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| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs" Vol Two/The Farwood Duo Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Second in this collab CD series. This time paired with Plants/OG American Tapes/NAACP guitar master/weirdo Jeff Dunn who sent in a tape of solo guitar that gets a thick reworking by Coorz Liberty. Three strange tracks with guitars, j-tar, and alto sax. Band started in 1991????!!!! Handpainted cover in DVD case."- American Tapes |
| 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. |
| Artist: FOSTER, JOSEPHINE Title: Live Format: CDR Label: 100 Songs I Sing Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| Recorded October 2004, Pittsburgh, PA opening for the Incredible String Band at the Andy Warhol Theater. |
| Artist: FOSTER, JOSEPHINE Title: A Diadem Format: CDR Label: 100 Songs I Sing Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "..four song EP, three traditional songs and one COB cover, arranged and rendered with such a beauty, grace and charm that is unique only to Josephine." Summer 2005 release. |
| Artist: FOSTER, JOSEPHINE & THE SUPPOSED Title: A Diadem Format: CDR Label: 100 Songs I Sing Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| Live on Molten Truth Tour 2004 Washington D.C., The Warehouse Next Door. Features Josephine Foster (vocals, guitar), Brain Goodman (electric guitar, vocals), Andrew Colwell (bass, vocals), and Rusty Peterson (drums). |
| Artist: 100$ BAND/SPIT Title: Split Format: Lathe Cut 10" Label: 100$ Band/Spit Country: New Zealand Price: $25.00 |
| "NEW in the el nuevo dunedin series of split 10" lathe records... the best $100 Band gig I saw was at an art college barbeque, where they performed an utterly intense half-hour drone with violin and cello to the fore, followed by almost an hour of Alastair Galbraith and former Snares singer Maxine Funkes songs in a very pop style. The band at it was possibly doesnt exist now, due to drummer Mike Dooley (ex of the Enemy/Toy Love and the Snares)s preference for the songs, but this disc remains to show what they were like at their best. Alastairs been working on long-form drones for a while now, ala his Cd Radiant, and the $100 Band gave them a rough, energetic going-over, falling into vast holes of wordless, timeless beauty. the artist known as Spit, Ryan Cockburn, doesnt take a whizz-bang approach to turntablism, and the pieces on this record are definately at the quieter end of his scale. Live, however, he develops immense journeys that roil and tear time, with an unpredictable edge that he creates via an unusual method - he cuts his records in half and glues them back together, in odd combinations; and since he now has hundreds of them he has little to no idea how theyll sound or react to the welded needles on his antique record players. The result is always something odd and his side of this record are like complete beginnings of the longer pieces which hopefully will see wider release than his cdr series." |
| Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Yodo-Go-A-Go-Go Format: CD Label: 10th Avenue Freeze Out Country: Europe Price: $17.50 |
| "AKA Flightless Bird Needs Water Wings. The beginners guide to Les Rallizes Denudes! Now available everywhere in the free world!" "Seemingly endless sonic flame-throwers of phased white noise streak across your inner landscape, as stupidly loud and overly-backlit lead guitar emissions perpetrated by a perpetually be-shaded longhair pummel the similarly be-shaded but barely adequate musical backing that sags and creaks under the wattage. Occasionally, lead vocals of a singular variety are provided by said be-shaded mad axeman, whose paranoid personality ensures all songs are delivered in a voice of querulous subterranean gargling from beyond the valley of Alan Vega. My giddy aunt, whats this, then, a Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy from the Underworld? A rough guide to Japrocks most intuitive non-career movers? Has the worlds most revolutionary rocknroll band released a compilation album of leader Mizutanis most frequently requested tracks due to overwhelming popular demand? Ja, mein hairies, this certainly seems to be the case. For, with the arrival of this superb Flightless Bird compilation, obsessive fans of Les Rallizes Denudés (are there any other kinds?) finally have a proper early career overview of Mizutani & Co. at their fingertips, a 70-minute-long super distillation of this most contrary of bands choicest musical moves executed between 1967-82, a superb sounding and partly/mostly chronological trawl through the freaked out and perpetually-yelping mindscape of singer and avant-avalanche guitarmonger Mizutani, and his sinister-yet-interchangeable pool of black clad world-to-rights acolytes." --Head Heritage |
| Artist: 16 BITCH PILE-UP Title: Live Format: LP Label: 16 Bitch Pile-Up Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| Very limited "Fan Club" edition. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Galleries 4-6 Format: CD Label: 20 City Country: Japan Price: $14.00 |
| "A brand new hotshot Tokyo label. This is a wonderful 3 band split featuring 20-ish minute contributions from BCM (in guitar vs crockery mode), the macro/micro field recording whizzkid, Esosteel, and a new chap round these parts, Doe, who go down deeeeep with some truly astounding drone-swuzz. A lovely aquisition indeed and NO, its not a CDR in case you are wondering." - 20 City. |
| Artist: ESO STEEL Title: Technology Of Sleep Format: LP Label: 20 City Country: New Zealand Price: $13.50 |
| "New Zealand expat Richard Francis, now residing in Tokyo, lands on the shores of our senses with his one full length release for 2000, Technology of Sleep. Francis has been long active downunder in the world of NZ underground tape and acetate labels. After recording with the short lived guitar noise band Small Blue Torch (with Birchville Cat Motels Campbell Kneale), Francis set sails for the orient where he has been releasing a steady stream of tracks on CD and acetate record. Sleep indicates a development in style from the drone and loop releases of previous years. More compositional in approach, Steel works a gentle blend of natural and artificial field materials including high frequency pitches, deep bass and minute scratches of sound sourced from the natural environment, household appliances, and body movements. At times a combination of the noise from ones surroundings, as well as the natural pops and clicks of the vinyl are beckoned into the compositions through the spatial arrangement of sounds and Steels interesting use of altering volume. Recognizable but also unfamiliar, the territory mapped by Sleep sits comfortably in the electo-acoustic region of sound making, background or foreground." |
| Artist: NEHIL, SETH Title: Uva Format: 3" CD Label: 20 City Country: New Zealand Price: $8.00 |
| "20 City is proud to release Uva, a new CD by sound artist Seth Nehil. In the field of electroacoustic music, Nehil is perhaps best known for his longstanding partnership with John Grzinich and Olivia Block as Alial Straa, formed in 1994. Nehil also participated in the Orogenetics arts collective together with Michael Northam and John Grzinich, operating in Austin, Texas from 1996-99. Now based in Portland, Oregon, Nehil continues to collaborate with Grzinich, Northam and Block in sound, performance and organization. Seth Nehil possesses an uncanny ability to create a wealth of sounds using innovative recording and performance techniques, without relying on effects boxes and processors. He creates complex sound environments that are subtle, clear and close. His sounds seem to emphasize the very silence that surrounds them, creating an infinite space for the listeners imagination to roam. Uva presents one track, just over 20 minutes in length. Objects in motion, a complex layering of textures, circular sounds and harmonies that intensify and recede... these are the constituent parts of this engaging new work. The term "uva" means grape, associated with ferment and intoxication, and is also associated with "ova" (the womb, birth, new forms). Uva thus implies the intoxication of new forms, the pleasure and disorienting quality of this music, the ferment of its creation, and the birth of its reception through the ear." - Richard di Santo. |
| Artist: FRANCIS, RICHARD Title: Three Tracks Format: 3" CD Label: 20 City Country: New Zealand Price: $8.00 |
| "New Zealand sound artist Richard Francis (aka Eso Steel), is the third artist released on cmr and the first 3” CD from the label. Richard has been involved with experimental music since 1996 when he began his first solo excursions (combining tape looped instrumentation with field recordings) and played in a guitar improvisation group with Birchville Cat Motels Campbell Kneale, called Small Blue Torch. His sound making since then has explored different techniques of CD sampling and abstraction, with a focus on electroacoustic collection and abstraction/manipulation of field recordings from various natural and mechanical sound sources. He has released sound works on labels such as Last Visible Dog, USA; Drone Records, Germany; Stateart, Germany; Absurd, Greece, with numerous releases on his own labels 20city and CMR, and has toured extensively in Japan, New Zealand, and most recently the West Coast of the US. Three Tracks (co-released by CMR, New Zealand and Stateart, Germany) contains three compositions recorded mid to late 2001 in Japan (where Richard formally resided) and mixed in mid 2002 in New Zealand. Using contact and stereo microphones, field audio material was gathered from organic and mechanical sources, found in both interior and exterior locations in and around Tokyo. Richard uses the subtle elements of these recordings (quiet electrical hums and crackle, amplified ambient near silences, minute occurrences) and carefully abstracts and arranges them into texturally detailed, engaging compositions. Three Tracks sits nicely in Richards catalogue of audio manipulation, following a well received 7” (under his moniker Eso Steel) on Drone Records, and an LP on 20city." - 20 City. |
| Artist: DAMON & NAOMI Title: The Earth is Blue Format: CD Label: 20/20/20 Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "A year in the making, The Earth Is Blue is Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yangs most intimate and accomplished record to date. Delicate harmonies and intricate melodic lines dominate the albums ten tracks, all of which were recorded in the duos home studio. Michio Kurihara flew in from Japan, where he provides the guitar playing for the genius psych-folk of Ghost, and added another layer of inspiration to the songs. Also contributing are trumpeter Greg Kelley and soprano saxophonist Bhob Rainey of Bostons nmperign. Along with eight original songs, the group beautifully interprets While My Guitar Gently Weeps by George Harrison and Araca Azul by Caetano Veloso. The Earth Is Blue marks the first release on Damon & Naomis record label, 20/20/20." - 20/20/20. |
| Artist: 200LB UNDERGROUND Title: #5 Format: Mag Label: 200lb Underground Country: USA Price: $1.00 |
| "For almost ten (!) years, 200LBU has been the periodical equivlient of the drunken, unmarried uncle at a family gathering. Always getting in pointless arguements, always hogging the stereo, always eating all the kielbasi, always waving his gennies at the small ones, etc. Truely pathetic. This time round you get a good amount of reviews and a history lesson on Finnish kiddie core legends, The Demars. Be there or dont be there. I could really care less." - 200LBU. |
| Artist: 200LB UNDERGROUND Title: #1 Format: Mag Label: 200lb Underground Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Limited re-print of the first issue from way back in Novermber of 96 done up to celebrate the ten year anniversary of the mag. Interviews with Brian McMahon of The Electric Eels, Ed Flowers of Crawlspace, Moosheart Faith plus fiction by Jim Shepard, a Brother Love tour diary and a buttload of reviews." - 200lb Underground. |
| Artist: BASINSKI, WILLIAM Title: Shortwavemusic Format: CD Label: 2062 Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| Re-issue after 10 years (first issue on CD), originally released in limited edition LP in 1997 on Noton (now Raster-Noton). Full length CD with bonus track not on original LP. "The works on Shortwavemusic resulted from a series of experiments in 1982 using lo-fi technology to extract sounds from the airwaves and weave them into musical tapestries. Using two reel-to-reel decks from the 60s, a radio and a shortwave radio, Basinski recorded samples of music from the radio, edited the tape into loops of varying lengths, and slowed them down. These themes were then layered together in real time to an accompaniment of randomly shifting shortwave radio static. The themes explored were often brief excerpts [3 or 4 notes] from muzak-type string versions of American popular standards. By manipulating these themes and mixing them with an existing symphony of electronic information, Basinski has created a series of glacial, atmospheric aural landscapes for the listener to inhabit. The music is timeless and compelling - a remarkably original experimental music album." -2062. |
| Artist: GUM Title: Vinyl Anthology Format: Double CD Label: 23 Five Country: Australia Price: $22.00 |
| "In 1986, an Australian fellow by the name of Andrew Curtis posted an advertisement in a couple of record shops around Melbourne expressing a desire to start a band with somebody who shared his interests in Industrial music. The only person who answered the ad was Philip Samartzis, who has since gone on to international acclaim for his pristine electro-acoustic compositions published through Staalplaat, Synaesthesia, and Dorobo. Back in the late 80s, the Curtis and Samartzis collaboration resulted in the aurally volatile project simply called Gum. With little expertise or training, the two gathered up what objects they were familiar with, in particular thrift store turntables and soiled records. Eschewing their original attraction to the giants of Industrial Culture, Gum quickly developed an aesthetic privileging the caustic rupture of skipping records and smoldering surface noise, predating the current avant-turntablist aficionados like Philip Jeck, Janek Schaefer, and Otomo Yoshihide. Within a handful of recordings made during the brief span between 1986 and 1990, Gum piled thick layers of electrically charged static channeled from their locked grooves. These spiraling repetitions and arrhythmic palpitations were suspended in the instant moment of ecstatic release as an infinite crash of overstimulation. Thanks to RRR and Korm Plastics who had published Gum tracks on a couple of 7" compilations, Gum received a considerable amount of notoriety during the last gasps of pre-digital cassette culture. Since then, the two parted ways with Curtis turning his passions to photography and Samartzis infecting his students at RMIT with his cravings for immersive and tactile experiences through sound. Yet, Gums Frankensteinian grooves had remained a secret history within the prolific oeuvre of Australian sound art. With the publication of Gums Vinyl Anthology, 23five, Inc uncovers the bulk of Gums work, including all of the material from their self-published albums Vinyl and 20 Years in Blue Movies and Yet to Fake an Orgasm as well as those aforementioned compilation tracks and plenty of unreleased material." - 23Five. |
| Artist: DUNCAN, JOHN & CARL MICHAEL VON HAUSSWOLFF Title: Our Telluric Conversation Format: CD Label: 23 Five Country: Price: $22.00 |
| "The second collaborative album from John Duncan and Carl Michael von Hausswolff. This is an album which Duncan describes as having been galvanized by magnetism. In a semantic sleight of hand, Duncan and Hausswolff reveal magnetism through a duality of meanings. One on hand, they speak of the physical phenomenon of charged objects that exert an attraction or repulsion upon other objects; yet on the other, magnetism can be defined as the psychological influence wielded by charismatic individuals. Our Telluric Conversation maps out the complexities that emerged through the collaborative pursuits of these venerated sound artists. The tools that the two employed for Our Telluric Conversation are common to their respective catalogues of recordings, with Duncan bringing his shortwave, data streams, and uncanny use of the human voice while Hausswolff employed oscillators, sonar, and wire tapping microphones. The album opens with the mechanical rotation of modulated sonar, providing a hypnotic pulse which slowly submits to an obstinate surge of rumbling noise, that in turn collapses into focused white-noise turbulence and tone-bent SSB transmissions. All of this abruptly detours with a protracted spoken narrative from Hausswolff who whispers a Pynchonesque text about a maggot-infested individual who seeks to remedy his affliction by communing with cobras and geckoes. Afterwards, Duncan and Hausswolff entertain the seduction of the long-form drone constructions; however, their sublime minimalism is so brilliant in its beauty as to be piercingly acute through the purity of honed sinewaves. The final entry from their Conversation is the perfect marriage of the established Duncan and Hausswolff aesthetics, with a spare low-frequency hum deadening the sonic architecture before a static charge of crackled ether supplements the auditory smoldering. Our Telluric Conversation stands as a bold, expressive piece of sound art, confident in its multiplicity of perspectives caught in a constant flux of attraction and repulsion. The recording comes with a 40-page booklet with an interview between Duncan and Hausswolff about their histories, ideas, and methodologies; furthermore, the packaging is completed by a curiously tactile O-card, which has been embossed with braille and covered with a rubbery coating." |
| Artist: JESUS BALLS Title: Yellow Format: CDR Label: 23 Productions Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Debut full length by this death cult trio. First track is psychotic piece of mind captured on the concrete floor. Followed by a parable trilogy about a loved canines murder by a zealous rural gunslinger, recorded thick in the asbestos death dust of Dreamtime Village. Limited to 100." - 23 Productions. |
| Artist: WOODEN WAND & THE VANISHING VOICE Title: From The Road Vol. 1 - Born Free (6.12.05 Columbia, MO) Format: CDR Label: 23 Productions Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "40 minutes of psychedelic musings and mystic rambling by the band just after recording their amazing new "Gipsy Freedom " 2xLP" - 23 Productions. Edition of 200. |
| Artist: WOODEN WAND & THE VANISHING VOICE Title: From The Road Vol. 5 - Live in the Pasture Format: CDR Label: 23 Productions Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Two of my favorite WWVV live shows EVER (Vol 5 & Vol. 6)! We been dubbing them to cassettes for the last year or two and we are getting sick of it, so we have finally decided to discontinue the making of these tapes. So now.. here it is, your last chance to grab these. Now as part of the limited edition "Wooden Wand from the Road" CDR bootleg series. Coming with full color artwork on the usual "from the road" digipacks. We are making about 200 of each of these." - 23 Productions. |
| Artist: WOODEN WAND & THE VANISHING VOICE Title: From The Road Vol. 6 - Abundant Life Format: CDR Label: 23 Productions Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Two of my favorite WWVV live shows EVER (Vol 5 & Vol. 6)! We been dubbing them to cassettes for the last year or two and we are getting sick of it, so we have finally decided to discontinue the making of these tapes. So now.. here it is, your last chance to grab these. Now as part of the limited edition "Wooden Wand from the Road" CDR bootleg series. Coming with full color artwork on the usual "from the road" digipacks. We are making about 200 of each of these." - 23 Productions. |
| Artist: ZODIAC MOUNTAIN Title: Live In America, Summer 2006 Format: CDR Label: 23 Productions Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Early in the Summer of 06, Clay Rubys Zodiac Mountain did a short U.S. tour, showering the people with roots rock, heavenly boogie, atmospheric spirituals, cryptic blues and the occasional classic cover tune. This incarnation of Zodiac Mountain was a collaboration between Clay Ruby and Wooden Wand, featuring jams with Nate Nelson (Mouthus, Religious Knives), Robert Beatty (Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Hair Police), and Maya Miller (Religious Knives, Double Leopards). 5 songs, over an hour of red, white and blue BLISS from two of the heaviest, gun toting, bourbon soaked, BBQ breathd road warriors east of the Mississippi. This material is a far departure from the intense heathen rituals and bleak folk songs of Zodiac Mountains "Lake Winnebago" demos, and nothing like the newest Zodiac Mountain recording project in progress, which is wrapping itself up like some kinda amphibious Crash Worship services. Also, it should be noted that this is not the same band as the ZODIACS (the heavy rock band with forthcoming CD on Holy Mountain), although it is rumored that both bands feature many of the same members." - 23 Productions. |
| Artist: WOODEN WAND Title: From The Road, Vol 4 - Goat General and Other Delusions Format: CDR Label: 23 Productions Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "The best moments from two killer solo performances by Wooden Wand. Here we have just the man alone (acoustic guitar and voice) performing many new songs including a few of his best unreleased tracks, songs from the upcoming "Second Attention" and beyond, a rare cover and even a few old standbys. A mellow and intimate encounter with one of the finest of modern American songwriters." - 23 Productions. |
| Artist: WOODEN WAND & THE VANISHING VOICE Title: From The Road, Vol 2 - Philosophy Of Fuck It Format: CDR Label: 23 Productions Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| 9.28.05 Oberlin, OH |
| Artist: WOODEN WAND & THE VANISHING VOICE Title: From The Road, Vol 3 - Dead Lecturing Format: CDR Label: 23 Productions Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| 7.20.05 Tonic, NYC |
| Artist: ZODIAC MOUNTAIN Title: Lake Winnebago Format: CDR Label: 23 Productions Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "This is the Zodiac speaking. A collection of early demos from the primal beginnings of the Zodiac Mountain, a grateful underground process of young and ready saints. Lake Winnebago holds beautiful songs colliding with twisted jams, all at the edges of their wits, from gone down too long in the Zone." - 23 Productions. |
| Artist: AGNOSIA Title: 20.09.02 Format: 3" CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $8.50 |
| "It says "featuring more or less unintentional drunken pyrotechnics and some persons missing": befuzzed electronic mishaps, records at the wrong speed type shenanigans and extreme drunken ranting - scary!" - Boa Melody Bar. |
| Artist: GREY PARK Title: A Preparatory Course For Agents Going Abroad Format: 3" CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $8.50 |
| "the course kicks off with staggered guitar strum + abstract electronics + slow motion drumkit, very brief, like a mellow take on eusa kills-dead c; strange pulses & voices take over on track 2, with the full transformation to electronic weirdism taking place in track 3, the appropriately titled "datafetus", a strange birth of static & high pitched drone--my favorite of the three. a nice arc overall to the whole release." - Glenn Donaldson, Jewelled Antler. |
| Artist: SONIC TEMPLE ASSASSINS Title: Sonic Temple Assassins Format: 3" CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $8.50 |
| "Hello out there! The label boss, Mr. Haahti, asked me to write something about the Sonic Temple Assassins EP out on 267 lattajjaa. Lets see... 1. the opening - Irritating droning vapors for your precious eardrums. 2. g.f.r.c.b. - Hi-pitched feedback and distorted vocals. The lyrics are about... umm... go and figure it out by yourself! Grooves like an epileptic stroboscope-washing machine. 3. jacks holiday - Inspired by lounge organist Jack Malmstens track Satan Takes A Holiday. An acid casualty second cousin of Gershon Kingsleys Pop Corn. 4. clear - Calm before the storm. 5. emperor of dreams (for clark ashton smith) - The irritating vapors are back. Recorded late one night during a heavy snowstorm. Toxic waves of feedback and distortion dashing all over the stereoscape deadening you. You have been forewarned." - Jani Hellén. |
| Artist: UTON Title: Buddhamania Format: 3" CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $8.50 |
| “more magical droney sounds from the mystic forests of Tampere..." |
| Artist: V/A Title: 267 Purkkia Liimaa Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| Features LÖRSSON, AVARUS, PLAT YPUS, GREY PARK, RAKENNUSTUHKAA, PYLON, KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT, BUNSENLAMPPU, BRASPYREET, KUKKIVA POLIISI, DI MAISSINTÄHKÄ, FUTURIANS, TIVOL, THE BURIED CIVILIZATIONS, KULKIJA, RAUHAN ORKESTERI, PEKKO KÄPPI, AÏR, KEIJO, THE FRANCISCAN HOBBIES, SONIC TEMPLE ASSASSINS, AGNOSIA, LAMPPUKELLO, O SAMULI A, CAN CAN HEADS, VAPAA, UTON, and CLAY FIGURE. "A 267 lattajjaa compilation featuring some old tracks, some remixes, some new versions and mostly new tracks." - 267 Lattajjaa. |
| Artist: KEIJO Title: Soon With The Sun Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| Artist: RAUHANORKESTERI Title: Felix Format: 3" CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $8.50 |
| "Mellow but mind-blowing free-jazz. First edition of 100, sold out. Second edition in yellow sleeve available." "If you havent already picked up this free-jazz combos recent full-length LP you should try to get that one along with this shorter sample of their sound. Its an organic improv session that breathes countryside air, sensing the grass between its toes and quietly blowing us away. theres not many contemporary free jazz outfits being this quiet but still somehow unleashing so much power. If Felix does not impress you Im guessing no free jazz will." - Mats Gustafsson, Broken Face. |
| Artist: VILLE MOSKIITTO Title: Ylistyksiä Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| "Crackling mumbling free-association drone recorded in the deep and dark caves of Turku: drawing inspiration from the dim and snowless winter, sleep deprivation, sickness and alcohol. Try and catch the wind." |
| Artist: SKULLPTURE Title: Farmyard Tapes Format: 3" CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $8.50 |
| "Farmyard Tapes" is a bit different from other Skullpture recordings. Its not dark and gloomy at all, but warm and almost joyful drone, at least on our scale (its not that we try to be darkngloomy, thats just the way our music most often comes out - were happy and funny lads really). It was also recorded at a different place than our other recordings, in a small shed instead of a large hall with concrete walls, and also with slightly different equipment. These track were originally supposed to be released on a split cdr with another band on another label, but unfortunately that never came about. Anyway, our thanks go to Hannu for the chance to get this music finally available to public, and although not your typical Skullpture, I think its a fine addition to our discography and your collection. "-Pekka PT on behalf of Skullpture |
| Artist: LARSSON Title: Pariskunta vietti... Format: 3" CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $8.50 |
| "mind-blistering beatings and primitive howl (musically and vocally) in short sharp bursts from this demented 80s band" - Boa Melody Bar. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Kekkonen - Anarchy in the UKK Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| "Released 24.5.2005, hand-painted sleeves, limited edition of 120 copies, the ultimate party album! Compilation, versions or tracks inspired by J.O. Mallanders legendary tracks "1962" and "1968" which are based on the counting of the votes in finnish president election. The winner was Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, who was the president of Finland for 25 years." - 267 Lattajjaa. |
| Artist: DRUNJUS Title: Thick Winds Off The Sargasso Format: 3" CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| “The Davenport family of bands is always guaranteed to take into the extremities of music. However Drunjus, the drone music offshoot of Clay Ruby and Dan Woodman, is far more entrancing and almost ambient than I expected…Its got a very still feeling as though heat haze is shimmering in front of the speakers. The piece is a kind of self-enclosed musical landscape, you feel as though you are at this place with the insects all around.” – The Unbroken Circle. |
| Artist: GREIPPI Title: Hankkiudun Eroon Tapeteista Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| “The new generation of the finnish electronica, the first official release from this 11-years old wonderkid." - 267 Lattajjaa |
| Artist: AINEETTOMASKI TEMPERAMENTIN Title: Narsk Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| “Improvised guitar & drums racket” – 267 Lattaajjaa. |
| Artist: CZOLGOSZ Title: Seance Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| “Hazy, supernatural tape junk by Clay Kolbinger” – 267 Lattajjaa. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Kanoja, Myos Hanoja Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| “A compilation of the psychedelic underground, limited edition of 100 copies on black CDRs.” – 267 Lattajjaa. Includes ROBERT HORTON, THE GRAND HOTEL, PARTICLES COLLECT, BEN REYNOLDS AND ALEX NEILSON, VAPAA, GREY PARK, O SAMULI A, HANS GRÜSELS KRANKENKABINET, PEFKIN, HANNU KARJALAINEN, FELIPE+FORTE, PUMICE, LEAFY GREEN, SEAN ÒG, WESTERN AUTOMATIC,RAMESES III & ZELIENOPLE. |
| Artist: HORTON, ROBERT Title: Washed Out Headspace Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| "A brilliant adventure that should not be missed. Its hard to say where to start when getting into Hortons ever-growing catalog, but this is as good a place as any. Really, its hard to go wrong with an artist like this. 8/10" – Foxy Digitalis. |
| Artist: VAPAA Title: Jännittävät Format: 3" CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $8.50 |
| "Simply typing the title of the newest Vapaa release was difficult enough, but if I had to recite it twenty times fast for the privilege of hearing this again, youd better believe Id practice for days. This release is great, great enough to warrant twisting our Anglophone tongues around the fronted and long vowels dotting Finnish vocabulary. Call this free-jazz, call it ritual psychedelia, call it whatever you want. No name will quite do anyway." |
| Artist: 3i(s) Title: 3i(s) Format: CDR Label: 3i(s) Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| Pete Nolan (Magic Markers), Marc Orleans (Sunburned Hand Of The Man) and Ela Orleans (Poland). |
| Artist: WOODEN WAND & THE VANISHING VOICE Title: Lun Marquer Contre la Moissonneuse Format: CD Label: 3Lobed Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Over the course of their recording career, Wooden Wand And The Vanishing Voice have proven to be a multi-faceted and difficult to define. They have successfully allowed the body of their work to be cryptic, proto-spiritual, emotionally bare, brashly exuberant and, throughout it all, completely entrancing. Their discography, which contains numerous cassettes, CDRs and a little bit of vinyl -- all of which display their twisted and droning take on psychedelic folk -- has been constantly evolving and has seen each of their superb releases build upon the strengths of its immediate predecessor. Lun Marquer Contre la Moissonneuse is an exploration of the goodness inherent in the human heart and how that decency can help transform the world into a better place. Sound grandiose? Well, revolutions do begin with ambition. Long-held beliefs state that every morning that one rises from bed they have cheated Death once more through the grace of God. Through the extension of this theme, every good deed a person performs during those waking hours may very likely stand as a mark against the Reaper on the great cosmic score sheet. Wooden Wand And The Vanishing Voice have collected these four tracks recorded in various locations over the fall of 2004 to act as a sonic testament to this principal." - 3Lobed. |
| Artist: DAVENPORT Title: Rabbits Food Propeller Format: CD Label: 3Lobed Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The extended Davenport family has been producing their unique flavor of free-form and exultant improvisational folk since 2001. Operating out of Madison, Wisconsin, their music has taken on an open joviality that reflects the spirit of their hometown and the natural world that resides just outside its borders. Respectful and observant of all things natural, Davenport has focused on their organic sound over a long string of CDR and cassette releases for a number of different labels. Rabbits Foot Propeller is simultaneously a natural extension of their prior work and a confident step into a new and different direction. Taken as a whole or as its component tracks, the album is a solid continuation of the Davenport aim to bring light into all dark corners. Rabbits Foot Propeller is all about the juxtaposition of varying sounds and musical textures against one another. Over the course of the albums thirteen tracks the listener is presented with numerous playful improvisations, tones generated from various instruments and lilting melodies (both guitar and vocal). Unconventionally captured to tape by the band through the use of a handheld recording device lacking an erase head, the recordings allowed for an infinite amount of overdubs confined only by the fact that it was impossible to simultaneously monitor all of the previously recorded progress. This technique allowed for a high degree of experimentation with results that range from pensive and calm to miniature folk masterpieces. Three Lobed Recordings proudly presents Rabbits Food Propeller, Davenports first full-length CD, and invites you to join the band on a free and celebratory journey into a truly natural consciousness." - 3Lobed. |
| Artist: SPECTRE FOLK Title: Requiem for Ming Aralia Format: CD Label: 3Lobed Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Leaping forth from a prior discography consisting of CD-Rs and cassettes, Spectre Folks Requiem for Ming Aralia is a powerfully assured psychedelic folk statement. Spectre Folk is a one-man operation consisting of Pete Nolan (drums for the Magik Markers, Shackamaxon, GHQ, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice, etc.). Nolans significant responsibilities elsewhere have made him into a man who rarely has a chance to slow down. Spectre Folk offers the listener the ability to glimpse at one of those rare calm moments and it showcases the delicately twisted calm bubbling underneath the drumming furor Nolan unleashes elsewhere. Ranging from atmospheric instrumental explorations to dark and moody sing-alongs, Requiem for Ming Aralia offers a little bit of everything for fans of out music. From the opening moments of the first track to the final notes of the album-closing Bindi Clip, Spectre Folk has crafted an extremely solid album packed with rich, full sounds. While Nolan definitively remains his own man and Spectre Folk displays the unique sound which permeates all of his varied projects, an astute listener will detect shades of both Jandeks loosely organized outsider folk and the free-wheeling ebullience of Ben Chasny both independently and simultaneously throughout Requiem for Ming Aralia." - 3Lobed |
| Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Live Room Format: CD Label: 3Lobed Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "One of 8 CDs in the Three Lobed Recordings Modern Containment series, this is a crazed SCG collection of rants, poetry, statements, interviews, and other text backed by piano, drums, voices, shortwave radio, and odd miscellaneous sounds. It was performed and recorded live on the radio at KCMU 90.3 FM (now KEXP) in Seattles University district on a random Saturday night over 12 years ago (Feb 26, 1994). It features the last segment of Uncle Jims Ghengis-Necro-Nama-KHAN (the first 3 segments can be found on Radio 1 and 2 of Carnival Folklore Resurrection Volumes 11/12)." - 3Lobed. |
| Artist: MOUTHUS Title: For The Great Slave Lakes Format: CD Label: 3Lobed Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Artist: WOODEN WAND & THE OMEN BONES BAND Title: Horus Of The Horizon Format: CD Label: 3Lobed Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| With Keith Wood (Hush Arbors) and Satya Sai. |
| Artist: 500 MG Title: Apocatastisis Format: LP Label: 3Lobed Country: USA Price: $23.50 |
| "Performed and recorded by MICHAEL GIBBONS (BARDO POND) over the course of 2006 in the Lemur House, Apocatastisis is a meditation on restoration and awakening. An inner voyage in seven parts consisting of guitars, effects, sitar, tabla and violin. A truly special record. From a one-time pressing of 677 hand-numbered copies. Housed within sleeves that were individually silk-screened by ALAN SHERRY (SIWA)." - 3Lobed. |
| Artist: GHQ Title: Crystal Healing Format: LP Label: 3Lobed Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "We will go ahead and say it now-we are lucky enough to be able to release GHQs strongest collection of studio material to date. Crystal Healing is a massive collection of the bands unique and mesmerizing brand of acoustic drone goodness. Get ready to have your socks knocked off. This record has been wonderfully mastered and pressed onto some super-sweet sounding RTI 180g vinyl. The record will be housed within hand-numbered heavy stock "old style" one-pocket gatefold sleeves and come from a limited edition of 855 copies. The jacket itself features some stunning new artwork by MICHAEL PARE. This one is really stunning to behold-it is one of those records."-Three Lobed Recordings. Features Marcia Bassett of Double Leopards/Hototogisu, Pete Nolan of Magic Markers and Steve Gunn. |
| Artist: SPEER & THE HELIX, D. CHARLES Title: Distillation Format: LP + CD Label: 3Lobed Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "It is a tremendous understatement to say that it is with grand excitement that Three Lobed Recordings is proud to announce the release of Distillation by D. Charles Speer & the Helix. For the last couple of years we have been continually excited by each of the fruits that have resulted from Speer/Helix collaboration. For our money, 2008s After Hours album was one of the best released by anyone. Distillation only ups the ante from that prior full length by elaborating upon some of the musical themes from the late 2008 In Madagascar 7". The resulting album presents a tightly focused modern honky tonk quintet more than happy to blur the lines between country, psychedelia and the overall American musical tradition. Consisting on this album of D. Charles Speer (aka Dave Shuford from the No Neck Blues Band and Enos Slaughter), Hans Chew (last seen providing some ripping piano accompaniment on Fishtown Flower from Jack Roses The Black Dirt Sessions), Marc Orleans (Enos Slaughter, Sunburned Hand of The Man), Jason Meagher (No Neck Blues Band, Coachfingers) and Rob Gregory (the Suntanama), the Helix are a seriously experienced and talented crew. Distillation was recorded over time between the winter and summer of 2008 at the bands home away from home, Meaghers Black Dirt Studios in Westtown, New York. Includes a limited edition glass-mastered CD titled Of Snow Smoked Moose presenting a full, killer live set from the full band recorded on April 25, 2008 at the Turf Club in St. Paul, MN. This CD is not available separately." - 3Lobed. Gatefold sleeve. |
| Artist: GUNN, STEVE Title: Boerum Palace Format: LP+CD Label: 3Lobed Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Steve Gunns prodigious talent for fusing traditional American song structures with a raga influence is almost criminally unheralded. Gunns songcraft is so strong and his playing style so effortlessly beautiful that folks should be shouting his name from every tall building and mountaintop. It is with such high esteem for the mans work that Three Lobed Recordings is humbled by the association and thrilled to announce the release of Boerum Palace by Steve Gunn. Without any doubt, Boerum Palace is a staggering accomplishment and is certainly Gunns most assured and confident work to date. Includes a limited edition glass-mastered CD presenting new, scarce and previously unheard Gunn material that is not available separately." -3Lobed |
| Artist: FLIPPER Title: Gone Fishin Format: LP Label: 4 Men With Beards Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| 180 gram vinyl. "The second and final studio album for the original lineup of S.F.s Flipper was first released in 1984. Flipper took the punk tag to extremes, as no other band in the world was playing punk this slow, sludgy, dark and disturbed. Featuring the haunting Survivors Of The Plague and the public incrimination of Sacrifice, Gone Fishin is an art-punk classic that holds up alongside their more heralded debut." -4 Men With Beards |
| Artist: FLIPPER Title: Sex Bomb Baby! Format: LP Label: 4 Men With Beards Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| 180 gram vinyl, printed inner sleeve with lyrics. "Originally released in 1987, Sex Bomb Baby is actually a collection of Flipper material dated no later than 1982, comprised of singles, B-sides, and compilation tracks. The single version of Sex Bomb is an all-out classic, a frenetic, yelping punk answer to Louie, Louie and the rest is no slouch either -- outrageous, harsh, sludge-punk from San Franciscos finest." -4 Men With Beards. |
| Artist: FLIPPER Title: Public Flipper Limited: Live 1980-1985 Format: Double LP Label: 4 Men With Beards Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| 180 gram vinyl, full color gatefold sleeve with Flipper on tour game insert. "Public Flipper Limited was originally released in 1986 as a double LP of live material culled from 1980-1985. The sound quality and playing are both a grimy, distorted mess, which suits the band just fine. Always alternating between endearing and abrasive, Flipper left no room for the middle ground of like. The album title is a shot at John Lydon and his alleged plagiarism of Flippers artwork for his own PIL and it proves that Flipper was never opposed to alienating its audience, no matter how sanctified. Harsh, art-rock classics from one of SFs most important post-hippy era bands." - 4 Men With Beards |
| Artist: MOONDOG Title: The Story Of Moondog Format: LP Label: 4 Men With Beards Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Originally released on Prestige in 1957, this is the third LP from NYC street performer and avant-garde/minimalist composer Moondog. Perhaps the least accessible of his early releases, this album is made up of percussive jams, usually on instruments of his own creation, street sounds, poetry and Far East melodies, despite opening with a swinging number that is, oddly, the most bizarre thing on the album. Another classic from Moondog reissued with its original Andy Warhol artwork." -4 Men With Beards |
| Artist: MOONDOG Title: S/T Format: LP Label: 4 Men With Beards Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Moondogs debut release, originally on the Prestige label, came out in 1956, long after hed become a legendary New York City street performer. The blind Kansas native showcases his talent for the minimal and avant-garde here, with compositions driven by percussion and Japanese-inspired melodies, complimented by street sounds, recitations and animal noises. Bizarre even for todays standards, its a wonder this was released over a half-century ago. A brilliant debut." -4 Men With Beards |
| Artist: CLUSTER Title: Cluster 71 Format: LP Label: 4 Men With Beards Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Full gatefold jacket. Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius aka Cluster released this, their first album after Conrad Schnitzler (Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream) left the group originally known as Kluster, in 1971. On the outer edge of German space rock, Cluster 71 stands as a testament to minimalist cosmische music. The three untitled tracks are exploratory, ever-changing pieces which focus on guitar distortion and synthesizer wails. This album deserves the many accolades its been given, and holds up as an early landmark in the history of beatless ambience." -4 Men With Beards |
| Artist: CLUSTER Title: Sowiesoso Format: LP Label: 4 Men With Beards Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Moebius and Roedelius aka Cluster, released this, their fourth album in 1976. Electronic rhythms combine with bubbling synths, piano and guitar to create sonic landscapes of pure bliss. Some of the greatest ambient electronic music ever, Cluster were on the cutting edge of German space-rock, and pioneers whose influence can still be felt today." -4 Men With Beards |
| Artist: CLUSTER & ENO Title: S/T Format: LP Label: 4 Men With Beards Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Originally recorded and released in 1977, this pioneering ambient album brought together several legends of progressive electronic music: Brian Eno, solo artist and collaborator with David Bowie, Robert Fripp, and Roxy Music; Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius aka Cluster, both of whom made dozens of ground-breaking recordings throughout the 70s; and Conny Plank, who recorded everyone from Neu! to Ash Ra Tempel to Devo. This album was the first of several celebrated collaborations between these artists, whose influence looms over such current bands as Aphex Twin, Boards Of Canada, and Mouse On Mars." -4 Men With Beards |
| 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: EXCEPTER Title: Alternation Format: CD Label: 5 Rue Christine Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Half-recorded in one blizzard, and completed by the next, Alternation is a years-in-the-making, tossed-off-in-a-moment exploration of the difference between EXCEPTER live on stage and EXCEPTER alone at home and the goal to eradicate the distinction between the two. Double the length and twice the depth of past EXCEPTER releases, Alternation is EXCEPTER looking both ways, a geometric expansion around all the territories marked so far in their brief discography: the primal death trips of Ka, the noise pop tropics of Vacation, the long drone goodnight of Throne, the cool electro doom of Self Destruction and the blasted steam cycle of Sunbomber." - 5RC. Double LP available soon on Fusetron! |
| Artist: 50 MILES OF ELBOW ROOM Title: #2 Format: Mag Label: 50 Miles of Elbow Room Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Squarebound mag featuring Hamid Drake, Reverend Charlie Jackson, Louis Momolo, Otha Turner, June Tyson (Sun Ra vocalist) and Robert Pete Williams. Recommended! |
| Artist: NO NECK BLUES BAND Title: Qvaris Format: CD Label: 5RC Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "And from the rim of the waste whither had gone his prayer, came three flamingoes flying, and their voices said: "Going South, Going South" at every stroke of their wings." - NNCK. Recorded March, 2005. |
| Artist: NO NECK BLUES BAND Title: Qvaris Format: Double LP Label: 5RC Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "And from the rim of the waste whither had gone his prayer, came three flamingoes flying, and their voices said: "Going South, Going South" at every stroke of their wings." - NNCK. Recorded March, 2005. Beautiful, thick gatefold jackets. |
| Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Dogs On Stage Format: CDR Label: 8mm Country: Italy Price: $10.00 |
| "Recorded live in Bologna (july 1st 2005) straight-on-minidisc by John Olson, Dogs on stage can finally see the light of day! This recording is sick. Most of the tracks are taken from Burned Mind.(well, they dont sound exactly the same) + a killer jam with Olson sax blowin in the wind. Mammamia! 3 colours silkscreened cover" - 8mm. |
| Artist: ASTRO Title: Cosmic Mosque on the Magical Mountain Top Format: CDR Label: 8mm Country: France Price: $13.00 |
| "Its a honour for me to release this one. Playing his magical EMS synth, Hiroshi Hasegawa (ex CCCC) drives his spaceship into a psychedelic trip between galaxies. "Cosmic mosque on the magical mountain top" is a long, intense track that combines some classic kozmische elements with massive walls of noise. Definitivo. 150 copies." -8mm. |
| Artist: FUTURIANS, THE Title: Untitled Space Junk Format: Cass Label: 8mm Country: Italy Price: $10.00 |
| "Punk rock from the year 3000. For whos already familiar with the band from Dunedin, NZ, you know what to expect: primitive drums, walls of guitar feedbacks, synth-weirdness and vocals dialled directly from Saturn. What else? Nothing, Untitled Space Junk is just one of the best releases Ive ever put out. And... its punk dio cane!. 100 copies. Coloured. Silkscreend." -8mm. |
| Artist: JUSTICE YELDHAM & THE DYNAMIC RIBBON DEVICE Title: Live in Seoul Format: 7" Label: 8mm Country: France Price: $12.00 |
| "Two live tracks that document Lucas bleeding and screaming in South Korea. Raw, slabbed noise at his best. 45 RPM vinyl, cover designed by a girl who was at the show and silkscreened with paint and blood by ilcanedicoda. And justice for all! 222 copies." -8mm. |
| Artist: PILIA, STEFANO Title: Last Days Format: LP Label: 8mm Country: Italy Price: $25.00 |
| "Recorded between Bologna and Providence, Last days is just Pilia and his nude guitar. Five new pieces that will bring you up to the sky in a climax of infinite grace and beauty. If you followed his previous works, you already know that Stefano is a rare voice, within his fingers, improvisation and composition meet each other in perfect harmony. This new LP offers some of the most emotionally intense guitar music we have listened to, to date. Last Days is in fact apart from Stefanos previous efforts for a series of reasons. Each song is an adventure into a different style, combing elements of noise, rock, folk and drone as part of the same sound painting. But the main focus here is that his sound on vinyl comes out revealed: naked, rough, and primitive as we commented listening together to this record. This music comes from the heart, doesnt need any overdubbs. 140 grams vynil, edition of 110 numbered copies. Silkscreened." -8mm |
| Artist: FLAHERTY, PAUL & WEASEL WALTER Title: Particles Format: LP Label: 8mm Country: Italy Price: $30.00 |
| "Imagine the moment before the origin of the Universe, when nothing yet existed. According to the standard theory, our universe sprang into existence as singularity, a zone of infinite density, which is also what is thought to exist at the core of the black hole. The result of its expansion is what we call the Universe and it is also what this album is all about. The gate was opened one night in May, in a basement of Northampton, Ma. by Paul Flaherty on saxophone and Weasel Walter on drums and percussions. Particles sounded to me exactly like the Big Bang of music. An origin, a passage of energy that you can feel, not only listen. There is a shiverig tension throughout the whole album, as if everything was ready to collapse from one moment to another. Of course there is no real explosion, but a sense of constant vibration that has his apex on the final cut, with Flaherty and Walter joined by the incredible voice of Laila Maria Salins. Then, silence and back into the darkness. As someone said that night: Music is the key. We couldnt agree more. 140 grams vynil, first press of 157 numbered copies. Silkscreened." -8mm |
| Artist: ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS Title: Exploding Blue Floor Martin Denny Format: LP Label: 8mm Country: Italy Price: $30.00 |
| "Its a big pleasure for me to release the new full-length album from Leeds-based underground legend Ashtray Navigations, featuring 9 new tracks recorded in studio during 2008 and dedicated to the memory of the great american composer Martin Denny, father of Exotica! "Exploding Blue Floor…" is one step ahead into Phil Todds hallucinatory travel into the galaxies of the Unknown. A cornucopia of what he has been doing for more than 15 years with unique dedication and passion. Passion is in fact, the first word that came to my mind listening to this music where acid guitar riffs, concrete sounds, delicate acoustic passages and vintage warm electronics, live in absolute symbiosis. Power to the imagination, breaking down the walls between song and improvisation, structure and freedom, melody and noise. Just like looking inside a kaleidoscope, this will be the perfect soundtrack for your daydreams! Blue-night coloured Vinyl, Artwork by Phil Todd and silkscreened by Canedicoda, with insert. EDITION OF 242 COPIES" -8mm |
| Artist: ANLA COURTIS Title: Ornitologia Format: One-sided LP Label: 8mm Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "A talisman, a living mandala. Recorded in Buenos Aires, 1992-93 (!) and now brought to life by the chants of birds, this is Anla Courtis Ornitology, a poem about the secret forces of nature and the most sublime forms of communication hidden in the forest. Earth, Water, Wind and Fire the elements that are all living inside these three gems, starting with a spectral ballad, "Quetro", and exploding into the second track, Escua, 16 minutes of epic guitars flying over an endless sea of visions. The last track, Tersina, is the final redemption, and it comes through as a primitive-electronic assault! Pure magic. 140 grams vinyl, limited to 105 copies only, screenprinted artwork (by Canedicoda), half of the covers come in yellow with green print, half in green with dark print. EDITION OF ONLY 105 COPIES!!!" -8mm |
| Artist: UP-TIGHT Title: The Beginning Of The End Format: LP Label: 8mm Country: Italy Price: $34.00 |
| "It is a rare feeling when music can give you the sensation like a bullet through the head, and you call it a pleasure. Well, that is what happened when we first listened to these four tracks from The Begininng of the End the new studio album from Japanese garage-psych heroes Up-Tight. We played the disc once and we were speechless. Why? The reason was easy: We got a picture of a band at its creative zenith. The Lp opens with Our Own Portrait, guided by mantric drum beating, rigid bass pulsations and T.Aoki providing a vortex of massive fuzzed guitar. A Song For Your Pain is a beautifully inspired ballad, with a melancholic voice floating on a carpet of melodic soft psychedelia. Side B is the Beginning Of The End, for real! The Destruction is a trippy improvisation, with amps on fire and instruments in a state of pure sonic catharsis. Introducing the title-track as the final chapter, with Aokis raucous crooning that evokes smoke and dark shadows, then collapsing into a wall of guitar squall. Our ears are still blowing! And its time to play this record again. Get ready for a long trip cause there is no turning back with this incredible new album, Up-Tight takes the tradition of Japanese psych-rock and brings it to a brand new level of crazy intensity and destructive power. Available on vinyl only. Second edition of only 120 copies. brand new artwork, with insert. " -8mm |
| Artist: GOLDEN JOOKLO AGE Title: Ritual Format: One Sided LP Label: 8mm Country: Italy Price: $30.00 |
| "New recording from the band, an ethereal vortex of electric moon-sounding mandolin, space keyboard, primitive astral soprano sax. Atmospheres for the end of the earthly. 287 copies. handmade collage artwork made by troglosound and 8mm." - 8mm |
| Artist: LOPEZ, FRANCISCO Title: Untitled Single Piece 5 Format: 7" Label: 90% Wasser Country: GERMANY Price: $6.50 |
| "Number 5 in this ongoing series & F.L—pez walks the untitled single path consistent. All the sonic power & intensity that Francisco L—pez is wellknown for, compressed into 2 short & intense pieces of sound, Limited edition of 500 copies." - 90% Wasser. |
| Artist: COLUMN ONE Title: La Source De La Citation Nest Pas Connue Format: LP Label: 90% Wasser Country: GERMANY Price: $15.00 |
| Limited numbered edition of 350 copies. "..full length, all new studio album from Column One and comes in a colourful sleeve featuring new artwork by Column One. An voyage through the labyrinthine mind of Column One... ...a surreal, organic sound projection..." - 90% Wasser. |
| Artist: BOHLEN, HERMANN Title: Das Luxurierin Der Bastarde oder Sag Doch Auch Wal Mas Format: LP Label: 90% Wasser Country: GERMANY Price: $15.00 |
| "The radio piece or Hšrspiel "SAG DOCH AUCH MAL WAS. ODER DAS LUXURIEREN DER BASTARDE" consists of private tape recordings of the sixties and early seventies only. At that time, the old fashioned recorders with big reels were widely spread among families. They served the same purpose as video does today: to document the development of the kids, dogs and grandparents. Some people also used it as diary or to record anything occurring in radio that they thought to be important (besides the top-ten). "Sag doch auch mal was!", english for "Say something!" was one of the most common phrases to be found on the recordings. In thrift-stores and fleamarkets Bohlen collected more than 30 hours of material - additional to some twenty hours from his own and friends families.In collage-technic this dirty stuff, the different voices from all over the country, east and west, were arranged to form a big family, portraying a time that for gods sake is over." 90% Wasser. |
| Artist: ECKLOFF, JÜRGEN Title: Zwei Sinterflaschen In Wechselschaltung Format: LP Label: 90% Wasser Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
| "A longplayer that features everything that was left. 38 Uncut minutes playing, a vast quantity of various bits and different events. "I use sound phenomena as acoustic basis!" explains the author. Furthermore he tells us that "events of highest artistic origin are juxtaposed with sometimes muffled and twisted results of sonorous cuttings." A rather short but quite precise clarification that doesnt need to be commented further. Only the compatibility of this analogue rotating medium should be mentioned. Buying this medium does not interfere with criminal law. Condition: a bit of knowledge and a playback device." - 90% Wasser |
| Artist: MOWE Title: Humsibum Format: LP Label: 90% Wasser Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "The first full length album of MOWE is a 50 minute collage of field recordings, acoustic & electronic instruments combined with different materials of the ether. For this release MOWE were Stea Andreasson & Rotraut Z." - 90% Wasser. |
| Artist: WANNABE, MARC Title: Alte Faltige Roboter Format: LP Label: 90% Wasser Country: Germany Price: $14.00 |
| Artist: MICROCLIMATE Title: Untitled Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: A Binary Datum Country: New Zealand Price: $12.00 |
| "A well known NZ musician/soundartist/all around good guy adopted the moniker of "Microclimate" for this project. Like a robotic Sunny Murray or maybe even what wouldve happened if Conlan Nancarrow had found a player drumkit... okay, whatever, it sounds fucking ace." - A Binary Datum. |
| Artist: CITY PEOPLES FARMERS MUSIC Title: Shitty Peephole Lama Kudos Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: A Binary Datum Country: New Zealand Price: $12.00 |
| "Aucklanders Sam Hamilton and Mark Sadgrove decided to form a "song" duo. The result is talentless shit, in a distinctly post-Pumice vein. Here they recorded a split 8" lathe (you get to guess who owns which side), but playing both sides at once (hint: youll need more than one copy) will give you an authentic city people experience. If you want one." - A Binary Datum. |
| Artist: UN CIEGO Title: Vincennes Monument/Kali Gandaki Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: A Binary Datum Country: New Zealand Price: $12.00 |
| Artist: HOLTKAMP, KOEN Title: Make Haste/Free Birds Format: LP Label: A Room Forever Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "Third volume to be released in this amazing new series. Koen Holtkamp is from Brooklyn, NY and runs the Apestaartje label and records as one half off the group Mountains. "Room Forever. Concept and art direction by Joshua Zucker. Photography by Kurt Mangum. A Room Forever is an art project realized as a curated series of limited edition 12" record LPs. Packaged in a custom-made box with high quality digital C-print covers and letterpressed inserts, each record features an original musical composition on one side and a field recording on the other. Pressed in one-time editions of 300, A Room Forever takes a unique and personal approach to the vinyl record LP. Conceived as a physical manifestation of the Roadside Picnic Radio podcast, the project draws upon the rich history and mythologies of audio recording to produce a final object of art that will resonate uniquely within each listener. More than anything, A Room Forever is inherently about the act of listening." Please note that these records are cut at the Dubplates & Mastering lab in Germany and are designed to be played at 45 r.p.m."- A Room Forever |
| Artist: MACHINEFABRIEK/DAVIES, MATT Title: Onkruid/Sanctuary Format: LP Label: A Room Forever Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "Second volume to be released in this amazing new series. Machinefabriek: recorded for an installation made for Polderlight 2007, Amsterdam, re-edited for this release. Matt Davies: Recorded at Lee Valley Park Bird Sanctuary, East Indie Dock Basin, London on July 3, 2007." - FE. "Concept and art direction by Joshua Zucker. Photography by Kurt Mangum. A Room Forever is an art project realized as a curated series of limited edition 12" record LPs. Packaged in a custom-made box with high-quality digital C-print covers and letter-pressed inserts, each record features an original musical composition on one side and a field recording on the other. Pressed in one-time editions of 300, A Room Forever takes a unique and personal approach to the vinyl record LP. Conceived as a physical manifestation of the Roadside Picnic Radio podcast, the project draws upon the rich history and mythologies of audio recording to produce a final object of art that will resonate uniquely within each listener. More than anything, a room forever is inherently about the act of listening." Please note that these records are cut at the Dubplates & Mastering lab in Germany and are designed to be played at 45 r.p.m." - A Room Forever. |
| Artist: PRAXINOSCOPE Title: Praxinoscope Format: Picture Disc LP Label: A Silent Place Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
| "A new project from ROBERTO OPALIO of MY CAT IS AN ALIEN, along with MCIAA collaborator RAMONA PONZINI. Here, Ponzini plays Japanese-style percussion and wind chimes to create resonant textures over Opalios alien wordless vocals and space electronics. Recorded in a mysterious location in the Western Alps with no overdubs or outtakes. Limited edition of 500 copies pressed on picture disc vinyl. Imported from Italy." |
| Artist: MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Different Shades of Blue Format: LP Label: A Silent Place Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
| "A remastered, re-edited vinyl reissue of the Different Shades of Blue CDR from MY CAT IS AN ALIEN. Originally released on U-Sound Archive, the album features an improvisation recorded February 12, 2004 in Torino, Italy. Space ambient soundscapes with minimal textures from the heart of the cosmos. Limited edition of 700 copies. Imported from Italy." |
| Artist: TYRANNOSAURUS REX Title: My People Were Fair and Had Sky In Their Hair But Now Theyre Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows Format: CD Label: A&M Country: GERMANY Price: $16.00 |
| "New 2004 expanded editions of all these Tyrannosaurus Rex reissues (first 4 albums; the 5th album is the first T. Rex album). Essential British underground, not to be confused with Classic Rock. All feature digital remastering, numerous bonus tracks, restored artwork, lyrics, sleevenotes and rare photographs; initial copies slipcased. 16 bonus tracks on this one (the original Mono album is presented first, then the complete Stereo version as bonus tracks, plus 3 additional demos). My People Were Fair... was the first album, originally issued by Regal Zonophone in the UK in 1968. Unlike the more commercially viable T. Rex of the post-1970 era, Tyrannosaurus Rex were steeped in a magical psychedelic elfland. The group was simply a duo of Marc Bolan (vocals, guitar, ex-Johns Children) and Steve Peregrine Took (vocals, bongos, Chinese gong, assorted percussion, Pixiephone) and their music was largely acoustic (exclusively so on the first 2 albums). Peaking the UK hippy trip, they wandered through their musical terrain of magic, mystics, elves, witches, with Bolans ethereal vocals sung in a voice that on occasion could not be proven to have any relation to the English language. Material from these 4 albums has been comped and two-ferred together for ages, but never available as 4 separate albums on CD in the US. Pixiehood never sounded so desirable." - FE |
| Artist: TYRANNOSAURUS REX Title: A Beard of Stars Format: CD Label: A&M Country: GERMANY Price: $16.00 |
| 2004 Expanded edition; digitally remastered, numerous bonus tracks, restored artwork, lyrics, sleevenotes and rare photographs; initial copies slipcased. 16 bonus tracks (all alternate takes) "The fourth and final Tyrannosaurus Rex album, originally released by Regal Zonophone in the UK in 1970. Took was replaced on this album by Micky Finn (backing vocals, Moroccan Clay Drums, table, bass, finger cymbals). and Bolan introduced electric guitar to their sound for the first time. Finns theory on bongo fury was a lot less inspired than Tooks and Bolans songwriting/singing seemed to aim more squarely at the anthemic/glam protocol that was soon to emerge. But this was the final chapter in Tyrannosaurus Rex, T. Rex was next." |
| Artist: DAVIS, ZAC Title: Acoustic Electric Format: Cass Label: A4 Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| Artist: ZIVICH, ALIVIA & NATE YOUNG Title: Lost Format: DVDR Label: AA Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| " A sound/painting cut-up composed from over 100 paintings filmed momentarily with live sound captured simultaneously. Like the show only better." - AA |
| Artist: REGRESSION Title: Worm Shit Format: Cass Label: AA Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Fundamental nutrients are required for growth. Tape, electronics, vocals." - AA. Nate Young of Wolf Eyes. |
| Artist: REGRESSION Title: Sun Damage Format: Cass Label: AA Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "With a changing of the season an anxiety is created. Tapes, electronics, vocals." - AA. Nate Young of Wolf Eyes. |
| Artist: DOG LADY REGRESSION Title: Dog Lady Regression Format: CDR/Lathe Cut CD Label: AA Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "A collaboration between Mike Collino and Nathan Young (Wolf Eyes). Violin, tapes, electronics, tambourine." - AA. |
| Artist: BURNING STAR CORE Title: s/t Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| Artist: RAVEN STRAIN Title: s/t Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| Artist: EVIL MOISTURE Title: Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| Artist: FAILING LIGHTS Title: Untitled Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| Failing Lights is Mike Connelly, who also plays in Hair Police, Wolf Eyes, and runs the Gods of Tundra label. |
| Artist: HATRED/DEMONS Title: Split Format: Cass Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Hatred/Demons - documenting the confusion/transition of these two bands. Early Hatred demos - Nate Young electronics, Spence Bryant on drums, Steve Kenney on synth and guitar. First release by Demons - Young and Kenney split from the drums of Hatred and start a synth duo. Psychedelic depression." - AA Records. |
| Artist: HARPER, T. Title: The Hitcher Format: Cass Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "T. Harper The Hitcher - Twig Harpers house burns down so he decides to hitchhike across the US. He gets as far as Michigan, records a little, and then heads to the Badlands to star in a western as a shaman - no shit. Field recordings from Baltimore thru Michigan to the Badlands and back." -AA Records. |
| Artist: BEAST, THE Title: Live At No Fun Format: DVD Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "A live performance captured at the No Fun Fest, March 31, 2006 featuring a noise-rock powerhouse set from THE BEAST-WOLF EYES and SMEGMA, along with TOVAH OLSON (DEAD MACHINES), MIKE CONNELLY (HAIR POLICE), ANGIE TARANTISM, JOSEPH HAMMER (SOLID EYE), and CONROY, and video effect work by AA boss ALIVIA ZIVICH." - AA. |
| Artist: ISIS & WEREWOLVES Title: s/t Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| Artist: SIXTEEN BITCH PILE UP Title: s/t Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "An eerie audio hallucination: first >> > youre >> > swimming, then theres something outside your door.Watch the >> butcher >> > knives chop as it spins." - AA. |
| Artist: BIRDS OF DELAY Title: s/t Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "UK burnouts are always reliable to bum your last smoke, hitch a ride or crash on you couch. If you havent decided what to do in 07 these guys have great ideas. Check this new "hands-off" electronics approach. Cover painting by Alivia Zivich." - AA Records. |
| Artist: KUBISCH, CHRISTINA Title: Minimal Disinformation Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "This is one of our personally most exciting releases. If youve heard of her Electrical Walks but not had a chance to actually hear them, check this lathe." - AA Records. "The magnetic headphones with their built-in coils respond to electrical fields in the environment. At first I tried to filter the soft hum of the electrical wires out of the headphones. Then, in 2003, the constant increase and spread of "unwanted" electrically-produced sounds triggered a new cycle of works: Electrical Walks. With special, sensitive headphones, the acoustic perceptibility of above ground and underground electrical currents is thereby not suppressed, but rather amplified. The palette of these noises, their timbre and volume vary from site to site and from country to country. They have one thing in common: they are ubiquitous, even where one would not expect them. Light systems, transformers, anti-theft security devices, surveillance cameras, cell phones, computers, elevators, streetcar cables, antennae, navigation systems, automated teller machines, neon advertising, electric devices, etc. create electrical fields that are as if hidden under cloaks of invisibility, but of incredible presence." - Christina Kubisch. |
| Artist: RED ROT/HAIRPOLICE Title: Live Halloween 2006 Format: Cass Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "An amazing live recording of Red Rot Live Halloween 2006. This one will bring your brains right thru your ears! LOUD! Dont know whos more excited, Ryan or the audience. Its not something you had to be there for; you can hear it on this tape. Hair Police is in rare form on these tracks. Brutal skin-peelers. Recorded by N. Young and H. Moerland. " - AA Records. |
| Artist: RED ROT/HAIRPOLICE Title: Live Halloween 2006 Format: CD Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "An amazing live recording of Red Rot Live Halloween 2006. This one will bring your brains right thru your ears! LOUD! Dont know whos more excited, Ryan or the audience. Its not something you had to be there for; you can hear it on this tape. Hair Police is in rare form on these tracks. Brutal skin-peelers. Recorded by N. Young and H. Moerland. " - AA Records. |
| Artist: ZIVICH, ALIVIA & NATE YOUNG Title: Video Madness IV Format: DVDR Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Floating heads and wicked benzod holograms. This video accompanied Demons during the tour." - AA Records. Soundtrack by DEMONS and HATRED. |
| Artist: STEWART, JACKIE Title: Psychedelic Pizza Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "Custom cut lathes, part one of a collaboration between Jackie Stewart and AA Records (Nate Young & Alivia Zivich). The collaboration is on-going. The idea is after we cut the custom lathes for Jackie she will send back a recording made with them. We will then recut, remix and cutup the music that is exchanged, it can go on and on, back and forth. AA Records will release the rawest material that is unleashed during this ongoing slaughter festival on double 7" lathes, cassettes and cdrs." - AA |
| Artist: STEWART, JACKIE Title: Spiral Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "Custom cut lathes, part one of a collaboration between Jackie Stewart and AA Records (Nate Young & Alivia Zivich). The collaboration is on-going. The idea is after we cut the custom lathes for Jackie she will send back a recording made with them. We will then recut, remix and cutup the music that is exchanged, it can go on and on, back and forth. AA Records will release the rawest material that is unleashed during this ongoing slaughter festival on double 7" lathes, cassettes and cdrs." - AA. |
| Artist: PENGO Title: Unt Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "What if the tsunami happened in Rochester? Finkbeiner, Schoen, Rochester Charles and the Nuge would ride the wave to their practice space and open a bar. And it would sound like this, kinda sad but kinda glad cuz Staples no longer exists." - AA. |
| Artist: DEMONS Title: Invisible Darkness Format: Cass Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Five new tracks from the duo of Nate Young (Wolf Eyes) and Steve Kenney (Pterodactyls, Werewolves). Exploring the depths of their banged-to-shit Pro One synthesizer, these new tracks sound like nothing theyve done before. Packaged with new Nate Young drawing cover art." -AA. |
| Artist: DEMONS WITH ZAC DAVIS Title: Live at the Panick in Hamtramck Format: DVD Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "The Demons -- Nate Young (Wolf Eyes) and Steve Kenney (Pterodactyls, Werewolves) -- captured live in concert with no overdubs or processing. Features live visuals manipulated by Alivia Zivich, along with the Demons heavy churning synths and wailing, ripping guitar provided by the infamous Zac Davis. Remarkably engaging. 30 minutes." -AA Records. |
| Artist: DEMONS Title: Frozen Fog Format: CD Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| Now available on CD!!! Demons is Nate Young (Wolf Eyes) and Steve Kenney (Pterodactyls, Werewolves). "In the winter of 2005 Steve Kenney and myself began Demons. Steve rescued his Pro One from New Orleans Katrina aftermath. The synthesizer was moldy, had a bad power cord and a horrible buzz (I broke it after our first gig). I played various homemade electronic devices, rewired radios, feedback, etc. Later that week I bought a Pro One as well. Mine had no working keyboard and, of course, a horrible buzz (a grounding issue). What we found ourselves doing was not so much making music with the Pro One but rather just turning them on and listening to the synthesizer play itself. I recorded our sessions and we called it Demons. Our synthesizers are still somewhat broke." -Nate Young 12/27/06 |
| Artist: DEMONS Title: Invisible Darkness Format: CD Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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| Artist: DEMONS DILLOWAY Title: s/t Format: CD Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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| Artist: V/A Title: Live AT AC Temple - Arthur Doyle + Hollow Bush, Demons, Drug Knives Format: DVDR Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "In Birmingham, Alabama there is a fountain at the Five Points. The fountain is of a goat lord surrounded by small animals. Water sprays from the mouths of each animal, the streams cross and a pentagram forms. Birmingham is also home to Arthur Doyle and Hollow Bush (Rodger Stella, Bryan Martin). A collaboration between Arthur Doyle and Hollow Bush is a strange thought for anyone who knows Rodger Stella or has seen Arthur Doyle. Even more complex is the image of the two of them behind closed doors discussing the approach and direction of the set to follow. What truly blew my mind was the set itself. Starting out with Doyles vocal work alone, the sound had a sparse and delicate feeling. Rodger Stella soon joined Doyle with a mirror of vocal samples. Doyle hears himself, smiles, then stops to listen. What followed was a intricate working of vocal loops and cut up sax with hand over beer electronics. Rodger Stella and Arthur Doyle are an odd couple but some how a perfect match. My favorite performance of the 2007. This is followed by the latest in live Demons visual music straight from the Invisible Darkness tour and committed to DVD here for the first time. The night ended with a very rare Drug Knives set - Demons with Stella playing for themselves in the muscle-relaxed atmosphere of each others company. Drug Knives is just that deep long stare into oblivian." - AA Records. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Live At Oberlin - Wolf Eyes, Sick Llama, Raven Strain Format: DVDR Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Oberlin rules because even though its a school theres a bar with good beer and the bar is like 20 feet from the stage. What happens when you have a bar on a campus and a killer gig = Wolf Eyes, Sick Llama, Raven Strain? Witness the mayhem that ensues! Someone gets so excited they pull the fire alarm to jam along! This dvd has all you would expect from a truly wasted line up playing in Ohio. Lots of slamming, lots of pits and lots people you know. Sounds from Raven Strain and Sick Llama to make you pass out and puke, and a slam section from Wolf Eyes for the masochistic minded." - AA Records. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Aryan Asshole Records Compilation Vol. 2 Format: LP Label: AA Records Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "This LP features the next 13 lathes since the first comp = Isis & Werewolves, Ex-Cocaine, Mirror/Dash, Pengo, Christina Kubisch, Birds of Delay, Sick Llama, Jackie Stewart, Evil Moisture, Prurient, Rusted Shut, Carlos Giffoni, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Demons. All the messy atmosphere of lathes on freshly pressed vinyl, weird! Banned in Canada due to the jacket (guess why)." - AA Records |
| Artist: SPECTRE FOLK Title: Papa Smurf Smiles Down On Us From Heaven Format: Cass Label: Abandon Ship Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Papa Smurf... was recorded last year at my summer palace in Bushwick Brooklyn... It was part of a new experiment I was doing with recording digitally straight to disc burner...and multitracking on disc... I recorded 2 songs from a Don Cherry disc my friend David Sauter, an avid bootleg disc trader, made for me... Its apparently from some Italian t.v. show in the 70s... The next track is an experiment with amp feedback ... plugging a lead from a headphone out jack to the input of an amp... through some pedals and manipulation the pure line feedback.. I recorded this digitally and added noise guitar and tape effected drums digitally as well... The last song is my best take of a popular Byrds song... a poorer version of which ended up on my Ming Aralia cd... This Disc is dedicated to my friend David Sauter who passed away last year on the 4th of july... and to his wife Aleve and son Otis... Papa Smurf smiles down on you from heaven..." - Pete Nolan. |
| Artist: ESKIMO KING Title: Weird Flag Format: CDR Label: Abandon Ship Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "As Brian Sullivan still flies high from his performance at No Fun Fest this year, weve prepared a gem of a release from this half of the now legendary Mouthus. While feeding off of similar meditative vibes of the aforementioned Brooklyn duo, he manages to put together a cohesive collection of distinct tracks he can call his own. Infinite layers of blown out fuzz dominate some tracks, and deep, trance-inducing rhythms prevail in others. Another primer for an up-and-coming ASR LP, due later this year. Keep your eyes peeled. And as with most Mouthus-related material, this one will not be around for very long. CDR edition of 100" -Abandon Ship. |
| Artist: STARVING WEIRDOS Title: Absolute Freedom Format: 7" Label: Abandon Ship Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Here it is, our first 7" and were PSYCHED!!! These two sides represent some of the earliest of SW material; culled from old 4 track tapes recorded in long lost living rooms, with friends and on the fly. Two kernels given the royal treatment, thanks to our friends at Abandon Ship! One an ontological cry into the abyss, the other a march in dedication to those forgotten souls who call it home." - Starving Weirdos. "edition of 500...with pro-printed cover art and insert" - Abandon Ship. |
| Artist: PREDATOR VISION Title: II Format: Cass Label: Abandon Ship Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Self-released earlier this year, this one finds PV at their most predatorial. They are ceaseless infinity jammers with a hunger for psychsploration and a tight yet loose style that can sometimes seem too good to be true. This being their second release, one can only wonder whats in store for them. Featuring Mr. Ducktails himself: Matthew Mondanile and Real Estates Etienne Duguay. Keep an eye out for their split LP with Sun Araw to be released on Not Not Fun. c30 edition of 100." -Abandon Ship |
| Artist: JULIE MITTENS, THE Title: S/T Format: CDR Label: Abandon Ship Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "The Julie Mittens were among the first groups that I asked to do a release for Abandon Ship Records. Its been nearly a year now, and well worth the wait. Theyve made some treacherous waves over the past few years, from their Sloow tape to their latest Holy Mountain release. This one is no exception. Fresh off their US tour, the Julie Mittens decided to properly document it with sister releases on ASR and the Netherlands own Cut Hands (http://www.cuthands.net/catalog.htm) label, respectively. Not only are the two releases completely different from each other, but each CDr is housed in its own one-of-a-kind sleeve which boasts a unique photo taken on their US tour. Thats 200 different sleeves in total, with screenprinting on each taboot! Recorded by Steve Sanford at the Golden West Cafe in Baltimore on September 10th, and features Baltimores own Lexie Mountain on vocals for the 2nd track. cd-r edition of 100." -Abandon Ship |
| Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Steps: Live At La Sala Rosa Format: CDR Label: Abandon Ship Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Official bootleg of the live concert on June 23rd, 2006 at the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival, Montreal, Quebec. Features the four-man, Alternation-era band sharing the stage for the first time with current member Lala. Opening with a cover of "Cocaine Blues" and bleeding into recognizable album tracks like "Knock Knock" and "Ice Cream Van" this set overflows with the spectral, slow-burn electro-improv for which they are known. 99% unreleased." -Abandon Ship |
| Artist: ESKIMO KING/AFTERNOON PENIS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Abandon Ship Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "A split offering from two of the baddest dudes on the east coast. Both members of Mouthus, Brian Sullivan (Eskimo King) and Nate Nelson (Afternoon Penis) each take the reigns on their respective sides of the record. Eskimo King churns out three tracks of melancholy-bizarro-skuzz riffs and ethereal wind-chimage. The drum samples on Dry Strike track take me back to earlier Mouthus times, when the world was still young. Keep it close to your turntable after your first listen because you will undoubtedly need to play it again and again. Afternoon Penis presents us with something entirely off the beaten path. Truly strange and epic, this freaked-out sidelong track sounds like something Bob Dylan would be singing in his head after a week-long ayahuasca binge. Utilizing several instruments, including percussion and the accordion, Nate also blesses us with a rhythmic mantra that should benefit both the mentally-ill and mentally-sound alike. Limited edition of 400 with plastic outer sleeve and insert." -Abandon Ship |
| Artist: LEBRECHT, NATALIE ROSE Title: Rrrrrr/Drrrrrr Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Abaton Book Company Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Greenpot Bluepot is the musical persona of NYC based artist Natalie LeBrecht. Devoted to studies in sound, texture and emotion, Miss Bluepot creates an intriguing sphere of her own in her artwork, somehow preserving a fantastic sense of humor within the process...Fans of Meredith Monk, early Smog, maybe even Patty Waters should take note of her sometimes unnervingly candid moments of word and sound..." - JoAnn Colagiacomi. |
| Artist: P.G. SIX Title: ..And The Flaming Manholes Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: Abaton Book Company Country: USA Price: $48.00 |
| Each record has a unique signed collage by Christine Krol ( See: http://www.christinekrol.com ), calligraphy by Marianne Nowottny and numbered, vellum insert. Mark Dagley (of legendary avant-punk bands the Girls and The Hi Sheriffs of Blue) guests on one track. Edition of 30. |
| Artist: NEBRELLIM SENSORIUM SAXOPHONE ORCHESTRA Title: Every Room Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Abaton Book Company Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Millers preteen Classical training on the alto saxophone changed over to free improvisation and atonal composition by High School. In his early twenties, he expounded on 20th Century composition techniques and wrote a multitude of small orchestral pieces for various ensembles. He also performed with David Swains big band; The II V I Orchestra. In 1977, Miller joined up with the punk band Destroy All Monsters and his composition streak came to a halt and didnt pick up again until the mid-1990s. Throughout the 1980s, Miller continued to perform and record saxophone with a number of rock groups; The Same Band, Nonfiction, GKW, Radio Silence, The Empty Set and Roger Miller. Purchasing a C-Melody Saxophone in 1993 while earning his BFA at Columbia College Chicago, he began developing an all-interval method similar to Arnold Shoenbergs 12-tone method with the lofty concept that intervals were more important than pitch. This method has developed over the years producing an array of compositions, some of which can be heard at Bens MySpace page (Three Episodes, Out Of, and Francium). After performing and recording with Glenn Brancas 100 Guitar Orchestra in 2004 and 2006, Miller began to write for saxophone orchestra. Currently, he is recording these compositions as The Nebrellim Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra in his home studio by way of overdubbing." - Ben Miller. Also, Ben and Roger were in the SPROTON LAYER BAND! (pre-Destroy all Monsters/pre-Mission of Burma - see their great, way-posthumous releases on New Alliance). Limited to 30 copies. |
| Artist: PANTALEIMON Title: Tall Trees Format: CDR Label: Abaton Book Company Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| Artist: NEUNG PHAK Title: Fucking USA Format: 7" Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "Oakland, CA-based Neung Phak are hit-playing Southeast Asian psych-pop fusion artpranksters. Their exotic alter ego Mono Pause shares members with absurdist cut-and-paste legends Negativland . When Pyongyang Airlines flight 009 from North Korea landed at San Francisco International Airport, the members of Neung Phak stepped defiantly onto the tarmac -- clutching the master tapes of their compelling new single Fucking USA , which were rushed to Abduction records for immediate release. This is the first recording ever made by "Americans" in Pyongyangs Kim Studios -- and it shows! The extended play B-side features a new version of the Thai classic "Tui Tui Tui" and a journey into experimental pop balladry that is second to none -- a radio friendly "Far King USA." This vibrant explosion of color and hatred comes dressed to kill in a beautiful package on the thickest vinyl there is. Neung Phak backsides the forefront once again! Edition of 300 copies, thick vinyl, and full-color picture sleeve!" |
| Artist: NEUNG PHAK Title: (Mono Pause) Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "2004 release, now fully available. The precursor to the radically life-changing Fucking USA 7" (ABD 031). Not only will listening to this music take your mind off how youll manage paying off your debts and surrendering your soul to the ruling elite, but its almost a soundtrack manifesto justifying a great "career move" where you can uproot your pathetic and truly meaningless life in Western society and relocate to the great inner-peninsula of Southeast Asia. This is what you could be listening to when you move into that cheap apartment overlooking the Chao Phraya River: some roots "Molarm beat" from the Lao countryside, creamy Khmer ballads and Cambodian Rock, with a dash of Bangkok big city pop. Dig this template of tropical seduction, from rural to urban, through thick sewage and pristine rice paddies, side-steppin the sex tourist industry just enough to make this disc legal to purchase. On second thought, stay where you are and dont ruin it for the rest of us whose souls are firmly embedded in the great tunnels beneath the underground cities of Angkor stretching their way to the sewers of Soi Cowboy. Its starting to get too crowded over here! Stay where you are!" - Abduction. |
| Artist: POREST Title: Tourrorists! Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Abduction Records presents the fourth full-length release from Oakland, Californias one-man detonator, Porest. Tourrorists! is a diabolical folk power-stew told through swirling Mid-Eastern psych-rockers, contraband cut-ups, illegal pop epics, instrumental songs of political sabotage and clever tales about travel, terror and more. This album is a lit-fuse, bound to be banned! Discover the awful truth about becoming a U.S. citizen. Bear witness to the tragic disco anthem of a Guantanamo escapee. Discover the inner-secrets of an emerging global cannibalism trade and get powerful information on some of the most exciting terror cells operating both in and outside of the United States today! Five-thousand Americans died to bring you this album...and 5,000 more will die if you dont buy it RIGHT NOW! Also featured are special musical guests including Finlands Aavikko." - Abduction. |
| Artist: UNCLE JIM Title: Superstars Of Greenwich Meantime Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "This is a CD reissue of this previously vinyl-only, limited-edition 500-copy release, originally issued on the Black Velvet Fuckere label. Ruling at the perpetual pivot and pole of a peerless sound world over the past 25 years, the Sun City Girls are one of the few last Arab cowboys of genius. Superstars Of Greenwich Meantime is the premier long player from Uncle Jim (aka Alan Bishop) - a smoked out X+Y= Fuck You dialectic. Rawer than Rudy Ray Moore, shrewder than Lenny Bruce, more spoken tongue wizard insanity than Lord Buckley and more deranged than Charles Baudelaire; this is Bishops own personal anthology of black humour, filled to the brim with cranky diatribes backed up by bad ass musicians (including all of the Sun City Girls). A masterpiece of the SCG canon. Featuring Charles Gocher, Richard Bishop, Alvarius B, Liz Allbee, Andrew McGinnis, Specs One and Porest." - Abduction. |
| Artist: DIAMANTE, HERB Title: May I Light Your Cigarette? Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "This debut release from the mysterious Herb Diamante will transport you on a naughty journey through his speakeasy of debauchery and sin. These eleven tracks of alcohol, tobacco, and desire are driven by his rich, golden voice atop a psychedelic showroom of sound. Herb Diamante is perhaps the most unique lounge singer around. He sings songs about eggplants, yellow kazoos, and delicate stilettos. Then, hell "hail the fish-king" and finish you off with "a wasp in a jam jar." The elusive Englishman has finally allowed himself to be documented amidst a career built of legendary "word of mouth" appearances on both sides of the Atlantic. A long, tragic set of strange circumstances and sporadic insanity has somehow combined to create Herbs extended and sometimes frighteningly vivid hallucinatory universe. However, he remains a hopeless romantic and will forever pursue his difficult and evasive vision." - Abduction. |
| Artist: ALVARIUS B Title: Alvarius B Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "CD reissue of the first Alvarius B record. Thirty-two instrumental acoustic guitar excursions into a realm of weird lo-fi rustic beauty that sketch retro-portraits of several folk guitar styles, some which may never have existed before. From abrasive to delicate, these lucid antique paintings with acoustic guitar employ Appalachian polyrhythms, dark melodies, flamenco thrash, alien tunings, pseudo eastern drones, cinematic backroad twang, and other hybrid ideas not easily described. This record is a folk drifter classic and is now available again for the first time in a decade. Originally released as 1000 copies (vinyl only) in 1994 on Abduction. Recorded from 1981-1989 by Alvarius B (aka Alan Bishop/Sun City Girls) onto various portable cassette decks and includes the original 28 tracks from the LP plus four unreleased bonus tracks." - Abduction. |
| Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Piasa... Devourer of Men Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "One of the strangest and most overlooked Sun City Girls recordings, Piasa... Devourer of Men was originally released on vinyl in 1994 and went out-of-print almost immediately. The record contains a series of short, folk-based tracks of raw beauty and intense moods. Most of the tracks were recorded in 1993 right after the completion of the Juggernaut soundtrack and some of the same ideas carried over into this project. A young and enthusiastic Italian director by the name of Antonio Pomola contracted SCG to create these recordings for his new film. The film was never completed and perhaps it was only an idea, but if it were to ever manifest, this music would certainly seem to fit the story line and the directors vision; the legend of a giant pre-historic flying reptilian terrorizing an early 1800s Indian tribe in Midwest America. Most of the tracks were created with acoustic instruments and voice and, with the exception of two tracks, the entire score was improvised. Recorded live to 4-track cassette by Scott Colburn, there is a strange, cohesive feel that runs throughout the album including several ceremonial and pan-ethnic tracks. Some cuts are completely indescribable. Reissued here on CD for the first time on Abduction, here is your chance to finally hear the cigarette played as a percussive instrument in an ashtray on the track "Nighthunting," among many other highly unique SCG tracks." - Abduction |
| Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Juggernaut (Original Soundtrack Recording) Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "Originally released as a limited edition LP by Abduction Records in 1994, and released on CD for the first time ever, this is an essential yet overlooked Sun City Girls recording consisting of various electric and acoustic tracks with a few compositional ideas rarely heard or revisited in their immense back catalog. And when we say compositional, we mean improvisation as composition which was basically the SCG method of operation in the studio. The record opens with two patented SCG stretched electric guitar/bass/drum works of dark beauty and then things become weirder as odd keyboards, acoustic instrumental and percussive pieces, and strange vocals start to dominate the rest of the album, setting the mood for Piasa... Devourer of Men which was recorded directly after Juggernaut. These tracks were exclusively created for a short film project by Mark Roman Bodnar and Kyrill Kazemirovitch Protsenko (a Ukraine/USA co-production) which resulted in a limited promo VHS release and a few festival screenings before the film was buried and forgotten. Segments from many of the ten tracks were actually used in the film, although there is much more to hear on the original full-length cuts found here. Some of the most unusual SCG studio recordings are contained on Juggernaut, all recorded live to 4-track cassette in 1993 in Seattle by Scott Colburn." - Abduction. |
| Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Jacks Creek Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "The Sun City Girls Jacks Creek was originally released in 1995, now reissued here on CD for the first time since the limited edition vinyl original went out-of-print 12 years ago. As Robert Dayton reviewed the LP version: "This album was reviled by the more avant-hipster snob crowd. As time passes, its reputation surely grows to put it right up there with the finest of The Sun City Girls diverse canon. And that is saying something! Being an act that can already alienate the unready, what caused this record to alienate their more uptight fans? Maybe its because it was their hillbilly album. Maybe its because the album opens during a still evening on a back porch with them talking about a mysteriously colored smell that predates an Indian burial ground and moaning He wore red to keep the devil away and distant howling and warnings that get more and more spooked out, gradually turning into a disfigured, slackjaw, downhoe preying on urban fears over its thirteen-plus minutes running time. Then follows a percussive piano-based swamp chase led by a gnarled stick shaker which turns over into improperly distilled moonshine chants. Side two contains lots of little musically inventive snapshots and curios. A good time jamboree on termite wood called "Useless Stillborn." A Civil War call to arms for people way too rot gut broken down to ever pass the draft. And oh so much more to offer from this trio who go above and beyond the call of duty of what could have been (but not in their hands) a one (or thirty) joke premise. I take it that you are already musically adventurous, well, give this a try! Feels like theyre shrinking (expanding) your head and preserving it in a jug." - Abduction. |
| Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Dulce (Original Soundtrack Recording) Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "Originally released as a limited edition LP of 1000 copies in 1998, this is another mysterious soundtrack work by Sun City Girls, featuring guest appearances by Eyvind Kang, The Ruins and Jesse Paul Miller. The music flips back and forth from melodic and reflective themes to shards of noise and collective improvisation. Throw in some clarinet lounge music and spooked-out drama and you have the backdrop to a film that was never completed, explained further here from the original liner notes by Alan Bishop: "A nervous, stuttering Japanese gentleman phones me in the Fall of 1995 requesting soundtrack services from Sun City Girls for his new film project about a secret underground alien base in New Mexico most commonly referred to as Dulce. The real kick for us came when our new Japanese friend finally announced his allegiance to the esoteric Aum Shinrikyo group most famous for the sarin gas poisoning in a Tokyo subway not long ago. He also professed to be a former associate of Aum technical minister Hideo Murai who was killed by a Korean hitman in April of 1995. Murai joined the Aum priesthood in 1986, becoming the head of its science unit focusing on the current state of electromagnetic weapons development including EM beams using lasers and plasma. We flew to Japan to perform a few shows in April of 1996 and a clandestine meeting was arranged with our mysterious director friend on one of our days off in the electronics district of Osaka which happened to be less than a mile from where we were staying. So Doctor Gocher and I pretended to take a souvenir-gathering stroll down the hill and met Hachiro Maki (a pseudonym, Im sure) nearby in a temple courtyard. After thirty minutes of reviewing rough cuts on his swivel-screen Hi-8 camera and discussing the necessity of anonymity in todays international fast lane, we were one million yen richer with an 8mm tape in my back pocket. Havent heard from him since..." --Alan Bishop, 1998. |
| Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Youre Never Alone with a Cigarette (Singles Volume 1) Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Recorded in July of 1988 during the sessions that produced Sun City Girls most popular recording, these nine tracks represent the other half of songs which were originally prepared as a 2LP demo version of Torch of the Mystics for Placebo Records in 1989. The sequencing of all 20 tracks at the time was entirely different with the predominately instrumental tracks in this collection mixed in and around the mostly vocal tracks of what became Torch. Placebo went out of business shortly after this proposed 2LP idea was presented to them but Majora Records quickly stepped in to begin releasing most of the material. Included here are five tracks from early Majora singles: "100 Pounds of Black Olives" and "The Fine-Tuned Machines of Lemuria" (the complete unreleased 12-minute version) from the single "Youre Never Alone with a Cigarette" and all three tracks from Record #1 of the double 7" Three Fake Female Orgasms -- "Plaster Cupids Falling from the Ceiling," "The Beauty of Benghazi," and "Souvenirs from Jangare." The short piece "Harmful Little Armful" is from the triple 7" box set Bruce Lee, Heroin, and the Punk Scene (from a Bay Area label Massacre at Central High) and rounding out the set are three unreleased studio tracks recorded the same day as much of the Torch LP: never before heard versions of "Amazon One," "Sev Acher," and "Wild World of Animals." This is the first of a multi-volume set of reissued singles, compilation, and unreleased tracks to be assembled and sequenced to play as full-length records. Vinyl editions may also appear in time."-Abduction |
| Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Napoleon & Josephine (Singles Volume 2) Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "This is the second volume in a series featuring rare singles and unreleased tracks from Sun City Girls. In the summer of 1988, Sun City Girls began working on two records simultaneously: Torch Of The Mystics and Dantes Disneyland Inferno. The former was finished and released in December of 1989 but the latter wasnt released until April of 1996. Over those eight years, Dantes morphed into an entirely different record due to several songs originally targeted for inclusion being hijacked by other projects. Two tracks ("X+Y" and "Frankenstein") were siphoned-off to the Kaliflower LP in 1993 and 4 tracks (1, 11, 12, 13) included here were released on 7" singles in the early 90s. The two most notable of the singles tracks dominate this record. "Napoleon & Josephine," a 13-minute episodic conversation between a vagrant and a shop owner, was originally released as a single in 1991 on Scratch Records. The full track was split into sides (parts 1 & 2) running over 6 minutes long. An alternative mix which had been shelved for 15 years is featured here. "Reflection Of A Young Boy Eating From A Can Of Dog Food On A Shiny Red X-Mas Ball" was originally released as side 4 on the double single 3 Fake Female Orgasms (Majora, 1991) and was 8 minutes in length. This extended version is the original complete recording, running 22 minutes. Legendary Phoenix electronic musician and SCG associate David Oliphant mixed and processed the entire piece live to tape in his studio. The remainder of this set is composed of like-minded and literary SCG singles and compilation tracks, including the previously unreleased "The Weatherman" which was originally recorded as an introduction for "Napoleon & Josephine." This is the second of a multi-volume set of rare & long out-of-print singles, compilation, and unreleased tracks to be assembled and sequenced to play as full-length records. Vinyl editions may also appear in time." -Abduction |
| Artist: DIMINISHED MEN Title: Shadow Instrumentals Format: LP Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| Seattles Diminished Men present a full-length record for the Abduction label. This LP is a limited edition of 500 copies and comes pressed on 180 gram vinyl. "If current instrumental music was always as majestic and compelling as this, Id hang up my retro-Italian soundtrack collectors boots for good. From the explosive drums rolls on the opening track, the only cover on the record, "LAppel du Vere," from Roman Polanskis The Tenant (music by Philippe Sarde), to the darkly exotic finale, "A Housewifes Dram," this album is a superbly crafted mosaic of whip-cracking vengeance, speak-easy hallucinations and haunted geography. Besides the Italian-Western overtones, the carnival-esque freakshow backdrops, Korshid-Egyptian guitar passages, and flipped-out electronic space-psych, are perhaps the best surf-inspired tracks Ive heard in years. Its spine-chilling how producer Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth, Eyvind Kang, Sun City Girls, Secret Chiefs 3, Six Organs Of Admittance, Wayne Horvitz, Matt Chamberlain, Grails, Wolves In The Throne Room, etc.) managed to make this record the ultimate mid-60s surf-vampire-Western revival soundtrack. Elements of Joe Meeks best Moontrekkers productions cross with a dash of Badalamenti murder blues-drama, setting the stage for Steve Schmitts cobra-twilight guitar work and the outlaw drums of Dave Abramson to leave their indelible stains across this 41-minute epic journey." - Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls). |
| Artist: SONIC CATERING BAND Title: Live from the Canteens of Atlantis Format: Double CD Label: Absurd Country: GREECE Price: $14.00 |
| "Spanning their very brief live career from 1998 - 2001, the two CDs convey all that was exciting, frustrating, ridiculous and ultimately nourishing about an S.Catering performance. CD1 begins at the beginning: w/ the first carrot chop at Londons 333 nightclub, 27th September 1998 and ends at the end: Genevas Moloko restaurant, 9th November 2001. In between lies a lean collage mix of culinary overdrive, assembled from every gig the project did capturing the various moods & atmospheres that were created during their live sets. Extracts of their 5 hour shift at The Moloko are manipulated and included between tracks 1,3,5 and capture/present a dense atmosphere at the restaurant. a cd giving you a great example of their sound, showing nearly all of the projects sides, full of various & bizarre moods & atmospheres, sometimes a bit rhythmic or others harsh or obscure. CD2 is the documentation of their last proper performance at genevas forde gallery. An hours recording full of meditative, abstract,spacious soundscapes. This is sonic catering bands definitive live document, minus the food of course. The CDs come in a gatefold package with a reminisce by the band and a list of our live dates/venues." - Absurd. |
| Artist: REYNOLS/DAN WARBURTON Title: I Am Not Sitting in A Room With Reynols Format: CDR Label: Absurd Country: Greece Price: $10.00 |
| “When in March 03 Dan was interviewing Reynols and was wondering of how to use the recorded tape, Alan suggested he put the tape recorder in the washing machine & tape the result. No matter that finally he didnt he managed however to surface w/ a new idea & under the great influence of Alvin Luciers I Am Sitting in A Room contemporary classic he started scratching, taping, editing, pasting the interview into a completely different and new thing, adding also in the mix Reynolss live from lile the result turned to be a thrilling broken psych electroacoustic recording that stands for me one Absurds out weirdos!!! You can can get more infos on it at www.paristransatlantic.com/warburton/reynols.html. Comes in a limited edition of 166 copies.” - Reynols. |
| Artist: ABUELO & NADA, MIGUEL Title: Miguel Abuelo Et Nada Format: LP Label: Abuelo Country: France Price: $28.00 |
| "1973 album by Miguel Abuelo & Nada while he was living in France is, no doubt, one of the best Argentinian rock albums ever recorded, and probably also one of the best out of South America. Miguel, a true legend of Argentinian rock music, recruited some Argentinian musicians who were living in Paris at the time and recorded this wonderful album, but the band never promoted it because they disbanded very quickly. The LP became a collectable item very soon, and this is the first vinyl reissue with the original artwork in its gatefold cover, and the insert with the lyrics. Seven long tracks, stunning blend of psychedelia, folk and hard-rock. A nicely done reissue of such a classic, with tremendous sound quality and limited to 500 copies." - Abuelo |
| Artist: OFEGE Title: Try And Love Format: LP Label: Academy Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Ofege recorded this LP while still in high school in Nigeria in 1973, and with its sweet harmonies, wailing fuzz guitar and virtuoso drumming, it quickly became a classic of the Afro-rock genre. Mastered by Tim Warren from the best possible sources, Try And Love is available for the first time in over 35 years, officially licensed and lovingly pressed." - Academy |
| Artist: MEBUSAS Title: Blood Brothers Format: LP Label: Academy Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "A large and multitalented group, THE MEBUSAS Blood Brothers album (1973) reflects the diversity of its members. Elements of soul, funk and psychedelic rock as well as Latin, Caribbean and African music come together in a powerfully unique album recorded in Nigeria. This is the first ever reissue of their only LP." - Academy. |
| Artist: SJOB MOVEMENT Title: A Move in the Right Direction Format: LP Label: Academy Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Deep and spacy Afro-Funk rhythms from heavy weight Nigerian musicians SPARK, JONNIE, OTTAY and BOLLA. Veterans of SONNY OKOSUNs OZZIDI BAND, these artists branched out in 1974 in a heavier, more personal direction. First ever reissue of thse psychedelic Afro-Funk classic!" - Academy. |
| Artist: EMACIATOR Title: Reflection Format: Double LP Label: Accidie Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "The long overdue, and miserably delayed, debut full-length by Emaciator (Jon Borges of Pedestrian Deposit, Monorail Trespassing) is finally available. Reflection was recorded in the spring of 2007 and represents the yet undocumented second phase of Emaciators music. Situated both historically and aesthetically between the dirty, depressive gutter pulse of the early cassette releases and the cleaner, blissful guitar shimmer of his newer material, these two pieces of vinyl bridge the gap with ghostly synth-based melodies that drift over a churning urban landscape of gritty static. Conceived of and composed as a complete artistic statement, the sides follow a narrative of deceit and betrayal, bookended by two halves of one musical idea; sides A and D are mirror images of each other, giving the title of the album its double meaning. Emotional and intensely personal, Reflection finds the Emaciator project at its most despairing, positioning aching melodic beauty in a context of bleak drone decay to suggest a kind of rock-bottom hopelessness. This is music for wallowing. Edition of 300."-Accidie |
| Artist: ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO Title: Iao Chant from The Cosmic Inferno Format: CD Label: Ace Fu Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Artist: KONONO NO. 1 Title: Congotronics Format: LP Label: Ache Country: Canada Price: $13.50 |
| "The first volume of Congotronics, a series devoted to the spectacular styles of music which bloom in the suburbs of Kinshasa. These bands draw on traditional trance music, to which theyve incorporated the heavily-distorted sounds generated by DIY amplification of their instruments, making their music a sonic cousin of some extreme forms of experimental rock and electronic dance music. Konono N°1 was founded over 25 years ago by Mingiedi, a virtuoso of the likembé (the traditional instrument sometimes called sanza or thumb piano, consisting of metal rods attached to a resonator). The bands line-up includes three electric likembés (bass, medium and treble), equipped with hand-made microphones built from magnets salvaged from old car parts, and plugged into amplifiers. Theres also a rhythm section which uses traditional as well as makeshift percussion (pans, pots and car parts), three singers, three dancers and a peculiar sound system including megaphones dating from the colonial period, which they call lance-voix (voice-throwers). The members of Konono N°1 come from an area which sits right across the border between Congo and Angola. Their repertoire draws largely on Bazombo trance music, to which theyve had to incorporate the originally-unwanted distortions of their sound system. Just like most of the other bands which will appear in the Congotronics series, these are musicians who left the bush to settle in the capital and who, in order to go on keep fulfilling their social role and make themselves heard by the ancestors (and, more concretely, by their fellow citizens) despite the high level of urban noise, have had to resort to a makeshift electrification of their instruments. This has provoked a radical mutation of their sound, and has accidentally connected them with the aesthetics of experimental rock and electronic music, as much through the sounds they use than through the sheer volume of their performances (they play in front of a wall of speakers) and their merciless grooves." - Crammed Disc. |
| Artist: RAUHAN ORKESTERI & LAUHKEAT LAMPAAT Title: Sylissain Oot Format: CD Label: Ache Country: Canada Price: $14.00 |
| "A CD reissue of the RAUHAN ORKESTRI (PEACE ORCHESTRA)/LAUHKEAT LAMPAAT (MEEK SHEEP) album originally released on LP in 2006 by Italys QBICO label. Ten pieces of free-improv-folk-jazz from Finland, with a distinctive foundation of playful vigor and heartening spirit. Some of the tracks take on a higher timbre and slightly more tongue-in-cheek feel as the quartet splinters into the duo Lauhkeat Lamaat." - Ache. |
| Artist: OF/GREG DAVIS Title: Divorce Series # 5 Format: 7" Label: Ache Country: Canada Price: $7.00 |
| "The latest in Aches Divorce series of split 7-inches, and the least abrasive outing to date. Vermonts GREG DAVIS goes up against JEWELLED ANTLER COLLECTIVEs LOREN CHASSE (aka OF), and both camps find sturdy route in field recording acousticism, delivering tracks that illustrate the both artists meditative nature. Water trickles, harps swell, and winds howl, while traditional instruments contemplate their natural surroundings." - Ache. |
| Artist: GODMAN Title: God Dog Format: CD Label: Acid Mothers Temple Country: Japan Price: $19.50 |
| "THE ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE presents a new album from Japanese GODMAN-KAWABATA MAKOTO, HIGASHI HIROSHI, WATANABE YASUYUKI, ENOMOTO TAKAYUKI, and MIYASHITA KEIICHI. Two tracks, "God Dog" and "Dog God," performed with dual guitars, bass, drums, and electronics. Recorded at Zero (Tokyo) August 10, 2005." -Acid Mothers Temple |
| Artist: MAQUILADORA Title: White Sands ep Format: CDR Label: Acid Mothers Temple Gold Disc Series Country: JAPAN Price: $24.00 |
| "Phil : voice, hermonica, bass, divine incantations, frying pan; Eric : Acoustic guitar, bass, voice; Bruce : Hammond organ, guitar, xylophone, melodica, upright bass, accordion, water phone, voice. Additional musicians : Morgan - drums; Tobby - piano; Pall : guitar. Remixed by Kawabata Makoto. Original released by eunice music 1999. Art work by ELF / Sachiko Ichikawa. An Acid Mothers Temple reissue of the "White Sands EP", the second release by MAQUILADORA, an underground psychedelic trio from San Diego. Remixed by Makoto Kawabata. A classic of real American psychedelia, illuminated by a deep acid glow." - Acid Mothers. Long out of print. Numbered edition of 100. |
| Artist: PANTA REI Title: Format: CD Label: Acid Symposium Country: Greece Price: $14.50 |
| Artist: NEON PEARL Title: 1967 Recordings Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "First time issue for the earliest of the Peter Dunton (Please, Gun, T2, Infinity) bands, here with Bernard Jinks and Nick Spenser, the same line-up as the second version of Please from 1969; the band had been playing these tracks in German clubs from June to November of 1967, providing the first psychedelic experience for the Berlin audiences they blew away night after night; upon their return to the UK, they were given studio time to record as many tracks as they could - this LP includes two acoustic demos, and six tracks from these recording sessions; since the peripatetic Dunton moved on to four other projects in the next two years after these recordings were made, it is no surprise that they have been completely overlooked (especially as no one had heard them!); but it is a happy day for fans of British psychedelia that this tasty platter has been unearthed at last- all trippy originals, with no filler. A significant event.” - Acme. Highly recommended! |
| Artist: ATTACK, THE Title: Created By Clive/ Colour Of My Mind Format: 7" Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "Another mega-rarity by The Attack from 1967. The rare as hens teeth B side is the killer track here which is a magnificent psych masterpiece that should have been the A side. A collectors dream come true!" - Acme. |
| Artist: INFINITY Title: 1969/70 Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "1969/70 UK psych/prog featuring members of two UK garage/psych outfits CYMBALINE and THE FLIES - top notch organ psych/prog with killer harmonies." - Acme. |
| Artist: SPRIGUNS Title: Revel Weird and Wild Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| "Originally issued on Decca 1976. Previously known as Spriguns (Of Tolgus), shortened to just Spriguns for this third release. Only available on CD in Japan prior to this release. Features Mandy Morton (lead vocals & acoustic guitar), Tom Ling (electric violin & vocals), Dick Powell (electric guitar, keyboards & vocals), Mike Morton (bass guitar & vocals), Chris Woodcock (drums), B. J. Cole/pedal steel guitar (1 & 9)." - Acme. CD also available. |
| Artist: SPRIGUNS Title: Time Will Pass Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| First readily available reissues of these Spriguns albums from the mid-70s, offiically licensed from Decca UK. Classic British folk rock output, for fans of Steeleye Span/Maddy Prior, Sandy Denny, Annie Briggs, etc. "Originally issued on Decca 1977. Only available on CD in Japan prior to this release." "Its a pity that Time Will Pass marked the end of Spriguns major label days - punk and new wave were culling all but the most profitable folk and prog bands from most label rosters by this time - for it stands up against the other Brit-Folk of its time from far better known bands including Steeleye, Fairport, Pentangle, Strawbs and the rest." - Jaeger. CD also available. |
| Artist: HUMAN INSTINCT Title: Day In My Minds Mind/Death At The Seaside Format: 7" Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $11.00 |
| Reissue of 1967 single. |
| Artist: ACOUSTIC FAMILY CREEPS Title: s/t Format: One Sided LP Label: Acoustic Family Creeps Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "One sided, bootleg-style twelve inch that may very well be Brookylns own WOODS, caught live in Europe. No listed record label, no B-side, no repress. Weve seen these for sale at Woods shows so they may be legit, although the world is ripe with mystery. Very limited." |
| Artist: ORTHRELM/TRENCHER Title: Transatlantic Asthma Attack Format: 5" Record Label: Action Index Country: UK Price: $6.50 |
| Artist: PREFECTS, THE Title: Amateur Wankers Format: CD Label: Acute Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Why doesnt anyone remember The Prefects? Some remember the band they became, the Nightingales, who on Rough Trade and Cherry Red records, blazed trails similar to The Fall and Mekons. But Englands The Prefects, leaving few artifacts, are the great coulda-shoulda been post-punk band of the late 70s. Rubbing shoulders with Wire, Joy Division, the Slits, and the Clash, The Prefects garnered critical acclaim for both their terse and witty punk outbursts and their intense art/post-punk experiments. Acute Records is excited to present for the first time ever their complete studio recordings plus two live tracks for the definitive Prefects collection. With this long overdue reissue, The Prefects place among the most significant UK bands of the post-punk era will be restored." - Acute. |
| Artist: IKE YARD Title: 1980-82 Collected Format: CD Label: Acute Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Influenced by their punk upbringing, avant-garde schooling, and no wave surroundings in early 80s NYC, Ike Yard managed to create a new sound by also tapping into equal parts the krautrock experimentation of Can, the Neue Deutsche Welle of DAF and the UK post-punk dub of PiL and Joy Division. This combination helped them to create sound and songs unique enough to catch the attention of Factory Records, who made them their first American signing. What really set Ike Yard apart were their cutting edge techniques. The mixing board and effects processors were as important as the bass, synth or occasional guitar, giving Ike Yard an aggressive and propulsive sound, where drum machines beat against the sound of scrap metal and angular guitar slashes dart through arpeggiated synth patterns. Acute Records released on 1980-82 Collected collects, for the first time, Ike Yards two releases (their Factory LP and an EP for Les Disques di Crepuscule) plus several previously unreleased tracks." - Acute. |
| Artist: K-SPACE Title: Going Up Format: CD Label: Ad Hoc Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "These recordings, with their disparate acoustic properties, are overlaid and overlapped to form dense sonic thickets alive with action and event, palpably embedded in the multi-dimensional flux of the world and lived social structures. Human voices conversing, footfalls on frozen ground, a blackbird singing, the sound of the wind or water, the crackling of wood in a fire, audience applause -- sounds from specific sites with their own peculiar resonance and significance leak through the K-Space mesh into the listening present. This layering and the filtering through of discrete geographic and temporal occasions compounds that superimposition already at work in the trio, the piling up and overlap of intense personal experience. Chamzyryn, a bona fide shaman and folk artist; Hodgkinson, academically trained in social anthropology, an exploratory rock musician, composer and radical improviser; Hyder, jazz drummer, free player, inveterate field worker in remote musical worlds." - Ad Hoc. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Woof: 7 Inches Format: CD Label: Ad Hoc Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| Compilation of material that originally released by the UK Woof label, in the early 80s. Deluxe foldout digipak. "This CD comprises all four 7" releases by the British underground label, Woof Records, plus extra tracks by The Work and The Lowest Notes. All tracks were originally released on vinyl between 1980 and 1985, but most have never before been issued on CD. This disk features a whos-who of the London art-rock scene from those years (Bill Gilonis, Mick Hobbs, Tim Hodgkinson, Rick Wilson, Andy Bole, Trefor Goronwy, to name a few), plus the Belgian expressionist-singer, Catherine Jauniaux." - Ad Hoc. |
| Artist: ADVERSE EFFECT Title: Volume III, #1 Format: Mag Label: Adverse Effect Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "Late Summer 2003 Edition + CD. Featuring interviews with Pimmon, Cornucopia, Sonic Youth, Co. Caspar and Will Sergeant, plus more lists that you cannot live without and a typically sprawling reviews section devoted to music, films & reading matter. Plus some other stuff. The CD itself (representing Fourth Dimensions 65th release and simply titled FDCDSixtyFive) includes Weird As Fish (Will Sergeants punk-tronics outing from 1977), Co. Caspar, Storm Bugs, i:Wound, Band Of Pain (Theme r:m:x), srmeixner, Stylus, Zenial/Palsecam, Freiband and Ektroverde" - AE. |
| Artist: BILLY BAO Title: Sacrilege Format: CD Label: Afterburn Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "Sacrilege is a collection of 2007 vinyl releases from bleak noise combo BILLY BAO. Includes the tracks from the Accumulation 7-inch, the Fuck Separation 10-inch and the Dialectics of Shit LP. Packaged in sandpaper and duct tape, just cuz. Imported from Australia." -Afterburn. |
| Artist: BORBETOMAGUS Title: Barbed Wire Maggots Format: CD Label: Agaric Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| CD reissue of what was the 4th Borbetomagus album, originally released on LP by Agaric way back in 1983. The trio of Jim Sauter (reeds), Don Dietrich (reeds) & Donald Miller (guitar). Recorded at In-Roads, NYC. May 7, 1982. " Barbed Wire Maggots is a motherfucker, even now, 23 years after it was recorded. Recorded at In-Roads on Mercer Street, BWM documents a gorgeous evening of extreme sonic dialogue. Sauter and Dietrichs reeds skinny-dip into virtual classicist free mode at times (think Trane having an erotic dream of Frank Wright), but more often they tangle like electric eels dropped like tampons from the poop hatch of a 747. Upper register bowel tingling never felt so good. Millers guitar joins them up in the stratosphere, plugging raw current into metal bowls, sizzling like a wok full of stewardess jiz, just creating and distorting and worrying the fabric of the cosmos like some idiotic terrier-god from a lost part of the Upanishards. Everything just moves so beautifully here. All of the early Borbeto hallmarks are on display: the ducks-attacked-by-lawnmowers thing; the Wilhelm Reich Busts Another Cloud scenario; the angel-wire-thimble connection ; the part about the cop car getting crushed by a bulldozer inside a maelstrom in a sewer drain -- its all here. What is most remarkable about the music on BWM is how fresh it still sounds. Therere no clichés brunted about here, nothing thats time-coded in the least; its even difficult to really categorize the music inside any genre. Jazz, industrial, rock, free...there are elements of all of those here. And they are blended and/or smashed together in ways that will make yr hair feel lighter than feathers, lighter than maggots, lighter than anything." - Byron Coley. |
| Artist: BORBETOMAGUS Title: Live in Allentown Format: CD Label: Agaric Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Killer sound, includes the entire second set, never before released. Byron reviewed the cassette in Spin years ago." -Agaric |
| 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: NEW HUMANS/AIRPORT WAR Title: Split Format: Picture Disc 7" Label: Airport War Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Airport war contributes the left channel and new humans contribute to the right channel to a one-sided record. the result is a five minute wedding of violent bliss. cover is an untitled wedding photo (1970) that is silkscreened in off-registered yellow, red, and blue. the wedding was short lived, the groom stabbing the bride several dozen times shortly after the honeymoon." - Airport War. |
| Artist: WAR SLUT Title: Wall As Mistress Format: Double LP Label: Airport War Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Posthumous album by War Slut. Studio and Live recordings taken from an ill-fated 2005 European tour that the saw band caught in the middle of a knife fight in Prague and getting thrown out of their own headline by police at the famed Kinsky Club in Berlin. Cut short, the band returned stateside, rented an abandoned warehouse and recorded a few songs before throwing their instruments into a pile and lighting it on fire. War Slut was dead--Wall As Mistress is their epitaph. The record comes in three versions: porn star, pop star, and prince. Images are silkscreened directly onto the record, which is still playable, providing a visual remix to each side. Two records per set, one with Side A defaced and one with Side B defaced. " - Airport War. Now known as Airport War, on tour with Religious Knives this summer. |
| Artist: AIRPORT WAR Title: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Airport War Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "This latest LP from Airport War is 12 inches of guilt-by-association (or rather the bastard child between Delmore Schwartz, pornography, the Moor Murders, Raymond Pettibon, Sonic Youth, and Patty Hearst). All represented in either, title, image, or sound, they demonstrate the collapse between audience and performer—with the record being the rate of exchange. Version/inversion (a figure 8), this piece of plastic is the intersection that connects Airport War to his audience and himself to his art—a meditation on medium. In Dreams Begins Responsibilities features a single loop of Patty Hearts long lost phone call from the closet to her parents—the first call after her kidnapping by the SLA. The call was originally recorded on tape and then played over the phone and then transferred to tape for the world to hear—a performance distributed via news networks throughout the world to millions of people (had it been sold/itd have gone gold in seconds). Specifically, the loop contains the first four words: Mom, Dad, Im okay. The last two words "Im okay" repeat into infinity or until the listener grows tired, the record wears out or the player breaks down. The record comes in two version (limited to 50 of each), with the sole difference being the inversion of the two color silkscreen process—one with red overlay and one with blue overlay. Silkscreen ink was applied directly to the record. Hand Signed/Numbered." - Airport War Records |
| Artist: CLARK HUTCHINSON Title: A= MH2 Format: LP Label: Akarma Country: Italy Price: $22.00 |
| "A=MH2 is the debut album of one of the most interesting and irreverent bands of the British underground rock scene of the late 60s. Like the Deviants, Edgar Broughton Band, Pink Fairies, and Third World War, Clark - Hutchinson had an anarchic attitude towards the establishment, in their case represented by the music business. Very inspired and promising, A=MH2 combines many influences, brilliant ideas and the talent of Mick Hutchinson, whose guitar style recalls his passion for Indian music and rock blues."- Akarma. Classic LP! |
| Artist: OBERON Title: A Midsummers Night Dream Format: LP Label: Akarma Country: Italy Price: $22.00 |
| "Released in 1971 in only 150 copies, Oberons Midsummer Nights Dream is not only one of the rarest folk-rock records to ever see the light in the UK but is also considered one of the top works in its genre." - Akarma. |
| Artist: BLUE CHEER Title: New! Improved! Format: CD Label: Akarma Country: Italy Price: $11.50 |
| "Mid-line jewel case reissue of the third Blue Cheer album, originally issued by Philips in 1969. Most notable for the side 2 inclusion of the entire output of the group while employed with Randy Holden as guitarist." |
| Artist: LE STELLE DI MARIO SCHIFANO Title: Dedicato A Format: CD Label: Akarma Country: Italy Price: $11.50 |
| "Originally released in 1967 on the BDS label. Mario Schifano (the amazing painter and sculptor from the Italian pop scene) recruited four young and unknown musicians to record this innovative album. Features Peter Hartman and beautiful cover artwork by Schifano himself." |
| Artist: HAPSHASH & THE COLOURED COAT Title: Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids Format: CD Label: Akarma Country: Italy Price: $11.50 |
| "Their 1968 first classic album (originally on Minit) is something of an electric mayhem and freeform freakout. Art students/designers Michael English and Nigel Weymouth, whose striking graphics were seen on many bright and trippy posters for psychedelic clubs like the Ufo and Middle Earth in London, were the creative talent behind this band along with DJ and manager Guy Stevens. Not far from what the Godz were creating in NYC, an underrated document of its time." |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Night Gallery - 21st Century Psychedelic Underground Format: CD Label: Alchemy Country: Japan Price: $22.50 |
| Excellent comp featuring LSD March (LP soon on SIWA), Uptight, Doodles, Mimi No Koto and Chouzo. |
| Artist: HUNGOVER BREAKFAST Title: Gateway To Feather Format: Cass Label: Alcoholic Narcolepsy Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "As soon as I had begun my fixation on Steve Warwicks Heatsick project, he turns around and starts another one: Hungover Breakfast. This debut one-sided C30 feels more like a strong jab than a first round KO. Running around ten minutes or so, this is a spluttering mass of viscous feedback clouds. Like Heatsick there are winks of recognisable guitar parts / sounds at the edges, but the focus is on frequency fucking. Patterns emerge as the choppy sounds begin to resemble Qbert-like scribbling; Warwicks ill treatment outlines tentative images that are burned quickly into the head. Things go briefly haywire as a ZX breakdown almost brings the piece to a full halt before zipping back into and through higher micro frequencies." - Scott McKeating, Stylus Magazine. |
| Artist: MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: De Musicorum Infelicitate Format: Book/Double LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: ITALY Price: $66.00 |
| "Two years ago Alga Marghen issued the third compact disc by Walter Marchetti, the mysterious and inaccessible De musicorum infelicitate. The edition included a folded poster with the presentation written by Gabriele Bonomo, a series of aphorisms to introduce the listeners to this work. The composer had then decided to let this edition circulate with no extra information looking at it as a perfect final statement. But a complete score was existing, and what a score. And it took several months to convince him to let it be printed as a book in order to provide a new perspective to this multi-layer cryptic unhappiness of music. For this is not only the score of a great composition but also a series of statements which help us to enter the composers epistemology and his point of view about music, creation and our contemporary condition in general. Now as we approach the end, music seems to hasten our pace; now that the word is mantled in a vast cloak incessant vibrations and, sadly, everything is becoming music; now it was the perfect right time to issue this precious book. A book with no poetic moments, never obscured by art, never the servant of art, meant to give an immediate image of music. Such a book could only be published as a high quality industrial object, album hardbound, 200 pages in DIN A 4 size, published in English and Italian, issued in an edition limited to 300 copies only. Music! Deadly dust for the mind. The world as music: a cosmic catastrophe. At this point, music remains in possession of only a single sound; all the others have been discarded. The last sound is recorded on the double-LP, as well as the complete painful variations previously issued on the Alga Marghen CD with the same title." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Antarctic Mosaic Format: CDR Label: Alga Marghen Country: ITALY Price: $18.00 |
| "Following the path opened by Frammenti, this new work represents the radicalization of the fragmentary approach in Maurizio Bianchis music. A musical composition resulting from the combination of various elements: Hetzian-waves, classical and electronic music. MB eagerly explores the immaculate spaces of the so-called frozen continent, the only one not contaminated by the human presence. The hostile surroundings and the prohibitive temperatures made the frozen paradise so stimulating and pure. Antarctica was an immense park frozen after the post-Flood events when unexpectedly and suddenly the temperatures felt of many centigrade degrees. This process is well emphasized in the Antartic track. On the other hand, in Mosaic the listener mind is projected into the future when, after the decontamination process of human presence on Earth, the frozen continent will become again a paradise. Again a strictly formal and structured work, two long and exhausting sound-collages made of little fragments, even more radical than his approach when MB was active under the name of Sacher-pelz. Also included is an excerpt from The Technological Nonsense, a text presenting the forthcoming book on Maurizio Bianchi activities soon to be issued by EEsT. As MB stated: Antarctic: sonorous infiltration in a deteriorated glacier and Mosaic: liquid resonances for asymmetric decodings. Are the glacial 1980s so far away? Available now in a CDR edition limited to 300 copies." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE Title: Sacred Bordello Format: Book/CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: ITALY Price: $66.00 |
| "As one of the most influential figures of experimental music and performance Charlemagne Palestine has remained an enigma. Unlike his illustrious contemporaries Terry Riley, John Cale, Steve Reich and Phillip Glass little has been written on Palestine and his continuing influence. In his own right, he was and remains today a pivotal personality whose research in musical composition and performance has been characterized over the years by its incantatory repetitiveness, its flamboyance and its mysticism, but also by its violence. Born in Brooklyn in 1947 his first musical experiences were as a cantorial singer in the synagogues of New York. Through his contact with Tony Conrad Palestine was soon introduced to the thriving experimental art scene of the late 1960s. The circles around Andy Warhol and La Monte Young provided a crucial backdrop for Palestines work which increasingly extended beyond the scope of music. His groundbreaking appearances, which combined violent piano playing, performance, video and installation, were considered to be amongst the most radical musical experiences, leaving a lasting impression on followers such as Arto Lindsay, Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth, and the Sex Pistols as well as Tintin creator Herge. His musical oeuvre escapes any ready categorisation Brooklyn, is a synthesised drone mixed with field recordings of a festival. Palestines epic durations, microtonal trembles and dense overtones are reoccurring features in contemporary industrial and electronic music. Palestines unique style of singing, Indian singer Prandit Pran Nath Charleworld, were crucial influences on artists such as Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy. Through recent collaborations with Barcelona based techno duo Pan Sonic and David Coulter (Kronos Quartet) Palestine remains a crucial contributor to todays experimental music scene. A wonderful full colour book (size cm. 23,50x18,50), with flexicover, 192 pages including essays, scores, original photos of both performances and installation. The most complete documentation on Charlemagne Palestine art. The compact disc will feature the 60 minutes recordings of a lecture that Charlemagne Palestine gave on March 7th, 1975 at ArtNow Centre in Canada. After the performance of a strumming music concert, the author freely speaks about his music, the philosophy beyond his composition techniques and art involving the students in some kind of magic ritual. Starting as a question and answer conversation, the lecture develops into an intimate speech in which particularly private subjects are discussed. The lecture ends with a particularly touching suspended atmosphere showing how real communication in universities should be. The compact disc also includes a breathtaking multi-layer voice study of the early 1960s never published before on record, very similar in sound and structure to the electronic music studies just issued by Alga Marghen." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Cycles Format: CDR Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $19.00 |
| "The terminal concept of Cycles is matured after the sharp Fragments and the Glacial Mosaics of MBs recent artistic reproduction, at the end of a triennial project, aiming to exacerbate the routine of prefab sound, the common and forgone sound created to be exclusively consumed by an amorphous and servile mass, sunken in a sullen entertainment. The approach here is totally new and the fragment is isolated and constantly repeated in order to build an aural minimal architecture. As MB states: Our whole existence is subordinated to intense and mathematical cycles, from the biological to the technological one, from the solar to the lunar one, from the historical to the legendary one. The cyclicity of the sonorous meanders of Cycles is, probably, the unique example of cyclic music. Particular and interatomic sonorous repercussions infinitely and distinctly repeating themselves, captured in a spectroscopy of atavic and coriaceous notes. And in the classic mood of the early 80s style, MB continues: The establishment will disagree. Such an experiment will be considered tedious and banal. What matters to me is not the ephemeral judgement of this sick and condemned reality. Finally the nine cycles included in this minimal work could be considered my appropriate epitaph. I have already entirely expressed my own artistic freedom and I wonder whether this might be nothig but the end of another cycle, in anxious expectation of the... eternal cycle. Due to the extreme nature of the material included, the reproduction of this edition has been limited to 200 copies only."- Alga Marghen |
| Artist: NEUHAUS, MAX Title: Zyklus Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $17.00 |
| Four previously unreleased realizations of "Zylus" (different recordings than the one featured on the Columbia LP Electronics and Percussion -- Five Realizations (CD: SICC 79). Recorded 1959-68. "The term New York School refers to a circle of composers "Zyklus was written in 1959 and is one of the first solo pieces to utilize such a large number of percussion instruments (twenty one). When Neuhaus first started to play this piece there were only three percussionists in the world who could play it. Stockhausens idea was that a performer would play the piece spontaneously, making its complex decisions on the fly. No one played it this way; it was too difficult. Everyone wrote out his own version of the score and played from it. Coming from the world of jazz Neuhaus decided he wanted to take up the challenge of playing it spontaneously. At that time percussionists generally played only one instrument at a time. Playing twenty one simultaneously was unheard of. Neuhaus quickly realized that the only way to do it, in fact, was to think of all them together as just one instrument, one multi-surfaced bank of timbre. Neuhaus decided to travel to Europe and go to Darmstadt where Stockhausen was teaching. He wanted to talk to him about the piece. Stockhausen was interested in the idea that the twenty one instruments had to be physically formed into one instrument and that so much work had been done already. So he offered Neuhaus the big opportunity to perform Zyklus on the first American tour. Stockhausen came over to New York to hear Neuhaus play, but he wasnt satisfied with the improvisation version. It was too long. Neuhaus was determined to teach himself how to do it for this tour. He had another six months. He got down to seven minutes; and he was still improvising, not writing it out. He was ready to play that piece, and played it like nobody had ever heard it before. Each of these four recordings is a document of a true solo performance, one person and two hands, with no additional live help and no overdubbing. This CD also offers four different kinds of beauty, four proofs that the latitude that Stockhausen allowed, when capitalized on by a performer with creative imagination, could validate Stockhausen as a composer and an entire aesthetic of freedom and control. This edition includes a 12 pages booklet with original photos of both official concerts and performances for invited audiences, Max Neuhaus own comments on the original score and an editorial note by John Rockwell." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: ASHLEY, ROBERT Title: String Quartet Describing the Motions of Large Real Bodies - How Can I Tel the Difference? Format: Double LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $32.00 |
| "Double LP reprint of the compact disc by Robert Ashley titled String Quartet Describing the Motions of Large Real Bodies / How can I Tell the Difference? (I & II). String Quartet was composed as the potential orchestra for an opera based on the text of In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women. When the work was composed, in 1972, it was clear that a huge change in electronic instrumentation was just beginning, a change that would involve computers and sound producing devices as yet undreamed of. The piece consists of an electronic orchestra of 42 sound producing modules. The technique of the string quartet is for each player to make a stream of intentional but unpremeditated (that is, random) very short sounds, pulses, somewhat like pitched clicks, but with the formats and overtones of a string instrument (this idea came from the rumor of a performance by Takehisa Kosugi). These sounds go directly to a set of four loudspeakers, but at the same time they are delayed electronically, and those delayed sounds are sent to a series of seven networks of sound producing modules activated by the very brief coincidence of an original sound and a delayed sound. The operation of the networks as a result of the coincidence can, in the theoretical world of electronics, produce almost any sound imaginable. In the performance recorded here few of the technical resources were available. Now, of course, there are computer patching programs that would make the job possible, but complicated. Such are dreams, when technology promises a new world. Sort of like 1492. The hills and mountains separating San Francisco Bay from the Pacific ocean are filled with a labyrinth of endless concrete tunnels constructed by the military in the 1930s in anticipation of the World War II to defend San Francisco Bay from invasion. At the entrance of every tunnel is a huge steel door. When the door is slammed, the reverberation through the labyrinth seems to last forever. It is one of the wonders of the world. Naturally, Robert Ashley tried to record this phenomenon. On the occasion of the recording, just as the reverberation seemed to die away, a motorcyclist, miles away in the tunnels, started coming closer. The effect, which took minutes, was as if the reverberation had been reversed, as if the tape recording was running backwards. A perfect case of coincidence as illusion. In Version One of How Can I Tell the Difference? the composer tried to create the drama of the recording of the reverberation and the motorcyclist, using the String Quartet as an orchestra, in the way intended to be used in the opera. In Version Two of How Can I Tell the Difference? a solo string player using the same playing technique as in the String Quartet opens and closes the sound gates to electronic reverberations and prerecorded sounds running continuously with the performance. This edition comes in a colour gatefold LP cover with new graphic and lay-out. A double LP set with 3 recorded sides (side 1, 3 and 4; side 2 is blank). Edition of 500 copies only." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: HANSON, STEN Title: The Sonosopher Retrospective Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $31.00 |
| Artist: BERROCAL, JACQUES Title: Catalogue Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "Released in 1979 in a limited edition on his own dAvantage label, Catalogue, with its overt theatricality is every bit as wild as the previous Paralleles. Not really jazz, not rock, having nothing to do with contemporary music either, Catalogue is a kind of sonic postcard which features not the group of the same name but instead numerous Berrocal associates including Potage (co-founder of the dAvantage label in 1976), Parle, Ferlet, Pauvros and recording engineer Daniel Deshays, plus many musicians from the French underground collective scene of the 1970s. Not content with manhandling a toy piano on Tango (which features mind-blowing accordion from Parle), abusing an arsenal of instruments including saw blades, pistols, shower attachment and even gingerbread, Berrocal pushes his own voice way over the edge on Incontrolablslaooo and Faits Divers, moving from a 60-a-day smokers cough to a terrifying sequence of gargles and vomits. The grungy free rock of No More Dirty Bla Blaps, the Portsmouth Sinfonia-like spoof Dixieland of Rideau, the distressing punk of Signe Particulier and all manner of fields recordings and cut-ups in Berrocals Artaudian theatre style, combining the excesses of glam and punk cold-wave to post-1968 Situationist perspective. With the same creative attitude documented through the mythic dAvantage label (1976-1979) Berrocal later accumulated an extensive archive of unreleased recordings, some of which finally surface now on this new edition. Catalogue represents the most experimental and complex of Berrocals records, as historical as contemporary modern, classic and at the same time as fresh and strange as if it had been recorded last week. During the same year Steven Stapleton frequently travelled to Paris to meet Jaques Berrocal and discuss a possible collaboration. In 1980, Berrocal travelled to London with his pocket trumpet and Tibetan oboe and recorded with Stapleton, Heman Patak and John Fothergill on NWWs second album, but thats another story." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: MOORMAN, CHARLOTTE/NAM JUNE PAIK Title: TV Cello Format: Double LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $52.00 |
| "A documentation of Charlotte Moorman activities as a performer is generally available only on the iconographic level in various catalogues which documents the crucial intersection with the work of Nam June Paik or the association with events connected to the Fluxus movement. One of Charlotte Moormans more substantial merits is having consciously reversed the traditional role of the virtuoso performer on her own instrument, uncovering by this overturning one of the most authentic keys for comprehending the aesthetics of experimental music. It was properly the natural spontaneity in this attitude to fascinate Paik and to have decreed her indispensable capacity as a performer, thus giving rise to the reasons animating their fecund and symbiotic collaboration. Cello Anthology is a collection of documents (sonic and photographic) as well as original texts and testimonies, made available for the first time in a unitary form by Alga Marghen. One of the CDs included in the edition, currently in a final process of realisation, will offer an in situ recording of the famous TV Cello, realised in September 1982 during the three days inaugurating the Paik retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The 2LP edition presented here introduces to a different version of the same piece, conceived by Paik for Moorman as a living sculpture: the Concerto for TV Cello and Video Tapes historical World Premiere, recorded at Galeria Bonino, New York City, 1971. More rough and primitive than the masterpiece recorded in 1982 in Chicago, these uncompromisingly obscure original recordings will not be included in the forthcoming 4CD anthology. 2LP set in gatefold cover reproducing photos of Charlotte Moorman with John Lennon and Yoko Ono playing the TV Cello at Galeria Bonino 1971 vernissage. Private edition limited to 200 copies." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: CHOPIN, HENRI Title: Revue OU Format: 4CD/Book Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $112.00 |
| "Alga Marghen proudly presents a new edition of the already historical Chopins Revue OU. All the original contents (4CDs + book + complete inserts) have also been included here, but presented now in a more modern and flexible way. The first press heavy boxset had been substituted with a lighter and colour slipcase while many important details and info about the contents of this anthology (missing in the original layout) are presented on a new colour obi." Incredible that this has been reissued again, at a slightly cheaper cost even! Miraculously over-the-top presentation of Henri Chopins famous sound-poetry "magazine", issued on 4CDs (or 6 LPs -- a few copies of the original LP reissue box still available). "Since the end of the fifties, Henri Chopin, an explorer in the new recorded sound poetry field, has never ceased, through hid own work as well as through his publishing activities (Revue OU, a magazine with record from 1963 to 1974) to defend the electronic exploration of the voice and the body. If Henri Chopins Revue OU is such a remarkable publication, then this is surely because it is one of the truly -- and most authentically -- contemporary publications of its time. Yet at first sight, the word contemporary seems to offer a rather simplistic description of such a visionary publication as Chopins OU. When we consider in the general cultural context of the sixties, for example, arent all mid-century art publications generally contemporary in one way or another? And when considered in terms of most other poetry publications of the sixties, doesnt Chopins OU clearly stand out as one of the most significant experimental or avant-garde publications of the mid-century? As Chopin observes, he considered the sound poetry published on the records in OU to be a distinctively new form of art. On one hand sound poetry constitutes an almost archetypal practice, but on the other hand sound poetry also emerges from the very sources of recording technology by means of its use of electro-magnetics. As this collection of CDs (remastered under the supervision of Henri Chopin) reissuing the complete Revue OU records indicates, Chopins most striking achievement was to consistently identify and publish the first major works of many of the most visionary transatlantic artists exploring the new recording technologies of the fifties, sixties and seventies. Far from attempting to establish any monodimensional movement, Chopin characteristically championed a wide veriety of those poets, writers and composers whom he perceived to be in movement, and whom he subsequently applauds as Fabulous Independents. Following an editorial logic of selectively eclectic inclusion, Chopins OU records published an astonishing diversity of inter-generational and international experiments. These include intense electronic readings by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin; pioneering optophonetic works by the Dadaist Raoul Hausmann; crirythmes and vocalic improvisations by François Dufrene and Gil J Wolman; fragmentary poemes-partitions by Bernard Heidsieck; high-tech text-sound works by composers such as Ake Hodell and Sten Hanson; electronic abstractions by Bengt Emil Johnson; phonetic poems by Mimmo Rotella; handy tech performances on self-built electronic instruments by Hugh Davies; haunting tape-manipulations by Ladislav Novak; playful improvisations by Bob Cobbing with Anna Lockwood; dramatic monologues by Paul de Vree; electronic concrete music by Jacques Bekaert and -- of course -- Chopins dynamic orchestrations of the bodys factory of corporeal sounds. Chopins writings equally consistently championed the electronic language revolution facilitated by what he describes as technological means which extend the human body, thereby inaugurating an enormous expansion of human expression. Many manifestos and theoretical texts, as well as original photos, have been published in a 76 page book. Also included are 30 fold-out black and white OU inserts reproducing the original scores of the audio works featured on the 4 CDs (by Chopin, Heidsieck, de Vree, Davies, Cobbing, Bekaert) as well as graphic works by John Cage, Tom Phillips, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Michel Seuphor, Ben Vautier, Stefan Themerson, Richard Orton, Pierre Albert-Birot." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: Utopia Andata e Ritorno Format: Double CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $36.00 |
| "Music: the foundation of that presence in which we find ourselves shows itself as pure negative. Everything is founded on a demonstration of its own negativity: as awareness of its being negative, and does not look for an escape into a future presence, that is an objective future. But, accepting its negativity, makes of this self-negation the real act, the true reality - the true foundation, the real and actual continuity: this is musics sense. Utopia Andata e Ritorno is the title of the new composition by Walter Marchetti, recorded in Milano in 2005. It has two parts, each one CD long. The first part, LAndata, puts together two former recordings of Marchetti. The recording of a real storm and a recital for solo piano. This is not the first time that Marchetti mixes a piano solo recital with the recording of a natural live event, thus creating a piano concert. The second CD, Il Ritorno, reverses the direction of the first record and literally destroys itself. In the first part of this work, Marchetti puts music successfully in the place it has to have today: on the road to renewal in contact with reality, a reality that is a synonym for vacuity, that is the interdependence of phenomena, music, reality, technology. There is nothing mimetic or anecdotal in this work. The storm is a real storm and the solo piano recital is a modern work of pure music, without the excesses that the society expects of a piano recital from composer and virtuoso player. Pure music, in the best sense of the word. Three-folded digipack 2CD edition. It includes a 32-page booklet with essays by Water Marchetti, Gabriele Bonomo and José Luis Castillejo. First edition limited to 500 copies." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: N.A.D.M.A. Title: Paura Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $17.50 |
| "N.A.D.M.A. was officially born between August and the beginning of September 1972 during the time spent in a little village in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. The identity and musical orientation of the collective centered on the convergence of heterogeneous interests and sensibilities coming from avant-garde jazz experiences liberated by post-free currents, from classical studies, or from musicians also active as visual artists, who had cultivated an instrumental practice utilising spontaneous expression. All the group members assimilated and creatively incorporated the most progressive influences of Afro-American music and the contemporary neo-avant-garde, but shifted noticeably in the direction of the contemplative and ecstatic vitality of non-European, especially African, musical cultures. The Natural Arkestra Da Maya Alta was, and still is, known to a limited group of devoted listeners on the merits of the only record released by RCA in 1973. The group, which represented one of the most innovative entities among the collectives of improvisers active in those years, perfectly expressed its musical virtues in a limited number of periodic live events. The concerts took place mostly in Milan during 1973-74. The CD starting this series, Paura, is named after the first track of the N.A.D.M.A. concert at Circolo Lepetit in Milan in March 1973, presented here in its entirety. In this concert, the very first live concert preserved on tape, N.A.D.M.A. already." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: PATTERSON, BEN Title: A Fluxus Elegy Format: One Sided LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $25.00 |
| One-sided LP in an edition of 345 copies. "The new Ben Patterson piece, issued on Alga Marghens VocSon series, is based on the basic principles of the polyphonic music of the Bantu tribes of West and Central Africa. First principle: the practice of interlocking individual pitches or tones performed by one person into spaces between other pitches or tones performed by another person, thus alternating pitches or tones of one part with those of another part to create a whole. Second principle: use of cyclical and open-ended forms involving one or more ostinato melodic/rhythmic pattern as a foundation. Third principle: community participation...non-specialists are encouraged to join in long performances with much repetition. Fourth principle: rhythmic complexity with the juxtaposition of double and triple patterns, multiple layering of different patterns, and interaction between a core foundation and improvised parts. And, most important, the family ownership of a specific tone: in the musical culture of these tribes, each ancestral family owns and is responsible for one or more specific tones, which must be sounded at specific points, sequencing with the many other specific tones owned by other families, to create a seamless melody. Ben Patterson made a music based on this information by taking the initials of artists listed in Fluxus: The Most Radical and Experimental Art Movement of the Sixties and encoding them in basic International Morse Code. These dots and dashes were then performed on a Yamaha DJX keyboard (voice pattern setting), connected to a Digitech JamMan Looper (over-dub setting), connected to an Eurorack MX 602A mixer. Front cover reproducing the original score." - Alga Marghen. |
| 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: 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: NITSCH, HERMANN Title: Requiem für meine Frau Beate: Musik der 5.6.Aktion Format: Double CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $44.00 |
| "Alga Marghen proudly present the documentation of Requiem für meine Frau Beate, which took place in the Chiesa di Santa Lucia in Bologna, Italy, in 1977 shortly after Beate Nitschs death. This was not only one of the strongest and most powerful aktionen by Hermann Nitsch but also a crucial point in the development of his art. Beginning in 1977, Beate Nitsch was travelling in Schwarzwald. She has been inaugurating a nursery-school and wanted to meet some relatives in Stuttgart when, near Ulm, she had a terrible car accident. Beate had supported her husbands art not only sharing the sentimental part of their life but also actively collaborating to the organization of his work. She organized the purchase of a castle in Prinzendorf, the central place where Nitsch would develop his Orgien Mysterien Theater. For Hermann Nitsch, this loss was a complete collapse. He suddenly felt to be on the opposite side of life, alone and full of despair. In those days, he reached the deepest point of black unhappiness. Nitsch decided then to go Naples where he organized a Lehraktion at Morra Gallery. His friend Kubelka joined him from the USA. During the Lehraktion, he was told about a big Performance Festival that would have taken place in Bologna. Nitsch was invited to participate with an aktion to be performed in a big old church. It was clear to Nitsch that he would have conceived an aktion dedicated to the memory of Beate. A requiem, even. Before the aktion in Bologna, Hermann Nitschs music was basically released as a wall of noise. The musicians could play what they wanted and the only instruction was to play as loud as possible. Only the duration, the starting point and the noise level of each instrument was fixed. For the first time with the Requiem, Nitsch started to conceive longer tone clusters, specially for the wind instruments. The perfect acoustics of the church with its wonderful organ, which shocked Nitsch with its intensity and power, suggested him a new direction in music. Among the lucky audience were many friends coming from all over the world to witness the event. For everyone the Requiem was an important and ecstatic experience. The big success of the aktion gave Nitsch the strength to continue his work. Shortly after Bologna he was invited to create new aktionen in Canada and Los Angeles. First time 2CD edition, in tri-folded digipack, reproducing the impossible-to-find 3LP art gallery edition issued in Naples in 1977 for the Radiotaxi series. Including a 12-page folded insert with drawings and directions from the LP boxset original graphics. This edition also includes a 32-page shocking full color photo documentation of the aktion, for the first time available now. Edition of 1000 copies." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: MOORMAN, CHARLOTTE Title: Cello Anthology Format: 4 CD Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $136.00 |
| "Stunning oversize boxset (similar in production to Alga Marghens OU box of a few years ago). Historic Fluxus sound documentation at its finest. Featuring music by: Earl Brown, Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Giuseppe Chiari, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Terry Jennings, Jackson MacLow, Nam June Paik and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Recordings from 1964-66 & 1982. Performed by David Behrman, Philip Corner, Malcolm Goldstein, Terry Jennings, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, etc. Limited to only 500 copies and worth the extra pennies." - FE. "Cello Anthology is a collection of documents - sonic and photographic - as well as original texts and testimonials, made available for the first time in a unitary form, which permits a complete recognition of Charlotte Moormans work. Luxury edition including a 154-page book with original documents, full color photos and scores; a set of 16 full color inserts reproducing the original posters and programs of the Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York; 4 compact discs. First boxset edition limited to 500 copies." -Alga Marghen. |
| 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: V/A Title: OU 20-21/OU 23-24 Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $44.00 |
| "Available now in very limited quantities (less than 40 copies of each title) the single picture LPs of the Revue OU series. The picture LPs are the same pressing as the one included in the Avant Marghen Vol.3 boxset, but they are not numbered. Including Bernard Heidsieck Poème-partition D4P, Ou Art Poétique; Brion Gysin I Am; Brion Gysin Pistol-Poem; Henri Chopin Vibrespace; François Dufrêne Batteries Vocales; François Dufrêne Paix En Algérie; François Dufrêne Ténu-Tenu; Mimmo Rotella 7 Poèmes Phonétiques; Bernard Heidsieck Poème-Partition J; Bernard Heidsieck Poème-Partition H1 + H2: Le Quatrième plan; Brion Gysin 3 Permutations; Henri Chopin Lénergie Du Sommeil. - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: V/A Title: OU 28-29/OU 30-31 Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $44.00 |
| Including François Dufrêne Triptycrirythme; Paul De Vree Verokina; Paul De Vree Ogenblik; Paul De Vree Kleine Caroli; Paul De Vree Vertigo Gil; Paul De Vree Een Roos A Rose; Henri Chopin Sol Air; Henri Chopin Le Corps. |
| Artist: V/A Title: OU 34-35/OU 36-37 Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $44.00 |
| "Including François Dufrêne Haut-Satur (June 1967); François Dufrêne Haut-Satur (December 1967); François Dufrêne Haut-Satur (November 1968); Bob Cobbing Marvo Movie Natter; Bob Cobbing Spontaneous Appealinair Vontemprate Apollinaire; Henri Chopin Mes Bronches; Ladislav Novák La Structure Phonétique De La Langue Tchèque; Hugh Davies Shozyg 1 & 2; Sten Hanson Dont Hesitate Do It, Do It Right Now; Sten Hanson The Glorious Desertion; Henri Chopin Les Grenouilles dAristophane; Bernard Heidsieck Ravaillac, Tu Connais?: Passe-Partout N° 1". |
| Artist: V/A Title: OU 38-39/OU 40-41 Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $44.00 |
| Including Henri Chopin Le Rire Est Debout; Bengt Emil Johnson Among II; Sten Hanson Revolution; Sten Hanson Railroad Poem; Jacques Bekaert The Day After; J.A. Da Silva Audio-Poem; William S. Burroughs Valentine Day Reading; Brion Gysin Poems; Bernard Heidsieck Chapeau: Passe-Partout N° 4; Henri Chopin La Soleil Est Mécanique. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Avant Marghen Vol. 1 Format: 7 LP Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $178.00 |
| Incredible set of 3 boxes, each with 7LPs in it, from the Alga Marghen archives. These are all previously released LPs, but most have been o/p for many years now. The boxes are limited to a numbered edition of 80 copies each. "The VocSon series might be identified as the starting point of all the Alga Marghen activities. This series, which still continues to present on limited LP records the most advanced international vocal experiments, is mainly dedicated to the documentation of sound poetry. Since most of the titles immediately sold out, Alga Marghen decided to issue a kind of anthology, specially issued for ArtBasel where Alga Marghen will present its catalog following an invitation by Maurizio Nannucci of the Artists Record Pavillion. This also in order to give the opportunity to those who missed the-now-rare original editions to be able to find them now, even if in a very limited run. Each LP is numbered on the VocSon innersleeve expressly conceived for this edition. This luxury boxset edition actually includes the first 7 LPs issued for the VocSon series, or: 1) Bernard Heidsieck Poème-Partition X LP. First 80 copies from the original 300 copies edition issued in 1997. The very early experimental poem by Bernard Heidsieck may be considered one of his first important creations. The record which started the VocSon series. 2) Henri Chopin Cantata for Two Farts & Co. LP. Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Henri Chopin presents previously unreleased audiopoems as well as the reprint of two pieces from the Radiotaxi LP (the tracks taken from Radiotaxi are here presented for the first time mastered at the correct speed). 3) Bernard Heidsieck Vaduz LP. Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Vaduz (12:23) can be considered one of Bernard Heidsiecks major works. Very experimental with a lot of electronic manipulations. According to Henri Chopin, this is the only true audiopoem by Heidsieck. Composed June to December 1974 and recorded on a Revox A 700 at the authors studio. 4) Philip Corner Word-Voices LP. First 80 copies from the original 500 copies edition issued in 1997. A record LP of vocal utterances including early Fluxus voice and instrumental pieces. 5) Henri Chopin Les Mirifiques Tundras & Co.. Original pre-released edition of 80 copies on yellow vinyl, never offered before. Extreme voice sound manipulations. Somehow in the vein of Hodell Text-Sound composition, just more primitive and visceral. 6) Sten Hanson The Sonosopher Retrospective LP. First 80 copies from the original 545 copies edition issued in 1998. An anthology of Sten Hanson Text-Sound composition. This edition pre-dates the anthologized CDs which were issued in Sweden. 7) Ake Hodell 220 Volts Buddha LP. First 80 copies from the original 545 copies edition issued in 1998. Fantastic electronic music LP. The pieces on this LP were included in the 3CD anthology issued by Fylkingen. Your chance to get the original edition on LP now." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Avant Marghen Vol. 2 Format: 7 LP Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $178.00 |
| Second volume of the Avant MarghenVocSon series, numbered edition of 80 copies. "This luxury boxset edition actually includes the second group of 7 LPs issued for the VocSon series: 1) Brion Gysins Poems Of Poems LP. First 80 copies from the original 630 copies edition issued in 1998. Very early poetical experimentation recorded in 1958 at the Beat Hotel, Paris. The origins of cut-up are documented in this radical edition. You will experience why Brion Gysin was a strong reference for Henri Chopin and Bernard Heidsieck. 2) Bernard Heidsieck 50/70 LP. First 80 copies from the original 480 copies edition issued in 1998. The third Bernard Heidsieck LP issued by Alga Marghen draws the picture of two specific moments on artistic creation: the 1950s and the 1970s. 3) Jose Luis Castillejo The Book of is LP. First 80 copies from the original 240 copies edition issued in 1998. Very limited and immediately sold out edition of Castillejo conceptual recordings. Jose Luis Castillejo books always included him among the Concrete Poems and were regarded as very special graphic creations. A deep exploration of his abstract and radical poetry will lead to a more conceptual and philosophical understanding as this LP clearly states. 4) Jil G. Wolman Lanticoncept LP. Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Edition of Gil J Wolman megapneums, or the beginning of the whole sonic adventures. If Gysin was a strong conceptual influence for the Henri Chopin and Bernard Heidsieck generation, Wolman was showing them the sonic direction. Just with the use of the breath and respiration, his Megapneums had the same intensity of the electronic manipulation that will make Chopins audiopoems so radically new and uncompromising. This LP also include excerpts from Wolman sound-film LAnticoncept from 1952. 5) Isidore Isou Poèmes Lettristes 1944-99 LP. Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Historical edition by Isidore Isou. This is the first record LP ever published by the father of Lettrism. Poems from 1944 to 1999 including a breath taking improvisation, some 1970s recordings by Maurice Lemaitre and an early, primitive and incredible performance by Francois Dufrene. Recorded at Isous apartement in 1999. 6) Juan Hidalgo Una Voz LP. First 80 copies from the original 323 copies edition issued in 2000. First ever ZAJ LP record! An historical recording of Juan Hidalgo Una Voz, including concrete sound interventions by Walter Marchetti. A large size booklet with the transcription in English and Spanish of the spoken text is also included. Capital! 7) Arrigo Lora-Totino Fonemi LP. First 80 copies from the original 345 copies edition issued in 2000. Arrigo Lora-Totino is probably best known for having been the editor of the famous sound poetry anthology issued by Cramps Records in the 1970s with the title Futura. But only a few know about his sound poetry production. Following Henri Chopins idea that poetry is above all an expression of the body through its own language, Lora-Totino started his important poetic practice in 1965 with Fonemi, a sound sample of erasure: the reading of a text recorded on tape is filtered through an electronic pulse generator that splits it into small fragments." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Avant Marghen Vol. 3 Format: 7 LP Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $178.00 |
| Third volume in the Avant Marghen boxset series, numbered edition of 80 copies. "This luxury boxset actually includes a new picture disc edition of Revue OU anthology plus an Henri Chopin LP and the Ben Patterson LP. 1) VA Revue OU. Record 1 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. First of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. 2) VA: Revue OU. Record 2 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Second of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. 3) VA: Revue OU. Record 3 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Third of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. 4) VA: Revue OU. Record 4 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Forth of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. 5) VVAA Revue OU. Record 5 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Fifth of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from1958 to 1974. 6) Henri Chopin The Body Is A Sound Factory & Co. LP (16VocSon046). Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Originally issued in an edition of 300 copies, only available with the vinyl edition of the Revue OU LP anthology. This LP includes previously unreleased audiopoems dating from 1965 to 1981. 7) Ben Patterson A Fluxus Elegy LP. First 80 copies from the original 345 copies edition issued in 2006. This Ben Patterson composition, issued on is based on the basic principles of the polyphonic music of the Bantu tribes of West and Central Africa. First principle: the practice of interlocking individual pitches or tones performed by one person into spaces between other pitches or tones performed by another person, thus alternating pitches or tones of one part with those of another part to create a whole. Second principle: use of cyclical and open-ended forms involving one or more ostinato melodic/rhythmic pattern as a foundation. Third principle: community participation... non-specialists are encouraged to join in long performances with much repetition. Fourth principle: rhythmic complexity with the juxtaposition of double and triple patterns, multiple layering of different patterns, and interaction between a core foundation and improvised parts. And, most important, the family ownership of a specific tone: in the musical culture of these tribes, each ancestral family owns and is responsible for one or more specific tones, which must be sounded at specific points, sequencing with the many other specific tones owned by other families, to create a seamless melody. Ben Patterson made a music based on this information by taking the initials of artists listed in Fluxus: The Most Radical and Experimental Art Movement of the Sixties and encoding them in basic International Morse Code. These dots and dashes were then performed on a Yamaha DJX keyboard (voice pattern setting), connected to a Digitech JamMan Looper (over-dub setting), connected to an Eurorack MX 602A mixer. Front cover reproducing the original score." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: DUFRENE, FRANCOIS Title: s/t Format: Book/CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $64.00 |
| "The CD offered in the catalogue includes the fantastic crirhythm from 1970 titled Belle nuisances hantez nos nuits, the complete Osmose-Art from 1969 where crirhythms are superimposed to classical music, Eryximaque and two Lecture-collage from 1965 as well as the 1958-70 Comptinuum. All the sound works presented on the CD are also included in the 4LP boxset anthology issued by Alga Marghen and titled Oeuvre Desintegrale. Full colour catalogue in A4 size, 250 pages, all texts translated in English, French and Portuguese. The book includes a large selection of experimental visual works dating from 1957 to 1981 as well as the biography, essays and original texts (among them Pragmatics of Crirhythm and The Crirhythm and the Rest both from the mid-1960s). Full discography and filmography are also included. First edition of this large catalog, the first ever to fully document the work of François Dufrêne." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: DUFRENE, FRANCOIS Title: Oeuvre Désintégrale Format: 4LP Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $99.00 |
| "Alga Marghen presents one of the most impressive sound poetry anthologies ever published, introducing you to the sound works of the Nouveau Realiste artist, Francois Dufrene. His work, along with that of Gil J Wolman and Brion Gysin, was a strong influence for experimental poets like Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck and Ake Hodell. These recordings show him that through the tape machine his poems could reach deeper and wider creative dynamics. Since the mid-1950s, the tape-machine became for him a poetical and experimental tool and Dufrene fully develops its potentials with stereophonic recordings as well as with the superimposition of his Crirhythms. The loudspeakers amplifies sounds while the microphone captures even the most detailed concrete sound produced by his voice. The physical tempest he produces is a real concrete electronic sound attack. Dufrene produced primitive, brutal poems opening the path of vocal sounds to contemporary composers: its known that Pierre Henry was deeply inspired by Dufrene. This 4LP anthology, conceived by the same author and privately issued as a 3 cassette edition in the mid-1970s, includes only previously unpublished sound works that finally fully documents the creativity of such a radical artist. Deluxe heavy boxset edition limited to 345 copies." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE Title: Voice Studies Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $27.00 |
| "The VocSon series presents on limited edition LPs the most advanced international vocal experiments and is mainly dedicated to the documentation of sound poetry. This series includes now the new LP record by Charlemagne Palestine titled Voice Studies. Charlemagne Palestines introduction to music or sound was first with his own voice. He began at four years old to sing versions of popular songs and operas in his own way. Later on, a director of a Jewish sacred music choir auditioned him to sing with them, Charlemagne was seven years old at the time and for the next seven years, he sang all over the East Coast and the U.S. as a member of a choir that sang with many of the greatest European Chazans (Jewish Sacred Singers) who had fled Europe during the rise of anti-Semitism and resettled in America. From them he learned to sing in a long chanting style with his own natural voice. At the same time he met Pran Nath, the master of Kirana singing and studied a short time with him as well as Javanese singing with Ki Wasito di Puro at Cal Arts. Over the years, Charlemagne Palestine has performed and recorded vocal works as an important part of his output as a sonic artist. This LP includes the very early Surrealistic Studies, recorded in Brooklyn in the beginning of the 1960s. Using a Webcor reel-to-reel tape recorder and discovering a technique of shouting into the microphone and immediately pulling it out, creating an interior echo chamber where the sound would turn around on itself, changing and distorting. No other electronic sound manipulation techniques were used. Voice + Piano Study I & II are short and beautiful piano improvisation with tape superimposition of accelerated voice pieces. Recorded at Cal Arts on September 29th, 1971. Voice Study was recorded in Manhattan in the mid-1960s. In this study Charlemagne sings in a falsetto duet with himself on two separate tracks. Sung in a resonant space reminiscent of a synagogue in the falsetto voice that he began to develop from Jewish male sacred chant falsettos. He searches for intervals that resonate together and respond like electronic sound wave oscillators played against each other. Finally, there is the fantastic 6-minute Beauty Chord + Voice with Charlemagne playing piano and singing. Edition limited to 385 copies." -Alga Marghen |
| Artist: PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE Title: Sharing A Sonority Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "Alga Marghen proudly presents a new chapter in the documentation series of Charlemagne Palestines historical works. This CD of previously unavailable recordings not only presents you Charlemagne Palestine activities in 1974, collaborating with some of most important experimental artists and composers from either the New York loft scene and Cal Arts, but also features world premiere recordings of Terry Jennings and The Fundamental D Flat Group. Short & Sweet is the title of a breathtaking duo for piano and sax performed on April 24th by Charlemagne Palestine and Terry Jennings. The two composers happened to play together in very private concerts at Cal Arts, but never recorded those sessions, until a special day when Charlemagne happened to have a little tape recorder around. The recording was considered lost for more than 30 years, when finally a copy was found thanks to Tony Conrad. The piano part reminds some of the early pieces by Charlemagne Palestine titled Piano Drones (as the one pre-dating of a couple of years this duo and presented on the Continuous Sound Forms CD issued on Alga Marghen. The liner notes of the same CD mention this duo with Terry Jennings at the time considered lost). Terry Jennings soprano sax is very elaborated and decorative. Around 1967, Charlemagne was experimenting mainly with voice and electronics. He also occasionally recorded piano and sax improvisations with his friend Bob Feldman. This CD featured a very special duo by Palestine and Feldman playing electronics and flute. The two artists met in 1961 when Bob Feldman worked in a jazz record shop in the Times Square subway station. Palestine didnt know much about jazz and Feldman guided him through the new progressive jazz styles of the times. Later at the Intermedia Center of NYU where they had a Buchla synthesizer, Charlemagne and Bob Feldman experimented between jazz raga and electronics. Very little was recorded. This is one rare duet that dates probably from around 1967. The last track on this CD is the first 30 minutes of a recording from April 22, 1972 by The Fundamental D Flat Group performing in Db. During one trip back to NYC from Cal Arts, Charlemagne Palestine was invited by Tony Conrad (together with Rhys Chatham) to Albright College in New Jersey for a Sunday afternoon concert. That was the first and last time The Fundamental D Flat Group played in public (Tony Conrad: violin, horn, string drone; Rhys Chatham: flute, organ, string drone; Charlemagne Palestine: voice, pipes, snifter). Although the piece lasted all afternoon, the first 30 minutes were the only portion recorded during the performance. The Fundamental D Flat Group invite you to listen and meditate in the mode of Db. To hear this is to enter the deepest realm of knowledge of the sound current. The ear, the understanding, and the core of the spirit resonate to the mode of the single tone and its harmonic family. You read, and hear, and feel the empathy of human spirit. This CD is housed in a beautiful digipack with a full color sleeve with photos and liner notes. The edition presents some of the best recordings ever issued by Charlemagne Palestine, a highlight in the Alga Marghen catalog and a unique chance to listen to the core of Charlemagne Palestine." -Alga Marghen |
| Artist: BRUHIN, ANTON Title: Vom Goldabfischer Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "The new compact disc by Anton Bruhin issued by Alga Marghen is titled Vom Goldabfisher and presents for the first time on CD the classic experimental folk recordings with the same title first issued on LP in 1969. Anton Bruhin conceived some of the most original sonic art musiks, a double of his artistic work as an outsider painter and with the help of Stefan Wittwer on electric guitar and Cristian Koradi on bass and cello, recorded this masterpiece of far out sonorities well hidden in the Swiss mountains. Anton Bruhin sings and plays jews harp (his favorite instrument), ch-phon (an instrument he invented constructed with a PVC tube with saxophone reed), harmonica, flute, fiddle, percussion, water. This record, surely one of the most psychedelic, experimental and private to be issued in Europe in the 1960s, should be of great influence for the actual renaissance of experimental folk music. Surely it was an important source of magick for Steven Stapleton, so no surprise to see it mentioned in the mythical list of references that Nurse With Wound included in their first LP. This CD edition also includes 5 jews harp instrumental tracks. In the late 1970s, Anton Bruhin was asked to edit a record of folk and ethnic music, documenting the use of jews harp in Switzerland. Bruhin climbed up the mountains in order to record some of the most obscure, old jews harp players. Those mysterious sounds were issued in 1979 on a record titled Maultrommel, Mundhermonika, Kamm. This CD includes 3 solo jews harp tracks where Anton Bruhin plays themes from the Vom Goldabfischer LP, plus 2 massive, maximal and resonating duos with W. Gwerder, recorded in 1979 at Radio Schweiz International. Beautiful digipack sleeve with photos and liner notes, also including a folded insert reproducing lyrics, technical notes and a group of ink drawings originally created for the Vom Goldabfischer LP sleeve." -Alga Marghen |
| Artist: QUARTETTO Title: Organic, Playco 1969 Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "The stable Quartetto that pianist Davide Mosconi, saxophonist Enzo Gardenghi, percussionist Marco Cristofolini, and cellist and violinist Gustavo Bonora brought to life beginning in the late 60s constituted the core of what would, in the early years of the next decade, become the larger improvising ensemble NADMA. The group was also an elegant and accomplished expression of the musical objectives of its members. The rich yields that Davide Mosconi cultivated from his exploration of improvisation and the visionary creativity that revealed influences from parallel planes throughout his oeuvre originated in his formative years. In the life story of Mosconi before the formation of the Quartetto, it emerges that his first musical affirmations arose as he was completing his studies as a photographer. Mosconi furthered his training as a photographer in New York from 1964-1968, including stints as assistant to Richard Avedon and Hiro. Prior to his definitive return to Italy, he spent 1968 in Mexico, a lengthy visit documented splendidly in his photographs. During his stay there, he may have been the first European musician to meet Conlon Nancarrow and encounter his music. From Nancarrow, Mosconi learned the workings of the Ampico player piano. Only much later indeed, in the early 80s, when György Ligeti championed his works, was this now-legendary American composer rediscovered internationally. The Quartetto represented, at last, a solid foundation with which Davide Mosconi succeeded in realizing his own notion of improvisation, aided by musicians who shared his ideal of a continuous, fluid music and thus of a pliable expression that superseded the limits of existential consciousness. In 1968-1969, the group launched an uninterrupted series of private events, studio sessions and live concerts at venues that ranged from offhand happenings to alternative clubs to concert halls. It is possible to reconstruct rather faithfully the activities of Davide Mosconis Quartetto due to a vast amount of material documentation and a conspicuous number of archive recordings. The first recording sessions date from February 14, 1968, and from April of this same year, both made at the Playco studio in Milan and both featuring the lineup of Davide Mosconi, Marco Cristofolini and Enzo Gardenghi, with the additional presence of bassist Giorgio Buratti for the February recordings. The majority of these early Playco recordings, however, date from various months of 1969 until October, after the group solidified its roster with Gustavo Bonora. In several reel tapes dating back to this era, the collective name is often given not as Quartetto, but, alternately, as Organic or Organic Orchestra, designations that foreshadow the Natural Arkestra moniker later associated with NADMA. If one excludes the live recordings from the Auditorium San Fedele and Circolo Lepetit concerts of November and December 1969, the best evidence of the musical art of the Quartetto is found on the reel labeled Organic 1969 Playco, heard in its entirety on the present CD. Examination of the various tapes that document the Playco sessions of 1969 show that this reel is the only one with any consistent identification of the titles of individual tracks, as well as the only one to show signs of careful editing, perhaps intended use as a demo. There are tracks that focus concretely on timbral resources and instrumental gesture (Tubi sonori in scale and Disturbi di violino) and pieces that have decidedly parodistic moments (Parodia della festa and the diptych of Avanti! Para babà and Babà-fui-pà). At least two classics of the Quartetto playlist are also to be found: the opener Fattoria degli animali, whose title manifestly evokes George Orwells dystopic novel, with its onomatopoeic sounds at the onset; and Pugno chiuso, the last of the pieces to be recorded and the one which Gustavo Bonora later called the purest emblem of the musical art of the Quartetto. This latter work is a perfect example of an enragé performance praxis that was then unparalleled in the Italian improvised music scene. The albums sign-off does not stem from the same sessions. It is instead an edited extract from the Circolo Lepetit concert of December 1, 1969, and as such is a most effective taste of the informal and symbiotic potency that distinguished the live Quartetto experience: the merging of individual instruments into a unified whole. This CD is included in a beautiful digipack full-color sleeve with photos and liner notes. Also included is a 12-page booklet with an essay titled Before NADMA: Davide Mosconi and the Quartetto by Gabriele Bonomo as well as the testimonies by Enzo Gardenghi and Gustavo Bonora." -Alga Marghen |
| Artist: KRUSI, HANS Title: Ex Hk. Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $34.00 |
| "While preparing a new edition of Anton Bruhin works, Alga Marghen discovered some mysterious tapes by Hans Krüsi. Fascinated by the raw and brute contents of those sounds, mixing field recordings of insects, sheep and distant bells with primitive chanting, percussive noises and distorted radio folk songs, Alga Marghen started to conceive one of the most obscure editions in his catalog. The Swiss-born, self-taught painter Hans Krüsi (1920-1995) was a wiry man who eked out an existence on the margins of society. Even among outsider-art experts, his work is less well known than that of his Swiss compatriot Adolf Wölfli, who died in 1930 and whose richly patterned drawings have become treasures of classic European art brute, or raw art, made by untrained, visionary artists. Krüsi was orphaned as an infant and brought up on a farm in northeastern Switzerland by foster parents who largely ignored him. He scraped by with odd jobs (including gardening work) and eventually settled in the city of St. Gallen. There Krüsi lived in run-down buildings. In his late 20s, he began commuting by train almost daily to Zurich, to the west, where he sold flowers and, later, his artworks, on the Bahnhofstrasse, one of the most luxurious shopping streets in Europe. Among the wall-to-wall clutter of Krüsis ramshackle lodgings, where pigeons flew in and perched, evidence of an unexpectedly experimental spirit abounded, including Krüsis old cameras and the second-hand tape recorders with which he liked to capture the sounds of birds, insects and church bells. The artists inventiveness and fertile imagination seemed to contrast sharply with his humble way of life. Krüsi took subjects from the agrarian world that he knew: alpine farmhouses, forested mountains, cows, birds, rabbits and cats. In his varied oeuvre, the folkloric and the psychedelic often appear to converge. Some works are even hallucinatory, with bright, brushy passages of acid green, lemon yellow or Pepto-Bismol pink in which watchful, lounging cats, clusters of dithering birds or watery human figures huddle or writhe. LP edition limited to 200 copies, issued in collaboration with the Swiss Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau (the repository of the artists estate) and published on the occasion of Alga Marghens invitation to the Artists Record Pavillion at Art Basel 2008." -Alga Marghen |
| Artist: MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA Title: Friday Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "The MEV group was formed in September 1966 by Alvin Curran, Richard Teitelbaum, Frederic Rzewski, Allen Bryant, Carol Plantamura, Ivan Vandor, and Jon Phetteplace. In the beginning they performed compositions by themselves and others which involved the use of electronic sound produced in real time, or live electronic music. In the summer of 1967, they began to work more with improvisation and less with determinate structures. MEV focus more on interpreting the moment, rather than constructing repeatable programs; creating meaningful rituals, not images; becoming involved with the process, the operation, and not with the result of it, or its effects on people. MEVs music is highly eclectic, resisting ready classification by combining elements of improvised music, computer music, world music, jazz and classical composition, without being clearly definable as any one of them. Being creatures of the 60s, MEV members partook of many of the apparent contradictions which the very richness of those extraordinary times, made possible mixing rationalistic social and political theories and action with magic, mysticism and hashish, musically juxtaposing pseudo-primitive rhythmic pulses, drones and chants with avant garde post-serial textures and techniques, inter-connecting organic rhythms of the human body with cutting edge, high-tech synthesizers. But by maintaining an attitude of openness, acceptance, and inclusiveness that allowed for any and all things to co-exist equally, and refusing to regard such dichotomies as contradictions at all, they made what were undoubtedly among MEV, major contributions. For the realization of Friday, recorded in London in May 1969, MEV were Frederic Rzewski (piano, electronics, etc.), Alvin Curran (flugelhorn, etc.), Richard Teitelbaum (Moog synthesizer), Franco Cataldi (trombone, etc.), Gunther Carius (saxophone, etc.). The main theme around this MEV piece is communication. Communication by means of music can be a very efficient means of reaching quick agreement among large numbers of people, because when you call something music, you have tacitly accepted a convention by which it is understood that the sounds that you make have no particular meaning, they are just sounds and therefore free to serve the general purpose of pure communication. Music can bring people together where language divides them. When this happens, the concert will come to resemble other other liberated forms such as the party or the day-off, themselves secular remnants or earlier ceremonies. MEV music is not meant to impress people, but to liberate them. This CD is included in a beautiful digipack full-color sleeve with photos and liner notes. Also included is an 8-page booklet with an essay on Friday by Frederic Rzewski as well as MEV Then and Now by Richard Teitelbaum." Alga Marghen |
| Artist: MODERN SHIT Title: Will Make You Ill Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "After surfacing briefly in 2007 in a very limited number of copies on slim-jewel-box together with the Artkoustics catalog, Alga Marghen is now proud to present the final edition of Modern Shit, a very singular chapter in the Amos/Its War Boys/Milk from Cheltenham/Homosexuals history. Directly taken from the original Its War Boys catalog, here is one of the most obscure sonic works of the early 1980s, Modern Shit! First issued on tape (cat No. $21) this work circulated only privately among the close friends of the label and was never officially distributed. Actually it represents one of the most intense and experimental outputs of this creative London period. The idea was to create a contemporary non-stop, vaguely in emulous contradiction to product by people like Cerrone and Biddulph (1970s disco queens). Lepke and Amos, the two minds behind this project (and 2/3 of the Milk from Cheltenham adventures), each constructed a half hour near-continuous non-stop using only the foulest materials. In those days they had their 8-track studio in a moldy basement below Brixton Road, South London and they happened to occasionally record some awful wannabe pop bands. It was a truly horrible experience but with a good side. Almost as soon as the idiots left the studio, Lepke and Amos would start re-mixing their music, often stealing and sticking it (suitably mangled) onto new tracks, the basis material for Modern Shit! The CD is presented in a new digipack edition with full color cover. Final edition of 500 copies." - Alga Marghen |
| Artist: GOLDSTEIN, MALCOLM Title: Early Electronic/Tape Collage Music Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "Alga Marghen proudly presents an LP edition including some of the seminal electronic/tape collage pieces by Malcolm Goldstein, created in close connection to the sulphuric New York pre-Fluxus environment of the early 1960s. The 1960s downtown New York City, rich with activities, doors opening upon a world fertile with possibilities: the delightful unknown. Malcolm Goldstein first worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, then joined the Judson Dance Theater with dancers, musicians, poets, and visual artists all interacting in the common ground of improvisation/exploration. Most of the music on this recording was created for the Judson Dance Theater, Sheep Meadow (1966), a collage of two musics, folk & court music, was realized on a very cheap single tape recorder that offered its own electronic distortion embellishments. It was created for an anti-war demonstration to be held in that meadow of Central Park, with a dancer on top of a flat-bed truck and with loudspeakers. Images Of Cheng Hsieh (1967) was for a dance by Carol Marcy at Judson Church, simultaneously with an instrumental ensemble performing from the calligraphic graphic score, with the name of Cheng Hsieh. It Seemed To Me (1963) was composed for a dance by Arlene Rothlein; a collage of traditional musics chosen by her to be incorporated with electronic sounds. Judson #6 Piece (1963) was for Ruth Emerson, using only electronic sounds. Finally Illuminations From Fantastic Gardens (1964), the only composition for a vocal ensemble on this recording, was composed for Elaine Summers An Evening of Fantastic Gardens, a multi-media event of dance, music, film and visual projections, as part of the Judson Dance Theater concerts. It is the first music notated by Malcolm Goldstein with graphic renditions of the words of Rimbaud and without traditional music notation. Two performers were trained singers, while the others were a visual artist and an actor; two women & two men, all in the spirit of the times, sources coming together, as art & life blended in an overflowing of exploration. Edition limited to 350 copies, also including a 12-page large booklet with the reproduction of the complete Illuminations From Fantastic Gardens graphic score." -Alga Marghen |
| Artist: PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE Title: Sound 1 Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $32.00 |
| "As the title well underlines, Sound 1, electronic sonority is a starting point in Charlemagne Palestines research for the Golden Sonority. Previously unpublished, this radical and fundamental work has now been released on LP record in collaboration with the New Media Dept. of Centre Pompidou (National Museum of Modern Art) in Paris for the first Oeuvres Sonores event, December 15th, 2008. Charlemagne Palestine started to dream of an expressive, continuous, ever-moving, ever-changing sound-form; an enormous sonorous 3-dimensional sculptural canvas in mid-air, using electronically-produced sounds. At first, he began experiments with simple sine tone generators, emitting the purest sound waves without any overtones. Then, gradually, with access to Moog and arps, he constructed sounds using the sine/sawtooth/square wave oscillators in a fluid, ever-changing mix of adding or filtering overtones and white noise to create sonorities constantly changing timbres and weight. Palestine experimented in this way from 1964 till 1974 in NYC and then, in California. Finally, he assembled his own drone machine of 16 ultra stable oscillators designed by Serge Tcherepnin and 4 band pass filters designed by Donald Buchla. He would build up a sound, oscillator by oscillator, then add ever-so-slightly to the oscillator input, tiny increments of white noise that would gradually make the sounds thicker and thicker, until they were immense, sacred machines humming like gargantuan Tibetan bees. Charlemagne played them very, very loud, making all the room and objects in it resonate, while outside all was quiet and sleeping. He worked like a painter with a palette and a canvas and he mixed and added and mixed and added over, entire nights, mixing, adding, and then lying on the mattress and listening and fine-tuning. Finally, at a certain point, after several nights, the sonority seemed ready to record. Hed put on the tape, prepare the tape machine with the proper level as not to overload it, and record the texture. This 1-sided LP was issued in an edition limited to 500 copies. Includes a 25-page program booklet, including an essay by Charlemagne Palestine and artwork by John Giorno." -Alga Marghen |
| Artist: LUCA, GHERASIM Title: Two Poems Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "Alga Marghen proudly presents an LP edition including two experimental sound works by Gherasim Luca, created in close connection to Sten Hanson who invited the Rumenian artist at Fylkingen in the very beginning of the 1970s and made him discover the possibilities of the advanced EMS electronic music studio of Stockholm. The two recordings presented here are quite unique as they are the only poems by Gherasim Luca created through the use of electronic manipulations. As Henri Chopin wrote some years later in his legendary Poésie Sonore Internationale book, Ghérasim Luca made a big impression at the Third Stockholm Festival in 1970. Luca was born in Bucarest in 1913. Before leaving to Israel, he had a leading role among the Roumanian Surrealist group. He eventually moved to Paris where he lived until the end of his life in 1992. Gherasim Lucas work is very personal, giving his poems a very uncommon and ironic character. Again Henri Chopin underlines that in his recordings, which are not many, he superimposes his very warm voice, marked by his Roumanian accent; its a sound wonder. In fact Luca is not a sound poet. He is more a speaker who managed, without complex, to enter into the Fylkingen studio vortex. On 4 tracks and with 32 loudspeakers, thanks to his superb voice and his instinctive knowledge of the electronic studio which amplifies words, he gives great pleasure to the listener, even if the latter can not understand French. Autres Secrets Du Vide Et Du Plein (April 1971) and Crimes Sens Initiales (April 1972) were both recorded one track at the time on a 4 track tape and afterwards subjected to electronic treatments. They were recorded in Sweden at EMS and first performed at the 1971 and 1972 Text-Sound Festivals of Stockholm. Edition limited to 385 copies, also including the reproduction of a wonderful drawing by Gherasim Luca on the front cover, a photo portrait of the author by Gilles Ehrmann from 1959 and an essay by Henri Chopin." -Alga Marghen |
| Artist: FERRARI, LUC Title: Labyrinthe de Violence/Dance Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $32.00 |
| "One-sided release. Dance was part of a sound/visual installation called Labyrinthe De Violence. Previously unpublished, this radical experimental work has now been released on LP record in collaboration with the New Media Dept of Centre Pompidou (National Museum of Modern Art) in Paris for Oeuvres sonores 2, a 2-day-event organized by Emanuele Carcano at Beaubourg on April 5th & 6th, 2009. Labyrinthe De Violence was an installation for tape sounds and 2 slide projectors conceived in 1975 by Luc Ferrari. The installation was a visual and sound metaphor of violence within contemporary civilized society. Four different rooms with a central space created the spatial context of this work. The specific environmental sonority (1. Violence; 2. Pollution; 3. Profit; 4. Mechanism / Paysage / Danse) created for each of the four rooms naturally superposed themselves in the central space. Dance was one of those sonorities, minimally constructed using 2 different sounds: a very low electronic drone deeply resonating for the whole duration with, in the end, the accumulation of deconstructed sequences played by Luc Ferrari on an electric organ. Documenting one of Luc Ferraris most beautiful and mysterious sonic works, this LP edition will be the first in a series of Alga Marghen projects presenting a still undiscovered side of the poetical universe of this fundamental composer. This 1-sided LP, issued in an edition limited to 500 copies only." -Alga Marghen |
| 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: HEIDSIECK, BERNARD Title: Poème-Partition X Format: CD/Book Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $66.00 |
| "Poème-Partition X was created by Bernard Heidsieck during 1960 and recorded in October the same year. A few excerpts of the 1st and 4th movements were performed on November 22nd, 1960 at the Quatre Saisons Gallery in Paris, during the Festival of Avant-Garde Art. Poème-Partition X might be considered Heidsiecks first major work, whose duration (more than 40 minutes long) never allowed the author to give a public reading of it. Its destination was a record (released by Alga Marghen in 1996, starting the VocSon LP series, 36 years after its creation)! Alga Marghen is proud to now present this new edition of Poème-Partition X, extended to the CD format and included in a luxury 96 page hardbound book, limited to 350 copies. The book reproduces for the first time the complete score, a visual wonder and a major experimental printed work. Bernard Heidsiecks memories of an historic lecture at the Jean Tinguely atelier is included as an introduction, as well as his testimony on Ian Sommerville and Brion Gysins Dream Machine. Also on the CD is a lecture of extracts of Poème-Partition X accompanied by the saxophone of the American painter Larry Rivers. This recording from 1962 was not included in the LP edition and is here presented for the first time. In August 1962, Bernard Heidsieck went with John Ashberry, the American poet, to dinner at the studio of Jean Tinguely and Niky de Saint Phalle. Larry Rivers had a studio in the same place and was also there. Tinguely prepared grilled meat, skewered on one of his rotating sculptures. After dinner Rivers returned to his studio and began to play, alone and for himself. He earned his living, at the time, by playing sax at an after-hours jazz club. So, while he was playing Bernard Heidsieck joined him in his studio and suggested that they do an improvisation together. Something that Heidsieck had never done before, and has never done since! Larry Rivers immediately accepted, and an appointment was set up at Heidsiecks home a few days later. August 6th, 1962. A dinner party was organized for the same guests who had been at Tinguelys place and this unique 17 minute improvisation was recorded, but until now never released. It was, however, presented at the first Fylkingen Text-Sound Composition Festival in Stockholm in 1968. Luxury hardbound edition limited to 350 copies." -Alga Marghen |
| 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: BERROCAL, JACQUES Title: Paralleles Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $21.00 |
| 2009 repress, originally released in 2001. "Jacques Berrocal has been very active since the beginning of the 1970s. No one in France could mix jazz, improvisation, rocknroll, punk, no wave, spoken words and industrial music like him. He also had a central position in the creation of dAvantage, a collective record label that issued some of the most particular sessions of the mid-late Seventies. At the same time he was working on never ending sessions for records that were never issued. Jac and his band were the Apostles of the non-urgency, enjoying recording in unusual situations, with no rules, improvising on undefined structures or using non-musical material mixed with ethnic instrumental solos. In 1976 dAvantage issued a wonderful record LP titled Parallèles featuring, among the others, Bernard Vitet, Roger Ferlet, Pierre Bastien, Michel Potage, Daniel Deshays, with the intervention of Vince Taylor, the dark diamond of rocknroll who inspired David Bowies Ziggy Stardust. Just a couple of years later Berrocal collaborated with Steven Stapleton to create the first Nurse with Would record LP. Parallèles features very different styles; acoustic solo and duo for trombone and cornet as well as a large ensemble 25 minutes long piece dedicated to the Futurist Russolo (again, two years later, Mr.Stapleton dedicated his first NWW record to the same Italian artist). Also to mention are Post-Card, recorded in a Pigsty in 1976, and the legendary Rocknroll Station, a mini-concert for voice (Vince Taylor), double bass (Roger Ferlet) and bicycle (Jac Berrocal). The remastered CD also includes five previously unreleased tracks that were actually left out of the original record: Villa Povera Naturale (1972) is a short piece for pocket trumpet and various concrete elements; Occupè by Michel Potage is an excerpt taken from an LP that dAvantage never issued; Shorten and Lisylis Pavillon are the first experiments using electronics and Cryptea IV, taken from the sessions of the early Futura LP. Thirty years later Jacques Berrocal is still there, where nothing is waiting for him, totally outside the rules, out of fashion thus indémodable. A digipack CD edition including a folded insert with very nice original photos and scores." -Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: MONOFONICORCHESTRA Title: Musicdesign Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $21.00 |
| "Monofonicorchestra is not a disc recorded in mono / is not ambient music / is not funky / is not experimental music / is not funny / Monofonicorchestra is not avant-garde / is not pop / is not op / is not dada / Monofonicorchestra is not fashion / is not hard-core / is not horror / is not Frigidaire was writing Maurizio Marsico at 10h20 on Wednesday, December 23rd, 1981. A country: Italy. Several countries: Italies. Late seventies, early eighties. The ether of punk is in everyones nose and disco virus invades even the most reticent legs. New-wave for sure rules the underground. Neo dandyism attitude applied to the Italian post-rock era; Dolce Vita with a dreamed revolution in the background. United Countries of Italy! Bologna and the Confusional Quartet, Gaznevada, The Stupid Set. Not to forget the Naif Orchestra from Florence and all trans-borders adventurous navigators such as Piermario Ciani, Vittore Baroni (Lieutenant Murnau, Trax), the members of the musical theatre Magazzini Criminali. The vivid eclecticism of the above mentioned is to be compared to the aesthetic manifesto of the AtaTak crew from Düsseldorf (Der Plan, DAF, Tödliche Doris, Pyrolator). or the Vanity labelJapanesee explorers (Tolerance, Aunt Sally, Normal Brain, BGM, RNA Organism). These bands were not leading the italo disco movement neither were they really punk or industrial nor waving cold-wave banners. They went off the industrial darkness adolescent like romanticism to assert humor, may it be black, as a revolutionary weapon throbbing over the ruins of radicalism. Its getting cold in here. The dreams have moved toward conscious needs: the desperate hope of having fun. And so is the Monofonicorchestra. The music of Maurizio Marsico is repetitive music. Mi. La. Short pieces 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,... Every record Marsico makes is a conceptual sequence of drawings. Casual Casio-jazz cartoon soundtrack like. There is nothing to decipher here, its all given already, all referenced. The appearances are pleasant and you get trapped into the depth of some cynical easy listening rhizome where ZNR merges with Steve Reich and Blue Gene Tyranny. Indeed, it has something of the Lovely Music elegance. First pressing limited to 500 copies with full color digipack sleeve. Also including a 12 page full color booklet with original graphics, photos as well as liner notes by Samon Takahashi." -Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: HIGGINS, DICK Title: The Thousand Symphonies Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $21.00 |
| "Alga Marghen presents the first edition ever issued of Dick Higgins music. Fluxus founding member, in 1958 Dick Higgins studied Composition and Experimental Music with John Cage in his class at the New School for Social Research in New York together with, among others, La Monte Young, Richard Maxfield, Toshi Ichiyanaghi, George Brecht, Allan Kaprow, Al Hansen, Jackson Mac Low. In the Spring of 1968 Geoffrey Hendricks and Robert Watts told Dick Higgins of a project that was afoot at Douglass College, where both were teaching at the time, to organize a show around guns. At that time the USA police seemed to have nothing better to do than to chase down teenagers for possessing miniscule amounts of marijuana and throwing them in jail, thus ruining their lives. Dick Higgins decided it would be more worthy if one could set all the policemen in the USA to composing symphonies themselves. So he proposed that the beautiful music paper be machine gunned and that symphonies be derived from the result. Geoffrey Hendricks arranged for Captain Toby of the South Brunswick Police to do this, which duly happened with a 9mm MP40 Schmeisser submachine gun, filmed by Alison Knowles. A volunteer orchestra, conducted by Philip Corner and including Charlotte Moorman, performed nine of the resulting symphonies at Douglass College on December 9th. The Douglass concert was taped, but the only copy disappeared when the Ars Viva! Gallery in Berlin, Germany, went bankrupt in 1984. The whole situation was documented with photographs in Source Magazine in 1970. As Philip Corner, conductor of the recordings presented here, said: Leave it to Dick Higgins to come up with the most spectacular way to generate a page of patternless notes. Once over this dramatic gesture with machine-gun bullets leaves a stack of paper full of holes. I had not thought of this before but there must have been a conscious connection to the social turmoil of the 60s - all too unfortunately, come back around to high relevance these days. First press limited to 500 copies with digipack sleeve, also including a 16 page booklet with full documentation presenting 2 texts by Dick Higgins from the 1960s as well as a Philip Corner testimony, original photos and original scores." -Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: HANSON, STEN Title: The Sonosopher Retrospective Format: CD/Book Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $85.00 |
| "This edition is the digital version of the LP issued some years ago in the VocSon series and is only available with the alga marghen copies of Sten Hansons heavy hardcover luxury book titled Works / Oeuvres / Werke /Arbeten. The cd contains works from more than three decades, thus covering almost the entire career of Sten Hanson as a sound artist. All these works were previously released on record by alga marghen on the now sold out LP with the same title, as well as in various Text Sound Composition rare LP anthologies issued in Sweden between 1968 and 1970. The oldest work on the record is Danse figure (for EP) which was first performed at the Pistol Theatre, Stockholm in 1965. The work is inspired by a poem by Ezra Pound with the same title and is made out of recording of the first two lines in that poem. This work is followed by three examples of Hansons shamanistic poems: Hermetic Back Piece, The New York Lament and Skärp dig, för fan!. Lettre dun etranger deals with the problems of communication between people close to one other and was first performed in the framwork of Polyphonix 13, Paris in 1988. Am strengsten verboten is the contribution to an intermedia event by Charlie Morrow, Carles Santos and Sten Hanson himself performed in two boxing rings at Bobby Gleasons Gym, in the shadow of Madison Square Garden, New York in 1981. Les Martyrs was a part of the intermedia opera Robespierres Last Night, first performed in Hudiksvall, Sweden in 1975. Les sabots de bouc is a poem without words telling a story like a medieval morality from the times when the cathedrals were built and the devil was a force to be reckoned with. Che is a pamphlet based on a speech by Ernesto Che Guevara, while Coucher et soufler is a play on the problems of human communication. Western Europe 1969 is a satire on superficiality. The Destruction of Your Genetical Code by Drugs, Poisons and Radiation is based on a visual poem already conceived in 1960, when the idea that genetic damage could affect mans offspring for coming generations was a fairly new and shocking one. Au 197.0 was composed at the request of choreographer Susanne Valentin, who wanted a piece for a work on rites; as rite demands religion and it seemed clear to the composer that materialism is the only real living religion of our time. Finale, a piece to end with, was first performed in Annecy, France in 1995. Edition limited to 90 copies, including a 12 page booklet with liner notes, photos as well as concrete and visual poems." -Alga Marghen. 100+ page hardcover book with CD. |
| Artist: CALE, ZACHARY Title: Walking Papers Format: LP Label: All Hands Electric Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "WALKING PAPERS, the sophomore album by Zachary Cale, marks the artists leap from a four-track-bedroom-folkie to a songwriter of visionary scope. Recorded in 2005 in the legendary Bearsville Sound Studios by Marcata engineer, Kevin Mcmahon (The Walkmen, Titus Andronicus), WALKING PAPERS was granted a belated release in December 2008 on the burgeoning Brooklyn-based label, All Hands Electric. Ghostly in sound, the album evokes the austere finger-style guitar work of John Fahey and the poetic couplets of Townes Van Zandt. Moving away from the lo-fi intimacy of his debut album, OUTLANDER SESSIONS (released on New World of Sound in 2005), Cale is accompanied by an array of musicians. Though at times classically inspired, and at others roots-based, the instrumentation is always understated, providing a focus on lyric and melody. Fittingly, the singers voice has gracefully matured into the road-weary rasp that his story-based lyrics require. WALKING PAPERS exhibits a genuine craft of American tradition; the songs are bona fide gems with every note and lyrical phrase informed by a quiet beauty, both familiar and timeless." - All Hands Electric. “Zachary Cale is a songwriters songwriter, as prolific as he is original. His voice can be delicate for love or wry for satire. The ability to hear what is in a song has guided him well in the making of his own. While the influence of traditional American music is always present in his compositions, he is able to infuse something fresh and new to the form." - John Allen (WFMU). |
| Artist: ILLUMINATIONS Title: See-Saw Format: LP Label: All Hands Electric Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Incorporating elements of blues, country, punk and pop, and with an emphasis on traditional songs, SEE-SAW falls into what Gram Parsons had called “cosmic American music”. Accordingly, it lies somewhere between the country-soul of Big Star and the punk spirit of The Wipers. Recorded in a basement on an 8 track reel to reel, and later mixed at Seaside Lounge in Brooklyn, its anthemic yet warmly modest. The drums, though straightforward and minimal, are a solid rallying cry. The bass is both warm and soulful. The guitars are twisted American hybrids, shifting from a bluesy jangle to a dark sound-fix, like Chuck Berry or Tom Verlaine playing to the sound of a jet crashing, or the springs of a clock snapping apart. The piano and organ add cool melodic counterpoints, bringing calm to chaos. The lyrics are spun out of rich phrases, crowded with protagonists that rise and fall on opposite ends of the great fulcrum of luck. Zachary Cales vocal delivery is wrenching, both crooner-like and raw. The end result is an enigmatic album that is both familiar and foreign; one that wears the suit of American rock & roll, but broadcasts anthems from another universe." - All Hands Electric. Edition of 600 w/CDR. |
| Artist: DUNCAN, JOHN/MIKA VAINIO/ILPO VÄISÄNEN Title: Nine Suggestions Format: CD Label: All Questions Country: Italy Price: $22.00 |
| John Duncan: shortwave, processing; Mika Vainio: oscillators, processing; Ilpo Väisänen: oscillators, processing. |
| Artist: HATRED Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Alleypiss Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "A rhythm awash under waves of strong sonic fumes. These old sounds ebb and flow as youre lured deep into the high tide. Death by irresistible nausea. Crystal clear vinyl/pro printed jackets. All sounds and wretched cover art by NATE YOUNG. (Wolf Eyes)" -Alleypiss |
| 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: KOJO, HITOSHI Title: Ezo Format: 10" Label: Alluvial Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The title of the pieces of this record, Hiruko and Ebisu, are the two names of one mythical being in Japanese mythology. Hiruko is a firstborn child of the god, who was deserted in the sea, because he could not stand up by three years old. He drifted ashore to the land of human beings, and was cherished by the people. Then he was brought up as a god, and was worshipped by the people as Ebisu. Somehow I was haunted by the story all the time during the working period. Therefore the names naturally became the titles. Afterwards I knew that Ebisu is also an alias of Ezo which was the old name of northern part of Japan. So it was adopted as the album title. Although the theory that Ezo equate with Ainu seems to be disputed sometime, I chose the name as a tribute to my favorite Ainu mythologies, and to the folks. The image on the cover is Ebisu which has visited in my mind at the time. Although its quite different from the traditional image, the sound source of the pieces were all produced by found-object which were mostly found from daily commodities. The resonance of the inside of objects and the resonance of the recorded spaces were also treated as the material. The process to find an object which is usually not used as a musical instrument was considered as a part of the execution. Therefore the founders name of some of the objects were mentioned in the cover. Also the vinyl record was fatally chosen for the album as an object which must be worn and be degraded by the condition and the frequency of the use. The noises by dusts and surface scratches on the disk should be listened as a part of the piece". -Hitoshi Kojo |
| Artist: SUZUKI, AKIO Title: K7 Box Format: CD Label: ALM Country: Japan Price: $30.00 |
| "..9 tracks mainly his self-made sound object "Analapos" and "De Koolmees", and 2 tracks of them are recorded for announce sound of opening and closing of Yokosuka Museum of Art. They are so clear and spacy. booklet is written by himself, David Toop and others. text in Japanese and English. " - Omega Point. |
| Artist: FUJIEDA, MAMORU Title: Radiated Falling/Time Whipped Bach Format: 7" Flexi Disc Label: ALM Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "Mamoru Fujieda (b.1955) is a composer studied under Morton Feldman (for further description is on TZADIK CD). He composed "Radiated Falling" for an exhibition in Tokyo in 1980. He used his minimalistic piano work "Falling Scale No.2" as material, and the sound was modulated electronically. Also "Time Whipped Bach" (side B) was composed for a experimental theater in 1981. This work made of pieces from J.S.Bachs "The Art of Fugue", and their pieces goes on individual pulse. Its reminded us of Steve Reichs early phase music. ALM Records is well known label that has released many avant-garde LP titles in 70-80s (Kaoru Abe, East Bionic Sinfonia, Somei Satoh...) " - Omega Point. Small stash of this early 80s release. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Worlds Lousy With Ideas - Volume 8 Format: LP Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The eighth installment in the Worlds Lousy compilation series abandons the 7" format in favor of the full twelve. Pretty much everyone worth talking about in 09 is on here, as the LP collects exclusive tracks by Blank Dogs, Vivian Girls, Tyvek, Oh Sees, Sic Alps, Times New Viking, Intelligence, Pink Reason and Guinea Worms. Beautiful, silkscreened covers with art by Cassie of the Vivian Girls." There are nine different screened covers, one by each band. Currently we have Sic Alps, Pink Reason, Blank Dogs, Guinea Worms, and Tyvek. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Worlds Lousy With Ideas - Volume Seven Format: 7" Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| An all Australian edition, featuring Super Wild Horses, UV Race, Straight Arrows, and Eddy Current Suppression Ring. |
| Artist: PINK NOISE Title: Alpha Format: LP Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The Pink Noise became one of the best bands in the world in a single night last spring. After a week of practice in Detroit the members drove down to their debut in New York City, Gotham city, the big she-bang, only to walk onstage to instruments they couldnt play and songs they couldnt remember. After antagonizing the crowd for five minutes or so, the purposefully bad set was abruptly ended by a 300-pound bouncer, who proceeded to toss them out of the door. Nobody, including the label-heads in New York who beg to release The Pink Noises music, has heard from them since. Luckily the Alpha record was finished before this fiasco. It is the work of sinister pop scientists running on all cylinders, cramming multiple organs into a single cadaver only to reveal a skeleton for each song. Mixing influences from across the pond (theyd fit in with late-70s Manchester) and across the continent (Northern Cali pioneers such as Chrome and Minimal Man come to mind) with a primitive aura rarely adopted to this style, Alpha gets high scores in every category, its urgency and immediacy unparalleled in the land of limp keyboard amateurs. Now with live drums! Essential 09 listening." - Almost Ready. |
| Artist: ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB Title: MCR Blast Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "Recorded live at Stuart Arnots place by Neil Campbell and Arttu Partinen (Avarus) on June 16, 2006." Numbered edition of 150. |
| Artist: CAMPBELL, NEIL & STICKY FOSTER Title: Live At RRRecords Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| Features MC John Olson. Numbered edition of 150. |
| Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: Massive Furniture Invasion Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| Numbered edition of 150. |
| Artist: UNITED LIGHT Title: +ve/-ve Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.50 |
| John Moloney (Sunburned), Mick Flower (Vibracathedral) and Tom Greenwood (JOMF) recorded Nov, 2006. |
| 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: PRURIENT Title: Outside the World Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.50 |
| Artist: JAZZFINGER Title: Orange Sauce/ Peace Factor Fashion Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.50 |
| Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Faded Crusade/Pitiless Messiah Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "Limited edition of 100, clear, square, hand-cut by peter king 8" lathereview:Frankly terrifying blast of thunder from these LA noise monsters. Here, their towering funnel of sound is channelled into a night-time ditch of punk bastardism. Its spat out on the floor, trodden on, then blown up to a thousand times the size of a moon and thrown at the head of modern man. This is raging, yes, but there is much beauty at work here too, a subtlety below the raging surface that is present in all this bands work." -Alt.Vinyl |
| Artist: GRAVEYARDS Title: Untitled Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "limited edition of 150, transparent square lathe, hand-cut by peter king of new zealandreview:Graveyards return with a mighty slap around the chops on this amazing wedge of basement-scuzz-free-jazz-splat, burped violently from within the pyramids of Michigan with the help of Wolf Eyes’ John Olson on reeds and the duo of Ben Hall and Hans Buetown on percussion and noise. This is a raw-lipped gurner of awesome proportions. Bloody heck!" -Alt.Vinyl |
| Artist: HIVE MIND Title: Untitled Format: 8" Lathe Cut Label: Altvinyl Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "Classsic Hive Mind action from Chondritic Sounds main man Greh Holger. Side A could be igneous recordings of granite mantle motors powering lichen-slow tectonic shifts within the crust of some ancient moon. The flip side has a slightly more organic feel... the heartbeat of a dying whale as heard by the ocean floor..." -Altvinyl |
| Artist: DEMONS Title: S/T Format: 8" Lathe Cut Label: Altvinyl Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "2 cuts from the unreleased soundtrack to some colour-saturated 70s Italian horror movie. Extended Ligeti-esque tones and sparse pulses of electric breath. Think Life Destroyer meets Hatred." -Altvinyl |
| Artist: VOM GRILL Title: Overspannen Wordenpraal/Gezwollen Beelden Format: 8" Lathe Cut Label: Altvinyl Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "This bad boy kicks off heavy vocal grind style giving way to eerie synth shrieks which pulse drunkenly toward the centre peg. The flip starts deep inside the throat before swerving through electrified rales and high tension neck, and ending up back in a wet mouth. The full gammut from this lowland hero (Dennis Tyfus)." -Altvinyl |
| Artist: TRIKOLON Title: Cluster Format: LP Label: Amber Soundroom Country: Germany Price: $24.00 |
| "Reissue on vinyl of ultra rare album by German UNDERGROUND PSYCH band TRIKOLON. Originally from 1969 as a private release of 125 copies. The 14.30 minute track "In search of the sun", on bass, organ and drums is outstanding. Coming on 180 gram vinyl." - Amber Soundroom. |
| Artist: TWOGETHER Title: A Couple Of Times Format: LP Label: Amber Soundroom Country: Germany Price: $25.00 |
| "A duo with keyboards and drums from 1973. The sound is astonishingly dense and atmospheric thanks to the synthesizer they used. The 2 tracks from their only single come as bonus tracks. On 180 gram vinyl and coming in a thick cover." - Amber Soundroom. |
| Artist: FRESH MAGGOTS Title: Fresh Maggots Format: LP Label: Amber Soundroom Country: Germany Price: $27.50 |
| "Fresh Maggots came from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England and recorded their only vinyl in London 1971, which was absolutely well done. Fresh Maggots were just two people, Mick Burgoyne and Leigh Dolphin. They played acid folk-rock with electric and acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, tambourine, violin, tin whistles and vocals. The original vinyl is very much sought-after today, so this reissue will help to get a vinyl of Fresh Maggots for a reasonable price today. 180-gram-vinyl and great sound-quality! Comes with an interesting insert, consisting of many personal memorabilia of Mick and Leigh like photos, articles in news-papers and tickets." This record is also being reissued by the Sunbeam label out of the UK... |
| Artist: CLYDE-EVANS, JOHN Title: Delight In The Stream Format: LP Label: Amen Absen Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Delight in the Stream is the first solo vinyl outing for John Clyde-Evans (aka Tirath Singh Nirmala) in close to a decade. Recorded during a year-long stay in India, the album seamlessly weaves together an array of piercing bowed objects, flutes and voice with electronic and audio embellishments over the course of three extended tracks. The scattering of sounds swirl around to disorienting effect yet still manage to mesmerize as the music draws itself out. Pressed in a limited edition of 300 copies." - Amen Absen |
| Artist: VON BINGEN Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Amen Absen Country: Canada Price: $19.00 |
| "Von Bingen began life when husband and wife duo Jenni Pace and Daniel Presnell (Astral Blessing) temporarily suspended Hildegard (their east coast group of clangorous misfits), and relocated to Vancouver, BC where they soon met Josh Stevenson (aka Magneticring, and one-time JOMF member), and Richard Smith. Influenced by histories of conceptual art practices and electronic and outsider music native to the west coast, Von Bingens sound is at once reminiscent of distant sonics, such as those found in the labs of 60s SF pioneers, or overheard in Berlins Zodiac Club in the early 70s, while also anticipating the drone of future decades. Folk forms gleefully mutate, reborn as new hybrids, dignified by analog modular and semi-modular synthesizer systems from Serge, Buchla, and EMS. Instruments such as the flute, clarinet, guitar, and the drum are defamiliarized through quixotic treatments, originating from experimentations in the bands studio. By rescuing tones, processes and technology from dusty desuetude, Von Bingen happens upon a unique retrofit for advanced audiences that is sure to confound, if not altogether please. Within the grooves of this lp, you will not find full-fledged allegiance to current fashions, nor will you find some light loop of cheap sensations, hollow-core historical reenactments, or facsimile sentiments. In fact, we are not sure what you will find at all, and that is the beauty of nature, a potentially infinite system of chances, where the opportunity to un-learn is as important as the opportunity to learn; where memories possess the power to eclipse experience; where all history becomes synesthesia. Join Von Bingen in this new Eden, and by all means, have an apple." - F.O.L. Ministries, 2009. |
| Artist: AWESOME COLOR Title: Awesome Color Format: LP Label: American Dust Country: USA Price: $11.50 |
| "Awesome Colors debut full-length is a mother of a scorched groover. Just check out the track Free Man, it says it all, man. Primal o-mind rhythm with boss-bliss lyrix and a lead guitar lick-lashing thatll have you cryin hell yes! every time. Awesome Color came out of Ann Arbor, Michigan where singer and guitarist Derek Stanton grew up across the street from Scott Rock Action Asheton of The Stooges. Needless to say, he picked up a few things about rock n roll around the neighborhood, things hell never forget. When the time was right, Stanton, drummer Allison Busch and bassist Michael Troutman jumped in a bombed-out car and headed for Brooklyn, New York. And began to blow minds. Live, they transfix with heavy, cosmic guitars and a rhythm section like a freight train. When they play, theyre often joined by brothers and sisters grabbing instruments and getting loud: barefoot guitar solos, sax in the aisles and wolf dancing all around." - American Dust. |
| Artist: FINKBEINER, JASON Title: Dedicated to Rochester Charles Format: One Sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| Artist: FULL SCALES Title: Triple Trebles Format: One Sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Vinyl debut of this (HIO) Hammond Organ Inzanity unit, no effects or studio trickery. Total sunny winter afternoon pauser jammer. A suite in three pieces, creeping and still. Was gonna have liners by deli manager/fantasy writer M.R.Miller but shes "not into violent imagery".... Edition of 200 on color wax with full color fixed to the blank side with insert." - American Tapes. |
| Artist: BIRTH REFUSAL Title: Cove Core Format: One Sided 7" & CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Bruiser and Kid, separated physically (not emotionally) by about ten feet in the shadowz of Schooner Cove, lay down the first vinyl outing by this "wives at work = the boyz will jam" afternoon electronic harsh noise project. The upcoming BR lp on Troniks wa s threatened not to be cut by the mastering dude due to horrible clean tones, and you tell on this they were struggling as well. Black hole sound, terrible textures. Ruff & Raw. Color wax, color cover, lock groove, and tape collab CD round this mutha out. Edition of 200." - American Tapes. |
| 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: WAVES Title: 12 Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Newest installment of Terror Tones Unit. Hated by many, even some noise dudes aint down. High pitch, let the tone do the work style. Unlistenable tone work, no jamming involved, sound system diseaserz. Best Mediation Headphones jamz around. Look out of the West Coast Romero/Wiese version!! Color Cover, edition of 100." - American Tapes. |
| Artist: BOY DEPARTMENT BOYZ, THE Title: Live at Shermans March Format: One Sided 7" & CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| " Hah...part two of the Fag Tape Heath aka Juices "Trapped Title"
series. I was strolling to the gym one gray morn and passed the Con
Man walking Steve Perry and jawing on the cell. It went like this:
"Yo Man-did you see my e-mail about that thing?"
"Yeah, I replied, should be kool"
"Who you clapping at? Dom?"
"Yeah...." Conn starts giggling.... "
"Whats so funny?"
"Doms asking why so many Mich. bands have Boyz in the title..."
Giggling still...
"Cause man...its the crew...duh"
"Doms all like Whats the next project funna be? The Boy Department
Boyz?"
"Fuck..killer. "Fuck..killer. |
| Artist: KILL DEVIL HILL Title: Ex-Kill Devil Hill Format: One Sided 7" & CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "What
the? Is it the Tom Potter/Coorz/ the? Is it the Tom Potter/Coorz/ |
| Artist: CASKET SINKERS, THE Title: Baked Beans, Brains and Spiders Format: One Sided 7" & CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Wacked Duo of Coorz on downtown soprano sax and Rad Dad Dillowaysted on synth and processing. Some of the last recordingz in his basement of the crib right by the sacred temple Banfields, where Greh and Undressa reside now. Jamz are short blasts of lurking, churning synth creepers with echod reeds hidden within, ending in a time rattling lock groove. CD includes some outtakes from the session, some dillo re: Spine Scav tracks, and full basement weirdnezzz. The title is taken from a strange hand during an Apples to Apples session. Edition of 200, color art, color vinyl, jammable at any speed. No info, at all." - American Tapes. |
| Artist: WAVES Title: 14 Format: Double CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "New double by ATs most hated and most luved project. Dont ask Tovah or Phil Troniks about Waves, and various Europe bar workers who hear it during Wolf Sound czech. Unlistenable project, now with deep discography. The worst tones, unmoving. Bully Noize. Aint going nowhere. EVER. Stubbornness, captured. LOOOONNNNNG TRACKXXXXXX. Someday, there will be the ultimate Waves gig. Someday. And you will hear it in every quiet corner of the GLOBE. Color Art, double case, edition of 50" - American Tapes |
| Artist: CIRCUIT REFUSAL Title: S/T Format: One Sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Heavy swirling noise from Circuit Wound and Birth Refusal, west coast and mid coast knockout collabo. CW remixed the Refusal podcast from a while ago, mail style. Thick weirdness but kinda tech with is a nice new angle considering the anti-sound/fidely Coorz/Conn combo. Aint walls, but walls of the schizo ward, closing in.........in. schizo ward, closing in.........in art, and speed, any..... " - American Tapes. |
| Artist: PARADOX Title: #5 Format: Mag Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Recent scribbling systems and whacked collages. Ten b & w pages, color cover, hand sewn binding. Book & CD coming someday." -American Tapes. |
| Artist: SPYKES Title: Zones Faulted Format: CD Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Brand new crisp & crazy electronics & alto sax home spun slo damage. 6 Tracks at 45 minutes. Sail to strange lands between your ears/wet cold brain style. In a clear dvd case with color covers." -American Tapes. |
| Artist: PARADOX Title: #6 Format: Mag Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Newest one. This time no collage. All pen, ink, and pencil sprawl. Rrrreall Weird. Make your own MAP. Twenty pages. Paradox #10 is at the plant in LA and is a full book with pics of all the handmade art from AM 500S and other releases, and will come with a CD. Thanks to JW for hooking that up. Color cover, hand sewn binding, in a plastic magazine bag." - American Tapes |
| Artist: CARDBOARD SAX Title: Cut Out Sax Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Killer new reed/electronics unit with Hellfire Holly (Uneven Universe, Costco), Haunted Dan (Haunted Castle, The Jasons, Ding Dong Party Igniter) and Coorz all on saxs and gurgling low tech electronics. Strange meditative engaging environments from the basement to the slow parts in your nugget brain. Makes for a moving but yet static soundscape. Live this Saturday Dec 22nd at the Turkish Bath in Ferndale for Chris Crust s 22 bday party. Three tracks, all inzane. Color cover Dvd Case" - American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. One-Evenings & Spykes Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "New CD series, in standard hand painted ink calligraphy style sleeves. All collabs, here the first: Kzoos master musician and Ding Dong Destroyer Miless Evenings project with full reworking by Spykes of the Sleeptalking cassette, that one loop release and his homemade lathe cut 9" record. Eerie tracks, mystery sounds for your brain to wander off its beaten track." - American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Three/AC & Spykes Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Been just a Strangled Pair winter here, been collab nutzo. Here is the first in the Batch= Andrew Coltrane and Coorz. Heavy electronic noize sound inside. Dense, mystery clouds of homemade inzanity. Rewordings of various Hermitage limited gems. Stoker. As with all the Pairs series, handmade art in large DVD case."- American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Four/Fletch & Kegcharge Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "This odd one is a complex inzane remix of a killer Fletcher Pratt (from Canada) tape. Involved cut up collage style. Different sound from the others, the hope of a unique union of both sources together is achieved inside the cubist world. Hand drawn style cover, color case."- American Tapes |
| Artist: DEMOON SKIRT, THE Title: Live France/Spain For The Sleeping Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "HAH! This mysteriousness unit first vinyl outing. Live @ the Bievnenue La Hotel in Nieges De France Challes http://www.hotel-neiges-de-france.com/ and @ http://www.exped ia.com/pub/agent.dll/qscr=dspv/htid=1425107 together in extremely late night and early morning non-sound jammerz style done whilst the Wolf crew unknowingly sleeps quietly. Really really weird. Hotel noize for dreamerz!!! Numbered Edition of 100 with strange art paste on with no info whatsoever."- American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs- Vol. Five/The Exploding Mixers Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Stoked on this collab. While the Hair Police boyz were going over old tapes in Lexington, me and Walter Carson jetted on a sunny wintery afternoon to the empty basement of the Frowny Bear, set up real close together and jammed for an hour straight with our new band THE EXPLODING MIXERS. Great feedblack trading linez sound. After the rad sound afternoon, we packed up, went to Roberts, ate Pasta and jammed the Handicapper Hornz/Hair Police gig in a Skate Park later. A perfect day save for old man Oldson havin to tell some young shredders to chill on the mini ramp while me and Handicapped Sara had to do our reed thing. That officially makes you an OLD MAN. Handrawn covers, color cases."- American Tapes |
| Artist: MAN SLAUGHTER Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Yes! First recordings of Superman Groop outta SF/Oakland with AJ aka RJ aka SIXES, Paul C. of XBXRX and ESP Layout, and Noel of Comets= Caveman inzanity power 600 BC sound= close your eyes and see AJ break a table infront of you!! Reeds/guitar/electronic bomb attack. Amazing assault. Dedicated to all shorties, everywhere apparently. Color cases, crazed artwork. Rules."- American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Five/Language Morph Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Fav band outta the MI Mitten now with strange electronics and reeds add over makes for one inzane recipe. If you heard the tape on Excite Bike you know you cant hold black adding in your two audio cents to the ground zero fidelity Body Morph sound. Completely weird, like fully yo. Colored cases, handrawn Strangled Pair style."- American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Six/Spyked Fossils Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "There you go!! Inzane Payne and Kegcharge showdown here. When the Fossils crew came down for a weekend of intensive liver abuse during the 517 Fest in Lansing= we had one hell of an afternoon jam "Shit Noise Fest" = AC played first amazing gig, Dillo jammed dark afternoon basement synth, Connelly did his organ thing, Khrust and PE Paul danced with sheet metal and laundry detergent bottles, and Spyked Fossils jammed. So included is that strange gig and two other tracks of reworking of other rad Fossils Hammer Town Sound tapes. Ruling one, this. Good timez got no borderz homeboy! Handrawn covers, colored cases= you know the drill."- American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Seven/Khrust & Kegcharge Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Speak of the devil = heres KHRUST KHRIS paired with Kegcharge. Odd metal thumps and rubbings with really abstact electronic soundz. Strangely calm and repetitive, like if your dryer had a glowing ET-thing having a spin inside. All the electronic garbles are the recordings of the new instruments being made= so actually there is no "playing" involved= thats interesting i guess. Strange collab. Drawn covers/ colored cases"- American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Eight/Dead Dour Alive Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Last Collab for this update, this was handed to me as the AM 666 "Satanic Slaughter" master but SIXES has that slot (funna be a 3C60 set) so DCA remixed the fuck outta it instead. Clean crisp evil electronics inside. A strong one. Good rheumatic style with bite. Concludes with drunken New Years discussion with me, dour, awesome Allison (right before the Noh Neighbors set) and Copymax Crystal about a flying squirrel attack in Detroit. Rad. Drawn covers, cases, blah blah."- American Tapes |
| Artist: PARADOX Title: #8 Format: Mag Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Newest Paradox, back to B & W raw style= this one special cause of pages started by the one and only Andrew Coltrane and handed to Dead Brain= anyone who has been lucky to see his handmade boxsets know AC dont play around. Ten pages with color cover and handsewen binding."- American Tapes |
| Artist: WAVES Title: Sixteen Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Newest installment of ongoing love/hate project. Shorter tracks, still the burn baby. Unlistenable tones, just fucking horror for the ear drums. No one is middle of the road on this project= either completely despised or encouraged. Just did the one and only live gig last week at the DAS FRYING PAN. Cover cover"- American Tapes |
| Artist: DEAD COMET ALIVE Title: Universe for One Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "one-sided LP/ Old AT group, first leap into the wax world. DCA is a long-standing ??? electronics??? and ???? home jamming loner sound unit and heres two pieces of other worldly echoing empty universe tone twisters to inhabit a table-for-one ear vacation to the lurking parts of your daily experience. Sounds like having a huge unknown gnawing entity chase you inside a huge unknown sound world, at any speed. Super weird, not Demoon Skirt weird but more...internal noize stylez. Numbered Edition of 100, crazy inzane sleeve paste on."-American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs -Vol. Nine/Outer Space (Emeralds John & Spyked) Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "The last time a mug was in Cleveland going to see the amazing KUOLEMA with the local crew, the after gig 3am session landed us at Big John Jrs apartment. The homeboy was jamming a bunch of Emeralds outtakes where they were so brain transported on _ _ _ _ that nothing sequenced up or matched or went in the forward direction. It was pretty amazing to see the jamm components of a massive unit scrambled beyond working order. After that, Big JohnJr played some Lilypad and Outerspace solo pieces that were SUPER weird, like radio ad cut ups, metal cups clinking around, planes taking off, etc. It was REALLY STRANGE. So as me and the DilloDad were stumbling out to the truck, B. John JR. hands me a STACK of the works-in-progress CDs we have been jamming and says "shit man...just take it...get em outta here..." So here is the FIRST in the Big John and Big John, Jr. Collab...total Outerspace/homespun fruit loop electronic squall. Definite headphone other world negative universe upside down town Lilypad soundtrackz....definately more on the way.........Emeralds (and Fragments) were amazing at the AM 800 party this last July Fourth. Rulin tymez. Color Covers"-American Tapes |
| Artist: PARADOX Title: #9 Format: Mag/CD Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "art zine booklet + CD/ Latest installment of this long running art/eyeball static zine tribute to the Boston punk art zine of the 80z. This one is special from the others in that its 10 loose B & W drawings/collage scrawl housed in a thick folder with paste on cover and a General Assurance CD of audio accompaniment. A full inzane experience/ attack!!!"-American Tapes |
| Artist: DS HASTINGS & DL SAVINGS TIME Title: 95 Flashblack Attack Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Oldest recording here, 13 years!!!. DS Hastings man...what can you say? Well,...how about: A: Fresh B: Old School C: Waaay Underground IF you heard his totally obscure output on S.F.C.R in France or Square D recordings from Detroit all before 1995 then you know Hastings has his pulse on some raw, environmental, weirdo, static, fluxus style non-sound. Its like what Captain Crunch listens to before Tony The Tiger walks the plank into a boiling sea of washing-machine chewing sharks. Dude is a HUUGE influence from his like three releases. But you aint gonna see him around live anytime soon......underground..... SO: the record....some label...I forget who/what was gonna do an OG 7" Waaay black in 1995 between DS and DL Savings Time...it never saw ight....UNTIL GNAW!!! Here is the original recordings and two new Collab tracks. This thing is as raw as chewing on a thirty foot tree with cement teeth while wearing a basement rug as a crotch-cloth. The DL Savings Time track for the 7"is an early reel to reel tape cut up of crude electronics and a crazed instructor yelling at a class, the Hastings track sounds like what the amazing TOM GRIMLEY covered in the basement of the COCK PIT when he took a bunch of broken glass and let it spin in a dryer whilst the crew stage dived off said appliance. Really strange. The new Collab tracks sound like amplified LICE. Just too stoked on this platter. Grip this mug and grin ear to blown out ear for WEAKZ!!!! Inzane art, numbered edition of 100."-American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs Vol. Ten/Spyked Stelzer (Howie S. and Spyked Coorz) Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "This one was long time coming…was funna be collab lp but the Troniks Howie lp was unsurpassable audio A++. So heres a long more relaxed effort betwinst the Boston Neu Wave sound scrambler smoker and the no-solution empty set style with Spykes. Super worked thru brain forestry via tapes and lo-tech electronics. Howie edits cookbooks so maybe a recipe would be a better descriptor: 1) One cup lowercase HS tape supply 2) Bake at 400 degrees, then instantly bury in the backyard after a rainstorm in night 3) Soak in chili powder, dig up tape, play on a cat litter tape head urine box tape and record 4) Play for 60 min on slow mo 5) Bake for another 4 hours with a garnish of metal shavings from shredded Microbrewer IPA cans 6) Serve with a silent frozen solid dinner guest, at 5:30 AM Well, there you go…….Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." -American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs Vol. Twelve/Green Palace (Green Mist and Spyked Coorz) Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "WHOA!! Brighton UK cum Canada China/Lansing sound show/bro down here. Spykes gives a full working to the amazing Green Mist “Suit Case Bomb” cd he busted a couple years ago. Total tangled web of audio miasma. More rotten angles than a T Square leper rally. Just a nonlinear sound collage of ear cells plotting against an attack against brain cells. Dallas man….killer dude, should change his name to LLCOOLYMD (Ladies Love Cool Yoga Master Dallas). Hear it rip across the cold ATLANTIC. The only bloke kicked out the China Olympics for sneaking a case of brew...….Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." -American Tapes |
| Artist: CRIPPLE CRIMES "TRIANGLE" Title: Deny Opportunity One Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "New in house unit with a whole new twisted gnarl electronic mangel sound. Double right hand tape abuse. The audio equivalent to seeing someone smile with with fingers instead of teeth. Nasty magnetic. Packaged in a new mega color slip case style with full color inzane art." -American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Soundtrack To No Solutions Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Uneven .Universe, Dead Machines, Cripple Crimes “Triangle”, Pink Chunk Jazz Band c60 WARNING : WEIRD TAPE ALERT. New tape in the new “weekly audio diary” series. This one was the week of Halloween, the DM and the UU tracks are from a TOTALLY weird art/gig show in Mt Clemens. Empty concrete wide basement sound ambiance dominates the two tracks with a crawling, evil sound. CCT and PCJB round out the comp in circle in square home inzanity sound style. Tried a style of just recording the gigs/home jams in short tracks from the week and dropping the master in the masta box and now there is a thick tangling growing grip of these that will slowly leak out. . Packaged in a new mega color slip case style with full color inzane art." -American Tapes |
| Artist: EMPTY SET Title: No Solution Set One Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Another new unit, inspired by the elegance and mystery of numbers. Piercing low tech raw electronics, a X/Y axis of negative slope non liner of horrible integers spinning terribly outta control. …….Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." -American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Mentalist Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Tovah DDay, Spykes, Graveyards, Communication Palace, Shared Menace c60 Part two in the style of the “Soundtrack” week sound world documentation style. Various home terror, the Graveyards track is from fall gig at the MOCAD in Detroit and is ultra cubist non-subjective quarter speed boxed in slow burning mayhem. New tracks by C. Palace and strange mystery squad Shared Menace. Tons more in this style still comin……lots of small ghost towns to inhabit within this c60 wordless audio map. Dedicated to the Tovahnatorz new fav TV show . Packaged in a new mega color slip case style with full color inzane art." -American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs Vol. Eleven/Kitchen Clatter (Family Underground and Dead Machines) Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "There is a whole nasty grip of bands that would rule to be in: early Allman Bros., early Nerve Noise Net, Kanssan Uutiset , The Singing Alvias, "Victims" Period Cimex, others. Add the amazing Denmark underground thick drone mystery troupe Family Underground to that long list. You wanna be in the band? Just jamm happily along to the audio of choice and sail away…thats exactly what The Dead Machines did to the FU (re: not FUs) totally rad “Candle Fingers” cd. Here are the results…..a complete electronic dense world of scrape, buzz, and hum. Hopefully we will all jamm live together someday, somewhere, somehow…… Electronics for the setting of all suns underwater. …….Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." -American Tapes |
| Artist: LOST ANCHOR Title: A Process Group Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "New mysterious lurk un drag sound collage group, already with a couple of compilation tracks milling about. Klanging electronic strangeness, completely lost anchor jam style. Music for a soundtrack of a void First Responder. Opposition WITH flow..Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." -American Tapes |
| Artist: COMMUNICATION PALACE Title: Live From An Unopened Room Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Third release from a sound pyramid in debt to fully strange local communication system in Lansing. What would a Palace of Communication do? Hope language sacrifices? Do dances in unison to shouted rotten verbs? Would it pay rent in long sentences scribbled on moist magic ancient forest logs? What would the king or queen be like? The Queen of Communication Palace? Mouths are magic, no words inside this tape, just the echoes of the halls of the Palace when no one is around… … ultra strange sound for the weird local zone where things are communicated……. Wear a vowel gown with a adjective necklace while busting this. Packaged in a new mega color slip case style with full color inzane art." -American Tapes |
| 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: V/A Title: No State No Sound Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Hold on gnaw...last but not least..... the NO STATE NO SOUND comp lp. Dont know what led up to it...think I vaguely remember getting "dared" by Nurse Khrust to put out a record of silence by the crew, not sure, but maybe told Haunted Square D about it....but anyhow.....flashblack to an average but killer brewsday in the late summer, got the crew shooting the gip, no biggy, and Square D rolls up with his "Body Morph" one minute silent track....takes a sec to remember but all right...lets do this. Greh and V invite the now deep crew black to they hut, and on the way I had a walkman in the whip, so i popped in Ds master, hit record and the stop watch for a minute and me and the Connartist sat in silence for a minute and recorded the second track BIRTH REFUSAL. As we got to Grehs, we assembled all the jammers present and hit em up for a minute, all on three different Walkmans all on the original master tape. Was totally strange, Sick Llama was just standing in a yard with the crew looking at him pointing a recorder his way while nothing happened. It was like a very strange gig. So after everyone at the party got recorded/ trapped in NO SOUND, some the garage, some inside a bathroom whilst the crew stared at the close door, someone had the idea to call up some jammers. So No Fucker Johnny, Romero, others all held on the line for a minute of NOTHING. Totally rules. The end result sounds like a Folkways experiment. I ended up coming home and getting busted for "recording silence and not grabbing the Air Condition Window Unit" which was the only reason i went Grehs begin with. Hey, Window AC Unit or not, you are still KOOL with this platter!! Heres the Full Iiterary, recorded in order, no overdubs or tom foolery, no voices nothing, just weird hiss and an occasional bird chirp in lonesome... 1) Body Moprh 2) Birth Refusal 3) Hive Mind 4) Sick Llama 5) New Pledgemaster 6) Tom & John 7) ??????? (we eventually figured out who it is, heres a hint: weighs 90 lbs, goes from 0-Passed out in 3 brews, now in P. Rico) 8) Moontravellers 9) A.C. & Khrust 10) Alicia Warning 11) No Fucker 12) Burning Star Core 13) Hair Police 14) Rodger Stella 15) Damion Romero 16) Hellfire Holly 17) Iron Lung 18) 16 Bitch Pile Up 19) The Haunting All pressed on colored gray vinyl on the new AT style wrapped around sleeve with creepy art, Numbered edition of 200." -American Tapes |
| Artist: NOISE NOMADS & PAUL FLAHERTY Title: Live Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Whoa!! Is, MATCHMAKER.COM broken??? I heard whisper of this unholy meeting but had to get the full, skinny....What the???? Technically called Paul Flaherty and Jeff Hartford but, we all know the two stars involved so might as well roll with the stage, names. Live in Florence, MA on 8-01-08, just f***ucking nutz. Super dynamic, sounds, more like a "Flaherty visits HVAC schools and falls into a dumpster full of dry cardboard filled with bunk dynamite" celebration. Goes all sorts of zones, from wispy oil electronics sailing on soft reeded secret-breaths, then into, club ham/fisted drum abuse with that screech we all love. Super weird, with, great electronics by BONESCRAPER Hartford... Like SONATA FOR TWO MOODS= ALL, WHACKED. Warning: does NOT sounds like Pauls ORANGE unit.....AT ALL!!!! I had a, bunch of tests yearly...Wiring midterm and a tuff J Operator and Complex Phasors, one right after it, and stoopid me left my regular glasses in the Tovinators, purse...so had to bust the test with me Shades/Stunners in full effect and my, wiring intrusctor was like "you wanna do this test backstage?" BUSTED!! Add this, platter for your inverse RNR Lyfestyle!!!! Playable at any speed...Edition of, 100 with handmade covers, numbered." -American Tapes |
| Artist: HOW PEOPLE SPEAK Title: I Was Tempted To Tell Him That I Had I No Idea What I Really Wanted But Decided To Keep It To Myself Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Killer new strange-home-eerie boundary-limiter language-soundtrack unit. Uber ???? Very similar to going to a Drive Inn in a summer afternoon with a trunk full of rotting mulch which you eat by the handful while you watch Happy Days bloopers in reverse. And the Roach is in the backseat, chuckling along to very strange parts of the flick. Complete frozen non sensica la muscia. Double Right Hand Style electronics and autosuggestive digestive statics cover the sky. Title is a quote from Bolanos mind-blowing "Savage Detectives" book. Color Covers: Numbered Edition of 50." - American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Learning for Insipid Zeal = Pool Water, People Pollution, Imaginary Unit In Electronics Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Whoa! Hold on now! Heres the big one! All recorded in a one week in late April, heres the line up: Track One ) Pool Water: Super new heavy unit with Connelly, Zone One and Mega Mike Collino. Violin, kitchen percussion, slow tapes - every ingredient to make your pulse quicken/slow-en!!! The track sounds more akin to a Cook Labs recording of a train journey thru a snow covered mountain at midnight rather than three mug blokes in ultra concentrated jam mode.... Will make your skin stand at attention, soldier!! Recorded in Inzane-Dimension sound with the IZTF in full effect mode. Mad style: File Under: Misshapen Jam Growths. Track Two ) People Pollution: What the? Ultra distorted retardo basement rock trio with Juice & Raddix (AKA Raven Strain Matt and Fag Health AKA Sick Llama Heath) on guitar and bass and Inzane on plodding go nowhere drumming. Was meant to be a Justice-style garage unit turned Frankenstein- style into a twisted distorted Mega-mess! Recorded under the influence of afternoon sun, left over Milwaukee Beasts from the Aries Assault party, and the shadows of the dank interiors of the Frying Pan. WARNING! = worst guitar/bass tone on earth!! Would make Joe Young, Vorkriegphase, and Wretched sell they kitty littered amp speakers for opening a Baskin and Robins Franchise. Just a stinking rocking mess of a track!! More to come by this mutant unit! Name taken from a strange puzzle the puzzler master Tovah found in a rotten Lansing thrift store. Track Three ) Imaginary Unit in Electronics: Im sure yall are like "Why not just call the jam J?" Well, Im not quite sold on the concept of being that you cant take the square root of a negative, but you CAN call it a J and then next thing you know it has a value of 1 or-1. Huh? When rad Instructor Max got asked the question by a stunned Electrical Math class, he just looked down, counted his voltage, current, and resistance markers and said, "Well, thats a discussion for Carl Jung." Shit, lost me too. Like the button my crazed mom had (no ya turkey, not the OVERSEXED one) , = "Ninety Percent of Life is Just Showing Up." True. Soundtrack for confusion, included. So what the hell else for this heavy pack? How about a stupid-colorful overload hand painted collab jackets with artist Raymond Salvatore Harmon, painted in Automatic Writing Style. Why? Cause Tyfuss once told me "Zines and Collaborations keep the underground scene together and alive" You got it!!! Killer flow and strange new sounds will leave your day inzanity haunted with this new comp platter!!! Go nutzo young player. Edition of 100, numbered, hand done, THE WORKS." - American Tapes |
| Artist: POOL WATER Title: Live At Warm & Covering Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| " As debuted above is the new power trio of Connelly, Ol Zone One, and Massive Mike Collino. Recorded snug in the shadowed corner of the sacred Cove, three twisting and grossly vacant narratives to the torrid ambient static between your ears! Violin, cardboard percussion, flute, tapes: a smorgasbord of wicked ingredients/instruments to force your day into a magic-fueled vessel!! Captured in high inzane-fidelty with the new portable Inzane Zone Traveling Four Trick (IZTF). Good vibes inside means seriously jam business within the Jason/Freddy adorned walls of the Conn Artists COMFORT ZONE. We would met up at the cove, bust some "launcher" recs., drink, get loose and head to the studio for SERIOUS concentration into the void. Hours later Collino would bounce and me and the Conner would play chess in total silence until the wee hours. Goodtimes.com. Beyond stokered on this new troupe, more lurking sounds down the pipeline, below the streets, creeping/movin inward!!! The lone Michigan unit with two Mikes in it? No whoops, The Underwear Heads had THREE "zany" Mikes involved, sorry. Color Covers, numbered edition of 60." - American Tapes |
| Artist: PARADOX Title: #11 Format: Mag/CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The 2-D inzanity continues!! Second double digit eyeball voodoo edition!! Ten pages of whatthe? Collage and sketch in total inzane style. Scribble-sprawl automatic visual OD, if a face dont look good, morph-that-mug stylings. Find your path through the cut and paste upside down universe!! Color covers, b & w gutz, hand sewn binding, with cd soundtrack to seal the experience. Numbered edition of 40." - American Tapes |
| Artist: AJILVSGA Title: Red Crow Format: LP Label: Amethyst Sunset Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Red Crow was originally released as a cassette in a limited edition of 13 copies for sale at a show Ajilvsga performed in Oklahoma in November 2008 and has been reissued on vinyl in a limited edition of 100 copies. The duo comprised of Brad Rose (The North Sea / Foxy Digitalis ) and Nathan Young (Peyote Tapes) offer up some deep and heavy buzzing drones for your summertime consumption. Screen printed LP covers by Morgan in Oklahoma." - Amethyst Sunset. |
| Artist: MIST Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Amethyst Sunset Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Vinyl debut from the Ohio duo of MIST (john elliot and sam goldberg). Following up their "certain expansion" and "stole colors" cassette releases on pizza wagon, MIST offer up two full sides of their best material yet. Electric Organs. Beautiful and dreamy preogressive synths, kosmik string synth zone." - Amethyst Sunset. |
| Artist: METABOLISMUS Title: Spriebwartsdrall Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "This full length is firmly rooted in the rich German experimental music tradition of such bands as Can, Amon Duul and Popol Vuh. The album begins with subtle tones that shift and eventually build into a Silver Apples psychedelic groove. Things move back and forth through layers of analog synthesizer orchestration, electronics and droning violin, eventually accentuated by ambient recordings of wind chimes, cow bells, birds, crickets, barking dogs and the sounds of Stuttgart. An absolutely stunning record, which Bananafish claims, has "24-7 potential." Vivid full color artwork by German animation artist Petra Kolitsch. Edition of 600." - Amish |
| Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "New York Citys Hall of Fame tread similar aesthetic waters as the psyche folk of Tower Recordings and the improvised partially composed music of the Dead C. Their debut is filled with primitive rhythms, droning violin, skipping records, unplugged electric guitars, bowed cymbals, violin, drums, bass and a wealth of found sounds. Especially beautiful is the Dada inspired sound collage of "78 Expansion" which randomly juxtaposes live and recorded sounds. This record also documents improvised songs, which were later covered as part of their live set ("Sunset Spiral "and "I Woke Up Today"). Hall of Fame consists of multi-instrumentalist Dan Brown (ex-Salmon Skin, God is my Co-pilot), Samara Lubelski (ex-Salmon Skin, and current Sonora Pine) and artist Theo Angel." - Amish. |
| Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: Coliseum Rising Format: 7" Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Hall of Fame is back with three atonal campfire songs. Dan and Samara split the vocal duties on their first pop outing. This single reveals a more song-based side to the band. Whatever it lacks in drone, it provides with rock and hook. The two color screen-printed jackets were done by Wiggly Printing (Brooklyn, NY) Edition of 500." - Amish. |
| Artist: P.G. SIX Title: The Well of Memory Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Continuing many of the themes introduced on Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites, PG Sixs well-received first record, The Well Of Memory makes nods towards 60s folk artists like Bert Jansch, Pentangle, Incredible String Band, and John Fahey, while also fitting in with contemporary musicians like New York psych folk poster-boy Devendra Banhardt, Anglo-folk traditionalist Alasdair Roberts, and West Coast psych guitarist Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance. Pats lyrics draw on narrative force, spinning mythology in abstract patterns that stretch moments of clarity between dreamlike sequences. His music, composed away from the bustle of the city in upstate New York, breathes as solemn spirituals. With The Well of Memory, P.G. Six transcends revival carving a permanent spot amongst contemporary singer/songwriters." - Amish. |
| Artist: P.G. SIX Title: Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "This record mixes late 60s / early 70s pastoral English folk influences, rural American blues, and Appalachian mountain music. Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites recalls the finer moments of the Incredible String Bands The Hangmans Beautiful Daughter and the beautiful weirdness of Kevin Ayers Shooting At the Moon. The record also contains a cover of 60s English folkie Anne Briggs "Go Your Way." PG SIX is Pat Gubler, founding member of New Yorks enigmatic musical collective Tower Recordings. Tim Barnes (Quakebasket Records, Tower Recordings, Jim ORourke) plays percussion and engineers the record." - Amish. |
| Artist: BROWN, DAN Title: Inner Borough Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Solo recordings from the percussionist from Hall of Fame and David Grubbs, made with the help of engineer Nicholas Vernhes and some additional percussive muscle by Greg Anderson of Dan Melchiors Broke Revue. The personnel here is limited but the instrumentation is varied and open and includes traditional drum workouts, variety of bowed and struck cymbals, gongs and ceramic pots, hammered guitar, thumb piano and more. Inner Boroughs exists in a tradition which isn’t wholly jazz, rock or experimental music, but draws on a wealth of sources from “Suite for Toy Piano” on John Cage’s Early Works, to Don Moye’s Sun Percussion, Hal Blaine’s Psychedelic Percussion and Art Blakey’s Holiday for Skins volume 1." - Amish. |
| Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "New York Citys Hall of Fame tread similar aesthetic waters as the psyche folk of Tower Recordings and the improvised partially composed music of the Dead C. Their debut is filled with primitive rhythms, droning violin, skipping records, unplugged electric guitars, bowed cymbals, violin, drums, bass and a wealth of found sounds. Especially beautiful is the Dada inspired sound collage of "78 Expansion" which randomly juxtaposes live and recorded sounds. This record also documents improvised songs, which were later covered as part of their live set ("Sunset Spiral "and "I Woke Up Today"). Hall of Fame consists of multi-instrumentalist Dan Brown (ex-Salmon Skin, God is my Co-pilot), Samara Lubelski (ex-Salmon Skin, and current Sonora Pine) and artist Theo Angel." - Amish. |
| Artist: METABOLISMUS Title: Spriebwartsdrall Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "This full length is firmly rooted in the rich German experimental music tradition of such bands as Can, Amon Duul and Popol Vuh. The album begins with subtle tones that shift and eventually build into a Silver Apples psychedelic groove. Things move back and forth through layers of analog synthesizer orchestration, electronics and droning violin, eventually accentuated by ambient recordings of wind chimes, cow bells, birds, crickets, barking dogs and the sounds of Stuttgart. An absolutely stunning record, which Bananafish claims, has "24-7 potential." Vivid full color artwork by German animation artist Petra Kolitsch. Edition of 600." - Amish |
| Artist: V/A Title: And To The Disciples That Remain Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Celebration of 11 years of Amish Records. 11 of 13 completely exclusive tracks. Deluxe 6-panel foldout packaging. Front cover by visual artist Sebastiaan Bremer. Includes members of & former members of Hall of Fame, Metabolismus, Tower Recordings, Windsor For the Derby, Polvo, Idyll Swords, Oneida and Town & Country." Artists include: P.G. Six, Mike Wexler, Theo Angell, Oakley Hall, Black Taj, Bird Show, Helen Rush, The Oranges Band, Samara Lubelski, Dan Matz and the Birdwatcher, Dan Brown and Chuck Johnson." - Amish |
| Artist: ANGELL, THEO Title: Dearly Beloved Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "These songs were transmitted to us from the ever-elusive former Hall of Famer and Jackie OMotherfucker contributor. Upon hearing the material, we were surprised to discover that Theos playful approach to music evidenced in those outfits has transformed into a batch of fantastic and well-structured songs, with inventive orchestration and accomplished playing. Written and recorded in Portland, at the Rare Book Room (Brooklyn, NY) and Sumsilobatem Studios, Degenfeld, Germany, Dearly Beloved references a diverse array of sounds: the dark folk of Michael Giras Angels of Light; the surreal and gothic lyrical inventions of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; and Syd Barretts more ambling work, where lyrical and musical lines veer and coast along without a clear destination." - Amish. |
| Artist: P.G. SIX Title: Music from The Sherman Box Series and Other Works Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "The Sherman Box Series was an exhibition of visual artist Christine Krol at Abaton Gallery, Jersey City, NJ in August/September 2005. She showed an ongoing series of collages constructed in Nat Sherman cigarette boxes, as well as small paintings on wood panels. P.G. Sixs contribution to the show was seven pieces for folk harps and electronic processing that played on a loop in the space. These pieces explore some of the sonic possibilities of the wirestrung harp with its long sustaining tones, and the bray harp, with its sitar-like buzzing." - Amish. |
| Artist: HALL OF FAME Title: First Came Love, Then Came the Tree... Format: LP & CDR Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "New York Citys Hall of Fames second album First Came Love, Then Came the Tree... was recorded by Nicolas Verhnes on an island in Long Island Sound in 1998 at a time when the group was at the top of their form. The year after the release of their debut album saw the release of an Amish Records single and the band play shows with Tower Recordings, Ghost, The Major Stars and others. The album was originally released in 1999 on CD only (currently out-of-print) and Amish is pleased to offer (for the first time on vinyl) a limited edition deluxe LP version. The LP also comes with a bonus CD- R of a live set recorded at the short-lived Louisville venue, The Mercury Paw from 1998 right after First Came Love, then Came the Tree... was recorded." - Amish. Hall of Fame was Dan Brown, Theo Angell (filmmaker, Jackie OMotherfucker, recent release on Digitalis) and Samara Lubelski (solo works on Social Registry, Tower Recordings, Thurston Moore, Metabolismus and more). Limited to 250 copies. |
| Artist: SON OF EARTH Title: Improvements Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "With equal nods to Throbbing Gristles retrograde conceptualism and Recommended Records unwavering musicality, Amish is pleased to announce the Required Wreckers Series. Over the next ten catalogue releases, R/W will explore the work of artists operating at the intersections of sound art, improvisation, drone, outsider experimentation and modern composition. In the spirit of its name, R/W aims to disrupt the boundaries typically used to delimit genre and the sensibilities that help to inform taste. In so doing, R/W slips out from under the simple, reductive classifications so often used to discuss, and even critically engage, contemporary music. Each release is a one-time vinyl pressing and will be housed in a letterpress band (designed by Bryan Christopher Baker) that will vary with each installment. These LPs will also include artwork and assorted ephemera that invoke our deepest respect for the medium and the hand-crafted (and assembled) components we regret have disappeared with the rise of digital media. R/W terminates after ten installments. Beginning a decade ago, in a Pre-Weird America, Son of Earth has traveled a surprisingly linear trajectory through noise and collective improvisation to a simple, quiet, and more considered music. The bands path has led through hundreds of performances and collaborations (including Shackamaxon, which brought together all three members of Son of Earth with Marcia Bassett and Chris Gray of Double Leopards and Pete Nolan of the Magik Markers), but has resulted in only a handful of releases, often handcrafted and released on the groups Apostasy Recordings label. While still being filled with the unease and tension that is their hallmark, Improvements is the first record that also allows the humor and camaraderie between the members of Son of Earth to come to the fore. Most of their previous releases have been culled from live recordings, and the group has always thrived on the tension of live performance. Earlier studio efforts, such as the acclaimed Pet LP, though recorded at home, were composed in an everyone-has-to be- serious approximation of the live performance experience. This time, possibly for the first time, in a sweaty little room, and in a stairwell, and in a back yard tossing horseshoes in Holyoke, Massachusetts, the group finally dropped all pretense -- not of seriousness, but of obligation to some unseen spectator. On Improvements, you can really hear John Shaw, Matt Krefting, and Aaron Rosenblum being themselves, and being Son of Earth and its weird. Manchester-bred, Rick Myers, who has worked with John Cale, Andy Votel, Dinosaur Jr. and Badly Drawn Boy and has created books with Nieves Zurich & Gladtree Press to name a few, provides the beautiful art / design-work for the LP jackets. LP comes wrapped in letterpressed band and contains a 16-page art book." - Amish |
| Artist: BIRD SHOW Title: Bird Show Band Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| Artist: BIRD SHOW Title: Bird Show Band Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| Artist: BIRD SHOW Title: Bird Show Band Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Bird Show Band documents Bird Shows new collaborative spirit and stands as the culmination of Ben Vidas Chicago-based work, featuring a whos who of the citys improvisational luminaries, including Josh Abrams, Jim Baker, Dan Bitney and John Herndon. The improvisatory feel of the Bird Show Band sessions function as Vidas paean to the Windy City. Rather than another Bird Show release that involves guest accompaniment on select tracks, Vida conceived of these recordings as a foray into session playing, tracking the entire album over just two days. While Herndon and Bitneys percussion invokes German psych, progressive rock, and jazz idioms, Vidas synth-based experiments, here accompanied by Jim Bakers ARP 2600, provide the first indication of his recent musical preoccupations, an interest that relies heavily on the Moog and his own fluid, lyrical melodic lines. If you have had the luck of catching Bird Show or Ben Vida perform live over the last few years, you have witnessed the centrality he now gives to the Moog and one-touch patchwork, experimental forays that point to Europe and the mid-century avant-garde, especially the Cologne-based innovations of Stockhausen and his many students during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Regardless of this description, Bird Show Band is more than a mere intellectual exercise and the sessions balance brain with musical brawn in ways that Vida has yet to achieve on his previous outings." - Amish. |
| Artist: NASCITA DELLA SFERA Title: Per Una Scultura Diceschia Format: LP Label: AMS Country: USA Price: $35.00 |
| "Nascita della Sfera was a group of session musicians assembled by a composer to record a single LP, in this case composer and keyboardist Carlo Barbiera dedicated a full album to the life and works of sculptor Luciano Ceschia (1926-1991), both coming from near Udine, Friuli VeneziaGiulia, in the north-east of Italy. The rare album is a rather original example of experimental electro-acoustic progressive style, mainly based on synth effects and acoustic guitars and often reminding some of Battiatos early works. Despite the presence of five singers in the line-up, the vocal parts are short, spoken rather than sung. 19 tracks are listed on the cover, but these are connected to form two long suites. All in all an interesting album for the adventurous listeners in search of something different. 180 gram vinyl. Gatefold sleeve." -AMS |
| Artist: V/A Title: African Scream Contest - Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds Format: CD Label: Analog Africa Country: Germany Price: $21.00 |
| "From Benin & Togo 70s. Spectacular package with thick 44-page booklet and slipcase packaging. This CD is licensed for release in the U.S. later in 2008, unsure if it will have the same deluxe packaging... "Just like with the labels first two releases -- albums by Zimbabwean 70s bands the Green Arrows and Hallelujah Chicken Run Band -- the essence of Analog Africa is clear yet again: searching in dusty warehouses for forgotten music to keep it alive. All the tracks have been officially licensed, usually from the artists who Ben Redjeb also met with for detailed research. He conducted 16 interviews in various cities in Benin and Togo with artists, producers and sound engineers to reconstruct the history of the 70s music scene for the 44-page booklet which also includes many rare photographs directly received from the artists. Like most modern music in French-speaking West African countries, the music of Benin and Togo was influenced by a few main musical currents: Cuban, Congolese and local traditional music, as well as Chanson Francaise. Additionally, the geographical location of Benin and Togo -- sandwiched between Ghana and Nigeria -- exposed Beninese and Togolese musicians to Highlife music. The cultural and spiritual riches of traditional Beninese music had an immense impact on the sound of Benins modern music. Benin is the birth place of Vodun (or, as it is known in the West, Voodoo), and some of the rhythms used during traditional rituals -- Sakpata, Sato, Agbadja, Tchenkoumé and many others -- were fused to soul and Latin music as early as the mid-1960s and later to funk. That fusion is the essence of this compilation. In the late 60s and early 70s, rock and soul music started creeping into the region. In particular, the music of James Brown and Johnny Halladay became immensely popular with university students. It was then that the music scene in Benin really started to take off. What made this musical revolution even more interesting is that most of the musicians could not read music. Often the music they made sounded one semi-tone away from being out of tune, but somehow they always managed to bring all the elements together into something new and exciting. One of the greatest bands of their era, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, who are featured on this compilation, took the Afro sound to another level by showing their musical versatility in many forms. Although they were consciously copying Western artists, they would always inject a dose of psychedelic Afro grooves that would make their music unmistakably Beninese. Their biggest song, Gbeti Madjro is believed to have revolutionized the music industry in Benin in the 70s when the country went through a period of political turmoil. The song is full of raw breaks and the hypnotic rhythms as well as screams à la James Brown -- after this song, many bands in Benin started screaming on their recordings, hence the title of this compilation. Latin-influenced sounds are present on this compilation, too. Ouidah, a city on the Atlantic coast of Benin, is home to a large Brazilian community, or, as they are called in Benin, Agoudas. Members of that community are descendents of slaves who returned from Brazil at the end of the 19th century. Their dances (such as Kaléta and Buriyanj) and songs are still being performed and fused into the traditional Beninese rituals. That, too, can be heard in modern Beninese music. The proximity of the giant neighbor Nigeria can be heard on the track Djanfa Magni which features the amazing trumpeter/ saxophonist Tidjani Koné fronting the Orchestre Poly-Rythmo. Koné whose career started in Mali as the founder and band leader of the Rail Band de Bamako, had played with Fela Kuti for a short while hence the strong Afrobeat influence. There are countless stories to be discovered in the extremely well-researched booklet and the music is truly mind-blowing. So delve into the forgotten raw and psychedelic Afro sounds from 70s Benin and Togo and experience the African Scream Contest." -Analog Africa |
| Artist: BLUE SABBATH BLACK CHEER Title: DDTTNB Format: One Sided LP Label: Anarchy Moon Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "BSBC tear us a new one on their latest slab of sublime filth "DDTTNB" (Destructively Dedicated to the New Blockaders). This surly one-sided 12" delivers 15 minutes of unyielding harsh beauty, using amplified cement mixers as well as source material from the New Blockaders Rupenus brothers, roiling and thrashing about within BSBCs trademark "dark and heavy, violently bleak horror-noise" sound machine. Released in an edition of 200, this deluxe package includes 2-tone screen-print covers by the inimitable Seizure Palace, with the record screen-printed on the blank side. Get them before they get you." -Anarchy Moon |
| Artist: ROMAN TORMENT/FEED THE DRAGON Title: Split Format: 12" Label: Anarchymoon Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "a floral assault of carbide-tipped blades, underground atomic collisions, dripping with sorbet and liquid silver. an unrelenting abuse of the artists ears and throats for our benefit. Feed the Dragon "Bromide Romance" - narcotic ritual. the history of desperate ages and the final moments of delivery into chaos / nothingness, scorpions erupting from cactii. who will be left to laugh about the death of civilization??? good loud cut on black 12" vinyl 45rpm, white jackets with color prints glued on the outside, color insert, plain gold labels. lim 300" - Anarchymoon. |
| Artist: WIESE, JOHN/DEAD MACHINES/DAMON ROMERO Title: Friday the 13th Format: Double LP Label: Anarchymoon Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "fierce live recording of this epic event on Jan 13, 2006. one side per set, including final side of 4-way collaboration. somehow they managed to fuse the minimal low-fi rig of Dead Machines with the maximal power cycle of Damion Romero and spatious neutron radiation of John Wiese, i was wondering how they were gonna pull it off.... it is a crunch-roaring bewilderment in sound. John Wiese - sonic landscapes that swirl and build, psychedelic even Dead Machines - slow grind through homemade speaker-suitcase. a groovy ride on nails and steel wool Damion Romero - physical psychic, you could feel it in the concrete floor 4-way collab - thunder-wail with flowers and sharks *****sonic hallucinations all 2xLP black vinyl, pro labels, high-quality 3color covers screened by Seizure Palace in the usual beyond-sick fashion on 12"x40" sheets. lim 515" - Anarchymoon. |
| Artist: REDGLAER Title: American Masonry Format: 10" Label: Anarchymoon Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "amazing stuff." - John Olson. "loud and blistering document recorded in a stupefyingly large concrete warehouse in Tulsa. the space speaks in subconscious tones, rippling walls, ions seduced by power washes/ sunstorms. quiet resonant sections, pushing sound around upstairs, whistles. no post-processing, just edits and gain. good quality cut on black vinyl, run of 330. from a review in The Wire (Dec 06 "size matters"):: "Redglaer is Bob Bellerues experiment in harsh textural environments, and he finds himself a dandy of a harsh one inside a huge concrete warehouse in Tulsa. American Masonry is the celebration of the spaces acoustics. Filling the booming structure with dark rumbles, antic squeedles and sheer blather, Bellerue fully engages the cavernous sonics, creating chittering walls of echoed overtones and hints of eternal combustion. He roars through the space like a giant robot, spluttering sparks and evil intent all the way." black 10" 45rpm, plain chipboard jackets with hand-drawn stonrzen designs using ink and silver powder, each design differs. back cover color print glued on. color insert, plain silver labels. crystal-clear resealable sleeves. order soon, the best designs go first." - Anarchymoon. |
| Artist: SMEGMA Title: The Smell Remains The Same Format: LP Label: Anarchymoon Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Second in a slow series of 7" reissues, The Smell Remains The Same presents 10 tracks originally released in 1990-95 on 7" by various labels, including the impossible to find ? comp on Cavity Search records. (Literally, the title is ?). The tracks display Smegmas pioneering style of audiophile-lo-brow folk-noise-rock, in their early-middle age when they were surviving through the birth of grunge, alternative, and indie rock." - Anarchymoon. |
| Artist: REDWOUND Title: Dark Bog Blaze Format: LP Label: Anarchymoon Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Burning blisters in the bowels of a bayou petroleum biyotch. Redwound == Circuit Wound ++ Redglaer collab. Super-awesome screen printed fold-over jackets (silver ink on white), and on the blank side of the record (silver-red ink, looks like bloody grip tape), in a plastic sleeve. lim 129, get em quick"- Anarchymoon. |
| Artist: JUSTICE YELDHAM & THE DYNAMIC RIBBON DEVICE Title: Birthdays Format: LP Label: Anarchymoon Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Birthdays consists of two live sets by maverick amplified-glass player Justice Yeldham recorded during his & Kegs recent tour of Europe. If youve never heard of the guy you are in for a bloody treat. Using concert-grade piano contact mics, he amplifies a sheet of glass and plays it with his mouth and face, processing it with pedals attached to his belt, usually barefooted. The results are unworldly, and hearing it you would never imagine what created it, something only an Aussie could achieve. Like careening assaults of insect spaceships, he transports the listener to other worlds of sound, ending most often in a crash of the glass upon his head. He survives, bloody but alive, never worse for wear in the morning. Side A was captured in Marseille on the eve of Justices 35th birthday while side B was recorded on Kegs birthday in Porto (for a preview listen at http://myspace.com/justiceyeldham). And to top off the birthday cheer Keg also did the cover illustration as a gift for Justices Birthday. Mastered by the god-like Rasheed of Dubplates (Berlin), the record has been collaboratively released in an edition of 600 copies across the world by Anarchymoon Recordings (North America), Turgid Animal (Europe) & All Thumbs Press (Australia). Black vinyl, B-on-W labels, 2-sided glue-on cover art (lim 600, 200 for UxSx distro)"-Anarchymoon. |
| Artist: DIE TODLICHE DORIS Title: Angeldust Format: Double LP Box Set Label: Angeldust Country: Germany Price: $52.00 |
| Mysterious Euro "Fan Club" box set featuring recordings from 1979-1984.. Very nice printed box with color inserts. Limited to 200 copies. |
| Artist: ANIKA Title: A: 05-07 Format: LP Label: Anika Country: Greece Price: $24.00 |
| "ANIKA is helmed by Greek artist A.G. Drawing influences from the likes of Chrome, Neu, Suicide and Brian Eno, ANIKA creates an amalgam of analogue and digital synthesis, fusing the experimental/avant garde of the late 20th century with cyberpunk and contemporary electronics. A:05-07, featuring 16 maniacally cut-up, brooding soundscapes, is ANIKAs first full-length, self-released as a vinyl Lp limited to 300 copies in the last days of 2008. It is preceded by A:03-04, a 12" vinyl Ep, released in 2005."- |
| Artist: MEERK PUFFY Title: Nung Format: LP Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Providence, RIs Meerk Puffy brings the throb and bounce to a boil in your pores. Observe the acid drenched ashes while hearing the melting temples melt in temples over and over again. Edition of 500 with silkscreened covers and poster" - Animal Disguise. Meerk Puffy is Matt Brinkman (Mindflayer, Forcefield, PPP (with Pleasurehorse and Prurient), Danse Asshole, Mystery Brinkman, etc..). |
| Artist: V/A Title: Secrets And Sounds Format: CD Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "3 YEARS IN THE MAKING, THESE ARE THE SECRETS AND SOUNDS OF ANIMAL DISGUISE RECORDINGS. THE DEFINITIVE SOUNDTRACK TO ADR PACKED FULL WITH 22 TRACKS AND 74 MINUTES. FEATURING PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS FROM OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS: ARNOUX, CHARLES LAREAU, CIPHER FOX, FEROX HEAD, FOOTBALL RABBIT, GROWING, HAIR POLICE, LIBYTHTH, LIGER, MAMMAL, MEERK PUFFY, NAUTICAL ALMANAC, NEON HUNK, PANAMA, PRURIENT, ROTFLOL, SINKING BODY, SMASHED FEMUR DANCE PARTY, THE LOWDOWN, TON B / TON B, VIKI, ZOMBI." - Animal Disguise. |
| Artist: GROWING Title: The Soul Of The Rainbow And The Harmony Of Light Format: Double LP Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "THIS SECOND FULL LENGTH FROM GROWING CONTAINS 2 LPS WORTH OF THICK, SLOW DRONE WITH CRUSHING RIFFAGE AND PURE HARMONIC BEAUTY. LIMITED, FULL COLOR GATEFOLD DOUBLE LP, EDITION OF 500." - Animal Disguise. |
| Artist: ELOE OMOE Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "First edition of 150 numbered copies in full color sleeves. This is the second document from the Boston area free-sludge duo containing two full live shows from Boston and New York." - Animal Disguise. |
| Artist: SICK HOUR Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "4 YEARS LATER...FILLING THE HOLES IN THE DISCOGRAPHY. THIS IS MINIMAL SYNTH DRONE AND LOOMING CREEP FROM MEMBERS OF HAIR POLICE/EYES AND ARMS OF SMOKE. A BLEAK SOUNDTRACK TO CLIMB THE ENDLESS CLIFFS OF A PSYCHEDELIC MOUNTAIN. PUT THIS ONE ON REPEAT AND FORGET TO BREATHE. GREAT LOOKING FULL-COLOR ARTWORK BY ROBERT BEATTY. LIMITED EDITION OF 120." - Animal Disguise. |
| Artist: SIC ALPS Title: Pleasures And Treasures Format: CD Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "THERES SOMETHING IN THE AIR...WERE NOT SURE WHAT IT IS, BUT SFS SIC ALPS HAVE HARNESSED IT AND PRETTY MUCH PERFECTED ITS SOUND. WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO HEAR IS AN HONEST BREATH OF TIMELESSNESS THAT BREATHES THE ECHO AND REVERB OF THE PAST, YET TRANSFORMS IT INTO A MODERN DAY PSYCHEDELIC ROCK MASTERPIECE. THIS IS THEIR "LOST" DEBUT LP FROM 2005 WHEN SIC ALPS WERE A THREE PIECE (CURRENT MEMBER AND FOUNDER MIKE DONOVAN OF BIG TECHNO WEREWOLVES/FOLDING CASSETTES, BIANCA SPARTA OF ERASE ERRATA, AND ADAM STONEHOUSE OF THE HOSPITALS, WITH ASSISTANCE FROM CURRENT SIC ALPS MEMBER MATTHEW HARTMAN FORMERLY OF COACHWHIPS AND CAT POWER). - Animal Disguise. |
| Artist: VIKI Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "THIS CD IS A REAL TREAT. A KILLER COLLECTION OF PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED AND EARLY/RARE VIKI SONGS FROM 1999-2004. INCLUDES SONGS FROM THE TRIPLE X CASSETTE, THE VIXEN HOTT AND FULL TIME CDRS, AS WELL AS THE HIT SINGLE PERFECT STRANGERS. ALSO INCLUDED ARE A LARGE CHUNK OF SONGS FROM ABORTED/CANCELLED RELEASES. 15 TRACKS TO GET YOUR FACE SHAKING AND YOUR MOUTH WATERING FOR THE DEBUT VIKI FULL LENGTH COMING SOON ON ADR. COVER DRAWING BY G. BEAUVAIS, MASTERED BY WARN DEFEVER." - Animal Disguise. |
| Artist: ELOE OMOE Title: Marauders Format: LP Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Eloe Omoe is the Boston, MA duo of Sam Rowell (bass) and Tim Leanse (drums). For the uninitiated and other strangers to Eloe Omoes aural assault, I have described them as relentless free-sludge. Their challenging and rewarding sound could be compared to both the depths of early free-jazz and the over-the-top amplifier worshipping metal of the legendary godheadSilo. But more than anything, the music is akin to the unpredictable shift of a group of sharks than to normal song structure. This is crisp and extreme rock rejection. From the first note of the first song, you are instantly sucked into the undertow and already past the point of no return. Churning and chugging bass that sounds as if 8 arms are striking the strings in a battle to keep time with the insanity of the spastic and shifting drums. An album that reveals more subtleties and gets better with each listen, Marauders is an impressive debut that has been long overdue." - Animal Disguise. |
| Artist: ELOE OMOE Title: Marauders Format: CD Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Eloe Omoe is the Boston, MA duo of Sam Rowell (bass) and Tim Leanse (drums). For the uninitiated and other strangers to Eloe Omoes aural assault, I have described them as relentless free-sludge. Their challenging and rewarding sound could be compared to both the depths of early free-jazz and the over-the-top amplifier worshipping metal of the legendary godheadSilo. But more than anything, the music is akin to the unpredictable shift of a group of sharks than to normal song structure. This is crisp and extreme rock rejection. From the first note of the first song, you are instantly sucked into the undertow and already past the point of no return. Churning and chugging bass that sounds as if 8 arms are striking the strings in a battle to keep time with the insanity of the spastic and shifting drums. An album that reveals more subtleties and gets better with each listen, Marauders is an impressive debut that has been long overdue." - Animal Disguise. |
| 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: MAMMAL Title: Lonesome Drifter Format: Double LP Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Recorded during 6 months of isolation at his home in Detroit, Mammals 4th full length album Lonesome Drifter is an epic soundtrack for the industrial depression of the city. Brooding, psychedelic, loner blues." - Animal Disguise. |
| Artist: CADAVER IN DRAG Title: Raw Child Format: LP Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Pummeling psychedelic heaviness from the fertile musical underground of Lexington, Kentucky, the three-piece Cadaver In Drag are often linked to the genre labels of noise or metal, but like most bands in the ADR universe, it is nearly impossible to categorize whats really going on here. Just know that this is an extremely heavy trip, and that the striking cover art tells the entire story better than I ever could. Added aural mind-fucking courtesy of Robert Beatty (of Hair Police) on synthesizer and mastering duties. Demonstrating their capability of harnessing the thick, violent power of Man is the Bastard while filtering it all through a cloud of phased-out Floydian weed smoke, Cadaver In Drag weave a tale of misanthropy and disgust with Raw Child, their debut full-length, proudly presented on both vinyl and CD formats from Animal Disguise Recordings." - Animal Disguise. |
| Artist: CADAVER IN DRAG Title: Raw Child Format: CD Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Pummeling psychedelic heaviness from the fertile musical underground of Lexington, Kentucky, the three-piece Cadaver In Drag are often linked to the genre labels of noise or metal, but like most bands in the ADR universe, it is nearly impossible to categorize whats really going on here. Just know that this is an extremely heavy trip, and that the striking cover art tells the entire story better than I ever could. Added aural mind-fucking courtesy of Robert Beatty (of Hair Police) on synthesizer and mastering duties. Demonstrating their capability of harnessing the thick, violent power of Man is the Bastard while filtering it all through a cloud of phased-out Floydian weed smoke, Cadaver In Drag weave a tale of misanthropy and disgust with Raw Child, their debut full-length, proudly presented on both vinyl and CD formats from Animal Disguise Recordings." -Animal Disguise |
| Artist: WARMER MILKS Title: Soft Walks Format: CD Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "The second proper full-length in the expansive and elusive discography of Warmer Milks, Soft Walks is a unique blend of southern rock, improv and modern confusion. Features Michael Turner, Shawn David McMillen, Greg Backus and Travis Shelton (Cadaver In Drag), Paul Oldham (Bonnie Billy Band, Baby Dee Band, Speed To Roam) and Amber Kinglsey. Subject matter includes what grows, what dies, and where we fit in between. Michael Turner has been making music under the guise of Warmer Milks since 2003 and while he tries to bury the name year after year, queer circumstances always bring it back. The group has numerous tours in the States under their belt as well as one European trip to date. Warmer Milks plan on hitting the road this summer on the Midwest and East Coast in support of Soft Walks. We are very excited to welcome Warmer Milks into the ADR family. With this release being their first of 4 albums scheduled to be released in 2008, they will now truly emerge from the ghetto of the cassette/CD-R underworld and finally attract the attention they deserve." -Animal Disguise |
| Artist: BAD PARTY Title: Coming Out Slowly Format: LP Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "The duo Bad Party emerged from the ashes of Detroit acts White Devil and Tamion 12 Inch sometime in 2006. Theyve been playing countless live shows in Detroit for a few years, delivering their polarizing and abrasive sound to dozens of fans. Calling to mind the stripped down, industrial minimalism of Big Black or early Suicide, Coming Out Slowly captures Bad Partys scummy and raw live sound perfectly. All 8 of the songs on the album, complete with uncomfortable lyrics and aggressive repetition, are the worlds perfect introduction to one of the sub-undergrounds most entertaining acts. ADR is pleased to present to you, Bad Partys debut offering Coming Out Slowly on limited edition vinyl." - Animal Disguise |
| Artist: WARMER MILKS Title: Slave To Suicide Format: Cass Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "SOLO MICHAEL TURNER RECORDINGS MADE RIGHT AFTER THE SOFT WALKS SESSIONS FIND HIM IN A PSYCHEDELIC HAZE OF SCRAPING SOUNDSCAPES AND BURIED ROCK. FOR FANS OF THE WEIRD SHIT. LIMITED EDITION." - Animal Disguise |
| Artist: MALLANDER, J.O. Title: More Time - Hits & Variations 1968-1970 Format: CD Label: Anoema Country: Finland Price: $17.50 |
| "Anoema Recordings is proud to present a complete collection of sound works by the influential Finnish artist J.O.Mallander. (This CD) collects two sought-after vinyl EPs Extended Play and Decompositions (the only Finnish entries in BROKEN MUSIC catalog), and a previously unreleased piece. J.O.Mallander began his artistic activities in 1960s within the blooming Finnish Underground movement, taking part, amongst other things, in the notorious music-performance collective SPERM. He has since assumed a multitude of roles within the world of art, operating as an artist, critic, writer, gallerist, and curator. Through his international connections he became a singular node of the FLUXUS network in Finland. Extended Play, released in 1968, was his debut as an artist. It is simultaneously an intriguing aural ready-made, a mantra-like tape piece, and a commentary echoing the Finnish cultural climate of the day. It displays in torturing detail the drama surrounding the presidential elections in 1962 and 1968. These pieces have haunted the Finnish popular consciousness for decades, and probably caused more complex reactions than any other Finnish sound work. In 1968 Mallander opted for life in the more internationally inclined Stockholm. Among other activities he composed a mind-boggling plunderphonic collage In Reality at the prestigious premises of EMS for Text-Sound Festival held at Fylkingen. And two years after Extended Play, in 1970, it was time to confuse the Finnish audience again. Mallander issued his second (and so far the last) music release Decompositions on the legendary LOVE Records. Applying scratching, looping, and other manipulations on records he created a hilariously energizing work and pre-dated the methods and attitudes of contemporary popular musics. More Time - Hits & Variations 1968-1970 comes packed in the original cover designs and features extensive liner notes by Leif Elggren. The times they are not a-changin." - Anoema Recordings. Mallander is also featured on the amazing "Arktinen Hysteria: Suomi-avantgarden Esipuutarhureita" CD comp issued a few years back on Love Records. Highly recommended! |
| Artist: LOPEZ, FRANCISCO Title: Untitled Format: CD Label: Anoema Country: Finland Price: $14.50 |
| "On the new Untitled (2005) CD the Spanish composer Francisco López presents four recently composed pieces which span a broad dynamic as well as stylistic range. Together these constitute a fascinating and intense research exploration into the deep essence of sound. From sizzling jungle atmospheres to rumbling subterranean drones and microscopic details, this is a Francisco López tour de force. In addition to three pieces based on environmental recordings, Untitled (2005) features also an instrumental composition Untitled #111 (For Jani Christou) performed by the noted German Zeitkratzer ensemble. Unsuprisingly, either way the sound is 100% Francisco López. On this release Mr. López might be unsually forthcoming about the sound sources he uses (as specified on the sleeve) but the dedication for the creation of absolute music remains the same." - Anoema. |
| Artist: MIKAWA, TOSHIJI Title: Gyo-Kai Elegy Format: CD Label: Anoema Country: Finland Price: $16.50 |
| "Pioneer, innovator and visionary are words easily associated with Toshiji Mikawa. One of the prime movers of Japanese noise, he started his musical activities in the late 1970s and joined the legendary and notorious Hijokaidan. In 1981 he formed Incapacitants to pursue his interest in pure noise, in contrast to the more performance art oriented Hijokaidan of that time. Initially a solo project, later he was joined by Fumio Kosakai to make Incapacitants a duo that has been widely acknowledged for their extreme sound and intense live performances. Gyo-Kai Elegy is the debut CD release under Mikawas own name. It grants us a close-up view of his sound which is normally immersed inside Incapacitants mighty sound structures. We get highly-detailed, unforgiving electric annihilation, invoking images of imaginary lifeforms trapped inside cages of silicon crystals." - Anoema. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Electrically Induced Vibrations Format: LP Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Compilation with Edward Ka-Spel, The Silverman, Omit, Steve Thomsen, Colin Potter, Arkkon, Mistress of Strands, Fibrillation, and Cyclobe. limited edition of 427 copies. 4 color screen printed cover (by Alan Sherry of SIWA) with photography by Arthur S. Aubry of electrical devices built by Dale Travous. multicolor vinyl. This is a collection of music created with electronic means by artists residing in Luxembourg, United Kingdom, United States, New Zealand and The Netherlands. Most of these people have been making music for 20 years or more, and have diverse histories. Their music as collected here is varied, but arranged into a cohesive flow. "- Anomalous. |
| Artist: AMM Title: At the Roundhouse Format: CD Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "The International Carnival of Experimental Sound, or ICES 72 for short, was an ambitious festival sprung from the mind of Harvey Job Matusow (1926-2002). Jumping off from his associations with the influential Source magazine, Harvey brought together over 300 artists from more than 21 countries to perform in London, England over the course of two weeks in August of 1972. Based on the theme of Myth, Magic Madness and Mysticism, he assembled an amazing diversity of performers working in diverse range of audio-visual arts. Encompassing happenings, films, dance, a train ride, and the phantom soft pool table, the focus was on sound -- specifically that of artists who were both composers and performers. Most of the concerts were held at The Roundhouse, a cavernous structure that was formerly a railroad engine house. Now, for the first time in 30 years, these recordings can be heard. This first CD in a series documenting the festival features the complete concert given by legendary free improvising group AMM. Represented here by Eddie Prevost and Lou Gare, they offer up powerful explosions of saxophone and drums punctuated with their famous AMM silences . This is the first time this material is available, aside from two short excerpts were published as the only 7" release on Evan Parker and Derek Baileys Incus Records (and a very rare and desirable record that has become)." - Anomalous. |
| Artist: BIOTA/MNEMONISTS Title: Musique Actuelle 1990 Format: CD Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Biota was founded in 1979 in Fort Collins, Colorado, as the Mnemonist Orchestra. Over the years, the Mnemonist Orchestra developed into Biota (the musical contingent) and Mnemonists (the visual contingent). Both Biota and Mnemonists work as one on productions of musical and visual components. The group has released nine LPs, one EP, and four CDs on both their own Dys label and Recommended Records UK. Heard on this CD is the first adaption of their studio-based recording techniques since 1981, as presented at Montreal Musiques Actuelles -- New Music America 1990. For their live performance they composed a set of material specifically for the concert and virtually relocated their studio to the stage to properly recreate it. Nine musicians playing only acoustic instruments (aside from electric guitar) were heard natural and unamplified from the stage while extensive electronic processing, heard through the speakers, rendered radical tonal, timbral and temporal modification creating an incredibly unique and strange sound world. Added to this, the two-dimensional graphic work that Mnenomists have become so renowned for was transformed into stunning video projections -- beautiful examples of which are now included in the full color booklet accompanying this CD." - Anomalous. Highly recommended! |
| Artist: LERMAN, RICHARD Title: A Matter of Scale and Other Pieces Format: CD Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Richard Lerman has been active in music since the 1960s, and yet only having two previous releases: Travelon Gamelon LP on Folkways and Within Earreach CD on Artifact Recordings. This is a collection of live pieces using Richards trademark amplified small sounds from piezo discs along with other instrumentation in live performance (including a recording from inside the Houston Astrodome). Unique use of blowtorch on metal and amplified drinking straws." - Anomalous. |
| Artist: RLW Title: Views Format: CD Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "In the 25th year of Ralf Wehowskys recording career, Anomalous Records presents his first truly solo release featuring four new compositions based on instrumental improvisations. Using simple devices (tone-generators, percussion toys, music boxes, an electric toothbrush and an electric guitar) played in unusual ways, he builds up layers of each sound to create a suite of textural pieces. Each of the four tracks takes on an identity unique from the others, as the first three each focus on one of the sound sources while the last combines elements from the previous three to make something else. The disc opens with a 20-minute piece of mysterious and drifting electronic tones. Other tracks highlight very tactile sounds and bring a much more live element to his work, while retaining his skillful use of dynamics and placement of silence which have gained him so many fans. Previous releases by RLW have seen him collaborate with such diverse artists as Achim Wollscheid, Bernhard Günter, Andrew Chalk, David Grubbs, Jim ORourke, Kevin Drumm, and Bruce Russell. He is the founder of the now defunct group P16.D4 and the still active label Selektion." - Anomalous. |
| Artist: SANDERSON, PHILIP Title: Reprint Format: CD Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Reprint was originally released on cassette by Snatch Tapes in 1980 and was credited to an unknown duo called Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey. Claire and Susan were infact a figment of Snatch Tapes founder Philip Sandersons imagination. In addition to running the label, Philip was one half of the DIY electronic group STORM BUGS, and regularly collaborator with a then unknown musician by the name of David Jackman (one of these tracks they did together was recent issued on a 10" by Die Stadt)." - Anomalous. Highly Recommended! |
| Artist: DEMPSTER, STUART Title: On The Boards Format: CD Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Stuart Dempster has been involved in a variety of new music endeavors over the last 40 years. He organized the ensemble to record Terry Rileys landmark piece In C for Columbia Records; commissioned works from Luciano Berio, Ernst Krenek, Pauline Oliveros, and several others; gave David Tudor a place to stay while developing Rainforest; participated in the U.S. premiere of Cornelius Cardews Treatise; toured with Merce Cunningham Dance Company alongside such luminaries as David Behrman, Takehisa Kosugi, and Tudor; founded Deep Listening Band with Oliveros; and much more. However, he has only released a few solo recordings of his own work during that time: In The Great Abbey Of Clement VI, originally released on LP by 1750 Arch and later reissued by New Albion Records, and Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel, also on New Albion. This is a third, originally released on cassette only in 1986 and receiving limited distribution. Unlike the others, this documents Stuart in front of, and with, an audience. This is important as Dempster works with the audience, two pieces in particular using them to add to textures he is creating and bringing them into the music. Dont Worry, It Will Come takes this a step further, using a series of hoses hidden underneath the audience seats with rather humorous results. The bulk of the disc is focused on his meditative buzzing and droning, skillfully drawn from unique didjeridus and the instrument he is best known for playing, trombone." - Anomalous. |
| Artist: JERMAN, JEPH Title: Instability Studies Format: CD Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "This is Jephs third CD for Anomalous Records, following the solo disc The Second Attention and wuwei by his animist orchestra. Edition of 300 copies, hand made covers. The sugar bowl is ceramic, with an ill-fitting lid which will rattle if not seated properly. By changing the position of the lid in relation to the bowl, a number of different vibration rates were discovered. The simple recordings are stereo imagings of a single shaketable. The complex rendering is a series of shaketable recordings layered via overdubbing on the four track." - Jeph Jerman. |
| Artist: POINTS OF FRICTION Title: Sackcloth And Ashes Format: CD Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Originally released by the LAFMS offshoot label Solid Eye (who were also responsible for releases by Doo-Dooettes, The Romans, Dinosaurs with Horns, and Fredrick Nilsen) on cassette in 1984, Sackcloth and Ashes is the most electronic and perhaps most polished incarnation of this multimedia collective. The unorthodox exploration of keyboards, guitars, toy instruments, the assemblage of field recordings, noise improvisations, and tape loops tantalize the senses with arousing emotive power. The opus title track is a compendium of improvisational soundings and field recordings that include a chorus of squeaky swings, a cats purring, snapping shrimp, a diseased lung, and cacophony on a yard sale card rack. Exquisitely abrasive and haunting tracks 1 through 6 yield to the perfumed machinery and melodious hypnosis of the remaining tracks. All were originally performed under cover of live film and slide projections with optical manipulations at alternative music venues in and around Los Angeles." - Anomalous. |
| Artist: ANIMIST ORCHESTRA Title: Wuwei Format: CD Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "studio recording of Jeph Jermans small sound orchestra with Dave Knott, Mike Shannon, Jeffery Taylor, Robert Millis and Marina Granger. "in seattle in 1996, i began giving performances using mainly natural objects as my instruments. after many such performances, two friends suggested (independently of one another), that i might try doing it with a group. as this idea had occurred to me a few years previously, i thought perhaps they were right. in june of 1999, the animist orchestra began its history as a working group. we got together nearly every week for the next three months, to play and discuss our playing. our first performance was given in eric lanzillottas living room for a small group of friends, and was well received. from the beginning, the focus of the orchestra has been on listening, and improvising in the moment. a group of people truly playing together and focusing intently on the present can be a powerful thing. the use of natural objects (stones, shells, pine cones etc.) as opposed to more conventional musical instruments, can help the players to not fall back on learned habits of musical play. there is no canon or book of rules to refer to when using everyday things as sound makers, and this may facilitate the removal of actions arising from taste and memory. during the initial period of discovery for the orchestra, dave knott made the observation that, when when playing and focusing on the sound being made, it was like the spirit of the thing is telling you ho it wants to move. mike shannon once told me that when i play i seem to be animating the objects with my hands. i think these comments explain the name of the orchestra better than i could. i wanted to make a CD of the orchestra to document our work together, and to show my admiration and gratitude for the friends who have agreed to join. i dont think they knew what they were getting into." - jeph jerman. |
| Artist: DEUTSCH, ANDREW Title: Electronic Garden Format: CD Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "In his assessment of music, philosopher and mystic Rudolf Stiener attributes a major part of human perception to the experience of the ethereal body. The ethereal body is a form unknown to (so called) normal consciousness. It is obscured by worldly tasks and the experiences of everyday life. The ethereal body is only fully experienced during sleep, where it emerges slowly in stages over the course of the evening. Once awakened, the ethereal bodies primary experiences is of light and tone and of being engulfed by a shimmering delicate tonal atmosphere. When the worldly body awakens the ethereal body returns again to obscurity, diminished by daily routine. However, when in our daily routine and if we give time to it, we come in contact with music, or certain kinds of images or art, the ethereal body is touched, awakened inside the worldly body. This is why we are sometimes moved to emotion by music or images. The ethereal body is awakened within us and experienced by our worldly body. Flowers open within us, a garden of experiences and emotion emerge and we can not help but yield to the needs of the ethereal body and its sensations. Stiener proposes that a well balanced person is one who experiences the worldly body and ethereal body at the same time on a daily basis. Listening to music and an involvement with art may be the only ways to establish this balance and unity, therefore, as suggested by Joseph Beuys we must expand the practice of art into every aspect of culture - especially daily routine. Electronic Garden is a series of sound works constructed using broken music boxes, ring modulators and frequency shifters, I call these electro-mechanical loops. My interest in these works first developed out of early experiments with analog and digital tape loops and later extended into music boxes. Music boxes are mechanical loops set into motion via spring compression and consequently have the character of winding down as they play. This compositional unfolding is most delightful as it destroys the often gebrauchsmusik quality of music box melodies. To further destroy this music of the home I explored the possibilities of working exclusively with broken music boxes as their melodic structures would be readymade destroyed. Further, they often squeaked, squabbled, and burped as they played. Additional deconstructions were performed with electronics. I have made hundreds of these little compositions and the practice of making them occupies the greatest degree of my free time. Electronic Garden contains a special contribution by Sawako Kato of Japan. Exchanging files via mail and conversing through e-mail, Sawako reconstructed parts of Electronic Garden resulting in 2 new tracks which Deutsch later combined for release on Electronic Garden. the cover images for this CD were inspired by the notebooks and field drawings of book artist John Wood. Each CD of this edition contains a hand made watercolor accented with gold leaf and his hand signed along with a photographic fragment verso." - Andrew Deutsch. |
| Artist: COLECLOUGH, JONATHAN Title: Period Format: CD Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "An unlimited reissue of the out of print Anomalous Records LP (released last year in an edition of 530 copies only) with new cover artwork. This reissue sees the original A side extended from the original length of 17 minutes to the new length of 50 minutes. It still includes Colin Potters 17 minute remix "Periodic" which was featured on the B side of the LP. "Period" is beautiful piece based entirely on sounds from a Bluthner grand piano, looped and extended into long, drifting, calm drones with occasional punctuation of recognizable notes slowly resonating. The piece becomes "Periodic" at the hands of Colin Potter, whose remix turns it into a more dark and haunting experience which reveals even less of the characteristics of a piano than the original. Two complimenting, yet also contrasting, views of the same material which both show a great deal of depth and cohesion. All wrapped in a full color cover designed by Jonathan and featuring his photographs. "Like many of my pieces of music, the finished version of Period is very different from the idea in my mind which I started out with. The idea acts as a seed and the piece grows, often in unexpected ways, from that seed. So I was extremely pleased when I heard Colins remix of the piece, because he had transformed the piece into something much more like my initial idea. He had returned the piece full circle." - Jonathan." - Anomalous Records |
| Artist: V/A Title: Uncommon Nature Format: LP Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Features Jeph Jerman, Mirror, Agog, Climax Golden Twins, Jonathan Coleclough, Mike Shannon, Richard Lerman and David Knott. |
| Artist: VOICE OF EYE Title: Live Format: LP Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "This recording documents two rare live performances: Anomalous Records [Whittier,CA] and Hangar 18 [San Francisco, CA], both from June, 1994. These shows followed the release of Vespers and contained material similar to it. Voice of Eye is centered around the duo of Bonnie McNairn and Jim Wilson who live in Houston, Texas. To best explore new avenues and allow them to shape sound, they have built several of their own instruments. Some these, like the Squawk Box are controlled by bioelectricity, the electrical aspects of the human body. The Squawk Box is a small device housed in plastic container and can be held in the hand. The device is played by touching two wires which yields a squealing sound. They see an instrument to be the physical manifestation of music, the inert form of sound. And with this in mind, Jim has developed stringed instruments which are bowed to extend the envelope, so the texture of each sound has time to be explored, expanding time so as to hear each part of the whole." - Anomalous |
| Artist: V/A Title: Three Aural Interpretations of a Drawing by Eric Lanzillotta Format: 7" Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Limited edition of 250 copies pressed on clear vinyl and packaged in double-sided 14.5" by 10.5" poster sleeve. This 33 RPM EP include three sound artists playing a drawing by Eric Lanzillotta. Each artist has a unique, though abstract take on the drawing, which is included in the inside of the poster sleeve. The sounds include the quite moments of Jeph Jerman, the static of Leif Elggren and harsh noise of Ralf Wehowsky. Jeph Jerman gained attention under the name Hands To, but has created his most refined work under his own name. He performs mostly with natural objects (stones, plant parts, feathers, etc) and has collaborated regularly with Wally Shoup, Greg Davis, Sean Meehan, Tim Barnes, Mike Shannon, Dave Knott, Eric Lunde, and many others. He has had several previous releases on Anomalous Records, and a new CD of his work will be released by Little Enjoyer this year. Leif Elggren is a pioneering sound, performance, book and installation artist from Sweden, as well one of the two kings of Elgaland-Vargaland. In the last 30 years, he has released a great deal of material on labels such as Radium 226.05, Anckarström, Flykingen, Ash International, Korm Plastics, Some, Absurd, Meeuw Muzak, Kning Disk, iDEAL Recordings, Touch and his own Firework Edition, which has also published many of his book works, such as the legendary "Experiment with Dreams" done in collaboration with Thomas Liljenberg. Ralf Wehowsky started making music in the Neue Deutsch Welle period of Germany history with his band P.D., which later became the group P16.D4. Since the dissolution of these groups, he has been recorded largely as a solo artist, though in truth always incorporating collaborations with various friends. Over the years he has worked with Andrew Chalk, bernhard günter, Kevin Drumm, Lionel Marchetti, Bruce Russell, David Grubbs, Jim ORourke, and many others." -Anomalous. |
| Artist: ANONYMOUS Title: Blood Sweatpants and Tears Format: 10" Label: Anonymous Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "no-artist release of two side-long electronic circuit grinders in a silkscreened cover that serves as an abstract fortune telling dial that morphs everytime it is returned to its sleeve. Plus not-legal material inside." - True Vine. "also in the wing wiz the new 10" vinyl thing caleb johnson did which sounds like a more J.D. Robb than a J Twig H release which he has been compared to. sine waves turn into electronic water jewelry. water rises up to greet filigreed perpendicular clouds of dust, then the whole thing goes in the stunk-bin to be recycled and filtered. he takes his time escalationg the decay properties of neptonium until the perfect moment when he shoots it full of lazy slow plasm bullets. His computer is a cross between a rotten car battery and a tailess turbine puffin whale. the cover looks like he let a rat shoot black squid ink from its egg sack, then stuck part of the moon and a homeland security tape on it. almost minimal. completely animal!" - ? Twig Nautical Almanacs brother Caleb. Limited to 200 copies. |
| Artist: ANONYMOUS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Anonymous Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| Another ultra-mysterious release from Caleb Johnston (brother of Twig from Nautical Almanac) -- cool Schimpfluch-like grunt/noise (though maybe more "spastic" than most Eber and crew releases?) in a no-info silkscreened jacket. |
| Artist: DEBRIS Title: Static Disposal Format: CD Label: Anopheles Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "Finally a legit reissue of this mid-70s American monster. Although "discovered" pretty early on within the realms of private press mania, this album has never quite reached the hysterical peaks achieved by other strange artifacts of this era. Very detailed reissue work on the part of Anopheles, whove turned this out as one of the most finely detailed and richly presented documents of its type." - FE. "This legendary group from Chickasha, Oklahoma formed in 1975 and self-released their lone LP in 1976. A Dada/punk/psych masterpiece recorded in just under seven hours in Dec. 75, the LP and the individuals who created it have long been the subject of a great deal of mystery and conjecture due to their elusiveness, the mindblowing quality of the music as well as the provocative negative image bondage LP sleeve design. This expanded reissue includes all 11 original LP tracks in sparkling fidelity from the original master tapes along with 10 previously unissued rehearsal recordings (total time just over 76 minutes). Fully authorized by the band, this CD also features a 28 page booklet with rare photos, lyrics, and personal accounts by all three original members, including bassist Chuck Iveys tale of relocating to L.A. to participate in the nascent Dangerhouse punk scene, where he took the stage with the Randoms at the Masque benefit in Feb. 78. The Debris LP was also namechecked in Nurse With Wounds infamous listing of influential LPs included with their first album in 1979. In short, Debris cultivated its own dynamic musical vernacular, showing the influence of Captain Beefheart, the Stooges, early Roxy Music and other pre-punk mainstays of the time. Their closest contemporaries were Hearthan era Pere Ubu, Siren-era Chrome, Indiana-era MX-80 Sound and Canadian sonic miscreants Simply Saucer. The beautifully raw and untamed bonus cuts include two unreleased originals, five alternate takes to the LP tracks, covers of the Stooges Real Cool Time and John Cales Gun, as well as Other Things, a song originally recorded by Debris precursor group, Victoria Vein and the Thunderpunks." - Anopheles. |
| Artist: DEBRIS Title: Static Disposal Format: LP Label: Anopheles Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| 2008 black vinyl edition. "Anopheles Records is proud to announce a limited edition, high quality clear vinyl LP reissue of this 1975 Oklahoma outer limits psych-noise proto-punk extravaganza. This edition features the complete 1976 self-released LP from the original master tapes, with original artwork, a new insert and a previously unreleased (and amazing!) November, 1975 practice take of the Stooges "Real Cool Time" (an earlier, radically different recording to the CD version). This is a one time only vinyl reissue, limited to 1000 copies." - Anopheles. |
| Artist: HOMESTEAD & WOLFE Title: Our Times Format: CD Label: Anopheles Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| Subtitled: The Gold Star Tapes (1973-75). "Originally released in 1975, Homestead & Wolfes lone and unknown privately pressed LP is an artifact so lost to time, it has never appeared in any discography, list of rare records, or catalog, anywhere. However, exist it does, and now their story can be told. Anopheles Records has sat tight lipped on this discovery for the last year while researching and preparing this reissue from the original master tapes and with full cooperation of the group. Homestead & Wolfe was a folk-harmony group based around the United Methodist Good Samaritan church in Cupertino, CA. Comprised of two female lead vocalists, one male lead vocalist, and buttressed with superb male and female harmonies throughout, H&W performed original material in a rich, melodic folk-rock-country style that is well executed, as well as earnest and personal. These 15 tracks were recorded at the legendary Gold Star Studios in Hollywood between 1973-75. Engineered by Stan Ross, these recordings feature top flight studio musicianship from legendary wrecking crew drummer Hal Blaine, guitarist Ben Benay (Goldenrod, Darius), acoustic guitarist Al Casey, monster bass player Ray Pohlman, not to mention one of the worlds most renowned and respected pedal steel guitar players, Jay Dee Maness (Buck Owens, the Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo LP). The harmonies and arrangements of H&W recall both the Mamas and the Papas and the Carpenters at times, but much of the music deals with darker themes: the story of Wounded Knee told in See The Children Die, the organ fueled psychedelia of Your Freedoms In Question, aimed at the Nixon administration at the time, remains apropos today, and recalls the work of Growing Concern, Birmingham Sunday, Art of Lovin and the Poppy Family. There are plenty of surprises here, as we located 6 unreleased tracks to augment the 9 tracks on the original album, including the startlingly great and dynamic cut, Beat of the Drum, which sounds as if the Bangles were hired to front Goldenrod for a one off single. The full color 16 page booklet tells the story in their own words, features images of the touring group and recording sessions at Gold Star, and maintains the high standard of archival work Anopheles Records is known for. Homestead & Wolfe represents a highly unusual and strikingly original blend of unproven but talented young vocalists, top quality session players and engineering, and a truly rare chemistry that makes this one of the great folk-rock discoveries of the last 10 years." - Anopheles. |
| Artist: CLARK, TODD TAMANEND Title: Nova Psychedelia (1975-1985) Format: Double CD Label: Anopheles Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Outside of his native Pennsylvania-West Virginia stomping grounds, Todd Tamanend Clark remains one of the least known North American underground artists in the lost music DIY field of his era, considering he has collaborated with and shared time with many of his peers over the years (Cheetah Chrome, Allen Ravenstine, Stiv Bators), as well as progenitors (Dorothy Moskowitz of United States of America, Robert Moog, William Burroughs), his significant body of recorded (and printed) work was always made in small runs and has remained elusive and highly collectible to this day. This 2CD set collects all of his released vinyl recordings from 1975-1985, including those issued as The Stars (1975 45 rpm and eight-track cartridge material), The Eyes ( New Gods: Aardvark Thru Zymurgy LP from 1977), Todd Clark Group ( Were Not Safe! LP from 79), and Todd Clark ( Into the Vision LP from 84, plus two 45s released in the first half of the 80s). He has since appended his name to reflect his Native American roots. This document features a 20 page booklet, with Todds own personal history included, with notes on each track (all 33 of em, total time for this set is over 150 minutes of music), and a host of great photos and artwork. His muse may remain a mystery after you experience this wide range of sounds, which might very well be Anopheles Records most ambitious and out there release to date, but he leaves tangible clues and some out and out hooks with which to grab onto: great reworkings of Hungry (Paul Revere and the Raiders) and I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night (Electric Prunes), his bizarre slo-mo take on Two Thousand Light Years From Home (from his debut 45 from 75) are some points of reference, but its when Todd cuts loose on original material that his truly mesmerizing, bent vision takes hold of your cranium and refuses to let go. His personal magnetosphere is quite intoxicating, often challenging, and just plain hallucinatory. Thats Nova Psychedelia ..." - Anopheles. |
| Artist: MAYPOLE Title: The Real Format: LP Label: Anopheles Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Anopheles Records is proud to announce our latest archival release, the first ever authorized, high quality vinyl LP reissue of Baltimore, Marylands Maypole, whose sole album, The Real, was recorded in three days, July 1970, and released in early 1971, shortly before their label folded, dooming the album to stillborn status commercially at the time, and collector want list status today. The LP is an ambitious, 50-minute feast of tight harmonies, powerful arrangements, fluid improvisation, and flat out great songs, and serves as a touchstone for twin guitar-driven, West Coast-styled psychedelia, soaring power pop, and blistering hard rock - some even call it prog - everyone wants a piece of the Great One. If youve been looking for an LP to complete an imaginary trilogy with S.F. Sorrow and Parachute, then this is your tonic. The stature of Maypole has been muddied by the previous CD reissues, but this LP edition gets it right. Featuring state of the art remastering and pressing, a high quality full color tip on jacket featuring original artwork, and a full color insert loaded with lyrics, photos, and complete historical notes by Maypole founder, Dennis Tobell, this is the closest to classic psychedelia Anopheles Records has delved in to date, and were glad we didnt settle for something second rate - Maypole is The Real." - Anopheles. |
| Artist: REP, MIKE AND THE QUOTAS Title: A Tree Stump Named Desire Format: CD Label: Anyway Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| Artist: KENICHI, KANAZAWA Title: Fragments of Sound Format: CD Label: Aomori Contemporary Art Centre Country: Japan Price: $35.00 |
| "Sculptor Kenichi Kanazawas new CD was out now! This is a live recording during exhibition at Aomori Art Center in 2005. Sketched performance (not percussive) makes graceful resonance in the large space. "-Aomori Contemporary Art Centre |
| Artist: BROTHER JT Title: In The Summertime Format: 7" Label: Apartment Country: NORWAY Price: $5.00 |
| "Brother JT, has been doing music for some time now, and his catalog includes releases on labels as Siltbreeze, Drag City and Drunken Fish. In the summertime is his second contribution to Apartments catalog, and is kind of a homage to the summer. The a-side pays tribute to the warm and lazy summerdaze, and the b-side to the lazy afternoon-nap. Get your shoes off, summers here!" - Apartment. |
| Artist: LAVELLE, BRIAN Title: Avalonian Format: CDR Label: Apollolaan Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| ""Avalonian" is an incredible work, following and adding to a tradition on this subject by artists, musicians, writers and great minds over many years. "Avalonian" was created by Brian Lavelle incorporating Guitar, bass, synthesizer, electronics and field recordings. It was recorded mainly in Edinburgh, Summer 2009; and completed in Avalon, September 2009. Seeking out the Occult Knowledge and mysteries of Avalon over 45 minutes of unmissable, essential music." -Avalonian. |
| Artist: A BAND Title: An Ole Crab/Andrew Lloyd Webber Format: Double CDR Label: Apollolaan Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "Double CDR set of archive A Band material. A bit more description on these recordings and the events behind them: On the Friday we drove in a van up to Leeds, and there was some kind of fault with the engine, which meant we drove slower and slower as we progressed - the last nine miles took us an hour! As a result, we arrived at the venue and went onstage immediately, no time to relax beforehand. I think (if memory serves) Tim missed the gig so that he could get the van fixed in time for our return home. We drove back to Nottingham, where we were due to be first band onstage at the annual Rock & Reggae Festival. Andrew Lloyd Webber is about 43 minutes long, and has some good sounds throughout. An Ole Crab is about 28 minutes, near the start Im reading out some found letters and notes, and it ends with us being attacked by a chainsaw-wielding man who I never saw before or afterwards, followed by Stream and me duetting on a children song, with live sound effects (it sounds like the tape slows down, but we sang it that way)." -Stewart Walden |
| Artist: BELIEVERS, THE Title: Tour EP Format: CDR Label: Apostasy Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "This cdr release repeats a number of hits off the first Believers cassette. These are completely new versions re-recorded and mixed for this release. Weve also added a number of new songs to the plate. Youll find the fidelity takes a giant leap upwards on the cdr, as compared to the cassette. Original packaging consisted of a Believers puzzle and disc in a clear plastic bag. This official release version has hand printed lino-cut artwork and informative insert." - Apostasy. |
| Artist: BELIEVERS, THE Title: Brontoursaurus Format: CDR Label: Apostasy Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| Artist: OPERA GLOVE SINKS IN THE SEA, THE Title: S/T Format: CDR Label: Apostasy Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| Hand-sewn and hand-stamped onionskin sack w/ insert. |
| Artist: SON OF EARTH Title: Erotic Empire Format: CDR Label: Apostasy Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Tantalizing follow-up to the "Carhole" cdr, "Erotic Empire" sees the Son of Earth ship steered in a more stressful, almost harsh, direction. Piercing, shuffling, scraping, and lulling all in one breath. And its Son of Earths quiet breath at that." - Apostasy. Packaged in elongated cardboard sleeve with poster insert. |
| Artist: TARP Title: Drugged By the Heat Format: CDR Label: Apostasy Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Synth-duo Tarp is made up of Joshua Burkett (Vermonster, Believers, solo, etc.) and Conrad Capistran (Sunburned Hand of the Man, Sephiroths Knot). This release is a fantastic document of live Tarp outings in the fertile 2006 year. It felt as though Tarp delivered up something new every week, and youll find here a varied selection of the most aurally pleasing outcomes. Packaged in a sewn tarp pouch!" - Apostasy. |
| 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: SON OF EARTH Title: Pet Format: LP Label: Apostasy Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Son of Earth began life in early 2000 as Son of Earth-Flesh on Bone Trio. Aaron Rosenblum, Matt Krefting, and John Shaw, inspired by many spirited late-night experimenting sessions, began to play out using wild arrays of sound-making devices. As the years have gone on, the group has chisled away at the number of instruments used and brought their once maximalist and varied sound creation down to a whisper, a murmer, a sound that hints at and flirts with texture and atmosphere; a music made from almost nothing. Seven full years into their life-span, Son of Earth offer their first full-length LP, Pet. The record represents a culmination of sorts of a certain arc in the Son of Earth sound, one where simple electronics and oddly-played instruments are combined to create a music that walks a tight-rope between easily definable atmospheres and emotions. The results are so delicate that at times the music seems to cease to exist at all." - Apostasy. |
| Artist: DREDD FOOLE Title: Songs To Despond Ya Format: LP Label: Apostasy Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Taken from a live recording from a year or so ago, showcasing his solo acoustic songs (no effects on guitar or voice). Sleeve art by Michael K. Edition of 500." -Apostasy |
| Artist: DUNCAN, JOHN/PAUL HURST Title: Gain Format: Cass Label: AQM Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
| Paul Hurst: Shortwave; John Duncan: Shortwave, Tape. Reissue of 1985 cassette release. |
| Artist: C.V. MASSAGE Title: Brutal Birthday Format: Cass Label: AQM Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
| Yasunori Taniguchi: Oil Drum, Effects; Katsu Mizumachi: Oil Drum, Effcts, tape; John Duncan: Tape, Voice. Side A was recorded live as the soundtrack for the film "Brutal Birthday" by John Duncan, 1985. Reissue. |
| Artist: COPS Title: Place To Crash Format: CDR Label: Arbitrary Signs Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| Artist: SPECTRE SPORTS Title: Spectre Sports Format: CDR Label: Arbitrary Signs Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: HORSE HEAD Title: Make It Something Else Format: CDR Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "I remember when the Zelda game came out for N64. I was all over that shit, but then forgot about it and never beat it. The thing I do remember is the sweet soundtrack it had. So-cal sunshine kids Horse Head have inadvertently recreated the sounds of the ocarina of time with guitars, drums, and voice. Past releases are hints of songs, these are "songs". Lyrics with all the joys and unjoys of being a human. Psych-pop for the kids. Down tempo tribal beats. Their most song based release yet(ever?). Upcoming album on Not Not Fun. In hand crafted/sewn cardstock pocket folders with conch shell stamped discs in an edition of 50." - Arbor. |
| Artist: GANG WIZARD Title: For The Man Trapped Inside A Man Format: 3" CDR Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Summer is over dude. Bummer. Lots of left over Popsicle sticks and melted jams and memories of the pool are what remain. I guess that you can still have all that shit in Sun Valley, CA, but not in the Midwest. Its getting cold now, but thats beside the point. Gang Wizard gets together all the time and records the hardcore hang out sessions. Every time they are done we are left with a sweet document like this one. Totally rad dudes, in totally rad moods, creating totally rad tunes. Disjointed guitar jingles and all over the place drumming create a cacophony of positivity. Total Happiness from members of Foot Village, Rose For Bohdan, dynasty, and unicorn hard-on. Released for their fall 2006 NW tour in a numbered edition of 75 neon drenched popsicle-sticked canvases. " - Arbor. |
| Artist: GHOSTING Title: Live/Oakland+ Format: Cass Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "This Portland drone duo manages to create lengthy tracks with a psychedelic precision that makes you forget what time is/was/will be. This tape contains a track from a live show in Oakland with bustling airy drones and the dinging of bells luring the ears to go to places they have not been before. The track progresses thoughtfully with exact subtleties building to a climax only to come tumbling down with that exact progression. The B-side is a deja-vu conjugated burner starting where the other side ended. In a numbered edition of 100 copies with individually inked and sprayed tape labels in a silver sprayed case and ink drawn cloudscapes." - Arbor. |
| Artist: EMPTY VESSEL Title: A World Of Dew Format: Cass Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| Artist: SHEARING PINX / SILVER DAGGERS Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Time to tell all the 77 dudes to get hip to the 07 sound. Vancouvers Shearing Pinx and Los Angeles Silver Daggers are North Americas ambassadors for the new wave of skronk/thrash/post-whatever punk. The Pinx play angular, expertly timed, staccato waves of noise and punk. Two long songs sandwiching one short one in typical Pinx fashion. The Daggers (experts of interpreting animal sounds w/ regular rock instruments) create utterly epic art-punk jams complete with swirling synths and horns based around solid drumming and guitar/bass interplay. One track was recorded live at The Smell, coming complete with mosh philosophies, while the second track recalls David Byrnes "boombox experiments" circa Stop Making Sense. Be sure to check out their new record on Load! In an edition of 400 numbered copies on concrete grey vinyl w/ hand stamped labels in 2 color silkscreen cardstock sleeves and a long insert." - Arbor. |
| Artist: SARAHS CHARITY Title: Code of Red Twin Format: CDR Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Among the metal forests of Denmark, there is Sarahs Charity. A maelstrom of expert tone work and free electricity; sounds so electric, yet still reminiscent of the flowing natural growth of fellow Danes Family Underground (it should be noted that Nicolas of FU helps out on track 2). This naturalism plus the actual sterility create a feeling nothing short of psychedelic. A wall of intense oscillation and soothing vacuous space ala Marcia Bassetts various projects. Speaking of Marcia, SC is also famed for being the only non Bassett/Bower related project to be released on the esteemed Heavy Blossom label. In a numbered edition of 150 copies in absolutely beautiful mind tripping deluxe screened sleeves by Dylan Martorell, with screened discs and an insert." - Arbor |
| Artist: MEF TEEF / OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Pure energy and total expression are the only boundaries around the free-jazz/music movement. Primitivism and psychedelic confusion act as the main themes. Mef Teef of Iowa City, a relatively new collective, have one past release on Raccoo-oo-oons Night People Label (of which MT percussionist Andy Spore is a member). Spastic drumming acts as the basis for which brass, piano, and silence interweave. Culled from a hometown live session, "Dark Star Voyage Pt. 1" features unique instrumental interplay causing the piece to progress almost theatrically with definitive mood changes. Brooklyns Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy is a heavy hitter in the free jazz underground. Comparisons to avant-garde greats are not unjustified. With a recent LP out on Wooden Wands Mad Monk label and a plethora of sold out self released jams, this is the collectives first tape. Focused on the youthful energy of punk music and centered around the drumming of Adam Kriney (La Otracina, Castanets), in "Transmission To The Pineapple Universe", Owl Xounds produce pure blown out oblivion never faltering in its onward progression. Recorded live at the Cakeshop featuring Gene Janas on upright bass, Darius Jones on alto sax, and Greg Vegas on electric guitar the jam is a total freak-out, seething equally with nods to Sonny Simmons as it is to Sonic Youth. In a numbered edition of 100 tapes with printed labels, art and an insert by Andy Spore." - Arbor |
| Artist: WATERSPORTS AND AARON ROSENBLUM Title: More Format: Cass Label: Arbor Country: US Price: $8.00 |
| "If a tape should ever be described using the word "submerged" it is this one. Watersports is the Brooklyn duo of Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho, who in the same configuration also make up Blues Control. The A side begins with "submerged" bubble sounds mastered from the inside of an aquarium. The serene scene ebbs and flows until shimmering keyboards pierce the murk like sun into the blimey deep. On the B side the duo is joined by Aaron Rosenblum of Son Of Earth/Sapat. This track is keyboard heavy from the start with what seems like all three of the players weaving sounds through each others keyboarding. A glorious and shimmering overtone blurs reality. Howling flutes act as sea creatures in crisis. If you put the shell up to your ear and concentrate you can hear Rosenblum totally shredding. In an edition of 100 numbered tapes in oversized double sided collaged tape cases." - Arbor. |
| Artist: WARMTH Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Arbor Country: US Price: $14.00 |
| "Even though Warmth main man Steev Thompson still appears to be incommunicado totally epic recordings continue to surface. Before Roxanne Jean Police was officially over and Steev still lived in Chicago, he joined up with another then Chicago resident Branden Diven of Quilts/American Grizzly Records. The jams that were created filled a couple of cdrs and the Warmth side of the split with Quintana Roo on Not Not Fun. This LP consists of a remixed and edited version of the original cdr running at just under 45 minutes. Forgotten smog floats through a Northside basement. Sounds emanate but their source is totally unrecognizable. Quiet growing tonal blobs erupt into washes of aural color. A complete union of samplers, synths, vocals, guitar, organs, percussion, and electronics merge to create the sounds contained within; a loss of individual existence. Completely serene. In an edition of 300 LPs on creamy yellow vinyl with hand stamped labels in pro-printed and screened fold over sleeves with art by Roy Tatum and an insert by Steev." - Arbor. |
| Artist: TREETOPS/CYGNUS Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Arbor Country: US Price: $6.50 |
| "At its purest, recorded music is two things: basements and one track recorders. Treetops and Cygnus are a complimentary pair of basement sludge psychers armed with little more than a few effect pedals (no distortion?!). The Treetops track is a grower and coming in at just under 10 minutes one of the longer Treetops jams to date. Light guitar strumming, tape manipulations and the occasional incantation are the sole sources for "Wild Beauty". Sky bound riffs float through the storm clouds. This track is a companion piece to the upcoming Ecstatic Peace tape, "In The Vanilla Grove/ Man and Horse". Cygnus is the guitar/keyboard duo of Heath Moerland (Sick Llama/Fag Tapes) and his friend Glen. Heath and Glen use slow flanged strumming and haunted house keyboards all progressing at a slow-ed down pace. The second track starts out with some fuzzed heavy riffage and keyboard overload while progressively deconstructing itself to two guitars; a totally zoned out "I forgot we were recording" style gem. Much more chill then their previous blown out shred fests. In a numbered edition of 100 sprayed/stamped tapes in red youth stickered poly cases." - Arbor. |
| Artist: MILLER, EVAN/GOWN Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Arbor Country: US Price: $6.50 |
| "The power is out. The power is back. This tape juxtaposes two expert guitarists against each other on the natural A/B boundaries of the cassette medium. Iowas own Evan Miller creates long drifting ragas (or as he like to call them, spells) of acoustic guitar work akin to contemporaries such as Fahey and Rose, but strays from their "minstrel in the country" vibe and going more towards "a fisherman on the wharf" style. Even though there are no words, the emotion and story of his songs are obvious. "Specter" was recorded during a storm adding an ominous atmospheric quality to the meandering spell. On the flip side, Gown creates sky high electric guitar drones similar to his work in Bark Haze, but his presence in the solo setting adds a particularly nice clarity to his work; much less of an overload leaving more time to really soak into the jam. "Pigeon Church" is one of his first recordings since leaving his internship at Ecstatic Peace and moving up to rural Maccan, Nova Scotia. In a numbered edition of 100 tapes in 3 color silkscreened sleeves with tape labels and an insert." - Arbor. |
| Artist: AXOLOTL/INCA ORE Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Karl Bauer and Eva Saelens (Axolotl and Inca Ore respectively) are two like minded Bay area psychers operating on two opposing levels. Axolotl marks the A side with skyward streaking drones and ethereal loops tinged and focused, ringing with the joyous bliss of upward passage. An endless array of vocals, electronics, and violin looping and looping, building and growing: stasis. Inca Ore makes her craft from an Earth bound level. Oneness with her surroundings, roots firmly planted. Eerie incantations and meandering harp play foreground to layer upon layer of looped vocals and murky ambience, charting your way towards forever. In an edition of 450 white purity colored 7"s in black and white pro-printed collage fold-over sleeves by Eva with a numbered insert." - Arbor. |
| Artist: YOUTH OF THE BEAST Title: Lantern Format: 7" Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Youth of the Beast is pure primitive electronics, suffocating saxophone scrawl and epic percussion. Acting as the solo output for Raccoo-oo-oons Andy Spore, this record is YOTBs first vinyl offering following up a few tapes on Night People and Fuck It Tapes. Blistering vocal screeches and mixer feedback blasts meld with stray tones as brass wails and drums are pounded. Spore is a master of channeling the spirits right into the basement where he crafts his jams, creating a captivating mass of noise and psychedelic signals crossing for a painfully beautiful 10 minutes. Breathless sax solos and massive tribal percussion interspersed throughout. The sum of all these parts is something intense, unknown; an ever evolving sonic creature as bleak as it is restless. In an edition of 315 records with EPIC xeroxed double sided/double foldover (youll understand it when you see it) sleeves and printed labels by Spore." - Arbor. |
| Artist: AVARUS Title: Kirppujen Saari Format: LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Long touted as the forefathers of Finnish freeform psychedlic music, Avarus, a collective bearing members from The Anaksimadros, Kemialliset Ystävät, Maniacs Dream, and more, document their first tour of the United States on "Kirppujen Saari". The sounds contained show a departure and growth from typical Avarus recordings. The A side long track begins with a psychrock romper complete with full "band" instrumentation, slowly it deconstructs itself into the abstract electric/acoustic stylings and sonic spattering familiar to their previous work. Slowness builds into full on clatter filled walls of vocals, toy keyboards, horns, strums, and other acoustic junk, creating a unique and massive drone. The opposing side is pure acoustic drones composed of vocals, horns, and tribal beats. Room filling ambiance, corner clatter, and morphing silence also find a way to unobtrusively build themselves into the piece. In an edition of 350 LPs on coke bottle clear vinyl with printed labels by Bart of Sloow Tapes and proprinted full color foldover art by the band."- Arbor |
| 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: TUSCO TERROR Title: Psychedelic Narcosis Format: CDR Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Cleveland noiseniks, Tusco Terror, barrage the earth with their subterranean dirt worship. Having just released a split LP with Emeralds on Ecstatic Peace, this crew is ready to take their Midwestern gear slaughter beyond the realm of the breadbasket. Operating with a loose lineup usually ranging from 3-5 players all jamming in their own private zones, contributing their own part to the psychedelic nonsequitors and cosmic confusions contained within the recording. Pile upon pile of unrecognizable source contort themselves into an unrecognizable yet brutally intriguing end result. Dont stop digging. In two editions: A( of 68 numbered copies in silkscreened, watercolored, and sewn sleves with screened discs) and B (of 32 numbered copies in printed collage sleeves with screened discs). "-Arbor |
| Artist: UNEVEN UNIVERSE Title: Clump Humans Format: Cass Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "From the iciest mounts of Michigan most frozen brains come massive sounds of sax/electronics duo Uneven Universe. Dan( from Haunted Castle) and Holly (who are both in Cardboard sax with John Olson) wreck havoc on the basement, turning it into an epic snow storm of tape loops and electronics. Through the totally solid murk saxophones, harp, and bells toll, slicing their way into your eardrums in the most hypnotic way. Prepare to get zoned and frozed. In a numbered edition of 100 tapes with full color collage art and printed labels."-Arbor |
| 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: EYE SHAKING KINGDOM Title: Heavy Glass Format: Cass Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Eye Shaking Kingdom is the severely fried, technicolor overdrive duo comprised of Glasgows Nackt Insecten and Alistair Crosbie. Their sole past release, "With Metal and Swordlight" placed their feedback driven drones in a league of their own, though they have still managed to remain below the crossfuzzed radar. These two tracks can be taken as totally overdriven crushing walls of loops, feedback and keys; but intense listening shows luscious keyboards painting the soundscape with all the colors of the lunar rainbow. Totally dynamic flows and heavy clarity streak across the foggy night sky. In an edition of 80 tapes with art, tape labels, and a poster by JKtapes Peter Friel."- Arbor |
| Artist: ZAIMPH Title: Untitled Format: 7" Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "In the past Marcia Bassett(of Double Leopards, GHQ) has proved her versaitility under the Zaimph name; from the depraved feedback and tone fury of her "Sexual Infinity" CD on Hospital Productions to her delicate electric guitar and vocals waves on the "Mirage of The Other" LP on Gypsy Sphinx. This untitled 7" release further proves this fact by recalling her earliest roots in the Siltbreeze band UN: vocal mantras and delicate strumming are placed over a hypnotically evolving base of looped piano, feedback, and strings. The end result is something beautiful that twists the lines of classification, picking up little points of reference from her past bands and laying out a path towards the future. In an edition of 500 7"s in proprinted full color foldover sleeves with art by Marcia. Mastered by Josh Stevenson." - Arbor |
| Artist: ACRE Title: Monolith Format: LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Portlands tone wrangler Aaron Davis (aka Acre) has been blasting the world with his massive-but-barely-there feedback swells for quite some time with releases on Black Horizons, JK, and more. His first LP offering brings about the Acre essence quite well. Massive walls of shoe-gazed feedback are some how tamed into smooth, quintessential drones. This is not the sound of synthesizers or keyboards, but a single tone being modified and replicated into a monolithic piece. Stasis so strong it is hard to realize the power of these two side long tracks until they end, forcing silence back upon the listener: direct hypnosis and transcendental zoning. In an edition of 200 records in pro-printed fold over sleeves." - Arbor |
| Artist: TREETOPS Title: Permission/When I Was Younger Format: LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Spirited youth and the intense magnification of focused energies chart the recent zones for Treetops. Utilizing tapes, casio keyboards, vocals and a variety of other sources, the path to earth bound nature drone is firmly rooted in electricity. Like the combination of the glacial drifts of massive rocks and the movements of air, the sources meld into blissed out meditative drones: ceremonial music rising into the future to get out of the past. Infinite ancients; constantly progressing, constantly evolving. Mastered by Pete Swanson (D. Yellow Swans); in an edition of 300 copies in proprinted foldover sleeves featuring photography by Kyle Parker (Infinite Body). The B-Side features a remastered and extended version of the "When I Was Younger" 2xc10 (arbor69) from last winter." - Arbor |
| Artist: MANIACS DREAM Title: Zanzibar Format: LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Finland is the epicenter of collective music-making. Under the name Maniacs Dream, members of a variety of Finnish bands such as Avarus, Fricara Pacchu, Kemialliset Ystävät, and more come together to create blown-out free rock (not your typical stoner guitar jams). Their unique/bizarre approach to music-making constantly questioning the construction/deconstruction of sound creates songs at times recalling the electro-acoustic clatter drone of Avarus crossed with tribal rhythms and intergalactic guitar zones. Total sonic freedom with a punk ethos directly influenced by a trip to Zanzibar prior to recording this record (which is a reissue of the long sold-out tape originally released on Lal Lal Lal in 2006). In an edition of 450 records on light blue vinyl with printed labels and full color pro-printed fold-over sleeves with art by Benjamin Bergman and an insert." - Arbor |
| Artist: INFINITE BODY Title: A Series Of False Awakenings Format: One Sided LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Kyle Parker is Infinite Body. Like most of Southern Californias harsh noise youth crew (Impregnable, Privy Seals, Pedestrian Deposit), IB is the polar opposite of Kyles former project, Gator Surprise. There is something about the shift from creating unrelenting, harsh noise to ambient dreamlike drones that works perfectly; flowing with dedication and intensity from similar veins. Infinite Bodys debut cd "White Hymn" was a masterpiece of blurred lights, colorful, but heavy synthesizer and vocoder pieces. "A Series of False Awakenings", his follow up to that CD from the winter, shows a seasonal change, with a heavy presence on field recordings: children in parks, chimes, and the spring ambience of light winds and birds songs. An elevated sense of reality: entirely surreal. Kyles thoughtful and sincere work is certainly some of the most well executed around and the upcoming Infinite Body/Emaciator split LP on Monorail Trespassing will only further solidify this. In an edition of 300 LPs with proprinted foldover sleeves featuring art by Kyle." - Arbor. |
| Artist: KAEZM Title: Hydrogen Falls Format: Cass Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Denmark is a place teeming with half fried organic drone crews such as Sarahs Charity and Family Underground. Kaezm is the solo output for Nicolas Kauffmann of FU; here he channels electricity through criss-crossing patterns creating a midrange din full of lament. Nics drones move with static builds from a variety of sources and multiple levels of echoing chorus: airy, buzzing mantras tinged with Middle Eastern vibes and a deepening sense of time beat down like an incessant rainfall in a storm of hiss. In an edition of 100 labeled tapes with full color art by Nic." - Arbor. |
| Artist: YEH, C. SPENCER/SICK LLAMA Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "The malformed compositions of C. Spencer Yeh and Sick Llama come from opposing spectrums of noise music, though their similarities are undeniable. Whether it be Yehs solo piece for violin or Sick Llamas gunked tape work, the spirit of improvisation shines through. On Yehs track, the churning sounds of metal scrapes and light tinges, like crossed electric static and growing, buzzing drones are the result of one violin. His unique approach to the instrument marks him as one of the most exciting improvisers today whether it be with his solo work or through his work in Burning Star Core. Sick Llamas untitled piece is one of his most concise and interesting tracks; crushing and dirty with the hiss of tape static. Coming from the stoned mind of Heath Moreland of Fag Tapes, the expected tape aesthetic is transferred to vinyl with a compilation of cut up compositions, evoking a series of mystery sound sources. In an edition of 500 7"s in proprinited fold over sleeves with art by Maya Miller of Heavy Tapes/Religious Knives." -Arbor |
| Artist: GIFFONI, CARLOS Title: The Absence of Essence Format: Double 7" Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Carlos Giffonis heavy synthesizer work recalls the crushing, massiveness of early industrial music. Completely consuming the air around it with heavy vibrations and total deprivation. These four tracks rip holes through the sonic barriers, loud and powerful but with entrancing subtleties and discreet builds. The nature of the 7" format does not harm Giffonis work which normally exists in extended lengths; instead very succinct and unwavering compositions result: creating four vignettes of grey industrial zones. As the person responsible for No Fun Productions and the No Fun Fest, this Brooklyn transplants presence in the current progression of the genre is undeniable. In an edition of 400 2x7"(one on white vinyl and one on black) sets in gatefold sleeves with art by Maya Miller of Heavy Tapes/Religious Knives." -Arbor |
| Artist: P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. Title: Narc Grind/I Came Here To Die Format: Cass Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Recently formed LA skate punk crew, P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. consisting of Britt from Robedoor/Not Not Fun and 2/3rds of Black Black bring two quick tracks utilizing SoCal sunshine vibes, skateboards, and a "fuck authority" attitude. Dr. Pepper and scab fueled thrash: grind the pigs; skate or die. Jam this tape on repeat at yr favorite skate spot; positive negativity. In an edition of 75 tapes in cassingle style O card sleeves with black and white art/tape labels by the band." -Arbor |
| Artist: YEH, C SPENCER & LASSE MARHAUG Title: The Elementary Particles Format: 7" Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "This collaborative work between US improviser C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and European sound artist Lasse Marhaug is one of the most diverse and rewarding efforts by either artist. It is the result of hours of recording, cut up and spliced together, giving the listener a glimpse into various short snippets of the sessions. Harsh quick sonic blasts, violin scrapes and drones, field recordings, vocal exercises, room clatter and more are used in the process, but the way that they are assembled and woven together provides a nonstop experience that goes best with highly concentrated listening. Still the result is so varied that something new can be heard on every listen; a recording so intense you can never truly grasp what is actually happening; most definitely a highlight in both artists discographies. In an edition of 400 7"s in proprinted foldover sleeves with art Jose DeDiego and an insert." -Arbor |
| Artist: GOD WILLING/PRIVY SEALS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "God Willing and Privy Seals are two of the prime purveyors of meditative harsh tones. God Willings guitar and oscillatior drone has been reaching epic levels of hypnosis lately and this piece is a great example. The repetitive nature of textured signals act like the swaying charm of the pocket watch: onward march. Matthew Sullivan has been crafting his Earn project recently, and this, one of the final Privy Seals recordings acts as a logical bridge. Heavy, hi-end guitar and tape interlacing: a harsh movement, but possessing transcendently soothing qualities buried under the deprivation of distorted tones. At the end of the hallway a door lies open. A long overdue document of the LA Diaspora. In an edition of 300 LPs with silkscreened chipboard covers by Ren Schofield." -Arbor |
| Artist: SECRET ABUSE Title: Immeasurable Gift Format: LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "“The Immeasurable Gift” is a testament to cathartic possibilities and the role of creation/release as a means of understanding. Recorded throughout the past three years in a variety of locations and personal moments; encapsulated by a common, unrelenting concern. Beautifully delicate, elegiac melodies concealed within curtains of dense electronic ambiance reveal themselves like the light at the end of the tunnel; a signifier of the temporary vessel form. Balancing recklessness with care and coming to terms with the inevitable; encountering the man on the shoulder, reminding us that we are all just weary travelers. In an edition of 425 records in full color proprinted cardboard jackets with printed labels and an insert; all design by Jeff Witscher." -Arbor |
| Artist: MILLER, EVAN Title: Transfigurations On Lap-Steel Format: LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Iowa Citys Evan Miller is never one to stay in the same rut for too long. His earlier releases were composed of Fahey-esque spells, heavily emotional acoustic guitar work emanating tones of nostalgia and simplicity. On "Transfigurations" a new zone is crafted with lap-steel guitar and tape collage, creating equally nostalgic music from the other end of the spectrum: delicate, minimal drones. Tones interweave and textures evolve: it is Evans most personally progressive work, combining past themes and reinterpreting them on another medium: electric lap-steel guitar. Mastered by Pete Swanson. In an edition of 450 full color pro-printed cardboard LP sleeves and printed labels designed by Jeff Witscher (Secret Abuse / Callow God)." -Arbor |
| Artist: DEAD MACHINES Title: Plays Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Format: One-sided LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Michigan heavy domestic-electronic couple Dead Machines always create records that confuse and intrigue. They are the forefathers of broken gear / appliance / wind instrument basement jamming and have their niche dug deep. "Invasion" exists on the borders of existence- room ambiance is present, but the sounds are totally alien. Twisting mixer feedback and found sound source into a twisted collage of life outside the "Pod": harsh and awakening, but at times giving way to the trance of the machine lull. Dont fall asleep. In an edition of 450 LPs with full color pro-printed cardboard sleeves with art by John Olson." -Arbor |
| Artist: KITES/EARTH CROWN Title: Split Format: LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "This is a cold vision of a dark trash covered future full of Sci Fi nightmares and strange out of body experiences. This is the final Kites recording and is perhaps the strangest and most chaotic piece in the prolific discography. Annihilation synth and tape collage, cut up, sped up and dialed to oblivion. Earth Crown steps it back, slows down the pulse, lets the edges of the static curl around the drone to the breaking point, where the damage is let loose, purged out and built again. This LP is a reminder of how cold, desolate, and haunting life can be. In an edition of 400 LPs with inserts, printed labels and silkscreened covers by Shawn Reed featuring art by Kites and Earth Crown. Co-released with Night People." -Arbor |
| Artist: NOISE NOMADS Title: Tone Deaf Format: Double Cass & Zine Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Total Western Mass scum. Jeff Hartford (Grey Skull, Bonescraper) destroys all sonic barriers; forty minutes of harsh, sweating electronics and acoustic rampage straight from the gutter. Hartford always leaves the audience guessing, whether it is his cut up garbage sources, contact micd gurgles or hairwhips, the end result is guaranteed to be something physical. The truth lies somewhere within the mess of cables and the stack of amps; they must be destroyed to uncover it. In an edition of 100 double tape sets with printed labels and a zine housed in a 7” reel to reel box with full color paste on by NN." -Arbor |
| Artist: WORK/DEATH Title: Ruptural Strictures Format: Cass Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Providences Scott Reber, has been recording under the Work/Death moniker for years, yet no two releases sound the same. Progression is key to W/D, never staying stuck in the same zone for too long, but consistently creating dense, focus compositions. “Ruptural Strictures” combines acoustic piano and string work reminiscent of Lucier, layered densely, creating textured and meaningful drones. In an edition of 100 tapes with full color cardstock covers and printed labels." -Arbor |
| Artist: FERRARO, JAMES Title: Citrac Format: Double LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "The Citrac collection presents one of James Ferraros most cinematic visions; showing his recent mode of soundworld creation in top form. By shying away from pure musical creation and opting towards the organic birth of sonic universes, James finds a new way to tell a story. Evoking vastly imaginative imagery, this 80+ minute suite spanning two LPs, contains the previously released Postremo Techno Mundus Symposium, excerpts and alternative edits from Liquid Metals Alternative Soundtrack to Digital Overdrive, and the all new Digital Tribe. Presenting deep-nightmarish atmospheres of surveillance and captivity on through the rush of the open road; the hypnotic, lo-fi result is one that could only come from Ferraros alien mind, eternally stuck in a 1980s vision of an impossibly archaic future. In an edition of 400 double LPs with full color printed inner-sleeves in pro-printed black and white cardboard sleeves and printed labels by James." - Arbor |
| Artist: RALE Title: Whispering Gallery Format: LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Following recent tape releases on Young and Ekhein, Bill Hutsons Rale project should no longer be an elusive one. His modular synthesized low-end focus reaches new depths with each release; managing to provide a richness in texture and a deep listening experience in slow moving forms. Hutson exercises a dedicated control and mastery in composition as a result of his overwhelming knowledge of the potentials of sound. “Far off organ chords become enveloped by an atmospheric heavy air; melody isnt shunned, but obscured. Frequencies arranged seamlessly, with a modest approach; like the growth of a grey cloud. In an edition of 400 12” EPs in proprinted cardboard sleeves with printed labels." - Arbor. |
| Artist: MUNEIRO, NARITA Title: Solo Live Format: CD Label: Archive Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "With HIGH RISE being basically an inactive band the last few years NARITA MUNEHIRO has been keeping his electric guitar skills sharp gigging around Tokyo in various duos and other small groupings. This Archive release documents two live sets Narita recorded in late 2005 and the Summer of 2006, and clearly displays the talents of the man who the term Psychedelic Speed Freaks was really captured from. One time pressing of 600 copies, packed in extra glossy 2.5-panel sleeves with appropriately chemically treated photographic work from the live dates." |
| Artist: DEATH UNIT & PRURIENT Title: Terminal Cases Format: Double 3" CD Label: Archive Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Carlos Giffoni (Monotract), Brian Sullivan (Mouthus), Trevor Tremain (Hair Police), Chris Corsano (Bjork) and Dominick Fernow (Prurient). Recorded live 7/22/06 at Tonic NYC. |
| Artist: KOUSOKUYA Title: Echoes From Deep Underground Format: CD/DVD Label: Archive Country: USA Price: $22.50 |
| "For those that dont know KOUSOKUYA are a cult garage pysch rock trio formed in the 1970s in the Tokyo underground music scene by main member, and recently deceased JUTOK KANEKO. Despite having existed for 20-plus years, the bands output has been fairly sparse with a few releases on PSF and one domestic US release on the Forced Exposure label. Originally the archive release was to be comprised of a fantastic live performance on CD from Osaka in 2001, but having discovered the existence of video footage from the same performance, a bonus DVD was added to the mix. This release represents to date the only video document of Jutok and Kousokuya released in official capacity and realistically represent a chance for fans of obscure psych to see a band, and artist, that basically played outside of Japan only a handful of times. This pressing of 700 copies comes packaged in heavy black stock covers with metallic silver and gloss varnish and silkscreen work by the wonderful ALAN SHERRY of SIWA records. The CD and DVD come in black envelopes held together by a silkscreened obi strip." - Archive |
| Artist: LSD MARCH Title: BigJar Solo Sets Format: DVD Label: Archive Country: USA Price: $18.50 |
| "As the title would suggest, this represents footage James filmed of all three members of LSD MARCH (SHINSUKE MICHISHITA, IKURO TAKAHASHI, MASAMI KAWAGUCHI) performing solo sets at Phillys best book store, BigJar, while on a short US tour in the fall of 2006. Shinsuke and Masamis renderings represent a Japanese working of psychy folk fo |