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Artist: CITY PEOPLES FARMERS MUSIC Title: Shitty Peephole Lama Kudos Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: A Binary Datum Country: New Zealand Price: $12.00 |
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"Aucklanders Sam Hamilton and Mark Sadgrove decided to form a "song" duo. The
result is talentless shit, in a distinctly post-Pumice vein. Here they
recorded a split 8" lathe (you get to guess who owns which side), but playing
both sides at once (hint: youll need more than one copy) will give you an
authentic city people experience. If you want one." - A Binary Datum.
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Artist: FASSONAKI, HELGA Title: Covert Loadstones Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: A Binary Datum Country: New Zealand Price: $12.00 |
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"Helga hurt my ears in Auckland on more than a few ocassions. Her merciless
broken tape machine assault was more brutal than most in the local noisy
munter scene. For this release, she extracts a more listenable (but by no
means compromised) stream of gritty sounds from her tape heads, realising an
uneffected, low fi electronica." - A Binary Datum.
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Artist: MICROCLIMATE Title: Untitled Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: A Binary Datum Country: New Zealand Price: $12.00 |
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"A well known NZ musician/soundartist/all around good guy adopted the moniker
of "Microclimate" for this project. Like a robotic Sunny Murray or maybe even
what wouldve happened if Conlan Nancarrow had found a player drumkit...
okay, whatever, it sounds fucking ace." - A Binary Datum.
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Artist: SADGROVE, MARK Title: Two Rulers Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: A Binary Datum Country: New Zealand Price: $12.00 |
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"The resonance of a particularly resonant aluminium metre ruler was captured in
gory detail to produce a "metallic lulaby" (side 1) and an interminable train
wheel screech (side 2). The two rulers used to make the sound were the only
available noise makers in my office while I was finishing my PhD thesis and
going completely insane." - A Binary Datum.
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Artist: UN CIEGO Title: Vincennes Monument/Kali Gandaki Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: A Binary Datum Country: New Zealand Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: HOLTKAMP, KOEN Title: Make Haste/Free Birds Format: LP Label: A Room Forever Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "Third volume to be released in this amazing new series. Koen Holtkamp is from Brooklyn, NY and runs the Apestaartje label and records as one half off the group Mountains. "Room Forever. Concept and art direction by Joshua Zucker. Photography by Kurt Mangum. A Room Forever is an art project realized as a curated series of limited edition 12" record LPs. Packaged in a custom-made box with high quality digital C-print covers and letterpressed inserts, each record features an original musical composition on one side and a field recording on the other. Pressed in one-time editions of 300, A Room Forever takes a unique and personal approach to the vinyl record LP. Conceived as a physical manifestation of the Roadside Picnic Radio podcast, the project draws upon the rich history and mythologies of audio recording to produce a final object of art that will resonate uniquely within each listener. More than anything, A Room Forever is inherently about the act of listening." Please note that these records are cut at the Dubplates & Mastering lab in Germany and are designed to be played at 45 r.p.m."- A Room Forever |
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Artist: MACHINEFABRIEK/DAVIES, MATT Title: Onkruid/Sanctuary Format: LP Label: A Room Forever Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "Second volume to be released in this amazing new series. Machinefabriek: recorded for an installation made for Polderlight 2007, Amsterdam, re-edited for this release. Matt Davies: Recorded at Lee Valley Park Bird Sanctuary, East Indie Dock Basin, London on July 3, 2007." - FE. "Concept and art direction by Joshua Zucker. Photography by Kurt Mangum. A Room Forever is an art project realized as a curated series of limited edition 12" record LPs. Packaged in a custom-made box with high-quality digital C-print covers and letter-pressed inserts, each record features an original musical composition on one side and a field recording on the other. Pressed in one-time editions of 300, A Room Forever takes a unique and personal approach to the vinyl record LP. Conceived as a physical manifestation of the Roadside Picnic Radio podcast, the project draws upon the rich history and mythologies of audio recording to produce a final object of art that will resonate uniquely within each listener. More than anything, a room forever is inherently about the act of listening." Please note that these records are cut at the Dubplates & Mastering lab in Germany and are designed to be played at 45 r.p.m." - A Room Forever. |
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Artist: PRAXINOSCOPE Title: Praxinoscope Format: Picture Disc LP Label: A Silent Place Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
| "A new project from ROBERTO OPALIO of MY CAT IS AN ALIEN, along with MCIAA collaborator RAMONA PONZINI. Here, Ponzini plays Japanese-style percussion and wind chimes to create resonant textures over Opalios alien wordless vocals and space electronics. Recorded in a mysterious location in the Western Alps with no overdubs or outtakes. Limited edition of 500 copies pressed on picture disc vinyl. Imported from Italy." |
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Artist: TYRANNOSAURUS REX Title: A Beard of Stars Format: CD Label: A&M Country: GERMANY Price: $16.00 |
| 2004 Expanded edition; digitally remastered, numerous bonus tracks, restored artwork, lyrics, sleevenotes and rare photographs; initial copies slipcased. 16 bonus tracks (all alternate takes) "The fourth and final Tyrannosaurus Rex album, originally released by Regal Zonophone in the UK in 1970. Took was replaced on this album by Micky Finn (backing vocals, Moroccan Clay Drums, table, bass, finger cymbals). and Bolan introduced electric guitar to their sound for the first time. Finns theory on bongo fury was a lot less inspired than Tooks and Bolans songwriting/singing seemed to aim more squarely at the anthemic/glam protocol that was soon to emerge. But this was the final chapter in Tyrannosaurus Rex, T. Rex was next." |
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Artist: KUBIN, FELIX Title: The Tetchy Teenage Tapes of Felix Kubin 1981-85 Format: LP Label: A-Musik Country: Germany Price: $15.50 |
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Vinyl version w/ different tracks than the CD. Four color cover and innersleeve plus lyric sheet. "The idea for the release came about as I was making a minidisk recording of German electronic music, for my friends of SKIPP label and as a gag mixed in some of earlier pieces on tape. My answer to the question, of what it be, knocked them off their feet: And the high voice & thats YOU? Once they asked me if I had any other material, I sent them a load of pieces, of which they then chose their favorites for a CD. For the planned LP version for A-Musik of Cologne, we followed the same pattern. So different were the results, that this lead to two variations for Tetchy Teenage Tapes. The cut amount from LP to CD lays around the 50%." - A Musik. Highly recommended!
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Artist: THREE MAN ARMY Title: 3 Format: LP Label: A.G. Music Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Vinyl edition of totally UNRELEASED material by THREE MAN ARMY, a band led by the famous ex GUN Gurvitz brothers. These recordings were initially meant for a proposed 2LP set of their third LP, but to reason unknown were shelved away and their third LP came as single album instead. Nine songs, clocking at 33 minutes now presented here for the first time ever on vinyl, are an absolute must-have for all HARD/PSYCH ROCK fans. Officially licensed from the GURVITZ brothers, coming in nice glossy sleeve." -G Music. |
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Artist: GEROGERIGEGEGE Title: Mother Fellatio Format: 7" Label: A.I.P.R. Country: Japan Price: $15.00 |
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Original uplayed copies of this early 90s release. Limited to 250 copies.
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Artist: DAVIS, ZAC Title: Acoustic Electric Format: Cass Label: A4 Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: AA MAGAZINE Title: #1 Format: Mag/Flexi Disc Label: AA Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Early style clear flexi lathe-cut cover featuring a variety of our fave songs, photos of groovy chicks, paintings
by A. Zivich and N. Young, even some writing!" - AA.
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Artist: BEAST, THE Title: Live At No Fun Format: DVD Label: AA Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "A live performance captured at the No Fun Fest, March 31, 2006 featuring a noise-rock powerhouse set from THE BEAST-WOLF EYES and SMEGMA, along with TOVAH OLSON (DEAD MACHINES), MIKE CONNELLY (HAIR POLICE), ANGIE TARANTISM, JOSEPH HAMMER (SOLID EYE), and CONROY, and video effect work by AA boss ALIVIA ZIVICH." - AA. |
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Artist: BIRDS OF DELAY Title: s/t Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "UK burnouts are always reliable to bum your last smoke, hitch a ride or crash on you couch. If you havent decided what to do in 07 these guys have great ideas. Check this new "hands-off" electronics approach. Cover painting by Alivia Zivich." - AA Records. |
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Artist: BURNING STAR CORE Title: s/t Format: Lathe Cut 7 Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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Artist: DEAD MACHINES Title: Untitled Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: AA Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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Screenprinted, one sided square 7" from Nate Youngs (Wolf Eyes) AA imprint..
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Artist: DEMONS Title: Frozen Fog Format: CD Label: AA Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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Now available on CD!!! Demons is Nate Young (Wolf Eyes) and Steve Kenney (Pterodactyls, Werewolves). "In the winter of 2005 Steve Kenney and myself began Demons. Steve rescued his Pro One from New Orleans Katrina aftermath. The synthesizer was moldy, had a bad power cord and a horrible buzz (I broke it after our first gig). I played various homemade electronic devices, rewired radios, feedback, etc. Later that week I bought a Pro One as well. Mine had no working keyboard and, of course, a horrible buzz (a grounding issue). What we found ourselves doing was not so much making music with the Pro One but rather just turning them on and listening to the synthesizer play itself. I recorded our sessions and we called it Demons. Our synthesizers are still somewhat broke." -Nate Young 12/27/06
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Artist: DEMONS Title: Infinity Mirror Format: Double Cut Mirror Lathe Cut Label: AA Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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Two tracks, which overlap each other (like 2/5s of the Olympics symbol), cut into an 8 x 5 inch "mirror".
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Artist: DEMONS Title: Invisible Darkness Format: Cass Label: AA Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Five new tracks from the duo of Nate Young (Wolf Eyes) and Steve Kenney (Pterodactyls, Werewolves). Exploring the depths of their banged-to-shit Pro One synthesizer, these new tracks sound like nothing theyve done before. Packaged with new Nate Young drawing cover art." -AA.
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Artist: DEMONS Title: Life Destroyer Format: CDR/Cass/DVDR Box Set Label: AA Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
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"Full-length cd, C-30 cassette, 20 min
DVD = kiss your life goodbye" - AA.
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Artist: DEMONS DILLOWAY Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: AA Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Demons opened for Richard Pinhas at Detroits Magic Stick with special guest star synth and tape fiend Aaron Dilloway." -AA.
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Artist: DEMONS DILLOWAY Title: s/t Format: CD Label: AA Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: DEMONS WITH ZAC DAVIS Title: Live at the Panick in Hamtramck Format: DVD Label: AA Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "The Demons -- Nate Young (Wolf Eyes) and Steve Kenney (Pterodactyls, Werewolves) -- captured live in concert with no overdubs or processing. Features live visuals manipulated by Alivia Zivich, along with the Demons heavy churning synths and wailing, ripping guitar provided by the infamous Zac Davis. Remarkably engaging. 30 minutes." -AA Records. |
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Artist: DOG LADY REGRESSION Title: Dog Lady Regression Format: CDR/Lathe Cut CD Label: AA Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"A collaboration between Mike Collino and Nathan Young (Wolf Eyes). Violin, tapes, electronics, tambourine." - AA.
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Artist: DRAHEIM, CHARLIE Title: Untitled Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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Screenprinted, one sided square 7" from Nate Youngs (Wolf Eyes) AA imprint..
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Artist: EVIL MOISTURE Title: Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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Artist: EX-COCAINE Title: s/t Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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Artist: FAILING LIGHTS Title: Untitled Format: Lathe Cut 7'/Art Label: AA Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| Failing Lights is Mike Connelly, who also plays in Hair Police, Wolf Eyes, and runs the Gods of Tundra label. |
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Artist: GIFFONI, CARLOS Title: Heatstroke Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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"Serious analog destruction going on here. Giffoni uses synths the way Gordon Matta-Clark used sledgehammers. These tracks almost blew the record cutting head. Absolutely pushed to the limit. SOUND CHALLENGE!!!" - AA.
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Artist: HATRED Title: Kreep Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: AA Country: USA Price: $34.00 |
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Double sided , insanely thick, block printed handmade record with printed inner sleeve and oversized outer sleeve. Nate Young of Wolf Eyes.
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Artist: HATRED/DEMONS Title: Split Format: Cass Label: AA Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Hatred/Demons - documenting the confusion/transition of these two
bands. Early Hatred demos - Nate Young electronics, Spence Bryant on
drums, Steve Kenney on synth and guitar.
First release by Demons - Young and Kenney split from the drums of
Hatred and start a synth duo. Psychedelic depression." - AA Records.
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Artist: HIVE MIND Title: Untitled Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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Screenprinted, one sided square 7" from Nate Youngs (Wolf Eyes) AA imprint..
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Artist: ISIS & WEREWOLVES Title: s/t Format: Lathe Cut 7'/Art Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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Artist: KUBISCH, CHRISTINA Title: Minimal Disinformation Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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"This is one of our personally most exciting releases. If youve heard of her Electrical Walks but not had a chance to actually hear them, check this lathe." - AA Records.
"The magnetic headphones with their built-in coils respond to electrical fields in the environment. At first I tried to filter the soft hum of the electrical wires out of the headphones. Then, in 2003, the constant increase and spread of "unwanted" electrically-produced sounds triggered a new cycle of works: Electrical Walks. With special, sensitive headphones, the acoustic perceptibility of above ground and underground electrical currents is thereby not suppressed, but rather amplified.
The palette of these noises, their timbre and volume vary from site to site and from country to country. They have one thing in common: they are ubiquitous, even where one would not expect them. Light systems, transformers, anti-theft security devices, surveillance cameras, cell phones, computers, elevators, streetcar cables, antennae, navigation systems, automated teller machines, neon advertising, electric devices, etc. create electrical fields that are as if hidden under cloaks of invisibility, but of incredible presence." - Christina Kubisch.
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Artist: MIRROR/DASH Title: Live At Maxs Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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Artist: NO FUCKER Title: Live 02/22/08 Format: Cass Label: AA Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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Live cassette from NY state raw punks. Side A: Conquer The Innocent / Bodies In A Pile. Side B: Realities of War / Nameless Cities. see also: Discharge, Discard, Disclose, Anti-Cimex.
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Artist: PENGO Title: Unt Format: Lathe Cut 7'/Art Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "What if the tsunami happened in Rochester? Finkbeiner, Schoen, Rochester Charles and the Nuge would ride the wave to their practice space and open a bar. And it would sound like this, kinda sad but kinda glad cuz Staples no longer exists." - AA. |
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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: 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: 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: SICK LLAMA Title: s/t Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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Artist: SIXTEEN BITCH PILE UP Title: s/t Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "An eerie audio hallucination: first youre swimming, then theres something outside your door.Watch the butcher knives chop as it spins." - AA. |
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Artist: STEWART, JACKIE Title: Psychedelic Pizza Format: Lathe Cut 7' Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "Custom cut lathes, part one of a collaboration between Jackie Stewart and AA Records (Nate Young & Alivia Zivich). The collaboration is on-going. The idea is after we cut the custom lathes for Jackie she will send back a recording made with them. We will then recut, remix and cutup the music that is exchanged, it can go on and on, back and forth. AA Records will release the rawest material that is unleashed during this ongoing slaughter festival on double 7" lathes, cassettes and cdrs." - AA |
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Artist: STEWART, JACKIE Title: Spiral Format: Lathe Cut 7'/Art Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "Custom cut lathes, part one of a collaboration between Jackie Stewart and AA Records (Nate Young & Alivia Zivich). The collaboration is on-going. The idea is after we cut the custom lathes for Jackie she will send back a recording made with them. We will then recut, remix and cutup the music that is exchanged, it can go on and on, back and forth. AA Records will release the rawest material that is unleashed during this ongoing slaughter festival on double 7" lathes, cassettes and cdrs." - AA. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Aryan Asshole Records Compilation Vol. 2 Format: LP Label: AA Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "This LP features the next 13 lathes since the first comp = Isis & Werewolves, Ex-Cocaine, Mirror/Dash, Pengo, Christina Kubisch, Birds of Delay, Sick Llama, Jackie Stewart, Evil Moisture, Prurient, Rusted Shut, Carlos Giffoni, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Demons. All the messy atmosphere of lathes on freshly pressed vinyl, weird! Banned in Canada due to the jacket (guess why)." - AA Records |
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Artist: V/A Title: Box Set Format: 13 Lathe Cut Box Set Label: AA Country: USA Price: $280.00 |
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Includes lathe cut picture discs from Burning Star Core, Failing Lights, Religious Knives, Raven Strain, Damion Romero, Wolf Eyes, Bloodyminded, Graveyards, Hive Mind, Dead Machines, Aaron Dilloway, etc.. Screenprinted box.
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Artist: V/A Title: Live AT AC Temple - Arthur Doyle + Hollow Bush, Demons, Drug Knives Format: DVDR Label: AA Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "In Birmingham, Alabama there is a fountain at the Five Points. The fountain is of a goat lord surrounded by small animals. Water sprays from the mouths of each animal, the streams cross and a pentagram forms. Birmingham is also home to Arthur Doyle and Hollow Bush (Rodger Stella, Bryan Martin). A collaboration between Arthur Doyle and Hollow Bush is a strange thought for anyone who knows Rodger Stella or has seen Arthur Doyle. Even more complex is the image of the two of them behind closed doors discussing the approach and direction of the set to follow. What truly blew my mind was the set itself. Starting out with Doyles vocal work alone, the sound had a sparse and delicate feeling. Rodger Stella soon joined Doyle with a mirror of vocal samples. Doyle hears himself, smiles, then stops to listen. What followed was a intricate working of vocal loops and cut up sax with hand over beer electronics. Rodger Stella and Arthur Doyle are an odd couple but some how a perfect match. My favorite performance of the 2007. This is followed by the latest in live Demons visual music straight from the Invisible Darkness tour and committed to DVD here for the first time. The night ended with a very rare Drug Knives set - Demons with Stella playing for themselves in the muscle-relaxed atmosphere of each others company. Drug Knives is just that deep long stare into oblivian." - AA Records. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Live At Oberlin - Wolf Eyes, Sick Llama, Raven Strain Format: DVDR Label: AA Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Oberlin rules because even though its a school theres a bar with good beer and the bar is like 20 feet from the stage. What happens when you have a bar on a campus and a killer gig = Wolf Eyes, Sick Llama, Raven Strain? Witness the mayhem that ensues! Someone gets so excited they pull the fire alarm to jam along! This dvd has all you would expect from a truly wasted line up playing in Ohio. Lots of slamming, lots of pits and lots people you know. Sounds from Raven Strain and Sick Llama to make you pass out and puke, and a slam section from Wolf Eyes for the masochistic minded." - AA Records. |
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Artist: YOUNG, NATE Title: Drawings 2004-2006 Format: Book Label: AA Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"A collection of drawings done on and
off the road. Marblized cover, color prints, high
quality handmade book." - AA Records.
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Artist: YOUNG, NATE Title: When The Beast Speaks To Me Format: Lathe Cut Laser Disc Label: AA Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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Artist: ZIVICH, ALIVIA & NATE YOUNG Title: Lost Format: DVDR Label: AA Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| " A sound/painting cut-up composed from over 100 paintings filmed momentarily with live sound captured simultaneously. Like the show only better." - AA |
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Artist: ZIVICH, ALIVIA & NATE YOUNG Title: Video Madness IV Format: DVDR Label: AA Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Floating heads and wicked benzod holograms. This
video accompanied Demons during the tour." - AA Records. Soundtrack by DEMONS and HATRED.
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Artist: PRURIENT Title: Memory Repeating Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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"Brutality and poetry at its best.A harsh noise blues trak about waking up alone. Painted black
lathe with printed kraft paper sleeve in bag." - AA.
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Artist: NATISUTA HETEKATA Title: Rei Format: 10" Label: Aareton Country: Finland Price: $20.00 |
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Very last copies of this late 90s release on Jan Anderzens (Kemialliset Ystävät) first label - the band also released an LP on Majora. Edition of 100 copies.
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Artist: TOTAL CONTROL Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Aarght Country: Australia Price: $7.00 |
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"The band pressed reissue of the TOTAL CONTROL debut was originally released in 2008 on Aussie Label Aarght! (home to Eddy Current Suppression Ring, UV Race et al.). Two sides of synth-driven punk that brings to mind Nervous Gender and the Units but also Digital Leather. The band just completed a US tour with UV Race (including a stop at Gonerfest). Four songs. 300 copies. Last chance." -Aarght
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Artist: UV RACE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Aarght Country: Australia Price: $15.00 |
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"Crude proto-punk reminiscent of the glory days of VOM, Modern Lovers, Zakary Thaks, Electric Eels, Crime, and a whole host of historic losers. Aaarrggght! Records are very proud indeed to present you with this killer slice of idiot savant punk rock.
"The full-length debut masterpiece from Melbourne avant-tard six piece. Following two limited-edition (and now highly sought after) seven inch singles released here and in the USA, the UV Race have fulfi lled the potential only hinted at on those EPs. Produced by Mikey Young of Eddy Current Suppression Ring.
"Bringing to mind some of the cornerstones of mid 70s proto-punk (Modern Lovers, Gizmos, Electric Eels and the like), the UV Race likewise avoid rote punk trappings with their really quite sophisticated use of piano and saxophone, and the over-riding presence of singer Marcus introverted musings on life as a small town misfit. His sincerity and unconventionality is what makes the UV Race compelling listening." -Aarght
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Artist: ESKIMO KING Title: Weird Flag Format: CDR Label: Abandon Ship Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"As Brian Sullivan still flies high from his performance at No Fun Fest this year, weve prepared a gem of a release from this half of the now legendary Mouthus. While feeding off of similar meditative vibes of the aforementioned Brooklyn duo, he manages to put together a cohesive collection of distinct tracks he can call his own. Infinite layers of blown out fuzz dominate some tracks, and deep, trance-inducing rhythms prevail in others. Another primer for an up-and-coming ASR LP, due later this year. Keep your eyes peeled. And as with most Mouthus-related material, this one will not be around for very long. CDR edition of 100" -Abandon Ship.
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Artist: ESKIMO KING/AFTERNOON PENIS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Abandon Ship Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "A split offering from two of the baddest dudes on the east coast. Both members of Mouthus, Brian Sullivan (Eskimo King) and Nate Nelson (Afternoon Penis) each take the reigns on their respective sides of the record. Eskimo King churns out three tracks of melancholy-bizarro-skuzz riffs and ethereal wind-chimage. The drum samples on Dry Strike track take me back to earlier Mouthus times, when the world was still young. Keep it close to your turntable after your first listen because you will undoubtedly need to play it again and again. Afternoon Penis presents us with something entirely off the beaten path. Truly strange and epic, this freaked-out sidelong track sounds like something Bob Dylan would be singing in his head after a week-long ayahuasca binge. Utilizing several instruments, including percussion and the accordion, Nate also blesses us with a rhythmic mantra that should benefit both the mentally-ill and mentally-sound alike. Limited edition of 400 with plastic outer sleeve and insert." -Abandon Ship |
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Steps: Live At La Sala Rosa Format: CDR Label: Abandon Ship Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Official bootleg of the live concert on June 23rd, 2006 at the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival, Montreal, Quebec. Features the four-man, Alternation-era band sharing the stage for the first time with current member Lala. Opening with a cover of "Cocaine Blues" and bleeding into recognizable album tracks like "Knock Knock" and "Ice Cream Van" this set overflows with the spectral, slow-burn electro-improv for which they are known. 99% unreleased." -Abandon Ship |
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Artist: JULIE MITTENS, THE Title: S/T Format: CDR Label: Abandon Ship Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "The Julie Mittens were among the first groups that I asked to do a release for Abandon Ship Records. Its been nearly a year now, and well worth the wait. Theyve made some treacherous waves over the past few years, from their Sloow tape to their latest Holy Mountain release. This one is no exception. Fresh off their US tour, the Julie Mittens decided to properly document it with sister releases on ASR and the Netherlands own Cut Hands (http://www.cuthands.net/catalog.htm) label, respectively. Not only are the two releases completely different from each other, but each CDr is housed in its own one-of-a-kind sleeve which boasts a unique photo taken on their US tour. Thats 200 different sleeves in total, with screenprinting on each taboot! Recorded by Steve Sanford at the Golden West Cafe in Baltimore on September 10th, and features Baltimores own Lexie Mountain on vocals for the 2nd track. cd-r edition of 100." -Abandon Ship |
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Artist: PREDATOR VISION Title: II Format: Cass Label: Abandon Ship Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Self-released earlier this year, this one finds PV at their most predatorial. They are ceaseless infinity jammers with a hunger for psychsploration and a tight yet loose style that can sometimes seem too good to be true. This being their second release, one can only
wonder whats in store for them. Featuring Mr. Ducktails himself: Matthew Mondanile and Real Estates
Etienne Duguay. Keep an eye out for their split LP with Sun Araw to be released on Not Not Fun. c30 edition of 100." -Abandon Ship
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Artist: STARVING WEIRDOS Title: Absolute Freedom Format: 7" Label: Abandon Ship Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Here it is, our first 7" and were PSYCHED!!! These two sides represent some of the earliest of SW material; culled from old 4 track tapes recorded in long lost living rooms, with friends and on the fly. Two kernels given the royal treatment, thanks to our friends at Abandon Ship! One an ontological cry into the abyss, the other a march in dedication to those forgotten souls who call it home." - Starving Weirdos. "edition of 500...with pro-printed cover art and insert" - Abandon Ship. |
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Artist: LEBRECHT, NATALIE ROSE Title: Rrrrrr/Drrrrrr Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Abaton Book Company Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Greenpot Bluepot is the musical persona of NYC based artist Natalie LeBrecht. Devoted to studies in sound, texture and emotion, Miss Bluepot creates an intriguing sphere of her own in her artwork, somehow preserving a fantastic sense of humor within the process...Fans of Meredith Monk, early Smog, maybe even Patty Waters should take note of her sometimes unnervingly candid moments of word and sound..." - JoAnn Colagiacomi. |
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Artist: NEBRELLIM SENSORIUM SAXOPHONE ORCHESTRA Title: Every Room Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Abaton Book Company Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Millers preteen Classical training on the alto saxophone changed over to free improvisation and atonal composition by High School. In his early twenties, he expounded on 20th Century composition techniques and wrote a multitude of small orchestral pieces for various ensembles. He also performed with David Swains big band; The II V I Orchestra. In 1977, Miller joined up with the punk band Destroy All Monsters and his composition streak came to a halt and didnt pick up again until the mid-1990s. Throughout the 1980s, Miller continued to perform and record saxophone with a number of rock groups; The Same Band, Nonfiction, GKW, Radio Silence, The Empty Set and Roger Miller. Purchasing a C-Melody Saxophone in 1993 while earning his BFA at Columbia College Chicago, he began developing an all-interval method similar to Arnold Shoenbergs 12-tone method with the lofty concept that intervals were more important than pitch. This method has developed over the years producing an array of compositions, some of which can be heard at Bens MySpace page (Three Episodes, Out Of, and Francium). After performing and recording with Glenn Brancas 100 Guitar Orchestra in 2004 and 2006, Miller began to write for saxophone orchestra. Currently, he is recording these compositions as The Nebrellim Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra in his home studio by way of overdubbing." - Ben Miller. Also, Ben and Roger were in the SPROTON LAYER BAND! (pre-Destroy all Monsters/pre-Mission of Burma - see their great, way-posthumous releases on New Alliance). Limited to 30 copies.
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Artist: P.G. SIX Title: ..And The Flaming Manholes Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: Abaton Book Company Country: USA Price: $48.00 |
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Each record has a unique signed collage by Christine Krol ( See: http://www.christinekrol.com ), calligraphy by Marianne Nowottny and numbered, vellum insert. Mark Dagley (of legendary avant-punk bands the Girls and The Hi Sheriffs of Blue) guests on one track. Edition of 30.
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Artist: PANTALEIMON Title: Tall Trees Format: CDR Label: Abaton Book Company Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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Artist: ALVARIUS B Title: Alvarius B Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "CD reissue of the first Alvarius B record. Thirty-two instrumental acoustic guitar excursions into a realm of weird lo-fi rustic beauty that sketch retro-portraits of several folk guitar styles, some which may never have existed before. From abrasive to delicate, these lucid antique paintings with acoustic guitar employ Appalachian polyrhythms, dark melodies, flamenco thrash, alien tunings, pseudo eastern drones, cinematic backroad twang, and other hybrid ideas not easily described. This record is a folk drifter classic and is now available again for the first time in a decade. Originally released as 1000 copies (vinyl only) in 1994 on Abduction. Recorded from 1981-1989 by Alvarius B (aka Alan Bishop/Sun City Girls) onto various portable cassette decks and includes the original 28 tracks from the LP plus four unreleased bonus tracks." - Abduction. |
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Artist: ALVARIUS B Title: Baroque Primitiva Format: CD/Book Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "A much-needed CD issue of an LP, released this last February in microquantities. The dastardly minds behind this project, a first spurt from the reactivated Poon Village label, have collaborated on the new package as well. And it is a deluxe eye-swim through various forms of feminine beauty, its 32-page booklet displaying images that look as though they were found in a smoky catacomb carved into the hills of Charlestown. By my count, Baroque Primitiva is the sixth album by Alvarius B. and is, like its predecessors, a deep dive through mysterious waters. The 11 tracks here were recorded at various sessions over the course of several years and range from Humor Police (a track imagining what Syd Barrett might have sounded like had he been a devotee of Rembetika) to a trippily Beatles-damaged version of You Only Live Twice (the sole surviving shard of the aborted Alvarius B. Plays The Bond Songbook project). Baroque Primitiva is the first long-format telegram from Alvarius B. since he lost his mothership (the Sun City Girls, with whom he employed his slave name, Alan Bishop) and it also feels like his most consistently non-acerbic -- perhaps even most beauty-oriented -- work. The songs often have a meditative pace, filled with gorgeous lo-fi blends of vocals, guitar, bass and keys. Eyvind Kang guests on several tracks, but the bulk of the material was broadcast direct from the naked soul of Alvarius B., which turns out to be a warmer, sweeter place than you might imagine. And while this CD will be available for a tad longer than the 30 seconds the LP lasted, a set as thoroughly gorgeous as this will not linger. Take a deep breath of its magic and go for it. Why deny yourself such bountiful pleasures?" -Byron Coley |
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Artist: ALVARIUS B Title: Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset Format: LP Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Its been seven years since we heard the last Alvarius B record ( Alan Bishop /Sun City Girls ), and Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset is the third released thus far. This is a collection of songs seemingly based on actual, but unnamed shady characters of the global underworld past and present, according to the brief statement on the insert. Regardless of intent, this is cryptic folk music of the highest order, with several tracks employing folk/rock/psych orchestrations featuring the talents of Eyvind Kang ,Tim Young ,Richard Bishop ,Andrew McGinnis and Randall Dunn . Twisted Americana folklore breeds with baroque Italian cinematic pop, dark ballads, and vagrant story lines. Eleven unique and varied tracks and the most "produced" Alvarius B record to date. This is a limited edition one-time pressing of 1000 vinyl LPs with lyric sheet insert."
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Artist: ALVARIUS B Title: Blood Operatives Of The Barium Sunset Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Originally released in 2005 as a limited edition vinyl LP -- the first Alvarius B. (Alan Bishop/Sun City Girls) full-length release in 7 years. Blood Operatives Of The Barium Sunset is a collection of songs seemingly based on actual, but unnamed, shady characters of the global underworld past and present, according to the brief statement on the insert. Regardless of intent, this is cryptic folk music of the highest order, with several tracks employing folk/rock/psych orchestrations featuring the talents of Eyvind Kang, Tim Young, Richard Bishop, Andrew McGinnis and Randall Dunn. Hailed as a masterpiece by a fair number of the few whove actually heard it, Blood Operatives... sounds as fresh, challenging, and separated from everything else today, as it did six years ago upon initial release. Twisted Americana folklore breeding with baroque Italian cinematic pop, dark ballads, and vagrant story lines, these 11 unique tracks compile the most "produced" Alvarius B. record to date. CD tri-fold digipak comes with a booklet of song lyrics." - Abduction. |
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Artist: ALVARIUS B Title: s/t Format: Double CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Originally released in 1998 as a limited edition vinyl 2LP -- the second Alvarius B. (Alan Bishop/Sun City Girls) full-length release. Perhaps the most deranged collection of original folk songs ever cut to wax. Dark, twisted & apocalyptic with razor twang acoustic guitar & vocal delivery, this epic lo-fi cassette deconstruction/demolition of everything "folk-singer-songwriter" slipped under the radar to a few lucky souls who grabbed the original pressing of this when it showed up 14 years ago. Here is your chance to get it again as a 2CD reissue. The tri-fold digipak includes six bonus tracks, a booklet with lyrics to all 45 songs, and liner notes by Trey Spruance." - Abduction. "I think its fair to say that in AB we have the most inspiring and wholesome, cussing, violent and truthful musical interpenetrator of the psychic Realities that has probably ever graced this fair and fucked land." - Trey Spruance. |
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Artist: ALVARIUS B Title: s/t Format: Double LP Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
| "Originally released in 1998 as a limited edition vinyl 2LP -- the second Alvarius B. (Alan Bishop/Sun City Girls) full-length release. Perhaps the most deranged collection of original folk songs ever cut to wax. Dark, twisted & apocalyptic with razor twang acoustic guitar & vocal delivery, this epic lo-fi cassette deconstruction/demolition of everything "folk-singer-songwriter" slipped under the radar to a few lucky souls who grabbed the original pressing of this when it showed up 14 years ago. Here is your chance to get it again housed in the exact 2LP gatefold jacket as the original with lyrics to all 39 tracks printed inside, strictly limited to 400 copies." - Abduction. "I think its fair to say that in AB we have the most inspiring and wholesome, cussing, violent and truthful musical interpenetrator of the psychic Realities that has probably ever graced this fair and fucked land." - Trey Spruance. |
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Artist: CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS Title: 5 Cents A Piece Format: LP Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"Climax Golden Twins are back in action and perhaps better than ever here with this gorgeous limited edition 180 gram slab of wax. This is their debut release on the Abduction label and were wondering why it took so long. These grooves are sewn together like a patchwork quilt of audio curiosities from a boarded-up backroad museum - the kind thats haunted by vaudevillian ghosts of days gone by. Theres the heavy electrified trio improv attack mode theyve been utilizing at live shows lately to maximum effect along with some twisted front-porch twang and twilight melodic folk stitched together with odd field recordings and occasional sinister pathways not unlike their Session Nine soundtrack work. And where did that drummer come from? The finale "For The Exited" ascends and swirls into a deep coma of electro-cosmic rock. Turn it all the way up! If you always wanted to explore CGT only to find that most of their back catalog is long out-of-print, this LP is a great way to start, but you better hurry because its a one-time pressing limited to 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl with vintage pulchritudes printed on the labels - so wedge yourself between two hooters, farm boy, because theres fifty ways the cleavage smothers!" -Abduction
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Artist: DIAMANTE, HERB Title: May I Light Your Cigarette? Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "This debut release from the mysterious Herb Diamante will transport you on a naughty journey through his speakeasy of debauchery and sin. These eleven tracks of alcohol, tobacco, and desire are driven by his rich, golden voice atop a psychedelic showroom of sound. Herb Diamante is perhaps the most unique lounge singer around. He sings songs about eggplants, yellow kazoos, and delicate stilettos. Then, hell "hail the fish-king" and finish you off with "a wasp in a jam jar." The elusive Englishman has finally allowed himself to be documented amidst a career built of legendary "word of mouth" appearances on both sides of the Atlantic. A long, tragic set of strange circumstances and sporadic insanity has somehow combined to create Herbs extended and sometimes frighteningly vivid hallucinatory universe. However, he remains a hopeless romantic and will forever pursue his difficult and evasive vision." - Abduction. |
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Artist: DIMINISHED MEN Title: Capnomancy Format: LP Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "By distorting hard-boiled film music through a cracked, overcast lens, Diminished Men refocus their influences into something entirely unique. Capnomancy, their second release on the Abduction label, is a collection of stark, exotic instrumentals full of high-tension energy and infected terror. Cloaked in a supernatural fog and man-made electrical storms, chiaroscuro landscapes read like a sci-fi postcard with a giallo ransom note attached. The bands jagged, hard-charging approach evokes images of slit jugulars and accelerated heart rates, all the while swathing you in a blissful claustrophobia, reflecting elements of Morricones dissonant horror scores, gritty noir cues, and the bloodshot nerves of a kratom-hazed Link Wray. Distant, searing guitars and pummeling drums seep with slow-pan derangement, panicked suspense and clouded 50s Americana delusion. The smoke clears and reveals a mirage of melancholy Wenders-esque backdrops and AM radio nightmares, but quickly returns to some other world that it came from. The final album to be released from his now-defunct Aleph Studio, producer Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth, Secret Chiefs 3, Wolves In The Throne Room, etc.) contributes greatly with his visceral, heavy production, making this album their darkest offering yet. Another bizarre series of degenerate no-hit wonders from the phantom guitars of Steve Schmitt, drummer Dave Abramson and multi-instrumentalist Simon Henneman. Capnomancy features guest appearances from members of Master Musicians Of Bukkake as well as other Northwest delinquents, saxophonist Skerik and vocalist Sara Johanne. Extremely limited edition of 400 LP copies." -Abduction. |
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Artist: DIMINISHED MEN Title: Shadow Instrumentals Format: LP Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| Seattles Diminished Men present a full-length record for the Abduction label. This LP is a limited edition of 500 copies and comes pressed on 180 gram vinyl. "If current instrumental music was always as majestic and compelling as this, Id hang up my retro-Italian soundtrack collectors boots for good. From the explosive drums rolls on the opening track, the only cover on the record, "LAppel du Vere," from Roman Polanskis The Tenant (music by Philippe Sarde), to the darkly exotic finale, "A Housewifes Dram," this album is a superbly crafted mosaic of whip-cracking vengeance, speak-easy hallucinations and haunted geography. Besides the Italian-Western overtones, the carnival-esque freakshow backdrops, Korshid-Egyptian guitar passages, and flipped-out electronic space-psych, are perhaps the best surf-inspired tracks Ive heard in years. Its spine-chilling how producer Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth, Eyvind Kang, Sun City Girls, Secret Chiefs 3, Six Organs Of Admittance, Wayne Horvitz, Matt Chamberlain, Grails, Wolves In The Throne Room, etc.) managed to make this record the ultimate mid-60s surf-vampire-Western revival soundtrack. Elements of Joe Meeks best Moontrekkers productions cross with a dash of Badalamenti murder blues-drama, setting the stage for Steve Schmitts cobra-twilight guitar work and the outlaw drums of Dave Abramson to leave their indelible stains across this 41-minute epic journey." - Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls). |
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Artist: INVISIBLE HANDS, THE Title: Insect Dilemma/Disallowed Format: 7" Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "The Invisible Hands is the English translation of the bands original Egyptian Arabic name: El Ayadi El Khafeyya] This is the brand-new project of Alvarius B. (Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls). Recorded in Cairo in October 2012, both tracks on this 7" are not found on the new Invisible Hands self-titled album (ABDT 050CD) and are exclusive to this 45 rpm. Side one is a fully-orchestrated version of two Alvarius B. tracks, one of those tracks, "Insect Dilemma," was included on Sun City Girls classic 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda album from 1996. Side B, "Lili Twil," is a cover of a Moroccan folk song from the early 1970s sung in Arabic by Aya Hemeda. Limited edition one-time pressing with full-color picture sleeve." -Abduction. |
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Artist: INVISIBLE HANDS, THE Title: S/T Format: Double LP Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "Limited edition 2LP. The Invisible Hands is the English translation of the bands original Egyptian Arabic name: El Ayadi El Khafeyya. Taking almost two years to create amidst an unusual and challenging backdrop, this is the new project of Alvarius B. (Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls). Eleven highly-crafted songs projected through his typically dark lens of songwriting and a band of brilliant musicians from Egypt; this special edition limited 2LP includes the English and Arabic language vocal versions of the album together in one set. Sides A and B are the English album delivered in ABs patented sinister style, drenched in lovely psychedelic folk arrangements and vocal choruses with a nod to what could have potentially been an album that surfaced decades ago but instead found its way into the future, superimposed over historic and tumultuous times in the center of the Arab world. Sides C and D are the Arabic version -- the exact same 11 songs but the lead vocals are sung in Arabic by Cherif El Masri and Aya Hemeda. The mixes are almost identical but there are various subtle differences in instrumentation, vocal choruses, and effects. The group was established during the summer of 2011 and the album was recorded in Cairo in May of 2012. Band members include Cherif El Masri and Aya Hemeda (both former members of popular Egyptian group Eskenderella) with drummer Magued Nagati. On a handful of songs, several other players from the Cairo scene are featured including Sam Shalabi (Shalabi Effect/Land Of Kush) on oud and Mohamed Medhat on violin and viola. This limited edition one-time 2LP vinyl pressing comes in a beautiful heavy-duty gatefold jacket with full-color artwork and all lyrics and credits printed in English and Arabic." -Abduction. |
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Artist: INVISIBLE HANDS, THE Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The Invisible Hands is the English translation of the bands original Egyptian Arabic name: El Ayadi El Khafeyya. Taking almost two years to create amidst an unusual and challenging backdrop, this is the brand new project of Alvarius B. (Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls). Eleven highly-crafted new songs projected through his typically dark lens of songwriting and a band of brilliant musicians from Cairo, the premier, self-titled CD version of this album is the English language vocals edition (see below) delivered in ABs patented sinister style; drenched in lovely psychedelic folk arrangements and vocal choruses with a nod to what could have potentially been an album that surfaced decades ago but instead found its way into the future superimposed over historic and tumultuous times in the center of the Arab world. The group was established during the summer of 2011 and the album was recorded in Cairo in May of 2012. Band members include Cherif El Masri and Aya Hemeda (both former members of popular Egyptian group Eskenderella) with drummer Magued Nagati. On a handful of songs, several other players from the Cairo scene are featured including Sam Shalabi (Shalabi Effect/Land Of Kush) on oud and Mohamed Medhat on violin and viola. All tracks written and sung by Alvarius B. in English. Note: This is the English language CD version of the album. An Arabic language CD version will only be available to purchase in the Middle East. Both English and Arabic language versions will be available for digital download and both versions together will be available as a limited edition 2LP in the very near future." -Abduction. |
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Artist: NEUNG PHAK Title: (Mono Pause) Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "2004 release, now fully available. The precursor to the radically life-changing Fucking USA 7" (ABD 031). Not only will listening to this music take your mind off how youll manage paying off your debts and surrendering your soul to the ruling elite, but its almost a soundtrack manifesto justifying a great "career move" where you can uproot your pathetic and truly meaningless life in Western society and relocate to the great inner-peninsula of Southeast Asia. This is what you could be listening to when you move into that cheap apartment overlooking the Chao Phraya River: some roots "Molarm beat" from the Lao countryside, creamy Khmer ballads and Cambodian Rock, with a dash of Bangkok big city pop. Dig this template of tropical seduction, from rural to urban, through thick sewage and pristine rice paddies, side-steppin the sex tourist industry just enough to make this disc legal to purchase. On second thought, stay where you are and dont ruin it for the rest of us whose souls are firmly embedded in the great tunnels beneath the underground cities of Angkor stretching their way to the sewers of Soi Cowboy. Its starting to get too crowded over here! Stay where you are!" - Abduction. |
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Artist: NEUNG PHAK Title: 2 Format: LP Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "In the pantheon of Western-tilted South East Asian tribute groups, Oakland, Californias Neung Phak (pronounced: "Noong PAHK") have carved out a decades worth of inspired and unique recordings and performance since their 2001 debut, (birthed as a spin-off from legendary Bay Area group Mono Pause). Galvanized by exposure to thousands of South East Asian cassette tapes, LPs and radio broadcasts harvested during years of travels (co-founder Mark Gergis is a key conspirator with international record label Sublime Frequencies), the 7-piece group play folk and pop sounds from Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Vietnam and elsewhere, using a variety of Western and non-Western instruments. Neung Phak delivers international sounds that trade the gloss and sheen of so-called "World Music" for the energy and unpredictability you can find when youre somewhere else. After two releases on Abduction and several performances and tours, Neung Phak have returned with their second full-length studio LP. 2 showcases molam-folk pop and acid-rock hauntings from Thailands yesterday and today, Javanese dancefloor dangdut, and Cambodian instrumental dramas -- all retold in inimitable Neung Phak parlance. The stunning Indonesian pop gem, "Bang Toyib," features guest Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls) on Bahasa vocals. Thai dance-pop cuts "Poot" and "Poo Jud" feature veteran singer Diana Hayes. The damning "Fucking USA" was purportedly recorded in a North Korean studio -- and the epic retelling of the classic southern Thai-styled "Sat Chatri," closes down the LP in sprawling, psychedelic form. Limited edition one-time pressing of 500 copies with download card." -Abduction. |
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Artist: NEUNG PHAK Title: 2 Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "In the pantheon of Western-tilted South East Asian tribute groups, Oakland, Californias Neung Phak (pronounced: "Noong PAHK") have carved out a decades worth of inspired and unique recordings and performance since their 2001 debut, (birthed as a spin-off from legendary Bay Area group Mono Pause). Galvanized by exposure to thousands of South East Asian cassette tapes, LPs and radio broadcasts harvested during years of travels (co-founder Mark Gergis is a key conspirator with international record label Sublime Frequencies), the 7-piece group play folk and pop sounds from Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Vietnam and elsewhere, using a variety of Western and non-Western instruments. Neung Phak delivers international sounds that trade the gloss and sheen of so-called "World Music" for the energy and unpredictability you can find when youre somewhere else. After two releases on Abduction and several performances and tours, Neung Phak have returned with their second full-length studio LP. 2 showcases molam-folk pop and acid-rock hauntings from Thailands yesterday and today, Javanese dancefloor dangdut, and Cambodian instrumental dramas -- all retold in inimitable Neung Phak parlance. The stunning Indonesian pop gem, "Bang Toyib," features guest Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls) on Bahasa vocals. Thai dance-pop cuts "Poot" and "Poo Jud" feature veteran singer Diana Hayes. The damning "Fucking USA" was purportedly recorded in a North Korean studio -- and the epic retelling of the classic southern Thai-styled "Sat Chatri" closes down the album in sprawling, psychedelic form." -Abduction. |
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Artist: POREST Title: Tourrorists! Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Abduction Records presents the fourth full-length release from Oakland, Californias one-man detonator, Porest. Tourrorists! is a diabolical folk power-stew told through swirling Mid-Eastern psych-rockers, contraband cut-ups, illegal pop epics, instrumental songs of political sabotage and clever tales about travel, terror and more. This album is a lit-fuse, bound to be banned! Discover the awful truth about becoming a U.S. citizen. Bear witness to the tragic disco anthem of a Guantanamo escapee. Discover the inner-secrets of an emerging global cannibalism trade and get powerful information on some of the most exciting terror cells operating both in and outside of the United States today! Five-thousand Americans died to bring you this album...and 5,000 more will die if you dont buy it RIGHT NOW! Also featured are special musical guests including Finlands Aavikko." - Abduction. |
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Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Carnival Folklore Resurrection Radio One & Two Format: Double CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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Volume 11/12 in a series of hopefully never-ending CDs under the title of the Sun City Girls Carnival Folklore Resurrection. Limited one time only pressing of 1000 copies. "Originally aired on Brian Turners WFMU radio show in November of 2002, this head-splitting 2 CD set is unlike any previous SCG encounter. The landmark broadcast includes: radio collage (from Thailand and beyond), trio Improv, pseudo-Rock, Folk, French and Italian pop, Noise, ethereal space music, answering machine messages, Uncle Jim rants, lounge, field recordings, fucked-up Hip-Hop and much MORE. The set also features the SCG soundtrack music (Nibiru) to the opening shot from Harmony Korines British TV documentary of David Blaines 44 day fast in a suspended glass box over London and an excerpt from an actual Masonic Funeral! Several of the songs have been re-mixed from the original aired broadcast. AND, a Track by SPECS ONE and a distant message from LAIRD HENN appear as guest performers." - Abduction.
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Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Carnival Folklore Resurrection Vol. 13: 98.6 IS DEATH Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"The Carnival Folklore Resurrection keeps rolling in the Made for Radio format with this hour-long broadcast aired on WFPK in Louisville Kentucky in April of 2004. More manic than the 2-disc Vol. 11/12 which preceded it, there are 37 pieces crammed in 58 minutes of SCG razor-sharp patented assembly including studio outtakes from the Juggernaut and Piasa?.Devourer of Men LP recording sessions from the early 1990s, live SCG cuts, Alvarius Bacharach, whacked ideas on how to make money in a bad economy, cryptic audio theatre message rants including Uncle Jim and other characters, an Indian banjo raga by Sir RB from a hotel in Bangalore, Mexicana radio collage, indescribable subversive weirdness and its all capped-off with a cover of Morricones Man w/ a Harmonica! Limited one time pressing of 1000 copies." - Abduction.
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Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Dulce (Original Soundtrack Recording) Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "Originally released as a limited edition LP of 1000 copies in 1998, this is another mysterious soundtrack work by Sun City Girls, featuring guest appearances by Eyvind Kang, The Ruins and Jesse Paul Miller. The music flips back and forth from melodic and reflective themes to shards of noise and collective improvisation. Throw in some clarinet lounge music and spooked-out drama and you have the backdrop to a film that was never completed, explained further here from the original liner notes by Alan Bishop: "A nervous, stuttering Japanese gentleman phones me in the Fall of 1995 requesting soundtrack services from Sun City Girls for his new film project about a secret underground alien base in New Mexico most commonly referred to as Dulce. The real kick for us came when our new Japanese friend finally announced his allegiance to the esoteric Aum Shinrikyo group most famous for the sarin gas poisoning in a Tokyo subway not long ago. He also professed to be a former associate of Aum technical minister Hideo Murai who was killed by a Korean hitman in April of 1995. Murai joined the Aum priesthood in 1986, becoming the head of its science unit focusing on the current state of electromagnetic weapons development including EM beams using lasers and plasma. We flew to Japan to perform a few shows in April of 1996 and a clandestine meeting was arranged with our mysterious director friend on one of our days off in the electronics district of Osaka which happened to be less than a mile from where we were staying. So Doctor Gocher and I pretended to take a souvenir-gathering stroll down the hill and met Hachiro Maki (a pseudonym, Im sure) nearby in a temple courtyard. After thirty minutes of reviewing rough cuts on his swivel-screen Hi-8 camera and discussing the necessity of anonymity in todays international fast lane, we were one million yen richer with an 8mm tape in my back pocket. Havent heard from him since..." --Alan Bishop, 1998. |
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Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Eye Mohini: Sun City Girls Singles Vol. 3 Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Volume 3 in the series of Sun City Girls singles, compilations, and rare tracks, consists of material recorded between the mid-1980s and early 1990s. Much of this collection reflects the Arabic guitar instrumental and acoustic pseudo-Asian vocal folk styles of the band from the period when they recorded relentlessly. The 14 cuts vary wildly in scope yet maintain a consistent listening experience throughout, bridging a wide gap between the bands second full-length LP Grotto of Miracles (Track 3 -- "Gum Arabic" -- being the only true outtake from that recording session) in 1986 and the 1993 launch of the groups Abduction label after the band relocated from Phoenix to Seattle. All four tracks from the Eye Mohini single as well as all six tracks from the Borungku Si Derita double single are included here, the latter featuring a vicious rehearsal version of Esoterica of Abyssynia with a rare captured occurrence of both Bishop brothers playing electric guitars. The remaining two tracks from Three Fake Female Orgasms double single not included on Volume 2 of this series are present with the extremely rare studio version of "Kickin the Dragon" from a triple 7" box set released by an obscure Bay Area label in 1994. The disc is rounded out by a 10-minute live track from the Heinz Afterworld Lounge in Oakland from 1992 where SCG closed the show with a heavy and ecstatic version of "The Flower" from their Torch of the Mystics LP. As in the previous two volumes of this series, this CD is sequenced to play as a full album and is an excellent entry point for the non-initiated into a band that produced as diverse and intimidating a back catalog as any other entity in modern music." -Abduction. |
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Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Funeral Mariachi Format: LP Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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"In stunning fashion, Sun City Girls final studio record caps a 27-year run for what many hail as the most bizarre, eclectic and provocative musical trio ever assembled. From the delirious intro of "Bens Radio" to the final drum crash of the title track, Funeral Mariachi delivers 11 well-crafted gems which display the refined studio production side of SCG shrouded in that otherworldly glow which has always separated the group from their contemporaries. Beyond the gorgeous folk and vocal styles which drive the album, there is a heavy retro Italian cinema influence, Arabic and Indonesian references, and a ghostly psychedelic moodiness throughout. Post-production and final mastering was completed by the Bishop Brothers after the untimely death of Charles Gocher in 2007 and the results will not disappoint followers of this impossible-to-describe unit. Funeral Mariachi provides a perfect introduction to the more melodic sector of the SCG universe surfacing, ironically, at the end of their career in the form of what someday should become one of the most beloved records they ever created. Limited one-time-only vinyl pressing housed in a beautiful, heavy-duty full-color gatefold jacket with the back cover photo taken during the last SCG photo session in 2006." - Abduction.
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Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Funeral Mariachi Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "In stunning fashion, Sun City Girls final studio record caps a 27-year run for what many hail as the most bizarre, eclectic and provocative musical trio ever assembled. From the delirious intro of "Bens Radio" to the final drum crash of the title track, Funeral Mariachi delivers 11 well-crafted gems which display the refined studio production side of SCG shrouded in that otherworldly glow which has always separated the group from their contemporaries. Beyond the gorgeous folk and vocal styles which drive the album, there is a heavy retro Italian cinema influence, Arabic and Indonesian references, and a ghostly psychedelic moodiness throughout. Post-production and final mastering was completed by the Bishop Brothers after the untimely death of Charles Gocher in 2007 and the results will not disappoint followers of this impossible-to-describe unit. Funeral Mariachi provides a perfect introduction to the more melodic sector of the SCG universe surfacing, ironically, at the end of their career in the form of what someday should become one of the most beloved records they ever created. CD pressing housed in a beautiful, heavy-duty, 24-point, full-color mini-LP replica-styled gatefold jacket with the back cover photo taken during the last SCG photo session in 2006." -Abduction |
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Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Jacks Creek Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "The Sun City Girls Jacks Creek was originally released in 1995, now reissued here on CD for the first time since the limited edition vinyl original went out-of-print 12 years ago. As Robert Dayton reviewed the LP version: "This album was reviled by the more avant-hipster snob crowd. As time passes, its reputation surely grows to put it right up there with the finest of The Sun City Girls diverse canon. And that is saying something! Being an act that can already alienate the unready, what caused this record to alienate their more uptight fans? Maybe its because it was their hillbilly album. Maybe its because the album opens during a still evening on a back porch with them talking about a mysteriously colored smell that predates an Indian burial ground and moaning He wore red to keep the devil away and distant howling and warnings that get more and more spooked out, gradually turning into a disfigured, slackjaw, downhoe preying on urban fears over its thirteen-plus minutes running time. Then follows a percussive piano-based swamp chase led by a gnarled stick shaker which turns over into improperly distilled moonshine chants. Side two contains lots of little musically inventive snapshots and curios. A good time jamboree on termite wood called "Useless Stillborn." A Civil War call to arms for people way too rot gut broken down to ever pass the draft. And oh so much more to offer from this trio who go above and beyond the call of duty of what could have been (but not in their hands) a one (or thirty) joke premise. I take it that you are already musically adventurous, well, give this a try! Feels like theyre shrinking (expanding) your head and preserving it in a jug." - Abduction. |
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Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Juggernaut (Original Soundtrack Recording) Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "Originally released as a limited edition LP by Abduction Records in 1994, and released on CD for the first time ever, this is an essential yet overlooked Sun City Girls recording consisting of various electric and acoustic tracks with a few compositional ideas rarely heard or revisited in their immense back catalog. And when we say compositional, we mean improvisation as composition which was basically the SCG method of operation in the studio. The record opens with two patented SCG stretched electric guitar/bass/drum works of dark beauty and then things become weirder as odd keyboards, acoustic instrumental and percussive pieces, and strange vocals start to dominate the rest of the album, setting the mood for Piasa... Devourer of Men which was recorded directly after Juggernaut. These tracks were exclusively created for a short film project by Mark Roman Bodnar and Kyrill Kazemirovitch Protsenko (a Ukraine/USA co-production) which resulted in a limited promo VHS release and a few festival screenings before the film was buried and forgotten. Segments from many of the ten tracks were actually used in the film, although there is much more to hear on the original full-length cuts found here. Some of the most unusual SCG studio recordings are contained on Juggernaut, all recorded live to 4-track cassette in 1993 in Seattle by Scott Colburn." - Abduction. |
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Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Live At The Sit & Spin, Seattle May 17, 2002 Format: LP Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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Originally available at live shows on the Brothers Unconnected 2008 North American tour. One time pressing of 1000 copies.
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Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Napoleon & Josephine (Singles Volume 2) Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"This is the second volume in a series featuring rare singles and unreleased tracks from Sun City Girls. In the summer of 1988, Sun City Girls began working on two records simultaneously: Torch Of The Mystics and Dantes Disneyland Inferno. The former was finished and released in December of 1989 but the latter wasnt released until April of 1996. Over those eight years, Dantes morphed into an entirely different record due to several songs originally targeted for inclusion being hijacked by other projects. Two tracks ("X+Y" and "Frankenstein") were siphoned-off to the Kaliflower LP in 1993 and 4 tracks (1, 11, 12, 13) included here were released on 7" singles in the early 90s. The two most notable of the singles tracks dominate this record. "Napoleon & Josephine," a 13-minute episodic conversation between a vagrant and a shop owner, was originally released as a single in 1991 on Scratch Records. The full track was split into sides (parts 1 & 2) running over 6 minutes long. An alternative mix which had been shelved for 15 years is featured here. "Reflection Of A Young Boy Eating From A Can Of Dog Food On A Shiny Red X-Mas Ball" was originally released as side 4 on the double single 3 Fake Female Orgasms (Majora, 1991) and was 8 minutes in length. This extended version is the original complete recording, running 22 minutes. Legendary Phoenix electronic musician and SCG associate David Oliphant mixed and processed the entire piece live to tape in his studio. The remainder of this set is composed of like-minded and literary SCG singles and compilation tracks, including the previously unreleased "The Weatherman" which was originally recorded as an introduction for "Napoleon & Josephine." This is the second of a multi-volume set of rare & long out-of-print singles, compilation, and unreleased tracks to be assembled and sequenced to play as full-length records. Vinyl editions may also appear in time." -Abduction.
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Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Piasa... Devourer of Men Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
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"One of the strangest and most overlooked Sun City Girls recordings, Piasa... Devourer of Men was originally released on vinyl in 1994 and went out-of-print almost immediately. The record contains a series of short, folk-based tracks of raw beauty and intense moods. Most of the tracks were recorded in 1993 right after the completion of the Juggernaut soundtrack and some of the same ideas carried over into this project. A young and enthusiastic Italian director by the name of Antonio Pomola contracted SCG to create these recordings for his new film. The film was never completed and perhaps it was only an idea, but if it were to ever manifest, this music would certainly seem to fit the story line and the directors vision; the legend of a giant pre-historic flying reptilian terrorizing an early 1800s Indian tribe in Midwest America. Most of the tracks were created with acoustic instruments and voice and, with the exception of two tracks, the entire score was improvised. Recorded live to 4-track cassette by Scott Colburn, there is a strange, cohesive feel that runs throughout the album including several ceremonial and pan-ethnic tracks. Some cuts are completely indescribable. Reissued here on CD for the first time on Abduction, here is your chance to finally hear the cigarette played as a percussive instrument in an ashtray on the track "Nighthunting," among many other highly unique SCG tracks." - Abduction
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Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Youre Never Alone with a Cigarette (Singles Volume 1) Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Recorded in July of 1988 during the sessions that produced Sun City Girls most popular recording, these nine tracks represent the other half of songs which were originally prepared as a 2LP demo version of Torch of the Mystics for Placebo Records in 1989. The sequencing of all 20 tracks at the time was entirely different with the predominately instrumental tracks in this collection mixed in and around the mostly vocal tracks of what became Torch. Placebo went out of business shortly after this proposed 2LP idea was presented to them but Majora Records quickly stepped in to begin releasing most of the material. Included here are five tracks from early Majora singles: "100 Pounds of Black Olives" and "The Fine-Tuned Machines of Lemuria" (the complete unreleased 12-minute version) from the single "Youre Never Alone with a Cigarette" and all three tracks from Record #1 of the double 7" Three Fake Female Orgasms -- "Plaster Cupids Falling from the Ceiling," "The Beauty of Benghazi," and "Souvenirs from Jangare." The short piece "Harmful Little Armful" is from the triple 7" box set Bruce Lee, Heroin, and the Punk Scene (from a Bay Area label Massacre at Central High) and rounding out the set are three unreleased studio tracks recorded the same day as much of the Torch LP: never before heard versions of "Amazon One," "Sev Acher," and "Wild World of Animals." This is the first of a multi-volume set of reissued singles, compilation, and unreleased tracks to be assembled and sequenced to play as full-length records. Vinyl editions may also appear in time."-Abduction
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Artist: UNCLE JIM Title: Superstars Of Greenwich Meantime Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "This is a CD reissue of this previously vinyl-only, limited-edition 500-copy release, originally issued on the Black Velvet Fuckere label. Ruling at the perpetual pivot and pole of a peerless sound world over the past 25 years, the Sun City Girls are one of the few last Arab cowboys of genius. Superstars Of Greenwich Meantime is the premier long player from Uncle Jim (aka Alan Bishop) - a smoked out X+Y= Fuck You dialectic. Rawer than Rudy Ray Moore, shrewder than Lenny Bruce, more spoken tongue wizard insanity than Lord Buckley and more deranged than Charles Baudelaire; this is Bishops own personal anthology of black humour, filled to the brim with cranky diatribes backed up by bad ass musicians (including all of the Sun City Girls). A masterpiece of the SCG canon. Featuring Charles Gocher, Richard Bishop, Alvarius B, Liz Allbee, Andrew McGinnis, Specs One and Porest." - Abduction. |
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Artist: ABLAZE! Title: The City Is Ablaze! The Story of a Post-Punk Popzine, 1984 - 1994 Format: Book Label: Ablaze! Country: UK Price: $50.00 |
| "..limited edition of 500 books, signed by the author, hand-numbered, stickered with RSD logo, and with a free gift in the form of a sheet of errata including a long-lost letter from Thurston Moore(providing the concluding piece of the Sonic Youthcontroversy!) And when you read the section of the book entitled "Record Shop Skulkers," youll know whyThe City Is Ablaze! and Record Store Day are a perfect match. Ablaze! fanzine was published in Manchester and Leeds in the late 80s and early 90s by Karren Ablaze!. The best bits of this notorious and outspokenly passionately zine are now available in book format. Alongside hundreds of zine pages, The City Is Ablaze! features new writings by Karren and other members of the Ablaze! team, as well as interviews with fanzine writers John Robb (Rox),Dave Haslam (Debris), and Richard Johnson (Grim Humour), essays by DIY cultural commentators Lucy Cage and Deborah Withers, a re-examination of the Riot Grrrl movement, and an epilogue by Gary Jarman. This 320-page A4 book also covers other zines that Karren produced in Manchester and Leeds between 1984 and 1994, capturing an era where DIY was de rigueur and indie actually meant something. Youll be able to read original interviews with the following bands (in chronological order). Eyeless In Gaza, The Membranes, The Stone Roses, The Inca Babies, Tools You Can Trust, The Bodines,Inspiral Carpets, The Pastels, The Janitors,Happy Mondays, King Of The Slums, The Dust Devils, The Shamen, Cud, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., The Pixies, Throwing Muses, The Sundays,Thrilled Skinny, Rapeman, UT, Dog Faced Hermans, Edsel Auctioneer, Mudhoney, AC Temple, fIREHOSE, Band Of Susans, Henry Rollins, Live Skull, Kilgore Trout, The Sun And The Moon, The Breeders, Happy Flowers,Silverfish, The Keatons, The Stretchheads,Pregnant Neck, Mayomberos Alive, Fluff,Archbishop Kebab, Nirvana, Pale Saints, Mercury Rev, The Heart Throbs, Babes In Toyland,American Music Club, Hole, Pavement, My Bloody Valentine, Shudder To Think, The Wedding Present, Leatherface, Nation Of Ulysses,Tsunami, Poster Children, Sugar, Moonshake,Hood, and Polvo. The book also includes irate letters from Morrissey and Thurston Moore. The City Is Ablaze! reads like a musical history of the late 80s and early 90s, a history that could only be obtained by surfing the sliproads, sneaking backstage at a thousand shows, sleeping on strangers floors and living to type up the tales of the sounds that defined an era." - Ablaze! |
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Artist: P.D. Title: Inweglos Format: CD Label: Absurd Country: Greece Price: $13.00 |
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"Little by little, the musical career of Ralf Wehowsky is unfolded on CD, either his work with P16.D4 or its predecessor PD. Some of these works were released as EaRLyW, simple because Wehowsky (aka RLW) was the main man behind P16.D4 and PD, but here as PD. The band included members such as RLW, Jochen Pense, Joachim Stender and Achim Szepanski. PD recorded Inweglos LP, but also a 7" and a flexidisc - the latter are not included in this release, for reasons I dont know. In some of these tracks PD is shown as a typical Neue Deutsche Welle band: finding their own form within rock music based on punk
and new wave but in a more alternative form and as always with German lyrics. PD use to quite an extensive part synthesizers and rhythmboxes, along with bass guitars, guitars and vocals. At times they sound like a very free form improv band and at other times a more rock version of the early Der Plan, but without so much of humour involved in Der Plan. PD is much more political (see Ayatollah Carter) and also more dark in their lyrics - save for some hints towards disco in Progressive Disco. Some of the material forecasts the later P16.D4 work, such as in the semi cut-up of Kurzzug Nach Frankfurt, but in general fits the 1980 sound very well: distorted, free form music, taking punk and new wave in a much wider field of music. Maybe I didnt play the LP in many years, but the renewed appearance is for sure a good one. It was indeed one of those more obscure classics waiting to be re-issued." - FdW.
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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: SONIC CATERING BAND Title: Live from the Canteens of Atlantis Format: Double CD Label: Absurd Country: GREECE Price: $14.00 |
| "Spanning their very brief live career from 1998 - 2001, the two CDs convey all that was exciting, frustrating, ridiculous and ultimately nourishing about an S.Catering performance. CD1 begins at the beginning: w/ the first carrot chop at Londons 333 nightclub, 27th September 1998 and ends at the end: Genevas Moloko restaurant, 9th November 2001. In between lies a lean collage mix of culinary overdrive, assembled from every gig the project did capturing the various moods & atmospheres that were created during their live sets. Extracts of their 5 hour shift at The Moloko are manipulated and included between tracks 1,3,5 and capture/present a dense atmosphere at the restaurant. a cd giving you a great example of their sound, showing nearly all of the projects sides, full of various & bizarre moods & atmospheres, sometimes a bit rhythmic or others harsh or obscure. CD2 is the documentation of their last proper performance at genevas forde gallery. An hours recording full of meditative, abstract,spacious soundscapes. This is sonic catering bands definitive live document, minus the food of course. The CDs come in a gatefold package with a reminisce by the band and a list of our live dates/venues." - Absurd. |
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Artist: ABUELO & NADA, MIGUEL Title: Miguel Abuelo Et Nada Format: LP Label: Abuelo Country: France Price: $28.00 |
| "1973 album by Miguel Abuelo & Nada while he was living in France is, no doubt, one of the best Argentinian rock albums ever recorded, and probably also one of the best out of South America. Miguel, a true legend of Argentinian rock music, recruited some Argentinian musicians who were living in Paris at the time and recorded this wonderful album, but the band never promoted it because they disbanded very quickly. The LP became a collectable item very soon, and this is the first vinyl reissue with the original artwork in its gatefold cover, and the insert with the lyrics. Seven long tracks, stunning blend of psychedelia, folk and hard-rock. A nicely done reissue of such a classic, with tremendous sound quality and limited to 500 copies." - Abuelo |
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Artist: AMBOLLEY, GYEDU-BLAY Title: Simigwa Format: LP Label: Academy Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Gyedu-Blay Ambolley unleashed his unique brand of simigwa music on an eager yet unsuspecting world in 1975 with the release of this, his debut album. Suffused with his larger-than-life personality, this LP is an absolutely irresistible manifesto of his heavy afro-funk simigwa philosophy. This record spawned a genuine dance craze in Ghana and is even considered a foundational record of the hip lifestyle of hip hop that is popular in Ghana today. Long sought-after by collectors, Academy LPs and Voodoo Funk have teamed up once again to revive this incredible record from the vibrant musical scene of 70s West Africa. Mastered from the original master tapes and featuring the rather remarkable original sleeve, this is an ultra high-quality reissue that continues the reputation weve built with our previous releases. This is a limited, one-time only pressing of 1500 LPs." -Academy. |
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Artist: MEBUSAS Title: Blood Brothers Format: LP Label: Academy Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "A large and multitalented group, THE MEBUSAS Blood Brothers album (1973) reflects the diversity of its members. Elements of soul, funk and psychedelic rock as well as Latin, Caribbean and African music come together in a powerfully unique album recorded in Nigeria. This is the first ever reissue of their only LP." - Academy. |
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Artist: PSYCHEDELIC ALIENS, THE Title: Psycho African Beat Format: LP Label: Academy Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| LP version. Includes 12-page booklet with historic photos and liner notes written by band leader Ricky Teifer. "Most anticipated African release ever! Like most stories involving aliens, this one seems, well, made up. But it really happened. For a few years in the late 60s to early 70s worlds collided and aliens walked among us. Psycho African Beat is the complete recorded output of this amazing group and their unprecedented music that combined elements of American soul , funk, garage rock and psych with African rhythms and melodies -- and made music. This magical moment lasted for three short years producing only three releases: One four-song EP and two 7"s. Today, these three original releases are the most sought after and most elusive African funk records. It took Frank Gossner (Voodoofunk.com, Soulpusher, DJ Franco) four years, nine visits to Ghana , and dozens of newspaper ads and radio announcements to track them down. Official release of these long lost gems, licensed directly from the band. Sharp!" - Academy. |
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Artist: PSYCHEDELIC ALIENS, THE Title: Psycho African Beat Format: CD Label: Academy Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Most anticipated African release ever! Like most stories involving aliens, this one seems, well, made up. But it really happened. For a few years in the late 60s to early 70s worlds collided and aliens walked among us. Psycho African Beat is the complete recorded output of this amazing group and their unprecedented music that combined elements of American soul , funk, garage rock and psych with African rhythms and melodies -- and made music. This magical moment lasted for three short years producing only three releases: One four-song EP and two 7"s. Today, these three original releases are the most sought after and most elusive African funk records. It took Frank Gossner (Voodoofunk.com, Soulpusher, DJ Franco) four years, nine visits to Ghana , and dozens of newspaper ads and radio announcements to track them down. Official release of these long lost gems, licensed directly from the band. Hardcover, book-bound CD with a 32-page booklet. Sharp!" - Academy. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Lagos Disco Inferno Format: Double LP Label: Academy Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Welcome to the Lagos Disco Inferno, the first compilation of rare, Nigerian Disco to be released outside of Africa. Compiled by Frank Gossner (of Voodoofunk.com fame), this record contains 12 tracks that represent the sound of Lagos in the late 1970s. Dean Disi (Music Journalist and formerly Director of Lagos based label TYC Records) wrote the liner notes for this album: ⿿It was the era of sheer ecstasy. The music not only represents the vibrancy of youthful expressionism of the time but is also deeply rooted in African rhythm though not traditional in phraseology. This collection of songs marks the development of Nigerian urban pop culture. There was diametric difference in the music of the discos and the music play by the groups. Disco music as played by the DJs was essentially western. The fans could connect with this easily. It was hip, urban and stimulating. The young Nigerian groups were hooked on it and tried to play it but with a distinctive African stamp of their own. Some of the artists on this record were stars of their times while others remained in obscurity. Lagos, a uniquely vibrant, gritty, energetic and sometimes quite dangerous tropical metropolis has always been much more than just a city. A state of mind where third world poverty met the oil boom, where African traditions clashed with Western decadence. Make no mistake, this stuff will have you dance in a feverish rush in no time." - Academy. |
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Artist: EMACIATOR Title: Reflection Format: Double LP Label: Accidie Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "The long overdue, and miserably delayed, debut full-length by Emaciator (Jon Borges of Pedestrian Deposit, Monorail Trespassing) is finally available. Reflection was recorded in the spring of 2007 and represents the yet undocumented second phase of Emaciators music. Situated both historically and aesthetically between the dirty, depressive gutter pulse of the early cassette releases and the cleaner, blissful guitar shimmer of his newer material, these two pieces of vinyl bridge the gap with ghostly synth-based melodies that drift over a churning urban landscape of gritty static. Conceived of and composed as a complete artistic statement, the sides follow a narrative of deceit and betrayal, bookended by two halves of one musical idea; sides A and D are mirror images of each other, giving the title of the album its double meaning. Emotional and intensely personal, Reflection finds the Emaciator project at its most despairing, positioning aching melodic beauty in a context of bleak drone decay to suggest a kind of rock-bottom hopelessness. This is music for wallowing. Edition of 300."-Accidie |
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Artist: ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO Title: Iao Chant from The Cosmic Inferno Format: CD Label: Ace Fu Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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Artist: SUNDIAL Title: Out of Space, Out of Time/Wild Bug Format: 7" Label: Ace Of Discs Country: UK Price: $6.00 |
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"Yes! Its the first new Sundial material in, Im not certain, seven or eight years?! Two brief slices of psychedelia state the case that Sundial was, is, and has always been the best of the latter-day psych bands." - Ace Of Discs.
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Artist: OF/GREG DAVIS Title: Divorce Series # 5 Format: 7" Label: Ache Country: Canada Price: $7.00 |
| "The latest in Aches Divorce series of split 7-inches, and the least abrasive outing to date. Vermonts GREG DAVIS goes up against JEWELLED ANTLER COLLECTIVEs LOREN CHASSE (aka OF), and both camps find sturdy route in field recording acousticism, delivering tracks that illustrate the both artists meditative nature. Water trickles, harps swell, and winds howl, while traditional instruments contemplate their natural surroundings." - Ache. |
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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: GODMAN Title: God Dog Format: CD Label: Acid Mothers Temple Country: Japan Price: $19.50 |
| "THE ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE presents a new album from Japanese GODMAN-KAWABATA MAKOTO, HIGASHI HIROSHI, WATANABE YASUYUKI, ENOMOTO TAKAYUKI, and MIYASHITA KEIICHI. Two tracks, "God Dog" and "Dog God," performed with dual guitars, bass, drums, and electronics. Recorded at Zero (Tokyo) August 10, 2005." -Acid Mothers Temple |
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Artist: MAQUILADORA Title: White Sands ep Format: CDR Label: Acid Mothers Temple Gold Disc Series Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
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"Phil : voice, hermonica, bass, divine incantations, frying pan; Eric : Acoustic guitar, bass, voice; Bruce : Hammond organ, guitar, xylophone, melodica, upright bass, accordion, water phone, voice. Additional musicians : Morgan - drums; Tobby - piano; Pall : guitar. Remixed by Kawabata Makoto. Original released by eunice music 1999. Art work by ELF / Sachiko Ichikawa. An Acid Mothers Temple reissue of the "White Sands EP", the second release by MAQUILADORA, an underground psychedelic trio from San Diego. Remixed by Makoto Kawabata. A classic of real American psychedelia, illuminated by a deep acid glow." - Acid Mothers. Long out of print. Numbered edition of 100.
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Artist: BEDLAM Title: Demos Anthology 1968-70 (The Cozy Powell Beginnings) Format: LP Label: Acid Nightmare Country: UK Price: $31.00 |
| "Bedlam and its earlier incarnations (Ideal Milk, Big Bertha, etc.) were a hotbed for launching the career of superstar drummer Cozy Powell (RIP), who later played with such major Hard Rock acts as Whitesnake, Rainbow, and Black Sabbath. In this earlier stage, we can hear the fantastic guitar playing of Dave Ball very influenced by Cream/Clapton, his brother Denny on bass and Cozy on drums. In fact this early incarnation of Bedlam called Ideal Milk was almost a tribute to Cream. Moving on later, singer Ace Kefford enters the picture for a short stint with the band where they change the band name to Ace Kefford Stand. Ace was the ex-bass player of the Move. The B-side of the record has the Big Bertha demos which had different singers including Denny Ball which also sang on Ideal Milk. The style is still similar to Cream/Jeff Beck Group, sometimes with an heavier edge predicting what was going to come after 2 years (meanwhile Cozy was with The Jeff Beck Group and Dave Ball joined Procol Harum). Reissue limited to 400 copies with insert that includes detailed song liner notes written by Denny Ball and rare pics. Remastered from the master tapes for best sound quality possible." -Acid Nightmare. |
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Artist: JERICHO Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Acid Nightmare Country: UK Price: $29.00 |
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"Israels rock stars number one, Jericho were previously known both as Churchills and Jericho Jones, recording excellent albums under these names in the late 60s and early 70s. In 1972 and now as Jericho alone, they released this last album with five songs of pure progressive heavy rock with some psych overtones. This album stands tall in the gallery of 70s underground heavy rock with incendiary guitar work and a powerful vocal delivery. Sure to please fans of Dust, Mayblitz, Fuzzy Duck, Sir Lord Baltimore, Toad, The Dark, etc. 500 copies reissue." -Acid Nightmare
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Artist: PANTA REI Title: Format: CD Label: Acid Symposium Country: Greece Price: $14.50 |
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Artist: ATTACK, THE Title: Created By Clive/ Colour Of My Mind Format: 7" Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
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"Another mega-rarity by The Attack from 1967. The rare as hens teeth B side is the killer track here which is a magnificent psych masterpiece that should have been the A side. A collectors dream come true!" - Acme.
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Artist: BODKIN Title: Three Days After Death Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
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"We are proud to announce the release of this legendary underground UK album from 1972. This was a private pressing that rarely turns up. Its a beautiful example of UK music from those days when people were dreaming of a much better place to live. A heavy and hard prog trip of magnificence with burning hammond organ and killer fuzz lead guitars throughout..... Well everybody knows this! Goes along with Raw Material, Spring, Cressida and Steel Mill. This issue comes with the original label artwork. Remastered 180 gm vinyl." -Acme.
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Artist: DOGFEET Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Reissue of mega rare 1970 UK progressive rock blended with elements of folk and an atmospheric bluesy psychedelic edge. This is one of the best examples where the band were trying to create their own style of rock but failed to go to a big audience. But they have left us with a marvelous collection of music that links with T2, Steel Mill, Andromeda, Fuzzy Duck, and etc. Originals now command high prices and are impossible to find. This is an exact copy of the Reflection issue on 180 gram vinyl." - Acme. |
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Artist: GOLEM Title: Orion Awakes Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
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"Epic early to mid-1970s instrumental psychedelic space-rock from the Pyramid Records archive, said to be pseudonymous after-hours studio sessions featuring the biggest names on the Krautrock scene at the time; heavy drums, jamming guitars and Hammond organ: in short, an amazing improvised free-form trip of impressive magnitude, on par with the music of Krautrock heavyweights like Neu! and Gila. An adventurous atmosphere throughout, whether the result is hallucinogenic and jazzy (Jupiter), the heavy freak and roll of The Returning, with crushing guitars and massive, repetitive, almost funky rhythm, or the Jimi Hendrix-inspired Godhead Dance." -Acme
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Artist: HUMAN INSTINCT Title: Day In My Minds Mind/Death At The Seaside Format: 7" Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $11.00 |
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Artist: ICARUS Title: The Marvel World Of Icarus Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Early 1970s UK progressive mega-rarity. Has all the ingredients to make it a killer underground UK album from the time along with Writing on the Wall, Magic Mixture, Arcadium and others. From those days when they tried to discover a new sound and ways in music. And for that, so many people are interested in this musical period (1968-1973). So here you can find elements of hard rock, psychedelic rock, and progressive rock. A brilliant little gem. Groovy psychedelic DJs must look at this one! Remastered at Third Eye Studios. 180 gram vinyl." -Acme. |
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Artist: IGRA STAKLENIH PERLI Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Reissue of impossible to find psychedelic masterpiece. Made in the mid 70s in old Yugoslavia. This is one of the best Pink Floyd-esque psychedelic albums. Stunning guitars and killer keyboards. Anyone into heavy psychedelia needs this one! Remastered on 180 gm vinyl." -Acme. |
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Artist: INFINITY Title: 1969/70 Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "1969/70 UK psych/prog featuring members of two UK garage/psych outfits CYMBALINE and THE FLIES - top notch organ psych/prog with killer harmonies." - Acme. |
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Artist: MARSUPILAMI Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "One of the all time favorite UK progressive albums from 1970. This killer album has all the ingredients that make one of the best progressive albums with flutes, organ, scorching guitar and beautiful harmonies. Along with the second Marsupilami album Arena they rate in the top 50 best UK progressive albums from the late 60s and early 70s. Remastered on 180 gram vinyl with textured cover as the original." -Acme. |
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Artist: MEGATON Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Originally released in 1970. Killer, driving UK progressive rock with keyboards and superb guitars. Original UK copies go for stupid money! Underrated, cool album with lengthy tracks and well-crafted songs. Groovy psychedelic DJs must look at this album! Remastered 180 gram vinyl." -Acme. |
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Artist: NEON PEARL Title: 1967 Recordings Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
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"First time issue for the earliest of the Peter Dunton (Please, Gun, T2, Infinity) bands, here with Bernard Jinks and Nick Spenser, the same line-up as the second version of Please from 1969; the band had been playing these tracks in German clubs from June to November of 1967, providing the first psychedelic experience for the Berlin audiences they blew away night after night; upon their return to the UK, they were given studio time to record as many tracks as they could - this LP includes two acoustic demos, and six tracks from these recording sessions; since the peripatetic Dunton moved on to four other projects in the next two years after these recordings were made, it is no surprise that they have been completely overlooked (especially as no one had heard them!); but it is a happy day for fans of British psychedelia that this tasty platter has been unearthed at last- all trippy originals, with no filler. A significant event." - Acme. Highly recommended!
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Artist: PANTA REI Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "This is the best East German progressive album. Recorded in 1973 its chock full of guitars, keyboards, saxophone. This is the perfect progressive album. As good as the 2nd Raw Material album, Colosseum, Fruumpy, etc. Original copies are sought after. Remastered 180 gm vinyl." -Acme. |
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Artist: SEBASTIAN Title: Rays Of The Sun Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Early 70s reissue of this much in demand deep folky psych rarity with lavish arrangements like Darius meets Scott Walker. Great songs. long and short, and with superb vocal melodies with acid leads, sitar, and Peppery feel on some tracks. Undiscovered psych classic! Remastered and pressed on virgin DMM vinyl limited to 500 copies pressing." -Acme |
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Artist: SPRIGUNS Title: Revel Weird and Wild Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| "Originally issued on Decca 1976. Previously known as Spriguns (Of Tolgus), shortened to just Spriguns for this third release. Only available on CD in Japan prior to this release. Features Mandy Morton (lead vocals & acoustic guitar), Tom Ling (electric violin & vocals), Dick Powell (electric guitar, keyboards & vocals), Mike Morton (bass guitar & vocals), Chris Woodcock (drums), B. J. Cole/pedal steel guitar (1 & 9)." - Acme. CD also available. |
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Artist: SPRIGUNS Title: Time Will Pass Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| First readily available reissues of these Spriguns albums from the mid-70s, offiically licensed from Decca UK. Classic British folk rock output, for fans of Steeleye Span/Maddy Prior, Sandy Denny, Annie Briggs, etc. "Originally issued on Decca 1977. Only available on CD in Japan prior to this release." "Its a pity that Time Will Pass marked the end of Spriguns major label days - punk and new wave were culling all but the most profitable folk and prog bands from most label rosters by this time - for it stands up against the other Brit-Folk of its time from far better known bands including Steeleye, Fairport, Pentangle, Strawbs and the rest." - Jaeger. CD also available. |
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Artist: SUN DIAL Title: Other Way Out Format: CD Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "When GARY ROMANs neo-psychedelic SUN DIALl debuted in 1990 with Other Way Out, it was almost unanimously lauded by fans and press. Taking the late sixties psychedelic approach of bands like Led Zeppelin, Hendrix and the Beatles, the LP sounded like one of the great lost albums from that era. The instrumentation was also a throwback to the period with crisp electric guitar backed by Turkish talking drums, bamboo flute, and Tibetan bells. Now, 20 years after the albums release, it is still cited as a neo-psych classic." -Cherry Red. Seven bonus tracks. |
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Artist: SUNDIAL Title: Return Journey Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
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Classic, out of print LP from 1991. Limited edition with paste-on sleeves.
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Artist: T2 Title: 1971-72 Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| Repressed. "Unreleased studio recordings from 1971 and 1972 which were originally planned as an album release. If this had been released at the time, T2 would have certainly gone on to the big leagues of rock, joining Free, Deep Purple, Atomic Rooster, etc. Sadly, this was never released and so we are happy to present this previously unheard underground masterpiece. Comes on 180 gram vinyl." - Acme. |
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Artist: T2 Title: Itll All Work Out In Boomland Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
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"40th anniversary edition with insert; on white vinyl. The rise of power trio T2 in 1970 was rapid: important open-air festivals; headlining residencies at the Marquee Club; appearances at virtually every major venue in London. Then their debut album was released; they seemed poised for a breakthrough. As the band recalled, they were playing the Marquee club with John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix hanging out backstage, which was all to the good. But people were coming forward saying, we cant find your album anywhere. In short order, the band fell apart. Still, their sole Decca album has become well established as an all-time classic amongst progressive and psychedelic music collectors -- even the techno and DJ crowds. The fact that it has done so without hype is a testament to the innate quality of the music. The album is packed with melodic acoustic passages and frenzied fuzz guitar workouts, not to mention acid-trip induced lyrical and musical content." -Acme
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Artist: GOLEM Title: Orion Awakes Format: CD Label: Acme Gramaphone Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "Epic early to mid-1970s instrumental psychedelic space-rock from the Pyramid Records archive, said to be pseudonymous after-hours studio sessions featuring the biggest names on the Krautrock scene at the time; heavy drums, jamming guitars and Hammond organ: in short, an amazing improvised free-form trip of impressive magnitude, on par with the music of Krautrock heavyweights like Neu! and Gila. An adventurous atmosphere throughout, whether the result is hallucinogenic and jazzy (Jupiter), the heavy freak and roll of The Returning, with crushing guitars and massive, repetitive, almost funky rhythm, or the Jimi Hendrix-inspired Godhead Dance. Booklet essay examines the controversy surrounding this and other recordings first made known to the world via Virgin Records three disc Unknown Deutschland series of compilations from the 1990s, including the fact that one Genius P Orridge is named as producer of the Golem album. Its clear enough to all that Genius P Orridge is strangely similar to the name Genesis P Orridge, he of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV fame. The fact that the other names on the Golem album jacket lead nowhere only adds to the confusion. In any case, a deep and fascinating record, still fresh despite the years... and meant to be played loud." - Acme Gramaphone. |
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Artist: HOWELL & JOHN FERDINANDO, PETER Title: Tomorrow Come Someday Format: CD/DVD Label: Acme Gramaphone Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "The second release (1969) from the home studio of future BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer Peter Howell and his musical partner John Ferdinando, makers of legendary albums under the names Alice Through the Looking Glass, Ithaca, Agincourt, and Friends. This private press album was recorded as the soundtrack for an underground film production by (later to be) renowned television director Ian Hamilton: Tomorrow Come Someday. The soundtrack album, now presented from the master tapes, was originally pressed up in a tiny quantity for friends and people involved in the production; certainly no more than 70-80 copies were made. So what do we find here? A concept piece revolving around a village threatened by motorway expansion, and the efforts of short-skirted guitar-slinging young painter Emma Stacey and a local boy to save the day, and perhaps preserve their growing love. The film is described on the album jacket as a musical comedy, shot on location in the Sussex village of Lurgashall, during August 1969, which of course, doesnt begin to tell the tale. Think perhaps of the Kinks Village Green Preservation Society characters come to life. See for yourself! For this is both the compact disc and DVD debut of Tomorrow Come Someday, film and soundtrack, together at last in a double-disc set. Chunky booklet with plentiful photos gives the full story of what we like to call The Wonderful Musical World of Peter Howell & John Ferdinando." DVD: NTSC format; 50 min. running time; color." - Acme Gramaphone. |
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Artist: ACOUSTIC FAMILY CREEPS Title: s/t Format: One Sided LP Label: Acoustic Family Creeps Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "One sided, bootleg-style twelve inch that may very well be Brookylns own WOODS, caught live in Europe. No listed record label, no B-side, no repress. Weve seen these for sale at Woods shows so they may be legit, although the world is ripe with mystery. Very limited." |
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Artist: ORTHRELM/TRENCHER Title: Transatlantic Asthma Attack Format: 5" Record Label: Action Index Country: UK Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: TURMAN, ROBERT Title: Beyond Painting Format: CDR Label: Actual Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Unreleased Robert Turman recordings from 1990. 72 minutes of haunting lo-fi ambience. Layers of meditative synth loops, guitar, and eastern tinged melodies all beautifully delayed and minimally executed. Perfect for this winter weather that is starting. Throw a log on the fire, dim the lights and cue this one up... Self-released on professionally duplicated CDr, limited to only 100 copies." - Actual. |
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Artist: GROUPER/INCA ORE Title: Split Format: CD Label: Acuarela Country: Spain Price: $15.00 |
| "The sound Liz Harris projects on her records under the moniker Grouper has been said to be deceptively simple, but truly emotional. Layers of vocals processed again and again through loop delays and chains of effects that create gorgeous whirlpools of chants, guitar drones and tape noise, all full of something unique, pure and powerfully beautiful. The kind of magic Harris manages to inject into her recordings is something Eva Saelens knows about quite well, as Inca Ore she has also sung and produced music with a touch of wilderness and witchery. Liz and Eva compiled twenty minutes of unreleased material each on both sides of a C40 recorded at home, a recording that Acuarela now re-releases on CD with new cover art and remastered sound." - Acuarela. |
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Artist: DISCO ZOMBIES Title: Drums Over London Format: LP Label: Acute Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"The Disco Zombies should rank high in the pantheon of legendary English DIY punk bands, but a frustrating career of bad timing, record label mismanagement and three terrific singles slipping through the cracks have kept them in the shadows. In 1977 they were Leicester’s greatest punk band but the single that might have shot them to the top of the UK heap, filled with pop gems like Top of the Pops and Punk A Go Go, was scrapped at the last possible minute due to a production company implosion. Still hopeful, they moved to London and prepared for stardom. They recorded and released the John Peel favorite “Drums Over London” themselves, a song whose satire may have been too subtle for the masses. Sung from the viewpoint of a xenophobic right-winger, many took it as racist and it found fans among the crowd they were trying to critique. Peel had to explain to Rock Against Racism it actually supported their views! Due to the success of Drums Over London, their first single finally saw release as The Invisible EP. Unfortunately as it was a year late it was seen as being out of time and quickly sank without a trace. With hindsight we can hear it for what it really was, an EP of killer pop-punk. And had it come out on time, their Top of the Pops would’ve beaten the Rezillos to the charts by 6 months.
One more single—an artier affair with a drum machine and DIY atmosphere—was released. Here Come the Buts backed by Mary Millington, their tribute to England’s most famous porn star suicide, marry a more post-punk atmosphere of repetitious drum machine programming with their usual infectious melodies and snarling guitars. Three more aborted records followed and more songs, only ever played live, were heard by increasingly fewer people as the punk dream gave way. But now, at long last, The Disco Zombies—a great pop band with catchy hooks, witty lyrics and infectious energy—can be appreciated by the rest of us. Available for the first time since their release, The Disco Zombies’ three classic, collectible singles, coupled with seven bonus unreleased tracks, are featured on the new Acute Records compilation LP Drums Over London. In addition, the digital download
contains a complete live set including five more songs not recorded or heard anywhere else, as well as some choice covers that will prove the Disco Zombies are more than another forgotten punk rock hard-luck story." - Acute.
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Artist: HAPPY REFUGEES Title: Return To Last Chance Saloon Format: LP Label: Acute Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"U.Ks Happy Refugees never fit in with the scene of early 80s British pop music and they knew it. They knew it when they wrote "as far as music is concerned it is almost an overwhelming embarrassment to be associated with it in any way"� on the back sleeve of their first record. They knew it when they said "we play with a total disregard to a record buying public"� in one of their rare appearances in the press. In the liner notes to this compilation they acknowledge their self-fulfilling prophecy, "We received little recognition and we were reticent to try and find it. Enthusiasm was vulgar to some extent, the band seemed to sit outside everything else that was going on, which of course is a good thing." The music they wrote and self-released can only be described as rock-and-roll. They liked Iggy and the Stooges and John Cale. They liked Richard Hell and the Fall. It was acceptable to like Joy Division, "but slavish enthusiasm was considered spooky and weird." What they hated was heavy metal, goths, "long songs played in strange time signatures by fey bands with long hair" and all the bland music as the post-punk scene gave way to fashion bands aiming for the charts. That first record sleeve made their intentions clear; "I hope Happy Refugees can breathe a breath of fresh air with this record, not just because of the songs but also because it is no way produced with the infatuation of becoming a pop-star."� They wrote songs that were personal and honest. Production and musical chops were rough around the edges, but with 6 members at times, they had a full and layered sound. Scratchy guitars and incessant bass buoyed by a pounding piano created a post-punk jangle meets wall of sound bed for intensely raw songs about lost relationships and lost loved-ones. No matter how abrasive the sound gets, every song is filled with catchy and heartfelt hooks.
Its hard to understand why a band this good didnt find a home on Rough Trade or the like. A few years earlier perhaps theyd fit in better with the great DIY bands like Desperate Bicycles and Swell Maps (not exactly rock stars themselves). A few years later they mightve been C86 superstars. As it was, they slipped through the new pop era with only a self-released 7"� and a mini LP to their name, and into cult legend.
Return to Last Chance Saloon contains both the Last Chance Saloon mini-LP and the Warehouse Sound single as well as 3 unreleased demo recordings. This compilation also features a 16 page booklet and a download card including the LP and 7 alternate versions." - Acute.
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Artist: IKE YARD Title: 1980-82 Collected Format: CD Label: Acute Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Influenced by their punk upbringing, avant-garde schooling, and no wave surroundings in early 80s NYC, Ike Yard managed to create a new sound by also tapping into equal parts the krautrock experimentation of Can, the Neue Deutsche Welle of DAF and the UK post-punk dub of PiL and Joy Division. This combination helped them to create sound and songs unique enough to catch the attention of Factory Records, who made them their first American signing. What really set Ike Yard apart were their cutting edge techniques. The mixing board and effects processors were as important as the bass, synth or occasional guitar, giving Ike Yard an aggressive and propulsive sound, where drum machines beat against the sound of scrap metal and angular guitar slashes dart through arpeggiated synth patterns. Acute Records released on 1980-82 Collected collects, for the first time, Ike Yards two releases (their Factory LP and an EP for Les Disques di Crepuscule) plus several previously unreleased tracks." - Acute. |
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Artist: PREFECTS, THE Title: Amateur Wankers Format: CD Label: Acute Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Why doesnt anyone remember The Prefects? Some remember the band they became, the Nightingales, who on Rough Trade and Cherry Red records, blazed trails similar to The Fall and Mekons. But Englands The Prefects, leaving few artifacts, are the great coulda-shoulda been post-punk band of the late 70s. Rubbing shoulders with Wire, Joy Division, the Slits, and the Clash, The Prefects garnered critical acclaim for both their terse and witty punk outbursts and their intense art/post-punk experiments. Acute Records is excited to present for the first time ever their complete studio recordings plus two live tracks for the definitive Prefects collection. With this long overdue reissue, The Prefects place among the most significant UK bands of the post-punk era will be restored." - Acute. |
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Artist: TRYPES, THE Title: Music For Neighbors Format: LP Label: Acute Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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Beautiful letter pressed and hand assembled sleeve (w/ "tipped on" photo). "The Trypes were a wonderful psychedelic folk rock band from suburban New Jersey that featured Glenn Mercer and Bill Million, on hiatus from the Feelies. Along with Yung Wu and the Willies, The Trypes were part of a group of friends whos shifting membership comprised these sibling bands. The Feelies are the most well known, but each band had their own unique sound. The Trypes featured some of the jangle youd associate with The Feelies, but brought a more expansive and ornately arranged baroque psychedelic folk rock.
Trouser Press, reviewing their sole EP, wrote "The Explorers Hold is a placid, constantly shifting landscape of sounds. The four songs emphasize coloration, not beat; yet, for all its subdued calm, theres an explosive tension bubbling underneath the music…The quieter songs, complete with woodwinds and keyboards, are hauntingly beautiful." Despite only releasing a few songs during their existence, there was a wealth of fantastic unreleased material. Side A of Music for Neighbors will compile everything The Trypes released, the collectible Explorers Hold EP and one song from the classic Hoboken compilation Luxury Condos Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon. Side B features mostly demo recordings from an earlier period. Like all our vinyl releases, Music for Neighbors comes with a download card featuring the LP plus 7 more otherwise unreleased songs, mostly recorded live at rehearsals held at the legendary Hoboken club Maxwells. The lo-fi recording only adds to the epic psychedelic mystery and charm of these tracks. In addition to the download card, there is a deluxe booklet featuring liner notes by Trypes John Baumgartner, Mark Francia and Trype and Feelie Glenn Mercer, as well as intro notes from the bands first fan, journalist, Maxwells sound-man (and later Yo La Tengo man) Ira Kaplan." - Acute. SOLD OUT
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Artist: K-SPACE Title: Going Up Format: CD Label: Ad Hoc Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "These recordings, with their disparate acoustic properties, are overlaid and overlapped to form dense sonic thickets alive with action and event, palpably embedded in the multi-dimensional flux of the world and lived social structures. Human voices conversing, footfalls on frozen ground, a blackbird singing, the sound of the wind or water, the crackling of wood in a fire, audience applause -- sounds from specific sites with their own peculiar resonance and significance leak through the K-Space mesh into the listening present. This layering and the filtering through of discrete geographic and temporal occasions compounds that superimposition already at work in the trio, the piling up and overlap of intense personal experience. Chamzyryn, a bona fide shaman and folk artist; Hodgkinson, academically trained in social anthropology, an exploratory rock musician, composer and radical improviser; Hyder, jazz drummer, free player, inveterate field worker in remote musical worlds." - Ad Hoc. |
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Artist: MASS CULTURE CONTROL BUREAU Title: Things From the Past Format: CD Label: Ad Hoc Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "This disk compiles the entire back catalog and previously unreleased recordings of the combined Dutch/English underground label, MCCB (1978-82), and marks the first time any of these works have been issued on compact disk. Great efforts were made to locate, restore & re-master the original tapes, and the entire process was personally overseen by MCCBs chief, the legendary musician/singer Geoff Leigh. Under the auspices of The Black Sheep, Kontakt Mikrophoon Orchestra and Red Balune, Geoff is joined by long-time affiliates Loek VanSaus, Collin McLure and Kathy Williams. This is pop music gone terribly right for a change, where imagery supersedes fashion, and sound knows no rules. Features cameo appearances by members of Henry Cow: Fred Frith, Tim Hodgkinson and Chris Cutler." -Ad Hoc |
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Artist: V/A Title: Woof: 7 Inches Format: CD Label: Ad Hoc Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| Compilation of material that originally released by the UK Woof label, in the early 80s. Deluxe foldout digipak. "This CD comprises all four 7" releases by the British underground label, Woof Records, plus extra tracks by The Work and The Lowest Notes. All tracks were originally released on vinyl between 1980 and 1985, but most have never before been issued on CD. This disk features a whos-who of the London art-rock scene from those years (Bill Gilonis, Mick Hobbs, Tim Hodgkinson, Rick Wilson, Andy Bole, Trefor Goronwy, to name a few), plus the Belgian expressionist-singer, Catherine Jauniaux." - Ad Hoc. |
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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: PUSSY GALORE Title: Oven Bait Format: CD Label: Adult Contemporary Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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" Savage! Young! Wild! JON SPENCER, JULIA CAFRITZ, and the rest in all their snarling, sneering, spoiled-rotten-Ivy-Leaguer glory, recorded live in the mid-80s. Extremely lo-fi to begin with and made even more unlistenable after the fact by disgruntled percussionist TOM SMITH, who originally released the tapes in an act of revenge after the band gave him the boot. He thought Oven Bait would embarrass them, but it has gone on to achieve near-mythical status as one of the rawest, most insanely (un)produced recordings youre likely to hear. Good luck sitting through all 55 minutes." -Adult Contemporary
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Artist: ADVERSE EFFECT Title: Volume III, #1 Format: Mag Label: Adverse Effect Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "Late Summer 2003 Edition + CD. Featuring interviews with Pimmon, Cornucopia, Sonic Youth, Co. Caspar and Will Sergeant, plus more lists that you cannot live without and a typically sprawling reviews section devoted to music, films & reading matter. Plus some other stuff. The CD itself (representing Fourth Dimensions 65th release and simply titled FDCDSixtyFive) includes Weird As Fish (Will Sergeants punk-tronics outing from 1977), Co. Caspar, Storm Bugs, i:Wound, Band Of Pain (Theme r:m:x), srmeixner, Stylus, Zenial/Palsecam, Freiband and Ektroverde" - AE. |
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Artist: SPIEGEL, LAURIE Title: Unseen Worlds Format: CD Label: Aesthetic Engineering Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Composed between 1987-90. Released on CD late fall 1991 as Scarlet Records Infinity Series - 88802-2, Out of print March 1992 due to demise of Scarlet Records, Inc. Re-released on Spiegels own Aesthetic Engineering label in 1994." - Aesthetic Engineering. |
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Artist: CUT HANDS Title: Very Friendly/Susan Lawly Format: CD Label: Afro Noise I Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "A bludgeoning mix of machine and voodoo/Central African percussion plus other acoustic instruments combine to create one of the most physically intense musical experiences ever. Songs featured in VBSs films Vice Guide To Liberia and Mandingo. Since 2007s Whitehouse album Racket, and after his original Afro Noise mix became one of the most downloaded experimental mixes ever made, William Bennetts remarkable Cut Hands album has seen 4 long years of meticulously obsessive studio work in the making, notably deploying his special collection of Congolese and Ghanaian percussion instruments. All songs written and produced by William Bennett, mastering and remastering by Denis Blackham. CD features 16 pg. booklet with special artwork and extended texts by William Bennett and Mimsy Deblois. Thirteen tracks of startling Afro-noise that will blow your fucking mind. Total playing time: 49 minutes 25 seconds." - Very Friendly/Susan Lawly. |
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Artist: BREKKAN, KRIA Title: Wildering Format: 7" Label: After Hours Country: Japan Price: $6.00 |
| "Involving acoustic instruments and vocals with a piano around, featuring experimental sounds simple. Limited release of 500 7-inch record. Particular attention is given to detail in person to finish the character artwork and photos. Brekkan and clear the way for (her) solo." -After Hours Magazine. |
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Artist: BOY DIRT CAR Title: Familia Format: LP Label: After Music Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"All hail The New Desolation. Considered one of Americas premier noise bands, BOY DIRT CAR returns with a sermon, or possibly a soundtrack to a beautiful yet disturbed mantra, with a possible insight to breakdown. DARREN BROWN, DAVE SZOLWINSKI, DAN KUBINSKI, KEITH BRAMMER, STEVE WHALEN and JEFF HAMILTON are joined by guests RICO MCCOULM, MIKE SAWYER, JOSH MEAD and JARROD OLMAN for this journey into enlightenment or dementia. Found sounds combine with interludes of thrashed out bass, distorto guitar, and manipulations alongside vocal musings, tantrums and almost choral-like insertions within and around. Seems like one for the headphones. Jackets silkscreened by Josh Mead. Vinyl includes one track not available digitally. Edition of 300." - After Music
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Artist: MACKAY, STEVE Title: North Beach Jazz Format: LP Label: After Music Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "The first all-jazz vinyl LP by legendary sax player most famous for his work with THE STOOGES, but hes also played with everyone from The Violent Femmes to Snakefinger to Smegma. Joined by MIKE WATT. Silkscreened sleeve." - After Music. |
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Artist: BILLY BAO Title: Sacrilege Format: CD Label: Afterburn Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
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"Sacrilege is a collection of 2007 vinyl releases from bleak noise combo BILLY BAO. Includes the tracks from the Accumulation 7-inch, the Fuck Separation 10-inch and the Dialectics of Shit LP. Packaged in sandpaper and duct tape, just cuz. Imported from Australia." -Afterburn.
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Artist: WHITE FENCE Title: Harness/The Pool Format: 7" Label: Afterlife Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"A new 7-inch from psych pop auteur WHITE FENCE. Features the track "Harness" from the bands new Is Growing Faith album, backed with the previously unreleased cut "The Pool." Edition of 400 copies on black vinyl." - Afterlife.
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Artist: AGAPE Title: Gospel Hard Rock Format: LP Label: Agape Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Reissue of Agapes debut LP from 1971; heavy blues psych cooker with a Hendrix sound the brainchild of Californian Fred Caban, who wrote the lyrics, music and supplied the vocals on all the tracks; Agape was at the forefront of the Jesus Movement⿿dubbed by many as Jesus freaks: once high on acid, the Jesus freaks are now high on Jesus⿿and the music shows the effects of both influences; check out the eerie Rejoice which narrates tribulation prophesies against a back-drop of guitar-induced missiles and earthquakes; or Freedom with its layers of effect-laden guitars darting around over a throbbing two-note bass beat, snare drums, and Fred singing a hymn in a different key; took me twenty minutes of looking at the original cover (only on the LP version), to see that it is an abstract image of the face of Christ⿿reportedly a photograph of a natural image of melting snow against a black background." |
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Artist: BORBETOMAGUS Title: Barbed Wire Maggots Format: CD Label: Agaric Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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CD reissue of what was the 4th Borbetomagus album, originally released on LP by Agaric way back in 1983. The trio of Jim Sauter (reeds), Don Dietrich (reeds) & Donald Miller (guitar). Recorded at In-Roads, NYC. May 7, 1982. " Barbed Wire Maggots is a motherfucker, even now, 23 years after it was recorded. Recorded at In-Roads on Mercer Street, BWM documents a gorgeous evening of extreme sonic dialogue. Sauter and Dietrichs reeds skinny-dip into virtual classicist free mode at times (think Trane having an erotic dream of Frank Wright), but more often they tangle like electric eels dropped like tampons from the poop hatch of a 747. Upper register bowel tingling never felt so good. Millers guitar joins them up in the stratosphere, plugging raw current into metal bowls, sizzling like a wok full of stewardess jiz, just creating and distorting and worrying the fabric of the cosmos like some idiotic terrier-god from a lost part of the Upanishards. Everything just moves so beautifully here. All of the early Borbeto hallmarks are on display: the ducks-attacked-by-lawnmowers thing; the Wilhelm Reich Busts Another Cloud scenario; the angel-wire-thimble connection ; the part about the cop car getting crushed by a bulldozer inside a maelstrom in a sewer drain -- its all here. What is most remarkable about the music on BWM is how fresh it still sounds. Therere no clichés brunted about here, nothing thats time-coded in the least; its even difficult to really categorize the music inside any genre. Jazz, industrial, rock, free...there are elements of all of those here. And they are blended and/or smashed together in ways that will make yr hair feel lighter than feathers, lighter than maggots, lighter than anything." - Byron Coley.
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Artist: BORBETOMAGUS Title: Live in Allentown Format: CD Label: Agaric Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Killer sound, includes the entire second set, never before released. Byron reviewed the cassette in Spin years ago." -Agaric |
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Artist: BORBETOMAGUS Title: Trente Belles Annees Format: CD Label: Agaric Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Like worms through an hour glass, so are the days of our live recordings-such as JIM SAUTER, DON DIETRICH, and DONALD MILLERs final concert of their 2009 tour of Europe. Performing at Instants Chavires in the land of la vache qui fond, the trio celebrates thirty goddamn years of impossibly loud and uncompromising screech, pioneering unique strategies such as bells together, extended, flexible mouthpieces, open mouth wah wah, and never ever conserving a single volt of energy. "You know that bit at the end of the Monterey concert where Hendrix sets his guitar on fire?" guitarist Donald Miller famously asked. "Thats what we do. For a whole hour." With BORBETOMAGUS, bigger is bigger, better is better. Its not up for debate." -Agaric. |
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Artist: BORBETOMAGUS & SHAKING RAY LEVIS Title: Coelacanth Format: 10" Label: Agaric Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
 "This three-track EP collaboration between free noise bruisers Borbetomagus (Don Dietrich and Jim Sauter on reeds, Donald Miller on guitar) and Chattanooga, TNs finest free improvisers (Dennis Palmer on electronics and synthesizers, Bob Stagner on drums) is as riotously colorful and chaotic as Dennis Palmers cover art. As is often the case when Borbetomagus team up with other musicians, theres a little more restraint on offer than in the trios own coruscating work -- at the opening of "I Want to Be a Black Weight Lifter Named Douglas," Sauter and Dietrich in particular seem more content to stand back and let Millers twisted drones battle it out with Palmers wild synth squiggles -- but dont be fooled into thinking its an easy listening outing. It isnt -- and that menacing-looking fish on the album cover should be sufficient warning. Even those familiar with Shaking Ray Levis contribution to the skewed tribute compilation to the Residents (Eyesore: A Stab at the Residents, on the aptly named Vaccination label) will be taken aback by the visceral blast of "Lady Big Boy." - Allmusic.com. 1992 release. Non-picture disk edition.
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Artist: ELECTRIC EELS Title: (Im So) Agitated Format: 7" Label: Agitated Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
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"A special repressing of the classic debut single from THE ELECTRIC EELS, in a facsimile of the original sleeve. Agitated Records was pretty much blown away when the Electric Eels camp agreed for this to happen, and thus decided it made a perfect RSD release. the single itself is 35 years old this year, and still blows away most of anything released since, the sound of amps crackling, the feral vocals, and just an attitude that few have neared. Its possibly the most wild blast of punk rock ever." -Agitated
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Artist: FRESH & ONLYS Title: Impending Doom Format: 7" Label: Agitated Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
| "Another total winner from the Agitated stable, and two blasts of wild pop from San Franciscos finest purveyors of said genre THE FRESH & ONLYS. "Impending Doom" is the bands their first UK release, and ties in with UK shows, ATP etc. Both tracks highlight the bands abilities in creating pop music thats skewed yet perfect and both songs are also exclusive to this release." -Agitated |
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Artist: KOOLAID (GLOBAL TYRANNY) Title: S/T Format: LP + CD Label: Agitated Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "So, we get a tape of this in the post, yes, a tape, and thought it was pretty wild, then heard nothing...then we get a CDR, well two of them, some mix cassette, and a CD containing some OTT modern day Pop Art sleeve design that is retina rubbling!....with a scrawled note claiming, when you put the record out, you have to limit it to 500 LPs with a bonus free CD version that has a different mix of the music on it, NO Downloads whatsoever and the sleeve has to be wrap-around, like it could be a poster, on thicker card too, full colour mind!...we are KOOLAID (GLOBAL TYRANNY) on this record...send us some copies when its done....well that was telling us, so we had to put the record out. We listened to the CD again; it was bonkers, some wild psychedelic noise stomping round the room, meshed with some dark samples, really heavy and LIVE drums, almost a non stop mix of edge-of-the-seat paranoiac scuzz, with loops that pulse through the entire record. Like a modern day mix of the avant pop samplings and cut-up wizardry of Negativland, the obscure fractal pop psychedelic rock of the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, some of the white hot guitar of the Stooges / Loop variety, and a primal beat /rhythm that could have been lifted from Cro-Magnon."-Agitated. 500 copies only on vinyl, in deluxe wraparound color sleeve, with CD version (of different mixes of the four tracks)." -Agitated |
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Artist: MOON DUO Title: Catch As Catch Can Format: 7" Label: Agitated Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
| "San Franciscos MOON DUO feature the combined forces of WOODEN SHJIPS ERIK "RIPLEY" JOHNSON and SANAE YAMADA. Led by, "Catch As Catch Can," a blistering sonic stew and backed with the a cover of the Scientists classic speaker burner "Set It On Fire." Taking threads from the fabric of Loop, Neu, Silver Apples, the PSF canon and the Red Eye /Black Eye label oeuvre the band weave a tapestry of droning motorik rock noise. Both tracks are exclusive to this release and pressed on piss yellow vinyl." -Agitated |
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Artist: MOON POOL & DEAD BAND Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Agitated Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "Five tracks of post apocalyptico techno from Urban Americanica fore runners MOON POOL & DEAD BAND. Detroit, Michigan being the birthing place for this, Moon Pool & Dead Band, A duo who deal in old school DIY tweaked and bleaked techno ideal that assimilates the dystopian furies oft found amongst some of the master-works of John Carpenter to a no-future groove. Moon Pool & Dead Band is DAVID SHETTLER and NATE YOUNG (WOLF EYES). "It is all analog synth, real drums and whatever.. played live=no overdubs, make no mistake this is syncopated synthesizer music or Detroit Techno....Dance music" ---Nate Young Amazing sleeve art...see to believe! 700 only." -Agitated |
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Artist: SCIENTISTS Title: Frantic Romantic Format: 7" Label: Agitated Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: TEENAGE BOATPEOPLE Title: NOW Format: CD Label: Agua Prieta Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Teenage Boatpeople NOW (Agua Prieta 000209) contains 5 new songs recorded in 2009, 4 songs that comprised the out of print vinyl EP, 4 BY THE TEENAGE BOATPEOPLE, originally released in 1979, and 4 demos recorded in 1980. Teenage Boatpeople are a Minneapolis based Avant-Garde Rock band founded in 1979 by Jeff Johnson. The band played a short run of gigs 1980-81 at local venues including First Avenues Main Room and 7th St. Entry, the New Riverside Cafe, and the legendary Longhorn (Zoogies), sharing the bill with the likes of DNA, Husker Du, Naked Raygun, the Milo Fine Free Jazz Ensemble, and the Suburbs. The music the band created in 1979/80 was unique and difficult to categorize for the Minneapolis scene at the time. With the lack of local support the group disbanded in late 1981. The bands current line up retains two core members -- Jeff Johnson and Milo Fine -- and adds new member Tim Mauseth (Rocking Pinecones, Safety Last). Milo Fine is an internationally known improvising musician who has been active in the field since 1969. He has been featured on 3 dozen published documents including recordings with Free Jazz/Improvised Music legends Anthony Braxton, Derek Bailey, the Reform Art Unit, Hugh Davies, among others." -Agua Prieta |
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Artist: EMMANUEL, J.D. Title: Trance Formation I: Ancient Minimal Meditations Format: LP Label: Aguirre Country: Belgium Price: $22.00 |
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"Somewhere hidden in the deepest part of the Self is that special place where One can go within to the most ancient part of ones Self and connect with the origin of Self. Ancient Minimal Meditations reaches into that special place of creation of the Self and its Oneness with the Creator of All. This album is composed, performed and recorded by J.D. Emmanuel between 1981 and 1985 using a Teac A-3340 multitrack recorder mastered to a Teac A-7300 Master 2-Track with a DeltaLab DL-4 digital delay." - J.D. Emmanuel. Highly recommended!
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Artist: EMMANUEL, JD Title: Time Traveler Format: Double LP Label: Aguirre Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
| "Kudos to Lieven Martens of Dolphins Into The Future for bringing J.D. Emmanuel back into the spotlight. In 2007, Lieven dug up the masterpiece album Wizards and re-issued it on his own label. A few years later, in 2011, J.D. was asked to tour through Europe where he was accompanied by Dolphins Into The Future and Paul LaBrecque. Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Germany, and Holland welcomed J.D. and the people attending the concerts knew they were in for an electronic blast from the past. This 2LP set covers the tour with a great deal of unreleased live tracks. The live recordings show J.D.s phenomenal skill to create a universe of swirling and constantly turning sounds. Hes up there in the big league of early electronic and new age pioneers with the likes of Iasos, Laurie Spiegel, and Trans-Millenia Consort. Some words from the man himself: "After my European tour, I decided to use the name Time Traveler to describe my music because it can put the listener into a state where time seems to disappear. This is my goal with my music, to create an altered state for expanding consciousness." With Hawaiian-inspired artwork, just like J.D.s colorful character, and of course, his T-shirts. Includes a glossy double-sided insert. Mastered by J.D. Emmanuel. Pressed @ Handle With Care, Berlin. Limited edition of 500 copies." - Aguirre. |
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Artist: EXPO 70 Title: Inaudible Bicoastal Trajectory Format: LP Label: Aguirre Country: Belgium Price: $20.00 |
| "New LP with two looong Improvised tracks by Justin Wright, recorded during his tour last fall 2010. The A side was recorded at Zebulon Bar, New York with accompanying visuals of the film Fantastic Planet. The B side is a live performance from KJFC in California. Dedicated to the open road and lush landscapes of Earth, you are a great wonder. Full color thick cardboard sleeves, 160gr. vinyl." - Aguirre. Limited edition of 400 copies. |
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Artist: INNERCITY Title: Future Life Format: LP Label: Aguirre Country: Belgium Price: $20.00 |
| “Imagine you find yourself wandering places unreal, lost and desperate, only to have it gradually dawn in you, youve been laying waste the invisible lands in your mind. Your desperateness becomes amazement as you start paving paths to link and sync barren levels of reality and start to familiarize with different formless and shape-shifting entities manifesting as inhabitants of apparently different inner worlds. You are being prepared for a major evolutionary phase-shift regarded unreal and I believe that is what future life is about, the differences in realities, and their level of importance in the whole picture. Part 1: simulations (untitled 1-2-3-4), Part 2: reflections (untitled 5-6-7-8)." - Aguirre. |
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Artist: INNERCITY Title: Terrestreality Format: LP Label: Aguirre Country: Belgium Price: $22.00 |
| "Hans Dens second vinyl offering on Aguirre with more synthcrapings and zonked adventures in lo-fi music. Following up his 7 inch on NNA tapes and an LP on Release The Bats Hans continues to search and destroy. Loads of damaged audio and otherworldy synth bubblles spread over 11 tracks. No need to look at your watch, time has become infinitive." - Aguirre. |
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Artist: MARTENS & ADA VAN HOOREBEKE, L.R.J. Title: Eternal Landscapes Format: LP Label: Aguirre Country: Belgium Price: $27.00 |
| "2011 release. Collage of continuous sound recordings, created for two expos by Ada Van Hoorebeke. Re-worked for release on vinyl in March 2011 by Lieven Martens of Dolphins Into The Future. Mastered on VHS. Housed in a gatefold cover. Limited to 500 copies. Includes three inserts. Pressed on 160 gram vinyl. Cover artwork by Ada Van Hoorebeke." -Aguirre. |
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Artist: STELLAR OM SOURCE Title: Heartlands Suite Format: LP Label: Aguirre Country: Belgium Price: $20.00 |
| "EP/LP by Christelle Gualdi which compiles little masterpieces from the same time period when "Trilogy Tapes" was released. With influences ranging from new age to experimental electronic music Christelle creates a wonderful and carefully layered album. After the release of the Trilogy Tapes on Olde English Spelling Bee last year and the Rise In Planes from 2009 this is Stellar Om Sources second third vinyl release to date. More to come!Recorded in 2009 at Angel Transfer, The Netherlands. Full color thick cardboard sleeves, 160gr. vinyl." - Aguirre. Limited edition of 500 copies. |
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Artist: V/A Title: I Lost My Mind Format: LP Label: Ah... Cid Country: Spain Price: $31.00 |
| "I Lost My Mind is dedicated to the rarest of the rarest...the underground of the underground! Thirteen tracks from obscure Spanish bands recorded between 1971-1977, taken from obscure pressings, promo singles, non-distributed albums and unreleased tapes, compiled here for the first time. Psych-fuzz, late garage, crude hard-rock, proto-prog, psychedelic-funk. Including many monster rarities like Atardecer (the rarest Spanish 70s garage 45 ever), Núcleos ( psych-rock á la Evolution, taken from a non-distributed promo 45), Los Grecos (exotic flamenco-psych), funk-psych/Hammond groove by exploito group Ten Tops, primitive basement fuzz-psych by Vibración, powerful hard-rock by Indiana, taken from a monstrous rare withdrawn LP; unreleased demo recordings by Polmagenti (dark/satanic prog-psych) and Els Talps (instrumental fuzz-psych); unknown bands from the Canary and Balearic Islands like Snake, Grupo Vida, Los Demar, and more. Pro-remastered sound, colour insert with rare pictures and detailed liner notes in English/Spanish." -Ah... Cid. |
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Artist: TSUNODA, TOSHIYA Title: Vibrational Movements Of Metal Plates / Limiting Feedback Oscillation Format: LP Label: Ahora Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Side 1: vibrational movements of metal plates - a thin metal plate is suspended between 2 attached loudspeakers. The output of both loudspeakers are sine oscillations within a low frequency range which generate vibrational movements of the metal plates resulting in a complex variation of vibrational movement. In this work, I placed 2 microphones close to the plate in order to record the movement faithfully. The determination of the placement of the microphones gives an observational perspective of the vibrational movement; in this way, it is possible to fix some phase variation from these vibrational movements. The metal plate is suspended lengthwise by a fulcrum which is fixed at the horizontal center, and within 1 inch from the the top edge. The two loudspeakers are attached to the upper end of the plate and the two microphones are placed at the lower end. side 2: - limiting feedback oscillation. these tracks are a recording of my installation that I have dealt with some feedback oscillation. When an input microphone and an output loudspeaker are set into the same space, a feedback oscillation occurs in the signal transmission circuit because the sound of the output returns to the input microphone. I inserted a gate device into the circuit in order to limit the feedback oscillation between the input microphone and the output loudspeaker. The device cuts the signal below a certain voltage of the signal. Thus, I can find out a threshold level of the feedback oscillation using the gate device as the limitation. In this work, I put the microphone and the loudspeaker at a short distance into the same room, and adjust the limit level in accordance with the threshold level. In this result, the feedback oscillation reacts to the fluctuation of the chamber sound, in this work, the limitation on the circuit can give an opportunity to affect the space where the chamber becomes my motif. The limit level on the circuit is fixed on track 1 of side 2, I sounded a 1463 hz sine wave into a closed room where the size is 14 square meters x 2.5 Meters high. On track 2 of side 2, the motif is a chamber sound of an open room where the size is 490 square meters x 4 meters high. I placed the two circuits side by side - i.e. There are two output/input systems in the space. Recorded august 1997." - from the liner notes. edition of 425 copies.
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Artist: AIRPORT WAR Title: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Airport War Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "This latest LP from Airport War is 12 inches of guilt-by-association (or rather the bastard child between Delmore Schwartz, pornography, the Moor Murders, Raymond Pettibon, Sonic Youth, and Patty Hearst). All represented in either, title, image, or sound, they demonstrate the collapse between audience and performer⿿with the record being the rate of exchange. Version/inversion (a figure 8), this piece of plastic is the intersection that connects Airport War to his audience and himself to his art⿿a meditation on medium. In Dreams Begins Responsibilities features a single loop of Patty Hearts long lost phone call from the closet to her parents⿿the first call after her kidnapping by the SLA. The call was originally recorded on tape and then played over the phone and then transferred to tape for the world to hear⿿a performance distributed via news networks throughout the world to millions of people (had it been sold/itd have gone gold in seconds). Specifically, the loop contains the first four words: Mom, Dad, Im okay. The last two words "Im okay" repeat into infinity or until the listener grows tired, the record wears out or the player breaks down. The record comes in two version (limited to 50 of each), with the sole difference being the inversion of the two color silkscreen process⿿one with red overlay and one with blue overlay. Silkscreen ink was applied directly to the record. Hand Signed/Numbered." - Airport War Records |
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Artist: NEW HUMANS/AIRPORT WAR Title: Split Format: Picture Disc 7" Label: Airport War Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Airport war contributes the left channel and new humans contribute to the right channel to a one-sided record. the result is a five minute wedding of violent bliss. cover is an untitled wedding photo (1970) that is silkscreened in off-registered yellow, red, and blue. the wedding was short lived, the groom stabbing the bride several dozen times shortly after the honeymoon." - Airport War. |
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Artist: WAR SLUT Title: Wall As Mistress Format: Double LP Label: Airport War Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Posthumous album by War Slut. Studio and Live recordings taken from an ill-fated 2005 European tour that the saw band caught in the middle of a knife fight in Prague and getting thrown out of their own headline by police at the famed Kinsky Club in Berlin. Cut short, the band returned stateside, rented an abandoned warehouse and recorded a few songs before throwing their instruments into a pile and lighting it on fire. War Slut was dead--Wall As Mistress is their epitaph. The record comes in three versions: porn star, pop star, and prince. Images are silkscreened directly onto the record, which is still playable, providing a visual remix to each side. Two records per set, one with Side A defaced and one with Side B defaced. " - Airport War. Now known as Airport War, on tour with Religious Knives this summer. |
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Artist: SABBATH ASSEMBLY Title: Restored To One Format: LP Label: Ajna Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Restored to One is a modern response by JEX TOTH of WOODEN WAND & THE VANISHING VOICE, DAVE NUSS of NO-NECK BLUES BAND, and SUNN O)))/EARTH/BORIS producer RANDALL DUNN to the musical activities of a cult known as The Process Church of the Final Judgment, who used music to spread their visions of Gnostic reconciliation in a time of cataclysmic change. SABBATH ASSEMBLY has recharged the original hymns of The Process Church and worked them into moving renditions that unite the trinity of rock, psychedelic and gospel into one triumphant re-awakening. The Process Church was an intensely creative, apocalyptic shadow side to the flower-powered 60s and New Age 70s. The influential group opened chapters in London, Europe and across the United States. Dressing in black cloaks and walking the streets with German Shepherds, they created their own intricately designed magazines, and promoted a controversial, quasi-Gnostic theology that reconciled Christ and Satan through deeper awareness and love. Funkadelic reproduced Process writings in two of its albums. The Process Church was accused of being part of a Satanic underground conspiracy by true crime pulps, most notably Ed Sanders The Family, which linked the Church to the Manson murders. The recording follows on the heels of live shows across the US in the Fall of 2009, at which Sabbath Assembly performed previously unrecorded original hymns of the Church. More live events are planned, along with a documentary on the Process Church by William Morris of Skinny Puppy, a video for a song from the coming release, standard CD and LP releases and an archival LP box set (including readings of Process sacred literature by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Adam Parfrey, and Lydia Lunch, as well as Love Sex Fear Death author Timothy Wyllie), and an off-Broadway theater extravaganza entitled Gaming the Gods based on the rise and fall of the Church." -Ajna |
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Artist: SABBATH ASSEMBLY Title: Ye Are Gods Format: LP Label: Ajna Offensive Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Reaching beyond the scope of Restored to One, Ye Are Gods incorporates the ritual text and structure of the Process Church of the Final Judgments highest and holiest mass, the Sabbath Assembly liturgy (after which the band is named). In these hymns of the religious movement that emerged in the late 60s as an apocalyptic shadow-side to flower power and New Age, SABBATH ASSEMBLY guides this mysterious Gnostic journey of the unification of Christ and Satan; the bliss of total submission to the gods Jehovah, Lucifer, Satan, and Christ; the wilds of the Apocalypse and a face-to-face encounter with the Angel of Death; and finally the moment of spiritual renewal in which the Processs Law of the Universe is revealed. Joining vocalist JAMIE MYERS (HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM) and drummer DAVE NUSS are GENESIS P-ORRIDGE serving the role of High Priest(ess), aka "Sacrifist"; EYVIND KANG on viola for the liturgical "Declaration of the Gods"; on a chilling rendition of the hymn "We Give Our Lives," guitarist/vocalist IMAAD WASIF; and TIMOTHY WYLLIE, an original Process Church member, providing a homily from Process Church founder Robert DeGrimstons Gods on War. Includes 20-page book." -Ajna Offensive. |
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Artist: CLARK-HUTCHINSON Title: A= MH2 Format: LP Label: Akarma Country: Italy Price: $22.00 |
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"A=MH2 is the debut album of one of the most interesting and irreverent bands of the British underground rock scene of the late 60s. Like the Deviants, Edgar Broughton Band, Pink Fairies, and Third World War, Clark - Hutchinson had an anarchic attitude towards the establishment, in their case represented by the music business. Very inspired and promising, A=MH2 combines many influences, brilliant ideas and the talent of Mick Hutchinson, whose guitar style recalls his passion for Indian music and rock blues."- Akarma. Classic LP!
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Artist: FRY, MARK Title: Dreaming With Alice Format: CD Label: Akarma Country: Italy Price: $19.00 |
| "Donovan-influenced, sitar-laced, this is a rather extraordinary psych/folk revelation and one of the most impressive Akarma archive gestures to date. Not some laughable Kissing Spell-type atrocity. " - FE. "Originally released in 1972 on Italian RCA... a very rare album recorded in London and Milano...nice mellow psychedelia with some Eastern influences... original artwork... gatefold sleeve." - Akarma. Very highly recommended!! |
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Artist: HAPSHASH & THE COLOURED COAT Title: Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids Format: LP Label: Akarma Country: Italy Price: $22.00 |
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"Their 1968 first classic album (originally on Minit) is something of an electric mayhem and freeform freakout. Art students/designers Michael English and Nigel Weymouth, whose striking graphics were seen on many bright and trippy posters for psychedelic clubs like the Ufo and Middle Earth in London, were the creative talent behind this band along with DJ and manager Guy Stevens. Not far from what the Godz were creating in NYC, an underrated document of its time. A band like this, incorporating flower power, love and peace, acid and psychedelic rock lifestyle, tainted with freak out, drop out, hippy and underground trends, could not have existed in any other era than the late sixties. The Heavy Metal Kids, the alter ego of the proto-Spooky Tooth group Art (comprised of Mike Harrison, Greg Ridley, Mike Kellie and Luther Grosvenor) appeared backing. But who was The Human Host? Original artwork." - Akarma. CD version also available.
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Artist: HAPSHASH & THE COLOURED COAT Title: Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids Format: CD Label: Akarma Country: Italy Price: $11.50 |
| "Their 1968 first classic album (originally on Minit) is something of an electric mayhem and freeform freakout. Art students/designers Michael English and Nigel Weymouth, whose striking graphics were seen on many bright and trippy posters for psychedelic clubs like the Ufo and Middle Earth in London, were the creative talent behind this band along with DJ and manager Guy Stevens. Not far from what the Godz were creating in NYC, an underrated document of its time." |
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Artist: TUDOR LODGE Title: Tudor Lodge Format: LP Label: Akarma Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "One of the most venerated progressive freak folk albums of all time, released in 1970 on Vertigo. Its striking artwork has made it much sought after by collectors but the music is the main attraction - delicate and rather extravagant, and very original for the time period, characterized by complex arrangements featuring acoustic instruments with an excellent use of flute, acoustic guitars and impeccable vocals. Tudor Lodge were very well known at the time, thanks to their numerous live appearances, in particular at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 1971. Splendid sleeve that unfolds as a poster, here reproduced exactly like the original." - Akarma. |
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Artist: MOFFARFARRAH Title: Thread Bare Format: 7" Label: Alberts Basement Country: Australia Price: $10.00 |
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"The solo voice recordings of melbournes Christopher Hill, who has previously recorded for Bunyip Trax, Tape Projects, Sabbatical and Inverted Crux some time since 2003. Two tracks, Skeletal and T-shirt, pressed at 45RPM, in a numbered sleeve." - Alberts Basement. "Moffarfarrah presents a pile of sonic excrement so varied and strange, it makes Eggeggs David Russell sound like Frank Sinatra Jr. There are rarely more than two or three layers, but the air is always filled with gibbering nonsense. Not as theatrical and dense as Dylan Nyoukis, but not (shall we say) unstrangled. Pretty fine head scratcher." - Byron Coley, The Wire. |
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Artist: MUURA Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Alberts Basement Country: Australia Price: $8.00 |
| "Solo project by Brisbanes Matt Earle (of xNoBBQx among other things) is one of those curious emanations that recall early recordings on New Zealands Precious Metal label. Sounds like guitar amp, percussion and who knows what else, elegantly arcing into something that could be garbage or could be a flower. Either way, its about the sound not the smell, and this one will keep you scratching in wonder." - Byron Coley. |
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Artist: V/A Title: The Night Gallery - 21st Century Psychedelic Underground Format: CD Label: Alchemy Country: Japan Price: $22.50 |
| Excellent comp featuring LSD March (LP soon on SIWA), Uptight, Doodles, Mimi No Koto and Chouzo. |
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Artist: VOAG, L. Title: The Way Out Format: CD Label: Alcohol Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
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Jim from the Homosexuals, Amos & Sara, etc.. Includes the 1979 LP The Way Out , the Move EP, plus 6 previously unreleased tracks.
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Artist: HUNGOVER BREAKFAST Title: Gateway To Feather Format: Cass Label: Alcoholic Narcolepsy Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "As soon as I had begun my fixation on Steve Warwicks Heatsick project, he turns around and starts another one: Hungover Breakfast. This debut one-sided C30 feels more like a strong jab than a first round KO. Running around ten minutes or so, this is a spluttering mass of viscous feedback clouds. Like Heatsick there are winks of recognisable guitar parts / sounds at the edges, but the focus is on frequency fucking. Patterns emerge as the choppy sounds begin to resemble Qbert-like scribbling; Warwicks ill treatment outlines tentative images that are burned quickly into the head. Things go briefly haywire as a ZX breakdown almost brings the piece to a full halt before zipping back into and through higher micro frequencies." - Scott McKeating, Stylus Magazine. |
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Artist: ASHLEY, ROBERT Title: String Quartet Describing the Motions of Large Real Bodies - How Can I Tel the Difference? Format: Double LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $32.00 |
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"Double LP reprint of the compact disc by Robert Ashley titled String Quartet Describing the Motions of Large Real Bodies / How can I Tell the Difference? (I & II). String Quartet
was composed as the potential orchestra for an opera based on the text of In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women. When the work was composed, in 1972, it was clear that a huge change in electronic instrumentation was just beginning, a change that would involve computers and sound producing devices as yet undreamed of. The piece consists of an electronic orchestra of 42 sound producing modules. The technique of the string quartet is for each player to make a stream of intentional but unpremeditated (that is, random) very short sounds, pulses, somewhat like pitched clicks, but with the formats and overtones of a string instrument (this idea came from the rumor of a performance by Takehisa Kosugi). These sounds go directly to a set of four loudspeakers, but at the same time they are delayed electronically, and those delayed sounds are sent to a series of seven networks of sound producing modules activated by the very brief coincidence of an original sound and a delayed sound. The operation of the networks as a result of the coincidence can, in the theoretical world of electronics, produce almost any sound imaginable. In the performance recorded here few of the technical resources were available. Now, of course, there are computer patching programs that would make the job possible, but complicated. Such are dreams, when technology promises a new world. Sort of like 1492. The hills and mountains separating San Francisco Bay from the Pacific ocean are filled with a labyrinth of endless concrete tunnels constructed by the military in the 1930s in anticipation of the World War II to defend San Francisco Bay from invasion. At the entrance of every tunnel is a huge steel door. When the door is slammed, the reverberation through the labyrinth seems to
last forever. It is one of the wonders of the world. Naturally, Robert Ashley tried to record this phenomenon. On the occasion of the recording, just as the reverberation seemed to die away, a motorcyclist, miles away in the tunnels, started coming closer. The effect, which took minutes, was as if the reverberation had been reversed, as if the tape recording was running backwards. A perfect case of coincidence as illusion. In Version One of How Can I Tell the Difference? the composer tried to create the drama of the recording of the reverberation and the motorcyclist, using the String Quartet as an orchestra, in the way intended to be used in the opera. In Version Two of How Can I Tell the Difference? a solo string player using the same playing technique as in the String Quartet opens and closes the sound gates to electronic reverberations and prerecorded
sounds running continuously with the performance. This edition comes in a colour gatefold LP cover with new graphic and lay-out. A double LP set with 3 recorded sides (side 1, 3 and 4; side 2 is blank). Edition of 500 copies only." - Alga Marghen.
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Artist: ASHLEY, ROBERT Title: Wolfman Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $27.00 |
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Artist: BERROCAL, JACQUES Title: Catalogue Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "Released in 1979 in a limited edition on his own dAvantage label, Catalogue, with its overt theatricality is every bit as wild as the previous Paralleles. Not really jazz, not rock, having nothing to do with contemporary music either, Catalogue is a kind of sonic postcard which features not the group of the same name but instead numerous Berrocal associates including Potage (co-founder of the dAvantage label in 1976), Parle, Ferlet, Pauvros and recording engineer Daniel Deshays, plus many musicians from the French underground collective scene of the 1970s. Not content with manhandling a toy piano on Tango (which features mind-blowing accordion from Parle), abusing an arsenal of instruments including saw blades, pistols, shower attachment and even gingerbread, Berrocal pushes his own voice way over the edge on Incontrolablslaooo and Faits Divers, moving from a 60-a-day smokers cough to a terrifying sequence of gargles and vomits. The grungy free rock of No More Dirty Bla Blaps, the Portsmouth Sinfonia-like spoof Dixieland of Rideau, the distressing punk of Signe Particulier and all manner of fields recordings and cut-ups in Berrocals Artaudian theatre style, combining the excesses of glam and punk cold-wave to post-1968 Situationist perspective. With the same creative attitude documented through the mythic dAvantage label (1976-1979) Berrocal later accumulated an extensive archive of unreleased recordings, some of which finally surface now on this new edition. Catalogue represents the most experimental and complex of Berrocals records, as historical as contemporary modern, classic and at the same time as fresh and strange as if it had been recorded last week. During the same year Steven Stapleton frequently travelled to Paris to meet Jaques Berrocal and discuss a possible collaboration. In 1980, Berrocal travelled to London with his pocket trumpet and Tibetan oboe and recorded with Stapleton, Heman Patak and John Fothergill on NWWs second album, but thats another story." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: BERROCAL, JACQUES Title: Paralleles Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $21.00 |
| 2009 repress, originally released in 2001. "Jacques Berrocal has been very active since the beginning of the 1970s. No one in France could mix jazz, improvisation, rocknroll, punk, no wave, spoken words and industrial music like him. He also had a central position in the creation of dAvantage, a collective record label that issued some of the most particular sessions of the mid-late Seventies. At the same time he was working on never ending sessions for records that were never issued. Jac and his band were the Apostles of the non-urgency, enjoying recording in unusual situations, with no rules, improvising on undefined structures or using non-musical material mixed with ethnic instrumental solos. In 1976 dAvantage issued a wonderful record LP titled Parallèles featuring, among the others, Bernard Vitet, Roger Ferlet, Pierre Bastien, Michel Potage, Daniel Deshays, with the intervention of Vince Taylor, the dark diamond of rocknroll who inspired David Bowies Ziggy Stardust. Just a couple of years later Berrocal collaborated with Steven Stapleton to create the first Nurse with Would record LP. Parallèles features very different styles; acoustic solo and duo for trombone and cornet as well as a large ensemble 25 minutes long piece dedicated to the Futurist Russolo (again, two years later, Mr.Stapleton dedicated his first NWW record to the same Italian artist). Also to mention are Post-Card, recorded in a Pigsty in 1976, and the legendary Rocknroll Station, a mini-concert for voice (Vince Taylor), double bass (Roger Ferlet) and bicycle (Jac Berrocal). The remastered CD also includes five previously unreleased tracks that were actually left out of the original record: Villa Povera Naturale (1972) is a short piece for pocket trumpet and various concrete elements; Occupè by Michel Potage is an excerpt taken from an LP that dAvantage never issued; Shorten and Lisylis Pavillon are the first experiments using electronics and Cryptea IV, taken from the sessions of the early Futura LP. Thirty years later Jacques Berrocal is still there, where nothing is waiting for him, totally outside the rules, out of fashion thus indémodable. A digipack CD edition including a folded insert with very nice original photos and scores." -Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Antarctic Mosaic Format: CDR Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $18.00 |
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"Following the path opened by Frammenti, this new work represents the radicalization of the fragmentary approach in Maurizio Bianchis music. A musical composition resulting from the combination of various elements: Hetzian-waves, classical and electronic music. MB eagerly explores the immaculate spaces of the so-called frozen continent, the only one not contaminated by the human presence. The hostile surroundings and the prohibitive temperatures made the frozen paradise so stimulating and pure. Antarctica was an immense park frozen after the post-Flood events when unexpectedly and suddenly the temperatures felt of many centigrade degrees. This process is well emphasized in the Antartic track. On the other hand, in Mosaic the listener mind is projected into the future when, after the decontamination process of human presence on Earth, the frozen continent will become again a paradise. Again a strictly formal and structured work, two long and exhausting sound-collages made of little fragments, even more radical than his approach when MB was active under the name of Sacher-pelz. Also included is an excerpt from The Technological Nonsense, a text presenting the forthcoming book on Maurizio Bianchi activities soon to be issued by EEsT. As MB stated: Antarctic: sonorous infiltration in a deteriorated glacier and Mosaic: liquid resonances for asymmetric decodings. Are the glacial 1980s so far away? Available now in a CDR edition limited to 300 copies." - Alga Marghen.
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Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Cycles Format: CDR Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $19.00 |
| "The terminal concept of Cycles is matured after the sharp Fragments and the Glacial Mosaics of MBs recent artistic reproduction, at the end of a triennial project, aiming to exacerbate the routine of prefab sound, the common and forgone sound created to be exclusively consumed by an amorphous and servile mass, sunken in a sullen entertainment. The approach here is totally new and the fragment is isolated and constantly repeated in order to build an aural minimal architecture. As MB states: Our whole existence is subordinated to intense and mathematical cycles, from the biological to the technological one, from the solar to the lunar one, from the historical to the legendary one. The cyclicity of the sonorous meanders of Cycles is, probably, the unique example of cyclic music. Particular and interatomic sonorous repercussions infinitely and distinctly repeating themselves, captured in a spectroscopy of atavic and coriaceous notes. And in the classic mood of the early 80s style, MB continues: The establishment will disagree. Such an experiment will be considered tedious and banal. What matters to me is not the ephemeral judgement of this sick and condemned reality. Finally the nine cycles included in this minimal work could be considered my appropriate epitaph. I have already entirely expressed my own artistic freedom and I wonder whether this might be nothig but the end of another cycle, in anxious expectation of the... eternal cycle. Due to the extreme nature of the material included, the reproduction of this edition has been limited to 200 copies only."- Alga Marghen |
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Artist: BRAU, JEAN-LOUIS Title: Instrumentations Verbales Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "After releasing the first LPs ever published by Isidore Isou, Gil J Wolman, Hidlgo&Marchettis ZAJ... here is another historical premiere, or the first LP ever issued by French pre-situationist Jean-Louis Brau. Jean-Louis Brau (1930-1985) at the age of 20 joined along with Gil J Wolman, Isidore Isous Lettrist group, creating in this context (the same of Wolmans mégapneums, Dufrênes crirythmes, Lemaîtres hyperphonies and Isous poèmes ciselants) what he called instrumentations verbales. In 1952 he recorded on a lathe the soundtrack to the unfinished film La barque de la vie courante (the first ever recording of experimental poetry). In the same year, with Debord, Berna and Wolman, he gave birth to the Internationale Lettriste, from which he was eventually rejected for his military deviation. After the Indochina war (where he ran a brothel and traded opium), Brau joined the French Army in Algeria, between 1956 and 1958. In 1963, back in Paris, Brau gave birth to a Deuxième Internationale Lettriste together with Wolman and Dufrêne. He also designed an astonishing métagraphic roman: No More. He approached everything in an explosive way, creating a body of work which is discontinuous, small and incomplete, in which he sometimes achieved some major results: for example with his sound poetry, as demonstrated by Turn back nightingale (1972), in which Brau makes references to François Dufrêne, on a background of disarticulated drums and pre-punk saturations. Also included on this one-sided LP are Elégie Elémentaire and Ataloche Roche, both recorded in 1961 during Isidore Isous conference at the Musée dArt Moderne in Paris, as well as Instrumentation Verbale and Cantate pour linterdiction de Mandrake, both recorded in 1963 and first published in Poésie Physique, book with 3 singles (Brau, Dufrêne, Wolman), Achèle, in 1965. Edition limited to 350 copies reproducing a page from No More on the front sleeve, as well as an essay by Frederic Acquaviva." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: BRUHIN, ANTON Title: Deux Pipes Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $33.00 |
| "In the past few years alga marghen successfully released on CD some of Anton Bruhin more experimental works. InOut, Rotomotor and the CD version of his first LP masterpiece from 1969 Vom goldabfischer, made many of you become familiar with the eccentric creations of this obscure Swiss artist. But for this new release alga marghen decided to concentrate on Anton Bruhins favorite instrument, the Jews harp. Included in this LP record are six breathtaking Jews harp pieces of pure genius. On Side 1 Apocalypt Rb- with sampling loop and Chor H+ with sampling loop and solo reverb pot, recorded in January 2000 while testing some modified Jews harp self-made instruments created by Zoltan Szilagyi. This virtuoso performance is improvised over to a loop-continuum sampled through a Casio child synth. On Side 2 the all-time-classic titled Maultrommel und Sprache (i.e. Jews Harp and Speaking) where Bruhin is scientifically investigating the use of Jews harp in rendering human voice. Recorded in 1994 this piece, divided in five short paragraphs, move from the very basic structure of language (vocals, diptongues, triptongues) and constructs a perfectly accomplished sonic statement. Also on Side 2 are three pieces from 1995 for Electric-Trumpi-2, the only existing second generation electric Jews harp, constructed specially by Szilagyi for Anton Bruhin. Towards the G-Spot, ET2 with fly and cough and ET2 extreme filling grandly complete the collection of limousine musics selected for this record. Gatefold sleeve with large 8-page booklet reproducing four mind-blowing drawings released between 1969 and 2006 that well prove Anton Bruhins ultra-modernistic talent of the most refined nature. Also included in the booklet with the complete score of Maultrommel und Sprache. Edition limited to 330 copies." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: BRUHIN, ANTON Title: Vom Goldabfischer Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
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"The new compact disc by Anton Bruhin issued by Alga Marghen is titled Vom Goldabfisher and presents for the first time on CD the classic experimental folk recordings with the same title first issued on LP in 1969. Anton Bruhin conceived some of the most original sonic art musiks, a double of his artistic work as an outsider painter and with the help of Stefan Wittwer on electric guitar and Cristian Koradi on bass and cello, recorded this masterpiece of far out sonorities well hidden in the Swiss mountains. Anton Bruhin sings and plays jews harp (his favorite instrument), ch-phon (an instrument he invented constructed with a PVC tube with saxophone reed), harmonica, flute, fiddle, percussion, water. This record, surely one of the most psychedelic, experimental and private to be issued in Europe in the 1960s, should be of great influence for the actual renaissance of experimental folk music. Surely it was an important source of magick for Steven Stapleton, so no surprise to see it mentioned in the mythical list of references that Nurse With Wound included in their first LP. This CD edition also includes 5 jews harp instrumental tracks. In the late 1970s, Anton Bruhin was asked to edit a record of folk and ethnic music, documenting the use of jews harp in Switzerland. Bruhin climbed up the mountains in order to record some of the most obscure, old jews harp players. Those mysterious sounds were issued in 1979 on a record titled Maultrommel, Mundhermonika, Kamm. This CD includes 3 solo jews harp tracks where Anton Bruhin plays themes from the Vom Goldabfischer LP, plus 2 massive, maximal and resonating duos with W. Gwerder, recorded in 1979 at Radio Schweiz International. Beautiful digipack sleeve with photos and liner notes, also including a folded insert reproducing lyrics, technical notes and a group of ink drawings originally created for the Vom Goldabfischer LP sleeve." -Alga Marghen
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Artist: CARRION, ULISES Title: The Poets Tongue Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "Ulises Carrións audio works clearly reflect his passion for language, its structures, sounds and meanings. He greatly enjoyed grammatically dissecting languages and trying to understand and explore their structures. His many initiatives and projects bear witness to his boundless obsessions with communication and circulation of works and ideas as a cultural strategy. This LP includes Hamlet for Two Voices (1977) in which two voices read out the names of the characters in the Shakespearean play as they appear in the script, audibly representing the structure of the roles the characters perform. Poema (1977) orally represents the structure and spatial characteristics of a poem, by listing all its structural elements: words, paragraphs and verses, etc. The LP also includes Aritmetica, Three Spanish Pieces, and First Spanish Lesson, as well as the legendary 45 Revoluciones por Minuto, the grooviest track ever created within the context of conceptual art. All pieces, recorded at the Instituut voor Sonologie in Utrecht between September and October 1977, have in common their refusal of discursiveness. They are not meant to be true or beautiful. Each piece is a series of vocal units that unfolds according to simple rules. Their beginning and end are arbitrary: they could go on infinitely. They should go on. They go on. First LP ever issued by Ulises Carrion who in 1975 created the legendary bookshop-gallery Other Books & So, the first space dedicated exclusively to artists publications such as artists records, books, magazines, postcards. Edition limited to 270 copies." - Alga Marghen |
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Artist: CHOPIN, HENRI Title: Revue OU Format: 4CD/Book Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $112.00 |
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"Alga Marghen proudly presents a new edition of the already historical Chopins Revue OU. All the original contents (4CDs + book + complete inserts) have also been included here, but presented now in a more modern and flexible way. The first press heavy boxset had been substituted with a lighter and colour slipcase while many important details and info about the contents of this anthology (missing in the original layout) are presented on a new colour obi." Incredible that this has been reissued again, at a slightly cheaper cost even! Miraculously over-the-top presentation of Henri Chopins famous sound-poetry "magazine", issued on 4CDs (or 6 LPs -- a few copies of the original LP reissue box still available). "Since the end of the fifties, Henri Chopin, an explorer in the new recorded sound poetry field, has never ceased, through hid own work as well as through his publishing activities (Revue OU, a magazine with record from 1963 to 1974) to defend the electronic exploration of the voice and the body. If Henri Chopins Revue OU is such a remarkable publication, then this is surely because it is one of the truly -- and most authentically -- contemporary publications of its time. Yet at first sight, the word contemporary seems to offer a rather simplistic description of such a visionary publication as Chopins OU. When we consider in the general cultural context of the sixties, for example, arent all mid-century art publications generally contemporary in one way or another? And when considered in terms of most other poetry publications of the sixties, doesnt Chopins OU clearly stand out as one of the most significant experimental or avant-garde publications of the mid-century? As Chopin observes, he considered the sound poetry published on the records in OU to be a distinctively new form of art. On one hand sound poetry constitutes an almost archetypal practice, but on the other hand sound poetry also emerges from the very sources of recording technology by means of its use of electro-magnetics. As this collection of CDs (remastered under the supervision of Henri Chopin) reissuing the complete Revue OU records indicates, Chopins most striking achievement was to consistently identify and publish the first major works of many of the most visionary transatlantic artists exploring the new recording technologies of the fifties, sixties and seventies. Far from attempting to establish any monodimensional movement, Chopin characteristically championed a wide veriety of those poets, writers and composers whom he perceived to be in movement, and whom he subsequently applauds as Fabulous Independents. Following an editorial logic of selectively eclectic inclusion, Chopins OU records published an astonishing diversity of inter-generational and international experiments. These include intense electronic readings by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin; pioneering optophonetic works by the Dadaist Raoul Hausmann; crirythmes and vocalic improvisations by François Dufrene and Gil J Wolman; fragmentary poemes-partitions by Bernard Heidsieck; high-tech text-sound works by composers such as Ake Hodell and Sten Hanson; electronic abstractions by Bengt Emil Johnson; phonetic poems by Mimmo Rotella; handy tech performances on self-built electronic instruments by Hugh Davies; haunting tape-manipulations by Ladislav Novak; playful improvisations by Bob Cobbing with Anna Lockwood; dramatic monologues by Paul de Vree; electronic concrete music by Jacques Bekaert and -- of course -- Chopins dynamic orchestrations of the bodys factory of corporeal sounds. Chopins writings equally consistently championed the electronic language revolution facilitated by what he describes as technological means which extend the human body, thereby inaugurating an enormous expansion of human expression. Many manifestos and theoretical texts, as well as original photos, have been published in a 76 page book. Also included are 30 fold-out black and white OU inserts reproducing the original scores of the audio works featured on the 4 CDs (by Chopin, Heidsieck, de Vree, Davies, Cobbing, Bekaert) as well as graphic works by John Cage, Tom Phillips, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Michel Seuphor, Ben Vautier, Stefan Themerson, Richard Orton, Pierre Albert-Birot." - Alga Marghen.
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Artist: CORNER, PHILIP Title: Coldwater Basin No. 2 Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "Re-emerging from deep Fluxus celebrations in this 2012 summer, Alga Marghen realized that Philip Corner Coldwater Basin (ALGA 037) LP was instantly sold out. Could there be a better decision than issuing an alternative version of this masterpiece from the glorious 60s, by master of ecstatic music Philip Corner? If you fluctuated over sonic landscapes with the first version, then Coldwater Basin No. 2 will knock your socks off! More intense that Whitehouse, more liquid than your wildest dreams. Remember? When you made these things at home, on the best equipment you or your other poor friends could find? And you had that Japanese tape recorder with built-in mike; indeed that was the only piece of furniture on your tatami floor on the Lower East Side that summer of 1961. Again, a home recording of water running from a faucet into a sink. New York City, the Lower East Side, sometime in the 60s with Bill Fontana still on microphone. And I always dreamed of passing an entire night bathed in this... It was never long enough. Edition limited to 310 copies with front sleeve design and calligraphies by Philip Corner." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: DUFRENE, FRANCOIS Title: Oeuvre Désintégrale Format: 4LP Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $99.00 |
| "Alga Marghen presents one of the most impressive sound poetry anthologies ever published, introducing you to the sound works of the Nouveau Realiste artist, Francois Dufrene. His work, along with that of Gil J Wolman and Brion Gysin, was a strong influence for experimental poets like Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck and Ake Hodell. These recordings show him that through the tape machine his poems could reach deeper and wider creative dynamics. Since the mid-1950s, the tape-machine became for him a poetical and experimental tool and Dufrene fully develops its potentials with stereophonic recordings as well as with the superimposition of his Crirhythms. The loudspeakers amplifies sounds while the microphone captures even the most detailed concrete sound produced by his voice. The physical tempest he produces is a real concrete electronic sound attack. Dufrene produced primitive, brutal poems opening the path of vocal sounds to contemporary composers: its known that Pierre Henry was deeply inspired by Dufrene. This 4LP anthology, conceived by the same author and privately issued as a 3 cassette edition in the mid-1970s, includes only previously unpublished sound works that finally fully documents the creativity of such a radical artist. Deluxe heavy boxset edition limited to 345 copies." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: DUFRENE, FRANCOIS Title: Oeuvre Desintegrale Format: 3CD Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $79.00 |
| "Alga Marghen presents one of the most impressive sound poetry anthologies ever published, introducing you to the sound works of the Nouveau Realiste artist Francois Dufrene. His work, along with that of Gil J Wolman and Brion Gysin, was a strong influence for experimental poets like Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck and Ake Hodell. Previously issued in 2007 as a 4LP box set, this first edition on CD also includes Crirythme pour Tinguely as bonus track. François Dufrene could be considered the younger of the first generation sound poets. Already in the Lettrist group when he was only 16 years old, with his own style marked by a hyper-powerful voice. In 1953, at the age of 23, he became Ultra-Lettrist, starting his first crirhythms by overpassing the alphabet in the perspective of the physical improvised scream. With the crirhythms sound poetry enters for the first time in the factory of projective sounds. In the beginning Dufrene uses the tape recorder only to document his creations. These recordings showed him that through the tape machine his poems could reach deeper and wider creative dynamics. Since the mid-1950s the tape-machine became for him a poetical and experimental tool and Dufrene fully develops its potentials with stereophonic recordings, as well as with the superimposition of his crirhythms. The loudspeaker amplifies sounds while the microphone captures even the most detailed concrete sound produced by his voice. The physical tempest he produces is a real concrete electronic sound attack. Dufrene produced primitive, brutal poems opening the path of vocal sounds to contemporary composers: its known that Pierre Henry was deeply inspired by Dufrene. The anthology presented here includes 10 crirhythms from different periods dating from 1965 to 1976, plus Crirythme pour Tinguely (first issued on a 7" single included in Revue AXE No.2 in 1975 and not available on the alga marghen 4LP anthology from 2007). Also included is Osmose-art, a long piece from 1969 divided in two suites where Dufrene superimposes his crirhythms to classical music. A similar technique was applied a few years earlier adding jazz music (specially drum and percussion pieces) to poems marked by strong Lettristic esthetic. Two of those Lecture-collage dating from 1965 are presented here, as well as two Comptinuum from his early on-progress works started in 1958. François Dufrene also developed unique performances, with live reading of his written text. The most famous is Tombeau de Pierre Larousse, published in 1958. This is a work half way between the written text and the sound poem whose unity is achieved through Dufrene performing it. Its a masterpiece of synthesis of active poetry. Eryximaque, suite choreographique au Tombeau de Pierre Larusse is also included in this anthology. Apart from the crirythmes that Henri Chopin issued on his Revue OU disc magazine and a few short pieces issued on obscure sound poetry anthologies in the end of the 1960s, François Dufrenes work is practically unavailable. This 3 CD anthology, conceived by the Dufrene himself as a 3 cassette edition privately issued by Guy Schraenen in the mid-1970s (only a handful of copies made), includes only previously unpublished sound works that finally fully document the creativity of such a radical artist. Edition limited to 300 copies, including a 3CD as well as a 28-page booklet including two essays by Dufrene, the biography, the complete discography as well as original photos of various performances from the 1960s and 1970s." - Alga Merghen |
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Artist: DUFRENE, FRANCOIS Title: s/t Format: Book/CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $64.00 |
| "The CD offered in the catalogue includes the fantastic crirhythm from 1970 titled Belle nuisances hantez nos nuits, the complete Osmose-Art from 1969 where crirhythms are superimposed to classical music, Eryximaque and two Lecture-collage from 1965 as well as the 1958-70 Comptinuum. All the sound works presented on the CD are also included in the 4LP boxset anthology issued by Alga Marghen and titled Oeuvre Desintegrale. Full colour catalogue in A4 size, 250 pages, all texts translated in English, French and Portuguese. The book includes a large selection of experimental visual works dating from 1957 to 1981 as well as the biography, essays and original texts (among them Pragmatics of Crirhythm and The Crirhythm and the Rest both from the mid-1960s). Full discography and filmography are also included. First edition of this large catalog, the first ever to fully document the work of François Dufrêne." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: FERRARI, BRUNHILD Title: Tranquilles Impatiences Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Alga Marghen proudly presents the first record edition ever by Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari, a very refined and talented German composer, wife of Luc Ferrari with whom she collaborated for over 40 years in creating some of the most beautiful sound works ever created in the past decades. First there was Et tournent les sons dans la Garrigue that Luc Ferrari composed in 1977 before Exercises dImprovisation in the same year (a previously unreleased work, to be issued on the PLANAM label). These two pieces ...conceived for individual or collective improvisation for any instrument or instrumental group... are based on identical sound elements. Exercises dImprovisation consists of a sequence of 7 separate tapes, while for Et tournent les sons dans la Garrigue Luc Ferrari mixed these tapes into one. Listening to the separate tapes Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari felt the irresistible desire to compose a new piece using ad libitum five of these seven tapes. As she remarked: Impatiences represents for me those high-pitched rhythmic sounds, those imperturbable wriggling interfering with the low rhythms which are falsely quiet, because each of them is submitted to different and contradictory rhythms. I wished these to be perturbing enough to make the physical balance stagger by fractions of seconds. Edition limited to 300 copies, issued by Alga Marghen to celebrate the Oeuvres sonores 3 event conceived in collaboration with the New Media Department of Centre Pompidou and La mason rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert in Paris. This LP is the third in the Oeuvres sonores series after the Charlemagne Palestine Sound I LP and Luc Ferrari Danse LP. One-sided release." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: FERRARI, LUC Title: Ephemere I & II Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $21.00 |
| "Presented here for the first time, ÿphémère I & II (for tape, or to be played with various instruments) are two previously unpublished masterpieces which represent for several reasons a very specific moment in the creative life and catalogue of Luc Ferrari. Even if Luc Ferraris perfect skill in creating some of the most beautiful sonic works ever is now well known to the large audience appreciating his music, the undetermined character marking the two works presented here is quite surprising. Luc Ferrari was tempted in the mid-1970s by the idea of leaving the final realization of these pieces open to the performers intervention (a perspective he decided not to develop in future researches). Exercises dImprovisation, a score conceived in 1977 and unreleased for almost 35 years (first recorded this year by the GOL collective with Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari for an LP to be issued on PLANAM), directly comes from the two works presented here. ÿphémère I (or Lordinateur ça sert à quoin? i.e. Whats the use of computers) is a 27 minute piece for tape only, created in 1974, conceived as a kind of electronic drone superimposed by fragments of multi-language whispered voices that creates the thrilling effect of a sea-like continuum. ÿphémère II (or Lyon 75 after the only recorded realization) is a 51 minute tape piece with guitar improvisation. The electronic repetitive structure reminds some of the most radical works of American composer Terry Riley, while the guitar sounds, first resulting as live manipulated pointillistic impulses, develop into a blues sonority superimposing the tape drone and creating a heavy psychedelic atmosphere of the most sublime kind. The end of this long suite lead us back into more abstract and live-electronic sonorities. This very intense work can be placed in a context between scored music and totally improvised music. First press limited to 500 copies in tri-folded digipack sleeve. Please note: these 2 previously unpublished pieces revealing a hidden part of Luc Ferrari poetics are not included in the INA 10CD boxset. Only available on this CD edition." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: FERRARI, LUC Title: Labyrinthe de Violence/Dance Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $32.00 |
| "One-sided release. Dance was part of a sound/visual installation called Labyrinthe De Violence. Previously unpublished, this radical experimental work has now been released on LP record in collaboration with the New Media Dept of Centre Pompidou (National Museum of Modern Art) in Paris for Oeuvres sonores 2, a 2-day-event organized by Emanuele Carcano at Beaubourg on April 5th & 6th, 2009. Labyrinthe De Violence was an installation for tape sounds and 2 slide projectors conceived in 1975 by Luc Ferrari. The installation was a visual and sound metaphor of violence within contemporary civilized society. Four different rooms with a central space created the spatial context of this work. The specific environmental sonority (1. Violence; 2. Pollution; 3. Profit; 4. Mechanism / Paysage / Danse) created for each of the four rooms naturally superposed themselves in the central space. Dance was one of those sonorities, minimally constructed using 2 different sounds: a very low electronic drone deeply resonating for the whole duration with, in the end, the accumulation of deconstructed sequences played by Luc Ferrari on an electric organ. Documenting one of Luc Ferraris most beautiful and mysterious sonic works, this LP edition will be the first in a series of Alga Marghen projects presenting a still undiscovered side of the poetical universe of this fundamental composer. This 1-sided LP, issued in an edition limited to 500 copies only." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: GESCHWISTER AKRE Title: Untitled Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $25.00 |
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"It was around Christmas time, a couple of years ago, and some of you received a strange record as a gift, probably unexpected. The record was the anonymous Geschwister Bar LP, issued in a phantom edition of 60 copies in a private collaboration with Bar Schalplatten, including the music performed in 1967 by 4 little children, the Bear Family. No info after that, and still the complete operation is kept secret. And secretly the material included on that record was remixed adding new and previously unpublished fragments from the same session: Geschwister AKRE, even more obscure, issued in an edition of 161 copies, is probably the bad brother which is better keep closed down in the basement, probably the negative of a negative." - Alga Marghen.
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Artist: GOLDSTEIN, MALCOLM Title: Early Electronic/Tape Collage Music Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "Alga Marghen proudly presents an LP edition including some of the seminal electronic/tape collage pieces by Malcolm Goldstein, created in close connection to the sulphuric New York pre-Fluxus environment of the early 1960s. The 1960s downtown New York City, rich with activities, doors opening upon a world fertile with possibilities: the delightful unknown. Malcolm Goldstein first worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, then joined the Judson Dance Theater with dancers, musicians, poets, and visual artists all interacting in the common ground of improvisation/exploration. Most of the music on this recording was created for the Judson Dance Theater, Sheep Meadow (1966), a collage of two musics, folk & court music, was realized on a very cheap single tape recorder that offered its own electronic distortion embellishments. It was created for an anti-war demonstration to be held in that meadow of Central Park, with a dancer on top of a flat-bed truck and with loudspeakers. Images Of Cheng Hsieh (1967) was for a dance by Carol Marcy at Judson Church, simultaneously with an instrumental ensemble performing from the calligraphic graphic score, with the name of Cheng Hsieh. It Seemed To Me (1963) was composed for a dance by Arlene Rothlein; a collage of traditional musics chosen by her to be incorporated with electronic sounds. Judson #6 Piece (1963) was for Ruth Emerson, using only electronic sounds. Finally Illuminations From Fantastic Gardens (1964), the only composition for a vocal ensemble on this recording, was composed for Elaine Summers An Evening of Fantastic Gardens, a multi-media event of dance, music, film and visual projections, as part of the Judson Dance Theater concerts. It is the first music notated by Malcolm Goldstein with graphic renditions of the words of Rimbaud and without traditional music notation. Two performers were trained singers, while the others were a visual artist and an actor; two women & two men, all in the spirit of the times, sources coming together, as art & life blended in an overflowing of exploration. Edition limited to 350 copies, also including a 12-page large booklet with the reproduction of the complete Illuminations From Fantastic Gardens graphic score." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: GYSIN, BRION Title: Bruits du Beaubourg Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
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Artist: HANSON, STEN Title: The Sonosopher Retrospective Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $31.00 |
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Artist: HANSON, STEN Title: The Sonosopher Retrospective Format: CD/Book Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $85.00 |
| "This edition is the digital version of the LP issued some years ago in the VocSon series and is only available with the alga marghen copies of Sten Hansons heavy hardcover luxury book titled Works / Oeuvres / Werke /Arbeten. The cd contains works from more than three decades, thus covering almost the entire career of Sten Hanson as a sound artist. All these works were previously released on record by alga marghen on the now sold out LP with the same title, as well as in various Text Sound Composition rare LP anthologies issued in Sweden between 1968 and 1970. The oldest work on the record is Danse figure (for EP) which was first performed at the Pistol Theatre, Stockholm in 1965. The work is inspired by a poem by Ezra Pound with the same title and is made out of recording of the first two lines in that poem. This work is followed by three examples of Hansons shamanistic poems: Hermetic Back Piece, The New York Lament and Skärp dig, för fan!. Lettre dun etranger deals with the problems of communication between people close to one other and was first performed in the framwork of Polyphonix 13, Paris in 1988. Am strengsten verboten is the contribution to an intermedia event by Charlie Morrow, Carles Santos and Sten Hanson himself performed in two boxing rings at Bobby Gleasons Gym, in the shadow of Madison Square Garden, New York in 1981. Les Martyrs was a part of the intermedia opera Robespierres Last Night, first performed in Hudiksvall, Sweden in 1975. Les sabots de bouc is a poem without words telling a story like a medieval morality from the times when the cathedrals were built and the devil was a force to be reckoned with. Che is a pamphlet based on a speech by Ernesto Che Guevara, while Coucher et soufler is a play on the problems of human communication. Western Europe 1969 is a satire on superficiality. The Destruction of Your Genetical Code by Drugs, Poisons and Radiation is based on a visual poem already conceived in 1960, when the idea that genetic damage could affect mans offspring for coming generations was a fairly new and shocking one. Au 197.0 was composed at the request of choreographer Susanne Valentin, who wanted a piece for a work on rites; as rite demands religion and it seemed clear to the composer that materialism is the only real living religion of our time. Finale, a piece to end with, was first performed in Annecy, France in 1995. Edition limited to 90 copies, including a 12 page booklet with liner notes, photos as well as concrete and visual poems." -Alga Marghen. 100+ page hardcover book with CD. |
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Artist: HANSON, STEN Title: The Sonosopher Retrospective Format: Book/CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $85.00 |
| "This edition is the digital version of the LP issued some years ago in the VocSon series and is only available with the alga marghen copies of Sten Hansons heavy hardcover luxury book titled Works / Oeuvres / Werke /Arbeten. The cd contains works from more than three decades, thus covering almost the entire career of Sten Hanson as a sound artist. All these works were previously released on record by alga marghen on the now sold out LP with the same title, as well as in various Text Sound Composition rare LP anthologies issued in Sweden between 1968 and 1970. The oldest work on the record is Danse figure (for EP) which was first performed at the Pistol Theatre, Stockholm in 1965. The work is inspired by a poem by Ezra Pound with the same title and is made out of recording of the first two lines in that poem. This work is followed by three examples of Hansons shamanistic poems: Hermetic Back Piece, The New York Lament and Skärp dig, för fan!. Lettre dun etranger deals with the problems of communication between people close to one other and was first performed in the framwork of Polyphonix 13, Paris in 1988. Am strengsten verboten is the contribution to an intermedia event by Charlie Morrow, Carles Santos and Sten Hanson himself performed in two boxing rings at Bobby Gleasons Gym, in the shadow of Madison Square Garden, New York in 1981. Les Martyrs was a part of the intermedia opera Robespierres Last Night, first performed in Hudiksvall, Sweden in 1975. Les sabots de bouc is a poem without words telling a story like a medieval morality from the times when the cathedrals were built and the devil was a force to be reckoned with. Che is a pamphlet based on a speech by Ernesto Che Guevara, while Coucher et soufler is a play on the problems of human communication. Western Europe 1969 is a satire on superficiality. The Destruction of Your Genetical Code by Drugs, Poisons and Radiation is based on a visual poem already conceived in 1960, when the idea that genetic damage could affect mans offspring for coming generations was a fairly new and shocking one. Au 197.0 was composed at the request of choreographer Susanne Valentin, who wanted a piece for a work on rites; as rite demands religion and it seemed clear to the composer that materialism is the only real living religion of our time. Finale, a piece to end with, was first performed in Annecy, France in 1995. Edition limited to 90 copies, including a 12 page booklet with liner notes, photos as well as concrete and visual poems." - Alga Marghen. 100+ page hardcover book with CD. |
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Artist: HEIDSIECK, BERNARD Title: 50 / 70 Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: HEIDSIECK, BERNARD Title: Poème-Partition X Format: CD/Book Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $66.00 |
| "Poème-Partition X was created by Bernard Heidsieck during 1960 and recorded in October the same year. A few excerpts of the 1st and 4th movements were performed on November 22nd, 1960 at the Quatre Saisons Gallery in Paris, during the Festival of Avant-Garde Art. Poème-Partition X might be considered Heidsiecks first major work, whose duration (more than 40 minutes long) never allowed the author to give a public reading of it. Its destination was a record (released by Alga Marghen in 1996, starting the VocSon LP series, 36 years after its creation)! Alga Marghen is proud to now present this new edition of Poème-Partition X, extended to the CD format and included in a luxury 96 page hardbound book, limited to 350 copies. The book reproduces for the first time the complete score, a visual wonder and a major experimental printed work. Bernard Heidsiecks memories of an historic lecture at the Jean Tinguely atelier is included as an introduction, as well as his testimony on Ian Sommerville and Brion Gysins Dream Machine. Also on the CD is a lecture of extracts of Poème-Partition X accompanied by the saxophone of the American painter Larry Rivers. This recording from 1962 was not included in the LP edition and is here presented for the first time. In August 1962, Bernard Heidsieck went with John Ashberry, the American poet, to dinner at the studio of Jean Tinguely and Niky de Saint Phalle. Larry Rivers had a studio in the same place and was also there. Tinguely prepared grilled meat, skewered on one of his rotating sculptures. After dinner Rivers returned to his studio and began to play, alone and for himself. He earned his living, at the time, by playing sax at an after-hours jazz club. So, while he was playing Bernard Heidsieck joined him in his studio and suggested that they do an improvisation together. Something that Heidsieck had never done before, and has never done since! Larry Rivers immediately accepted, and an appointment was set up at Heidsiecks home a few days later. August 6th, 1962. A dinner party was organized for the same guests who had been at Tinguelys place and this unique 17 minute improvisation was recorded, but until now never released. It was, however, presented at the first Fylkingen Text-Sound Composition Festival in Stockholm in 1968. Luxury hardbound edition limited to 350 copies." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: HIDALGO, JUAN Title: Una Voz Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $17.50 |
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"ZAJ has always been located close to the limits of the arts, the music, the theatre, the writing, the word, the object, the body. This has conducted to stay at the borders of the traditional artistic circuits, of the institutional spaces and, curiously enough, of the official vanguardias (fluxus, wiener aktionismus, etcS?). Since 1964 ZAJ organise several festivals and premiered most of the compositions of Walter Marchetti and Juan Hidalgo. They also invited other composers including the devastating performance of Fontana-Mix-Feed by Max Neuhaus in 1965 and a reading of Bernard Heidsieck in 1967. They privately issued 5 ZAJ-books: Juan Hidalgo Viaje a Argel, 1967, and De Juan Hidalgo, 1971; José Luis Castillejo La Caida de lAvion, 1967, and La Politica, 1968; Walter Marchetti Larpocrate seduto sul loto, 1968. But they never produced a recordS? And here it is, the first ZAJ record ever issued: Una Voz, written by Juan Hidalgo, read by Javier Martinez Cuadrado and recorded by Walter Marchetti who also added some music by opening the windows on Paseo de Santa Maria de la Cabeza. An evening in Madrid on September 1967. As Juan Hidalgo wrote for the liner notes: I spent about 10 years reading, hearing and meditating, outside, around and inside Zen Buddhism. Una Voz, this repetitive vocal music, couldnt have been conceived without these circumstances. This metaphysic work developed in the years I was living in Italy; first in Milan and then in Rome. Walter Marchetti and John Cage supported all this with their knowledge and friendship. The final result is a reflection on life, non-life, pain and pleasure. This project has been coordinated by Walter Marchetti who strongly wanted this LP to be the first ZAJ record. This edition also includes a 16 pages booklet (size cm. 30x30) with the complete Spanish text (first published in De Juan Hidalgo) and the English translation. Edition of 323 copies." - Alga Marghen.
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Artist: HIGGINS, DICK Title: The Thousand Symphonies Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $21.00 |
| "Alga Marghen presents the first edition ever issued of Dick Higgins music. Fluxus founding member, in 1958 Dick Higgins studied Composition and Experimental Music with John Cage in his class at the New School for Social Research in New York together with, among others, La Monte Young, Richard Maxfield, Toshi Ichiyanaghi, George Brecht, Allan Kaprow, Al Hansen, Jackson Mac Low. In the Spring of 1968 Geoffrey Hendricks and Robert Watts told Dick Higgins of a project that was afoot at Douglass College, where both were teaching at the time, to organize a show around guns. At that time the USA police seemed to have nothing better to do than to chase down teenagers for possessing miniscule amounts of marijuana and throwing them in jail, thus ruining their lives. Dick Higgins decided it would be more worthy if one could set all the policemen in the USA to composing symphonies themselves. So he proposed that the beautiful music paper be machine gunned and that symphonies be derived from the result. Geoffrey Hendricks arranged for Captain Toby of the South Brunswick Police to do this, which duly happened with a 9mm MP40 Schmeisser submachine gun, filmed by Alison Knowles. A volunteer orchestra, conducted by Philip Corner and including Charlotte Moorman, performed nine of the resulting symphonies at Douglass College on December 9th. The Douglass concert was taped, but the only copy disappeared when the Ars Viva! Gallery in Berlin, Germany, went bankrupt in 1984. The whole situation was documented with photographs in Source Magazine in 1970. As Philip Corner, conductor of the recordings presented here, said: Leave it to Dick Higgins to come up with the most spectacular way to generate a page of patternless notes. Once over this dramatic gesture with machine-gun bullets leaves a stack of paper full of holes. I had not thought of this before but there must have been a conscious connection to the social turmoil of the 60s - all too unfortunately, come back around to high relevance these days. First press limited to 500 copies with digipack sleeve, also including a 16 page booklet with full documentation presenting 2 texts by Dick Higgins from the 1960s as well as a Philip Corner testimony, original photos and original scores." -Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: HODELL, AKE Title: 220 Volt Buddha Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Sweden Price: $20.00 |
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Artist: KRUSI, HANS Title: Ex Hk. Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $34.00 |
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"While preparing a new edition of Anton Bruhin works, Alga Marghen discovered some mysterious tapes by Hans Krüsi. Fascinated by the raw and brute contents of those sounds, mixing field recordings of insects, sheep and distant bells with primitive chanting, percussive noises and distorted radio folk songs, Alga Marghen started to conceive one of the most obscure editions in his catalog. The Swiss-born, self-taught painter Hans Krüsi (1920-1995) was a wiry man who eked out an existence on the margins of society. Even among outsider-art experts, his work is less well known than that of his Swiss compatriot Adolf Wölfli, who died in 1930 and whose richly patterned drawings have become treasures of classic European art brute, or raw art, made by untrained, visionary artists. Krüsi was orphaned as an infant and brought up on a farm in northeastern Switzerland by foster parents who largely ignored him. He scraped by with odd jobs (including gardening work) and eventually settled in the city of St. Gallen. There Krüsi lived in run-down buildings. In his late 20s, he began commuting by train almost daily to Zurich, to the west, where he sold flowers and, later, his artworks, on the Bahnhofstrasse, one of the most luxurious shopping streets in Europe. Among the wall-to-wall clutter of Krüsis ramshackle lodgings, where pigeons flew in and perched, evidence of an unexpectedly experimental spirit abounded, including Krüsis old cameras and the second-hand tape recorders with which he liked to capture the sounds of birds, insects and church bells. The artists inventiveness and fertile imagination seemed to contrast sharply with his humble way of life. Krüsi took subjects from the agrarian world that he knew: alpine farmhouses, forested mountains, cows, birds, rabbits and cats. In his varied oeuvre, the folkloric and the psychedelic often appear to converge. Some works are even hallucinatory, with bright, brushy passages of acid green, lemon yellow or Pepto-Bismol pink in which watchful, lounging cats, clusters of dithering birds or watery human figures huddle or writhe. LP edition limited to 200 copies, issued in collaboration with the Swiss Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau (the repository of the artists estate) and published on the occasion of Alga Marghens invitation to the Artists Record Pavillion at Art Basel 2008." -Alga Marghen
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Artist: LUCA, GHERASIM Title: Two Poems Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "Alga Marghen proudly presents an LP edition including two experimental sound works by Gherasim Luca, created in close connection to Sten Hanson who invited the Rumenian artist at Fylkingen in the very beginning of the 1970s and made him discover the possibilities of the advanced EMS electronic music studio of Stockholm. The two recordings presented here are quite unique as they are the only poems by Gherasim Luca created through the use of electronic manipulations. As Henri Chopin wrote some years later in his legendary Poésie Sonore Internationale book, Ghérasim Luca made a big impression at the Third Stockholm Festival in 1970. Luca was born in Bucarest in 1913. Before leaving to Israel, he had a leading role among the Roumanian Surrealist group. He eventually moved to Paris where he lived until the end of his life in 1992. Gherasim Lucas work is very personal, giving his poems a very uncommon and ironic character. Again Henri Chopin underlines that in his recordings, which are not many, he superimposes his very warm voice, marked by his Roumanian accent; its a sound wonder. In fact Luca is not a sound poet. He is more a speaker who managed, without complex, to enter into the Fylkingen studio vortex. On 4 tracks and with 32 loudspeakers, thanks to his superb voice and his instinctive knowledge of the electronic studio which amplifies words, he gives great pleasure to the listener, even if the latter can not understand French. Autres Secrets Du Vide Et Du Plein (April 1971) and Crimes Sens Initiales (April 1972) were both recorded one track at the time on a 4 track tape and afterwards subjected to electronic treatments. They were recorded in Sweden at EMS and first performed at the 1971 and 1972 Text-Sound Festivals of Stockholm. Edition limited to 385 copies, also including the reproduction of a wonderful drawing by Gherasim Luca on the front cover, a photo portrait of the author by Gilles Ehrmann from 1959 and an essay by Henri Chopin." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: De Musica Inversa Format: 4 CD Box Set/Book Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $124.00 |
| "Alga Marghen very proudly presents the only authorized reissue of all Walter Marchetti original recordings previously released by Cramps Records. An LP sized 4CD box set including La Caccia, In Terram Utopicam, Per La Sete Dellorecchio, Natura Morta and Vandalia. Also included is the new book by Walter Marchetti titled De Musica Inversa, an instruction manual of both theory and practice for the proper and improper use of music. A method for perfecting oneself in composition annotated and commented upon by Gabriele Bonomo." The most amazing thing about music is its exterior aspect. High, vertical, translucent, almost turgid, maybe a bit too monolithic. One should, in any case, give a lot of attention to the large number of interstices which lead to the centre of the ear, wherefrom sounds spread out through a dense network leading to more circuits which direct these same and their relationships directly to the brain, in a logic of musical articulation which is nothing less than frightening. Even if, to attentive listening, dominating all is the eye of silence. CD1, titled La Caccia, includes La Caccia (1965), Adversus (Home-made electric music) (1966) and Osmanthus fragrans (Home-made electric music) (1973). The 16-page booklet presents the original scores, photos of both the 1965 ZAJ performances and of Marchetti recording La Caccia in the 1970s, photos of the concert at Galleria Multhipla in 1974, and the reproduction of the original La caccia LP layout. CD2, titled In Terram Utopican, includes Jaimerais Jouer Avec Un Piano Qui Aurait Une Grosse Queue (1974/75) and Per La Sete Dellorecchio (1981). The 16-page booklet presents the original score of Jaimerais Jouer, photos of the performances in Milano and at the Venice Biennale, and the reproduction of the original In Terram Utopicam LP layout. CD3, titled Natura Morta, includes the piece with the same title from 1980. The 8-page booklet reproduces original photos of the performance at Milanopoesia in 1988, as well as the text titled In My Music. CD4, titled Vandalia, includes Perpetuum Mobile (1981), Song For John Cage (1985) and Le Secche Del Delirio (1989). The 8-page booklet presents the photo of the Perpetuum Mobile performance at Musicalia in 1981, the score of Song For John Cage, the photos of two Musica Da Camera installations, as well as the reproduction of the original Vandalia CD layout. The 180-page De Musica Inversa book and all the texts included in the CD booklets are published in both English and Italian. Too true: in all music there are, in effect, a lot of sounds henceforth-more than that, too many; everything that we listen to has become heavy beyond measure, completely unbearable. Rather than chasing it we should look for how to escape from music. Everything in it is monolithic, frozen, and the notes of music which slowly, more or less, are thickening around the listeners wrap them all in dripping blankets of death. CD edition limited to 400 copies." - Alga Merghen |
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Artist: MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: De Musica Inversa Format: Book Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $36.00 |
| "Alga Marghen very proudly presents the new book by Walter Marchetti titled De Musica Inversa, an instruction manual of both theory and practice for the proper and improper use of music. A method for perfecting oneself in composition annotated and commented upon by Gabriele Bonomo. "The most amazing thing about music is its exterior aspect. High, vertical, translucent, almost turgid, maybe a bit too monolithic. One should, in any case, give a lot of attention to the large number of interstices which lead to the centre of the ear, wherefrom sounds spread out through a dense network leading to more circuits which direct these same and their relationships directly to the brain, in a logic of musical articulation which is nothing less than frightening. Even if, to attentive listening, dominating all is the eye of silence. The 180-page De Musica Inversa book is published in both English and Italian. First included in an LP sized 4CD box set together with other 4 CDs titled La Caccia, In Terram Utopicam, Natura Morta and Vandalia, this book is also available now, separately from the complete box set, in a very limited number of copies. Too true: in all music there are, in effect, a lot of sounds henceforth?more than that, too many; everything that we listen to has become heavy beyond measure, completely unbearable. Rather than chasing it we should look for how to escape from music. Everything in it is monolithic, frozen, and the notes of music which slowly, more or less, are thickening around the listeners wrap them all in dripping blankets of death." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: De Musicorum Infelicitate Format: Book/Double LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $70.00 |
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"Two years ago Alga Marghen issued the third compact disc by Walter Marchetti, the mysterious and inaccessible De musicorum infelicitate. The edition included a folded poster with the presentation written by Gabriele Bonomo, a series of aphorisms to introduce the listeners to this work. The composer had then decided to let this edition circulate with no extra information looking at it as a perfect final statement. But a complete score was existing, and what a score. And it took several months to convince him to let it be printed as a book in order to provide a new perspective to this multi-layer cryptic unhappiness of music. For this is not only the score of a great composition but also a series of statements which help us to enter the composers epistemology and his point of view about music, creation and our contemporary condition in general.
Now as we approach the end, music seems to hasten our pace; now that the word is mantled in a vast cloak incessant vibrations and, sadly, everything is becoming music; now it was the perfect right time to issue this precious book. A book with no poetic moments, never obscured by art, never the servant of art, meant to give an immediate image of music. Such a book could only be published as a high quality industrial object, album hardbound, 200 pages in DIN A 4 size, published in English and Italian, issued in an edition limited to 300 copies only.
Music! Deadly dust for the mind. The world as music: a cosmic catastrophe. At this point, music remains in possession of only a single sound; all the others have been discarded. The last sound is recorded on the double-LP, as well as the complete painful variations previously issued on the Alga Marghen CD with the same title." - Alga Marghen.
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Artist: MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: Il Divano Dellorecchio Format: 5LP Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $160.00 |
| "Alga Marghen very proudly presents the only authorized reissue of all Walter Marchetti original recordings previously released by Cramps Records. A 5LP box set including La Caccia, In Terram Utopicam, Per La Sete Dellorecchio, Natura Morta and Vandalia. LP1 includes the same materials as the original 1974 Cramps LP titled La Caccia (1965). The LP sleeve reproduces the original scores, photos of both the 1965 ZAJ performances and of Marchetti recording La Caccia. The full-color inner sleeve reproduces the original La Caccia LP layout. LP2 includes the same materials as the original 1978 Cramps LP titled In Terram Utipicam, or Jaimerais Jouer Avec Un Piano Qui Aurait Une Grosse Queue (1974/75), Adversus (Home-made electric music) (1966) and Osmanthus Fragrans (Home-made electric music) (1973). The LP sleeve reproduces the original scores of Jaimerais Jouer and Adversus, photos of the performance at the Venice Biennale. The full color inner sleeve reproduces photos of various Marchetti performances as well as the original In Terram Utopicam LP layout. LP3 includes Per La Sete Dellorecchio (1981), previously privately issued on the LP with the same title and Song for John Cage (1985), never available on vinyl before. The LP sleeve reproduces the Song for John Cage score. The full color inner sleeve reproduces the original Per La Sete Dellorecchio LP layout. LP4 includes Natura Morta (1980), never available on vinyl before. The LP sleeve reproduces a photo of the performance at Milanopoesia in 1988, as well as the text In My Music. The full color inner sleeve reproduces a photo of the Natura Morta installation. LP5, titled Vandalia, includes Perpetuum Mobile (1981) and Le Secche Del Delirio (1989). Both pieces were never available on vinyl before. The LP sleeve reproduces a photo of the Perpetuum Mobile performance at Musicalia in 1981. The full color inner sleeve reproduces a Musica Da Camera installation and the original Vandalia layout. LP edition limited to 350 copies." - Alga Marghen |
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Artist: MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: In Terram Utopicam Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $21.00 |
| "Walter Marchetti is one of the most original and controversial pre-Fluxus authors. In this work he frees all of his sophisticated poeticism. In Terram Utopican, includes Jaimerais Jouer Avec Un Piano Qui Aurait Une Grosse Queue (1974/75) and Per La Sete Dellorecchio (1981). The 16-page booklet presents the original score of Jaimerais Jouer, photos of the performances in Milano and at the Venice Biennale, and the reproduction of the original In Terram Utopicam LP layout. All texts are published both in English and Italian." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: In Terram Utopicam Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "LP version, previously released in the Il Divano Dellorecchio 5LP box (ALGA 083LP). Includes the same materials as the original 1978 Cramps LP titled In Terram Utopicam, or Jaimerais Jouer Avec Un Piano Qui Aurait Une Grosse Queue (1974/75), Adversus (Home-made electric music) (1966) and Osmanthus Fragrans (Home-made electric music) (1973). The LP sleeve reproduces the original scores of Jaimerais Jouer and Adversus, photos of the performance at the Venice Biennale. The full color inner sleeve reproduces photos of various Marchetti performances as well as the original In Terram Utopicam LP layout." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: La Caccia Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $21.00 |
| "Alga Marghen very proudly presents the only authorized reissue of all Walter Marchetti original recordings previously released by Cramps Records. The recording of La Caccia, one of the most radical in the neo-avantgarde panorama for 35 years, is divided in two tracks: Versione Allaria Aperta and Versione Per Uno Spazio Chiuso. The sound is generated by hunting calls for birds and other animals. According to Steven Stapleton, this is one of the best records ever published. The CD includes La Caccia (1965) as well as two extreme electronic ZAJ pieces, Adversus (Home-made electric music) (1966) and Osmanthus Fragrans (Home-made electric music) (1973). The 16-page booklet presents the orginal scores, photos of both the 1965 ZAJ performances and of Marchetti recording La Caccia in the 1970s, photos of the concert at Galleria Multhipla in 1974, and the reproduction of the original La Caccia LP layout. All texts are published both in English and Italian. First included in an LP sized 4CD box set together with 3 other CDs titled In Terram Utopicam, Natura Morta and Vandalia, plus the new book by Walter Marchetti titled De Musica Inversa, an instruction manual of both theory and practice for the proper and improper use of music, this CD is also available now, separately from the complete box set, in a very limited number of copies." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: La Caccia Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "LP version, previously released in the Il Divano Dellorecchio 5LP box (ALGA 083LP). Includes the same materials as the original 1974 Cramps LP titled La Caccia (1965). The LP sleeve reproduces the original scores, photos of both the 1965 ZAJ performances and of Marchetti recording La Caccia. The full-color inner sleeve reproduces the original La Caccia LP layout." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: Natura Morta Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $21.00 |
| "A very simple sequence of piano accidents, according to Robert Ashley one of the most beautiful piano music ever recorded. Natura Morta, includes the piece with the same title from 1980. The 8-page booklet reproduces original photos of the performance at Milanopoesia in 1988, as well as the text titled In My Music. All texts are published both in English and Italian." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: Natura Morta Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "LP version, previously released in the Il Divano Dellorecchio 5LP box (ALGA 083LP). The LP sleeve reproduces a photo of the performance at Milanopoesia in 1988, as well as the text In My Music. The full color inner sleeve reproduces a photo of the Natura Morta installation." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: Per La Sete Dellorecchio Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "The LP includes Per La Sete Dellorecchio (1981), previously privately issued on the LP with the same title as well as Song for John Cage (1985), never available on vinyl before. The LP sleeve reproduces the Song for John Cage score. The full color inner sleeve reproduces the original Per La Sete Dellorecchio LP layout. All texts are published both in English and Italian. First included in a 5LP box set together with other 4 LPs titled La Caccia, In Terram Utopicam, Natura Morta and Vandalia, this LP is also available now, separately from the complete box set, in a very limited number of copies." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: Utopia Andata e Ritorno Format: Double CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $36.00 |
| "Music: the foundation of that presence in which we find ourselves shows itself as pure negative. Everything is founded on a demonstration of its own negativity: as awareness of its being negative, and does not look for an escape into a future presence, that is an objective future. But, accepting its negativity, makes of this self-negation the real act, the true reality - the true foundation, the real and actual continuity: this is musics sense. Utopia Andata e Ritorno is the title of the new composition by Walter Marchetti, recorded in Milano in 2005. It has two parts, each one CD long. The first part, LAndata, puts together two former recordings of Marchetti. The recording of a real storm and a recital for solo piano. This is not the first time that Marchetti mixes a piano solo recital with the recording of a natural live event, thus creating a piano concert. The second CD, Il Ritorno, reverses the direction of the first record and literally destroys itself. In the first part of this work, Marchetti puts music successfully in the place it has to have today: on the road to renewal in contact with reality, a reality that is a synonym for vacuity, that is the interdependence of phenomena, music, reality, technology. There is nothing mimetic or anecdotal in this work. The storm is a real storm and the solo piano recital is a modern work of pure music, without the excesses that the society expects of a piano recital from composer and virtuoso player. Pure music, in the best sense of the word. Three-folded digipack 2CD edition. It includes a 32-page booklet with essays by Water Marchetti, Gabriele Bonomo and José Luis Castillejo. First edition limited to 500 copies." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: Vandalia Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $21.00 |
| "With Vandalia Walter Marchetti is focusing his concrete and radical themes. Also including is an homage to John Cage. Action Music! Vandalia includes Perpetuum Mobile (1981), Song for John Cage (1985) and Le Secche Del Delirio (1989). The 8-page booklet presents the photo of the Perpetuum Mobile performance at Musicalia in 1981, the score of Song for John Cage, the photos of two Musica Da Camera installations, as well as the reproduction of the original Vandalia CD layout. All texts are published both in English and Italian." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: Vandalia Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "LP version, previously released in the Il Divano Dellorecchio 5LP box (ALGA 083LP). Includes Perpetuum Mobile (1981) and Le Secche Del Delirio (1989). Both pieces were never available on vinyl before. The LP sleeve reproduces a photo of the Perpetuum Mobile performance at Musicalia in 1981. The full color inner sleeve reproduces a Musica Da Camera installation and the original Vandalia layout." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: MILK FROM CHELTENHAM Title: Triptych of Poisoners Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $18.00 |
| "Milk fron Cheltenham is the first in a series of Alga Marghen editions documenting the activities of the Its War Boys underground label, founded by Amos (of The Homosexuals fame) in the late 1970s. The original LP was issued in an edition limited to 300 copies. The material was recorded from 1979 to 1981 but wasnt released until 1983 due to problems with the silkscreened sleeve. The band only put out this record, a real hidden gem. Lepke said that he wanted it to sound like a Beach Boys LP by using lots of different studios but it was mostly done on a cassette machine with a primitive surround function. Lepke is the man who does the impossible every time he picks up a tin, carton, bottle or instrument. The first person with enough originality to adopt anything to his own idiosyncratic style. Retired to an obscure basement, still without peers in the world. Lounge makes rhythms that by this time need no words of praise with a wallop, that when left, makes the usual praise words disintegrate. A mix of inestimable ability with feelings as wild as it is rare. Salamander has that certain something that most people can never have even if they practice for an eternity. Most important in his influence, most endearing in his emotional impact and most convincing in his new-found authority. If The Homosexuals were a strange prospect, and their music should fit into a similar spot as that of angry young men like Wire and Magazine who carried their penchants for art-school angst in the midst of proto-thug posturing, Milk from Cheltenham were an even more extreme band. Not only progressive with a certain artistic notion (a reference could be found in This Heat, Family Fodder and Chris Cutlers bands Henry Cow and the Art Bears) but also closer to more primitive sound experimentations of a cryptic and sinister Residential perspective. This release finally documents one of the most important projects developed in the scene explored by The Homosexuals. Amos&Sara, Sara Goes Pop, Nancy Sesay & The Melodaires and more hidden mysterious activities will soon be available through Alga Marghen." - Alga Marghen. Highly Recommended! |
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Artist: MODERN SHIT Title: Modern Shit/Artcoustics: The Stories Told By Record Covers Format: CD/Book Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $65.00 |
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"Alga Marghen presents a new chapter in the documentation of Amos/Its War Boys/Homosexuals recordings. Directly taken from the original Its War Boys catalog, here is one of the most obscure sonic works of the early 1980s, Modern Shit! First issued on tape (cat No. $21) this work circulated only privately among the close friends of the label and was never officially distributed. Actually, it represents one of the most intense and experimental outputs of this creative London period. The idea was to create a contemporary Non-stop, vaguely in emulous contradiction to product by people like Cerrone and Biddulph (1970s disco queens). Lepke and Amos, the two minds behind this project (and 2/3 of the Milk from Cheltenham adventures), each constructed a half hour near-continuous non-stop using only the foulest materials. In those days, they had their 8-track studio in a moldy basement below Brixton Road, South London and they happened to occasionally record some awful wannabe pop bands. It was a truly horrible experience but with a good side. Almost as soon as the idiots left the studio, Lepke and Amos would start re-mixing their music, often stealing and sticking it (suitably mangled) onto new tracks, the basis material for Modern Shit! Also included is Artcoustics: The Stories Told by Record Covers, a 500-page full color catalog issued by Mednarodni Graficni Likovni center in Ljubljana. The catalog is the documentation of an exhibition of record covers conceived by Guy Schraenen mainly based on punk/DIY/underground records from ex-Yugoslavia as well as contemporary/Fluxus/minimal/conceptual art record editions. Some Alga Marghen titles from theVocSon series are included as well. The stories are Black Plastic; Never Mind The Bollocks, Heres Design; On Records, Record Covers, and Starving Children; The Eloquence of the Useful Adornment: Stories of the Sleeves of Slovenias Independent Alternative Records in the Pre-Digital Age; A Radio Stations Library, or The Endless Pursuit of the Ultimate Sound (and the Ultimate Album Cover). Also included is a Sound Art chapter featuring Guy Schraenens essay Installing Sound. The CD is presented in beautiful slim-jewel-box with full color cover. First edition of 150 copies. The book and the CD are distributed together by Alga Marghen but they are considered two separate kinds of anthologies." - Alga Marghen. Highly recommended!
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Artist: MODERN SHIT Title: Will Make You Ill Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "After surfacing briefly in 2007 in a very limited number of copies on slim-jewel-box together with the Artkoustics catalog, Alga Marghen is now proud to present the final edition of Modern Shit, a very singular chapter in the Amos/Its War Boys/Milk from Cheltenham/Homosexuals history. Directly taken from the original Its War Boys catalog, here is one of the most obscure sonic works of the early 1980s, Modern Shit! First issued on tape (cat No. $21) this work circulated only privately among the close friends of the label and was never officially distributed. Actually it represents one of the most intense and experimental outputs of this creative London period. The idea was to create a contemporary non-stop, vaguely in emulous contradiction to product by people like Cerrone and Biddulph (1970s disco queens). Lepke and Amos, the two minds behind this project (and 2/3 of the Milk from Cheltenham adventures), each constructed a half hour near-continuous non-stop using only the foulest materials. In those days they had their 8-track studio in a moldy basement below Brixton Road, South London and they happened to occasionally record some awful wannabe pop bands. It was a truly horrible experience but with a good side. Almost as soon as the idiots left the studio, Lepke and Amos would start re-mixing their music, often stealing and sticking it (suitably mangled) onto new tracks, the basis material for Modern Shit! The CD is presented in a new digipack edition with full color cover. Final edition of 500 copies." - Alga Marghen |
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Artist: MONOFONICORCHESTRA Title: Musicdesign Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $21.00 |
| "Monofonicorchestra is not a disc recorded in mono / is not ambient music / is not funky / is not experimental music / is not funny / Monofonicorchestra is not avant-garde / is not pop / is not op / is not dada / Monofonicorchestra is not fashion / is not hard-core / is not horror / is not Frigidaire was writing Maurizio Marsico at 10h20 on Wednesday, December 23rd, 1981. A country: Italy. Several countries: Italies. Late seventies, early eighties. The ether of punk is in everyones nose and disco virus invades even the most reticent legs. New-wave for sure rules the underground. Neo dandyism attitude applied to the Italian post-rock era; Dolce Vita with a dreamed revolution in the background. United Countries of Italy! Bologna and the Confusional Quartet, Gaznevada, The Stupid Set. Not to forget the Naif Orchestra from Florence and all trans-borders adventurous navigators such as Piermario Ciani, Vittore Baroni (Lieutenant Murnau, Trax), the members of the musical theatre Magazzini Criminali. The vivid eclecticism of the above mentioned is to be compared to the aesthetic manifesto of the AtaTak crew from Düsseldorf (Der Plan, DAF, Tödliche Doris, Pyrolator). or the Vanity labelJapanesee explorers (Tolerance, Aunt Sally, Normal Brain, BGM, RNA Organism). These bands were not leading the italo disco movement neither were they really punk or industrial nor waving cold-wave banners. They went off the industrial darkness adolescent like romanticism to assert humor, may it be black, as a revolutionary weapon throbbing over the ruins of radicalism. Its getting cold in here. The dreams have moved toward conscious needs: the desperate hope of having fun. And so is the Monofonicorchestra. The music of Maurizio Marsico is repetitive music. Mi. La. Short pieces 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,... Every record Marsico makes is a conceptual sequence of drawings. Casual Casio-jazz cartoon soundtrack like. There is nothing to decipher here, its all given already, all referenced. The appearances are pleasant and you get trapped into the depth of some cynical easy listening rhizome where ZNR merges with Steve Reich and Blue Gene Tyranny. Indeed, it has something of the Lovely Music elegance. First pressing limited to 500 copies with full color digipack sleeve. Also including a 12 page full color booklet with original graphics, photos as well as liner notes by Samon Takahashi." -Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: MOORMAN, CHARLOTTE Title: Cello Anthology Format: 4 CD Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $136.00 |
| "Stunning oversize boxset (similar in production to Alga Marghens OU box of a few years ago). Historic Fluxus sound documentation at its finest. Featuring music by: Earl Brown, Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Giuseppe Chiari, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Terry Jennings, Jackson MacLow, Nam June Paik and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Recordings from 1964-66 & 1982. Performed by David Behrman, Philip Corner, Malcolm Goldstein, Terry Jennings, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, etc. Limited to only 500 copies and worth the extra pennies." - FE. "Cello Anthology is a collection of documents - sonic and photographic - as well as original texts and testimonials, made available for the first time in a unitary form, which permits a complete recognition of Charlotte Moormans work. Luxury edition including a 154-page book with original documents, full color photos and scores; a set of 16 full color inserts reproducing the original posters and programs of the Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York; 4 compact discs. First boxset edition limited to 500 copies." -Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: MOORMAN, CHARLOTTE/NAM JUNE PAIK Title: TV Cello Format: Double LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $52.00 |
| "A documentation of Charlotte Moorman activities as a performer is generally available only on the iconographic level in various catalogues which documents the crucial intersection with the work of Nam June Paik or the association with events connected to the Fluxus movement. One of Charlotte Moormans more substantial merits is having consciously reversed the traditional role of the virtuoso performer on her own instrument, uncovering by this overturning one of the most authentic keys for comprehending the aesthetics of experimental music. It was properly the natural spontaneity in this attitude to fascinate Paik and to have decreed her indispensable capacity as a performer, thus giving rise to the reasons animating their fecund and symbiotic collaboration. Cello Anthology is a collection of documents (sonic and photographic) as well as original texts and testimonies, made available for the first time in a unitary form by Alga Marghen. One of the CDs included in the edition, currently in a final process of realisation, will offer an in situ recording of the famous TV Cello, realised in September 1982 during the three days inaugurating the Paik retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The 2LP edition presented here introduces to a different version of the same piece, conceived by Paik for Moorman as a living sculpture: the Concerto for TV Cello and Video Tapes historical World Premiere, recorded at Galeria Bonino, New York City, 1971. More rough and primitive than the masterpiece recorded in 1982 in Chicago, these uncompromisingly obscure original recordings will not be included in the forthcoming 4CD anthology. 2LP set in gatefold cover reproducing photos of Charlotte Moorman with John Lennon and Yoko Ono playing the TV Cello at Galeria Bonino 1971 vernissage. Private edition limited to 200 copies." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: MOSCONI, DAVIDE Title: La Musica Dell Anno Zero -1982 Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $35.00 |
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"Davide Mosconi, of NADMA fame, spent a few months in 1982 recording the fog horn sounds located in Scotland. These specially modified fog horns came from lighthouses, transmitting a specific long sound. By new digital means these foghorns were cancelled in the lighthouses. So these sounds were captured in these recordings, in gatefold sleeve with a b/w map reproducing the location, printed in an edition less than 200 copies." - Alga Marghen.
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Artist: MOSCONI/INEZ KLOK/GUSTAVO BONORA, DAVIDE Title: Archi Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "Issued for an art event presented at the Galleria Milano in the first week of April 2012, the recordings on this LP edition represent a very specific and intimate moment in the creative sound production of Davide Mosconi with NADMA associates Inez Klok and Gustavo Bonora. For Davide Mosconi and for all the artists and musicians involved in the groups he founded (the legendary NADMA, Organic Archestra, Il Quartetto, Alea), improvising sessions were a daily practice that founded their very idea of music: a constant flux, a spontaneous research as important as life itself, mainly carried out in their private spaces and homes. Sometimes, like in the case of Archi, these sessions were recorded giving us the chance to appreciate their unique sound approach coming from avant-garde experiences liberated by post-free jazz currents, as well as from classical studies or from experiences in the visual arts. Archi (i.e. Strings) features cellist and violinist Gustavo Bonora (a founding member of Il Quartetto, the core of what would become the larger improvising ensemble NADMA), harpist Inez Klok (also member of the NADMA as well as involved in Aktuala) and Davide Mosconi. This improvisation was recorded on September 24th, 1974, one year after the publication of the only NADMA LP by RCA. The continuous, fluid music of Archi perfectly succeeds in expressing the parallel influences of ecstatic Afro-American ethnic music and of the contemporary neo-avant-gardes. This trio, as well as NADMA and the other entities organized around the key figure of Davide Mosconi, was surely one of the most innovative among the collectives of improvisers active in those years in Europe (Incus, FMP and ICP) and USA (especially Sun Ra Arkestra and post-ESP derivative free spiritual artists on Strata East), creating a sound which was then unparalleled in the Italian improvised music scene. One time pressing limited to 330 copies." -Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA Title: Friday Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "The MEV group was formed in September 1966 by Alvin Curran, Richard Teitelbaum, Frederic Rzewski, Allen Bryant, Carol Plantamura, Ivan Vandor, and Jon Phetteplace. In the beginning they performed compositions by themselves and others which involved the use of electronic sound produced in real time, or live electronic music. In the summer of 1967, they began to work more with improvisation and less with determinate structures. MEV focus more on interpreting the moment, rather than constructing repeatable programs; creating meaningful rituals, not images; becoming involved with the process, the operation, and not with the result of it, or its effects on people. MEVs music is highly eclectic, resisting ready classification by combining elements of improvised music, computer music, world music, jazz and classical composition, without being clearly definable as any one of them. Being creatures of the 60s, MEV members partook of many of the apparent contradictions which the very richness of those extraordinary times, made possible mixing rationalistic social and political theories and action with magic, mysticism and hashish, musically juxtaposing pseudo-primitive rhythmic pulses, drones and chants with avant garde post-serial textures and techniques, inter-connecting organic rhythms of the human body with cutting edge, high-tech synthesizers. But by maintaining an attitude of openness, acceptance, and inclusiveness that allowed for any and all things to co-exist equally, and refusing to regard such dichotomies as contradictions at all, they made what were undoubtedly among MEV, major contributions. For the realization of Friday, recorded in London in May 1969, MEV were Frederic Rzewski (piano, electronics, etc.), Alvin Curran (flugelhorn, etc.), Richard Teitelbaum (Moog synthesizer), Franco Cataldi (trombone, etc.), Gunther Carius (saxophone, etc.). The main theme around this MEV piece is communication. Communication by means of music can be a very efficient means of reaching quick agreement among large numbers of people, because when you call something music, you have tacitly accepted a convention by which it is understood that the sounds that you make have no particular meaning, they are just sounds and therefore free to serve the general purpose of pure communication. Music can bring people together where language divides them. When this happens, the concert will come to resemble other other liberated forms such as the party or the day-off, themselves secular remnants or earlier ceremonies. MEV music is not meant to impress people, but to liberate them. This CD is included in a beautiful digipack full-color sleeve with photos and liner notes. Also included is an 8-page booklet with an essay on Friday by Frederic Rzewski as well as MEV Then and Now by Richard Teitelbaum." Alga Marghen |
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Artist: N.A.D.M.A. Title: Paura Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $17.50 |
| "N.A.D.M.A. was officially born between August and the beginning of September 1972 during the time spent in a little village in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. The identity and musical orientation of the collective centered on the convergence of heterogeneous interests and sensibilities coming from avant-garde jazz experiences liberated by post-free currents, from classical studies, or from musicians also active as visual artists, who had cultivated an instrumental practice utilising spontaneous expression. All the group members assimilated and creatively incorporated the most progressive influences of Afro-American music and the contemporary neo-avant-garde, but shifted noticeably in the direction of the contemplative and ecstatic vitality of non-European, especially African, musical cultures. The Natural Arkestra Da Maya Alta was, and still is, known to a limited group of devoted listeners on the merits of the only record released by RCA in 1973. The group, which represented one of the most innovative entities among the collectives of improvisers active in those years, perfectly expressed its musical virtues in a limited number of periodic live events. The concerts took place mostly in Milan during 1973-74. The CD starting this series, Paura, is named after the first track of the N.A.D.M.A. concert at Circolo Lepetit in Milan in March 1973, presented here in its entirety. In this concert, the very first live concert preserved on tape, N.A.D.M.A. already." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: NEUHAUS, MAX Title: Zyklus Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $17.00 |
| Four previously unreleased realizations of "Zylus" (different recordings than the one featured on the Columbia LP Electronics and Percussion -- Five Realizations (CD: SICC 79). Recorded 1959-68. "The term New York School refers to a circle of composers "Zyklus was written in 1959 and is one of the first solo pieces to utilize such a large number of percussion instruments (twenty one). When Neuhaus first started to play this piece there were only three percussionists in the world who could play it. Stockhausens idea was that a performer would play the piece spontaneously, making its complex decisions on the fly. No one played it this way; it was too difficult. Everyone wrote out his own version of the score and played from it. Coming from the world of jazz Neuhaus decided he wanted to take up the challenge of playing it spontaneously. At that time percussionists generally played only one instrument at a time. Playing twenty one simultaneously was unheard of. Neuhaus quickly realized that the only way to do it, in fact, was to think of all them together as just one instrument, one multi-surfaced bank of timbre. Neuhaus decided to travel to Europe and go to Darmstadt where Stockhausen was teaching. He wanted to talk to him about the piece. Stockhausen was interested in the idea that the twenty one instruments had to be physically formed into one instrument and that so much work had been done already. So he offered Neuhaus the big opportunity to perform Zyklus on the first American tour. Stockhausen came over to New York to hear Neuhaus play, but he wasnt satisfied with the improvisation version. It was too long. Neuhaus was determined to teach himself how to do it for this tour. He had another six months. He got down to seven minutes; and he was still improvising, not writing it out. He was ready to play that piece, and played it like nobody had ever heard it before. Each of these four recordings is a document of a true solo performance, one person and two hands, with no additional live help and no overdubbing. This CD also offers four different kinds of beauty, four proofs that the latitude that Stockhausen allowed, when capitalized on by a performer with creative imagination, could validate Stockhausen as a composer and an entire aesthetic of freedom and control. This edition includes a 12 pages booklet with original photos of both official concerts and performances for invited audiences, Max Neuhaus own comments on the original score and an editorial note by John Rockwell." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: NITSCH, HERMANN Title: Requiem für meine Frau Beate: Musik der 5.6.Aktion Format: Double CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $44.00 |
| "Alga Marghen proudly present the documentation of Requiem für meine Frau Beate, which took place in the Chiesa di Santa Lucia in Bologna, Italy, in 1977 shortly after Beate Nitschs death. This was not only one of the strongest and most powerful aktionen by Hermann Nitsch but also a crucial point in the development of his art. Beginning in 1977, Beate Nitsch was travelling in Schwarzwald. She has been inaugurating a nursery-school and wanted to meet some relatives in Stuttgart when, near Ulm, she had a terrible car accident. Beate had supported her husbands art not only sharing the sentimental part of their life but also actively collaborating to the organization of his work. She organized the purchase of a castle in Prinzendorf, the central place where Nitsch would develop his Orgien Mysterien Theater. For Hermann Nitsch, this loss was a complete collapse. He suddenly felt to be on the opposite side of life, alone and full of despair. In those days, he reached the deepest point of black unhappiness. Nitsch decided then to go Naples where he organized a Lehraktion at Morra Gallery. His friend Kubelka joined him from the USA. During the Lehraktion, he was told about a big Performance Festival that would have taken place in Bologna. Nitsch was invited to participate with an aktion to be performed in a big old church. It was clear to Nitsch that he would have conceived an aktion dedicated to the memory of Beate. A requiem, even. Before the aktion in Bologna, Hermann Nitschs music was basically released as a wall of noise. The musicians could play what they wanted and the only instruction was to play as loud as possible. Only the duration, the starting point and the noise level of each instrument was fixed. For the first time with the Requiem, Nitsch started to conceive longer tone clusters, specially for the wind instruments. The perfect acoustics of the church with its wonderful organ, which shocked Nitsch with its intensity and power, suggested him a new direction in music. Among the lucky audience were many friends coming from all over the world to witness the event. For everyone the Requiem was an important and ecstatic experience. The big success of the aktion gave Nitsch the strength to continue his work. Shortly after Bologna he was invited to create new aktionen in Canada and Los Angeles. First time 2CD edition, in tri-folded digipack, reproducing the impossible-to-find 3LP art gallery edition issued in Naples in 1977 for the Radiotaxi series. Including a 12-page folded insert with drawings and directions from the LP boxset original graphics. This edition also includes a 32-page shocking full color photo documentation of the aktion, for the first time available now. Edition of 1000 copies." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: PALESTINE & SIMONE FORTI, CHARLEMAGNE Title: Illuminations Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "Alga Marghen proudly presents the first ever release of Illuminatios, or Charlemagne Palestine and Simone Forti duo interactions, illuminated with dim red lights. In early 1970 Mort Subotnick asked Charlemagne Palestine to join his soon to be created Media Department at the new Dream School of the Future endowed by the Disneys to be called the California Institute of the Arts. Charlemagne and Simone Forti met there in 1970, when La Monte Young asked them to arrange a California concert for Pandit Pran Nath. They decided to try an improvisation session together and Charlemagne invited Simone the first time to the electronic music studio where he worked regularly. Their medium blended as a play of interacting sound waves and solid matter in motion as Charlemagne and Simone shared energy and focus. The three previously unreleased recordings on this LP were made between October and December 1971. The first take, titled Illumination, is for two voices moving in the space with small bells and crystal glasses while Simone Forti plays the molimo, a corrugated tube meant for connecting the gas stove. The second take titled, Wed Oct 13th 1971, has Simone and Charlemagne in a song dialogue as animals do. It was also at Cal Arts that Charlemagne Palestine first encountered a Bosendorfer Imperial Piano of Vienna. He played it often as Simone danced during their Illuminations. Take three is a song sang in falsetto while playing the Bosendorfer Imperial in an arpeggiated style that predates the strummings. Listening to these three takes 40 years later, they ooze a timeless, carefree mystical, magical, dreamy atmosphere that evoked the times of the late 60s to early 70s in Charlemagne and Simone part of the California Art Scene. Illuminations were a unique open spontaneous form of performance, ritual and prayer. Edition limited to 365 copies with an essay by both Charlemagne Palestine and Simone Forti, as well as photos of the performances reproduced on the LP front sleeve." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE Title: Four Manifestations On Six Elements Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $21.00 |
| "Four Manifestations On Six Elements, one of Charlemagne Palestine most well-known works, has now finally been included in the Alga Marghen Golden Research series of CD editions presenting the composers relevant historical recordings. In 1973 Charlemagne Palestine was commissioned to make Four Manifestations On Six Elements by the Sonnabend Gallery in New York. As the gallery was well known for its presentation of conceptual art Palestine decided to create a record similar to an exhibition space with four walls to expose on, each wall corresponding to a side on a double LP record. Two Perfect Fifths, A Major Third Apart, Reinforced Twice (1973) is an electronic piece that deals with the search for the essence of timbre, sound color, through exploration of the inert chemical activity in the overtone series of tone fundamentals. In this genre of his work Palestine feels akin to a kind of sound alchemy - blending elements over and over again through the years searching for the Golden Sound - the essence of the chord or harmonic structure itself. In One + Two + Three Perfect Fifths, In The Rhythm 3 Against 2, for Piano (1973) the elements introduced are now elaborated upon on the piano. The resonant Bösendorfer allows Palestine to create a more lively and complex variation of tones, intervals, overtones and rhythms. One Fifth evolves by reinforcing the fundamentals of a fifth with their higher octave. Each performance of this work is different as Palestine reinterprets these simple elements, listening within them for variations of amplitude, mixture and inertia at the moment of the performance. One + Two Fifths deals with the way a rhythmic sonority sounds when the sustain pedal of the piano is not used, thus focusing on its rhythmic aspect. Gradually by adding the sustain pedal the external rhythmic pattern begins to internalize, becoming an inert part of the whole tymbral fabric - a piece expressing the battle of rhythm versus timbre for dominance. In One + Two + Three a third fifth is added - variations of melody and sonority reinforcements culminating in a rhythmic deceleration process ending the work. Sliding Fifths for Piano (1972) is an impressionistic version of the three fifths used in the entire work. The continuous liquid waterfall of pure romantic piano sound and color is a homage to Debussy, Ravel and Monet. Three Perfect Fifths, A Major Second Apart, Reinforced Twice (1973) is the complexification and continuation of wall one. A pure and sonorous phenomenon. First pressing limited to 500 copies in digipack sleeve, with a full color 12-page booklet including two essays, originals score and visual material related to these compositions." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE Title: Holy 1 & Holy 2 Format: Double LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $60.00 |
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"Holy1 and Holy2 (both composed in 1967) were edited in 1999 by Charlemagne Palestine and interconnected through a long cross-fade; the wonderful 30 minutes resulting from the editing are to be heard on the Alloy CD. At the same time it was also decided to produce a double-LP featuring the uncut, original Holy1 and Holy2 in their full duration beauty. The complete 42 minutes of Holy1 were printed on side A and side B. The shorter Holy2 was printed on side C. As the composer underlines these 2 compositions may also be played
simultaneously, creating a new original work, as it happened in the late 1960s when he used them as a texture for an experimental dance piece. This double-LP was designed to give the chance to recreate the environment resulting from the simultaneous playback of Holy1 and Holy2. A sound installation to be privately performed at home by playing the records in the same moment on two turntable systems (side A+C or B+C). The very subtle variations of the two compositions generate a continuously changing and never ending sound environment. Side D features the music of Holy1 + 2 created in 1968 for Gus Solomon, a choreographer at New York University and student of Merce Cunningham. Edition of 380 numbered copies." - Alga Marghen.
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Artist: PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE Title: Negative Sound Study Format: One Sided LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $32.00 |
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"Negative Sound Study" was composed in 1969 directly on a historical Buchla 100-System experimental synthesizer available at the Intermedia Centre of the New York University. Charlemagne Palestine was dreaming of an expressive continuous evermoving, everchanging sound form; an enormous sonorous, 3-dimensional sculptural canvas in mid-air using electronically produced sounds. The first experiments were done with simple sine tone generators emitting the purest sound waves without any overtones. With access to more complex systems the sound was constructed using the sine/sawtooth/square wave oscillators in a fluid everchanging mix of adding or filtering overtones and white niose to create sonorities constantly changing timbres and weight. "Negative Sound Study", remained unheard for the last 33 years, is one of the purest and most compelling works for electronic sonorities ever composed. LP edition of 290 copies only." - Alga Marghen.
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Artist: PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE Title: Relationship Studies Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $33.00 |
| "Relationship Studies LP includes 2 seminal electronic music radical realizations by Charlemagne Palestine, or Relationship Study No. 1 (1967) and the generally titled Electronic from the same year. Sounds in motion like race cars, motor cycles, war planes, rocket ships excited Charlemagne sonic imagination when we was still a young teenager. Then came the experience of listening to the electronic music of Tod Dockstader, Alwyn Nikolais, Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaffer, Xenakis and Poème Electronique by Edgar Varese. Immediately fascinated, Charlemagne Palestine bought primitive electronic equipment and started to experiment, creating his original electronic-esque language. The two previously unreleased 18 minute masterpieces presented here directly come from this early period of intense experimentations in a fluid, ever-changing mix of adding and filtering white noise and simple sine tone generators. Both pieces are late night compositions created at the electronic music studio of the New York N.Y.U. Intermedia Center using Buchla 100 and Buchla 200 systems. Even if dating back from the mid-1960s, these intense sonorities might very much recall the best early power electronic scene from the late 1970s, in particular to the first brut music works created by Maurizio Bianchi. For sure they represent a very unique and inspiring approach to electronic creation, sounding more and more actual and surprising nowadays. Edition limited to 350 copies." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE Title: Sacred Bordello Format: Book/CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $66.00 |
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"As one of the most influential figures of experimental music and performance Charlemagne Palestine has remained an enigma. Unlike his illustrious contemporaries Terry Riley, John Cale, Steve Reich and Phillip Glass little has been written on Palestine and his continuing influence. In his own right, he was and remains today a pivotal personality whose research in musical composition and performance has been characterized over the years by its incantatory repetitiveness, its flamboyance and its mysticism, but also by its violence. Born in Brooklyn in 1947 his first musical experiences were as a cantorial singer in the synagogues of New York. Through his contact with Tony Conrad Palestine was soon introduced to the thriving experimental art scene of the late 1960s. The circles around Andy Warhol and La Monte Young provided a crucial backdrop for Palestines work which increasingly extended beyond the scope of music. His groundbreaking appearances, which combined violent piano playing, performance, video and installation, were considered to be amongst the most radical musical experiences, leaving a lasting impression on followers such as Arto Lindsay, Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth, and the Sex Pistols as well as Tintin creator Herge. His musical oeuvre escapes any ready categorisation Brooklyn, is a synthesised drone mixed with field recordings of a festival. Palestines epic durations, microtonal trembles and dense overtones are reoccurring features in contemporary industrial and electronic music. Palestines unique style of singing, Indian singer Prandit Pran Nath Charleworld, were crucial influences on artists such as Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy. Through recent collaborations with Barcelona based techno duo Pan Sonic and David Coulter (Kronos Quartet) Palestine remains a crucial contributor to todays experimental music scene. A wonderful full colour book (size cm. 23,50x18,50), with flexicover, 192 pages including essays, scores, original photos of both performances and installation. The most complete documentation on Charlemagne Palestine art. The compact disc will feature the 60 minutes recordings of a lecture that Charlemagne Palestine gave on March 7th, 1975 at ArtNow Centre in Canada. After the performance of a strumming music concert, the author freely speaks about his music, the philosophy beyond his composition techniques and art involving the students in some kind of magic ritual. Starting as a question and answer conversation, the lecture develops into an intimate speech in which particularly private subjects are discussed. The lecture ends with a particularly touching suspended atmosphere showing how real communication in universities should be. The compact disc also includes a breathtaking multi-layer voice study of the early 1960s never published before on record, very similar in sound and structure to the electronic music studies just issued by Alga Marghen." - Alga Marghen.
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Artist: PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE Title: Sharing A Sonority Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "Alga Marghen proudly presents a new chapter in the documentation series of Charlemagne Palestines historical works. This CD of previously unavailable recordings not only presents you Charlemagne Palestine activities in 1974, collaborating with some of most important experimental artists and composers from either the New York loft scene and Cal Arts, but also features world premiere recordings of Terry Jennings and The Fundamental D Flat Group. Short & Sweet is the title of a breathtaking duo for piano and sax performed on April 24th by Charlemagne Palestine and Terry Jennings. The two composers happened to play together in very private concerts at Cal Arts, but never recorded those sessions, until a special day when Charlemagne happened to have a little tape recorder around. The recording was considered lost for more than 30 years, when finally a copy was found thanks to Tony Conrad. The piano part reminds some of the early pieces by Charlemagne Palestine titled Piano Drones (as the one pre-dating of a couple of years this duo and presented on the Continuous Sound Forms CD issued on Alga Marghen. The liner notes of the same CD mention this duo with Terry Jennings at the time considered lost). Terry Jennings soprano sax is very elaborated and decorative. Around 1967, Charlemagne was experimenting mainly with voice and electronics. He also occasionally recorded piano and sax improvisations with his friend Bob Feldman. This CD featured a very special duo by Palestine and Feldman playing electronics and flute. The two artists met in 1961 when Bob Feldman worked in a jazz record shop in the Times Square subway station. Palestine didnt know much about jazz and Feldman guided him through the new progressive jazz styles of the times. Later at the Intermedia Center of NYU where they had a Buchla synthesizer, Charlemagne and Bob Feldman experimented between jazz raga and electronics. Very little was recorded. This is one rare duet that dates probably from around 1967. The last track on this CD is the first 30 minutes of a recording from April 22, 1972 by The Fundamental D Flat Group performing in Db. During one trip back to NYC from Cal Arts, Charlemagne Palestine was invited by Tony Conrad (together with Rhys Chatham) to Albright College in New Jersey for a Sunday afternoon concert. That was the first and last time The Fundamental D Flat Group played in public (Tony Conrad: violin, horn, string drone; Rhys Chatham: flute, organ, string drone; Charlemagne Palestine: voice, pipes, snifter). Although the piece lasted all afternoon, the first 30 minutes were the only portion recorded during the performance. The Fundamental D Flat Group invite you to listen and meditate in the mode of Db. To hear this is to enter the deepest realm of knowledge of the sound current. The ear, the understanding, and the core of the spirit resonate to the mode of the single tone and its harmonic family. You read, and hear, and feel the empathy of human spirit. This CD is housed in a beautiful digipack with a full color sleeve with photos and liner notes. The edition presents some of the best recordings ever issued by Charlemagne Palestine, a highlight in the Alga Marghen catalog and a unique chance to listen to the core of Charlemagne Palestine." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE Title: Sound 1 Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $32.00 |
| "As the title well underlines, Sound 1, electronic sonority is a starting point in Charlemagne Palestines research for the Golden Sonority. Previously unpublished, this radical and fundamental work has now been released on LP record in collaboration with the New Media Dept. of Centre Pompidou (National Museum of Modern Art) in Paris for the first Oeuvres Sonores event, December 15th, 2008. Charlemagne Palestine started to dream of an expressive, continuous, ever-moving, ever-changing sound-form; an enormous sonorous 3-dimensional sculptural canvas in mid-air, using electronically-produced sounds. At first, he began experiments with simple sine tone generators, emitting the purest sound waves without any overtones. Then, gradually, with access to Moog and arps, he constructed sounds using the sine/sawtooth/square wave oscillators in a fluid, ever-changing mix of adding or filtering overtones and white noise to create sonorities constantly changing timbres and weight. Palestine experimented in this way from 1964 till 1974 in NYC and then, in California. Finally, he assembled his own drone machine of 16 ultra stable oscillators designed by Serge Tcherepnin and 4 band pass filters designed by Donald Buchla. He would build up a sound, oscillator by oscillator, then add ever-so-slightly to the oscillator input, tiny increments of white noise that would gradually make the sounds thicker and thicker, until they were immense, sacred machines humming like gargantuan Tibetan bees. Charlemagne played them very, very loud, making all the room and objects in it resonate, while outside all was quiet and sleeping. He worked like a painter with a palette and a canvas and he mixed and added and mixed and added over, entire nights, mixing, adding, and then lying on the mattress and listening and fine-tuning. Finally, at a certain point, after several nights, the sonority seemed ready to record. Hed put on the tape, prepare the tape machine with the proper level as not to overload it, and record the texture. This 1-sided LP was issued in an edition limited to 500 copies. Includes a 25-page program booklet, including an essay by Charlemagne Palestine and artwork by John Giorno." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE Title: Two Electronic Sonorities Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "Alga Marghen proudly presents two seminal electronic music radical realizations by Charlemagne Palestine. These previously unpublished pieces confirm once more how advanced his Golden Research already was in the 1960s, a very personal approach to sound which would have later become so influential for future generations. Continuous Sound, built by an ever-changing mix of adding and filtering white noise and simple sine tone generators, is the most solid sound construction that Charlemagne created in preparation of his lost electronic masterpiece LAvventura, inspired by the Michelangelo Antonioni movie with the same title. Continuous Sound pre-dates LAvventura of just a few months and with its suspended atmospheres and its deep sense of mystery represent one of the most fascinating sonic works by Charlemagne Palestine. Crown Chan is an electronic music piece created for a dance by Gus Solomon in 1970. Conceiving music for dancers gave Charlemagne the possibility to experiment and manipulate the reel tapes of some of his electronic sonorities. In a previous collaboration with Gus Salomon, Charlemagne created a new sound by simply superimposing two already existing and accomplished electronic drones. Holy1 and Holy2 thus became a completely new sonority titled Holy1+2 (these works were included in the CD titled Alloy, also issued by Alga Marghen). In the case of Crown Chan Charlemagne worked in a more structural way, shaping his electronic sound materials into two stereo reel tapes (titled Crown Chan 1&2 and Crown Chan 3&4) which also integrated silent parts and were meant to be played back simultaneously, thus providing a powerful live music for the dancers. Edition limited to 380 copies, with an institutional portrait of the composer on front and back sleeve for you consumers to enjoy." -Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE Title: Voice Studies Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $27.00 |
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"The VocSon series presents on limited edition LPs the most advanced international vocal experiments and is mainly dedicated to the documentation of sound poetry. This series includes now the new LP record by Charlemagne Palestine titled Voice Studies. Charlemagne Palestines introduction to music or sound was first with his own voice. He began at four years old to sing versions of popular songs and operas in his own way. Later on, a director of a Jewish sacred music choir auditioned him to sing with them, Charlemagne was seven years old at the time and for the next seven years, he sang all over the East Coast and the U.S. as a member of a choir that sang with many of the greatest European Chazans (Jewish Sacred Singers) who had fled Europe during the rise of anti-Semitism and resettled in America. From them he learned to sing in a long chanting style with his own natural voice. At the same time he met Pran Nath, the master of Kirana singing and studied a short time with him as well as Javanese singing with Ki Wasito di Puro at Cal Arts. Over the years, Charlemagne Palestine has performed and recorded vocal works as an important part of his output as a sonic artist. This LP includes the very early Surrealistic Studies, recorded in Brooklyn in the beginning of the 1960s. Using a Webcor reel-to-reel tape recorder and discovering a technique of shouting into the microphone and immediately pulling it out, creating an interior echo chamber where the sound would turn around on itself, changing and distorting. No other electronic sound manipulation techniques were used. Voice + Piano Study I & II are short and beautiful piano improvisation with tape superimposition of accelerated voice pieces. Recorded at Cal Arts on September 29th, 1971. Voice Study was recorded in Manhattan in the mid-1960s. In this study Charlemagne sings in a falsetto duet with himself on two separate tracks. Sung in a resonant space reminiscent of a synagogue in the falsetto voice that he began to develop from Jewish male sacred chant falsettos. He searches for intervals that resonate together and respond like electronic sound wave oscillators played against each other. Finally, there is the fantastic 6-minute Beauty Chord + Voice with Charlemagne playing piano and singing. Edition limited to 385 copies." -Alga Marghen
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Artist: PATTERSON, BEN Title: A Fluxus Elegy Format: One Sided LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $25.00 |
| One-sided LP in an edition of 345 copies. "The new Ben Patterson piece, issued on Alga Marghens VocSon series, is based on the basic principles of the polyphonic music of the Bantu tribes of West and Central Africa. First principle: the practice of interlocking individual pitches or tones performed by one person into spaces between other pitches or tones performed by another person, thus alternating pitches or tones of one part with those of another part to create a whole. Second principle: use of cyclical and open-ended forms involving one or more ostinato melodic/rhythmic pattern as a foundation. Third principle: community participation...non-specialists are encouraged to join in long performances with much repetition. Fourth principle: rhythmic complexity with the juxtaposition of double and triple patterns, multiple layering of different patterns, and interaction between a core foundation and improvised parts. And, most important, the family ownership of a specific tone: in the musical culture of these tribes, each ancestral family owns and is responsible for one or more specific tones, which must be sounded at specific points, sequencing with the many other specific tones owned by other families, to create a seamless melody. Ben Patterson made a music based on this information by taking the initials of artists listed in Fluxus: The Most Radical and Experimental Art Movement of the Sixties and encoding them in basic International Morse Code. These dots and dashes were then performed on a Yamaha DJX keyboard (voice pattern setting), connected to a Digitech JamMan Looper (over-dub setting), connected to an Eurorack MX 602A mixer. Front cover reproducing the original score." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: PATTERSON, BEN Title: Born In The State Of FLUX/us Format: Double CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $51.00 |
| "Published for the opening of Ben Patterson first large retrospective exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, this double CD anthology includes both historical recordings taken from the Early Works (issued some years ago by alga marghen), from 370 Flies CDs (an art multiple also issued by alga marghen and long sold out) as well as the first digital version of the no longer available LP titled A Fluxus Elegy and a previously unpublished track. The first CD starts with the first ever recording of Ants (1960), one of Ben Patterson first graphic scores, pre-dating the Fluxus group. Also included in this CD are two essential 1961 documents: Duo For Voice And A String Instrument and Variations for Double-bass, both recorded in concert at the Galerie Parnass in 1962; this event has special historic significance in that it included the first public presentation by George Maciunas of his Fluxus manifesto and plans for the Wiesbaden Fluxus Festival. Two more tracks titled Paper Piece(1960), the work that cut the umbilical cord to all of the authors previous classical and contemporary musical training and experience, and Pond (1962), a piece that reminds of Richard Maxfields electronic music with voice collage, see the collaboration of Philip Corner, Walter Marchetti and Davide Mosconi. The second CD includes more recent works as A Simple Opera (1995), a repetitive hommage to Emmett Willons on his 70th birthday, also recorded in collaboration with Philip Corner, Walter Marchetti and Davide Mosconi; 370 Flies (2003) for electronic loops and voice; as well as A Fluxus Elegy (2006), previously issued on Alga Marghens VocSon LP series and based on the basic principles of the polyphonic music of the Bantu tribes of West and Central Africa, applied to the initials of artists listed in Fluxus: The Most Radical and Experimental Art Movement of the Sixties, through encoding them in basic International Morse Code. Starting as a virtuoso double-bass performer of classical music, Ben Patterson was one of the very first founders of the Fluxus Group in Wiesban. This digipak CD will introduce you to some American neo-avantgarde music classics, a crossover between John Cage exploding influences and the experimental art atmosphere of the early 1960s in Europe. Edition limited to 200 copies in silkscreened digipack sleeve, including a 4 page folded insert with liner notes, original score as well as performance photos and program from the 1962 concert at Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: PATTERSON, BEN Title: Drip Music/370 Flies Format: CDR Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $45.00 |
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"Gerge Brecht Drip Music (1959). Realization by Ben Patterson, 2002. As the author wrote in the liner notes: Recently, as I was preparing a concert of classic Fluxus works, I decided to re-examine the original scores, rather than rely on my memory of preformances of the traditional interpretations of these works. Thus, I discovered that George Brechts original instructions for Drip Music allowed for both a single source or multiple sources of dripping water. Remembering Georges first career as a chemist, employing laboratory equipment to produce multiple, dripping sources seemed appropriate. A device was constructed including 3 gerbil water bottles suspended from metal rods and a piece of molded plastic packaging, amplified with contact microphone. Only micro adjustments were made to provide differing drip frequencies. No electro-acoustic manipulations or editorial tricks. Also included is Ben Patterson 370 Flies (2003), dedicated to the double-bassist Sylvester Paumgartner (178?-18??) for inspiring this work. A list of artificial flies names read over the sound loops derived from the fourth movement of Franz Schuberts String Quintet, D 667 op. post. 114, the Trout Quintet. An artificial fly is included on front cover, while a reproduction of the Drip Music score is stamped on the back cover. CDR edition limited to 200 signed copies." - Alga Marghen.
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Artist: POTAGE, MICHEL Title: Occupe Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $32.00 |
| "alga marghen presents one of the treasures of the French avant scene of the 1970s, published now for the first time. An ideal parallel to Jac Berrocals cult LP Paralleles, the realization of these pieces, recorded by Daniel Deshays and produced by dAvantage in 1977 that also conceived a very elaborate sleeve design, was mysteriously discontinued making this record one of the lost jewels of the French underground. Together with Michel Potage (voice and various instruments) and Jac Berrocal (trumpet, valve trombone, tibetal oboe, percussions), the same ensemble that recorded Berrocals Paralleles, or Pierre Bastien of Nu Creative Methods fame (bass, Tibetan reed instruments, trumpet, voice), the father of French free jazz Bernard Vitet (bugle, trumpet, reed instruments, violin, voice), Roger Ferlet (trumpet, slide trombone, voice), Claude Parle (accordion, reed instruments, voice), Françoise Achard (voice, chant, lao mouth organ, balano, rainstick), the legendary producer and sound engineer Daniel Deshays (voice), poet Jean-Marie Gibbal (voice) and a Ford Break (engine, speed, brakes, light, etc.), everyone is here following Michel Potages vision and enters into a magic sound territory. Michel Potage was co-founder with Berrocal of the dAvantage label in 1976, he played in the first Catalogue band (with Jac Berrocal and Jean-François Pauvros), a performer close to Julian Becks Living Theatre on one side and to James Chances no-wave Contortions on the other, musique concrete avant-gardist and poet of destroyed lyricism. After 3 years of collaboration in close connection with the author, alga marghen conceived a new layout with original photos of the recording sessions and proudly co-released this production with dAvantage. The sound was restored from the original masters by Daniel Deshays. Edition limited to 385 copies, including an LP-size 8-page booklet with complete lyrics and photos from the recording session. Gatefold sleeve." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: QUARTETTO Title: Organic, Playco 1969 Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "The stable Quartetto that pianist Davide Mosconi, saxophonist Enzo Gardenghi, percussionist Marco Cristofolini, and cellist and violinist Gustavo Bonora brought to life beginning in the late 60s constituted the core of what would, in the early years of the next decade, become the larger improvising ensemble NADMA. The group was also an elegant and accomplished expression of the musical objectives of its members. The rich yields that Davide Mosconi cultivated from his exploration of improvisation and the visionary creativity that revealed influences from parallel planes throughout his oeuvre originated in his formative years. In the life story of Mosconi before the formation of the Quartetto, it emerges that his first musical affirmations arose as he was completing his studies as a photographer. Mosconi furthered his training as a photographer in New York from 1964-1968, including stints as assistant to Richard Avedon and Hiro. Prior to his definitive return to Italy, he spent 1968 in Mexico, a lengthy visit documented splendidly in his photographs. During his stay there, he may have been the first European musician to meet Conlon Nancarrow and encounter his music. From Nancarrow, Mosconi learned the workings of the Ampico player piano. Only much later indeed, in the early 80s, when György Ligeti championed his works, was this now-legendary American composer rediscovered internationally. The Quartetto represented, at last, a solid foundation with which Davide Mosconi succeeded in realizing his own notion of improvisation, aided by musicians who shared his ideal of a continuous, fluid music and thus of a pliable expression that superseded the limits of existential consciousness. In 1968-1969, the group launched an uninterrupted series of private events, studio sessions and live concerts at venues that ranged from offhand happenings to alternative clubs to concert halls. It is possible to reconstruct rather faithfully the activities of Davide Mosconis Quartetto due to a vast amount of material documentation and a conspicuous number of archive recordings. The first recording sessions date from February 14, 1968, and from April of this same year, both made at the Playco studio in Milan and both featuring the lineup of Davide Mosconi, Marco Cristofolini and Enzo Gardenghi, with the additional presence of bassist Giorgio Buratti for the February recordings. The majority of these early Playco recordings, however, date from various months of 1969 until October, after the group solidified its roster with Gustavo Bonora. In several reel tapes dating back to this era, the collective name is often given not as Quartetto, but, alternately, as Organic or Organic Orchestra, designations that foreshadow the Natural Arkestra moniker later associated with NADMA. If one excludes the live recordings from the Auditorium San Fedele and Circolo Lepetit concerts of November and December 1969, the best evidence of the musical art of the Quartetto is found on the reel labeled Organic 1969 Playco, heard in its entirety on the present CD. Examination of the various tapes that document the Playco sessions of 1969 show that this reel is the only one with any consistent identification of the titles of individual tracks, as well as the only one to show signs of careful editing, perhaps intended use as a demo. There are tracks that focus concretely on timbral resources and instrumental gesture (Tubi sonori in scale and Disturbi di violino) and pieces that have decidedly parodistic moments (Parodia della festa and the diptych of Avanti! Para babà and Babà-fui-pà). At least two classics of the Quartetto playlist are also to be found: the opener Fattoria degli animali, whose title manifestly evokes George Orwells dystopic novel, with its onomatopoeic sounds at the onset; and Pugno chiuso, the last of the pieces to be recorded and the one which Gustavo Bonora later called the purest emblem of the musical art of the Quartetto. This latter work is a perfect example of an enragé performance praxis that was then unparalleled in the Italian improvised music scene. The albums sign-off does not stem from the same sessions. It is instead an edited extract from the Circolo Lepetit concert of December 1, 1969, and as such is a most effective taste of the informal and symbiotic potency that distinguished the live Quartetto experience: the merging of individual instruments into a unified whole. This CD is included in a beautiful digipack full-color sleeve with photos and liner notes. Also included is a 12-page booklet with an essay titled Before NADMA: Davide Mosconi and the Quartetto by Gabriele Bonomo as well as the testimonies by Enzo Gardenghi and Gustavo Bonora." -Alga Marghen |
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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: TAKIS Title: Pendules Magnétiques (1964-66)/Le Siècle De Kafka (1984) Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $34.00 |
| "Alga Marghen proudly presents one of the highlights of his catalogue, an exclusive LP edition with the recordings of Takis electro-magnetic sculptures. Takis is the originator of this new approach to the musicality of sound, which consists in laying bare the repetitious structure of musical form and its functional derivation, thus rejecting the symbolism of representation. Takis was born in 1925 in Athens. Preferring, as a matter of principle, to teach himself rather than study in an institution, he left Greece in 1954 and lived as a citizen of the world, traveling through Europe and the USA. Some of his earliest manifestations in the 1940s consisted of explosions carried out in open places. His first Signals date from 1954: they were rods consisting of piano wires which created musical vibrations as they stuck against each other in the wind. In fact they constituted the first appearance in his work and in contemporary art history of a form of musical expression in which sounds are called forth in an un-programmed way, owing to the action of natural forces. In 1961 Takis meets Marcel Duchamp in New York. Duchamps perpetual moving bicycle wheels inspired Takis hydromagnetic sculptures. In the period between 1964 and 1965 Takis conceives his Pendules magnètiques and constructs his first Sound Sculptures. After the exhibition of Takis titled Electro-musical relief at Indica Gallery in London in 1966, the New Scientist magazine in an article entitled The sounds of tomorrow commented that Takis, Iannis Xenakis and John Cage are the most promising musicians of the century. Takis Pendules magnétiques are based on the simple concept of using magnetic waves caused by electricity as a means to activate repeated musical sounds: the latter are to be heard every time a needle strikes a string, when attracted by a magnet. The sounds reproduced in this edition were recorded in 1993 by Samon Takahashi at Takis retrospective at Jeu de Paume in Paris. Takis participates in 1984 at the exhibition titled The Century of Kafka at Centre Pompidou in Paris and sound work with the same title is also reproduced on this LP edition. As an artist he seeks a natural origin for the construction of sound, and in particular that origin which is furthest removed from the artists arbitrary decision. For about forty years now, it has been Takis purpose to investigate language as a natural function, conceiving function as a form of work. Furthermore, he has broken down the frontiers between sculpture and music in a number of pieces which can only be read by identifying their functionalism as structured units, with their morphological, visual and acoustic aspects. Edition limited to 380 copies with full-color sleeve, printed inner-sleeve reproducing a testimony by Marcel Duchamp and insert with photos of the Pendules magnètiques and a testimony by William Burroughs." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: TAZARTES, GHEDALIA Title: Diasporas/Tazartes Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
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"2009 repress. More than 5 years after the CD edition of Eclipse totale de soleil and Transportes, Alga Marghen finally decided to also reissue the first and the forth LP by Ghedalia Tazartes including both on one CD. Ghedalia Tazartes is a nomad. He wanders through music from chant to rhythm, from one voice to another. He paves the way for the electric and the vocal paths, between the muezzin psalmody and the screaming of a rocker. He traces vague landscapes where the mitre of the white clown, the plumes of the sorcerer, the helmet of a cop and Parisian anhydride collide into polyphonic ceremonies. Dont become a black, an Arab, a Tibetan monk, a Jew, a woman or an animal but to feel all this stirring deep inside of you. The greatest trips are made in the deep end of the throat: the extra-European music open the ear to Ghedalias intra-European exotism. Where was music before music halls? Where was the voice before it learned how to speak? Ghedalia is the orchestra and a pop group all in one person: the self is multitude and others. The author and his doubles work without a net, freely connecting the sounds, the rhythms, his voice, his voices. The permanent metamorphosis is a principle of composition, it escapes control, refuses classification. To hell with the technocrates of noise and the purists of synthetic culture. All art like all true mythology use a double clavier, playing nature and culture, feeling and the distance of the flesh, death. Off limits!" -Alga Marghen
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Artist: TAZARTES, GHEDALIA Title: Granny Awards Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "alga marghen was the first label to issue on CD the 4 record LPs that Ghedalia Tazartes privately produced between the late 1970s and early 1980s, therefore contributing to the diffusion of this music among the new generations. At the same time Ghedalia Tazartes music defined the high standard level of the alga marghen label in its early days. These great recordings are still available in their original CD editions and no surprise that alga marghen has now the privilege to bring you the pleasure of listening to a previously unpublished LP recently discovered in the artists archives. Side 1 features Ferme ta gueule, Zarathustra (i.e. Shut Up, Zarathustra) a long track constructed by several fragments recorded in the early 1980s that would have later composed, with different editings, some of the best parts of Une eclipse totale de soleil. On side 2 we find five shorter tracks titled Whatever, Works, Singing, Wild, My Rock Ghedalia. Recorded in the artists own studio in his anhydridic Paris, these pieces are based on materials pre-dating Ghedalia Tazartes first LP Diasporas and were re-elaborated in the early 1980s to be included in this lost work of art. Ghedalia Tazartes is a nomad. The author and his doubles work without a net, freely connecting the sounds, the rhythms, his voice, his voices. He is also one of the most original artists in the sonic art scene. Edition limited to 450 copies." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: TAZARTES, GHEDALIA Title: Les Danseurs de la Pluie Format: 3" CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
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"Les Danseurs de la Pluie", which gives title to the complete anthology, is a 12-minute mini-CD, presented on creative disc, including four previously unavailable tracks. Two 1977 killer recordings from the Eclipse Totale sessions of a very wild and residential nature; and two colossal new pieces recorded in 2005." - Alga Marghen. Repressed!
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Artist: TAZARTES, GHEDALIA Title: Les Danseurs de la Pluie/Tazartès Transports... Format: 4CD Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $54.00 |
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...Une �?clipse Total De Soleil/Diasporas Tazartès. "This anthology includes the complete Ghedalia Tazartes recordings previously issued on CD by Alga Marghen, plus a new mini-CD titled Les Danseurs de la Pluie. Diasporas-Tazartes is the CD edition of Tazartes first and fourth LPs. Transports is the CD edition of Tazartes second LP with four bonus tracks. Une Eclipse Total de Soleil is the CD edition of Tazartes third LP with a long bonus track.
Les Danseurs de la Pluie, which gives title to the complete anthology, is a 12-minute mini-CD, presented on creative disc, including four previously unavailable tracks. Two 1977 killer recordings from the Eclipse Totale sessions of a very wild and residential nature; and two colossal new pieces recorded in 2005." - Alga Marghen.
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Artist: TAZARTES, GHEDALIA Title: Tazartès Transports Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "Probably represents the most original example of the artists poetical and personal approach to sound organisation. The material of the first track, which gives also the title to this CD, was recorded in 1977 at the artists own studio in Paris; the CD reprint of this mixed atmospheres masterpiece is followed by Transports 1 and Transports 2, both composed in 1997 for a theatre piece. We are here in front of a different kind of transport, where the more complex and powerful sound material contributes to create the dense, monolithic structure of these previously unreleased tracks. Elie, a piano piece performed in duo with the composers young daughter, brings a poetic and more relaxing magic to end the program." - Alga Marghen. Repressed! |
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Artist: TAZARTES, GHEDALIA Title: Une Eclipse Totale de Soleil Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "The first record released by Ghedalia Tazartes in 1979. Far away from contemporary music intellectualisms or from synthetical noise purists, this was certainly one of the most original and creative records of the 70s featuring a new form of musical expression...the value of this work was underestimated and only a few people had a chance to listen to its beautiful music. Now, due to the new growing interest, Alga Marghen has taken the decision to reprint all Tazartes records, starting with his first work. Originally conceived in two parts, Une Eclipse... has been remastered and is now integrated by a 25 minute new piece (Part III), composed expressly for this CD." A unique record, utilizing collage, strange vocals by Tazartes, trance-ethno backing splices, droning organ and childish naivete, in a spirit all of its own." |
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Artist: V/A Title: Avant Marghen Vol. 1 Format: 7 LP Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $178.00 |
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Incredible set of 3 boxes, each with 7LPs in it, from the Alga Marghen archives. These are all previously released LPs, but most have been o/p for many years now. The boxes are limited to a numbered edition of 80 copies each. "The VocSon series might be identified as the starting point of all the Alga Marghen activities. This series, which still continues to present on limited LP records the most advanced international vocal experiments, is mainly dedicated to the documentation of sound poetry. Since most of the titles immediately sold out, Alga Marghen decided to issue a kind of anthology, specially issued for ArtBasel where Alga Marghen will present its catalog following an invitation by Maurizio Nannucci of the Artists Record Pavillion. This also in order to give the opportunity to those who missed the-now-rare original editions to be able to find them now, even if in a very limited run. Each LP is numbered on the VocSon innersleeve expressly conceived for this edition. This luxury boxset edition actually includes the first 7 LPs issued for the VocSon series, or:
1) Bernard Heidsieck Poème-Partition X LP. First 80 copies from the original 300 copies edition issued in 1997. The very early experimental poem by Bernard Heidsieck may be considered one of his first important creations. The record which started the VocSon series.
2) Henri Chopin Cantata for Two Farts & Co. LP. Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Henri Chopin presents previously unreleased audiopoems as well as the reprint of two pieces from the Radiotaxi LP (the tracks taken from Radiotaxi are here presented for the first time mastered at the correct speed).
3) Bernard Heidsieck Vaduz LP. Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Vaduz (12:23) can be considered one of Bernard Heidsiecks major works. Very experimental with a lot of electronic manipulations. According to Henri Chopin, this is the only true audiopoem by Heidsieck. Composed June to December 1974 and recorded on a Revox A 700 at the authors studio.
4) Philip Corner Word-Voices LP. First 80 copies from the original 500 copies edition issued in 1997. A record LP of vocal utterances including early Fluxus voice and instrumental pieces. 5) Henri Chopin Les Mirifiques Tundras & Co.. Original pre-released edition of 80 copies on yellow vinyl, never offered before. Extreme voice sound manipulations. Somehow in the vein of Hodell Text-Sound composition, just more primitive and visceral.
6) Sten Hanson The Sonosopher Retrospective LP. First 80 copies from the original 545 copies edition issued in 1998. An anthology of Sten Hanson Text-Sound composition. This edition pre-dates the anthologized CDs which were issued in Sweden.
7) Ake Hodell 220 Volts Buddha LP. First 80 copies from the original 545 copies edition issued in 1998. Fantastic electronic music LP. The pieces on this LP were included in the 3CD anthology issued by Fylkingen. Your chance to get the original edition on LP now." - Alga Marghen.
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Artist: V/A Title: Avant Marghen Vol. 2 Format: 7 LP Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $178.00 |
| Second volume of the Avant MarghenVocSon series, numbered edition of 80 copies. "This luxury boxset edition actually includes the second group of 7 LPs issued for the VocSon series: 1) Brion Gysins Poems Of Poems LP. First 80 copies from the original 630 copies edition issued in 1998. Very early poetical experimentation recorded in 1958 at the Beat Hotel, Paris. The origins of cut-up are documented in this radical edition. You will experience why Brion Gysin was a strong reference for Henri Chopin and Bernard Heidsieck. 2) Bernard Heidsieck 50/70 LP. First 80 copies from the original 480 copies edition issued in 1998. The third Bernard Heidsieck LP issued by Alga Marghen draws the picture of two specific moments on artistic creation: the 1950s and the 1970s. 3) Jose Luis Castillejo The Book of is LP. First 80 copies from the original 240 copies edition issued in 1998. Very limited and immediately sold out edition of Castillejo conceptual recordings. Jose Luis Castillejo books always included him among the Concrete Poems and were regarded as very special graphic creations. A deep exploration of his abstract and radical poetry will lead to a more conceptual and philosophical understanding as this LP clearly states. 4) Jil G. Wolman Lanticoncept LP. Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Edition of Gil J Wolman megapneums, or the beginning of the whole sonic adventures. If Gysin was a strong conceptual influence for the Henri Chopin and Bernard Heidsieck generation, Wolman was showing them the sonic direction. Just with the use of the breath and respiration, his Megapneums had the same intensity of the electronic manipulation that will make Chopins audiopoems so radically new and uncompromising. This LP also include excerpts from Wolman sound-film LAnticoncept from 1952. 5) Isidore Isou Poèmes Lettristes 1944-99 LP. Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Historical edition by Isidore Isou. This is the first record LP ever published by the father of Lettrism. Poems from 1944 to 1999 including a breath taking improvisation, some 1970s recordings by Maurice Lemaitre and an early, primitive and incredible performance by Francois Dufrene. Recorded at Isous apartement in 1999. 6) Juan Hidalgo Una Voz LP. First 80 copies from the original 323 copies edition issued in 2000. First ever ZAJ LP record! An historical recording of Juan Hidalgo Una Voz, including concrete sound interventions by Walter Marchetti. A large size booklet with the transcription in English and Spanish of the spoken text is also included. Capital! 7) Arrigo Lora-Totino Fonemi LP. First 80 copies from the original 345 copies edition issued in 2000. Arrigo Lora-Totino is probably best known for having been the editor of the famous sound poetry anthology issued by Cramps Records in the 1970s with the title Futura. But only a few know about his sound poetry production. Following Henri Chopins idea that poetry is above all an expression of the body through its own language, Lora-Totino started his important poetic practice in 1965 with Fonemi, a sound sample of erasure: the reading of a text recorded on tape is filtered through an electronic pulse generator that splits it into small fragments." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Avant Marghen Vol. 3 Format: 7 LP Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $178.00 |
| Third volume in the Avant Marghen boxset series, numbered edition of 80 copies. "This luxury boxset actually includes a new picture disc edition of Revue OU anthology plus an Henri Chopin LP and the Ben Patterson LP. 1) VA Revue OU. Record 1 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. First of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. 2) VA: Revue OU. Record 2 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Second of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. 3) VA: Revue OU. Record 3 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Third of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. 4) VA: Revue OU. Record 4 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Forth of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. 5) VVAA Revue OU. Record 5 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Fifth of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from1958 to 1974. 6) Henri Chopin The Body Is A Sound Factory & Co. LP (16VocSon046). Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Originally issued in an edition of 300 copies, only available with the vinyl edition of the Revue OU LP anthology. This LP includes previously unreleased audiopoems dating from 1965 to 1981. 7) Ben Patterson A Fluxus Elegy LP. First 80 copies from the original 345 copies edition issued in 2006. This Ben Patterson composition, issued on is based on the basic principles of the polyphonic music of the Bantu tribes of West and Central Africa. First principle: the practice of interlocking individual pitches or tones performed by one person into spaces between other pitches or tones performed by another person, thus alternating pitches or tones of one part with those of another part to create a whole. Second principle: use of cyclical and open-ended forms involving one or more ostinato melodic/rhythmic pattern as a foundation. Third principle: community participation... non-specialists are encouraged to join in long performances with much repetition. Fourth principle: rhythmic complexity with the juxtaposition of double and triple patterns, multiple layering of different patterns, and interaction between a core foundation and improvised parts. And, most important, the family ownership of a specific tone: in the musical culture of these tribes, each ancestral family owns and is responsible for one or more specific tones, which must be sounded at specific points, sequencing with the many other specific tones owned by other families, to create a seamless melody. Ben Patterson made a music based on this information by taking the initials of artists listed in Fluxus: The Most Radical and Experimental Art Movement of the Sixties and encoding them in basic International Morse Code. These dots and dashes were then performed on a Yamaha DJX keyboard (voice pattern setting), connected to a Digitech JamMan Looper (over-dub setting), connected to an Eurorack MX 602A mixer. Front cover reproducing the original score." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Avant Marghen Vol. 4 Format: 7 LP Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $185.00 |
| "New volume of the Avant Marghen series in a numbered edition of 80 copies. This luxury black boxset edition actually includes the fourth group of 7 LPs previously issued for the VocSon series and now sold out. Each individual LP record includes a numbered Avant Marghen inner-sleeve. LP 1 to 4) François Dufrene Oeuvre Désintégrale 4 LP set. First 80 copies from the original pressing of 345 copies issued in 2007, presented here with minimal hand-elaboration on each sleeve. François Dufrenes impressive work, along with that of Gil J. Wolman and Brion Gysin, was a strong influence for experimental poets like Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck and Ake Hodell. LP1) Oeuvre Désintégrale 1 LP includes an 18-minute-long crirythme from 1969 as well as Osmose-art, a long piece from 1969 divided into two suites where Dufrene superimposes his crirhythms to classical music. LP2) Oeuvre Désintégrale 2 LP includes six majestic crirythmes (created between 1965 and 1976) as well as Eryximaque, suite choreographique au Tombeau de Pierre Larusse, a work halfway between the written text and the sound poem whose unity is achieved through Dufrene performing it, a masterpiece of synthesis of active poetry. LP3) Oeuvre Désintégrale 3 LP includes two Lecture-collages dating from 1965, adding jazz music (especially drum and percussion pieces) to poems marked by strong Lettristic esthetic. One of his most extreme crirythmes, titled Belles nuisances, hantez nos nuits, dating from 1970, is also included on this record. LP4) Oeuvre Désintégrale 4 LP includes three breathtaking crirythmes as well as two Comptinuum from his early on-progress works started in 1958. LP5) Charlemagne Palestine Voice Studies LP, limited to 80 numbered copies pressed on dark blue vinyl and featuring a new sleeve, only available with this boxset edition. Palestines introduction to music or sound was first with his own voice. This LP includes the very early Surrealistic Studies, using a Webcor reel-to-reel tape recorder, discovering a technique of shouting into the microphone and immediately pulling it out, creating an interior echo chamber where the sound would turn around on itself, changing and distorting. Voice + Piano Study I & II are short and beautiful piano improvisations with tape superimposition of accelerated voice pieces. In Voice Study Charlemagne sings in a falsetto duet with himself on two separate tracks in a resonant space, searching for intervals that resonate together and respond like electronic sound wave oscillators played against each other. LP6) Gherasim Luca Two Poems LP. First 80 copies from the original pressing of 385 copies issued in 2009. Created in close connection to Sten Hanson who invited the Rumenian artist at Fylkingen in the very beginning of the 1970s and made him discover the possibilities of the advanced EMS electronic music studio of Stockholm. The two recordings presented here are quite unique as they are the only poems by Gherasim Luca created through the use of electronic manipulations. Autres Secrets Du Vide Et Du Plein (April 1971) and Crimes Sens Initiales (April 1972) were both performed at the 1971 and 1972 Text-Sound Festivals of Stockholm. Including an essay by Henri Chopin. LP7) Charlemagne Palestine & Simone Forti Illuminations LP. First 80 copies from the original pressing of 365 copies issued in 2010. Duo interactions, illuminated with dim red lights. The three previously unreleased recordings on this LP were made between October and December 1971." - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: V/A Title: OU 20-21/OU 23-24 Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $44.00 |
| "Available now in very limited quantities (less than 40 copies of each title) the single picture LPs of the Revue OU series. The picture LPs are the same pressing as the one included in the Avant Marghen Vol.3 boxset, but they are not numbered. Including Bernard Heidsieck Poème-partition D4P, Ou Art Poétique; Brion Gysin I Am; Brion Gysin Pistol-Poem; Henri Chopin Vibrespace; François Dufrêne Batteries Vocales; François Dufrêne Paix En Algérie; François Dufrêne Ténu-Tenu; Mimmo Rotella 7 Poèmes Phonétiques; Bernard Heidsieck Poème-Partition J; Bernard Heidsieck Poème-Partition H1 + H2: Le Quatrième plan; Brion Gysin 3 Permutations; Henri Chopin Lénergie Du Sommeil. - Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: V/A Title: OU 28-29/OU 30-31 Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $44.00 |
| Including François Dufrêne Triptycrirythme; Paul De Vree Verokina; Paul De Vree Ogenblik; Paul De Vree Kleine Caroli; Paul De Vree Vertigo Gil; Paul De Vree Een Roos A Rose; Henri Chopin Sol Air; Henri Chopin Le Corps. |
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Artist: V/A Title: OU 34-35/OU 36-37 Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $44.00 |
| "Including François Dufrêne Haut-Satur (June 1967); François Dufrêne Haut-Satur (December 1967); François Dufrêne Haut-Satur (November 1968); Bob Cobbing Marvo Movie Natter; Bob Cobbing Spontaneous Appealinair Vontemprate Apollinaire; Henri Chopin Mes Bronches; Ladislav Novák La Structure Phonétique De La Langue Tchèque; Hugh Davies Shozyg 1 & 2; Sten Hanson Dont Hesitate Do It, Do It Right Now; Sten Hanson The Glorious Desertion; Henri Chopin Les Grenouilles dAristophane; Bernard Heidsieck Ravaillac, Tu Connais?: Passe-Partout N° 1". |
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Artist: V/A Title: OU 38-39/OU 40-41 Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $44.00 |
| Including Henri Chopin Le Rire Est Debout; Bengt Emil Johnson Among II; Sten Hanson Revolution; Sten Hanson Railroad Poem; Jacques Bekaert The Day After; J.A. Da Silva Audio-Poem; William S. Burroughs Valentine Day Reading; Brion Gysin Poems; Bernard Heidsieck Chapeau: Passe-Partout N° 4; Henri Chopin La Soleil Est Mécanique. |
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Artist: MACHINEFABRIEK Title: Vergezichten Format: 10" Label: Alien Transistor Country: Germany Price: $14.00 |
| "Rutger Zuydervelt aka Machinefabriek is a master of self-made sound and time-stretching, sensitively handling organic recordings and samples on countless releases, and regards preset sounds in an organ or a cheap keyboard as a tonal find, as a part of the cacophony of everyday life. These bontempi-rhythms plus the computer-stretched sounds of saxophone (Espen Reinertsen) and voice (Mariska Baars) are the base elements of "Vergezicht 1" and "Vergezicht 2." It is stunning how Zuydervelt manages to produce depth and meditative calm with this supposedly soul-less material." -Alien Transistor. |
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Artist: WIDSITH Title: Maker Of Song Format: LP Label: Alithia Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Exact repro reissue of this mega-rare 1972 rural rock masterpiece from this New Jersey duo. Early-70s acoustic folk with rootsy CSNY-inspired backwoods jams. Some people have paid $150+ for originals of this album and some people spend entire weekends dipping their toes in the pond. Songs include "The Mighty Owl," "Dazey Me," "Rainfoots Carnival," "Mulberry Hill," and "Singer In The Marketplace"." -Alithia. |
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Artist: CANNANES, THE Title: Happy Swing Format: Cass Label: All Gone Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Originally released by K records in 1986 we are bringing this one back to life in its original format in 2013. Surly this was a very limited release and will be done in addition of 200 this time around. We are proud to release this fine tape. To us it embodies everything that makes a great tape, great minimal song craft,and tons of amazing subtle idiosyncrasies that catch the ear in the right way. Happy Swing captures the sound of the time period and part of the world in a picture perfect manner." - All Gone.
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Artist: INTENDED, THE Title: Live At El Club Format: Cass Label: All Gone Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"The Intended are a four peace made up of current and former members of Detroits Tyvek and of one of the most awesome local record cats around. Hashing out catchy hook based psych garage. classic rock set up two guitars drum and bass all playing off each other super well. embodies so many great reference points its makes for a great mesh, you can hear things like local psych legends The Index or even 39 clocks thrown in with some kiwi and u.k classics like television personalities or sarah records circa Sea Urchins. truly fantastic.
recorded in South West Detroit at EL CLub by Chris Durham on a panasonic boom box straight to tape." - All Gone.
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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: CALE, ZACHARY Title: Come Quietly Format: 7" Label: All Hands Electric Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Edition of 500. Culled from the archive of unreleased songs by Zachary Cale comes two unearthed gems, available for the first time through All Hands Electric. Recorded during the interim of his second LP "Walking Papers" and his band Illuminations "See-Saw" LP, these two songs were originally cut as demos, but the fresh sound and spontaneity of the recordings warranted a release of their own. "Come Quietly" is a field recording from the modern age, complete with chirping birds and the groan of passing cars. The song is a sort of noir narrative with lyrics that illustrate a dialogue between a captor and his captive. Taking cues from the pre-war folk tradition, Cale adopts the voice of both characters. Featuring mournful mandolins and tortured harmonicas over a countrified mariachi stomp, its as ragged and tuneful as folk music gets, and the inflections in Cales glass-breaking yowl recall some of Kurt Cobains acoustic demos from the Sup Pop heyday. "The Wedding Party" is a stream of consciousness ode to love with lyrical images floating by like faces in train windows. The vocal melody is undeniably catchy, sitting perfectly in the space between hypnotic fingerpicked guitar rhythms and ghost-like backing harmonies courtesy of Prudence Teacup. With its rapid fire couplets and unabashed pop-minded melody it sounds kind of like Bob Dylan covering the Beach Boys in a dimly lit basement. The rush of images and the giddy, pulse like rhythm makes "The Wedding Party" another classic in Zachary Cales growing canon of songs." -All Hands Electric
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Artist: CALE, ZACHARY Title: Noise of Welcome Format: LP Label: All Hands Electric Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "On his third album, Louisiana bred Brooklyn resident ZACHARY CALE casts a wide net, encompassing everything hes done previously whether solo or with band accompaniment. Recorded in 2009 at his home studio Noise of Welcome is a collection of songs that is distinctly modern in tone and substance. Moving from acoustic ballads and oddly tuned instrumentals to electrified country and Kinksian pop the album projects a kind of psych/folk/rock hybrid, recalling the genre shifts of Fleetwood Macs Tusk or Big Stars Sisters Lovers. Featuring performances by members of Cales former ensemble, ILLUMINATIONS, and guest spots by CHRIS BROKAW, D. CHARLES SPEER and ANNI ROSSI, Cales signature finger-picking technique is reinforced with grander orchestral movements and a full backing band which helps to illuminate the brilliance of his craft. Lyrically we are given what weve come to expect of Cale: thought provoking narrative hymnals, with bracing rumination and longing delivery, but these songs feel lighter. Perhaps this is because hes shifted away from the dark imagery of past efforts into a spiritual twilight, with themes of forgiveness, redemption, absolution and even... celebration. His voice too has grown more versatile, with subtle vibrato lifts complimenting higher pitched cries, bringing to mind contemporaries such as Cass Mccombs or Andy Cabic. Noise of Welcome may prove to be Zachary Cales greatest achievement as a singer/composer to date: a testament to his unique craftmanship and unconditional love of songs." - All Hands Electric. "Zachary Cale is the best singer-songwriter working right now... Noise of Welcome is an impressive achievement and one of the most heartfelt and beautiful records of the year without a doubt."-Matthew Fiander (Pop Matters). |
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Artist: CALE, ZACHARY Title: Walking Papers Format: LP Label: All Hands Electric Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "WALKING PAPERS, the sophomore album by Zachary Cale, marks the artists leap from a four-track-bedroom-folkie to a songwriter of visionary scope. Recorded in 2005 in the legendary Bearsville Sound Studios by Marcata engineer, Kevin Mcmahon (The Walkmen, Titus Andronicus), WALKING PAPERS was granted a belated release in December 2008 on the burgeoning Brooklyn-based label, All Hands Electric. Ghostly in sound, the album evokes the austere finger-style guitar work of John Fahey and the poetic couplets of Townes Van Zandt. Moving away from the lo-fi intimacy of his debut album, OUTLANDER SESSIONS (released on New World of Sound in 2005), Cale is accompanied by an array of musicians. Though at times classically inspired, and at others roots-based, the instrumentation is always understated, providing a focus on lyric and melody. Fittingly, the singers voice has gracefully matured into the road-weary rasp that his story-based lyrics require. WALKING PAPERS exhibits a genuine craft of American tradition; the songs are bona fide gems with every note and lyrical phrase informed by a quiet beauty, both familiar and timeless." - All Hands Electric. ⿿Zachary Cale is a songwriters songwriter, as prolific as he is original. His voice can be delicate for love or wry for satire. The ability to hear what is in a song has guided him well in the making of his own. While the influence of traditional American music is always present in his compositions, he is able to infuse something fresh and new to the form." - John Allen (WFMU). |
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Artist: ILLUMINATIONS Title: See-Saw Format: LP Label: All Hands Electric Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Incorporating elements of blues, country, punk and pop, and with an emphasis on traditional songs, SEE-SAW falls into what Gram Parsons had called ⿿cosmic American music. Accordingly, it lies somewhere between the country-soul of Big Star and the punk spirit of The Wipers. Recorded in a basement on an 8 track reel to reel, and later mixed at Seaside Lounge in Brooklyn, its anthemic yet warmly modest. The drums, though straightforward and minimal, are a solid rallying cry. The bass is both warm and soulful. The guitars are twisted American hybrids, shifting from a bluesy jangle to a dark sound-fix, like Chuck Berry or Tom Verlaine playing to the sound of a jet crashing, or the springs of a clock snapping apart. The piano and organ add cool melodic counterpoints, bringing calm to chaos. The lyrics are spun out of rich phrases, crowded with protagonists that rise and fall on opposite ends of the great fulcrum of luck. Zachary Cales vocal delivery is wrenching, both crooner-like and raw. The end result is an enigmatic album that is both familiar and foreign; one that wears the suit of American rock & roll, but broadcasts anthems from another universe." - All Hands Electric. Edition of 600 w/CDR. |
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Artist: PETERS HOUSE MUSIC Title: Jump Format: 12" Label: All Hands Electric Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Edition of 300. Peters House Music is an accumulation of music recorded by Peter Schuette at his home recording studio in Greenpoint Brooklyn. Also a member of Silk Flowers, Psychobuildings, and formerly Soiled Mattress & the Springs and Usa is a Monster, PHM has been Peters outlet to explore some of his previously unaddressed influences, the greatest being D.J. Harveys regular dance night at Love in the West Village and its unrestrained positivity. Mixing house beats, Depeche Mode-style FM keyboard sounds, piano, guitar, etc., Peter starts with elements of electronic dance music and writes compositions that bridge the gap between Roedelius (of Cluster) slow and thoughtful Selbstportrait series, early 80s electro-dance and R&B, Dam Funk, and whoever else escaped from his subconscious at the time of recording." -All Hands Electric |
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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: HATRED Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Alleypiss Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "A rhythm awash under waves of strong sonic fumes. These old sounds ebb and flow as youre lured deep into the high tide. Death by irresistible nausea. Crystal clear vinyl/pro printed jackets. All sounds and wretched cover art by NATE YOUNG. (Wolf Eyes)" -Alleypiss |
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Artist: KOJO, HITOSHI Title: Ezo Format: 10" Label: Alluvial Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The title of the pieces of this record, Hiruko and Ebisu, are the two names of one mythical being in Japanese mythology. Hiruko is a firstborn child of the god, who was deserted in the sea, because he could not stand up by three years old. He drifted ashore to the land of human beings, and was cherished by the people. Then he was brought up as a god, and was worshipped by the people as Ebisu. Somehow I was haunted by the story all the time during the working period. Therefore the names naturally became the titles. Afterwards I knew that Ebisu is also an alias of Ezo which was the old name of northern part of Japan. So it was adopted as the album title. Although the theory that Ezo equate with Ainu seems to be disputed sometime, I chose the name as a tribute to my favorite Ainu mythologies, and to the folks. The image on the cover is Ebisu which has visited in my mind at the time. Although its quite different from the traditional image, the sound source of the pieces were all produced by found-object which were mostly found from daily commodities. The resonance of the inside of objects and the resonance of the recorded spaces were also treated as the material. The process to find an object which is usually not used as a musical instrument was considered as a part of the execution. Therefore the founders name of some of the objects were mentioned in the cover. Also the vinyl record was fatally chosen for the album as an object which must be worn and be degraded by the condition and the frequency of the use. The noises by dusts and surface scratches on the disk should be listened as a part of the piece". -Hitoshi Kojo |
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Artist: TONIUTTI, GIANCARLO Title: (And Now He Almost Did Make Himself Into Hemlock Needles, It Is Said) Sound-Field For Rattle-Harp Format: CD Label: Alluvial Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Comes in an LP-style sleeve with a 16-page booklet. A single, hour-long work. Recorded on January 18, 2001 in Udine, the Red Room [Sound-source: Rattle-harp (drift metal, string, wire, bells, bone, wood)]. Treated & composed on February 9-12, 2002 in Udine, the Black Room. All photos have been taken at Caneo natural reserve, Fossalon di Grado, Isonzo River Mouth, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, 0 m. asl. The very occasional faint crackles are digital faults from the original recording; as part of the document, they have not been erased." -Alluvial |
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Artist: FUJIEDA, MAMORU Title: Radiated Falling/Time Whipped Bach Format: 7" Flexi Disc Label: ALM Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "Mamoru Fujieda (b.1955) is a composer studied under Morton Feldman (for further description is on TZADIK CD). He composed "Radiated Falling" for an exhibition in Tokyo in 1980. He used his minimalistic piano work "Falling Scale No.2" as material, and the sound was modulated electronically. Also "Time Whipped Bach" (side B) was composed for a experimental theater in 1981. This work made of pieces from J.S.Bachs "The Art of Fugue", and their pieces goes on individual pulse. Its reminded us of Steve Reichs early phase music. ALM Records is well known label that has released many avant-garde LP titles in 70-80s (Kaoru Abe, East Bionic Sinfonia, Somei Satoh...) " - Omega Point. Small stash of this early 80s release. |
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Artist: SUZUKI, AKIO Title: K7 Box Format: CD Label: ALM Country: Japan Price: $30.00 |
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"..9 tracks mainly his self-made sound object "Analapos" and "De Koolmees", and 2 tracks of them are recorded for announce sound of opening and closing of Yokosuka Museum of Art. They are so clear and spacy. booklet is written by himself, David Toop and others. text in Japanese and English. " - Omega Point.
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Artist: BIG DIPPER Title: Crashes on the Platinum Planet Format: LP Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Big Dipper Crashes on the Platinum Planet is the latest, and perhaps boldest, excursion into the perilous realm of Astronomy Pop by veteran indie-rockers BIG DIPPER. Inspired by a triumphant reunion tour in support of Merge Records 2008 3-disc retrospective Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology, the band returned from the stratosphere with a stellar collection of brand new songs. Just a few weeks after touring, Big Dipper began recording the new material in GARY WALEIKs top-secret Command Module studio. The album boasts cover art by Guided By Voices main-man ROB POLLARD, a huge Big Dipper fan (Pollard rates them the 20th greatest band in rock history, #19 being T. Rex!). The recording line-up consists of guitarist/vocalist BILL GOFFRIER, drummer/vocalist JEFF OLIPHANT, late-era Dipper alum TOM BREWITT on bass and the aforementioned vocalist/multi-instrumentalist/producer Waleik, with special guest appearances by Commander FRANK BORMAN and Command Module Pilot JIM LOVELL of the Apollo 8 Mission as well as some of the Dippers offspring. The discs 12 songs shimmer with Big Dippers trademark sound: twin vocals, ethereal harmonies, dynamic guitar arrangements by Goffrier and Waleik (dubbed by some a "two-headed guitar monster"), Oliphants powerful drumming and Brewitts melodic bass playing. But longtime fans may also be surprised at how easily Dipper has stretched its own boundaries." - Almost Ready. |
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Artist: GRAND TRINE Title: I Need You Baby/ Say It Format: 7" Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"The imprint of the finest new fools, Almost Ready Records, has roped in Montreal, Canadas Grand Trine. One of the Trines members, Tobias Rochman
(of the Cosmetics, on Captured Tracks), had a dad in 60s garage punk band, The Bohemians, and herein Grand Trine skuzz out pops classic tunes." - Almost Ready. |
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Artist: HOME BLITZ Title: Perpetual Night Format: 7" Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Perhaps Daniels most accomplished recordings to date. Mastered loud and clear by John Golden. Full color / heavy weight pocket sleeves. If you buy one modern single this year...this be it!" - Almost Ready. |
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Artist: LIQUOR STORE Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Yeah Buddy!...The debut single from Sarim fronted NYC punk powerhouse, LIQUOR STORE. Each record comes with a coupon redeemable for a free personal pizza at Moustache in the east village." - Almost Ready. |
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Artist: LIQUOR STORE Title: Yeah Buddy Format: Double LP Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Literally years in the making, this double LP serves as the epic statement that a certain resident of New Jersey (hint: its not Snooki) has been desperately trying to make for years. But he has been lacking in one key arena – Youth. Liquor Store are true sub-urban punks raised on mountains of pizza, bottomless kegs of Budweiser, and enough ennui to kill a normal human. Luckily, these doods are anything but normal, and theyre sprawling, yet focused, twin platter rolls up the heavies (Ramones, Dictators, Creedence, Motley Crue, Adrenalin O.D.) of this ridiculous rock n roll existence, and smokes a giant doobie of Truth, Justice, and The American Way. Take a hit. Hold it in." - The Commish. |
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Artist: LIQUOR STORE/NATURAL CHILD Title: Split Tour Format: 7" Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: PINK NOISE Title: Alpha Format: LP Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The Pink Noise became one of the best bands in the world in a single night last spring. After a week of practice in Detroit the members drove down to their debut in New York City, Gotham city, the big she-bang, only to walk onstage to instruments they couldnt play and songs they couldnt remember. After antagonizing the crowd for five minutes or so, the purposefully bad set was abruptly ended by a 300-pound bouncer, who proceeded to toss them out of the door. Nobody, including the label-heads in New York who beg to release The Pink Noises music, has heard from them since. Luckily the Alpha record was finished before this fiasco. It is the work of sinister pop scientists running on all cylinders, cramming multiple organs into a single cadaver only to reveal a skeleton for each song. Mixing influences from across the pond (theyd fit in with late-70s Manchester) and across the continent (Northern Cali pioneers such as Chrome and Minimal Man come to mind) with a primitive aura rarely adopted to this style, Alpha gets high scores in every category, its urgency and immediacy unparalleled in the land of limp keyboard amateurs. Now with live drums! Essential 09 listening." - Almost Ready. |
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Artist: PINK NOISE Title: Alpha Format: LP Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "This is the bands follow to the Dream Code LP that was released on Sacred Bones. These recordings mark the first time the band has recorded using live drums. Limited to 700 copies." -Almost Ready |
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Artist: PINK REASON Title: Desperate Living Format: 7" Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Pink Reason is back with a raging slab of dark, desperate hardcore. The introduction of a full band lineup and studio recording makes this the first record of its kind by Pink Reason and the bands first new record in over a year. Expanding upon territory first covered on their "Borrowed Time" single (Fashionable Idiots), the band has unleashed their most aggressive release to date with a sound reminiscent of early Husker Du, The Wipers and perhaps a hint of Totalitar. The B-side features a cover of "Your Girlfriend" by Columbus legends V3." - Almost Ready. |
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Artist: PREFAB MESSIAHS Title: Franz Kafka/Prefab Sun Format: 7" Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Cobbwebbed-basement mystery surrounds this early-80s "Wormtown" (Worcester MA) combo that dared (if they were even aware of it) to infuse proto-lo-fi post-punk sounds with drizzles of off-kilter psych and lashings of garage-pop melodicism -- all informed by an attitude that combined cryptic social digs, bone-dry wit and Dadaist pranksterism. Anthology Recordings (a one-time digital retailer of rare/collectible music) declared that The Prefab Messiahs "manage to perfectly execute the difficult joining of punk, psych, and garage." Some have waxed less analytical: in psych-legend Bobb Trimbles song "Armour of the Shroud", he wrote "Well the Rolling Stones come to town / dont throw the Prefab Messiahs out of bounds / God save those dreamers / theyre all thats left sometimes." Now Almost Ready brings you the two lead-off tracks from the as-yet-unreissued Devolver album in a handsome 7" package. Features: art & layout from Prefabs singer Xeth "Xerox" Feinberg and band photos by Bobb Trimble (the bands friend, guru, and sometime producer)." - Almost Ready. |
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Artist: SPIVS Title: Its True/Taped Up Format: 7" Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Fast paced punk from the UK. First domestic release. A side of long sold out debut single b/w title cut of debut album. Two instant classics that will leave you thirsty for more. One time pressing of 500." - Almost Ready. |
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Artist: V/A Title: The Worlds Lousy With Ideas - Volume 8 Format: LP Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "The eighth installment in the Worlds Lousy compilation series abandons the 7" format in favor of the full twelve. Pretty much everyone worth talking about in 09 is on here, as the LP collects exclusive tracks by Blank Dogs, Vivian Girls, Tyvek, Oh Sees, Sic Alps, Times New Viking, Intelligence, Pink Reason and Guinea Worms. Beautiful, silkscreened covers with art by Cassie of the Vivian Girls." There are nine different screened covers, one by each band. Currently we have Sic Alps, Pink Reason, Blank Dogs, Guinea Worms, and Tyvek. |
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Artist: V/A Title: The Worlds Lousy With Ideas - Volume Seven Format: 7" Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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An all Australian edition, featuring Super Wild Horses, UV Race, Straight Arrows, and Eddy Current Suppression Ring.
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Artist: V/A Title: The Worlds Lousy With Ideas Vol. 9 Format: 7" Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Its been 3 years since the last epic installment (LP available below). And its back with a bang; a stellar line-up, including two Columbus juggernauts CHEATER SLICKS & PSANDWICH and UK punk upstarts THEE SPIVS As always, Almost Ready presents a cornucopia of bizarre and disturbing sleeves for your eyes to linger on as the tunes turn your brain into mashed potatoes." - Almost Ready. |
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Artist: V/A Title: The Worlds Lousy With Ideas Volume 6 Format: 7" Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "(exclusive cuts by Little Claw / Eat Skull / and Psychedelic Horseshit) Printed labels this go round...all new sleeves!" - Almost Ready. Repressed. |
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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: ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB Title: MCR Blast Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "Recorded live at Stuart Arnots place by Neil Campbell and Arttu Partinen (Avarus) on June 16, 2006." Numbered edition of 150. |
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Artist: CAMPBELL, NEIL & STICKY FOSTER Title: Live At RRRecords Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| Features MC John Olson. Numbered edition of 150. |
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Artist: DEMONS Title: S/T Format: 8' Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "2 cuts from the unreleased soundtrack to some colour-saturated 70s Italian horror movie. Extended Ligeti-esque tones and sparse pulses of electric breath. Think Life Destroyer meets Hatred." -Altvinyl |
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Artist: GRAVEYARDS Title: Untitled Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "limited edition of 150, transparent square lathe, hand-cut by peter king of new zealandreview:Graveyards return with a mighty slap around the chops on this amazing wedge of basement-scuzz-free-jazz-splat, burped violently from within the pyramids of Michigan with the help of Wolf Eyes⿿ John Olson on reeds and the duo of Ben Hall and Hans Buetown on percussion and noise. This is a raw-lipped gurner of awesome proportions. Bloody heck!" -Alt.Vinyl |
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Artist: HIVE MIND Title: Untitled Format: 8' Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "Classsic Hive Mind action from Chondritic Sounds main man Greh Holger. Side A could be igneous recordings of granite mantle motors powering lichen-slow tectonic shifts within the crust of some ancient moon. The flip side has a slightly more organic feel... the heartbeat of a dying whale as heard by the ocean floor..." -Altvinyl |
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Artist: JAZZFINGER Title: Orange Sauce/ Peace Factor Fashion Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.50 |
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Artist: PRURIENT Title: Outside the World Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.50 |
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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: TIGHT MEAT DUO Title: S/T Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.50 |
| Alex Neilson (Jandek, Directing Hand) - drums. David Keenan (Volcanic Tongue, Taurpis Tala)- Sax. |
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Artist: UNITED LIGHT Title: +ve/-ve Format: 8" Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.50 |
| John Moloney (Sunburned), Mick Flower (Vibracathedral) and Tom Greenwood (JOMF) recorded Nov, 2006. |
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: Massive Furniture Invasion Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| Numbered edition of 150. |
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Artist: VOM GRILL Title: Overspannen Wordenpraal/Gezwollen Beelden Format: 8' Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "This bad boy kicks off heavy vocal grind style giving way to eerie synth shrieks which pulse drunkenly toward the centre peg. The flip starts deep inside the throat before swerving through electrified rales and high tension neck, and ending up back in a wet mouth. The full gammut from this lowland hero (Dennis Tyfus)." -Altvinyl |
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Artist: ZOVIET FRANCE Title: Shteirlel Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
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Artist: DAMIEN DUBROVNIK Title: First Burning Attraction Format: LP Label: Alter Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Formed in 2009, Damien Dubrovnik is the Danish electronic duo of Christian Stadsgaard (Sarahs Charity) and Loke Rahbek (Sexdrome, Var, Lust For Youth), founders of the Copenhagen-based record label Posh Isolation. In their day-job as label managers, Stadsgaard and Rahbek have been instrumental in establishing the citys prolific and exciting noise/punk community and outgrowing their humble beginnings in noise/industrial culture by attracting a cult/fanatical worldwide following. Working together as Damien Dubrovnik, they have published work across two LPs, a handful of sought-after cassette releases, compilations and notched up numerous performances throughout Europe and Scandinavia. Their third LP, First Burning Attraction, draws explicitly from DIY minimal synth traditions and the canon of European industrial music, resulting in the strongest manifestation of their sound so far. Consisting of six powerful and varied tracks, the album features more of the brooding synth parts and ominous bass throbs that dominated the highlights of previous LP Europa Dagbog -- Europa Diary, yet it feels tenser and more atmospheric due to the application of new acoustic-based sound sources, primitive bass pulses and more disciplined dynamics. Rahbeks vocals, which were previously guttural and wild, appear more restrained here, giving the tracks an alluring air of ambiguity and suggestiveness -- no undirected aggression, but something more thoughtful and introspective instead. Mastered by Viktor Olsson and cut by Grammy Greg at Masterpiece studios in London, 2013." -Alter. |
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Artist: DESIGN A WAVE Title: Live On Your Yard Format: 12" Label: Alter Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Tom Hirsts solo project Design A Wave offers Live On Your Yard -- an EP that presents four tracks of emotive and melancholic synth pop that point towards the eccentricity of artists like Snakefinger and Tuxedomoon, the synthetic slickness of Italo disco, and the misery of coldwave. This is the first vinyl release in Design a Waves 10-year history. Limited to 300 copies. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering." - Alter |
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Artist: EL-G Title: Mil Pluton Format: LP Label: Alter Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Èlg is Laurent Gerard. Since 2000, Élg has made a name for himself in the experimental underground performing solo in venues across Europe and the USA and also in the trio Reines DAngleterre with Jo Tanz and Ghédalia Tazartès. Over the years he has built a complex body of work which has been spread amongst reputable labels such as Kraak, SS, Lal Lal Lal, Taped Sounds and Nashazphone. Now, four years since his debut, Tout Ploie, Alter and Hundebiss present Mil Pluton, the second Èlg album on vinyl. In that time, Gerard has knuckled down with a bunch of new gear and built a fresh sound which is difficult to categorize but still carries many of the characteristics of his previous work. One can hear EBM-esque rhythms, scalpel-sharp musique concrète-style editing, dense layers of swampy electronics which open up the same hypnotic spirals that the Èlg of old did. Vocally, Èlg has evolved beyond conventional language and now works with an Esperanto-like form of alien linguistics to front the sonic mass. If your musical interests sit within the realm of outer limits electronics and have been drawn towards the work of Throbbing Gristle, Bernard Szajner, Coil and Tazartes, then look no further. Mil Pluton also features musical contributions from Jo Tanz, Jean-Philippe Gross, Bill Kouligas (PAN), TG Gondard and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu/Kemialliset Ystävät). All tracks were composed, recorded and mixed by Èlg in Brussels in 2011, then mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin in December of that same year, and pressed lovingly onto 150 gram vinyl by Alter and Hundebiss in September 2012. Edition of 300 copies, housed in an elaborate fold-out jacket." - Alter/Hundebiss. |
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Artist: ELG Title: Mil Pluton Format: LP Label: Alter Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Second edition repressed on 150 gram vinyl into color reverse board jackets. Èlg is Laurent Gerard. Since 2000, Élg has made a name for himself in the experimental underground performing solo in venues across Europe and the USA and also in the trio Reines DAngleterre with Jo Tanz and Ghédalia Tazartès. Over the years he has built a complex body of work which has been spread amongst reputable labels such as Kraak, SS, Lal Lal Lal, Taped Sounds and Nashazphone. Now, four years since his debut, Tout Ploie, Alter and Hundebiss present Mil Pluton, the second Èlg album on vinyl. In that time, Gerard has knuckled down with a bunch of new gear and built a fresh sound which is difficult to categorize but still carries many of the characteristics of his previous work. One can hear EBM-esque rhythms, scalpel-sharp musique concrète-style editing, dense layers of swampy electronics which open up the same hypnotic spirals that the Èlg of old did. Vocally, Èlg has evolved beyond conventional language and now works with an Esperanto-like form of alien linguistics to front the sonic mass. If your musical interests sit within the realm of outer limits electronics and have been drawn towards the work of Throbbing Gristle,Bernard Szajner, Coil and Tazartes, then look no further. Mil Pluton also features musical contributions from Jo Tanz, Jean-Philippe Gross, Bill Kouligas (PAN), TG Gondard and Jan Anderzen(Tomutonttu/Kemialliset Ystävät). All tracks were composed, recorded and mixed by Èlg in Brussels in 2011, then mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin in December of that same year, and pressed lovingly onto 150 gram vinyl by Alter and Hundebiss in September 2012. Edition of 300 copies, housed in an elaborate fold-out jacket." -Alter. |
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Artist: HIEROGLYPHIC BEING Title: A Romance of 2 Planets Format: 12" Label: Alter Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "All-new EP from Hieroglyphic Being aka Jamal Moss, who has nailed a highly unique sound that draws from acid, Chicago house, industrial, and new age music, produced through primitive means which successfully captures a raw intensity. A Romance of 2 Planets presents three lengthy pieces, comprising of off-center techno which incorporates primal four-to-the-floor drum machine stabs, erratic and disjointed melodies that duck and dive around arpeggiated synth lines, and a self-imposed rough style of editing. Limited to 500 copies housed in color LP sleeves." - Alter |
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Artist: LIBEREZ Title: The Letter Format: LP Label: Alter Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "This is the first album by Liberez, a group formed by recording engineer John Hannon and Pete Wilkins in Southend. The project began life exploring a deconstruction of the traditional "band" form before expanding to a quartet with the addition of vocalist Nina Bosnic, and multi-instrumentalist Tom James Scott. Musically rooted in improvisation, the band sought a progression from the loosely described "noise rock" sound at their inception into more abstract territories. The tracks were recorded as a mixture of sessions at Hannons studio and external locations where fleeting incidents were captured on crude equipment such as mobile phones and portable cassette recorders. It was a piece of text written by Bosnic that gave birth to the initial concepts that formed the backbone of The Letter, and new ideas with regards to incorporating her voice were then created within the group. Bosnics vocals on this record bear little resemblance to traditional singing or melody, but instead use the inflection and cadence of speech to play with syntax. The repeated phrases and deconstructed sentences give the record an unusual and disconcerting atmosphere, acting as a sinister bedfellow to the sharp and broken sound of the guitar and heavily treated drums. While these instruments may represent rock n roll, Liberez are content to take influence from the likes of Robert Ashley rather than Chuck Berry. The Letter is a bold first statement from a group who are taking full advantage of what they have at their disposal, and proudly displays the vast frequency bandwidth that they now work within. Limited edition of 300 copies. " - Alter |
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Artist: TOMUTONTTU/ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Title: Likaiset Pilvet/Wayland Lincoln Border Format: 7" Label: Alter Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "This vinyl pairing of Finlands Tomutonttu (Kemialliset Ystäväts Jan Anderzen) and New Yorks Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin) was released to celebrate their joint UK tour in May 2012. Tomutonttus "Likaiset Pilvet" sees Anderzen diving deep into his archives and re-emerging with something new after a heavy editing session. OPNs "Wayland Lincoln Border" builds deep layers of warm sound from trance-like synth melodies. Released in an edition of 500 with cover art by Jan Anderzen. These are the last remaining copies from that pressing." - Alter. |
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Artist: YOUNGS, RICHARD Title: Rurtain Format: LP Label: Alter Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "At this point in time Richard Youngs should need no introduction. Through his vast discography (spanning over 20 years), he has created a fascinating body of work which has found a home on labels such as Forced Exposure, VHF, Jagjaguar and his own No Fans imprint. Like all great artists, Richards work is hard to pin down and continues to evolve, mutate, and blossom into new forms, while at the same time bearing a unique characteristic that lets you know it could be by no-one else. Split into two parts, Rurtain is a new electronic piece which picks up from where the Core to the Brave LP on Root Strata left off, but taking a more abstract road into something more skeletal and strange. In the first part, broken beats cluster around minimal hits of percussion and wordless vocals that sound like theyre trapped in a vacuum, evoking a slightly unsettling atmosphere. Things become a little more celebratory in the second part with the addition of some very erratic organ playing, giving an ecstatic and almost "free-jazz" feel to the piece. The B-side features three very different interpretations of Richards originals by Neil Campbell (Astral Social Club), John Clyde-Evans and Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never). Neils version expands the organ of the second piece into a huge kaleidoscopic drone, while John hones in on the woodblock and percussion to make something more metallic and abrupt. Finally, Daniel Lopatin closes the LP grandly by adding violent stabs of digital synth and melancholic guitar-playing to Richards voice, almost creating a kind of futuristic ballad. Five tracks of unclassifiable electronics, limited to 300 copies. Recorded by Richard Youngs, Neil Campbell, John Clyde-Evans and Daniel Lopatin in Glasgow, Yorkshire and New York, 2011 - 2012. Mastered by John Hannon at No Recording Studio and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering." - Alter. |
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Artist: C.C.C.C./JUNK SICK Title: Split Format: Lathe-Cut LP Label: Altered States Country: Australia Price: $32.00 |
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Artist: LUNCH, CHRISTIAN Title: Unreliable Sources Format: LP Label: Alternative Tentacles Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Released in 1990. Produced by JELLO BIAFRA. Four tracks. First appeared on the landmark Let Them Eat Jellybeans compilation. Atypical industrial electro-rock tracks from this techno-wiz gone haywire. Features three tracks remixed by HYPNO LUXA and HERMES PAN. A collaborator on The Witch Trials project with Jello Biafra and Adrian Borland, CHRISTIAN LUNCH also contributed the classic "Jokes On You" track to the long out-of-print Let Them Eat Jellybeans compilation." - Alternative Tentacles. |
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Artist: BASSETT, MARCIA & HELENA ESPVALL Title: Lapidary Format: LP Label: Altvinyl Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
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"Great reissue on Alt.vinyl of the "Lapidary" cassette. Marcia Bassett, Guitar, and Helena Espvall, Cello, create staggering echoes and atmospheric drones nodding towards contemporary classical ghosts. The
two side-long pieces sweep in and out of effects through dark & brooding places that lead into an avant psychedelic head trip. The newly edited pieces have been remastered by Patrick Klem and pressed
on HEAVY vinyl. Beautifully packaged LP with new photo artwork by Derek Moench. Comes in the heaviest card stock ever!"
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Artist: TODAYS SOUNDS Title: Songs of Spiritual Uplift as Sung By... Format: 7" Label: Amarillo Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| 1996 release on Gregg Turkingtons label, featuring Derrick Bostrom of the Meat Puppets. |
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Artist: U.S. SAUCER Title: Size It Up Format: 7" Label: Amarillo Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| 1993 release on Gregg Turkingtons label. Features Brian Hageman of Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. |
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Artist: FLUTE & VOICE Title: Imaginations of Light Format: LP Label: Amber Soundroom Country: US Price: $26.00 |
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"Flute & Voice came from Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany, and was founded by Hans Reffert and Hans Brandeis in 1970 during an amazing weekend at the home of Hans Reffert, where the concept of the legendary album Imagination Of Light was born. The album is really progressive/underground with lots of flutes by Flute Hans Reffert as well as sitar, electric and acoustic guitar and vocals by Voice Hans Brandeis. Short time after this their very interesting album was released ( in April 1970 ) at the legendary Pilz-Label. This official reissue is the first one on vinyl and includes one bonus-track. Nice fold-out-cover and 180 gram." - Amber Soundroom.
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Artist: FRESH MAGGOTS Title: Fresh Maggots Format: LP Label: Amber Soundroom Country: Germany Price: $27.50 |
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"Fresh Maggots came from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England and recorded their only vinyl in London 1971, which was absolutely well done. Fresh Maggots were just two people, Mick Burgoyne and Leigh Dolphin. They played acid folk-rock with electric and acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, tambourine, violin, tin whistles and vocals. The original vinyl is very much sought-after today, so this reissue will help to get a vinyl of Fresh Maggots for a reasonable price today. 180-gram-vinyl and great sound-quality! Comes with an interesting insert, consisting of many personal memorabilia of Mick and Leigh like photos, articles in news-papers and tickets."
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Artist: GURU GURU Title: Essen 1970 Format: LP Label: Amber Soundroom Country: Germany Price: $26.00 |
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"Recorded live in the Essener Grugahalle, where Guru Guru performed on a minor stage twogether with Amon Düül and Frumpy. Official edition in good sound-quality, because taken directly from mixer. 180-gram vinyl and thick cover."
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Artist: KLEPTOMANIA Title: Elephants Lost Format: Double LP Label: Amber Soundroom Country: Germany Price: $31.00 |
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Gatefold sleeve. "Kleptomania came from Belgium and was founded in 1969 by Dany Lademacher, Roger Vollaert and Charlie DeRademaeker, who made experiences in other Belgian groups before. They played progressive rock with two guitars, bass, vocals and drums and were an important live-band in Belgium at that time. Their only self titled album was recorded in 1971 at Flame-Records, Hilversum, but could not be released, because Flame-Records broke at this time. In 1979 the record was released in Netherlands without the consent of the band in a very small quantity. Between 1969 and 1975 the band made also five singles, all very well done. This official reissue now includes the complete work of the LP and all five singles. It comes as double-album as 180 gram vinyl and is limited to 500 copies." - Amber Soundroom.
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Artist: NECRONOMICON Title: Tips Zum Selbstmord Format: LP Label: Amber Soundroom Country: Germany Price: $34.00 |
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"Classic over the top reissue of this legendary German underground album from 1972, previously reissued by the now-defunct Litte Wing operation." - FE. "Necronomicon came from Aachen, Germany and they named themselves after a book of H. P. Lovecraft, a horror- and science-fiction-author, where all possible horrors on this earth are described. It was one of the few German prog-rock bands, whose vocals were in German, like Gäa or Eulenspygel. Their only release was recorded in 1972 in a small studio in Kerkrade. The records were produced by Carl Lindström in an edition of 500 copies. The title of the LP is ambiguous, but doesnt describe how to stop your life at its best, but refers to mankind, who is devastating earth, and thus destroying its own basis for living. With the self-made cover they had something special in mind: it has six squares and builds a cross when opened and so it fits closely to the music and the texts and the whole production built a common concept. Due to the exceptional production, this LP today belongs to the most sought-after European prog-rock ever. The official reissue, which is offered here, also has a six-part gimmicks cross-cover, like the original and is limited to 500 copies. With insert and as 180 gram-quality-vinyl." - Amber Soundroom.
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Artist: SILOAH Title: Siloah Format: LP Label: Amber Soundroom Country: Germany Price: $24.00 |
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"Siloah from Munich was an underground band, who did release its first album in 1970. The LP is self titled, but sometimes also called Säureadler , since one of the tracks was called Acid Eagle referring to lysergic acid derived from ergot fungus, the basis of LSD which had become well-known at this time. Anyhow the music of Siloah and some other bands of that time can only be understood against the background of their experiments with psychedelic drugs. One played hippie-psych-folk; everyone was free to do and play whatever he/she liked. You can hear this when listening to the long track Aluminium Wind, especially. The original-LP is impossible to find today, so the official 180-gram vinyl reissue ( limited to 500 copies ) comes just in time." - Amber Soundroom. Very highly recommended!
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Artist: TRIKOLON Title: Cluster Format: LP Label: Amber Soundroom Country: Germany Price: $24.00 |
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"Reissue on vinyl of ultra rare album by German UNDERGROUND PSYCH band TRIKOLON. Originally from 1969 as a private release of 125 copies. The 14.30 minute track "In search of the sun", on bass, organ and drums is outstanding. Coming on 180 gram vinyl." - Amber Soundroom.
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Artist: TWOGETHER Title: A Couple Of Times Format: LP Label: Amber Soundroom Country: Germany Price: $25.00 |
| "A duo with keyboards and drums from 1973. The sound is astonishingly dense and atmospheric thanks to the synthesizer they used. The 2 tracks from their only single come as bonus tracks. On 180 gram vinyl and coming in a thick cover." - Amber Soundroom. |
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Artist: MAZZACANE, LOREN & KATH BLOOM Title: Sing The Children Over Format: LP Label: Ambiguous Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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Warehouse find of original copies of this Mazzacane/Kath Bloom LP release from 1982. Liner notes by Nat Hentoff. Following retrospective comments by the LPs producer: "On first hearing Kath and Loren one is struck by the daring intimacy of their sound. Both on their early Daggett recordings, and live, I was moved by the rigor and bravery of the spiritual explorations they undertook in their music. While mining not unfamiliar tunes in the blues and folk idioms as well as lovely, spare originals, they, both in their own distinct ways, daringly stripped the music to some of its barest and most exquisitely aching elements. Together, they created a sound that while it echoed some of American musics oldest traditions was something resolutely new and original. After hearing Kath and Loren on their own home produced tapes, I wanted to capture some of that sublimity, that quiet intensity with more clarity. Thus inspired, my short lived label put out Sing the Children Over almost 20 years ago. I hope you agree this collection of traditional tunes and originals captures something special about American music and that it deserves a new audience." - Andy Breslau. Highly Recommended!!
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Artist: CLYDE-EVANS, JOHN Title: Delight In The Stream Format: LP Label: Amen Absen Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Delight in the Stream is the first solo vinyl outing for John Clyde-Evans (aka Tirath Singh Nirmala) in close to a decade. Recorded during a year-long stay in India, the album seamlessly weaves together an array of piercing bowed objects, flutes and voice with electronic and audio embellishments over the course of three extended tracks. The scattering of sounds swirl around to disorienting effect yet still manage to mesmerize as the music draws itself out. Pressed in a limited edition of 300 copies." - Amen Absen |
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Artist: HOBO SONN Title: Wary The Mind Format: LP Label: Amen Absen Country: Canada Price: $18.00 |
| "Wary the Mind is the long awaited second LP by Hobo Sonn following the self-released debut - The Thundering Nature of Reality. Constructed using electronics, effects, piano, sampler, mixer, field recordings, etc., this album presents an audible voyage that meticulously weaves together seemingly random reference points into a cohesive yet perplexing whole. Side one begins with processed feedback shifting amongst tape hiss/static and muted drones where intermittent signals of disintegrated sound seep in like a new breath and then recede leaving near silence. This sparseness provides the opportunity to contemplate the space between each frequency and brings to focus the sequence of the sounds as they have been assembled. A hypnotic and glistening piece for piano introduces the second side which evolves into an electronic buzz accented by a raga-esque feedback swirl coaxed from the unexpected sound-source. The well placed field recordings, with the chimes, clatter and chattering, bring things to a gently decaying conclusion. The album is pressed in an edition of 330 copies." - Amen Absen. |
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Artist: VON BINGEN Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Amen Absen Country: Canada Price: $19.00 |
| "Von Bingen began life when husband and wife duo Jenni Pace and Daniel Presnell (Astral Blessing) temporarily suspended Hildegard (their east coast group of clangorous misfits), and relocated to Vancouver, BC where they soon met Josh Stevenson (aka Magneticring, and one-time JOMF member), and Richard Smith. Influenced by histories of conceptual art practices and electronic and outsider music native to the west coast, Von Bingens sound is at once reminiscent of distant sonics, such as those found in the labs of 60s SF pioneers, or overheard in Berlins Zodiac Club in the early 70s, while also anticipating the drone of future decades. Folk forms gleefully mutate, reborn as new hybrids, dignified by analog modular and semi-modular synthesizer systems from Serge, Buchla, and EMS. Instruments such as the flute, clarinet, guitar, and the drum are defamiliarized through quixotic treatments, originating from experimentations in the bands studio. By rescuing tones, processes and technology from dusty desuetude, Von Bingen happens upon a unique retrofit for advanced audiences that is sure to confound, if not altogether please. Within the grooves of this lp, you will not find full-fledged allegiance to current fashions, nor will you find some light loop of cheap sensations, hollow-core historical reenactments, or facsimile sentiments. In fact, we are not sure what you will find at all, and that is the beauty of nature, a potentially infinite system of chances, where the opportunity to un-learn is as important as the opportunity to learn; where memories possess the power to eclipse experience; where all history becomes synesthesia. Join Von Bingen in this new Eden, and by all means, have an apple." - F.O.L. Ministries, 2009. |
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Artist: AMEN DUNES Title: Ethio Covers Format: 7" Label: Amen Dunes Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"The newest release from Damon McMahons Amen Dunes, Ethio Covers is a downer take on three Ethiopiques tracks culled from unnamed tapes. After hearing the songs coming each night through his neighbors wall, he decided to learn the tracks note for note and replicate them through the Amen Dunes lens, overdubbing all the instruments and vocals. The result is a slow motion glow of devotion and nostalgia, filtered through New York City summertime haze. Limited edition pressing of 300." -Amen Dunes. |
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Artist: AWESOME COLOR Title: Awesome Color Format: LP Label: American Dust Country: USA Price: $11.50 |
| "Awesome Colors debut full-length is a mother of a scorched groover. Just check out the track Free Man, it says it all, man. Primal o-mind rhythm with boss-bliss lyrix and a lead guitar lick-lashing thatll have you cryin hell yes! every time. Awesome Color came out of Ann Arbor, Michigan where singer and guitarist Derek Stanton grew up across the street from Scott Rock Action Asheton of The Stooges. Needless to say, he picked up a few things about rock n roll around the neighborhood, things hell never forget. When the time was right, Stanton, drummer Allison Busch and bassist Michael Troutman jumped in a bombed-out car and headed for Brooklyn, New York. And began to blow minds. Live, they transfix with heavy, cosmic guitars and a rhythm section like a freight train. When they play, theyre often joined by brothers and sisters grabbing instruments and getting loud: barefoot guitar solos, sax in the aisles and wolf dancing all around." - American Dust. |
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Artist: BAIER, SIBYLLE Title: Colour Green Format: LP Label: American Dust Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Recorded in the early 70s in her home on a reel-to-reel tape deck, SIBYLLE BAIERs Colour Green paints intimate portraits of lifes sad and fragile beauty. Baier and her music appeared in the 1973 Wim Wenders film Alice in the Cities, but her recordings were never released, and only shared with family and friends. Its said that "Remember the Day," the first song she ever wrote, was inspired by a road trip to the Alps with a friend during a dark period in her youth. Upon return, Baier pulled out her reel-to-reel and preserved these intimate thoughts and feelings on tape. Though she eventually chose family and motherhood over a music career, the bare, hushed folk songs on Colour Green, first released in 2006, have elevated her to the realm of revered cult performers such as Vashti Bunyan, Nico and Bridget St. John. After an extremely limited initial pressing (copies of which have fetched large sums via online auction sites), Colour Green is finally available again on vinyl. "Its sad, at times dark and almost uncomfortably intimate, and one of the most fragile and beautiful releases this year."-Gorilla vs. Bear |
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Artist: LIGHTNING Title: 1969 (Lost Studio Album) Format: LP Label: American Sound Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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"Very last copies, from an unexpected warehouse find! First time on vinyl only release of this complete unreleased album recorded prior to their eponymous debut LP P.I.P by Minneapolis band Lightning, featuring members of the original Litter, like Zip Caplan, for instance. Also contains two White Lightning songs as taken from a carefully cleaned acetate." - American Sound. 1969 recordings, mid 90s issue.
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Artist: BASKET CASE Title: Locked Closets Two Format: LP/CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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L. Colwell, J. Olson, G. Walker; 1997-1998, Detroit.
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Artist: BIRTH REFUSAL Title: Cove Core Format: One Sided 7" & CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Bruiser and Kid, separated physically (not emotionally) by about ten feet in the shadowz of Schooner Cove, lay down the first vinyl outing by this "wives at work = the boyz will jam" afternoon electronic harsh noise project. The upcoming BR lp on Troniks wa s threatened not to be cut by the mastering dude due to horrible clean tones, and you tell on this they were struggling as well. Black hole sound, terrible textures. Ruff & Raw. Color wax, color cover, lock groove, and tape collab CD round this mutha out. Edition of 200." - American Tapes. |
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Artist: BIRTH REFUSAL Title: Easy Sessions At The Afternoon Studio Format: Double CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "New recordings of Conn/Zone. Strange." -American Tapes |
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Artist: BOY DEPARTMENT BOYZ, THE Title: Live at Shermans March Format: One Sided 7" & CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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" Hah...part two of the Fag Tape Heath aka Juices "Trapped Title"
series. I was strolling to the gym one gray morn and passed the Con
Man walking Steve Perry and jawing on the cell. It went like this:
"Yo Man-did you see my e-mail about that thing?"
"Yeah, I replied, should be kool"
"Who you clapping at? Dom?"
"Yeah...." Conn starts giggling.... "
"Whats so funny?"
"Doms asking why so many Mich. bands have Boyz in the title..."
Giggling still...
"Cause man...its the crew...duh"
"Doms all like Whats the next project funna be? The Boy Department
Boyz?"
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Artist: CARDBOARD SAX Title: Basement Reedage Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Title sayz it all. This
recording is unique cause Haunted Dan doesnt touch a sax at all after a freaked
basement cat knocked over his bone right before the session rendering it useless.
Trio damage, double electronic attack plan. AKA the Wednesday Night Labatt
Worship Service Crew. Stoked. Screw giving laptops to the world for peace, give em
REEDS and watch the world become INZANE. Color cover." - American Tapes
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Artist: CASKET SINKERS, THE Title: Baked Beans, Brains and Spiders Format: One Sided 7" & CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Wacked Duo of Coorz on downtown soprano sax and Rad Dad Dillowaysted on synth and processing. Some of the last recordingz in his basement of the crib right by the sacred temple Banfields, where Greh and Undressa reside now. Jamz are short blasts of lurking, churning synth creepers with echod reeds hidden within, ending in a time rattling lock groove. CD includes some outtakes from the session, some dillo re: Spine Scav tracks, and full basement weirdnezzz. The title is taken from a strange hand during an Apples to Apples session. Edition of 200, color art, color vinyl, jammable at any speed. No info, at all." - American Tapes. |
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Artist: CIRCUIT REFUSAL Title: S/T Format: One Sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Heavy swirling noise from Circuit Wound and Birth Refusal, west coast and mid coast knockout collabo. CW remixed the Refusal podcast from a while ago, mail style. Thick weirdness but kinda tech with is a nice new angle considering the anti-sound/fidely Coorz/Conn combo. Aint walls, but walls of the schizo ward, closing in.........in. schizo ward, closing in.........in art, and speed, any..... " - American Tapes. |
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Artist: COLTRANE, ANDREW Title: Best of AC Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"One-sided lp/Heres a convo you will
never hear:
"Yo man.....you grip that Andrew Coltrane wax debut on AT"
"From Coorz/that new joint?"
"Yeah....."
"Naw man...IM straight...got the og. tape...it dont have extra stuff does
it?"
Nope. Wont Hear it. A sneaky trick: This monster slab is reboot from a tape
edition ONE. AC doesnt even remember busting it. Black in the hazy Cove dayz,
me and the Connartist would always grip a stack of brand new noise underground
tapes enroute to Mexitown via Wolf practice. In the 40min journey each way we
would always go thru a ton of tapes, and it was a true stoker. Heard amazing
stuff by the crew, always an exciting ride. So one day we had a grip from ultra
underground sound designer from Redford =Andrew Coltrane. Dudes seemly been
around recording for a while on his amazing Hermitage label, but has never
played live. A rarely, rarely seen mug that holds the mitten-state
terror-cum-damaged soul-Midwestern sound/noise aesthetic somewhere within the canals of his
ears/brain/heart. AC records nonstop, always a solid approach, in various
combos, even sax/drums. This, as stated earlier, is his vinyl debut, and is an
exact repress of a tape edition 1 of some of the most bizarre, homespun,
synth/electronics wrangle ever heard. It contains inside the grooves a heavy, ominous
shadow of deep outsider vision, a rare and mindwrecking naive quality that is
nearly impossible to obtain. Unpretentious, strange, unique, alone...all the
elements of the best sound style. Super stoked to bust this. Pacakged with paste
on art designed by AC.Edition of 100." - American Tapes
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Artist: COMMUNICATION PALACE Title: Live From An Unopened Room Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Third release from a sound pyramid in debt to fully strange local communication system in Lansing. What would a Palace of Communication do? Hope language sacrifices? Do dances in unison to shouted rotten verbs? Would it pay rent in long sentences scribbled on moist magic ancient forest logs? What would the king or queen be like? The Queen of Communication Palace? Mouths are magic, no words inside this tape, just the echoes of the halls of the Palace when no one is around ultra strange sound for the weird local zone where things are communicated. Wear a vowel gown with a adjective necklace while busting this. Packaged in a new mega color slip case style with full color inzane art." -American Tapes |
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Artist: CRIPPLE CRIMES "TRIANGLE" Title: Deny Opportunity One Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "New in house unit with a whole new twisted gnarl electronic mangel sound. Double right hand tape abuse. The audio equivalent to seeing someone smile with with fingers instead of teeth. Nasty magnetic. Packaged in a new mega color slip case style with full color inzane art." -American Tapes |
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Artist: DEAD COMET ALIVE Title: Universe for One Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"one-sided LP/ Old AT group, first leap into the wax world. DCA is a long-standing ??? electronics??? and ???? home jamming loner sound unit and heres two pieces of other worldly echoing empty universe tone twisters to inhabit a table-for-one ear vacation to the
lurking parts of your daily experience. Sounds like having a huge unknown gnawing entity chase you inside a huge unknown sound world, at any speed. Super weird, not Demoon Skirt weird but more...internal noize stylez. Numbered Edition of
100, crazy inzane sleeve paste on."-American Tapes
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Artist: DEAD MACHINES Title: Hymns to the Universe Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Minidisked live Inzane
horrors from the greebies. No effects, no futures. Rehearsals for the Victo
coldnezzz. Horns via Nepal, scattered nonsense. Painted covers, edition of 40." - American Tapes.
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Artist: DEMOON SKIRT Title: Live France/Spain For The Sleeping Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"HAH! This mysteriousness unit first vinyl outing. Live @ the Bievnenue La
Hotel in Nieges De France Challes
http://www.hotel-neiges-de-france.com/ and @ http://www.exped
ia.com/pub/agent.dll/qscr=dspv/htid=1425107
together in extremely late night and early morning non-sound jammerz style
done whilst the Wolf crew unknowingly sleeps quietly. Really really weird.
Hotel noize for dreamerz!!! Numbered Edition of 100 with strange art paste on with
no info whatsoever."- American Tapes
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Artist: DIRTY DYNAMITE GANG Title: Roach=Animal Format: LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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Artist: DJ DOG DICK Title: The Yo Po Freestyles Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"OMG: Freer then free, wacker than the most wacked out, drug induced dog dick slam par excellence. Finally after 900 + releases AT jams this white knuckler INZANITY truly from beyond. My favorite lp, EVER. WARNING: you are most likely mentioned backwards or forwards. FILE UNDER NON POSEUR SLAM CORE.....whew.... might need a age statement with this one. ...... editon of 100 mega handmade....BOOSH" - American Tapes.
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Artist: DS HASTINGS & DL SAVINGS TIME Title: 95 Flashblack Attack Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Oldest recording here, 13 years!!!. DS Hastings man...what can you say? Well,...how about:
A: Fresh
B: Old School
C: Waaay Underground
IF you heard his totally obscure output on S.F.C.R in France or Square D recordings from Detroit all before 1995 then you know Hastings has his pulse on some raw, environmental, weirdo, static, fluxus style non-sound. Its like what Captain Crunch listens to before Tony The Tiger walks the plank into a boiling sea of washing-machine chewing sharks. Dude is a HUUGE influence from his
like three releases. But you aint gonna see him around live anytime soon......underground..... SO: the record....some label...I forget who/what was gonna do an OG 7" Waaay black in 1995 between DS and DL Savings Time...it never saw
ight....UNTIL GNAW!!! Here is the original recordings and two new Collab tracks. This thing is as raw as chewing on a thirty foot tree with cement teeth while wearing a basement rug as a crotch-cloth. The DL Savings Time track for the 7"is an early reel to reel tape cut up of crude electronics and a crazed instructor yelling at a class, the Hastings track sounds like what the amazing TOM
GRIMLEY covered in the basement of the COCK PIT when he took a bunch of broken glass and let it spin in a dryer whilst the crew stage dived off said
appliance. Really strange. The new Collab tracks sound like amplified LICE. Just too stoked on this platter. Grip this mug and grin ear to blown out ear for WEAKZ!!!! Inzane art, numbered edition of 100."-American Tapes
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Artist: EATING PEOPLE/HENRY & HAZEL SLAUGHTER Title: Second Supper Live In The South Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Split long boy of mangeld beats and keyboard excursions into foreign lands. All new recordings 4 track INZANE mix at the controls. A tribute to complex emotional dark output of the JUMBOs "Vietato Ai Minori Di 18 Anni?" lp. Color covers numbered edition of 40." - American Tapes. |
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Artist: EMPTY SET Title: No Solution Set One Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Another new unit, inspired by the elegance and mystery of numbers. Piercing low tech raw electronics, a X/Y axis of negative slope non liner of horrible integers spinning terribly outta control. .Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." -American Tapes |
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Artist: FINKBEINER, JASON Title: Dedicated to Rochester Charles Format: One Sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: FULL SCALES Title: Triple Trebles Format: One Sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Vinyl debut of this (HIO) Hammond Organ Inzanity unit, no effects or studio trickery. Total sunny winter afternoon pauser jammer. A suite in three pieces, creeping and still. Was gonna have liners by deli manager/fantasy writer M.R.Miller but shes "not into violent imagery".... Edition of 200 on color wax with full color fixed to the blank side with insert." - American Tapes. |
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Artist: GAL, SHARON Title: Melancholic Format: 7" Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Hold on now, MOUTH CRAZY og member UK sharon gal in crazy double sided single of wacko grey day inverse ADULT CONTEMPORARY personal INZANITY..... Side one is super strange electronics and crazed vox, side two super downer Robert Wyatt cover..... super affective claustrophobia audio creeper.... editon of 100." - American Tapes. |
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Artist: GENERAL ASSURANCE Title: Abundancia En Su Vida Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"c90/New duo of weirdo kids Rick P. & Tom A. from Fowlerville Michigan, a town so small they have their own zip code..... Totally weirdo soundscape of keys & mutant electronics. Imagine Cleveland superstars -in- the-making FRAGMENTS trying to make a soundtrack
for a whale blubber factory covered in creeping cosmic black slime.... and you would be in the neighborhood of this outsider noise world. A head scratcher for real homey. Color Covers."- American Tapes
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Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: Live at the Asylum Inn Format: One Sided 7" Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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" Yeah
man...that Lex/Ypsi killer crew, Midwest locals. Them mugs came up for
the killer Lansing Noise fest this winter and tried a new Rad style,
apartment electronic lurk, late night style, no drums. They stayed up
all night and jammed, sounded completely weird and ace. I joined em
on some sessions with downtown reeds and flute. This release contains
completely grim moments from those sessions and the live gig that
night. A new horrible dawn of sound from the Police. Look out when
they bust this drumm-less style live....will be flipping it like a
dolphin trapped in pudding and barbwire. This is downer-sound- dolp
big time. Could have been recorded 78 at the Air Gallery. Stoked. Same
deal, Edition of 200, color vinyl/art, and speed homey." - American Tapes.
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Artist: HANDICAPPER HORNS Title: Sax in the City= One Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"one-sided LP/ BLACK TO ATTACK!!! Old solo reed project now a fleshed out band with Thrasher Slowson and Sara Okeffe from ARA (whose LP on WHAT THE?? is a stone ruler of sweetnezz) on tenor and alto saxes, bass and regular clarinets and mangled electronics. Debut platter after a handful of gigs in the Natti, Lexington and No Fun 08. Drifting and subterranean noisez that attach on your brain and plant seeds of slow motion anti-body lurking sound creatures inside the shadowz of your skull. Warning: Cemented Freeze Zone. #erd Edition of 100, paste on sleeves of inzane art."-American Tapes
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Artist: HENRY & HAZEL SLAUGHTER Title: Freeform Crawlin Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "new recordings in FREE FORM style, welcome to a strange and entangled living yo...color covers, edition of 40 numbered" - American Tapes. |
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Artist: HENRY & HAZEL SLAUGHTER Title: Permanent Collection Format: 4 CDR Set Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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"Four cd collection of a gaggle of H & H songs. Handmade covers." -American Tapes
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Artist: HENRY & HAZEL SLAUGHTER Title: Sideways Gas Washers Format: One-Sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Debut LP of homemade raw basement techno. Ten Tracks all ending in lock grooves. Color vinyl. Handmade covers. Edition 200 numbered." -American Tapes
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Artist: HOW PEOPLE SPEAK Title: I Was Tempted To Tell Him That I Had I No Idea What I Really Wanted But Decided To Keep It To Myself Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Killer new strange-home-eerie boundary-limiter language-soundtrack unit. Uber ???? Very similar to going to a Drive Inn in a summer afternoon with a trunk full of rotting mulch which you eat by the handful while you watch Happy Days bloopers in reverse. And the Roach is in the backseat, chuckling along to very strange parts of the flick. Complete frozen non sensica la muscia. Double Right Hand Style electronics and autosuggestive digestive statics cover the sky. Title is a quote from Bolanos mind-blowing "Savage Detectives" book. Color Covers: Numbered Edition of 50." - American Tapes |
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Artist: KILL DEVIL HILL Title: Ex-Kill Devil Hill Format: One Sided 7" & CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"What
the? Is it the Tom Potter/Coorz/ the? Is it the Tom Potter/Coorz/ |
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Artist: LATRINE PSYCHOLOGY GUILD Title: Weighted Ghost # H Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"What
started a completely confusing underground group sect joke turned into an
ongoing series from a new unit..... The first alphabets A-J was for the crew only
handed out at crew gigs, now opened up for public consumption. Various short
tapes of various strange styles, electronics, sounds, tapes, reeds,
environments, all small editions until we hit Z. All in hand painted black ink
calligraphy style sleeve." - American Tapes
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Artist: LOST ANCHOR Title: A Process Group Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "New mysterious lurk un drag sound collage group, already with a couple of compilation tracks milling about. Klanging electronic strangeness, completely lost anchor jam style. Music for a soundtrack of a void First Responder. Opposition WITH flow..Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." -American Tapes |
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Artist: MAN SLAUGHTER Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Yes! First recordings of Superman Groop outta SF/Oakland with AJ aka RJ aka SIXES, Paul C. of XBXRX and ESP Layout, and Noel of Comets= Caveman inzanity power 600 BC sound= close your eyes and see AJ break a table infront of you!! Reeds/guitar/electronic bomb attack. Amazing assault. Dedicated to all shorties, everywhere apparently. Color cases, crazed artwork. Rules."- American Tapes |
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Artist: MAN WHO ATE HIMSELF Title: Second Supper Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
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Artist: MICHIGAN UNDERGROUND GROUP Title: April Sessions Format: One-sided 7" Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Michigan Underground Group collective here on wax, playable at any speed on colored vinyl. Too many mich crew dudes to mention, four songs in various styles with various instrument combos, sculptures, electronics, reeds, vocals...more editions to come. Handmade covers, edition of 200. All proceeds go to keeping M.U.G active." - American Tapes. |
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Artist: MSBR/SPYKES/GOVERNMENT ALPHA Title: Tano Forever Format: One Sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Man...where to start..... in 98 MSBR and Alpha did a short Midwest Canada
tour and was a total blast...mind-blowing experience.... way black when it
was done RAW and human....
so after three amazing MSBR/UI/Princess Dragonmom/ Alpha etc. gigs in
Detroit the duo reded up to Grand Rapids on a Monday night to bust one at
a huge indie club. I intercepted a call by Davin from PDM in the late
afternoon claiming dem boyz wanted to jam together. Within minutes I was
in enroute from Detroit for the action. Got there / and busted this at
1:30 AM in GR. to a crowd of empty bottles...... fucking ruled...hard.
Total schizo lofi audio weirdo live session with the only known recordings
of the raw Koji vocal scream/mutterings. Feedback reeds and zoned
electronics galore, recorded by a Walkman on a lonely table at the back of
the club. For some reason this sounds Droll Yankee ish and calm/ harsh
loverz will be bummed...weird man.... Stoked to have done it. Everyone
needs more Koji legends in they lyfe....dude is an icon homeboy.... A
strange document from free-ER times. "See you on the Other Side Warrior
Brother" indeed...man...kinda choked up..... Edition of 200 in weird
handmade "wave sleeve" and color mounted artwork. Scratch friendly
packaging. RIP" - American Tapes.
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Artist: NAUTICAL ALMANAC & LOCAL DISORDER Title: Kool Kreek & The Chaser Gang Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: NEW MONUMENTS Title: Live Format: 4 CD Box Set Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
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"Part two of the HELL HALL section. This is the fire unit that consisted of Hall/drums, C S Yeh/violin, electronics, voice, general PLAYER supreme, and the mighty Don Dietrich on "rainbow bridge" style sax and electronics. Killer unit, lots of activity and details within the soundscape. They recorded every gig on their week long tour and sold it at the shows, here is the condensed version on 3 cds with new art and an extra cd of the amazing Detroit gig in Halls backyard which got fully rolled by a weird upset neighbor and then the Hamtram 5-0. Tightly presented free form freakout with psych sax...BOOSH!!! Packaged wallet style with crazy bright colors." -American Tapes
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Artist: NOISE NOMADS & PAUL FLAHERTY Title: Live Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Whoa!! Is, MATCHMAKER.COM broken??? I heard whisper of this unholy meeting but had to get the full, skinny....What the???? Technically called Paul Flaherty and Jeff Hartford but, we all know the two stars involved so might as well roll with the stage, names. Live in Florence, MA on 8-01-08, just f***ucking nutz. Super dynamic, sounds, more like a "Flaherty visits HVAC schools and falls into a dumpster full of dry cardboard filled with bunk dynamite" celebration. Goes all sorts of zones, from wispy oil electronics sailing on soft reeded secret-breaths, then into, club ham/fisted drum abuse with that screech we all love. Super weird, with, great electronics by BONESCRAPER Hartford... Like SONATA FOR TWO MOODS= ALL, WHACKED. Warning: does NOT sounds like Pauls ORANGE unit.....AT ALL!!!! I had a, bunch of tests yearly...Wiring midterm and a tuff J Operator and Complex Phasors, one right after it, and stoopid me left my regular glasses in the Tovinators, purse...so had to bust the test with me Shades/Stunners in full effect and my, wiring intrusctor was like "you wanna do this test backstage?" BUSTED!! Add this, platter for your inverse RNR Lyfestyle!!!! Playable at any speed...Edition of, 100 with handmade covers, numbered." -American Tapes
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Artist: PARADOX Title: #11 Format: Mag/CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The 2-D inzanity continues!! Second double digit eyeball voodoo edition!! Ten pages of whatthe? Collage and sketch in total inzane style. Scribble-sprawl automatic visual OD, if a face dont look good, morph-that-mug stylings. Find your path through the cut and paste upside down universe!! Color covers, b & w gutz, hand sewn binding, with cd soundtrack to seal the experience. Numbered edition of 40." - American Tapes |
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Artist: PARADOX Title: #5 Format: Mag Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Recent scribbling systems and whacked collages.
Ten b & w pages, color cover, hand sewn binding. Book & CD coming someday." -American Tapes.
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Artist: PARADOX Title: #6 Format: Mag Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Newest one. This time no collage. All pen, ink, and pencil sprawl. Rrrreall Weird. Make your own MAP. Twenty pages. Paradox #10 is at the plant in LA and is a full book with pics of all the handmade art from AM 500S and other releases, and will come with a CD. Thanks to JW for hooking that up. Color cover, hand sewn binding, in a plastic magazine bag." - American Tapes |
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Artist: PARADOX Title: #8 Format: Mag Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Newest Paradox, back to B & W raw style= this one special cause of pages started by the one and only Andrew Coltrane and handed to Dead Brain= anyone who has been lucky to see his handmade boxsets know AC dont play around. Ten pages with color cover and handsewen binding."- American Tapes |
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Artist: PARADOX Title: #9 Format: Mag/CD Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "art zine booklet + CD/ Latest installment of this long running art/eyeball static zine tribute to the Boston punk art zine of the 80z. This one is special from the others in that its 10 loose B & W drawings/collage scrawl housed in a thick folder with paste on cover and a General Assurance CD of audio accompaniment. A full inzane experience/ attack!!!"-American Tapes |
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Artist: PINK CHUNK JAZZ BAND Title: Alone and Unaffected Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Second one in this series. Reeds plod along to different rhythms and sound
sources. Still inzane. More coming!! Color covers."- American Tapes
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Artist: PINK CHUNK JAZZ BAND Title: Building Dust To Web Fingers Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "New weirdo mutant homemade jazz troupe recordings." -American Tapes |
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Artist: PINK CHUNK JAZZ BAND Title: Clear Conscious Bottom Dregs Living Format: One-sided 7" Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Home-prov kitchen percussion clatter und klang wax debut. Two songs, lock groove...uber primitive and lumbering thing... handmade cover with old 7" index cards, edition of 100. Crazed jazz basment deal, rotten tropics." - American Tapes. |
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Artist: POOL WATER Title: Live At Warm & Covering Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| " As debuted above is the new power trio of Connelly, Ol Zone One, and Massive Mike Collino. Recorded snug in the shadowed corner of the sacred Cove, three twisting and grossly vacant narratives to the torrid ambient static between your ears! Violin, cardboard percussion, flute, tapes: a smorgasbord of wicked ingredients/instruments to force your day into a magic-fueled vessel!! Captured in high inzane-fidelty with the new portable Inzane Zone Traveling Four Trick (IZTF). Good vibes inside means seriously jam business within the Jason/Freddy adorned walls of the Conn Artists COMFORT ZONE. We would met up at the cove, bust some "launcher" recs., drink, get loose and head to the studio for SERIOUS concentration into the void. Hours later Collino would bounce and me and the Conner would play chess in total silence until the wee hours. Goodtimes.com. Beyond stokered on this new troupe, more lurking sounds down the pipeline, below the streets, creeping/movin inward!!! The lone Michigan unit with two Mikes in it? No whoops, The Underwear Heads had THREE "zany" Mikes involved, sorry. Color Covers, numbered edition of 60." - American Tapes |
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Artist: SIXES Title: Boxset Format: Triple Cass Boxset Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"Whoa..here is it is after a demonic wait...AM
666/what better to bust it with than with that Hellfire Wildman SIXES AKA AJ AKA RJ AKA Ryan from SF, Crash Worship, Death Throes, Man Slaughter, etc. Mammoth 3 cassette set of the classic Sixes gnarl, grind. Electronic mayhem comes close to the Mongol finesse of his Electric Heavyland label LP. Six sides of
manhandled scatter and brass tax choke attack. Packaged in a handpainted case with poster. Limited to 66."-American Tapes
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Artist: SKATERS Title: Untitled Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Man.... True weirdo duo dude doing true weirdo
unknown homemade guerrilla warfare jams. A joy. Totally diff to the Chocolate
Monk CD but still the same "what the..." style.. Couldnt tell you the
instruments, the style, nothing." - American Tapes.
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Artist: SPYKES Title: Lengths To Time In Crosswords Format: Double Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: SPYKES Title: Personal Contact Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "New recordings worked out at Marry Gold studios thru spring/summer 2012. Complete forest of ?????? mashed up sound Spykes style. Editon of 40 numbered." - American Tapes. |
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Artist: SPYKES Title: Tour Mask Format: CDR + Tour Mask Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: SPYKES Title: Zones Faulted Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"Brand new crisp & crazy electronics & alto sax home spun slo damage. 6 Tracks at 45 minutes. Sail to strange lands between your ears/wet cold brain style. In a clear dvd case with color covers." -American Tapes.
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Artist: STARE CASE Title: Public Vanity Format: Double CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "New double set of raw basement blues abstraction." -American Tapes |
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Artist: TAURPIS TULA TRIO & SPYKES Title: Afternoon Electronics Format: Double CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Oh Hell Yeah!= Keenan and
Heather/the Volcanic Toxic Twins + skinsman from the Glasgow land with killer
double
tracks of liveness from Morden Towers in the 05. Rattling drums, ether
feedback and string scrapings with foggy other worldly universe style free
rumblings.
Like an unreleased Blue Humans bootleg dipped into Houston Purple Stuff cough
syrup kool aid death menthol pits. On the heels of the killer Eclipse LP.
Second cd remix with kitchen percussion, screeching mud reeds, electronic
scab-peelers with tapes of Spykes. Killer set! Freedom meets eremite leprosy
Ypsi
creature vision!! Edition of 50 in double DVD style cases." - American Tapes.
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Artist: THAMES Title: The Gift Of Money Format: 7" Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Oh funky boy. I love my weirdo friends. Esp when they record SCRAMBLED non music to the soundtrack of they weirdo lives. Remember when you used to get a record, play it, stare at it for an hour, put it black on, repeat, and be blank brained cause it JUST DONT MAKE NO SENSE. Well, you inzaniacs, heres another one. I mean Blake Hargreaves & Alex Moskos are some pretty strange dudes. I heard Alex got caught using actual live cats as stencils for graffiti in the catacomb walls of Montreal and Blake PRETENDED to work for the Canadian Senate for years to get access to a secret room in the capital of Ottawa that is used only to make a vile stew of illegal insect repellents & found river garage that they gave to the Canada postal workers to keep them from striking. As the story goes, in the darkest hours of the winter of 2009, the duo was sick with the flu from a long bout of STREAKING around the business district of Montreal, Alex & Blake took microwaved antifreeze and poured it over they primitive oscillators and filters, left them in a snow bank for two hours, stood facing separate corners in silence in the bright lights of their studio for another three hours, and then at 6:30 am: slammed a gallon of that sickly liquid inside those old wax lips from the 80s (alex found a case in alley when stenciling cats for a mural biased on the Packers Super Bowl Loss from last year) and RUSHED to hold the Guinness world record for the most CUBIST song 7" ever recorded. Sheesh. No joke. I think they won but the judge thought the songs on this single were from a SEND IN YOUR LYRICS song contest they made for the failed robot boxers in the new Hugh Jackman boxing movie. Between you and me, they won. They didnt necessarily PRESS this record as they did unwillingly from a vision induced by YOGURT overdose at Bill Smith records from post dated expired DANNON marathon sessions at the plant. NOTHING IS RIGHT on this single. SOOO WEIRD. File under = Goofy Tombstone Pizza Dirt. The only record at played at the Olzone crib where tovah thought it was on CHOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE records. So abstracted stoked on this i will spell it STO PKOKED. This here, are my weird friends and they PEAK MY LANGUAGE. B & W covers, edition of 200, numbered and hand stamped." -American Tapes |
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Artist: THIN ENSEMBLE Title: Free East Lansing Flashblacks Format: One Sided 7"/CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Old East Lansing Free Crew featuring Randy Sutherland (in SF now) and John Coorz with various other jammerz circa 94-97. TE started as an Abbot Road house band of Sutherlands and after seeing em play an amazing set at the Otherwise gallery in April of 94, I asked to join em. After that, we played house parities where we got paid to stop, Highway overpasses, bridges, train tracks, streets, porches, music practice rooms on MSU campus, everywhere in the city. Randy played drums, alto sax and various percussion things and I jammed alto, handmade horns and electronics. We busted a few early AM tapes, had a killer collection of getting busted tracks (cops, music school students, other haterz) slanted for an early EF release, and that was about it. The Alt Country scene was big in EL there, so we opened for those bands a million times and bummed everyone out. Didnt have a single fan, tons of freedom to explore. The 7" and CD contains various live gigs and other oddities, some with trumpet and other jammerz but the sounds are pure primitive rambling barely organized free sounds. Good youth crew times indeed!!! Edition of 200, color vinyl, color art." - American Tapes. |
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Artist: TOTAL Title: To Fall Like Cherry Blossoms Format: LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: TRAUMA Title: The Calming Effects of the Ocean Vol. One Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Hell Hall & Chris Riggs new post Traum guitar - drums dense improv troupe. Interesting new jamm style, kinda like Circle Jerks Raga or Ocra Records played by Circle Jerks members. Fast and active but, calming. First installment in a mad crazy long series. The sizzling streets of JAM-TRAMMACK gently tuning the inside of your ear drum, right side only, cause BIG RIGGS is jamming a file blade and a 30 coarse block of sand paper across the fine lines of your left side ear hole hair. Always a bright day when a guitar sounds like an AM RADIO crackling away Disco Inferno under a bedrock of brain frying static. Packaged in a new mega color slip case style with full color inzane art." -American Tapes |
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Artist: UNEVEN UNIVERSE Title: Exit Human Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"One-sided lp YES!! New crew new underground new sounds just stinking NEW. Body Morph/Mossy Throats/EXBX/ Russell Street Soup Sgt/DJ Ding Dong aka Dan D aka Square D and Hellfire Holly (The Jasons, Uneven Dead, Costco, has a kool young sis) make up this Michigan Basement Free Sound Non-Movement Unit. Exit Human is they debut platter, and what a freaking mug creeper it is. Slow moving reed and lurch galore. Chamber music for ear wax from 43 BC. Forwards, backwards, whatever speed you want, the message slays the same. WARNING= stoker alert. Dive in and join us in these warm and fruitful strange waters of audio moss. Art by HHolly in the new AT record sleeve fold over style. Numbered of Edition of 100, few left." -American Tapes
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Artist: UNIVERSAL INDIANS Title: Sloth Nest Format: LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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Artist: UNUSABLE SIGNAL Title: Universe in Terrors Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Second release of processed organ recordings. Skull sipping time shifts tear your brain in dual dungeon horrors. Like shaving the radioactive moss from the insides of your eyes. Handpainted case edition of 50." - American Tapes.
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Artist: V/A Title: Learning for Insipid Zeal = Pool Water, People Pollution, Imaginary Unit In Electronics Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Whoa! Hold on now! Heres the big one! All recorded in a one week in late April, heres the line up: Track One ) Pool Water: Super new heavy unit with Connelly, Zone One and Mega Mike Collino. Violin, kitchen percussion, slow tapes - every ingredient to make your pulse quicken/slow-en!!! The track sounds more akin to a Cook Labs recording of a train journey thru a snow covered mountain at midnight rather than three mug blokes in ultra concentrated jam mode.... Will make your skin stand at attention, soldier!! Recorded in Inzane-Dimension sound with the IZTF in full effect mode. Mad style: File Under: Misshapen Jam Growths. Track Two ) People Pollution: What the? Ultra distorted retardo basement rock trio with Juice & Raddix (AKA Raven Strain Matt and Fag Health AKA Sick Llama Heath) on guitar and bass and Inzane on plodding go nowhere drumming. Was meant to be a Justice-style garage unit turned Frankenstein- style into a twisted distorted Mega-mess! Recorded under the influence of afternoon sun, left over Milwaukee Beasts from the Aries Assault party, and the shadows of the dank interiors of the Frying Pan. WARNING! = worst guitar/bass tone on earth!! Would make Joe Young, Vorkriegphase, and Wretched sell they kitty littered amp speakers for opening a Baskin and Robins Franchise. Just a stinking rocking mess of a track!! More to come by this mutant unit! Name taken from a strange puzzle the puzzler master Tovah found in a rotten Lansing thrift store. Track Three ) Imaginary Unit in Electronics: Im sure yall are like "Why not just call the jam J?" Well, Im not quite sold on the concept of being that you cant take the square root of a negative, but you CAN call it a J and then next thing you know it has a value of 1 or-1. Huh? When rad Instructor Max got asked the question by a stunned Electrical Math class, he just looked down, counted his voltage, current, and resistance markers and said, "Well, thats a discussion for Carl Jung." Shit, lost me too. Like the button my crazed mom had (no ya turkey, not the OVERSEXED one) , = "Ninety Percent of Life is Just Showing Up." True. Soundtrack for confusion, included. So what the hell else for this heavy pack? How about a stupid-colorful overload hand painted collab jackets with artist Raymond Salvatore Harmon, painted in Automatic Writing Style. Why? Cause Tyfuss once told me "Zines and Collaborations keep the underground scene together and alive" You got it!!! Killer flow and strange new sounds will leave your day inzanity haunted with this new comp platter!!! Go nutzo young player. Edition of 100, numbered, hand done, THE WORKS." - American Tapes |
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Artist: V/A Title: No State No Sound Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Hold on gnaw...last but not least..... the NO STATE NO SOUND comp lp. Dont know what led up to it...think I vaguely remember getting "dared" by Nurse Khrust to put out a record of silence by the crew, not sure, but maybe told Haunted Square D about it....but anyhow.....flashblack to an average but killer brewsday in the late summer, got the crew shooting the gip, no biggy, and Square D rolls up with his "Body Morph" one minute silent track....takes a sec to remember but all right...lets do this. Greh and V invite the now deep crew black to they hut, and on the way I had a walkman in the whip, so i popped in Ds master, hit record and the stop watch for a minute and me and the Connartist sat in silence for a minute and recorded the second track BIRTH REFUSAL. As we got to Grehs, we assembled all the jammers present and hit em up for a minute, all on three different Walkmans all on the original master tape. Was totally strange, Sick Llama was just standing in a yard with the crew looking at him pointing a recorder his way while nothing happened. It was like a very strange gig. So after everyone at the party got recorded/ trapped in NO SOUND, some the garage, some inside a bathroom whilst the crew stared at the close door, someone had the idea to call up some jammers. So No Fucker Johnny, Romero, others all held on the line for a minute of NOTHING. Totally rules. The end result sounds like a Folkways experiment. I ended up coming home and getting busted for "recording silence and not grabbing the Air Condition Window Unit" which was the only reason i went Grehs begin with. Hey, Window AC Unit or not, you are still KOOL with this platter!! Heres the Full Iiterary, recorded in order, no overdubs or tom foolery, no voices nothing, just weird hiss and an occasional bird chirp in lonesome...
1) Body Moprh
2) Birth Refusal
3) Hive Mind
4) Sick Llama
5) New Pledgemaster
6) Tom & John
7) ??????? (we eventually figured out who it is, heres a hint: weighs 90 lbs, goes from 0-Passed out in 3 brews, now in P. Rico)
8) Moontravellers
9) A.C. & Khrust
10) Alicia Warning
11) No Fucker
12) Burning Star Core
13) Hair Police
14) Rodger Stella
15) Damion Romero
16) Hellfire Holly
17) Iron Lung
18) 16 Bitch Pile Up
19) The Haunting
All pressed on colored gray vinyl on the new AT style wrapped around sleeve with creepy art, Numbered edition of 200." -American Tapes
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Artist: V/A Title: Soundtrack To No Solutions Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Uneven .Universe, Dead Machines, Cripple Crimes ⿿Triangle, Pink Chunk Jazz Band c60 WARNING : WEIRD TAPE ALERT. New tape in the new ⿿weekly audio diary series. This one was the week of Halloween, the DM and the UU tracks are from a TOTALLY weird art/gig show in Mt Clemens. Empty concrete wide basement sound ambiance dominates the two tracks with a crawling, evil sound. CCT and PCJB round out the comp in circle in square home inzanity sound style. Tried a style of just recording the gigs/home jams in short tracks from the week and dropping the master in the masta box and now there is a thick tangling growing grip of these that will slowly leak out. . Packaged in a new mega color slip case style with full color inzane art." -American Tapes |
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Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"Second in this collab
CD series. This time paired with Plants/OG American Tapes/NAACP guitar
master/weirdo Jeff Dunn who sent in a tape of solo guitar that gets a thick reworking
by Coorz Liberty. Three strange tracks with guitars, j-tar, and alto sax. Band
started in 1991????!!!! Handpainted cover in DVD case."- American Tapes
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Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs -Vol. Nine/Outer Space (Emeralds John & Spyked) Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"The last time a mug was in Cleveland going to see the amazing KUOLEMA with the local crew, the after gig 3am session landed us at Big John Jrs apartment. The homeboy was jamming a bunch of Emeralds outtakes where they were so brain transported on _ _ _ _ that nothing sequenced up or matched or went in the forward direction. It was pretty amazing to see the jamm components of a
massive unit scrambled beyond working order. After that, Big JohnJr played some Lilypad and Outerspace solo pieces that were SUPER weird, like radio ad cut ups, metal cups clinking around, planes taking off, etc. It was REALLY STRANGE.
So as me and the DilloDad were stumbling out to the truck, B. John JR. hands me a STACK of the works-in-progress CDs we have been jamming and says "shit man...just take it...get em outta here..." So here is the FIRST in the Big John and Big John, Jr. Collab...total Outerspace/homespun fruit loop electronic squall. Definite headphone other world negative universe upside down town Lilypad soundtrackz....definately more on the way.........Emeralds (and Fragments) were amazing at the AM 800 party this last July Fourth. Rulin tymez. Color Covers"-American Tapes
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Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs Vol. Eleven/Kitchen Clatter (Family Underground and Dead Machines) Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "There is a whole nasty grip of bands that would rule to be in: early Allman Bros., early Nerve Noise Net, Kanssan Uutiset , The Singing Alvias, "Victims" Period Cimex, others. Add the amazing Denmark underground thick drone mystery troupe Family Underground to that long list. You wanna be in the band? Just jamm happily along to the audio of choice and sail awaythats exactly what The Dead Machines did to the FU (re: not FUs) totally rad ⿿Candle Fingers cd. Here are the results..a complete electronic dense world of scrape, buzz, and hum. Hopefully we will all jamm live together someday, somewhere, somehow Electronics for the setting of all suns underwater. .Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." -American Tapes |
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Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs Vol. Ten/Spyked Stelzer (Howie S. and Spyked Coorz) Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "This one was long time comingwas funna be collab lp but the Troniks Howie lp was unsurpassable audio A++. So heres a long more relaxed effort betwinst the Boston Neu Wave sound scrambler smoker and the no-solution empty set style with Spykes. Super worked thru brain forestry via tapes and lo-tech electronics. Howie edits cookbooks so maybe a recipe would be a better descriptor: 1) One cup lowercase HS tape supply 2) Bake at 400 degrees, then instantly bury in the backyard after a rainstorm in night 3) Soak in chili powder, dig up tape, play on a cat litter tape head urine box tape and record 4) Play for 60 min on slow mo 5) Bake for another 4 hours with a garnish of metal shavings from shredded Microbrewer IPA cans 6) Serve with a silent frozen solid dinner guest, at 5:30 AM Well, there you go.Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." -American Tapes |
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Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs Vol. Twelve/Green Palace (Green Mist and Spyked Coorz) Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "WHOA!! Brighton UK cum Canada China/Lansing sound show/bro down here. Spykes gives a full working to the amazing Green Mist ⿿Suit Case Bomb cd he busted a couple years ago. Total tangled web of audio miasma. More rotten angles than a T Square leper rally. Just a nonlinear sound collage of ear cells plotting against an attack against brain cells. Dallas man.killer dude, should change his name to LLCOOLYMD (Ladies Love Cool Yoga Master Dallas). Hear it rip across the cold ATLANTIC. The only bloke kicked out the China Olympics for sneaking a case of brew....Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." -American Tapes |
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Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs- Vol. Five/The Exploding Mixers Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Stoked on this collab. While the Hair Police boyz were going over old tapes in Lexington, me and Walter Carson jetted on a sunny wintery afternoon to the empty basement of the Frowny Bear, set up real close together and jammed for an hour straight with our new band THE EXPLODING MIXERS. Great feedblack trading linez sound. After the rad sound afternoon, we packed up, went to Roberts, ate Pasta and jammed the Handicapper Hornz/Hair Police gig in a Skate Park later. A perfect day save for old man Oldson havin to tell some young shredders to chill on the mini ramp while me and Handicapped Sara had to do our reed thing. That officially makes you an OLD MAN. Handrawn covers, color cases."- American Tapes |
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Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Eight/Dead Dour Alive Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Last Collab for this update, this was handed to me as the AM 666 "Satanic Slaughter" master but SIXES has that slot (funna be a 3C60 set) so DCA remixed the fuck outta it instead. Clean crisp evil electronics inside. A strong one. Good rheumatic style with bite. Concludes with drunken New Years discussion with me, dour, awesome Allison (right before the Noh Neighbors set) and Copymax Crystal about a flying squirrel attack in Detroit. Rad. Drawn covers, cases, blah blah."- American Tapes |
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Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Five/Language Morph Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Fav band outta the MI Mitten now with strange electronics and reeds add over makes for one inzane recipe. If you heard the tape on Excite Bike you know you cant hold black adding in your two audio cents to the ground zero fidelity Body Morph sound. Completely weird, like fully yo. Colored cases, handrawn Strangled Pair style."- American Tapes |
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Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Four/Fletch & Kegcharge Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "This odd one is a complex inzane remix of a killer Fletcher Pratt (from Canada) tape. Involved cut up collage style. Different sound from the others, the hope of a unique union of both sources together is achieved inside the cubist world. Hand drawn style cover, color case."- American Tapes |
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Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. One-Evenings & Spykes Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "New CD series, in standard hand painted ink calligraphy style sleeves. All collabs, here the first: Kzoos master musician and Ding Dong Destroyer Miless Evenings project with full reworking by Spykes of the Sleeptalking cassette, that one loop release and his homemade lathe cut 9" record. Eerie tracks, mystery sounds for your brain to wander off its beaten track." - American Tapes |
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Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Seven/Khrust & Kegcharge Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Speak of the devil = heres KHRUST KHRIS paired with Kegcharge. Odd metal thumps and rubbings with really abstact electronic soundz. Strangely calm and repetitive, like if your dryer had a glowing ET-thing having a spin inside. All the electronic garbles are the recordings of the new instruments being made= so actually there is no "playing" involved= thats interesting i guess. Strange collab. Drawn covers/ colored cases"- American Tapes |
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Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Six/Spyked Fossils Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "There you go!! Inzane Payne and Kegcharge showdown here. When the Fossils crew came down for a weekend of intensive liver abuse during the 517 Fest in Lansing= we had one hell of an afternoon jam "Shit Noise Fest" = AC played first amazing gig, Dillo jammed dark afternoon basement synth, Connelly did his organ thing, Khrust and PE Paul danced with sheet metal and laundry detergent bottles, and Spyked Fossils jammed. So included is that strange gig and two other tracks of reworking of other rad Fossils Hammer Town Sound tapes. Ruling one, this. Good timez got no borderz homeboy! Handrawn covers, colored cases= you know the drill."- American Tapes |
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Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Three/AC & Spykes Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Been just a Strangled Pair winter here, been collab nutzo. Here is the first in the Batch= Andrew Coltrane and Coorz. Heavy electronic noize sound inside. Dense, mystery clouds of homemade inzanity. Rewordings of various Hermitage limited gems. Stoker. As with all the Pairs series, handmade art in large DVD case."- American Tapes |
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Artist: V/A Title: The Mentalist Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Tovah DDay, Spykes, Graveyards, Communication Palace, Shared Menace c60 Part two in the style of the ⿿Soundtrack week sound world documentation style. Various home terror, the Graveyards track is from fall gig at the MOCAD in Detroit and is ultra cubist non-subjective quarter speed boxed in slow burning mayhem. New tracks by C. Palace and strange mystery squad Shared Menace. Tons more in this style still cominlots of small ghost towns to inhabit within this c60 wordless audio map. Dedicated to the Tovahnatorz new fav TV show . Packaged in a new mega color slip case style with full color inzane art." -American Tapes |
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Artist: V/A Title: Timeline Berserker Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Crazy comp with AT staples in effect. Weird flow and strange sounds abound. Whoa... edition of 40, numbered." - American Tapes. |
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Artist: VOM GRILL Title: Dont Ollie on Thin Ice! Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "MORE INZANITY..WARNING...after a NON FAKE trail here is the mighty airwalker DENNIS TYFUSS in CRAZZYNESSS with more NON HEARING mastering, aka recorded, pressed and presented fully UNHEARD. you are the first...NO SPOILERS.... needless to say file under mcrad thrasher flexi ????????? crazy handmade lp edition of 100. WHOA" - American Tapes. |
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Artist: WARNING SIGN Title: Live at Copymax Jasons Birthday Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"All right...this is going to take a while to explain... Hang in there with a mug: While still in union at the cove, me and the Conn Artist would always hit up the local Office Max (re: Copymax) and scam copies, grip supplies - usual underground lurker shit. So after months of doing this, a Max worker finally talks to us and is into noize= dudes is Jason, sayz all his coworkers are freaked out of me and Connelly cause we copy weird shit, wore shorts and look like Heroin addicts (????)... So we hit it off with Jason, hang with his crew and let the good times roll... Enter PE PAUL, AKA Mr. Nutzo AKA New Pledgmaster AKA dude most likely to get naked at a crew gig with no ladies present. You might also know him as the wacko who was kicked outta the last No Fun during the Smegma set for being shirtless, on acid, and crazy. When Paul was getting escorted out, Weise turns to Dilloway and says, "Man...what a loose nut... causing a ruckus... you know him?" "Yeah I do, Hes Paul from Boston. Me and Olson have a band with him called Warning Sign." So fast forward a month or so, middle of summer/ Ann Arbor= crazy. PE PAUL sublets a huge crib christens it the GSPOT. Turns out to the be the summer spot for all gigs underground and nutz. A gig twice a week, ruling times, massive final show literally hours before Paul has to vacate. Rumors spread of destroying the spot and burning it down... comes pretty close. Turns out when the renters come back to reclaim the house Paul is passed out on mounds of broken glass and bottles on a some Iggy trip shit and the parents threaten his life... ruff scene. Warning Sign -- which never end up being with Dilloway -- becomes a house band at the GSpot....duo with reeds, drums, and ?????? Every gig was pretty strange, you never knew what PE PAUL was gunna do. The mug apparently studied music in Boston but no one has seen proof of it. So aanyhow... black to Copymax Jason... his birthday is coming up and his lady at the time Alicia (re: Alicia Warning) wants to have a birthday show at they house before their lease runs out. The only band that signs up is Warning Sign. No Wolves come cause we are leaving the next morning for Barcelona, no crew members show up. Weird gig/scene. Only lurkers and some weird dudes on BMX bikes that "kinda know Dilloway AKA that weird dude at Disks & Tapes" are around. Turns out there is no place to jam... except a basement that hasnt been opened "in forever." Me and Paul crack the door, peer inside, nothing but low ceilings, cobwebs, dampness, and a mound of something that died a slow horrible death months ago. Totally gross. So we set up and its the middle of summer and like 110 Degrees in the basement. Fully Nasty. Turns out Alicia is a flute goddess and wants to jam along/sweet... so we start playing... and within minutes every Nutzo in the basement is playing a horn, jammin, freaking out, yelling... weird shit/brain jolting/numbing gig. Woke up the next morning and sent the tape to the plant. Pressed here on wax for eternity is the results of the gig. Super strange ultra crude echo chamber basement jazz cubism. Edition of 113 on black wax with paste on covers. Copymax Jason Postscript: After moving out, Jason and Alicia broke up, all them + "Copymax Chris" (re: Brian, who never worked at Officemax or Copymax) who also played on the above WS record, and nearly everyone on the record moved into the short lived "Pleasuredome" in Ypsi that did two gigs, one with Corsano, Traum, Laundry Room Squelchers/both busted hard by Copz and shut down permanately...." -American Tapes
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Artist: WAVES Title: 12 Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Newest installment of Terror Tones Unit. Hated by many, even some noise dudes aint down. High pitch, let the tone do the work style. Unlistenable tone work, no jamming involved, sound system diseaserz. Best Mediation Headphones jamz around. Look out of the West Coast Romero/Wiese version!! Color Cover, edition of 100." - American Tapes. |
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Artist: WAVES Title: 14 Format: Double CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "New double by ATs most hated and most luved project. Dont ask Tovah or Phil Troniks about Waves, and various Europe bar workers who hear it during Wolf Sound czech. Unlistenable project, now with deep discography. The worst tones, unmoving. Bully Noize. Aint going nowhere. EVER. Stubbornness, captured. LOOOONNNNNG TRACKXXXXXX. Someday, there will be the ultimate Waves gig. Someday. And you will hear it in every quiet corner of the GLOBE. Color Art, double case, edition of 50" - American Tapes |
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Artist: WAVES Title: 16 Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: WAVES Title: Sixteen Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Newest installment of ongoing love/hate project. Shorter tracks, still the burn baby. Unlistenable tones, just fucking horror for the ear drums. No one is middle of the road on this project= either completely despised or encouraged. Just did the one and only live gig last week at the DAS FRYING PAN. Cover cover"- American Tapes |
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Asylum Style 3 Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Asylum Style Ten Format: 6 CD Set Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $88.00 |
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Edition of 50, April 19 2005.
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Droll Vol 13 Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"The unlucky Droll! The devils installment of this basement witchcraft stylings. Terrible shreakings & cubist visions of new wolf material for the upcoming intense unlistenable cellar ellpeee. Totally minimal & lurching scowl recorded & processed on a altered pitch controlled tape machine. A coded message for the black future of the alien age. Edition of 60, handpainted cover." -Am Tapes.
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Live at Banfields East Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Made for Euro tour, stash held
at home. No jamz, just friend verbal violence. Hear Roach freak out in Toronto,
Dilloway destroy the Conman in Ann Arbor, J Coors totally drunken Hamiliton
ON Star Wars / Sao Paulo rant, ugh...." - American Tapes.
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Strangulation Tank Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Non-edited straight-up-stoned basement language filtered through an Indian devil ornament warble. A complete late night jam. Made for two dates with Sonic Youth in homezone Midwest. Youngs black magic rotten cord work, Dilloways ghost tape shuffle, & Olsons Atlantis sine waves in full manifestation. Processed through Inzane studios. Session lit by light fire. Jellied skulls underwater." - American Tapes.
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Artist: WOLF EYES & DOUBLE LEOPARDS Title: Breeding Turbines Vol 2 Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: WOLF EYES & JOHN WIESE Title: Live San Diego 2003 Format: 7" Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: HARPER, TWIG Title: Intuitive American Esoteric Vol. 2 Format: LP Label: American Tapes/Gods Of Tundra Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: OLSON, JOHN Title: Canned Tape Format: Double Cassette/Can Label: American Tapes/Weird Shadow Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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Limited/numbered "gallery edition" for the Reverse Engineers group show at the Carnegie Art Center in North Tonawanda, NY earlier this year. The tapes are actually sealed in a soup-type can, as in you have to use a can opener to get them out. May or may not come with a full color poster.
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Artist: HNY Title: Here You Can Touch The Sky Format: LP Label: Amethyst Sunrise Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Very excited to be able to present the vinyl issue of HNYs Here You Can Touch The Sky. Over the past few years, HNY has released some stellar cassettes through Ranky Tanky, Not Not Fun, and Goaty Tapes when finding some free time from shredding with Social Junk. Here You Can Touch The Sky is a half hour full of haunting guitar + vocal work that was released in 2008 through Ranky Tanky and is now ready to shine on vinyl. This record collects all the songs from the original cassette release and includes one previously released instrumental. Limited to 500 copies on clear with orange splatter with a printed 11x11 insert with lyrics." - Amethyst Sunrise. |
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Artist: IMAGINARY SOFTWOODS Title: The Path Of Spectrolite Format: LP Label: Amethyst Sunrise Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "The Path of Spectrolite is the latest full length recording from Imaginary Softwoods. Early comments have praised this album and state that while this recording retains some of the icy drone sound from some previous Softwoods releases, this is a great progression and a bit more active. An extremely beautiful album entirely of sounds created by synthesizer and voice, this is an essential piece of the Imaginary Softwoods discography that you are sure to love. Pressed in an edition of 535." - Amethyst Sunrise. |
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Artist: 1958-2009 Title: 1958-2009 Format: LP Label: Amethyst Sunset Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Amethyst Sunset is extremely proud to present the final document produced by 1958-2009. Matthew Sullivan (Earn/Ekhein) and Alex Twomey (Mirror to Mirror /Jugular Forest) provide us with the most beautiful guitar/synth ballads recorded on the one year anniversary of the death of the King of Pop. All brand new material and not released on any of the previously released cassettes. Limited to 350 copies on black vinyl." - Amethyst Sunset. |
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Artist: AJILVSGA Title: Red Crow Format: LP Label: Amethyst Sunset Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Red Crow was originally released as a cassette in a limited edition of 13 copies for sale at a show Ajilvsga
performed in Oklahoma in November 2008 and has been reissued on vinyl in a limited edition of 100 copies.
The duo comprised of Brad Rose (The North Sea / Foxy Digitalis ) and Nathan Young (Peyote Tapes) offer up
some deep and heavy buzzing drones for your summertime consumption. Screen printed LP covers by Morgan
in Oklahoma." - Amethyst Sunset.
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Artist: GOVERNMENT ALPHA Title: Altar Of Precogs Format: 7" Label: Amethyst Sunset Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "very first 7" by amethyst sunset and i couldnt be more proud. hard electronics. psychedelic noise from yasutoshi yoshida. limited to 300." - Amethyst Sunset. |
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Artist: MIST Title: Glowing Net Format: 12" Label: Amethyst Sunset Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "much welcome vinyl issue of the 2010 cassette release from john elliott (outer space, emeralds) and sam goldberg (radio people, docile dawn) that sold out at the source and distros rather quickly. further exploring the zones on the previously released "mist" lp, the duo take it one step further with their electronics unleashing a record which sounds like it could be the soundtrack to an amazing 70s / 80s sci fi movie. the tracks have been remastered for vinyl by james plotkin, and the vinyl lacquer was cut for 45rpm at d+m in berlin. pressed in an edition of 750 total copies." - Amethyst Sunset. |
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Artist: MIST Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Amethyst Sunset Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Vinyl debut from the Ohio duo of MIST (john elliot and sam goldberg). Following up their "certain expansion" and "stole colors" cassette releases
on pizza wagon, MIST offer up two full sides of their best material yet. Electric Organs. Beautiful and dreamy preogressive synths, kosmik string synth zone." - Amethyst Sunset.
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Artist: PROVIDIEN Title: Followed By A Wraith Format: LP Label: Amethyst Sunset Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "The Midwest is a real Shangri-la for bohemia basement bleakness so its not real surprising that loner tape grime duo Providien hail from the snow-blasted state of Ohio, and have a grim grassroots aura that just feels right. Led by Sword Heaven electrician Mark Van Fleet and partner-in-crime/childhood friend Nathan Reynolds (also of weirdo goths American Jobs), Providiens debut, Followed By A Wraith, sprawls from disembodied horror atmospherics to no-fi sludge death marches to pure weirdo home-taper acoustic guitar meltdowns, each new zone more unsettling and brainwashed than the last. Has elements of Mammal (especially the recent drone-suicide ballads), The Shadow Ring (just replace all the British stuff with raw American sloth), and various other esoteric cassette miserablists, but thats just a roundabout way of saying this shit rules." - Britt Brown. The LP is limited to 200 copies on black vinyl with color center labels and a paste on cover. |
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Artist: WHITMAN, KEITH FULLERTON/MIKE SHIFLET Title: 070325/080409 Format: LP Label: Amethyst Sunset Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "One live track a piece from Keith and Mike. Keith presents a noisy modular synth recording from the spring of 2007. Mikes side is an excellent guitar/drone piece recorded during the summer heat of 2009." - Amethyst Sunset. Limited to 365 copies on 180 gram black vinyl. |
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Artist: ANGELL, THEO Title: Dearly Beloved Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "These songs were transmitted to us from the ever-elusive former Hall of Famer and Jackie OMotherfucker contributor. Upon hearing the material, we were surprised to discover that Theos playful approach to music evidenced in those outfits has transformed into a batch of fantastic and well-structured songs, with inventive orchestration and accomplished playing. Written and recorded in Portland, at the Rare Book Room (Brooklyn, NY) and Sumsilobatem Studios, Degenfeld, Germany, Dearly Beloved references a diverse array of sounds: the dark folk of Michael Giras Angels of Light; the surreal and gothic lyrical inventions of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; and Syd Barretts more ambling work, where lyrical and musical lines veer and coast along without a clear destination." - Amish. |
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Artist: BIRD SHOW Title: Bird Show Band Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Bird Show Band documents Bird Shows new collaborative spirit and stands as the culmination of Ben Vidas Chicago-based work, featuring a whos who of the citys improvisational luminaries, including Josh Abrams, Jim Baker, Dan Bitney and John Herndon. The improvisatory feel of the Bird Show Band sessions function as Vidas paean to the Windy City. Rather than another Bird Show release that involves guest accompaniment on select tracks, Vida conceived of these recordings as a foray into session playing, tracking the entire album over just two days. While Herndon and Bitneys percussion invokes German psych, progressive rock, and jazz idioms, Vidas synth-based experiments, here accompanied by Jim Bakers ARP 2600, provide the first indication of his recent musical preoccupations, an interest that relies heavily on the Moog and his own fluid, lyrical melodic lines. If you have had the luck of catching Bird Show or Ben Vida perform live over the last few years, you have witnessed the centrality he now gives to the Moog and one-touch patchwork, experimental forays that point to Europe and the mid-century avant-garde, especially the Cologne-based innovations of Stockhausen and his many students during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Regardless of this description, Bird Show Band is more than a mere intellectual exercise and the sessions balance brain with musical brawn in ways that Vida has yet to achieve on his previous outings." - Amish. |
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Artist: BROWN, DAN Title: Inner Borough Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Solo recordings from the percussionist from Hall of Fame and David Grubbs, made with the help of engineer Nicholas Vernhes and some additional percussive muscle by Greg Anderson of Dan Melchiors Broke Revue. The personnel here is limited but the instrumentation is varied and open and includes traditional drum workouts, variety of bowed and struck cymbals, gongs and ceramic pots, hammered guitar, thumb piano and more. Inner Boroughs exists in a tradition which isn⿿t wholly jazz, rock or experimental music, but draws on a wealth of sources from ⿿Suite for Toy Piano on John Cage⿿s Early Works, to Don Moye⿿s Sun Percussion, Hal Blaine⿿s Psychedelic Percussion and Art Blakey⿿s Holiday for Skins volume 1." - Amish. |
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Artist: ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE Title: Standing Still, Facing Forward Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Brian Pyle is Ensemble Economique. This is the first LP release from Ensemble Economique. Digitalis issued the At the Foot of Nameless Roads CD in 2008. Both recordings are important primers to Pyles nascent invocations of Holger Czukays Cannaxis (on No GPS) and Karlheinz Stockhausens Kontake (on At the Foot). With Standing Still, Facing Forward Ensemble Economique provides the most mature realization of Pyles compositional process, which utilizes found sounds, field recordings, and musical performance that he later meticulously edits, layers, and loops in the studio. The effects of these processes are dramatic, cinematic and conceptually rigorous and this recording evidences Pyle as an important new composer emerging out of the long and storied tradition of West Coast experimentalism. Utilizing a delicate combination of the homespun improvisation of his other project, Starving Weirdos (whose work sounds like an American echo of AMM) with his own unique variation on the European avant-garde in Ensemble Economique, Pyles practice involves a dense approach to composition akin to assemblage. But unlike electronic and laptop composition, Pyles studio work aims to re-establish an organicism associated with live (or, in the case of the field recordings, lived) performance that pushes the studio out into nature and nature into the studio. In short, the Northern Californian landscape plays an integral part in Ensemble Economiques soundscapes, and this record captures much of the atmosphere of Pyles home terrain." LP comes wrapped in a letter-pressed band and contains a 16-page art book." -Amish. |
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Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "New York Citys Hall of Fame tread similar aesthetic waters as the psyche folk of Tower Recordings and the improvised partially composed music of the Dead C. Their debut is filled with primitive rhythms, droning violin, skipping records, unplugged electric guitars, bowed cymbals, violin, drums, bass and a wealth of found sounds. Especially beautiful is the Dada inspired sound collage of "78 Expansion" which randomly juxtaposes live and recorded sounds. This record also documents improvised songs, which were later covered as part of their live set ("Sunset Spiral "and "I Woke Up Today"). Hall of Fame consists of multi-instrumentalist Dan Brown (ex-Salmon Skin, God is my Co-pilot), Samara Lubelski (ex-Salmon Skin, and current Sonora Pine) and artist Theo Angel." - Amish. |
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Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: Coliseum Rising Format: 7" Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Hall of Fame is back with three atonal campfire songs. Dan and Samara split the vocal duties on their first pop outing. This single reveals a more song-based side to the band. Whatever it lacks in drone, it provides with rock and hook. The two color screen-printed jackets were done by Wiggly Printing (Brooklyn, NY) Edition of 500." - Amish. |
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Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: First Came Love, Then Came the Tree... Format: LP & CDR Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "New York Citys Hall of Fames second album First Came Love, Then Came the Tree... was recorded by Nicolas Verhnes on an island in Long Island Sound in 1998 at a time when the group was at the top of their form. The year after the release of their debut album saw the release of an Amish Records single and the band play shows with Tower Recordings, Ghost, The Major Stars and others. The album was originally released in 1999 on CD only (currently out-of-print) and Amish is pleased to offer (for the first time on vinyl) a limited edition deluxe LP version. The LP also comes with a bonus CD- R of a live set recorded at the short-lived Louisville venue, The Mercury Paw from 1998 right after First Came Love, then Came the Tree... was recorded." - Amish. Hall of Fame was Dan Brown, Theo Angell (filmmaker, Jackie OMotherfucker, recent release on Digitalis) and Samara Lubelski (solo works on Social Registry, Tower Recordings, Thurston Moore, Metabolismus and more). Limited to 250 copies. |
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Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"New York Citys Hall of Fame tread similar aesthetic waters as the psyche folk of Tower Recordings and the improvised partially composed music of the Dead C. Their debut is filled with primitive rhythms, droning violin, skipping records, unplugged electric guitars, bowed cymbals, violin, drums, bass and a wealth of found sounds. Especially beautiful is the Dada inspired sound collage of "78 Expansion" which randomly juxtaposes live
and recorded sounds. This record also documents improvised songs, which were later covered as part of their live set ("Sunset Spiral "and "I Woke Up Today"). Hall of Fame consists of multi-instrumentalist Dan Brown (ex-Salmon Skin, God is my Co-pilot), Samara Lubelski (ex-Salmon Skin, and current Sonora Pine) and artist Theo Angel." - Amish.
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Artist: KOWALSKY WITH JOZEF VAN WISSEM, GREGG Title: Movements in Marble and Stone Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "While these performances occurred on opposite coasts, the source material is closely aligned in both concept and process. These works highlight Greggs ongoing preoccupations with sound and setting, incorporating the focused blend of acoustic and electronic sources that Kowalsky is already well known for. Electronic Music for Square and Sine Waves documents Kowalskys contribution to the 2011 Activating the Medium festival in San Francisco. This commissioned piece continues Kowalskys interest in how sound engages, manipulates and modifies ones awareness of space. For Baroque Lute, Tapes and Resonant Space documents Kowalskys on going tape chants process, a project previously realized on both his Battery Townsley (2011) and Tape Chants (2009) LPs. For this iteration, Kowalsky tuned square and sine waves to Dutch lutanist Jozef van Wissems lute and then played these recordings through cassette players." - Amish. |
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Artist: METABOLISMUS Title: Mauser O.K. Format: 7" Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Its been four years since their last US release which was the "Snowy Meadows" 7" (Social Registry) and nearly eleven years since the last long player Sprießwärtsdrall (AMI009) released on Amish Records in 2000. We are pleased to offer the latest domestic slab of wax from the enigmatic German collective known as Metabolismus. The band spring to life with the "Mauser O.K." (AMI043) seven inch EP, which is comprised of two brand new songs, plus covers of Crass and Brian Brain recorded in the bands Sumsilobatem Studio, Degenfield, Germany. Edition of 300." - Amish. |
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Artist: METABOLISMUS Title: Spriebwartsdrall Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "This full length is firmly rooted in the rich German experimental music tradition of such bands as Can, Amon Duul and Popol Vuh. The album begins with subtle tones that shift and eventually build into a Silver Apples psychedelic groove. Things move back and forth through layers of analog synthesizer orchestration, electronics and droning violin, eventually accentuated by ambient recordings of wind chimes, cow bells, birds, crickets, barking dogs and the sounds of Stuttgart. An absolutely stunning record, which Bananafish claims, has "24-7 potential." Vivid full color artwork by German animation artist Petra Kolitsch. Edition of 600." - Amish |
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Artist: METABOLISMUS Title: Spriebwartsdrall Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "This full length is firmly rooted in the rich German experimental music tradition of such bands as Can, Amon Duul and Popol Vuh. The album begins with subtle tones that shift and eventually build into a Silver Apples psychedelic groove. Things move back and forth through layers of analog synthesizer orchestration, electronics and droning violin, eventually accentuated by ambient recordings of wind chimes, cow bells, birds, crickets, barking dogs and the sounds of Stuttgart. An absolutely stunning record, which Bananafish claims, has "24-7 potential." Vivid full color artwork by German animation artist Petra Kolitsch. Edition of 600." - Amish |
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Artist: METAL MOUNTAINS Title: Golden Trees Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "...out of the ancient ruins of The Tower Recordings has now finally risen a stealth Metal Mountains! It features Helen Rush, Pat Gubler (Mr. PG Six) and Samara Lubelski, all former Tower soldiers, and some may say the very key ones. Theres a sort of haunted architecture to Metal Mountains, they morph 1960s electric and psychedelic folk rock, the right VU influence, spatial excursions, and whispery dreams into a unique whole. It is a carefully crafted album that is real and intimate, yet has the air of ease and playfulness about it. It is confident in its frailty, if that makes any sense to you. Did I say it is perfectly sequenced? Yknow, thats the kind of thing a reviewer needs to mention if he wants to be taken at all seriously." - Jesper Eklow / November 2010. |
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Artist: P.G. SIX Title: Music from The Sherman Box Series and Other Works Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "The Sherman Box Series was an exhibition of visual artist Christine Krol at Abaton Gallery, Jersey City, NJ in August/September 2005. She showed an ongoing series of collages constructed in Nat Sherman cigarette boxes, as well as small paintings on wood panels. P.G. Sixs contribution to the show was seven pieces for folk harps and electronic processing that played on a loop in the space. These pieces explore some of the sonic possibilities of the wirestrung harp with its long sustaining tones, and the bray harp, with its sitar-like buzzing." - Amish. |
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Artist: P.G. SIX Title: Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "This record mixes late 60s / early 70s pastoral English folk influences, rural American blues, and Appalachian mountain music. Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites recalls the finer moments of the Incredible String Bands The Hangmans Beautiful Daughter and the beautiful weirdness of Kevin Ayers Shooting At the Moon. The record also contains a cover of 60s English folkie Anne Briggs "Go Your Way." PG SIX is Pat Gubler, founding member of New Yorks enigmatic musical collective Tower Recordings. Tim Barnes (Quakebasket Records, Tower Recordings, Jim ORourke) plays percussion and engineers the record." - Amish. |
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Artist: P.G. SIX Title: The Well of Memory Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Continuing many of the themes introduced on Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites, PG Sixs well-received first record, The Well Of Memory makes nods towards 60s folk artists like Bert Jansch, Pentangle, Incredible String Band, and John Fahey, while also fitting in with contemporary musicians like New York psych folk poster-boy Devendra Banhardt, Anglo-folk traditionalist Alasdair Roberts, and West Coast psych guitarist Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance. Pats lyrics draw on narrative force, spinning mythology in abstract patterns that stretch moments of clarity between dreamlike sequences. His music, composed away from the bustle of the city in upstate New York, breathes as solemn spirituals. With The Well of Memory, P.G. Six transcends revival carving a permanent spot amongst contemporary singer/songwriters." - Amish. |
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Artist: SHIFLET, MIKE/PETE SWANSON Title: Bedside/College View Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "The fifth installment in the labels Required Wreckers series features side‐long compositions that borrow as much from the worlds of noise and power electronics that Swanson and Shiflet were affiliated with in the early parts of their careers, as from techno and modern composition. Mike Shiflets Bedside utilizes disparate sources - guitar, field recordings, abstract electronic textures and white noise - to create a composition thats both warmly pastoral and defamiliar. Pete Swansons College View documents another example of his recent recordings attempt to blur the lines between techno, noise, and electronic music. College View drags Detroit dance music into a static field of electricity, and then doubles back again." - Amish. Includes 12-page booklet; wrapped in letterpressed Required Wreckers band. |
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Artist: SON OF EARTH Title: Improvements Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "With equal nods to Throbbing Gristles retrograde conceptualism and Recommended Records unwavering musicality, Amish is pleased to announce the Required Wreckers Series. Over the next ten catalogue releases, R/W will explore the work of artists operating at the intersections of sound art, improvisation, drone, outsider experimentation and modern composition. In the spirit of its name, R/W aims to disrupt the boundaries typically used to delimit genre and the sensibilities that help to inform taste. In so doing, R/W slips out from under the simple, reductive classifications so often used to discuss, and even critically engage, contemporary music. Each release is a one-time vinyl pressing and will be housed in a letterpress band (designed by Bryan Christopher Baker) that will vary with each installment. These LPs will also include artwork and assorted ephemera that invoke our deepest respect for the medium and the hand-crafted (and assembled) components we regret have disappeared with the rise of digital media. R/W terminates after ten installments. Beginning a decade ago, in a Pre-Weird America, Son of Earth has traveled a surprisingly linear trajectory through noise and collective improvisation to a simple, quiet, and more considered music. The bands path has led through hundreds of performances and collaborations (including Shackamaxon, which brought together all three members of Son of Earth with Marcia Bassett and Chris Gray of Double Leopards and Pete Nolan of the Magik Markers), but has resulted in only a handful of releases, often handcrafted and released on the groups Apostasy Recordings label. While still being filled with the unease and tension that is their hallmark, Improvements is the first record that also allows the humor and camaraderie between the members of Son of Earth to come to the fore. Most of their previous releases have been culled from live recordings, and the group has always thrived on the tension of live performance. Earlier studio efforts, such as the acclaimed Pet LP, though recorded at home, were composed in an everyone-has-to be- serious approximation of the live performance experience. This time, possibly for the first time, in a sweaty little room, and in a stairwell, and in a back yard tossing horseshoes in Holyoke, Massachusetts, the group finally dropped all pretense -- not of seriousness, but of obligation to some unseen spectator. On Improvements, you can really hear John Shaw, Matt Krefting, and Aaron Rosenblum being themselves, and being Son of Earth and its weird. Manchester-bred, Rick Myers, who has worked with John Cale, Andy Votel, Dinosaur Jr. and Badly Drawn Boy and has created books with Nieves Zurich & Gladtree Press to name a few, provides the beautiful art / design-work for the LP jackets. LP comes wrapped in letterpressed band and contains a 16-page art book." - Amish |
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Artist: STARVING WEIRDOS Title: Land Lines Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Amish is pleased to officially announce a new release from Humboldt Countys finest contemporary experimental unit, Starving Weirdos. A couple of years in the making, Land Lines (AMI-044) documents a vital step in the evolution and refinement of Starving Weirdos freeform improvisational practices, as well as its infamous and highly disciplined studio practices. The recording of these sessions was initiated around the time of the 2010 On Land festival in San Francisco, when the projects core nucleus of Brian Pyle and Merrick Mckinlay expanded to include a larger than usual cast of players, including Steve Lazar, Monica Chavez, David Krepinevich and Amiee Hennessey. Specific tracks ("Captured" and "Dreams" and "Lexicon") debuted at that festival, while other sessions documented on this release feature the long-standing trio of Pyle, Mckinlay and Lazar. One notable addition to the Starving Weirdos sound is the voice of Aimee Hennessey, who delivers vocal incantations on two tracks ("In Our Way" and "Change in the Lexicon"). Land Lines chronicles Starving Weirdos most focused and structured release to date, with pieces that import a distinctly European flavor into the sound of this distinctly Northern California project." - Amish. |
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Artist: V/A Title: And To The Disciples That Remain Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Celebration of 11 years of Amish Records. 11 of 13 completely exclusive tracks. Deluxe 6-panel foldout packaging. Front cover by visual artist Sebastiaan Bremer. Includes members of & former members of Hall of Fame, Metabolismus, Tower Recordings, Windsor For the Derby, Polvo, Idyll Swords, Oneida and Town & Country." Artists include: P.G. Six, Mike Wexler, Theo Angell, Oakley Hall, Black Taj, Bird Show, Helen Rush, The Oranges Band, Samara Lubelski, Dan Matz and the Birdwatcher, Dan Brown and Chuck Johnson." - Amish |
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Artist: VIDA/KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN, BEN Title: Aggregatepulseripper (Damaged IIII) Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Amish is pleased to announce the third iteration in its Required Wreckers Series, a split LP featuring new and exclusive work from Ben Vida and Keith Fullerton Whitman. Having collaborated over the last decade as a trio with Greg Davis, this release features new solo-work by two of Americas most important emerging sound artists. The first side of this release debuts a new composition from Ben Vida. In keeping with his recent patchwork-based compositions, Aggregatepulseripper (Damaged IIII) continues to explore Vidas interest in both digital and analog control sources, a compositional process that refuses to fetishize one technology over another and, more interestingly, appears to displace the musicians hand from the compositional process. The flipside of this LP features Keith Fullerton Whitmans third in a series of splits (previous releases have included No Fun Productions b/w Carlos Giffoni and Amethyst Sunsets b/w with Mike Shiflet) documenting a particularly productive period in his creative output--a series of synth concerts from 2007 and 2008. Recorded on January 14, 2008 at PAs Lounge in Somerville, MA, this piece documents the fourth in Whitmans solo synthesizer sets. Throughout the recording one can discern talking from the audience and ambient room--tone noise, as well as sound coming from different sources spread throughout the room--a small battery powered speaker on stage right, a giant Barbetta on stage left. Each speaker was fed into a different patch irrespective of its frequency response. Whitman uses a hybrid system of digital and analog sound sources that, with the exception of a single 4096 bd delay, is presented here without treatment, overdub, or sequencing of any sort." -Amish |
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Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS & EDDY DETROIT Title: Shango Format: 7" Label: Ammit Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "..features three tracks recorded in various locations in the Phoenix area.. Two of these tracks have never been released. Shango was recorded in 1983 at Tonys Italian Pizza, Tempe AZ. Pyxxymphony was recorded in 1993 on a Teac 4 trac in downtown Phx AZ. Yaboo was recorded in 1984 in an abandon house in downtown Phx AZ." - Ammit. Edition of 300 copies, hand-numbered by Eddy Detroit. |
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Artist: BALLETTO DI BRONZO, IL Title: On The Road To YS Format: LP Label: AMS Country: Italy Price: $36.00 |
| "First time ever vinyl release of two extraordinary documents, dated 1971, by the legendary Balletto di Bronzo. On the Road to YS, is a landmark in Balletto di Bronzos history, because it is the demo recording made by the band in 1971 at Phonogram studios Milan, featuring the embryonic versions of two songs that would later be merged into YS (Introduzione and Secondo Incontro), with English vocals, and arrangements that are quite different than the final tracks. However, these demos will convince Phonogram to offer the band a record deal. In 1972 they released YS. The rest is history. Taken from master tapes, and remastered by Gianni Leone and Nicola di Gia in 2010. Also featuring a bonus track: an unreleased live version of La tua casa comoda." - AMS. |
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Artist: DEDALUS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: AMS Country: Italy Price: $36.00 |
| "One of the most experimental bands of the Italian prog scene, Dedalus were founded at the beginning of the 70s by Michele Bonansone (keyboards, cello, vocals) and Marco Di Castri (guitar, saxophone) in Pinerolo, near Turin. Their first eponymous LP consists of instrumental jazz-rock compositions, influenced by artists like Nucleus, Miles Davis, Soft Machine, Stockhausen and many other musical innovators of the time. Dedalus was originally released in 1973, and in the same year the band took part at the Avantgarde and New Trends Festival in Naples, being pointed as the real revelation of the event. The album, enclosed in one of the most peculiar Italian prog artworks by Cesare Monti, already contains some of the avant-garde hints which would be fully developed in the following Materiale Per Tre Esecutori E Nastro Magnetico. Available as black audiophile 180gr. vinyl. Housed in a full-color gatefold sleeve." -AMS |
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Artist: GOBLIN Title: Buio Omega: The Complete Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Format: LP Label: AMS Country: Italy Price: $36.00 |
| "Buio Omega, two short and simple words that, in the mind of Goblins fans as well as in the horror/splatter movies fanatics one, recall sounds and images of a legendary film. Directed in 1979 by Joe DAmato, it still impresses with the rawness and morbidity of its scenes, the trademark of a director who, much more than others, befits the term extreme. The soundtrack of the film, whose main ingredients are keyboards and synthesizers, swings among echoes of Alan Parsons Project, funk/fusion and melancholic atmospheres. It was never officially published when the film came out, and was finally released on CD by Cinevox Record in 1997 (CDMDF 304) and again in 2008 (CD MDF 631) with two completely different tracklists. Goblin here appear in an atypical shape, with Massimo Morante (guitar) and Claudio Simonetti (keyboards) replaced by Carlo Pennisi and Maurizio Guarini respectively, completing the line-up along with Fabio Pignatelli (bass) and Augustin Marangolo (drums). Buio Omega is pressed on vinyl today for the first time ever, a release awaited for years by Goblin fans. The LP is housed in a beautiful gatefold cover showing inside recording sessions photos and promotional flyers/postcards. The tracklist is that of the first 1997 CD edition." - AMS. |
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Artist: GOBLIN Title: Roller Format: LP Label: AMS Country: Italy Price: $36.00 |
| "Roller was the second record for Goblin, originally released in 1976, just after the successful score of Profondo Rosso, and is one of the very few Goblin records that was not intended to be a soundtrack. By many considered their best effort, in Roller the band develops their dark, hypnotic and totally instrumental sound, but with an always vivacious and dynamic edge. The record also features new members Agostino Marangolo (from Flea) and Massimo Guarini. 180 gram vinyl. Gatefold sleeve." - AMS |
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Artist: NASCITA DELLA SFERA Title: Per Una Scultura Diceschia Format: LP Label: AMS Country: USA Price: $35.00 |
| "Nascita della Sfera was a group of session musicians assembled by a composer to record a single LP, in this case composer and keyboardist Carlo Barbiera dedicated a full album to the life and works of sculptor Luciano Ceschia (1926-1991), both coming from near Udine, Friuli VeneziaGiulia, in the north-east of Italy. The rare album is a rather original example of experimental electro-acoustic progressive style, mainly based on synth effects and acoustic guitars and often reminding some of Battiatos early works. Despite the presence of five singers in the line-up, the vocal parts are short, spoken rather than sung. 19 tracks are listed on the cover, but these are connected to form two long suites. All in all an interesting album for the adventurous listeners in search of something different. 180 gram vinyl. Gatefold sleeve." -AMS |
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Artist: V/A Title: African Scream Contest - Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds Format: CD Label: Analog Africa Country: Germany Price: $21.00 |
| "From Benin & Togo 70s. Spectacular package with thick 44-page booklet and slipcase packaging. This CD is licensed for release in the U.S. later in 2008, unsure if it will have the same deluxe packaging... "Just like with the labels first two releases -- albums by Zimbabwean 70s bands the Green Arrows and Hallelujah Chicken Run Band -- the essence of Analog Africa is clear yet again: searching in dusty warehouses for forgotten music to keep it alive. All the tracks have been officially licensed, usually from the artists who Ben Redjeb also met with for detailed research. He conducted 16 interviews in various cities in Benin and Togo with artists, producers and sound engineers to reconstruct the history of the 70s music scene for the 44-page booklet which also includes many rare photographs directly received from the artists. Like most modern music in French-speaking West African countries, the music of Benin and Togo was influenced by a few main musical currents: Cuban, Congolese and local traditional music, as well as Chanson Francaise. Additionally, the geographical location of Benin and Togo -- sandwiched between Ghana and Nigeria -- exposed Beninese and Togolese musicians to Highlife music. The cultural and spiritual riches of traditional Beninese music had an immense impact on the sound of Benins modern music. Benin is the birth place of Vodun (or, as it is known in the West, Voodoo), and some of the rhythms used during traditional rituals -- Sakpata, Sato, Agbadja, Tchenkoumé and many others -- were fused to soul and Latin music as early as the mid-1960s and later to funk. That fusion is the essence of this compilation. In the late 60s and early 70s, rock and soul music started creeping into the region. In particular, the music of James Brown and Johnny Halladay became immensely popular with university students. It was then that the music scene in Benin really started to take off. What made this musical revolution even more interesting is that most of the musicians could not read music. Often the music they made sounded one semi-tone away from being out of tune, but somehow they always managed to bring all the elements together into something new and exciting. One of the greatest bands of their era, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, who are featured on this compilation, took the Afro sound to another level by showing their musical versatility in many forms. Although they were consciously copying Western artists, they would always inject a dose of psychedelic Afro grooves that would make their music unmistakably Beninese. Their biggest song, Gbeti Madjro is believed to have revolutionized the music industry in Benin in the 70s when the country went through a period of political turmoil. The song is full of raw breaks and the hypnotic rhythms as well as screams à la James Brown -- after this song, many bands in Benin started screaming on their recordings, hence the title of this compilation. Latin-influenced sounds are present on this compilation, too. Ouidah, a city on the Atlantic coast of Benin, is home to a large Brazilian community, or, as they are called in Benin, Agoudas. Members of that community are descendents of slaves who returned from Brazil at the end of the 19th century. Their dances (such as Kaléta and Buriyanj) and songs are still being performed and fused into the traditional Beninese rituals. That, too, can be heard in modern Beninese music. The proximity of the giant neighbor Nigeria can be heard on the track Djanfa Magni which features the amazing trumpeter/ saxophonist Tidjani Koné fronting the Orchestre Poly-Rythmo. Koné whose career started in Mali as the founder and band leader of the Rail Band de Bamako, had played with Fela Kuti for a short while hence the strong Afrobeat influence. There are countless stories to be discovered in the extremely well-researched booklet and the music is truly mind-blowing. So delve into the forgotten raw and psychedelic Afro sounds from 70s Benin and Togo and experience the African Scream Contest." -Analog Africa |
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Artist: V/A Title: Angola Soundtrack Format: Double LP Label: Analog Africa Country: Germany Price: $26.00 |
| "Deluxe gatefold 2LP version. Subtitled: The Unique Sound Of Luanda 1968-1976. The nascent Angolan music scene was set on fire by a small group of intrepid singers, backed by an array of super-tight bands and led by extraordinary guitarists who revolutionized the musical and the political panorama of the 60s and 70s. A powerful confluence of traditional rhythms from Luandas islands, psychedelic guitar sounds imported from neighboring Congo, Latin grooves, old school Caribbean merengue and the hard beat of the Angolan carnival bands conspired to create the modern music of Angola. These sounds were immortalized by two excellent recording companies -- Fadiang (Fábrica De Discos Angolano) and Valentim de Carvalho. The great electric bands of Angola were a well-kept secret until the late 90s when France-based music label Buda Musique released a short-lived series of Angolan music compiled by Ariel de Bigault. Inspired and taken aback, the releases proved to be a pivotal juncture for Analog Africas founder Samy Ben Redjeb. From the nine Analog Africa releases thus far, Angola Soundtrack has been the most difficult to create. The travel visa was in itself a struggle and logistically and financially, Luanda is a nightmare. After two unsuccessful years, Samy eventually found shelter at a home in Prenda, a musseque (township) outside of the capital. With the support of Zé Keno, the legendary guitarist of Jovens Do Prenda, he managed to meet most of the composers of the tunes presented here. The anecdotes they provided are numerous. Boto Trindade, guitarist of Os Bongos, abandoned his dream of becoming a football player to support his brothers family by earning money as a musician. A very young Zé Keno went to see his favorite guitarist Marito performing with Os Kiezos and consequently built a three-stringed guitar only to become one of the most sought-after guitarists in the country a mere few years later. Angolan music is truly unique and stands on its own as a sound that can only be found in that part of the world. Rhythms such rebita, kazucuta, semba and merengue, all of which are presented in this latest compilation, might be unfamiliar, but they are superbly melodic, highly danceable, hypnotic, raw and quintessentially beautiful and totally addictive." -Analog Africa |
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Artist: BLUE SABBATH BLACK CHEER Title: DDTTNB Format: One Sided LP Label: Anarchy Moon Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"BSBC tear us a new one on their latest slab of sublime filth "DDTTNB" (Destructively Dedicated to the New Blockaders). This surly one-sided 12" delivers 15 minutes of unyielding harsh beauty, using amplified cement mixers as well as source material from the New Blockaders Rupenus brothers, roiling and thrashing about within BSBCs trademark "dark and heavy, violently bleak horror-noise" sound machine. Released in an edition of 200, this deluxe package includes 2-tone screen-print covers by the inimitable Seizure Palace, with the record screen-printed on the blank side. Get them before they get you." -Anarchy Moon
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Artist: ASTRO / PULSE EMITTER / ACRE / MONSTURO Title: Cold Fire 4-Way Split Format: LP Label: Anarchymoon Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Featuring the work of four artists from the extremes of electronic music, this record points the way to the future-by cutting through the illusions of time, space, origin and destination, and surfing the caustic waves of progress. ASTRO tears open the fabric of consciousness and launches a new Big Bang with a devastating and shapely electronic assault. PULSE EMITTER provides snapshots of landscapes of passionate, eerie colors from the skies and seas. ACRE churns forth a creme brulee of crown jewels and narcocryptic bliss. MONSTURO prods through the aether, starting tidal waves, digesting cities. Numbered edition of 200, with color cover art and color inserts." -Anarchymoon.
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Artist: JUSTICE YELDHAM & THE DYNAMIC RIBBON DEVICE Title: Birthdays Format: LP Label: Anarchymoon Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Birthdays consists of two live sets by maverick amplified-glass player Justice Yeldham recorded during his & Kegs recent tour of Europe. If youve never heard of the guy you are in for a bloody treat. Using concert-grade piano contact mics, he amplifies a sheet of glass and plays it with his mouth and face, processing it with pedals attached to his belt, usually barefooted. The results are unworldly, and hearing it you would never imagine what created it, something only an Aussie could achieve. Like careening assaults of insect spaceships, he transports the listener to other worlds of sound, ending most often in a crash of the glass upon his head. He survives, bloody but alive, never worse for wear in the morning. Side A was captured in Marseille on the eve of Justices 35th birthday while side B was recorded on Kegs birthday in Porto (for a preview listen at http://myspace.com/justiceyeldham). And to top off the birthday cheer Keg also did the cover illustration as a gift for Justices Birthday. Mastered by the god-like Rasheed of Dubplates (Berlin), the record has been collaboratively released in an edition of 600 copies across the world by Anarchymoon Recordings (North America), Turgid Animal (Europe) & All Thumbs Press (Australia). Black vinyl, B-on-W labels, 2-sided glue-on cover art (lim 600, 200 for UxSx distro)"-Anarchymoon. |
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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: 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: 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: SMEGMA Title: The Smell Remains The Same Format: LP Label: Anarchymoon Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Second in a slow series of 7" reissues, The Smell Remains The Same presents 10 tracks originally released in 1990-95 on 7" by various labels, including the impossible to find ? comp on Cavity Search records. (Literally, the title is ?). The tracks display Smegmas pioneering style of audiophile-lo-brow folk-noise-rock, in their early-middle age when they were surviving through the birth of grunge, alternative, and indie rock." - Anarchymoon. |
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Artist: WIESE, JOHN/DEAD MACHINES/DAMON ROMERO Title: Friday the 13th Format: Double LP Label: Anarchymoon Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "fierce live recording of this epic event on Jan 13, 2006. one side per set, including final side of 4-way collaboration. somehow they managed to fuse the minimal low-fi rig of Dead Machines with the maximal power cycle of Damion Romero and spatious neutron radiation of John Wiese, i was wondering how they were gonna pull it off.... it is a crunch-roaring bewilderment in sound. John Wiese - sonic landscapes that swirl and build, psychedelic even Dead Machines - slow grind through homemade speaker-suitcase. a groovy ride on nails and steel wool Damion Romero - physical psychic, you could feel it in the concrete floor 4-way collab - thunder-wail with flowers and sharks *****sonic hallucinations all 2xLP black vinyl, pro labels, high-quality 3color covers screened by Seizure Palace in the usual beyond-sick fashion on 12"x40" sheets. lim 515" - Anarchymoon. |
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Artist: BENT WIND Title: Sussex Format: LP + 7" Label: Anazitisi Country: Greece Price: $44.00 |
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"Monster heavy psych ultra-rarity from 1969 (Trend Records)—a volcanic dose of intense fuzz guitar, the perfect complement to the band’s sloppy garage ambience, and chugging beat; a strange case here, as the music on “Sussex” is often overshadowed by the album’s reputation as a one of the rarest collectible LPs in the world—a pity, as the music is as psychedelic as they come, a veritable fuzz guitar inferno! "An official reissue licensed by Marty Roth with the approval of Merv Buchanan (owner of the Trend Records). We proudly present the complete recordings made by legendary Bent Wind from 1969 till 1970. No need of any introduction on this monster rare, Canadian heavy psychedelic quartet. Do not expect to take the best sound quality from these primitive recordings but youll take for sure the most acidelic dose of the 60s music. Includes: Fully laminated cover. Two bonus tracks, one at the end of each side of the LP. Both the extra songs are from their lone 1969 single. The set comes along with a 7" EP, "The Lost Ryerson Tapes". It contains four tracks previously unreleased on vinyl, recorded in March 1970, by the original line-up.* 8-page LP-sized booklet with bio, photos, lyrics and memorabilia. *Reproduction of a Bent Wind gig poster. 180gr vinyl as usual. PVC protective outer-sleeve." -Anazitisi. One of the greats.. Highly Recommended!
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Artist: BERMUDA TRIANGLE Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Anazitisi Country: Greece Price: $37.00 |
| "Heres how Acid Archives describes this fantastic album: Truly bizarre folk-psych album thats more enjoyable than a lot of "better" records. Two of the first three songs are weird loungy covers of Nights In White Satin and Aerosmiths Dream On, neither of which sound like anything else on the album. For surprise value alone, Dream On works the better of the two, since the Moody Blues tune was dangerously close to lounge to begin with. Most of the other songs are full of fiddle-style violin and autoharp, the latter of which is often treated with phasing, flanging and other effects... Spastic, cymbal-heavy drumming adds another layer of intrigue... Both the male and female vocals are agreeable and work well in the context of these strange songs. The closing Wind (the Circus Maximus song) is another total departure, again not resembling anything else on the album, and sounding uncannily like a Linda Perhacs outtake. This album is kind of a shock on first listen, because at least to these jaded ears its not often I discover something so original and bizarre. This is truly a one of a kind album⿿you have to listen it to believe it!!! Typically deluxe presentation by Anazaitisi of an ultra-rare (and ultra-psychedelic) album." - Anazitisi. |
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Artist: HABEAS CORPUS Title: My Roots... Format: LP Label: Anazitisi Country: Greece Price: $44.00 |
| "Habeas Corpus formed in Athens, Greece in 1977. Originally a trio of guitar-bass-drums and occasionally, at some live gigs, a quartet with the addition of a keybordist/guitarist. At the end of 1981, all three members participated to the foundation of the more well-known band, SYNDROMO and made an album for Vertigo in 1982. Habeas Corpus music is instrumental (no vocals) and combines heavy progressive rock and jazz/fusion rock with classical and Greek traditional tinges all around. This limited release, collects all their recorded material from 1980-82. A couple of the tracks are from a studio demo while the other 6 tracks are recorded "live". All tracks are unreleased and uncompiled. From the original 2-track master tapes and fully licenced by Stavros Theodorakos. It will include a 20x20cm triptych (6 pages in total) with bio, photos and memorabilia and a big gig poster from their last appearance, early 1982. PVC protective outer-sleeve. 180gr. vinyl as usual. It will be a strictly limited, to 150 hand-numbered copies, edition. " - Anazitisi. |
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Artist: CATER & VILJAM NYBACKA, SEAMUS Title: The Anecdotes Format: LP Label: Anecdotal Country: Netherlands Price: $21.00 |
| Hand-numbered edition of 500. "A multi-instrumentalist song duo based in Amsterdam. The Anecdotes are a series of biographical song portraits of artists written by Seamus Cater. A diverse collection of 19th and 20th century figures are portrayed, including Bas Jan Ader, Eadweard Muybridge, Alexis Lapointe, Ewan MacColl, L.S. Lowry and Sergei Prokofiev. The music of Seamus Cater and Viljam Nybacka mixes the awkwardness of revivalist British folk with contemporary songwriting and extended instrumental techniques. With a core of subtle complexity, their sound builds more towards silence than noise and is as engaging as it is immersive. Recorded by Shahzad Ismaily (Bonnie Prince Billy/Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band), who plays bass on three songs, the album was mastered by Jeff Carey and features Eiríkur Orri Olafsson (mum) on trumpet and horn." -Anecdotal. |
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Artist: DIE TODLICHE DORIS Title: Angeldust Format: Double LP Box Set Label: Angeldust Country: Germany Price: $52.00 |
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Mysterious Euro "Fan Club" box set featuring recordings from 1979-1984.. Very nice printed box with color inserts. Limited to 200 copies.
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Artist: FENIAN Title: Metempsychosis Format: LP Label: Angry Island Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Loops and noise created with handmade spring devices, rare earth magnets and junkednjacked samples of found sounds. Plain black jacket with hand-sewn fabric. Green vinyl. Includes free download. Edition of 100." -Angry Island. |
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Artist: PSYCHIC TV Title: Dreams Less Sweet Format: LP Label: Angry Love Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Angry Love Productions is proud to present Psychic TVs 1983 classic Dreams Less Sweet, back on vinyl for the first time in over 20 years. Holophonic audio from the original UK vinyl masters with meticulously restored artwork. Features early PTV classics The Orchids & White Nights. Officially licensed through Sony UK." - Angry Love. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Five Days Married & Other Laments: Song and Dance from Northern Greece, 1928-1958 Format: LP Label: Angry Mom Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Featuring sublime and unhinged music rarely heard outside of Northern Greece and Southern Albania, the performances presented in this collection span the range of plaintive, ancient dirges to hypnotic, droning dance pieces. The style, repertoire, and songs from this isolated region are unearthly in their euphonic appeal. Most of the sides on this LP have not been issued since they were originally pressed on 78 rpm disc. A deep set of notes is accompanied by comprehensive lyrical translations as well as original artwork by R. Crumb. Respectfully crafted by Christopher King and Susan Archie for Angry Mom Records. Original artwork by Robert Crumb. Fourteen songs housed in a deluxe gatefold LP." - Angry Mom. |