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Artist: V/A Title: Muse Mecanique Format: LP Label: La Brea Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Recently uncovered stash of this LP document of the wonderous Cliff House museum (MUSEE MECHANIQUE) outside of San Francisco. Released about ten years ago, these were field recordings of the collection of carnival, penny arcade, and other amusement games collected and cared for byEdward Galland Zelinsky. In the interim it appears that there have been a few CDs released that captured these magical machines, but this LP was the first document and there seems to be no where that still has any copies. We have just a short stack ourselves." - La Brea.
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Artist: V/A Title: Festival Electronica en Abril 2003-2012 Format: Double Lp Box Set Label: La Casa Encendida Country: Spain Price: $31.00 |
| "To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Festival Electrónica en Abril, born in 2003 at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, La Casa Encendida has invited some of the artists that have left their personal mark on the event, right now the oldest music festival in Madrid. All of them have contributed exclusive tracks to this 2LP that provide an insight into the quality and diversity of the festival. These are ten exclusive tracks that research a very specific sound quality (Eleh, Radian, nsi.), take introspective journeys (Thomas Köner, Maja Ratkje) and summon deep rhythmic collisions (Farben aka Jan Jelinek, Dopplereffekt, Elektro Guzzi, Matmos, SND). All of them seem to share a desire for experimentation that encompasses the emotional as a response to a general state of things that hits us with an overdose of data and experimentation. Matmos track was composed playing around with a friends new synthesizer. Eleh added field recordings to his usual microscopic sound aesthetic for the first time. Thomas Köner composed this intimate and melancholic piece for his grandmother, and Maja Ratkje goes deep into an alien ambient lullaby of ravishing simplicity and beauty. Farben deconstructs rhythm to build it up again as a pure ecstatic house beat. Nsi., the project of Tobias Freund and Max Loderbauer embark on an abyssal expedition to the far reaches of sound. Dopplereffekt melt their retro-futurist electro into crystalline emotions. Elektro Guzzi, always recording live, without overdubs, was helped in the studio by Patrick Pulsinger, taking the bullet train directly to the heart of their amazing analog techno, where guitar, bass and drums truly count. And SND (Mark Fell and Matt Steel) ride on an oblique and funked-up carousel of their own making, where rhythm and math surf together. And finally, Farben goes deep into glorious house-not-house." - La Casa Encendida. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Circuit Dactes Format: LP Label: La Formte Lente Country: France Price: $15.00 |
| "Featuring new solidly froidetastic uptempo trax from Wierd label bands Frank(just Frank) from Paris and Automelodi from Montreal, both of whos long-awaited debut LPs will be released by WIERD later this spring, this release is an excellent introduction to the new French minimal synth scene. Edition of only 500 copies, get one while theyre still cold..." - Wierd. |
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Artist: DENVER, NATE Title: Wait, Youre Not A Centaur Format: Book/CD Label: La Mano Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "a book comprising 50 stories of exactly 50 words in length, with topics ranging from a meeting of Jesus and Bolt Thrower to the virtues of peanut butter, accompanied by drawings with titles like "Viking Bee and Consenting Whale", plus a 21 song CD by black metal/ folk/ hiphop/ freek NATE DENVERS NECK (Nate also does bass duties in TOTAL SHUTDOWN). It gets the ok from Byron Coley, Mick Turner (Dirty Three), Tom Araya, AND the guitar player from Tool, which ought to be more than good enough for the likes of you." - La Mano. |
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Artist: AF URSIN Title: 2 Me Fascicule Format: CD Label: La Scie Doree Country: Belgium Price: $12.00 |
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New release from Timo van Luijk, whos had many excellent recordings on his own label as well as Rund um den Watzman and Le Souffleur (see recent Asra lp). Limited/numbered.
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Artist: AF URSIN Title: Aura Legato Format: LP Label: La Scie Doree Country: Belgium Price: $38.00 |
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"At the same Timo van Luyck releases a new LP as Af Ursin, if Im not mistaken his second or third. Van Luyck produces all the sounds himself on his records, which are finely woven together. He plays electronica to process sounds from a flute, voices, glass harmonium and on side two even, a drum-machine and bass guitar. Here, on this side, things are jumpy, perhaps even a bit krautrock like, which doesnt sound unlike old HNAS records. But for the most part this record (four lengthy pieces in total) contains wonderful extended drone music, that is alike some of the UK counterparts, but Af Ursin adds a much more musical dimension to it, through a much clearer use of instruments and a likewise much clearer production. Great stuff for those who like expand beyond the ordinary drone music." - Frans De Ward. Edition of 350. Highly Recommended!
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Artist: AF URSIN Title: Murrille Format: LP Label: La Scie Doree Country: Belgium Price: $30.00 |
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"Introverted minimal experimental music with rhythmic krautdrones and noisy eruptions. Multitracked recordings of different acoustic instruments (string,percussion,wind) and voice. Part of the mixing was done by Christoph Heemann." - La Scie Doree. Edition of 500. Last copies of this 2002 release.
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Artist: AF URSIN Title: Trois Memoires Discretes Format: LP Label: La Scie Doree Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
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"Three introspective instrumental compositions performed on English horn, flute, percussion, double bass, and Hammond organ, recorded and mixed by TIMO VAN LUIJK. Stripped-down with slow-moving sounds, less layering, nearing modern classical music more than drone." -La Scie Doree.
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Artist: ONDE Title: One Format: LP Label: La Scie Doree Country: Belgium Price: $30.00 |
| "Edition of 400 copies. Onde = Greg Jacobs, Timo van Luijk, Marc Wroblewski. First post-Noise Makers Fifes release. Sinister psych, semi-acoustic noise." - La Scie Doree. |
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Artist: VAN LUIJK, TIMO & FREDERIK CROENE Title: Voile au Vent Format: LP Label: La Scie Doree Country: Belgium Price: $25.00 |
| "Vinyl only edition of 400 copies. Extended piano improvisations embedded in a freely arranged instrumentation." - La Scie Doree. |
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Artist: VAN LUIJK, TIMO & KRIS VANDERSTRAETEN Title: High Noon Format: LP Label: La Scie Doree Country: Belgium Price: $28.00 |
| "LP from Timo van Luijk and improvising jazz drummer Kris Vanderstraeten. Spaced out improvised music, mainly acoustic and with a strong percussive touch. First album in their 10 year collaboration. LP on white vinyl with a silkscreened cover by Kris Vanderstraeten. Edition of 250 copies." |
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Artist: VAN LUIJK, TIMO /KRIS VANDERSTRAETEN Title: Costa del Luna Format: LP Label: La Scie Doree Country: Belgium Price: $28.00 |
| "Edition of 400 copies). 2nd album. Lunar psychedelic improvisations." - La Scie Doree. Timo Van Luijk = Af Ursin. Hes also collaborated with Raymond Dijkstra in Asra. |
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Artist: BLACK SWANS, THE Title: Change! Format: LP Label: La Societe Expeditionnaire Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "here should be a pat means of conveying why the Black Swans matter. Something like: ⿿Dylans oblique, carpented melodies sung in Fred Neils voice while Leonard Cohen plays fiddle. Something that could go on a CD wrapper, if anyone used those any more. But clearly glibness will not suffice to bend your ear to a band youve (likely) never heard of; we will have to do better, knowing we will probably fail. Change! is only the second full-length album by the Black Swans, following on the delightfully priapic and correctly-titled Sex Brain EP. By rights, it is too soon to expect them to have perfected the choked swoon of the earlier works⿿the progression from Who Will Walk In The Darkness With You? meditations on mortality to Sex Brain were like a shuttered antique store full of miniatures of the corsetted deceased, turning unexpectedly pornographic behind the counter. And if not premature, it would be perverse to suggest that a record about metamorphosis and the pruning of dried limbs could be perfective in any but the smallest sense. Let us then abjure the finality of superlatives and lose ourselves in the pangs and aches of aspiration: the falling of leaves and the shedding of skin." - Stylus. Limited edition with hand-painted jackets. |
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Artist: ASTRONAUTS, THE Title: Peter Pan Hits the Suburbs Format: LP Label: La Vida Es Un Mus Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Reissue of this long lost masterpice from 1981 originally released by Bulge / Genius records. The Astronauts were (and are, after close to 30 years and a history of lineup shifts only bested by The Fall) the definitive psych-punk ensemble, though even that title doesnt do em justice. Their sound culminates the post 77 punk dabblings of head forbears Twink (his Do it 77 single and The Rings I wanna be free platter), Nik Turner (the outstanding Inner City Unit and the punkier late 70s bits of Hawkwind) and Daevid Allens planet Gong (with fellow acid-punkers Here and Now) all woven in with an earlier Robert Wyatt / mellow candle-y psych folk vibe... While not sounding like any of those things at all. Get it? The albums range is gigantic: from dissonant punk a la Fall (Everything stops for baby), to epic progressive folk (Protest song, Baby sings folk songs), ditties (Sod us), hard-rock (The Traveller), pop (How green was my valley), garage / surf (Still Talking), industrial (How long is a piece of string), and set to arrangements that employ synths, flute, saxophone, and strays into progressive or even free-form / psychedelic sections. The icing on the cake is the mature statement of the lyrics, a cynical and bitter exploration of the lives of simple men, miles away from the generic horror / punk overtones that permeated most of alternative albums at the time." - La Vida Es Un Mus. Highly recommended! |
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Artist: ASTRONAUTS, THE Title: Survivors Format: LP Label: La Vida Es Un Mus Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Second release on the Astronauts early works reissue campaign. It covers the 1979-1980 vinyl releases of Mark Wilkins and company. It includes the four tracks from the self titled EP from 1979 and the four tracks from "Pranksters in Revolt" EP from 1980 on Bulge records. These tracks show us perhaps the most straight forward side of The Astronauts. Tagged at the end of each side youll find one of the tracks recorded under the Restricted Hours on the rare split EP with The Syndicate for the Stevenege RAR back in 1979. Swinging from proto punk to hard rock and from echo folk to epic synth jams - these tracks feature the amazing Wilkins lyrics of inner city criticism, self doubt and despair. This is free / DIY / Punk music as its best.
The record comes with both a 11"x22" insert and a 4 X A5 insert with some rare pictures and magazine clippings as well as the lyrics for all the songs." - La Vida Es Un Mus. Highly recommended!!
A SIDE "The Astronauts" EP Survivors All NightParty Back Soon Everything Stops The Baby Getting Things Done (Restricted Hours) B SIDE "Pranksters in Revolt" EP Young Mans World Moderation Is Boring We Were Talking Big Ben Still Living Out The Car Crash (Restricted Hours) SOLD OUT
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Artist: HYGIENE Title: Public Sector Format: LP Label: La Vida Es Un Mus Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
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"On their debut album Public Sector, Hygiene take the listener on a post-pub stagger through the concrete walkways and underpasses of Britains decline. Daydreaming at their offices on a weekday or at home with their record collection on a Saturday night, the members of Hygiene are dislocated in both time and space. Their LP has one DM boot in the past and the other longwing brogue firmly up the backside of the present. Public Sector hearkens back to a time of Polytechnic radicalism, Special Patrol Group repression and O Level temptresses yet evades the pitfalls of vapid historicity and pastiche. Hygiene see historical continuities and follow them to their logical conclusions, reducing their influences down to their essential constituent elements and reassembling them into now music for now people. Flouting Rockist conventions with equal doses of stark minimalism and plodding fury, these post-punks resolutely refuse the "post" prefix." - La Vida Es Un Mus.
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Artist: WORKSHOP Title: Meiguiweisheng Xiang Format: CD Label: Ladomat Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
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Artist: PAX TITANIA Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Ladron Tape Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"..solo homebuilt electronics stuff apart from Warmer Milks. Homebuilt oscillators and effects, signal feedback and samplers. Forthcoming releases from Rampart Tapes including "Moons of Paracynia" C20 and split with Robert Beattys Three Legged Race as well as collaboration series with Irene Moon entitled "History of Darker Florida". Run of 100 slim case CDRs. " - Pax Titania.
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Artist: AIRWAY Title: Live At LACE Format: Cass Label: LAFMS Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "A faithful reproduction of the 1978 ⿿Live at LACE cassette single made by Joe Potts in an edition of 20. The 2009 edition cassettes were made exclusively for sale during the Airway performance at ⿿A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music, the 2 day Noise Fest curated by Mike Kelley for the Performa 2009 biennial that took place Nov. 20 and 21, 2009 at the Gramercy Theater in NYC. This edition of 200 features sonically enhanced sound and restored artwork, down to the color Xerox labels and ⿿informative insert expertly recreated by Tom Recchion. Please note this is only a SIX minute cassette! The original concept for the cassette was fueled by Potts discovery at a thrift shop of a tranche of cheap, short, pre-recorded childrens cassettes. Joe then would take a cassette and record a section of the ⿿Live at LACE LP by randomly dropping the turntables needle on different parts of the record and recording that section for three minutes per cassette side. He originally intended to produce 100 cassettes, but after realizing how much work would be needed to accomplish this, he stopped at 20, making the original cassette one of the most sought-after collectibles in the LAFMS catalog. The cassettes are available in eight different colors (25 each color): Blue, Green, Lime, Magenta, Orange, Red, White, Yellow. Special offer for all eight colors purchased together." - LAFMS. |
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Artist: JOE & JOE Title: s/t Format: LP Label: LAFMS Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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The return of LAFMS! Joe & Joe = Joseph Hammer and Joe Potts, longtime LA sound artists. Last copies...
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Artist: ANAKSIMANDROS Title: Camels Running Through Life Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: ARMAS HUUTAMO Title: Aurinko On Kaunis Asia Format: 7" Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $7.00 |
| "If youre already ready for more manic teenage improvised art punk from Finland here it comes! Unlike those pre-teenagers in the Demars, Armas Huutamo is the real thing! They are right in the middle of their teens! That means you can hear all the beautiful anxiety, creative energy and forever growing new pubic hair the age involves. The awesome songs presented on this 7 have been picked from 50 other songs the duo made during the hyperproductive summer of 1998." - Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: AVARUS Title: Kimi on Tintti Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.50 |
| A-1. Vakiopaine, Jyväskylä / 2002; A-2. Brinkkala, Turku / 2003; B-1. Vesitorni, Jyväskylä / 2003, with Psychotomimetic Agents; B-2. Kipsari, Helsinki / 2003 (excerpt). |
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Artist: BUFFLE Title: Constrictor Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.50 |
| "What needs to be said about a band that invents a new dance for every song they make and play flute by hanging it from a car window during their tours? The wind plays the flute like Buffle their casios, percussions and guitars. So we hear a pure feast of love and joy. Flux of funny sounds meet clumsy and naive repetition in a way that would make Holger Czukay hot of jealousy in his pool. And theres nothing better in life than to be hanging out in the breezing streets of Belgian winter and be saved by Buffle feeding you different kinds of vegetarian pizza slices." - Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: ERONEN, ROOPE Title: Business Day Format: Mag Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| "A picture book about business and success. Its called BUSINESS DAY and has 24 pro printed pages in black and white." -Lal Lal Lal |
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Artist: FRICARA PACCHU Title: Midnight Pyre Format: CD Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $16.50 |
| "Twelve instrumental blasts recorded with a 4-tracker. Compared to earlier Pacchu releases this one has more complex song structures and detailed soundscapes. Imagine Nine Inch Nails making music for a video game about vikings and you might get the idea. Yes we know, the Quake soundtrack already excists, but Midnight Pyre is more sentimental." - Lal Lal Lal |
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Artist: GOOD BAND Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $9.00 |
| "Good Band was founded in 2005 by Aapo Rapi (8 Bits High, Verticals, Sunnuntaiorkesteri) and Benjamin Bergman (Vectors, The Torsors). The result is strongly good wibes party band: lots of funny minimal synths and some junk yard instruments. This tape compiles the best tracks of a huge mountain of tapes they have recorded during the past thousand nights, and its all you need for a Good Party." -Lal Lal Lal |
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Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: Cannibal/Superstring Theory Format: 7" Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.75 |
| "Two gems by the amazing and magical Hall of Fame (Samara Lubelski, Dan Brown and Theo Angell), both recorded as early as 1997. ⿿Cannibal presents a fluent storm of electric aces and aural snakes. It offers a short moment in the galaxy of fantastic rainbows of sound. ⿿Superstring Theory is definitely among the most danceable free folk pieces ever. Its a marriage of repetitive acoustic groove and a fan of colorful strong noises. Edition of 525." - Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: HOWLIN MAGIC Title: The Dreaming Format: CD Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $16.50 |
| "Fascinating psychedelic noisy blues by Jesse Rakusin from Santa Cruz, USA. This is what you have been waiting for if you have been waiting for the sound of shit being beaten out of a drumkit. Also in the mix: delicate keyboard studies about freedom, warped guitar melodies, solar-powered chord slamming and fuzzed out blues solo-madness. Comparable to Blue Cheer. Includes the hit Mac and Bloo" - Lal Lal Lal |
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Artist: JAVELIN Title: Oh Centra Format: 7" Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $7.00 |
| "Beautiful 7 by this cool duo from Providence! Their sound although is not much like their colleagues in the super city USA. In Javelins music samples and their own playing melt into a great whole of genius groovy living room music. Perfect music for summer night after-parties in amusement parks. Its so incredibly fresh you want to explode when its over! To avoid explosion you want to listen to the 7 forever! Not exploding means that you can enjoy your life and love this beautiful world." - Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: KOMPLEKSI Title: (I Aint No) Lovechild/Moscow 1980 Format: 7" Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.75 |
| "Kompleksi ("complex" in Finnish) are Mike Not and pHinn, two ex-suicide candidates from Tampere, Finland, who ride in a red Lada through the gloomy streets of their rainy post-industrial town; the home of ice hockey fanatics, worlds last working Lenin Museum and countless sex shops. They started making music together in 2002, already having appeared on compilations of Mate Recordings (UK) and pHinnMilk (FIN). Mike Not (keyboards, production, programming, sound engineering) has produced music since the early 90s; pHinn (vocals, keyboards) has since 1996 maintained a Website called pHinnWeb on Finnish electronic, experimental and leftfield music. Kompleksi are now working on their first long play. They both also DJ in their hometown club called Eclectro Lounge. File under: post-industrial soul, post-Soviet electro. For more info, see: http://www.phinnweb.org/kompleksi Edition of 525. " - Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: MANIACS DREAM Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.50 |
| "This wild group is a distant relative of Avarus. Maniacs Dream think they are playing punk rock but all they can catch on tape is dizzying, swirling and tumbling lunacy. They dont know how some of the sounds ended up on tape, the sounds have just somehow emerged from somewhere. But still there is a logic deep in all this. Relentless energy and a constant flow of ideas, some of them good, some of them something else. And these are hi-fi 4-track recordings. This is the fresh and exciting sound of the 21st century!" - Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: MANIACS DREAM Title: Turku Hold em Format: CD Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $16.50 |
| "A 66 minute excerpt from a 2 hour session from 2005. Recorded in the middle of the night after christmas - the result being the most detailed mess this trio has ever made. Bella is banging the drums naked, releasing lots of skin power. Fricara is giving the bass some feedback and Hesedelic is playing guitar very, very fast." - Lal Lal Lal |
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Artist: MASTER QSH Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.50 |
| "Side A was captured live outdoors in northern Finland, during the season of the midnight sun. Reminds you of an Ocora field recording from Xxxzazazastan. But that doesnt really mean anything. On the B-side, theres a mellow 9-piece percussion workout from the catacombs of Turku, Finland. Believe me, this is unbelievably satisfying free ethnic hippie music." - Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: MUNUAISSYMPOSIUM 1960/MANIACS DREAM Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $9.00 |
| "A split by two obscure bands from Finland. Munuaissymposium 1960 is retarded drunken noise. Fuzzy buzzy blazed out grainy brainstorm with spikes and snivel. Maniacs Dream (an Avarus side project) makes it with a more rock and even more fuzzy approach. Fricara Pacchu has left guitars and moved behind drums. Bella Blossa doesnt sing this time." - Lal Lal Lal. Restock of this 2004 release. |
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Artist: MWM/MARYFIST Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.50 |
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"First side is a bit embarrassing and the other is scary. Heres a tape that can be way too much for you. MWM is a teenage industrial punk band including two dudes from Avarus. They serve six songs full of angst, passion and Nine Inch Nails influences. Maryfist side is a psychedelic solo EP by the singer of MWM. It was first released as a limited edition CD-R in 1998. Tomi presents here an epical journey in strange and dark trip-hop with lots of whispers, rattling, breathing and heavily dosed sounds. At the time Tomi had his cats skull as a necklace. He also had a pet rat which also died. He put it in freezer planning to make a charm of it too. Accidentally he moved away and forgot the rat for the next people living in the apartment. Edition of 200." - Lal Lal Lal.
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Artist: NUSLUX Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $10.00 |
| "The debut by Roope from Avarus, Pylon and Maniacs Dream. Nuslux plays good-humoured and chilled out electronic minimalism by mostly self-built analogue instruments. On this CD-R you can also hear some violin and the last sounds of a now passed out old Yamaha sampler. The result is a celebration of sound waves, dry pulses, and harsh harmonies. The Main Mission is to try to get (back) near the listeners ear. This CD-R contains the very best 14 short songs of the enthusiastic and productive first sessions in the spring 2007. Edition of 200." -Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: PAAVI Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $20.00 |
| "Lal Lal Lal presents Paavi, a LP of piano ecstasy recorded on the roof of Luola Studios in Tampere. In the featured three original compositions Paavi explores the movement in static sound �?? stasis in moving sound duality. This onetime Puke Eater and Munuaissymposium 1960 members frankfurters dance on the ivories and the piano sings a song of a very long and free fall. Complete with song titles like "Healthy Body, Healthy Cosmos" and a beautiful color print insert with a nude picture of Paavis sister. Edition of 525." - Lal Lal Lal. 2005 title restocked. |
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Artist: RAUHANORKESTERI Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $15.00 |
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"Finnish free jazz masterpiece, co-released with three other small Finnish labels. LP contains lots of beautiful music, joy and energy. Thats why even the birds are singing along with the band." - Lal Lal Lal.
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Artist: RAY PACINO ENSEMBLE Title: Be My Lonely Night Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.50 |
| "Albumful of recordings from the late 90s by this wonderful Swedish trio closely connected to Johannes Nilsson. Packed with folkish wibes and hypnotic hi&lo-fi grooves they sound like the summer sun shining through the smoke of tar production. At the same time it gives you a feeling of eating well and starting to get drunk after a long day in the tar fields. Every song is great like every dance you dance on the dancefloor on a cruiser on the same night. The tape stops just before the police takes you to prison because of otherworldly dancing and wrestling with your beloved ones." - Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: RAY PACINO ENSEMBLE Title: Be My Lonely Night/ Golden Greats Format: Double LP Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $32.00 |
| "This time we have a good reason to wave Swedish flags, because both of our fresh vinyl-releases come from that beautiful country with the lamest beer on earth. Thats maybe the reason for all this incredible music �?? you have to find out something to do because the beer doesnt make you drunk. This incredible 2LP is released together with Jelle Crama, who is also responsible for the beautiful silk screened covers here. The release was fertilized from our love towards the TRPE tape Lal Lal Lal had already put out. It had to be on vinyl and we needed more of those outstanding songs. TRPEs (formerly known as Johannes Nilsson) music is hard to describe. Its joyful, catchy, repetitive and earthbound. To name some collagues, you could find their sound waves vibrating somewhere between The Plastic People of the Universe, Pärson Sound, Caroliner or Philemon Arthur and the Dung. The band comes from a small village of Järna where the members have played together since babies, making music for something like 15 years. Thats where the unique style and excellent songs have slowly gained their form. Edition of 330." -Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: RENEGADE SCANNERS Title: Hands on Future Format: LP Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $23.00 |
| "Lal Lal Lal proudly presents the debut album by Swedish Jacob Olaussons new project called Renegade Scanners. Olausson has previously reached for more folky atmospheres, especially on his beautiful LP on De Stijl. Some people may also know his work as Joshua Jugband 5. Renegade Scanners is a pure 4-tracker space rock feast with psychedelic bulbing synthesizers and Chrome-ish guitar riffs. But what makes it different from many others, Olaussons sonic space ship seems to be launched some lightyears before he started to record the music. The sounds are already out there and stay there, with their Hands on Future! The record comes in cooool silk screened covers in an edition of 330." - Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: SEMIMUUMIO Title: Vamos Format: CD Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $16.50 |
| "Solo debut record by Jaakko Tolvi (Pymathon, Rauhanorkesteri, Lauhkeat lampaat, Kemialliset ystävät)! Mostly sample-based partybeats for children and adults, probably not for teenagers. Call it emotional, adult-oriented beat." - Lal Lal Lal |
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Artist: SKATERS Title: Crowned Purple Gowns Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.50 |
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"Great new thing by the hyped hyper duo. The Skaters create here some slimy and wrinkled nuts of sound. Music moves like pendulum - the hypnotic balls of a running strong zebra. The tape is soaked in esoteric singing, visionary humming, rasping noises, diarrhoea drumming and perfectly far out flute playing. The Skaters are There and somehow can just stay There all the time. Edition of 200." - Lal Lal Lal.
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Artist: V/A Title: Feelin Strong Format: CDR Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $9.00 |
| "Compilation of all the solo projects that performed on "brown cloud over Europe" - tour April 2008. Music by Amon düde (Arttu Partinen), Kiiskinen (Tero Niskanen), Nuslux (Roope Eronen) and Reijo Pami (Erkki Sinnemäki). Edition of 100 copies." -Lal Lal Lal |
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Artist: V/A Title: Kuolleena Haudattuja Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.50 |
| "Buried Dead - A Sociological Survey on Finnish Youths Secret Musical Activities" "this compilation includes outsider-type home recordings by a bunch of people over here in finland, when they were young and/or inspired. some of these people were actually a bit ashamed of these recordings but lal lal lal encouraged them to bring it all out to the public, and as a result we found many moments of brilliance. this tape is full of enthusiastic genius and true joy of expression." - Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Lal Lal Lal Festival Format: CDR Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $10.00 |
| "Kind of gothic compilation of all the bands that performed on Lal Lal Lal Festival May 2007. Songs by Kukkiva poliisi, Reijo Pami, The Ray Pacino Ensemble, Mary Fist, Nuslux, Snake of Life, Master Qsh, The Skaters, Kemialliset ystävät, Maniacs Dream, Keijo, Kheta Hotem and Arttu Partinen & His Partiers. All the songs are previously unreleased except KPs track was released on Audiobot and MFs song on a self published CD-R. Edition of 200." -Lal Lal Lal. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Lal Lal Lal Festival Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $9.00 |
| "The official compilation that includes all the artists performing at the second annual Lal Lal Lal festival. 60 minutes of deep, uncensored and unreleased sounds by Sus & Jacob, Kiiskinen, Lussu & Pami, Benjamin Franklin, Good Band, Buffle, Kompleksi and Avarus! The tape comes packed in four different kind of found photograph covers (Four Eyes Lady, Drinking in the Mirror, Babysitting and Loch Wheel Chair)." -Lal Lal Lal |
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Artist: V/A Title: Lal Lal Lal Festival 4 Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $10.00 |
| "Contains 45 minutes of elsewhere unreleased awesome tracks by Ducktails, Dolphins into the Future, Vom Grill, W. Ravenveer, Rauhanorkesteri, Umpio, Jarse, Teemu Manninen, Pekko Käppi, Reijo Pami and Nuslux." -Lal Lal Lal |
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Artist: EAST BIONIC SYMPHONIA Title: s/t Format: LP Label: LAM Country: Price: $17.50 |
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"At long last a chance for the adventurous listener to actually get to hear what all the hip name checkers only prattle about. At first, East Bionic Symphonia seems to be just another one of the many legendary Japanese improvising groups of the late 1970s. However, in this case the mystical reputation is justified. Recorded live in July, 1976, the two long tracks on this LP sound like the unique, solitary, and sprawling soundscape that a narcotic Amon Duul and AMM could have played in the backyard of your favorite Buddhist temple. Originally the group was the class project of a collective of students of minimal violinist Takahisa Kosugi (Taj Mahal Travellers founder). The line-up includes a couple of names well known to PSF aficionados. There is Kazuo Imai, who also played with the Taj Mahal Travellers and released a great solo CD, How Will We Change, a few years ago. Also, there is Masami Tada, a respected sound-sculptor with a number of solo releases. This is a limited and numbered reissue (500 copies) of their sole LP, originally released in 1976 on ALM records, and a permanent resident on many a self-respecting wantlist for years now."
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Artist: DEAD C Title: New Electric Music Format: CD Label: Language Recordings Country: New Zealand Price: $15.50 |
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Repressed. "Recorded during the period September 1999 - October 2000 and mixed in early 2001, this represents the twentieth long player release by The Dead C. Stepping further out into the universe of the song, they have again crafted an antidote for the very idea of rock music. Unlike their double cd from 2000, this release does include vocals, and certain pieces were even showcased at their All Tomorrows Parties show in Los Angeles in March of this year. Stripped and minimal, the sound could easily be referred to as their pre-California period. Morley, Russell and Yeats are currently working on their next release which sets to further extend their investigations into lazy." - Language Recordings.
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Artist: GHQ Title: Requiem For Bhopal Format: 7" Label: Lanimaux Tryst Field Recordings Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: CARTOONS Title: Shes A Rock And Roller/Who Cares Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Reissue of this hopelessly rare 1981 punk single outta Yonkers, NY. Two great slices of punk n roll." - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: CRITICAL MASS Title: Silver Screen Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "They couldnt help that they were from Florida and God help you if you sleep on this reissue of the Sunshine States first punk band! Miami, Floridas Critical Mass rose out of the primordial ooze left in the snail-trail of the Sex Pistols ill-fated southern U.S. tour with both sides showing dangerous levels of infection with Johnny Rotten inflection and Johnny Thunders-style guitar a year before The Eat ever recorded. A must-have, caricatured punk classic with only 200 copies originally pressed and no picture sleeve ever issued. If you don?t buy ten copies of the legit and band-sanctioned Critical Mass reissue on Last Laugh Records, there will truly be no one left to blame, but yourself!" - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: EAT, THE Title: Communist Radio Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Official reissue of the premier disc by these South Florida punk legends. Originally issued in 79 on Giggling Hitler, this 500 copy pressing on Last Laugh is an exact repro--right down to its sleeve and inserts. A must for fans of punk and powerpop alike." - Last Laugh.
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Artist: ED NASTY & THE DOPEDS Title: Im Gonna Be Everything/You Sucker Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Official reissue of 1978 KBD punk single from Jackson, Mississippi. Look for an Ed Nasty feature in the new Ugly Things. First pressing of 500." - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: EMBARRASSMENT Title: Sex Drive/Patio Set Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Originally issued in 1980, this Wichita quartets double-A-side debut sounds just as obtuse and bizarrely catchy now as it did upon its initial release. The seminal "Sex Drive" is a bonafide anthem of the carnal variety; the flip, "Patio Set," is about as sexy as your favorite protractor. Both are essential American salvos from the Middle-Wests least likely punk band. Official reissue from masters. Includes insert of original cover sketch." - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: FINGERS, THE Title: Isolation EP Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Official reissue of insanely rare 1977 Pittsburgh punk EP. Mastered from original 7.5 ips tape. Members went on to form The Features, who released the great Floozie of the Neighborhood single in 1979. Dont miss your chance to work it out with the Fingers!" - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: FREESTONE Title: Bummer Bitch Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Legit repress of the single that (probably) best epitomizes the whole KBD genre. First time on 45 since 78 (not counting its inclusion on bootleg comps). Suck my dick, eat my ass, lick my balls, and buy the goddamn thing before its gone again." - Last Laugh.
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Artist: HAMMER DAMAGE Title: Automatic Lips Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "When Mike Hammer and Donny Damage bowed out of Akron, OHs Rubber City Rebels, they wasted no time in forming a band that would top anything their previous groug would ever do. Hammer Damages sole 45 lassos the best elements of punk, pop and hard rock, delivering a killer one-two punch in the snotty Laugh and the infectious, anthemic Automatic Lips. Sadly, major labels and critics were blind to this foursomes genius during the feeding frenzy that spawned much-lauded LPs by Devo & the Bizzaros, but you can correct their oversight by nabbing this reissue of one of the best singles in the KBD canon." - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: INCREDIBLE KIDDA BAND Title: (Watch Out) Thief Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "An incredibly gifted power-pop quintet, The Incredible Kidda Band without a doubt were the most exciting things to come out of Coventry since the Blitz (bombs in the sky, not razors in the night). Sadly, too much, too little, too late was the fate of the majority of the bands recordings, BUT NOW, thanks to the intervening hand of Last Laugh Records, two of the bands best 1978 recordings are free to sing and spin at the speed at which nature had always intended: 45 rpm! The A-side - Watch Out Thief - is Thorstein Veblen with a brown-ale pub dance beat or perhaps the Cockney Rejects Badman cast as a mod instead of a skin, while the B-side - You Belong To Me - shows exactly where the Exploding Hearts were lifting 90% of their melodic ideas. Vintage, top-ranking Great British power pop: first time at 45 with period appropriate picture sleeve design by Sing Sing Records dynamo Trey Lindsey and utterly essential to your life. YOU BUY IT!" - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: INCREDIBLE KIDDA BAND Title: Bitch b/w Shes a 50 Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Two 1977 demos spinning at 45 rpm for the first time." - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: INCREDIBLE KIDDA BAND Title: Everybody Knows Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Someone maybe should have told Malcolm McLaren when he set out to form the Sex Pistols in 1976 that there already was extant a raunchier, punchier Bay City Rollers and that they werent from London either, but from Coventry.  Melding perfectly everything perfect about the decade - from the glitter rock of Mud and the Rollers to the sing-along-sans-workism choruses of the Clash at their Hoople-est - the Incredible Kidda Band represent the legitimate sound of the British suburban teenage in all its tell-tale trappings (note, both sticks and mustaches brandished threateningly on the swanky single cover).  A double A dose of the finest youth club strands of starry eyed punk and power pop, the first single by the Incredible Kidda Band is very nearly the lyrics to Trevor Whites Crazy Kids fleshed out and come to life.  Very succinctly:  KIDDA BAND RULE OK!" - Collin M. |
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Artist: INCREDIBLE KIDDA BAND Title: Radio Caroline Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Official release that pairs two great tracks recorded in 1977. A must for fans of early UK punk and power pop." - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: INJECTIONS, THE Title: Prison Walls/Lies Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Official reissue with professionally printed sleeves. Originally released on Radioactive Records in 1980. Two great anthems from the early San Diego punk scene. Skum stats: 500 pressed" - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: JOE HEBERT BAND Title: I Dont Wanna Be A Preppy Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Fresh out of high school in 1981, future Rhode Island comedian Joe Hebert rounded up the rhythm section of Providence artwavers the Tits and laid down a messy, fuzz-laden attack on Izods and boat shoes. But nearly 30 years later, punk collectors find little humor in their pursuit of the elusive "I Dont Wanna Be A Preppy" single. Its initial small pressing size (200-300 copies) and abysmal survival rate (the number of known discs can be counted on two hands) made the Joe Hebert Band 45 ripe for an official reissue. Turn up that collar -- and the stereo too, Brock!" - Last Laugh. Highly Recommended! |
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Artist: KNOTS Title: Heartbreaker Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Official reissue of 1980 NYC punk rock classic. All analog from masters. 500 pressed." - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: MENTALLY ILL Title: Strike the Bottom Red Format: LP Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "First ever vinyl release of Chicago punk legends debut album. Recorded in 1999 at Electrical Audio Studios by Steve Albini. Digital mastering by Golden Mastering. All analog vinyl mastering by Bob Weston. Every bit as sick as 1979!!" - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: MENTALLY ILL, THE Title: Gacys Place Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Of all the hotly sought-after original Killed-By-Death punk singles, few to none are as notorious - or mysterious - as the "Gacys Place" EP by The Mentally Ill. The sleeve, the topics, the so-horrible-its-amazing production values, that voice. Many in the know crown it the sickest punk record ever made." - Last Laugh.
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Artist: NORMALS Title: Almost Ready Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Official reissue of one of New Orleans first and finest punk singles. One time pressing from the original stampers (now rendered useless). In short...this is the same exact record released in 1978 on the Lectric Eye with slightly altered labels." -Last Laugh |
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Artist: NORMALS Title: So Bad So Sad Format: LP Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "10 studio tracks from 1979 + alternate mix of Almost Ready. All songs on vinyl for the first time." - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: NORMALS Title: Vacation To Nowhere Format: LP Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "New Orleans punk premiers The Normals have long been considered staples of the KBD stew, with their first and last single Almost Ready b/w Hardcore being one of the finest examples of both melodic and manic late 1970s bashing. As a compliment to their reissue of that timeless 7", the freaks at Last Laugh Records have dug up what may qualify as one of the primo lost albums of the original American punk rock cream-dream, Vacation To Nowhere. And while this isnt the first time that enlightened members of the public have been given a chance to hear some of the 12 throttling tracks contained on this album (Airline 61 released the retrospective CD Your Punk Heritage in the late 1990s), this is the first time that these recordings have been released as a complete album. Each song on Vacation... stands as a perfect example of 70s power pop craft coarsely blended with spasmodic intensity late 70s punk polenta. Even with the oddly out of place sentimentality expressed on Memories, the band never veers off course. Songs like Sometimes The Truth, What Do You Think Of The U.S.A.?, and the titular Vacation To Nowhere, are (at this point) theoretical classics I imagine Teengenerate would have covered at least half of this album, had they heard it in 1993. These songs are so good in fact, that they seem familiar and inviting, like something that one returns to rather than discovers for the first time." - Victim Of Time. |
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Artist: NUBS, THE Title: I Dont Need You Format: 7 Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Nubs frontman BJ Branch crawled across the same beer-soaked stages as hometown pals the Jabbers, logging hundreds of gigs in the New England area during the bands six-year existence. The fuzzbox shredding on "I Dont Need You (Cause I Got Me)" has long stood in fine mix tape company sandwiched between the Mentally Ill and the Maids. Recorded in 1979 at NCS studios in New Hampshire, the Nubs left behind plenty of negative vibes for a young Kevin Allin to soak up while recording his LP tracks shortly thereafter. Transferred straight from the analog masters, and guaranteed to sound just as twisted 33 years later." - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: PUNCTURE Title: Mucky Pup/ You Cant Rock and Roll Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Official reissue of the 1977 KBD single. Featuring Jak Airport of X-Ray Spex. "I guess many of you recognize the song “Mucky pup” from the 1st LP by Exploited but I hope you agree that nothing beats the original! This is the first release on The Small Wonder label." - Killed By Death. |
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Artist: REACTORS, THE Title: I Want Sex Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Official reissue from masters. Only 100 pressed back in 1979...20 of which were destroyed in a flood. Heres your chance to own one of NYCs finest (and rarest)...without breaking the bank. First pressing of 500...dont sleep on this!" - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: SHIT DOGS Title: The History of Cheese Format: Double 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Back in the olden days before le Deluge, the preeminence of ones family totem-pole was said to have been determined by how closely your parents were related to one another (incest being best). This practice died out in most places, but thankfully not in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, lest the world might have been robbed of the chromosomally deficient genius of The Shit Dogs - the inbred kings of redneck punk! Like a southern-fried Ramones with Hapsburg chins and multiple personality crises, the Shit Dogs over the course of five unbelievably crude blasts dealing in themes of violence, cannibalism and possibly hemophilia, sound unsure if they want to be the Stooges or Black Sabbath; as the cheese whose history the band celebrates grows riper and more inhabited by the second. Hailing from the city that housed the last remaining leper colony in the continental U.S., The History Of Cheese is a soundtrack of frayed denim, resin scrapings, mildewed walls and t-shirts with cigarette burns. A bar band thug collision with accidental greatness sure to appeal to fans of the Crucified, the Imperial Dogs and Teenage Queers. Originally five songs squeezed onto one 7, the attentive quality assurance department at Last Laugh Records has finally given the 5 songs that comprise the Shit Dogs magnum opus the lebensraum they have always so rightly demanded. YOU BUY IT! " - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: SKINNIES Title: Kill The Beat Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Second pressing. "South by Midwest: that Kill The Beat by the Skinnies isnt from Bloomington, Akron or Milwaukee is remarkable as it sounds like a lost Roanoke colony of ethanol-blind subsidized dirt-farmers; like if North America had been discovered by the Minnesota Vikings or Larry Bird. Tuneful, cruddy and liberal arts obnoxious with touch-stones in the realm of the Gizmos, Muscle Beach and Homework by Screaming Urge, the Skinnies are so fly-over-state punk it hurts. After hearing this, I now completely understand why Rob Noxious ditched his date to go on a NOLA Skinnies crawl. And now you can too - dump your girlfriend, drink Coors, eat cheese-curds and buy this record." - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: SKINNIES, THE Title: Kill the Beat Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "The buzzzzing voice in the intro of "Out Of Order", the sound of what sounds like a broken crash cymbal and the dubbed vocals makes this perfect." -Last Laugh. |
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Artist: SKUNKS, THE Title: Cant Get Loose Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Artist: UV RACE/EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING Title: Split Format: LP Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Live at Missing Link Records - May 2nd 2008. Great sets from Australias finest! Comes with full color sleeve, two sided insert, and download card of entire show!!" - Last Laugh.
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Artist: VILLAGE PISTOLS Title: Big Money Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Official reissue of North Carolina KBD punk classic. I want BIG MONEY and I want it now!" - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: ZEROS, THE Title: Main Street Brat Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Artist: ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS Title: The Love That Whirrs Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "English artist Phil Todd has been an underground presence for well over a decade, engaging in countless groups and collaborations, signing on as an occasional member of Vibracathedral Orchestra and Sunroof!, and releasing numerous documents of dissident art via his Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers and Memoirs of an Aesthete labels. Todds major achievement, though, is his ongoing solo project Ashtray Navigations. Releasing a baffling amount of cassettes, LPs, CDs and CD-Rs, Todd has refined a singular take on modern sound construction that references the dynamics of rock, the emotional evisceration of blues and the white-light intensity of noise." - Last Visible Dog. |
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Artist: DAVENPORT Title: Free Country Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Dirt-soaked dirges and country-fried jams filter through the backwoods of their Madison, Wisconsin home on Free Country . This is the beginning. This is the moment Davenport was truly born. Clay Ruby and his clan bring us an album full of diamonds and pearls. Conjuring up the spirits of No Neck Blues Band and Jackie-O Motherfucker, Ruby and his primitive choir sing late into the night. The entire proceedings are a celebration of the journey. Where it leads is of no consequence, but embarking on a trek to find something new is what matters." - Last Visible Dog. |
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Artist: FURSAXA Title: Amulet Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Fursaxa has never quite turned out a studio album that reflected the power and awe of her live shows. Instead, fans have had only a series of tour CD-Rs as compensation for this deficiency in her output. Rectifying this problem (at least in part), comes the CD reissue of Amulet along with half of her previous tour CD-R, From the Cult of Moon Mountain . This hour plus selection of live material captures Fursaxa at her very best, and will hopefully make believers of those who havent yet had a chance to catch her during her tours. Two of the tracks include feature extra fuzz and wah from Bardo Ponds Michael and John Gibbons! This is the Fursaxa that people need to hear, raw and intoxicating; beautiful and perhaps still a little bit dangerous." - Last Visible Dog. |
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Artist: FUTURIANS Title: Chaos Manner Format: LP Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: MIMINOKOTO Title: Live Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Rising from the ashes of Tokyo Velvets obsessives and Keiji Haino collaborators Broomdusters, Miminokoto are a more immediately auraless proposition. Their dynamic blues constructions are held together by taut, clean guitar lines coiling and snapping around a rhythm section thats liable to alter course in mid-air. The hopping patterns beaten out by Ex-White Heaven bassist and drummer Koji Shimura anchor Kawaguchis machine gun guitar, which stutters in a polyglot tongue drawing equally from Rory Gallagher, Jerry Garcia and Lou Reed. But Kawaguchis remarkable vocal most defines Minokotos sound, his distressed moan giving every track the urgency of deathbed blues." - The Wire. |
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Artist: MIMINOKOTO Title: Orange Garage Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "At this late date, anyone who hasnt yet heard of Miminokoto simply hasnt been paying attention to (or has no interest in) the Japanese psychedelic underground. In all respects a super-group (with ties to LSD-March, White Heaven, Broom Dusters, Aihiyo, Chie Mukai, High Rise, etc.), Miminokoto has quickly earned a name for itself with its restrained, Velvets-influenced sound (as opposed to the all-in-the-red, fuzzed-out approach so common to so many other Japanese psychedelic groups). With most of their releases available only from Japan (at high import prices), Last Visible Dog once again offers a domestic-priced alternative in the form of Orange Garage, a top-notch live release that rivals Miminokotos studio efforts. Featuring three songs unavailable anywhere else (one over 16 minutes), and revamped heavier versions of some of the bands best numbers, Orange Garage is perhaps Miminokotos most immediate and well-balanced release to date." - Last Visible Dog |
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Artist: MUDBOY Title: This Is Folk Music Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Now heres an odd one. Mudboy makes and recreates old circuit bent church organs, customising and retrofitting old keyboards for his own nefarious means. Then he plays rich music that hints at psychedelia and drones on them, mixing in field recordings, noise and complementary sounds, and even the odd drum sound that sounds like hes been let loose on Aphex Twin circa Ambient Works 85-92 s drum machine. At times it sounds like a primitive electronica, far abstracted from the hyper-beats of so-called IDM, and reclaimed for the contemplative and wide-eyed explorers and discoverers of new territories and new states of mind." - Last Visible Dog. |
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Artist: RENDERERS Title: Monsters and Miasmas Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Brian Crook (from The Terminals, Max Block, solo releases) and wife Maryrose make up the long-running Renderers whos releases on Ajax/3 beads of sweat and Siltbreeze records have continued to tread a line between haunting contry-esque ballads and the brand of noise-rock for which the Terminals is known. From a review of their previous album (Ghosts of Our Vegas Lives): A charred near mythical psychedelic wasteland sparsely populated by tortured souls and twisted creatures. Brian Crook (her husband) is the perfect foil for such surrealism-meets-rustic imagery, whether lathering melting feedback on top of ghostly ballads or kicking up a slash and burn racket, captured with garage rock immediacy. ....a world where Hank Williams and Townes Van Zandt are revered as preciously as Sonic Youth, the Dead C and Can, to name but a few. A different kind of transcendance indeed. -- Lee Jackson,Womblife. Monsters and Miasmas continues upward from the foundation that the Renderers have built over the previous two decades while losing no ground from their previous accomplishments. I doubt any of us no exactly what genre this is, but theres no one out there doing what the Renderers do better." - Last Visible Dog |
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Artist: RST Title: Axes Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: US Price: $12.50 |
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"While clearly responding to the same imperatives as the nearly-contemporary Surface of the Earth, his sound effectively came out of nowhere. Indeed, at that point, one of the few things Id heard operating in the same area was Earth itself. While now the plague of black metallers and second-rate drone-istas have made this seem like a starting-point obvious to the point of being passé, 12 years ago that was far from true. So its easy now to listen to the new rst album, his third in the last decade after releases on Ecstatic Peace! and Corpus Hermeticum, and think Ive heard that before. But in fact, all youve heard is everyone who copped this shit from the originators. This immaculate blend of scrubbed and polished metallic tones, layered and sculpted like automotive bodywork of the first order, is in fact the real deal. rst had this first, and remains best at doing it, because hes kept his head down, kept off bad drugs, and continued to refine his work in relative obscurity -- not caring whether or not you know about it. Its hard not to lose yourself in this because for me it sounds like the operation of the cosmos, amplified to audibility. This is electric guitar sound with all the extraneous music stripped out. Electricity in action: natural like electro-magnetism, and devotional like the wind from the sun." --Bruce Russell.
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Artist: SALA-ARHIMO Title: Sala-Arhimo Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Islaja (Fonal) side-man and frequent tour-mate with Larkin Grimm (Secret Eye), Sala-Arhimos debut oozes a slow psychedelic radiance from a half-frozen world of hibernation. A bit of ancient Pink Floyd as reference point, perhaps some of the jazz-like moments of Fausts more gentle side, but here all comparisons end. This is another one of those you need to hear it, but theres no way to get it Finnish geniuses whose music shares much affinity with the Lal lal lal crowd (Kemialliset Ystavat, Avarus, etc.), but focuses less on the purely experimental, and more on rich, melodic drones and voice." - Last Visible Dog. |
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Artist: STUMPS, THE Title: The Black Wood Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: US Price: $12.50 |
| "The Stumps are a New Zealand based noise-rock trio made up of members Antony Milton (Pseudoarcana, The Nether Dawn, Mrtyu, etc), James Kirk (Sandoz Lab Technicians, Black Boned Angel, Gate, etc), and Stephen Clover (Palindrone, seht). Formed in Wellington in 2003, the group is known for its noisy guitar soundscapes and improvisational take on psychedelic rock music. Most often, Clover plays bass, Milton sings and plays electric guitar, and Kirk plays drums, though the group are known to expand their instrumental palette using synthesizers, field recordings, electronics, and guest musicians. With a laundry list of individual accomplishments preceding them, The Stumps bring high expectations. Theyve been compared to such seminal acts as The Dead C, Guru Guru, Acid Mothers Temple, Fushitusha, Les Rallizes Denudes, Sun Ra and the Velvet Underground, but these Kiwis have their own twist in their psychedelic cosmic explorations. They are robust and powerful; an exciting and often overwhelming listening experience. Itll burn out your eardrums and douse the flames in hot wax. But fear not, within these methodic blasts are moments of icy calm. Underneath all this chaos is a relaxed thread, keeping some semblance of order intact." - Last Visible Dog. |
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Artist: TERMINALS Title: Little Things Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Perennially unrecognized and underrated; The Terminals finally established their stature in 2007 with their release Last Days of the Sun (awarded one of the top 50 albums of the year in Wire magazine.) Mixing elements of classic VU, Doors, late 70s/early 80s post punk (Wire, Joy Division, etc.) with a unique strand of New Zealand rock that has been developing in isolation since the early 80s (Vacuum, Pin Group, The Clean, etc.). Its hard to understand why it took so long for the band to garner a little attention from the critics. The early 90s saw two full-length releases from the band (Touch and Little Things). Both are seriously meaty albums with guitar distortion and drums often taking the forefront (perhaps channeling a bit of Fun House), but pinned down by Stephen Cogles Ferry-esque vocals and that NZ rock sensibility. Little Things (1995) in particular stretches out the frenzy established with Touch; Jon Dale (NZs closest thing to a rock-musicologist) claims this to be their most sophisticated stage; drawing comparisons to Charlambides and Fushitsusha, yet never fully breaking away from rock. Indeed, its worth noting that Little Things was released side-by-side with the free noise entries like Gate, Handful of Dust, etc.; but unlike those bands, there was still a core part of the Terminals that was all about songs and lyrics -- even if that format was as dense and electrified as Musica Electronic. This much-needed reissue features both some serious remastering by the band and two live bonus tracks (one a cover of Roxy Musics Both Ends Burning)." - Last Visible Dog. |
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Artist: TERMINALS, THE Title: Last Days Of The Sun Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: US Price: $12.50 |
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"Last Days of the Sun is the fifth album by long-running New Zealand avant-garage kings The Terminals. Bruce Russell has often described them as New Zealands best rock band bar none, and these days they often get called legendary and while that may have as much to do with the fact they are in their twenty-first year they continue have a big reputation for the intensity of their live performances. Last Days of the Sun is their first release since the 1997 Terminals Live CD on Medication and the 1996 7" single Medusa on Chicago label Roofbolt. It combines driving garage-rock and swirling guitar/organ interplay with dark, brooding, melodramas and quietly haunting ballads. There are twelve songs of love and anxiety, with The Terminals characteristic ebb and flow dynamics and Cogles unearthly tenor soaring right over the top." - Last Visible Dog.
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Artist: TIVOL Title: Interstellar Overbike Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "New full-length release from Finnish-based Tivol; sounding like part Amon Duul 2 (think the first track on Yeti), part Blue Cheer and part High Rise." - Last Visible Dog. |
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Artist: UP-TIGHT Title: Live at the Lucrezia Format: DVD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "52-minute DVD (all region, all format) of Up-Tight playing at their best. Incredible sound quality, the video is close-up and personal. Unless you have been lucky enough to catch this tremendous live band on tour, this is the only way you are going to experience the real thing! Black-clad and with an ominous aura created by their distorted guitar epics, burnt-out ballads and raucous mantric jams, Up-Tight are seriously not to be messed with. Heading up the second generation of Japanese psychedelic rock acts (following on from Fushitsusha, Kosokuya and Shizuka) theyre one of the best live groups in Japan. As you might expect from their name, theres a chiselled intensity to their playing which displays some startling post-Velvets stances. With the power to lay down spontaneously loose, acid-fried and drugged garage psych jams of hypnotic guitar squall, and a line of impassioned and fathomless vocals that are capable of kicking you right in the gut, Up-Tight have a mesmeric feel to them, unmatched by any peers." 2-sided DVD that is both NTSC & PAL compatible."-Last Visible Dog |
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Artist: V/A Title: Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box Format: 6 CD Set Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $47.00 |
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"Enormous 7-1/2 hour 6CD compilation featuring almost everyone from the label roster along with plenty of new faces. Inspired by Drunken Fishs mid 90s Harmony of the Spheres box, each artist has contributed an EPs worth of exclusive material (10-20 minutes) specifically recorded for this release (not the normal throw away material that appears on other comps.) The line-up includes: Black Forest/Black Sea, Birchville Cat Motel, Wolfmangler (Dead Raven Choir), Loren Chasse (Blithe Sons, Hala Strana, Thuja) Bardo Pond, es, Stefano Pilia, Sunken (Antony Milton & Pumice), Kulkija, Tomutonttu (Kemialliset Ystavat), UP-TIGHT, Flies Inside the Sun, Uton, Mudboy, Steven R. Smith (Hala Strana, Thuja), Keijo, Doktor Kettu (Circle), My Cat is an Alien, One Inch of Shadow, Fursaxa, Ashtray Navigations, Peter Wright, Geoff Mullen, Urdog, Miminokoto, Area C, Ben Reynolds, Seht, ..." - Last Visible Dog.
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Artist: V/A Title: Somethings #1 Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Third installment for our avant-garde/free-improv/difficult listening series. Compilation of unreleased and new, challenging music assembled by Ilya Monosov. Somethings #1 features Chie Mukai, Sarah Peebles, Masayoshi Urabe, Nick Castro, Preston Swirnoff, Andrew Deutsch/John McPhee and of course Ilya Monosov himself. This collection stresses an ill-defined region between composed music and improvisation, where both elements come into play. Some of the pieces use traditional instrumentation, others use field recordings. Regardless of construction, these are all artists working at the farthest boundary of what is defined (or not yet defined) as music, hence the title of the album." - Last Visible Dog. |
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Artist: VAPAA Title: Hum Hum Hum Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Vapaa is a loose collective of musicians but this recording represents the basic core group; Joel Kivela, Tiitus Petajaniemi, Keijo Virtanen and Jari-Pekka Koho. We met in Jyvaskyla, Finland in year 2003-2004 and after that we have made many records to different labels and played live shows around Finland and one tour in Europe as Keijo and the Free Players. Organic, drifting psychedelic improv without much in the way of modern equivalents. Easily compared to a few Krautrock favorites (early Amon Duul 2 and a very quiet Ash Ra Tempel) -- but in general a bit more relaxed (perhaps a little International Harvester?) For those well versed in the LVD sound, this is fairly definitive." - Last Visible Dog |
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Artist: MUTUMBAJOY, SANTIAGO Title: Yagé Pinta! Psychedelic Shaman Songs of Santiago Mutumbajoy Format: CD Label: Latitude Country: UK Price: $14.50 |
| "Weaving in and out of the shamans body, which is the same as the body of the song, these songs are the medium by which spirits are conjured, witchcraft laid to rest, and the universe put on edge. Treat them accordingly. They might change your life. They did, mine. They are sung by Santiago Mutumbajoy whom I taped with a cheap old tape-recorder at different times, mostly in 1976, when I was living with him and his wife Ambrosia. Their two-room wooden house sat on a hill in the cloud forest near the town of Mocoa where the Andes drop into the Putumayo River Basin in southwest Colombia. Today their son, Luciano, carries on the practice there, while their daughter, Natividad, sustains it in neighbouring Caqueta province. For the whole night, under the influence of a hallucinogen called yagé, the healer sings his song the power of which is due not to words, lyrics, or poetry. Instead it lies in the quality of the sound and the way that sound creates pictures in your mind while dissolving your body. The singing is the key to the magical power. It is that power. It is what brings the healer and the patient into the realms of the spirits that lie within and behind every visible thing." - Michael Taussig; Nearly 80 minutes of hypnotic, droning wild microphone field recordings of shamanic ceremonies recorded by celebrated anthropologist Michael Taussig." - Latitude. |
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Artist: DRCARLSONALBION Title: La Strega & The Cunning Man in the Smoke Format: LP Label: Latitudes Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "Limited 180 gram green colored vinyl version, from the doom metal innovator, Dylan Carlson, the front-man of EARTH. Drcarlsonalbion sees Carlson experimenting further with field recordings as he re-renders traditional folk as well as contemporary songs with his unique drone sound. Joined by Teresa Colamonaco on vocals, the pair unites to bring a restrained majesty to the reworking of shared favorites, including Last Living Rose by PJ Harvey." -Latitudes. |
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Artist: GANG GANG DANCE Title: Kamakura Format: LP Label: Latitudes Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Limited edition of 1000! Gang Gang Dance define the ultimate world music for the now, & possibly for an unknown tomorrow. Utilizing avant garde sensibilities & cut-and-paste assemblies, they approach music as pure sound. Lizzie Bougatsos vocals are often non-verbal communications -- words as sound rather than any immediate apparent linear meaning or message. As interest grows in the indigenous music of many cultures of the Far and Middle East, especially in hybridized fusions of the familiar Western forms with local historical folk forms, so Gang Gang Dance are the logical product of an outward looking NYC in the global age: Middle Eastern percussion & keyboard stabs collide with Far Eastern instrumentation, & elements of Western pop & dance." -Latitudes |
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Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: The Godward Way Format: CD Label: Latitudes Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "Limited edition of 500 in foil blocked, envelope style folder. One track of a 24 minute mind-blow from Daniel Higgs (Lungfish, Skull Defekts). Like passages from some archaic ur-song, Higgs summoned the elements, and sound issued forth." - Latitudes. |
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Artist: SYLVESTER ANFANG II Title: Untitled Format: LP Label: Latitudes Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "Hand numbered 180 gram white colored vinyl version is limited to 500 quantity and comes in letterpressed & foil stamped jacket." -Latitudes |
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Artist: ROTTEN PIECE Title: Split Head Format: 7" Label: Lazy Squid Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Rotten Piece has been one of Houstons most adventurous experimental/noise-rock /psychedelic/time-lag/hallucinated/film-munch/ continent-hopping units for 20 years." - Houston Press. "As if a bunch of chainweilding, chanting eskimos had all their limbs and skin ripped off and sewn back on just in time to open up for a dying giant bagpipe, skewered by spears from all sides by...ok, Im too into this....." -A. Wagstaff. Members of Sad Pygmy. 1994 release, limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. |
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Artist: ASRA Title: Souvenir A Asra Format: LP Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $20.00 |
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"Asra is a duo, consisting of Af Ursin and Raymond Dijkstra. Both of these people have by now quite some history in releasing music. Their interest is mainly in releasing vinyl, for whatever obscure reasons, and they both have done a few. Both Af Ursin aswell as Dadaphon (in whatever guise he pops up) have a personal way of creating music. Using an old eight channel reel to reel tape machine and a mixing board, they record densely layered sounds. Rubbing sounds, scratching objects, but also they play a wide variety of instruments, such as wind instruments and violins. Just as they dont like CDs, they also dont like electronica that much. So its a highly analog affair. Its hard to describe what it sounds like. There are traces of old Nurse With Wound (but not as collage like) or the recent minimalist drone masters (Mirror, Ora, Monos), but its less closed. On their collaborative record, they of course do whatever they can do best. The a-side has three tracks (although one is so short its merely an intro), staying close to the recent Af Ursin LP or the Dadaphon 10". Electronisch Samenspel (meaning electronic interplay) is a short track on the b-side (being clueless why they used only one third of the available vinyl) and a rather lo-fi theremin play, I assume by the both of them. Strange to hear them doing electronic music, but its kinda of nice, really. Strange and remotely playing. A very nice record by two lovely boys." - Vital. Highly recommended! Restocked. 2003 release.
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Artist: DADAPHON Title: Dadaphon Format: 10" Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $20.00 |
| "Each time Raymond Dijkstra records, it seems to come out under a different name. In the past he has used Ki Sync Pulse and Razoul Uzlü, and now he becomes Dadaphon. The changing names make sense because each project is so different. In this guise, he has created two wonderful pieces of reverberant junk noise. These slow motion pieces (as opposed to the more intense cut ups of Razoul Uzlü) would lead one more to think he was a contemporary of Merzbow, MB and TNB than a contemporary artist. Add to this the simple cover with its paste on photocopy collage (each copy different), it looks a genuine artifact from a previous decade, the sort which would be coveted by now. An edition of only 400 numbered copies." - Vital Weekly. Limited 10" (with hand made covers) of weird electronic scrapings by Dutch sound artist Raymond Dijkstra. Dijkstra also has a project with Af Ursin under the name ASRA. Restocked. |
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: Affen-Theater Format: LP Box Set Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $45.00 |
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"While exploring various territories of sound Raymond Dijkstra has
released recordings under the names Ki Sync Pulse, Razoul Uzlu and
Dadaphon, as well as being part of Indra Karmuka and Asra. Having
passed through these phases he finally settled on releasing music
under his own name. Published by himself only on vinyl releases,
Raymond makes the format fit his music, some times only using one
side of the disc for music rather than matching it with a piece which
had no connection. On this latest LP we are presented an automatic
[in the sense that the Surrealists understood this word] suite in two
pieces. This distilled work of less than one-half hour shows to our
ears the mysterious workings of an imaginary space. taking the title
of the album, "Affen-Theater" [which translates as "Monkey Theater"],
as a jumping off point, one might envision a secretive performance
wherein creatures go about their actions - twisting, turning,
stacking and otherwise moving around in curious actions. Not really
creating music but a theater of aural actions, the nature of which
remains impenetrable. This is accomplished through the use and abuse
of various acoustic instruments and their coloration through a
minimal amount of electronic processing. The simple nature and the
interjection of space in the various layers of squeaks, bumps, scraps
and wheezes gives the result of an unhurried density, one created
through the agent of various hands, not cold machines. Being a
rather personal music, this music is released in only a
small edition." - Eric Lanzillotta.
"Affen-Theater is about delusions in a closed-off world. Claustrophobic,
cyclic and delusionary, it deals with recurring mental states.
Filmic and contemplative, it is both distant and personal.
Its like sitting at a table. You are looking at the table. While looking,
the table seems 50 meters away, yourself being very small.
You know youre watching from close by, but your eyes say differently.
Or it is like waking up. The atmosphere is both calm and hectic. The air is
charged with emotions. Actions dont seem to fit. It goes to slow and to
fast at the same time. It wrings in a utterly unpleasant way. You try to
release yourself from this torment. You walk around, make some tea, but you
cannot free yourself. When you sit completely still the atmosphere rushes
through you. When you walk around, you go to fast for the slowed down
surrounding. It has nothing to do with hallucinations stemming from
the use of drugs.
More with self-induced mental states wherein delusions spontaneously occur."
-Raymond Dijkstra.
Packaged in a black linen covered, wooden slipcase with debossed gold print. Edition of 120. One of the more stunning packages ive seen. Yet another highly recommended release from one of my favorite European labels!
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: Das Schone Format: Lathe Cut LP Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $56.00 |
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"For the superficial listener (for whom this is certainly not produced) what Dijkstra does may sound the same. Like say a guitarist he uses his instrument: on Das Schöne a table played with glass and an echo unit. A reduction that is in various way. Before he used an organ too, more electronics. Thats one difference. But here he also plays with silence. He plays for maybe twenty second shrieking sounds, fed through echo and then there is silence, in which nothing happens. Sometimes these silences are longer than the actual music. It leaves the listener in nothing less but a state of confusion. To the annoyed, who think: is this it? Is the record over? But to the more careful listeners, he builds great tension - the strongest line between silence and sound. The other new LP is more along the lines of the previous ones, the glass sounds, organ/harmonium and echo unit at work. There are strong similarities between all of these works, but its the smaller details that these works do differ from each other. Schijnheilige Vissen seems to be using the element of silence and also a bit more distortion, but that might very well be the King pressing at work. Dijkstra builds a consistent piece work - an oeuvre as you will. A highly personal world of sound." - FdW/Vital. "These highly interesting handmade polycarbon pressings have an each
individually different, deteriorated quality, which is a perfect fit to
the music." - Le Souffleur. 2 new Peter King lathe-cut LPs from Dijkstra, oversized foldover jackets, signed and numbered edition of 50.
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: De Fazant Format: LP Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $86.00 |
| "Translation: "The pheasant". LP plus fine (newspaper) paper inlay with black image. Recordsleeves with handpainted circles and half circles. Handwritten numbered 1-50. Vinyl-record weight: 120 grams. Black vinyl. Handwritten recordlabels. The record contains six short musicpieces, each between 1 and 2,5 minute. The musicpieces are each seperated by blank vinyl without grooves. With half circles painted on the blank vinyl. 33 Rpm. Limited edition of 50. Artwork Raymond Dijkstra." - Le Souffleur. |
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: De Gedachte Format: LP Box Set Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $144.00 |
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"Translation: "The thought". Red velours/cloth-linen hardcover box with debossed black and debossed gold print on front and debossed gold print on side.
Inside the box a fine (newspaper-)paper inlay with black image; and the LP-cover with stamp of the publisher Le souffleur and stamped number 01-50. The inside of the box is signed by the author.
Size of the box: 32 - 32 - 1,5 cm. Total weight: 750 grams. Vinyl-record weight: 120 grams. Black vinyl. Handstamped recordlabels. 33 Rpm. Limited edition of 50. Concept, design Raymond Dijkstra. All items are individually handmade under supervision of Raymond Dijkstra." - Le Souffleur. Packaging-wise, on De Gelofte and De Gedachte, Dijkstras outdone himself, if you can believe it. Very highly recommended!
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: De Gedatche Format: LP Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $86.00 |
| "Fine (newspaper) paper inlay with black image limited edition of 30 copies" - Le Souffleur |
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: De Gelofte Format: LP Box Set Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $144.00 |
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"Translation: "The vow". Red velours/cloth-linen hardcover box with debossed black and debossed gold print on front and debossed gold print on side.
Inside the box a fine (newspaper-)paper inlay with black image; and the LP-cover with stamp of the publisher Le souffleur and stamped number 01-50. The inside of the box is signed by the author.
Size of the box: 32 - 32 - 1,5 cm. Total weight: 750 grams. Vinyl-record weight: 120 grams. Black vinyl. Handstamped recordlabels. 33 Rpm. Limited edition of 50. Concept, design Raymond Dijkstra. All items are individually handmade under supervision of Raymond Dijkstra." - Le Souffleur. Packaging-wise on De Gelofte and De Gedachte, Dijkstras outdone himself, if you can believe it. Very highly recommended!
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: De Gelofte Format: LP Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $86.00 |
| "Fine (newspaper) paper inlay with black image limited edition of 30 copies" - Le Souffleur |
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: De Hamer Format: LP Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $55.00 |
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: De Larf Format: LP Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $55.00 |
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: De Schroef Format: LP Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $38.00 |
| "Perhaps our most beloved outsider in experimental music. Raymond Dijkstra never ceases to amaze me. De Schroef (the screw) is his biggest edition so far (I think), limited to 200 copies. Thats not the only change here. The music is ten pieces of maybe one minute to 90 seconds, ending in a silent lock groove and with lots of blank space in between those pieces. Meaning you have to get up to place the stylus into the next piece. Most odd. It doesnt end there. Each of the pieces seems to be a variation on the same theme. An organ/harmonium sound, scraping of glass; all done rapidly. But the proceedings are short and one is left to think its the same thing, but perhaps its not. Thats the great thing about releases by Raymond Dijkstra. It leaves an endless amount of thinking about it. Is it same, or different? Why is it cut like this? Poetry. I think Dijkstra offers us sound poetry. Without words, but these ten poems are variations on a few sounds. It will surely annoy a few listeners, but no doubt the true fans of Dijkstra - count me in there - are amazed. Once again. The great outsider." - FdWard(Vital). |
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: Der Triumph Format: CDR Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $32.00 |
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"The previous LP Affen-Theater was packed in hardcover box and so is this new CDR, which seems to me also music-wise a continuation of Affen-Theater. Seven tracks (now that is something odd for him), which are relatively short (odd!), but contain the similar sound elements as before: scratching the surface, most likely glass with metal objects, a harmonium, and some sound effects, mainly echo. Everything stays on a similar sound level through the piece. By itself these are probably highly annoying, but when played/placed all together they start making sense. Small patterns are formed, giving a sort of a hallucinating feel to the music. This is the kind of drone music that certainly adds something new to the notion of drone. Not endless patterns of treated guitars, synths or field recordings, but electro-acoustic music played very tightly. The previous Affen-Theater was announced here as the strongest release by Dijkstra so far and in that respect Der Triumph (I must admit I keep wondering about his love of German titles) doesnt surpass that one, but extends its beauty to this release." - FdW-Vital Music. Another amazingly packaged release from Dijkstra. Only 25 were made despite being signed and numbered 100 copies.. Out of print.
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: Der Triumph Format: LP Box Set Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $90.00 |
| "The previous LP Affen-Theater was packed in hardcover box and so is this new (LP), which seems to me also music-wise a continuation of Affen-Theater. Seven tracks (now that is something odd for him), which are relatively short (odd!), but contain the similar sound elements as before: scratching the surface, most likely glass with metal objects, a harmonium, and some sound effects, mainly echo. Everything stays on a similar sound level through the piece. By itself these are probably highly annoying, but when played/placed all together they start making sense. Small patterns are formed, giving a sort of a hallucinating feel to the music. This is the kind of drone music that certainly adds something new to the notion of drone. Not endless patterns of treated guitars, synths or field recordings, but electro-acoustic music played very tightly. The previous Affen-Theater was announced here (see Vital Weekly 479) as the strongest release by Dijkstra so far and in that respect Der Triumph (I must admit I keep wondering about his love of German titles) doesnt surpass that one, but extends its beauty to this release." - FdW, Vital. "LP in linen hardcover box with debossed and gold print. Numbered and signed edition of 80 copies." - Le Souffleur. "What sounds like a man scraping broken glass on metal w/ brain-burnt organ accompaniment makes for one killer LP. Dijkstra has been honing his skin splitting aurality for years and presents us this masterpiece in a hardback linen box sleeve." - Bulltongue, ARTHUR Magazine. #5 in the Top 80 of 2006. |
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: Der Triumph - Artwork Edition Format: LP Box Set Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $142.00 |
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"The previous LP Affen-Theater was packed in hardcover box and so is this new (LP), which seems to me also music-wise a continuation of Affen-Theater. Seven tracks (now that is something odd for him), which are relatively short (odd!), but contain the similar sound elements as before: scratching the surface, most likely glass with metal objects, a harmonium, and some sound effects, mainly echo. Everything stays on a similar sound level through the piece. By itself these are probably highly annoying, but when played/placed all together they start making sense. Small patterns are formed, giving a sort of a hallucinating feel to the music. This is the kind of drone music that certainly adds something new to the notion of drone. Not endless patterns of treated guitars, synths or field recordings, but electro-acoustic music played very tightly. The previous Affen-Theater was announced here (see Vital Weekly 479) as the strongest release by Dijkstra so far and in that respect Der Triumph (I must admit I keep wondering about his love of German titles) doesnt surpass that one, but extends its beauty to this release." - FdW, Vital.
"LP in linen hardcover box with debossed print and original artwork from composer. Numbered and signed edition of 10 copies." - Le Souffleur.
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: Die Sonne Format: LP Box Set Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $146.00 |
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"Its perhaps no big secret that I am a big fan of the work of Raymond Dijkstra, and maybe reviewing all of his previous work, entitled me to a copy of each of this: a big black wooden box with golden text, in an edition of merely 100 copies - the preprogrammed art item or well calculated collectors item? (You decide). Times three. Crouton released a big wooden box, while Dijkstras Le Souffleur label releases two LPs at the same time in a linen hardcover box with debossed and gold print, like his previous Affen-Theater (see Vital Weekly 479). Sound wise Dijkstra continues the road he choose now for a while. A while ago I saw him in concert,with Timo van Luyck, with whom he has an ongoing collaboration, and their set up is very simple. An ancient loop echo, a small table and a small bunch of objects that are played on the table, like glass, knives, forks and wood. On Maskenstilleben Dijkstra continues this. Somewhere in the back there are the disharmonious drone like chords he plays, seemingly at random, whereas in the foreground there are scrapings and scratching of the surface, which are fed through the ancient echo machine (which, to be honest, could have been a little less). Perhaps the use of echo makes this electro-acoustic music, but its merely a deception to call it like that. This is acoustic music in optima forma and one of a highly original kind. Composition? Not of great interest for Dijkstra. Structure? Nope. Being part of a scene? Which one, or in fact is there one? Not for Dijkstra. He claims to work best in strict isolation, building up the pressure and
when he plays his music, he releases his pressure. Inside his closed system (both mentally and in the real world), he derives the sounds which he likes, plays them ad infinitum, without beginning or end. This is noise music, but stepped outside the relatively known genre of overload. This is improvisation, but not as we knew it. Total outsider music, as its hard to come across Dijkstra, who hardly plays concerts. Not part of the serious music world, the underground noise scene, microsound or the laptop flock, he persists very much in his world. "Releasing my work I only do for metaphysical reasons; to keep all psychic and physical channels open, and maintaining a healthy system. It is not much more then relieving yourself in the toilet", he says. I hardly see anything more beautiful, both music and package wise, coming from relieving yourself in the toilet (the analogy is a bit lost on me, but then I am an outsider to his world). The differences between the three LPs is not very big. Normally it could result in me nagging about that, but in the case of Dijkstra you can only see the purity by which he works. We hardly complain about people using guitars and drums, so why should we complain about Dijkstra using objects like glass and metal? Its not the same song repeated three times. Each is genuinely different from the previous or the following record. The instruments remain the same, the composition remains the same, yet, like a good monochrome painting, the differences are in the detail. Die Sonne I thought was a bit more minimal than the other two, more sparse, while Maskenstilleben was a bit more dense, and Die Wille, although close to Die Sonne fell sort of in between the two. After a bunch of self-released records, the release for Crouton may open more doors for Dijkstra, and probably he doesnt care, but at least the public should care. Three great LPs, by all means, although Art (big A in place) doesnt come cheap." - FdW/Vital Weekly. "LP in linen hardcover box with debossed and gold printing, edition of 100 copies."
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: Die Wille Format: LP Box Set Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $146.00 |
| "Its perhaps no big secret that I am a big fan of the work of Raymond Dijkstra, and maybe reviewing all of his previous work, entitled me to a copy of each of this: a big black wooden box with golden text, in an edition of merely 100 copies - the preprogrammed art item or well calculated collectors item? (You decide). Times three. Crouton released a big wooden box, while Dijkstras Le Souffleur label releases two LPs at the same time in a linen hardcover box with debossed and gold print, like his previous Affen-Theater (see Vital Weekly 479). Sound wise Dijkstra continues the road he choose now for a while. A while ago I saw him in concert,with Timo van Luyck, with whom he has an ongoing collaboration, and their set up is very simple. An ancient loop echo, a small table and a small bunch of objects that are played on the table, like glass, knives, forks and wood. On Maskenstilleben Dijkstra continues this. Somewhere in the back there are the disharmonious drone like chords he plays, seemingly at random, whereas in the foreground there are scrapings and scratching of the surface, which are fed through the ancient echo machine (which, to be honest, could have been a little less). Perhaps the use of echo makes this electro-acoustic music, but its merely a deception to call it like that. This is acoustic music in optima forma and one of a highly original kind. Composition? Not of great interest for Dijkstra. Structure? Nope. Being part of a scene? Which one, or in fact is there one? Not for Dijkstra. He claims to work best in strict isolation, building up the pressure and when he plays his music, he releases his pressure. Inside his closed system (both mentally and in the real world), he derives the sounds which he likes, plays them ad infinitum, without beginning or end. This is noise music, but stepped outside the relatively known genre of overload. This is improvisation, but not as we knew it. Total outsider music, as its hard to come across Dijkstra, who hardly plays concerts. Not part of the serious music world, the underground noise scene, microsound or the laptop flock, he persists very much in his world. "Releasing my work I only do for metaphysical reasons; to keep all psychic and physical channels open, and maintaining a healthy system. It is not much more then relieving yourself in the toilet", he says. I hardly see anything more beautiful, both music and package wise, coming from relieving yourself in the toilet (the analogy is a bit lost on me, but then I am an outsider to his world). The differences between the three LPs is not very big. Normally it could result in me nagging about that, but in the case of Dijkstra you can only see the purity by which he works. We hardly complain about people using guitars and drums, so why should we complain about Dijkstra using objects like glass and metal? Its not the same song repeated three times. Each is genuinely different from the previous or the following record. The instruments remain the same, the composition remains the same, yet, like a good monochrome painting, the differences are in the detail. Die Sonne I thought was a bit more minimal than the other two, more sparse, while Maskenstilleben was a bit more dense, and Die Wille, although close to Die Sonne fell sort of in between the two. After a bunch of self-released records, the release for Crouton may open more doors for Dijkstra, and probably he doesnt care, but at least the public should care. Three great LPs, by all means, although Art (big A in place) doesnt come cheap." - FdW/Vital Weekly. "LP in linen hardcover box with debossed and gold printing, edition of 100 copies." |
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: L Opus Ch Format: LP Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $86.00 |
| "Perhaps a lengthy introduction, but please bear with me. On Friday 27 March 2009 Extrapool Nijmegen staged another one of their "Audiotoop" evenings. The idea of Audiotoop is that artists from various disciplines create a radio play especially composed for the evening of the performance. This Audiotoop saw a performance of Edward Ka-spel and Silverman (of the Legendary Pink Dots) who staged spoken word pieces with added soundscapes created by Silverman. Quite wonderful. After their performance ASRA was next; a collaboration between Timo van Luijk and Raymond Dijkstra. I was really looking forward to their performance as I hold both musicians in high esteem. The stage was scattered with a lot of small acoustic instruments, a piano and a tuba. Together they performed the best live set I have heard in a long time. Beautiful, spacious music with respect for all individual sounds and both performers. The reason for this introduction is the fact that that night I bought the new Raymond Dijkstra LP Lopus CH. Another reason is that when I came home and played the record the following day, something of the magic of that performance appeared to be also etched in the grooves of this record. I have all Raymond Dijkstra LPs so I know his music well. For un-initiated ears his records might sound "all the same", but that is not the case. His music carefully and gradually develops and Dijkstra documents this process in his records. Interestingly enough this works well. Lopus CH (attractively packed in a handmade cover; made of old newspaper fragments stuck to the cover) is a new step in Dijkstras development. The instruments used on this album include piano and tuba amongst his more regular set up. More relaxed, more open than ever this is one of my favorite records from the past few months. Not just a record for those "in the know", but certainly one for everyone who appreciates beautiful music. As only 50 copies were pressed, I suggest a certain haste in contacting his label Le Souffleur." - Freek Kinkelaar (Vital). "Handpainted / collaged recordsleeves. Handwritten numbered 1-50. Vinyl-record weight: 120 grams. Black vinyl. Handwritten recordlabels. When everything slows down... 33 Rpm. Limited edition of 50. Artwork Raymond Dijkstra.." - Le Souffleur. |
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: L Opus Ch Format: LP Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $26.00 |
| "Since 2003 Dutch painter, musician and sculptor Raymond Dijkstra has put out more than 40 releases on his Le Souffleur label, in a range of formats (LP, 10", 7", 5", and 3" vinyl), under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms (Ki Sync Pulse, Razoul ÿzlü, Dadaphon). All are very limited art editions, whose sleeves feature his drawing and painting, and are priced accordingly. Dijkstras lack of profile and insistence on working in isolation make it tempting to classify his work as a form of outsider art. He has certainly evolved an unusual and relatively unique approach. The few of his albums Ive been able to hear sound like nothing else around - organ loops, metal scrapings and string scratchings are crafted through insistent repetition and crude manipulations into totally self-contained and obsessively insular soundworlds. Lopus Ch and De Fazant are his two most recent releases. The more substantial Lopus Ch serves up two sidelong tracks, both primitive improvisational collages, at times indistinguishable from each other. A small range of sounds is repeatedly distressed, forced into meandering, circular patterns, with little in the way of development or progression - unidentifiable tinny scrapings are filtered through echo and delay effects while what sound like a pump organ creakily chunters away in the background. Like much of Dijkstras music, its at once futile and profound." -Nick Cain (The Wire). Edition of 300, with poster. |
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: La Philosophie Des Chiottes Format: LP Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $19.00 |
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"The title "La Philosophie Des Chiottes" (The Philosophy Of The John) refers both to the philosophical approach of this piece, as well to its nihilistic concept." - Le Souffleur. Edition of 200.
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: Schijnheilige Vissen Format: Lathe Cut LP Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $56.00 |
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"For the superficial listener (for whom this is certainly not produced) what Dijkstra does may sound the same. Like say a guitarist he uses his instrument: on Das Schöne a table played with glass and an echo unit. A reduction that is in various way. Before he used an organ too, more electronics. Thats one difference. But here he also plays with silence. He plays for maybe twenty second shrieking sounds, fed through echo and then there is silence, in which nothing happens. Sometimes these silences are longer than the actual music. It leaves the listener in nothing less but a state of confusion. To the annoyed, who think: is this it? Is the record over? But to the more careful listeners, he builds great tension - the strongest line between silence and sound. The other new LP is more along the lines of the previous ones, the glass sounds, organ/harmonium and echo unit at work. There are strong similarities between all of these works, but its the smaller details that these works do differ from each other. Schijnheilige Vissen seems to be using the element of silence and also a bit more distortion, but that might very well be the King pressing at work. Dijkstra builds a consistent piece work - an oeuvre as you will. A highly personal world of sound." - FdW/Vital. "These highly interesting handmade polycarbon pressings have an each
individually different, deteriorated quality, which is a perfect fit to
the music." - Le Souffleur. 2 new Peter King lathe-cut LPs from Dijkstra, oversized foldover jackets, signed and numbered edition of 50.
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: Untermensch Lieder Format: 7" Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $18.00 |
| "The name Raymond Dijkstra may not be sparkling alive, but the man has been around for some time, and he has released many works, under his own name, aswell as Dadaphon, Razoul Uzlu, Ki Sync Pulse, Asra (a duo with Af Ursin) and at one point one-third Indra Karmuka. On this 7" he doesnt return to the noise work he released before under his own name, but rather continues paths taken by the work as Dadaphon: amplifying objects, layering them and making a collage out of it. On the a-side there is the scratch of glass on metal sound in the foreground and osbscure, semi-percussive rumbling in the back. Similar scratch is on the b-side but the percussive element is louder here. Not dissimilar to Organum, Raymond Dijkstra however likes his sounds to be free of any electronic treatment, rather keeping in close contact with the original sounds. The treatments are played and not generated. A rather solitary voice in this kind of music. Should appeal to more people than it does by the name and thats a pity. Check it out, will ya?" - FdW, Vital. Edition of 100 copies. Restock of this 2004 release without the original sticker on label and signed and dated 14/03/11. |
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Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: Verzameld Werk 2005 / 2007 Format: 4 LP Set Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $105.00 |
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"The 4 musicpieces included in this set were originally released as separate LPs by muziekuitgeverij Le Souffleur between 2005 and 2007. Together they form a closed series. This series includes: Affen-theater (2005), Der Triumph (2006), Die sonne (2007), Die wille (2007)." 4 LPs in 2 gatefold silkscreened jackets in silkscreened band. Numbered edition of 100 copies. A much more affordable way to check out these amazing (and disturbing) recordings of echoed scraping metal/pump organ. Very highly recommended!
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Artist: SANTASEDE Title: s/t Format: 10" Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $18.00 |
 First non-privately distributed release on Raymond Dijkstras label since 2009, following a long string of ultra-limited art edition lathe-cuts. An unlikely collaboration between Dijkstra and Tiff Lion, who has done soundtrack work for CSI and The Hunger Games. LP by the duo to follow next year on Dekorder. "The music has an obscure and surreal character hard to categorize. It certainly has filmic qualities, if only as a film of the inner-eye. The music has a psychedelic touch and elements of esotericism by its use of sitar, (primitively played) tabla and highly reverberated string instruments. The reciting of old Italian Alchemistic texts by Tiff Lion links the music further to a dark spirituality. There is a great emphasis on acoustic instrumentation played in a raw manner (among others piano-strings) giving the whole record a very rudimentary character. The use of electronics is done in such a way that its often impossible to divide acoustic and electronic sounds. The electronic instrumentation thus emphasizes the rawness of the acoustic sounds. Highly recommended for lovers of psychedelic music."
"Vanilla white vinyl with dash of brown (every exemplar has a different dash so every exemplar is unique)
Vinyl-record weight: 160 grams. 33 Rpm. Limited edition of 250 ex. With personalized downloadcard.
October 2012." - Le Souffleur.
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Artist: CAR COMMERCIALS Title: A Young Victoriaville Format: Cass Label: Leaf Leaf Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: CAR COMMERCIALS Title: Grants Dead Format: Cass Label: Leaf Leaf Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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"26 minutes of creepy songs by names all too familiar to leaf leaf: David
Sutton and Daniel Dimaggio. guitars, pianos, drums, shrill autoharps and
weird dudes. "Lou barlow kills Jandek-shadow ring comes over and writes a
song about it"- Terminal Boredom review. Expect the ghoulish!" - Leaf Leaf.
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Artist: CAR COMMERCIALS Title: Jar Format: 7" Label: Leaf Leaf Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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"Daniel Dimaggio is the Orson Welles of Princeton, NJ. He is! Look at him; master of the airwaves behind the Strong Little Legs (RIP) & Giants Of Jazz radio programs on WPRB as well as commander of flesh n blood charm peddlers Home Blitz & now this band Car Commercials. For alls I know he might even hate Gallo Wine & fish sticks too. He aint alone on that count! I wonder what his thoughts are concerin Elmyr De Hory? Hmmm....another time perhaps.
Home Blitz you might already be familiar with. Many a two-cents was tossed around on their behalf last year, extollin praise as how they ranked alongside Modern Lovers, Half Japanese & Electric Eels as genuine Real McCoys of the American Underground. And I aint sayin they arent or they dont.I chose to abstain from the hyperbole not because I didnt have the change to spare, but on account I thought them was pretty big britches to fill. I dont put much truck in E. Eels n 1/2 Jap comparisons these days. Personally, I think Id be more apt to consider the contents of my wallet readin something like Ron House fronting the Feelies but its that kindve reactionary pontificatin that makes this blog the contentious darling it is, right?
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Anyways, w/Car Commercials Dan & co. have seemingly tapped into the wellspring of amateurish goodness what emanates from the source(s) of them Messthetics compilations thatre gracing ears n airwaves (finally) nowadays. Theres a lot to be said for the zero production skills, which in the right hands (their own), Im always a sucker for.True, on occasion they come dangerously close to channelin the precocity of early Daniel Johnston, but most of the time Car Commercials nail it like they was stained by the same varnish & wax buildup as 49 Americans or Crash Action Winners. Id also state for the record that in another time n place (take a wild guess) these guys wouldve lived high on the hog recordin for the Onset/Offset label alongside the likes of Les Bottletops,Toerag, Brothers Gorgonzola & other estimable strangers that have yet to be properly heralded. I know, I know, folks is all the time sayin we are not familiar with these bands you reference. But I am! Theres a fine line between obstinance n ignorance & sometimes in the middle they become twain. What am I gettin at? How about; DONT LET 25 YEARS GO BY BEFORE YOU HEAR THIS CAR COMMERCIALS EP! I cant make it much plainer than that.Theres cassettes too. Collectem all." - Siltblog.
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Artist: CAR COMMERCIALS Title: The Mediums Necklace Format: Cass Label: Leaf Leaf Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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"hour long tape of scary songs, weirdo awkwardness, messy jams, and
everything else youd want in a 56 cadillac." - Leaf Leaf.
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Artist: WOODSMAN Title: Mystery Tape Format: LP Label: LEFSE Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Woodsman is an experimental ambient post-psychedelic band based in Denver, CO. The quartet contains two totemic percussionists and two sonic animators who employ electric guitars, feedback loops, and recorded samples to build the dreamy astral soundscapes that define Woodsmans sound. Influenced by hazy mountain passes, the cinema of Stan Brakhage, and early 1970s improvisational recordings by Miles Davis, Woodsman has crafted aural offerings that are uniquely their own. Since 2008, they have released a full length 12" LP on Mexican Summer, as well as two compact discs and two cassette tapes on their own Fire Talk label." -LEFSE |
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Artist: M.N.D. Title: M.N.D. In Stockholm - New Nordic Light II Format: LP Label: Leiterwagen Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
| "lp single-sided (vinyl, 180g), recorded 25. 8. 1970. norbert eisbrenner guit., vla., voc., werner götz vla., bass, sven ake johansson dr., voc., p, autogeräusche, geläute, etc." |
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Artist: RED CRAYOLA Title: On Forty-Five Format: 7" Label: Leiterwagen Country: Germany Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: SCHLICK, JORG & MEGABODY Title: Farbenlehre III Format: 7" Label: Leiterwagen Country: Germany Price: $8.50 |
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Features artist Albert Oehlen (Leiterwagen is Oehlens label) and NDW legend A. Dorau.
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Artist: WAGSTAFF Title: Funkencomputer Format: CD Label: Leiterwagen Country: Germany Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: GR Title: Xperiments From Within the Tentacular Format: LP Label: Les Disques Blasphematoires Du Palatin Country: France Price: $22.00 |
| ""The Xperiments From Within The Tentacular album (a D.I.Y act on 4 Track Tape Recorder captured between 2006-2007) features the most dangerous Yaya touch, guitar Feedback development at its wildest, obscure unintelligible spoken words within vintage & weird cascophonic sounds quality, and the cult of impossible 4 track transfiguration." - Les Disques Blasphematoires Du Palatin. |
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Artist: TYVEK Title: Euro Tour 2011 Format: 7" Label: Les Disques Steak Country: France Price: $10.00 |
| "The pace increases, the vocals stay tinny and distorted, blowing out a mini-megaphone, getting ever more punk. Another solid step forward in TYVEKs trash rock evolution. Very limited." - Les Disques Steak. |
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Artist: TYVEK Title: Time Change Format: 7" Label: Les Disques Steak Country: France Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: NIHILIST SPASM BAND, THE Title: No Nihilist Spasm Band In Mulhouse Format: LP Label: Les Mondes Mental Country: France Price: $22.00 |
| Live at La Salle St. Fridolin, Mulhouse 1 June 2004 during the second NSB European tour. A word about Hugh and The Nihilist Spasm Band by John Boyle: "The Nihilist Spasm Band began in the summer of 1965 in London, Ontario as an informal kazoo band of friends making a soundtrack for a film by the late artist Greg Curnoe. We soon built new, louder electric instruments. We played noise music because we did not know how to play real music. In 1969 we toured Europe for the first time, playing at the Paris Biennale des Jeunes and at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, England. It was not until 2004 that we toured Europe again, playing at Vandoeuvre-les-Nancys festival Musique Action, in Montreuil, in Hasselt, Belgium and in Mulhouse. This proved to be the last tour for Hugh McIntyre, our bassist for 39 years. Three months later, he died of heart failure. The very last night he played at our regular Monday night gig, members of R.E.M. showed up and jammed with us till 2 in the morning. Hugh had a wonderful time and went to hear their concert the next evening. This final recording of Hugh with the Spasm Band in Mulhouse is dedicated to his memory." - Les Mondes Mental. |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: High Or Die Format: LP Label: Les Rallizes Denudes Country: Price: $30.00 |
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Second and final pressing of 200+ copies (for a total of 370 or so). Features different material than the two double LPs. Spray painted stencil jackets.
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Artist: IDEA FIRE COMPANY Title: Live Archives Volume 1 WMUA 23 May 1999 Format: CDR Label: Lessons About History Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Lessons About History is a brand new weapon in the Swill Radio umbrella. LAH will specialize in digital objects of live and studio performances culled from the Swill Radio archives presented to the public for the first time. The exceptional musical interest and historical value of these recordings should help the listener shed some light on the vast and mysterious world of Swill Radio. The series begins with a legendary IFCO radio show from 1999 with Karla and me joined by Graham Lambkin. This was our second show with Graham, the first being earlier in the day at the then-nascent Flywheel in Easthampton MA. (The Hardest Working Band In Rock!) We all worked together so well that it wasnt long before Tart was formed, but thats another story. This set showcases IFCO at its most languid, spacey, and electronic. Ill-fitting machine dreams. Excellent recording straight from the radio feed. A gorgeous representation of IFCO live during our Anti-Natural period. Professionally printed CDRs in full colour jackets." -Lessons About History |
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Artist: F/i Title: Blanga Format: CD Label: Lexicon Devil Country: Australia Price: $13.00 |
| "Blanga was originally released in 2005 on Lexicon Devil. Milwaukee space/psych-rock veterans F/i saw original member Richard Franecki (Vocokesh) return to the fold and the results are here to behold. With a string of highly-praised reissues from the band under Lexicons belts, ranging from the years 1983-1991, they figured it was high time to release some of their contemporary recordings. Also returning are Brian Wensing, Grant Richter with Rick Hake and John Frankovic. Most of all, Blanga (apparently an in-joke within the group and something to do with Amon Düül and Hawkwind) rips out some of the most awe-inspiring, trance-inducing and speaker-destroying psychedelic space-rock of the last 25 years. All the crucial pieces are in place: the metronomic drum beats, the Eno/Hawkwindesque synth swirls and, most of all, the overwhelming cloud of fuzzbox guitar distortion coating the proceedings. You get a mere 5 songs in 47 minutes; from the raga-drone of "An Extremely Lovely Girl Dreams of Blanga" to the stunning blips n whirls of the keyboard/sitar track, "Blangas Love Song," right on through to the closer, "Grandfather Blanga and His Band Light It Up," a Flipper-y dirge with one foot on Earth, one on Mars." -Lexicon Devil |
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Artist: F/i Title: Paradise Out Here Format: CD Label: Lexicon Devil Country: Australia Price: $13.00 |
| "Reissued by Lexicon Devil in 2006. Originally released on the Human Wrechords label in 1989, Paradise Out Here has long been the most elusive and sought-after recording from Milwaukees space-rock giants, F/i. Having once again gained a substantial cult following after the other F/i reissues Lexicon Devil has released over the last 5 years, the band came back together. The time is right to get the one non-RRRecords LP from the 80s back into the public eye, and since the LP was only released in an edition of 300 copies, therell be plenty who will want to hear this. Recorded between the Why Not? and Blue Star LPs, it captures the band in peak form. The opener, "From Poppy With Love" is one of the bands strongest numbers, a surging collision of 80s punk rock energy dosed in clouds of cosmic guitar fuzz. It slays. The drive of the following two songs, "The House Of The Pharaohs Daughter" and "The Ninth Corner," never lets up until the band sets the controls for the heart of the sun with the nigh-on 20-minutes tribal dirge of "Om 21." The holy combination of amp-destroying guitar noise, anchored, low-end bass, rock-steady drumming and other-worldly synth whoops and bleeps is a beauty to experience. To finish it off, the band has whacked on two bonus tracks, "Satellite Surfer" and "Five Crowns Of The Saxon King," both recorded around the same period, as a taster for the bounties they have sitting around in dusty tape boxes. Paradise Out Here could just be F/is best recorded work, and Lexicon Devil is pleased to get it out once again for a whole new generation of fans. Fully remastered by the band with all new artwork." -Lexicon Devil |
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Artist: NAR, HIROSHI WITH NISHINIHON Title: Hiroshi Nar With Nishinihon Format: CD Label: Lexicon Devil Country: Australia Price: $13.00 |
| "Originally issued by Lexicon Devil in 2005. This is a special one-time-only CD, limited to a pressing of 500, of a rare live meeting of minds: power trio Nishinihon (featuring Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple) and Hiroshi Nar of the legendary collector-scum/60s/70s Japanese uber-psych/garage destruction unit, Les Rallizes Denudes. Nishinihon are the amazing scorch n burn three-man unit whove scarred eardrums for several years now with their acid-rock meltdown. Since his departure from Rallizes in 1978, Hiroshi has kept himself busy with a myriad projects running the scope of no wave, garage punk, Dada-rock and the occasional guest playing on an Acid Mothers disc. Suffice to say, his discography is as long as your arm and much more interesting. Hiroshi Nar with Nishinihon (which said 5 times with a belly of booze can be a great game) celebrates exactly that: a one-off live meeting in Japan in December of 2001 between these musical titans. With Hiroshi penning three of the four songs present, theres definitely a heavy musical similarity to Les Rallizes; both "20 Yen For Each Additional" and "Machiko" possess that crawling, stumbling vibe of his previous bands best 70s work, the combination of his guitar twang and stuttering garage stomp resulting in a kind of Crazy Horse/Quicksilver hybrid. Even more explosive, are the furious guitar explosions of "Are You Lady?" and "Peep Up," two short(er) ditties that get straight to the point and drive it home in a most Stoogely manner. As it says on the back cover of this release: "Do you wanna teste this fuckin sweet wonder rock world, Brother?" Hell, yes." -Lexicon Devil |
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Artist: OIL TASTERS Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Lexicon Devil Country: Australia Price: $13.00 |
| "Originally issued by Lexicon Devil in 2005. The Oil Tasters only existed between the years 1980-1983 and managed to release two 7"s and an LP in their lifetime. Out-of-print for well over 20 years, Lexicon Devil stepped up to the plate in an attempt to reintroduce this mighty Milwaukee juggernaut back into the general public with a CD compiling all their long-deleted catalog. A three-piece with the unusual line-up of bass/vocals (Richard LaValliere), saxophone (Caleb Alexander) and drums/backing vocals (Guy Hoffman), Oil Tasters set the Milwaukee scene alight in their day with their trailblazing mix of Dada-esque smart-arse lyricism, avant-garde jazz rhythms and skittering, punk-rock energy which blended together to produce a unique, unprecedented sound. Both Richard and Guy had spent time in the late 70s in The Haskels, Milwaukees original punker outfit, and when that band called it a day, they decided to take a less orthodox musical approach. Roping in friend Caleb Alexander on saxophone (who actually learnt his trade from another 70s Milwaukee habituate and wildman, James Chance aka James White/Black of The Contortions) and inspired by a strange mixture of old Dixieland jazz, Coltrane and post-punk a la Public Image Ltd., they created something really different from the then-emerging cookie-cutter punk scene. Sonically, you could throw a few names around: in Oil Tasters one can hear traces of John Lydons snarl in the way LaValliere barks out his sarcastic tomes; the menacing, angular punk-funk-jazz of the Minutemen, especially so in the meaty, Watt-ish bass lines; and the Dada art-rock styling of Pere Ubu ca. 81/82. This release comprises both of their self-released 7"s and their subsequent LP released on Joe Carduccis excellent Thermidor label (they were actually recommended to Carducci by his good friend, Jello Biafra), all of which have been newly remastered at Dex Audio in Melbourne from the original reels which, funnily enough, had spent the last 5 years collecting dust on the shelves of none other than Henry Rollins office. Huh? The CD reproduces the front cover of the original LP, contains an 8-page booklet with liner notes from longtime fan Keith Brammer (of Die Kreuzen/Boy Dirt Car) and Richard LaValliere himself, a plethora of band flyers and photos and a full 40 minutes of surrealist, one-of-a-kind post-punk."- Lexicon Devil |
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Artist: TAR BABIES Title: Face The Music/Respect Your Nightmares Format: CD Label: Lexicon Devil Country: Australia Price: $13.00 |
| "Originally issued on the Lexicon Devil label in 2005. In 1982, the Tar Babies were burning up half-pipes and blazing venues with their hyper-speed punk rock. More well known for their late 80s LPs on the famed SST label, in which they veered towards a more DC-influenced "punk-funk" sound, and the subsequent acclaim that their drummer, Dan Bitney, acquired with Tortoise, the Babies were also one of the great, and tragically overlooked Midwestern hardcore bands of the original era, releasing two phenomenal 12" EPs on their own Bone Air imprint in 83 and 85, respectively. This CD hopes to rectify that obscurity by putting these two long-out-of-print discs back onto the marketplace for the first time on CD, with a ton of bonus material as a special treat. Inside you will find: The complete Face The Music and Respect Your Nightmares EPs, which featured early production work by Bob Mould and Butch Vig; "The Ocean" track from the Master Tapes 2LP; "Calebs Getting Mad" from their 5-song demo cassette from 1982 (the other tracks are on FTM); five previously-unreleased songs from the era, taken from the vaults of the TBs Bucky Pope, as well as alternate versions of two EP tracks; reproductions of the original artwork from the EPs, plus a collage of flyers, photos and reviews from the era in a 10-panel booklet. Liner notes from Bucky Pope himself. All of this has been digitally edited, sequenced and fiddled with by Melbourne-via-Chicago audio whiz-kid, Casey Rice. The music the Tar Babies were pumping out in 82/83 was an awesome collision course of Black Flag-style tension/release and heart-thumping thrash copped from a heavy diet of Minor Threat 7"s. Think the ferocity of early Die Kreuzen, Negative Approach, Necros, and youre in the ballpark. By 85, things had changed. The pace had slowed a touch, and most of all, Bucky was pumping out highly inventive riffs in an angular Eddie Hazel/Hendrix/Greg Ginn vein. Sharing the stage with a host of HC heroes and a bevy of SST folks criss-crossing the U.S. on their never-ending tours, the band caught the attention of Mr. Ginn and the rest is history. That is, of course, except for their 1982-1985 output. That is all here, and its a rip-snorting collection. 25 tracks and 47 minutes of trailblazing, fist-pumping slampit rama-lama from a time when people really meant it."- Lexicon Devil. Highly recommended! |
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Artist: VERDURE Title: Cross & Satellite Station Format: CD Label: Lexicon Devil Country: Australia Price: $13.00 |
| "Originally released by Lexicon Devil in 2002. Verdure is Donovan Quinn, who resides in Walnut Creek, deep in the East Bay of San Francisco. Hes performed his songs with the Skygreen Leopards (collaborating with Glenn Donaldson) and can currently be found performing solo, occasionally being joined by various friends and collaborators under the umbrella of the 13th Month. His Verdure alias draws influence from heavy collaboration with the Jewelled Antler Collective, that loose-fitting West Coast group of artists known for bathing themselves in the glow of free-improv, rustic Americana, backwater psychedelia, electronic experiments, the outlaw spirit of classic 80s hardcore, and ghostly, folk-inspired sounds. Cross & Satellite Station is a strange beast to pin down. It could be called acid-folk or ramshackle pop with a nice, lo-fi mix of aching vocals, strummed guitars, tape loops, thundering organ, scattered percussion and the odd sample here and there. When the electric guitar breaks into that fuzzed-out solo on "Pope Innocent X," or when Donovan bursts into the chorus on the mesmerizing "Suns Gonna Come Take Over My Sky," it might make you remember that the "new weird" zeitgeist spawned some true gems. If youve ever dug the sounds of Tyrannosaurus Rex, Skip Spences Oar, Nikki Sudden/Epic Soundtracks, Syd Barrett at his most unhinged, or Jandek at just about any point in his recorded life, then youll dig this."- Lexicon Devil |
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: My Gates Open, Tremble By My Side Format: CD Label: Lexicon Devil Country: Australia Price: $13.00 |
| "Originally released on the Lexicon Devil label in 2004; a reissue of their obscenely rare 1999 LP on the Roaratorio label, with three bonus tracks. Vibracathedral Orchestra started in 1998 with the core 5-piece line-up of Neil Campbell, Bridget Hayden, Michael Flower, Adam Davenport and Julian Bradley. Between the five of them, a musical CV would read like a history of UK underground experimental music from the last decade or so, with members having been involved with the likes of Richard Youngs, Simon Wickham-Smith, Sunroof, Skullflower, and others. The sound and aesthetic of VO is based heavily on percussive, improvised, minimalist drones that occasionally bear heavy resemblance to everything from very early Velvet Underground (and proto-/post-Velvets projects with John Cale, Angus MacLise and La Monte Young) to Popol Vuh and Amon Düül to essential UK cult artists like Third Ear Band and AMM. With a massive array of percussive, stringed and toy instruments (bells, recorders, flutes, mandolins, violins, whistles, organs, etc.), the band soon began wowing people over with their limited self-released CD-Rs and occasional live shows. So, in the intervening years, with a smattering of "real" releases on VHF under their belt, and various limited vinyl releases elsewhere, comes this Lexicon Devil CD. My Gates Open... was originally released on the Roaratorio label in 1999 in an addition of only 250 copies. Not only is the album considered by many fans to be their finest work, but the CD contains a bonus three tracks from the same recording session that until now have remained unissued. Musically, it all scorches in that patented Vibracathedral style: monolithic sheets of organic, repetitive drones that arch into quieter, more subtle territory, rhythms and grooves. This expanded edition is certainly an excellent place to start in exploring the world of Vibracathedral Orchestra. "-Lexicon Devil |
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: My Gates Open, Tremble By My Side Format: CD Label: Lexicon Devil Country: Australia Price: $14.00 |
| "Originally released on the Lexicon Devil label in 2004; a reissue of their obscenely rare 1999 LP on the Roaratorio label, with three bonus tracks. Vibracathedral Orchestra started in 1998 with the core 5-piece line-up of Neil Campbell, Bridget Hayden, Michael Flower, Adam Davenport and Julian Bradley. Between the five of them, a musical CV would read like a history of UK underground experimental music from the last decade or so, with members having been involved with the likes of Richard Youngs, Simon Wickham-Smith, Sunroof, Skullflower, and others. The sound and aesthetic of VO is based heavily on percussive, improvised, minimalist drones that occasionally bear heavy resemblance to everything from very early Velvet Underground (and proto-/post-Velvets projects with John Cale, Angus MacLise and La Monte Young) to Popol Vuh and Amon Düül to essential UK cult artists like Third Ear Band and AMM. With a massive array of percussive, stringed and toy instruments (bells, recorders, flutes, mandolins, violins, whistles, organs, etc.), the band soon began wowing people over with their limited self-released CD-Rs and occasional live shows. So, in the intervening years, with a smattering of "real" releases on VHF under their belt, and various limited vinyl releases elsewhere, comes this Lexicon Devil CD. My Gates Open... was originally released on the Roaratorio label in 1999 in an addition of only 250 copies. Not only is the album considered by many fans to be their finest work, but the CD contains a bonus three tracks from the same recording session that until now have remained unissued. Musically, it all scorches in that patented Vibracathedral style: monolithic sheets of organic, repetitive drones that arch into quieter, more subtle territory, rhythms and grooves. This expanded edition is certainly an excellent place to start in exploring the world of Vibracathedral Orchestra." -Lexicon Devil |
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Artist: AXIS:SOVA Title: (I Feel Like) Laying Low Format: 7" Label: Licking River Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "A debut affair; Chicago-boy makes noise under the muggy haze of the south loop, pollinated with nomadic, modal guitar tones. These tracks were captured using both 8 and 4-track analog equipment with an old Tele Custom; a Roland TR-66 Rhythm Arranger as accompanyment on the A-side, a djembe on the B-side. At the final point of any winter, harshness always gives way to a blooming rain season. Like some kinda mildness to appease your internal disorders, it removes your dusty clothes and bathes you in warm water. The Axis:sovA is weathered; that Chrome details got a bit o Shankar here, a tad of Schenker there...These markings add some character and serve to remind you, its the fools what do hesitate to meditate." -Licking River |
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Artist: WILLIAMS, GARETH Title: Flaming Tunes Format: CD Label: Life And Living Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "When Gareth Williams died on Christmas Eve 2001 at the age of 48, the world lost a huge personality and a unique creative talent, yet little is known of his work outside of the legendary group This Heat. With this first official release on Compact Disc of Williamss solo and collaborative works from 1985, Life and Living Records take the first steps to correcting this imbalance. Flaming Tunes was recorded by Gareth Williams and Mary Currie with input from a variety of contributors including fellow This Heat member Charles Bullen, long term collaborators Martin Harrison, Rick Wilson, Mick Hobbs and others. After Gareth left This Heat in the early eighties he made the first of several trips to India, an experience which affected him deeply on personal and musical levels. On returning he began a collaboration with Mary Currie, building up songs from fragments and simple arrangements, using whatever instruments they had to hand and the resourceful aesthetic of pushing a cassette portastudio to its maximum. Originally released on cassette in 1985, Flaming Tunes has languished in relative obscurity over the years, although bootlegged in its entirety in the 1990s. There has been no official Compact Disc release until now. Flaming Tunes comes packaged in a bespoke 4 panel Digipak with a PaperFoam tray replacing the standard plastic holder for the CD. This part of the package was specifically researched and made in line with Williamss wishes for future editions of his work, to reduce or remove all plastic where possible. The cover features graphics derived from the original cassette insert and expands the edition with a newly designed sixteen panel concertina insert with images and photographs from throughout Gareths life, selected by Mary Currie. Each section accompanies Gareths handwritten lyrics for the songs." -Life And Living |
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Artist: V/A Title: Life In The Future - Swedish Post Punk & Synth Wave 1979-87 Format: LP Label: Life In The Future Country: Sweden Price: $20.00 |
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"Life in the Future compiles 12 rare singles (and 2 album tracks) from the golden era of Swedish synth and post punk.
From the DIY madness of Horforstaelse to minimal classics by Reason to Live and Friz Be, via the dark post punk of
Cortex and Unter Den Linden, LITF only scrapes the surface yet paints a complete picture of the countrys fertile scene.
500 copies on white vinyl, with screened covers and insert." Highly recommended!
Side 1 1 Horforstaelse - Forlast Javel (7", 1980) 2 GPJ - Tristess No 3 (7", 1979) 3 Kitchen & the Plastic Spoons - Happy Funeral (7", 1980) 4 Modern Art - Envy (7", 1981) 5 Cortex - Jesus i Betong (7", 1981) 6 Njurmannen - Chinese Junkies (7", 1987) 7 Odd Stories - Dance (7", 1981) 8 Mats Olofsson - Rekordmagasinet (7", 1981) Side 2 1 Reason to Live - The Gift (7", 1985) 2 Friz Be - I Throw Punches (From "Hmm..." LP, 1981) 3 Unter Den Linden - Vanda Inat (7", 1981) 4 Vitality - East People (7", 1986) 5 Elektriska Cellskapet - Shes a Waitress (From "Dansa Med Fig.13." LP, 1983) 6 Tres - Operator (7", 1985) |
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Artist: CORPSE KISSER Title: Cry Laughing Format: LP Label: Life Like Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Corpsekisser began during the tumultuous and difficult summer of 2004. Inspired by the nostalgia soaked creepiness of child-voiced horror movie soundtracks (Amityville Horror, Poltergeist, �1, 2, Freddys coming for you�), the duo of Heather Anderson and Ethan Swan intended to document that year with sufficiently troubled songs. At times disembodied, at times frantic, their voices lurk among the sounds of glockenspiel, guitar, dollar-store keyboard and toy piano. After six years of DIY shows in Portland and New York, Corpsekisser is proud to release their debut record. Recalling the deliberated, mundane dread of the Shadow Rings early bedroom days or perhaps a zombie version of Brigitte Fontaine & Areskis musical wandering, �Cry Laughing� is a haunted, opaque, and occasionally gentle LP." - Artist bio "The first release on a label is really an important, key move. It can set the tone for whats to come, and will no doubt be looked to for the roots of all successes or failures that follow it. Im pretty stoked to have the first thing to come out on the Life Like be 20 minutes of sound that truly makes you feel like youve gone crazy and cant remember the last time you werent insane. Corpsekisser encapsulates the mindset of the troubled child that doesnt want to feel better. You can hear parts of the so sick you feel euphoric sounds of early 90s Siltbreeze while the male/female tandem vocals and too-hazy-to-be-brutal recording calls to mind "Twin Infinitives" era Trux. AKA THIS RECORD IS FCKED AND AMAZING! Silkscreened and spraypainted covers and the blank side of the LP has spraypainted stencils of skeleton feet." - Life Like |
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Artist: LIFT BOYS Title: Lift Boys Format: 12" Label: Lift Boys Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Limited (500?), under-the-radar "gallery edition" release by yet another Yamantaka Eye (Boredoms, Hanatarash, etc..) side project.. This definitely leans towards the dancier side of things.. (and it is NOT the Anarchy Village/Anarchy Way 12"..). Very last copies.
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Artist: JADE Title: Fly On Strangewings Format: LP Label: Light Flash Country: UK Price: $30.00 |
| "One of the most popular folk rock bands of the UK in the early 70s. Folk duo Marianne Segal and Dave Waite toured the late 60s folk clubs with the likes of Sandy Denny, Bert Jansch, Dransfield, John Martyn and other luminairies of the folk circuit. In 1970 they recorded their sole album with the help of members of FLEUR DE LYS, SAM GOPAL, PENTANGLE, FOTHERINGAY, IVY LEAGUE etc. When released, it received rave reviews and comparisons to Fairport Convention and Sandy Denny. In 1971 they split up. Ranking among "Swaddling songs" by Mellow Candle and the Trees "On the shore" as one of the great underground albums of that era." - Light Flash. |
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Artist: CHAPMAN, MICHAEL Title: Fully Qualified Survivor Format: LP Label: Light In The Attic Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"Although not as well known as his peers (Roy Harper, John Marytn, and Bert Jansch), the name Michael Chapman is an important one in the linage of English folk rock guitarists and singer/songwriters of the late 60s/early 70s. For those unfamiliar with Chapmans work, Roy Harper might be his closest musical cousin (and both artists were signed to EMIs seminal stoner record label Harvest -- also home to Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett). Like other Harvest artists, Chapmans music contains a slightly drugged out feel, sublime guitar playing and intense lyrics. Chapman recorded 4 albums for Harvest between 1968 and 1972, of which 1970s Fully Qualified Survivor is hands down considered the classic amongst the whole highly coveted bunch. What makes Fully Qualified Survivor such a special album (besides being a vehicle for a young Mick Ronsons mind-blowing guitar heroics) are the layers of beautiful acoustic guitars, deranged vocals, floating conga drums, and the cello of one Paul Buckmaster -- the same man who provided the intense strings on Elton Johns dark masterpiece Mad Man Across The Water. Fully Qualified Survivor is very much an album more than a collection of songs as they seem to link together seamlessly, and in 2011 its hard to find words to do them justice... File this record between Roy Harpers Flat Baroque and Berserk, John Martyns Inside Out, and Bert Janschs Jack Orion and youll be fine. The perfect album for a blissful day and a joint. 180 gram LP housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve featuring liner notes featuring a new interview with Chapman." - Light In The Attic.
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Artist: CHAPMAN, MICHAEL Title: Rainmaker Format: LP Label: Light In The Attic Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "On the heels of 2011s superb reissue by Light In The Attic of Michael Chapmans 1970 classic album Fully Qualified Survivor (LITA 060CD/LP) comes his 1969 debut Rainmaker (originally released on the seminal Harvest label). Like the FQS album, Rainmaker is a psychedelic-guitar-folk delight. The album kicks off with one of Chapmans best known songs It Didnt Work Out -- which features a stellar cast of legendary English musicians of the era; Guitarist Clem Clempson was in the prog-band Bakerloo (soon after playing with Chapman hed join jazz-rockers Colosseum and then Humble Pie) Drummer Aynsley Dunbar (his resume includes John Mayall, Eric Burdon, David Bowie, Frank Zappa and Lou Reed), bassist Alex Dmochowski (long time Dunbar comrade) were both in Dunbars Retaliation. Organ player Norman Haines was in Locomotive (another obscure, but legendary progressive English band of the day)." - Light In the Attic. |
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Artist: EMERSON, DONNIE & JOE Title: Dreamin Wild Format: LP Label: Light In The Attic Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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Deluxe gatefold LP version with detailed liner notes, unseen photos, and a download card. "Pacific Northwest isolation mixed with wide-eyed ambition, a strong sense of family and the gift of music proved to be quite the combination for teenage brothers Donnie and Joe Emerson. Originally released in 1979, Dreamin Wild is the sonic vision of the talented Emerson boys, recorded in a family built home studio in rural Washington State. Situated in the unlikely blink-and-you-missed-it town of Fruitland and far removed from the late 1970s punk movement and the larger disco boom, Donnie and Joe tilled their own musical soil, channeling bedroom pop jams, raw funk, and yacht rock. Spurred on their high schools music program, Donnie and Joe received a further push from their lifelong farmer father, who drew up a contract stating that hed support his sons lofty ambitions with their very own recording studio as long as they focused on original material, sage advice for a man with zero experience in the music business. After taking out a second mortgage to help cover costs, Don Sr. also built his children a 300-capacity concert hall (dubbed Camp Jammin) replete with ticket booth, stage, and fully functioning snack bar. The only problem was that the projected audience never quite materialized, despite a prime time TV profile entitled "The Rock And Roll Farmers" from nearby Spokane, Washington. Even the Emerson brothers school pals were nonplussed at their privately pressed long player; hand distributed to local music stores, but not as far as Seattle, five hours away from their rural home. Somewhat rejected by the muted response, but never surrendering, both Donnie and Joe continued down a musical path and are still active as performers today. This rare slice of bedroom-funk gets the usual Light In The Attic treatment with newly remastered audio, detailed liner notes, and expanded original album art with loads of photos from the Emersons collection." - Light In The Attic. The Rock-n-Roll Farmers: Donnie & Joe Emerson from Light In The Attic Records on Vimeo. |
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Artist: EMERSON, DONNIE & JOE Title: Dreamin Wild Format: CD Label: Light In The Attic Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Pacific Northwest isolation mixed with wide-eyed ambition, a strong sense of family and the gift of music proved to be quite the combination for teenage brothers Donnie and Joe Emerson. Originally released in 1979, Dreamin Wild is the sonic vision of the talented Emerson boys, recorded in a family built home studio in rural Washington State. Situated in the unlikely blink-and-you-missed-it town of Fruitland and far removed from the late 1970s punk movement and the larger disco boom, Donnie and Joe tilled their own musical soil, channeling bedroom pop jams, raw funk, and yacht rock. Spurred on their high schools music program, Donnie and Joe received a further push from their lifelong farmer father, who drew up a contract stating that hed support his sons lofty ambitions with their very own recording studio as long as they focused on original material, sage advice for a man with zero experience in the music business. After taking out a second mortgage to help cover costs, Don Sr. also built his children a 300-capacity concert hall (dubbed Camp Jammin) replete with ticket booth, stage, and fully functioning snack bar. The only problem was that the projected audience never quite materialized, despite a prime time TV profile entitled "The Rock And Roll Farmers" from nearby Spokane, Washington. Even the Emerson brothers school pals were nonplussed at their privately pressed long player; hand distributed to local music stores, but not as far as Seattle, five hours away from their rural home. Somewhat rejected by the muted response, but never surrendering, both Donnie and Joe continued down a musical path and are still active as performers today. This rare slice of bedroom-funk gets the usual Light In The Attic treatment with newly remastered audio, detailed liner notes, and expanded original album art with loads of photos from the Emersons collection." - Light In The Attic. |
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Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: Have Moicy! Format: LP Label: Light In The Attic Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Tracing the lineage and citing the fore-bearers of the New Weird America, one cant help but mention the music of bizarre folk singer/guitarist/artist Michael Hurley. If you havent been following his career since the 1970s (when he was collaborating with the likes of the Holy Modal Rounders and Jesse Colin Young) then you probably discovered him in the past couple of years via Devendra Banharts & Andy Cabics label Gnomonsong, who have released Hurleys recent recordings. Hurleys debut album, First Songs, was recorded for Folkways Records in 1965 on the same reel-to-reel machine that taped Lead Bellys Last Sessions. He was discovered by blues and jazz historian Frederick Ramsey III, and subsequently championed by boyhood friend Jesse Colin Young, who released Hurleys next two albums on The Youngbloods Warner Brothers imprint, Raccoon. Hows that for cred? In the 1970s, Hurley made three albums for Rounder Records; Have Moicy!, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice called The greatest folk album of the rock era. First ever reissue on vinyl; re-mastered; 180 gram LP housed in Stoughton tip-on old school type jacket including faithfully reproduced original artwork by Michael Hurley." -Light In The Attic |
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Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: Long Journey Format: LP Label: Light In The Attic Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "This 1976 masterwork is remastered and back on vinyl for this first time in decades. Peter Stampfel and Dave Reisch of the Holy Modal Rounders lend a hand to this bizarre and earthy collection from one of Americas finest singer/songwriters. Features the song Hog Of The Forsaken as heard in HBOs Deadwood. 180 gram wax." -Light In The Attic. |
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Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: Snockgrass Format: LP Label: Light In The Attic Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "First ever vinyl reissue and remaster for this 1980 album that features Peter Stampfel and other members of the Holy Modal Rounders. As Hurleys surreal cover painting suggests, this is woozy and charming musical folk art. 180 gram wax." -Light In The Attic. |
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Artist: HYUN, SHIN JOONG Title: Beautiful Rivers and Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Koreas Shin Joong Hyun 1958-74 Format: Double LP Label: Light In The Attic Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
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"Shin Joong Hyuns tale is personal, spiritual, and deep, not only reflecting the full spectrum of human emotions, but one that produced reverberating echoes of sound, some beautiful and life-giving, others restless and ungovernable. For the first time outside of Korea, Shins music will be readily available to music lovers the world over. Light In The Attic are thrilled to release Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Koreas Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974, a career spanning compilation of the diminutive guitarist, songwriter, producer, arranger, and talent developer. Inspired by jazz, soul, and traditional Korean music, Shin started his career in the mid-1950s, performing for US troops stationed locally after the Korean War armistice of 1953. While his English language skills were limited, the young player had no trouble communicating through his trusty electric guitar, but Shin was no mere 6-string slinger for hire, he was able to communicate something far beyond your average professional musician. Production work and extensive songwriting followed, not to mention a steady stream of electrifying performances. Gaining momentum by the moment, Shin developed popular success across South Korea molding proteges like singing duo the Pearl Sisters and folk-psych songbird Kim Jung Mi into top pop stars. From there it was hit after hit. The late 1960s rock explosion and an influx of imported music from The Beatles, Jimmy Smith, and The Jefferson Airplane all informed and inspired Mr. Shin to elevate his own craft. Even experimental trips via a crew of local hippies also took the music man to new heights despite Korean law forbidding such rebellion. Drug use was illegal and punishable as a serious offence. Park Chung-hee, then President of South Korea began to closely monitor Shins subversive activities. After refusing to write a song in praise of the political leader, the musician was labeled unpatriotic and his career was instantly snuffed-out through a series of surveillance, torture, and institutional confinement. While this was not the end of Shins musical story, for an all-too-brief moment in Korean cultural history, Shin Joong Hyun and his talented accomplices laid down a trove of recordings that have slowly reverberated far from their native land. Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Koreas Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974 features Korean/English lyric translations, unseen pictures, beautiful graphic design, and extensive liner notes with Shin Joong Hyun." -Light In The Attic
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Artist: SCHMIDT, RICK Title: Emerald Cities Format: DVD Label: Light Video Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "With great early-"80s performances by FLIPPER and THE MUTANTS, this long-lost punk film classic from filmmaker Rick Schmidt is available again! This 90-minute feature is a bizarre and thoroughly surrealistic tale packed with nutty characters and general off-the-wallness, plus three FLIPPER songs ("One by One," "I Saw You Shine," and "Love Canal") and five songs from the much less well known but amazingly fun early San Francisco punk band THE MUTANTS. First released on VHS many years ago with little distribution, it is now widely available for the first time!" - Light Video |
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Artist: HORRORCOMIC Title: Im All Hung Up On Pierrepoint Format: 7" Label: Lightning Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| Unplayed "dead stock" of this London bands first single from 1977. Some slight storage wear on the sleeves."Halfway between Deep Purple-influenced Hard Rock and the new Punk sound, with a peculiar taste of the macabre pervading both the lyrics and the artwork." - 45 Revolutions. |
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Artist: LIL SKULL Title: Untitled Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Lil Skull Country: New Zealand Price: $15.00 |
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"A string of guitar, eye of newt, hair of a violin bow,wing of bat and the skin of a drum all go into the potion. The crackle of the fire and the bubbling of the couldron sound your demise. A hex on you all!" - Lil Skull.
yet another incredible package from the Lil Skull camp.
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Artist: LIL SKULL Title: Untitled Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Lil Skull Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
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"The snapping of the sails, the whistling in the rigging, the cracking of the mast and the shuddering of the timbers, the thudding on the hull. These things all point to our fate. We are to meet our doomed brothers and sisters in Davy Jones Locker, for God is banishing us to the Briney Deep!" Yet another excellent chapter in this series of elaborate handmade sculpture/lathe cut releases from New Zealander Dean Brown. This one beautifully folds out/props up into a seascape backdrop with the bell tone/drones on the record making the perfect soundtrack to the visual.
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Artist: LIL SKULL & TARA MEREDITH Title: Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Lil Skull Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
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"Every bump-in-the-night, what -was-that-? and its-too-quiet-! of your nightmares are stiched together to tell the tale of a small girl, alone (?) in an old house. What happens when its not just the wind ?" - Lil Skull.
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Artist: BRAINTICKET Title: Celestial Ocean Format: LP/CD Label: Lilith Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "1973s brilliant Celestial Ocean, by the legendary Swiss krautrock band BRAINTICKET, is a concept album that details an ancient pharoahs journey into the afterlife (substitute the word "journey" for "trip" and youll get what they were driving at). However, Brainticket were not mere products of their time, they explored some truly compelling musical territory and produced a superlative blanket of sound-featuring a pioneering mix of early synthesizers, flute, zither, sitar, and male / female stream-of-consciousness spoken word vocals-that ebbs and flows in the same general cosmos as classic Gong.. This reissue is fully remastered from the original master tapes." -Lilith |
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Artist: BRAINTICKET Title: Cottonwoodhill Format: LP + CD Label: Lilith Country: Russian Federation Price: $32.00 |
| "Being as LSD was first developed in a laboratory in Basel, it is perhaps no coincidence that one of the most far out albums of all time was made by this Swiss band (no small feat, given the competition!). Braintickets 1971 debut, Cottonwoodhill, begins normally enough with two fine psychedelic/Krautrock-influenced tracks, but the remainder of the album plays like an acid trip with a soundtrack, dominated by Joel Vandroogenbroecks endless droning organ, a variety of musique concrète-type sound effects and vocalist Dawn Muirs trippy vocals. The album, banned in several countries, even came with this self-imposed warning: After Listening to this Record, your friends may not know you anymore. / Only listen to this once a day, your brain might be destroyed!. Gatefold sleeve." -Lilith |
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Artist: BRAINTICKET Title: Psychonaut Format: LP + CD Label: Lilith Country: Russian Federation Price: $29.00 |
| "1972s Psychonaut, by the Swiss-based Brainticket, is early seventies space rock at its finest. While the bands debut album, 1971s Cottonwoodhill, was a heavily acid-laden affair dominated by droning organ, disturbing vocals and a collection of cacophonic sound effects (causing it to carry a warning label and be banned in several countries) for their second effort, band-founder Joël Vandroogenbroeck brought in a completely new line-up and changed the bands sound dramatically. While Psychonaut still takes listeners into the realm of altered consciousness -- making heavy use of a droning Hammond, sitar, tablas, etc.-- this time the vocals are more melodic and the music itself is more song-oriented. This is by far Braintickets most accessible album, and perhaps their most timeless. Fully remastered from the original master tapes!" -Lilith |
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Artist: CAN Title: Out Of Reach Format: LP + CD Label: Lilith Country: Russian Federation Price: $29.00 |
| "Originally released in 1978, Out Of Reach was one of Cans last albums before their official disbandment in 1979. Here, original bass player Holger Czukay is replaced by a much more funky Rosko Gee (of Traffic fame) -- who plays a prominent role in shaping the sound of this album, writing and singing on a number of the albums tracks -- while drumming duties are shared between Jaki Liebezeit and Reebop Kwaku Baah (also from Traffic), making this one of Cans more groove-heavy releases. 180 gram HQ vinyl featuring a bonus CD of the album." -Lilith |
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Artist: CHROME Title: 3rd From The Sun Format: LP/CD Label: Lilith Country: Russia Price: $29.00 |
| "Metallic drums, grating guitar, a driving industrial beat, lo-fi / sci fi, toxic waste... this was the universe inhabited by SF cyber punks, Chrome. Originally released in 1982, on band founder Damon Edges own Siren Records, this was the bands last official release. Still featuring the rhythmic talents of John & Hilary Stench on drums and bass, and as always, the brilliantly feral guitar playing of Helios Creed, the album kicks off with the jaw-dropping Firebomb. Also featuring two bonus tracks from their rare 1982 Anorexic Sacrifice 7" single." -Lilith. |
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Artist: CHROME Title: Alien Soundtracks Format: LP/CD Label: Lilith Country: Russia Price: $29.00 |
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"1978s Alien Soundtracks was the second album by the sci-fi obsessed San Francisco experimental rock band, Chrome, formed in 1977 by Damon Edge. A brilliant combination of punk rock aesthetic, with Iggy-esque vocals, jangly guitar, primitive electronics, tape manipulation and sampling, this was also the first album to feature the mad guitar stylings of Helios Creed. Often credited as being the precursors to the industrial metal sound, the band are also akin to experimental punk/noise bands like Pere Ubu and Suicide. Featuring The Manifestation (Of The Idea) originally released simultaneously on the 1982 Chrome Box and on an Italian Chrome compilation, No Humans Allowed. 180 gram vinyl." - Lilith.
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Artist: CHROME Title: Blood On the Moon Format: LP/CD Label: Lilith Country: Russia Price: $29.00 |
| "For this 1981 release, Edge and Creed brought in brothers John and Hilary Stench on drums and bass. The brothers hailed from the extremely popular local new wave band, Pearl Harbour & the Explosions, formed in 1978 in San Francisco. This new rhythm section can definitely be heard, making Chrome a bit more danceable if you will and the first inklings of that driving industrial metal beat can be heard. Tracks like excellent Perfumed Metal are a perfect example of this transformation. It was also in 1981 that Chrome received an offer to perform live in Italy from a group of Italian fans. Chrome had never appeared live before, but unbelievably they accepted the Italian gig and flew to Bologna, Italy to play their first ever live concert. The live instrumental track included here is from that legendary Italian concert, on July 20, 1981." -Lilith. |
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Artist: CHROME Title: Half Machine Lip Moves Format: LP/CD Label: Lilith Country: Russia Price: $29.00 |
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""When Chrome first came on the SF punk scene in the late seventies, they were called acid punk, due to their penchant for both, but also because their music came from a far-out place - a place most people could only get to while in a drug-altered state. The sci-fi obsessed Creed and Edge, however, claimed to channel their music directly from the beyond, and when 1979s groundbreaking Half Machine Lip Moves was released - an angular and metallic sounding album interspersed with electric violin, apocalyptic tape loops, moog, atonal droning distorted guitar and a wall of metallic sounding percussion - it certainly sounded that way. For the next five years Creed and Edge were a force to be reckoned with, laying the groundwork for the industrial music scene and directly influencing almost every guitar-toting punk ever since. Featuring three bonus tracks-Anti-Fade, I Left My Heart In San Francisco and Meet You In The Subway - which originally appeared on the Subterranean Modern compilation, released in 1979 on Ralph Records. 180 gram vinyl." - Lilith.
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Artist: CHROME Title: Red Exposure Format: LP/CD Label: Lilith Country: Russia Price: $29.00 |
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"Humans are the cancer of the planet...all people have untapped psychic powers...acid is good...aliens exist...these are just some of the ideas that the pioneering San Francisco band Chrome was grappling with in its music, labeled acid punk by the press in a desperate attempt to categorize them. Comparing them to everyone from Pere Ubu, to the Residents, to Devo, to Can, to Eno, the reality was that no one knew really knew where they fit in...perhaps because they really were channeling their music from some distant alien planet. In fact, Chromes founder, Damon Edge, described himself as having something he called clairaudient syndrome, a condition that allows you to hear something before it happens...meaning that he would first hear the music in his head, and then channel it onto tape.... and perhaps that explains the music in this LP. For Chrome aficionados this album is more ambient and droning than previous albums, except for the Devo-esque Electric Chair- and one wonders if they didnt write this song to poke fun at the band. Featuring three bonus tracks: In A Dream and Danger Zone both taken from their 1981 12" Inworlds single... and Informations, taken from the b-side of their rare New Age 7" released in 1980." - Lilith.
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Artist: CLUSTER Title: Zuckerzeit Format: LP Label: Lilith Country: Russian Federation Price: $22.00 |
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"Originally released in 1974, Zuckerzeit marked a turning point for these seminal German space rockers. Recorded shortly after their move away from the metropolis of Berlin, it sees some of the abrasiveness of their earlier material slightly diffusing. With the addition of proto drum machines and the producing talents of Michael Rother, their sound here -- while remaining firmly anchored in experimental territory -- has more pop sensibility." - Lilith. New liner notes by Asmus Tietchens (which mention that the title translates as "Sugar Era").
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Artist: GURU GURU Title: Live In Bremen, 12 September 1971 Format: LP + CD Label: Lilith Country: Russian Federation Price: $30.00 |
| "Playing on the same scene as bands like Amon Duul and Can, krautrock band Guru Guru was formed in 1968 by one of contemporary musics most talented drummers, Mani Neumeier who, in addition to playing drums, was also the bands vocalist/frontman. This album, recorded live at Radio Bremen in 1971 features the 23-minute Der LSD Marsch (The LSD March) from their debut album, UFO. Here Neumeiers superlative drumming is given center stage and one can hear why Mani has consistently earned such high praise. The remaining two songs come from their second album (1971s Hinten): the 22-minute extended prog tribute to Bo Diddley (who knows what the inventor of the Bo Diddley Beat would have thought of this), and the aptly titled Space Ship - an extensive sonic trip of 15+ minutes (!) only found on the bonus CD." -Lilith |
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Artist: TANGERINE DREAM Title: Run To Vegas Format: LP/CD Label: Lilith Country: Russia Price: $29.00 |
| "A compilation of rare tracks by German avant pioneers, Tangerine Dream, beginning with a rare single from Edgar Froeses pre-TD band, the Ones (a psychedelic affair recorded in 1967, before Froese had fully distanced himself from rock music by selling off his guitars for a host of constantly changing electronic gizmos). The remaining tracks come primarily from their successful Virgin period, with Christopher Franke on drums and Johannes Schmölling on keyboards. Features the CD-only bonus track Landing On 51." -Lilith |
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Artist: V/A Title: No New York Format: LP Label: Lilith Country: Russia Price: $17.50 |
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Artist: V/A Title: No New York Format: CD Label: Lilith Country: Russia Price: $17.00 |
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"One of the brightest and most famous projects of the entire punk/new wave scene, No New York was released in 1978 on Islands sub-label Antilles and became a total cult in the indie scene. Featuring some of the most incredible rule breaking bands of the underground New York art and music scene, the project-strongly pursued by BRIAN ENO-is a genuine snapshot of the massively creative NYC scene, from which innumerable trends started and became part of the modern pop music as we know it. Influential, powerful and ground breaking, this collection features Gotham City no-wave giants like JAMES CHANCE (CONTORTIONS), ARTO LINDSAY and IKUE MORI (DNA), LYDIA LUNCH (TEENAGE JESUS) and SUMNER CRANE (MARS). If you missed the original its time to get your hands on this reissue. The CD digipack version includes a detailed booklet." - Lilith.
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Artist: NEGATION IS FREEDOM Title: Issue 1 Format: Mag Label: Limbless Country: USA Price: $2.00 |
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"Shallow Waters, Craniopagus, Sharpwaist, Altars, Prison letters from Kyle Nonneman, British Columbia scene report, 8 pages of reviews.300 copies printed. 47 pages"- Limbless
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Artist: FAR CORNERS Title: Ruling The Roost Format: 7" Label: Limited Appeal Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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Artist: BEAUTIFUL LOSERS Title: Nobody Knows the Heaven Format: CD Label: Lion Productions Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "To set the scene: its 1974, its Paris, two young guys in their bed-sit (one of whom is French music maven/famous producer Jay Alanski) are dreaming of counter-culture, and their internal versions of California and New York. The result is this album, a child begotten of Marc Bolan, Baudelaire, and Lautréamont; a fascinating record, subtle and engaging as it is scarce; the re-creation of a parallel pop universe which one Michael Moorcock wouldnt have renounced. Somehow, the duo got their record out into the world on Monde Melodys one-off Silk imprint (a tribute to Marc Bolan). And what twisted songs (in English) they managed to squeeze into a fifty-minute slab of vinyl. The music drips with deep nostalgia for the decadent beautiful people who lived and breathed and then found a home in the songs of Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen, pervaded throughout with a kind of psychedelic sadness. All of this is expressed by means of long, jagged acid guitar runs (or in acoustic strums) supported by Moroccan percussion (bongos?) and heavy bass lines from Christophe J. A post-quaalude album, as band leader Jay Alanski has said. If the LP had been released in 1971, everyone would point to T-Rex as an influence, and call it glam folk; fast forward to today and its hard not to think loner, and draw comparisons with the music of Devendra Banhart, albeit recorded 35 years ago! Were now several decades further on in the worlds slow self-destruction, but this sole recording by the Beautiful Losers has lost nothing of its freshness and superb arrogance. Blessed be the listener who is going to discover such a hidden treasure!" - Lion Productions. Includes a 32-page booklet and bonus track "Nobody Knows The Heaven" (alternate version). |
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Artist: DINO & MONTEVIDEO BLUES Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Lion Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The one and only album by Dino & Montevideo Blues (Macondo GAM 551, 1972) deserves to be a serious contender as one of the most important, and as it happens, most grooving, records ever released in Uruguay. But there is another reason that the album has attained exalted status: the incisive power of the lyrics, which are all the more impressive considering the national turmoil out of which they were created. Montevideo Blues was founded by Uruguayan song-writing legend Gaston "Dino" Ciarlo as a way to fuse the rawness of rock music with obscure native Uruguayan rhythms like malambo, milonga and chamarrita-a logical direction to pursue after Dino had attempted pop/candombe fusions in his solo recordings. The tracks have an edgy, atonal quality, with terrific unconventional angular guitar and a kind of ragged glory, all driven along by insistent grooving rhythms, whether from native drums or the clicking of drumsticks. Includes a handful of bonus tracks, as well as a 32-page booklet packed with photos, detailed band history, and lyrics for this important Uruguayan band." - Lion Production. |
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Artist: ERGO SUM Title: Mexico Format: CD Label: Lion Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Along with the two records by Nurse With Wound favorites Moving Gelatine Plates, Ergo Sums weird and wonderful Mexico album is an unusual portal into the intense creativity of early 1970s French music. True, the bands are not musically similar; yet these three albums are distinguished not only by their instrumental richness, but by their unceasing sense of adventure. One could go so far to say that Ergo Sum presents one of the most distinctive experiences in a rock idiom (apart from Zeuhl music juggernaut Magma) to ever come from France. The bands one and only album (1971) features the unique voice of Lionel Ledissez, whose guttural sort-of-English language delivery described as being somewhere between Familys Roger Chapman and a drunken Champs-Elysees taxi driver, although more sober comparisons to Tim and/or Jeff Buckley have also been made. The compositions develop at a relaxed pace; incredible jazz-inflected guitar, flute, piano and droning violin swirl around the vocals, and keep one submerged in, yet attentive to the intimate mood. Includes a handful of bonus tracks and a 28-page booklet with band history, photos, lyrics, and a contemporary 1971 review from Superhebdo magazine. A three o-clock in the morning, slow burn album if ever there was one." -Lion Production |
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Artist: INDEX Title: Black Album + Red Album + Yesterday & Today Format: Double CD Label: Lion Productions Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "In the mid 1960s, Detroit Michigan was a thriving industrial city. It was at the edge of a cliff, however. The great ethnic diversity in the inner city was a brewing powder keg of civil unrest. This, coupled with a disillusioned population struggling to make some sense of a questionable war in the rice paddies of Vietnam, set an uneasy and troubling tempo for the future. Still, there were pockets of communities in the Detroit area where things were good and economic life was vibrant. The Grosse Pointes were such communities. It was on the outskirts of this political and racially tense era, in the affluent suburbs just outside of the city of Detroit, that Index was formed. The music of Index has been lauded by music heads for decades, and with good reason: it is bizarre, atmospheric, and home-made (in the best of all possible ways); the band has a druggie sound, with songs full of feedback and fuzzy guitars, hazy guitar riffs and loud rhythms. Hidden amongst the echoing canyons of sound theres some snotty post-punk attitude wrapped up in that trippy velvet fuzz; a wonderful bleak sound, both droning and murky, the atonal side of late 1960s rock that would leave the most lasting impression on those who would eventually become punk, post-punk and indie rock artists like Joy Division or the Fall. Includes a 32-page booklet, written by Index drummer Jim Valice, detailing the bands rock and roll adventures, replete with photos and lyrics; printed on FSC recycled, chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer fiber paper manufactured using biogas energy." -Lion Productions |
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Artist: KATH Title: 1 (Original Album & Unreleased Material) Format: Double CD Label: Lion Productions Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Not many albums can get you in the mood to blow out your speakers quite like Kath, a band that evolved from local Maryland 1960s band Badge. This is an authentic low-fi DIY effort, recorded in the home of the bands leader (and, yes, actually dedicated to his pet monkey - and his girlfriend!), originally released in 1974 in a micro edition of 60 hand-made copies, and later reconfigured for a legendary Rockadelic label LP version. Truth to tell, the Kath album is full of well written melodic songs with loose, semi-ramshackle, low-fi/no-fi production values. Nothing gets down and dirty quite like Say What You Feel, with its blown out bass, killer guitar and drums, echoed vocals and sound effects; well, actually, Love Me Down is equally potent. The band also had a fondness for tape experimentation (Seagulls) and simply screwing around (Toilet Theme). As Patrick the Lama said in Acid Archives, Obscure and impressive melodic basement garage/psych excursion with a lo-fi atmosphere that would have most purveyors flip out, hits the Ampex two-track echo & tinny drum sound dead on. At times the vibe is almost like Mystery Meat or Index, and thats not something you run across every day. A totally outside garage/psych/private LP that feels as personally projected as those Michael Yonkers sides. Nuts lo-fi recording quality and impossible-to-figure production values gives this a nicely zonked almost real-people vibe. Keyboards, fuzz, heap of amateur avant spirit and a cover of "Norwegian Wood" that ranks up there as one of the few listenable Beatles covers ever cut by teens with brains. Weve also included Badges excellent 1978 five-track EP as bonus tracks. And since too far is never far enough for Lion Productions, weve also added an entire second disc of outtakes from the Kath recording sessions, plus other related home recordings. This 140-minute double disc set comes with twenty pages of extensive liner notes by Kath and Badge leader Val Rogolino, and a plethora of photos from his personal stash." - Lion Productions. |
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Artist: LOS DUG DUGS Title: Smog Format: LP Label: Lion Productions Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "The second album (1972) from psychedelic guru Armando Nava and his band is in Spanish this time, as all other Mexican bands were by now singing in English. The recording sessions were tumultuous: after the band -- now stripped down to a power trio -- had recorded just three songs, Nava stormed out of the sessions and locked himself in his house for fifteen days. Everyone on the outside worried about his safety, but Armando was fine: he kept himself busy reconfiguring the entire album, including penning the punishing riffs that form the central motif of the mesmerizing twelve-minute medley that explodes over the albums entire first side. So again, as with the genesis of the Dug Dugs debut album (also available from Lion Productions), the end result of all the tumult surrounding the band was a great album. Theres no doubt that the Dug Dugs toughened up their sound on Smog: to some people they sound like a crazy Mexican version of Jethro Tull, and to others like a Spanish speaking incarnation of MC5. No matter how you look at it, this is tremendous progressive-influenced hard rock, with a new chunky sound. It is clearly among a small group of elite recordings from the psychedelic age; it is also possibly the best Mexican hard rock album of all time." -Lion Productions. |
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Artist: PLASTIC CLOUD Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Lion Productions Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"In 1968, the Plastic Cloud recorded, quite simply, one of the greatest psychedelic albums ever made. This a record with few equals, full of foreboding melodies and lovely hippie harmonies, as well as some of the most superb and trippiest, Eastern sounding fuzz guitar ever recorded. There is no point singling out a specific track, they are all excellent—one is equally as good as the next. Take for example the album centerpiece, the ten-and-a-half-minute You Dont Care, an insane piece of social commentary that features terrific back-of-the-mix fuzz guitar as an elusive focal point to its extended pounding-drum laden instrumental breaks; with a great chorus and a plaintive melody in the verse, it doesnt overstay its welcome, winding its way to a final freak out. Essential psychedelia! We feel that its about time this fine record got its due on vinyl, so we have gone all out: it is mastered from the original tapes; the gatefold inner spread has the original LP text, lyrics for all of the songs (thanks to Don Brewer, the man who wrote them), as well as rare photos; as an insert, we have included a replica of an original press release that must be seen to be believed. Now, on to the presentation—the highest quality mastering and pressing; the resulting LP is housed in a poly-lined sleeve, inside an ultra-heavy 1960s style gatefold jacket, which is shrink-wrapped. The LP labels are replicas of the original Allied silver and blue labels. A top of the line pressing all the way." -Lion Productions.
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Artist: ROTOMAGUS Title: Sky Turns Red: Complete Anthology Format: Double LP Label: Lion Productions Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Theres no way to know why CBS Records unceremoniously dumped ROTOMAGUS and the after one single; suffice to say that decision was a poor one, as the band has (quite rightly) developed a cult-like following over the years. All in all, the artistic trajectory of Rotomagus was peculiar: they started out as a harmony pop-psych band, shifted through a brief Jimi Hendrix-ian interlude, straight into a Vanilla Fudge groove; they then went down in flames as a hair-raising monolithic heavy rock power trio. On Julian Copes excellent Head Heritage web-site, the Seth Man raves about Rotomagus thus: "The first time I heard this track (Fighting Cock), I did not freak out. I merely walked into a nearby closet and screamed my head off for a minute solid, beat the floor and ripped my t-shirt... then I cowered when it hit me: this thing came out in 1971? Before Raw Power?! I just lost my mind... The only thing that predates this monster in terms of being a full-on amassing of all things heavy are all the many key points on Sir Lord Baltimores Kingdom Come LP and THATS it, brother." French magazine Rock & Folk was succinct: "Rotomagus create an emotional music, violent, even aggressive." Violent. Aggressive. Intense. On this disc we bring you the entire output of Rotomagus, including an album-length demo from 1971, the bands tumultuous, thunderous swansong, recorded as a super jam." - Lion Productions. |
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Artist: SAINTE ANTHONYS FYRE Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Lion Productions Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Official reissue of ultra-rare 1970 wasted underground hard rock monster! Wild, loud, raw New Jersey hard psych beast thats been a favorite target of record collectors, dealers and swamp dwellers for the past two decades, originally released on the Zonk! label .This album is bleeding with that authentic dirty basement sound built around a solid set of catchy heavy weight tracks influenced by the holy trinity of Cream, Blue Cheer and Hendrix! The bible of underground psych rock, Acid Archives, says this about it: “This legendary private press is rated as one of the ultimate local basement hard rock blowouts by many connoisseurs. Released as early as 1970, the end result has some similarities to MC5s hallowed Kick out the Jams, but I find this a superior and more powerful album." Popular UK magazine thats majors in all things 60s and psychedelic, Shindig!, proclaims: “a masterpiece of zonked out, fuzz-drenched hard rock." The limited edition vinyl pressing comes with an insert with liner notes, press clippings, photos and lyrics + an 11" x 17" poster too." - Lion Productions. |
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Artist: SNYDER, DOUG & BOB THOMPSON Title: Daily Dance Format: CD Label: Lion Productions Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "After meeting at a Stooges/MC5 concert, drummer BOB THOMPSON and guitarist DOUG SNYDER met one fine day in October 1972 in Thompsons kitchen and bashed out this set of fiery improvisations, seemingly influenced as much by Iggys proto-punk moves as John Coltranes whole "sheets of sound" ethos; the result is a mythical frenzy of distorted guitar and improvised drums, creating walls of psychedelic noise; its sound is unparalleled for its time, preceding its closest kin, New Yorks no-wave explosion, by a solid five years. And because of its lack of pretensions (it was done almost innocently), the record comes off as something, dare we say, a little more "spiritual" than is the norm for such excursions. It is a singular recording, one that mainlines the classic high energy pantheon of the Velvet Underground, Stooges, Pharaoh Sanders, Sonny Sharrock, etc. while anticipating the free jazz/noise/no wave synthesis of groups that would follow in their footsteps. Thompson and Snyder get into some abstruse territory, with Snyder tearing industrial gamelan shapes from his six strings while Thompson uses the guts of his kit as the basis for new tonal alphabets. But its all rendered with a strong savage ethos that effortlessly equates monochord rock obliteration with the celestial freedom of Cecil Taylor/John Coltrane, et al., while establishing new territory as advanced as that attained by the most far-reaching visionaries of the rock n roll blueprint... still hard to believe that this was recorded in 1972. A major historical unearthing, remastered from the original tapes, and beautifully packaged in a Stoughton paste-on mini-LP jacket, with an informative Obi/U-Card, and an extensive 20-page booklet of liner notes and photos. Produced in conjunction with Cantor Records, who recently made Daily Dance available on vinyl for the first time in 35 years. Includes one bonus track (not included on the LP reissue), which was intended for the original release, but left off at the last moment for time considerations." -Lion Productions |
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Artist: V/A Title: Groove Club Vol. 3: Cambodia Rock Intensified! Format: Double LP Label: Lion Productions Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "There were no deluxe studios for the musicians who recorded the devastating tracks contained on this double-LP collection. Nothing so grand. Most of these tracks were recorded live, with traditional instruments finding a place alongside any keyboards or guitars that could be found. And yet, it was these experiments of Khmer rock musicians which transformed the nightlife of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh—and which many years later have seduced countless listeners around the world with their groovy sound. Alas, in 1975 came an entirely different type of transformation: the rise to power in Cambodia of the fanatical, anti-Western Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot. Within roughly four years, implementing their “concept of Year Zero,” Pot and his regime were responsible for the deaths of an estimated two million Cambodians, many in the notorious “killing fields.” Even the most famous and beloved Khmer musicians could not escape. Sinn Sisamouth (“the Emperor of Khmer Music”), Ros Sereysothea (“The Golden Voice of the Royal Capital”), and Pan Ron—all featured on this collection—met their deaths at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. Cambodian rock music is (rightfully) adored in Cambodia. The music is wild and anarchic, rhythmic and undulating (in an “Ethiopiques” way, wed say), or sweet and lyrical, but always moving, and with that deep soulfulness (regardless of actual musical genre or style) that singles out the best music. We have assembled what we consider to be the most definitive collection of classic Cambodian rock music to appear thus far—without the later overdubs that confuse the mind, without the artificial speeding up of tracks that often has marred compilations over the years; what youll find here are crucial Khmer rock tracks, made available in the best possible sound, assembled with love and respect for the artists who made the Khmer rock scene as thrilling as we find it to be. And so, without further ado, welcome to “Cambodia Rock Intensified!” -Lion Productions. |
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Artist: YAMA AND THE KARMA DUSTERS Title: Up From The Sewers Format: CD Label: Lion Productions Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Super political, rocking, anti-establishment communal band (c. 1970) put together as a result of the Kent State Massacre. As the Euphoria Blimpworks Band, fronted by Howard Berkman from morose garage punksters the Knaves, they played demonstrations and student strikes when they werent opening for blues royalty -- or being the first band to play the yard at Cook County Jail. They were inter-racial, anti-war, Stop the Bomb, free love hippies, the wildest of the wild kids. And this is the quintessential anarcho-hippie record, a surprisingly well-engineered indie effort which came inside home-made silk-screened jackets, with twisted, poetic lyrics (Dylan or Arthur Lee and Love? you decide), and funky, rocking bones -- political, sociological, ecological, reflective and free-love sexy. The Karma Dusters really cook on the up-tempo tracks, sounding at times like a cross between The Blues Project and Dylans band circa 1966, augmented by some dazzling violin. This excellent sounding master-tape reissue has two bonus tracks; it also has two booklets -- one is for the outrageous and explicit Gonzo history of the band and their urban commune; the other is a wrap-around booklet for lyrics, all served up together in a Mylar plastic sleeve. You just know the FBI has a huge file on these punks. But do they have the album?" -Lion Productions. |
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Artist: ATHLETIC AUTOMATON Title: 5 Days in Africa Format: LP Label: Liquid Death/Hello Pussy Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Athletic Automatons debut full-length is making my palms (and ears) sweat as we speak. Of the bands that have splintered out of the Providence, Rhode Island, implosion that was agro-fuck pukes Arab on Radars demise, Athletic Automaton rules my world the most (no wave psychsters Made in Mexico and ho-hum dance-punks Chinese Stars are the others). Comprised solely of ex-AOR guitarist Stephen Mattos and ex Pellum 1-2-3 drummer Patrick Crump (who like to dress up as basketball jocks in concert), Athletic Automaton rock a sick dynamic that is all about sustain and twisting your mind and expectations past the breaking point. Their riffs and grooves are minimal, the lyrics occasional, and a tension they bend so well a most definitely welcome constant. So even though 5 Days In Africa was recorded back in late 2003 and the copyright date on the hand-assembled package reads 2004, you can rest assured youre not getting some old hat over here (after a bad experience with buzz noisy label XXXXX XXXX, who initially issued this record, the band have taken over the release themselves.) Wax hounds take note - word is this is going to be released on 180 gram vinyl by Liquid Death/Hello Pussy Records in the very near future, which will make it even more ferocious for the dense grooves at play." - Kevin Hainey, SKYSCRAPER. |
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Artist: CLEAN, THE Title: Compilation Format: LP Label: Little Axe Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Compilation collects many of the greatest tracks by New Zealand legends The Clean, including songs from their first single and first 2 EPs. Very catchy pop with the energy and rawness of the best punk rock combined with a strong psychedelic feel. An amazing collection by one of the best bands of all time!" -Little Axe
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Artist: BIRDS OF MAYA Title: Celebration Format: LP Label: Little Big Chief Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Though the game mighta changed round em, the three years since Ready to Howl aint diminished Birds of Maya one ounce (or do they measure in...grams?). You can tell right away on Celebration, cuz its just as stupefying to describe as every other moment theyve put down. Why is that? Seems so simple! But ya get near pronouncements like "Free or The Groundhogs as seen in the busted mirror mosaic of Japanese underground psych" and a lil balloon of acid anxiety busts in yer gut. Insufficient. This aint just about shred and dread; this is about sweat and spit and busted bottles. This is about volume--meaning both quantity AND decibels. It takes a lot for many of us to sit still for side-long live tracks, so I suggest you dethrone that ass and break some valuables when the evil busts start rollin out like smoke from Sleeps van; its only natural. And dont fear the "TV Eye" cover, neither, cuz it surely made me forget the last 67 beef-witted versions Id heard. Course, theres so much snarl all over this thing, Im surprised the mic aint slumped in the corner, nursing an ulcer, by the end.Â
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Artist: GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS Title: Borsh Format: LP Label: Little Big Chief Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"4 songs of complete dementia. avant garage to some. 2 shorties and 2 long tracks. edition of 250 with silk screened album art. Steve McCabe from Axemen wrote a few words about their most recent live performance at the Negative Guest List show in Brisbane back in December. "Gir!s Gir!s Gir!s headed up the lineup with a set so ambient the management asked them to tone down the Brian Eno interstitial sounds between sets. Hauntingly beautiful even with volume set on level 1 GGG reflected the moment with the subtlety of an exquisite Monet depicting a fragment of daily life. Cest magnifique, as quietly charming yet nigglingly grating as a young marble giants cd set on infinite loop in the vacant house next door, playing too quietly to call the noise control but loudly enough to irritate if one were to focus on it." -Little Big Chief. |
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Artist: MAD NANNA Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Little Big Chief Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Little Big Chief is proud to announce the US pressing of Victoria, Australias Mad Nannas first 7" EP! After a criminally small amount of the initial press on the bands own imprint, Alberts Basement, made it to the sovereign shores, we deemed it necessary to get this in the hands of more willing participants! Comparisons to the rockier side of Shadow Ring, or a looser feeling Icky Boyfriends are apt, but this little sucker really has a feel of its own. Amatuerish in all the right ways. Hand numbered edition of 300." - Little Big Chief.
"..the spuzz theys released on this 7" is a dandy. Even in a country w/a scene thats blowin up like the Oz one is, still aint no one what sounds likeem. Imagine if that band, Even As We Speak was struck by lightnin & on account, forgot alls they ever knew. Upon relearnin to play, theys used a cassette recordin of File Under Pops 7" for inspiration which went beyond therapy n became THE GOAL. It also kinda sounds like a Falling Spikes bootleg what had been caked w/mud & laquered onto vinyl. Definitely Lo-Fi, doubtfully hip. No matter, its still a glass whats half full of lifes lemonade thats sweetern a Soave spritzer. Glug, glug, glug." - Roland Woodbe, Siltblog. SOLD OUT
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Artist: MELCHIOR, DAN Title: Curator Culture Death Epoch Music Format: LP Label: Little Big Chief Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| 300 pressed. "Dan Melchiors first release of 2013 (I say that with optimism) is bound to confound s much as impress. Haters gwan hate ad infinitum, but even still. The din of annoyance at Dans output by many-a critic is really just the pinched wheezing of prudes, straightenin their periwigs in a last ditch to cover up nervous bald spots. And dont you go joining em; ask me, the good times are just gettin underway. In the hazy afterburn of The Backward Path, wherein we glimpsed Dan at his most lyrically candid, comes C.C.D.E, where words are half-smothered in the molting earth and linearity is just some other jaunt. Best I can tell, its a backyard wedding of Assemblage Blues and Excerpts & Halfspeeds, with Lard Free and Yuzo Iwata on the brides flank. As you might imagine, the voyage into the sunset of these two involves a roaring mutant chassis and plenty of muddy vistas off the backroads of songform. Is that the Texas outland in the distance? Either way, the geography ahead can only get woolier. But with Dans thoroughly Scotch-taped map at the ready, theres no need to clench yer cheeks. The next turns just up the road a piece, I swear." - Little Big Chief. |
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Artist: MOUNTAIN CULT Title: Mountain Cult Format: LP Label: Little Big Chief Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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" Straight out of a cultural dead zone, aka Brooklyn, comes a band that defies all half assed attempts at lifeblood leaking, beer soaked, fuggin rock. Seriously, stumbling upon their self released 7" was a jolt, from a part of the world where shit like this shouldnt exist. Blues influenced punk with the right amount of hazy stumble to it that keeps it all coagulated and alive. Edition of 300 with pro pressed jackets." - Little Big Chief |
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Artist: XWAVE Title: Cities In Flame Format: LP Label: Little Big Chief Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Recorded in 2008. some great guitar heaviness this time around. a few ears have compared the sounds to kray cherubs. i think it hits on the vermonster - "spirit of yma" leanings. either descriptions are a great place to start. edition of 250 with silk screened album art." -Little Big Chief. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Inside The Fantastical Cave Format: CDR Label: Little Cakes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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3 part score to a Little Cakes Gallery (NYC) exhibition featuring Chie Fukao and Leif Ritchey. Includes a track each by Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Sightings and The Arb. Handsewn/silkscreened packaging in a limited edition of just over 100 copies.
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Artist: GOD Title: Anti-Sex Anti-Wiretapping (Made In Taiwan) Format: CDR Label: Little Enjoyer Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Mysterious Portland, OR duo. This here is heavy. Cables coming apart and shit." - Little Enjoyer. |
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Artist: KELLEY, GREG Title: I Dont Want To Live Forever Format: CD Label: Little Enjoyer Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "As a veteran of the Massachusetts experimental music community and Minister of Fanfares for the Kingdom of Elgaland-Vargaland, Greg Kelley is well known in his capacity as a trumpeter, with consideration to his input into such diverse ensembles as nmperign, The BSC, Heathen Shame, Cold Bleak Heat, and Damon & Naomi. Kelleys interests, however, span all varieties of sound arrangement, and on "I dont want to live forever" he shows his considerable merits as a composer of solo musique concrete. A co-release between Gameboy and the newly formed Little Enjoyer, this is Kelleys third solo release. For this recording he takes as source material recordings from minidisc and microcassette made during a tour with Mike Bullock and edits them into a single 35+ minute composition. The results are unlike anything Kelley has done before: rigorous, methodical tape-collage, in turns pensive and aggressive, brittle and supple. The record becomes a revolving exploration of a set of atmospherics, rigidly set into a rusty frame of tape-hiss, fragments emerging from the dreams of a long convalescence. Kelley openly acknowledges his musical reference points in the liner notes, but those citations serve only to make more unfamiliar what is already strangely shaped. Not one that assimilates easily to categories, its as uneasy as a pederast at a PTA meeting. Crucial stuff." - Little Enjoyer. Mastered by Jason Lescalleet, with liner notes by Oliver Alden and Leif Elggren. |
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Cant Be Bothered To Play Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"improvising as a quartet, The Vitamin B12 rapidly loosen themselves from any notion of music making and indulge in a kind of joyful blundering around. Its like when we stop bothering to play the noise just plays itself. I think it probably plays itself better than we do. The quartet consists of Kulo Murugaiyan, Hassni Malik, Stephen Drennan and myself." - Alasdair Willis. Editon of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Kikis Island Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"The words and world of Eden Ahbez are eschewed by Karin Moris faithful but thoroughly unique recital which subtly questions the exotic fantasies that swirl in Edens pacific island idyll. Karin was born and grew up in Hawaii. Side two, devoted to the words and voice of Xelis de Toro, dismantled and reassembled. The uncertainty of understanding what is spoken, the sounds, the words and the elusive essence of meaning"- Alasdair Willis. Edition of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Laleh Ladan Format: Double LP Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
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"Perhaps the only double album to be released that contains two sides instead of four. A big enough surprise three years ago when after a ten year gap to follow up the legendary and now unavailable 4LP box debut we actually got the follow up of 2LP Gatefold Set, and then with incredible speed came a seven inch on Raft Recordings, just when you might be shocked into thinking the B12 was threatening to become prolific (a double 10" has been slated for release by Italian label Elica for a couple of years also) the theory is confirmed by this new double album which almost literally turned up out of the blue with no warning or pre-information. A record of two halves, in two versions...the insert gives you track details
and input information for Sides One and Two, and indeed there are two versions of this album. The same tracks, but completely reworked. For once this ploy doesnt seem lazy or an unneeded addition, its all part of the process. The music itself is a real breath of fresh air, taking (mainly) saxophone, organ, drums, violin, voice and unidentifiable noises into the sample realm and playing havoc with the integrity of those precious recordings. not a jazz or an improv record, nor electronic or concrete, but they all play their part in the B12s unknown plans. A genuine experimental album from a genuinely independent artist, not following any particular genre or approach. A self-produced item on the B12s Little Gems label, Limited to 300 copies in totality... comes with full colour gatefold and small plastic folder of picture cards." - Little Gems.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Love Is Strange Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"A spluttering Casio SK-5 jostles with corroding saxophone spittle, a cheap plastic melodica vainly duets with a dysfunctional Stratocaster, old pop hits loop and dance around the chirps of an Roland MC-202. Xelis de Toro, Stephen Drennan, Monty Oxymoron, Kulo Murugaiyan, Hassni Malik, David Harkins and myself venture off on another B12 escapade." - Alasdair Willis. Editon of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Lush Life Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"A tribute to the Duke of Ellington, with Monty Oxymoron, Kulo Murugaiyan, Hassni Malik, Frantisek Sic, David Harkins, Beef and me." - Alasdair Willis. Editon of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Murugaiyan And Willis Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"Initial ferocity stretches into something more brittle. Electronic noise, mouth, and a cheap Yamaha synth. Just Kulo and me on this one." - Alasdair Willis. Editon of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Sketchbook And Alvins Sax Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"Side one is a scrapbook of sound scribbles, side two, the misuse of an idea by Alvin Lucier." - Alasdair Willis. Editon of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: The Hang Twelve Suite Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"Last night I dreamt that I was in some weird 60s surf band, trapped within the tortured mind of Tom Baker" - Alasdair Willis. Editon of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: The Lazy Eight Project - Volume One Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"Each player records themselves as they respond to eight tracks I have already constructed. My eight tracks are then removed, leaving the players recordings to interact and produce something new and unexpected. Featuring Xelis de Toro, Ulrich Bohnefeld, Monty Oxymoron, Luke Fowler, Karin Mori, Judi Chrysanthou, Jason Williams, Iain Paxon, Hassni Malik, Douglas Bregger, David Sherry, Damien Dunnington, Blue Pin, Alistair Strachen and Adonis Christodoulou." - Alasdair Willis. Edition of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: The Lazy Eight Project - Volume Two Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"Each player records themselves as they respond to eight tracks I have already constructed. My eight tracks are then removed, leaving the players recordings to interact and produce something new and unexpected. Featuring Xelis de Toro, Ulrich Bohnefeld, Monty Oxymoron, Luke Fowler, Karin Mori, Judi Chrysanthou, Jason Williams, Iain Paxon, Hassni Malik, Douglas Bregger, David Sherry, Damien Dunnington, Blue Pin, Alistair Strachen and Adonis Christodoulou." - Alasdair Willis. Edition of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 & DEEPKISS 720 Title: DK720VB12 Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"DK720 and The Vitamin B12 pool their resources, sending tapes and CDRs back and forth, mixing and re-mixing each others work. This has gone on for several years. I guess should mention that Albert Oehlen, Nomex, Karin Mori, Stephen Drennan and Frantisek Sic all make appearances at various points on this record, though Im not quite sure where." - Alasdair Willis. Edition of 99.
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Artist: FUREKAABEN Title: Prinsesseværelset Format: LP Label: Little Weird Country: Denmark Price: $24.00 |
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"Reissue of astonishing 1970 Spectator LP from hippie collective formed around guitarist and singer Hans Vinding.
The music is essentially free form acid folk and draws on equal amounts of folk, free jazz and contemporary classical
music incorporating cello, asiatic flutes, sanza, zither, gong, cymbal, bells, tabla, guitars, and lots of percussion
instruments. The real deal for fans of Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice, No Neck Blues Band, Sunburned
Hand, the Black Velvet Fuckere collective and Tower Recordings. Manufactured as a limited numbered run of 500." -Little Weird. "1970 hippie folk with male / female vocals from Denmark. Collective improvisations with acoustic guitar, cello, flute, whistles and percussion. Pure counter culture similar to Siloah, Kalacakra and Children Of One. Weird chill-out!" - Freak Emporium. "A real acid-psychedelic jewel in Scandinavian psych scene." - Longhairmusic. Vinyl reissue (CD reish came out a few years ag and seems to be oop) of the first lp by this Danish experimental tribal folk collective - the cover actually features the pre-handpainted version of the LP artwork. Most of the LPs were decorated by the band over black and white printed jackets. Originally released on Danish cult/underground label, Spectator (Moses, Days, Tears, Terje, Jesper og Joachim, Blues Addicts, Green Grass, Blue Son, etc..). Highly recommended!
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Artist: KAHVAS JUTE Title: Wide Open Format: LP Label: Little Wing Country: Germany Price: $27.00 |
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"One of the most outstanding Australian LPs of the early 70s...a progressive Cream inspired guitar fire work ? sparkling and deep in feeling." This master tape reissue in elaborate gatefold is of the bands only LP, from 1972." - Little Wing. Members of Tamam Shud.
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Artist: V/A Title: Im A Cult Hero Format: Double LP Label: Living Legend Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| Comp falsely claiming to be a reissue from West Germany in 1989. Obscure tracks from Ministry, the Damned, the Sound, Nightmares in Wax, Sex Beat, My Bloody Valentine, Death In June, Cetu Javu, Hard Corps, Snowy Red, John Bender, and Marc & the Mambas. One LP is on 180 gram black vinyl, the other on blue vinyl. Limited to 500 copies. |
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Artist: BARKLEYS BARNYARD CRITTERS Title: Mystery Tail Format: DVD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"This animation tells the animated tale of Barkley and that dogs life with his band the Barnyard Critters. Barkley is a rocker and goes through the usual tribulations of band life, quits the band and goes on a drunken voyage of discovery into a sea of confusion. While away the evil record label (IM Fang) finds a devilishly constructed replacement. Watch as Barkley combs his way back to the battle of the bands and lays it all on the line. Animation on the this release is hand drawn in parts, uses 3-D animation in others, and features live action characters in exciting sequences reminiscent of the Banana Splits. This will appeal to fans of the Cartoon Network, Spongebob, and the like." - Load.
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Artist: BLACK PUS Title: Primordial Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "BLACK PUS is BRIAN CHIPPENDALE (LIGHTNING BOLT) and on this, their fifth full-length, a lot of the looped drum pop that has been percolating in this projects gene pool is drawn so much closer to the surface. Insanely long saccharine loops are pushed, pulled, screwed and tattooed all over your face. With this ammo, an enduring record of stone-etched brute pop is forged. Comrade, now is the time, take up the fight, strap this pack on and blast off into the land where Space Shuttles no longer tread." - Load. |
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Artist: BRAINBOMBS Title: Singles Compilation Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"The Brainbombs use a horn, scraping guitars & the mindset of a mentally impaired killer to bring some dark damage to the putrid remains of the corpse of rock music. When the band started, they were much more in line with the European industrial scene of the time. Though they use the tools of the rock trade, Brainbombs instead breath from the fart-helmet of minimal repetitious overload. To this a drugged out horn floats in the mix. The collection of songs on this release documents the bands first seven years of exceedingly hard to come by singles plus bonus tracks." - Load.
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Artist: BRAINBOMBS Title: Urge to Kill Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Swedens Brainbombs have been carpet bombing eardrums since the mid-80s with their sadist aktions, so Load Records is proud to roll out the brown carpet for the vinyl reissue of their 1999 classic. Be warned, sensitive listener, that this record traffics in some adult subject matter: driving around in your car, being tired, picking up hitchhikers & killing them with hammers & screwdrivers. If this bothers you I am sure there is more pleasant music out there, but for the rest of us, there is Brainbombs." - Load.
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Artist: CLOCKCLEANER Title: Auf Wiedersehen Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "A lasting gravestone release from Philadelphias CLOCKCLEANER packs in more drama than your mama with enough bad attitude to make the food court cry. Since 2007s release of Babylon Rules, CLOCKCLEANER have toured the trailer park areas of the United States as well as conquering the scorched earth of Australia. During this time the band recorded this 4-song EP length record that sharpens their midnight howl in a direction only hinted at in previous releases. The band now operates in a deathly throb that beats like the dying heart of a lonely man. JOHN SHARKEYs voice lays the gloom on like a cyanide capsule hitting a vat of acid with you strapped into the chair for the ultimate death ride." - Load |
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Artist: COUGHS Title: Secret Passage Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Coughs are a clamouring six piece wrecking crew with two drummers, a sax/keyboardist, a bass player, a guitarist, bass player and an unhinged lead singer. This motley crue comes at you with a hotwired milkshake of punked-out Red Bull rock. Easily putting on the most memorable live shows of the 2000s, lead singer Anya Davidson is a frothing wraith of unquestionable furious intent. Backed by a double drummer band using discarded 55 gallon oil barrels, Coughs brings the tribal whoomp to a blurry sandwich of fuzzed out organ/sax riffery and guitar slice. This is the new ROCK, be here at GROUND ZERO! Their previous record on Load Records Fright Makes Right, raised the bar on new panic-stricken punk stylings, and this record moves the limbo stick to impossible heights with its hi-fi/no-fi recording making it so hard for you to fight the feeling." - Load. |
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Artist: DAILY LIFE Title: Necessary & Pathetic Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Daily Life are a two piece from Providence, RI & have emerged with a sugar glazed classic of monstrous icy proportions. Necessary & Pathetic sketches out a sputtering romantic vision replete with horny armies emerging from the darkness set to a lush trash strewn landscape equipped with sputtering drumbot rhythms & croon power set to 10 to ensure moist thongs. This is not a lo-fidelity stab at synth-pop but a fully formed set of songs executed with maximum vision. Limited to 500 copies." -Load |
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Artist: DAILY LIFE Title: Necessary & Pathetic Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Daily Life are a two piece from Providence, RI & have emerged with a sugar glazed classic of monstrous icy proportions. Necessary & Pathetic sketches out a sputtering romantic vision replete with horny armies emerging from the darkness set to a lush trash strewn landscape equipped with sputtering drumbot rhythms & croon power set to 10 to ensure moist thongs. This is not a lo-fidelity stab at synth-pop but a fully formed set of songs executed with maximum vision." -Load |
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Artist: DISKAHOLICS Title: Live In Japan: Vol. 1 Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Documenting a 2002 sojourn to Japan that featured some slathering improv between Jim ORourke (synth, noise), Mats Gustafsson (sax, noise), and Thurston Moore (guitar, noise)." - Load. |
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Throne Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Like a group groped Helen Keller all too drugged out to protest, the New York City based EXCEPTER weaves a dangerous course through the orange cones of cortex caressing sound. Drawing from boom-box emitters as disparate as CHROME, COMUS, and that weird-ass Indian techno music you heard eating that Somoza. Frequently lumped in with bands in their zip code like GANG GANG DANCE, SIGHTINGS, and ANIMAL COLLECTIVE and the NO NECK BLUES BAND, they are actually much more of a confrontational question mark. Lots of floor crawling stage exclamations make the band more slippery than a greased watermelon. With a lineup jamming out unclear instrumention but perhaps including detritus of Casios, battery needin samplers, six string part catalogs and occasional percussion, they manage to craft a deeply and creepily eerie sound that includes sounds from all over the radio dial. One could easily relax to this record and have ones heart forget to stop beating. Two of the songs on the record, "Jrone (Two)" and "Jrone (Three)" are on the "KA" record, but in extremely mutilated formats due to reworkings to the point that they lie naked and throbbing like a gum wrapper in Gitmo Base." - Load. |
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Artist: FAT WORM OF ERROR Title: Pregnant Babies Pregnant with Pregnant Babies Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Iron Valleys bedazzled bunch spring forth with a stunner of a record that drones, moans, chortles and squeaks in completely unexpected ways. Beefheart-soaked and strangulated guitar tactics, double mutter drumming, and bass all collide in uncharted territory with hysterical vocal yelps to make this record advance to the head of the class in your record pile.Think of this band in the unlikely company of the real R n R Hall of Famers like Half Japanese, Thinking Fellers Local 182, and Arab On Radar. Load Records is insisting you listen to this record as it features instrumental diversity with horns, synths, basses, guitars, and all manners of percussion. The songs on this record are not all storm and flash as there are moments of quiet beauty, like a candy bar found in a pair of pants not worn for months. A truly refreshing listen, its got spasm and moan." - Load. CD also available.
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Artist: FNU RONNIES Title: Saddle Up Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "FNU Ronnies have been burning the long one on this platter, emerging with a masterpiece of sealed plastic heavy on heady froth. For those that demand rock fury it is here in buckets. The sound on this LP is a murky tunnel of punked out alien sounds with dirty sounds & ideas last talked about at NASA around the time of the last faked moon landing. So if future sounds are where you lay your jammy pack, this LP is gonna be playing where you park. Comes in intense gatefold jacket." -Load. |
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Artist: FUNGUS BRAINS Title: Ron Pistos Real World Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Vinyl only release limited to 650. Essential reissue of the 1983 classic by Melbourne, Australias Fungus Brains. While it does feature a horn and unbridled guitar heaviosity from a very young Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Venom P. Stinger, Sick Things, Cat Power), it also sounds current with other AU records of the time from bands like the Birthday Party. This record received recognition in both Forced Exposure & Touch & Go zines at the time. Only approach if you like rock music & hallucinatory free range sounds." - Load. |
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Artist: HARRY PUSSY Title: Youll Never Play This Town Again Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced and peppered American free rock from a Clinton-era three piece. This Miami trio left rug burn on modern music in the 90s. Here a deluxe remastering of their out of print releases with a swank digipak filled with sweaty photos & heart-racing energy sounds. Complies the long out of print self released tour 12-inch, the Cherry Smash live 10-inch, Live at Salon Zwerge 12-inch, Pelt & Frosty spilt 7-inches and the De Stilj 7-inches." -Load
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Artist: HOMOSTUPIDS Title: The Load Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Clevelands HOMSTUPIDs new record is a tunnel ride through a reverb soaked youth hall that spreads confusion like manure in the spring soil. Fast, noisy, garage rock. A buffet of great taste and unparalleled ear fakery. Dont worry, its skull music so you can rest your nappy dome assured. Limited run of 500 CDs. No Export to the UK." -Load |
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Artist: HOSPITALS, THE Title: Ive Visited The Island Of Jocks And Jazz Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"San Franciscos The Hospitals have arrived with their second record guaranteed to confuse the garage rock crowd something powerful. The records got plenty of their smothered, covered and muffled sounds of the last record, but with an extra helping of what the fuck. At the same time, its got hooks as big as an oil well fire burning bright. On their most recent 12", The Hospitals go do some covers and this may give you an idea of what to expect: Harry Pussy, the Homosexuals, the Kinks, and Royal Trux. The Hospitals are a two piece with drums and guitar... vocals ping pong in all manners like a drug holiday weekend."
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Artist: IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT Title: To Be Treated Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Diaspora tribesmen from the swamp stricken parishes of New Orleans laid this doubly effective soul stroke to tape before the waters rose. The sounds they get burrow to the heart of the matter with reverb tanked slo-mo and urban howl forming a durable disc of genuine interactive musicality. A keeper and a grower. This is the bands umpteenth record and they really stretch out on this record and unfurl. You can hear their patented brand of lethargo Flipper-isms as if from a tunnel down. Also coming through is some noontime yodeling the Kirkwoods perfected on Meat Puppets II, slowed to a chug. Definitely on their own musical plane to be reckoned with." - Load. CD also available. |
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Artist: KITES Title: Hallucination Guillotine / Final Worship Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "One-man organic sturm and scowl, while 2006s Peace Trials was a blend of campfire-informed Wilheim Reich downer crunch and burn, this new release journeys into deeper tunnels of solid frozen anthracite. While definitely part of the contemporary American noise scene, KITES (CHRIS FORGUES) blends percussive chug and homemade sine wave generation into a dynamic somewhere in between early 80s electro schoolyard loiterers Throbbing Gristle and Sheffields Cabaret Voltaire. Where Peace Trials took the song form to an almost confusing and happy place, songs on the new record feature a colder tone. Gone are the stringed instruments of the last record, replaced with more home constructed oscillation batteries. Disembodied voices ping-pong from speaker to speaker, dry percussive chatter fills the headphone foam and you are prisoner in a room you can never leave." - Load |
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Artist: KITES Title: Peace Trials Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Rewired neural strum and groam from the one man operation known as Kites. One minute EZ sounds pump from your jambox, the next a squaretone boxes you upside the head. Very much in the tradition of new school noize croppers such as Wolf Eyes and Die Yellow Swans, but turbolaced with a mutant virus of melody and folkery. Yes, acoustica based acid melt. Features a (beautiful)collaboration with Erin Rosenthal from Udog. Kites has played with the cream of todays new sounds krewz including Wolf Eyes, Double Leopards, Hair Police and many others and is considered a master on his own homemade equipment." - Load.
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Artist: KITES Title: Royal Paint With Metallic Gardener from the United States Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Hyper real poundings for the short bus from this one man electrical system operator. Simple songs taken to the edge of the cliff. Really simple songs, a virtual Casey Kasem Top Ten within one CD buried deep within a blanket. Kites has toured the netherworld of the Middle West of the United States of America and put out a shingle that few can deny. It may look like a man fighting a machine, but the battle is for your mind. Shows with Neon Hunk, Mindflayer and the Hair Police have resulted in unsupervised surgery and caused at least three (3) Amber Alerts. Join now for chewy choogle." - Load |
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Artist: KITES/PRURIENT Title: Load Split Series #4 Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Another jammed-elevator mismatch between two of Providence, RIs hottest pedal jackers and circuit board melters. Kites has a record on Load already and this side of the split evokes a crunchy square toned melodic flair with organic almost organ-fueled Disneyland melodies. These are the rockers. Prurient is another Providence-based sound artist doing low toned rumble jammed up against cassette culture screech. Live shows are a blur of power and volume. Yes the cream of the noise crop. This record is a bit more subdued in all out attack and more drenched in total murk-o-phonic atmosphere. Percussive chug and downer vibes." - Load.
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Artist: LIGHTNING BOLT Title: Earthly Delights Format: Double LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "After scrapping two entire full lengths, LIGHTNING BOLT is finally ready to unleash new music to the masses. Taking the lessons of extreme metal, blood-brother marrying them to expansive and explosive song form and applying it to Olympic training methods, Earthly Delights uses electric stimulus to shock smile technology to worldwide domes. This is what 2,000 years of evolution and the invention of electric instrumentation introduced into the tank of hook force can do to you. This record has the sound of a ten piece band with a much tighter pay scale, matched with the sonics of military cartoons. Swank artwork by BRIAN CHIPPENDALE." -Load. |
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Artist: LIGHTNING BOLT Title: First Record Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "This is a CD re-release of the LP-only release from 1997. Added to this CD are bonus tracks that were first available on a cassette companion to the 1997. The LP was had silk-screened covers and was available in an edition of 750 copies. Since 1997 quite a bit has happened with Lightning Bolt. Theyve received lots of press in publications like AP, the Wire, Index, and lots of others. Load Records is proud to present this first release in a new format from this shape-shifting, form-destroying, ear-crunching unit. Although their live shows have been marked by jet blasts of delicate sound shapes, this release shows sees the band playing with long sticky pieces of sonic taffy. It was recorded in the bands Fort Thunder space, this CD shows them using delicate tools to kill very large creatures. This record is long and elaborate in its power but has some surprising delicate moments. The record also pulse with hyper-humanoid percussion matched with bowel loosening bass doing infinite hammer-ons to the gods." - Load. |
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Artist: LIGHTNING BOLT Title: Oblivion Hunter Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Since forming in 1994, Lightning Bolt has taken a zig-zag path to recording, playing and touring. Following in this pattern is Oblivion Hunter, a collection of the bands epic recording sessions over the last few years. From the get-go the sound is amped-up and free: bass sounds jump out of the speaker cones that conjure up ears in alien propulsion systems, nights in faraway wind tunnels, and brutal beatings at Gitmo. Drums and assorted FX pop in and out with the resolve of a finger quivering over the A-bomb button, drunk on power. This LP is one of the few necessary things in your grim stretch of existence, played by a band with 20 years of total conviction to the destruction of your ear drums." - Load. |
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Artist: LIGHTNING BOLT Title: Wonderful Rainbow Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"The much anticipated follow-up to 2001s album Ride the Skies, Wonderful Rainbow pulls out all the stops. Recorded loud and proud over a year, this record grabs your throat with 8 songs of bass so nasty it seers human flesh on contact and drums so mighty they liquefy brain cells on impact. Yes, reference two-piece/crazy/heavy rock bands like RUINS, SLAYER and (Soul Discharge-era) BOREDOMS, but youll come up a few cents short on every pound of this two-ton heifer. LIGHTNING BOLT fill rooms all over this land, and this record is gonna fill the bill for those wanting extreme and heavy rock music taken to the top of the mountain. This is also useful for late-nite dance parties." -Load.
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Artist: METALUX & JOHN WIESE Title: Exoteric Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "A cold and chopped journey awaits you in this collaboration between electronic duo Metalux and sound levitator, John Wiese. Vocals are chopped and oscillation wave forms move themselves into long sheets of ribbon thin taffy with confusing intent. The middle ground in this collaboration has a coldwave appeal that clicks with fans of throbbing rhythmic noise like Wolf Eyes and Forcefield. This record is not noise however, more a full blown Kevorkian cocktail of reverberated malaise. The seven unnamed tracks flow one into the next with a rebounded tape smack that does not forget foot bounce, while keeping the main dome fully occupied with variable speed vox fukkk and equipment groan. This one is for the heads and takes notions of either artist to places where neither artist is safe going. This is for late nights and early mornings." - Load. |
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Artist: MOUTHUS Title: Saw a Halo Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Brooklyn-based duo BRIAN SULLIVAN and NATE NELSON have crafted a considerable body of work since forming in 2002. Of the many records on labels they have released over the years: Ecstatic Peace, Psych-o-Path, Important, Troubleman, Music Fellowship, this record comes as their first studio record. Recorded in nude fidelity at Rare Book Room by SAMARA LUBELSKI, this recording realizes the furious skin pound and crackling amp burn the duo is so capable of, and adds an organic clarity. MOUTHUS are very much in the school of NY bands like Excepter and Sightings that merge hard and sometimes velvety psych sounds with a pioneering spirit of experimentation. Mouthus do not forget the rock and in fact melt flatware into silvery puddles. Over the course of two segmented suites, the band journeys deep into the no-mans land between the kick drum and guitar amplifier and returns with the golden teeth of the dead. Nate Nelson records with many other bands, among them RELIGIOUS KNIVES and AFTERNOON PENIS. Brian Sullivan records with other bands such as ESKIMO KING and WHITE ROCK." - Load.
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Artist: MOUTHUS Title: Saw a Halo Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Brooklyn-based duo BRIAN SULLIVAN and NATE NELSON have crafted a considerable body of work since forming in 2002. Of the many records on labels they have released over the years: Ecstatic Peace, Psych-o-Path, Important, Troubleman, Music Fellowship, this record comes as their first studio record. Recorded in nude fidelity at Rare Book Room by SAMARA LUBELSKI, this recording realizes the furious skin pound and crackling amp burn the duo is so capable of, and adds an organic clarity. MOUTHUS are very much in the school of NY bands like Excepter and Sightings that merge hard and sometimes velvety psych sounds with a pioneering spirit of experimentation. Mouthus do not forget the rock and in fact melt flatware into silvery puddles. Over the course of two segmented suites, the band journeys deep into the no-mans land between the kick drum and guitar amplifier and returns with the golden teeth of the dead. Nate Nelson records with many other bands, among them RELIGIOUS KNIVES and AFTERNOON PENIS. Brian Sullivan records with other bands such as ESKIMO KING and WHITE ROCK." - Load. |
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Artist: NAUTICAL ALMANAC Title: Rooting for the Microbes Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "From the sooty corridors of the rusted out skeleton of Baltimore, Nautical Almanac has taken the urban crack of electronic halftime entertainment and dragged it squarely into the times of horse and buggies. As the band clearly states no electricity or computers were used in the music making process. The sounds generated are from machines specifically built for the recording process or from real lab experience. Custom equipment made of weird alloys of plastic, leather, wire, and rubber. Longtime collaborators Carly Ptak and Twig Harper worked on this record along with 10 other guests from wall-to-wall of this saggy country: Forcefield, Paperrad and Costes associates were all involved. Nautical Almanac has records on Hanson and is an integral forefather of much of the MidWest noise scene. The band has many other releases on its own label Heresee. Wanna understand the throb of shirtless noise boys and girls in Michigan? Climb onto this crisco-coated locomotive and get the real deal of steel. Answers not included and sound not found." - Load. |
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Artist: OVO Title: Miastenia Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"Milan, Italys Ovo are a two piece using guitar/violin/cellos and drums that dump a toxic sludge with an unmistakable butterscotch scent. This sludge is in line with contemporaneous doom salesmen such as Boris and the Melvins, with the addition of vox stylings that take this record to a new place entirely." - Load.
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Artist: OVO Title: Miastenia Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Milan, Italys Ovo are a two piece using guitar/violin/cellos and drums that dump a toxic sludge with an unmistakable butterscotch scent. This sludge is in line with contemporaneous doom salesmen such as Boris and the Melvins, with the addition of vox stylings that take this record to a new place entirely. The sounds coming from Stehania Pedrettis mouth as she sings go from lullaby sweet to terrifyingly raw in short intervals. Instrumentation on this platter is diverse, with guitars, bass, drums being added to the mix as well as music store stand-bys like harmonica, piano, and cello. This is not your mothers doom record. The group consists of a husband and wife duo (Stefania Pedretti and Bruno Dorella)." - Load. |
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Artist: PRURIENT Title: Pleasure Ground Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "As the dust settles and your tinnitus roars back to life, you wonder about Prurient. Last ear blast on Load, Black Vase went for the jugular from the git go with sporadic percussion and piercing square toned filthy noise. Just the thing for a rough day during a U.S.-sponsored war. This time out, Pleasure Ground oozes with a new shade of grey from the crayon set. A new dark waved sensibility takes hold. The seconds after a corpse appears on a riverbank, and the what the fuck am I gonna do slips from your lips, the Valhalla horn of Prurient trumpets! This takes the difference between a noise record and symphonic doom and splits the difference. Brutality has a new form as it mows down school cafeterias full of trench-coated losers to a headphone soundtrack of deadly church organ/orgasm." - Load. |
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Artist: RUSTED SHUT Title: Dead Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Houstons RUSTED SHUT has been at it in one form or another since 1986 at least. This record is the work of a band determined to work out some difficult shit, so bear witness. Dead is not for the faint of heart or those with weak kidneys. DON WALSH spins a negative vortex of such power that clothing, food wrappers and other loose items are easily sucked into its encompassing downer orbit. The music backing this maelstrom references hard rock superheroes with no sense of fidelity: The tinittus of Lemmy Kilmeister and the cochlea pain of GG Allin." - Load. |
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Artist: SEX CHURCH Title: Growing Over Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "The attitude may be sickly & the guitars may bleed, but this double guitar troop furrow known as Sex Church, with FX of truly claustrophobic origin seek the shiny skin inside your ear. Up until now they have left some 7 inches & an LP, but their pale limo arrives to the door & goes right on in. This record really arrives & tells a heavy tale, so please sprinkle some lighter fluid on your skin & hop into the fire." -Load. |
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Artist: SEX CHURCH Title: Growing Over Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Vinyl limited to 600 copies. Way more addictive than Oxycontin. Way more." -Load. |
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Artist: SHIT AND SHINE Title: Kuss Mich, Meine Liebe Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Eight sprawling sonic puddles of Gibbys spittoon soaked puddle juice emerge from the hot flaps of Englands SHIT AND SHINE. Combing a dense percussive chug and a megaphoned fart helmet the band emerges with a sound closest to the neck ache of powerful metallic headbang and the distorted totality of cheap speaker decay. The band has been known to employ up to 16 separate drummers and 12 feet of vertical bass amplification, so they are no strangers to erecting long standing brown waves of sound, an onslaught of bass boomed rock totality." - Load. |
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Absolutes Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
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"Eight songs that take apart rock music atom by atom so that you are left with a skeleton of sound. Sightings still use the tools of the trade -- guitar, bass and drums -- to take both rock and roll out of rock n roll. Reference weirdo deconstructo outfits like Einsturzende Neubauten, (mid-period) Black Dice, and Mainliner. This is the sound between the guitar strings, inside the bass amp, and within a drum stick. Yes, the truth. If punk rock used to mean fucking shit up and doing it your own way, this record erects a mile high middle finger facing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame." - Load.
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Arrived in Gold Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Never before has a band managed to erase themselves. New York Citys Sightings have risen to the challenge of negation with this what the fuck of a record that rolls the twenty sided dice to dematerialize any trace of guitar, bass and drums into proton dust floating microns on top of the speaker cone. Minimal, yes. Previous records have gone from favorites at magazines as chocolate and peanut butter as the Wire and Terrorizer. Past records have been steaming knee burn befuddled by German technoid impulse and Yoko-damaged Beatles-busting intensity. A new icy coolness is added to the steaming soup this time allowing the sounds of mouth breathing to open up the record into a drug-fueled nightclub beast humping a bass bin as the sun rises." - Load.
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Total fried out rock from these NYC dirt merchants. Completely over-the-top trebled out production, with weekend pass outpatient rantings. Guitar, bass and drums - standard rock tools, but used to a decidedly more sinister effect. Fans of Mainliner and the Oblivians will understand, no-fi is the new Rufinol." - Load.
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Through the Panama Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Bass, drum and guitars meshed together with a synthetic future think tanks. Literally the sound of human progress darkened with a profound fidelity so loud the dark matter of the universe quivers in a deadly orgasm. This is the bands sixth album and takes the notch so much higher than previous efforts in terms of songwriting and production. With Andrew W.K. as a producer, some of the caustic curtains that swathed past albums have been parted to reveal a coldly pulsing artificial heart. And the beat of this heart sounds off in an alien tongue of bass and drums. Guitars descend like unforgiving sheets of napalm from the skyline. Songs pop out of this miasma that tick off icy coolness with piano and vocal stylings. Indeed, hot and cool. To accentuate the difference this album has versus previous Sightings records, a Scott Walker cover is included. This is a rock album, but a rock for times coming, a sound of future days. Break the chains from the days of past, listen to Sightings and evolve." -Load.
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Artist: SKOAL KODIAK Title: Kryptonym Bodliak Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "While Minneapolis band Skoal Kodiak has a prestigious lineage (Quad Muth, The Cows & Seawhores), theyve already released a 12" a few years back, & this record ups the ante large. Echoes of the hard funk jut up against Mars Rover squelch to create something totally timeless & new but also borne of a future so toxic that there is no escaping. I dare you to listen & not be immediately summoned to movement. Buy one, buy several, you are now a foot soldier with a flesh uniform, go out and preach the word of Skoal Kodiak from a tall structure loudly." -Load. |
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Artist: SWORD HEAVEN Title: Entrance Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "SWORD HEAVEN is a Columbus duo using sheet metal, electronics, horn, drums and treated vocals to bring a supercluster of black clouds into your zone. While there is an undeniable black tone of metallic grime hanging over the proceedings, this music will appeal to those wanting something absolute in their lives. Four tracks for fans of Sunn O))), Deicide, Swans and Godflesh." -Load. |
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Artist: SWORD HEAVEN Title: Gone Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Columbus, OH two-piece horror sound unit, Sword Heaven clock in with a sweaty waterboarded masterpice of claustrophobic proportions. Fun house mirrors and stretched out faces yell from behind flaming curtains while a neanderthal cave bat clubs your dome over and over and over. These are the sounds -- the kids are not all right and that is all right." - Load. |
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Artist: TINSEL TEETH Title: Trash As The Trophy Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Their brand of wiry songsmithery is sure to embarrass those with weak kidneys and delicate sensibilities, but, for the rest of us, this will provide some proof that life is not quite over, and there are others looking to spoil the cultural soup. Adult topics for times of missing children. Milk cartons featuring pictures of missing middle fingers." -Load |
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Artist: V/A Title: Fun From None: Live From The No Fun Fest 2004 & 2005 Format: DVD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
| "A document of the 2004 and 2005 No Fun Fests held in Brooklyn, New York featuring the cream of the underground crop. You get live footage from sweat-soaked song stranglers TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN LA, KIM GORDON & THE SWEET RIDE, WOLF EYES, HAIR POLICE, DOUBLE LEOPARDS, NAUTICAL ALMANAC, SIXTEEN BITCH PILEUP, BORBETOMAGUS, MAGIC MARKERS, PRURIENT, LEE RANALDO + ROGER MILLER & WILLIAM HOOKER, and more." - Load. |
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Artist: VAMPIRE CANT Title: Key Cutter Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "This 2005 recording collaboration of Vampire Belt, the long running Western Massachusetts duo of Chris Corsano (frequent YOD associate and collaborator with Jandek, John Olson, and Paul Flaherty) and Bill Nace (X.0.4.). Vampire Belt specializes in all over the kit percussion on deeply audio effected guitar histrionics. Cant is Jessica Rylans long standing vocal/electronic project. Her sound is self described as friendly, intimate and creepy like anonymous postcards sent to you by a rain soaked prisoner. And I am in no mood to argue... its got moments of beautiful song and scary blurt. The collaboration sound, you ask? Very much the collision of these two entities: the soundz of Rylans homemade electronics butting up against Naces splayed guitar, all the while punctuated by the free jizz drum rambo of Corsano. The record has several burners, and plenty of moments of parking lot moan and search. Really, a record like this has not come out since ESP-Disk released that last awful Godz record. FACT!" - Load. |
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Artist: WHITE LOAD Title: Waynes World III b/w Godfather IV Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Limited edition of 500 only vinyl only release chocked with 25 tracks of rock music with no excuses, sounding like a locomotive of stale beer with paint chips under the nails coming straight for your E-Z chair. You are knocked clear across the room with some ringing in your ears. In year head rebounds a pelvic grunt with flavors of dirty rock superheroes like Dwarves & The Oblivians, & your blood pumps hard." -Load. |
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Artist: WIZARDZZ Title: Hidden City of Taurmond Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "While for many this is going to be a side project of Brian Gibson, this dashboard messiah of a record is a creeping keeper. Rich Porter (he of Bug Sized Mind), adds some melody muscle to stuff some tissue into the training bra of this submarine racer. Nothing like Lightning Bolt, this is more a Tangerine soaked, dream pillow padded melodica that Kraftwerks its way into your main vein. Looking for reference points? Think Zombi, Yellow Magic Orchestra and John Carpenters Escape From NY soundtrack, .i.e smooth as butter creep scapes. Wizardzz has been accused of sporting a prog rock groove, so stuff this in your stockings you 06 version hacky sackers." -Load |
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Artist: AXOLOTL Title: Of Bonds in General Format: CDR Label: Loci Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Limited (200 copies) cdr pre-issue of the forthcoming Catsup Plate LP, Of Bonds in General is Karl Bauers first proper album as Axolotl in 3 years. 3 tracks, 31 minutes. LP/Download version this summer." -Loci |
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Artist: AXOLOTL & WEYES BLOOD Title: Sciamacy Format: CDR Label: Loci Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: SUNSET PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Loci Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Recorded in 2000 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, in a my apartment which was around the corner from an actual Sunset Park School of Music and directly above the apartment of Michael Gira of Swans, these recordings feature members of Axolotl, Mouthus, Black Dice, a microphone once inserted inside GG Allin, pots, pans, pot, mushrooms, pills, and youthful vigor and represent a crucial early chapter in the musical development of most involved." - Loci. Includes Karl Bauer, Eric Copeland, Nate Nelson, Nick Bohn, Patricia Andreau, and Brian Henderson. |
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Artist: SEMPER, JONTY Title: The 1 Minute Silence From The Funeral Of Diana, Princess of Wales Format: 7" Label: Locus +/Charrm Country: UK Price: $8.50 |
| "This is the first part of a 2-part project by British artist Jonty Semper. The 1 minute silence from the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales was recorded in Hyde Park by Jonty Semper on 6 September 1997 as the live BBC television broadcast of the ceremony was shown on a big screen in the park. All around the world people similarly observed the ritual unfold, a communal gathering unprecedented in contemporary times: levelling divisions,uniting through grief and contemplation, loaded with specific current social and political meanings. The single places the contemporary public silence observed during the mourning of Dianas death in context with the second part of the project, Kenotaphion, produced as a result of researching, locating and anthologising all the existing archive recordings of the two minute silences from the Armistice Day or Remembrance Sunday ceremonies at the Cenotaph, Whitehall, London." |
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Artist: HAYWARD, CHARLES Title: Live In Japan Volume One: Escape From Europe Format: CD Label: Locus Solus Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "A trilogy of live CDs, only released in Japan by Locus Solus. Volume One is a mostly solo affair from the legendary drummer and This Heat founder, Charles Hayward (drums, voice, tapes, melodica). Makoto Nomura (piano, melodica) and Akira Toyonaga (guitar) guest on one track. Recorded April, 1996." - FE. "Solo performance in his unique style. He sings, plays drums, operates two or three cassette players by means of an MTR, and a tape machine with foot switches, all at the same time." - Locus Solus. |
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Artist: HAYWARD, CHARLES Title: Live In Japan Volume Three: Near + Far Format: CD Label: Locus Solus Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Tracks 1-4 are from his solo performances, songs that werent able to be released on Escape From Europe. Tracks 5-7 are new songs composed in the studio by remixing and overdubbing sessions with Tatsuya Yoshida, Yoshihide Otomo, Kazuhisa Uchihashi. Track 8 features Hayward singing with a melodica, recorded in a temple garden by Tatsuya Yoshida." - Locus Solus. Recorded April, 1996. |
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Artist: HAYWARD, CHARLES Title: Live In Japan Volume Two: Double Agent(s) Format: CD Label: Locus Solus Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Very exciting live improvisations with Tatsuya Yoshida (drums & voice), Yoshihide Otomo (turntables, CD player & sampler), Keiji Haino (guitar & voice), and Peter Brotzmann (tenor saxophone & clarinets)." - Locus Solus. Recorded April, 1996. |
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Artist: AKIYAMA, TETUZI Title: Pre-Existence Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Tetuzi Akiyama is frequently associated with the insurgent improvising community in Tokyo generated around guitarist Taku Sugimoto but to be sure his sound owes as much to a unique strain of country blues engulfed in negative space. His loosely strewn playing skirts the usual clichés of the guitar in both the free improv and trad folk scenes. Pre-Existence is a puzzling and often achingly beautiful slurred guitar meditation. Sit back & let your ears bear witness to a Zen blues of the most elemental, meditative form. This disc marks Akiyamas solo contribution to Locusts celebrated Wooden Guitar series." - Locust. |
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Artist: AMEN DUNES Title: Dia Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"A lot of crazy shit can happen to a man when he goes solitary in a ramshackle Catskill Mountain home for an extended stretch of time -- especially for a city kind of guy. But if Amen Duness 12 tracker Dia is one possible outcome of the guy alone-in-a-cabin- story, then a little tape saturated brain frying is something we should all live comfortably with because this is a batch of seriously raw & inspired loner psych grit that owes a debt to the DIY soundz of the George Brigmans of the world. That was 2006. These days the lone wolf behind Amen Dunes -- Damon McMahon -- calls a small two room apartment overlooking the Temple of Earth in North-Central Beijing home, where he watches old men fly kites and sing opera every morning. Who knows whatll come out of that." -Locust
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Artist: ANGELBLOOD Title: Mambo Mange Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Mambo Mange is the eponymous 4th & final album by a fine NY ensemble who unfortunately imploded at the peak of their game. Originally fronted by twin femme vocalists Lizzi Bougatsos (Gang Gang Dance) & celebrated visual artist Rita Ackermann, for what would be the bands final foray, the duo enlisted Anders Nilsson (Aorta), Matt Heyner (NNCK), Dave Nuss (NNCK) & Brian DeGraw (Gang Gang Dance, Cranium). Ackermanns Yoko Ono-inspired freak-outs, feline growls & orgasmic yodels and Bougatsos breathy wordless space panting over Matt the Count Heyners seriously beefy power chords, Nilssons sinewy solos, DeGraws bass thump & Nuss propulsive drumming made for the most thoroughly realized vision of Angelbloods art + metal sound. Angelblood played decidedly out of bounds & ahead of the curve. It was a risky proposition to begin with (who can get by playing heavy metal in Chelsea art galleries?) but goddamn if this isnt great music." - Locust. |
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Artist: APOTHECARY HYMNS Title: Trowel And Era Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| ⿿Apothecary Hymns is the operational alias of Alex Stimmel, who also plays in the Brooklyn rock group, Lonehawk. Mr. Stimmel pulls off classic Syd Barrett moves the way most people pull off socks; combining acoustic and electric guitars to create a folk rock readymade with loner and acid proclivities. Beat that with a stick! ~Byron Coley, the Wire. |
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Artist: AU Title: Recycling Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Part of the Location Sound Series devoted to city sounds and reactions, were happy to present the first stateside release by the psychedelic electronic duo, AU. Based in Holland, multimedia artists Jan Borchers and Paul Klaui, naturally bring us into the soundworld of the Haag by doing what most everybody there does -- they ride their bikes. The twist in the spoke is that AU recorded their tour through the city and captured everything from the squeaky sound of old bicycle seats to a sudden intrusion on a street parade. The result is a fun panoramic earshot of the pace of the citys life. AUs musical response is a subdued yet loose piece incorporating elements of the field recording, analogue electronics and reverberating guitars that recall the efforts of German Krautrock bands like Cluster or a mellowed out Faust." - Locust |
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Artist: BEGUSHKIN Title: Kings Curse Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Limited edition 180 gram vinyl LP version. Recorded live to tape in two days, after a sleep deprived month of Beefheart style creative lockdown, Begushkin -- Dan Smiths 8-headed hydra -- lay to rest the twilight folk of 2007s Nightly Things and re-emerge with the wicked and strange hard rock gypsy shake of Kings Curse. Smith yells and carries on like a man possessed with tales of the damnation of a robber king and the band plays it ultra tight and ultra heavy. Kings Curse is higher-tier creep-rock." -Locust |
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Artist: BEN-ISRAEL, DANNY Title: The Kathmandu Sessions Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"To a small circle of psychedelic music fans, the re-discovery of native Israeli, Danny Ben- Israels sole, privately released album, Chantarish 3, a few years ago was nothing short of a revelation. Despite having been sung in his native Hebrew, there was no getting away from the blissfully fuzzed out guitars and a voice that belted out resistant words like some mad cantorial singer. Now, after 35 years, Danny Ben Israels much talked about Katmandu Sessions produced for a Western audience and recorded in Tel Aviv and Austria between globetrotting stints around Europe finally sees the light of day. The seven tracks that make up the Kathmandu Sessions are nothing short if not completely over the top -- both of its time and prophetic. Every tune is delivered with that rare combination of wisdom and wonder, sung in a joyous English that brings together Tim Buckleys melancholic operatics with the lunatic vocal escapades of Mick Farren making this easily one of the true revelations for the 21st century." - Locust.
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Artist: BISHOP, SIR RICHARD Title: God Damn Religion Format: DVD/CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Official DVD release of Sir Richard Bishops cracked movie God Damn Religion. First edition comes with a bonus audio CD of the quasi soundtrack Elektronika Demonika, originally issued by Locust as a vinyl-only escapade in 2006. For centuries, man has used organized religion to control the hearts and minds (not to mention the pocketbooks) of the ignorant masses. Well, Richard Bishop has decided he would like a piece of the action. This film is a diabolical experiment in hypnotic mind control - a phantasmagoric presentation of demonic and divine imagery, meticulously assembled and designed to put the viewer into an altered state of darkened awareness. Includes original music from Elektronika Demonika, as well as unreleased material. If you ever wanted to go to hell and back, this film will get you halfway there. Some viewers may find the imagery used in this film to be disturbing, but thats the idea. Contains some strong sexual content (as all true religion should). Not for the weak-minded, faint of heart, or those suffering from occasional seizures." DVD is NTSC format, probably region free."- Locust |
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Artist: BISHOP, SIR RICHARD Title: Improvika Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "By trade Sir Richard Bishop is a dealer of rare occult books and fine paper ephemera. For many in the musical cosmos, he has occasion to travel the smoke filled carnie circuit as 1/3 of the Sun City Girls medicine show. But in the twilight hours of a shadow world sensed only by few, Bishop is a dazzling unaccompanied guitarist. On Improvika , Bishop rides a very tall horse through a surrealists cowboy set thats 1 part bruit Peckinpah muscularity & 2 parts illuminated Jodorowskian symbolism. A very strange place, indeed. Armed only with a single steel string wooden guitar, bare-knuckled Bishop fends off the horrors & dangers of the night with ease as he spits out glorious white robed arabesques, django inspired gypsy arcs, & latin terracotta flourishes like so many spinning tumbleweeds in a one horse town that is his alone. Improvika is Sir Richards follow up to his part on Locusts celebrated Wooden Guitar collection and second full length release after his debut on John Faheys Revenant label." - Locust. |
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Artist: BISHOP, SIR RICHARD Title: Improvika Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "By trade Sir Richard Bishop is a dealer of rare occult books and fine paper ephemera. For many in the musical cosmos, he has occasion to travel the smoke filled carnie circuit as 1/3 of the Sun City Girls medicine show. But in the twilight hours of a shadow world sensed only by few, Bishop is a dazzling unaccompanied guitarist. On Improvika, Bishop rides a very tall horse through a surrealists cowboy set thats 1 part bruit Peckinpah muscularity & 2 parts illuminated Jodorowskian symbolism. A very strange place, indeed. Armed only with a single steel string wooden guitar, bare-knuckled Bishop fends off the horrors & dangers of the night with ease as he spits out glorious white robed arabesques, django inspired gypsy arcs, & latin terracotta flourishes like so many spinning tumbleweeds in a one horse town that is his alone. Improvika is Sir Richards follow up to his part on Locusts celebrated Wooden Guitar collection and second full length release after his debut on John Faheys Revenant label." - Locust |
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Artist: BISHOP, SIR RICHARD Title: While My Guitar Violently Bleeds Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "This is an essential document by one of Americas most original and inventive unaccompanied guitarists working today. While My Guitar Violently Bleeds is a splendid three piece gem in which the good sir branches out & nods to points West, East & otherworldly with the classic spaghetti western-tinged, spidery fretwork of Zurvan, to the Fushitsusha style psych decay & feedback drench of Smashana to the brilliant 25+ minute raga epic Mahavidya." - Locust. 2009 repress, now on black vinyl. |
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Artist: BOLOTIN, JAY Title: Jay Bolotin Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "180 gram vinyl featuring new liner notes and lyrics inserts. Described by Kris Kristofferson as one of the three best songwriters in the country, Kentucky native Jay Bolotins songs have been championed by the likes of Merle Haggard and Porter Wagoner, among many others. Yet Jays eponymous debut -- released on the major subsidiary Commonwealth United label -- had the halflife of a mayfly when it went into circulation in 1970 and today it remains as phantasmic as the prairie ghosts that have long populated his native Kentucky. However hasty or uncertain the release of the album may have been some 40 years ago, one thing is certain: in a darkened room in New York City at the end of a Kentucky childhood, a 20 year old Jay Bolotin cut a singularly enchanted album of unhurried, low key loner ballads with the confidence and honesty of a seasoned journeyman. Jay Bolotin is an unqualified singer songwriter gem that will appeal to fans of Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt & Alex Chilton. Features Kenny Lyon on Bass & Mark Taber on piano & harpsichord - both veterans of the Providence, Rhode Island scene, The Fugs Bobby Mason on percussion and David Mowry on guitar. Remastered & reissued for the first time since its elusive release." -Locust |
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Artist: BOLOTIN, JAY Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Described by Kris Kristofferson as one of the three best songwriters in the country, Kentucky native Jay Bolotins songs have been championed by the likes of Merle Haggard and Porter Wagoner, among many others. Yet Jays eponymous debut -- released on the major subsidiary Commonwealth United label -- had the halflife of a mayfly when it went into circulation in 1970 and today it remains as phantasmic as the prairie ghosts that have long populated his native Kentucky. However hasty or uncertain the release of the album may have been some 40 years ago, one thing is certain: in a darkened room in New York City at the end of a Kentucky childhood, a 20 year old Jay Bolotin cut a singularly enchanted album of unhurried, low key loner ballads with the confidence and honesty of a seasoned journeyman. Jay Bolotin is an unqualified singer songwriter gem that will appeal to fans of Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt & Alex Chilton. Features Kenny Lyon on Bass & Mark Taber on piano & harpsichord - both veterans of the Providence, Rhode Island scene, The Fugs Bobby Mason on percussion and David Mowry on guitar. CD packaged in a trifold digipak with previously unpublished photos. Remastered & reissued for the first time since its elusive release." -Locust |
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Artist: BORN HELLER Title: Born Heller Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| Josephine Foster: (harp, mandolin, guitar); Jason Ajemian: (stand up bass). Born Heller are the earthen folk duo of Josephine Foster (Childrens Hour) & Jason Ajemian and one of the better kept secrets to emerge out of Chicagos clandestine campfires and music dens. Their sound captures an Appalachian- transatlantic folk tradition so effortlessly that if it didnt already exist, they would have had to invent it themselves. Fosters spine tingling vocal delivery has been rightly compared to the likes of British folk legend and current hipster fave, Shirley Collins. On their debut, that voice is finally given full justice by the spare rhythmic arrangements of Ajemian on strings. Recorded by Paul Oldham in Louisville Kentucky." - Locust |
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Artist: BROTZMANN TENTET (+2), PETER/THE COME SUNDAY ENSEMBLE Title: Two Lightboxes Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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Artist: COACH FINGERS Title: No Flies On Frank Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Coach Fingers is serious about having fun and with the debut long player No Flies on Frank, no one is spared from the plentiful good vibes Frank has to offer. Packed with more hooks than a ship crowded with one armed pirates, No Flies on Frank is a meaty affair of giddy but bearded late 60s/early 70s outlaw boogie rock & roll prominently featuring three members of the New York free noise whatsit collective The No Neck Blues Band - Coach Jason Meagher, Dave Nuss & Dave Shuford - along with Meaghers brother Sean on keys and - future guitar god worshippers take note - the Coachs secret weapon, master shredder George Devoe. So come on, friends, its time to join the Fingers friends & family in the Beaujolais Revolution; take a sip from a glass full of Ronnie Lanes boozy rock, the charming laissez-faire balladry of Kevin Ayers (circa Joy of a Toy & Whatevershebringswesing) & a whole lot of crazy fun." - Locust |
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Artist: COACH FINGERS Title: No Flies On Frank Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Now on limited DMM 180 gram vinyl! Coach Fingers is serious about having fun and with the debut long player No Flies On Frank, no one is spared from the plentiful good vibes Frank has to offer. Packed with more hooks than a ship crowded with one-armed pirates, No Flies On Frank is a meaty affair of giddy but bearded late 60s/early 70s outlaw boogie rock & roll prominently featuring three members of the New York free noise whatsit collective The No Neck Blues Band - Coach Jason Meagher, Dave Nuss & Dave Shuford - along with Meaghers brother Sean on keys and - future guitar god worshippers take note - the Coachs secret weapon, master shredder George Devoe. So come on, friends, its time to join the Fingers friends & family in the Beaujolais Revolution; take a sip from a glass full of Ronnie Lanes boozy rock, the charming laissez-faire balladry of Kevin Ayers (circa Joy of a Toy & Whatevershebringswesing) & a whole lot of crazy fun." - Locust. |
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Artist: CYANN AND BEN Title: Happy Like an Autumn Tree Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "French quartet Cyann & Ben create a dark and worrying universe tinted with melancholic beauty. Their debut album, Spring, was a hazy calliope ode. Happy Like An Autumn Tree continues to traverse the seasons with a captivating album thats as rich and beguiling as the falls harvest, bearing the short-lived fruits between the summers sweat and the winters crisp chill. Happy Like An Autumn Tree is a hypnotizing, oneiric collection of epic rock for our favorite season." - Locust |
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Artist: CYANN AND BEN Title: Spring Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "The Parisian quartet, Cyann & Ben, recorded their extraordinary debut, Spring, in an isolated country house in 2002. The pastoral retreat made a perfect backdrop for Cyanns delicate, breathy female vocals and the bands organic, analogue sound. The result is a dense and lovely and often intense musical landscape that owes its sound in equal measure to epic catharsis of groups like Sigur Ros, the folk flavors of Robert Wyatt & the Canterbury folk-rock scene as it does to the exceptionally concentrated psych soundscapes of early 70s Pink Floyd." - Locust |
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Artist: DELAURENTI, CHRIS Title: The Night I Met Maria C. Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Locusts fifth installment of their adventurous Met Life series of city field recordings and responses brings us a tongue firmly in cheek offering from the rapid cut up techniques of Seattles Chris Delaurenti. Simply put, its a little exercise on waste and getting wasted. This field recording documents the removal of waste at a transfer station in Seattle and the response rides the pun to its excessive extreme as DeLaurenti quickly becomes a participant in the flailing and drunken fanfare at a party, raising the ever important question What on earth are we all doing! No doubt, its this style, edgy humor and raw guerrilla techniques that make DeLaurenti a sort of Fellini of the audio underworld." - Locust |
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Artist: DOCKSTADER, TOD Title: 8 Electronic Pieces Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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Reissue of a 1961 Folkways electronic music album. "Tod Dockstader assembled this terrifically unique and fresh collection of synthetic analog sound for release back in 1961. Dormant and nearly forgotten for some 40 years, Locust brings this gem back into print for another go around you wont want to miss out on. Dockstader has been characterized by many as a true antecedent to the techno and ambient electro scenes popularized by the likes of Aphex Twin, a visionary figure who the Washington Post has called One of the Giants in his Field. This brand new re-edition features original notes, newly remastered sound and new liner notes by Jason Ankeny with present-day reflections by Dockstader himself." - Locust
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Artist: DORNER AND FRED LONBERG-HOLM, AXEL Title: Object 1 Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "The Object series is Locust Musics shot at documenting worldwide currents in creative improvisation and composition but as you may expect by now, were doing it with a twist. For each release in this ongoing series, weve worked with the musicians to arrive at audio-visual ties between sounds and objects that may indicate a visual tie to the music. In this case, a bowling ball and a brillo pad grace the cover. Object 1 teams together trumpeter Axel Dorner, an internationally celebrated German instrumentalist of prodigious technique and deep sensitivity, with one of the hardest working musicians and organizers in Chicago, Cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm (The Brotzmann Tentet, The Lightbox Orchestra). Together they produce a series of 5 remarkable pieces that brew and percolate into a deeply tactical tableau of raw yet calculated /creative sound." - Locust |
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Artist: ENKIDU Title: Live In Kyoto Format: 2LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "Enkidu is the mythical Japanese psychedelic noise project of legendary performers Chie Mukai (Taj Mahal Travelers, Che-SHIZU, East Bionic Symphonia, Dadnur), Eric Cordier & Seichi Yamamoto (the Boredoms, Omoide Hatoba, Rashinban, Ontoko). Over four bruised side-long cuts, Live in Kyoto faithfully captures the intensity of one particularly eviscerating evening of ritualized self expression at Kyotos Tanq space in 2004. This is liminal ecstatic drone, clatter & relentless sound bursts with a rough-around-the-edges vibe that maintains a loose kinetic debt to everything from La Monte Young & the Theater of Eternal Music to Keiji Haino, AMM & Fushitsusha. Hand-numbered edition of 525, 2 X 180 gram vinyl housed in a black silkscreened bottom-folded heavy jacket. Chie Mukai (kokyu, electronics, voice, percussion & dance) Seiichi Yamamoto (guitar & electronics & percussions) Eric Cordier (hurdy-gurdy & electronics)." -Locust. |
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Artist: ESPERS Title: Espers Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Espers are a boy/girl/girl trio from Philly featuring singer/songwriter Greg Weeks, Meg Baird and Brooke Sietinsons who combine the elemental sound of acid-folk with the baroque arrangements of late 60s chamber rock. Fully versed in the sumptuous vernacular of drug music, the cradle of Appalachian song, and the succinct truths of the three-minute pop ballad, their full length debut is an irresistible collection of sweet and subtle songs essential for fans of Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Jackson C. Franck, Bread, Love & Dreams and Bert Jansch. Espers are the sound of the New Weird America the way it should be heard -- with the ease, infectious grace and absolute beauty of an ever expansive trio bound for ever greater pastures." - Locust. |
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Artist: ESPERS Title: The Weed Tree Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "When discussions were first taking place for a teaser album before Espers next proper studio full length, it didnt take any of us long to agree on the timeliness of an album of cover songs. Over the last few years while out on the road supporting their self titled debut, audiences were floored by renditions of traditionals like the bittersweet Black is the Color or the intergalactic take on master traveler Michael Hurleys Blue Mountain. An album of covers & traditionals was a perfect plan. Simple, no big deal. Selections were made: Hurley, Nico, Durutti Column, Blue Oyster Cult, trad cuts inspired by Bert Jansch & the Famous Jug Band & a new original called Dead King -- a single dispatch from the future -- would fill out the album. We could call The Weed Tree yet another exemplary example of acid folk, baroque psych or sunshine pop with a sinister edge but none of this brings us any closer to giving meaning to a mess of unexplainable tears -- the result of the old happy/sad life humdrum that, by now, is a personal blueprint for an album gifted with the arch beauty of the Weed Tree . So, The Weed Tree is an album between the stations but, as transitions go, this is just further proof that Espers are at the nadir of what makes music meaningful & meaning matter in music today." - Locust. |
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Artist: ESTRIBOU & JEAN-PAUL PICKENS, GENE Title: Intensifications Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "By no means household names, both Jean Paul-Pickens & Gene Estribou levitated around the Bay Area scene and each made a subtle mark along the way: Pickens was one of San Franciscos legendary Diggers and a knockout banjoist with poet David Meltzers folk rock outfit Serpent Power. Gene Estribou famously recorded the Grateful Deads second studio sessions & released their first 45 single in 1965. Footnotes? Sure. But that should only make the discovery of this lost gem all the more tantalizing. Cut in the mid-1960s, Intensifications is an obscure and illuminating slice of Marin county raga folk, a taste of latter day deltadelica thats a must for fans of the acid folk sound old and new. Together, Estribou and Pickens each cut a side of brilliant, meandering unaccompanied instrumentals: Estribou on acoustic guitar and Pickens on banjo. This single document has only ripened with age and should make it clear to anyone who ventures to give it a listen that both Estribou & Pickens deserve their place in the inner sanctum of charismatic acoustic guitar legends. Originally released on Henry Jacobs MEA label." - Locust |
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Artist: FAZZINI, TOM Title: Neck To Neck Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "The record was made with the backdrop of recovery - a new place to live and a chance at renewal - quite on the edge, lots of anger and the absurdity of life all swirling around. Remember believing at the time that I would probably have a short life, so that desperation fed into the album. First and last chance to maybe say something on record. It took several months to record and each session was a short burst. Towards the end of the recording a welcome sense of levity crept in, spurred on by the ludicrous Casio pre-sets. That felt good, given the whole Industrial scene, in the broad sense, was a bit earnest and po-faced. The album title came to me from being familiar with a bar called the swan with two necks. I imagined Lyn and myself as two separate swans, damaged, their necks entwined and in my mind that poetically offset the industrial harshness within the grooves. - Tom Fazzini. Neck To Neck is a head scratching slab of warped primitive synth punk cut by a young Tom Fazzini in exile from a madness inducing tenure as a London postal carrier at Paul Dillons Complex studios. Originally released in 1984 on Gordon A. Hopes short lived A-mission label (which also counted releases by Asmus Tietchens & O Yuki Conjugate), Tom Fazzinis combination of minimal synth and brutalist /absurdist industrial songs had more in line with the broader discomforts of the early 80s international tape network, Family Fodder, LAFMS, Flying Lizards and Ralph records than the agit pop that dominated the Leeds music scene at the time. Once an outsider, always an outsider. Features new liner notes by Tom Fazzini & previously unpublished photos. Remastered and pressed up on 180 gram virgin vinyl. One time edition of 500." -Locust |
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Artist: FINE, MILO/PAUL METZGER/DAVU SERU Title: Medusas Lair Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Filleted over two sides of wax, here we have a rare meet up of three of the brightest lights in the twin cities musical orbit. On March 21, 2009, Paul Metzger - best known for his transcendental gypsy raga guitar and banjo meditations - jumped in the ring with percussionist Davu Seru and veteran multi-instrumentalist Milo Fine for an evening of uncompromising spontaneous composition. Medusas Lair is stunning, inscrutably wily, living music. One time edition of 300 LPs pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl. Milo Fine: Drum Set (Bowed Cymbals), B Flat Clarinet, Prepared Piano Remains, Voice; Paul Metzger: Modified Guitar; Davu Seru: Drum Set." -Locust |
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Artist: FLYNT & NOVABILLY, HENRY Title: NovaBilly Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"Taste the magic! NovaBilly is another edible audible from Henry Flynts dusty lower Manhattan bunker and it stands as one of the fullest, most beauteous document of Flynts tenure with a full working rock band to date. For less than one calendar year between 1974 and 1975, Henry Flynts hard driving, heavy jamming agit country rock band, NovaBilly embraced bareknuckled deep fried groove attacks, bearded hippie jam band workouts & a monstrous melange of blues, boogie and free jazz squeal into a musical soufflé that could only have come together with Flynt cooking up what was proven to be, time and again, an impossible vision within the confines of the SOHO art orbit of the 70s. After a couple performances at Anthology Film Archives and studio sessions in Richmond, Virginia and Manhattan, the band postered SOHO in a last ditch effort to get some traction with the hipsters that read, Party on down to the Kitchen. Stoned country music for rock country. The gig, like all the others before it, was poorly attended. NovaBilly played what would be their last live gig at the Kitchen on June 27, 1975. NovaBilly covers a damned fine and important moment in Henry Flynts musical career. If the Insurrections laid the foundation for his anti-war primitive garage rock sound, the emergence, nearly a decade later, of NovaBilly is the realization of Henrys own vision of obtuse personal politics (I was a creep), provocative left-wing posturing (check their version of the world communist anthem The International!) and a gleefully recombinant spin on southern music. 13 cuts and 60 minutes of old glory!" - Locust.
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Artist: FLYNT & NOVABILLY, HENRY Title: NovaBilly Format: Double LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
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"Double LP version, deluxe gatefold packaging. "Taste the magic! NovaBilly is another edible audible from Henry Flynts dusty lower Manhattan bunker and it stands as one of the fullest, most beauteous document of Flynts tenure with a full working rock band to date. For less than one calendar year between 1974 and 1975, Henry Flynts hard driving, heavy jamming agit country rock band, NovaBilly embraced bareknuckled deep fried groove attacks, bearded hippie jam band workouts & a monstrous melange of blues, boogie and free jazz squeal into a musical soufflé that could only have come together with Flynt cooking up what was proven to be, time and again, an impossible vision within the confines of the SOHO art orbit of the 70s. After a couple performances at Anthology Film Archives and studio sessions in Richmond, Virginia and Manhattan, the band postered SOHO in a last ditch effort to get some traction with the hipsters that read, Party on down to the Kitchen. Stoned country music for rock country. The gig, like all the others before it, was poorly attended. NovaBilly played what would be their last live gig at the Kitchen on June 27, 1975. NovaBilly covers a damned fine and important moment in Henry Flynts musical career. If the Insurrections laid the foundation for his anti-war primitive garage rock sound, the emergence, nearly a decade later, of NovaBilly is the realization of Henrys own vision of obtuse personal politics (I was a creep), provocative leftwing posturing (check their version of the world Communist anthem, The International!) and a gleefully recombinant spin on southern music. Thirteen cuts and 60 minutes of old glory!" - Locust.
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Artist: FLYNT & THE INSURRECTIONS, HENRY Title: I Dont Wanna Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"Our man Flynt shatters the categories once again with this surprise collection of his short lived basement rock protest band, The Insurrections, from 1966. Let there be no doubt in anyones mind: Flynts version of protest music isnt your cultural-commissar school of folk posturing. Its agro and Flynt is an unhinged showman on helium induced vox and the electric guitar (his teacher was none other than Lou Reed). Imagine a mix of Sky Saxon (of Seeds fame) with a dash of Roky Erickson thrown in on vocals, a little bit of the Cramps scary monster dramatics thrown in for good measure & the swamp chugalug laziness of vintage Pussy Galore and you get an idea what Flynt was up to at this phase in his non-career. Features legendary sculptor Walter De Maria on drums, confirming our hidden suspicion that in every great artist theres a desire to rock & beneath every fine gallery, there is a basement. Photos by George Maciunas." - Locust. Highly Recommended!
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Artist: FLYNT & THE INSURRECTIONS, HENRY Title: I Dont Wanna Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"Our man Flynt shatters the categories once again with this surprise collection of his short lived basement rock protest band, The Insurrections, from 1966. Let there be no doubt in anyones mind: Flynts version of protest music isnt your cultural-commissar school of folk posturing. Its agro and Flynt is an unhinged showman on helium induced vox and the electric guitar (his teacher was none other than Lou Reed). Imagine a mix of Sky Saxon (of Seeds fame) with a dash of Roky Erickson thrown in on vocals, a little bit of the Cramps scary monster dramatics thrown in for good measure & the swamp chugalug laziness of vintage Pussy Galore and you get an idea what Flynt was up to at this phase in his non-career. Features legendary sculptor Walter De Maria on drums, confirming our hidden suspicion that in every great artist theres a desire to rock & beneath every fine gallery, there is a basement. Photos by George Maciunas." - Locust
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY Title: Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 1 Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"180 gram vinyl. Like a hidden relic from the far side of the Harry Smith catalog, these early 1960s recordings are a splendid collection of high lonesome hillbilly fiddle and ukulele instrumentals that are surely Henry Flynts most articulated statements to date of his honest-to-god, true-to-life affinity and love for that dry earth choogaloo upper mountain lower boogaloo foot stomping folk music. Standouts include the acid fried 13th Floor Elevators-ish Sky Turned Red and the 15-plus minute lazy zen epic hum and strum album closer, Blue Sky, Highway and Tyme. No doubt, this is Appalachian bruit driving music bar none." -Locust
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY Title: Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 2 Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Here we find ourselves hot on the skidmarks of Henrys brawl with sonic self invention documented on last summers splendid Raga Electric with two complementary volumes emerging from the same physical time but a very different head space continuum indeed. On BPHB Volume 2, avant-hillbilly master fiddler Henry Flynt scuffles through a most peculiar set of electrified and acoustic bumpkin fiddle howls and screeches circa early to mid 1960s. From the enviable opening echo rock, in which Flynt does his best to compete with the electro-echo buzz of a Jorgen Ingmann or Link Wray to the beauteous instrumental glow of the extended modal country jam of Jamboree, Flynt proves once again that his is not a music simply rooted in the taut belt of New York isms, schisms and jisms. This is music that howls from a unique voice whose love for the folk songbook (known and imagined) is as resonant as a cowbell and as deep as a freshwater well." - Locust |
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY Title: Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 2 Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"180 gram vinyl. Here we find ourselves hot on the skidmarks of Henrys brawl with sonic self invention documented on last summers splendid Raga Electric with two complementary volumes emerging from the same physical time but a very different head space continuum indeed. On BPHB Volume 2, avant-hillbilly master fiddler Henry Flynt scuffles through a most peculiar set of electrified and acoustic bumpkin fiddle howls and screeches circa early to mid 1960s. From the enviable opening echo rock, in which Flynt does his best to compete with the electroecho buzz of a Jorgen Ingmann or Link Wray to the beauteous instrumental glow of the extended modal country jam of Jamboree, Flynt proves once again that his is not a music simply rooted in the taut belt of New York-isms, schisms and jisms. This is music that howls from a unique voice whose love for the folk songbook (known and imagined) is as resonant as a cowbell and as deep as a freshwater well." -Locust
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY Title: Back Porch Hillbilly Blues, Vol. 1 Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Like a hidden relic from the far side of the Harry Smith catalog, these early 1960s recordings are a splendid collection of High lonesome hillbilly fiddle and ukulele instrumentals that are surely Henry Flynts most articulated statements to date of his honest to god, true to life affinity and love for that dry earth choogaloo upper mountain lower boogaloo foot stomping folk music. Standouts include the acid fried 13th Floor Elevators-ish Sky Turned Red and the 15 plus minute lazy zen epic hum and strum album closer, Blue Sky, Highway and Tyme. No doubt, this is Appalachian bruit driving music bar none." - Locust. |
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY Title: C Tune Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"2008 repress, originally released 2002. Henry Flynt is a seasoned tourist of The World Of The Other Ear and C Tune is his ringing, psychedelic meditation on/from the cosmos. Call it a sonic postcard or call it late night head music or even call it ecstatic minimalism if you have to. On this forty seven plus minute foray, our man Flynt takes his electrified fiddle and blends his droning sonic calisthenics with lonesome swing melodies and high decibel screech to the somnambulistic playing of his expat mathematician pal Mr/Mrs. C.C. Hennix on Pran Nath Tamboura. Recorded in 1980 in an undisclosed pocket of the galaxy and now available for blissful consumption." -Locust
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY Title: I Was A Creep Format: 7" Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"another fix from the Henry Flynt vaults featuring henry with his downtown NY agitcountry band NovaBilly. Culled from the May 1975 NovaBilly concert at Anthology Film Archives, youd be hard pressed to find a finer representation of Henrys convergence of high lonesome Carolina hillbilly twang and the NY no wave groove than on these two sides: "I was a creep (soul mash" & Left Ear (Greensboro Senior High Song). Get it fast! We only did up 300 copies of this one & when theyre gone, theyre gone." - Locust.
"If I hadnt known already it was Henry Flynt, Id have swore it was a recording of Bob Mothersbaugh fronting 10 60 75 (The Numbers Band) from some long forgotten Saturday night stint at JBs in Kent. Those chooglin barroom blues, weve all hadem! The flip is way more curious & shows the real Rolling Thunder that year didnt belong to Dylans revue but instead to an anonymous bunch called NovaBilly whose solid backbeats & higher key interactions of fiddles n gits reduces the white frocked, turban wearing, mime-faced Renaldo & Clara folly to the outhouse of hokum.In fact, this is so great I got an uncontrollable urge to scream Fuck Bob Neuwirth! at the top of my lungs. So please excuse me while I amble down to the basement & expell my catharsis. Thank you." - Siltblog.
"This thing is a sophistos "real people" disc, recorded by this Flynt guy in 1975 some time after the holler depicted on those LPs. Ill just say that the a-side sounds like 1979 no-wave as predicted using a Roxy Music-brand magic eight ball and that the flip is just a serious bite of moon cheese, weird and disorienting. There aint very many of these and life is too short to harbor regret�?�as I have learned. Rats." - Z Gun.
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY Title: Purified by the Fire Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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Recorded 12/14/81. "The psychedelic sounds of musical pioneer Henry Flynts drone works with collaborator C.C. Hennix are quietly becoming the stuff of legend. Over some 40 plus minutes, we are treated to a true tour de force thats part Hindustani inflected musical miasma and part warped hillbilly vibrational swing that sways in and out of auditory focus. This is vertiginous music for the third ear. Line Up: Henry Flynt (Violin); C.C. Hennix (Pandit Pran Nath Tamboura)." - Locust.
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY Title: Raga Electric Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $42.00 |
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"In the early 60s, fresh from his clean behind the ears years at Harvard, Henry was undergoing rapid ideological shifts: cavorting with Maciunas and the whole Fluxus bit, doing performances at Yoko Onos loft and recording with La Monte Young; having it out with his Stalinist cohorts over the relative merits of a good blues run and searching for a new musical language outside of the various generic artistic restrictions before him at the time. What he arrived at was an expressive practice he dubbed audact (auditory acognitive cultural activity) and that is what you will hear on this collection. Collecting key material from 1963 to 1971, Raga Electric is a 7 piece distillation of some of Henrys most adventurous, audactatious, outsider musical endeavors. The record begins with, of all things, a hybrid, off the wall treatment of the traditional supranationalist anthem The Marines Hymn sung in a thick tongued, fully untudored Hindustani vocalese to brilliantly sun drenched, lightly strummed acoustic guitar accompaniment. The title cut, Raga Electric, is a twisted, howling fake hindustani rag with staccato untuned guitar and bleating screams recorded at his home just a few short hours after catching Pandit Pran Nath at a downtown morning concert. The howling orgasmic yodel of a visionarys self-posession and certain surrender on this 1966 cut puts Henry somewhere at the epicenter of the folk isolationist world of Jandek and the ethnodislocation of the Sun City Girls, to name but a few. The side long closer, Free Alto, is a monstrous exploration of the ins and outs of the tenor saxophone which, upon hearing it, Terry Riley referred to as a very articulated musical program. Though it remains Henrys single meeting with the instrument, over the course of some 13 odd minutes, he finds out everything he needs to know about the horn and gets into some pretty hairy free squelch and squeal territory in the process. I was just pulling sounds out of a hat and just stringing them together, he recently told me. As hats go, this one should fit the heads of todays listeners just fine." - Locust. Limited picture disc, edition of 250 copies.
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY Title: Raga Electric Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Limited edition 180 gram vinyl version with glossy insert. In the early 60s, fresh from his clean behind the ears years at Harvard, Henry was undergoing rapid ideological shifts: cavorting with Maciunas and the whole Fluxus bit, doing performances at Yoko Onos loft and recording with La Monte Young; having it out with his Stalinist cohorts over the relative merits of a good blues run and searching for a new musical language outside of the various generic artistic restrictions before him at the time. What he arrived at was an expressive practice he dubbed audact (auditory acognitive cultural activity) and that is what you will hear on this collection. Collecting key material from 1963 to 1971, Raga Electric is a 7 piece distillation of some of Henrys most adventurous, audactatious, outsider musical endeavors. The record begins with, of all things, a hybrid, off the wall treatment of the traditional supranationalist anthem The Marines Hymn sung in a thick tongued, fully untudored Hindustani vocalese to brilliantly sun drenched, lightly strummed acoustic guitar accompaniment. The title cut, Raga Electric, is a twisted, howling fake hindustani rag with staccato untuned guitar and bleating screams recorded at his home just a few short hours after catching Pandit Pran Nath at a downtown morning concert. The howling orgasmic yodel of a visionarys self-posession and certain surrender on this 1966 cut puts Henry somewhere at the epicenter of the folk isolationist world of Jandek and the ethnodislocation of the Sun City Girls, to name but a few. The side long closer, Free Alto, is a monstrous exploration of the ins and outs of the tenor saxophone which, upon hearing it, Terry Riley referred to as a very articulated musical program. Though it remains Henrys single meeting with the instrument, over the course of some 13 odd minutes, he finds out everything he needs to know about the horn and gets into some pretty hairy free squelch and squeal territory in the process. I was just pulling sounds out of a hat and just stringing them together, he recently told me. As hats go, this one should fit the heads of todays listeners just fine." -Dawson Prater
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY & CC HENNIX Title: Dharma Warriors Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"The Dharma Warriors was the elemental guitar/drum rock concoction of Henry Flynt & C.C. Hennix. In 1983, the pair hooked up in Woodstock at Hennixs rented house and let freedom ring with two lengthy boombox recordings. Warriors of the Dharma and Mount Fuji on My Mind are classics of unrefined blues boogie and unhemmed stoner rock." -Locust
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY & CC HENNIX Title: Dharma Warriors Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Limited vinyl LP version. The Dharma Warriors was the elemental guitar/drum rock concoction of Henry Flynt & C.C. Hennix. In 1983, the pair hooked up in Woodstock at Hennixs rented house and let freedom ring with two lengthy boombox recordings. Warriors of the Dharma and Mount Fuji on My Mind are classics of unrefined blues boogie and unhemmed stoner rock." -Locust
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY & THE INSURRECTIONS Title: I Dont Wanna Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"180 gram vinyl. Our man Flynt shatters the categories once again with this surprise collection of his short-lived basement rock protest band, The Insurrections, from 1966. Let there be no doubt in anyones mind: Flynts version of protest music isnt your cultural-commissar school of folk posturing. Its aggro and Flynt is an unhinged showman on helium-induced vox and the electric guitar (his teacher was none other than Lou Reed). Imagine a mix of Sky Saxon (of Seeds fame) with a dash of Roky Erickson thrown in on vocals, a little bit of the Cramps scary monster dramatics thrown in for good measure & the swamp chugalug laziness of vintage Pussy Galore and you get an idea what Flynt was up to at this phase in his non-career. Features legendary sculptor Walter De Maria on drums, confirming our hidden suspicion that in every great artist theres a desire to rock & beneath every fine gallery, there is a basement. Photos by George Maciunas." -Locust
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Artist: FOSTER, JOSEPHINE Title: A Wolf In Sheeps Clothing Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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Artist: FOSTER, JOSEPHINE & THE SUPPOSED Title: All the Leaves are Gone Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "You may have gotten a dose of opera school dropout Josephine Fosters startling mixture of avant arrangements & acoustic mountain folk as half of the spare twisted up Appalachian duo, Born Heller. To many, the effect of her voice -- on record and in concert -- has been nothing short of chilling since the duos Locust debut. After a 180 degree shift in style only, Josephine Foster & the Supposed offer up a 12 cut blow out thats exuberant and hard hitting. On All the Leaves Are Gone, Josephine embraces her rock and roll heart and intuitively summons up the mojo of legendary songstress Patti Smith as she rides the crest of a fluid and angular rhythm section thats as triumphant as the sound of classic Television and trebly west coast psychedelia from decades gone by. Lyrically, stylistically and musically, this is a fearless, soon to be classic post-punk rock and roll record that delivers the goods from start to finish." - Locust |
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Artist: GAMELAN SON OF LION Title: Complete Gamelan in the New World Format: Double CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
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"This is the first proper re-release of two legendary recordings by the innovative Gamelan Son of Lion. This New York performance group has counted as its founding members Fluxus pioneer Phillip Corner, electronics composer Daniel Goode (Tzadik), and core member Barbara Benary. Equally inspired by the resonant decaying sounds of New York school composers like Morton Feldman, the stunning pacific gamelan music of its namesake & the wild antics of Fluxus, their sound is trancelike and beautifully inspiring collection. Brought back into print for the first time in over 20 years, this fully remastered features new liner notes by Author Marcus Boon." - Locust.
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Artist: GAMELAN SON OF LION Title: Metal Notes Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"The Gamelan Son Of Lion was begun in 1976 by a core group of composers: Barbara Benary, electronics composer Daniel Goode , and Fluxus pioneer Philip Corner . Its repertoire centers on new compositions by these and other American composers, The repertoire represents a variety of contemporary music styles. The gamelan has also performed experimental works by Indonesian composers, a number of pieces involving gamelan with electronic music, and a theater work involving opera and wayang kulit. More than a hundred pieces have been premiered by the ensemble since its inception." - Locust.
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Artist: GAMELAN SON OF LION Title: The Complete Gamelan in the New World Format: Double CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"This is the first proper re-release of two legendary recordings by the innovative Gamelan Son of Lion. This New York performance group has counted as its founding members Fluxus pioneer Phillip Corner, electronics composer Daniel Goode (Tzadik), and core member Barbara Benary. Equally inspired by the resonant decaying sounds of New York school composers like Morton Feldman, the stunning pacific gamelan music of its namesake & the wild antics of Fluxus, their sound is trancelike and beautifully inspiring collection. Brought back into print for the first time in over 20 years, this fully remastered features new liner notes by Author Marcus Boon." - Locust
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Artist: GAZHEART Title: GazHeart Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "With GazHeart, celebrated visual artist Rita Ackermann (voice) & the No Neck Blues Bands Dave Nuss (found percussion) created a playful spontaneous sound that seemingly bridged the gap between the broken pop sounds of certain strains of the no wave movement, sound poetry and catchy, otherworldly art folk using the barest of resources available to them. The GazHeart recordings were made in August of 2004 after the disintegration of Angelblood at ATP in April. Rita and I traveled every August to Budapest to be with her family, who live in the hills outside the city in a small German village called Budaörs, created after WWII. The mise-en-scene of our life there was total village simplicity -- grandmas cooking, dogs running the streets, babies with leaky diapers on big wheels, and gypsies hanging out in bars. We would go every Sunday morning to the gypsy market where the vendors would spread out a bunch of garbage on blankets in a parking lot, all the proprietors drunk by 10am on wine consumed from coke bottles. At the time of recording, Rita had adopted the surrealist idea of automatic, unmediated writing direct from the unconscious, using spontaneous text to create song-like atmospheres, in the spirit of Tristan Tzara. For the percussion, I wound up keeping it simple and true to the environs: a bucket, a glass jar, a coffee can & a straw broom. All recordings were made to magnetic tape in the back yard late at night after the village was sleeping." - Dave Nuss. "One time pressing of this special edition one-sided LP features an original etching by visual artist Rita Ackermann on the flip side. GazHeart is housed in a plain jacket with two opposing drawings for front & back by Ackermann reproduced on high quality archival paper stock." - Locust. |
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Artist: GINSBERG, ALLEN Title: New York Blues: Rags, Ballads and Harmonium Songs Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"Here it is! This is the defining document of the beat legend Allen Ginsberg and celebrated lower east side shaman, odd ball filmmaker and songcatcher Harry Smith. New York Blues: The Harry Smith Recordings brings together vintage 1970s tunes by Allen Ginsberg and his trusty harmonium. Such favorites as CIA Dope Calypso, Dope Fiend Blues, Come Back Christmas and 5 other enjoyable ditties are intimately captured by Smith in his Chelsea Hotel haunt. New York Blues is as much a commemoration of a lifelong kinship between the two free spirits as it is a rare chance to get a truly whimsical earful of Ginsberg doing his thing. Digitally remastered from the original Folkways tapes." - Locust
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Artist: JACOBS VORTEX, HENRY Title: Electronic Kabuki Mambo: Highlights From The Legendary Vortex Experience Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Electronic Kabuki Mambo is a stupefying pre-psychedelic vintage 50s affair featuring a tapestry of then local musical talents (One Henry Jacobs, Gordon Longfellow, David Talcott, and William Loughborough). Prepare yourself for a liberation of your senses. Prepare for an irresistible taste of the 50s in all of its sonic sci-fi glory because this caravan of sound is where head music really began! Think Taj Mahal Travelers meets Harry Partch in an echo chamber. Think?Think? Its difficult to believe but for a period in 1955, Henry Jacobs, the grandmaster of left coast Zen Surrealism (known to some for his radio art innovations, his many recordings of Lenny Bruce, satirical forays as Shorty Petterstein, a fringe personality with the beat poets and a dear collaborator with Buddhist icon Alan Watts) and coveted experimental filmmaker Jordan Belson convinced San Franciscos fledgling Morrison Planetarium to allow the duo to put on the Vortex Experiments -- a quadraphonic sound and vision show premiering strange audio collages of works by famed composers Takemitsu, Stockhausen, Berio and countless ethnic field recordings with weird, tripped out oscilloscope flicks, excerpts from Belsons classic Allures, and other kaleidoscopic visuals to a regularly sold out, packed crowd of local residents interested in seeing what this new and crazy sensory experience was all about. Electronic Kabuki Mambo presents the first digital reissue of the original 1959 Folkways in its entirety. Fully remastered. Features new liner notes and never before published photos and other ephemera." - Locust |
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Artist: JACOBS, HENRY Title: Radio Programme No.1: Henry Jacobs Music And Folklore Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"Locust Music continues its foray into the many sided head of Henry Jacobs with the re-release of his coveted 1955 Folkways debut. Culled from hours and hours of bits from his weekly radio program Music & Folklore which originally aired on Berkeleys once revolutionary KPFA radio station, Radio Programme No. 1: Henry Jacobs Music & Folklore is a stunningly surreal sonic goulash of brilliantly conceived, tight rhythmic loops & tape collages, ethnic and experimental musics, twisted satirical interviews with Shorty Petterstein (Henrys beat hipster alter ego), phony academic authorities (the muttering Jocko on Raga and politics, imagined Hebrew scholar Sholem Stein waxing bogus on the subject of calypso!) to Berkeley field recordings of Kay Dunham (nephew of the legendary Katherine Dunham) and friends getting lost in an informal drumming session. This is, no doubt, an essential document in the annals of early American oddball recordings." - Locust
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Artist: KING, CAST Title: Saw Mill Man Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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LP version. "79 year-old country music journeyman Cast King hails from a small spot in the hills of Alabama between Heaven and hard luck called Old Sand Mountain where he has been distilling and refining original country music tunes for the last 6 1/2 decades. Saw Mill Man is his debut album and its a revelation of self penned murder ballads, heartbreak songs and some of the finest drinking numbers youre likely to hear." -Locust.
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Artist: LAU NAU Title: Nukkuu Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"180 gram deluxe gatefold vinyl version. "Nukkuu (Finnish for Sleeps) is the long-awaited sophomore album by celebrated Finnish femme folk fave, Lau Nau. Nukkuu is psychedelic, abstract and emotionally captivating. Nukkuu is an album of changes. In the years since her debut album Kuutarha, Laura became a mother, moved to the Finnish countryside and took valuable time to carve out a space for her enchanted art in the new-found tranquility of her remote surroundings. Conceived in tight attics and vacant dens on off-hours when her young son Nuutti was fast asleep, this is an intimately-crafted nine-song collection that unfolds like dreamlike musical ribbons for the senses and delivers the listener to a place of unhurried contentedness."- Locust
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Artist: LEARY, TIMOTHY Title: The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based On The Tibetan Book Of The Dead Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"The readings presented here can best be regarded as radio-signals sent out from a satellite tracking station to the explorers floating freely through space. The instructions can be attended to or ignored but at least they provide a kind of basic signal around which the voyager can orient his explorations. We dedicate this recording to the the many men and women whose accounts and reports of their explorations in the interior universe have helped us prepare these maps. -- Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner. The Psychedelic Experience is a rare, early document of the emergent hippie era issued in 1966 on Moe Aschs Broadside records. Join the legendary father of LSD with Ralph Metzner & Richard Alpert (aka Ram Das) as they indulge in the fruits of their research. Two extended tracks of spoken meditations accompanied by occasional Tibetan Bell: Going Out and Coming Back naturally line this journey. Features archival photos, 12 pages of original notes and remastered sound." - Locust
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Artist: LIGHTBOX ORCHESTRA, THE Title: First Contact! Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "First Contact! brings together highlights from nearly half a decade of recordings by an extended and ever changing superstar lineup of Chicago jazz, punk and rock musicians under the tutelage of cellist/ leader Fred Lonberg-Holm. What youll hear on this disc is an uproarious gathering of sonic jouissance featuring composer, songsmith and producer Jim ORourke, laptop guitar cum electronics-whiz Kevin Drumm, Jeb Bishop, Guillermo Gregorio, members of Town and Country, Pillow, TV Pow, and dozens of other bright lights from this citys creative gene pool on acoustic instruments, homemade sound concoctions and blistering digital and analog electronics as they explore elements of sonic growl, guttural hornspeak, and wistfully spaced out playing. But this isnt just some dandys hoity toity conceptual affair. Counterpoised somewhere between video game warfare and an explosive Arkestral moog freakout from many a Sun Ra episode, this superb collection begins surely enough teetering on the edge of a sonic collision that sets the pace for a grand, adventurous listening experience that just as easily blends the pointilism and angular attack of classic European free music with the raw, blissful emotional group flow of mid-1970s Henry Threadgill." - Locust |
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Artist: MATMOS Title: Rat Relocation Program Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "A street rat was breaking into our apartment, eating our food and chewing holes in our clothes, skittering across our kitchen in the dark, scuttling inside our walls late at night. Since we already had a pet rat, the prospect of trying to kill one rat while feeding another struck us as intolerable hypocrisy, so we bought a non-lethal Have-a-Heart Trap. After several days of luring the invader closer and closer towards and then inside the trap with peanuts, we captured her. The first track is an unedited recording of the rat protesting its incarceration. The second track is our response, in which the timing and duration of the rat screams from the first track have been preserved. The following morning we took the rat to a wealthy suburban neighborhood and set it free." -- Drew Daniel. "The dynamic hybrid electro-rock duo Matmos strike again hot on the heels of last years celebrated Matador full length the Civil War with this zany, completely mesmerizing 2 track contribution to the Met Life series of field recordings and ingenious sound responses. The Matmos boys stretch an ominous canvas with the bare sounds of an incarcerated rat ensconced in a friendly trap and paint an unlikely response. Rat Relocation Program is a heavily elevated, gleeful electro-rock epic that combines Matmos patented blend of humor, drill & bass with cinematic prog reminiscent of the cult fantasy sci fi film The Fantastic Planet." - Locust |
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Artist: METZGER, PAUL Title: Deliverance Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Minnesotas Paul Metzger is an unsung hero of the unaccompanied string instrument and a master musician of an instrument of his own invention. On Deliverance -- a real time performance on his overhauled 21 string banjo -- youll be treated to some of the most deeply satisfying & impulsive outer cosmos ragadelia youre ever likely to hear. Clocking in at nearly 60 colossal minutes, Deliverance is 3 tracks of unfiltered aural transcendence; a hypnotic raga epic thats by turns a slow burning meditation & an urgent mind / body duel. Pauls playing may summon up the spirits of Sandy Bulls searching inventiveness, Billy Faiers out Tacoma sides, J.P. Pickens tweaked Americana, Henry Flynts searing harmonic drones or Big Jim Sullivans psychedelic exotica, but at the end of the day, Metzger is no idolater and were all a little luckier to have him around to occupy his own singular post in this post-Fahey world." - Locust. |
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Artist: METZGER, PAUL Title: The Uses Of Infinity Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The lonesome banjo picker returns! Recorded in one take in a de-sanctified century old cathedral in Northern Minnesota, The Uses of Infinity is a 6 part cosmic hobos dream suite for 23 string banjo. Cast in the drifting nebula of the whole tone scale, Paul Metzger plucks, picks, bows and spins his way through a 40 minute odyssey making for his most ambitious and adventurous musical trip to date." - Locust. |
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Artist: METZGER, PAUL Title: The Uses Of Infinity Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "The lonesome banjo picker returns! Recorded in one take in a de-sanctified century old cathedral in Northern Minnesota, The Uses of Infinity is a 6 part cosmic hobos dream suite for 23 string banjo. Cast in the drifting nebula of the whole tone scale, Paul Metzger plucks, picks, bows and spins his way through a 40 minute odyssey making for his most ambitious and adventurous musical trip to date." - Locust. |
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Artist: MIGONE, CHRISTOF Title: Crackers Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
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"In 1997, electronic sound installation artist Christof Migone enlisted the bodily aid of a group of Canadians through classified ads and over the radio for a cracking session and interview at Ottawas Gallery 101. A what, you ask? Part ambient sound investigation and part wacked out art science project, Crackers is a 7 track collection of unadulterated recordings and clever digital remixes of the sounds of cracking knuckles, knees, wrists, jaws, toes, ankles, backs, necks, elbows, and hips. The percolating, popping polyrhythms are at once amusingly bubbly and oddly trance inducing. Cheaper than a trip to the chiropractor and far more entertaining. Crackers was first presented as an installation in a group show curated by Emmanuel Madan entitled Incredibly Soft Sounds at Gallery 101, in January 1998 (originally documented in an exhibition catalog and limited cd-r). Documentation of Crackers was also featured in Site Of Sound: Of Architecture And The Ear, a book with CD edited by Brandon LaBelle and Steve Roden (Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, 1999) and presented the following year as a solo installation curated by Michael J. Schumacher and Ursula Scherrer at Studio 5 Beekman in New York City, January 2000." - Locust
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Artist: MIMAROGLU, ILHAN Title: Agitation Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"Finally back in print, were happy to present two albums of agitprop electronic music -- Tract & To Kill A Sunrise cut between 1968 and 1975 -- by mysterious & controversial Turkish composer Ilhan Mimaroglu -- one of the truly underrepresented pioneers of the golden age of the Princeton-Columbia electronic music scene. Produced as a direct reaction to an extended period of intense repression, counterrevolutionary terror, & execution style murder in Turkey, Tract is a scrambled mash up peppered with spunky electronic bursts, radio ads looped ad nauseum, the breathy, soulful & defiant voice of Turkish singer Tuly Sand & the go-golicious backing jams of little known psych group Topsy Turvy Moon -- all shot up with lines lifted from old left wing standbys Chairman Mao, Karl Marx & Bertolt Brecht among others. To Kill a Sunrise follows suit with a wild, uncompromising orgiastic electro-dirge for those who are murdered by the lackeys of the ruling class while the collection closer, La Ruche, brings the audio gestalt to a somewhat more subdued end. Brilliantly remastered from the original tapes, Tract features close to 80 minutes of music and original liners. Ilhan Mimaroglu emerged out of the Columbia -- Princeton Electronic Music Center and public radio programs at New Yorks WBAI where his socially and politically charged radio programs took the city by surprise. He is best known for his work with Edgard Varese, mentor Vladimir Ussachevsky, a spellbinding collaboration with jazz musician Freddy Hubbard and as a chief composer of Fellinis Satyricon as well as electronic albums released on his own Finnadar label." - Locust
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Artist: NALLE Title: The Sirens Wave Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "180 gram deluxe gatefold vinyl version. "Imagine for a moment the Wicker Man manned by the late Teiji Ito -- resident avant composer for Harry Smith & Maya Deren -- with psych-folk giants Comus sitting in for good measure and youve got some idea of what Glasgow avant folk trio Nalle have put together on their mesmerizing sophomore effort, The Sirens Wave. Centered around Hanna Tuulikkis rich and expansive vocals, with a heady, kaleidoscopic mix of vintage whirling oscillators, Moog synths and buzzing harmonium, alongside the intrepid string explorations of Chris Hladowski and Aby Vulliamy, these six pieces continue the long trek through other worlds of sound to form a dense, cohesive suite that meshes everything from Japanese gagaku, European plainsong, Near Eastern modal drones and more. With Sirens Wave, Nalle have procured a special place where folk conventions are curiously uprooted & seamlessly meshed with otherworldly avant tendencies. Features members of The Family Elan, Scatter & the One Ensemble of Daniel Padden."- Locust |
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Artist: NAU, LAU Title: Kuutarha Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Last year saw an explosion & all too welcome interest in a vital, tightly knit scene of artists from Finland. Out of the communal circle of prodigious Finnish musicians comes this lovely 10 song debut solo outing of abstract folk, stray kiss lullaby & plucked blues by Laura Naukkarinen (vocalist in Kiila, Päivänsäde, The Anaksimandros). Sung in her native tongue, Kuutarha intimates a secret language outside traditional word speak into something utterly beautiful & unrestrained. Melody is suggested through the contours of voice, guitar & violin and arrangement has less to do with the placement of things than with Laus comfort in letting sounds fall where they may. Line up: Laura Naukkarinen (acoustic bass, bass recorder, five-stringed kantele, acoustic guitar, tenor recorder, violin, bamboo flute, colorful juice glasses, mortar, mandolin, witch laugh megaphone, babys rattle, bike bells, banjo, cowbells, electric guitar, organ, willow whistle, tablas, percussion, cymbals, comb, beer cans); Pekko Käppi (tamboura, jouhikko)." - Locust. |
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Artist: NO NECK BLUES BAND Title: At 6AM We Become The Police Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"NNCK LP soundtrack for the upcoming NNCK movie of the same name, directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer. This album presents recordings from the first NNCK rehearsal space at 195 Chrystie St. NYC in the years 1995-97. Two pieces were recorded for Harmony Korines Gummo soundtrack but never released. Others are quintessential NNCK moments, including the first session joined by Butoh princess Michiko Takahachi, who instantly became a permanent member. The closing of the 195 Chrystie St. studio in 1997 marked the end of NNCK downtown as they set their sites for Harlem. This soundtrack and the upcoming film closely document this transitional period." -Nuss
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Artist: NO NECK BLUES BAND Title: Clomeim Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Locust is proud to announce the release of Clomeim, the new studio album from New Yorks No-Neck Blues Band. Clomeim is an evolution, a vital document of change in The No-Neck Blues Bands 15+ years of para-musical activity. This pivotal recording is a creative distillation of the collective at a new and startling saturation point. For three rainy days in March 2007, the seven-headed hydra that is NNCK holed up in Black Dirt Studios, their newly outfitted recording studio in the foothills of upstate New York. With a discipline and a clarity of vision theyve rarely displayed before, the collective channeled all of their energies into hours of recording live, real-time improvisation. After months spent sculpting and recasting the raw material, Clomeim emerged -- a distinct whole, recalling in its parts the communal howl of Algarnas Tradgard, the dead spirit channeling of Geino Yamashiro Gumi, the glacial shadowplay of Heresie era Univers Zero, and krautrock zenith Faust at their finest hour. Clomeim is that rare hybrid -- a rock exterior with a cryptic, experimental core; a dense groover and a burning, exploratory psychedelic grimoire for the new dark ages." -Locust |
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Artist: NO NECK BLUES BAND Title: Clomeim Format: Double LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
| "Limited double vinyl LP version. Locust is proud to announce the release of Clomeim, the new studio album from New Yorks No-Neck Blues Band. Clomeim is an evolution, a vital document of change in The No-Neck Blues Bands 15+ years of para-musical activity. This pivotal recording is a creative distillation of the collective at a new and startling saturation point. For three rainy days in March 2007, the seven-headed hydra that is NNCK holed up in Black Dirt Studios, their newly outfitted recording studio in the foothills of upstate New York. With a discipline and a clarity of vision theyve rarely displayed before, the collective channeled all of their energies into hours of recording live, real-time improvisation. After months spent sculpting and recasting the raw material, Clomeim emerged -- a distinct whole, recalling in its parts the communal howl of Algarnas Tradgard, the dead spirit channeling of Geino Yamashiro Gumi, the glacial shadowplay of Heresie era Univers Zero, and krautrock zenith Faust at their finest hour. Clomeim is that rare hybrid -- a rock exterior with a cryptic, experimental core; a dense groover and a burning, exploratory psychedelic grimoire for the new dark ages." -Locust |
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Artist: NO NECK BLUES BAND Title: Live At Kens Electric Lake Format: Double CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| Reissue of this old S@1 48/49 double LP from 1998. "Nearly ten years of swimming up stream through the sonic flotsam & jetsam, the folks have gotten freaky, noise is the new noise, the chin scratchers have joined the metal circus and the No Neck Blues Band remain as relevant today as ever. Their indoor /outdoor audio assaults in upper & lower Manhattan are the stuff of legend but on 1998s Live at Kens Electric Lake the band took a distinct turn, crossed the Canadian border, hooked up w/ some Sunburned folks and made a sudden diaspora to a rural retreat in the country for a full days session of acid-head tribal percussion clatter that is utterly different than anything the band had put on the public record up to that time. Looser, groovier & more in that communal state of mind than ever, NNCKs long out-of-print fifth release from 1998 is a classic testament to the urban dwellers gone wild & ranks as among their finest displays of tribal churn and choogle in the bands 14 year history. Neo-Dada attacks were swapped out for psychedelic vibrations, midrange mystery for outdoor atmospherics. Kens is a peak communal moment for New Yorks most enigmatic, longest running experimental collective." - Locust. |
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Artist: NO.9 Title: Mushi-No-Ne Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "No.9 is Joe Takayuki, an unsung electropop mastermind from Tokyos invigorating Onkyo scene. No.9s sound is focused but theres no doubt that he has a knack for combining all 31 musical flavors and then some. Right from the opening track, Gate, with its chase scene thematics and stuttering rhythms, its hard not to get pulled into a Rollercoaster thats a wily, playful joyride rife with the wistful mod 60s pop hooks (Where come from?, Alternate), a tv spy jazz vibe (survive), an occasionally somber feel propped up by chill natural field recordings of insects (bug beats, Eco Ego), minimal techno (Insatiable World) and a perfect blend of flamenco style acoustic guitar playing and electronics (For Sister)." - Locust |
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Artist: O.W.L. Title: Of Wondrous Legends Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"Limited edition 180 gram vinyl version. Proof that theres still excellent albums out there to discover. Drawing mainly on art rock and early light-prog aesthetics, O.W.L deliver an ambitious song cycle which at its best transforms into dazzling psychedelia. A pro-level recording and elaborate arrangements that utilize keyboards, flute, vibes and multi-tracked male vocals make for an appealing surface, and unlike the typical Moody Blues derivates, theres lots of personality and depth. The mood is cerebral and refined, but the commitment and songwriting should impress even those with no immediate love for the genre (like me). The dominating style is dreamy melodic prog-rock like the British album Spring, but the vocal style and ghostly soundscape may at times recall Freeborne and Time on Shadoks, while the chamber music intimacy reflects a possible Pearls Before Swine influence. Theres more keyboard than guitar, which is typical for the style. Impressive on many levels, with hypnotic Eastern lysergia on Midnight Carnival, the albums epic center-piece. The artist was formerly with the pre-LP Mountain Bus, and recorded this as the first in a projected series of albums. --Patrick Lundborg, author of The Acid Archives. Of Wondrous Legends is a Chicago baroque psych classic recovered from the dustbins of history. To the few who have heard it, it has earned comparisons to Tim Buckley, Pearls Before Swine, and 60s British prog-folk. O.W.L was founded in 1968 on Chicagos north side by Stephen Titra. A founding member of the beloved Midwestern hippie jam band Mountain Bus, Titra left that band just as their Dead-inspired, bluesy jams gained serious regional traction in order to fully devote himself to the inward-looking, singular vision of O.W.L. Of Wondrous Legends was recorded at Chicagos Universal Studios over a six month stretch in 1971 and a handful of test pressings were produced and circulated, but despite serious interest from a number of major labels, this gem went unreleased. The passage of time only further helped ensure the albums place in near total obscurity until a copy of one of the test pressings was unearthed in a Chicago junk shop in 2004. Following several years of collaborative efforts on this lost epic, Of Wondrous Legends now sees its first public release after some 35 years of obscurity. Mastered from the original source tapes. Features copious liner notes and vintage photos." -Locust
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Artist: PATCHEN, KENNETH Title: Reads with Jazz in Canada Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"This modern-day minstrel is as fascinating and interesting as any swing or blues singer - phrases and thoughts so beautifully woven into the jazz background, and so expertly phrased and timed, that it is a revelation to the ear and mind." -- Los Angeles Examiner. "On a single October evening in 1959, fabled peoples poet Kenneth Patchen and Vancouvers Alan Neil Quartet made a little bit of history. Together, they cut one of the first jazz-and poetry recordings to disc -- fiery, spontaneous and free of pretensions, where hard bop playing wailed neck-and-neck with Patchens scathing, slurred, rabid vocalizations. Today, many see Jazz In Canada as among the very first truly beat documents on record -- preceding efforts by Kerouac, Ferlinghetti & Ginsberg. This new edition features original notes by Alan Neil & new retrospective notes by rocknroll poet of the San Francisco renaissance David Meltzer." - Locust
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Artist: REYNOLS Title: Rampotanza Ronil Rempelente Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "The primordial psychedelic sounds of Argentinas Reynols continue the Met Life Series with the raw, rhythmically entrancing field recordings of city workers in Buenos Aires drilling a hole into a busy city street. The natural response by this mysterious quartet doesnt drill so much as gleefully massage the head with a monumental freakout of onomatopoeia and uber-intonation commandeered by the bands lead vocalist Miguel Tomasin with the accompaniment of some seriously spaced-out delay driven tribal percussion, bellowing horn, piano plod and guitar plunder." - Locust |
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Artist: ROBB, J.D. Title: Rhythmania: Electronic Music From Razor Blades To Moog Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| Reissue of a 1970 Folkways electronic music album. "Not many people walk away from a successful international law career to devote their time to making electronic music at the ripe age of 49 years. John Donald Robb did just that when he set up shop in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1941 and dove head first into a career as a composer, ethno-musicologist and an early electronic music noodler whose bizarre and singular electronic music recordings are short on same old same old and long on quirky, beat audacity. This exciting collection combines the choicest cuts off of his two off beat Folkways records into one great package of out there moog music." - Locust |
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Artist: ROSE, ETHAN Title: Ceiling Songs Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Between the machine and the composition there are the wonderful accidents. Whether it be taped-up player piano rolls, broken music boxes, or instruments of a more traditional sort, all the sounds on this album were carefully and randomly interrupted by my hands, before being arranged into larger pieces. For the most part it is a love of the archaic mechanizations of gears spinning and paper scratching, of textural sounds discovered in old things, that propelled me into making these songs. But, as the ideas came from the outside in so did they return from the inside out, blurring the line between my own artistry, and the natural inclinations of the materials at hand. This is what made the Ceiling Songs." -- Ethan Rose. Ceiling Songs is the first full-length release by Portland, Oregon musician Ethan Rose following a handful of long out of print small edition multiples issued on Locust over the last two years. Limited 180 gram vinyl only release w/ handpasted covers." - Locust. |
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Artist: SENDER, RAMON Title: Worldfood Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "In those pre-Buchla Box days, we cobbled together whatever odd bits of equipment we could beg, borrow, steal and occasionally buy to coax whatever squeaks and chirps or sequences of noises we could from their complaining depths. -- Ramon Sender. Worldfood is a wild, psychedelic warble & drone of looped, overlayed tape pieces produced by goosing an ampex tape player with a computer calibration device. The resulting two pieces -- Worldfood III (To See With my Eyes) and WorldfoodX!! -- both part of a number of variations in a series -- make for gorgeous, careening sungazing music. Leave your glasses behind. Ramon Sender is a legendary figure in the Bay Area scene -- first paving the way for the San Francisco Tape Center with Mort Subotnick (Silver Apples of the Moon) and Pauline Oliveiros at the dawn of the 1960s where the stunningly out pieces on this disc happened. In subsequent years, he played an active role with the San Francisco Diggers -- the anarchist guerilla street theater group that challenged the emerging Counterculture --and co-founded the legendary Morningstar Ranch Commune in Sonoma County. Worldfood is the first in an ongoing series of archival discs to come from Ramon Senders exceptional vaults." - Locust |
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Artist: SILMARIL Title: The Voyage of Icarus Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| Reissue of this 1973 album. "Awash in fuzz boxes and acid trips, the dozens of other overlooked groups from the psychedelic era bear little resemblance to Silmaril. While others buzzed within the hippie epicenters of Haight Street and the Lower East Side, Silmaril formed in haunted, industrial Milwaukee. Other bands might have met at a love-in; Silmaril were friends from a Catholic youth retreat bound together by a doomed figure in the eccentric madman tradition of Syd Barrett, Roy Harper and Mel Lyman by the name of Matthew Peregrine. The Voyage of Icarus captures the dark, mysterious, and achingly beautiful acid folk & Christian-themed psychedelic sounds that emanated from 1973s highly collectable privately-pressed album, Given Time... Or the Several Roads, and their dormant, unreleased follow up, No Mirrored Temple." - Locust. |
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Artist: SILMARIL Title: Voyage Of Icarus Format: Double LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
| Limited double LP version. "Awash in fuzz boxes and acid trips, the dozens of other overlooked groups from the psychedelic era bear little resemblance to Silmaril. While others buzzed within the hippie epicenters of Haight Street and the Lower East Side, Silmaril formed in haunted, industrial Milwaukee. Other bands might have met at a love-in; Silmaril were friends from a Catholic youth retreat bound together by a doomed figure in the eccentric madman tradition of Syd Barrett, Roy Harper and Mel Lyman, by the name of Matthew Peregrine. The Voyage of Icarus captures the dark, mysterious, and achingly beautiful acid folk & Christian-themed psychedelic sounds that emanated from 1973s highly collectable privately-pressed album, Given Time... Or the Several Roads, and their dormant, unreleased follow up, No Mirrored Temple." -Locust. |
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Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Dantes Disneyland Inferno Format: Triple LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
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"If you thought our little feverish bout with foolishness would stop with the triple vinyl of 300,003 Crossdressers, youre horribly mistaken. What could we do in our sickly state but quite naturally retread the retired Dantes Disneyland Inferno and give it a new engorged life as yet another triple vinyl expedition through the terrors and horrors of the verbal brain farts of Charlie Gocher in a burroughsesque cum firesign theatre theater (thats right, theatre theater) of absurdity backed by a variety of instrumental moods: bongo bohemia, c & w, lounge swing swong, ooga booga rock, childrens melodies and all things in between. Its been 7 years since its first digital transmission and the cloud of confusion only thickens. It only thickens. Just think, these are 35 tracks that you cant just skip through with your remote when things get too very because they do get?very very." - Locust.
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Artist: TRUE PRIMES Title: We Have Won Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Now available on LP!! The Brooklyn duo of Che Chen (founder of the cool O Sirhan O Sirhan magazine) and Rolyn Hu (operatrix of the fine Glasslands performance space) disinfect disaffection with their brand of elemental buzzing unrock. Guitar, girl voice, off drum & unidentifiable noisemakers & homemade gadgets are the foundation for a sound that grafts a smiley face on the body of no waves penchant for alienation. The unified duo are out on a mission to reverse the flow of negative energy through anthemic fractured ecstatic noise pop and feedback wash. Inspired by DNA, Henry Flynt, Sigmar Polke, Ramnad Krishnan, P.I.L., Yoko Ono, Arthur Russell, Friendship, French folding bicycles and those Eskimo girls who sing into each others mouths to create harmonic overtones." - Locust |
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Artist: V/A Title: Wooden Guitar Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "A simple title with a simple concept. Wooden Guitar is an inspired excursion into the creases and folds of modern deltadelica & a thinly veiled homage to the great Takoma compilations of yore (remember that great Kottke, Lang, Fahey collection?) where guitarists could sit back, work those muscles in their fingers and go the extra musical distance. Four of the great worldwide guitarists -- Germanys Steffen Basho-Junghans, Seattles Sir Richard Bishop (the Sun City Girls), Japans Tetuzi Akiyama & Virginias Jack Rose give us a fresh look at a very old instrument with gloriously stretched out solo compositions." - Locust |
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Artist: V/A Title: Wooden Guitar Format: Double LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "Limited 180 gram vinyl version. Fall 2008 marks the 5th anniversary of Locusts inaugural Wooden Guitar compilation touted then, as today, as a simple title with a simple concept. Back in print on CD and available on double 180 gram vinyl for the first time. First vinyl edition housed in screenprinted jackets much like the original compilations first CD release. Wooden Guitar is an inspired excursion into the creases and folds of modern delta-delica and a thinly veiled homage to the great Takoma compilations of yore (remember that great Kottke, Lang, Fahey collection?) where guitarists could sit back, work those muscles in their fingers and go the extra musical distance. Four of the great worldwide guitarists -- Germanys Steffen Basho-Junghans, Seattles Sir Richard Bishop (the Sun City Girls), Japans Tetuzi Akiyama & Virginias Jack Rose give us a fresh look at a very old instrument with gloriously stretched out solo compositions." -Locust |
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Artist: WATTS AND FRIENDS, ALAN Title: This is It Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"A psychedelic holy grail re-issued. This is It -- originally cut in 1962, is regarded by many of the whos who of psych fanatics as the first aural document of psychedelia. It is a plundering, blistering, free form freakout of totally unselfconscious group sonic exploration. Whats more: its a great, great album that stands the test of time. Legendary Zen guru Alan Watts led a cadre of musicians and non-musicians alike through communal chant, primitive choogle and raw American tribalism that features many of the same Bay Area Heads that appeared earlier on Locusts Electronic Kabuki Mambo -- the inimitable satirist and collage whiz Henry Jacobs, genius percussionist William Loughborough (early performer with Chet Baker/Harry Partch) among many others. This is where the so-called Weird America begins and if you dont find yourself with that rare facial twitch of awe, befuddlement and unbridled glee, then surely you need your head checked." - Locust
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Artist: WATTS, ALAN Title: Haiku Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"During his lifetime, Alan Watts (1915-1973) became, and remains, one of the most beloved interpreters of Eastern thought. For more than forty years, Alan Watts introduced the Western world to the full range of eastern philosophies and arts all filtered through his buoyant personality and charm. His life and work reflect an astonishing adventure. There remain few treats as wonderful and lively as this, one of three records originally put out on the Sausalito based MEA label. Haiku and its companion release, Zen and Senryu, hold the truly unique position of documenting a poetic form (Haiku) or philosophy (Zen) and Satire (Senryu) through both lecture and stunning performance. Both discs feature the instantaneous Japanese translations by Sumire Hasegawa Jacobs to the spare musical accompaniment of Vince Delgado, Robert Garfias and Henry Jacobs. This brilliant tension between Alan Watts self assured delivery and Sumires urgent cries, makes both Haiku and Zen and Senryu two of the most essential documents for admirerers of Watts rich personality, eastern thought, and the heavy ways of 1960s counterculture." - Locust
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Artist: WATTS, ALAN Title: Zen and Senryu Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"During his lifetime, Alan Watts (1915-1973) became, and remains, one of the most beloved interpreters of Eastern thought. For more than forty years, Alan Watts introduced the Western world to the full range of eastern philosophies and arts all filtered through his buoyant personality and charm. His life and work reflect an astonishing adventure. There remain few treats as wonderful and lively as this, one of three records originally put out on the Sausalito based MEA label. Haiku and its companion release, Zen and Senryu, hold the truly unique position of documenting a poetic form (Haiku) or philosophy (Zen) and Satire (Senryu) through both lecture and stunning performance. Both discs feature the instantaneous Japanese translations by Sumire Hasegawa Jacobs to the spare musical accompaniment of Vince Delgado, Robert Garfias and Henry Jacobs. This brilliant tension between Alan Watts self assured delivery and Sumires urgent cries, makes both Haiku and Zen and Senryu two of the most essential documents for admirerers of Watts rich personality, eastern thought, and the heavy ways of 1960s counterculture." - Locust
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Artist: MOONRISES Title: Moonrise Format: LP Label: Logan Hammer Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "MOONRISES is a prog/punk/psych/free-jazz trio from Chicago featuring PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE of longtime space- punkers PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND & creator of Drag Citys "Galactic Zoo Dossier" magazine on guitar, BEN BILLINGTON of free-jazz titans TIGER HATCHERY & minimal-electronics project QUICKSAILS, & virtuoso LIBBY RAMER on keys. Sublime space-outs change to propulsive noise assaults on a dime, but with pained tunes buried in the muck. Think SOFT MACHINE meets TEENAGE JESUS or URIAH HEEP meets MARS" - Logan Hammer. |
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Artist: COLEY, BYRON Title: Cest La Guerre: Early Writings 1978-1983 Format: Book Label: Loie De Cravan Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Frontline writings from the music war by Byron Coley. Cest La Guerre is a perfect snapshot of a time of great changes in American music, one that saw the emergence of new kinds of untamed rock, punk, and noise that extended the explorations of free jazz and of rock innovators like Captain Beefheart. These early essays, articles, and letters crisscross the continent and cover a wide array of musical acts, including David Bowie, Robert Fripp, Fred Frith, Devo, H�sker D�, Suicide, The Germs, Lydia Lunch, Jim Morrison, the Meat Puppets, and the Minutemen, whose bass player, Mike Watt (now with the Stooges), contributed the introduction. Byron Coley was born in Manhattan in 1956. He has written extensively about underground culture since the mid-70s. Among other things, he has been resident editor at NY Rocker, managing editor at Take It!, jazz editor at Forced Exposure, underground editor at Spin, ghost editor of the Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal, etc. He has been a columnist for the L.A. Weekly, Arthur, Spin, Le Bathyscaphe, Harp, The Wire and so on. His books include Chuck Norris, Ass Candles For Joni, Beefheart and No Wave which he wrote with Thurston Moore. He has written liner notes for hundreds of records, spewed for more zines than anyone could ever remember, and contributed to various anthologies of prose, poetry, and pus. He currently writes for The Wire and runs Glass Eye Books and the Ecstatic Yod record label. Cover drawn & silkscreened by Simon Boss�. 142 pages. Bilingual, translated by Marie Frankland (John-Glassco Translation Prize, 2007). 6.5 x 6.5 inches." - Loie De Cravan |
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Artist: HURLEY, MICHAEL Title: The Words to the Songs of Michael Hurley Format: Book Label: Loie De Cravan Country: Canada Price: $16.00 |
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"American folk legend Michael Hurley is considered a master of songcraft by fellow musicians, and it is easy to see why. His songs can be highly eccentric, populated by werewolves, sign-painters, tea and whiskey-drinkers, pork chops and hot dogs, wild geese, intoxicated lovers, and blue navigators, but above all, they always manage to be moving and funny. The perfection of his peculiar, personal, and utterly unique oeuvre is even more apparent on paper and in print. The Words To The Songs Of Michael Hurley presents lyrics to 19 of his songs and marks the first time Hurleys lyrics have been published in book form. It includes a foreword by the music critic Byron Coley and a French version by Marie Frankland, winner of the 2007 John-Glassco Prize for translation. All songs are calligraphed by the author. Michael Hurley (aka Doc Snock), is an American songwriter, reputedly born in 1941, whose songs have been seeping into the folk unconscious for almost 50 years now (including covers by Cat Power, Yo La Tengo, Espers and others). Hurleys melodies and lyrics take flight into a world of plenty, inspiring wonder and humor, sin and slowness, laziness and longing. His music is often coined as "outsider folk." His hobo lifestyle indeed could be looked upon as eccentric, but it might be better to regard him as one of the last insiders keeping alive the traditions of the folk troubadour. Hobo-ing around the country, making music since the days Bob Dylan first set foot in NYCs Gaslight club, Hurley recorded his first album for the legendary Folkways label in 1964 and continued to release albums for Warner Brothers, Rounder or Devendra Banharts Gnomonsong label. His mid-70s Have Moicy album was among the top ten for the decade selected by Rolling Stone. While many of his contemporaries are long past their prime (or deceased), Hurleys muse is still very much alive. Cover drawing by Michael Hurley, cover typography by Kiva Tanya Stimac. Presented in a hand-stiched, 48-page book; 5,75 x 7,75"." - Loie De Cravan.
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Artist: ALEXANDER, GEOFF/DON CAMPAU Title: KTAO Improvisation Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Geoff and Don chanting, playing percussion, records, trumpet and echo on Geoffs radio program on KTAO in 1971." - Lonely Whistle. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. |
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Artist: BEAVER FAMILY Title: Beaver Family Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Rather like the Portsmouth Sinfonia playing TV themes. Also some hilarious Dave talking." - Don Campau. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. Recorded 1974, West Valley College, Saratoga, CA. |
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Artist: CAMPAU BROTHERS, THE Title: 1975-6 Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Modal noodlings, Chris vocals on Brit ballads, blues." - Don Campau. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends.
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Artist: CAMPAU BROTHERS, THE Title: 27 November 1975 Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "More acoustic guitar jamming." - Don Campau. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. |
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Artist: CAMPAU BROTHERS, THE Title: The Campau Brothers - 1974 Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Don and Chris parody John Cage with "Phonebook for Piano", a lovely guitar/piano duet, G tuning jamming, British ballads." - Don Campau. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. |
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Artist: DON/GREG/JOE Title: Im Seeing Stars Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Live jam from 10 Dec 1983 with Don Campau, Joe Menichetti and Greg Gray." - Lonely Whistle. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. |
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Artist: DON/GREG/JOE Title: Suburban Assassins Live - Reel Archives 4 April 1979 Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "7 rather low fidelity tunes and jams with a lot of energy. Some of the same material as "Open Fire"" - Lonely Whistle. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. |
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Artist: DON/GREG/JOE/CHRIS Title: Open Fire Format: Double CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Live jamming also including Chris Campau (1980-2?)" - Lonely Whistle. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. |
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Artist: GEOFFREY 3, THE Title: Live On KTAO Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Avant trio improvs goof on the fabled Jimmy Giuffre 3. Geoff Alexander fronts the trumpet, guitar, clarinet festivities on his Los Gatos radio program back in the day." - Don Campau. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. Recorded June 23 1973. |
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Artist: JIMS DREAM BAND Title: Universal Blues Jam In Los Gatos Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Jim Kulczynski leads the boys through some nasty, fuzzy and raunchy blues rock." - Don Campau. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. Recorded at Jims house in San Jose, CA, Nov 1971. |
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Artist: MORROWS BIG BAND Title: To The Band Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Roots sideman Joe Morrow takes up his trombone and leads the ensemble through some insane duck call and horn arrangements while Joe rasnts over the top with some militant statements." - Don Campau. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. Recorded Oct 7, 1973. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: 7 October 1974 Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Weird mix of avant jazz and british ballads." - Lonely Whistle. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Blind Music Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Mock Tunisian, avant jazz, ensemble compositions, Lorenzo Milam speaks and sings. 1974" - Lonely Whistle. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Brunch With Chef Madness Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Saxophone, guitars, percussion workouts, Geoffs satiric poetry and lampooning, avant shortwave improvs, chamber jams." - Lonely Whistle Music. Recorded 1972. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Constructive, Progressive, Loyal Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Suburban blues to Dons Dad and the usual array of strange and socially unaceptable behavior committed to open reel tape." - Lonely Whistle Music. Recorded 1972. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Early Efforts Vol 1 Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Recorded 1970-71; San Jose, CA. "Raw and blistering clarinet, piano percussion skronk, electric suburb blues, microphone feedback. Insanity and totally lo fi." - Lonely Whistle Music. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Early Efforts Vol 2 Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Recorded 1970-71; San Jose, CA. "Raw and blistering clarinet, piano percussion skronk, electric suburb blues, microphone feedback. Insanity and totally lo fi." - Lonely Whistle Music. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: End Of The Earth Part 1 Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Recorded 1971. "Group improvs, twisted blues, screeching reeds, long rambling jams." - Lonely Whistle Music. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: End Of The Earth Part 2 Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Recorded 1971. "Group improvs, twisted blues, screeching reeds, long rambling jams." - Lonely Whistle Music. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Ham In The Oven Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Fake Jazz at the Philharmonic riffing, rock jamming, acoustic guitar piece and a religious testamonial sing a long." - Lonely Whistle Music. Recorded 1972. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Junior Achievement Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Fake Schoenberg, Pseudo ethnic jamming, long and ridiculous antics." - Lonely Whistle Music. Recorded 1972. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Just Plain Gare Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Gary Campau drum solos, JATP showdowns, free jazz." - Lonely Whistle Music. Recorded 1973. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Live On KTAO, 10 February 1974 Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Ostinato bass with guitar solo, fucked blues, chinese flute piece, pre-punk rumble." - Don Campau. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Macho Madness Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Long jazz and blues jams featuring a very young Russell Ferrante (The Yellowjackets) and San Jose altoist, Danny Hull. The Roots destroy any idea of continuity as they join in on sax, guitar and the kitchen sink." - Lonely Whistle Music. Recorded 1972. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: My Name Is Danny Kaye Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "The final chapter of The Roots recording saga is highlighted by a long improv featuring several pinball machines and raucous banter. Some wild clarinet by Dave Dolphin too." - Lonely Whistle. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Program Music Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Free jazz, rawkish jams, a Caribbean mockup, Jims Dream Band plays blues, Geoff and Don play swami." - Lonely Whistle Music. Recorded 1972. |
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Artist: ROOTS OF MADNESS Title: Roots Of Madness Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "The complete recordings of the session most of the LP was taken from. Recorded on or near August 14, 1971." - Lonely Whistle Music. |
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Artist: DHARMAR Title: DharmaR Format: CD Label: Long Fun Country: Japan Price: $30.00 |
| "The first CD by this Nagoya psych band features lots of guitar driven West Coast style rock. Japanese import." Quote from CD - "Organized in 1990. Plays Heavy Psychedelic Space Sounds With Sensitive Vocal." Early 90s release. |
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Artist: ET CETERA Title: Et Cetera Format: CD Label: Long Hair Country: Germany Price: $25.00 |
| "Heavy, crazy and amazing Wolfgang Dauner album, reissued for the first time ever. "First ever released on CD, Et Ceteras eponymous album (1980 reissue on Brain titled Lady Blue), originally released in 1971 on Global is an extraordinary album of weirdly trippy fusion that rides somewhere between instrumental Amon Düül II, Embryo and Dauners own earlier classic Output. Full of ethnic (Arabic and Indian) spice with lots of the ethnic color added by legendary guitar and sitar (et. al.) player Sigi Schwab (Embryo), odd keyboard sounds by Wolfgang Dauner, dreamy bass patterns by Eberhard Weber and driving percussions by Fred Braceful and Roland Wittich, this is spacy, crazy, Krautrock and -- a bit jazzy. Alan and Steven Freeman (The Crack In The Cosmic Egg) present this album in their The Krautrock Top 100. Maybe the album was originally planned as a double-LP because there are three more titles from the same recording session, which really knock you out. Kabul is a killer, especially because of Schwabs exploding electric guitar and Webers driving bass. Tau Ceti is a wonderfully dreamy delight presenting Schwabs gorgeous acoustic guitar playing. Last but not least, the bonus track Behind The Stage connects Schwabs special electric guitar with the bands atmospheric but rhythmic fundamental playing. This album will be a masterpiece for all time. Its unique. Digitally remastered from the original master tapes. The sound is brilliant. CD comes with informative booklet." Includes 3 bonus tracks." -Long Hair |
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Artist: KOLLEKTIV Title: SWF-Sessions Volume 5 Format: CD Label: Long Hair Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
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"Kollektiv is the first band in the series of SWF sessions on Long Hair who, at the time of the SWF recording on 06.07.1973, was relatively well known.
In March 1973 the band recorded its first LP, with Conny Plank as co-producer and sound-engineer, for the legendary Brain-Metronome Label. Acclaimed by progressive and krautrock fans and critics alike, it showed a different, more innovative style of playing contemporary German rock music and was honoured with a nomination for the German Schallplattenpreis. A re-release of the LP on Long Hair is planned. Kollektiv recorded new versions of two of the titles from the LP in SWF’s Studio U 1 in Baden-Baden. The SWF versions of “Baldrian” and “Gageg” demonstrate the band’s ability to improvise, its successful efforts to develop its best ideas and a dynamic handling of basic themes. The other three titles are snapshots of songs subjected to continuous development, yet always revolving around a fixed framework, showing remarkable instrumental ability and the desire to experiment and explore the scope for development." - Long Hair.
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Artist: MAMMUT Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Long Hair Country: Germany Price: $32.00 |
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"Originally released in 1971, this album is an intense and bombastic hybrid between heavy fuzz acid guitar, instinctive free rock improvisations and some lyrical, classical influenced interludes/fragments. Mammut played in an impressive and convincing manner their conception of an psychedelic rock opera. For that each title includes the name Mammut. The opening track Bird Mammut is a groovy, percussive, crazy psychedelic affair featuring an avalanche of drums, trippy organs, bluesy e-guitar and wistful flute passages. Classical Mammut delivers a short piano interlude, a pleasant melodic moment. Mammut Ecstasy is a fuzzy heavy psychedelic composition with furious rhythms, an efficient bass guitar leading theme and some nice keyboard moves. Foot Machine Mammut alternates a bluesy pop song with free guitar jams accompanied by Hammond organ. Perhaps parts of the first Embryo album are comparable to this. Nähgarn Mammut" is their attempt to be more lyrical and melodic, while the album closes with 14 minutes of Mammut Opera, which show Mammut at their best. Dark sounds with hints of Amon Düül II, heavy blues rock with all sorts of strange, ethnic and gothic touches combined in their music. Altough the band themselves quoted Deep Purple in rock as a major influence, their spirit was purely Krautrock. Their sole album is a legendary rarity. Comes with 1 bonus track, comprehensive insert, digitally remastered. A classic! Don´t miss it!" -Long Hair
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Artist: DUTTON, PAUL/SANDRA BRAMAN Title: Spokesheards Format: Book Label: Longspoon Press Country: Canada Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: VIDA, BEN & GREG DAVIS Title: Working Models Format: LP Label: Los Discos Enfantasmes Country: Canada Price: $24.00 |
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160g Vinyl, die cut jacket.
"Two expansive compositions in compact form evolved from sinuous convolutions
of electrical currents conducted through an intersection of Ben Vida and Greg Davis.
Recorded, assembled and mixed in Brooklyn, NY and Burlington VT from
September to June 2012, with both parties intervening on modular synthesizer
and computer.
Working Model 1 is a nodal piece, likened to a string of pearls, with each
pearl being a chamber within which a sound environment is revealed, developed
and transitioned to the next node seamlessly through gesture, rupture, and rhythm
changes. Moments of stochastic synthesis, chromatic interrupters firing, globular
pulsations, short lived melodic lines, and rhythmic arrangements keep the piece
moving and the ear engaged at the micro level. The flip side, Working Models 2
has more of an unearthly feel to it with interwoven frequencies giving way to
percussive structures, granular textures, and layers of synthesis that propel the
piece through its different movements.
Feast your ears and eyes on excerpts from the LP, with visuals by Charles Barabé." - Los Discos Enfantasmes. Ben Vida & Greg Davis - Working Model 1 (excerpt) from Los Discos Enfantasmes on Vimeo. |
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Artist: IRON BONG Title: Witchwoods Format: LP Label: Lost Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The 3rd album from this long-running Texas underground psych/stoner outfit, this one comes on like a collision of LED ZEPPELIN heaviness, BUTTHOLE SURFERS darkness, and CHROME weirdness. Ptolemaic Terrascope said of their previous efforts "positively a bong load of Texan acid psychedelic then, heading for your head and primed to cause maximum disruption on contact... a trip through every known psychedelic signature, all milled together into a hash cake of staggering proportions." Limited and numbered pressing of 500 copies." - Lost. |
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Artist: MCCARTNEY, CECIL Title: Om Format: LP Label: Lost Century Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
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"Reissue of sadly underrated 1968 UK psych-folk rarity. Mixing in melodic psych folk with experimental feel throughout. This album has been neglected for far too long! Limited edition 300 copies only." - Lost Century. "The Om album, which contains mostly self-penned material, together with versions of songs by Pete Seeger, Dylan and Paul Simon, is brushed off as "inconsequential folky material" (!!!!) and then given a kicking; it is called "apparently very bizarre" by someone who admits theyve never even heard it. And the majestic Liquid Blue is referred to thus: "appeared for some reason on a "Circus Days" compilation, though this isnt a stand-out track performance by any stretch of the imagination." Well, I think youre all wrong. Liquid Blue IS something special. Those mellifluous harpsichord runs, Indian finger cymbals, sprightly rococo orchestration and breathy articulation, to say nothing of the lyrics, surely elevate it far above the norm. And those lyrics? Well, what can you do with a song which has lines such as, "Moving through the purple doors, Lady Celia and her horse, I love you all til the universe sings, Galaxies to deep space, Fade awaaaay..." or "May your dreams be reality, War to cease, Love to be." What else to do other than admire it as an exemplary example of British hippie pop? That Cecil McCartney is sincere is perhaps what damns him in the eyes of some later fans of the music. I say "fans of the music", because it seems they are no more than that, they clearly dont want to partake of the substance of hippiedom, merely its fancy dress trappings. They are frightened of Cecils veracity, his self-belief, his vision. To such as these, the existence of Cecils music will forever be the disapproving voice of the hippie conscience, in the wings wagging his gnarled finger at all the plastic hippies. Cecils songs are simplistic in structure. but are far from "inconsequential". And although, primarily folk-based (the presence of two other Dylan-worshipping Celts - Donovan and David McWilliams - is never far away), troubadour singer and acoustic guitar stuff, with occasional flute runs, Cecil expounds his version of the New Creed against a backdrop of occasional sound effects (the horrifying God Is Dead), sped-up vocal (Plastic Jesus), an intense aural Happening (Sacrifice) and prototype New Age mystical dizziness (Meditation). That the important folk strand of UK hippiedom has been ignored in recent years by dance floor obsessed mod-o-centrics, cannot be denied. But the existence of such music is a testament to its position within the stronghold of the Revolution. If you want to find out how it heard and how it felt to be a genuine hippie, then Om is as good a place to start as any, and worth a dozen sociological studies. If we can, from our enlightened perspective, accuse Cecil and his ilk of anything, it is surely only of naiveté, or of over exuberance in following the hippie path. Surely naiveté is preferable to bloated cynicism?” -Ray Holton, OM: A PERSONAL APPRECIATION. |
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Artist: ALTERED STATES OF THE UNITED SNAKES Title: Pagan Tiger Swing Band Format: LP Label: Lost Treasures of the Underworld Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "This here record was produced by something of a Columbus supergroup. Its the baby of one Davey Highben who came on the scene in the early 90s with My Uncle Wayne, who were a Sebedoh-esque lo-fi noise punk band. Jim Shepard recorded them near the end of his life and apparently included some of that recording on his album Motorcycle Movie. Later Mr. Highben performed briefly in a touring lineup of Suckdog. AS//USs lineup is rounded out on bass by Fred from Blue Revision (early CDR release), drums by Matt Bisaro (El Jesus, Guinea Worms etc...) and an oscillating feedback network ran by Adam Smith who also recorded the album at CDR studios and pressed the vinyl himself at Musicol here in Columbus. The band have a dark, aggressive, dissonant and psychedelic take on midwestern punk rock that will appeal to followers of the history of Columbus underground rock." - Lost Treasures of the Underworld. |
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Artist: CHEATER SLICKS Title: Bats In The Dead Trees Format: LP+CDR Label: Lost Treasures Of The Underworld Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "(2nd edition w/ new cover art and photos of the band ,full color pro-printed jackets and a bonus CDR of the one and only live performance of Bats In The Dead Trees (live at Skylab,Feb 14th 2009) hand-numbered edition of 500 copies)" -Lost Treasures of the Underworld |
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Artist: KEFFER, LESLIE / ROBEDOOR Title: Split Format: LP Label: Lost Treasures Of The Underworld Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"The new Leslie Keffer / Robedoor split LPs are now available. I pressed 300 copies (100 orange/gold, 100 solid red, 100 black). Gold on Black Screen-printed covers by Skylab (artwork by Doug Johnston (skylab) and Nathan Bowers (Tusco Terror) . Insert by Zac Davis (Lambsbread)." - Lost Treasures of the Underworld
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD/SWORD HEAVEN Title: Split Format: LP Label: Lost Treasures Of The Underworld Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| 2007 release. Silkscreened covers, edition of 300. |
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Artist: MOORE, THURSTON Title: Built For Lovin Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Lost Treasures Of The Underworld Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
| " A scabrous grab bag of weirdo recordings assembled by Thurston Moore: hardcore basement slam jammer with Mark Ibold (bass) and John Moloney of Sunburned (drums), a rough demo cue made for an HSBC TV ad (w/ Steve Shelley-drums ⿿ uncredited ⿿ sorry Steve!), a few noise b-sides from various lost releases and a couple of long psycho-bead kosmi-killersz. And some subterranean acoustic luv ⿿ all wrapped up n a pic disc with art by T Moore extracted from his Street Mouth series of collages......."-Lost Treasures of the Underworld |
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Artist: MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Sotto Le Stelle Format: One Sided LP Label: Lost Treasures Of The Underworld Country: USA Price: $42.00 |
| "Special Art Edition of 100 copies ..... Art and etching (onto b side of LP) by Roberto Opalio. Three color screen-printed covers by Jared Phillips (from the band T/N/V) and the Self Esteem studios extreme crew!!! (Purple Vinyl )" - Lost Treasures Of The Underworld. |
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Artist: PRAXINOSCOPE Title: Inward Eye Format: LP Label: Lost Treasures Of The Underworld Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"INWARD EYE is the fourth album by PRAXINOSCOPE, recorded by Roberto Opalio at My Cat Is An Aliens private studio in Western Alps, during the long cold winter 2008. The work, investigated by Ken Hollings while writing MCIAAs cover article for the Wire, was therein presented: "As if powered by primordial forces, MCIAAs homemade universe continues to expand. You get the impression they really do dedicate all their time to their art. More ambitious still are their collaborations with Ramona Ponzini, who was for many years MCIAAs manager before she took up a full-time study of Japanese language and poetry at the university in Turin. Either working with both brothers as Painting Petals On Planet Ghost or with Roberto alone as PRAXINOSCOPE, Ramona brings a refined physicality to MCIAAs alien cosmology. Her study of Japanese literature from the Heian Period, which corresponds roughly to the European Middle Ages, relates closely to their preoccupations with change and disappearance. INWARD EYE brings this connection closer still." - Ken Hollings, The Wire. "Ramona Ponzini (Japanese bells & wind chimes, shion, vocals); Roberto Opalio (vocalizations, all effects, mini-keyboard, bodhran drum). The edition is limited to 287 and vinyl comes in three different colors: marble orange, marble white, and black. The record is housed in a 12" cloth bag, with front, back and inner fully screen-printed with artwork reproducing a painting by Roberto Opalio. Secret messages are written between the grooves and both sides center labels, that feature mysterious, full-color portraits of Ramona and Roberto respectively on each side. Each copy hand-numbered and hand-stamped, reporting the exact date of printing . Edition of 287 copies, hand-numbered and hand-stamped, reporting the exact date of printing . Vinyl comes in three different colors: marble orange, marble white, and black. The record is housed in a 12" canvas bag (??), with front, back and inner fully screen printed with artwork reproducing a painting by Roberto Opalio. Secret messages are written between the grooves and both sides center labels, that feature mysterious, full-color portraits of Ramona and Roberto respectively on each side. Each copy includes two extra alternate center labels." - Lost Treasures Of The Underworld. |
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Artist: SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN Title: Weekend at Burnies 2 Format: LP Label: Lost Treasures Of The Underworld Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: SUISHOU NO FUNE Title: Writhing Underground Flowers Format: CD Label: Lotus Sound Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "Formed in 1999 by the guitarist duo of Pirako Kurenai and Kageo in Tokyo, Japan. They quickly made a name for themselves in the underground music scenes and played throughout Tokyo with a whos who list of musicians. The two players melded mind and influences to create what they have come to know as Magic Music. This Magic Music, while influenced by some of the biggest names in psychedelia from every decade, defies stereotype, and will lead you on a beautiful journey. This improv journey at times is as soothing as a stream, while other times it radiates with a chaotic beauty not often found in freeform music today. Writhing Underground Flowers is their first release since Where The Spirits Are on seminal label, Holy Mountain. All 3 tracks were fully improvised and showcase the duos finest explorations. For those familiar with Suishou No Fune, you will be pleased with their continued psychedelic explorations. For those who are not, you will find their poetic beauty exploring the yin/yang of the world around them and within them. Magic music indeed." -Lotus Sound. |
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Artist: AIRAKSINEN, PEKKA Title: Madam Im Adam Format: Double CD Label: Love Country: Finland Price: $28.00 |
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Intense double CD from this avant-garde underground icon from Finland, who recorded solo and with groups like The Sperm (who released one legendary freak out LP, Shh! in 1970), Gandhi-Freud, Ajraxin. Disc one features tracks from 1968-2002. Disc 2 is all new previoulsy unreleased remixes from: Nurse With Wound, Simon Wickham-Smith, Es, Mira Calix, Curd Duca, Anton Nikkila etc. If you were impressed by the Love Records compilation Arktinen Hysteria , this is the next step. "The music of Petta Airaksinen (b. 1945) has been far ahead of its time for most of his 40 year long career. His finest recordings from the 60s are more reminiscent of industrial music and noise (which would emerge ten years later) than of the music of his precursors and contemporaries. In the early 80s few people, if any, were mixing mechanic beats and free jazz like he did -- favourable conditions for this kind of music didnt really exist until the turn of the century. His latest genre-hopping work will also probably take a long time to become fully appreciated. This compilation is a fairly subjective selection of his works from each of these periods. The selection of remixes commissioned for the second disc of the compilation aims to find a contemporary context for his work and to expand connections, some of which already existed. For example Nurse With Wound namechecked Airaksinen on their famous list of influences that came with their debut LP Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella (1979), while Finlands Es played together with Airaksinen in his first live performance since 1987 at Avanto Helsinki Media Art Festival in 2001." - Love.
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Artist: KURENNIEMI, ERKKI Title: Aanityksi/Recordings 1963-1973 Format: CD Label: Love Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
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"Brilliant collection of obscure early electronic music, on one of Finlands longest running independent labels; packaged with detailed liner notes (Finnish/English). Not to be missed." - FE. "One of the undeniable pioneers of Finnish electronic music is Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941), who founded The University of Helsinki Electronic Music Studio in the early 1960s. Kurenniemi built his own series of synthesizers, named as DIMI, which are nowadays mostly possessed by Swedish collector and electronic musician Ralph Lundsten, and published some of his experimental compositions like Dance of the Antropoids. Alongside such Finnish pioneers as Eino Ruutsalo (for whose short films Kurenniemi composed music), Kurenniemi also did some early work on the field of Finnish media art and contributed to Finnish video art and happenings. Kurenniemi created the first commercially manufactured and marketed microcomputer already in 1973 -- two years before the American MITS Altair. These days Kurenniemi works as an independent researcher, specialising in such subjects as artificial intelligence." - Love. Highly recommended!
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Artist: STRENG, PEKKA Title: Kesämaa Format: CD Label: Love Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "2003 remastered reissue of this Finnish cult classic, originally released in 1972. This was Strengs second and final album before his death at the age of 26, and here his mystical psych-folk are blessed at times with more of a cosmic-jazz influence, with the presence of established figures such as Eero Koivistoinen on sax and Olli Ahvenlahti on keyboard. Sparse acoustic songs, piano ballads, and Finnish pop anthems make this a rare flicker of light spreading an otherworldly warmth to those fortunate enough to seek it out. This album directly inspired Fonal label-head Sami Sänpäkkiläs (Es) 2009 album Kesämaan Lapset. Includes 4 bonus tracks, all demo versions of album tracks." - Love. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Arktinen Hysteria: Suomi-avantgarden Esipuutarhureita Format: CD Label: Love Country: Finland Price: $15.00 |
| ⿿The Arktinen Hysteria compilation that came out in November 2001 was compiled by Jukka Lindfors, based on his series of radio documentaries for Finnish Broadcasting Company. Together here are gathered for the first time some seminal tracks usually considered the milestones of early Finnish electronic music; being the real predecessors of the sounds of Mika Vainio, Pan sonic & et al.; combined with some rarities and previously unpublished tracks. The album concentrates mostly around the output of the now-legendary Love Records label, varying from electronic music to avantgarde sounds, free-jazz and experimental rock. Here one can witness some truly timeless electronic pioneering works, delving into the real Finnish analogue roots of glitch, clicks & cuts and even modern laptop sounds. Artists include: M.A. Numminen, Tommi Parko, Pekka Kujanpää (future underground guru M.A. Numminen and his cohorts burping and gurgling to a simple blues theme playing in the background, as part of this home-made tape recorded in 1961), M.A. Numminen & Sähkökvartetti (Holy Grail of Finnish electronic music, creepy-sounding and even hymn-like, with wailing and sounding like electronic insects), Tommi Parko (avantgardistic pranks), Erkki Salmenhaara (sounds like a constant switching of dial between radio stations: snippets of orchestral sounds, reverberated electronics, harpsichord, piano etudes, whatever), Blues Section (the territory of backwards tapes, tape loops and other "mind-blowing" sonic regalia of the late 60s), Erkki Kurenniemi (This could be something by Hecker of Mego Records, only 30 years before laptops), Jukka Ruohomäki (non-machine-like electronic pop music), Jouni Kesti & Seppo I. Laine (Pure noise inferno of explosions and chaos), The Sperm (a combination of an experimental rock group and a provocative performance group, features undecipherable vocals mumbling, screeching, murmuring, screaming utter nonsense), J.O. Mallander (Dadaist piece of conceptual art, an aural counterpart to what Andy Warhol did with his movies of repeated boredom), The Sperm (a free-for-all melee of cacophony, like some collective lunatic asylum art therapy), Pekka Airaksinen (murky sauna hut sound expressions, total antimusic and again, totally ageless), S. Albert Kivinen (This aleatoric assault is about the then-US Vice President Spiro Agnew). - Love. Amazing CD of LAFMS-type sounds, but recorded 10-20 years earlier! With thick, indepth booklet of photos and text (in english and finnish). Highly recommended!! |
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Artist: V/A Title: More Arctic Hysteria/Son of Arctic Hysteria Format: Double CD Label: Love Country: Finland Price: $24.00 |
| ...the later years of early Finnish avant-garde. "Another incredible volume, following the inspiration and eye-opening 2001 CD Arktinen hysteria - Suomi-avantgarden Wsipuutarhureita. Pefectly packaged document of more utterly obscure electronic mayhem and theatrical intoxication, presented as near-high-art." - FE. "Now covered are the 1970s and 1980s. 34 artists. Featuring a lavishly illustrated leaflet of 20 pages. Compiled by Jukka Lindfors. Featuring Jimi Tenor, Läjä ÿijälä and early Mika Vainio (Pan sonic), The Sperm activists Mattijuhani Koponen and Pekka Airaksinen, Edward Vesala at his wildest, Kari Peitsamo, Kauko Röyhkä and Sleepy Sleepers at their most experimental and many other musical alchemists from Pekka Streng to Reinin Myrkky - as a bonus some no-holds-barred sound experiments of Kaj Chydenius and M.A. Numminen from the 60s." - Love. Highly Recommended!!! |
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Artist: V/A Title: Psychedelic Phinland Format: Double CD Label: Love Country: Finland Price: $25.00 |
| Subtitled: Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974. Amazing collection of underground Finnish music, presented in definitive fashion by the original Love Records label. Great booklet of English notes and photos, Love Records does it again! From the liner notes: "CD1 opens with some topical commentaries on drugs and the hippie lifestyle, as well as with early Finnish psych-rock, followed by more agitatory and provocatory stuff like Suomen Talvisofta who hilariously combined anarchist ideas with psychedelic imagery. After the heyday of he Underground movement, the more mystic legacy of hippiedome was preserved by the esoteric balladry of Pekka Streng, Hector and others. CD2 presents more experimental Underground, avant-garde and laternative music, most of it for the fist time on CD or previously not issued. Love Records and the small Eteenpain! (Forward), Finlands counterpart to ESP Records, were the main labels for the kind of music heard on both CDs." - Love. |
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Artist: USA IS A MONSTER Title: Geronimo Format: Picture Disc 7" Label: Lovepump United Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Brooklyn, NY duo USA IS A MONSTER take a break from their prolific, terrifically noisy Load Records catalogue to release two acoustic songs with Lovepump United. This surprisingly quiet release from the normally skronktastic band is a lush, psychedelic exploration recorded with a seven-piece ensemble at The Werehouse in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The vinyl itself is an extremely limited, beautiful full-color picture disc 7-inch with artwork by the band." - LU. |
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Artist: HENN, JASON Title: Sunburst Farms Format: CDR Label: Lrrc Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "pieces inspired by recent employment in the lower ranks of a flower factory. cdr in 12" sleeve, includes an assortment of collage cards. great improvs and three tracks of unaccompanied yelling." - Lrrc. Jason Henn from Elephant Micah. Numbered edition of 50. 2006 release. |
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Artist: ELEPHANT MICAH Title: Lost Sense Recollected Format: Cass Label: Luddite Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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"The bands first release, in hand-stenciled sleeves. 200 made. A few left." - Elephant Micah.
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Artist: BRIDGES Title: Fakkeltog Format: LP Label: Luna Nera Country: Spain Price: $31.00 |
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"Luna Neras first release offers us a truly elusive pearl for psych/prog vinyl lovers worldwide: Bridges Fakkeltog. Heavily Doors-influenced psychedelic album full of acid-rock leads and a vocalist that sounds very much like Jim Morrison. Released in 1980, and having no proper distribution, the band managed to sell just a handful of copies to local record stores and the album was swept under the carpet of oblivion, making it one of the top rarities of Scandinavia. This quality release is limited to only 300 copies." -Luna Nera. Pre-A-ha for all you completists out there.. |
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Artist: FAHNLEIN FIESELSCHWEIF Title: Pluto Grüsst Unsere Perser Format: 7" Label: Luna Park Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| Original copies of this bizarre 1981 single by Fähnlein Fieselschweif out of Hamburg. Produced by Holger Hiller. For fans of Hiller, Der Plan and the quirkier side of NDW. Full color picture sleeve. All "mint"/unplayed. "It all sounds like a smashed up train set, and the strange journey concludes with Kinderparty, a short jam on the Casio VL-1. The VL-1 tone was a weapon of sorts and an absolute compulsory battery operated childs toy for the sarcastic German New Waver. Even Matthias Schuster, back turned away from the flash of the camera, gravely holds one up like a knife on the front of Atemlos." - Brotbeutel blog. |
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Artist: POP FIVE MUSIC INCORPORATED Title: A Peca Format: LP Label: Lusisyche Country: Spain Price: $31.00 |
| "Highly regarded Portuguese psych rock band who were at the time considered one of the best rock bands in Portugal along with Quarteto 1111, when this lone LP came out in 1969. Exact limited to 300 copies reprint of the original masterpiece highly sought after, deserving 5 stars on the Hans Pokora book. The album is made up of mostly covers (Beatles, Traffic, Hendrix, Purple, etc.) made in their own way with lots of Hammond organ, keyboards and fuzzy guitars." - Lusisyche. |
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Artist: LUSSU & MAGNEETTI Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Lussu & Magnetti Country: Finland Price: $12.00 |
| "lussu and magneetti are a finnish-american duo from helsinki. they joined forces in early summer of 2006 and began recording in lussus appartment shortly thereafter. their debut release is noisy, droney music: vignettes of drum beats laced with ethereal voices and reverbed guitar. at times, it unleashes harsh episodes of distorted rhythms and noise, other times, a dark universe of "spooked-out" earthy tones coming from either the finnish forest or the "spin-cycle" of your washing machine. this limited editon of 150 copies is beautifully decorated with pressed leaves handpicked near the road of a main norwegian highway. delicate and unique, this cd-r release greets its audience with both visual and aural delights... new project from jonna karanka (kuupuu), so you know its gooood! very lovely packaging too." |
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Artist: CRAFTS, DANIEL STEVEN Title: Soap Opera Suite Snake Oil Symphony Format: LP Label: Lutra Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: ACID ARCHIVES; THE SECOND EDITION Title: A Guide to Underground Sounds 1965-1982 Format: Book Label: Lysergia Country: Sweden Price: $45.00 |
| "Bigger, better and more colorful! After the huge success of the first edition from 2006, the Acid Archives book has been long out-of-print. Used copies have sold for as high as $200, and there are many inquiries about new runs from around the world. Instead of just a new printing, here is a brand-new edition -- completely revised, massively expanded, and attractively re-designed. The Acid Archives, The Second Edition will delight any lover of rare and great underground music from the 1960s-1970s. All the elements that made the first edition such a hit are here. The A-Z section has been expanded with 90 new pages, detailing many hundreds of previously-unknown LPs. Just as exciting is a brand-new section of special features, where leading experts present the best and rarest albums within exotica, lounge, 70s funk & soul, Southern rock, new age, custom labels and tax scam records. In answer to requests from fans of the first book, the Acid Archives has been fully re-designed and is now printed entirely in color. The 400 pages in the second edition (100 pages more than the old version) are loaded with color images of obscure and trippy album sleeves, posters and band photos, many of which have never been published before. 400 pages, all entirely in color, in a perfect-bound softcover quarto. Writers: P. Lundborg, A. Milenski, R. Moore and others." - Lysergia. Essential. Very Highly Recommended! Restocked yet again. |
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Artist: LUNDBORG, PATRICK Title: Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way of Life Format: Book Label: Lysergia Country: Sweden Price: $31.00 |
 "A groundbreaking new book from the author of the highly-acclaimed Acid Archives, published by Lysergia: Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way of Life is Patrick Lundborg and Lysergias greatest achievement so far. The product of 20 years of research, the 500+-page work is likely to prove as pioneering as the preceding Acid Archives, which went through five reprintings and received favorable reviews in leading magazines such as Mojo and The Wire. A larger number of people are exploring psychedelic states of mind in the world today than at any other point in history. Their shared experiences form the outline of a vast underground culture, whose steady influence upon society can be traced across thousands of years, back to Amerindian plant drug cults and the psychedelic celebrations in ancient Greece that gave birth to our Western society. But the full scope of this psychedelic culture, and its many expressions in the past, has remained poorly understood or even unknown. Psychedelia has usually been taken as a metaphor, or a symptom of something else, even though its true nature is singular and unparalleled. Psychedelia by Patrick Lundborg is the first-ever book to present psychedelic culture in its full complexity and range. Out of a colorful history that spans 3,500 years, emerges a philosophy and way of life that is as dazzling and rich as the psychedelic experience itself. As this book shows, psychedelia is a living underground culture, engaged in constant dialogue with its mainstream counterpart. Psychedelias creative, visionary presence in art, rock music and pop culture is thoroughly examined, highlighting many unique and at times unknown works and traditions, from William Blake to Philip K. Dick, from Eden Ahbez to Shpongle, from Haight-Ashbury to the beaches of Goa. The 20th centurys misguided attempts to reduce psychedelia into a branch of psychology or religion are given a critical, sometimes controversial look. A case is made for psychedelic philosophy, a fresh, unprejudiced model to replace the failed interpretations of the past. In the third millennium, psychedelic culture may be standing on the brink of a mystery greater than anything encountered in the past. This mystery comes forth in chapters on ayahuasca and DMT, and has reverberations far outside the realms of psychedelia, cutting into vital questions of consciousness and evolution. Most of all, psychedelia is a celebration of life, in the here and now and in the deep realms of inner-space. The final chapters of Psychedelia discuss the challenges and rewards of the psychedelic experience, as mastered by shamans and teachers from various entheogenic cultures. 520 pages with a 16-page color inlay in a perfect bound small quarto; 9.5 by 6.5 inches." - Lysergia.
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Artist: V/A Title: Electric Holyland Format: LP Label: Lysergic Sound Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"12 cuts from some of the rarest and most fuzz-drenched Jesus Rock obscurities from the 1960s and 70s. Artists are: The New Folk, Barrie Hobbie, Johann Black & Sweet Destiny, First Revelation, Wild Olive Branch Band, Earthen Vessel, Shekina Glory, The Jesus Band, The Ark, Children Of The Lamb, Renacimiento, Paul Clark and The Four Corner Gospel Experience. Its a limited (500 copies) press, all hand-numbered, of some of the rarest, most obscure & most fuzz-drenched Jesus Rock from the 1960s & 70s. Theres 12 cuts from 12 different bands, all authorized, restored & re-mastered. The cover is an eye-popping throwback to the best of the 60s Fillmore posters and leaves no doubt about the nature of the music." - Lysergic Sound.
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Artist: VULCAN Title: Meet Your Ghost Format: Double LP Label: Lysergic Sound Country: USA Price: $31.00 |
| "Two discs of raw, distorted, overblown fuzzed-out sludge rock by the eccentric and enigmatic small town, self-proclaimed son of an intergalactic space traveler who claims to have been visited years ago by the guitar-playing ghost of Jimi Hendrix. Disc one is the first-ever authorized reissue of the original Meet Your Ghost album which was originally recorded in the late 70s. Its been restored and re-mastered here. Disc two is a collection of 11 previously unreleased tracks that were recorded before the original Ghost album These tracks had literally been lost for more than eight years. These new tracks have also been restored and re-mastered and contain almost every kind of guitar effect, feedback and sound imaginable, not to mention Vulcans eerie alien message and spooky backward masking effects. A very heavy and raw bit of garage rock with some bizarre psychedelic effects. One of a kind! This double album is housed in a spectacularly re-designed psychedelic gatefold cover with lots of never-before-seen photos of the reclusive Vulcan. Also includes a separate insert of a mind-blowing interview with Vulcan himself! Limited to 600 hand-numbered copies." - Lysergic Sound. The previous vinyl reissue is one of Fusetronsounds all time best sellers til the well ran dry 5+ years back.. Very highly recommended (though the original b&w cover is prefered around here)!! |
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Artist: BOLD CHICKEN Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Lysergic Sound Distributors Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
 "For the first time anywhere on vinyl, Lysergic Sounds Distributors proudly presents Bold Chicken. Formed in 1970 in Akron, Ohio by future Rubber City Rebels leader, Buzz Clic, the band began gigging around north east Ohio playing the standard cover band repertoire, but snuck their own crude original tunes amongst the usual top 40 fodder, which must have truly bummed out the rust belt bar denizens looking for a good time, swaying and singing along to Smoke on the Water. Bold Chicken went into the studios in 1972 and recorded an ultra-crude demo of four depraved songs which LSD presents on this 7" disc that deals exclusively with the seedier side of fornication, including the misunderstood homosexual in A Fellows Lament, the teenage sexual frustration of not sealing the deal in Gears and Tears, an amorous ode to a lady of the night in Streekwalkin Queen, and ending the set up with a song about contracting VD (natch!) titled Oh Doctor Please. The tunes have a sound that Todd Killings of Victim of Time described as a top-notch find in the vastly unpopular world of Midwest bad glam-punk in a pre-Ramones America. Not as art-bent as Debris and not as straightjacket-worthy as the nearby Electric Eels, this is more a quality studio recording of a "far-out" drunken quaalude party, (complete with obviously fake, limp-wristed backup vocals) that you werent supposed to know about. It can definitely stand on its own with anyone else hitting their stride in 72, as its heavy, but not metal, crazed, but not psychedelic, punk but not prog, and even dumber than the Stooges. This is a limited fully licensed hand numbered edition of 350 directly mastered from the original tapes." - Lysergic Sound Distributors.
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Artist: DEVILS KITCHEN Title: Devils Kitchen Format: LP Label: Lysergic Sound Distributors Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "The first ever release by Devils Kitchen, perhaps the best of the greatly talented but forgotten bands from the legendary San Francisco psychedelic scene of the late 1960s. Devils Kitchen played all the major venues in the Bay Area and Los Angeles during this time period, opening for and playing frequently with many very well-known bands, including The Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Santana, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Allman Brothers, Big Brother And The Holding Company with Janis, The Charlatans and many, many others. The band spurned a recording contract offer from Mercury Records in 1968, displeased with the lack of creative control offered them by the label. Consequently, they never released any recordings. There are eight original unreleased tracks on this album and all were taken from the original master tapes that were recorded in 1969 at the Family Dog Ballroom On The Great Highway in San Francisco and the Sierra Sound Recording Studio in Berkeley. The music has a great and unmistakable late 60s acid-drenched West Coast guitar-driven blues-psych sound with snaky electric slide and roaring fuzz guitar throughout. The discovery of these master tapes and this subsequent release of Devils Kitchens first full length album, more than forty years after the recordings were made, is an exciting find for the collectors of obscure 60s psychedelia. How a great band like this remained under the radar and unreleased for all these years is mystifying. Limited pressing of 1000 hand-numbered copies. Includes a reproduction of Family Dog handbill from March, 1970, featuring Big Brother & The Holding Company, Kaleidoscope and Devils Kitchen. Welcome again to the great San Francisco sound of the late 1960s." - Lysergic Sound Distributors. |
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Artist: WORLD Title: Opus 1 Format: LP Label: Lysergic Sound Distributors Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Recently discovered 1972 Latin teen soul-funk-rock private press mega-rarity from rural New Mexico. Pressed in very small numbers, this previously unknown gem is a very accomplished mix of smooth gliding soul and up-tempo funk, complete with swirling Hammond organ and mellow harmonies to go with the fuzz and funk guitars. At the albums core, however, beats the heart of an adolescent small town garage rock combo. This six piece teen group, led by Rick Chavez and the smooth vocals of Ray Williams, features nine very catchy original tunes to go along with their very own funky version of the classic, Bo Diddley. The great music on this authorized reissue has all been restored and re-mastered and is now offered as a very limited vinyl pressing for the first time. We have also restored the original hand-drawn outsider psychedelic cover art. With less than a handful of original copies known to exist at this time, this is a great new find and an absolute must have for the collector of rare soul-funk-garage vinyl." - Lysergic Sound Distributors. |
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Artist: BRAINBOMBS Title: Fucking Mess Format: LP Label: Lystring Country: Sweden Price: $22.00 |
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"THE BRAINBOMBS return with seven new songs recorded last summer. Hesitate and bum out forever." -Lystring. Recorded July 12, 2008. Second pressing on black vinyl with thicker jackets. 735 copies.
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Artist: KARLSSON, TOM Title: Pojnacke Format: LP Label: Lystring Country: Sweden Price: $18.00 |
| "Not sure where this LP is from, but it came fairly anonymously, in a stark white gatefold sleeve adorned with meticulously repellent hand-drawn artwork, at least on the inside sleeve and the labels, and I kind of wanted to listen to it once and get it out of the house... but the music is excellent. Having lost the one-sheet, I was thinking it was an album by sort of mysterious harsh industrial/power electronics band or project called Pojknacke, but the internet tells me that Pojknacke is the title, and the artist (musical and presumably visual) is actually Tom Karlsson. Hey, at least he was helpful enough to draw "A" and "B" as part of his label art, no one does that anymore! (And his name is on the spine, along with title and label, I just hadnt checked yet.) Anyway, this really is some sort of early-style harsh industrial album, but with a welcome profusion of quiet space, room for some jarring off-kilter samples, obscure but agitated European speaking voices that may even be samples themselves but mostly probably not... eventually some serious subtle (on side B not so subtle) heavy avant-rock improvisational jamming... a couple out-and-out tunes with goofy ranting punk vocals... it doesnt all work equally well, and its maybe 10 minutes too long, but its still really good." - Larry/Blastitude. Newest LP from the label that released the last BRAINBOMBS. |
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Artist: WONDER BOYS, THE Title: Gylf 3 Format: 7" Label: Lystring Country: Sweden Price: $5.00 |
| "David Liljemark pays tribute to the elite of Swedish rock by covering songs by Las Palmas, Brainbombs and Robert Broberg. All traces of the original music are stripped away, and replaced by low budget industrial sounds (a la 80s tape culture). Meanwhile, the lyrics are amended and subsequently delivered in various deranged idioms. Part one in a series of conceptual tribute records from The Wonder Boys. Gatefold cover. " - Lystring. |