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Artist: DREAMCATCHER Title: s/t Format: 12" Label: T.B.T.D. Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"Katherine Kline and Blake Hargreaves are responsible for this piece of damaged techno. Underwater/underground montreal jammer/slammers bringing 2008 to a stand still. the power of the canadian dollar..... canada fucking rules. usa loses... to iraq, afghanistan, equador, iran, pakistan, and canada!!! lathe cut record cut to laser disc. previous releases on ecstatic peace, american tapes, notnotfun etc...edition of 31" - T.B.T.D.
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Artist: SHINING PATH, THE Title: Fly So High Format: Cass Label: T.B.T.D. Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "The Shining Path is the "rock unit" formation of psych-minimalist duo Monosov Swirnoff. Ilya Monosov and Preston Swirnoff have released four highly acclaimed LPs of wide-ranging music on Eclipse Records and have just released The Shining Path debut self-titled full length LP/CD on Holy Mountain this month. This cassette oozes with damaged rock, disorienting feedback, pulsing unsettling rhythms, through beautiful sheets of white noise. Their sound has been compared to a mix of Les Rallizes Denudes, Suicide, and Mars with the free outbursts of Abe Kaoru or Takayanagi. Ripping. Edition of 100. Cover art by Tetsunori Tawaraya (demonstrations)." -T.B.T.D.. |
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Artist: GHOST MOTH Title: Asteroid Pelt Format: Cass Label: T.B.T.D./Pendu Sound Recordings Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"the rough and rugged trio, daniel carter, mialessot, and old ghost.
space fuzz, cosmic sleaze, day dreamy, night terror, bracing blasts of damaged synths and blown out guitarnoise, a swirling roiling cloud of grind and rrrrooooaaar all piled atop a squirming and skronking tangle of free jazz sax, bleating and moaning and screeching. (D) all of the above." - T.B.T.D. Edition of 36 in handpainted/collaged thick cardboard envelopes.
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Artist: GHOST MOTH Title: Live! Format: CDR Label: T.B.T.D./Pendu Sound Recordings Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"primitive carpet burn jazz trio. horns of screeching melody, through lo-fi huz recorded in the borough of manhattan. something like a warped and belt sanded copy of the "coltrane live at the village vanguard again" lp, played at 18rpm." - T.B.T.D. Edition of 36 in handpainted/collaged thick cardboard envelopes.
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Artist: AUBE Title: Pole Nord Format: 3" CDR Label: Taalem Country: France Price: $7.00 |
| "composed, recorded & mixed by akifumi nakajima at studio MECCA kyoto japan using only feedbacks. Does Aube really need an introduction ? After more than 160 releases (!) in fourteen years, I guess he doesnt. For this 3"cd-r, Akifumi Nakajima has, as usual, used a single source to create his music ; this time feedback. You could then imagine the tracks to be noisy as hell. Thankfully theyre not. Aube knows perfectly how to mix noise and ambient music. So the result is noisy, yes, but listenable ; ambient, too, but not boring. A great work, as usual should I say." - Taalem. |
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Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Bactérie Format: 3" CDR Label: Taalem Country: France Price: $7.00 |
| "the italian industrial legend, maurizio bianchi, is back. more prolific than ever, he proposes here a 24min track which should put the listener in a trance-like state... rather ambient & evolutive construction with venenous & penetrating sounds..." - Taalem. "this microbic "bactérie", conceived and realized at the beginning of 2005, is profaning the rigid stoicism of our educational orthodromy, while a dichromatic decontamination accustoms the agoraphobic atomicity. the captious escape is vulcanizing the mutant manipulation of some articulated blastogenesis... another altruistic bacterial sickness?" - maurizio bianchi / M.B. |
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Artist: DAUBY, YANNIK Title: Chant De Dune Format: 3" CDR Label: Taalem Country: France Price: $7.00 |
| "yannick dauby is a french composer, known for his collaborations with alio die ("descendre cinq voiles à lombre dune voile" cdsingle on amplexus), mnortham (the "entrelacs" project) or thomas köner (the recent "zyklop" 2cd set on mille plateaux). this 3" is a re-release of a piece yannick dauby self-released in 1999, now accompanied by a new piece. deep concrete ambient music..." - Taalem. "sounding sands are found in many places in the whole world. this rare natural phenomenon, is represented most of the time by beaches, whose sand is squeaking when it is struck or pushed. however, in some deserts, we meet some large dunes which have a more astonishing activity. sand avalanches, mostly provocated by the wind, create very deep sounds, extremely powerful, accompanied by tremors and lasting for several minutes. unexplained, these singings from the desert are despicted like roarings, voices from surnatural beings or the rumbling of the thunder." - Yannick Dauby. |
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Artist: MENCHE, DANIEL Title: Scather Format: 3" CDR Label: Taalem Country: France Price: $7.00 |
| "Another great artist in the taâlem series that should need no introduction. Daniel Menche has fastly gained a strong reputation in the experimental/noise scene thanks to many releases on various labels all around the world (Tesco, Soleilmoon, Beta Lactam Ring, Antifrost, to name but a few) and extremely physical live performances. Heres another fine example of his huge talent to create loud and powerful but subtle music !" - Taalem. |
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Artist: TOY.BIZARRE Title: kdi dctb 122 [f] Format: 3" CDR Label: Taalem Country: France Price: $7.00 |
| "kdi dctb 122 [f]" was done in november 2005 by cédric peyronnet. This stereo-reduction was especially made for headphone listenings. "kdi dctb 122" was a sound work of interpreted cartography whose theme was, on one hand, the sound environment in an area of 750m around the village of La Pommerie (in the town of St Sétiers), and on second hand, the sound events related to the birth of the morning dew in the same area. The 10-channels audio system restores 10 places from the area ; it can be considered as a partial restitution [a cartography sound work] of La Pommerie in july 2001 without pretending being the truth. But "kdi dctb 122" is also and above all a musical piece made of 10 elements that can be heard alone or all together, the exhibition place becoming the listening place. Here, space occupation and spacialization were major concerns during the installation of the work. Work was made of many recordings in/on 10 "micro-places" of the area ; every element was recorded. These field recordings were later sculpted with hard & and software. The final composition was only made with those elements ; so it can be considered as "the music of the place", a microscopic exploration of space..." - Taalem. |
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Artist: ARKANSAW MAN Title: Arkansaw Man Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Here is the unlikely CD debut of Arkansaw Man, a wildly obscure San Francisco art-punk band that flickered to life all so briefly in 1981. 25 minutes of music, 25 years ago -- and sayonara. Still, the best things in life -- in the life of music, anyway -- often are tucked away where they are hard to find. With a brilliant economy of means and a sparseness reminiscent of dub, the band got an amazing jump start on post-rock. It revels in terse and choppy guitar, the languid, sour leakage of keyboards and horns, and occasional lyrics sung as ironic disclaimer, while the spare yet vaguely ominous bass lines recall Gang of Four played back at 4 RPM. A quarter of a century ago, the spindly funk machinery and discordant scraping guitars of Arkansaw Man failed to give the world much to latch onto, so its music got lost, abandoned in a locker at pop cultures bus depot, the key left floating in a gutter somewhere one day to be scavenged. Theres no better place to find a glimmer of artistic gold." - Table Of The Elements. |
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Artist: ATELEIA/BENJAMIN CURTIS Title: Baghdad Batterie Format: LP Label: Table of the Elements Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "On Baghdad Batterie, Ateleia and Benjamin Curtis fuse splendidly, as perfectly synchronized audio alchemists, and when they dip their axes in a vat of liquid electronica, the transmutation is complete:thick, glistening beats throb and undulate, without a tell-tale twang in sight. Baghdad Batterie is a fabulous piece of laptop psychedelia, and certain to delight fans of Curtis and Elliotts previous collaboration, the exhilarating School Of Seven Bells EP, Face to Face on High Places. The packaging of this vinyl-only release is similarly spectacular. Its a one-sided, 12-inch LP, pressed on clear vinyl; the reverse is laser etched with an original illustration by acclaimed UK artist Savage Pencil, whose credits include album art for The Fall, Big Black, and Sonic Youth. Its a limited-edition pressing, so get it while you can -- disks from the labels original Guitar Series in 1993/1994 are now some of Collectorvilles must coveted treasures." -Table of the Elements |
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Artist: BELONG Title: Same Places (Slow Version) Format: LP Label: Table of the Elements Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "With Same Places (Slow Version), Belong evinces a slow-motion transformation -- plate tectonics, wired for sound. Aural mountains melt into seas; yet icy barrens yield to breathing jungles of detail. The single, sprawling track may evoke decay, dissolution and destruction, but underfoot are tendrils of inexplicable joy. Belong sings a lullaby of obliteration, and the paradox it embodies would make both Kevin Shields and Tony Conrad proud: crushing melancholia and shuddering euphoria, inexorably intertwined." Pressed on etched sea-foam green vinyl, etching artwork by Savage Pencil, London 2008. - Table of the Elements |
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Artist: CALE, JOHN Title: New York in the 1960s Format: 5 LP Box Set Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $58.00 |
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"Five LPs in black-lacquered wood box with libretto, bonus tracks and more. John Cales great credit, both inside and outside the Velvet Underground, was to have found the inoculation dosage that would addict the music industry to SOUND without alienating one world from the other. But outside the official VU there was also an uncut version of the virus, incubated behind the slum walls of the 1960s Lower East Side, and maintained live in the liquid nitrogen of these insolently recorded reel-to-reel audiotapes, recorded and produced by Tony Conrad and now available in the massive Table of the Elements 5xLP boxed set, New York in the 1960s." - Table Of The Elements. "Vinyl versions of the three previous John Cale albums on TOTE (Sun Blindness Music, Dream Interpretation: Inside The Dream Syndicate Vol. II, Dream Interpretation: Inside The Dream Syndicate Vol. II. Side 10 features 2 bonus tracks which previously appeard on the Jack Smith CDs on TOTE." - FE.
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Artist: CALE/TONY CONRAD/ANGUS MACLISE/LA MONTE YOUNG/MARIAN ZAZEELA, JOHN Title: Inside the Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day of Niagara (1965) Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"From 1962 through 1965 John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus MacLise, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela participated in a collaborative ensemble that articulated the big bang of minimalism. Utilizing long duration and precise pitch, they forged an aggressively mesmerizing dream music -- denying the activity of composition and elaborating shared ideas of performance and improvisation. However, the many rehearsal and performance recordings from this period were repressed, and remained inaccessibly buried until this moment. With the recent discovery of an additional cache of tapes, now restored and digitally remastered, the world can step Inside the Dream Syndicate for the very first time." - Table Of The Elements.[For information about LaMonte Youngs response to this release (which he did not authorize, and which he considers to be very poor in quality, with a missing segment of music, inaccurate sound mix, etc), please refer to: http://www.melafoundation.org/statemen.htm]
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Artist: CHATHAM, RHYS Title: Two Gongs (1971) Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
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"The hour-long Two Gongs fills the entirety of [this] disc with its ethereal, droning psychedelia. While written in 1971, the 89 recording documented here features Chatham, along with fellow composer Yoshimase Wada coaxing heavy, overlapping tones out of a pair of Chinese gongs. The instruments buzz and hum, moving in waves from deafening rattles to soft, muted drones. The monstrous noise that Chatham concocts is far more akin to the seismic crashes of monstrously distorted guitar feedback than that of two unprocessed slabs of metal, and it proves the composers interest in creating a similar world of sound out of whatever instrument currently proved his muse. On disc, the performance is jaw-droppingly powerful, a monumental chunk of glorious noise." - Table Of The Elements.
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Artist: COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES Title: Six Guitars Format: LP Label: Table of the Elements Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Their sound is expansive, vast, and billowing; full of ringing guitars, soaring in the best traditions of the Chatham/Branca standoff; meanwhile, beneath the clouds sprawl dewy meadows of gently rolling electronica. Six Guitars is just what its title states, yet so much more. Wildly versatile drummer Jon Mueller follows the rules by hammering on an electric guitar with mallets, enhancing the Steve Reichian vibe (compare this with Muellers face-melting solo onslaught Metals). The band sparkles accordingly, lifting to a dazzling climax. Its epic minimalism in exquisite registration, and the perfect selection to introduce the Table Of The Elements Guitar Series (fans will be happy to hear that Mueller is on deck with a solo contribution to the series as well). Beyond the music, theres the similarly spectacular packaging. Its a one-sided, 12-inch LP, pressed on clear vinyl; the reverse is laser etched with an original illustration by acclaimed UK artist Savage Pencil, whose credits include album art for The Fall, Big Black, and Sonic Youth. Its a limited-edition pressing, so get it while you can -- disks from the labels original Guitar Series in 1993/1994 are now some of Collectorvilles must coveted treasures." -Table of the Elements |
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Artist: CONRAD, TONY Title: Bryant Park Moratorium Rally (1969) Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "An October afternoon in 1969. Midtown Manhattan. A rally in Bryant Park against the Vietnam War. Down 42nd Street towards Times Square, Tony Conrad is adjusting microphones in his 5th floor loft, one directed at the TV set -- where it will pick up live local news coverage -- the other pointing out the window, where the echo of speeches and crowd noise mingles with the oceanic rush of crosstown traffic. As the event is about to begin, he rolls tape. Thirty-four years later, we hear what he heard. And the juncture, for so many reasons, could not be more critical. As the Bush Administration pursues a risky military agenda in the Middle East -- one with unsettling long-term implications both at home and abroad -- we see a nation not divided, as in the Vietnam Era, but strangely complacent. Our media-saturated reality functions like a drug, instantly televised warfare a new entertainment, and organized public dissent a novelty at home and a roaring chorus everywhere else. Conrads recording of the Oct. 15 Vietnam Moratorium Rally is an eerie flashback that offers urgent new insights into our own lives and times, post-9/11 and full on into a new millennium." - Table Of The Elements. |
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Artist: CONRAD, TONY Title: Fantastic Glissando Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "Its 1969, and Tony Conrad wants to take you Higher. Celebrated for the thrilling roar of his amplified violin, Conrad is a founding father of minimalism and a giant in the American soundscape. Now Conrads own Audio ArtKive imprint presents the first in a series of releases that reveal the wild breadth of his 40-year career, including field recordings, piano compositions, film soundtracks and more. Fantastic Glissando (1969) is a series of (d)evolving electronic compositions created with sine-wave oscillators. The instrumentation is different, but the effect is typical Conrad: soaring, aggressively textured and jet-engine massive. This first-time CD release contains an extra ten-minute bonus track not included on the original LP version." - Table Of The Elements. |
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Artist: CONRAD, TONY Title: Fantastic Glissando Format: LP Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: CONRAD, TONY Title: Joan of Arc Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "Tony Conrad is a founding father of minimalism and a giant in the American soundscape. The indefatigable Conrad kept busy during the Revolution Summer of 1968. In addition to his reunion recordings with John Cale (documented in the Cale set New York in the 1960s), Conrad starred in Ira Cohens legendary film The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda and made extensive solo recordings, including Joan of Arc, available here for the first time. One of Conrads personal favorites, its a long piece for pump organ, in which he conjures both searing white heat and malignant gothic dread. An excerpt was used as the soundtrack for the Piero Heliczer film of the same name, but Conrad feels a greater affinity with that years Cohen film; accordingly, Cohen graciously provided restored stills from Thunderbolt Pagoda for the packaging of this release. Cohens sumptuous imagery - which Jimi Hendrix described as looking through butterfly wings - features a blissed-out and shirtless Conrad replete in pencil mustache, mascara and blood-red turban. The man is just downright cool - about as cool as Hendrix, and almost always louder." - Table Of The Elements. |
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Artist: CONRAD, TONY W/ FAUST Title: Outside The Dream Syndicate Alive Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| 2005 release. "Minimalist pioneer Tony Conrad and notorious Krautrock progenitors Faust met just three times: in the studio to record the ground-breaking Outside the Dream Syndicate in 1972, and twice on the concert stage in the mid-1990s. This recording documents their third and final encounter, at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, February 18, 1995. The difference between the original session and this live event is astonishing. While Conrads aggressive string sound was tamed in the studio by producer Uwe Nettlebeck (Conrad has complained that the mix made him sound like a hippy), here it is full of menace and ferocity, and in tandem attack with the equally belligerent violin of Jim ORourke, it conjures a raging wall of sound.." - Table Of The Elements. |
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Artist: DREYBLATT AND THE ORCHESTRA OF EXCITED STRINGS, ARNOLD Title: Live at Federal Hall National Memorial, 1981 Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "Arnold Dreyblatt is one of the most engaging of the second generation of New York minimalists. During a three decade career he has developed a distinctive -- and delightfully accessible -- approach to composition and performance. Employing modified and invented instruments and a unique tuning system, his music is a vigorously rhythmic and richly textured romp through the natural overtone series. This live CD celebrates the 25th anniversary of Dreyblatts historic concert at Federal Hall in New York (where George Washington was inaugurated as President). Utilizing the natural resonances of the structures spectacular dome, Dreyblatt and his Orchestra of Excited Strings present seven outstanding pieces from the Nodal Excitation series for just-intoned double basses, piano, hurdy gurdy and pipe organ, emphasizing dynamics and sonorities to stunning acoustical effect." - Table Of The Elements. |
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Artist: DREYBLATT, ARNOLD Title: Point Source/Lapse Format: 12" Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Table of the Elements presents the Lanthanides, a series of 14 single-sided, limited edition LPs. Each disk is pressed on clear or transparent vinyl, silk-screened on the reverse in glow-in-the-dark ink, and packaged in a clear vinyl sleeve. As one of the most engaging of the second generation of New York minimal composers, Arnold Dreyblatt has developed a distinctive--And delightfully accessible--approach to composition and performance. Employing modified and invented instruments and a unique tuning system, his music is a vigorously rhythmic and richly textured romp through the natural overtone series. These two outstanding pieces for just-intoned electric guitar, bass violin, cimbalom, percussion and brass emphasize dynamics and sonorities, to stunning acoustical effect." - Table Of The Elements.
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Artist: FAHEY, JOHN Title: Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues Format: LP Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"One of acoustic musics true innovators and eccentrics, John Fahey was a crucial figure in expanding the boundaries of the acoustic guitar. He drew from blues, Native American music, Indian ragas, experimental dissonance, and pop, and was the first to demonstrate that the finger-picking techniques of traditional country and blues steel-string guitar could be used to express a world of non-traditional musical ideas-harmonies and melodies more readily associated with Bartok, Charles Ives, or the music of India. Fahey played with a fierce imagination and versatility, and while his idiosyncrasy may have limited him to a cult following, it also ensured that his work continues to sound startlingly original." - Table Of The Elements.
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Artist: GALBRAITH, ALASTAIR Title: Morse/Gaudylight Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"An expanded reissue of two releases recorded between 1988 and 1992 by New Zealand underground legend ALASTAIR GALBRAITH. Includes all twenty-tree tracks originally released on the Morse and Gaudylight records, along with four bonus tracks." - Table of the Elements.
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Artist: GALBRAITH, ALASTAIR Title: Talisman Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"An expanded reissue of the Talisman album from New Zealand underground legend ALASTAIR GALBRAITH. Includes all twenty tracks from the original release, along with seven bonus tracks." - Table of the Elements.
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Artist: GALBRAITH, ALASTAIR/MATT DE GENNARO Title: From the Dark (South Island) Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
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"Multi-talented Alastair Galbraith is the glue that binds the New Zealand underground. His work ranges from achingly lyrical violin for artists as disparate as Peter Jefferies and the Bats, to the feedback squalls he conjures as member of A Handful Of Dust, to the otherworldly miniatures he crafts for his own solo albums. However, in recent years, Galbraith, along with American Matt De Gennaro, has developed another remarkable performance idiom, one that is positioned closer to the sounding sculpture of Harry Bertoia. In From the Dark (South Island), architectural idiosyncrasies are transformed into nuanced and hypnotic audio. Wires - some as long as 100 feet - are affixed throughout a building. When the wires are taught and stroked with rosined hands or a piece of leather, longitudinal vibrations are sent to the points of attachment, creating a natural resonator. It is not the wires that make the sound, but the wall, railing or window frames at their end; wire length and room acoustics determine the pitch. The result, achieved in a veil of total darkness, is a beautiful and eerie confluence of chance and accident, architecture and improvisation. As Galbraith himself puts it, There is some quite magical feeling of communion turning the lights off and making the building sing." - Table Of The Elements
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Artist: GATE Title: The Dew Line Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
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"Twenty years is long enough: Its time to acknowledge Michael Morley as an indie-rock patriarch. And why not? As the guitarist and vocalist for New Zealand noise-trip trio The Dead C and the man behind Gate (ostensibly a solo project, although Sonic Youths Lee Ranaldo makes frequent guest appearances), Morley is the rare artist that record-hounds love to unearth: an isotope in the body Pop, radiating an invisible influence. With scores of micro-batch releases and an unmistakably intimate performance idiom, Morley ranks in the company of Jandek or Loren Connors, but its geographic isolation rather than social disengagement that has deflected his work from reaching more ears. Still, if you dont recognize his name, youve heard his reverberations, in the ambient post-rock of Flying Saucer Attack and Labraford, the neo-psychedelia of Bardo Pond, and the fidelity-challenged whorl of Pavement and Sebadoh. Recorded in 1993 and out of print since, Gates The Dew Line is the first part of his rock trilogy (followed by The Monolake in 1996 and The Wisher Table in 1999). Rock it does. Typical Gate/Dead C no-fi guitar subduction and Morleys locked-in-the-car-trunk vocals are prominent, but theres also a hefty amount of scraping synthesizer menace and paleozoic riffage. The crust of noise is there, but crack open the sonic geode and youll discover some nifty songstyling. In someone elses universe, the gem of an opening track, Millions, gets play on AM radio, while Have Not climbs the FM charts. Full of brooding atmospherics, The Dew Line is the most -- dare we say it -- accessible of any of Morleys records, and it stands on an equal footing with his Dead C high-water mark, Harsh 70s Reality, as an anti-rock rock classic." - Table Of The Elements.
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Artist: GATE Title: The Monolake Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
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"Repress of this 1996 studio album, the 2nd in Michael Morley (Dead C.)s "rock triology"." - FE. "The Monolake is a road-trip across a tableaux of transcendental drones and detoured records that culminates in an unbelievably heavy meta-literal cover of Jennifer from Faust IV-." - Table Of The Elements.
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Artist: GILBERT, BC Title: Ordier Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Though the era of punk was widely regarded as a time of extremes, legendary group Wire and guitarist BC Gilbert provided the most problematic, visionary and ironic response to the music scene of the mid-70s. The angular minimalism of their sound, the abstract, deadpan lyrics and a penchant for confrontation betrayed the art school origins and made Wire an idiosyncratic triumph. With bravery, integrity, absolute courage and energy -- and more ideas and concepts than any other musician of his era -- Gilbert continues to forge ahead. In his post-Wire work, he has utilized a variety of modernist tools and explored a vast range of experimental music, from electronic noise to ambient drones. Table of the Elements is now pleased to present the contemporaneous CD, Ordier . Recorded for the label in 1996 but subsequently believed lost, Ordier lets loose a wild swarm of electronics. As Gilbert writes: Im taking a very, very minimalist approach and really getting inside some of the sounds and chasing them to destruction. Its done mostly with effects, guitar pedals pushed to the absolute limit. Beautifully packaged in a custom-designed wood case, and featuring photographs by prominent photographer Bettina Herzner." - Table Of The Elements. |
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Artist: KANE, JONATHAN Title: I Looked At the Sun Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Jonathan Kanes rollicking, majestic and critically-acclaimed debut February set you up with his lustrous, deep-grooved sound; now comes the bare-knuckled knock-out punch. On the opening track, BQE, Kane compliments his signature wall of guitars with the high-lonesome serenade of pedal steel, then puts that pedal to the metal and barrels through the psychedelic badlands of Mississippi Fred Mcdowells classic I Looked at the Sun. Add the Dixie-fried strut of ZZ Tops Billy Giibbons to Glenn Brancas guitar armies and youre still only halfway to Kanes mind-blowing reinvention of both minimalism and the blues -- its a blistering days drive from anything youve heard before." - Table Of The Elements. |
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Artist: KELLEY, MIKE Title: Silver Ball (Light and Color, Mostly) Format: LP Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"One channel from the eight channel audio sculpture Silver Ball (1994) mixed with an ambient recording of the work in exhibition at the Rooseum, Malmo Sweden, 1997. Mixed by Mike Kelley and Scott Benzel, Compound Annex Studio, Los Angeles, 2003." - Table Of The Elements.
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Artist: MUELLER, JON Title: Strung Format: LP Label: Table of the Elements Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| ""Peripatetic composer, performer, improviser, and designer Jon Mueller is a busy guy, and both the rock and experimental music scenes are the richer for it. As a drummer, he propels the ecstatic whorl of Collections of Colonies of Bees and the occasional guitar army of Rhys Chatham; alternately his solo project, Metals, is the most harrowingly intense percussive barrage youll ever encounter. He also finds time to collaborate with artists ranging from Wilcos Glenn Kotche to Swans Jarboe. Whether its minimalist bombast, free-improv interplay, or electro-acoustic finesse, Muellers got it covered. But what can he do with a guitar? In Strung, Mueller doesnt play the guitar; he scrambles its molecules. Laying down a photon-blast of sound, he initiates a relentless, rapid-pulse attack signal that summons wave upon wave of white noise. Think inexorable alien invasion -- The Day The Earth Stood Still, with Lou Reed as Klaatu and Metal Machine Music as the message. Earth doesnt stand a chance." Pressed on clear vinyl with great Savage Pencil etching on the b-side." -Table of the Elements |
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Artist: OLIVEROS, PAULINE Title: A Little Noise in the System Format: LP Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Pauline Oliveros life as a composer, performer and humanitarian is about opening her own and others sensibilities to the many facets of sound. Since the 1960s she has influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual. Many credit her with being the founder of present day meditative music. All of Oliveros work emphasizes musicianship, attention strategies, and improvisational skills. A Little Noise in the System is a triumphant electronic work from 1966, and the last of the 14 disks in the Table of the Elements 10th anniversary Lanthanides series. Pressed on clear vinyl and silk-screened in white ink." - Table Of Elements.
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Artist: RADIO/GUITAR (BARBARA ESS AND PEGGY AWESH) Title: Thrum Format: LP Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Latest in Table of the Elements 10th anniversary Lanthanides series of single-sided, silkscreened LPs: Radio/Guitar is fantastic music and noise utilizing radio sound and electric guitar as realized by artists Peggy Ahwesh and Barbara Ess respectively. Filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh came of age in the 1970s with feminist politics and the experimental film underground. She started working with Super-8 film in her teens and went on to make feature films, including Splice This (1999) and Girls Beware (1997). Her work has recently been shown at Rotterdam, Osnabrook, and The New York Film Festival. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the NYSCA Film Production Grant, Jerome Foundation Grant and a grant from Art Matters, Inc. She is presently teaching at Bard College. Barbara Ess has been performing music in NYC since the 1970s w/ such famed no-wave groups as The Static and Daily Life as well as ensembles led by Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham, and Y Pants, a trio of women playing music on toy instruments. Most recently she has been a member of Ultra Vulva. She has also worked as a publisher of Just Another Asshole -- a series of anthologies of artists works in various formats. She concurrently works as a visual artist making and showing large-scale photographs. A book of her photo work, I Am Not This Body, has been published by Aperture to resounding critical acclaim. This exquisite, limited-edition disk is only their second release." - Table Of The Elements.
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Artist: RANALDO, LEE Title: Countless Centuries Fled Into The Distance... Format: LP Label: Table of the Elements Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Sonic Youths Lee Ranaldo was part of the original Table of the Elements Guitar Series in 1993; now he returns with Countless Centuries Fled into the Distance Like So Many Storms. Its an epic earful, replete with shimmering textures and an inimitable charging clangor. With ecstatic, rocking squalor, he summons some dazzling shronk, reminiscent of early SY, the soaring drone of John Cale, and even the looping orientalia of Dream Syndicate-era La Monte Young. So duck and cover, as Lee fires an impeccably aimed fusillade across the screaming fields of sonic love." - Table of the Elements. Pressed on sea-foam green marbled, etched vinyl. Etched artwork on the b-side by Savage Pencil. |
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Artist: TRANSMISSION Title: Transmission Format: CD Label: Table Of The Elements Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Here is an extraordinary excavation from the buried history of the Downtown NYC scene: the unreleased, self-titled Transmission EP, recorded in 1981-82. Comprised of Jonathan Kane and Daniel Galliduani, the duo is one-half of the original version of the behemoth band Swans. Transmission both preceded and ran concurrent with the formation of Swans (Michael Gira was enough of a fan that he mixed Transmissions few live shows), and much of their material evolved into Swans tracks, including the standout Weakling. Unclassifiable within any conventional genre, it recalls the improvisation and complex, trance-inducing beats of North African music while adding a crust of no wave bluster and enough percussive artillery to sink a small island. Galliduani, whose saxophone is so heavily treated and processed that it sounds like a wall of guitars, lays down drones then adds weird, fierce, Eastern-tinged polyphonics; meanwhile Kane is a frenzied dervish, generating complex cross-tempos and rhythmic subdivision." - Table Of The Elements. |
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Artist: V/A Title: The Great Koonaklaster Speaks: A John Fahey Celebration Format: CD Label: Table of the Elements Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "John Faheys death -- he is believed to have died in the explosion of a house during the filming of Michelangelo Antonionis Zabriskie Point in 1969 -- is shrouded in confusion and camouflage. His remains were never found, and the question remains: did Fahey purposely stage his own death for his own occlusive purposes? Faheys collusion of folk, blues, ethnic and modern classical methods, which suggests both the trickster and the shaman, has attracted a cult of musician followers over the years, ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime. But his unsolved disappearance inspired another cult, which worships Count Saint Germain, a Rosicrucian adept who is said to have never died and has assumed various identities over the centuries. Disciples of this sect, heard on this record, believe Fahey -- The Great Koonaklaster -- to be the most recent incarnation of Saint Germain. They view Faheys music as a synthesis of Saint Germains abilities as a classical composer and skills as an alchemist, and have absorbed his guitar style in order to pay homage to him. A variety of ritual services are contained within, and there is much to be gleaned from these Koonaklasterians offerings; whether or not you choose to accept this immortal motherf#cker of the 20th century as Saint Germain is up to you." - Table of the Elements. Artists include Jack Rose, Greg Malcolm, Ben Vida, Sir Richard Bishop, Michael Hurley, No Neck Blues Band with John Fahey and Coach Fingers, Lichens, Badgerlore, R. Keenan Lawler, Pumice, David Daniell. |
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Artist: YOUNGS, RICHARD Title: Festival Format: CD Label: Table of the Elements Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "For this recording, Scotsman Richard Youngs brings a mixture of emotive balladry and avant-garde sound collage to the fore. Guitar feedback and distorted synthesizer drones introduce the album, suggesting it may be tough going, especially given that their is a high-pitch tone that could shatter windows cutting through the mix. The largely instrumental album switches down a gear from the courageous experiments that see clock chimes, Casios, and electric guitars interweaved, and the drones give way to the lilting ballad "Sea Is Madness" -- which has a heartbreaking refrain that resonates with the same desperation as Robert Wyatt performing "At Last I Am Free." This closing track could easily bring one to tears if it werent so distractingly intricate with its minimalist phasing effects. Wondering if Youngs could top this monumental achievement, he subsequently explored this reduced song style further on the album Saphie and floored his fans with his ability to write heart-wrenching ballads as well as being a super-sonic noise architect. Festival is certainly a standout in his expansive catalog. Coming as it does on Table of the Elements, one could only expect a genre-defying exploration." - Sylvie Harrison, All Music Guide |
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Artist: CAN Title: Prehistoric Future Format: LP Label: Tago Mago Country: Europe Price: $19.00 |
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"The first-ever recording session in 1968 by one of Germanys most influential bands. This very noisy and experimental album was first out in the mid-"80s as a cassette-only release, then finally on vinyl LP in 2001. Out of print for nearly 5 years, now available again!" - Tago Mago
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Artist: BEVERLIN II, BRYCE Title: Seizing Fate By The Throat Format: LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Bryce Beverlin II is a prolific multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis. His primary discipline is music -- specifically, freely-improvised vocals and percussion. Seizing Fate By The Throat is a distillation, the spirit of 15 years of spittle and brass vapors collected in this studio recording from March 14, 2010. Quietly tinkering with an array of metal, plastic and wooden objects, Beverlin draws the listener in only to reveal that he is unlocking the cage of a life-threatening animal. Suddenly: gnash, gurgle, grunt, the sounds of saliva smacking on hand-peeled lips. His performances overwhelm, frighten and suck the air out of the room, exorcising burden and frustration. This recording captures every detail in extreme close-up from inside the artists mouth to the tips of his fingers. Mastered by James Plotkin, cut direct to metal and pressed on 200 gram virgin vinyl, Seizing Fate By The Throat comes packaged in a full-color gloss varnished jacket with spot metallic printing and liner notes printed in the pocket. Limited to 300 copies only and co-released with Beverlins label Insides Music." - Taiga. |
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Artist: DEEP LISTENING BAND Title: Needle Drop Jungle Format: Double LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $34.00 |
| "May 30th, 2012 marked the 80th birthday of American visionary musician Pauline Oliveros. Needle Drop Jungle is a continuation of the celebration. Together with bandmates Stuart Dempster and David Gamper, Oliveros and company churned up a vigorous storm at their January 2011 residency in Seattle, captured on this double vinyl release. With the help of staff at DXArts, the Deep Listening Band recorded impromptu downpours unhindered by technical issues, a peak in their collective creative output. Suddenly and unexpectedly, David Gamper died on September 27th, 2011. Needle Drop Jungle thus includes the brightest moments from what have sadly become the last recordings of this exceptional trio. Along with the simultaneously released Pauline Oliveros Primordial/Lift 2LP, this title completes a tetralogy of Oliveros releases on Taiga that started with the Deep Listening Band Then & Now and Timeless Pulse Trio 2LPs. Needle Drop Jungle was mastered by James Plotkin, cut direct to metal and pressed on 200 gram virgin vinyl in an edition of 500. It comes packaged in a double-wide raw brown cardstock jacket with essays by the band and a flooded pocket. The jacket is encased in a custom slipcase, with gorgeous photographs by Michael S. Carlson from deep within the expansive Taiga forests southern edge." - Taiga. |
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Artist: DEEP LISTENING BAND Title: Then & Now Now & Then: Celebrating 20 Years Format: Double LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "The Deep Listening Band is an improvisational group founded in 1988 by Pauline Oliveros with members David Gamper and Stuart Dempster. Now, 20 years later, the trio celebrate an anniversary of improvisation, innovation and commitment with their first-ever vinyl release. This vinyl-only document contains four side-long tracks, one reissued and three previously-unreleased. "Cannery Row" was originally available on the Troglodytes Delight (1990) album and captures the band in Tarpaper Cave, which Dempster recalls as "an old limestone quarry near Rosendale, New York that had lovely dripping water sounds and Valhalla-like mists." The previously-unreleased tracks were gathered from three separate live performances at the Sounds Like Now Festival, Sound Exchange American Composers Forum, and Engine27, a 16-channel installation of special speakers. The audio was mastered for vinyl by James Plotkin, cut direct to metal and pressed on 200 gram virgin vinyl in a limited edition of 500. The records come packaged in a custom-designed slipcover and a jacket with doublewide spines. The slipcover features two exquisite photographs and is dual-finished with a gloss front and matte back. The jacket is printed on a cardboard brown stock with the pocket flooded green and features three rich essays including: an introduction by David Felton, a short history by Dempster and information about the Expanded Instrument System (EIS) from Oliveros. Mastered for vinyl by James Plotkin, cut direct to metal and pressed on 200 gram virgin vinyl in a limited edition of 500. Includes an intro by David Felton, a bio by Dempster and an essay about the Expanded Instrument System (EIS) from Oliveros." -Taiga - "First it was the name of an album that came out about 20 years ago and made new music history. Deep Listening. Then it became the name of the band that recorded that album. Then it became the name of a practice, an approach to art, improvisation, exploration and, well, living, that drove that band, a band of crazies led by Pauline Oliveros, to lower themselves into a huge underground concrete cistern in the state of Washington." -David Felton, 2008 |
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Artist: ELEH Title: Homage Format: Triple LP Box Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $61.00 |
| "Presenting a unified whole, the Homage 3LP boxed set contains Homage to the Square Wave, ...Sine Wave and ...Pointed Waveforms, all out-of-print until now. Initially released separately in 2008, 2009 and 2012 respectively with custom letterpress jackets, this collection includes new retrospective artwork by John Brien. Each disc comes in its own one-color silkscreen jacket using the same blue, orange and green from the original editions; all housed in a rigid white satin-coated slipcase with spot varnish printing, hand-numbered out of 800. Eleh, an artist who flourishes in restraint, uses a reduced sonic vocabulary to highlight delicate intricacies in a logical path toward harmonious satisfaction. The organization of hypnotic square waves, rippling sine waves and triangle/saw tooth waveforms is a discourse in the infinity, rather than the limits, of reduction. By employing a natural practice of balanced interpretation, Eleh enables an individual reaction free of the clutter of white noise." - Taiga. |
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Artist: ELEH Title: Homage To The Sine Wave Format: LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
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"The elusive Eleh project resurfaces from the depths with another release on Taiga. Homage To The Sine Wave is the second release in their sound waves-based Homage To... series, following 2008s sold-out LP, Homage To The Square Wave. In a similar fashion, the elemental approach to the construction of the pieces on Sine Wave is influenced by Josef Albers, the German-born U.S.-based abstract painter and theorist best known for his color studies embodied in paintings of geometric abstraction. Both faces feature side-long compositions at just over 20 minutes each. Side A holds "Together We Are One," a piece that begins floating in the ether, but gently lands on a field of rhythmic bass pulses before dipping below the horizon. "Beneath The Silver Sun" on the B-side is a meditation on the nighttime, with a consistent delivery and subtle transformation that is dually tranquil and exhilarating. Volume reveals detail. Sine Wave was mastered by James Plotkin, cut direct to metal and pressed on 200 gram virgin vinyl in a hand-numbered edition of 500. The LP comes housed in a custom 2-color letterpressed jacket that was designed by John Brien of Important Records and printed by Studio On Fire in Minneapolis. The jackets were printed flat, die-cut, folded and glued, resulting in a letterpressed jacket with a printed spine. Eleh was formed to pay tribute to the pioneers of audio minimalism such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros and Charlemagne Palestine. They use vintage modular gear to produce recordings of pure tone, pure sound, pure volume and pure analog. This is two-tone drone targeted towards absolute, meditative bliss." -Taiga
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Artist: ELEH Title: Homage to the Square Wave Format: LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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Two new 20-minute pieces from Eleh pressed on 200g vinyl and packaged in a custom designed letterpressed, die-cut, folded and glued jacket in a hand-numbered edition of 500.
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Artist: LAMB, GARRY BRADBURY, DAVID BURRASTON, OREN AMBARCHI & ROBIN FOX, ALAN Title: Wired Open Day 2009 Format: Double LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $34.00 |
| "Wired Open Day 2009 is a vinyl-only release documenting live performances by Alan Lamb, Garry Bradbury, David Burraston, Oren Ambarchi and Robin Fox. Held outdoors during the evening of October 31st at The WIRED Lab, in rural South West, New South Wales, Australia, this 2LP is a document of the event; the result of an artist-in-residence program to explore the sonic possibilities of The Wires, landscape scale installations in rural NSW. The WIRED Lab is an artist-run initiative founded in 2007 to foster art/science collaborations in a rural environment. The initial focus of this project was to establish a site to preserve and expand on The Wires, a distinctly Australian invention that was pioneered by Australian artist Alan Lamb since the 1970s. Wiredlab.org notes that, "Lambs formal investigations of The Wires started in 1976 with his discovery of a 1km stretch of abandoned telegraph wires on a farm in the Great Southern region of Western Australia ... Lamb learnt to record them and later devised compositions with these recordings. When these telegraph lines eventually decayed, Lamb commenced building wire installations primarily for recording. Like the scale of the original telegraph wires, these purpose-built wire installations were not of a domestic scale, they too had a deep connection with nature and spanned 100s of meters across the rural landscape. Although principally functioning like a giant æolian harp, it is not only wind that plays The Wires, it seems that on their own accord The Wires often harmonically sing, vibrate or roar as they react to environmental factors, thereby creating a unique and infinite instrumentation of itself and its surrounds, in the words of David Burraston they are natures microphone." The four sides of Wired Open Day 2009 display the expansive range of the Wire installations built by The Wired Lab. Commencing at sunset, Garry Bradbury and Alan Lamb coax a gentle eco with acoustic recordings into deep and sonorous reverberations on side A. David Burraston and Alan Lamb focus on droplets of zaps and wire oscillations at twilight, with side B culminating in a downpour of crackling spray. At nightfall, Oren Ambarchi applies his mastery of condensed and layered tones on side C, with shuddering overtones, husky drones and rich clusters of sustain. Robin Fox concludes, in the dark, on side D, mashing off-kilter rhythms with a tumble of staccato bursts and fuzzy crunch. An edition of 500 double LPs in hand-numbered matte-varnished Stoughton tip-on gatefold jackets, Wired Open Day 2009 was mastered by James Plotkin, cut direct to metal and pressed on 200 gram virgin vinyl. This release features photographs from the site and text by Sarah Last, founder of The WIRED Lab and Curator of Wired Open Day 2009." -Taiga. |
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Artist: LOTUS EATERS Title: Wurmwulv Format: Double LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $34.00 |
| "Lotus Eaters is Stephen OMalley (Sunn O))), KTL, etc.), James Plotkin (Khanate, Phantomsmasher, etc.) and Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, etc.). Previously issued on CD, Plotkin has remixed, remastered and rearranged Wurmwulv for this vinyl edition using alternate takes from the original recording sessions. The 2LP also includes reworked material from Lotus Eaters self-titled 7" released by Drone Records. 52 minutes and 29 seconds on 3 sides of direct metal mastered 200 gram virgin vinyl, the 2LP has a drawing by Turner etched on side D. Housed in a Stoughton tip-on gatefold jacket designed by OMalley, Wurmwulv features Stephen Kasner paintings printed on linen-textured woven paper, a spot varnished interior and flooded pockets. The Kasner paintings and Turner drawings included were created specifically for this vinyl edition of 1,000. Reconfigured for vinyl, Wurmwulv is a solvent-soaked carpet ride into loose soil. Worms writhe over cilia as moist roots lick and graze skin. The dampened howls of wolves reverberate through water freezing into creaking crystals. When oxygen levels reach a critical low, a cacophony of clanging metal provides an inhalation of humid air." -Taiga |
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Artist: MUELLER, JON Title: Death Blues Format: LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "The six songs that comprise Jon Muellers Death Blues are each their own doorway to both a bold new musical statement from the renowned drummer/percussionist and an unprecedented journey into a conscious contemplation of death -- and the life that surrounds it. Released in tandem with a multi-part manifesto, Death Blues transcends its own existence as a 34-minute, earth-cracking rock album. Much like Mueller, whose landmark solo work stands alongside his role in notable bands Volcano Choir (and previously, Collections of Colonies of Bees), Death Blues embodies the acknowledgement that theres more to experiencing music than simply just listening. Conceived and largely executed in its recorded form by Mueller himself -- adding hammered acoustic guitar and bold vocal patterning to his ever-evolving mastery of percussion -- Death Blues is audibly (and intensely) personal. However, the very act of recording was the first step in a discourse that Mueller began over a year ago, forming a band of brilliant performers from his Milwaukee, WI hometown that would go on to perform Death Blues at Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, NC and at two sold-out Death Blues events in Milwaukee, where a labyrinth led the audience into a multi-sensory and participatory experience culminating in a climactic performance of the album. It was as close as one could get to being next to Mueller at that moment of discovery: of the inevitability of death as the impetus to become more present in each moment and of the necessity of building his own path to sharing that idea. Death Blues is being collaboratively released by Taiga and Hometapes and is available as a limited edition LP packaged in a deluxe litho-wrapped jacket that includes the Death Blues manifesto; 500 hand-numbered copies of the highest fidelity pressed on 200 gram virgin vinyl." -Taiga. |
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Artist: NAKATANI, TATSUYA Title: Nakatani Gong Orchestra Format: LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Perpetually rolling, Japanese-American master percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani holds a relentless schedule, road-bound in continuous dedication to his passion. His solo sets thunder with coaxed nuances from his kit, overlaid in staggering bounty. Nakatani is also fearless when it comes to collaboration, and seeks it out adventurously during his extensive tours. In this spirit of combined efforts, Nakatani Gong Orchestra shines a different light in each new location it arises. Nakatani has been packing his van with gongs and his handmade bows, mallets and surrounding instruments throughout 2011 and 2012. Each stop offers a new set of five or six players who have a brief technique workshop and practice with Nakatani before performing fresh to a live audience. Encompassing a wide range of different backgrounds and experience, each performance results in vastly different soundscapes. Many of these Nakatani Gong Orchestra rituals have been recorded, highlights from which have been extracted and compiled seamlessly for this LP. Recorded 2011 and 2012 in Easton PA, Oberlin OH, Philadelphia PA, Kansas City KS, Richmond VA and Toledo OH, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra LP was mastered by James Plotkin, cut direct to metal and pressed on 200 gram virgin vinyl. An edition of 800, the record is packaged in a hand-numbered Stoughton tip-on jacket wrapped with black paper and printed with metallic ink." - Taiga. |
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Artist: OLIVEROS, PAULINE Title: Primordial/Lift Format: Double LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $34.00 |
| "Primordial/Lift is a continuation of Pauline Oliveros 80th birthday celebration. This double vinyl record contains the previously-unreleased second performance of Primordial/Lift from September 25th, 2010. The first performance of this work, which took place in 1998, was released on CD in both edited and full-length versions. Interpreting a score penned by Oliveros in 1998, Anne Bourne, Andrew Deutsch, Miguel Frasconi, David Grubbs, Jason Huang and Suzanne Thorpe joined Oliveros at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn to divulge this bizarre and surreal sound work. Centered around a low frequency oscillator, the group swirls cello, voice, sampler, glass drones, e-guitar, violin and V accordion into a molten mass dropped from outer space. Along with the simultaneously released Deep Listening Band Needle Drop Jungle 2LP, this title completes a tetralogy of Oliveros releases on Taiga that started with the Deep Listening Band Then & Now and Timeless Pulse Trio 2LPs. Primordial/Lift was mastered by James Plotkin, cut direct to metal and pressed on 200 gram virgin vinyl in an edition of 500. It comes packaged in a double-wide jacket with the original scores printed in metallic ink and a flooded pocket. The jacket is encased in a custom slipcase, with gorgeous photographs by Michael S. Carlson from deep within the expansive Taiga forests southern edge." - Taiga. |
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Artist: QUIN, DOUGLAS Title: Fathom Format: LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Douglas Quin is a U.S. sound designer, naturalist, public radio commentator, educator, and music composer. For over 20 years Quin has traveled widely, documenting natural soundscapes -- from Antarctic ice to Arctic tundra and from African savannah to Amazon rainforest. His recordings of endangered and disappearing habitats represent one of the most unique and extensive collections anywhere. Quin recently created the sound design for and mixed Werner Herzogs Academy Award® nominated film, Encounters At the End of the World. He contributed to the sound design for Spore, a game from Maxis/Electronic Art, and has also worked on exhibits for the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, American Museum of Natural History, and the Polish Academy of Sciences, among others. Quins Fathom brings together four extended underwater soundscapes -- two each from the Arctic and Antarctic. The recordings have been gathered over a period of 15 years, capturing an extraordinary palette of sonic voices, events, spaces, and textures. To the human ear, these soundscapes are haunting and otherworldly; yet they are very much of this world -- out of ear-reach. The tracks are minimally-edited and are his first field recordings to be archived on vinyl. Included with the release is a sealed envelope containing an insert with specific locations, animals, and other elements heard, giving listeners the option to absorb sound with or without association. The envelope is printed with liner notes and comments from Dutch journalist and music critic René van Peer. Mastered by James Plotkin, cut direct to metal and pressed on 200 gram virgin-vinyl, Fathom comes packaged in custom letter-pressed materials and is presented as a limited edition of 1,000 copies." -Taiga |
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Artist: TIMELESS PULSE Title: Trio Format: Double LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
| "The Timeless Pulse trio is Pauline Oliveros (accordion), with percussionists George Marsh and Jennifer Wilsey. Released in honor of the 20th annual Deep Listening Retreats held this year in Camallera, Spain and Petaluma, California, this is the third Timeless Pulse album. Formed in 1991 during a residency at the Deep Listening Institute, the full ensemble, including Thomas Buckner and David Wessel, has released two live recordings on CD: Live At CNMAT and Quintet. This is the first time this entity has been stripped down to a trio, recorded in a studio and released on vinyl. Divided into four sides with titled subsections, the album includes guests Ione and Joyce Kouffman contributing spoken word and cello on "Real As Any Dream." Mastered for vinyl by Kenny Evans at Mesa Recording, cut direct to metal and pressed on 200 gram virgin vinyl, this double LP is limited to 500 copies. It comes packaged in the custom designed slipcover and jacket with double-wide spines used for the Deep Listening Band Then & Now Now & Then 2LP. The slipcover features two exquisite photographs and is dual-finished with a gloss front and uncoated back. The jacket is printed with metallic ink, has a flooded pocket and features an essay by Amy Beal, Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz." - Tiaga. "The sound world within which Timeless Pulse Trio prefers to work: sustained sounds like Paulines accordion drones, gongs, bowed cymbals, ornamented by rattles, bells and the cracks and pops of the drum set and struck resonant objects ... These recordings emanate from a culture of active listening, as promoted and practiced by this trio, as well as by many other ensemble-based improvisers and meditative musical practices around the globe. The heart of free improvisation rests in the act of listening, and in the discovery inherent to that process." - Amy Beal. |
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Artist: TORAL, RAFAEL Title: Space Format: Double LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "With previous releases by toral on such respected labels as touch, table of the elements and ecstatic peace, taiga records is proud to present the deluxe 2xlp version of space. this exciting album by toral is coincidentally taigas inaugural release as well as that of the space program. originally released on cd by the highly regarded staubgold label, it is presented here in a limited edition of 500 copies on direct-metal mastered 200g virgin vinyl. this version includes all of the original audio from the cd plus a previously unreleased 17-minute vinyl-only bonus track, "space study 1.3," a live duet with percussionist cesar burago. packaged in a gatefold jacket designed by helder luís with spot metallic printing, the album boasts the daniel malhão photograph from the cd version expanded across the entire outside in uv gloss, an essay by toral printed inside on reversed stock and the pockets flooded black." - Taiga |
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Artist: TORAL, RAFAEL Title: Space Elements Vol. 1 Format: LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "This is the third in Rafael Torals Space Program series of releases -- his long-term research project launched in 2004, through which he has unearthed an innovative approach and a complete re-thinking of how electronic music is conceived and experienced. Using custom experimental instruments, Toral performs electronic music concerned with "phrasing and swing" and performing strange melodies with physicality, movement and gesture in flux. The result is something youre unlikely to have heard before, a kind of alien electronic jazz. After the acclaimed, orchestral Space and the follow-up Space Solo 1, this is the first volume of the Space Elements series, each release being focused on one kind of instrument, on small settings and including collaborations. Space Elements Vol. I features Rute Praça (cello), Margarida Garcia (electric double-bass), Sei Miguels amazing percussionist César Burago, and David Toop (flute), besides a short appearance by Sei Miguel himself. From Torals liner notes: "Having found that jazz is the field of musical knowledge where disciplined decision-making is most developed, this music is more informed by jazz than by any other. The Space Program emphasizes articulating silence and sound, by structuring musical discourse on experimental instruments with a simple and clear sonic identity. To my surprise, I found no historical precedents to this practice, being that it draws practically no information from electronic music history (which is grounded on different thinking patterns), and it draws very little from jazz history as well, since the instruments I use are inadequate to play any music based on the Western system. I regard this approach to jazz (meaning a system of individual decision-making from the standpoint of free-spectrum live electronics) as a new and exciting field of creative possibilities. I called it post-free jazz electronic music." Space Elements Vol. I was mastered direct to metal and pressed on clear 200 gram virgin vinyl in a limited edition of 500 copies. The jacket was designed by Helder Luís at No Type and features a collage by contemporary artist João Paulo Feliciano. CD version forthcoming on Staubgold." - Taiga |
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Artist: TORAL, RAFAEL Title: Space Elements Vol. II Format: LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Space Elements Vol. II is the fourth release in Rafael Torals ongoing project, the Space Program. Following the first Elements release, this volume features a new set of collaborators: Evan Parker (soprano sax), Manuel Mota (guitar), Afonso Simões (drums), Stefano Tedesco (vibraphone), João Paulo Feliciano (Rhodes piano), and Ruben Costa (digital synthesizer), as well as returning guests Sei Miguel (trumpet), César Burago (percussion), Fala Mariam (trombone), and Rute Praça (cello). Space Elements Vol. II displays a melodic quality that, along with a refined management of silence, marks a new area and consolidates the Space Programs complex network. Its spaciousness is explained in Torals liner notes: "While finding ways to make decisions on sound emission, it became evident to me that such sounds should have a reason to exist, they should be essential and necessary." Dan Warburtons writing in The Wire about Space fits Space Elements Vol. II perfectly: "The melodic logic that drives certain instruments within Space also recalls birdsong, with dense, convoluted runs of twittering melody ending in single piping notes, as spontaneous as Messiaens birdsong transcriptions were painstaking and meticulous." Torals music is a jazz-inspired re-evaluation of live electronics: "Despite working in a sound world that is cosmetically closer to R2D2s vocabulary than Louis Armstrongs or John Coltranes, Toral has claimed a kinship to jazz because it models instant music making within a disciplined framework." (Bill Meyer, Dusted); "Toral is looking for nothing less than a totally fresh language to work in" (The Wire). Space Elements Vol. II was mastered direct to metal from 24-bit files and pressed on clear 200 gram virgin-vinyl. With design by Helder Luis at NOTYPE, the LP features a collage by João Paulo Feliciano. Presented in a limited edition of 500." - Taiga. |
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Artist: TORAL, RAFAEL Title: Space Solo 1 Format: LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| The lp version of the cd released by quecksilber in 2007. presented in a limited edition of 500, mastered direct to metal and pressed on 200g virgin vinyl. the jacket features the rui toscano drawing from the cd version expanded for the 12-inch format printed in black and pantone red on reversed stock with the pocket flooded red. |
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Artist: FAHEY, JOHN Title: Blind Joe Death Format: LP Label: Takoma Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Back in print on vinyl at last, this is a 60s reworking of the songs on the legendary guitarists very rare 1959 self-released debut album, and also his first release on the Takoma label. In 1959 Fahey was just beginning to work out his unique experimental blues-folk acoustic fusion techniques, so heres a chance to see how it all started."
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Artist: ROSTAD, NILS Title: Ujamt Format: LP Label: Tallerk Plater Country: Norway Price: $30.00 |
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Limited to 100 copies. "Rostad plays like a pig and that is meant to be a compliment. Fake jazz drumming, humming like a monk, improvising all freely around weird guitar/bass parts, and pressing down random keys on the keyboard, something attempting at a melody, such as in the fifth track on the a-side. Its all actually quite diverse, from quite loud bits of noise like material to more introspective moments. Everything has that direct in yr face quality, no hiding from there. It all sounds great (no doubt to the mastering qualities of Jos Smolders).100 made, so hence no promo, but a fine quality all around." - Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly.
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Artist: MUSIC Title: Vols. 1-3 Format: 3xMag Set Label: Tamago Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| All 3 issues of this late 90s mag, published by Yuzo Sakuramoto and Gary McCraw, bundled in a printed cloth obi-style wrap. #1: Gary Numan, Takehisa Kosugi and Eye Yamataka interviewed by Takako Okamoto (of HEAR Sound Art Library), David Tudor, Nam June Paik, Christian Marclay and Yasunao Tone (of Fluxus, Group Ongaku, etc). #2: Milford Graves, Laetitia Sadler, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Conlon Nancarrow, Jim ORourke and Stereo Total. PLUS Satoru Higashiseto sheds some light on one of the greatest (tied with Pinakotheca?) and most mysterious late 70s/early 80s Japanese labels, Vanity Records. #3: Michael Snow interviewed by Alan Licht, Stephen Prina, Thurston Moore, Nam June Paik, Null New York w/ Actress, Neon France, Bedroom Productions, etc. Finally restocked after 7-8 years.. |
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Artist: SUN DIAL Title: Mind Control Format: LP Label: Tangerine Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "Studio album recorded between 2011 and 2012. Its a blend of long psychedelic tripping guitars, Krautrock, and electronic wizardry. For this album, the band invited Hugo Chavez-Smith to produce Mind Control. Hugo was also involved in the debut Sun Dial album, Other Way Out, and for this occasion we have resurrected the legendary Tangerine label -- so you know what to expect! This album is a 500 issue gatefold sleeve edition with poster. 180 gram vinyl." -Tangerine. |
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Artist: SUN DIAL Title: Reflecter Format: LP Label: Tangerine Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "First time vinyl reissue from the masters of this classic 1992 psych album, now long out of print. This was the bands second album release, but was in fact their third album after Return Journey (which wasnt issued until 1994) that went top five in the UK Indie charts at the time. Comes complete with a poster insert." -Tangerine. |
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Artist: A.R. & MACHINES Title: Die Grüne Reise - The Green Journey Format: CD/DVD Label: Tangram Country: France Price: $24.00 |
| "Remastered deluxe 2007 release. Achim Reichels A.R. & Machines genius German Krautrock/space-rock project Die Grüne Reise - The Green Journey finds new life. Originally issued by Polydor in Germany in 1971, Reichel played all the instruments here, and produced the entire thing himself in partnership with Frank Dostal, who also penned the English lyrics and had previously done time with Reichel in the popular West German beatgruppe, The Rattles. The Green Journey is a masterpiece of doubly/triply-tracked, tape-machined, echo-plexed and looped space-guitar-madness, with a host of skronk, thunderous percussion, tribal whoops, and head-busting, three-dimensional, lysergic lyrics. As the artist himself proclaimed, "I was just trying something out with my guitar, when out of the blue, the Akai X-3300 began to repeat endless cascades of guitar echoes. My guitar suddenly sounded like ten." Initially, The Green Voyage was intended as "a soundtrack for an imaginary movie," and this has now been achieved by some 60 students of the Lippe and Höxters University of Applied Sciences, who, over the course of two terms produced a 42-minute video for the ten album tracks. Theres also a 10-minute "making of" film as well. Housed in a 6-panel, tri-fold dexluxe digipack with liner notes in German and English written by Jörg Gülden." - Tangram. |
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Artist: SMEGMA Title: Belgium --- Portland Format: CDR Label: Tanz Procesz Country: France Price: $13.00 |
| "The kings and queens of American free noise since 1973. Live tracks from their 2005 Belgian shows. Studio tracks recorded early 2006 in Portland. Handmade color packaging in recycled 7inch cover" - Tanz Procesz. |
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Artist: TAZARTES, GHEDALIA Title: Repas Froid Format: CD Label: Tanzprocesz Country: France Price: $16.00 |
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"Brand new Ghedalia Tazartes release. Directly taken from his "archives". Crazy vocals, synth, loops. Spontaneous concrete music ? For fans of his "Une Eclipse Totale De Soleil"" -Tanzprocesz.
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Artist: BURNT HILLS Title: Cloud Nine Format: CDR Label: Tape Drift Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Latest missive from this free rock/noise/psych collective based in the wilds of Albany, NY. Easily their loudest and most PURE assault on the senses yet. Wild, wooly, and singular-minded in its pursuit of psychedelic Krautrock-inspired oblivion. We cant say it any better than the good folks at Aquarius: "Fans of freaked out psychedelic punch ups, dizzying clattery outsider free rock and getting super high and diving head first into a huge pile of drums and guitars will feel right at home." Keep an eye out for upcoming Burnt Hills releases on the Lotus Sound, Qbico, Ruby Red, and Ruralfaune too." -Tape Drift. |
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Artist: OFF BAND, THE & WAFFELSCHMIEDE Title: Links Wo Das Herz Ist Format: LP Label: Tape Drift Country: Germany Price: $46.00 |
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Artist: OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD Title: Broken Spine Fantasia Format: Cass Label: Tape Drift Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Following an initial LP and a few singles on other labels, we present two thrilling live sides documenting recent shows in Australia and New Zealand from Campbell Kneales new project post-Bircvhille Cat Motel. Kneales been a massive personal favorite here at Tape Drift since he first hit the scene in 1997. Reborn in this new guise, hes taking no prisoners and leaving audiences stunned by the majestic power of his noisy epics. Its hard to imagine Campbell topping the peaks of his vast BCM catalog, but these two tracks are a dream come true and suggest he may just have done it. Massively brutal sound here - perhaps one of his noisiest yet, but of course its got all the hidden melodic elements and attention to detail that youve come to know and love. A psychedelic noise master work that works amazingly well with the oxide of tape." - Tape Drift |
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Artist: WICKHAM-SMITH, SIMON Title: A Seventh Persimmon Format: CDR Label: Tape Drift Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Words are tough when it comes to describing music this astoundingly beautiful. A leading figure in the worldwide experimental music community since the early 90s, Simon Wickham-Smith adds to his sizable body of work with this masterpiece. Three tracks clocking in at almost 60 minutes, Simon s new work is the result of years spent honing his craft. His influences are drawn from sources far and wide, but the music that results is uniquely his own. Transcending genre altogether but most clearly informed by minimalism, this release is hypnotic, mysterious, and gorgeous. If you ve followed the arc of his career, you ll be pleased to see how mature and powerfully focused his musical vision has become. If you re new to his world, it s an excellent introduction. To say that it s an honor for us to be releasing his music would be a massive understatement. A true classic." - Tape Drift |
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Artist: ANTI / UTON Title: Sininen Nauha Format: Cass Label: Tape Tektoniks Country: Germany Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: CLOUDLAND CANYON Title: The Mind Electric Format: Cass Label: Tape Tektoniks Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| "2 hyper-psychedelic brain wave studies by this hamburg / new york experimentalists. psychedelia is science!" - Meu Dia De Morte. |
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Artist: FAILING LIGHTS Title: The Shining Wall Format: Cass Label: Tape Tektoniks Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| "edition of 70 ...connelly of hair police and wolf eyes fame ....anything else?...extra grim....artwork by aleen solari" -Meu Dia De Morte. |
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Artist: FOSSILS Title: Get Format: Cass Label: Tape Tektoniks Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| "confused canadian feedback unit bending thinks that are meant to break." - Meu Dia De Morte. |
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Artist: HELL & BUNNY Title: Better Eulogies Are On Their Way Format: Cass Label: Tape Tektoniks Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| "30 minutes of creepy and jazzy improvisations by ben (percussion) and hans (cello) of graveyards and melee fame." - Meu Dia De Morte. |
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Artist: DR STRANGELY STRANGE Title: Heavy Petting Format: LP Label: Tapestry Country: Lichtenstein Price: $26.00 |
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"Dr. Strangely Strange were an experimental Irish folk group formed in Dublin in 1967 by Tim Booth (vocals and guitar) and Ivan Pawle (bass and keyboards). Soon they teamed with multi-instrumentalist Tim Goulding (vocals and keyboards), an aspiring painter, and began living and rehearsing in a house owned by Gouldings girlfriend, Orphan Annie, which its tenants nicknamed The Orphanage. This follow-up album is a little more electric than their 1st, but almost equally eccentric in the best possible way. Songs that take you to places no one else goes (dont you love the 70s?). Completely wonderful." - Tapestry. 180 gram virgin vinyl. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Elaborate die-cut fold-out jacket, as originally issued.
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Artist: HUMAN INSTINCT Title: Stoned Guitar Format: LP Label: Tapestry Country: Germany Price: $26.00 |
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"Aborigine guitarist Billy TK was the Jimi Hendrix of the Southern Hemisphere. He obviously took the lessons of the Master to heart and on his albums with Human Instinct, he took Hendrixs psychedelic approach to absurd new extremes. Not necessarily the greatest listening experience, but definitely the farthest out of any guitar psyche youre likely to ever hear. This album, splendidly reissued, is one of the most important chapters of rock from that era and a not-to-be-missed masterpiece for all collectors." 180 gram virgin vinyl, limited edition of 1000 copies.
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Artist: SMITH, BOB Title: The Visit Format: Double LP Label: Tapestry Country: Lichtenstein Price: $39.00 |
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"The Visit was recorded in 1970 in L.A. and it redefined the existing borders of the psychedelic movement, resulting in obscure and complex songs with mindblowing instrumentation and depth. Not really a solo album at all, as Smith is backed by eight very capable musicians. Much of the music is instrumental, achieving a mystical and psychedelic atmosphere, although there are a few more mainstream tracks and some nice bluesy guitar work in places. The original pressing (especially with the amazing psychedelic poster) has skyrocketed in value in recent years. Another significant collectable from the California rock scene that will interest many." - Tapestry. 180 gram virgin vinyl, limited edition of 1000 copies, gatefold sleeve, with poster insert.
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Artist: DATASHOCK Title: Pox Ice Cream Format: 3" CDR Label: Tapetektoniks Country: Germany Price: $10.00 |
| "Two new folky droners recorded live in saarlouis as a five piece. Heavy waves of vocal layers, swampy ritual percussion and dizzy electronics heading towards multidimensional dreams of chocolate flavored cafe latte." - Tapetektoniks |
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Artist: UUHUU Title: Buck Format: Cass Label: Tapetektoniks Country: Germany Price: $7.00 |
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Artist: FAILING LIGHTS Title: Black Swamps Format: Cass Label: Tapeworm Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"you can hear ghouls meandering towards candlelit swamps, like a
flicker of images projected on the back of your brain.
limited to 61." - Tapeworm.
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Artist: V/A Title: The Red Room DVD Format: DVDR Label: Tapeworm Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "features scummy, rough basement videos from COTTON MUSEUM, SICK LLAMA, EVENINGS, CHARLIE DRAHEIM, JIMBO EASTER, METAL DUNGEON, SPYKES + more. All sets are recorded live at my house (the red room) in kalamazoo, michigan. there are also various extra footage included between sets." - Tapeworm. |
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Artist: TALIBAN/PARANOID TIME Title: Split Format: 10" Label: Tapeworm/SNSE Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Taliban lurches about with seasick electronics. They move from stuttering wooze to an avalanche of filth with the kind of style it should take years to develop. Dudes are alright. Taliban is the duo of Miles Haney (Evenings, Tapeworm Tapes label), and Joel Rakowski (scientist). Flip the thing over, and Paranoid Time is smacking around the head and neck with a pile of static crunchers and tape. Amplified vocal vomit makes the guy sound like he needs a drink. This record is a co-release between SNSE and the very great Tapeworm Tapes label. It marks the first vinyl appearance for both artists." |
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Artist: SCREAMERS Title: Live in 1978 in San Francisco Format: DVD Label: Target Video Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"A first-time-on-DVD release of Target Videos
live document of legendary Los Angeles punk band
THE SCREAMERS. Shot live in San Francisco by JOE
REES, September 2, 1978, before an audience of
adoring fans. Seven songs, along with five
super-rare, unreleased videos shot live at the
Target Studios."
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Artist: SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN Title: The Ox Of Oh Format: Cass Label: Tarot & Bananas Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "debut release on sunburned member michael ks new label. 2003 Charlestown loft recording played by dave bohill, phil franklin, michael k, john moloney & rob thomas." -Tarot & Bananas |
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Artist: COTTON MUSEUM Title: Pus Pustules Format: LP Label: Tasty Soil Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| ""PUS PUSTULES" is one of the most diseased COTTON MUSEUM recordings to date. Clocking in at 21 minutes on side A, adorned with with a detailed etching of sickly beasts on side B and a five color silk screened album cover designed by Chris Pottinger. Theremin, Synth, and other odd electronic instruments create a bubbling cesspool of rotting sounds that leak from your stereo speakers like a cancerous sludge. Take a trip through a strange world where you can hear these sickly beasts devouring corpses while insects sting their bodies, leaving them covered with infected welts.Cotton Museum is a solo electronic noise project from visual artist Chris Pottinger that has been performing for the past seven years. Limited edition of 400 hand numbered copies, black vinyl with thick chipboard album cover." -Tasty Soil |
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Artist: POTTINGER, CHRIS Title: Moist Membrane Format: LP Label: Tasty Soil Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Plague ridden corpses are scavenged in the forest by a starving beast. The bodies are hidden amongst the rotting bark thats shed from the termite infested trees. Their skulls are destroyed, cracked open like freshly laid eggs exposing their throbbing brain membranes for the rancid feast. "MOIST MEMBRANE is a new 12" LP from Chris Pottinger (Cotton Museum / Slither) This album is a complete cellar-dweller horror soundtrack to a film that should have been made in 1974. Not quite harsh, not quite mellow, this LP could only be recorded in a depressing, moldy Michigan basement. Saxophone, analog synth, zither, and who knows what else are used to create this album. Deluxe full color LP jackets, full color center labels with a B & W poster of a mutant autopsy gone wrong. This LP plays at 45 rpm and is limited to 400 hand numbered copies." -Tasty Soil |
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Artist: SLITHER/SIXES Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Tasty Soil Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Released for the recent European tour, limited to 250 copies! SLITHER is black-mold basement reed & electronics scum from Chris Pottinger & Heath Moerland. SIXES is satanic sludge from Oakland, California--creating doom noise from the gates of hell. Art & layout by Chris Pottinger, Offset Printed covers." - Tasty Soil. |
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Artist: BANANAFISH Title: #10 Format: Mag/CD Label: Tedium House Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Editorial content and related CD tracks from David (U.S. Saucer) Tholfsen, Melt Banana, William Hooker, Couch, Prick Decay, Alexander Ross, Vagtazo Halottkemek, Macronympha and Emil Beaulieau." - Tedium House. Mid-90s issue. |
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Artist: BANANAFISH Title: #13 Format: Mag/CD Label: Tedium House Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Since 1986, a time some of your favorite writers were busy discussing the genius of Govt Issue and debating the merits of early Gang Green (although today theyll have you believe silent CDs with a single electronic chirp at 35:25 are essential listening), Bananafish magazine has been devoted to undermining the dreams and aspirations of fun-killing explainers, rimless bifocald complainers, and horrid gothic sourpusses otherwise known as "the experimental music community." As usual, the magazine comes with a full-length CD containing exclusive music and sound contributed by the featured artists. Interviewed in this issue: Japanese droneur Diesel Guitar; electronic post-pioneer and composer Ilhan Mimaroglu; French publishers of silkscreened books Le Dernier Cri; homemade electronic noise duo Nautical Almanac; Los Angeles free music kingpins Solid Eye; lovers of Prince and improv sound collage Universal Indians; lovers of fantasy and free electronics Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase; and the hardest working percussionist in new music William Winant. Electronic deep theorist irr. app. (ext.), former Scissor Girl A.Z., and New Zealand solo freak Witcyst each contribute several pages of Dante-esque words and Bosch-like images. Last but not least, New Zealand filmmaker, animator, electricity demon Nigel Bunn gives Barbara Manning a guided tour of his gadgetry wonderland." - Tedium House. 1999 issue. |
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Artist: BANANAFISH Title: #14 Format: Mag/CD Label: Tedium House Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "More fun than sticking your feet down the toilet ... [Bananafish] features ... letters found in the street, interviews that breach journalist/patient confidentiality ethics, self-abuse raised to high literary art, record reviews like no other publication (though, believe me, some have tried), and coverage of the stuff you need to know about and no other damn mag will cover ... The only journal its a sin not to buy." --Bruce Russell, Corpus Hermeticum "The latest issue in the Glass-Monroe-Beezer familys long-running magazine dedicated to that which cannot be spoken (but certainly read). Includes print and audio material from outsiders like Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle, Peg Murray of U.S. Saucer, John Wiese of Bastard Noise, James Goode, Reynols, Panicsville, Vote Robot, Polar Goldie Cats (doing a feline version of Edgar Winters "Frankenstein," and "others." 164-page magazine with a 14-track CD companion." - Tedium House. 2000 issue. |
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Artist: BANANAFISH Title: #15 Format: Mag/CD Label: Tedium House Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Publisher I. VERN BEEZER and editor M. MONROE deliver another juicy issue of their award-churning tome dedicated to the pursuit of the liesurely arts. In this gorgeously designed issue you get more than the goods on... Christine Shields - Interview with this issues cover artist, the author behind surreal, dreamlike Blue Hole comic book, and banjo-player for Appalachia-influenced Grouse Mountain Skyride (also featuring Dame Darcy and Ian Christe). On the CD: "Monkey Goes to the Moon" and "The World Is My Home". Mal Sharpe - Interview with author, jazz musician, and Man-on-the-Street interviewer most well known as half of 60s prankster duo Coyle and Sharpe, whose legendary put-ons have been released on CD by the 21361 and Thirsty Ear labels. On the CD: Coyle and Sharpe "Transporting Captured People". Ana-Maria Avram - Translation of an interview by Costin Cazaban with Romanian acousmatic composer and Editions Modern recording artist whose uncompromising, demanding music gives heavyweights like Dumitrescu and Fernando Grillo a run for the money. On the CD: the 13-minute "Etude (I), computer assisted music." Volcano the Bear - Interview by Neil Campbell with this mind-expanding UK surrealist quartet whose music straddles "a strange, ambiguous line between comforting and terrifying." Collaborations with Nurse With Wound and Aube, releases on United Dairies, Misra, and Pickled Egg. On the CD: "Phantom, tha will be done" mad-cow.org - Interview with Dr. Thomas Pringle, webmaster of the Sperling Biomedical Foundations site containing almost 8,000 articles on mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, prions, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, and numerous other crimes against nature that should drive any sane person to veganism. John Crouse - Guest editorial plus one other previously unpublished text by this inspirational author whose writing has been described as "a non-stop torque conflating the distinctions of sky, people, forest, political costume store He makes his own vocabulary rushing forward at full tilt, the camel of wow." On the CD: Crouse reads an excerpt from Lapses (O Books, 1995) with Stanley Zappa on sax. Rats With Wings - Freeform essay and images by this emerging Australian noise artist with releases planned on Plate Lunch and Freedom From. On the CD: "Horse Eat Grass" Volvox - Interview with two members of this Australian band with a posthumous CD released by Dual Plover. Ant-honey Riddell, the leader of the band, was brain-injured and comatose after a fall through a skylight several years ago. "Next to Milk," a chapter from his phenomenal novel Betrayed by the Senses (Menisicus, 1999), is also reprinted. On the CD: "Extraordinary Swordfish" amd "Milkhead," from Egg, Pluto Pup and You Agog - Interview with Damien Bisciglia, noise artist and sculptor of Rohrshach-like, nightmarish creatures made of melted plastic and various found materials. On the CD: "Waters Black from the Dung of a Thousand Camels" - Tedium House. 2001 issue. |
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Artist: BANANAFISH Title: #16 Format: Mag/CD Label: Tedium House Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "The record-setting 16th issue of arts, music, and leisure periodical Bananfish⿿the everymans magazine for those far from being the every man. A beautifully designed 144-page magazine and CD set with features on, and music from: Australian Noise Users Society founder OREN AMBARCHI, Swedish electroacoustic musican LEIF ELGGREN, Canadian extrovert nutjob ROBERT DAYTON (CANNED HAM, Bunyon), electronic musician JASON KHAN of REPEAT, PARMENTIER (ROSY PARLANE & DION WORKMAN interviewed by DYLAN NYOUKIS), Egyptian-born composer HALIM EL-DABH (selected excerpts from an upcoming biography by DENISE SEACHRIST), electroacoustic improvisor PAUL WINSTANLEY (also interviewed by Nyoukis), and an overview of mysterious acronym-damaged Italian arts organization LATERAL AGRICULTURE ORDER. All this, along with fiction by ROGER PINELL, reviews, found mail, drawings, artwork, etc. A fantastic read, as always, especially while in the bath." - Tedium House. 2002 issue. |
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Artist: BANANAFISH Title: #17 Format: Mag/CD Label: Tedium House Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Jason McLean Canadian cartoonist and Bananafish #17 cover artist talks with Robert Dayton about his hallucinatory style and techniques, and the effect on his work of education, interior decoration, comics, Fluxus and other abstruse art movements, and mental illness. On the CD: All-Star Schnauzer Band "No Onkyo" Hetty Maclise The first of a two-part interview with Anguss wife and collaborator, who recounts how they met, her art editorship at The Oracle in the 60s, homeopathic uses of LSD, and her life as an artist in Spain, Morocco, Mexico, San Francisco, and New York. Part two will deal with the Kathmandu years. On the CD: Universal Mutant Repertory Company "Iras Theater (NYC)" Lara Allen The exploits of a high school bad girl and the deprogramming subsequently inflicted upon her, problematic theatrical experiences, her series of consistently eerie paintings of old family photos, acting, and filmmaking. On the CD: The Ragtime Germs "Im Gonna Kill Myself" (audio) and Allens The Nightshade Family animation (MPEG) Jazzkammer Lasse Marhaug chats with David Cotner about mainstream Hollywood flicks, cult films, the Nordic singles scene (both 45s and dating), Norwegian culture, Viking blood, and communication through music and abstract sound with John Hegre, Tore Bøe, Del, and Origami Republika. On the CD: Jazzkammer "Take Me Off Yr Mailing List" Astro Hiroshi Hasegawa instructs Dylan Nyoukis in the ways of reaching "final paradise" and achieving "freedom from everything" via Moog synthesizer, field recordings and computers. He also discusses soundtrack work, collaborations with a whos who of Japanese space noise huffers, and the shocking truth about C.C.C.C. On the CD: Astro "Inamura Beach" The Towne Dandies Geoff Ellsworths homemade, props-heavy musical theater, the history of the band, paying the rent (which can involve processing ham), life under a microscope in a small town, and fledging jingle-writing venture Barefoot Hockey Goalie. On the CD: Towne Dandies "Underpants Road" (audio) and "Welcome Wranglers" (MPEG) Paul Dutton Canadian soundsinger and author talks about his work with 70s sound poets The Four Horsemen and free improv trio CCMC, literary efforts and visual poems, the nature of expression through sound, and various giants in the gibberish tradition, from Schwitters and the dadaists through Bob Cobbing. On the CD: Paul Dutton "Two Due" and "May Dues," Paul Dutton, Jaap Blonk, Koichi Makigami, Phil Minton, and David Moss "Esprit dEncore" Fake Party Carla Bozulichs Sound.-produced event at the Schindler House, self-described as "new music dressed up like a party meets a social event disguised as art," reimagined as comics. On the CD: "Fake Fake Excerpt" And the usuals�?� Reviews by Alesandro Moreschi III, Roland Woodbe, Stanley Zappa, Fred Rinne, and S. Glass; a letter from the publisher, found mail, guest editorial" - Tedium House. 2003 issue. |
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Artist: BANANAFISH Title: #18 Format: Mag/CD Label: Tedium House Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"David Lester Mecca Normal guitarists surreal, interdisciplinary comics that combine choreography, quasi-clip art, collage, painting, text and typography. On the CD: Mecca Normal, "War Between the Neighbors" Monotract Dylan Nyoukis gets schooled in Big Apple wisdom by this group of beach-blanket acidheads and New York City improv tour guides. On the CD: Monotract, "Fitty Bomb" Burning Star Core Autodidact C. Spencer Yeh tracks his development from adolescent pyromaniac to violin/electronics/voice iconoclast, with sidetrips as a writer of unreadable fiction, painter, documentarian, Cincinnati gallery brat, and live venue doyen. On the CD: Burning Star Core, "You Are Legend" Nelson Gastaldi Lost and overlooked Argentinean psycho-spatial composer found and restored by South Americas premier avant sideshow barkers Reynols. Topics include pure sound, ethnomusicology, paranormal occurances. On the CD: Nelson Gastaldi, excerpt from Symphony No.3: o El Poder de la Nada Joe Colley Easily fixated Crawl Unit noise mumbler issues subdued proclamations on field recordings, arcane electronic gadgets, public invisibility, charlatans and quacks. On the CD: assorted excepts from Colleys Forensic Audio series Jim Leftwich Texts, images, collages and other hors de guerre by experimental writer, visual poet, xtant editor and Juxta publisher. On the CD: Jim Leftwich, "Ouzo and Kudzu Are Dead" - Tedium House. 2004 issue.
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Artist: TEENAGE BOATPEOPLE Title: 1980-81 Format: CDR Label: Teenage Boatpeople Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| Excellent self-released 10 track CDR from this Minneapolis experimental/"minimal synth" band. Only a 7" was released during their year long existence (a track from which is now included in the Hyped2Death series) but this also includes unreleased recordings. Features Milo Fine. Different cover artwork than the copies we had 5-ish years back. |
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Artist: LUCKY DRAGONS Title: Open Power Format: LP Label: Teenage Teardrops Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Lucky Dragons... create ecstatic music that completely transcends genres. My attempts to describe what their music actually sounds like always fall short of the magic they are making. I guess you could say it sounds like -- ecstatic magic. Challenging stereotypes that electronic music is cold and sterile, Lucky Dragons live show, though conducted via computers, is a truly great celebration of the human spirit, giving real hope for the techno-future our society is racing toward. On white vinyl, with poster." - Teenage Teardrops |
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Artist: VAN KAYE & IGNIT Title: A Slight Delay Format: LP Label: Tegenwoordig Country: Netherlands Price: $26.00 |
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"A true synth-darkwave masterpiece which was released in 1980 on DingDong
records. The bands from Holland and released several cassette classics as well as a highly sought after 7" called "Picassos on the Wall"." - Tegenwoordig. Numbered, one time edition of 100 copies.
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Artist: CHEN, CHE & ROBBIE LEE Title: Begin, And Continue! Format: LP Label: Telegraph Harp Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Che Chen & Robbie Lee are Brooklyn, NY based multi-instrumentalists who have been steadily and intensively developing their unique approach to free improvisation over the last several years. Using a shifting constellation of instruments that has included bass clarinets, baroque recorders, reed and pipe organs, renaissance keyboard instruments, flutes, saxophones, bowed and plucked strings, little drums, bells, tape machines and their voices, Che Chen and Robbie Lee create earthy, slow moving improvisations that are informed as much by the ethnic folk traditions of the world as they are by 20th century composition and improvisation. Their music places precedent in listening, attention and dynamic interaction. Che Chen & Robbie Lee have released one LP, "Begin and Continue", and two cd-rs, "Live at EAT" and "Live on Triangulations" on their own TELEGRAPH HARP imprint." - Telegraph Harp. Edition of 230 copies. |
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Artist: DOVES Title: The Lord Is My Shepherd Format: LP Label: Tembo Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "180 gram vinyl. This uniquely African blend of funk, soul, gospel and psych takes us back to the golden days when Nigeria was a heavy-hitter on the global music scene. The Doves 1975 gem includes the standout track "Give Peace to the People." Laced with all the classic elements of psych-rock that features in albums by fellow artists such as Ofege, Blo, Founders 15 and Tirogo, The Lord Is My Shepherd is considered a lost classic, unearthed for the very first time through Tembo Records. Digitally remastered for the first time. Includes the original artwork and a new insert with updated information." -Tembo. |
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Artist: KOUYATE, SEKOU BATOUROU Title: Et Sa Cora Format: LP Label: Tembo Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "180 gram LP version with insert. This definitive example of Malian kora playing, by the legendary and influential Sekou Batourou Kouyaté was recorded in 1976, and has been digitally remastered for the first time, allowing the delicate notes of this instrumental album to shine through. Creating a melodious sound that resembles at times a harp and remarkably, the Delta blues guitar, the kora players are known as storytellers and historians, passing on traditions and folk tales. For the uninitiated listener, allow yourself the pleasure of hearing the kora played to perfection by the master of this mighty instrument." -Tembo. |
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Artist: LIIMANARINA Title: The Puute Plays Liimanarina - Live At Le Piss: Pillunpuute, Perusnegatiivisuus, Yleinen Saamattomuus & Tappiomieliala Format: LP Label: Temmikongi Country: Finland Price: $21.00 |
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"Most albums sold in America a Finnish anarchist folk-rock or punk, outlaw country (or even, fuck, avant-garde AOR: aa ijien own opinion) plays the glue-fucking-creak release their first live nitteens nearly a quarter of a century-long earthly journey. This is also the first time through the ages, when they have anyone to save a live performance suosilla. In fact, they have not heard that either bothered or even want to record your own performances, let alone listen to them. "Im notve never interested in anything, youve determined what part, of other such stage. Sit cause its over, move on to others, preferably a couple of outdoor activities. The next album, the next gig is always trkeempi such previous" explains the bands set, singer and guitarist Olli "Amoco Cadiz, "Valdez-clack, who has made all the Liimiksen words except those of the Finnish language, Mikael developer of" Coke "Agricola, came up with it before. Dust-covered cobwebs among the history books show that the glue-fucking-creaking last public appearance would be in Dublin on 16/06/1904. The reason for the LNs [amerikanenglantilaisittain, Ellens] silence, at the end of the 90th century onwards has been mainly in the fact that Olli is leillyt / lived longer periodeja North Ameriikoissa and the British Isles, inexplicably basiallisesti B has baikoissa that start ... Boise Idaho ... Bethlehem ... Belfast, Bristol, Brixton, Brrrrrrrrum. Own words, Olli has now come to visit only and not to be here, "brezhnevilisess police state, where gossip and back attacks have come to faith and piittaamisen place." Believes that this level will also nails the indie rock business for the end game is just about the exploiters and the exploited. "There is nothing to steadily pay anything, all pitis ilmatteeks do ... something for nothing is everybodys plan." Oh yes, indeed. Meanwhile, the LN of all the other discs, Halloween, trumpets and drums played the Christmas Karri Place, ROPERTIES is piirrellyt comics suttaillut toilets and walls. The bands other current members, suomi talande bttre Folk, lead Guitarrista Lasse Larsson Keep your aura, and the bass player with Teemu B-52 Widow are a better band, [and who knows what other] lack soitelleet The lack of addition. Grandma kickers and Childmole Station poppoissa. The forthcoming "Heather president, the prime minister Jesus to all of you," Finnish tour Liimanarinaakin legendary (if it is even possible - well, at least more sotureitansa lost along the way) Cockpits Orchestra Scrooge "Croesus," my-luck-Seppl, oral solution, Teemu, Peter on bass, because poeka you have cheap holidays in other peoples deprivation and misery in sunny New Belsen." - Temmikongi via Google auto-translate.
Confusingly credited to "The Puute", this is LIIMANARINA, minus Kake Puhuu. This is their first release since the 1995 Drag City record (the "First I Look At The Tits" 97 demos cass doesnt count) and it seems like, thankfully, they havent really "evolved" too much. "..a caveman-level Finnish take on the chopped-line, mussed-hair, skeletal-rockabilly-period Fall that everyone goes glassy-eyed over, the 80-83 period." - Ryan W, Static Party. Recorded live at Lepakkomies, Helsinki 1.10.2010. SOLD OUT
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Artist: PSYCHIC TV Title: Live In Glasgow Format: LP Label: Temple Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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Original copies of this live LP released in 1987. Includes voucher insert. "Thee stage was tiny, thee audience were friendly, thee skin was sweaty, thee mood was energy, the sound was wacky, thee expertise was tacky but the biggest problem was where to buy decent food at 2 in the morning. This record is a document of PSYCHIC TV live, edited and shaped to capture a moment in time and those feelings and impressions, emotions and impulses connected with that moment. Time is that which ends. This record is a library service. It is not the event itself but it remains in history...It is a unique project in thee history of popular music and a manual on thee evolution of a group" - Temple
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Artist: PSYCHIC TV Title: Love War Riot Format: 12" Label: Temple Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
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Original copies of this 12" single released in 1989. A side, Love War Riot, was recorded in Sheffield in the fall of 1987. The B side is a long cover version of Eve of Destruction (originally recorded by Barry Maguire in 1965 and written by P.F.Sloan). It is apparently one is one of Genesiss all time favourite protest songs and s/he always wanted to cover it.
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Artist: PSYCHIC TV Title: Roman P. Format: 7" Label: Temple Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
| Original copies of The Magickal Mystery D Tour E.P released in 1984. This limited edition 7 was originally used for promo only and is wrapped in a beautiful full color poster sleeve. |
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Artist: BOLLES, DON Title: The Dirty Little Remix Format: CDR Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
| "47 min sound mix of psychedelic druggy heaven by DJ Don Bolles - the drummer of Germs. Special guest appearance by Harry Pussy. Ltd. 100." - Temple Of Be Saint 777. |
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Artist: DAVENPORT Title: Wulfcult Rising Format: Cass Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $12.00 |
| "2 long smoky ragas played by the house band of YAHOWA 23 Each copy numbered. Ltd 50." - Temple Of Be Saint 777. |
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Obedience Format: Cass Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
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"NYC zen haiku cosmic hippies helmed by ex NNCK JFR.
inc 2 whole live sets. w/printed cover + numbered seal.
Only 100 copies made." Highly recommended!
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Artist: EXCEPTER/PSEUDO CODE Title: Split Format: 3" CD Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $12.00 |
| "Hypnotic Space Disco 80 model vs 00 model. Both tracks are previously unreleased and exlusive for this release. Pseudo Code is a Belgian industrial band, active from 1979 - 1982. Their mastermind Alain Neffe is also founder of Insane Music (Trazegnies, Belgium), one of the first great underground tape labels in europe. Guy-Marc Hinant is one of the two guys who made the label "Sub Rosa". Xavier S has a radio show on the Belgian national radio. "We play potlatch music which is emotional music, or more accurately emotional sounds, because we are not musicians." Excepter is a six-member improvisational electronic and vocal group based in NYC. Founded in 2002 with the stated intent to use the tools of dance music towards esoteric ends, Excepter was behind many of the classic recordings associated with the 00s Brooklyn Noise phenomenon. The Excepter live experience remains an unpredictable, mystifying affair ⿿ always singular, never the same show twice. This is a REAL CD NOT CDR " -777 Was 666 |
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Artist: FILTHY SOCIAL CLUB Title: Astral Turd Format: Cass Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: UK Price: $11.00 |
| "Filthy Social Club is a collaboration project of UK drone/noise veteran Neil Campbell and shamanic hoo-hah man Darren Wyngarde aka Filthy Turd. Lots of hollering and some stupid rhythms. Psychedelic reggae vibe. Ltd. 100" - Temple Of Be Saint 777. |
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Artist: JODOROWSKY, ALEJANDRO Title: Psychomagic: San Francisco, November 2004 Format: DVDR Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $22.00 |
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"His latest preaching shot live in San Francisco Nov 2004. Location & Director of Cinematography by David Woodard. Covert art by Nick Bougas. Playable on any PC or DVD player. w/ printed craft paper cover. Ltd 150." -777 Was 666
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Artist: PUNKS, THE Title: Live Format: Cass Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $11.00 |
| "This tape contains the best recorded punks (Kill Rock Stars/5RC) jams to date. Each copy hand grafittied by The Punks. Ltd.100." - Temple Of Be Saint 777. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Dennis The Menace Buttflaps Format: CDR Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $19.00 |
| Includes Maher Shalal Hash Baz, GG Allin, Murder Junkies w/Jeff Clayton, Jad Fair, Harvey Sid Fisher, Total Fucking Destruction (ex Brutal Truth), David Woodard, L.A.O., Smallgoodz, Bobby Fischer, Rich Hoak, etc. Cover art by Mike Diana. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Do Less Or Format: Cass Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
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"w/ Lisa Suckdog, Raionbashi, Don Bolles (GERMS) & Yoshihide Otomo, Dylan Nyoukis, Bisciglia Bohman Hammer (LAFMS), AMK, Vitamin B2, Andrew Smith (ex Billboard Combat), Suckdog (as a Band), Usurper, Lieutenant Murnau, Id M Theft Able, Andrew Coltrane, Jeph Jerman, Ummo Music, Arts & Crafts Building and The Gerogerigegege.
A compilation of oral performance, found sound mix, field recording, physical sound art etc. All tracks are new or previously unreleased.
Cover art paintings by Andrew Smith." -777 Was 666
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Artist: V/A Title: Garbage Sandwich Format: Double Cass Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $18.00 |
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"Boredoms, UFO or DIE, Hanatarash, Masonna, Incapacitants, Ruins, GG Allin & The Bleeding Cunt Seekers, Smog, Violent Onsen Geisha, Smegma, Zeni Geva, Hijo Kaidan, Jello Biafra, Suckdog, The Haters, Anil Melnick (ex Royal Trux), John Murphy, The Gerogerigegege etc
All newly dubbed for GOD CD release fund. Ltd 100." - Temple 777.
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Artist: V/A Title: God Came Between Us Format: CD Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Finally out. The compendium of psychedelic/electric/experimental/noise music from the late 60s to nowadays. Most of the tracks are previously unreleased. featuring; Tiny Tim, Gregg Turkington (aka Neil Hamburger), Glen Meadmore, The 3 Nieces (Eugene Chadbourne, Don Bolles & Joseph Hammer), Silver Apples vs Tom Smith, Dave-iD Busaras (ex Virgin Prunes), William S. Burroughs, Surfers of Romantica, Destroy All Monsters, Culturcide, Raymond Scott, Anal Magic and Rev. Dwight Frizzell featuring Black Crack and The Sole Survivors, Totem Pole of Losers, The Dead C, Decaer Pinga, The Three Doctors, Christine 23 ONNA, Evil Moisture, Beyond Joy and Evil and T.Mikawa (from Incapacitants) Cover art by the English outsider artist, Ian Pyper. Limited to 500 copies." - Temple 777. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Hip Hop Shop Sweepers Vol.01 Format: CDR Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $12.00 |
| "w/ Blood Stereo, Alvarius B, Smegma, Sick Llama, Sic Alps, Robedoor, Portland Bike Ensemble, Kawasome Yoshihiro, Witcyst, The Punks, Nautical Almanac, Charles Balls & Crank Sturgeon, Id M Theft Able, Porest, Sounds of North American Adult Bookstores, Glamorous Pat, Maths Balance Volumes and Tsupoornu. Shiny full color print. Pro copy. Ltd.100. Cover artwork by Glamorous Pat." - Temple Of Be Saint 777 |
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Artist: V/A Title: Prayer Is The Answer Format: Cass Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
| Great late 90s comp w/ Five Starcle Men, Faxed Head, Evil Moisture, Harvey Sid Fischer, Flossie and The Unicorns, Kingdom Scum, Bastard Noise, CIA Dry Ice System, Harry Pussy and more! |
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Artist: V/A Title: What was Violence? Format: Cass Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $12.00 |
| "A compilation of selected tracks from the 1st Beast 666 Tapes release BST-001 VA - All You Need is Violence - only 50 copies made + BONUS. Featuring The Hantarashi (3 tracks), The Hum, Violent Onsen Geisha and Eye Yamatsuka (Solo throat). Each copy numbered. Ltd 100. Cover artwar by Survival Unit." - Temple Of Be Saint 777. |
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Artist: WITCYST Title: Non Curstid Format: CDR Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $10.00 |
| "Long running mystic man of dada from New Zealand. Full color artwork packaging. Ltd 100." - Temple 777. |
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Artist: BASINSKI, WILLIAM Title: The Disintegration Loops Format: Box Set Label: Temporary Residence Ltd Country: USA Price: $350.00 |
| "9 LPs, 5 CDs, a DVD and a 144-page full-color coffee table book. "For a collection of music built around the poignant inevitability of decay, there has been a great many hopeful and inspired words devoted to William Basinskis The Disintegration Loops: stunning, ethereal, majestic, transfixing, life-affirming... and for good reason. From its 20-year gestation period to its infamously fateful completion, The Disintegration Loops is one of the most powerful manifestations of the inevitable cycle of life ever committed to tape, even as it documents the inevitable decay of all that is committed to tape. The very passage of time is its most effective instrument. To mark the 10-year anniversary of its original release -- and its forthcoming induction into the 9/11 Memorial Museum this year -- Temporary Residence Ltd. is honored to collaborate with William Basinski in presenting The Disintegration Loops in a fashion truly befitting a library of music with such a lasting legacy. This massive limited-edition box set contains all four historic volumes, plus a pair of stunning live orchestral performances from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the 54th Venice Biennale, both previously unreleased. Remastered from the original recordings and pressed onto 100% virgin vinyl for the first and only time, this exquisite box set also includes all of the remastered recordings on 5 CDs, the extremely rare 63-minute The Disintegration Loops film on DVD, and a 144-page full-color coffee table book featuring rare photos taken during the making of The Disintegration Loops, and liner notes by Basinski, Antony, David Tibet of Current 93, Ronen Givony of the Wordless Music Series, and Michael Shulan, Creative Director of the National September 11 Memorial Museum." - Temporary Residence Ltd. |
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Artist: NICHE MAKERS Title: Soul Sealed the Deal Format: LP Label: Ten Rounds Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
 "Trippy new musical projects by Raymond Pettibon are a cause for great excitement around here. His cryptic lyrics are a kind of sound poetry: cliches and truisms are deformed, devolved and reconnected in oddly intuitive ways, leaving literal meaning to wallow in the dust of free association and lolling wordplay. The squeezebox-led folkies behind him play it sympathetic and warm, but are ultimately secondary to Ray’s very personal verbage. Anyone following this man’s musical development will note this is as fucked up and peculiar as his work with SUPER SESSION, SUR DRONE, and more recently with THE UNKNOWN INSTRUCTORS. Oh and the color LP cover is a beautiful mystery to behold."
- Pig State Recon blog. 
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Artist: NICELY, NICK Title: Psychotropia Format: LP Label: Tenth Planet Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
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"Hilly Fields (1892) was described by the NME upon its release in 1982 as the best psychedelic record made since the 60s. Both sides of that cult classic, together with Nicks first single D.C.T. Dreams, are now joined by nine outtakes of similar vintage to form the astonishing Psychotropia, 47 minutes of psychedelic otherness -- imagine being trapped in a Picnic At Hanging Rock-style Victorian psychedelic time-warp. 1,000 numbered copies, 190 gram vinyl." - Tenth Planet
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Artist: V/A Title: Nice: An Anthology of Peter Eden Productions Format: LP Label: Tenth Planet Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
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1999 release. All tracks from 1966-73. "Psych-based overview of the activities of 60s producer Peter Eden -- includes the Fingers, Crocheted Doughnut Ring, Bill Fay, former Incredible String Band member Clive Palmer, etc. 16 tracks (many previously unreleased), insert with Eden/band bios, photos etc., 1000 copies on 190 gram vinyl." -Tenth Planet.
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Artist: GAGNON, BERNARD Title: Musique Électronique (1975-1983) Format: LP Label: Tenzier Country: Canada Price: $21.00 |
| "Born in 1953, Bernard Gagnon is a product of Quebecs late 1960s underground music scene. In 1973, the Montreal-based musician turned to music theory, studied with Iannis Xenakis and met John Cage. That year, his band Mergélèpe-Guorismogue joined Montreals Atelier de musique expérimentale (AME), an organization created by Raymond Gervais, Michel Di Torre, Yves Bouliane and Robert M. Lepage to promote improvised music. Two years later, Gagnon began experimenting with electronic sounds as a member of Kevin Austins MetaMusic. At the turn of the decade, he studied under alcides lanza, Mariano Etkin and Paul Pedersen. It is then that he composed and recorded his first electroacoustic pieces using the electronic music studio at Mcgill University. In 1981, he was awarded both the CAPAC Hugh Le Caine Award and Radio-Canadas Prix national de composition électro-acoustique. Gagnon then joined Cham Pang, a multimedia electro collective, and reconnected with Lepage with whom he recorded and performed. The 1980s saw Gagnon turn to musique actuelle explorations which culminated with groups such as Stylo (with Lepage and Jean Derome) and La Flore Laurentienne (Lepage, Derome and Guillaume Dostaler among others). Tenzier is proud to announce the release of an album dedicated to Bernard Gagnons electronic music (1975-1983)." - Tenzier. |
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Artist: LE QUATUOR DE JAZZ LIBRE DU QUEBEC Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Tenzier Country: Canada Price: $20.00 |
| "Formed in 1967, the Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec (QJLQ) was a force to be reckoned with in post-Quiet Revolution Quebec. Between 1967 and 1970, the QJLQ shared the stage with artists such as Louise Forestier, Robert Charlebois and l’Infonie. It promoted improvised music as a means of bringing about real social and cultural changes in Quebec. In 1970, the QJLQ established a colonie artistique in Val-David. It also acquired land – the Petit Québec Libre – in an effort to offer artists and political activists a communal place to exchange ideas. From 1970 onward, Quebec’s first free jazz ensemble turned to contemporary avant-garde music for further inspiration. As the decade unfolded, the QJLQ became more radical both musically and politically. Tenzier’s new release constitutes a rare opportunity to hear the quartet at its most potent. This session was recorded at Radio-Canada’s Studio 13 on 13 May, 1973." -Tenzier |
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Artist: OLEARY, ETIENNE Title: Films et Musiques Originales dEtienne OLeary (1966- 1968) Format: LP Label: Tenzier Country: Canada Price: $18.00 |
| "ɴienne OLearys filmography consists essentially of three experimental films completed in Paris between 1966 and 1968. Day Tripper, Homeo (aka Homeo: Minor Death: Coming Back from Going Home) and Chromo Sud constitute a cinema of resistance. These brutally personal and subversive films form a body of work with few precedents. OLearys contribution to French underground cinema is not, however, limited to the introduction of a new cinematographic language. The potency of his oeuvre resides in three unsettlingly evocative soundtracks composed by the director himself. This music is now available on vinyl for the very first time (180 gr LP – 300 copies)." - Tenzier. |
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Artist: BAIRD, MEG Title: Waltze Of The Tennis Players Format: 7" Label: Tequila Sunrise Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Tequila Sunrise Records is proud to release the first recordings by Meg Baird under her own name. Meg has been singing and performing since she was a kid with her sister Laura as a charter member of thse traditional folk duo the Baird Sisters, though she is currently best known as one of the "female larynxes" of the communal Philadelphia band Espers. Or we should say, best known as the siren-voiced singer for same. Or, perhaps, we could let Nick Carraway describe the quality of her voice for us: The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. I had to follow the sound of it for a moment, up and down, with my ear alone before any words came through. We asked Meg to record something with a country-waltz flavor, and she courteously obliged us with a graceful and bittersweet cover of Waltze of the Tennis Players by the under-appreciated 60s folksters Fraser and Debolt. The mushrooms are growing in every new boot print, my, my, my. For the B-side, she recorded an alternate version of "Dear Companion", a track from her forthcoming LP. Its an ancient melody, an aching lament sung "in the style of the chapel", with Meg whisper-singing right into your ear, or maybe just to herself as she folds the laundry and does the dishes. You can see things more clearly when you shut your eyes. So here is a taste from the Meg Baird solo LP (due Christmas 2006), enough to wet your whistle and whet your appetite. You will want to hear more." - Tequila Sunrise. |
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Artist: BLEU, DORA, TOM CARTER & SAM SHALABI Title: Circle of Crosses Format: LP Label: Tequila Sunrise Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "The Hill of Crosses in Siauliai, Lithuania (56°0055N 23°2500E) is one of the most demented folk-art installations on the planet, a thicket of 100,000+ crosses, crucifixes, graven images, minor effigies, rosaries and other pilgrim-offerings dating back almost 200 years and maybe longer. It is a monument to accretion, to the endless addition of one more thing. It has its parallels in the votive-stuffed caves of Arkalochori (35° 8 0.76"N, 25° 15 26.94"E) and Psychro (35.1628055°N 25.4448972°E), as well as the Buddha-stuffed caves of Mogao (40°0217.98N 94°4815.28E), Bezeklik (42° 57 22 N, 89° 32 41 E), and Pak Ou (20.0489°N 102.2101°E). At this Hill of Crosses, one rubs up against what Aliferis has called das Überwältigensein (“the overwhelm”) in one of its many forms. In the past, human encounters with the overwhelm were always described in religious terms: a glimpse into the abyss that staggers human speech, and our need to fill that void with a force that eclipses human measure; that is to say, God. But in 2012, our horror vacui has replaced God with ourselves, and the overwhelm we face is a socially constructed one, of endless surveillance and information-gathering, where everywhere is the same and anywhere is nowhere, and where the principle of too-muchness prevails unceasingly: “Labour unparallelld! a wondrous rocky World of cruel destiny / Rocks piled on rocks reaching the stars; stretching from pole to pole.” Clearly we have lost our bearings. Clearly the need is for something on a smaller scale. Clearly we must reclaim the void. To that end, Fire Museum (39.955117°N 75.161240°W) and Tequila Sunrise Records (39.969203°N 75.14505°W) present this gathering of guitar-driven emanations, the first side leafy, lyrical and acoustic, the second side an astringent application of electric gnarl. “Circle of Crosses” brings together folk pythia Dora Bleu (guitar and vocal) with psych-improv wizards Sam Shalabi and Tom Carter (guitars and other instruments). It links Tripoli (32°548N 13°119E) to Washington D.C (38°5342.4N 77°0212.0W) and Houston (29°4546N 95°2259W), not to mention Mile End (45°3130N 73°3500W) to Louvain-la-Neuve (50° 40 4 N, 4° 36 42 E). Consider these songs map coordinates for safe-houses from das Überwältigensein, a set of precise locales for ecstasy, atheist shrines, or open spaces for reverie in the forgotten recesses of the planetary connectome. " - John Cleves Symmes, Jr., Tequila Sunrise. |
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Artist: HEART LAND Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Tequila Sunrise Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Heart Land hail from New Hope, PA. Its a liminal place, halfway between everything, where all the lines blur and where things arent always what they seem. I remember one autumn evening a quarter-century ago, when New Hope first got under my skin. In that twilight moment, legendary psychedelic LP collector Veronica Breth (then still known as Gregg) let me in on her little secret: Its better to sell 100 records at $150.00 apiece, she whispered in her kiss-of-the-spider-woman purr, than it is to sell 1000 records at $15.00 each... I dont know if it was the ginseng wine, or the unbearable straightness of her long blonde hair, or the way s/he French-inhaled her clove cigarette, but the whole conversation made me a little light-headed. At that time, the notion struck me as elitist to the point of vampirism, but Ill be goddamned if her words arent truer now than when s/he uttered them. What with the internet both hipping everybody to everything and making it all available at any time, rarity itself is as rare as a day in June (as they say). Which brings me back to Heart Lands self-titled LP on Tequila Sunrise Records, one in a series of on-going collaborative co-releases, this one with Cream of Turner Records. Its a limited edition of 200, all with hand-made library-binder style covers, and very sharp-looking indeed. But not only is every sleeve different and unique, but every record is different, too -- at least, thats how it sounds! What do I know? Every time I play it, it sounds different. Seriously. All I know is that the guys from Heart Land burrowed into the outside-psychedelic-trance-noise-improv badger-hole like a dachshund (albeit one with an un-German sense of humor) and came back with a mash-up of every track on the NWW want-list plus a few imaginary tracks mixed in (only it turns out none were really imaginary after all, if you get my drift). Are these songs 30 seconds long, or are they whole sides? Are they soundtracks for unseen cinema? Who can say? I cannot answer these questions, I can only raise them. Heart Lands inspired throb is a true rarity, sand thrown into the gears of the reality studio machine, and you dont have to be a Swiss collector to afford it. Yet. Listen, wonder, and ride a white dove, luv!" -Carlos Ramirez, San Tanco, Puerto Rico |
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Artist: LSD MARCH Title: Empty Rubious Red Format: LP Label: Tequila Sunrise Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "...originally released in 2006 on their own white elephant imprint (a longer version of empty rubious red was reissued later that year as a limited edition cd on the incredible archive label), both versions sold out in about a minute. Its actually more like a solo outing by lsdm front-man shinsuke michishita (on voice, guitar, bass and percussion), accompanied on two tracks by legendary drummer ikuro takahashi (high rise, fushitsusha, tamio shiraishi, kosokuya, che-shizu, maher shalal hash baz, nagisa ni te, etc). most of the songs here are intimate, in-your-inner-ear ballads, hypnagogic and melancholic, achy hangovers from the third velvets LP ⿿ sorrowful birds on the last tree in the universe, thinking themselves into being, then forgetting themselves, then remembering again. except for the title track, that is ⿿ an 8-minute doppler-effect trance that gets you wasted on polonium 210, sets the dials of the kabbalah for the heart of the sun, and clicks "send." we could describe the overall sound here as late night psych. Its a pretty hackneyed term at this point, but try to remember how it used to be a downright poetic handle for the genre, conjuring those sleepless hours between 3 and 5 a.m. when the acid-drenched mind emits showers of sparks into the abyss. Light fuse and get away! we dont know what sorts of childrens clothing well see when trend analysts start recommending late night psych as the compass for designers, but its bound to be interesting. just remember, when you see saucer-eyed tots on the deck of a starship with their heads plugged into andromeda, you heard it here first. *european manufactured 180 gram lp housed in a stoughton old-style sleeve with j-card style obi." - Tequila Sunrise. |
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Artist: PANELLA, MARCO Title: Eastern Landscapes Format: LP Label: Tequila Sunrise Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Marco Panellas layered guitar landscapes mix American primitive acoustica with Nashville telecasters, dissonant jazz and straight rock. On Eastern Landscapes, eight self-assured but tonally unpredictable songs serve as the base for studio overdubs and guitar textures. Written and recorded over two years (2008-2010), the songs on Eastern Landscapes draw from the wells of British and American folk forms, classic rock, and even modal jazz to create a sound thats deeply rooted, satisfying, and somewhat elusive." - Tequila Sunrise. |
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Artist: ROSE, JACK Title: Dr Ragtime and His Pals/Jack Rose Format: Double CD Label: Tequila Sunrise Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "This double-disc features a brand new album from Philadelphia guitarist Jack Rose along with his highly acclaimed and out-of-print self-titled record (originally a limited release on the Archive Recordings label). On Dr. Ragtime & Pals, Rose duets with Glenn Jones, Micah Smaldone, Mike Gangloff, Harmonica Dan, and Sean Bowles. This is a major work from a big player in the modern American Primitive world, often compared to the likes of John Fahey."- Tequila Sunrise |
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Artist: ROSE, JACK Title: Dr. Ragtime And His Pals Format: LP Label: Tequila Sunrise Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "LP version. Limited edition of 960. Domestically-pressed vinyl, housed in a European manufactured hard board inner-sleeve slipped inside a matte board jacket with j-card style obi. Jack Roses lastest full length, Dr. Ragtime And His Pals was originally issued on CD by Tequila Sunrise in April 2008. "The Appalachian Trail runs 2175 miles south from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia, though there are those who want to stretch it further, into Alabama, because the mountains go there. Why not extend it? Trails are made for that. But theres another Appalachian Trail, too -- one that goes through time, extending from unfinished studios in Williamsburg, NY, winding down the grooves of ancient 78s to the 1920s or even earlier, past Stephen Fosters wet dream to a place beyond the compass of change. If youre hiking on *that* trail, youre likely to run into a lot of post-grad Parsifals with inscrutable hair and de-tuned banjos -- these days, you cant swing a cat around without hitting one! But if youre lucky, you might stumble across a clearing somewhere south of Lily Dale, where revolutionists stop for orangeade and Dr. Ragtime hangs out with his pals. If you ask him politely, he might offer you a taste of his elixir -- made from codeine, sarsaparilla, and goat-gland extract -- guaranteed to restore memories that never were. And if youre quiet, he might let you stay and listen to the music: Ethiopian novelties, characteristic marches and parlor favorites -- bittersweet slices of Methodist pie, familiar tunes, at least in those sections where the square dance has not yet been supplanted by the fox-trot. And if you have a couple of dimes to rub together in your pocket, youll want to purchase his newest, electrically-recorded phonograph recording, entitled Doctor Ragtime And His Pals. The Doctor, who hitherto has recorded only on his own, is joined here by Micah Blue Smaldone (who has been compared to both Tiny Tim and Kierkegaard), Glenn Jones (of Cul de Sac, last seen around these parts urging college students to contemplate the prospect of their own death on a balmy September evening), Michael Gangloff (late of Pelt and the Black Twig Pickers), Nathan Bowles (also of the Black Twig Pickers as well as the Spiral Joy Band) and the mysterious Harmonica Dan (from Pennsauken, New Jersey by way of ethereal caminos). This release is conjoined with a recording by Jack Rose, the Mike Morgan of the American minimalist neo-primitive sub-underground. This recording, entitled Jack Rose -- previously available to the buying public only in severely limited forms -- is here presented as a bonus to the consumer and perhaps as an act of folly for the producer." -Charles Fourier, Tequila Sunrise Records |
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Artist: SMALDONE, MICAH BLUE Title: Hither And Thither Format: LP Label: Tequila Sunrise Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "deluxe 180 gram vinyl pressed at record technology, inc., with an 8 page booklet, housed in a beautiful full color "old style/tip-on" jacket printed at Stoughton printing. limited edition of 500. Micah Blue Smaldone. A distinctive name, no? Micah? A minor Hebrew prophet. Blue? A hippy-ish middle name. Red white and? Moon of Kentucky? Smaldone.could be Italian, or Old English. I understand his grandfather (on his mothers side) fought with the John Brown Battery in the Spanish Civil War and taught young Micah plenty of the old songs - but dont ask him to play Jarama Valley in Catalan. Its just too sad. His grandfather never got over it, and the whole Comintern business still sticks in his craw. His great grandfather (on his fathers side) was the local IWW guy who saw to it that a little bit of Joe Hill was scattered in the Pine Tree State. Well, I just want to say to the country that this is a real decent, fine boy. Micah Blues got an original voice, reedy and spare, and hes a virtuoso ragtime finger-picker, too. His songs are charming, antique ditties - austere Tin-Pan Alley tunes with lyrics by Soren Kierkegaard. Like a single bright light, his music illuminates much while also casting a lot of sharp shadows, lovely, dark and deep. When he plays live, he tenses up his whole body - tenser than youd expect for a folk musician, like he might snap the strings, or snap the neck of his guitar, or just snap. But theres not a trace of irony in his music or in his performance, and I guess thats the Yankee in him. See, it gets cold at night up there in Maine, where hes from, and when you got the blank eye of god bearing down on you, and you got the Jukes and the Kallikacks next door getting high on Freon or something, it just makes a man think seriously about where he fits in. Willem de Kooning, gazing up at the star-spangled sky over Black Mountain in the forties, remarked "the universe gives me the creeps," and I imagine Micah might agree. Human consciousness may be a makeshift contraption held together with bailing wire and duct tape, but it will have to suffice. And it may well be true that regret and loss are inescapable human conditions (if you marry you will regret it, and if you dont marry youll regret that too). But it is also true that music is a bulwark against such notions of human frailty, and Micah Blues music does more than suffice. It offers balm and succor to a weary soul. "Micah is so good," Jack Rose told me, "hell make you throw your dick in the dirt!" I certainly agree with the spirit, if not the letter, of Mr. Roses sentiments. Ill have to let you personally be the judge on that score, though you ladies will have to determine some sort of equivalent for yourselves, assuming you concur." - John Jacob Niles. |
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Artist: SONDHEIM, ALAN, HELENA ESPVALL & AZURE CARTER Title: Cauldron Format: LP Label: Tequila Sunrise Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "The animists of Mari El aren’t the last pagans, not by a long shot. Cauldron is on the job, too, working the hot-stick on Ley lines from Giant’s Despair to Kingdom Come, with a backpack full of old tube equipment and spools of magnetic tape. Cauldron spins secret messages encoded in lace and tosses the achillea millefolium to see where to go next. Cauldron wants to remind you that all you see is not all there is. The margins of “things” are crawling, if you know how to look: ancient spirits, saints, faeries, fractal elves, jeweled self-dribbling basketballs, etc. etc. etc. The trick is to find your way back to an unmediated life. So take Cauldron’s hand. Ignore the fire-exit signs warning you that an alarm will sound. It won’t. Push the door open… stumble into brighter light… the untended back lot behind our shared reality… where weeds push stark flowers through cracks in the cement… once you get out there everything is so quiet, all you hear is the breezes-s-s-s… butterflies and blue lizards flit and skitter amid the rubble of forgotten thoughts… “How wonderful that youre here!” they say. “You come so rarely! Were so delighted to see you!” Cauldron deals out a three of cups: Alan Sondheim, a pioneer of mystical ear-tweak and sci-fi sonic ritual sound, chamber-improv gypsy cellist Helena Espvall, and eco-trance singer Azure Carter… thrice to thine and thrice to mine, and thrice again, to make up nine. Channeling the ghosts of Opal Whiteley and Lou Harrison, Cauldron conjures the scratch and shush of the Big Bang out of wood, wind and cat-gut. Whenever you listen to it, this album is always over too soon, just like life. Fire Museum and Tequila Sunrise Records deal out a two of pentacles: not to get all “Yankee Candle” here, but we only made 250 of these, so grab one before they melt away like chemtrails in the sunset sky." - Fred Astarte, Tequila Sunrise. |
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Artist: SUNLORE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Tequila Sunrise Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "The sun plays tricks on the eyes when the atmospheres just right, with fata morganas like the Crocker Mountains or the Flying Dutchman, or with sun dogs like the ones that dazzled and disoriented Robert Falcon Scott. Sunlore is like that. As soon as you think youve got a bead on what they are, they just shimmer away from you. Sunlore falls through the cracks. The LP kicks off familiarly enough, sounding like Sun Ra playing Bron-Y-Aur Stomp on a crunchy rocksichord, and then it lurches, keyboard-first, into a landscape of trailing moans and the distant clatter of ghost bongos ... parlor pianos playing melodies by Samuel Beckett ... a long parabolic samsara through some sort of hideously beautiful Sheela na Gig portal into a world lit by a black sun ... and then back out again to where you started from ... with all the fried elasticity of the first Amon Düül record, only a REALLY solipsistic version of it ... and ... wait ... on closer inspection, that aint Uschi Obermaier out there shaking maracas in the shadow of the Berlin Wall ... its actually your own pineal gland, vibrating? take that, Stasi bitches! So there you go. You can draw a set of references to similar sonic spacery from Shock Records early days, Skullflower, Dead-fucking-C, New Blockaders, the aural magick of RRR or even Red Rhino records. However far into the name-check bush you want to go on walkabout, youll still find an empty bag of clues at the end of the moebius strip. All I can tell you about Sunlore is that they come from southeastern Pennsylvania, one of the guys works down at the airport like Little Johnny Jewel, and they have some sort of affiliation with the equally uncategorizable Heart Land. And, like Heart Land, Sunlores self-titled LP is available on Tequila Sunrise Records, one in a series of on-going collaborative co-releases with Cream of Turner Productions. Its a limited edition of 200, all with hand-made sleeves. Each sleeve, it should be mentioned, is an individual work of art involving spray paint, ball-bearings(?) and the alchemical element of fire." -Tequila Sunrise. ""...whats so goddamn enjoyable about that is figurin out exactly whats spinnin; not just on the turntable, but in theys collective noggins. First go I could conjure them all sittin around a table, reading them Walter Wegmuller tarot cards while listenin to Toiling Midgets Deadbeats. Since then Is heard sounds what resemble: the X/pressway Allstars muted rock opera on Beak Doctor, the unrecorded Hovlakin instrumental lp, Danny & The Dressmakers reinterpretin Manuel Gottschings E2-E4 & Coloured Balls snorin through Marshall stacks." - Roland Woodbe. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Clevland Confidential Format: LP Label: Terminal Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: HORRID RED Title: Celestial Joy Format: LP Label: Terrible Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Horrid Red first appeared in 2010, emerging from the ongoing German/Cali Kraut-Punk institution that is Teenage Panzerkorps (est. 2001). While that band is known for its violently propulsive sound, Horrid Red was established to explore the more elegant and arcane aspects of post-punk & pop. Centered around grandiose bedroom productions of San Franciscan Edmund Xavier & the incantations of Bunker Wolf beamed in from Aachen, Germany, Horrid Red is in full bloom for 2012. Celestial Joy is the debut full-length for Terrible Records, following three EPs released on Soft Abuse & Holidays . The album also features Clay Rub of Burial Hex, who contributes heavenly keys & noise detail to many of the tracks." -Terrible. |
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Artist: NERVOUS GENDER Title: Gestalt/Green Tile Floors Format: 7" Label: Test Tube Country: USA Price: $4.00 |
| "2 songs from 1979 newly recorded for the first time in 2010 . Engineered by Paul Roessler of the Screamers. 45 rpm green vinyl limited to 500 copies." - Test Tube. |
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Artist: TUCKER, MARK Title: & Beach Format: 7" Label: Tetrapod Spools Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Unearthed copies of his 1979 7" release.
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Artist: TUCKER, MARK Title: In The Sack Format: LP Label: Tetrapod Spools Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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Got a few more sealed copies of this 1982 release (we last had them 4+ years back..). Tucker is known amongst the hardcore for his legendary private press LP, Bat Stew, which at this point has achieved near-holy grail status. On that record Tucker recorded his cars engine and, after realizing that that was somewhat dull to listen to, he assembled songs over/with the autosounds and pressed it up on vinyl. This was back in 75. The recordings on In The Sack, while not as out there as Bat Stew, still maintain an eerie, semi-crazed songwriter/outsider aura. With bizarre postal nightmare cover artwork. Highly recommmended! Vinyl reissue of Bat Stew coming soon..
"there seems to be two truisms i keep to; ONE-by and large when an album is described as "loner/psych/real people" it isnt going to be as good as i hope, and TWO- the Residents suck. generally these hold true for me, maybe you too, and often ill look suspiciously as descriptions like that. but then i rememeber, hey the first few residents records are pretty damn amazing, and hell the kenneth higney and moolah records are pretty great too. When i have a need for the real people sound, the first record i reach for is mark tuckers "in the sack." Although better known for his "Bat Stew" record, which is being pretty relative, this album is no slouch. The cast of characters is familiar, upright piano, backwards vocals, rants, ravings, life savings. but here its damn cheap, hell you should buy a few for friends, im going to! Mark Tucker is one mean fucker on the piano + the best backwards vocalist ive ever heard, he
knows more than blues progressions, this guy is writing pop symphonies, if david ackles or bootleg brian wilson is yer bag, this one is gonna rip the sack open (you can take that literally or apply it to Coley style allusion..). Comparisons to the first Residents record are not far off, but i truly prefer Tuckers record, it wouldn;t be out of place in a spin with Moolah, Bruce Haacks kids records, Song Cycle and Horrific Child." - Jim ORourke.
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Artist: ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB Title: Model Town in a Field of Mudd Format: LP Label: Textile Country: France Price: $22.00 |
| "Model Town in a field of Mud is the result of a collaboration between Neil Cambell and John Clyde Evans. This album was recorded largely thru the post during Johns year long stay in India. (although the very last few minutes are the duo live in Sheffield right after he returned). This album is a 50/50 collaboration, hopefully the first of many! John Clyde Evans has a lenghty career, even if he did "disappear" for a few years. John was in the band Hood (Domino Recordings) then cut a couple of great solo records, then disapeared, reappearing using his Sikh name of Tirath Singh Nirmala, cutting an LP with Richard Yuongs, then reverting his original name and droping the magnificent " Apetal Thunderfall" CD on us earlier this year!! Neil Campbell is a cornerstone of the UK underground and played in Vibracathedral Orchestra, Sunroof, A Band, with Richard Youngs, Damo Susuki and many many other artists. Despite some esoteric path, Model Town in a field of mud reconfirm John and Neil intentions to blast techno into the Stratosphere" - Textile |
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Artist: CORSANO, CHRIS & MICHAEL FLOWER Title: Radiant Mirror Format: LP Label: Textile Country: France Price: $22.00 |
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"Radiant Mirror was recorded in paris, january 2006 after just less than a year of doing shows together following chriss move to the uk. It was recorded in a live setting and thus documents their live sets and is the only available recording . The vinyl pressing is limited to 500 copies only.
Chris Corsano has gained a well-earned reputation as one of the hardest-working drummers around. Equally at home with intense kinetic explosions of energy and concentrated near-silence, he effortlessly flows from one idea to the next, always sympatico with his fellow musicians. He has recorded and gigged with, among others, Paul Flaherty, Thurston Moore, Jessica Rylan, Jim ORourke, Nels Cline, Jandek, Greg Kelly, Daniel Carter, Six Organs of Admittance, Evan Parker, Sunburned Hand Of Man, MV&EE, Keiji Haino, Dredd Foole, Vampire Belt, Joe McPhee, Carlos Giffoni, Christina Carter and Heather Leigh Murray.
Mick is the founding member of the British avant garde collective Vibracathedral Orchestra, one of the most seminal UK acts in the free music scene pioneering an approach that has influenced a tribe of other outsiders. Mick occasionaly plays with Sunroof and Sunburned Hand of The Man.
Radiant Mirror is selected as the underground album of the week in the next Mojo Magazine issue." - Textile.
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Artist: CORSANO, CHRIS & MICHAEL FLOWER Title: Radiant Mirror Format: CD Label: Textile Country: France Price: $18.00 |
| "Radiant Mirror was recorded in paris, january 2006 after just less than a year of doing shows together following chriss move to the uk. It was recorded in a live setting and thus documents their live sets and is the only available recording . Chris Corsano has gained a well-earned reputation as one of the hardest-working drummers around. Equally at home with intense kinetic explosions of energy and concentrated near-silence, he effortlessly flows from one idea to the next, always sympatico with his fellow musicians. He has recorded and gigged with, among others, Paul Flaherty, Thurston Moore, Jessica Rylan, Jim ORourke, Nels Cline, Jandek, Greg Kelly, Daniel Carter, Six Organs of Admittance, Evan Parker, Sunburned Hand Of Man, MV&EE, Keiji Haino, Dredd Foole, Vampire Belt, Joe McPhee, Carlos Giffoni, Christina Carter and Heather Leigh Murray. Mick is the founding member of the British avant garde collective Vibracathedral Orchestra, one of the most seminal UK acts in the free music scene pioneering an approach that has influenced a tribe of other outsiders. Mick occasionaly plays with Sunroof and Sunburned Hand of The Man. Radiant Mirror is selected as the underground album of the week in the next Mojo Magazine issue." - Textile. Restocked. |
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Artist: MAGIK MARKERS Title: Songs For Sada Format: LP Label: Textile Country: France Price: $22.00 |
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Artist: MAGIK MARKERS Title: Songs For Sada Format: CD Label: Textile Country: France Price: $18.00 |
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Artist: NOXAGT/ULTRALYD Title: Split Format: LP Label: Textile Country: France Price: $16.00 |
| "The ninth 12-inch in Textiles Vinyl Series presents two key Norwegian improvising bands, ULTRALYD and NOXAGT (featuring KJETIL D BRANDSDAL). Both groups ensure the continued relevance of the Norwegian avant-garde on an international level and showcase two markedly different sounds and soundscape constructions. Limited edition of 600 copies." - Textile. |
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Artist: ONE ENSEMBLE OF DANIEL PADDEN Title: Owls Of Five Format: CD Label: Textile Country: France Price: $16.50 |
| "The latest ONE ENSEMBLE project from DANIEL PADDEN of UK out-folksters VOLCANO THE BEAR. A weird and earthy dose of skewed folk that takes traditional folk structures and mixes in esoteric elements like Southeast Asian traditional music, acoustic jazz, stumbling piano, cello, kazoo, and many unidentifiable sounds.." - Textile. |
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Artist: TIME LIFE & DATASHOCK Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Textile Country: France Price: $12.00 |
| "Live documentation of the sonic communion of the German gruselkraut drone collective Datashock and the American space music duo Time Life. (Time Life aka lucas nonhorse crane and heidi diehl of the vanishing voice / wooden wand). This album presents two transatlantic collaborations performed in European cultural capitals during a March 2008 joint tour, mirroring the planned congregation of the old country and the new world. These lightning in a bottle recordings distill the individual psychedelic gestures of each player as they together forge the crypto-mythical group mind. This release is a limited CD with a great a5 (5.8" ÿ 8.3") cover folder silkscreened by j. kauth. First 200 in a different colour!" - Textile. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Sonic Protest 2008 Format: Double CD Label: Textile Country: France Price: $16.50 |
| "Textile Rds presents "Sonic Protest 2008" a compilation created to accompany the sonic protest festival held in Paris last december. Featuring mostly unreleased and rare tracks from bands who appeared at this events. (see tracklisting below) this compilation captures the spirit of this wild and iconoclast festival. This double CD set (for the price of 1 CD) is in a 7" record sleeve and a silkscreened protection bag." - Textile. Features BRAINBOMBS, Noël AKCHOTE, CATALOGUE, REINES DANGLETERRE, BERG SANS NIPPLE, SALMIGONDIS, STANLEY KUBI, ALVARO, GOL, LEIF ELGGREN, Joëlle LEANDRE, Charlie O., Fred NIPI, DIE GOLDENEN ZITRONEN, DIMENSION X, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, PARENTHETICAL GIRLS vs. DEERHOOF, Claus VAN BEBBER / Michael VORFELD, THE SKULL DEFEKTS, ERO BABAA, A.H.KRAKEN, SAUVAGE, SHIT AND SHINE, Jean-louis COSTES , and ICH BIN. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Amazing Sounds of Thailand Format: LP Label: Thai Rebel Country: Europe Price: $20.00 |
| "Showcasing many 1960s-1970s Thai rock and pop bands, this collects 17 rare and vintage cuts, very largely originals based on traditional Thai music, along with a few takeoffs or straight covers of American or British hits, all sung in Thai. Full color cover art, Euro import." - Thai Rebel. |
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Artist: V/A Title: The Art of Worms Format: Book Label: The Bookworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| The Tapeworm launches its new publishing venture, The Bookworm, with a tidy compendium of its cover art, alongside an especially-commissioned essay by writer Ken Hollings, the author of the books Destroy All Monsters (Marion Boyars, 2001) and Welcome To Mars (Strange Attractor Press, 2008). Kens work has appeared in a wide range of journals, reviews and anthologies. He has written and presented critically-acclaimed programs for BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, NPS in Holland, ABC Australia and Resonance FM and has given talks and lectures at the Royal Institution, the British Library, the ICA, Central St Martins, the École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels and the Berlin Akademie der Künste. Future Bookworm booklets are currently being penned by writer/poet Leslie Winer, and graphic designer Chris Bigg (4AD, David Sylvian). "Parasitic Infestation," an essay by Ken Hollings. Illustrations from the first 25 Tapeworm tapes, including works by SavX, Derek Jarman and Leif Elggren. Cover illustration: Savage Pencil. 66pp, 110mm x 117mm, soft cover, thread bound booklet -- no ISBN. Edition of 250 copies only. Printed on Munken Print stock. Typeset in Aldine 401, Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk and Miso. |
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Artist: MCMAHON, F.J. Title: Spirit of the Golden Juice Format: LP Label: The Circadian Press Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "This is the first faithful and fully licensed reproduction of Spirit of the Golden Juice, originally released in 1969 on the Accent label. Pressed in a tiny quantity and scattered around the California coastline, Spirit of the Golden Juice has become a top item among collectors and folk/psych lovers alike. Its a spell-binding blend of heartfelt singer-songwriter emotion and spiraling acoustic guitar accompaniment, standing up proudly alongside heroes like Hoyt Axton, Kris Kristofferson, and Fred Neil, but with a raw and adventurous spirit all its own. As his sole musical release, F.J. McMahon created one of the most emotionally compelling and cohesive albums ever. Reissue limited to 500 copies in deluxe tip-on jacket with Risographed insert." - The Circadian Press. |
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Artist: DOOR AND THE WINDOW, THE Title: Doctor Egg ⿿ Live Recordings 1983 ⿿1987 Format: CD Label: The Door And The Window Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "having abandoned their earlier angry mode these recordings see the door and the window retain their typically inspired but musically inept disposition as they explore their physical and spiritual world and send back their idiosyncratic dispatches. after having spent several years in the late 70s and early 80s rapidly recording and releasing a number of records, nag and bendle decided to start sitting on their recordings ⿿ ⿿why dont we wait 20 years and see if this is still worth releasing? having an ethos of allowing ridiculous ideas to surface and then meticulously following them to their conclusion, they were bound to pursue this. (around the time of these recordings nag and bendle travelled on a number of strange protracted pilgrimages inspired by a number of popular phrases such as ⿿send him to coventry and ⿿taking coals to newcastle). serendipity would have it that at the end of this 20 year wait overground records saw fit this summer to issue a cd release of the door and the windows lp ⿿detailed twang from the time when tdatw was nag, bendle and mark perry. cynically building upon the marketing opportunity presented by the overwhelming interest shown in that recording, nag and bendle are now releasing this compilation of various tdatw lineups. other info: initially inspired by the first wave of industrial bands and the ethos of diy pioneers like the desperate bicycles and scritti politti, nag and bendle played their first gig and recorded their first single sometime before they bothered to rehearse. playing with an ever-changing lineup tdatw became first gradually rhythmic and then melodic. unhappy to remain in one musical ghetto, they inhabited several ⿿ playing gigs with post punks and ska bands, playing free tours with idealist hippies and gradually becoming deeply involved with the london musicians collective. they co-produced a magazine about the politics of record production, hosted the seminal ⿿jazz punk bonanza festivals of 1980, 82 and 86 and ran the weirdly eclectic sprouts conspiracy cabaret club. nag and bendle also played in the 49 americans and the liberated sound octet, nag played with mark perry and karl blake in the reflections and bendle with the casual labourers and the late music group." - TDATW. Non-distributed, self released CD of previously unreleased TDATW recordings. |
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Artist: DESTROY ALL MONSTERS Title: 1974-1976 Format: Triple CD Label: The End Is Here Country: USA Price: $31.00 |
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"DESTROY ALL MONSTERS 1974-1976 is a repressing of the long out of print 1996 boxed set by this seminal noise/avant-rock group composed of artists MIKE KELLEY, CARY LOREN, NIAGARA and JIM SHAW. It was previously issued on Thurston Moores Ecstatic Peace! label and is now reissued on the bands label The End is Here. These are early low-fi vintage recordings by Destroy All Monsters when they lived and performed at "Gods Oasis" in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Almost too good to be true, the cream of the crop of pre punk American Midwest weirdness. If you missed out in 76 and 96, get on board now!" - Book Beat.
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Artist: MONSTER ISLAND Title: Children of Mu Format: Dbl LP Label: The End Is Here Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "The Children of Mu is a group of songs, lyrics & extended performance revolving around the psychic and mythic origins of Mu, a Pacific island or lost continent (and counterpart to Atlantis) some believe to be fiction and others the cradle of civilization, and relevant to our present condition. It has been mythologized by the founder of Theosophy, Madame Blavatsky who contends that Mu was a land bridging India and Africa, inhabited by our spiritual ancestors, non-physical psychic beings. The LP charts the migration of Shadow Theater, the earliest visual/ musical form of storytelling from Mu to China, India and the invention of cinema in avant-garde Paris at the end of the 19th century. Songs on side one and two follow this migration and are performed in Chinese, French and English. Early wax recordings of poet Apollinaire (reading Bridge Mirabeau) and the first Chinese opera are mixed into collaged sections within the music. Sides 3 and 4 are a single long jazz improvisation over the channeled voice of Madame Blavatsky who reveals the history of creation and Mu. This is the fourth album by Monster Island, a four year project, whose previous recordings included; From the Michigan Floor, Dream Tiger and Peyotemind. This double LP is an edition of 500 copies with fabulous four color + metallic gold cover by ratty art genius Gary Panter. Performances by; Aliccia Berg (Slumber Party), Bill Brovald (Larval), Matthew Smith (guitar, bass, pipa, Outrageous Cherry, THTX), Robert Waller (synth, Pere Ubu), H.H. Ma Meenakshi Devi (Indian Saint and classical Hindi singer), Anneke Auer (psychic voice), Johnny Evans (sax, Howling Diablos), Len Bukowski (bass clarinet, Northwoods Improvisers), Tim Barnes (percussionist, Quakebasket), Mattin (avant-noise, Sakadda), words & music: Cary Loren (Destroy All Monsters), mastered by Warn Defever." -The End Is Here. |
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Artist: HUSH ARBORS/JERUSALEM AND THE STARBASKETS Title: Split Format: 7" Label: The Great Pop Supplement Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
| "Next up on the Great Pop Supplement, comes a mighty 45 pairing longtime Missouri friends Jerusalem and the Starbaskets and Hush Arbors. A fabulous band, JATS debut here with the formidable ⿿I Cannot Radiato Without You. A spiky 2 chord blast clocking in at under 2 minutes of perfect pop. Acting as a taster for the stunning ⿿Battle of the Orchids imminent full length (on the GPS soon), the band merge the ferocity of the Sonics with the tenderness of Galaxie 500 or 3rd album Velvets. Wacked out, often ferocious, psych blues- a taster from which appears here. Hush Arbors recent expansion to a two piece, debut here on vinyl, with ⿿Mr. Bones, another gem from the songwriting genius of Keith Wood. A gentle acoustic opening gives way to a fuller, perhaps busier, 12 string laced sound- not unlike some unreleased nugget from the Gene Clark ⿿Roadmaster sessions where he coaxed the original Byrds to reconvene for one last time on wax. Very limited vinyl only 45, on split one half orange, one half green vinyl. Get on it!"- The Great Pop Supplement |
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Artist: V/A Title: The Journal of Popular Noise Vol.1 - Issues 10-12 Format: Triple 7" Label: The Journal of Popular Noise Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The Journal of Popular Noise is a semi-annual audio magazine inspired by the traditions of pop music, printed periodicals, and the delight of a finely crafted artifact. Limited edition of hand-folded, letter-press printed copies. Within the package are 3 issues, each in the form of 7" vinyl records. Every issue conforms to the same prescribed editorial structures but is composed by a different artist or group. This set contains issues 10-12 featuring (respectively) Climax Golden Twins, Pwrfl Power, and Linda & Rons Dad. The packaging folds out to a beautiful letter-pressed poster containing information about the Journal, the musicians, and the compositional process." - The Journal of Popular Noise. Numbered edition of 300. |
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Artist: V/A Title: The Journal of Popular Noise Vol.1 - Issues 13-15 Format: Triple 7" Label: The Journal of Popular Noise Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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"The Journal of Popular Noise is a semi-annual audio magazine inspired by the traditions of pop music, printed periodicals, and the delight of a finely crafted artifact. Limited edition of hand-folded, letter-press printed copies.
Within the package are 3 issues, each in the form of 7" vinyl records. Every issue conforms to the same prescribed editorial structures but is composed by a different artist or group. This set contains issues 13-15 featuring spoken word records from Andrew W.K., Felt Letters (featuring Ian Svenonius), and Walker & Cantrell. The packaging folds out to a beautiful letter-pressed poster containing information about the Journal, the musicians, and the compositional process." - The Journal of Popular Noise. Numbered edition of 100.
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: Antikythera Mechanism Format: LP Label: The Spring Press Country: Australia Price: $24.00 |
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Artist: ARÉVALO, GASTÓN Title: Classical Landscapes Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Composed and recorded by Gastón Arévalo, using and processing instruments such as viola, guitar and sampler, alongside field recordings made in Paris. Gastón Arévalo is a multidisciplinary artist. His recordings are based on electro-acoustic soundscapes, abstract textures and found melodies, framed into styles such as ambient experimental. Isolationism and nature have a strong presence in his work and are one of the fundamental elements of his inspiration. He has presented and exhibited his work at places like: De Unie Theater (Rotterdam), Abraxas Theater (Augsburg), CBK (Dordrecht), Todays Art Festival (Den Hague), Kunstpodium T (Tilburg), Saint Fin Barres Cathedral (Cork), kuS (Heerlen), School of Art & Design (Limerick), Orquideorama (Antioquia), Paço das Artes (Sao Paulo), Palacio de Correos (Buenos Aires). His works have been aired at radio stations like Resonance FM, BBC Radio 1, RNE Radio 3 and Radio1.cz." - The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: AUTODIGEST Title: A Compressed History Of Every Bootleg Ever Recorded Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
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"Cassette-only release in a limited edition of 100 copies only. This is the fourth installment in Autodigests series of compressed everything: this time around, you are promised all the bootlegs ever. At a time when the debate on music piracy rages on, it is a good thing to be reminded that the luxurious universe of unofficial recordings is now in its fourth decade and flourishing like never before. If anything, the pressing issue of containing the P2P sharing rampage of official recordings has benefited the underworld: record labels simply cannot be bothered with unofficial recordings when Britney Whatevers latest opus leaks weeks before release and costs them billions in lost revenue. The irony, of course, is that these free, unofficial recordings are infinitely more exciting than anything Britney Whatever could ever aspire to spit out. The music on this cassette spans over 40 years and was originally recorded on analog and digital equipment. As Autodigest explains, "we have attempted to distance ourselves as much as possible from the sound of the original recordings. Autodigest Volume 4 is an attempt to reveal all limitations of the source tapes -- hiss to the fore, baby!" - The Tapeworm.
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Artist: AUTOMATICS GROUP FEATURING AMY WINEDEATH, THE Title: Ammo a Mass a Mat Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "She lay, naked, draped across the piano, her nipples still erect from her recent encounter. Globules dripped onto the keys, lying like translucent mercury pools, somewhere between solid and liquid, defying definition. She might be asleep; she might not. Its a special private place which cannot be shared or revealed. Her right hand slowly stroked the keys, as if to play; but there is no need for music now. She has her own sounds playing breezily around her; no need for form. Her fingers hesitate slightly as they play across the keys, as if reminded of her guttural expressions which recently filled the room. Her breathing was calm, but shallow -- a wave had passed through her, soaking her but now leaving her utterly changed but intact. There is no sign nor sound of another player on this primordial stage. Thanks to AMe for the cover art. Special thanks to a loud, short, fat, hairy-assed, umbrella-carrying American and Tony UPS (auto 73, actually)." -The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: BARACLOUGH Title: The Lampshade Is Not A Past Tense Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only release in a limited-edition of 250 copies only. Baraclough are a London-based trio consisting of a classically-trained musician, a self-taught musician, and a non-musician. With a distinctive palette of woozy electronics, raw and processed recordings, combined with vocals and abstract sounds, Baraclough produce a unique aural aesthetic that is hypnotic yet agitating, intimate yet awkward. Since their inception in 2006, Baraclough have performed in a variety of bizarre locations such as a Kilburn rock pub and a former Turner Prize winners stock cupboard. In March of 2009, Baraclough released their debut album Hello Animal on Forris, their audio publishing cooperative. Members of Baraclough include: Paul de Casparis, Dale Cornish, and Eddie Nuttall." -The Tapeworm |
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Artist: BAUDRILLARD, JEAN Title: Le Xerox et lInfini Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
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"Cassette-only release in a limited edition of 250 copies. Jean Baudrillards Le Xerox Et lInfini -- originally published in Paris, 1987 -- as read by Patricia and Ellen. Recorded on July 12, 2009 by Vicki Bennett in Hersham, England. Jean Baudrillard is perhaps the most important theorist of the "after modern." Though he says he has "nothing to do with postmodernism," many interpret him among the most important prophets of a truly postmodern era. His works have attracted praise and derision all over the world. Since 1991, British artist Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) has been an influential figure in the field of audiovisual collage, through her innovative sampling, appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives. Using collage as her main form of expression, she creates works that communicate a humorous, dark and often surreal view on life. Patricia and Ellen were born in Reims, northeastern France, on July 29, 1929. They told interviewers that their grandparents were peasants and their parents were civil servants. They became the first of their family to attend university when they enrolled in the Sorbonne University in Paris. There they studied German, which led to them teaching the subject at a provincial lycée, where they remained from 1958 until their departure in 1966. While teaching, Patricia and Ellen began to publish reviews of literature, and translate the works of such authors as Peter Weiss, Bertolt Brecht and Wilhelm Mühlmann. Later on, with the development of the magnetic tape recorder, Patricia and Ellen used these new means in order to manipulate their performances and expand the possibilities of language sound transformations. Patricia and Ellen continue to actively perform their work, the contextual quality of which is enhanced by their idiosyncratic delivery." -The Tapeworm
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Artist: BUTCHER, JOHN Title: Trace Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only release. Edition of 250 copies. John Butchers work ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multi-tracked saxophone pieces and explorations with feedback and extreme acoustics. Originally a physicist, he left academia in 1982, and has since collaborated with hundreds of musicians. He is well known as a soloist, recently exploring unusual site-specific acoustics, and has released seven albums of solo saxophone music. His tape for The Tapeworm features two contrasting performance styles. The first is a live recording in three parts for tenor and soprano saxophones, recorded in concert October 30, 2009, LEglise Saint-Merri, Paris. Its flipside is a 20-minute piece for saxophone controlled feedback and piano (one player)." -The Tapeworm |
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Artist: CHUGGA Title: Memphistophelis Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette release. Edition of 250 copies. Masterminded by Terre Thaemlitz and "fresh... for 96!" -- Memphistophelis by Chugga (aka Lester Fuero and Jeff Hanes) is a deliciously dated blend of trip-hop, 70s disco, funk, Jeep-dub and lounge, mixed well and served chilled. Each track on Memphistophelis picks up on a different 70s sound while tying in that unique Memphis combination of sparsity and orchestration. The album was mastered by an unlikely culprit -- and friend -- transgendered electro-acoustic/ambient/house Jack-of-all-genres Terre Thaemlitz (aka DJ Sprinkles). Although it was shopped around and two or three cuts trickled out over the years on obscure vinyl and compilation releases, Memphistophelis never found a home -- until The Tapeworm." -The Tapeworm |
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Artist: CONNELLY, CHRIS Title: The Collapse of Ether Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Voice and piano: Chris Connelly. Piano recorded at Chicago Trax Studio, May 1990, engineered by Keith Auerbach. Vocals recorded May 2012 at Engine Studios, Chicago, engineered by Sanford Parker. Produced by Chris Connelly and Sanford Parker. Dedicated to the innocent victims of the regimes in Chechnya and Ingushetia. Chris Connelly formed the Fini Tribe with childhood friends in 1980 and left in 1987 after an invitation to record and tour with the Revolting Cocks & their evil twin Ministry in Chicago. Then ensued a long and continuing career of collaborations and solo albums working with the likes of Lydia Lunch, Killing Joke, Jah Wobble, Robert Fripp, Cabaret Voltaire, David Tibet, Steve Shelley, Shirley Manson, Jim ORourke, Gordon Sharpe, Joan of Arc, and more recently Michael Esposito & Meshell Ndegeocello. Chris has also written three published books & continues to write and collaborate as he becomes more demented in his middle years." - The Tapeworm. Edition of 200 copies. |
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Artist: CORNER, PHILIP Title: Piano Workd Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
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"Philip Corner (b. 1933) is an American composer, musician and visual artist. His teachers include Henry Cowell and Olivier Messiaen. While on military duty in Korea in 1960-1961, he studied calligraphy with Ki-sung Kim and many of his works have calligraphic scores. A founding member of Fluxus, Corner has performed with George Maciunas, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono and Nam June Paik. From 1967 to 1970 he taught the course in Experimental Composition at the New School for Social Research, which John Cage initiated in 1956. He was a member of Judson Dance Theater as both dancer and composer and has written scores for dance pieces by James Waring, Yvonne Rainer, Lucinda Childs and Elaine Summers, among many others. He lives in Reggio nellEmilia with his wife and performing partner, the dancer and choreographer Phoebe Neville. His wide-ranging output includes numerous works for gongs, bells, metal percussion and gamelan orchestra. Piano Workd explores the rich sonic possibilities afforded by the dismantling of a piano. Corner recorded the performance on August 19, 1983 at Archivio F. Conz, Verona, using a Sony Walkman Professional WM-D6 and a Sennheiser Kunstkopf microphone. The finished object that resulted from this action is the property of the Archivio F. Conz, Verona. The audio for this edition was remastered in 2011 by BJNilsen. Cover illustration -- detail from the original score by Philip Corner." -Tapeworm
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Artist: CORNISH, DALE Title: Fleshpile Thematic Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
| "Dale Cornish was born, raised, and is currently based in London (south). Was a member of No Bra (2004-2006), who co-wrote the unexpected hit "Munchausen." Terse humor and observations/worldly interests further evident with work in ecstatic noise trio Baraclough (2006). Their debut album Hello Animal (2009) was followed by subsequent cassette-only releases, including The Lampshade Is Not a Past Tense for the Tapeworm (2009). Current focus is on solo and collaborative works and performances. Previous solo releases include Glacial (Entracte, 2012) and Voluntary Redundancy Salad (Beartown Records, 2011)." -The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: DECEH Title: Fundamental Structure Cassette Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-release in an edition of 400 copies only. A close study of the harmonic composition of a Hammond organ and a sruti box with attention given to the organization of isolated frequencies and the effects of these vibrations on brain activity. Deceh writes: "Once four, three no more, now were up to two. Dear old friend, must this end, before we start anew?" Deceh is an anonymous duo including Eleh." -The Tapeworm |
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Artist: DRCARLSONALBION Title: Edward Kelleys Blues Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
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"The Tapeworm presents a release from Drcarlsonalbion aka Dylan Carlson (Earth). A-side consists of field recordings made in/around Waterloo station and along the Thames river bed at Southbank, November 2011. Guitar and vocals added by Drcarlson, December 2011. Recorded and mastered by Robert Roth, December 2011, Tulalip, WA. B-side consists of guitar and vocals by Drcarlson and Mellotron by Robert Roth. Recorded and mastered by Robert Roth, Tulalip, WA. Produced by Drcarlsonalbion/Robert Roth. For those interested, Waterloo station is a site of personal occult experience for drcarlson -- see drcarlsonalbion.wordpress.com for further details. B-side vocals consist of Enochian version of lyrics from A-side." - The Tapeworm.
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Artist: E-MAN Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only release in a limited-edition of 350 copies only. E-Man was the first apparition of Norways father of chilly ambient electronics, Geir Jenssen -- these days better known as Biosphere. This tape, originally released in 1984 on Likvidér, features contributions from Per Martinsen (Mental Overdrive) and Nils Johansen (Bel Canto). All tracks recorded on a Teac 4-track cassette recorder at Elverhøy Studenthjem, Tromsø and Nord-Norsk Studenthjem, Oslo, Norway between 1983-1984. All tracks written by Geir Jenssen except track A1. written by Jenssen/Martinsen, A4. written by Jenssen/Johansen/Larsen, A6. and B4. written by Jenssen/Larsen, B1. written by Jenssen/Høyer/Larsen. Geir Jenssen (electronics), Ragnar Larsen (vocals and bass) (A4., A6., B1., B4.), Frank Jensen (vocals) (A1., B5.), Per Martinsen (electronics) (A1., B7.). Cover illustration by SavX aka Savage Pencil." -The Tapeworm |
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Artist: ELGGREN, LEIF Title: All Animals Are Saints Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "This is a cassette-only limited release in an edition of 250 copies only. Leif Elggren (born 1950, Linköping, Sweden), is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm. Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to work in the combined worlds of audio and visual. A writer, visual artist, stage performer and composer, he has many albums to his credits, solo and with the Sons Of God, on labels such as Ash International, Touch, Radium and his own Firework Edition. His music, often conceived as the soundtrack to a visual installation or experimental stage performance, usually presents carefully selected sound sources over a long stretch of time and can range from mesmerizingly quiet electronics to harsh noise. His wide-ranging and prolific body of art often involves dreams and subtle absurdities, social hierarchies turned upside-down, hidden actions and events taking on the quality of icons. Together with artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff, he is a founder of the Kingdoms Of Elgaland-Vargaland (KREV) where he enjoys the title of King. "The Life Of The Plants" was recorded at "The Night Of The Long Worms," Café Oto, London on November 19, 2009. First performed at Kontiki, Botanic Sounds, Gothenburg, Sweden on June 6, 2009. "Swedenborgs Organ" was recorded at The Showroom, London on November 20, 2009, in celebration of the DVD release of Death Travels Backwards by Leif Elggren on Errant Bodies Records." -The Tapeworm |
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Artist: FENNESZ Title: Szampler Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only release. Edition of 500 copies. Here Christian Fennesz opens his magic box to reveal a plethora of samples from his old Ensoniq EPS-16 Plus and ASR-10 samplers which he used for his recordings from 1989 to 1996. For those of you familiar with his work, you will recognize some of them... from noise to dub and blasts of sheared electronics with his familiar patina, a palette of extraordinary energy and spirit is made manifest. An exciting and invigorating collection, with great wit and flair, this cassette is the perfect accompaniment to his wonderful albums." - The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: GALLON, RAY Title: Nam June Paik - A Work for Radio Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
| "This hour-long compositional documentary was produced for the CBC Radio Series "Signature," and was originally broadcast on April 28, 1979. It was nominated for an ACTRA award for best radio documentary of the year. It is the result of a remarkable creative collaboration by artists such as John Cage, Charlotte Moorman, Philip Corner, and Nam June Paik himself with the author. Interspersed throughout the portrait are audio realizations by Ray Gallon of conceptual works by Nam June Paik. Thanks also to Lorne Tulk for remarkable engineering and creative contributions, and to Digby Peers for the courage to broadcast it. Ray Gallon has been a communicator for over 40 years, half of that time as a radio producer and audio artist. Although he had a classical music education, Ray gravitated early towards the avant-garde, and was fascinated by musique concrète, electronic music, so-called progressive jazz, and the multi-track experiments of the rock revolution in the 60s. His first exposure, on television, to the work of John Cage came very close to the moment when he wandered into a cinema by chance, and saw Fellinis 8 1/2. The one-two punch of these experiences left him delirious for the rest of his life. As a radio producer, he has worked in almost every department at CBC Radio except hard news. He was nurtured by Glenn Goulds experiments with "compositional documentaries," and developed his own style, inspired by Goulds work. In the late 80s, Rays focus turned towards new media, communications art, and computers. After moving to France in 1992, he continued to produce audio art and radio while teaching courses in new media and working as a technical communicator. Ray is currently a researcher with The Transformation Society, and shares his life between Barcelona, Spain, and the Languedoc region of France. " - The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: GIBSON, RANDY Title: Analog Apparitions Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only release. Limited edition of 250 copies only. Recorded on a Marantz PMD222 with Maxell UR-90 cassettes, Brooklyn, NY, VI-xix-2010 to VII-xxiv-2010. Analog Apparitions, by Brooklyn-based composer Randy Gibson, is a pair of 30-minute compositions designed specifically to be recorded and released on cassette tape. A student of seminal minimalist composer La Monte Young, Gibson follows in the tradition of prime harmonic just intonation pioneered by Young in the 1960s. "Apparitions Of The Four Pillars," the underlying composition on this tape, explores the depth of the harmonic series through standard just intonation methods and the use of higher prime-harmonic relationships. In the 18 hours of recordings layered onto the two sides of the cassette, you can hear the mechanism of the tape itself, the evolution of improvisations over seven recording sessions, and the purity of sine waves in complex prime-harmonic relationships. Randy Gibson is a composer and performer, living and working in New York City. He works with structure, evolutionary compositional models, and improvisation to create enveloping and ritualistic works in just intonation. Gibson began his musical training at the age of six, studying percussion. In the summer of 1998, he travelled to Japan to study marimba with the great Keiko Abe. In early 2003, Gibson began composition studies in New York with La Monte Young. Continually humbling and revelatory, his studies with Young have brought greater clarity to his work, and reinforced his aesthetic convictions. Gibson combines live and electronic music, as well as aspects of the world music he has studied, most importantly raga singing in the Kirana tradition with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, but also Balinese and Japanese music. Gibsons work has been performed at festivals around the world including the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art in Minnesota, The Internationale Tanzmesse NRW in Düsseldorf, The Boulder and Minnesota International Fringe Festivals, HOT DAM: the opening festival of the Denver Art Museum, the Sans Souci International Festival of Dance Cinema, the ISIM 3rd annual conference, the Erick Hawkins Legacy Forum in New York, the 2010 Korea Experimental Arts Festival in Seoul, and the 44th Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt. Gibson is the artistic director of Avant Media, a non-profit organization dedicated to collaborative artistic endeavors. Cover features an illustration by Oscar Henriquez. Randy Gibson: just intonation toy organs, voice; Drew Blumberg: cassette boomboxes; Laine Rettmer: voice (B)." -The Tapeworm |
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Artist: GOLDMANN VS. FENNESZ Title: Remiksz Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only release. Limited edition of 250 copies only. This is a remix of Fenneszs Szampler cassette, created by Stefan Goldmann, erasing Christian Fenneszs original samples one by one and replacing them with corresponding samples of his own, made between 1999-2010 for his Akai S5000 sampler, in the same sequence. As a result, this cassette contains no sounds whatsoever from Fenneszs original. While Szampler was a journey through Christian Fennesz own sample collection, Stefan Goldmann structured his own sound archive around the layout of Szampler, replacing it all sound-by-sound. The result is a dialog of the sonic atoms that built the works of two of todays most challenging musical minds. Its a first-ever glimpse behind the curtains -- a full anatomy of sound, more revealing than any interview on "how it was done." When asked for his opinions on the art of the remix, Mr. Goldmann was unavailable for comment. So, instead, heres some words, written by Trevor Horn in 1986, that appeared on the rear sleeve of Frankie Goes To Hollywoods Warriors Of The Wasteland 12" single: "This twelve wild disciples version of Warriors is, of course, a remix of the track that opens the Frankie album Liverpool. The question is now begged -- what is a remix? It used to be a change of clothes, now its a dream come true. There is one answer. On Liverpool, the members of Frankie Goes To Hollywood played Warriors with their own notoriously fair hands: touching their instruments, squeezing, banging, urging, making noises which were recorded by microphones onto a tape recorder. This so-called 12", this marketing invention, this golden gate to possibilities is in fact a total cheat. What is a remix? A total cheat. There is another answer. No one played anything, in any orthodox sense. It was all done by computers, very powerful computers (38 megabytes RAM 600 megabytes hard disk storage) juggling and organizing pre-recorded sounds. We all had a hand in it -- that is, myself, Steve, Andy Richards the keyboard player, the lads, Holly and Paul. We all peered over the computer operators shoulder at the little screen, to see what the hell was going on, willing the circuits to do their uncanny business. From the little screen leapt twelve wild disciples, with their gifts for the listener. What is a remix? A gift. -- when its Frankie, and Frankie only. And this 12" is Frankie. Only." Cover features an illustration by Hau/Viet Hoa Le." -The Tapeworm |
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Artist: GOLDMANN, STEFAN Title: Havent I Seen You Before Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| Cassette-only in a limited edition of 250 copies. Berlin-based producer and head of the Macro Recordings label Stefan Goldmann couches his release for The Tapeworm thusly: "Since Im a less than mediocre guitar player, but a quite versatile editing engineer with a decade of experience of handling samplers and midi-sequencers, I could finally realize an old project which I can trace back to a lesson with my bass teacher in my teen days. He had found out a bass player with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra had recorded hours of improvisations and paid an engineer to cut it together into an enjoyable jazz album. The teacher, a profound jazz player himself, found this to be some sort of scam, while I was deeply impressed by the idea of merging hi-tech and improvisation. Finally, I had a reason to play and record some guitar for this fine project and cut it to death afterwards. Havent I Seen You Before is a cycle of five pieces, with two versions each, so it can be listened to as a continuous performance, as well as looped recordings when employing the reverse function some cassette players have. The latter can be done at any point, since the parts on the A and B sides match. All material on this album has a guitar (amplified and microphoned simultaneously) as its only sound source. These initial recordings were cut into loops with durations ranging from a fraction of a second to more than a minute. They were arranged into compositions, adding reverb, stereo panorama and volume adjustments. Layering the loops creates polymetric structures, but Ive tried to avoid the usual loop minimalism by the sheer number of looped segments which appear and disappear at distinctly different rates. Micro-loops vs. macro-loops is the main structural feature of the music on this cassette, playing around with a key feature of the format. Three recordings inspired this effort: John McLaughlins 1970 My Goals Beyond album, which offered a side of multitrack solo guitar improvisations (I believe this was the first jazz record to do this) as well as his unreleased guitar/voice album with his wife (John and Eve McLaughlin). McLaughlin was heavily under the influence of guru Sri Chinmoy and both albums have this very unique, dark drug/sect edge, adding an extremely intense quality to the modal guitar figures (well, probably also due to the Indian music he has been studying and merging with some impressionist composition techniques). I have tried to capture a bit of the mood and apply it to a loop-based, cut-up orgy. Another crucial record to me has been Derek Baileys Ballads -- Ive been astonished by the tidal movements in and out of the standards hes playing around with. So there is a harmonic base to my guitar mishandling, which is present throughout the entire album -- moving in and out of it. Id also like to note I applied an altered tuning to the guitar to achieve different natural harmonics than the ones one gets with the standard tuning -- and not to give in to the temptation of cutting some blues licks." --Stefan Goldmann, Berlin, 2009 |
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Artist: HOPE-EVANS, PETER Title: Cast-Offerings: Visitations, Fetches, Revenants Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only release in a limited edition of 200 copies. Peter Hope-Evans was a member of Medicine Head, a British 70s blues band championed by John Peel and signed to his legendary Dandelion label. The creation/recreation/wreck creation/of the precursor -- The Coasters/Donovan/Sleepy John Estes/Blind Mamie Forehand/The Fugs/Skip James/Peggy Lee/Lotte Lenya/Sherrie Levine/Uncle Dave Macon/Moby Grape. Peter Hope-Evans: mouth organs/organs of the mouth/Jews harps/trinklets/reception bell. Collaborator: Mick Mahoney. Guitar: Baby Taylor. Recorded aboard Micks canal boat "Cornwall," Grand Union Canal at Cowley Peachey on Tuesday afternoon, November 2nd, 2010. Cover illustration by SavX." -The Tapeworm |
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Artist: INFINITE LIVEZ Title: Glockenbackwerkstatt Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Infinite Livez (born 1972 in Bethnal Green, East London) is an MC and musician who studied at Chelsea Art College. His wide range of influences comes from such diverse sources as P-Funk, Surrealism and continental philosophy. His first album Bush Meat was released on Big Dada Records in 2004 to immediate critical acclaim in the UK and abroad. 2007 saw the release of his second album Art Brut fe de Yoot, also on Big Dada, and a collaborative project with the Swiss electro-jazz outfit, Stade. Recorded over a series of improvised sessions, it has been recognized as a unique achievement in both experimental hip-hop and wacky humor. The follow-up album to Art Brut fe de Yoot, entitled Morgan Freemans Psychedelic Semen, was released in 2008. At the beginning of 2009, the live album Live at La Guinguette, again recorded with Stade and guest vocalist Joy Frempong, came out of a residency in Geneva. Infinite Livez has performed in the UK and all over Europe, including events such as Montreux Jazz, the North Sea Jazz Festival and The Sonar Festival. Besides Stade and Joy Frempong, Infinite has worked with a wide range of other producers and musicians including David Murray, Jahcoozi, Nils Petter Molvar, Elliott Sharp and Kid Acne. He has supported artists such as Kool Keith, Anti Pop Consortium, MF Doom and Mulatu Astatke. As a visual artist, Infinite Livez has also worked on a variety of other projects, like making comic books, animations, prints and illustrations (for magazines such as Hip Hop Connection and The Wire). In July 2009, Infinite had his first solo exhibition, Salvador Dali Was Half Bengali at Pebbledash Gallery in London where he presented a series of madly surrealist silkscreens referencing the aesthetics of old-school comics, Japanese woodcuts and Hans Bellmer. In September 2009, he took part in the group show 7 Styles for 7 Brothers at Archipelago Art, Sheffield. Recently, Infinite launched Glorious Mono, his own weekly 1 hour radio show on Herbstradio 99.1 FM in Berlin." -The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: JARMAN, DEREK Title: In Conversation, 1979-80 Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
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"This is a cassette-only limited edition of 250 copies. Released with the kind permission of Keith Collins. Cover illustration -- A Drawing for Tempest (1969) by Derek Jarman, courtesy of Richard Torry. Three interviews with Derek Jarman, conducted by Richard Torry in Londons Soho district, in 1979 and 1980. Edited by Richard Torry in 2009. These interviews were recorded by Torry as part of research for his finals dissertation at Middlesex Polytechnic, and have remained unissued since then. Their informality offers a uniquely candid insight into the filmmakers world view. The artwork for this edition features a drawing by Jarman himself, gifted to Torry at the same time as these interviews were recorded." - The Tapeworm.
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Artist: JULIAN, PHIL Title: Live Flux Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
| "Phil Julian has been an active part of the experimental music underground since the late 1990s, recording numerous works under the name Cheapmachines and under his own name since 2008 in various collaborative and solo performances. Studio recordings and live performances within Europe and North America have focused on the use of analog electronics (particularly unstable and/or chaotic systems -- modular analog synthesizers, feedback, contact microphones, objects and surfaces) and computer-based works. Julian has collaborated on remixes, recordings and performances with Maurizio Bianchi, Tomas Korber, Michael Renkel, Ryan Jordan, Jason Kahn, Nihilist Assault Group, The New Blockaders and GX Jupitter-Larsen of The Haters as well as being a member of the improvised drone ensemble Signals with Mark Beazley and Chris Gowers." -The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: LOPEZ & ZAN HOFFMAN, FRANCISCO Title: Concert For 300 Magnetic Tapes Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette release limited to 300 copies only. Created from live performances in Spain (Madrid, Alcalá de Henares and Gijón) in 1994, using 300 tapes received from around 200 different artists from the international home-music cassette network. Remixed and mastered at Messor Studios, Antonio García Studios (Madrid) and Zidslick Studios (Louisville, KY) in 1994. Re-edited, re-mixed and re-mastered by Francisco López at Mobile Messor (Paraguay) in 2010. After years of exchanging self-released music on cassette and collaborating via post, Francisco López and Zan Hoffman embarked in 1994 on a somehow surreal small tour of live performances in Spain. By mixing their own sonic materials and recorded stuff on cassette received directly from hundreds of underground artists worldwide, they carried out live recombination shows with eight cassette decks and a shared mixing board. A synthetic/distilled edit of the most interesting moments arising from those live composition sessions is now released on this cassette by The Tapeworm." -The Tapeworm |
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Artist: MARANATA Title: Royal Hex Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
| "Maranata is the Norwegian free-noise duo of Jon Wesseltoft and Dag Stiberg. Working as a duo since 2005, they often perform alongside collaborators, with prior performances including the likes of Maja S.K Ratkje, C. Spencer Yeh, and Manheim (ex-Mayhem). This particular set was recorded live at the Superdeluxe club in Tokyo in April 2010, with Sayaka Himeno from Nisennenmondai guesting on drums. Jon Wesseltoft (guitar/electronics), Dag Stiberg (saxophone/electronics) and Sayaka Himeno (drums)." -The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: MARSHALL, PHILIP Title: Casse-tete Cassette Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only release in a limited edition of 200 copies. "Number Crunches" composed, arranged and performed by Andrew Poppy. Field recordings captured by Zeno van den Broek and Sven Schlijper. Hidden voices: Thaddeus Zupancic. Mastered by BJNilsen. Commissioned by PAUME as part of "The Tapeworm Comes Alive!," Utrecht, The Netherlands." -The Tapeworm |
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Artist: MATHIEU, STEPHAN Title: Flags Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
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"Flags is a homage to the beauty of data. The pieces are created from photos of my studio equipment which were transformed to audio via header changes. The audio was processed in August 2008 with Soundhack and GraphicConverter. The folder was always called Flags, I dont remember why." --Stephan Mathieu, Eschringen, July 31, 2011. Limited edition of 200 copies only. Illustration by Miss Caro Mikalef.
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Artist: MELTAOT Title: First and Second Rites Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only release in a limited-edition of 250 copies. Meltaot are a bass-heavy, improvised noise duo made up of UK artist/musician/broadcaster Sharon Gal and artist/writer/musician SavX (aka Savage Pencil aka Edwin Pouncey). After recording together at a session for Pestrepeller (the other band they are a part of), they decided to take the project one step further and record as a separate entity. Although black metal, drone and doom would seem to be at the core of what Meltaot are involved with here, the real intention was to paint a series of atmospheric sound pictures (not all of them dark) using voice, bass guitar and other instrumentation/effects as their materials. This is the first release by Meltaot. There will be others. SavX (electric "rooster" guitar); Sharon Gal (electric bass guitar, voice, percussion, feedback). Recorded at the SavLab, 6/17/2009. Illustration by SavX." -The Tapeworm |
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Artist: MENCHE, DANIEL Title: Raw Fall Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette release. Edition of 250 copies. A raw waterfall recording of Tunnel Falls at the Eagle Creek trail in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon, USA, coupled with a raw waterfall recording of the South Falls in Silver Falls State Park located in the Oregon Cascade Mountains, USA." -The Tapeworm "There is a reason for this madness and that is the waterfall." -Roger Steen "DRAMA is the goal." -Daniel Menche |
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Artist: MILLIMETRE Title: Sex Dreams of the I Ching Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
| "Millimetre is Terence J. McGaughey, who has made critically-praised radical pop music with this moniker since 2004. Millimetre has released four albums -- Love Won Out (2005), Obsidian (2007), Heliography (2009), and 13 Homes (2011), all on Orectic Records. Millimetre writes: "Sex Dreams of the I Ching started out as six love songs with strange, fragmented structures that had titles inspired by readings from the I Ching. I didnt know what to do with them, but kept returning to them over and over -- they had an uncanny quality while being totally dissonant and broken. One day I found some recordings I made on a four-track years ago with a WEM Copycat -- mostly my vocalizations looped endlessly -- and out of curiosity played some while playing the love songs in the background. Thats more or less how it began. A fortnight later, all six songs morphed themselves into drones and then, with some minor embellishments, and unfolding melodies, the titles magically fit the new music. Sumetha and James added their parts and the album was done -- no mixing required. As a listener, you may find this album is perfect for playing in noisy environments." - Terence J McGaughey, London, September 27, 2012. " - The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: MOHNE, ACHIM Title: And It Could Have Been Dead... Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Achim Mohné experiments with the space and time intervals of media, photography, video, digital image production, as well as with sound. His experiments bring to light the surprising uses that lie dormant in todays technology. For The Tapeworm, Achim focused on audiotape itself: as material, as body, as signifier and as sculpture. Some notes on the sources and methods used to create And It Could Have Been Dead... follow: A1., "How To Use This Cassette" is mixed from a 1982 Blaupunkt instruction tape for a cassette player. A2., "Widerverwendung" uses material from "MediaRecycling," a live performance at Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst (GAK) Bremen, 1999. This was a performance for opened-up VCRs, monitors, scissors, glue, medical gloves, cleansing alcohol. Sections of tapes were randomly chosen, cut with a scissors, then taped back live together in a different order. The version on this cassette was mixed in 2011. A3., "All I Have Ever Listened To" was mixed from "Sozialisationsmusik" -- a live performance at Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (1997) for three to eight turntables, cassette recorders and a mixer. With their help, vinyl records and cassettes from a great variety of genres (classic, electro, punk, rock, jazz, childrens audio dramas) are layered-up and mixed live. The version on The Tapeworms tape was edited in 2011. A4. and B1. were created using hand-operated cassette recorders. The tapes used for "Once Upon A Time They All Lived Happily Ever After" were all of fairy-tales. B2. ("Syntactical Swap") is a work for cassette recorder and turntable. Finally, B3. is a short blast, using beginnings and endings of The Tapeworm cassettes, #01-#34 as its sound source." -Tapeworm |
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Artist: NORMAN CONQUEST, THE Title: Myriad Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
| "Myriad is a post-apocalyptic love story comprised of 10,000 tracks of recorded audio, yielding a great wall of sound. Unfolding over 31 minutes, the piece features over 150 performers on 200+ instruments including the Persian santur, various ARP/Buchla/ Moog analog synthesizers, gamelans (handmade by Lou Harrison), classical strings, timpani, harpsichord, and percussion. Myriad is performed by a veritable "world orchestra." A small portion of some of the illustrious musicians who recorded for this piece: Blixa Bargeld, Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Agnes Szelag and Marielle Jakobsons (of Myrmyr), William Winant, Jon Porras and Evan Caminiti (of Barn Owl), Gregg Kowalsky, Ellen Fullman, Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi, Shahzad Ismaily, Chris Cutler, Theresa Wong, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Jozef Van Wissem, Luciano Chessa, Stuart Dempster, Wobbly, Jacob Felix Heule, George Chen, and Søren Kjærgaard. The Norman Conquest (TNC) is a composer, performer, and improviser influenced by the art of sound engineering. Utilizing unconventional recording practices, the recording studio is TNCs instrument. TNC performs as a sound manipulator and vocalist in Cosa Brava (with Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Shahzad Ismaily, Carla Kihlstedt, and Matthias Bossi) and Dokuro (with Agnes Szelag). As a recording engineer, some of the artists that TNC has worked with include Barn Owl, Elliott Sharp, Gregg Kowalsky, Ellen Fullman, Stuart Dempster, Marielle Jakobsons, and Blixa Bargeld (of Einsturzende Neubauten). TNCs recordings can be found on such fine record labels as Tzadik, Thrill Jockey, Type, Intakt, Important Records, Root Strata, Ambiances Magnetiques, and Digitalis Recordings. " - The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: O MALLEY, STEPHEN Title: Petite Geante Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: OLD APPARATUS Title: 15:24-15:46 Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Old Apparatus are a four-piece audio/visual collective transmitting from East London that have been releasing bass-oriented electronic dance music on Malas underground label Deep Medi Musik. This edition for The Tapeworm is an improvised instrumental piece using guitar, piano, violin and found sound ambiences recorded entirely in the front room of the house they share together. Given that most forms of electronic music are bound by linearity and grid-based digital audio workstations, Old Apparatus consciously embarked on an exploration of non-linear forms of musical expression. The audio on the tape is a snapshot in time of that exploration." -Tapeworm |
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Artist: PITA Title: Mesmer Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only release. Edition of 250 copies. Mesmer was Peter Rehbergs first-ever solo composition, originally released in 1995 as part of Mesmervariations, a (long-deleted) 2CD by Ash International presented in an oversized plastic wallet with eight card inserts. That release contained various original compositions influenced by the work of Friedrich Mesmer, and included pieces by Ryoji Ikeda, Gescom, Edvard Graham Lewis, Robert Hampson, Bruce Gilbert, CM Von Hausswolff and Drome (Bernd Friedmann). The artists featured on this release were given a copy of the vinyl recording Mesmer (Ash 1.8) and asked to compose a piece influenced by the work of Friedrich Mesmer, the 19th century "animal magnetist and hypnotist." The brief was -- there is no brief; method and style were left entirely to the discretion of the composer. Rehbergs contribution is reproduced in its entirety here, the B-side of the cassette containing a copy of the weathered dubplate of the track he cut in 1996 for personal DJ use." -The Tapeworm |
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Artist: POPPY, ANDREW Title: Infernal Furniture Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Infernal Furniture is a collection of piano sonatas, backed with a version -- "Infernal Dub Furniture" -- where the recordings are subjected to the studio effects of delay and reverb, changing the surface and meaning of the music. The piano pieces themselves are drawn from the collection 10 Sonatas Ten (2010). Piano and electronic processing by; composed and produced by Andrew Poppy. Mastered by Zachary James Watkins. Ultra-Reds Dont Rhine writes: "A provocative proposition; Satie meets dub procedures. It makes me think about the erased link between jazz improvisation and dub where, in the latter, the improvised instrument is the mixing deck. If, as Cardew said, improvisation is the search for a sound to interpret a context, dub raises the stakes of that hermeneutic to the fight against Babylon. And then theres "Infernal Dub Furniture." To reinsert the anti-Eurocentric pulse back into the Euro-soundscape of Satie (the most Euro of Euro-soundscapes) is very subversive. This brings to mind Terre Thaemlitzs project of several yearsa go, rendering the roboticism of Kraftwerk, Devo and Gary Numan according to the principles of rubato -- all done via step-time programming. Its always interesting how this dubbing (or queering, as Terre would insist) also unleashes an affect of melancholy. An affect for a world whose evidence is unseen and unheard. But deeply desired." --Dont Rhine, Hollywood, CA, February 3, 2012." -The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: POTTER, COLIN Title: The Fights of the Sound Cable Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
| "So, things have gone full circle. Colin Potters first cassette was released in 1980 and here we are around 33 1/3 years later, observing the release of another cassette. The intervening period has seen a number of developments. The ICR label was inaugurated and still continues today, having released over 70 cassettes, records, and CDs. IC Studio was established soon after and has been operated by Potter (almost) continuously since the early 80s, at a number of locations. There, Potter has recorded, mixed, and produced a wide array of projects. He has gained a reputation for innovative mixing and sound processing, working with artists such as Current 93, Fovea Hex, Ora, Organum, Monos, Andrew Chalk, Jonathan Coleclough, Paul Bradley, Darren Tate, and, most notably, with Steven Stapleton on many albums by the renowned Nurse With Wound. Several solo works have been released, as well as many collaborations. For reasons best known to himself, he decided to try his hand at live performance and is astonished to be still allowed to do so. The second side of the cassette is actually a recording of a rehearsal for such an event and is documented, if only to prove that he does in fact actually plan ahead for these things. The first side is an exercise in mathematical repetition patterns, by someone whose counting is somewhat dubious." - The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: PYE CORNER AUDIO Title: The Ever-Present Hum Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "These two pieces are an exploration of the setup I use for my live shows. I wanted to come at it from a more compositional angle however. Using only a looping delay pedal and two synthesisers, they became a meditation on the sounds that surround us, but often go unheard."– The Head Technician, 19 September 2012. Edition of 200 copies. |
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Artist: SEVEN, LARY Title: Rotation Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "The Tapeworm launches its new publishing venture, The Bookworm, with a tidy compendium of its cover art, alongside an especially-commissioned essay by writer Ken Hollings, the author of the books Destroy All Monsters (Marion Boyars, 2001) and Welcome To Mars (Strange Attractor Press, 2008). Kens work has appeared in a wide range of journals, reviews and anthologies. He has written and presented critically-acclaimed programs for BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, NPS in Holland, ABC Australia and Resonance FM and has given talks and lectures at the Royal Institution, the British Library, the ICA, Central St Martins, the École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels and the Berlin Akademie der Künste. Future Bookworm booklets are currently being penned by writer/poet Leslie Winer, and graphic designer Chris Bigg (4AD, David Sylvian). "Parasitic Infestation," an essay by Ken Hollings. Illustrations from the first 25 Tapeworm tapes, including works by SavX, Derek Jarman and Leif Elggren. Cover illustration: Savage Pencil. 66pp, 110mm x 117mm, soft cover, thread bound booklet -- no ISBN. Edition of 250 copies only. Printed on Munken Print stock. Typeset in Aldine 401, Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk and Miso." - The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: SOULS ON BOARD Title: Soul On Board Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only release in a limited edition of 250 copies. Who on earth are Souls On Board? We know that UK guitarist/former member of Dome and Wires Bruce Gilbert guests on a track, as does Portland, Oregon sound artist Daniel Menche... but we dont have much more information. Each side is 17 minutes, 45 seconds long. Recorded in Tangiers, Mallorca, London, Lisbon, Lanzarote, and other unknown locations. "Into a Limbo, large and broad, since called The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown." -John Milton |
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Artist: STEINBRUCHEL Title: Sinus Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "A simple synthetic-based, sine wave-generating freeware program was used as a sound source for creating single pulses and long static tones in several different tonal pitches. No additional sound design or other analog or digital processing was used during the creation of the sounds. The single sound elements were layered and sequenced into different movements of varying shapes and colors, focusing on the pure essence and aesthetics of sound. Each track interweaves longer, stretched, tonal segments and rhythmic patterns into sine-curved compositions. The four Sinus tracks were sequenced at 120 beats per minute in 1999 by Steinbrüchel. They were previously released as a personal CD-R edition of 10 copies. Digital music kindly released by The Tapeworm on analog cassette in 2012. Biography: Steinbrüchels musical work deals mainly with the texture and atmosphere of sound. In the studio, he works relentlessly towards the creation of new sounds. The accumulation, collection and the arrangement of those sounds is revealed during his live sets. The sounds one hears in his music form both intricate patterns and spacious landscapes. In his experiments with electronically-created sound, Steinbrüchel portrays an acute awareness for beauty. His productions follow a distinctly sophisticated aesthetic. Flowing calmly through the listener, his music invokes a glowing space which invites the listener to travel within the sound. Steinbrüchels compositions and conceptual arrangements connect him to the genre of New Music rather than club music, locating his work more in the realm of digital sound art. Ralph Steinbrüchel, born in 1969, studied Communication Design at Central Saint Martins School in London, where he acquired a Masters of Arts and Design with distinction. He now lives and works as a musician and graphic designer in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2002, his composition Zwischen.raum (Domizil, Zurich, 2002) was distinguished with the Max Brand Award for Electronic Music (phonoTAKTIK.02 Festival, New York). In the same year, he received a compositional scholarship from Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland, to work on his release Circa (LINE, New York, 2003). His last solo release in 2011 was the CD narrow (Room40)." -The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: TONGUES OF MOUNT MERU Title: The Delight Of Assembly Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only, limited edition release of 250 copies. Brothers in long-form drone music Jon Wesseltoft (also known for his work in Norwegian black metal outfit Thorns) and Lasse Marhaug (also of Jazzkamer) are Tongues Of Mount Meru. The Delight Of Assembly was performed in Oslo, Norway, 2008. Illustration by SavX." - The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: UNSWORTH, CATHI Title: Johnny Remember Me Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only release. Edition of 250 copies. Two readings of the short story Johnny Remember Me by its author Cathi Unsworth and by Pete Woodhead (O Yuki Conjugate/The Sons Of Silence). Cathi Unsworth is a writer and editor who lives and works in London. She is the author of three pop-cultural crime novels, Bad Penny Blues, The Singer and The Not Knowing, and the editor of the short story collection London Noir, all published by Serpents Tail. Cathi has written on music, film, art, fashion and culture for Sounds, Bizarre, BFI Flipside, Mojo and Uncut, amongst many others. Her collaborator on this release is Pete Woodhead, an electronic composer who cut his musical teeth as part of O Yuki Conjugate and The Sons Of Silence and is now best known for his soundtrack contribution to the hit British zombie movie Shaun Of The Dead. "He stood at the back of the room, in a smartly cut pale blue suit, so cleanly shaven his skin still had a rosy glow from the razors kiss, thick brown hair set into a shiny pompadour that looked as though it had been set in plastic. His bulbous dark blue eyes darted around the cellar, and he pulled on a cigarette fretfully. For a second it seemed that he was too nervous to come across the floor, but then his eyes became still as they settled on what he was searching for. With a sudden sense of purpose, he walked towards Johnny. And that was when all the trouble started." - The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: VAN PATTERSON QUARTET, THE Title: Live at F.W. Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "This is a cassette-only limited edition of 250 copies. Who on earth are The Van Patterson Quartet? The Tapeworm stumbled upon the lost psych rock recording, Live at F.W. by The Van Patterson Quartet, late during a sleepless night. A link started a chain of events -- the Wormery would not sleep until the answer had been found! "Who on earth are The Van Patterson Quartet?" we asked ourselves. We sent out feelers via our contacts. We waited. Replies came back -- digital shrugs, all expressing a deep fascination that something sounding so splendid could remain unearthed for so long. Then, "Mr. Big" stepped in. Quite by chance, he was neighbours with one of the band. Such serendipity. He hooked us up. Letters were written, requests made, permissions granted, and a few short weeks later a copy of Live at F.W., mailed with a blurry Polaroid, landed on our desk. We sat back, and listened properly for the first time. We were blown away. We had just been given possibly the last great unreleased psych rock recording. Who on earth are The Van Patterson Quartet? This recording dates, we believe, from the late 60s. It features this hitherto unknown band in full flight, live. It needs to be heard to be believed. Funky, fuzzed- up, flipped-out, fucked and fried. Forty minutes of hallucinating Hammond and ferocious feedback. Thats who they are." - The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: WATKINS, ZACHARY JAMES Title: Black Spirituals Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only release. Edition of 250 copies. "Black Spirituals was recorded during fall 2009 in Northern California. These four works grew out of intense dialogue with sound artist Morgan Craft that dealt with our mutual interests in questioning the stakes and pushing our art amidst a landscape of sameness. Its these spaces where ideas on race, gender, sex, politics, etc. inform the imaginations of artists in communities and influence new works. Also around this time, I found a dusty tape recording of a lecture from the late 70s on the topic of Black Spirituals given by scholar and musician Bernice Reagon, an original member of the vocal group Sweet Honey On The Rock. This tape has helped me incorporate into my performance, stories and voices of New America. These improvised tapestries are tuned by ear and offered as meditations. What does Black Spirituals mean to you?" --Zachary James Watkins, Santa Cruz, CA, March 24, 2010. Zachary James Watkins: PAIA analog synthesizer (A1, B2), guitar (A2, B1), bass (A2), SuperCollider (A2), cassette (B1), percussion (B1), Casio (B1, B2); Jordan Glenn: drums and percussion (B1). Tracks A2 and B1 engineered by The Norman Conquest in October 2009. Illustration by Sav X." - The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: MGUN Title: The Near Future Format: 12" Label: The Trilogy Tapes Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
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"Scorcher! Brilliant, brimful, and prodigal twenty-minute EP from Manuel Gonzales in Detroit (following up collaborations with Kyle Hall). Deadly sick, ambient and stepping by turns. Highly recommended." -The Trilogy Tapes.
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Artist: MM/KM Title: MM/KM Format: 12" Label: The Trilogy Tapes Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
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"Mix Mup and Kassem Mosse. Six track mini LP on The Trilogy Tapes." - The Trilogy Tapes.
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Artist: CHAPMAN, DINOS Title: Luftbobler Format: Double LP Label: The Vinyl Factory Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "Brimming with subversive energy, searing wit and gallows humor, Luftbobler is the debut album by Dinos Chapman. Consisting of 13 tracks of electronic "Schlampige Musik," Luftbobler is the result of a decade of experimenting with sound. Inspired by insomnia, horror movies, and boredom, and made in a DIY fashion in the basement of his East London home, Luftbobler reflects Dinos Chapmans interests in the industrial pulse of Throbbing Gristle, willful experimentation of Stockhausen, and impish playfulness of Squarepusher, but sounds like none of them. At once eerily familiar and yet unplaceable, the albums multi-layered, innately physical soundscapes create a powerful sense of dislocation. Abstract and kinetic, the heavy low-end hits you in the solar plexus while the densely collaged melodies toy with your imagination. Dinos Chapman has also created the albums cover artwork, a limited edition of which will include a hand-tipped color etching." - Vinyl Factory. "...like a naked mole-rat plucked untimely from its snuggly basement-burrow, on its back, all squirmy, exposed to the suns dissecting rays." - Dinos. |
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Artist: WIRE, THE Title: #268 June 2006 Format: Mag/CD Label: The Wire Country: UK Price: $8.50 |
| "w/ free 20 track CD! "The Wire Tapper 15 is the latest volume in the Wires ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. The CD will be given away free with every copy of the June issue worldwide and will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks that together will span the spectrum of the kind of underground music that gets featured in the magazine each month, from electronic music, avant rock and new jazz, to dub, hiphop, traditional musics and beyond. On the cover: Sonic Youth (The veteran New York rockers tell Nick Cain about the raw power of Rather Ripped, and give an update on their myriad activities, past, present and future). Features: Terry Day (The former People Band drummer talks Julian Cowley through his interrupted Improv history); Harry Rag (From Düsseldorf punk to pastoral futurism via Wim Wenders and Can with the SYPH vocalist); Jutta Koether (Lina Dzuverovic unravels the personae and multiple media activities of the New York artist and painter); Invisible Jukebox: Rob Mazurek; Yellow Swans (The prolific Portland, Oregon noise duo mull over method, motivation and manifestoes for a better world); Ekkehard Ehlers (The Berlin conceptualist reconfigures blues, jazz and African musics in an attempt to reconnect dead voices across continents); The Primer: John Fahey (David Keenan picks his way through a users guide to the phantasmagorical folk blues of the original American Primitive)." - Wire. |
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Artist: DRCARLSONALBION & THE HACKNEY LASS Title: Modern English Folklore Vol. 1: Hackney Format: 2x7" Label: The Wormhole Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "Guitars/music by Dylan Carlson. Original writings vocalized by Rosie Knight, a young spoken-word poet and activist from Hackney. Recorded by Stuart Hallerman at Avast! in Seattle, June 2012. Vinyl cut by Jason Goz at Transition Mastering Studios, London, July 2012. This is the second release in the ongoing drcarlsonalbion project, begun by Dylan Carlson of Earth. It reflects his longstanding interest in the occult folklore and history of the United Kingdom and his abiding love for all things British. The second disc features instrumental tracks." -The Wormhole. |
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Artist: WINER, LESLIE Title: Leslie Winer &c. Format: CD Label: The Wormhole Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "Leslie Winer &c. brings together tracks from the first two decades of Leslie Winers extensive yet little-known body of work. The earliest pieces, recorded in the late 80s, appeared on her debut solo album Witch (Transglobal/Rhythm King, 1993). First issued as a white label pressing in 1990 and featuring Jah Wobble, Karl Bonnie, and Helen Terry, the album earned Winer the distinction "grandmother of trip-hop." After the official release of Witch in 1993, Winer all but disappeared from public view, making only sporadic guest appearances on releases by such varied artists as John Hassell (1994), Bomb The Bass (1995), and Mekon (2000). While she has continued to record throughout the 90s and 00s, little of Winers work has surfaced, until now. Some of the material from the two albums she cut in the mid-1990s with Joe Galdo at South Beach Studios in Miami appeared in 2010 on The Tapeworms release & That Dead Horse. Other tracks from these projects and her collaborations with Vincent Gallo appear here for the first time. Throughout her career, Winer has worked with artists as divergent as Holger Hiller, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, and Dale Cornish and her songs have been recorded by Sinéad OConnor, Boy George, and Grace Jones. Her most recent collaboration with French musician and producer Christophe Van Huffel, Purity Supreme, resulted in a four-track vinyl EP Always Already, released by Ash International. Leslie Winer &c. is a product of The Wormhole. Housed in a 9"x6" PVC sleeve with poster." - The Wormhole. |
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Artist: BLUES CREATION Title: Demon & Eleven Children Format: LP Label: Therapeutic Country: Spain Price: $31.00 |
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"Ultra heavy, psychedelic and bluesy hard-rock from Japan 1971. This is the second album by this wild sounding quartet, an album that stands as one of the best from Japan and is a heavy psychedelic worldwide classic. This reissue comes with the original mega-rare first pressing artwork, meaning gatefold cover and insert." -Therapeutic
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Artist: LA REVOLUCION DE EMILIANO ZAPATA Title: La Revolucion De Emiliano Zapata Format: LP Label: Therapeutic Country: Spain Price: $31.00 |
| "1971 saw the release of the first album by this Mexican rock legend, one of these albums you must own. Probably the best acid rock album ever made in Latin America and among the best worldwide, plenty of fuzz guitars and excellent compositions. A real classic in all senses. New and limited reissue, featuring the rare original fold-out poster." -Therapeutic. |
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Artist: MIZUTANI, KIMIO Title: A Path Through the Haze Format: LP Label: Therapeutic Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
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"Regarded as one of the absolute best albums from the Japanese 70s scene, this 1971 release by Japanese rock guitar hero Kimio Mizutani is a psychedelic-progressive masterpiece. Tons of fuzz guitar, moog, keys, impressive drumming. Something like a wilder King Crimson." - Therapeutic.
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Artist: SPK Title: Case Study London Format: CD Label: Therapeutic/Adverse Records Country: Greece Price: $17.00 |
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"Previously unreleased soundboard recordings from 1982 and 1983. Tracks 2-4, London Heaven 31 October 1982. Tracks 6-12, London Brixton Ace 20 April 1983. The first track is a studio recording from Sydney, 1982. Burning World Records worldwide exclusive license from Therapeutic/Adverse Recordings in Greece." -Therapeutic/Adverse.
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Artist: SPK Title: Field Report San Francisco Format: CD Label: Therapeutic/Adverse Records Country: Greece Price: $17.00 |
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"Previously unreleased soundboard recordings of the first SPK show in the United States. Recorded at the Odd Fellows Hall, 16 May 1981." -Therapeutic/Adverse.
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Artist: FUKUOKA, RINJI & AKIRA YAMANOUCHI Title: Magical Garden Format: CDR Label: There Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
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Two track, 67 minute limited CDR release by the new non-video wing of the Japan based There label. Rinji (guitar, vocal, moog oscillator) and Akira (guitar), both members of Overhang Party, went into R.D. Studio Ogikubo on October 9th 2002 to record these 2 tracks live to DAT, the first being an improvised guitars duet and the second a composition by Rinji. Full color cover artwork.
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Artist: KANEKO, JUTOK Title: Live At Jerry Jeff Format: CDR Label: There Country: Japan Price: $14.50 |
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"Kanekos (OVERHANG PARTY) solo perfomance with acoustic guitar." - There. Limited to 100 copies.
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Artist: MAJUTSU NO NIWA Title: At The End Of Summer Format: CD Label: There Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
| "Majutsu no Niwa is the new psychedelic rock band which Rinji Fukuoka of OVERHANG PARTY which stopped the activity at the beginning of 2008 leads. This album extracted from live show in the last year have variety, from deep song and more vivid rock instrumental to heavy feedback drone." -There |
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Artist: MUKAI, CHIE Title: Crossing - Solo Improvisation Format: CDR Label: There Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
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Recorded live at Kid Ailack Art Hall, Tokyo on July 31, 1996.
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Artist: OVERHANG PARTY Title: Live Before And After: 2004-2006 Format: Double CD Label: There Country: Japan Price: $25.00 |
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Artist: PLUGGED EAR Title: Live 2003 Format: CDR Label: There Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
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"plugged ear" is "Rinji Fukuoka (OVERHANG PARTY)+Masami Kawaguchi (Miminokoto, ex Keiji Hainos Aihiyo)+Mitsuru Tabata+Shigeki Morohashi (Uchu-engine)." - There. Numbered edition of 150.
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Artist: SACHIKO Title: You Never Atone For.. Format: CD Label: There Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
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"Sachiko is the member of Overhang Party & VAVA KITORA, ex Kosokuya. This
album is her first solo CD." - There. Restock of this few year old release.
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Artist: SUISHOU NO FUNE Title: Phantom Of The Eternal Night Format: CD Label: There Country: Japan Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: URABE, MASAYOSHI Title: Rock N Roll Breathing Format: VHS Label: There Country: Japan Price: $22.00 |
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"Masayoshi Urabe Solo Harmonica, Chain, Alto, Soprano Sax, Tambourine and Bell performances along with graphic artwork showcase. 1 hour running time. Housed in hard case with insert in Japanese and English - numbered edition of 200." - There.
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Artist: URABE, MASAYOSHI & CHIE MUKAI Title: Dual Anarchism Format: Video Label: There Country: Japan Price: $28.00 |
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"After years of pleading Siwa finally convinced Chie Mukai and Masayoshi Urabe to offer up this much needed document of their ongoing collaborative work. The original recordings were culled from live performances between1990-2001 and were then edited by Urabe. Chie Mukai should be known to many for her work within the more structured confines of her band Che-Shizu but she also has an impressive history in improvised music that goes back to her time as a student with Takehisa Kosugi in the mid 70s. The Che-Shizu albums and her two previous solo releases (a CD on PSF and the out of print LP on Siwa) have introduced a select few to the meditative drone of the er-hu (a traditional two string violin) but here she can also be heard on vocals, piano, toys and various percussion instruments. Likewise Urabe, known mostly for slowly wrenching unfathomable screams from his alto saxophone expands his instrument choices to employ a soprano saxophone, some percussion, harmonicas, chains and a particularly vicious electric guitar. This is passionate, physical and highly individual improvised music with an intensely human soul. A companion video released on the Japanese "There" label is also available and does more to explain the physical nature of these performances than any audio document could. But you have to buy the LP first. This is a vinyl only edition of 400 copies and comes in a silkscreened sleeve." -Siwa.
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Artist: V/A Title: The Planet 1- January 24, 1999. Live Performance at Kid Ailack Art Hall in Tokyo Format: VHS Video Label: There Country: Japan Price: $30.00 |
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Features collaborations between Chie Mukai (Che-SHIZU, East Bionic Symphonia; er-hu, voice, percussion), Christophe Charles (computer, lighting), Jutoku Kaneko (Kosokuya; guitar, vocal), Ikuro Takahashi (ex-Fushitsusha, Kosokuya, High Rise, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Nagisa Ni te; percussion), and Yoko Muronoi (dance). Inlcudes full color photo/postcard. 140 min. Numbered edition of 150. "As a missing piece in a puzzle thats still a lot larger than anyone suspects, this is an essential document."- Alan Cummings.
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Artist: BURNING STAR CORE Title: Brighter Summer Day Format: LP Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Decked out in a skullfucked sleeve that looks like a cross between Slayers gorecore classic Seasons In The Abyss and the prison tattoo iconography of original Cleveland gutter punks The Electric Eels, the debut vinyl from Ohios Burning Star Core reconciles the euphoric, physical power of Metal with punk primitive aesthetics and huge lungfuls of drone. The A side is 16 minutes of heavy violin thats more Sonny Sharrock than Tony Conrad, with mainman C Spencer Yeh amassing waves of singing overtones via treated strings and electronics, while Chris Rosing provides the horizontal momentum, accelerating the piece towards the horizon with an epileptic bass drum and some furiously clanking chains. The piece builds to nowhere, growing more potentially eplosive and menacing with each pass, with Yeh stretching his violin to even more extended peaks while never relenting on the tension. The second side features Yeh alone, working through some "sleep deprivation experiments" with a laptop for company. Here he alternates strangulated computer tones that sound liek theyre being torn from a huge electronic harmonica with wraithe-like breaths turning through disconcertingly staggered loops." - David Keenan, WIRE.
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Artist: BURNING STAR CORE Title: The Very Heart of the World Format: LP Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Only BXCs second full-length. An incredible record of deep drones and pulses, voice-cuts, and building/collapsing rhythmsThe Very Heart of the World is incredibly rich, colorful and immense. Led by C Spencer Yeh on violin, voice, electronics, piano (+) and featuring among others, Sara OKeefe, Mike Shiflet, and the Beatty/Connelly/Tremaine Hair Police axis. A classic, now. Full color heavy jackets / 180 gram vinyl." - Thinwrist. 2005 release.
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Artist: BURNING STAR CORE Title: The Very Heart of the World Format: CD Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Only BXCs second full-length. An incredible record of deep drones and pulses, voice-cuts, and building/collapsing rhythmsThe Very Heart of the World is incredibly rich, colorful and immense. Led by C Spencer Yeh on violin, voice, electronics, piano (+) and featuring among others, Sara OKeefe, Mike Shiflet, and the Beatty/Connelly/Tremaine Hair Police axis. A classic, now." - Thinwrist. |
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Artist: CURTAINS, THE Title: Fast Talks Format: LP Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Why make up your minds? You have ears! Musical miniaturist the Curtains present their own kind of west coast cool - a muted music that never reaches the proper conclusion. Aloof and alert, these Curtains keep their music sitting right on the edge of hot and cold. Composed using their unique Dynathought method, the pieces are like a stream of musical memos or thought bubble goofs shook out from an IBM punchcard computer. The result? Something in between a weather bureau report and a private confidence: itd seem nonchalant if it werent so personal; itd seem almost warm if it werent so scientific! Their Debut, from San Fransisco, 180 gram vinyl." - Thin Wrist. |
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Artist: CURTAINS, THE Title: Flybys Format: LP Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "If Wendy Carlos joined the Shaggs to perform Ravels Mother Goose suite, it might sound like Flybys. If the Albert Ayler ensemble took a break from the Love Cry sessions to score the Rockford Files on portable moog and electric kitchen colander, it might sound like Flybys. If Brian Wilson recreated Stan Kentons City of Glass for the Commodore 64 platform, it might sound like Flybys. If Forever Changes, Martians Go Home and Beefhearts Tropical Hot Dog Night were summarized a la Masterplots on musical 3x5s, it might sound like Flybys. Think of asterisks, park maintenance, telegraph wires and the alpine biathlon. Thats what the Curtains did when they wrote Flybys! They call the Curtains "coming of age" music. Full of sweet accidents and big ideas in small packages, what you get are compact, highly personal compositions, neither hot nor cold, but whimsical, lighthearted, portable and idiosyncratic - the warm inventions and cool abstractions of the thinking mans casual imagination on the move. With members of Deerhoof, Natural Dreamers and Open City, they are certainly a mixed bag, but youll like it! " - Thinwrist. |
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Artist: CURTAINS, THE Title: Flybys Format: CD Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: DRUMM, KEVIN Title: S/T Format: Double LP Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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"Thin Wrist Recordings presents the expanded and definitive double LP
edition of Kevin Drumms groundbreaking first album, originally released in 1997.
Featuring some of the most fiercely abstract and organic guitar work ever heard,
Drumms debut is both jarring and completely alien. Dubbed by some as
the greatest prepared guitar record ever recorded it prefigured (and
continues to trump) almost an entire decade or so of contemporary
"out" music that would follow. Beautiful and completely essential.
This edition includes an entire fourth side of previously unreleased
recordings from Drumms personal archive, all recorded in the same era
as the original album. It also includes entirely new artwork featuring
the body of the actual guitar used to record the album.
The album comes housed in a heavy textured gatefold jacket and
includes two full color inserts.
High quality 2 x 180 gram vinyl pressed at Pallas Germany and mastered
by Rashad Becker at D&M Berlin. Digital download included." - Thinwrist.
"Looking back at Kevin through his formidably individual tunnel of
works, its hard to remember that his first official recorded statement
would be caught sneaking into bed alongside historys milestones of
"solo instrument improvisation." Or that, in turn, it also would be
caught trying to sneak out of the house built by Father Jazz, into a
backyard that still hasnt quite been fenced off yet. Those running
around Chicago chasing down the sound in the mid-90s shouldve
already known about this guy and his contributions both in and out of
the relative spotlight. For those far from the city winds, thankfully
they mightve gotten the message in the form of this missive. In the
afterglow of later love letters titled Sheer Hellish Miasma and
Imperial Distortion, its absolutely overdue that this first musty
green postcard be dug out, polished off, and framed.
Judged by its understated title, "Self-Titled" aka "Guitar" is incredibly
literal -- what you hear is what you get. In the simplest
considerations, the ensuing connotations and possibilities are wide
open; the real-time velocity of urgent decision and movement are
wrapped in a clearly-mapped compositional endurance that continues to
stand firmly in the relative spotlights of this day. No surprise then,
that even all these years later, we would still be trying to figure
out exactly at which table Kevin should squarely sit.
They say that every kid who heard this record immediately went out and
grabbed a busted guitar with a scratchy selector switch, ready to
subject their friends to fuzzy pauses of amp hum. I know of at least
four."- C. Spencer Yeh, spring 2010, Brooklyn NY.
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Artist: KOLOVOS, PETER Title: Black Colors Format: Triple LP Box Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $38.00 |
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"Over more than a decade Peter Kolovos has created an incredibly physical and dynamic musical language using the electric guitar. He plays music that unpredictably flows from electrified fragments of sound which fold and expand in dense layers and massive tones that surge and collapse in rapid succession. His approach has been called “massively a-formal” and his control of timing and texture “masterful.” Rather than set harmonic or rhythmic structures, he draws form from open sequences of sound events merged and propelled by a distinct internal logic. In his music Kolovos attempts to erase the line between intent and impulse and to create sounds that are immediate and unrepeatable.
Black Colors is the fullest realization of Kolovoss music to date. Over six sides of vinyl the album presents a vast world of intricate sound—at times dense and teeming with saturated bursts and drones and at others sparse with minute ticks and quiet tones that reverberate in open space. Without a preset listening sequence, the album is intended to be a shifting, prismatic work—with sides that can be arranged in hundreds of different sequences, each yielding a distinct sound experience.
The music on Black Colors is coupled with Zoe Croshers artwork. Eight photographs from her "L.A. Black Like" series present views from the black spaces and shadows of Los Angeles where light and color only pierce the darkness in filtered and obscured glimpses of the outside world. Beyond being created in the same time and place, Croshers images and Kolovoss music share a deeper consonance.
Deluxe Packaging: 3 x 180 gram high-quality vinyl pressed at Pallas Germany. Mastered at 45 RPM for volume, dynamics, and clarity by Rashad Becker at D&M Berlin. Full-color, heavy tip-on slipcase with three full-color sleeves. Digital download included." - Thin Wrist.
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Artist: KOLOVOS, PETER Title: New Bodies Format: LP Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| Full Color Heavy Tip-On Cover / 180 Gram Vinyl Edition of 500. "Peter Kolovos, guitarist in Los Angeles trio Open City, presents here three tracks of electric guitar improvisations. Each features successively recorded left- and right-channel guitars, in which the overdub responds asynchronously to the original. While Open City explored the electroacoustic interplay afforded by the two-guitar and drums line-up, in New Bodies, his first solo release, Kolovos lets rip with all the skronk and blurt hes been holding in for the last decade, in tiny, tightly gated segments. His sound vocabulary is very broad, and his control of texture and timing is masterful. Using equalisation, reverb, envelope shaping and volume control... He rapidly opens and closes the volume window on a dizzying series of extended guitar techniques, creating the inescapable impression of Derek Bailey covering The Residents Duck Stab. If that wont sell records, I dont know what will. This electrifying effect is enhanced by the crisp digital recording and the superb Dubplates and Mastering pressing job - every clang and buzz is right up in your grill. Released on Kolovoss own imprint, the packaging continues the good work. The cover features a magnificent photograph of the guitarist taken by Joyce Campbell using the mid-19th century tin type process, which requires a sitting of over three minutes. The resulting image is as physically time based as the recording it encloses, and has the distinctive look of a Victorian death mask - no posing or even facial expression is possible. In this regard the cover is an exact metaphor of the recording - what you perceive is exactly what you get." - Bruce Russell, The Wire August 2009 |
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Artist: OPEN CITY Title: L.A. We Revise Your Neglect Format: LP Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "From Los Angeles, Open City chase two electric guitars and one close-miked drumkit through scurrying pointillist sketches, firecracker drones, and explosive smears of colour. Members of Open City have previously played with the likes of Anthony Braxton, Alvin Lucier, and Phill Niblock, and theres no denying their strong grasp of the language of higher minded improvisation. Yet their approach is undercut with a real rock sensibility, made most manifest in the barbed wire tones of the guitars. Indeed, the combination of avant theory and punk rock aethetics drops them in a similar space to Sonic Youths Goodbye 20th Century. Drummer Andrew Maxwell runs the gamut of percussive techniques, from all-out pots and pans attack through the kind of sonorous cymbal work that Eddie Prevost uses to illuminate AMMs darker paths. Twin guitarists Peter Kolovos and Doug Russell veer from Sonic Youths Moore/Ranaldo tag team wrassling to setting their guitars up as lightning rods for the liquid flow of electricity. Though the music is formless, the group are so aggressively focused that even the slightest of movements feels totally inexorable." - David Keenan; WIRE. |
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Artist: OPEN CITY Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Recorded live in Los Angeles during the summer of 97 -- a deep organic group sound, that began in 1986 and has only recently been heard outside of select CA villas, bungalows, and garages. Building/breaking buzz, drone, layered strings and tones, with staggered abstract rhythms throughout -- entirely free improvised and electric -- no over-dbs, no synths. Using a five stringed mexi-caster and an Epiphone-les guitar recorded live to two-tracks through an LAPD-auctioned 4-trk. Straight to the capitalist head, out of the latent CA free-drone under-ground. Edition of 500 copies with silk-screened gatefold jackets pressed in 1999." - Thin Wrist. |
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Artist: OPEN CITY Title: The Birth of Cruel Format: LP Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "A gorgeous record of free sound: Through three unsettled pieces, Open City breaks down the formalism of the avant garde, noise and free improvisation to reveal one of todays most distinctive and intense group dynamics. The group use a constant flow of deep drone, pointilistic cut ups, rich texture and silence to create Alpha music. Unrepeatable and unpredictable, aggressively abstract, time-stamped, adaptive, actionist, attentionist, fun. Open City aims for a moment before music, the unsettled pause before a devastating blow. The Birth of Cruel is a generational X-flare, a sound proposition,a coronal mass ejection of propulsive and audible means...................................Enjoy!" - Thinwrist. "These guys can melt plastic from a block away,and are capable of producing equally delicate traceries of sound a the drop of the proverbial hat. Listen and weep." - Bruce Russell (The Dead C, Corpus Hermeticum). |
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Artist: OPEN CITY Title: The Birth of Cruel Format: CD Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: PARADISE Title: I Love Thousands Every Summer Format: 7" Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Inspired by Coleridges opium-induced reverie, “Kubla Khan,” Nedelle Torrisi named her band Paradise to evoke a perfect place, the opposite of hell— a place where, as the poem describes, a person exists in perfect harmony with their creativity. Torrisis Paradise is a place of innocence before cynicism, one where love is still king. Her music embraces romantic sentiments and an intimate earnestness that invites listeners to abandon their own sense of self consciousness. In Paradises music, Torrisi writes love songs that long to fulfill the unfinished figures of a lovers fleeting thoughts and utterances. In A Lovers Discourse, Roland Barthes wrote that "The lover speaks in bundles…but does not integrate these sentences on a higher level…but all together they make up the love story." With Paradise, Torrisi weaves these unresolved emotions and stories into love songs. I Love Thousands Every Summer is Paradises first release. Limited Edition Deluxe 7" Vinyl (Download Included). Nine 7" x 7" full color inserts housed in letterpressed vellum envelope." - Thin Wrist. |
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Artist: TEARIST Title: Living: 2009-Present Format: LP Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Over the last two years Tearist has become one of the most notorious and vital bands in the new underground pulsing through Los Angeles. Building on songs driven by intense vocals and synths, the duos performances are known for being deeply physical and direct events. Yasmine Kittles sings from the depths of her body/soul and moves in a near-transfixed state, using scrap metals to scrape rhythm from the ground beneath her. All the while, as if telepathically linked, William Strangeland uses sputtering, cracked synthesizers to create shimmering melodic lines along rumbling interlocked beats and rhythms. Their songs flow and surge, building thick layers of analog sound and noise, often leaving wrecked PAs in their wake. On the heels of the bands recent 12” EP issued by No Ages PPM label, Thin Wrist Recordings is proud to release Tearists first full-length album, Tearist Living: 2009-Present. The album is a rough, raw document taken from audience recordings made in warehouses, lofts, concert halls and everywhere in between. Across two sides of vinyl, multiple versions and performance tapes are spliced, mashed, layered, collapsed and collaged to create an organically flowing album. Full songs cut with snippets and interludes capture the band in its early formation. This is a sideways introduction to Tearists devastating performances and a nod to semi-legendary live cassettes and bootlegs. Think of it as a sort of Sonic Death, 2 x 4, or Metallic K.O. for today, or maybe 23 Minutes Over Brussels via Los Angeles. This is immediate and unpolished sound as a means to an intimate and transcendent experience. Limited edition high quality vinyl in full color & hand-letterpressed heavy tip-on jacket." - Thinwrist. |
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Artist: ANIMA Title: Anima Format: LP Label: Think Progressive Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| Reissue of this classic outsider freak-out album, first issued by Pilz in 1972 , featuring the duo of Paul & Limpe Fuchs (vocals, electronics, zither, percussion, drums, Fuchshorn, etc.). Their 2nd album and a classic example of 70s improvisational madness, highly peaked. "Anima were an adventurous German trio who liked to take jazz music to the extreme. On this album they were joined by Austrian avant-gardist Friedrich Gulda, with whom they recorded two studio jamming sessions. Nothing was decided beforehand or premeditated, and the result is two tracks of completely spontaneous off the wall jazz. Anima are one of the few of Rolf Ulrich-Kaisers proteges who are still actively touring and recording today." - Think Progressive. |
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Artist: GOLD SPARKLE BAND Title: Nuzion Format: 7" Label: Third Eye Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| 1995 single, edition of 1000. Features Andrew Barker (see lps on QBICO). |
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Artist: SUN DIAL Title: Other Way In Format: LP Label: Third Eye Studios Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Before the legendary "Other Way Out" album was released, cassettes of many of those songs and others that didnt make it onto the final selection was circulated to a handful of people. These cassettes have recently come to light again, and so we bring you this previously unissued selection of tracks from the Sun Dial vaults! Contains the legendary 13 minute mind blowing full length version of "Visitation", the original version of "Plains of Nazca" and other previously unissued and unheard tracks that were rejected from the original album! Comes with colour sleeve artwork and sleevenotes! Amazing limited edition LP of just 300 copies!" - Third Eye Studios. 1990/91 recordings released in 2005. |
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Artist: ELEPHANT MICAH Title: Home Of Astronauts Format: 7" Label: Third Uncle Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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"Brand new release featuring covers of Little Feat, Smashing Pumpkins, Sophie B. Hawkins, and the Snatchclaws. Limited to 500 copies." - Third Uncle. Limited edition with handmade sleeves.
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Artist: HENN, JASON/KITCHEN TYPISTS Title: Oh, Look Out Format: CDR Label: Third Uncle Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "jasons work as kitchen typists has always juxtaposed humorous with harmonious sound environments. often noisy, always changing. this disc includes the audio from first announcements, originally a 78 rpm 10 inch lathe hand-cut by nemo at time-lag records. lots of other material on here, too. black cdrs. 50 copies made." Jason Henn from Elephant Micah. |
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Artist: THIS HEAT Title: Live 80/81 Format: CD Label: This Is Country: UK Price: $17.50 |
| "Until now, the only live This Heat has been a long-deleted cassette version of a concert from Krefeld, Germany, from 1980. At last, we are able to officially release private recordings from the bands live repertoire, circa 1980-1981, taken from concerts in Tilburg, Nijmegan, Arhus, Appledoorn, Vienna and Rheims. The trio rip through some highly-charged versions of classic pieces from both Blue & Yellow and Deceit, as well as an improvisation (Aerial Photography, the tone of which could well be the backing track for their classic, Triumph) and one previously unheard song (The Rough With The Smooth, circa Deceit). This disk is a must for all This Heat fans: it gives us alternate versions of their classics, whilst documenting the immense energy and tonal quality of their live shows from that period." -This Is. |
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Artist: THIS HEAT Title: Out Of Cold Storage Format: 6 CD Box Set Label: This Is Country: USA Price: $92.00 |
| "The complete official lifetime releases of This Heat: This Heat, Deceit, Health and Efficiency, Made Available and Repeat, re-mastered and re-packaged, with a substantial (48pp) book of interviews, recollections, information, documents and photographs in a sturdy box, PLUS a new CD of concert recordings." - This Is. |
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Artist: THIS HEAT Title: This Heat Format: CD Label: This Is Country: UK Price: $16.50 |
| "This Heat, the band, emerged in early 1976 on the leading edge of what became the New Wave, but they were always apart, more scary and more subtle. Known as the most left-field, and at the same time most hard-edged, band in all of England, their concerts attracted experimental, punk and new wave audiences alike. Just a handful of performances made them the band everyone had to see, and every journalist had to interview. And the more we knew, the more enigmatic they became. This Heat was a passion. The band worked day-in, day-out for years in their own, now legendary, studio in Brixton (Cold Storage - sited in an old industrial meat refrigerator), or they were away somewhere touring abroad. In this hothouse environment, their material evolved and grew, and became increasingly intense; on the one hand more cuttingly simple, on the other more layered and more dense. When their first LP - itself several years in the making - finally appeared on David Cunninghams Piano label in 1979, with its distinctive blue and yellow sleeve, it acquired immediate iconic status. And over time it has also proved itself prescient; there are musical innovations here that anticipate genres that would take another 15 years to reappear. This Heat, the record was a landmark release. It tore up the book and laid new rules for band composition and performance. The music was without precedent; the musicians uncompromising; the recordings hammeringly intense and the sound deep, radical, and rich. This was music stripped back to the bone but never simplified. And it hasnt aged. The later CD version of the LP has now been out of print for some fourteen years (and is currently fetching $300-$350 second-hand), so this edition, the first on the new This Is label, re-mastered and repackaged by the group, will be doubly welcome. It is the first of a series of historical This Heat re-editions and unpublished works by the band to be released on this dedicated label." - This Is. |
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Artist: FOTHERINGAY Title: Essen 1970 Format: LP Label: Thors Hammer Country: Germany Price: $33.00 |
| "Fotheringay was the legendary English folk group around singer Sandy Denny who died a long time ago. She had become well-known with the groups Strawbs and Fairport Convention and was elected best British singer several times. At the end of 1969, she founded Fotheringay together with four friends. They could immediately sign a contract with the Island label. On Friday, 23rd October 1970, they had a gig at the third Essen Pop & Blues festival in the Gruga Hall. The concert was then recorded semi-professionally by the host. Now, the tapes have been elaborately re-mastered by Fotheringay guitarist Jerry Donahue who got the most out of the sound that was technically possible. LP in gatefold cover (with an LP-sized eight-page booklet in colour)." -Thors Hammer |
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Artist: BASALT FINGERS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Three Lobed Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Two side-long triple electric guitar jams by Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets On Fire), Elisa Ambrogio (Magik Markers) and Brian Sullivan (Mouthus, Eskimo King, White Rock). Extremely dense and crunchy - hold this one back to set the mood at your next summer of love party. Pressed on 180-gram black vinyl in an edition of 800 hand-numbered copies in beautiful wrap-around multi-colored silkscreened covers." -Three Lobed. |
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Artist: ENOS SLAUGHTER Title: Beisbol-Three Sided LP Format: Double LP Label: Three Lobed Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Next up in the vinyl pipeline comes a three-sided LP by ENOS SLAUGHTER , the brainchild of DAVID SHUFORD (NO NECK BLUES BAND, D. CHARLES SPEER, etc.), MARC ORLEANS (SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN) and CARTER THORNTON (IZITITIZ, ZAHSIKI WARASHI). Beisbol is a full-fledged continuation of the musical ideals that the band has previously set forth within/on Sunday, Saloth Sar and On The Shores of Jupiter. Pressed on 180-gram RTI vinyl and packed within a theme-appropriate sleeve with two-sided full-color insert. Includes a bonus CD containing the material present on the vinyl for ease of listening at any time." -Three Lobed Recordings |
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Artist: ETERNAL TAPESTRY Title: Palace of the Night Skies Format: LP/CD Label: Three Lobed Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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"Three Lobed Recordings is excited to announce the release of Palace Of The Night Skies, the new album from ETERNAL TAPESTRY. While this trio first turned heads with their expansive psych/kraut/blues guitar explorations as embodied within a series of small run cassette and CDR releases, their 2007 Mystic Induction album on Not Not Fun firmly established the band as formidable players worthy of sharing the stage and spotlight with such current heads as Wooden Shjips and Kinski. Palace of the Night Skies ups the ante and represents this groups heaviest jams to date, bringing forth some heavily righteous riffs and plenty of drum punishment. Two long-form tracks recorded in 2008 at the Tapestry Space in Portland, Oregon. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl and housed within a classy letter-pressed cover bearing silver foil ink on deep midnight blue paper with new artwork by LONI GAGHAN. Includes a glass-mastered CD (not CDR) of the two album tracks in addition to a bonus track ("Hermetic Secrets"). One-time pressing of 730 copies." - Three Lobed.
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Artist: GOWN Title: For the Maples Format: LP Label: Three Lobed Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "GOWN (aka ANDREW MACGREGOR and one-half of BARK HAZE) moved from Western Massachusetts to Nova Scotia in mid-2007. Before he moved, he wanted to have one big audio blow-out to remember the grand old Mass times. with that goal in mind, Gown went into the studio with the SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN gang (represented this time out by JOHN MOLONEY, SARAH OSHEA, RON SCHNEIDERMAN, and TAYLOR RICHARDSON) to melt some audio consoles. For the Maples represents a portion of that recorded output and its some massive stuff. Sunburneds thick funk presents the perfect background for Gowns shredding guitar-play. Extremely hot stuff, especially the massive side-long "Bending Close."- Three Lobed |
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Artist: HASSARA Title: Backyard 1-3 Format: CD Label: Three Lobed Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: HEAVY WINGED Title: Alive In My Mouth Format: LP + CD Label: Three Lobed Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Last summers CD release for HEAVY WINGED, Blacc Lust, flew out of here and really seemed to find a good home with folks. Following up on that response comes the massive and dense blowout that is Alive In My Mouth. Comprised of two of the bands dirtiest and, quite simply, heaviest tracks, it is music for tearing down physical walls. Each copy includes a complete CD that features both of the album tracks in addition to a "bonus" 17 minute track. Edition of 647 copies pressed on 180-gram RTI vinyl, housed in heavy art sleeves bearing new artwork by MICHAEL CANICH and letterpressed by Dexterity Press." - Three Lobed |
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT & ERIKA ELDER Title: Raggas of the Culvert Format: LP Label: Three Lobed Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Ragas of the Culvert, previously self-released as a CDR in an edition of less than 50 copies as well as a quickly sold out cassette on Fuck It Tapes, is a glorious revisiting of the lunar raga style that created so much of MV+EEs past. This meditative and purely instrumental six track voyage is guaranteed to transport you to distant worlds. Edition of 840 copies pressed on 180-gram RTI vinyl, packaged in tip-on style Stoughton sleeves." - Three Lobed |
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Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Peace In The Valley Format: 7" Label: Three One G Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: BASINSKI, WILLIAM Title: A Red Score in Tile Format: LP Label: Three Poplars Country: Germany Price: $24.00 |
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"On their own Three Poplars label Mirror offer one of their favourite compositions by William Basinski. A Red Score In Tile is a tape composition from 1979 and was inspired by James Elaines painting of the same title. Limited Edition of 600 copies. .. something was shining in a long narrow passageway between the theatre and an adjacent building. This was where he had gone. Illumination was there and sounds. From around the corners edge a grotesque light was trickling out, the first intimations of an ominous sunrise over a dark horizon. I dimly recognized this colored light, though not from my waking memory..." - Three Poplars.
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Artist: CHALK, ANDREW Title: Fall In The Wake of a Flawless Landscape Format: LP Label: Three Poplars Country: Germany Price: $24.00 |
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"The first new solo release by Andrew Chalk since his Over The Edges LP from 1999 on Streamline. The material was recorded in 2003. For anyone interested in Mirror this off course is a must. Limited edition of 600 copies. "When the moon did not free him nor the sun release him, he thought his time strange, became impatient with his life; he moved the gate of the fort with his ring finger, suddenly turned the bony lock with his left toe; with his nails he got outside the threshold, with his knees out from the door of the entrance. Then he plunged straight into the sea, the person among the waves. There he lay outstretched for five years, both five years and six, seven years, eight. At last he came to a stop on the surface, by a nameless headland, a treeless land. With his knees he struggled up from the ground, with his arms he turned himself over. He got up to look at the moon, to admire the sun, to observe the Great Bear, to scan the stars." - Three Poplars.
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Artist: MIRROR Title: Places of Light Format: LP Label: Three Poplars Country: Germany Price: $52.00 |
| Edition of 400 copies. Hand-pasted color Xerox cover. Follow-up (and "part 2") to the previous Mirror album Under the Sun. |
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Artist: MIRROR Title: Under The Sun Format: LP Label: Three Poplars Country: Germany Price: $72.00 |
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Additional repress of 100 copies. "A new limited vinyl only album feat. a work from 2001. Handmade covers. Numbered edition of ca. 200 copies of which only about 150 copies will be made available to the public. This is part one. Part two Places Of Light has already been recorded and will be released later in 2004." - Three Poplars.
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Artist: O ROURKE, JIM Title: Scend Format: LP Label: Three Poplars Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"A tape composition from 1992 (originally released on CD) now issued in a revised LP version on Three Poplars. Limited edition clear vinyl in a special dyecut sleeve with insert. 1000 copies. ... As I walked out, I thought Ive really started now, and I dont know where I am going to sleep tonight. I felt excited, but also a little unhappy and alarmed. I wished I had not started out in the evening. I had been planning my tour all the weeks that I had walked to and from school in the squalid London streets. I thought, I shall get away from all this and wear only a shirt and shorts and not go near anyone for weeks and weeks. I had a longing to hide myself in some very isolated place, and I thought immediately of the Lakes. I wanted to go to them, but cant remember what made me finally change my plans and go to D. instead...." - Three Poplars.
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Artist: O ROURKE, JIM Title: Two Organs Format: LP Label: Three Poplars Country: Germany Price: $32.00 |
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"The second archive release following last years great Scend LP (3P8). 2 pieces for organ composed and performed in 1991 when Jim was finishing his music studies at de Paul University in Chicago. These pieces had almost been forgotten about as Jims musical interests soon took a change of direction. Only now released for the first time in any format this LP instantly draws the listener inside this recently imagined timelessness." - Three Poplars.
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Artist: V/A Title: Err On The Good Side Format: LP Label: Three:Four Country: Switzerland Price: $29.00 |
| "Err on the Good Side is the first volume of a compilation series devoted to musicians, programmers, reviewers, disc sellers or whoever involved in music activities that we love. We offer them the opportunity to share their passion for it by curating a record. For this first volume we have asked ali_fib, the most interesting and adventurous gig promoter in Paris, to handle it. The result, Err on the Good Side, reflects their own musical tastes and friendships. Except Chambre 1, Ilitchs introductory track (which was released in 2005 as part of Thierry Müllers limited-edition picture disc, Rainy House) and Amen Dunes contribution Diane (here offered in its extended version; an alternative take will be released by Locust Music), this record is made of previously unreleased material and has been compiled using a very simple idea of symmetry: most of the tracks here have been assembled as pairs based on musical affinities. Featuring Sir Richard Bishop, Duane Pitre, El-G, Steve Gunn, Ben Nash, Hitch, Mike Wexler and more. Numbered edition of 504 copies with glossy insert and download postcard." -Three:Four |
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Artist: SLUG ACID FREAKS Title: Somewhere Between The Cradle and the Lonely Grave Format: CDR Label: Threshold Tapes Country: UK Price: $11.00 |
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"Nearly a quarter of a century after they broke up, impossibly obscure UK DIY/minimal wave outfit Slug Acid Freaks have released their first “official” album through the Threshold Tapes label. Formed in 1981 in Andover, Hampshire, by Ken Pearce and Ed Pupplet, and ably assisted by regular guest Andy Broome, the band recorded 5 albums worth of material before their demise in 1986, none of which was ever made available beyond the bands immediate circle of friends. Somewhere Between the Cradle and the Lonely Grave collects over an hour of music from the bands most prolific period, 1984-85.
Without being overly deterministic, its possible to regard Slug Acid Freaks, partly, at least, as a product of their environment. In the 1950s and 60s, Andover, an ancient market town, had been designated one of Londons official overspills. The capitals allure was keenly felt, but Andovers Slug population retained a strong enough sense of hometown identity that the metropolitan influence was always recycled with a measure of “provincial” strangeness.
If even the most ardent archaeologist of DIY is unlikely ever to have heard of the Slugs, they were nonetheless active during the late heyday of the UKs home taping underground. Employing necessarily minimal means - borrowed Casios, sequencer, basic drum machine (or the rhythm programme of a home organ?) - the band recorded at Kens house on his Dads music centre and a Wien portable tape recorder. While early Human League and Devo are cited as an influence, the Slugs were also contemporaries of many of the 2nd and 3rd wave electronic/industrial bands who took up the baton offered by pioneers like Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire. Despite the relative poverty of its means, Slug music is generally more carefully crafted and song-based than that of its DIY or industrial peers, never lapsing into pointless juvenilia, on the one hand, or metal dunce cliché on the other.
Somewhere Between the Cradle and the Lonely Grave has been remastered from the original tapes by Andy Broome and is released in a still barely available edition of 33 copies. Fans of Transparent Illusion, early Portion Control, John Bender, Colin Potter, Legendary Pink Dots, Instant Automatons etc., should act now to avoid disappointment!
Slug Acid Freaks - seriously, the best thing to come out of Andover since The Troggs and Twinings tea." - Threshold Tapes.
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Artist: BARN OWL Title: Ancestral Star Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Evan Caminiti (guitars, vocals) and Jon Porras (guitars, vocals, drums, harmonium) met in San Francisco in 2006 and immediately started playing music together. Over the next four years, the two gradually sculpted a vast collection of hazy desert sky meditations -- ominous, barren expanses of music for desert walks at dusk, and dark, pastoral passages embellished with psychedelic and atmospheric wash. A mixture between devotional ragas and dusty stomp with atmosphere and production that references shoegaze and black metal influences. Ancestral Star, their third LP, marks the evolution of the Barn Owl sound into a territory where it has become wholly its own, transcending the sum of its influences and taking on a life of its own. At the same time, it is a more realized extension of that sound. Caminiti and Porras paid close attention to the composition of each track and its flow within the album as a whole. Engaging throughout, every moment contributes to an overall feeling of mysterious desert expanse and a sonic narrative that unfurls like a cinematic metaphysical western." -Thrill Jockey. 2011 repress. Gatefold LP version.
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Artist: BARN OWL Title: Ancestral Star Format: CD Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Evan Caminiti (guitars, vocals) and Jon Porras (guitars, vocals, drums, harmonium) met in San Francisco in 2006 and immediately started playing music together. Over the next four years, the two gradually sculpted a vast collection of hazy desert sky meditations -- ominous, barren expanses of music for desert walks at dusk, and dark, pastoral passages embellished with psychedelic and atmospheric wash. A mixture between devotional ragas and dusty stomp with atmosphere and production that references shoegaze and black metal influences. Ancestral Star, their third LP, marks the evolution of the Barn Owl sound into a territory where it has become wholly its own, transcending the sum of its influences and taking on a life of its own. At the same time, it is a more realized extension of that sound. Caminiti and Porras paid close attention to the composition of each track and its flow within the album as a whole. Engaging throughout, every moment contributes to an overall feeling of mysterious desert expanse and a sonic narrative that unfurls like a cinematic metaphysical western." -Thrill Jockey |
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Artist: BARN OWL Title: Lost In the Glare Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Lost in the Glare is Barn Owls second album for Thrill Jockey, and follows quickly on the heels of their acclaimed 12" EP Shadowland. Like Shadowland the album was recorded to tape by Phil Manley in San Franciscos Lucky Cat Studios. Lost in the Glare is made up of material composed over the course of a year and recorded in sessions throughout the winter of 2011. At the heart of the albums sound is the dual guitar interaction between Caminiti and Porras, a spiraling web of interlocking gestures that give way to bone rattling, monolithic progressions and dusty drifts. The mostly finger picked guitars weave in and out of each other in precise movements that recall the hypnotic influence of American minimalists. The harmonium that was prevalent on previous recordings has been replaced on Lost in the Glare with the undulations of a Farfisa organ. The songs here are deep, cosmic excursions. Rich in dynamics, the record possesses a transcendental tone through both a densely layered combination of electric and acoustic instruments and walls of melting amplifiers and feedback alchemy. The lines between strict structure and ordered chaos blur as third-eye opening e-bowed drones explode like beams of light and corrode into crumbling distortion, baking tones that sizzle like brittle bones left in the desert sun." -Thrill Jockey |
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Artist: BARN OWL Title: Shadowland Format: 12" Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The new material on Shadowland takes inspiration from the devotional sounds of Popol Vuh and Alice Coltrane and also possesses the pitch black weightlessness of Fushitsusha and early Tangerine Dream. With waves of guitar soaring over liquid synthesizers tones, Barn Owl combine lush, melancholic serenity with cacophonous, deconstructed guitar to exhibit a visceral meeting of light and dark. Cyclical themes were explored heavily: mantric guitar processions, swelling bass waves, and fluttering tremolo hypnotism. Shadowland was recorded by Phil Manley (Trans Am) in San Francisco. For the overall sound of the EP, the band focused on using monolithic stacks of tube amps and sent guitars and synthesizers alike through them and utilized intense amounts of stereo delay." -Thrill Jockey |
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Artist: BARN OWL Title: V Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Barn Owl has always specialized in devotional darkness, pushing desert rock into previously unexplored, murky territories. V marks a shift in approach for the duo of Jon Porras and Evan Caminiti. The pair augmented their arsenal of guitars and effects with an array of electronics, vastly expanding the albums sounds and textures. Special attention was given to implied rhythms nestled within dense slow building environments, giving the album a rhythmic presence, albeit one that is buried beneath intricate layers. Theirs is a ghostly rhythm, almost beyond reach." -Thrill Jockey. |
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Artist: BLACK PUS Title: All My Relations Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Black Pus is Brian Chippendale, who rose to prominence as the drummer of noise rock titans Lightning Bolt and Mindflayer. All My Relations is constant forward motion and audible physicality. Chippendales furious drumming style is ever present and instantly recognizable, but the pop element, which Chippendale explored in more contained ways on earlier Black Pus releases, is more fully integrated. Tracks like 1000 Years and Hear No Evil bear a snarl and a smile, the sound of wild abandon that is both aggressive and inviting. Chippendale creates maximalist music out of the simple elements of drums, vocals, and an oscillator triggered by the kick drum, looping and repeating phrases, and rhythms in a way that can only be called meditative." -Thrill Jockey. |
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Artist: BOREDOMS Title: 77 Boa Drum Format: DVD Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "77 Boa Drum is a 77 minute, 777 second DVD documentary about the legendary 77 Boa Drum performance Boredoms conducted on July 7, 2007 in Brooklyn, NY The DVD features interviews and behind the scenes rehearsal footage in addition to footage of the actual performance. 77 Boa Drum comes packaged in a four-panel DVD wallet with three postcards featuring photographs from the performance The all-star cast of 77 drummers includes Butchy Fuego (Pit er Pat, M.I.A.), Kid Millions (Oneida, White Hills), Andee Connors (A Minor Forest, Aquarius Records), Daniel Franz (Arbouretum, Beach House), Chris Brokaw (Come, The New Year), Hisham Bharoocha (Soft Circle), Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt), and Tim DeWitt (Gang Gang Dance)." -Thrill Jockey |
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Artist: BOREDOMS Title: Super Roots 10 Format: Double 12" Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Long regarded as musical pioneers, Boredoms have continually pushed sonic boundaries and inspired musicians for over 20 years. Their albums and their performances defy categorization, each one a completely unique event. The one commonality is that the members of the Boredoms have amazing technical skills as musicians, limitless imagination and the ability to combine the two -- as no others have. After only being released on CD in Japan, Thrill Jockey is proud to bring Super Roots 10 to the US. The album will only be available as a limited 2 x 12" release. The album is produced by EYE and all the artwork was created and designed by EYE as well. Super Roots 10 features a remix from Norwegian artist Lindstrøm who has released music on the label Smalltown Supersound and has also done remixes for artists as varied as Franz Ferdinand, LCD Soundsystem, and The Juan MacLean. Also featured is a remix from Japanese artist Altz who has recorded albums for Bear Funk and Jet Set Records Japan and previously done remixes for the Boredoms in addition to Tal M. Klein, Cro-Magnon, and Harp On Mouth Sextet. Includes poster." -Thrill Jockey |
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Artist: BROTHER JT Title: The Svelteness of Boogietude Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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Artist: BROTHER JT Title: The Svelteness of Boogietude Format: CD Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The Svelteness of Boogietude is Brother JTs debut on Thrill Jockey and Bryon Coley (from whom he aquired the Brother JT moniker) called it his most oustanding effort yet. The album is a typical of JTs output in certain ways -- rockers mixed with ballads, all of them crafted with causal elegance -- but there are new elements here as well. In particular, theres an attention to the legacy of later-period T. Rex, which results in tunes that kick total ass. Again Byron Coley, having seen Bolan play during his Zinc Alloy/Zip Gun Boogie period, went so far as to claim that JTs approach to this stuff equals that of the master -- huge riff-based anthems that balance glam dynamics with mystical history on the head of a pin." -Thrill Jockey. |
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Artist: D. CHARLES SPEER Title: Arghiledes Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "D. Charles Speer aka Dave Shuford is a founding member of the long running No Neck Blues Band and also known for his work with Enos Slaughter, The Suntanama, Egypt Is The Magick #, and Coach Fingers. Arghiledes is the second Speer solo album and is a vinyl only release limited to 500 copies with free download coupon. Arghiledes is greatly influenced by Shufords Greek heritage and will appeal to fans of early 20th century Greek music as well as recent archival Arabic and Greek recordings reissued on labels such as Mississippi and Honest Jons, and to those following modern takes on Arabic music (i.e. Sir Richard Bishops Freak Of Araby)." - Thrill Jockey. |
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Artist: D. CHARLES SPEER & THE HELIX Title: Leaving the Commonwealth Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Leaving the Commonwealth is the third full length by D. Charles Speer & the Helix and features their most accomplished playing and songwriting yet, setting a high watermark for narrative honky tonk rock at this late date. Inspired by swaggering, outrageous and engaging sonic tales like Cowboy Jack Clements Millers Cave, this album features byzantine songs which flow surprisingly quickly and with natural grace. The album opener Razorbacked emits nourish cinematic imagery and twists which are matched with music sparked from a wasted mid 70s cassette from Peaches or Turtles. Numerous musical luminaries, including Freddie King and Clifton Chenier, are invoked and celebrated in song. Other tracks like Cumberland and Battle of the Wilderness are historically detailed and geographically specific chronicles. Dense tones flow from all corners, with guitar sounds reminiscent of Fripp or Manzanera on one end and the pedal steel tones of Emmons and Mooney on another. Beautifully recorded by Jason LaFarge of Seizures Palace in the urban environs of Brooklyn, this album is southern by lyrical setting, country by instrumental arrangement, rocking through its rhythmic heft and most certainly contemporary in attitude." -Thrill Jockey. |
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Artist: ETERNAL TAPESTRY Title: Beyond The 4th Door Format: CD Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "On their Thrill Jockey debut Eternal Tapestry have delivered an album not unlike their epic live shows. Beyond the 4th Door contains long stretches of melodic guitar improvisations, dark brooding songs that slowly build and expand to allow in layers of light. The album was recorded in their home studio and was created by recording more than two hours of material, mostly live, and hand picking what you hold in your hands. There is a free and open nature to their structure creating for the listener a spacious environment to explore. Harkening back to the early 70s experimental rock that inspired them, such as Popol Vuh, Cluster and Träd Gräs och Stenar, Beyond the 4th Door is an album meant to be listened to in its entirety. Beyond The 4th Door is Eternal Tapestrys debut multi-format release, following sold-out vinyl-only albums on the highly influential Three Lobed and Not Not Fun labels, and many sold out cassettes and CDrs on imprints such as Night People and Digitalis Limited." - Thrill Jockey. |
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Artist: ETERNAL TAPESTRY Title: Beyond The 4th Door Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"On their Thrill Jockey debut Eternal Tapestry have delivered an album not unlike their epic live shows. Beyond the 4th Door contains long stretches of melodic guitar improvisations, dark brooding songs that slowly build and expand to allow in layers of light. The album was recorded in their home studio and was created by recording more than two hours of material, mostly live, and hand picking what you hold in your hands. There is a free and open nature to their structure creating for the listener a spacious environment to explore. Harkening back to the early 70s experimental rock that inspired them, such as Popol Vuh, Cluster and Träd Gräs och Stenar, Beyond the 4th Door is an album meant to be listened to in its entirety. Beyond The 4th Door is Eternal Tapestrys debut multi-format release, following sold-out vinyl-only albums on the highly influential Three Lobed and Not Not Fun labels, and many sold out cassettes and CDrs on imprints such as Night People and Digitalis Limited." - Thrill Jockey.
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Artist: ETERNAL TAPESTRY Title: Dawn In 2 Dimensions Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "After the dark conceptual ambience of Beyond the 4th Door, the members of Eternal Tapestry decided the time was right to do an album embracing their live show - blistering psych rock filled with lyrical guitar soloing and a caveman approach to rhythm, an oddly euphoric state where melancholia is blasted by ecstatic noise. Compiled from a variety of sessions at Tapestry Space throughout the spring of 2011 (some of this material first found a home on the two fall tour tapes), this set of songs has been the foundation for the past year of Eternal Tapestry gigs." -Thrill Jockey. |
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Artist: ETERNAL TAPESTRY & SUN ARAW Title: Night Gallery Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "The session took place in a large TV studio on the UT campus, with the band setting up in a big circle. The line-up was Dewey Mahood and Nick Bindeman on guitars, Jed Bindeman on drums, Ryan Carlile on tenor sax, Yoni Kifle on bass, and Cameron Stallones on keyboard and trademark flute. After a brief discussion of mood, the six musicians improvised together for 45 minutes continuously. The music is heard as played that evening - no overdubs, and only a few edits to create a four section suite for the LP release. The piece is titled Night Gallery, in homage to the surreal early 1970s TV show produced by Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame. It was this program that the six musicians fell asleep to, and woke up with, during their five day stay in Austin." -Thrill Jockey. |
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Artist: HARPER & DANIEL HIGGS, TWIG Title: Clairaudience Fellowship Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Twig Harper has been a force in the noise/experimental scene since the mid 90s with his group Nautical Almanac, touring worldwide and releasing recordings on Hanson, Load, and Heresee. He also runs Tarantula Hill in Baltimore - a space that includes a performance area, recording studio, esoteric library, and rooftop beehives & gardens. Daniel Higgs is best known for his work as the lyricist and frontman of Lungfish, whose work on Dischord Records has spanned 3 decades. He is also a very prolific solo artist with works on Thrill Jockey, Holy Mountain, Northern Liberties, Open Mouth, and Ideal Recordings. Clairaudience Fellowship is released on LP-only in an edition of 1,000 copies housed in full-color jackets with a coupon for DRM-free MP3 download. The download coupon includes one additional bonus track that is not on the LP." - Thrill Jockey. |
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Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: Say God Format: Double LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "In recent years, Higgs has released a number of solo outings that can only be described as the ultimate in isolation, worlds away from the hypnotic, communal rock of his band, Lungfish. Higgs follows up the 2007 album/book release Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot with his new double album Say God. Say God is an album of gospel songs and poems as presently received by this Daniel Higgs. Recorded with the help and enthusiasm of David Andrew Sitek, who graciously provided this Daniel Higgs with an environment in which to prosper and enjoy the adventure of recording, or, if you will, the ensnaring of songs as they migrate through time and mind, that they might be heard many places at once, with the singer absent. Song seeds cast abroad, that their message, The Advent Of The Songway, the Way Across, might take root, twist and fruit, light for all. It is the simple hope of this Daniel Higgs that the album Say God may be of any use to the listener, may serve the listener, may accompany the listener in clairaudient fellowship." -Thrill Jockey |
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Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL A.I.U. Title: Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot Format: Hardcover Book/CD Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Daniel is best known for his work as the lyricist and frontman of Lungfish, whose work on Dischord Records spans 3 decades. This release is a limited edition full color 6x8" hardcover book + CD. This is the 2nd release in the series (the 1st being Hokane by Aki Tsuyuko), and contains 48 pages of Daniels paintings and writings of guitar and piano drones, Jews harp, and banjo recorded by Daniel in his home is inserted in the front cover of the book." -Thrill Jockey. |
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Artist: MOUNTAINS Title: Choral Format: Double LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Mountains is Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp, friends since their middle school days. The duo were brought together by mutual artistic and musical interests, and both ended up at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was during this time that they began exchanging musical ideas and compositions which led to them founding the Apestaartje label in 1999. As their collaborations and individual projects blossomed, they decided to create Mountains as a vehicle for live performance. A love of sculpting sound in front of an audience is at the heart of Mountains. The groups third album, Choral, (their first self-titled release and second album Sewn were both on Apestaartje), is the culmination of their work to date and a balanced mix of the first two efforts. Mountains is often compared to artists such as Brian Eno and Fennesz citing their extended melodies and their unique broad guitar work. Mountains seamlessly blend pastoral electronic sounds with both field recordings and a plethora of acoustic instruments. The resulting soundscapes are broad in scope and rich in detail. The effect is incredibly sublime and hypnotic as the sounds slowly wrap themselves around each other and alter themselves in the mind of the listener. Choral is a uniquely soothing and addicting listening experience and an aural crazy quilt: warm and inviting with many details to discover and explore." - Thrill Jockey. |
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Artist: RHYTON Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Rhyton is an experimental/improv/psych trio based in Brooklyn that features Dave Shuford (D. Charles Speer and the Helix, No Neck Blues Band), Jimy SeiTang (Psychic Ills) and Spencer Herbst (Messages, Matta Llama)
LP version is limited to only 500 copies worldwide and includes a postcard insert and free download coupon.
Rhyton pours out a sonic libation unto the liberated world. Waveforms ring out, alternately frozen and blazing, wrenched from an improvisational method. They seek to loosen the gaze so as to widen focus, taking the unity in hand, not grabbing for the micro-constituent. Using the dynamic levels of rock, Rhyton carve out an edifice of sound on their debut LP that centers upon repetition and modal excursion. Recorded and mixed by Jason Meagher at his Black Dirt Studio, this self-titled release is culled from a highly fruitful three day recording session. Seeking to capture the cutting intensity level of their live performances, the band takes the ethos of full engagement. The multiple amp setup at hand in the studio helps imbue the ear with "second hearing". The split stereo, dual amped electric leads utilized throughout the record are best experienced on tracks like "Pontian Grave" and "Teke" where phase and tremolo patterns bounce and surge from ear to ear, warping senses of both time and space. These two distinct sound sources are a manifestation of dual perspectives derived from a single emanation: this is not the fracturing of a voice, but rather its multiplying into a unified but complimentary chorale as different delay lengths and distortion levels cohere into an ensemble greater than its parts. On "Dale Odaliski" the rock trio trappings are stripped away as a booming tom tom, oscillators and delay loops evoke a kind technological primitivism that seems akin to a message from a shattered, distant future. Extreme attention to auditory detail is apparent throughout the album, as blasts of varied gain stages writhe within fields of phased cymbals and bass throbs. Taken from repose to ekstasis - as mental impulse reigns above, so the body below records.
Rhyton is a band with an organic genesis, born from late night rap sessions at a local Brooklyn watering hole. Heads of certain vibe gathered together to tap into the underlying flux form of transportational music. Dave Shuford (D. Charles Speer, No Neck Blues Band) had been knee deep in research and practice in the realm of middle eastern musics during the recording of his solo LP Arghiledes. From that album, the track "The Heavy Heart of Ando-Yeap" was used as a leaping off point for the gestation of Rhyton. Shuford brought his personal selection of varied string instruments to the table, seeking to create a heavier electric syntax for mandolin, saz and baritone guitar. Jimy SeiTang (Psychic Ills) emerged as a sonic surgeon, creating wave patterns with his bass and pulses of tape delay tales. Spencer Herbst (Messages, Matta Llama) injected his flowing, highly energetic style of percussion and brought in visual conundrums by way of videocassette. An instant near-telepathic bond was established, making improvisations seem like composed forays even to the closest confidants. With variants and heads situated as a point of departure, Rhyton explores the inner workings of the ear and seeks the latent brain bulge within the listener." -Thrill Jockey. |
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Artist: ROSE WITH D. CHARLES SPEER & THE HELIX, JACK Title: Ragged and Right Format: 12" Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "This slab of gripping sound was brought about by Jack Roses exuberant love of lowdown music. Inspired by the Mordicai Jones/Link Wray 3 Track Shack sessions, the idea for this collaboration was germinated while Rose was traveling through the heartland on a tour with D. Charles Speer & the Helix in spring 2008. Musicians used to the road are familiar with the phenomenon wherein a certain tape or recording becomes the thematic soundtrack to the tour at hand. In this case, daily doses of Scorpio Woman and In the Pines as performed by Link Wray became the touchstones for their travels together. Jack got so excited by the vibes emanating from these songs that he thought to break with his usual acoustic approach and get some electricity in his life again. So he enlisted the Speer band to join in some unhinged and unrepentant fun in the studio. Recorded using an all live, no overdub approach, the resultant session was deemed an all time favorite experience by everyone lucky enough to partake in it. A gleaming bottle of Buffalo Trace helped shepherd us through the dark hours of the night, and in turn that spirit animal adorns the front cover of the record. As producer, Jason Meagher was able to capture the visceral rough and tumble feel that invigorated his Black Dirt Studio in the dog days of August 2008. Featuring the original lineup of D. Charles Speer & the Helix in peak form and rare lap steel and Telecaster stylings from Rose, Ragged And Right displays a vibrancy and depth of feeling that is striking and unforgettable." -Thrill Jockey |
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Artist: ROSE, JACK Title: Luck In The Valley Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Limited repress of 500 copies on RTI 180 gram vinyl presented in an old-style tip-on jacket with a hand-pasted letterpressed cover. Includes download coupon. Like all pre-war recordings and all of Roses releases, this album was recorded live. It was not created using overdubs but rather by recording a few takes and selecting the best performance out of those. Rose stated, I wanted the songs to have an immediacy and spontaneity as they were being recorded. All the musicians chosen for the record know how to play the songs without overworking the material, but at the same time creating memorable accompaniments on the spot." -Thrill Jockey |
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Artist: STYGIAN STRIDE Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Stygian Stride is Jimy SeiTang, a New York based musician in the No Neck Blues Band axis who, as a member of Psychic Ills and most currently with Rhyton, was brought up in the midst of the groundswell of avant-garde and improvised psychedlic music in New York City over the past decade. On this, his debut solo release, SeiTang has moved away from rock music completely, instead turning his attention to gauzy electronic music reminiscent of Gas and the classic era of Mille Plateaux and Chain Reaction, with nods to Manuel Göttsching and Tangerine Dream." - Thrill Jockey. |
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Artist: WOODEN SHJIPS Title: Remixes Format: 12" Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "To follow up the release of their critically acclaimed Thrill Jockey debut West, Wooden Shjips return with a limited 12"EP featuring three exclusive cuts and remixes from Andrew Weatherall, Sonic Boom (Pete Kember of Spacemen 3), and Kandodo (Simon Price of The Heads). Limited to only 2,500 copies worldwide." -Thrill Jockey. |
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Artist: WOODEN SHJIPS Title: West Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "It is easy to see why these would appeal to Wooden Shjips, as their music lends itself to exploration. It is both transformative and transporting, the sum being far greater than its parts. The steady driving rhythms are the elliptical motion machine driven by the often thick and distorted guitar lines, melodic and boundless. Where they may lead cannot be anticipated but following them is exhilarating. It is all about getting there, the destination, while the experience of getting there is an adventure. It is the guitar lines that guide both the listener and the band on the literal and metaphorical journey into the vastness. The ghostly vocals, obscured by dense layers of instruments surrounding them, are alluring with their airy mystery. This elusive quality further draws the listener in, while they attempt to grasp at their meaning. While indebted to both the psych music of the 60s and mid-70s, electric Neil Young, and even the induced travels of Spacemen 3, the Wooden Shjips music is modern and in every way their own. West is an epic journey to the edge and beyond." -Thrill Jockey |
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Artist: LED ER EST Title: Untitled Format: Cass Label: Throaning Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: DILLOWAY, AARON Title: Chain Shot Format: LP Label: Throne Heap Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"Pirates In Care of the BEING Dilloway, Tapes, and Delay: Pirates, Rotten Teeth, and Treasure. All go hand in hook hand. AAARRGGHHHHHHH! This new platter by Rad Dad Dilloway is full of buried gold, or rather tape heads covered in used ancient kitty litter, whose decoded message leads you to the audio gold pit hidden deep within the tape loops. Chain Shot is my inzano pick of the thick Dillo discography. Its way relaxed and weirdo. I mean, if you cut a circle-ish shape out of wood from a haunted pirate boat, tied a human bonechain around it and dragged it on the surface of the ocean around the world four times, buried into hot sand for 1000 years and then stuck it on your turntable... it wouldnt sound any different. Chain Shot is an oddity cause the tapes provide the pacing, you tell by the woodpecker attack (or a pirate tapping against glass before they raid your peaceful vessel) near the middle section of side one and the ENDLESS churning loop at the end of Execution Dock. Add a dash of Thighbone Horn wail here and there, find the rarest homemade mixers and loop machines from 1943 and the recipe could be this LP which is also known as THREE MEDIATIONS FOR THREE TAPE LOOPS WITHIN SLO MIND. After jamming this mutha a bunch, I found it fit well into a lot of house-moods: i.e., vacuuming, sewing, power doodle sessions, convincing your spouse there aint magic gremlins who clean the house while she sleeps the day away, candle burning, shit-everything. Could this be a mature Dilloway? Hell gnaw, this sound disc is still teetering on a restless energy ocean -- just mad focused and... simple... direct... like a checking account based on pirate bones and jugs of fermented PEE WINE. Chain Shot has a lot of depth to it -- its as much DROLL YANKEE as it is BLACK GNOME... shit, I can easily file this wax in my environments/CBS Library/machine sound/rail road noise/animal sounds/nature LP section (which is AS BIG as Dilloways, if you take out the military boot camp sound section) and it would fit right in. Its a BOAT OCEAN LURKING FRIGHTMARE LP. Like when a crazy old boat goes on some crazy old mission and it get frozen in the ocean near the North Pole, the crew runs outta food and sees nutzo ICE PIRATES circling the ship slowly in the freezing mist. Close your eyes, let your rat mind take off on its own weirdo adventure. Im mad stoked this Dilloway LP is pressed on wax forever, cause now that quicksand is extinct apparently... I can still just jam Execution Dock at 4:00 AM on a lonely winter night and sink slowly in the MSG-ridden HISS crawling within the rotten grooves... and disappear without a trace. FOUR STARS AND AN EYE PATCH!!!" - Coorz The Spartan. Restock of this 2008 release.
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Artist: SEWER ELECTION Title: Vittra Sonder Format: LP Label: Throne Heap Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
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"Tape manipulation and metal abuse at its absolute finest. A few minutes of primitive organ melody mark the A-side of this LP, while the flipside features some percussive stabs so sparsely placed that they could nearly be counted on one hand. Although these musical passages are brief, they are worth mentioning as they significantly compliment the overall mood & pacing of the album. Deep within the dark grooves of Vittra Sonder the musique truly meets the concrete. Recorded at Utmarken Gothenburg, Sweden 2010 - 2011. Mastered for vinyl by Viktor Ottosson. Edition of 300 in pro-printed jackets." - Throne Heap.
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Artist: REVOLVER/ IMPERYA SNEGOV Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Tian An Men 89 Country: France Price: $9.00 |
| "A totally fun little record, this has 9 songs by 2 bands from different republics of the Russian Federation: REVOLVER is crazed, 60s-style garage/sci-fi/lounge/surf from Petrozavodsk in Karelia, but IMPERYA SNEGOV is even more crazed punk/grind with folk influences from Ulan-Ude in Buryatia, and might remind you a bit of freakazoids like MELT-BANANA. Released in June 2004, this is a numbered edition of 500 in a fold-out sleeve with liner notes and lyrics." -Tian An Men 89 |
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Artist: SWEETY PUNK Title: Soa Ity Painky Format: 7" Label: Tian An Men 89 Country: France Price: $9.00 |
| "Fine melodic and energetic punk/hard rock from this Antananarivo, Madagascar-based combo, sung partly in English and partly Malagasy. This is the first Madagascar punk record ever!! Released in Oct. 2001 (the band formed in 1995), this is a numbered, heavyweight white vinyl pressing of 500 copies, and includes a fold-out sleeve with lyrics and band history." --Tian An Men 89 |
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Artist: V/A Title: Bishkek is Burning Format: 7" Label: Tian An Men 89 Country: France Price: $9.00 |
| "The first underground Kyrgyzstan compilation ever! With songs ranging from pop-punk to ska-punk to post-punk to unclassifiable, this includes one tune each from MILK VOKYDAS, SHUGAR, GARIK MITYAEV, HALLIGANI I RA and YA VES ZELYONYI, and was released in June 2004. Numbered pressing of 500 copies, fold-out sleeve with lyrics and liner notes." --Tian An Men 89 |
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Artist: V/A Title: Dushanbe Punkers and Rockers Format: LP Label: Tian An Men 89 Country: France Price: $22.00 |
| "From Tajikistan comes this compilation of 9 underground rock bands with 13 songs, including ZLO (minimalist dark rock & death metal), RAGNAROCK (hardcore thrash), ZAPADNY KVARTAL (shoegazer pop), ZVUKOVAYA ARTYEL (postpunk), TRUSH-OBA (dark, 90s-style hard rock), KHOROG ROCK BAND (80s-style rock), KIDE & THE JEANS COMMUNITY (melodic rock), NOCH (postpunk), and IEROGLIF (rock). Released in July 2006 in a limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies with a glossy full-color sleeve, including liner notes." -Tian An Men 89. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Paxta-Core Format: LP Label: Tian An Men 89 Country: France Price: $22.00 |
| "Eight underground bands with 15 songs, largely on the dark, angry and political side, from the central Asian ex-USSR nation of Uzbekistan! With TUPRATIKONS (hard rock), SUCHIY POTROKH (psych-rock), RED-AKTSIYA (noisy FLIPPER-esque postpunk), HARDCORE-OPA (garagey hardcore), SKISSERZ (folk-rock), BROGEN BOGEN (ska-punk), SLEZY SOLNTS (postpunk with female vocals), and BGMOLTSY I GROBOVERZHTSY (brooding electro-post-punk). Recording quality is pretty much straight outta the basement rehearsal room, but in Uzbekistan you probably take what you can get... Limited pressing of 500 hand-numbered copies, glossy full color sleeve." --Tian An Men 89. |
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Artist: ZUBY/ VITAMIN ROSTA Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Tian An Men 89 Country: France Price: $9.00 |
| " Two bands from different republics of the Russian Federation: ZUBY gives us 3 songs of hardcore thrash and MOTORHEAD-oid speedmetal from Nalchik in Kabardino-Balkaria, and VITAMIN ROSTA comes out with 4 songs of energetic folk-pop-punk from Tatarstan. Released in Oct. 2001, this is a numbered, heavyweight gray vinyl pressing of 500 copies, packed in a fold-out sleeve with liner notes, lyrics and photos." -Tian An Men 89 |
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Artist: CABALLO TRIPODE Title: Horror Vacui Format: LP Label: Tic Tac Totally Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Debut record from Valencia, Spains obscure CABALLO TRIPODE, a project formed and recorded during a hiatus by LE JONATHAN REILLY members about two years ago, and now a fully functioning band alongside LJR. Caballo Tripodes debut LP is an exercise in contrasting rustic-Spanish-folk and garage rock with deliberately futuristic chaos, time issues, and other various "unexpected choices" of all shapes and colors. A homespun psychedelic result with a wildness similar to Meercazs spacey rockscapes. Here we have songs that position themselves on a garage and surf backdrop only to depart right into a much deeper bag of tricks. All this while theyve kept one foot down on their romantic sensibilities, regional (Valencia, Spain) vibes and good ole crunchy guitars. So it never floats off into outer space either. A very unique and regional take on what "garage" and "surf" record can actually become in a post-garage and surf world that rarely attempts honest retooling efforts in their old shops." - Tic Tac Totally. |
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Artist: FERGUS & GERONIMO Title: Blind Muslim Girl Format: 7" Label: Tic Tac Totally Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Denton white-man-soul/pop duo featuring JASON KELLY (WAX MUSEUMS) and ANDREW SAVAGE (TEENAGE COOL KIDS). In FERGUS & GERONIMO, the WM lo-fi recording aesthetic is alive and well to be sure, but dont expect any songs about "jack off rats" here. Just Blind Muslim Girls! A casual project, but the band cites a serious well of inspiration including southern soul, 60s pop, psychedelic and Motown influences as the kick behind Fergus & Geronimos sound." -Tic Tac Totally |
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Artist: GIRLS AT DAWN Title: Back To You Format: 7" Label: Tic Tac Totally Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "New single from the GIRLS AT DAWN features two new tunes, "Back To You" and "WCK" on the flip. "Back to You" is a skittish angle on their usual "fragile girl group" sounds. It still has the carefree, roaming verse and delivers those girl group harmonies, but eventually heads into a fractured, upbeat chorus with a guitar line that weirdly, lightly stabs home the repeated "gotta get back to you". The flip, "WCK" is a totally carefree example of the harmonic melodies but played shambolic as hell and soaked in buzzsaw-bass from top to bottom. TGAD separates themselves from so many other "oh lets do a girl band" bands in that they are at once playing the roles of "super delicate" and "carefree & dark" (even a bit twisted in moments). Previous 7-inches on Captured Tracks and HoZac." -Tic Tac Totally |
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Artist: LENGUAS LARGAS Title: I Fee Format: 7" Label: Tic Tac Totally Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Debut 7". Lenguas Largas employ cold, minimal, post-punk stylistic leanings and tosses them through everything in the kitchen sink to arrive at its unique sound. 3 tracks. "I Feel" is a real killer, but its all solid." -Tic Tac Totally. |
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Artist: MEERCAZ Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Tic Tac Totally Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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Debut LP from Muslim Delgados (Leaders) Meercaz. This is Muzzs post-Leaders solo effort with assistance from Sarah Epstein (Hunches), Kyle Raquipiso (Meth Teeth), Clay Silva, and many other contributors. "The approach is primitive but spacey, simultaneously "retro" and "futuristic" without batting an eye. Its aggressive guitar music thats "punk" in its DIY manic quality, but with an aesthetic thats much closer to the late 60s and early 70s. To my ears, Meercaz is one of the handful of things in recent years that matches what I think modern rock music SHOULD sound like (and rarely does)." -Eddie Flowers. Mastered for vinyl at the great Chicago Mastering Service, with a nice old school "tip-on" jacket, and insert w/ liner notes by Eddie Flowers." -Tic Tac Totally.
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Artist: MEERCAZ Title: Space Hate Format: 12" Label: Tic Tac Totally Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "MEERCAZ drops the Space Hate EP later this month on Tic Tac Totally. And it sounds likes its name implies. Much thicker, nastier, organic broth of severely unabashed proto-punk and spaced-out aesthetics that have me seeing Twinkeyz. Pushing up the great Stooge-mountain like some anti-gravity lava flow, drawing on some of Hawkwinds primordial elements as well. And what 70s-styled space rock stew is complete without a dash of Half-Machine Lip Moves-era Chrome? And like these examples its a grandiose little dose of solid material. And building well onto the first LPs foundation. Meercaz is constantly tinkering with the future, inventing their mental toy chest in these sounds while drawing on the true beasts of yesterday. Looking forward to big things. No diet music on this record. And watch your teeth! The shit is reasonably digestible, yes, but also quite chewy. Spread over 12 long inches for that sound sound." -Tic Tac Totally |
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Artist: SO COW Title: Meaningless Friendly Format: LP Label: Tic Tac Totally Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Super-duper-awaited new studio album from Tuam, Irelands SO COW. The passport was stamped and this fine new case of raw gems arrive at last. Power-pop with a dexterity to go epic at times, So Cow stretches mostly over Home Blitz territory and Gizmo-land. So Cows lyrical content goes from sweetly profound to quirky humor and hitting on the pop charms that make bands like the Television Personalities tick. These thirteen songs constantly glue spasms of noise to pop and it runs like a train of thought to the nut house for a romantic dinner with a phantom lady. This album gets stuck onto your brain and then melts a grilled cheese sandwich over it. There is no escape from So Cow." - Tic Tac Totally. |
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Artist: SO COW Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Tic Tac Totally Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "18 choice numbers from Tuams pop genius Brian Kelly. This debut LP includes selected tracks from his self-released CDs, two OOP singles, plus a dash of new material. Mastered by Bob Weston and Carl Saff. For fans of The Homosexuals, Television Personalities, The Who, The Clean, etc." - Tic Tac Totally. |
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Artist: STATIC STATIC Title: Psychic Eyes Format: LP Label: Tic Tac Totally Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Official release of the Psychic Eyes LP in case ya werent able to get one of the 200 hand-screened tour copies last year. Static Static combine live and electronic instruments and percussion in a way that produces a serious sounding, sharpened state of bright and hynotic electronic fuzz punk. Citing influences like Devo, Chrome, Electric Eels, Suicide you can gather an image pretty quickly. You probably know the deal by now with their string of EPs on 4:2:2, Hozac and more. Definitely a must have rocker with a reserved and serious no bullshit sound that shirks all the speculative bullshit for a straight ahead approach with no time for anything but good fucking songs." -Tic Tac Totally "Taking equal parts of VOLT and Spider and molding it into a whole new spectrum of sonance, Static Static have remained in the shadows long enough, and its time Los Angeles realized what a great resource they have lurking around in its dark corners." -Todd Killings VoT |
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Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Lost Valley Format: CD Label: Tigerbeat6 Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Black Dice formed during the spring of 1997 in Providence, Rhode Island, as a loud, chaotic mix of early-80s-inspired thrash and harsh noise experimentation. By the fall of 2001, the unorthodox instrumentation continued to evolve, and an emphasis on signal processing provided a broader range of sounds to work with. While volume and physical presence of sound remained crucial, melody and repetition became key elements that songs were composed upon. The shift in focus introduced a new gentle and tuneful quality to the intense, brash music. Currently, the music retains elements of noise and proto-industrial experimentation, while organically suggesting minimal, ambient electronic, and psychedelic ideas, as well as those of tropicalia and dub. Black Dice is now the organized presentation of improvised sound, assembled into deliberate structures based on visual concepts." - Tigerbeat6. 2002 release.
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Artist: AI, ASO Title: Umeromono Izen Format: LP Label: Tiliqua Country: Japan Price: $45.00 |
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"Released in collaboration with Pedal Records. Limited edition LP of 250 copies housed in a sturdy and heavy textured jacket. The music of this LP is comprised out of Asos first demo/home recordings dating back to 1997. The material predates her initial "Umeromono" CDs contents. Unlike "Umeromono", the music she slowly breathes into being through her slow-motion like less is more aesthetic on this LP-set sounds even more fragile and desolate than her current recordings. This is partly due to the fact that Aso recorded the whole affair in her bedroom, deploying all the instruments herself and capturing the rudimentary gracefulness of her acid folk escapades directly to tape. The overall atmosphere has a strong low-fi fragrance hovering over it without ever compromising the rich musical texture Aso succeeds in conveying out of her stripped-to-the-bare minimum textural approach. The general result is one of organic and sincere beauty, embodying fragility reminiscent to a dew-covered spiders web. This quality gets even intensified by her soft-poetic angel-voiced whisperings and her fragile, fleeting like husky voice breathing out an erotic naivete that is lyrical as well as introverted, making it in its own humble way nearly a thing of perfection. She is destined to be one of the unsung queens of the female acid folk pantheon and this recording will be one of its Holy Grails. The disc is housed in a beautiful, heavy textured jacket, doing the music justice. Liner notes by Ishihara You (Stars, White Heaven). A beauty to behold and to hear. The record is a one time only limited pressing and will not be reissued on CD or any other format. So acting quickly may be a keyword here. The total pressing quantity is 250 copies, of which 125 copies are destined for the Japanese vinyl fetishist market. The remaining 125 copies are for foreign vinyl and female vocal addicts. These beauties will not be available for a long time, so you better act smoothly and quickly to secure yourself a copy. Extremely XXX limited one time only edition." - Tiliqua.
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Artist: AKIRA & COUNT BUFFALO, ISHIKAWA Title: Uganda: Afurikan Rokku no Yoake (Dawn Of African Rock) Format: CD Label: Tiliqua Country: Japan Price: $31.00 |
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"The start of a new series focusing on lost and obscure sonic treasures birthed out of the underbelly of Japans New Rock revolution during the period 1969-1978 is spearheaded by the long announced reissue of one of the rarest discs to seep out of that seedy, incestuous scene. Ishikawa Akira & Count Buffalos Uganda: Afurikan Rokku no Yoake originally saw the light of day on February 5th, 1972 on Toshiba Records as part of their 4 Channel Q.M. Sound series but quickly sank into the depths obscurity, making that only a handful of copies were actually sold while the remaining stock was withdrawn due to very depressing sales and eventually melted down and destroyed. The disc remained a well kept secret for all these years and only a small circle of die-hard music lovers have ever seen an actual original copy, making it these days one of the most treasured and hunted down Japanese rock artifacts. A couple of years ago a bootleg LP edition of the LP came out, sadly sounding quite mediocre but nevertheless rejuvenating a new awareness for the album. Still, rumors as to who were the actual performers on the album floated around freely since the group was simply listed as Count Buffalo with no detailed breakdown of who actually played on the album, and as a result, there has been much fevered speculation over the years. Therefore, Tiliqua Records thought it wise to release this sonic gem properly -- they hunted down the license, unraveled the legal entanglements, acquired access to the original mastertapes and subsequently also took on the quest to track down the actual players involved. So now, with this fully-authorized reissue, we can finally reveal the full line-up or the key players involved and add some insight into the records background, thanks to the kind participation of Ugandas composer, Mr. Muraoka Takeru. Musically speaking, Ishikawa Akira & Count Buffalos Uganda - Afurikan Rokku no Yoake is a vicious psychedelic whirlwind monster of a disc where primitive Afro-spiritual and tribal ethnic percussive blow-outs cross-pollinate with lysergic New Rock fuzz-a-delic dementia, stirring up enough dust and boulders like two-barreled guns coming out of the demon hole. Still, Uganda is more than just that, and although it is deceptively intense, it is simultaneously casual in feel yet meticulous in its musical detail and lyrical economy. And seen in retrospect, I can now proclaim that this album stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the best records of that golden era, and it was one of Japans 1970s underground scenes defining moments. In short. it is a totally lethal slide that does not fail to create an arresting listening experience. As is the case with all of Tiliqua Records releases, this one is also crafted out with meticulous care and eye for detail. The CD comes housed in a miniature version of the actual slim-cased LP box set, complete with obi and extensive 8-paged Japanese/ English liner notes, illustrated with some archival footage. One-time only, very limited press, housed in a sturdy hard card mini-LP styled slim box set-styled gatefold jacket. Digitally remastered from the original master tapes and graced with faithfully reproduced artwork (although slightly adapted for the single CD box set version) and obi. One-time limited press due to the nature of the box set jacket." - Tiliqua.
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Artist: HASEGAWA-SHIZUO Title: Songs of an Umbilical Cord Format: LP Label: Tiliqua Country: Japan Price: $32.00 |
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"Ltd edition LP of their 2nd release following their debute on PSF. Killer release if I say so myself. Imagine La Monte Young crossbreeding with Takayanagi Masayuki. The disc is made up out of 2 sidelong tracks that entwine around a minimal music aesthetic junked up with an improvisational free jazz like exploratory approach. The panoramic sonic outcome floats somewhere between the controlled burn of a detuned jet engine and the boundless fury of nomadic hordes on a rampage through the open Mongolian plains. Sucking in influences as wide ranging as Takayanagi, La Monte Young, esoteric Buddhist ritualistic mantras, Gagaku and a free-form psychedelic aesthetic, Hasegawa Shizuo succeeds brilliantly in resonating out a Dionysian vibration of harmonical tones pregnant with a pulsating intensity. Without a doubt one of the most interesting and intuitive sounds graced with a shamanistic sense of poetry to emerge out of deep subteranean belly of Tokyo. Still undetected but sure to blow headz worldwide. One time only edition of 400 copies housed in thicker than life jacket and high quality Japan pressed vinyl. LP only." - Tiliqua.
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Artist: SKOGSBERG, JOAKIM Title: Jola Rota Format: CD Label: Tiliqua Country: Japan Price: $29.00 |
| "First time official reissue of one of Swedens greatest and sadly unknown psychedelic treasure is this sole album by Joakim Skogsberg out of 1971. Tiliqua acquired the exclusive rights to this gem and this reissue comes with a remastered sound taken directly from the original master tapes and with the kind assistance of Mr. Joakim Skogsberg himself. The album Jola Rota is about Joakim Skogsbergs love for the grandiose Swedish landscapes, which has put its imprint upon his songs. On Jola Rota Joakim single-handedly created a minimal psychedelic and acid folk masterpiece infused with incredible soundscapes of derailed fuzzed out violins, soaring guitars, rattling hand percussion, droning vocals and pulsating bass rhythms, complimented by Joakims jolor, a special singing style with roots in an ancient Swedish tradition of folk music. The album was for the most part recorded out in the woods, with a portable Nagra reel-to-reel tape recorder and a simple Philips cassette recorder. Upon completion it was suggested for the album to appear on Gump Records, a subsidiary of Metronome. The music was just too underground and weird to be in Metronomes register. Apart from Joakims original recordings, some overdubs and effects were done in the studio during the autumn of 1971. Some of the droning sounds on the record were recorded in a tiny closet in Kärrtorp; a suburb to Stockholm where Joakim was living at the time. The album was pressed into approximately 1000 copies and only about 300 to 400 copies were actually sold. The rest of them were melted down and used in the pressing of other Gump records, making Jola Rota a much rumored and sought after Swedish droned-out and mesmerizing psychedelic artifact. This edition Jola Rota comes housed in high quality sturdy hard card mini-LP styled gatefold sleeve. Original artwork is faithfully reproduced and previously unpublished archival pictures can be found within the liner notes and gatefold. The liner notes are by the hand of Adam Gustafsson. Digitally remastered from the original master tapes and graced with faithfully reproduced artwork and obi. One time only limited pressing."-Tiliqua |
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Artist: SPACE MACHINE Title: 3 Format: Double LP Label: Tiliqua Country: Belgium Price: $30.00 |
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"From around 1998 Maso Yamazaki started to incorporate trippy, spacey electronic elements into Masonna performances. In order to better pursue these elements alone, he started Space Machine in 2000, his self-labeled analog electronic cosmic sound project. For as long as he had been performing under the Masonna moniker, Yamazaki had been ardent fan of early electronic music from the 50s and 60s, and in order to research the impact that electronic sounds had upon the spiritual lineage audible in sixties US and British psychedelic music and seventies krautrock, Yamazaki began collecting analog synthesizers and vintage electronic equipment. He continuously experimented with these instruments in his home studio, and while groping towards an understanding he discovered a new direction for his own music, a direction different from his work as Masonna. This third Space Machine release, which is aptly named 3, is a double vinyl album that consists of solo excursions by Yamazaki in his home studio. The release is limited to an edition of 500." - Tiliqua.
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Artist: TAKAYANAGI, MASAYUKI Title: Action Direct -Live at Zojoji Hall 1985 Format: LP Label: Tiliqua Country: Japan Price: $44.00 |
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"Action Direct was first released by Kojima ALM Records in 1985 in a tiny run and has been elusive ever since. Now, twenty years later, Tiliqua restores it to its former glory in the form of an identical limited LP edition (of 250 copies) and a first time ever limited CD edition (of 800 copies). The CD version is carefully crafted and housed in a deluxe fold out sturdy carton mini-LP styled record sleeve (hand numbered) complete with fully detailed and extensive liner notes by Alan Licht and Johan Wellens. The LP comes as a hand numbered deluxe hard carton single jacket edition containing an explanatory insert that is printed separately on high quality glossy paper. Both editions are true beauties to behold, doing the music and Takayanagi justice. As far as the music is concerned, I leave you with a few quotes lifted out of the liner notes in order for you to get a glimpse of the stratospherically heights the music tends to skyrocket into. �??Action Direct is his final extension of his Mass Projection/cool mode - the spaces in his playing now filled in with tapes and effects instead of reeds, bass, cello and drums, the sustain now applied to a wall of sound rather than simple guitar feedback, the spare gestures now appearing against a self-created backdrop of noise. And show a progression similar to Miles Davis pre-fusion mid-60s albums, whose increasing use of pulse suggested rock without directly referencing it; Action Direct could be seen as Takayanagis Bitches Brew (AL) Action Direct embodies a certain duality, a dichotomy between musician and instrument, machine and man and between science and art. While bestowing his concept with the character of music (or musical collage), Takayanagi set out to transcend and empower the physical identity, reality and significance of the individual sound atoms that lay at the core of this conceptual piece. By unleashing a vast array of demonic sonic clusters and fragmentation bombs, he created a new sonic language that vibrates through our present-day existence" - Tiliqua.
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Artist: TAKAYANAGI, MASAYUKI Title: Action Direct -Live at Zojoji Hall 1985 Format: CD Label: Tiliqua Country: Japan Price: $26.00 |
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"Action Direct was first released by Kojima ALM Records in 1985 in a tiny run and has been elusive ever since. Now, twenty years later, Tiliqua restores it to its former glory in the form of an identical limited LP edition (of 250 copies) and a first time ever limited CD edition (of 800 copies). The CD version is carefully crafted and housed in a deluxe fold out sturdy carton mini-LP styled record sleeve (hand numbered) complete with fully detailed and extensive liner notes by Alan Licht and Johan Wellens. The LP comes as a hand numbered deluxe hard carton single jacket edition containing an explanatory insert that is printed separately on high quality glossy paper. Both editions are true beauties to behold, doing the music and Takayanagi justice. As far as the music is concerned, I leave you with a few quotes lifted out of the liner notes in order for you to get a glimpse of the stratospherically heights the music tends to skyrocket into. Action Direct is his final extension of his Mass Projection/cool mode - the spaces in his playing now filled in with tapes and effects instead of reeds, bass, cello and drums, the sustain now applied to a wall of sound rather than simple guitar feedback, the spare gestures now appearing against a self-created backdrop of noise. And show a progression similar to Miles Davis pre-fusion mid-60s albums, whose increasing use of pulse suggested rock without directly referencing it; Action Direct could be seen as Takayanagis Bitches Brew (AL) Action Direct embodies a certain duality, a dichotomy between musician and instrument, machine and man and between science and art. While bestowing his concept with the character of music (or musical collage), Takayanagi set out to transcend and empower the physical identity, reality and significance of the individual sound atoms that lay at the core of this conceptual piece. By unleashing a vast array of demonic sonic clusters and fragmentation bombs, he created a new sonic language that vibrates through our present-day existence"- Tiliqua.
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Artist: TAKAYANAGI, MASAYUKI Title: Independence - Tread On Sure Ground Format: CD Label: Tiliqua Country: Japan Price: $26.00 |
| "New release in Tiliqua Records ongoing Archival Series is this quintessential album by Takayanagi Masayuki. It was his debut recording as a leader with his newly erected unit The New Directions, a trio consisting out of bassist Yoshizawa and drummer Toyozumi "Sabu" Yoshisaburo. Recorded at the Teichiku Kaikan studios on 18 September 1969 (released in 1970), "Independence �?? Tread on Sure Ground," is largely regarded as the first true classic of Japanese free jazz. The group thrashes out an entirely new Japanese methodology for improvisation based on Takayanagis theories about progressive art. As Alan Cummings explains in his liner notes, the groups sonic outburst is pregnant with an urgent intensity similar to a violent rotating windstorm. "An electric guitar string is pinged with a sour and markedly unlovely resonance. It is left to fade away naturally, its dying whisper replaced with a wavering feedback tone that grows steadily in volume and thickness. Against the slow feedback wave, a sudden loud percussive crash, urgent staccato rolls across the toms, and the dry rasp of a rattle. A choppy, non-sequential series of chords from the guitar, still mouth-puckeringly bitter is set against the warmer resonance of an alternately bowed and plucked double bass. Each instrument sounds self-contained, like lunar bodies spinning on their own axes at different tempos, but locked together by unfathomably complex rules of motion. Additional percussive rattles and scrapes have been overdubbed to fill in the blank space. Tendrils of feedback snake in and out, like cosmic dust from some cataclysmic celestial event. The playing is exploratory and deliberate, technically adept and keenly judged, easily sustaining interest and motion across the tracks eleven minutes. Its sense of focused concentration is more akin to the European free improvisation of AMM or The Spontaneous Music Ensemble than the violent ecstasies of American fire music.�?� - Alan Cummings �?? from the liner notes. The CD reissue includes also the bonus track �??Mass Projection�?� which was originally issued on the compilation album Guitar Workshop (Teichiku, 1970). This CD is housed in a high quality mini-LP styled gatefold sleeve, completed with obi and extensive 4-paged illuminating liner notes by Alan Cummings. Original artwork is faithfully reproduced. One time only limited pressing." - Tiliqua. |
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Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI Title: Satoru Format: LP Label: Tiliqua Country: Japan Price: $36.00 |
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"Limited LP set of 450 numbered copies and all but 50 copies stayed in Japan. We have the last of the 50 copies available from the label to sell for the USA market.� Satoru� is Tomokawa Kazukis first ever LP release in over 20 years time and Tiliqua Records is proud to be able to release this sonic gem. � Satoru� � was previously only available as part of the 13 CD Box set that PSF Records put out some years ago and has never been available outside of the set. Now �Satoru� is finally available apart from the illustrious box and is been rebirthed as an LP, housed in sturdy and heavy jacket adorned with Tomokawas artwork. Coming with the LP is a two-paged insert printed on high quality glossy paper. It contains liner notes penned down by Alan Cummings and Johan Wellens, notes that shed some clarity on Tomokawas universe, historical background, poetic qualities and the position he takes in within a long line of historical Japanese poets. In order to get a glimpse of the aural regions this album will steer into, this is an as close a comparison one can have using plain words. �There is a raw immediacy to Tomokawas performances that effortlessly hurdles many linguistic barriers, speaking direct to the listeners nerves and emotions� � Tomokawas voice constantly storms against the confines of his own vaguely symbolist words, harshly screaming or melodically moaning, the emotional voltage that courses through his delivery constantly threatening to melt their neural circuitry. � (AC) and � Tomokawa succeeds in triggering apocalyptic waves of emotionalism through the tiniest gestures exhorted from his guttural howls and fevered guitar strummings. Keeping a razor-sharp balance between self-tormenting pained gloominess and soul-searching poetic lyricism he manages to create a tense and innovative acoustic music, sounding simultaneously ancient and contemporaneously authentic. And it is here that his especial strength resides, a music fully drenched in the past, yet so attuned to the present moment. His snarling howl and single syllable guttural moans seem to bridge time and space, epoch and eras; hermetic yowls recalling Enka crooners, circus sideshow barkers, carnival callers, Nikkatsu movie gangsters and soft-hearted balladeers, all embodied in the persona of Tomokawa Kazuki� - From the liner notes. One time only press of 450 copies.
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Artist: TREE PEOPLE, THE Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Tiliqua Country: Japan Price: $23.00 |
| "Tiliqua Records is psyched about being able to present a whole new audience and generation with the lysergic beauty of the Tree Peoples sole recorded artifact, a privately released acid folk gem out of 1979. In times when people are all getting excited about media-created scenes like ⿿New Weird America and ⿿Freak Folk, they seem to overlook the fact that such music was already being created decades ago. The Tree People is evidence of such a splash of creativity that sadly enough was doomed to disappear within the cracks of obscurity. Until now. Tiliqua was granted the opportunity to restore this gem and with the kind collaboration of Mr. Cohen of the Tree People, who provided me with the master tapes and a seemingly unlimited support, Tiliqua was able to prepare this reissue. To me, this album is one of the singular most beautiful gems to have crossed my path and words always fall short in an attempt to describe the aural sensation it unleashes. ⿿Upon listening today this hushed and intimate feeling still resonates through the music ⿿ the record possesses an extraordinarily potent atmosphere that still intoxicates the senses after so many years. Over a combustible backing dominated by shimmering strings, bone-shaking hand percussion rhythms, and quivering sensuous threads of eastern-toned flute playing, the group succeeded in concocting up a syncretic combination of meditative Indian raga, western folk stylings and idiosyncratic melodic ideas. The music breathes out intimacy and communicates with a rare directness - hooking you instantly with sheer aural bliss derived from the melody, from the flowing beat, from the sound of the words and syllables and of all those separate elements interacting with each other, rendered into a concentrated, gracious flow of lunar notes. The albums compositions have so many hidden qualities, all breathing out deep and affectionate sentiments that reveal, just like a lotus flower centered on the axis with its petals unfolding towards the circumference, a streamlined adhesion towards the groups own singular creed. Listen to it and you may feel like awakening from a deep slumber, your unconsciousness leaking away as aspects of reality slowly mix in with the rest of your already blurred mindset. First time ever official reissue, housed in a sturdy mini-LP styled gatefold sleeve." - Tiliqua. |
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Artist: URABE, MASAYOSHI Title: Urklang Format: CD Label: Tiliqua Country: Belgium Price: $16.00 |
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"Japanese-born Masayoshi Urabe is a saxophonist who boasts a fearsome sound but, unlike Arthur Doyle, he incorporates long blocks of stony silence into his music. On Urklang - his latest solo disc, which presents two live performances, one on alto, the other on soprano - he painstakingly carves these silences into huge, ominous icebergs. The overall effect is such that even the slightest cry from his horn seems impossibly portentous, especially when he roars through the extremes of the altos upper register." - David Keenan. With beautiful hand assembled miniature gatefold jackets.
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Artist: SMEGMA Title: The Mad Excitement, The Barbaric Pulsations... Format: CD Label: Tim Kerr Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: TIME LIFE/LIL DUSTY Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Time Life Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| Time Life is Heidi and Lucas of Vanishing Voice, the other side is "secret" hip hop project Lil Dusty. |
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Artist: AHMED, ILYAS Title: The Vertigo of Dawn Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Much anticipated first proper release after a string of ear tugging and increasingly impressive private press CDRs. A real shining spirit in these somewhat goofy times of folk-psych abuse, this guy nails it like its in his DNA. Way beyond a simple formula, this is a complete tonal voyage. Opening the album with a dark ritual of dueling reeds and buzzing drones, things then erupt into some seriously burning psych raga excursion built from totally heavy, jamming, acoustic guitar licks, eastern grooving hand percussions, stoned backwards or fuzzed-out electric guitar splatters, and subtle creaky drones. The vocals are nearly unintelligible but swirl beautifully through most songs like floating smoky ripples. Woozy, head-bobbing, and completely there. Yow... Packaged in a matching fabric textured, golden hued, mini LP style gatefold cover with black and blood red printing, plus insert and woven Japanese inner sleeve."- Time Lag |
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Artist: AHMED, ILYAS Title: The Vertigo of Dawn Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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"LP Version. "Pressed on 180gm audiophile vinyl and packaged in a custom fabric textured, golden hued, heavy gatefold cover with black and blood red printing, plus insert. Un-numbered limited edition of 750 copies.Much anticipated first proper release after a string of ear tugging and increasingly impressive private press CDRs. A real shining spirit in these somewhat goofy times of folk-psych abuse, this guy nails it like its in his DNA. Way beyond a simple formula, this is a complete tonal voyage. Opening the album with a dark ritual of dueling reeds and buzzing drones, things then erupt into some seriously burning psych raga excursion built from totally heavy, jamming, acoustic guitar licks, eastern grooving hand percussions, stoned backwards or fuzzed-out electric guitar splatters, and subtle creaky drones. The vocals are nearly unintelligible but swirl beautifully through most songs like floating smoky ripples. Woozy, head-bobbing, and completely there. Yow..."- Time Lag
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Artist: BIG BLOOD Title: Dead Songs Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "CD version, packaged in an identical mini-LP style gatefold cover with clear varnish overprinting and offset printed vellum insert. First pressing of 1,000 copies. "Much anticipated proper full-length release from this wonderful Maine duo after a long running string of self-released CD-Rs and a collaborative 7-inch with Visitations. Colleen Kinsella and Caleb Mulkerin have been key personages of the Portland/South Portland sonic underground for over a decade, as members of Cerberus Shoal,Threads, Fire on Fire, etc. While those groups have no doubt left an impressive body of sound, the intimacy and directness of their Big Blood recordings take things to a higher plane of personal expression, freed from the group mind/serious band trapping of their past musical outlets. Here they are free to romp in their personal micro-verse, following whim and fantasy through the gates of acoustic transcendence. All of the off-the-cuff spontaneity, intimate home fidelity, and deep personal charms of their older releases are as present as ever, but the duos scope is now focused to a crystalline clarity of vision. Dead Songs is as sorrowful and joyful in its mirrored symmetry as the infinite life cycle itself, flowing on cleansing waves of inner release and spirit absorption...wailing fuzzed-up garage folk anthems mesh into twisted poetic acid-folk and drift to expansive melancholic meditations of boundless depth. Two voices howl, swoon, alternate and join; lyrical layers peel away endlessly, tiny amps weep in pain, crude percussion booms thunderous, and ragged, beautiful hooks unfurl straight out of the void." -Time-Lag |
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Artist: BIG BLOOD Title: Dead Songs Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "Much anticipated proper full-length release from this wonderful Maine duo after a long running string of self-released CD-Rs and a collaborative 7-inch with Visitations. Colleen Kinsella and Caleb Mulkerin have been key personages of the Portland/South Portland sonic underground for over a decade, as members of Cerberus Shoal,Threads, Fire on Fire, etc. While those groups have no doubt left an impressive body of sound, the intimacy and directness of their Big Blood recordings take things to a higher plane of personal expression, freed from the group mind/serious band trapping of their past musical outlets. Here they are free to romp in their personal micro-verse, following whim and fantasy through the gates of acoustic transcendence. All of the off-the-cuff spontaneity, intimate home fidelity, and deep personal charms of their older releases are as present as ever, but the duos scope is now focused to a crystalline clarity of vision. Dead Songs is as sorrowful and joyful in its mirrored symmetry as the infinite life cycle itself, flowing on cleansing waves of inner release and spirit absorption...wailing fuzzed-up garage folk anthems mesh into twisted poetic acid-folk and drift to expansive melancholic meditations of boundless depth. Two voices howl, swoon, alternate and join; lyrical layers peel away endlessly, tiny amps weep in pain, crude percussion booms thunderous, and ragged, beautiful hooks unfurl straight out of the void. Packaged in a suitably gorgeous full-color heavy 60s style gatefold cover with clear varnish overprinting, Large offset printed vellum insert, full-color art labels, etc. Pressed on the highest quality 180 gram virgin vinyl. Limited edition of 700 copies." -Time-Lag |
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Artist: BJERGA/IVERSEN Title: Theres A Ghost In The Dream Machine Format: CDR Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "another haunted earthy drone vortex from this ultra-prolific norwegian duo. one extended & arching track. dusty electronics flutter and moan, crackle, and drone their way through some sort of underground cavernous dirge of rippling sound decay. the beauty lays in its blankness... fold-over art paper cover with paste-on art & hand stamped text. silver rimmed all black cdrs. numbered edition of 88." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: BUMMER ROAD, THE Title: Deep Space Circuit Format: Double CDR Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"hot new epic length double disc put together for the recent euro tour. "best of" live picks by the band recorded during the august 2006 journey in the great divide, plus a couple cuts from terrastock. recorded with maximum spectral fidelity and entirely unaltered from the pure live-to-tape original form...a rare & defiant glimpse into the true chasm of raw as captured in the tapers pit... 150+ minutes of pure cosmic blues, folk whisper, acid raga, and fuzz-damaged psychedelic lift. featuring mv, ee, mo jiggs, nemo, samara lubelski, sparrow wildchild, and willie moonflower lane... limited / unnumbered edition packaged in a lovely tri-fold orange art paper cover, with double sided color offset printing & screenprinted orange top cdrs." - Time-Lag.
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Artist: BURKETT, JOSHUA Title: Wheres My Hat? Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Digital version of Red Records #1. A lucky few got to hear this little gem as the tiny self released CDR edition, but heres the real deal. An absolutely lovely album and surely Joshuas finest dose yet. Oozing with a perfectly warm lo-fi bedroom glow, and full of Joshuas most direct and achingly melancholy song forms. Totally hitting a whole new level of intimate vibrations, full of fragile hushed vocals, gentle acoustic guitar plucking, somber dirges and electronic bagpipe mantras. Beautifully formed lyrics step up the forefront as a rare treat, and the effect is just as stunning as it is simple. We just cant get enough of this one. The kind of record youll want to spin again and again to soothe a busy mind. Truly psychedelic folk music for late night soul searching. Sweet custom art paper mini LP style gatefold covers with full color art to match the LP version. Woven Japanese inner sleeves. Edition of 1000."- Time Lag |
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Artist: BURKETT, JOSHUA Title: Xaviers Birds Format: 7" Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Same music as the book and 7" combo, but without the massive book. The 7" is a large hole 45 RPM disc with hand stamped labels. Each copy is packaged in a one-of-a-kind, hand painted, recycled 7" cover, with a double-sided, offset printed, neon green outer cover that matches the book, and with the same hand painted and metallic-gold screen-printed wrap-around title strip. Numbered edition of 111 copies." -Time-Lag. |
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Artist: CAINE, VIRGIL Title: The Great Lunar Oil Strike, 1976 Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $33.00 |
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"First ever reissue of this hopelessly rare and obscure 1971 rural Virginia private press folk masterpiece. A true anomaly in the seemingly bottomless world of self released albums, this one charts a truly unique realm all its own. While the sound itself may draw some clear influence from classics of the day, even lifting the band name from a song by the band, the mood & vibe here is ponderously uncharted territory, seemingly birthed complete from some parallel sonic reality. Crude lo-fi metaphysical basement folk rock filtered through a deeply southern gothic/Appalachian/Americana band aesthetic and executed in the purest, most sincere, spontaneous, vibe-thick sense possible. The atmosphere trapped in these grooves is truly as strong as it gets and is sure to engulf any open-minded listener given half a chance. The near magical power of the album seems to lay in its extreme polarization; on the one hand there is a fully developed lyrical depth and intellect thats profoundly poetic, even novelistic, yet the music & recording is shockingly raw, unhinged, completely unselfconscious, and downright weird. Its a dusty, creaky, ebb & flow of clackity percussion, acoustic strum, shaky low-watt electric guitar licks, occasional floorboard rattling bass, and thick southern drawl. Even the recording quality has a bizarre lo-fi character of its own, with some sounds seeming to barely hit the tape at all, while others are wildly overblown, wrapping the whole deal in a gauzy tape hiss fog, with hints of garagy distortion. The album progresses with a casual but surprisingly purposeful intent, hitting an intimately mystical, visionary, dream-like arc through the entire second side of the record and ending in complete dissipation. All taken together its a seriously teleportive trip to a flicker in time & place that is really quite special. The scratchy textless black & white band photo cover art suites the album perfectly: striking yet vague, timeless yet ancient, simple yet mysterious. Pressed on highest quality 180gm virgin vinyl and packaged in an exact reproduction heavy old-style cover, with exact repro labels. Also includes a double-sided heavy stock insert with new liner notes from main songwriter and vocalist Roger Mannon, as well as introductory notes from band scholar and devoted fan Jack D. Fleischer. One time vinyl only pressing of 500 copies." -Time-Lag.
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Artist: CALLAHAN, EDDIE Title: False Ego Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $32.00 |
| "First ever reissue, deluxe and legit, of this quite rare 1976 southern California private press gem. Its a strange, fantastical, and totally distinct album that will have you sucked in almost instantly. This one is extremely hard to pin down - think something like a loner powerpop rock opus, heavy on the psychedelic production values, studio dreamer vibes, and timeless hooks. The songs are unusual but infectious, the production is breezy and expansive but not polished, and the vocals are constantly morphing yet always effective. In fact, the hazy chameleon-like personality here might be one of the best things going for the album, as not only does Eddie seem to be channelling a handful of different vocalists, but the whole mood and sound shifts around unexpectedly as well. Even the potential low points somehow work, and there are surprises around every turn. The often questioning, self-reflective lyrics add yet another layer of mystique to the trip. Musically the mellowest points hover around gorgeous, airy, rural-tinged, floating psychedelia with beautifully layered acoustic & electric guitars, tinkling keys, and lush mellotron. When things pick up theyre truly rocking, with tight punchy rhythms and Eddie firing off big chunky guitar riffs like hes playing to the packed stadium behind his third eye. All the studio tricks at hand are put to full use with sweet Leslie guitar effects, special tones, backwards solos, elaborate multi-tracked sound fields, and some of the most wonderfully bent synthesizer soloing ever laid to tape. The perfectly strange and beautiful cover art seals the deal. False Egos is mastered from the artists well preserved and great sounding master tapes. Pressed on highest quality 180gm virgin vinyl, and packaging in an exact reproduction heavy old-style cover, with exact repro labels. One time pressing of 700 copies. Includes a double-sided insert with a bunch of great vintage photos of Eddie rockin the Marshall stacks at the False Ego sessions, and new notes from Eddie, his wife Donna-Davi, and album producer Robert Berry." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: CALLAHAN, EDDIE Title: False Ego Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| ""First ever reissue, deluxe and legit, of this quite rare 1976 southern California private press gem. Its a strange, fantastical, and totally distinct album that will have you sucked in almost instantly. This one is extremely hard to pin down - think something like a loner powerpop rock opus, heavy on the psychedelic production values, studio dreamer vibes, and timeless hooks. The songs are unusual but infectious, the production is breezy and expansive but not polished, and the vocals are constantly morphing yet always effective. In fact, the hazy chameleon-like personality here might be one of the best things going for the album, as not only does Eddie seem to be channelling a handful of different vocalists, but the whole mood and sound shifts around unexpectedly as well. Even the potential low points somehow work, and there are surprises around every turn. The often questioning, self-reflective lyrics add yet another layer of mystique to the trip. Musically the mellowest points hover around gorgeous, airy, rural-tinged, floating psychedelia with beautifully layered acoustic & electric guitars, tinkling keys, and lush mellotron. When things pick up theyre truly rocking, with tight punchy rhythms and Eddie firing off big chunky guitar riffs like hes playing to the packed stadium behind his third eye. All the studio tricks at hand are put to full use with sweet Leslie guitar effects, special tones, backwards solos, elaborate multi-tracked sound fields, and some of the most wonderfully bent synthesizer soloing ever laid to tape. The perfectly strange and beautiful cover art seals the deal. False Egos is mastered from the artists well preserved and great sounding master tapes. Pressed on highest quality 180gm virgin vinyl, and packaging in an exact reproduction heavy old-style cover, with exact repro labels. One time pressing of 700 copies. Includes a double-sided insert with a bunch of great vintage photos of Eddie rockin the Marshall stacks at the False Ego sessions, and new notes from Eddie, his wife Donna-Davi, and album producer Robert Berry. " - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: CHARALAMBIDES Title: Historic 6th Ward Format: Double LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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"reissue of the essential album recorded 10/91-3/94. on vinyl for the first time, and including seven songs previously available only on the original self-released cassette version (30 copies). a massively psychedelic blend of drone rock, folk, and outsider explorations created by a hypnotic mix of christinas haunting voice and the trios (christina and tom carter, jason bill) trance inducing, and often acidic, guitar work. the use of organ, flute, banjo, etc, only adds to the potent effect. eclectic, yet solidified in the groups unique and beautiful otherness. it could only come from texas... nearly 1.5 hours of music pressed on audiophile quality double 180gm vinyl. packaged in a hand-made, screenprinted tri-fold wrap-around cover, with full color paste-ons front and back, plus photos and extensive notes by tom carter. limited and hand number to 500 copies." -Time Lag.
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Artist: CHARALAMBIDES Title: Our Bed is Green Format: Double LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $40.00 |
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"the debut release from texas favorite psychedelic voyagers, on vinyl for the first time ever. originally self released as an ultra-limited cassette way back in 1992, it was later reissued on the bands own wholly other imprint in a much edited form, only to go out of print again. here the original cassette track list and sequence is restored, minus too covers songs. a historic milestone in the story of the contemporary underground, as well as an extremely mind-melting dose of outsider drone/folk/psych in its own right. the duo of tom & christina carter here managed to wrap their fingers and minds around a whole slew of sonic vibrations, while at the same time clearly charting their own low-key and unique course. tapping into about every slant of damaged texas exploration, this massive recording flows through haunting lo-fi slow motion folk, full-blown, fuzzed-out spacerock, beautiful outsider acid psych, fizzing drone experimentation, loose blues forms and plenty
of higher minded guitar improvisation, all with a certain shining wide-eyed bliss. and yes, chistinas voice was just as jaw dropping then as it is now... while worlds away from charalambides recent outings on one level, those sonic tendrils trace a clear line back to the sweet seeds planted here... pressed on two massive slabs of audiophile 180 gram vinyl, and packaged in a beautiful silver & clear ink letterpressed tri-fold cover, on heavy olive green art paper, with extensive notes by tom carter. hand numbered edition of 800 copies." - Time-Lag. Last copies!
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Artist: CORTES, LULA Title: Rosa De Sangue Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $31.00 |
| "Deluxe first ever reissue of this Brazilian private press monster rarity. Originally custom pressed in 1980, Rosa De Sangue is the closing chapter of the amazing Recife psychedelic movement that flourished and centered around the work of Lula Cortes, beginning in 1973 with the release of Satwa, and the creation of Abracadabra, Lulas loose art/music/design collective. Leading up to 1980 Lula had produced and privately released Satwa in 1973 (Brazils first private press LP) as well as Marconi Notaros No Sub Reino Dos Metazoarios LP that same year (featuring the recording debut of Ze Ramalho). He then started the legendary but incredibly short lived Solar label, releasing only two albums: 1975s Paebiru double album, and a year later the lone album by Flaviola. As if that wasnt enough, he was also heavily involved in other productions and performed on many seminal albums coming out of the region, including many collaborations with Alceu Valenca. By the close of the 70s the heavily utilized Rozemblit recording studio/pressing plant had been destroyed by repeated floods, Abracadabra had run its course, and along with Lulas marriage, the Solar label was no more. So Rosa De Sangue was conceived as a bookend and tribute to this closing era; as Lula himself states I want to close all of this with a golden key. And a golden key it is. Entering a small local studio with a head full of songs and his freshly road tested mountains band, Lula created an album simply overflowing with ideas. Along with his power trio backing, he was further assisted by many old friends dropping in, including, among many others: Alceu Valenca, Flaviola, Ze De Flauta and Paulo Rafael. With hints of the past era and of things to come, it is a truly wild audio experience, covering many styles and moods. From crazed ethno folkrock, to magical, gentle, jungle folk psych zones, to hard hitting, coke dusted fuzz rock, to insane mutant disco dance floor groove, to tweaked Americana, to acid vocal raga trance, and way beyond. All throughout Lulas beautiful tricordio work pins things down, and for the first time he is the main vocalist (this is, after all, his first solo album!) His is a smoke and booze steeped voice darting between crazed abandon, deep sadness, and glowing soulful humor. When things are mellow, you could easily imagine youre hearing an outtake from Marconi Notaro or Paebiru, but the next moment youre dropped into a raging street party or dimly lit booze drenched bar scene vibe. Frenzied guitars all over, including some tough fuzz, as well as powerful rolling bass groove, soaring violin, moog weirdness, dusted backup vocals, and great drum kit/regional percussion interplay. Psychedelic at heart, but brimming with flashes of tropicalia, punk, prog, and pure hot blooded rock and roll. A bizarre and amazing album. But of course, the story doesnt end there. At some point while the album was being recorded and pressed, Lula signed a major label contact which would produce 1981s far tamer O Gosto Novo Da Vida LP. When his new label got wind of Rosa De Sangues eminent release, they were displeased to say the least. As soon as the pressing was complete, the entire small edition was seized and destroyed, making this album by far Brazils rarest. So rare, in fact, that even among the most hardcore Brazilian collectors the original LP is often only rumored to exist, often cited as unreleased. A few copies did however survive, and now, 29 years later, the world can finally hear this golden key from a truly visionary artist. Packaged in a heavy vintage style cover with exact reproduction original artwork, including the huge full color, double sided, foldout poster insert, plus an extra insert featuring new liner notes from Lula Cortes as well as translated song titles. 180gm audiophile virgin vinyl pressing with exact repro label art. Limited edition one time pressing of 1000 copies." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: CORTES, LULA Title: Rosa De Sangue Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Digital version in a heavy mini LP style cover with exact reproduction of the original artwork, and a full color foldout mini poster insert with new liner notes by Lula Cortes. First edition of 1000 copies." "First ever reissue of this Brazilian private press monster rarity. Originally custom pressed in 1980, Rosa De Sangue is the closing chapter of the amazing Recife psychedelic movement that flourished and centered around the work of Lula Cortes, beginning in 1973 with the release of Satwa, and the creation of Abracadabra, Lulas loose art/music/design collective...Psychedelic at heart, but brimming with flashes of tropicalia, punk, prog, and pure hot blooded rock and roll. A bizarre and amazing album." - Time-Lag |
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Artist: DRONA PARVA Title: Salivia Door Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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"newish recordings. more raw and less static then past releases. minimal psychedelicaly inclined folk/drone 2 & 4 track improvisations for acoustic & electric guitar, moog, organ & tape machines. heavy weight letterpressed art paper uni-pak covers, 180 gram vinyl. limited to 300 (or less?)" - Time Lag.
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Artist: DRONO PARVA/ULTRASOUND Title: Songs From The Entoptic Garden: Volume One Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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Artist: DRYWATER Title: Backbone of the Nation Format: LP + 7" Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $37.00 |
| "First ever reissue of this massively cool and hideously rare 1973 rural Pennsylvania private press jewel, originally released on the legendary RPC custom label in an edition of only 25 copies. The sound is essentially split between the two dominate modes of polarized male youth psyche: alternating moody, dejected, love scorned, melancholy folkrock with wasted, howling, proto-punk garage fuzz brain fry. All together its a totally sincere lost in time vibe, delivered with gobs of naive charm and executed with almost zero resources. The album was recorded and mixed direct to tape in just a few hours, without overdubs or even the option to mix down. You can hear the clearly unprepared recording engineer frantically flipping switches and tweaking knobs in a state of near panic as these kids tear furiously through a rapid fire album worth of original songs, always teetering on the edge of total collapse, yet never quite imploding. While the end results are, to say he least, very crude, the band pulls together a distinct and wonderful sound. Underpinned by Ken Turcics dry, low, rubbery bass lines and Greg Cheplicks wildly raw and cool drumming (hes only 15 at the time) Dennis Cheplick (Gregs older brother) and Jack Sarvis trade off vocal duties, guitars licks, and writing credit. Rhythm guitars chug excitedly, acoustic 12-string adds a sweet, chiming, folky texture, and Sarvis switches between a great, slightly surf-tinged ringing reverb tone and frenetic fuzz figures. Pressed on highest quality 180 gram virgin vinyl. Packaged in an exact reproduction heavy weight reverse tip-on cover, with exact repro label art, a heavy double sided insert with loads of vintage color photos and extensive liner notes, plus a bonus heavy vinyl 45 rpm 7-inch. One time vinyl only pressing of 500 copies." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: ELEPHANT MICAH Title: Hindu Windmills Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Digital version of the out-of-print LP. At long last, theres finally a full length Elephant Micah album born into this world. Why it took so many years will remain a mystery, cuz as far as were concerned, Elephant Micah should have been a household name for years now. Stripped of all superfluous sound, and presented with the sort of stark realness that creates a deeply psychedelic mood without being in the least bit overt. Joe OConnell has always been at the top of our favorite contemporary songwriters, and here the songs truly take center stage for the first time. Recorded direct to hand-held cassette recorder using only acoustic guitar and vocals, with just sparse backing from a little percussion, cello, electric piano and double-tracked vocals, the gauzy overdubs of past releases have all but vanished here. At the same time, the lyrical depth & intimacy have easily doubled, creating some of the most affecting country-tinged melancholy weve ever laid ears on. Hushed, heartaching and utterly timeless. And it just gets better with every listen. The voyeuristic pureness is further enhanced by hissy near-haiku spoken fragments of tape that pop up between songs throughout the album. Heavy mini LP style craft paper gatefold cover with elusive, ghostly, two-color offset printing, Plus a double-sided fold out insert & woven Japanese inner sleeves." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: ELEPHANT MICAH Title: Plays The Songs Of Bible Birds Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Well let Joe himself shed a little light here: touring the East Coast in 2003, someone asked, youre from Indiana - have you ever heard of the Bible Bird man? I hadnt, so I did some research. His video had already been stolen from the library at Earlham College, but I stole it back and returned it. I began to imagine what the musical equivalent of his evangelical bird act might sound like. I wrote a song about the Bird Man, thinking of releasing it as a re-issue of a central Indiana country-gospel group that had never existed - the Bible Birds. Then I thought maybe I would do an Elephant Micah album of covers originally written by this (non-existent) Bible Birds band. In the end of course the concept kind of dissipated and it just became an Elephant Micah album. I recruited Beth Remis from Static Films (and more recently Pillars And Tongues) to help arrange/sing harmonies for the songs, and generally bring them up to pseudo-gospel snuff. We played the songs around the upper midwest once with Ben Racher on a portable pump organ and Jason Henn on upright bass. All of us got together in Indianapolis in 2006 and recorded this. I drove everyone crazy with my insistence on weird recording methods. I think i was kind of trying to approximate the timbres of the hymn sing broadcast on Salem, Indianas WSLM. Who knows? I was critical of the results and didnt finalize them for several years. Here it is finally, a kind of prequel companion to the Hindu Windmills (Time-Lag 035) album. -- Joe OConnell 2010. So there you have it. An overlooked chapter from this wonderful artist finally seeing the light of day, and a perfect companion piece to the highly praised Hindu Windmills album. Both albums are clearly united by their warm, lo-fi intimacy, sparse production, and stunning song-craft. Strikingly simple & beautiful stuff... Packaged in a lovely three color screen printed heavy stock tri-fold art paper cover, with offset printed lyric insert. Limited edition of 500 copies." -Time-Lag. |
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Artist: ELEPHANT MICAH Title: Plays The Songs Of Bible Birds Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "Finally available on vinyl. Packaged in a lovely three-color, screen-printed heavy stock tri-fold art paper cover, with heavy stock offset printed lyric insert. Limited edition of 500 copies. Well let Joe himself shed a little light here: touring the East Coast in 2003, someone asked, youre from Indiana - have you ever heard of the Bible Bird man? I hadnt, so I did some research. His video had already been stolen from the library at Earlham College, but I stole it back and returned it. I began to imagine what the musical equivalent of his evangelical bird act might sound like. I wrote a song about the Bird Man, thinking of releasing it as a re-issue of a central Indiana country-gospel group that had never existed - the Bible Birds. Then I thought maybe I would do an Elephant Micah album of covers originally written by this (non-existent) Bible Birds band. In the end of course the concept kind of dissipated and it just became an Elephant Micah album. I recruited Beth Remis from Static Films (and more recently Pillars And Tongues) to help arrange/sing harmonies for the songs, and generally bring them up to pseudo-gospel snuff. We played the songs around the upper midwest once with Ben Racher on a portable pump organ and Jason Henn on upright bass. All of us got together in Indianapolis in 2006 and recorded this. I drove everyone crazy with my insistence on weird recording methods. I think i was kind of trying to approximate the timbres of the hymn sing broadcast on Salem, Indianas WSLM. Who knows? I was critical of the results and didnt finalize them for several years. Here it is finally, a kind of prequel companion to the Hindu Windmills (Time-Lag 035) album. -- Joe OConnell 2010. So there you have it. An overlooked chapter from this wonderful artist finally seeing the light of day, and a perfect companion piece to the highly praised Hindu Windmills album. Both albums are clearly united by their warm, lo-fi intimacy, sparse production, and stunning song-craft. Strikingly simple & beautiful stuff." -Time-Lag |
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Artist: ESPERS Title: Espers Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
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" stunniningly beautiful debut album by the trio of meg baird, brooke sietinsons, & greg weeks. oscillating effortlessly between lush folk pop & buzzing psyhedelia. lovinlingly layered & perfectly recorded male/female vocals, acoustic guitars, dulcimer, electric guitar, analog synth, recorder, chimes, violin, and plently of rippling tape delay... all wrapped up in our most luxerius packaging yet... 180 gram vinyl in a double thick chocolate brown art paper uni-pak gatefold, fully screenprinted by brooke sietinson, with a screen printed art paper insert. hand stamped labels. numbered to 300." - Time-Lag.
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Artist: FURSAXA Title: Madrigals In Duos Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"long overdue, the first proper new album from fursaxa since the �??s/t�?� lp on forced exposure a while back... anyone whos had their ears turned by tara burkes earlier recordings will certainly have cause for celebration with �??madrigals in duos�?�... like a haunting dream sound from another world, this is the sort of music that exists in a space all its own. hearing tara weave her incredible vocal textures in to a tapestry of strummed acoustic, droning organ & and various noisemakers is a treat not to be missed. flooringly psychedelic and completely out there, in the most beautiful sense... 180 gram vinyl in an extra heavyweight uni-pak style gatefold, with color paste-ons, interior screenprinting, stamped labels, etc., all designed by tara. numbered to 300." - Time Lag.
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Artist: GALBRAITH/NEILSON/YOUNGS Title: Belsayer Time Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"fully mind-blowing dream collaboration from alastair galbraith, alex neilson & richard youngs. all serious international underground sound weavers in their own right, this trio collaboration lifts things ever higher... for the last 20 years or so alastair galbraith has quietly been releasing some of the most stunning outsider/psych/folk/drone work to ever come out of his new zealand homeland, and we couldnt be more thrilled to have him back on the scene. richard youngs makes a nice uk parallel with a vast and equally impressive catalog of sub-underground avant/drone/folk wonderment to his name. and while alex neilsons name might be a bit new, hes been bending many a mind under his directing hand solo guise, as well as collaboration with mv & ee, taurpis tula and others. oh yeah, and that small fact that alex & richard backed jandek at his first ever live performance is pretty cool too... musically, things are way fucking deep in the zone here folks. side one glides along in slo-mo dream state hover with richards beautiful and unmistakable vocals soaring and refracting in to echoes, quietly fluttering and droning electronics, otherworldly sounding synth melodies, rolling splashes of free percussion, backwards effects, and syrupy sound pools of acoustic strings. beautifully lulling and deeply psychedelic... but the second you flip the lp the bottom drops right out with with a real electro jammer, blasted with throbbingly heavy free drumming, vibrating walls of synth, and yowling bird-of-prey electronic squeal... and things just get more abstract from there... really amazing stuff for those who dig a headspinningly deep listen... packaged in a stark but beautiful full color offset printed & debossed heavy art board cover, with debossed insert. 180 gram virgin vinyl. numbered edition of 900 copies." - Time-Lag.
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Artist: GHQ Title: Cosmology Of The Eye Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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"first proper release from this headspinning acid/drone/raga crew thats been quietly haunting the northeast for a couple years now... for this album the band was marcia bassett (double leopards, hototogisu, zaimph, un, etc.) steve gunn, and pete nolan (magik markers, vanishing voice, etc.)... heavily dosed trips into eastcoast trance primitivism, gushing with mantric meshes of strings and voice. centered around bassett & gunns acoustic guitar freeflow, and wrapped up in layers of hovering vocal mist, buzzing drones, percussive clatter, and nolans subtle but massively psychedelic electric guitar moves. over five extended tracks things slide along from bone rattling minimal vibrations, dip into opiated folk beauty, and then blow things wide open with a full side of fevered, acid soaked raga lift-off... keep that third eye open folks... pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl and packaged in a sweet two color letterpress printed heavy black artboard cover, with a nice 8x10 photo insert shot by tom carter. hand numbered edition of 850 copies." - Time Lag.
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Artist: HEITKOTTER, STEPHEN DAVID Title: Heitkotter Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $32.00 |
| "Reissue of this legendary super-rare private press. A three-piece band plays sprawling, inept baked blues led by a mysterious mental patient. Housed in an ultra heavy cardboard sleeve on 180 gram vinyl, with an insert of insightful and speculative liner notes -- the most information youll ever find about this mythic record. Truly one of the great outsider creations ever spawned under a full moon." - FE. "The circumstances behind Heitkotter are obscure and confusing: all that is known for certain is that Steve Heitkotter recorded the LP sometime before 1971, when he and his reluctant brother Bill took unsolicited promotional copies to eight local FM station in Californias San Joaquin Valley. Whoever else may have participated is a mystery: Steven had spent the mid 60s drumming for Fresno garage mainstays the Road Runners, so he had some connections left, but the time after the Runners had reportedly brought him to psychotropic drugs and mental instability, and his family doubts that he was on good terms with enough musicians even to organize a drag jam of messed up desert loner westcoast churning and meandering, like a Magic Band gig falling apart (Paul Major). The LPs murky sound and symbiotically disintegrating musicianship do seem to suggest that the session was cut live to four track, but Bill Heikotter swears that Steve was a loner at the time, alienated from his former bandmates, and that he recorded the album entirely by himself. That makes the amnesia of the musicians, who intermittently forget how to play their instruments, all the more curious, as Steve himself was a good guitarist and quasi-professional drummer, though the influence of drugs, fatigue, or apathy seems plausible enough." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: KUUPUU Title: Illusia Format: 7" Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"vinyl debut from finlands finest fairy goddess, kuupuu (aka jonna karanka). beautiful extended tracks featuring piles of instruments and noisemakers all played by jonna. side one chugs along like a shimmering cosmic freight train, rippling with layers of hovering drones, looped and layered vocals, pitch ebb & flow, and loose tinkling percussion a disorienting & lifted vibration frozen in space. side two begins with sparse moaning vocals, klang, & bells, and slowly shifts into a stunning melancholy lo-fi folk/psych downer, with slow and beautiful vocals and plucked acoustic guitar. very sweet. plays at 33.3rpms... packaged in a lovely tri-fold heavy stock textured art paper cover, with beautiful full color art by jonna, and slick full color sunset label art. numbered edition of 600 copies." - Time-Lag.
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Artist: KUUPUU Title: Lumen Tähden Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "Although Finlander Jonna Karanka has been slowly leaking out little Kuupuu jewels for six years now, somehow its taken just that long to materialize her first proper album. Maybe it has something to do with the time shes devoted to her beautiful artwork, or her time spent in a highly impressive string of other bands, including Hertta Lussu Assa (with Islaja and Lau Nau), Anaksimandos, Avarus, and many others. But, you know, I always figured Kuupuu music didnt have much to do with time anyway. Its music from another reality, to put it bluntly. A beautiful place no doubt, but somehow totally other. You could call this music a lot of things, all without really saying much. Post-everything? Pre-birth folk? Bedtime acid-art? Naive avant-garde loop witchcraft? Maybe something like a thousand memories & vague images folded into each other and spooled out infinitely like a sloppy film loop. The sound of tiny bioluminescent insects systematically devouring an urban cityscape in hyper-speed, while just as quickly slithering neon flora entwine the metallic gray remains, only to then be gobbled themselves by a leaderless army of pulsating micro-robots. Got that? Now play backwards in slow motion. Surreal might just be an understatement. Packaged in a stunning ultra-heavy laminated full color gatefold cover with full color art labels, all created by Jonna. Pressed on audiophile 180gm vinyl. Limited edition of 750 copies." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: KUUPUU Title: Lumen Tähden Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Although Finlander Jonna Karanka has been slowly leaking out little Kuupuu jewels for six years now, somehow its taken just that long to materialize her first proper album. Maybe it has something to do with the time shes devoted to her beautiful artwork, or her time spent in a highly impressive string of other bands, including Hertta Lussu Assa (with Islaja and Lau Nau), Anaksimandos, Avarus, and many others. But, you know, I always figured Kuupuu music didnt have much to do with time anyway. Its music from another reality, to put it bluntly. A beautiful place no doubt, but somehow totally other. You could call this music a lot of things, all without really saying much. Post-everything? Pre-birth folk? Bedtime acid-art? Naive avant-garde loop witchcraft? Maybe something like a thousand memories & vague images folded into each other and spooled out infinitely like a sloppy film loop. The sound of tiny bioluminescent insects systematically devouring an urban cityscape in hyper-speed, while just as quickly slithering neon flora entwine the metallic gray remains, only to then be gobbled themselves by a leaderless army of pulsating micro-robots. Got that? Now play backwards in slow motion. Surreal might just be an understatement." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: LUBELSKI, SAMARA Title: Did You See?/Spectacular of Passages Format: 7" Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "Two stunning exclusive tracks finally unleashed after (too many) years on the shelf, just in time to coincide with Samaras wonderful new album Future Slip on Thurston Moores Ecstatic Peace! label. A sweet little dose of hushed and fragile melancholy folk-pop-drone fluttering. Samaras unmistakable slow-bliss songforms are at their most stripped down and psychedelically entwined, with thick hovering violin tones, distant reverbed atmospheres and gentle swirls of quivering guitar feedback all lifting things just high enough. Totally bleary-eyed and beautiful, hitting that perfect spot just between your heart and gut. To these ears its that golden zone where the sound of her past in bands like Hall Of Fame, Tower Recordings, Metabolismus, etc., merges effortlessly with her sublimely structured solo vision. Packaged in silver and black on bright red offset printed art paper covers, with simple hand stamped labels. Edition of 400 copies." - Time Lag. |
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Artist: MV & EE WITH THE BUMMER ROAD Title: Mother Of Thousands Format: Double LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $34.00 |
| "after piles of privately released cdrs & long gone vinyl only releases, heres the mv/ee album for the masses, who are no doubt quivering for it... dont be fooled though, this is neither the medicine show zone of recent years, nor a mere echo of the tower recordings flame, but a new beast stirring awake in the beaming sun of now. aided by the bummer road and the omni present erika elder, mv has here pushed his cosmic sounds beyond the apex of high. no doubt theres plenty of lifted rural raga vibrations, and big woozy doses of haunted folk-blues as well, but the mix of flat-out killer songs and extended electric psych-outs is something of a revelation. beautiful mountain & sunshine girl are tantalizingly close to being something like modern underground hits, while the side-long album closer death dont have to mercy is an epic head-spinning trip loaded with moments of fragile piano lull, layers of serpentine acid guitars, and all-around smoky late-night jam vibes... throughout the album both mv & ees vocals are more present & stronger then ever, and the harmonies have a real sweet lonesome glow... surely the finest blossom yet from the mighty maximum arousal farm... features matt valentine & erika elder with mo jiggs, sparrow wildchild, nemo bidstrup, tim barns & samara lubelski adding harmonica, percussion, flute, electric guitar, tambura, violin, ukelin, and more to the usual assortment of mystic strings... packaged in a beautiful heavy old-style gatefold cover with glossy laminated photo outside and silver on white interior. classy sliver/black labels. analog saturation mastering by wojcek czern, poland, for maximum aural radiance, and pressed on two slabs of audiophile grade 180gm virgin vinyl. limited edition of 1000 copies." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: MV & EE WITH THE BUMMER ROAD Title: Mother Of Thousands Format: Double CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $20.50 |
| "double cd digital version with the same tracks/sequence as the 2lp. miniature lp style heavy gatefold covers just like the vinyl version, plus a nice insert, and woven japanese inner sleeves. first edition of 1000 copies." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: NOTARO, MARCONI Title: No Sub Reino Dos Metazoarios Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
| Digital version... same deluxe LP-style packaging as the vinyl version, only smaller, with the same insert. "first ever reissue of this totally brilliant post-satwa 1973 brazilian private press featuring the core trio lula côrtes, marconi notaro & zé ramalho. recorded just months after lula & lailson had released satwa, lula was back in the same recife studio with poet and friend marconi notaro to lay down another equally magical album. zé ramalho, who would go on to record the paéberu 2lp with lula two years later, makes his recording debut here as well... somehow amidst the harsh government restrictions of 70s brazil, lula côrtes and his group of artist friends had managed to bypass the authorities and create a hugely creative micro-world of their own, recording, producing, and releasing this album with complete independence. no small feat in and of itself, no doubt, but the music is what makes this slab a true lost masterpiece... the whole album gushes forth with a sun baked spirit of the highest level, mixing tropicalia tinged folk-beat groovers, satwa style bliss trance ragas, paébiru favored lysergic jungle psych, and even a raging fuzz/wah soaked garage psych rocker. extremely mind melting from start to finish, with huge washes of rippling tape delay, electric & acoustic guitars, 12 string, tranced folk percussion, passionate yet mellow vocals, liquid electric bass, acid effects everywhere, and of course lulas mercurial & heart melting tricórdio (an instrument he made himself, something like a sitar/dulcimer hybrid). beautiful, melancholy and joyous all at the same moment, this is an album that after 33 years still sounds completely fresh & unique... sadly marconi passed away in 2000 having lived a life of obscurity even in his own town, yet leaving behind 7 published books of poetry and this stunning, lone album. this reissue has been authorized by maconis daughter and lula córtes to insure they receive the credit and funds they deserve, even if it comes 3 decades late... fully reproduced original art, featuring beautiful drawings by lula & layout by katia. heavy weight, old style, laminated gatefold covers. pressed on 180gm virgin vinyl. original label art. plus a huge full color 4 page insert featuring fully translated original notes, rare photos and book covers, marconis last poem written the day before his death, and extensive new notes & biography by lula córtes. vinyl version limited to 1000 copies." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST Title: Painting Petals on Planet Ghost Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Digital version of the out-of-print LP. Debut recording from Italys Opalio brothers (My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini. An esoteric and mesmerizing trip through space, minimalism and emotion. Each track recorded at a different mystical location in the western Alps, and centered around Ramonas beautiful vocals, all of which are sung in traditional Japanese. Maurizio & Roberto add sparse accompaniment by means of toy piano, alien keyboard tones, antique accordion, percussion, tape effects, and some particularly evocative acoustic guitar. The whole thing comes off alternately as deeply meditative or chillingly haunted, depending on your attention & mood. Silence, space & ritual are hugely important here, with notes & words hovering frozen in time. While the My Cat Is An Alien moniker might leave some folks scratching their heads, here the Painting Petals on Planet Ghost name nails it: fragile, beautiful, cosmically isolationist, and totally spooked. Lushly packaged in a mini version of the original LP packaging, with letterpress printed tri-fold cover. Printed with copper ink on exquisite & massively thick handmade ivory art paper, each sheet cast one at a time & air dried." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| "debut recording from italy�??s opalio brothers (my cat is an alien) and ramona ponzini. an esoteric and mesmerizing trip through space, minimalism, and emotion. each track recorded at a different mystical location in the western alps, and centered around ramona�??s beautiful vocals, all of which are sung in traditional japanese. maurizio & roberto add sparse accompaniment by means of toy piano, alien keyboard tones, antique accordion, percussion, tape effects, and some particularly evocative acoustic guitar. the whole thing comes off alternately as deeply meditative or chillingly haunted, depending on your attention & mood. silence, space & ritual are hugely important here, with notes & words hovering frozen in time... while the my cat is alien moniker might leave some folks scratching their heads, here the painting petals on plant ghost name nails it : fragile, beautiful, cosmically isolationist, and totally spooked... pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl, and lushly packaged with letterpress printed cover & insert. printed with copper ink on exquisite & massively thick handmade ivory art paper, each sheet cast one at a time & air dried. hand numbered edition of 560 copies." |
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Artist: PATRON SAINTS, THE Title: Fohhoh Bohob Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
| "The full original LP plus the two extra tracks from the 7", as well and four previously unreleased bonus tracks from private demos and live recordings, as well as an alternate version of the LPs closing track. Heavy miniature LP style gatefold cover with all original LP art, plus notes inside from founding member Eric Bergman. CD-sized version of the original booklet insert complete with metallic printed covers. Woven Japanese inner sleeves." - Time-Lag |
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Artist: PATRON SAINTS, THE Title: Fohhoh Bohob Format: LP + 7" Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $31.00 |
| "Deluxe and exact official reissue of one of the rarest & most unique gems of the 60s private press psychedelic underground. Home recorded in a suburban New York living room over just a couple weeks in 1969 by three enthused teenagers, and then self-released by the band in an edition of only 100 copies complete with hand assembled covers and booklet insert. Dreams of rock stardom may have faded quickly, but from such humble beginnings these kids totally transcended their limited resources... an album overflowing with naive creativity, huge ideas, deep bedroom mysticism, and more then a hint of stoned teenage humor, not to mention a rather unusual assortment of instruments and some very unconventional but brilliant studio maneuvering. Two singers/songwriters both with wonderfully deep, poetic & introspective lyrics and unique voices, chiming 12 string & electric guitars, unusually cool use of piano, crude drum kit, autoharp, banjo, tambourine, subtle bursts of fuzz bass, off kilter unison vocals, washes of reverb modulation, weird tape edits, and a seriously one-of-a-kind vibration. Theres truly been nothing like it before or since... highest quality production throughout with better-then-ever master tape sounds and warm analog mastering, audiophile 180gm vinyl, exact reproduction of the original heavy weight cover with front & back mind-blowingly cool crude black & white art just like the original, exact reproduction of the thick insert booklet with gold printed covers on multiple colors of construction paper. Plus a bonus 7" of two essential tracks intended for the original LP but left off due to time restrictions, complete with colored construction paper picture sleeve and lyric insert. Without a doubt, the definitive reissue of this lost masterpiece. Released in full cooperation with founding member Eric Bergman. Strictly limited to 1000 copies." - Time-Lag |
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Artist: PHANTOM BUFFALO Title: Take To The Trees Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Well, its been a damn long time since we released their debut album Shishimumu back when they were called The Ponys, but we sure are happy theres finally a proper follow-up, even if it took six years to happen. If anything, the long wait says something to the greatness & humility of the band; never bending to commercial concerns, ego, hype, or changing trends & changing times. In fact, Take To The Trees picks up just about right where Shishimumu left off all those years back, another little nugget of timeless psychedelic pop perfection. Of course, there is a new level of maturity and depth to the songwriting here, but theres still plenty of slightly naive & youthful charm. And to be certain, the world these guys create is just as surreal now as its always been. Musically, things come together just right, with thick, swirling, chiming triple electric guitar textures, spot-on drumming, liquid but powerful bass, gurgling moog, acoustic strumming, accordion, and sweet soaring fuzz-tones. Vocals hover as high & sweet as ever, harmonizing, doubling, and layering heavenly. The mood of the album floats through drifting fragile melancholy, quirky pop, crunchy psychedelic rockers and anthemic rave-ups, often all within the same track. Beautifully recorded, but never over polished...just the way a great pop record should be. So forget all pretense, folks, maybe not freak folk enough for Kill Rock Stars aint such a bad thing at all. Packaged in a mini LP style gatefold cover, with folded insert & woven Japanese inner sleeve. Edition of 1000." - Time-Lag |
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Artist: PHANTOM BUFFALO Title: Take To The Trees Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $31.00 |
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"Well, its been a damn long time since we released their debut album Shishimumu back when they were called The Ponys, but we sure are happy theres finally a proper follow-up, even if it took six years to happen. If anything, the long wait says something to the greatness & humility of the band; never bending to commercial concerns, ego, hype, or changing trends & changing times. In fact, Take To The Trees picks up just about right where Shishimumu left off all those years back, another little nugget of timeless psychedelic pop perfection. Of course, there is a new level of maturity and depth to the songwriting here, but theres still plenty of slightly naive & youthful charm. And to be certain, the world these guys create is just as surreal now as its always been. Musically, things come together just right, with thick, swirling, chiming triple electric guitar textures, spot-on drumming, liquid but powerful bass, gurgling moog, acoustic strumming, accordion, and sweet soaring fuzz-tones. Vocals hover as high & sweet as ever, harmonizing, doubling, and layering heavenly. The mood of the album floats through drifting fragile melancholy, quirky pop, crunchy psychedelic rockers and anthemic rave-ups, often all within the same track. Beautifully recorded, but never over polished...just the way a great pop record should be. So forget all pretense, folks, maybe not freak folk enough for Kill Rock Stars aint such a bad thing at all." -Time-Lag. Limited to 300, 180gm red wax.
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Artist: PRISMA Title: The Cosmic Coil Format: LP + CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $33.00 |
| "Packaged in a truly cool and unusual three-color, screen-printed, double-sided foldout art paper cover, with a flocked/screen-printed fuzzy, mini-poster insert. Pressed on highest quality 180 gram vinyl with full-color photo-printed labels. Each copy also includes a bonus CD version of the album in its own metallic-printed cover (different from the standard CD cover) for easy all night repeat-o-play. Edition of 400 copies." -Time-Lag |
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Artist: PRISMA Title: The Cosmic Coil Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "The feminine entities of Visitations/Attar Cups step forward, duo style, for their debut longplayer -- and what a debut it is. These magical ladies have been oh-so-subtly wowing locals with their rare live sets for a few years now, and as hard as it is to imagine, this album manages to surpass their live wonder in both intimacy and intensity. A mesmerizing cycle of ultra-hush dreamtime lullabies, ethereal ghost pop, lost folk, and trance-state sonic whirlpools. The songs are hazy shimmerings of dusty splendor, delivered with utter beauty and fragility, yet shrouded in a thick veil of mystery and sadness. The drones seem to be pulled from between the cracks in silence by some woozy late-night ritual, summoning an edgy and ecstatic presence into the very spirit of the sound. Recorded to analog tape with minimal equipment and much spontaneity, the rural autumn/winter setting of the process has no doubt penetrated the creation, and suits the cozy/lonely vibe perfectly. Nice price digital version of the LP in a two-color, offset-printed, double-sided foldout cover, with woven inner sleeve. Limited to 600 copies." -Time-Lag |
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Artist: QUICK, BILL Title: Maravillosa Gente Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $31.00 |
| "Long in the works reissue of this amazing and little known gem, Beautiful People, from 1972. Born in Miami, Florida to an American father and Venezuelan mother, Bill split the USA to Madrid, Spain in the early 70s. Once there he quickly landed a recording deal with famous producer Alain Milhaud of the Explosion label, and set to work on this, his sole LP release. Sessions went down with an impressive cast of up to eleven players in the studio, including Salvador Dominguez & Chema Pellicó (Cerebrum), Jess Lam (Jess & James), and Frank Rojas (Sangre). One of the albums real hidden treasures, though, was the assistance of unknown Texan Mark Gottschall, who co-wrote the title track and adds perfect vocal harmonies as well a second acoustic guitar. A finely balanced mix of sounds that drifts between throbbing electric full band groove and gentle acid folk. When Bill wants to rock, things get downright funky, with a wickedly hard-hitting rhythm section, pumping organ, scorching electric leads, and flipped-out acoustic guitars all locking into some seriously tight jams. Then the next minute, the mood swings and youre deep into some beautifully fragile and introspective folk meditations; often just two acoustic guitars, Bills lyrics, and huge, angelic, vocal harmonies all weaving together into lush tapestries of sound. A few tracks fill out a more folk-rock vibe with flute, autoharp, piano, slide guitar, banjo, and more. Bills lyrics (all in English) and vocals always feel deeply sincere, which combined with his unique voice, unusual accent, and loose delivery, make for one hell of a cool singer. The whole album has an air of mystical psychedelia, yet never strays far from pop craft, and theres a real sun-blasted quality to it all that just makes you want to crank the volume. Nothing amateur or lo-fi about this one; its a pro recording and these guys have serious chops. Its hard to image why it didnt become a hit at the time. The album was released only in Spain and Brazil, to very little interest, and quickly became yet another great album lost to obscurity -- at least until now. Reissued here for the first time, with the collaboration of producer & Explosion label owner Alain Milhaud. Packaged in a heavyweight gloss coated exact reproduction of the original cover, including the original double-sided insert, as well as a huge new full color fold-out insert which reproduces at nearly full size the totally different Brazilian version of the album art. Plus extensive notes by album musicians Salvador Dominguez & Mark Gottschall, and Alex Carretero (Guerssen Records, Spain). Also a small photo of some rare picture sleeves 45s, promotional inserts, lyric sheets, etc. Even the LP labels reproduce the original psychedelic full color explosion label art. Pressed on 180gm audiophile grade vinyl & limited to 1000 copies." - Time-Lag |
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Artist: RACCOO-OO-OON Title: The Cave Of Spirits Forever Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "hot new real cd reissue of the cdr version that went instantly out of print last year... raccoo-oo-oon are one of those bands that can somehow shift between seemingly divergent genres, while the whole time keeping a sound very much their own. the disc launches with a speed blasted, noise fueled, psych/punk rocker, slides into nearly grooving free-jazz territory, then into a gorgeous, buzzing/floating/tinkling bliss mantra, and thats just the first 3 tracks. things continue unfolding from there, but the overall sound constantly slips back to the sort of mantric, damaged rock thud these guys are clearly fond of. a rather thrilling and quite great ride... remastered by pete swanson (yellow swans) for extra punch. packaged in a full color off-set printed tri-fold art paper cover, reproducing shawn reeds original eyeball frying art, inside and out. woven japanese innersleeves. limited edition of 1000 copies." - Time Lag. |
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Artist: REYNOLDS, BEN Title: Special Noises Format: CDR Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: RICE, LARRY SUNSHINE Title: Heres Sunshine Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
| "Top quality official reissue of this wonderful album. This project is a bit different from other Time-Lag reissues, as the original isnt exactly a mega-rarity. Thats not to say that theyre easy to find, but our motives for the reissue have more to do with the fact that this great LP has been seriously overlooked by so many, and feels very ripe to reach some new ears. This ones got a pretty wild backstory too, being a rather undiscussed piece of 60s Texas underground history: in 1966 Larry Sunshine Rice was feeling burnt by the increasingly superficial hippy scene in San Francisco, so headed to Dallas, Texas, the center of darkness and the place he was raised, with a vision to transform minds. A random gig doing psychedelic light shows at a local bar led to a job managing a new hip church. And so the Satori House was founded. Through this outlet Sunshine held experimental light & sound worship sessions, began hosting underground rock concerts, launched a free press, and just about any & all other activities towards the goal of turning on Dallas. It was, of course, a great success while it lasted, which was not long once a federal drug bust (total set-up) went down, and the higher-ups in the parent church organization got wind of just exactly what their cash had been backing. During the extended trial that followed Sunshine split the city for tiny Justin, Texas and founded The Church Of Changes Texas first marijuana church, claiming grass as their sacrament and legal right. It was at this point that a series of truly unlikely synchronicities led to a record deal & recording session, but by the time Heres Sunshine was released in the summer of 1969, Sunshine was back in California living as a fugitive. He never showed up at his meeting with the bigwigs at blue thumb records who were planning to release his follow up album, thus quickly and purposely ending his connection to the music industry. If thats got your head turned, youll almost certainly dig the music. Its a mystical and convoluted folk trip, executed with the lonesome single-mindedness of a true searcher. Warm intense vocals are delivered in a magically loose, flowing style. Tim Buckley comparisons pop up, and thats not totally off the mark if you replaced any avant/jazz leanings with more of a tripping-in-the-desert vibe. Lyrically things get truly bent, venturing into some deeply surreal & glassy-eyed zones. There are a few grasps towards religious ponderance, but its very far from a xian album. Stream of consciousness broodings on nature, work, love, god, Satan, sex, hallucinations, and so forth. Its a totally solo recording centered on understated but effective acoustic guitar, and fleshed out via overdub with rather unusual use of electric bass, organ, banjo, mandolin, and harmonica. Things get especially psychedelic when the bass comes in, either as an ultra-minimal echo-drenched pulse or a flowing tonal improvisation. The hyper compressed and reverb saturated production somehow suites the material perfectly, and the combination of elements creates quite an immersive, mirage-like and exploratory space. This one is far stronger, more hallucinogenic, and has gobs more personally then most of the over-hyped, mega-bucks coffee house folk strummers passed off as loner/downer/acidfolk these days. This records got a real spirit of its own, that with repeated listens will sneak right into your mind before you even know it. And Im sure thats the way Sunshine intended it. Beautiful exact reproduction art packaged in a lovely heavy 60s style cover and pressed on 180gm audiophile vinyl. Includes an insert with new notes from the artist, as well as a short except from his book Morning Glory, which was written in 1968 and tells the story behind the album, but has yet to be published. One time vinyl only edition of 500 copies." -Time-Lag |
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Artist: SALA-ARHIMO Title: Pelko Pois Format: CDR Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"second solo release from finlands jukka, half of the live incarnation of islaja, and a real groovy guy in general. jukka made a handful of these discs for last summers usa tour, but they pretty much slipped under the radar, so now weve got a new edition for all of you who missed it... extremely trance inducing stuff here. think a pack of tiny woodland creatures gobbling mushrooms and trying to play terry rileys a rainbow in curved air over and over till the sun comes up and everyone turns back into moss. oh, and half way through they put down their organs & saxes and pick up guitars & hand drums to lay down a killer acid folk groover, just for fun.... really, i think thats what happened. very good stuff... packaged in a tri-fold art paper cover with sweet white on black phantom girl paste-on art by merja (islaja), heavy stock gloss insert & stamped black bottom cdr. numbered edition of 180 copies." - Time Lag.
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Artist: SATWA Title: Satwa Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"The first ever reissue of the first private press LP from Brazil. Recorded and released in 1973 by the duo of Lula Cortes & Lailson. A real lost masterpiece from any angel, and the first release of the fertile Recife psych scene of the early 70s... mesmerizingly beautiful sitar & 12 string psych ragas beaming strait for your third eye, and lifted ever higher by occasional angelic vocals or a burst of fuzz guitar... truly amazing stuff sure to turn the ears of any folk/psych fan, past or present... perfectly reproduced original artwork, heavy weight old style sleeves, double sided color insert with extensive notes & photos, and pressed on 180gm virgin vinyl. LP version is limited to 1000 copies." - Time-Lag.
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Artist: SATWA Title: Satwa Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The first ever reissue of the first private press LP from Brazil. Recorded and released in 1973 by the duo of Lula Cortes & Lailson. A real lost masterpiece from any angel, and the first release of the fertile Recife psych scene of the early 70s... mesmerizingly beautiful sitar & 12 string psych ragas beaming strait for your third eye, and lifted ever higher by occasional angelic vocals or a burst of fuzz guitar... truly amazing stuff sure to turn the ears of any folk/psych fan, past or present... perfectly reproduced original artwork, heavy weight old style sleeves, double sided color insert with extensive notes & photos, and pressed on 180gm virgin vinyl. LP version is limited to 1000 copies." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: SILENT LAND TIME MACHINE Title: Hope Still Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Heres something a bit different, a collaborative release with the bands own Indian Queen label. Pretty hard to pin this one down, but its a trip for sure. a rather mysterious one man band solo outing from Texas, who builds up layer upon layer of violin, viola, acoustic guitar, slippery electric slide, percussion, electronics, accordion, buried vocals, and found sounds into haunted, rollicking, thick sonic blankets of sound. Many simple parts entwined, looped, and orchestrated into an undulating whole, like naive bedroom folk-rock filtered through some blissed out minimalist phase experiment. ecstatic, post-psychedelic chamber rock maybe? Really doesnt sound like much else out there, but its instantly enjoyable, energized, and grooves freely in its own uplifting way. CD version in a tri-fold, double sided, offset printed cover. Woven Japanese inner sleeves. Edition of 500." -Time Lag. |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: For Octavio Paz Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"During the winter of 02/03, Ben Chasny sat down for a few late night sessions with wine in glass and recorded these instrumentals using just guitar and voice, and on a few songs some bells. For Octavio Paz is the first six organs record to draw from the reverberations of a nylon string guitar, resulting in some of the saddest notes yet recorded on any six organs release. Stripped of the usual sufi influenced lyrics, this record proves that the spiritual flows freer through the non-delineated form of instrumental sound. Side b features a near side long steel string epic that conjures visions of dessert orgies, appalachian witch hunts and the loading of a shotgun to be aimed at the six and twelve string bandits on the horizon... 180 gram vinyl. Packaged in a white on white screenprinted/letterpressed fold-out sleeve, with letterpressed insert. numbered edition of 500." - Time Lag.
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Nightly Trembling Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"In 1999 Six Organs released Nightly Trembling as an anti-sorcery lathe-cut edition of 30 or so. Every copy was personally sent to its owner in an attempt to create a web of consciousness that would be enhanced by the polycarbonate material that deteriorates at an accelerated rate with each listen. Consciousness was regained and inverted. Time-Lag and Six Organs are pleased to offer the sounds made for that project so you can cut the metaphysical bullshit, get loaded as fuck and come back down to earth about 40 minutes later... 180 gram vinyl. Packaged in a black on black screenprinted/letterpressed fold-out cover, with letterpressed insert. numbered edition of 500." - Time Lag.
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Artist: TOWER RECORDINGS Title: The Futuristic Folk Of The Tower Recordings Vol 2 Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: P.K. Dick Format: 7 Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "A-side is a dusty gem of a solo track, unearthed on a mysterious Space Shanties-era tape reel last New Years day, and now presented to the masses after quite a time lapse. A prime slice seeped in the lo-fi analog glow of Tower Recordings, with MV spilling some lucid lyrics & smokey vibes. B-side is a more recent counterpoint, a bit more bent on the rural/spectra solo wandering of his most zoned & serene acoustic/electric back porch pickings. Sweet vibrations, folks... packaged in a two tone heavy textured art paper cover, with silver/blue/black offset printing & silver/blue labels. Edition of 550 copies." - Time Lag |
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Artist: VISITATIONS Title: Visitations Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "Well, here you have it. Maines cosmic mystery trio captured in vinyl for eternity, just for you... while everyone & their mother seems to have some sort of bedroom folk/psych project going these days, youd be hard pressed to find another unit as pure in spirit & process as these here bodies/buddies. One of those rare vortexes of creation existing totally apart from all hype, pressure or pretense; in other words, timeless. Always balanced on that fine and beautiful line between cosmic joke & aching depth. A simple & unadorned unfurling of strummed & fingered instruments, heartaching female vocals, woodland creatures, earthy male vocals, contrasting half-written & totally spontaneous songs, twisting lyrics, haunted melancholy, lysergic joy, and a heavy dose of spooked New England lore. In a way, the recording scene itself is an almost perfect parallel to the sounds & vibes captured here: three shadowy figures laugh & sing around a dim campfire. No ones slept in days. Theyre nestled amidst ancient stone buildings, creeping foliage and mounds of exotic flowers. The sun is setting over the mountains. But its all frozen in time. The clouds arent moving. And that campfire, its a microphone, isnt it? And all those flowers: plastic. The stone: paint. Is it all fake? Well, it is an ancient stone church. And those three really are making some very sweet sounds. In fact, its almost hyper-real. Almost impossibly so... is that reel-to-reel rolling? Yes, it sure is... exquisitely packaged with a fold out double thick duotone art paper cover. Outside is white paper with edge-to-edge antique letterpress-printed eyeball melting hyper-detailed art by the band. Inside is black paper with red/orange screen printing. 180gm virgin vinyl. Numbered edition of 500 copies." -Time-Lag. |
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Artist: VISITATIONS Title: Visitations Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Digital version with the same music as the LP. Packaged in a slightly altered mini version of the LP cover, complete with letter press & screen printed art, tri-fold duotone art paper covers, woven Japanese inner sleeves, and a special surprise in total darkness. Two cover variations, limited to 400 each, for a total CD edition of 800 copies." -Time-Lag. |
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Artist: WOODEN WAND Title: Harem Of The Sundrum & The Witness Figg Format: LP & 7" Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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"from the moment the first notes of the original polyamory cassette edition hit our ears last year, weve been way sucked into this one... wooden wand steps out solo from behind the vanishing voice and lays down one of the sweetest, most timeless, acid tinged loner folk journeys this side of 1974. intimately striped down and strait forward, but at the same time extremely psychedelic. these songs are the kind of inner skull reverberations that only gush forth when yr mind is alone... vocals whisper in yr ears, double up, echo, and soar through a warm web of acoustic guitars, sparse westcoast
electric moves, and hazy bedroom ambiance the thing that really sets this it apart from the pack though, is the pure quality of the songs. this is thoughtful, beautiful stuff folks, the kind of album that just grows with each spin... the bonus 7inch dishes up 3 even more bare boned cover songs, all exclusive to this vinyl edition... packaged in a private press style, letterpress printed, textured art paper cover. hand numbered edition of 760." - Time Lag.
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Artist: WOODEN WAND & THE VANISHING VOICE Title: Buck Dharma Format: Double LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| "Wooden Wand and Co. have been serving up some damn fine doses of psychedelia over the last couple years to be sure, but this mighty slab here nails the very essence of their power. Beautifully blurring the lines between songs and jams, this is the stuff youve been waiting for. The whole thing has a great dark, lo-fi edge to it that will tangle yr mind right up and not let go for a good 80 minutes. Seriously warped sounds abound, from folky dirges to throbbing trance rock to rippling sonic explorations to weird-ass organ lurch, all executed with a woozy minimalism that makes the walls crawl. Wooden Wand and Satya Sai Scuppety swap off vocals throughout to great effect, and the whole thing unfolds rather cinematically... certainly one of the most face melting downer/acid/folk/psych albums youll hear this year...includes two sweet tracks not available on the CD version! Pressed on two slabs of 180 gram virgin vinyl and packaged in an exquisite custom art paper heavy gatefold cover, with beautiful full color artwork inside and out, and heavy stock insert. Hand numbered edition of 800 copies. time-lag 2lp version has TWO EXTRA TRACKS NOT ON THE CD VERSION..." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: WOODS FAMILY CREEPS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $38.00 |
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"red records #2... newest incarnation of nycs wondrous woods, as the trio of jeremy earl, jarvis taveniere, and g lucas crane. for sure the finest yet from these folks... lysergic & infectiously bent acidfolk mashed into faust IV style electronically dosed pop grooving, all awash in odd studio effects, motorik percussion, cracked fuzz, unique vocal gush, twisted lyrics, and burning psych jams... plus enough sweet hooks to get yr next freakout party moving right. hell yes, its a wicked one... lusciously hand packaged in a custom black art paper heavy 60s style gatefold cover with full size, full color paste-on front photo artwork, black on black screen printed back cover & interior, printed labels, hand stamped spine, and pressed on 180gm bright red vinyl. hand numbered limited edition of 300 copies." -Time-Lag
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Artist: WOODS FAMILY CREEPS Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "red records #2... newest incarnation of nycs wondrous woods, as the trio of jeremy earl, jarvis taveniere, and g lucas crane. for sure the finest yet from these folks... lysergic & infectiously bent acidfolk mashed into faust IV style electronically dosed pop grooving, all awash in odd studio effects, motorik percussion, cracked fuzz, unique vocal gush, twisted lyrics, and burning psych jams... plus enough sweet hooks to get yr next freakout party moving right. hell yes, its a wicked one..." -Time-Lag |
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Artist: WOODS FAMILY CREEPS Title: Woods Family Creeps Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "New vinyl edition of the instantly sold-out Red Record first edition, co-released with the Woodsist label. Newest incarnation of NYCs wondrous Woods, as the trio of Jeremy Earl, Jarvis Taveniere, and G Lucas Crane. For sure, the finest yet from these folks. Lysergic and infectiously bent acid-folk mashed into Faust IV-style electronically dosed pop grooving, all awash in odd studio effects, motorik percussion, cracked fuzz, unique vocal gush, twisted lyrics, and burning psych jams. Plus enough sweet hooks to get yr next freak-out party moving right. Hell yes, its a wicked one. 140 gram black vinyl packaged in a heavy 60s style cover with insert. Edition of 1000 copies." -Time-Lag |
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Artist: 19/JUKE Title: 97 Circles Format: CD Label: Timebomb Country: Japan Price: $14.00 |
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"The 2nd album issued in 81. Though its influenced by No New York, such way of crashing sound isnt normal. Roots sound of early Boredoms!" - Timebomb.
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Artist: VERMONSTER Title: Holy Sound Of American Pipe Format: Double CD Label: Timebomb Country: Japan Price: $19.00 |
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Artist: OHM Title: Oz Format: LP Label: Timothys Brain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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1997 micro-press from Vas Deferens Org related free drone/psych outfit. " Superb modern amalgamation of authentic Kosmiche music in the Agitation Free, Klaus Schulze, Faust vein-which means expansive vistas of sense distorting music, and means wild oscillations of a cosmic analog synthesizer and percussion variety, with nice touches like flute and viola too. This is music that, as AP says: "Transcends its inspirations and bring spsychedelia into the next millenium". Limited to only 400 copies, each with hand assembled covers." - Timothys Brain.
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Artist: CHRISTMAS Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Timothys Brain/Pacemaker Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"The psychedelic reissue of the year-the rarest artifact by this much-beloved Canadian underground band finally sees its compact disc debut! Debut album by Bob Brydens (Reign Ghost) "dream band", which was first released on Paragon in 1970 the same day as the second Reign Ghost album! Dreamy and atmospheric, with lovely vocals and understated guitar work suffused with a melancholic lethargy every bit the match of that of the Velvet Undergrounds third album, a comparison all the more telling once you hear the ambitious 21-minute instrumentalJungle Fabulous that closes out the proceedings. A great event for psychedelic fans worldwide!" - Timothys Brain. Highly recommended!
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Artist: URABE, MASAYOSHI Title: A Brute -Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone Solo Format: LP Label: Tiny Smile Country: Japan Price: $130.00 |
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Incredibly expensive release in a numbered edition of 100 copies by Urabe, who many consider the new Kaoru Abe (though Urabes sound has grown to be more space filled than Abes ever was). The LPs feature one performance from 1987, two from 97 and one from 2000. The three most recent shows took place at Kid Ailack Art Hall (a block away from Modern Music), one of which includes a gnarled spit valve solo or something.. Great stuff. The striking sleeve is similar in construction to the PSF lp from a few years back.
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Artist: SUZUKI, DAMO Title: Swiftsure Sessions Format: Double LP Label: Tip Top Country: Austrailia Price: $28.00 |
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Quote from Damos site: "Throughout 2004, Damo Suzuki (CAN, DUNKELZIFFER)
has spent time travelling
around Australia, performing concerts, meeting people
and generally having a great time. On Nov 24, 2004
Damo performed a special session in front of a live
audience at Corduroy Records pressing plant in
Melbourne. The music was cut live-to-acetate "on the
fly", and has just been pressed up as a 3-sided LP set
on the Tip Top label in an edition of 300 as "The
Swiftsure Session". Definitely a highlight in the Damo
oeuvre." Damo Suzuki - Vocals;
Oren Ambarchi - Guitar;
Emil Sarlija - Guitar;
Edmondo Ammendola - Bass;
Davey Williams - Drums.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: A Date At The Rendezvous With The Jim McAlister Quartet Format: LP Label: Tip Top Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
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Unusual new LP from Alasdair Willis long running project featuring almost straight lounge jazz recordings. ?
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Candy Format: Triple LP Label: Tip Top Country: UK Price: $36.00 |
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Triple LP in a quadruple gatefold sleeve!! Numbered edition of 300.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Cuteys Carpet Format: LP Label: Tip Top Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
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Yet another lp from Alasadair Willis and friends. 9th release over all , i think? (5th this year?!?!). Edition of 300.
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Artist: ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB/TOMUTONTTU Title: Wet Wheel/Hot Wheel Format: LP Label: Tipped Bowler Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Two of Europes finest collide on a 12" 45 RPM platter loosely inspired by the club single. On Wet Wheel/Hot Wheel, Neil Campbell of Astral Social Club succumbs to the heartbeat throb of house but tops the bass with a frenetic squall of darting alien melodies. On cursory listen, the elements congeal into honest-to-god body music, but the track is riddled with stutters and gaps that the flooded synapses fill with aural afterimages. On the reverse, Jan Anderzen of Tomutonttu buries the dance influence, retaining only the genres neon shimmer and linear logic. Syvat Svyät overflows with cuckoo loops that briefly cohere into musical shapes before casting off, replaced by an ecstatic march of manic squiggles. One must focus to follow the train of musical thought, but Anderzens humor and intuition reward the effort. Issued in an edition of 300 hand-stamped, 150-gram lavender LPs in matte sleeves screened with consummate skills by Alan Sherry of Siwa." -Tipped Bowler |
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Artist: GLORY FCKN SUN Title: Spectra Format: LP Label: Tipped Bowler Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"The sky done clouded over after Glory Fckn Suns debut album, yielding this brooding and corrosive follow-up. The New Zealand sorta-super group of Antony Milton , Ben Spiers, and Simon ORorke concoct a slow-burning behemoth of metallic shivers and distortion churn, dark enough to invoke the dread name Haino.
Spectra is an unsettling mind-meld: Spiers desolate soundscapes bleed into Miltons heavy drones, which are complemented perfectly by ORorkes restless percussion. Group improvisation is the natural language of these three; even listing their solo and collaborative albums over the past decade would take way more effort than I can muster. Suffice to say this is a stellar and unique record to add to their massive discographies.
In an edition of 300 red 160 gm. vinyl records, housed in silk-screened, heavy-gauge recycled stock jackets." - Tipped Bowler
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Artist: JIANHONG, LI Title: Lovers With Cloissone Bracelet Format: LP Label: Tipped Bowler Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Hangzhous Li Jianhong has been performing alone and in the duo D!O!D!O!D! for several years, but he only caught Western ears last year with the monumental San Sheng Shi, released by Philadelphias Archive CD. Oceanic and desolate, Lovers with Cloisonné Bracelet cements Li as a distinctive voice in modern noise. The two halves of this record are an ideal introduction to Lis music: ⿿Lovers in Misery offers a restrained, electric swell; ⿿Time in the Mirror wallows in Hototogisu-an guitar hell. Without sacrificing pacing for density, Li has crafted an album that decimates the retrograde psychedelic guitar landscape and trivializes the petty violence of much harsh noise. Edition of 350 180 gm. LPs in heavy-stock linen-paper sleeves hand-screened, -cut, and ⿿glued by Reuben Little of 43rd Parallel Press." -Tipped Bowler |
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Artist: MRTYU Title: Ornate Shroud Format: LP Label: Tipped Bowler Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Hopefully Mrtyu requires little introduction, because the project evades easy description. An odd compound of Vedic imagery, metal misanthropy, and violin agony, this music moves away from any particular fan base in pursuit of its distant, darkened idols. Ornate Shroud is Mrtyus most potent spawn to date. Hewing closer to song form than previous releases, the album conceals Antony Miltons violent guitar and violin work behind Mrtyus characteristic murk. Its pieces transition from jagged riffs to eerie ambient scrapes through wooly feedback, approaching the uncanny. Although the year is yet young, 2009 will likely not produce a bleaker aggraga record. Edition of 350 180 gm. LPs in heavy-stock linen-paper sleeves hand-screened, -cut, and ⿿glued by Reuben Little of 43rd Parallel Press. Available from Tipped Bowler in the US and Faunasabbatha in France." -Tipped Bowler |
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Artist: NOVA SCOTIA/EYE Title: Split Format: LP Label: Tipped Bowler Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Tipped Bowler returns to the fertile soil of New Zealand to cull two choice improvisations. On the A-side, Wellingtons Nova Scotia delivers A Million Corpses of Dead Bees, an eighteen minute free-rock burner. Growing from violin sine-squeak and distant shortwave, the piece gains momentum with its patient drumming and resolves into a saxophone swarm shot through with synthetic scrabble. On the reverse, Dunedins Eye comes off colder and more aggressive. High Road throttles the listener with Schnitzler-ian electronics, militant percussion, and guitar strangulation before collapsing into coda of cymbal taps and glassy string-work. Rigorous yet unbound, these pieces shine a light on a musical community few of us can witness firsthand. Issued in an edition of 250 150-gram black LPs in elegant black-and-white matte sleeves screened with consummate skill by Alan Sherry of Siwa." -Tipped Bowler |
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Artist: PUMICE Title: Quo Format: LP Label: Tipped Bowler Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"180 gm. vinyl version of Stefan Neville latest opus. Covers are two-color silkscreens by VG Kids on heavy-gauge recycled stock. Edition of 300. Heres what Soft Abuse had to say about Quo: As the title self-effacingly implies, Quo proffers a triumphant, primo slice of past Pumiceisms: uncertain progressions, anomalous structure, inimitable guitar buzz, sublime melancholy, and distorted vocals (crooned, spoken & moaned). Quo once more finds Pumice cruising the convergence of pop, folk and noise strains with bona fide inner mystique. Sputtering sub-underground skiffle aims for outer zones, diamond cuts of nervous guitar with pesky hooks that sting and tickle tread rough hewn punk turf, pop tangents charm with echoes of Kilgour or Knox, and woozy synth blurts & drones thread the patchwork patterns with Hulk-like grace. With Quo, Nevilles palette has shifted to include traces of useless hardcore, doo wop, and modern loner/lunar blues.
Stefan Neville, shamblin on unhinged like a modern day Hasil Adkins, has been making music as Pumice now for most of his life. Through a steadily spewed stream of unique DIY thud & ooze, mostly created on his insular own, Neville has burrowed an incomparable place in the post-everything New Zealand landscape, all the while making music thats his." - Tipped Bowler
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Artist: MAAILMAS Title: Noitalauluja Format: LP Label: Tjärnen Country: Sweden Price: $25.00 |
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"Its a handmade art edition of 133 copies on vinyl,
with paste-on art on recycled paper, hand-stamped labels and an insert. Debut record for this free folk trio collaboration between Laura
Naukkarinen (from Lau Nau) and Kristian Holmgren and Matti Bye (from Vinter), featuring out-of-tune meandering, slow paced walking-tunes, and folk songs of a tradition invented on the spot, with delicate female vocals over plucked, bent, bowed and hammered strings: from the fragile lyricism of "Saa puu" or "Pimeyden viimeinen säde," over the
insect battle grounds and lonely wanderlust of "Pitkä matka," to the eerie, desolate wastelands of "Ishavets sång," where lonely, ghost-like voices drift over the frozen bass strings of the dampened
piano, sounding "...as if already drifting under the ice," as someone said of the poet Heym..." -Tjärnen.
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Artist: VINTER Title: Vinter II Format: LP Label: Tjärnen Country: Sweden Price: $25.00 |
| "Edition of 266 copies on vinyl with screenprinted covers and an insert. From the liner notes: "...these new songs werent found in one place, they didnt just flow from some horn of plenty, they were slowly plucked like flowers along the road-side, dried in the sun and put next to each other in an album that grew in the months that followed that first session, while winter turned into spring, and spring into summer. ... some turned out to be small gems of a song that belie their impromptu origins, others wear their spontaneous creation proudly like a crown of fallen petals. Some are kalimba and banjo back of the woods folk music, others two chord pop songs with pump organ or plucked cello. ... and Martinas sad, gentle, shimmering vocals fill the room from end to end, every little nook and cranny, with a language of vaguely familiar words, whose sense is obscured like something seen through an old broken and dusty window-pane. This new record is another spell-book of the fey and brittle magic that Vinter cast upon the listener..." Vinter collaborated with Lau Nau on last years Maailmas LP released on Tjarnen . |
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Artist: V/A Title: Cherrystones Word Format: CD Label: Tlon Uqbar Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Remember all those rock magazines with covers proclaiming that "rock is dead!"? Remember that girl at the party who told you that the guitar was "played out" and "too limited?" Thankfully there are people in this world like MR. CHERRYSTONES who patiently waited to rock a psychedelic block party from London to NYC with his new compilation Cherrystones Word. Reflecting his punk rock roots, but coming out at a hip hop angle with an astounding knowledge of music and a native intuition of how to tear shit up in clubs, Cherrystones is the sound of psychedelia-soundtracks-folk-rock-prog-noise-moog-and-library-records. His compilations have a beautiful flow like a radio transmission from planet dada. This personal-journey-by-DJ is genuinely disarming as he uncovers track after track that thrills through being dusted down for fresh consumption, from the Led Zeppelin-esque qualities of DEAD MOON to the crazed, Dylan-like THE DEVIANTS on to the Arthur Lee-ish MIDNIGHT CIRCUS. Debut release on the Tlon Uqbor label, fierce spawn of contemporary psych repository Holy Mountain." - Tlon Uqbar. |
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Artist: CCMC Title: Decisive Moments Format: CD Label: TLR Country: Canada Price: $16.00 |
| Features Paul Dutton, Michael Snow, John Oswald and others.. |
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Artist: ALVARO Title: Alvaro In Berlin Format: 10" Label: Toaster Im Test Country: Germany Price: $13.00 |
| "Recorded live (solo piano and vocals) in Berlin: Institut Unzeit 12.6.1994 und Ex n Pop 17.6.1994 Ein Produkt aus dem Hause TOASTER IM TeSt." |
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Artist: FLOATING DI MOREL Title: Takna Pakna (G)Kram Format: 7" Label: Toaster Im Test Country: Germany Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: C.C.C.C. Title: Live At Broken Life Format: CDR Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $13.50 |
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"Recorded live at Broken Life Festival, Taipei, Taiwan, September 9th 1995.
Performed by Hiroshi Hasegawa (Multi-Moog Synthesizer), Mayuko Hino (Theremin, Electronics)
and Ryuichi Nagakubo (Bass). Best psychedelic harsh noise." - Tochnit Aleph.
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Artist: COSTES Title: Bible And Machine Gun Format: CDR Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $11.00 |
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"The latest works by Jean-Luc Costes, nobodys darling and most-wanted artist by french law courts. Living in France, active since the 80s, he has released dozens of tapes, cds and records. On Bible and Machine Gun youll find 21 english songs recorded august 2001, right before the War against Terror officially begun. as the album title suggests here Costes very heavily explores the situations of and between muslims and jews, israel and palestine, the bible and the gun, the nasty nazis and little mary. Photos by Anne Van der Linden." - Tochnit Aleph.
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Artist: CRANK STURGEON Title: Ottoman Empirical Raga.. Format: CDR Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $13.50 |
| "full-lenght featuring 19 track collected from (almost) lost 2000 & 2001 studio-demonstrations. hear what the call of old europe can make of an upright fish. sweet. edition of 46 copies." - Tochnit Aleph. |
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Artist: EB.ER, RUDOLF Title: 23 Brutal Humouroid Dramas By.. Format: CD Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: EB.ER, RUDOLF & OUTANDIN ARTAUD Title: Psycho-Physical Research 1: 11.9.01. Format: CDR Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
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"Personell: Rudolf Eb.er and Outandin Artaud. Missing: Homo Super. This is an anti-war record! Not for sale to addresses in the UK." - Tochnit Aleph.
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Artist: FEILER, DROR Title: The Return Of The Real Format: CDR Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
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"Dror Feiler, eye-bleeding ultimate composer of intifadic and eruptive lung-outs, music trasher, saxophone screamer and computer terrorist. Born 1951 in Tel Aviv, Israel and living in Sweden since 1973. "My music and words should function as a tool kits for an anti-fascist existence. My music is a strategy and subversion, my compositions and writings should escape even my own intentions." this is a raging maelstrom. Dror Feiler recently was TOP-NEWS when the israelian ambassador vandalized his installation at an art-exhibition in Stockholm." - Tochnit Aleph.
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Artist: G*PARK Title: One Hour As Bernel And Hofmann Format: CDR Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $15.00 |
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"Ten years after Geopod, published by Zabriskie Point in 1995, the first release by G*Park / Marc Zeier
(apart from the limited and privately issued Monode in 2003). Marc Zeier is a Schimpfluch-Gruppe member of the very first hour
(as early as 1986 performance Kohlkopf), and an installation & video artist. For a profession he is a Plankton-fisher in the lakes around Zürich.
"I had two old pianos - a pianola (Bernel) from 1820, and a grand piano (Hofmann) from the 1930s - which I decided to sell.
The night before their removal I recorded the raw material for this last piece. I processed the recording during the following weeks
by reducing it more and more. Finally I added some Pink Noise (whose frequencies are equally distributed on the whole frequency spectrum,
it wipes out everything around). Towards the end of the piece it increases, and when it stops abruptly, the room seems to implode.
The piece has to do with our memory: bits of earlier impressions, from sequences in the first part, rise to the surface later again
and start to turn around, loop-like - overlapped by snatches of white noise - moving to the foreground and then fading away.
Concentrating on the material all these weeks I felt more and more on with the huge resonance bodies of the two pianos..."
Black disc in black Digipak with fullcolour artwork & fold-out inlay. Edition of 170 copies." - Tochnit Aleph.
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Artist: G*PARK Title: Reuters Format: LP Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
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"The latest works by Swiss Musique Concrete composer MARC ZEIER and his second vinyl-LP after his 1991 Seismogram on the Schimpfluch label. One of the original (1986) and most elusive SCHIMPFLUCHGRUPPE members operating in the vein of the Viennese aktionists." -Tochnit Aleph.
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Artist: GENETIC TRANSMISSION Title: H.H.H.H. Format: 3" CD Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: GOOD LOOKING COMMUNISTS Title: Format: LP Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $15.00 |
| "TOCHNIT ALEPH PUNK SERIES VOLUME THREE. Recorded between 1999 & 2001. Short ugly noise howls to voice-aktion to hilarious bonkers cut-up frenzy. Pretty tight ugly yuck. Performed & mixed by Raionbashi, with additional/source material by Maoist Punk Squad, Sudden Infant (Lanz & Löwenbrück), N.O.G., Crank Sturgeon & Arsedestroyer. Second edition of 150, hand-made cover with plaster, safety-pin and beer-bottle cap attached." - Tonicht Aleph. |
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Artist: HECKER Title: Live @ ZKM Format: Cass Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $12.50 |
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"Side 1: Live @ ZKM / Side 2: Standard Map & Cusp Map (Binaural Mix)
Produced & Performed by Florian Hecker. Track 1 recorded with Neumann KM 100 Microphones direct to DAT
at the ZKM Medientheater on 28.04.2005 by Hartmut Bruckner. Mastered by Denis Blackham @ Skye Mastering.
File under: mean & abstract contemporary lsd computer-music. Second Edition of 34 Copies available." - Tochnit Aleph.
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Artist: JUNKO & MATTIN Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
| "A new release by HIJOKAIDANs JUNKO HIROSHIGE (voice) and MATTIN (computer+voice). Two pieces recorded September 2006 in Tokyo by TAKU UNAMI." -Tochnit Aleph |
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Artist: MON, FRANZ Title: Stimmen lauter Stimmen Format: LP Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $25.00 |
"(Lauttexte 1962-64 + Hörspiel 1971). Franz Mon (born 1926) is a pioneer in the field of concrete, visual and phonetic poetry. He once licked the new radio play into shape like no other german-speaking playwright before him. As a sound poet and with his articulations or phonetic pieces, he conceptually renewed sound poetry in the postwar years. This LP collects some of Mons earliest concrete phonetic poems recorded 1962-64 as well as the radioplay Ich bin der ich bin die from 1971. Edition of 400 copies. 320g picture sleeve and 280g printed inner-sleeve, including linernotes and artist biography in english." -Tochnit Aleph.
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Artist: O ROURKE, JIM/THOMAS ANKERSMIT Title: Split Format: LP Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
| "Side one features Weerzin by Thomas Ankersmit, composed & recorded in 2004 (Computer, Serge & EMS Synthesizer). Side two composed & recorded by Jim ORourke in 1992 (Oscillators & Guitars). Edition of 750 copies." - Tochnit Aleph. |
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Artist: POP Title: Album Format: LP Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $13.00 |
| "The debut album by the collaboration unit of Peter Rehberg (aka Pita, wellknown member of the Laptop jet-set and head of austrian label Mego) and Zbigniew Karkowski (feared by concert-bookers worldwide, surely the most violent force in digital music). Data retrieved from the following live-actions: 271097 @ Chelsea, Vienna / 160199 @ ICC, Tokyo / 200199 @ Milk, Tokyo / 290199 @ UFO, Tokyo / 200399 @ Webbar, Paris (PR) / 200399 @ Bunker 301, Tokyo (ZK), edited @ Baby Studio, Vienna. And the speakers took fire. Edition of 700 copies." - Tochnit Aleph. |
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Artist: ROIGK, STEFAN Title: Up Rising Format: LP Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $24.00 |
| "First solo music-record by Berlin-based multi-disciplinary artist Stefan Roigk featuring two excellent tape-music / musique concrete compositions. One-sided 12"LP Edition of 130 numbered copies. 1. WALKMAN (6:11min) recorded, arranged and mixed in 2006; 2. BILDER MEINER AUSSTELLUNG (11:31) recorded, arranged and mixed between 2004 and 2007" - Tochnit Aleph. |
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Artist: RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK Title: Asshole/Snail Dilemma Format: CD Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
| "Yes, I really like Asshole Snail Dilemna and not because its a sure thing as far as room-clearing is concerned. Totally disturbing, challenging and just plain weird. If you sit through this entire CD and arent affected in someway than you are dead." - Kevin Drumm. |
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Artist: SCHERSTJANOI, VALERI Title: Zaum - Заумь 1981-1989 Format: LP Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $52.00 |
"Released for the exhibition "Valeri Scherstjanoi - Auf dem Weg zum Scribentismus. Experimentelle Texte und Gesten. 1982-1989" at Rumpsti Pumsti (Musik), Berlin, June 2012. Presenting early phonetic poems by Scherstjanoi. Black on white hand-silkscreened cover with insert (29x29cm), black polylined innersleeves. Edition of 80 numbered and signed copies, of which only 40 are available for distribution.
Valeri Scherstjanoi, born 1950, grew up in Krasnodar in the south of the present-day Russian Federation. He is a sound-poet, writer, and graphic artist since 1968. He is the author of a number of poetry-books and has been writing theoretical texts (his own poetic theory and the practice of Ars Scribendi) as well as articles and books on the history of Russian Futurism in magazines, collections, and anthologies. He lives and works in Berlin." -Tochnit Aleph.
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Artist: SCHNÿBI GAGGI PISSI GAGGI Title: Tochnit Aleph Punk Series Volume Four Format: LP Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $18.50 |
| "Recorded Live in Kölliken, Switzerland 92-02-17 at 3pm. Joke Lanz - Ventilatorbass, Celèste Urech - Drums & Lyrics and Rudolf Eb.er - Vacuumvocals. Written by Celèste Urech (3 years of age) except "Elisabeth Kopp" written by Joke Lanz & Rudolf Eb.er. Limited Edition of 500 copies." - Tochnit Aleph. |
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Artist: STEIGER, DOMINIK Title: Ad Hoc Musi 1980-84 Format: LP Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $25.00 |
"Dominik Steiger, born in Vienna 1940. Universty drop out. Joins the french foreign legion 1959 but was dismissed a year later for psychiatric reasons. 1961 first poems and beginning of a bohemian life. 1961-64 vagabondage through europe and asia. Published several books of poetry and prose since 1961. First drawings published 1972 by Günther Brus in his periodical Schastrommel. Exhibitions of graphic works since 1975 in galleries throughout Europe. Ad hoc musician. First LP of songs Wiener Lieder und Gemischte Waisen published 1979 in Dieter Roths Verlag. He cooperated repeatedly with more or less renowned artists in concerts graphic team works, literary events etc. In 2004 he received the honorary literature prize of the Republic of Austria and in 2008 the fine arts prize of the City of Vienna. This LP is a collection of 29 pieces recorded 1980-84. Outsider art home-recordings using voice, acoustic guitar, accordion and bontempi organ. Edition of 400 copies. 320g picture sleeve and 280g printed inner-sleeve with linernotes and artist biography in english and german." -Tochnit Aleph.
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Artist: V/A Title: The End Of The Fear Of God By Various Artists Format: CD Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $15.00 |
| "All source material by swiss hardcore/noise legends FEAR OF GOD (1987-88), reworked/covered by (in order of appearance) RLW. N.O.G., NORBERT MSLANG, RUDOLF EB.ER, SUDDEN INFANT, STROTTER INST., SOVIET SUBLIMINAL SEDUCTION, SUNTOUR, ANDREW PHILLIPS, SCHURER, UNHOLY GRAVE, KEVIN DRUMM, BELA KISS, EVIL MOISTURE KILLER NUTS, HECKER, EYE YAMATSUKA, R. H.Y. YAU, THE IDEALIST, GOREBITCH, MASSACCESI, KURE KURE TAKURA, DYLAN NYOUKIS, MIKE PATTON & KID 606, GENETIC TRANSMISSION, ERIC BOROS & JASON FLOWERS, STRESS, JASON KAHN, DJ SMALLCOCK, IMPERATIVE, SHOJI GOTO, THE GLANDS OF THE EXTERNAL SECRETION, JIM OÿROURKE, DROPDEAD with OUTOSUSHI, K2, DORIS TOMASONI, KOUHEI MATSUNAGA, EVA REVOX, MERZBOW, KEIN BABEL, BLACKJEWISHGAYS FEAT. DJANGO, EVA D., OMMYTH, MEDIEVAL MOISTURE, HUMECTANT INTERRUPTION, SAICOBABA, RABID DOGS, J.C., DAVE NOYZE, DJKILLROY VS. VON WURSTFINGER, RM74, RAIONBASHI, VICIOUS CIRCLE, ECRASE-MERDE, ATTA, SHITE MINOR, VOICE CRACK, THOMAS ANKERSMIT, SILVUM, RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK, TAKEDOWN UAV, THE HATERS, RUSSELL HASWELL, THE NAUTILUS DECONSTRUCTION, CHICKEN & MONKEY, BLOODSTAR VS. SAALSCHUTZ, PITA, SEAMAN STAYNES & MASTER BAITS, ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI, and THE MACHINE GUN TV. This is the Stone on Fear of Gods grave. 12-page booklet including You Cant Reason with Logic, a short-story by G.X.Jupitter-Larsen. Compiled by Dave Phillips & Tochnit Aleph. Mastered by Rashad at D&M. Edition of 1000 copies." - Tochnit Aleph. |
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Artist: BEE MASK Title: Elusive Lunar Bow Format: Cass Label: Together Tapes Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: THREE HEADED HOWL Title: The Moisturizer Format: Cass Label: Together Tapes Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: V/A Title: Nohio Format: 7 Cass Box Set Label: Together Tapes Country: USA Price: $36.00 |
| "A lot has changed in the 4 years since I found the box of medical noise cassettes that would inspire the Nohio tape series. Many of the artists featured no longer live there, some projects no longer exist, and a whole new crop of sickos has clawed up into place. Each volume of the original tapes were released in an extremely limited edition of 30-33 copies and featured one of my favorite Ohio artists on one side and the found med fucked sounds on the other. The project served as a transition from my involvement with Epicene (who the original tapes were co-released with) and living in Ohio to Together and moving to Portland. The box represents a sliver of what was going on in Ohio at the time but is a personal snapshot of the weirdo scene in Ohio circa 2004. For this set Mike Shiflet has provided a bonus side of heavily concentrated visceral nerve noise not a part of the original series, which serves as a tribute to Ohio friends. Plus the inclusion of my favorite "found medical sound" side with the name Samuel T. Washington enscribed on the original. All boxes feature heavily painted, silkscreened artwork, with all over tape labels and strange silkscreened patches all glued together and clear gunked over. This an edition of 100. Includes Leslie Keffer, Iovae, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Ultra // Vires, Jason Zeh, To-Night Golden Curls, Steam Drapula, Organs, Yes,Collapse, Burning Star Core, Crack In Iraq, Sword Heaven, Mike Shiftlet, and Samuel T. Washington." -Together Tapes |
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Artist: TOLERANCE Title: Divine Format: LP Label: Tolerance Country: Japan Price: $22.00 |
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Limited reissue of this amazing LP of primitive, murky minimal electronics which was originally released in 1981 on the legendary, Osaka based Vanity Records (early Sympathy Nervous, Dada, Sab, BGM, the mindblowing Music Box Set, etc..). The labels stock-in-trade (aside from a few titles such as Aunt Sally) was raw, electronic experimentation which sounds impressively comtemporary when put up against current glitch, minimal techno and laptop artists (this experimentation included toying with ideas of fidelity [or the lack thereof as is evident on first side of this record], recording techniques [hard panning, volume and frequency drop outs], etc..).
Tolerance, consisting of Junko Tanage and Masmai Yoshikawa, were the only band that released a second album on Vanity. Their first LP (Anonym, 1979) was supposedly the source for the title of the second Nurse With Wound LP, To The Quiet Men From A Tiny Girl.
The label, founded by Yuzuri Agi, also released flexi discs by artists such as Mario Agata, Kurt Schwitters, B. C. Gilbert & G. Lewis, Furious Pig (!!), Brian Eno and others through ROCK MAGAZINE, for which Agi was the music editor. He was also rumored to have ran VOICE records, which in 75-76 released the ultra-mysterious BRAST BURN and KARUNA KHYAL LPs, both featured on the hallowed Nurse With Wound list and reissued a few years back on Paradigm Disc.
"[Vanity] was founded in Spring 78 and its positioned as the first Japanese minor label. "MODERN MUSIC", an extra edition of Rock Magazine in 79 had the following as the operating priniciples of Vanity Records in future. "We will produce records pursuing 1). Electronics Music, 2). "Music as Furniture" series (Modernistic Music), 3). Invation to Kayo-kyoku, 4). Music with experimental new vision (Punk., New Wave, Free Music, Modernistic Music, etc.)." The point #3 may be surprising, but it makes sense considering that Mr. Agi used to be in the world of Kayo-kyoku (he debuted with "Kougen No Bojou" in 67, and had the hit movie theme song "Ore Niwa Tenshi No Kimi Datta"). Unfortunately, it has never been realized, but its so exciting to just think about the singer who debuts with Techno Kayo (just my imagination) on Vanity Records." - ?
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Artist: THAYER, TOM Title: Tom Thayer Format: LP Label: Tom Thayer Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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�??Tom Thayer is a NY visual artist who creates paintings, drawings, sculpture, music, puppetry, film and theatrical experiments. These works are often loosely strung, frail objects depicting dilapidated, fantastical scenes of abstract human and animal figures. This is his first record of music, self-titled LP, edition of 550, released on his own Cardboard Mirror label. From the artist, �??This record contains a broken, mildewed darkride of songs and beats held together by adhesive tape and string.�?� We saw his gig and there were bird puppets playing records with their beaks, speeding up/slowing down, pecking the vinyl. This recording�??remember the Plonsky record, or the recordings of Jean Dubuffet? Profound minimal electronic manipulation in real time by his own hand, mixed with crude sampling, creates a stunning first offering. Check his art at www.tomthayer.net.�?� - Sound At One.
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Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI Title: Live Manda-La Special Format: CD Label: Tomokawa Country: Japan Price: $25.00 |
| "Part of special PSF treatment of artist Kazuki Tomokawa, now reissued in special art editions, strictly limited to 500 copies each. Each will come in a gatefold card jacket, with new specially commissioned illustrations by Tomokawa on the cover and gatefold. All titles have been previously available from PSF in regular jewel box editions. This is the third Tomokawa (Buckley-esque folk legend) release -- a collection of live performances." - Tomokawa. |
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Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI Title: Muzan No Bi [Beauty Without Mercy] Format: CD Label: Tomokawa Country: Japan Price: $25.00 |
| "Six previously released titles by Kazuki Tomokawa have been reissued in special art editions, strictly limited to 500 copies each. Each will come in a gatefold card jacket, with new specially commissioned illustrations by Tomokawa on the cover and gatefold. All titles have been previously available from PSF in regular jewel box editions apart from Chuya Nakahara Poems, which was a bonus disk previously only available as part of the Tomokawa boxset. This is the second Tomokawa CD on PSF, a reissue of a 1985 masterpiece. More of his aggressive and inspired folk." |
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Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI Title: Shibuya Apia Document Format: CD Label: Tomokawa Country: Japan Price: $25.00 |
| "Part of special PSF treatment of artist Kazuki Tomokawa, now reissued in special art editions, strictly limited to 500 copies each. Each will come in a gatefold card jacket, with new specially commissioned illustrations by Tomokawa on the cover and gatefold. All titles have been previously available from PSF in regular jewel box editions. Tomokawas seventh release for PSF consists of live performances recorded in 1993-95 at Shibuya Apia. He plays acoustic guitar and sings throughout, with only minor backing on piano or accordion. The power of musical performance demonstrated here is typically staggering; Tomokawas guitar playing is purely invigorating and intense (as physical as acoustic playing can get), and his voice is a towering outlet; an emotional songform beyond all international limits." |
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Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI Title: Works of Chuya Nakahara Format: CD Label: Tomokawa Country: Japan Price: $25.00 |
| "Part of special PSF treatment of artist Kazuki Tomokawa, now reissued in special art editions, strictly limited to 500 copies each. Each will come in a gatefold card jacket, with new specially commissioned illustrations by Tomokawa on the cover and gatefold. All titles have been previously available from PSF in regular jewel box editions. This one was previously only available as part of PSFs now out-of-print Tomokawa box set and features a series of accompaniment to the works of poet Chuya Nakahara (1907-1937)." |
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Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI & MIKAMI, KAN Title: Goen Format: CD Label: Tomokawa Country: Japan Price: $25.00 |
| "Part of special PSF treatment of artist Kazuki Tomokawa, now reissued in special art editions, strictly limited to 500 copies each. Each will come in a gatefold card jacket, with new specially commissioned illustrations by Tomokawa on the cover and gatefold. All titles have been previously available from PSF in regular jewel box editions. Kan Mikami teams up with Tomokawa, with contributions from heavy bassist Motoharu Yoshizawa." - Tomokawa. |
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Artist: CRANDELL, RICHARD Title: In The Flower Of Our Youth Format: LP Label: Tompkins Square Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "In The Flower of Our Youth, originally released on the private press label Cutthroat Records in 1980, was Richard Crandells first LP. His tune Rebecca was famously covered by admirer Leo Kottke on his Chewing Pine album. Crandell has gone on to record several other guitar albums, as well as two mbira recordings for John Zorns Tzadik label. Crandells music has recently been featured on Tompkins Squares Imaginational Anthem Vol. 3, as well as the guitar compilation Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli." -Tompkins Square |
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Artist: FOSSON, MARK Title: Digging In The Dust: Home Recordings 1976 Format: LP Label: Tompkins Square Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Kentucky native Mark Fosson recorded one album for John Faheys Takoma Records in 1976 which went unreleased until 2006. Mark recently found the home demo for that session. Heres what he has to say about them: These 11 tracks are the songs I began writing after acquiring my first 12-string guitar. I recorded them in my living room on a Pioneer RT 1050 2-track reel-to-reel with a rented microphone (I believe it was an AK6414 but I wont swear to it). All are originals except for Back In The Saddle Again which resulted from my other obsession at the time of watching old black & white Gene Autry movies any chance I could... Most of these songs would appear later in slightly altered form on The Lost Takoma Sessions, but these original versions are my personal favorites. I cant believe the tapes have survived so long and still sound as clean as the day I recorded them." -Tompkins Square. |
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Artist: MCMILLEN, SHAWN DAVID Title: Dead Friends Format: LP Label: Tompkins Square Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Shawn David McMillen is a guitarist living in Austin, TX. Along with various compilations, CDRs, cassettes and LPs, SDM has appeared under his own name via Catfish [Tompkins Square], End Of The City [dnt,abandon ship] and now, Dead Friends [Tompkins Square]. Past involvements have included Friday Group, Ash Castles, Max Ochs, Jandek, warmer milks, Tom Carter, Christina Carter, Peter Walker, Ralph White, Starving Weirdos, Steve Gunn, Marc Orleans and more recently Gel Jail with Mikey T and Greg Bachus [both from warmer milks]. Dead Friends is Shawns new record. It has el. and a. guitars, strings, piano, electronics, vocals, fiddle, drums, and tapes. All rendered in amber fidelity. From Phantom Rivers to Sick on Navasota its all here. A real slow burner. This record is for Mike, David, Larry Jr, Dotie, Gina, Nessa, Baraka, Max, Jack, Jerry, Charlie, Jim, Carrie, Larry, Kevin, Harmony and Doug...." - Tompkins Square. |
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Artist: TAUSSIG, HARRY Title: Fate Is Only Once Format: CD Label: Tompkins Square Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Released as a short-run private press LP in 1965, Fate Is Only Once has long been a coveted collectible among American Primitive guitar enthusiasts. The only other recorded work by Taussig surfaced on the out of-print Takoma LP Contemporary Guitar Spring 67alongside John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Max Ochs and Bukka White. Dorian Sonata was recently featured on the acclaimed acoustic guitar compilation Imaginational Anthem Vol. 1, and now the album is here. remastered, with original liner notes and vintage photos. The album features takes on traditional tunes (Dark Town Strutters Ball, Revs Rag and St. Louis Tickle), expressive originals in the American primitive vein (Blues For Zone VII, Dorian Sonata) and re-workings of songs popularized by Rev. Gary Davis and Elizabeth Cotten (Baby Let Me Lay It On You/Thatll Never Happen No More, Sugar Babe, Yoir Papa Cares For You.)The headiness of the album is remarkable for a 1965 guitar recording. While many guitarists were still stuck in the stuffy, conservative world of folk", Taussig was mining spacier territory like his colleague John Fahey. The musical ideas on the album sound remarkably fresh 41 years later." - Sunbeam. |
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Artist: TAUSSIG, HARRY Title: Fate Is Only Once Format: LP Label: Tompkins Square Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| 894807002042 "Harry Taussigs Fate Is Only Once was originally self-released in 1965. Taussigs only other recordings appear on a deleted 1967 Takoma Records sampler LP entitled Contemporary Guitar Spring 67, which also featured John Fahey, Bukka White, Max Ochs and Robbie Basho." -Tompkins Square |
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Artist: V/A Title: Imaginational Anthem Volume Two Format: CD Label: Tompkins Square Country: US Price: $14.50 |
| "Released in October 2005, Imaginational Anthem Volume One featured two generations of important acoustic guitarists, from John Fahey and Sandy Bull to Jack Rose and Kaki King. Volume Two expands and builds on this theme with 70+ more minutes of guitar magic -- all previously unreleased on CD in the US. 23-year old UK 12-string upstart James Blackshaw opens the record, while the late master Robbie Basho, a clear influence on Blackshaws style, closes it. Bashos track is the only live recording by this groundbreaking guitarist ever released. Riches abound on Imaginational Anthem Vol Two, with new recordings by former Takoma roster alumni Peter Lang (who made an album with John Fahey and Leo Kottke), Billy Faier (an original Greenwich Village folkie whose late 50s Riverside records inspired a fellow crack banjo player, Steve Martin) and an archival home recording by Fred Gerlach (a favorite of Jimmy Page). The new breed is well-represented by fascinating figures of today -- Smith, Carter, Sparhawk, Kraus, Rose and Blackshaw. Legendary singer/songwriter Michael Chapman, whose first albums for the Harvest label in the 60s are now seeing the light again, contributes as well." - Tompkins Square. |
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Artist: BODYVEHICLE Title: Amplified Voices of Crystals Format: Cass Label: Tone Filth Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Recently I recieved a package from Russia neatly wrapped in twine
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just a single CDr inside marked "BODYVEHICLE". Here are the best
moments, "Amplified Voices of Crystals". Very Kosugi / Taj Mahal
Travellers - esque. Edition of XXX with hand screened cases, inserts,
and tapes." - Tone Filth.
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Artist: CHERRY POINT Title: Death Screams Format: Cass Label: Tone Filth Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Legions of moans and death chatters. Hollywood horror. Edition of 101 with hand screened covers and hand inked tapes." - Tone Filth. |
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Artist: D YELLOW SWANS Title: Declawed Format: Cass Label: Tone Filth Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Two slow burners from this Bay Area apocolypse unit. Burns so slow youll never feel it completely engulf you. Comes in an edition of 200 with hand screened tape cases and bands. " - Tone Filth. |
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Artist: DEVILLOCK Title: These Graves Format: LP Label: Tone Filth Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "This will hurt your feelings. Edition of 333 with hand screened textured cardstock covers. CD Version on SNSE/PACrec." - Tone Filth. |
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Artist: DRAHEIM, CHARLIE Title: Possession Format: LP Label: Tone Filth Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Pressure. Steam. Scrapyard drainage, leaking into the corners. Mold and mildew - seepage. Cracks, crevices containing black days and red nights. The infection is spreading. False and forgotten. The Butcher, as hes known amongst friends and enemies, slices his way though flesh and bone on his first vinyl appearance and his finest moment to date. Contaminating the a-side with sick tones, nauseating hiss and whine, the ruemble and wet sadism of clogged sinuses led to climax in an orgy of rotten magnetic tape. Mongrel howls and junkyard threats make up the unhealthy flip of this record - the slowest of rhythmic thump wrought in contrast to relentless clang reminding of the new, no, The OLD Blockaders. It ends the second you wake up. Throw your vacant body in the gutter." --Greh Holger (Hive Mind, Chondritic Sound). Edition of 320 with hand screened textured card stock covers. |
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Artist: DRAHEIM, CHARLIE & DEVILOCK Title: Total Horror Format: Double Cass Label: Tone Filth Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"SECOND EDITION. A re-issue of what I beleive to be a Tone Filth classic. One tape is a split, the second a mail collaboration. Recorded Spring/Summer 2004, first edition released Fall 2004 in an edition of 45. Lo-Fi guitar vomit and organ hallucinations for decaying magnetic tape. Second Edition of 100 with hand screened inserts and tapes in a slim white vinyl double cassette case." - Tonefilth.
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Artist: GLASS ORGAN Title: Two Tapes Format: LP Label: Tone Filth Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "A reissue of the two out of print Glass Organ tapes. Building blown out desolate guitar and saturated tape. Co-Released with Twonicorn. Edition of 365 with hand screened white matte covers. New Glass Organ "Our" CD coming soon on Students of Decay." - Tone Filth. |
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Artist: HIVE MIND Title: Writhing Flesh Format: LP Label: Tone Filth Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Writhing Flesh" was originally issued as a cassette on Chondritic Sound in a small hand-numbered edition of 35 copies. It documents two very early Hive Mind live shows. The sound contained on this cassette was unique in the Hive Mind discography, although it still has the throbbing bass tones and bleak resonance, it contains more raw aggression. It was the first Hive Mind recording I had heard and to this day remains one of my favorite tapes. Edition of 300 copies with hand-screened and painted covers by the artist himself." - Tone Filth. |
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Artist: ROMERO, DAMION Title: Twins Format: Double LP Label: Tone Filth Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "For over a decade Damion Romero has been crafting minimal sub frequencies to create some of the most interesting and unique experimental music. Twins is Damions most impressive document to date; it contains four sides of intense and focused pure sound, recorded live with no overdubbing, effects, tapes, or feedback. Twins utilizes many varying textures and layers of sound offering many rewarding engaging listens. Edition of 500 copies in professionally printed INA/GRM "Serie Gramme" style gatefold sleeves. Co-released with P-Tapes." - Tone Filth |
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Artist: SEWER ELECTION/TRERIKSROSET Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Tone Filth Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Two sides of some of the best swedish noise. Sewer Election slab is a
giant swamp of distortion you could never wade through without being
taken under. The Treriksröset side is a time distorted bog of
delay.
Comes in an edition of 100 with hand screened covers and hand
inked/drawn tapes." - Tone FIlth.
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Artist: THREE LEGGED RACE Title: Living Order Format: Cass Label: Tone Filth Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Sick deeply layered tones from solo Robo of Hair Police. Layers and
layers of hearing test tones and subtle drones. Edition of 127 with
hand screened covers and tapes." - Tone Filth.
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Artist: THREE LEGGED RACE Title: Living Order/Mourning Order Format: LP Label: Tone Filth Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Robert Beatty, who may be better known as a member of Hair Police, Eyes & Arms of Smoke and a contributor to Burning Star Core, has been creating some of his most interesting material under the name Three Legged Race. Living Order/Mourning Order is a reissue of a pair of releases from 2006, Living Order primarily focusing on micro-tonal shifts and movement and Mourning Order setting aside most (but not all) of the tones for composition. A lesson in the beauty of modern electronics. Edition of 335 with 3-color screen print and artwork by Robert Beatty." -Tone Filth |
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Artist: WORKBENCH Title: Head Time Format: Cass Label: Tone Filth Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| Numbered edition of 100. |
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Artist: ANDERSWO Title: 1991-1994 Format: LP Label: Tonschacht Country: Germany Price: $32.00 |
| "Pre-Dwelling Lacuna/pre-a-Musik early 90s recordings of this unique trio (Bock- drums, Brauneis- bass, Rynek- guitar, vocals), recorded in remote northern Bavaria. A stunning combination of 39 Clocks/early The Fall-influenced post-punk/swing and minimalism, plus uncanny rehearsel room and mysterious field recordings. From their programmatic first punk rock tune Sunday Morning from 1991 to the very last tune at their disastrous last concert at Paradiso Amsterdam in 1994. 17 tracks, total playing time almost 50 minutes. Comes in an edition of 200 copies, plus insert with comments for every track." - Tonschacht. |
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Artist: COURTIS, ANLA Title: Tribute To Calcium Format: 7" Label: Tonschacht Country: Germany Price: $8.00 |
| ""tribute to calcium" is the first solo-release on vinyl by anla courtis, founding member of the reynols, who released numerous records on labels such as trente oiseaux, drone records and beta-lactam ring records. after the bands life-cycle came to an end in early 2004, courtis concentrated on his solo works and collaborations with lasse marhaug, kawabata makoto or culver (recently on riot season). (label info) "tribute to calcium is a piece in two parts that explores the harmonic resonances generated by the amalgam of electric guitar and toba violin (a one-stringed instrument made with cans by native argentinian indians of the north-east region). this work brings to light a singular sound alchemy that combines: electric-waterfalls, wide-spectrum-drones and just-intonation-entropy. a real journey to re-discover calcium molecules through modern noise-shamanism." - A Courtis. |
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Artist: GATE Title: 3M Format: 7" Label: Tonschacht Country: Germany Price: $6.50 |
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"3M is the long-awaited new release by michael morley - a keyman in the nz-freenoise-scene, who is well-known for his very own musical language he developed with gate along the axis lofi-noise-drone-sampling in the course of the 90s, but also for his work with the dead c. or his collaborations with lee ranaldo, keiji haino or faust, to name but a few. On ã3M" morley somehow continues the way he began with his 1996/98 release ãthe lavender head" on hells half halo - this time with the help of robbie yeats on synthesizers and tone generator - by using exclusively sampling and processing to create these two electrifying examples of distorted droney pieces which collide with the warmth of slowly developing fragments of melodies. Part 1 gives you an idea of how Joseph Suchy would sound trying to adopt the lofi-aesthetic of Foehn, part 2 however sounds like an outtake from a virtual collaboration of Pita and Bernhard Herman working on the soundtrack forãEraserhead II". Maybe." - Tonschacht.
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Artist: MINIT Title: Bootleg Format: 7" Label: Tonschacht Country: GERMANY Price: $6.50 |
| "after their highly acclaimed debut-cd last year on sigma and their successful tour through europe this is the second record of the sidney-based duo minit (jasmine guffond and torben tilly), on which they present their very genuine constructions of dense electronic music based on loops and samples. bootleg is their first remix (of the chicks on speed) from late 1999 - deconstructing techno... on the flipside theres another jewel - the very first minit-piece from 1997 which originally appeared in an edition of 20." - Tonschacht. |
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Artist: NEW PECULIARS Title: Dance Music 2000 Format: 7" Label: Tonschacht Country: Germany Price: $6.50 |
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"after their first two 7"s on betley welcomes careful drivers, dance music 2000 is another highly entertaining piece of work from scott foust and karla borecky - who also recently released the brand new idea fire company-longplayer and joined the shadow ring on their latest opus - plus david and gloria borecky. besides their two excursions in the field of bedroom-freeform-improvisation and their questioning of authenticity (on side 2)
theres the minimal, groovy title-track which reminds of early german no-wave or artists-records. the new peculiars is as well a project as it is a free-noise-combo." - Tonschacht.
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Artist: SCHAEFER, JANEK Title: Early Electronic Compositions Format: 7" Label: Tonschacht Country: Germany Price: $8.00 |
| "Both of these compositions were produced while I was working freelance for de Rijke Marsh Morgan architects in London. One afternoon I had a message to call a guy named Jet Mistry who worked for the lift company Thyssen. He was a chatty guy so we talked about names etc, and I decided to dedicate a track to his as I liked it so much. This was produced using an RS Integrator analogue patch bay synthesizer that Id bought around then with the profits of working a 96 hours week on a new London park competition. Another project we produced at the practice was a quirky, live, stop frame short video showcasing various projects for a touring architecture exhibition. I was asked to edit and produce the sound. Side B is a 7" mix with the spoken sections removed." - Tonschacht. |
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Artist: SMARZOCH, RAPHAEL Title: Spit Robot Format: 7" Label: Tonschacht Country: Germany Price: $8.00 |
| ""spitrobot" is the debut-release of the cologne-based guitar player and producer raphael smarzoch, which contains two intensive attacks of heavily treated guitar madness. side a contains an ecstatic, but almost minimal piece or pure feedback freakout, while on side b the six stings almost sound like a dark, surreal layers of organ sounds. it might be of no surprise that both the thick, subterranean metal of sun o))) and the power electronics of the wolf eyes are the most important influences for smarzochs noise pieces. "spitrobot" is the work of one of the most talented guitar players and an promising, impressive initial point in the discography of the 23-year old raphael smarzoch which you definitely shouldnt miss if youre into the solo-works of kevin drumm, agata or joseph suchy." - Tonschacht. |
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Artist: BRIGGS, ANNE Title: A Collection Format: CD Label: Topic Country: UK Price: $16.50 |
| "Anne Briggs, a free spirit of the 60s, was also one of the most distinctive and influential singers on the folk scene. If I hadnt heard her, says June Tabor, Id have probably done something entirely different. She was, writes Colin Harper in his accompanying biographical essay, as the best of the music itself was, sexy, wild, mysterious, otherworldly and vulnerable all at the same time. A Collection gathers scattered tracks from rare compilations as well as her eponymous Topic album of 1971." - Topic. |
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Artist: COLLINS, SHIRLEY Title: The Sweet Primeroses Format: CD Label: Topic Country: UK Price: $16.50 |
| 1995 reissue of these early recordings, from 1963-67. "These limpid versions of Southern English songs established Shirley Collins as a unique and influential voice on the folk scene. A landmark recording of the English folk-song revival. For the first time the fragile beauty of Shirley Collins singing, sister Dollys sensitive settings for portative pipe-organ and the two sisters remarkable empahty for southern English folk song were united in one glorious recording." - Topic. Includes the original 1967 Topic LP, plus 4 bonus tracks from the 1963 Heroes In Love EP. Shirley Collins (vocals), Dolly Collins (pipe-organ), The Young Tradition (chorus). |
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Artist: SCARCITY OF TANKS Title: No Endowments Format: LP Label: Total Life Society Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The group met and recorded tracks during 2007-2008 in Cleveland and Oakland. The vinyl version of NO ENDOWMENTS is available from TOTAL LIFE SOCIETY RECORDS (2008), while the CD version is available from TEXTILE RECORDS (2009). The album was mastered by Weasel Walter. The cover art is by Devendra Banhart.This Cleveland combo, led by Matthew Wascovich, has sounded a little random to my ears previously. But this effort, NO ENDOWMENTS, featuring Clevelanders Dave Cintron (Terminal Lovers, Downside Special), Ted Flynn (Theodore Vril), Andrew Klimek (X-Blank-X, Johnny & The Dicks, Death On A Stick, Ugly Beauty), Scott Pickering (Pufftube, Prisonshake, My Dad Is Dead, Spike In Vein, Happy Flowers), Nate Scheible (Self Destruct Button), Dan Wenninger (Oblique Orchestra) and Oakland, Californias Weasel Walter (Flying Luttenbachers, XBXRX, Lake Of Dracula) is freeform skronk, but other parts are great rolling-CLE-word-spews in the Laughner/Kryss tradition, with instrumental moves jacked from Death of Samantha and Rocket From The Tombs, then updated like crazy. Crazy." - Byron Coley, Archivist. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Swedish DIY Punk And Mod Pop 1979-1981 Volume 1 Format: LP Label: Total Pop! Country: Sweden Price: $17.00 |
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KDB/Bloodtains style collection, featuring all previously uncomped singles - includes HS Art, Badboll, Knugens Haf, Tant Brun, Vertex, Container, Anders Angest. Rock Set, Rebell, The Mops. Numbered edition of 333.
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Artist: ACTION SWINGERS Title: Miserable Life Format: 7" Label: Total Punk Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "With the guitar dirge that made Flipper great and misanthropic lyrics to top Drunks With Guns, "Miserable Life" is one of the best punks songs of the last 20 something years. Originally released on the 1994 CD only release Quit While Youre Ahead which compiled the first couple ACTION SWINGERS singles plus some previously unreleased tracks, it always blew my mind that no one put this song to vinyl. Well Total Punk is here to rectify this oversight. "Miserable Life" backed with the also previously unreleased on vinyl Swingers classic "Losing My Cool." 500 records in hand stamped cover and guaranteed 100% punk!!!" - Total Punk. |
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Artist: CHURCH OF MY LOVE Title: S/T Format: 12" Label: Totally Tickle Me Elmo Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The remaining copies of a limited edition (200 copies) tour EP from CHURCH OF MY LOVE (members of AMBER ALERTS). Get em fast, they will not last long." -Totally Tickle Me Elmo |
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Artist: AMBARCHI, OREN Title: Destinationless Desire Format: 7" Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $7.00 |
| "Oren Ambarchi presents Destinationless Desire: electric guitars, organ, samples, bells, percussion and motorized cymbals recorded at BJB Studios, Sydney with additional overdubs made at home in 2005-2007. Gratitude to Fairport Convention and Boris D Hegenbart." -Touch. |
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Artist: ELEH/NANA APRIL JUN Title: Observations & Momentum Format: LP Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "The Touch label presents the Observations & Momentum split LP as a great opportunity to hear noise minimalist Eleh and Swedish visual/sound artist Christofer Lämgren aka Nana April Jun at their finest. Nana April Juns track "Sun Wind Darkness Eye" is taken from the album The Ontology Of Noise (TONE 037CD), particularly because it stands out as being perfect for a vinyl edition. In the same time-frame, the series of releases by Eleh on Important Records attracted the Touch labels attention. These homages to La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros and Charlemagne Palestine, as vinyl-only limited editions, stunned with their acuity and passion for detail. There was something acutely other in their sound. Eleh, also, is an artist who prefers the work to speak for itself, and has other provocative ideas about noise. The digital is questioned by a commitment to a working practice based around analog tone-generators and letter-press printed covers. The Important Records/Taiga releases are now sought-after with a passion by anyone who recognizes something truly special occurring. On this recording, Eleh develops the waveforms that the Important Records series started. The split vinyl format is a great meeting point for this idea of digital persona and analog privacy. The effect, it is hoped, is for the vinyl to represent a digital question: that this LP summons up a universal sound and an intimate sphere of operations, which is, of course, a continuing dilemma. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Art & photography by Jon Wozencroft." -- Touch. |
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Artist: ENGLISH, LAWRENCE Title: Incongruous Harmonies Format: 7" Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "7" vinyl-only, not available for digital download. Sound artist Lawrence English composed these pieces for Circas Regarding The Joy Of Others performance installation, recorded and produced at 158, Brisbane, 09/09-01/10. Cut by Jason at Transition. Artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft." -Touch |
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Artist: GILBERT, BRUCE Title: Monad Format: 7" Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "The next in the series of vinyl-only Touch seven inches is Monad by Bruce Gilbert, whose career stretches back to late 1960s British avant-garde art and music scenes, and has since played an important and influential role with his involvement in various rock-based formations, work for choreographic projects and art installations. Instruments: Korg Monotron Analogue Ribbon synth, Zoom RFX-200, Korg Kaos Pad 2, Apple GarageBand. Some words to describe what this sounds like: coruscating, metallic, hard, structured chaos and LOUD." -Touch |
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Artist: IKEDA, RYOJI Title: Formula Format: Book/DVD Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $38.00 |
| "Book and DVD contained in clear plastic slip-case in numbered edition of 3000. [Book]: 186mm x 136mm, 96 pages, soft cover, with 62 full colour and 34 monochrome illustrations [DVD]: features eight sound pieces from installation works and a 35-minute full video documentation of the formula [prototype] concert filmed in Tokyo. The DVD is an NTSC/PAL hybrid for world-wide use. This is the first complete monograph about the seminal work of Ryoji Ikeda. With superb attention to detail and layout, the publication documents the artists latest projects and includes brand-new artwork especially produced for the book. At the same time, formula covers Ikedas landmark concerts and installations; and his collaborations with, amongst others, celebrated artist/musician Carsten Nicolai, acclaimed performance group Dumb Type and famous architect Toyo Ito. All of the DVD content is only available here, with a 35 minute full video documentation of formula [prototype] concert filmed in Tokyo and 8 sound pieces from installation works. Not only the most complete Ryoji Ikeda catalogue, formula is an intimately-scaled minimalist artwork in itself, and an object of desire. How the book is held may cause the numbers and text, picked out in clear varnish on white page, to shimmer. Every aspect of look and feel has been considered by the artists critical eye. His superlative production values are ever-present in the quality of the images and the finish. Only through repeated investigation does the publication begin to reveal its richness. Readers will be able to pore over the photographs, ponder the schematics and technical data, and enjoy the spacious listings of performances, exhibitions and releases. The artists first-rate assembly of data, diagrams and video stills create moments of graphic intensity that make the white spaces of the pages surprisingly dynamic. The book is pure pleasure to hold. Formula [Book + DVD] reflects precise design and the artists flawless selection of surfaces and materials. An exceptional publication, it provides a heightened sensory experience in a similar way to his concerts, installations and sound works." - Touch. |
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Artist: JECK & MARCUS DAVIDSON, PHILIP Title: Spliced Format: 7" Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Live at The Museum of Garden History, London, May 8, 2010. Keyboards: Marcus Davidson. Record players, editing & overdubbed bass: Philip Jeck. "Trains of blossom, trains of music." -Touch |
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Artist: MENCHE, DANIEL Title: Quanta Of Light Format: 12" Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "In a genre known for its randomness and chaotic structure, Daniel Menche has established himself as a musician with an uncharacteristic sense of focus and determination. Rather than creating "noise," he strives for order and cohesiveness. His work originates from the idea that there is no restriction to potential sound sources, especially in terms of a sounds potential sonic energy. Subtle and patient compositions rely on long, dense layers of droning sounds, while abrasive pieces rely on sounds amplified and processed to extreme levels, pushing the full spectrum of frequencies to the threshold. Intense, percussive sound works resonate a primal chaos while gracefully reaching towards something beyond "noise." Through this intensity, Menche bridges the gap between sound and listener, a one-on-one, personal impact with pure sound. The greater the intent, the greater the intensity, and intensity is based upon the blood rising in speed and heat through our bodies. This is dedicated music that expresses the undisciplined purity of emotion and intensity." -Touch. |
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Artist: NIBLOCK, PHILL Title: Touch Three Format: Triple CD Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "This is Phill Niblocks third release on the Touch label. Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968s barricade hopping. He has been a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since. In the history books Niblock is the forgotten Minimalist. His influence has had more impact on younger composers such as Susan Stenger, Lois V. Vierk, David First, and Glenn Branca." - Touch. |
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Artist: O ROURKE, JIM Title: Despite The Water Supply Format: 7" Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $7.50 |
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"American musician and producer Jim ORourke continues the Touch Sevens 7" vinyl-only limited edition series with an epic, two-part track recorded at Tokyos Steamroom, May 2008. This series is a non-digital statement that cannot be applied to digital formats -- the sonic texture, the use of a locked groove, the A & the B. The label chose not to specify the RPM, encouraging listeners to experiment with playback options and personal preferences. Artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft." - Touch.
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Artist: PARLANE, ROSY Title: Willow Format: 7" Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Rosy Parlane presents a 7" on Touch. Written and recorded in Auckland, New Zealand, 2008-2009." -Touch. |
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Artist: WALO SHATAN GWARI Title: Drumming for Creation Format: LP Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "Limited edition of 300 copies. 12" vinyl only. A new series of vinyl-only releases, From the Archives. Islands Inbetween was originally released on cassette in 1983. The second in this series, Drumming for Creation, originally released on cassette in 1985 is now available. Walo Shatan Gwari: the ensemble, led by Malam Walo, belongs to the Gwari people of Niger State, West Africa. The performances, at Londons Commonwealth Institute, also encompassed drumming sessions and instrument-making workshops." -Touch. |
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Artist: WATSON, CHRIS Title: El Tren Fantasma Format: CD Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "Take the ghost train from Los Mochis to Veracruz and travel cross country, coast to coast, Pacific to Atlantic. Ride the rhythm of the rails on board the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (FNM) and the music of a journey that has now passed into history." -Chris Watson |
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Artist: WATSON, CHRIS Title: El Tren Fantasma-The Signal Man Format: 12" Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Chris Watson presents two special mixes for vinyl from his El Tren Fantasma (TO 042CD) release. A radio program was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, produced by Sarah Blunt, and described as "a thrilling acoustic journey across the heart of Mexico from Pacific to Atlantic coast using archive recordings to recreate a rail passenger service which no longer exists." Its now more than a decade since FNM operated its last continuous passenger service across country. Chris Watson spent a month on board the train with some of the last passengers to travel this route. As sound recordist, he was part of the film crew working on a program in the BBC TV series Great Railways Journeys. Now, the journey of the "ghost train" is recreated, evoking memories of a recent past, capturing the atmosphere, rhythms and sounds of human life, wildlife and the journey itself along the tracks of one of Mexicos greatest engineering projects." -Touch. |
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Artist: WATSON, CHRIS Title: Oceanus Pacificus Format: 7" Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $7.00 |
| "Chris Watson is the worlds leading wildlife sound recordist. Oceanus Pacificus captures the voices and rhythms of the Humboldt current around the Galapagos Islands recorded in April 2006 using a pair of Dolphin Ear Pro Hydrophones onto a NAGRA ARES-PII digital audio recorder. After co-founding Cabaret Voltaire and playing in The Hafler Trio, he left all of it to become the sound archivist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. He is now a full-time freelance sound recordist." -Touch |
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Artist: WATSON, CHRIS Title: Outside the Circle of Fire Format: CD Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
| "Chris Watsons second CD is a dramatic contrast to the spacious atmospheres of Stepping into the Dark (Touch 27, 1996). Featuring 22 close-up recordings of animals, birds and insect life, Outside the Circle of Fire enlarges our awareness of the sound universe, intimate with voices from the past. There is an intensity here that television pictures cannot conjure. These are the sounds of secret languages, particular events that have been recorded as close up as possible to try and reveal something of their individual beauty, rhythm, eloquence and sheer power. Several of the sounds would be inaudible or radically degraded more than a few meters from the animal. Yet others collectively use the acoustics of their habitat to modulate the message. They exist, however, whether we hear them or not -- close up details of signals that are beyond our reach outside the circle of fire." - Touch |
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Artist: WATSON, CHRIS Title: Stepping Into The Dark Format: CD Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
| 1996 release, repressed! "Watsons lead instrument is the tape recorder. After working with Cabaret Voltaire and The Hafler Trio, he became sound recordist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. He has since joined a film and video production company, working for BBC wildlife documentaries and occasional feature films. The 12 recordings on Stepping into the Dark contrast a windswept forest in Glen Cannich with the gathering conversations of rooks roosting in a churchyard in Northumberland. Other atmospheres include the heat and wall of sound found on the River Mara in Kenya, fishing bats on a mangrove pool in Venezuela, the ritual dance of snipe at dusk in the Northern Hebrides... a hydrophone at 5m. depth in the Moray Firth captures the signature whistles and clicks of bottlenose dolphins." - Touch |
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Artist: WATSON, CHRIS Title: Weather Report Format: CD Label: Touch Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
| "The weather has created and shaped all our habitats. Clearly it also has a profound and dynamic effect upon our lives and that of other animals. The three locations featured here all have moods and characters which are made tangible by the elements, and these periodic events are represented within by a form of time compression. This is Chriss first foray into composition using his location recordings of wildlife and habitats -- previously he has been concerned with describing and revealing the special atmosphere of a place by site specific, untreated location recordings. For the first time here he constructs collages of sounds, which evolve from a series of recordings made at the specific locations over varying periods of time."- Touch |
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Artist: BLIGHT Title: Detroit: The Dream Is Dead - The Collected Works Format: CD Label: Touch and Go Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "A long unavailable document of the early 1980s sound of Detroit hardcore/industrial noise band BLIGHT-former THE FIX members STEVE MILLER and MIKE ACHTENBERG, along with TESCO VEE (MEATMEN). Includes all the songs from the bands 1982 7-inch EP (Touch And Go), two demo tracks, and a bunch of live songs recorded at a July 82 performance opening for the Dead Kennedys. Packaged with liner notes by Miller and Vee." -Touch And Go. |
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Artist: WORKBENCH/BLACK QUARTER Title: Aphid War/Bird Breath Format: CDR Label: Tour Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: ASH POOL Title: World Turns On Its Hinge Format: CD Label: Tour De Garde Country: Canada Price: $12.00 |
| "the first full length CD from ASH POOL entitled "World Turns on its Hinge" is finally released! After their acclaimed demo "Genital Tomb" they are back with a bang with this incredible opus that should pleased the fans of Burzum, Satanic Warmaster, Katharsis or Akitsa. A vinyl version of the album will be released in the future by Paragon Records (the same label that recently released an ASH POOL ep) and a tape version will be done by Northern Sky Productions (with a rawer mix)." - Tour De Garde. Features Dom of Prurient. |
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Artist: CONRAD, TONY & TOVAH OLSON Title: Let There Be Music Format: One Sided LP Label: Tovinator Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "YES!!! Finally!! Angus and Bon Scott would def. label this knockout collab as grade A T-N-T!!! Heres how it went down: The Machines were kicking it Brooklyn style last January for some jam time with Burning Sess Core, and the Tovinator had a solo slot in Glasslands on Super Bowl Sunday. Seeing how we both were worked up from the Pitts power plays and amazing Puck and Queen B quality time, Thurston added fuel to the fire and suggested that Conrad hit the stage with Tovah. Seeing how Tony only had his pajamas and an rusty old auto harp in tow, the aural jam scape was destined to be stripped down and tense. So here are the results!! Tovah on tin can "voice", tapes, and the sheet metal/spring "mailbox" sculpture and Tony on unprocessed auto harp. No drone sound in sight, just a clanging, echoed, tangled sharp barbed nasty JAM. Super duper, like nothing else in either discography. Could be seen as a celebration in real time to the STEELERS, with STEEL and STRINGS. Amazing!!!! Edition of 200 in super weird covers, hand numbered." - American Tapes. |
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Artist: OLSON, TOVAH & THE DEAD MACHINES Title: Live At Crazy Mans House Format: CDR Label: Tovinator Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: T & A Title: Tovinator 3 Format: One Sided 7" Label: Tovinator Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Aaron Dilloway & Tovah Olson caught live on tape at Detroits Noise Camp in the Fall of 06. Crazed bone reeds, frozen cheap keys, general scraping rawness. Sounds strange at any speed. Recorded by Mike Connelly. Pressed on multicolored vinyl, no two are the same. Strange sleeve, hand-numbered edition of 200." - Tovinator. |
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Artist: TOVAH D DAY Title: Artificial Satellites Format: CDR Label: Tovinator Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Homespun audio slo mo damage. Lots of metal scraping sounds and horrible "Im the only one around" bleak landscapes. The TOV always gets wrapped up in strange things every week, once it was paper-mache jewelry, next it was paper clip vests, this week its the amount of satellites in the orbit around das globe. Hopefully it doesnt morph into a GEORGIA SATELLITES band phase...... horrible sound, live, raw, grim. Perf accompaniment for young adult nightmare books and bleak november weather. Matching title artwork. Six tracks, 33 minutes. Numbered edition of 80." -Tovinator |
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Artist: TOVAHAUNTED Title: S/T Format: One-sided LP Label: Tovinator Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Whoa!! Midwest-coast throwdown. LAs own basement spiritual weird-bees *POCAHAUNTED* are given the Lansing basement non-sound mildew audio slow infection treatments from the TOVINATER. Totally strange eerie vocalisms with sounds of Grand Avenue construction noises thrown into the bubbling pot of sound miasma. Playable on any speed, slow or fast, if you got time, bust it slow, if you das move, bust it fast, if its a commandment - break it in two. Totally killer, totally weird. Grey vinyl, edition of 200 numbered with hand potato stamped covers from the TOV herself in-between marathon sessions of the Mentalist, cat puzzles, and Sookie Stackhouse series books. A charmed life......" -Tovinator |
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Artist: BUNNY BRAINS Title: s/t Format: Triple Cass Label: TPOS Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Mysterious, unearthed early-90s release, packaged in a comic book. |
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Artist: NO NECK BLUES BAND Title: RE: Mr. A Fan Format: LP Label: TradeMark of Quality Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: EMBRYO Title: Africa Format: LP Label: Transdisc Country: Spain Price: $22.00 |
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"Original 1990 spanish press of Embryos italian-only lp originally released by Materiali Sonori back in 1985. Recorded in Lagos (Nigeria) in February 1985, the session shows Christian Burchard and his colleagues in full afro mode, blending traditional folk rhythms with Embryos world music travelogues. Theyre joined by two local nigerian groups (Yoruba Dun Dun Orcheste and Afro Linkage Ensemble) on a miriad of traditional instruments (yoruba drums, dun dun drum, bata). Another chapter in the exotic Embryo saga !!!! Comes with original colour cover and printed innersleeve." Highly recommended!
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Artist: LOS ANGELES FREE MUSIC SOCIETY Title: Blorp Esette Format: 4 CD Label: Transparency Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| 2011 remastered edition. Remastered in June of 2011 by Ju Suk Reet Meate. Perhaps the only logical follow up to the historic LAFMS: The Lowest Form Of Music 10CD box on RRR, is this 4CD compilation based around the 2 LP volumes of Blorp Esette which Ace Farren Ford released under the LAFMS umbrella in 1978 (Vol. 1) and 1980 (Vol. 2, a double LP set). Both of the LPs featured cover & label art by Don Van Vliet which as been reproduced on this CD reissue. Capt. Beefheart cover art was quite a coup for the times and these LPs have long been some of the most desirable LAFMS artifacts (but basically never available to anyone outside of the LA underground at the time of their release). The four CDs are packaged with a 32 page booklet of artwork and notes, and include nearly 3 hours of previously unreleased tracks! The LAFMS bridged the gap. Features performances by: Smegma, Le Forte Four, The Reverend Toad-Eater, Electric Willy Trio, the Di-Dee Dos, Ace Farren Ford, Rick Potts, Doo Dooettes, Henry Kaiser, Dennis Duck, Joe Potts, Chip Chapman, Ace & Duce, Child Molesters, Jerry Bishop, Nopar King, The South Pasadena Free Music Ensemble, Gage Kenady, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Reverend Marty Nation, many more. "In January of 1976 the non-musician comedy team of Ace & Duce officially joined ranks with the newly formed Los Angeles Free Music Society for the legendary Spaghetti Works show in what was then truly old towne Pasadena with fellow stalwarts Le Forte Four and the Doo-Dooettes. When we had begun our forays into free music we had figured to be lone venturers without peers, yet at this point we found ourselves in a sort of like-minded union. Enthusiasm reined supreme, who soon led us to the question of doing an album. For reasons that seem to escape me now, we decided to do a various artists compilation. Response was plentiful, so much so that before it was done plans were underway for a volume 2., which grew to become 2 records. It was a lot of fun. It was also a nightmare. Technology had not yet reached us, and suddenly we had many reels of tape and cassettes, all of varying quality or lack thereof, many with little or no information as to what exactly was on them. We were, in fact, forced to master volume 2 in mono due to varying levels and other technical hardships. Now due to the vision & lack of good sense on the part of Mr. Sheppard, we present the Blorp Esette experience, including volume 2 in stereo as originally intended, and many of the tracks that could not have been included in the original volumes due to time constraints and other maladies, with many new surprises." - Ace Farren Ford. |
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Artist: SUN RA Title: Live at The Electric Circust (1968) / Newport Jazz Festival (1969) Format: Double CD Label: Transparency Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "121 minutes total from the Electric Circus in NYC, 1968 and the Newport Jazz Festival, 1969." -Transparency |
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Artist: SUN RA Title: The Eternal Myth Revealed Vol. 1 Format: 14 CD/Book Label: Transparency Country: USA Price: $142.00 |
| "A co-production of The Sun Ra Music Archive and Transparency. Thirteen hours of unreleased and ultra-rare music plus definitive Sun Ra autobiographical commentary, curated by Michael Anderson. Additional liner notes by Bennett Theissen. Volume one in this new series covers the years 1914-1959, across 14 CDs plus a spectacular 128 page 5" x 10" paperback book, all contained in a large box. Improjazz selected this box set as one of the two best reissues of 2011." - Transparency. |
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Artist: DDV Title: A Sound Atlas Of Venereology Format: CD Label: Trash Ritual Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The second installment of the Club Moral archive series is DDVs interpretation of Anthony Wisdoms A Colour Atlas Of Venereology (Wolfe Medical Atlases 1973). All tracks were performed on Wasp and Korg MS50 synths, and recorded at Club Moral in 1982 on a plain stereo cassette deck with no additional remixing or mastering. Samples from Andrezej Zulawskis 1981 movie Possession were used; lyrics from the Colour Atlas, "Haut Und Geschlechtskrankheiten IV," "Visites Cliniques," and "Revue de Dermatologie" are recited in DDVs typically deranged, animal-like fashion. Almost all material here was never performed live nor featured on other Club Moral related recordings in any other form. Raw and offensive, with all original materials reprinted in a sixteen-page booklet. A classic piece of industrial history." -Trash Ritual |
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Artist: MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA Title: They Never Learn Format: LP Label: Trash Ritual Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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"Second reissue of post-mortem industrial / power electronics album from Italys legendary MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA. Violent sound art originally released via Aquilifer Sodality 1985. Edition of 250." - Trash Ritual.
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Artist: BONE RATTLE Title: Which Toyz Format: 12" Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Tie yourself on a feedbag of slightly decayed dog bones and crushed plastic kids toys you found in a cheeze whiz dumpster, throw you inhabitations out the window and dance your ass off to these highly damaged, anthemic, home made synth and drum songs. This is analog plunger punk at its best!!!! FEATURING: members of CHILD BRIDE, DREAMHOUSE, BLUE SHIFT and RIDDLIN." -Turned Word. |
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Artist: CORNDAWG Title: Im Not Ready To Be A Daddy Format: LP Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "If you like your country music smooth like velvet, soft like warm butter, and ignorant like a newborn baby, look no further cause this is the record for you! Your stylus will read this as some nearly lost forever mid 1970s trucker country demo.but no, it was recorded and produced by Colin Langenus of USA is A Monster and released by 4 labels, co-op style, in the winter of 2007. A host of studio musicians pipe up at all the perfect moments to let this one breathe while roping you in all the while. SOUNDS LIKE: Waylon Jennings, Tex Ritter, and Alan Jackson." - Trd w/d.600 Pressed, screenprinted covers. |
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Artist: FLAK MASK Title: Comb Over And Over Again Format: 7" Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "Reminiscant of the soundtrack to Jodorowskis "Fondo y Lis," this slab of plastic/walpaper/ screenprint/Gumbo will keep your mindwarping as you tap your foot just ever so slightly slightly to the scraping analog tones. 300 pressed." - Trd w/d. "The sounds emitted from the grooves in the vinyl are tippy-top too, a nice balance of exemplary knob n petal extrapolations akin to those found throughout the cream of the Finnish underground crossed w/the narcoleptic, atmospheric langour-froth emitted by someve Brooklyns bossest suitcase rockers." - Siltblog. |
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Artist: FLAK MASK Title: Exploring The Magnetic Poles Format: Cass Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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"Cut and paste bedroom gabber slowed to a near halt, but still creaping belly down low just fast enough to keep the towering piles of electronic garbage from falling to the floor and crushing whoever happens to be passed out in the piles of mouse shit. 100 copies." - Trd w/d.
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Artist: FLAK MASK Title: These Landscape Enhancements Format: LP Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Very most recent attempt to clarify what is right in front of us thru a medium signal known as the wax blob, luckily there are some unseen scientists at the helm, there being many hurdles." - Trd w/d. "..knob n petal extrapolations akin to those found throughout the cream of the Finnish underground crossed w/the narcoleptic, atmospheric langour-froth emitted by someve Brooklyns bossest suitcase rockers." - Siltblog (Re; previous 7" release). Excellent multi-colored silkscreened jackets. Recorded in New Orleans, Spring 2007. |
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Artist: GROUP B Title: Live At Vics Format: 7" Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "Like dropping acid when youre blacked out on whiskey. If I told you they hadnt yet heard Harry Pussy when conjuring up this release you wouldnt believe me...so be it." - Trd w/d |
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Artist: IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT Title: Facilidad? Format: LP Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Facilidad? is Impractical Cockpits 7th full length LP since their inception more than 10 years ago in the cold and blustery Minneapolis winter of 1998. After several �??relocation efforts,�?� the band settled for 6 years in the vibrant port of New Orleans just after the turn of the new millennium, honing in on their signature approach to Noise infused songwriting. Always brewing up their own slog of psychedelic punk the Cockpits have managed to stay true to their all-analog asthetic no matter how difficult this can be on shoe string budgets. After their crew was totally displaced by the horrific events of Hurricane Katrina, the band re-formed in New Orleans in the Spring of 2006 to spend a month writing a new album, unavoidably inspired by the desolate depressed post Katrina landscape. Mountains of molding garbage lined the streets as cats claw and ivy tore through watermarked walls of recently abandoned buildings. The National Guard paced
through the streets in armored vehicles, and constant gunshots rang through the thick stillness of decay and toppled over trees. After putting together a live set there, which was to later become this album known as Facilidad?, the Cockpits embarked on a 2 month tour, with a 2 week recording session scheduled right in the middle. Traveling in a home made vegetable oil powered motor home as a 5 piece band, with 2 dogs, and a battery of instruments, they played the album all the way through every night of the tour. The set varied wildly from night to night.
The result is this multi-track recording, a culmination of all of their previous efforts summed up in an opus. Balkan informed brass arrangements get smacked to tape alongside the thick improvisational gumbo of triaged hand crafted paper reed horns and drum machines. Plywood gets smashed to shit and an abandoned warehouse stairwell provides an echochamber for choral arrangements complete with barking dog. On the albums closer �??Gurus Plume,�?� a homemade electric violin gets heavy usage, played in the Northern Louisiana Michot family tuning of EBEB. Shrill reverb drenched vocals are softened by intense but loosely slung rubber band looped keyboards while talismans are shaken is a steel tea cup.
Now somewhat disbanded, each member of Impractical Cockpit seems to be digging themselves deeper into whatever sonic obsession they see fit for these crucial times. But thats not to say that this is the last time were likely to hear from Impractical Cockpit." - Trd w/d
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Artist: IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT Title: Freedom Types Format: LP Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "These sounds previously heard on "Impractical Cockpit Thanks Tape Vol. II" casette, which was sent out to those who signed our mailing list. Consider this a "Best Of Mix" of that cassette" - Trd w/d. |
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Artist: IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT Title: Poverty is Violence a>k>a>Adopt a Mindfield Format: LP Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Winterdescends on Minneapolis. 1/2" 8 track, Nagra IV-S 1/4" 2tk mix, tube reverb, lotsa toys. Due to mechanical failure, upgrades to drummachine. Recorded and mixed in south Minneapolis. Harrowing sonic forray into tension and scrapbook memories.600 pressed." - Trd w/d. |
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Artist: RIFF VISITORS Title: Live At The Davistown Museum Format: Cass Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "12 weirdos ranging in ages 21 to 66 get loose in a museum of ferous metalergy, communicating with eachother using hammers, drums, bones,horns, stringed instruments,and voices which are all processed through delay, flange and distortion by two "interviewers" then puked back into the room where it mixes with the live sound..." - Trd w/d. Members of Impractical Cockpit, Flak Mask, etc.. |
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Artist: SHEP AND ME Title: Cloudy Chowder Format: LP Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"This record features a beautiful multi colored, meticulously screenprinted cover, front and back, with a full, half letter sized lyric booklet.
Already a true Gutter Country gem, Cloudy Chowder takes one on a voyage that is psychedelically skybound and at the same, deeply embedded in the now well established Americana folk roots undergound. Reverb drenched guitars swoon with horns and chirping voices, processed yet bare and revealing. Small but not inconsequential bass lines weave through these masterfully crafted songs, while organs and feedback at times take the center stage without taking away from the movement as a whole. Recorded pure analog onto 1/4 inch tape over the course of 3 years in 4 different states. SOUNDS LIKE: ROGER MILLER, UKE OF SPACES CORNERS, PETER GRUDZIEN.
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Artist: SWORD OF THE ANCIENT Title: Head of the Tide Format: Cass Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Reminiscent of later era Residents albums such as ⿿ANIMAL LOVERS, Sword Of the Ancient, with their latest release ⿿Head Of The Tide, create a world where night and day playfully collide in a swirl of sonic shadows, shards of light, and evervescant sound. Chance and Chaos intermingle with strict song structures to develop the ⿿Balancing Point, of this recording. Featuring members of ⿿FlakMAsk, Uke Of Spaces Corners, and Impractical Cockpit. " - Trd/wd. 100 Copies Color photocopied covers |