD Label: Utech Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "A dark space blues built from electric guitars, The Sunset Limited presents the next phase of RST¹s exploration of the limitless kinetic possibilities of that hallowed rock and roll instrument. Colossal rumbles and riffs arc across an expanse of darkness, lighting shadows of phantom cities, burnout survivors, fires burning in endless night. Here RST pushes its own aesthetic out beyond the void, building on the slow momentum of fifteen years staring into space, stone in hand, amps on high and tilted skyward. Photograph by Matthew Porter. Edition of 300." - Utech. |
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Artist: RST Title: Warm Planes Format: CD Label: Corpus Hermeticum Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
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"Second full length offering from this talented Kiwi sound sculptor. Guaranteed to pin your head to the floor with calm, carefully abraded and composed blocks of unrelenting noise. Nothing here is accidental, every sound event has a purpose and the result is a festival of physically impacting soundworks in the now classic NZ style. Andrew Moon is RST, a solo sound exploration project he launched on the unsuspecting world via the lathe cut LP Event Horizon in 1994. This LP, like the nearly contemporaneous Surface of the Earth double LP, marked the real beginnings of something new in the NZ noise scene, until then pretty fully occupied by offshoots of the Dead C and their close relatives. Andrews past was as a drummer in various post punk NZ combos, but RST represented a considerable broadening of his sonic palette, using guitars, electronics and recording processes to weld slabs of sound into very slow moving and all-enveloping sonic environments. He subsequently featured on Hcorps genre defining compilation Le Jazz Non, banged out a few select lathe cut rarities and put out his first CD, R136a, on Thurston Moores Ecstatic Peace imprint. The key to RSTs development was a spell spent in London in the early 90s, getting to grips with non-linear music and improvised stratagems for sound making. Once sound was freed to be itself, there was no looking back for Mr Moon. He rapidly came to master the techniques of painting with sound, enabling himself to create sound worlds that hang suspended in the ear of the beholder, adrift from points of reference, where tones and isolated rhythm events turn slowly, casting light in interweaving circles around the inside of your brain. The pieces on this new album range from carefully wrought filigrees of sound sparkling in mid-air to slow moving bulldozers of low end noise that grind across the aural foreground, obliterating everything in their path. What links them together is the total dedication and attention to detail that accompanies their generation and recording, as with label compatriot K Group, no sound is just allowed to be there, every noise is sculpted and carefully placed for maximum aesthetic effect on the listener. Once more, confounding the armchair cynics who claim it is a dead cypher in a universe devoid of meaning, in RSTs hands the electric guitar is reclaimed and made to do new work, uplifting the spirit and splitting the mind open to reveal yet new interior universes of signification. RSTs Warm Planes are like thermal pools for the mind, from which the listener emerges revived and renewed. Dip in." - Corpus Hermeticum.
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Artist: RTFO BANDWAGON Title: Dums Will Survive Format: LP Label: Dull Knife Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "28 minute whirlwind exercise touching on various American folk musics, traditional Greek melodies, and a Sister Ray like freakout for an exclamation mark. A real gem of a modern, not-so-modern pop record. Youre zigging, theyre zagging." -Dull Knife |
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Artist: RTFO BANDWAGON Title: New Jack Format: 7" Label: Dull Knife Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Psychedelic Horseshit member, folk/punk "Punx is Hippies" is what they say. "Hard Frolics." Fans of the PH, messed up folkpunk ala Home Blitz, or the Columbus Ohio now sound will love it. Edition of 300." |
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Artist: RTX Title: RaTX Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Back in March of this year, we issued RTXs second ball-busting album, under a title that we all really loved and you did too. But the man! The man came down on us, telling us that in a court of law the album with that title would be struck down and that we must cease and rethink. Thusly armed, we went to RTX and told them that a rebirth was at hand. Fortunately, they were up for the change - and RaTX is the inevitable result! Containing the exact same contents as its former self, RaTX has the additional benefit of being released in a super-limited vinyl edition (manufactured behind the former Iron Curtain) with exclusive artwork. Its the least we can do to party in the face of the man and his stupid rules and laws. If you havent given rock of the heaviest kind a spin this year, RaTX is the album you need to have. Unless you already have it under a different title." -Drag City. |
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Artist: RTX Title: Speed to Roam Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "The pure rock energy found in Low Ass (Live) On the Beach and Joint Chief Beach Freak (Live) is the live sound of RTX -- a sound fucked with extensively for the studio versions, but presented to you hear with a whomp of granite. Powerful stuff! Kitty Grom takes us back to the lab, where strange and twisted things are occurring minute-by-minute. This RTX single contains one of the hot cuts from Transmaniacon with three bonus tracks." - Drag City. |
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Artist: RTX Title: Transmaniacon Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Jennifer Herrema is back. Its not the Royal Trux, its RTX. Flash to the present. Transmaniacon sounds instead like it was recorded on Mars -- or maybe Saturn. Together, Jennifer, Nadav Eisenman and Jaimo Welch track into new territory. The sounds will immediately make sense, sounds formed into the tightest breed of pure rock energy. A mass of guitars that squirm and scream around the granite rock of the rhythm section, occasionally rocketing into the sky -- pre-verb ricochets colliding with waves of synth and razor sharp vocals cutting right through anything in their path. Jennifer summons the ageless teenager eating cotton candy with the summertime blues and it all boils down hot and cold into one piece of controlled rage post-apocalyptic marching music, or titanium stadium rock, with tight pop rhythms. And the vibe is dead on weird, ripe with images. . . what comes to mind. . .biker gangs, sci-fi mythology, and personal introspection (destruction and then triumph formed from the ashes). This is the sound of RTX." - Drag City. CD also available. |
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Artist: RUBBY BOYS Title: Rubby Boys Format: CDR Label: Spirit Of Orr Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| �??There is a carelessly guarded story regarding the freaked out underground of the Boston, Massachusetts environs. It goes back years and years. In this story you can plug a spout into almost any line and fine some of the dankiest damaged psychedelic forms imaginable. On the vinyl only imprint records we have tried to shed some light on just a few instances of this story (Subskin Cables, El-Ron, Shrin, Deluxx). Mainly focussed on the 1988 - 1993 area, this project saw its greatest exposure coming from Sunburned Hand of the Man�??s debut LP Headdress (out of print). The Rubby Boys were a band that in 1991 (or thereabouts) operated (and lived) in the very same loft-space handed down to SUNBURNED that you may have read about in many recent articles on the band. More than a location, it is a place that is as much a member of the band as anyone involved. The Rubby Boys were current NY State resident Phil Franklin (Sunburned, Franklin�??s Mint, Caroliner, Faxed Head - many others) and Greg Petrovado (currently of Feathers... but also slept around through the years). This surfaced collection of acid drenched home four track recordings displays a heads up to noise New Zealand, as much as a call to 70s Texas lo-fi psych channeled through two mid-20s minds who would go on to influence many independent sounds to come. Limited to 100 copies.�?� - Spirit Of Orr. |
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Artist: RUDI Title: I Spy/Genuine Reply/Sometimes/Ripped In Two Format: 7" Label: Sing Sing Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"After recording a track for Good Vibrations double 7" BATTLE OF THE BANDS on February 1, 1979, Rudi entered Belfasts Wizard Studios taping four songs that appeared in the last week of July on an EP which seemed about to be released by Polydor, but which finally emerged on the Good Vibrations label when the combo refused to replace Graham Marshall with a different drummer as suggested by Polydor. The Buzzcockian guitar solo of GENUINE REPLY, the chorus of RIPPED IN TWO and the John Barry-esque intro to the title-track were the platters most memorable moments. Although all four tunes were very convinving and could stay on your turntable for days." - Sing Sing.
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Artist: RUINS Title: The Art Dance Format: LP Label: Minimal Wave Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Minimal Wave proudly presents a full length LP by Ruins, an Italian electro-wave duo. Ruins formed in Mestre in 1978 with the intention of experimenting with electronic devices and mixed media. They mainly created music out of self-expression without any intention of joining the mainstream. Interested in multimedia, they had a strong visual aesthetic apparent via their album art, videos and projections. Their classic hit Fire is one of our favorites to date, so powerful with its great energy and beautiful production (I dont like your job / I dont like your games / I dont wanna be just a sleep-machine). Its where Italo meets Minimal Wave. The Fire videos are a must-see in order to grasp the full effect of the song, check out the first version here and rare second version here. The LP entitled "The Art Dance" features a collection of songs recorded between 1980-1984, some previously released, others never released before pressed on 180 gram vinyl and housed in a lovely hand-numbered glossy gatefold jacket lined with the bands history and photos, and accompanied by a lyrics insert sheet." - Minimal Wave. |
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Artist: RUNNING Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Running is one of Americas best psych/punk bands. Running sounds to us like Clockcleaner, if they played twice as fast and half as long. The vocals are reverbed beyond recognition, the drums are pummeling, and the bass and guitar are abrasive feedback-laden. After pumping out a couple of incredible cassette tape-only releases, Running went into the studio and recorded some of their material (semi) professionally. Those recordings have now been preserved to wax as Runnings debut 12" EP. This eponymous EP comes housed in a jacket with really interestingly created artwork and contains exactly 13 totally brutal weird punk songs. If these guys were jockier, theyd be a hardcore band. Thankfully, theyre too arty for that ish. This record fucking rips! The first pressing is limited to 500 copies!" -Permanent |
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Artist: RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTÿCK + MAMA BÿR Title: Il Portale delle Indipendenti Format: CD Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Psycho acoustic pandering from Schimpfluch founder Rudolf Eb.er & Asylum-Lunaticums Mama Bär. Includes Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck concert for spanking featuring Raionbashi & Mai Sau as well as a reissue of the out of print (limited edition of 27) LP Il Portale Delle Indipendenti." - Blossoming Noise. |
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Artist: RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK Title: Asshole/Snail Dilemma Format: CD Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
| "Yes, I really like Asshole Snail Dilemna and not because its a sure thing as far as room-clearing is concerned. Totally disturbing, challenging and just plain weird. If you sit through this entire CD and arent affected in someway than you are dead." - Kevin Drumm. |
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Artist: RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK/DECAER PINGA Title: Omiting The Troll Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK/MLEHST Title: Sex Sex Sex/The Appeal.. Format: LP Label: Belief Recordings Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
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Artist: RUPP, OLAF Title: Eins, Zwo, Drei, Vier Format: 7" Label: Happy Zloty Country: Germany Price: $6.50 |
| "Olaf Rupp was born in 1963. At the age of twelve he began to play guitar. He was his own teacher and behind classical guitar repertoire pieces and Rock music especially free improvisation was always most important. He played with Paul Lovens, Rudi Mahall, Sainkho Namtchylak, Aki Takase, Toshimaru Nakamura, Wolfgang Fuchs, Butch Morris, Johannes Bauer, Jean Marc Montera and others. In the 90s he was mainly interested in improvised pop music in duos with drummer Hanno Leichtmann (EMAK BAKIA) and Stephan Mathieu (STOL). Now he focuses on acoustic and electric guitar solo performance." - Happy Zloty. Berlin guitarist with releases on Grob & Sieben/A-Musik. HAPPY ZLOTY is a small label from Bremen that has released a series of beautiful 7"s and LPs. All are editions of 200 or 300 in silkscreened sleeves. |
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Artist: RUPP, OLAF Title: Mai Format: 12 Label: Sieben Country: Germany Price: $9.00 |
| "Mai is purely electronic though, improvised mighty frequencies, subtle soundlayers, Rupp calls it Sound-Geology." - Sieben. |
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Artist: RUPPERSBERG, ALLEN Title: Art, and Therefore, Ourselves: Songs, Recipes, and the Old People Format: LP Label: Allen Ruppersberg Country: USA Price: $38.00 |
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"Allen Ruppersberg creates paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations, and books that explore ideas related to the intersection of art, written material, and life. The artist mines his own collection of 20th-century cultural ephemera, including calendars, snapshots, magazines, comic books, newspaper clippings, postcards, posters, and instructional films, for source material." - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. "This vinyl LP was created as a soundtrack to The Never-Ending Book, Part II, a large-scale installation that includes thousands of xeroxed images from the artists book collection, installed in a stage-like environment made of theatrical props and mural-sized posters. The LP includes old songs and hymns, spoken word recordings, recipes read by poet Bill Berkson, and early home recordings. Comes with 4 page insert." - Orion Read. Artists edition of 300 copies, from 2009. |
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Artist: RUPPERSBERG, ALLEN Title: No Time Left To Start Again, Volume 1: The B and D of R n R Format: LP Label: Allen Ruppersberg Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
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"Allen Ruppersberg creates paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations, and books that explore ideas related to the intersection of art, written material, and life. The artist mines his own collection of 20th-century cultural ephemera, including calendars, snapshots, magazines, comic books, newspaper clippings, postcards, posters, and instructional films, for source material." - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. "These vinyl records are the first two installments of Allen Ruppersbergs ongoing project that subjectively explores the documentary history of Post-War American popular music and music graphics. With album covers designed by the artist, each record features fifteen tracks culled from 78 and 45 rpm records found in flea markets, antique malls, and junk shops. Vol. 1 (dedicated to Little Richard) centers on R&B while Vol. 2 focuses on country and folk songs…in other words, the combination of the Blues and the High Lonesome Sound that created Rock n Roll." - Orion Read. Featuring T-Bone Walker, Fats Domino, The Champs, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Bill Blacks Combo, The Roberta Martin Singers, Shirley and Lee, Lloyd Price, Ward Singers, Little Richard, Elliot Shaver, Chuck Berry, Elmore James, and Rosetta Howard. Artists edition of 300 copies, from 2010. |
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Artist: RUPPERSBERG, ALLEN Title: No Time Left To Start Again, Volume 2: The B and D of R n R Format: LP Label: Allen Ruppersberg Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
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"Allen Ruppersberg creates paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations, and books that explore ideas related to the intersection of art, written material, and life. The artist mines his own collection of 20th-century cultural ephemera, including calendars, snapshots, magazines, comic books, newspaper clippings, postcards, posters, and instructional films, for source material." - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. "These vinyl records are the first two installments of Allen Ruppersbergs ongoing project that subjectively explores the documentary history of Post-War American popular music and music graphics. With album covers designed by the artist, each record features fifteen tracks culled from 78 and 45 rpm records found in flea markets, antique malls, and junk shops. Vol. 1 (dedicated to Little Richard) centers on R&B while Vol. 2 focuses on country and folk songs…in other words, the combination of the Blues and the High Lonesome Sound that created Rock n Roll." - Orion Read. Featuring Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, Trinity Choir, Webb Pierce, Rose Maddox, The Louvin Brothers, The Delmore Brothers, "Mac" Harry McClintock, Vernon Dalhart, Sid Harkreader, Ray Price, The Johnson Family, Uncle Dave Macon, and Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. Artists edition of 300 copies, from 2010. |
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Artist: RUPPERSBERG, ALLEN Title: No Time Left To Start Again, Volume 3: The B and D of R n R Format: LP Label: Allen Ruppersberg Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| "The third installment of Allen Ruppersberg’s project that subjectively explores the documentary history of Post-War American popular music and music graphics. With album covers designed by the artist, each record features tracks culled from 78 and 45 rpm records found in flea markets, antique malls, and junk shops. Vol. 3 features a combination of plantation, jubilee, or dixie-themed songs, hillbilly records, or C&W and Bluegrass of some sort, and one “Heart” song, “Home Sweet Home. 2012, edition of 250, vinyl only." - Orion Read |
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Artist: RUPPERSBERG, ALLEN Title: No Time Left To Start Again, Volume 4: The B and D of R n R Format: LP Label: Allen Ruppersberg Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| "The forth installment of Allen Ruppersberg’s project that subjectively explores the documentary history of Post-War American popular music and music graphics. With album covers designed by the artist, each record features tracks culled from 78 and 45 rpm records found in flea markets, antique malls, and junk shops. Vol. 4 features both white and black gospel and hymns, black spirituals, sermons and a couple of early field recordings" - Orion Read |
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Artist: RUPPERSBERG, ALLEN Title: No Time Left To Start Again, Volume 5: The B and D of R n R Format: Double LP Label: Allen Ruppersberg Country: USA Price: $45.00 |
| "The fifth installment of Allen Ruppersberg’s project that subjectively explores the documentary history of Post-War American popular music and music graphics. With album covers designed by the artist, each record features tracks culled from 78 and 45 rpm records found in flea markets, antique malls, and junk shops. Vol. 5 is a gatefold containing two LPs, one jazz and the other blues" - Orion Read |
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Artist: RUPPERSBERG, ALLEN Title: No Time Left To Start Again, Volume 6: The B and D of R n R Format: LP Label: Allen Ruppersberg Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| "The sixth installment of Allen Ruppersberg’s project that subjectively explores the documentary history of Post-War American popular music and music graphics. With album covers designed by the artist, each record features tracks culled from 78 and 45 rpm records found in flea markets, antique malls, and junk shops." - Orion Read |
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Artist: RUPPERSBERG, ALLEN Title: No Time Left To Start Again, Volume 7: The B and D of R n R Format: LP Label: Allen Ruppersberg Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| "The seventh installment of Allen Ruppersberg’s project that subjectively explores the documentary history of Post-War American popular music and music graphics. With album covers designed by the artist, each record features tracks culled from 78 and 45 rpm records found in flea markets, antique malls, and junk shops. Vol. 7 includes a little bit of everything: after hours, pop, boogie-woogie, vocal groups, Chicago blues, New Orleans R&B, doo-wop, calypso, novelty, shouters & honkers, etc." - Orion Read |
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Artist: RURYK, BRIAN Title: Guitar Weakling Format: Lathe cut 7"+ Art Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $17.00 |
| "Lathe Cut 7" W/ Printed Rubber Mounted Over A Surface Raised By Ball Bearings. Fourth Ruryk release for Beniffer Editions. This one succeeds in transcribing an overwhelming "music at work" type feel. Or atleast from the sounds of it, a guy who used to be able to enjoy the occasional guitar freakout in the office. Originally the intent of this package, was to create an effect similar to that of silly putty newspaper transfer. Only with a more permanent substrate. This is what I came up with. A pale yellow excersise band with a one color screen print of Brian. Underneath the rubber are hundreds of spray glued ball bearings. This may result in an uncomfortable setting in your alphabetically filed 7" collection (goodbye mint condition runzelstirn & gurglestock/K2 split) The back is a collage by the artist, with direct printing onto each side of the record with old R&B record label closeups." -Beniffer. |
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Artist: RURYK, BRIAN Title: Start Lippin Off Format: CDR Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $13.00 |
| "Best audio editor around. Junk assembly, percussion madness, cut up to swirl your head. Comes in a screened hard board diskette envelope, sealed (edition of 100)" - Bennifer Editions. |
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Artist: RUSHFORD, JAMES/JOE TALIA Title: Manhunter Format: LP Label: Kye Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Manhunter is the brand new LP by Australias James Rushford and Joe Talia. The duos previous work, Palisades (2009) and Paper Fault Line (2011), showcased a gestural and timbrally rich music, bristling with keen detail and sharp edits. Manhunter stands in stark contrast - an ebbing two-part suite for waning greyscale electronics, dehumanized drum machine, amorphous vocal fragments, and sundry devices, woven together in a fabric of despair. The exquisite bleakness of Manhunter ties it to La Mutazione, Abandoned Cities, Theme From Hunger, and other great downer classics of yore. Manhunter arrives in a full-color high gloss Michael Salerno designed sleeve, with complimentary labels, in an edition of 400 copies." -Kye. |
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Artist: RUSSELL, ARTHUR Title: Calling Out of Context Format: CD Label: Audika Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "When Arthur Russell died in 1992 he left an overwhelming archive of over a 1000 tapes that reveal the sublime genius of one of the most important musicians of the last 25 years. As a cellist, songwriter, composer, and disco visionary Arthur Russell consistently blurred the lines of our expectations of what pop music could be. Originally from Iowa, Arthur travelled west in 1970 to study Indian classical composition with Ali Akbar Khan, befriended Allen Ginsberg, performed with Alice Coltrane, and then moved to New York in 1973 to study at the Manhattan School of Music. Quickly gravitating to the then burgeoning downtown scene, Arthur wrote and performed his minimal compositions (captured on Instrumentals and Tower Of Meaning . Both to be re-issued by Audika) and collaborated with a whos who of some of New Yorks most influential artists including Rhys Chatham, Ernie Brooks, David Byrne, Phillip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Jon Gibson, Robert Wilson, Christian Wolff, John Cage, Arnold Dreyblatt, and Phill Niblock. It then changed by a mere accident. Simply, he went to a disco. Inspired by the sonic repetition and sense of community, Arthur wrote and recorded some of the most important records of the disco era including Kiss Me Again, Is It All Over My Face, and co-founded Sleeping Bag Records with partner Wil Socolov releasing Go Bang and the album 24-24 Music . In 2002 Audika Records entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with the estate of Arthur Russell to issue previously unreleased and out of print material from Arthurs vast archive. The first album Calling Out Of Context , features 12 previously unreleased tracks recorded during Arthurs prime years 1985-90. The material is drawn from Corn , an album that was completed in 1985 but never released, and an abandoned album recorded for Rough Trade as Arthur had become ill. Many of these tracks show hidden sides of Arthurs talent and underline the loss of his great potential. Contrary by nature, Arthurs spontaneous reaction and altered perception to his environment produced music that remains challenging and contemporary. Arthurs open hearted attitude to music was far ahead of its time, and now that time is ours." - Audika. |
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Artist: RUSSELL, ARTHUR Title: First Thought Best Thought Format: Double CD Label: Audika Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Before disco, and before the transcendent echoes, Arthur Russell wanted to be a composer. His journey began in 1972, leaving Iowa to study Indian classical composition with Ali Akbar Khan in Northern California and ending two years later in New York at the Manhattan School of Music. In that brief period Arthur met and worked with several musicians and poets that would guide his work throughout the remainder of the decade: Allen Ginsburg, Christian Wolff, Jackson MacLow, Rhys Chatham, Philip Glass, Elodie Lauten, and Ernie Brooks. First Thought Best Thought collects Arthur Russells out of print instrumental and orchestral compositions along with over 45 minutes of previously-unreleased material on two CDs. Initially intended to be performed in one 48 hour cycle, Instrumentals was in fact only performed in excerpts a handful of times as a work in progress. The legendary performances captured live in New York at The Kitchen and Franklin St. Arts Center include the cream of that eras downtown new music scene including Ernie Brooks, Rhys Chatham, Jon Gibson, Peter Gordon, Garrett List, Andy Paley, Dave Van Tiegham, and Peter Zummo. Included here is the previously unreleased Instrumentals Vol. 1 along with Instrumentals Vol. 2 that has been out of print for over twenty years. Originally released in 1984, sections of Instrumentals Vol. 2 were incorrectly mastered at half speed, and have been now corrected for this compilation. Reach One is one of Arthurs earliest compositions dating back to 1973. The hypnotic soundscape was written and performed for two Fender Rhodes pianos, and is previously unreleased. One of the holy grails in Arthurs discography, Tower Of Meaning is a beautiful and stunningly moving orchestral work. Conducted by the late Julius Eastman, Tower Of Meaning was originally released in a limited private edition of only 320 copies. Sketch For The Face Of Helen shares only the same title as the previously released excerpt from 1981. Inspired by his work with friend and composer Arnold Dreyblatt, this previously unreleased version was recorded with an electronic tone generator, keyboard and ambient recordings of a rumbling tugboat from the Hudson River. First Thought Best Thought is an essential collection of the lost instrumental treasures from Arthur Russells vast archive and brings the genius of his legacy closer into focus. Packaged with a 16-page color booklet + O-card of archival images and essays by former Modern Lover Ernie Brooks and Audikas Steve Knutson." - Audika. |
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Artist: RUSSELL, ARTHUR Title: World of Echo Format: CD Label: Audika Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Out of print for over fifteen years, Arthur Russells most extraordinary work, World Of Echo is issued for the first time on CD by Audika Records. Newly remastered from Arthurs pristine original 1/4" sequenced masters, World Of Echo sounds like nothing you have heard or will ever hear. 18 tracks are featured including drumless versions of his Disco classics Lets Go Swimming, Tree House and Wax The Van along with four previously unreleased tracks from Sketches From World Of Echo. Originally released on LP in 1986, World Of Echo is a deeply intimate and meditative work of awe-inspiring grace and remains a timeless work of sublime beauty. Arthurs aim was to achieve what he calls the most vivid rhythmic reality, with just cello, voice, and echoes. Arthur achieved all of this and more on one of the most amazing albums you will ever hear." - Audika. |
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: 1968 Format: Cass Label: Imminent Frequencies Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "A leading figure within New Zealands underground music scene for more than 25 years, Bruce Russell may be best know as a founding member of the The Dead C and A Handful of Dust as well as his labels Xpressway and Corpus Hermeticum. 1968 is a collection of solo guitar pieces recorded over a period of 15 years in various locals throughout Russells native New Zealand as well as a rare visit to the United States. In some cases the locations of these recordings have long been demolished by New Zealand." -Imminent Frequencies. |
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: 21st Century Field Hollers and Prison Songs Format: CDR/Book Label: W.m.o/r Country: Spain Price: $13.00 |
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"This album has been made entirely from samples taken from the Midnight Crossroads Tape Recorder Blues album, which I made with Ralf Wehowsky for A Bruit Secret. Like that album it is a tribute to the spirit of the blues, viewed through a prism of 21st century cultural criticism. It evokes an earlier era when the relationship between a performer and a song arose out of a community, not a property relation. In appropriating my own material I have short-circuited the prevailing ethos of piracy and bricolage, and returned in a sense, to my self.
Despite being made in New Zealand, and using some recordings from the Rhineland, the two places that are really central to this album are the Mississippi Delta and the island of Jamaica." - Bruce Russell (Dead C).
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: 21st Century Field Hollers and Prison Songs Format: LP Label: Rococo Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"This album has been made entirely from samples taken from the Midnight Crossroads Tape Recorder Blues album, which I made with Ralf Wehowsky for A Bruit Secret. Like that album it is a tribute to the spirit of the blues, viewed through a prism of 21st century cultural criticism. It evokes an earlier era when the relationship between a performer and a song arose out of a community, not a property relation.. In appropriating my own material I have short-circuited the prevailing ethos of piracy and bricolage, and returned in a sense, to my self. Despite being made in New Zealand, and using some recordings from the Rhineland, the two places that are really central to this album are the Mississippi Delta and the island of Jamaica. - Bruce Russell (Dead C)." - Rococo. Limited to 300 copies.
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: Acetate Blues Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
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"Solo recordings by one of New Zealands founding fathers of
experimental music and free noise, Dead C member, Corpus Hermeticum
boss, continues his exploration of the blues as heard in his recent
collaboration with Ralf Wehowsky Midnight Crossroads Tape Recorder
Blues CD (A Bruit Secret).
Bruce Russell - acoustic guitar/vocal. Analogue recordings by Bruce
Russell, 2003. Surface noise digitally processed by Bruce Russell.
Mixed at the Temple of Music Digital Annex Oct 2005. Thanks to Sound
Archives/Nga Taonga Korero for their unwitting assistance.." - CMR.
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: Antikythera Mechanism Format: LP Label: The Spring Press Country: Australia Price: $24.00 |
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: Gilded Splinters Format: CD Label: Spirit Of Orr Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
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"After countless false starts and production problems, we are finally
able to offer a specially packaged edition of this long awaited release
by BRUCE RUSSELL. Hand assembled digipak version of this CD (not a CDR).Iin the
coming months it will be issued in a jewel cased edition. About the
Project: I have been interested in the use of sound recordings to make
music for a long time. In the early 1980s one of the things that drew
me to the work of groups such as Cabaret Voltaire, The Fall and This
Heat was their use of recordings as an element in their work, and as a
way of restructuring played pieces once they had been recorded. In my
own work, I started making tape works from day one, buying my first open
reel tape machine in 1983, the same year I bought my first electric
guitar. The first Dead C. album included The Wheel and Mutterline,
both of which I constructed from tapes [1987]. Later about half of the
third Handful of Dust album; From a Soundtrack to the Anabase of
St.John Perse, was constructed in the studio [1995]. When I began to
record under my own name, one of the things I wanted to focus on was
tape work, as opposed to documentation recordings of live
improvisations, which most of my other work has been. My first solo
single was produced by the simple expedient of halving the tape speed,
thereby doubling the beauty of the original ultra-lo-fi recording. A
great boost to my resolve in this area was given by Ralf Wehowskys
invitation in 1996 to participate in what became the Tulpas project.
His faith in me gave me confidence to consider my work as a form of
composition, and has led directly to this album. In this regard the
support of Matthew Leonard has also been very helpful. My plan was to
compile examples of my tape work over the last few years, as a way of
showing the different approaches and developing methodologies that I
have employed. Originally I envisaged a double CD, but this has proven
to be both too expensive and ultimately too hubristic. Making these
recordings has been a learning process, but a very satisfying one. My
working practices have often been deliberately primitive and brutal, and
I make no apology for that. It is the ideas and their expression that
should be of interest, not merely questions of technique. It remains
only to note the inspiring example of many more illustrious names in
this genuinely Twentieth Century art form. I will not compile a list of
names, as these lists have a way of becoming almost too famous, but
national pride compels me to mention the late Douglas Lilburn. He
founded, in 1966 at Victoria University of Wellington, the Southern
Hemispheres first Electronic Music Studio. Recently his magnificent
analogue electronic works have entered the digital domain in a long
overdue re-edition. Hurrah!" - Bruce Russell, Lyttelton 2004.
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: Gilded Splinters: Essays And Aphorisms Towards An Aesthetics Of Noise Format: Book Label: Slow Toe Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"A collection of five essays written by Mr. Russell during 1994-2004. Bruce Russell has spent the last 20 years refining a unique approach to musical practice which owes much to more esoteric disciplines such as sound art, free noise improvisation and electro-acoustic composition. Coming from a rock background, he has broadened his interests, methods and arsenal of techniques to include practices and approaches to sound that have moved him to a position outside any musical mainstream one could care to name. At the same time he has done much to network like-minded New Zealand artists, and to actively promote these artists in the international music scene. He is now a minor but firmly established fixture in the international improvisation underground, known both for his own work and that of his label, Corpus Hermeticum. He performs regularly with the Dead C., A Handful of Dust, and as a solo artist. He also writes criticism and theoretical essays, some of which are compiled here." - Slow Toe.
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: Maximalist Mantra Music Format: CD Label: Crank Automotive Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Bruce Russells Maximalist Mantra Music (Crank Automotive, 2000) pays his homage to Lou Reeds Metal Machine Music with three extended compositions for bedroom electronics (actually, guitars and keyboards). As cacophonous as its predecessor, Russells album, like all concept art, is more about the whole than its parts: sounds grow and move, like living organisms, but the overall structure remains the same, a subdued psycho-industrial symphony. The War Between Desire And Technology is almost new age music (by his standards) but On Certain Obsolete Notions will make Lou Reed proud of his disciple." -Scaruffi. Small stash of this out of print, 1999 release. |
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: Painting The Passports Brown Format: CD Label: Corpus Hermeticum Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
| "This, the third solo album recorded by the artist currently known as Bruce Russell, consists of three live slabs of improvised guitar, electronics, and analogue tape loops, recorded live in Melbourne, Australia in May 1999. This was the first of two visits he made to Australia in that year, the second being in the company of Alastair Galbraith as A Handful of Dust. These recordings are totally solo, built respectively around a pre-recorded seven metre loop taken from the Anabase LP by Dust (Black Flies #1 & #2), and a slowed down and reversed tape of thumb piano improvisation (With Rimbaud in Abyssinia). These extended works are less brutal than the pieces featured on the first two solo albums, with more space and attendant dynamics in evidence. They abrade, rather than assault, the ears. This album represents a step forward in BRs solo work, integrating the pre-recorded and live sounds ever more fully into a seamless whole. The recordings have been edited at the front and back, but otherwise are presented totally live as recorded to minidisc by Melbourne resident and Freeway Sound label curator Marco Fusinato. The Rimbaud track is subtitled Ass Backwards as the reversal of the backing tape was an unintended but fortunate accident, resulting from a failure to rewind the tape after the first show. These kind of random factors do so much to enrich the work of improvisers of all stripes, as witnessed by the music on this compact disc. Going on at length about the artist responsible for these recordings would be needless in the case of the very great majority of those reading these words. Suffice to say he performs and records with the Dead C, A Handful of Dust, and Pieters/Russell/ Stapleton, manages the label on which this excellent disc has been released, and takes the kind of holiday snaps of bridges and buildings with which the cover is decorated. A 10" vinyl postscript to this recordings is being released about the same time on the Smalltown Supersound label in Norway, that record being of a much more dense and apocalyptic guitar-squall nature, recorded solo at one of the Melbourne Dust dates referred to earlier." |
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: Project for a Revolution in New York Format: LP Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"The first Bruce Russell solo release Project for a Revolution in New York (Siltbreeze, LP only I believe) sees our man truly alone on the first side, messing with a guitar over a looped drone accompaniment. Remarkably subdued and dare I say, relaxing. Side two has Tom Lax (Siltbreeze mainman) and Paul Toohey (Surface of the Earth) helping out with percussion and electronics in a very free collaboration where what doesnt happen defines the tension of the piece as much as what does. Theres always been a tension between noise and minimalism in Russells music as evidenced on Project For a Revolution... and made especially apparent on the Crank Automotive release Maximalist Mantra Music . Two of the tracks here were recorded live at the Dux de Lux in Christchurch and the sounds of the audience map neatly into the low-intensity noise emanating from the stage to make you feel as though you were there." - noise.as. 1998 release.
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: Toy Walkie Talkie Format: 7" Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $6.00 |
| "heir sideburns (dead c) conjours no nonsense neck ache in a toys R us stylee. semen vinyl." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE/FRANCIS, RICHARD Title: Garage Music Format: CD Label: Alone At Last Country: New Zealand Price: $14.00 |
| "Three parts mail music exchange, one part juxtaposition of two solo sets from 2009, and one part live recording from The Physics Room, Christchurch, where RICHARD FRANCIS plays modular synthesizer and computer, and BRUCE RUSSELL uses guitar, tapes and Clavioline synthesizer. Hand assembled in textured paper. Edition of 500." -Alone At Last. |
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Artist: RUSSELL, DAVID Title: Architecture Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Pilgrim Talk Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "What is it? No no no no no no no no no... 11 of Davids most potent loops (including one using sounds from Lake Erie[!]) emanating from the foggy lathe cut grooves. Some tracks pulled from out of print tapes, plus a couple newbies. In short, the loop maestros greatest hits all packed on to one 7-inch. Cut by Peter King. 50 copies." -Pilgrim Talk |
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Artist: RUSSIAN TSARLAG Title: Midnight At Marys House Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Vagabond American legend Carlos Gonzalez drops his first NNF full-length, and its 10 of his greatest junkyard surf-slime tunes of all time. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: RUSSIAN TSARLAG Title: Open Caskets Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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Artist: RUSSIAN TSARLAG/SECRET BOYFRIEND Title: Split Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Long in the works split LP finally made available. Two complimentary sides of otherworldly, out-of-time romantic/downer tunes evocative of a woman descending a glass staircase. An early review from P Maier: Grace is a distant glimmer, but at least champagne is in hand. This split is definitely needed by all." -Hot Releases. |
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Artist: RUST IONICS Title: Moving/Pictures Format: LP Label: Colour Sounds Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Moving/Pictures" marks the first vinyl release on Colour Sounds Recordings, and drummer Adam Kriney declares "This is the most insane record Ive ever recorded", nuff said? A black sheet of improvised sonic skull-fuckery from the depths of the most mind-splitting free-noise/brutal-jazz movement, brought to you by the ad-hoc first/only recording of RUST IONICS, the trio of freak drummer Adam Kriney (OWL XOUNDS/LA OTRACINA/BLIZZARDS/CASTANETS), electric guitar wizard Doug Theriault (OFFICE PRODUCTS/DUAL, collab-er with Wally Shoup/Jeph Jerman/Brian Eubanks), and extreme sax-ist Ed Chang (DUAL/SPIN-17/AGENTS At MIDNIGHT, collab-er with Marshall Allen/Ravi Padmanabha). Full on grindcore/metal scapes clashed with fiercely extended saxaphone use and a dynamic whirl of free-improvisational magic, all together a blinding force, a drugged memory, and a leave-no-survivors presense. Comes on gorgeous transparent blue vinyl in a limited edition of 311 copies. Recommended for fans of BORBETOMAGUS, Keiji Haino, PAINKILLER, and Peter Brotmann10s more extreme work." - Colour Sounds. |
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Artist: RUSTED SHUT Title: Dead Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Houstons RUSTED SHUT has been at it in one form or another since 1986 at least. This record is the work of a band determined to work out some difficult shit, so bear witness. Dead is not for the faint of heart or those with weak kidneys. DON WALSH spins a negative vortex of such power that clothing, food wrappers and other loose items are easily sucked into its encompassing downer orbit. The music backing this maelstrom references hard rock superheroes with no sense of fidelity: The tinittus of Lemmy Kilmeister and the cochlea pain of GG Allin." - Load. |
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Artist: RUSTED SHUT Title: Rehab Format: CD Label: Emperor Jones Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The latest in repetitive naplam obliteration from Texas crust-grind filth-heads RUSTED SHUT. Thirteen over-amped tracks of maximum scuzz and infectious scorn delivered with genuine hatred. Originally released as a CDR, the album has been re-sickened with four new studio tracks and a live tribute to the city of Houston. Fans of Cherubs, Brainbombs, High Rise and Lightning Bolt will all die happier." |
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Artist: RUSTED SHUT Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Fleece Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Tough to find debut from Houstons legendary noise/rock trio. Compiles live, studio and radio sessions from 1992-1995 capturing their awe-inspiring primal racket. Moments of improv-noise free flight and three chords (or less!) gutter stomp." - Fleece Records
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Artist: RUTH Title: Mon Pote/Mescalito Format: 7" Label: Poutre Apparente Country: France Price: $10.00 |
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"...you oughta know about this reissue of primo Gallic swoon what was spawned by Ilitch mastermind Thierry Mueller. My details on Ruth is sketchy but I think this follows the Ilitch lp Periodicmindtrouble when Mueller decided to drum up a rock ensemble with Ruth bein the end result. Not sure what they was channelin (or ingestin) but this 7" is as jakeve an example of proto (Hearthan) era Ubu swoggle as Ive ever heard. Considerin this is culled from some 1978 recordings, could it be they was locked into a similar street wave? Hard to know, theres also some aggressive Psychedelic Warlords "thing" goin on too & Francoise Portes vocals (esp. on Mescalito) sound like theys bein blipped in from another dimension. Really, besides Pere Ubu, I cant think of anyone back then KNOWN who was minin a similar shaft in a space/industro/punk vein. This one is impressin the hell outta me. Right up there alongside Angel Face as one of the greatest "lost" French bands of all time. Nice to have it around. Again." - Roland Woodbe, Siltblog.
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Artist: RUTH Title: Polaroid/Roman/Photo Format: CD Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $16.00 |
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"Remastered CD reissue of the third album of Thierry Müller (aka Ilitch) released in 1985 under the name of Ruth, with a 16 pages booklet (which includes the original vinyl booklet), plus three bonus tracks: two versions of Polaroïd/roman/photo from 1982 & 1984 and a remix track by LOrchestra Inachevé (aka Patrick Müller and Laurent Saïet). Ruth is a 10 musicians collective, led by Thierry Müller: Marc Duconseille (saxophones flutes), Gérard Nouvel (trumpet), Pascal Morrow: violin, Parice Gillaumat: drums, Frédéric Lapierre: words vocals chorus, Frédéric Cambon: vocals, Christine Snabre et Mika Tessarech: chorus, Philippe Doray: words, Thierry Müller: guitar synthetizers organ sequencer vocals words. Polaroïd/roman/photo is a relax mood erotic-melodic-synthe-80s pop, very musical and structured album, with fine arrangements, closed to Kraftwerk early 80s period. Also, includes a clever cover of She brings the rain by Can." - Fractal
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Artist: RUTH Title: Polaroid/Roman/Photo - 25th Anniversary Deluxe Special Edition Format: LP Label: Angular Country: UK Price: $32.00 |
| "After the acclaim and success of the Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics compilation earlier this year, Angular is proud to announce the release of a 25th Anniversary Deluxe Special Edition reissue from one of the artists featured on this collection. RUTHs "Polaroid/Roman/Photo" was consistently noted as one of the standout tracks from the comp, which received glowing reviews across the board. This wasnt the case the first time around though. Originally released on Paris Records in 1985 Ruths LP sold just 50 copies and was relegated to obscurity until the track "Polaroid/Roman/Photo" started appearing on bootlegs and compilations in the early 00s, slowly becoming the cult synth pop classic it is nowadays. An original copy goes for upwards of #300 on eBay and Ruth are a shining light from an oft forgotten music scene that is becoming increasingly influential today. Ruth was the brainchild of THIERRY MULLER, a photographer and graphic artist from Paris who drew his inspiration from bands and artists like Brian Eno, Stockhausen, Pere Ubu, Neu, Velvet Underground and Kraftwerk. In the late 70s he began to work on Ruth, releasing the lone album Polaroid/Roman/Photo in 1985. The line up of Ruth was collaborative and fluid, brass mingles with prototype drum machines, and squalling experimentation sits alongside sultry French girls across 40 minutes of edgy pop innovation that sounds remarkably undated alongside contemporary pop music. This deluxe limited edition comes in a gatefold sleeve on transparent scarlet vinyl, and features a 12-page booklet of lyrics and photos and download codes for a digital version of the album which includes six bonus tracks." - Angular. |
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Artist: RUTHERFORD, PAUL Title: Solo In Berlin 1975 Format: CD Label: Emanem Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Recorded a year after his acclaimed masterpiece, The Gentle Harm of the Bourgeoisie, these three festival sets are at least as good. They find Rutherford at his most original and inventive, making wild music by enhancing his trombone with his voice, with mutes and other objects, as well as using his awesome speed and stunning range. No one else has made the trombone sound like this, before or since. 75 minutes. (5 minutes originally on an FMP sampler -- the rest is previously unissued)." - Emanem |
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Artist: RV PAINTINGS Title: Samoa Highway Format: LP Label: Helen Scarsdale Agency Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "RV Paintings were born in California. Humboldt County, to be exact. It is nearly impossible to imagine their origins being elsewhere since the brothers Brian and Jon Pyle, who currently pilot RV Paintings, constantly mine the metaphysical properties of their homeland through a heavy-lidded psychedelia. The redwood trees that majestically rise from the rugged terrain may have been one of the endemic objects that inspired RV Paintings to "jam nature;" but Humboldt Countys other major cash crop -- marijuana -- cannot be far behind. As much as the Pyle brothers channel a psychotropic animism through sound, their diaphanous drones and foggy ambient tangles spring from a schematic intelligence that belies any method acting of getting stoned and jamming in a room. Samoa Highway is the second full album for RV Paintings, following the nature jam transmissions of Trinity Rivers published by Root Strata in 2007 and a well-suited split LP with Taiga Remains from Blackest Rainbow. Just as the debut payed homage to the rugged river system that cuts through forests and mountains of the region, Samoa Highway refers to the lengthy bridge that runs between two coastal communities in Humboldt County, one of which houses a municipal airport. A swarm of drone guitars announces the opening of the record on "Millions," with a shoegaze wash collapsing into rarified tone purity and bulging through a metallic buzz. Field recordings of airplane take-off and firework explosions punctuate the undulating bleary smear of the Pyle brothers guitars. The result is one of levitation, even as RV Paintings seem to be plugging their guitars and electronics directly into the moss, soil, and mycelia of the Humboldt forest. Echo-soaked flutes, maudlin strings, scabrous noises unearthed from the bottom of the Pacific, and a cinematic arcs of guitar shimmer complete the beautiful and haunted miasma of Samoa Highway that falls somewhere between Taj Mahal Travellers, Organum, and The Caretaker. Brian Pyle may be best known as one of the founders of the Starving Weirdos and records his solo work as Ensemble Economique. Samoa Highway stands the first piece of vinyl published by Helen Scarsdale Agency and includes a code for a digital download. Pressed in an edition of 500 copies." -Helen Scarsdale Agency |
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Artist: RYAN, COLLIE Title: The Hour Is Now Format: LP Label: Sebastian Speaks/Yoga Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Collie Ryan privately pressed three albums in the early seventies, Taking Your Turn Round the Corner of Day, Indian Harvest, and The Giving Tree. The records were funded in part by Collies friends at the New Age Farms carrot and fresh juice company in Lompoc, California and her mesmerizing music remained largely a secret until "Cricket," one of the tracks from Indian Harvest, surfaced on the Numero Groups stellar 2006 compilation Ladies From the Canyon. Collies music is almost solely based around her cosmic and birdlike voice and nylon guitar picking, and her lyrics reflect her lifelong study of theosophy and naturalist living. Even today Collie lives largely outside of what would be considered "regular" society, residing in a converted 1930s school bus in the middle of a Texas desert and painting mandalas on hub cabs, while continuing to produce her very special and personal music. Sebastian Speaks, in association with Douglas McGowan of Yoga Records, is proud to present this compilation The Hour Is Now, culling tracks from her first three lps and presented in a sleeve featuring new front and back paintings by Collie. The tracks have been completely remastered from the original source tapes by J.D. Emmanuel of Wizards fame." -Sebastian Speaks/Yoga |
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Artist: RYAN, COLLIE Title: The Rainbow Records Format: Triple CD Label: Riverman Country: Korea Price: $29.00 |
| "Yoga Records, in association with Riverman Music, is proud to present this 3xCD box set, the first-ever CD reissue of these breathtaking obscure folk gems by Texas Collie Ryan. Collie Ryan privately-pressed three albums in 1973, The Giving Tree, Indian Harvest, and Takin Your Turn Round The Corner Of Day. These records were funded in part by Collies friends at the New Age Farms carrot and fresh juice company in Lompoc, California, and shortly after their recording, Collie devoted her life to nature and moved completely off the grid. Collies mesmerizing sound remained largely a secret until "Cricket," one of the tracks from Indian Harvest, surfaced on Numero Groups stellar Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies From The Canyon compilation in 2006. Collies cosmic music is almost solely based around her high, bird-like voice and nylon guitar picking, and her lyrics reflect her lifelong study of theosophy and naturalist living. Even today, Collie lives largely outside of what would be considered "regular" society, residing in a converted 1930s school bus in the middle of a Texas desert and painting mandalas on hub cabs, while continuing to produce her very special and personal music. This 3CD box set, entitled The Rainbow Records, features a new painting by Collie, fantastic liner notes by partner-in-crime Tommie Zook, and never-before-seen photographs. The tracks have been completely remastered from the original master tapes in a 24-bit remaster, and are housed in a paper sleeve and slipcase. A sun-kissed bevy of quirky, circular, acoustic guitar-picked metaphysical song cycles, topped by Collies unfailingly sweet, clear trill. Surely, Ryan belongs alongside such queens of the folk pantheon as Vashti Bunyan, Linda Perhacs, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joni Mitchell, Sibelle Baier, Ruthann Friedman, etc. This is a haunting collection that simply should not be missed." -Yoga. |
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Artist: RYLAN, JESSICA Title: Interior Designs Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Jessica Rylan (you may know her better as Cant) is finally releasing her first officially published instrumental work for synthesizer. Titled Interior Designs, these compositions are more classic in nature than her work as Cant. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Iannis Xenakis and especially Thomas Lehn, Rylan confidently takes her place among these monumental artists with this collection of strikingly original pieces recorded on a Serge Modular as well as analog synthesizers Rylan built herself." - Important. |
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Artist: RYLAN, JESSICA Title: Wiped Away Format: Cass Label: Durable Stimuli Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Artist: RYLAN, JESSICA/2673 Title: Split Format: CDR Label: Kitty Play Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: RYLANDER, HENRIK Title: Formation Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
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Artist: RYLANDER, HENRIK Title: Shortwave:mix / Shortwave:feed Format: Lathe Cut 8" Box Set Label: Kning Disk Country: Sweden Price: $45.00 |