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Artist: CIANI, SUZANNE Title: Lixiviation Format: CD Label: B-Music Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"Amazing comp of classically trained/avant-minded commercial composer Suzanne Ciani, the "American Delia Derbyshire Of The Atari Generation." Ciani stands alongside the likes of Pauline Oliveros, Daphne Oram, and Ursula Bogner in the continuum of female early electronic knob-twiddlers that wouldve never gone out on a date with you. "With a sonic portfolio that boasts commissions for the Xenon classic pinball machine, the sounds for the Meco Star Wars theme, the Atari TV commercials and the electronic sound effects in the original Stepford Wives film (amongst many others) the mutant electronic music CV of Suzanne Ciani is proof that in a 1970s commercial world of boys toys, monopolised by a male dominated media industry, a womans touch was the essential secret ingredient to successful sonic seduction. A classically trained musician with an MA in music composition this American Italian pianist was first introduced to the synthesizer via her connections in the art world when abstract Sculptor and collaborator Harold Paris introduced Suzanne to synthesizer designer Don Buchla who created the instrument that would come to define Cianis synthetic sound (The Buchla Synthesiser). Cutting her teeth providing self-initiated electronic music projects for art galleries, experimental film directors, pop record producers and proto-video nasties Suzanne soon located to New York where she quickly became the first point of call for electronic music services in both the underground experimental fields and the commercial advertising worlds alike. Counting names like Vangelis and Harald Bode amongst her close friends Suzanne and her Ciani Musica companybecame the testing ground for virtually any type of new developments in electronic and computerized music amassing an expansive vault of commercially unexposed electronic experiments which have remained untouched for over 30 years... until now." -B-Music. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Pomegranates Format: CD Label: B-Music Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Its no accident that the phoenix is an exalted moral, mythical, and figurative symbol in Iran. Like the phoenix, Iranian culture is in constant flux and, at times, elusive, with its existential wavering and blurred panoramas. Most of contemporary Irans artistic and creative leanings, its grapples with history and identity, are loosely and mystically conjoined and contested in memory. Iran is marked by the complex interplay of diverse constituencies, philosophies, and influences: ethnic, religious, political, geopolitical and historical. The glorification of pre-Islamic antiquity (in search of authentication) marked the socio-cultural attitude of a bygone era and is witnessing revival in the present day. The discordant reality of eastern traditions complicated by the rampant confusions of modernity has become a norm in Persian dialogue, not to mention revolution, exile, and diaspora. Like many other countries, the sixties and seventies were a time of tumult in Iran, bringing growth (via petrodollars) and freedom (under the banner of socioeconomic development) while exacerbating inequalities within the country. The music and voices that blossomed during those decades exemplify the turbulence and excitement of the age. It is worth recognizing these left out and lost artists individually and as a group in the global happenings of 60s/70s psych, rock and folk, while exploring their influence and relevance to the present day. Is it possible that there is a genus of delectable sounds and fetching images that almost exclusively reside in the elbowroom of memory and nostalgic yesteryear storytelling? Little consideration has been given to the correlation of these sounds and stories within the universal psychedelic phenomena: parallel to the shared stylistics of British and American players, and the radical politicking of their Turkish and Korean counterparts. This collection endeavors to re-contextualize these songs from the realm of reminiscence, nostalgia, and memory into a specific and accessible narrative to share and relate within the universal musical gamut. It is for aficionados, the curious, and collectors alike. We hope that Iranians around the world will rediscover these songs. This collection is, in some sense, dedicated to a generation in self-imposed mental exile, due to years of war and catastrophe; decades of lies and bombs; a fundamentalist theocracy of reformist shams; addiction; isolation and alienation; unemployment, and inflation. These are voices and stories that may again prove relevant to a psychologically damaged and spiritually corrupt society, a society whose discontents recall the latter years of the Shahs rule. The recordings excavated here are highly sexual musings, voluble love songs, and simple folk tunes." -B-Music |
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Artist: HOTCOMB, JETT AND THE TALENTED HAIRDOS Title: Give Us This Day Our Swingin Bread Format: 7" Label: B.U.F.M.S. Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Homemade Christian lounge music from the late 70s, previously available as a free cassette (self-released via the Jett 3:16 label) for guests at a now-defunct rural motel in Butte County. Two tracks with a full band ("Jesus Digs Me" and "The Lords Prayer") and two recorded a cappella in the shower ("Live and Let Die" and "Shampoo Bottle"). Includes reproductions of four period handbills and business cards, as well as a Butte County Free Music Society pink flamingo swizzle stick. One-sided 7-inch pressed in an edition of 200." - B.U.F.M.S. |
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Artist: AMON DUUL Title: Live in Munchen 17 November 1969 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| Renate Knaup-Kroaetenschwanz, vocals, Chris Karrer, guitar, Johannes Weinzierl, bass , Peter Leopold, drums, Falk U. Rogner, organ. Clear green vinyl in PVC sleeve with yellow lettering. Limited edition 500 copies. |
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Artist: ASH RA TEMPEL Title: Reunion, a Double Promo Album By Ash Ra Tempel Format: Double LP Label: B13 Country: Russian Federation Price: $55.00 |
| Double 140 gram 3-sided double LP on splatter vinyl with multicolored labels in a PVC sleeve. Limited edition of 500 copies. "Rare recording of Ash Ra Tempel, live at the Weisshaus Theatre in Cologne in 1973. Features the original line-up with Klaus Schulze (who had left the band in 1971) once again on drums and electric lap guitar! This three-sided double LP features the rare 43 min Dédié à Harmut and the 28 min Ooze Away." -B13 |
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Artist: AYLER, ALBERT Title: Live In Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, 25th July, 1970 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Just a few months before Albert Ayler presumably jumped to his death from the Statue of Liberty ferry into the frigid November waters of NYCs East River he was on stage for two energy filled nights at the Fondation de Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. Little did he know at the time that the recordings from these live performances would be his last. Although the band is not of the same calibre as some of his earlier ensembles, Ayler -- largely with the help of Call Cobbs on piano -- still manages one of the best live performances of his career. Although he had spent recent years flirting with R&B, here Ayler returns to the free jazz splendor of his ESP-Disk recordings playing classics from this period like Spirits, Holy Family and Spirits Rejoice. Originally released on the French Shandar label in 1970. Also with Steve Tintweiss (bass) and Allen Blairman (drums). White vinyl LP in clear plastic sleeve with red lettering. Limited edition 500 copies." -B13 |
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Artist: AYLER, ALBERT Title: Live In Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, 27th July, 1970 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Albert Aylers second night at Live In Saint-Paul-de-Vence, performing "Truth Is Marching In," "Universal Message," "Spiritual Reunion" and "Music Is The Healing Force of the Universe," featuring vocals by Aylers girlfriend, Mary Maria Parks. Grey vinyl LP in clear plastic sleeve with blue lettering. Limited edition 500 copies." -B13. |
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Artist: BLUES CREATION Title: Recorded Live At The All Japan Folk Jamboree August, 7 1971 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Blues Creation was formed in 1969 by Japanese axe-hero Kazuo Takeda, along with fellow guitarist Koh Eiryu and singer Fumio Nunoya (later of Dew). Initially influenced by the likes of the Yardbirds and Cream, group mastermind Takeda soon decided to move the heavier territory occupied by bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin. But at the same time Blues Creation had morphed into something truly original, focused more on song writing and looking into their own Japanese roots as well as to the West. By the time this live performance was recorded in August, 1971 at the 2nd All Japan Folk Jamboree, Takedas Blues Creation was a force to be reckoned with. Plays a mix of originals (sung in English) and well-selected covers, as always Blues Creations sound hinges entirely on Takedas impressive handiwork on the fretboard." -B13. 140 gram vinyl. Clear red vinyl in transparent PVC sleeve with blue lettering. Limited edition 500 copies. |
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Artist: CAN Title: A Double Promo Album By Can Format: Double LP Label: B13 Country: Russian Federation Price: $55.00 |
| "Vocalist Damo Suzukis departure from Can in 1973 had forced the band to re-evaluate their sound. Now with Michael Karoli and Irmin Schmidt sharing vocal duties, the band had also begun drawing on influences from disco and glam. While still remaining staunchly outside the mainstream, they undoubtedly became more accessible to a wider audience, and soon had a huge fan base in the UK. In fact, just a few months after playing the live show found on this double LP (recorded in Lyon in January of 1976), Can was even on Top of the Pops!" -B13. Double 140 gram clear vinyl with multicolored labels in a PVC sleeve. Limited edition of 500 copies. |
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Artist: CAN Title: Future Days Live Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "This album is made up of one long jam session recorded live-in-studio at Inner Space in Cologne during the 1973 Future Days sessions. More ambient than their previous efforts, Future Days was also singer Damo Suzukis final album with Can. Members of Can had first encountered the self-defined 20th century nomad, Kenji Damo Suzuki, a few years earlier on the streets of Cologne. It was shortly after original Can vocalist Malcolm Mooney had left the band and they were left without a singer on the night of a sold-out concert. Upon spying Damo on the streets of Cologne, Holger Czukay just walked up to him and asked him if he wanted to sing at the concert - no rehearsal, just get up on stage with the band and sing. Damo, of course, accepted and the classic Can line-up was born." - B13. 140 gram LP. Clear purple vinyl with red label in PVC sleeve with black lettering. Limited edition 500 copies. |
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Artist: CAN Title: Live at Aston University, Birmingham Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Russian Federation Price: $29.00 |
| "Extremely rare recording of Can performing live at Aston University in Birmingham, on March 4, 1977 and featuring the new addition of Rebop Kwaku Baah (the Ghanian percussionist well-known for his work with Traffic, Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, etc.) and Roscoe Gee (a Jamaican bassist who had also recorded with Traffic). Holger Czukay, now freed from bass duties, began experimenting with an array of electronic sounds, which he also began adding to the mix in part to counterbalance Cans new supercharged rhythm section. This period was actually the bands most commercially successful, with their disco-infused single I Want More topping the UK charts in 1976. 140 gram clear vinyl in a PVC sleeve. Limited edition of 500 copies." -B13. |
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Artist: CAN Title: Live In Hannover Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Russian Federation Price: $29.00 |
| "High quality live FM radio broadcast from Hannover on 11 April 1976 featuring the pied piper of the early seventies British hippy scene Magic Michael (Michael Cousins) on vocals. Michael, like Rodney Bingenheimer, was more famous for who he knew than for what he actually did, although he did appear on the Greasy Truckers Party LP in 1972, the A Bunch of Stiff Records compilation in 1977, and also collaborated with members of the Damned. Michael had also auditioned to be Cans vocalist after Damo left the band, but was rejected, so it is interesting to hear what a post-Damo Can might have sounded like with Magic Michael at the helm. 140 gram clear vinyl in a PVC sleeve. Limited edition of 500 copies." -B13. |
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Artist: CAN Title: Monster Movie Live Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Formed in Cologne in 1968, the year of the student riots that rocked Europe, Can was the band that rose from the ashes. Three ex-students of avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (Holger Czukay, Irmin Schmidt and Michael Karoli), well-known German jazz drummer, Jacki Liebezeit and American singer, Malcolm Mooney took rock music and turned it on its head. Although the band was still playing traditional instruments, their spontaneous compositions had little to do with the rehearsed conventions of rock. Tracks like Father Cannot Yell and the 20-minute Yoo Doo Right from their debut LP Monster Movie, and recorded live in Cologne in July 1969, were the first steps into the beyond, setting the tone for a whole new genre of German music that the world would soon be calling krautrock." - B13. 140 gram LP. Red vinyl with red label in PVC sleeve with black lettering. Limited edition 500 copies. |
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Artist: CAN Title: Tago Mago Live Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Recorded in 1971 at Cans Inner Space Studio in Cologne during the Tago Mago sessions. These two long tracks represent a live-in-studio jam where Damos vocals have really become an essential component in the bands sound. Amazing groove-heavy jams that were eons ahead of their time. This band was at its absolute creative peak. In 1971, you could press a record while they were using the bathroom and it would still sound good." 140 gram LP. Clear red vinyl with red label in PVC sleeve with black lettering. Limited edition 500 copies." - B13. |
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Artist: CHERRY, DON Title: Live in Paris, April 22, 1971 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Russian Federation Price: $29.00 |
| "Clear red vinyl in PVC sleeve. Limited edition 500 copies. In 1971, jazz trumpet player Don Cherry was living in an artists colony in Sweden (where he met his wife, Moki) and becoming deeply interested in world music, which would mark a deep shift in his music from this point onward. In spring of 1971, Cherry traveled to Paris with his avant-garde jazz trio, made up of the great South African bassist, Johnny Dyani, and Turkish percussionist Okay Temiz (who would also appear on his Organic Music Society) to perform live for an audience of French jazz fans." -B13. |
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Artist: COLEMAN, ORNETTE Title: Live in Beograd, Yugoslavia - 2 November 1971 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
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"A rare live concert given by Ornette Coleman (on alto, trumpet and violin), tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Ed Blackwell, in Belgrade in 1971. Coleman performs Hadens Song for Che along with four of his own lesser-known numbers. Clear yellow vinyl in clear plastic sleeve with black lettering (limited edition 500 copies)." -B13.
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Artist: DEW Title: Recorded Live At The All Japan Folk Jamboree August, 7 1971 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "First ever vinyl reissue of this incredibly rare early 70s Japanese LP recorded live at the 2nd All Japan Folk Jamboree on August, 7 1971. Formed in 1970 by ex-Blues Creation singer Fumio Nunoya, this live album featured a mix of self-penned guitar-heavy psych rock with anguished Japanese vocals along with a few standard blues covers." -B13. 140 gram LP, clear green vinyl in transparent PVC sleeve with blue lettering. Limited edition 500 copies. |
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Artist: FOTHERINGAY Title: BBC Live in 1970 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Russian Federation Price: $29.00 |
| "140 gram LP clear vinyl in clear PVC sleeve (ltd. ed. 500 copies). After her legendary tenure with Fairport Convention came to an end in 1969 (during which time she was voted Britains best singer), Sandy Denny, along with Trevor Lucas (of Eclection), decided to put together a new band. In early 1970 Fotheringay, named after a FC song (and featuring the talents of Jerry Donahue and Pat Donaldson), was born. Despite rave reviews along with the release of one excellent album for Island that same year, the band quickly fell apart due to personal reasons. These BBC sessions, recorded in April and November of 1970--and featuring amazing versions of songs like The Sea and The Ballad of Ned Kelly, from their self-titled studio album, as well as versions of songs like Eppie Moray and John The Gun, that were works in progress at the time--are a welcome compendium to their repertoire." -B13. |
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Artist: GURU GURU Title: Live in Wiesbaden 1972 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Playing on the same scene as bands like Amon Duul and Can, German prog rock band Guru Guru was formed in 1968 by one of contemporary musics most talented drummers, Mani Neumeier who, in addition to playing drums, was also the bands vocalist and front man. By the time this album was recorded in 1972, bassist Uli Trepte had left the band to play with Neu! and Faust and was replaced with Bruno Schaab of Night Sun (the stellar German prog metal band). This early live album, recorded in Wiesbaden, Germany in front of a crowd of dedicated fans, is essential listening, featuring two extended tracks, the 28-minute Oxymoron, and the 23-minute Guru Guru classic Baby Cake Walk." 140 gram LP. Red vinyl with white label in PVC sleeve with black lettering. Limited edition 500 copies. - B13 |
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Artist: GURU GURU Title: Live in Wiesbaden 1972/1973 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| ""In 1972 Guru Guru played the Wiesbaden Concert Hall where Neumeier, guitarist Ax Genrich and bassist Bruno Schaab (who had recently replaced Uli Trepte) let loose on one of their most classic tracks, the a 37-minute freakout Ooga Booga. In 1973 the discerning folks of Wiesbaden again invited Guru Guru to play, and this time the band - now featuring the formidable Hans Hartmann (arguably Guru Gurus best in a long line of bass players) - regaled fans with tracks from their recently released LP Dont Call Us (We Call You), Round Dance and Das Zwickmaschinchen. Here, also, Neumeiers superlative drumming is given center stage and one can hear why Mani has consistently earned such high praise." 140 gram LP. Clear red vinyl with white label in PVC sleeve with black lettering. Limited edition 500 copies." - B13 |
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Artist: KOSUGI, TAKEHISA Title: Studio Improvisations, Tokyo, 16th And 17th September, 1974 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Originally released on CBS Japan in 1975, this solo album by the godfather of Japanese avant-garde music was called one of the top ten Japrock albums of all time in Julian Copes Japrock Sampler. Red vinyl LP in clear plastic sleeve with black lettering. Limited edition 500 copies." -B13 |
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Artist: KRAFTWERK Title: Live Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Founded in 1970 in Dusseldorf, Kraftwerk was the only German band to rise from the so-called krautrock scene to true international stardom. Of course, it was partially their distinct look that set them apart. At a time when long hair and scruffy clothing was the norm for musicians, Kraftwerk cut their hair short and wore handmade suits. And at a time when guitar rock reigned supreme, Kraftwerk did not even have a guitar player. In fact they soon did away with instruments altogether, becoming one of the first truly electronic bands. With the release of their fifth album Autobahn in 1975 (which mocked the glorification of the shiny modern world that had been built upon the rubble of post-war Germany), Kraftwerk finally achieved major stardom. Kometenmelodie 1 &2 was recorded live in Paris during the Autobahn tour and featured the classic Schneider / Hütter / Bartos / Flür line-up. Side B was recorded live in Utrecht in 1981 shortly after the release of their prophetic Computer World. It features their 1978 hit The Model plus hits from the album, Numbers and Pocket Calculator." - B13. 140 gram LP. Grey vinyl with blue label in PVC sleeve with red lettering. Limited edition 500 copies. |
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Artist: KRAFTWERK Title: Live 1971 Format: Double LP Label: B13 Country: Russian Federation Price: $55.00 |
| "Rare early Kraftwerk, now for the first time on double vinyl LP. Recorded live at the Gondel Kino (Gondola Cinema) in Bremen, Germany on 25 June 1971 (except for Interzone recorded on the TV program Beat-Club on 22 May 1971), with a rare trio line-up of Florian Schneider, Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger (soon to be of Neu!). This LP represents one of the very few recordings in existence of that brief period in Kraftwerk history after Ralf Hutter had temporarily left the band and before Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger went on to form Neu! Before morphing into the motorik juggernaut they would soon become, Kraftwerk was nothing more than Rother on guitar, Dinger on drums, and Schneider on a tricked-out flute. Just listen to Heavy Metal Kids to unlock the secret door to their past. Double 140 gram clear vinyl with multicolored labels in a PVC sleeve. Limited to 500 copies." -B13. |
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Artist: SOFT MACHINE Title: Live 1967-1969 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| Side one recorded for John Peels Top Gear Show 05/12/1967; side two recorded 10/06/1969. Robert Wyatt, drums and vocals, Mike Ratledge, organ, electric piano and flute, Kevin Ayers, vocals, guitar and bass, Hugh Hopper, bass and alto saxophone, Brian Hopper, soprano sax. Clear vinyl in PVC sleeve with purple lettering. Limited edition 500 copies. |
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Artist: SOFT MACHINE Title: The Earliest Recordings Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Technically "proto-Soft Machine", recorded live in London in the early sixties. "The very earliest known recordings by the men who would unwittingly go on to found the influential Canterbury scene and its premiere band, Soft Machine! Culled mostly from sax player Brian Hoppers personal vault of early rehearsal tapes and live performances circa 1962-63 - over 3 years prior to Soft Machines official formation. In 1962, Brians younger brother Hugh was still attending the Simon Langton Grammar School For Boys near Canterbury, as was classmate, Robert Wyatt. Mike Ratledge, had been a classmate of Brians and Daevid Allen was just a freewheeling Australian music lover who was renting a room at Wyatts parents house. The Hopper brothers, Wyatt and Ratledge were drawn in by Allen (who was older) with his Sun Ra records, beat poetry, and tales of the bohemian life in Paris, all of which soon led to talk of starting a band together... as these things often do. The very earliest line-up was Wyatt on drums, Allen on guitar, and Hugh on bass. They called themselves the Daevid Allen Trio. Dear Olde Benny Green Is A-Turning In His Grave is a tune that comes from one of their first live performances at Londons Marquee club in 1963." 140 gram LP. Clear vinyl in PVC sleeve with blue lettering and red label. Limited edition 500 copies." -B13. |
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Artist: SUN RA ARKESTRA Title: Live at the Storyville, NYC - 24 October 1977 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Quite simply one of Sun Ras best live albums. This rare recording finds Ra, along with a 19-piece Arkestra, playing a mix of his own compositions (Images and Lights) along with several jazz standards (including Jelly Roll Mortons King Porter Stomp and Duke Ellingtons Lightnin). While Ras own compositions were usually more avant-garde affairs, he always revelled in playing the classics as well in an effort to give his audience a lesson in jazz history. Red vinyl in clear plastic sleeve with black lettering (limited edition 500 copies)." -B13. |
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Artist: SUN RA ARKESTRA Title: Live at the Storyville, NYC - 29 October, 1977 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Day two of this rare live concert at the Storyville finds Ra and a 19-piece Arkestra again giving the audience a lesson in jazz with tracks like Rodgers and Hammersteins My Favorite Things, Tadd Damerons Lady Bird and Miles Davis Half Nelson, as well as a taste of his own classics (Englight(en)Ment and The Satellites). Clear red vinyl in clear plastic sleeve with blue lettering (limited edition 500 copies)." -B13. |
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Artist: TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS Title: Live Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "1972 was a busy year for Japans favorite experimental rock band. After several months spent touring Europe, group leader Takehisa Kosugi (currently music director for the Merce Cunningham dance company in the USA) decided to make good on the bands name and embark on a monumental voyage across Europe and Asia, driving a VW bus from Rotterdam all the way to the Taj Mahal in India. Amazingly, the band got as far as Pakistan before having to fly the rest of the way to the Taj Mahal due to border restrictions. By July of 1972, the band was back home in Japan, and still playing nonstop. The three tracks on side A were recorded live during this historic tour, while side B was recorded a year later at the famous Oz Club in Tokyo, during a five day music festival celebrating the venues final days." Clear blue vinyl in clear plastic sleeve with black lettering (limited edition 500 copies)." -B13. |
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Artist: TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS Title: Live At Sohgetsu Hall In Tokyo, 15th July 1972 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "After returning from a year-long tour of Europe and Asia, the group returned home to Tokyo for this concert. Originally released on CBS Japan in 1972, the concert remained out of print for decades and has never before been reissued on vinyl. The line up features Takehisa Kosugi on electronic violin, vocals and radio oscillators, Ryo Koike on electronic contrabass, suntool, sheet iron, and harmonica, Yukio Tsuchiya on vibraphone, Michihiro Kimura on electronic guitar & percussion, Seiji Nagai on electronic trumpet, harmonica, castanets, and Tokio Hasegawa on vocals. Orange vinyl in clear plastic sleeve with black lettering. Limited edition of 500 copies." -B13 |
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Artist: TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS Title: Live at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm - 1 July 1971 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Recorded on 1 July 1971 in the geodesic dome at the Utopia & Visions 1871-1981 exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Takehisa Kosugis Taj Mahal Travellers were a Japanese experimental improv group active in the 1970s. The group, heavily influenced by Fluxus, used electronic effects to create their own unique improvised drones. White vinyl in clear plastic sleeve with red lettering (limited edition 500 copies)." -B13. |
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Artist: TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS Title: Live at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm - 9 July 1971 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Day two of this historic and rare live performance at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. Grey vinyl in clear plastic sleeve with blue lettering (limited edition 500 copies)." -B13. |
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Artist: TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS Title: Live In Tokyo, 19th August 1974, Part One Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Avant-garde composer and sound installation artist Takehisa Kosugi (musical director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company) has led the Japanese avant-garde music scene since the early 1960s. In 1969 he formed the Taj Mahal Travellers, a musical collective that travelled the world in a VW minibus creating Fluxus-influenced improvised multimedia sound events. This double album (divided into two LPs), recorded live at the Nippon Columbia Studio in Tokyo in 1974, was the groups final effort before disbanding. Here Kosugi and the Travellers blend Eastern and Western instrumentation, vocal chants and electronics to create free-form psych-laden drones. This historic album is an essential and influential piece of Japanese avant rock. Part one, on clear vinyl in clear plastic sleeve with black lettering. Limited edition 500 copies." -B13 |
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Artist: TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS Title: Live In Tokyo, 19th August 1974, Part Two Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Part two, on clear vinyl in clear plastic sleeve with blue lettering. Limited edition 500 copies." -B13 |
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Artist: VELVET UNDERGROUND Title: Live at End of Cole Avenue in Dallas, TX - 27 October 1969 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| A side ("The Songs"): "Sister Ray," "Lisa Says," "RocknRoll"; B-side ("The Jams"): "1st," "2nd," "3rd," "4th." Lou Reed, guitar and vocals, Sterling Morrison, guitar and vocals, Maureen Tucker, drums and vocals, Doug Yule, bass guitar. Clear blue vinyl in PVC sleeve with yellow lettering. Limited edition 500 copies. |
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Artist: VELVET UNDERGROUND Title: Live in Dallas, TX, October 28, 1969 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| Clear purple vinyl in a transparent PVC sleeve with yellow lettering; edition of 500 copies. "After the release of their third LP in March 1969, the Velvets (with Doug Yule now on bass) embarked on a nationwide tour, playing over seventy dates all around the US. One of these included a stint at the End Of Cole Avenue club in Dallas--one of the Velvets few live performances where a professional sound engineer was actually on hand to record the sets. Some of the songs recorded over those few nights showed up in 1974 on their 1969: Velvet Underground Live album, but the sound quality was not great due to Mercurys use of third or fourth generation tapes. However, the first generation tapes have since resurfaced, and the difference in sound quality (heard here) is a welcome one. This version also features a few songs, like Im Set Free and One Of These Days, not found on the original LP." - B13. |
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Artist: DEAD C Title: Clyma Est Mort/Tentative Power Format: Double LP Label: Ba Da Bing Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Following the 2008 release of a pair of double-LPs, Ba Da Bing and Jagjaguwar continue their DEAD C reissue project with two new records. Relegated to expensive fodder for eBay bidders until now, Clyma Est Mort can be considered The Dead Cs "Ed Sullivan moment," except it wasnt performed live on network TV-it was recorded in a practice room in Port Chalmers, NZ, in 1992 with the inestimable TOM LAX of Siltbreeze as the sole member of the audience. Since the goal was to make a "fake bootleg" album for release on the mythical Proletariat Idiots Productions label-and in honor of the 13th Floor Elevators-the band dubbed in fake audience noise from a gig by the Renderers. Despite the deliberate incompetence with which this was accomplished, Clyma is often touted as a "live album." This is only true in the sense that the band members were alive when they made it. This double-LP reissue includes Tentative Power, a collection of non-album tracks many consider among the bands best moments. LP stickered with description." -Ba Da Bing |
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Artist: DEAD C Title: DR503 + Sun Stabbed EP Format: Double LP Label: Ba Da Bing Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
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"The first in a series of DEAD C reissue collaborations between Jagjaguwar and Ba Da Bing, DR503 has been pressed on vinyl for the first time in years, along with the Sun Stabbed EP as a bonus record. Originally released in 1987 (and not to be confused with the releases DR503b or DR503c, which are completely different recordings), DR503 sounded like nothing that came before--a furious pastiche of unrelenting drones, noise and menace. It didnt fit in with the other bands New Zealands venerable Flying Nun was releasing, and it immediately staked a fork in the road, dividing the "New Zealand Pop Sound" from its black sheep brother, "New Zealand Noise." Today, the record still sounds as vicious and vital as when it first went to vinyl, except now perhaps there will be more people ready to appreciate the innovative approach the band took some 21 years ago. This reissue also contains a bonus record of the rare Sun Stabbed EP from the same recording period. With bonus tracks not on the original 7-inch, the recordings from the Sun Stabbed sessions are being released for the first time in their entirety. Release coincides with new album, Secret Earth. Packaged in beautiful gatefold Stoughton jackets." -Ba Da Bing!
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Artist: DEAD C Title: Future Artists Format: CD Label: Ba Da Bing Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "In their first new album since 2003s The Damned and last years double-CD greatest hits behemoth, Vain, Erudite and Stupid, New Zealands The Dead C return with another uncompromising realization of the finest rock improvisation youll ever hear. Future Artists contains five tracks of genius drone and barbarous clashing sounds. From the first track, The AMM of Punk Rock through to the last, Garage, their intensity is unyielding, their inventiveness jaw-dropping. Its been twenty years, and The Dead C show no sign of losing their ability to express the surreal and undefined. Long may they prosper." -Ba Da Bing!. |
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Artist: DEAD C Title: Future Artists Format: Double LP Label: Ba Da Bing Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "In their first new album since 2003s The Damned and two-CD greatest hits behemoth, Vain, Erudite & Stupid, New Zealands THE DEAD C return with another uncompromising realization of the finest rock improvisation youll ever hear. Future Artists contains five tracks of genius drone and barbarous clashing sounds. From the first track, "The AMM of Punk Rock" through to the last, "Garage," their intensity is unyielding, their inventiveness jaw-dropping. Its been twenty years, and The Dead C show no sign of losing their ability to express the surreal and undefined. Long may they prosper. Features a bonus track-12:30 song called The Prisoners."-Ba Da Bing! |
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Artist: DEAD C Title: Max Harris Format: LP Label: Ba Da Bing Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Max Harris captures the first recordings THE DEAD C ever made, back in January 1987. Each side displays a different and uniquely raw version of "Max Harris"-reinterpreted both times by a group who can truly say they have never played the same song in any form the same way twice. Anyone who doesnt own one of the original 21 cassette tapes made of these recordings will be hearing them together for the first time. Yes, theyve never been on vinyl before, so maybe one can even say this is the tracks first "real" release. You will be able to feel the slicing tension and drive right through your bones. LP stickered with description." -Ba Da Bing |
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Artist: DEAD C Title: Patience Format: CD Label: Ba Da Bing Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Patience is both appropriate and inappropriate as a title for the latest release by THE DEAD C-inappropriate because its been only two years since the last album, which in Dead C Time is but the flicker of a candle; appropriate since the key to enjoying their sounds is willingness to sit down, listen and let the music take over your mind. These four unforgiving and intense tracks will not be confused with the work of any other band. Recorded in Dunedin over the Southern summer of 2009/10, Patience captures a restless band that never settles into any form. The trio of MICHAEL MORLEY, BRUCE RUSSELL and ROBBIE YEATS makes their improvised music sound like the most substantial ever recorded, no matter in what direction they go. Here, vocal-less, thick and thundering electric drones compound and retreat like a Pacific Ocean of noise. Morley once again provides the artwork and continues in his color palatte of late. Its circular, flowery texture provides the perfect mandala for contemplation while lost within the deep meditations that Patience inspires." - Ba Da Bing. |
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Artist: DEAD C Title: Patience Format: LP Label: Ba Da Bing Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Patience is both appropriate and inappropriate as a title for the latest release by THE DEAD C-inappropriate because its been only two years since the last album, which in Dead C Time is but the flicker of a candle; appropriate since the key to enjoying their sounds is willingness to sit down, listen and let the music take over your mind. These four unforgiving and intense tracks will not be confused with the work of any other band. Recorded in Dunedin over the Southern summer of 2009/10, Patience captures a restless band that never settles into any form. The trio of MICHAEL MORLEY, BRUCE RUSSELL and ROBBIE YEATS makes their improvised music sound like the most substantial ever recorded, no matter in what direction they go. Here, vocal-less, thick and thundering electric drones compound and retreat like a Pacific Ocean of noise. Morley once again provides the artwork and continues in his color palatte of late. Its circular, flowery texture provides the perfect mandala for contemplation while lost within the deep meditations that Patience inspires.Vinyl pressing of 1000 copies, includes free digital download coupon." - Ba Da Bing |
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Artist: DEAD C Title: Relax Fallujah - Hell Has Come Format: 7" Label: Ba Da Bing Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Limited to 1000 copies, Relax Fallujah coincides with THE DEAD Cs double-CD retrospective Vain, Erudite and Stupid: Selected Works 1987-2005, also on Ba Da Bing! Side A is brutal, never-released version of "Power" from the bands archives. The B-Side serves up their most famous song (especially after it was covered by the likes of Yo La Tengo and The Rogers Sisters, among others), for those who finally want to hear it on glorious vinyl." - Ba Da Bing!
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Artist: DEAD C Title: Secret Earth Format: CD Label: Ba Da Bing Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "The elegance of howling guitar noise was fully realized when THE DEAD C appeared. For over twenty years now, the trio has continually redefined what rock music is and can sound like, and have inspired Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Wolf Eyes, and Comets On Fire, not to mention the current fertile underground noise scene. The Dead C is the ultimate blues band. But rather than departing from the heartfelt singing of the African-American South, they express the tenants of alienation in society with unrelenting force-a focused soundtrack to accompany Knut Hamsun novels, Samuel Beckett plays, and Ingmar Bergman films. MICHAEL MORLEYs monotonic vocal moan anchors the inherent isolation of our modern world--nothing is more earnest, nothing sounds so lost. Along the axis of The Dead Cs recordings, Secret Earth sounds like it was created between Eusa Kills and Harsh 70s Reality. It contains a straightforward (for them) expression of sound, while continually pushing their vast improvisational techniques into a realm of subconscious genius. To coincide with this release, the band will be playing rare, select shows around the US in mid-October. They have not been to the east coast in over a decade, and will be visiting some places theyve never been (cheers, Seattle). LP version coming." -Ba Da Bing! |
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Artist: DEAD C Title: Secret Earth Format: LP Label: Ba Da Bing Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"The elegance of howling guitar noise was fully realized when THE DEAD C appeared. For over twenty years now, the trio has continually redefined what rock music is and can sound like, and have inspired Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Wolf Eyes, and Comets On Fire, not to mention the current fertile underground noise scene. The Dead C is the ultimate blues band. But rather than departing from the heartfelt singing of the African-American South, they express the tenants of alienation in society with unrelenting force-a focused soundtrack to accompany Knut Hamsun novels, Samuel Beckett plays, and Ingmar Bergman films. MICHAEL MORLEYs monotonic vocal moan anchors the inherent isolation of our modern world--nothing is more earnest, nothing sounds so lost. Along the axis of The Dead Cs recordings, Secret Earth sounds like it was created between Eusa Kills and Harsh 70s Reality. It contains a straightforward (for them) expression of sound, while continually pushing their vast improvisational techniques into a realm of subconscious genius. To coincide with this release, the band will be playing rare, select shows around the US in mid-October. They have not been to the east coast in over a decade, and will be visiting some places theyve never been (cheers, Seattle). In addition, Ba Da Bing is teaming up this fall with Jagjaguwar to reissue their two essential Flying Nun albums from the eighties-DR503 and Eusa Kills." -Ba Da Bing!
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Artist: DEAD C Title: Vain, Erudite and Stupid: Selected Works 1987-2005 Format: Double CD Label: Ba Da Bing Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "With a catalogue that oscillates between subverting traditional song structures and stomping out and obliterating the very notion, New Zealands MICHAEL MORLEY, BRUCE RUSSELL and ROBBIE YEATS have continually made the most crushing, expansive and intelligent rock noise ever to be heard. The trio have been creating the greatest of squalls for twenty years now, and to mark the anniversary, Ba Da Bing is proud to present this double CD retrospective, with tracks hand-picked by the band members themselves, collecting old and new faves and out-of-print rarities. This release serves long-time fans and the curious alike, as chances are few people have heard everything on these discs. The band chose critical highlights as well as material they felt deserved wider exposure. While classics like "Constellation," "Power," and "Bitcher" are present, so are obscurities like "Mighty" from their Forced Exposure 7-inch, "All Channels Open" from the limited, double-disc DC record and "3 Years" from the Xpressway Pile-Up compilation. The real thrill is listening to the bands development over time, from the deconstructed skeletal rock of their early output to the eventual, cosmic marriage of reason and squalor that is as crushing as it is indescribable." - Ba Da Bing!. |
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Artist: GATE Title: Republic Of Sadness Format: LP Label: Ba Da Bing Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The first new GATE record in over a decade, A Republic of Sadness is as much a reason for celebration as indoctrination into the creative genius of MICHAEL MORLEY. Known primarily for his work in THE DEAD C, Morley simultaneously has been doing Gate since hes started playing. A Republic of Sadness comprises the apex of Morleys various interests in one collection. His guitar and vocal drones permeate through looped beats and sounds, arriving at a sound that is not quite dance, not quite noise, not quite electronica and never, ever ambient. Michael Morley will be playing shows in the states this summer, including a few with Lee Renaldo." -Ba Da Bing |
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Artist: RENDERERS Title: A Rocket Into Nothing Format: CD Label: Ba Da Bing Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Over the past two decades, THE RENDERERS have crafted half a dozen albums of intimate psychedelia infused with Americana and noise. A Rocket Into Nothing is another extraordinary display of BRIAN and MARYROSE CROOKs talent as songwriters and sound sculptors. The Renderers are still as essential a piece of the diverse New Zealand indie rock puzzle as they were on their first Flying Nun album. Crafted during the series of earthquakes that hit the country in 2011, A Rocket Into Nothing seethes with the anxiety born of life-threatening experiences. On opener "Down River," slippery minor key melodies lie on beds of shaky feedback. Even the upbeat "This Shining Life" features wild, overblown guitars and subtle synth squeals. At any point, close listening reveals unexpected textures and tectonic shifts hidden just below the surface. More successfully than on any previous release, the band balances detail-oriented and spontaneous songwriting and recording techniques. Uncertainty plays a key role. Twenty years into most careers, bands lose the edge of their earlier work, but The Renderers music is as exciting as ever." - Ba Da Bing. |
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Artist: DEAD C VS. RANGDA Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Ba Da Bing! Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Two of the greatest bands of the present day, each composed of two guitarists and a drummer. Every members name carries its own legendary status. RICHARD BISHOP. BEN CHASNY. CHRIS CORSANO. MICHAEL MORLEY. BRUCE RUSSELL. ROBBIE YEATS. Fabricated empires have risen and been destroyed by the vast output of any one of these guys. Finally, they come together on one release: a split LP between two supergroups. THE DEAD Cs tracks are a gem of a find. The band uncovered recordings nestled in the back corner of their archives that they completely forgot existed. These tracks were under consideration for their seminal album Eusa Kills. The loose majesty found on that album comes to the fore here, with a group finding their wings right as they are set aflame. RANGDA recorded their two compositions at Russian Recording in Bloomington, Indiana. Everything that brings these musicians together uncoils and commands. Beats of silence underscore tangents that lead back to main themes and out again. Its as though the years and years of playing under their collective belts has culminated in these glorious moments." - Ba Da Bing! |
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Artist: YOUNGS, RICHARD & SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH & THE A BAND Title: Zene/Salivating Regina Format: 7" Label: Baby Huey Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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Original, unplayed copies from 1992.
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Artist: COMETS ON FIRE Title: Bong Voyage Format: LP Label: Bad Glue Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"One band can never be fully credited with resurrecting an entire scene, so lets just say Comets On Fire are owed a beer for allowing the term West Coast Psychedelic Scene to be present tense. After two caustic records on Alternative Tentacles and Ba Da Bing!, the band headed out for a country-wide tour, the best recordings of which are found on Bong Voyage. The intensity of their live shows -- songs played at a pummeling speed and always on the cusp of utter collapse -- mixes ingeniously with the true song craft behind their songs. Its not just psych for psychs sake, its real music, the most classic of classic rock, lovingly acknowledged and reinterpreted by five sweaty, energy fuelled boys." - Bad Glue. Limited to 800 copies.
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Artist: DRUNKDRIVER & MATTIN Title: List of Profound Insecurities Format: 12" Label: Badmaster Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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Recent collaboration, Ltd. to 500.
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Artist: HOT GUTS Title: Ballad of Jon Simon Format: 7" Label: Badmaster Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "The debut 7-inch from Philadelphias HOT GUTS. Greatness is spread thick across each song. "The Ballad of Joe Simon was particularly striking right off the bat, and it must be placed on the table that this is not the type of great in which theres no hint whatsoever as to how it relates to the bands record collection. Definite Swans-love happening here, both in the pummel and the Gira-deep vocals, and this is tastefully if not predictably matched with some other industrial/early-noise creep-os like Chrome and the venerable Throbbing Gristle. I heard early Killing Joke and Nick Cave, too, but to drive home an adage that cant be driven hard enough, its all what you do with the source material. Now, looking at that layer of Hot Guts, and no, I have never heard anything like this, ever, and thankfully, its a good thing this time."-Andrew Earles |
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Artist: HOT GUTS / POP. 1280 Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Badmaster Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "A new 7-inch split between Phillys HOT GUTS (members of FNU RONNIES) and NYC creeps POP. 1280. Edition of 500 copies." -Badmaster |
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Artist: SHIT AND SHINE Title: Bass Puppy Format: 12" Label: Badmaster Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "2 long tracks wherein the Shit & Shine aesthetic is applied to that of the Dub-Step (?) genre. Think the "loop-iness" & humor of Strangulated Beat-offs mixed with the more future-primitive, cybernetic, percussive interludes found on FNU Ronnies Golem Smoke, then hit it with a couple ecstasy pills and BOOM: BASSS! PUPPPPY!" - Badmaster. |
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Artist: SCREAMIN MEE-MEES Title: Nude Invisible Foot Phenomenon Format: LP Label: Bag of Hammers Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"..rumbles of lo-fi psychedelic punk from Mr. Bruce Cole and Mr. Jon Ashline." - Bag of Hammers. 1996 release.
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Artist: BALINESE BEAST Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Balinese Beast Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Looped chunks of sound and feedback from microphones / saxophones, and screaming lo-fi electronics from a hacked remote control, chopped up into a vibrant collage. Includes three inserts. Edition of 287." -Balinese Beast. |
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Artist: APRYL FOOL, THE Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Bamboo Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| ""The Apryl Fool was a very accomplished late-60s band from Japan whose lone, self-titled 1969 album is a great mixture of hard psych and blues-rock. Their best-known track is probably The Lost Mother Land, Pt. 1, which was featured on the Japanese volume of QDKs Love, Peace And Poetry series, certainly one of the most crazed, over-the-top productions and performances in the entire series, with its massively phased and treated vocals and general menace. But that tune is really the anomaly on the album, despite the prevalence of monstrous fuzz guitar on a number of tracks. At their heart, The Apryl Fool seem to be a blues-rock band, although one that was clearly experimenting with the burgeoning psychedelic scene. Tracks like Another Time, Honky Tonk Jam, and Bob Dylans Pledging My Time are pretty straight blues-rock, and April Blues just adds some fuzz guitar to a boogie-woogie piano bit. The other tracks up the psych quotient considerably, like on Tomorrows Child, with its Farfisa and wicked fuzz leads, or the aforementioned The Lost Mother Land Pt. 1. There are additional crazy tape effects on The Lost Mother Land Pt. 2. About half the tunes are in English and half in Japanese, but its all good stuff. Historical footnote: years later, bass player Haruomi Hosono would become a member of one of Japans most popular music groups ever, Yellow Magic Orchestra." --Sean Westergaard, All Music Guide; Housed in a highly collectable limited edition LP replica card wallet. Includes 4 bonus tracks (The Floral singles)." -Bamboo. |
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Artist: BLUES CREATION Title: Demon & Eleven Children Format: LP Label: Bamboo Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "Japans Blues Creation was formed by guitarists Kazuo Takeda, Koh Eiryu and singer Fumio Nunoya, in early 1969, after the dissolution of their Group Sounds outfit The Bickies. Highly influenced by Cream and The Yardbirds, Takeda joined forces with school friends Takayuki Noji, Shinichi Tashiro, and lead singer Fumio Nunoya. Formerly vocalist with Taboo, a heavy band led by future Happy End guitarist Eiichi Otaki, Nunoya was also searching for an even heavier sound, and the results of the new American-influenced experiment were released in October 1969, as Blues Creation. Singer Fumio Nunoya soon found himself edged out of artistic decisions by the supremely confident Takeda, and thereafter left to form his own band, Dew. While searching around throughout 1970 for a new singer, guitarist Takeda heard the new, even more strung-out music of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Eric Claptons solo LP Clapton, and Leslie Wests Mountain, and decided he should take the opportunity to start again from scratch. Takeda enlisted bassist Masashi Saeki and drummer Akiyoshi Higuchi for the new line-up, and eschewed the previous style in favor of his own compositions. With the new Blues Creation fronted by singer Hiromi Osawa, Kazuo Takeda recorded what has come to be regarded as his masterpiece in the form of Demon & Eleven Children, originally released in 1971 on Denon. This album was recorded at the Japan Folk Jamboree, and is a full-on gem of a record, but Takeda was now widely-known as a true Japanese guitar hero, and -- as ever -- had set his sights higher and higher. He split Blues Creation the following year, leaving for London in late 1972. This sludge-y slab of big, loud, brain-busting heaviness sits at #17 on Julian Copes Japrocksampler top 50 list. Includes original LP insert and lyric sheet." -Bamboo |
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Artist: CURTIS, MIKI Title: The First Ear Format: LP Label: Bamboo Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "First released on Vertigo in April 1972, this is the first LP by Miki Curtis (Samurai front man) following the break-up of the band. Its a fantastically otherworldly psychedelic LP and a totally different sound than Samurai. The First Ear finds Eastern-tinged psych of the highest echelon! Strange harmony vocals, a spacy guitar solo, queerly sawing synths, everythings efficient and even compelling! "Forty days on a stoned-out camel" moans Miki (yes, he knows some English, too) and that is just how this sounds. The track ends with half a minute of noisy slurping on what we presume to be a waterpipe. Mind-blowing. Digitally remastered and pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Comes with an English translation of the original Japanese LP insert." - Bamboo. |
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Artist: FLIED EGG Title: Good Bye Format: LP Label: Bamboo Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Gatefold LP version on 180 gram vinyl. This is the final album from the band founded by George Yanagi, formed after the disbanding of Strawberry Path after only one astonishing album. Good Bye, originally released in 1972, brings together a live first side bursting with highly energetic, guitar-based loud rock. The studio side is a more sophisticated and progressive affair, with the complex and instrumentally-inspired "521 Seconds Schizophrenic Symphony" being of a particularly high standard. An album sure to appeal fans of 70s hard rock with marked progressive tendencies. Features killer Hammond organs and drums from Hiro Tsunoda (Foodbrain, Yasumi No Kuni)." -Bamboo. |
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Artist: MAGICAL POWER MAKO Title: Hapmoniym 1972-1975 Format: 5 CD Boxset Label: Bamboo Country: UK Price: $60.00 |
| "The epitome of a cult artist (and a favorite of Julian Cope), the enigmatic Magical Power Mako (aka Makoto Kurita) has been sporadically releasing albums in his native Japan since 1974. This lavish numbered, limited edition 5CD set collects jams taped by him between 1972 and 1975, and comes complete with a full 12-page booklet. Encompassing psychedelic folk, Krautrock, electronica and fuzz guitar, the musics effect is frequently astounding, and absolutely essential for all fans of Japrock." -Bamboo |
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Artist: MIZUTANI, KIMIO Title: A Path Through Haze Format: LP Label: Bamboo Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "180 gram vinyl reissue of this ultra-rare 70s Japanese rock album. Kimio Mizutani was the guitarist in the excellent Japanese freak-out group, Love Live Life + 1 and this reissue is of his first solo album from 1971. Mizutani plays electric and "folk" guitar and leads a largish ensemble (bass, drums, organ, Moog and vocals) through what is widely-regarded as one of the true psychedelic masterpieces of the 70s Japanese scene. Sensitive interludes (accompanied by the Toyama String Quartet and the Etoh Wood Quartet), tasteful nods to progressive/fusionist extension and a lovely, hovering psych guitar from Mizutani dominate proceedings. A nice merger of hard rock conceptualization and the complexities that would evolve from it -- and, until now, almost impossible to hear within the confines of western society." -Bamboo |
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Artist: REIKO, IKE Title: Kokotsu No Sekai Format: LP Label: Bamboo Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Although Ike Reiko was a mere 17 years of age when she recorded 1971s Kokotsu No Sekai, she was already a star in the world of Japanese erotic movies. Despite the tough-gal image, the music is pretty darn life-affirming, so dont think for a second youre getting an easy listening album here -- this is about as sexual as music can get. Throw "French Kiss" out of the window and give a kiss goodbye to your Serge Gainsbourg records, Ike Reiko is more sizzling than a branding iron as it makes its mark on the farmers herd. The sex is literally dripping from every note on this record -- the style is "Iroke Kayôkyoku" or erotic kayôkyoku (kayôkyoku being a style of Japanese pop) but the sort of naïve jazz and pseudo spy theme movie music is all draped in a shroud of sexual shouts, screams and coos from the clearly excited Reiko. One must assume that she was in some kind of state of euphoria in the recording studio from the evidence on offer here, either that or shes a pretty realistic faker -- its a smouldering collision, and thats about all that needs to be said. Kokotsu No Sekai has to be one of the finest gifts for the music fan in search of that killer oddity. First 180 gram vinyl reissue." -Bamboo. |
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Artist: SAI, YOSHIKO Title: Mikko Format: LP Label: Bamboo Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Truly a Japanese psychedelic female acid-folk masterpiece. Released on July 25th, 1976, Mikkô was Sai Yoshikos second album, a wonderful acid-folk album on which she gets assisted by a string of big name musicians such as Kuni Kawauchi (of the Happenings Four, amongst others) to arrange the songs. Mikkô features Sais original songs, making it her first real complete album. At times the disc draws in Middle Eastern influences (sitar and tabla), but once she gets to singing, the listener is lulled into her own private, mysterious sonic world, through which one gets sucked in by her wide-ranging vocalizations. At the time of this recording, Sai Yoshiko was merely 23 years-old. Totally obscure, much in-demand by Japanese psych heads, and rather hard to track down. One of Sai Yoshikos biggest fans is Jojo Hiroshige from Hijokaidan and Alchemy Records, who eventually, 25 years after she recorded this stunning album, dove in the studio with her for the Crimson Voyage CD on which she merely attributed some sighs and moans. This album is really a stunner and a must for people into some more advanced Japanese underground historical recordings. Digitally remastered and available on 180 gram vinyl for the first time. Comes with an English translation of the original Japanese LP insert." - Bamboo. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Japrock Sampler Volumes 1-5 Format: 5 CD Boxset Label: Bamboo Country: UK Price: $60.00 |
| "Bamboo presents Julian Copes top five Japanese rock albums assembled here in an essential 5CD Japrock set. Never before available as a box set. Comes with a 36-page illustrated booklet with extensive sleevenotes, rare photos, and band bios. This is not a sampler of music -- it includes the following full albums: Speed, Glue & Shinkis Eve (1971), Flower Travellin Bands Satori (1971), Les Rallizes Dénudés Heavier Than A Death In The Family (recorded mostly in 1977), Far East Family BandsParallel World (1976), and J A Caesars Kokkyou Junreika (1973)." -Bamboo. |
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Artist: CHURCHILLS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Ban Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "Originally released in Israel in 1969, this legendary bands musicianship and songwriting abilities transcended the Israeli scene to become renowned internationally, combining elements of UK psych, hard rock, Middle Eastern and Greek traditional music, though they do this much more effectively on side 2 than on the more conventional side 1. Important to their sound were two foreign members, Canadian vocalist Stan Solomon and British guitarist Robb Huxley, who also played in JERICHO JONES." |
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Artist: RIBA, PAU Title: Jo, La Donya I El Gripau Format: LP Label: Bankrobber Country: Spain Price: $34.00 |
| "Pau Ribas 1971 masterpiece Jo, La Donya i el Gripau" is finally reissued on vinyl. One of the highlights of Catalan 70s music, this psych-folk record was recorded open air in the Formentera Island, using a Nagra magnetophone. That was the hippiest of Paus times. The music is highly influenced by Catalan popular songbook, and also by the Incredible String Band. This limited reissue (500 copies only) comes with the original artwork, and has inserts with lyrics, extensive interview with Pau (sorry guys, in Catalan only), some unseen photos and a new illustration by artist Miquel Barcelo." -Bankrobber |
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Artist: MULLEN, GEOFF Title: Armory Radio Format: Double LP Label: Barge Recordings Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Referencing an old Providence armory in Geoffs neighborhood, Armory Radio is an ode to a specific chunk of time and space. Originally self-released as a double CDR in very small quantity, this limited double LP version features new material combined with reworkings of the original CDR version. Departing from last years blues-influenced The Air In Pieces, Geoff surprises us once again with his creative diversity and his ongoing search for new sonic territory. At the start of the Armory Radio project in 2004, Geoff found a busted boombox in the trash with a barely-working short wave radio function on it. This roadside treasure was one of many found objects revived for unconventional reuse: handheld radios, cassette players and speakers which all play a role in structuring the album. This physical scavenging, along with other unplanned musical discoveries, led to the process-driven compositions on Armory Radio. Obsolete technology, found objects and a citys architecture are a few of the repeating themes embedded in Armory Radios guitar-driven drones. Geoffs dramatic use of noise is prevalent as well, building thick fabrics of haze intertwined with fragmented feedback patterns that phase in and out with one another. Comparisons could be drawn to the ethereal short-wave recordings of William Basinski or Phil Niblocks massive drones, but Armory Radio is a more volatile work; no doubt influenced by the fertile noise underground in America (artists like Aaron Dilloway and Prurient come to mind, although not in too literal a way)." -Barge |
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Artist: ERTUNC, HUSEYIN TRIO Title: Musiki Format: CD Label: Barn Re-leasing Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Reissue of a very obscure free music document, recorded in Cambridge, MA, sometime in the mid-70s. Notable for its Saturn-esque paste-on cover artwork (eloquently reconstructed here), and general cosmic vibe, this record harkens back to days when out was merely a place people went to buy a sandwich. A trio, led by drummer Ertunc, with Michael Cosmic (as, cl, fl, bcl, sop, piccolo, organ, perc.) & Phill Musra (ts, ss, fl, zurna, cl, perc.). The albums features long tracks: "The Creator Spaces", "More Beautiful Vibrations from the Creator" & "Space On Space". These guys recorded 1 more LP and then who knows what? Little else is known, but this trios interface with consensus reality just creaked forward a whole notch." - FE. |
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Artist: GURDJIEFF, G.I. Title: Harmonic Development Format: Triple CD/Book Label: Basta Country: Netherlands Price: $58.00 |
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Subtitled: The Complete Harmonium Recordings 1948-1949. 2 regular CDs, an MP3-disc (with 19 hours of music & visuals), plus a 144 page illustrated paperback book on Gurdjieff and his harmonium recordings. This is the first release of this music (there have been numerous releases of Gurdjieffs earlier piano music from the 1920s, usually performed by Thomas de Hartmann), documented to the usual high Basta standards. "Basta Audio Visuals is proud to announce the release of George Gurdjieffs complete harmonium recordings. In September 2000, at the instigation of producer Gert-Jan Blom, Basta Music obtained the license of the 44 master-tapes containing Gurdjieffs complete recorded output from Mme. Sylvie Anastasieff, widow of Valentin Anastasieff, Gurdjieffs nephew. The 113 recordings on these tapes are sequenced in four series: I: First Series - recorded between 1 April and 21 July 1949; II: Mesoteric Series - recorded between 22 July and 18 August 1949; III: American Series - recorded between 25 August and 27 September 1949; IV: Second Series - recorded between 27 September and 16 October 1949. These were recorded at Gurdjieffs apartment in Paris. Additionally, the very first recordings of Gurdjieffs harmonium music -- made at the Wellington Hotel, New York, between 25 December 1948 and early February 1949 -- have been added to this collection with the consent of the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York. These New York recordings also include several talks and stories as told by Gurdjieff to his pupils.
An addenda section containing several interesting, albeit unlabeled pieces from the original wire recordings brings the grand total to 136 recordings, over 19 hours of music, all brought together in chronological sequence on a single disc in MP3 format. As a special bonus, a short 9-minute film made by Evelyn Sutta on several automobile trips with Gurdjieff during the summer of 1949 has been added. This disc will play on any computer with MP3 software installed and on most recent DVD players. An extra 2 CD set in standard audio format contains a representative compilation of the recordings; these discs will play on any CD player. This unique collection comes with an attractive and profusely illustrated 144-page book with many previously unpublished photographs of Gurdjieff and recollections of people who were present when these recordings were made. It further contains several chapters by Gert-Jan Blom about the process of selecting and sequencing the tracks, audio restoration of the recordings, the history of Gurdjieffs harmonium music, transcriptions of Gurdjieffs stories and an extensive track notes-section. The book has a preface by King Crimson guitarist, Guitar Craft instructor and Soundscaper Robert Fripp." - Basta.
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Artist: GURDJIEFF, G.I. Title: Oriental Suite: The Complete Orchestral Music 1923-1924 Format: 4CD/Book Label: Basta Country: Netherlands Price: $105.00 |
| "Were always running out of words to complement Bastas packaging, but this is really something: beautifully printed 255-page hardcover book, with 4 CDs in a supplementary folder. The music here was recorded in 2001 by the Metropole Orchestra, conducted by Jan Stulen." - FE. "Between 13 and 25 December 1923 the Gurdjieff Institute gave a series of eight public demonstrations of the Sacred Gymnastics and Movements at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris. The music, composed by Gurdjieff to accompany these dances, was orchestrated by Thomas de Hartmann and performed by an orchestra of thirty-five musicians. In January 1924, Gurdjieff and his pupils sailed to America for a series of public demonstrations in New York, Boston and Chicago. At Gurdjieffs request, de Hartmann adapted the full orchestral scores for a smaller ensemble that would accompany the demonstrations there. The four CDs enclosed with this book contain both the Paris orchestrations and the American versions, all recorded for the first time by the Metropole Orchestra and the Little Orchestra. An addenda section features music that was intended for Gurdjieffs unfinished ballet The Struggle of the Magicians. In order to complete the reconstruction of the orchestral Gurdjieff/de Hartmann music, the Oriental Suite, compiled by de Hartmann in 1956, is included as well. The 255-page book is profusely illustrated with many new photos and unique historical documents. It further contains recollections of people who were present when these demonstrations were given, as well as a sampling of the extensive press coverage that the Gurdjieff Institute generated during its first (and final) public appearance." - Basta. |
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Artist: SCOTT, RAYMOND Title: Manhattan Research Inc. Format: Triple LP Label: Basta Country: Netherlands Price: $48.00 |
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"Repressed for the first time in a few years. Astounding triple LP version of this collection of unreleased electronic music from Raymond Scotts studio, from the 1950s & 60s. Previously issued as a double CD w/ book (BASTA 9078). This vinyl edition is presented as three LPs, each packaged and in its own full color gatefold jacket, all shrinkwrapped together (the LPs are not available individually). Contains all 69 tracks found on the CD version. "Over two hours of Raymond Scotts unreleased electronic recordings from the 1950s and 60s. In 1946, Scott formed Manhattan Research Inc. (MRI), billed as Designers and Manufacturers of Electronic Music and Musique Concrète Devices and Systems. His colleague Robert Moog said, Scott was definitely in the forefront of developing electronic music technology and in the forefront of using it commercially as a musician. Soothing Sounds For Baby was just a warm-up. With MRI, prepare yourself for something beyond the pleasant parameters of pop. Scotts electronic experiments took him to uncharted netherworlds. The results are intriguing, compelling, and occasionally diabolic. Where SSFB offers relaxing ambience, the grotesqueries of MRI promise a sonic excursion to the realms of weightlessness, moon-craters, and six-armed aliens with twittering antennae. The recordings range from detergent jingles to decidedly non-commercial -- uncommercial, even -- experimental adventures in sound sculpture."-Basta
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Artist: SCOTT, RAYMOND Title: Soothing Sounds For Baby Format: Triple LP Label: Basta Country: Netherlands Price: $48.00 |
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"A limited edition (1500 sets) reissue on LP of the 3 original volumes of Raymond Scotts Soothing Sounds For Baby series, with reproductions of the original LP cover artwork/liner notes. All 3 LPs are printed separately, but shrinkwrapped together so that they can only be sold as a set. Featuring the legendary electronic music of Raymond Scott from 1963, originally issued by Epic Records."
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Artist: V/A Title: Anthology of Dutch Electronic Tape Music, Volume 2 1966-1977 Format: Double CD Label: Basta Country: Netherlands Price: $23.00 |
| "This second volume of the Anthology of Electronic Tape Music contains works composed after 1966, when electronic music broadened its horizons and established links with other disciplines, as studios opened their portals to influences and involvement from outside. Although electronic music after 1966 became very fragmented and took many new forms in Holland, Volume 2 of the Anthology aims to provide an overall survey of pure tape music. Other movements, such as computer music, and their links with each other are discussed in the liner notes. We have attempted to offer groundbreaking and influential works as well as first electronic works by pioneering composers. Volume 2 presents composers not represented on Volume 1. Jacob Cats, Tera de Marez Oyens, Jos Kunst, Gilius van Bergeijk, Frans van Doorn, Thomas Arras, Simeon ten Holt, Victor Wentink, Louis Andriessen, Peter Smith and Tony van Campen." -Basta |
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Artist: V/A Title: Popular Electronics: The Singles Collection Format: 4x7" Boxset Label: Basta Country: Netherlands Price: $105.00 |
| "Limited, numbered edition of 1000 copies, housed in an embossed red velvet box. This boxset reissues 4 original 7"s as first issued by Philips in the late 50s/early 60s, with exact repros of the original picture sleeves, liner notes and labels. This music was previously compiled on the 4CD compilation box set Popular Electronics: Early Dutch Electronic Music From Philips Research Laboratories (1956-1963), as released on Basta in 2004. Historical, long desired early electronic music from legendary Dutch composers. Included here are: H. Badings, Electronic Ballet Music: Cain and Abel (1956); Kid Baltan, Electronic Popular Music (1957); Tom Dissevelt, Electronic Movements (1958); Tom Dissevelt/Kid Baltan, Electronic Music (1961). Expensive, but excessively deluxe and very costly to manufacture; a one-of-a-kind artifact that you will have a hard time believing really exists!"-Basta |
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Artist: CLOUDLAND CANYON Title: Mothlight Pt. 2 Format: 7" Label: Bathetic Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Bathetic is proud to release the first single from the CLOUDLAND CANYON full-length LP, Fin Eaves (out on Holy Mountain)! Were very happy this chunk of dreamscaped atmosphere could serve as our first venture into vinyl territory. Cloudland Canyon are widely respected for their shimmering approach to music, a combination of elements as varied as krautrock, shoegaze, pop, and drone. Mothlight, Part 2 is a perfect first single and represents the bands slight re-direction into the more uptempo, catchier nooks and crannies of their vibe. Dont miss out on this!" Last copies of a First Edition of 300 pressed on marbled, color vinyl." -Bathetic. |
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Artist: HIGH WOLF Title: A Guide to Healing Format: 7" Label: Bathetic Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "A particularly potent missive from the Gallic psyche enigma, HIGH WOLF. From the first bars of Free Your Energy Field we can feel ourselves being sucked in reverse towards the kaleidoscopic vortex of High Wolfs loops, tempered tape distortion at the edge of event horizon buffering a stream of chromatic synth colours and spiraling raga scales towards the inky abyss of your psyche. Once on the other side we Swallow Pills with Ganga River Water, where babbling rhythms split off into stereo swirling formations curling around the head and hallucinatory images of astral harmony begin to form in the third eye, glands swelling in the frontal lobes to perfume the senses into a deeply spiritual reverie. Lush." -Boomkat. |
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Artist: LIMBUS 3 Title: Cosmic Music Experience Format: LP Label: Batsching Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"Formed in Heidelberg in 1968, Limbus were a most unusual band who grew a unique music out of jazz, folk and avant-garde roots. On their debut album New Atlantis (subtitled Cosmic Music Experience), they had become the acoustic trio Limbus 3, and had broken out beyond free-jazz, enthused chaos and delirium into a weird ethnic music concoction, and naturally with overtly uncompromising results." - Steven & Alan Freeman (Crack In The Cosmic Egg). Edition of 500 copies. Been 4-5 years since weve had this.. Highly recommended!
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Artist: TOUCH & GO Title: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine 79-83 Format: Book Label: Bazillion Points Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
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"Touch And Go fanzine was the brainchild of Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson and was launched in Lansing, Michigan, in 1979. Major fanatics of the new punk happenings in the late 70s, TV and DS set out to chronicle, lambaste, ridicule, and heap praise on all they arbitrarily loved or hated in the music communities in the US and abroad. In laughably minuscule press runs by todays standards, T & G was made by guys within the Midwest scene strictly for the edification of scenesters and pals in other cities like DC, Philly, Boston, LA, SF, Chicago, et al. Inspired by magazines such as Slash and Search and Destroy and writers like Claude Bessy and Chris Desjardines, TV and DS pumped out seventeen naughty, irreverent issues together, and TV did another five solo. Magazines like Forced Exposure and Your Flesh, among others, soon fired up Xerox machines themselves, and the rest is history. So is the legendary independent record label launched from this zine, and so are the bands covered inside: Black Flag, Minor Threat, the Misfits, Negative Approach, the Fix, the Avengers, the Necros, Discharge, Iron Cross, Youth Brigade, Faith, Die Kreuzen, Crucifix, Poison Idea -- and all the other punks worth their weight in glorious black and white. Featuring new introductory essays by punk icons Tesco Vee (The Meatmen), Dave Stimson, Steve Miller (The Fix), Henry Rollins (S.O.A./Black Flag), Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks), Peter Davis (Your Flesh), Henry Owings (Chunklet), Byron Coley (Forced Exposure), Corey Rusk (Necros/Touch and Go Records), John Brannon (Negative Approach), and Ian MacKaye (Teen Idles/Minor Threat). Exclusive early interviews with the Fix, Necros, Minor Threat, Youth Brigade, Iron Cross, Misfits, Negative Approach, JFA, Battalion of Saints, Crucifucks, 7 Seconds, Faith, the Effigies, the Minutemen, Scream, Die Kreuzen, Crucifix, Poison Idea, SSD, & others. 8.5"x 11"x1.25", 4lbs., 101% offensive joy!" 546 pages." -Bazillion Points
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Artist: WE GOT POWER! Title: Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California Format: Book Label: Bazillion Points Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
 "Featuring essays by David Markey, Jordan Schwartz, Jennifer Schwartz, Henry Rollins, Keith Morris, Chuck Dukowski, Dez Cadena, Louiche Mayorga, Cameron Jamie, Pat Fear, Steve Humann, Tony Adolescent, Jack Brewer, Jula Bell, Mike Watt, Sean Wheeler, Joe Carducci, Daniel “Shredder” Weizmann, and Janet Housden. Presenting nearly 400 first-generation L.A. hardcore punk photographs Including complete color reprints of We Got Power fanzine 1981–1983 and beyond.
As teenagers in 1981, David Markey and his best friend Jordan Schwartz founded We Got Power, a fanzine dedicated to the first-generation hardcore punk music community in their native Los Angeles. Their text and cameras captured the early punk spirit of Black Flag, the Minutemen, Social Distortion, Red Cross/Redd Kross, Suicidal Tendencies, the Descendents, White Flag, the Last, the Gun Club, Saccharine Trust and many others at the height of their precocious punk powers.
In the process, the duo’s amazing photographs also captured the dilapidated suburbs, abandoned storefronts, and dereliction of the early Reagan era—a rubble-strewn social apocalypse that demanded a youth uprising! Never before seen except in crude fanzine form, these detailed and richly narrative photos are now collected to present an intimate portrayal of a uniquely fertile creative moment." - Bazillion Points
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Artist: DEAR JOHN Title: Frustrated Conversation Format: 7" Label: BDR Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "A 30th anniversary re-release of the 1981 7-inch from St. Louis power pop group DEAR JOHN. The band only lasted a couple of years, but they managed to release on regionally acclaimed 7-inch on their own A.K.A. records. The single has been a tough find for collectors. These are the original pressing found in storage packaged in new sleeves." -BDR |
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Artist: MAX LOAD Title: Max Load Format: LP/CD/DVD Label: BDR Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "MAX LOAD was formed and began playing live shows around Belleville in 1978. They soon were playing in St. Louis as well, but they never would be treated as equals. They were often forced to play first, before much less competent bands, or dead last, when the St. Louis crowd was anxious to get to the after-party. Last often meant playing to an empty room, rather than being the coveted headlining spot. Out shining most of the Missouri bands around at the time, they released a scorching two song 45 ("X-Rod" b/w "Magazine Sex") in 1979 on their own label. It was mostly intended as a calling card to secure gigs, but some copies were sold locally and a few even distributed by Bomp! Records in CA. The band would go on to record studio demos in 1980 at the request of Epic Records and would commit countless songs to tape with their own 4-track recorder. They were also the only punk band in the area to pay attention to and be featured on the short-lived cable access TV show, Street Beat. Although Max Load started out with a fairly traditional punk sound, by 1981 they started writing more post punk and art punk influenced material. This new direction can be heard on the included 4-track demos. Like so many other bands, they never got that record deal or big break they were hoping for. By late 1982, most members had moved on to new projects and the band was gone by 1983. The Max Load release is comprised of all studio recordings from 1979-1983. The X-Rod 45 is included, along with 22 never-before-released 8-track and 4-track demos. The package includes a 14-song LP, a 24-song CD and a DVD that features a 20-song live performance, recorded for cable access TV in 1981. The CD and DVD come with a title card in a protective sleeve thats tucked inside the LP jacket, along with a double sided 11"x17" insert featuring numerous photos, gig posters and extensive liner notes." - BDR. |
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Artist: PHILOSOPHIC COLLAGE Title: Genius Format: 7" Label: BDR Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "According to the original St. Louis punk crowd, the Philosophic Collage and band leader Craig Kurtz (aka Timothy Tyme) were mildly difficult, if not completely off-putting. Their brand of abrasive music and Craigs "genius" schtick was too hard to take. When the band released this EP in 1981, most were confused by the four blasts of Art Punk/Midwestern No Wave, uh...if there really is such a thing as No Wave in the Midwest. It did impress Rough Trade enough to pick it up for distribution, even if the local response was less than enthusiastic. The band only managed to play a handful of area gigs before nobody wanted to book them. They were far more successful in Chicago. Playing larger gigs to more receptive audiences and even signing on with a manager. Two cassettes were released after the EP, but it was all over by 1982 when Craig split the band up after an attempt to relocate to Chicago had failed. BDR Records (the St. Louis-only division of Rerun Records) presents a deluxe reissue of this curiosity. 500 copies pressed on thick black vinyl. Housed in a heavy duty glue-pocket sleeve with a double-sided 14"x7" insert featuring vintage zine write-ups, ads and reviews, along with new liner notes by Craig Kurtz." -BDR. |
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Artist: RAYMILLAND Title: Recordings 79-81 Format: LP/CD Label: BDR Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "A collection of archival recordings by this St. Louis postpunk band that had gained an underground reputation in the late 70s through a single released by the influential music and art magazine Praxis, their appearances on Sub-Pop and Dong Dong Tapes cassette compilations, and a self-released demo cassette, as well as rare live performances. Though a bit on the dark side, their songs arent gloomy, but instead full of fractured, angular, angst-driven noise and energy. The 7- track LP comes with an included CD with 5 extra songs, plus a 2-sided photo insert. Limited pressing of 500 copies." - BDR |
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Artist: RETROS Title: Inner City Rockers-The Retros 1979 Format: LP + CD Label: BDR Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "THE RETROS were arguably the best punk band in St. Louis during their brief existence. From 1978-1981 they wowed crowds at parties, VFW halls and bowling alleys with their infectious punk pop anthems. A couple attempts at recordings were made, but the Retros produced no official released during their lifespan. In the Spring of 1979, the band was the subject of a final exam for a friends studio recording class at Webster University. When the exam was finished, the Retros took advantage of the couple of hours of leftover studio time. They ripped through twelve originals ina quick, live-in-the-studio type set up with limited overdubs and only a couple of retakes. The tapes ended up in soundman/manager DON HOLLENBECKs closet and were nearly forgotten until now. LP includes the entire twelve-song session and the CD adds four bonus live tracks. LP limited to 300 copies in a silkscreened sleeve with full-color insert with photos, posters and notes, and includes a CD version." -BDR |
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Artist: COSTES Title: Katai Udon Format: Cass Label: Beast 666 Tapes Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
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1994 release.
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Artist: V/A Title: Dwarf Format: Cass Label: Beast 666 Tapes Country: Japan Price: $10.00 |
| 1987 comp with The Hanatarashi, Incapacitants, The Vickly & Oddrockanize, Bruno Cassano and TV Cherubs. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Helter Skelter Format: Cass Label: Beast 666 Tapes Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
| 1986 comp with Le Syndicat & Merzbow, The Hantarashi, Hijo Kaidan & Null. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Im Stupid Format: Cass Label: Beast 666 Tapes Country: Japan Price: $10.00 |
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With The Boredoms, The Hanatarashi, Merzbow, The Gerogerigegege, Masonna, TV Cherubs & Solmania. From 1990.
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Artist: V/A Title: Kill S.P.K. Format: Cass Label: Beast 666 Tapes Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
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1985 comp featuring the Boredoms, Hanatarashi, Yellowhouse (Eye and Hitomi), Dead Neubautens, The Hum, Agencement. Le Syndicat, etc..
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Artist: V/A Title: No Body Format: Cass Label: Beast 666 Tapes Country: Japan Price: $10.00 |
| 1986 comp with Gerogerigegege, Yellowhouse, We Never Sleep, Buruno Cossano, etc.. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Yellow Power Scum Format: Cass Label: Beast 666 Tapes Country: Japan Price: $10.00 |
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1991 comp featuring multiple tracks by The Boredoms, UFO or DIE, Masomania (Masonna and Solmania), The Gerogerigegege & Yellowhouse. Cover art by Eye.
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Artist: V/A Title: Zatsuon No Higan Format: Cass Label: Beast 666 Tapes Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
| 1994 comp with GG Allin, Costes, The German Shepherds, John Trubee, etc. |
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Artist: ZIP CODE RAPISTS Title: Format: Cass Label: Beast 666 Tapes Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
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Greg Turkington (Faxed Head, Neil Hamburger, Breakfast Without Meat, Sounds of American Adult Bookstores & Fast Food Restaurants, Amarillo Records, etc..) = genius.
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Artist: LOS VIOLADORES Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Beat Generation Country: Spain Price: $21.00 |
 "Los Violadores ("The Rapists") were formed after Los Testiculos, a seminal band from the Argentinean punk scene, stopped playing. Stuka on bass and voice, Harry B on guitar, and Sergio Gramatica: this was the bands first line-up. They started playing live in 1980 at small and selected clubs. People quickly paid attention to these rude boys, who played a chaotic brand of rock n roll. Due to the dictatorship in Argentina, police often showed up to cancel shows. Censorship enforced by the dictatorship forced them to use the name Los Voladores ("The Rockets") at some of their first gigs. They had two major enemies: the military regime and the hippies. Yes, the hippies. Los Violadores were always in a fight with the usual old legends from the 70s, such as Seru Giran, Leon Gieco, and Spinetta Jade. In 1983 they recorded their first LP, one of the hardest, loudest, and dirtiest album ever recorded in Argentina. In this recording the band had their classic line-up: Pil Trafa on vocals, Stuka playing guitar, Robert "Polaco" Zelazeck on bass, and Sergio Gramatica on drums. Titles such as "Mirando la Guerra por TV," "Guerra total," "Mujeres Vengan a Mí," and "Viejos Pateticos" (a song covered by the American band Los Crudos) were aimed like spit at the face of the military regime, the cops, and society generally. After lots of horrible bootlegs, Beat Generation is proud to announce the first ever official re-release of this classic album, with the original artwork and inserts. Absolutely a must have for everyone into South American and global punk. Limited to 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl. Comes with the original cover and lyrics insert." - Beat Generation.
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Artist: V8 Title: Luchando por el Metal Format: LP Label: Beat Generation Country: Spain Price: $20.00 |
| "It was 1979, during the Argentine dictatorship, when Ricardo Iorio and Ricardo Moreno decided to start a heavy rock band called Comunion Humana. Two months later some tracks were arranged and Gerardo Osemberg joined ´em as drummer. Inspired by fast engines and the intensity of their playing, the band took V8 as their moniker. During 1980-1982 they played lots of shows that were filled with dramatic incidents: disturbances, arrests, detentions, and event deaths. For these reasons the image of the band was totally conditioned and people started to hate them. In 1982 they recorded their legendary demo-tape and started to receive more attention from others countries. They played lots of gigs, some totally sold out and others empty because crowds hated their rock image and attitude. In 1983 they recorded their debut album Luchando por el Metal ("Fighting for the Metal") with their classic line-up: Ricardo Iorio on bass, Osvaldo Civile on guitar, Alberto Zarmarbide on vocals, and Gustavo Rowek on drums. Before disbanding in 1987 they recorded more albums and their status grew, making them a reference and inspiration for many metal heads all around the world. V8 were chased, ill-treated, and despised for their social lyrics and also for the incidents that occurred at every show. As we mentioned before, there was a tragedy at one show in Estadio Platense, where fighting with the police resulted in deaths. Beat Generation is more than proud to release this record officially for the first time, a total cult piece of South American metal: a record perfect for the times we are living in now. 180 gram vinyl, limited to 500 copies. Comes in original cover with lyrics insert." -Beat Generation. |
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Artist: BRONZE AGE Title: Antiquated Futurism Format: 12" Label: Bed of Nails Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Dominik Fernows Bed Of Nails venture welcomes his longtime co-conspirator Kris Lapke with three tracks of haunting gothic techno produced as Bronze Age. As Bronze Age, hes conceived a murky reflection of Vatican Shadows recent exploits -- albeit lashed with a bruxist brand of Midwestern techno and Teutonic trance arrangements -- best heard on the razing techno weapon "Surviving Cultural Impedance" or the marching epic "Modal Ingenuity." "Coupling Symbols" is a majestic, militant techno sensation redolent of classic Marc Arcardipane productions and blessed with a rare, positively dystopian atmosphere." - Bed of Nails. |
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Artist: VATICAN SHADOW Title: September Cell Format: 12" Label: Bed of Nails Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Bed Of Nails is a new label curated by Dominick Fernow of Vatican Shadow and Prurient fame. Operating from his recently-consecrated L.A. compound, the label will focus on his reorientation towards industrial dancefloor rhythms and seductively isolated electronics. Fernow christens the label with September Cell, a four track 12" loaded with some of his most direct dancefloor assaults to date. Think hollowed industrial percussion, gloaming synths and caustic noise painting bleakly evocative visions." -Bed Of Nails.
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Artist: ANGEL EYES Title: Final Fare Format: LP Label: Bedroom Suck Country: Australia Price: $22.00 |
| "Sonically, ANGEL EYES is both airborne and barren: alarmingly spacious and eternal. That album conjures images of worlds, kingdoms and landscapes with totally foreign colour schemes and an abundance of space. The dread I mention isnt one of imminent danger but instead a kind of Lovecraftian lack of comprehension-of having a tiny hint at something bigger than you, something you will never know."-Shaun Prescott, Crawlspace. |
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Artist: BLANK REALM Title: Deja What? Format: LP Label: Bedroom Suck Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
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"BLANK REALMs wax follow up to their debut LP on Not Not Fun. This second album sees the band delving deeper into pop territory while still keeping their feet firmly rooted in the shimmering haze of garage rock psychedelia. Sounds like something you would find hidden at the bottom of your dads dusty collection. Your dad is a stoner." - Bedroom Suck.
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Artist: KITCHENS FLOOR Title: Loneliness Is A Dirty Mattress Format: LP Label: Bedroom Suck Country: Australia Price: $17.00 |
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"Debut full-length from Brisbane downer pop trio. Songs frome the stifling heat of suburban sharehousing; the stinking carpet and broken showers. Absolute pop gems shrouded in mouldy spaghetti." -Bedroom Suck
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Artist: PER PURPOSE Title: Heil Progress Format: 7" Label: Bedroom Suck Country: Australia Price: $11.00 |
| "PER PURPOSE are a three piece from Brisbane combining a rapid minutemen-funk-jazz approach with rollicking Australiana in the tradition of bands like The Go-Betweens and Tactics. Works out pretty good in the end. Australian import." -Bedroom Suck. |
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Artist: SLUG GUTS Title: Howlin Gang Format: LP Label: Bedroom Suck Country: Australia Price: $17.00 |
| “The second LP from SLUG GUTS is a noticeably more mature record than their debut. While the Guts still pay homage to Australias strong swamp rock lineage, Howlin Gang brings something new to a genre that has seen too many boring recreations. Its a reverb-drenched mess thats punctuated by duelling riffs and tom-heavy drums. Jimi Kritzlers high-pitched growl is removed from this record and in its place is the baritone drawl of bass player James Dalgleish. SLUG GUTS hate Brisbane so much so that they thought recording this in a railway carriage in Ipswich would be better than staying in their home town. They seem to feed off what they see as a festering abyss. Its intentionally unsettling.” -Sam Davidson, Two Thousand Limited Australian tour LP, originally released in the USA on Sacred Bones Records. |
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Artist: SUPERSTAR Title: A Toast To... Format: LP Label: Bedroom Suck Country: Australia Price: $22.00 |
| "SUPERSTAR make floating music-dirges, urges; glistening, pastoral sounds; super slow & soft. The duos first LP presents the smooth and sweet distillation of the glazed melodies and free-range textures that have slowly matured over the bands five year history. Already at work on a second LP and numerous independent releases, the duos live show is a selection of fortified classics and fresh weaves-a truly high-sheen touch to an evening of quality living." -Bedroom Sucks. |
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Artist: IRENE MOON Title: For The Neonate Format: 10" Label: Begonia Society Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"New 10 inch record from the Begonia Society. Irene Moon and pals. Silk-screened glitter-gold covers with music from Irene Moon, Ergo Phizmiz, Auk Theatre, and Sick Hour all participate in the vinyl event...also features the handy work of Robert and Trevor of Hair Police. Artwork and larval centifold from the drawings of Brenden Lawson. Horror for the breakfast table. One odd collage." - Begonia Society.
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Artist: MLEHST Title: A Puritan Am I Format: LP Label: Belief Recordings Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "150 copies only. rec summer 2005 :ambient and harsh textural works interspersed with cut-ups in the trademark style of mlehst: comeback works first recordings in 7 years!!" - Belief |
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Artist: MLEHST Title: As A Man Thinketh In His Heart, So He Is Format: LP Label: Belief Recordings Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "150 copies only. rec jan 2006 :wide range of dynamics and frequency interplay (concrete music for the hard of hearing) with some more spacial passages. sound quality and production values are to the fore." - Belief |
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Artist: MLEHST Title: I Am, I Was, I Will Always Be Format: LP Label: Belief Recordings Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| Recorded April 2006. "this is a "concept" album in a way - the building blocks are introduced and the composition is revealed! the first track is used as source material for each other track that follows, the results are quite astounding! more than just an exercise in technique, or showing off the ability to really engineer sound, this is a highly listenable and laidback album. 200 copies - 200 gram vinyl LP in pro-printed black and white sleeve with some suitably pompous sleeve-notes too!" - Belief. |
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Artist: RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK/MLEHST Title: Sex Sex Sex/The Appeal.. Format: LP Label: Belief Recordings Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
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Artist: GRUPPO DI IMPROVVISAZIONE NUOVA CONSONANZA Title: Nuova Consonanza Format: CD Label: Bella Casa Country: UK Price: $17.50 |
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"Reissue of this 1975 self-titled album, originally released on the Cinevox label. Tracks are: "Settimino," "Eflot," "Soup" and "Scratch." Two of these are also commonly available on CD on the Edition RZ compilation, unfortunately; the other two ("Settimino" & "Scratch") are not on CD, so you have approx 30 minutes of exclusive/rare material here on this release. Gruppo are the classic Italian freeform outfit from the 60s & 70s, still pretty undocumented on CD. All pieces created by: Giovanni Piazza, Ennio Morricone, Mario Bertoncini, Gualtiero Branchi, Francesco Evangelisti, Egisto Macchi, Jesus Villa Rojo. The least-known and rarest musical exploration of Ennio Morricones career. He played trumpet in the extraordinary Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza from 1965 when it was founded by composer Franco Evangelisti. These lengthy improvised sound collages are challenging to listen to but have their own beauty and are of serious historical importance. Gruppo recorded albums for RCA Italia and Cinevox up to 1975 including under Morricones auspices, soundtracks for the trippy Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura and Un Tranquillo posto di Campagna where their improvised 35-minute suite mirrored the formal score." - Bella Casa.
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Artist: CAESAR, J.A. Title: Shintokumaru Format: CD Label: Belle Antique Country: Japan Price: $36.00 |
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Fourth J.A. Caesar album, originally issued on Victor in 1978. "This is another J. A. Caesars album. Though we can not find his name on the cover, he composed all the tunes. A recorded live album and the music in the album must be very magical. Now is the time you have to estimate his genius for this unknown Japanese artist." - Belle Antique.
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Artist: CAN AM DES PUIG Title: The Book Of Am Part 1 & 2 Format: 2CD/BOOK Label: Belle Antique Country: Japan Price: $125.00 |
| Outrageous reissue of this masterpiece of European acid folk, originally released in 1977, now issued as 2 Super High Material audio CDs (playable on any CD player -- enhanced audio quality that will rearrange your nervous system) housed in a mini-LP style gatefold sleeve accompanying a 144-page book reproducing the original engravings by bandleader Juan Arkotxa. "A unique combination of recordings and artwork which stands up as an enduring testament of the fertile hippie scene which flourished in the Baleric islands during the seventies. Known to record collectors and psych/folk/prog music aficionados alike, this multicultural band formed in the island of Mallorca in the mid-70s and recorded a beautiful (and outrageously scarce) album which has gained cult status as years passed by. The Book Of Am was originally devised as a beautifully illustrated book focused on various world folklore and traditions, coupled with 4 LPs which would represent a musical. This (never completed) 4LP set would correspond to the four phases of day (Dawn, Morning, Afternoon, Night). Only the first of these records (Morning) would eventually see the light of day in a tiny private pressing which changes hands nowadays for obscene amounts of money. A round-the-world trip through the folklore, legends, lore and cosmogonies of some of the worlds cultures, from ancient Egypt to Celtic traditions." - Belle Antique. |
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Artist: AFTERNOON PENIS Title: At The Crack Of Dawn Format: CDR Label: Beniffer Editions Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: AUM SAHIB Title: On Beniffer Format: Cass Label: Beniffer Editions Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "This maybe the kind tape you need if youre looking for that will make otherwise mundane priorities (like alphabetizing your limited-edition LPs) into a hip-popping, corduroy-disturbing enticement. thats right, now youre partying with aum sahib, all gyrating in the astral buttonhole in an undeniably undulating manner... package is a glossy photocopy fold-over sewn to an attractive piece of handmade paper as a pocket for the psych-lite jamasaurus within. not edible." - Beniffer Editions. Edition of 50. |
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Artist: BATSON, BAD BOY BUTCH Title: Spare Parts Format: LP Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $17.00 |
| "Bad Boy Butch Batson is based out of North Carolina where after a brief stint in the world of amateur wrestling he took up the blue-collar lifestyle and produced Spare Parts, a labor of love that took 10 years and dozens of studio musicians to realize. The result is a reckless cavort through the annals of popular song, ranging from wrestling rock anthems delivered in almost heroic Beefheartian gaudiness to mid 80s slasher vibes with narration provided in a congested indignity by a self-hating eunuch to uneasy love songs from the acne-scarred panty-collector, all interspliced with a series of gawky real-life tape collages. This is real outsider shit and no comparison to Jandek or the Shaggs will fully elucidate monumental what-the-fuckdedness of this here slab of vinyl." - Bennifer Editions. |
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Artist: BLOOD STEREO/POD BLOTZ Title: s/t Format: Book/Cass Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $22.00 |
| "Suzy Poling from California has had her chops in the blustering aural stew as Pod Blotz for some time now, wringing the impossible out of a drift of craptronics and alchemical grease. Here the blotz is a series of Orca farts into the ruminative spend of Hades all wadded up in the biggest Kleenex disaster that threatens to tear under the peril of the whales noxious wind. All this drama bubbles to the surface of ⿿ you guessed it! ⿿ a bog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Blood Stereo is Karen Constance and Chocolate Spunks big cheese Dylan Nyoukis from Brighton, UK. Their craft was scraped from the woozy corduroy centrifuge where the tape sneezed and the worlds tallest slot machine apologized for its incessant dispensation of rubber bullets. All of this housed in a ridiculous screenprinted fiasco of a book by Jesjit Gill, Jacob Horwood and Andrew Zukerman. Edition of 150." - Beniffer Editions. |
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Artist: BROMP TREB Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $12.00 |
| "Neeel Young from Fat Wrom - solo cut up rap trx, maddnenning howdydo, its incredible recording evolution man! Comes with a multi, multi colour silkscreened poster and marbled CD edition of 150." |
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Artist: CONVERGENCE Title: Live Format: LP Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $17.00 |
| "CONVERGENCE formed in 1976 (and disbanded around 1980) as an appendage to the HUMBER COLLEGE ENSEMBLE FOR EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC. With written music for the ensemble scarce, improvisational sessions became more frequent. Their first few concerts at The Music Gallery had a somewhat haphazard and random mix of students, some of whom didnt quite get the notion of free improv. Eventually director MICHAEL S. HORWOOD whittled it down to a quintet of the most spirited and creative of the student improvisers. Recorded live at the Music Gallery in September 1979, their instrumentation includes trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion, home-made instruments and toy instruments, which puts them in a zone between the boundaries of avant-garde jazz and free-form contemporary classical, a la Le Sonde, New Phonic Art, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. Screenprinted jackets, two inserts. Edition of 200." -Beniffer Editions. |
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Artist: DEEPKISS 720 Title: Cazworld Format: Cass + Art Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $19.00 |
| “Along with the Prog MP3 disc Jase sent the latest of his rejuvenated Deepkiss 720 releases. This one easily wins the most ridiculous over the top packaging of the year award. Im not one to dwell on packaging, being of the mind that its whats inside that counts but a fold out, cut out sheet of eye-boggling collage the size of Andorra deserves special mention. Inside lies a cassette titled Caz World which contains the usual cut up tape malarky that DK720 is renowned for: Ringo swearing, tapes being sped up and cut up, TV samples, screams, punk riffs, disaffected teenagers spill the beans to tweed wrapped social workers whilst an angry bee tries to singe the hairs in your right ear lobe. Its quite possible that theres nobody in the UK making noises quite like Deepkiss 720. Long may he run.” -Idwal Fisher. 18 x 24”, double sided screenprinted quadruple foldout in two VHS sleeves, gaping, handcut detailing, Cassette. |
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Artist: DHOMONT, FRANCIS Title: Birthdays Format: LP Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $17.00 |
| "Recordings from 2007-2010 by 85-year-old French composer (his first appearance on vinyl since Sous Le Regard Dun Soliel Noir [INA-GRM 1982]), exploring high-fidelity studio editing methods of concrete sound and vocal manipulation. Pressed on one-sided vinyl. B-sides are screenprinted by hand with archival high-gloss varnish. PVC sleeve, sticker, program notes by FRANCIS DHOMONT and JEAN-FRANCOIS DENIS. Edition of 300." -Beniffer Editions. |
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Artist: DIATRIC PUDS & THE BLOBBETTES Title: The Weird Watusi Format: 7" + Book Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $33.00 |
| "Diatric Puds is a Californian brain trust spearheaded by Count Loachfillet... With his gaggle of undead musical minions he retools the sternness of electronic music in his own cemetery sensibility, allowing it to cross-breed and co-mingle with a playful haunted house sound effects vibe no doubt reminiscent of the cherished halloweens of your youth. This dish of haunted chop suey features the rutting of some decapitated cat manning a cauldron of devoured souls with fingernail xylophones, a witch with a speech impediment, every album thought to contain subliminal messages played backwards all at once and the sodden graveyard memories of a mangled airplane casualty who died in vain. This truly scary 7" comes in a 48 page deluxe hardcover silkscreened book with art by Jacob Horwood, Andrew Zukerman, Andy Bolus, Winston Hacking, Michael Comeau and North Mutator. Edition of 100. " -Beniffer Editions. |
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Artist: DIATRIC PUDS & THE BLOBETTES Title: Wierd Watusi Format: 7" Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $9.00 |
| "Californian braintrust spearheaded by COUNT LOACHFILLET, whose gaggle of undead minions retool the sternness of electronic music in his own cemetery sensibility, allowing it to cross-breed and co-mingle with a playful, haunted-house-sound-effects vibe. Musique concrete meets monster rock: the rutting of a decapitated cat, a cauldron of devoured souls with fingernail xylophones, a witch with a speech impediment, sodden graveyard memories of a mangled airplane casualty who died in vain. Second edition of 50 in gatefold jacket, out of print since 2010." -Beniffer Editions. |
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Artist: DOLPHINS INTO THE FUTURE Title: Two Romantic Landscapes Format: Cass Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $9.00 |
| "Its really fascinating how people change. The first time I saw Lieven Martens in person, he was naked manipulating tapes and shooting glitter into a Dutch audience during a Dirk Free Noise performance at Das Hondenkoekjesfabriek. Fast forward seven years and we have a man who has helped evolve and mature that hypnotic sound into new territories. Two Romantic Landscapes uses signature DITF techniques such as realtime processing of water sounds, explorations in cetacean communications via effectively timed delivery of aquatic sounds, and some really laid back keyboard solos. Tape reccomended for repeat listening in one sitting." -Beniffer Editions. |
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Artist: DUNN, MATT Title: Church of the Transfiguration Format: 2 Cass/Book Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $20.00 |
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"Born in the teeth of a gale, Matt Doc Dunn embarks upon nothing less than total COSMIC infinitude on this strange and devastating release for Beniffer Editions. The smoke you hear on this hit is the 3 AM Mount Analogue as described by Rene Daumal and the humming in the night skull music of shaman and prophet Angus MacLise. Mystic realms wherein the author remains entirely concealed in the sound in order to reveal the deepest secrets of the soul. In reaching for the infinite music, Dunn, the young thundercloud-messenger of the future-sound unites the entire musical
cosmos on two limited edition cassettes! In terms of creating SPACE, no music I have heard this year or any has brought me to such a profoundly BLUE and contemplative state of TRANCE. Listen to it over and over and over again for it rewards you with boundless gifts. This is meta-music, a new Temple Stone of third eye ZONES. Totally free, embers burning over the current of the moonlit sea". - Ayal Senior, Toronto.
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Artist: EEDTIH BUNKERSS DEMONIZEDDS VOMIT INSUREANCE Title: Bipsum Quoder Format: Double CDR Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $10.00 |
| "New Hampshires Brent Field slurring through jeuvenile delay, risking a trunkated reputation with simple song. Each disc is a moon walking weirdo endorsement of pure home recorded aesthetics. The mighty Quoder was written after an incident when Brent sold his label Nauscopy to a twelve year old Sun City Girls fan on Ebay!" - Beniffer Editions. |
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Artist: FLAMING DRAGONS OF MIDDLE EARTH Title: Electric Scaryland Format: Cass + Art Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $9.00 |
| "FDOME frontman and songwriter Danny Cruz picked me up like a construction worker in a Diet Coke commercial. Ill admit it. Our first letter of correspondance was a sinister burn in hell type rant about how Beniffer Editions was going to be swallowed by the earth itself. He was immediately asked for an official release. Electric Scaryland is a group excersive in outsider antics, dis tracks and grunge poetry. Funky Society 1 & 2 are raps that uhhhh spit a few cursive lines towards Sharon Tate, Joni Mitchell and Mother Superior. Youre not buying a MC Trachiotomy tape. Youre buying Rock & Roll music with a deep Sabbath influence. Yes, thats Danny and Ozzy on the back cover with a couch in the background." -Bennifer Editions. |
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Artist: HRVATSKI/ KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN Title: B/W Butcher Shop Format: Cass + Poster Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $15.00 |
| "We here at Beniffer are pleased to bring to you two projects by the ever impressive Keith Fullerton Whitman who not only runs the most thorough and tasteful distro on the internet these days but has, in his possession, the magic wand that only true electronic music wizards can lay claim to. The Hrvatski side seems to me like the wettest, wildest dreams of Alex Empire who has been institutionalized after seeing god in the pages of a Bop magazine which he systematically ate out of a blender which wouldnt turn off. There is a lot of things happening here, but at the center of it all is a relentless sort of car chase beat pattern that never lets up which is perfect if youre late for a blowjob scene in a Michael Bay movie. The KFW piece, bereft of the onslaught of side one, nonetheless bows to the same caffeinated deity. This time around the main attraction is mysterious foreground warble, like intercepted noise off a sphinxlike anomaly, transmitting vague messages from a subterranean religion, washed out in the last ice age. The cassette comes in a sleeve with a full size double sided poster with silkscreened art by Jacob Horwood on the cover, something else on the back by Andrew Zukerman. " -Bennifer Editions. |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BAER Title: Perverse Schlaeuche Format: Double Cass Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $15.00 |
| "Ive had a hell of a week. Between going to work and assembling this release which contains 2 cassettes, an artist print of one of Kommissar Hjulers demented puppets and two stamped latex gloves in an edition of 150, I have been looking for the words to describe the music therein. And so, at my wits end, I have recruited this cat here to do that for me...................... nbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb edddddddmte mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm o n.............................................. 888888888888 sab deeeeeeeeeeeeeeek6 jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj ... Needless to say, another classic in the ever-expanding catalogue of this exciting and conceptually-intruiging duo. Do not miss out on this utterly confounding piece of freak-ephemera." -Beniffer Editions. |
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Artist: LESSARD, RON Title: DIY Practitioner Format: Book Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $24.00 |
| "Submerging a found image with an iconic squiggle has become a signature look for an aesthetic that has travelled now into its fourth decade. This release is a dedication to a person who is up to this point not officially recognized as a visual artist. If you follow the noise thing, the tape thing, the weird thing or the massachusetts thing you may have an original piece of artwork in your record collection worth well over the price of admission. Beniffer Editions replicates the tireless efforts of the experimental scenes most valiant visual manipulator. Rons technique derives from the necessity to put good noise product out there. His work is quick, uses stuff thats lying around, and is built like a tank often due to a colored strip of duct tape. His one off collages on many releases such as "The Best", "Moonlight In Vermont", "The Dog Lady Tapes", 1000 Locked Grooves" display the rigor of a dedicated pioneer. Theres no music with this book. If there was it wouldnt be a release by Ron Lessard. This 36 page handprinted book contains six 4 color screen prints, twenty-four 2 color prints, and six 1 color prints. Each book, in true form has an original collage submitted by the artist specifically for this publication. A one time pressing of 120." -Beniffer. |
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Artist: MAN MADE HILL Title: Neck Test Format: Cass + Poster Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $8.00 |
| "Silver Era, Tower of Randy. The time before the bangers, but still very funkee for outsider tape music. Very Kewl naive lofi. W/ Four Color screen print." -Bennifer Editions. |
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Artist: MAN MADE HILL Title: Puzzle Answers Format: LP Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $19.00 |
| "Have you ever heard a pinball machine collapse down a flight of touch sensitive keyboard stairs? Have you lived la vida loca with marinara coursing through your veins? Have you ever seen or felt the white soul combing the churn of a century-old fox trot interlude? The debut long playing vinyl of Randy Gagnes Man Made Hill is the key to that door. Behind it ceiling fans actively seek out shit piles to fling into the brackish waft of a slaughterhouse dance floor where corpulent slabs of nameless meat careen off their hooks in a mockery of modern dance. Technotronic hot flashes floss the slippery keyboard runs of a synthesized marimba with food poisoning recalling the histrionic hand clapping and mellifluous tinsel pulling of The Flying Lizards. During a sentimental reprieve an overworked farm hand ceases his ploughing and looks up to a horizon riddled with plush clouds and mops his brow with a dirty handkerchief. Its been a long hot day and its time to do the pump rectilinear the air we breathe. The result is a sort of pelvis pulverizing one is not likely to forget, with crowd favorites like "Kool Cops", "Get Gout" and 12 other potential anthems for a sprawling gaggle of straggly-haired genetically-indifferent lovers. Tower of Randy for pres! The record itself is pressed on white vinyl in a silkscreened sleeve designed by Martina Hwang, Bartosz Gawdzik and Andrew Zukerman." -Beniffer Editions. |
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Artist: METALUX Title: 1-0-0-3 Format: Cass + Art Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette / 10 x 22" Cotton Wrap Around. Metalux has carved their name into the forearm of contemporary whatshamacallit music, backwards, in braille and with a shiv fashioned from a colgate medium bristle toothbrush. this emission is testament to their handiwork... dollops of seafoam nausea seethe in the tumult of tape-manipulated vocals while hypocritical sheets of electronic sunburn blaspheme immodest keyboard vendettas... kind of like eating a mustard gas sandwich while youre pregnant. comes in a package of 4 double-sided silkscreened patches on organic-cotton, and another board thing thats pretty good, i guess... " -Beniffer Editions. |
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Artist: MICH, LUDO Title: The Fluidium Format: Cass Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $10.00 |
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"Fluxus pioneer Ludo Mich new compositions for Beniffer Editions adds to the labels expanded interest in performance art sound recordings.
The A side documents one raw vocal recording passed from Ludo Mich to Kiyoharu Kuwayama. Kuwayama adds reeds and electronics to create a paranoid environment for a cathartic Mich vocal take. The B Side is the title track for the tape. This documents a performance at Gallery Dagmar De Pooter in Antwerp. Fluidium is a sparse vocal meditation with assistants playing saxaphone and synths. Sounds like a confused alien looking for directions on a new planet.
Tape comes in a hand cut cigarette style box with four smaller foldouts that contain photos of Mich and written documentation. The inside is a photo of Mich during the fluidium performance. Edition of 100." -Bennifer.
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Artist: ORPHAN FAIRYTALE Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $8.00 |
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"One woman Beligan beauty psych. Seven songs of stoned love and praise from the no fun playing gal. Simple SK1 type moments with sampled chimes eating the winter icefall. In Beniffers store friendly pile. Comes in six colour silkscreened self help case with sticker and insert." - Beniffer Editions.
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Artist: PINK NOISE Title: Birdland Format: Cass Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $14.50 |
| "A project from Toronto, Canadian Mark Sauner who seamlessly amalgamates the gamut of his musical influences - from early-mid period Madonna to Formula 1 video game soundtracks into a low-fi Californicated dream-cream of sedan/convertible cruise-pop. This album of 2 minute post-wave compositions for synthesizer, guitar, drum machine and delay-swollen vocal comes in a fold-over/over-sized silkscreened WTF sleeve or something." - Beniffer Editions. |
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Artist: RURYK, BRIAN Title: Guitar Weakling Format: Lathe cut 7"+ Art Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $17.00 |
| "Lathe Cut 7" W/ Printed Rubber Mounted Over A Surface Raised By Ball Bearings. Fourth Ruryk release for Beniffer Editions. This one succeeds in transcribing an overwhelming "music at work" type feel. Or atleast from the sounds of it, a guy who used to be able to enjoy the occasional guitar freakout in the office. Originally the intent of this package, was to create an effect similar to that of silly putty newspaper transfer. Only with a more permanent substrate. This is what I came up with. A pale yellow excersise band with a one color screen print of Brian. Underneath the rubber are hundreds of spray glued ball bearings. This may result in an uncomfortable setting in your alphabetically filed 7" collection (goodbye mint condition runzelstirn & gurglestock/K2 split) The back is a collage by the artist, with direct printing onto each side of the record with old R&B record label closeups." -Beniffer. |
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Artist: RURYK, BRIAN Title: Start Lippin Off Format: CDR Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $13.00 |
| "Best audio editor around. Junk assembly, percussion madness, cut up to swirl your head. Comes in a screened hard board diskette envelope, sealed (edition of 100)" - Bennifer Editions. |
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Artist: SCHIMPFLUCH-GRUPPE Title: Paris Aktionen Format: LP Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $24.00 |
| Brutal Document of two Live Actions performed in Paris 1996 & 1997. Aktion 961123 (the infamous "Spaghetti-Action") featuring Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Philips, Helena Greter & Aktion 970223 featuring Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Philips, Helena Greter, Doris Tomasoni. Edition of 500 copies. Mastered & cut by Rashad at D&M, Berlin. Co-released with Tochnit Aleph. |
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Artist: SOUNDS OF INTERROGATION AND NON-COMPLIANCE Title: Found Recording Format: Cass Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $8.00 |
| "Found tape from Toronto repair shop of what sounds like Newfoundland Police beating and shooting a man in the leg. Victim seems to be tied up in a room with a malfunctioning air conditioner that rattles with as much intensity as the anonymous pleading and screaming.Original 1/4" reel marked "Ouch My Leg". The guys in the shop thought I would get a kick out of it. Years later, the same guys told me that the machine that contained this tape was brought into the shop for repair by Toronto Police, and was never picked up. Beniffer Editions Nouvelle Vague. " -Beniffer Editions. |
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Artist: THEE GNOSTICS Title: Archival Format: Double Cass + Book Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $19.00 |
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"In a faraway land, where crystalline car dealerships and stately drive-thru slop shops stood immaculate, a band of sagacious, chemically-altered teaheads huddled in a vacant post office in a tent that was left there from the time of the Sumerians. This was in Hamilton, Ontario - early 90s... Anyway, the ceiling of the tent was deep space; constellations became their pets and unnamed planets became their personal pan pizzas... It was there that they met God, it was all Blueberry shaped non-sequiters and top-heavy answers, enough to cave in the cab of a cube-van. Upon stumbling out of the now fog-encumbered tent their heads were weighted down by the incessant drone of the spheres, a tinnitus-like unceasing that clouded their perception. With nothing else to help with this cochlear roar they harmonized, like a ragtag assembly of Beached Boys with an orphic caveman stomp that matched the brutal profoundness of the soul. And here it is - the selected works of Thee Gnostics, a band that ceaselessly put petals on wahwah pedals in the tradition of Hawkwind and the 13th Floor Elevators. This is a serious INSTANT CLASSIC.
Double cassettes come with a 48 page silkscreened/photocopied fanzine-style booklet, with re-appropriated poster art and with liners by Bruce Mowat. " -Beniffer Editions.
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Artist: TOMUTONTTU Title: Tomuuntuu Format: One-sided 12" Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $17.00 |
| "The album Tomuuntuu, was conjured based on the omnipresent reinterpretation of the project name Tomutonttu by press, fans and even its publisher. Confused? Well, this one sided 21 minute opus may alieviate some of the pressure youve put on your self for correctly trying to pronounce acts from the Finnish underground. Jan Anderzen was commissioned to make this album by the Aanen Lumo Fesitval for New Sounds. The music debuted at the Orion Theatre in Helsinki 11.10.10. Tomuuntuu conveys dozens of ideas in psychadelic electronic composition. Each short piece shifts into the next as if it was born out of the last one. Fluttering tremolo guitar, percussive hits, manipulated field recordings and electronics all bounce between stereo channels to create a sublime listening experience. LP is pressed as a one sided record, with a direct to vinyl, solvent based high gloss screen print on the blank side. Permanent and archival." -Beniffer. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Beniffer Editions Winter Anthology Format: 2 Cass/Book Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $40.00 |
| "96 page monster book featuring the visual smegma of Jacob Horwood and Andrew Zukerman and more! Contains Ayal Seniors The Last Screenplay, an unabridged, unwound stammer through his 340972 film ideas, an instant classic, really... The book includes a 4-way split over 2 cassettes, featuring Man Made Hill (Canada), Dolphins into the Future (Belgium), Lead Sister II (Japan) and Crown Now (USA)... Man Made Hill is all of the Jackson 5 (even the dead one) channeled through one white-man with his sub-par pawn-shop electronics and extensive knowledge of "avant-aesthetics". This is guilt-free dance music. Dolphins into the Future is Lieven Martens of Imvated, or whatever label hes doing right now, a reformed nude-noise ruffian now turned onto the New Age by the holographic entities of Jung, Gurdjieff and Watts and trying to replicate the sound a dolphin makes in a napolitaner carton filled with peroxide. Lead Sister II is a one-man Kemialliset Ystavat forging new directions with a battery of home-made instruments and noise-makers. Why this is not a colony of dumpster-diving vegans in the foothills of some 60s parody is a mystery to me. Crown Now is a boy and a girl, a dejected duo brought together because they wanted to make the cheerleading squad. This document of their practice the night before and also the reason why they were rejected is the fourth and final side of your patience." -Beniffer Editions. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Beniffer Nosejobs And Anklesocks Format: Cass Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $8.00 |
| A1 ID M Theft Able A Message From ID M Theft Able A2 Raionbashi Madder A3 Man Made Hill Body Lotion A4 Unknown Artist A Note-Worthy Attempt At Grace A5 Jacob Horwood Eiton-Shapiro, Glued To My Throat A6 Charles Balls Evening Raga Recorded Through The Mouth Of Charles Balls A7 Raionbashi Gastric Kafather A8 Clays Festering Lungs Bone Drinkers Union A9 No Man Band Rose Of Allendale, Live At Edward Day Gallery B1 Unknown Artist Hymn Of A Jealous Lover B2 Charles Balls Travelling Choda Stench, Radio Marvel B3 Drona Parva Tape Gamelan B4 Deepkiss 720 Old School B5 Kutzkelina Untitled B6 Broken Penis Orchestra, The Can Of Worms (Mix #9) B7 Raionbashi Birds, Glued To My Throat B8 Unknown Artist Radio Spot For Game Of Survival B9 Unknown Artist Orgone Tryouts 71 B10 Schimpfluch-Gruppe 971010 Tokyo - Setagaya Museum Of Modern Art B11 ID M Theft Able A Message From ID M Theft Able |
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Artist: WITCYST Title: Did An Eggburger #13 Format: CDR Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $13.00 |
| "Radio autism from new zealand, short tracks. Comes in a hand marbled collage with printed paper and cdr. (edition of 90)" - Bennifer Editions. |
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Artist: PAN DOLPHINIC DAWN Title: Parts 1 & 2 Format: 7" Label: Bennifer Editions Country: Canada Price: $7.50 |
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Solo single from James Ferraro (Skaters).
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Artist: CHARALAMBIDES Title: Ana/Kata Format: 10" Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: FRIDAY GROUP Title: Friday Group Format: LP Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| LP version. "From out of the Great Republic of Texas, and a new side project from Tom Carter (Charalambides), rises a lone star called Friday Group. In a seemingly appropriate gesture, the opening scherzo of droney solo guitar twang blows dusty debris across the speakers, as if a small sand storm in a remote part of Amarillo. With wind wrestling loose gutters and flat chimes, the first movement is almost a weird paean to Ry Cooders desolate Paris Texas score. Axe attacks hover thick and dragging in the hazy distance, strings sounding as if played a single wind at a time. Jittery, slithery, prepared warbled tremolos flutter warm in extended notes that drip like old paint. If youve never had the pleasure, the later addition of harmonium and the further devolution of the guitar into howling halos of rusty hinges is virtually the embodiment of a drive through western Texas. Slow motion, spacious landscapes of thirsty air and lazy lizards." - Beta-Lactam Ring. |
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Artist: ILITCH Title: Un Jour Comme Tant Dautres Format: CD Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Dieu has smiled upon us, for a previously shelved early album (1975) by ILITCH finally has its jour in the soleil. THIERRY MULLERs strange musical arc is further enriched and confounded by this exploratory cosmic release. A brilliant mix of Krauty space groans and experimentalism (see also Conrad Schnitzler and Ash Ra Temple, etc) and the progressive electronics of Igor Wakhevitch. There is some psych in the folds, and the album is tripped-out all over. Full of small sounds underneath mystical and shimmering beds of loping electronic waves. It sounds like it was made three galaxies over (isnt that where France is?). Six tracks of deep galactics (or is it a journey through another planets Hell?). One persons Enfer is anothers Ciel. Limited edition of 300 copies." - Beta-Lactam Ring. |
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Artist: KALMA, ARIEL Title: Le Temps Des Moissons Format: CD Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"After a long journey to India in 1975, where ARIEL KALMA learned the basics of modal music and singing, he undertook his first solo recording for LP. Ariel was inspired by the fusion of ancient and modern styles of playing music on saxophone, ethnic instruments, effects, electric instruments and electronic filters. Edition of 500 copies, includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks recorded during the same sessions." - Beta-Lactam Ring.
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Artist: KALMA, ARIEL Title: Osmose Format: CD Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Ariel Kalmas magical and weird Osmose originally released in 1978 masterfully matches Richard Tintis rainforest field recordings with Ariels left field minimalist compositional ideas. Rather than simply relying on the rainforest sounds providing a pleasant backdrop to the drones, the drones interplay with the pitches of the natural sounds to create melancholic, Popol Vuh like grandeurs. The natural chirps and creaks blend with the music to become similar to ambient loops themselves; such that their very tonal nature shifts from being recognizable jungle sounds, frequently phasing into blurred rhythmic elements under the electronic parts. Ariels musical minimalism avoids being serialist or academic, despite being part of the INA GRM studios for many years. So, neither is it concrete like Parmeggiani or Risset, nor is it classical like Philip Glass or Michael Nyman. If anything, Ariels music is deeply cosmic, sometimes even a bit psych, ala the great Krauts of yore: old Tangerine Dream, Sand, Cluster etc. His cathedral like tones and running counterpoints actually give the rainforest noise a sinister edge. The music absolutely subverts the traditional idea of the rainforest as that of a happy hunting ground for cause riddled yuppies with Benzes full of Kruggerrands. Osmose reminds that not only is the rainforest a place of awe inspiring beauty, but it is also something very dense and alien. It is a place of removal; it is a place of isolation; it is a kind of inner space; it is an extraordinary and surreal church of sorts; and it is deadly. The album has a progression thats almost a story in toto, where the next rise is finally crossed revealing the huge, seemingly impenetrable expanse of lush greens. The expanse is then explored with wide eyed wonder until the guide dies and the companions start succumbing to fever, ague, snakes and unseen primitives at home in the shadows. Appended by 3 previously unreleased tracks from the same sessions, this reissue finally allows the rainforest to live up to its natural state of untamed jungle." - Beta-Lactam Ring. |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Alkuhärkä Format: LP Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $24.50 |
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"Ed. of 400 copies on 220 gm vinyl. KYs medieval ministrations make the Weird America movement seem like a furry load of Clay Aikens. This latest opus plots out like a secret musical map through a Bosch painting. It is not a horror show by any means. It is the sound of losing time and of losing bearings. A microverse full of familiar landmarks, populated by improbably strange shapes and beings. This could be Heaven; this could be Hell. Who are we to say which is weirder? What if Ilhan Mimaroglu traveled with Chaucer? What if Parmegianni was in the David Monroe Consort? What if In Gowan Ring got busy with Volcano The Bear? KYs psychedelic fusion of folk and musique concrete could almost be a sketch of the birth of music itself." - Beta-Lactam Ring.
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Kellari Juniversumi Format: LP Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
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""At last, a chemical spill good enough to eat. KEMIALLISET YST�?V�?T ("Chemical Friends") have previously spread their royal jelly in small doses with a number of micro-pressings. KY, besides being, like, totally rad, are one the best working proponents of acid folk today. The band display a natural knack for creating organic and moving musics out of what could by all rights be a pile of instrumental compost. Their sensibilities can be traced to classic forebears such as Emtidi, Comus, Broeselmaschine etc., while their skewed and rather awkward sense of harmony also owes some small debt to The Residents, mid-period Nocturnal Emmissions (World Is My Womb) and Makers Of The Dead Travel Fast. Medieval meets Appalachan mountain music whilst still reeling from the effects of that strange moldy bread."
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Saija Format: 7" Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: LSD MARCH Title: Nikutai No Tubomi Format: Double CD Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| A double-CD edition of 500 numbered copies in a full-color book bound case. "It gets so lonely in the belly of a whale. But the acoustics are fantastic. The pitch and yaw of its cavernous gut lowing with a long, guttural song burst. This is met by a loud, wailing which drone swells up as millions of gallons pass through tons of ambergris. These massive internal sound collisions resonate into a monstrous feedback of even greater proportion than the beast itself. And Jonah smiles. This is the sound of LSD MARCH. Be the body of Christ and let the whale take of YOU. LSD March is a Japanese psychedelic rock group, based in the city of Himeji. It is led by singer and guitarist SHINSUKE MICHISHITA. The group is named after a track by krautrock group Guru Guru. Michishita has also played with Magura Mozart and Doodles." - Beta-Lactam Ring. |
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Artist: NURSE WITH WOUND/JIM OROURKE Title: Angry Eelectric Finger 1 Format: LP Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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Vinyl edition, limited to 600 copies. Original material by NWW (Stephen Stapleton and Colin Potter), recorded 2001-3. "Lovingly dissected, fertilized and re-grown by Jim ORourke 2003." Flute and sax by Hansi Fischer and Tim Belbe of Xhol Caravan. Apocalyptic guitar by David Tibet. "The NWW/Jim ORourke duumvirate finger points to a brilliant and long overdue marriage. Their consummation has produced an ambient masterpiece; something of a hermaphroditic hybrid between Soliloquy For Lilith/Spiral Insana and Jims previous Disengage/Tamper." - Beta-Lactam Ring.
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Artist: TOMUTONTTU Title: Tomutonttu Format: LP Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $24.50 |
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"Ed. of 300 copies on 220 gm vinyl. Kemialliset Ystävät member Tomutonttu (Jan Anderzén) plays a bit like Dome to KYs Wire. The Ystävät-ness is there, but stripped down to the frame with a minimal synth breeze blowing through it. Beautifully lyrical in its layered abstractions, there is a sort of finely hewn composite of experimental dada electronics (ala early, early, early Die Todliche Doris or early, early, early P16.D4) and composerly elements (ala Rimarimba, Andrew Poppy or Meredith Monk). A few little Kraut-isms top off the tonic at no extra charge. Oh, and theres a bit that gets all spacey and chirpy like when the Virgin Prunes go completely bonkers (thats sure a helpful reference point... well, we like it). Basically, this is the music that the mothership had in the tape deck just before dropping Kemialliset Ystävät off in the 12th century." - Beta-Lactam Ring.
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: All the Paint I Can Breathe Format: 10" Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "This 10" mini album presents some of VTBs very earliest recordings. The sessions seem to indicate that VTB enjoyed a particularly powerful vintage of Winsor-Newton cadmiums while recording. And for lack of VTB really repeating themselves, I can only paint an abstract portrait of the present opus. Their obsession with small sounds is in place and they already make for a crack improv ensemble, giving their pigment soaked inventions the kind of life that beckons many repeat listens. ATPICB is comprised in nearly equal parts of surrealist/dada sound sculptures and of minimal wave/prog canvases. All tracks were culled from the earliest VTB tapes of 1996." - Beta-Lactam Ring. |
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: Planetary Bethlehem Format: LP Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "New planetary compositions by the always genre defying cosmic collective that is VOLCANO THE BEAR. For this journey, The Bear present reworkings / collages of material originally recorded in 1995/1996 performed by NICK MOTT, AARON MOORE and CLARENCE MANUELO. Electro-acoustique doom? One-time pressing of 300 copies on 220-gram vinyl. Packaged in custom book bound sleeves." -Beta-Lactam Ring |
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Artist: ANNA PLANETA Title: s/t Format: Double CD Label: Betley Country: UK/USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Direct-to-digital field recordings of sounds made in and by a derelict Catholic school-house, situated near Alton Towers theme park in the middle of England. Whereas the theme park attracts millions and millions of joyous visitors each year, the school (empty since 1980 and still in search of a buyer) attracts only teenage glue-sniffers and vandals, who have left their calling card in the form of broken windows, collapsing floors and the ever-present aroma of Kestrel Extra Strength. Our Lady looks out from her vantage point above the once-grandiose assembly hall to view a sea of broken glass, empty beercans, asbestos and spraypainted profanity. These recordings were made over a two-year period using only acoustic and battery-operated musical implements. Hear creaking floors, resonant cavern drone, wind hammering against fragile glass and instruments weaving in and out of sounds generated by the buildings themselves. Limited to 500 copies in silkscreened covers" - BWCD. |
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Artist: INCA EYEBALL Title: Leave The Country Format: 7" Label: Betley Country: UK Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: MITTELWINTERNACHT 71 Title: S/T Format: CDR Label: Betley Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
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"Shit, man? Whats kosmische for "illusion". Klang! Hammond organ and guitar apocalypse. It just carries on phasing.disappearing.phasing.disappearing.furry-freakin. Ahhhhhhhh. takes me back to my mate Wolfgang, us stoned on the floor of his caravan in Torquay when we were 14 year old Heads. Still, who were "Edward Fraser and Christopher French"? Was this really recorded way back in "21-22 Dec 1971"? Is the man with the midiverb having us all on? Put it like this, the kids who believed in Santa were the coolest in the school, right?. Right! And for those of us still feel obliged to space? Yeah!!Its a fucking riot that our Zweistein tribute band back in Tamworth never even got close to" - Uncle Florian, "Schlagwerk Heritage Gazette." - Betley. Limited to 50 copies.
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Artist: ROBOTNICS CROSSING Title: Trigger Happy Format: 7" Label: Betley Country: UK Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: NEW PECULIARS Title: A More Withering Critique Than Harry Pussy Format: 7" Label: Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers Country: UK Price: $5.50 |
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"Second 7" by the Borecky-and-Foust dynasty. Five new numbers mixing punk brut and raw improvisation, including a hot rendition of THE PRATS pre-pube garage classic "Bored". Packaged in another very lovely Lambkin cover." - Betley.
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Artist: NOTHING DINGULATOR BAND, THE CHARLIE Title: Aint No Fascist/Dingulation # 1 Format: 7" Label: Beyond Omega Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"A single that is not new just appeared on the scene. And although it is 20 odd years old Aint No Fascist/Dingulation Number 1 by The Charlie Nothing Dingulator Band is the sort of thing that you should jump on if it passes by your fingers. Mr Nothing may be recalled by some for his great album, The Psychedelic Saxophone Of Charlie Nothing on the Takoma label or even the more obscure self released records he cut. This single was the last of those, and it is a monster. The A side vocal slides all around the place with flutes, crazy guitar, staggering percussion and voices, like some mutant offshoot of Starship Beer crossed with David Peel And The Lower East Side. Very groovy stuff. And, lest you start to get strange ideas, the Dingulation concept has to do with the musical instruments that Mr Nothing fashioned from junk automobiles. No more, no less." - Byron Coley, WIRE. Original copies of this 1980 release. Only 200 copies pressed (despite what it says on the jacket). Very highly recommended!
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Artist: METABOLISMUS Title: Vor Anker Format: 3" CDR Label: BGF Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: METABOLISMUS Title: Wonderful, Dangerous, Confusing - Or What? Format: 3" CDR Label: BGF Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: FILLE QUI MOUSSE Title: Trixie Stapleton 291 Format: LP Label: Bichon Country: France Price: $19.00 |
| 1st time ever readily available on vinyl - the rarest entry on the legendary Nurse With Wound list (which is saying something). Ltd. ed. of 300. "Fille Qui Mousse ("Girl With Froth"??) is one the most mythical albums to be released(?) from France. Recorded in 1972, it was issued in 73 (evidently only as a test pressing in an edition of maybe 50) by the legendary Futura label. Often referred to as the French Faust, FQMs album mixed collage, psychedelic rock, surreal poetry, and organically tapped noise purity with the absolute best of experimental 70s rock-and-beyond. One of the essential reissues of the 70s rock underground." - Bichon. "Straight off, we plunge into that Faust structure...riffing with a psychedelic bent, hints of Gong too...we move into bizarrely constructed patterns of percussive sound and chopped-up rock music, and just as a musical focus takes shape it disappears. A poem, recited by a girl, over an urban landscape populated by numerous barking dogs then gives way to an intensely strange mangled web of sound thats almost brain numbing. And, yet more in the way of strangeness is a piano based piece that recalls some of Roger Doyles early experiments. The only actual song has the most bizarre lyrics (in English) and is followed by an excursion in distorted and processed guitar. Next is where the folk music comes in, but even with gypsy violin FQMs interpretation of folk is strange and twisted. Finally, we return to the psychedelic jamming that opened the album, but with a jazzier edge, ending the album perfectly." - Audion. Very highly recommended! |
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Artist: ALVARO Title: Tongue Format: LP Label: Bimbo Tower Country: France Price: $27.00 |
| ""The Chilean with the singing nose," legendary for the Drinking My Own Sperm LP (Squeaky Shoes 1977), combines Chilean traditional music, post-punk feeling and a little spirit of the European avant garde. Joining ALVARO (voice and Casio) are JENS VOLK (bass and voice) and GIORGOS NOTARAS (percussion and voice)." -Bimbo Tower |
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Artist: EMPAN Title: Entraxes Inegaux Format: LP Label: Bimbo Tower Country: France Price: $24.00 |
| "Empan is the insane reunion of Jac Berrocal (trumpet & piano), Dan Warburton (violin & keyboards), Jean-Noël Cognard (percussions), Judith Kan (voice) and Béatrice Godeau (cello). Ecstatic and unusual free improvisations recorded in studio by Patrick Müller 28th of june 2009. Silkscreen cover by Jörg Morning. Limited to 300 copies." - Bimbo Tower. |
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Artist: LCDD Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Bimbo Tower Country: France Price: $18.00 |
| "Not so long ago Olaf Ladousse (visual artist doing his D.I.Y. graphzines QUE SUERTE! And collabrating to silkscreen editor Le Dernier Cri) started to build circuit-bended toys that he called doorags in a tribute to an amazing US Arizona duo. To spread the good news around the globe LCDD ("Los Caballos De Düsseldorf" = The Düsseldorf Horses), was formed by 4 musicians who usually play in the Spanish punk scene. LCDD is an improvisation collectiv, a scenic platform, an open band. There is no fix line-up. Anyone willing to play the doorags are wellcome! This is the 2º Lp from LCDD. Its totally improvised. Doorags are directly plugged in the mixer and then you start to hear the accelerated toys cacophony improvising towards a hypothetical trackThe perfect soundtrack of a crazy bedroom full of demented broken toys going insane!! On this record (limited 300 copies), along with the four original members, joined Potro Oscilante (Poulin Oscillant) with his theremin on the track "Clop Clop Hum" and Fela Borbone (Ulan Bator Trio) with his Mierdofon on the track "Mierdofon" - Bimbo Tower |
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Artist: LOCELLE MARE Title: Serpentement Format: LP Label: Bimbo Tower Country: France Price: $20.00 |
| "The solitary project of Thomas Bonvalet initially focused on the nylon string guitar, taking short, dynamic and abrupt forms and limiting itself exclusively to the acoustic possibilities of the instrument. A radical posture, it constantly threatened to put itself at an impasse, seeing itself forced into metamorphosis and movement. The instrument thus became less and less identifiable. At the periphery it absorbed the sound of objects (metronome, tuning forks...) deviating from their common usage, integrating the breath and the sounds rising from the instrumental gesture, splitting up to reveal a new fleeting form. Amplification has also progressively taken an essential part in this new instrumentarium/organism. However, there remains this same subterranean voice, the consideration of detail and tension, the seeking of possible points of sudden revelation. “Serpentement” is the fourth recording of "locelle mare" and was recorded by Adrian Riffo, in the Protestant temple of Bergerac (France), in november 2011. Instruments: mechanical metronome with bell, harmonica reeds, six string banjo, amps, microphones, feet tapping, hand clapping, six string ukulele, tuning forks, timer, mouth organ, Harmonicas, concertina, dry poppy pods ,whistlings,... Thomas Bonvalet, (born October, 1977) lives in Alpedrete, Spain. Guitar player of the band "Cheval de frise" between 1998 and 2004, he made is first solo show under the name of l’ocelle mare in September 2005. He toured Europe, Scandinavia, Israel, USA and China." - Bimbo Tower. |
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Artist: NSBSP2 Title: No Victoria Format: Double LP Label: Bimbo Tower Country: France Price: $28.00 |
| "The 2 bands first met in 2004 and immediatly an intense friendship was born with a mutual desire to play together and confront the two musical worlds very opposed (the most anti-academic improvisation and no-technic playing totally assumed for the NSB, and the raw post-punk mixed with concrete music composition for the SP2) In 2006, a new meeting happened in Mulhouse (small north-east french city next to the German border and hometown of the SP2) with the arrival of a new member in NSB, drummer Aya Onishi after the tragic death of Hugh McIntyre, bass player, philosopher and founding member. The two bands entered the "La Mer Rouge Studio" and during two long nights, recorded more than 10 hour of (no-)music!!!!! One part of this mixture happened to be the music on "No Victoria". A new band was born : NSBSP2! In may 2008 a small Canadian tour was organised and in early october 2009 a "live" meeting was organised in Paris (Montreuil / Instants Chavirés) to celebrate the issue of this limited double vinyl." - Bimbo Tower. |
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Artist: SALMIGONDIS Title: Assez De Trop Pas Format: LP Label: Bimbo Tower Country: France Price: $22.00 |
| "Limited 150 copies / hand made cover The french freaks are back with 5 more guests adding more instruments: percussions, flute, alto saxophone, Trumpet and noises. Psyche Dada freak jazz mini big-band." -Bimbo Tower |
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Artist: SALMIGONDIS Title: Trop De Pas Assez Format: LP Label: Bimbo Tower Country: France Price: $22.00 |
| "Limited 150 copies / hand made cover French quintet of freaks playing improvised psychedelic noise jazz kraut muzak with drums, percussions, guitare, bass, synth, saxophone, turntables, non-identify objects, voice and crazy electronics. Broken swing and harsh dada spirit, with an early "Futura" taste." -Bimbo Tower |
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Artist: SMEGMA Title: Morass Format: LP Label: Bimbo Tower Country: France Price: $24.00 |
| "Vinyl upgrade for the ⿿Live side of Smegmas legendary 1987 Morass cassette. Featuring the line-up of Amazon Bambi, Big Dirty, Dr. Id, Jackie, Ju Suk, Paul and V.D., this one perfectly captures the joyous noise of their bandstand actions. Free jazz firepower is to the fore, with Aylerised horns and Borbetomagus-scale form destruction battling against toy orchestras, power-punking loops, syrupy sludge-jams, garage band instrumentals and usurped avant garde modes. One of Smegmas wildest sides and some of the most fucked-up art-aggro to escape the gravity of the LAFMS." volcanic tongue. (co-released with TANZ PROCESZ) |
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Artist: TANK J Title: Craquer les Liants Format: LP Label: Bimbo Tower Country: France Price: $24.00 |
| "Serge Adam (trumpet, bugle), Jérome Noetinger (electroacoustic system), Titus Oppmann (Bass), Jean-Noël Cognard (drums, percussions & objects). Second installement in the Tankj serie (see other release on the same label). Another excellent astonishing quartet around Monsieur Cognard (Big boss of the Block Thyristors vynil label )." - Bimbo Tower. |
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Artist: TRIBRAQUE Title: Entraxes Inegaux Format: LP Label: Bimbo Tower Country: France Price: $34.00 |
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Silkscreened, fold out jackets. "Free and improvised navigation of the murky waters of organized sound, orchestrated like New Yorkers or Koeln-ists. JEAN-FRANCOIS PAUVROS (guitars and voice) PATRICK MULLER of ILITCH (electrosonics), JEAN-NOEL COGNARD (drums and objects)." -Bimbo Tower.
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Artist: COSTER, TIM & MARK SADGROVE Title: Untitled (18:53) Format: 3" CDR Label: Binary Datum Country: New Zealand Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: ANGST HASE PFEFFER NASE Title: Myth of the Golden Jackal and the Frog Format: 7" Label: Birdman Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Early (1996) release from this associate of Caroliner Rainbow, Fat Worm of Error, Bill Nace, Nmperign, and others, with a more recent LP on Ultra Eczema. Handmade, hand-stamped sleeves."
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Artist: CULTURCIDE/CAROLINER Title: Live in Antwerp/Bring Culture To The Treetops Format: 7" Label: Birdman Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
"Two live recordings from CULTURCIDE in their early-80s nihilist
punk mode, plus a big fat slice of prime CAROLINERs 19th century
noisecore supremo. All sleeves are handpainted by CAROLINER!" - Birdman. 1998 release.
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Artist: HOWLIN RAIN Title: Magnificent Fiend Format: LP Label: Birdman Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Having recorded a fistful of critically acclaimed-and increasingly successful-albums with neo-psychedelic pioneers COMETS ON FIRE, frontman ETHAN MILLER lit out for fresh musical territories somewhere between the Santa Cruz, CA-based bands familiar maelstrom and a more organic, melodic, groove-oriented rock that hearkens back to his halcyon daze growing up on Californias "Lost Coast" (Humboldt County). Completing HOWLIN RAIN is IAN GRADEK, GARETT GODDARD (THE CUTS, COLOSSAL YES), MIKE JACKSON, ELI ECKERT (DRUNK HORSE), and JOEL ROBINOW (Drunk Horse). By turns pummeling and pastoral, Magnificent Fiend oscillates between roaring, all-stops-out, Hammond organ-driven tracks and delicate electric piano passages, topped by harmonized, often dissonant guitar lines. Toss in counter-melodic bass, sometimes quirky breaks, and extended instrumental sequences that ascend to the heavens or cascade softly, softly from the skies in sparkling showers of gunpowder and smoke. Its all held together by Millers distinctive, crushed-velvet roar, which extends to a sweet, plaintive falsetto; and, as the albums oxymoronic title might imply, the lyrical content." - Birdman |
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Artist: HOWLIN RAIN Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Birdman Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "HOWLIN RAIN came together with the intention of making a good, old-fashioned, free-wheeling rock album with a bared soul and a body that hangs joy, hysteria and darkness on the same rambling bones. They play unfiltered music in all its grit and all its glory; music to beat the steering wheel of your van to or sing along with while drinking whiskey in the bathtub with your dog on a Saturday night. Formed in 2004 in San Francisco, the band features ETHAN MILLER (singer and guitarist for COMETS ON FIRE), JOHN MOLONEY (shaman leader and percussionist for Bostons SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN) and IAN GRADEK (bassist, iron worker, banjo-picker and world traveler). For a group of musicians who spend most of their time playing napalm-wrecked avant-rock or underground improv, this is an opportunity to downshift and ease into some classic good-time jams-some yin to the more experimental yang of their better known projects. Howlin Rain makes music thats not out to blow your mind but the shit thats ingrained in your heart." - Birdman. |
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Artist: V3 Title: Russian Roulette (Chinese Style) Format: 7" Label: Birdman Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"20 minute sound collage from these Columbus art rockers" - Birdman. Jim Shepard and friends.1995 release.
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Artist: NEW BLOCKADERS/PUTREFIER Title: Schliefmittelbögen Format: LP Label: Birthbiter Country: UK Price: $31.00 |
| "After a long silence Birthbiter has returned with the sounds of nihilism reverberating in its ears as the label releases the long anticipated collaboration between The New Blockaders and Putrefier. Schleifmittelbögen is something of a return to form for TNB and Putrefier while also offering fresh interpretations of earlier work such as Changez les Blockuers, Pulp and Salute. Acoustic and field recordings are used to create unexpected sounds that punctuate the work, adding a new dimension to the all out sonic assault you have come to expect from these two artists. The cracking of tiles being extracted from a roof, the creak of a rusty sewing machine table combined with a variety of natural sounds will make this a surprise to anyone who thinks there is everything to know about TNB and Putrefier. TNBs philosophy needs no introduction. Renowned plunderers of Dadaism, neo-Dadaism and nihilism, they have reinterpreted art/politico theory and history. Putrefiers approach has been to mix shards of acoustic sound, beat them up and throw them back into the melting pot. The presence of Luigi Russolos Intonarumori looms large in both artists work The LP is limited to 500 copies and comes housed in a full colour sleeve." - Birthbiter. |
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Artist: HARUTAKA, MOCHIZUKI Title: Solo Document 2004 Format: CD Label: Bishop Country: Japan Price: $17.50 |
| "Mochizuki Harutaka is a Tokyo-based "next-wave" multi-instrumentalist who combines blasted vocals with solo saxophone, bells, guitar and piano. His haunted vocal style is pitched somewhere between Jandek, Keiji Haino and a death-decadent torch singer, while his saxophone improvisations orbit the same lonely satellites as solo thinkers like Masayoshi Urabe, Arthur Doyle, Anthony Braxton and Kaoru Abe. Nerve-flaying blues from a player who has been there and back." -Le Weekend Festival. |
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Artist: BIXOBAL Title: #1 Format: Mag Label: Bixobal Country: USA Price: $2.00 |
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"The debut issue of this new magazine dedicated to eclectic music. Inside you get: the first installment of CLIMAX GOLDEN TWIN ROB MILLIS column "Talking Machine" in which he talks about 78 rpm records, Korean ones; an interview with ALAN SONDHEIM on his group ALL-7-70 (which recorded for ESP-Disk) and his solo material (which has been released by Fire Musuem and Qbico), plus a special review section covering his discography; book dealer and artist DAVE HORNOR gives us the run down on books by TULI KUPFERBURG of THE FUGS; part one of former SUN CITY GIRLS SIR RICHARD BISHOPs Indian travelogue from this summer; an extensive interview with DAVE NUSS of THE NO-NECK BLUES BAND by Canadian writer ALLAN MACINNIS-possibly the first interview with NNCK in print. 56 pages, 5.5"x8.5", black & white. 500 copies printed." Highly recommended!
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Artist: BIXOBAL Title: #3 Format: Mag Label: Bixobal Country: USA Price: $2.50 |
| "Allan MacInnis talks to Peter Stampfel (The Holy Modal Rounders) about Harry Smith, the Fugs, Santeria, amphetamines, god, coincidence, music and much more in a major feature appended with a short interview with Antonia Stampfel. Rob Millis (CLimax Golden Twins) column Talking Machine reports back on 78RPM hunting in India. Patrick Marley (former publisher of Muckraker magazine) with his column Nickels and Dimes. An interview with Gerd Kraus on the legendary Krautrock bands Limbus 3 and Limbus 4 and the heady times that they grew out of. Reviews of vinyl, cassettes, compacts disc, DVDs and books, both new and old." |
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Artist: BIXOBAL Title: #5 Format: Mag Label: Bixobal Country: USA Price: $2.50 |
| "The No-Neck Blues Bands Dave Nuss recalls his time with The Source Family which led to the first Yahowa 13 performance in New York City and their new LP. An extensive interview with reformed Vancouver noise band Tunnel Canary by Allan MacInnis. A remembrance of Noggin violin player Michael Griffen by his friend Aaron Gorseth. A feature on the Belgian group Onde featuring former members of Noise-Makers Fifes. A feature on the new label Assophon, home to The Sea Donkeys, Spider Trio and Factums. Eric Lanzillottas reviews of vinyl, compacts discs, and books, both new and old. Patrick Marleys column Nickels and Dimes." -Bixobal |
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Artist: BLACK, JAYSON Title: Basic Black Format: LP Label: Bizarrd Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"Unauthorized repress of 1969 LP by ex-mental patient poet Jayson Black. Nihilist poetry backed w/ occasional electronic and sound effects. Best liner notes of any LP EVER! 100 numbered copies." - Bizarrd. SOLD OUT
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Artist: COACH FINGERS Title: One Jack Shy Of A Cycle Format: LP Label: Black Dirt Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "There is a fine line between illumination and obscuration when one is attempting to interpret the meaning of a song cycle. Is the narrator singing from experience or is there an embodiment of characters, real or imagined, happening? When listening to the new record by Coach Fingers from beginning to end, a story is not necessarily being told in a straight narrative form, but perhaps taking a cue from a literary background, One Jack Shy of a Cycle can be perceived as a metafiction in song form. Who is the fool with the unsteady hands? What poor soul has found his demise at the barrel end of Jacks rifle? Along what shoreline is the tortured couple from ⿿Things Get Stranger travelling? Why is a bullfrog singing about happiness and doubt? Who is having such trouble sleeping on Side 2, and why? Are there literally turkeys falling out of the trees as the dawn breaks to end the record? Recurring themes of failed relationships, misunderstandings, anxiety and passing are woven throughout this rock and roll record as easily as they would be in a collection of short stories. Like images flickering through a shadow play screen, Coach Fingers has drawn upon the talents of the community of musicians surrounding Black Dirt Studio, to project the visage of a band upon the collection of tales captured on these sides. And in the process has conjured the aural equivalent of metempsychosis, passing life stories through song into the grooves of vinyl." - Black Dirt. Edition of 500. Recorded at Black Dirt Studio Westtown, NY. Mastered by Carl Saff Chicago, IL. 140g vinyl pressed at Brooklyn Phono Brooklyn. NY. Covers silk screened by VGKids Ypsilanti, MI. |
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Artist: D. CHARLES SPEER & THE HELIX Title: After Hours Format: LP Label: Black Dirt Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "The much-anticipated blast-off release for Speer and his band. Recently rewarded 5 stars in Time Out mag by the music editor, this album is a landmark in laid-back blues and country songwriting, feat. members of NNCK and Sunburned." -S@1. "The inimitable Mr. Speer coined the term himself upon titling his pre-Helix full length release Forgotten Country. Not so much a forgotten people of a state or a rural area. Not so either some Souths gonna rise again moonshine. More so a return to a way of presenting a music in the context of a tradition (something those boys in the band are pretty high on.) But this isnt your grandfathers Bakersfield were dealing with. Tho the tongue of the balladeer may spin tales ripe with a cast of characters including ⿿the Pastor Randolph Healey, Cheese Frog, the man from HHS, Uncle Ernie, that guy with the black mustache and red Caddy who stole your girl, and the true born sons of Levi, he sings them not only with the twang of the roadhouse, but tainted with the grit of the streets of the big city. As one casual listener once noted to the band after a performance, ⿿You guys play both types Country and Psych. And its true that the sounds contained on After Hours do act on the mind as much as they tug at the heartstrings. Replete with tales of mental instability, infidelity, drunken advice, wartime hucksters, heartbreak, and redemption, the first album by D Charles with his backing band will surely immediately stand out amongst the shards of gothic Americana that litter our fair sonic landscape.Edition of 500 Recorded at Black Dirt Studio"- Black Dirt. Black Dirt is the new in-house label from Jason Meaghers (NNCK, K Salvatore, Coach Fingers, D Charles Speer and the Helix, etc...) Black Dirt Studios in upstate New York. |
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Artist: MATTA LLAMA Title: The Witch Channel Format: LP Label: Black Dirt Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Sometimes, throughout the process of creating a record, it is easy to forget how much magic is involved. When one is surrounded by wires, microphones, dials, tubes, screens, and stomp boxes there can be a decided lack of mystery. These are the earliest Black Dirt recordings, originally captured a mere few days after our humble doors were opened. As a matter of fact, everyone involved approached the experience as a sort of favor ⿿ youll be our guinea pig and well do our damn best to get a good document out of it. Matta Llama dug in for a session and did what they do so well... wordlessly picking up their instruments ⿿ and at certain points, each others ⿿ and opening up that secret door that allows access to a timeless wellspring of past and future sounds. After the band had improvised more than an albums worth of music, something seemed off on playback. Another session was scheduled and a different approach was taken. Oddly, the results were the same. We placed the recordings on a shelf and high fived each other before they rode off on their way back to the big, dark city. And there the recordings sat. But a funny thing happened a few years later after we received our Alchemists robe in the mail. We went back to the them and realized that whatever was leaden about the sounds Matta Llama had laid down so many months before was purely a result of a young studio ⿿ and novice engineer! - and once some of those problems were corrected, a blazing, golden, psychedelic beacon shot out of the speakers. The band was immediately contacted and at an impromptu meeting many things were discussed. Seeds grown to trees, lead to gold, and finally the idea of this record. Now, so many years later, this record glows with magic. It is hard to believe that there were any of the mundane trappings of a studio involved at all. It is a swirling, mysterious, and dark record and the document of the birth of Black Dirt and were proud to present The Witch Channel to you." - Black Dirt. Edition of 500. Recorded at Black Dirt Studio Westtown, NY. Mastered by Carl Saff Chicago, IL. 140g vinyl pressed at Brooklyn Phono Brooklyn. NY. Covers silk screened by VGKids Ypsilanti, MI. |
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Artist: PIGEONS Title: Virgin Spectacle Format: LP Label: Black Dirt Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Beautiful dream-dementia pop from a couple tangentially related to the Sea Donkeys/Sublime Frequencies camp in Seattle." -S@1. "Pigeons and doves are so closely related, they are practically interchangeable in the minds of the people who classify such fowl. But in the eyes of the general public, the dove is a beautiful bird symbolizing freedom and peace while the pigeon is a dirty rat with wings that eats our citys garbage and craps on our cars. But maybe the pigeon is a crafty bird, content with its own beauty and happy to obscure it to avoid the glare of our ever intrusive public eye. Virgin Spectacle is a distorted, hungover, and elusive statement. And its in French. Except one word at the end. Or more, if you are to believe those responsible. Regardless, amongst all the fog and feathers is a collection of comely pop and sonic excursions guaranteed to lodge itself in your waking subconscious. Hell, you might even dream of a few of these songs. The fine people who constitute the band named Pigeons would like you to believe that they have stumbled incidentally upon such charm, like a diamond in the mine. Dont believe it. Take yourself out of your particular urban situation. Look toward the skies, and see the besmirched bird for what it really is. They have laid out a sonic journey meant to disorient on the surface, but if you follow their flight youll find yourself cruising along and singing in a language you may not understand. Edition of 500 Recorded at Black Dirt Studio"- Black Dirt. Black Dirt is the new in-house label from Jason Meaghers (NNCK, K Salvatore, Coach Fingers, D Charles Speer and the Helix, etc...) Black Dirt Studios in upstate New York. |
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Artist: STELLAR OM SOURCE Title: Rise In Planes Format: LP Label: Black Dirt Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Every record has 2 sides. There is an inherent duality to the format. Sometimes the sounds contained therein can expand beyond the average experience of sides A and B. Rise in Planes is one such record. It is both a collage of songs and a monolithic mantra of collapsing notes. A meditation on the realignment of atypical musical conjugations, such as meter and melody, and a time specific experiment on the effects that such change might have on the listeners state of mind both during and after the needle snakes its way through the grooves. While there is a distinct difference between the ascension of each side, there is also a permanence of timbre, whether alone, folded upon itself or accompanied, that conjures a sense of enchantment. One moment aggressive, the next soothing, meditative throughout, while also flouting the misshapen identity of Western dream music. Both the document of an electroacoustic magician and an improvisatory illusionist, Rise in Planes subverts futurism and past spontaneous composition in one slab of an etched polymer compound carved out to vibrate the air around you into binary thoughts." - Black Dirt.
Edition of 300.
Recorded at Black Dirt Studio
Westtown, NY
140g vinyl pressed at Brooklyn Phono.
Covers silk screened by Phil Franklin
Woodstock, NY
and Stellar OM Source
Den Haag, NL.
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Artist: THORNTON, CARTER Title: Ten Fingers for Forefathers Format: LP Label: Black Dirt Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Odd serially-inflected compositions for classical guitar. A wide breadth of obscure and fragmented influences represented here, all internal. Carter Thornton of Izititiz and Zakashi-Warashi." -S@1. "If you are a fan of the archaic format of music storage and delivery known as vinyl then you are also probably experienced in the art of search and rescue when faced with a pre-auction era, dusty, moldy shop filled to the rafters with such blasts from the past. Every now and then one comes upon a platter in one of these fading outposts, marked at about $3.99. Cover seams split, maybe some radio call letters scrawled in marker, maybe a booze-coffee-bongwater spill splayed like a Rorschach on the back. Perhaps it is the cover art itself that draws your attention black and white photos seemingly from another time in content and message. Or perhaps it is the title of the albumthe way it rolls off the tongue, its playfulness marked by a seemingly obscure reference. The fact that there are no song titles may pique your interest why is this? Are there even songs on there? You can see the gaps in the grooves so there is some sound being broken up with seconds of silence. You wipe the grime off the grooves with your shirtsleeve and take the disc over to the crappy player up by the register. You pop it on, slip the needle in the groove, and immediately you have the thought ⿿What the hell is this?!?!? Youre hearing one of those rare recordings of a singular and personal vision. A solo guitar performance that not only operates outside any current or previous fashions, but one that seems to render the idea of recorded music as commerce a nonreality. Although you are carried away with delight by the sounds you are hearing, you cant help but wonder why this person recorded this music. His intent is as elusive as the music he is presenting. It seems as though you are there with the player, this audio mirage helped by sounds of his chair creaking, his arm brushing against the side of his instrument, his fingers scraping across the strings. You purchase the item straightaway, as determined to figure out the history of the recording as you are to wear out its grooves with repeated listenings. With Ten Fingers for Forefathers the proverbial chase has been cut right to. Take a listen and see if you can crack the sonic code contained therein. Edition of 500 Recorded at Black Dirt Studio"- Black Dirt. Black Dirt is the new in-house label from Jason Meaghers (NNCK, K Salvatore, Coach Fingers, D Charles Speer and the Helix, etc...) Black Dirt Studios in upstate New York. |
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Artist: NO WAVE Title: Marc Masters Format: Book Label: Black Dog Publishing Country: UK Price: $30.00 |
| "No Wave traces the history of this influential genre from its most famous names down to its many offshoots and sidetracks. From early pioneers like Suicide and Glenn Branca, to forgotten treasures like Red Transistor and Bush Tetras, No Wave charts all the cracks and crevices of a surprisingly diverse movement. Flashing through the New York underground in the late 1970s, No Wave was the ultimate anti-movement. Its bands consisted of artists and poets untrained in music, looking to explode rock and disappear before the smoke cleared. The primary perpetrators - Lydia Lunchs howling Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James Chances skeletal Contortions, the dark-noise groups Mars and DNA - all drew on primitivism, performance art, and the avant-garde. They were best known for short songs and even shorter life-spans. The book also delves into No Wave cinema, a vibrant underground scene where figures like Jim Jarmusch, Nick Zedd, and Steve Buscemi first cut their teeth. Illustrated with concert photos, record covers, and other ephemera of the times, and filled with quotes from those who were there, No Wave is the definitive guide to a genre whose sounds and ideas still vibrate through alternative culture today." - Black Dog. |
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Artist: JUJU Title: A Message From Mozambique Format: LP Label: Black Fire Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "2010 repress. Exact repro, originally released in 1973 on the Strata-East affiliated Black Fire label. This is the first LP from this classic Afro free jazz group. Very much in the spirit of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, but with more spiritual/soul jazz stylings tempering the pure free jazz fire music vibe. The group would shortly hereafter change their name to Oneness of Juju." -Black Fire |
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Artist: ELECTRIC CRUSH Title: Dropouts In A Drug Haze Format: 12" Label: Black Gladiator Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Totally deranged 12-inch 45 RPM EP from defunct one-man unit ELECTRIC CRUSH: a long lost cassette only release from Las Vegas circa Y2K. Originally a 10-song tape titled Dropouts In a Drug Haze, Black Gladiator opted for the perfect first side only of the original release to bring you three tracks of stone cold punk rock headache sandwiched between two slices of drum breaks and bent guitars slathered with methamphetamine psychosis. Electric Crush represents the sound of Black Gladiator before it even existed, and the label couldnt be happier they located him after all these years! Musical parallels to Muddy Waters classic late 60s fuzz guitar driven, break-beat ridden Electric Mud are plenty, so the label came up with a take on the elusive and bold black cover of "Mud." Limited edition of 300 copies." - Black Gladiator. |
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Artist: TUNNEL OF LOVE Title: Rockin Rollin Bitches Format: LP Label: Black Gladiator Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| *"A reissue of the single greatest punk album of the 2000s, TUNNEL OF LOVEs Rockin Rollin Bitches. Two different labels have released this on compact disc, but this is the first time this album will ever be available on vinyl. Equal parts Guitar Wolf (the noise & fury),early Flamin Groovies (the pinnacle of trad rocknroll in a post55 world), and the Electric Eels & Slayer (for pure fucked-upedness and extreme Satanism), this fourteen-track LP clocks in at a modest 25 minutes, yet delivers more devastating music than most bands entire discographies. Tunnel of Love never practice, but every now and then they assemble in public, decked out in black and white striped tights and black capes, ripping apart punk clubs and leaving audiences stunned. This is truly the most bad-ass rocknroll band onearth. You can either get down or you can get out of their way."-Black Gladiator |
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Artist: APT J(EXT)IE IRRCHIE Title: Night Wearing Feathers / Sunshine Bus Rider Format: LP Label: Black Horizons Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "The A-side of this LP was originally released as a 3" CDR on the PsychForm Records label in 2006, the B-side is a new recording from 2012, both sides in the format of collaboration between JENNIE RICIHIE and IRR. APP (EXT). Wonderful surreal concrete assemblages. Rhythmic and spacey, and of course dada inspired weirdness. Cover art by MATT WALDRON. Packaged in a handmade euro-style top loading sleeve, in black metallic card stock with gold offset printing. Black with gold labels and black vinyl. Edition of 234." -Black Horizons. |
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Artist: MY CAT IS AN ALIEN/VALERIO COSI Title: Stories From The Vacuum Format: 7" Label: Black Horizons Country: UK Price: $7.50 |
| "A truly ethereal pairing from Italy. While MCIAA has already established a massive offering in all formats, this 7-inch is VALERIO COSOs first vinyl appearance proper. His side is dominated by free jazz sax loops and trance vocals, with moments of twinkling percussion and electronic euphoria. An amalgamation of improv styles pulled off in a way only Valerio can. On the flip is a beautiful example of the lush guitar ambiance, wordless vocals, and alien space toy sound effects that the OPALIO brothers are known for. Gold ink offset printing on metallic vellum, clear vinyl with gold ink on white pro-printed labels. Edition of 500." -Black Horizons. |
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Artist: OAKEATER/YELLOW SWANS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Black Horizons Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "A rather appropriate unearthing takes place on this record, as YELLOW SWANS are posthumously paired up with Chicagos OAKEATER. First up is Yellow Swans, with a single side-long track that should please fans of their later, brighter more psychedelic sound as well as those of the more rigid, structured and even melodic sound found on their final LP. Masterfully mixing huge guitars, shards of mixer feedback and discreet loops. Oakeater on the flip side performs the funerary rights with three tracks that fall somewhere between a satanic ritual and a cosmic synth trip, with meditative vocals, throbbing synthesizers, and distant piano lines. On the label and art/design end this was a collaborative effort between Black Horizons and Dead Accents. Comes packaged in a custom euro-style sleeve, offset silver ink on black linen paper. Black vinyl with silver on black center labels in an edition of 500 copies." -Black Horizons |
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Artist: UTON Title: Live in the Center of the World Format: Cass Label: Black Horizons Country: US Price: $8.00 |
| "Double a-side tape, played in reverse on the B, this documents an Uton live show. More abrasive than recorded output. Acoustics, vocal mantras, and pulsating drone that leave you confused when it is all over with. Offset printed gold on platinum vellum, clear labels "touched by the golden hand" in an edition of 100 copies on hi-bias chrome tapes." - Black Horizons. |
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Artist: WARMTH/ROBE. Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Black Horizons Country: US Price: $7.50 |
| "Warmth offers a hollow, swaying and moody piece that is probably as heavy as he has ever gone, ending in subtle ringing. Guitar and trumpet bleak ambiance from Robe., would work perfect in a horror film. Offset printed silver on black linen paper sleeves, hand-cut into a cross shape, folded and sealed with a wax stamp in an edition of 300 copies on black vinyl." - Black Horizons. |
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Artist: UNDERGROUND FAILURE, THE Title: Underground Failure Format: CD Label: Black Light Country: Sweden Price: $22.00 |
| "Swedish underground counter-culture monster album from 1971, originally released as a private pressing of 150 copies, never sold at shops at the time. These bunch of freaks were clearly influenced by Dylan, early Velvet Underground and The Fugs, but they came with a sound of their own. Stoned/druggy atmosphere alternating from acoustic/acid-folk tracks to devastating, fuzzed-out ones like Green Ocelot, which was included at #38 in the recent Punk Before Punk top 50 list in Ugly Things magazine. Limited to 500 copies, with remastered sound in nice papersleeve mini-LP replica." -Black Light |
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Artist: 2673/DOOMSDAY SLEEPOVER Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Black Owl Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "limited to 500 copies on opaque green vinyl. 2673 show up with a side of high-end shrieks and speaker-shredding ambience. Doomsday Sleepover unleash some blasting black thrash full of nonstop aggression and destruction." - Black Owl. |
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Artist: BLACK TO COMM Title: #14 Format: Mag Label: Black To Comm Country: USA Price: $3.00 |
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1988 issue. "The first issue with the new and improved name features part one of the Ron Asheton interview, a nice though could be much better given all the information discovered since piece on the Deviants, an article on Peter Laughners Cinderella Backstreet and the Seeds. Oh, theres also a piece on Charlemagne Palestine written by someone or other who shall remain nameless forever.." - Chris Stigliano. Restocked.
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Artist: BLACK TO COMM Title: #16 Format: Mag Label: Black To Comm Country: USA Price: $3.50 |
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1989 issue. "This one has the Rudolph Grey interview, some reprints of Peter Laughner things I copped out of old issues of ZEPPELIN and elsewhere, more Electric Eels lyrics with a pic, Laughing Hyenas and of course tributes to the recently departed Lucille Ball and Jim Backus." - Chris Stigliano. Restocked.
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Artist: BLACK TO COMM Title: #17 Format: Mag Label: Black To Comm Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Spring 1990 issue w/ Donald Miller, Maureen Tucker. Rocket From The Tombs photos, Scott Morgan Band(ex-Rationals, ex-Sonics Rendevous Band), Bob Bannister. |
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Artist: BLACK TO COMM Title: #19 Format: Mag Label: Black To Comm Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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1991 issue w/ Joe Meek, Rancid Vat, Miriam Linna (Cramps, Norton Records), Pink Fairies, History of Fanzines, Jeff Clayton (Antiseen), Czech Underground Rock (Plastic People, DG307, Umela Hmota). Restocked.
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Artist: BLACK TO COMM Title: #20 Format: Mag Label: Black To Comm Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| Summer 1993 issue w/ the Seeds, Mick Farren, Roky Erickson, MX 80 Sound. |
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Artist: BLACK TO COMM Title: #21 Format: Mag Label: Black To Comm Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "A VON LMO cover story and interview grace this ish, as do interviews with Metal Mike Saunders, Brian McMahon (Electric Eels) and rockabilly star Ronnie Dawson, plus you can read much-desired items on the Trashmen, Velvet Underground and Hawkwind like I knew you would! Not to mention a piece on the infamous TEENAGE WASTELAND GAZETTE fanzine!" - Chris Stigliano. From 1995. Restocked. |
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Artist: BLACK TO COMM Title: #22 Format: Mag/CD Label: Black To Comm Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Huge 1997 issue w/ Alice Cooper, Steve Mackay (sax on Stooges Funhouse), Planets, Umela Hmota, Seventh Seal (early 70s Detroit free rock) Krautrock and more. PLUS an amazing cd with rare tracks from Carnal Kitchen (Steve Mackay), Simply Saucer, Milk, Umela Hmota, Rockin Blewz (late 60s pre-Vom/Angry Samoans Metal Mike Saunders), Brian McMahon (Electric Eels), Dom and the Moving Parts (Erik Lindgrens late 70s avant new wave/punk group).
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Artist: BLACK TO COMM Title: #24 Format: Mag Label: Black To Comm Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| 2001 issue. "This issues cover features a nice interview with Doug Snyder of not only Sick Dick and the Volkswagens fame (the NYC no wave band from the late-seventies lower-Manhattan ka-BOOM!, not the nineties group with the same moniker!) but the Doug Snyder/Bob Thompson DAILY DANCE album which has achieved legendary status long ago, plus theres an interview with the Dogs (Detroit) and Greg Shaw, a piece on the old CANT BUY A THRILL fanzine and the usual feature-length reviews and the like." - Chris Stigliano. Restocked. |
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Artist: BLACK TO COMM Title: #25 Format: Mag/CD Label: Black To Comm Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "The latest, 162 pages brimming with such goodies as a New York City Scene history (featuring interviews with Maxs Kansas Citys Peter Crowley and Ruby Lynn Reyner from Ruby and the Rednecks plus pieces on coverboys the New York Dolls and VARIETY scene-booster Fred Kirby), an interview with J. D. King (Coachmen, comix) plus one with guitarist Lou Rone, who would probably be best known to you as leader of the early CBGB-era band Cross as well as one-time guitarist for both Kongress and VON LMO, the Screamin Mee-Mees, CRETINOUS CONTENTIONS, Simply Saucer rare photos, family tree and gigography, rare fanzines of the Golden Age (and more), tons of book and record reviews (which make up the bulk of this ish!), plus a CD with live Simply Saucer 1975, the Coachmen, The Battleship, Ethel with David Nelson Byers and Ruby and the Rednecks. I think its the best issue so far.." - Chris Stigliano. With the return of one of the most informative and longest running fanzines out there, editor Chris Stigliano continues his obsession with the arcane minutia of the pre-punk obscuro-underground (musicians AND writers), sub-No New York no wave (more often than not pertaining to Von Lmo) and other high energy sounds. All issues are very highly recommended! Restocked (#25 is from 2003). Restocked! |
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Artist: BLACK TO COMM Title: Levitation/Astoria Format: Picture Disc Lathe Cut 7" Label: Black To Comm Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
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"Got a beautiful new single from Black To Comm, the solo project of Dekorder head Marc Richter. Levitation/Astoria (Black To Comm 7") is a gorgeous, lathe-cut picture disc that combines one side of meditational float with another that chatters and boings like one of those great Nonesuch Explorer LPs heard through a closed window at the wrong speed when youre about ten years old and feeling very foggy on a combination of fever and cough syrup. Frankly, I prefer the more screwed-up side, but listening to it made me go back and get a bit deeper into the subtleties of its flip." - Byron Coley/The Wire, April 2006. Edition of 100.
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Artist: AMBARCHI/OROURKE/HAINO Title: In A Flash Everything Comes Together As One... Format: Double LP Label: Black Truffle Country: Australia Price: $28.00 |
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"...There Is No Need For A Subject Recorded one year after the international trio of Keiji Haino, Jim ORourke and Oren Ambarchis first release (Tima Formosa [BT 004CD]), In A Flash Everything Comes Together As One There Is No Need For A Subject presents the entirety of a live performance that took place at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo on January 24th 2010. For their second performance together, the trio opted for an entirely different instrumental configuration. Here they form a classic power trio: Ambarchi on drums, ORourke on bass and Haino on guitar, vocals, electronics and, in one amazing passage, lap steel. While the instrumentation has changed, the mysterious atmosphere of their first collaboration remains: far from a rock genre exercise, this performance is steeped in the dark ritualistic mood that characterizes all of Hainos best work. Haino is in truly phenomenal form herein, foregoing the single-instrument explorations of much of his recent solo work and his more peripheral role on the trios first release for a virtuosic and wide-ranging performance that takes in piercing leads, delicate strumming, jarring lap-steel interjections and his inimitable vocal caresses and howls. ORourkes bass sometimes merges with Hainos guitar to form crumbling walls of noise; at other times his dark ostinatos and runs add melodic weight. Ambarchis drumming moves from delicate, propulsive cymbal work to endless thundering streams of free-pulse pounding. The title of the release is appropriate: from the spacious and unpredictable slow-mo interactions of the first piece (reminiscent of some of the greatest Fushitsusha moments) to the wild free-riffing that concludes the performance, the trio seems uncannily attuned to one-anothers movements, and everything truly "comes together as one." Released as a limited edition double LP in a lavish gatefold with printed inner sleeves, designed by Stephen OMalley with high quality live shots by Ujin Matsuo and a stunning cover-image by noise-guitar blaster and internationally renowned visual artist Marco Fusinato. Vinyl cut made by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering." -Black Truffle
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Artist: HAINO, KEIJI/JIM OROURKE/OREN AMBARCHI Title: Imikuzushi Format: Double LP Label: Black Truffle Country: Australia Price: $28.00 |
| "Limited gatefold double LP version with printed innersleeves. The yearly summit of Keiji Haino, Jim ORourke and Oren Ambarchi continues with Imikuzushi, which finds the group extending the power-trio strategies of 2011s highly-praised In A Flash Everything Comes Together As One There Is No Need For A Subject (BT 005LP) and bringing to them a newly-sustained intensity. For this performance, Haino limits himself to electric guitar and vocals, forming complex networks of slashing rhythm work, noise squall and chromatic shredding, moving at times to near-silent passages of howled vocals and isolated, hanging guitar strums. The tendency towards driving free-rock which surfaced on moments of the trios last release is cemented here, with ORourkes fuzzed-out, non-linear bass riffing moving the music into almost garage-rock areas, combining with Ambarchis drums to form a bedrock of hypnotic, metronomic pounding which transforms itself effortlessly into passages of flowing free-time. Like all of Hainos best work, the trio transcends any rock genre exercise to enter a non-idiomatic zone of ritual intensity, creating a music formed purely out of instrumental and group-mind possibility. Presented as four unedited excerpts salvaged from an epic show that lasted well over three hours, the sometimes raw nature of the recording only adds to its directness and harshly emotive quality." -Francis Plagne, Melbourne, November, 2011. "Design by Stephen OMalley (Sunn O)))) with high quality live shots by Ujin Matsuo and stunning images by Tokyo-based photographer and sound artist Shunichiro Okada." - Black Truffle. |
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Artist: HAINO/JIM OROURKE/OREN AMBARCHI, KEIJI Title: Now While Its Still Warm Let Us Pour in All the Mystery Format: LP Label: Black Truffle Country: Australia Price: $25.00 |
| "Following on from 2012s acclaimed Imikizushi (BT 007CD/LP), Now While Its Still Warm Let Us Pour in All the Mystery is the fourth release from the established power trio of Keiji Haino, Jim ORourke, and Oren Ambarchi, recorded in January 2012 at their yearly concert at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo. While the trios two previous double LP releases featured sprawling, side-long performances, the music here is presented in six shorter pieces, each one displaying a different side of the trios interactions, from holy minimalism to cave-man rock. The record begins with the trio joined by special guests Charlemagne Palestine and Eiko Ishibashi, conjuring ghostly tones from wine glasses as an accompaniment to Hainos angelic vocals. This 10-minute piece, which moves from near silence and the sound of onstage footsteps to a stunning passage of clean guitar work from Haino, is steeped in the same mysterious atmospherics as Hainos great folk-drone project, Nijumu. When Haino turns to the flute on the LPs second track, a performance that clearly demonstrates the importance of the special concept of space and silence (ma) that Haino has developed from traditional Japanese aesthetics, ORourke and Ambarchi transform into the delicate and probing rhythm section of a classic 70s fusion side. When the trio returns to the crushing free-rock of their last two records, ORourkes heavily effected bass rolling alongside Ambarchis tumbling rhythms as Hainos guitar squeals and slashes above them, their performances display a new purposefulness and concision. Now truly operating as a band after a number of years of playing together, the pieces here feel like instant rocks songs -- ORourke and Ambarchi instantly locking into solid riffs over which Haino alternates between jarring no-wave chords, intense soloing and his signature vocalizations. When the trio slow down and stretch out, the rhythm section plods like an abstracted Crazy Horse on the brink of collapse, and Haino elicits long, mournful solos reminiscent of the first classic Fushitsusha double live LP. Perhaps more accessible than the trios previous recordings because of its range and concision, Now While Its Still Warm... exudes the dark, alien quality of Hainos greatest recordings and testifies to the strength of the musical bond that has developed between these three players." -Francis Plagne, Jan 2013. |
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Artist: MERZBOW & OREN AMBARCHI Title: Cats Squirrel Format: LP Label: Black Truffle Country: Australia Price: $25.00 |
| "Cats Squirrel is a live recording of Masami Akita and Oren Ambarchis performance in Campbelltown, Australia in May 2012. Although Akita and Ambarchi have known one another since 1993 and performed together as part of larger ensembles, this was their first performance as a duo. Together they create a massive wall of sound that moves from the cavernous to the blisteringly psychedelic, laying down shifting low-end structures over which pointillist details ricochet across the stereo field. Akita and Ambarchis voices blend together into a sonic morass, Ambarchis set-up expanded to include extra electronics and a spring reverb unit in addition to his signature guitar textures, and Akita utilizing both analog and digital sound sources. Moving through a number of episodes, from deluges of reverberated metal screeches to rapid-fire iterations of visceral electronic tones, the record reaches a high point midway through the second side, where Akitas electronics gradually thin out into a stream of skipping chirps and screeches while around him Ambarchi builds up a dense mass of phasing low-end guitar tones, the duo patiently developing an impenetrable wall of ecstatic, psychedelic noise." - Francis Plagne, Jan. 2013; Deluxe, limited edition vinyl (500 copies) with artwork by Shunichiro Okada and design by Stephen OMalley. |
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Artist: AMOLVACY Title: Ho-Ho-Kus Format: LP Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "At least pray God to give me patience in my suffering. So concludes Lover Go From Hence, a tale of tumultuous romantic upheaval on the new Amolvacy record Ho-Ho-Kus. Here we have hearts wrenched from guts and firmly planted in the dirt; but also sprouting new romance, seduction, and... the church? And the French? Francois Rabelais wrote Garantua And Pantagruel - a major influence on this album - in the early 16th c. to caricature the faux morality of his time. Amolvacy offer Ho-Ho-Kus in the same cantankerous spirit, but this time perhaps to parody their own morality. Lead vocalist Sheila Donovan (ex-Tall Boys) is a longstanding member of the Laboratory Theater Company in NYC, and her partners are Aaron Moore of Volcano the Bear and Dave Nuss of the No-Neck Blues Band. Together they are the Amolvacy family. All things were shared in the making of this record, nothing hidden, no secrets left untold. Pressed on clear vinyl, in a die-cut sleeve." -Black Velvet Fuckere. |
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Artist: CHERRY BLOSSOMS, THE Title: The Cherry Blossoms Format: LP Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"At long last, here is the debut LP from The Cherry Blossoms, who describe themselves as "Middle-Tennessees finest anarchic post neo-skiffle collective specializing in kazoo-exotica." They are the musical heirs of Dock Boggs visceral holler; they share the true gut-sung honesty of Bosavi guitar band music; they are a Dixie-fried Arkestra with out-of-tune acoustic guitars replacing every saxophone and a kazoo in place of Sun Ras mellotron. This LP finally brings to proper format their most celebrated and celebratory songs, from interstellar boogie ("Rockin Rocket Ship") to agitational architectural conservation anthem ("Golden Windows"), The Cherry Blossoms offer the OTHER Nashville Sound, the one that a multi-million dollar industry and a million pairs of snakeskin boots will never notice and can never corrupt. With only handmade releases and limited touring, the band has made fans and friends of the likes of Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance), Will Oldham, Josephine Foster, and David Tibet (Current 93). Thats an extremely short list �?? few who have heard the songs and voices of Peggy Snow, John Allingham, and the legion other Cherry Blossoms past and present have been immune to the contagious sound of the most honest band in America." - Black Velvet Fuckere.
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Artist: CRAPPY NIGHTMAREVILLE Title: Nautilus Format: 7" Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "the A side is a meticulously crafted studio composition in the Morricone tradition and the B side is a meticulously crafted abstract sound scape, more along the Nurse with Wound vantage point." - BVF. |
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Artist: CRAPPY NIGHTMAREVILLE Title: Neutron Dracula Format: 7" Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "13 gestating years past and CRAPPY NIGHTMAREVILLEs pod unfolds in full color via this 7" single which is not just their debut but also birth marks the first of a four part vinyl single series: an engraved introduction by way of alien-forcept exacavation of their Old Kentucky Womb. Prior stages spiraled from Public-Prank to Outer-Earth Music-Concret to Scaling-the-Scaur of Bavarian-Salt-Licks. Side A, "NEUTRON DRACULA", imagines the scene from gypsy classic Latcho Drom when children sing "We are the bloody nail in the foot of Jesus on the cross", only reinterpreted as a Saturday morning cartoon. Side B, "BLACK BEAM DUB", is smoke from a wounded nurse surrealing Sun Ra into a new form of dub music that will have you and your headphones installing a seatbelt into your couch for endless round trips. Crappy Nightmareville is one of Louisvilles longest running aural magnetic-bananimals and shares drinking water with a huge cast of bands including The Web, Evergreen, The Belgian Waffles, Sapat and Kark. Beautiful post-nuclear fall-out full-color sleeve. Edition of 350." - Black Velvet Fuckere. |
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Artist: JACKWACKER Title: ...Things From Inside The Body Format: LP Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Fucking Hoosiers. We brought you Jim Jones, Michael Jackson, Axel Rose, David Lee Roth, Rahsaan Roland Kirks hot-shot of dope, Americas widest spread infestation of the Ku Klux Klan and a bunch of flat land covered with republicans, bibles, corn and soy beans. Though even in shithole towns exceptions abound and often the bubbles amongst the bleakest territories are the most potent. We could jabber on about exiles like Phill Niblock, jump way back to Gennett Records, cull the vineyards for the lost White Noise recordings of the late 70s, cross-examine Xenakis various teaching assistants at I.U., draw a family tree connecting MX-80 Sound and John Cougar Mellencamp to the same branch or suss out the collective Hoosier psychic-retribution following the night both DNA and William S. Burroughs shared stages in Bloomington... but the wax winged frisbee from the dead that we have HERE is the last nail in the wheezing coffin of INDIANA PUNK ROCK. 13 years after the fact, JACKWACKERs recorded remains have finally been excavated for your ears and Ill be damned if they are not as vital as ever, proving to be the final chapter of the story told by MX-80 Sound, Dancing Cigarettes, The Gizmos, Dow Jones & the Industrials, Panics, the Red Snerts comp and of course, the Belgian Waffles! What we also have here is one of very few early 90s groups that could keep their blowtorch ablaze between the shitstorm of their contemporaries HARRY PUSSY and MONOSHOCK. If Harry Pussy stoned the blues and Monoshock winged the Hawk with a hiss, then Jackwacker lit up a diesel-doused NO-WAVE with a couple hits of speed a la throned & one arm left gropin for some shit tickets danglin on a wire hanger in a drafty busted out skyroof like a wabber-jawed fish out of water with an under-bite, flapp-flossin the gills of its tail betwixt the holes in your head. They strapped on Nikola Telsa ear goggles and dropped some towers while everyone gawked at the planes. Jackwacker crawled out of the bleak bubble of early 90s Bloomington followed by a short lived relocation to Madison, Wisconsin, where they soon dissolved. Thriving briefly as outsiders of the Midwest No-Wave hula bahloo, they shared bills amongst folks like Couch, Duotron, the Scissor Girls, The Flying Luttenbachers, To Live and Shave in L.A., Zerobot and Lake of Dracula. This scene often relied on theatrics and the lions share of its sound artifacts are not up to snuff but thankfully Jackwacker aint like that. Elijah Prichett sang and played a guitar strung with 3 bass strings and 3 guitar strings. Rob Stockwell played drums. Both grew up as musicians with serious chops honed in the classical and jazz world. This physical endurance/precision/memory cant be hidden with JACKWACKER but they both had the HEAD, HEART and BALLS to stear clear of flacid progressive rock virtuoso noodling or incidental rote-ranting bullshit and INSTEAD created the perfect juxtaposition of fryin an egg on your g-spot primal ID and know-how intention/control; plainly speaking they just fucking rock. Of the handful of people that cared about the Harry Pussy sound sphere back in the day, there is now a bus load of handfuls aping their sound into a retrograde orbit. Lets correct the mis-readings, go back to the source, tap the well and realign, post-haste." - Black Velvet Fuckere. |
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Artist: NERVOID Title: How To Pull The Wool Over Your Own Eyes Format: Cass Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"One of the very first Black Velvet Fuckere releases (1997) is now again available. Imagine your favorite Very Good Recordings artists covering Twin Infinitives armed with only two microcassettes and a tape deck. Recorded 1995-97." - BVF.
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Artist: PHANTOM FAMILY HALO, THE Title: The Legend of Black Six Format: LP Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Debauche hedonism a la early 1970s rock... a party album for excavating your libido. Krautrock lock grooves give way to full throttle Alice Cooper/Black Sabbath moves but mid-tempo Scott Walker fronting early Roxy Music is closest to the core; with occassional flickers of Tangerine Dream synth-glaciers and Marc Bolan bare-bones. Dominic Mario Santo Cipolla also sings in Dead Child (Venom/Judas Priest veined metal band with David Pajo on guitar; ep forthcoming) and plays drums and sings some with Sapat (forthcoming LP/CD on Siltbreeze). Phantom Family Halo guitarist Michael McMahan was also a touring member of the Slint Reunion band and founding member of The For Carnation along with his older brother Brian McMahan. Vinyl only silk-screened first edition." - Black Velvet Fuckere.
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Artist: SAPAT Title: An Ox Format: CDR Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"last few copies of summer 2005 tour cdr recently found in a suitcase. tripolar attack: heavy guitar psych a la early 70s pink floyd through an epic am radio, heliocentric percussive home taper jass warple & lofi tunesmithery out of the classic rock school or velvet underground & can (+ an amon duul 2 medley!)... full length on siltbreeze hits late january." - Black Velvet Fuckere.
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Artist: SAPAT Title: Halycon Daze, Mystikal Stupors/Krackhausblooze Format: 7" Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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"Imagine if the Edgar Broughton Band spent their formative years in a crack house on the bayou swamping out the rock in desperate need of a shot of penicillin. Now exit that doorpass and enter again: peak to peak of Mainliner, Psychosexual RnB, Eric Dolphy-Gagaku, William S. Burroughs ghost writing a straight line diatribe for a vertiginous Howlin Wolf and Tony Joe Whites wah bleaching on the beach with a Sassquatch. While Sapats forthcoming LP/CD on Siltbreeze is a bong shot of dusty sunlight vitamin C enveloper rays, this 7" single is a quarantined crater of wasabi soup strainer knock your dick in the dirt dixie raunch. Spins at 33rpm and clocks in at nearly 15 minutes! Members of various Kentucky head units: Valley of Ashes, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Phantom Family Halo, Dead Child, Son of Earth and Kark." - Black Velvet Fuckere.
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Artist: SPECTRE FLUX Title: Format: Cass Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Pete Nolan (Magik Markers, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Wooden Wand, Valley of Ashes, Cops, Sapat, GHQ) solo oscillating haunterings recorded live in an upscale radio studio from an undisclosed location amongst the eastern seaboard, broadcast at the time through frequencies all over the world. edition of 100 each wrapped in one of a kind art work rendered by Sproston Alexander Abplanalp, age 4." - Black Velvet Fuckere.
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Artist: TERMINAL WASTE BAND Title: Dial M for Monkey/ Yom Kippur War Format: 7" Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Last I heard from these gouchos they was lightin up the sonic skies w/a brand of fuzz they called Barn Rock. But a move northwest & so many Trappist ales later, maybe its safe to say the barn has given way to a shed. But density is relative & on here the trio dont lunge into the whoosh of Hawkwind & Mountain as before, yet they aint missed a beat neither. These tracks seem more set the controls for the heart of the rural-delica sun, following the not so easily understood maps of neo-cartographers such as Thinking Fellers & Strapping Fieldhands. The moral of this offering might be revenge is dish best served cold & if you miss Blackjack mailorder as much as I do, they you know what I mean." - Roland Woodbe, Siltblog. Silkscreeened sleeves. Features Scott Derr of Monoshock, Sternklang, Black Jack Records, etc.. |
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Artist: UNCLE JIM Title: Superstars Of Greenwich Meantime Format: LP Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"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 the UNCLE JIM... 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 ALAN BISHOPs own personal anthology of BLACK HUMOUR, filled to the brim full of diatribes backed up by bad ass musicians (including all of the Sun City Girls). A masterpiece of the SCG cannon. Limited to 500 copies." - Black Velvet Fuckere.
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Artist: V/A Title: Ass High And Left Of Center Format: Video Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Last copies of this ultra limited one of a kind video compilation compiled in 1997 through the damaged lenses of a very Siltbreeze world view. Two full hours of psychedelia, free-jazz, noise, lounge-music infitration-confrontation, experimental film (high and low brow), live footage, collage and beyond. Highlights include: a heavy UN clip that is half live show w/ 16mm film projections projected onto the band and dense tweeked out post show visual maniuplations; featuring Marcia Bassett who went on too form Double Leopards & Hototogisu, Tara Burke who went on to form Fursaxa and films by Chris Gray who went on to form Double Leopards, Endless Boogie, Whicked Finger and White Rock. Twisted Village guitar shredder Bob Bannister throws down at Speaking in Tongues w/ TONO-BUNGAY. COFFEE skronks in key of a Man-Ray damaged reincarnation films. NOGGIN unloads their ultimate aural output juxtaposed with 2 sets of homemade Jackson Pollack in motion paint-on-the-celluloid a la Stan Brakhage inspired films. CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS conjure a radio circus of turntables showcasing endless beautiful platters of wax hand made by vinyl record artist JESSE PAUL MILLER and his SECRET RECORDS label. Adris Hoyos and Eric Ostrowski feedback. IRVING KLAW TRIO stick porky the pig up their own hairy jass. HYPNOTIQUE pull a rockNroll swindle a la a bogus press kit landing gig at an upscale dress code yuppie lounge music night club - absurd Martin Denny covers and amazing costumes get them dragged off stage in one of the most acid damaged moments in Canadian history! 2 FULL hours of this and much more. Ultra limited in an edition of 444. These are the last copies that have been in storage for over 6 years." - BVF.
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Artist: V/A Title: Ass High And Left Of Center Format: VHS Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Last copies of this ultra limited video compilation compiled in 1997 through the damaged lenses of a very Siltbreeze world view. Two full hours of psychedelia, free-jazz, noise, lounge-music infitration-confrontation, experimental film (high and low brow), live footage, collage and beyond. UN, featuring Marcia Bassett now of the Double Leopards and Hototogisu and Tara Burke now of Fursaxa, offers a scorching live set that included found films projected on to them and addition video tweakery from Chris Gray who now plays with Double Leopards and Endless Boogie. Twisted Village shredder Bob Bannister (with TONO-GUNGAY) throws down hot licks guitar based psychedelic speaking in tongues rock from a live show in Cleveland. NOGGIN presents home made film a la the Stan Brakhage paint directly on the celluloid approach accompanied by some of their best audio, ever. CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS construct a radio circus in a room full of record players simultaniously playing beautiful handmade "art records" construct by Jesse Paul Miller of SECRET RECORDS." -Black Velvet Fuckere.
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Artist: VALLEY OF ASHES Title: Cavehill Hunters Attrition Format: Triple LP Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "In todays scene of hippy dippy two bit mystic miasmas and self-appointed avatars hung up high on hollow Shangri-La noose-notion-poses, one who plays psychedelic music is hesitant when choosing adjectives. Utter the term freak folk and Vallley Of Ashes might cut yr face. Approach with candor and they might peel back their own skulls and open their minds to you plain and simple -- straight from the gut. Cavehill Hunters Attrition is a sprawling triple LP collection that channels a huge spectrum yet maintains a distinct overall sound of their own that is not at all trying hard to be unique yet at the same time is not looking backward to the past. The sound is timeless -- is it 1972 or 2003? A marriage of refinement and roughness, killer chops and outer abandon, structure and spontaneity, private and public, introversion and extroversion, sobriety and derangement, abject orchestras and backwoods dirges, tuning up and tuning in, microtones and dead moon anthems, love and hate; delicate hazy acoustic smoke rings, primitivist-exorcist metal, esp/actual singed free drifts of strings-wood-skin, junkyard gamelan, sunday morning chamber pot clouds and a gritty analog warmth lazy river town opium den dwellers both vital yet polluted -- with catfish the size of barges lurking down in the mud below the surface. Points of reference range from the kommunial flow of Siloah, the delicate fog song-smithery of Stone Angel and the heaviness of primitive Amon Duul 2 and Trad Gras. Yet the sound is distinctly American -- Midwestern - Kentucky chrome held together with duct tape. This beautifully packaged box set culminates with a side long liveboot dream-frisbee of a Danny Whitten-era Crazy Horse-smoking some Algerian-bluegrass w/ the Velvet Underground riding that full moon mood elevator. Valley of Ashes contains members of endless Kentucky sound miners including Sapat (forthcoming LP on Siltbreeze), Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Raw Thug, Kark and the Magick Markers." - BVF. Restocked repress at a much lower price. |
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Artist: GANG WIZARD Title: Spirit Vs. Soul Format: Lathe Cut 10" Label: Blackbean & Placenta Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "Limited to 20 copies. Gang Wizards first release in over 3 years!Original members Christopher Breedon and Mike Landucci (Blackbean and Placenta founder) team up with younger brother Tom Landucci for six new songs of revved up improvised nonsense, though more structured and song like than most of the bands output of the past ten years. Spirit vs Soul marks Gang Wizards first overtly Christian album, though you wouldnt know it from the clatter, feedback, ridiculous screaming, stumbling about, and propelled scuzz of it all." - Blackbean & Placenta. |
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Artist: BIG TROUBLES Title: Freudian Slips Format: 7" Label: Blackburn Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Big Troubles are a duo based out of Ridgewood, NJ (home to Real Estate, Ducktails, Fluffy Lumbers, etc). Alex Craig and Ian Drennan started Big Troubles in the summer of 2009 after playing in many bands together since early adolescence. The songs on this EP were some of the first the band recorded that summer in Ians basement, surrounded by guitars, a multitude of pedals, a drum machine, and a 4-track. This 7" is a chunk of overwhelmingly woozy guitar pop that transcends the thinness of most lo-fi music of this era. Leading off the release is an alternate version of "Freudian Slips" that has been floating around the interweb over the past few months." - Blackburn. LP on Olde English Spelling Bee "soon"..
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Artist: SORE EROS Title: Taal Compass Format: 7" Label: Blackburn Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Sore Eros Taal Compass single is more than just a quick pit stop between last years Second Chants (Shdwply Records) and the upcoming Know Touching LP. Both ⿿Taal Compass and b-side ⿿Wide Open, which features space age post-punk hero Gary War on synths, are slow burners that reveal an understated majesty, but their style and execution suggest wildly different mindsets. The title track is plaintive, with songwriter and lead man Robert Robinsons vocals emerging organically from the analog distortion that coats the song. Flip the record over for an atmospheric epic that builds gracefully to an overwhelming crescendo that certainly earns the name ⿿Wide Open. In an edition of 500." - Blackburn. |
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Artist: DALHOUS Title: An Ambassador for Laing Format: LP Label: Blackest Ever Black Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "Debut album from the Edinburgh-based duo of Marc Dall and Alex Ander, who work with intricately-stacked percussion, dub-wise bass and a rich harmonic tapestry of processed voices, keys, harp, vibraphone, guitar, woodwind, strings and synthesizer -- every sound re-sampled to the nth degree then subjected to subtle automation and rigorously fine-tuned over a period of many months. From the mesmerizing, pastoral drift of "Anger Sees Red" and "Dwelling by the Meadow" to agitated arabesques like "The Physical Body" and the self-titled "Dalhous," the resulting pieces explore dream-like but treacherous terrain. Eleven questions in a world of blue." - Blackest Ever Black. |
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Artist: LEWIS, ALEXANDER Title: A Luminous Veil Format: LP Label: Blackest Ever Black Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "A Luminous Veil is the debut release by Alexander Lewis. Six tracks of heart-sore modern industrial and S-M techno created using synth, microphone, and pedals. Recorded in one take with minimal computer processing or post-production. Limited edition of 500 copies only." -Blackest Ever Black. |
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Artist: PRURIENT Title: Through the Window Format: LP Label: Blackest Ever Black Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "Through the Window is the new album by Prurient, his first for Blackest Ever Black. It is, in a sense, both the conclusion and the climax of the journey that Dominick Fernow began with 2011s Many Jewels Surround the Crown 7" and continued with that years Bermuda Drain LP and Times Arrow EP. It was recorded before the Hospital Productions founders move to Los Angeles, but in tone, subject matter, and scale it firmly anticipates his current stint navigating the desert citys "hall of mirrors, sycophants, fair-weather friends and social vampires." The three pieces featured on Through the Window, including the 18-minute title-track, also represent the ultimate expression of Fernows affection for European techno forms, and his ability to apply them to his own uniquely lacerating purpose. Unlike his claustrophobic, inward-looking recordings as Vatican Shadow, this material is widescreen, open, expansive. Nonetheless, the goal is exorcism and self-knowledge, not ecstasy. Through the Window is, at bottom, a work of true SM electronics. Music to listen to at night, in the hills, watching as headlights approach." -Blackest Ever Black. |
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Artist: ARITOMO Title: Fearful Sunshine Filtering Through Foliages Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Reissue of this hard to find debut from Japanese musician and artist Aritomo. This was recorded between 2003 and 2004. This was previously self-released on his own Hakanairo label back in 2005 in an edition of only 200 copies. Superb psychedelic folk with drifting acoustic and electric guitars layered with percussion, bamboo flute, bass, field recordings and Aritomos beautifully fragile vocals. Another chance to get a hold of this hard to find gem on wax, probably not for too long! Limited to 300 copies on heavyweight vinyl in pro-printed fold over covers with colour labels. Pressed at Record Industry in the Netherlands." - Blackest Rainbow. |
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Artist: ATTAR CUPS Title: Untitled Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "We hit up our fourth vinyl release with this beauty which was originally intended to be a cassette only release (it still will be available on cassette, but only in a tiny run). This Maine based crew features a host of psychedelic jam talent... Nemo of Drona Parva and head honcho of Time-Lag Records, Sparrow Wildchild of The Bummer Road, and the three members of Visitations, whose record on Time-Lag last year was one of 2007s best! So this is the second recording from this crew, the first being last years Sloow Tape. This beast is different to the Sloow vibe, still with a super nice jam band sound, but projecting to a maybe more song (in the loosest possible way) based plane, a little like Visitations. Edition of 299 hand numbered copies with zero info and 11" x 11" stickers on the front and back of black sleeves." - Blackest Rainbow. |
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Artist: BAKER, AIDAN Title: Thoughtspan Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "We are very pleased to be releasing this for Aidan Baker, one of the most interesting genre defying musical experimentalists around right now. Aidan also plays in the mind-melting shoegaze doom duo of Nadja. This release reissues two tracks from a very limited CDR release entitled Thoughtforms, the LP collects two tracks from this release: Thoughtspan and Thought Climate. Two long form tracks of genre-blending shoegaze, post rock, and free playing clatter experimentation. Limited to 350 copies." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: BARN OWL/TOM CARTER Title: Split Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Newest Blackest Rainbow hot on the heels of some truly killer releases from the artists involved, both of whom seem to have really pushed their sounds and vibes to new levels this year. Barn Owls side has been mastered by local jammer Ben Nash, and its three tracks of sparse drone layered with bleak guitar epic-ness, tingling chimes, and dark mountainous whispers. The guitars here sound delicate and beautiful, but it remains bleak and empty, if you enjoyed their LP on Not Not Fun, then this is a real treat. Tom Carters 16-minute Train Kept follows pretty damn nicely from his recent Shots At Infinity releases on Important. A far cry from his more psychedelic folk experimentations, here he slashes and riffs like many a legend, and maybe, just maybe, its a slight tribute to a certain band, too? This is a fully wild piece of work. Black sleeves, pasted stark landscape cover, with an insert of liner notes. Limited to 380 copies." -Blackest Rainbow
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Artist: BLACK EAGLE CHILD/DONATO EPIRO Title: Split Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Debut vinyl release for both of these great artists who collectively have had releases on a host of excellent underground labels such as Stunned Records, Housecraft, Sturmundrugs Records and Digitalis. Black Eagle Child is the musical project of Michael Jantz, and this release is his second outing for Blackest Rainbow. Here he presents us with 4 tracks of skillful guitar finger picking layered with glockenspiel, accordion and some perfectly timed field recordings giving the music a real autumnal glow. Donato Eprios side is made up of three tracks of superbly crafted guitar work recorded between winter 2008 and winter 2010 at various destinations in Italy. I think the second track is particularly impressive; Il Primo Cerchio is an intense piece with a variety of guitar sounds and techniques used... loose string twangs, repetitive layered plucking and deep raga meditations, at times layered with whirring drones. Pressed on virgin vinyl and housed in a pro-printed high gloss sleeve featuring cover photography by Joe Blanchard, pressed in an edition of 250 copies." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: CARTER, CHRISTINA Title: Texas Blues Working Format: Double LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $34.00 |
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"Quite simply one of my all time favorite releases on Blackest Rainbow from one of this generations most amazing artists gets the upgrade from cassette to double vinyl LP, featuring the original six tracks from the original release, along with an additional brand new amazing track. The original edition on tape received some fantastic reviews, so its great to finally have this out on vinyl, as it really is a superb recording, which came out around one of Christinas most amazingly active recording periods, self releasing fantastic discs like Masque Femine, Two Nights Film and A Blossom Fell as well as Kranky releasing Original Darkness in 2008. Texas Blues Working features six tracks of stunningly haunting guitar and vocals, creating an immensely deep and emotional listening experience. The previously unreleased track, the sublime 21 minute Ladyfriend, is another example of Christinas incredible voice and guitar playing. Her voice is just unreal, so deeply emotional and mournful it gives you goose bumps. Pressed on heavyweight virgin vinyl and housed in a gatefold sleeve featuring a series of black and white photographs by Joe Blanchard." -Blackest Rainbow
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Artist: CARTER, CHRISTINA Title: Texas Working Blues Format: Cass Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: CELER Title: Dwell In Possibility Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
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"Dwell In Possibility is the debut vinyl LP by the formerly active American husband and wife duo Celer, and is also their first release for Blackest Rainbow. Consisting of 15 different sections sprayed across two sides of vinyl, with little if any distinctions, Dwell In Possibility is arranged as a muted patchwork of keyless voices blinded by sunlight, hollow echoes from unlit interiors, and scrolls of unrolled piano tunes. Enclosed in empty shadows, with vague slides of unanswered prayers, these two sides etch a dateless form into weak ends, and pyrrhic dells. Everydays are left empty-handed, and enjoyed only then. Positions change, and rely only on your imagination to wake from this, to sleep, in hope to feel again. Full-colour fold-over pro-printed covers featuring vintage photography. Limited to approx. 420 copies." -Blackest Rainbow
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Artist: CELER Title: Vestiges Of An Inherent Melancholy Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Second vinyl LP from this formerly active American duo of Will Long and Danielle Baquet-Long, which also happens to be the second LP from Celer on Blackest Rainbow. Vestiges Of An Inherent Melancholy follows on from the recent pairing of releases on Basses Frequencies and features 2 sides of unearthed recordings that were created between December 2006 and July 2008. These two sides find the duo creating some truly beautiful drone works with their use of an organic and electronic palette of instrumentation; cello, violin, pipe organ, electronics, tape, field recordings, samples, and mixing board. This really is a standout side from Celer, pulling together their variety of sounds to make a heart breaking collage of sounds falling between beautiful dream tones and heavier dark moments. Vestiges Of An Inherent Melancholy again pushes Celer further to the front of modern minimal composition, proving that they were one of the most interesting, consistently outstanding, and intriguing acts around in recent years, creating some of the finest and most beautiful, fragile drone records around. The full experience of a Celer release is complete with accompanying titled fragmented sections for the side long pieces, and striking cover photography by Danielle. Limited to 500 copies in thick old style tip-on hardback jackets with LPs pressed on 140 gram virgin vinyl." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: DEAS, CAM Title: Blind Chance Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Fantastic new LP from Cam Deas, which was issued in a tiny run CDR for his recent Euro tour with Jack Allett earlier this year. This is a slightly different release from the previous LP and split LP with Spoono, essentially this one being a long improvised acoustic freak-out. Loose frequent and infrequent twangs to pure whirlwinds of aggressive string assaults and finger shredding plucking. This still retains Cams signature traditional playing somehow, especially the more intense heavier moments. A solid recording. Limited to 500 copies on heavyweight vinyl in pro-printed fold over covers with photography by Cam and printed labels. Pressed at the superb Record Industry in the Netherlands." - Blackest Rainbow. |
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Artist: DEAS, CAM Title: My Guitar Is Alive And Its Singing Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "I am very pleased to be releasing the debut LP from Sheffield-London-Brighton guitar master, Cam Deas. This follows his two long sold out CDRs on Blackest Rainbow, and proves once again that he is off the chain! OK, so theres always gonna be the immediate comparison to James Blackshaw, but the sound is different, more aggressive almost and raw... this guitar playing has an edge -- its deep and its powerful. The LP consists of three tracks, the A side is an epic, almost 20-minute piece entitled The Waters Of Kvaloya recorded by Ben Nash. The B sides and albums title track begins with almost a minute of near silent distant drone that develops with stomach-wrenching string twangs. The closing piece is As Spring Fell From The Leaves, which was originally issued on the For The Silver Waters, Sing! CDR last year on BR, but has been considered by people whove bought his releases and seen Cam live as possibly one of the best things he has composed. Total genius, with a real blissful, but eventually dark, vibe. This track definitely deserved to be put on wax. Mastered by Ben Nash. Limited to 300 copies." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: DEAS, CAM/SPOONO Title: Split Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Limited edition tour LP for their upcoming joint tour across Europe. One side for each of these amazing UK guitarists. Cam has two tracks, one beautiful long guitar piece followed by an insane electronics track, that sounds almost like Autechres more weird static work. Spoono is Jack Allett who is also half of Towering Breaker. His side consists of three incredible tracks that will no doubt prick up the ears of fans of Jack Rose. Limited to 350." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: DOO SOO, KIM Title: The Evening River Format: Double LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
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"Vinyl edition of this stunningly beautiful album of fragile and haunting Korean folk from Kim Doo Soo that was issued earlier in 2010 on CD by Japans consistently incredible PSF label. Kim Doo Soos first major appearance outside of Korea was through the Damon & Naomi curated International Sad Hits compilation featuring 4 tracks from Kim. This was followed with PSF releasing his first new record in 5 years, 2007s superb 10 Days Butterfly. On Evening River, Kim has re-recorded some of his finest songs from his past records -- the recordings are largely focused on just Kims fragile voice and sublime guitar playing and harmonica, but at times Kim is accompanied with several additional musicians/instruments, including synth, cello, accordion, guitar, horn, bass and backing vocals. The songs and re-recordings are superb, capturing perfectly Kims laid back guitar playing and his fragile vocals, somehow mixing psychedelic blurs, with traditional playing with melancholic turns. Edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140 gram virgin vinyl housed in gatefold sleeves including an 8-page lyric book with Korean and English lyrics and colour photographs of Kim." -Blackest Rainbow
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Artist: FOSSILS Title: Scarface Format: Cass Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $11.00 |
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Artist: GNOD/A MIDDLE SEX Title: Split Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
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"Brand new split LP from fellow Manchester weirdos A Middle Sex and Gnod. Gnod follow on from some killer releases over the last couple of years, a split 7" with Bong, a tape on Not Not Fun, and a collaborative LP with White Hills. The oddly titled 15 minute Why Dont You Smile Like The Other Children? opens with hazy strings and cosmically far out voices, this slow groove packs a multi-coloured burst of rhythmic psychedelic vibes. On the flip side, A Middle Sex takes up duties of doing something equally psychedelic, but in a completely different style. Their side is titled Polytheism, and is essentially made up of two tracks, the opener is a short, wild spaced-out cosmic synth piece, which is swiftly followed by their main 10 minute piece of layered drums and percussion, swirling electronics, distorted chanted vocals. Their side is all about the rhythm, and they really got that rhythm down. Edition of 500. Pressed on 140 gram virgin vinyl and house in super glossy pro-printed covers." -Blackest Rainbow
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Artist: GUANACO Title: Sky Burials Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Debut LP from Englands Lex Panayi who also plays in Beggin Your Pardon Miss Joan; this, however, is his solo project, which focuses on psychedelic acid-drenched folk and dark grey area drones for a monolith landscape. The whole record blends beautifully together to create an excellent album from a relatively unknown artist. This is one fine example of current underground UK music which Im really pleased to be releasing. This is a must for fans of early Six Organs of Admittance, Cam Deas, Voice of the Seven Woods and such... Paste-on cover and insert, edition of only 300." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: HELM Title: Origin Of Misery Format: 3" CDR Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $11.50 |
| "Helm is a new project from Luke Younger who also plays in Birds of Delay. Heavy punishing drone screech noise. Limited hand numbered edition of 50. Comes in professionally printed 4" by 7.5" sheet folded to make a small black booklet." - Blackest Rainbow. |
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Artist: HUNTER GRACCHUS/KOMMISSAR HJULER UND FRAU, THE Title: Split Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Meeting of melted minds on this split LP featuring Sheffield based long time local buddies Hunter Gracchus and Germany based performance and musical duo of Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau (aka Mama Baer). The Hunter Gracchus have released an ever growing catalogue of super well received releases for the likes of Chironex, Golden Lab, Recollections of Knulp and Chocolate Monk. They also collaborated with Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides and Chora as Le Drapeau Noir, as well as performing solo and in other fantastic far out acts such as Vampire Blues, Harappian Night Recordings and Blue Yodel, as well as two thirds of the trio running the excellent Singing Knives label and all working full time. I have to admit, I have no idea how they can manage to do all this, pretty damn impressive. Their side is an amazing live recording from La Planta, Argentina entitled Mujeres De La Boca, and if youve ever been to their Furniture Makers practice space, it sounds like Hunter Gracchus somehow managed to transport its entire contents of obscure musical objects over there with their peculiar brains to record some of the best live shit theyve produced so far... a really great side long free playing improvised weird out with screwed up voices, skronky blurts and freestyle tribal percussion. Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau have been releasing material for quite some time on their own Der Schöne Hjuler-Memorial-Fond label, including a host of obscenely limited CDRs, cassettes and records. On top of that theyve found the time to release some truly astounding genre blending avant craziness on Ultra Eczema, Scumbag and Blossoming Noise. For this split LP, KHJ & Fs Zwei Einenperson (Pt. 2), is a manic 22 minute side of avant garde experi-mentalism, with Kommissar Hjuler shredding electric guitar strings and destroying tapes while Mama Baers insane vocal fluctuates between the erotic and pure demonic screaming. This recording of Kommissar Hjuler und Frau was made in March 2009 when working on the set for the performance of Zwei Eineperson. This was presented live at the vernissage of Mama Baers and Kommissar Hjulers exhibition Geteilter Raum at Kunstraum Winterthur, Switzerland on 2nd April 2009. A CD-R with several parts from their work on this set was previously released on their SHMF label in a very small edition. This is the re-issue of part 2 from their recordings, live in their living room. Edition of 500 on heavyweight vinyl with pro printed jackets, and insert." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: ISENGRIND Title: Modlitewnik Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
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"Debut vinyl release from Natural Snow Buildings Solange Gulartes solo project, Isengrind. Modlitewnik continues Solanges fantastically far-out occult psych-folk-drone trip outs, 12 tracks across the length of this LP, considerably shorter pieces in comparison to her work with Mehdi in Natural Snow Buildings, Isengrind retains a certain amount of the sound of the duo, but it is a whole other beast, in many ways much stranger and darker, but still hauntingly beautiful with some fantastic blissed-out vocal drones, dreamy guitars, and psyche soaked dark drone zones. Heavyweight vinyl, housed in a pro-printed full colour fold over sleeve with all 4 panels featuring stunning artwork by Solange, the inside of the cover is especially spectacular. One time pressing of 640 copies." -Blackest Rainbow
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Artist: JAYCOCK, DAVID A. Title: Presets Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Debut vinyl LP from Manchesters David A. Jaycock (who is also a member of Big Eye Family Players), David had a 7" on the excellent Great Pop Supplement and Presets follows on from that fine release. Presets features 12 tracks of melancholic folk almost entirely performed by David on a variety of instruments, and its a real step forward to darker areas than his previous releases on Great Pop Supplement, Early Winter Recordings and The Red Deer Club. The record retains some of the more haunting vocal and guitar moments from aforementioned excursions, and at times is comparable to Ben Chasnys Six Organs of Admittance, but it has a much stranger and hard to place approach and sound, with some fantastic dark creepy tracks, blurring creaking, clunking objects with something that sounds like guitar, transformed into something far more sinister... but somehow at the same time retains a feeling that everything isnt quite as bleak as it seems. Edition of 250 with pro printed sleeves. Pressed on virgin vinyl." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: JAZZFINGER/CULVER & FORDELL RESEARCH UNIT Title: Split Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "Brand new split LP featuring heavy hitting UK bleak dudes... A-Side is Jazzfingers Killed In A Clear Sky, one solid slab of fucked up tapped guitar drone and distant errie whir... like a storm of electric feedback, slashes and cuts. Far out, and a real killer 20 odd minutes to make you lull out. B-Side is a collaboration between Culver and Fordell Research Unit, another side long piece, that starts off with some bassed up doom chugs and slogs that sound like fucking something that could lay down by some Southern Lord brutality, but then it punches you in the face with its distorted churning hell. Limited to 275 white label LPs in black sleeves with hideous brutal artwork by French." - Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: MAKOTO, KAWABATA Title: White Summer Of Love Dreamer Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Brand new LP from Kawabata Makoto, his second for Blackest Rainbow following on nicely from where 2008s Rainbow Of Love left off. White Summer of Love Dreamer continues to develop Kawabatas experimentation into psychedelic drone music using a variety of instruments. Across the two tracks on this LP, Kawabata seamlessly uses acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bouzouki, sarangi, tambura, organ, hurdy-gurdy, electronics, field recording, and his voice to create a stunning soundscape of hazy summer days with cascading repetitive acoustic guitars, swirling drones, channeled vocals. White Summer of Love Dreamer comes housed in a deluxe heavyweight tip on old style jacket adorned in photography by Joe Blanchard, and is pressed on heavyweight virgin vinyl. Limited to approx. 500 copies." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: MOON UNIT Title: Hell Horse And Heady Stratus Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Where to start? Upon hearing this new LP from Moon Unit it is immediately apparent that this Glaswegian trio stand apart from a lot of the psyche out new boys on the block. Perhaps because they feature Nackt Insecten himself, Ruaraidh Sanachan, Andreas Jonsson of Lanterns, and Peter Kelly. When I first heard this completed LP after a few different incarnations, I was really blown away... the previous versions that had dropped through my mailbox were really something, but this, the final version, is unreal in its sheer goodness. The five jams on this LP make up one of the best psyche out, freak out full lengths Ive heard this year. Its an incredible record filled with furiously wild drum explosions, keyboard zone outs, sci-fi guitar shredding, and wailing feedback. It really seems to perfectly blend some of the best sounds that have occurred in the UK over the last few years, cannot recommend highly enough. Play as loud as you can! If you were into Nacket Insectens Quantum Odyssey LP on Blackest Rainbow, you will love this for sure, and if youre just into wild free music such as Vibracathedral Orchestra, grab a copy of this beast! Edition of 500, with cover design by Jake Blanchard (the man behind Menagerie). Pressed on heavyweight virgin vinyl." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: MOUNTAINHOOD Title: Death Pod Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "Brand new one-sided LP from Michael Curtis Hilde following his recent LPs on Time Lags Red Records sub division, as well as a string of ultra limited self-released CDRs and releases for Yod and Reverb Worship. This is a far gone trip thats totally out there and very hard to pin down. The closest categorization for this beast would be folk, but its like some total mutated, distorted lurker mirror image. Wild psychedelic strings and heavy bedroom vibes run throughout this delicate beauty. Limited to 300 in pro-printed black and white wraparound sleeve featuring amazing artwork by Michael." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: MV & EE Title: Live Road Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Collection of very recent live excursions with MV & EE, all high quality recordings from shows in November 2009. The A side opens with a MV/EE duo performance of Mine All Troubled Blues from Art Damage Lodge, Cincinnati, OH on 20/11/09. This heads straight into two interpretations of Environments, one from Project Lodge, Madison, WI which again is just raw MV/EE action, but the second features an enhanced line up with Muskox and Doc Dunn. The two versions are blurred together into one long blazing 11 minute space jam. The flip side opens with the classic blues soaked Tea Devil with Erikas laid back vocals backed with MVs rippling guitar shreds, Rongooses (Ron Schneidermann of Sunburned/Spirit of Orr/Pewtr) heavy bass bliss outs, and Chris Corsano showcasing a slow moving stoned out drum kit. Straight from here we head into a completely trance-inducing psychedelic haze of wild jamming with a totally different version of Environments. The whole of the Bside was recorded with Chris and Ron at Bank Row, Greenfield, MA. Edition of 400 pressed on heavyweight vinyl with hand stamped labels in black and white pro printed wrap around jackets with cover art by Jeremy Earl of Woods/Woodsist Records." - Blackest Rainbow. |
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Artist: NACKT INSECTEN Title: Reality Bridge Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Second full length LP from Scotland/New York weirdo Ruaraidh Sanachan, who also is the guitar shredder in Moon Unit and runs one of the best tape labels in the UK, Sick Head. Reality Bridges four tracks of psyche-out futuristic electric haze are a step up from Sanachans previous full length LP, Quantum Odyssey we released almost two years ago. Reality Bridge is one hell of a record, pulling together kosmische synth, guitar wailing, sci-fi insanity and b-movie bliss outs. The record is housed in a pro-printed sleeve featuring new insane artwork by Ruaraidh featuring a super degraded repeated self portrait with synth in space. The artwork is definitely up there with the now classic Quantum Odyssey cover. Pressed on virgin vinyl." -Blackest Rainbow. |
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Artist: NASH, BEN Title: The Seventh Goodbye Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Vinyl debut for long term Blackest Rainbow brother Ben... Im extremly happy with this one. 8 tracks, 34 minutes. Opening with a reworking of KUAD 9873 from his Blackest Rainbow debut cassette... bleak drones smothered in vocal lulling, and finishing with a sweet guitar piece swirling in a lake of percussion, vocal and drone. Nightcall shows a more middle eastern psychedelic droning, bowing, wailing, and satanic mutterings. Track 3 is the title track The Seventh Goodbye, and is the most full band approach of Bens acoustic psychedelic folk jams, but this blurs into sax blurts, waves of melancholic vocal drone and writhing riffery. Perhaps similar to Voice of the Seven Woods or Six Organs of Admittance. Side B opener Smoke and Flattery is the most experimental - multi percussion, echoes of whispers, finger grating guitars. Magnetophon Pt IV is not Bens recent Sloow Tape of a similar name, but a bluesy haze LSD dream, building into a drenched ecstatic guitar drone. Following this is What Will Always Be Pt.II which is reminiscent of Jack Rose, or James Blackshaw, the most beautiful composition on the LP. This bleeds into the final surrealness of Angel No. 7 field recordings, bleak, fearful and empty. Im honoured to release this gem. Limited to 250 hand numbered copies on virgin vinyl, with black, white and red pasted on covers, plus a black and white insert. All artwork designed by Darryl Norsen who designed our (VxPxC) sleeve, and done a few beauties for Important records, as well as posters for Sunburned, Six Organs, Hush Arbors, Magik Markers and more." - Blackest Rainbow. |
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Artist: NASH, BEN/NAUTILUS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Nautilus is the solo project of Heidi Diehl of Vanishing Voice/Time Life, long-time BR transatlantic e-mail buddy who we finally got to meet just over a year ago on the very brief Vanishing Voice tour. Since then, she has begun recording solo material under this alias, and has self-released one CD-R which blew our minds, and likewise blew local long-time BR friend Ben Nashs cranium apart. The Nautilus side opens with Still Rings, a far-out trip of weirdo outsider dripping mind-fuzz, like some kind of spatial insect gathering. Tallahasse Woman rings more bells with the sound of Vanishing Voice and Heidis psychedelic string playing, and subtle vocals buried below it. Jeans Theme is another sweet track of tranced-out guitar with approaching percussion and waves of vocal drones. Ben Nash holds his side with two nearly 8-minute tracks, opener Plymouth Bredren Blues has definitely got the blues, as mentioned in the title, theres some serious woe in the wah right here, and some almost Paris, Texas moments. Interloper/Latch also starts off pretty bluesy, but halfway through goes to a speaker-shredding guitar shaker, with some seriously serious riffs, that are almost breaking up as they begin, and then reverting back to the blues mediation of the beginning of the track. A great release, in an edition of 300 copies." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: NASH/ MAGIC LANTERN, BEN Title: Split Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "This ones been brewing at BR HQ for quite sometime, due to come out long ago, this beaut of a split is finally seeing light of day. A mutual respect from these two camps brought about what is surely one of this years most exciting releases in the field of the split vinyl LP. Ben Nash returns after over a years absence from releasing any solo work, now busy as a full time member of the excellent Chora, we may all be in for a long wait for anymore solo action after this release... but here we find Ben entering new territory with less of the guitar plucking from previous solo outings... Across these three new tracks, Ben is heading in a more zoned out psychedelic drone pieces, fluctuating between blissful electric churning, and incredibly dark swarming monoliths, with buried electric guitar bursts, its quite a new sound for Ben. Unsurprisingly, he comes out on top form, and its maybe some of the most interesting recordings hes released so far, but its a far cry from his debut LP for Blackest Rainbow, The Seventh Goodbye back in 2008. Fellow Sheffield heads Cam Deas and Jon Marshall (Hunter Gracchus) accompany Ben on two of his three tracks, along with Rob Lye of Chora. Following on from 2 massively excellent LPs for our buddies over at Not Not Fun, Magic Lantern return, with what also might be the last recordings we hear from them for a while too... their two track side opens with a murky wild sounding basement jam Mosquito Coast recorded in 2008, followed by the 15 minute groove of Long Way Down, full of heavy organ, slow burning percussion, wild wahs, raw riffing and the occasional chanted vocal this is one heavy piece of stoned blues psyche rock out. Long Way Down was recorded by Bobb Bruno of Goliath Bird Eater / Best Coast back in 2009. Pro-printed sleeves, designed by Cameron Stallones." - Blackest Rainbow. |
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Artist: NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS Title: Shadow Kingdom Format: Triple LP/Double CD/Zine Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $65.00 |
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"So here it is, the vinyl debut from the French duo of Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte, aka Natural Snow Buildings. Shadow Kingdom is the vinyl debut of this highly regarded project, and it continues their journey through some of the finest experimental folk laced with beautiful drones, all recordings are new. An epic piece of music, only deserved an epic release. You get the full length record across three 180 gram LPs in a full colour sleeve featuring the superb art by Solange. Includes the CD version that features 2 bonus tracks housed in an A5 16- page comic by the band, plus a black and white insert. All sleeves and the comic book are pro-printed. Mastered by Ben Nash. The artwork on the LP and insert is exclusive to the LP version." -Blackest Rainbow
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Artist: OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD Title: Fucking Dracula Clouds Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Stunning new LP from Campbell Kneales post Birchville Cat Motel project. Continues with the vibes set on his superb LP for Dekorder, total psychedelic filth noise. Two side long heavy pieces of gushing electric destruction, one sound lurches in and tears down another one, which it rebuilds an even more ferocious version of the original sound. Pressed on 180gram vinyl. Limited to 400 copies in pro printed wrap around sleeve on 400gsm silk card." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: PADANG FOOD TIGERS Title: Born Music Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Originally released on Blackest Rainbow in Autumn 2010 in an edition of only 100 copies, the vinyl edition of Padang Food Tigers debut full length LP sold out instantly. This second edition is pressed on 140g virgin vinyl with pro-printed cover art in an edition of only 250 copies... Memories playing tricks: oh, the gauzy hallucinogens of nostalgia are sloughing off fresh fictions throughout this deeply passionate instrumental collection. Padang Food Tigers attempt to resurrect half-remembered dreams on their debut long player, Born Music, by hybridizing improvisational tactics with the trappings of traditional tropes. Influenced by artists such as Scott Tuma, Taku Sugimoto, Loren Connors, Bruce Langhorne Boxhead Ensemble and Tetuzi Akiyama, the groups two members (Stephen Lewis and Spencer Grady) seek to capture the potency of moment, free from all artifice and studied consciousness, enveloped in the players close fraternal bond. The duration and form of tracks -- brimming with banjo, guitar, piano, music boxes and fragments of history -- are dictated by emotional weight, by intuition, not expectation. Born Music (a gesture to the dried river that flows at the back of Lewis home in South London and to the instinctive nature of the sounds contained within) is the duos follow-up to their Go Down, Moses EP, which was released on Under The Spire." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR & POCAHAUNTED Title: Colaboration Format: CDR Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
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"ROBEDOOR have had releases on Chocolate Monk, Not Not Fun, Fuck It Tapes, Audiobot, Buried Valley, Feral Debris, Arbor and more. POCAHAUNTED have stuff out on Not Not Fun, Arbor and Buried Valley. Britt described it as 27 minutes of tripped out tribalism and voice seance." - Blackest Rainbow.
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Artist: STARVING WEIRDOS Title: B/P/M Series 1 Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Absolutely mind melting release from this consistently amazing American duo. This release has a very different sound to the superb drone recordings of their recent releases, yet it is still totally immense but really quite unexpected. This was previously issued as a tour-only CDR in a press of somewhere between 20 and 30 copies. Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay spent sometime recording legendary Humboldt based pianist Darius Brottman, who also happens to have a radio show before Brians own show on KHSU college radio. The recordings of Brottman were then reworked by McKinlay and Pyle separately. Pyle and McKinlay have a side each on this LP, both sides featuring very different ways of reworking the original beautiful recordings. Side A opens with some straight piano clinks layered with incidental sounds that occurred during recording sessions, creating an amazing feeling of beautiful surrealness, leading into multi-layered piano movements over and over. Side B begins with powerful, erratic, forceful playing, coated in psychedelic loops and reversed sounds, then returning to a more straight piano playing. The second track on this side almost bleeds into familiar Weirdo territory. This is one bizarre, but equally genius and beautiful release. Both myself and the Weirdos are honored to have the artwork for this LP designed by artist Mick Wiggins. Pro printed sleeves, pressed on 180 gram vinyl and limited to 500 copies." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: STARVING WEIRDOS W/ TOM CARTER & SHAWN DAVID MCMILLEN Title: Live At The Accident! Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Crazy 3-way collaboration from some of Americas best underground musicians. Charalambides Tom Carter is joined by Shawn McMillen, sometime member of Warmer Milks and Ash Castles On The Ghost Coast, with the added power of Starving Weirdos. This two track collaboration has been around since 2007 and it landed in my mailbox a few months back, and man, its a real beauty. Side A is a total hypnotic slice of ravaged drone, the four musicians seamlessly blend their own styles of underground bliss outs to sheer perfection. Side B opens with a crazy loop of applause, waving back and forth with a growing repetitive plug-in to then opening it up to create new levels of total sonic weirdness. Slow shimmering black chasms engulf the positivity until its awash with lo-fi scrapes and buzzing electrical nightmare. The loop eventually drops back in with total far gone chimes, jingling away at acid burnt psychedelic keys and a thundering bass loop. A totally bizarre jam, which just opens more potential ventures up for these artists. Hopefully well see more from this collaborative team soon. Limited to 400 in pro-printed wraparound sleeves." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: SYLVESTER ANFANG II Title: Commune Cassetten Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
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"A new slab of wax of tranced out psychotic psychedelic-ness from the occult loving Belgium-based clan. This new incarnation being Sylvester Anfang II (as opposed to Silvester Anfang) reached a new level of sheer awesomeness in 2009 with the incredible double LP on Aurora Borealis; on Commume Cassetten they continue their bizarre trip into the darker -- but somehow super psychedelic -- realm of the occult obsessed mind. Theres a real fucked up Krautrock boogie vibe throughout, but retaining some of the doomed funeral folk qualities of the original Anfang guise, as well as some loose as hell, total stoned-out ritualistic baked grooves. The LP comes housed in a techni-colour collaged artwork with a black and white image of a lady, which we can presume is a witch, with a dagger and chalice... a sleeve that really sums up the music enclosed. The sleeves are pro-printed and wrap around the deep black heavyweight wax which has some sweet full colour labels. This is one hell of a 40 minute trip." -Blackest Rainbow
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Artist: TAIGA REMAINS/RV PAINTINGS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Two of Americas finest drone acts come together for this split LP. Taiga Remains is Student of Decays master mind Alex Cobbs project. If you aint picked up his new disc on Digitalis Wax Canopy yet, go get it, it is one of the best drone releases I have heard in a long time! The 15-minute track on this new split LP is entitled Mengku From Mengsa. Opening with far off chimes upon chimes, this leads to pure bliss dream zones, rather than the more intense material on the aforementioned Wax Canopy. This is a fantastic piece of drone work, layered to create some beautiful zoning out in the mind. RV Paintings is the project of Brian Pyle of the almighty psychedelia legends Starving Weirdos, along with his brother Jon Pyle, and Spencer Doran, who also plays under the name of Cloaks. This is an amazing track, kinda darker and bleaker than the Weirdos vibe, with some totally awesome free percussion playing central to the piece. This is hard to top in the drone game. A totally solid slab of sound from both acts. Limited to 400 copies." - Blackest Rainbow. Paste-on cover with insert. |
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Artist: TIME LIFE Title: Geminis Format: CDR Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $13.00 |
| "Duo of Heidi and Lucas from The Vanishing Voice (as in Wooden Wand). Cosmic space blues weirdness." -Blackest Rainbow. |
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Artist: TREETOPS Title: Brighter Light Format: CDR Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: TWINSISTERMOON Title: The Hollow Mountain Format: CD Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "Twinsistermoon is the solo project of Mehdi Ameziane of Natural Snow Buildings. The Hollow Mountain was originally issued by Dull Knife Records in 2009 as an LP limited to only 105 copies -- unsurprisingly it sold out in a matter of hours. Widely regarded by many Natural Snow Buildings fans as one of the best releases from their camp, this reissue has been remastered by Ben Nash, includes new artwork, and brand new unreleased material. The album has a beautiful earthy lo-fi feeling throughout which perfectly compliments its short and sweet folk songs, and occasional wanderings into psychedelic drone ambience. This is an album that really is totally beautiful and probably one of my favorites from Mehdi. The CD is packaged in a square artwork booklet and a pro-printed card wallet showcasing the superb original artwork from the LP sleeve. Limited to 1000 copies." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: TWINSISTERMOON Title: Then Fell The Ashes Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Brand new full length vinyl LP from Natural Snow Buildings Mehdi Ameziane solo project. This is the third Twinsistermoon release since 2009s The Hollow Mountain LP and Bride of Spirits 7" which were both released on the excellent Dull Knife label. Following on from these two gems, various obscure self released items and CDs on Digitalis and Students of Decay, Amezianes sound has grown somewhat darker at times with this LP featuring nearly 50 minutes of brand new material. The A-side features 6 tracks, where as the B side is complemented with a huge, almost 25 minute track. The opening track Black Nebulae is a gorgeously textured psychedelic drone-based piece, followed by a short, quieter, guitar plucked piece with vocals, but no words, entitled 1976. Ghost That Was Your Life is a stunning beautiful layered guitar piece with Amezianes astounding beautiful vocals shining through. Big Sand opens as one of the darker pieces, with an occult feeling to its sound, swirling vocal drones, almost like a choir at times, and in come those stunning warm and distinctive gutar sounds with layered ghostly sound scapes, that haunt much of Amezianes solo and NSB recordings. Half way through this track it fades into layered field recordings, drones, and distant chimes, the sound of this track at this point just has a real melancholy vintage sound, the last two minutes are again a change of sound with a slow plucking of guitar strings. Desert Prophecy returns of the sound of just Ameziane and his guitar, with some lo-fi electric riffing distortion in the background. Its pretty incredible to hear this and think that its from 2010, and not from the 60s or 70s. The sixth and final track on the first side is Trailer, another beautiful somewhat lighter folk sound, which is interesting considering the following is the albums title track, Then The Ashes Fell, a side long track which is a considerably darker and heavier track than much of the rest of the LP, but it weaves in some beautiful lighter more reflective moments. Pro printed covers and labels. Heavyweight vinyl." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: V/A Title: Menagerie #2 Format: LP + Mag Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "The second compilation compiled and conceived by London-based illustrator Jake Blanchard continues on its strength of eclectic audio vibes paired with visual glory by an array of excellent artists. Eight artists were given a track and their finished artwork is based around their assigned track. With the previous CD release of Menagerie #1, there was only 100 copies available with the zine. But with this new issue, every single copy comes with a super-slick, pro-printed, full-colour zine of artwork from: Jake Blanchard, Pete Fowler, Will Sweeney, Andrew Rae, Sarah King, Solange Gularte, James Trimmer/Mirt, and Mat Pringle. This time the audio is appearing on vinyl only, with exclusive tracks from: Moon Duo, Natural Snow Buildings, Wand (aka Wooden Wand), The See See, Seadog, Joanne Robertson & Matthew Ashworth, Married In Berdichev, and Akron/Family. The pro-printed sleeve features artwork by Jake Blanchard. Heavyweight vinyl, with full colour labels. Edition of 500. Joint release between Blackest Rainbow, and Jakes new Tor Press label for zines and music." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT & ERIKA ELDER Title: Pray For Less Format: Cass Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "With Willie Lane. Live in Oklahoma City, OK 11/02/07." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: WOODEN WAND Title: Wither Thou Goest, Cretin Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
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"Vinyl reissue of this fine record from James Toth, aka Wand, aka Wooden Wand that was issued earlier this year as a super limited CDR mounted on a block of wood. Wither Thou Goest, Cretin has a kind of lo-fi sound of some of Wands earlier work combined with the more confident sound of some of his recent releases, it kinda fits somewhere between The Harem Of The Sundrum and the Witness Figg and Born Bad in the extensive Wand catalogue. At times this record has a really underground surreal sound to it, not just in terms of songwriting, but at times with the music itself, and combined with Toths ever changing deliverance of vocals throughout the songs, it produces Toths unique style. Theres not many singer songwriters doing what Toth is doing right now, and here hes at the top of his game. It really cant get much better than how its sounding here. Pro-printed sleeves." - Blackest Rainbow.
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Artist: CARDINAL SIN Title: Market Street Format: 7" Label: Blackjack Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"San Francisco underground group formed in the mid-80s by Jeff Gilman-Fletcher, Brian Ahern, and Matthew Courtway. Grady Runyan (Bad Trips, Crawlspace, International Hello, Liquorball, Monoshock, Sternklang, etc) joined as drummer in 1991. Collaborated with members of the Toiling Midgets, Mommyheads, and Sky Saxon, among others. Released 2 records on the Blackjack label, and had several self-released cassettes. Disbanded January 1995." - Discogs. 1991 release on Blackjack (Brainbombs, Harry Pussy, Monoshock, Liquorball., etc..)
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Artist: COFFEE Title: Rold Gecord Format: 7" Label: Blackjack Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Vinyl debut for Rochester, NYs prettiest cartoon characters. Raymond Scott worshippers that can really play their toys, including a cover of Scotts "Coming Down to Earth," with cover art by Shadow Rings Graham Lambkin. First 600 on gold vinyl." - Blackjack. Unplayed copies of this mid-90s release.
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Artist: METABOLISMUS Title: Terra Incognita Format: LP Label: Blackjack Country: USA Price: $11.50 |
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"While knowledgeable humbugs round the world crawl over each other to find, buy, bootleg and hype on the internet the latest lost krautrock private pressing, this German collective enters its seventeenth year having hardly dented the collective consciousness of the avant music intelligentsia. While this may be unfortunate, it can hardly be considered unusual, considering that Metabolismus six singles, pair of ten-inches, handful of LPs, appearances on numerous compilations and over 30 cassettes have all been released in microscopic quantities on hard-to- find German labels. Anyone fortunate enough to have heard any of Metabolismus previous offerings can attest to the bands varied approach to musical construction. It is difficult to name two of their releases that, on the surface, sound alike. In addition to a wide range of influences-- Faust, Can, Popul Vuh, 60s beat psych and jazz, weirdo American rockeers like Kim Fowley (with whom the band has recorded)-- this is attributable to a healthy policy of incorporating any and all voices that might push the groups sound experiments to the outer limits. With an aggregate membership whose size is believed to approach the low 30s, Metabolismus has both reached a peak in their evolution and released their most cohesive album to date." - Blackjack.
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Artist: MONOSHOCK Title: Walk To The Fire Format: CD Label: Blackjack Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: V/A Title: Come to BlackJack Country/7 Songs For The Youth Of Today Format: 7" Label: BlackJack/Bulb Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Split sampler between the Bulb and Blackjack labels. Features Quintron, the Whales, Temple of Bon Matin, Lake Of Dracula, Harry Pussy, Sternklang, Coffee, etc.. From 1996.
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Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: Captured Tracks Volume One Format: CDR Label: Blank Dogs Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"First in a series of self-released CD-R only releases.
More noisy/experimantal than other Blank Dogs releases, if youre
expecting melodic or typical Blank Dogs material, this may not be for you.
5 Exclusive tracks.
Silkscreened raw paper with 7x7 insert (comes in a 7" sleeve.)
Stamped, numbered edition of 200, not to be repressed." - Blank Dogs
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Artist: CHAPMAN, MICHAEL Title: Pachyderm Format: LP Label: Blast First Petite Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "This album is the second in Yorkshire-born composer, singer, guitarist and maverick troubadour Michael Chapmans series of his more improvised musical releases. The first, 2011s The Resurrection and Revenge of the Clayton Peacock (PTYT 068CD), was Wire magazines #5 album of the year, and was widely and favorably received by press and fans alike as another highpoint in Chapmans late-blooming career, which has been boosted by the public recognition of his talents by the likes of Thurston Moore, Jack Rose, and Will Oldham. Pachyderm is an LP-length minimalist masterpiece, a single chord ambient work quite unlike anything Chapman has done before and equally as surprising and different as Peacock managed to be. The second track is a remix of the first side by one Rob Antony, a young Cumbrian neighbor of Michaels. Together they form a mellow and gently-shifting work that easily beckons auto-repeated plays. Chapman is now 71 years-old and playing better than ever. He started out on EMIs legendary 60s Harvest record label and turned down playing with both Elton John and David Bowies Spiders band. It only goes to show, as per the recent rediscovery of the talents of his other contemporaries Roy Harper or John Martyn, eventually, your time will come." - Blast First Petite. |
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Artist: FAHEY, JOHN Title: 1978 Live At Audimax Hamburg Format: DVD Label: Blast First Petite Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Shot live for TV by the legendary German music show "Rockpalast", this DVD represents the earliest example of a complete John Fahey concert performance, given on March 17, 1978. The multi-camera filming features detailed close-ups of Faheys playing style, giving Fahey fans a rare insight into what Pete Townshend has called the William Burroughs of the guitar. Faheys 1978 visit to Europe saw him in fine wild form, performing an 10-track set and, as an incredibly rare bonus, a short interview with the maverick iconoclast. All-Region NTSC-compatible DVD in CD digipak. Location: Audimax, Hamburg. John Fahey: vocals, guitar." -Blast First Petite. |
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Artist: OUTER SPACE Title: Outer Space 2 Format: LP Label: Blast First Petite Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "John Elliot, operating under the moniker Outer Space IS one third of American nu-electronicists, Emeralds. Musically, this is an electronic smorgasbord of five trippy tropes that rip the inner light fantastic. II is the logical progression. It is an effort based on group format, and is an evolution from the debut Outer Space album. The central core of Elliott and Andrew Veres worked to arrange, record, and mix for a new direction and a new sound; headed down a path of cracked concrete and dissolving memory from the aether. Many different textures and composing methods are applied here, to make a more varied and spontaneous array of songs. Experiments ranging from looped, broken m-400, jagged rhythm beds, and modular synthesis. Severing the obsessions of death and anxiety, and creating a work based on "the current," and those involved in the process, II has a different feel with less claustrophobia and more breathable air. Imagine the sounds are a liquid, with different masses and changing color. II is first in a trilogy of sounds to be released in 2012. Its considered to be the second full-length effort by the project. Reality comes first here with a narrative of events that are real and happening right now. Close attention to detail reveals more than what is seen on the surface. The information is presented clearly; its up to the listener to use the intelligence provided for full comprehensive understanding. Guest appearances by: Andrew Veres, Philip J. Whiteside, Drew McDowall, Jeff Hatfield and Adam Miller. Produced with Mellotron M-400 and synthesizer. Sounds mastered by James Plotkin. The artwork features gentle, acidic, shimmering drawings by Graham Lambkin. Printed on a deluxe mirror board and pressed on 150 gram vinyl. Limited edition of 1,000 copies." -Blast First Petite. |
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Artist: PANSONIC/HAINO KEIJI Title: Synergy Between Mercy And Self-Annihilation Overturned Format: Double LP Label: Blast First Petite Country: UK Price: $32.00 |
| "Limited LP-only release. Blast First Petite presents a studio collaboration between Finnish electronic technicians Pansonic (Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen) and Japanese guitar shaman, Haino Keiji. Recorded only days after their performance together in Berlin that resulted in the powerful and haunting live album Shall I Download A Black Hole And Offer It To You (PTYT 014CD). Synergy Between Mercy And Self-Annihilation Overturned is a more controlled, even tense, affair, where the participants circle each other like gladiators at the Colosseum. No more needs to be said that isnt already alluded to with the fabulous, mysterious track-titles. Housed in a lavish gatefold sleeve with spot-varnished lettering and glossy inner sleeves. Deluxe packaging designed by Stephen OMalley (Khanate, Sunn O))))." -Blast First Petite |
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Artist: SUICIDE Title: Live 1977-1978 Format: 6CD Box Set Label: Blast First Petite Country: UK Price: $47.00 |
| Limited edition of 3000, 6CD set. "Audio verité recordings (mastered by the incomparable Denis Blackham) of Suicide playing live from September 1977 to August 1978. These recordings cover most of their early shows at CBGBs & Maxs plus their first-ever tour across Europe & the UK, these being their dates outside the USA. As you will hear, a crucial year in Suicides development as both musicians and performers and their mission to stretch the label of punk rock to the very limit. The package includes a 40 page booklet of Suicide & Red Star Records memorabilia (including very rare Red Star press releases) from the personal archives of Howard Thompson, the A&R man that signed Suicide to UK label Bronze Records. Only the infamous 23 Minutes Over Brussels has been legally released before. From my very own sleeve notes: This set of recordings are not the faint hearted, nor is it the ideal place to start to those first time listeners seeking an easy entry into the dark and decidedly queasy world of Alan Vega & Marty Revs proto-futuristic, low tech sci-fi musical that they launched on a mostly uncaring world as music group Suicide. Howard Thompsons archive was originally made purely for his personal reference based on a joyless recognition that he was right there seeing history in the making. Weve presented the gigs in the order they happened, all the better to hear how the Suicide live experience develops. If you want homogenized, sanitized, tweaked and combed, P.Cd "punk," put this baby back on eBay and sell it for profit to one who maybe really wants the use of these leather black skrying mirrors." -Paul Smith, blastfirstpetite (2008) |
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: Hotbite Live At The Nightlight Format: LP Label: Blastocoel Sound Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "Hand-printed sleeves made by Matt Hart in a numbered edition of 100. Three men came to Chapel Hill in late November of 2006 to spread their sounds: the show happened to fall on a holiday and Aaron Moore, Daniel Padden and Clarence Manuelo played to a small crowd of fifteen or so folks in the friendly confines of the Nightlight Bar and Club. What ensued was an unfolding carpet woven from waves of tape, twang and beating of objects. The old piano even got in on the action - the floor was played and, as the gentlemen sang, the books lining the walls seemed to hum back. This was one of only four shows that the chimera-like trio shared in the fall of 2006. The LP was mastered by Kev Reverb." - Blastocoel Sound. |
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Artist: SNOOKS Title: Unfinished Business/By Land And By Sea Format: CDR Label: Blind Dates Music Country: France Price: $10.00 |
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"A staggering collection of music and experimentation courtesy the transcontinental mail/tape collaborations of Jim Shepard (V-3, Vertical Slit - via Columbus, Ohio) and Doktor Liborius (aka Eric Svensson - via Sweden/Netherlands/France), collectively known as SnoOks. Unfinished Business mines a wide selection of work from this dynamic duo, covering a myriad of creative terrain: guitar collages, audio-soundscapes (using synth, keyboards, misc. electronics), spoken word bits, tape manipulations and live guitar/tape loop performances...just to name a few. SnoOks was a cosmic live wire, compressing off-kilter sounds and ideas that well undoubtedly never see the likes of again (at least not on this planet). In fact, The Residents may hate the Beatles, but Doktor Liborius does what he can to combine his influences from both of those worlds via synaptic eruptions of kraut-influenced electronomics tainted even further by steady nods to synth pop areas unvarnished. Shepard on the other hand, weaves his prophetic, profound and prolific lyrics and guitar patterns around these compositions, to create an atmosphere that brings a junk-sick Burroughs meets hop-dazed Kerouac to mind. A few of these tracks have made appearances on past Shepard solo outings (most accessible of which being "Treenas Strobe Light Party" from the 1995 Siltbreeze LP "Picking Through the Wreckage with a Stick"), but the majority of material found on Unfinished Business has never before seen release until now. Weighing in at a hefty 80+ minutes of live and studio recordings spread over two compact discs (one of which aurally projects you to Staches 1984 with SnoOks opening for luminary/avant-garde composer John Cale of Velvet Underground fame - the audience was baffled), this collection will intrigue and mesmerize both the casual fan and the Shepard aficionado alike." - Mental Telemetry.
"Doktor Liborius never met Jim Shepard. In 1977, a fanzine article caught the attention of the young Liborius. It spoke of an auto-produced LP (remember those?) featuring experimental soundscapes and raw power. The creator of this album was a Mr. James Shepard. Liborius found his number, called and friendship immediately started to sprout..." - selection from Unfinished Business liner notes. Formerly a 2 CDR set now combined onto a cheaper, single cd. Highly Recommended!
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Artist: ART ABSCONS Title: Der Verborgene Gott Format: LP Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Der Verborgene Gott is the debut vinyl release of Germanys ART ABSCONs. Full of catchy pop hooks, lush ethereal soundscapes, strong rhythms, and a deep underlying intellectual spirituality, Der Verborgene Gott is destined to be a long-lasting classic within the neofolk and post-industrial genres. Sometimes bringing to mind mid-period Death In June, Der Blutharsch or even the later works of Einstürzende Neubauten, Der Verborgene Gott maintains a strong identity and evokes a sound that can only be described as: ART ABSCONs. Der Verborgene Gott features collaborations with members of: Luftwaffe, Sinweldi, Gnomanclast, and Valence. Der verborgene Gott is limited to 500 hand numbered copies and housed in a deluxe foil embossed gatefold sleeve." - Blind Prophet. |
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Artist: CULT OF YOUTH Title: The Devils Coals/Sidestreets Format: 7" Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Blind Prophet Records is proud to present a 7" of all new material from Cult Of Youth. The Devils Coals is a stark and passionate battle cry against the sins of the world and the desire to take the easy way out. Lush, dark, and invigorating, it marks the triumph of the individualist human spirit over the landfill called culture that grows all around us. It is arguably the best thing that Cult Of Youth has put to wax and continues to push things forward into a new territory that owes as much to Code Of Honor as it does to Current 93. The B side, Sidestreets, shows an entirely different side of the band. It is a cover of a song by fellow Brooklyn musician Martial Canterel rearranged and performed entirely without synths of any kind. A dancefloor hit, perhaps, but also a sign of friendship and admiration for ones peers. The Devils Coals is limited to 500 copies (400 black and 100 blue) and comes with a download code." - Blind Prophet. |
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Artist: FUTURE BLONDES Title: Feather 17 Format: LP Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Feather 17 is the first proper full-length vinyl album from Houston’s Future Blondes and comes following a long and sordid trail of tapes, cd-rs, and 12”s on labels like Dull Knife, FLA, and Robert & Leopold. Mastermind Domokos (also known for his drumwork in Texas noise-punk legends RUSTED SHUT, live bass/tape manipulations for HELIOS CREED/CHROME as CHEMICAL MANGE, and appearences w/ BLACK LEATHER JESUS) serves up another heavy batch of mutated white-light techno/industrial with contributions from members of BOOK OF SHADOWS, //TENSE//, BALACLAVAS, TWISTED WIRESS, and SYNB. Pressed on milky white vinyl and comes with a digital download." -Blind Prophet. Preview here. |
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Artist: HOT GUTS Title: Edges Format: LP Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Edges is the long anticipated debut album from Philly’s Hot Guts (founded in 2007 by frontman Wes Russell and drummer Greg Frantz as a sonic reflection of the rotting urban hell hole that surrounded them). Previous releases included a 7” on Badmaster Records, a cassette, and a split 7” with NY’s Pop. 1280. Edges is a perfect blend of sullen and morose post-punk, catchy synthwave, and industrial nihilism that is somehow overshadowed by a sense of a youthful optimism. Comparisons could certainly be made to bands like Savage Republic (Tragic Figures era) or Cop Shoot Cop, but they would have to be tapered with the side of things that could fit seamlessly alongside classic early Factory Records bands. Ultimately, these comparisons are useless since Edges is a solid album that really just needs to be listened to start to finish. Russell and Frantz were joined on this recording by Philly musicians Michael Reaser (FNU Ronnies), and Adam Cooper (Tickly Feather). Edges also features contributions from legendary Philly-based experimental musician Charles Cohen (on the Buchla Box), and the lovely Miss Shari Vari (AKA Void Vision). Edges is available as a deluxe gatefold edition and comes with a free digital download. First 100 mailorder copies come on clear vinyl." -Blind Prophet. Preview here. |
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Artist: LOST TRIBE Title: Lost Tribe Format: LP Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Blind Prophet Records is very proud to present the debut album from Richmond, VAs Lost Tribe. Lost Tribe play apocalyptic post-peacepunk darkwave but with with a solid d-beat & crust backbone that makes this a record both for punks and dark music freaks alike. The atmosphere is comparable to that of The Mob, New Model Army, or The Chameleons but with the power of Discharge or Amebixs rhythm section. It goes without saying that their live show is not to be missed, and you can expect a healthy dose of smoke machines, sweat, studs, and leather. Features members of Aghast, Empty Grave, Syndrome, and Caves Caverns. Comes in a deluxe foil embossed gatefold jacket with a printed inner sleeve (with lyrics!) and pressed on 150-gram vinyl. Limited to 500 copies." - Blind Prophet. |
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Artist: LOWER Title: Walk On Heads Format: 7" Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Critical angst from Copenhagen. US Edition of the debut vinyl EP released earlier this year on Escho." - Blind Prophet. |
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Artist: MUERAN HUMANOS Title: Mueran Humanos Format: LP Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Blind Prophet Records is proud to present the vinyl edition of Mueran Humanos stunning debut album (also available on CD through the legendary Italian industrial label Old Europa Cafe). Tomas and Carmen of Mueran Humanos embody the classic counterculture tradition of an "us against the world" couple driven to greatness through their love of each other and their passion for art. Think of them as a post-industrial Lux and Ivy, a garage rock Chris and Cosey, or even a psychedelic Johnny Cash and June Carter. Mueran Humanos also perfectly embody a sonic balance between their native Buenos Ares and the city of Berlin where they now reside. The record is dripping with Argentinian swagger and sexiness but also manages to capture the futuristic spirit of Berlins krautrock, industrial, and electro heritage. Ultimately what Mueran Humanos have done is create a record for everyone to enjoy. It touches upon moments of psychedelia, EBM, garage rock, industrial, kraut rock, post punk, post industrial, and minimal synth and it ties them all together in a well executed and well recorded package with strong male and female vocals sung purely in Spanish. The end result is a truly spectacular journey from the dimly lit streets of Buenos Ares to the crowded and sweaty nightclubs of Berlin. Dont miss out on what is sure to be one of the most celebrated albums of 2011. Vinyl edition is limited to 1000 hand numbered copies (including a printed inner sleeve and a 8.5 x 11 lyric sheet in Spanish and English) and contains the bonus track Éxito de una Ex Santa." - Blind Prophet. |
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Artist: NERVOUS ASSISTANT Title: Bastard Blues Format: 7" Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Limited to 300 copies. Dark, murky, foot-stompin rural blues from the streets of Brooklyn. This marks the first ever vinyl release from Nervous Assistant and can be looked at as a companion piece to his debut CD on Boogewick Records. Think Robert Johnson meets "One Foot In The Grave"-era Beck meets GG Allins acoustic record. This single comes highly recommended!" -Blind Prophet. Latest release on Sean Cult Of Youths label.
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Artist: POP. 1280 Title: Thirteen Steps Format: 7" Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Thirteen Steps is the newest release from New Yorks Pop. 1280. It picks up right where last years "The Grid" left off, and is guaranteed to satisfy those waiting patiently for their new LP (due out 2012 on Sacred Bones). For the uninitiated, these New York creeps take the sonic palate of bands like Cop Shoot Cop, Swans, or even the Contortions and put it through a cyberpunk blender; somehow in the process managing to make catchy songs out of dissonant noise, scrap metal, synths, and drums. Its paranoid, potent, and packs a healthy dose of swagger. Thirteen Steps was recorded by Ben Greenberg at Python Patrol [RIP] and is limited to 500 handnumbered copies." - Blind Prophet. |
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Artist: SGNLS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Finally a proper synth punk band! Philly’s SGNLS follow in the tradition of bands like The Units rather than bands that are merely labeled “punk” by the distinction that they cannot play their synths properly. Live they are capable of synth heavy freakouts not dissimilar from Hawkwind or Heldon, whereas on record they reel it in a bit and show us some real solid songs that should appeal to fans of everything ranging from The Screamers to The Big Boys. Limited to 200 copies and comes with a fold out poster." -Blind Prophet. |
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Artist: VOID VISION Title: In 20 Years Format: 7" Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Blind Prophet is proud to present as their first release the highly anticipated debut single from the Philly based coldwave act Void Vision. Already known for their incredible live performances, Void Vision will now appease the masses with the release of In 20 Years which is just as much at home amongst classic Depeche Mode or Fad Gadget as it is amongst contemporary material by artists such as Xeno & Oaklander. However, what sets them apart from their peers is a keen sense of composition and pop song structure, and Sharis powerful vocals.Limited to a mere 500 hand numbered copies, so act fast!" - Blind Prophet
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Artist: YOU Title: Brick Format: LP Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Brick is the brand new LP from Brooklyn (via Detroit)’s YOU. It’s also the final bedroom recording album. Recorded in the winter 2010-2011, it serves as a fitting epitaph to this era of the band and contains some of their finest recordings to date. This is absolutely top shelf minimal synth/electro that even includes a Negative Approach cover for all the punks out there. Strictly limited to 200 copies – each record comes with a unique found photograph adhered to the back cover with scenes from Detroit’s past. Respect." -Blind Prophet. |
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Artist: YOU Title: Demonstration Format: LP Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Limited to 500 copies. Twisted and creepy beat driven minimal synth electro. YOU. are a Brooklyn (via Detroit) duo whose debut 12" ep sometimes brings to mind the stranger side of early Belgian electronic music (think Bene Gesserit) or Detroit techo heroes Drexciya but with an attitude thats totally punk! Youd be a fool to miss this one..." -Blind Prophet. Latest release on Sean Cult Of Youths label. |
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Artist: WHATS YR DAMAGE?/BYRON HOUSE Title: Split Format: One Sided LP Label: BLK Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "in about the time it takes for you to rifle through your neighbors trash in order to salvage junk parts to make a homemade stock of instruments, both bands have blazed through their respective sets on their own junked out equipment. orlandos whats yr damage? are consistently loud, sloppy, and surprising (especially for florida) with their blend of sun city girls buzzed out noise, the broken drones of daydream nation, and the repetitive blisters of unwound. bloomingtons byron house are the junk rock collective of loud era half japanese, the disconnected tones of the king brothers, and the lyrical genius of daniel johnston. byron houses side is taken from a live house show (f.a.d. 18)." Limited LP in silk screened jackets. |
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Artist: LA VIERGE DE NUREMBERG Title: Le retour de Format: LP Label: Bloc Thyristors Country: France Price: $20.00 |
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"Jac Berrocal, voice & trumpet, Jean-Noël Cognard, drums & percussion, Philippe Thiphaine, guitar (from Heliogabale), Quentin Rollet, alto saxophone, Ben Ajrab, bass, Rivkah, voice & keyboard." - Bloc Thyristors.
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Artist: TANKJ Title: Puissance 36 kw Format: LP Label: Bloc Thyristors/Bimbo Tower Country: France Price: $18.00 |
| "Inspired exited quartet with Jean-Noël Cognard (Salmigondis) on Drums and assorted percussions, Arnaud Rivière (Bobby Moo) on elctronics, Titus Oppman on bass & Chicco Gramaglia on trombone. Free jazz meets junkotronics!" -Bloc Thyristors/Bimbo Tower |
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Artist: BLODVITE Title: Ett Främmende Land Format: Cass Label: Blodvite Country: Sweden Price: $8.00 |
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"Official bootleg from artist. Comes in high quality covers in new design. Previously released on Posh Isolation." - Järtecknet.
"Organic textures of tape loops and metal presented with amazing skill and care" - Posh Isolation.
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Artist: BLODVITE Title: Renad i eld Format: Cass Label: Blodvite Country: Sweden Price: $8.00 |
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"Official bootleg from artist. Comes in high quality covers in new design. Previously released on Styggelse." - Järtecknet.
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Artist: CLEANSE Title: Restraint Format: 7" Label: Bloodlust! Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Pressed in an edition of 300 copies; White vinyl; White labels with minimal black text; Unmarked white cardboard sleeves - sealed on three sides; Black and white inserts; The first newly recorded entry in the series; Harsh power-electronics, done Detroit style, by Grey from Hive Mind/Chondritic Sound; private series number three." - Bloodlust. |
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Artist: KRIMINAALISET METSANHALTIJAT Title: Anarkkia, Kaaos, Maailmanloppu! Format: CD Label: Bloodlust! Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"A scarce recording by cult industrial noise group, Kriminaaliset Metsaenhaltijat-which barely saw the light of day when it was originally released on cassette (Triangle Records 2008). The members of this shadow group of old-school industrial acolytes originally hail from Finland and from Karelia-a region and an autonomous republic of northwest Russia, between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea. Kriminaaliset Metsaenhaltijat claim to have built their sound on the bones of S.P.K. and Throbbing Gristle, through a prism of Japanese harsh-noise and Finnish hardcore-punk, spewing out a nihilistic nightmare of diffused synth hiss, commanding metal percussion, waves of harsh-noise, anarcho-punk attitude, and dissident power-electronics. An exciting and satisfying introduction to this band in preparation for Bloodlusts release of the Koskemattomuus CD." - Bloodlust!.
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Artist: SLEEP MUSEUM Title: Street Format: 7" Label: Bloodlust! Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Pressed in an edition of 300 copies; White vinyl; White labels with minimal black text; Unmarked white cardboard sleeves - sealed on three sides; Black and white inserts; True minimal- synth music, but probably not the type of thing that most people would think of; Not M.B.-style synth-drone, or other noise and industrial peripherals like that; Sleep Museum is a New York-based project that specializes in rhythmic, darkly melodic synth music, unrepentantly eccentric vocals, and dour lyrics; Utterly contemporary, yet also reminiscent of certain early-1980s "cold" music, or even electronic-era Death in June; private series number ten." - Bloodlust. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Bloody Butterfly From Overdrive Cloudy Skyes Format: CD Label: Bloody Butterfly Country: Japan Price: $25.00 |
| Multiple tracks each from Ita-Roh, Yura Yura Teikoku (their first tracks, i believe, a year prior to their Tokyo Flashback appearance), and Dip the Flag. 1991 release. |
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Artist: VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA Title: Pap Format: Triple CD Label: Bloody Butterfly Country: Japan Price: $44.00 |
| "3xCD compilation (1997) of early cassette releases. CD1 is a reissue of "Tenderly" without the tracks "Tenderly", "Deja Vu" and "Hi-Fi Dance Kingdom" and "Second Coming" edited. CD2 is a reissue of "Wagamama Na Ofukuro" without the track "Onna Bana". CD3 is a reissue of "Cry Baby Killer" without the track "Made In Yakuza". All CDs are encased in an individual soft pouch, packaged in a pictured silver foil-type envelope (various colours). Sometimes refered to as "Pap" due to the "patent pending" mark embossed on the envelope." -Discogs. Does NOT include the limited 3" CD. "In a world full of information overkill, Violent Onsen Geisha is a rare and mysterious thing! As in...theres very little info out there. Basically, Violent Onsen Geisha is the work of Masaya Nakahara although for years he created a history of VOG as a group whose members mysteriously died one by one (Spinal Tap drummer style, if you prefer). I suppose this provides the key to his work as Violent Onsen Geisha...sly and ironic, bizarre and sarcastic...creating a history which cloaks him in mystery so that he can enjoy himself in relative anonymity. Basically what you get is kitsch soundtracks and hippetty hop and blasts of disco and found sound and field recordings and spoken word and noise." -Bloody Butterfly. |
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Artist: COPE, JULIAN Title: Japrocksampler Format: Hardcover Book Label: Bloomsbury Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
| "UK-only publication, 302 pages, with 16 page inset of color cover reproductions. Impressive work and a nice followup to Copes defining Krautrocksampler from a decade ago." -Bloomsbury. Tons of great info tying together various strains of the mid 20th century Japanese underground. |
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Artist: ARTBREAKHOTEL/GRAHAM MOORE Title: Split Format: CD Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Shattered organic walls of noise & random splash cut-ups. Curious sounds from Nobuo Yamada & Graham Moore." - Blossoming Noise. |
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Artist: AUBE Title: Chain [RE] Action Format: CD Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Sound Designer (as he likes to be described) Akifumi Nakajimas Aube project distances itself from the work of other Japanese noise musicians by adopting a fiercely Ambient approach into his work. Water going down a plug hole, the hum of lamps heating up and the sounds of his own body have dominated previous Aube releases, but for this recording (as its title implies) Nakajima uses chains as his main sound source to create five textural pieces that range from the looping metallic shrill of "The Metal Cicada" to the minimalistic sonar pulsation of "Vibrate Quietly", which sounds like it was recorded in a bathysphere at the bottom of the ocean. This combination of harsh and gentle sounds sets the tone for the entire album, which culminates in "Spasmodic Repetition", a colossal ringing electronic drone piece that incorporates the central theme of chains being manipulated to produce loop patterns of clang and glitch." - The Wire Magazine |
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Artist: BASSETT/CARLOS GIFFONI, MARCIA Title: Organized Anatomy Format: CD Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Collaborative release from No Fun creator Carlos Giffoni and Marcia Bassett of Hototogisu & Double Leopards. Edition of 300." -Blossoming Noise |
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Artist: DILLOWAY, AARON Title: Rotting Nepal Format: LP Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
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"Totally weird recording from ex-WOLF EYES member AARON DILLOWAY. Recorded January of 2005 in Kirtipur, Nepal and originally released as a CDR, edition of 63 on the Hanson Records imprint. Limited to 500 copies on 140-gram red marbled vinyl." - Blossoming Noise.
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Artist: EVIL MOISTURE Title: Goo Format: LP Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Hot goo girl, all new goo clips. Ass goo, goo stuff, goo face, goo human male dripping, goo videos, sticky goo. Shot certified goo girl wants German goo girls. Movie samples. Lovers goo. High art meets entropy. Evil Moisture is Andy Bolus. 150gm long playing record. Edition of 300." -Blossoming Noise. |
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Artist: JUSTICE YELDHAM & THE DYNAMIC RIBBON DEVICE/DAVE PHILLIPS Title: Two Thousand-Five Format: LP Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "This is the live-document of their 2005 North American tour recorded in Bloomington, Denver, San Francisco & Los Angeles. Mastered by Rashad Becker. Edition of 300 on white vinyl." - Blossoming Noise. |
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Artist: LANZ, JOKE & RUDOLF EB.ER Title: Liederliches Format: LP Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
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"A collection of 36 one-minute cut-up absurdities and insanity perpetuated by JOKE LANZ (SUDDEN INFANT) and RUDOLF EB.ER (RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK), both of whom are founding members of actionist group SCHIMPFLUCH. Pressed on 140-gram marbled vinyl that plays from the inside-out, and is packaged in beautifully printed sleeves with art by Eb.er." - Blossoming Noise.
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Artist: LHD Title: Young & Restless Format: CD Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "sonic dissemination from LA with love. long lost first album finally sees the blight of day. over sixteen minutes of LA SMOG TONES. harsh crust from the hearts of Phil Blankenship (the cherry point) & John Wiese (LHD, Sunn O))) & sissy spacek). CDep limited to 1000 copies." - Blossoming Noise. |
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Artist: LOPEZ, FRANCISCO Title: Absolute Noise Ensemble Format: Double CD Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "francisco lópezs absolute noise ensemble 2CD set featuring: alain wergifosse, albert mestre, antón ignorant, carlos medina, césar góngora, christian dergarabedian, daniel menche, ferrán fages, francisco lópez, games addiction, ilios, io casino, joe colley, jorge haro, koji asano, masami akita, mego laptop orchestra, michael gendreau, michael northam, oren ambarchi, philippe faujas, roc jiménez, ruben garcía, russell haswell, shunichiro okada, víctor nubla, zbigniew karkowski, zipperspy, alan courtis, amy denio, antonio garcía, audiopeste, bernhard günter, don campau, elliot sharp, eric muhs, frank koustrup, geoff dugan, gonçalo falcâo, john hegre, john hudak, john wiggins, jon tulchin, jorge mancini, jørgen teller, lasse marhaug, ludovic poulet, mason jones, mike honeycutt, minuit, oren ambarchi, ralf wehovsky, reznicek, scott konzelmann, stephen fenton, steve peters, tetsuo furudate, wojciek. Deluxe gatefold packaging." - Blossoming Noise. |
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Artist: MERZBOW Title: Collection 4 Format: Cass Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Early Merzbow works featuring Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani. Recorded and mixed at Gap Works, Tokyo on 16 June, 1981. Remixed by Masami Akita at Lowest Music & Arts Studio, Tokyo. Remastered from original master tape January 2010. Originally Released on Lowest Music & Arts 1982. Edition of 150." -Blossoming Noise |
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Artist: MERZBOW Title: Collection 5 Format: Cass Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Early Merzbow works featuring Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani. Recorded and mixed at Gap Works, Tokyo on 16 June, 1981. Remixed by Masami Akita at Lowest Music & Arts Studio, Tokyo. Remastered from original master tape January 2010. Originally Released on Lowest Music & Arts 1982. Edition of 150." -Blossoming Noise |
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Artist: MERZBOW Title: Flesh Metal Orgasm Format: Cass Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Recorded Live at ZSF Produkt Studio, Tokyo, September 1988. Remastered from original master tape January 2010. Originally Released on ZSF Produkt in 1988. Edition of 150." -Blossoming Noise |
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Artist: MERZBOW Title: Normal Music Format: Cass Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Early Merzbow works featuring Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani. Recorded and mixed at various studios in 1982. Remixed by Masami Akita at Lowest Music & Arts Studio, Tokyo. Remastered from original master tape January 2010. Originally Released on Lowest Music & Arts 1982. Edition of 150." -Blossoming Noise |
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Artist: RLW Title: Sechs Abstande Format: LP Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Five dense movements from abstract composer, Ralf Wehowsky, co-founder of the vital Wahrnehmungen & Selektion labels. Pressed on 150 gram virgin vinyl. Edition of 300." - Blossoming Noise. |
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Artist: RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTÿCK + MAMA BÿR Title: Il Portale delle Indipendenti Format: CD Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Psycho acoustic pandering from Schimpfluch founder Rudolf Eb.er & Asylum-Lunaticums Mama Bär. Includes Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck concert for spanking featuring Raionbashi & Mai Sau as well as a reissue of the out of print (limited edition of 27) LP Il Portale Delle Indipendenti." - Blossoming Noise. |
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Artist: SUDDEN INFANT Title: Invocation of the Aural Slave Gods Format: CD Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "An exciting new studio album featuring ANNIE STUBBS (LUSTMORD, SPK) on vocals and percussion and Swiss Aktionist JOKE LANZ (SCHIMPFLUCH-GRUPPE, CATHOLIC BOYS IN HEAVY LEATHER) on noise toys. With conversions of Cabaret Voltaires "Nag Nag Nag" and Roxy Musics "In Every Dream Home A Heartache." Housed in beautiful digipacks." |
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Artist: SUDDEN INFANT Title: Radiorgasm Format: CD Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Reissue of the extremely limited first Sudden Infant LP from 1991, transfered from the original master tapes. Classic Sudden Infant / Schimpfluch noise dramas featuring Joke Lanz, B. Lingg, Inzekt & Dave Phillips.Recorded live at radio LoRa Zurich on 30th November 1990! Artwork by Francoise Duvivier. Essential listening. Joint release by Blossoming Noise (USA) and Harbinger Sound (UK)." - Blossoming Noise. |
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Artist: SUISHOU NO FUNE Title: Gold Labyrinth Format: CD Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Tokyos Suishou no Fune deliver their latest masterpiece, The Gold Labyrinth. Featuring the four piece of Pirako Kurenai, Kageo, Takuya Nishimura & Kiyasu. Edition of 300 in gold digipaks." -Blossoming Noise |
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Artist: WIESE, JOHN Title: Black Fire Pond Format: CD Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Compounded recycling report from the East Coast and debut solo outing on Blossoming Noise, following LHDs release ⿿Young & Restless. In Wieses output, Black Magic Pond sits somewhere between the density of Arrhythmia Wave Burst and Panner Crash but working within the same conceptual framework of his recycling triology Magical Crystal Blah." - Blossoming Noise. |
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Artist: YELLOW SWANS & BURNING STAR CORE Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Collaborative LP from Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core featuring GMS, Pete Swanson, Spencer Yeh & Mike Shiflet. Recorded from 2005 to 2006. Artwork by The Wyvern. Limited to 500 hand numbered copies on 140 gram RED MARBLED vinyl." - Blossoming Noise. |
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Artist: SMITH, JACK AND MARIA ANTOINETTE Title: Format: Book Label: Blue Chip Publishing Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"Maria Antoinette, companion and muse to Jack Smith and a cornerstone of performances at his "Plaster Foundation" loft theater in the late sixties and early seventies, collected the drawings that Smith made in the context of their artistic association. This book presents some of those drawings - fantastically energetic ballpoint pen and magic marker illustrations of creatures real and imagined - along with photographs and other documents of the two artists at work and at play." - Printed Matter. Soft-bound, 32 pages, 8 1/2 x 6 inches. Incredible collection of rarely seen drawings by this eccentric NY performance artist/filmmaker/photographer. See also the Audio Artkive/Table Of The Elements CDs featuring Smiths early 60s collaborations with Tony Conrad, Angus Maclise and John Cale. Highly recommended!
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Artist: CIRCLE X Title: Prehistory Format: CD Label: Blue Chopsticks Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Some of you may remember Circle Xs corrosive, caterwauling, and unutterably fabulous self-titled EP, which was originally released in 1979 and reissued a little over a decade ago by Jim ORourkes and David Grubbs Dexters Cigar label. Now the story picks up again with the long-overdue first CD release of Prehistory, Circle Xs first full-length album. Prehistory was recorded in 1981 and released in 1983 by Index Records, making them, strangely enough, labelmates with Wall of Voodoo. Circle X were formed in 1978 from the remnants of No Fun and the I-Holes, Louisville, Kentuckys first two punk bands. (No Fun, also featuring Tara Key of the Babylon Dance Band and Antietam, finally appeared on the excellent Bold Beginnings: An Incomplete History of Louisville Punk compilation.) Circle X got the hell out of Dodge quickly enough, settling upon New York, then Dijon, France, and then back to New York again. The self-titled EP is a lurching, squalling monster. Prehistory is a tire-burning left turn. The pendulum arc of Tony Pinottis vocals still contain throat-shredding howls, but expands to contain croons, moans, speech. Bruce Witsiepes lacerating guitar is dumped into a dubbish aquarium of reverb, and Rik and Dave Letendre worry obsessive polyrhythms nearly to death. After the trash-compaction of their first EP, this is the sound of unhurried, committed exploration. So where did Circle X fit in among their peers? Its fair to describe them as a genre unto themselves. They came from punk rock and art school and sounded like none of their potential allies. They arrived in New York at the tail end of No Wave, at the same time that equally ornery bands like Swans and Sonic Youth were getting revved up. Circle X are every bit as distinctive and attitudinal as Throbbing Gristle, PiL, Theoretical Girls, DNA, or Mars, and yet they dont particularly sound like any of these groups. After Prehistory, they resurfaced with four white-vinyl 7"s, (later collected as the box set The Ivory Tower) and the 1994 Celestial, an album for the then-fledgling Matador label. Bruce Witsiepe passed away in 1995, marking the end of the group. Critic Jordan Mamone hit the nail on the head when he wrote: Every rare utterance from these unsentimental adventurers possesses a passion and a manifesto-writing fervor usually reserved for turn-of-the-century culture movements."- Blue Chopsticks
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Artist: BODUF SONGS Title: Inviolate Projection, Blood From Rome (Blankets) Format: 10" Label: Blue Sanct Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Bluesanct announces the fourth release in our art vinyl series will be Boduf Songs. Like its predecessors, this will be a beautiful single, with an exclusive recording on one side, and a screenprinted image of the song on the other side, housed with a letterpressed sleeve. Boduf Songs is primarily the work of Mat Sweet, minstrels of misery from the United Kingdom. They have released three incredible albums on Kranky Records, as well a devastating EP on Southern Records as part of their special Latitudes series. Mat gave us an exclusive 12 minute epic entitled Inviolate Projection, Blood From Rome (Blankets) which not only gives us the drones and hushed guitar they are known for, but also ventures into their (partially) suppressed doom underpinnings. The record is accompanied by gorgeous specially commissioned artwork by Norwegian artist, Johannes Hoie, whose apocalyptic scenes perfectly embody the yearning for the black sun that is Boduf Songs." -Blue Sanct |
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Artist: BELIEVERS Title: Forgotten Tracks Format: CDR Label: Blueberry Honey Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "A long three track CDR collecting a particularly insulated and homespun era of the BELIEVERS development. Especially the longer-than-album-side rendition of their standard, Down to the Lake. Step inside, take a breath, get to know this album. Perhaps you will glimpse the reasons why so many in the valley are holding their breath for the BELIEVERS debut LP. Features members of SON OF EARTH, SHACKAMAXON, DUCK, IDEA FIRE COMPANY, SAPAT, so many other spins, the whole meatball is here. Packaged in simple xerox folded jackets, origami style." - Blueberry Honey. |
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Artist: SOIL SING THROUGH ME meets KOHOUTEK Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Blueberry Honey Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Here is a recent replenishing of the debut from SSTM. Features members of SUNBURNED, FEATHERS, BURNT HARVEST, and other Southern Vermont entities. A full on blast of free rock squall and hairmony. Packaged in an oversized xerox sleeve." - Blueberry Honey. |
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Artist: SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN Title: San Diego Heroes Format: DVDR Label: Blueberry Honey Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "A twenty plus minute live experience of what happens when three SUNBURNED members (Bohill, Franklin, Schneiderman) are left with the directions to a resurrected show, after the scheduled location is shut down by the local gendarmes. While the remaining members screw back to headquarters with the equipment, and good sense, intact. What transpires is real-time, above-the-legal- limit, creative mind sweeping. Camera work by ECLIPSE RECORDS honcho ED HARDY. Sleek and economic xerox style packaging. As with all BLUEBERRY HONEY editions, this is imited to current interest in such a document."- Blueberry Honey. |
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Artist: WITCH Title: Local Band Nitemare Format: DVDR Label: Blueberry Honey Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "A genuine fan club style look into the phenomenon that is WITCH. Though the bands gene pool gathers from a variety of places, there is a feeling from their most basic inspiration that reveal them to be much like any other small town band. And from there they present their message of ROCK. This short film (just over 20 minutes) captures these most honest and inside moments of a band just getting its feet on the ground, only to find the ground moving at unimaginable speed. Live footage, practice room insights, hotel rooms, vans packaged in a folded sleeve like all BLUEBERRY HONEY releases thus far. Also has bonus presentation of the first song from WITCHs first ever live performance!" - Blueberry Honey. |
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Artist: A HANDFUL OF DUST Title: You Traffic Not In A Salt More Strong Than This (From A Soundtrack To The Anabase of St-John Perse) Format: LP Label: Bluesilver Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| 2000 LP originally released on cassette in 1995 by Corpus Hermeticum. AHOD is BRUCE RUSSELL and ALASTAIR GALBRAITH. Edition of 300. |
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Artist: AKIYAMA, TETUZI Title: Pre-Existence Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $26.50 |
| "Tetuzi Akiyama has been a major player on the free music/improv scene in Tokyo for going on 20 years. Pre-Existence first came out on CD as a part of the great Wooden Guitar series from Locust. Akiyamas playing here is one of a minimalist approach, discovering and investigating the empty spaces between each note. He does not follow the Takoma guitar school style of finger-picking, but a far more warped primitive country blues feel, with a meditative quality. You never know where you are going to be led with his guitar, down roads rarely travelled. With his dense tapestry of sounds, Akiyama evokes emotions that at times are uncomfortable, but of real beauty. Open your ears and let the music take you far far out there..." - Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: AMBARCHI & ROBBIE AVENAIM, OREN Title: Dream Request Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| "Bo Weavil presents a sublime duo recording from old sparring partners Oren Ambarchi and Robbie Avenaim, recorded live in Tel Aviv in 2009. This is a single edit of the performance which perfectly captures the chemistry between Robbies busy percussive maneuvers and Orens textural overlay. A previous performance of the pair was documented on the Clockwork CD (re-issued by Room40) and prior to this the notorious The Alter Rebbes Niggun CD was released on Tzadik. Here, the two come together with an energetic performance of free interplay. Steeped in rock, electronics and feedback, the duo conjures an ecstatic instrumental journey. Momentum builds while shifting around a variety of sonic styles until the entire patchwork is laid bare, exposing all the nuance within. Edition of 350 numbered LPs, housed in a heavyweight silkscreened sleeves." -Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: AMBARCHI, OREN Title: Lost Like A Star Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
| "Limited vinyl by the great experimental guitarist Oren Ambarchi from Australia. A Touch label recording artist, Oren has been making music since 1986, creating sounds from the guitar that one would not expect to hear. On this LP, two long tracks one per side, start from minimal low frequency sounds to ever growing drones of manipulated guitars... staggeringly beautiful! Limited to 650 hand numbered copies!" - Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: BERNING, DALE Title: The Horse Stories Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "The Horse Stories is the soundtrack to Going Places Sitting Down, a film by Hiraki Sawa, commissioned by the Hayward Gallery and Bloomberg London, for Waterloo Sunset, the Dan Graham Pavilion at the Hayward in November 2004. It is a piece about make-believe journeys to far-away places (at the tips of your fingers, between the cracks in the floor at your feet, on the edge and behind the door, right here where you are, close-by...) For the soundtrack Dale used sounds belonging to the country house and garden in which Sawa filmed - water running in the upstairs bathroom; rain water dripping on the stones outside the kitchen door, sparkling water in a glass on the table, the wind-chime and the clock and the record player... And then the sounds of music boxes being played - one elaborate antique music-box with bells the shape of bees and a miniature hollow drum, and other simple music boxes, playing only one tune each, tiny naked metallic combs and drums and handles. At the core of all Dale Bernings sound work lies a deep interest in ideas of aliveness, of space and the awareness of time passing, of breathing and being still and of listening. And of the possibility of grace. 180g hand numbered limited edition." -Bo Weavil |
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Artist: BLACKSHAW, JAMES Title: Sunshrine/Celeste Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $32.00 |
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"Bo Weavil Recordings is proud to release onto vinyl for the first time Englands James Blackshaw. An acoustic folk guitarist who takes his primary cues from the holy trinity of the near mythical -- John Fahey, Robbie Basho and -- along with recent adherents to the weird Americana / new folk sound, Jack Rose. Blackshaws twelve-string guitar resonates to produce unbridled raga-like flurries, bursting with energy, yet harnessed with enough melodic definition to their fluid motions. On Sunshrine (side A) and Celeste (Side B) James does a brilliant job of bringing together his skill on the acoustic guitar with a talent for melding soundscapes and drones into coherent compositions. He uses his 12-string guitar and open tuning to create some wonderful passages of beautiful folk guitar. James Blackshaw plays 12-string & 6-string guitar, sarod, harmonium, Farfisa organ, glockenspiel, bells & bowed cymbals. 180g limited 500 hand-numbered pressing." - Bo Weavil.
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Artist: BORN HELLER Title: Born Heller Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $26.50 |
| Limited LP version of this album, previously released on CD by Locust. Numbered edition of 550. "Born Heller are the folk duo of Josephine Foster & Jason Ajemian. They beautifully capture the traditions of both American and English folk, with Josephines hushed fragile vocals accompanied by sparse melodic guitar lines and Jasons resonant bass sounds. Ajemian plays in groups like Triage, Dragons 1976, and with reedist Matt Bauder. While Foster may be familiar to record buyers for her own solo recordings and others with the Supposed, her psych rock outings. Born Heller is music that needs to be intently listened to, on each listening more and more is unearthed." - Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: BRIGGS, ANNE Title: Sing A Song For You Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $26.50 |
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Deluxe LP version of the Fledgling CD from 1996. "Fleeting, volatile, flighty, breathless: a flash of sunlight in the glade. Anne Briggs pure, unmistakable voice and her too-short career summon the same images in my mind. A voice like a gentle tremor, as fragile and timeless as a dandelion clock. Her recordings are few and all the more precious for it. When these 1973 sessions finally saw the sunshine, back in 1996, they were greeted with joy; joy mixed with astonishment that they should have been consigned to obscurity in the first place. Sure, her work with Ragged Robin may have displeased the purists of the time. Sure, Anne Briggs was unhappy with her voice, heavily pregnant with new life and on her way to a Scottish retreat. But for something so beautiful as these songs to be casually put aside... and they are beautiful. Sunshine and time: flitting snatches of melody heard floating across the meadow on some impossible summers day. Songs that are ancient as the bones of the hills - yet half are Annes own compositions. The distillation of a unique talent let fly like a butterfly from the hand." - Bo Weavil.
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Artist: BRIGGS, ANNE Title: The Complete Topic Recordings Format: Double LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $43.00 |
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"Bo Weavil is ecstatic to release a double LP on heavyweight vinyl of the Complete The Topic recordings, beginning with Annes contribution to the folk epic The Iron Muse (1963), followed by her first solo release - the legendary Hazards of Love EP (1964), songs for The Bird In The Bush - Topics erotic song project (1966), and finally the eponymous Anne Briggs, not released until 1971, tell the tale of her hobo 60s. Travelling in Ireland with Sweeneys Men until success got in the way, sleeping on the floor of the late Gill Cook, manager of Collets folk department, living in a caravan in Suffolk, Anne was a wild, free spirit, unconcerned with the commercial success of her peers. Two further recordings for CBS, The Time Has Come and Sing A Song For You (unreleased at the time) followed before Anne disappeared to her Hebridean retreat and that was it. Anne Briggs summed up in her voice, in her attitude to life, in her looks, that brief sunlit period of the folk revival perhaps better than any of the other great singers - Shirley Collins, Sandy Denny, Jacqui McShee that came from it. Theres a deep magic at work in these unadorned, unaccompanied songs - an ancient, spine-chilling voice from the traditional heart of England that speaks through the young and beautiful form of Anne Briggs even to us - misfits of our technological world." - Bo Weavil.
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Artist: COLLINS, SHIRLEY Title: False True Lovers Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $29.00 |
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"A collection of British songs about love, adapted and sung by Shirley Elizabeth Collins of Sussex, England; with guitar and five string banjo accompaniment by John Hasted, Ralph Rinzler, Guy Carawan and Miss Collins. False True Lovers was Shirley Collins first full length album, recorded in London by Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy and released on the prestigious American Folkways label. The choice of repertoire and arrangements capture a turning moment in the English folk song revival of the 1950s, and in the recording career of one of Englands finest interpreters of traditional song. Bo Weavil Recordings is very proud to release this once more on 180g vinyl in a limited hand numbered pressing of 500." - Bo Weavil.
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Artist: FLYNT & THE INSURRECTIONS, HENRY Title: I Dont Wanna Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY Title: Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 1 & 2 Format: Double LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $35.00 |
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"This is the limited (500 copies ) double vinyl pressing of avant-hillbilly master fiddler Henry Flynt, originally on Locust, as two separate CDs. Flynt scuffles through a most peculiar set of electrified and acoustic bumpkin fiddle howls and screeches circa early to mid 1960s. From the enviable opening echo rock, in which Flynt does his best to compete with the electro-echo buzz of a Jorgen Ingmann or Link Wray to the beauteous instrumental glow of the extended modal country jam of Jamboree, Flynt proves once again that his is not a music simply rooted in the taut belt of New York isms, schisms and jisms. This is music that howls from a unique voice whose love for the folk songbook (known and imagined) is as resonant as a cowbell and as deep as a freshwater." - Bo Weavil.
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Artist: FOSTER, JOSEPHINE Title: This Coming Gladness Format: CD Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "This is Colorado-based Josephine Fosters (Born Heller, The Supposed) debut release for Bo Weavil Recordings, and her third full-length album. This Coming Gladness is the highly-awaited follow-up to 2006s A Wolf In Sheeps Clothing on Locust. This Coming Gladness is transcendental fin de siècle songs from one of the great unsung voices and songwriters of our modern times. Josephine Foster unites rarely united royal realms: self-penned operatic art songs cast in freely-rendered blues with electric guitars and drums beating the path along with harp and piano flourishes. She has a voice that was trained for opera, but creaks like ancient mountain folk floating out from a dusty Victrola. She surpasses any "weird-folk" labelling through the sheer timelessness of her songcraft -- making baroque balladry sound new yet remembered from some not-too distant shared American past. Joining her on this recording is electric guitarist Victor Herrero and drummer Alex Nielson." - Bo Weavil |
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Artist: FOSTER, JOSEPHINE Title: This Coming Gladness Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Previously released on CD by Bo Weavil Recordings, now available on vinyl. This is Colorado-based Josephine Fosters (Born Heller, The Supposed) debut release for Bo Weavil Recordings, and her third full-length album. This Coming Gladness is transcendental fin de siècle songs from one of the great unsung voices and songwriters of our modern times. Josephine Foster unites rarely united royal realms: self-penned operatic art songs cast in freely-rendered blues with electric guitars and drums beating the path along with harp and piano flourishes. She has a voice that was trained for opera, but creaks like ancient mountain folk floating out from a dusty Victrola. She surpasses any "weird-folk" labeling through the sheer timelessness of her songcraft -- making baroque balladry sound new yet remembered from some not-too distant shared American past. Joining her on this recording is electric guitarist Victor Herrero and drummer Alex Nielson." -Bo Weavil |
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Artist: HOLCOMB, ROSCOE Title: The High Lonesome Sound Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
| "The third release from London based label Bo Weavil Recordings, goes further into the depth of traditional American folk music with the legendary Roscoe Holcomb performing 17 powerful songs shaped by the hard times and conflict between old and new that marked his life in the rural Appalachian mountains. The sounds on this record were collected 40 odd years ago. Sometimes when you listen to Roscoe Holcomb sing it mightve been 400 years ago. Sometimes it could be happening to you right now. These songs and instrumental pieces go back to the 20s and 30s and beyond, into the mists of pre-recorded time. They are the traditional songs of the Kentucky mountains before the advent of radio and record player when itinerant musicians, market places, church and country fair were the conduit of tradition. But these songs, recorded in the unique high and lonesome style of Roscoe Holcomb, were the last folk songs. Already, 40 years ago, Holcombs music was not appreciated in his own community. He was a throwback, a dinosaur in the age of the Twist. A singer with a truly high lonesome sound that sends shivers down the spine, and a hard-hitting wonderful banjo-player/guitarist. This LP also contains Roscoe performing unaccompanied ballads, banjo and harmonica solos. These recordings were previously released by Folkways in 1968 that had a powerful influence on the folk music revival, and has been crying out for a new vinyl release. Accompanied by some of the original notes on the lyrics and history of each song and some new comments on Roscoe in 2005." - Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: HOWARD, NOAH Title: The Blark Ark Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Its no understatement that The Black Arc is one of the most sought-after underground free jazz releases of all time. The original Freedom vinyl LP and the brief Japanese CD reissue were criminally out-of-print and impossible to find. Both versions popped up on internet auction sites once in a blue moon but when they did they always fetched insanely astronomical prices This record simply is THE BOMB -- a perfect combination of Noahs soulful compositions and playing, infused with plenty of sweet/sour/in/out forms and shapes from the incredible line-up assembled for this release. Plus we get to experience Arthur Doyles outrageous debut on a recording session, increasing the playing and feeling to an intense level throughout. And dig the spaced out afro-delay on Jumas percussion (yes, that Juma from Hendrixs killer Woodstock show of the same year). All of the players on this record combine to make it a CLASSIC and its esteemed reputation is well earned." - Oren Ambarchi |
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Artist: JOYNES & STEPHANIE HLADOWSKI, C. Title: The Wild Wild Berry Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "Limited to 350 copies. This is the first recording for Bo Weavil by English folk singer Stephanie Hladowski, coming together with regular recording artist, C Joynes. The Wild Wild Berry is a highly individual record that accents both of their respective styles. Chris melodic beauty is equally matched by Stephanies turn of phrase. The album contains their renditions of 11 British traditionals, some better-known than others. All the songs were mostly selected from archive recordings at Cecil Sharp House, and chosen on the basis of something unique about the original recording, rather than the song itself. Nothing about the record is a let-down -- the simple melodies and powerful authority make this a recording that one will play a thousand times over." - Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: JOYNES & THE RESTLESS DEAD, CWK Title: 8 Selections And Premonitions From The Tower, Vol. III Format: 7" Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "The 3rd installment in this series of C Joynes 45s, featuring collaborative pieces with a disparate group of fellow travelers. This time around, contributions come from ethno-noise heroes Harappian Nights Recordings, Fredericksburg VAs Sacred Harp, and Gavin Prior of United Bible Studies. Edition of 300 copies." -Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: JOYNES, C Title: God Feeds The Ravens Format: CD Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "An exciting new release on Bo Weavils Wooden Weavil series. English acoustic guitarist C Joynes, a resident of Cambridge, has released a few self produced excellent CDRs. Joynes uses a heavy thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country blues and early ragtime, however, he uses this technique to explore alternative melodic traditions: the English folk-tune; North and West African music; elements of classical Indian music; proto-minimalist and impressionist musics from the European classical tradition. His approach to the recording and compositional process contains a subtle and unassuming experimentation, at times including collaged fragments, field recordings, processing, en-plein-air recordings, and cut-and-paste. The version of Since I Lay My Burden Down incorporates variations on lyrics and vocal lines drawn from a different song entirely. He has a penchant for reworking over-familiar pieces and stripping them of their kitsch and cliché, presenting them afresh, such as with Christmas Medley, the arrangement of A Night In Tunisia, and the gospel-based And When The Sun Begins To Shine. Joynes music is instinctive, well-researched, placid, and evokes a certain simplicity and naiveté."-Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: JOYNES, CWK & THE RESTLESS DEAD Title: 8 Selections And Premonitions From The Tower, Vol. II Format: 7" Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "Volume 2 in the ongoing joint release with Great Pop Supplement, a series of five 7"s by C Joynes and collaborators, all limited to 350 copies, with die-cut sleeves and colored vinyl. This time collaborators include Wooden Spoons electric guitar and piano and The Doozers synths, keyboards and percussion. These will be gone in a matter of moments, so dont dilly dally." - Bo Weavil |
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Artist: KRAUS, SHARRON/MEG BAIRD/HELENA ESPVALL Title: Leaves From Off the Tree Format: CD Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Bo Weavil is so excited to be releasing Leaves From Off The Tree: a three-way project of Sharron Kraus, Meg Baird (Espers) & Helena Espvall (Espers). This is a beautiful recording of traditional folk material, with the most stunning singing and arrangements of some of England and Appalachias finest songs. The songs on this record were recorded after many an evening swapping songs (and beers!) in Fishtown, Philadelphia, where Sharron had moved from her native England, and Meg and Helena were already installed. Meg and Sharron both had traditional music backgrounds and would meet up and teach each other Appalachian and English ballads, and improvise harmonies and alternate melodies. At some point, Helena was invited along and her voice and cello added a rich new layer. We wanted to record the songs in a way that would capture the relaxed atmosphere of our gatherings, so we recorded all nine songs live in one afternoon." - Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: MCPHERSON, DONALD & TETUZI AKIYAMA Title: Vinegar & Rum Format: CD Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $17.50 |
| "Recorded in New Zealand in 2004, is the duo recording of New Zealand guitarist Donald McPherson and Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama. A beautiful meeting of 2 virtuoso acoustic guitarists, both thoroughly schooled in the vast world of improvising. Donald McPherson, a native New Zealander has been playing the guitar since the tender age of 12, he studied at the Otago Art School in the 80s and in the 90s he released a number of extremely limited lathe-cut folk records. Tetuzi Akiyama is often associated with the improvising community in Tokyo generated around Tokyos Off Site venue. But to Tetuzis sound owes just as much to the country blues guitarists of the 30s. His sound has taken the blues form into a new world of minimalist improvisations. His loose playing side steps the usual clichés of the guitar in both the free improv and traditional folk scenes. Tetuzi has a varied number of very different projects from free improvisations, working with musicians across the globe, to hard minimalist electric blues boogies, a startling example can be found on Idea Records Dont Forget To Boogie LP and Headz live CD version. This record finds Tetuzi and Donald playing melodic folk improvisations that grow and morph into compositions that on each listening uncover some new layer of beauty. Both playing on acoustic guitar, they have a level of communication and understanding of each others playing, that allows a musical connection to grow and blossom into a full-length recording of delicate melodic mayhem. And the CD is limited to 1000, there are two extra tracks on the CD that do not appear on the vinyl version." First CD on BoWeavil; LP version is coming out later..." - Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: MCPHERSON, DONALD & TETUZI AKIYAMA Title: Vinegar & Rum Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $26.50 |
| "This LP was recorded in New Zealand in 2004, and is the duo recording of New Zealand guitarist Donald McPherson and Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama. A beautiful meeting of 2 virtuoso acoustic guitarists, both thoroughly schooled in the vast world of improvising. Donald McPherson, a native New Zealander has been playing the guitar since the tender age of 12, studied at the Otago Art School in the 80s. and in the 90s he released a number of extremely limited lathe-cut folk records. This record finds Tetuzi and Donald playing melodic folk improvisations that grow and morph into compositions that on each listening uncover some new layer of beauty. Both playing on acoustic guitar, they have a level of communication and understanding of each others playing that allows a musical connection to grow and blossom into a full-length recording of delicate melodic mayhem." - Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: MULLENDER, ROB Title: Human Resources Format: CD Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "Subtle acoustic improvisation on nylon string and steel string guitar."- Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: OMALLEY & STEVE NOBLE, STEPHEN Title: St. Francis Duo Format: Double LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $39.00 |
| "Having played together in Æthenor for the last couple of years, Steve Noble and Stephen OMalley came together to play as a duo at Cafe OTO in 2011. These recordings are the result of these two hot and sticky nights in East London. Noble is a regular at Bo Weavil Recordings, having appeared on over nine recordings for the label, and a linch pin in Londons improvising community. So it was bound to be a memorable night of music to see these two meet. Steve Noble studied with Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde in the early 1980s and over the last 20 years has played with most of the great players from all four corners of the globe. Stephen OMalley is predominantly a guitarist, producer and composer who has been at the center of avant-garde/drone metal, best known for his group Sunn0))), and also a prolific collaborator with many of the finest improvisers. Noble sets the recording off with a full tribal charge, while Stephen, instead of firing off a shard of ecstatic notes and chords, coaxes his guitar into singing a slow, ever-growing roar. But soon the two are off into some wild, creative rampages -- exciting drum and guitar territory sounding at times not too dissimilar to Hainos Fushitsusha, brutally beautiful, shredded riffs from OMalley meet with Nobles exuberant rhythmic force . On St. Francis Duo, the memory of these two nights can be heard in full violent sonic attack." -Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: OMALLEY & STEVE NOBLE, STEPHEN Title: St. Francis Duo Format: CD Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Having played together in Æthenor for the last couple of years, Steve Noble and Stephen OMalley came together to play as a duo at Café OTO in 2011. These recordings are the result of these two hot and sticky nights in East London. Noble is a regular at Bo Weavil Recordings, having appeared on over nine recordings for the label, and a linch pin in Londons improvising community. So it was bound to be a memorable night of music to see these two meet. Steve Noble studied with Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde in the early 1980s and over the last 20 years has played with most of the great players from all four corners of the globe. Stephen OMalley is predominantly a guitarist, producer and composer who has been at the center of avant-garde/drone metal, best known for his group Sunn0))), and also a prolific collaborator with many of the finest improvisers. Noble sets the recording off with a full tribal charge, while Stephen, instead of firing off a shard of ecstatic notes and chords, coaxes his guitar into singing a slow, ever-growing roar. But soon the two are off into some wild, creative rampages -- exciting drum and guitar territory sounding at times not too dissimilar to Hainos Fushitsusha, brutally beautiful, shredded riffs from OMalley meet with Nobles exuberant rhythmic force . On St. Francis Duo, the memory of these two nights can be heard in full violent sonic attack." Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: REINES DANGLETERRE Title: Globe et Dynastie Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| "Limited to 500 copies. Bo Weavil is totally psyched to have the opportunity to release the second album by Reines dAngleterre -- this time, a thoroughly studio affair. Reines dAngleterre is a fascinating collaboration between avant-outsider musician Ghédalia Tazartès and two electronic botanists, èlg and Jo aka Opéra Mort. This album covers more of the wild ground the band started with on 2010s Les Comores (SIDRA 003LP), but going further into a musical terrain that defies definite description -- a slow trip into wizards intimacy, synthetic jungles, undersea zoos and Tibetan-industrial complexes. It feels like one has stumbled into disturbing dreams from a different realm. A quality of mystery, trickery and hallucinatory movements slip and shift across the recording. This is out-there, experimental music with no fixed idiom, with a unique quality that defies most of todays recordings. Embossed card cover." -Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: REINES DANGLETERRE Title: Les Comores Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| "Reines DAngleterre (trans. "Queens Of England") is a band made up of French avant-garde legend Ghédalia Tazartès and a couple of hyperactive young Parisian upstarts, Jo Tanz and él-g. Both of these characters are steeped in subversive operations covering psych-folk and "toon-psych" films (él-g), and the Tanzprocesz label (Jo Tanz). They also both perform under the moniker of Opéra Mort and have made work as Lö Jengi. Reines DAngleterre are a damaged conglomeration of live concrète, sound poetry, faux ethnicity and sincere eccentricity. Les Comores (a reference to the island off the eastern coast of Africa which France still administers as an "overseas collectivity") is comprised of inexplicable ethnic residue and feasts on duality: chaos and order, narrative and anti-narrative, construction and destruction, comedy and dread. The glottal panoply of vocals ride in tandem with electronics: cracked, beaten, weathered and bruised. This is a brain-meltingly dark, gloriously unstable affair, but not one devoid of emotion. Edition of 400 hand-numbered LPs, housed in a heavyweight matte black embossed sleeve with insert." -Bo Weavil |
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Artist: STARVING WEIRDOS Title: Into An Energy Format: CD Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "This is a new release by Californias extremely prolific avant-drone duo, Starving Weirdos. These eight new pieces bear all the hallmarks of Starving Weirdos greatest work: the dizzying mixture of instrumental sounds, electronics, and field recordings, the pointillistic attention to sonic detail, the duos post-production technique, which achieves something like the aural equivalent of deep-focus photography. On Into An Energy, the duo of Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay is joined by occasional collaborators Steve Lazar and Greg Devaney for the length of the record, and perhaps their chemistry together accounts for the elusive shift in focus heard on these cuts. You see, even though Starving Weirdos routinely break out the rain sticks, the horns, the hand drums, the guitars, or the cup-and-ball, at its core their art is a kind of deep-forest-ghetto-musique concrète. You can never tell if what youre hearing is a real-time performance or a product of copious editing and overdubbing, whether those sounds emanated from tapes or from live instruments, whether it occurred in a tangible three-dimensional space or in a virtual soundcard reality. Most of the time, its a combination of all these, and the results are profoundly transportive and disorienting. Yet while the Weirdos song and album titles suggest an esoteric or spiritualist bent, their music is always reassuringly lucid, even earthy. Theirs is a mysticism grounded in the ordinary sounds of everyday life in their native Humboldt County, California. At their best, Starving Weirdos achieve that high romantic ideal: to make the familiar strange, and make the strange familiar. " Bo Weavil |
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Artist: STARVING WEIRDOS Title: Rolled In The Midst Of Never-Ceasing Currents Flowing... Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| "N/A ...Without A Rest Forever Onward. Firstly, this is not for the faint-hearted, but fear not, this is not another noise record. This LP is something else altogether. This is a massive, glorious psychedelic din, a thick fog of dramatic sound events. Starving Weirdos latest offering promises to enfold the listener who will experience the ecstatic grandeur of Anton Bruckner as much as the rich industrial drone of David Jackman. This is Lhasa in California -- a world drenched in ecstatic thrills and intense ethereal exploration. There are sounds, there are drones, there are rhythms and there are songs -- a glorious concoction that moves in a vertical fashion. As we live today, in all this murk; all this twisted history and convoluted present, we can be thankful that these folks in California came together to create such a glorious record for all to bathe in. But this, like all good things, is limited and will not be around forever. Step in now or forever remain the great unwashed. Edition of 350 numbered LPs, housed in a heavyweight silkscreened sleeves." -Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: TALIBAM! WITH ALAN WILKINSON Title: Dem Ol Apple Pie Melodies Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| "LP release. Determined to continue collaborating with revolutionary blitzkrieg musicians in perpetuity, Brooklyns Talibam! (Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea) were set up on a blind date with Alan Wilkinson by Bo Weavil Recordings for a London basement show in May 2008. Like a late 60s Sadean love-in ripe with Joycean epiphanies, Talibam! heard in Wilkinsons tone the strength and grit of a fine British pint served cool and fresh... a perfect energy to swing-bounce their roly-poly hieroglyphic dance mayhem. A second gig happened in fall 2008, followed by this recording in winter 2009. If Talibam! and Wilkinson were a rugby team, theyd be in first place, trouncing competitors with more riff-hard tenacity and more powerful/declarative end-zone dances. Balancing contradictory cultural fragments into a psychedelic yin and yang power drive of glitch emission, sprezzatura horns, Zarathrusta organ drone launch, and sayanora-rama drum spills, Wilkinson, Mottel, and Shea turn animatronic nihilists into veritable musicological sexphorisms -- they cut the tension on the dancefloor like that abrupt liminal point between peace and footsie, between donuts and bagels, between lizards and turtles. These three dangerously handsome myriad-men from the future have materialized mixed signals into sharp-fanged foreign accents on this red-eye voyage to vinyl metropoly, a 2-sided ecosystem of Gatsby-killer morph-prov entitled Dem Ol Apple Pie Melodies. Limited edition of 350 hand-numbered copies. Lavish heavyweight matte sleeve with insert, designed by Damien Beaton." -Bo Weavil |
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Artist: TIGHT MEAT DUO Title: Vanishing Fist Format: CD Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $18.50 |
| "Like all the great visionary thinkers of our time, from Iggy Stooge to Arthur Doyle, David Keenan and Alex Neilson are autodidactic polymaths devolving advanced thought back to punk-primitive motion. Judging by the music heard on Vanishing Fist, their first salvo under the name Tight Meat Duo, these twentysomething/thirtysomething Glaswegian deviants are prime examples of the dictum that the new wave of free musicians act on impulse. Theyve studied and immersed themselves in some of the most life affirming vibrations of all time, those silhouettes, shadows and forecasts of tomorrow disguised as free jazz, as Sun Ra almost put it; sensed this essence flooding their synapses, rewiring their DNA, messing with the id so inherited 3D vision becomes implanted Third Eye cosmology; and now theyre getting in on the aktion. Mini gatefold LP sleeve." -Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Free London Format: Double LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
| Features: Rob Mullender, Wooden Spoon, Ladywoodsman, The Eidetic Band - each given one side of an LP. "Free London, is a split double LP (heavy weight vinyl), of 4 bands/musicians currently working in Londons growing improvised folk music scene. LP One: Wooden Spoon is seeking to create a music free from the influence of the contemporary world, to evoke some kind of state of pastoral introspection at once joyful and sad. Influenced by the Takoma school of guitar players, Popol Vuh & folk music from around the world. Rob Mullender, takes the other side of this LP with some solo acoustic pieces that owe |
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Artist: WILKINSON, ALAN/JOHN EDWARDS/STEVE NOBLE Title: Obliquity Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $23.50 |
| "Obliquity is a free jazz record, if youll forgive the use of such a hoary, old fashioned phrase. Its scorching, heads-down momentum, rhythm and drive places it in direct line of descent from the fierce originators of the genre: Ayler, Sanders, Graves, Frank Wright. It also swings. At times it dances. Obliquity is a free jazz record through the prism of the improvisational movement in Europe, though. This is no attempt at polite revivalism or looking back/up to the 1960s. Wilkinson/Edwards/Noble are producing new, vital music of and for now. John Edwards pins down the trio with precision and energy -- his tremendous internal rhythm on display to full effect throughout. Alan Wilkinson is a ferocious improviser, probably best known for membership of the demon Hession/Wilkinson/Fell trio. Obliquity features full-spectrum Wilkinson: flatouttakenoprisoners saxophonication, squeals, coughs, sustained improvisational experimentation and east London tribal chanting. Steve Noble is an upright drummer with a surgeons accuracy, his crisp percussion work has accompanied dancers, funksters, poets and tuba players. But hes not played better than here: great power, allied to grace, a subtle touch and solid time -- the drumming drives the music on to real heights." -Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: WOODEN SPOON Title: The Folk Blues Guitar of Wooden Spoon Format: CD Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "Wooden Spoon is seeking to create a music free from the influence of the modern world, to evoke some kind of state of pastoral introspection at once joyful and sad. Influenced by the Takoma school of guitar players, Popol Vuh & folk music from around the world, Wooden Spoons methods are instinctive, and his music has a reality and honesty rare in these times." - Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: ZECHARIA, ZADIK Title: Kurdish Melodies On Zorna Format: CD Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $16.50 |
| "Zadik Zecharias zorna playing is a powerful relentless blast of beauty. The drone-like qualities that engulf both the listener and player are unyielding in their intensity from start to finish. The instrument, well known in the Middle East, particularly in Kurdistan, Iraq and Turkey, is similar in sound and intensity to the Scottish bagpipes. Zadik takes few pauses for breath, but wildly plays a continuous flow of melody weaving around the Dola drum that provides a pulsating rhythm. Zadik Zecharia was born in the Sharnash Village in Kurdistan and moved to Israel in 1950. Zadik has dedicated his whole life to playing the zorna -- a traditional, trumpet-like instrument (but longer and narrower), that has been identified with the Kurdish people. There are two kinds of melodies: Chopie and Shechni. The Chopie are the fast melodies, tunes for dancing with the high notes of the Zorna. The Dola drum always accompanies the Zorna on Chopie tunes. The Shechni are slower melodies in the background, sad tunes that are usually played while the celebrators are sitting around the table. It reminds them of their Motherland, Kurdistan, and serves as an intro to the partying and dancing. (Tzadik Zecharia, Jerusalem 2005) First released on cassette in the 1980s, Bo Weavil reissue this with a beautiful digi-pack designed sleeve. Limited to 550." - Bo Weavil. |
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Artist: GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS, THE Title: Eyes Rind As If Beggars Format: Double CD Label: Bo Weavil/Fire Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "Fire Records & Bo Weavil Recordings are extremely proud to present the long-awaited re-issue of The Garbage & The Flowers classic double album Eyes Rind As If Beggars, a sprawling collection of fragile melodies, abrasive improvisations and velvet voices. The story of The Garbage & The Flowers, by some measure Wellingtons most brilliant pop band, is equal parts classic underground rocknroll and a hazy ramshackle history pockmarked with bursts of genius and stoned rehearsals. Rare is it for any band to garner so much underground acclaim while leading such a nebulous existence. A small handful of releases, compilation appearances and few live shows make for a curious stop/start history. Tension can produce the goods and tension was what watered The Garbage & The Flowers. Yuri Frusin (guitar, songwriting) and Helen Johnstone (viola, vocals, now bass) met in their teens sometime in the 1980s. Naming themselves after a line in Leonard Cohens "Suzanne" and taking cues from The Velvet Underground, the band has existed in some shape or form since, with help from Paul Yates, Heath Cozens, Torben Tilly, Rachel Davies, Kristen Wineera, and Stuart Porter. When asked recently about the group, original drummer Tilly offers a particularly apt description of their sound: "What I loved about the music we created is that it sounded like it had come from somewhere faraway, that it had traveled a lot of distance and gathered some dust and debris along the way. That said, despite its unhinged qualities we were never really a noise-band even though some strange and beautiful electromagnetic noise would make it to tape. Most of the time it was all deeply rooted in a song." This, of course, is one of the greatest parts of The Garbage & The Flowers charm. They really did seem out there, on their own, absorbed in their own world, dropping gem after gem of fractal noise-pop onto slowly corroding four-track cassettes, willing these songs into existence just long enough to let them catch breath and glide away from the speakers for a few moments, before Frusin and Johnstone would knuckle down and write yet more beautiful melodies for beautiful losers. This is a rocknroll classic which will whip the wigs off all the crystalline clowns today. Includes a bonus full-length disc of additional material (compilation tracks, previously unreleased material, etc.), plus a 24-page booklet with notes and photos." -Bo Weavil/Fire. |
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Artist: GARBAGE & THE FLOWERS, THE Title: Eyes Rind As If Beggars Format: Double LP & CD Label: Bo Weavil/Fire Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "Fire Records & Bo Weavil Recordings are extremely proud to present the long-awaited re-issue of The Garbage & The Flowers classic double album Eyes Rind As If Beggars, a sprawling collection of fragile melodies, abrasive improvisations and velvet voices. The story of The Garbage & The Flowers, by some measure Wellingtons most brilliant pop band, is equal parts classic underground rocknroll and a hazy ramshackle history pockmarked with bursts of genius and stoned rehearsals. Rare is it for any band to garner so much underground acclaim while leading such a nebulous existence. A small handful of releases, compilation appearances and few live shows make for a curious stop/start history. Tension can produce the goods and tension was what watered The Garbage & The Flowers. Yuri Frusin (guitar, songwriting) and Helen Johnstone (viola, vocals, now bass) met in their teens sometime in the 1980s. Naming themselves after a line in Leonard Cohens "Suzanne" and taking cues from The Velvet Underground, the band has existed in some shape or form since, with help from Paul Yates, Heath Cozens, Torben Tilly, Rachel Davies, Kristen Wineera, and Stuart Porter. When asked recently about the group, original drummer Tilly offers a particularly apt description of their sound: "What I loved about the music we created is that it sounded like it had come from somewhere faraway, that it had traveled a lot of distance and gathered some dust and debris along the way. That said, despite its unhinged qualities we were never really a noise-band even though some strange and beautiful electromagnetic noise would make it to tape. Most of the time it was all deeply rooted in a song." This, of course, is one of the greatest parts of The Garbage & The Flowers charm. They really did seem out there, on their own, absorbed in their own world, dropping gem after gem of fractal noise-pop onto slowly corroding four-track cassettes, willing these songs into existence just long enough to let them catch breath and glide away from the speakers for a few moments, before Frusin and Johnstone would knuckle down and write yet more beautiful melodies for beautiful losers. This is a rocknroll classic which will whip the wigs off all the crystalline clowns today. Includes a bonus full-length disc of additional material (compilation tracks, previously unreleased material, etc.), plus a 24-page booklet with notes and photos." -Bo Weavil/Fire. |
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Artist: COLE, BRUCE Title: Venusian Plateaus Format: 7 Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| 1997 release from 1/2 of the Screaming Mee Mees. |
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Artist: FIVE STARCLE MEN Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "These guys are idiots. Why did they make this? Why? Why? Why? High in the fuckwad pantheon stands this collection of brain drainers. Just say "Oscar Jenkins" 50,000 times at variable speeds. This record proves the whole universe fits on the tip of a needle and is injected regularly. R.I.P. Glen Hobbs, long live Pizza Hut families." - Dusted. |
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Artist: FOR EVERY RIVER BURIED Title: For Every River Buried Format: LP Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Often mistook for the sequel to "This Skin is Rust" (the "legendary" double LP by TWENTY SIX) due to the similar Corwoodian cover art.. but this is an unrelated release. A song cycle with layered acoustic guitars, recorder, vocals." - Bobby J. "... with enough anonymous mystique to look good in any young persons burgeoning collection." - Opprobrium. Late 90s release. |
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Artist: HELLER, ANNE Title: Fountain of Annihilation Format: LP Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "This is a very harrowing, very out record. The title track covers all of side one, and it is a heaving, heavily-effected monolith of sound, which as the needle draws closer to the inherent black hole of the record, seems to pulverize all the sounds and grooves and then shoot them back out at you as tiny sonic shrapnel. Side two is broken up into more readily digestible pieces, an d showcases Ms. Hellers ability to coax sounds out of clarinet, guitar, theremin, keyboard, castanets, and tapes, all to varying degrees of effect. A track like Vestigial Digit features some low-in-the-mix guitar laid under a wigged and sinister keyboard quiver. Phosphene Damage on a Primal Wave harkens back to the tapestry of side one. The tape insects of the last piece let you down and show you the door back out to the silence." - Luna Kafe. |
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Artist: LOW END LARS Title: Crystal/Arcade/Supertsar Format: 7" Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "More madness from the madman of Lars. Two scorching completely in-the-red gutbucket blues rock stomping mumblers on one side.. Ultra stereo Pong electronics bounce from the flip." - Bobby J. Mid-90s release. |
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Artist: LOW END LARS Title: s/t (a.k.a Indian Head) Format: LP Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "An ethereal excursion manned primarily by reverb-soaked guitar, Low End Lars plays s ome mind expanding downer space-core that either makes you feel like youre on drugs or ups the ante on that last dose you took." - Luna Kafe. Mid 90s release. |
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Artist: SIMEON Title: Sleepy Eyes Format: LP Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "This is a plaintive and personal, yet inexplicably pop record. Stand-outs for me lie in the sprawl of longer songs like The Wind and Sweat Me (both side one) that combine the cryptic whispers and skitters of Skip Spences Grey/Afro with the boop-teet of a drum machine. Simeon is truly doing something very different, very personal, and is already far down that Misunderstood Highway. Pick him up, for his thumb and his record is out." - Luna Kafe. Late 90s release. |
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Artist: STAKED PLAIN Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Alberta, Canadas Staked Plain is what appears to be a toy-instrument ensemble of tiny guitars, potnpan percussion, bells, and a lo-fi dose of feedback... not too far from The Shadow Ring, Captain Beefheart, or fellow Canadian oddballs The Nihilist Spasm Band." "Super outsider stumble rock noise stoned sound transmissions from the mid 90s including Vancouver artist Shayne Ehman & Joshua Stevenson (later of Magnetic Ring, Cast Exotic Archives, & JOMF) as members.. comes with full-color comic/art/w.t.f. zine insert... " -Bobby J |
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Artist: TONALAMOTL Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "San Antonio mystery improv troupe. Early recordings of living-room blast-offs and AMM/ESP inspired wanderings..." -Bobby J. Late 90s release. |
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Artist: TWENTY SIX Title: This Skin is Rust Format: Double LP Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $38.00 |
| "The concept of the double album is all but lost these days. W/ CDs clocking in at 70+ minutes, its only logical that the vinyl version would have to be two discs, so naturally, there are more dull dbl-LPs now than ever. Of course, even before CDs ruined the format, it was still primarily used to cash in on something - the live LP, the career retrospective - but the dbl-LP as a non-negotiable statement of "what it is", not "fill it up" those are pretty few & far between. Personally Ive always been kindve into that statement - not the vinyl equivalent - the idea that said bulk of work has to be released as is because of some sortve linear transformation within. You know what I mean? For instance, I would say the two best example s of this in the 90s have been Lake & Harsh Seventies Reality. Not far down the path - & especially for the latter 90s - would be this. Its probably safe to assume that Mr Twenty-Six has been w/in earshot of both those releases, but no matter, the vectors on this here still point back to his basement. What I particularly like about this are the long, exorbitant breaths that are taken. The banding on the vinyl would have you believe that there are many different pieces - there are - but they move inconspicuously in & outve each other, like hemp-laced tether balls floating through plumes of pigmentary smoke in some anonymous, non-gravitational netherworld. It can be downright numbing at times. And while I cannot say for sure that anything on here consciously nods in the direction of fellow Texans Jandek or Charalambides, its staying power is certainly more up to par w/ them than, say, Stars Of The Lid or any of that ambient punk clone crap currently making the rounds. Go ahead & blab all you want about the Krautrock mumblings emitted, Ill still shove it in the pile closer to the This Heat records than anything else. Now theres a band who shouldve made a dbl-LP. There arent too many names to add to that list. The list of those who shouldnt have - well now, that list is very long. And growing." - Tom Lax / Opprobrium (1995). |
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Artist: V/A Title: BJ#64 Format: Double 7" Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "One side each by King Frog, Crank Sturgeon, Wham-O, Pork Queen. Beautiful cover art by Pork Queens Miss Devon." -Bobby J. 1995 release. |
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Artist: WHUMP Title: #1 Format: Mag/Double 7 Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Printed in 1995. 100-page magazine featuring interviews with Smog, Caroliner, Noggin, Charlie McAlister, Soul-Junk, Paste/Dennis Callaci/Shrimper, Memphis Goons, Bruce Cole (of the Screaming Mee-Mees), Five Starcle Men, Charalambides, Harry Pussy. Record features all of the aforementioned (except for Smog.) Also has comics and other randomness..." -Whump. |
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Artist: ROBERT PIOTROWICZ/C.M. VON HAUSSWOLF Title: Split Format: LP Label: Bocian Country: Poland Price: $32.00 |
| ROBERT PIOTROWICZs single long track, "Clinamen 3" continues his study of the analog modular synthesizer. The first movement is characterized by a high-frequency tone and an erratic rhythmic bass pulse that slowly build to a wall of symphonic roar. The second movement, a low-end, dark passage, infests the symphonic leads with a sense of evil and menace, the two writhing together in a horror movie haze. The third goes all out, mixing a low end thump with a siren melody lead, dropping subtlety in favor of pure force, before going out like a lamb with a short, simple melodic coda. The first of C.M. VON HAUSSWOLFs quiet, textural studies of sound, "Ritual Shaving of an Ass in Belgium (aka Eating A Piranha Wouldnt Be So Bad The Way Things Are These Days)," is based on loops composed for an installation performance. The textures are light and scratchy, with careful variation on the crunchy textures, with the vaguest insinuation of bass hidden. "Ritual Shaving of an Ass in Poland (aka The Snoring Innocence)," is rawer, static, heavy, and abrasive. With extraneous sounds and audience conversations captured on ragged audio tape, its mangled, worn, decaying nature gives it an historical, hollow quality. Edition of 200." - Bocian. |
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Artist: HAIR STYLISTICS Title: AM 5:00 + Format: Double CD Label: Boid Country: Japan Price: $29.00 |
| "Hair Stylistics (a.k.a. Violent Onsen Geisha, Masaya NAKAHARA) Profile: Born in 1970 at Tokyo, Nakahara started making music with MTR and sampler around 88, He released his first split LP from the U.S. independent label RRRecords as Violent Onsen Geisha in 90. He released unique records such as "OTIS" and "QUE SERA SERA (THINGS GO FROM BAD TO WORSE)" in mid 90s. Nakahara changed his artist name from "Violent Onsen Geisha" to "Hair Stylistics" in 97. The long-awaited latest album "custom cook confused death" was released in 04. Along with musical activities, he is known as a film critic and a book "Lost Memories of Cinema" cowritten with a novelist Kazushige ABE is just out. He also started writing novels in 94 with "Mari and Fifis Massacre Song Book?. "Bouquets of Flowers Everywhere" got Mishima Yukio Prize in 01. He was nominated for the Akutagawa Award in 06. He is attracting much attention as a novelist recently." "Hair Stylistics (a.k.a. Violent Onsen Geisha, Masaya NAKAHARA) long-awaited new album! Including 2 CDs with a poster by Masaya NAKAHARA, limited only 1,000 editions! The disc I "AM 5:00" is a live recording for 74 minutes which started in his apartment at 5:00 AM as the title says. The disc 2 consists of 3 commissioned works and 15 new tracks reconstructed from many recordings at various places in recent years. Both CDs are multi-track recording with analog tape machines without using any digital recording/mixing technique. "This is my small resistance to all that are made by copy-and-paste of digital data." (Nakahara) This inconvenience (= blood, sweat & tears) makes the sound vast and microscopic. The double CDs are packaged in a special 7" paper cover with a sticker and a gate-folded poster made by Nakahara." - boid. |
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Artist: HAIR STYLISTICS Title: Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.2: Gracia A La Viva Format: CD Label: Boid Country: Japan Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: HAIR STYLISTICS Title: Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.3:Hard Marchen Format: CD Label: Boid Country: Japan Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: HAIR STYLISTICS Title: Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.4:Electric Success In The Ghetto Format: CD Label: Boid Country: Japan Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: PYLON Title: Keep Your Melody Hands On My Burning Gems Format: 7" Label: Boing Being Country: Finland Price: $6.00 |
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"Pylon (not the Athens, USA act but their Finnish namesakes) drew their sleeve themselves and made something psychedelic out of it. And thats how they sound too, with lots of LSD-sounds-on-reverb. Imagine Spacious Mind or St. Mikael (Pylons "Moving zorros" is a bit folkish) without the songs and without any heavy guitar at hand, just for the wooden sound, in an experimental workshop somewhere, and add some 1967 lysergics from Middle Earth. "Keep Your Melody..." features five weird but wonderful instrumentals which echo what Syd Barrett must have been feeling like while all that craziness on Recommended was happening in the eighties..." - (pv) / u zine.
"And yet another fine blat from the woods of Finland: Pylon are a duo who combine the lost campfire ethos of some neo-no wavers currently making the rounds. How they arrived at the synthetic mix contained on "Keep Your Melody Hands On My Burning Gems" is something that I am unable to explain, but it is equally difficult to ignore the strange mucus-laden braying of this platter. The sleeve claims that it is Pylons fifth "album", but this is presumed to be a canard. It is very unlikely that a group this odd could have escaped attention for four entire releases." - Byron Coley/The Wire.
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Artist: PYLON Title: Rocks And Whips Format: CDR Label: Boing Being Country: Finland Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: SUURIN ONNI Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Boing Being Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| ⿿I only compose music that makes me feel home says Kusti and yes, that is exactly how this record will make you feel. Being around for eigth years, we finally proudly present the band⿿s debut album. By sounding nothing but themselves they perform gentle free improvised jazz with folk influences - three calm horns with occasional outbursts wander above hypnotic five-piece rhyhtm section. These are timeless compositions that will most likely put smile on your face and save your day, week and year. Edition of 400 pcs." - Boing Being |
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Artist: V/A Title: GLÿMP8 Format: Book Label: Boing Being Country: Finland Price: $24.00 |
| "232 pages of new Finnish comics in full colour featuring Sami Aho, Benjamin Bergman, Roope Eronen, Jyrki Heikkinen, Ina Kallis, Anna-Kaisa Laine, Jan Konsin, Reijo Kärkkäinen, Jarno Latva-Nikkola, Ville Loponen, Piirustuskerho, Hanneriina Moisseinen, Tommi Musturi, Pauliina Mäkelä, Jyrki Nissinen, Henna Raitala, Katri Sipiläinen, Kasper Strömman, Janne Tervamäki, Jari Vaara and Amanda Vähämäki. Edition of 800." - Boing Being. |
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Artist: SINGH, CHARANJIT Title: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat Format: Double LP Label: Bombay Connection Country: Netherlands Price: $27.00 |
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"Until recently it wasnt much more than some rumors on the web: an LP called Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat featuring acid house avant la lettre, that was recorded in 1982 in India, 5 years before the first acid house record, Acid Trax by Phuture. It was even rumored to be a prank spawned by Richard D. James (Aphex Twin). So it turns out, the record was no rumor. Only a few hundred copies of the LP were ever pressed, and only a handful seem to have survived. Moreover, the LP outdoes all expectations. Performed on the synths that would later define acid house, the Roland TB-303 and TR-808, the album sounds light years ahead of its time with its repetitive beats and hypnotic electronic melodies. Its maker, Bollywood session musician Charanjit Singh (featured on Sublime Frequencies Bollywood Steel Guitar compilation), set out to translate ancient Indian classical ragas to the modern synthesizer and in doing so invented house music along the way. The 10 tracks make a consistent listen from A to Z. Its restrained minimalism and lack of cheesiness makes it incredibly contemporary, sounding animated, fluid and unabashedly alive. Includes extended liner notes on Charanjit Singh and the context in which the album was recorded. "...a haunting, exotic prefiguration of acids steely futurism, a bit like Kraftwerk live at the Taj Mahal, somehow summoned from the past but envisioning the future at the same time." - Resident Advisor.
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Artist: BRIGMAN, GEORGE Title: Jungle Rot Format: CD Label: Bona Fide Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"George Brigmans 1975 debut LP, Jungle Rot, may well be the last great American 1970s underground LP of its stature and power (as both Grail collectable and musical monster) to never to have received a legitimate reissue -- until now! As an eighteen year-old songwriter and guitarist with big ambitions, Baltimores Brigman cut Jungle Rot thirty years ago as a privately pressed LP on his own Solid Records label, making this raw fuzz guitar, acid-blues rough diamond gem his first release. Amazingly, this is the first legit (from original masters) reissue to ever appear, and the sound quality exceeds the original (poorly mastered and pressed) release in every way. Upon hearing this LP, youll wonder why Jungle Rot hasnt been shouted from the roof tops in every Blue Cheer, Groundhogs and Stooges-loving ghetto the last three decades. Jungle Rot is a truly remarkable record that exudes as much youthful wisdom and vision as it does brash aggressiveness and angst. You will be amazed at how contemporary, yet lost in time, much of this material sounds." - Bona Fide. Official 2005 reissue.
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Artist: BRIGMAN, GEORGE & THE SPLIT Title: I Can Hear The Ants Dancin Format: CD Label: Bona Fide Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "The buzz around Baltimores George Brigman first began in the mid 70s when an 18 year-old George self-released his first LP Jungle Rot, a wicked mess of wahwah distortion and mutant blues. That LP quickly gained cult status as it was quite unlike anything else around that time. Georges reputation was solidified even more with 1982s cassette I Can Hear the Ants Dancin which due to popular demand worldwide was reissued by Or Records on vinyl in 1995. For the first time ever, all of the George Brigman and Split recordings from 1977 are assembled in one 72 minute package featuring fourteen minutes of previously unavailable material, unpublished color photos and liner notes which explain the Brigman mystique. The original Ants Dancin is expanded by ten extra songs which fully showcase the remarkable songwriting and guitar playing of a truly unique talent who earned his cult status. Quiet, dreamy songs alternate with flat out fuzz fried rockers to create a potent web of sound like no other. It is no wonder why the buzz continues to grow around George." - Bona Fide. |
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Artist: COHEN, IRA Title: The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda Format: DVD Label: Boo-Hooray Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Ira Cohen s 1968 film The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda is brought to you by Boo-Hooray as a fully restored directors cut DVD. Edition of 500 copies. High-quality transfer from the original 16mm film, with color correction supervised by the director (22 min) with soundtrack remastered by Tim Barnes, featuring The Universal Mutant Repertory Company (Loren Standlee, Ziska Baum, Angus MacLise, Hetty MacLise, Raja Samayana, Tony Conrad, Henry Flynt and Jackson MacLow). DVD features
“From The Mylar Chamber,” an original slideshow of 60 mylar photographs with soundtrack by Angus MacLise and original poetry by Ira Cohen. J. Hoberman in the Mar. 16, 2006 Village Voice: “Part Dr. Strange, part Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, [The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda is] so High 60s that you emerge from its 20-minute vision perched full-lotus on a cloud of incense, chatting with a white rabbit and smoking a banana…. Invasion is a languidly opiated costume ball in which an assortment of masked and painted bohos, some sporting outsize elf ears, loll about a candlelit, Mylar-lined set, blowing soap bubbles and nibbling majoon. …In lieu of action, Cohen uses all manner of superimposition and prismatic image-splitting; his big effect, however, is the deliquescent Mylar reflection. What saves Invasion from preciosity is the vague menace of Angus MacLises improvised pan-piping, tabla-tapping, creature-yipping score. Although this masterpiece of Tibetan-Moroccan-Druidic trance music was reissued on CD several years ago, it truly blossoms in conjunction with the exotic smorgasbord served at Cohens psychedelicatessen.” - Boo-Hooray.
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Artist: ENDLESS BOOGIE & SPENCER SWEENEY Title: 20 Minute Jam Getting Out of the City Format: LP Label: Boo-Hooray Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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"20 Minute Jam Getting Out of the City, a bootleg LP of Endless Boogie.
Available in a standard edition of 400 copies with silkscreened cover art by Spencer Sweeney.
The deluxe artist edition of 100 copies, each in a sleeve handpainted by Spencer Sweeney, is SOLD OUT." - Boo-Hooray. SIDE A: 1. Mac Gänger 2. Sweet Swamp Mama 3. Vibe Killer SIDE B: 1. Racister LIMIT ONE PER PERSON SOLD OUT
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Artist: HAMBURGER, NEIL Title: "Alive (with pleasure)" At Taylor Brigodes Bachelor Party.. Format: 7" Label: Boo-Hooray Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| ..Recorded Live in the Party Room at Arcadias Zelo Pizzeria, Friday, May 13th, 2011. "An unauthorized live recording of world-famous Neil Hamburger at Taylor Brigodes bachelor party. Hamburger delivered both classic gags and brand-new zingers to a half-full Party Room at Zelo Pizzeria in Arcadia, California. Hear all of the tasteless shenanigans that ruined poor Taylors pizza party on this collectable 7" pink vinyl disc. First 25 000 copies come in a limited and numbered picture sleeve." - Boo-Hooray. |
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Artist: MACLISE, ANGUS Title: Dreamweapon Exhibition Catalog: The Art and Life of Angus MacLise Format: Book Label: Boo-Hooray Country: USA Price: $38.00 |
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"Standard edition of the DREAMWEAPON exhibit catalog with texts by Lou Reed, La Monte Young, Ira Cohen, plus exhibit curators Johan Kugelberg and Will Swofford Cameron. This edition includes a laid in memorial letterpress broadside commemorating Ira Cohen, reprinting a 1976 ode to Cohen by Angus MacLise. The broadside printed by Jon Beacham/The Brother In Elysium Press. Edition of 1000. 120 pages/Full color/Perfect bound." - Boo-Hooray.
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Artist: MACLISE, ANGUS/HETTY MACLISE Title: Dreamweapon II - Secret History Format: LP Label: Boo-Hooray Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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"DREAMWEAPON II features previously-unreleased material by Angus and Hetty MacLise from the Angus MacLise audio archive. Also includes a risograph-printed facsimile of YEAR, a broadside poster by Angus MacLise originally issued in 1965. In a screen-printed sleeve, limited to 500 unnumbered copies. Cover - "Secret History" by Dana Young. Back Cover - "Griffon Colony, Varanasi" by Ira Cohen. Previously available as an extremely limited run as a giveaway CD-R exclusively at the opening of the DREAMWEAPON exhibit in May. This LP release features significantly extended and remastered versions of four of the tracks from the DREAMWEAPON II giveaway CD-R." - Boo-Hooray. A1:Bash Bish (Berkshires Group, ca. 1968-1969) 1"42" A2:November 1965 (Angus MacLise (Bell) and Hetty MacLise (organ)) 16"26" A3:Untitled (Angus MacLise, cymbal & drum; no date) 2"40" B1:Organ Expo 1969 18"58" LIMIT ONE PER PERSON |
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Artist: MACLISE, ANGUS/JACK SMITH/TONY CONRAD Title: Dreamweapon I Format: LP Label: Boo-Hooray Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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"Boo-Hooray has re-pressed Dreamweapon I & III to commemorate the opening of the Angus MacLise - Dreamweapon exhibit at CIAP-Hasselt, Belgium. Live recordings of Angus MacLise, Tony Conrad, and Jack Smith from the MacLise tape archive. In a silkscreened sleeve. The second pressing includes a risograph-printed 8 page booklet of the text to "Les Evening Gowns Damnees" illustrated with a reproduction of one side of an original Theatre of Jack Smith promotional brochure." - Boo-Hooray. First edition of 500 (black cover) - SOLD OUT Second edition of 500 (blue and pink cover) A1: Les Evening Gowns Damnees (December 20 1964) 16"48" B1: S.O.S. (Ca. 1968) 13"28" |
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Artist: MACLISE, ANGUS/TONY CONRAD Title: Dreamweapon III Format: LP Label: Boo-Hooray Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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"Boo-Hooray has re-pressed Dreamweapon I & III to commemorate the opening of the Angus MacLise - Dreamweapon exhibit at CIAP-Hasselt, Belgium. Previously-unheard recordings of Angus MacLise and Tony Conrad from the MacLise tape archives. In a silkscreened sleeve. This second pressing also includes a risograph-printed facsimile of an annotated flier advertising a 1965 performance of Angus MacLises multimedia piece "Rites of the Dreamweapon." - Boo- Hooray. First edition of 500 (purple cover) - SOLD OUT Second edition of 500 (blue cover) A1: Untitled (recorded October 18 1968 at Tony Conrads apartment) 15"27" B1: Short Drum and Viola part 1 & 2 (ca. 1969) 4"49" B2:Druid"s Leafy Nest (undated) 7"26" B3:Early Jams (undated) 6"46" |
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Artist: RIMBAUD, PENNY & LOUISE ELLIOT Title: Not Them/Not Us Format: 7" Label: Boo-Hooray Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"Penny Rimbaud is a poet, drummer, writer, former member of the performance art group EXIT and co-founder of the anarchist punk band Crass, with Steve Ignorant in 1977.
He also set up the anarchist/pacifist Dial House community in 1967 with Gee Vaucher and Phil Russell and helped to instigate the free festival movement.
An ardent, articulate and still angry polemicist, his works include Reality Asylum, Rocky Eyed and Oh America. Says Rimbaud of his own legacy: "our response to things wasnt a musician or a lyrical response, it was a political response."
Louise Elliott an Australian tenor saxophonist and has performed with a wealth of international musicians. Originally known for her appearances with cult rock outfits Laughing Clowns, The Saints, Ed Kuepper and Paul Kelly, Louise has a fiery commitment to inspiring and energetic live performance which has been referred to in the media as "her profoundly diverse smorgasbord of funk, blues and rock" and "an African inspired jazz explosion". She has played with Penny Rimbaud for 9 years." - Seomra Spraoi.
"A 7" record of a new piece of poetry and music by poet and Crass co-founder Penny Rimbaud and Louise Elliott, with cover art by Gee Vaucher. Published jointly by Boo-Hooray and Exitstencil Press in an edition of 500 copies." - Boo-Hooray. |
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Artist: STERLING, LINDER & JON SAVAGE Title: The Secret Public: The Montage Art of Jon Savage and Linder Sterling, 1976-1981 Format: Book Label: Boo-Hooray Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"The Boo-Hooray gallery is happy to announce an exhibit of the punk-era collage/montage work of Jon Savage and Linder Sterling. Jon Savage is the noted author of Englands Dreaming and Teenage. Linder Sterling (of LUDUS) is a visual, performance and installation artist represented in the Tate permanent collection.
Jon Savage and Linder published the art fanzine The Secret Public in Manchester during the first month of 1978. It was the second New Hormones product-- catalogue number ORG 2-- after the Buzzcocks already iconic Spiral Scratch, and was distributed through Rough Trade and other independent outlets.This was followed by the portfolio Mixed Media Montages published in late 1978.
Some of these images originally appeared as flyers and as posters for the Buzzcocks, Joy Division, Magazine and Factory Records circa 1977-1980.
The exhibit catalogue is available for sale in regular edition, limited to 500 copies, and deluxe boxed edition with facsimiles and silkscreens." - Boo-Hooray. Regular edition available. Full color, glossy, numbered edition of 500.
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Artist: DESTROY ALL MONSTERS Title: Geisha This Format: Book Label: Book Beat Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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Artist: MOTION SICKNESS OF TIME TRAVEL Title: The Perennials Format: LP Label: Boomkat Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Motion Sickness Of Time Travel makes fuzzy eyes for the dancefloor on her sublime debut for Boomkat Editions. The Perennials is Rachel Evans eagerly-awaited follow-up to her eponymous LP for Spectrum Spools, channeling her celestial energies into concise and emotive ambient-pop arrangements on the cusp of progressive 90s trance. Taking in a handful of gorgeous songs ranging from pastoral instrumentals to strobing arpeggio surfers and sweeping mini bleep symphonies, she isolates a feeling or vibe hovering between the alien horizons of Tangerine Dream and Laurie Spiegel and the heart-aching cinematic yearn of Angelo Badalamenti and Julee Cruise at their best for David Lynch. From the Icarus-like trance ascension of opener "Efflorescence," she makes a deeply endearing virtue of divining unresolved tension between cosmic ambition and lo-fi willpower, defying its teasing gravity to ride pockets of thermal energy with siren-like chicanery on the radiant "The Reynard and the Vixen," while the neo-tantrik positivism of "Foggy Morning" consolidates the compatible dimensions of Laurel Halo and Suzanne Ciani with bittersweet effect beside the lushly heightened sensuality of "The Chord and the Centre." Ultimately its as close as weve seen MSOTT get to the dancefloor, a direction we reckon she should continue to explore. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Alechemy. Limited to 500 individually-numbered copies." -Boomkat. |
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Artist: JOYNSON, VERNON Title: Fuzz, Acid & Flowers Revisited Format: Book Label: Borderline Books Country: UK Price: $130.00 |
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"The ultimate guide to U.S. psych/garage/hippie rock! Deluxe, gold-foil-embossed faux-leather hardback! Limited edition 750 machine-numbered copies only!!! Originally published in paperback, this is the most detailed guide to US psychedelia, garage and hippie-rock of the 1964-1975 era ever published! It provides an A-Z listing of relevant artists with discographies, personnel details, band histories, comment on the music and, in some cases, includes the personal recollections of band members. Individual entries also include details of reissues, appearances on retrospective compilations and chart entries. There is also a rarity scale for albums. At the end of the book, which has been assembled with the help of avid record collectors, there is a list of all compilations referred to with the label details and year of release as well as discographies for three leading sixties reissue labels: Sundazed, Gear Fab and Akarma. The book is lavishly illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations and there is also a twelve-page color section."- Borderline Books
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Artist: JOYNSON, VERNON Title: Tapestry of Delights Revisited Format: Book Label: Borderline Books Country: UK Price: $77.00 |
| "A seriously expanded version of the original. Tapestry of Delights! This is a completely revised and updated version of a book originally published in 1995, when it was nominated as the 4th Best Music Book of 95 by Record Collector and described as an impressive 600 page job that includes more across the board info than most rock encyclopedias by Q Magazine. Since then many entries have been rewritten, more have been added and all have been updated to include relevant releases since 1995. This perfect bound book is 978 pages, whereas the previous edition was (paltry?) 632 pages, plus it contains a 12-page color section. Expected to be the definitive publication on British beat, garage, psychedelia, R&B, progressive rock, Merseybeat, folk, folk-rock, jazz-rock, blues-rock, freakbeat & glam-rock. It will contain personnel details, discographies, artist histories, biographical information, musical analysis and compilation listings in the same format as earlier editions, but in some entries there are recollections from band members. Individual entries also include details of reissues and retrospective compilations. Profusely illustrated with photos and album covers and with an updated international rarity scale. Collectors and 60s/70s rock fans will not want to miss this!" -Borderline |
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Artist: 18:E OKTOBER Title: Kulturvetarnas Kongress Format: LP Label: Borft Country: Sweden Price: $18.00 |
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"For the first time ever, 18:E OKTOBER on vinyl! Recorded under the period 1985-1988. Everything is previously unreleased but the sound is quit familar with their old tapes but why did these beuties never came out? Nevermind, this is old Swedish electropop with clatchy melodies, minimal analog synth music... Lim Ed 300x" - Borft
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Artist: ALVARS ORKESTER Title: Apparaat Format: Cass Label: Borft Country: Sweden Price: $7.50 |
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Artist: ENHANTA BODLAR Title: Akustisk Boldpest Format: LP Label: Borft Country: Sweden Price: $18.00 |
| "Swedish cult band, started 1982 by Udda Buddah and X.Terminator (Lille Roger). The material on this album is the first ever recorded since the 80´s and without X.Terminator. This is a doomsday-party album! Crazy overloaded sounds, odd beats, processed lyrics on Swedish... Lim Ed 300x." - Borft. |
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Artist: FRAK Title: Love Beyond Synth Saga Format: LP Label: Borft Country: Sweden Price: $18.00 |
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"Material previously unreleased from the era Frak sounded dreamy sometimes psychedelic and very electro blip blop. Everything is recorded 1991 at Studio Styrka (wich is still active).Now when almost all the old tapereleases by FRAK is gone this is a good chance to hear their past...Lim Ed 300x" - Borft
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Artist: GIFFONI, CARLOS Title: Opening the Gates Format: LP Label: Borft Country: Sweden Price: $18.00 |
| "For you who not know this is the guy behing the extreme festival "No Fun" in New York. Two long pieces containing pure analog synthesizer psychedelia. If you like Paul Kelday this is recommended but it is more destructive and primitive...) Lim Ed 300x" - Borft. |
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Artist: KELDAY, PAUL Title: Computer Dream Format: 7" Label: Borft Country: Sweden Price: $7.00 |
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Keldays been making experimental electronic music since the 70s and has had releases on Colin Potters ICR label. This single was released in 1992 in a numbered edition of 200 copies. "analog sounds from space..." - Borft.
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Artist: KELDAY, PAUL Title: Odznsodz Format: Cass Label: Borft Country: Sweden Price: $6.50 |
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Keldays been making experimental electronic music since 70s and has had releases on Colin Potters ICR label. This cassette was released in 1992 but features tracks from 80 - 85. "analog sounds from space..." - Borft.
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Artist: NJURM�ANNEN Title: Vemar Pavul Format: LP Label: Borft Country: Sweden Price: $20.00 |
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"Finally, Njurmännens first release from 1984 now available on Vinyl LP. For all of you that not have heard the tape this is the time to discover the roots of Njurmännen and other who have heard it you know its a great piece of Swedish electronic music hisory. This Album contains nice electro-pop melodies, real experimental raw songs and sounds for horrow movies...Lim Ed 400x." - Borft
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Artist: TRANSCENDENTAL AURAL MESSENGERS Title: Coded Message Format: Triple Cass Label: Borft Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
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"psychedelic music from england,super !" - Borft. Edition of 50. 1993 release.
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Artist: V/A Title: Unlucky For Them A Format: Cass Label: Borft Country: Sweden Price: $10.00 |
| "international noise-comp; Mohr, Disumana Rez, Etat des stocks, DSIP, Alvars Orkester, Paul Kelday, A.B.O., PPP, Nux Vomica, New 7th Music (previous releases on Colin Potters ICR label and Bourbonese Qualks Recloose Organization), Smell & Quim, Las cometras alegres. c-60." - Borft . Numbered edition of 75, released in 1992. Last copies.. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Most Unwanted - Electronic Compilation 2006 Format: LP Label: Borft/UFO Mongo Country: Sweden Price: $16.50 |
| "The first compilation LP on UFO MONGO is now completed. Experimental music, noise & crazyness from: Interzone inc, Treriksröset, CPU, Jeanne Fremaux, Inyurmania, Maor Appelbaum, Alvars orkester, Commando Laarz, Goz mongo alliance, Smell & quim, En halvkokt i folie, Eugenics council, FDASFDA, Five o´clock traffic, Sewer election & Enema syringe." - Borft/UFO Mongo. |
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Artist: ABO Title: Abo Format: 7" Label: Borft/UFO Mungo Country: Sweden Price: $6.50 |
| "Dirty lo-fi noise recorded 89-93 by this old Borft co-operator. lim ed 200x there are two different covers. one that may cause an allergic reaction and one that dont.." - UFO Mungo. These, i guess, are the ones that may cause an allergic reaction - cool stapled panels that look like they were taken out of a hundred year old home. |
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Artist: ALVARS ORKESTER Title: Pace/Dapper Format: One Sided LP Label: Borft/UFO Mungo Country: Sweden Price: $16.00 |
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"A.O. now breaking the silece after years of sleeping, we have been in the studio and working with new dark psychedelic electronics & noise but this release is not the result of that.... On this you will find two of our works from 1997 previously unreleased, I know.. but we just had to release this one, the sound will show just the end of what we recently continued with, a teaser.." - Borft. Numbered edition of 150 copies.
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Artist: BLODFET Title: Ride The Dysfunctional Beat Format: LP Label: Borft/UFO Mungo Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
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"2003 a solo album from one of the heads in Enema & Gejonte, that means a lot of fun & bizzarre electronics. lim ed 300x LP" - Borft/UFO Mungo.
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Artist: ENEMA SYRINGE Title: Screaming Fish Format: 7" Label: Borft/UFO Mungo Country: Sweden Price: $7.50 |
| "Second vinyl-report from the E.S. era, this one contains 3 trax that should have been included on the Album. Lack of space made it possible to do an extra 7". The sound is pretty much similar to the sound on the lp, analog synth terror, cut-ups, toy instruments and crazy lyrics on Swedish. First 70 orders will get a special numbered and signed picture of a skin-disease. The whole edition is limited to 250x " - Borft. |
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Artist: KELDAY, PAUL Title: One Dimensional Format: LP Label: Borft/UFO Mungo Country: Sweden Price: $20.00 |
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Kelday was on many important early 80s experimental comps like "The Elephant Table Album", "New Babel", "Journey to the End of the Night", "Sudden Departure", "Slaughter of the Innocent", etc.. and had cassette releases on Colin Potters Integrated Circuits label. "Tracks are choosen from a period mostely recorded in 1985 but even as late as 1990. Some of the tracks has been available on tapes and compilations but even some exclusive material appears on this album. The sound is as usual with Paul Kelday very dark analog synth music, spaced out and psychedelic atmosphear. The Lp is limited to 300 copys." - UFO Mungo.
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Artist: ALVARS ORKESTER Title: Alphabet Fanatics Format: 7" Label: Borft/UFO Mungo/Idea Country: Sweden Price: $8.00 |
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"The Swedish duo Alvars Orkester, consiting of Joachim Nordwall & Jan Svensson, here remixing and working sound material of The Members of Tinnitus and the English weird-noise-actionists Smell & Quim. The result is psychadelic ambient electronics." - Idea.
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Artist: BEBEY, FRANCIS Title: African Electronic Music 1975-1982 Format: Double LP Label: Born Bad Country: France Price: $28.00 |
| "Cameroonian musician Francis Bebey is truly one of a kind. He entered the music scene with his African compositions for classical guitar. He gave recitals while pursuing a career in journalism and then as an international civil servant. The same creative impulse also led him to write pop songs, some of which (based on novels he had written) became big hits in Africa and in the French-speaking world. But few people know that in the 70s, Francis Bebey delved into electronic music. The first electronic keyboards, organs and drum machines offered him new possibilities of totally controlling his compositions. He embraced the technique of "sound on sound" recording (recording several tracks, sequentially juxtaposed on the same tape). This new stage in his musical career included the production of several records (Savannah Georgia, New Track, Haiti), rarities both for their creative explorations as well as their manifestations on vinyl. This was a particularly rich period for him, as he tested the limitless possibilities of the medium, and made use of surprising and novel instruments. Incredible sounds -- in the literal sense of the word -- would soon appear on the planet Bebey. Full-color printed innersleeves with notes in English and French." -Born Bad. |
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Artist: BEBEY, FRANCIS Title: African Electronic Music 1975-1982 Format: CD Label: Born Bad Country: France Price: $16.00 |
| "Cameroonian musician Francis Bebey is truly one of a kind. He entered the music scene with his African compositions for classical guitar. He gave recitals while pursuing a career in journalism and then as an international civil servant. The same creative impulse also led him to write pop songs, some of which (based on novels he had written) became big hits in Africa and in the French-speaking world. But few people know that in the 70s, Francis Bebey delved into electronic music. The first electronic keyboards, organs and drum machines offered him new possibilities of totally controlling his compositions. He embraced the technique of "sound on sound" recording (recording several tracks, sequentially juxtaposed on the same tape). This new stage in his musical career included the production of several records (Savannah Georgia, New Track, Haiti), rarities both for their creative explorations as well as their manifestations on vinyl. This was a particularly rich period for him, as he tested the limitless possibilities of the medium, and made use of surprising and novel instruments. Incredible sounds -- in the literal sense of the word -- would soon appear on the planet Bebey. CD housed in a digisleeve with a 8-page booklet." -Born Bad. |
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Artist: CHEVEU Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Born Bad Country: France Price: $20.00 |
| "2008 release. After two 7"s applauded by the blogosphere, and after receiving praise from renowned underground critics like Jay Hinman, Doug Mosurak and Byron Coley, Cheveu is invited to the big convention of garage rock in Memphis, Gonerfest in 2006, headlining the party with the likes of Jay Reatard, Jack Oblivian and Viva Lamerican Death Ray. Kevin from Pink Reason says hes seen one of the best shows of his life. They embark on a West Coast tour set up by DJ Rick (Expé Honzo) with Tyvek and play with A Frames, The Intelligence and Eat Skulls (S-S Records released a Cheveu/Tyvek 7" split for the tour). Then, trying to pull together three years of home-recorded tracks, Cheveu releases its first LP in March 2008. Cheveu has been called the harbingers of the current shit/pop/gaze movement that includes such different bands as Tyvek, Pink Reason, Times New Viking and TV Ghost. They have also been tagged "glue wave," (a French rock movement) "weird-punk," "art-damaged pop," and also "shit-gaze." Some see that theyve contributed a lot to the movement from a more classic garage sound to a more free/experimental and noise music in the U.S., managing to produce noise without fucking up amps or guitars. All songs have been home-recorded using superimposed live/not live takes, creating a kind of real/old/current feeling. Some see a Metal Urbain/Wire/The Fall influence." - Born Bad. |
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Artist: EICHER, STEPHAN Title: Spielt Noise Boys Format: LP Label: Born Bad Country: France Price: $20.00 |
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"Electro 80s Minimal punk at his best. Think GRAUZONE meet DAF meet SUICIDE. Stephan Eicher recorded the tracks from SPIELT NOISE BOYS on a dictaphone with stolen material in the bar he worked in Bern (Swiss), when he was student.
He produced 6 month later the absolut hit "EISBAR" with GRAUZONE... Re-Mastered by Stephan Eicher himself - sound loud!" - Born Bad.
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Artist: LES BLOUSONS NOIRS Title: Les Blousons Noirs 1961-62 Format: CD Label: Born Bad Country: France Price: $16.00 |
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"2007 release. A must-have for every fan of weird music and people who dig Hasil Adkins, The Shaggs, Los Saicos and other types of primitive rock n roll. Taken from the WFMU blog: "I was half-expecting this LP that arrived featuring gobbledy-gook, electric-guitar-played-with-mittens French covers of Johnny B Goode and Be Bop A Lula to be some kind of elaborate prank on the Norton/Crypt crowd, but the Born Bad labels JB Guillot assures us of the bonafide primitive genius of Les Blousons Noirs, whose 1961 and 1962 EPs have just been issued on a single LP. If this is indeed the case, these guys have ascended to the automatic altar of Hasil, King Usniewicz and the U-Turns for pure stupe-rock greatness, and even predate The Shaggs by half a decade. Says JB: Maybe its the first proto punk/DIY in the world ... if I have a good memory, Chicken Walk (Hasil Adkins) is from 1961, too. Even in France, nobody knows Les Blousons Noirs, this band is really the greatest discovery of my life as a record-digger. I have searched for members of this band for five years, but to no avail. I have published want ads in national magazines, talked with all the biggest French 60s collectors, etc.) but never found anything. I met an old guy who worked with 60s bands from Bordeaux, and in his opinion, Les Blousons Noirs were a couple of "pieds noirs" ("black feet" -- French people who lived in Algeria during the French colonization. The studio Guilain where both EPs were recorded was located on a street with a clothing manufacturer on it. The guy thinks the band worked at this manufacturer and that they were only in Bordeaux temporarily. It could be one of the reasons we have never found them. Wowza." -Brian Turner, WFMU. |
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Artist: LES OLIVENSTEINS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Born Bad Country: France Price: $20.00 |
| "The best-ever French 77 punk band, next to Metal Urbain. Killer and cult and a true must-have. This is an official reissue, with a lot of unissued tracks. "In a particularly raw moment captured on the disk you are holding, the singer (whose name escapes me) shouts derisively at the audience, Vivement que je sois vieux, tout sec et tout rugueux?" (trans. I cant wait to be old, dried out and bumpy). And indeed, it required not only the passage of three decades, with their corresponding toll on these two-bit heroes, but also the benevolent determination of JB Wizzz and the utilization of space-age technology to transform crusty cassettes, forgotten in a dusty corner, into something vaguely listenable that resembles an album of the Olivensteins. Obviously, this is not precisely the record that we dreamed of making in 1979. It certainly would not have contained bits of concerts. (But finally, who knows?) However, the sonic dabbling that you will discover on the demo of Euthanasie and some rather strange tracks like Le Spécialiste are surely examples of what we wanted people to hear at the time. All this will astonish you, proving that (yes, yes!) the Olivensteins possessed unsuspected abilities, had a taste for originality and could occasionally transcend being simple morons. Naturally, certain compulsive freaks, itching for their nerdy thrills, will complain that we have not unearthed other morsels from our repertoire for this album. But even if certain songs like Le Doryphore, Né Pour Dormir or Pétain Darlan Cétait Le Bon Temps (which takes direct aim at the stupid Nazi Chic that was trendy at the end of the 70s) are not found on this somewhat incoherent compilation, it is only because no version exists that is even close to listenable. If you dont manage to understand all the words, or if the wretched singing bothers you, dont worry about it: fortunately, this is not an album of syrupy French chansons!" -Eric Tandy (singer). |
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Artist: V/A Title: BIPPPPP: French Synth Wave 1979-85 Format: LP Label: Born Bad Country: France Price: $20.00 |
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"Includes A TROIS DANS LES WC,
ACT, LES VISITEURS DU SOIR, VOX DEI, COMIX,
TGV,
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MARIE MOOR, DEUX, RUTH ,
VITOR HUBLOT, VISIBLE and
CASINO MUSIC.
Includes 36 pages booklet (in french, sorry for that, but well have soon a translation of the insert) with bands bio and full of cool and unissued photos.
Remastered sound from original masters (when they werent lost or damaged)> so huge sound
LP with cool print undercover.
OFFICIAL comp." - Born Bad. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Des Jeunes Gens Modernes 1978-1983 Format: LP Label: Born Bad Country: France Price: $20.00 |
| "A collection of French post-punk recorded between 1978-1983. A beautiful exploration of Franco post-punk, electro-pop, cold wave and no wave action." -Born Bad. Includes Tokow Boys, Guerre Froide, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Ruth, Henriette Coulouvrat, Kas Product, Ice, Matematiques Modernes, Metal Boys, Visible, Mecanique Rythmique, and Charles de Goal. |
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Artist: VIOLENCE CONJUGALE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Born Bad Country: France Price: $20.00 |
| "This is the debut release on Born Bad Records from Belgian synth wave act Violence Conjugale. Hans and André met early in highschool. Their mutual love for Bowie and Kenneth Anger pushed them to flunk school and smoke in their tiny school movie room. There they dream of an ideal future, made of space travel and industrial music. Feeling the pressure from this private institution, they eventually decide to go to Berlin and see what taste has decadence there. They meet Marianne Katza, an eccentric woman who tells them to come to an artist squat in the Mitte district. Just like Warhols Factory, the place is an indistinct magma of ideas, music and drugs. Here, as André begins to fiddle with a Korg MS20 synth and dreams of exquisite performances, in another room, Hans tries to write his wildest nightmares to exorcise them. Marianne decides to introduce the future band to one of her lovers: Marc Berron, a young, arrogant and rich kid blessed with a perfect ear. He helps them to slow down their drug issues and take a new direction: to play a cold and personal music in pop format but with a feeling of urgency which characterized young Berliners. So, he kidnaps them in his own studio for several weeks to experiment, eventually finding Violence Conjugales definitive sound: 80s minimal synth-wave -- the frostiest ever." -Born Bad. |
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Artist: YUSSUF JERUSALEM Title: A Heart Full Of Sorrow Format: CD Label: Born Bad Country: France Price: $16.00 |
| "2010 release. A Heart Full Of Sorrow is a disillusioned album for broken hearts. This is the work of Benjamin Daures, heir against his will of a tradition of loner in the vein of Ian Curtis, through Morrissey, to Kurt Cobain. Made in his suburban bedroom while smoking joints, A Heart Full Of Sorrow is a first album, dreaming of other places (Death Valley or the dry plain of Texas) as a way to escape local boredom and the gloominess of Paris outskirts. These are drafts of ballads, thrown on a 8-track like break-up letters to teenage years. Benjamin plays all the instruments: a skullish drum machine, a shy guitar, and unconfident vocals. When you listen attentively, you will understand that the fragileness is the force here. This is about sincerity, nakedness, and about not hiding behind the primitive energy of garage rock -- to put back songwriting into angrily-played songs." - Born Bad. |
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Artist: BLOOD STEREO Title: The Magnetic Headache Format: CD Label: Bottrop Boy Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Blood is dripping from my stereo and my ears. Blood stereo submerges its listeners in horror vacui. The awfulness of emptiness is made audible in all its horrific detail. This album can be construed either as a radio play for exhausted ears or the ideal soundtrack for waking up from a disturbing nightmare. Reality refuses to return this early in the morning and all that remains is a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach. Voices wander around in your head, somewhere there is the creaking of a door and in the distance you hear someone softly crying. British noise wizard Dylan Nyoukis (from, among others, Prick Decay) and partner in crime Karen Constance combine to let rip under the name Blood Stereo. The pair set about their work in subtle way. Instead of loud eruptions of noise they set out to create the most quietly disturbing of soundscapes. Think an innocent walk in a Transylvanian mountain village or a Blair Witch forest or any other godforsaken place where your only companions are the whispering voices hell-bent on driving you insane and the howling wind. Listen to The Magnetic Headache with your headphones to feel the sounds dripping through your eardrum and crawling up your brainstem. On the last track, honorary guest Neil Campbell aka Astral Social Club sprinkles a little stardust into your stereo - a much-needed, soul-cleansing coda after such an ominous head trip." - Bottrop Boy |
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Artist: MOUTHUS Title: No Canal Format: CD Label: Bottrop Boy Country: Germany Price: $17.00 |
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"Guitar, drums and electronics. There are no further requirements for turning the world on its head. Since their inception in 2002, Mouthus from Brooklyn have delighted and enraptured their audience. Thundering noise eruptions, mail-fisted guitar drones, infernal drumbeats and an indomitable drive are these devilish duos hallmarks. This is undiluted rock n rock for noise junkies. When it comes to live performances, Mouthus are unbeatable. Nevertheless, in order to nourish the other parts of the soul, Mouthus alternate their teeth-grindingly loud shows with recordings into which rage and energy are consummately channelled. No Canal follows a different path altogether. Guitarist Brian Sullivan and drummer Nate Nelson lead the listener on a journey of exploration. Past bricked-up walls of sound and through a swamp of drones the duo descries a terra incognita, a dark world of sound in which innocent idylls of nature are soon subjected to the destructive forces of industrialisation.
Initially, pastoral guitar parts are heard, pursued by drums in the distance. This is ethereal music in the tradition of bands like Popol Vuh. The promised land is hidden behind low mist and impenetrable green. But all hope proves idle: torturing guitar feedback and tribal drums soon tear the dream apart. The industrial torrent of sound seems unstoppable. This is music that reveals itself as a tired, technological beast with a slow heartbeat and creaking limbs. The subliminal menace and naked demise remain audible and tangible. This is a story that has to be told. Mouthus cannot be silenced.
No Canal is packed in the beautiful envelope packaging, designed and hand printed by Jason Dodge & Christine Roland, a one-off pressing of 250 copies." - Bottrop Boy.
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Artist: STARVING WEIRDOS Title: Summon With Electronic Sorcery Format: CD Label: Bottrop Boy Country: Germany Price: $17.00 |
| "This is the soundtrack of your favourite nightmare. The aural cinema delivered by the Starving Weirdos is best experienced with ones eyes closed. A dark psychedelic joyride on the inside of ones eyelids. Instead of the obvious, hypnotically safe vision or bouncing orangey sunspots, entire films are projected onto the eyeball. Think desolate valleys, sweaty engine rooms and dark alleyways. The four trips committed to record by this Californian band taunt every accepted boundary. The black magic summoned by the Weirdos guitars, saxophones, electronics and smothered voices culminate in a Lynchian cinematic exorcism in four parts. Listening to the ominous opening piece Summon one finds oneself lost in a sudden sandstorm. Enveloped by whirling sand and surrounded by howling coyotes, the only escape is a dilapidated ghost town. With its wailing guitars and scraping percussion this music is best described as desert folk. Listen to In Transit which sounds like the unnerving siren song of the grimy urban jungle. The listener becomes inescapably entangled in the low mist of ghostly phantom guitars and vocal reverb. The core of this collective consists of Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay from Humboldt County, CA. Having produced a large number of limited CD-r releases since 1998, Summon with Electronic Sorcery neatly manages to summarise their work to date. This album has grown into a powerful statement. The menacing and angst-ridden industrial undercurrent permeates the Weirdos hardcore improvisations, while excursions into free folk humanise and cushion their impact. Put on your head phones and hold on tight to your chair. This album marks the sonic raid of plunder by this hungry pack of mad wolves. Summon with Electronic Sorcery is packed in the beautiful envelope packaging, designed and handprinted by Jason Dodge & Christine Roland, a one-off pressing of 250 copies." - Bottrop Boy. |
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Artist: ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB Title: Sieben Stax Format: CD Label: Bottrop-Boy Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
| "Welcome to Astral Social Club: your MC is British avant-garde guru Neil Campbell. Put on your dancing shoes, because this is hallucinating, intergalactic trance music of the highest order and its about to take off. The up-beat, cosmic vibes of Campbells first terrestrial voyages aboard the drone/krautrock ship were already very impressive, but with Astral Social Club he sets sail for the stars. Campbell manages to create something entirely unprecedented on this album: trance music as played in the clubs at the other side of the solar system. Or perhaps were listening to the intoxicating smoke signals from extra-terrestrial pirate stations? While listeners may recognise the earthy kraut rock rhythms, the compelling, minimalist drones and a few catchy pop melodies, Astral Social Music is entirely of itself. The moment at which youve become completely immersed in a hypnotic groove is the moment the Club decides to let loose one of the awkward beats or melodies it has in its arsenal. This soundtrack for the ultimate trip surges, pounds, vibrates, swings, pulsates and sucks on your subconscious; its organic music breathes in and out like a shrinking and expanding universe. Leave all nocturnal troubles of the moonlit world behind you and turn your gaze to the sunrays emanating from the Astral Social Club. Reverberating voices and melodies from outer space and rhythmic pulsar fly past at rapid speed only to be swallowed up in a black hole on their way to another dimension. You Einsteins and Hawkings of this world, hold on to one another for the Big Bang Dance festival of your dreams. Sieben Stax is packed in the beautiful envelope packaging, designed and handprinted by Jason Dodge & Christine Roland, a one-off pressing of 250 copies." -Bottrop-Boy |
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Artist: BOWER, MATTHEW & MATTIN Title: A New Form of Beauty Format: CD Label: Bottrop-Boy Country: Germany Price: $17.50 |
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"With the release of A New Form of Beauty Irish band Virgin Prunes placed themselves firmly on the map of experimental post-punk. This was the unprecedented cathartic musical experience of the early eighties. Din Glorious was the name of the breathtaking coda of this legendary Prunes session. This type of harrowing noise is also evident on Mattin & Matthew Bowers A New Form of Beauty (1975). Not a follow-up but a magnificent, searing chords of chords.
Basque noise expert Mattin has undoubtedly found his blood brother in Matthew Bower, the British godfather of noise-rock. In his Theses on Noise (2006) Mattin wrote: "the old conception of Noise was to believe in freedom; the new conception of Noise is to achieve freedom". This is noise with a higher aim, this is noise as utopian ideal.
Using guitars and electronics, Mattin and Bower mould a relentlessly pounding tsunami of sound. No time to catch your breath in this long, thundering tornado of noise, feedback, distortion and screaming strings. A screeching guitar occasionally lifts its head above the whirling maelstrom. Ghostlike sounds rise towards the surface of this sonic mass; is that a wailing, desolate violin or a radio I hear in the distance? Am I hallucinating or is this indeed that new beauty?
Mattin & Bower far exceed the pain threshold. No need to prick up your ears; expect your eardrums to be pierced. Just when you think calm has returned, the duo decides to increase the dose. At the end of their piece Mattin & Bower reveal an unparalleled vertiginous abyss of noise. The listener is transported from high to higher plateaus of sound. Cries for help are suppressed as salvation comes nigh. This is white noise from the dark side. This is indeed a new form of beauty.
A New Form Of Beauty (1975) is packed in beautiful new envelope packaging designed and handprinted by Jason Dodge & Christine Roland." -Bottrop-Boy. Matthew Bower of Sunroof!, Skullflower, Total, Hototogisu, etc..
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Artist: V/A Title: Turkish Freakout: Psych-Folk Singles 1969-1980 Format: Double LP Label: Bouzouki Joe Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "Gatefold jacket includes original sleeve artwork & liner notes. "Turkey is often referred to as the meeting point between East and West, a statement verified by this selection of choice Turkish grooves. The western rock, psych, funk and jazz influences that began to be incorporated into traditional Turkish sounds during the late 60s and 70s can be heard here, as the Anadolu pop sound of Turkeyma balanced these new elements with the complex sounds and rhythms developed over many years. All tracks are referenced from their original 7 inch releases, painstakingly tracked down from various sources in and around Istanbul. The marriage of these styles is original, captivating and bound to freak you out." Artists: Okay Temiz, Kardaslar, Cem Karaka, Apaslar, Beyaz Kelebekler, Alpay, Erkin Koray, Ajda Pekkan, Sevil & Ayla, Baris Manco, Rifat Oncel, Ersen, Onder Bali, and Arif Sag." - Bouzouki Joe. |
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Artist: SCIAJNO, DOMENICO & GERT-JAN PRINS Title: the d&b album featuring: do shine o & prinsjan Format: CD Label: Bowindo Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
| "This is the first re-drum & re-bass album from the electronic duo of Domenico Sciajno and Gert-Jan Prins. They are both wellknown in the world of experimental electronic music, with releases on Erstwhile, Fringes, and Grob. On this album Prins analog shake-pulses and sweeps are directly plugged into Sciajnos specific powerbook aesthetics and vice versa. As a whole, the five pieces on this adventurous cd form a precision-combination of sharp computer-energy, rocking selfmade electronics ,and fluid music recombination-technics creating a grinding-spatial-musical concept, which by times reminds of Shineos & Prinsjans rhythmic- and playtechnical backgrounds on drums and double bass. " - Fringes. |
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Artist: REVIS, KEVAN Title: Sollicitudo Format: LP Label: Boxer Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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Limited edition pressing of 100 copies.
"This really is a tremendous album-I stumbled across it when I stumbled across Boxer Records. It seems to strike just the right balance between creepiness and approachability-creepy in the sense of dark sounds that remind you of strange noises you might hear in an abandoned building in the middle of the night; and approachable in the way it blends those sounds together into a tapestry of electronic and manipulated noise that you feel drawn to, every bit as much as you feel spooked by it. The first part feels more like a continuous story than the second, where there is more of an edginess to its short, individual bursts of sound. Together, the two parts give a tremendous picture of KEVAN REVIS creativity, originality and sense for what works." -Ian Parsons
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Artist: EDLER, HANS Title: Elektron Kukeso Format: CD Label: Boy Wonder Country: Sweden Price: $24.00 |
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"(Elektron Kukéso) was released in a small edition on Edlers own independent label Marilla. The music was recorded during many long late night sessions at the Electronic Music Studio (EMS) in the Swedish capital Stockholm. At the time, EMS was one of the worlds most advanced studios for serious electronic composition. The facilities were even praised by no less a person than Pierre Schaeffer the father of the concrete music. In 1970, EMS could present a freshly installed computer which had cost 7 million Swedish crowns. Unlike the moogs, the computer had no keyboard, but had to be operated by a control console which occupied a room by itself and was arranged as a rectangle with a total length of 10 yards (circa 9 meters). It was only after having taken lessons in mathematics and programming that Edler was allowed to work on the gigantic machine, which in spite of its steep price wasnt very reliable. Against all odds, Edler managed to finish the recordings. The result was a one-of-a-kind-album too original to be copied. Elektron Kukéso is hi-tech and low-fi at the same time. Try to imagine Stockhausen on acid going berserk on Carnaby Street. Old school electronic breakbeats team up with the sound of vintage tone and noise generators all filtered through a psychedelic kaleidoscope by a frustrated mind on high speed. The record comes with digipack-sleeve, OBI, a 24-page colour booklet with full story and pictures, plus a reprint of the original promotion-poster from 1971." - Boy Wonder.
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: City of Straw Format: CD Label: Brah Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Crafting a lasting personal aesthetic in the midst of our ephemeral music culture is as rare as it is cause for celebration. With the release of City of Straw Brooklyns SIGHTINGS can be counted among the few contemporary bands who have forged a unique voice amongst the racket. Recorded over a number of months in 2009 at The Ocropolis (Oneidas Brooklyn, NY studio), the bands seventh studio album becomes the crucible from which their grandest and most coherent statement finally emerges. With a deep reach beyond the spirit of their influence from greats like Birthday Party, Dead C and Jesus Lizard, City of Straw finds Sightings working at the peak of their creative powers and is the perfect re-introduction to one of New Yorks most accomplished bands." - Brah.
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Artist: FARQUHAR, JW Title: The Formal Female Format: LP Label: Brainblobru Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"180 gram exact repro reissue of this absolutely insular, deranged private press masterpiece. JW Farquhar recorded this on 4-track alone in his apartment in 1972 after ending a 10-year marriage. The songs are part of a "rock opera" and are "written as an outcry against the materialistic nature of the woman." The result is something you will never put on a mixtape for your girlfriend. "...its a fascinating slice of ambitious, primitively lo-fi private press psych with an extreme lonesome/marginalized edge and some great fuzz and F/X. There are points where he gets into a whole schizophrenic exchange between two characters, one of whom talks in a weird fucked-up cartoon monster style, that almost makes you think of James Ferraros Lamborghini Crystal broadcasts but the rest of the album is just great basement/loner jams with a huge fucking chip on their shoulder, just the way we like em." -Kicktokill
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Artist: DECIMUS Title: Polydipsia Format: Cass Label: Brave Mysteries Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Drawing himself out from within the folds of NNCK, Pat Murano has gone on to litter New York City with the sounds of his grimey electronic meditations and the hallucinatory happenings of numerous clandestine interaction groups such as K Salvatore, Key Of Shame, Raajmahal, or Safiyya. Murano has released a number of his surreal spells as gypsy souvenirs via his private imprint Kelippah. Within this bounty lies one of the most mysterious and undefinable of works, known only as Decimus. Over the last two years we have seen an impressive series of LPs (as well as the odd tape and cdr), all given seemingly arbitrary letters or numbers for titles, most of which were released on Kelippah, as well as several handsome releases on the Italian labels Holidays Records and Planam (a sublabel of Alga Marghen) . The music of Decimus is highly oblique and personal sounding. Uneasy electronic orchestrations flow within and without a m鬡nge of intuitive concrete collage, vocal intonation and ritualized electro-acoustic performance. Like little else before it, except perhaps the likes of Kluster, or another of Conrad Schnitzlers incredible inner space adventures." - Polydipsia. |
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Artist: WATERSPORTS Title: A Very Weihnachten Format: CDR Label: Breaking World Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Aged to perfection, a whisperer of a release. This is more hush than harsh, more barely than gnarly. Not exactly lush or textural, not eggzactly ambient or cascading, Watersports take their time rising into view, surrounding the air, keeping the sound waves surfable. Real nice. Drug music if you like drugs. Then again, what music isnt drug music if you like drugs?" - Breaking World.
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Artist: JAN DUKES DE GREY Title: Mice and Rats in the Loft Format: CD Label: Breathless Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "Jan Dukes De Grey -- Rare second album by one of the most legendary underground acoustic folk bands to come out of the UK in this era. Although the band released just two LPs, it achieved cult status and is considered responsible for spawning a whole new genre. Recorded for Transatlantic in 1971, Jan Dukes De Greys second album was (despite the addition of drummer Denis Conlan) much more free-form than the first. While still essentially a folk album, the bands progressive leanings are far more pronounced, dissolving song structure and taking the audience on a wild, semi-improvised journey. Liner notes by David Tibet (Current 93)." - Breathless. |
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Artist: ICHIYANAGI, TOSHI Title: Opera From The Works of Tadanori Yokoo Format: 4CD Box Set Label: Bridge Country: Japan Price: $125.00 |
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"Ultra deluxe reissue of this highly desired Japanese underground album from 1969, originally issued as a 2LP picture disc set on The End Record label. Ichiyanagi is the well known Japanese avant garde composer, but here is working in the vein of underground rock & threatrical freakout, performed by Uchida Yuyas group, Flowers. Limited edition reissue of approx 1000 copies, already creating a frenzy throughout the collector universe. Includes: 4 CDs; 24 postcards (Tadanori Yokoos amazing artwork); 2 silkscreened prints of the young composer and a hard cover book of texts & interviews (Japanese text only). Packaged in a beautiful hard cover box designed by Tadanori Yokoo. Note: this was originally issued as a 2LP release and the CD reissue has been done as 1 CD per LP side, to preserve the original listening experience (I guess). So, theres no bonus material here. Its also been transcribed from vinyl, with no digital filtering -- which sounds surprising in this era of digital remastering (the master tapes evidently lost or dysfunctional after 36 years...). Still, an original copy is out of the question and this has never been reissued before, hard to think of in any terms other than: "totally worth it". Good work from the obscure Bridge label from Tokyo." - FE.
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Artist: HAYDEN, BRIDGET Title: Exquisite Falling Dust Format: CDR Label: Bridget Hayden Country: UK Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: HAYDEN, BRIDGET Title: The Nights Veins Format: CDR Label: Bridget Hayden Country: UK Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: TELESCOPES, THE Title: Youve No Idea What This Is Like For Me Format: CDR Label: Bridget Hayden Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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Featuring Bridget Hayden of VIbracathedral Orchestra. Handmade, gatefold packaging.
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Artist: BRILLIANT COLORS Title: Flexible Single Format: 7" Flexi Label: Brilliant Colors Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Recorded in anticipation of their upcoming West Coast and UK tour dates, San Franciscos BRILLIANT COLORS present their two-track swan song Flexible Single. Heavenly pop hit "I Was Born a Fantasist" is as strong a tune as the band has ever released, sporting uptempo drive, floating guitar lines and enough subtly infectious hooks to echo your brain for the rest of the year; its backed with "How I Solved the Problem of My Pride," one minute and thirty seconds of spiky buzz & hum. Pressed on a flexi-disc, packaged in a fold-over risograph sleeve, the single is limited to 500." - Brilliant Colors. |
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Artist: SCREAMIN MEE-MEES Title: Answer Me Format: 7" Label: Brinkman Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "More freaked-out, minimalist guitar ruckus from the man thats been turning his moms basement into party-central since the late-60s. Eternal teenager, Bruce Cole, and his drummer-buddy Jon Ashline play their garage rock several sheet to the wind, always. "PLAY LOUD ON CHEAP STEREO!" It says on the cover, "preferably with a stack of Schlitz or Pabst within arms reach" should have been added. This 45 originally came out in 1996. Grab one before theyre gone." -Brinkman |
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Artist: BROTZMANN, PETER & WALTER PERKINS Title: The Ink Is Gone Format: LP Label: Bro Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
| "More than thirty-five years after creating his own Bro record label to release for Adolphe Sax (Bro 1) & Machine Gun (Bro 2), now well established as an artist of great & enduring significance, Peter Brotzmann has decided to revive Bro as an outlet to release special editions of some of his most personal projects. Bro Records no. 3 documents Brotzmanns 2002 encounter with a true jazz legend, drummer Walter Perkins. As Brotzmann said from the bandstand, it is a great pleasure & honor for me to play with this gentleman. He is history. He has played with all my heroes, & Im glad & grateful that I have this possibility. The music they played is marked by a depth of beauty & animation rare even by the standards of both artists extraordinary histories. pressed on pristine 180 gram vinyl by RTI, artwork by Brotzmann, jackets silk-screened by Siwa Records, Oregon, U.S.A. in a numbered edition of 999." - Bro/Eremite. |
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Artist: BROTZMANN, PETER/HAN BENNINK Title: Still Quite Popular After All Those Years Format: LP Label: Bro Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "2nd issue on the ressurrected Bro imprint [Brotzmanns original label, that released Adolphe Sax (Bro 1) & Machine Gun (Bro 2) back in the day]. Live duo recordings from Feb., 2004. Brotzmann (alto clarinet, tarogato, alto & tenor sax), Bennink (drums, voice). Silkscreened covers by Siwa." - FE. "A continuation of one of the great duos in free music history, Peter Brötzmann & Han Bennink. Brötzmann organized a series of concerts with Bennink in early 2004 for the ultimate purpose of capturing these moments, their first duo music on record since 1980s Atsugi concert. The particular chemistry & poetry b/t these two old friends is still furiously alive; but the accumulation of experience & years by both artists brings new areas of consideration. This is Brötzmann/Bennink music formulated at once more carefully & more freely; every gesture here sounds earned, decisive, vital. As with Brö 3, real audiophile 180 gram vinyl by RTI. Artwork by both Brötzmann & Bennink. Numbered edition of 999." - Bro. |
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Artist: PICKY PICNIC Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Broad Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Picky Picnic was a Japanese experimental pop band whose sound is most closely similar to The Residents and Ptose. Quirky compositions with rinky-dink keyboards, drum machines, acoustic instruments and tape manipulations. Originally released on cassette only in 1982 featuring songs recorded from 81 to 82." Limited to 100 copies. |
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Artist: SIZE Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Broad Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Size was was a Mexican synthpunk band. This release is in desperate need of a proper CD/LP reissue. Hopefully this cassette will lead to this. Fans of Los Reactors, The Units, Flesh Eaters will enjoy. All material recorded from 1978-1984." Limited to 150 copies.
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Artist: BROKEN FACE Title: #10 Format: Mag Label: Broken Face Country: Sweden Price: $6.00 |
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"The Broken Face is fit for consumption again with #10, our fattest issue yet. Included are in-depth discussions with Cul de Sac, Tower Recordings, Jon DeRosa (of Aarktica), Fit & Limo, Green PJs, Chris Knox, a revolving-perspective roundup of Terrastock 4, over a hundred reviews, and a beautiful eye-massaging cover courtesy of George Parsons. Call it the folk issue if you will, or even a T-stock commemorative. Just dont call it a comeback." - Broken Face.
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Artist: BROKEN FACE Title: #14 Format: Mag Label: Broken Face Country: Sweden Price: $6.00 |
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"This 70 pages long issue includes interviews/features about the harsh reality of Piano Magic, the absolutely gorgeous outsider folk of Six Organs of Admittance, the spluttering jazz of Mats Gustafsson, the rock sub-genre voyager Damien Youth, the ambient resonance of Rafael Toral, the melody-perforated dreamscapes of Bill Holt (Dreamies), the superbly detailed sonic canyon of Double Leopards and Winslow, the rock band. Add to that an extensive interview with Peter Stapleton of the magnificent NZ label Metonymic and tons of reviews and I am sure you know roughly what to expect." - Broken Face.
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Artist: BROKEN FACE Title: #17 Format: Mag Label: Broken Face Country: Sweden Price: $6.00 |
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"These 69 pages include interviews/features about Sandoz Lab Technicians, the uncrowned masters of intoxicating noise, free jazz and drone; Oddfellows Casinos delicate pop beauty in disguise; Birchville Cat Motels crackling electronic clatter and gorgeous organic dronescapes; Chris Thompsons timeless psychdelicised folk; Reynols surrealism and pure rock magic, percussionist/producer/noise maker Tim Barnes and Climax Golden Twins irresistible collage of global impressions and sonic references. Add to that interviews with The Impossible Shapes, Bloomingtons finest deliverers of brilliant pop and complex melodies, New Zealands Armpit, Devendra Banhart _ the gardener of Pleasantville, the wide open folk deserts of Migrantes and more than 200 reviews." - Broken Face.
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Artist: BROKEN FACE Title: #18 Format: Mag Label: Broken Face Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "..interviews/features on Portlands jazz-folk-drone-indie-improv-whatever ensemble Rollerball, Simon Wickham-Smiths consistently amplified and expanded lexicon of creative music, the Ponys pop music which is so much about contradictions that were not even sure its pop at all, Californian multi-instrumentalist Steven R. Smith, the fog-clad vibrations and aural claustrophobia of Lovely Midget, the untamed beauty of Michael Gira and a deep look into the Finnish underground scene. We also got a chance to visit the frank and humorous, informed and loose world of Pengo, the textural, languid and open landscapes of the Necks, Italian space/psychedelia explorer Dario Antonetti and Texan Crevices mysterious and atmospheric drones crossed with a puckish sense of humor. Add to all this an extensive 1998-2003 wrap up, more than 200 reviews and youve got yourself another issue fully packed with fascinating music." - Broken Face. |
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Artist: BROKEN FACE Title: #9 Format: Mag Label: Broken Face Country: Sweden Price: $6.00 |
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Thick Swedish mag with Kjetil D. Brandsdal, Bruce Russell, Pelt, Green Pajamas, Yind and many pages of reviews.
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Artist: RAMLEH Title: Switch Hitter Format: 10" Label: Broken Flag Country: UK Price: $13.00 |
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"Black Rose Recordings and Broken Flag are proud to present the new 10�"� single by the legendary group Ramleh. Limited to 500 with black and white artwork this is their first new material since 1998 and it doesnt disappoint. Powerful droning intensity, motorik rhythms and warped guitar riffs dominate these two songs with one containing Ramlehs distinctive distorted vocals weaving in and out of this inventive chemistry. �Switch Hitter� �could almost be described as a full on dissonant rock track, but Ramlehs desire for experimentation and improvisation lifts it way above the general rock mindset.
Ramleh have been active since the early 1980s, first as one of the UKs pioneering power electronics groups and then towards the late 80s they, along with Skullflower, laid the foundations for the UKs improvisional noise rock scene. In fact Gary Mundy from Ramleh was also one of the founding members of Skullflower (there was an overlapping membership of both bands, yet Ramleh always managed to retain their own unique identity regardless of musical genre). They returned to the live scene last year with well received shows in London (one with Whitehouse the other with Merzbow), and New York, whilst a new album release and planned re-issues from their back catalogue are due late 2009 proving they have not lost any of their energy, excitement and ability to explore all possibilities." - Black Rose.
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Artist: KNIZAK, MILAN Title: Kissing Spell Format: CD Label: Broken Music Country: Germany Price: $24.00 |
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"..recorded in 1964-1965 and originally released in 1979 re-issued. Groundbreaking work of art damage. Music made with broken, scratched, burned, painted, glued records etc. Backwards compositions, upside down scores and so on." - Kissing Spell. "From 1963 to 1964 I used to play records either too slowly or too fast and thus change the quality of the music. In 1965 I started to destroy records: scratch them, punch holes in them, break them. By playing them (which destroyed the needle and often the record player, too) an entirely new music was created -- Unexpected, nerve-racking, and aggressive. Compositions lasted a second or for an infinitely long time (like when the needle got stuck in a deep groove and played the same phrase over and over again). Soon I developed this system even further. I began sticking tape on top of records, painting over them, burning them, cutting them up and gluing parts of different records back together again to achieve the widest possible variety of sounds. Later I began to work in the same way with scores. I erased some of the notes, signatures, and whole bars. I added notes and signatures, changed the tempo and order of the bars, played the compositions backwards, turned the lines upside down, pasted different parts of different scores together, and so on." - Milan Knizak. Highly recommended!!
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Artist: BRAIDA & GIANCARLO LOCATELLI, ALBERTO Title: The Big Margotta Format: LP Label: Broken Research Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "This marks the third release for the duo of Alberto Braida and Giancarlo Locatelli, the first being the incredibly austere Diciannove Calefazioni which was our initial introduction to perhaps the premier group of purpose and restraint in improvising music. Big talk I know but the fact is that these two have developed a dialogue thru their long partnership and friendship that stands as reminder of the potential that contemporary improvisation has always held and the manifestation of many of its myriad possibilities. Our primary regard for Diciannove Calefazioni [Nineteen Calefactions] and our recent regard for the slightly more boisterous Big Margotta is how well considered their approach to reduction is. Rather than the methodology of Berlin or of Boston, what the group did was to take Becketts approach to language and apply it to music; that is, to reduce it right to the point of collapse. In Becketts case language still operates within the rules of grammar and in this duos case they still operate within the rules of harmony but sans goofball mawkishness, tropes or boring melodicism. If there were fewer notes it wouldnt work and if there were more it would be overbearing. The duo language here is so fleet and well-handled it gives the listener an opportunity to hear experimental music that fulfills both of those qualifications. Pro-printed sleeve/edition of 300." -Broken Research |
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Artist: DIXON, BILL Title: Weight/Counterweight Format: Double LP Label: Broken Research Country: USA Price: $37.00 |
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"Bill Dixon with Aaron Siegel and Ben Hall. Heavyweight gatefold sleeve. Recorded in April of 2008, Weight/Counterweight, the new release by Bill Dixon, marks his return to small group playing, his first trio since the Dixon/Taylor/Oxley Victoriaville recording. The group, assembled by Hall at Dixons suggestion, marks a new direction in Dixons instrumentation with no untreated trumpet whatsoever and a barrage on pitched and unpitched concert percussion, creating landmark skeletal architecture which Dixon pushes out into unmediated solos of gravity and weightlessness." -Broken Research
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Artist: JOHANSSON, SVEN-AKE Title: Cymbals In The Night Format: LP Label: Broken Research Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"Heavy solo release from deep as Marianas Trench Swedish drummer Sven-Ake Johansson. Johansson is primarily known in the US as the drummer on the two hugely influential Brotzmann recordings: For Adolphe Sax and Machine Gun. However, the Berlin-based percussionist/composer/filmmaker/performance artist/painter -- all of which he is remarkably adept at -- also has numerous FMP releases and a well documented relationship with Alexander Schlippenbach. Notable contributions to the canon of experimental music include his Concert for 12 Tractors and performance piece for movement performed with Neubauten singer Nick Cave guitarist Blixa Bargeld. Johanssons mode here is pure clarity in terms of form, technique and content. Quiet as a kitten on clouds in social settings, this recording ranges from pure Krupa swing on corrugated cardboard *cymbals* to dirty styrofoam shrieks and then even further out to close-micd cymbal investigations of tone and vibration. In performance, hes a pro and even in a recorded situation he manages to engage the listener with humor and experiment. Pro printed sleeve/edition of 300." -Broken Research
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Artist: DEAD MACHINES & DEATH KNELL Title: A Thousand Means To One End Format: 3" CDR Label: Brokenresearch Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: EICHMANN, DIETRICH & JEFF ARNAL Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Brokenresearch Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"I know a lot of mugs might wanna front because its jazz or classical
or piano or whatever. But that would just be dumb. Eichmann is a
Berlin-based composer/pianist who has written pieces for orchestra
where Brotzmann was the featured soloist. He basically only plays
"under the hood" so-to-speak and it sounds much more like a dude
wrenching on his 68 GTO than any sort of instrument, let alone a
piano. Arnal is a Brooklyn-based, absolutely brutal drummer. The sum
of this recording, recorded in a cathedral in Hamburg a couple of
years back is that it sounds like true industrial malfunctions. Very
dark and very unrelenting." - Brokenresearch. Edition of 200.
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Artist: EMERALDS Title: Queen of Burbank Vol. 2 Format: CDR Label: Brokenresearch Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Clevelands answer to Lamonte Young without all the ego and bad old
man "I created everything" vibes. The best drone "band" working in the
states right now �?? Skaters are still in Europe right? Dreamy and raw
at the same time. Very mellow. Very spacious. Very good. Midwest
again." - Brokenresearch.
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Artist: HELL AND BUNNY WITH GREG KELLEY Title: Burn It For The Nails Format: CDR Label: Brokenresearch Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"After a garish trio-supposed to be a Melee plus Kelley---date in Western Mass it was only a matter time before this trio got together to do the scrape and crunch. Its interesting to see how Kelley approaches the 1/4 speed lurch. In comparison with Olson and Wooley its a bit more fireworks
oriented but there are plenty of glacial exhalation, abrasions and slow wallops to extend the gravenights vocab. Also where Wooley and Olson are fully complicit Kelley is a bit more argumentative--in the best way
possible--in doling out his own formal demolitions that end up with almost downtown moments of cross-pollination and genre car crashes." - Brokenresearch
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Artist: LYTTON, PAUL/NATE WOOLEY Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Brokenresearch Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Melee trumpeter Nate Wooley and 30yr Evan Parker trio drummer Paul Lytton match up for this cross-generational slugfest. Wooley is in full pan-compositional, poly-formal, post-structuralist trumpet acrobatic mode with no visible safety net and really why would he need one? For his part
Lytton shows why, along with John Stevens and Tony Oxley, he is one of the three cornerstones of English improvised percussion. Using a rig that
focuses on small percussion and electronics, that he was one of the first improvising drummers to develop, Lytton shows a balletic sense of physicality and timbre that acts as foil and foe to Wooleys post-Dixon
excoriations of trumpet idiom." -Brokenresearch
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Artist: MELEE Title: Bare Those Excellent Teeth pt. 2 Format: LP Label: Brokenresearch Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"The second in the series of compositions from the Graveboys dis-rhythm
section of Hell and Bunny this time with Nate Wooley doing the duty on
trumpet while Olson maintains his Wolf-obligations. Perhaps darker and
more trance-inducing than the first "Bare" it sounds very much like
chamber music played by stamping machines which aint exactly a bad
thing." - Brokenresearch. Edition of 200.
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Artist: TRAUM Title: Cinder Blocks Format: CDR Label: Brokenresearch Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "After getting rid of that thieving fuck, Traum reformats as more of a trio approach this go-round with Chris Riggs absolutely destroying the guitar chair. And what a damaged overall approach it is. The formal constraints bring something out that tends towards some of the most unknown improvised noise proposals so see light in Michigan. Riggs is a brutal technician and theres not a guitar note to be heard and the chords--if you can callem that---- sound like machines self-inflicting tonal punches. Riggs and Bunny move through all the material with a push/pull controlled passive aggressiveness that makes it impossible again and again to figure out whos doin what." -Brokenresearch |
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Artist: TRAUM Title: Slab Format: LP Label: Brokenresearch Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Zac Davis who has had his Michigan rights revoked for theft finds himself on the very last brokenresearch release to ever have his sorry ass name associted with said label. Heads up with percussion hater Hell Hall this is some Billy Cobham vs. Coryell under dirt filled microscope for the mass of listeners who post up as both noise and fusion fans. A one sider with brutal force, this is an excellent companion to "Built for Nothing" and really that is the most fitting title for a group that had action for about ten minutes until our guitarist decided that friends are for using. No description like this has ever been posted to the HnAm board but very few have been more honest about what they were peddling-- a document of two people who used to be cool and now..." -Brokenresearch |
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Artist: DEGRAW, BRIAN Title: Sonic The Warhol Format: LP Label: Brown Sounds Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| Soundtrack for Oliver Payne and Nick Relphs "Sonic The Warhol" film, written and composed by Brian Degraw of Gang Gang Dance. Hand stamped labels and jackets. Brown Sounds is the inhouse label of Gavin Browns Enterprises. |
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Artist: OCRILIM (OCTIS) Title: Ment Format: LP Label: Brown Sounds Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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Limited "gallery" edition LP from Brownsounds/Gavin Browns Enterprises (500 copies). Mindbending solo recordings from Mick Barr of Orthrelm, all "painstakingly assembled" by Tim Dewit of Gang Gang Dance.
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Artist: TOTAL LIFE Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Brown Sounds Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| Limited "gallery" edition LP from Brownsounds/Gavin Browns Enterprises (500 copies). Second solo LP from Kevin Doria of Growing. |
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Artist: ACCIDENT DU TRAVAIL Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Bruit Direct Country: France Price: $24.00 |
| "Twenty-four minutes of Ondes Martenot recordings by JULIE NORMAL (CRADLE OF SMURF) and OLIVIER (CHEVEU). Maximal repeatable sound beauty, "somewhere between the lilting decay of Discreet Music and the disorientating phantom flirt of Maryanne Amachers Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear)" according to Doug Mosurock. "Its an impressive, subdued work, and anyone looking to end their evening on a restful comedown should look within." -Bruit Direct |
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Artist: CRO MAGNON Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Bruit Direct Country: France Price: $9.00 |
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"45t presse a 500 exemplaires pour le monde. le mastering a ete fait par le grand john de chez golden mastering.il y a 3 morceaux, 2 sur la premiere face et un sur la deuxieme, oui." -Bruit Direct. "First American release by this intriguing French imprint, and its strongest release to date. Cro Magnon, not to be confused with the ESP-Disk outfit of yore, is Haley Fohr (Circuits des Yeux) and Katie Leming, operating in an overmodulated lo-fi gestalt. Theres pop here, in the same way that Times New Viking delivers it (Wash), but a lot more anger and discordance (A Hole), finally culminating in evocative, obtuse, broken dollhouse sounds of quiet fear (Apple Orchard). The slide from somewhat straightforward sounds to deliberate creep-on is quite the thing to behold, and if these two can keep the quality level up (seriously kids, there is NO NEED to release seven LPs worth of material before your 21st birthday), they will be a fondly remembered outfit in this troubled corner of musical expression and instant gratification through unformed scraps." - Dusted.
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Artist: MINITEL Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Bruit Direct Country: France Price: $9.00 |
| "Ripe with schizophrenic angst," our friends at Siltblog cant help but notice, "The A-side is clearly borne out of the avant soil once trod upon by Ilitch and DDAA, while the flip sounds like the band harvested an entire field of wormwood, distilling it into a noxious absinthe of Swans-like potency.... [B]lind carnage ... follows.... Bruit-Direct is growin real live monsters, no two ways about it." Both guitarists also play in SISTER IODINE." -Bruit Direct |
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Artist: SCORPION VIOLENTE Title: S/T Format: 12 Label: Bruit Direct Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
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"If Jacno had been raped by Iggy Pop, missed the abortion, abandonned (sic) the child on the fringes of a Cronemberg movie; if this child survived, was kidnapped and sold as a sex slave to Alan Vega by Donna Summer, (just after releasing I Feel Love), escaped in the dark streets of a violent b-movie involving cops, militia, sweat, dirt, lizards with guns, and naked nubile women, he would feel like SCORPION VIOLENTE was THE music made for him. And eventually, he would end up killing both members of this band, and eat them, maybe calling them mummy while doing dirty things involving meat, broken records, body fluids and unheard-of orifices, most of them created for the occasion." -Scorpio Violente
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Artist: YOUNG, LA MONTE/MARIAN ZAZEELA Title: Sound And Light Format: Hardcover Book Label: Bucknell University Press Country: UK Price: $36.00 |
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"The first full-length book dedicated entirely to the work of La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela. Includes essays and analyses by Mitchell Clark, Henry Flynt, Kyle Gann, Catherine Christer Hennix, Ben Neill, Robert Palmer, Terry Riley & John Schaefer with an introduction by the editors & writings by the artists. Hardcover." - Bucknell University Press. 231 pages.
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Artist: BRENT LEWIIS ENSEMBLE Title: Refreshing Hemorrhage Format: 7" Label: BUFMS Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Both versions of "People," the aloof masterpiece by Mancunian iconoclasts Gods Gift, are covered simultaneously on the A Side, as BRENT LEWIIS shambles along on fuzz guitar, warped keyboards, and Colour Out Of Space field recordings, while the imperious SYLVIA KASTEL intones her dispassionate but resolutely negative critique of mankind. The B Side continues with a severely bent cover of both versions of "O Jackie O," itself a damaged charm song by Chicago trio ONO, here performed on messed-up kazoo, holiday wrapping paper tube, and tape-manipulated field recordings from the swamp where Annette Funicellos head was buried by The Allman Bros. An unhealthy tape piece brings the record its queasy conclusion. Overall, totally appalling, but in a good way, like the talent show scene in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. Edition of 100." -BUFMS.
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Artist: BRENT LEWIIS ENSEMBLE/SILVIA KASTEL/NINNI MORGIA Title: Fix It Again, Tony Format: LP Label: BUFMS Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "This first-time collaboration by avatars of the new generation of European improv and blue-haired spazimodo mutants is something of a gloriously awkward thwack marathon of crumbled guitar noise, otherworldly howls, and stuff falling down stairs. The spontaneous recordings, performed in a single 90-minute session, are cut-up, multi-tracked, looped, and reassembled into thirty-two pieces that are more scrambled than the unrealized fears of an acute entomophobe, and, according to NINNI MORGIA, "sometimes sound like Twin Infinitives chewed by Polyphemus." Cover art by the amazing TODD EMMERT. Edition of 175." -BUFMS. |
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Artist: BUFMS Title: Induced Musical Spasticity Format: 4LP + CD Box Set Label: BUFMS Country: USA Price: $60.00 |
| "Induced Musical Spasticity commemorates the nascent pollination-in the musty shadows of the real ersatz Sherwood Forest, a couple hundred miles north of San Francisco-of the BUTTECOUNTY FREE MUSIC SOCIETY, an apocryphal institution that encouraged anything and nothing, in musical and amusical contexts, sometimes intentionally, sometimes because no one knew any better or cared. Includes highbrow concept tracks by THE MARQUES (brothers COLE and STEVE MARQUIS), UNLIKELY MODERNISTS, AMBIVALENT DOSAGE, DILWHIP, HYPNAGOGIC JERK, HALLUCINATORY COMPANION (aka BARBARA MANNING and Cole Marquis). Ripe dementia by LAWRENCE CRANE & JOHN YOUNG, TOPS INC., RORY LYONS, ZIPLOK, SIDNEY AFRIKA, THE CONDUITS, LUCIAN TIELENS, and RICHARD STREETER. And then youve got primitard rock dunt by THE FLAMBOYANT OFFALS, WALKING JOCK, DEAD BOY 3, and shockingly raw 28TH DAY material that predates most anyones idea of the original lineup of that influential band. THE BRENT LEWIIS ENSEMBLE pollutes the lions share of real estate with a side-long tape cut-up a la Faust Tapes called "Goat Embryo (Covered With Glue)," and their entire Industrial Barbecue set. Two-thirds of the material here was previously released (translation: a few dozen cassettes were dubbed one at time and passed through the hands of people in the same rural Northern California area code 25 years ago). All the relics in this boxset are likely unheard by anyone not specifically mentioned above." -BUFMS |
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Dread Format: CD Label: Bulb Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
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"Dread is a world where Negative Approach has gotten in a fist fight with Throbbing Gristle and spat out the heaviest punk rock record ever made. 4 long tracks of ugly homemade electronic sounds. This band is constantly moving forward and constantly changing, making you dance and laugh one night, and crouch and vomit the next. Wolf Eyes somehow tastefully combine the crude electronics of early SPK, the laid back delay of King Tubby, the mic swallowing of Henri Chopin, and the anti-social fuck you of Negative Approach. This record is a masterpiece." - Jim Merrill.
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Artist: CAROLINER Title: Banknotes, Dreams Format: LP Label: Bulls Hit Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "A horse named Old Eggwipe, a girl who ate salt pills sewn into her dolls fingers, a blanket-wearer with bullets instead of teeth, and more unlikely 19th century characters populate this legendary experimental rock bands 1994 seventh album. Always noisy as hell, with the unmistakable flavor of the 1800s. Excellent, unique and not to be missed! All handmade packaging, of course." - Bulls Hit. |
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Artist: CAROLINER Title: Im Armed With Quarts of Blood Format: LP Label: Bulls Hit Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "19th century amplified din sold down the river of country rant and noise. So if you think youve heard "difficult music," think again: this 2nd CAROLINER album reaches new heights of perversity. Hand painted advent cover with built-in grit and dirt."-Bulls Hit |
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Artist: CAROLINER Title: Living Proof Of The 1800s Format: VHS Label: Bulls Hit Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "An oddly high-quality video featuring live footage of many CAROLINER hits through the ages, as well as scenes from the Mummers Day Parade, kids-book style animation (pull the tab to make the tree reclaim a miners peg leg), and lengthy shots of a black dog. Wrapped in a colorfully screenprinted piece of paper." - Bulls Hit. |
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Artist: CAROLINER Title: Lower Intestinal Clocks & Gut Format: LP Label: Bulls Hit Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Their 11th LP, this is the project that bankrupted
CAROLINER. What started off as a book with an LP is now the
LP by itself (and a printer who absconded with the funds),
where the band plays two very long (nearly half-hour) songs.
Calliope, grass reeds, violin, accordion, groaning horns,
electronics, odd half-heard sounds and minimal, sometimes
extremely tortured vocals produce the eeriest, most
atmospheric CAROLINER album yet." - Bulls Hit.
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Artist: CAROLINER Title: Our American Heritage, Volume One Format: LP Label: Bulls Hit Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "The first in a series of live LPs that will be issued every 10 Caroliner albums, this 60 minute opus documents shows from 1983 to 1996, a 13 year span of diverse evolution from a multicolored beanncorn-mouthed scarecrow of a music unit. This also includes, in bare-bones form, songs that will eventually turn up on the next 20 albums. Recordings go from in-your-lap serenades to microphones hidden under winter coats; packaged in scavenged, ripped apart, silkscreened and re-glued album jackets, with very strange photos glued on front. The 19th century wasnt this weird, was it? " - Bulls Hit |
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Artist: CAROLINER Title: Rear End Hernia Puppet Show Format: LP Label: Bulls Hit Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "A soundtrack for Tortured Country Westerns, played with electric fingernails on a blackboard, feedback and apples that curse and spit when salted. Tiny Tim and stomach grumbles. Authentic San Francisco garbage included in these one-of-a-kind, hand assembled packages, in print continuously since 1983!" - Bulls Hit |
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Artist: CAROLINER Title: Rings on the Awkward Shadow Format: Double LP Label: Bulls Hit Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Perhaps the ultimate ergot poisoning record (bet you didnt even know it was a genre, now did you?), this hour & a half, double LP excursion into madness was recorded on an antique wire recorder, and contains fragments of half-century-old found sounds. Mostly quiet, definitely non-rock instruments and vocals lurch queasily in and out of noise upchucks, and its all wrapped in individually made marbleized paint covers." - Bulls Hit. |
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Artist: CAROLINER Title: Rise of the Common Woodpile Format: CD Label: Bulls Hit Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "No, not a lesson in Marxist-Pacific Lumberist tactics but the stories of Caroliner The Singing Bull, on his 1860 visit to the insane asylum at Mendota, IL. Crossing the music of the 1800s with 90s noise-core, CAROLINER has also crossed some sort of other-dimensional boundary whose nature we may someday comprehend, if we live so long. Their 3rd album, this was first released on LP many years ago, but has been out of print for a few years. This CD re-issue comes packed in a manila envelope similar to the original LP, covered with hand-painted stickers." - Bulls Hit. |
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Artist: CAROLINER Title: Sabre Waving Saracen Wall Format: CD Label: Bulls Hit Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Theres a free jazz rocknroll noise ergot-poisoning hoedown at the old barn tonight, and youre invited! The 6th album from one of the strangest and most lovably abrasive bands ever. As always, this comes with lyric sheet (even though it wont make sense unless youre hallucinating), and some of the strangest artwork ever. All packaging is hand made, and each is different. This CD version replaces the out of print LP." - Bulls Hit. |
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Artist: CAROLINER Title: Sell Heal Holler Format: LP Label: Bulls Hit Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "On their 9th album, the CAROLINER wagon train, forced to circle like so many miles of displeased intestines, wanders through lands of space and time with silent movie style organs, old West Middle Eastern themes, trombones, blues bars, tympani and post-modern noise, with an occasional reversion to the standard noise guitar and banjo. This one comes wrapped in a scavenged diaper disposal bag with glued-on CAROLINER artwork and enclosed complete but completely illegible lyrics." - Bulls Hit |
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Artist: CAROLINER Title: Strike Them Hard, Drag Them to Church Format: LP Label: Bulls Hit Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Their 5th album, first out in 1992, takes the band to new levels of sonic complexity in their quest for Old West ergot nightmares. Fully dreamlike lyrical images and sounds, mostly from old-time acoustic instrumentation, drift from song to song, and range from quiet ambience to explosive noise assault, sometimes in the same song. With complete lyrics, and a screenprint, hand assembled wrap-around cover." - Bulls Hit. |
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Artist: CAROLINER Title: The Cooking Stove Beast Format: LP Label: Bulls Hit Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Their fourth brilliantly abrasive, 19th-century-in-a-funhouse-mirror album mixes fiddles, banjos, screeching vocals and washes of tortured guitar feedback." - Bulls Hit |
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Artist: CAROLINER Title: Toodoos Format: CD Label: Bulls Hit Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "A CD reissue of their 12th album, first out in 1998. A battle betwixt banjo and pipe organ (organ wins) on a battlefield set in a spooked opera dressing room with creeped corpses as the musicians. Chills will erupt on top of goosebumps, and the "wire spool" reel to reel recording method (the 2nd CAROLINER album to use this technique for the entire record) gives this even more haunt. Songs include "Fingers of the Underworld" and "Woven Moon of Sun Straws." Packed in a handmade and hand-painted paper folder with the same artwork as the original LP, including the lyric sheet." - Bulls Hit. |
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Artist: CAROLINER Title: Transcontinental Pinecone Collector Format: LP Label: Bulls Hit Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "The 14th album by the planets premier 19th century noisecore band continues along the lines of the previous years epic "Wine Cant Do It, Wife Wont Do" double LP, employing all available technologies from tape deck with microphones, to the 48-track studio option! From symphonic swells to flea circus ragtime, their strummy woodchip fumble-tongue banjo and trademark bizarre collage-style cuts get even more intricate as the singing bull memorial band goes past the 21 year mark. The vocals are all over the place from high sing-song folk from the inside of the moon to the screaming gargoyle of the flip-over barn. Some of the faster songs you can thrash to, some of the slower songs wheat-thrash you. Each LP is hand- assembled, with handpainted artwork and complete lyric sheet, this time also featuring wallpaper samples." - Bulls Hit. |
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Artist: CAROLINER Title: Wine Cant Do It, Wife Wont Do Format: Double CD Label: Bulls Hit Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Four years in the making, this is the long-awaited 13th album by an amazingly unique band (so unique they spawned their own genre) thats been performing for 20 years! Songs of depression, exhilaration and carp fish jewelry, sometimes sounding a bit like hardcore punk played by petulant 3 year olds with electric banjos, sometimes like 19th century nursery rhymes for the lysergically demented. One LP was recorded on the most primitive gear and then mastered onto a wire spool recorder, the other was made with state-of-the-art digital processing... try to guess which is which! As always with CAROLINER releases, all packaging is hand-made from genuine organically grown San Francisco garbage! This CD version replaces the out of print double LP." - Bulls Hit. |
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Artist: CAROLINER/WOODPATTY Title: Smoke Tour For Lunation/Effrointerian Healing Spools of Sacred Modesty through the Curious Science of Magnetism Format: LP Label: Bulls Hit Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Smoke Tour Lunation" is a second helping of Caroliners inimitable 7" in 12" record format. This time, one sided, split with one members solo marching band disasters. Concentrated on 19th Century electronic music from the troupe behind the Singing Bull Memorial Band. Youll hear mutilated banjo music, violins scraping the floor with ergot infestation, in a diseased church undergoing fire damage, suffering through brain augmentations. Caroliner side clocks in at an epic 28.1 minutes on their portion. Within the other portion of this long-player, Woodpatty serves a monster-mish-mash of deranged marching band cut ups, haunted sea farer drones, chirping homemade electronic circuits eating moldy ears of corn, and piles of broken concreet musical mucous. Woodpatty flips the cake for 23 minutes of tonal dissections. Not bad for a hobo living in a shed for over 200 years. Split release with some Bulls Hit." - Fish Pies. |
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Artist: DRUID PERFUME Title: Tin Boat to Tuna Town Format: LP Label: Bumbo Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "There is a stock scene in movies set in colonized countries in the 60s and 70s: A journalist or adventurer or doctor or spy, fresh in the country, goes from plane to taxi cab. The cab swerves through the city, stealing space from bicycles, scooters, buses, and donkey carts. People dodge the car, the car dodges animals. Tires groove into mud and dung, hit concrete and lurch forward. Lights crackle and explode from black & white to color to blindness. Now make music out of that visual. Imagine horns lurching forward like an elephant drunk on palm wine. Guitars slither asp-like and sting. Over a tight flash of a rhythm section barks the town seer. This is how I hear Tin Boat to Tuna Town, the second album by DRUID PERFUME. A couple years ago, this Detroit five piece released a stunning debut on PIGS, followed by three killer 45s on the X! and Italy Records label. All were snatched up and raved about. I am sure the same excitement will meet Tin Boat to Tuna Town, their best record yet. Members of Druid Perfume have served time in the much acclaimed PIRHANAS and other outfits including a short stint with rock & roll legend KIM FOWLEY, which sounds about right. Theyve played a bunch of shows in the past and are hitting parts of the US right now. Check them out, buy Tin Boat to Tuna Town. Theres no band around like them."-Scott Soriano, July 2010 |
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Artist: BURNT HILLS Title: Blunt Creeper Format: Cass Label: Bumtapes Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: GERMAN OAK Title: From the Bunker Format: LP Label: Bunker Country: Price: $20.00 |
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"This 70s German dark doomy basement psychedelic album is... I dont know... what "Stone Harbor" would have sounded like if those 2 guys had been members of the National Socialist party(?)... a favorite of mine that I have trouble giving a 100% recommendation to as it can appear to be sort of aimless depressing noodling if youre not in the mood; and if you ARE in "the mood" for this your friends are probably worried about you." - Stan Denski.
"But what is the sound of a group that was so rejected during its time of recording? Well, imagine a brutally recorded, brazen and ultra-skeletal industrial white funk played with all the claw-handed crowbar technique of the Red Crayola recording their famous "Hurricane Fighter Plane," over which is superimposed the what-instrument-could-that-be rumblings of Gunther Schickerts G.A.M. meeting the Electronic Meditation incarnation of early-T. Dream. That is the sound of German Oak. Imagine Fausts reverb-y schoolroom in Wumme being party to a jam between Riot-period Sly Stone on itchy-scratchy bass and the pre-Kraftwerk ensemble Organisation (specifically "Milk Rock"), without their being formally introduced, and with all the hang-ups that this would entail. Again, this is the sound of German Oak." - Julian Cope.
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Artist: COITUS INT. Title: Dead Excitement Format: 7" Label: Bunkerpop Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Reissue of Dutch post-punk band Coitus Int.s debut 7" from 1980. Five completely unique, totally overlooked and underrated tracks from a band who would later develop a darker, slower sound throughout throughout 1980s. We love this record and think that you might too." - Bunkerpop. |
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Artist: NULL & VOID Title: Possibilities (Discoverable Thoughts) Format: LP Label: Bunkerpop Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Recorded between 1981 and 1982, the 3rd and final LP by Fullerton, CAs brilliant but short-lived NULL AND VOID was never properly released in its time. After being rejected by head-scratching label execs in the U.S. and having met with letters of rejection along the lines of “Theres a lot going on here… Im not sure what it is… I think its too much, etc.”, the record was, sadly, shelved for the next 30 years.
From Mutant Sounds: Like Half Machine Lip Moves On Some Faraway Beach, this final genius stroke from these increasingly warped Californian post punk merchants (following my posts of their Happiness And Contempt and Montage Morte EPs, the latter of which shares a few tracks with this album) ratchets up the stakes significantly; their angle of approach here weaving Chrome-plated and dystopian shaded tangents through a series of emotionally loaded and pop savvy oblique advances that are absolutely breathtaking in their collective impact. This album was shopped around all over back in the day and deemed “too weird” by one and all. Feh! Silly children…they missed the boat on a stone cold classic… This, at the very least, is a product of an outstandingly talented and overlooked “synth wave” band taking their music into new and increasingly warped directions. An avant pop “post punk experimental acid music” masterwork, a truly endless piece of music, and the grand vision of NULL AND VOIDs William Shifflette." -Bunkerpop. |
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Artist: 39 CLOCKS Title: Pain It Dark Format: CD Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "The Bureau B label reissues the first album by Hannover, Germany duo 39 Clocks, originally released in 1981 by No Fun Records. Many a wild tale has enriched the history of 39 Clocks. For example, the time they went on stage with vacuum cleaners and circular saws instead of guitars, the LSD inside their heads having erased all memory of how to play their songs. Or the time when they were expelled from the Documenta, because Joseph Beuys was aggravated by their music. Then there was the angry member of the audience who attacked one of the band members with a knife on stage. Not forgetting the concert in a cavernous aircraft hangar where the amps were turned up so loud that by the end of the show, not a single spectator was left. Sounds music magazine duly confirmed it the "Concert of the Month." The great thing is that every one of these stories is true. Christian Henjes (aka C.H. 39) and Jürgen Gleue (aka J.G. 39) as 39 Clocks were one of the most provocative bands Germany has ever produced; pop scholar Diedrich Diederichsen described them as the best German band of the 80s. The Clocks took shape in 1979, turning their backs on punk and inventing "Psycho Beat," the self-styled counterpoint to the burgeoning German new wave scene, the NDW. Their music can be seen as a futuristic, definitively urban, German form of U.S. 60s garage punk, with a referential nod to New Yorks Suicide and The Velvet Underground -- sparse and gritty garage chord progressions, hypnotic rhythms (invariably emanating from the beatbox) and deadpan English lyrics delivered with the heaviest of German accents. The 39 Clocks pushed back the borders of experimentation with their barely-tolerable live improvisation and atonal meanderings, lower than lo-fi, with a tinny beatbox that tested the resilience of their listeners to the full. Despite some shaky success, geographical and mental shifts brought about their eventual split in 1983. This CD reissue contains a previously-unreleased bonus track and a 12-page booklet illustrated with a wealth of rare photos featuring liner notes by ZickZack record label founder Alfred Hilsberg." -Bureau B |
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Artist: CLUSTER Title: Cluster 71 Format: CD Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
| "Originally released on the Philips label in 1971, Bureau B reissues Clusters eponymous debut full-length album. According to The Wire, Cluster 71 is one of the "One Hundred Records That Set The World On Fire." Very few albums from Germany can lay claim to this honor. This album is a mere three untitled tracks and was quite an ordeal for untrained ears at the time of its release, yet the album pointed the way forward like no other electronic opus. Clusters previous incarnation was a trio named Kluster. A change in direction and musical differences moved Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius to split from their third member, Konrad Schnitzler, in 1970. The following year, as well as playing live, they recorded their first album, Cluster 71, in publisher Ralf Arnies Star Musik Studio in Hamburg. Here they first met Conny Plank, who would himself become a legend. They remained close friends until his death in 1987. Early Cluster music was new -- new in the sense that it did not continue any tradition, instead laying the foundations for a future tradition. The duos utter renunciation of conventional harmony and rhythm, their embracing of near total aural abstraction, confident use of noise, rigorous live electronic improvisation and a positive mind-set tuned to winning rather than losing -- these were all factors in Clusters innovative trailblazing of 1971. For want of a better category, Cluster 71 was classified rather inappropriately and incorrectly as "cosmic." Few recognized Cluster for what it was -- the synthesis of pop music stripped of embarrassing glamour and so-called serious music without intellectual constraints. Moebius and Roedelius took the liberty of raiding both disciplines to perfect their musical concept. A common enough practice today, but akin to a palace revolution in 1971. So it is that three pieces of electronic music meander and pulsate through Cluster 71, with no beginning and no end. Clusters music is free and open in all directions. There are sounds, noises and structures to be heard on this album which would become ingrained in the electronic pop music of the 1980s and 1990s. Cluster had taken the first step into the future with Cluster 71. Liner notes by Asmus Tietchens." -Bureau B. |
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Artist: CLUSTER Title: Curiosum Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
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"LP version with color inner sleeve and liner notes by Asmus Tietchens. Originally released on Sky Records in 1981, Bureau B reissues Clusters Curiosum -- the sixth duo collaboration between Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Curiosum was to mark a departure to pastures new. Little did they know that this would be their last release for the next nine years. Curiosum was launched into an atmosphere of musical turbulence. Electronic sounds had become commonplace in pop music and the voice of Cluster could barely be heard through the noise of a new generation of music. Curiosum is a decidedly tranquil, almost melancholy album -- quiet being the operative word, as Cluster slipped out of the limelight. It was recorded in rudimentary fashion in Austria, now home to Roedelius. This is Cluster music at its most serene, a sense of profound humility running through the seven tracks of the LP. It says a lot about the state of mind of the two musicians, allied to the fact that this was the first time they chose to mix outside of Conny Planks studio where, in the past, the finishing touches had been applied. Roedelius and Moebius laid their cards on the table for all to see, offering up Curiosum as an honest, unadorned selection of tracks, free of artifice and preconception. The album represented a return to the virtues of their early work (when Cluster was written with a "K"), random and spontaneous. Curiosum is nothing if not a curiosity, wholly resistant to the cacophonous zeitgeist of the early 80s, stripped down and keenly focused on perfect shapes. This is Clusters swan-song to the past." - Bureau B.
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Artist: CLUSTER Title: Grosses Wasser Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
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"LP version. Formed in Germany in 1971 when Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius left Conrad Schnitzlers group Kluster, Cluster can be counted among the most important protagonists of the electronic avant-garde. Some credit them with having invented ambient music, others as pioneers of synthesizer pop, while to others they are firmly embedded in the Krautrock universe. There is some truth in all of these notions. Although Cluster and "rock music" are seldom mentioned in the same breath, their early works in particular are marked by a lack of structure and futuristic, cold soundscapes typical of the Krautrock variation known as "kosmische." Recorded and released in 1979, Grosses Wasser was Clusters fifth album as a duo. The cover art is the first indication of minimalist tendencies, reflecting the concentration, transparency and maturity of the content, almost like chamber music. While nothing is left to chance, each of the six Cluster pieces effervesces with a certain joie de vivre, providing ample scope for artistic spontaneity. Grosses Wasser was recorded at Paragon Studio, which had been set up by Peter Baumann (Tangerine Dream) not long before. Baumann had set aside plenty of time for the recording sessions, enabling Cluster to experiment with sequencers for the first time and explore some of the most up-to-date (for that period) studio gadgets on offer. Moebius and Roedelius made intelligent, measured use of the latest paraphernalia without being overwhelmed by it. New technology was deployed with an exactness designed to refine their sophisticated and fully-developed musical ideas. More than ever before in Clusters history, acoustic elements can be heard, with the dulcet tones of Paragons Steinway grand piano taking center stage. Electric bass, guitar, percussion and voice are all embraced. Consequently, Grosses Wasser is anything but a solely electronic album. It is, however, one of those rare LPs whose musical substance transcends its age, never sounding outdated. Grosses Wasser is the first in a series of 23 albums to be reissued by Bureau B, comprehensively documenting the superb electronic/ambient/Krautrock history of the Hamburg label, Sky Records, from whom the material has been licensed. Cluster (in their various guises) will feature heavily in the series (solo albums as well as collaborations with Brian Eno, Conny Plank, Gerd Beerbohm, Mani Neumeier, etc.). Printed inner sleeve includes liner notes by Asmus Tietchens." -Bureau B
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