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Artist: SHITS AND GIGGLES Title: Trick Or Treat Format: LP Label: F.D.A.F.I.T.S. Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "The union of warped avant pop maestro Ariel Pink and the shapeshifting surrealists and Mutant Sounds blog co-authors in Vas Deferens Organization, Shits And Giggles is an inspired and unprecedented collision of two distinct and fully formed galaxies of advanced dream logic art fuck, with Ariels hazy/glazy universe of dissociative pop song rupture and advanced command of psychedelic song structure a virtual playpen for the pranksters in VDO to jerry-rig with plunderphonic joy buzzers, synth punk trap doors, kosmiche time machines and an embrace of willful illogic; a psychotropic melee onto whose exoskeleton has been grafted unexpected episodes of luminous grace from legendary free jazz trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez and his son, bassist Aaron Gonzalez." -F.D.A.F.I.T.S. |
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Artist: VAS DEFERENS ORGANIZATION Title: Ninth Ward Fourth World Format: LP Label: F.D.A.F.I.T.S. Country: USA Price: $44.00 |
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"Vas Deferens Organization (Matt Castille, Eric Lumbleau, Christopher Moock), the crew responsible for several of Ariel Pinks recent endeavors (producers of Ariel Pink With Added Pizzazz and his bandmates in Shits And Giggles) as well as the proprietors of the notorious Mutant Sounds blog return with their first new salvo under their own banner in nine years with the release of Vas Deferens Organizations Ninth Ward Fourth World LP. This album is the first title out of the gate in the 33 1/3 degrees series on our Free Dope And Fucking In The Streets imprint, with all LPs issued as part of this series being limited to only 100 physical copies. In addition to the advance track "Pearly Gates And Electric Fences" (click to download), the remaining two songs from Side A are being offered up in advance to loyal fans of the Mutant Sounds blog and can be found HERE
Ninth Ward Fourth World represents the distillation of the VDO aesthetic to a 151 proof fine science; a collapsing of the sinister, the absurd and the sublime into a floor-sucking gravitational nexus. Weve spared no expense in the creation of this remarkable audio artifact, with both the front and back of the jacket sporting full sized four color hard plastic laminated panels and with eye-popping artwork laser etched into the center of the 180 gram vinyls in place of labels." - FDAFITS.
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Artist: TURMAN, ROBERT Title: Beyond Painting Format: Double LP Label: Fabrica Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "Now on vinyl for the first time, one of Robert Turmans most cohesive and hypnotic recordings from circa 1990. Robert Turman began making sound experiments in the early 70s employing reel-ro-reel tape, cassette decks, an Arp synthesizer, drum sequencers, multiple string and percussion instruments, and whatever else he could scavenge. In the late 70s he co-founded NON (along with Boyd Rice), but left shortly after the release of Mode of Infection/Knife Ladder 7" to focus on composing and releasing his own music on limited-edition, and now extremely rare, cassette tapes. Robert has collaborated with art rockers FZ13, post-apocalyptic industrialists Z.O. Voider, and more recently Aaron Dilloway (Wolf Eyes, Nevari Butchers), Neon Depth and Jandek. Beyond Painting, with its 72 minutes of haunting lo-fi ambience, is probably one of Roberts most accomplished recordings. Layers of meditative synth loops, guitar, and eastern tinged melodies, all beautifully delayed, bring to mind blistering desert landscapes, high-tension cold war era spy action sequences, and dark cavernous sounds. Originally recorded in 1990, these tracks did not see the light of day until 2010 when they were self released on a limited run of 100 professionally printed and duplicated CD-Rs. Beyond Painting follows in the footsteps of the recently reissued "Flux" cassette on LP (Spectrum Spools). Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk (Mississippi Records, Sublime Frequencies, Grouper, Wooden Shjips, Yellow Swans) at Stereophonic Mastering. Edition of 500 on 140grm black vinyl in full-color gate-fold jacket." - Fabrica. |
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Artist: TURMAN, ROBERT Title: Macro Format: Cass Label: Fabrica Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| 2013 release. "Brand new 30 minutes of music by american ambient/noise/industrial pioneer Robert Turman (NON/Z.O. Voider/FZ13). Limited to 100 pro-dubbed copies with full color j-card." - Fabrica. |
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Artist: V/A Title: 4 Way Split Format: 7" Label: Faceneck Country: Belgium Price: $6.50 |
| "The 7" contains new tracks by Spykes (John Olson)/ Warning Sign (Nate Young)/ Vomgrill (Dennis Tyfus (Ultraeczema))/ Faceneck (Matthieu Ronsse and me)." -Faceneck |
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Artist: WOLF EYES/FACENECK Title: Split Format: 10" Label: Faceneck Country: Belgium Price: $15.00 |
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"10" for a small tour with Nate and John of Wolf Eyes, a split with Wolf Eyes (new 12 min awesome track)." -Faceneck
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Artist: JOKERS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Fading Sunshine Country: Spain Price: $46.00 |
| "Hailing from Tehran, Iran, the Jokers were one of Irans heavy underground rock groups during the early 70s. Having visited the UK for a short period, Vaheed, the lead singer and guitarist of Jokers returned to Iran with new ideas and influences. After hearing groups like MC5 & Cream, the Jokers decided to pursue this type of sound, and subsequently recorded a heavy psychedelic blues album in a garage circa 1972 using nothing more than a reel to reel and two microphones. Filled with heavy fuzz, loud wah guitars and screaming vocals, the album sounds unlike any rock artifact unearthed from Iran so far. Sadly no record label would release their album, so they continued to perform at local venues, and even managed to get a performance at the German Embassy before disbanding. Here for the first time ever is a limited edition pressing taken directly from the reels they recorded in 1972. LP housed in a heavy paste-on jacket. Limited edition of 500 copies." -Fading Sunshine |
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Artist: JOKERS Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Fading Sunshine Country: Spain Price: $14.00 |
| "Hailing from Tehran, Iran, the Jokers were one of Irans heavy underground rock groups during the early 70s. Having visited the UK for a short period, Vaheed, the lead singer and guitarist of Jokers returned to Iran with new ideas and influences. After hearing groups like MC5 & Cream, the Jokers decided to pursue this type of sound, and subsequently recorded a heavy psychedelic blues album in a garage circa 1972 using nothing more than a reel to reel and two microphones. Filled with heavy fuzz, loud wah guitars and screaming vocals, the album sounds unlike any rock artifact unearthed from Iran so far. Sadly no record label would release their album, so they continued to perform at local venues, and even managed to get a performance at the German Embassy before disbanding. Here for the first time ever is a limited edition pressing taken directly from the reels they recorded in 1972. Fully licensed, this is a one-time pressing only. The numbered edition of 1000 CD version comes in paste-on mini-LP jackets with inner sleeves." -Fading Sunshine |
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Artist: BARF THOTH Title: Peep Roky Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "sick llama presents more from behind the scab curtain. the elevator lights went out and the only other dude in there w/ me kept complaining about the silence. said at his crib 13 televisions and radios would be on all the time, 25/8, all set to different stations. he busted me this tape. edition 77." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: BARF THOTH Title: Throat Barf Format: CD Label: Fag Tapes Country: US Price: $8.50 |
| "Sick Llama presents more voice tape mash from th netherworld. Color covers, edition of 35." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: BARF THOTH Title: Word Vein Format: CDR Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "through a door is a realm where all un-recorded sound ends up. placed the microphone just inside the door and quickly shut it. trapped, lost, pissed, anguished voices and sound rescued from the realm. two takes. hand painted sleeve. edition 77" - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: CASES Title: Cassette (fto92) Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
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Artist: CASES Title: s/t (fto59) Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "third release from the winter all night Black Mass Michigan cult band. more sounds from the instrument filled down-stairs of the A2 compound." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: COTTON MUSEUM Title: Sick Llama Remixxx Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "rescued from the sticky soda pop garbage floor of a movie theater. original recordings never used for anything till now, and now they are stretched and fogged. edition 77." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: CUTLASS & KJELD Title: Sudden Death Format: CDR Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: CYGNUS Title: Remixxx Of FT139 Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: US Price: $8.50 |
| "FT068 song by song remix dog style, echo-dream over-dub, extra guitar solos. HAM Studios is jus slammin down th remix hits for th streets! Color covers, edition of 30." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: CYGNUS Title: Theres No Way Format: CDR Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "more blues sludge from g. morren and h. moerland. old unreleased first recordings mixed with the latest. crazy brain dead guitar{?} duo.watch out! the 7" is dropping soon! edition 77." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: DEMOON SKIRT Title: Fag Tapes Style Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
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"J. Coorz Olson with something melted in
his silverware trap rat brain. recorded through a refrigerator and toster oven. amazing
sounds !
edition 77." - Fag Tapes.
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Artist: DRONA PARVA Title: ??? Format: CDR Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "h. moerland and jimbo easter are on some sci-fi martian landing shit. blasting away aliens from the outer limits. the first release. playing their first gig on April, Friday 13th. sonic ray tweak and alien keys. edition 77." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: DRONA PARVA/IF Title: Alien Language Removal Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "side A. more from the jimbo easter / h. moerland sci-fi alien blast set. electronics, voice, + more. side B. is kinda an of shoot of the halibet tin metal band but like crossed with barf thoth and jimi hendrix. confusing. edition of 77." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: ELIZA AND PARRY Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Vocals and alien terrestrial electronics by Cammisa F. Buerhaus. With the rhythm bouncing back from an echo off the concrete of an alternate reality NYC. Two computers talking to each. A therapist and a paranoid schizophrenic. A group of experienced psychiatrists analysed a combination of real patients and computers running PARRY through teleprinters. Another group of 33 psychiatrists were shown transcripts of the conversations. The two groups were then asked to identify which of the "patients" were human and which were computer programs. The psychiatrists were able to make the correct identification only 48 percent of the time — a figure consistent with random guessing." - Fag Tapes. Eliza and Parry - The Truth About My New Body from Cammisa Buerhaus on Vimeo. SOLD OUT
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Artist: EMERALDS Title: Grass Ceiling Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
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"stoned strum droner vocal spells from ohio. on
that tv game show "Press Your Luck" some contestant tape recorded some episodes on his
vcr at home, watched them in slow motion and figured out the patern of the board so as
to not hit a WHAMMY. he raked in tons of dough. smart guy. edition 77." - Fag Tapes.
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Artist: EMERALDS Title: Grass Ceiling Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Stoned strum droner vocal spells from
Cleveland, Ohio. On that tv game show "Press Your Luck" some contestant tape recorded some episodes on his VCR at home, watched them in slow motion and figured out the patern of the board so as synthesizer
to not hit a WHAMMY. He raked in tons of dough. Smart guy. John Elliott, Mark McGuire and Steve Hauschildt began playing music together." - Fag Tapes.
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Artist: EVENINGS Title: Day Terrors Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "fresh kalamazoo michigan fucking host / paradice shit. undermining parasitic maggots instead of wires synthetic horror. but above ground is worse. edition 77." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: FAILING LIGHTS/SICK LLAMA Title: Collaboration Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: FAILING LIGHTS/SICK LLAMA Title: Scared FromThe Crypt Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "the mics used to record this turned in on themselves like a black hole. intuitive one take out the trash style changes that come and go outa nowhere. recorded at HAM Studios. edition 77." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: FOSSILS Title: Sound Theft Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "More insane Canada tape damage electronics crew. strange exorcism vocals, garbage instruments. like going lake swimming at night and imagining all these fucked up water snakes and shit just below yer feet. then you look up and imagine thousands of knives falling at you from the sky. amazing ! edition 50 cassette." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: FOSSILS Title: Void For Rent Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "more decrepit bug covered tape slime from Hamilton Ontario fuckin" Canada! magnetic scratch drags in the purple night. edition 77." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: FOSSILS/SICK LLAMA Title: Action Mono #4 Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: US Price: $8.50 |
| "Left and right stereo separation for each band. Kinda like 3 tapes in one! Color covers, edition of 50." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: FULL MEAT JACKET Title: My War Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: HALIBET TIN METAL SEWAGE BAND Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "man! amazing all male/female vocal group. jamie easter [of the parahnas] a.k.a. germaine shepard pulled together a bunch of wierdos along with his main shorty to create this.....recorded in a huge, freazing dark hall by warren defever yo. amazing sounds!" -Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: HALIBET TIN METAL SEWAGE BAND Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "all male/female vocal freak wierdo group. recorded in bedroom studio and one live track from The Outer Limits Bar in Hamtramck, MI. cool, strange voice incantation melt. edition 77." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Drug K-9 Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Fucking both sides rule! Free shredders. Soul sessions. If you want to grind a curb, grind a curb. Fucking do whuteva you want to do! Feedback, Xerox, Jazz HxCx from Bunty Station, Ohio. Lambsbread, a trio consisting of guitarists Kathy O’Dell and Zac Davis and drummer Shane Mackenzie. Amazing!" - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: NEWTON Title: Give Up Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: NIGHT MOVIE Title: $40 Oz. Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: US Price: $8.50 |
| "Glen Morren of Cygnus solo project. Debut! Color covers, edition of 50." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: ODD CLOUDS Title: Sick Llama Remixxx Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: SICK LLAMA Title: Craft Of Recognition Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| " Do you ever get ahead of yourself? I like to take things as they present themselves to me. However, taking that as a skill, then controlling what you perceive as the future or making it into what you want is an object of desire. Isnt it amazing?" - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: SICK LLAMA Title: Live Birth Format: CDR Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "live barf syrup gigs from Chicago, Kalamazoo, Columbus. edition 77" - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: SICK LLAMA Title: Old Possession Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "sick llama style. HAM Studios style. hand-printed b&w photo covers. edition 50 cassette." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: SICK LLAMA Title: Once Believed Format: CDR Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "CDR jam packed w/ new knee deep in syrup soundz. newest sick llama style experiments. you hear children calling for help but yer too stoned." - Fag Tapes |
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Artist: SICK LLAMA Title: Swinging Death Format: CDR Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "sick llama style. trapped smashed and burned acid drowned sound bitches ! edition 77." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: SICK LLAMA/TREETOPS Title: Light Infection Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "colab. cassette. melting wax organ and keys. mixed down in Ham Studios. adrift in the night. edition 50." -Fag Tapes |
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Artist: SOUL CARVERS Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: US Price: $8.50 |
| "Debut collab. of Sick Llama and Kjeld on synths, organ, tape synth. Color covers, edition of 50." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: STEVE LLAMA Title: Unchained Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: US Price: $8.50 |
| "Collaboration of Steve Kenny (Demons) and H. Moerland (Sick Llama). Synth and tape synth style. Color covers, edition of 50." -Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: TYVEK Title: Demos Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"The newest, latest recordings / songs from Tyvek. lineup on this one: Kev: vocals/guitar, Matt Z: drums/bass, Shelley: bass/drums, Heath: guitar. recorded with two mics. RAW! mostly new songs with faster versions of some classics. songs: nothing fits, underwater to, th riff, underwater trees, future junk, frustration rock, start stop, underwater. pricks in a car, 4312, pricks in a car, potato, this one or that one, future junk, mary ellen claims, flashing lights. hand-painted, limited edition 77. " - Fag Tapes.
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Artist: TYVEK Title: Popeprs Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Recorded on tour, assembled and dubbed in the van. mixed at Jarhead Studio in Memphis. recorded: live in Phoenix - live in Detroit (Damon on synth) including unreleased "girl on a bicycle" - "untitled" - "gridlock" + plus remix sessions over: "stop start" - "frustration rock" - "kid tut" - "nothing fits" - "mary ellen claims" = guitar & percussion overdubs @ Jarhead Studio in Memphis. thanx Jameson for recording/mix/supplies + hospitality = no chowderheads allowed! hand-painted - cassette w/ artwork in case sealed in envelope deluxe. break strings edition of do what you want." -Fag Tapes
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Artist: V/A Title: Street Freaks: Super Street 2 Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Features Tape Deck, Sick Llama, The Haunting, Pengo and Wolf Eyes. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Super St. 7 - How To Make Brains Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "all live comp. featuring : odd clouds, fe-mail, taliban, luasa raelon, charlie draheim. 5 heavy hitters w/ the longest jam by Norways (?) fe-mail.edition 77." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Super St. 8 - Nervous Downer Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "all live comp. featuring:jessica rylan, sick llama,cotton museum, evenings,paranoid time,newton/knifestorm,slither,odd clouds." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 10 - S.O.S. Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| All live comp featuring DJ Dog Dick, Hair Police, Prurient & Lambsbread. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 11 - Death Elections Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "all live comp. featuring: KVLTS, PRURIENT/FFH/AIRCONDITIONING, SICK LLAMA, GRAVESIGHTS, RAVEN STRAIN." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 13: Deserted Angles Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "all live comp. cassette featuring : juice and bondo, failing lights, slither, lambsbread. edition 77." |
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Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 14 Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "featuring: wolf eyes, sanitarium[charlie drahiem, sick llama, raven strain]." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 15 - Strangers In The Night Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "all live comp. featuring ; evenings, emeralds, sick llama, graveyards, lambsbread, halibet tin metal sewage band. edition 77." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 16 - Scram! Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| Includes Raven Strain, Evenings and Slither |
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Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 17 - Functionally Damaged Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "all live comp. featuring: aaron dilloway, helicoptere sanglante, kvlts, deathroes, + retarded shit from dilloways 31st B-Day. hand-printed b&w photo covers. edition 50 cassette." - Fag Tapes |
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Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 18 - Born to Hang Out Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "all live comp. featuring : west coast tour dogs hanging out and like jamming a stereo or something, short dilloway interviewing draheim after a set, total retard goofery, some band at grehs that i cant decipher, Germs, + many surprises ! edition 50 cassette." - Fag Tapes |
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Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 19 Nah Look No Wuk Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: US Price: $8.50 |
| "All live comp. cassette featuring: Evenings, Barf Thoth, Sick Llama, Wigwamfossils, Paranoid Time. Color covers, edition of 50." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 3: Diamonds In the Ruff Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Featuring Sightings, Aaron Dilloway, Sick Llama, Connelly, Death Comm, and Wolf Eyes. |
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Artist: VIOLENT RAMP Title: Strange Notes Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Fucking violent ramp! These mugs skate tough / you get in their way or snake em and its over. Raw pool coping hardcore circa 2001." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Live Lawrence, Kansas/Chicago Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
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Artist: WOZNIAK, TEENAGE BRIAN Title: Th Woz Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
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Artist: SOUNDS OF AMERICAN DOOMSDAY CULTS Title: Vol. 14 Format: CD Label: Faithways Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "A document of the spellbinding chants, call-and-response decrees, hypnotic invocations and prayers performed against the demon rocknroll by the ultra-conservative New Age Church Universal and Triumphant, led by charismatic, gun-hoarding nutjob ELIZABETH CLARE PROPHET--who is believed by her followers to be divinely inspired by a host of Ascended Masters, including Merlin the Magician, Hercules, William Shakespeare, Jesus Christ, Gautama Buddha, the Archangel Michael, and other emo legends. Humorous for its damnation of seemingly harmless rock stars like Billy Joel, which explains why Negativland and other experimentalists would sample it, this mesmerizing, all-vocal performance should fascinate listeners interested in La Monte Youngs drones, Kurt Schwitters "Ursonate," or the stringent choral works of Ligeti, Penderecki and Scelsi." |
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Artist: SOUNDS OF AMERICAN DOOMSDAY CULTS Title: Vol. 14 Format: LP Label: Faithways International Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"Currently in the twilight of its life as an American cult, the Church Universal and Triumphant has been an ecumenical marvel in its ability to bridge most faiths and mythologies, all the while acquiring a substantial fortune from the sale of books, trinkets, and constantly updated cassettes for "dictations" from the churchs spiritual leaders Elizabeth Claire Prophet. Packaged as a parody of the releases from Smithsonian/Folkways, this document of Prophets dictations offers insight more into the Churchs antagonism toward mainstream society than to her claims to be the messenger for the "Ascended Masters": Christ, Buddha, Hercules, Guinevere, Shiva, Pope John XXIII and K-17 (the code name for the head of the Cosmic Secret Service - the spiritual afterlife is in need of policing too). As bizarre as CUTs doctrines are, the dictations as terrifyingly good examples of mind control at work: ultra-conservative politics thinly veiled as prophecy, filled with stereotypical denunciations of rock music. Yet throughout these recordings, Prophet and her acolytes belt forth piercing, glossalaliac vocalizations, coming over like a cross between a Southern auctioneer and La Monte Young. To the battered souls who had hoped for inner peace or transcendence from CUT, these intonations were obviously meant to be received as the spiritualist "proof" of Prophets power. But I bet the breakdancer among them didnt reckon with their activity being denounced as a "perverted movement of the body." -Jim Haynes, The Wire. Limited to 300 copies.
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Artist: SOUNDS OF JAPANESE DOOMSDAY CULTS Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Faithways International Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"This reissue of The Sounds of Japanese Doomsday Cults marks the first bona fide public availability in the West of "Lord Deaths Counting Song" and "Sonshis March," performed by Shoko Asahara, leader of Japanese religious cult Aum Shinri Kyo and convicted murderer of twenty-five people, including eleven who died in the sarin nerve-gas attack in the Tokyo subway system in March of 1995-a terrifying incident that put more than five thousand people in the hospital and shocked the world with its televised images of choking
and vomiting rush-hour riders staggering out of subway exits. Originally released by Australian label Mighty I AM Presence in the late 90s in three editions of 25 copies each (on polyurethane lathe-cut 8-inch records), these early, outrageously expensive copies caused their share of controversy and were unofficially banned in Japan. Several traditionally fearless Japanese collectors returned the records unplayed (for fear that its mere presence in their houses could get them in trouble). One collectors wife reportedly left him and filed for divorce, no questions asked, after finding a copy on his shelves. With the terror of the tragic gas attack fresh in the Japanese publics minds, packages containing Aum music mailed from Banjawarn Station in Western Australia-where the cult had previously acquired mining-exploration licenses so they could conduct legal searches for uranium deposits-were enough for one Japanese importer to contact the police, which resulted in a visit to the Mighty I AM Presence offices by a delegation comprised of local Australian constabulary, customs officials, and two Japanese newspaper reporters, all of whom made it clear not to send any more copies of the record to Japan. When examined and compared to commercially available recordings, the musical aspirations of mass murderers and cult leaders (see, for example, Charles Manson and David Koresh, respectively) often seem first and foremost wildly out of step with the times, but also naive, simplistic and eerily innocent. "Lord Deaths Counting Song" and "Sonshis March" follow this model; they are reminiscent of some wispy, New-Age karaoke, maybe with a nod to the music bed for a nightmarishly feel-good airline commercial. The pretty, easy-to-grasp jingles that edu-tainers such as Mr. Rogers deploy on pre-school children sound like a Wagner opera in comparison. Anyone who is not appalled by this music outright will find its creepiness mysteriously compelling. Music by Shoko Asahara, leader of Aum Shinri Kyo." - Faithways International.
"unbelievable... its too dangerous to release it here in Japan even at this 2002. not joke stuff..." - hitomi (beast 666).
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Artist: BOGNER, URSULA Title: Recordings 1969-1988 Format: CD Label: Faitiche Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
| "This is the debut release on Jan Jelineks label Faitiche: a collection of unheard electronic experiments from an unlikely source. Ursula Bogners was a pharmacist, wife and mother, and she was obsessed with electronic music -- an obsession that drove her to build her own studio for extensive recording and experimentation. Ursula Bogner was born in 1946 and raised in Dortmund -- she moved to Berlin at 19 to study pharmacy. She immediately went to work for pharmaceutical giant Schering, followed by marriage, children and a successful yet by no means sensational scientific career within the multinational heavyweight. At the same time, she developed a keen interest in electronic music. Throughout her early 20s, she followed the activities of Cologne-based Studio Für Elektronische Musik, attended seminars by Studio founder Herbert Eimert, exhibited great enthusiasm for musique concrète and, later on, shared her childrens enthusiasm for British new wave pop. Nevertheless, Ursula Bogner never involved herself in any scene, never made her music public. Besides composition, she also tried her hand at painting, printing (the booklet features reproductions of two of her linocuts) and developed a strong fascination for mysticism, esotericism, and Wilhelm Reichs "orgonomy," the psychoanalysts bizarre late work on his discovery of "orgonenergy" or life-force. Her compositions are studies and sketches: humorous and -- in view of her biography -- almost silly, rather than mystical or scientific. Nevertheless, it is remarkably hard to grasp or classify her work as a whole. Over the course of 20 years, she dabbled in many different styles, leading to a huge wealth of work and a bewildering variety of titles, from filter modulations, tuba tweaking, bass anthems, looping experiments, synth-pulse symphonies, to rhythmic patterns trapped in echo chambers. In the late 1960s, Ursula Bogner started to record her own music on reel-to-reel tapes. With some of these titles, Jelinek only found individual tracks of pieces recorded on a four-track-recorder -- in these cases, he had to recombine the separate tracks to recreate the original piece. Invoking the originals authenticity might seem insensitive, yet there was no other way to release them in their entirety. Ultimately, only three of the tracks featured on this CD/LP are such "reworkings." All other titles were taken straight from the original reels. Covering a fairly short period of her creative career, they also convey a peculiar coherence in both form and content. A coherence that reflects her accessible, rhythmic and sometimes even "poppy" side. An exhilarating find from a truly undiscovered electronic artist. The CD is housed in a smart-pack classic package by Herzog-Idex including a ten-sided booklet." -Faitiche |
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Artist: BOGNER, URSULA Title: Recordings 1969-1988 Format: LP Label: Faitiche Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
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"This is the debut release on Jan Jelineks label Faitiche: a collection of unheard electronic experiments from an unlikely source. Ursula Bogners was a pharmacist, wife and mother, and she was obsessed with electronic music -- an obsession that drove her to build her own studio for extensive recording and experimentation. Ursula Bogner was born in 1946 and raised in Dortmund -- she moved to Berlin at 19 to study pharmacy. She immediately went to work for pharmaceutical giant Schering, followed by marriage, children and a successful yet by no means sensational scientific career within the multinational heavyweight. At the same time, she developed a keen interest in electronic music. Throughout her early 20s, she followed the activities of Cologne-based Studio Für Elektronische Musik, attended seminars by Studio founder Herbert Eimert, exhibited great enthusiasm for musique concrète and, later on, shared her childrens enthusiasm for British new wave pop. Nevertheless, Ursula Bogner never involved herself in any scene, never made her music public. Besides composition, she also tried her hand at painting, printing (the booklet features reproductions of two of her linocuts) and developed a strong fascination for mysticism, esotericism, and Wilhelm Reichs "orgonomy," the psychoanalysts bizarre late work on his discovery of "orgonenergy" or life-force. Her compositions are studies and sketches: humorous and -- in view of her biography -- almost silly, rather than mystical or scientific. Nevertheless, it is remarkably hard to grasp or classify her work as a whole. Over the course of 20 years, she dabbled in many different styles, leading to a huge wealth of work and a bewildering variety of titles, from filter modulations, tuba tweaking, bass anthems, looping experiments, synth-pulse symphonies, to rhythmic patterns trapped in echo chambers. In the late 1960s, Ursula Bogner started to record her own music on reel-to-reel tapes. With some of these titles, Jelinek only found individual tracks of pieces recorded on a four-track-recorder -- in these cases, he had to recombine the separate tracks to recreate the original piece. Invoking the originals authenticity might seem insensitive, yet there was no other way to release them in their entirety. Ultimately, only three of the tracks featured on this CD/LP are such "reworkings." All other titles were taken straight from the original reels. Covering a fairly short period of her creative career, they also convey a peculiar coherence in both form and content. A coherence that reflects her accessible, rhythmic and sometimes even "poppy" side. An exhilarating find from a truly undiscovered electronic artist. Limited LP edition. Strictly limited to 500 copies. Vinyl version comes in a gatefold sleeve." -Faitiche
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Artist: BOGNER, URSULA Title: Sonne = Blackbox Format: LP Label: Faitiche Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "Subtitled: Voice And Tape Music. The world first learned of unknown housewife/mother/pharmacist/electronic experimentalist Ursula Bogners work in 2008. Since then, her identity has been surrounded by rumors, her graphic work has been exhibited (CEACC, Strasbourg, France, 2011 and elsewhere) and her compositional instructions have been performed (by Mo Loschelder, Andrew Pekler, Kassian Troyer, Jan Jelinek, among others). " - Faitiche. |
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Artist: BOGNER, URSULA Title: Sonne = Blackbox Format: CD/Book Label: Faitiche Country: Germany Price: $40.00 |
| "The world first learned of unknown housewife/mother/pharmacist/electronic experimentalist Ursula Bogners work in 2008. Since then, her identity has been surrounded by rumors, her graphic work has been exhibited (CEACC, Strasbourg, France, 2011 and elsewhere) and her compositional instructions have been performed (by Mo Loschelder, Andrew Pekler, Kassian Troyer, Jan Jelinek, among others). The release of Sonne = Blackbox brings together all of these aspects in one CD and book: compiled by Andrew Pekler, the CD presents Bogners early experiments with voice and tape music -- a previously-unknown, emotional side of her music is revealed here through her singing. The 126-page book contains, along with drawings, photos and other curiosities from Bogners life, an introduction by Jan Jelinek, texts by Momus, Andrew Pekler, Tim Tetzner and Bettina Klein as well as interviews with the orgone researcher JÃπrgen Fischer and the ethnographer Kiwi Menrath. Sonne = Blackbox attempts to locate Ursula Bogner, the sound experimentalist within broader cultural history. A central theme is the phenomenon of fake: how did the erroneous suspicion of fakery come about in the case of Ursula Bogner and what is a post-fake? Answers in this book. No Neo (Ursula Bogner, 1971, Maas Media Vol. 43, ISBN 978-3-940999-25-2); Deluxe edition in a card-box: with CD (FAITICHE 005) and book (MAAS MEDIA). Text in English/German; Introduction by Jan Jelinek. Texts by: Momus, Kiwi Menrath, JÃπrgen Fischer, Bettina Klein, Tim Tetzner, Andrew Pekler. Book and CD in card-box. Pages: 126; Bound: 14 x 21 cm with numerous photographs, drawings and compositional instructions. CD compiled by Andrew Pekler." -Faitiche. |
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Artist: FUJITA & JAN JELINEK, MASAYOSHI Title: Do You Know Otahiti? Format: 12" Label: Faitiche Country: Germany Price: $13.00 |
| "This mini-LP is the third of four vinyl compilations that bring together a highly diverse range of Jan Jelineks works -- including commissioned pieces, live recordings, collaborations with other musicians, as well as unreleased material from the past five years. Both titles on the A-side are live recordings of Japanese vibraphone player Masayoshi Fujita together with Jelinek. "Do You Know Otahiti?" is a two-fold collage combining unreleased material with fragments taken from a radio collage. "TOton" is a previously-unreleased track from 2009." -Faitiche. |
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Artist: GESELLSCHAFT ZUR EMANZIPATION DES SAMPLES Title: Circulations Format: 7" Label: Faitiche Country: Germany Price: $8.00 |
| "The mysterious Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples (trans. "Society for the Emancipation of Samples") presents tracks from Circulations on 7" vinyl in a limited edition of 300 copies only. These recordings present samplings of music in public space which choreographs a recording situation and, at the same time, the utopia of a space unfettered by copyright. In some cases, the public aspect is palpable, in others, it is hardly noticeable, depending on the degree of processing. Includes one previously-unreleased track." -Faitiche |
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Artist: GESELLSCHAFT ZUR EMANZIPATION DES SAMPLES Title: More Circulations Format: 7" Label: Faitiche Country: Germany Price: $13.00 |
| "Faitiche presents four new recordings from the Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples (G.E.S.). On More Circulations, G.E.S. instigate the following recording situations: audio playback devices are placed in public spaces in order to play the desired sample material. The resulting recordings document collages from public spaces: a hotel lobby in Lanzerote, a registry office in Berlin, Copenhagens Tivoli garden, a beach on the Portuguese coast, the old town of Geneva as well a Mercedes Benz on the way to Eindhoven." -Faitiche |
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Artist: FRASER & DEBOLT Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Fallout Country: UK Price: $15.50 |
| "This beautiful collection of Canadian psych-folk swiftly came and went in 1971, but has since acquired a devoted cult following. A haunting set of self-penned tunes set to esoteric arrangements featuring gloriously unpredictable fiddle-playing, it makes its long-overdue CD debut here and is sure to delight fans of The Incredible String Band and the Holy Modal Rounders, as well as more recent acts like Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom." - Fallout."Its hard to find another record that is so unanimously treasured by the rare people who have heard it, and has had such a huge influence on so many while being heard by so few." - The Acid Archives. "One of the many sad secrets of the popular music business is the way this little gem languished in obscurity. It should have been heard by millions, but disappeared at the height of psychedelia." - All Music Guide. |
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Artist: MALACHI Title: Holy Music Format: CD Label: Fallout Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| Recorded in San Francisco in August 1966, and originally released on the M.G.M./Verve label, this collection of lengthy, acid-tinged folk instrumentals is one of the earliest specifically psychedelic albums ever recorded, and it makes its CD debut here. As the original sleevenotes state: "Malachis music transcends the traditions of East and West, and represents the new synthesis which is still being worked out in aesthetics, philosophy and religion by those participating in the psychedelic revolution." Features Steve Cunningham (pre-Red Krayola). |
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Artist: BLITHE SONS Title: The Great Orthochromatic Wheel Format: LP Label: Family Vineyard Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The Great Orthochromatic Wheel is The Blithe Sons first full-length release since 2004. In the years since the California duo of Loren Chasse and Glenn Donaldson may have traversed poppy fields and swam to aqua cities though mostly theyve remained active with their Jewelled Antler offshoots: Ov, Of, and Child Readers (Chasse) or Skygreen Leopards and Flying Canon (Donaldson) and both in Thuja. These five songs combine natures melodic pull and minimalist song forms summoned by a miniature backyard orchestra of acoustic guitar, vocals, harmonium, drums, and a whispering sea breeze. Each LP side flaunts a different depth of the Sons, one recorded outdoors and the other inside; one organic slow-motion folk and the other a thick honeycomb drone. Each 500 copies contain a download coupon for MP3 version of the album." - Family Vineyard |
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Artist: CONNORS, LOREN Title: The Curse of Midnight Mary Format: LP Label: Family Vineyard Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "In 1981 guitarist Loren Connors took his tape recorder to the graveyard where the legendary Midnight Marys grave lies in New Haven, Connecticut. The curse is: Anyone who gets caught in her graveyard past midnight will die the next day. But Connors, like a young fool, taped in that place, making this album. Lost and forgotten, a cassette of this music -- made at Evergreen Cemetery -- was found by chance in 2008. Recorded between Connors eight volume Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations LP series and the folk albums he would make with Tom Hanford and Kath Bloom, these nine pieces meld those distinct, haunting styles. Connors, singing in a trance like moan, reforms the Mississippi Delta blues on acoustic guitar with flashes of melodic hooks and a percussive guitar style that erupts into boogie-woogie riffs and other world spirituals. Its an album for followers of Connors spine tingling solo albums and his collaborations with Suzanne Langille or Jandek. Devotees of early 20th Century blues artists such as Blind Willie Johnson or Charley Patton will be equally enthralled. A rare and essential peak into the still mysterious early years of this American guitar master." -- Family Vineyard. |
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Artist: CONNORS, LOREN Title: The Departing Of A Dream Format: LP Label: Family Vineyard Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Vinyl reissue of master guitarist Loren Connors modern classic The Departing of a Dream -- the first of what would become a three volume series based loosely as tribute to Miles Davis "He Loved Him Madly." This album finds Connors exploring slowly churned darkened hues -- each collapsing onto themselves like echoes of Miles muted trumpet and Connors signature ghost melodies. Since the late 1970s, Connors use of haunted delta blues, minimalism and compositional underpinnings have become an avant-garde style synonymous to him. When The Departing of a Dream was released as a CD in 2002 it signaled a dramatic growth in Connors sound by combining electric, acoustic and bass guitar with the unsettling ménage of subtle percussion and ambient hiss. Remastered from the master tape this 180 gram LP extends the closing two part suite For NY 9/11/01 with a bonus track. Comes with download code." - Family Vineyard. |
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Artist: FLAHERTY, PAUL & CHRIS CORSANO Title: The Beloved Music Format: CD Label: Family Vineyard Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "The most thoroughly realized blueprint for a post-hardcore take on improvised jazz to date from the duo of legendarily long-serving New England saxophonist Paul Flaherty and young firebrand drummer Chris Corsano. Forsaking the call and response modes of countless improvising ensembles, the duo deal more in a simultaneity of sound, an elemental non-stop gush of ideas, rhythms and epiglottal forms that at points feels like a small-group response to the orchestral conceptions of the Peter Brotzmann and John Coltrane big-bands as much as epochal duo deals like the Rashied Ali/Frank Lowe and Muhammad Ali/Frank Wright sides." - Family Vineyard. |
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Artist: FOOLE, DREDD Title: Daze On The Mounts Format: CD Label: Family Vineyard Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Hey, smooch! The FOOLE, aka DAN IRETON, has finally come out and ended a near decade of silence and Daze on the Mounts, a spiraling three-dimensional crest of the so-called avant-folk expression, is the celebratory homecoming. Originally a limited 2004 CDR, this reissue presents the colossal side for all. In collaboration with MATT VALENTINE and ERIKA ELDER (MV/EE, BUMMER ROAD, TOWER RECORDINGS), two of modern-times purest interstellar travelers, Dredd Foole bounds between Tim Buckley-esque bellow and a hyper-extended take on the song form (a dewy mash of Ra-space and Vermont-lore) alongside environmental treatments (harmonica, synthesizer, percussion) and his own acoustic guitar work to fully transcend limitations. From the visceral 80s garage days with THE DIN to becoming a beacon for many a free folk explorer, the Foole remains a bona fide master of universal revelation." - Family Vineyard. |
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Artist: HUMAN SKAB Title: Stay Thirsty Format: LP Label: Family Vineyard Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"Human Skab was a 10-year old singer from Elma, Washington. Stay
Thirsty is one of a half-dozen or so cassettes recorded by the soccer
player during the mid-late 1980s and injected into the underground
postal network of cassette traders, zine scribes, DJs, and freak
seekers. In a way, this is Skabs response to He-Man, the smoldering
Cold War, living near the abandoned Satsop Nuclear Plant, and heavy
metal (the title has gotta be response to Twisted Sisters classic
Stay Hungry LP!).
Rumors maintain Human Skab opened for David Thomas at the Capitol
Theatre in Olympia, Washington before focusing on baseball card
collecting and growin out his mohawk.
As Bruce Pavitt wrote in the 1986 Sub Pop zine: the Skab zips around
the living room shooting toy guns. He hits the family piano with his
fists. He tries real hard to play guitar. He makes up songs about
terrorism and radiation and throwing rocks at windows. Cool!
Now, 23 years later this is the first time any of the Skabs rare
recordings have been reissued or even made available outside of dusty,
personal collections. You cant find this stuff on blogs. Family
Vineyard will follow up this ultra-limited 105 edition LP with a
full-length CD reissue of the stunning and epic Thunder Hips and
Saddle Bags cassette, expanded with a bonus radio interview from the
time, in late 2009. Cmon, baby mohawk!" - Family Vineyard. Limited to 105 copies.
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Artist: HUMAN SKAB Title: Thunder Hips And Saddle Bags Format: LP Label: Family Vineyard Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Human Skab was a 10-year old boy from Elma, Washington who played African music with buckets and spoons. Thunder Hips and Saddle Bags is a 1986 cassette recorded by young Travis Roberts with his neighborhood pals and siblings. It was injected into the underground network of tape traders, zine scribes, college DJs, and freak seekers who were universally bowled over by its bewildering and utterly poignant snapshot of the mid-1980s. Skabs music -- an orchestration of pots n pans, three string guitar, poorly-tuned upright piano, broken bottles, toy guns, a garden rake, and a "Snake Mountain" microphone -- is a response to fear of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, He-Man cartoons, Twisted Sister, the coolness of dinosaurs, the uncoolness of John Wayne, and Ronald Reagan. Roberts captures the fervor of do-it yourself ethos, punk energy and the rawness of early American folk by acting on his wild child imagination and enigmatic sense of song. These rare recordings have never been made widely available until now. This reissue includes the complete 1986 cassette. The CD and MP3 version contain a bonus 1987 radio interview. The 16-page booklet in the 500 edition LP and CD contains liner notes by Roberts and Cousin Franky along with many full-color photographs and news clippings. As Bruce Pavitt wrote in the 1986 Sub Pop zine: the Skab zips around the living room shooting toy guns. He hits the family piano with his fists. He tries real hard to play guitar. He makes up songs about terrorism and radiation and throwing rocks at windows. Cool!" - Family Vineyard. |
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Artist: HUMAN SKAB Title: Thunder Hips And Saddle Bags Format: CD Label: Family Vineyard Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Human Skab was a 10-year old boy from Elma, Washington who played African music with buckets and spoons. Thunder Hips and Saddle Bags is a 1986 cassette recorded by young Travis Roberts with his neighborhood pals and siblings. It was injected into the underground network of tape traders, zine scribes, college DJs, and freak seekers who were universally bowled over by its bewildering and utterly poignant snapshot of the mid-1980s. Skabs music -- an orchestration of pots n pans, three string guitar, poorly-tuned upright piano, broken bottles, toy guns, a garden rake, and a "Snake Mountain" microphone -- is a response to fear of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, He-Man cartoons, Twisted Sister, the coolness of dinosaurs, the uncoolness of John Wayne, and Ronald Reagan. Roberts captures the fervor of do-it yourself ethos, punk energy and the rawness of early American folk by acting on his wild child imagination and enigmatic sense of song. These rare recordings have never been made widely available until now. This reissue includes the complete 1986 cassette. The CD and MP3 version contain a bonus 1987 radio interview. The 16-page booklet in the 500 edition LP and CD contains liner notes by Roberts and Cousin Franky along with many full-color photographs and news clippings. As Bruce Pavitt wrote in the 1986 Sub Pop zine: the Skab zips around the living room shooting toy guns. He hits the family piano with his fists. He tries real hard to play guitar. He makes up songs about terrorism and radiation and throwing rocks at windows. Cool!" - Family Vineyard. |
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Artist: JAILBREAK Title: The Rocker Format: LP Label: Family Vineyard Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Jailbreak is the duo of pedal steel/vocalist Heather Leigh and drummer
Chris Corsano. The name foregrounds the kind of outlaw violence with
which the two reformulate rock/roll instants by bringing free jazz
fire power to amp-humping sex beats. Their musical alliance goes all
the way back to the legendary Brattleboro Free Folk Fest, the
birthplace of the New Weird America, where Corsano and his long-term
saxophone partner Paul Flaherty joined Leigh and Christina Carter for
a quartet show that took the roof off the building and the skin off
their fingers. Since then Corsano and Leigh have worked together as
part of Taurpis Tula and as members of Thurston Moores Dream/Aktion
Unit.
So, who better to describe this 700 edition debut LP, than Mr.
Flaherty: For those of you whove been worried that the Free Power
Noize scene has become a little too tame, (and seriously who isnt
somewhat concerned about that), a new screamin creamin duo --
Jailbreak -- expoldes to the rescue. The Rocker is a blast-furnace of
blisteringly joyous witch-howling assaults on the essence of whips and
chains and repressive injustice gone legal. Both of these magisterial
musicians are capable of extreme dynamics and subtleties, but those
concepts dont get in the way of this monster-truck of a record. And
why should they when drums and guitar can slash and burn in a riotous
electric smash fest like this crazed merry madcap of an album. Over
the top . . . Way!" - Family Vineyard.
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Artist: SPEARE, JED Title: Sound Works 1982-1987 Format: 2CD Label: Family Vineyard Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| " JED SPEARE is a crossover artist who has been working in sound, video, and performance for over thirty years. Sound Works 1982-1987 reflects his investigation and uniquely expressive practice of musique concrete-like analogue sound/field recording, editing, combining and mixing during that era. He is the creator of the Smithsonian Folkways LP Cable Car Soundscapes (1982), a project that begins as a sound documentary and ends as a tape composition based on cable car sounds. In the early 80s he recorded with the San Francisco groups, RESEARCH LIBRARY (appearing with and solo on the legendary Red Spot compilation LP; Subterranean Records), ULTRASHEEN (7" ep; Subterranean), and APPLIANCES. This double-CD collects five of Speares long-form compositions for the first time. Splicing together sources into towering movements used for stage and screen, these two hours of music take you to the heart of sound where nothing can own you. Twelve-page booklet features introduction by video artist and writer GEORGE QUASHA, Speares detailed notes on each piece, rare photographs and score reproductions." - Family Vineyard |
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Artist: BROKEN WATER Title: Normal Never Happened Format: 7" Label: Fan Death Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Coming out on the tail of a self-released 7-inch ("Boyfriend Hole/Mother"), cassette (Night People) and early 2010 highlight WHET LP (Night People/Radio is Down), BROKEN WATERs FDR debut 7-inch finds the band further refining their distinctive northwestern squall. A-side "Normal Never Happened" kicks off with a throbbing riff, before morphing into a hazy, spacey dream-pop zone topped with layered vocals. The B side, "Faux King Vogue" continues their exploration of the dark, noisy guitar work thats been a hallmark of Pacific NW bands since the days of Unwound, Lync, and Kicking Giant. Covers are letterpressed with unique paint splatters." - Fan Death |
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Artist: CLOCKCLEANER Title: Nevermind Format: LP Label: Fan Death Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Fan Death Records is proud to bring you CLOCKCLEANERs legendary first LP Nevermind, receiving its first vinyl release. Allegedly written while singer/guitarist JOHN SHARKEY was suffering from a weeks-long case of bilateral amnesia, Nevermind shocked those listeners lucky enough to hear it with its acidic, misanthropic noise-rock spew. Live, Clockcleaner took an uncompromising approach towards alienating audiences, bands, and venues, leading a local alt-weekly to crown them "the most hated band in Philadelphia" in a cover story. While more sensitive types bristled at tracks called "Interview w/ a Black Man" and "Gentle Swastika" (among others), those who were able to stand through their seizure-inducing live shows and vulgar display of reverb found that this band actually wrote songs. Darkly humorous songs with an attitude corrosive enough to melt the mustache off a Northern Liberties Man Man fan. After youve come to know and love Babylon Rules and Auf Wiedersehen, youd be doing yourself a favor by coming back to where it all began. Includes a download." -Fan Death |
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Artist: PUERTO RICO FLOWERS Title: 2 Format: 7" Label: Fan Death Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"This is the new single by PUERTO RICO FLOWERS entitled 2. It is entitled 2 because it features two songs. If there were seven songs the record would be called 7. Surely by now you grasp the idea.
Inspired by Canberran isolation and John Cale, 2 offers us one new orignal and one borrowed tune. Again performed solely and in the same fashion by JOHN STARKEY III (CFC). This record was recorded by a New Zealander (FFC) in a house unfit for human inhabitants located in Yarraville, VIC. 2 Strays noticeably from the forced darkness of todays boring youth and towards a more human element while all along cementing the fact that women are not the enemy, time is. Available
for purchase Anzac Day 2010." -Fan Death
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Artist: PUERTO RICO FLOWERS Title: 4 Format: 12' Label: Fan Death Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "This is the debut EP from PUERTO RICO FLOWERS and it is called 4 because there are four songs on it. If there were five songs, it would be called 5. Bass / Drums / Synthesizer / Vocals found here. Slow songs not unlike a skinhead crying. JOHN SHARKEY III wrote and recorded them. He lives in America and Australia. Yes, he used to be in CLOCKCLEANER, but he also used to be a smoker. He gave that up a long time ago. Performances are seasonal and enjoyable. Thank you." -Fan Death |
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Artist: PUERTO RICO FLOWERS Title: 7 Format: LP Label: Fan Death Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "JOHN SHARKEY III is the new prime mover of the dark pop resurgence with PUERTO RICO FLOWERS. After the smoke blew free from the rubble that was CLOCKCLEANER, Sharkey burrowed deep into the smoother sound the group folded under in order to find his own voice. His newly crafted Puerto Rico Flowers has sliced through all of the current buzz with its rich and saturated sound coupled with ever-surprising pop sensibilities. On 7, the evolution of sound continues to new dynamisms while maintaining that same foundation of simplicity. Tracks such as "Freezing Tears," place a steady beat behind the wheel that is carried by Sharkeys flowing vocals while pieces such as "After the weekend" see PRF exploring new places of quiet. Yet the anthemic quality of songs such as "3 Sisters" and "I Feel Good" hit with the same power as "Lets Make Friends."" -Fan Death |
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Artist: TACO LEG Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Fan Death Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "TACO LEG are the best band in the world. No, seriously. The Perth trio of ANDREW MURRAY, SIMON MORRISON and RICHARD INGHAM has been blowing us away since we first came across their Myspace page shortly after starting Fan Death. Taco Legs self-titled LP wastes no time in making its mark, its 12 tracks clocking in at just under 20 minutes. Many of these tracks barely crack the minute mark, but like their Perth punk ancestors from the Victims to Extortion, their songs are direct and lodge in your brain until you find yourself thinking about "Raiders of the Lost Ark". If youre familiar with Taco Leg, the elements are all there-minimal guitar lines and stripped-down, proto-punk drumming, with singer Murrays unforgettable voice intoning cryptic lyrics. This is the record where theyve fully honed their sound, and very nearly have learned how to play their instruments. Whether its on the shambling swagger of "Shut It Down," self-described "Detroit Hardcore" song "Find Me," or the tension of "I Cant Decide" (not a Black Flag cover), Taco Leg perfectly encapsulate the feeling of being young and bored without being boring. Members of Taco Leg also appear in a number of other great bands, all of which are incredible and essential to check out, including: PAULINE MANSON, CONSTANT MONGREL, WHALEHAMMER, POND, and Ringhams garage-punk/prank call project RING." - Fan Death. |
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Artist: TWIN STUMPS Title: Seedbed Format: LP Label: Fan Death Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"If a bands surroundings influence their sound, one might assume that Ridgewood, New York, a neighborhood on the border of Brooklyn and Queens that TWIN STUMPS calls home, is a decaying urban wasteland seldom seen outside of dead industrial cities in Eastern Europe. Coming on the heels of last years critically acclaimed self-titled 12-inch on Dais, universally considered one of the most grotesque, misanthropic, and extreme releases of 2009, a listen to Seedbed finds the band pulling you further into the grime and mire of THEIR world. The result is a truly unnerving mixture of suffocating feedback and distortion, blown-out drum sounds, loop abuse beyond recognition, and the manipulated, maniacal barks of wild-eyed singer ALESSANDRO KEEGAN. Recorded and mastered by BEN GREENBERG (Zs/Pygmy Shrews) at Python Patrol. LP includes a download." -Fan Death
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Artist: COME Title: The Prats/Genocide (Live) Format: 7" Label: Fanatiks Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
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William Bennetts pre-WHITEHOUSE band. Numbered edition of 200.
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Artist: WOLF EYES/SKULL DEFEKTS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Fangbomb Country: Sweden Price: $18.00 |
| "A dark split LP battle featuring noise gigants Wolf Eyes and experienced Swedish newcomers The Skull Defekts. Wolf Eyes needs no further introduction, and neither would The Skull Defekts, had you already known the musical history of these men, ranging from Union Carbide Productions and Kid Commando to Alvars Orkester, as well as Anticimex, Cortex, and Lucky People Center. Hear feedback and rhythm merge and/or collide, slowly." - Fangbomb. |
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Artist: ANGER, KENNETH Title: The Complete Magick Lantern Cycle Format: Double DVD Label: Fantoma Films Country: USA Price: $40.00 |
| "Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous Hollywood Babylon books and creator of some of the most striking and beautiful works in the history of film, Kenneth Anger is a singular figure in post-war American culture. A major influence on everything from the films of Martin Scorsese, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and David Lynch to the pop art of Andy Warhol to MTV, Angers work serves as a talisman of universal symbols and personal obsessions, combining myth, artifice and ritual to render cinema with the power of a spell or incantation. This 2-DVD set contains Angers complete Magick Lantern Cycle, from his landmark debut Fireworks in 1947 to his breathtaking phantasmagoria Lucifer Rising in 1981. Fantoma is very proud to present the films of this revolutionary and groundbreaking maverick, painstakingly restored and presented on DVD for the first time in one collection." Contains the films: Fireworks (1947); Puce Moment (1949); Rabbits Moon (1950, the rarely seen, original 16-minute version); Eaux dArtifice (1953); Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome (1954); Scorpio Rising (1964); Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965); Invocation Of My Demon Brother (1969); Rabbits Moon (1979 version); Lucifer Rising (1981). Special features: High definition transfers from newly restored elements; Screen-specific audio commentaries for all films by Kenneth Anger; Rare outtakes from Rabbits Moon; Full color book featuring written appreciations by Martin Scorsese, Gus Van Sant, and Guy Maddin, written introduction to Lucifer Rising by Bobby Beausoleil, notes for each film, rare photos, and more. The Man We Want To Hang (2002), Kenneth Angers film on the art of Aleister Crowley; Alternate audio track for Invocation Of My Demon Brother; Restoration demonstrations and more; NTSC format, all regions, Dolby digital." -Fantoma Films |
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Artist: CHALK & DAISUKE SUZUKI, ANDREW Title: The Days After Format: CD Label: Faraway Press Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "Originally released in 2003 as a limited CD-R. It is now back in print as a pressed CD with facsimile sleeve of the original artwork in a mini LP style jacket as previous Faraway Press releases and new insert. It features two tracks recorded over approximately seven years and the second track is now in an extended version here, making the album running time 50 minutes."- Faraway Press |
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Artist: CHALK, ANDREW Title: Blue Eyes Of The March Format: CD Label: Faraway Press Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
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500 copies. "Theres an amazing attention to aesthetics that Andrew Chalk undeniably pays for each release with his name on it. It starts with the music and continues through the cover artwork, packaging, and presentation. The first part of Blue Eyes of the March is a 20 minute long piece which sounds like it was created by a prepared guitar, tuned only to play a limited number of pre-determined notes as theyre quietly plucked and resonate for long stretches. The tones resemble some of those on the Buddha Box, and while the effect is similarly serene and meditative, theres a number of differences that are inherent with the basic natures of the medium. The biggest advantage I think is the ability to amplify the sound and be completely bathed in it, which is something Chalks music always lends itself to. Chalks music is not on a loop, either, and each piece makes a gradual evolution over the time. The second part is an absolutely heavenly 31 minute long piece. Unlike the first part, this one sounds like it was created by piano, yet it echoing in a similar way to the other. The piano tones and treatment are almost reminiscent of some 20+ year old Harold Budd work but while the set notes are very rigid, Chalks playing is quite fluid." - Brainwashed.
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Artist: CHALK, ANDREW Title: East of the Sun Format: CD Label: Faraway Press Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| Reissue of East of the Sun, previously released on cassette in 1994. Tracks: Winter Arc/High Water. Packaged in stunning mini-LP gatefold style jacket. |
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Artist: CHALK, ANDREW Title: Goldfall Format: LP Label: Faraway Press Country: UK Price: $42.00 |
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"Following the sublimely beautiful series of CDs on his own Faraway Press label, Andrew Chalk slips back to analog with Goldfall. Limited to 300 copies pressed on heavyweight vinyl and housed in a silk-screened sleeve and overwrap, the LP, featuring piano from Vicki Jackman is another side to Chalks remarkable discography. Haunted keyboards extending into the distance, like the recent Andrew Liles The Dying Submariner, this piece puts aside the enveloping blankets of drone for a sparser sound, close in spirit to Harold Budd or William Basinski. This is a superb platter of sonic and visual art." - Synaesthesia Records. Incredible packaging - amazingly still a few here..
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Artist: CHALK, ANDREW Title: Goldfall Format: CD Label: Faraway Press Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "CD edition this time. The sleeve is a replica of the original LP from 2006 and is the usual mini LP style CD sleeve that we make." "Haunted keyboards extending into the distance, like the recent Andrew Liles The Dying Submariner, this piece puts aside the enveloping blankets of drone for a sparser sound, close in spirit to Harold Budd or William Basinski. This is a superb platter of sonic and visual art." -Synaesthesia Records. |
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Artist: CHALK, ANDREW Title: Shadows From The Album Skies Format: CD Label: Faraway Press Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
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New self-released CD from Andrew Chalk (Ferial Confine, New Blockaders, Mirror, Organum, ORA, etc..). Beautifully hand packaged/signed edition.
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Artist: CHALK, ANDREW Title: The River That Flows Into The Sands Format: CD Label: Faraway Press Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
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Faraway Press is Andrew Chalks label. All releases come with handmade covers, each one different. 500 copies (pressed CDs, reissuing the original CDR version). Features guitar-originating sounds. "Andrew Chalk has been active since 1985 as Ferial Confine and worked with many associates over the years, such as David Jackman (Organum), Vortex Campaign, The New Blockaders, Darren Tate (Ora), Giancarlo Toniutti, Daisuke Suzuki, Jonathan Coleclough, and Christoph Heemann (Mirror)."
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Artist: CHALK, ANDREW Title: Time of Hayfield Format: CD Label: Faraway Press Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
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"A new release of material from 2005 which was recorded around the same time as was Goldfall, eight tracks with Vikki playing electric piano once more on the final piece. Time of Hayfield has some different covers that are variations on a theme of yesterdays landscapes; otherwise the albums are all identical, of course."- Faraway Press
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Artist: CHALK, ANDREW Title: Vega Format: CD Label: Faraway Press Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
| CD reissue of CD-R release from 2005. Beautiful hand-made mini-LP style gatefold sleeve. "Chalk has again walked a very fine line between complete abstraction and conscious identification...Chalk steps a bit differently, proceeds with his sound in a fulfilling fashion, and somehow works with his sound more like a composer than anyone else. I can imagine him toying with his sounds like theyre clay, shaping them to make an architecture or to plan an entire geographic region. Every release Chalk has seems to produce this same effect, this sense of a musician as sculptor. As the album begins the entire sound is bathed in a kind of blind stupor, sounds traveling aimlessly for minutes at a time before the distinct impression of a bell is made clear...The most change occurs in tone, however, elevating the album from a tomb-like sound to the hum of the open air. Conceptually the whole album sounds like a liberation from architecture and a step away from the tight, always very centered sound that Chalk employs. Whatever the case, Vega has that static and rolling sound in its first half and then slowly dissolves, revealing a subterranean process that mightve been working throughout the whole album." - Lucas Schleicher/Brainwashed. |
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Artist: GHOSTS ON WATER Title: Ghosts on Water Format: CD Label: Faraway Press Country: UK Price: $22.50 |
| "The second full release of recordings by Naoko & Daisuke Suzuki with Andrew Chalk, now titled as Ghosts on Water." - Faraway Press |
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Artist: GHOSTS ON WATER Title: Senshu Format: CD Label: Faraway Press Country: UK Price: $31.00 |
| "Faraway Press reissues the early FP release that was a tiny book & CD-R, this time in a gatefold sleeve that compliments the original aesthetic. Remastered CD of three tracks: Ukigiri, Koyurugi & Untan all played by Daisuke & Naoko Suzuki, Andrew Chalk. The first 250 copies will be in a gatefold sleeve."- Faraway Press |
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Artist: JACKMAN, VIKKI Title: Of Beauty Reminiscing Format: CD Label: Faraway Press Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "Now available as a mini-LP style CD package with new artwork." - Faraway Press |
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Artist: MARSFIELD Title: Three Sunsets Over Marsfield Format: LP Label: Faraway Press Country: UK Price: $35.00 |
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Recent project featuring Andrew Chalk and Brandon Wells. Embossed foil/paper jackets with obi strip. Only a few copies available.
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Artist: 2673/HABEEB Title: Mugshots Vol. Seven Format: Cass Label: Fargone Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Kevin Winter, AKA 2673, is a New Jersey sound artist whos amassed a substantial and very impressive discography in a short amount of time -- culminating in his phenomenal recent splits with experimental music icons Kevin Drumm and Jessica Rylan. His side here is a cold, willowy stream of high-pitched speaker sizzle with ear-piercingly clear oscillator tones cutting through. The combination of icy purity and textural noise, as usual with 2673s music, is perfectly balanced. Not particularly harsh, but too stark to be calming, this track is unsettling in the best possible way. Cyber Blast Records owner Habeeb infuses his own ceremonial music with a different slant. The warm ambient drones and deep throbbing basses of his track explore the same stark Antarctic icescape as 2673, but with a much smoother, less textured sound that is more subliminal. If you listen very carefully, you can hear the monsters lurking beneath the smooth surface. Dark ambient at its minimalist best. LIMITED TO 32 COPIES." - Fargone. |
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Artist: KELLEY, GREG Title: The Peeled Ones I-III Format: Double CDR Label: Fargone Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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�??Almost two years ago, improv trumpeter Greg Kelley released a pair of anonymous CD-Rs under the moniker the Peeled Ones. He made a webpage, sent out press releases, and received NO orders for the debut albums from this previously unknown and mysterious group. The discs, which almost nobody heard at the time, were wildly different from Gregs usual work: one disc of melancholic synth meanderings (I) and one disc of shredding guitar overload (II). This year, the Peeled Ones saga came full circle when Greg decided to record a third installment, returning to his synthesizer for a gorgeous and incredibly realized improvisation. This lavish package includes "reissues" of the two original, ultra-obscure Peeled Ones albums on the first disc, and Gregs fantastic new recording on the second disc. Each disc comes in its own cardboard slipcase with individual artwork (featuring creepy photos selected by Greg) and the whole thing fits in an oversized box along with an essay by Mr. Kelley himself and more haunted pictures. Greg Kelley fans, this is not to be missed; this box is a different and unexpected side to one of modern improvs most versatile and consistently rewarding musicians. LIMITED TO 120 COPIES.�?� -Fargone.
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Artist: STIMBOX Title: Inner Turmoil Format: CDR Label: Fargone Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "A blistering stream of pure sound, simultaneously brutal and trance-enducing, like all the very best harsh noise. A maelstrom of intense high-energy debris hurtling out at the listener, a raw outpouring of emotion from this prolific California noise artist. Tim Oliveira is the man behind Stimbox, and hes unleashed a truly dizzying stream of limited releases on the world from all points in the noise underground. Packaged in traditional DIY Fargone style, with great psychedelic artwork by Tim. LIMITED TO 40 COPIES." - Fargone. |
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Artist: THERIAULT, DOUG/JEPH JERMAN Title: Red, Water Format: CDR Label: Fargone Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "This disc of gently processed field recordings flows as beautifully as the river on its cover. Burbling water, birds chirping, and other nasturalistic sounds are only the starting point for a startlingly pretty composition that incorporates these tiny glimpses of nature into a widescreen panorama as sweeping and open as the Western landscape. The result of long-distance collaboration, this discs organic, seamless sound completely belies those origins. Doug Theriault is a guitarist based in Portland, OR, best known as an improviser whos played with such diverse talents as Fred Lonberg Holm, Sean Meehan, Climax Golden Twins, and Noggin. Jeph Jerman is a multi-talented Arizona-based sound manipulator, known for ultra-quiet improv with natural objects and lo-fi field-recordings. Jeph and Doug have recorded together several times, resulting in 3 previous CD-Rs and a cassette, but this project is much different from anything theyve done together in the past. Comes packaged with special, gorgeous artwork: a gatefold cardboard sleeve with a real photo by Jeph attached. LIMITED TO 75 COPIES." - Fargone. |
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Artist: WHITE HEAVEN Title: Levitation..Plus Format: LP Label: Farside Country: Price: $38.00 |
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"All time Japanese noise/psych classic rarity. Limited, numbered edition of 300 copies on 180 gram. Reissued with 1 bonus track. Cult guitarist Michio Kurihara and crew, created this awesome psychedelic cranium damaging noise masterpiece in Tokyo 1988. It was originally released as a 700 only LP release that sold out instantly thereby rendering it instant cult status with a scarcity value that beggars belief. This has to be the most sought after album of its genre and makes Les Rallizes Denudes look positively commonplace and as we all know, they are NOT! With a Quicksilver-Lysergic damaged sound, this band has to be heard, and here you have possibly the last chance to do this." - Farside.
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Artist: FOLDED SHIRT Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Fashionable Idiots Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Four tracks of top shelf Cleveland mongoloid punk. F/S features: one Homostupid, one Grabbie, one Darvocet, and some dude from California. Not much else to say, pick this up and listen yer IQ level straight down into the dirt." - Fashionable Idiots.
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Artist: FOLDED SHIRT Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Fashionable Idiots Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"Cleveland dummies, FOLDED SHIRT return to burn with this highly anticipated long play. Moron punk greatness caused by some genius pressing "record" in a room with MR. CALIFORNIA, one DARVOCET, one HOMOSTUPID, and one GRABBY. Think of a punk version of Trout Mask Replica and you might be getting close? This is a split release with the excellent Proud to Be Idiot label." -Fashionable Idiots
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Artist: HOMOSTUPIDS Title: Cat Music Format: 7" Label: Fashionable Idiots Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: HOMOSTUPIDS Title: Night Deacon Format: 7" Label: Fashionable Idiots Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Here we have six brand new tracks from the best band in America. The songs featured here are better than all previous recordings, side B kicks off with a stupids traditional re-recorded by a mandolin quartet. This wonderful record is a must have for morons worldwide." - Fashionable Idiots. |
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Artist: HOMOSTUPIDS, THE Title: Strawberry, Orange, Peach, Banana Format: 12" Label: Fashionable Idiots Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Cleveland kings of Skull Music return to smash with this brand new mini album. Nine more tracks of their signature primitive retard rock done to perfection. This time around the Stupids see themselves recording in a real studio, oh my! and the results are crushing. Buy this great new album right now." -Fashionable Idiots |
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Artist: PINK REASON Title: Borrowed Time Format: 7" Label: Fashionable Idiots Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Two more cuts
of self-described suicide/drug punk. If you are already a fan, ya wont
be disappointed. If you arent...well, these are shorter songs and
more straight forward than previous efforts so kick back and open a
few veins even if you have the taste of a 17 year old" - Fashionable Idiots.
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Artist: ROT SHIT Title: Have You Scene Rot Shit? Format: 7" Label: Fashionable Idiots Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: UV RACE Title: I Hate You Format: 7" Label: Fashionable Idiots Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Four brand new cuts of UV RACEs unique Aussie punk meets name it KBD slop. A fantastic effort from these Australian knobs, dont miss it." - Fashionable Idiots.
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Artist: SOFT KILL Title: An Open Door Format: LP Label: Fast Weapons Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"SOFT KILL is the project of TOBY GRAVE and his wife SHILOE ALIA (aka two people playing like five). Its Graves first project after dissolving BLESSURE GRAVE-owners of one of the 20 most overlooked albums of 2010-but he isnt labeling it the new Blessure Grave band. Its a separate entity entirely, one that will keep fans of the earlier groups death rock happy contentedly downcast. The writings done 50/50 by Grave and Alia, who started playing music together in August when An Open Door (and other demos) emerged. Expect a nine-song full length in March via Fast Weapons, the label run by the Gossips Nathan Howdeshell. (Fittingly, Peter Murphy did the cover photo for it). Until you have the complete love letter in your hands, take a listen to Borders Comfort." -Stereogum
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Artist: ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Title: People Format: CD Label: Fat Cat Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "THE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE returns with an EP comprised of three previously unreleased studio tracks, as well as a live version of the song "People"-tracks fans know from the groups live shows and bootlegs, but have never heard on record proper." - Fat Cat. |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT/SUNROOF! Title: Split Series #19 Format: LP Label: Fat Cat Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
| "The 19th installment in FatCats acclaimed split series features Finnish noise/folk collective Kemialliset Ystavat and Sunroof!, the current project from Skulllflowers Matthew Bower." - Fat Cat. Comes in a hole-punctured outer sleeve with glossy innersleeve. |
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Artist: KONONO NO. 1/THE DEAD C Title: Split Series 18 Format: 12" Label: Fat Cat Country: UK Price: $7.50 |
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Artist: PANDA BEAR Title: Bros Format: 12" Label: Fat Cat Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"The debut Fat Cat solo release from ANIMAL COLLECTIVE member PANDA BEAR (aka NOAH LENNOX). "Bros" is a sprawling 13-minute A-side cut divided into two sections that blur and morph into each other. The B-side features an exclusive "Bros" remix by TERRESTRIAL TONES, the collaboration of Animal Collective member AVEY TARE and BLACK DICEs ERIC COPELAND." - Fat Cat.
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Artist: FRANK-O-FEST Title: An Episode Of Improvisational Smoke... Format: LP Label: Father Yod Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Recorded Upon The Cold Stone of Sacred Ground. 1992 release. Frank-O-Fest is a loose grouping of Milwaukee old-timers led & directed by John Frankovic, who recorded this in one cloudy session in a church in 1992. Utilizing percussion, sitar, bouzouki, trombone, pipe organ, jews harp, didgeridoo, bass, cello, bamboo & clay flutes & more, this is a long, form-defying floatation exercise in space-out improvisation." -Father Yod |
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Artist: GREEN RAY, THE Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Father Yod Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "1996 release. UK guitar group, with one previous 12" on Shagrat (included here, plus 2 new tracks). "W/ 4 glistening trax of psychedelic liquidity, recorded by the light of the Cancer Moon. Originally known as the Archers, Green Ray is 2 vets of the Welsh 70s psych/rock scene (ex-Help Yourself, Man, etc.)... Creations of spectacular, timeless vistas of guitar-soaked beauty in Quicksilver/Man tradition." -Father Yod |
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Artist: HOWTH CASTLE Title: Good Morning Mr. Nobody Format: LP Label: Father Yod Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "A graphically superior and mysterious LP issue of the CD (FYP 10). Howth Castle are an Italian male/female duo who play an exotic brand of acid-wind folk. They released one LP around 1990 that caused a big ruckus when it was discovered a few years later (in certain very small circles). This is their follow up, co-released by the Italian Blu Bus Label & Northampton, MAs Father Yod. The main instrumentation is acoustic guitar and vocals with occasional accompaniment (electric guitar, keyboards, saxophone, trumpet, etc.). Female vocalist Lalli has a unique, deep voice that can really scatter time (once compared to "a cross between Marianne Faithfull ca. Broken English and Nico in duet with Vince Martin backed by the Temple Creatures,"), and the bands use of odd, non-traditional elements helps blur the wind with this as well." -Father Yod. Mid 90s release. |
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Artist: RANALDO, LEE Title: Scriptures Of The Golden Eternity Format: LP Label: Father Yod Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Orig. issue of a wonderful live solo LP by this baby baby beat. A mixture of savage guitar ronk and delicately textures readings, this emerges from yr speakers like a gust of pure feedback on a gray and rainy morning." - Byron Coley. From 1993.
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Artist: WAKHEVITCH, IGOR Title: Docteur Faust Format: LP Label: Fauni Gena Country: Spain Price: $32.00 |
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"Housed in a fantastic and menacing sci-fi cover courtesy of Druillet and
bearing the famous dedication: "A mes grands amis Robert Wyatt et Mick
Rattledge", Wakhevitchs second album was a step beyond its predecessor
into a music alchemy that defies categorisation and the one that started to
define his trademark sonic collage of styles and moods. Like the previous
record, this was the music for a Norbert Schmucki ballet "Ergonia",
premiered at Festival DAvignon 1971, and featured top french players of the
era like Janick Top on bass. Oozing darkness and mistery, Wakhevitch
displays a wide array of mind-bending tricks that take the listener to a
wild and trippy ride into occult zones starting from the spoken word
passages and open drum break of "Aimantation" to the psyched-up delirium of
"Sang Poupree". Elsewhere delirious acid passages, hypnotic bass riffing,
stoned funk beats, wild free-rock freak outs, avant-garde orchestral drama,
dubbed-out passages and Wakhevitch trade-mark collage and sound manipulation
make up to a really unique listening experience that submerges and puzzles
the unexpecting listener. A psychedelic kaleidoscope full of intense moods,
from stoned to thrilling drama, from medidative and mystical ritual trance
to way out tape and synth manipulation that in spite of all contrast, holds
together well - not unlike the similar collaged, contrasting and now much
revered opus "LEnfant Assasin Des Mouches" by Jean Claude Vannier or some
of Fausts work. Originally released by Pathe Marconi in 1972, it has become
over the years Wakhevitchs hardest to find album and one thats been chased
also because of his striking cover-art, made by no-other than Jean-Pierre
Druillet, one of the top exponents of french 70s sci-fi comics school
together with the great Jean Henri Gaston (better known as Moebius) which
revolved around the seminal Metal Hurlant magazine. LP in gatefold cover +
insert. Limited to 500 copies. " - Fauni Gena.
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Artist: WAKHEVITCH, IGOR Title: Hathor Format: LP Label: Fauni Gena Country: Spain Price: $32.00 |
| "Subtitled "Liturgie du souffle pour la résurrection des morts", this is probably Wakhevitchs most esoteric and occult-influenced work. Some sort of dark ritual for synthesizer and orchestra inspired by Kabbalistic writings where Igors trademark bottom heavy electronics pulse, wizz and sweep to a backdrop of heavy tribal drumming. Elsewhere, menacing and majestic spoken word passages open us the doors to the netherworld, leading you into an esoteric sound ritual that sounds spooky, virulent, powerful, droning, entrancing and mystical at the same time. Again Wakhevitch brings together disparate elements, bridging apparently unrelated musical forms and integrate them in order to deliver another unique work that sounds strangely prescient and recalling at the same time works from Mort Garson (Black Mass), Ruth White (Flowers Of Evil), Terry Riley (Surgery Persian Dervishes), Stockhausen (Stimmung), Tangerine Dream (Zeit) or early Klaus Schulze (Irrlicht). LP in gatefold cover + insert. Limited to 500 copies." - Fauni Gena. |
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Artist: WAKHEVITCH, IGOR Title: Logos Format: LP Label: Fauni Gena Country: Spain Price: $32.00 |
| "Subtitled "Rituel Sonore pour Group Pop (Triangle), Choeur mixte et Bande Magnetique" and originally recorded as music from a N.Schmucki ballet premiered at Festival dAvignon 1970, this is the perfect introduction to Wakhevitch dark, powerful and often menacing sound world. An unlikely mixture of 20th century classical avant-garde, both orchestral and electronic and psychedelic rock courtesy of french psych-prog band Triangle. A strong piece which pairs epic choral parts with Wakhevitchs taped electronics and Triangles hypnotic jamming to form, in typical Wakevitch occult fashion, an ode to mans relationship with sound forces with the composer acting as a medium between the magical forces of sound and listener. The text inside the wonderul red gatefold cover holds some keys to the composers universe, mentions to early 20th russian mystic / thinker Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff and also Kabbalistic and Alchemistic traditions are coupled by Wakhevitchs vision of a cosmic art for the 20th century, aligning himself to similar efforts by William Sheller and Guy Skornik. No surprise since this record sits comfortably next to other period pieces like Shellers "Lux Aeterna", Skorniks "Popera Cosmic", Jason Havelocks "Pop Symphony" or even vangelis Papathanassious "Fais Que Ton Reve Soit Plus Longue Que La Nuit". Typical french post-mai 69 orchestral avant-pop vibes galore !!!! LP in gatefold cover + insert. Limited to 500 copies. Often regarded as one of the unsung geniuses of 20th century, Wakhevitchs music has puzzled and surprised listeners and critics alike since it first came out in the early 70s. His six albums, released between 1970 and 1979 contain some of the darkest and more powerful music ever commited to vinyl and have been revered and praised by inquisitive souls everywhere: from progressive rock fans and avant-garde lovers to, in more recent times, noise kids, beat diggers and modern-day bloggers alike. His is music that defies categorisation as it draws and takes elements for many disparate styles: from psych rock to 20th century classical avantgarde. Throw in some weird cut-up techniques, a penchant for sound / space manipulation and real way-out electronics and you get some of the elements that appear in this composers cookbook. No wonder his name turns up on the famed NWW list, as Steve Stapleton sometimes travels similar music mind-roads as the visionary frenchman. Born in 1948 in a small town near Cannes, son of famed russian scenographer and painter Georges Wakhevitch, Igor grew up in an artistic environment and recalls being both exposed to the russian diaspora that settled in France after the October Revolution and the artistic circle to which his father belonged who included such names as Jean Cocteau or Herbert Von Karajan. Attracted to music since very early, he studied and devoted countless hours to become a piano concertist. As teen years arrived, young Igor decided to take his own road and become a composer - he went thru all the academic degrees, becoming pupil of one of the greatest composers of the century: Olivier Messiaen. Because of his family connections, young Wakhevitch soon found himself scoring music for theather and ballet - this allowed him to present a highly personal music that often dealt with mystical and praenatural subjects (no wonder taking into account he had been in contact since an early age with traditions such as jewish Kabbala, Alchemy and Christian Orthodox mysticism). Most, if not all of his recorded output, comes from this association with the stage world - specially with american dancer and choreographer Carolyn Carson (who did work with a number of underground luminaries from the european experimental and free scenes). A chance meeting (but not on a dissecting table) in the parisian offices of Mr. Filipacchi (head of Atlantic/WEA) led to Wakhevitch being the choosen musician to score Etre Dieu - Salvador Dalis unique and unstageable opera (as it stars, amongst others, Marilyn Monroe as a stripper, Brigitte Bardot as an artichoque and Dali himself as "The Divine Dali") in which the genius from Cadaques rants about life, death and general nonsense over Wakhevitchs ever changing sonic tapestries. Fascinated with India since a child, he started travelling to this country in the early 70s finally settling down there later that decade in Shri Aurobindos and Mirra Alfassas Auroville and travelling regularly to Europe promoting indian classical artists with his company. In the meantime, his old records have become collectable items that command high prices in the second hand market. The reissue of his six albums on a now long-unavailable cd boxset entitled "Donc..." further fuelled interest in his music so this reissue program should fill the gap in all those collections needing Wakhevitchs music. Released it as it should be enjoyed, in proper glorious analog sound. Directly licensed from Igor Wakhevicth himself, this reissues come approved and supervised by the composer who has always taken great care on how his music is presented to the people. This should open the doors to a future release of a series of unreleased works that certainly deserve to see the light." - Fauni Gena. |
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Artist: BLACK BUG Title: Black Bug Format: LP Label: FDH Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Sometime in late 2007 FDH was very proud to release the debut demo CDR from this Swedish lo-fi synth band. Since then they have released 7-inches on labels such as Disordered, Boom Chick, and Burning Hell. Each just as good as the one before. The time is finally here for a full0length and FDH is happy to have them back. Lo-fi synth trash at its best. Blown out sounds, pissed-off male and female vocals. Limited to 500 copies." - FDH.
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Artist: GAPE ATTACK! Title: Burn This City Format: 7" Label: FDH Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "GAPE ATTACK bring us their moody dark synth sound on this debut record. Using only keyboards, drum machine, and bass, the Seattle trios first single could be mistaken for some long lost, cold wave gem. A must have for fans of Blank Dogs and Cold Cave. Limited to 300 copies." - FDH. |
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Artist: TERMINAL GIRLS Title: Weird Lights Format: LP Label: FDH Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "A bass tone like a warped broadcast barely winning its fight with am radio fuzz. A hypnotizing keyboard that sounds like someone crafted an infernal machine from the toy section of a resale shop. Hailing from Detroit, damaged new-wave duo TERMINAL GIRLS debut Weird Lights LP on FDH records avoids the lo-fi trappings of layers and layers of tape hiss and clipping vocals buried in the mix to deliver something thats clean enough to bore itself right into your brain and dare you to drill a hole in your skull so it can escape. Become a cosmonaut from an alternate past that sets out on a voyage to deep space to find gods skeletal remains. That vast, empty boring part of outer space is no longer boring, and is more vast, more empty. You are so lonely and depressed that you want to commit suicide but Weird Lights force you to have a one man dance party instead. The beats drill into your body, reaching speeds that should be too fast to dance to but arent. None of this makes you feel any better about freezing to death in your spacesuit, but youve lived for so long you cant care anymore. Like a less self conscious The Screamers, unconcerned with trying to sound punk and artsy, but they manage to do it effortlessly. Sometimes it becomes so catchy but alienated it could have come from some sewer dwelling mole-man mid 90s boy-band. Limited to 300 copies, includes a download." -FDH. |
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Artist: LIQUOR BALL Title: Break n Run Live Format: LP Label: Feast Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Once again SF displaced and sceneless Bay Areans LIQUOR BALL are back with another sonic onslaughtering. The follow up to the bands Gradys Record Refuge LP, and recorded just a few months apart, Break n Run Live shows the versatility of these loser drunks. Pulling up the waders for their classic San Francisco gutter psychedelia. Caught live in 29 Palms California in the late summer desert heat of 2008 at the world famous Marines watering hole, the Break n Run. Two side-long blasssts guaranteed to destroy speakers and piss off everyone around you! Includes members of NOTHING PEOPLE, BAD TRIPS, INTERNATIONAL HELLO, MONOSHOCK and AMERICAN WASTE. Limited to 540 copies." -Feast |
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Artist: FEATHERS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Feathers Family Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"Hailing from the verdant hills of Vermont, Feathers has come down to the valleys to play their own tunes of goat horns, sentimental ballads and angel children for you. Until this point, you could only buy their very limited CD-R?s as you caught their live performances. Now, for the first time, their self released LP is available, complete with large full color poster and is limited to 1,000 copies. Feathers is eight musicians, five of whom write the songs. They play a range of instruments; mountain dulcimer, lap harp, sitar, banjo, acoustic guitar and electric guitar solos with a heavy focus on vocal harmonies. There is an unsullied quality to the songs, which is difficult to find in the music scene of today. Feathers will be appearing on a few tracks of DEVENDRA BANHART?S new album, Cripple Crow. They are recently back from a two week tour with SMOG, and are now working on their various side projects. Two members of Feathers play with J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. in the band WITCH." - Feathers Family.
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Artist: EVENINGS Title: Growing Isolation Format: LP Label: Fedora Corpse Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "First time on vinyl! Evenings is a terrifying rumble of evil from Kalamazoo, Michigans Miles Haney. Two tracks on this maroon vinyl LP. Distant and deep tones. Mastered for vinyl by James Plotkin. Silkscreened covers. Limited to 300." -Fedora Corpse |
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Artist: JEHOVA MELTDOWN Title: Long Boring While Format: 7" Label: Feedback Country: NETHERLANDS Price: $4.00 |
| "1997, edition of 500. low fi guitar, Think of Nico." The Feedback label (along with sublabel HYENA) release limited edition synth/minimal electronics/homemade new wave. |
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Artist: KOMPLETA Title: Ministar Format: 10" Label: Feedback Country: NETHERLANDS Price: $16.00 |
| "2001, edition 0f 150. low fi electronics." The Feedback label (along with sublabel HYENA) release limited edition synth/minimal electronics/homemade new wave. |
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Artist: MINX/ZIMMERMAN Title: Dance Music 2000 Format: 7" Label: Feedback Country: NETHERLANDS Price: $7.00 |
| "2001, edition of 200 copies, electronics 80s in a comic style sleeve." The Feedback label (along with sublabel HYENA) release limited edition synth/minimal electronics/homemade new wave. |
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Artist: V/A Title: A Wonderful World Of Feedback Format: LP Label: Feedback Country: Netherlands Price: $15.00 |
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"edition of 500 (a compilation that goes from 80s style electronics: zimmerman/roel/F.Dirkx into new electronics:commando cauldron/kompleta/lgm 45/electric bongo. comes in a full color sleeve."
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Artist: ELECTRIC BONGO Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Feedback/Hyena Country: NETHERLANDS Price: $10.00 |
| The Feedback label (along with sublabel HYENA) release limited edition synth/minimal electronics/homemade new wave. "very fresh electronics, edition of 500" |
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Artist: AMBERGRIS Title: Anti-Matter Alma Mater Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Vinylization of the superb oddball cassette originally issued by the Potlatch, I Gather tape label in 2008. Ambergris is more or less the solo project of visual artist Matthew Thurber (1-800 MICE, etc.), although he is aided in this instance by Rebecca Bird. The suite of songs presented here is something like a theatrical recreation of one of Thurbers bizarre-world comics. Using voices, Casio, various Garage Band inventions and his own surreal imagination, Thurber takes us to a 10,000 year class reunion of the students of a space/art/science academy, from which our hero may have been physically expelled some millennia earlier. The first side focuses on the storyline, with music taking an incidental role. Something like the radio plays of Firesign Theater, it gets more brilliant as your high intensifies. The flip contains songs which have a vague similarity to some of the antic bands of the SF underground of the mid-1980s, if they had recorded themselves in SFs legendary Musee Mecanique. Housed in a lovely silkscreened cover of Thurberian design, Anti-Matter Alma Mater is the best of comics-based music to have traveled your way since Gary Panters last LP. Truly whipped. Buy or, uh, die." -Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: BLANCHE BLANCHE BLANCHE Title: 2wice 2wins Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
| "Brattleboro, Vermonts Sarah Smith and Zach Phillips have dropped another absolute bomb. The music here is so good, Feeding Tube Records couldnt resist releasing it on vinyl, even though their Our Place LP was already in production. Exquisite songcraft, cunningly rhythmic arrangements and Sarahs lilting vocals give the songs here a deceiving lightness, almost like a 21st century Gilberto/Jobim collaboration. The more you play it, the deeper it will cut. A perfect record for summer, with an engraved B-side, courtesy of the youngest members of Team Feeding Tube: Addie C. and Coco M. Also available as half of a cassette split with Bruce Hart on Blanche Blanche Blanches home-label OSR Tapes. No EQ. Bass by Danny Bissette. Edition of 200." -Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: BLANCHE BLANCHE BLANCHE Title: Our Place Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "No effects, EQ or noise reduction were used in the making of this album, the fifth by this fantastic Brattleboro duo. Sarah Smith and Zach Phillips (aka Bruce Hart, Jordan Piper Philips, Nals Goring, etc.) assemble mostly keyboard-oriented skeletal pop gems from the softest imaginable bones. Sarah Smith sings like a torchier version of the Young Marble Giants Allison Stratton, singing lost fragments from the Randy Newman Songbook. Smiths guitar playing seems effortless but planned out with a true heart. Its an incredible combination that always pulls itself back from the brink of potential cutesy-pieness with genuinely unexpected moves and a fully brilliant manner of constructing songs. A surrealist cocktail masterpiece from the upper reaches of the Connecticut River Valley." -Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: BLOOD STEREO Title: Tape Hiss For Brainwash Format: Cass Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "To celebrate their upcoming US tour, Feeding Tube Records is releasing a spooky little c30 by Blood Stereo, the Scottish duo of Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance. Any one familiar with their previous work will know that Tape Hiss For Brainwash is not to be missed. A heady mix of tape collage, minimal instrumentation and other-worldly vocals. We only made 100." - Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: BLUE SABBATH BLACK FIJI Title: Mistake Of A Small Bird Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "This multi-national European duo, who currently hail from Scotland, have been producing a steady stream of ultra-limited releases and incendiary live performances on both sides of the Atlantic. BSBF may be a swanky looking couple, but their music is about as destroyed as a bombed out building. The two guitars and two mics are constantly threatening to overpower and split open the discotheque beats of the drum machines and electronics. You could dance to this music but you might get a bloody nose. This is, by far, their most fully realized album, showcasing them in peak form. Mastered by Rat Bastard and James Plotkin." - Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: BODY/GATE/HEAD Title: Glare Luring Yo Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "In the spring of 2011, Michael "Powderfinger" Morley was in the U.S. for a short visit. There had been some talk of doing a Gate show or two, but when he visited Western Mass., Feeding Tube Records decided to put use to his collaborative talents. He played one night at the Yod space in Florence with Kim Gordon and Bill Nace, then at Feeding Tube with Spencer Yeh and Meg Clixby. Both sets provided jumbo pleasure, and Michael managed to record the Yod set for our presentation to you. Kim and Bill were at the beginning of their duo explorations at this point. Cant even remember if theyd started using the Body/Head name yet. Regardless, the instrumental sluice -- with occasional spirit-vocals by Kim -- is similar yet quite different from the duo tactics theyve since evolved. Morleys presence gives the proceedings a bit of a grungy psychedelic smear, whereas their other recordings (at least as of now) have a rather more ethereal arc. The set occurred in front of a slowed-down screening of Catherine Breillats gorgeous 1976 film Une Vraie Jeune Fille. Feeding Tube thinks youll agree that the music here matches the sexy surrealist power of that film frame-for-frame, or your money back. The cover, by the way, is a beautiful silkscreen designed by Morley and based on an outtake from Susan Harris NBC program, The Golden Girls. The image was based on Bea Arthur and Betty Whites characters from a season five episode entitled "Break-In." The album title is a phonetic spelling of what Ms. Arthurs character keeps chanting while attending a Madonna concert. Now you know." -Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: BUNWINKIES Title: Map Of Our New Constellations Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Beautiful first LP by these Western Massachusetts maestros of the mystery-volk gesture. Named after some well-bred rabbits of Martha Burr Banks invention, related by birth to Jow Jow The Death Knell Rung, many of the questions here are posed by Beverly Ketchs plaintive vocals, all of them edged with a wide-eyed wonder one would suspect was a ruse if one didnt know her. There is a bit of the campfire to the materials construction, but theres none of the cutsey-pie crap that might seem to infer. Some of the bits ring like a full-fledged folk-rock oyster. Indeed, the vibe is not dissimilar to the work of Barbara & Teri Manning, and the organ backing that pops up here and there is very much in line with the SF sound developed by the Amarillo Records bands and their ilk. Very goddamn elegant, this." |
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Artist: CALLAHAN, JACK Title: Music From Airports Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Edition of 100. Amherst resident solo percussionist and booker of countless basement shows. His music aims to create a total sonic takeover of the space, always by employing silence to gather souls towards a complete ecstatic takeover. (Or, sometimes by). Sometimes you will ask, "Is this record still playing"? Yes it is still playing. -Feeding Tube "Bewitching set of ultra-sparse solo percussion music from western mass provider-of-said jack callahan ... having caught jack completely immobilize a room full of partially-to-wholly inebriated concert-goers a few weeks back doing this exact set of music, i can safely say hes committed to the art-form long-term (cant even count how many meehan-acolytes ive heard breeze through town, only to pop up again backing some schmuck playing “hypnagogic chillwave” a month or two later) ; as a rule, silence is golden & jack uses it here to maximum effect, with each stray session of agitated snare-drum surface cut with a good buffer of “reflection time” in either direction ... works beautifully as a record (thanks largely to bhob raineys sympathetic mastering job) ; havent heard a more patience-requiring record in a minute, this one delivers". -Keith Fullerton Whitman |
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Artist: COSMIC HALLWAYS Title: Cosmic Hallways Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
| "Cosmic Hallways is the North by Northeast fire music crew assembled by leader Gene Moore (Prana-Bindu/Hat City Intuitive/Thurstons big brother) for this double sax, guitar axe, bass and drums -- fire music field trip to the Schoolhouse (a former one-room 16th/17th century schoolhouse turned recording studio) in the pleasant Connecticut River Valley farm town of Hadley, Massachusetts. Here, 21st century hot and sauce techniques meet the "how the fuck did people live out here -- and in this house" -- vibe from the late 1600s behind a 15 foot high fence surrounding the one street town from the natives who wanted to fry their children to send the message thats sometimes whispered softly and gently as "get...out..." Anyway, using drums, upright bass, alto & tenor saxes, electric guitar, bells & yelling, the 5 folks on this record invite you to join them for 40 minutes on their sweat-soaked & bone-toked free-fire odyssey to mindframes previously unbeknownst to the assembled. Members include: Gene Moore (guitar, bells); Paul Flaherty (Flaherty & Corsano, alto & tenor sax); Gene Janas (Owl Xounds, upright bass); Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut (alto sax); John William Moloney (Sunburned Hand Of The Man, drums). Recorded at the Schoolhouse by Jim Matus, November 22, 2010. Hand-numbered limited edition of 200 copies." -Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: COURTIS/OKKYUNG LEE/C. SPENCER YEH/JON WESSELTOFT, ANLA Title: Cold Burn Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Superstar live drone fiesta time here, my friends. Recorded in Olso, during the Auroura Borealic night of January, 2010, this beauty thrums with a majesty-vibe arising deep from within the earth. Each of the participants has been horn-blown around the globe for mastery of individual string/machine attack. C. Spencer Yehs violin arcs have powered a million strange improv scenes. Jon Wesseltoft is clearly the king of Norwegian harmonium dudes. Okkyung Lee is a Korean polymath re: formal cello innovations, but her handling of rainbow parallelograms is unequalled regardless of national borders. And Anla Courtis has taken the Argentinian electric guitar to points in space unvisited by any of his countrymen. The two sides of this LP form a brilliant whole. The first is a sequence of small discrete events that cohere because of "fifth mind" dynamic overlays. The second is the seamless contrail of an arrow shot directly into the heart of the sun. Together, they comprise one of the tastiest sessions of motion-as-stasis you will hear in many a dark night. Breathe the deep of the still and huzzing air. Be free and be one." -Feeding Tube |
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Artist: CRYSTALLINE ROSES Title: One Man Cult Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Edition of 250. Beautiful guitar of 6 or 12 strings, banjo, sitar, vocals etc...from member of SQRM, and Aerosols. Acoustic album by Western Mass resident Anthony Pasquarosa, who made all the artwork himself. This record builds upon turned-on folk tradition and it feels both fresh and timeless. -Feeding Tube "Quite nice set of folk-ragas from western-mass guitarist anthony pasquarosa, member of stunted-growth hardcore act sqrm ...while the slow-sweep phaser reminds me of matt valentines work, the stereo-field overdubbing is straight outta the richard youngs playbook ; not a bad pair of signifiers to be nestled between ... nice variable-fidelity set as well ; the dusty banjo pieces could easily appeal to higgs-acolytes as well". -Keith Fullerton Whitman |
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Artist: EGG, EGGS Title: The Cleansing Power Of Fruit Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Despite Matt Kreftings resistance to all things fruity, there is little doubt that these friendly non-mineral, non-animal products of nature have the capacity to flush poisons through our internal trails far better than most anything else. Especially eggs. Still, it is an egg that remains Dave "Mr. E. Candy" Russells muse as he fumbles his way through a vocal universe that is collapsing around his French ears. Something like a cross between Crocus Behemoth, Little Lulu and Colonel Bruce Hampton, Russell is on fire here, his vocals emerging from fruit-caked lips as though they were pearls shot from the buttocks of an all-seeing vizier. What Russell does exactly is hard to say, but its slow-kid, sing-song quality is bizarrely captivating. And the band here is a goddamn all-star Valley ensemble -- Tim Sheldon, Andy Crespo, Brett Robinson, Ted Lee, Vanessa Brewster, John Moloney, Jack Callahan, Ian St. George and special guests -- Matt Valentine, Jeff Hartford, Conrad Capistran and Lisette Lopez. Recorded over the last couple of years in various places around Western Massachusetts, it makes a strong case for Egg Eggs as the most discordian combo in this part of the universe. The comparison your brain will keep returning to is the Hampton Grease Band, updated to shine stylishly in a post-noise-rock milieu. It shares the same mix of brilliance, annoyingness and sheer what-the-fuckery as Music To Eat. And that aint hay. Nor is it fruit. Hurray!" - Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: FLAHERTY/SAM GAS CAN/WHITE LIMO, PAUL Title: Mystery Triangle Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "New music from Paul Flaherty, with Sam Gas Can and White Limo. Pressing of 500 copies, cover art by Joshua Burkett. Like all of the greatest live "festival" records -- Woodstock II (Cotillion 71), Mar y Sol (Atco 72) & 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival (Blue Horizon 69) -- Mystery Triangle is an especially exceptional souvenir for those people who were there when it happened. But unlike dud compilations, Mystery Triangle provides a truly fine sonic gush for even those of us who were too confused (or scared) to "make" the actual "scene." In November 2011, a goddamn magnificent display of talent went down at Joshua Burketts Mystery Train store in Amherst, MA. And thankfully, Edward "Ted" Lee, the whirling dervish of Feeding Tube, was there to capture the sounds on tape. First up is Paul Flaherty -- the godfather of all that is good and weird in New England. Paul has been woefully under-documented in solo performance. His maniacal sax work is well represented in duo and group settings, but he has always been a bit shy about pure solo work-outs, and he shouldnt be. The beauty of his turn here is stunning. Relying less on the freak-gush that marks his ensemble work, Flaherty creates a pure, blazing line of melodic invention that is a testament to both the power of his lungs and the creativity of his process. Stoned and flowing, his side rips gently into the air with a series of compositional statements that are gorgeous, fully-imagined and a testament to the brilliance of no-net-improvising. Without other players gumming up his works, Paul moves through moods and thoughts with ferocious surety, creating one of the finest recordings in his catalog. Truly a wowser of a set. Sam Gas Can sometimes relies on conceptual theories for his sets, but here is an engine of pure glossalic genius. Working in the tradition of the great sound-poets, Sam offers a bravura performance that stretches itself deep into the Schwitters zone, conjuring up subconscious connections to memories locked far beneath our surfaces. As the great Dredd Foole noted after the set, "No one uses their voice any more." An amazing thing. Finally, White Limo (Chris Cooper, Jess Goddard and Joshua Vrysen), hit the road with a set of cracked electronics halfway between serious aleatory ensembles like Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza and proletarian ass-crack noisers such as Id M Theft Able. Although they dont seem to play often, this trio (with deep roots throughout of the odd-noise underground) has cracked the code that has daunted many other combos with similar intent, making sounds that manage to be both deeply resonant and weirdly engaging. Totally boss. This is a fully satisfying festival record. Every performer, every note feels essential. One of the best. No shit. Includes mp3 download." -Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: FLAMING DRAGONS OF MIDDLE EARTH Title: The Seed of Contempt Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The opportunity to uncover such a talent might only come once in a lifetime. Danny Cruz is a wheelchair-bound adolescent whos apocalyptic lyrics and musical vision are at once life-affirming and evil-obsessed. Taking a page from his heroes, Black Sabbath, Roky Erickson and Sun Ra, Danny and his crew stir a "cauldron of words and sound" on their seemingly endless pursuit towards world domination and total artistic freedom. Culled from over three years of practice tapes and home recordings, "The Seed of Contempt" is a total outsider oddity; falling somewhere inbetween heaven and hell. "Reality-Core" "Mud Lightning Metal". - Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: GREY SKULL Title: Damaged III Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "While we were playing the test pressing of this album, the UPS guy came in with a package. He looked at the speaker and said, Sounds like that babys busted, champ. Chris and I looked at each other and jumped him, popping his eyes out of his head and dragging him into the back room to drain his blood amidst the back stock. Damaged III is that kind of album. Back when I lived at the Believers House in Easthampton, Grey Skull Manor was just downstairs and we would often feel the evil emanations seeping through the floorboards. Of course, this was long before the trio hung up their horned hats and went straight -- George Myers becoming a yuppie movie booker, Jeff Hartford forming the Jeffrey Hartford Sextet Plus One, and Dan Cashman founding the... Fribbles. Back in those days, there was no room for Milkshake Rock amongst these cavemen. Their sound is a perverse improv/noise/metal/core hybrid that makes ones ears bleed with the sheerest pleasure imaginable. Years in the making, Damaged III takes its blueprint from a Black Flag boot cassette called Damaged II. The idea was to take elements of that specific set of tunes and emphasize aspects of them that would deform their intent and meaning. No effort was made to replicate Rollins vocals (indeed, it sounds like theyre all gargling hot dinosaur jizz), but instrumental and lyric samples form the basis of the compositions. An extraordinary, dare I say, Herculean effort by three guys I just previously thought were a menace to society. That was before the Fribbles, of course. Coming to a town near you! Edition of 200. Hand-glued covers." -Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: GUERILLA TOSS Title: Jeffrey Johnson Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Debut LP session by a young Boston-based quintet who hit with all the Dionysian power of a young Harry Pussy, squared and electronified. Kassie Carlsons vocals have all the upper register urgency once manifested by the great Adris Hoyos, and her bandmates manage to create large stugs of post-punk angularity, overlaid with truly dithersome electronics. The result is one of the first transcendent post-no-wave records of our era. Live, Guerilla Toss create an amazing and beautiful disruption of all known truth-fields. They function at a level of pure discordian creation so pure, it is guaranteed to melt all but the stoniest witnesses to its blazing infirmity. But the album, Jeffery Johnson (named after the most elusive member of Jack Blacks legendary Johnson Family, as well as the author of the records cover art), manages to work beautifully as a collection of songs, rusty and scrappy, but songs nonetheless. Guitars weevle off into the atmosphere, key chords emerge like one of Adele Berteis lost tampons, drums cuss sullenly -- its an amazing mess of sound-bed for our heroine to caper upon. Get yours now or pine for it later. Your choice." -Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND Title: Hotel Double Tragedy Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Edition of 250. The Hotel Double Tragedy is constantly burning. You will be too with these new hits from the family! Simply listen to the album at a decent volume and watch your life fall apart. We were thinking of releasing this album under the pretense that it was found under the bed of a dead priest who was the grandfather of a couple of members of the Vaselines, but we thought better of it. You deserve the TRUTH! You deserve magic in POP ATTITUDE! You deserve ONE ANCIENT JANGLE! In ten seconds FLAT! You deserve HOTEL DOUBLE TRAGEDY! Get one today for yourself or for someone you care about." -Feeding Tube |
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Artist: HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND Title: OK Midnight, You Win Format: CD Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The second LP (fifth album) by this Vermont/Colorado quintet finds them traipsing ever deeper into the kind of mythic American territory we usually associate with bands who view our landscape from far outside its windows. Think of Australias Triffids or New Zealands Renderers and cross their brilliant Southern Hemisphere inventions with truths only wrenchable from the heart of the beast. Theres a genuine ruralist hoot factor here so smooth that it hits like a ton of silk, but theres enough killbilly undertow to keep everyone standing nervously around that jug of magic moonshine" - Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND Title: OK Midnight, You Win Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "The second LP (fifth album) by this Vermont/Colorado quintet finds them traipsing ever deeper into the kind of mythic American territory we usually associate with bands who view our landscape from far outside its windows. Think of Australias Triffids or New Zealands Renderers and cross their brilliant Southern Hemisphere inventions with truths only wrenchable from the heart of the beast. Theres a genuine ruralist hoot factor here so smooth that it hits like a ton of silk, but theres enough killbilly undertow to keep everyone standing nervously around that jug of magic moonshine" - Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: ID M THEFT ABLE/CAVE BEARS Title: Zone Y Ponds Y Sugars Ive/Germicide Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "180 Gram Edition of 450. A split between two of New Englands most bizarre and mysterious artists with cover art by Matthew Thurber. The two sides couldnt be more different. Guaranteed to please half of the listening audience! Id M Theft Able uses electrified glass tables, springs, string bows and tape records to create organic interpretations of digital garbage beauty. This multi-act "mess play" is one of the highlights of his extensive discography. Cave Bears has done everything from smash light bulbs, pour mud across the floor, wear costumes made out of (operating) electric fans and (full) watering cans, and bang on buckets while suspended upside-down from a tree throwing fireworks while singing "Better Git Reddy Fer Judgement". On this record they suspend the Germs "Forming" in a crystallized state for 19 minutes of "just learning how to play our instruments with extra lo-fi slime effect." -Feeding Tube |
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Artist: KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BAER Title: Amerikanische Poesie und Alkoholismus Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "180 Gram Edition of 500. "Officer Hjuler of the Flensburg police, and his wife Frau Baer give an earsplitting lecture on sound poetry on the A side and lull us into a state of American Alcoholism on the flip. This German duo has over 200 releases on their own lathe cut/cdr imprint and is quickly racking up international honors, album credits and acclaim. This is their largest LP release to date. One side is Kommissar Hjuler und Frau : ONCE AGAIN concrete poetry (or was it the song?) a collage of US-american sound poetry, collected by Jean-Francois Bory, presented by Kommissar Hjuler und Frau. "One side is Mama Baer : Alcoholisme - brut field recordings with mama baers voice and treatment. "Amerikanische Poesie... is the duo at their most hilariously alienating and crudely sophisticated." -David Keenan in WIRE "this is, naturally, a batshit-crazy affair, with the two absolutely howling over the purported “legacy” materials (through a fender princeton from the sound of things) - its both terrifying and oddly inspiring (which sums up most of what makes this stuff so ... engaging)." -Keith Fullerton Whitman |
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Artist: M2 Title: At Lands Edge Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
| "M2 is an East Coast-based duo comprised of two of the legendary Miller brothers, namely Roger and Ben. They have previously appeared together in such bizarrely protean ensembles as Sproto Layer and Destroy All Monsters, but they are probably best known for their work in autonomous formulations. Ben, most recently with the Glenn Branca Ensemble, Roger with Mission Of Burma (and all who sail with them). The music on M2s debut LP, however, is far from any of the rock-related moves with which theyve associated in the past. Both have serious bonafides in experimental/improvised sound, of course, but these take a new leap with At Lands Edge. Roger is playing heavily prepared piano -- something he has been obsessed with for many years. And Ben is handling an electric guitar with more modifications than anyone can easily count. The eight pieces they have created for At Lands Edge are entirely improvisational, but their sophistication and organization belies their purely aleatory roots. Indeed, the textures they create for their music buggers the very notion of piano/guitar interplay, substituting a shifting array of percussive and electronic field signals that recalls the smaller-format work of Italian improvisational units such as MEV and Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. An LP of pure wonder, At Lands Edge represents a beautiful challenge for adventurous listeners. Exquisitely recorded by guitarist Michael Bierylo, the album is a monster of form confusion, and we cant wait to catch the duo on tour. Dig it. Edition of 300." -Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: MARS Title: Live At Artists Space Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"In May of 1978, there was a five-night music festival at Artists Space on Hudson Street in Tribeca. Although almost no one cared at the time, the event has since entered the halls of legend, as one of the signal events in the history of the no wave era -- one that managed to include both the Lower East Side bands and those fronted by their Western contemporaries. On the final night of the festival, the two bands playing were Mars and Teenage Jesus And The Jerks. What we are presenting to you today are both sets by Mars -- the most mysterious, and bizarrely-styled NY band of their day. One set takes up each side, and while they are similar in song selection, its wild to hear how different they are in terms of attack, sonics and approach. The quartet -- Nancy Arlen, China Burg, Sumner Crane, Mark Cuningham -- was never captured at its mutational best in the studio, but this live slab is revelatory. Tunings, structures and rhythms from a place Capt. Beefheart once called "the other side of the fence," this is Mars at their most glorious." -Feeding Tube.
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Artist: MARS Title: Live at Irving Plaza Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "The second volume of live Mars recordings from Feeding Tube. This one was recorded at the bands penultimate show, August 4, 1978, with spectral help from Rudolph Grey on the side-long take of "NN End." The quartet is at the full height of their power here, manipulating the language of tongue explosions both instrumentally and vocally. Recorded by Brian Eno, the sound is an advance from the galacto-fidelity of the Artists Space LP, and the performance is a staggering example of Mars in their final phase. This is a stunning example of the No Wave impulse in its most experimental and personal guise. The package also includes a download card for both Mars FTR LPs, as well as a 20-page booklet, "Mars As We Know It," which is an oral history of the band assembled by Byron Coley and Thurston Moore from interviews conducted for their No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980. book. Issued in an edition of 500 copies, Live at Irving Plaza is a beautiful souvenir of a woefully under-documented band." -Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: MOORE & JOHN MOLONEY, THURSTON Title: Caught on Tape Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "And the blonde, as they say, shall lead the blind. Recorded at a variety of gigs during a tour of Europe in the spring of 2012, Caught On Tape documents an autodidact improv summit nearly without peer. Thurston Moore, the self-taught Connecticut guitarist for the Coachmen, Male Slut, Dapper, Wylde Ratttz, Dim Stars, Northampton Wools, Bark Haze, Pillow Wand, Diskaholics Anonymous, Societys Ills, The Dream Aktion Unit and several other combos, is in full unhinged blaze-mode here. His companion, notable son of the chowder mills, John Moloney (Sunburned, Shit Spangled Banner, Egg Eggs, etc.), rifles through his drum kit frantically, as though he was trying to destroy a rainbow with hammers. The blend is totally berserk. While neither of these gentlemen has dick in the way of formal musical training, they are both capable of producing stun-level blasts of pure-zonar energy, and the music on this LP is at times as tightly focused as Bill Clintons most powerful penis rays. Full of murky surface moves, with a lot of fully weird subtext, Caught On Tape is a brilliant testament to the transformative power of the pure head-gush. Like a crude stone pyramid, teetering on the edge of an Anasazi cliff, this music is always on the verge of crushing your entire body like a grape. But in a good way. A very good way. The original tour edition of 113 copies sold out as fast as Kate Moss last batch of used panties. Heres a chance to get a trade copy, with a lovely Raymond Pettibon cover. The future is yours for the asking. Just dont delay." - Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: OMNIVORE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "First album by Glenna Van Nostrand, a Cambridge, MA-based performance artist obsessed with archaic telecommunication hardware. Using solo vocals run through an old telephone, amplified by a variety of radios, her work creates its own rhythms through hypnotic layering, repetition and the imperfections built into her chosen delivery system. Alternately ethereal and cracked, her performance takes simple kernels of thought and speech, creating mystifying vistas of otherness that hint at the eternal now. The only specific musical accompaniment comes from her use of a telephones touch pad as a keyboard, but the rich weirdness of her compositions is consistent and dazzling. The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Machines With Magnets with Keith Souza and Seth Manchester in Providence. Are you ready for two side-long slices of the Omnivore experience? Get yours now." -Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: PICAYUNE Title: Summer Bummer Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Limited to an edition of 100 copies. "If Tom from Stiltbreeze had heard this album first, he would have put it out and Dusted.com would have written that it was a "dry dissipated treatsie on late-America hegemony and decay," but he didnt hear it first and he has to make do with all the ennui that the great state of Ohio can muster instead. I love this album. Guitar sprawl caked onto wax like mud. Suck it in and blow it out." -Scott Seward in Decibel Magazine |
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Artist: PIMANIA Title: The Music of Mel Croucher and Automata U.K. Ltd Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Dont be so shy man, just come an meet the Pi-Man.
"The crown jewel in the feeding tube catalog. The music on this record was recorded from 1981-1985 as the conceptual soundtrack for computer games released on cassette by the British software house Automata U.K. Ltd. Combining primitive synthesizer tones and meandering psychedelic blues guitar with cryptic, off-color lyrics about the multi-colored Piman and his pals, this is unlike any other "computer music" you know or have imagined. Ultra thick gatefold, comes with cut-out mask, extensive liner notes and poster. -Feeding Tube
"This album represents a bona fide artefact exhumed from the age, and imbued with the spirit,
of hypnagogia. While retro-futurists like James Ferraro and Daniel Lopatin refashion the cultural debris of their adolescent pasts into fresh meditative forms, here we have a taste of the genuine article, with a side salad of saucy seaside humour thrown in." -Spencer Grady on thequietus.com
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Artist: SON OF SALAMI Title: A Study In Eraser Headless Tape Recording Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "21 lo-fi pop gems from the true heart of Burlington, VT. All songs performed and recorded by Joey Pizza Slice on his eraser-headless portable tape machine. This device allows him to create multiple layers of audio content without the handicap of having to hear hear the music hes recording over. Each overdub is a one-shot deal. THERES NO ERASING ALLOWED! Results are not unlike some of the lo-fi antics of todays youth, but I actually think this is a lot better. Funny, strange and charming songs that break free from their primitive trappings, rather than fall back on them. Contact the label to book Joey at your next party, prom or potluck. If its not snowing, hed probably be delighted to supply the tunes you need. When and where you need them." - Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: SPORTS Title: The Smell of Rot Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Super dark vox, synth and drum machine jams from Maines Clare Hubbard, who also records as the chill-volk songstress, Caethua. She is also part of the Ancestral Diet duo and a sometime member of free improv unit (D)(B)(H). With Sports, Ms. Hubbard evokes a deep Midwest-style fem-noise-vibe, boogieing through the graveyard with her shovel and lantern. This is Sports first LP, heralding a new era of bleak ecstasy." - Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: VAPOR GOURDS Title: Dagger Music Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
| "Vinylization of a classic 2008 Yeay! Cassettes release, which has cast an odd thrall over local heads since it was first issued. Vapor Gourds is the solo project of local DJ, sound guy and man-about-town, Jake Meginksy, who is perhaps best known for his work in X.O.4 with Bill Nace and Johnny T. For this project, Jake has opted for a bizarre pile of machine sounds, none of them overly grating, with all sorts of near-subliminal pulse work raging around inside of em. Very hard to put a finger on exactly whats going down here. As soon as you decide to categorically shorthand the sound, Dagger Magic skitters off to another corner of the room. Parts recall everything from Sky Records synth-gush to cough-syrup dub-beats to Voice Crack-style electro-derangement. And theres plenty of stuff that defies any kind of simple language at all. Dagger Magic is a quiet masterpiece of form destruction. The more you listen, the more there is to hear, and the dagger slips ever deeper. Let it slide, baby. Edition of 300. Eye-catching cover by Bill Nace." -Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: WE LOVE YOU/DUCK THAT! Title: Split Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Western Mass (via Feeding Tube Records) gives a big old hearty handshake to the Boston "reductionalist" jazz scene (read: very quiet, detail oriented, non-traditional stylings) with this great ensemble record featuring two exciting bands. We Love You (represented here by Dave Gross on sax and Polly Hanson on percussion) makes spitting into your axe and scrapping on your skins both fun and palatable. Duck That! is made up of Angela Sawyer (Weirdo Records, Preggy Peggy, Exusamwa, etc...) on duck calls and two ace hornsmen - Josh Jefferson and Steve Norton. Their side of the disc is a wonderfully textured excursion into the limits of acoustic sound. There you have it, youd swear you were in a loft somewhere in Chinatown." - Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: WHITE, RALPH Title: Boundless Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Ralph White, ex-fiddler for the legendary Austin, TX country-punk band, The Bad Livers, gives us a newly recorded collection of American and Caribbean songs, plus one original. Ralph is a truly inspirational folk artist. His music could be described as "psychedelic", but only in the way that his voice cuts straight through your psyche into the very heart of your being, melting away all resistance. No, really, its that powerful. Whites voice soars mournfully over interlocking banjo and kalimba parts that are firmly rooted in traditional Americana, but belie the influences he garnered on his cross continental African bike trip." - Feeding Tube |
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Artist: WILSON, GARY Title: Forgotten Lovers Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "First vinyl issue of this collection of rare and unreleased material by one of the most iconoclastic musicians produced by the 1970s. Gary Wilsons 1977 LP, You Think You Really Know Me, is a classic of alternate-universe lounge-wave, and has been cited as choice by everyone from The Residents to Beck Hansen. Forgotten Lovers includes unreleased studio tracks from the same period, subsequent singles tracks, as well as samples of Wilsons pre-You Think You Really Know Me records (a single and an album) which were more in a porn-soundtrack/jazz-funk vein. Gary has reanimated his career in the last decade, and we raise our hats to him for doing so, but this early stuff is really the donkeys eyelids. A classic bizzaro-world blend of various "real people" elements and explosive new wave dynamics. As rich as butter, youll want to spread this music on your torso to promote tanning."- Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: WILSON, GARY Title: Lisa Wants To Talk To You Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "Vinyl actualization of a Gary Wilson album originally released on CD in 2008. The second of Feeding Tubes Wilson retrievals (following 2011s Forgotten Lovers, FTR 065LP), the label considers this the most solid of Garys post-revival albums. While it goes in a slightly different musical direction than the deranged porn-lounge inventions of You Think You Really Know Me (the classic 77 LP, heisted in toto by Beck during his Odelay phase), the naif-ache of the lyrics and the musics laid-back bowling-alley-funk-thrust reveal unending vistas of pure pleasure. Wilsons vision and performance approach are absolutely personal and shockingly naked. Like other true outsider artists (from the Shaggs to Daniel Johnston), its possible to sometimes wonder what the hell Gary is up to, but the raw sincerity of his yearning is never at doubt. As with all his best work, Lisa Wants to Talk to You is about women. How they walk, how they sound, how they smell, how they can break your goddamn heart. A fellow and/or a gal could learn a lot by dancing quietly alone in the dark to this record. Saved from the digital graveyard by your friends at Feeding Tube, its time to prepare yourself for another small miracle. So do it. Limited edition of 500, with a dazzling cover by Ted Lee. Includes mp3 download code." -Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: WIZARD PRISON Title: Next Cycle Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Made up of Scott Colburn (producer/engineer for Sun City Girls, decade long member of Climax Golden Twins and audio wizard for Sublime Frequencies), John Vallier (an early member of CGT) and Ben McAlister (of the Degenerate Art Ensemble), Wizard Prisons music flirts with stoner metal riffery, cosmic electronics and field recordings, often at the same time. These Seattleites sound is in a state of constant "becoming". Each side long suite works as a seamless piece that goes along with a story told in haiku. Chiming or churning guitar/bass/drums give way, to pulsating synths and pitch-shifted foreign voices chanting to open an alternate dimension, perhaps. Never diverting from its mission or mood, "Next Cycle" is eminently listenable and is sure to warrant repeated spins on your turntable. To make a great record even better, weve added the exceptional talents of Baltimore comix hero Eamon Espey. His dark and humorous work, on the jacket and poster ties the whole album together." -Feeding Tube |
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Artist: ZEBU! Title: Bag of Sand Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Edition of 100. Ted and Steve occupy the noise parts of their Amherst cellar during the spring of 2008. Although there is a piano upstairs, most of the recording occurred with pedals looping in your brain and fuzz for your face. Tape samples and distorted fun make a broken soundscape of trash-rock. Drastically different than their previous releases, ZEBU! defines a new pattern of true noise experimentation that would come to fill their sound. -Feeding Tube "Anyone into crazy ass free rock or the more adventurous scuzzy basement punk spheres should do themselves a favor and check these guys out." -Auxiliary Out |
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Artist: ZEBU! Title: Chill Wave Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Feeding Tube Records is proud to present ZEBU!s eighth record. The basic duo consists of Steve DAgostino and Ted Lee, but they are neither averse to allowing guest members to pop in for a few shots, nor are they afraid to allow their releases to follow certain semi-conceptual boundaries. This, this one -- if actually categorizable as anything -- serves as ZEBU!s surf album. With saxophone by Peter Van Siclen, and bass by either Jonathan Granoff or Stephen Surrett, ZEBU! creates an atmosphere not unlike the woozy venues frequented by Eric Von Zipper in William Ashers mid-60s series of beach movies. There are a couple of slow tunes tossed in for Annette, but the large part of this stuff is classicist American instrumental ho-daddyism. The structure of the album is typically whacked -- snippets of Volcano Suns-like indie-rock and semi-abstract power blurts pop up here and there -- but the semiotic heft of the record is shockingly straight-ahead. Its almost as though these guys were trying to figure out how to make teenagers spin their pony skirts the way they once did. Catch a wave and youre sitting on top of the world. Honest." -Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: ZEBU! Title: Hagenwerder-C Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Edition of 100. In the tiny town of Hagenwerder in the former GDR on the border with Poland, is an abandoned, destroyed Coal power plant. During their second German tour, ZEBU! got inside this building and recorded 45 minutes of resonant exploration. Ted hits the walls, lifts the dust from the floor and hops his way through Soviet History. 7 seconds of natural delay, and bass demons of unknown frequency define this echo-filled performance." -Feeding Tube |
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Artist: CAMPBELL, NEIL Title: Excerpt From The Never-Ending Bowed Metal Song Format: CDR Label: Fencing Flatworm Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: CAMPBELL, NEIL & ROB HAYLER Title: In Luck Format: CDR Label: Fencing Flatworm Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
| "long awaited duo album from venerated vibracathedral member and the name behind midwich, the finest in yorkshire nothing music. imagine neil and rob listening to a lot of minimal techno, nailing that groove then using it to spiral out into blissed psychedelic pastoral. got it? well, its just like that." - Fencing Flatworm. |
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Artist: RANDOM NUMBER/STRAIGHT OUT OF MANGOLIA Title: Its Time Honey/Raver Format: 7" Label: Fencing Flatworm Country: UK Price: $5.50 |
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Artist: WORKSHOP Title: People Take Action To Receive... Format: LP Label: Finlayson Tontrager Country: Germany Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: BARDO POND Title: Ticket Crystals Format: Double LP Label: Fire Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
| "The sixth studio album from Philadelphias foremost purveyors of psychedelic space rock. Appearing for the first time on double heavy weight vinyl and with brand new artwork by Joy Feasley, Bardo Ponds 2006 album Ticket Crystals exemplifies the quintets signature doom tempo, multi-layered drones while introducing a lighter pastoral feel." -Fire. |
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Artist: BLANK REALM Title: Go Easy Format: CD Label: Fire Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Australian psychedelic pop outfit Blank Realm. Go Easy initially came out on a limited edition, vinyl-only run via the awesome tastemaker label Siltbreeze and in Australia on the equally wonderful Bedroom Suck. An incredible blend of psychedelic rock n roll and super-catchy pop smarts." -Fire. |
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Artist: BLANK REALM Title: Go Easy Format: LP Label: Fire Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "Australian psychedelic pop outfit Blank Realm. Go Easy initially came out on a limited edition, vinyl-only run via the awesome tastemaker label Siltbreeze and in Australia on the equally wonderful Bedroom Suck. An incredible blend of psychedelic rock n roll and super-catchy pop smarts. LP version on pink, 180 gram vinyl." -Fire. |
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Artist: WOODEN WAND Title: Blood Oaths of the New Blues Format: LP Label: Fire Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "Blood Oaths of the New Blues is the Sunday morning wake and bake record to last years critically acclaimed Briarwoods Saturday night revelry. With his once-every-five-years proper rock and roll record out of his system, James Jackson Toth, aka Wooden Wand, retreated back to Alabama to record this spooky, heady follow-up: an album that demands close attention. This is music for quiet reflection and shares a worldview more in line with noise and doom metal artists than it does summer of love casualties and beach burnouts. Every Wooden Wand album trounces expectations, and Blood Oaths of the New Blues, thankfully, doesnt break that trend." -Fire. |
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Artist: CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Fire Breathing Turtle Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Strange and skewed songs and instrumentals, some recorded as far back as 1993, some belched out more recently. A sound that harkens back to their earliest double seven-inch release: guitars, found sounds, drums, percussions, distortions, manipulations. Climax Golden Twins have existed for an uncertain number of years and in varying states of languor and moral decrepitude.a group of loincloth-clad sloth herders snacking on toucan drumsticks and rubbing the electronic equipment left behind by a recently cannibalized National Geographic crew. Co-ordination of this kind within a group of primates without language is a rare and beautiful thing." - Fire Breathing Turtle |
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Artist: ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS Title: The Day The Earth Met The... Format: Double LP Label: Fire Fidelity Country: Italy Price: $48.00 |
| "Subtitled: Live From Punk Ground Zero, Cleveland 1975. Fire Fidelity is thrilled to bring you this historic reissue by Ohio legends Rocket From The Tombs, The Day the Earth Met the Rocket From the Tombs. The Cleveland five piece (consisting of David Thomas and Peter Laughner, later with Pere Ubu, as well as Cheetah Chrome and Johnny Madanksy, later with the Dead Boys) formed in 1974, played only a handful of shows, never put out a record, and just 12 short months later called it quits, but in 2002 previously unheard demos, live recordings and bootlegs were unearthed culminating in enough material to make this album. These rare 1975 recordings come from three sources: the RFTT Rehearsal loft on Jul 18, the Picadilly Inn on July 24 and the Agora on May 5, and all serve to bear witness to the undeniable fact that Rocket From the Tombs brand of proto-punk represents ground zero, and remains unmatched even 37 years later. Essential! Housed in a full-color gatefold sleeve; with download code." -Fire Fidelity |
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Artist: KEIJO Title: Whose Dream We Live In? Format: CD Label: Fire Museum Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Finlands master of psychfolkdroneblues music emerges with what may well be his most engaging release yet! Considered by many to be the forefather of the much lauded Finnish musical underground, Whose Dream We Live In? serves as Keijos sonic calling card -- bringing together many of the diverse elements that his music has been celebrated for into a joyous whole. From blues (by way of Jyväskylä) meditations to spaceship lullabies to psychedelic rave ups and beyond, Keijo has opened the door into his musical universe for all to enter. Dont miss your chance, accept his invitation or its your loss, friend. For the most part a solo outing (although he is assisted by Leila on four of the eleven tracks here) Whose Dream We Live In? assuredly answers the question it poses. For the duration of the disc, enjoy living in the dream that Keijo has conjured up for you. We will not be held liable if, upon awakening, your world never looks the same again." - Fire Museum. |
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Artist: SONDHEIM, ALAN Title: Ski/NN Format: CD Label: Fire Museum Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "A recording of solo acoustic guitar and alpine zither songs, this release will delight those familiar with his early Riverboat and ESP Disc recordings as well as the audience for experimental solo guitar -- while creating an audience for experimental solo alpine zither! On this release, Alan performs on the 1927 martin tenor guitar, 19th century parlour guitar, 1920s prime alpine zither and 1860s elegie alpine zither. Dan Wharburton of Paris Transatlantic said of the reissue of The Songs: an endearingly ramshackle melting pot of free jazz, blues and folk (if Eugene Chadbourne later described his work as free improvised country & western bebop then this is free improvised Hawaiian flamenco gospel blues music theatre). Its influence resonates (indirectly, one imagines, unless there are more copies of the original vinyl in circulation than I imagine) in the free folk of todays New Weird America scene. Now listeners have the opportunity to hear for themselves the present day song form manifestations of this overlooked creative master." - Fire Museum. |
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Artist: SONDHEIM, ALAN /RITUAL ALL 770 Title: The Songs Format: CD Label: Fire Museum Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Kind of unbelievable that this has been reissued -- out of nowhere and a very pleasant surprise. Sondheim released 2 of the most-out ESP-Disks ( Ritual All 7-70 &TOther Little Tune and here is his prior Riverboat label album." - FE. "First ever reissue of The Songs , the debut recording by Alan Sondheim & Ritual All 770, originally released on Riverboat Records (later recordings appeared on ESP Disk). Recorded in March 1967 and included on the legendary Nurse With Wound list of experimental recordings, on this album Alan Sondheim played Electric Guitar, Violin, Flute, Suling, Xylophone, Alto Saxophone, Classical Guitar, Clarinet, Shenai, Bass Recorder, Mandolin, So-na, Hawaiian Guitar, Koto, Sopranino Recorder, Chimta, Cor Anglais, Sitar and Bansari. Joined by Barry Sugarman (Tabla, Dholak & Naquerra), Chris Mattheson (Bass), Robert Poholek (Trumpet & Cornet), Ruth Ann Hutchinson (Vocals), June Fellows (Vocals) and J.Z. (Jazz Drums); Ritual All 770 were a group of improvisors living in Providence, Rhode Island. (Perhaps they could be considered the sonic forebearers of the Fort Thunder scene...) Rejecting the notion that avant garde music was solely the realm of isolated academia, they delved fearlessly and joyously into their music, creating a work that sounds fresh nearly 40 years later." - Fire Museum. Recommended.. |
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Artist: SONDHEIM/RITUAL ALL 770, ALAN Title: The Songs Format: CD Label: Fire Museum Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Kind of unbelievable that this has been reissued -- out of nowhere and a very pleasant surprise. Sondheim released 2 of the most-out ESP-Disks (Ritual All 7-70 & TOther Little Tune and here is his prior Riverboat label album. "First ever reissue of The Songs, the debut recording by Alan Sondheim & Ritual All 770, originally released on Riverboat Records (later recordings appeared on ESP Disk). Recorded in March 1967 and included on the legendary Nurse With Wound list of experimental recordings, on this album Alan Sondheim played Electric Guitar, Violin, Flute, Suling, Xylophone, Alto Saxophone, Classical Guitar, Clarinet, Shenai, Bass Recorder, Mandolin, So-na, Hawaiian Guitar, Koto, Sopranino Recorder, Chimta, Cor Anglais, Sitar and Bansari. Joined by Barry Sugarman (Tabla, Dholak & Naquerra), Chris Mattheson (Bass), Robert Poholek (Trumpet & Cornet), Ruth Ann Hutchinson (Vocals), June Fellows (Vocals) and J.Z. (Jazz Drums); Ritual All 770 were a group of improvisors living in Providence, Rhode Island. (Perhaps they could be considered the sonic forebearers of the Fort Thunder scene...) Rejecting the notion that avant garde music was solely the realm of isolated academia, they delved fearlessly and joyously into their music, creating a work that sounds fresh nearly 40 years later." - Fire Museum |
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Artist: UTON & VALERIO COSI Title: Käärmeenkääntopiiri Format: CD Label: Fire Museum Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Perhaps this collaboration was destined to happen, and were overjoyed that it is happening here! Tampere, Finlands Uton (Jani Hirvonen) and Taranto, Italys Valerio Cosi (who is ? of Pulga) are two of the most creative and most prolific musicians working in experimental music at the moment, and on Käärmeenkääntopiiri, Uton and Valerio have mastered a sound that combines elements of psychedelia, free jazz, Krautrock, environmental sounds, drones and more for an ecstatic listening experience. A mélange of electronic and acoustic instrumentation join together as naturally as the coming of the tides. By turns meditative and forceful, introspective and extroverted, all the while commanding undivided attention from the listener. This is experimentation that remains inviting even in its darker passages. 2007 has been a banner year for both of these musicians, and this release finds them in top form, creating a work that shows exactly why they are in such high demand. Käärmeenkääntopiiri will leave you hoping this is the beginning of many more collaborations between these two." -Fire Museum. |
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Artist: AKERLUND, LARS Title: Rivers of Mercury/Via Styx Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
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Artist: ANDERSSON, HENRIK/HENRIK RYLANDER Title: Kluster/Information II/Gym Form Plus Format: 10" Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| "produced in conjuction with an exhibition at Fargfabriken, Stockholm in 2002. the first side is a rather nice minimal piece, while the second is something quite different." - Anomalous. "Primarily Henrik Andersson and Henrik Rylander are educated film and photomakers, with Rylander having some background as a drummer in Union Carbide Productions. Here they have one collaborative side and each a solo piece on the other side. For the collaborative side they created a piece which has 8 identical CD players playing 8 identical CDs. Each CD consists of 7 three second tracks with three tones (C, D, E, F, G, A and H). These CD players are played in a random way and develop by chance. The input sounds are sine waves, but they develop a strange organ like sound, which constantly changes - after each 3 seconds. But even when you use 8 identical players, it happens that the speed is a little bit different so phase shiftings occur. Even if we leave out the ramble about the religious aspects of the organ like sounds, its a very nice piece. On the other side there is first the Rylander piece. Working in probably similar vein, but here the sound input is a beat loop. Very much an old Noto piece, which unfortunally drags on too much. Anderssons piece is based on guitar loops, which is maybe too short to show what the possibilities could have been. Maybe a more conceptual and collaborative work like on the other side would have been a better idea." - Frans de Waard in Vital Weekly 318. |
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Artist: AUDIO LABORATORY Title: Audio Laboratory Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
| "Audio Laboratory was started as a sound-art project 1997 in Goteborg, Sweden and was founded by Henrik Rylander and Per Svensson. Ebbot Lundberg (Union Carbide, Soundtrack of Our Lives) and Jean Louis Huhta (Lucky People Center) was involved in the project. The first collaboration "In The Mind Of Diamond Snow" are released on the CD "Energy Loop/Element 2" (Firework Edition Records 1998). The members are grown up in Goteborg wotking with music and visual art and have a background related to the record label Radium 226.05. Audio Laboratory did their first live performance at the restaurant Prinsen in Stockholm March 7, 1998. Since that the group have made performances at Arvikafestivalen 1998, Nursery Injection-festivalen, MS Stubnitz in Stockholm 2000 and at Skavde konsthall 2003. Audio Laboratory started a bigger sound-art project 2002 called "Surround The World", a quadrofonic project for 8 guitars, Theremin, metal grinder and computer at Kolsyrefabriken in Liljeholmen, Stockholm where the group also have studios for music and visual art. "Surround The World" will be released as a DVD during 2003-04. This is the first full-length CD by Audio Laboratory and contains besides the collaborative works also an individual track by each of the members in the group." - Firework Editions. |
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Artist: BJELKEBORN, THOMAS & PAUL PIGNON Title: And So It All Ended Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
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Artist: CAVEFORS, BO Title: Barnsliga Memoarer Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
| "Bo Cavefors reading (in Swedish) his two autobiographical books "Barnsliga memoarer" (1995) and "Valpen som ung man" (1996). This recording was meant to be the soundtrack for Bo Cavefors exhibition in Vita Kuben, NorrlandsOperan, Umea, Sweden from November 9th, 2002, but this exhibition was unfortunately closed down and censored by the authorities in Umea. Recorded by Hans T Sternudd in Malmo, Sweden on the September 16th, 2002. This CD includes a booklet in English with an essay by Leif Eriksson about Bo Cavefors and his times. Cover photo by Vanja Widerberg, 1960. This CD was released in conjunction with the exhibition of the work by Bo Cavefors at Fargfabriken, Stockholm February 22nd - March 9th, 2003." - Firework. "Even a black lamp shines brightly! It just takes some time before you see it!" -Leif Eriksson. |
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Artist: DRUMM, KEVIN/LEIF ELGGREN/MATS GUSTAFSSON Title: DEG Format: LP Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $24.00 |
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Drumm (guitar, analog synth), Gustafsson (reeds, live-electronics, prepared tenor sax) and Elggren ("Leif Elggren" ?) recorded live at Fylkingen in 2001. Numbered edition of 500 with "ectoplasm" (fermented flour, water and salt under mylar) mounted on the cover.
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Artist: ELGGREN, LEIF Title: Extraction Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
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"This basic sound material was recorded in my biological mothers uterus with my not yet developed teeth used as a fundamental and simple recording device a few days before my birth. This sound material was kept recorded and hidden until recently inside one of my wisdom teeth, but has now been brought to daylight and exposure. Digitally mastered, reproduced and sent out into the room which we all mutually share and which we usually call reality, the world. Sent out with the main purpose to change that room.
You do not necessarily have to listen to this CD, the sound material should be considered more as a tool, a tool with a special purpose, favourable but dangerous.
For best results: load this CD in your CD player, confirm that sound is coming out through the speakers, and then just leave the room. When you come back everything will be totally changed." - Firework Edition.
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Artist: ELGGREN, LEIF Title: Latrine Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
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"This CD relates to the trilogy Flown Over by an Old King (1989), Talking to a Dead Queen (1996) and Pluralis Majestatis (1999) - in the way the missing leg relates to a three legged dog. The sound material was entirely recorded on the toilet. Reworked and adapted for the sound installation Avträde in conjunction with the group show Transformation at Karlsborg Castle, Sweden, during the summer of 2000. A certain room was chosen at the castle for this purpose and was later discovered to be the toilet for badgers in the area - a confirmation of the choice! Total respect was paid to the badgers." - Firework Edition.
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Artist: ELGGREN, LEIF Title: Pluralis Majestatis Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
| "From the exhibition "Pluralis majestatis" by L.E. at Andréhn-Schiptjenko gallery, Stockholm, December 1994. Photo by Annika von Hausswolff. Recorded at Fylkingen, Stockholm, June 23-25, 1997. Adapted and mastered at Firework Edition, Stockholm, July 1997. The basic sound source is the metal bed displayed in the cover photo (along with contact microphones, a PA-system, and 102 tin-can crowns). For this piece I had in mind to work with this bed, to try to squeeze out, to discover, a certain "voice" or a sound, and let it go. I made some preparations and created a situation for the bed and the sound equipment, got it started and let it run for approximately one hour. It went its own way, it had its own life, and that is the point for me: Start it up and let it take its own direction, create its own life, its own voice, let it take over. I did not have any aesthetic plans for the sound, no compositional aspects, I just wanted to be open for what could happen, like a conversation. My work is very much an ongoing project, things are done and correspond to other things and vice versa. Its a big structure where all phenomena are closely related to each other and where the total image depends on every small part there is. Pluralis majestatis is the third and final piece in a trilogy. It is preceded by "Flown over by an Old King" (Radium 226.05 1988) and "Talking to a Dead Queen" (Fylkingen Records 1996). " - Firework Editions. |
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Artist: ELGGREN, LEIF Title: The Cobblestone is the Weapon of the Proletariat Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
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"The basic sound material for the ten cobblestone songs on this CD is from one recording made while throwing a cobblestone (once!) on the street outside Firework Edition, Stockholm June 15, 2001.
The title refers to a bronze sculpture by the Russian artist Ivan Shadr (1887-1941) called The Cobblestone Is The Weapon Of The Proletariat (1927).
No.1 was released 2002 as a track on the CD Geologists and Professional Tourists, N&B Research Digest, Russia.
No.3 was released 2002 as a track on the CD Friends of the Bumblebee, Håll Tjäften, Sweden (dedicated to Ake Hodell).
No.5 was released 2003 as a track on the CD Das Dreidimensionale Mo?biusband, Flying Swimming, Japan.
No.8 was released 2003 as a track on the 7 Untitled, Die Stadt, Germany.
No.11. This text was written by LE for and first published in the catalogue for the Nordic Pavilion, la Biennale di Venezia, June 10 - November 4, 2001. The North Is Protected was the name of this collaborative exhibition by CM von Hausswolff, Anders Tomren, Tommi Gronlund, Petteri Nisunen and LE.
In the booklet: a part of a conversation between Jim Haynes and Leif Elggren in relation to the Activating the Medium at SFMOMA, San Francisco February 2003." - Firework Editions.
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Artist: ELGGREN, LEIF Title: The Internationale Format: 7" Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $8.00 |
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"Yes, The Internationale is one of the most important and
wide spread songs in modern history and its ideological value and
weight can not be over estimated. It has been a sort of trigging for
peoples belief and hope for the future in modern time and I belive it
still have a great potential. I found it very natural to make a cover
of it and include that in my bigger project concerning power and
social/economical injustice in this god damned world (referring to
projects like The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, Experiment with
Dreams, The Sons of God, Find Gods name!, etc.)." - L.E.
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Artist: ELGGREN, LEIF Title: The New Immortality #2 Format: 7" Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $8.00 |
| "The only sound source for these recordings are the 7" The New Immortality (released on Ankarström/ Firework Edition 1992) playbacked and recorded at EMS, Stockholm, January 16, 1998. "The New Immortality was cut with a drypoint needle and a record player. I was shouting out loud, again and again, the words: Im talking about if I only could talk! The needle, resting on the wax in my gentle hand, was hopefully registered something of the vibrations of my voice." The New Immortality was the title of an exhibition at Galleri Arton A in Stockholm, November 1990 by L.E. The New Immortality is originally the title of a book by J.W. Dunne, London 1939." - Fireworks Edition. |
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Artist: ELGGREN, LEIF & PER SVENSSON Title: Transatlantic Format: 7" Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $8.00 |
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"Side 1:Stockholm/Arlanda-London/Heathrow -Los Angeles/LAX 19990709. Side 2: Los Angeles/LAX-London/Heathrow -Stockholm/Arlanda 19990715.
A sound art project with Leif Elggren and Per Svensson registrating the sound from a transatlantic journey, both the inner and the outer journey, using two pair of Supraleader devices connected as electrodes to the heads and linked together through a recording equipment. Exchanging ideas and experiences close to non-gravity. Trying to reach a point away from psychic control and physical ego. The Transatlantic Supraleader Soundrecording Devices was specially designed by Per Svensson for this project. Recorded on the aircrafts, at the airports, in the cities and in the air between the continents." - Fireworks Edition.
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Artist: ELGGREN, LEIF & THOMAS LILJENBERG Title: Ebola & Swedish Dreamers Format: 7" Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: ELGGREN, LEIF & THOMAS LILJENBERG Title: The Party (a proposal for a party platform) Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: ELGGREN, LEIF & THOMAS LILJENBERG Title: Zzz... Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
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Artist: ENTARTE Title: Fusion Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
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Artist: GUDS SONER Title: Proclamation Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
| "The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great - and for destroying those who destroy the earth. The basic sound material originates from 3 different performances by The Sons Of God." - Firework Editions. GUDS SONER = Leif Elggren and Kent Tankred. |
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Artist: HANSON, STEN Title: Canned Porridge Format: Double CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $20.00 |
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Artist: I SAW IT ALL HAPPEN FROM BEGINNING TO END.. Title: Life Everlasting, Amen Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.00 |
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""I Saw it All Happen from Beginning to End and I still Cant Believe What I Saw" are Jeff Sedgley, from Brighton, England, and The UK Ambassador of Elgaland-Vargaland.
The piece is a comment on the state of the health of the world. We are sick and we know it, but are helpless to act, as technology removes our potency and undermines our responsibility and our ability to make critical judgements. The listener/viewer is presented with a recording of a life support machine and its relentless quest to keep the patient alive and in doing so becomes part of that patient, attached by tubes through which the fluids of life pass, pumped by a metal heart into one made of human tissue.
This symbiotic relationship is a metaphor for the relationship between nature (or organic life) and science (or inorganic). When is the patient of nature or of science? At what point are we becoming less than human and more a part of the machine?
The recording from which this CD is taken is over 6 hours long; it was mixed and mastered at Thors Place, Brighton, England on November 18th 1999. The original version was recorded in England and mixed in Stockholm in 1998 - with thanks to Andreas Karperyd. The full length version was played live on an octophonic audio system throughout the day as part of Sonic SeaAir in Brighton, May 1999. " - Firework Editions.
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Artist: KARKOWSKI, ZBIGNIEW Title: Reverse direction and let the sound reach out to you Format: Triple 3" CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $22.00 |
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"Zbigniew Karkowski was born in 1958 in Krakow, Poland. He studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburgs Department of Musicology, and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology. After completing his studies in Sweden, he studied sonology for a year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Haag, Netherlands. During his education, he also attended many summer composition master courses arranged by Centre Acanthes in Avignon and Aix-en-Provence, France, studying with Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, and Georges Aperghis, among others. He works actively as a composer of both acoustic and electroacoustic music. Zbigniew has lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan for the past eight years, and is active in the underground noise scene there."
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Artist: leif.e.boman Title: ge.nos 0911b Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
| "Never before has it been possible to hear the actual voices that must be hidden in ashes and concrete dust. In an attempt to reveal the voices inside the remains after the catastrophe at WTC, N.Y.C., a combined effort of artistic and scientific work has made it possible to make the unique composition of these hidden voices you can hear on this CD. Sound research in Marrakech and Ouarzazate, Morocco 2002." - Firework Edition. |
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Artist: LILJENBERG, THOMAS Title: Experiment With Time Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
| "The sound for this CD was recorded live in January 1982 at Galleri Mors Mössa in Gothenburg as a part of Serial Aktion. Serial aktion was the first piece I did that was based on variations wthin a serial, repetitiv form and during the 80´s was followed by more exhibitions and performances with the same theme. During the 48 hours that the performance lasted I markd my presence in time and space by firing three pistol shots at three targets at three given points in time (at 0 hours, at 24 hours and at 48 hours). The sounds of these shots and all other sounds in the gallery were recorded on a 60-minute cassette tape, which was immediately played and recorded together with all the other sounds on another tape recorder. In that way the 48th and last tape contained all the sounds that had occurred in the gallery during the entire performance, layer upon layer, distorted and re-formed through time and space and the natural wear and tear on the cassette tape. My actions were determined by the tape being played, that is, by what I did the hour and hours before. As with the sound these actions grew, hour by hour, into a more complex and layered form." - Firework Edition. |
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Artist: LINDBLAD, RUNE Title: RL Format: LP/CD/Booklet Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $22.00 |
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"RUNE LINDBLAD by JEAN-LOUIS HUHTA, BROMMAGE DUB, LEIF ELGGREN, EDVARD GRAHAM LEWIS, KENT TANKRED, B J NILSEN, CM VON HAUSSWOLFF, ANNIKA VON HAUSSWOLFF, MAGNUS HAGLUND, and RUNE LINDBLAD. Produced in conjunction with the exhibition RUNE LINDBLAD (1923-1991) curated by CM von Hausswolff at Färgfabriken, Stockholm February 10 - March 18, 2001." - Firework Editions.
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Artist: LOVERS ANONYMOUS Title: The Big Dipper Format: 7" Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $10.00 |
| Voice, female steps and piano recorded and mixed in Stockholm, 2000. |
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Artist: ROZENHALL, DANIEL Title: Eyeland Format: LP Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
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"Eyeland" was recorded by D. Rozenhall at EMS, Stockholm, 2000-2002.
Cover artwork by D. Rozenhall.
Subsidized by the Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs.
Limited edition 1000 copies (500 in yellow vinyl, 500 in black vinyl).
Play loud!" - Firework Editions.
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Artist: ROZENHALL, DANIEL Title: Miasmasun Format: LP Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
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"Music by Daniel Rozenhall. Made at EMS, Stockholm, 1999-2001. Cover artwork by D.R. Thanks to EMS, Kent Tankred, Leif Elggren and Daniel Eideholm. 33 1/3 RPM. Play Loud!" Numbered edition of 500 copies.
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Artist: RYLANDER, HENRIK Title: Formation Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
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Artist: SIDEN, ANN Title: Mankinds Need Of Comfort Is Without End Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
| "In all stables there is a spot, at the end of the fooder trough or in the middle of the stable hall, where the sound is most compact. There we rest, leaning on our brooms, listening. It smells clean and pleasant, the animals are sated and content, that wich is supposed to be done has been done. Ones territory is expanded. All is as it should be." - Firework Editions. |
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Artist: SONS OF GOD, THE Title: Drive Chairs Format: 7" Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $8.00 |
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"The Sons Of
God is the band behind Firework with the ever active Leif Elggren and
the lesser known Kent Tankred. Their 7" is a live recording of
pushing chairs around on (probably) an amplified stage. Strange,
kinda aggressive sound going, but also a highly concentrated action.
Not really the sort of music that is very clear, but more a fluxus
like happening sort of documentation of some kind." - Frand de Waard,
Vital Weekly 310.
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Artist: STAVOSTRAND, MIKAEL Title: Illuminence Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
| "Created and constructed 1999 in E/Ve, mixed and deconstructed at EMS and Fylkingen, Stockholm 1999." - Firework Editions. |
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Artist: SVENSSON, PER Title: Energy Loop/Element II Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
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Artist: TANKRED, KENT Title: A Revelation Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
| "Kent Tankred, born in Stockholm in 1947, is a composer, an artist and a performance artist. The connection between sounds and pictures is evident in his sounding sculptures and in the "visual" musical instrument, The Concresizer, he has constructed. Kent Tankreds compositions can be characterized by complex textures and spaces in which small details are of significance. As a listener, one must tune into the micro planes of his sound landscape. The text King James Bible Book of Revelations is the structuring element of all the compositions on this CD. In different ways and in many levels the text is transformed into something new, to revel the hidden words, the message." - Firework Editions. |
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Artist: THORN, PAR Title: FÿLJ BARA ANVISNINGARNA Format: Cass Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $10.00 |
| "En man skickar tretton kassetter med inspelade instruktioner till tretton olika mottagare i Stockholmsområdet. Inom de närmaste veckorna får en kusk på Solvalla ett hotbrev, en kvinna bjuder på tacos och en man letar febrilt efter Fantomen nummer 14/85 på ett antikvariat på Sveavägen. Koncept och inläsning: Pär Thörn Ljudtekniker: Ambjörn Johansson Tack till: Ambjörn, Leif, Kent och Fylkingen" - Firework Editions. |
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Artist: V/A Title: All Ears Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
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Artist: VON HAUSSWOLFF, C.M. Title: A Lecture on Disturbances in Architecture Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
| "R. Buckminster Fullers voice on track one sampled from The Critical Path - Spirit of Health, recorded October 1982 in Maui, Hawaii (Dolphin Tapes, Big Sur, California). Track two is taken from the exhibition Red Code (CCA, Kitakyushu, 2001) and was recorded by Scott Olson and myself. A version of track four was also used in the exhibition 3D+ (Bruxelles, Berlin, Dublin etc., 2001 - 2002). Track seven is an earlier version of a designed sound used in Jesus_C_Odd_Size, a play by Hotel ProForma, Malm�??, 2000. A shorter version was also released on the CD Because Tomorrow Comes #4 (btc, K�??ln, 2001). Cover photograph from Red Code (CCA, Kitakyushu 2001) and from Hashima. Back cover photo from Red Code. All photographs by CM von Hausswolff. Special acknowledgements go to Akiko Miyake, Nobuo Nakamura, Scott Olson, Josefine Eriksson, Raytheon Fishfinder, Ericsson, Kirsten Dehlholm, Kyra Stratmann and the Esalen Institute. This record is dedicated to Marietta von Baumgarten All titles composed by C.M. von Hausswolff. Recorded between 1997 - 2002 and edited at the New Old Studio, Stockholm, 2002. All titles published by Touch Music, London." - Firework Editions. |
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Artist: ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS Title: Electric Cointelpro Format: 3" CDR Label: Firstperson Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "now into his lOth year operating under the ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS moniker & with releases on such esteemed labels as MENLO PARK, JEWELLED ANTLER, SILTBREEZE, AMERICAN TAPES, CELEBRATE PSI PHENOMENON etc, PHIL TODD continues to conjure up his own unique brand of rural psychedelic folk musik. with his prolific output under various guises (ANNA PLANETA, A WARM PALINDROME, INCA EYEBALL, TARGET SHOPPERS, DOGLIVEROIL, GREEN MONKEY, TEA CULTURE etc etc...) not to mention his previously longrunning label & distro - "BETLEY WELCOMES CAREFUL DRIVERS", PHIL TODD has been a tireless champion & exponent of fucked-up rock, avant-folk, mangled pop, allout noise, indeed "outsider" art in all its forms. for "ELECTRIC COINTELPRO" we are treated to 4 superb tracks of organic drone & inspired electric gtr aktion. an excellent addition to an ever-expanding resume." - Firstperson. |
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Artist: FIRSTPERSON Title: Issue 3: Realness Format: Mag Label: Firstperson Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "FirstPerson Magazine is a contemporary culture magazine at the intersections of art, music, and style. The publication originated to provide access to the art world in a deeper way. We collaborate with our contributors to share their insights and projects in relevant forms. We mix the content like a symposium with endless possibilities from resources in various fields of media. Contributions: Billygoat, Crocodiles, DailyServing, Limi Feu, Sublime Frequencies / Omar Souleyman, Gemini Editons, Karl Haendel, William Kentridge, Sandy Kim, Magnolia Tapestries, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Agnes Montgomery, New High (M)art, Katja Rahlwes, Steven Shearer, Zoe Strauss, Wolfgang Tillmans." The Sublime Frequencies tour diary is by Alan Bishop and Mark Gergis. It has been described by the authors as "a 12-page indictment on humanity, the West, ethics, post-exoticism and, oh, a travel diary." 77 pages. - First Person. |
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Artist: PISS SUPERSTITION/CULVER Title: There Is Space in the Clinch Format: 3" CDR Label: Firstperson Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "The Piss Superstition is none other than Julian Bradley, more commonly known for his solo work as "A Companion as Glamourous as Sleeping on Wheels, duo recordings with Neil Campbell & group compositions with The Negative Kite & more recently The Vibracathedral Orchestra. The piece offered here - There Is Space in the Clinch - is a study of differing pitches, seemingly appearing & disappearing at will, all cloaked in a warm analogue blanket. the careful listener will be aware of the appearance of some wonderful melancholic phrases, revealing a humanistic & fragile undercurrent. Culver is the prolific recording project of Lee Stokoe, horror movie aficionado & head honcho of the long-running (over 100 releases & counting) tape/cd label Matching Head. Glass Doll contains the characteristics to be found in the best Culver material - an attention to microscopic internal deviations within a single pitch, a relentless devotion to "sound" as object & the ability to leave an indelible & unique fingerprint on all his work." - Firstperson. |
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Artist: SCULPTRESS Title: How The Kingdom Fell Apart Format: 3" CDR Label: Firstperson Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "a live recording of the stoke-on-trent based improvising unit, here operating as a trio of MELANIE DELANEY (ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS), JOINCEY (INCA EYEBALL, WAGSTAFF, TARGET SHOPPERS etc etc...) & ANDY JARVIS (ANNA PLANETA) over 20 minutes they slowly weave a trance-inducing web using clarinet, acoustic gtr, electric gtr, percussion & toys. this is the first available document of the groups continued & varied live work over the last 2 years." - Firstperson. |
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Artist: POD BLOTZ Title: The Swamp Command Format: LP Label: Fish Pies Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The Swamp Command is an aural secretion pressed on dark black wax. This LP features musical scores wrought with bombastic explosions and swollen passages, acosted by a scent of drippy organ and synthesizer duels. Analog slabs of musical cement muck up the grooves at times, amorphous scaffolding, and pulsating rhythms drenched in zig zag calliope battles. After many hours of editing and knob twiddling, Pod Blotz bring a cavernous meltdown of scientific audio artifacts and dilapidated sound sculptures for an interesting mix of this so-called noise music. Limited pressing." - Fish Pies. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Breaking The Plastic Hymen, Vinyl Virgins & Lo-Fi Whores. Vol 1 Format: Double 7" Label: Fisheye Country: UK Price: $7.00 |
| Volume 1 features contributions from Rake, Wingtip Sloat, V-neck, Hood, Delphium, Small Things, Geiger Counter, Paste, Scaredy Cat, Richard Youngs and Simon Wickham-Smith, Sone and The Negative Kite. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Breaking The Plastic Hymen, Vinyl Virgins & Lo-Fi Whores. Vol 2 Format: Double 7 Label: Fisheye Country: UK Price: $7.00 |
| Volume 2 has The Shadow Ring, Tea Culture, Refrigerator, Noggin, Prick Decay, Bugskull, Starstruck, Mother Tongue, Im Being Good and The Glands of External Secretion. |
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Artist: LOWER Title: Someones Got It in for Me/But There Has to Be More Format: 7" Label: Five Four-O Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "On this new 7" youll find two songs that Copenhagen based rock band Lower chose to dig up from the past. These two songs flirt with a bigger sound than what youd find on the Walk on Heads EP. Both of the songs were featured on their long gone demo tape. Here they are, re-recorded in Copenhagens south end with Nis Bysted in 2012. These songs are finally revealed for a wider audience. Die-cut covers with a full color inner sleeve." -Five Four-O. |
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Artist: BODUF SONGS Title: On The Brink Of Alll We Hate Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Five Minute Association Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
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"Packaging - Outercase is a card flip-lid box, with button and string closure, with letterpressed printed artist name. Housed inside is a fold over letterpressed folder, carrying two sreen printed 7" posters, and a digitally printed poster, along with a standard full colour 7" sleeve, and the clear 7" lathe. Also, each copy has an idividual polaroid photo taken my Mat Sweet himself (in France)."- Five Minute Association. Limited to 100 copies.
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Artist: YOUNGS, RICHARD Title: Sleep Deprivation Concept Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Five Minute Association Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "Packaging - Letter pressed chipboard arrigato pak, with offset printing. Housing a clear lathe 7", in a black twine closed paper envelope, with four screen printed chipboard inserts. All of which is housed in a heavy jute (hessian) sleeve/wallet, with screen printed obi strip." - Five Minute Association. Recorded December 2006, Glasgow, "square waves, sine waves, ring modulation, filter." Limited to 100 copies. |
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Artist: AMEN DUNES Title: Rat on A Grecian Urn Format: Cass Label: Fixed Identity Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Second release (after the Martin Newell reissue) on newish label run by Gary War and Taylor Richardson (Infinty Window). "Recorded half in August, half in November of 2010, right before starting the recordings that would become Through Donkey Jaw. Edition of 100 copies. Hand printed and each a bit different." -Fixed Identity.
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Artist: NEWELL, MARTIN Title: Songs for... A Fallow Land Format: LP Label: Fixed Identity Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Fixed Identity is proud to announce the release of Martin Newells 1985 masterpiece "Songs For A Fallow Land". Newell, mastermind of UK d.i.y. group The Cleaners From Venus, crafted these songs in an old stable building in self-described "extreme poverty" resulting in an extremely inspired and highly personal realization of perfect underground psychedelic pop. Originally released in an edition of 100 cassettes, F.I. has remastered each song from Martins original chrome tapes to be issued on LP in a limited pressing of 500 copies containing liner notes by the "Wild Man Of Wivenhoe" himself." - Fixed Identity.
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Artist: PREFAB MESSIAHS Title: Peace, Love & Alienation Format: LP Label: Fixed Identity Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "30 years after The Prefabs humble-yet-brash beginnings (first gig: 11/15/1981!), Fixed Identity is stoked to present a 12" 45-RPM vinyl release featuring 8 newly Jay Rajeck-remastered songs from the shoebox tape archives (Jay has also done mastering for Ariel Pink, Martin Newell, etc). As well as having two Bobb Trimble-produced tracks, Peace Love & Alienation contains live cuts, a reverb-soaked Casiotone doom-pop nugget ("Sacred Cow"), a living room ethno-forgery excerpt ("Rice 4 a Sheik"), and a screwy dub-punk experiment ("Prefab City Dub"). The impressive 12" vinyl package features a foldout zine insert with archival show flyers, art, writings, etc." - Fixed Identity. |
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Artist: FLASHBACK Title: #1 Spring 2012 Format: Mag Label: Flashback Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "Flashback is a new full-color quarterly music magazine, covering 60s and 70s music in detail. The first issue is scheduled for April 2012. Edited by Richard Morton Jack (co-founder of Sunbeam Records and editor of the Galactic Ramble and Endless Trip books), it features writing from some of the worlds leading music authorities, including Richie Unterberger, Patrick Lundborg and Aaron Milenski. A4 in size (with a gloss cover), 208 pages long and full-color throughout, its packed with extensive new research, exclusive interviews and rare photos. The first issue includes: Mad River: the full story behind San Franciscos great lost acid rock band, by David Biasotti; David Axelrod: the great man talks us through his classic albums, one by one; Linda Hoyle & Affinity: an in-depth interview with the legendary vocalist, by Richard Morton Jack; "The 100 Most Under-Rated Guitarists Of The 60s & 70s" chosen by critics and the guitarists themselves; Fanny: a reappraisal of the pioneering female rock band, by Aaron Milenski. Montage: the Left Banke-related mystery is finally cleared up, by Richie Unterberger and 1950s Proto-Psychedelia: the origins of psych in 1950s exotica, electronic and avant music, explored by Patrick Lundborg, plus detailed reviews of CDs, LPs, DVDs & books, from household names (George Harrison, The Kinks and The Beach Boys) to cult heroes (Phil Ochs, Mellow Candle and Handgjort)." -Flashback. |
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Artist: GERMAN OAK Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Flashback Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "180 gram LP version. During the summer of 1972, best remembered for the bloodshed of the Munich Olympics, the 5-man Düsseldorf instrumental group German Oak entered the Luftschutzbunker (Air Raid Shelter) studio to record their first, eponymous album. The purpose of recording in a bunker was to recreate the feelings experienced by German soldiers during the Allied invasion of 1944. The strange acoustic conditions in the bunker made the music, which was a series of long, spacious guitar jams, sound distant and filled with echo. Originally released on the Bunker label, this is a strange and unusual album." -Flashback |
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Artist: ANONYMOUS Title: Snake Attack/Corporate Food Format: 7" Label: Flat Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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Unplayed "dead stock" from 1980. Features Steve Fisk and was booted on Killed By Death #5."Maybe youve heard Corporate Food on the infamous,and probably one of the most important US punk compilations ever: Let Them Eat Jellybeans. But what strucked me is that I really needed to hear Corporate Food again but this time in its original format to be able to fully appreciate its greatness. I cant even remember hearing it on LTEJ. Probably I thought it was too fucked up or something to like it back then. But today my kids I have to say its one of the best songs Ive heard in a long time. So wacky. So much “fuck you” attitude it hurts lies buried in this masterpiece. The guitar solo brings Geza X to mind for some reason. Sounds so controlled yet like he couldnt care less if it would fit. Amazing. Snake Attack is far from Corporate Food. Put on your Residents/Snakefinger ears. I happen to like it. Strange. But as I put it on it hypnotize me and I just sit there through the whole song listening to it." - KDB Records. SOLD OUT
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Artist: COLLINS, SHIRLEY & DAVY GRAHAM Title: Folk Roots, New Routes Format: CD Label: Fledgling Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "Another classic record from 1965. An experimental recording conceived by Austin John Marshall bringing together Shirleys haunting traditional song with Davys guitar improvisations. Folk Roots, New Routes opened the door for Fairport Conventions Liege and Lief and Pentangles debut. For this carefully remastered, slipcased edition Fledgling have restored the original artwork, added a new sleeve-note essay and previously unpublished photographs." - Fledgling. Originally released by Decca, first time on CD. |
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Artist: COLLINS, SHIRLEY & DOLLY Title: Snapshots Format: CD Label: Fledgling Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "Fledgling Records are very proud to announce the release of a powerful collection of historic recordings from Shirley & Dolly Collins. The recordings of Shirley Collins hold a pivotal place in the English folk song revival of the 1960s and 70s. Through an impressive handful of remarkable LPs - Folk Roots, New Routes; Anthems in Eden; Love, Death and the Lady; No Roses and For As Many As Will, Shirley always married a deep love of the songs handed down by rural labouring people with beautiful contemporary arrangements. Those recorded with Dolly Collins are especially treasured. Gathered here are some magical performances of Shirley and Dolly Collins recorded in concert in the late 1970s and a handful of demo recordings from the 1960s." -Fledgling. Deluxe digipack with full-colour large format booklet. Extensive sleevenotes by Shirley Collins. |
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Artist: DENNY, SANDY Title: A Boxful of Treasures Format: 5 CD Boxset Label: Fledgling Country: UK Price: $80.00 |
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"Originally released in 2004; this is a deluxe 5CD set packaged in a long form box -- in the same stunning quality as Fledglings prior/deleted Shirley Collins boxset. Four CDs trace Sandys complete career, with many rare and previously-unreleased songs including "Silver Threads and Golden Needles"; previously-unknown outtake from Fotheringay, "Losing Game"; previously-unreleased duet with Jess Roden, "She Moved Through The Fair" live in Los Angeles; a duet with Dave Swarbrick; alternate takes and early demo versions. The fifth CD bonus disc contains rare demos and live tracks, solo and with Fairport Convention (only included with the first pressing). 56-page full-color booklet containing a foreword by Richard Thompson, a biographical essay by Jim Irvin (MOJO), a coda by Dick Gaughan, many rare and previously-unpublished photographs, drawings, and lyrics from Sandys original notebooks. Also including full discographical track details." -Fledgling
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Artist: FOTHERINGAY Title: 2 Format: CD Label: Fledgling Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "This is what would have been -- and now IS -- the second release for UK folk-rock legends Fotheringay, including all members Sandy Denny, Pat Donaldson, Trevor Lucas, Gerry Conway, and Jerry Donahue. These are the original recordings from 1970. Fotheringay remain one of the great might-have-beens of British music. They lasted less than a year, and released just one album, but their disappearance robbed the early 70s scene of a group of musicians capable of taking folk-rock to new heights of subtlety and musicianship. Now, the nine songs on that debut album; assumed for almost four decades to be their sole testament, are joined by the eleven that would have constituted a follow-up. Sadly, they broke up during the recording sessions for their second album. Incredibly, all the tapes survived in various record company archives. Thirty-eight years later, the surviving members of the group have mixed all the material to finally complete this remarkable album. When originally released, the debut album went straight into the Top Twenty in both Melody Maker and NME, and is now an acknowledged classic recording of British folk-rock. It is very, very rare that musicians get the chance to complete a project begun 38 years earlier. The second Fotheringay album has been eagerly awaited by all fans of Sandy Denny, British folk-rock, and by pretty much everyone in general." - Fledgling |
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Artist: FOTHERINGAY Title: Fotheringay Format: CD Label: Fledgling Country: UK Price: $15.50 |
| "New reissue of one of the highest regarded British folk-rock albums, featuring Sandy Denny. Originally issued by Island in 1970 (previous Hannibal CD long o/p). With additional artwork and bonus tracks." - FE. "Fotheringays beautiful debut album was recorded in 1970, and has long been regarded as one of the greatest achievements of British folk-rock. Sandy Denny, Trevor Lucas, Jerry Donahue, Pat Donaldson and Gerry Conway created a magical ensemble sound and one of the finest albums of Sandys career. It has been out of print for sometime. For this carefully remastered edition Fledgling have restored all of the original artwork and added four bonus tracks -- performances recorded at the 1970 Rotterdam Festival. Remastering approved by original producer Joe Boyd." - Fledgling. |
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Artist: GRAHAM, DAVY Title: Folk Blues & Beyond Format: CD Label: Fledgling Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| Folk, Blues & Beyond was first released on Decca Records in 1965, and is one of the most important recordings from the 1960s folk revival. "UK guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and serviceable-to-perfunctory vocalist. A seminal guitar influence, setting standards for succeeding generations. Graham was the first guitarist to emerge from Britain whose work combined stylistic elements from Julian Bream, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ali Akbar Khan, Leadbelly, Joe Pass, Segovia and others too numerous to name. John Martyn described him as his absolute hero in a Guitar Player interview 75. Of Scottish and Guyanese parents, he came to personify musical adventure, his adoption of non-standard guitar tunings, most notably D-A- D-G-A-D, arguably his most important legacy. His uniqueness became, directly or indirectly, a model for Martin Carthy, Bert Jansch, Wizz Jones and later musicians as diverse as Martin Simpson and J]aso[rgen W. Lang." -- Music Web Encyclopedia " Covers of traditional folk standards like "Black Is the Colour of My True Loves Hair" and "Seven Gypsies" combine with interpretations of compositions by Bob Dylan ("Dont Think Twice, Its Alright"), Willie Dixon ("My Babe"), Charles Mingus ("Better Git in Your Soul"), and Reverend Gary Davis ("Cocaine") for an eclecticism of repertoire that wasnt matched by many musicians of any sort in the mid-60s. --Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide. "This release has been carefully remastered, with restored original artwork in the slipcased edition. Also added are five very rare bonus tracks, new sleeve-notes and previously unpublished photographs." - FE. |
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Artist: GRAHAM, DAVY Title: Hat Format: CD Label: Fledgling Country: UK Price: $15.50 |
| "First released in 1969 on Decca Records, Hat has not previously appeared on compact disc. The album is a rounded portrait of Davy Grahams remarkable guitar style - drawing together Willie Dixon, Charles Mingus, The Beatles, Henry Purcell and Indian raga on one splendid record. Fledgling have carefully remastered this album from the original master tapes, added new sleeve-notes and previously unpublished photographs. drawing together material from Willie Dixon, Charles Mingus, Henry Purcell, The Beatles and Indian ragas on one splendid record." - Fledgling. |
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Artist: GRAHAM, DAVY Title: Large As Life and Twice As Natural Format: CD Label: Fledgling Country: UK Price: $15.50 |
| "Fledgling Records are very proud to announce the release of this classic album on CD. First released in 1968, Large As Life And Twice As Natural is a tremendous acoustic-folk-blues-jazz masterpiece. As always with Davy Graham the music seems to defy categorization. Perhaps the simplest description would be great. On Large As Life And Twice As Natural Davy is joined by the legendary Harold McNair on flute, Dick Heckstall-Smith on saxophone, Jon Hiseman on drums (both from Colloseum) and Danny Thompson (from Pentangle) on double bass. For this carefully remastered edition Fledgling have restored all the elements of the original artwork and added several previously unpublished photographs. Not previously available on compact disc. New sleeve-note essay by John Renbourn, who was present during the sessions. Deluxe slipcased packaging." - Fledgling. |
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Artist: HENDERSON WITH JOHN RENBOURN, DORRIS Title: Watch the Stars Format: CD Label: Fledgling Country: UK Price: $15.50 |
| "First released in 1967, Watch The Stars is a remarkable long-lost gem from the mid-sixties British folk revival. A beautiful collection of folk, blues and haikus, the album melds a folk-boom topicality with a fine beat sensibility; uniting the Afro-American West Coast with suburban London. Long out-of-print, the record is an early milestone in the careers of Dorris Henderson and John Renbourn. On Watch The Stars Dorris and John are joined by the classical guitarist Tim Walker and Danny Thompson (from Pentangle) on double bass. Contains two songs written by Anne Briggs and an early cover of Arthur Lees Message To Pretty. For this carefully remastered edition Fledgling have restored all the elements of the original artwork and added several previously unpublished photographs. Not previously available on compact disc. Deluxe slipcased packaging." - Fledgling. |
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Artist: MCGREGORS BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH, CHRIS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Fledgling Country: UK Price: $35.00 |
| "Reissued by Fledgling in 2007, this is a classic title from 1971 by Chris McGregors magnificent big band -- Brotherhood Of Breath. Arguably one of the most influential albums to emerge from the London jazz scene of the early 1970s, the Brotherhood of Breath was an exuberant big-band created by South African-born pianist and composer, Chris McGregor. In South Africa, McGregor had formed the racially mixed Blue Notes in the early 1960s. By 1964, finding it very difficult to work at home, they left for Europe, finally settling in London in 1966. The Blue Notes -- Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana, Mongezi Feza, Johnny Dyani and Louis Moholo -- made a huge impact on Londons jazz scene and befriended many in Londons emerging avant-garde jazz community. The Brotherhood Of Breath was essentially the expatriate Blue Notes augmented by a large number of their friends from the British jazz community. The ensemble played an energetic mixture of Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Sun Ra, but retained a unique feel due to the South African influences and the intelligent arrangements. McGregor dreamed of keeping the band together "not as an institution, but as a community." Unfortunately, the economics of touring with such a large ensemble made that impossible. The group with a varying line-up continued to perform and record sporadically until McGregors untimely death in May 1990." - Fledgling. |
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Artist: RUSTED SHUT Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Fleece Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Tough to find debut from Houstons legendary noise/rock trio. Compiles live, studio and radio sessions from 1992-1995 capturing their awe-inspiring primal racket. Moments of improv-noise free flight and three chords (or less!) gutter stomp." - Fleece Records
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Artist: ERG/MSBR/DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE Title: Geosynclines Format: CD Label: Flenix Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
| "The first release of new label- FLENIX. A collaboration work by MNORTHAMs project ERG, DSM in France, MSBR. DSM mixed collaborative materials by ERG and MSBR using each field recording materials. Atmospheric mixture of noizy and quiet sound. Very good." - Flenix. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Psykoscifipoppia Format: CD Label: Flenix Country: Japan Price: $14.00 |
| "German New Wave techno compilation produced by FELIX KUBIN and CD version of LP from GAGARINE Records in Germany. ELECTRIC HELGOLAND, BREZEL GORING, FELIX KUBIN, MAX KLEYDERSTORM, GROENLANDORCHESTER. All sounds are maniac techno pop avatgarde like as DER PLAN in 80s. Bonus track by FELIX KUBIN is recorded in this CD. Highly Recoemmended." - Flenix. Limited edition in full color cardboard box, released on MSBRs label. |
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Artist: BURNT HILLS Title: Herb Saint Format: LP Label: Flipped Out Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"Take a headfirst dive into a boiling pool of wild vibes. Side A was vibrated into being on 3/2/09 at the Helderberg house with five heads shredding to live. Side B was vibrated into being on 3/19/09 at Bard College with nine heads living to shred." Paste-on cover, limited numbered edition of 99.
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Artist: BURNT HILLS Title: Live At The Elevens Format: LP Label: Flipped Out Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Since October 2003, Burnt Hills has met up each and every Monday night in their Helderberg House basement for a one hour long improvisation. Since June 2006, they have hosted 32 shows at the Helderberg House with like minded musicians from all over the world. The ten heads of Burnt Hills rarely venture out of the basement, but on October 6th 2011 they emptied out their headquarters and brought five guitarists, two drummers, one bassist, one xylophonist and one vocalist/electronicist to the Elevens in Northampton, Massachusetts. This is what went down that night. Edition of 99 copies." - Flipped Out. |
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Artist: BURNT HILLS Title: Microburst Format: LP Label: Flipped Out Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"Shred your head as five blistering guitars rage with wah wah fury, a blown out bass drops the heavy anchor, an eight-armed drummer pummels through the basement night and an amplified xylophone sprays broken glass into the clouds. Reissue of the Yod Tapes CD-R. Edition of 99 copies." -Flipped Out
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Artist: BURNT HILLS Title: Moon of the Sky Format: LP Label: Flipped Out Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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Artist: BURNT HILLS Title: Rise Above Format: Double LP Label: Flipped Out Country: USA Price: $33.00 |
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"Brothers and sisters! Check this! Favorite psych brigade in the USA lays it down solid on this blazing spaceship ride. You aint gonna wanna come back. A crushing hour of free sound and it remains these nine beautiful souls have an ESP so dialed in its best just to take it in. Higher level psych rock? Beyond! With no bias, this one sits up near the top. All stars! Elevation! Excellent! Ghetto Naturalist Series reissue of the Ghetto Naturalist Series cassette. Artwork by Philip Pascuzzo. Silkscreened Stoughton gatefold jackets. Edition of 99 copies." -Flipped Out
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Artist: BURNT HILLS Title: Tonite We Ride Format: CD Label: Flipped Out Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "dig the raging thunderstorm of sound as four squealing, reeling and paint peeling guitars thrash riffs, tones and cosmic bursts, a massive bass throbs and centers, propulsive dive bomb drums explode constantly and the sweet glaze of an insistent chiming xylophone rings out from the eye of the storm....one track, one hour and twenty seven seconds long....cover art by bill nace....edition of 500 copies" -Flipped Out |
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Artist: FLOORBORED Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Floorbored Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: AMBER ALERT Title: Ghoast Houze Format: 7" Label: Floridas Dying Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"Heavily synth damaged punk rock from some shit-heel teenagers in nowhere Alabama. Featuring a member of Wizzard Sleeve." -Floridas Dying
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Artist: DEAD LUKE Title: American Haircut Format: LP Label: Floridas Dying Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Its bright and sunny out, the birds are chirping, and summer is in full swing, but in here American Haircut is filling the air with a cold haze of serious downer-vibed psych. No sun in these parts just dead vegitation and an iced over ground where a ghostly voice repeats over and over "You know youre bringing me down." So put on your coat, alter your mind, turn out the lights, and get lost in the nine extended jams that fill this album. DEAD LUKE has released three killer singles (two on Sacred Bones, one on Sweet Rot) as well as a number of tapes, and a collaborative 12-inch with Zola Jesus. This is his first LP. Limited to 500 copies." -Floridas Dying |
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Artist: ELECTRIC BUNNIES Title: Through The Magical Door Format: LP Label: Floridas Dying Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "The Electric Bunnies have been both praised and panned for the eclectic nature of their singles and with their first full-length. The naysayers should be silenced. This is their most cohesive release to date with eleven tracks which weave in and out of each other working more as two sides then as eleven free-standing songs. This is seriously a modern psychedelic masterpiece. A concept album with out the pretense which comes off like a trip through an exotic paradise. An ode to their hometown of Miami. Packaged in gatefold sleeves with four inserts." - Floridas Dying. |
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Artist: MICKEY Title: Highway Bound Format: 7" Label: Floridas Dying Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "As long as theres still hips to shake and asses to move, MICKEY will be there to rub it in deep and smother your world with their ineffable concoction of punk brilliance. The most promising new Chicago pop band since the Smith Westerns, these five individual odd fellows have unearthed the primal lunacy and indescribable glam irresistibility that has turned anyone whos seen them into blathering idiots, ready to swallow every stray flung drop of slimy sweat dripping from their guitar necks." -Floridas Dying |
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Artist: MICKEY Title: S/T Format: 12" Label: Floridas Dying Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "As long as theres still hips to shake and asses to move, MICKEY will be there to rub it in deep and smother your world with their ineffable concoction of punk brilliance. The most promising new Chicago pop band since the Smith Westerns, these five individual odd fellows have unearthed the primal lunacy and indescribable glam irresistibility that has turned anyone whos seen them into blathering idiots, ready to swallow every stray flung drop of slimy sweat dripping from their guitar necks. After last years impeccable debut 7-inch on HoZac and their devastating trip through the wilderness of South by Southwests seedy underbelly, they turned enough heads and converted so many people, that I finally felt like it wasnt just us that was crazy for their inebriated, yet exasperatingly unique undulating glitter-pop formula. First pressing with a limited edition die cut LP cover limited to 500 copies." -Floridas Dying |
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Artist: PINK REASON/HUE BLANCS JOYLESS ONES Title: Split Format: LP Label: Floridas Dying Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "What a perfect split! Two bands compliment each other so well doing each others songs. Not so much covers as a different perspective on the exact same emotions. The line quickly blurs between these bands as two separate entities, as they grab onto the others words and make them their own. The fact that the warmest moments on this record come in repeated refrains of "Down On Me", should give you some perspective." -Floridas Dying |
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Artist: TEE PEE Title: Heal Format: 7" Label: Floridas Dying Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Second 7", from sometime Electric Bunny, Eric Lopez. Less than 6 months out of the gate he already has 3 cassette tapes, a cdr, and two more 7"s (on Sweet Rot, andozac) on the way. One man drone punk over drum machine and sustained notes on a keyboard." -Floridas Dying |
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Artist: YUSSUF JERUSALEM Title: Blast From the Past Format: LP Label: Floridas Dying Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The first 7" I put out on Floridas Dying was a split with Buttercups and The Creteens (Benjamin Dauress band at the time). 2008s "Heart Full Of Sorrow" was the first LP released on Floridas Dying, and if I have things my way a Benjamin Daures LP will be the last thing I ever put out on Floridas Dying. Benjis a life long friend and a brother till the end. That being said it is with great satisfaction that I release the follow up to "Heart Full Of Sorrow" on Floridas Dying. "Blast From THe Past" is nine more tracks of beautifully sad pop songs about chivalry, death, and heartbreak that manage to successfully integrate Norwegian black metal, Rocky Erickson, french pop, and spaghetti western guitar work into one incredible album. HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION!!!" - Floridas Dying. |
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Artist: YUSSUF JERUSALEM Title: Heart Full Of Sorrow Format: LP Label: Floridas Dying Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "YUSSIF JERUSALEMs Heart Full of Sorrow is a collection of Roky inspired gloomy bedroom folk and psych pop from Paris France. First press of 500 sold out in three weeks. Just repressed another 300. He is doing a US tour this fall backed up by Thomas Function and playing Goner Fest this September. Floridas Dying will also be putting out a second LP late this year." - Floridas Dying. |
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Artist: FLOWER-CORSANO DUO Title: The Chocolate Cities Format: CDR Label: Flower Corsano Duo Country: UK Price: $7.00 |
| "5 live cuts from Cambridge, UK & Geneva in 2009. Originally available on the Flower-Corsano U.S. Fall tour. Cover done in loving tribute to The Co-ops (UK grocery store) chocolate bar packaging." |
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Artist: FLOWER-CORSANO DUO Title: Youll Never Work In This Town Again Format: CDR Label: Flower Corsano Duo Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Material from the October 2009 tour done with the Flower-Corsano mobile multi-track recording unit. Two tracks (17 & 7 minutes long) from Wood St. Galleries in Pittsburgh, PA and one 19-minute track from Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY. 43 minutes total."
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Artist: UNITED LIGHT Title: Let the Fuzz Format: CDR Label: Flowerhouse Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Screenprinted Limited Edition. Here is the first release from Flowerhouse Records. United Light is the group formed in Leeds this past fall consisting of Vibracathedral Orchestras Michael Flower, Jackie O Motherfuckers Tom Greenwood & Sunburned Hand of the Mans John Moloney. Cd artwork by Tom Greenwood and the sleeves are all screenprinted. These are the only screen printed ones that will go up for sale, after there may be a reissue but not screened." - Flowerhouse. |
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Artist: V/A Title: 40th Anniversary Edition of the Fluxus 30th Anniversary Box Format: 8 CDR Box Set Label: Fluxus Country: Germany Price: $75.00 |
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40th Anniversary Edition of the Fluxus 30th Anniversary Box. 31cm x 31cm silkscreened box, 8CDRs in four jewelboxes with full color artwork. Limited edition of 50, originally issued privately in Japan 1992, not distributed or circulated at all.
Track Listing:
George Maciunas - Seattle Interview;
Milan Knizak - Bossanova Suite:
Henning Christiansen �??Symphony Natura�?� OP.170;
Robert Filliou - Whispered History Of Art;
Takehisa Kosugi - New York, August 14 1991;
Joe Jones - Solar Music Hot House;
Wolf Vostell - Le Cri / The Cry;
Al Hansen - Car Bibbe;
Al Hansen - Balloni Brothers Balloon Work;
Al Hansen - Joseph Beuys Stuka Bomber Piece;
Al Hansen - The Futuristic Chattanooga Choo Choo in the Mongolian Desert;
Al Hansen - I opened the top button of her jeans and zipped her zipper down;
Al Hansen - Intermedia L.A. Roadside streetwise poetry;
Al Hansen - Venus Rap;
Paul Sharits - �??The Existential Anguish Symphony�?�;
Larry Miller �?? Accord;
Marcel Alocco - Pour Fluxus;
Albrecht D. - Two Lines;
Alison Knowles - A Nivea Cream Piece For Oscar (Emmett) Williams;
Robert Watts - String Record Composition;
Eric Anderson - Untactics Of Music;
Carolee Schneemann - Mother Lexicon;
Jean Dupuy - Elle Aimait Bien Les Frites, Marguerite;
Ken Friedman - Melon Medley;
Richard Maxfield - Pastoral Symphony;
Dick Higgins - In Memoriam;
Dick Higgins - Omnia Gallia;
Mieko Shiomi - A Celestial Tune By 108 Glass Marbles;
Bob Lens - Vacuum Cleaners.
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Artist: MAGIC CARPATHIANS Title: Ethnocore Format: CD Label: Fly Music Country: Poland Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: MAGIC CARPATHIANS Title: Zygmunt Stenwak Format: CD Label: Fly Music Country: Poland Price: $12.00 |
| 2002 release. Very nice digipack with full color booklet. |
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Artist: MAGIC CARPATHIANS PROJECT Title: Euscorpius Carpathicus Format: CD Label: Fly Music Country: Poland Price: $12.00 |
| "Their sublime Ethnocore trilogy impressed me with its haunting melodies and deep psychedelic drones, based on cross-germinations of traditional folk of their native Poland together with indigenous music and instruments from around the globe. The Magic Carpathians utilize transcendental combinations of harmonium, hurdy-gurdy, accordion, guitar, violin, sitar and Carpathian woodwinds harmonized with more modern conceits such as vintage synthesizers, tape loops and field recordings." - Psyche Van Het Folk. 2003 release. |
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Artist: PIN GROUP Title: Ambivalence Format: LP+CD Label: Flying Nun Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
| "A reissue of New Zealand post-punk band, THE PIN GROUPs complete discography. "THE PIN GROUPs short career was the perfect escape act-they produced a small but peerless body of work in adverse circumstances and in almost complete obscurity, and then evaporated before anyone could get a hook into them. A doubly impressive trick, when you consider that they also made the first record for Flying Nun, a label that was to define underground rock music for an entire generation... A big part of their mysterious appeal-apart from their unparalleled understanding of the ultimate drone-rock magic trick of how to hold one chord just too long-was their masterly visual presentation. From that first blackest-ever single it was apparent that not only were they New Zealands ultimate VU-inspired band (a palm for which moreover the competition was unspeakably intense in those days)-but they even had their own Warhol, in the person of RONNIE VAN HOUT. For that first delirious year he was a one-man design tsunami for Flying Nun, but it was his covers and posters for The Pin Group that represented his most perfectly-realized total artwork. A big part of my wanting to see Flying Nun get off the ground again in a new century was to get the chance to re-marry the sonics of The Pin Group with Ronnies silver Factory visual vibe of Brillo boxes and black helicopters. And this is it: a legend that defies time. Now you too have the chance to experience The Pin Groups irresistible blend of the puritanical with the libidinal-wrapped in a point-perfect distillation of proto-hipster psychedelic reference-points from the dawn of post-modernity."-Bruce Russell, September 2011.Vinyl includes a bonus CD with a previously unreleased live material, plus download coupon with both recordings." -Flying Nun. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Time to Go: The Southern Psychedelic Moment Format: Double LP Label: Flying Nun Country: New Zealand Price: $22.00 |
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"A collection of tracks featuring the more psychedelic side of the Flying Nun roster circa 1981-84. Compiled by BRUCE RUSSELL, you get songs from THE PIN GROUP, THE CLEAN, PLAYTHINGS, GORDONS, BUILDERS, VICTOR DIMISCH BAND, TALL DWARFS, THE CHILLS, GREAT UNWASHED, SNEAKY FEELINGS, SCORCHED EARTH POLICY, LOOK BLUE GO PURPLE, THE PUDDLE, WRECK SMALL SPEAKERS ON EXPENSIVE STEREOS, and others." -Flying Nun.
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Artist: TOY LOVE Title: S/T Format: Double LP Label: Flying Nun & Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $33.00 |
| "This 28-track double LP compilation collects all the A and B sides of the three Toy Love singles, plus the best demos from 1979, a live track, and even a radio jingle - all mastered for vinyl, straight from the original analogue tapes. Housed in a gatefold jacket, a 24 page booklet accompanies the release with photos, ephemera, and commentary from Toy Love. The back cover features a sketched cartoon of an early Toy Love flyer drawn by Chris Knox. Evolving from Dunedin band The Enemy, Toy Love had a brief but bright existence between January 1979 and September 1980. Invoking the ghost of punk and the melody and creativity of 60-70s pop, they were peerless at a time when New Zealand music was still struggling to imprint itself on the national consciousness. They became a model for local musicians around the country and inspired the birth of Flying Nun Records -- a label which many from the band went on to work with, including Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate with the Tall Dwarfs and Paul Kean with The Bats. Then, in 2005 Flying Nun released Cuts, a double CD anthology of Toy Love material. Electrifying and unmissable, Toy Love made an impact on all who saw then, and continue to do so around the world today." -Flying Nun/Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY Title: People Think Format: Book Label: Flynt, Henry A. Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"concerns the uneasy consciousness." -Henry Flynt. 1998.
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Artist: FO A RM Title: No. 4 Format: Mag/CD Label: Fo A Rm Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Includes an exclusive soundwork from Phill Niblock entitled Ghosts and Others. The material on the CD is a very different work that Phill created for an installation at MJ Scumachers Studio Five Beekman series in March of 1998. Because this material is much more of an audio collage/field recording than Phills typical composed droneworks he never felt comfortable for it to be released as a regular document. This is the first formal, and only, release of the document. It is a full length CD. (Topography) includes essays by sound theorists Douglas Kahn (Noise Water Meat) and Steven Connor (Dumbstruck), lengthy interviews with minimalist luminary Phill Niblock and Biennial darling Julianne Swartz, articles by composers Marc Behrens, Eric LaCasa and Jean-Luc Guionnet, an historical essay by Eliot Weinberger and poetic works by William Fox, Charles Stein and Rachel Daley, among many other things. FO A RM is an interdisciplinary journal of arts and research, published once yearly. We encourage cross-genre methods and investigative projects, with a focus on sound-art, experimental poetics and social sculpture. Each issue clusters around a given topic, gathering together a variety of perspectives, methods and articulations, from the extravagant to the pedestrian." |
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Artist: WHITE LIMO Title: WHOMOHW Format: LP Label: Fogged Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "White Limo or White Limousine Impatient Truck Plus Special Guest is an electronic trio featuring Chris Cooper of Fat Worm Of Error, The BSC, and Anghst Hase Pfeffer Nase, Jess Goddard of Fat Worm Of Error and Schurt Kwitters, and Josh Vrysen of Tumble Cat Poof Poofey Poof. The group came together around 2008 in Western Massachusetts with the interest of creating some cold devilish techno music after venturing in the realm of noise rock, improv, EAI, performance and noise for over a decade each. Almost five years later their first record WhoMohW has just dropped as the first release on the brand new Fogged Records." - Fogged. |
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Artist: D YELLOW SWANS Title: Dark Format: Cass Label: Folding Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: MAMMAL Title: Nights Format: Cass Label: Folding Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: NETMEN, THE Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Folding Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Our 36th cassette is the complete recordings of The Netmen, the
Providence, RI duo of John Dwyer (coachwhips, pink and brown, etc) and
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cassette 95-96. New hand-screened covers by Dwyer. Limited to 200.
68 minutes." - Folding. 2006 release featuring John Dwyer, now of THEE OH SEES.
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Artist: NVH/CHASNY Title: Plays The Book Of Revelations Format: Cass Label: Folding Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"very tough release from noel von harmonson and ben chasny from comets on fire / six organs" - Folding.
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: Fools Mag Format: Cass Label: Folding Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Live four-song session recorded on WFMU Radio in New Jersey." -Folding Cassettes
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Artist: TELEPATHE Title: I Heart Noise Format: Cass Label: Folding Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Telepathe is three of the four members of Wikkid, from Brooklyn, NY. We started this project in the fall of 2004. Our EP called Farewell Forest is coming out on the Social Registry label" - Telepathe.
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Artist: V/A Title: Solo Show Solo Soul Sounds Of Soul Share 2 Format: Cass Label: Folding Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Part two of the Chris Johanson / Mike Donovan compiled compilation series. This one is in conjunction with the Solo Show Solo Soul exhibition that took place at the Baronian Francey gallery this summer in Belgium with artists Chris Johanson, Jo Jackson, Christopher Garrett, Haley Tompkins, Scott Myles, Dale Hoyt and Steve Thurston. Covers by Jo Jackson. Music by: Noel Von Harmonson (Comets On Fire), Morning Champ, Tits, Magic Star Band, ABK, Bonkers, Coachwhips, Big Techno Werewolves, No Doctors, Jess Hilliard and the Zach Institute, Ponies, Houndstooth and the Wolfhounds, Condor, Enablers, Kevin Thomson, Si-Cops, California Lightening, Fakers." - Folding.
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Artist: WILD, MIKEY Title: Speaking About Vincent Price And Pieces Of Poem Format: Cass Label: Folding Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "A scary new tape from Philadelphia legend MIKEY WILD. Released on MIKE DONOVANs (SIC ALPS) Folding Cassettes label." -Folding Cassetes |
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Artist: V/A Title: Smashed 40: Slummer Jams Format: Double Cassette Label: Folktale Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Its no secret that people judge you based on what kind of music you like and more than likely there is a band or performer who you like that you dont feel comfortable admitting without first giving a disclaimer like: "guilty pleasure". Music that too many people like isnt cool to listen to. We might be missing something but we fail to see the logic in that. Music should be something you enjoy, not something youre ashamed of. Furthermore, its undeniable that "main stream" music has influenced musicians of all styles in one form or another. So we decided to ask some of our favorite artists to record their take on the "main stream" and what we got was an epic collection of songs that are both eclectic and absurd. This compilation contains 40 artists doing their interpretations of Top 40 hits, clocking in at nearly two and a half hours in length.
Released on two professionally dubbed and imprinted cassettes, housed in clear cassette albums with full color artwork by Brian Blomerth. Includes digital download card." - Folktale. TRACK LISTING: 01 SINGS - Cruel Summer 02 MARMITS - Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover 03 HERMIT CONVENTION - Somewhere In Brooklyn 04 DINO DIMURO FT. ELIZABETH DIMURO - Everywhere 05 TREASURE MAMMAL - I Wanna Go 06 LONNIE METHE - Boulevard 07 DENNIS CALLACI - Dont Forget to Dance 08 CHARLIE MCALISTER - Waiting on a Friend 09 AMPS FOR CHRIST - Woman 10 KEY LOSERS - Amanda 11 CAPTAIN AHAB - Sk8ter Boi 12 AMERICAN GIL - Burning Down The House 13 STEPHEN STEINBRINK - The Way It Is 14 EDWARD GRAY - 9 to 5 15 GULLIVER - Always Be My Baby 16 NICOLE KIDMAN - Heart of Glass 17 JOHN THILL - Informer 18 WCKR SPGT - Owner of a Lonely Heart 19 THUNDERSNAIL - Breakup Gold 20 EMILY LACY - Everybody Hurts 21 ANNI ROSSI - Are You That Somebody 22 I.E. - Love You Like A Love Song 23 PREGNANT - Never Wanna Give You Up 24 tik///tik - No Ordinary Love 25 CLARK 8 - FIREWORK 26 THE RECEPTIONISTS - Just What I Needed 27 CARLA BOZULICH & FORMER GHOSTS - Tell It Like It Is 28 EZRA BUCHLA - Bullet With Butterfly Wings 29 KNIGHT RIDER - Shout 30 VOICE ON TAPE - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun 31 ALVARIUS B. - Prisoner 32 WHITMAN - Everlong 33 R. STEVIE MOORE - Coming Up 34 SAM LOCKE WARD & THE GARBAGE BOYS - Kokomo 35 BROTHER MITYA FT. ALAK - Be Careful 36 SIMON JOYNER - Life in a Northern Town 37 ROLLIN HUNT - Goodbye Horses 38 STELLALUNA - (Everything I Do) I Do It for You 39 BROTHER TWIN - The Sign 40 THE FINCHES - Im On FIre SOLD OUT
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Artist: EAST NEW YORK ENSEMBLE DE MUSIC Title: At The Helm Format: LP Label: Folkways Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Bilal Abdurahmans East New York Ensemble de Music came out of the diverse community of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, where African, West Indian & black American cultures converged. First and foremost a deep Spiritual Jazz record, At The Helm also incorporates elements of the West Indies, and both the Near and Far East. Originally released in 1974 this is an incredible, and unjustly forgotten, record lovingly reissued in a perfect replica of the original Folkways jacket." -Folkways |
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Artist: ENTOURAGE MUSIC AND THEATRE ENSEMBLE Title: Entourage Format: LP Label: Folkways Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Formed in Baltimore, MD in the early 70s, The Entourage Music And Theatre Ensemble played a kind of experimental, ambient, new age, proto-world music, made to accompany multi-media performance art pieces. This is the first of two albums they released on Folkways, reissued lovingly on vinyl in an exact replica of the original jacket and booklet." - Folkways. |
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Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: First Songs Format: LP Label: Folkways Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "MICHAEL HURLEY is one of the most beloved cult figures of the Greenwich Village folk scene and his songs have been recorded by everyone from the Holy Modal Rounders and the Youngbloods, to Vetiver and Cat Power. First Songs, recorded in 1964 when Hurley was only 22 years old, shows that his charming, bumming, hippie, wino persona was fully formed at an early age. The album features the first recorded versions of such Snock classics as "The Werewolf Song" and "Captain Kidd." Reissued on LP for the first time ever, with deluxe packaging including faithful reproductions of the original jacket and insert." -Folkways |
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Artist: V/A Title: Street and Gangland Rhythms Format: LP Label: Folkways Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Subtitled: Beats and Improvisations by Six Boys In Trouble. "Originally released in 1959, this is the recording of 6 pre-teens from Harlem on bongos, and vocals. Pounding rhythms and chants convey the emotions and experiences of life in New York Citys housing projects and tenements. Heralded after the fact as an early precursor to rap music, Street and Gangland Rhythms is an important document of post-WWII urban Black America. An amazing record lovingly reissued in a perfect replica of the original Folkways jacket and including a reproduction of the original information booklet." -Folkways |
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Artist: CHAMELLOWS Title: Rat Hearts Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $17.50 |
| "Chamellows (aka Sleeping Bags) is a project of Laura Naukkarinen (Lau Nau) and the visual artist Mikko Kuorinki. These songs have been recorded some as far back as ten years ago. Some previously released on 50-150 limited edition 7" and cassettes. A rather surprising revelation was to find out how fresh and new they sound today. Almost like a bit demented Moldy Peaches album or The Shaggs at their best. However they are more experimental and they weave amazing melodies and rhythms into songs that will keep playing in your head as much as the top 10 record of the week. But these thank god offer a bit more of a puzzle for your ears!" - Fonal. |
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Artist: ELEANOORA ROSENHOLM Title: Hyväile Minua Pimeä Tähti Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $22.00 |
| "LP version. Fonal Records releases the third Eleanoora Rosenholm album Hyväile Minua Pimeä Tähti (trans. "Caress Me, Dark Star"). A project begun by Noora Tommila, Pasi Salmi and Mika Rättö, Eleanoora Rosenholm is ostensibly a persona created by the band, which narrates the dramatic and disturbed odyssey of a suburban housewife. The group, which has now evolved into a seven-piece band (with Mika typically fulfilling the role of writer and overseer), comprises the most exquisite music-makers from the Finnish harbor town of Pori. The third installment is an even gloomier prospect (if possible) than before: this time the protagonist, housewife serial killer Eleanoora escapes into the heart and the city of a Dark Star. Although musically in a similar vein to previous albums Vainajan Muotokuva (FR 054CD/LP) and Älä Kysy Kuolleilta, He Sanoivat (FR 060CD/LP), the sound of this record is even more dramatic, expansive and nuanced. Musically taking its cues from film soundtracks and disco, laced with echoes of Scandinavian and electronic pop, this apparent juxtaposition against the albums subject matter frames a dislocated voice in everyday reality. Trumpets and clarinet lend an epic maturity to the modern atmosphere. The result is a landmark, down-to-earth-futurism, A Space Odyssey in Pori -- something unexplainable that has to be experienced by oneself. These colorful stories are the brainchildren of Mika Rättö, one of the most creative forces in the Finnish contemporary rock scene, perhaps most familiar from acts such as Circle, Rättö Ja Lehtisalo and Kuusumun Profeetta. The role of Eleanoora is played by vocalist Noora Tommila who is a sensitive interpreter, relaying a vast emotional range, from quiet fragility to vociferous preaching. The album was composed by Rättö and analog synth wizard Pasi Salmi (Magyar Posse). Previously mainly masterminding in the background, the recording sessions inspired Rättö not only to grab the drumsticks but also to sing a whole song in his distinctive falsetto. Apart from this band, who else could turn Gregorian choir influences into a potential modern club-hit?" -Fonal. |
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Artist: ES Title: A Love Cycle Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $17.50 |
| "The second album from Es aka Sami Sänpäkkilä. On this album the main source of sound is three turntables bought from flea markets for 10 dollars a piece. Those and a few effects are the only sound sources that have been used. The atmosphere maintains its course of melancholy through these romantic, and at times heartbreaking sound collages. The adjacent loops that you hear begin to create new dimensions and layers of sound. And when you listen to the song you can almost hear that forgotten melody that you have always searched for in your heart. Recognizable (and acknowledged) exemplariness can be heard when thinking of such artists as the loop n scratch artist Philip Jeck and Terry Riley." - Fonal. |
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Artist: ES Title: Kaikkeuden Kauneus Ja Käsittämättömyys Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $16.00 |
| "This album is a dedication for the sad, the depressed, the insomniacs, the strayed, the fearful and the lonely. Today, tomorrow." - Sami Sänpäkkilä. Co-release with Kraak from 2004. |
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Artist: ES Title: Kesämaan Lapset Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "This is Fonal label-head and filmmaker Sami Sänpäkkiläs fifth solo album under the name Es. Recorded during a 3-year period, it is a mixture of pop and sacred soundscapes with influences varying from contemporary indie-rock to ancient classical music. The name translates to "The Children Of The Summerland," and is an homage to Finnish cult folk legend Pekka Strengs album Kesämaa ("Summerland"), which is one of the artists favorite Finnish albums ever made. Various quirky instrumentation is used on Kesämaan Lapset; from high-end analog synthesizers and upright pianos to cheap flea market Casios. A few special guests make an appearance on this record, including Laura Laurila (violin), Tuomas Eriksson (Risto) (trombone) and Elissa Määttänen (vocals). On "Ennen Oli Huonommin," squiggling, rapid-fire synth noises battle a chorus of angels against a droning and static-y backdrop. On "Haamut Sun Sydämestä," high-pitched cries ride on top of a melancholy piano line, while what seems like thousands of pitched-shifted orchestras and bleeps multiply and rise atonally. The title track is a stunning, epic drone-piece with chanting vocals in a golden forest of sound: strings and horn lines, sinuous, ethereal synths and organ mantras. Recorded at home in the bedroom and abroad on various travels, Es has crafted a haunting summer album that evokes a strange, nostalgic, visceral response, like gazing at childhood photographs." -Fonal |
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Artist: ES/SAMI SANPAKKILA Title: Early Filmworks 1996 to 2006 Format: DVD Label: Fonal Country: FInland Price: $20.00 |
| "As an artist, Sänpäkkilä is someone who transcends conventional boundaries: film, music and visual art each vie for his attention. In fact, these separate areas are integrated in his work to such an extent that he could with equal justification be considered a visual artist, a filmmaker or a musician. His experimental short films are most notably characterised by a certain suspension. For instance, Sänpäkkilä portrays repetitive jumps, trudging through snow or waking up repeatedly. This suspension is also present in the soundtracks to his works. The resulting entity is hypnotic, trance-inducing. It has been said that every trance is an attempt to solve a problem. This should be understood broadly: a problem could be anything, positive or negative, that calls for a decision or a solution. For the artist, it could be a problem or a challenge related to his work, and whilst dealing with it he falls into a state of waking dream. The spectators, however, do not have to concern themselves with the artists problems. Each of them has a trance of their own, a train of thought that produces the ideas, solutions or answers for which they are prepared and which are useful to them. A trance does have an intrinsic value, though. It is a creative state in the twilight zone between sleep and a waking state. Trance can also be described as movement, like the jumps in 91: 11-12 or the running in Surrealistin Kaksi Vasenta Kättä. This movement can lead to the recuperation, as well as the regeneration, of the mind and the senses. While it may initially be less obvious, another prominent quality of Sänpäkkiläs art is spirituality." Region Free. PAL & NTSC (double sided for worldwide play). |
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Artist: FRICARA PACCHU Title: Stories of the Old Format: 7"/Book Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $17.00 |
| "Includes a 7" vinyl and a 40-page full-color book. Fricara Pacchu started out as a rapper in The Backdoor Funkers, as a member of Slow Convulsion, Rorererot, Avarus, etc., but not until techno-rock-trio Maniacs Dream was Pacchu able to find his shattered inner plectrum. Hence, the music on this 7" is the consequence of using a plectrum. On his earlier cassette releases: "Where do you go after youve single-handedly destroyed the entire canon of recorded psychedelic musics? Into techno, apparently." - Fonal. |
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Artist: ISLAJA Title: Keraaminen Pää Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "LP version. Islaja is the recording alias of Merja Kokkonen, a musician and visual artist from Helsinki, currently based in Berlin. A regular contributor to the more psych/folk and improv-oriented Kemialliset Ystävät and Avarus, Islajas recordings are by contrast almost entirely self-contained, reflecting the more personal nature of her music, and a natural affinity towards an independent/DIY aesthetic. Her fourth album for Fonal, Keraaminen Pää (trans. "Ceramic Head") contains many shades of black. It also bears witness to a shift in perception and execution; yet the thread that weaves its way through all Islajas work remains resolute, visible and intact. If Islajas previous albums for Fonal appear to exhibit a more overtly pastoral nature, this in part feels coincidental, or secondary to something much larger and more difficult to define. From the earliest Islaja recordings, Merja has made the simplest of instrumentation work to her own ends, displaying a disquieting combination of innocence and fearlessness, and a seemingly innate ability to transcend the confines of a genre. It is the same singular approach and vision that informs Keraaminen Pää -- born largely of whatever instruments were on hand; if the sound has shifted into more electronic terrain, it remains as immersive and subtly evocative as ever. When sketching out the dimensions of Keraaminen Pää, Islaja was clear about one thing: the album should have a soul within, preferably silky thin and translucent, like a jellyfish swimming around in the ocean. During the recording process, however, Keraaminen Pää turned into a heavy, robot-molded disc of clay. It spins, shines, pops and crackles, all the while escaping definition. This is also is the first Islaja album to feature English translations of Merjas lyrics. The songs on Keraaminen Pää were written, composed, and recorded on three continents over a period of three years, with Islaja performing, recording and mixing the majority of the album herself. The recordings may recall the waves crashing on the Bight of Benin, the frogs croaking on Lantau Island, the starry sky above Roihuvuori, Helsinki, or maybe a one-euro pizza in Berlin. Less fractured and more fleshed out than previous Islaja recordings, the songs still careen recklessly, pulsing and shifting with a life of their own." -Fonal |
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Artist: ISLAJA Title: Keraaminen Pää Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "Islaja is the recording alias of Merja Kokkonen, a musician and visual artist from Helsinki, currently based in Berlin. A regular contributor to the more psych/folk and improv-oriented Kemialliset Ystävät and Avarus, Islajas recordings are by contrast almost entirely self-contained, reflecting the more personal nature of her music, and a natural affinity towards an independent/DIY aesthetic. Her fourth album for Fonal, Keraaminen Pää (trans. "Ceramic Head") contains many shades of black. It also bears witness to a shift in perception and execution; yet the thread that weaves its way through all Islajas work remains resolute, visible and intact. If Islajas previous albums for Fonal appear to exhibit a more overtly pastoral nature, this in part feels coincidental, or secondary to something much larger and more difficult to define. From the earliest Islaja recordings, Merja has made the simplest of instrumentation work to her own ends, displaying a disquieting combination of innocence and fearlessness, and a seemingly innate ability to transcend the confines of a genre. It is the same singular approach and vision that informs Keraaminen Pää -- born largely of whatever instruments were on hand; if the sound has shifted into more electronic terrain, it remains as immersive and subtly evocative as ever. When sketching out the dimensions of Keraaminen Pää, Islaja was clear about one thing: the album should have a soul within, preferably silky thin and translucent, like a jellyfish swimming around in the ocean. During the recording process, however, Keraaminen Pää turned into a heavy, robot-molded disc of clay. It spins, shines, pops and crackles, all the while escaping definition. This is also is the first Islaja album to feature English translations of Merjas lyrics. The songs on Keraaminen Pää were written, composed, and recorded on three continents over a period of three years, with Islaja performing, recording and mixing the majority of the album herself. The recordings may recall the waves crashing on the Bight of Benin, the frogs croaking on Lantau Island, the starry sky above Roihuvuori, Helsinki, or maybe a one-euro pizza in Berlin. Less fractured and more fleshed out than previous Islaja recordings, the songs still careen recklessly, pulsing and shifting with a life of their own." - Fonal |
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Artist: ISLAJA Title: Meritie Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "Islaja might well be a forgotten islet somewehere or a name of courageous sword swinging heroine in a forgotten fable. For one, Islaja is a certain young woman that has sang and played an album full of heart-rending intimate music. Half a year of quietly working in her homestudio brought about a cluster of transcendental tunes that are now being released as an album called Meritie. One song Islaja whispered in a fewer and another with an oriental monkey. At times it is impossible to tell where the sounds are coming from. The variety of instruments is vast, but all have their space and strong belief in the power of individual sounds can be heard. Islaja has exceptional sense of harmony that alone can make the album a magical listening experience. The voice of Islaja sounds bravely over the screaming crazed sea-gulls. It is stunningly honest. This is a great victory in these times of sadness." Sami from Fonal said "Its a bit like Kemialliset Ystävät and Fursaxa but with a more traditional Finnish feel to it. Its a girl from Finland whos done all the stuff alone. Its one of the records in the Fonal catalogue I nowadays listen to most." |
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Artist: ISLAJA Title: Palaa Aurinkoon Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "Islaja masters the elements of our universe one by one or maybe the sea and the sun are embracing Islaja, it must go both ways but there, where all this happens, the listener is received with clattering sounds of paradise and drowned by surprise in a swell that stretches all the way to the dark rock bottom. Whats down there? Fight the rotten faith so itll wither until it hardly exists, believe it! Islaja shows the way of rhythm, no it isnt a straight one, the way of chant, it cant be foreseen. Textures evolve into new ones. Scabby rhythms spin socks on feet, skin burns into ashes in the attacking heat. Senile wine glasses wail of happiness. Fallen off beard hair are woven into a scarf that lets the wind blow fast right through it. If only life would be like this more than just an hour at a time! After everything the sun blesses the way with Islajas words, it spits out of its system the wet and transformed listener, who longs for the light again. Islajas second album was born in two different places that have been sewed up one to another with the binds of words and a rich sound world. Here and there, Islajas friends have lent their voices for this world. Loose guitar paths, long strokes of wind instruments, glasses and toys that clink, rattle and tinkle, rhythms, keyboards and Islajas wonderful, many-faceted voice are cooing in a miraculous net. The album is a spontaneous texture of muscle, cartilage and liquid, everything organized in such a surprising way that one cant believe right away that its a human being, but soon enough it becomes clear that its a most ingenious creature. It evolves by itself. It tells us how everything metamorphoses, it relies on itself and infuses belief into the listener that one can change the world. The secret place where the creature invites the listener is revealed to be our real world, it lives here with us." - Lau Naukkarinen. |
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Artist: ISLAJA Title: Ulual Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $19.00 |
| "Islajas third album is a journey deeper into the world that for us is a dream and a fairytale, but to her a reality. Islaja as a concept has turned into a star that is expected to shine with brilliance. But she is something else. The songs tell us about the decay of our age, its demise and immorality, its plunge into heartless consumer culture. Islaja herself does not burn in that same fire. Her fire is an inner fire. Behind her eyes and in her heart you can see and hear her true charisma. True dedication and utter disrespect for the artificial authority made by men. Yet she is not the self-destructive Nico or the eccentric Björk. But a good woman. A tough one. Her eyes can burn a hole in you. Her songs are poems and stabbing knives. - Sami Sänpäkkilä." "Islaja is Merja Kokkonen, a young visual artist and musician living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Islaja records her music at home using a rainbow of instruments to accompany her personal vocal delivery sung in Finnish. She has performed with Avarus, Kemialliset Ystävät and is also a member of Hertta Lussu ÿssä, a free-folk super trio with Lau Nau and Kuupuu." - Fonal. |
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Artist: ISLAJA/TV-RESISTORI Title: Melodi Melodika/Kämmen, Kynsi, Kieli Format: 7" Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $10.00 |
| "Islaja covers TV-Resistoris Melodi Melodika and TV-Resistori covers Islajas Kämmen, Kynsi, Kieli." -Fonal. Limited 7" release, full color sleeve. |
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Artist: JARSE Title: Alas Format: 7" Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $13.00 |
| "A hypnotic bow to electronic music pioneers from a modern living room spiced with psychedelic guitar riffs, Jarse is a project by Jari Suominen (Shogun Kunitoki, Kiila). The intro on the track is the first recording featuring Jaris brand new self-built synthesizer based on the original design and schematics of the Sähkökvartetti, the instrument used by the first electronic band in Finland, led by M.A. Numminen." - Fonal. |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Alkuhärkä Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "After recovering from a long illness I started searching through the shores and woods. I finally managed to locate Mr. Anderzén in the middle of an arctic desert. He sat there cross legged, eyes closed, calm as if on top of a mountain or in the bottom of the sea. No trees nor any other objects apart from ourselves interrupted the plain white landscape. Sun dragged itself slowly over the horizon. The air was still. My retreat will soon be over. His husky voice seemed to emerge from the field of snow itself. I didnt see his lips moving. As I asked about the last nine months he had been away he mumbled something about contemplation. Remember what Cocteau wrote in Opium about revealing the essence of plants? - I have gained sights of that different kind of speed of vegetation and I have heard the screams of plants he talked about. After six long days of silence spent mostly eating drought reindeers meat Mr A. talked again: I had this strangest of dreams. There was no space, no people, no traces of action, just this plasmoid machine out of which erupted sounds. And then as I was receiving those aural secretions of an ultra physical automaton from the seventh uppermost world, I woke up due to a butterfly itching in my ear. There I was all covered with sweat, heart beating furiously, yet the ear was empty. It took a long time to be able to sleep after that night. Heed my words dear friends; that butterfly preserved to the ears of ours which werent there is Alkuhärkä." - Ralf Normaali. Highly recommended! |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Kellari Juniversumi Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "Many are the rumors that revolve round the Tamperean tribe called Kemialliset Ystävät (Chemical Friends), regarding for instance the recipe for their brand of magic potion and their ethnic background. Contradicting the common beliefs, this group, which is now, depending on how you count, releasing its first or tenth album, does not consist of elves, gnomes or some lesser known folk of the forest, but is mainly the product of one human risen from the rotten ditch of Nekala (a Tampere suburb). With his vast set of allies he has by the power of his spirit carved a whole multitude of caves into the cellar of an otherwise unsuspect looking house. From that Cellar Yuniversum (a rough translation of the discs name) originates this record, which I myself regard rather as the first, as its many predecessors have been either halves of a long player, virtually unobtainable or partial rereleases. Now, at last, as we venture deeper into the cellar than ever before, we see the aforementioned elves and gnomes in their festivities, as the urbanization process has cut down the Tampere backwoods and has thus forced them to flee into the caves of Kemialliset Ystävät, who naturally are in good terms with all tiny earthlings with pointed ears. (Allow me to return to the subject magic potion: Ive heard that in order to compensate the Lebensraum, the forest tribes have provided for Kemialliset Ystävät an unlimited supply of bottled fairys pee, which is the strongest nordic hallucinogen known to man. Whether it ends up being sold at schoolyards and potato markets or to inspire this music, to that information Ive got no access.) By the time one has sunk deep enough into the world of the record, it isnt any more a question of seeing, but knowing in the sense of Platos anamnesis, re-remembering. The same bearded chap, the Fostex left to the cave by higher powers and a varied selection of nearly broken instruments guarantee that this certainly psychedelic avant folk which stutters just as much as it should makes me remember myself once more at the mountains, naked, as the only human in the whole world. Alone, but still in unity with the world. A mysteriously long trip across the stars too, and the smell of a Lettish fish factory and, yes, the Cellar Yuniversum is foggy." - Fonal. |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Kemialliset Ysavat Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.50 |
| "Please receive this carefully cooked porridge, the new untitled Kemialliset Ystävät full length album. Pulsating, radiant and turbo-charged, this music shares the groove of a junk pile AND a wild foal. It comes with the lovely smell of the chemical they spray on apple trees. Its a highly ambitious effort originally planned to become a defying message in a bottle, limited edition of one, addressed to the Man. Kemialliset Ystävät has been rocking out for some time now and there is no end in sight. Without all the experiments of the past, this record would not exist while theres still plenty of fresh perspective in the mix, too. Listen to Roope drum his belly, Laura play tambura and Jaakko go berserk on a Chinese flute. Listen carefully. Lots of energy went into the mixing: a million voices from friends are twisted into one hypnotic over-the-top sound textile that vibrates and grows to every direction resembling a living organism, a merry beast. Give it a hug and you will gain power, it is like shooting up echinacea. Wrap it around you and tune in to the blizzard. Sit down and blast as loud as possible!" -Fonal Records |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Kemialliset Ysävät Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "This is the fourth full-length album by Kemialliset Ystävät on the Fonal label, originally released in 2007. Pulsating, radiant and turbo-charged, this music shares the groove of a junk pile AND a wild foal. It comes with the lovely smell of the chemical they spray on apple trees. Its a highly ambitious effort originally planned to become a defiant message in a bottle, limited edition of one, addressed to the Man. Kemialliset Ystävät has been rocking out for some time now and there is no end in sight. Without all the experiments of the past, this record would not exist, and theres still plenty of fresh perspective in the mix, too. Listen to Roope drum his belly, Laura play tambura and Jaakko go berserk on a Chinese flute. Lots of energy went into the mixing: a million voices from friends are twisted into one hypnotic, over-the-top sound textile that vibrates and grows in every direction, resembling a living organism, a merry beast. Give it a hug and you will gain power -- it is like shooting up echinacea. Wrap it around you and tune in to the blizzard. Sit down and blast as loud as possible." -Fonal |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Lumottu Karkkipurkki (Vapaa Systeemi) Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "Originally Lumottu Karkkipurkki was released on cassette on Huutomerkki label, re-released on double 8 inch lathe cut on the Celebrate Psi Phenomenom label. Now finally available on CD remastered and remixed." - Fonal. |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Ullakkopalo Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "LP version with full-color printed innersleeve and 24-page CD booklet. Includes MP3 download coupon. This is the first release from Finlands Kemialliset Ystävät since 2007. Kemialliset Ystävät equals Jan Anderzén. He is one of the few Finnish musicians to have achieved renown in the international experimental circuit. In the case of Anderzén -- who also plies a trade as a visual artist -- this is not a matter of juxtaposition between experimental and mainstream, or a calculated career choice. Using music and images, he is busy creating a world that is a law unto itself, a world of exceptional freedom and beauty. Earlier KY albums have been peppered with contributions by individuals such as Islaja, the members of Avarus and Sami Sänpäkkilä. It is not easy to distinguish who plays what on Kemialliset Ystävät recordings. Rather than a side project consisting of solo parts, the band is an ecosystem within Anderzéns reality. One of the essential techniques applied by Anderzén is collage, in sound as well as image. He is no conventional instrumental virtuoso; his music is created with a fluctuating array of instruments and equipment. The focus is less on instrumental prowess and more on the overall sound and impression as well as the tension between the various materials. As a manipulator of these elements, Anderzén is in a league of his own. His sampler-based solo performances as Tomutonttu have left no doubt about that. A close listening of Anderzéns music reveals its near-architectonic precision. He is known for an exceptionally painstaking approach to creating his music. All this hard work is readily evident in the finished product, not as an accentuated complexity but rather as a clear, independent vision. Kemialliset Ystävät is like a natural phenomenon. It is difficult to imagine anyone having consciously constructed it, such is the ease with which it presents itself to us. To be in the presence of Anderzéns work is captivating in the same way, simple yet inexplicable, as it is to stare into fire. It truly takes a master to create such an experience, but listening to this Kemialliset Ystävät album evokes just that: a feeling of lightness." -Fonal |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Ullakkopalo Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "This is the first release from Finlands Kemialliset Ystävät since 2007. Kemialliset Ystävät equals Jan Anderzén. He is one of the few Finnish musicians to have achieved renown in the international experimental circuit. In the case of Anderzén -- who also plies a trade as a visual artist -- this is not a matter of juxtaposition between experimental and mainstream, or a calculated career choice. Using music and images, he is busy creating a world that is a law unto itself, a world of exceptional freedom and beauty. Earlier KY albums have been peppered with contributions by individuals such as Islaja, the members of Avarus and Sami Sänpäkkilä. It is not easy to distinguish who plays what on Kemialliset Ystävät recordings. Rather than a side project consisting of solo parts, the band is an ecosystem within Anderzéns reality. One of the essential techniques applied by Anderzén is collage, in sound as well as image. He is no conventional instrumental virtuoso; his music is created with a fluctuating array of instruments and equipment. The focus is less on instrumental prowess and more on the overall sound and impression as well as the tension between the various materials. As a manipulator of these elements, Anderzén is in a league of his own. His sampler-based solo performances as Tomutonttu have left no doubt about that. A close listening of Anderzéns music reveals its near-architectonic precision. He is known for an exceptionally painstaking approach to creating his music. All this hard work is readily evident in the finished product, not as an accentuated complexity but rather as a clear, independent vision. Kemialliset Ystävät is like a natural phenomenon. It is difficult to imagine anyone having consciously constructed it, such is the ease with which it presents itself to us. To be in the presence of Anderzéns work is captivating in the same way, simple yet inexplicable, as it is to stare into fire. It truly takes a master to create such an experience, but listening to this Kemialliset Ystävät album evokes just that: a feeling of lightness." -Fonal |
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Artist: KIILA Title: Silmät sulkaset Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $15.00 |
| "The music of Kiila has undergone something of a metamorphosis during the past three years. On the new album Silmät sulkaset, the band gently conjures up mildly otherworldly tunes with a peaceful air and feathered eyes. What was once free pop played by two is now free folk played by seven. The language of the songs has reverted back to Finnish, and the human voices rest on a warm texture of sounds from an array of acoustic and electronic instruments. Carefully arranged songs alternate with those improvised on the spot, all bearing the mark of a handcrafted article. Much has happened since Kiilas 2001 album Heartcore, then. The band spent nearly two years feeling for a direction and, once confident enough, completed Silmät sulkaset in less than a year (apart from the improvised piece Kiviä ja taivasta which dates further back to a wintry evening in Ulvila). The change in direction can be partly explained by the addition of new members. In the course of three years, five of our friends became bandmates. Juho Kaitajärvi, Markus Mäki, Laura Naukkarinen, Juri Puhakka and Sami Rouhento all brought many influences with them; thanks to their contributions, the new album is the fruit of a collective effort above all. The established yet highly flexible line-up has encouraged Kiila to play out considerably more often than in the past. Our area of operation has also extended well beyond our native shores: in March 2003, Kiila appeared live in Sweden, Denmark and Belgium as well as Finland. We slept little and drove lots, played some nice venues and met the nicest of people. In October, we celebrated the tenth anniversary of Kiila by recording a session for VPRO Radio and appearing at a soirée held by the station in Amsterdam alongside three notable American acts. Silmät sulkaset is jointly released by Fonal Records and K-RAA-K3. Later this spring, Fonal Records will also be releasing a collection of Kiila music videos on limited edition VHS. Contemporaries-VHS features eleven directors presenting their visual impressions of songs on Heartcore and the Free Will is Hard to Kill ep. Some of the videos have been shown in Europe and South America before. In early March, two Kiila videos were featured in the music video screenings at Tampere Film Festival. In 2004, we look forward to travelling around, making new friends, playing lots of music and having fun together while doing it. Chances are our next album will not take as long to appear as this one did. ⿿ Give them our fastest steeds!" - Niko-Matti Ahti and Sami Sänpäkkilä. 2004 release. |
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Artist: KIILA Title: Tuota Tuota Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "LP version. This is the third full-length album by Finlands Kiila. Born of peaceful, focused work and intense rehearsals with friends, interspersed with sleep and meal-times, Tuota Tuota ("Well, Well") features an eight-strong core line-up -- but, as always, the composition of the group varies according to need. This is an album that consists of many details: the sound is full, the web of acoustic and electric instruments more varied and carefully orchestrated than before, and now, it is completely unnecessary to separate the electronic from the non-electronic components. Different traditions of folk, psych and pop music intermingle with electronic music and improvisation, tones and sounds. From Incredible String Band-ish folk-troubadour jams to gentle acoustic fireside ballads rendered in plucked guitar and scratchy fiddle lines ala Vetiver or Espers, to freakier space-jazz meanderings, this albums ultimate reward lies in its commitment to solid, glorious song-structure rooted in a long-established folk-rock tradition. The motifs in the songs are not easy to convey in English, but the titles reveal some clues: master of the house, elk antlers, tree bark, sound of rapids, fog, letters, calves, fingers. The words sound archaic, anachronistic or timeless, the language of myth, even -- but can it be something else, too? Tuota Tuota is an excellent culmination of Kiilas history and cultural landscape, proving them to be among Finlands finest founders of the new-growth forest sound." -Fonal |
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Artist: LAU NAU Title: Valohiukkanen Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "Recorded in 2011 on Kemiö Island, in Turku, Tampere and Stockholm, this is Lau Naus long-awaited third LP, Valohiukkanen. An articulate work of delicate beauty featuring nine new Lau Nau originals and one cover version, it is adorned by an array of instrumentation, and enhanced by the integration of rhythm and percussion -- a thing rarely heard on Lau Nau albums. Although its safe to say the mood is still firmly rooted in the shadowy side of life, we are occasionally taken to a disco -- yet that, too, sounds as if it may have been organized by Death. Tonally and texturally rich and immersive, the new record includes contributions from Pekko Käppi on jouhikko, Jaakko Tolvi on drums, Antti Tolvi on bass and alto clarinet, Kristian Holmgren on guitar, synths and percussion and Matti Bye on grand piano and celesta. The cover photographs were taken by renowned Finnish photographer Susanna Majuri, as part of her "Imaginary Homeland" series. Lau Nau is the musical alias and persona of Laura Naukkarinen. Her debut album, Kuutarha, won acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork and Dusted, with The Wire naming the LP amongst their top 50 albums of 2005, and citing her Philadelphia show of that year amongst "60 concerts that shook the world." Valohiukkanen continues the path laid down by her previous records, but if her psych-folk roots are still visible then the branches are further reaching, the music imbued with a timeless, cinematic breadth of vision. Retaining her penchant for a fragile, spectral other-ness, these 10 interrelated snapshots draw the listener towards Naukkarinens idiosyncratic, finely-honed sound-world, unconsciously paralleling other luminaries such as Smog, Sigur Rós, or Linda Perhacs with her singular sense of purpose." - Fonal. |
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Artist: LAU NAU Title: Valohiukkanen Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $22.00 |
| "Recorded in 2011 on Kemiö Island, in Turku, Tampere and Stockholm, this is Lau Naus long-awaited third LP, Valohiukkanen. An articulate work of delicate beauty featuring nine new Lau Nau originals and one cover version, it is adorned by an array of instrumentation, and enhanced by the integration of rhythm and percussion -- a thing rarely heard on Lau Nau albums. Although its safe to say the mood is still firmly rooted in the shadowy side of life, we are occasionally taken to a disco -- yet that, too, sounds as if it may have been organized by Death. Tonally and texturally rich and immersive, the new record includes contributions from Pekko Käppi on jouhikko, Jaakko Tolvi on drums, Antti Tolvi on bass and alto clarinet, Kristian Holmgren on guitar, synths and percussion and Matti Bye on grand piano and celesta. The cover photographs were taken by renowned Finnish photographer Susanna Majuri, as part of her "Imaginary Homeland" series. Lau Nau is the musical alias and persona of Laura Naukkarinen. Her debut album, Kuutarha, won acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork and Dusted, with The Wire naming the LP amongst their top 50 albums of 2005, and citing her Philadelphia show of that year amongst "60 concerts that shook the world." Valohiukkanen continues the path laid down by her previous records, but if her psych-folk roots are still visible then the branches are further reaching, the music imbued with a timeless, cinematic breadth of vision. Retaining her penchant for a fragile, spectral other-ness, these 10 interrelated snapshots draw the listener towards Naukkarinens idiosyncratic, finely-honed sound-world, unconsciously paralleling other luminaries such as Smog, Sigur Rós, or Linda Perhacs with her singular sense of purpose." - Fonal. |
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Artist: LO JENGI Title: Dans Les Toilettes Du Paradis/Elakoon Mummo Format: 10" Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $16.00 |
| "The French trio Reines DAngleterre performed in Finland in 2009 at Mental Alaskas 10 year anniversary. At some point during this visit, someone had an idea of recording music, which led to a random group of people playing in a small basement room. The album was Recorded at Katajanokan Pommisuoja, Helsinki, by Asko Kananen on March 30, 2009 and edited by él-g and mixed by Mim in Brussels. Lö Jengi is Reines DAngleterre, Islaja, Amon Düde and The Hoopo. On clear vinyl." - Fonal. |
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Artist: PAAHVOHARJU Title: Yhä Hämärää Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $17.50 |
| "We created this record during 2001-2005. Also many other things happened. Mostly Yhä hämärää is trying to reflect inner landscapes. Of course concrete places are forming and partly creating those inner views. Some highly inspiring places: Durde, densis, my home, Pöllänlahti, toilet, graveyard, sewers, disco, the beach at redpoint, rooftops at night, alcoholics home, churches, Uukuniemi, foggy fields, sauna, my bed. Everything the light touches (and doesnt touch) is our kingdom. We like Yhä hämärää very much." - Lauri Ainala / Paavoharju. |
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Artist: PAAVOHARJU Title: Laulu Laakson Kukista Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $17.00 |
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"LP version. This is the highly-anticipated second full-length release on Fonal Records from Finlands Paavoharju, a collective formed around two brothers -- Lauri and Olli Ainala and their troupe of associates. The group is a collective project of ascetic born-again Christians. Laulu Laakson Kukista (A Song About Flowers of the Valley) evokes the sounds of raindrops falling on a sheet metal roof melting together with an old televisions random dot-pattern noise. Backwards pianos, backwards vocals, tilted organ and baroque beats lean against sweeping operatic soundscapes and gossamer back-porch folk singalongs. Leena Uotilas soft voice echoes in empty, dusty rooms. Cat-owls gather to the skies, apple trees are blooming and waves rock a barrel against the pier. Suddenly all this started to form esoteric mildew to cassettes magnetic tape. Sources of inspiration include Tuote Savonlinna, Saimaa, Miekkoniemi, Tove Jansson, Caspar David Friedrich, John Bauer, William Blake, Hugo Simberg, The Shadows, Burzum, Spede Pasanen, Boards Of Canada, luola, Es, Tapio Rautavaara, Raamattu, Deaf Center, Ville Leinonen, lo-fi, Portishead, Joose Keskitalo, Winsor McCayn, Pikku Nemo, Miasmah, Ingmar Bergman, Deathspell Omega, Ragnar Rock, and Ed Gein. Mind-bending devotional rock-opera from the deepest Finnish forests." - Fonal.
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Artist: PAAVOHARJU Title: Laulu Laakson Kukista Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $17.00 |
| "This is the highly-anticipated second full-length release on Fonal Records from Finlands Paavoharju, a collective formed around two brothers -- Lauri and Olli Ainala and their troupe of associates. The group is a collective project of ascetic born-again Christians. Laulu Laakson Kukista (A Song About Flowers of the Valley) evokes the sounds of raindrops falling on a sheet metal roof melting together with an old televisions random dot-pattern noise. Backwards pianos, backwards vocals, tilted organ and baroque beats lean against sweeping operatic soundscapes and gossamer back-porch folk singalongs. Leena Uotilas soft voice echoes in empty, dusty rooms. Cat-owls gather to the skies, apple trees are blooming and waves rock a barrel against the pier. Suddenly all this started to form esoteric mildew to cassettes magnetic tape. Sources of inspiration include Tuote Savonlinna, Saimaa, Miekkoniemi, Tove Jansson, Caspar David Friedrich, John Bauer, William Blake, Hugo Simberg, The Shadows, Burzum, Spede Pasanen, Boards Of Canada, luola, Es, Tapio Rautavaara, Raamattu, Deaf Center, Ville Leinonen, lo-fi, Portishead, Joose Keskitalo, Winsor McCayn, Pikku Nemo, Miasmah, Ingmar Bergman, Deathspell Omega, Ragnar Rock, and Ed Gein. Mind-bending devotional rock-opera from the deepest Finnish forests." - Fonal |
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Artist: PRETTY LIGHTNING Title: There Are Witches In The Woods Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $22.00 |
| "Fonal Records breaks new ground with its first-ever release by a band based outside its native Finland. Pretty Lightnings debut LP proper (following the 2008 tour-only CD-R released by a tiny Mississippi-based noise label), There Are Witches In The Woods could also be seen as a departure stylistically -- although in truth, such finely-honed aesthetics still comfortably align it with the Fonal roster. Pretty Lightning was formed in 2007 by two childhood friends, Christian Berghoff and Sebastian Haas, who grew up together in a small town in Southwest Germany, before relocating to Saarbrücken, a slightly bigger small town. In essence a raw, psychedelic-blues duo that on the surface could be seen as kindred spirits to the likes of Wooden Shjips or Moon Duo, Pretty Lightning also appear to mirror a freak-folk sensibility found in the likes of Sunburned Hand Of The Man and their Stateside compatriots. But they also reflect their closer geographic roots -- echoing the communal, ritualistic Krautrock of Amon Düül II or perhaps the primitivism of Swedens International Harvester (both Berghoff and Haas are also part of the Saarlouis-based Datashock collective). But if such comparisons serve to place the band in some kind of loose context, they should not undermine such a heartfelt outcome, nor steer the listener away from the bands melodic leanings. There Are Witches In The Woods delivers hooks and harmonies on a grand scale. Recorded in Autumn 2010, the album is the result of the band shutting itself away in a cavernous room to capture the breadth of their sonic vision. Formed around a crux of drums, vocals and a variety of guitars, the arrangements are bolstered by shruti-drones, organ loops and Theremins, giving a sense of space and scope to 11 sweet, succinct chapters, and the album as a whole." -Fonal |
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Artist: RIS-TO Title: Hessu Kostaa Ja Muita Hiiritarinoita Format: 7" Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $10.00 |
| "Risto from Tampere, Finland releases a seven inch EP Hessu Kostaa Ja Muita Hiiritarinoita under an alias Ris-To. With this new product the saviours of Finnish indie-pop broadens their output. This time in the direction of childrens songs. It should be clear however that this is not to be played to the minors. The title translates as Goofy avenges and other mouse stories. I tell you its tough stuff." - Fonal. |
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Artist: ROSENHOLM, ELEANOORA Title: Ala kysy kuolleilta, he sanoivat Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $17.00 |
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"LP version. This is the second full-length release from Finlands Eleanoora Rosenholm on the Fonal label. Campy synth-pop melodies, dramatic guitar riffage and simple programmed beats dance over sweet Finnish vocals. It all sounds like a score to a happily-weird Euro disco-musical, but underneath it all is this vague threat or dark fear, which may explain the bands own description of this album: "Eleanoora Rosenholm and her six orphan brothers step up on the altar hunted by an unexplainable grief and misery. The nun has been desecrated in the monastery and the schools principal mutilated in the primary schools woodshed. A Russian prisoner of war draws his last breath on a snowy potato field. The relentless fist of war strikes fire in the horizon. We will never understand why things in life turn out the way they do, for they form and grow deeper meaning despite us. Chaos has its own will and its boot does not step to the General officers lash." Yup." - Fonal.
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Artist: ROSENHOLM, ELEANOORA Title: Vainajan Muotokuva Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $22.00 |
| "180 gram vinyl version. This is the debut full-length by Eleanoora Rosenholm. Eleanoora Rosenholm comes from Pori, Finland and is a project began by Noora Tommila, Pasi Salmi and Mika Rättö. They crafted a genius pop album with murderous lyrics inside the dark stone walls that surround SS-Palace studio. The time came to take the show on the road and the band evolved into a full 8-piece. Weird, almost avant synth-pop harmonies with creepily-sweet Finnish vocals, sometimes vocoded. Combining the best of karaoke-backed dance tracks with propulsive 80s sheen and tastes of Bow Wow Wow/Lizzy Mercier Descloux-esque tribe-pop irreverence. Totally addictive and hook-ridden, like you cant stop eating candy -- this is weird-disco any housewife serial killer would be proud to dance to." - Fonal. |
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Artist: SHOGUN KUNITOKI Title: Vinonaamakasio Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $21.00 |
| "Picture disc version. This is the second full-length release by Shogun Kunitoki, an instrumental quartet based in Helsinki, Finland. With Vinonaamakasio, Shogun Kunitoki expand the boundaries of their self-created sonic universe with a wider array of sounds and rhythms. Where their debut, Tasankokaiku (Fonal, 2005), squeezed cosmic dust into fiery balls of molten lava with gravitational push and pull and followed the planets whirring through the void on looping trajectories, Vinonaamakasio zooms in to explore the surface of newfound heavenly bodies, outlines the jagged shapes of exploding volcanoes, rolls with the moonlit waves through the cracks of sleeping, phosphorescent coral reefs, and marches in step with the six-legged insect armies making their trails through the steaming jungle. Every atom of this newborn planet of sound vibrates, synchronous to the seething psychedelic stew that throbs under the surface and burns your feet if you let them stop moving. The groups first album came out of nowhere, and established the previously-unknown band as one of the most original instrumental groups to have emerged after the post-rock boom. Tasankokaikus psychedelic mix of minimalist form and maximalist sound that draws equally from the academic avant-garde and the left-field rock canon from the 60s to the present day has won the group a small but fervent fan base. After its release, Tasankokaiku was immediately recognized by reviewers and music fans as a compelling cocktail of accessibility and ambitious aspirations, a kaleidoscopic mix of edgy 8-bit bleepiness and soft-focus psychedelia. Vinonaamakasio picks up where that record left off, but this time absolutely explodes into the cosmos with an unrelenting squall of swirling organ patterns, droning guitars, ring modulator death-rays, and an impenetrable wall of percussion, sweeping the past 30 years of Krautrock, psych, prog, and electronic innovation up into your dizzy, expanding head-space." -Fonal |
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Artist: TOMUTONTTU Title: Tomutonto Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "Fonal re-releases Tomutonto, a long sold-out gem by Finlands Tomutonttu (Jan Anderzén), previously released on LP in 2006 by the Ultra Eczema label. Anderzén is a visual artist and the leader of respected avant-garde group Kemialliset Ystävät, whose primitivism and tribal noise inclinations are reflected in these recordings. Echoed, chanting vocals, ethnic flutes, droning or rushing electronics, ritualistic mantras, low intonations, oscillations, ululations, sped-up tape squiggle, blistered bass tones and thudded percussion are just some of what youll encounter here, creating a pastiche of sound of that will accompany you as you delve further and further into the neon cave." - Fonal. |
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Artist: TOMUTONTTU Title: Tomutonttu Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "Fonal Recods re-releases this long sold-out debut by Tomutonttu, originally released in 2007 by Beta-lactam Ring and previously only available in a 400 copies-only 220 gram vinyl format. Tomutonttu ("Dust Gnome") is a human called Jan Anderzén, a visual artist and the leader of respected avant-garde sound group Kemialliset Ystävät. Toy reed streams, mutilated vocals and groovy loops of animal noise are some of the colors used to create the whirling mess that is the lonely song of Tomutonttu. It is like a confused and confusing detail of the Kemialliset Ystävät freedom-flow -- a microcosmos of strange sound creatures and dirt flying around in the stereo space, interacting with a logic all of their own. Harkening early electronic experimenters and avant composers of the past such as early Die Tödliche Doris and Meredith Monk, this album is like listening to 500 library records all at once, or walking through a labyrinth of motherboards, or laying on a scientists table with electrodes attached to your body while you are exposed to every noise, light, and color in their various range of spectrums. Tomutonttu has collaborated live with Mike Bernstein (Double Leopards, Religious Knives), Joshua Burkett, Tara Burke (Fursaxa), The Skaters, Glenn Donaldson (Jewelled Antler), Sami Sänpäkkilä (Es) and Clay Ruby (Davenport), and has recently played a series of concerts for school kids at the planetarium in his home town of Tampere, Finland." - Fonal. |
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Artist: TUUSANUUSKAT Title: Nääksää Nää Mun Kyyneleet Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $22.00 |
| "Tuusanuuskat is a collaboration between Es and Tomutonttu. The name of the project Tuusanuuskat is a play on words derived from the phrase "tuusan nuuskana," (trans. "total shambles"). It is a Finnish saying that is used when something has broken to a million pieces. The phrase is generally used in a playful context, and often received with laughter. If you Google "tuusan nuuskana," some of the first hits youll get are: "After birth; private parts tuusan nuuskana," "Ferrari tuusan nuuskana" and "Steve Jobs mansion tuusan nuuskana." Yes, they have chosen their name wisely. Es is a project of Sami Sänpäkkilä, a musician, filmmaker and the head of Fonal Records. To date, he has released five full-length albums, and made tons of short films and music videos. He also scored the soundtrack to the Swedish award-winning film Apflikorna. His music and films are experimental moodscapes that explore the themes of melancholy, pathos and hope. Tomutonttu (trans. "dust gnome") is a human by the name of Jan Anderzén, a visual artist and leader of the respected avant-garde sound group Kemialliset Ystävät. Toy reed streams, mutilated vocals and groovy loops of animal noise are just some of the colors used to create the whirling mess that is the lonely song of Tomutonttu. His discography is a labyrinth reflecting the nature of his music. Together, they have prepared an experimental cocktail that sounds like two drunken masters of music, conducting the protons and neutrons travelling from their instruments to their skulls and back, to create a musical nucleus. The packaging both displays Fonals customary attention to detail. It includes a striped acetate film, that when placed over the cover, creates an animated sequence of images. The illusion works on the persistence of vision principle. The covers are designed and produced by Jari Suominen (of fellow Fonal recording artists Jarse and Shogun Kunitoki). Limited edition run of 500 copies." - Fonal. |
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Artist: TV-RESISTORI Title: TV-Resistori Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $22.00 |
| "TV-Resistori, the flagship of Finnish indie-pop, finally present their third album, which has been under construction since 2007. The album fuses a broad array of influences into one seamless entity, appealing to aficionados of American roots music and modern indie kids digging Jenny Wilson or Belle And Sebastian. The beautiful vocal harmonies of Päivi and Ykä (the singer-songwriter of the group) flourish, while the cheap bubblegum keyboards have been mostly exchanged for warm, acoustic sounds from upright piano, to banjos or drums made out of suitcases. Although these mature, timeless songs lean towards Finnish schlager, Motown or even country music, it doesnt mean things have gotten boring or middle-of-the-road -- theyre just more confident. TV-Resistori can still shake, rattle and roll like young stallions let out to the fields for the first time after the winter. Nevertheless, to balance the upbeat dance numbers, their tape has also captured one of the most touching bluegrass ballads of this century, "E.S.O.P.M.J.M.V.M.P.S.O. (Pallo)." Dont let the song title fool you." -Fonal. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Vahan Multaa Paalle Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $22.00 |
| "Vähän multaa päälle (trans. "Put a Little Dirt On Top") is a compilation on vinyl featuring exclusive tracks from bands that reside in Tampere, Finland. It was commissioned by the art exhibition Tampere 5th Triennial as a part of their exhibition catalog. Fonal only has 250 copies for sale, so it will definitely be a sought-out collectors item! The amazingly detailed LP covers are done by a fine artist from Tampere, Seela Dahlman. The LP features five artists. Motelli Skronkle is a legendary band that released three albums in the 90s and was founded by theater actors Hannu Raatikainen, Esko Varonen and the late Markku Peltola, who also acted in the Aki Kaurismäki movie The Man Without The Past. Veli-Petteri Rajanti had joined the band already before the first release in 1987. On this compilation, we hear the first new material from the band in over 10 years. Pekko Käppi is a well-known neo-folk artist in Finland and released his latest album Vuonna 86 in 2010. Ville Leinonen has released a multitude of albums, and three are on the Fonal Records catalog. On this compilation, we hear a more ambient and experimental track. Death Hawks is a bluesy, noisy rock group that put out their debut album in Finland. Theyve gone the way of Sun City Girls on this compilation with a three-part psychedelic trip. Tuusanuuskat, who released their debut album in 2011 on Fonal has made their most danceable track to date, a 9-minute dancefloor tune with experimental flavors added." -Fonal. |
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Artist: WATSON, CHRIS Title: Cima Verde Format: CD Label: Fondazione Edmund Mach Country: Italy Price: $17.00 |
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"The UKs Chris Watson is the worlds leading wildlife sound recordist. He was a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire and The Hafler Trio, and a sound archivist for the UKs Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. He has since joined a film and video production company, working on BBC wildlife documentaries and occasional feature films. Following a period of residence at Monte Bondone in the Italian Alps and Paneveggio Park forest preserve, Chris Watson was invited to explore the acoustic phenomena of Trentino, Italy to capture the atmospheres and sounds of the alpine environment. A series of sound recordings made in situ, resulting in the CD Cima Verde, present the soundscapes uncovered by Watson, which capture the change in seasons from winter to spring, the different degrees of altitude, the reawakening of sounds on the cusp between night and day and the alternating and mixing of audio signals that characterize different natural habitats. Dosso DAbramo, Cornetto and Cima Verde are the three peaks of Monte Bondone. There is air in motion; ice crystals, water vapor and changing pressure mix and merge into an annual dance across a deep blue sky. This is sound into light. Down alpine slopes, across high pastures and into the forests, a frozen mountain of sound thaws out from a mono bloc and into an ordered seven-stage descent through 3000m of unique acoustic habitats. Jumbled chords are snatched from passing ravens, blackgrouse performances, tawny owl signals, and the clear silver song of the nightingale. Shapes and music, rhythm and sound, a series of ritual performances for animal ears."- Fondazione Edmund Mach
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Artist: NITSCH, HERMANN Title: Sinfonia Punta Campanella Format: CD Box Set Label: Fondazione Morra Country: Italy Price: $35.00 |
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"Music plays a fundamental role in the life and work of Hermann Nitsch. It has always been one of the founding elements of his Orgien Misterien Theater (Theatre of Orgies and Mysteries). The initial use of music as purely functional to action was later replaced with a necessity for autonomous composition, in which music finds its own role, independent from the theatrical sphere. The Punta Campanella Symphony is a clear example of an expression of the autonomous activity of Nitsch the composer. Here, it is possible to see all the fundamental elements of his poetics. The aesthetic and Dionysian dimension are clearly announced by the continuous play of construction and destruction of musical forms. The highly dramatic dimension is rendered extreme by the extended crescendo and by a play of contrasts which go from chiarissimo to scurissimo. Performed by Orchestra Xenarmonica del Conservatorio di Palermo including more than 40 musicians plus local folk bands, this Symphony in four movements was recorded during the World Premiere on September 22, 2004 at Punta Campanella, Naples, in front of the Capri Island at sunset. Luxury full colour digipack and slipcase, including a 28-page booklet with photos from the event, scores, as well as two essays titled The O.M. Theaters Music and Punta Campanella Symphony. Privately issued by the art gallery that organised the performance in order to document the event."
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Artist: OSWALD, JOHN & 1001 VINTAGE POP STARS Title: Preplexure Format: LP Label: Fony Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "JOHN OSWALD (PLUNDERPHONICS) returns with two fourteen-minute-plus tracks of sliced and diced audio assemblage." -Fony "Highly recommended. Imagine playing name that tune at 5 times the speed of your ears ability to recognize familiar sounds. This composition, made up entirely of pop music samples, deserves five stars because of its meticulous organization of disparate and familiar sounds into an exciting new composition, one that stands on its own whether or not the listener is familiar with each artist being plundered. The piece never descends into disorganized noise, each sound is clearly placed where the composer intended. This is the mailbomb you want to send to pop culture." -xmw |
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Artist: DOLLY MIXTURE Title: Remember This Format: LP Label: For Us Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "16 track limited vinyl album on our own for us records that compiles all of dolly mixtures 7" and 12" released between 1980 and 1984 on chrysalis, respond records, dead good dolly platters and cordelia records. this is the first time they have been released on vinyl since their original release. If you bought all five original singles - youd have no change from 120 pounds. Dolly Mixture were like the Shangri-las or the Go-Gos if they had any class. Or the Raincoats without the weirdness and electric violins. Dolly mixture toured with the undertones, played john peels 40th birthday party, recorded a wealth of true pop classics, gave u2 a support-act leg-up, wrote songs for lena zavaroni and influenced the whole riot grrrl movement. but floored by on-the-road illness, decooled by captain sensible and dismissed as the slits meet the nolans by a uk music industry too hung up on black leather hipness." - For Us. |
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Artist: CAMPBELL, NEIL/RICHARD YOUNGS /SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH/STEWART WALDEN Title: Durian Durian Format: LP Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| Classic 1992 release in Poon Village silkscreened jackets. "Somewhat of a follow up to Ceaucescu, with two "members" of the free improv UK collective A Band added. Four "sides" of random input guitar, ring modulation, percussion, tapes, tones, silences, drone, moan (& much more) are compressed down to 2 sides, resulting in some pretty beautifully disorienting listening." - FE. |
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Artist: CRAWLSPACE/MOOSEHEART FAITH Title: On The Tide/Hook In The Gray Format: 7" Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $4.00 |
| "Weird, long & darkly rumbling tracks from a recent studio free-improv session featuring the basic Crawlspace lineup (two guitars/bs/drums + Eddie Flowers/vocals), with the addition of Moosehearts Todd Homer on old-style primitive synth whirl and L. Robinson on banjo and perc." - Forced Exposure. 1990 release. |
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Artist: CRYSTALIZED MOVEMENTS Title: Dog. Tree. Satellite Seers... Format: LP Label: Forced Exposure Country: US Price: $8.00 |
| Limited reissue of their 2nd LP from 87. |
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Artist: DOC WOR MIRRAN Title: Quickly Skitzo Format: 7" Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $4.00 |
| "Joseph Raimond and his myriad pals team up with the unstoppable fuzz-guitar-slop genius of the German "Drunken King" Eric Hysteric for this remarkable release of twelve-plus minutes of falling-down-a-flight-of stairs wonder. Numerous guests (including Sylvia Juncosa)" - Forced Exposure. 1991 release. |
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Artist: FOOLE, DREDD Title: In Quest Of Tense Format: CD Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Dredd Foole is the name used to designate the music of Boston-area vocal/guitar artist Dan Ireton. He used to lead a band under the name Dredd Foole & the Din, recording two great, mostly neglected albums in the 80s for labels known as Homestead and PVC. It was commonly known that his band was one of the only Boston bands worth seeing post-Mission of Burma (who backed him up actually, as the original Din, on his debut single in 1982). Those records were fine for the time, but they hardly captured the full intensity-scope of the 1st-gen post-VU/Stooges blare of that band in their prime. In the late 80s Dan wisely abandoned the rock band format and has sporadically been performing a series of breathtaking shows in the otherwise ready-to-be-nuked-today local "club scene" ever since. Sometimes solo acoustic, sometimes with percussion, electric slide guitar or violin accompaniment, he sings with one of the most electrifying post-Tim Buckley vocal chords ever heard, and his concept of multiphonic non-traditional folk music with apocalyptic come-down power-appeal has finally been documented with this long overdue release. A masterpiece of personal trance-sound-vision & legitimate psychedelic space-whisper revelations, at your command." - FE. 1994 release in a stunning C.O.N. Artists designed/assembled silkscreened, fold out sleeve. |
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Artist: FORCED EXPOSURE Title: #12 Format: Mag Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Divine Horseman, Christmas, Tesco Vee, Drunks With Guns, Richard Meltzer, Child Molesters, Eddie Flowers, etc. Summer 1987.
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Artist: FORCED EXPOSURE Title: #13 Format: Mag Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Chain Gang, Big Black, Eugene Chadbourne, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Meltzer & Nick Tosches, Philip K Dick, Vertical Slit/Jim Shepard, etc. Winter 1988.
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Artist: FORCED EXPOSURE Title: #14 Format: Mag Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Robert Williams, Sonic Youth tour diaries, Spacemen 3, Henry Kaiser, etc. Fall 1988.
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Artist: FORCED EXPOSURE Title: #15 Format: Mag Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Diamanda Galas, Sun City Girls, Eddie Flowers, Steve Albini, Richard Meltzer, Lydia Lunch, etc. Summer 1989.
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Artist: FORCED EXPOSURE Title: #17 Format: Mag Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| 1991 issue. MX-80, Eugene Chadbourne, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Richard Meltzer, Rudy Rucker, Steve Albini, Chris D., TONS of reviews, etc. |
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Artist: FORCED EXPOSURE Title: #18 Format: Mag Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Most recent issue (from 1993). The largest ever, at 148 pages, and is perfect bound. It features a full color self-portrait painting by New Zealands Chris Knox on the cover (of the Tall Dwarfs, etc.) Inside is the longest, most detailed interview ever published with Knox, which pretty much covers the entire history of rock-music related culture. Other features include: an interview w/ Boyd Rice, long novel excerpt by Richard Meltzer on San Diego peep shows, fiction by Charlie Goucher Jr. (of the Sun City Girls), fiction by Scott Mulrane, and a very extensive review section (of records, books, videos, etc)." - FE. |
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Artist: KOUSOKUYA Title: Ray Night 1991-1992 Live Format: CD Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "First ever CD by this legendary and ultra-obscure Japanese psychedelic rock group. Kousokuya are from Tokyo, have donated some spectacular tracks to the first two volumes of the Tokyo Flashback compilation series on the PSF label, and self-released an extremely ltd. LP in 1991. The band has been around for quite some time; I originally was under the impression they formed around 1984, but was recently informed that an edition featuring Nanjo and Narita from High Rise existed going back to the late 70s!?. Either way, theyve always been pretty lo-profile, but this CD at least shines a bit of light on their extended, heavy guitar sound. An early press release for the bands describes them well: "The band name Kousokuya means a ray night. Since 1984 they have been playing their own high volume heavy driven avant-garde psychedelic music. Kaneko, he always plays guitar with full of feedback. One of the outstanding guitar players in the underground scene. No one can play guitar like him. Mick, she plays bass and is also main vocalist. She sings like an angle flying from the other side of the this world. Takahashi, he plays drums and percussion. He had previously played many other free formed rock music." 69 minutes of expansive psychedelic nirvana." - FE. |
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Artist: LAUGHNER, PETER Title: Cinderella Backstreet/White Light White Heat Format: 7" Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Peter Laughner (August 22, 1952 �?? June 22, 1977) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Laughner remains a rather little known figure; nonetheless, Richie Unterberger described him as "probably the single biggest catalyst in the birth of Clevelands alternative rock scene in the mid-70s."
He led a variety of groups (including Mr. Charlie, Cinderella Backstreet, Peter & The Wolves, The Blue Drivers and Friction) but his most enduring contributions were to Rocket From The Tombs and the early work of Pere Ubu. In addition to all this, he wrote for Creem magazine.
Laughner was a voracious rock fan and writer, and was heavily influenced by Lester Bangss writings. Like Bangs, Laughner worshipped Lou Reed, but also drew inspiration from folk and blues figures such as Robert Johnson and Woody Guthrie. He was a unique, visceral lead guitarist, influenced by Richard Thompson, and was briefly considered as a replacement for Richard Lloyd in Television , a band whom he championed from their earliest days.
Laughner had severe drug and alcohol abuse problems that led to his death by acute pancreatitis in 1977 at the age of 24. Rumors to the effect that Laughner was despondent, even suicidal, at the time of his death have been contradicted by Laughners last known message, written and mailed to Cleveland singer Ruby Port on the evening prior to his death. This letter revealed his intent to move to a retreat in the Ohio countryside, where he could write new music as well as rest and regain his health. Bangs wrote a eulogy for him. Laughners only known entrance into a recording studio was for the Pere Ubu single sessions, though he left behind countless lo-fi live, rehearsal, and demo recordings. In 1994, Tim/Kerr label released Take the Guitar Player for a Ride, a 15 track compilation drawn from these tapes. This compilation has since gone out of print." - Wikipedia. "70s genius preserved." - FE. First side solo 1975, the flip live, full band, in 73. Original copies of this 1987 release.
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Artist: LOVECHILD Title: Love Child Plays Moondog Format: 7" Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "A tribute to the legendary NY street musician, Louis Hardin, a/k/a Moondog. Includes six beautiful minutes of droning-mantra guitars on "All Is Loneliness" and three more." -Forced Exposure. |
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Artist: MILLER, ROGER Title: Oh Format: LP Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Rogers reigning post-Burma moment; basement 4-track recordings of unknown-tongue space psych, ecstatically rendered." - Forced Exposure. Early 90s release. |
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Artist: YOUNGS, RICHARD Title: New Angloid Sound Format: LP Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"A ltd. split release between FE and Richards label No Fans Records. Records were pressed in the US; Richard block printed the covers by hand. This is breathtakingly intimate all-solo studio recording of classical guitar, voice and kazoo." - FE.
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Artist: CICCIOLINA HOLOCAUST/SERMONIZER Title: Albeit Albeit/Sibelius Spiders Format: LP Label: Forced Nostalgia Country: Belgium Price: $20.00 |
| "Theres no shortage of electronic reissue imprints operating these days, especially ones concentrating on "lost" synth-wave recordings from the late 70s-mid 80s, but few have access to the kind of material amassed over the years by Forced Nostalgia, a label curated by one of Belgiums most knowledgeable and methodical sound archivists. The breadth and quality of the material already scheduled for release by Forced Nostalgia is just jaw-dropping -- extending the remit to begin with the post-punk heyday of the late 70s all the way through to the mid 90s, taking in often unreleased, mostly unheard and overlooked material from tape music to industrial, from bossa-pop to proto-techno, from drone to out and out analog experimentation -- with the vast majority of the music now being made available on vinyl for the very first time. Florim Prishtina and Rezart Veseli recorded together as Cicciolina Holocaust in Firenze, Italy during the late 70s and early 80s, releasing several tapes, all as small private editions given to friends. Using guitar, Korg Poly 61, Korg KPR 77, Cornet, Tascam Portastudio (4-Track), effect pedals, tapes and an array of self-built machines, their work covers a wide spectrum of analog electronics, resulting in oppressive and uber-dark synth-scapes and minimal proto-techno experiments that slot perfectly alongside the kind of darkside work typified by Regis and the more experimental end of the Downwards label in 2011. Sermonizer is the work of an anonymous producer from Bologna who started experimenting with primitive (field-) recordings and tape manipulations in late 79. In 1984 he recorded numerous avant-garde, industrial and ambient works onto 4-track recorder and his massive output consists of numerous private tape albums, both studio and live recordings. The five tracks here were recorded between 1983 and 1986 and were made on synthesizer, guitar, violin, drum machines, electric shaver and other found objects and voice. Vinyl cut at Dubpates & Mastering, Berlin." -Forced Nostalgia |
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Artist: NERELL, LOREN Title: Point of Arrival Format: LP Label: Forced Nostalgia Country: Belgium Price: $23.00 |
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"Loren Nerell (born 1960) is a composer and performer of ambient music and Balinese gamelan. As a composer, Loren has written music for film, theater, dance and interactive multi-media. He has performed with the Kronos Quartet, has recorded eight albums of original work, has appeared on several compilations and has made guest appearances on recordings from Steve Roach, Paul Haslinger, Djam Karet and L. Subramaniam. He spent several months in Java and Bali studying native styles of gamelan music. Loren Nerell was born in Long Beach, California. His early interest in electronic music began when he heard the Tangerine Dream album Rubycon. With it, he crossed over into a world of music that previously did not exist for him. He studied analog synthesis at Long Beach Community College, eventually moving to San Diego State University where he was exposed to tape manipulation and tape composition techniques. He also began performing and studying Balinese gamelan music, and the microtonal composition of Harry Partch. From San Diego, Loren moved to California State University Dominguez Hills where he delved into computer synthesis, utilizing their Synclavier system. After mastering the techniques he learned in school, he developed his own studio, stocking it with an array of vintage sound modules as well as the latest technology. He has worked in the music industry as a sound designer, including a position at Oberheim Electronics, a synthesizer manufacturer, and as a recording engineer. Point of Arrival was originally released on cassette in 1986 and has never previously been available on vinyl. It was recorded using an Arp 2600, Arp sequencers (two of them), Emu Emulator 1 with cv/gate converter, Emu Emulator 2, EML 101, EMS Synthi A (two of them), Linn linndrum, Moog micromoog, Moog minimoog, Moog model 15 modular, Oberheim OBXa, Oberheim DSX sequencer, Oberheim DX drum machine, Oberheim DMX drum machine, Roland Jupiter 4 and Roland SH3a. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Pressed in a limited edition of 500 copies." -Forced Nostalgia. |
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Artist: PELICAN DAUGHTERS Title: Fishbones and Wishbones Format: LP Label: Forced Nostalgia Country: Belgium Price: $21.00 |
| "Pelican Daughters were founded by Justin Brandis and Andy Rantzen in 1984. Using a variety of instruments, found objects & DIY tape loops, the pair released a succession of cassette-only releases into Sydney music stores. Over the course of several releases and live performances, including two cassette releases on CCP, the duo were joined over the years by occasional members Ben Fontaine, Andrew Holmes, James Fergus, Bryce Cannon and Anthony Maher (aka dub producer Sheriff Lindo). The group also recorded with Miriam Williamson of Wrong Kind Of Stone Age, a collaboration that eventually blended some Pelican Daughters tracks into the early work of long-running Australian techno act Itch-E & Scratch-E (Paul Mac and Andy Rantzen), most notably on the track "Sweetness And Light," now considered an early rave classic. A chance connection led to Fishbones & Wishbones (essentially a "best-of" from the cassette years) and Bliss being released by Kim Cascones San Francisco label, Silent Records. One further album, Darkness Before Light, remained unreleased until 2009, when it was picked up by Sydney label 4-4-2 Music for release. Fishbones & Wishbones was recorded on Portastudio between 1984-1988 in Sydney, Australia by Andy Rantzen, Justin Brandis, Bryce Cannon and Andrew Holmes. Versions of this album have been previously released on tape by Cosmic Conspiracy Productions (1988) and on CD by Silent Records (1991), but this is the first time the material has been available on vinyl. The sound of Fishbones & Wishbones draws lines between the jagged edges of the post-punk movement and into the more introspective sounds that would go on to typify so much electronic music of the early 90s. Vinyl cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin." -Forced Nostalgia |
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Artist: PUMP Title: The Decoration Of The Duma Continues Format: LP Label: Forced Nostalgia Country: Belgium Price: $25.00 |
| "Pump were Andrew Cox and David Elliott, a pair of like-minded electronic music fiends who met at Brighton University in 1979. After staring a fanzine and a tape label, the pair eventually began to record their own material (initially under the moniker MFH) and released several cassette albums typified by underground industrial strains inspired by Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Faust and Heldon. They spent the middle of the 1980s often geographically estranged, with David writing for the notorious Sounds magazine alongside David Tibet, and Andrew working in Cornwall. In 1987 they finally recorded new material, making for their exceptional debut album under the Pump moniker The Decoration Of The Duma Continues, originally released on Andrew Hulmes Final Image label. The album has languished in the out-of-print wilderness pretty much since its release and has now been carefully remastered and reissued by Forced Nostalgia on a beautiful gatefold vinyl pressing with a suitably rich cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. The Decoration... is clearly influenced by the era that immediately preceded its release, capturing the vapor trails of the post-punk movement while fermenting industrial and electronic ideas that would go on to dominate their incredible, criminally-overlooked second album Sombrero Fallout. The album opens with "Dance Without Music," constructed around a spiralling synth line and skittering percussion somehow reminiscent of early Talking Heads, Cabaret Voltaire and the squashed anti-funk often heard on tracks by The Cure from the same era. But there is a much darker undercurrent permeating the pores of these tracks -- and "A Veiled Woman" marks a watershed of sorts -- taking a turn towards more unstable terrain with treated glass-bottle gamelan effects draping a veil of sadness and tension over inherently beautiful, original material. "A Sort Of Accident" goes even further towards establishing the stylistic links and aesthetics shared by Pump and some of their contemporaries, most notably -- Coil. Reviewed at the time of its initial release, the album was described by The Observer as "bad mood music" while Melody Maker said it sounded like "the clanging and abrasion of rusted and misaligned gears and ratchets..." -- and it is precisely that slightly unhinged, brilliantly forward-thinking marriage of beauty and decay that makes The Decoration Of The Duma Continues stand out so brightly against the backdrop of almost all of the music released at the time. Pump, to our minds at least, really are one of the great forgotten bands of the era. Limited edition of 500 copies only. Housed in a full-color gatefold sleeve. " -Forced Nostalgia. |
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Artist: VAZZ/LA BAMBOLA DEL DR. CALIGARI Title: Whisper Not/The Wrong Holiday Format: LP Label: Forced Nostalgia Country: Belgium Price: $20.00 |
| "The Forced Nostalgia label continues to expand and inform with the release of this split release featuring 1980s outfits Vazz and La Bambola Del Dr. Caligari. The A-side features six tracks from Glasgows Vazz, a duo consisting of Anna Howson and Hugh Small. Whisper Not was recorded at the legendary Hellfire Club in Glasgow in 1982 and was eventually released on limited edition cassette, before the band were signed up to appear on the 2LP compilation Antelopes & Alligators on Operation Twilight -- a sub-label of Belgiums infamous Les Disques Du Crépuscules. For one reason or another, the compilation never materialized -- but the reference to Crépuscules should give you some idea of where Vazz figure in the scheme of things. Whisper Not really is an astonishing collection of tracks -- a small but perfectly-formed companion-piece of sorts to Antenas Camino Del Sol (which appeared in the same year), with Anna Howsons distinctive voice accompanying guitars, bass, drum machine, percussion and the Casio MT-30 keyboard -- a classic configuration. But what set Vazz apart from their contemporaries is Hugh Smalls forward-thinking production signatures -- something thats most evident on "Cast Reflections" -- the standout track on this mesmerizing set. The way the drum machine and guitar have been treated and compressed sounds like something from The Cures Faith album reworked in a current electronic studio -- its just a profoundly beautiful and affecting piece. It really is hard to believe that these tracks have languished in the archives until now. The B-side features Italys La Bambola Del Dr. Caligari and five tracks recorded between 1983 and 1986. The band were a short-lived minimal synth trio from Bologna, Italy, consisting of the exotically named Judy Asquith (voice), Aurelium Spitty (sound engineer, synth, drum machines, effects) and J.R. Ewing (keyboards, effects). They recorded their first demo tape in early 1984 and sporadically played live in 1985/1986, eventually arranging the soundtrack for an installation at the art gallery Number Zero (Bologna) in Feb. 1986. Several self-produced tapes were recorded over the years but were never properly released. In 2005, Roberto Napoli mastered all the recordings from the analog tapes and kindly assisted in editing the selections made by Forced Nostalgia. The result features some of the finest lost-and-found musical gems from the 80s gloom-pop era, finally available for public consumption 25 years after they were recorded. 500 copies only, cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin." - Forced Nostalgia |
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Artist: DOYLE, ARTHUR/RUDOLPH GREY Title: Ghosts 2 Format: 7" Label: Foreign Frequency Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Archival duo recording from 1980, supposedly planned to be issued by Charles Tylers label Ak-Ba. This is from the Blue Humans-era, but Doyle definitely feels like the frontman here. His tone is huge, and Greys accompaniment has a weirdly bent and bluesy quality. An amazing record." -- Byron Coley.
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Artist: GREY, RUDOLPH Title: The Real Evelyn McHale? Format: 7" Label: Foreign Frequency Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "On blue vinyl. "The A side is a great new guitar solo by Grey. Its a face full of amp overload and hammered string brutality -- a fine example of Greys genius. The flip is an old duo recording with the late Sumner Crane on piano. Recorded in June 1980, in the same space where Crane wrote John Gavanti, its a very abstract lo-fi collision of styles with hints of all kinds of crashing weirdness. An album would be nice." -Byron Coley |
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Artist: AUFGEHOBEN Title: Anno Fauve Format: LP Label: Fourier Transform Country: UK Price: $48.00 |
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"Anno Fauve is a simmering, molten, volatile collection of brutal, extended dialogues between guitar and percussion, recorded then processed with reckless levels of distortion. The sound is close up, live, with drum fills and crackling feedback. Often holding back from full-on explosions, it instead opts for loose but ominous stand-offs with clattering percussion and scraped strings. But when they really let rip, the impact is considerable. Everything is mixed into the red, achieving a blanket coverage of raw rock noise. Though they share a similar line-up and exploratory outlook as Air Traffic Controllers, Aufgehoben go further into a spiralling internecine conflict that escalates volume until the music disintegrates, finishing in an accelerated, apocalyptic blur." - Tom Ridge, The Wire. "Limited edition of 200 on heavy transparent vinyl, housed between two thick perspex plates with four interchangeable translucent paper inserts, hand numbered with photographs of real found numbers, bound with white 10/0.1 electrical cable and sleeved in a thick PVC pocket." - Fourier Transform. Still a few copies available.
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA/THE TELESCOPES Title: Live At Audioscope Format: 10" Label: Fourier Transform Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
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Recorded October 2, 2004 at the Zodiac, Oxford, UK. Limited to 500. All Fourier Transform proceeds will be donated to Shelter ( http://www.shelter.org.uk ) and all Fusetron proceeds to Habitat For Humanity NYC ( http://www.habitatnyc.org ).
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Artist: CIRCLE Title: Arkades Format: LP Label: Fourth Dimension Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "Arkades catches a session Finnish group, CIRCLE, recorded exclusively for WFMU during their US tour, September 19, 2005. Comprising two lengthy pieces taking up a side each, "The Greatest Kingdom" and "The Ghost of the Highway," the record focuses on the bands often spacy improv underpinning and applies new meaning to a vision which strides powerfully over the line dividing apocalyptic dread from a semblance of hope. Agonized wailing, screams and torrents of molten sound dance ghostly shapes over psychedelic keyboard patterns, distant clattering, moonlit guitars and a rhythm section so carefully tempered that its impossible not to feel the chemistry at work. Coupled to a fantastic sleeve which illustrates a homage to spaghetti western films and includes fitting notes by WFMUs Program Director, BRIAN TURNER, Arkades proves what these New Wave of Finnish Heavy Metallers are capable of when they leave most of the rock at the door. File somewhere near Acid Mothers Temple after having been given the kinda makeover only the Scandinavians have the formula for. Indeed, this is sweet shit." - Fourth Dimension. |
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Artist: CIRCLE Title: Triumph Format: Double LP Label: Fourth Dimension Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Yet another vinyl-only release by Finlands finest export for Fourth Dimension, following an affiliation that takes in the now out of print Arkades LP and equally almost sold out 2CD reissue of it and, indeed, goes back to 1995, when we released a (now rare/collectable) 7", Ghatarian. As with the original Arkades LP, this release gathers recordings for a session at WFMU, this time recorded during their second US tour and captured live on the 25th September 2007. Spread over the four sides are the six cuts which made up Circles second session for WFMU, once more capturing the self-proclaimed new wave of Finnish heavy metal outfit proving themselves to be almost everything but heavy metal despite possessing the only too apparent ability to compete with the best amongst that world. Taking in operatic vocals, unearthly mulch, psychedelic splurge, nods towards folk and Krautrock, and mammoth riffs capable of knocking down nearby buildings, avant-rock has rarely arrived both so potent and in dire need of a straitjacket before. The new wave of Finnish heavy metal is positively bursting with ideas like nothing else." -Fourth Dimension |
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Artist: YOUNGS, RICHARD & LUKE FOWLER Title: Yellow Gardens Format: 7" Label: Fourth Dimension Country: UK Price: $11.00 |
| "The first entry in Fourth Dimensions new Singles Club sees the prolific avant-folk and generally self-styled Richard Youngs making his first appearance on the label since his collaborations with Simon Wickham-Smith in the mid-1990s. This time, he collaborates with Luke Fowler on a couple of incredible synth jams based around modulations, atmospheric splurge and stuttering rhythms. Limited to 250 copies." -Fourth Dimension. |
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Artist: GALACTIC RAMBLE Title: Galactic Ramble Format: Book Label: Foxcote Country: UK Price: $54.00 |
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"Subtitled: A Peregrination Through British Rock, Pop, Folk And Jazz Of The 1960s And 1970s. Galactic Ramble is, by far, the most thorough critical overview of 1960s and 1970s British popular music ever published. It contains reviews of thousands of albums, spanning rock, pop, folk, R&B, jazz, beat, psych, prog, garage, Xtian and much more, both major label releases and private pressings. The book includes household names such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who, as well as masses of lesser-known luminaries, and is certain to appeal to thousands of serious music fans and record collectors worldwide. Galactic Ramble has been edited by Richard Morton Jack (co-founder of Sunbeam Records), and is written by a team of experts including Patrick Lundborg and Aaron Milenski (co-authors of The Acid Archives), Richard Falk (one of the worlds leading folk music authorities), Tony Higgins (producer of the BBCs acclaimed "Seven Ages Of Rock" and curator of Universals Impressed Repressed jazz series) and David Wells (owner of the esteemed Tenth Planet label). Galactic Ramble is A4 in size, with the text on each page divided into three columns. Wherever possible, albums have been dated to their precise month of release, and extracts from contemporary reviews have been included alongside new ones, to add useful perspective. The text is broken up by many rare illustrations culled from the pages of contemporary music journals, in addition to which there are two sections of full-color plates, showing the covers of 288 rare LPs. Galactic Ramble features an introduction by legendary record producer David Hitchcock (Aardvark, Black Cat Bones, Caravan, Mellow Candle, Pink Fairies), and has numerous top ten lists in the back, as well as a list of non-album 45s by many of the acts in the book. Paperback; 298 x 210 mm; 550 pp.; B&W photos throughout, with 2 sections of color plates." - Foxcote
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Artist: JACK, RICHARD MORTON Title: Endless Trip Format: Book Label: Foxcote Country: UK Price: $89.00 |
| "Foxcote Books presents the fullest critical guide ever published to the thousands of major label rock, pop and folk albums released in the U.S. and Canada between 1965 and 1974, edited by Sunbeam label-head Richard Morton Jack. Meant to be considered a sister volume to the Amazon #1 pop & rock bestseller, Galactic Ramble. Covering rock, pop, psych, prog, folk and more, there are 3,000 expert album reviews, including many rare photos/illustrations and extracts from vintage music papers. This book includes precise release dates, catalog numbers for each entry, insert details and other relevant information. There are also three sections of color plates showing rare LP covers in addition to top 10 lists and recommendations from knowledgeable sources. Contributors include Simon Crisp, Jules Elvins, Richard Falk, Tim Forster, Jon Max Gilbert, Giles Hamilton, Collin Makamson, Aaron Milenski, Will Penoyar, Dominic Stinton, Nick Warburton, Scott D. Wilkinson and Harvey Williams. The book is introduced by legendary critic/guitarist Lenny Kaye. Paperback; A4/2.8 kg -- almost double the thickness of Galactic Ramble; 784 pp.; B&W photos throughout, with 3 sections of color plates." -Foxcote |
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Artist: ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE PINK LADIES BLUES Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $21.00 |
| "WARNING: Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues is a different group than the well-known Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO and Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno. This new Japanese band was created in April 2005 by Magic Aum Gigi. His main works with the Melting Paraiso UFO can be found on the album Absolutely Freak-Out (2001), the compilation Do Whatever You Want, Dont Do Whatever You Dont Want !! (2002), and has released his own solo album MMMM - My Metal Machine Music (2004). Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues is an underground punk blues trio composed by two guitarists (Tsuchy, Magic Aum Gigi) with one drum (Mai Mai). Their first album: Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues featuring the Sun Love and the Heavy Metal Thunder is a deep raw trip and a wild transgression of mother nature filtered by the occult powers! This love potion is made by thunder guitars, power drums, plus various electronics and acoustic sounds, and vocals. If reviewers have often compared the sound of Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO close to Amon Düül 2, so, Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues sounds close to Amon Düül 1. A surprising and an impressive first recording in this beginning of new century that you should hear to believe it!" -Fractal. |
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Artist: BULTEAU, MICHEL Title: Rincures Format: CD Label: Fractal Country: FRANCE Price: $16.00 |
| "A brand new album by Michel Bulteau (Mahogany Brain leader, French underground 70s) + Jean François Pauvros on guitar and Ernie Brooks on bass." Bulteau dead-pans various texts over a richly detailed, post-Sonic Youth field of ambient guitar wash from Pauvros. A very impressive update on the lost French underground spirit, strange and dark, filmic. Its been a couple decades since Mahoganny Brains Smooth Sick Lights, but this is a most acceptable follow up." - Fractal |
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Artist: CIRCLE X Title: Live In Dijon 79 Format: 10" Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $22.00 |
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"Circle X new release! An unreleased live by this legendary cult no-wave NY band after the group disbanded in 1995. In around fifteen years existence since their formation in 1978, the history of Circle X can be divided in 2 parts and for each, with few but always powerful releases: the late 70s / early 80s with 2 singles + 1 vinyl LP, and for the second one: 4 singles, 1 CD and 1 mini CD for the early until mid-90s. Today, its a great delight to see the first official Circle X live album. And what a document! The Circle X historical concert at the University of Dijon, the first gig in France at their debut in 1979 when the group was established in that city. The performance of the band that night was short but truly outstanding. A very, very, high tension.... No need to say more!!! The players were: Dave Letendre on drum, Rik Letendre on guitar, Tony Pinotti on vocal and Bruce Witsiepe on guitar. The present 10" vinyl edition also includes 3 unreleased bonus tracks with the first studio version of Beyond Standard (1979) and 2 other studio tracks from the last period (1994), plus insert with liner notes by Rik Letendre and some rare photos. The sound quality isnt perfect but good enough for make this object acceptable and valid. In fact, you have here, 30 years later, the real first Circle X record like it had to be released at that time!! Well, call it like you want.. but its already and obviously a fantastic and an essential release." -Fractal
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Artist: DDAA Title: Action and Japanese Demonstration Format: CD Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $27.00 |
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"There were bands like Can in Germany, Nurse With Wound in UK, The Residents in USA, and there were Deficit Des Annees Anterieures in France. Formed in 1979 by 3 artists from the Beaux-Arts of Caen: Jean-Luc André, Sylvie Martineau-Fée, Jean-Philippe Fée; DDAA was one of the leaders of the independent, experimental, industrial 80s French scene with their highly artistic, peculiar and thoughtful vision, which is brilliantly illustrated by their own label Illusion Production (more than 40 references published). This undoubtedly makes DDAA one of the most outstanding bands of the French underground over the last thirty years! Behind this radical and utopian group are three self-taught musicians of high creativity with a surprising and rich discography, around thirty titles released under all formats: vinyl LP, singles, 10", tapes, CDs and many compilations (some deleted titles are still very collectable today). From a post-punk/avant-garde/surrealistic music made by improvisations and collages, DDAA created an odd and captivating world, somehow naive but truly emotional. Eternal travellers from the imaginary (into space and time), after they ventured in Africa (1980), in the Maracayace land (2000), in the Russia of the Tsars from the 19th century (Les Ambulants 1984) or even with the French poets from the 16th century (Ronsard 1988), DDAA went to Japan with Action and Japanese Demonstration in 1982. And they will be well inspired by the land of the rising sun, so its no surprise to see them, the next year, on the Paris-Tokyo compilation and also in the Pascal Comelade album Detail Monochrome (1984) on the track Pluie Japonaise. First full-length vinyl album (Illusion Production -- IP010) and a cornerstone in their history, Action and Japanese Demonstration is considered by many fans as one of the best DDAA works to date. A fascinating album! Ten actions and poetic demonstrations like Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e), refined and entrancing atmospheres, drawn and played by the 3 dadaïsts with synths, vocals, chorus, crazy guitars, percussions, rhythms box, flutes and noises and Bernard C and Marcel Kanche on sax. For a long time unavailable, this album is finally reissued on CD for the first time with 2 unreleased tracks from the same recording session plus 20 minutes bonus Musique et Bruits du Bas Pa-Tât, a collection of 7 rare tracks from 1985 originally released on tape for the very limited Jean-Luc Andrés comic strip titled Mutants du Kwantung. This is a dark ethnic report which brings you in the primitive southern China before Jesus Christ. This CD reissue is an exact reproduction of the vinyl LP, and is packaged like the original in an heavy card sleeve hand fold plus a 16 page color booklet with all inserts, texts and unreleased pictures (DDAA live in 1979!). Remixed and remastered from the master tapes, this gem is now available again after more than 25 years. Action and Japanese Demonstration is a pure delight, a kind of improbable meeting between the famous artist Joseph Beuys and the master of the ceremony Sen No Rikyu. Splendid!" - Fractal.
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Artist: DIZA STAR Title: Blues Reason To Live Format: 7" Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $11.00 |
| "Three tracks, including a High Rise cover. Dedicated to Howlin Wolf." - Fractal. "Our Legs Are Our Car, Our Legs Are Our Freedom We Are Living In The Ice Age The Disa-Ster World Is By Definition Vertical, Dizzy Sound An Exciting Up And Down Where Nothing Is Sure, Anytime Two Left Hand Guitarists, The Good And The Bad Player Dig Up Three Unreleased Tracks From Our Archive Our Electric Free Blues Music We Knew Well That It Should Be Released Properly The Blues Reason To Live Love Your Devil Side And Your Enemy" - Diza Star. |
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Artist: ILITCH Title: Hors Temps/Out of Time Format: CD Label: Fractal Country: FRANCE Price: $19.00 |
| "Thierry Muller -- Ilitchs head -- is the multi-instrumentalist dark experimental French composer who started his musical career with the band Arcane as an underground electronics improvisations outfit around the years 1974. Albums Periodkmintrouble 1978 & 10 suicides 1980 were Ilitch first two works followed by the Ruth pop synth project Polaroid roman photo in 1985. All three are now reissued on CD with many unreleased bonus material by Fractal Records. Well received by many critics today, Ilitch took a solid place in the French underground scene from that area and was a serious source of influence on several groups/artists such as The Legendary Pink Dots for instance. After 24 years, the third and brand new Ilitch album is now released, titled ironically Hors Temps / Out of time and was composed during the last five years. More than a gap, its a generation of sounds in between... and Thierry Muller is at the rendez-vous : a full album in 9 electropopsonics excursions through the time with a pleiade of colored sounds (vocals, guitar, vocals, drums, percussions, farfisa, rhythmic programms, treated piano etc...). >From the mellow pop to the angry waves, Hors Temps / Out of time is a blink at the early hours and a poetic reflexion and vision on life. With the participation of the great musician poet Philippe Doray. Subtle pop power for adult entertainment. Rendez-vous Hors Temps." - Fractal |
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Artist: ILITCH Title: Periodikmindtrouble Format: Double CD Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $20.00 |
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"Periodikmindtrouble is Ilitchs (a.k.a Thierry Muller) first album, released on Oxygène Rec. in 1978. This reissue present for the first time the complete works of Periodkmindtrouble such as it had been conceived and should be released at that time: as a double LP. So, here it is as a double CD (including a 12 pages color booklet) with the following musical works : the album Periodikmindtrouble in its entirety, plus the complete recordings of Innerfilmsequence, plus the unreleased track Ballades urbaines, plus some archives from 1974 as bonus tracks (total time : 146 minutes). Thierry Muller is a French guitarist, who has made three LPs : Periodikmindtrouble (1978), 10 Suicides (1980), Polaroïd/Roman/Photo (1985). The music is electronic, experimental, harsh, repetitive, personal and can be compare with Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Cluster, Conrad Schnitzler, Kraftwerk, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Heldon, Lard Free. Unfortunately unrecognized in France (even not mention in the booklet introduction of the 3CD Box set French compilation 30 Years Of Musical Insurrection In France 1968-1998 ...!), Ilitch did not fall in the ear of a deaf person, because it is not by accident if Thierry Muller appears on the famous list by Steven Stapleton/Nurse With Wound on Chance meeting... (1979)!" - Fractal
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Artist: KNEAD Title: This Melting Happiness - I Want You To Realize That It Is Another Trap Format: LP Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $30.00 |
| "Knead is Keiji Haino + Ruins. This second album -- Live in Tokyo 2001 -- is the very first recording of the band. Limited edition, 220gr. vinyl." - Fractal |
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Artist: MAGIC AUM GIGI Title: Starring Keiko Format: LP Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $27.00 |
| "Magic Aum Gigi 2nd solo album after his first raga-metal-drone opus My Metal Machine Music released in 2004 on SSW label. Started since 3 years, this new project due to be released on CD by a Japanese label has finally saw a terminal issue on vinyl produced by Fractal. Starring Keiko with its pastiche cover from Ash Ra Tempel 5th album is a deep cosmic Chant dAmour concept album turned around an ensemble of 4 tracks for 4 instruments: a piece for Jews harp, a piece for voice, a piece for synthesizer and a piece for guitar. Space music, highly repetitive. Limited numbered vinyl edition of 200 copies." -Fractal. |
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Artist: MAHOGANY BRAIN Title: Some Cocktail Suggestions Format: LP Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $26.00 |
| "Brand new and third album by the 70s French underground free-rock cult band Mahogany Brain. Some Cocktail Suggestions (March 2005) is the logical and inevitable prolongation of the first two albums, With (Junk-Saucepan) When (Spoon-Trigger) (December 1970 - released in 1971) and Smooth Sick Lights (June 1972 - released in 1977), all in all the third shutter of a trilogy and which could be entitled: Mahogany Brain or how to play Russian roulette in the artificial paradises. Thirty-five years for an unexplainable trilogy. However, if one symbolically looks at the first album on Futura as the injection of drugs (the true original record cover was a photograph showing an arm with a syringe and following the stop to publish the famous stereotype for reason of censure of the time, the group chose an entirely black cover as a mourning). The second on Pôle (with the title wink in Sister Ray) would be rather the action as if the track headlight suggests which opens the album Green Winter of Revolvers which is the soundtrack of the crazy short film of Michel Bulteau Main Line. Mahogany Brain always developed a music radical, unforeseeable, hard, voluntarily unfinished, and with this album, they continue the adventure even further: decomposition of the music, recomposition of the juxtaposed voices, artistic blur, collages, mad guitars, all very amalgamated in a magma broken rocknroll. Mahogany Brain was created during the summer 1970, and was composed by two central personalities, the alter ego Michel Bulteau (leader and founder of the group) and Patrick Geoffrois (the man without whom Mahogany Brain could never have existed). Writer, film maker, Bulteau also carried out five albums in solo (whose Rinçures on Fractal in 1999) hes the last of the electric poets and his meeting with Geoffrois was also electric - Bulteau created a rock band but it is Geoffrois which created the dynamics of the group. Geoffrois was a sharp sectional view, and he recall a little the revolted and destroying spirit of a certain Peter Laughner (Rocket From The Tombs), he will join later the group of James Chance & the Contortions in New York at the end of the 70s or he will sow the discord besides! Two complementary strong energies and spontaneousness, the process was engaged. Mahogany Brain is an atypical group in the Parisian underground, they play with their tripes and as with their veins, it is an experience out of the limit, not-conventional, with only one concert in all their history, and probably the most subversive formation as there was to see in France! Some Cocktail Suggestions is incontestably matter dangerous? To taste with great whiskeys." - Fractal. Great record! |
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Artist: MAINLINER Title: Psychedelic Polyhedron Format: CD Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $19.00 |
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"First CD reissue of the long time deleted Mainliners second album featuring the legendary heavy psychedelic trio : Asahito Nanjo (bass, vocal), Makoto Kawabata (guitar), Tatsuya Yoshida (drums). Warning : including an unreleased 10 minutes ultra killer track as bonus. An absolute must for all fans of this unique Japanese Underground scene from the late 90s." - Fractal.
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Artist: MUSIQUE CONCRET Title: Bringing Up Baby Format: CD Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $18.00 |
| "Reissue of a rare UK album from 1981. Musique Concret were an obscure London duo composed by Jim Friedman & Michael Mullen with a short lived musical history : their sole album Bringing up Baby was originally released on Steven Stapletons label United Dairies and there is also one short track on a compilation. This is a great experimental power electronics works with the use of many delay and echo, tape recorder manipulations, collages, rhythms box, noise, and others studio trickery, naturally close to Nurse With Wound first period, Faust or others German 70s innovative bands. Completely forgotten nowadays, Bringing up Baby is really much more than just an interesting curiosity, its a true highly original recordings from the early 80s. A lost jewel." - Fractal |
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Artist: NANJO GROUP MUSICA, ASAHITO Title: Comtemporary Kagura-Metaphysics Format: CD Label: Fractal Country: FRANCE Price: $19.00 |
| "A work of contemporary music performed in the rock idiom by Japanese underground rock legend, Asahito Nanjo. Nanjo is active in a wide variety of rock groups, but Group Musica exits in order to pursue a more universal musical vibration. Group Musica is an ensemble that pursues the free use of every type of Western and Eastern musical instrument, is propelled by the vibrations of very subtle rhythms, and that has internalized the methodology of minimalism. The concept behind this album is transform Kagura, an ancient form of Japanese music and dance that was performed for the gods, and is to convert the ideas of Secret teachings and ancient Chinese methods of divination (the I-Ching) into a metaphysics of musical vibrations. The concept of Kagura allows Group Musica to create a unique work that is an experimental symphonic composition, which nonetheless has many rich improvisatory elements. In this unique work, the symbolic/philosophical nature of ancient esotericism is incorporated as improvisation, while the I-Ching is related to avant-garde symphonics. These are then fused into a total concept. Many different musicians from various genres participate in Group Musica, but their contributions are filtered through Nanjos musical sense and thus altered, fused and structured. It is for this reason that remain anonymous -- Group Musica exists as a total entity. Recorded in 1993 & 1994, this album is a colossal long studio works which has necessitated more than 400 overdubbings. An extraordinary adventure in sounds and the most astonishing musical project by High Rises leader." - Fractal |
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Artist: OHKAMI NO JIKAN Title: Mort Nuit Format: CD Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $17.00 |
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"Ohkami No Jikan is a Japanese psychedelic group led by Asahito Nanjo (vocal, guitar, bass, keyboards, composer, producer). Nanjo is the leader of many other groups, including High Rise, Musica Transonic and Toho Sara. Apart from Nanjo, the line-up is not fixed but varies according to the concept that the group is following at any particular time. Members of many Japanese underground groups, including Fushitsusha, Les Rallizes D/nud/s, Toho Sara and Holy Angel have participated in Ohkami No Jikan, pursuing different musical approaches. Depending upon the members and concept the sound of this unique group varies dramatically, the one constant is the vibration created by Nanjo. As a psychedelic group that explores all music, from heavy, dark sounds to jazz, contemporary and experimental, Ohkami No Jikan occupies an important position in the Japanese underground scene. After only three tracks available on compilation (Tokyo Flashback 2 PSF, Japan:new psychedelic underground Manifatture Criminali & Live from the devils triangle, Vol.2 KFJC-FM), Mort Nuit is their first album. They concentrate on the heaviness of minimal music : a dark group textures that psychedelicise the gap between the silence of medieval music and the dynamism of 20th century composition." - Fractal.
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Artist: PARMEGIANI, BERNARD Title: Chants Magnétiques Format: CD Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $20.00 |
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"Here is a masterpiece of electronic music! French musician Bernard Parmegiani has composed Chants Magnetiques in 1974, one of the most sought-after Parmegiani albums - a monster rarity which is almost impossible to find. This obscure album was composed around the same time as De Natura Sonorum during the mid-70s, a particularly important and effervescent era for Bernard Parmegiani. Indeed, as if one can say that De Natura Sonorum is one of the best of Parmegianis serious works in terms of technics-sound-harmonic-tone, then there is no doubt that Chants Magnétiques is his chef-doeuvre on his dark side, the Parmegianis hidden face that few people know nowadays. A collection of 10 united tracks under the title album name Chants Magnétiques/Magnetic Fields - titled before Jean Michel Jarres album - and musically, in summary, more experimental, more organic, more spacey album in comparison to his famous INA-GRM works. This reissue on CD for the first time will rejoice all music lovers from Edgard Varèse, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Tod Dockstader to Musica Elettronica Viva, Nurse With Wound, Organum, Conrad Schnitzler. Official remastered edition from the original master tapes with the original cover sleeve." - Fractal.
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Artist: PARMEGIANI, BERNARD Title: Jazzex Format: CD Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $19.00 |
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"This album is a collection of early works from the late 60s by the French electro-acoustic composer Bernard Parmegiani. Born in Paris (1927) and rich of a catalogue des oeuvres of more than 60 pieces, including classics such as Violistries 1965, La Roue Ferris 1971, Pour en finir avec le pouvoir dOrphée 1971/72, De Natura Sonorum 1974/75, the 4 pieces presented in this edition is a perfect exemple for discovering the unusual territories and the eclectism language of the composer : JazzEx for electronic tape and Jazz Quartet (Jean-Louis Chautemps : saxophone, Bernard Vitet : trompet, Charles Saudrais : drums, Gilbert Rovère : bass) create at the Festival de Royan in 1966. Pop Eclectic 1969, is an electro-acoustic divertimento composed for the Peter Foldés movie. Du pop à lâne 1969, is a collage plunderphonics work. And Et après 1973, is an electronic tango featuring Michel Portal on bandoneon. The present version is unreleased and was recorded live at the Festival Manca in 1996. Liner notes by Jean-Louis Chautemps." - Fractal.
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Artist: RUTH Title: Polaroid/Roman/Photo Format: CD Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $16.00 |
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"Remastered CD reissue of the third album of Thierry Müller (aka Ilitch) released in 1985 under the name of Ruth, with a 16 pages booklet (which includes the original vinyl booklet), plus three bonus tracks: two versions of Polaroïd/roman/photo from 1982 & 1984 and a remix track by LOrchestra Inachevé (aka Patrick Müller and Laurent Saïet). Ruth is a 10 musicians collective, led by Thierry Müller: Marc Duconseille (saxophones flutes), Gérard Nouvel (trumpet), Pascal Morrow: violin, Parice Gillaumat: drums, Frédéric Lapierre: words vocals chorus, Frédéric Cambon: vocals, Christine Snabre et Mika Tessarech: chorus, Philippe Doray: words, Thierry Müller: guitar synthetizers organ sequencer vocals words. Polaroïd/roman/photo is a relax mood erotic-melodic-synthe-80s pop, very musical and structured album, with fine arrangements, closed to Kraftwerk early 80s period. Also, includes a clever cover of She brings the rain by Can." - Fractal
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Artist: SEIKAZOKU Title: Out Takes 1966 - 1978 Format: CD Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $16.00 |
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"Blatantly mis-monikered outing (recorded in 1996) by this new supergrouping of Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins/Musica Transonic/Koenjihyakkei), Makoto Kawabata (Toho Sara/Mainliner/Musica Transonic) and Atsushi Tsuyama (Omoide Hatoba). A welcome re-entry to the field of +12 dB analogue overload (lacking on certain recent new-japan sessions) and improv-psych-stumble featuring at least 20 different instruments in varied settings. Some unexpected passages of Moog-flash and power drumming counter sedate sections of Toho-Sara-ish eastern sun-god-altar virgin-sacrifice. A grand jostle to existing fans of this somewhat daunting scene of Japanese heavy-fumble, and a novel entry for the uninitiated." --Hrvatski. "Seikazoku is playing improvisation between progressive, psychedelic rock and modern, traditional music. Featuring 16 tracks, with drums, bass, guitar Hammond organ, Rhodes, Moog, piano, percussions, oboe, kazoo, bouzouki, sarangi, violin, hyoutan syamisen and voices. Full of ideas, effects and energy: a real new sound from Japan."
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Artist: V/A Title: Amaterasu Format: Double CD Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $33.00 |
| "First volume of the Fractal Twin project (volume two is forthcoming). Amaterasu is a new themed concept Japanese compilation featuring : Mineko Itakura (Angel & Heavy Sirup), Kengo Iuchi, Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), Kousokuya, Jun Kuriyama (ex Ox), Miminokoto, Naoaki Miyamoto, Chie Mukai, Seiji Nagai (ex Taj Mahal Travellers), Overhang Party, Space Machine, Mitsuru Tabata (Zeni Geva, Leningrad Blues Machine), Totsuzen Danball, Atsushi Tsuyama (Acid Mothers Temple, Omoide Hatoba), Masayoshi Urabe. Liner notes by Alan Cummings. 15 unreleased long tracks." - Fractal. |
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND & BRYAN LEWIS SAUNDERS Title: Le Bobcat Format: Cass Label: Fragment Factory Country: Germany Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: DUNCAN, JOHN/ESPOSITO, MICHAEL/ZEV Title: There Must Be A Way Across This River/The Abject Format: LP Label: Fragment Factory Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
| "EVP recordings made in 2009 by MICHAEL ESPOSITO at the onetime home of JOHN DUNCAN in Prospect Heights, Illinois, to which the current resident would not permit entry (though his spouse had previously agreed to it). HEIDI HARMAN, the medium who was present at the encounter, heard Duncans name specified by the voice. "There Must Be A Way Across This River" represents Duncans involvement and processing of the events at his childhood home; "The Abject" is the result of ZEV dealing with the occurrences in Prospect Heights. 140-gram vinyl. Double-sided insert. Edition of 500." -Fragment Factory |
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Artist: ESPOSITO, MICHAEL & KEVIN DRUMM Title: The Icy Echoer Format: 7" Label: Fragment Factory Country: Germany Price: $13.00 |
| "The Icy Echoer constitutes a premiere in many respects, for both, the label and the artists. After countless collaborations with the likes of Leif Elggren, CM von Hausswolff, Bryan Lewis Saunders and others (mostly released on CD), this 7 marks the first time that Espositos works are published on vinyl, while the same applies to the Fragment Factory. Likewise, believe it or not, its the very first appearance of Drumm on a 7 platter. Michael Esposito is an experimental artist and long-time researcher in Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), currently located in Chicago, IL. The EVPs which form the basis for The Icy Echoer were taken at St. John - St. Joseph cemetery in Hammond, IL, which has the reputation of being one of the most haunted places in the US. Kevin Drumm, based in Chicago as well, was certainly among the very first names that sunk deep into my memory when I became interested in experimental music back in the day. After a vast number of remarkable outputs on such labels as Nihilist, Hospital, Pica Disk, Editions Mego and several more during the past 13+ years, Im eminently happy to bring this one into the light of day. A document which I personally consider not only as the perfect interaction between two of the most exciting contemporary sound artists, but also as a significant point in the development of the Fragment Factory. 300 copies." - FF. |
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Artist: DESTROYED MUSIC Title: Charcoal Format: LP Label: Freak Animal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "Dutch noisician Franz De Waard of KAPOTTE MUZIEK and American jack-of-all noise Emil Beaulieau join forces to clean that wax outta your ears with this slab that ranges from all-out power blasts to quietly ambient textures. Nicely toasted covers, too. Limited edition of 800, Finnish import." - Freak Animal. |
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Artist: PURE Title: Fetor Format: CD Label: Freak Animal Country: Finland Price: $14.50 |
| "re-release of PURE "Fetor" tape originally on Birthbiter. 80s UK power electronics ala Ramleh meets guitar feedback-drone. Matthew Bowers (SKULLFLOWER/TOTAL/HOTOTOGISU) solo work. Including bonus live gig from 88 what was not on original tape. That gig was advertized to be Ramleh live, but due Gary Mundy didnt arrive to venue, similar material of Pure tape was performed. Previously unreleased! 300 copies, in black vinyl box with blue paper artworks like tape." - Freak Animal. Live track features Stefan Jaworzyn (Skullflower/Whitehouse/Ascension). Highly recommended! |
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Artist: BADGERLORE Title: Stories For Owls Format: CD Label: Free Porcupine Society Country: Price: $14.00 |
| "The second full-length release from psychedelic bread bakers and bird whisperers BADGERLORE-the beard-core supergroup of BEN CHASNY (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, COMETS ON FIRE), TOM CARTER (CHARALAMBIDES), PETE SWANSON (YELLOW SWANS), and ROB FISK (7 YEAR RABBIT CYCLE, ex-DEERHOOF). Stories For Owls features six beautifully lush, organic pieces that rise and fall with the groups broke-down, burned-up improv and the interplay of piano, vocals, and dual guitars. Fragile and tender, beautiful and devastating." - Free Porcupine Society. |
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Artist: CURRENT 93 Title: Earth Covers Earth Format: LP Label: Free Porcupine Society Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Earth Covers Earth is a classic and influential album from 1988 by Current 93 originally released on vinyl by Nurse With Wounds United Dairies label, later on CD by David Tibets Durtro label. It was the follow-up to their millionselling Swastikas For Noddy album. Both editions have been long deleted.
Featuring all the tracks from the original album, Free Porcupine Societys beautiful reissue features silk-screened jackets of an original drawing by Tibet and a previously unseen photograph of the group from the Earth Covers Earth session. Brief though it might be, Earth Covers Earth remains the favorite of many Current 93 aficionados.
Redesigned cover-- new photo from the same Earth Covers Earth session, surrounded by a 12" x 24" drawing by David Tibet, silkscreened by Free Porcupine Society"
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Artist: GROUPER Title: Way Their Crept Format: CD Label: Free Porcupine Society Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Way Their Crept is a beautiful and haunting release of processed vocals, keyboards and guitar recorded by Liz Harris in Oakland, California. Melodic and emotive elements create a complex contrast of grit and grain that Harris shares with fellow Oakland free-noise musicians Tom Carter and Xiu Xiu. Her music parallels the spiritual, meditative bent of guitarist Christina Carter while giving the breezy ambience of Brian Eno and Harold Budd a noisier, more brittle presence." - Free Porcupine Society.
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Artist: SCORCES/TOM CARTER Title: Beats For The Beast Format: CD Label: Free Porcupine Society Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "one track from each. scrorces - haunting/ tense/ unrelenting improvisation. emotionally draining. the tom carter track is a burnt scorched offering of psychedelic art damage." - Free Porcupine Society. Tom Carter + Scorces = Charalambides. |
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Artist: SAPAT/THE SB Title: Seed And Surgery Format: CDR Label: Free103Point9 Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: CAMPBELL, NEIL Title: Itinerant String Section Format: CDR Label: Freedom From Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: LICHT, ALAN & SHIRAISHI TAMIO Title: Open For Kevin Drumm Format: Cass Label: Freedom From Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Or What Format: 7" Label: Freedom From Country: USA Price: $4.00 |
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"Picture: Members of Mars and the Screamers drive a truck over Gary Glitter, run his corpse over 17 times and cake the gelatinous gook Residue on the master tape of this rock and roll masterpiece." - Brian Turner (Music Director, WFMU).
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Artist: SRDENOVIC, MILOVAN Title: Colour These Bears Format: LP Label: Freedom From Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: LATE Title: The Thomas Gordon EP Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: Freedom From/20 City Country: USA/JAPAN Price: $14.00 |
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Artist: V/A Title: Scenes from Ringing Isle... Format: Double CD Label: Freedom From/Giardia Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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Feat. Ashtray Navigations, Sunroof, Surface of the Earth, K. Salvatore, Surface Of The Earth, Matthew Bower, etc. Late 90s release.
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Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: The First Two Weeks Format: LP Label: Freedom School Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: SUPREME DICKS Title: Working Mans Dick - Archival Recordings 1987-89 Format: CD Label: Freek Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
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One of many excellent records by this truly odd and underappreciated NY/MA/CA acid folk/casuality collective. 1994 release.
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Artist: TOTAL Title: Sky Blue Void Format: CD Label: Freek Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
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1994 release from this Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Hototogisu,etc..) project.
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Artist: TOTAL Title: Tanzmusik Format: CD Label: Freek Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: YOUNGS, RICHARD/BRIAN LAVELLE Title: Radios 345 Format: Triple CD Label: Freek Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS Title: Dirt Mummies & Bloody Amps Format: LP Label: Freenoise Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "Theres a big new hole in your record collection! File under: psychedelic drowning guitar sitar crown chakra implosion, kundalini violation, chest crushing metal mantra, synapse snapping, annihalation in godhead of future trips blossoming new gene... Phil Todd, Phil Legard and Melanie Delaney crashed in the ashtray of your mind during Dec 05 and March 06 and found the way out through this stunning new realisation. Contend with the deeper conscience of the legendary Navigators as they carve a clear path through existence, ultimately to share and unite us in the cool golden draught of shimmering free noise bliss.." - Freenoise. Limited to 200 copies. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Freenoise: Fusion Format: CDR Label: Freenoise Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| Features Astral Social Club (Neil Campbell of Vibracathedral Orchestra), Martin Archer, Acolytes Action Squad, Filthy Turd, Johnny Scarr and many more.. Limited. "A rare, highly charged 78 minute electrical-organic fusion of some of todays finest noisicians and sonic artists. This is a commemorative launch CD which will not be available again!" |
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Artist: A HANDFUL OF DUST Title: For Patti Smith Format: CD Label: Freewaysound Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
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"A Handful of Dust are a duo [and occasionally a trio] of New Zealand improvising noise artists. In 1993 they fired an early blast in the so-called free noise barrage heard round the world, with the recording of the no-fingers-on-the-strings opus Concord. 24 October 1999 found them playing live at the Puntersí Club, Melbourne, Australia, recorded by Marco Fusinato and mixed live by Greg Wadley. The resulting two long tracks of beautiful sonic violence were dedicated to the Queen of post-jazz rock improv Rimbaudian sense-derangement herself, and titled I Am Gods Finger and [From a Soundtrack to] Babelfield. They feature Bruce Russell and Alastair Galbraith performing a mix of guitar, violin, long wires and electronics. No stone is left unrotated, no rock left un-detourned in this top-of-their-game sizzling sound-smash. This tag-team of post-everything sound improvisers cant be easily beaten at the spontaneous improvisation of soundworlds which leave the senses literally grasping at straws." - Freewaysound.
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Artist: INCAPACITANTS/FRUEDWERK Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Freudwerk Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
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Unplayed copies of this early 90s release. Handpainted mylar cover art.
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Artist: COULTER/MICHAEL GIRA/JEAN MARIE MATHOUL/CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE, DAVID Title: Gantse Mishpuchah - Music in Three Parts Format: CD Label: Fringes Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "David Coulter (double bass, didjeridu, piano, percussion, violectra & voice), Michael Gira (Swans, Angels of Light on Akai S-900, finger & various sounds from Body Lovers, Jean Marie Mathoul (48Cameras, on Korg 05R/W, loops, percussion, samples & tapes), Charlemagne Palestine (alumonium, street recordings, Yamaha organ & voice). Three long pieces of intense electro-acoustic drones. Part one, 22 minutes long has Tony Conrad (long string drone), Terry Edwards (trumpet), Bob Feldman (percussion), Deborah Glaser (percussion & voice), Chris Long (harmonium) and Jean-Jacques Palix (electronica) as guests." - Fringes. |
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Artist: CURRAN, ALVIN Title: Canti Illuminati Format: CD Label: Fringes Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
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"Complete reissue of the rare LP, originally issued by Fore in 1982, with original cover and liner notes, plus an updated presentation written by the composer. Two side-long beautiful piece for voices, synthesizer, tapes and electronics, and one of Currans best works. The music of this period and place, never a formal movement, was anchored both aesthetically and philosophically in the vital secrets of minimalism, in the sounds of the environment, however unassuming or flawed, in the cyclical generation of tones and voltage controlled substances, solo voice, and the whole body as solo performer, in men and women as equals, in stories of ordinary people, in gestures of eloquent simplicity as well as open spirituality, in irony as well as transcendental yearning. Improvisation and composition were reconciled as children of the same parents and immaculate mathematical structures could easily cohabit under the same roof with chance . Instrumental virtuosity and implacable drones were augmented to their human limits. And Rock music and musique concrete both contributed new values to amplification beat and noise. Canti Illuminati , was of course my early tribute to the human voice, as the most natural source of music known. In this period there were many experiments going on in the world based on collective vocal improvisation -- Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening work at UCSD, Roberto Laneris Roman group Prima Materia, David Hykes and his Harmonic Choir in New York, now based in France, and my own work in group vocal Improvisation at the Accademia Nazionale dArte Drammatica in Rome, where I taught between 1975 and 1980. I always told my students: dont forget! when the electricity gets turned off, you always have your voice/ your entire body as a basic musical instrument. When this work was being considered for an LP recording I decided to make it into a two part piece, which, on side one, explores a variegated soundscape of structured choral improvisation, and from this (side two) there emerges a solo platform for my own voice, tape delayed feedback, and my then trusty Serge Synthesizer and Sequencer. In later solo performances I concentrated entirely on this latter music, developing an intense and slowly expanding microtonal unison by matching my voice with a finely detuned keyboard. In retrospect this could be seen as a direct homage to Giacinto Scelsi, who opened avenues of magical perspectives to many of us young composers in Rome at that time." -- Alvin Curran, October-November 2002.
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Artist: DONEDA, MICHEL & PIERRE-OLIVIER BOULANT Title: Sopranino / Radio Format: CD Label: Fringes Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
| "Exploring sound, just whistles, from the fragile highs to the raucous. How can the editing give any account of the process involved ? Take half an hour or so from each location. Listen... First, ⿿Michels studio, what talked to us was was kept. Next without trying to remember what has just been heard move on to Forest with the wind in the branches, same here, just listen, keep another fragment and so on for the other two, by the Stream and on a Path where we picked some firewood. Back to the first place, cyles...Somewhere along the radio interrupts ---" -(from the inner liner notes). "Michel Doneda : Sopranino Saxophone, Radio; Pierre-Olivier Boulant : Microphonography, Radio. One very long track (40 minutes) recorded in four open-air locations and sixty-three very short fragments, for a total of 63 minutes of high pitched sopranino saxophone sounds, wondefully recorded by Pierre-Olivier Boulant in Autumn 2001. To be played in random-order ! Cover art from a postcard collage by Michel Doneda. Edition of 500 numbered copies in the usual Fringes oversized cardboard sleeve." - Fringes. |
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Artist: LABELLE, BRANDON Title: Automatic Radio Format: CD Label: Fringes Country: ITALY Price: $15.00 |
| "This new Cd by Brandon Labelle includes three new compositions: "Speaking in Tongues": Conflating "human speech" with "animal speech"--a mimicry that draws thetongue outside "idiolectical" usage (to speak as a good boy should)--language and the body become part of the same mechanism of conveying a message; though in turn, this conflation emphasizes the schism that ruptures this process--the tension inherent in "speaking as a body (sensuality)" and "speaking as an individual (social behavior)". "Multitude-Solitude": This work was commissioned by Kunstradio and was produced during a 3-daystay in Vienna in August 2000. In response to the invitation to make a work for radio I decided to produce all the sound-materials while in Vienna, drawing upon a direct relationship to the city and my experience there. This process consisted of primarily two activities: firstly, amplifying pre-recorded sounds of "crowds" from various events and functions in public spaces in Vienna, and re-recording them--in essence, overlaying public spaces and public crowds on top of each other and highlighting the "multiplicity" of overheard voices, and through this, how language becomes abstracted when it is situated against public space; secondly, taking a series of walks around Vienna with contact microphones taped to the bottoms of my shoes. What resulted from these walks was a kind of sonic residue of the meeting between body and space, between private experience and public environment, underscoring how as an individual one is always part of a greater situation." "Pillow Talking"(in collaboration with l. chasse): This work was produced as a parallel performance to a concert by John Hudak at 7hz, San Francisco, September 2000. The parallel performance occurred through recording Hudaks own performance by placing contact microphones on a glass floor from a mezzanine within the performance space. In addition, a second contact microphone was mounted on a metal cooking funnel which I then placed inside my mouth. In essence, the final work is a combination of Hudaks performance and the subsequent "translation" of it as recorded through the microphones. This "translation" is in turn mediated through the architectural structure of the performance space, the metal funnel and through the cavity of my mouth. Edition of 500 copies in oversized cardoboard folder, with a color photo by Renato Rinaldi. Includes the text "Automatic Radio" by Brandon Labelle." - Fringes. |
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Artist: MEDVES Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Fringes Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
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"Medves is Andrea Belfi, Giuseppe Ielasi, Stefano Pilia, Renato Rinaldi and Riccardo Wanke. Guitars, double bass, tapeloops, drums and percussion recorded in a week long summer session, 2003. Andrea Belfi is the drummer of Rosolina Mar and has released a cd on the SAgita label. Giuseppe Ielasi, half of Oreledigneur, has releases on Sedimental, Erstwhile, Fusetron, Fringes, Sonoris and others. Stefano Pilia, from 3/4HadBeenEliminated, also has a beautiful solo cd out on Last Visible Dog. Renato Rinaldi is the other half of Oreledigneur, has releases on Fringes, Fusetron, Public Eyesore and is currently preparing his first solo cd. Riccardo Wanke is a classically trained piano player, here on guitar, and this is his recording debut.
This is Medves first public appereance, 30 minutes of modern and melancholic all-analog psychedelia, and the first in a series of lps to be released later this year. 180gram vinyl, full color cover and insert. Numbered edition of 300 copies." - Fringes.
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Artist: SCIAJANO, DOMENICO Title: Broken Bridge Format: CD Label: Fringes Country: Italy Price: $15.00 |
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"Domenico Sciajno is a bass player from sicily, italy, and he recorded these pieces (45 minutes) at home last summer (the recording quality is excellent). most of the music is very intense and drone oriented, with long sub-bass tones and lots of extended techniques, but not in a "virtuoso" sense (what i dont like in most of the solo instrumental releases). some other pieces are more percussive, and even melodic sometimes.Released in the usual fringes packaging (but with a less fragile plastic sleeve !), are limited to 400 copies and seem to go away pretty fast." - Fringes.
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: Space Chanteys Format: LP Label: Fringes Country: Italy Price: $22.00 |
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"Matt Valentine creates, has created, and will continue to create from inside of a continuum that unspools from a source that is also so distant as to be invisible. Mysterious Translucence is not just the name of his shoe. Space Chanteys is really the first honest solo album that Matt Valentine has created. There have been others that are somewhat like it, or are related to it, in shape, or in style, but they are not it. This alone is it. It is Space Chanteys. Recorded live, back in October 100, the ensemble here has run through all of Matts pockets on many occasions. Some were/are part of the Tower Recordings collective. Others are associated with the MVEE Medicine Show. Each of them has fingered keys and touched lint that has deep and private resonance in the Valentinian flow. They take a deep collective breath here and release it slowly, like a sigh trapped in the highest tower of Greasers Palace. And its a gasser. Those enlightened people who are aware of his recordings, have a tendency to think of Matts music as part of the American volk tradition. And, indeed, a portion of it does reside there. But as with so many of the interesting inventions inside out-culture currency, the soul of this volk music emerged from synchretic collisions between psychedelic rock and avant garde jazz and country blues and trance-drone-minimalism as well as a primitive form of volk-proper. The material on Space Chanteys is beautiful in its fracture. Its fissures phosphoresce in the darkness w/ an unearthly radiance: glow-in-the-dark teeth set into the gums of eternity.." -Byron Coley. Also includes PG Six, Dean Roberts, Samara Lubelski (Hall Of Fame), Erika Elder and Tim Barnes. Edition of 650 copies on 220 gram vinyl.
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Artist: KRALLICE Title: Orphan Of Sickness Format: LP Label: From The Nursery Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Experimental black metal band KRALLICE-MICK BARR (ORTHRELM), COLIN MARSTON (BEHOLD THE ARCTOPUS, DYSRHYTHMIA), NICK MCMASTER and LEV WEINSTEIN return with a new EP in homage to their friend, the late BRENDAN MAJEWSKI of ORPHAN. Three Orphan tracks given the Krallice treatment, pressed on one-sided vinyl with insert and embossed covers in an edition of 250 copies." - From The Nursery. |
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Artist: MCEWEN, ADAM Title: Obituaries Format: LP Label: From The Nursery Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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"ADAM MCEWEN wrote actual obituaries for The Daily Telegraph in London before he ever turned the genre into artwork, writing obituaries for still living and breathing celebrities like Kate Moss and Jeff Koons (hes done nine in total and has three more on the way). Seeing news in an art gallery of someone dead who is still so obviously alive is like creating a black hole on the wall-which seems to be an effect that McEwen, age 43, now living and working in New York, is particularly good at making." - Christopher Bolllen, Interview.
"White vinyl, 400 numbered copies.
McEwen reads his fictional obituaries for Richard Prince and the Melvins.
closing line for the Melvins: "There were no children."" - From The Nursery.
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Artist: MELVINS Title: Melvins Format: 12" Label: From The Nursery Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "A limited edition three-track 12-inch EP from MELVINS featuring a long version of Dies Iraea and a remix of It Tastes Better Than The Truth on the A-side, and a 9-minute version of The Wipers Youth of America on the flip. None of these tracks have appeared on vinyl prior. Limited to 2,000 copies (with 1,500 for distribution) pressed on silver/gray vinyl, with artwork by STEVEN PARRINO (ELECTROPHILIA)." - From The Nursery. |
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Artist: ORPHAN Title: Aborted By Birth Format: LP Label: From The Nursery Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "From The Nursery is proud to announce for our very first release, a full length album by Brooklyn power duo, ORPHAN. ORPHAN lives up to the name: a spidery squall, scattershot by tortured vocals, abandoned and abused, organized and chaotic, joyous and outraged. Think early Melvins, think Karp; metallic black, acrid smoldering, napalm in the morning. Named Best Album of the Month in the August issue of Vice magazine. Limited to six hundred sixty six numbered copies, pressed on white vinyl, and featuring original sleeve art by Los Angeles painter David Ratcliff." - From The Nursery. First release on artist/writer Bob Nickas new label. |
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Artist: ORPHAN Title: Decapitated Lovers Format: LP Label: From The Nursery Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Decapitated Lovers is the second album by Brooklyn sheet metal duo, Orphan. Prominent among the albums nine tracks is a sprawling anthem, "Tarantula Downforce," which clocks in at over 8 1/2 minutes, and a cover of "Well Fed Fuck," originally recorded by Born Against. The album features cover art work by Gardar Eide Einarsson, and is limited to 500 numbered copies pressed on clear vinyl. While many bands trade the bratty racket of their debut for a more mature sound on their second effort, Orphan remain willful misfits, having mastered a kind of precise abandon — math rock by an idiot savant. Or savants. Orphan is Brendan Majewski on bass guitar and howling, strangled vocals, and Speck Brown on relentless, fight-club drums. In 2008, Other Music named Orphans debut “the most ferocious record of the summer.” Two years later, that damaged intensity continues to drive the cold dark heart of a band called Orphan. Concurrent with Decapitated Lovers, Black Tent Records has released a split 12-inch with Orphan and Baltimore band, Dope Body. All of Orphans tracks are exclusive to this release, including their cover of “Dragnalus,” which appeared on the first album by Unwound." - From The Nursery. |
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Artist: XXX MACARENA Title: Tony Conrad/ Jutta Koether/ John Miller Format: LP Label: From the Nursery/Primary Information Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
| "Primary Information and From The Nursery are pleased to announce their first collaborative release, an album by XXX MACARENA, a band comprised of Tony Conrad on violin, Jutta Koether on synthesizer, and John Miller on guitar. XXX MACARENA was recorded live at the Kunsthalle Zurich in June 2009. The performance is an entirely improvised 42-minute piece that ranges from microscopic detail to seismic wall-of-sound, full of intensities and introspection; a composition in-the-moment �?? like a crime, understood as somehow both premeditated and a matter of chance." - Primary Information. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Red Wine For Grapes Format: CDR Label: From The Same Mother Country: AUSTRALIA Price: $11.00 |
| Nice comp of mostly Australian artists; features Dworzec, Bruce Russell, Chris Smith, Solids, Hi God People, Pip Proud, Julian Williams and many more. |
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Artist: BULBS Title: Light Ships Format: CD Label: FTS Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Anyone familiar with the CDR label, JYRK, that I ran from 2001-2006, would know that I have long been a fan of William Sabistons music. As a member of Axolotl, as a filmmaker, or on his own, as ball lightning, hes delivered the goods. William formed Bulbs with Jon Almaraz in 2005, shortly after his leaving Axolotl and shortly following Jons move from Bakersfield to San Fran. Jon was a younger, ambitious guitarist just hitting the big city. Apparently the pairing was destiny, Williams beating-around-the-bush electronic drum styles mesh perfectly with Jons ultra-processed minute guitar jabs. Bulbs hovered around the SF underground for a few years, only occasionally releasing hints at what they were capable of. I received a cassette, ⿿Anela Of Tailoo Too, which left me feeling like I had been punched in the gut. The music was light years away from anything else in the underground scenes they were occupying. Light Ships finds bulbs at their most psychedelic and pointillistic. They occupy an odd space between the gloss of Kompakt records minimalism, the glue huff ambiguity of a band like Mouthus, and the stuttering clicks and confusion of a Han Bennik/Derek Bailey duo. Theres a lot of movement from more acoustic to more electronic sounds, from more straight rhythmic patterns to totally elliptical percussive gurgling, from understanding whats going on to not having any sort of idea who is doing what to whom. Despite all these shifts and potential contradictions, the music manages to be entirely cohesive and the record is surprisingly easy on the ears. Everything here has its place."- FTS |
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Artist: ASWARA Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Philadelphia drone crew featuring Rafi from Death Chants. Lush psychedelic moves morphing into some nice synth/mumble creep out. 3 tracks in 30 minutes recorded at Black Dirt Studio. cover art by jeremy earl. limited to 100"- Fuck It Tapes |
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Artist: AXOLOTL Title: Plane of Partials Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: US Price: $7.50 |
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"bedroom blur in a variety of styles with the cassette format in mind."
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Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: On Two Sides Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: The Fields Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "BlankDogs are actually singular: Its the insanely prolific one-man Brooklyn-based band of Mr. Blank Dog. We dont know too much about the biography of the guy behind the bedroom new-wave pop/punk and hes usually covering his face with masks or bedspreads, but thats fine. The aura of anonymity allows you to focus on the sounds -- and, really, he might be releasing a ton of things, but theres definitely a higher jam to crap ratio. Its like Joy Division vocal lines with the Cures synth and guitar melodies filtered through ancient submerged keyboards and eroded recording equipment. And that voice? All the feedback in the world cant hide his knack for melody. Blank Dogs have been making plenty of rumbles in the noisier and more secretive outposts of the underground (half his discographys sold out), but Troubleman Unlimiteds just repressed his very recommended full-length On Two Sides (on yellow vinyl in an edition of 500) and In The Reds releasing a 20-song double LP (or single CD) Under And Under in January. Its all new material. Hes also playing his first shows this month in NYC, so if you want to take a peek, you can. All this to say: Seems like BlankDogs is on his way out of the basement."-stereogum. |
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Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: Year One Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"compilation of all tracks from the first year of releases. This
includes the two 12" EPs , the first four 7" EPs and the Mirror
Lights cassette. 27 tracks in just over 70 minutes. limited..." - Fuck It Tapes
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Artist: BLUES CONTROL Title: Riverboat Styx Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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Artist: CAR COMMERCIALS Title: Black 93 Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"New Jersey no rock junk jams from David Sutton(Friends and Family, Current Amnesia) and Daniel DiMaggio(Home Blitz)
8 tracks in 25 min. limited to 100. what a mess!"- FIT
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Artist: DUCKTAILS Title: Lost Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"30 minute collage style cassette combines outtake from the new record, plus some lost gems from the past." - Fuck It Tapes
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Tank Tapes Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"This recording is designed for obsolete systems to restrict listening to only those with a
tactile awareness of intra-machine warfare. Ever heard of crap car stereos, undead ghetto
blasters, ten year old orbs, infrared light table dancers, ultraviolet ops, driving slow over
potholes, boredom research? This is not practice. This is training. Recorded in one hour
live to stereo at 382 Jeff Street." - Excepter.
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Artist: FAMILY UNDERGROUND Title: Future Bread Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: FRESH & ONLYS Title: Bomb Wombs Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Numbered edition of 200 copies.
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Artist: HERBCRAFT Title: Papers Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "This 43-minute cassette compiles previously-unreleased material recorded between the Discovers... Agartha LP and the first live band performances. Includes live rehearsal tape versions of two songs from the LP, plus five brand-new songs. Recorded at New Wyrd 33, February-March 2010." -Fuck It tapes. |
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Artist: HUNTER, JANA Title: Blank Unstaring Heirs Of Doom Format: Double Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: KNIT WITCH Title: Witchcraft Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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Artist: NO NECK BLUES BAND Title: The Large Taquat Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"full color double sided printing with two fold out panels. limited to 200" -Fuck It Tapes. "The Large Taquat was recorded in 1996 at 195 Chrystie St., NYC, the first rehearsal and performance space for the No-Neck Blues Band. The sequence was originally slated for an LP release and hence captured a Sound at One catalog number, #25, but alas the record never materialized. It is with great pleasure that the band now offers this historical document featuring the earliest document of NNCK operating from its own laboratory." - Sound@One.
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Artist: NO NECK BLUES BAND Title: The Large Taquat Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"The Large Taquat was recorded in 1996 at 195 Chrystie St., NYC, the first rehearsal and performance space for the No-Neck Blues Band. The sequence was originally slated for an LP release and hence captured a Sound at One catalog number, #25, but alas the record never materialized. It is with great pleasure that the band now offers this historical document featuring the earliest document of NNCK operating from its own laboratory. full color double sided printing with two fold out panels. limited to 200" -Fuck It Tapes.
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Artist: NONHORSE Title: Mushhead Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Mushhead got his nickname from cruel children, but he was ok with it. Horribly deformed, face tumors swelling under his eyes and nose, he likes to have a good time. He s pretty shallow, likes to sit around, watch skate videos, anime, dungeon quests. Eats a lot, always eating. Likes tempe, kinwa, buffalo wings and anything chalky... hates soup. if theres a show at a house nearby, he ll show up to hit on girls. The house is huge, old, and well preserved. The bands play in the kitchen." - G. Lucas Crane "two twenty minute slow jam bombs from friend to all, G. Lucas Crane(Vanishing Voice,Time Life). the next step in the NONHORSE evolution. LIMITED TO 100"- FIT |
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Artist: PEAKING LIGHTS Title: Space Primitive Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Artist: POCAHAUNTED Title: A Tear For Every Grain Of Sand Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"slow burning dream guitar/angel vocal duo from california. moccasins off this time around. c40 limited to 100" - Fuck It.
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Artist: SWORD HEAVEN Title: Fan Death Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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Artist: WARMER MILKS Title: In This Room Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"A bare country holler for friends. Recorded at the Holiday Inn last spring in Nashville.
Features hits "SS NITR" and "No Longer Friends With Anybody" - Fuck It Tapes
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Artist: WAVVES Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"lo-fi beach punk anthems by San Diegos Nathan Williams. beautiful
timeless melodies on top trash can guitars and blown out drums.12
tracks in 30 minutes. will be released as an LP with bonus tracks on
woodsist. follow up full length to be released by De Stijl. limited..." - Fuck It Tapes
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Artist: WIGWAM Title: Monolith Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "psychedelic basement scum duo from kalamazoo, mi featuring miles haney(tapeworm tapes/ evenings) limited to 100." - Fuck It Tapes |
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Artist: WOODEN WAND & THE VANISHING VOICE Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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Artist: YOUTH OF THE BEAST Title: Two Mothers Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Six new songs of sax/noise/drum blast from Andy Spore of Raccoo-oo-oon. c40 limited to 100" - Fuck It.
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Artist: SHEPHERDS/QUINTANA ROO Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes/Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Growth is god dudes. Gotta change, morph, MOVE, ring in new harvests and let fresh blank tapes bloom black in the sun. This shadowy C60 is a cryptic/cloaked stare-off between two recently-birthed coastal crews. Shepherds traverse the Bushwick/Brooklyn
axis, watching their flock from a high crooked branch off the Fuck It Tapes tree of life/death. Old world clatter meanders against dead-dub bass echoes while thin air prayers levitate from weary throats. A spiral-eyed masterpiece of tattered tunic improv. On the flip
is west coast crawl unit, Quintana Roo, who burrow through sub-cellar levels of spirit dust and cursed dirt worship. "Mythological Animals" ponders bowed drones, autoharp rust,
and disembodied drumming for a haunted half hour, before drifting back to tomb hum.
Painted tapes in silver-mist latticework cases, with full-color covers. Co-released with not
not fun." - Fuck It Tapes.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Fucked Up And Naked, Vol. 2 Format: Double LP Label: Fucked Up And Naked Country: Germany Price: $38.00 |
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More scorched live sessions from these Japanese legends. This double LP is culled from various live soundboard tapes spanning 1969 to 1981 (different material than the Live 77 which was the first Fucked Up And Naked release) - not much more info than that. Very worthwhile. Full color paste on jacket
"mostly live material from 80 and 81, plus one much earlier track (Smokin Cigarette Blues) lifted from the officially released 67-69 Studio et Live disk."
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Live 77 Format: Double LP Label: Fucked Up And Naked Country: Germany Price: $60.00 |
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Vinyl issue of, arguably, the preeminent recordings by this beyond-legendary Japanese acid rock/psych freak out powerhouse. If your not aware this would be an ideal place to start. Black jackets with paste on cover.
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Artist: PERKINS, PHILIP Title: Shapiro, Vermeer, Florida, and San Francisco Format: CD Label: Fun Music Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Four pieces: "Shapiro Songs" are settings of 7 poems by Karl Shapiro, with vocals by Frederick Goff. "re: Vermeer" consists of 5 audio essays looking at the paintings of Jan Vermeer in fascination, respect and wonder. "South Florida Remote" is a highly subjective audio documentary on the Miami area, recorded on location, and commissioned by New Music America 1988. "San Francisco Remote" is a recording of an audio installation piece at the SF Arts Commission Gallery in 1988." - Fun. 1988 release. |
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Artist: FURSAXA Title: Amulet Format: CDR Label: Fursaxa Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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Live recordings from June and July of 2004.
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Artist: FURSAXA Title: The Cult From Moon Mountain Format: CDR Label: Fursaxa Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"Recent (and first time listed here) cdr release from Tara Burke. Five of the six tracks on this cd (all recorded live) are from late March / early April 2002 with the last track recorded in April 2003 (also live). Really great recordings and fantastic performances by Tara with four of the six tracks featuring Tara solo. The other two tracks include the Michael Gibbons on guitar and one of these tracks also has John Gibbons playing drums."
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Live 72 Format: Double LP Label: Further Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "There are not too many names that get us more excited here at AZ HQ than Conrad Schnitzlers. Since the mid-1960s, Schnitzler has been one of the undisputed masters of electronic experimentation, and his name is synonymous with Krautrocks innovation and defiant musical vision. A prolific solo artist, he also founded Kluster (later Cluster) with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius, was an early collaborator with seminal Kosmische acts Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, and, in 1967, founded the Zodiak Free Arts Lab in West Berlin, an experimental performance space designed for the exploration of musical and political freedom (where Tangerine and Klaus both played). So, for previously unreleased material from Conrad to become available is is an exciting affair indeed-- especially for those of us not lucky enough to have been in the crowds those nights in the 70s. Further Records have done just that, taking a previously unreleased 1972 performance from the vault and giving it a double LP pressing. As Conrad explains the origins of the performance: "I was invited to be part of an art exhibition, Szene 72 (it means 1972). This was happening in Stuttgart, London and Hamburg. From the London performance there was some music that was recorded to tape, but all this old cheap tape-material does not run on a tape player anymore. This, what you have, this has survived." -Further. "This is a precious artefact of a man fully in control, and ahead of his game." -Daniel Gottlieb, Altered Zones |
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Artist: 1/3 OCTAVE BAND Title: Tarakohe/Ritual Of Gravity Format: 7" Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "If youve ever heard of New Zealand musician Bill Wood, chances are that it was related to his work with Campbell Kneales Birchville Cat Motel. But Bill has his own line of space rock/guitar drone/massive atmopsherics as well, and he records them as 1/3 Octave Band. Woods music is new to my ears but its highly impressive. He takes a very maxist approach to drones, filling the pulses of his endless frontiers with shifting arrays of instrumental intrigue and ominously pulsing lights. A great thing, and on that thick Czech vinyl that weighs about a pound. What more could you want?" - Byron Coley, WIRE. Edition of 250. |
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Artist: ASCENSION Title: LP Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Two explosive side-long improvisations by Stefan Jaworzyn (guitar) and Tony Irving (drums), recorded in 94. Hot shit!"-Eddie Flowers |
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Artist: BLUES CONTROL Title: Puff Format: CD Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| First album now on CD (vinyl is out of print)! "...the music of Blues Control, as evidenced on this record, is a master work explodin. It germinates absolutely from the bowels of the Blues but erupts via a postmodern portal; there are gorgeous sheens of rust that fissure throughout, harmonicas smoke in the distance, guitars splatter, keyboards ooze white hot neo psychedelic lava, in the end, like the music emitted from Apollos lyre, it is a devastatingly wondrous experience. And as much as I hear the (non specific) PSF or Akiyama buzz, to me Blues Control seem beget from the prominent clang & snarl of Dead C, who was beget by This Heat, who was beget by Faust, from whose seed it all originated. And thats nothin to sneeze about, unless yous is allergic to greatness. A cd on Holy Mountain is next. Theys on tour right now too, so drop everything & go seeem! I know its early, but Puff seems a shoe-in for one of the years best." - Siltblog. "Puff is the work of two modern gris gris chefs, and the most righteously authentic stoner gumbo this side of Twin Infinitives or Jungle Rot. Glittery framed sunglasses and dopers remorse. The finest racket of 2007 so far." - james jackson toth/wooden wand. "Blues Controls distorted rumblings sound like Mountain or Cream songs emanating from a sunken submarine." -- New York Times. "Deep in the redundant junk DNA of the blues, between the reptilian throwbacks and vegetable remnants, lurks the mutation that gives life to Blues Control." -- Nick Southgate / The Wire. "Brute force monstrosity trudge in the cloudsmashing style of the mighty Blue Cheer...and impressionist, introspective space and electronic plant music on that subtle plane visited by Eric Satie and Popul Vuh." -- Arthur Magazine. "Celestial, watery progressive/psych stuns and beautiful puffs of minimal melody." -- Volcanic Tongue. "I saw Blues Control play a show a couple nights ago and it was totally weird and great. On top of being truly unique retro-futuristic heavy psychedelia (thats the part I expected), the visuals of their setup combined with the sonics to make me think of all kinds of unexpected things, like various beats & rhythms heard from passing cars.....cheap-keyboard entertainment in the neon-lit backs of inner-city restaurants...... all the details you might find inside a pawn shop or bodega.... what can I say, it is definitely some new kind of urban music." -- Larry Dolman / Blastitude. "The music of Blues Control, as evidenced on this record, is a master work explodin. It germinates absolutely from the bowels of the Blues but erupts via a postmodern portal; there are gorgeous sheens of rust that fissure throughout, harmonicas smoke in the distance, guitars splatter, keyboards ooze white hot neo psychedelic lava, in the end, like the music emitted from Apollos lyre, it is a devastatingly wondrous experience." -- Roland Woodbe / Siltblog. |
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Artist: BOSETTI, ALESSANDRO/GIUSEPPE IELASI/RENATO RINALDI Title: Oreledigneur Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Oreledigneur is a new project by Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi and Alessandro Bosetti, focused on improvisation using various sound sources, from home-built small electric devices to found or natural materials/objects. In this case, the pieces are taken from different, but always very informal, sessions recorded directly to Dat with a stereo condenser microphone. No editing or processing. Side 1 (2 pieces, 19min.) Ielasi/Rinaldi duo, recorded in Ritas kitchen, July 17th 1999. Contact microphones, little electric devices, modified cd players through tiny car speakers, small objects. Side 2 (4 pieces, 19 min.) The first piece is a Bosetti/Rinaldi duo, recorded near the Tagliamento river (open air), August 1999. A long metal pipe with a microphone inside, played with stones and wood. The remaining music was recorded by the trio in Alessandros kitchen, October 1999, with piano strings and household objects. In Friuli (in the north-east of Italy) Oreledigneur means "hares ears". This release is co-produced by Fringes (Italy) and Fusetron, and comes in an edition of 300 copies. Direct Metal Mastering, quality pressing, cardboard covers with printed handmade paper"-Fringes. Last few copies of this 1999 release.
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Artist: COPELAND, ERIC Title: Aladdin Format: 7" Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Backwards desert terror script. Laughter puzzles from the void. Over 15 spoken minutes. File under "FU"for Fusetron. Edition of 100 with sewn booklet sleeves." - Fusetron. Limit 1 per person.
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Artist: DISLOCATION Title: Coyotes Call Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Way-above-average improv from Japan. Electric strings (guitars?), saxophones, electronics, and samples move with unexpected ease frommeditative passages to intense blow-outs to free scatter. Sax player Yoshinori Yanagawa plays with the same sort of depth and passion as Albert Ayler--no fakin, no academic rendering. But hes only part of a much larger whole. The wash of precision rumble and sound-tweaking that surrounds everything creates chaos from an intensely ordered technology. Strange (not "weird"), exciting music."-Eddie Flowers. "An intensely intriguing IIIrd album from this Japanese guitar/sax/electronics trio, ostensibly in four parts; parts 01. & 04. being short nursery soundscapes, the curtain rise & fall for the mammoth central volcanic continent which is itself shattered into a flies-eye multitude of alternately blasting, then conversational fragments. Yoshinori Yanagawas saxophones veer between Brotzmanesque screams and the deep bowel-rumble of a severe high-colonic impaction (especially when played at 33.3rpm - later, at 45, things resumed a more distinctly saxophonic tone). Electronics dominate most of the tectonic mood swinging going on; Toyohiro Okazaki (& guest sample wrangler Syohei Iwasaki) comes on like some demonic incarnation of Ron Grainers BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Fujio Kimuras "electric strings" are so convincingly grafted on to electronics wall that they together describe a single, enclosed chunk of improvised airspace, which houses the fluttering horn. Coyotes Call is at times an intense and demanding listen, exploring a kind of electronoise-jazz (sans drums) landmass only hitherto trod by hardy souls (Borbeto/Voice Crack collabs being the obvious precedent). Definitely worthy of much further investigation." -Tim Cornelius; Opprobrium. A few more copies of this mid-90s Fusetron release. Dislocation also had two CDs on PSF. |
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Artist: DORAMAAR Title: Terra Incognita Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Fine free-rock garage-drone from New Zealanders Kim Pieters, Adria Morgan, and Sara Stephenson. Guitars feedback strum clang--drums pound freely--an occasional melody blossoms and quickly wilts--a few other sounds are employed. This music is noisy in its imprecision, but not really "noise." Its full of focused energy and grace, feels good, a nice play to visit."-Eddie Flowers. A few more copies of this mid-90s Fusetron release. |
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Alternation Format: Double LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Half-recorded in one blizzard, and completed by the next, Alternation is a years-in-the-making, tossed-off-in-a-moment exploration of the difference between EXCEPTER live on stage and EXCEPTER alone at home and the goal to eradicate the distinction between the two. Double the length and twice the depth of past EXCEPTER releases, Alternation is EXCEPTER looking both ways, a geometric expansion around all the territories marked so far in their brief discography: the primal death trips of Ka, the noise pop tropics of Vacation, the long drone goodnight of Throne, the cool electro doom of Self Destruction and the blasted steam cycle of Sunbomber." - Excepter. Double LP in heavy duty, full color gatefold jacket. Vinyl issue of the 5RC CD. |
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: KA Format: CD Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "... these eye-bending records make Excepter one of the best bands in an increasingly packed underground." - Marc Masters. Also includes the Vacation 12". |
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Self Destruction Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Players: John Fell Ryan: Vocals, Programming, Processing, Synth; Dan Hougland: Programming, Synth, Echo; Caitlin Cook: Vocals, Echo; Calder Martin: Vocals, Guitar, Percussion; Nathan Corbin: Synths. "Self Destruction" was recorded in the winter of 2004 and mixed, edited and reprocessed mostly in the winter of 2005. Self Destruction is the first Excepter record to be feature multi-track recording and overdubbing. Outside of Dan Houglands drum programming and a few vision directives from producer John Fell Ryan, the playing is entirely improvised by the group. Self Destruction is also the first Excepter record to prominently feature the polyphonic synthesizer playing of Nathan Corbin. The husband-wife duo of Caitlin Cook and Calder Martin make the final statement on the album as they take sole vocal duties on the last track, Your House. This recording has been edited short for maximum sonic impact on vinyl." - Recording Notes. "First off, Self Destruction is a house record. Perhaps more in spirit than in its realized form, but if that sounds like a joke, stop reading. New Yorks most amorphous five-necked entity (which includes Other Musics own Dan Hougland) have never been strangers to taking the longer, more undulating gravel road, as evidenced by the stretched out subterranean sermons on last years Ka album. On Self Destruction , Excepter crawl out of the cellar and into the warehouse. This is a house record. If Xenakis had made one. It is throbbing mental machine music that (much like the quintets live shows) appears to detour, but often climaxes with the religious fervor of a Wicker Man/Moodymann ritual. Definitely more Black Mahogani than Black Dice. Excepter just traveled all over New Weird America, and torched it in the process. Incendiary." - AK, Other Music. |
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Self Destruction Format: CD Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Players: John Fell Ryan: Vocals, Programming, Processing, Synth; Dan Hougland: Programming, Synth, Echo; Caitlin Cook: Vocals, Echo; Calder Martin: Vocals, Guitar, Percussion; Nathan Corbin: Synths. "Self Destruction" was recorded in the winter of 2004 and mixed, edited and reprocessed mostly in the winter of 2005. Self Destruction is the first Excepter record to be feature multi-track recording and overdubbing. Outside of Dan Houglands drum programming and a few vision directives from producer John Fell Ryan, the playing is entirely improvised by the group. Self Destruction is also the first Excepter record to prominently feature the polyphonic synthesizer playing of Nathan Corbin. The husband-wife duo of Caitlin Cook and Calder Martin make the final statement on the album as they take sole vocal duties on the last track, Your House. This recording has been edited short for maximum sonic impact on vinyl." - Recording Notes. "First off, Self Destruction is a house record. Perhaps more in spirit than in its realized form, but if that sounds like a joke, stop reading. New Yorks most amorphous five-necked entity (which includes Other Musics own Dan Hougland) have never been strangers to taking the longer, more undulating gravel road, as evidenced by the stretched out subterranean sermons on last years Ka album. On Self Destruction , Excepter crawl out of the cellar and into the warehouse. This is a house record. If Xenakis had made one. It is throbbing mental machine music that (much like the quintets live shows) appears to detour, but often climaxes with the religious fervor of a Wicker Man/Moodymann ritual. Definitely more Black Mahogani than Black Dice. Excepter just traveled all over New Weird America, and torched it in the process. Incendiary." - AK, Other Music. |
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Streams 01 Format: Double CD Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "A double compact disc retrospective of the first four years of the EXCEPTER live experience, selected, sequenced and edited by band acolyte Robert Girardin from the first thirty-six issues of the STREAMS mp3 series released free on the Internet and illustrated with photographs taken from the same." |
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Vacation/"Forget Me" Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Even though it would be wrong not to consider these protest songs against the back porch policies of certain undisclosed and secure locations, we shouldn⿿t let THEM come between us. EXCEPTER says, "Yeah, well play" ... freestyle, the crawl, the butterfly, the breast, the rest. "How long will you stay?" Just as expressions and intuitions reflect the oceans unleashed, there is no desert island, dig, just the big, bare teeth of EXCEPTER there, smiling beneath. "You forgot something?" To survive the coming weather, you are going to need to know a sailor, a captain, an engineer, a figurehead, as well as a pirate, so SHOW ... A continuous stream of music split into two sides. Performed and mixed live to stereo. SS EXCEPTER:"Were only a world away." - Excepter. "For the second time in a row now, one of Brooklyns grandest experimental entourages have presented us with a sonic totem whose jaunty and bright packaging belie an almost certain palpable sense of unease. This new twelve-inch is entitled "Vacation", and here Excepter have perhaps crafted a treatise on nothing less than the uncomfortable aspects of having to leave oneshome. Or they may well have been channeling the soundtrack to a particularly bizarre road trip I once went on involving an Indian burial ground, a cross eyed woman Xeroxing chain letters at a supermarket, and an extremely sadistic alligator farm outside of Hot Springs, Arkansas where I witnessed a stuffed Fiji Merman. Unease indeed. But of course, like on any worthy and good vacation, once youve become used to new unsettling sensations like foot blisters and sunburn you realize how sublime the landscape is. And sublimity is what Excepter trades in spades. Side-one positions the moment where you have trouble getting your bearings, trouble putting your surroundings into perspective. The rhythms are all displaced, their center of gravity slackened by synths squiggling all willy-nilly looking for something to latch onto. Side-two, "Forget Me," is where everything comes into focus -- like a photograph that you can spend some time with to chart your inner progress. This track could be Excepters pop moment, their breezy road trip down the Autobahn (and here the Kraut reference is especially apt). Pistons fired, these beats are allowed to lope carefree into the coming summers new season of discontent. Ex-ceptional." - Michael Klausman; Other Music. |
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Artist: FERIAL CONFINE Title: Full Use Of Nothing Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Reissue of the ultra rare (edition of 50) debut cassette from 1985 by Andrew Chalk at this time not yet going under his own name. more noisy, yet still very organic, this shows the roots of his sounds, which The New Blockaders would later heavily borrow from for their later recordings.repacked in new and stunning color artwork." - Anomalous.
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Artist: FINE, MILO Title: Frequency Etchings (Ongoing Celebrations of Insignificance) Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "An improvised (and unintentional) rejoinder to such compositions as Rainier Riehns Chants De Maldoror, Cages Cartridge Music and Variations 2 (as realized by David Tudor) and other raw, random electronic music from the late 60s/early 70s." - Milo Fine. Solo clarinet/electronics set recorded live Nov 20,1998 at Roadrunner Records in Minneapolis and presented here in its entirety. This is Milos 19th document following the release of the triple CD Surges/Suspensions Comme Toujours. In the last few years hes been fairly active; a video release on Incus (as the Guttercleaners with partner Susan Sperl), an Ensemble CD on Emanem and participation in 2003s Freedom In The City festival in London where he collaborated with Hugh Davies, Derek Bailey and others. This LP is a numbered edition of 330 with high quality RTI pressing and full color paste-on sleeves. |
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Artist: FINE, MILO FREE JAZZ ENSEMBLE Title: Another Outbreak Of Iconoclasm (Two Eggs Slightly Beaten) Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: GANG GANG DANCE Title: Gang Gang Dance Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| ⿿Gang Gang Dance are a group composed of well-known entities (in and around NYC in particular) but have left a sporadic, almost shadowy, impression upon people nonetheless. Various members play/have played in various other bands. Theyll surface to play a clutch of shows, most all well-attended, only to disappear again (as regards to any kind of reliable congregation). Oh, and theres also been no record to speak of, save a 100-copy CD, more or less fleetingly manifested for an art event with probably somewhere that amount of attendees. Anyways, now we have a document, albeit LP only, and thankfully definitely a good one. The opening female vocal ululations soon enough refract electronically, and the summoned whalesong dimension spires into an urgent metempsychotic groove. Coming as they do from different angles, its safe to assume there is humanity to the postproduction approach on here. Indeed the first side in its totality achieves a narrative facility which, when sized up against the nature of its parts, could remind one of a more quietly-alloyed Chrome. It does not end there, in fact there is something of a sense of unfinished business, and the second side strikes off with a snapping dream of desert suspense. Machinic industry rises up here too though, marking yet another salient entre into the crafted spuriousness GGD seek to espouse. An open drone fills for much of the half, accumulating a lyric denouement that possesses overtures toward melody and texture but less toward propulsive mien. Again, and as always with this outfit, not so fast, especially in assuming the accumulation will not build anew, and fairly dramatically, before the end. And it is when it in fact does that sadly deceased member Nathan Maddox joins the fray most obviously, his vox working up the Can-like lather along with the suddenly more brash (especially after the subdued interlude) compatriots, everything spiking up to the sendoff digitized muezzin wail. - Dan Hougland; Other Music. Features Tim DeWit (ex-Cranium, Ssab Songs, Angelblood, White Magic, Neil Michael Hagerty, Cass McCombs), Brain DeGraw (ex-Cranium, Ssab Songs, Angelblood), Liz Bougatsos (Actress, Angelblood), Josh Diamond (Ssab Songs), and Nathan Maddox. Housed in a full color gatefold jacket. Repressed!! |
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Artist: GANG GANG DANCE Title: Gang Gang Dance Format: CD Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Gang Gang Dance are a group composed of well-known entities (in and around NYC in particular) but have left a sporadic, almost shadowy, impression upon people nonetheless. Various members play/have played in various other bands. Theyll surface to play a clutch of shows, most all well-attended, only to disappear again (as regards to any kind of reliable congregation). Oh, and theres also been no record to speak of, save a 100-copy CD, more or less fleetingly manifested for an art event with probably somewhere that amount of attendees. Anyways, now we have a document and thankfully definitely a good one. The opening female vocal ululations soon enough refract electronically, and the summoned whalesong dimension spires into an urgent metempsychotic groove. Coming as they do from different angles, its safe to assume there is humanity to the postproduction approach on here. Indeed the first side in its totality achieves a narrative facility which, when sized up against the nature of its parts, could remind one of a more quietly-alloyed Chrome. It does not end there, in fact there is something of a sense of unfinished business, and the second side strikes off with a snapping dream of desert suspense. Machinic industry rises up here too though, marking yet another salient entre into the crafted spuriousness GGD seek to espouse. An open drone fills for much of the half, accumulating a lyric denouement that possesses overtures toward melody and texture but less toward propulsive mien. Again, and as always with this outfit, not so fast, especially in assuming the accumulation will not build anew, and fairly dramatically, before the end. And it is when it in fact does that sadly deceased member Nathan Maddox joins the fray most obviously, his vox working up the Can-like lather along with the suddenly more brash (especially after the subdued interlude) compatriots, everything spiking up to the sendoff digitized muezzin wail."- Dan Hougland; Other Music. Features Tim DeWit (ex-Cranium, Ssab Songs, Angelblood, White Magic, Neil Michael Hagerty, Cass McCombs), Brain DeGraw (ex-Cranium, Ssab Songs, Angelblood), Liz Bougatsos (Actress, Angelblood), Josh Diamond (Ssab Songs), and Nathan Maddox.
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Artist: HURRAY Title: Dreams, Not Soft Illusion Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Hurray is Zak Prekop, Josh Brand, Pete Mandradjieff & Rich Aldrich. They hail from the hidden sectors of New York City, and have released one 7" on the skul record label and recently presented their first art show at the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery also of New York City. This is their first full length recording and is a must for fans of ambiguous, anomalous, and unobtrusive sound creation whose mystery is not invoked by hyperbole, pseudo-mythology or fake histories, but by giving full allowance to otherness and seeking beauty by allowing it to happen, which often means allowing it not to happen. Mishandled guitars, unknown electronics, amplified percussives and various layers of buzz coagulate and dissipate in measured restraint. I hesitate to use blighted terms like "lowercase" music, as Hurray shys not from some harsher territories and melodic (if emaciated and ghostly) material sometimes drifts into consciousness; two things I think of as contrasting w/ the more didactic, "European" music associated w/ said term. So, Ill avoid terminology and just say Im very glad to know this record." - Greg Kelley, 12/27/05. |
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Artist: INSTITUT FUER FEINMOTORIK Title: Negemergenz Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Swiss-German sound researchers with an interesting, very effective approach to turntable manipulation: Using six to eight record players simultaneously, they play only the run-out grooves or labels of the records, plus generate tones using rubber bands, adhesive tape, and tooth brushes to tweak the phono cartridges and repeating lock-grooved records. The resulting sounds range from ultraminimal blipsnhiss to solid grooves not too far from Krautrock- Eddie Flowers. "..(LP) from the German masters of a new genre: "runoff groove". That is, electronic music created from the snap-crackle- pop of old LP runoff grooves, tonearm feedback, et cetera. Minimal tones that slowly build into rhythmic order. Their previously self-released (and now long gone) 12" & 10" wowed me with a brilliant focus on the tiny "unwanted" byproducts of the vinyl medium. Synchronic with Pole, Porter Ricks, Oval, et al., but with an even more experimental feel than previously believed possible. A 100% necessary release" - Jace Krause (HotF/Lost In Translation). Found a few more copies of this 1999 release. Slight storage wear on the jackets. Highly recommended! |
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Artist: K-GROUP/OMIT Title: Storage Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Not a split release by these two New Zealand artists, but a collaboration, carrying on from their 1997 single on Colorful Clouds for Acoustics. The weapons of choice are analogue synthesizers and the approach is slowly unfolding drones and drifting veils of sound that part and close across the listeners third ear like storms on the surface of Jupiter.
K-Group is Paul Toohey, previously of noted NZ geological drone ensemble Surface of the Earth, who also has a solo album under this name on Corpus Hermeticum. Omit is Clinton Williams, who has also recorded for that notorious NZ un-easy listening label, as well as extensively on his own Deep Skin imprint. During 2000 and 2001, having failed to bring down the global economy with their now-forgotten Y2K scam [remember Y2K? - I thought not], this pair of Hidden Masters turned their efforts towards late-night kitchen jam sessions during their holiday moments. In these each would fire up an antiquated analogue synth and the resulting aural collisions would be recorded on a handy hard drive, then tweaked, inverted, eqd and edited to produce the immaculate slabs of sound contained within the tiny grooves of this ludicrously out-dated analogue sound-reproducing format.
These seven tracks simulate the calm of the newly sedated patient about to undergo a surgical procedure, just as he or she is starting to slip into unconsciousness. You can listen, but just when you think youre hearing something, you realise that 12 hours have gone by and you have a new and inexplicable scar on some unlikely part of your anatomy. Too late you realise that the sound you can hear at the very edge of audition is not this recording, but the sound of forty metal robotic insects starting to eat their way out through your still-sedated navel. Waking with a start in time to flip the album over on your turntable, you notice that subsonic frequencies have begun to rearrange the contents of your mantlepiece into a veritable Morris Dance of inanimate objects, when you thought the audio had not yet begun to play back. A vestigial bass throb starts up in the back of your cranium, as very slow-moving if not actually stationary spacecraft begin to land in the garden. Three days later they are still hovering as the seventh and final track of thr album begins to play, and infinitesimally subtle stereo effects start panning in impossible permutations audible only between your shoulder blades.
Apparent suspension of time, delirious interludes, interference with the basic laws of physics, all of these effects are possible results of listening to the beautifully poised, finely polished and unutterably beautiful sounds contained in this simultaneously forbidding and inviting artifact. If, like me, these are all the things you look for in a sound recording, then look no further. If its merely music you require, then I suggest you meddle not in the affairs of your betters and proceed directly to the nearest chain CD store and stock up big time." -Bruce Russell [Noise Legend], Lyttelton, NZ, May 2002.
"Heres a piece of wax that came out back in 2002, and its a title that we thought was long discontinued by Fusetron. But, luckily, somehow, a handful of copies still exist, and if youre keen on the stun-drone / brain-zonk electronics currently blasted by the EMERALDS axis, you NEED to investigate everything that Omit has ever released. Our words from way back when... Both K-Group and Omit have been longtime aQuarius favorites from the New Zealand experimental noise scene; but unfortunately, theyve been pretty quiet in their respective outputs during the past couple of years. K-Group is the solo project for Paul Toohey, who has also worked in the (defunct?) Surface Of The Earth, both of which centered around low-frequency tectonic drones coaxed from abused amplifiers. Clinton Williams has taken up the Omit moniker for his creepy, tape loop compositions loaded with bleak sci-fi / psychotic imagery. This collaboration between Williams and Toohey is actually their second, if you count a 7" which came out ages ago. In running Williams battery of analog synths through Tooheys cabinets, theyve constructed an eerie album of deep rumblings that are on par with anything that Coleclough, Koner, or Troum have managed to release. As the K-Group / Omit drones ripple with a gritty amplifier buzz often lacking in the driftwork of those aforementioned artists, "Storage" pulses with a subterranean heaviness, pushing this closer towards the Earth / SUNNO))) terrain. A really wonderful album!!!" - Aquarius. |
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Artist: K-SALVATORE Title: Ashmadai Format: Double LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Two adepts of the sonic arts return with a morality play in four sides. Gone are the appeals to the winged serpent, the tree of life, or other past luminaries; these days they can be seen in consort with only one: ASHMADAI. It is said that Ashmadai is not to be feared. When you say to it: "In truth thou art Ashmadai," it will give you a wonderful ring. It will teach you geometry, arithmetic, astronomy and mechanics. When questioned, it answers truthfully. Released on two twelve inch 45 RPM platters - wide grooves for maximum impact to the ear." |
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Artist: SHIRAISHI, TAMIO & SEAN MEEHAN Title: In The City Format: One Sided LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "each summer tamio shiraishi & sean meehan pair up for a series of outdoor concerts in new york city always in a different location, the concerts explore unwatched and unconsidered sites of the city. (this LP) is the first release of this summer tradition. 12" vinyl with a b-sided etching by knickerbocker." - sean meehan. Recorded underneath the West Side Highway at 59th Street, NYC, by Geoff Dugan, 21 july 2001. SEAN MEEHAN - "Current performances generally find Meehan playing only the snare drum in a manner that sheds conventional usage and reconstructs the conception and function of the instrument." Meehan has collaborated with Sachiko M, Mamoru Fujieda, Michihiro Sato, Edwin Torres, Muigel Algarin, Greg Kelley, Ami Yoshida, Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetzui Akiyama, Kiyoharu Kuwayama and many others. Additionally he has performed throughout North and South America, Asia and Eastern Europe. TAMIO SHIRAISHI - Shiraishi has been performing since the late 1970s, including playing drums and synthesizer in an early incarnation of Fushitsusha. His first released recordings, consisting of solo sax with broken drum machine, were included on the 1981 Aiyoku Jinmin Juji Gekijo compilation on Pinakotheca (who also released the first Keiji Haino LP). Hes currently living in NYC and occasionally collaborates with the No Neck Blues Band. GEOFF DUGAN - "Geoff Dugan has been performing, recording, and producing sonic environments since 1983. Recent projects include a binaural psychogeography recording and performance: "aberto/fechyado parque serralves" at the Serralves Foundation in Oporto and an audio psychogeographical report from New York performed at the 2002 Zeppelin Festival of Sound Art in Barcelona. Geoff runs the recording label GD Stereo that has released a series of compilation compact discs organized around psychogeography and the theory of the dérive among the various (the artists): The Architecture of the Incidental (1999) and Psychogeographical Dip (1997). Solo projects include Play in random or shuffle mode. (GD Stereo, 2001), Surface Tension (Open Circuit, 2000) and the Stomach Ache Records release Technical Comfort Formalistic Style Features (7" vinyl - 1994). Geoff is also an architect and lives in NYC." |
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Castle Moat/Invisible Coats Format: 7" Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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"I dont wanna eat McDonalds, I wanna eat Sightings!" - Jack Brewer; Saccharine Trust, , May 19, 2005. "Tour" single, edition of 500. Plays at 33 rpm, despite what the label says.
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: End Times Format: CD Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Fiery phoenix, four horsemen, or just plain ferocious, Sightings is back with another free rock H-Bomb. Comprised primarily of improvisations and recorded for the price of cassette tape, they leave no doubt western civilization is coming to an end....But seriously folks, this CD is companion to a vinyl release on the EN/OF label. EN/OF is a series of releases from the Bottrop-Boy record label. Every release contains a 12" record & an art edition and is limited to 100 copies. Sightings is paired with the German painter Daniel Richter who contributed an exclusive piece, "Das Schönste Ist Geschichte", an offset print,30x90 cm, with hand-painted elements. The LP features three tracks from "End Times" as well as another exclusive track. Richter was kind enough to lend artwork for the CD as well. "End Times" is 56 minutes of head-rinsing to take the millennarian fever to the next level." |
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Artist: STORM BUGS Title: Up The Middle Down The Sides Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"After some twenty years in the wilderness when Storm Bugs were known only to a handful of aficionados, the DIY electronic duo were rediscovered in 2000 when they were included on the deliciously dodgy but possibly seminal bootleg LP I Hate the Pop Group. A CD of the Bugs finer moments followed shortly after on the reactivated Snatch Tapes label and prompted one receiver to comment "How could such sounds, radically challenging the accepted texture of electronic music, have been recorded over 20 years ago?" Another review suggested that.. "they were spiritual forefathers to Oval and todays Clicks & Cuts generation".
Since 2001 Storm Bugs have featured on stations such as Resonance FM and WFMU and there have been more archive recordings by Philip Sanderson (one half of the duo) reissued by labels such as Anomalous and Die Stadt including collaborations with Organum main man David Jackman. There was even an EP of new material The Bugs are Back put out by Klanggalerie in 2002.
Many have thought that there must be more vintage Storm Bugs recordings in the attic and after a 2 year period of intense rummaging and restoration Fusetron are pleased to present a further installment of Storm Bugs material from 1978-82 entitled Up the Middle Down the Sides.
The LP delves deep into the Snatch Tapes sound banks to produced two continuous collaged sides of often-spontaneous sonic experimentation. Tracks such as Skid Pan Buoy and Thin Line Flash of Traffic use the classic Bugs DIY instrumentation of rewired radios, scratched vinyl and disemboweled guitars (Storm Bugs were circuit bending before the term was invented). Other pieces such as Little Bob Minor exploit the sonic capabilities of that most eccentric of British synthesizers the VCS3. But this is not simply a barrage of industrial mayhem for spliced into the fabric of controlled excess are moments of contemplative soundscapes such as 111 and Waspbottle, the latter scored for a duet of milk bottle and wasp synthesiser.
In short Up the Middle Down the Sides is possibly the first (and last) DIY electronic concept LP." - Storm Bugs.
The Storm Bugs are Philip Sanderson and Steven Ball (with special guest David Jackman of Organum on the track In The Naked Girls Majesty).
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Artist: WOLF EYES & BLACK DICE Title: Wolf Eyes & Black Dice Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"The first young shorty that ever made my preteen heart sweat at night was Brandy Salem. So fine. The stage was set for some serious 8-year-old dating action but I got snaked by this lame dude named Shawn Murphy who won Brandys eye by shuffling baseball cards faster & being a little crazier on his four-wheel green machine. It killed me ... all summer I tried to get faster on the cards & upstage everyone on the street big wheel scene, but alas, no Salem. She moved to Iowa, still think of her when that "Im in love with the sea" song comes on. Fucking Shawn....
Fast forward 21 years ... in the game of pure electronic hard-core insanity, Wolf Eyes hear rumors of this RI band of PCP chair-throwing HC yahoos who hold the crown on violence & sonic terror. Fuck that. We thought we were the end of the well in electronic napalm. This Black Dice band wanted to play in Detroit ... no one will do it. Fear of violence/death threats/general horror left them with no gig. "Why would I wanna book a band who is gonna beat up my friends?" was the local consensus. So BD get a Monday gig at Club Olson/my basement in quiet Ferndale, home to a handful of whacked out electronic misfit gigs. Neighbors of the crib being left side= young couple / right side = quiet lesbian couple with child. My cell rings nonstop days before the gig with crazed young HC fiends asking if the gig is true. I start to get nervous, then I hear they need like 30,000 watts for their gig. What the?
Gig day/come home from my office job & the Dice dudes are waiting for me. These are the horrible terror junkies who stab people when they play? All I see is smiles, loafers, Bjorn playing with a kid, and starry-eyed-vacant-brain Danny. Weird. Then they load in; mounds of amplifiers, mounds. The whole basement looking like Iron Maiden was gonna play. Wolf Eyes jams, we think it is intense, whatever. Then they play ... starting with solo recorder and then / WHOA /the most violent, insane, Hiroshima tidal roar of basement sonic terror EVER. EVER. We never heard or witnessed anything so massive. We have seen the Merzbows, the Skin Crimes, the Gravitars, Youth In Asia, whatever.. This was in a totally different sound universe where the air is filled with concrete. It was louder in the street than it was in the basement black hole of sound. Imagine Black Dice playing in your fucking basement on a Monday night! Jesus. No neighbor complaints. Changed our view on sound/terror/attack. This was our challenge; meet this Dice volume unholiness on the same sonic field before Shawn Murphy & his Outlaw band does it better. Dudes were so cool two of them even slept in the basement. Awesome.
So we became best friends. Nate called me at work the next morning & said "we are gonna do a record together" I laughed ... that would rule...
So fast forward another two years. Here is it is. Recorded at a subterranean Chinatown studio in two days. Tons of jacked EQ, no space, cases of brew, clouds of smoke, Guinness record for most times "Dude" was said. We met on equal ground here. Total respect/the record really sounds like the shadow of each band. It was a blast. Play it on 16 rpm in a closet and jam along with the bones of an enemy. Me, it would be playing the remains of that rat fucker Shawn Murphy, dude couldnt shake shit at this horrible eerie black pond sound." - John Olson, Wolf Eyes, October 2003. Different recordings than the American Tapes CDRs. Recorded Oct 2001.
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Artist: WOLF EYES & BLACK DICE Title: Wolf Eyes & Black Dice Format: CD Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "The first young shorty that ever made my preteen heart sweat at night was Brandy Salem. So fine. The stage was set for some serious 8-year-old dating action but I got snaked by this lame dude named Shawn Murphy who won Brandys eye by shuffling baseball cards faster & being a little crazier on his four-wheel green machine. It killed me ... all summer I tried to get faster on the cards & upstage everyone on the street big wheel scene, but alas, no Salem. She moved to Iowa, still think of her when that "Im in love with the sea" song comes on. Fucking Shawn.... Fast forward 21 years ... in the game of pure electronic hard-core insanity, Wolf Eyes hear rumors of this RI band of PCP chair-throwing HC yahoos who hold the crown on violence & sonic terror. Fuck that. We thought we were the end of the well in electronic napalm. This Black Dice band wanted to play in Detroit ... no one will do it. Fear of violence/death threats/general horror left them with no gig. "Why would I wanna book a band who is gonna beat up my friends?" was the local consensus. So BD get a Monday gig at Club Olson/my basement in quiet Ferndale, home to a handful of whacked out electronic misfit gigs. Neighbors of the crib being left side= young couple / right side = quiet lesbian couple with child. My cell rings nonstop days before the gig with crazed young HC fiends asking if the gig is true. I start to get nervous, then I hear they need like 30,000 watts for their gig. What the? Gig day/come home from my office job & the Dice dudes are waiting for me. These are the horrible terror junkies who stab people when they play? All I see is smiles, loafers, Bjorn playing with a kid, and starry-eyed-vacant-brain Danny. Weird. Then they load in; mounds of amplifiers, mounds. The whole basement looking like Iron Maiden was gonna play. Wolf Eyes jams, we think it is intense, whatever. Then they play ... starting with solo recorder and then / WHOA /the most violent, insane, Hiroshima tidal roar of basement sonic terror EVER. EVER. We never heard or witnessed anything so massive. We have seen the Merzbows, the Skin Crimes, the Gravitars, Youth In Asia, whatever.. This was in a totally different sound universe where the air is filled with concrete. It was louder in the street than it was in the basement black hole of sound. Imagine Black Dice playing in your fucking basement on a Monday night! Jesus. No neighbor complaints. Changed our view on sound/terror/attack. This was our challenge; meet this Dice volume unholiness on the same sonic field before Shawn Murphy & his Outlaw band does it better. Dudes were so cool two of them even slept in the basement. Awesome. So we became best friends. Nate called me at work the next morning & said "we are gonna do a record together" I laughed ... that would rule... So fast forward another two years. Here is it is. Recorded at a subterranean Chinatown studio in two days. Tons of jacked EQ, no space, cases of brew, clouds of smoke, Guinness record for most times "Dude" was said. We met on equal ground here. Total respect/the record really sounds like the shadow of each band. It was a blast. Play it on 16 rpm in a closet and jam along with the bones of an enemy. Me, it would be playing the remains of that rat fucker Shawn Murphy, dude couldnt shake shit at this horrible eerie black pond sound." - John Olson, Wolf Eyes, October 2003. Different recordings than the American Tapes CDRs. Recorded Oct 2001. CD features 2 extra tracks. |
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Artist: YOUNGS, RICHARD Title: 171 Used Train Tickets Format: 10" Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"The Old Angel, Nottingham, 1990. It was the A-Bands third live show and we were calling ourselves Advent for the evening in honour of a local record shop who - judging by their filing system - thought they were stocking an album entitled Richard Youngs by Advent rather than Advent by Richard Youngs. For reasons that escape me now, Id hoarded 171 used train tickets. It felt like a cool idea to read them out. So I did. Not in the privacy of my own home, but to an audience. They seemed to enjoy it. As soon as Id finished, the A-Band struck up and a good time was had by all." - Richard Youngs. Artwork by Madeleine Hynes. Limited edition of 330 Copies. One Side 10" w/ Laser-Etched B-Side.
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Artist: YOUNGS, RICHARD & ANDREW PAINE Title: Mauve Dawn Format: LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "For the past eight years Andrew Paine and Richard Youngs have met on almost every Sunday and recorded music. Mauve Dawn is the result of ten meetings during 2004. Its nine tracks feature processed epinette des vosges, glockenspiel, vintage keyboards and guitars alongside granularly synthesised household objects hacked together with resonated voices and filtered bells in a stereo field heavy on ring modulation. One part of the Mauve trilogy, this is an instrumental album of classic length." - Richard Youngs & Andrew Paine. |
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Artist: THEATRE DU CHENE NOIR Title: Aurora Format: LP Label: Futura Country: France Price: $29.00 |
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"Reissue of the legendary Aurora album by the French band called Chene Noir in limited vinyl edition. Steeped in damaged atmosphere, theatrical hysterics, flute and crumpled rock, this one meets the freak-out mania quota of any Nurse With Wound list-disciple in spades." - Futura. Originally released in 1971. Highly recommended!
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Artist: PEACOCK, ANNETTE Title: Im The One Format: LP Label: Future Days Country: USA Price: $33.00 |
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"Im The One, you dont have to look any further. Im The One. Im here, right here for you, oozes jazz, rock, and electronic music pioneer Annette Peacock on the leadoff title track of her solo debut LP. The albums wide range of vocal emotions and diverse sonic palette (featuring Robert Moogs early modular synthesizers, which the singer actually transmitted her voice through to wild effect) places it firmly at the forefront of the pop avant-garde. Originally released by RCA Victor in 1972 to widespread critical acclaim, Im The One found itself amongst good company. Both Lou Reed and David Bowie had recently signed to the label--Bowie in particular was enamored with Annette--and artists ranging from ex-husband and jazz great Paul Bley, along with notable Brazilian percussionists Airto Moreira and Dom Um Romao, guested on the album itself. Writing and arranging Im The Ones nine passionate tracks--bar a unique cover of Elvis Presleys Love Me Tender-- the disc grooves easily from free jazz freak-outs and rough and rugged blues-funk to gently pulsing synthesized bliss. The second release on our Future Days Recordings imprint, Im The One is returning to better record shops on CD and LP formats, re-mastered from the original tapes with an insert containing beautiful unseen photos from the vaults of Sony Music and extensive liner notes from NYC-based writer and musician, Mikey IQ Jones. An extension of Annettes late 1960s work with her Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show combo, Im The One is filled with strength and power, as well as a tender, sensual, and seductive side, born of a life surrounded with music and culture. Composing by age four, Peacocks mother was a professional violinist. By the early 1960s, Annette had also collaborated with first husband, jazz bassist Gary Peacock and toured with legendary saxophone player Albert Ayler. Studying under Zen macrobiotics educator Michio Kushi and a confidant to Timothy Leary at the Millbrook psychedelic center, Peacock later worked, post-Im The One, with rock stalwarts like guitarists Mick Ronson and Chris Spedding, Yes/King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford, as well as surrealist artist Salvador Dali. Light years ahead of her early 1970s contemporaries in terms of individuality and uncompromising vision, the album makes todays major label computer generated fabrications an embarrassment to listeners worldwide. Still to this day, Annette remains a passionate advocate, an enigma caught between the peace and love vibrations of a hippy counterculture and the more worldly intelligence of the modern age. Her records continue to influence and inspire, and with Im The One finally back on the shelves, countless new jacks on the scene can scope its liner notes and bear witness to its brilliance. Hand-numbered edition of 1000 copies. Gatefold LP version with 18"x24" poster." -Future Days.
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Artist: STEWART, MARK Title: Children Of The Revolution/Nothing Is Sacred Format: 7" Label: Future Noise Music Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Mark Stewart, sonic visionary and pioneer of mutant music returns. Limited edition of 500, individually hand-painted and numbered 7" single for Black Friday. Double A-side. Each hand-worked sleeve constitutes one unique piece of Marks bombart. Ultra-violently noisy and perfectly capturing the restless mood on todays global streets from London to Libya, these two non-album tracks come from recent sessions for Mark Stewarts forthcoming LP. The apocalyptic revamp of T. Rexs "Children Of The Revolution" sees Mark team up with The Bug for a jaggedly compulsive take on the glam classic. "Nothing Is Sacred" features Crass Eve Libertine, Berlin electro monsters Slope and Pop Group bassist Dan Catsis -- a rabble-rousing clarion call and indictment of 2011 Britain." - Future Noise Music. |
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Artist: STEWART, MARK (FEAT. FACTORY FLOOR) Title: Stereotype Format: Double 12" Label: Future Noise Music Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "Double 12" release, one black and one white vinyl. Comes with download card. "Stereotype," from Mark Stewarts The Politics of Envy (FNM 002CD/LP), gets reworked by a host of guest producers. Hype Williams unravels "Stereotype" into a breath-taking dub-spectacle, Fred Venturas remix radiates with cosmic Italo, Daniel B of Front 242 rewires it like an electronica Frankenstein, Perc offers a heavy, mechanical remix and Chrissy Murderbot carries you out with guns blazing. Finally, Mark Stewarts dub version is a taste of his upcoming Exorcism of Envy LP." - Future Noise Music. |
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Artist: BINNING, RAVI Title: In The City of Mimes Format: Cass Label: Future Sound Index Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Minimalist music for human holograms and living statues. An all analog synth affair made mechanical by tape delay loop rhythms. Cut live straight from source. Not too far from the loner synth chamber music of Mark Anthony Heide or the early 80s home taper compositions on the ICR label... 100 pro printed and dubbed cassettes, black shells with white printing on the tape." - Future Sound Index. Latest from Matt Mondaniles (Ducktails/Real Estate) label. |
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Artist: SONNY & THE SUNSETS Title: Hypnotist Format: 7" Label: Future Stress Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Helmed by the acclaimed songwriter, playwright, author and onetime troubadour piano man SONNY SMITH, THE SUNSETS hail from San Franciscos Ocean Beach district and feature a revolving door lineup that now permanently includes KELLEY STOLTZ, RYAN BROWNE and TAHLIA HARBOUR. Friends and neighbors including JOHN DWYER (OH SEES) and TIM COHEN (FRESH & ONLYS) appeared to contribute to their debut LP, Tomorrow is Alright. Sonny & The Sunsets first release on Future Stress Recordings comes in the form of a four-song 7-inch. Three of the songs were recorded at a Headlands Center for the Arts residency in March 2009, and are not featured on the full-length. Packaged with an exclusive comic book-Zig Speck: Phenomenal Musician, Colorful Carouser - written & illustrated by Sonny." - Future Stress. |
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Artist: SONNY & THE SUNSETS Title: Hypnotist Format: 7" Label: Future Stress Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "SONNY & THE SUNSETS first release on Future Stress Recordings comes in the form of a four-song 7-inch. Three of the songs were recorded at a Headlands Center for the Arts residency in March 2009, and are not featured on the full-length." -Future Stress |
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Artist: DORONCO GUMO Title: Old Punks Format: CD Label: Fuyusoubi Music Publishing Country: Japan Price: $18.00 |
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"Doronco is a bass player who is most well known for his stints in Les Rallizes D�nud�s, Suishou no Fune and with Keiji Haino. Here he is joined by members of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, a Frenchman and an additional female vocalist who have made an album of sophisticated 70s style downer pop. The band uses vocals, bassoon and trumpet over a see-sawing battle of piano / guitar shrill balanced against warm rhythms that sound suspiciously close to how you want them to. Translated as "Mud Cloud," the name is actually poetic in a Zen beggar wandering monk kind of way. Their avant bar-rock style is not unlike Cinderellas Revenge recorded in the same studio as "Vintage Violence" with the conscious heartbreak of something like "Even Serpents Shine." A bright to bummer, and back to bright narrative flows throughout the albums nine songs..."Old Punks" will nail down something for you that you didnt know needed to be nailed down." - Holy Mountain. 2008 Japanese CD release. Vinyl out on Holy Mountain.
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Artist: FUKUDA, HIIRAGI Title: Oya Wa Touhoku, Oto Kumori Format: CD Label: Fuyusoubi Music Publishing Country: Japan Price: $18.00 |
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Artist: KIMIMIMIZU/HARUTAKA MOCHIZUKI Title: Shizuoka Live Format: 7" Label: Fuzainoisu Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
| "Mochizuki Harutaka is a Tokyo-based "next-wave" multi-instrumentalist who combines blasted vocals with solo saxophone, bells, guitar and piano. His haunted vocal style is pitched somewhere between Jandek, Keiji Haino and a death-decadent torch singer, while his saxophone improvisations orbit the same lonely satellites as solo thinkers like Masayoshi Urabe, Arthur Doyle, Anthony Braxton and Kaoru Abe. Nerve-flaying blues from a player who has been there and back." -Le Weekend Festival. Kikimimizu is solo voice/acoustic guitar, very much in the ORG records vein. Packaged in a screenprinted cardboard box with string and button closure, with several inserts. Numbered to 100 copies. |
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Artist: ANALOGUE SOCIETY Title: Mechanical Restraint Format: 7" Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $12.00 |
 Analogue Society are Lary 7 and Jim Sharpe. "All pieces recorded live at the Plastikville Studio. Sound sources through the use of pure analogue devices and various kinds of metal apparata connected through electronics, unaffected in any way in the hope of rendering a kind of sonic inscription of the machines." - Fylkingen. |
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Artist: BACK, SVEN-ERIK Title: Electronic Music Format: LP Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $16.00 |
| "Sven-Erik Bäck was in his versatility unique among Swedish composers. Since his debut in the 1940s, he was regarded as a radical avantgardist and since Bäck was also a performer, the musical result became most interesting. Since his first electronic work -- In Principio (1970) Bäck produced many electronic as well as instrumental and vocal compositions. He also combined music with other media such as dance and visual art." - Fylkingen. |
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Artist: BODIN, LARS-GUNNAR Title: Clouds Format: LP Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
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"Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Swedish composer and graphic artist, was one of those who during the first half of the 60s tried to integrate elements of different fields of art in his works: instrumental music, tapes, texts, actions, projections etc. In Clouds (1972-76) he developed an advanced form of musical drama involving electronic music in 8 channels, singers, dancers and slide and film projections on five screens. The music on this record is a shortened version of Clouds, especially created for this medium." - Fylkingen.
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Artist: ENSTROM, ROLF Title: TNT Format: LP Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
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Original LPs from 1986. "Rolf Enström can look back on a fifteen year period as a composer. His list of works includes a number of very carefully crafted compositions of high artistic quality. Several of his works have become classics; one thinks especially of Directions (1979) and Final Curses (1981). Rolf Enström is a composer who unceasingly seeks new artistic paths and new means of expression and this is something which has led him to combine music with other art forms, primarily the visual arts and literature. On this record, we meet Enström as a composer of pure electroacoustic music. The three works Dagbrott, Sekvens i blått and TNT span a period of eight years." - Fylkingen.
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Artist: FAHLSTROM, OYVIND Title: Manipulate The World! Format: Hardcover Book/ Double CD Label: Fylkingen Country: Switzerland Price: $56.00 |
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"Under the motto: Manipulate the world - take care of
the world, Fahlstrom set up a variety of meeting-places in which
participants were invited to take part in an interdisciplinary game
of purposeful discovery. He introduced elements of popular culture
into his work early on and made substantial contributions to a
critical assessment of the medialisation of art. In this, the most
extensive book about Oyvind Fahlstrom to date, Teddy Hultberg charts
the artists predominant lines of creative development and shows how
his cross-genre endeavors were based on a few central ideas:
character forms, signs, games and life materials. The present study
focuses on two innovative and extraordinary compositions for radio:
Birds in Sweden (1963) and The Holy Torsten Nilsson (1966). These
works can be heard on the two accompanying CD records and are also
included here in written form. Some unique and hitherto unpublished
visual and textual material, the result of several years of research
by Teddy Hultberg, is also included in the book." -Fylkingen Records
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Artist: HANSON, STEN Title: Text-Sound Compositions Format: LP Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $28.00 |
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"Sten Hanson has worked in the area of experimental music, literature and intermedia art since the early sixties. His large and varied production includes instrumental and electronic music, music drama, performance, music for dance and theatre, works for radio and television, literary works and large outdoor events. This record presents his main work in the text-sound field -- The Trilogy of Vocal Energy -- and also two examples of the shorter works of which he has produced many during the years." - Fylkingen. New/Unplayed copies of this 1978 release.
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Artist: HODELL, AKE Title: Verbal Brainwash and Other Works Format: Triple CD Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $26.00 |
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"This is the authorized edition of the collected text-sound compositions of Åke Hodell. It includes all titles which Hodell himself has described as text-sound compositions. The collection is taken from the time of the premiere of General Buddy-Buddy and Presentarms in 1963 up to Spirit of Ecstasy from 1977. During this period, Åke also worked with radio drama that often had certain parallels to text-sound composition, but never had any doubts himself as to which of his works were text-sound and which were drama. This CD-box is a living example taken from the most vital period in the history of the Music Department of the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation (Sveriges Radio, SR) and a monument to the fruitful collaboration between Fylkingen and SR. I enjoyed close collaboration with Åke Hodell during the work on this production. We had our last conversation about two days before his death. He had approved all three discs and had the day before received a 30% scale copy of the sleeve, which he had managed somehow to proof read, probably with the help of a magnifying glass and considerable exertion. We communicated what changes should be made and thereafter he approved the release. He left all further responsibility with me and bade me farewell, the import of which I did not realize at the time. Åke listened patiently to all the new edited versions of the pieces included here, always giving fresh views. All changes to the original tapes were made in cooperation with Åke. Sylve Sjöberg, the engineer who realized most of Åke Hodell´s works for the Music Department of SR, oversaw the mastering from the original tapes." - Fylkingen.
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Artist: ROZMANN, AKOS Title: Implusioni I, II, III, De Tva, Med Tre Instrument Format: CD Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $17.00 |
| "1999 release. Impulsioni is the collective title of three works which comprise the beginning of Rozmanns work within the field of electroacoustic music. Seen as compositions, Rozmann himself sees Impulsioni I-III as the earliest, almost primitively simple results of a line of composition which nonetheless has kept its importance for him. Impulsioni I is a true start from scratch for him, with the low first tone followed by soft, silvery sounds. The second piece utilized a pulse generator, and the third a machine available at the Royal Conservatory called a synthi. During this period, the composer used only synthetic sounds. It was not until later that he turned to concrete sound samples, such as organ tones, voice and other material. Despite the simple background of Impulsioni I-III, it was here that Rozmann became convinced that electroacoustic music is the greatest expressive device of all time, an opinion which he has steadfastly held throughout the years. Rozmanns art moves between many forms of society and civilization. Gregorian chant is placed next to songs by Buddhist monks, childrens voices next to the laugh of someone who is probably the Devil himself." -Hans Gunnar Peterson. |
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Artist: SONSTEVOLD, KNUT Title: Bassoon Format: LP Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: UNGVARY, TAMAS Title: Ite, Missa Est (Computer Music) Format: LP Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| Original LPs from 1982. "Tamas Ungvary is a conductor and computer music composer. Since 1972, Ungvarys many compositions have been performed at the majority of the European and American festivals. Ungvary has held numerous workshops and seminars both in Europe and in the United States." - Fylkingen. |
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Artist: V/A Title: 5 September 1982 - A Tribute to John Cage Format: LP Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| Original LPs from 1983. "This is Fylkingens contribution to the celebration of John Cages 70th birthday. The album presents works -- all commissioned by Fylkingen on this special occasion -- by composers from the 1960s generation and shows their relations to an important precursor." - Fylkingen. Includes pieces by LARS-GUNNAR BODIN, LEO NILSSON, FOLKE RABE (!!), STEN HANSON, ARNE MELLNAS. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Elektronmusikfestival 1982 Format: LP Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $16.00 |
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"Since 1979, the Swedish Radio Company and the Stockholm Electronic Music Studio (EMS) have arranged an annual 3-day Stockholm Electonic Musik Festival. Its purpose is to present a sample of the electronic music being composed in different parts of the world. This record contains four works from the 1980 festival -- two are Swedish and two are international; two are for tape and two combine tape with live performance." Lars-Gunnar Bodin: Epilogue; rhapsodie de la seconde recolte; Sven-Erik Bäck: Annus Solaris; Charles Dodge: Any resemblance is purely coincidental; John Melby: Concert for violin and tape.
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Artist: V/A Title: Swedish Contemporary Music Format: LP Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| Original LPs from 1983. "This album is released in collaboration with the Swedish section of the ISCM and presents both orchestral and chamber music from the World Music Days in Greece, Belgium, Sweden and Israel." Featured composters: Mats Persson, Jan Sandström, Lars Sandberg, Tommy Zwedberg. - Fylkingen. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Text-Sound Compositions - A Stockholm Festival Format: 5 CD Box Set Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $60.00 |
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"Fylkingen Records in collaboration with the Swedish Radio released a series of LP records with text-sound compositions between the years of 1968-77. All of these were documentations of the international festival Text-Sound Compositions A Stockholm Festival, which Fylkingen presented in Stockholm several times during these years. Most of the LPs were only pressed in batches of about 400-500 records, and most of the LPs sold out during the festivals. A re-release had long been planned, and this 5 CD box marks the complete re-release of the complete recordings. Apart from the 5 CDs with in all ca 6 hours of material, the CD box contains a 60 page booklet with essays by Teddy Hultberg and Sten Hanson, as well as historical photographs taken by Lütfi �?zkök during the festivals. The term text-sound composition was coined in 1967 in Sweden by the composers/writers Lars-Gunnar Bodin and Bengt Emil Johnsson, and was meant to serve to name a genre that was a vital art form in the no mans land between sound, poetry, and music. Text-sound compositions had influences from previous modernistic waves such as futurism, Dadaism, Lettrism, etc., but perhaps the most important influence was the Swedish poet and visual artist �?yvind Fahlström, who had just over a decade earlier coined the term concrete poetry. The term concrete poetry related to Pierre Schaeffers concrete music, and it is somewhere between concrete poetry and concrete music that text-sound compositions appear. The birth of the electronic music studio and concrete musics idea that every sound can be freed from its original context and given a new meaning when it is reworked and put together with other sounds in the electronic music studio became the catharsis for text-sound composition. In the electronic music studio, voice and language sounds can be broken down, unleashed, and then fused together to become a poetry that had never been heard before. Certain text-sound composers would come to work only with pure lingual sounds, but most eventually came to integrate lingual sounds with other sounds, both concrete and electronic. The CD box contains works by the following text-sound composers and sound poets: Charles Amirkhanian, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Svante Bodin, Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, François Dufrêne, Gust Gils, Jarl och Sonja Hammarberg-�?kesson, Sten Hanson, Bernard Heidsieck, C. Christer Hennix, �?ke Hodell, Bengt Emil Johnsson, Sandro Key-�?berg, Bengt af Klintberg, Ilmar Laaban, Annea Lockwood & Harvey Matusow, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Ghérasim Luca, Arne Mellnäs, Franz Mon, Ladislav Novák, Diter Rot & Emmet Williams, Erik Thygesen, Paul de Vree."
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