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Artist: CHAPMAN, MICHAEL Title: Pachyderm Format: LP Label: Blast First Petite Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "This album is the second in Yorkshire-born composer, singer, guitarist and maverick troubadour Michael Chapmans series of his more improvised musical releases. The first, 2011s The Resurrection and Revenge of the Clayton Peacock (PTYT 068CD), was Wire magazines #5 album of the year, and was widely and favorably received by press and fans alike as another highpoint in Chapmans late-blooming career, which has been boosted by the public recognition of his talents by the likes of Thurston Moore, Jack Rose, and Will Oldham. Pachyderm is an LP-length minimalist masterpiece, a single chord ambient work quite unlike anything Chapman has done before and equally as surprising and different as Peacock managed to be. The second track is a remix of the first side by one Rob Antony, a young Cumbrian neighbor of Michaels. Together they form a mellow and gently-shifting work that easily beckons auto-repeated plays. Chapman is now 71 years-old and playing better than ever. He started out on EMIs legendary 60s Harvest record label and turned down playing with both Elton John and David Bowies Spiders band. It only goes to show, as per the recent rediscovery of the talents of his other contemporaries Roy Harper or John Martyn, eventually, your time will come." - Blast First Petite. |
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Artist: FAHEY, JOHN Title: 1978 Live At Audimax Hamburg Format: DVD Label: Blast First Petite Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Shot live for TV by the legendary German music show "Rockpalast", this DVD represents the earliest example of a complete John Fahey concert performance, given on March 17, 1978. The multi-camera filming features detailed close-ups of Faheys playing style, giving Fahey fans a rare insight into what Pete Townshend has called the William Burroughs of the guitar. Faheys 1978 visit to Europe saw him in fine wild form, performing an 10-track set and, as an incredibly rare bonus, a short interview with the maverick iconoclast. All-Region NTSC-compatible DVD in CD digipak. Location: Audimax, Hamburg. John Fahey: vocals, guitar." -Blast First Petite. |
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Artist: OUTER SPACE Title: Outer Space 2 Format: LP Label: Blast First Petite Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "John Elliot, operating under the moniker Outer Space IS one third of American nu-electronicists, Emeralds. Musically, this is an electronic smorgasbord of five trippy tropes that rip the inner light fantastic. II is the logical progression. It is an effort based on group format, and is an evolution from the debut Outer Space album. The central core of Elliott and Andrew Veres worked to arrange, record, and mix for a new direction and a new sound; headed down a path of cracked concrete and dissolving memory from the aether. Many different textures and composing methods are applied here, to make a more varied and spontaneous array of songs. Experiments ranging from looped, broken m-400, jagged rhythm beds, and modular synthesis. Severing the obsessions of death and anxiety, and creating a work based on "the current," and those involved in the process, II has a different feel with less claustrophobia and more breathable air. Imagine the sounds are a liquid, with different masses and changing color. II is first in a trilogy of sounds to be released in 2012. Its considered to be the second full-length effort by the project. Reality comes first here with a narrative of events that are real and happening right now. Close attention to detail reveals more than what is seen on the surface. The information is presented clearly; its up to the listener to use the intelligence provided for full comprehensive understanding. Guest appearances by: Andrew Veres, Philip J. Whiteside, Drew McDowall, Jeff Hatfield and Adam Miller. Produced with Mellotron M-400 and synthesizer. Sounds mastered by James Plotkin. The artwork features gentle, acidic, shimmering drawings by Graham Lambkin. Printed on a deluxe mirror board and pressed on 150 gram vinyl. Limited edition of 1,000 copies." -Blast First Petite. |
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Artist: PANSONIC/HAINO KEIJI Title: Synergy Between Mercy And Self-Annihilation Overturned Format: Double LP Label: Blast First Petite Country: UK Price: $32.00 |
| "Limited LP-only release. Blast First Petite presents a studio collaboration between Finnish electronic technicians Pansonic (Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen) and Japanese guitar shaman, Haino Keiji. Recorded only days after their performance together in Berlin that resulted in the powerful and haunting live album Shall I Download A Black Hole And Offer It To You (PTYT 014CD). Synergy Between Mercy And Self-Annihilation Overturned is a more controlled, even tense, affair, where the participants circle each other like gladiators at the Colosseum. No more needs to be said that isnt already alluded to with the fabulous, mysterious track-titles. Housed in a lavish gatefold sleeve with spot-varnished lettering and glossy inner sleeves. Deluxe packaging designed by Stephen OMalley (Khanate, Sunn O))))." -Blast First Petite |
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Artist: SUICIDE Title: Live 1977-1978 Format: 6CD Box Set Label: Blast First Petite Country: UK Price: $47.00 |
| Limited edition of 3000, 6CD set. "Audio verité recordings (mastered by the incomparable Denis Blackham) of Suicide playing live from September 1977 to August 1978. These recordings cover most of their early shows at CBGBs & Maxs plus their first-ever tour across Europe & the UK, these being their dates outside the USA. As you will hear, a crucial year in Suicides development as both musicians and performers and their mission to stretch the label of punk rock to the very limit. The package includes a 40 page booklet of Suicide & Red Star Records memorabilia (including very rare Red Star press releases) from the personal archives of Howard Thompson, the A&R man that signed Suicide to UK label Bronze Records. Only the infamous 23 Minutes Over Brussels has been legally released before. From my very own sleeve notes: This set of recordings are not the faint hearted, nor is it the ideal place to start to those first time listeners seeking an easy entry into the dark and decidedly queasy world of Alan Vega & Marty Revs proto-futuristic, low tech sci-fi musical that they launched on a mostly uncaring world as music group Suicide. Howard Thompsons archive was originally made purely for his personal reference based on a joyless recognition that he was right there seeing history in the making. Weve presented the gigs in the order they happened, all the better to hear how the Suicide live experience develops. If you want homogenized, sanitized, tweaked and combed, P.Cd "punk," put this baby back on eBay and sell it for profit to one who maybe really wants the use of these leather black skrying mirrors." -Paul Smith, blastfirstpetite (2008) |