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| Artist: COPS Title: Place To Crash Format: CDR Label: Arbitrary Signs Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| Artist: MAGIK MARKERS Title: Real McCoy aka Road Pussey Redux Format: CDR Label: Arbitrary Signs Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "This is the lost mid-period Markers record which was partially issued last year as "Road Pussy". This is the studio summer jam in all its glory. Swings from very strange songs and rotten summer garbage - the road to Markers studio knowledge that paved the way for the forthcoming "Boss" album." |
| Artist: MAGIK MARKERS Title: Boss Format: LP Label: Arbitrary Signs Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "When confronted with an example of magnificence in nature, such as a waterfall, Jane Goodall reported that the chimpanzees she observed were captivated, as if in awe of the beauty of the world. On BOSS, the Magik Markers have tried to capture the chimps awe. A formality and restraint the Markers have never exerted on their previously recorded material is present on BOSS. Now the Markers are Jainists, with their mouths masked so as to not inhale even one tiny insect, here pursuing the killer gentle with a vengeance. Recorded in the cavernous dark of Echo Canyon West, with producer Lee Ranaldo working the boards like a diviner, BOSS documents the Markers with a previously unheard fidelity and orchestration. Idiosyncratic song structure and melodies interspersed with a destructive drum stomp are reminiscent of the early electrified blues of Junior Kimbrough, or the black hole rhythms of Kousokuya. Mixing a gentle vulnerability with a winded egomania, the Markers have always had a musical tunnel vision; BOSS is that vision made manifest. The tug of war the Markers enact, the way they are fully prepared to start yanking their world apart as they find themselves losing their place in, makes moot possibilities of greatness or mediocrity. It makes them unapologetic soothsayers with their ears pressed to the ground, waiting for footsteps. With Peter Nolan, we finally hear what Lou Reed would have sounded like had he sallied with the drums instead of getting seduced by the easy praise of front man status. Like Rashid Ali squeezed into the Teutonic leather pants of Faust, Nolan drums like there are hell hounds at his heels but he just cant be bothered. Here both laconic and frenzied, Nolans drumming arms reach out like an octopus: tickling the ivories, humming the organ and blasting taps on some kind of endtime trumpet. As a pianist, Nolan reminds us that the piano is a percussive, beating out the whoomp of some old war dance, a bare foot-fall rhythm of fighters to battle and the heavy hands of a whiskey burlesque in the afternoon. Nolan is easy to underestimate, but finally, here is high fidelity record of the strange soul of one of Americas most natural and quizzical musical minds." -Ecstatic Peace. Vinyl issue of the EP CD. Silkscreened jackets, insert. |
| Artist: MAGIK MARKERS Title: Baltimore Trust Format: CDR Label: Arbitrary Signs Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Super quality recording of a great I trust my guitar era Magik Markers show in Baltimore back in 2003. The early band were in full effect here, creating tight organic instant no wave compositions each night out of naive guitar, rocking/shambling beats, screams and whatever happened to be going through Elisa Ambrogios mind each night. This is a really cohesive show and it kind of sets the record straight about what the early Markers actually sounded like. The banters on point too. Cool document" - Arbitrary Signs. |
| Artist: MAGIK MARKERS Title: Shame Mask Format: CDR Label: Arbitrary Signs Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Out-takes from the Balf Quarry LP on Drag City. |
| Artist: SPECTRE FOLK Title: Black Jacks Format: CDR Label: Arbitrary Signs Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "This CDR explores new sonic possibilities of home 16 track technology and early formation of the new band phase of Spectre Folk as Pete is joined by J.T. Sodas on synth. A few songs, new and old, are given the Band treatment. Thers also some very glopy stuff and some extendo blooz stuff, as well as some solo synth action. A long disc full of dripping mind exploration.." - Arbitrary Signs. |
| Artist: SPECTRE FOLK Title: Black Bones Format: CDR Label: Arbitrary Signs Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Pete of Magik Markers. "Ex-angel - fuzz up - GPRO Blankest Meds." |
| Artist: SPECTRE FOLK Title: Smokin with the Alien Format: CDR Label: Arbitrary Signs Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Featuring LIL DIAMOND DUSTY AND CHILL WILL. "In this extended 3 song jammer, Folk Spectres arabesque acoustic and electric guitar are joined by Diamond Dustys zoned synth moves and the pulse beat shuffles of Chill Will. Guitars wander over all different landscapes from early morning dawn .. mean grinding streets and even desert ozones. The liquid swords have a sharp edge here." - Arbitrary Signs |
| Artist: SPECTRE FOLK Title: Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo Format: LP Label: Arbitrary Signs Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "As anxiety encroaches with the cold air of winter thank the stars for the whiskey/weed warmth of Compass, blanket, lantern, mojo --- it flows through you like a liquid howl of light." -- Thurston Moore "For an out-of-it fogie like myself, its tough to keep up with the many musical hats our boy Peter Nolan sports. Theres of course The Magik Markers and then theres Lil Dusty, Spectre Flux, Spectre Folk, Folk Spectre, Cops, etc. I gotta admit I sorta lost the thread on Petes musical output for awhile there due to the simple fact I couldnt keep up with it all. My chrome dome would literally throb with all the names and phony catalogue numbers that must accompany all these sound whims that must fly off his ginger head like bats from a belfry. Luckily, I put down the Brupenex long enough to catch up with Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo, Nolans latest expulsion under his Spectre Folk moniker. As expected, the album reeks of the musty homespun psychedelic scent that would make both Al Simones and Uncle Neil Young red as a beet. The tunes are hazy with hope and bobbing audio to spare. Seagulls or rusty bedsprings sound off in the crackly distance on one track and I get a salty taste in my mouth like I licked the third pier boardwalk in Wildwood circa 79. And check out the track Burning Bridge where Petes voice soars and wavers like a wounded dove flying to the safety of a clean cage and the awaiting name of Walter. The whole thing is a gorgeous, fully conscious stumble into a self made sunset and it just reminds me of something someone never said to me Its not over until you declare everyone a loser and paint yourself in a corner." -- Tony Rettman |
| Artist: SPECTRE SPORTS Title: Spectre Sports Format: CDR Label: Arbitrary Signs Country: USA Price: $12.00 |