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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.

Artist: T.A.S.K.
Title: Relaxing Time Is Over
Format: LP
Label: Heartworm
Country: USA
Price: $14.00

"The brilliant first LP by the Berlin troupe T.A.S.K., "Relaxing Time Is Over". All basic tracks on this album were recorded live in a Berlin living room studio in the winter of 2005 and the winter months of 2006 - NO SUMMER RECORDINGS. 11 songs of minimal psych pop with a Velvets air of cool by way of the German psychedelic underground. T.A.S.K. is comprised of members of the insanely underrated Floating Di Morel and Metabolismus. Band members have performed with artists such as KIM FOWLEY - "SOUNDS OF AN EMPTY ROOM" after GERMANS BECAME NEGROES, MEN AND WOMEN FIGHTING; F/I; FLlPPER, SAMARA LUBELSKI, HERMMANN HALB, DR. CHADBOURNE, JAD FAIR, MOE TUCKER, JG 39, MONSIEUR MORIOT, STERLING MORISSON, G. KRAUS (LIMBUS)" - Heartworm.

Artist: TADA, MASAMI
Title: i
Format: CD
Label: SOH Gallery
Country: Japan
Price: $30.00

Artist: TADA, MASAMI
Title: mu
Format: CD
Label: SOH Gallery
Country: Japan
Price: $30.00

"Tada had participated in the workshop of Takehisa Kosugi (Taj Mahal Travellers) at the Bigakko. His name is known as a main member of legendary improvisation group "East Bionic Symphonia" and "GAP" (both LPs by ALM Records are very rare collectors items) in mid 70s. Nowadays Tada mostly interested in photo installations and sounds by woods, stones and many small objects." - Osamu Abe. "Spacious improvisation with sound objects [bamboo, branches, beanbags, line] and live electronic sounds [minisynths, effector on wall, voice, body, video image]. Gradually enveloping and slowly progressing minimal sound loops of a very hypnotic nature. In gorgeous three fold digipack with reflective panels (inside). issued in 1997. "As the fifth in the series of Tada CDs following his "KU", "SON", "NE" and "I", the artist sought to make this a new CD "MU" a composite work of sound and the package visuals. Juxtaposed in this compelling sound mix are the somehow nostalgic sounds of material materials like stone and bamboo and bare branches cutting through the air and the powerful, electronically generated sounds including recorded elements like human voices. The package images are created by a unique Tada technique he calls electronic drawing (etching on the surface of photographs with an electric soldering gun). On the three inside surfaces a mirror finish is used to create infinite repetitions of the character "MU" which in Japanese both "nothingness" and-in this case-"limitless." This cutting-edge work by Tada combines the realms of "sound" and "art" as only he can. " - SOH Gallery. Highly recommended!

Artist: TADA, MASAMI
Title: ne
Format: Double CD
Label: SOH Gallery
Country: Japan
Price: $52.00

Artist: TADA, MASAMI
Title: son
Format: CD
Label: SOH Gallery
Country: Japan
Price: $30.00

Artist: TADA, MASAMI/YASUMASA MORIMURA
Title: kokoro-improvisation
Format: LP
Label: SOH Gallery
Country: Japan
Price: $85.00

Artist: TAIGA REMAINS
Title: Thereafter
Format: Cass
Label: Arbor
Country: USA
Price: $10.00

"Alex Cobbs Taiga Remains project pushes the exact opposite vibes as the name of his Students of Decay label. With use of nothing but guitar and pedals Cobb materializes lush and precise drones which seem to come directly out of the air. So heavy and powerful that they dont even seem to exist, nor could they come from any instrument / human. Total peace and solitude; meditative Eastern vibes transcendent in and of themselves. The A sides "Winter Tai-Tung" is a light and breezy trip through the mist, growing unconsciously, beyond notice until the track ends. The B sides "Spring Shan-Lin-Shi" recalls visions ten seconds of prayer service slowed down and stretched into ten minutes, like the sound right after a bell rings hung in static forever. In an edition of 100 tapes in oversized plastic cases with an insert and printed labels."- Arbor

Artist: TAIGA REMAINS/RV PAINTINGS
Title: Split
Format: LP
Label: Blackest Rainbow
Country: UK
Price: $18.00

"Two of Americas finest drone acts come together for this split LP. Taiga Remains is Student of Decays master mind Alex Cobbs project. If you aint picked up his new disc on Digitalis Wax Canopy yet, go get it, it is one of the best drone releases I have heard in a long time! The 15-minute track on this new split LP is entitled Mengku From Mengsa. Opening with far off chimes upon chimes, this leads to pure bliss dream zones, rather than the more intense material on the aforementioned Wax Canopy. This is a fantastic piece of drone work, layered to create some beautiful zoning out in the mind. RV Paintings is the project of Brian Pyle of the almighty psychedelia legends Starving Weirdos, along with his brother Jon Pyle, and Spencer Doran, who also plays under the name of Cloaks. This is an amazing track, kinda darker and bleaker than the Weirdos vibe, with some totally awesome free percussion playing central to the piece. This is hard to top in the drone game. A totally solid slab of sound from both acts. Limited to 400 copies." - Blackest Rainbow. Paste-on cover with insert.

Artist: TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS
Title: July 15, 1972
Format: CD
Label: Showboat/Sky Station
Country: Japan
Price: $29.00

"Official CD reissue of the first Taj Mahal Travellers album, licensed from Sony Japan. Originally issued by CBS in Japan in 1972, this has been incredibly in-demand for quite some time (this Showboat edition was first issued in 2001 or thereabouts and is now more widely available again). The precursor to the 2nd and final Taj-Mahal Travellers album, August 1974 (reissued on P-vine in the late 90s and still available), this represents Fluxus-inspired drone and improvisation at its peak. The line up for this album is: Takehisa Kosugi (electronic violin, radio oscillators & voice), Ryo Loike (electronic contrabass, suntool, harmonia & sheet iron), Yukio Tsuchiya (vibraphon, suntool), Michihiro Kimura (electronic guitar & percussion), Seiji Nagai (electronic trumpet, harmonica & castanet), Tokio Hasegawa (vocal), Kinji Hayashi (electronic engineer), Go Hamada (producer). Recorded live at Sohgetsu Hall, Tokyo on 7/15/72."-Showboat/Sky Station

Artist: TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS
Title: Live Stockholm July, 1971
Format: Double CD
Label: Walhalla
Country: Germany
Price: $31.00

New grey-area repro of what was a pretty grey-area release to begin with, originally released by the Drone Syndicate label in 2000 -- live recordings from 1971 by the one of the ultimate avant-garde drone ensembles of all time! "Led by infamous Fluxus member Takehisa Kosugi, Tokyos Taj Mahal Travellers were one of the prime examples of a band more heard-of than actually heard. Their vinyl legacy (the 1972 LP July 15, 1972 released on CBS/Sony Japan; the 1974 2LP August 1974 released on Columbia Japan and recently reissued by P-Vine as a 2CD; one side of the mythical Oz Days Live 2LP compilation released on Oz in 1973 and bootlegged as a single LP) could dig a hole in your wallet deeper than the Grand Canyon. However, the recent reissues have spread the gospel and so here is the chance to hear the young Taj Mahal Travellers live in Stockholm during their tour through Europe in 1971. Its one 2 hour long improvised track. Enough free-floating higher key bliss to keep every grown-up space-cadet happy for a lot longer."

Artist: TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS
Title: Live Stockholm July, 1971
Format: Double CD
Label: Drone Syndicate
Country: Sweden
Price: $18.00

New lower pricing; 2008 repress. "Led by infamous Fluxus member Takehisa Kosugi, Tokyos Taj Mahal Travellers were one of the prime examples of a band more heard-of than actually heard. Their vinyl legacy (the 1972 LP July 15, 1972 released on CBS/Sony Japan; the 1974 2LP August 1974 released on Columbia Japan and recently reissued by P-Vine as a 2CD; one side of the mythical Oz Days Live 2LP compilation released on Oz in 1973 and recently bootlegged as a single LP) could dig a hole in your wallet deeper than the Grand Canyon. However, the recent reissues have spread the gospel and so here is the chance to hear the young Taj Mahal Travellers live in Stockholm during their tour through Europe in 1971. Its one 2-hour long improvised track. Enough free-floating higher key bliss to keep every grown-up space cadet happy for a lot longer.." From Julian Copes Japrocksampler: "This album is a discorporated, cerebral dance whose rhythm sounds like six weather Gods emulating the cover of Deep Purples Fireball by zooming around Silverstone circuit just inches above the track, each urging himself on by making engine noises: Eee-oww-urghh-ow!!!!!!! Opening with Ryo Koikes horizontally played bowed double bass, its my fave of Taj Mahal Travellers three releases, better even than the obstinate medication of the first official LP JULY 15, 1972, because theres twice as much of it. Meditatively, its extremely useful too: at the entrance portals of this live record, Ryo Koike uses his bass to invoke phlegm phantoms and cranny demons from the butt walls of Cronosian caverns; conjuring a sound as Biblical as Conrad Schnitzlers bizarre bowed cello on T. Dreams Electronic Meditation. Gradually, hesitatingly, almost imperceptibly, a violin theme installs itself, establishing over the next quarter of an hour clop-clopping hooves of hollow rhythm that conjure up the image of frustrated pastoralists driving their reluctant donkeys around the highest and most precipitous cliff edges, as their valuable cargoes sway and shudder and threaten to come untied at any moment. Recorded a full year before their first official LP, I think this in concert album is a far better and more confident shamanic statement, for this Stockholm recording melded together all six group members in such a way that no single musician rises from the primal soup long enough to establish his singular muse. The vocal effects are truly stunning, evoking everything from comb-and-paper voices playing Zeus in the sixty-metre deep Dhikhtean Antron to braying cartoon coyotes laughing to their deaths." -Drone Syndicate

Artist: TAKAHASHI, AYUO
Title: Private Tapes 1985-1995
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $21.00

"First release on the label by the son of avant garde pianist Yuji Takahashi, and a one-time member of Fushitsusha. "20 tracks self-recorded over a period of 10 years. Sound-wise its enticing mixture of Hammill-ish progressive rock, dark folk, medieval-influenced instrumentation and some almost Xpressway-like singer-songwriter stuff (entirely in English). Influenced by Arabian, Celtic and Chinese court music, James Joyce, biwa music (the traditional accompaniment played by blind musicians to recitations of Japanese epic poetry), Richard Thompson and Joao Giberto; impressive stuff."

Artist: TAKAHASHI, IKURO
Title: Anoyo No Dekigoto
Format: LP
Label: Siwa
Country: USA
Price: $26.00

SOLD OUT! "Anoyo No Dekigoto is a duo performance unit, consisting of dance by Yoko Muronoi and music by Ikuro Takahashi. The project has existed for four or five years, but this is their first release with any substantial physical footprint on this corporeal plane. Takahashi has a lengthy history in the Japanese rock underground, dating back to his involvement with no-wavers Akebonoizu during the late seventies and early eighties. Since then he has been the drummer of choice for virtually everyone whos anyone on the scene. High Rise, Fushitsusha, Tamio Shiraishi, Kosokuya, ChŽ-SHIZU, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, and Nagisa Ni Te amongst others have all benefited from his propulsive, dynamic mastery of space. Solo, duo and more expansive projects under a variety of names including Aura Nihilitica, Lamones Young, and Of Dogstarman have revealed a hitherto unsuspected facility for environment-altering improvised drone and electronic drift. Muronoi too has a long CV of experimental dance work behind her, ranging from solo butoh pieces to multi-media collaborations with visual artists, filmmakers and musicians. The name Anoyo no dekigoto means something like Happenings in the Other World, an entirely appropriate moniker for the indeterminate, non-linear and metaphysical nature of the communication between Muronoi and Takahashi during their improvised performances. The music is not simply a background score for the dancers movements. Takahashi even shies away from the description of what they do as communication. Rather, he refers to a complex series of negotiations between dancer, musician, environment, and audience that serve to create a sense of enveloping, trembling communal space. On these recordings, Takahashi takes his interest in electronics to another level. On one track he deploys over thirty tiny oscillators to create a constantly moving, deeply immersive field of higher-function insect chatter. Even without Muronois wraith-like physical presence, the music on this album exerts an eerie and oblique dominance over any room in which it is played. It subtly modifies the listeners perception of time and space, leaving behind a tangible and mournful reminder of its presence, like the luminescent tracks of some passing phantom slowly decaying back into incorporeality." -Alan Cummings. Edition of 300 in yet another incredible silkscreened jacket! SOLD OUT!

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.

Artist: TAKAYANAGI, MASAYUKI/NEW DIRECTION
Title: Live Independence
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $21.00

"Another previously unreleased archive release from Takayanagi, the premier Japanese free-guitar stylist. Recorded live in 1970, waves of trademark feedback abound, but also some more serene segments with flute, freedom atmospherics, etc. Not as overwhelmingly brain-bombing as his previous release on the label (PSF 41), but definitely another important piece in the crucial documentation of Takayanagis career."

Artist: TAKAYANAGI/NEW DIRECTION, MASAYUKI
Title: Call In Question
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $21.00

"Takayanagi is the premier free-guitarist legend in the Japanese underground story. This CD features unreleased material by the master, from 1970. The sound is heavy improv, with Takayangis explosive feedback wail in prominent display. As fine an introduction to his music as you could hope for (most of his albums from the 60s & 70s are impossible to track down)." - FE.

Artist: TAKIS
Title: Pendules Magnétiques (1964-66)/Le Siècle De Kafka (1984)
Format: LP
Label: Alga Marghen
Country: Italy
Price: $34.00

"Alga Marghen proudly presents one of the highlights of his catalogue, an exclusive LP edition with the recordings of Takis electro-magnetic sculptures. Takis is the originator of this new approach to the musicality of sound, which consists in laying bare the repetitious structure of musical form and its functional derivation, thus rejecting the symbolism of representation. Takis was born in 1925 in Athens. Preferring, as a matter of principle, to teach himself rather than study in an institution, he left Greece in 1954 and lived as a citizen of the world, traveling through Europe and the USA. Some of his earliest manifestations in the 1940s consisted of explosions carried out in open places. His first Signals date from 1954: they were rods consisting of piano wires which created musical vibrations as they stuck against each other in the wind. In fact they constituted the first appearance in his work and in contemporary art history of a form of musical expression in which sounds are called forth in an un-programmed way, owing to the action of natural forces. In 1961 Takis meets Marcel Duchamp in New York. Duchamps perpetual moving bicycle wheels inspired Takis hydromagnetic sculptures. In the period between 1964 and 1965 Takis conceives his Pendules magnètiques and constructs his first Sound Sculptures. After the exhibition of Takis titled Electro-musical relief at Indica Gallery in London in 1966, the New Scientist magazine in an article entitled The sounds of tomorrow commented that Takis, Iannis Xenakis and John Cage are the most promising musicians of the century. Takis Pendules magnétiques are based on the simple concept of using magnetic waves caused by electricity as a means to activate repeated musical sounds: the latter are to be heard every time a needle strikes a string, when attracted by a magnet. The sounds reproduced in this edition were recorded in 1993 by Samon Takahashi at Takis retrospective at Jeu de Paume in Paris. Takis participates in 1984 at the exhibition titled The Century of Kafka at Centre Pompidou in Paris and sound work with the same title is also reproduced on this LP edition. As an artist he seeks a natural origin for the construction of sound, and in particular that origin which is furthest removed from the artists arbitrary decision. For about forty years now, it has been Takis purpose to investigate language as a natural function, conceiving function as a form of work. Furthermore, he has broken down the frontiers between sculpture and music in a number of pieces which can only be read by identifying their functionalism as structured units, with their morphological, visual and acoustic aspects. Edition limited to 380 copies with full-color sleeve, printed inner-sleeve reproducing a testimony by Marcel Duchamp and insert with photos of the Pendules magnètiques and a testimony by William Burroughs." - Alga Marghen.

Artist: TALIBAM!
Title: The Excusable Earthling
Format: LP
Label: Pendu Sound
Country: USA
Price: $12.00

"PENDU SOUND RECORDINGS is pleased to present the first full length vinyl platter from Brooklyns own self-described harmoniacal trio. 34 minutes of spontaneous anarchic abandon ranging from frenetic blasts to heavy grooves to quieter, creepier tiptoe blips and percussive hits. The Excusable Earthling is a chaotic, fun, and all-around sick record!" - Pendu Sound.

Artist: TALIBAM! WITH ALAN WILKINSON
Title: Dem Ol Apple Pie Melodies
Format: LP
Label: Bo Weavil
Country: UK
Price: $25.00

"LP release. Determined to continue collaborating with revolutionary blitzkrieg musicians in perpetuity, Brooklyns Talibam! (Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea) were set up on a blind date with Alan Wilkinson by Bo Weavil Recordings for a London basement show in May 2008. Like a late 60s Sadean love-in ripe with Joycean epiphanies, Talibam! heard in Wilkinsons tone the strength and grit of a fine British pint served cool and fresh... a perfect energy to swing-bounce their roly-poly hieroglyphic dance mayhem. A second gig happened in fall 2008, followed by this recording in winter 2009. If Talibam! and Wilkinson were a rugby team, theyd be in first place, trouncing competitors with more riff-hard tenacity and more powerful/declarative end-zone dances. Balancing contradictory cultural fragments into a psychedelic yin and yang power drive of glitch emission, sprezzatura horns, Zarathrusta organ drone launch, and sayanora-rama drum spills, Wilkinson, Mottel, and Shea turn animatronic nihilists into veritable musicological sexphorisms -- they cut the tension on the dancefloor like that abrupt liminal point between peace and footsie, between donuts and bagels, between lizards and turtles. These three dangerously handsome myriad-men from the future have materialized mixed signals into sharp-fanged foreign accents on this red-eye voyage to vinyl metropoly, a 2-sided ecosystem of Gatsby-killer morph-prov entitled Dem Ol Apple Pie Melodies. Limited edition of 350 hand-numbered copies. Lavish heavyweight matte sleeve with insert, designed by Damien Beaton." -Bo Weavil

Artist: TALIBAM! WITH DANIEL CARTER
Title: New Nixon Tapes
Format: LP
Label: Roaratorio
Country: USA
Price: $12.00

"Since 2003, NYCs Talibam! have been charting a course through the improv waters in a way that few other groups can pull off. Rock, jazz, noise and all stops in between collide in an aggressive mix that defines free music in the best sense of the term: nothing is deemed out of bounds. Too much fun to be a po-faced postmodern exercise, and too expertly played to be sunk in a morass of good intentions, The New Nixon Tapes hurtles through two side-long pieces in an agile cascade of rhythmic and melodic ideas. Kevin Shea (drums) and Matt Mottel (synthesizer) have worked with Cooper-Moore and Rhys Chatham, among others; here theyre joined by master saxophonist / trumpeter / flautist Daniel Carter. Recorded live in the WFMU studios. MP3 download coupon included." -Roaratorio

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."

Artist: TALK NORMAL
Title: Secret Cog
Format: LP
Label: Just For The Hell Of It
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

"On this five-song E.P., Brooklyn-based duo Talk Normal ⿿ drummer Andrya Ambro and guitarist Sarah Register ⿿ create a nice racket that does a deft job of splitting the difference between harsh sonics and the essential song-oriented structures required of noise rock. Neither a band in which noise is merely a bi-product of a savage attack nor an overtly experimental outfit steeped in this or that high concept, Talk Normal come off as an organic self-contained unit that extracts as much as they can from their explicitly minimal approach. Sure, there are some obvious touchstones here ⿿ Sonic Youth, Magik Markers, Ut, Teenage Jesus ⿿ but the songs never feel derivative. Though various sorts of processed sounds work their way in and out of the picture, the bands aesthetic is built on a basic foundation of guitars, drums and vocals. The duo are clearly working within a dark, neo-now wave framework, yet theres some variety, too. They can sound both hyper and dirgey, calling to mind heat-soaked basement shows and cold moldy practice spaces alike. ⿿Grinnin in Your Face⿝ opens the album and establishes the Talk Normal template, squiggling moans of feedback, a simple lurching riff, and a dual vocal attack all buoyed by frenetic drumming. ⿿Eureka⿝ then uses a Branca-style guitarscape as foundation for a sing-speak vocal monologue direct from early 80s downtown NYC. ⿿Lemonade⿝ rides a catchy little groove early on, and then builds to a drum-guitar/freak-out zenith. Perhaps the most curious aspect of these tracks, however, is that despite whatever stabs of sound punctuate the atmosphere, or whatever structural shifts might occur, theres always a simple, repetitive pulse present, not so much an anchor as a telltale heart of suppressed aggression. Even on the sets most distinctive track, the stark finale ⿿Rest With Me,⿝ theres a tension lurking, played out via a subtle, yet insidious throb. Talk Normal are making their music amidst an increasingly cluttered underground landscape, and the duos seeming intrepidness in the face of that fact shines through. Theyve cultivated their own voice that, when combined with that strange festering energy, should make for solid stuff with each successive release." - Nate Knaebel/Dusted. Released on Little Claws inhouse label. "Mass market" edition of 500 copies, printed covers.

Artist: TAMAM SHUD
Title: Gooluntionites and the Real People
Format: CD
Label: Radioactive
Country: UK
Price: $17.00

"Although the Sydney-based Tamam Shud (the unusual name is probably a corruption of Taman Shud, borrowed from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) was formed in 1967 by singer/guitarist Lindsay Bjerre, the band only sprang to prominence when their superb debut album, Evolution , was issued by CBS (SBP 233761) in 1969. Having established themselves with Evolution , the band went on to record their opus major for Warner Bros in 1970 in the form of the ambitious Goolutionites And The Real People (WS 20001), a stunning and imaginative work dominated by the prodigious talents of 16-year old guitarist, Tim Gaze. Gazes precocious guitar work was conspicuously present throughout the album, although it was on A Plague and Stand In The Sunlight, both of which were to appear as 45s, that his playing really shone. Although Gaze left the band immediately after the albums release to join Kahvas Jute, he returned later the same year, and remained in the group until it disbanded in 1972. Goolutionites is widely recognised as one of the finest Australian prog-psych offerings of all time." - Radioactive.

Artist: TAMION 12"/MAGAS
Title: Split
Format: Cass
Label: Nihilist
Country: USA
Price: $8.50

"Two artists from the Ersatz Audio family. Magas (ex-Lake of Dracula, COUCH) and Sam of Tamion now of Adult. These are both well recorded live shows from Chicago in 2003. Packaged in yellow/blue satin pouches." - Nihilist.

Artist: TANAKA-NIXON MEETING
Title: Blessed
Format: 7"
Label: Giardia
Country: USA
Price: $3.00

Artist: TANGERINE DREAM
Title: Run To Vegas
Format: LP/CD
Label: Lilith
Country: Russia
Price: $29.00

"A compilation of rare tracks by German avant pioneers, Tangerine Dream, beginning with a rare single from Edgar Froeses pre-TD band, the Ones (a psychedelic affair recorded in 1967, before Froese had fully distanced himself from rock music by selling off his guitars for a host of constantly changing electronic gizmos). The remaining tracks come primarily from their successful Virgin period, with Christopher Franke on drums and Johannes Schmölling on keyboards. Features the CD-only bonus track Landing On 51." -Lilith

Artist: TANK J
Title: Craquer les Liants
Format: LP
Label: Bimbo Tower
Country: France
Price: $24.00

"Serge Adam (trumpet, bugle), Jérome Noetinger (electroacoustic system), Titus Oppmann (Bass), Jean-Noël Cognard (drums, percussions & objects). Second installement in the Tankj serie (see other release on the same label). Another excellent astonishing quartet around Monsieur Cognard (Big boss of the Block Thyristors vynil label )." - Bimbo Tower.

Artist: TANKJ
Title: Puissance 36 kw
Format: LP
Label: Bloc Thyristors/Bimbo Tower
Country: France
Price: $18.00

"Inspired exited quartet with Jean-Noël Cognard (Salmigondis) on Drums and assorted percussions, Arnaud Rivière (Bobby Moo) on elctronics, Titus Oppman on bass & Chicco Gramaglia on trombone. Free jazz meets junkotronics!" -Bloc Thyristors/Bimbo Tower

Artist: TANKRED, KENT
Title: A Revelation
Format: CD
Label: Firework Editions
Country: Sweden
Price: $13.50

"Kent Tankred, born in Stockholm in 1947, is a composer, an artist and a performance artist. The connection between sounds and pictures is evident in his sounding sculptures and in the "visual" musical instrument, The Concresizer, he has constructed. Kent Tankreds compositions can be characterized by complex textures and spaces in which small details are of significance. As a listener, one must tune into the micro planes of his sound landscape. The text ⿝King James Bible Book of Revelations⿝ is the structuring element of all the compositions on this CD. In different ways and in many levels the text is transformed into something new, to revel the hidden words, the message." - Firework Editions.

Artist: TAPE SALAD
Title: Each Banana Is Unique
Format: CDR
Label: Chocolate Monk
Country: UK
Price: $12.00

"Anders Artentoft (Bohman Family/Bimbo Sons) squats and lays a super Copenhagen retard style egg. Full on special needs anti-music with tiny face melt." - Chocolate Monk.

Artist: TAR BABIES
Title: Face The Music/Respect Your Nightmares
Format: CD
Label: Lexicon Devil
Country: Australia
Price: $13.00

"Originally issued on the Lexicon Devil label in 2005. In 1982, the Tar Babies were burning up half-pipes and blazing venues with their hyper-speed punk rock. More well known for their late 80s LPs on the famed SST label, in which they veered towards a more DC-influenced "punk-funk" sound, and the subsequent acclaim that their drummer, Dan Bitney, acquired with Tortoise, the Babies were also one of the great, and tragically overlooked Midwestern hardcore bands of the original era, releasing two phenomenal 12" EPs on their own Bone Air imprint in 83 and 85, respectively. This CD hopes to rectify that obscurity by putting these two long-out-of-print discs back onto the marketplace for the first time on CD, with a ton of bonus material as a special treat. Inside you will find: The complete Face The Music and Respect Your Nightmares EPs, which featured early production work by Bob Mould and Butch Vig; "The Ocean" track from the Master Tapes 2LP; "Calebs Getting Mad" from their 5-song demo cassette from 1982 (the other tracks are on FTM); five previously-unreleased songs from the era, taken from the vaults of the TBs Bucky Pope, as well as alternate versions of two EP tracks; reproductions of the original artwork from the EPs, plus a collage of flyers, photos and reviews from the era in a 10-panel booklet. Liner notes from Bucky Pope himself. All of this has been digitally edited, sequenced and fiddled with by Melbourne-via-Chicago audio whiz-kid, Casey Rice. The music the Tar Babies were pumping out in 82/83 was an awesome collision course of Black Flag-style tension/release and heart-thumping thrash copped from a heavy diet of Minor Threat 7"s. Think the ferocity of early Die Kreuzen, Negative Approach, Necros, and youre in the ballpark. By 85, things had changed. The pace had slowed a touch, and most of all, Bucky was pumping out highly inventive riffs in an angular Eddie Hazel/Hendrix/Greg Ginn vein. Sharing the stage with a host of HC heroes and a bevy of SST folks criss-crossing the U.S. on their never-ending tours, the band caught the attention of Mr. Ginn and the rest is history. That is, of course, except for their 1982-1985 output. That is all here, and its a rip-snorting collection. 25 tracks and 47 minutes of trailblazing, fist-pumping slampit rama-lama from a time when people really meant it."- Lexicon Devil. Highly recommended!

Artist: TAR PET
Title: The Artist Revealed is Taralie Dawn
Format: LP
Label: Galactic Zoo Disk/Eclipse
Country: USA
Price: $13.50

"In dark times, brave figures raise their weary heads to speak the utterances no one else can -- scrambled, multi-dimensional, and even fried might describe these prophets -- Skip Spence, Jandek, Skip James, Syd Barrett, Patty Waters... Who knew this voice would arise from a rather thin, wild-eyed young lady, one Tar Pet (or is Taralie Dawn - even Im not sure). Stretching out into the dusty wasteland and untapped parts of the psyche, these are the bedroom meditations of magnificent fractured beauty. Broken hearts, souls, and landscapes fill these uniquely-voiced tales. This is truly where strong, expressive songwriting should be at. Taralie is also a member of Spires That in the Sunset Rise, who have an LP on GZDisk/Eclipse, and a new CD due on Secret Eye, and have played with Faun Fables, Pelt, Charalmabides, etc." Edition of 500 copies.

Artist: TARGAL, JEM
Title: Luckey Guy
Format: CD
Label: Obscure Oxide
Country: USA
Price: $18.00

"A Turkish Leprechaun by birth, with a childhood fully immersed in music and art, Jem Targal first made his mark as vocalist/bassist/main songwriter for Detroit power-trio legends THIRD POWER (their lone Vanguard album from 1969 still rightfully well-regarded today). After the band split in 1972, a despondent Jem took up home recording, laying down hours of tape on a Teac 4-track machine. Jem selected the best cuts from these solo sessions in 1978 and released ⿿Luckey Guy⿝⿿pasting the gatefold covers and handling all sales himself in true DIY fashion. The album never stays still with one style for too long, but rather drifts along with spaced-out guitar (Bumble Bee Drive), tortured, dissonant piano (Ring Out The Bells), culminating in a sparse, apocalyptic tale (The Bomb Tune), with bits of childlike whimsy and Jems eerie harmonies woven throughout, not to mention a few musical touches that indicate its mid-1970s vintage. Were we to shamelessly namedrop, we might mention Syd Barrett, Skip Spence, Brian Wilson and Gary Wilson as starting points... But were above that, for its the first ever appearance on compact disc of this odd and eclectic bit of loner folk/psych. The label tracked down the master-tapes, miraculously still in storage at the original pressing plant, and created a mini-LP sleeve replica of the original album jacket, that includes an insert booklet with liner notes and newly-transcribed lyrics handwritten by Jem himself. Audio digitally transferred, with no added compression or equalisation, from the 1/4" analogue two-track master reels.⿝ - Obscure Oxide.

Artist: TARP
Title: S/T
Format: 7"
Label: Apostasy
Country: USA
Price: $5.50

"Synth-duo Tarp is made up of Joshua Burkett (Vermonster, Believers, solo, etc.) and Conrad Capistran (Sunburned Hand of the Man, Sephiroths Knot). Two tightly edited masterstrokes flank the sides of this 7", taking Tarp out of their familiar live setting and thrusting them under a sonic microscope. Neat and polished, yet still utterly unconstrained. Amazing journeys packed into each four-minute track. Tarp effortlessly glide through a full spectrum of atmospheres: call-and-response conversation, brooding ambience, rhythmic pulses, and melodic lullabies. Full color sleeve art by George W. Myers." - Apostasy. Co-released with Breaking World Records.

Artist: TART
Title: Bring In The Admiral
Format: LP
Label: Swill Radio
Country: USA
Price: $15.00

"Tart (Graham Lambkin, Karla Borecky, and Scott Foust) presents the world with their second LP, Bring In The Admiral. Since the release of their first LP, Radio Orange, Tart has been playing and honing their trade at various shows in the Northeast. Using the same minimal instrumentation as the live shows (two small casios, guitar, and a shortwave/cassette boombox plus a few studio effects and The Anti-Naturals trademark: tight, subtle, and yet powerful editing), Tart produces a dazzling array of scenarios, a testament to deranged beauty. Tart is a band that truely does not sound like anyone else. Beautiful color cover. Who doesnt need a little Tart in their life?" - Swill Radio.

Artist: TART
Title: Radio Orange
Format: LP
Label: Swill Radio
Country: USA
Price: $15.00

"The debut LP from the trio of: Karla Borecky, Graham Lambkin, and Scott Foust, recorded and assembled over 8 months between 1999 and 2000. Tart is an exquisite combination of three distinct minds, much like the skillful structure of diverse, yet subtle, ingredients in a piquant and nostalgic recipe: The Past as well as The Future. Tart blends together these strange elements in an organic yet totally disciplined style that renders many of their contemporaries as either flabby or boring. Radio Orange presents 7 original pieces of expertly edited new music-form. From the opening tape-collage miniatures, The Rabbits of Mangtarau (pts 1 & 2), through to the indeterminacy and excitement of the closing title-track, Radio Orange carves its identity through great use of diversified expression. The analog drone / vox duet: Astride Such Delicate Pins; the bizarre environmental action, Woman In Her Womb; the fragile tone composite, The Mums; and the grinding electronic surge of (the almost 20 minute) Chopin in a Shell all help complete the program in classic style. The overall sound is both hypnotic and explosive, with each side being carefully sequenced to maximize the fact. Radio Orange comes complete with a beautiful full-color sleeve, designed by Karla, and contrasting monotone labels by Graham. The super-modernist avant garde continues to raise its aesthetic head under the romantic banner of the Anti-Naturals. Tart is fabulous." - Swill Radio.

Artist: TASS 2
Title: Unterhaltung
Format: LP
Label: Vinyl-On-Demand
Country: Germany
Price: $22.00

"Minimal electronics has a few different faces. There is a rather poppy version of the genre but also a more experimental version with early industrial influences. This record by TASS 2 is for sure one that belongs to the experimental style. The sounds on this album are raw, noisy and dark. Some comparisons to early Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle and Gerechtigkeitsliga can be made, but TASS 2 is more typical minimal electronics then these artists. Titles like Stahlgeburt and Muzac speak for themselves. Best tracks are the dark pulsating Unterhaltung and Tunnelmensch. If you want to hear some authentic minimal electronics that are harsh and intense, this lp is a must have." Last copies of this 2005 release. Numbered edition of 500.

Artist: TATE, DARREN & PAUL BRADLEY
Title: Sometime Today
Format: CD
Label: Plinkity Plonk
Country: Netherlands
Price: $18.50

"A collaboration between Darren Tate and Paul Bradley. In his own unique and intimate way, Darren recorded the basic tracks at his home in York. Including guitar, keyboard and various other techniques, these recordings were passed onto Paul who took them with him, along with a laptop, on a recent visit to Turkey. These original tracks were supplemented with various field recordings taken around the town of Fethiye and the piece assembled during this three-week visit. Voyeuristic, evocative, abstract and delicate, you are invited to spend some time in their sonic world. Darren Tate made his name in the group Ora, a floating collective that included Colin Potter, Andrew Chalk and Jonathan Coleclough. Paul Bradley started out with his first commercial release on ICR and this friendship and partnership has continued over two collaborative CDs with Colin Potter." - Plinkity Plonk.

Artist: TAU EMERALD
Title: Travellers Two
Format: CD
Label: Important
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

"Travellers Two is a full length recording from the duo of Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and Sharron Kraus. Together Kraus & Burke create an ethereal record of dark-folk magic. Tara Burke and Sharron Kraus were due to travel to Finland together for a week but missed the flight, so instead they decided to spend the week recording together and Travellers Two is the result. The time was spent out in the fields, visiting burial mounds, and then coming back to Sharrons home studio to work. They had played previously together and done some recording but this is the first time an album was conceived."- Important

Artist: TAURPIS TULA
Title: Steel Rods Bruise Butterflies
Format: CDR
Label: Chocolate Monk
Country: UK
Price: $12.00

"This first recording as a trio (Heather and David Leigh are joined by Alex Neilson on drums) is a full on sonic avalanche. A wild exorcism, baby." - Chocolate Monk.

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.

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

Artist: TAYLOR BOW
Title: Thin Air
Format: LP
Label: Youth Attack
Country: USA
Price: $15.00

600 copies w/extra heavy 28 pt."old style" tip-on covers in resealable bags."There is a dying plebeian ambivalence to the ghastly creaks and tragedies of New York City. Only here can one man come up against another, individually in a void, and speak collectively to the disintegration of his being. A city where the deluge of beauty is mystified by the constant groan of economy undermining a perpetually dissolving modernity. As it looms, it showers upon us the debris of its newest and most ragged disharmonies to stimulate our malignant activities and applaud the constant awakening of our intangible reality. These luminous sights, sounds, and sensations of this mythological frontier are but mere scuffles and flurries under the crumbling stone and iron exposed to the decay and the terror of the overwhelming shadows that engulf us." - Youth Attack.

Artist: TAYLOR, DUB
Title: Lumiere For Synthesized & Concrete Sound
Format: CDR
Label: Creel Pone
Country: USA
Price: $10.00

"this record is zonked. and by that i dont mean that i cant conjure up other adjectives (i most certainly can; fried, surrealist, inept, genius, etc...), just that i cant get my head around describing what it is mr. taylor is doing exactly. it almost sounds like someone... as the brits say ⿿taking the piss⿝ out of musique concrète... but then again theres this twisted logic to the construction of the whole thing thats just so... out... (i.e. ⿿i know... lets just pile everything up on top of itself and not edit it at all...⿝) - the sound-combinations so seemingly random thats its hard to believe a conscious composer/technician type didnt lay this to tape back in 1972... my favorite bits are when a voice (i assume its the composers) comes in near the beginning, half-buried: ⿿sounds good...⿝ from there a wave of surging/burbling synths and filtered white noise let loose on the whole frequency range, leaving little in the way of... you know... ⿿musical sense⿝... there are some bike-horns, what sounds like someone dialing in an fm radio (then leaving it between stations), a jet passing overhead, a guitar-amp feeding back while someone ⿿snaps⿝ into a microphone, etc... sounds are panned hard left/right for entire sides at a time. some backwards speaking kind of rises to the top, then its back to ⿿normal⿝... and thats just the first side... from here on out, any time someone plays me a record like the shaggs or y. bhekhirst, reveling in the fact that it got made in the first place, im going to play them this, as its so much better on an example. im just completely dumbfounded that the sentient folks over at varese international went the distance... kudos! note: their are a bunch of drop-outs on the b-side that are, (un)surprisingly, part of the sonic stew, not any weird mastering issues on p.c.s part (wouldnt be the first time hes fallen asleep at the console though! that lout...)" - Creel Pone.

Artist: TAZARTES, GHEDALIA
Title: Diasporas/Tazartes
Format: CD
Label: Alga Marghen
Country: Italy
Price: $20.00

"2009 repress. More than 5 years after the CD edition of Eclipse totale de soleil and Transportes, Alga Marghen finally decided to also reissue the first and the forth LP by Ghedalia Tazartes including both on one CD. Ghedalia Tazartes is a nomad. He wanders through music from chant to rhythm, from one voice to another. He paves the way for the electric and the vocal paths, between the muezzin psalmody and the screaming of a rocker. He traces vague landscapes where the mitre of the white clown, the plumes of the sorcerer, the helmet of a cop and Parisian anhydride collide into polyphonic ceremonies. Dont become a black, an Arab, a Tibetan monk, a Jew, a woman or an animal but to feel all this stirring deep inside of you. The greatest trips are made in the deep end of the throat: the extra-European music open the ear to Ghedalias intra-European exotism. Where was music before music halls? Where was the voice before it learned how to speak? Ghedalia is the orchestra and a pop group all in one person: the self is multitude and others. The author and his doubles work without a net, freely connecting the sounds, the rhythms, his voice, his voices. The permanent metamorphosis is a principle of composition, it escapes control, refuses classification. To hell with the technocrates of noise and the purists of synthetic culture. All art like all true mythology use a double clavier, playing nature and culture, feeling and the distance of the flesh, death. Off limits!" -Alga Marghen

Artist: TAZARTES, GHEDALIA
Title: Les Danseurs de la Pluie
Format: 3" CD
Label: Alga Marghen
Country: Italy
Price: $16.00

"Les Danseurs de la Pluie", which gives title to the complete anthology, is a 12-minute mini-CD, presented on creative disc, including four previously unavailable tracks. Two 1977 killer recordings from the Eclipse Totale sessions of a very wild and residential nature; and two colossal new pieces recorded in 2005." - Alga Marghen. Repressed!

Artist: TAZARTES, GHEDALIA
Title: Tazartès Transports
Format: CD
Label: Alga Marghen
Country: Italy
Price: $20.00

"Probably represents the most original example of the artists poetical and personal approach to sound organisation. The material of the first track, which gives also the title to this CD, was recorded in 1977 at the artists own studio in Paris; the CD reprint of this mixed atmospheres masterpiece is followed by Transports 1 and Transports 2, both composed in 1997 for a theatre piece. We are here in front of a different kind of transport, where the more complex and powerful sound material contributes to create the dense, monolithic structure of these previously unreleased tracks. Elie, a piano piece performed in duo with the composers young daughter, brings a poetic and more relaxing magic to end the program." - Alga Marghen. Repressed!

Artist: TAZARTES, GHEDALIA
Title: Une Eclipse Totale de Soleil
Format: CD
Label: Alga Marghen
Country: Italy
Price: $20.00

"The first record released by Ghedalia Tazartes in 1979. Far away from contemporary music intellectualisms or from synthetical noise purists, this was certainly one of the most original and creative records of the 70s featuring a new form of musical expression...the value of this work was underestimated and only a few people had a chance to listen to its beautiful music. Now, due to the new growing interest, Alga Marghen has taken the decision to reprint all Tazartes records, starting with his first work. Originally conceived in two parts, Une Eclipse... has been remastered and is now integrated by a 25 minute new piece (Part III), composed expressly for this CD." A unique record, utilizing collage, strange vocals by Tazartes, trance-ethno backing splices, droning organ and childish naivete, in a spirit all of its own."

Artist: TBC
Title: Gute Luft/Muskel
Format: 7"
Label: Drone
Country: GERMANY
Price: $6.50

"TBC is the short form for THOMAS BECK, a sound-activist from Hamburg, Germany, who has been involved in the experimental sound-explorer scene since many years there (also active with a Radio-programme and a magazine for experimental music). Among his releases we find some cassettes and two split LPs (with REZNICEK and recently with BRUME). On the three tracks on this EP he uses human voice and environmental recordings to create droning sound-patterns of a higher beauty, structures appear and dissolve again, tension is build and re-build (similar to TOY BIZARRE or ERIC LA CASA).... without knowing where exactly the sounds are derived from, everything stays mysterious and alien, a very own soundworld to experience. PINK VINYL WITH "OLD STYLED" PHOTOCOPIED B/W COVER. 33 rpm, in a limited first edition of 250 copies." - Drone.

Artist: TECHNICAL SPACE COMPOSERS CREW
Title: Canaxis 5
Format: LP
Label: Scheisshouse
Country: Germany
Price: $20.00

"The project name for a one-off collaboration between Cans bass player Holger Czukay and the painter Rolf Dammers. Canaxis 5 (1969) was an early attempt at manipulating ethnic music (World music), in many ways predating the discreet background music of certain ambient Brian Eno albums. The album was made using tape loops from traditional Vietnamese music to create some kind of acoustic sound painting. The result was a strange sound milage. It contained only two tracks: "Boat-Woman-Song" and "Canaxis". Few ordinary instruments were in use, only Holgers bass can be heard occasionally. Nowadays, this album is nothing more than a curiosity, documenting the ambient music in its early childhood. Czukays tape editing skills steadily improved through the years - as proved by the mid-period Can albums and even more so on his solo albums." - Mutantsounds. "One of the earliest and rarest Krautrock albums ever, this was recorded in 1968 by Holger Czukay of CAN fame, and released the next year on the tiny Music Factory label in a pressing of only 500 copies. With just one long track on each side, this faithful reissue features all the original artwork." - Scheisshouse.

Artist: TECUMSEH
Title: Avalanche and Inundation
Format: CD
Label: Important
Country: USA
Price: $14.00

"Formed in 2004, Tecumseh creates drone metal of the heaviest variety although with more forward movement than some of their peers and with the addition of cold electronic hiss. Using two basses, electronics, percussion and guitar, Tecumseh wrap themselves and their listeners in a warm sonic meditative slow motion blanket woven from their skilled use of sound and space. Avalanche And Inundation was recorded in the winter of 2008 with Jeremy Romagna (Yellow Swans, Trees, Silentist). This is the perfect metallic drifting off music, almost like theyve discovered some new genre, sludge-ambient, doom-age, whatever you decide to call it, its pretty amazing, and fans of all things slow motion, downtuned and yes, heavy will dig this big time, --Aquarius.

Artist: TECUMSEH
Title: Avalanche and Inundation
Format: LP
Label: Important
Country: USA
Price: $18.00

Artist: TEE PEE
Title: Heal
Format: 7"
Label: Floridas Dying
Country: USA
Price: $5.50

"Second 7", from sometime Electric Bunny, Eric Lopez. Less than 6 months out of the gate he already has 3 cassette tapes, a cdr, and two more 7"s (on Sweet Rot, andozac) on the way. One man drone punk over drum machine and sustained notes on a keyboard." -Floridas Dying

Artist: TEE PEE
Title: Morals
Format: LP
Label: Senzei
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

"if you dont know the Teepee sound already, its a mix of synthpop/punk/hypnotic drones/Moody acoustic guitar/ & outsider sounds. Sounds that are sure to get inside your inner self and make you want to spin it over & over. This is quality material. 500 copies on Ebony Black vinyl w/ inserts and download card. Teepee is also a member of Miami groups Electric Bunnies & Melted Sunglasses" - Senzei

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.

Artist: TEENAGE BOATPEOPLE
Title: NOW
Format: CD
Label: Agua Prieta
Country: USA
Price: $9.00

"Teenage Boatpeople NOW (Agua Prieta 000209) contains 5 new songs recorded in 2009, 4 songs that comprised the out of print vinyl EP, 4 BY THE TEENAGE BOATPEOPLE, originally released in 1979, and 4 demos recorded in 1980. Teenage Boatpeople are a Minneapolis based Avant-Garde Rock band founded in 1979 by Jeff Johnson. The band played a short run of gigs 1980-81 at local venues including First Avenues Main Room and 7th St. Entry, the New Riverside Cafe, and the legendary Longhorn (Zoogies), sharing the bill with the likes of DNA, Husker Du, Naked Raygun, the Milo Fine Free Jazz Ensemble, and the Suburbs. The music the band created in 1979/80 was unique and difficult to categorize for the Minneapolis scene at the time. With the lack of local support the group disbanded in late 1981. The bands current line up retains two core members -- Jeff Johnson and Milo Fine -- and adds new member Tim Mauseth (Rocking Pinecones, Safety Last). Milo Fine is an internationally known improvising musician who has been active in the field since 1969. He has been featured on 3 dozen published documents including recordings with Free Jazz/Improvised Music legends Anthony Braxton, Derek Bailey, the Reform Art Unit, Hugh Davies, among others." -Agua Prieta

Artist: TEENAGE JESUS & THE JERKS
Title: Shut Up and Bleed
Format: CD
Label: Cherry Red
Country: UK
Price: $18.00

"The seminal no-wave band Teenage and Jesus and The Jerks were lead by primal screamer and guitarist Lydia Lunch, an individual who has fought her artistic way through the decades, always true to her own vision and always brutally honest. In early 1978, artist and producer Brian Eno attended a series of shows put on to benefit the Artists Space in Soho and influenced Island Records to finance an anthology LP featuring the four strongest bands -- Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, The Contortions, Mars and DNA. The resulting recording, entitled No New York and produced by Eno, remains as one of the most impressive and extraordinarily bold debuts of the time. Here we compiled all Teenage Jesus and The Jerks recordings, alongside some NEVER previously released live material. Simultaneous to Teenage Jesus, Lunch formed Beirut Slump, released one single and recorded an albums worth of material, which is also included on this remarkable release." - Cherry Red

Artist: TEENAGE PANZERKORPS
Title: Games For Slaves
Format: LP
Label: Siltbreeze
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

"Der TPK liken the sound of their second aural onslaught to "[The battle of] Kursk, second day." Who among us cannot relate to the largest tank battle in history? While the comparison may not be an easy nut to crack, the reference, specifically to the second day, is telling: the wonton destruction that unfolded on that field of battle in an attempt to break the Soviet bulge cannot be overstated. For the Germans, it was unmitigated tragedy. So by comparing Games for Slaves to this particular point in the offensive, Der TPK makes clear that album number two is more brooding and melancholy than Harmful Emotions. Bunker Wolfs menacing lupine-schrei is as formidable as ever, but the band has moved from the blitzkreig, almost hardcore-like pace of their Siltbreeze debut to a more Mancunian post-punk sound (angular guitars, rhythmic dirges), crossed with the luftschutszbunker psychedelia of German Oak (especially on the organ-laden tracks). Edmund Xaviers spidery guitar fills recall similar stylings of a young Bernard Sumner, while the bass/drum propulsion of Boy True and Catholic Pat call to mind the underrated talents of Slight Seconds Mike Shaw and Peter Hibbert. Getting back to Bunker Wolf, there is no one like him. Maybe if Peter Hind (Mittagspause-era) could still squeak while goose-stepping across the squat in a pair of leather trousers, then we might have some trouble. But that aint likely. No one does it in 2008 like Teenage Panzerkorps. Games for Slaves is more beauteous gas on an already raging and spectacular fire. Edition of 500 with insert and single-sided, silk-screened, black-and-white cover." -Siltbreeze

Artist: TEENAGE PANZERKORPS
Title: s/t
Format: 7"
Label: Captured Tracks
Country: USA
Price: $5.50

"Icy post-punky songs with barked Germanic vocals. Three great tracks. Freaky color insert. These guys (also known as DER TPK) have also put out killer records on Stiltbreeze." - Captured Tracks.

Artist: TEETH MOUNTAIN
Title: Live On
Format: LP
Label: Not Not Fun
Country: USA
Price: $17.00

"Follow-up to last years well-received full-length of collaged live performances released on SHDWPLY. This is another half hour-plus of the Baltimore drum/drone collective at their most zoned and loose-limbed." -Not Not Fun.

Artist: TELESCOPES, THE
Title: Night Terrors E.P
Format: 7"
Label: Trensmat
Country: UK
Price: $6.50

"The Telescopes have been pushing audio frontiers since 1988 releasing now regarded classics on Creation, Cheree and What Goes On. In 2002 after an eight year void they returned with the Third Wave LP on NYC label Double Agent. Their new sound is characterised by improvised free drone noise pieces, which have been released by Hungry Audio, Fourier Transform, Double Agent and reissues on Revola, Spaceage, Midsummer Madness and The Committee To Keep Music Evil prompting the NME to declare the genius of The Telescopes. They open proceedings for Trensmat with an E.P of free drone audio druidry. Side 1 contains the seven and a half minute AMM meets Suicide groove of DSM-1v axis 1: 307.46 - the DSM term for night terrors. Side 2 builds a brilliant and atmospheric subterranean world of drone and white noise using household objects - true metal machine music." - Trensmat.

Artist: TELESCOPES, THE
Title: Third Wave
Format: LP
Label: Isota
Country: USA
Price: $14.00

"UK pop sensations the TELESCOPES return after a ten-year hiatus spent carefully admiring the tops of their shoes, and deliver another solid, sensuous album. A deliciously crafted blend of poppin psychedelia, futurist sci-fi synth sounds, avant-jazz and creepy spoken word flavors." - Isota

Artist: TEMBO & NGOZI FAMILY, CHRISSY ZEBBY
Title: My Ancestors
Format: LP
Label: Hummingbird Productions
Country: Spain
Price: $29.00

"Killer Afro-psychedelic rock made in Zambia, early 1970s! Chrissy Zebby Tembo and his group Ngozi Family deliver a brutal set of fuzzed to the max psychedelic rock, with a slight African feel and English vocals. Much improved sound quality and pressing than the previous, long gone reissue of this amazing album." -Hummingbird

Artist: TEMPERATURES
Title: Eksra
Format: LP
Label: Ultramarine
Country: Italy
Price: $14.00

"Temperatures are a London-based duo formed by Peter Blundell (bass, voice) and James Dunn (drums, synth). Blundells rumbling delayed bass runs against Dunns bursting drums that simultaneously trigger an unruly ARP 2600. Vocals are both muffled and shouting at times and eventually end up getting buried under a (controlled) landslide of sounds. Thanks to their instinctive but thoughtful approach to noise, Temperatures can express a suffocating sense of alienation and mal de vivre, as well as todays over-communication resulting in a helpless lack of communication; but "Eksra" strikes most for its original and refreshing sound, far from the stale cliche that noise so often falls into. They can be compared to other bands like: early Throbbing Gristle, Lighting Bolt and the Dead C." - Ultramarine.

Artist: TEMPERATURES
Title: S/T
Format: 7"
Label: 4th Harmonic
Country: UK
Price: $6.00

"A cracking little 15 minute seven inch from new British noise act Temperatures. Likened to the likes of Lightning Bolt, Sightings or the Dead C. but with an early Cabaret Voltaire / Neubaten industrial twist. This is experimental rock music of the highest calibre from a duo that is sure to move onto bigger and better things." - Rough Trade.

Artist: TEMPLE OF BON MATIN
Title: Infidel
Format: CD
Label: Spirit Of Orr
Country: USA
Price: $13.50

"Ed Wilcox is constantly refining his art, his message. As a painter, he describes what you will find in his work with, my love of circus, the unrepentant whim of the Cobra Group, the recycled resurrections of Eduardo Paolozzi, and most important to me, Persian and Mongul miniatures. Ed Wilcox approaches his musical efforts with the same level of thoughtfulness and joy in exploration. A self-declared Space Metal band, there is much influence of Sun Ra (Philadelphia for crissakes!) as there is Judas Priest. Together with a crop of accomplished and loyal fellow travelers, the Temple Of Bon Matin has ventured in and out of sight, but has continually remained true to Eds single vision of pushing clattering jazz through the heaviness of hard rock. The result is always explosive and primal, always Bon Matin. Infidel , Temples sixth full length, is the record made when the pedal hits the metal. A full on blow out featuring Eds powerful shouts and revving drum attack, amidst psychedelic-punk guitar blasts and blaring horns." - Spirit Of Orr.

Artist: TEMPLE OF BON MATIN
Title: Monkeys Straw Raincoat
Format: CDR
Label: Spirit Of Orr
Country: USA
Price: $12.50

"How can it be that every time we turn around, ED WILCOX, and his TEMPLE OF BON MATIN have squeezed out a new record, and each record takes us (by that I mean the world) closer to the nexus. Okay, this record is simply the most psychedelically mannered BON MATIN yet, and it is also the most soulful, and the most vocal, and most pre-cussive, and most acoustic. MONKEYS STRAW RAINCOAT takes the direction of the CABIN IN THE SKY release and turns it back into itself, it propels like BULLET INTO MESMERS BRAIN, but it is a space capsule without any fuselage. What the hell am I talking about? Limited to 300 hand assembled copies." - Spirit of Orr.

Artist: TENJO SAJIKI
Title: Hatsukoi Jigoku Hen
Format: CD
Label: Showboat/Sky Station
Country: Japan
Price: $29.00

"Top notch and bang up identical reissue job by the high quality label Sky Station; gatefold mini-LP style sleeve complete with inserts and obi. This was originally a private pressing on Terayama Shujis own Tenjosajiki label. The disc is a soundtrack to his like-named movie, of which the title can be roughly translated as Volume of First Love Hell. Psychedelic insanity, spoken word insertions and has included great vocal participations by sublime vocalist Carmen Maki of Blues Creation. Great disc that rarely surfaces with everything intact. Meaning obi, gimmick jacket that folds open in triple parts once you open the album. Comes with pictures of Terayama, Carmen Maki and nude photographs of the main actors."-Showboat/Sky Station

Artist: TENNISCOATS
Title: Live Wanderus
Format: CD
Label: Chapter Music
Country: Australia
Price: $15.00

"Tokyos Tenniscoats centre around the duo of Saya and Taskashi Ueno, a married couple who have been making music since 2000, and together run the highly regarded Japanese label Majikick Records. In that time, Tenniscoats have released three studio recordings, 2001s Theme Of Tenniscoats, 2002s The Ending Theme and 2004s We Are Everyone. Although each of those records is a fine, fine work, many Tenniscoats fans say that the bands meditative intensity has never quite been captured in the studio. It is for this reason that Chapter Music is releasing a compilation of their live work. Live Wanderus (named in Sayas imaginative English to reflect the words Wander, Wonder, Wondrous and Us) presents songs from each Tenniscoats release in distinctive new forms, as well as a number of previously unreleased tracks. It presents the band in its many shifting lineups, and includes collaborations with members of revered Japanese bands Acid Mothers Temple, Stars and Maher Shalal Hash Baz. Tenniscoats are a combination of hummable melody and a kind of innocent darkness, their unashamed fragility set against a restrained power that at times can explode into a psychedelic free-for-all." - Chapter Music.

Artist: TENT CITY
Title: Drought
Format: One Sided LP
Label: Gilgongo
Country: USA
Price: $15.00

"TENT CITY is from Phoenix, Arizona, and play in a style similar to Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, Dead Machines, Raccoo-oo-oon. Past releases on Not Not Fun and Night People all sold out pretty quick. The record is a clear one-sided 12-inch with a 20-minute live set on it. The blank B-side is multi-screened with multi colors."-Gilgongo Records.

Artist: TERJE, JESPER & JOACHIM
Title: Terje, Jesper & Joachim
Format: LP
Label: Shadoks Music
Country: Germany
Price: $42.00

"Terje Bandholdt on drums, Jesper Schmidt on guitar and Joachim. This album was recorded in 1970 for the famous Spectator Records in Denmark (Moses/BluesAddicts/Days). Reissued for the first time in original cover plus insert with many photos and band story, this amazing heavy psych album beats most releases from Denmark, in quality and rarity. Massive guitar action all over, great heavy vocals and pumping rhythms lift this album right out of there. Beside Moses, the best heavy psych album from northern Europe. 450 numbered/glossy/heavy sleeve/180 gram pressing/insert." -Shadoks. Previously reissued by Little Wing back in 1991 or so.

Artist: TERMINALS
Title: Little Things
Format: CD
Label: Last Visible Dog
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

"Perennially unrecognized and underrated; The Terminals finally established their stature in 2007 with their release Last Days of the Sun (awarded one of the top 50 albums of the year in Wire magazine.) Mixing elements of classic VU, Doors, late 70s/early 80s post punk (Wire, Joy Division, etc.) with a unique strand of New Zealand rock that has been developing in isolation since the early 80s (Vacuum, Pin Group, The Clean, etc.). Its hard to understand why it took so long for the band to garner a little attention from the critics. The early 90s saw two full-length releases from the band (Touch and Little Things). Both are seriously meaty albums with guitar distortion and drums often taking the forefront (perhaps channeling a bit of Fun House), but pinned down by Stephen Cogles Ferry-esque vocals and that NZ rock sensibility. Little Things (1995) in particular stretches out the frenzy established with Touch; Jon Dale (NZs closest thing to a rock-musicologist) claims this to be their most sophisticated stage; drawing comparisons to Charlambides and Fushitsusha, yet never fully breaking away from rock. Indeed, its worth noting that Little Things was released side-by-side with the free noise entries like Gate, Handful of Dust, etc.; but unlike those bands, there was still a core part of the Terminals that was all about songs and lyrics -- even if that format was as dense and electrified as Musica Electronic. This much-needed reissue features both some serious remastering by the band and two live bonus tracks (one a cover of Roxy Musics Both Ends Burning)." - Last Visible Dog

Artist: TERMINALS, THE
Title: Last Days Of The Sun
Format: CD
Label: Last Visible Dog
Country: US
Price: $12.50

"Last Days of the Sun is the fifth album by long-running New Zealand avant-garage kings The Terminals. Bruce Russell has often described them as New Zealands best rock band bar none, and these days they often get called legendary and while that may have as much to do with the fact they are in their twenty-first year they continue have a big reputation for the intensity of their live performances. Last Days of the Sun is their first release since the 1997 Terminals Live CD on Medication and the 1996 7" single Medusa on Chicago label Roofbolt. It combines driving garage-rock and swirling guitar/organ interplay with dark, brooding, melodramas and quietly haunting ballads. There are twelve songs of love and anxiety, with The Terminals characteristic ebb and flow dynamics and Cogles unearthly tenor soaring right over the top." - Last Visible Dog.

Artist: TERRESTRIAL TONES
Title: Blasted
Format: LP
Label: Psych-o-Path
Country: USA
Price: $15.00

"Terrestrial Tones is the home recorded project of roommates Dave Portner (Avey Tare of Animal Collective) and Eric Copeland of Black Dice, published by an emerging label in the underground noise scene, Psych-o-Path records. Blasted, their debut record combines a creepy parade of burlesque musicalia with the underwater travels of a submarine 20,000 leagues under the sea. Deep almost unrecognizable vocals hidden in layers of sub-bass warbles are reminiscent of work on the Charhizma Label, particularly Christof Kurzmann and his collaborations with Dafeldecker and dieb13. Likewise there are nods to the diverse almost pop-twitch of Dat Politics and the polyrhythmic patterns of the Basic Channel/Chain Reaction projects. It⿿s a dance music record (microtonal future extremely abstract dance) for people who like to wiggle to shoes tumbling in washing machines with monkey cymbals and puppet shows. It is serious yet unpretentious, even whimsical, and will appeal to fans of experimental electronics, IDM, Throbbing Gristle and related, the drones and squeals of Black Dice and the nouveau pop psychedelia of Animal Collective." - Psych-o-Path. 2004 release.

Artist: TERRESTRIAL TONES
Title: Blasted
Format: CD
Label: Psych-o-Path
Country: USA
Price: $12.00

Artist: TERRESTRIAL TONES
Title: Dead Drunk
Format: CD
Label: Paw Tracks
Country: USA
Price: $13.50

"Brooklyns Terrestrial Tones is the roommate duo of Eric Copeland (Black Dice) and Dave Portner (The Animal Collective). Over the years the two have been quietly making music in between Animal Collective and Black Dice commitments. Recorded in their apartment while living in Paris last summer, Terrestrial Tones third record Dead Drunk sounds like the duo spent a bit too much time in the Parisian flea markets. African food stands, forgotten European pop records, discarded American analog pedals and junk, old Soviet electronics, they all come together into something highly disconcerting, curiously pleasurable, and beyond new."- Paw Tracks.

Artist: TERRESTRIAL TONES
Title: Dead Drunk
Format: LP
Label: Paw Tracks
Country: USA
Price: $12.00

Artist: TERRESTRIAL TONES
Title: Oboroed / Circus Lives
Format: CD
Label: UUnited Acoustic Recordings
Country: USA
Price: $14.50

"Terrestrial Tones are Eric Copeland and Dave Portner, two dedicated musicians who make their own sounds while on hiatus from their respective bands: Black Dice and Animal Collective. The Tones music was made to be played live through a huge stack of speakers yet listening to Oboroed in your own space is oddly relaxing as sound waves morph and sonic tapestries shift. This is noise but very deep noise minimally composed and direct sounding. Oboroed is slightly longer and more subdued, coming in almost like GAS and then shifting through different songs to a kaleidoscopic and epic effect. Circus Lives is more aggressive, particularly with the bass frequencies, with the cascading rhythms of the mid-range, and with the bold choice of samples. Oboroed / Circus Lives was recorded by the Tones at Terrestrial Home in November 2004 then mixed and mastered with Rusty Santos in January 2005. Although the lineage from Animal Collective and Black Dice can be faintly detected in the music, Oboroed / Circus Lives maps a different territory barely touched upon with their other bands. They present electronic music with a surprising new take." - UUnited Acoustic Recordings.

Artist: THAYER, TOM
Title: Tom Thayer
Format: LP
Label: Tom Thayer
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

⿿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.

Artist: THE FRESH AND ONLYS
Title: Second One to Know
Format: 7"
Label: Woodsist
Country: USA
Price: $5.50

""Second One To Know" b|w "Hated or Loved." Recorded Spring 2009. Both tracks taken from the super limited "Bomb Wombs" cassette on Fuck It Tapes. Full color glue pocket sleeve. Two of their best songs yet!" - Woodsist.

Artist: THE RITA
Title: Snorkel/Skate
Format: LP
Label: RRRecords
Country: USA
Price: $16.00

"Recording specs of the SKate material: For clarification - the first track on the SKATE side of the LP is the best cut of the original amplified railing work/video above, but for the LP the audio was isolated from the original tape by Christian Nicolay (who is the artist manipulating the effects at the table during the skateboarding) and then heavily remastered by myself for the official RRR vinyl release. The audio is obviously very poor on the youtube video and the performance never saw any kind of official release so i thought it was best to master and rework the material for an optimum audio version (vinyl no less) that can be played through a proper stereo system. The material ends up being a much different and real experience after the remastering and heavy amplification. The second track on the SKATE side is a completely new recording that take cues from the first, but is working with different distortion chains and ideologies to try and fully manipulate the live skateboard trucks to the steel and their tendencies when effected. We originally were supposed to skate/perform the railing live in SF, but customs denied Christian from entering as they, to make a long story short, didnt believe that two artists with our international resumes were only getting paid what was actually stated in the invitation/paperwork. Christian drove ahead of me in a van with the gear as I had to work when he got stopped and turned away. They said that if i tried later - wed both be banned from the US for some time. Hence, the impromptu making of the short video instead (which still amazes me that i landed that many 50/50 grinds in a row). I am extremely happy that Ron made it possible to release the audio in a properly mastered format plus even more railing recordings and alongside the snorkeling foley work that prompted the release in the first place." - Sam McKinlay, The Rita.

Artist: THEATRE DU CHENE NOIR
Title: Aurora
Format: LP
Label: Futura
Country: France
Price: $29.00

"Reissue of the legendary Aurora album by the French band called Chene Noir in limited vinyl edition. Steeped in damaged atmosphere, theatrical hysterics, flute and crumpled rock, this one meets the freak-out mania quota of any Nurse With Wound list-disciple in spades." - Futura. Originally released in 1971. Highly recommended!

Artist: THERIAULT, DOUG/JEPH JERMAN
Title: Red, Water
Format: CDR
Label: Fargone
Country: USA
Price: $9.00

"This disc of gently processed field recordings flows as beautifully as the river on its cover. Burbling water, birds chirping, and other nasturalistic sounds are only the starting point for a startlingly pretty composition that incorporates these tiny glimpses of nature into a widescreen panorama as sweeping and open as the Western landscape. The result of long-distance collaboration, this discs organic, seamless sound completely belies those origins. Doug Theriault is a guitarist based in Portland, OR, best known as an improviser whos played with such diverse talents as Fred Lonberg Holm, Sean Meehan, Climax Golden Twins, and Noggin. Jeph Jerman is a multi-talented Arizona-based sound manipulator, known for ultra-quiet improv with natural objects and lo-fi field-recordings. Jeph and Doug have recorded together several times, resulting in 3 previous CD-Rs and a cassette, but this project is much different from anything theyve done together in the past. Comes packaged with special, gorgeous artwork: a gatefold cardboard sleeve with a real photo by Jeph attached. LIMITED TO 75 COPIES." - Fargone.

Artist: THESE WONDERFUL EVILS
Title: Parade Room
Format: LP
Label: Sparrows & Wires
Country: USA
Price: $15.00

"Unassuming and cathartic, the music of Chicagos Zak Boerger coils and swells in elliptical rings. His debut under the moniker These Wonderful Evils, Regine Flory, established this abstruse approach to songwriting. It meandered in the realm of lo-fi psychedelia akin to the 90s experimental New Zealand scene, but it never quite could find a foothold of distinction. Parade Room however does just that. Boerger whittles a small niche all his own out of the vast trunk of bedroom psych-rock, and its a quite stirring slow burn of a record. Parade Room, Boergers sophomore effort as These Wonderful Evils, is almost a benign noise record, unrushed in the execution and more focused on the atypical melding of styles than the urgency of a message. Each layer of guitar tone feels meticulously appointed: just the right degree of fuzz atop the resonant tremolo of a softly wavering electric guitar atop lapping undulations of a warmly strummed acoustic. Each song is a splattering of melancholy with just enough direction to keep it moving forward, though without a particular destination. With the addition of infrequent harmonica and vocals à la a mumbling Lou Reed, it culminates in a steady rippling of melodic noise that cascades on your emotions, like Richard Youngs re-imagining the Laughing Stock-era Talk Talk sessions. The album is separated into two parts: the first five tracks that drift in and out of song-based structures and the nearly twenty minutes of temperate guitar-psych that make up ⿿The Light Pours Out of D.C.⿝ Boergers talent isnt in his ability to shred for hours on end or annihilate your floor speakers with devastating outbursts of feedback; in fact, most of the album feels about a step slower and quieter than you are most likely accustomed to hearing in this genre, especially the epic closer. This intuitively captures the listeners attention as it mildly confuses the ears, and the subsequent concentration is rewarded with layers of sound to decipher. Much in the same manner of an early Stooges song or the Spacemen 3 oeuvre, the dragging pace doesnt inhibit the energy; it adds a palpable heaviness. Boergers guitar playing feels more in debt to the late-60s British folk artists or the Takoma camp rather than any particular guitar virtuoso in the field of heavy electric psych, even though the final product sounds otherwise. And this patient twang, laced with odd-tempo trills and roundabout improvisation, gives Parade Room a more comforting folksy vibe despite the habitual use of distortion. Boergers music saunters, but it does so with a hair-raising effect. It will leave you tingling at the most frayed ends of your most sensitive nerves, a feeling at the core of psychedelias definition." -Michael Ardaiolo (Dusted)

Artist: THESE WONDERFUL EVILS
Title: Regine Flory
Format: LP
Label: Sparrows & Wires
Country: USA
Price: $17.00

"The debut album from Chicagos These Wonderful Evils is a dark, psychedelic meditation, echoing RICHARD YOUNGS & NICO, as well as the more experimental side of the VELVET UNDERGROUND. Voices & guitars buried deep in the forest are both familiar and chilling at the same time, from the drowning drone of the opener "North Atlantic" through the drifting, forlorn closer "St.Jo." - Reckless Records. Small repress. Numbered edition of 208 copies.

Artist: THIELEMANS, ERIC
Title: A Snare Is A Bell
Format: LP
Label: Ultra Eczema
Country: Belgium
Price: $28.00

"This is the first in a series of solo percussion LPs on Ultra Eczema titled STS. A meditative psychedelic experience is what I would like to call this, though I realize I make it sound like a silly zen blowout, and thats not what it feels like at all! When I first saw it live in a giant church in Mechelen, Belgium, I was yelling this is the best show of the year. I thought there wouldnt be an end to it and didnt even feel a build-up to a more tense sound or a drone. There was a difference in resonating sound and it definitely changed, but as with more constructive minimalists such as Steve Reich or maybe even Terry Riley, you cant tell when things change. That experience got enlarged as well by the scenography he played in, a splendid eye-torturing construction, built especially for this piece by Antwerp-based sculptor Filip Metten. On record it feels different of course, as you can skip the needle up and down to the end and back, you can hear an enormous tension and sound difference. Though this piece is written for only a snare drum and a tiny bit of vocals (resonating with the snare drum) it sounds like either 20 people on a snaredrum, like if Glen Branca would invite 567 people playing the exact same snare roll, or like a choir, and by the end definitely like the sound of a Whitehouse LP; building up strongly to the point of absolute silence, which feels like a relief! This piece is based on a snare roll which changes 3 times. Live, this piece can go up to an hour or longer, on this record, it is one full side. The B-side is a psychedelic etch! Eric Thielemans is based in Antwerp, Belgium and has made percussive pieces for theatre, has played psychedelic guitar music with Mauro Pawlowski, spaced free music with Sickboy and Cassisini Division and a ton load of great free jazz with Andre Goudbeek and Peter Jacquemyn. This record is limited to 500 copies, has an insert and comes in a duo colored psychic design by Dennis Tyfus." -Ultra Eczema

Artist: THIN ENSEMBLE
Title: Free East Lansing Flashblacks
Format: One Sided 7"/CDR
Label: American Tapes
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

"Old East Lansing Free Crew featuring Randy Sutherland (in SF now) and John Coorz with various other jammerz circa 94-97. TE started as an Abbot Road house band of Sutherlands and after seeing em play an amazing set at the Otherwise gallery in April of 94, I asked to join em. After that, we played house parities where we got paid to stop, Highway overpasses, bridges, train tracks, streets, porches, music practice rooms on MSU campus, everywhere in the city. Randy played drums, alto sax and various percussion things and I jammed alto, handmade horns and electronics. We busted a few early AM tapes, had a killer collection of getting busted tracks (cops, music school students, other haterz) slanted for an early EF release, and that was about it. The Alt Country scene was big in EL there, so we opened for those bands a million times and bummed everyone out. Didnt have a single fan, tons of freedom to explore. The 7" and CD contains various live gigs and other oddities, some with trumpet and other jammerz but the sounds are pure primitive rambling barely organized free sounds. Good youth crew times indeed!!! Edition of 200, color vinyl, color art." - American Tapes.

Artist: THINK DOG
Title: Dog Days
Format: LP
Label: Shadoks
Country: Germany
Price: $42.00

"This is the second album after Times Before There Was, recorded in 1969/70 in New York City. Lynn David Newton, Tom McFaul, Richard Stanley, Bob Stuhler (the drummer of Hot Tuna) and David Rosenboom (on 1 track) recorded 60 minutes of creative music which was never released before. Again, this is a musical masterpiece, well-composed, well-crafted, touchy and twisted songs with a big influence from the British Underground. On some tracks the vocals sound like Robert Wyatt in the early 70´s. If you like the Canterbury sound, art-rock with Underground roots, you will love this one. The album has 16 tracks, 45 minutes of music." #d edition of 350 copies.

Artist: THIRD DOOR FROM THE LEFT
Title: Face The Firing Squad
Format: LP
Label: Vinyl-On-Demand
Country: Germany
Price: $26.00

"Third Door From The Left was a project formed by Raye Calouri (now in the band Hydra) and Kevin Thorne (We Be Echo). Both met at the TG/Cabaret Voltaire gig in 1978 and decided to join forces and make their own kind of music. The result of those session recordings between October 1980 and August 1981 has been astonishing and a classic of its genre. This classic tape-release is in line with the best Throbbing Gristle releases and, as a serious collector/listener to TG, you just cant miss this classic release!" Includes poster and 16-page booklet." -Vinyl On Demand

Artist: THIRD EYE, THE
Title: Awakening
Format: LP
Label: Shadoks
Country: Germany
Price: $40.00

"Numbered edition of 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl; glossy gatefold sleeve with insert. "With the help of many music friends and a lot of patience, we could finally arrange a deal to reissue the 3 albums by the South African band The Third Eye for the first time. The original pressing came out on Polydor. Perhaps Third Eye is the best band from S.A. with the most innovative and complex music. Most music lovers would vote Freedoms Children as the biggest influence in S.A,. rock, but Third Eye will share at least half of that cake. In cooperation with Dawn Selby (Hammond organ) and her brother Ron (guitar), this project came to life again. They where based in Durban, a coastal city several hundred miles away from the recording and musical hub of Johannesburg and started playing in 1968. The first album Awakening came out in 1969 when the female organ player Dawn Selby was only 14 years old. Just imagine her age when you listen to the amazing organ and piano tracks. Awakening was released in 1969 followed by 2 more albums Searching and Brother just one year later in 1970. What a musical output in such a short time. The band and composer must have sat on a volcano where they just waited to burst their music out onto the rock universe. Awakening is the most complex album of the three, with great brass arrangements, piano, Hammond organ, fuzz-guitar and vocals full of soul. Musically going in the direction of bands such as Electric Flag, The Flocks Dinosaur Swamps, Chicago, The Nice and Al Cooper. Pure electric underground of the best sort." -Shadoks

Artist: THIRD EYE, THE
Title: Brother
Format: LP
Label: Shadoks
Country: Germany
Price: $40.00

"Numbered edition of 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl; glossy sleeve with insert. "The album Brother followed the same year in 1970 after Searching. The music is closer to the album Awakening without the brass arrangements. More organ based compositions with beautiful vocals and guitars. We must mention here the amazing drumming and bass which holds the complete tracks together and drives them forwards. As a musical comparison we would mention again the bands from the US and UK underground, such as Electric Flag, Chicago and Keef Hartley Band. But we must say, if bands from South Africa were not banned in Europe and the USA at the time the albums by The Third Eye came out, they would have become as popular and even more as the mentioned bands from USA and UK. All three albums are killer albums and we would not want to miss one of them." -Shadoks

Artist: THIRD EYE, THE
Title: Searching
Format: LP
Label: Shadoks
Country: Germany
Price: $40.00

"Numbered edition of 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl; glossy sleeve with insert. "The album Searching followed a year later after Awakening. Today originals of this album are rare as gold dust and, among two or three others, the most valuable collectors item from South Africa. Many collectors who have basically everything in their collection are missing this one. The music is heavier, the lyrics full of political statements, more psychedelic and a bigger step down into the musical underground. The 14-minute track Awakening is really amazing, with tons of great organ parts and extra heavy fuzz-guitar." -Shadoks

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.

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.

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.

Artist: THOMPSON, MAYO
Title: Corkys Debt To His Father
Format: CD
Label: Drag City
Country: USA
Price: $13.50

"Mayo Thompsons until now ultra-rare solo album. The album was produced in Houston, Texas in 1970 by Thompson, Frank Davis and Roger Rocket Romano for the short-lived but nonetheless legendary Texas Revolution label of Walt Andrus. Though pressed and advertised in the pages of Rolling Stone, the demise of the label meant the album went largely undistributed until the mid 1980s when Glass Records (London) gave it its first proper release. Coming as the sun set on the first psychedelic rock era, Corkys Debt evokes the early days of acoustic blues, but is already in the maelstrom from which punk rock would emerge just a few years later. The set features innovative performances by some of Houstons finest musicians of the time playing eleven songs by Thompson - one with Frederick Barthelme, with whom he started The Red Crayola. They represent a broad range of expressive manners and forms. Made to stand with the finest comparable work of the period, Corkys Debt shows Thompson at his most accessible. Unique ballads, blues, rock and love songs flow one to another with style, grace and intensity, and the handling of diverse popular-music idioms and language that characterize his more widely known work in The Red Crayola are also to be found. The line between genius and madness is very thin." - Drag City.

Artist: THORN, PAR
Title: FÿLJ BARA ANVISNINGARNA
Format: Cass
Label: Firework Editions
Country: Sweden
Price: $10.00

"En man skickar tretton kassetter med inspelade instruktioner till tretton olika mottagare i Stockholmsområdet. Inom de närmaste veckorna får en kusk på Solvalla ett hotbrev, en kvinna bjuder på tacos och en man letar febrilt efter Fantomen nummer 14/85 på ett antikvariat på Sveavägen. Koncept och inläsning: Pär Thörn Ljudtekniker: Ambjörn Johansson Tack till: Ambjörn, Leif, Kent och Fylkingen" - Firework Editions.

Artist: THORNTON, CARTER
Title: Ten Fingers for Forefathers
Format: LP
Label: Black Dirt
Country: USA
Price: $18.00

"Odd serially-inflected compositions for classical guitar. A wide breadth of obscure and fragmented influences represented here, all internal. Carter Thornton of Izititiz and Zakashi-Warashi." -S@1. "If you are a fan of the archaic format of music storage and delivery known as vinyl then you are also probably experienced in the art of search and rescue when faced with a pre-auction era, dusty, moldy shop filled to the rafters with such blasts from the past. Every now and then one comes upon a platter in one of these fading outposts, marked at about $3.99. Cover seams split, maybe some radio call letters scrawled in marker, maybe a booze-coffee-bongwater spill splayed like a Rorschach on the back. Perhaps it is the cover art itself that draws your attention⿦ black and white photos seemingly from another time in content and message. Or perhaps it is the title of the album⿦the way it rolls off the tongue, its playfulness marked by a seemingly obscure reference. The fact that there are no song titles may pique your interest⿦ why is this? Are there even songs on there? You can see the gaps in the grooves so there is some sound being broken up with seconds of silence. You wipe the grime off the grooves with your shirtsleeve and take the disc over to the crappy player up by the register. You pop it on, slip the needle in the groove, and immediately you have the thought⿦ ⿿What the hell is this?!?!?⿝ Youre hearing one of those rare recordings of a singular and personal vision. A solo guitar performance that not only operates outside any current or previous fashions, but one that seems to render the idea of recorded music as commerce a nonreality. Although you are carried away with delight by the sounds you are hearing, you cant help but wonder why this person recorded this music. His intent is as elusive as the music he is presenting. It seems as though you are there with the player, this audio mirage helped by sounds of his chair creaking, his arm brushing against the side of his instrument, his fingers scraping across the strings. You purchase the item straightaway, as determined to figure out the history of the recording as you are to wear out its grooves with repeated listenings. With Ten Fingers for Forefathers the proverbial chase has been cut right to. Take a listen and see if you can crack the sonic code contained therein. Edition of 500 Recorded at Black Dirt Studio"- Black Dirt. Black Dirt is the new in-house label from Jason Meaghers (NNCK, K Salvatore, Coach Fingers, D Charles Speer and the Helix, etc...) Black Dirt Studios in upstate New York.

Artist: THREE FORKS
Title: Firewood
Format: 3" CDR
Label: Metynomic
Country: New Zealand
Price: $10.00

Artist: THREE HEADED HOWL
Title: The Moisturizer
Format: Cass
Label: Together Tapes
Country: USA
Price: $5.00

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

Artist: THREE-LEGGED RACE
Title: Ringing Order
Format: Cass
Label: Rampart
Country: USA
Price: $5.00

"Robert Beatty (Hair Police, Eyes & Arms of Smoke, Burning Star Core) solo. As with most of his work, here he conujurs a layered, fully formed sound world, unpredictible and completely mind-altering." - Rampart.

Artist: THROBBING GRISTLE
Title: Gristleism-Black
Format: Soundbox
Label: Industrial
Country: UK
Price: $29.00

"Industrial Records Ltd. are pleased to announce the birth of GRISTLEISM, the newest member of the Throbbing Gristle family. Bastard offspring of now-famous ambient loop player the Buddha Machine, GRISTLEISM is part industrial sound machine, part noise instrument. Featuring 13 original and uncompromising loops, GRISTLEISM delivers a mix of signature TG experimental noise, industrial drone, and classic melodies and rhythms. Available in three colors -- black, chrome and red -- the palm-sized unit (size: w67mm x h69mm x d35mm) features a built-in speaker, volume control, pitch-shift control and loop selector switch. Note: GRISTLEISM does not feature an audio output socket or a DC power input socket. GRISTLEISM features more loops and almost twice the frequency range of the Buddha Machine. GRISTLEISM is powered by two AA batteries [not included] and is the worlds first and only portable TG aural exciter! GRISTLEISM was born from a collaboration between Industrial Records, Throbbing Gristle and Christiaan Virant (the creator of the original FM3 Buddha Machines) and is packaged in an exquisite "Chinese paper-cut" wrapping, featuring a repeating TG logo pattern, foil embossing and UV ink. [As for color availability, Black is in stock now, to be followed by Red a week later and Chrome 2 weeks later -- so not all 3 will be available together upon first receipt.]" -Industrial

Artist: THUJA
Title: Pine Cone Temples
Format: Double CD
Label: Strange Attractors Audio House
Country: USA
Price: $17.50

"Much has been said about The Jewelled Antler Collective, the fertile womb from which Thuja emits its primordial ooze, and of Thuja itself. A loose-knit assembly of like-minded sound ecologists who study the connections between their immediate environment and the music created by its players, Jewelled Antler claims a multitude of music makers in its orbit - Blithe Sons, Skygreen Leopards, Franciscan Hobbies being just a mere cross-section. Thuja, however, remains one of the earliest and best-known incarnations. Steven R. Smith, Glenn Donaldson, Loren Chase, and Rob Reger coalesce interests in field recordings, found sound, experimentalism, folk and psychedelic rock (among others) to weave seriously detailed and immense journeys into pure sound. By incorporating real-time recordings of natural sounds from their particular surroundings, the four members of Thuja play off each other and the space they inhabit with impeccable instinct, succeeding in creating eerie yet strikingly melodic compositions. The end result is a total immersion of the senses, for both the player and the listener. Across the grand expanse of Pine Cone Temples two discs, implements such as piano, guitars, percussion, and well-placed contact mics are blended like pigments to conjure the subtlest of sonics, pulling every lost drop of their immediate universe into floating and buzzing cinematics. Minimalist hues are brush-stroked into being and slowly unfurl into the atmosphere. Improvised clouds of sound softly erupt to form compositions of such immense and precise detail, it would seem the music was written out rather than spontaneously developed. Such is the magic of Thuja and their uncanny ability to sculpt microscopic psychedelia from their immediate environment and collective consciousness." Strange Attractors Audio House.

Artist: TIETCHENS, ASMUS
Title: 4K7: Early Recordings
Format: 4 LP Box Set
Label: Vinyl-On-Demand
Country: Germany
Price: $92.00

"The 4LP box set contains his first 4 tapeworks from the mid/late 70s, released in the early 80s on Yorkhouserecords (YHR) in limited editions of 50 (Musik an der Grenze, Musik im Schatten, Musik unter Tage and Musik aus der Grauzone)." - Vinyl-On-Demand. Very highly recommended!

Artist: TIETCHENS, ASMUS
Title: Aus Freude Am Elend
Format: CD
Label: Die Stadt
Country: Germany
Price: $26.00

"Eleventh part in the ongoing re-release series of all early Tietchens albums between 1980-1991. Aus Freude Am Elend is based on the human voice as a primary sound source and was originally released in an edition of 500 copies on Dom America in 1988. The CD includes two previously-unreleased tracks and comes in a jewel case with full color artwork and poster booklet also featuring the original front and back cover. First edition of 600 copies. "Following my research of piano and water sounds, it didnt come as a surprise that my next project was about the human voice as a sound source. The great masters of Plunderphonics already showed the way in the early 80s, when they plundered the gigantic junk-shops packed full of already recorded material, which was stolen by them to use it for their own aesthetic targets. This album only consists of such stolen goods. Each track (with the exception of In Memoriam P.F.) was based on voices of people who I naturally didnt ask their permission to use these recordings in the first place. So you can hear the voices of ecstatic religious people as well as other people making love. Youll also hear someone singing to Annette and Peggy out of the trash bin of a publishing company. Even the screams of furious teachers came in handy while I made loops from them. Especially loops: rarely before this album and only once after it did I made use of the structural means of loops to such an extent. I was fascinated by the rhythmical and harmonic permanence, in the same way as many of my musical colleagues at the time. The aspect of the ritual was a self-evident common formulation in difficult music during the 80s, so loops and tape voices, monotonous rhythms and LoFi became obvious means to shape the music. Aus Freude Am Elend too was strongly spiced with these ingredients and therefore can be seen as a prototype album of this specific view of music during the time. This tendency was supported -- even partly inspired -- by a new generation of sound machines, which also made it possible for new aesthetic goals to appear at the horizon. The 90s were near at hand and sound art music would develop drastically in many ways in the years to follow. Samplers, digital editing, hard-disc recording and the first PCs opened new doorways. Half of the material on Aus Freude Am Elend was already created with these digital tools. I never quite understood how the labels Dom America (run by Jon Carlson) and Dom here in Germany were connected. Was Carlson a fan of Dom which was founded by Christoph Heemann and Achim Flaam? Did he simply like the release politics of this label? And what became of Dom America? Actually I dont know. I guess it was one of the small enthusiastic independent labels which released a handful of titles and which disappeared after being active for a couple of years during the 80s. However ,Aus Freude Am Elend had vanished shortly after its release. I only used stolen voices twice again after this album, by the way." -Die Stadt

Artist: TIETCHENS, ASMUS
Title: Leuchtidioten
Format: 10"
Label: Die Stadt
Country: Germany
Price: $15.00

"This new release features two rhythmic tracks that were recorded during the Teilmengen sessions (which appeared on CD as a-Menge and b-Menge on Ritornell) but were not used for these albums as Tietchens regarded them as too different to the other pieces and therefore decided to have them released on their own. Limited edition of 500 copies." -Die Stadt

Artist: TIETCHENS, ASMUS
Title: Notturno
Format: CD
Label: Die Stadt
Country: Germany
Price: $23.00

"Tenth part in the ongoing re-release series of all early Tietchens albums between 1980-1991. Notturno was originally released by Spanish label Discos Esplendor Geometrico in 1987 and also by Barooni on CD in 1992. Remastered version in a first edition of 600 copies in jewel case with full color artwork and poster booklet also featuring the original front and back cover. By the time Studie für Klavier (Formen Letzter Hausmusik, DS84) was released, it actually wasnt my first attempt to use the piano as a sound source. Various pre-studies came before this, but all which either were not characterized as such in their title or simply didnt make it onto record. I was intrigued by the great range of sounds it offers in general, but also by the multiple possibilities to produce sounds inside of the piano. Of course I was fully aware that these techniques had already been used by other composers like Henry Cowell and John Cage in the past. Not only could I make use of a grand piano in 1986, I also had the technical equipment at hand which didnt leave nothing to be desired. I wasnt quite precise calling these pieces Studien für Klavier (Piano) by the way, as I was actually using a flügel (grand piano). I began preparing the strings in an almost old fashioned way, also producing sounds with unusual aids (electric gastr beater, wire brush, coins and others). Then in another step, with the help of the studio, I carefully started working on the recorded sounds. While doing this, I wasnt even afraid of using some good old avant-garde tricks, by the way. But I wont tell. The fact that Notturno was released by an industrial label, shows how much the interest in unusual electro-acoustic music had grown at the time. In fact, Notturno is nothing less than an industrial album. To my own delight and to the delight of the listeners as well, I used techniques which were introduced in the field of new music since several years already. As a result, Notturno can be seen as a cross between musical styles. On one hand it sounds academic, but in fact it isnt. But the question whether this was U (popular) or E (serious) was obsolete anyway, as electro-acoustic experiments didnt exclusively belong to the circle of serious composers anymore. Of course I wasnt the first or only non-academic composer who produced music, which couldnt be categorized easily then, and maybe even still not until today. As a result, the exchange of these new aesthetic strategies with other musicians and listeners in the mid-80s, further encouraged the musicians to produce such music, and as a result, labels such as Discos Esplendor Geometrico could be sure to sell a small edition of 500 copies in a fairly short time. The ears had opened up for this genre-crossing music and the heads were ready to accept. We had succeeded breaking new ground." -Die Stadt

Artist: TIETCHENS, ASMUS
Title: Recycled
Format: Cass
Label: RRRecords
Country: USA
Price: $5.00

Artist: TIETCHENS, ASMUS
Title: Seuchengebiete
Format: CD
Label: Die Stadt
Country: Germany
Price: $22.00

"Seventh part in the re-release series of all early Tietchens albums between 1980-1991. Another early Tietchens classic, the first where he only used a single sound source as the basis for a complete album. Originally released on A-Mission in 1985 the CD version includes one bonus track. Full colour fold-out booklet featuring the original cover artwork plus liner notes by Tietchens." - Die Stadt.

Artist: TIETCHENS, ASMUS
Title: Teils Teils
Format: LP
Label: Swill Radio
Country: USA
Price: $20.00

"Ive been a fan of Asmus Tietchens music since Formen Letzter Hausmusik came out in 1984. That LP fascinated me and I soon began acquiring anything I could by this strange musical force. Ive learned a lot from his music over the years and we became acquainted via the post in the late 90s. As it turns out, we both have an extreme fondness for cigarette smoking and an interest in Max Nordau, so what better place for his first LP release in years than Swill Radio? The side-long Teilmenge 20 starts off the LP with an odd manic ticking that never lets up. Other sounds ebb and flow throughout and the whole piece has the rare quality of sounding totally artificial and yet organic at the same time. The second side slows things down with three tracks of dripping industrial ambience. The whole LP brings to my mind an atmosphere of waiting. To quote my good friend Matt Krefting, No ones music sounds both as cold and as emotional in quite the same way as the music of Asmus Tietchens." -Swill Radio.

Artist: TIETCHENS, ASMUS
Title: Zwingburgen des Hedonismus/Mysterien des Hafens
Format: CD
Label: Die Stadt
Country: Germany
Price: $22.00

"Part 9 of the ongoing re-release series of all early Tietchens albums from 1980-1991 on CD. This combines two separate releases from 1987 (Zwingburgen des Hedonismus) and 1988 (Mysterien des Hafens on Face to Face, Vol. 1). Zwingburgen des Hedonismus was originally released as a one-sided LP on Swedish label Multimood and features a single 21-min. long track composed on a Fairlight CMI. Mysterien des Hafens was part of a split LP (the other side feat. Die Form) originally released on French label Odd Size and featuring recordings made by Tietchens using underwater microphones. The bonus track Faircomp 1K on this CD is a different version of the first track and previously unreleased. First edition of 600 copies in jewel case with full cover artwork and poster booklet also feat. the original album covers." -Die Stadt

Artist: TIETCHENS, ASMUS/STEFANI RESSIN
Title: 3 Wishes
Format: 7"
Label: Meeuw Muzak
Country: Netherlands
Price: $9.00

"A: a cover of the klaus nomi tune by stefanie ressin (from hamburg).this is decent synth pop. B: salto rückwärts - version of stefanies cover by asmus tietchens" - Meeuw Muzak.

Artist: TIGHT MEAT DUO
Title: S/T
Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut
Label: Alt.Vinyl
Country: UK
Price: $26.50

Alex Neilson (Jandek, Directing Hand) - drums. David Keenan (Volcanic Tongue, Taurpis Tala)- Sax.

Artist: TIGHT MEAT DUO
Title: Vanishing Fist
Format: CD
Label: Bo Weavil
Country: UK
Price: $18.50

"Like all the great visionary thinkers of our time, from Iggy Stooge to Arthur Doyle, David Keenan and Alex Neilson are autodidactic polymaths devolving advanced thought back to punk-primitive motion. Judging by the music heard on Vanishing Fist, their first salvo under the name Tight Meat Duo, these twentysomething/thirtysomething Glaswegian deviants are prime examples of the dictum that the new wave of free musicians act on impulse. Theyve studied and immersed themselves in some of the most life affirming vibrations of all time, those silhouettes, shadows and forecasts of tomorrow disguised as free jazz, as Sun Ra almost put it; sensed this essence flooding their synapses, rewiring their DNA, messing with the id so inherited 3D vision becomes implanted Third Eye cosmology; and now theyre getting in on the aktion. Mini gatefold LP sleeve." -Bo Weavil.

Artist: TILLIS, PERRY
Title: In Times Like These
Format: LP
Label: Mississippi
Country: USA
Price: $14.00

"Perry Tillis was born July 29, 1919, in Elba, Alabama , and began playing his brand of rambling blues at a very early age. He continued playing the blues and singing gospel, despite going blind, up until his death on November 3, 2004. In the 40s Tillis played the Chicago blues circuit. However, when a revelation convinced him it was the devils music, he moved back home and began preaching the gospel. This LP is culled from 72 hours of cassette tapes recorded during the last 10 years of Tillis life. Extremely lo-fi gospel with Tillis playing guitar and singing into boombox. Not for the faint of heart. This is a first time release of this material. Liner notes included with archival photos. Tip-on jackets." -- Mississippi Records

Artist: TIME
Title: Before There Was...
Format: CD
Label: Shadoks
Country: Germany
Price: $15.00

"Before There Was... , never before released, was recorded in 1968 in Toronto, Canada. Lynn David Newton , the founding member of Time studied in the same class as Jim Cuomo from The Spoils Of War in Urbana, Illinois. Along with David Rosenboom and two other musicians, Before There Was... is a well-composed, well-played musical masterpiece that is both touching and twisted. Heavily influenced by the British Underground, these are all original songs, replete with harpsichord, flutes, percussion, horns, many effects and lots of heavy fuzz guitar and a singer who sounds like Robert Wyatt in the early 70s. A year later, Time moved to New York and became Think Dog (also released by Shadoks Music). Imagine Mia Farrow in the movie Rosemarys Baby sitting in her window and watching the New York streets below while its raining outside -- thats what this music feels like. " - Shadoks.

Artist: TIME LIFE
Title: Double Blackberry
Format: Cass
Label: Meu Dia De Morte
Country: Germany
Price: $12.00

"Heidi Diehl and G. Lucas Crane Non Horse of Vanishing Voice formed a new duo called Time Life. Heidis totally beautiful hypnotic female vocals and guitar lines / acoustic strings over the psyched tape manipulations from Lucas. Packaged in a silkscreened 4 x 6 inch folder by p.h." - Meu Dia De Morte.

Artist: TIME LIFE
Title: Geminis
Format: CDR
Label: Blackest Rainbow
Country: UK
Price: $13.00

"Duo of Heidi and Lucas from The Vanishing Voice (as in Wooden Wand). Cosmic space blues weirdness." -Blackest Rainbow.

Artist: TIME LIFE
Title: I Am Just To Myself
Format: Cass
Label: Arbor
Country: USA
Price: $7.00

"By now this duo should be far from a mystery though their psychic audio mythos has been continually deepening, growing, and transcending. Comprised of Vanishing Voice members G. Lucas Crane(Non-Horse) and Heidi Diehl, these New Yorkers flee the trappings of the fashion capital of the world for the land of home grown psychedelia. Non-Horse plays a crate of cassette tapes and a chain of delay. Wrapping sounds from various sources into a concocted aural remedy from reality, a psychedelic blanket sheltering you from the outside world. Heidi lends her voice and dripping dream guitar work to the powers at hand, juxtaposing heavy bass with light whispers and shimmering strings with deep murmurs. On the B side fellow spirit forcer Steve Gunn of GHQ brings a new element to the group, percussion. A natural oneness is developed between all players, creating earth music with a deeply rooted sense of calmness and serenity. In an edition of 100 numbered tapes with printed labels." -Arbor.

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.

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.

Artist: TIMES NEW VIKING
Title: Dig Yourself
Format: CD
Label: Siltbreeze
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

"A collection of songs found on various cassettes (left as street shrines to the bands genius) from TIMES NEW VIKING. Lovingly fucked with by producer MIKE REP (GBVs Propeller and Get Out Of My Stations), Dig Yourself features eleven tracks of raw, primitive sounds, loaded with wheezing and croaking organs, flesh-hacking guitars, sick-snapping drums, and frantic male and female vocal dramas. TNV successfully skirt the current homogenization of the rock press pigeonhole. Neither are they new-weird-America, nor are they new-noise-underground. One suspects rather that the band is at the forefront of a new, yet-to-be defined movement." - Siltbreeze.

Artist: TIMES NEW VIKING
Title: Dig Yourself
Format: LP
Label: Siltbreeze
Country: USA
Price: $14.50

"What you have here is a collection of songs found on the various shrine cassettes. Theyve all been lovingly fucked with by Mr. Mike Rep, (the man behind the lo-fi genius of Guided By Voices Propeller and Get Out Of My Stations among other things) and as the old saying goes the proof is in the pudding. TNV successfully skirt the current homogenization of the rock press pigeonhole. Neither are they new-weird-America, nor are they newnoise-underground. I suspect Times New Viking are at the forefront of a new, yet-to-be defined movement." - SIltbreeze. "the eleven songs contained herein are marked with reverence. Think of Dig Yourself as its own shrine, dedicated to the kling klang of classic lo-fi pop experimentalism and punk sentimentality - Xpressway Records back in the day, old school Dead C, GBV prior to the endless name checks, or shades of the Swell Maps mixed with a hundred unheard Nuggets-era singles. Without a doubt, this is one of the most surprising records of the year." - Dusted.

Artist: TIMES NEW VIKING
Title: Paisley Reich
Format: CD
Label: Siltbreeze
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

"The lastest from Columbus, Ohios TIMES NEW VIKING ably avoids D.S.A. syndrome (an acronym coined by The Shadow Ring meaning "difficult second album"). Having developed even more vim and vigor, TNVs blur of high-concept pop, crud, and crunch is staggering. Its the malcontented rumble of Times New Viking wistfully channeling spirits from the grime of Washington Beach to the shine of the Otago Peninsula. And in Reich-speak, that may take a thousand years to achieve, but you dont have to be a Scottish weaver to know that paisley wasnt patterned in a day. Patience is a grace. In the meantime, hold onto the rail and let it rock! CD features six tracks not on the upcoming vinyl, including a rad half cover of the Half Japanese classic "Thing With a Hook (Lovers Lane)," plus both songs from the bands 2006 single Busy Making Love And War." - Siltbreeze.

Artist: TIMES NEW VIKING
Title: Paisley Reich
Format: LP
Label: Siltbreeze
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

"The lastest from Columbus, Ohios TIMES NEW VIKING ably avoids D.S.A. syndrome (an acronym coined by The Shadow Ring meaning "difficult second album"). Having developed even more vim and vigor, TNVs blur of high-concept pop, crud, and crunch is staggering. Its the malcontented rumble of Times New Viking wistfully channeling spirits from the grime of Washington Beach to the shine of the Otago Peninsula. And in Reich-speak, that may take a thousand years to achieve, but you dont have to be a Scottish weaver to know that paisley wasnt patterned in a day. Patience is a grace. In the meantime, hold onto the rail and let it rock! CD features six tracks not on the vinyl, including a rad half cover of the Half Japanese classic "Thing With a Hook (Lovers Lane)," plus both songs from the bands 2006 single Busy Making Love And War. Limited edition LP with lyrics etched on the B-side." - Siltbreeze.

Artist: TIMMYS ORGANISM
Title: Im A Nice Guy
Format: 7"
Label: Cass
Country: USA
Price: $6.00

"I used to eat garbage / now I eat steak / I used to steal from the thrift store / now I donate." In a time when babies are seemingly born with mohawks and tattoos and everything fails to shock, how does one whos embodied the punk ethos for years survive? Easy...they become nice. In the decade weve known Tim Vulgar hes responsible for a large chunk of our favorite music. "Im a Nice Guy Now" is an all-out killer. Youre either already aboard this train or have been standing at the station for years, trying to figure out what in the hell is going on. Somber b-side shows the tender touch Timmy has. We predict tears...especially from the nice guys." -Cass

Artist: TIMMYS ORGANISM
Title: Im on a Hunt
Format: 7"
Label: Douchemaster
Country: USA
Price: $6.00

"Finally! The King of Weird Punk finds himself on Douche Master. If there were a budget rock hall of fame, TIMMY VULGAR would almost have to be one of the first inductees. Its always a thrill to see what Timmy will do next, either in a studio or perhaps walking down the street. The A-side is grimy as hell and sounds a bit like early Dead Boys. B-side carries a similar vibe but with a healthy dose of heroine soaked Bad Seeds. Edition of 600." - Douchemaster.

Artist: TIMMYS ORGANISM
Title: s/t
Format: Double 7"
Label: Sacred Bones
Country: USA
Price: $10.00

"Sacred Bones is proud to present this 5-song EP spread across two 7 inches from Timmys Organism, the solo alter-ego of Human Eye frontman and Clone Defects mastermind Timmy Vulgar along with members of Hamtramcks Terrible Twos. Traversing the gap between the disjointed Helios Creed-inspired work of Human Eyes skronky punk and more spacey out there explorations Timmys Organism is the next logical step in a family of Michigan noise that includes the now defunct Pirhanas as well as Tentacle Lizardo, The Frustrations, Reptile forcefield and even Tyvek. More stripped down and raw than anything Human Eye has done to date but no less intense! Dont miss out on this one!" - Sacred Bones.

Artist: TIN MAN
Title: Scared
Format: LP
Label: White Denim
Country: USA
Price: $15.00

"Following his masterpieces Wasteland and Cool Wave, Scared is Tin Mans latest foray into the realm of cold, mechanical, sensual darkness. This brand of narcoleptic techno is entirely his own, pushing true emotion and anomie through wires and electronics. Too pop for techno heads, too dancefloor-ready for ambient lovers, too weird for hipsters, too creepy for children, the eight songs on Tin Mans Scared are unlike anything else youll hear this year. Recommended for fans of Maurizio, Depeche Mode, Drexciya and Cold Cave, in that order." -White Denim

Artist: TINSEL TEETH
Title: Trash As The Trophy
Format: LP
Label: Load
Country: USA
Price: $15.00

"Their brand of wiry songsmithery is sure to embarrass those with weak kidneys and delicate sensibilities, but, for the rest of us, this will provide some proof that life is not quite over, and there are others looking to spoil the cultural soup. Adult topics for times of missing children. Milk cartons featuring pictures of missing middle fingers." -Load

Artist: TIROGO
Title: Float
Format: LP
Label: Shadoks
Country: Germany
Price: $48.00

"Numbered edition of 500, glossy heavy sleeve on 180 gram vinyl. Originally released in Nigeria, 1977. Tirogo is another great sample of lost African psychedelic music. It was recorded in Nigeria in 1977 and originally released on EMI, same as the great album BLO - Chapter One. This Nigerian rock-psych band Tirogo is similar to bands such as Ofege, BLO, Founders 15, Doves, and Aktion. Great African songs covered with wild guitar solos, spooky organ, great beats and strong vocals. 4 guys on the cover / 6 were actually in the band looking pretty young. It is getting harder and harder to find lost African bands since there is a big rave in the International music scene to hunt for good material. With the massive help of collectors and Now Again Records in the USA, who actually went to Nigeria to sign the boys, we are able to present this amazing album to you. It will suit the same music lovers who like Amanaz, The Witch, Question Mark and BLO." -Shadoks

Artist: TIVOL
Title: Interstellar Overbike
Format: CD
Label: Last Visible Dog
Country: USA
Price: $12.50

"New full-length release from Finnish-based Tivol; sounding like part Amon Duul 2 (think the first track on Yeti), part Blue Cheer and part High Rise." - Last Visible Dog.

Artist: TOBACCONISTS, THE
Title: Prometheus
Format: 7"
Label: Swill Radio
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

"The first Swill Radio 7" in 26 years dating back to The Story Of Failures Negative Fulfillment On The 83 Spitting Circuit EP. The Tobacconists are Frans de Waard and me and we are both heavy smokers. The Tobacconists did a few shows across Europe in the Spring of 2009 and recorded studio versions of our live material which should be released as an LP by Tourettes Records at some point. We did other recordings as well and from them Frans put together this excellent single. Prometheus is a fire-stealing liver-eater with a truly astounding sonic palette. Dr. Peratis Laboratory has some dark secrets indeed and they are revealed here for the very first time. The infernal mechanism! Great cover by Jos Meeuw and a real 7" sleeve! Fantastic!" -Scott Foust

Artist: TOBARI, DAISUKE
Title: Till The End Of the Dream
Format: CD
Label: Poon Village
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

"First offered to earth on cassette available only in Japan circa 1995, these recordings prove Tobari as an eloquent ambassador from the hidden planet of the imagination. With a unique hybrid of bedroom ambiance and uni-versal atmospherics, singer-songwriter Daisuki Tobari weaves his folk stylings into a tapestry of oblique lullabies, introverted expansionism & timeless cosmic plunder. Obscure & sublime ruminations on the essence of endlessness draw parallels with the maverick visions of Magical Power Mako, Sun City Girls, Jandek & The Holy Modal Rounders. Fold-out sleeve (packed in CD jewelbox) screenprinted by the legendary original C.O.N. artists serigraph company. File Under: Turgid Clarity & Lucid Murk." "Its the Sgt. Peppers of lo-fi recordings -- ambitious and nuts and fun." -- Damon Krukowksi.

Artist: TOBRUK
Title: Ad Lib
Format: LP
Label: Cash Box
Country: Spain
Price: $28.00

"Tobruk was formed by some North American guys living in Brazil, and this wonderful album got released in 1972 on the Cash Box label (sometimes you can see the album named as if Cash Box were its title). Its a pretty good psychedelic album with an astounding, original sound based in fuzz, organ, psychedelic effects and an eerie atmosphere. Its completely sung in English as well. With remastered sound." -Cash Box

Artist: TOEMASS
Title: The Hydro-Triad
Format: LP
Label: Violet Glass Oracle
Country: USA
Price: $18.00

"Really enjoyable outsider antique synth exploration." - BWCD. Limited to 200 copies. Silkscreened jackets, from 1997.

Artist: TOHO SARA
Title: Eastern Most 1-7
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $21.00

"Described as a Japanese Underground shamanistic avant garde music outfit, Toho Sara is a new trio featuring Nanjo (High Rise), playing an assortment of instruments like cello, flute, bass recorder, china gong, tabla, bass, piri, oboe, harmonium, vibes, kei, biwa, shakujo, viola, violin, hansho, etc. "A mystery group ala Third Ear Band. Mystic music with ancient instruments."

Artist: TOHO SARA
Title: Hourouurin
Format: CD
Label: Fractal
Country: FRANCE
Price: $19.00

"The Japanese underground band Johari was create in 1990 by the magic duo Asahito Nanjo (High Rise) and Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple) and will became later, in 1995, this shamanistic avant-garde formation Toho Sara. Hourouurin is their third opus, after two albums on PSF Eastern most (1995) and Mei Jou Tan Sho (1999) and some live performances in Europe during the years 1996 and 1997. Hourouurin is a weird unit who attempt to achieve a mystic fusion of ethnic music and rock, according to their own unique methodology. They create a strange musical aura where the vibrations of folk instruments from around the world and electronics merge weirdly. These bizarre recordings embrace musical shamanism on the one hand, and a subversion of western musical concepts into the abyss of rock on the other. Toho Sara is here at their most mystic side. Acid." - Fractal

Artist: TOLERANCE
Title: Divine
Format: LP
Label: Tolerance
Country: Japan
Price: $18.00

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." - ?

Artist: TOLL
Title: Christ Knows
Format: CD
Label: Cold Spring
Country: UK
Price: $15.00

"A first-time-on-CD reissue of the legendary Christ Knows LP released by Broken Flag in 1986. Featuring TIM GANE (STEREOLAB) and PAUL LEMOS (CONTROLLED BLEEDING), and PACIFIC 231, the album is a classic of old-school British industrial. Features the complete Christ Knows LP, along with three previously unreleased bonus tracks. Thirteen songs in all. Imported from the UK."

Artist: TOLVI, ANTTI
Title: Tanan
Format: CDR
Label: Peippo
Country: Finland
Price: $11.00

"Antti Tolvi is known for his work in Rauhan Orkesteri, Lauhkeat Lampaat, Lau Nau live band, Päivänsäde and Taikuri Tali. Here Antti plays one long sound from harmonium. Hand assembled silk paper sleeves." -Peippo.

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: A Bumpkins Empty Bravado
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $20.00

"Celebrating 35 years of vagabond soul by one of Japans most distinctive and original folk voices. A Bumpkins Empty Bravado (Japanese title: Inakamono no karagenki) is Tomokawas first completely solo album in fifteen years and a triumphant return to full-voiced form after his recent illness. Stripped of his usual backing band, theres a crystalline hardness evident in the best of Tomokawas songs here -- a hard, blazing core in which mellifluous lyricism and eruptions of highly individual madness are fused. Lyrically theres a new focus on Akita, the northern prefecture of his birth, as well as on the linkages between visual and musical art. Nine tracks; thirty-five minutes. Booklet includes liner-notes and lyrics in Japanese and English." -- Alan Cummings

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Akai Polyan (Red Polyanthus)
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $21.00

"Eleventh PSF album from the Japanese undergrounds most handsome folk-truthteller and all-round renaissance man. Nine new songs, including two more musical settings for the symbolist poems of Japans Rimbaud: Chuya Nakahara. Tomokawa has inhabited an utterly unique world very much of his own making for over twenty-five years now. A world where the most limpid of minor melodies and symbolism-inspired natural imagery can happily rub shoulders with EXTREMELY peaked torrents of pained screams over the densest of acoustic noise-scapes. What welds it all together is Tomokawas self-evident to desire to take himself and his audience through the wall with every performance. Forget any image of the sensitive folkie, Tomokawas music is as violent and cathartic as anything in the underground rock or free jazz canon. For anyone at all still concerned with the possibilities of words, voice, and acoustic communication, Tomokawa is an unparalleled contemporary touchstone. There is more truth and beauty in any one of his songs than in most singer-songwriters entire repertoires. Believe it." - Alan Cummings.

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Beauty Without Mercy
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $21.00

"Second Tomokawa CD on PSF, a reissue of a 1985 masterpiece. More of his aggressive and inspired folk. "Lyrical screaming vocal with band sound. The one and only!"" - FE.

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Blue Water, Red Water
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $20.00

"Latest album of devastating emotional transcendence from the Japanese undergrounds most lyrical singer-songwriter. Full of classic, richly textured songs of love, loss and stunned acquiescence to the wonders of the world. Alongside Tomokawas regular collaborators, Toshiaki Ishizuka and Masato Nagahata, the expanded group also includes Compostela-veteran Takero Sekijima on tuba and recorder, and improv-legend Hiromichi Sakamoto on cello. Includes Tomokawas ending theme song for director Rokuro Mochizukis Johnen - Jo no Ai, a re-telling of the Abe Sada story. Booklet includes lyrics in Japanese and English." -PSF

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Dance A Bonodori Alone
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $21.00

"Fifth CD on PSF by Tomokawa; including Moto Yoshizawa (bass) and Toshi Ishizuka (perc.; Cinorama). Emotionally flayed acoustic chant exorcisms by a master; English listeners whove had trouble getting into Tomokawa might want to try again here; this is avant-folk expression like little youve ever heard before, and the opening track (title track) would have to go on any best of PSF sampler youd want to put together."

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Erise no Me
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $21.00

"Tomokawas twelfth leader album on PSF (the title translates as The Eyes of Elise), and hence his nineteenth in a career that dates back to the mid-seventies. Tomokawa stands, together with Kan Mikami, as one of the most unique singer-poets thrown up by Japans folk boom of the late sixties and early seventies. Each new album from him represents not simpleminded progression but a privileged glimpse into a sound continuum as forcefully individual and special as any other name you might want to drop in this field (duh -- Buckley, Drake, Hurley, Jandek even). In Tomokawas universe, melodies of limpid and mellifluous grace rub shoulders with rhythmically violently and convulsive purges of soul bile. Tomokawas voice is one of the most special in the Japanese underground: ragged, strained and deeply accented, far removed from conventional standards of singerly intonation, but undoubtedly a sound of deeply human beauty. The group provide the ideal un-square settings for Tomokawas complex symbolist songs, at all times attaining a perfect marriage of acoustic density and forward lope. As an added bonus, long time admirer Keiji Haino adds some trademark abyssal guitar on two tracks." - Alan Cummings.

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: GO-EN: Live In Nihon Seinenkan
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $21.00

"Fourth volume in the PSF Picture Jacket Collection of Tomokawa reissues. Originally released in 1995 as PSF 049CD. Features material recorded live in Nihon Seinekan, 1994. Kan Mikami teams up with Tomokawa, with contributions from heavy bassist Motoharu Yoshizawa."

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Hanabana no kashitsu [Fault of Flowers]
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $26.00

"2nd volume in the PSF Picture Jacket Collection of Tomokawa reissues. Hanabana was originally issued in 1995 as PSF 029CD.Tomokawa is a legendary singer-songwriter similar to Kan Mikami, but more sensitive like Tim Buckley. It tends to be very difficult to drag westerners into Tomokawas insanely wired world, but once attached, his music has breathtaking depth and charge." - FE.

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Itsuka Tooku O Miteita
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $21.00

"Compilation of new and previously released tracks from Kazuki Tomokawa, Japans god of emotionally transcendent song. Tomokawas convulsive and passionate songs have recently graced films by two of Japans most notorious directors, legendary underground director Koji Wakamatsu (whose career dates back to the early sixties) and Takashi Miike, the current enfant terrible of weird and ultra-violent genre flicks. Tomokawas appearance playing himself in Miikes time-travelling samurai vengeance movie IZO in particular has stunned festival audiences -- the violent, cathartic and irrational beauty of his songs chimes perfectly with the films mood. Twelve tracks in total, including Pistol the amazing title-track from IZO, previously only available as part of the PSF 13 CD boxset (PSFD-134 / 146). Also includes three entirely new tracks, and three radical re-recordings." - Alan Cummings.

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Kenshin e ichigeki
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $21.00

"Screaming folk-poet Tomokawas twentieth album in a career that stretches back to the seventies. And theres still no sign of him mellowing with age -- he still spits lyrical bile and emotional venom like no one else on this earth. His forceful long-term group provides loose and translucent settings for Tomokawas beautiful madness, and the return of Ayumi Matsui on soaring violin is a very welcome development. This latest album was inspired by and is dedicated to the memory of Kenshin Sumitaku, a young free-meter haiku poet who died from leukaemia at the age of twenty-five. Yet another genuine, humanly touching, inspiring masterpiece from one of the unsung contemporary masters." - Alan Cummings.

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Live 2005 Banana Hall Osaka
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $21.00

"Kazuki Tomokawas gigs are now a lot less frequent than they used to be, and his August 2005 Osaka date was his first in Kansai for quite some time. But accompanied by his long-time trio of Toshi Ishizuka on percussion and Masato Nagahata on piano, this was, in Tomokawas own estimation, the best gig that this trio has ever played. It was far too good a performance to be left to fading memories, and Tomokawa himself talked PSF into releasing it. Sixteen tracks of his patented soul-folk, emotionally charged and devastating as all hell." - Alan Cummings.

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Live Manda-La Special
Format: CD
Label: Tomokawa
Country: Japan
Price: $25.00

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Live Manda-la Special
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $26.00

"Third Tomokawa (Buckley-esque folk legend) release on PSF, a collection of live performances." - PSF.

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."

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Muzan no bi [Beauty without mercy]
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $26.00

"Six previously released titles by Kazuki Tomokawa have been reissued in special art editions ("Picture Jacket Collection"), 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." Muzan no bi was the second Tomokawa CD to be released via PSF, originally issued in 1995 as PSF 033CD. A reissue of a 1985 masterpiece. More of his aggressive and inspired Japanese folk." - FE.

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Playing With Phantom
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $21.00

"Studio recording, with a great avant-bent acoustic backing band (featuring bass, cello, percussion) to go along with Tomokawas trademark guitar and vocals." - FE.

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Satoru
Format: LP
Label: Tiliqua
Country: Japan
Price: $36.00

"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.

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."

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Shibuya Appia Document
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $21.00

"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."

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Sora No Sakana (Sky Fish)
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $21.00

"1999 album from Tomokawa -- Japans other greatest underground folk singer, not to mention accomplished poet and painter, inveterate on-stage drunk, and now successful bicycle-race tipster. Eight new tracks of deeply zoned, uniquely identifiable, pure folk-soul communication, that range from melodies of limpid beauty, to sudden plunges into viciously hammered guitar, that voice rising, now screaming, and cracking into violent fragments as the other instruments following into a flailing and cathartic rhythmic purge. On Sora No Sakana, Tomokawa returns to some familiar obsessions -- the possibilities of the nursery rhyme form, musical settings for the poems of Japans tragic symbolist poet Chuya Nakahara (in the 70s Tomokawa recorded an entire album of Nakaharas poems), and deceptively opaque natural imagery. At the centre of each song is Tomokawas acoustic guitar and unmistakable voice, augmented with an unusually resourceful and sympathetic group of longterm collaborators (including Toshi Ishitsuka from Vajra). A unique individualist talent worthy of more support." -- Alan Cummings.

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Works of Chuya Nakahara
Format: CD
Label: Tomokawa
Country: Japan
Price: $25.00

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Works of Chuya Nakahara
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $21.00

"Sixth volume in the PSF Picture Jacket Collection of Tomokawa reissues. This one was previously only available as part of PSFs now out-of-print Tomokawa 13CD box set and features a series of accompaniment to the works of poet Chuya Nakahara (1907-1937)."

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI
Title: Yatto Ichi Mai Me
Format: CD
Label: Showboat/Sky Station
Country: Japan
Price: $29.00

"Faithful official reproduced reissue housed in the always top notch mini-LP styled gatefold jackets, obi and inserts. This was Tomokawas first record, released in October 1975. He is undoubtedly the unequaled master of possessed song-spirit. Here the young Tomokawa wails and screams emotionally hard enough in order to strip the paint of the walls. Nevertheless at times he gets quite emotional and laid back in order to hush his haunting demons to sleep. Just a splendid piece of Japanese acid folk and chant exorcism. Tomokawas music is violent, emotionally charged with insane screaming modes, piercing sensitivity, cathartic rhythmic purge, thrashing acoustic guitar aesthetic and harsh, reflecting the atmosphere of the bleak northern prefecture of Aomori. Hardly turns up these days. Stunningly great psychedelic-acid-avant-outsider folk music. For fans of Mikami Kan, Jandek, acid folk, Iuchi Kengo, J.A.Seazer, psych heads all around and adventurous music geeks. If you are interested in acid folk, well look no further cause it will not get any better than this. Highly recommended official top notch high quality reissue of this rare early (1st) Tomokawa disc."-Showboat/Sky Station

Artist: TOMOKAWA, KAZUKI & MIKAMI, KAN
Title: Goen
Format: CD
Label: Tomokawa
Country: Japan
Price: $25.00

Artist: TOMOKAWA/PISTOL, KAZUKI
Title: Shibuya Apia Live 2003
Format: DVD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $25.00

"First ever DVD release on PSF. Eighteen tracks of screaming philosopher-poet Kazuki Tomokawa, recorded at the Apia folk club in Tokyo. Tomokawa has been playing at Apia for over thirty years, and his shows there are legendary for their honesty and human-mystery. This DVD compiles the highlights from four recent gigs, including stunning new tracks used in recent films by cult directors Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer, Visitor Q) and Koji Wakamatsu (Violated Angels, Sex Jack, Endless Waltz). Tomokawas impassioned acid folk stands as one of the greatest shining black stars in the post-war Japanese underground firmament. Whether suffused with bittersweet joy and lyrical insight, or rank with bitterness and self-directed bile, Tomokawa animates each and every song with an incomparable sense of life that has to be heard to be believed. A truly beautiful thing." - Alan Cummings. Color, NTSC Region 2, 4:3 [note: REGION 2 is defined as: Japan, Europe, South Africa, Middle East, Greenland; so this may not be compatible with some US DVD players!]

Artist: TOMUTONTTU
Title: Tomutonto
Format: CD
Label: Fonal
Country: Finland
Price: $18.00

"Fonal re-releases Tomutonto, a long sold-out gem by Finlands Tomutonttu (Jan Anderzén), previously released on LP in 2006 by the Ultra Eczema label. Anderzén is a visual artist and the leader of respected avant-garde group Kemialliset Ystävät, whose primitivism and tribal noise inclinations are reflected in these recordings. Echoed, chanting vocals, ethnic flutes, droning or rushing electronics, ritualistic mantras, low intonations, oscillations, ululations, sped-up tape squiggle, blistered bass tones and thudded percussion are just some of what youll encounter here, creating a pastiche of sound of that will accompany you as you delve further and further into the neon cave." - Fonal.

Artist: TOMUTONTTU
Title: Tomutonttu
Format: CD
Label: Fonal
Country: Finland
Price: $18.00

"Fonal Recods re-releases this long sold-out debut by Tomutonttu, originally released in 2007 by Beta-lactam Ring and previously only available in a 400 copies-only 220 gram vinyl format. Tomutonttu ("Dust Gnome") is a human called Jan Anderzén, a visual artist and the leader of respected avant-garde sound group Kemialliset Ystävät. Toy reed streams, mutilated vocals and groovy loops of animal noise are some of the colors used to create the whirling mess that is the lonely song of Tomutonttu. It is like a confused and confusing detail of the Kemialliset Ystävät freedom-flow -- a microcosmos of strange sound creatures and dirt flying around in the stereo space, interacting with a logic all of their own. Harkening early electronic experimenters and avant composers of the past such as early Die Tödliche Doris and Meredith Monk, this album is like listening to 500 library records all at once, or walking through a labyrinth of motherboards, or laying on a scientists table with electrodes attached to your body while you are exposed to every noise, light, and color in their various range of spectrums. Tomutonttu has collaborated live with Mike Bernstein (Double Leopards, Religious Knives), Joshua Burkett, Tara Burke (Fursaxa), The Skaters, Glenn Donaldson (Jewelled Antler), Sami Sänpäkkilä (Es) and Clay Ruby (Davenport), and has recently played a series of concerts for school kids at the planetarium in his home town of Tampere, Finland." - Fonal.

Artist: TOMUTONTTU
Title: Triplapuisto
Format: Cass
Label: Imvated
Country: Belgium
Price: $9.00

"Jan Anderzen, Finland Syd Barrett. this is his universe of the strange. sounds like a Morrocan amusement park. with creepy lumberjacks behind the Arcade games." - Imvated.

Artist: TONALAMOTL
Title: s/t
Format: LP
Label: Bobby J
Country: USA
Price: $15.00

"San Antonio mystery improv troupe. Early recordings of living-room blast-offs and AMM/ESP inspired wanderings..." -Bobby J. Late 90s release.

Artist: TONE, YASUNAO
Title: Yasunao Tone
Format: 3" CD/Book
Label: Ashiya City Museum of Art & History/Aichi Arts & Culture Center
Country: Japan
Price: $18.50

"A catalog (with 3"CD) for his live performances in Japan after 28 years. An interview (most text in Japanese, but includes many rare photographs), criticism, biography, compositions and discography. CD is recorded Tones unreleased work "Geography and Music (1979)" performed by John Cage / Takehisa Kosugi (reading), David Tudor (piano) and Martin Calve (Chinese 7 strings zither) in 1983." - publisher.

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.

Artist: TONIUTTI, GIANCARLO
Title: (And Now He Almost Did Make Himself Into Hemlock Needles, It Is Said) Sound-Field For Rattle-Harp
Format: CD
Label: Alluvial
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

"Comes in an LP-style sleeve with a 16-page booklet. A single, hour-long work. Recorded on January 18, 2001 in Udine, the Red Room [Sound-source: Rattle-harp (drift metal, string, wire, bells, bone, wood)]. Treated & composed on February 9-12, 2002 in Udine, the Black Room. All photos have been taken at Caneo natural reserve, Fossalon di Grado, Isonzo River Mouth, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, 0 m. asl. The very occasional faint crackles are digital faults from the original recording; as part of the document, they have not been erased." -Alluvial

Artist: TONIUTTI, GIANCARLO
Title: The Early Tapes Period
Format: 3LP/10" Box Set
Label: Vinyl-On-Demand
Country: Germany
Price: $100.00

"Box set of Giancarlo Toniuttis 3 early works Wechselwirkung, Metánárkôsis, Das Todesantlitz which have all been published by Toniutti on cassette tapes in 1982-83 in a very limited numbered edition. The box also includes a 10" vinyl EP with previously unreleased tracks from that same very early period (1981-84). This work represents his early musical-work as solo composer. 1982-83 was the period, and experiments with early electronics, found objects, rough percussion and noise were the attitudes that coalesce into his first 3 cassette works found on this box. This past time becomes part of the future when historically contextualized. Early electronics, acoustic objects and the beginning of a form of structuralism was the mélange of that young mind. It will come with a booklet including an essay about the history of the period, notes and data." - Vinyl on Demand.

Artist: TONO BUNGAY
Title: Kluge
Format: 12"
Label: Twisted Village
Country: USA
Price: $14.00

"Astounding new 24-minute 12" from one of Americas longest-running free rock outfits. New York Citys Tono Bungay features ace string picker Bob Bannister, who has lent his guitar talents to projects as diverse as Cat Power and Glenn Brancas recent100-guitar orchestra as well as releasing two solo LPs on Twisted Village. One could nary guess he was weaned on Finnish prog in Finland, no less! Drummer Tony Cenicola is content to lay down a solid backbeat for a few seconds before erupting into pure freedom, then throwing drumsticks at the kit (and audience), then whipping his drums with chains and whatever else is handy. Dada master Robert Dennis manipulates his masterfully planned Auto-Destruct labyrinth of bass, tape machines, and electronics, which is so beautifully planned by its creator that it often self-destructs long before Robert pushes that big red button. Kluge is sonically closer to the two-track squall of their 1993 debut LP Rough Music than the careful ambiance of Wunderkammer with their focus sharpened by nearly a decade of dedicated work on their unique approach to sound." -Twisted Village. 2001 release, limited editon paste on covers.

Artist: TONO-BUNGAY
Title: Profit & Loss
Format: 7"
Label: New World Of Sound
Country: USA
Price: $4.00

"Bob Bannister led free guitar explorations, early and more angular akin to Hans Reichel than the later releases on Twisted Village." - NWOS. 1993 release.

Artist: TONO-BUNGAY
Title: Rough Music
Format: LP
Label: Twisted Village
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

"Trio featuring Bob Bannister (previous solo LP on TV). A guitar/bass/drums instrumental trio (with found-tape spoken interjections), Bannisters flowing, prog-psych guitar tone skirts through power-drone jamming frameworks to very lovely effect." -Twisted Village.

Artist: TONO-BUNGAY
Title: Sold By Volume
Format: 10"
Label: New World Of Sound
Country: USA
Price: $7.00

"Less grit and more gristle they formulate their sound into a low pulse cohesive flow, less aggro and more composition though still not as psychedelic and Ptolemaic as they are now." - NWOS. 1995 release.

Artist: TONY CARO AND JOHN
Title: All On The First Day
Format: LP
Label: Gaarden
Country: USA
Price: $17.00

"A reissue of the obscure yet classic psych folk gem All On The First Day by TONY CARO AND JOHN. Originally released in 1972, this album was somehow buried in the "stuff drawer" of time to be recently rediscovered by those inclined to look. The band was featured on the British Love Peace & Poetry LP and had Baltimore group Beach House cover their "Snowdon Song" on their debut album (re-titling it "Lovelier Girl"). Somewhere between the whimsy of The Incredible String Band and the stark beauty of Vashti Bunyan lie Tony Caro and John." -Gaarden

Artist: TOPAZ RAGS
Title: Capricorn Born Again
Format: LP
Label: Not Not Fun
Country: USA
Price: $14.00

"Debut full-length by this sour times lurker trio. Recorded across four months in a time consuming 4-track/boombox assemblage style, this one leaks shadows and rainy piano riffs and faded heartbreak. Edition of 400." - Not Not Fun.

Artist: TOPAZ RAGS
Title: Crown Center
Format: 7"
Label: Not Not Fun
Country: USA
Price: $7.00

"West Coast ghost squad TOPAZ RAGS stalk back into the deadlights with a fresh vinyl single, their first new material since the Capricorn Born Again LP. Recorded in the heart of winter in a room with one blue light bulb, "The Crown Center" is pure nightprowler music: quaking bass, grime-jazz keys, dusty drums, witch choirs floating through the smog and into sleeping homes with the power lines cut. The sound of crime to come. The flip ("You Go On") slips deeper into the psych-psycho psyche, a bleached-brain riff-rhythm grinding away endlessly while voices and electric piano stabs arc across the stereo field, raining ash. A grimmer twist on the Topaz formula, the dreamers dream turned dark. 33 RPM 7-inch pressed on various colored vinyl in hand-silkscreened cardstock sleeves. Edition of 345." -Not Not Fun

Artist: TOPAZ RAGS
Title: Tarot Harem
Format: 7"
Label: Not Not Fun
Country: USA
Price: $8.00

Artist: TOPP, MARTY
Title: Paradise Now: A Collective Creation of The Living Theatre
Format: DVD
Label: Arthur
Country: USA
Price: $28.00

"The screams the unchained soarings of a sincerity which is on its way to this revolution of the whole body without which nothing can be changed." -- Antonin Artaud. "Arthur Magazine proudly presents our newest release Paradise Now: The Living Theatre in Amerika DVD featuring rare, never-before-distributed films and a bacchanal of revolutionary multimedia documents from The Living Theatres historic and influential 68-69 American tour. A fulminating art-meets-life installation brought to you in collaboration with The Living Theatre, The Ira Cohen Akashic Project and Saturnalia Media Rites of the Dreamweapon. Transform your living, work or performance space... hit play, but dont say we didnt warn you! DVD includes: Paradise Now: The Living Theatre in Amerika (1969) a film by Marty Topp, produced by Ira Cohen for Universal Mutant; Emergency (1968) a film by Gwen Brown, featuring precious footage of Living Theatre productions Mysteries and smaller pieces, Paradise Now, and Frankenstein; rare photographs of Paradise Now at Brooklyn Academy of Music by Don Snyder; the map of Paradise Now, a 14 x 19 double-sided, commemorative poster + zine including texts by Antonin Artaud, Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Ira Cohen and Don Snyder. In 1968, The Living Theatre, led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina, triumphantly returned to America from years of self-imposed exile in Europe with their theatrical breakthrough Paradise Now. The play introduces the practice of collective creation, dissolving the boundaries of human interactions and forging a harmony between the actors and audience. Of this process, Julian Beck writes, Collective creation is the secret weapon of the people ... This play is a voyage from the many to the one and from the one to the many. Its a spiritual voyage and a political voyage, a voyage for the actors and the spectators. The play is a vertical ascent toward permanent revolution, leading to revolutionary action here and now. The revolution of which the play speaks is the beautiful, non-violent, anarchist revolution. The purpose of the play is to lead to a state of being in which non-violent revolutionary action is possible. The result of this shared voyage is the spontaneous creation of a temporary anarchist collective -- free from the enslavements of war, violence, the State, money and the self."-Arthur.

Artist: TOPPING BOTTOMS
Title: Towers Of Spines
Format: Cass
Label: Not Not Fun
Country: USA
Price: $6.50

"killer weirdo tokyo crew drop a block of PSF-damaged warehouse guitar strobe light sludge. in insane art-packing by Create Evil chief Ryo." - Not Not Fun.

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

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

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.

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.

Artist: TORN CURTAIN
Title:
Format: CD
Label: Ventricle
Country: USA
Price: $11.00

"the first in the "silver series" of Ventricles spectral ambient cds-rarefied reverb drenched vocals resonating on the threshold of feedback, accompanied by hazey mellotron wafting into the mix like stray echoes from a 15th century dungeon..." - Ventricle. "Dusty from Mauve Sideshow, exploring darker realms, aided by Sheila on voice. Betwixt trippy Gong & Nurse With Wound." - Ultima Thule.

Artist: TORTURING NURSE
Title: Nontacky
Format: CDR
Label: Ultra Eczema
Country: Belgium
Price: $15.00

"The only harch noise release on ultra eczema. when visiting shanghai in china i was overwelmth by their extreme energy, scissor fighting the guitars and metals, breaking down any possible electric machine around.. also they are the only noise band in a city of millions. saw them live in their sweaty moistish basement packed with 50 chinese young bloods with cameras. this cdr is a one song killer harch tone blast, still you can smell their old skool BOREDOMS influence somewhere in between their forrests of pubick hair noise! comes in a 3 panel 7" size cover design by debbisch tyfoush." - Ultra Eczema.

Artist: TOTAL ABUSE
Title: Mutt
Format: LP
Label: Post Present Medium
Country: USA
Price: $14.00

"Total Abuse are from Austin, Texas. Since their first show in November 2006, TA have been recording and playing a heavy onslaught of feedback drenched hardcore soundscapes, taking hints from the Dead C, Black Flag (Chavo and Rollins era), Void and Harry Pussy. Total Abuses roster includes Rusty Kelley on vocals (who also makes harsh noise under the name Breathing Problem), Matt Lyons on drums, Ryan Foster on guitar, Dustin Pilkington on bass and, as of August 2008, they added former Snobs guitarist Duncan Knappen as second guitar. Members now live in New York, Oakland and Austin and get together as much as possible to record and destroy ears live." -Post Present Medium

Artist: TOTAL LIFE
Title: s/t
Format: LP
Label: Brown Sounds
Country: USA
Price: $15.00

Limited "gallery" edition LP from Brownsounds/Gavin Browns Enterprises (500 copies). Second solo LP from Kevin Doria of Growing.

Artist: TOTAL LIFE
Title: Total Life
Format: LP
Label: Animal Disguise
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

"Total Life is the solo project of Kevin Doria who is also a member of the atmospheric/noise/drone group, Growing. This album displays an obsessive sense of composition and an absolute mastery of harnessing chaos to create a solid masterpiece. Heavy electronic washes, multiple layers of feedback and shifting harmonics create a powerful wall of sound that at first seems overtly harsh, but repeated listenings reveal a hidden beauty and natural soothing effect. Fans of Growing shouldnt be disappointed, but to make the comparisons to them would be much too easy. Total Life stands on its own, and walks its own path." - Animal Disguise.

Artist: TOUCH & GO
Title: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine 79-83
Format: Book
Label: Bazillion Points
Country: USA
Price: $29.00

"Touch And Go fanzine was the brainchild of Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson and was launched in Lansing, Michigan, in 1979. Major fanatics of the new punk happenings in the late 70s, TV and DS set out to chronicle, lambaste, ridicule, and heap praise on all they arbitrarily loved or hated in the music communities in the US and abroad. In laughably minuscule press runs by todays standards, T & G was made by guys within the Midwest scene strictly for the edification of scenesters and pals in other cities like DC, Philly, Boston, LA, SF, Chicago, et al. Inspired by magazines such as Slash and Search and Destroy and writers like Claude Bessy and Chris Desjardines, TV and DS pumped out seventeen naughty, irreverent issues together, and TV did another five solo. Magazines like Forced Exposure and Your Flesh, among others, soon fired up Xerox machines themselves, and the rest is history. So is the legendary independent record label launched from this zine, and so are the bands covered inside: Black Flag, Minor Threat, the Misfits, Negative Approach, the Fix, the Avengers, the Necros, Discharge, Iron Cross, Youth Brigade, Faith, Die Kreuzen, Crucifix, Poison Idea -- and all the other punks worth their weight in glorious black and white. Featuring new introductory essays by punk icons Tesco Vee (The Meatmen), Dave Stimson, Steve Miller (The Fix), Henry Rollins (S.O.A./Black Flag), Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks), Peter Davis (Your Flesh), Henry Owings (Chunklet), Byron Coley (Forced Exposure), Corey Rusk (Necros/Touch and Go Records), John Brannon (Negative Approach), and Ian MacKaye (Teen Idles/Minor Threat). Exclusive early interviews with the Fix, Necros, Minor Threat, Youth Brigade, Iron Cross, Misfits, Negative Approach, JFA, Battalion of Saints, Crucifucks, 7 Seconds, Faith, the Effigies, the Minutemen, Scream, Die Kreuzen, Crucifix, Poison Idea, SSD, & others. 8.5"x 11"x1.25", 4lbs., 101% offensive joy!" 546 pages." -Bazillion Points

Artist: TOUKASEIBUNSHI
Title: Meta-Inorganicmatter Meta-Newlon
Format: CD
Label: PSF
Country: Japan
Price: $20.00

"Volume 2 in the ongoing Japanese Avant-Garde Cassette Reissue Series. The 80s and early 90s saw a great deal of fascinating material released on cassette in the Tokyo underground. While some of the more noise-orientated stuff enjoyed a modicum of international distribution, the avant-garde material generally did not. This series, whose first release was Iro / Tamafuri (PSFD-180), aims to rescue the best of this music from historical oblivion. Toukaseibunshi (Permeable Molecule) was an ultra-mysterious solo unit created by Hironari Iwata. Iwata was a footnote figure in the world of Japanese avant-garde/noise from the mid to late eighties. As well as Toukaseibunshi, he also recorded under the name Haiginsha, ran the Angakok cassette label and wrote for various magazines. Theres an unshowy stoicism to Iwatas investigation of drone, clank and crackling sustain, a deep seriousness of purpose that beguiles as much as it confounds. Six tracks, fifty-eight minutes. Gatefold papersleeve." -Alan Cummings

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

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

Artist: TOWER RECORDINGS
Title: The Galaxies Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field...
Format: LP
Label: Communion
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

"The Galaxies Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field of the Tower Recordings comprises a full band expedition to an upstate New York church session around the time that songs used for the Folk Scene album were recorded. After reviewing the tapes with fellow tapenaut and TTR member Tim Barnes, Matt Valentine (MV) said: The music is some of the finest TTR has ever produced, encompassing all our nodes and distilled toward a universal sound like no other that the band ever touched on." - Communion.

Artist: TOWER RECORDINGS
Title: The Galaxies Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field...
Format: CD
Label: Communion
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

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.

Artist: TOYOZUMI & MOTOTERU TAKAGI, SABU
Title: If Ocean Is Broken
Format: Double LP
Label: Qbico
Country: Italy
Price: $44.00

"Unreleased free jazz from Japan in its prime, recorded live in Tokyo in 1971. Mototeru Takagi already released two beautiful duo LPs back then with master Japanese drummers like Masahiko Togashi (Isolation) and Toshi Tsuchitori (Origination), so this last DLP is complete in a sense the set of duo recorded with the best, 1st generation, free music drummers from Japan. On the other side its complete also, the duo recorded by Sabu with the greatest reeds player from Japan (still of the 1st generation); being, his various duos with legendary Kaoru Abe, already documented on Qbico (Senzei) and elsewhere. About the music: raw and passionate = primitive beauty; both musicians are in top form and surely in their most creative period. Mr. Takagi plays tenor, soprano sax and bass clarinet, while Sabu is on drums and percussion. Original recordings were very well preserved (fortunately) and the pressing came out wonderful! Cover by qbico which Sabu can really dig, saying that En no Gyoja is deeply respected by him, he opened the way..." -Qbico

Artist: TRACEY TRANCE
Title: Mummy Fingers
Format: Cass
Label: Not Not Fun
Country: USA
Price: $6.50

"Moonrock-eating keyboard madcap T TRANCE lays down one of his best outings yet, 30 minutes of warped drug circus pop disasters. or something?" -Not Not Fun

Artist: TRAD, GRAS OCH STENAR
Title: Ain Schvajn Draj
Format: CD
Label: Silence
Country: Sweden
Price: $16.00

"New reunion album, recorded 1998-2000! Featuring original members Bo Anders Persson, Tobjörn Abelli & Thomas Gartz (all related to: Harvester, Int Harvester, Pärson Sound). This a layered, textural rock record and very strong for the times." - FE. "We want to thank the patient horses who were our closest neighbours when we recorded in Jacobs joiners workshop on the island Färingsö. Its true that they sometimes pawed the wall -- in appreciation or annoyance? When they were out in their pasture we had to shut off the electric fence. The impulses came into the tape, it sounded like a metronome with co-operative problems. A few tunes are recorded in a room in ÿllösa old school outside Stjärnhov, in Torbjörns sister Bissas home. All the instrumentals were created at the very moment, the result of an accidental alchemist occurrence -- a meeting of four old men at the crossroads of an imaginary landscape. Ain Schvajn Draj! is what ran out of the test tubes after Thomas Meras experiments with cloning TGS. The doa-choir The Nymphettes is his own highly temporary change of gender. The recordings are made by Träd Gräs och Stenar during several occasions from 1998-2001 on 2 ADAT tape recorders." - Silence.

Artist: TRAD, GRAS OCH STENAR
Title: From Möja to Minneapolis
Format: DVD
Label: Gashud
Country: Sweden
Price: $26.00

"Träd Gräs och Stenar have their origin in the legendary Swedish psychedelic/experimental bands, Pärson Sound/International Harvester/Harvester who started playing in 1967. The band dissolved in 1972 but reunited in 1995, ready for new adventures and they never ever lost the spirit. They still rank as one of the most amazing contemporary psych bands worldwide. During 2002-2005, Mikael Högström and his video camera accompanied their gigs. As time went on, it turned into a little project. Mikael showed the band his latest clips and under their merciless eyes and ears, those clips slowly developed into this DVD. The amazing footage and sound documents the band performing in Sweden, USA and Russia. It also contains recordings from other cameras and sound recorders, including a few glimpses from the bands old 8mm movies -- an echo from the past. An amazing psychedelic journey in sounds and sights. Time 118 min., plus an extra bonus 3 min. 21 secs. with old film clips from 1970. 4:3; NTSC PCM; Stereo; Region: 0; DVD 9; Double Layer." - Gashud.

Artist: TRAD, GRAS OCH STENAR
Title: Gardet 12.6.1970
Format: CD
Label: Subliminal Sounds
Country: Sweden
Price: $16.00

A 1996 reissue, repressed. "The first in our new series called Swedish Underground Archives. The series will focus on classic yet mostly unreleased recordings by known and unknown to mythical Swedish progressive/psychedelic groups from the 1960s/70s. First out is the best ever recording from the legendary Trad Gras & Stenar (Trees Grass & Stones) recorded at the first ever Swedish outdoors summer hippie festival in 1970. The sound is just amazing: a stoned lysergic wall of acid guitars jamming away and never letting up, pounding bass, furious drums and mystical howling vocals. A true landmark in psychedelic/progressive history." - Silence.

Artist: TRAD, GRAS OCH STENAR
Title: Homeless Cats
Format: Double LP
Label: Subliminal Sounds
Country: Sweden
Price: $32.00

"Gatefold 2LP version with full-color glossy printed innersleeves, limited to 1000 copies. Just in time for Träd Gräs och Stenars ("Trees Grass and Stones") 40-year anniversary, the Swedish psychedelic trance-rock pioneers release a new album, Homeless Cats. The first one in 7 years, and the seventh since they began in 1969. Eleven boundless tracks with organic music for open minds. Back in 1967, the guitarist BoAnders Persson had already started his Terry Riley-inspired underground band Pärson Sound with the bass player Torbjorn Abelli and drummer Thomas Mera Gartz, amongst others. They evolved into International Harvester, then Harvester, finally striking root as Träd Gräs och Stenar. In 1970, they arranged, and performed at, the legendary Swedish Gardes-Festivals that pioneered the Swedish alternative music movement. Today, Träd Gräs och Stenar create their own contemporary music, even if they have been compared to Krautrockers like Can and Faust, internationally. Rhythmic, and heart-pounding for sure -- but at the same time, peculiarly Swedish, with their roots in the mold and soil, and with branches that reach high up into the clear air. Homeless Cats was recorded by the band themselves during the period between 2002-2007, mostly while jamming in the bands rehearsal house and studio in Viksund, Sweden, but also live at gigs. During this period, they also toured Europe, USA, Russia and Japan. In the meaty album booklet, they give us a couple of personal travelogues. Träd Gräs och Stenar have evolved a clear and mature sound with space enough for both suggestive heaviness and mind-expansion. These tracks bubble and seethe, growing forth freely. Sometimes, the mostly instrumental tracks are irresistibly captivating, as in the trance-inducing "Summer Disco," at other times, they are weightless, as on the loop-like "The Most Beautiful Moment Of The Dream," which breathtakingly floats into "Thorns Of Solitude," which could be an earthy, space-rock movie soundtrack. "Wedding Reel" is a slight divergence from traditional Swedish folk music, with rhythms and melodies that are played brutally, like a plow wrenching deep furrows into a field of stone. Homeless Cats makes its mark. Heavy, vertiginous, and, just like Träd Gräs och Stenar themselves, timeless." -Subliminal Sounds

Artist: TRAD, GRAS OCH STENAR
Title: Live 1972
Format: LP
Label: 1/2 Special
Country: USA
Price: $30.00

"Unreleased live recordings from 1972. Remainder of tour-only LPs. Edition of 500. Different release than HALV 002CD." Hand stamped jackets. Small restock of the last copies. SOLD OUT

Artist: TRAD, GRAS OCH STENAR
Title: s/t
Format: CD
Label: Silence
Country: Sweden
Price: $16.00

"1995 reissue of the first Träd Gräs och Stenar album, originally issued on the Decibel label in Sweden in 1970. Their name translated as Trees, Grass & Stones. A rock group led by Bo Anders Persson (after his works with Pärson Sound, Harvester, International Harvester), this was their first of 3 albums , a definitely more "rockist" continuation of the post-minimalist experiments of the earlier groups, but still with that undefinable Swedish underground "feeling". - Silence.

Artist: TRAFFIC SOUND
Title: Virgin
Format: CD
Label: Repsychled
Country: USA
Price: $17.50

"In January 1970, Traffic Sounds second album, Virgin was released. It was the first Peruvian rock album to feature all original tunes. It contains the hit single Meshkalina, a fusion of Latin rhythms, power rock and hippie lyrics; it also includes beautiful acoustic tracks: "Virgin," "Simple" and "Last Song," and progressive rock tracks like "Yellow Sea Days" and "Jews Caboose." Influenced by bands like the Animals, Iron Butterfly, Jimi Hendrix Experience and Pink Floyd, Traffic Sound added their own original touches and created something new. Tired of gossip and hearsay? Now you can read a real biography of Traffic Sound, told by the band members. This re-packaged reissue includes a sixteen-page booklet with lyrics, band biography, and unseen photos. It was produced using the original master tapes, and remastered dutifully with tube amplifiers." -Repsychled.

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.

Artist: TRASH DOG
Title: Live In Brazil
Format: One-sided LP
Label: YNG
Country: USA
Price: $12.00

"unauthorized serivicing the ATM take me back to the post office. handstands at the chud opening. live show in sao paulo at el cavra chupa that felipe set up. a few drums and broken guitars mostly cable buzz and then the bus of british exchange students, wasted after liverpool beats mexico in the semifinals, storm in the gig and start taking the mic some weird void shit goin on. trash dog plays mostly just the kids taking over trash dog just a vehicle at this point for collision. recorded to walkman in dungles back pocket though the chaos getting turned on and off and somehow makes it back to the states and on wax. similiar to the environmental records popular in the 70s this is a recording of basements sounds and maybe a band plays. the crowd is loudest of all. something is happening. is this a record or just gateway drug like some dirty grass near the riverbed? the lawnmower man creeps with WD40 to grease the chain. stevie nix took the right moves." -YNG

Artist: TRASH HUMPERS
Title: Original Soundtrack
Format: 7"
Label: Drag City
Country: USA
Price: $8.00

"A limited edition 7-inch single featuring music from HARMONY KORINEs Trash Humpers. Packaged in stained brown paper sacks." -Drag City

Artist: TRAUM
Title: Built For Nothing
Format: One-sided LP
Label: Arbor
Country: USA
Price: $12.00

"Suburban Michigan is a breeding ground where every weirdo has a label, a band, and a handful of secret/under the radar collaborative projects. Here Graveyards Ben Hall and Lambsbreads Zac Davis create a monolithic one sider influenced by too many private press jazz records and abstract instrumentalism. Davis turns in his effect pedals for nothing; pure clean tones plucked up and down scales and bridges so uniquely that it is easy to confuse the guitar for a sax. Ben Hall drums like a man with four arms; constant rattling trap tapping and assorted pots and pans clattering, flowing completely smoothly. A perfect union of sound. In an edition of 300 copies in screened chipboard sleeves by Anthony Decanini. "- Arbor

Artist: TRAUM
Title: Cinder Blocks
Format: CDR
Label: Brokenresearch
Country: USA
Price: $10.00

"After getting rid of that thieving fuck, Traum reformats as more of a trio approach this go-round with Chris Riggs absolutely destroying the guitar chair. And what a damaged overall approach it is. The formal constraints bring something out that tends towards some of the most unknown improvised noise proposals so see light in Michigan. Riggs is a brutal technician and theres not a guitar note to be heard and the chords--if you can callem that---- sound like machines self-inflicting tonal punches. Riggs and Bunny move through all the material with a push/pull controlled passive aggressiveness that makes it impossible again and again to figure out whos doin what." -Brokenresearch

Artist: TRAUM
Title: Dont Start None, Wont Be None
Format: CDR
Label: Maim & Disfigure
Country: USA
Price: $10.00

Artist: TRAUM
Title: Separatist Integration
Format: CDR
Label: Maim & Disfigure
Country: USA
Price: $10.00

Artist: TRAUM
Title: Slab
Format: LP
Label: Brokenresearch
Country: USA
Price: $12.00

"Zac Davis who has had his Michigan rights revoked for theft finds himself on the very last brokenresearch release to ever have his sorry ass name associted with said label. Heads up with percussion hater Hell Hall this is some Billy Cobham vs. Coryell under dirt filled microscope for the mass of listeners who post up as both noise and fusion fans. A one sider with brutal force, this is an excellent companion to "Built for Nothing" and really that is the most fitting title for a group that had action for about ten minutes until our guitarist decided that friends are for using. No description like this has ever been posted to the HnAm board but very few have been more honest about what they were peddling-- a document of two people who used to be cool and now..." -Brokenresearch

Artist: TRAUM
Title: Soiled Pants
Format: CDR
Label: Maim & Disfigure
Country: USA
Price: $10.00

Artist: TRAUMA
Title: The Calming Effects of the Ocean Vol. One
Format: Cass
Label: American Tapes
Country: USA
Price: $8.00

"Hell Hall & Chris Riggs new post Traum guitar - drums dense improv troupe. Interesting new jamm style, kinda like Circle Jerks Raga or Ocra Records played by Circle Jerks members. Fast and active but, calming. First installment in a mad crazy long series. The sizzling streets of JAM-TRAMMACK gently tuning the inside of your ear drum, right side only, cause BIG RIGGS is jamming a file blade and a 30 coarse block of sand paper across the fine lines of your left side ear hole hair. Always a bright day when a guitar sounds like an AM RADIO crackling away Disco Inferno under a bedrock of brain frying static. Packaged in a new mega color slip case style with full color inzane art." -American Tapes

Artist: TRAVELLING BELL
Title: Scatter Ways
Format: CD
Label: Secret Eye
Country: USA
Price: $13.00

⿿[Kathleen Bairds] voice is deep, sleepy and Nico-esque, her instrumentation loose and imaginative. Like if Brigitte Fontaine fronted Current 93. Her lush and exotic arrangements include bells, mbira, guitars, and other plectra, flutes, and synthesizers, all orchestrated to outline her careful, but never fussy, songcraft.⿝ ⿿ Secret Eye

Artist: TREATMENT, STEVE
Title: 25 "A"-Sides / Your Friends Are in the News
Format: Double CDR
Label: Hyped 2 Death
Country: USA
Price: $15.00

"All my songs are A sides." 140+ minutes of brilliant DIY n roll from 1977-1979 including all of Steves singles, plus later highlights of his incredibly colorful career, including almost all of the songs that were headed for Steves never-released LP. We couldnt afford the full-color 16-page booklet we were hoping to bring you, but its all really handsome anyway. The bio, meanwhile, covers Steves interactions with Marc Bolan, the Swell Maps, the Moors Murderers, Derek Jarman, and Paul McCartneys brother-in-law ...among others." - Hyped 2 Death. Features the Swell Maps on a bunch of tracks.

Artist: TREE PEOPLE, THE
Title: Human Voices
Format: CD
Label: Guerssen
Country: Spain
Price: $18.00

"This is the second album from Oregons The Tree People, the late 70s predecessors to the ongoing new folk movement in the USA. You already know about their 1979 debut album and you know its a masterpiece, but did you know about their second album recorded in 1984? Surely not, especially because it was a cassette-only release with a very short print-run. Luckily enough, The Tree People guys kept the mastertapes of these recordings and Guerssen Records is proud to be making this wonderful music available again. Reissued on CD with a vinyl version to come later, the sound quality is splendid, and the music itself is equally as good, if not better than, their self-titled debut and is a real must for any folk and psych-folk lover. Acoustic guitars, subtle percussion, wonderful flute work and some warm vocals -- overall, this is a real big dose of quality and originality that makes The Tree Peoples music absolutely ahead of its time and therefore so much admired today. A real beauty! This CD includes a booklet with liner notes by the bands leader Stephen Cohen, as well as some nice pictures." -Guerssen

Artist: TREE PEOPLE, THE
Title: Human Voices
Format: LP
Label: Guerssen
Country: Spain
Price: $25.00

"Previously released on CD by Guerssen Records, now available on vinyl. This is the second album from Oregons The Tree People, the late 70s Oregon-based predecessors to the ongoing new folk movement in the USA. You already know about their 1979 debut album and you know its a masterpiece, but did you know about their second album recorded in 1984? Surely not, especially because it was a cassette-only release with a very short print-run. The sound quality on this reissue is splendid, and the music itself is equally as good, if not better than, their self-titled debut and is a real must for any folk and psych-folk lover. Acoustic guitars, subtle percussion, pastoral flute work and some warm vocals make The Tree Peoples music absolutely ahead of its time. A real beauty! Includes an insert with liner notes by the bands leader Stephen Cohen, as well as some nice pictures." -Guerssen

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.

Artist: TREE PEOPLE, THE
Title: The Tree People
Format: LP
Label: Guerssen
Country: Spain
Price: $28.00

"Self-titled album by Oregon group Tree People has finally reached its deserved status af